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Join Angie Austin as she delves into an enlightening conversation with Rachel Kerr Schneider about her book 'The Widow Chose Red.' Rachel opens up about her life after losing her husband and navigating as a single mother, her experiences with ALS, and how her faith in Jesus guided her through it all. Discover how her story has inspired many and what feedback she has received since sharing her journey with the world.
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welcome to the good news with angie austin now with the good news here's angie it's angie austin here with the good news and the good news is my new radio friend rachel kerr schneider is joining us and she wrote the book the widow the widow chose red my journey with jesus john and als welcome back friends hi angie it's always good to be with you I wanted to have you back because after we talked about your book, Losing Your Husband, Raising Your Boys, and just the journey with Jesus through all of this, I knew that you would have all kinds of life experiences and feedback on the book because it was just coming out and other interviews, et cetera. But when you called today, I haven't been to Europe yet. It's like my big thing. I've been trying to get there for the last three. years. My husband apparently doesn't want me to go without him, but he feels he's too busy to go. And I just told him last week, I'm like, Hey, where, where are we going this summer? Because I said, all my friends are going. And he said, we have kids. I'm like, everybody has kids. Like all of our friends have kids. So what, what brings you to France?
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Well, I have actually a college girlfriend who was actually one of my early readers for the book. And Marianne married a Danish man and, She went to a girls' trip to Monaco, and that's where she met her husband. And so they split their time. Get this. They have a home in Denmark. They have a home in Nice, which is where I am. And they will have a home in Miami next summer. So talk about an international jet set lifestyle. I have a pen here.
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I was wondering if I could get her number and then I'm going to let her know we're friends and then say, you know, have you ever heard of girl strips? Have you ever heard of girl strips? Many girls go, you know?
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, absolutely. And I tell you, it's always good to have a friend like that because we have had, and they have a boat. It's a big boat. And they've already taken, Kevin and I are here. And so we've been here almost a week. And the timing is too, Angie, that one of my bonus daughters, Catherine, is actually doing one of those student abroad. She studies French. And so she had the chance to come here for a month. And so we are meeting, we're meeting her here. And so how cool is it? We're just going to drive over to Italy for the weekend. Who does that?
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No, no, I don't want to talk about it. I'm bitter. I'm very bitter. No, I'm not. But another one of my best girls, you would not believe, I'm going to send you the text that really my best friend ever in the world that I've been friends with for the majority of my life, she sent me a photo yesterday. And she's a month in France with a huge family gathering. And she goes, this is my view today. And I wanted to just reach her through the phone and punch her. But that's every Christian of me, you know?
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You're right. Yes, you're right. But oh, my goodness. Oh, well, how wonderful for her. And, you know, you'll get here, Auntie. You will get here. I will tell you, I waited and I waited and I waited while all the other girlfriends came. And all I would hear about was Mary Ann and how lovely it was and everything. And I would just bite my tongue. And say, okay, okay. So, I mean, I've waited a long, long time.
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Yes, you did have to nurse your husband through ALS, losing him, raising your boys, your older boy going through just really the ringer with life and rehab and all kinds of other things. So you definitely did your time in the waiting room to get to France. Yes. When I reached out to you, because the minute I interviewed you, I saw at first I got the press release. So then immediately when we did an interview, I'm like, oh, we would be friends. We would be friends. And so you've come back. And since our first three interviews or so, I knew that you'd start getting feedback on the book, you know, losing your husband, the Christian community that you spoke about that embraced you when you were nursing him through the ALS. having young boys at the time, you know, elementary, middle school age boys at the time that you were going to have to raise a loan and waiting like a year to even tell the boys that he was going to, you know, be passing away due to ALS. So since you wrote the book, like what kind of feedback are you getting? What kind of interviews are you doing? Like, what are you hearing and how are you feeling?
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Well, so what I'm finding still is that a lot of people don't know what it is. And, you know, Yeah, a lot of people still don't know what ALS is. They probably in the United States are more familiar with Lou Gehrig's disease, but even then they don't know exactly what it is. And the people that do know, unfortunately, it's because they probably had some kind of direct experience with the disease. But I will tell you that shortly after we talked, Eric Dane, Mr. McSteamy or Dr. McSteamy from Gray's Anatomy. Yes. His diagnosis, yes, his diagnosis was confirmed. And, you know, he's in a show, Euphoria or something, I don't watch it, but he's at 52 years old and he's had it for a year and they've just now been able to confirm what it was. And so here we are, unfortunately, usually though, it takes somebody with some kind of celebrity status to really bring attention to this disease because As I've mentioned earlier, it's still such a small, there are only about 30,000 people in the United States that are living with it and only between 5,000 and 6,000 that are diagnosed, you know, at any given year. So it's still a very, very small percentage of people. So I'm finding that I'm still, you know, explaining what the disease is and how it works. But Eric, his interview, he was interviewed with Diane Sawyer earlier And they actually brought, you know, a doctor on. And of course, you know, everybody has hope and we never want to take that away. But you could also see or sense there's, there's, there's, he's scared. He's scared. And I totally get that. And I was just sitting there. I think he's got two teenage girls. He is separated from his wife, but they're, they're co-parenting, I guess. Well, but you could just see that he is like, okay. If the doctor, he said, if the doctor told me to go to Germany and eat the head off of a rattlesnake, I would do it. So there's still, you know, all these years later, my husband's been gone for 14 years and was diagnosed 17 years ago. There's still like this little bit of desperation, right? Like I'll do whatever you tell me to, whatever you tell me to. And that's just it. The doctors still can't tell you anything. that could possibly make it better. And so I'm really, you know, I just hope that he has faith. I don't know what any part of that part of his life, but, you know, we all hope because at least it won't make all the pain go away, but it can give us some strategies to help us fortify ourselves as we do go through these things, you know? Yeah.
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You know, I looked up Eric to see if he – you know, family. You had the two boys. He's got two girls, and it looks like the youngest one's around 14, the other girl. I mean, I've never seen more beautiful young girls in my life. Aren't they? Yeah. Oh, unbelievable. Well, Eric Daines, the dad and the actress. Yeah. Gay Heart. Rebecca Gay Heart is the mom. Rebecca, yeah. Yeah. It's their mom. So, yeah, it's a shame that this Lou Gehrig's disease slash ALS becomes well-known when more people who are well-known get it, like an actor like this case. But also that ice bucket challenge, people were like, oh, well, it is ALS. Let me Google that and then figure out what it is. And people abbreviate it because it's hard to pronounce ALS. Now, in terms of feedback that you're getting from The Widow Chose Red, because your book hasn't been out that long, what kind of feedback are you getting? Because you have a perfect rating on Amazon.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, I'm finding that a lot of people, A, number one, I'm excited, Angie, that people are reading. Yay! Yes, yes. Because reading is good, right? Yes. And so I'm finding that a lot of people are finding the book easy. to get through, which is, which is good, you know, and I'm finding too that a lot of people are saying, well, Rachel, we, the people that knew me that have known me for a while realized that there was so much of a story that they didn't know. So they're like, they're like, wow, Rachel, you know, we had no idea that it was actually, you were actually going through all of this or that you were wrestling with some things because, we didn't see that, right? We didn't see that part of you. And then I've had complete strangers who have left great reviews saying how it's really been encouraging for them, how it's really given them a new attitude about having gratitude in their life and appreciation for where they are. Even if they are going through something hard, they can kind of you know, look at it through a different lens and really kind of go what is it that I'm supposed to be learning while I'm going through this. So I'm booking speaking engagements. I'm having, you know, women's conferences call me and say, can we get you on the calendar in the fall? And so those things are coming along. I've had some great, you know, some great interviews with several television stations down on the Gulf Coast and over in Virginia. So I'm very excited to to still be talking about something that even though, you know, it seems I know the story and I know the disease and I'm, you know, have lived with it and dealt with it. I'm still surprised by how many people Andy still don't know about ALS.
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Yeah.
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I have come up with, I have come up with a new acronym. I'm going to share it with you. Okay. My version of a, my version of ALS always, living spiritually.
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Yes, because your faith is something that you talk about so in depth, and I leaned on the Christian community. You were in Minnesota, but because of your husband, you were traveling yearly or even more just because of his high-powered job, and that you didn't have roots in any communities. You were going to go back to the South and be in your original, you know, with family and friends, but you stayed in Minnesota, and you were it just blew your mind how they just wrapped you all with love and took care of you and you're back down in the south but one thing i remember you mentioned and you use your journals for the book and that i saw one of the reviews that said how important journaling has become for the reviewer and it's something that you really credited with helping you through this journey losing your husband and raising your sons absolutely absolutely and i didn't even realize how much i had been doing that
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until I went back and decided that I was going to write this book. And I think the important thing about journaling, because I know a lot of people get scared about it, I don't know how to write, am I going to have enough time, what am I really going to say? It is just really a way for you to take those thoughts that are in your head and get them down on paper. They don't have to be complete sentences. You can use just words. You can talk about situations that happened during the day. You can, you know, things about your kids or your environment or just those phrases that maybe you heard or came into your head. those things that you are wrestling with. I mean, there's so many things. And putting the pen to paper, I know we live in a very digital world, and I know we all like to type on our computers or press buttons on our phones and text and all of that. But I will tell you, I still believe in that power of that body and mind connection. And I still think there's something that happens to us that helps us to physically release things when we write.
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Yeah, I would agree with you. I find that it is very transformative when I do that, and there's a lot more clarity in my day and in my life. All right, Rachel Kirschneider, how do we find you, and how do we find your book, The Widow Chose Red, My Journey with Jesus, John, and ALS?
SPEAKER 04 :
You can find me at spiritedprosperity.com. You can find me at thewidowchosered.com. You can reach out to me on Facebook, on LinkedIn, on Instagram, on YouTube. Those are all great avenues to reach me. And, of course, the audio version I narrated, it is on Spotify, and the book is available on Amazon and at local retailers as well.
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Excellent, my friend. I can't wait until our next interview.
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Angie, I miss you. I hope you're summer. Tell me you've got something. Tell me you've got something planned.
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Oh, I have a huge family reunion in Northern California on Rushing Streams where we have... I rented a winery for my cousins and I, the giant house with the pool. So a bunch of us can stay there and we'll cook there. But then a lot of the other rugged relatives are going to be camping on the creek or the river. But what's cool about the rivers is you can jump off these giant rocks into the swimming hole. And we got the two best campsites like in the United States of America. They're right on campus. the best swimming area. My cousin like stayed up until midnight, like a year ago or six months ago and books them the minute that it turned, you know, midnight. And she goes, I got the best ones in the whole world for us to have for our swimming hole. So we I mean, we it's like adult camp when we when all the cousins get together. We just we're best friends. So we text every day and we're on a thread and I just can't wait to get there.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, Angie, I'm so excited. I am excited for you, girlfriend. I can't wait to hear all about it next time we talk. And in the meantime, you take good care of yourself, okay?
SPEAKER 06 :
You too. All right, honey. Goodbye.
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All right. Take care.
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Honoring America on the 4th of July, this is the Mighty 670 KLTT.
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Hey there, friend. Angie Austin here with the good news. And also joining me is Grace Fox. And today we are talking about her book, Finding Hope in Crisis, Devotions for Calm in Chaos. Hello, friend. Hi, it's good to talk to you again. You have been on yet another adventure, haven't you? I mean, seriously, girl.
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So this time I was off to visit family because my oldest grandchild graduated from high school. And then my six-year-old who, you know, I spent a lot of time with that particular family with the three little ones while my son-in-law was going to residency. And my daughter just was alone a lot and just needed some help getting through her pregnancies. So Lexi, the granddaughter who's six, graduated from kindergarten and her folks had to go off to another family commitment. So I was the stand-in grandma for that and then cared for the kids for three days. That was my latest adventure. Exhausting. Exhausting.
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Yeah, but how fun. I always tease you because, you know, you joke that when you were raising your kids, you know, your husband was involved in ministry and you wanted to do something. So you're like, Angie, I did every side job, side hustle I could, they call it now. Tupperware lady, you know, whatever it was. And I said, do you even realize like now you've written, you know, is it 14 or 15 books? Coming 15. My 15th will release in a week. July 8th. Yes. So here you are, a grandmother. And I hear you think you're this regular grandmother. But really, you've opened this whole world of opportunity. I mean, just in the last couple of months, you've been all over Europe. You had this great ministry deal going on in Poland. I was telling my husband the other day when we watched this documentary on the Ukraine, and I said, oh, my goodness, my friend Grace, she works with some of the people that are ministering to people in Ukraine, and she gives them kind of a respite. And they work with them, and they go over the Bible and Christian faith and relaxation and regenerating them so that they can be re-energized to work with these poor people because we were blown away by this documentary and what they're going through. And then you went on the houseboat trip with your family recently. And then you just did this little adventure. I mean, really through your authoring and I guess through your faith, really, that God's opened a lot of doors for you. And sometimes I don't think you realize how blessed you are to get to touch so many people with your books and your speaking and your ministries.
SPEAKER 05 :
Thank you, Angie. You are very kind. I just, you know, I really have to. say it is it is a god thing and i think one thing that i've done right from the get-go is is just you know understanding that he is i guess i want to say i want to use the word master because my latest group of books are on the names of god they're they're studies on the names of god and so the one coming out is names of god knowing peace and i just feel like it's so timely for this season that our world is in it's just a nutty season of war and you know so much political unrest and strife and all the rest of it and people need inner peace so then i i look at that and i say wow god like how did i end up with this privilege of being able to address this during this season. And it just seems so timely and appropriate. And, and I just have to say, it's like I've committed my life to the Lord. And I said, you lead me, lead me. You promised to lead my life. I give my life to you. I don't want to live it on my own terms. I want to live it on yours. And my life has been not easy. I mean, I've had a lot of hard things, but it's been an adventure where I've seen him lead and open doors that I could never have written script for.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, yeah, I just and I was talking to my husband actually about one. Now, tell us again where you go. I know you go to Poland for your ministry. Where are some of the other places that you go around the world when you minister to people with your husband?
SPEAKER 05 :
Slovakia. We've been to the Ukraine. We've done Romania a lot. Many times we've been to Romania. In fact, we're just in the process of putting another small team together to go back this fall. And from there, we're going to go to Egypt again. and we've got a staff conference going on there. But I've worked in Lebanon, in the East, in Cyprus. We have staff there as well. In Cyprus? Yeah, yeah. I've done women's conferences in India, and we lived in Nepal, so I've done leadership training there with young pastors there. So I just, you know, like I say, I could never have written a script. I came from a small town in southern Alberta, and I never, ever... would have expected my life to have as broad a reach as it does. It's just God.
SPEAKER 06 :
Wow. All right. Well, I want on my bucket list is to do some kind of ministry with you to do one of these mission trips with you. So I'm going to get on that. I know we have to fundraise and do things like that. So I've got two kids headed off to college, so I'm going to be having some more free time. So I might be getting in touch to get a little info on that fall trip because I told my husband, I'm like, you know, we've only got one left and she's got two years of school. So there's going to be a lot more opportunities, you know, for you know, outreach and travel, et cetera. So I may have to join my friend Grace on one of these trips. He, of course, is just, he gets all nervous, you know, but I'm like, well, Grace is still alive.
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It would be great to have you. It would be a lot of fun to have you.
SPEAKER 06 :
I would get a kick out of it. Okay, and I know how God really changes your lives on these trips when you come into contact with other people and you're able to speak about the Lord and how he's touched your life. And I think because of my background, working at all the major news stations and having that look of a news anchor and a weatherwoman over the years, that I was blessed to be able to fit that mold, I guess, where I could fit in in Los Angeles and do my hair and my makeup and I could look like one of them. But really, I had come from low income housing and foster care and, you know, a father who'd abandoned us and drugs and alcohol and whatever. So I looked differently than my background would have made you believe that I would end up, if that makes sense. Like I I didn't end up in a trailer with, you know, seven kids and five baby daddies or whatever. Right. So, you know, I think a lot of people were shocked by my background because I fit that mold of the perfect suit, the hair done, the makeup professionally done. And like that mold, like, oh, I must have gone to an Ivy League school. No, no. So I think that that kind of better suits me to go out and minister to people because I have seen some things that the average American maybe hasn't seen. So I really feel comfortable in all settings, whether it be absolutely nothing and really being in a setting where it's very poor and it's not as clean and maybe I'm staying in not luxury circumstances. That doesn't bother me or it doesn't faze me because I didn't grow up with any luxuries. So, yeah, I think I actually might be well suited to some of the work that you guys do. So I'm excited about the possibilities.
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Well, we'll have to keep talking about it.
SPEAKER 06 :
All right. Well, let's get into big shoulders. That's a transition. We're talking about your book, Finding Hope in Crisis. And today we are on the page 70 talking about big shoulders. So explain this one to us.
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Well, I look at the verse of Psalm 62, 7, 8, and they say, My salvation and my honor depend on God. He is my mighty rock, my refuge. Trust in Him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart to Him. God is our refuge. And those verses really... stood out to me because I think sometimes in our heads, we think that in order to be considered spiritual... Grace, you're breaking up a little bit.
SPEAKER 06 :
I could hear you fine just a moment ago, but I'm just going to reread the psalm real quick so everybody knows which one. It's Psalm 62, 7 through 8. Pardon me for doing that. My salvation and my honor depend on God. He is my mighty rock, my refuge. Trust in Him at all times, you people. Pour out your hearts in Him. For God is our refuge. Oh, that's beautiful. Okay, so go ahead and continue your explanation of that in Big Shoulders, the page for today.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, so I chose those verses for this reading because I believe that sometimes in our Christian faith, We might mistakenly believe that in order to be spiritual enough or sound spiritual enough, we have to pray in a certain way. We have to word our needs to God in a specific way, using the right sounding words or whatever. But truth be told, God is our refuge. And it says that we can pour out our hearts to him. So he gets what our hearts are feeling. He understands that. And he has big shoulders. Like, we can say to him exactly what we're thinking. We're not going to hurt his feelings. And he can take it. He can handle it. So there was one time when I just felt like the enemy was coming after my family. I got so sick and tired of this barrage of arrows that were flying our way that I remember saying something like this. And that is enough already. I'm done with the enemy trying to destroy my family. So do something already. And that didn't sound very spiritual. We're going to categorize our prayers or try to analyze them. But it's exactly what I was feeling. And I knew that it was okay to pour out my heart to God because he makes that. And I'm so encouraged with that. We can tell him exactly how we feel because In reality, it's no surprise anyways. He knows it already.
SPEAKER 06 :
You know, um, you and i often talk about you know just the trials in life and getting through things and i i like your sections in your books uh that talk about the ponder and the prey and i love how you break down uh you know the devotions and so we talked about you know the psalm 62 7 through 8 uh when we started um the devotion big shoulders and then you you know tell your story about how you were you know sick of the enemy trying to destroy your family and do something already and uh You usually talk to God, you know, but maybe not as frustrated as that day. And I like the ponder because that really makes me think as well. I like to go through your devotions and the ponder really helps me because I like a specific call to action. And you say, what would you really like to say to God today? Like, you know, not just your sugarcoat and, hey, God, thanks for everything. Everything's great today. Amen. You know, but like really like, hey, I'm frustrated or, you know, what's going on with my family or when I was, you know, getting my – daughter, you know, who has ADHD into college and all the little hoops we had to jump through to prove that, you know, just because she can't take tests doesn't mean she doesn't do well in her classes, you know, because she does well in her classes. But that's hard to show the average person. And I was getting so frustrated by that. I discussed that with you on multiple occasions so i like the what would you really like to say to god today and then in your prayer father thank you for letting me be honest with you because so many times we're not really honest because we don't want to seem like we're kicking sand in god's face like i don't appreciate what you're doing for me like we feel like we're taking being uh you know disrespectful or we're we're not appreciating the other things that we do have you know but sometimes we just really need to say like hey help i'm really struggling and i don't know what's going on here
SPEAKER 05 :
Exactly. And I think you used a really good term just a moment ago when you said sugarcoat. I think we can tend to sugarcoat our feelings because we do want to be respectful of God. But at the same time, we can be honest with God. And so there is that truth that we can rest in. He knows our hearts. He totally gets how we're feeling. And it's okay to say, I don't understand what you're doing. And frankly, I really don't like it right now. I don't like what you're doing right now. You know, I think it's important to come around to that point, though, again, and say, but I trust you. I don't like it, but I trust you because I know that you are good. Even when my emotions are saying otherwise, the truth is you are good. So we've got to keep going back to the truth, too, so that we don't get hung up on, our feelings too much and our emotions. We can't let those dictate us.
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I wanted to just read the end of your devotion. And if you want to find Grace in her book, Finding Hope in Crisis, Devotions for Calm and Chaos, gracefox.com. And this is from Johnny Erickson Tada, When God Weeps, Why Our Sufferings Matter to the Almighty. Gut-wrenching questions. So let me start that again. Gut-wrenching questions honor God. Despair directed at God is a way of encountering him, opening ourselves up to the one and only God. Someone who can actually do something about our plight. Gracebox.com. Thank you so much, my friends. All right. We'll talk to you again.
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I'm doing all right. Doing all right. Got a busy week. Planned up a lot. A lot going on over the weekend. Other than that, you know, just riding the wave.
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Well, so, you know, actually, I've been up all night. So, you know, I kind of went to the other studio and And the AC is on in there, too, but it's not as strong. And it's just a very comfortable temperature. And next thing I know, I was laid out, man. I was slumped out, Reg. Hey, man. Don't worry, though. I got all these phones and every last one of the alarms set. But, man, I've been really busy, man. Really busy. A lot of good stuff. But first, you know, I got to give props to my boy. And, you know, I always do that because... A lot of people talk it, but he walks it. So that was pretty cool, man. Now, this is the president of war, remember? But now he just, you know, he brokered a ceasefire with India and Pakistan. And now... Looks like the Israel and Iran situation. I mean, like, go ahead and give him his Nobel Peace Prize. Just go ahead, man. Give it to him. Give it to him. And I just if you don't like Trump, you just don't like America. The guy is just incredible. But what I don't understand is how we have so many treasonous people. In our Congress, I mean, you know, I'm already mad that, you know, that they can't prosecute these people and put them in jail and do everything and they can just operate. Nothing happened to him with impunity. So that really makes me upset. But. I believe that hopefully, hopefully, Luke, hopefully we can get somebody put in jail, somebody arrested for what they do. Because I just can't keep, you know, going by the law, man. And everybody else is having all the fun breaking the law and getting paid. Yeah. I'm looking at the salaries, and what's up with the term limits? I mean, we need to have that right away. We can't get these people out. I haven't even seen Nancy Pelosi. Is she even breathing? I'm like, my God, where is she? It's been a while since we've heard from her, I think. Yeah, and Schumer ain't running his mouth? Like, what's up? It's crazy how... What's her name? Crockett. They're putting her out online. They're letting AOC... I'm like, this is the best you guys got? Like, Crockett? Jasmine? She's a hood chick, man. I'm just going to tell you straight out, dude. She's a ghetto chick, yo. I don't even know how she's in the halls and the walls of Congress. It's incredible to me. And, you know, what happened? I thought they were supposed to be filing charges on her and investigating this and that. I've just been waiting. I've been waiting. I searched the web, the net, social media. You know, I'm always on social media. I'm just waiting. But it just seems like, Luke, that we're going to go ahead and go ahead and have to just plan a bank robbery or something. because it it just don't happen dude they just will not do anything to these people and i don't understand how they were able to get trump and he's fought against so many different things but wow it's uh completely unfair now in new york they have this guy i think he's a muslim he's crazy though he's complete is a complete socialist did you see do you know who i'm talking about
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, I've seen some of his stuff.
SPEAKER 10 :
What is that? Freeze the rent? Get rid of the police?
SPEAKER 15 :
It's very Democratic Socialist is the title. Very like in the same wheelhouse as like Bernie Sanders adjacent kind of playing in that field over there.
SPEAKER 10 :
He's even worse than Bernie to me. And he won. Like he got like 93% of the vote, man.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, the big thing with him is, something to keep in mind, is that he's very much, at the very least, like the people of New York, he's very much a populist. So when he is to, from my understanding, right, this is sort of my interpretation based off of what I've heard other people talk about him, he is to the Democrats of New York, or to the progressives of New York, what Donald Trump is to the Republicans, right? Where he – in the Democrat sphere, he is the guy fighting against all the big money, all the special interests, all the people who are taking monies from these huge funds. So he is their Donald Trump in sort of that parallel of fighting the established power. Right. Really?
SPEAKER 10 :
So that's sort of his appeal in that group. He's totally anti-Israel. And I mean, he's just blatant about it. He's like, he's going to arrest him. Let's see if you'll come on across these waters over here and come up to New York. Because I see him. He's going to jail. Wow. I don't know, man. Sometimes I just wonder, on a serious note, if we're ever going to be able to truly drain the swamp, if we're going to be able to keep control for at least eight years. It's just really, really rough. But we're having, you know, trust me, I tell everybody every day right now, it's great to be a Republican. It's great to be in this party. But we have a lot, a lot of work. You got to turn it up. You got to turn it up. And, you know, he's around. He's bragging on how he just dominated on social media. Like he's got all the young. What's going on, man? Now, you know, I speak that all the time. Republicans, come on. Do and how we do. No, no, no. It's a whole nother ballgame. It's a whole nother way to excite the base and different things you have. And matter of fact, I'm going to be talking to Mike about that today because we have to. We have to do. I talked to the chair of the GOP. And, yeah, they're getting ready to do some stuff and everything. And I talked to him. He's like, yeah, Reg, we definitely got to get you on help us with all of this because he understands. He 100% says, yeah, they have to get younger and they have to get more technical. They have to get on social media. And so at least his thinking is in the right way. But it's amazing how, you know, you could go to New York and get 93%. What's his name, Kumo? I just can't believe it.
SPEAKER 15 :
I'm drawing a blank on the name.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, man, you know me. I need a nickname for me to remember, especially in this because it gets redundant. I'm so tired. You know, I remember AOC because it's AOC. You know what I'm saying? But, man, I'm wondering if we need to go ahead and just – Do we want to put something together? Do we do we need to make a national march or movement like what's out here? Because it's crazy. Literally down where our new facility is. Literally, dude, this guy was coming down the street. He made a left turn. He's zooming at the same time. So he's going north while somebody else is coming south. But the guy came and they was head on collision. The guy at fault. Guess what he did? Ran off? He jumped out the car and hightailed it, buddy. Another illegal immigrant. They know that the laws aren't going to do anything. And even though it's getting better, like going after him and everything because of Trump. but yeah completely so we had the ambulance the fire truck uh all these people standing around and i'm like didn't anybody you know even think of grabbing them or tripping them or throwing a rock anything like he literally man he literally just total that of the car. I don't know if the other people are okay or not, but yeah, just right there. So you can't, you can't avoid it. It's not going to ever stop. Uh, this place is crazy with this sanctuary city stuff and yeah, You see less, no doubt. You see less. I mean, it's definitely. But they're around. They're hiding. And I guess the trend, what, trend de agua is at it again. And it's just crazy, man. So I don't know. I hope that we can come together as a party and a people together. to, to get this situation back. Now, my boy Trump put up a flag, you know, we had that great parade. Man, it was actually something something to be proud of. And I just wonder, you know, I have no respect for Democrats. You know, my attorney is a Democrat and he's even, you know, you know, agrees. We agree on a lot of things that's going on in different points of views. But, yeah, man, I just can't take it no more. I cannot take this Democrat, this liberal policy and how they do this and what these people think. To me, they're absolutely nuts, man. Crazy. I mean, like certified crazy. So I don't know about you, buddy, but I'm hoping that we can do something to get these people. We've got to get them out. We've got to get these people out. And somehow these term limits got to go through. We have to get everything that Trump's doing together. I mean, I guess Trump is coming out with a phone. Did you hear that?
SPEAKER 15 :
I'd seen it a little bit, yeah.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, well, it does a lot of stuff and it's like 47 bucks. On the Android platform. I love this dude because he's like, hey, man, you guys are getting ripped off by the communication company. They're overcharging you by far. You can make millions and millions and billions of dollars, hundreds of millions of dollars, and still charge $47 and still make a lot, a lot of money. So I know, Luke, I know you got a serious phone bill. You know I do. I got four of them. And I just like, man, I'm going to have to go ahead and switch over and do this. But the man makes everything feel makes me feel so patriotic. You know, it makes gives me a chance. You know, it's crazy when you see somebody marching down the streets or arguing and fighting and they're burning up the city and they're throwing rocks at people and at the police and everything. And they're marching with a Mexican flag or a Venezuelan flag on. And it's crazy, dude, because me personally, I'm just like, OK, well, there's some laws that that's not going to happen in here. Number one is number one. You're not going to burn the American flag. I mean, it's just a amount. It's about it's about respect. Complete respect. You could be upset or angry or want to change things or not agree with things in America, but there's a level, man. There's a level that you just cannot disrespect it. I always say America wasn't born great, but she was made great, and They're really trying to destroy America. So when you ask these people, when you ask the Congress people on the Democrat side, on the left, why are you here? How are you here if you hate America so much? You hate Trump. They hate Trump so much that they're willing to let anything and everything suffer here. to just try to put you know a black eye on him per se and i i just can't respect that i'm sick of it i can't i cannot respect it when we now when you see them beautiful b2 bombers man that is a sight them look like alien spaceships and they did that they flew over and into iran and They dropped all the mop bombs and little crevice men and little shafts. Wow, man. That's incredible. We'll talk about that when we get back. You're listening to I'm United. Nada.
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SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, you listen to 560 KLZ, this is Reggie Rocco. And, of course, this is the I'm a Uniter show. And I got the greatest producer on the planet. And, Luke, I have to tell you, man, to me, it's amazing. I mean, I don't care either way. You have to be patriotic, but you definitely just have to be common sense. Like, if I'm not mistaken, those BTs are like 50,000 feet in the air. And I love, didn't I tell you Trump is a chess player? Fake left, go right. I knew he was going to hit. You got it. Don't mess with this man. Oh, Johnny's on the phone. Johnny, Johnny, you there? Johnny, you there? Yeah, I'm here.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, I'm here. What's up, buddy? You know what? I was just thinking about these people that are protesting in our country and they are from another country. And I'm thinking like, so say if you had like, you know, a You have a parent, and that one parent is really strict and everything like that. And then you get to be 18 or so, and then you move out. And then you go buck rob because, hey, I can do whatever I want now. So they come to America. They come from countries that you better not do whatever you want, or the police will shoot into the crowd and not use rubber bullets because they're at the will of the king or whoever is running them. And so they come to America where they, you know, they will play with you. They may choose bean bags and all that kind of stuff, but they will not, for the most part, kill you because they're, you know, the police or FBI. And so now you're in this country and you can just go buck wild and get paid for
SPEAKER 10 :
for doing so through... Through all the programs. Through all the programs in here. But see, that's another reason why that you shouldn't be marching, burning our flag and marching with yours. Because if I'm an illegal, yeah, I'm a real... Let's just use street terms. If I got to pimp the situation, it's going to be a whole other type of game, Luke. I'm telling you, big dog, if I'm here, I'm getting all this free money I'm free place to stay everything I am I'm getting in wrecks and I don't have I'm running I'm dodging and I'm not getting arrested I mean this is that this is like I would never want to leave here so the last thing I would want to be doing is going out protesting and tearing it up and you know and all that now I would be laying low stacking my chips am i wrong Johnny yeah but you can only do that in the sanctuary cities because one time we had a protest here
SPEAKER 11 :
75,000 people showed up, and I know a lot of those people were illegal, but they were guaranteed by the state sanctuary city that we won't. Arrest you. We won't send ICE in after you. Go ahead and do it and blend in.
SPEAKER 10 :
See, I actually want Trump to turn it up because, I mean, seriously, I want him to turn it up. He's trying. And yeah, he needs it. Like I said, you know, a couple weeks ago, I was telling you, hey, let's quit, you know, pretending like... it ain't what it is it is what it is i don't care if you're a criminal illegal alien the bottom line is you're illegal so you're a criminal off the bat you're all i have the same energy i don't care of course if you're a rapist a killer a murderer oh yes we if we can concentrate on you to get those out because that helps make us a little safer but it's a lot of them that just haven't been caught that are the same way so you they can't hide under that with me i'm like hey everybody If you came illegally, everybody, we're coming anywhere and everywhere to grab you. And that's it. Well, it was this guy.
SPEAKER 11 :
He was here, Iranian, since 1987. They told him to leave. He didn't. They finally caught him. He was here since 1987. Right.
SPEAKER 10 :
Imagine the crime he's done. He has. Yes, I know. It's like... Dude, when you – okay, one thing about being in the music industry, I'm going to just tell you, though. That whole – you know, I keep telling you, it's all corrupt. I gave you guys so many examples, and you just see truth come in the light. But there's one thing, man. Like, you see a lot of stuff. You see a lot of stuff and it's a lot of illegal things going on and it's disgusting things going on as well. So, you know, if you if you're about that life and you want to stay in that life, you know, in Rome, you got to do as the Romans do. And so, of course, these people here are. that are here illegally and they're just high and low. They're committing crimes every day. And they like doing it. Some of them just love doing it. I ran into this Venezuelan guy just about, what, four days ago? And he can speak a lick of English. But he's dressed out like our culture, gold chains, you know what I'm saying? Had the grills in his mouth. And this girl, they were coming up to, I believe it was T-Mobile in there. And he seen me and he just went like this. I just said, yo, what's up? I didn't know. And he said, what's up, bro? I said, what's up, man? What you doing? I started having a conversation with him, and he started, you know, using Translate and all this other stuff. And it was cool. I mean, I ain't got nothing against. For some reason, people love to speak to me regardless. And I'm like, okay, I'm going to speak to you, but I'm going to tell you to your face, you know, if you're illegal and you're in here hurting the country and you're milking the system while I see my American vets, my American homeless people here talking, Nah, man, that's just I don't know how people can sleep. I do not know how you can go to sleep at night knowing that, you know, that we have a government, Democrats, liberals that set this up and they don't care about the people who went to war. who fought for this country. And I don't care if, you know, a lot of vets say, hey, we came over here to fight for your right, your freedom of speech. Okay, great, great. That's big and honorable. But me, if that was me, I'm going to change it a little. I'm going to be, nah, I wasn't thinking. I wouldn't have went over there like that. I got to go over here. I got to dodge these bullets. I got to dodge these bullets and my life and my family come back mangled and all this. And then you got these people disrespecting me. My country?
SPEAKER 11 :
And I don't know if you hear these sound clips from The View, which I've never seen a congregation of the most stupidest women On television, but that's where Hoopy was trying to say that it's so bad here in America, it's worse than Iran.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, Iran. But listen, listen, Johnny. So when they say this, OK, I thought they were already being sued for something, you know, and I can't believe the show is still on. But come on, man. Whoopee. Whoopi, come on. Don't sit up here and try to champion for the black people and all that. You was with a white dude, number one, who went blackface. And you were cool with it. Like, are you crazy? Like, oh, man. It's just amazing. It's amazing how these people are such hypocrites. And they're not good people, man. They're not.
SPEAKER 11 :
It's a paycheck. Huh? She couldn't get that paycheck. She built her life on that lie. And if she goes back on that, the paycheck goes and you get used to that, you know, living in a mansion.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, yeah, you do. And that's, you know, that's the thing with the industry when they give you that upfront money. And even if your project is doing well or not. they're going to make you do what they want you to do. And if you don't do it, but I don't believe that's the case. I think that whole industry is just sick, man. I mean, like literally spiritually ill, you know, we know the physical part, you know what I'm saying? We know the mental ill, but they're spiritually ill. So that's a whole nother game. And I just, I just don't like being around it. You can exist anywhere. But trust me, you can only go so far. You can only go so far unless we were able, like Mel Gibson and Stallone and them coming out and those big heavy hitters like that and try to change it just like Trump's doing. But nah, man. But for those people not to recognize and appreciate that we had – Great American men and women flying on a strategic plan. And then you got these B-2 bombers that's 50,000 feet in the air. And they're dropping those mop bombs, MOPs. And it's 30,000 pounds of bomb. and they're 50,000 feet up in the air, and they go flying them down a chute, an air shaft or something? Come on, dude. That's amazing, man. And that put the world on notice because, no, there is no other military stronger than the United States of America. And I'll tell you one thing. I'll tell you, like, China got some amazing stuff. China steals everything. They steal everything. So if we go against them, it's like fighting against ourselves because we allow them to steal. And then our Democrats, our congressmen, they make money and make deals everywhere. and all these leaks and stuff coming out. I can't believe the leak that came out right now. Why are these people not caught and arrested? Why are they not caught and arrested for that? That's treason. Does that mean anything anymore? What they did? I don't get it. So that's the stuff that I want to see. It has to change. We have to make it where we go after these people and it has to be a consequence. Other words, man, they're just going to keep doing it and nothing's going to happen. I'm tired. I just turn the news off. I don't even I love Fox and I love Jesse Waters and Hannity and, you know, and then the five and all them. Cool, cool, cool. But I'm just so tired of hearing the same thing. It's like, really, really what we want to see is action.
SPEAKER 11 :
action because that's what's going to make people feel better every day is knowing that justice is being served and it's not it's not well if history repeats itself i was just looking listening to a program of these people that were in the communist party and they infiltrated the american government back in the 30s and this guy he was really good at lying but this other guy he had He had left the party, and he was trying to expose them. And finally, he had hidden some papers so he could use it if they should kidnap his family. And he brought those papers back. It had his handwriting on it, the communists and all that kind of stuff. And they arrested him. So if history is going to repeat itself, yes, they're already infiltrating the government. But if history will repeat itself... There will come a day that they will get arrested.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, amen. I've been in this eight years, and I can't stand it. I got bull crap coming out of my ears. You know what I'm saying? I can't even take it anymore because it shouldn't take this long. It shouldn't take this long at all, but I had no idea that the Democrats were actually this powerful and this corrupt. I didn't know, coming into politics, I thought everything was fair, everything was even, and we're all on the same team. You battle, you debate, you run against each other, one party against another, one ideal against another ideal. And whoever's wins, whoever's party has the president in the House and everybody works together in Congress. And it's Kumbaya when we go to support him. It's not like that. This is a constant, everyday battle. And they don't have anything. They never had anything to run on. Nothing. And they still are able to do what they do is cause corruption, fund corruption. You know, we got the FBI, the CIA. We got the house. Let's come on, man. I know of me and Luke went out right now and did something on that level, even half that level. They'd be at our doors the next day. What's taking so long? Why can't we get these people, like, you know, out of here? You got all the information. You got all the technology. Get these people out of here. Because it really pisses me off that, you know, we could have a parade and honoring, you know, the Army. And they talk crap about everything. Anything that Trump does. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 11 :
I got it. I got it. Okay. Okay. You know how the Democrats, they started slavery in America. So we got 30 million illegals here. This is the count, 30 million. And so it's slavery once again by the party that is good at it, and they have them where they can hire them at lower wages. And once they got a hold of that drug, They're not going to let go, just like we had to fight a civil war for them to let go back in the 1860s. It almost seems like they don't want to let go of that again because that drug of cheap labor has them hooked and even have some of these so-called rhino Republicans hooked as well.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, I can see that. Dave Raylor. But answer this, though. So when you go a politics in the United States versus our foreign per se policies, I was very, very, you know, we always call it Israel, little America. But hey, man, Israel was kicking that. Hey, boy, Israel, Israel. There's nothing over there that can handle them. There's not because they're backed up by us. They have all our stuff and they're they're they're intelligence, dude. They're sending bombs inside the apartment. Just imagine you're all meeting there, and then you go into bed, and you got a 2,000-pound, 5,000-pound bomb hitting you. I mean, like, they don't play. So I don't see who's going to mess with Israel. Who? Over in that hole, who's going to mess with them? I mean, I don't see it. I don't see it. So, yeah, they don't need us. They don't need America. They got enough from us. We got they we back them. They do what they got to do. I don't know why I keep saying all the time. I think it's a religious war. The hatred is so crazy. But see, you know, Iran reminds me of the Democrats straight up. They do. Because they're getting pounded into submission and they still go on. The TV's out. The phones are out. The Internet's out, and whatever wave they get, as soon as they come up there, they're saying, we're winning. We're beating Israel. We're beating America. It's like, dude, you can't even imagine what kind of nonsense comes out of a person that they would even lie like that and say that when all your people around are saying, hey, dude, I don't know what you're saying, but... Yeah, I used to think Iran was like tough. They're not tough. They're weak, dog. They're weak. They didn't even have any fighters in the air. Their technology is weak. They're just all talk, man. They're all talked. So all that threatening and all those little little little proxy Hamas and all them. That's just terrorist groups, man. And so anybody in America, I don't care if who you are, what side you're on. You're supposed to know that. OK. maybe iran people for the most part aren't crazy or evil but definitely the government is it's it's uh if they got a nuclear bomb there's no doubt that they would hit america in any way they could with it and israel but hey hang on johnny we're gonna go right back we're gonna be right back uh 560 klz i'm a united
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SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, you're listening to 560 KLZ. This is Reggie Rocco. I'm a Unite. You know how we do it. Johnny, you still there?
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, still here.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay, so look, I got a question for you. Knowing what we did militarily, I mean, first, you agree that was amazing, correct? Oh, yeah. I mean, the plan, the deception, the fake left, go right, the mid-air, in-flight, in-air fueling, whatever you want to call it, fueling up. Man, are you serious, dude? Like, we're almost in outer space. And we hit these people, and then we dropped all those payloads, and then just turned around and flew back to the crib. And I'm sure they had the refuel again, you know, coming back or whatever. I don't know. But that's just so, that makes you feel so proud. And it's definitely for a great cause for the betterment of the world. You know, Iran is crazy. And I don't know. I just wonder where everybody was when North Korea was going after nuclear weapons. And then, you know, China pushes a lot of, I don't know why we let China get away with what – yeah, I do. America really don't want no smoke with China, at least not yet until Trump gets something built up. He's sending messages across the world. But, yeah, if I see China landing in Iran in the middle of a war and they uploading or unloading, come on, man. Come on, dude. How are you going to allow that? They could have been taken. I already believe they had a nuclear weapon. I believe Russia or North Korea, somebody gave them a nuke, man. Don't be so naive. You know they got a nuclear weapon. You know, can they launch it or disguise it or whatever? But, you know, dude, it's no doubt to me because those other countries, they do what they want to do. They do what they want to do. So if I'm the leader of Iran and you need oil and blah, blah, blah, and all this other kind of stuff, I'm saying, man, it's cool. Just shoot me a nuke or two. You don't think China or Russia will do it?
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, but I was also thinking about, okay, they were just shooting bombs at random because they had these bombs, kept shooting it over Israel, and they had the dome and all that kind of stuff. And then it keeps going generation after generation. You see, oh, my brother, my big brother's doing it. I can't wait to be able to shoot bombs like that. And it's almost like when Trump said they don't know what the F they're doing, he's saying, like, they've been doing it for a long generation after generation. It just became a part of the culture.
SPEAKER 10 :
Oh, yeah. That's what we do. That's what they do. That's what they do 24-7. And that's what I'm saying. Like, oh, this is one thing that I'm kind of mad and upset about with us. And I'm hoping Trump on the low is doing something about it or somebody on our team is discussing it. And we definitely have to have regime change. I mean, why do all of that when you have them just where you want them? You need to finish the job. There's a lot of American, not American, but Iranian people that want to be free, but they can't stand up to whatever's left of the government because they're already starting to execute people and all that. And you leave them hanging. How can we leave them hanging? How can we just do all of this and then abandon them? If you really want to change in the Middle East, get rid of that regime. Because once they're gone and you get somebody else there to lead the people behind them, but you can't expect these people to overthrow these tyrants, these monsters. We have them right where we want them. And we didn't go all the way. I don't get that. And I want to know whose decision was that. I'm not interested in regime change, but you're calling on the Iranian people to overthrow them. They don't have no weapons. They don't have no guns, nothing. Nah. How are you going to do it? How are you going to do it, John? You live over there. Maybe Luke might because he's crazy. But you're going to stand up.
SPEAKER 15 :
It'll be fun. It'll be fun.
SPEAKER 10 :
It'll be fun. You're going to stand up and go, oh, by the way, all of us, we don't agree with this. We're taking over, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, really? They still got their military, which is not really a military. It ain't nothing but a terrorist group to pick on people they can beat up and kill. That's all it is. They're terrorists from A to Z. So how are you going to overthrow that?
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay, I bring it back to here. You have a lot of black people. They're not physically in prison, but they're mentally in prison. So after you make them believe that it's all the white man and then over there, death to America is all that, and you make them mentally think it, then you don't need the prison walls. You just need to keep enforcing that mental mentality. But who's going to sign up?
SPEAKER 10 :
That's why I respect the military and everybody in the military right now and our armed forces. Because even here, I couldn't sign up to catch bullets. And we have the rights to protect ourselves, to buy weapons and march and freedom of speech and all that. Over there, dude, there's no such thing. There's no such thing. So who's going to be the first one to stand up against the regime and organize the people with no weapons?
SPEAKER 11 :
Nothing might be, you know, there might be an underlay of some resourceful people that say, OK, let's get these people together. And we just don't know about it because we're over here and they're over there.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, it's going to have to be a bunch of people willing to catch bullets. That's what I'm telling you. It's going to have to be a bunch of people because you have to you have to move all together. And I just this wasn't a war, man. You know, we haven't really seen a war in a long time. You know, Russia, Ukraine, that's a that's a real war. But it's still not a war war, you know. Because Ukraine and everybody knows that they better not go into Russia. That's it. And they've been being bold. They've been bold hitting some stuff. I'm just like, dang, that's awfully close. I mean, Crimea is basically their territory. But, man, that's awfully bold. Nobody's going to do it. Nobody's nobody's going to mess with Russia that way because they know nobody's going to attack them like that. A real war. But me, I'm going all out. I'm not about to sit here for three years. And let Russia just keep lobbing bombs and tearing up my place and, you know, taking over and killing my people. And then they say, oh, by the way, don't fire into Russia or do what they're doing to you. Nah, man, that's it. Now, to me, that's cowardly. To me, that's cowardly. As a leader, I'm going to take all the weapons I have and everybody, and we're going to go in there. We're going to try to win or lose. This prolonging this agony is crazy. What's the end game? You know you can't beat Russia. You can't beat them. Because you're fighting with one hand behind your back, one. You need ammunition. You need weapons. You need money. You need all this stuff. And then you got to fight by rules and the engagement, which, well, you can't go into this territory. No. So what are they fighting for? Because they can't fight to win because they're not going to win. Yeah.
SPEAKER 11 :
Now, I'll tell you something you didn't hear in the news because I'm married to a lady from Moscow. The Selinsky, his guys did get a bomb that hit an apartment building next door to where my wife's son and grandkids live. So they were lucky that they didn't get it. But you didn't hear nothing about that on the news. So I think things are happening. But because they have such control over their news media, government news media, that we're not hearing everything, the fullest of what's happening. Because I know that because I know her.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay. And I could definitely believe that. I could definitely believe that, you know, that, you know, somebody, you know, got some kahunas and is going to, you know, hit up over there. Somebody got it. Somebody got it. I'm just saying if I'm the leader, that's what we're doing. There's nothing worse than torture, man, like, you know, to be in that. That's why I'm an avid. supporter for reparations we will get the 100% the bottom line is it doesn't matter when you're wrong you just got to make things right you know that's it you think about it you talk about it and you and you say hey how can I make it good how can I make it right that's that's all anybody really ever needs man to feel like a man or a woman or an individual is that, that basic respect. I'm not saying people ain't gonna squabble and there's been a whole bunch of things that's been wrong, but you just gotta look at it and say, okay, we fix it. My problem is with our government right now, The Republican Party, a lot of the times it wasn't for Trump. We look like, you know, punks. We just sit back and we just let these Democrats do whatever they want. And I'm wow. I just can't believe it. Now, Elon, I don't know why he I haven't heard from him. But the bottom line is they were doing a great job with Doge. Now you uncovered all that corruption. What are they going to do about it? I mean, you got billions of dollars that they've uncovered with all this fraud. Fraud. Let's not even talk about the waste. Let's just talk about the fraud and corruption. You know the companies. What the heck are they doing? If somebody told you, Johnny, go ahead, you can start this company, I don't care what it is, and you go up there and you got a billion dollars, you got $100 million, and they said, okay, you might get exposed, you might get a slap on the wrist, but nothing's going to happen to you. Me and Luke are starting a company tomorrow. Wow. That's it. I'm telling you.
SPEAKER 11 :
And you don't even need a business plan. You don't even need a business plan.
SPEAKER 10 :
Nothing. You don't even have to make sense. What's your deal? I want to see if the electric sockets, if it's male or female. Because I see two prongs and it looks like a male and a female. They're actually transgender sockets. They're transgender sockets here. And we want to study that. The guy who put that together.
SPEAKER 11 :
Johnny walk in there with a hundred million walk out of there with a hundred million dollars no man no no no I'm sort of like playing a game because I they you know sometimes you got to talk stupid like like they're there and they'll ask in questions because they're they're seeing who you are in these applications so they said how many transgender people in you have in your organization and you know i'm thinking i'm being honest i said well you don't have really in it but i'm thinking like i'm gonna just play the game you ask that question i'm gonna just say we got 60 transgender whatever okay and play the stupid game hey man hold on man we gotta go to break this is 560 klz i'm your nighter nighter nighter
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We're back. It's 560 KLZ. I'm a uniter. Johnny, Johnny, Johnny, you there? Johnny, you there?
SPEAKER 14 :
What's up, buddy, man?
SPEAKER 10 :
Hey, man, listen to me, man. I want you to listen very carefully. First of all, it was my mother's birthday, rest her soul, love her, miss you, not too long ago. And dude, time is short, okay? Like there's one thing we can never give back is time. Time is unforgiving. Time is even cruel. So to be in this for eight years, Eight years just seemed like it went overnight. And I'm glad that we did a lot, man. And I hear it. I see it every day. I mean, literally, I do. I get emails. I get calls. I get stuff. It's cool. It's cool. But I don't know how much longer I can do it because we have to make – I'm the same energy type person. Like I said, I don't care if you did something wrong. But you just have to make it right. Because I tell you every day, I'm not perfect, yo. But I literally don't go out intending to hurt anyone or to, you know, mistreat anyone. That's just not in my soul. That's not how it was. Now, if you bring the smoke, then you're going to get a lot of smoke. You know, you're going to get fire from me. So, but that's, that's fair though. That's fair. I'm a same energy, same energy person. But my question to you is, If you had the power right now, like today, what's one thing that you could do? You could only do one thing. What would that one thing be? With you being in politics all your life, you being a phenomenal man that's visually impaired, I mean, what would you do to change anything right now if you had the power to do one thing? What is it?
SPEAKER 11 :
You know, um, my gift is, is, is, is music. Uh, I could hear a song and I, it was like months away. I know that song is going to become number one. I think I would stay in, in this line of thing, but cut out like, like some of the, the underlying perversion that's, that's, that's happening and saying, let's just do the music. And stop all this other silliness. Because even though I've tried politics, and I'll probably go back in there again, I don't think politics... Is your calling. Really, yeah, is that my calling? Is that music is my calling? And I do do other things, you know, because I have extra time. So I'll say, oh, I'll go over here and do this. But I'm always coming back to music.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay, so Luke, if you could do one thing, change one thing for the world, yourself, whatever, one thing could happen, what would it be?
SPEAKER 15 :
I could change only one thing?
SPEAKER 10 :
Only one.
SPEAKER 15 :
That's a rough one. I know, right? That's a real rough one. Man, how broad do I get to be? Is it like policy or just in general? In general. I don't care what it is. I want everyone to just mind their own business. Just mind yourself. Take care of yourself. You can look out for other people, right? You can be helpful. You can be kind. You can be nice. You can be generous. But when it comes to what I want to do, let me do what I want to do.
SPEAKER 10 :
You do what you want to do.
SPEAKER 15 :
Everyone just mind themselves, you know?
SPEAKER 10 :
So, okay, that would be great, mind your own business, because if you mind your own business, that would probably cut down on a couple things. Hatred, racism, by just minding your own business. Exactly. Just mind your own business, dude. I don't know. With me, I couldn't say. One thing... Because the only thing I think about when I say that is my mom. And so, you know, that I can't change. But one thing right now, I just, I don't know. I'd have to really sit back and think about it. If I had to just answer that before I leave the show. And I'd have to put myself – I'd have to do something for my people, for me, and that includes me because I'm part of my people. I'd have to do something to help us. Because we're really, really at each other's throats. Like I've been telling you guys for years, the black man's worst enemy. I've been saying now that's starting to pop up everywhere. It is what it is. And it's by design. It's by design. That's just what I'm going to say. It's been 1,000 years of, you know, not 1,000, but 400-plus years of this, man. And it's crazy. But, yeah, I'd have to do something for my people to bring us together. Because, you know, Johnny, I don't know, man. We don't have togetherness. We don't have camaraderie. We spend a lot of money. We make a lot of culture. People copy our culture. People steal our culture. People come into our neighborhoods and take our money. And we allow that to happen. And if you wake up... and build your own communities and stick together. We contribute a lot to America, a lot. But we're destroyed, dude. We're decimated and bringing out... Go ahead.
SPEAKER 11 :
You have to recognize who the enemy is. And right now, I heard this one black guy said he went into... He was in the politics and he's a black man. And he says he started to notice that They weren't elevating black men, heterosexual men. They were elevating the women. They were elevating the gay people. He said they were really pushing him out.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, because the one, black women, they're easily controlled by white men. The transgender and all that, nobody really honestly takes them seriously. So they can just bullcrap them. And then they think that the black male is violent. And so that's what they do. But I keep telling you, dude, like, it's not – in America, America's changed a lot. And it's not a color thing or racing. It's an energy thing for me now. But, like, our people definitely have to get their stuff together, man, because you're getting replaced. And, you know, most of the people in jail are people who look like me, you know. And it's crazy. And everywhere I turn around, there's – there's a black guy that they're promoting that's gay everywhere. That's just what it is. But you know what? I'm glad to be, because we got to get out of here, Johnny, but on the last note, I'm glad to say that America is in the right direction, and I'm happy that Trump's doing what he's doing, and I see a difference out here in these streets, in Colorado even, but we got a lot of work to go. So look, until next week, let's count it down, Johnny. Three, two, one, and we out. Yeah. All right, y'all. It's that time. We out of here. But you've been listening to KLC 560 AM. I'm a Unite to Reggie Rocko. Yeah, it's fun. We will tackle the issues. We will unite the country every week, every Friday morning from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m.
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Some of these headlines I got today. All right. So first up, I'm telling you what, this is scary. If I lived in Florida and I love you, Florida, I love vacationing in you. I love your food. I love going down there at 30A. I like going. I mean, the whole every part of it, no matter what part of it is all beautiful. You're all's water is. I mean, it's terrifying because the stuff that's in it. In your sewers, municipal employees were doing a routine inspection. Routine inspection. Oh, we got to go look at this pipe. It's underneath this Florida road. Let's send a little camera down there just to see. Oh, my gosh. There's a gator sitting in the pipe like a people. He's sitting there like a people. Look at him.
SPEAKER 1 :
What?
SPEAKER 04 :
Juan's got, I think Juan's got it. It's a, they were looking, it's this concrete pipe and they were looking to see like what, you know, the structure, et cetera, et cetera. You know, as one, as, as, as skilled workers would do. And they lowered this camera down there and they saw a gator. It looked, it legit looks like he's sitting up. I can't even say the city's name, but they posted a photo to Facebook showing the image of the gator. And they used this remote-controlled camera to check the pipe. You know, they were looking for cracks and leaks and things like that. Oh, but then there's more. They also had video of him later walking around. The pipes were fine, but he's just walking around. See, he's, look at him with these, just sitting like a people. He's sitting there chilling in the pipe. Can you imagine? Now, that's a sewage pipe. I don't know. Like, is he going to come up in somebody's toilet? I don't know. I'm just saying. They also kind of want to chill with you at your house, too. Not this particular gator, but one of his friends. An alligator. Another alligator. Not the one that we had last week that knocked on someone's door. This is a new gator knocking on someone's door. Come and knock on my door. He got stuck in a folding chair. He needed some help. Lee County Sheriff's Office posted a video to social media. A gator was visiting front porches in Tortuga and their deputies had to come because he got his head stuck in a folding chair. And as he approached the front door, he had the chair on his head and it was hitting the door. It was almost like he was signaling for help. So clearly the homeowner did not try to do it themselves. They called the professionals to come and help. My gosh, our partners over at All Family Pharmacy You want affordable medications and you don't want big pharma being the gatekeeper. This is where All Family Pharmacy comes in. They're offering a summer sale 20% off of your entire order. And this includes your daily medications. It includes things like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, antibiotics, everything 20% off site-wide right now. No insurance required. Licensed doctors in all 50 states. And you get fast shipping right to your front door. All good things. Emergency kits as well. Everything in two to four days. Overnight delivery in a pinch if you need it as well. This is such a great website. I cannot recommend it enough. I am a user of it. I always tell people about it. It's allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana. This is where I go. Get 20% off using promo code Dana20. And don't let Big Pharma gatekeep. That's allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana. Coupon code Dana20 to save 20%.
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SPEAKER 07 :
Of course we should be talking about how, yeah, if, you know, Speaker Johnson got his way, it wouldn't be possible, not just for gay people to get married, but for straight people to get divorced, let alone like birth control or how he would want to regulate porn or whatever people, most people would have a problem with.
SPEAKER 04 :
But... What the hell is he talking about? I mean, if Speaker Johnson got his way, all the gay people would be just illegal. That's... He's not the sharpest knife in the drawer, guys. It's the former mayor's secretary, new mom, vice admiral of the canoe fleet over at Camp Wimpy Tonka, Poot Booty Juice. Wait, hold up. Don't criticize how I say his name because our former illustrious president who had all of his brain cells, all of them, that's how he said his name. And that's the gold standard by which I operate, ladies and gentlemen. Dana Lash with you. Welcome back. We're at the bottom of this first hour. He says that it's they should that Johnson was he was going to make it to where gay people couldn't do anything and straight people couldn't get divorced. And yeah, I don't I don't know what he's basing that off of. Imagine like you just do a live stream and say whatever the hell you can. Can you imagine if I actually took to air not knowing anything about which I was discussing and just rambled and just incoherently pulled stuff out of the ether just to suit whatever, you know. Yeah, I would be held—I mean, they go with me all the time. I've been on air for three hours every day for years. I have a beat reporter assigned to me at Media Matters. Yes, they would find out something if I said anything incorrect. If they don't even like it, they go after me. I mean, to hell with it being incorrect. But if you're a Democrat, you can just— Yeah, well, Mike Johnson's going to make all the—he's going to illegal all the gays and— and the straight people, they can't get divorced or have white claws. It's going to be so bad. Can you imagine having a 4th of July with no white claws? So bad. But that's what it's like listening to him every time he opens his mouth to give a perspective. It's like drunk without the alcohol. It's what you feel like. So if you've never had a drop, it feels like that. You're listening and you're like, am I sober? Is this supposed to make sense? I don't know. So it feels like. But but, you know, he's he's he's trying to get he's working hard on behalf of the Dems because guys, they're going to have to they're going to have to try to talk to dudes and You know, the party that was like toxic masculinity is now going, wait, but wait, we messed up. Oops. That's where they're at right now. So they said that they're spending $20 million trying to connect with dudes by studying their syntax. S-Y-N-T-X. Yeah, whatever that means. That's what they want to do. Audio soundbite nine. Listen to this. This is one strategist literally saying exactly this.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, good questions. One, let me save the folks from the Times and all the other great print outlets some time. If you dig in on what Democrats are researching right now, you're going to find a lot of silly stuff. You're going to find people asking a lot of questions, people asking about syntax and do I drop the G for this word and this and that. And there's going to be a lot of that. So let me just warn everybody, that process is going to be very obnoxious for this 40-something. I would also say we're really talking about young men, right? Young men who Democrats have not figured out a consistent pitch for how to get them.
SPEAKER 04 :
They're toxic. And then women can be men. I mean, you know, you guys have have kicked them around for the better part of 40 years. Whether it was the Title IX stuff, whether it was promoting women over men in the name of false equality, whatever it was, you guys have attacked dudes for endlessly, for forever. Toxic masculinity. Dudes that are young Gen Z are terrified to even date chicks because of everything that the left has done. So, yeah, $20 million they think is going to help band-aid that error. So after impugning their characters, again, for the better part of 40 years, now Democrats are going, wait, we messed up. Hold up. Here's an excerpt. For now, Democratic donors and strategists have been gathering at luxury hotels to discuss how to win back working-class voters, commissioning new projects that read like anthropological studies of people from faraway places. The prospectus for one new $20 million effort obtained by The Times aims to reverse the ocean of Democratic support amongst young men, especially online. It's codenamed SAM. short for Speaking with American Men, a Strategic Plan, and promises investment to, quote, study the syntax, language, and content that gains attention and virality in these spaces. And it recommends buying advertisements in video games, amongst other things. All they know is that younger dudes play games, and they're like, something, something, games. You can't just buy an ad. You know why the Democrats have not been successful in gaming? Because they don't play them. And Republicans haven't been successful because they're a bunch of damn cowardly tipper gores who want to put explicit lyrics on everything. These people that attack video games, oh my gosh, it's like I'm watching Tipper Gore 2.0. for the love no that you can't fake it you cannot fake it that's you're either in that community or you're not that's not one that is not a community that you can fake it with but what is this to study the syntax what does that mean kane what the hell does that mean what does it even mean it's there that's the language they want to they want to hijack it they want to understand it but they're acting like they're foreign like species right like we have to talk like these aliens
SPEAKER 08 :
How you do, fellow kids?
SPEAKER 04 :
Why, hello, fellow male. They tried that once with that ad. Remember that ad where that, they all look like rapists. They all look like soft rapists. That Democrat ad that they were, whoa, oh man, hang on, hang on, hang on.
SPEAKER 08 :
Their version of masculine.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, yeah, I'm a masculine man or something like that. What, oh, da, da, da, da, da, da. Is this is this it? Oh, I got to find it. No, there's one where it's the voting one. They came out with one ad where it was like men that were bullying their women into voting. And then there was the one where you had this one guy who he looked like a bottom and he was sitting on a truck going, I'm a manly man. I'm like, no, you're not. No, you're not. You're not. You only the only person who probably buys more lube than you is Diddy. No, you're not. You know what I'm talking about, though? I'm sorry. I can't just now. And every single dude in that ad, they looked it was they were all terrifying. That was the that was the. Attempt that they had I guess at trying to talk to dudes in it horrified dudes Yes, the that ad that Steve just put on there. Yes. That is it. That is the ad that is literally it and and I mean, again, it's also the party that had David Hogg as their vice chair. Yeah, they had those weird, like, I like steak. I'm a man. Men like bourbon. Therefore, I like bourbon. So you're going to think I'm a man. Like, you guys, Juan's putting it up for you. My favorite was the guy who was sitting like a pageant queen on the back of a truck. Yeah, and then you have the one guy. I can't believe that they got these lines out without laughing to death.
SPEAKER 08 :
I think he actually said, I eat trannies for breakfast. If you remember that line, he said, I eat trannies.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, it was the guy in the cowboy hat.
SPEAKER 06 :
Man enough to deadlift 500 and bring the shit out of my daughter's head.
SPEAKER 02 :
You think I'm afraid to rebuild a carburetor?
SPEAKER 06 :
I eat carburetors for breakfast.
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Like the one guy in the orange shirt. He's sitting like a pageant queen. That guy looks like he beats his wife. That guy looks like that guy right there. And then who's the prospector? Where the hell does this guy come from? They just got me out of the valley. I was prospecting for gold. But this is what I mean. And look, he ripped his sleeves off. You know, he went to like urban outfitters and got that shirt. That guy, his arms weren't, but this guy right here. Who, can I just say, what man sits like this? I mean, it's rhetorical, but none of them do. Look at him. He's like tweaking. This guy.
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I sit like that when I've.
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He's in an orange polo and he's sitting on the back of a truck and he's turned and he's got his hands on his leg like he's a pageant queen. And he's like, oh, you better believe I'm a man or I'm going to beat you. That's his whole aura. I'm going to beat you vibes from that? Well, yeah. I don't know. Silence of the Lambs. It puts the lotion in the basket. He's totally giving me those vibes.
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I said a little like that.
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And then you've got the DMX wannabe who's sitting there like, I'll braid the whatever out of my daughter's hair. And I'm just like, shut up. What is the matter with you? No dudes talk like this. They just do it. Right? I mean, if you have to sit here and tell people that you're a manly dude, men know this. Men know immediately that you're not. And Democrats are like, the prospector kills me every time I see him because the shirt is just over the top. God love him. But I'm just trying to understand why Democrats think that they have to spend $20 million because I'm pretty sure this ad was several million dollars. How much do you think that ad was to make, Cain?
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Those are all actors. From a production standpoint, it looks about, what, 8,000 won? Probably get that done with about 8,000, because there's no names in it, so you're not paying them much at all. So maybe 15,000 tops.
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Totally looks like California that they were in.
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But they probably spent a million on this. It's like $15,000 production.
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They had it well in that ripped off shirt for the prospector. They had to go, you know. They had to go probably get him that shirt at Urban Outfitters.
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They gave him nuggets, gold nuggets.
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He got so mad, his sleeves just poof, came right off. They shot out the side like projectiles. And that guy, that guy was the meanest one of them all. But this is what Dems, my point is that Dems did this ad. This guy right here, look at his sleeves. I'm sorry, that's fake. Why do you cut yourself? Why do you just like put a wife beater on, man?
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They paid him in mining equipment.
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I bet he hates himself now. You know that. And the way that he moved, that dude's an actor. And I'm all for it. But if you're going to wear a shirt like that, I feel like, you know, after we lost Joan Rivers, I feel like I need to rise to that occasion and fill that need from time to time the best way that I can, knowing that I'm nowhere near close to her brilliance. But someone's got to step in and talk about this. Like, the hell? I see that and I'm like, what happened to your sleeves? Did your muscles get so mad they blew them off? Like what happened? I don't get it. Stop. That guy's an actor. They're all actors. Like there was an article that talked about how they were all hired from an agency. None of these people are real. This guy probably never rode a damn bike in his life. And he's like, I'm working on my bike. And he's got his, you know, he probably don't even know what his tools are. The whole point is that Democrats tried this before. They did this ad. They did like three ads last cycle. And how did they show men? The first one was they did an ad where they were trying to show conservative men, Republican men, like they were going to beat their wives if they didn't vote for Trump, right? For the love. And then they're like, well, I guess we better walk it back. We need to appeal to men instead of, I guess, making them look like they're horrible people. And so they did this ad that made them look like they're horrible people. The most unlikable actors. It's like they went to the agency. Yes. Give me the most unlikable actors you have. I want women to flinch when they see them on the screen. That's what I want. That's what we're going for. Yes, Kane.
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I think they literally thought, let's get a cross section of what we think MAGA looks like. And we're going to message that way. Like we're going to message as though we're reaching out to the MAGA crowd.
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I mean, it's just so shallow. Yes, I can deadlift this, and then I can braid my daughter's hair. Like, one excludes the other. I don't think he quite understands the concept of chivalry. Oh, my gosh. It's just I can't stand this. So they're spending 20 million donor dollars. Let me clarify that. So Democrats get donations. So the people who have been donating to the Democrat Party, whatever brain trust brought you those ads, those are the people that are going to be trying to refine their messaging to dudes. Oh, this is I want them to know you want them to do this. We want them to do this. I'm just picture it. content gold oh my gosh we're gonna make so much fun of this it's gonna be insane and if they and if they have secretary new mom vice admiral of the the canoe fleet rear vice admiral of canoe fleet camp wimpy tonka yeah yeah yeah booty juice if they have him spearheading this oh please for the love of all things holy let this happen i don't ask for a lot no hold up i asked for a dotson for my birthday and i didn't get one so at least give me the and i asked it for wick my rescue dog i was like he needs a dog It makes so much sense because he does wink. He does. I didn't get that. So can I have this? Can I have this? Mother's Day was last month, like earlier this month. It's not over yet. I can still get like a belated Mother's Day. So this could happen and we could see have poop booty juice leading this and the messaging would be endless. Oh, my gosh, guys. Like I am here for the summer of of sis. I am totally here for that. The only Christian conservative cell phone service that is out there that's in existence. And they want to save you money. Yes, they have great service. Yes, you can work with a member of their 100% US-based customer service team. And you can also get a free month of service using promo code Dana. It's time to make the switch. You can defend freedom with every call and text that you make. It's so easy to do. This is a carrier that fights for your values. This is a carrier that also has plans for every single budget type. It doesn't matter. Families of all sizes, businesses, singles, whatever it is, they have something for you. And they also, again, don't spend your money against you at the ballot box. Super easy to switch. If my mother can do it, it takes minutes to do it. You can as well. You just simply visit PatriotMobile.com slash Dana, or you can call 972-PATRIOT and get a whole free month of service using promo code Dana. Super easy to switch. Defend freedom with every call and text that you make. Very easy. PatriotMobile.com slash Dana. 972-PATRIOT. Promo code Dana for that free month of service.
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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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A St. Louis man was arrested after sitting naked in the St. Louis Terminal Airport. Did they ever remove the plywood from the windows from that tornado some years ago? I asked them that three years after the tornado hit and Lambert, the official ex-account, went at me. They hire the best. The St. Louis County Circuit Judge signed an arrest warrant for a guy who sat naked inside of the airport terminal. A probable cause statement. It happened on April 25th, Terminal 1. The guy's named Darius Walker. He attempted to cover himself when somebody approached. He was sitting in the terminal chair, belt unbuckled. So it sounds like he had clothes. If his belt was unbuckled... Maybe the people at Fox 2 now, maybe they could write a decent story that clarifies this before they finalize a headline. That would be super helpful for people trying to share the news. Meanwhile, let's see if the New York Post did one better. A seven-year-old boy drove his little sister nine miles in his mom's SUV to get a McDonald's Happy Meal. That's a good big brother. Wait, no, it's not. Stop. You're seven years old. You can't be driving a car. He drove his sister nine miles, his little baby sister. And the mom was shocked. She goes, he's probably grounded for the rest of his life. They were in Utah, and it was 8 a.m., and police were called. They were alerted to a reckless driver, and the SUV did not come to a stop until they hit a parking strip, and they found a 7-year-old and a 5-year-old inside unscathed. And they made it 9 miles from their home, cash in hand to buy Happy Meals. That's going to be a story they're going to tell for the rest of their lives. Thankfully, nobody was hurt. But can I just ask, how in the hell you, mom, did not know that your kids had taken the car and driven nine miles away when they're seven and five years old? Oh, I can't be judgmental. Yes, because I've had two kids like that separated that age distance. I think I would know if my kids took my car and drove to McDonald's. So I don't know like what was happening in that house. I mean, watch your kids. Let's see. This AI of dead Arizona road rage victim addresses killer in court. They use this in court. A clip of a guy who was killed in 2021 said, I believe in forgiveness after his sister fed an AI model videos of him and they used it in court. I don't like that at all. And that should not, I don't think that should be allowed. That is creepy. And that is really creepy. I know. And how? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Uh, I, I, I don't know. We got a couple headlines in here repeatedly. Let's see. Going back up. A tourist was bitten by a crocodile while taking a selfie at a zoo because he thought the animal was fake. Well, in his defense, they do say very still. They do. He was 29 years old. But his problem was that he literally climbed into the enclosure. And he was promptly bitten by a female crocodile. He thought it was fake. And so he climbed into the enclosure to get a photo with it. But again, it was fake. The zookeeper had to go in and hit the crocodile in the head to get her to open her mouth. And he got more than 50 stitches for his injuries. And I hope that they billed him for any injuries to the crocodile since he climbed into the enclosure. Goodness.
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This is the equivalent of throwing the Virgin in the volcano to appease the fire gods. That's exactly what that is. So that's the police. They were holding a press conference on missing kids. What? Yeah. Yeah. They were holding a press conference on two missing kids and they started off with a land acknowledgement. Shut up. I don't care what stupid land you're on. That's so dumb. You're talking about missing kids. First, we can't get started until we acknowledge that we're on the missing lands of the Lilliputian people. And we have to thank the Lilliputians for allowing us to have this press conference here before we start talking about the missing kids, which are actually not as important as acknowledging the Lilliputians. That's how dumb this sounds. You're talking about missing kids, like little kids, a six-year-old and a four-year-old. They've been missing in rural Canada for four days. And they had rescuers combing the woods looking for them. And it is the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. That's the RCMP that she mentioned. And they had helicopters, everything. But they could not start until they did a land acknowledgement. That... These are not serious people. I have literally never heard that since this is such it's a performative theater. It is performative theater. You have time is critical. Two kids are missing. Families have their hearts broken. And this stooge broad gets up there. Oh, we're going to do it. What? What? What? This doesn't even make any sense. Is it? She sounds she sounds like a hostage video. That's so... That is... I'm just shocked. I don't know, man. That's... Can you imagine if you're the family and you've got... You know, your kids are missing and you have the police lady get up there and go, oh, well, we recognize that we are on the land of the Lilliputians and, you know, that's what... That's crazy. It's... They didn't start up talking about the kids. They started talking about that. I mean, again, it's performative as all get out. It's so incredibly performative. I don't know. I don't know how long that lady's been on the force or not, but good heavens. I just shocked me. It shocked me. I don't understand the land acknowledgements. Nobody cares about land acknowledgement. Everybody stole land from everybody and you didn't steal it. It was conquered. You went in and you either moved and acclimated or you got conquered. People have been conquered all throughout history. Whenever anybody talks about Mount Rushmore, well, guess what? The Lakota took it from someone. Who did you steal it from? Lakota stole it. Who did they steal? They took it from Chippewa. Where did they take it before that? I mean, it's so stupid. Just quit. What does any of that have to do with missing kids? Sorry, we have to pay the indulgence of mentioning these people before we can start talking about the bigger story of literal missing children. And you wonder why Canada is circling the crapper. That's why. Good heavens.
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If you take that away and try to distill us just down to white folks, We'll be like Europe, an aging, slowly dying former empire. The Roman Empire didn't survive because it didn't have enough strength in its diversity. It suppressed its diversity and it died. If the U.S. wants to be the Roman Empire, keep voting the way you're voting, y'all.
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Not only is she a racist, but she is an absolute bimbo, too. That's one of the stupidest things I've ever heard. It's completely historically illiterate. And it's embarrassing that she felt that that was an OK thing to say and then put it out online, ignoring the racial part of it. I think I'm I think I'm more offended by the stupidity of what she just said than I am the racism that is within it. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. That's Joy Reid, who clearly Harvard is meaningless. That's the kind of brain the brain trust that Harvard produces. You have her and then you have what's his face? That pig kid, David Hogg. Those two are products of Harvard. Some of the dumbest people I've ever seen. So first, welcome back. If you're joining us by listening terrestrially or if you're watching the stream, Channel 347, DirecTV, the chat's at Rumble. You can also find us at X and Facebook. So I love history. I am a major history buff. And one of my favorite things is reading about ancient empires and love reading about ancient rome and i watched yes i did watch the hillsdale thing the rise and fall of rome i've also been watching i actually watched a thing last night that was about the construction of roman roads and how all roads literally did lead to rome but more so to her point she's saying that the the u.s isn't diverse enough and that's what is uh and that lack of diversity is what killed rome That is a historical nonsense. And here's why. In fact, it was too. You can now listen to me. It was too much. I don't mean that in the racial sense because it comes down with having a shared identity. This is one of the ways that America learned from Rome's mistake. And our founders learned from Rome's mistake because at some point there was admittance of, I mean, every scene, everybody got Roman citizenship. Everybody had Roman citizenship. And I don't know. I don't know if people realize that, uh, the Roman emperor at the time, uh, Krakala was the one who he, you know, that's the sacking happened on his watch. But every free person in the empire got citizenship. And previous emperors also did that. And at first it was looked at like it was Rome's strength because they would conquer and then incorporate. And that was really different in those times. They didn't just leave something conquered and they didn't force them to adopt every single thing that they did within Rome. But they did incorporate it. They incorporated it namely so that they could say, OK, you're a conquered emperor. You have to now give us X amount of foot soldiers. It's one of the reasons why they had the biggest armies is because that was part of that incorporation. But there was never any diligence in in. creating that singular identity. Everyone talks about a Roman identity, but when we look in history, it was kind of all over the place. People wanted to consider themselves Roman, but there has to be a shared loyalty, a shared identity. And that was just one of the things. And that's like one part of it that went into it is that there was citizenship given to every single person. The overspending was crazy. the amount of spending was just, even on Caesar's time and before, was entirely irresponsible. And then you had a lot of instability because there was a lot of corruption. There was a lot of intrigue. And the other thing, too, was you were losing a lot of traditional values. And the Eastern Empire was already starting its rise. And then you had the barbarians and you had the goths and you had no not like the cure goths but like you know the visigoths you had the goths and then you had the the huns that were all coming in so there were a lot of things that factored into it but i think one of the biggest was this strain on or an absence a strain caused by the absence of a shared identity is one of the things that played into it And the idea of being a Roman and what that meant in being a member of that empire was diluted as a result of that. In the United States, it's one of the things that our founders did differently. They didn't make a shared identity on a race or a religion or anything else, but it was about that animating spirit of liberty. So if you want to be free, then we are kinsmen. And that's how the founders set this up. And in the Roman Empire, they didn't even do that. They're just like, okay, you're here. You get a Roman citizenship. You get a Roman citizenship. And the absence of a shared value led to an absence of cohesion. It led to instability. It led to a complete dearth of... cultural values the whole nine yards. And there was so much internal fighting as a result of that. Rome, by the time the Goths came in and sacked it, Rome had already sacked itself. That was just the straw that broke the proverbial camel's back. So everything that she's saying, it's literally actually the opposite of that, that created the fall of Rome. Now, In the United States, this is where this communist, this cultural warfare comes in. You know, the critical race theory. Everybody says DEI. DEI is an offshoot of critical race theory, CRT, which is the Frankfurt School of Marxism, right? It is an absolute Marxist theory. And I wrote about this 15 years ago. when Andrew Breitbart was still alive and I was working with Andrew Breitbart, Derrick Bell, who was a prominent academic, and he was at Harvard. He was kind of a mentor to Barack Obama. And I remember at the time we had this video Barack Obama hugging Derrick Bell. And I thought it was pretty significant. The media tried to, you know, bury it and act like it wasn't a significant thing. But we're like, there's a new there's an introduction of a new tactic here. It's critical race theory. It's been it's been exploding on college campuses since the 60s. And here's how it's affecting you now. All of this stuff that you see now with DEI and wokery all came from that. Every bit of it. It all came from CRT. And it started on American college campuses in the 60s. Derrick Bell was a huge proponent of it. And that gets into, that was a tactic to identify, isolate, and destroy their shared cultural values by turning everyone against each other based on intersectionality so that's where all that comes in oh if you you're as if you have two women if one woman's a black woman and a white woman well she has one more intersectional box to check than the white woman so now she has more power ah but if this chick is gay ah then she may had they may equal out then but if one of them's trans then you see what I mean It's like a constant one-up. So instead of focusing on shared cultural values and that shared identity that's based on liberty, you're now weaponizing all of these other variables to destroy that. It's an ingenious way to go after the thing that really did separate us from the Roman Empire was that singular shared identity. We had something around which we could rally and be loyal, and that was we are free to be free, and this is where you come to do it at. That's why you can be from anywhere and you can be a kinsman in freedom. And so that's why what Joy Reid just said there is so incredibly embarrassing. I'm embarrassed for her. Can you imagine making a video and showing your ass like that with how stupid you are? I mean, there's no excuse. She's like a 50-something-year-old woman. There's no excuse for you to have the money that you have, be on television and have the internet, and then not understand the basic concepts of history like this. I mean, that's truly something. But that's the thing. And you know what? When you are removing the recognition of that shared cultural value that is your identity, because when you think about, well, what does it mean to be an American? At its most just distilled core, what does it mean to be an American? Free. Freedom. I think that's what ultimately everyone would come down to. Yeah. Freedom. So that's the that is the American identity. Well, when you start weaponizing all of these other things around it and attacking it, destroying it, doing this, reinventing the Mao cultural revolution with going after and attacking our history like they did with our founders. Oh, our founders were imperfect. Thus, everything that they have done is imperfect. Well, that's illogical on its face because I got to do is read the Bible. I mean, David was imperfect. He came from one of the most imperfect lines in all of mandum. I mean, David, who sent Uriah to be killed so he could get Uriah's wife. David. And from him came the Messiah. So that completely blunts that argument. But they don't care. They want you to be separated from God so you don't understand that. And they also want you to turn on your fellow man. and ignore that animating spirit of liberty so that we can destroy the social cohesion and obscure the identity of what it means to be American. Now, Rome did that to itself. Because they were allowing every Tom, Dick and Harry and giving everybody citizenship with just completely unfettered immigration, not even just immigration. It wasn't people even coming to Rome. Rome would go elsewhere and they would conquer a land. Oh, you're Romans now. Here's your citizenship. You're incorporated. The incorporation was smart, but everything that happened afterwards was not. So there's the she doesn't even understand. She she doesn't even understand the warning cry of the fall of the Roman Empire and what that means or what it looks like. in current times because she's just focused on the racial aspect of it. Immigration is a variable and that's, and racists like her don't understand that. And I'll say it again. Immigration is a variable because the identity once again is about being free. It doesn't matter what your skin color is. It doesn't matter what your religion is. Do you want to be free or And we are founded on Christian values. But we're singular in that we do not demand that you worship as we worship. Or do what we do in order to accept the perks of freedom, for the lack of a better way to put it. I mean, it's just one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. I'm like, golly, has she ever read a book? I don't know. But... It's just truly stunning to me. But I had to I had to talk about that. I had to talk about that. And the other part, too, is, you know, they were bringing in all of these the the Goths and all of that. It sounds funny to say it now because I immediately think of, you know, like a hot topic. So actually it's emo. I immediately think like the cure or something. But they the way that they ended up managing it and the twilight of their empire just hastened that the the conditions that created the fall. They'd already sacked themselves. So it's just a dumb, completely dumb thing from her. Now, a couple of things that I want to make sure we're touching on. 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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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I didn't even know this could happen. California is running out of license plate numbers. The license plate sequence that starts next year is kicking off. The one that began in 1980, it began with 1-A-A-A-O-O-O. And now... Oh, I'm not even reading all this. It's 9-U-B... I'm not good. No, not even. Anyway, I didn't even know you could run out of...
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It's what happens when you give illegals a bunch of license plates.
SPEAKER 21 :
Well, dang, look at you. Hollywood Film and Television Productions. Everyone's saying it feels empty. Is it in a death spiral? Aw, filming in Los Angeles is at a historic low. Remember how they were talking about implementing more tax credits and they never did it and people were mad? Yeah, so they said that even in the back lots, there's nobody there. Nobody even around some of the bigger ones. Hollywood is facing intense competition for production in Atlanta, New York. places that do tax credits elsewhere. A lot of people have been coming to Texas. It actually creates money. But man, these policies are not good for business. They said shoot days declined over 22%. That's wild. Also, aren't things being made differently? Things are being shot different. Production's different now. It's very different. Virginia Goffrey, one of Epstein's most prominent abuse survivors, apparently dies by suicide. Now, there were a lot of questions surrounding this because she had said at one point, I'm never going to commit suicide, etc. But Lorraine noted over the weekend that she and her husband apparently split. He took the kids. And so she was like already going through it. And that might kind of That's sad. It's very sad. Southwest Airlines. Oh, my gosh. Why? What would you do if you were on this flight? A Southwest Airlines passenger stripped naked, defecated on the seat as the plane landed. It was a flight to Chicago. It was a female passenger. They had to call the cops to Midway because this lady was going crazy. Yeah, you better burn. Just burn the plane because it's just no good at that point. They had to take it out of service for cleaning. I hopefully with flames. That's nasty. They said that. And then the last month they almost missed, almost hit a jet, a taxiing jet to sun glare, apparently. But they man, they they handled it. Can you imagine being on that plane, though? I don't know. I keep seeing these videos of people who are told to get off the plane because they're being disruptive. and then they fight and threaten to delay the whole plane. I'm surprised that passengers don't intervene as much as I just, at all, I'm actually kind of surprised over all of that. I'm always going to carry. I will always tell people to carry. I have no problem using lethal force at all whatsoever. But I also realized too, you know, it's good to have diversification with any kind of defensive implements, especially when, you know, you have gun-free zones and we would all like to not have to deal with those. But, you know, unfortunately in the real world, we do. Or if you're a college student and you're living on your own, going to school, but you're not old enough to carry a pistol yet, this is where that kind of diversification comes into play. Because Burna gun doesn't require background checks. It can be shipped right to your door. It's legal in all 50 states. No waiting period. It shoots chemical irritant projectiles that can disable threats from up to 50 feet away. And you have two different versions specifically for self-defense. They have rifles as well. But this, I think, you know, for this purpose, the Burna SD or the Burna CL. The CL stands for compact launcher. The CL is also smaller, 38% smaller than the SD. But there's no recoil. There's no time off for, you know, taking for target acquisition. And it's an effective deterrent. And it also gives you some form of defense when you are disarmed by, you know, restrictions or regulations, what have you. Visit Burna.com slash Dana and check out the new Burna CL. B-Y-R-N-A dot com slash Dana. Burna, ready when you are. Again.
SPEAKER 22 :
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SPEAKER 07 :
Of course we should be talking about how, yeah, if, you know, Speaker Johnson got his way, it wouldn't be possible, not just for gay people to get married, but for straight people to get divorced, let alone like birth control or how he would want to regulate porn or whatever people, most people would have a problem with. But...
SPEAKER 21 :
What the hell is he talking about? I mean, if Speaker Johnson got his way, all the gay people would be just illegal. He's not the sharpest knife in the drawer, guys. That's the former mayor's secretary, new mom, vice admiral of the canoe fleet over at Camp Wimpy Tonka, Poot Booty Juice. Wait, hold up. Don't criticize how I say his name because our former illustrious president who had all of his brain cells... All of them. That's how he said his name. And that's the gold standard by which I operate, ladies and gentlemen. Dana Lash with you. Welcome back. We're at the bottom of this first hour. He says that it's. They should that Johnson was he was going to make it to where. Gay people couldn't do anything and straight people couldn't get divorced. And yeah, I don't I don't know what he's basing that off of. Imagine like you just do a live stream and say whatever the hell you can. Can you imagine if I actually took to air not knowing anything about which I was discussing and just rambled and just incoherently pulled stuff out of the ether just to suit whatever, you know. Yeah, I would be held—I mean, they go with me all the time. I've been on air for three hours every day for years. I have a beat reporter assigned to me at Media Matters. Yes, they would find out something if I said anything incorrect. If they don't even like it, they go after me. I mean, to hell with it being incorrect. But if you're a Democrat, you can just— Yeah, well, Mike Johnson's going to make all the—he's going to illegal all the gays and— that and the straight people they can't get divorced or have white claws it's gonna be so bad imagine having a fourth of july with no white claws so bad But that's what it's like listening to him. Every time he opens his mouth to give a perspective, it's like drunk without the alcohol. It's what you feel like. So if you've never had a drop, it feels like that. You're listening and you're like, am I sober? Is this supposed to make sense? I don't know. That's what it feels like. But he's trying to get, he's working hard on behalf of the Dems because guys, they're going to have to try to talk to dudes, right? You know, the party that was like toxic masculinity is now going, wait, but wait, we messed up. Oops. That's where they're at right now. So they said that they're spending $20 million trying to connect with dudes by studying their syntax. S-Y-N-T-X. Yeah, whatever that means. That's what they want to do. Audio soundbite nine. Listen to this. This is one strategist literally saying exactly this.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, good questions. One, let me save the folks from the Times and all the other great print outlets some time. If you dig in on what Democrats are researching right now, you're going to find a lot of silly stuff. You're going to find people asking a lot of questions, people asking about syntax and do I drop the G for this word and this and that. And there's going to be a lot of that. So let me just warn everybody, that process is going to be very obnoxious for this 40-something. I would also say we're really talking about young men, right? Young men who Democrats have not figured out a consistent pitch for how to get them.
SPEAKER 21 :
They're toxic. And then women can be men. I mean, you know, you guys have have kicked them around for the better part of 40 years. whether it was the Title IX stuff, whether it was promoting women over men in the name of false equality, whatever it was, you guys have attacked dudes for endlessly, for forever. Toxic masculinity. Dudes that are young Gen Z are terrified to even date chicks because of everything that the left has done. So yeah, $20 million they think is going to help band-aid that error. So after impugning their characters, again, for the better part of 40 years, now Democrats are going, wait, we messed up, hold up. Here's an excerpt. For now, Democratic donors and strategists have been gathering at luxury hotels to discuss how to win back working class voters, commissioning new projects that read like anthropological studies of people from faraway places. The prospectus for one new $20 million effort obtained by the Times aims to reverse the erosion of democratic support amongst young men, especially online. It's codenamed SAM, short for Speaking with American Men, a strategic plan, and promises investment to, quote, study the syntax, language, and content that gains attention and virality in these spaces. And it recommends buying advertisements in video games, amongst other things. All they know is that younger dudes play games and they're like, something, something games. You can't just buy an ad. You know why the Democrats have not been successful in gaming? Because they don't play them. And Republicans haven't been successful because they're a bunch of damn cowardly tipper gores who want to put explicit lyrics on everything. These people that attack video games, oh my gosh, it's like I'm watching Tipper Gore 2.0. for the love no that you can't fake it you cannot fake it that's you're either in that community or you're not that's not one that is not a community that you can fake it with but what is this to study the syntax what does that mean kane what the hell does that mean what does it even mean it's there that's the language they want to they want to hijack it they want to understand it but they're acting like they're foreign like species right like we have to talk like these aliens
SPEAKER 10 :
How you do, fellow kids?
SPEAKER 21 :
Why, hello, fellow male. They tried that once with that ad. Remember that ad where that, they all look like rapists. They all look like soft rapists. That Democrat ad that they were, whoa, oh man, hang on, hang on, hang on.
SPEAKER 10 :
Their version of masculine.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, yeah, I'm a masculine man or something like that. What, oh, da, da, da, da, da, da. Is this is this it? Oh, I got to find it. No, there's one where it's the voting one. They came out with one ad where it was like men that were bullying their women into voting. And then there was the one where you had this one guy who he looked like a bottom and he was sitting on a truck going, I'm a manly man. I'm like, no, you're not. No, you're not. You're not. You only the only person who probably buys more lube than you is Diddy. No, you're not. You know what I'm talking about, though? I'm sorry. I can't just now. And every single dude in that ad, they looked it was they were all terrifying. That was the that was the attempt that they had, I guess, at trying to talk to dudes. And it horrified dudes. Yes. The that ad that Steve just put on there. Yes, that is it. That is the ad. That is literally it. And. I mean, again, it's also the party that had David Hogg as their vice chair. Yeah, they had those weird, like, I like steak. I'm a man. Men like bourbon. Therefore, I like bourbon. So you're going to think I'm a man. Like, you guys, Juan's putting it up for you. My favorite was the guy who was sitting like a pageant queen on the back of a truck. Yeah, and then you have the one guy. I can't believe that they got these lines out without laughing to death.
SPEAKER 10 :
I think he actually said, I eat trannies for breakfast. If you remember that line, he said, I eat trannies.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, it was the guy in the cowboy hat.
SPEAKER 16 :
Man enough to deadlift 500. Shut up.
SPEAKER 23 :
You think I'm afraid to rebuild a carburetor?
SPEAKER 16 :
I eat carburetors for breakfast.
SPEAKER 21 :
Like the one guy in the orange shirt. He sent like a pageant queen. That guy looks like he beats his wife. That guy looks like that guy right there. And then who's the prospector? Where the hell does this guy come from? They just got me out of the valley. I was prospecting for gold. But this is what I mean. And look, he ripped his sleeves off. You know, he went to like urban outfitters and got that shirt. That guy, his arms weren't. But this guy right here. Who can I just say? What man sits like this? I mean, it's rhetorical, but none of them do. Look at him. He's like tweaking. This guy.
SPEAKER 10 :
I sit like that.
SPEAKER 21 :
He's in an orange polo and he's sitting on the back of a truck and he's turned and he's got his hands on his leg like he's a pageant queen. And he's like, oh, you better believe I'm a man or I'm going to beat you. That's that's his whole aura. I'm going to beat you vibes from that. Well, yeah. I don't know. Silence of the Lambs. It puts the lotion in the basket. He's totally giving me those vibes.
SPEAKER 10 :
I said a little like that.
SPEAKER 21 :
And then you've got the DMX wannabe who's sitting there like, I'll braid the whatever out of my daughter's hair. And I'm just like, shut up. What is the matter with you? No dudes talk like this. They just do it. Right? I mean, if you have to sit here and tell people that you're a manly dude, men know this. Men know immediately that you're not. And Democrats are like the prospector kills me every time I see him because the shirt is just over the top. God love him. But I'm just trying to understand why Democrats think that they have to spend $20 million because I'm pretty sure this ad was several million dollars. How much do you think that ad was to make him?
SPEAKER 10 :
Those are all actors. From a production standpoint, it looks about, what, 8,000 won? Probably get that done with about 8,000, because there's no names in it, so you're not paying them much at all. So maybe 15,000 tops.
SPEAKER 21 :
Totally looks like California that they were in.
SPEAKER 10 :
But they probably spent a million on this. It's like $15,000 production.
SPEAKER 21 :
They had it well in that ripped off shirt for the prospector. They had to go, you know. They had to go probably get him that shirt at Urban Outfitters.
SPEAKER 10 :
They gave him nuggets, gold nuggets.
SPEAKER 21 :
He got so mad, his sleeves just poof, came right off. They shot out the side like projectiles. And that guy, that guy was the meanest one of them all. But this is what Dems, my point is that Dems did this ad. This guy right here, look at his sleeves. I'm sorry, that's fake. Why do you cut yourself? Why do you just like put a wife beater on, man?
SPEAKER 10 :
They paid him in mining equipment.
SPEAKER 21 :
I bet he hates himself now. You know that. And the way that he moved, that dude's an actor. And I'm all for it. But if you're going to wear a shirt like that, I feel like, you know, after we lost Joan Rivers, I feel like I need to rise to that occasion and fill that need from time to time the best way that I can, knowing that I'm nowhere near close to her brilliance. But someone's got to step in and talk about this. Like, the hell? I see that and I'm like, what happened to your sleeves? Did your muscles get so mad they blew them off? Like what happened? I don't get it. Stop. That guy's an actor. They're all actors. Like there was an article that talked about how they were all hired from an agency. None of these people are real. This guy probably never rode a damn bike in his life. And he's like, I'm working on my bike. And he's got his, you know, he probably don't even know what his tools are. whole point is that democrats tried this before they spent mil they did this ad they did like three ads last cycle and how did they show men the first one was they did an ad where they were trying to show conservative men republican men like they were going to beat their wives if they didn't if they didn't vote for trump right for the love and then then they're like well i guess we better walk it back we need to appeal to men instead of i guess making them look like they're horrible people And so they did this ad that made them look like they're horrible people. The most unlikable actors. It's like they went to the agency. Yes, give me the most unlikable actors you have. I want women to flinch when they see them on the screen. That's what I want. That's what we're going for. Yes, Kane?
SPEAKER 10 :
I think they literally thought, let's get a cross-section of what we think MAGA looks like, and we're going to message that way. Like we're going to message as though we're reaching out to the MAGA crowd.
SPEAKER 21 :
I mean, it's just so shallow. Yes, I can deadlift this and then I can braid my daughter's hair. Like one excludes the other. I don't think he quite understand the concept of chivalry. Oh my gosh. It's just, I can't stand this. So they're spending 20 million donor dollars. Let me clarify that. So Democrats get donations. So the people who've been donating to the Democrat Party, whatever brain trust brought you those ads, those are the people that are going to be trying to refine their messaging to dudes. Oh, this is, I want them to, no, you want them to do this. We want them to do this. I'm just, picture it. Content gold. Oh, my gosh. We're going to make so much fun of this. It's going to be insane. And if they have Secretary Newmom, Vice Admiral of the Canoe Fleet, Rear Vice Admiral of the Canoe Fleet, Camp Wimpy Tonka. Booty juice? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Booty juice. If they have him spearheading this, oh, please, for the love of all things holy, let this happen. I don't ask for a lot. No, hold up. I asked for a Datsun for my birthday, and I didn't get one. So at least give me the – and I asked it for Wick, my rescue dog. I was like, he needs a dog. It makes so much sense because he does wink. He does. I didn't get that. So can I have this? Can I have this? Mother's Day was last month, like earlier this month. It's not over yet. I can still get like a belated Mother's Day. So this could happen and we could see have poop booty juice leading this and the messaging would be endless. Oh, my gosh, guys, like I am here for the summer of of. Sis, think about the last movie that you saw that inspired you and kept you thinking long after the credits rolled. Movies have the power to change individuals, communities, and culture. And that's why I'm telling you about Angel Studios. This is the studio that had the courage to bring the world the sound of freedom. So how can you be part of it? Well, you can join the Angel Guild. King of Kings, an animated story about the life of Jesus, is now streaming on the Angel app. And when you watch King of Kings, it's going to move you. It's beautiful, it's powerful, and it's unlike anything else that's out there. It opened first on April 11th and broke records and earned an A-plus cinema score. So as a premium Guild member, you can watch King of Kings and access fan-curated films and receive two free tickets to every theatrical release. And the best part is that you are part of deciding what stories get told next. Experience the power of King of Kings, a film that's moving hearts and inspiring faith. Visit angel.com slash Dana to watch now and be part of this life-changing movement by becoming a Guild member. That's angel.com slash Dana.
SPEAKER 09 :
Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States.
SPEAKER 19 :
How you doing? I felt like it was important to get on the blower and talk a little bit about how I'm feeling and wondering how you're feeling about the state of our union. I'm finding myself pretty scared about a lot of things, scared about losing my rights as a woman, scared about losing my right to vote as a woman, scared about losing autonomy over my body as a woman, scared of my parents' social security checks. I'm scared of food banks running out of food and not being able to replenish because they're no longer getting federal funding.
SPEAKER 21 :
I love the tragedy theater that these people on the left that they engage in. I mean, she's saying all of this stuff like losing my right to vote as a woman. What does that even mean? Like, how is your right to vote under threat? Yeah, it's rhetorical. It's stupid. Stop fear-mongering people. I mean, that's a big B move. Stop fear-mongering people. I'm like, wait, I'm going to lose my bodily autonomy. Oh, like with COVID, when you made your stupid little videos and you were dancing in your yard telling everyone to get injections like that? You know, where you were going along with your party's ideology of no bodily autonomy and you were demanding under threat of penalty that everybody get injected with some experimental weird juice? That? I mean, you know, like, pick your flavor. Like, what are you going to be for today? You're for bodily autonomy now, but you weren't under COVID. How cute that that changes because your principles are in sand. How so nice that is. I mean, that's Kevin Bacon's wife. Yeah. And it makes me question Bacon. Yeah. Kevin Bacon, you know? Yeah. Because, like, he was the one, everybody who played Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, where you were at least six, everybody was no more than six people away from Kevin Bacon, right? Right. Now I'm like, do we want to be any closer? Because like, is he like her? But she did this. She did all these social media videos during all lockdown, like telling everybody, you're going to get yourself hot with your mask. Did all those videos and lectured people. And supported the mandatory moves of government against individuals as it pertained to masking and school and, you know, opening businesses and distancing and all that stupid stuff. But this idea that I've been hearing this forever, you're going to lose your right to vote. You're going to know, but you do lose it with actual Democrats. That's for damn sure. And you can lose your life, too, because of their policies. We're going to talk about an 18 year old who was killed by an illegal immigrant down the road for me just just this weekend. Stick with us. People like Patriot Mobile, the only Christian conservative cell phone service that is out there that's in existence, and they want to save you money. Yes, they have great service. Yes, you can work with a member of their 100% U.S.-based customer service team. And you can also get a free month of service using promo code Dana. It's time to make the switch. You can defend freedom with every call and text that you make. It's so easy to do. This is a carrier that fights for your values. This is a carrier that also has plans for for every single budget type. It doesn't matter, families of all sizes, businesses, singles, whatever it is, they have something for you. And they also, again, don't spend your money against you at the ballot box. Super easy to switch. If my mother can do it, it takes minutes to do it. You can as well. You just simply visit PatriotMobile.com slash Dana or you can call 972-PATRIOT and get a whole free month of service using promo code Dana. Super easy to switch. Defend freedom with every call and text that you make. Very easy. PatriotMobile.com slash Dana. 972-PATRIOT. Promo code Dana for that free month of service.
SPEAKER 23 :
Good afternoon. I am Corporal Carly McCann, Provincial Public Information Officer for the Nova Scotia RCMP. Thank you all for being here today. First, I acknowledge that we are in Mi'kma'ki, the traditional and unceded ancestral territory of the Mi'kmaq people. I also recognize that African Nova Scotians are a distinct people whose histories, legacies, and contributions have enriched that part of Mi'kma'ki, known as Nova Scotia, for over 400 years.
SPEAKER 21 :
This is the equivalent of throwing the Virgin in the volcano to appease the fire gods. That's exactly what that is. So that's the police. They were holding a press conference on missing kids. What? Yeah. Is that what? Yeah, they were holding a press conference on two missing kids, and they started off with a land acknowledgement. Shut up. I don't care what stupid land you're on. That's so dumb. You're talking about missing kids. First, we can't get started until we acknowledge that we're on the missing lands of the Lilliputian people. And we have to thank the Lilliputians for allowing us to have this press conference here before we start talking about the missing kids, which are actually not as important as acknowledging the Lilliputians. That's how dumb this sounds. You're talking about missing kids, like little kids, a six-year-old and a four-year-old. They've been missing in rural Canada for four days. And they had rescuers combing the woods looking for them. And it is the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. That's the RCMP that she mentioned. And they had helicopters, everything. But they could not start until they did a land acknowledgement. That... These are not serious people. I have literally never heard that since this is such it's a performative theater. It is performative theater. You have time is critical. Two kids are missing. Families have their hearts broken. And this stooge broad gets up there. Oh, we're going to do it. What? What? What? This doesn't even make any sense. Is it? She sounds she sounds like a hostage video. That's so, that is, I'm just shocked. I don't know, man. That's, can you imagine if you're the family and you've got, you know, your kids are missing and you have the police lady get up there and go, oh, well, we recognize that we are on the land of the Lilliputians and, you know, that's what, that's crazy. What? It's they didn't start up talking about the kids. They started talking about that. I mean, again, it's performative as all get out. It's so incredibly performative. I don't know. I don't know how long that lady's been on the force or not, but good heavens. I just shocked me. It shocked me. I don't understand the land acknowledgements. Nobody cares about land acknowledgement. Everybody stole land from everybody. And you didn't steal it. It was conquered. You went in and you either moved and acclimated or you got conquered. People have been conquered all throughout history. Whenever anybody talks about Mount Rushmore, well, guess what? The Lakota took it from someone. Who did you steal it from? Lakota stole it. They took it from Chippewa. Where did they take it before that? I mean, it's so stupid. Just quit. What does any of that have to do with missing kids? Sorry, we have to pay the indulgence of mentioning these people before we can start talking about the bigger story of literal missing children. And you wonder why Canada is circling the crapper. That's why. Good heavens. Welcome back. Dana Lash with you at the top of this third hour. And you can... Listen, terrestrially across the country, Channel 347, DirecTV, the chats at Rumble. The Maryland man. I like saying it because Cain rolls his eyes. That innocent Maryland father. You know the van that he was driving those people in when we played that video? I think it was like earlier this week, right? The video footage of him in the vehicle and he had eight people in the car and it was registered to a known human trafficker. Yeah, so the guy who owns the vehicle told the DOJ that he actually paid Kilmar Brego Garcia to transport illegal aliens from Texas all across the country. So he was a human trafficker. If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it's probably a criminal illegal alien who's an MS-13 gang member. Gang banging duck, just saying. Yeah, of course he was. We all knew that. We didn't need an official word from the DOJ. Hey, this guy who's here in the country illegally is driving a vehicle owned by a human trafficker. Wow. Gee, I wonder what he's doing. And he's got eight people in the car and they don't have any luggage. Wow. I really I wonder what's up with that. He's just driving him to Whataburger. Man, they're just going to go to Whataburger. That's all Juan's showing you. So this footage, the car that this dude's in, that's Abrego Garcia at the wheel. The car that he is in is literally owned by a known, well-known human trafficker. And the well-known human trafficker verbatim told the Department of Justice, this was released by Pam Bondi, that he paid Kilmar Abrego Garcia to transport illegal aliens all around the country. This is what Democrats, this is the guy that Democrats fell all over themselves on to go and have margaritas with. And this is the same guy who beat his wife like millions of times. Had protective orders. Tennessee Star broke the story. There's more. The DOJ, they're investigating Abrego Garcia, obviously. They offered limited immunity to the guy who owns the vehicle. So he'd tattle on them. The guy, his name is Jose Ramon Hernandez-Reyes, and DHS confirmed that he is the owner of that 2001 Chevy Silverado that Abrego Garcia was driving in the video that you see. It's 2022. And he was offered limited immunity. Hernandez-Reyes was previously arrested in 2019. He was already convicted of human trafficking a couple of times. He was sentenced to 18 months behind bars, deported, told not to come back for three years. Hernandez-Reyes came back anyway, illegally reentered, got this vehicle and has been helping to traffic humans all across the United States, obviously violated the terms of his sentence, and that in Abrego Garcia, he hired him and paid him to help him traffic people around the country. And the El Salvadorian, Abrego Garcia. Boy, Maryland dad, right? All of this stuff just keeps dripping out. Drip, drip, drip. Keeps dripping out. And if you remember, so he was stopped by Tennessee Highway Patrol in 2022. That's that video. He didn't have a driver's license. Eight people, himself included. or nine, himself included. And this was the Biden-era FBI. They were told the agency, they had to release him. The FBI told DHS they had to release him. And there were troopers, as you heard in the video, we've played it before, that knew that he was trafficking. They're like, this guy's a trafficker. That's what's happening here. You know this is what's happening. He's a trafficker. And he had cash on him, almost $2,000 in cash. And Hernandez-Reyes has been convicted, like I said, for trafficking before, from Texas to all over the United States, various parts of the country. This is the Maryland ad that they want to protect. Just absolutely no shame. And I keep seeing the due process. It's due process, due process, due process. He had his due process. It's time for us to have ours. Just wild. Wild. Now, a couple of other things. Can we get some of this Biden audio? Biden was on The View today. Where's his mush mouth? Which one? Because I've got two cuts here. Which is the mushiest? Let's do audio some by 27. Listen to this. He's talking about why Harris lost.
SPEAKER 15 :
Why do you think the vice president lost? And were you surprised?
SPEAKER 18 :
I wasn't surprised, not because I didn't think the vice president was the most qualified person to be president. She is. She's qualified to be president of the United States of America. But I was surprised. I wasn't surprised because they went the route of the sexist route, the whole route. I mean, this is a woman. She's this. She's that. Really, I've never seen quite as successful and a consistent campaign. undercutting the notion that a woman couldn't lead the country and a woman of mixed race.
SPEAKER 21 :
What does that have to do with anything? That is some of the stupidest stuff I've ever heard. It had nothing to do with that. It was her quality. I mean, I'm not going to relitigate it. I would literally rather beat my head against a rock on a riverbank repeatedly until it's nothing but mash before I have to talk about Kamala Harris again. She she it was quality. She's just horrible qualifications. It's not there. It's an embarrassment. Stop trying to make her a thing. This guy can barely talk. You have to listen close to even hear what he says. Audio somebody 26. He says he could have beaten Trump again. No, he couldn't have. No, he couldn't have. Listen to this. Knowing what you know now, do you think you would have beat him?
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, he still got 7 million fewer votes.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 18 :
A lot of people didn't show up, number one, number one. Number two, they're very close in those toss-up states.
SPEAKER 21 :
Not that, actually. I mean, you lost the blue wall. You lost Michigan.
SPEAKER 03 :
They lost all of them.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, they lost every bit of the blue wall. And Michigan was a huge loss for them. Do these people like what in the world? There's just doesn't doesn't doesn't make any sense. But I don't know. I don't understand the appeal of having him on the view. Does that bring eyeballs? Are people like I mean, are people seriously interested? I really. Seems kind of lame. We also hang on. I got I want to get more of this because we've had breaking news all throughout the beginning of the show. This, you guys want to hear Marjorie Taylor Greene versus Jasmine Crockett? I do. Audiosound by 15. Fight, fight, fight.
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Point of order. Out of curiosity, is the chairwoman allowed to editorialize before every speaker on the Democratic side speaks, or is that part of her time, which we know that she went over?
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It's not a point of order. You're taking Ms. Stansbury's time. I know you're trying to be chair of oversight, but Ms. Stansbury is the ranking member. Chair would be better on this side. I do agree with that. It's Ms. Stansbury's time.
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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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A St. Louis man was arrested after sitting naked in the St. Louis Terminal Airport. Did they ever remove the plywood from the windows from that tornado some years ago? I asked them that three years after the tornado hit and Lambert, the official ex-account, went at me. They hire the best. The St. Louis County Circuit Judge signed an arrest warrant for a guy who sat naked inside of the airport terminal. Probable cause statement. It happened on April 25th, Terminal 1. The guy's named Darius Walker. He attempted to cover himself when somebody approached. He was sitting in the terminal chair, belt unbuckled. So it sounds like he had clothes. If his belt was unbuckled... Maybe the people at Fox 2 now, maybe they could write a decent story that clarifies this before they finalize a headline. That would be super helpful for people trying to share the news. Meanwhile, let's see if the New York Post did one better. A seven-year-old boy drove his little sister nine miles in his mom's SUV to get a McDonald's Happy Meal. That's a good big brother. Wait, no, it's not. Stop. You're seven years old. You can't be driving a car. He drove his sister nine miles, his little baby sister. And the mom was shocked. She goes, he's probably grounded for the rest of his life. They were in Utah, and it was 8 a.m., and police were called. They were alerted to a reckless driver, and the SUV did not come to a stop until they hit a parking strip, and they found a 7-year-old and a 5-year-old inside unscathed. And they made it 9 miles from their home, cash in hand to buy Happy Meals. That's going to be a story they're going to tell for the rest of their lives. Thankfully, nobody was hurt. But can I just ask, how in the hell you, mom, did not know that your kids had taken the car and driven nine miles away when they're seven and five years old? Oh, I can't be judgmental. Yes, because I've had two kids like that separated that age distance. I think I would know if my kids took my car and drove to McDonald's. So I don't know like what was happening in that house. I mean, watch your kids. Let's see. This AI of dead Arizona road rage victim addresses killer in court. They use this in court. A clip of a guy who was killed in 2021 said, I believe in forgiveness after his sister fed an AI model videos of him. And they used it in court. I don't like that at all. And that should not. I don't think that should be allowed. That is creepy. And that is really creepy. I know. And how? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I don't know. We got a couple headlines in here repeatedly. Let's see. Going back up. A tourist was bitten by a crocodile while taking a selfie at a zoo because he thought the animal was fake. Well, in his defense, they do say very still. They do. He was 29 years old. But his problem was that he literally climbed into the enclosure. And he was promptly bitten by a female crocodile. He thought it was fake. And so he climbed into the enclosure to get a photo with it. But again, it was fake. The zookeeper had to go in and hit the crocodile in the head to get her to open her mouth. And he got more than 50 stitches for his injuries. And I hope that they billed him for any injuries to the crocodile since he climbed into the enclosure. Goodness. So let's be real. Medical freedom isn't just a catchphrase. It's your right. Your health decisions belong to you and not the government, not Big Pharma, and definitely not someone elected bureaucrat. So that's why I'm all in on what All Family Pharmacy is doing. They're putting medical power back where it belongs, and that's in the hands of you, Americans. Through the end of June, they're making it even easier to take back control because when you control your health, you protect your family, your future, and your freedom. Get 20% off site-wide. No insurance, no problem. No insurance needed. And licensed doctors in all 50 states. You'll also receive fast shipping straight to your doorstep. This isn't just about convenience. It's also about freedom. You can get ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine. You can get methylene blue, emergency kits, antibiotics. Whatever you need to be prepared, proactive, and protected. So visit allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana and use promo code Dana20 to get 20% off your order. That's allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana, code Dana20. Don't wait for permission. Own your health and take your freedom seriously.
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and discrimination against black people. We are in a moment of anti-blackness on steroids and we refuse to be silent. We will not back down in our pursuit of racial justice. The antidote to anti-blackness is to be pro-black and we will do it unapologetically. The United States government owes us a debt and we need reparations now.
SPEAKER 21 :
I didn't know it was a call and answer session. Welcome back. Dana Lash with you at the bottom of this third hour. That is Ariana Presley, who's talking about reparations. Man, Democrats are just they just keep putting out bangers, right? They just keep putting out bangers. I'm all for them doing this. Do it. Try it. F-A-F-O. I'm all about it. Democrats introduced a federal resolution, once again, for reparations. I've got a lot of questions about this. So Summer Lee out of Pennsylvania led it. It was first introduced back in 23 by Cori Bush. Now, don't you criticize that woman because she's got a man who says he's a wizard. Right? It was her bodyguard who says he's a wizard and he can literally bring a plague upon you. I don't know. That came out. She was paying him campaign money. I don't know. Anyway, they said... that in this press conference, they want, Presley says she wants restitution and justice and reparations, and I don't even know what that exactly means. I'm so tired of hearing off of the stolen labor, stolen land, et cetera, et cetera. Can I just note that every nation on earth, without exception, has engaged in the practice of slavery, and it wasn't just us. black citizens that were enslaved either. I mean, by and large, it's a horrible thing. It goes without saying. But it wasn't reserved also for just one group of people or another. So my question is, how does this work? So people who were never slaves want money from people who never owned them. Okay. That still doesn't make any sense to me. So like, Cain, let me use Cain as an example. Sorry, Cain. I just want to use you as an example.
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So
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You're, and we'll just put it bluntly, so Cain is half Mexican. So your family wasn't even here. Half of you weren't even here when all that happened. So do you only... Pay 50% reparations? Like, how does that work?
SPEAKER 10 :
That's a great question.
SPEAKER 21 :
Juan's family's from Puerto Rico. How does that work?
SPEAKER 10 :
Is there no, like, system?
SPEAKER 21 :
Juan wouldn't even hear. He's got to pay reparations.
SPEAKER 10 :
So we've got to consider that. Plus, is there a system considering your family's history?
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, so my family predominantly are Irish, which explains so much. And American Indian. So when we look back through our family, our family records, we we were on the Dawes rule. So we were my ancestors were forcibly removed on the trail of genocide by Democrats to go to Oklahoma and elsewhere. Excuse me. So how does that work? So when my and then my other ancestors, when they came over a way long time ago. I mean, the Irish were enslaved and they were treated horrifically. So how does that work? Is there like a grading scale? I think when you're also demanding that you and only you deserve recognition for... past offenses, you're also diminishing and attempting to disqualify everything else that everybody else is. It's the human story. The human story is, you know, because humans have the free will to choose evil and good. And part of the human story is, you know, immoral activities such as this. Part of the human story is entire tribes in Africa that would conquer other tribes, and they would literally sell them into slavery. I don't know where people thought that they were going when they were over there on the Ivory Coast, and they were sending people through that famous doorway and trekking across the Atlantic to the New World and selling people to plantations. But, I mean, it wasn't just a bunch of Englishmen over there that were selling people, and they were working. In fact, what was it, the— What was the one movie that was made and it was on Netflix and it got a lot of pushback even from black historians because they were glamorizing one of the biggest tribes in Africa that was prolific in the slave trade. They made a lot of cash trading their enemies, other enemy tribes. They would war and they would capture and they would sell. So if you descended from that
SPEAKER 10 :
tribe and are you then partly responsible for reparations for paying reparations too like how does that work that's how stupid this is let's remember where the word slave came from it didn't come from some african descent it came from the slavic countries and they were actually white people who were slaves first which is why the word slave was even what it is
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Well, what it says, too, is that, oh, it's okay in every instance but this. I don't think it's okay in any instance. But this is, you know, the history that we have. I mean, one of the things with history is we look back at what, you know, the people who came before us did. And if we don't like what they did, we say we're not going to repeat that. That's the unfortunate aspect of it. But to demand that someone who wasn't involved be responsible for paying you is... It is... A lazy way to redistribute wealth. And the sad thing is, is you're diminishing actual immoral activity by using it as a veneer for greed. And that's the truth of it. If like Ariana Presley and others calling for reparations want to get really mad, be pissed off at Democrats. That perpetuated this. It was Democrats who did the trail of genocide and it was Democrats who fought to keep people enslaved. That is the truth of the matter. They fought for this. And their policies after continued to fight for it. The destruction of the black community through community, through urban planning, the likes of which happened under you had under FDR and others. I mean, go back and look what happened like when they were building roads and highways. This was Democrat central planning. There's entire books on this. I have two in my library. That was Democrat central planning, and it was designed to divide and control. I've never understood how people can support the party that historically fought to diminish them at every turn. The abolitionists were Republicans. The people who wanted women to be able to not have to go to the poorhouse when their husbands passed away, to be able to inherit the farms that they worked on alongside of their husbands and families. Those were Republicans that fought for women to be able to do that. It was Republicans that fought for women to be able to cast a vote as an equal citizen of this nation. And it was Democrats that opposed it at every step. That ideology. I hate breaking everything down to just Republican or Democrat. But it is that ideology that is still so pervasive today. I mean, think about the policies. And it's even creeping over in conservative spheres. This is one of the reasons I get enraged when I hear about people trying to expand welfare programs like paying women to have babies. They are a continuation of the same policy that chipped away at the nuclear family unit over the past several generations. And they're trying to doll it up as a conservative proposal. It's asinine. Who is the party of higher taxation that makes it to where a family has to send both parents out of the home to work? Exactly. This is my point. I mean, if Democrats want reparations, maybe they should ask themselves to pay themselves then for diminishing and dehumanizing themselves. And furthermore, I want my reparations. My ancestors were forcibly removed, apparently by Elizabeth Warren's ancestors back in the day. So what do I get out of that? I would like to know. My family was dirt poor. And my family came from a tribe that actually was pretty independently wealthy in Georgia back in the day. And they had everything confiscated and seized from them and they were sent on the trail of genocide. We're on the roll books. We're listed. My ancestors are listed on the trail and they got their numbers. So I'm just curious. What do what do my ancestors get from that? Like, where does that come? What about the tribes that were relocated through that trail of genocide? They can't even own their own land on Indian reservations. Do you know that? Democrats have fought against that forever. If you're on a res, you can't even own your own land. The government owns it. It's actually not, I think about it, it's actually not that much different from property taxes. You never really own your own land, but you really can't even have it in your name on a res. So that's, you know, Why? Why did they do that? Why did the government do that and disallow them to own property? Big question. So if they're going to talk about reparations, they need to take it to their party and say, you owe us this because this is what you fomented throughout history. It is evil to demand that someone else carry the penalty for another person's sin. God doesn't even do that. God doesn't pass on original sin. It's a myth that he does and it's scripturally incorrect to assert otherwise. He doesn't do that. You're not responsible for the sins of your father. And again, if people want to argue that you are, tell me, explain to me Jesus's lineage again. I just, it's divisive and it's hateful and it's racist. They're just racist is all it is. Lorraine notes that the Irish quarter and her German half of her family didn't get here until after it was over and they were dirt poor. So what about those? And what about black slave owners? There were some Native American, American Indian slave owners. What about them? Here's the other thing. What about people like my husband's family who came over here in the 1800s from Germany? And there was a book written about his grandfather, Gustavus Lash. He was taken as a prisoner of war, and he was in Andersonville, the worst POW camp in the country. And I can't remember how many of them walked out. They had a ton of them in there. And to feed them, they would drive a live ox into the yard. And the prisoners would have to tear at it with their bare hands and teeth if they wanted to eat. Most of them died. Most of them died. And my husband's grandfather was one of the very few that walked out alive, totally emaciated, looking like a concentration camp survivor, but walked out alive. There's newspaper articles written about him and all kinds of stuff. He fought for the union. He gave his health. He offered up his life. Sir, are you telling me that somebody, his descendants, have to pay for something they didn't do? What about the people who lost their lives fighting to free people? Are you telling me that by way of their skin color, that they are just required to pay? It's racist. Arianna Pressley is a racist, and these other people are as well. And they use their skin color as a gimmick. And it's sickening and it's divisive and it's evil. It is a moral failing on their part to demand reparations. You know, there are people that have suffered. I wrote I have a whole chapter about this in my book, Grace Canceled, because I write I write about all of this. Human history is entirely imperfect and filled with error because humans are entirely imperfect and error prone. You're continuing this pattern by demanding something from people who are not responsible to pay you for something you never endured. And when I look at the backgrounds of some of these lawmakers, you know, like people like Jasmine Crockett and others, and they never experienced the poverty that I grew up with. Ever. When I look at Ayanna Pressley's background, I mean... She had every, I mean, she had a lot of stuff handed to her. She grew up in Chicago. She did Planned Parenthood advertisements. You know, she was able to, you know, build herself. And then she kind of like discounts that and acts like, you know, she didn't, none of this was available to her. She wouldn't be where she was if these opportunities had not been available. Opportunities that she argues don't exist. It doesn't make any sense. It's evil and it's a perpetuation of the sin that they accuse others of.
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It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man.
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Some of these headlines I got today. All right. So first up, I'm telling you what, this is scary. If I lived in Florida and I love you, Florida, I love vacationing in you. I love your food. I love going down there at 30A. I like going. I mean, the whole every part of it, no matter what part of it is all beautiful. You're all's water is I mean, it's terrifying because the stuff that's in it. In your sewers, municipal employees were doing a routine inspection. Routine inspection. Oh, we got to go look at this pipe. It's underneath this Florida road. Let's send a little camera down there just to see. Oh, my gosh. There's a gator sitting in the pipe like a people. He's sitting there like a people. Look at him.
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What?
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Juan's got, I think Juan's got it. It's a, they were looking, it's this concrete pipe and they were looking to see like what, you know, the structure, et cetera, et cetera. You know, as one, as, as, as skilled workers would do. And they lowered this camera down there and they saw a gator. It looked, it legit looks like he's sitting up. I can't even say the city's name, but they posted a photo to Facebook showing the image of the gator. And they used this remote-controlled camera to check the pipe. You know, they were looking for cracks and leaks and things like that. Oh, but then there's more. They also had video of him later walking around. The pipes were fine, but he's just walking around. See, he's while you look at him with these, just sitting like a people. He's sitting there chilling in the pipe. Can you imagine? Now, that's a sewage pipe. I don't know. Like, is he going to come up in somebody's toilet? I don't know. I'm just saying. They also kind of want to chill with you at your house, too. Not this particular gator, but one of his friends. An alligator. Another alligator. Not the one that we had last week that knocked on someone's door. This is a new gator knocking on someone's door. Come and knock on my door. He got stuck in a folding chair. He needed some help. Lee County Sheriff's Office posted a video to social media. A gator was visiting front porches in Tortuga and their deputies had to come because he got his head stuck in a folding chair. And as he approached the front door, he had the chair on his head and it was hitting the door. It was almost like he was signaling for help. So clearly the homeowner did not try to do it themselves. They called the professionals to come and help. My gosh, we got a lot more on the way. Third hour next. Stick with us.
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Reopen Alcatraz. Can you walk us through that decision?
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Did I say what?
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To reopen Alcatraz. How will you use it? How did you come up with the idea?
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Well, I guess I was supposed to be a movie maker. We're talking, we started with the movie making and we'll end. I mean, it represents something very strong, very powerful in terms of law and order. Our country needs law and order. Alcatraz is, I would say, the ultimate, right? Alcatraz, Sing Sing and Alcatraz, the movies. But... It's right now a museum, believe it or not. A lot of people go there. It housed the most violent criminals in the world, and nobody ever escaped. One person almost got there, but they, as you know the story, they found his clothing rather badly ripped up And it was a lot of shark bites, a lot of problems. Nobody's ever escaped from Alcatraz and just represented something strong having to do with law and order. We need law and order in this country. And so we're going to look at it. Some of the people up here are going to be working very hard on that. And we had a little conversation, I think.
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The shark bites, a lot of shark bites. Well, there's shark infested water right there, I mean. I'm just saying. It is, isn't it, Kane? I mean, you know, the sharks are hungry right there. All they got are needles and feces.
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That's where they're looking to get their bites in.
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Yeah, you got to get your bites in. And then their little watch goes off and says, you did it. I don't know what's happening. Oh my gosh. Welcome back to the program. We're at the top of this third hour. It's the weather. Welcome back. Dana Lash with you. We're at the top of the third hour. Greetings and salutations. A little quick sidebar. Our studio, we have Wick here, our rescue pup. We've had to teach him how to be a dog. In a way, because we got him from a shelter and he never like went outside without a person before. So the first time I let him go outside, you know, like, oh, it's your backyard, you know, and you can go use the restroom. He looked at me like I was crazy. Like, get here, woman. Like, you got to walk out with me. I can't do this by myself. And he is petrified. I've never, I mean, he just shakes. He just tucks his tail and just shakes whenever there's like thunder, whenever it's storming. And then, you know, if whatever was going on, we got to stop it and make sure he's chill. And he doesn't like being in his kennel except to go to bed at night. That's the only time. And most dogs want a safe space. Wick does not want to be in his kennel. So I made a pillow fort for him. like a whole pillow fort that he can get in and hide. So I'll let you know how that works out. I'm like, well, I don't, he doesn't want to be in his kennel. So the next best thing is a pillow fort.
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How many pillows have you used in this pillow fort?
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A lot. And I, there's like a blanket and I, I am an expert pillow fort builder. I don't know if anybody knows this. It's a particular skill set that I have. I've made many, many pillow forts, not just as a child, but also as a boy mom. I have made some pillow forts in my time. And so it's a really keen, it's a spectacular pillow fort in which Wick can find security from the storm since he doesn't.
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Does he calm down in the pillow fort?
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Well, I don't know. We're trying it for the first time. So we're going to see. That's what I did on break. I'm like, I went and cobbled together. If I do say so myself, a pretty spectacular pillow for it. And we're going to see if that maybe because he wants to be under stuff and in. And if he sits by you when it's storming, you have to basically hug him. You have to put your arm around him and hug him. Or he'll try to melt into your head. It's just like he tries to get right there by you.
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That poor guy.
SPEAKER 21 :
He is just... And someone was telling me a thunder shirt. People who have never dressed toddlers are like, get a thunder shirt for your dog. Dressing a dog is as bad, if not worse sometimes, I think, than dressing a toddler. Well, unless it was my youngest. And I just don't know if that's going to work out. So I don't even know what it's a shirt that hugs you tight.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, I guess it's supposed to be like those compression blankets that make you feel like you're being hugged.
SPEAKER 21 :
I feel like that's not going to work for him. He's he's a very smart dog. He is super smart. He learned how to open gates and all kinds of stuff. He's incredibly smart. But yeah, so he's just except he doesn't recognize just a basic storm. He's smart, but you know. So we'll see how that goes.
SPEAKER 10 :
There's no meteorologist. Give him a break.
SPEAKER 21 :
Well, I mean, it is kind of out of nowhere. It was sunny this morning, and then all of a sudden a storm comes rolling through again, and the thunder is so loud that sometimes it carries over air. It's crazy. So anyway, that's my life right now. I'm just making sure my dog doesn't have an existential breakdown when I'm on air because of the thunder. So if one day you guys happen to tune in, And you hear like some whining in the background of the mic if you're not watching. Or if you just see a giant yellow dog here in the seat with me, it's because the pillow fort didn't work. It didn't work. And so he's got to be. And he just sits there. It's the funniest thing. He doesn't move. It's like he thinks if he's still, the storm won't see him. Like the big roll of thunder. He acts like if he's just super still, the storm won't see him. And he just he sits as still as a cigar store Indian. He just sits there and will not move. So he'll just he'll probably look like a fake dog. So it may happen now. It may happen here in the next the next few. So bear with us. It's our high maintenance show dog. Oh, my gosh. Now, Lorraine says for her dog, it's the electricity in the air more so than the thunder. I didn't even think about that. Really? The electricity in the air? I just think it's muggy. Anyway, so. All right, so POTUS having a little press avail right there, and he's discussing Alcatraz. I just, again, I don't think you need to make it all up, right? Just make sure you got the electric fences work, and I think you're good, right? Don't you think so? And the locks work? Yeah, I think that, yeah, I think that'll, I don't even know how much that would, are we running out of prison space?
SPEAKER 10 :
I don't know. I mean, we've been letting prisoners out for all kinds of different reasons.
SPEAKER 21 :
Right.
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And overpopulation's been one of those reasons.
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Yeah, I just, yeah, I mean, I don't know. I mean, maybe it, you know, maybe we do, but I'm not against it. I'm not against it. Put us at down with Kristen Welker. and was grilling him about a number of different issues. Can we have Audio Summit 6? Because I need to hear what he says about Jasmine Crockett. Go ahead and play this one.
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I can't name one Democrat. I mean, I look at the Democrats. They're in total disarray. They have a new person named Crockett. I watched her speak the other day. She's definitely a low-IQ person. And they said she's the future of the party.
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She's dumb. How is that possible? That's what he just said. Now, speaking of Crockett, was this at her audio soundbite? I think this. Oh, 17. So she was speaking at a commencement ceremony. You know, just this sounds like a particular just like I guess what a regular commencement material. Listen to this.
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going to be people that tell you that you don't belong. And I am here to tell you over and over and over that you absolutely belong. There are people that are going to tell you that there is not a table in which there is a seat for you. But I am here to remind you of Montgomery and those folding chairs. Let me tell you that we know how to use a chair, whether we pulling it up or we doing something else with it.
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OK, so I guess she thinks that. So this was her graduation, her commencement speech Sunday. This is she was in Mississippi. 20 minute speech and. She's like unnecessarily wordy, like instead of, you know, at a table in which there is a chair, you could just say a seat at the table, you know, at the table and using a bunch of words strung together poorly does not make you sound smarter. It makes you sound dumb. Just say a seat at the table. That's it. But she's talking about this, the fight that, she's talking about chairs. Do you remember this 2023 fight that was in Montgomery, Alabama? And it was boaters that fought with, I guess, like a dock worker and a couple of other people. Remember this? It was a bunch of drunk people that fought and then there were chairs involved. I don't even know. And it had to do with a parking spot at the dock. Like somebody was trying to dock their boat and somebody else, there was like a large river boat. And then there was a smaller private boat and everybody got into a fight and they, everybody made it a racial thing. And because they said, well, the, you know, this, the city has a history of racial violence. I don't necessarily, I mean, I don't know if it was a race thing more as much as it was a drunk person, drunk people entitled thing. I don't know. But yeah, I mean, I guess, you know, she needed it to be that. She referenced that. That's what she was talking about with the folding chair. Like, that doesn't even make sense. You're talking about a drunk fight over dock space and a... What?! ! But why is that the message? First off, who's telling people that they don't that there isn't a seat for them at the table? Oh, sorry. A table at which there is a seat, also known as a chair, that you could have the seat at. I don't get it, Cain. Who's telling anybody this? The only people that are saying this are people like her. The only people that are going, oh, there's no room at the table. It's her. She's the one who's telling them this.
SPEAKER 10 :
She did respond to him on X. Oh, yeah? I put that in Slack.
SPEAKER 21 :
She did respond to him on X. Yeah. Well, her remarks were stupid when she's talking about the chair. But she said, she tweeted, as Kane noted, she tweeted, quote, gosh. For you to be in charge of the whole country, you sure do have my name in your mouth a lot. Okay, first off, let's stop with the first sentence. He doesn't even know your name. He just knew your last name. And he only mentioned you one time. So get over yourself. And can we stop saying name in your mouth? Like, that's so stupid. Just shut up. I'm so tired of people trying to sound hard ass. And like, I'm going to say something that I think other hard ass people say. And if I say it, then I'm going to borrow the hard assedness. Just stop. And then she goes, every time you say my name, you're reminding the world that you're terrified of smart, bold black women telling the truth and holding you accountable. Like what? Like he mentioned you one time. He mentioned her one time. Like he wig snatched you. And why are you still talking? Like stop. He didn't even mention your whole name. So she snatched her own wig at her speech. I've never seen anybody do a self-wig snatch, an SWS, harder than this woman does. It just does not keep my name out of your mouth. Okay, that's not even how that works, but okay. I feel like I'm watching Schitt's Creek, the show. Fold in the cheese, David. Well, what does it even mean? I just fold it in. Keep my name out of your mouth. What does that even mean?
SPEAKER 10 :
The funny thing is that every time she talks about it, it's proving his point.
SPEAKER 21 :
Well, yeah. I mean, she's... She talks about him all the time. He just referenced her one time. One time. He just mentioned her one time. And she loses it on X. Loses it. She was so excited that he even mentioned her last name. Nobody remembers her first name. And the only reason that they remember her last name is because it's Davy Crockett's name first. And it's a little bit jarring to realize that somebody with the last name Crockett is such an idiot. And so entitled. I mean, she's literally like a trust fund socialist. I told you she grew up in the ritziest area in St. Louis, and she went to the most expensive and exclusive private school ever. I mean, my CDS is. That's where all the politicians' kids went, all the CEOs' kids went, all the debutantes, all the billionaires and the millionaires' kids, all the ballplayers' kids were at MICDS. Like everybody was at, if you had money and you had, your parents were famous, you were at MICDS. That was like the school. And it was, it's super expensive. It's like more expensive than a four-year university. It is insanely expensive to go there. Beautiful campus, but I had to do a profile. One of my first jobs after college was writing a celebrity profile on a performing artist, and they went to MICDS. And when I walked into that school, I was blown away because it was like a world away from how I grew up. I mean... so yeah she's I think she tries to cosplay like she's hood well she does she tries to cosplay hood and she's not like AOC tries to cosplay like she's tough it's like stop it just looks so bad it's so bad so the um That was her commencement address. I just can't believe that you would reference drunk people fighting with folding chairs over dock space at a commencement address and then act like that's somehow representative of racial struggle. I mean, if you're, it doesn't even make any sense. And she was in Mississippi, right? And she's referencing something that was in Montgomery, Alabama. I don't understand. That doesn't, none of that makes sense to me. Of course, you know, not their brightest bulb in the box. Not really. Audio, somebody at 18. Oh, she kept going. Listen, this is nuts. It's easy to play because she says stuff that's so crazy. Oh, wait, we got to move, don't we? Oh, hold that. Hold that thought. Hold that thought. Sorry, Steve is dying. Steve got to yell at me. We got to move because Steve will have a stroke and we won't have any quick five.
SPEAKER 10 :
And now all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's quick five.
SPEAKER 21 :
So NIH closes experimentation labs that are accused of brutally killing thousands of beagles for over 40 years. It's so horrible. It was announced that they closed their last in-house beagle lab on the NIH campus. This comes days after Doge said that they're investigating these experiments in the White Coast Waste Project. So that's great news. Let's see. Also, solar panels to be fitted on all new homes in England by 2027. That's mandatory. You will be forced to comply. Welcome back. Dana Lash here. We're at the bottom of this third hour. We made it to Friday. Yay! It's good to be with you. Coast to coast, you can listen terrestrially. One of our hundreds of markets. You can also watch the stream. Channel 347, DirecTV. Find us on X. Rumbles where the chat is. YouTube, all that good stuff. So I feel like we don't... We're always so... critical of culture here in this space. And for good reason, because it sucks. So much of it is just heinous, like so much art and so much music and everything. I feel like I sound like a boomer almost because we are just so hypercritical of it, but it is trash. And one of my biggest criticisms of the right is that they don't encourage actual good stuff that's not like politically driven. The stuff that I see promoted is politics first and then artistic consideration second. And I always have a huge issue with that because it should be about, you know, the expression first and making something that's really cool and is, you know, pretty or whatever. And then if you want to, you know, if it has a political point, then fine. But don't make that be, you know, the vehicle for the art. It's backwards. One of my friends who is a great illustrator, I think that's the preferred term, has been doing all kinds of you know comics and he has a podcast and i've known him for a really long time in fact our first meeting was hysterical uh but you can find him on x at salty draws he is a writer creator uh his uh pronouns are lord and king and uh he has a comic book series it's actually really cool it's about the teenage ben franklin who is caught in this virtual world that is regulated by ai which is weird because when he started this, I kind of wonder if he knew we were going to be here all these years later. I mean, we're almost there. Sean Salter now joins us. You can find him at Salty Draws on X. Good to see you, my friend. Okay, so every time you join me, your office gets like, your studio gets bougier and bougier in the background. I'm going to point that out.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, because I'm just going along with my pronouns, King and Lord. That's right. That's right.
SPEAKER 21 :
I have the comic here, by the way. And you've got this nice, shiny foil on the top. This thing is sick as all get out to. And this is like beautifully illustrated. It's silence. Do good. Ben Franklin, time travel agent. I want to get into all of this. But because you were in you were in Hollywood for a really long time. I want to give people a background on you. You were in Hollywood for a long time. You work for big studios. You worked on all kinds of very commercial things that people have seen on television and theaters. And you got red-pilled. Although I think you always were kind of... Born and raised conservative. Yeah, red-pilled. But you weren't public about it because you couldn't be.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, no.
SPEAKER 21 :
What would have happened if you would have been vocal about it then?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, what would have happened is what happened to us right before I ended up leaving Hollywood, which was we had sold, me and my writing partner had sold a show to a major Hollywood studio, and we were developing that in Hollywood. It was an animated series. You're familiar with that one, but we can't talk about NDAs. And when they found out we were conservative Christian straight white males, well, they knew we were straight white males, but when they found out the conservative Christian part, it was phone call. We're not going to do this show.
SPEAKER 21 :
Just like that. As easy as that.
SPEAKER 05 :
Just like that. That's crazy. And when you're nobody, you don't have an established name, it's really easy to do to you. And so it was time. At that moment, I knew it was time to leave.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah. And then you went to beautiful Tennessee. I can say that. Well, you talk about it. I'm not going to say where you are, but you live out in nature. It's beautiful.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. I live in the forest, and so it's hard to get to where we're at. And if you're here, it's not a good idea.
SPEAKER 21 :
Right. That's right. And it's so much better now. Do you feel like you're able to be I mean, is it I mean, in some in some respects, I would imagine it's harder because it's an important point that I think you made. If you don't have that name recognition, I think even if you do have the name recognition, I don't even think that you can be exactly free with your ideological beliefs that they if they fall out of line with what, you know, the upper echelon in Hollywood dictates.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, look what happened to Gina Carano. And then that happens to so many people. They just what happens is the phone, the phone stops ringing the call. You stop getting the job. You stop getting any interest around you. And it has to they'll say things like, oh, you're with or, you know, because they they don't want to be seen as good. But really, at the end of the day, it's just because they're fascists.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah. I mean, that's that's and everything that they've come out with has been garbage. There's I rarely go see movies anymore.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, we don't go at all. The last time... Triple Wolverine was funny.
SPEAKER 21 :
Oh, yeah. Well, I didn't even see that in the theater. I was trying to think the last thing I saw in the theater and I can't remember. The first time I went back to the theater after a really long time was Top Gun, the sequel. Okay, I did see John Wick. I did see the latest John Wick. I had to go see that.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, that was a good one.
SPEAKER 21 :
I really haven't gone because there's not a lot. It's all like repurposed, rehashed, reimagined. It's the same story that they make duller and duller with every iteration. And there's not a lot of originality out there.
SPEAKER 05 :
There's not a lot of originality. And I think they do the reboots because the stuff that is original is so just twisted and just full of their nonsense that does not relate to the regular American that they're like, well, what about this? And then they shove their stuff in it still. And it's just like, you made it worse.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah. Yeah. So this I'm going to get into the comics because you do. This is a great series that you've been working on for a long time. But have you been you're because you you you were born really conservative. Like, how would you say like a Reagan conservative? Like, how did you what was your belief set? Like, how would you describe it if you had to package it?
SPEAKER 05 :
When I was younger, I was Alex P. Keaton. I mean, I would debate my father over Richard Nixon being a great president. As I got older, I became a little bit more, you know, into my 20s, I became libertarian. And then when I got older and wiser, I realized I don't like anyone and you've all gotten it wrong. The founders had it right. Let's go back to that. So constitutional conservative.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, I think that's right. I like that. Like constitutionalists. I think I think there's something as you get older, you realize I just want to be left alone more and more.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 21 :
Tired of everybody's garbage.
SPEAKER 05 :
I'm done with the Democrats always never voted for Democrat in my life. But the Republicans get on my last nerve. I just happen to you know, it's like the party of stupid or the party of evil. And it's like, I'll go with a stupid.
SPEAKER 21 :
They're not conservative enough there. Yeah. I'll go with the dumb people, I guess. But they're not. They're not. I mean, we we tend to vote for them as a strategy to kind of get closer to what we want. But they're not constitutionalists.
SPEAKER 05 :
Have to because, I mean, what's the alternative? A dystopian future where, you know, it's not even communism. It's neo-feudalism. You have no rights and you're a serf. I mean, let's be honest. Income tax is slavery. We need to get rid of that. But we're serfs. We're slaves. And we need liberty. And that's what this book is about.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, exactly. Well, you made an important point, too, about because we kind of agree on this, although I think people don't understand the nuance about voting, because like just to throw this out there, this is I think you throw this out there. There's the you immediately see the difference between who is a constitutionalist and who isn't. Because it's not a right. Voting isn't a right. It is. It's relegated to the states to administer. So it's something that it's a privilege that the states administer. But it's not a right. And people freak out when you say this.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes. Well, I say it's an earned responsibility. It's not even a I mean, you have to earn that. And that's what the states used to determine who was responsible enough to have a say over how society governs itself. You cannot let people that are on the take that are on the dole that are essentially parasites. And I lump politicians in with that. You can't let them have a say. You know, those that are actually putting in the blood, the sweat and the tears, those that have skin in the game, they have the privilege or the responsibility to to govern society. The rest of us we are we were founded as a republic and we need to get back to that because the longer we stay a Democracy the more our rights are in jeopardy by the mob.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah. Yeah, and that's one of the reasons why I like this series too because you you Explore how do I put it you explore these ideals without it being overbearingly? political if that makes sense like I don't feel like I'm reading a political missive that is politics first And then like, you know, the really cool artwork and coloring and the panels and the characters. That's like a second consideration. Is that and I feel like a lot of people on the right struggle with that. I mean, clearly you don't because you get the concept of it. But talk a little bit about that, because this is what some of the people don't know. Ben Franklin is Silence Do Good. This is a series and this is the latest. I mean, it's like really pretty. I love I mean, it's a great read. And if you like comics, I like I like manga and I watch anime and all that stuff. And I love this series. But I love the way that you approach it. And tell me a little bit about it, because I think this is something that people obviously should check out. But I like that it's just originality forward, for the lack of a better way to put it.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. Well, the idea really started as just me thinking, like, what would our founding fathers think of if they saw the America we've built? And it kind of snowballed from there. I love time travel. Big fan of Doctor Who. You know, I loved. I could not see them in the back.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
um but uh so obviously time travel was how i wanted to do it i wanted to treat american history as kind of a backdrop i didn't want to change history i wanted to keep it like oh this is what happened right how are we going to do that and so it just problem after problem and you just solve the problems and one of the one of the ways we solved it was what if we had ben franklin who was a scientist an inventor he was like the renaissance man of the age he seemed like the perfect person for this and he's my favorite founding father just one of the most interesting guys ever He was a teenager.
SPEAKER 21 :
His air baths. That's my favorite.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. One of his inventions was just sitting around in the nude air bath, you know, air bath. But yeah, so it was like take a teenager, a teenage Ben Franklin. So it's more of a coming of age. So he has the principles of the Enlightenment era, but he's also going to be maybe more wrestling and questioning and doubting, but also rebellious, a little bit more rebellious than he would be as an adult. And what would that be like? Because Ben Franklin was also a loyalist. So it creates all kinds of complexities where we get to then have a fun time exploring the ideals of liberty and free will and what that would look like in a future where the algorithms dictate every move humanity takes.
SPEAKER 21 :
And we're there right now. How long ago did you first start this series? Because we've talked about it before. I mean, it's continued and it's grown, but I feel like it was very prescient because now here we are where AI is really, I mean, it's going to dominate everything. I mean, it's going to dominate warfare. It's going to dominate every aspect of American life. We're right there by singularity. And so this was very, I mean, this was very thoughtful and anticipating that.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, I started it a decade ago, actually. And it's evolved. So we added in AI probably about eight years ago because AI was starting to be murmured. And, you know, you have AI in video games. And so it's just kind of like thinking of like a virtual world. And I remember a lot of my friends, me included, would get super addicted to video games. And you'd be like, oh, I could just call out sick because I'm going to play video games all day long. And it was like... what would it be like if we just all lived in a video oh my gosh that would be scary so for me it was just like trying to trying to create this the the scariest world possible but that seems that's so candy coated that it would be very sweet to the world and so that's what i think that this dystopian future would be like and that's the world we're creating and that ben franklin is like nope we got to stop it lasers and robots
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah. And I think he's I think you were pitch perfect on that because out of all the founders, he's the one he was very forward. He's like, I would say maybe the most classically Tocqueville liberal of all of them. I mean, he was a very, very forward thinking. He was really the only one like you could send him to France and he can go over there and, you know, wine and dine with Louis and all of the nobles and get money to help fund our, you know, war of independence. Not everybody had the patience to do it. Other people tried and they struggle like John Adams really struggled to deal with them. But Ben Franklin was like, no, no, no, you got to finesse it. You got to handle it a certain way. He was very I mean, he really understood the times then and the times that were coming. So he's like the perfect character through which to explore all of this. Are you going to do others? Are you going to branch off and like maybe explore with other founders?
SPEAKER 05 :
uh... yeah we're gonna explore with other just americans in general uh... i don't wanna say exactly who but it's going it'll be a little bit you know it'll be fun we're gonna have fun with it uh... definitely i think that silence do good will be a moniker that uh... gets applied to other people as ben franklin will kind of age out because you know eventually he's gotta go back uh... cuz what we're doing is he's eighteen at this time and he's supposed to be in england's procuring a printer And American history doesn't really know what he was doing there other than getting odd jobs trying to get back for about three years. So when he comes back to America, you know, we might have to change the story a bit and get a new hero in there. But for right now, we got about three years with Ben Franklin. And that's a lot of that's a lot that can happen while you're time traveling.
SPEAKER 21 :
exactly a lot that can happen the series is Ben Franklin is silence do good time travel agent it is great you can find it at his website as well and they also have he's promoting the comic book pre-order campaign on Indiegogo and you can see that the website turkey robot dot com and you can check out a show salty and savage on YouTube my good friend always so good to have you would love to have you back the next time you're all in Dallas you need to holler the next time we're in your neck of the remote woods we're gonna holler at you but it's so good to come out here Congrats on all your success. Here's the, here's the, here's the latest. Nice, pretty foil. Look at that. This is gorgeous. You did, you do such great work and I appreciate that you're still an artist and you don't, you, you, you, it's artistic forward preaching second. So the politics are, it goes along naturally with it and it makes it so much more engaging. You're a really good storyteller. So congratulations.
SPEAKER 05 :
Thank you. I appreciate it for having me on.
SPEAKER 21 :
Of course, always. I'm like, I got this. I'm like, oh, we got to have Sean on to talk about this because it's really great. And I actually, since COVID, I got really into manga and anime and I actually started getting into your stuff more because of it. So that's like the silver lining of all of it. So it's so good to have you. Sean Salter, always a pleasure, my friend. We'll have you back.
SPEAKER 05 :
Thank you.
SPEAKER 21 :
Take care. Good to see you.
SPEAKER 05 :
Bye.
SPEAKER 21 :
Welcome back. Dana Lash with you. It's a very stormy day in Texas. Kane, I think it's been thundering and rumbling the entire time we've been on air, like loudly. Like Steve can hear it through the microphone all the way in DC from where we are. That's how loud the thunder and all of that is. Like the heavens have opened up. No tornadoes though. All right. I don't want to rob you today in stupidity because they did it like twice this week. So Kane, go.
SPEAKER 10 :
It's Hillary Clinton. I get sometimes tongue-tied. I apologize for that. This is cut 11. This is what she says the Democrats need. And this is what she says the Republicans should heed. Listen to this.
SPEAKER 20 :
We will defeat these people by winning elections. I mean, even if we win every court case, we still have to figure out how to get that enforced. Even if the press does lots of exposés, you're dealing with an administration that has no shame. They don't care that they are, you know, being seen as corrupt or cruel or whatever.
SPEAKER 10 :
Because, of course, it's all about smearing your political opponent.
SPEAKER 21 :
Took classified emails and then tried to delete the evidence. You tried a nation built in Libya and literally usurped the authority there.
SPEAKER 10 :
And no matter what context we're talking about, she's the worst.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, she's absolutely worse. She's never going to go away, is she? That does it for us this week, folks. I hope you have a wonderful, dry, safe weekend. And I'll be back behind the mic with you on Monday. In the meantime, find us on YouTube, Facebook, like and subscribe, sub, stack the newsletter, chapter and verse. Have a great night. Have a great weekend.
God demonstrated His impersonal love for us by sending His Son to pay for our sins. When we believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and receive Him as our Savior we become a member of The Royal Family of God. At that point, we have the personal love of God as family members. Proverbs 8:17 says, “I love those who love me and those who diligently seek me will find me.”
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SPEAKER 01 :
Welcome to the Flatline with your host, Rick Hughes. For the next 30 minutes, you'll be inspired, motivated, educated, but never manipulated. Now, your host, Rick Hughes.
SPEAKER 02 :
Good morning and welcome to the Flatline. I'm your host, Rick Hughes. I said flat, F-L-O-T, Flatline. That's a military acronym for the Forward Line of Troops, F-L-O-T. What we're trying to say on this show is that you can have a forward line of troops or a main line of resistance in your soul so you can stop the outside sources of adversity before they ever become the inside sources of stress. Because we always say that adversity is inevitable, but stress is optional. Because adversity is what certain circumstances do to you, and stress is what you do to yourself. The only way that's possible is by using God's wonderful problem-solving devices, which we call a FLOTLINE. Ten unique problem-solving devices. on the format of your soul when you learn them and you use them, then you don't have to live a life of worry. You don't have to live a life of bitterness. You don't have to live a life of intimidation. You never have to be afraid. You never have to live under guilt. These are all mental attitude sins that the devil can use to manipulate you. So there is a way to live a wonderful, unique life called the Christian life. And that's what this show is about. You may ask yourself, well, what benefit would it be for me to listen to your radio show? Well, that's a fair question. As I expand and add additional costs for production and broadcast, I take comfort in God's grace provisions. because he provides all our finances. You notice we don't ask for money. We don't sell anything. We don't hustle finances. We just trust the Lord to provide our needs. And right now we're broadcasting in a little over 37, 38 cities across America. But we want to talk about this wonderful treasure that God gives you, the treasure of his word. In 2 Corinthians 4, 7, we have this treasure in our earthly vessels. So the surpassing greatness of the power of God will be in us and not from ourself. So this is a treasure. God's word is a treasure. In the New Testament, the Greek New Testament, the New Testament was written in Koine Greek dialect. And the word for treasure is a word you're probably familiar with. It's called thesaurus, thesaurus. So it's a word treasure. And the word treasure is the mystery of Christ himself living in you. He's called in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, Colossians 2, 3. And so in Proverbs 3, 13, how blessed is the man who finds wisdom. And the man who gains understanding, for her profit is better than the profit of silver and her gain is better than fine gold and she, that's wisdom, is more precious than jewels and nothing you desire compares with her. Wisdom. In the book of Proverbs, wisdom speaks to you as if it were a female. And in Proverbs 8, 17, the feminine part of this verse says, I love those who love me. And that's wisdom speaking to you. And those who diligently seek me will find me. However, this is Solomon writing for the Lord, and this is God speaking to you in this Proverbs. using wisdom as an analogy. This is God saying, I love those who love me. And that's the first question you have to ask yourself. Who does God love? Does God love you? Does God love me? Who exactly does God love? Because the Bible says in 2 Timothy 3, 4, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, that doesn't cut it. Loving the world and not God is a dangerous thing. But we do know that God is a rewarder of those who are always seeking to know more about him. So listen again as I say this verse to you, because we're going to break it down for you. Proverbs 8, 17. I love those who love me. Do you love God? I'm sure you say, yes, I love God. Yes, I love God. I speak in a lot of churches, and people say, yes, I love God. But do you really love God, or is it just an emotional attachment to God? And those who diligently seek me, diligently seek me, let me say it one more time, diligently seek me, will find me. So here's some questions. Does lasting happiness come from what the world offers you? No. And here's another question. Do you understand what it means to actually love God? Because God says he loves those who love him. Are you a lover of God? Most church people that I speak with would say, yes, I love God, but what kind of love is this passage really referring to? And so to do that, we go to the Hebrew from which it was written, and the Hebrew verb for love is Ahab, A-H-A-B, A-H-A-B, Ahab. It's a fairly common word in the Hebrew. So let's get a principle here. This is wisdom speaking, and she's saying that she, or God, has maximum personal love for those who love her or him. Maximum personal love for those that love her or him. So wisdom in this case, point two, can be God speaking through the writings of Solomon. And notice point three, that the love must be reciprocal. I love those who love me. That's reciprocal. In John 4, 19, 1 John 4, 19, we find this verse, 1 John 4, 19, we love him because he first loved us. That's reciprocal love. That's why we love God. Again, Proverbs 8, 17, I love those who love me. God loves those who love him and seek his wisdom. And where is it found? In the person of Jesus Christ and throughout the Holy Scriptures. Remember Problem Solving Device number seven and Problem Solving Device number eight. under those 10 problem-solving devices that make up the flat line on your soul, giving you a main line of resistance. Number seven is your personal love for God, and number eight is your impersonal love for other individuals. Personal love for God is your motivational virtue. This is why you do what you do, why you obey God. because you love him. So impersonal love is the function of your virtue and integrity as a mature believer. And, point seven, God first loved you based on his character. Not your character, based on his character. Divine impersonal love, point eight, means that God loved you even when you were in your sins. And he proved it by the sacrifice of his own son our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 John 4, 10, and he loved us and sent his son to be the propitiation for our sin. There it is, it's demonstrated right there. He proved his love for you and me by providing a propitiation for our sin. Point nine, it was only through this act of unconditional love that we have the opportunity to have a personal relationship with God. So point 10, when he says, I love those who love me, We are speaking of personal love for God being our motivational virtue. Keep this in mind. God loved you with impersonal love. He loved you based on his character, not yours. You were a sinner lost in your sins, destined for hell. He sent his son, he loved us, sent his son, 1 John 4, 10, to be our propitiation. So God demonstrated his impersonal love for us by sending his son to pay for our sin. And when we believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and receive him as our savior, We become a member of the family of God and we then have the personal love of God as royal family members. We'll talk about that here in just a second. So that verse said, I love those who love me and those who diligently seek me will find me. The Hebrew verb shakar means to investigate God's claims, to investigate God's promises. diligence means to show care and consciousness and it's really a labor of love and this is not the person who simply goes to church every sunday this is the person who seeks to learn and to understand all that is possible concerning god's person and god's plan This person who is diligently seeking him is a person who has an insatiable desire for a close relationship with the God of this universe. You want to be his friend. That's a wonderful thing. This diligence is a condition that God puts on loving him. He wants you to be diligently. Again, I'll read it to you so you understand this. I love those who love me, and those who diligently seek me will find me. That's the condition God puts on loving him, and it refers to a committed search using all of your resources, maximum effort. Where do you look? Whom do you trust? Some people look to nature, and I've talked to a lot of people that say, well, when I'm in the woods... Sometimes they'll say deer hunting, or if I'm out on the lake fishing, or if I'm at the beach seeing the sunset, then I'm really close to God. Well, some people look in nature. Some people look to the stars, and they all testify that there's someone greater than us who created it. Listen to the Psalm in 19, one and two. The heavens are telling of the glory of God and their expanse is declaring his work of his hands. Day to day they pour forth knowledge and night to night reveal knowledge. Again, the heavens are telling of the glory of God and their expanse is declaring the work of his hands. Day to day pours forth speech, and night to night reveals knowledge. So yes, you can learn about God by looking at the stars. You can realize that someone greater than you put them there. Man has been mesmerized looking into the universe, trying to find it. It's called the third heaven, and it's the presence of God. And the ultimate way of learning about God is called pisticism, not rationalism, not empirical data, pisticism, and that's faith. Using faith, it takes faith to get to know God. So God's wisdom does not fall into your lap like winning the lottery. God said you must diligently search for it, and he would love you if you love him. When we execute God's mandates, then we eventually become his friends and the object of his personal friendship. We don't become great by anything we do, but by functioning in the system which he supplied is a matter of God's grace. We are saved by grace. We live by grace. We die by grace. We have surpassing grace in heaven. And that's what God's looking for, a trusted friend of God, a faithful friend. Is that what you want to be? God's faithful friend? So wisdom is the byproduct of knowledge and the byproduct of understanding. Proverbs 3.13, happy is the man who finds wisdom and the man who gains understanding. And this is wisdom speaking. I love those who love me and those who diligently seek me will find me. That wisdom we're talking about is God. The enemy of divine wisdom is what we call human viewpoints. human viewpoint. Proverbs 3.7 says, don't try to be wise in your own eyes. You know, this is the humanistic approach to life. The humanist doesn't actually buy into the Bible and doesn't buy into the fact that God created the world, that the Word of God is alive and powerful. They think they're smarter than God, and that's always a dilemma, to think you're smarter than God. So being wise in your own eyes means that you approve of your decisions and your actions and you say, well, I know the stars are out there and I know somebody that created it, but it was just all an act of nature. Or, you know, it's just an act of nature that we're here. It's just an accident. I don't believe all that Bible stuff. I'm wise in my own eyes. What a mistake. What a mistake to think that you are smarter than God. So maximum wisdom is what we're looking for, to have a maximum relationship with God. That's what you build your faith on. How? Romans 10, 17. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. So maximum wisdom is built on you hearing the word of God and developing faith. And how do you hear the word of God? Well, you can read your Bible, but it's a textbook, it's not a novel, I'm telling you. It's designed to be taught to you by a well-qualified pastor. And when you sit under the ministry of a well-qualified pastor and he explains the scripture to you from the original languages, then you develop faith. Faith comes about hearing. That means you develop more and more trust in God. And hearing comes from the word of God, listening to the teaching of the word of God. So it's through the teaching or the reading of the Bible that we first learn of God's impersonal love for us, the sinner. We learned it in John 3, 16. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son so that whoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life. That's where we first learned of God's impersonal love That impersonal love that God had for me and you provided what we call the divine solution. The divine solution, not a human solution, because human solutions are absolutely no solutions. And divine solutions are the only solutions. That impersonal love God demonstrated is a divine solution to mend our broken relationship with him. Where does it come in the Bible? 2 Corinthians 5, 21. Here's the divine solution. Listen carefully. For he, that's God, hath made him, that's Christ, to be sin for us, me and you. The one who knew no sin, that's Christ, so we, that's you and me, could be made the righteousness of God by means of him. In 2 Corinthians 5, 17, if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature, Old things are passed away and behold, all things become new. That's the new birth. That's the new spiritual birth. That's the phrase being born again. Technically what it means is that when you come into this world, you come into this world with a human body and a human soul but a dead human spirit. Spiritually dead because you've inherited Adam's original sin. you go to the father and believe the message of the lord jesus christ and put your trust in his finished work on the cross you're born again not physically spiritually the holy spirit comes to indwell your human spirit and you're made spiritually alive and it is this human spirit and your soul that will reside with god forever in a resurrection body the old body will go to waste it'll go back to the dirt But you'll get a new body, a resurrection body. And that body will be phenomenal. No more pain, no more tears, no more sorrow. The old things will be passed away and all things become new. So being new in Christ is a new spiritual being. And we have to grow. We have to learn how to think, how to have the mind of Christ. We're like babies in Christ. We've just been born again, and we don't know everything. And this new birth doesn't mean you're never gonna sin again. It doesn't mean that at all. What it refers to is the rebirth of your dead human spirit, which died the very minute that Adam's original sin was imputed to you at birth. You don't want to hear that? Romans 5, 12. Wherefore, as by one man, sin entered into the world, and now death by sin. And so death passed upon all men, for all have sinned. So by the act of Adam, you received an imputed sin nature, and you were born again. physically alive but spiritually dead needing to be born again this is what nicodemus got confused about in john chapter 3 when he asked the lord jesus christ how in the world could i go to my mother's womb and be born again it's not possible and jesus corrected him and said i'm surprised you being a pharisee don't know better than this it's a spiritual birth Thus we see God's wisdom solving our human problem. How in the world does a sinful man have a relationship with a holy and a sinless God? So we see God loves all men based on his righteousness, not ours, not on what we can manufacture. God doesn't love you because you don't smoke. God doesn't love you because you don't drink. God doesn't love you because you don't say dirty words. God loves you because the righteousness of Christ was imputed to you at your salvation. And he's loving that righteousness. He who knew no sin was made sin for us so that we may be made the righteousness of God by means of him. That's what God's loving. And as you grow and as you mature, as you learn wisdom from the Bible and understanding, then you become the friend of God. And that's the relationship that we're looking for. being a friend of God, having that sort of diligence so that you don't let go, having that insatiable desire to get to know him closer and better. Do you have that? That's the question for you. This love that we're talking about is an amazing thing. We can see God loves all men based on his own righteousness, but not on what we try to manufacture. That love, that impersonal love that he had for you is not personal. But once you entered into that royal family of God, once you were adopted, the impersonal love became personal since we now are members of his royal family by believing in Jesus Christ. We were adopted into the family of God. You have a royal family. That's why we call each other brother and sister sometime. We're in the family of God. Romans 8, 15 talks about that adoption. It says, for you have not received the spirit of bondage, again to fear, but you have received the spirit of adoption, whereby we now cry, Abba, Father. Paul writes about it in Galatians 4, 5. He talks about to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons, that we might be adopted into the family of God by means of faith alone in Christ alone. So maximum divine wisdom, seeking diligently after God so that you become a friend of God is built in your soul when you develop this flood line I'm talking about. When you develop a flat line, when you learn these 10 problem solving devices, using rebound to confess your sin, using the filling of the Holy Spirit to maintain fellowship with God, operating under the faith rest drill, using grace orientation and biblical orientation, having a personal sense of destiny, having virtue love for God called personal love and having virtue love for your neighbor called impersonal love, sharing the happiness of God and being occupied with the person of Christ. Maximum divine wisdom is built on those 10 problem-solving devices in your soul. When you learn them, when you use them, you will have insight and discernment into the lure of Satan's system called the cosmos diabolicus. You may have heard me refer to it as the cosmic vortex, the invisible stream of satanic lure that spins around like a tornado, always trying to suck people into it. The cosmos diabolicus, the cosmic system. This is not what we're part of. We're not part of that. We don't think like they think. We don't live like they live. We live different. We think different. We think the mind of Christ. We live holy in a separated life. That doesn't mean we don't sin. It means that we are holy because we've got the righteousness of Christ imputed to us. And when we do sin and when we do fail, we go to God and admit our sin and don't hide it. So when we have that flat line, we have spiritual x-ray vision. Spiritual x-ray vision. What's that? It's the ability to now see by means of wisdom what others who have no wisdom cannot see. By means of your insight and by means of your discernment wrapped in prudence, you can see what the rest of the world doesn't see. Spiritual x-ray vision. The one thing we're often blinded to is our own personal sins and our own natural failures, which we often justify as okay, but the Word of God says this. This is what it says. For this is the love of God, that we keep his mandates, and his mandates are not hard. They're not grievous. We're not ever allowed to justify our sin. If you love God... If you want to be the friend of God and you say you do love God, you told me that, yeah, I heard you, I love God, listen to this verse again. This is the love of God, you hear that? This is the love of God, that we keep his mandates and his mandates are not grievous. Obedience based on virtue love, personal love for God, that's where the rubber meets the road. If you can't obey God, you don't love God. You're kidding yourself. For example, the Bible says if you say you love God and hate your neighbor, you're a liar and the truth is not in you. So God doesn't tolerate hatred of any form, racial hatred or personal hatred or anything. Human obedience to divine standards always demonstrates personal love for God. one essential divine requirement is that we grow up that we grow up and become mature christians don't say baby christians peter talks about it in first peter 2 2 where he says like newborn babies we should long for the pure milk of the word so that by that milk you may grow in respect to your salvation. I have a grandson, and he loves the milk of his mom's breast, and they'll let you know when they want to be fed for sure. So Peter said we should long for the pure milk. Epipatheo is the Greek word, epipatheo, and it means to desire earnestly or to crave it. To crave what? The pure milk of the Word of God, not something watered down, not some social gospel. Pure, adalos, the Greek word, adalos, unmixed, unadulterated, rich, pure Word of God. and seek it diligently so that we might be his friend. There's nothing more pure and more clean than being fed God's word by a well-qualified pastor, one who doesn't muddy the water, one who doesn't mix it up, doesn't misapply the passage. one that can go to the original manuscripts for clarification. Remember Proverbs 8, 17, diligently seeking God. It starts with you longing for the pure milk of God's word. Psalm 34, 8 continues the milk analogy when it says, "'Oh, taste and see the Lord is good. "'Blessed is the man who trusts in him.'" And we know that without pure milk, the baby does not grow. And we are told to grow in the Bible, 2 Peter 3.18. But grow in the grace and the knowledge of your Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Are you growing spiritually? Look at your life and tell me. Are you growing spiritually? Are you? How can you tell? Can you tell by the way you're living your life and the decisions that you're making? Are you being fed by a well-qualified pastor or are you just playing church? Are you hungry to learn more? Do you have an insatiable desire to diligently become a friend of God? If so, you're listening to the person that can help you with that. I can point you in the right direction as I'm doing here today, giving you instruction, showing you where well-qualified pastors are so that you can grow and be the person God designed you to be. Not some person who falls behind as Hebrews talked about. Hebrews 5, 11 through 16, where it says you've been saved a long time now and you ought to be teaching others, but you're not doing it. You need milk again. You need to go back and be bottle fed. You haven't grown spiritually. That's a problem. If you're a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ and you haven't grown spiritually, that's a problem. Gee, I hope you've been listening. I hope you're learning and I hope you can apply what I'm telling you. Contact me if you have a question, anytime, any day, anytime, okay? Until next week, I'm your host, Rick Hughes, saying thank you for listening to The Flatline.
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Thank you for listening to The Floodline with your host, Rick Hughes. If you'd like to contact Rick, please write to him at P.O. Box 100, Cropwell, Alabama, 35054, or online at www.rickhughesministries.org.
From Florida's controversial detention center, whimsically dubbed Alligator Alcatraz, to the vibrant yet polarizing political landscape in Minneapolis and New York City, this episode doesn't shy away from the hard-hitting topics. As New Yorkers grapple with socialist ideologies threatening their city's economic fabric, listeners are invited to explore diverse perspectives on the challenges of governance, unity, and progress in contemporary America.
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Welcome to the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast. It's Friday, July 4th, 2025. Happy Independence Day. I'm Eric Hansen, and this week, the tech titan and the chief executive trade barbs, while a capitalist and a communist square off in New York City. Let's begin with the war of words between Elon Musk and President Trump.
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Elon's ticked supposedly about the Big Beautiful Bill. A lot of people suspect he's really mad that there's not going to be an EV mandate. That he believes that Tesla is being dramatically impacted in a negative way by the Big Beautiful Bill. That's what Trump is insisting. That's the real reason for Elon's animus. I'll tell you what. When people turn against Donald Trump, they turn. It's never, like, mild. You go from loving the guy and jumping up and down and thrusting your fists in the air on stage with him, admiring him. He's a warrior. He got shot. Look at him. I mean, Elon loved Donald Trump before he hated him. Now they're back at it again. And Elon is threatening to start a third party. Elon is promising to support Thomas Massey because Trump is promising to support a primary challenge to the Kentucky representative no, the guy that votes no on everything, Thomas Massey. Now Trump is talking about deporting Elon. Here we go. Let's check out what Trump said about looking into the possibility of deporting Elon Musk.
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You're going to deport Elon Musk? I don't know. We'll have to take a look. We might have to put Doge on Elon. You know what Doge is? Doge is the monster that might have to go back and eat Elon. Wouldn't that be terrible? He gets a lot of subsidies, Peter. But Elon's very upset that the EV mandate is going to be terminated and you know what when you look at it who wants not everybody wants an electric car i don't want an electric car i want to have baby gasoline maybe electric maybe a hybrid maybe someday a hydrogen if you have a hydrogen car it has one problem it blows up you know so i'm going to give that one to peter we'll let peter
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Oh, boy. Incidentally, President Trump unveiling a new hat. He's got a new red baseball cap on today for his trip to Florida. It says Gulf of America. Love it. Love that hat. Speaking of hats, Eric, I need a timpani roll because I keep telling you to trust Trump, and I know that we should trust Trump. We should trust Trump on the big, beautiful bill. We should trust Trump on alligator Alcatraz. We should trust Trump on the economy. We should trust the guy. Well, you can now express that with your very own coffee mug, T-shirt, or baseball cap. We are proud to announce Trust Trump Swag. The great team at the Mike Gallagher Show put together great looking coffee mugs, t-shirts, and baseball caps with that simple yet definitive declaration, Trust Trump. All you have to do to order is go to MikeOnline.com. Go to our website and you'll see where you can order your very own Trust Trump Swag. Great-looking coffee mug, great-looking T-shirt, great-looking baseball cap. I already ordered. First thing I did when I got up this morning and I saw that it was on our site, I already ordered a bunch. I'll be sending gifts to family members. Well, one family member. There's only one family member who would gratefully accept such a gift. But yes, the Trust Trump swag from the Mike Gallagher Show has arrived. And you can order at MikeOnline.com. Just go to MikeOnline.com. If you'd like to text a keyword, I believe Tracy set up the keyword store to 800-655-MIKE. And if you text that, but the safest thing to do, the quickest way to do is go to MikeOnline.com.
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Florida stepped into the spotlight this week as they welcomed the president to tour their new illegal immigration detention facility, informally known as Alligator Alcatraz.
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Benny Johnson just posted he's there. He's being swarmed by the thousands with mosquitoes. And he says there are millions of gators. He calls it he calls Alligator Alcatraz hell on earth, Roger.
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He's absolutely right. I've been in some of these swamps, and it is absolutely unlivable down there. It is a horrible place. It is filled with bugs. The bugs are the worst, actually. Just standing around in the heat, you've got the humidity, you've got the sunlight beaming down on you. If you're a prisoner there, you're going to be wearing a T-shirt, some pants, and some light shoes. And if you try and go into this, first the bugs are going to get you. By the millions, he's right. Then you're going to be in the water. It's nasty. You've got plants that'll cut you. And then you've got the snakes and the alligators. So it is not a good place to be. I wanted to actually go down there and experience it a little bit and see how far I could get before something stopped me. But it is really a very...
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I had no desire of going because I kind of like my creature comforts, but I don't know why we didn't send you today. We should have sent you because there's got to be a contingent of media. I just saw, like I said, Benny Johnson, who's a big social media influencer, he's there. We should have sent you down there, put your shorts on, put on a big straw hat, and brave the elements. You would have done that on behalf of the Mike Gallagher Show. You're pretty loyal.
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Yeah, I would do it. In fact, we could do it in the future. There's going to be a lot of media coverage of this thing as it goes on. I mean, they're going to have 5,000 people down there in the air conditioning, and they're not going to want to escape because it is a vile place, particularly in the summer with the sun beating down.
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Now, all kidding aside, I mean, we're joking a lot about the alligators with the MAGA hats on and the memes and all that. People are having a lot of fun with this. But to the left and to the Trump critics, they think it's cruel and unusual to have them there in the Everglades. Make no mistake, these, as Governor DeSantis pointed out, these facilities are going to be air conditioned. They're going to be protected from the elements. The only time they would get in trouble, the only time that they would be at risk is if they tried to escape, right? If the illegals who are scheduled for deportation tried to scale the fence and escape, that's when the problems begin, right?
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That is exactly when the problems begin. They're going to be in a pretty nice facility. It is air-conditioned. They're going to be fed well. They're spending $450 million on this to keep these folks there, these 5,000 people or so that it's going to be able to hold. And interestingly, this idea came from our Attorney General James Uthmeyer in Florida on the 19th. They got it together in two weeks, and it is ready to go with the president coming around 10 this morning. It's amazing.
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Well, and that to me is a testament to the ingenuity of not only the state of Florida, but of course the entire Trump administration. Now, there's a lot. What are people saying in terms of polling? Because I get confused by the polling. I know that, admittedly, we're in a bit of a bubble here with our show. We've got a lot of Trump supporters. We have a lot of people who believe in the big, beautiful bill. According to the legacy media, the polling... shows that people are strongly opposed to the Big Beautiful Bill. I don't know that I agree with that. But what are you getting, at least anecdotally, from fellow Floridians about Alligator Alcatraz?
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Pretty positive. Pretty positive. In fact, I took a little trip to Georgia over the weekend and just coming all the way down. People are happier than they have been in the past. People are enjoying the Trump presidency from what I can see. There's the usual malcontents who are never happy with anything, but there's a lot more smiling going on in this country. And I think people are for it because they're tired of having the illegal aliens creating crime, crowding of hospitals, and the other disruptions. I think people are with Trump on this. They did elect him for it, and he's doing it and doing a good job.
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Well, let's plan on going. We'll load up the station wagon. We'll get plenty of the suntan lotion out. We'll put on the mosquito nets and wear our beekeeper suits, and we'll go to Alligator Alcatraz. I mean, how do you get there from here? We're in Tampa Bay. How do you get from point A to point B?
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There's one road, and we'd have to go down, I think, to Alligator Alley and then up. But the easy way would be to fly down there. It's on an airstrip. Oh, that's right. We'll charter a helicopter.
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No, no, no, no, no. Captain Will Smith from Will Smith Aviation. My buddy Captain Will might take us down there. I'll bet he'd love to see Alligator Alcatraz.
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Yeah, we could be down there in about 45 minutes, and there's a huge landing strip, two of them down there, over 10,000 feet. We could just pull right up, and there we'd be. We're on to something here.
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Then we just got to figure out bandwidth and Internet and lighting and Salem News Channel cameras. And, of course, we have to bring a hair and makeup person. So it might be a bit of a production, but we could pull it off. We could pull it off.
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I think you'd be hard pressed to find another presidency in recent history that has moved faster or done more to improve our nation than the current one. So just imagine how lucky we are that we are not talking about President Kamala Harris.
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People like Joe Biden say, I'm going to pick somebody based on the color of their skin. And he does. What else would you call that higher other than a diversity, equity and inclusion higher? Why wouldn't you celebrate it? So Biden said, I'm going to pick a black woman to be my VP. And he picked Kamala Harris. And then as soon as somebody like Charlie Kirk or any of us say that's a DEI hire, people call us racist. Trish Regan, who's our great podcaster, part of the Salem Podcast Network, had a clip pointing out that no matter what we're facing challenge-wise, We sure dodged a bullet in missing the chance to elect Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. Trish Regan pointed it out beautifully.
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No matter how bad it gets, always remember it could be worse.
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We did it. We did it, Joe. You're going to be the next president of the United States. I don't know what's wrong with you young people. You think you just fell out of a coconut tree? You exist in the context. of all in which you live and what came before you. Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine. So basically that's wrong. Who doesn't love a yellow school bus, right? Can you raise your hand if you love a yellow school bus, right? There's something about... And most of us, many of us went to school on the yellow school bus. Imagine what can be and be unburdened by what has been. You know? What can be unburdened by what has been. What can be unburdened by what has been.
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I feel unburdened by not watching you anymore.
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You're right, Trish. Can you imagine her in the White House right now? Do you realize... Just think about what this country would be going through if she was elected president, if we had that imbecile as the commander-in-chief. But look, I want to ask you a very sincere question. When Biden promised to pick a black woman, and he did, she's only there because she's a black woman, right? When Joe Biden said, I'll only consider a black woman for SCOTUS, Supreme Court, right? And Charlie Kirk says, she's only there because she's a black woman, right? How is he racist? And if you want to challenge that, please do. 800-655-MIKE. Again, Joe Biden says, I'll only consider a black woman for SCOTUS. Charlie Kirk, she's only there because she's a black woman. And the left loses its mind and says, Charlie Kirk's a racist. He's terrible. What a bigot. What a monster. No, no, no. You should own it. I don't think it's a secret or you're unaware of the many, many personal and professional challenges that our friend Mike Lindell of MyPillow fame has been facing. And his opponents and his critics and people who don't like his support of President Trump probably don't care that he has, in his words, lost everything financially. He hasn't lost the company. They've tried, but Mike has not lost MyPillow. And that's because they... this audience and people all over the country continue to support this great American company. Whatever you think of Mike Lindell, he is a guy who loves America. And, you know, with all of that said, it's also, these are great products. I've met people over the years who say, you know, you talk a lot about Mike Lindell and you talk about my pillow and all that, but I didn't really appreciate how great the products were until I ordered them. But if you haven't been to the MyPillow site in a while, and you haven't gone to the Mike Gallagher Specials Square, and you've got to click on that box, do yourself a favor and check out all the products that are there. Because there's a ton of products. Go to MyPillow.com. Be sure to find the Mike Gallagher Specials. There's a box. Picture of Mike and Mike. Click on that square, and then when you place your order, you'll see after you enter the promo code MikeG how much you'll save on everything. MyPillow.com, promo code MikeG, MyPillow.com, promo code MikeG, or call 800-928-6034, 800-928-6034, promo code MikeG, like we love to sing. For the best night's sleep in the whole wide world, visit MyPillow.com.
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Promo code Mike G. This is the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast. I'm Eric Hansen. As divided as our nation can be right now, it's still worthwhile to try and find common ground with our fellow Americans, right? But boy, oh boy, do Democrats make it difficult.
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Common ground, huh? Okay. Give me common ground with Jacob Frye waving a Somali flag on a stage in Minneapolis day before yesterday. This is from, I believe, the... Oh, this is Somali TV of Minnesota. A vibrant celebration of culture, heritage, and community spirit unfolded on Lake Street in Minneapolis this weekend as People in Action, a Twin Cities-based nonprofit, hosted a successful Somali Independence Day Festival. It marked Somalia's 65th Independence anniversary. Now, do you think... People in Somalia are waving Old Glory on our Independence Day? I wonder if people in Somalia, like a mayor of a city in Somalia, waves the red, white, and blue, waves the American flag on our Independence Day. And if you're watching right now on Salem News Channel, this is the video that triggered poor Tracy. She came running into the studio, all wide-eyed, saying, the mayor of Minneapolis is on stage this weekend waving a flag of Somalia. And he really did.
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Somalia! Somalia! Somalia! Somalia! Somalia! Somalia! Somalia!
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Now, I don't claim to be an expert on Somalian culture. I don't know what language that is. I don't think that's English. I'm not sure that's the English language. And that's the mayor of Minneapolis. Now, absolutely, there's a big Somali population in Minneapolis. We get it. But again, these other countries, I can promise you, aren't lifting up the United States the way leftist mayors like Jacob Fry salute their country. I mean, this is beyond parody. This is beyond satire. What you just heard was the mayor of Minneapolis. Just for emphasis, can you play it one more time, Christian, in case anybody thinks that I'm having a stroke? Again, my producer came in. She said, you're not going to believe this. The mayor of Minneapolis is waving around a Somali flag and speaking a different language. I said, no, no, no, Tracy, come on. It's early. You can't be drinking so soon. There's no way. Come on. Let's play it one more time.
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Somalia! Somalia! Somalia! Somalia! Somalia! Somalia! Somalia! Somalia! Somalia! Somalia! Somalia!
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Look, if I lived in Minneapolis right now, I'd be saying, pack our things, let's get the moving van, time to go.
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And while it may be hard to believe what's happening in Minneapolis, that's nothing compared to the rise of a communist in New York City.
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New York Mayor Eric Adams, who became persona non grata with the Democrats because he dared to agree with the Trump administration's efforts to fix the illegal immigration crisis in New York City. Oh, you can't do that. He's a Trump lover. And so they kicked him out, basically. They tried to use lawfare, came up with a bunch of bogus charges against him. The Trump administration sort of bailed him out, but now... Eric Adams is facing a challenge from this Zoran Mamdani, who popped up on NBC's Meet the Press. Even Kirsten Welker seemed shocked at the radicalism of this young 33-year-old wannabe mayor of New York.
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You are a self-described democratic socialist. Do you think that billionaires have a right to exist? No.
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I don't think that we should have billionaires because, frankly, it is so much money in a moment of such inequality. And ultimately, what we need more of is equality across our city and across our state and across our country. And I look forward to work with everyone, including billionaires, to make a city that is fairer for all of them.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, he'll work with them until they are no more because he doesn't think there should be billionaires. How about globalize the intifada? Everyone knows what an intifada is, right? I don't think Kirsten Welker had the nervous giggle when she asked him to condemn that awful, hateful, horrific expression. And I play these clips for you because I wonder, as the last caller said, can we find common ground? Can we get back to being unified again? Maybe this guy, Mamdani, is a one-off person. Maybe his 15 minutes of fame is about to come to an end and New Yorkers are going to come to their senses in November in the general election. There's no way they could elect in America's biggest and most prominent cities this far-left Marxist communist to be the mayor of the city, a guy who wants to have city-run grocery stores. Yeah, you know where else they have government-run grocery stores? North Korea. And I guarantee you that to Zoran, North Korea and Venezuela are probably, you know, good examples of how things can go. And I'm praying that this is a flash in the pan. How hard would it be to say you're going to renounce the use of the expression intifada? This came up yesterday on Meet the Press.
SPEAKER 09 :
Do you condemn that phrase, globalize the intifada?
SPEAKER 02 :
That's not language that I use. The language that I use and the language that I will continue to use to lead the city is that which speaks clearly to my intent, which is an intent grounded in a belief in universal human rights. And ultimately, that's what is the foundation of so much of my politics, the belief that freedom and justice and safety are things that to have meaning have to be applied to all people. And that includes Israelis and Palestinians as well.
SPEAKER 09 :
But do you actually condemn it? I think that's the question and the outstanding issue that a number of people, both of the Jewish faith and beyond, have. Do you condemn that phase, globalize the intifada, which a lot of people hear as a call to violence against Jews?
SPEAKER 02 :
I've heard from many Jewish New Yorkers who have shared their concerns with me. especially in light of the horrific attacks that we saw in Washington, D.C. and in Boulder, Colorado, about this moment of anti-Semitism in our country and in our city. And I've heard those fears and I've had those conversations, and ultimately they are part and parcel of why in my campaign I've put forward a commitment to increase funding for anti-hate crime programming by 800%. I don't believe that the role of the mayor is to police speech in the manner, especially of that of Donald Trump, who has put one New Yorker in jail who's just returned to his family, Mahmoud Khalil, for that very supposed crime of speech. Ultimately, what I think I need to show is. The ability to not only talk about something, but to tackle it and to make clear that there's no room for anti-Semitism in the city. We have to root out that bigotry. And ultimately, we do that through the actions. And that is the mayor. I will be one that protects Jewish New Yorkers and lives up to that commitment through the work that I do.
SPEAKER 09 :
Very people quickly for the people who care about the language and who feel really concerned by that phrase. Why not just condemn it?
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My concern is to start to walk down the line of language and making clear what language I believe is permissible or impermissible takes me into a place similar to that of the president who is looking to do those very kinds of things, putting people in jail for writing an op-ed, putting them in jail for protesting. Ultimately, it's not language that I use. It's language I understand there are concerns about. And what I will do is showcase my vision for the city through my words and my actions.
SPEAKER 05 :
If you're asked three times, why don't you condemn something, the answer is very clear, because you don't condemn it, because you agree with it. Clearly, he agrees with it. It would have been real easy to say, well, of course, I condemn advocating the destruction of the Jewish people. He couldn't do it. Three times, three times, he was asked, why not condemn, globalize the Intifada, and he refused to do it. Are you paying attention, New York? Are you watching? Are you listening? Are you hearing? Are you seeing the clips that have been revealed? Look, the bottom line here is simple. If New York goes down the tubes, there's a big part of me that says New York will get what they deserve.
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And now that you have a belly full of the socialist agenda, let's hear from a great New York City capitalist and Gristiti's owner, John Katsimatidis.
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And I know how worried you are about your beloved New York City. Can you believe this guy actually won the Democrat primary?
SPEAKER 06 :
Mike, I can't believe it. The fact is that we've got a problem and we don't know which way it's going to go because we have too many people running. And the way the election is set up in November, that you can get 30 percent of the vote. And you can win and be the next mayor. And it's a serious problem. I spoke to President Trump. He believes it's a serious problem. And what we have to do, you know, you know what I've been saying all along. Now, I was in Havana in the 1990s when Castro was in charge. I think this guy wants to be the next Fidel Castro. And the fact is, he promises everything. Everything is promised. And guess what? At the end of the day, when I went to Havana the first time and met with Fidel Castro, and I met along with Congressman Charlie Rangel, because they were friendly from Harlem days. And he's a guy that's very friendly, great smile, looks great. But at the end of the day, he promised his people everything. And guess what? We were there. His people were starving. Me and Charlie Rangel went to one of the medical schools, and I found five from my high school, Brooklyn Tech High School, and I asked them, oh, great, I see you here, because they get a medical license that's good in almost every country except the United States at that time. And I said, what can we do to help you? They said, send food. There is no food. The people are starving to death. And the same thing happened in Venezuela. Venezuela was the wealthiest country in South America, the wealthiest. And these socialists took over. What was his name? I don't remember it, from Venezuela. Maduro. He promised everything. And guess what? Nothing. Venezuela is not the poorest country. Now, our country, Mike, is under attack. It's under attack in so many ways. And the American people, I don't care if you're a Democrat, I don't care if you're a Republican, you have to recognize that our country is under attack. Well, the borders.
SPEAKER 05 :
That's right. And the city's under attack. And as you said, he wants to be the Hugo Chavez, I think, is who we're coming up with from Venezuela. Hugo Chavez, yes. You know, and ultimately, this guy makes no illusions. He doesn't hold back on doubling down on his communist message. I mean, he talks about redistribution of the wealth. And to your business. He has white people. Of course he does. He wants to tax white neighborhoods. And doubled down on it, John. Didn't even back off. Said, oh, yeah, that's where the money is. It's awful. For sure he hates. Yeah, you better believe it. He's anti... Anti-Semite bigot. But in your business, Gristides, you've said, and I saw an interview with you a week or two ago, that if this guy gets in, you'd consider pulling Gristides out of the city. As I understand it, he wants to redirect revenues from corporate grocery stores to fund government-run grocery stores. John, the New York Post just moments ago posted an article saying, He wants to pay for government grocery stores with money that doesn't even exist. He doesn't even know how it works, John.
SPEAKER 06 :
Listen, it's like taking this kid, 32 years old, and making him chairman of General Motors. As a state assemblyman, he has five employees. I know. Let's make him CEO of General Motors. I know, I know. But what's happening to the Democratic Party, Mike, and people around the country have to understand this, what's happening to the Democratic Party is the liberals, I hate the word liberals, the socialists.
SPEAKER 11 :
Right.
SPEAKER 06 :
The socialists. The Marxists. The Marxists, the socialists have taken control of the Democratic primaries, especially.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right.
SPEAKER 06 :
And they run their people. I'd rather have the days where the bosses picked out who's going to run. I mean, it's just crazy what's going on in our country. Yeah.
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And that wraps up the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast for Friday, July 4th, 2025. Be sure to subscribe to all of the podcasts and follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And if you like the show, be sure to share it with a friend. Happy Independence Day. I'm Eric Hansen. We'll see you back here next week on the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast.
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This episode takes you into the heart of the pharmaceutical industry's ethics as John Rush, Dr. Kelly Victory, and Steve House discuss the startling realities behind the Purdue Pharma settlement. The conversation highlights how the $7.4 billion payout, stretching over 15 years, falls short of addressing the actual profits made through unethical practices over decades. What does this settlement mean for the victims, and could it change the future dealings of pharmaceutical giants?
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Happy Thursday. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Dr. Kelly Victory joining us in this hour. Steve House as well. I'll start with you, Dr. Kelly. How are you today?
SPEAKER 04 :
I'm doing great. Thanks, as always, for having me.
SPEAKER 11 :
Always a joy. Steve House, welcome as well. Hey, glad to be here, John. Appreciate you guys. All right, let's start with this. I promo'd this and sent you guys some info on this, and we'll dovetail into some of the other things that are happening along these lines as well. But 50 states as well as the District of Columbia and U.S. territories approved a $7.4 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma, maker of OxyContin, over the company's improper marketing of opioids. So, Dr. Kelly, I'll start with you. And $7.4 billion is a lot of money, or is it in this case?
SPEAKER 04 :
It actually pales in comparison to the amount they made in profits. They knew darn well that they were ultimately going to get hit with lawsuits on this and that they would likely lose in the end. And frankly, they didn't care because the amount they're paying in this penalty in this settlement is sofa change to them. They fraudulently marketed these drugs. saying that they were not addictive, that they did not cause the health issues that they did. They marketed it that way to physicians, and it was a total cover-up. It was fraudulent. It was corrupt. They knew they would likely get sued for it, and they weighed the difference between the profits they would make on these drugs and what they would ultimately pay in a legal settlement, and this is what they've done.
SPEAKER 11 :
And I also see in my notes anyways, and Dr. Kelly, you probably know more about this than I do, and I'll go to Steve in a moment, but this payout, actually, if this is finalized, payouts are over the next 15 years as well. This isn't a one-time payment, right?
SPEAKER 04 :
Correct. I don't know the details exactly of how it was spread out, but yes, it happens over a period of 15 years. And what it is is just callous disregard on the part of this pharmaceutical company for the number of lives that were lost, hundreds of thousands of people who died of opiate-related issues. And this was really done thoughtfully. They did it part and parcel with the electronic medical records, for example. That added a place where doctors were obligated to put in, you know, with the patient's pain scale, how much pain people were having. And it was all with the intention of motivating doctors to prescribe more and more opiates. So much to the point where you didn't get reimbursed by the insurance companies if you didn't adequately treat the patient's pain. Even if you saved their lives, you may have saved the guy's life. But if he said he didn't get adequate pain medication, you didn't get the reimbursement from the insurance company. And it was all bought and paid for by these pharmaceutical companies that were pushing, pushing, pushing opiates.
SPEAKER 11 :
Wow. Steve, I know this, again, is it racking the world? I wouldn't go as far as to say that. Some of these things have been going through the court system now for a number of years, and everything Kelly said, absolutely spot on. I guess at the end of the day, and maybe you know more about this than I do, what do some of the people that have been ill-affected by this end up getting, or is it a pittance when it's all said and done?
SPEAKER 14 :
No, I'm sure it's not much. I mean, compared to, if you think about who loses when someone gets addicted to opioids, right? So you have the person, their family, the life insurance companies. I mean, how many claims were paid significantly earlier because opioid addicts, you know, overdosed and died? You know, how many people lost, you know, parents and grandparents and how many people lost workers and the communities that lost people to this I mean, I worked on an opioid task force for a while. It's just really, really ugly, John. I mean, if you think about it, if 20,000 extra people died a year and, you know, the average, if you had just $10,000 in life insurance, you're talking about a couple of hundred million dollars a year in life insurance paid out. $7.4 billion doesn't take very long to get there. And it's really just a slap on the wrist. And I think this is the typical thing we see with pharma and when they get hammered over. I mean, how much should the COVID vaccine award be except for we'll never see it as an example?
SPEAKER 11 :
And, of course, Dr. Kelly, all the headlines are, you know, a historic and national settlement. Well, until you start reading, you know, again, to your point, some of the fine print and how does this actually get down to the people that were affected, and I haven't gotten that far. I'm sure I will at some point. And I'm not sure that all of, I mean, it says if approved. So this isn't a done deal yet at this point in time. So depending upon how all that is structured, you know, to Steve's point, Dr. Kelly, you know, there may not be very much going to the victims at all when it's all said and done.
SPEAKER 04 :
Correct. And the bottom line is these settlements need to be to the amounts that are going to discourage a pharmaceutical company from doing it in the future. And this simply isn't, unfortunately. Not only is it not going to adequately compensate the victims, but the reality is it's doing nothing to dissuade this from happening in the future. I have a Labrador retriever that if I told her not to do something, She looks at what she wants to do. She looks at me. And she's weighing, is it going to be worth it? Is going swimming in that pond going to be worth it for the trouble I'm going to get in? And that's how these pharmaceutical companies say. They're like, look, yeah, we're going to get smacked with a big fine. But given the billions and billions and billions of dollars we're going to make in profits, who cares?
SPEAKER 11 :
And then the other question, too, that I've got is because the states have all agreed to this and the territories and so on, is this something that even, Dr. Kelly, goes back to the individuals that have been affected? Or does this go to some sort of a state fund that will help with addiction and things along those lines? In other words, is it really even, at the end of the day, going to the victims that were affected by this?
SPEAKER 04 :
I don't know the details of it, John, and it may be on a state-by-state basis. I think you are probably correct that for many of the states, it's going to go into some slush fund for opioid addiction treatment. So it's going to be treating people, current victims or current addicts, but it perhaps may do nothing for the people who were harmed years ago. I don't know.
SPEAKER 11 :
Steve, have you heard anything along those lines? And could I be, you know, on the right track? I don't want to be, by the way, but could I be?
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, you may be, John, because what happens with this settlement with Purdue Pharma is that in all probability that states are settling it because they're recovering money they spent from Medicaid. I don't think it actually goes to victims, certainly not very much. I think this is all about the states suing to get a recovery on Medicaid, not to help victims get money reimbursed to them. Okay, and again, go ahead.
SPEAKER 04 :
One other piece I think that's just interesting here, Callie Means, who is the brother of the current nominee for Surgeon General Casey Means, and Callie Means is also a special federal employee right now advising both Robert Kennedy Jr. and President Trump with regard to things related to HHS. He's way out of his league. He came from Big Pharma, just like Susie Wiles, by the way. And Callie Means has in the past bragged on his social media posts about how he was part of the cover up with the Purdue, you know, pharmaceuticals and Mackler family, that he was part of drafting the communication, how they would convince doctors that these things were not addictive, how they would convince people that. that the opioids were not as dangerous as they were. And I find it very, very concerning that this guy is now in a position of power inside the White House advising Bobby Kennedy and President Trump when he was involved with this in the past.
SPEAKER 11 :
I did read, finally, I dug enough here. And I tried to do this before, you know, coming on air. And sometimes it just, you know, searches and so on just don't come up right. And sometimes you think about how to word something, you know, differently when you get a little further along and or you just read enough. And so, Steve, I did read. Did just figure out ABC News. There's an article on there. It's abcnews.go.com. The $7.4 billion will support opioid addiction treatment prevention and recovery programs over the next 15 years. So, yes, indeed, it's going to the states, not individual victims and families.
SPEAKER 14 :
That's right. That's right. That's why all the states sued. I mean, individuals may have lawsuits, you know, that they can get against them. I mean, this may be a precedent setter, right? I mean, they're basically holding Purdue Pharma accountable. Well, now you could have victims and their families. sue them the same way, which, you know, I mean, they're not going to get $7.4 billion, but that's also no panacea. I mean, it could take forever for them to get through a lawsuit when you have a bunch of people. A class action lawsuit for victims might be the best strategy.
SPEAKER 11 :
And again, part of this, keep in mind, too, is there's a bankruptcy going on. So given that fact, Steve, will that even, you know, could a class action lawsuit in a bankruptcy end of things even, you know, would that even proceed is my question. I don't have an idea. Yeah, that's right. It's about getting pennies on the dollar, if anything.
SPEAKER 14 :
$7.4 billion. Again, I mean, if you look at the amount of profit... they made, maybe they're still making under the banner of a different name. You know, there's just no way that that's anywhere near adequate, and it is a fraction of what it should have been. Yep. All right, great.
SPEAKER 04 :
Go ahead, Kelly. Just one last thing. To my point, if anyone remembers the Vioxx lawsuit, Vioxx was an anti-inflammatory drug that was known by the manufacturer, by Merck, to increase the risk of cardiovascular issues, strokes and heart attacks. They left the drug on the market, despite the fact that they had overwhelming evidence that it was causing these problems, knowing that they would get sued, and they ultimately voluntarily removed the drug from the market. They settled something in the range of 60,000 individual claims, adding up to... nearly $5 billion in payments, but that $5 billion was a drop in the bucket compared to the profits that they made during all those years that they let people suffer the cardiac risks from their drug.
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This is Rush to Reason. All right, we are back again. Rush to Reason, Debra's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Dr. Kelly Victory with us, as well as Steve House. And I don't want to belabor this topic forever, Dr. Kelly, but I think this whole Oxy thing is just, to me, it's mind-boggling. How a company could go that long, make the amount of profits that they did, have all of the... you know, sales aspects of things to your point earlier going on. And really, in a lot of ways, prey, I guess you could say, on people make, you know, they knew how addictive it was and so on. And again, I have, you know, mixed emotions on some of this stuff. I mean, where is their personal responsibility when it comes to You know, taking drugs and so on. And on the same token, things can get very addictive. It's different for different people. I get all of that. But you got to look at this and think, good grief, how did they get by doing this for as long as they did? Because it wasn't just a two or three year stint. They did this for a long time.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, absolutely. And I have no love lost for the pharmaceutical industry. And I agree with you that personal responsibility absolutely plays in. But the pharmaceutical industry at large is morally bankrupt. They will do anything for profits. This was a well-coordinated, corrupt, fraudulent sales pitch. As I said, they had entire teams set aside to come up with the communication strategy and how they would convince doctors to do this, how they'd convince patients. They worked hand in hand, as I said, with the electronic medical records and with insurers to make sure that capturing the information about the pain scale was there. It became what we called the fifth vital sign. It used to be blood pressure, temperature, pulse, respirations. you know, and oxygen saturation, and then all of a sudden there was this, you know, the new one, which is, you know, on a scale of 1 to 10, what's your pain, regardless of what you went in with. People went in with influenza, you know. People go in with something and say, well, what's your pain scale? And so they did this in a concerted way that I think is absolutely evil.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, I think the other thing, too, and Steve, they also came out initially. This I did read before today where they also claimed this was not an addictive substance. There was very low risk of abuse, if you would. They incorporated, of course, a marketing company that came in and wooed a lot of doctors into prescribing it. They did that with things we've talked about before, you know, the free trips and on and on we go. I mean, Steve, this thing became just a gigantic thing. cash cow for everybody, including the doctors prescribing it.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, if you really think about this, and I know Kelly knows this by heart, but so somebody comes out with a drug that makes you feel good, right? I mean, it takes away your pain. You feel good, right? I mean, Oxycontin makes you feel good. So does Dilaudid and other opioids. Now, the second thing you do is you have some concern about the fact that people might get addicted to it because it does make you feel so good. So what do you do? You get a couple of people to write papers about that say, you know, through lots and lots of research, it's not addictive. You publish it in JAMA, the New England Journal. And then all of a sudden doctors, the same doctors who have the same sort of thing about the COVID vaccines will say, well, you know, I mean, the study says it's actually working and that it's not addictive. So you ride that train. Anybody else who brings something to JAMA New England Journal or anybody else, they reject a lot of those things as not being, you know, certified, not being peer reviewed, not being double blind. And it turns out you can hang on for a long period of time because doctors love their patients to feel good. And you know what it says right here? You're not addicted. Maybe some individuals are. It's all a very, very well thought out, well executed thing for the pharma guys to get what they want.
SPEAKER 11 :
And as you know, Dr. Kelly, this became something to where, you know, almost 500... A thousand people died. I mean, this isn't something where there's just a few hundred that died. This became really an epidemic, if you would, and yet they kept prescribing and prescribing for almost 20 years plus, I want to say, they went through this. And maybe people think it wasn't that long. It was that long, if not longer, Dr. Kelly. All the while, they were making billions of dollars off of this.
SPEAKER 04 :
Absolutely. This was a cash cow for them. And that's why I'm saying that this settlement is a drop in the bucket compared to the profits that they made over all those years, John. This is a nothing for them. And as a result, does not provide a disincentive, as far as I'm concerned, for any pharmaceutical company to do the same thing in the future, to simply, you know, they've got the accountants, they've figured out, you know, how much are we likely to have to pay in a settlement? even if we know that this drug is harmful, and compare that to the profits we'll make for as long as we're able to ride this train.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah. And then, of course, the other thing I believe happened, and this is where some of the accusations are flying around that, you know, they they, you know, Purdue and the Sackler who owned Purdue, you know, the family, actually, even though they were doing a lot of philanthropy, a lot of those organizations is where a lot of the money was, quote unquote, laundered to the tune of, you know, billions of dollars, by the way. So that money just got funneled over, which means now even with this settlement, a lot of that money, by the way, for those of you listening will be untouched, will be protected. In other words, at the end of the day, Dr. Kelly and Steve, and start with you, Dr. Kelly, the family won't be hurting when this is all said and done.
SPEAKER 04 :
Of course not. In the same way that if there ever is any accountability, and I doubt there will be with regard to the damage done from these mRNA genetic therapies that were given to everybody for COVID, the reality is that it'll be a drop in the bucket compared to the amount that was made in profits.
SPEAKER 11 :
Right. And Steve, again, you know, these organizations and again, not not faulting anybody. It is what it is. I mean, we have laws. You know, they use those laws in accordance to what they want to get done. And at the end of the day, they hide that hide is the right word. They funnel that money into things where they can have it. protected so that if something goes haywire, goes sideways, they at the end of the day still come out smelling like a rose, like folks that have worked at Enron and other places. And again, I'm not trying to be critical. It just is what it is. I mean, these are the things that those sorts of individuals do. Like it or not, they get by with it.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, yeah, I mean, there's a couple quick things to think about. One of them is a car example, actually. The first thing to think about, though, is there's like 85% more lawyers today than there was per capita, you know, 20 years ago. And lawyers are used not only to litigate and defend in court, they're also used to stall, you know, so that, you know, Purdue Pharma can stall a long time before they have to pay it. So they can either, you know, get out of business, change their business, go bankrupt, save their money, do something else. So there's that thing. The car example is relevant only because of the scale of the profit. Think about the Corvair, right? Way back when there was a Corvair. A few people, you know, roll it over. They die from it. You know, they decide basically to take the car off the market. They pay some settlements. But the settlements they pay are relative to, you know, a small number of lives. But the real issue is the amount of profits you make made on a car. It's product safety. I made a product. I'm liable for it. But the profit level you made on that car versus the profit level they make on opioids is the scale is so dramatically different, yet at the same time it's still a human life, and what's the value of a human life?
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, and you just brought up something, too, that I don't think most people think about, which I hadn't really even thought about. Let's say, for example, you're a drug company, and you've got the ability to, let's use a round number. You somehow or another, Steve, could tuck away, I don't know, we'll use a round number. $50 billion, and you've got that tucked away. You've got it in trust. You've got it in philanthropy. You've got it in other places. And let's say that you're able to make even just a 5% return on that $50 billion, and you can delay an outcome like this, this $7.4 billion outcome. Let's say you can delay that a decade. Because, by the way, I'm not exaggerating when I say that, Steve. You could probably delay it a decade. How much interest did you make on that $50 billion during that decade? Yeah. Well, probably no less than $50 billion, right?
SPEAKER 14 :
You probably made like $100 billion in interest if you invested. And that's the point of having lawyers slow things down. It's like Bill Gates committing to donate $400 million to something. What he really is doing is setting aside $400 million and giving him the 10% interest he earns on it every year over 10 years. He hasn't spent any of his original... He's getting more than 10% in his amounts going up. The issue is exactly what you're talking about. They delay, delay, delay. They end up paying a number. There's an acceptable loss. I sat in a room listening to a group of company execs who are CMOs, chief medical officers, say, you know what? We don't want to stop heart attacks from killing people 52% of the time as the first symptom because we would have to pay a lot of medical costs if they survived the heart attack. That's just reality and the money versus life scenario. And you're 100% right about earning interest to pay the fine.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yep. So at the end of the day, Dr. Kelly, while it may look like this is a huge settlement, granted the company is bankrupt, and where will the money come from? Well, as you know, there's money probably set aside out of the bankruptcy to handle this, and all the while that money is making money. So while this might seem really detrimental to this particular company and the family, honestly, I hate to say this, Dr. Kelly, it's not.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, it absolutely is. And another thing I feel obligated to mention as a physician is the component that when you have a pharmaceutical company and this concerted effort to convince doctors as well as patients, but doctors specifically, that something is not dangerous. and it's helpful. What it does is it encourages the doctors to write for it more. Now, if I'm a surgeon and I'm doing surgery on people all day long, the best way for me to not get calls in the middle of the night for patients is to make sure that they're not uncomfortable. So rather than giving it, the reality is that most surgeries, and I've had a lot of them myself, so I don't just wield the scalpel. I've been on the receiving end. Most surgeries, you need pain medication, narcotic pain medication, for somewhere between five to seven days at most. Even the biggest surgeries, abdominal surgeries, you don't need narcotics for more than five to seven days, which means you should be getting a prescription for somewhere between 15 to 24 pills or something. But I guarantee every time I've had a surgery, you know, orthopedic surgeries, whatever it is, I walk out of there with a prescription for 60 vitamin tablets. I have an entire – my God. I mean, I shouldn't say this out loud, but my medicine cabinet, I've got – the street value of this – because I only take it for maybe three to four days, and then I transition over to ibuprofen and Tylenol, and that's what people should be doing. But when you give a patient 60 tablets of Vicodin, you are tacitly saying – It's okay to take this. Go ahead and take it. And that is how people end up addicted. If you take opiates, I don't care, Oxycontin, Dilaudid, fentanyl, if you take any of it by prescription for three to seven days, you're not going to get addicted to it. You get addicted to it when you take it for a prolonged period of time.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, and the reason why I wanted to go through all of that, there was a method to my madness and kind of where I was going with the settlement and the money and how it works and so on, because Letitia James, who is New York's attorney general, says that this plan will hold the Sackler family accountable for what she described as their leading role in fueling the epidemic of these addictions and overdoses. And my point with all of this, Dr. Kelly and Steve, I'll start with you, Dr. Kelly, is no, it won't.
SPEAKER 04 :
Any more than it would be that a fine like that would impact Elon Musk. No, it won't. No, it won't. Trust me, this is a sofa change to them.
SPEAKER 11 :
This is a lot of rhetoric coming out of Letitia James, but at the end of the day, Steve, this isn't changing their life one iota. Not at all.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, and frankly, if you're an attorney general of the state and you really are not doing this purely for political reasons, you got to go much deeper than this because of the victims. It's not going to help the victims. It's going to help people who are addicted to opioids going forward because there'll be money to treat them with. But what about all the people that already suffered, who've already gone through it? If you really care, and Leticia James is not on that list of people I believe cares much, she just, you know, basically you would fight for everybody if you cared, but they're not doing that.
SPEAKER 11 :
That's right. So the question I have for you, Dr. Kelly, along these lines, and again, I wasn't going to spend this much time, but this is a great topic, and I think there's a lot of people out there listening that are going to learn something from a lot of the things that we're talking about because you could talk about this in a lot of other areas in big pharma, not just in this particular area. This is sort of a slice of the pie, if you would, Dr. Kelly, when it comes to big pharma. Because the other question I've got is, given all of this and what's happened when it comes to Oxy and pain meds and so on, Does now some of the ill effect of this also now start affecting people that really, in fact, do need some pain relief because of something that they've taken? And how now does that have an impact upon them negatively?
SPEAKER 04 :
Absolutely. Well, now the pendulum has swung the other way. And so now a lot of times doctors are hesitant to write prescriptions for pain medications for people who legitimately need it. Furthermore, there's a stigma for those people. There are certain people who are going to be, unfortunately, on chronic pain medication. We try or I certainly try to suggest other ways to deal with chronic pain medication. whether it's acupuncture or physical therapy or other ways to deal with it, because living the rest of your life on opiates isn't a great course. But there are people, I believe, John, who are suffering because of this, because of the stigma, because of now the hesitancy for doctors to write the prescriptions that patients need and limiting and giving people perhaps inadequate pain control.
SPEAKER 11 :
And that's where, Steve, that's where my fear with a lot of this comes in. It's like, OK, I get it. We need to do something about, you know, these companies, you know, over addictive pills, et cetera. But Dr. Kelly's point a moment ago, there are legitimate uses for this. And now what we've done is, you know, we're going to take the baby, throw it out with the bathwater. And now those that really do, in fact, need it. You know, what choice do they have now? You know, what type of medication do they use?
SPEAKER 14 :
It's a great question because, quite frankly, when you get older, into your 60s and beyond, there's a lot of inflammation in your body, a lot of things that cause pain. Anti-inflammatories are part of it. Opioids are part of it. I mean, the beginning part of opioid addiction, certainly over the last 20 years, one of the biggest sources of opioid addiction beginnings is a dentist's office because dentist's offices give out 60 pills of Percocet, and that Percocet turns into an opioid addiction. Wow.
SPEAKER 04 :
And the biggest risk here, John, that we've seen, and most opioid deaths, to be clear, are not from prescription opioids. People may have gotten addicted to the prescription, but then when they are cut off. When the doctor says, look, your surgery was two months ago. I'm not giving you any more. They turn to back alley prescriptions, and that's when they get the fentanyl overdose. That's when they die. That's when they buy what they thought was Percocet, and it ended up being laced with fentanyl. They bought what they thought was an oxycodone in the back alley, and it ends up being laced. That's where the opiate deaths are happening. It is very, very uncommon for an opioid – death to occur by a prescription medication these are people who get addicted on prescriptions and then they turn to the back streets they start buying it illegally they start buying it on the black market and they get what is tainted it's unclear what they're actually getting and now that's how most opioid deaths occur
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SPEAKER 11 :
And we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Dr. Kelly Victory and Steve House with us as well. Steve, you asked a question yesterday to Kelly and I both, and I did a little bit of research on this, and I know you are researching this as well because I think this is important for everybody listening to understand how the big beautiful bill and what's going on right now in regards to you know that bill the cuts and so on and and there's a portion of that bill that includes some cuts to medicaid which i think there's a lot of confusion on even to people on the streets even maybe some people in the admin end of hospitals and so on in regards to the quote-unquote 800 billion dollars that they want to cut on the medicaid side The key is it's really not $800 billion, and it's sort of like this, you know, Purdue settlement a little bit ago. It's not over one year. It's over the course of a decade, and that's the way I look at it. I believe it's about $80 billion a year, and there's those out there saying that if those cuts happen, it will reduce, you know, patient care. It's going to ruin a lot of rural hospitals and so on. What are you hearing on your end?
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, I mean, there are a lot of people who believe that that kind of cut to Medicaid, although if you remember, we've talked about the fact that the health care bill in America is somewhere around $5 to $7 trillion. $80 billion doesn't seem like a lot relative to that. I think that the bigger factor is that a fair number of the cuts are related to activity based on the patients so yeah they're going to take 1.4 million people who are illegal aliens that are covered in states that choose to cover it and the state's either going to have to cover 10 more of their medicaid expansion cut from 90 covered by us and our taxes to 80 or they're going to have to drop illegal aliens from their medicaid rules i don't think it's incumbent on the emerging taxpayer to pay for illegal immigrants and their health care. They should be paying for it themselves. So that's one thing. The other thing is there's a work requirement, and the issue is if you don't fill out the paperwork, if you don't actually go seek work and fill out the paperwork, you can lose your Medicaid eligibility. Well, they're counting that, a percentage of that, as an absolute cut to Medicaid. Well, it only matters if people don't do what they're supposed to do. So, A, I don't think that it's pure cuts, and B, over a 10-year period, you cannot tell me that people are going to actually leave this alone. I do not believe that. I believe it depends on who the next president is, who the next Congress is. Ten years is a long time. I'm not counting on $800 billion being cut.
SPEAKER 11 :
I'm not either. And, Dr. Kelly, I think this is where even the left is really... pushing, promoting. There was an article out today in one of our local liberal publications talking about how this is just going to decimate things here in Colorado. It's going to ruin the workforce. There's a lot of people right now that are much healthier and are helping out the workforce. There's a net positive because of what we've done in Medicaid. And I guess, you know, Dr. Kelly, the way I look at it is You know, the answer probably lies somewhere in the middle of these extremists that say it's going to kill everything and it's going to ruin the workforce. We have a lot more sick people running around, which, by the way, I don't agree with. To the other side where it's, yeah, we're going to cut all of this. We're going to save all this money and we're going to be that much further ahead on the tax bill. I don't know, Dr. Kelly, either extreme. To me, neither one is correct.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, I agree with that. The liberals are always hollering, however, that the sky is falling and we need more money, money, money, and that money is going to fix everything. I don't think it's going to be anywhere near the size of the cuts that they're predicting, as Steve said. Furthermore, I think the idea that we are spending one penny on illegal aliens and their health care, I think, is preposterous. and it needs to stop, so I don't care at all if people who are in this country illegally lose their benefits. I really don't.
SPEAKER 11 :
Dr. Kelly, I'm going to jump in one minute, too, and go along the lines of this, because this is the other thing where I will disagree with the left on, I should say, is I also don't think that able-bodied, willing people that should be out working, and I know there's people here in Colorado, I did this the other day, there's able-bodied, working, married families... that are making $75,000 a year that are still on Medicaid that I, as a taxpayer and supplementing, I have a problem with that as well, Dr. Kelly.
SPEAKER 04 :
There's no question, and this is the reality, is people make choices. A lot of these people who are on the federal dole, whether it's for food stamps, SNAP, or in this case, health care, look at the cars they drive. Look at the bikes they ride. Here in Colorado, they're riding a $2,500 titanium mountain bike, and they're on Medicaid.
SPEAKER 11 :
Or, by the way, they've got faster Internet speed and a whole lot more channels because of cable, et cetera, than even I do because I'm too cheap to pay for it. But at the end of the day, Dr. Kelly, I can look at all sorts of things that people spend money on that, frankly, the three of us are not.
SPEAKER 04 :
Precisely. And so I think that we need to look into that. But the bottom line for me is that putting more and more and more money into healthcare, what we call healthcare, it's really disease care in this country, has proven to be a failed strategy. OK, we've got to put the money into health care, into things that actually make people healthier, make people better, make people less sick. And some of that stuff, believe it or not, is actually free. It's things like returning physical education to the school system so that we could cut down on the vet. But right now, 40 percent of adolescents are overweight or obese. 40%. Think about that. A huge percentage of these kids have prediabetes. Something like reinstituting four-day-a-week physical education in the school system through high school so that kids are getting 45 minutes of physical activity a day would decrease both of those things fundamentally for free. You know, Putting spending more and more and more money on stuff and trying to stamp out disease is not the answer. We've got to focus on a better lunch program, more physical activity, getting more and more schools to go screen free, meaning that they kids either do not have their phones at school at all or that they are locked up in the locker during the entirety of the school day. These are the kinds of things that will make a difference. Getting kids to walk to school again.
SPEAKER 11 :
Steve, this came out of this article I was telling you about a moment ago. Legislation currently under consideration would require adults covered through Medicaid expansion and have incomes 100 to 138 percent of the federal poverty level to pay up to $35 for some health care services. This is a quote coming out of this article. Many of our patients can't afford a $2 copay for their medicines. And Steve, I'm not trying to be heartless here. But I guarantee you these same people that can't afford a two day copay are the very people Kelly was talking about a moment ago that have all of these other amenities, by the way, and or have more coming into their home in regards to entertainment than I, you and Dr. Kelly do on top of that. And I know this firsthand because I have been sort of that mouse on the wall, if you would, or that fly on the wall where I have heard different people that I know for a fact are are on Medicaid and that are receiving Medicaid benefits for everything from having babies to you name it, and yet I also know the last concert they went to, Steve.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, I mean, so first of all, you should eliminate the copay. There's two possibilities. One is get healthier, right? I mean, just flat out get healthier. If you can't afford to take the drugs, get healthier and try to get off of them. Now, there's some people who have problems that are genetic in nature or otherwise can't get off the drugs. get rid of the PBMs so there isn't any copay because that part's ridiculous as well. But again, it comes down to choices. I mean, people tell me all the time that, you know, we just need more money, right? We need more money for America to be healthy. We know that's not true. We know it's choices, the choices you're talking about, you know, spending money on the internet, high speed internet, spending money on an upgraded car rather than taking care of your health gives you some temporary satisfaction, but it certainly doesn't help you in the long run. And if you're not willing to make an investment in yourself, why should I do that? Obamacare, they talked about this yesterday with Mazie Hirono and all these other different people in Congress. Well, they believe that everybody deserves affordable health care as a right in this country. I can tell you right now, my health care is not affordable. And it hasn't been affordable since Obamacare went into play because there's no incentive for being healthy. I mean, you can't smoke in your reasonable age and you get some incentive, but that's it. They screwed this up when they put Obamacare in play and made the deductibles high and the premiums high. Nobody has affordable health care in this country right now.
SPEAKER 11 :
Dr. Kelly, it seems to me like this whole conversation we're having about the Big Beautiful Bill and you get all these different folks that are out there, including those that are even running some of these particular organizations, health care organizations, I mean hospitals and clinics and so on. It almost seems like – and this is what I was thinking this morning as I was reading through some of this – it feels to me like – We are definitely on the precipice of having either Medicaid or Medicare as, quote, unquote, universal health care. It's gotten to that expectation now. I see it. I read it. Am I wrong?
SPEAKER 04 :
No, I fear that you are right. And people believe it's the panacea. They believe it's the answer. And it is not. True medical freedom, first of all, you know, people talk about medical freedom and autonomy all the time. In Dr. Vitry's book, medical freedom means being well enough that you don't need them.
SPEAKER 11 :
That's right.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, being well enough that you don't have to go. I hope that the only time you go to the doctor is once a year for your annual physical, and other than that, you don't call them, you don't need them because you are well. And a big part of that, unfortunately, is about those personal choices. which the foods you eat, the activity you get, the sleep you get, how you manage your stress, and those sorts of things. Yes, there are many, many people who get dealt a lousy hand, have genetic issues, or get cancer for no reason of their own, have other medical problems. Obviously, that's what the system is for. But there's got to be a lot of personal responsibility brought back in. And then we've got to start funding those programs that actually enhance health. Don't just make some pharmaceutical company or doctor or other program more money because they aren't actually delivering health. They're delivering disease care, which is not what we need. I am concerned that they are going to go to some sort of common platform and You will find that the greatest health care system in the world, which was the United States, is going to fall into line with everybody else where it is mediocre at best. It will also deliver the consummate two tiered system because there will always be people. Look at what happens in the UK. They have nationalized health, Canada, nationalized health. But there are always those people at the top of the pile. who can afford to buy out. And so you end up with a small group of people getting high quality care and the masses getting mediocre care.
SPEAKER 11 :
Steve, I don't see us being too far away from that right now. You and I and Dr. Kelly have talked about this in the past. You and I talked about this even long before we had Dr. Kelly coming on our program five plus years ago. So the reality is we are that much, you know, we're half a deck decade closer to the things that you and I were talking about a half a decade ago when it comes to the things Dr. Kelly just said a moment ago. And I'm sorry to say that some of the things that I see being, you know, how should I say, you know, being pushed through the big, beautiful bill and some of these cuts that are trying to be made are frankly stoking the fires of the very thing you and I talked about five plus years ago.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, they're absolutely doing that. I think there's almost a two-tier system here in a different way, right? So the two-tiered system in America is the group of people that exercise, that move, that eat reasonably well, that are working, they're balanced in what they're doing. And I want to exempt the people who have genetic, strange and difficult genetic experiences.
SPEAKER 05 :
Absolutely, absolutely.
SPEAKER 14 :
In reality, if you move around, if you do the things you need to do, if you keep yourself healthy, I mean, the difference between some guys that are in their 60s and some guys that, you know, other guys that are in their 60s and their overall health and wellness is dramatic. And most of it has to do with how they treated themselves. So the system is really dependent on how you treat yourself. For those who treat themselves well, the system works, except for they're paying extremely high premiums and they shouldn't. For those who don't treat themselves well, the system doesn't work all that well because it's really about drugs, high costs, and medical bankruptcies for so many people.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, it's really sad. This is, by the way, one of those topics I think we should come back to here in the not-too-distant future, and maybe we'll do that once the bill ends up getting passed. I don't think that's going to happen probably until maybe middle to the latter part of July. We'll just see how it goes. But, Dr. Kelly, again, these are things that even before you started joining us five years ago, Steve and I were talking about, and unfortunately we're now closer to it than we've ever been.
SPEAKER 04 :
Exactly. And unfortunately, it has a lot to do with who we have in Congress. These are people who don't have deep understanding of the health care system. It's the same people who passed Obamacare, having zero understanding of how it was going to work. Anybody with half a wit who took the time could have done the calculations on it. In the back of a cocktail napkin, you knew that it was never going to pencil out. But that's not what we have in Congress. We need a lot smarter people, and we need Steve in there making these decisions.
SPEAKER 11 :
Dr. Kelly, really quick, I've got to interrupt for a moment just because of the training I've had from you and Steve. So from you, Dr. Kelly, and Steve, I feel like I am more equipped than a lot of the politicians we have there right now. I'm not in the medical world. I literally am a talk show host, but I have learned so much from you two over the past five-plus years. I feel like I'm better equipped to handle some of those decisions than they are, Dr. Kelly.
SPEAKER 04 :
I agree. And our system is entirely broken, John, because I guarantee you whatever bill gets passed is filled with all this additional pork and all this other stuff that has nothing to do with health care. I guarantee it's all baked in there. It's everybody's special interest. And this is unfortunately how our our decisions, our laws, our bills are passed. And therefore, it's never in the best interest, truly, of the American people. It's always in the best interest of the politicians and the big corporations that benefit from whatever decisions are made.
SPEAKER 11 :
Steve, it's sad that it's that way. And again, this is a topic we definitely will come back to because Dr. Kelly is right. We unfortunately, and I say this all the time, one of my biggest complaints, we have policymakers making, you know, we have policymakers that are there making policy in a lot of things, technologically speaking, financially speaking, health related, that frankly, Steve, I hate to say this, they're dumb as rocks and have no idea what they're talking about.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, they're fed a bunch of talking points. I mean, I appreciate Kelly's kind words. I think where we need to go here is we do need informed people, and I think, John, Rush for Congress sounds really good to me, and Kelly and I will both donate and help give you some more health care policy stuff so you can get it done.
SPEAKER 11 :
I think it needs to be you two doing that, not me. I was talking about your wife, not you, man. There we go. There we go. Good one.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right.
SPEAKER 11 :
With that, that's a lighter way to end the hour today. And you guys, I mean, and I mean this sincerely, I really, I have learned so much from both of you that I feel like I not only can talk better on air about all of these things, but I can go to most any dinner party. And if these topics come up, frankly, I know far more about it than most doctors and lawyers do that end up in some of these parties. And that's because of you two that I can do that. So, Dr. Kelly, I'll let you go first. I appreciate you very much.
SPEAKER 04 :
Thanks, as always, for having me. I look forward to it next time.
SPEAKER 11 :
Thank you very much, Steve. I mean, what I said is because of you, really you, even before Dr. Kelly, that we're here doing what we do today.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, and I would tell you that your learning is something everyone else should do, too. I mean, there's nothing wrong with investing in your knowledge of your own health and what's going on out there. So I know you have the goods. You have the knowledge. So keep it up, and I love being on the show.
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Rush to Reason dives into pressing concerns surrounding the impact of mRNA vaccines. With Dr. Kelly Victory and Steve House, we navigate through recent findings suggesting a link between these vaccinations and increased infertility rates in women, particularly spotlighting a study from the Czech Republic. We explore the broader implications on birth rates and question what lies ahead. We also dissect the alarming discovery of fibrous clots in young children born to vaccinated mothers. Dr. Kelly elaborates on the trophotic nature of spike proteins, while Steve House draws connections to autoimmune conditions. Together, they ponder the potential for new medication responses and the long-term effects on our health. As the discussion progresses, we touch on the ethical dimensions of vaccine advisory panels and the reshaping of guidelines under RFK Jr.'s leadership. This episode is a call to reassess parental and patient autonomy in healthcare decisions, advocating for a more informed and equitable approach to public health policy.
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All right, it's Thursday. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Thanks for joining us. Dr. Kelly Victory with us today. Steve House as well. Dr. Kelly, welcome. How are you?
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Doing great. I'm here looking at the calendar and realizing it's the 26th of June and thinking, oh, my Lord, where is the summer going? It is flying by.
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Half gone. Steve House, welcome. I was thinking the exact same thing, by the way, Dr. Kelly. I woke up this morning and I thought, you know what, we get to next week, and I know it's not officially summer half over, but, boy, it sure feels like it, Steve.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, and I was going to say, if the heat that I've been around keeps going, I'm only going to be half here by the end of the summer.
SPEAKER 14 :
Good one. All right, several things to talk about today. And I do want to get into the big, beautiful bill. We talked about it last week. I want to continue on with that. But before we do that, a couple of questions. had come in. And so I want to throw this to you first, Dr. Kelly. Somebody texted right before the show and said that there is a new study that they had heard about, read about, coming out of the Czech Republic, talking about infertility in women, young women especially, that took the jab. Do you know anything about that, or do you want to comment on that at all?
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Yeah, I do know about that study and multiple others. The reality is this. We have overwhelming evidence, and it seems to mount every week with new studies, of the negative impact that the mRNA injections have had on fertility. We've seen not only an increase in miscarriages, spontaneous miscarriages, miscarriages, bleeding, hemorrhaging, low birth weight children, those sorts of things. But an alarming difficulty with people trying to get pregnant, women being unable to conceive. Birth rates are down almost universally around the world in some places like the United States and Europe. They're down, say, four or five percent, which might not sound like a lot, but that's actually quite catastrophic. In other places, Taiwan, for example, the numbers are down by 26 percent. So I think, you know, we unfortunately have only seen the tip of the iceberg. Whether or not this is reversible, we don't know. You know, this is the sort of stuff that should have been worked out before these injections were given to hundreds of millions of people.
SPEAKER 14 :
Steve, have you heard anything along those lines? You're more on the admin side, but what have you heard along those lines?
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Well, I mean, the birth rates have been falling for a while. I mean, there's a magic number. It's 2.1. Right. Every American woman or every woman in a country that has 2.1 babies on average, you maintain your population. So when you fall below that, it's an issue, of course. You know, the article I sent you about, you know, children and fibrous clots. But there is one anomaly out there that I think we need to keep in mind, and that there is definitely an increase in birth rate. anywhere near Elon Musk.
SPEAKER 14 :
True.
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Other than that, it's down everywhere else.
SPEAKER 14 :
Good point. Good point. You are not wrong in that. Well, and we can move into that. And I know, yeah, you just sent that right before we, you know, right before really we got ready to come on air. Gateway Pundit put out something talking about a red alert. Doctors sound the alarm after fibrous clots discovered in young children born to COVID-vaxxed mothers. Now, we had heard about some of these clots, Dr. Kelly and Steve, but I'll start with you, Dr. Kelly. We'd heard about some of these things all the way back when these things first, started. These are things that you and I, you know, three of us have talked about on this program many, many times. This is the first I've heard of it happening in young kids that are just born to vaxxed moms.
SPEAKER 08 :
I agree. So to summarize for people who may not have been paying attention, the spike protein on the outside of the COVID-19 virus is what we call thrombogenic. It promotes the formation of blood clots. So even if you just had COVID, it is possible that you could have developed a blood clot. because you were in the presence of the spike protein. The issue is when you get the virus, you only have that spike protein on the virus running around your body for a matter of a few days, three or four days, and your immune system takes care of it. The virus is gone, and the spike protein goes with it. That is in contradistinction to people who got injected with the mRNA shots. They have the playbook, the instruction manual for every cell in their body to continue cranking out those spike proteins in perpetuity. There's no off switch. And so you've got these spike proteins now being created in every single cell, and they cause the formation of blood clots. And not just in a few people, in many people. Now we know that that mRNA certainly travels through the mother, through the placenta, to a forming fetus, a baby in the uterus. And unfortunately, it now appears that those babies may be at risk for the formation of blood clots for the exact same reason. We have to assume then, I don't think it's a big leap, to assume that perhaps those babies are also at risk for all of the other things, autoimmune illnesses, neurologic conditions, cancers. Wow. It remains to be seen. Are we going to see a huge rash of childhood cancers? Because even if the child wasn't vaccinated, quote unquote, with the mRNA shot, if they were born to a mother who was. And these are all things I'm not saying this has not been proven, but it certainly is something of grave concern to me and to any other thinking scientist.
SPEAKER 14 :
I agree. And Steve, these are things, these clots especially, we've been talking about again for quite some time. Kind of, you know, I'll be honest, we haven't talked about it on the program for a while because it sort of just becomes, you know, it is what it is. And I don't know, to my knowledge, Steve, there's nothing out there right now that will reverse that, as Dr. Kelly was saying. So, you know, not that we shouldn't be talking about it, but we just haven't of late because it really hasn't been big news.
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Yeah, and this really raises a question I was intending to ask Kelly on this call today. You know, there's a lot of autoimmune diseases, right? I mean, you know, there's a mass quantity of infusion drugs that are being used today to stop things like rheumatoid arthritis and other things that are autoimmune, meaning overreactive immune system to things. Clearly, the spike protein is causing, and I'm not sure it's autoimmune, Kelly, in the sense that it's causing your body to overreact cell by cell in the entire process. So two questions. One is, is it really acting like an autoimmune problem? And two, do you think there'll be a drug much like Remicade and all these other drugs, Skyrizzy, that are designed to deal with those kind of autoimmune problems?
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Number one, it absolutely is autoimmune. You just described really the definition of autoimmune, meaning that your body overreacts. And as a result of it's an attempt to attack a predator, a foe, whether it's a virus, a bacteria or something else, in this case, a spike protein. It overreacts and starts attacking your own body tissues. When you think about this, if every single cell in your body, your spleen, your brain, your colon, your heart, your lungs is producing spike proteins, then your immune system is going to start attacking those tissues. That is what an autoimmune response is. So will there be a drug like Skyrizzy or, you know, Keytruda? Oh, you betcha. You betcha. The pharmaceutical company will come out with a drug, some sort of biologic to suppress. that immune overreaction but the process is in so doing it also suppresses the normal immune response which is why people who are on those drugs are now prone to infection and cancer and everything else because you are in the bottom line is we've got to stop flogging the immune system with challenge after challenge after challenge, which is what vaccination is. It keeps saying to your body, respond to this, respond to this, respond to this, create a response, create a new army of antibodies. And we are overdoing it. So now, all of a sudden, Everybody and their brother has psoriasis and eczema and penidology, asthma, arthritis, all of these things that were very, very rare 50, 60, 70 years ago. And this is a direct response, in my estimation. The fact that we are overstimulating the immune system constantly and not allowing it simply to respond to the normal challenges. At the same time, we are vaccinating people every 15 minutes for some new disease. We're telling people, wash your hands and cure all, you know, don't touch your face, swab down the table. with an alcohol wipe rather than letting your immune system respond normally to the everyday run-of-the-mill things, we have absolutely destroyed our God-given immune system.
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You are right. Go ahead, Steve.
SPEAKER 07 :
John, the reason why I asked the question, that's the perfect answer, is that tying it all together, we've been talking about autism and people on the spectrum and vaccines and all this other stuff. People run into these drugs being advertised on TV. They hear the term autoimmune. They do not realize that one of the things we're concerned about with neurologic disorders and things like Alzheimer's is that when you give multiple vaccines at the same time, what Kelly's describing happens. Your body just absolutely goes berserk. How that happens if there's an autoimmune drug for this problem with spike protein is I mean, who knows what's going to happen, but I think people need to be educated on what autoimmune means, what causes some of it, and why they need to be protective, including not wiping down every damn thing on an airplane when you get down and sit down because your body needs to be able to handle it.
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Well, when you think about leaving the working world, you think about, well, it's still going to take money to live on once I'm retired. And that nest egg, whatever that is, that's going to permit you to do what you want to do with the time that you have sort of earned for yourself. So the nest egg is not only in dollars, but it's also in the time that you have to do the things that you believe will be fulfilling in retirement. And when I have a conversation with people, I think it's equally important to think about how they're going to be spending their time as it is to accumulate a nest egg.
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You've got to have some pretty good examples of things that people do in retirement. So open the door for us. What sort of things can we expect?
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All right, we are back. Dr. Kelly, somebody asked a moment ago, too, that these blood clots that we were just talking about a moment ago, is that with all the vaccines, are there particular ones that are worse than others? In other words, you know, the J&J, which was sort of a different blend, I guess you could say, of the vaccine. Are we finding that across the board or is it worse with some versus others?
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It seems to be worse. Again, the data are slow in coming in and there have been no huge randomized control trials yet or even big reviews of all of these cases. The CDC, by the way, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention, has fundamentally not reviewed any of the cases that have been reported to VAERS with regard to these blood clots that have been reported over the past five years. So we don't know the answer yet, but it certainly appears to those of us who are involved clinically that it's much more likely with the Pfizer and then Moderna shots. Not so much with J&J. So Pfizer seems to be the biggest bad actor of all of them, followed then by Moderna.
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OK. Also, one thing and I had not was going to send you guys this, but I figured it would just be sort of automatic and we would talk about it anyways. And Charlie just reminded me, you know, RFK Jr.' 's new vaccine. advisory committee there's a new panel now that's going to be you know advising what kids should get what and so on you know let's start with you dr kelly thoughts on that and you know how do you feel that's going to go i think one person and not to be critical here but i think one person already dropped out doesn't mean that they're dropping out for any reason other than maybe they just looked at the schedule and said gosh i don't know that i can put this much of a commitment into this particular committee so i never really you know i don't worry too much about that when somebody drops out but what are your thoughts
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Well, first of all, I think it was absolutely critical for Bobby Kennedy to clear house ASIP, the Advisory Committee on Immunization and practices, which has been around for some decades. Of the 17 people who have been on that panel, I think 14 of them had gross conflicts of interest. I'm talking about owning patents on drugs, on vaccines that they were then in a position to recommend. I mean, it's absolutely horrific. They were really a group of non-thinking rubber stampers If you watched any of the video of some of their hearings, it absolutely was laughable were it not so tragic. With absolute paucity of safety data or any kind of research data, they'd say, yeah, that sounds good, have that one. I mean, it was absolutely obscene. So I think he was directionally correct in clearing house. I don't necessarily support everybody he has put on it. He has appointed eight new people, some quite good from varying backgrounds. One of the people on the new panel is none other than Dr. Robert Malone, the self-proclaimed inventor of mRNA technology. He's a very controversial figure, if nothing else. And I think he has conflicts of interest of his own in his attempt to perhaps protect his reputation as the inventor of mRNA. I don't know what way he will vote on some of these things. But there are some other very good, very thoughtful people. And if nothing else, they have committed, at least on paper, to being much more scientific, much more thoughtful, much more rigorous in determining what which of these vaccines should end up on the childhood schedule.
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Steve, your thoughts on all of this? And again, all I know is what I've read, what you guys tell me as well. You guys are the experts in this particular area.
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You know, I had thought before when I looked at who the committee was, and Kelly stated it very well, my view was every time a drug came up for a vote, someone on that committee was writing themselves a personal check by saying yes. Because they were going to make money no matter what it was. Someone was making money. And you've got to believe that, you know, they were exchanging some information as well. I mean, don't kid yourself. I mean, you know, I might invest in Pfizer if I'm sitting on that committee and I don't have anything to do with the drug. But I know my buddies who are running Pfizer are telling me this is going to be a big hit. The conflicts were gross, as she said. It's got to change. It shouldn't. He should never allow it to be.
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someone who has a connection to a patent or a drug that they are voting on that's crazy yeah yeah uh how quickly dr kelly do you think they'll get action going and actually make some decisions on what they should and shouldn't do along those lines
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, you know, they started they met yesterday and discussed two of the multiple vaccines on the schedule, specifically COVID and RSV. And it appears to me that they're going to end up continuing to allow both of them to be on the schedule for the time being. I think this is, you know, highly, highly problematic. And frankly, again, because vaccine hesitancy is down for a reason. Americans, you know, have their, you know, have their radar on high right now with regard to all of these. And I think unless they step back. and rethink every single one and say, we are going to be very, very thoughtful about this. And if nothing else, return a lot more medical autonomy to people. People, parents in particular, should be in the position to make decisions about what vaccines their children do or don't get without fear of coercion or reprisal or shaming or anything else. and right now depending on what state you live in it can be very very difficult some people who live in places like florida that are more open to the idea of parents waiting or saying i don't want to follow the schedule as written or i'd like to space these out uh be more you know cautious is one thing. But if you sit in a state, you know, like I do in California or Colorado, boy, there are pediatricians who are perfectly willing to fire you from their practice and say, look, either you, you know, my way or the highway. And no parent should ever be in that position. So how quickly will it happen? I don't think very quickly, but I am guessing that if you look back, if we have this conversation, mark the calendar, and 18, 24 months from now, Let's look back at the childhood vaccine schedule. I bet you it is significantly different than it is today.
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Wow. Well, go ahead, Steve. Go ahead. I mean, there's something else I want. And Kelly can tell us if this is impractical. When you're a parent and you're going to take a child and you're going to get, you know, measles, mumps, rubella, or whatever it may be, generally they'll hand you a pamphlet telling you what the side effects are of the vaccine. What I want them to get first is a understanding of what the risk of getting the disease really is, right? So in measles, your child's got less than a, you know, one one-hundredth of a percent chance of dying, you know, et cetera, et cetera, because, you know, if we look at Amish studies and some of the other things that people don't see, when people don't get vaccinated... and they deal with the normal course of these kinds of viruses and diseases, they actually end up with stronger, better immune systems. So let's inform the parents on the risk they're taking by not vaccinating a child so that they can also then develop the immune system we're talking about and we can get away from all these autoimmune diseases.
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That's 100% correct, and the data are irrefutable. If you look at these unvaccinated populations, As Steve said, the Amish, the Mennonites, large groups of children who have had zero vaccines. They are profoundly healthier than vaccinated children. They not only don't have issues handling, you know, measles, mumps, chickenpox, the rest of that, but they don't have allergies. They don't have ear infections every five minutes. They aren't constantly wheezing and sneezing and having, you know, these sorts of issues. So the unvaccinated populations, and if you doubt this, look at, you know, the data is all reflected in the book written by Brian Hooker called Vaxxed, Unvaxxed. It's a very good read. It compares unvaccinated populations. And there's a reason why our government, specifically the CDC and FDA, haven't done these studies themselves because they don't want you to know. But Brian Hooker did it and it pulled that together. So there's no question. The other thing is the problem. And the reason I think parents don't get this from their pediatrician or from their doctors is because most physicians have been bamboozled. We were taught in medical school. Look, were it not for the polio vaccine, we all would have polio and we'd all be in wheelchairs. You know, were it not for the measles vaccine, we'd all have, you know, been, you know, deathly ill from measles. That simply isn't the case. The mortality and serious. illness rates from these diseases fell precipitously by like 98% before the vaccines were ever rolled out. With polio, the death rate from polio and severe illness rate from polio had fallen by 19, excuse me, 98% by 1962, a year before the polio vaccine was rolled out. So it wasn't a result of the vaccines. It was a result of better sanitation, better nutrition, better water supply, those sorts of things, and had nothing to do with the vaccine.
SPEAKER 14 :
Good to know. And again, and really quick for everybody listening, and Dr. Kelly, I know you're really big on this, and Steve, you are as well. And I've got family members as well with kids with kids, I should say grandkids, where they look at every single one of these things. They dig into each particular vaccine. vaccine you know does that child need it do they not need it and I think as a family Dr. Kelly because of you we've we've now gone more to the you know less is better end of things rather than more is better and I can't tell every you know every person out there with every child and family you know what to do but I know personally if I was you know a a new dad you know that's long past you know me I'm 60 I'm not planning on doing that ever again did my time if you would Dr. Kelly but the reality is if I was a new dad I would be trying to you know get back to the time where we were all kids and what what did we have you know six seven vaccines at the time was about it
SPEAKER 08 :
That's correct. Back when we were born, we're all in our 60s. By the way, I'm not having a baby anytime soon either, so I'm with you. We all had between six and eight, depending on what state you lived in. The numbers of vaccines on a childhood schedule didn't escalate, explode, until after the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act was passed in 1980. 86. So there's no question, when I advise people, and I do frequently, I say, look, the best thing you can do is wait, is delay. And in fact, a document that people might want to read if you're in that position where you're questioning what to do yourself for a new family, or you have a child who's having a baby, is to look at the World Council on Health document called Safer to Wait. And it is not an anti-vaccine document. It's simply saying that the data, it really presents the data and the studies saying, look, you are better off the longer you can delay vaccinating your child, the better. Even if you chose ultimately to get the vaccine, the longer you can wait. And it starts with absolutely rejecting that ridiculous hepatitis B vaccine that they are shoving into babies on day one of life. with absolutely no justification. So read that document, Safer to Wait, the World Council on Health, and it might help new parents or pending, you know, new grandparents to have some some data behind them and really empower them to speak intelligently when they have that discussion with a pediatrician.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. All right, before we continue on with how this affects health care and all of that, Dr. Kelly, somebody texted in a moment ago, and since we're on the vaccine subject, and great question. And for those of you listening, some of these things we have covered in the past, some of you may think, geez, you guys already talked about this. Why are we doing this again? Because different people listen at different times, and not everybody has the ability to pick some of these things up. So, yes, in some cases... Dr. Kelly and Steve, we do repeat ourselves, which is fine. I want everybody to have this information. So this question is, does the push for all of the adult and senior vaccines where they're asking you annually to get certain things as an adult, everything from flu, shingles and so on, is that causing some problems in our adult years as well in not being able to fight things off naturally? That's a question that came in, Dr. Kelly.
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I think undeniable that we are causing problems in adults as well. We are over vaccinating everybody. We are acting as if people have no ability to fight off the most rudimentary pathogens. I can tell you, I have never had a flu shot in my life. Never. Zero. Um, I had, and this is when I've been practicing clinically, you know, up close and personal with people who are sick. Right. Okay. I got influenza twice in my life. I was sick both times for around three or four days. I didn't feel good. I was, you know, I missed work for a couple days, and I did just fine. Compare that to your average physician or nurse who gets an injection year after year after year. In a good year, the flu vaccine might be 50% effective. In a lousy year, it's less than 20% effective. And yet you are asking your immune system over and over and over again to respond to create new antibodies. Likewise, with the shingles vaccine has been fraught with issues. You know, I've had shingles. Anybody who had chickenpox as a child, which I did, is at a risk to get shingles. It is not fun for sure.
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Right.
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But I can tell you right now, here's a fact, not a single person in the world has ever died from shingles.
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Right, good point.
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Compare that to the shingles vaccine. Compare that to the number of people who ended up with Guillain-Barre, who ended up paralyzed as a result of that vaccine. Now, everyone needs to make their own decision. But I will tell you, when I look at the risk-benefit calculation, I say, do I want to have an outbreak every six or seven years of COVID? Shingles, no, would prefer not to happen. But I also would prefer not to end up paralyzed or with an autoimmune disease or cancer or something else caused by a shot. So I choose not to get vaccinated for those sorts of things. And I have had plenty of vaccines. I got vaccinated for yellow fever before I went to South America. Right. You know, I take into account, look, if I get a yellow fever would be a real problem, you know, particularly when you're out of the country. So, you know, you have to make those decisions. But I think the answer to this question is, yes, I suspect we are causing a lot more problems than we are solving by vaccinating people for absolutely everything. You cannot vaccinate your way to good health.
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Yeah, great point. And by the way, great question, and I appreciate that, and keep those coming in. And yes, I have to be reminded, too, and Steve, this is something that in radio I constantly remind myself of, that while I've talked about something numerous times, that doesn't mean that everybody else out there has listened on those same days, same times, and so on. So while we may have talked about some of these things over and over again, a lot of listeners still need this information, and I'm with Dr. Kelly on that. I am... I'm one of those where, you know, I've probably had, and I haven't had any since knowing Dr. Kelly, but flu vaccines even prior to that, I mean, I can count on probably just a couple of fingers in all of the years they've had them as to, and I can't even tell you why at that time I actually got them. I don't really know why, Steve, but did, and I'll be straight up honest, I don't think it changed anything on my end one way or the other as far as getting sick or not getting sick.
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I've never had a flu vaccine. I've never had my tonsils out, my adenoids out. I've never had my ears. I mean, here's the thing about repeating ourselves. I think there's something different at play here, certainly as far as I'm concerned, and that is we're building on something and we're building on the question of what is good health and how do you get it? We talk about the warning signs of doing something like a COVID vaccine and these vaccines combined. I'll tell you, I look at it like As a kid, we played a game called Operation, you know, and the shin bones connected to the knee bone kind of thing. If you take a look at autoimmune diseases, you know, I mean, I had an aunt die of lupus. I don't know whether she really died of lupus because it was genetic. I don't know if it was because of vaccines. I don't know if it was exposure to something else. But the reality of it is when you look at autoimmune diseases in general and all the way to autism and potentially to what happens with dementia at the end of a lot of people's lives, somebody should connect the dots and figure it out i think we've avoided doing the research on what happens with three vaccines at a time or five vaccines at a time because i don't know if we want to know the answer because the answer may come back and say yeah that's dangerous and there's liability for people who produce it and do it that way the reality of it is there is a connection between people who have allergies and these autoimmune diseases and vaccines and, you know, this thing we saw, like we talked about in the Amish, and the lack of problems in those populations where they let their immune system do the work for them. We need to figure it out. Our conversations, to me, are building on that.
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Agreed. And Dr. Kelly, again, and I appreciate you saying this, and I've said this many times as well, you know, we are definitely not giving out any kind of personal medical advice on this program. We are talking in very general terms. You have to go do your own research and figure out what you're going to do with your own body. At the end of the day, these are decisions you need to make. But we're giving everybody as much information as we possibly can to have them look at things differently now. Dr. Kelly and Steve, what Steve said a moment ago, we're trying to get people to look at things differently, build upon things like Steve said, Dr. Kelly, in ways that they hadn't thought of prior. And if there's anything good that came out of COVID, I think it's the fact that people are now looking at these things much differently than they would have been doing five years ago.
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Absolutely. And I certainly can't say definitively that every single autoimmune disease or every case of cancer, every case of asthma is a result of vaccines. That's not what I'm saying. I'm supporting what Steve is saying, which is that it is incumbent upon us as physicians and scientists and thinking people to say something is going on. Something has happened. Not only have autism rates exploded, but rates of cancers and infertility and autoimmune illnesses, you know, ADHD, all of these things have skyrocketed. And we are obligated to look at what is it. I think it is certainly reasonable to say that it is very, very likely an environmental exposure. Is it a matter of exposure to fluoride, exposure to pesticides? Maybe it's all of these things combined. But I certainly think given the reports that you hear from parents who say, my child was stone cold normal, hitting all the milestones, went in, got the MMR, and within 24 hours died. had a seizure and was a different child you know there is an association and so i think there's a good chance that vaccines are responsible for a heck of a lot of it the other thing is i think that this discussion for me has driven or hopefully opened people's eyes to the idea that You cannot constantly look to a new vaccine, a new treatment, a new pill, a new injection to make you healthy. You have got to start looking at what it is that you do every day of your life. If you get up and you go to Starbucks through the drive-thru, you get a scone and a double chocolate mocha frappe with the, you know, whipped cream on top. You know what? A vaccine isn't going to help you.
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All right.
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We have got to be eating better. You cannot keep making excuses for why you don't have time to go for a 30 minute walk because you do. And if you don't make time to go for the 30 minute walk, you'll be making time for a 30 minute doctor's appointment. I promise.
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I saw a video this morning along those same lines, Dr. Kelly, where a guy did a comparison of a full-size whatever-whatever coffee drink at Dunkin' Donuts, one of the big Frappuccino things, whipped cream on top and so on, and talking about how much sugar... is inside of that and he starts stacking up it's 174 grams by the way he starts stacking up these sugar cubes on the scale and they're just starting to keep building and building and building he finally decides a good comparison is he takes out not one not two five cans of coke and says this is what you're drinking with your breakfast drink quote unquote
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Yeah, exactly. And so that's, you know, this is sort of, you know, Dr. Kelly's tough love segment where I say, honestly, there is no pill, there is no therapy that is going to replace adequate sleep, regular exercise, good nutrition, meaning getting away from the processed foods and the sugar, you know, and all of that. Those are the things that are going to make the difference. You supplement with the other stuff. You don't lead with that. We've got to lead with behavioral lifestyle choices.
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All right. So leading this into the big, beautiful bill and some of the cuts and things, quote, unquote. Go ahead, Steve. No, go ahead. I'll let you in.
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Go ahead. Just one other thing, and that is that. It's like in your world, it's like troubleshooting a car with a carburetor and it's got a whole series of problems. The one thing you have to get away from is you've got to narrow down the variables. And the problem today is there's so many different vaccines and so many environmental substances like fluoride and bromine in our clothing and all this other stuff. For Kelly, for you and the doctors in the world out there, I mean, is it as... a good idea to say all right look if i have a new child if i've got a grandchild and my kids say what should we do dad and the answer would be give them one vaccine that you think is a risk if they get the virus or the disease but wait an extended period of time to make sure that it doesn't cause a problem because in the end when you're vaccinating people 70 sometimes how do you know that which variable or which three variables are causing the problem and how do you stop it
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Exactly. And I think that that is one of the key points is that none of these vaccines, in addition to all the other studies that haven't been done, none of them have been studied in combination the way they're actually given. So you might do a study as limited as it is. you know, on the, you know, measles vaccine or on the polio vaccine or on the whatever. But nobody ever studied what happens when you give all seven of them at one time, which is what they do. So, you know, we there is such a lack of safety data, lack of. And it just doesn't make sense to be doing all of it at once, as Steve said earlier. If you're going to do it, you spread them out, and that's really the approach that that document, Safer to Wait, really uses.
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Okay, so segwaying this into, and I know we talked last week about the big, beautiful bill, some of the quote-unquote cuts and whether they're cuts or not is yet to be seen. The thing isn't even totally done. It's still in the Senate, I believe, and they've still got work that they're doing on it. But, Steve, everything we're talking about, you and I and Dr. Kelly, even in regards to vaccines and things along those lines, all of that in a lot of ways costs money. It doesn't matter whether it's through our insurance system. You know, health insurance that a lot of us are paying for, whether it's through Medicare, Medicaid. Reality is there's a huge cost to these things. And I guess question I have for you, has anybody ever done any studies to determine everything that we've talked about now for the past 45 minutes or so? Has anybody ever done any studies to determine what the actual costs of everything we just talked about are? The 72 vaccines from birth on up to getting, you know, shingles and so on vaccines when we're in our adult years?
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I don't know if I've seen a study like that, but the real question is, does cost simply include the research and development, the distribution cost of the vaccines, or does it also cost all of the other things you must do when you get allergies and you have to take Claritin and you get other problems that you develop? I mean, there's a cost to getting sick, to having autoimmune problems as a result of it. I don't think it's ever been done, John, and it's costing us a bunch. There's a lot of things in health care that cost us money.
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at crazy levels and this is certainly going to be one of them yeah and dr kelly you might comment to that as well i mean these things all of these things everything we just talked about everything that we've even talked about in regards to covet it has driven up the cost of health care greatly i mean we saw what covet did not just in health care but what ended up happening was shutting things down and inflation took off and we added to the national debt several trillion dollars i mean On and on we go. You talk about something utterly disastrous that, frankly, Dr. Kelly, as we talked all the way through that, did not have to be that way. Nobody was listening to the three of us, of course, because had they, we wouldn't be in the position we are right now as a country. But the reality is we are and the costs were huge.
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No, I agree. And people really grossly underestimate the cost of any of these things. As Steve said, it's not just the cost of the vaccine. Take something as innocuous as pink eye conjunctivitis. If a child gets pink eye, which is a simple virus, you know, he or she can't go to preschool, can't go to daycare. So mom now needs to stay home from work. So now mom misses five days of work while she stays home with little Johnny who can't go to daycare because of his pink eye and on and on. The trickle down. So nobody estimates the cost of all of these things. When you've got kids with asthma and allergies, all of a sudden you can't get a bag of peanuts on an airplane any longer because of the prevalence of peanut allergies, food allergies. This is insane. The amount, the cost of all of this. is tremendous. And again, I think that unfortunately, the Maha movement, I think, has lost its way a little bit. There's been a total focus really on vaccines and a lot of polarization and politicization of what they're trying to do. I think to me, making America healthy again really begins with focusing and refocusing people on the idea that you have to have some personal responsibility for what it is you do, what you eat, how you move, those sorts of things, how you manage your stress, whether or not you're on your phone or your iPad until midnight every night and then trying to fall asleep. whether you're using an extra glass of wine or a beer to try to help you fall asleep, rather than exercise, those sorts of things. We have got to put it back into the hands of personal responsibility. You cannot expect the government is not going to fix this. I'm here to tell you, hate to be the harbinger of bad news, but the government, Bobby Kennedy, the new ACIP, none of it. They are not going to fix this. This is going to be largely done by people and by raising their awareness of what big food, big ag, big pharma is doing to their health.
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Yep. Go ahead, Steve. Yeah, just two quick things. I was at a health care conference this week, and two things that hit home once again was, one, 8,000 steps a day reduces all-cause mortality by 15%. take the 8,000 steps. It gives you 15% less risk of dying. And the other thing was that you know, the cost of all these, you know, childhood problems, all the people that, you know, are affected by COVID vaccines that are children right now is right now it has been measured in some respects that the Gen Z generation is the first generation history to measure less smart than the generation before them. So all that school time missed all, you know, some of its technology, I mean, these are things that are going to cost America its Leadership in the world, it's already costing, but the downstream impact is really bad. Wow. Wow.
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And to put this in perspective, that's such an important point, Steve. For the average person, walking a mile is about 2,000 steps. So if you took... So Steve just gave you an important data point of 8,000 steps decreases your chance of all-cause mortality by 15%. So the goal is... If you walked three miles a day, went out for a three-mile walk, that gives you 6,000 of your 8,000 steps. You'll get the other 2,000 just in the activities of daily living. Right. Just, you know, do it.
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Right.
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So a three-mile walk, anybody can walk three miles. Right. OK, you can get out there. You can do it in two pieces. You can do a mile and a half in the morning and a mile and a half after dinner. You can break it up. But a three mile walk, which is not a long, you know, go with a friend, go with your dog. It's good for everybody. Take your kids, you know, you know, walk while your kid rides his bike, whatever. We're out there. We have got to get people. We have engineered activity out of our lives. And that's a huge part of the problem.
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A question came in earlier in the week that I said I would ask today, and this one I have no clue on. I've never used tobacco in my entire life, but I've got some folks texting in that swear that it lowers inflammation. Does tobacco lower inflammation, Dr. Kelly?
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No, tobacco does not. Nicotine, there is some evidence that nicotine can lower inflammation, but that is absolutely not a justification to smoke. There's zero question that smoking causes not only lung damage, lung cancer, that has a host of other problems associated with it. Nick, there is some evidence that nicotine as a supplement can decrease inflammation, but you can take nicotine on its own. Nicotine does have some negative cardiovascular side effects for people who have hypertension. But I would absolutely never recommend or say that smoking has any benefits, including decreasing inflammation.
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What about for some folks that really quick, Steve, what about Dr. Kelly chew? Is there any advantages to and I think I already know the answer to this, but chewing tobacco?
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Again, no, the correlation between any type of oral, you know, chewing tobacco product and oral pharyngeal cancers is tremendous. We know that, and of all the cancers to get, that is one you don't want to get. They have horrific outcomes.
SPEAKER 07 :
Go ahead, Steve. So let's put it out there. We've got a doc on the phone we both trust, Kelly. Smoking, vaping, or Zin-type nicotine delivery, which do you choose? I think I know, but I want everybody to hear it.
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Certainly not smoking, certainly not vaping. You know, some sublingual version of it, which I assume is what the Xan is, would be preferable. But absolutely not smoking, and vaping is very, very dangerous. It's very bad for your health.
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Guys, I am going to leave it at that. I appreciate you both ever so much. I learn something every single week. I'll let you go first, Dr. Kelly, ladies first. Thank you, by the way, for all that you do for us. I appreciate it greatly.
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Great, and have a wonderful Independence Day.
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You too. Appreciate you. Steve as well. Thank you so much. Learn something from you every week on and off air, by the way.
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Your next birthday, I'm getting you a wireless headset so you can walk around your studio and get those 8,000 steps. I'm game. I want you to be healthy, Murphy.
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According to the probable cause affidavit, Cox initiated the traffic stop and identified the driver by his Florida driver's license as David Larkin. Cox asked Larkin if he had been drinking alcohol, and Larkin stated that the reason he crossed the center line was that he was attempting to retrieve a soda that had dropped in the back of his car. That's not usually a good excuse. It's better than, yeah, I got a bunch of drugs in here. Officer Cox eventually requested to have the Missouri State Highway Patrol on the search, and substance included methamphetamine, mushrooms, 57 grams of marijuana, drug paraphernalia, all kinds of different things. This is crazy, but this Florida man caught in Missouri for this problem seemed to be just absolutely very much impacted. by all the different drugs that he had taken. He also was in possession of different paraphernalia that luckily was not hidden anywhere in his body. We did a story yesterday about a guy out of Florida who not only had the drugs on him, but he hid it in a place you wouldn't want to hide stuff. At least in this case, the dude just had everything on display out there in the open. But I love the fact that his excuse was, I'm just trying to grab a soda, man. And that turns into this whole thing. But that's one Florida man out there living up to his Florida man reputation. Another Florida guy that's in the news is, well, actually a Florida woman who had to tread water for 12 hours after falling out of a canoe. A Good Samaritan eventually rescued the woman. This was in Charlotte Harbor. She is lucky to be alive, of course. She's kind of impressively alive because, again, she accidentally fell out of her canoe at around 9 p.m. in what is kind of hilariously called Peace River. That's near Charlotte Harbor. She was found by Good Samaritan, as I said, almost 12 miles later, just a mile away from the shore. She might have been trying to get there. The guy who found her said, I heard someone yelling, help. And I looked over, and here's a woman yelling help, and she could wave her hands. Amazing that she could do that with that much time spent in the water. But again, he was able to save her. Maybe she's experienced in this. Maybe she's aware of how to survive hours of being stuck in the ocean because she's, in fact, from Florida. I'm not really exactly sure. But nonetheless, this is kind of the craziest thing. And honestly, I'm reacting to this a little bit oddly, and I'll tell you why. The story about that guy who saved his kid, the guy who jumped in the water on a Disney cruise and saved his child and wound up treading water for like, I don't know, 40 minutes or something like that before they saved him. A lot of people were saying that's impressive. This Florida woman just crushed that. 12 hours went by between when she fell out of the canoe and when she was inevitably saved. And the fact that the individual in that amount of time was like, I'll be fine. I can figure this out is part of the reason I think that so many Florida stories go viral because even in their successes, the people seem to pretend as though this is just normal happenstance, everyday life, a version of a thing. And she did something fairly incredible. All right. One last story. And to be honest, with these Florida stories, they usually shy away from anything all too violent, but this one, there's something about it that's kind of crazy. Well, there's a lot of things about it that's crazy and horrible. A Florida man who killed his family after his wife sought a divorce is finally set for execution. The Florida man, who I think on Tuesday had a death warrant signed by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, is a unique piece of crap. He pled guilty in 1996 to three counts of first-degree murder. This was killing his wife, Sylvia, and their two children, who were seven and five years old. Edward is seven. Ana is five. uh... the reason i bring up a story or talk about this at all and again it's not as fun as a bunch of florida man stories are uh... and honestly it's in reference to something i was talking about a second ago uh... to or a little bit ago earlier go uh... is harming children is the type of thing that even Jesus said in the Bible is uniquely horrible. The quote, I believe, from the Bible is that if an arm that you have, a hand that you have, would cause you to hurt an innocent child, it would be better for you to cut it off and throw it at the bottom of the ocean than to keep it and harm innocent kids. So it was the most aggressive thing that's in the Bible where Jesus himself, where the Lord was saying something unique and something bad. So whenever people are up in arms and have discussions about the death penalty, and I am one who often sides with my faith on that, I do think that people who do horrible stuff like this are the exception to the rule. And I am not at all disappointed to see that this person will be facing justice in the way he will be facing it. It seems like the kind of thing that the family of anyone that was lost would absolutely be thrilled to finally see. All right, we'll take a break. A lot coming up. Greg Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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For anyone that's unaware, as the show is live, McKeem Jeffries is continuing to talk on the House floor in what is not a filibuster, but it's definitely a filibuster. He was supposed to speak for one minute as the minority leader in the House before a vote. He's supposed to get the, you know, simple magic minute treatment. And he stretched it out into a ridiculous thing. And I wanted to check on it. I believe we have some audio of it. That's what it sounds like. That's Hakeem Jeffries just doing his best Charlie Brown teacher up there doing whatever he wants to do. You know what? Actually, I do have actual audio. My favorite is that this one moment, this one statement he made has gone viral. And so when Jeffries finds out that a vast majority of the things he said, very few people cared about, which he doesn't know. He's probably not on Twitter as he's speaking now. But when he gets on it later and sees, he'll be fairly upset that this is the thing we all took away. But this is a brilliant, brilliant moment for us to focus on, and I'll tell you why. Here it is.
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Manu wasn't the only one. The only American citizen who's been targeted by the deportation machine. A deportation machine... that will be unleashed on steroids by this one big ugly bill.
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Okay, that's the moment where he's talking about deportation and whatnot, and he says if this ugly, horrible bill passes, then it's going to be a deportation on steroids. A whole lot of people on social media, on both sides of the political aisle, are yelling, don't threaten me with a good time, because they'd absolutely like to see that happen. And I continue to point this out whenever I talk about this, uniquely on the left. During the Biden administration, excuse me, before Trump retook office, a whole lot of people were realizing how bad it is for a bunch of government money to be funneled to people who don't have the right to be in this country. And all the different things they thought were no longer possible, not that maybe they were being funded to begin with, but no longer possible because the excuse of we have no money left was being used, like this outside of Chicago. where a whole lot of Democratic voters, a lot of black individuals, were saying their community has been unfairly treated for a very long time and they deserve additional government support, regardless of if you agree with them or disagree with them. And they were livid. that the newest excuse they were being told by a black mayor in Chicago was that he simply couldn't afford it. He gave too much money to the people with no right to be here. And that part is true. The massive amount of spending that has existed in New York and Chicago all throughout the country to deal with this is surreal. It's crazy. By the way, I believe Hakeem Jeffries finally finished his marathon speech on the House floor, and we are going to do something that's going to be quite a bit of fun to go ahead and finish this off. So I have some audio of Jeffrey's that I'll play, and then we'll go ahead and play this guy off. Here we go.
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We're going to press on. We're going to press on for our children.
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Uh-huh.
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Press on for our seniors. Press on for our veterans. Press on for our unions. Press on for our farmers. Press on for our dreamers. Press on for working class Americans. Press on for the middle class. Press on for all who aspire to be part of the middle class. Press on for the poor. Press on for the sick. Press on for the afflicted. Press on for the lease.
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It would be a little funny if he started saying, like, press on for me. Press on for my family. Press on for, you know, the guy who's going to make me my sandwich later today.
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Press on for the lost. Press on for the left behind. Press on for the rule of law. Press on for the American way of life. Press on for democracy. We're going to press on until victory is won. I yield back.
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And it's over. It's finally, finally over. Yay. Yay. That's what he deserves for it to be. I love that the end message there is we're going to press on, we're going to press on, we're going to press on, and now I'm done. It seems that he immediately decided to stop pressing on right after claiming that he was going to continue to press on, which is a weird thing to say or a weird thing to do. And I love also that Democrats seem so proud of themselves that they thought of saying the word press on as he's speaking. I'm not sure if that was pre-coordinated. I'm going to assume it was. But even if it wasn't, it wasn't exactly a genius stroke move. And they're all smiling as they're throwing their hands in the air saying press on. Press on. And then immediately, again, the guy ends his speech. You'd feel like that should have probably been the start of the whole thing, where he then does the marathon speaking thing when he claims he will not yield, he will not sit down, he will not be stopped, because it's uniquely hilarious. One last time. I feel like I'm belaboring the point, but I can't help it for someone to say that and then be done something. It would be like me in the middle of some sort of argument, discussion or anything with the missus and be like, you know what? I'm not giving in on this, honey. On this one, I'm sticking to my guns. On this one, I refuse to be changed in my opinion. And then immediately I'm swayed and I'm like, you know what? Actually, I'm done. Actually, it's fine. My wife might threaten to, you know, not do certain things. I don't know how I could say that different. And then all of a sudden I'm like, you know what?
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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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That's right. It's time for the Quick Five on the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. D-Lash, Dana Lash, Radio and X on Twitter. Great ways to stay connected to her. Ohio Governor Mike DeWine did sign a two-year, $60 billion operating budget. It flattens the state's income tax. It sets aside $600 million in unclaimed funds for a new Cleveland Brown Stadium. That was a big deal in the world of football news today. The Republican governor signed the budget late Monday night, about 45 minutes before the midnight deadline. And as you're parsing through all of it, you see just how much money is being earmarked for a sweet, sweet new stadium for the Browns. Whether or not that makes the Browns actually capable of, say, winning a Super Bowl is something that's yet to be determined. But we will see how that goes and what the inevitable result may be. But at least there'll be somewhere swankier. They'll be somewhere fancier as they're losing in heartbreak fashion in the playoffs, which just sounds like a brutal thing for me to keep saying. And yet it's true. And I'm not a Browns fan, as anyone can tell. Although I don't really hate them. How can you hate people that don't win? Anyway, moving on. Other stuff out there. That was probably epically mean. I apologize. Well, nobody. South Park season debut has been delayed by streaming rights that are in limbo. South Park is a uniquely interesting show to me. One, because even though they have a lot of left-leaning thoughts that pop up there, they have a lot of hilarious trolling of the left-leaning thoughts as well. I don't know that I would really consider the people who run South Park to truly be a liberal, but they're certainly no fan of President Trump. So they're definitely people that are willing to go after anyone politically. But what's unique and interesting about this story is that essentially the streaming rights have become more valuable than the television rights to the show. Something the founders and creators of South Park have long fought for and fought to, you know, retain. Because I think that more and more people just watch everything via streaming services. There's almost nothing. that it feels like, especially Hakeem Jeffries being a moron and complaining for a while on the House floor and trying to filibuster and claim it's not a filibuster. That's the kind of stuff you don't need live television for. You can get the highlights on an ex on Twitter and feel really good about yourself. That's all you need. A beloved performer by the name of Red Panda fell off her unicycle and she was taken off the court in a wheelchair during the halftime of a WNBA game. This happened in Indianapolis. The woman is, you know, popular because she rides the unicycle, puts plates in her head, does that whole thing, and apparently quite good at it, been doing it quite a long time. An accident happened right at the beginning of her performance, and she did seem to be seriously injured. She did walk off the court with the help of others. I got to feel like that's a weird moment. You're at the game. I don't think that many people bought their tickets, even to a WNBA game, to see the Red Panda. I think you might have gone to see Caitlin Clark, who was unfortunately injured and didn't play in that game. But when you see that person get hurt during the halftime show or a timeout performance, I know you uniquely feel bad about them, but you also kind of wonder if maybe they shouldn't have had that planned. You know, maybe they could have done something else during the halftime show. Although I'm sure as long as she's successful at balancing the plates and staying on the unicycle, you're cheering, you're applauding, and then you're waiting for the game to start again. But yes, sad story. Definitely something that a lot of people seem to care about because this lady has been performing a lot of places for a very long time. All right, other stories out there as far as Quick Five go. Amazon deploys its one millionth robot in a sign of more job automation occurring. I've said this a few times. Even though I believe in what are aspects of what I think the big, beautiful bill is going to try to achieve, the ramping up of manufacturing, creation of products right here at home in the United States for U.S. citizens, I think what is more likely to happen in the both short and long term is a whole lot of that will wind up being automated. and it can be automated abroad or it can be automated here we'd obviously rather have it automated here for a variety of reasons but i think that that is inevitably the future as does almost everybody else and this is another one of those signs of our times seeming to tell us that yeah this is what's coming and this is how quickly it's coming and you know we'll do everything we can to avoid it but truthfully the creation of those jobs is probably a temporary not a long-term solution And then finally, one last one as far as quick five go. California just rolled back a landmark environmental policy. There's quite a bit to deep dive into here. But the overarching thing, it's a law that was signed in the 1970s. It was actually signed by Governor Ronald Reagan at the time. But it's something that the Trump administration, a lot of these policies have been pushing back on for quite some time now. And many, many states, many cities all seem to be finally bending the knee. So rolling back some environmental policies and natural and protected land exclusions from certain exemptions does feel like you appreciate no matter what they say publicly, no matter how defiantly they speak. that the person in charge is definitively the guy in the White House. And so I like that. I'm a fan of that. It's unique that actually the policy was originally signed by Ronald Reagan. All right, we're going to take a break. A lot coming up. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show. This is lying for the sake of lying, so let's do this first, and then I'll get to CNN reacting to how good the economy is doing. which they seem very upset about. But this is Brian Stelter being rolled out, the idiot that he is, in front of cameras and microphones. I think this is PBS giving him an opportunity to talk and say how he thinks CBS did nothing wrong. that the way they added their kamala harris interview with standard tv news editing practices which is terrifying and i'll be honest about that to brian stelter uh... fighting the uh... good fights at least in his mind the bad fight the rest of us i try to convince us that uh... a settlement from a news organization to President Trump in his library because they absolutely did something they shouldn't have done and not getting the actual court case where we would have gotten even more awesome information about it is somehow a nothing-to-see-here moment. U.S. citizens should be paying attention to this. The everyday Americans should wonder why multiple news organizations are having to pay President Trump money. And it should be screaming from their minds and from our mouths that this means that media is as corrupt and lies as often as we think it does. And it's unsurprising. And media is trying to do its best to pretend that that's not true. Here we go.
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So, Brian, this is not the first major media company to settle with President Trump. You've been following this, though. Did anything in this settlement or its terms surprise you?
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Well, CBS did not actually do anything wrong here. CBS engaged in standard television news editing practices, but it's...
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I love that. CBS definitively changed the answer to a question. An interview question was asked of Kamala Harris. The answer she gave was not actually to the question she was asked, and it was cleaned up profoundly to not sound as loopy and weird, which was a major criticism of the candidate running for the office of president, that she spoke in these giant circles that seemed to make no sense, which is what she did in response to a very important question, and they removed that. But I digress. Standard operating news editing practices.
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Their company paid the price anyway, with some people likening this to a ransom or even a bribe. The terms are not surprising because, as you said, Paramount's not the first company to do this. Disney's ABC in some ways wrote the playbook that Paramount is now relying on. Because last December, when Trump was still president-elect, ABC settled with Trump out of court to the tune of $16 million. So here we are again with $16 million heading toward Trump's presidential library.
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I love how he makes that sound as though that's somehow an indication that the money that's being spent on these cases is, you know, not real. Essentially, what I mean by that is he thinks that because both organization spent the same amount that that means that they're just giving in or paying a ransom or a bribe and they didn't do anything wrong when the reality is that the second organization noticed what their mistake actually deserved to cost so the first organization sets the the standard Because we've never really seen this. We've never seen a sitting president use the legal system to go after the amount of news organizations he's going after in courtrooms and winning by saying that they deceptively did certain things during a campaign. And so when ABC lost, which is what happens when you settle and give the money, CNN or excuse me, CBS decided, all right, that's probably the amount of money we owe for our version of this crime. which we also committed. I love that a stelter, though, it's just simple proof that, oh, that's the number they'll accept. So we'll just do that and we'll make the whole thing go away. I can't understand how there are people in our society who don't think this is an important story. actually believe the things that Stelter is saying on lying news media, that like, it's not a bigger deal that organizations are paying the president and his library significant sums of money as a reaction to the way that they unfairly covered the 2024 presidential election. This should matter. And I know I'm repeating myself in saying it, but I don't know how not to because it's crazy that it doesn't. All right, quick topic change here, and then we'll take a break in a few minutes. CNN's Berman was pained when he had to tell the audience that job losses didn't materialize that inflation hasn't gone the way that it was supposed to go that essentially all of the projections about what trumps tariff threats in an actual tariffs would do to our economy and society just haven't occurred and so a ton of people uh... jim kramer certainly among them who said that by now everything would be a you know smoking crater of what it was supposed to be uh... is gotta look us in the face and say we were very wrong about this and pretend they don't know the reason why other reason why of course being that all along they should have been aware that nothing would go as badly as they were projecting it to go and they actually were hoping for a worst case scenario to blame it on Trump, which is uniquely bad in our society to have people in media cheering on like an economic downturn that would be catastrophic because they want to be right more than they want their friends and families to keep their houses. That does seem to be a play. But here's the back and forth where Berman is saying he seems to be upset that things just haven't gone completely in the bleep, you know, the way that they're supposed to.
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Again, since, you know, March and before, there were predictions that the tariffs, and granted, a lot of them had pulled back, most of them had pulled back, but all that tariff policy was going to lead perhaps to inflation, would lead to job losses, predictions of doom. That doom just hasn't happened yet.
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What is going on? Why hasn't it happened? He's asking his guest. He's going to weigh in with all kinds of stupid stuff.
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It hasn't happened. And, you know, John, I've been doing a lot of reporting on this topic. What I'm hearing is that for the last few years, really since COVID, but even before, companies have realized that their supply chains can be interrupted for lots of reasons, for a virus, for a geopolitical event, for a war, for a climate event. And so they've been using technology to really streamline things. They've been getting their systems in place. And there's just a lot more efficiency in the system now. They
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can survive it. These resilient, amazing companies can deal with the horribleness that is the president of the United States is basically what she's trying to say or the position she's trying to take on that so that they can be right, media, that things should be bad, but also the companies can somehow succeed because of how much forethought they put into this. There's no chance that the other thing that's true is that it's just simply not having the negative impact that they thought it would have and things are going way better than you believe they go. That can't be true. That can't possibly be the reason for this. And even some of these policies are actually causing companies to hire even more people with the expectation that you might even create more product here in the United States, which is the entire design in the first place of this whole thing. I love that they wouldn't even dare to dabble in that road.
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As the Medicaid debate explodes on Capitol Hill, Democrats once championed the welfare work requirements that they now claim are abusive. Bryan Kohberger pleads guilty to murder after admitting to the brutal stabbing deaths of 4 Idaho students. Hakeem Jeffries gave an extremely long speech on the House floor to delay a vote on the Big, Beautiful Bill. The US economy added a stronger-than-expected 147,000 jobs in June and the unemployment rate fell to 4.1%. PBS brings on Brian Stelter to claim "CBS did nothing wrong" when deceptively editing their interview with Kamala Harris. CNN’s John Berman pained to tell his audience that the predictions of job losses and inflation due to tariff policy have been wrong. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries sets the record for longest House speech in history. Joe Biden claims that world leaders and U.S. lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are reaching out to him for advice and to ask him to remain active in politics. Michelle Obama is now selling a drink on her podcast. Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill passes the House and will head to the President’s desk. Craig reflects on the Fourth of July and the patriotism that barely exists in this country today.
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This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of stuff to talk about out there in the world. DLash, DanaLashRadio on X on Twitter to stay connected to all things that she's doing, all things going on. Producer Steven does an incredible job with the social media stuff, as does Dana herself. I love two things out there in the world of the big, beautiful bill. The first one is the supercut from Tom Elliott of Grabian. Now, granted, he actually put the supercut out back in early June, so it's about a month ago, still relevant in July, of Democrats, specifically Bill Clinton, talking about how welfare needed to have work requirements in order to be compassionate. meaning you wanted to get people on welfare back into work and not have them discouraged and not trying to work and just accepting the welfare benefits. This was something they passionately believed in. So the supercut has a long thing from Clinton and then, of course, you know, a couple other politicians, including his vice president at the time and also Biden, a younger, more mentally capable Biden. But I just think this is amazing. to listen to this speech in these uh... things that they're saying and then think about it in the terms of twenty twenty five and how democrats are behaving as though the work requirements uh... in medicaid and medicare and any kind of snap benefit changes the deal with people that are not working are profoundly horrible their their the demonstration of you know the ending of our society as far as compassionate people go et cetera et cetera people will die i think is one of the biggest things that they keep saying about the big beautiful bills to kill people as u s aid also going away was supposed to be killing people i'm not sure exactly how but again that's what they're saying i was amazing to hear the politicians just a short time ago i'd just say you know not that long ago a version of history saying the exact opposite stuff nearly thirty years ago robert kennedy said
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work is the meaning of what this country is all about. We need it as individuals. We need to sense it in our fellow citizens. And we need it as a society and as a people. Yes, we do. It's right then and it's right now.
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Like now now or then now? Sorry, continue, sir.
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Our nation's answer to this great social challenge will no longer be a never-ending cycle of welfare.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay.
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It will be the dignity, the power... the ethic of work fantastic today we are taking an historic chance to make welfare what it was meant to be a second chance not a way of life this bill will help people so they can stop drawing a welfare check and start drawing a paycheck it is now clearly better to go to work than to stay on welfare
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clearly better because of actions taken by the congress in this session it is clearly better you know before you get the rest of the supercar because it's all just clinton's statement about something he did back in the nineties uh... i'd i'd love it i'd love that social media one of the biggest benefits of it to me in today's world is that its memory is perfect and that the ability to share this stuff is easier than ever and so if you want to see hypocrisy uh... it at any level you just have to go to the google machine or in this case x twitter uh... ask for what you're looking for and you'll find it because it likely exist especially in the world politics where people profoundly say different things than what they would say today for a variety of stupid, ridiculous reasons. But let's continue because it does bounce into the other politicians. You get a little bit of gore, you get a little bit of Biden telling us how important it is to go ahead and have work requirements tied to welfare because we don't want people that just take, take, take from that system and abuse it, which is something we have a lot of now based on a very recent investigation that found billions of dollars of fraud within the medicaid medicare system terrible almost physical isolation
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of huge numbers of poor people and their children from the rest of mainstream America. We have to do that. Today we are ending welfare as we know it. But I hope this day will be remembered not for what it ended, but for what it began. A new day that offers hope, honors responsibility, rewards work, and changes the terms of the debate.
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For too many, welfare has been a way of life. For too long, it has condemned too many on welfare to a lifetime at the margins of our society.
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I got to be honest, I do not miss hearing Al Gore speak at all. It is the most, I can't deal with it. I want to go to sleep immediately.
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Today, we start to change all that. Anyone who wants to receive welfare must sign an individual responsibility contract. They must do what now? They're forced to agree up front to the conditions placed on receiving the benefit. And so that they will have a plan from day one on how to get themselves off of welfare.
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That's crazy. That's crazy, former Mr. President, what you're saying as a senator when your brain worked better. One more time, just for the cheap seats in the back, I kind of wish that President Trump would just fully lift one of these speeches, say it into a camera after he passes the big, beautiful bill, and see how the Democrats respond. Because you could just take all of Clinton's speech, say that your intent in changing some of those things that are supposed to be the most controversial parts of this new bill are 100% for that exact same reason, logically, is that you'd like to change the abuse in a system that's not designed to be a lifelong thing that people do. And yet... Here we are in 2025, where I'm sure if he said word for word what Clinton said back in 1996, he would still be attacked by everybody, including Bill Clinton. I imagine he would also come out of the woodwork being like, that's terrible that he said those horrible, awful things. All right, I want to move on to something else. I do think this is interesting. It is not a... you know hot take per se but is pretty great this is scott jennings are talking about how many of the things within the big beautiful bill are very easily popular with the american people i don't love when we simplify giant amount of spending to some of the headline grabbing aspects of it But when you can run through several of them and you can point to each one of them being something that the everyday American, not even of a certain political side, would like, you are starting to win this argument. To say the very least, Scott Jennings does a good job being someone who actually does sound like a conservative and work at a place like CNN. Here we go.
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I don't accept the projections on this, number one. Number two, it is not unpopular. It is not unpopular to invest in ICE. It is not unpopular to give this agency what it needs to deport violent criminals. It is not unpopular to make sure illegal aliens are not getting welfare. It is not unpopular to take able-bodied Americans who are not doing anything, who are choosing not to work. It's not unpopular to say, we're not paying for your welfare when we're asking everybody else to get up and go to work. These are popular provisions, as is no tax on tips, as is keeping the tax rates low. You keep talking about the popularity of the bill. Individual provisions are exactly how Trump won the national popular vote. It will work if they run the play.
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I do love that he says if they run the play here, because Republicans are getting a little skittish about the play. They're not sure that they like it. They want to do several audibles, just like the Senate did a whole bunch of audibles that kind of ruined the play. We'd like for it to get run because we'd like this whole thing to be over. To be honest, I'd rather not talk about the big, beautiful bill. I would like it to just be a thing that's passed. So it's no longer a topic of conversation as it gets closer and closer to the goal line. And then eventually we forget about it. because it's the other funny thing about massive spending bills within politics whether i hate them or think i could like them based on who's passing them or what things are in them eventually it doesn't matter a whole lot of these things pass and we definitely stop talking about the vast majority that stuff within a few weeks if not days of it being over is all of our voices only matter so much out of washington dc they've showed us i don't know how many times That, like, the constituents can be up in arms. We can be begging them to do something different, and they can look at us and be like, yeah, but we're not going to do that. We're going to do whatever we feel like, and we're really kind of mad you're asking us to do stuff for you. It's sort of like you think you're our boss, which we, in fact, are supposed to be. All right, another story out there that's crazy. This isn't exactly an uplifting 4th of July story, but I figured I'd get it out of the way early in the show because it deserves to be talked about. The crazy story of the four Idaho students who were killed by Brian Koberger, the dude who was a criminal science major and seemed to think that he could commit a crime as horrific as stabbing four strangers at a university and get away with it because he was just like a criminal justice graduate again and thought he had developed the perfect crime. There's something uniquely sick about this. and the big reason that this is a headline right now is that he's going to be able to avoid the death penalty by uh... pleading guilty to this crime something he actually did it uh... yesterday he he said yet that he was guilty uh... in order to are not you know uh... immediately be sentenced to death i have two things that i usually say about this and i know one of them is considered weak and i i i don't care uh... but is fine if that's what you want to say uh... my faith uh... catholic uh... calls me to believe that the death penalty is in fact wrong uh... that we shouldn't be the ones taking life that it's got who should do that and life in prison is a valuable enough punishment for the most terrific crimes that exist in our society and truly life in prison not ability to get out life without the possibility of parole is the kind of thing that we're supposed to do or that my faith tells me we're supposed to do even for the most awful among us And yet, if I were a parent of one of those kids who this psychopath of a person chose to kill for no reason, not that reasons would make me feel any better about it, but just because the individual thought he was smart enough to get away with it, I would feel the exact way these parents feel, even as a Catholic, that he should be put to death. That I would like to see this person punished immediately. I don't want to have to wait the rest of my life to be convinced that he's being punished for the rest of his life. I want to know now that he's punished for it. So I completely understand The biggest aspect of this and the big reaction from the families to be incredibly upset with this plea deal and this plea arrangement that allows this individual to avoid the death penalty altogether by finally admitting what they did when Brian had been claiming he was innocent right up until he made the plea deal. So I don't know. I just wanted to say that I kind of land in both camps on this. That if it were my own child, I would want this person to be put to death. I'd actually want to do it. We do like firing range. I'd like to be one of the people with a gun and I would definitely hit my target probably more than once. So I fully understand what's being said here and how it's unique because it's your kid. Parents and children, even in the Bible, was acknowledged as a unique thing. I believe that Jesus Christ said in the Bible that if a person is to harm a child, it would be better for them to cut off the hand that harms the kid and throw it to the bottom of the lake than actually harm innocent children. So even there, definitively, by someone who would tell me that I should put this person in jail for life and not put them to death is a pretty big gap between how bad we should feel about those who hurt kids and those who hurt adults. And I know that the people were adults, they were in college, but you know, they're, they're still children in a lot of ways to their parents for sure. Probably forever. All right, we'll take a break. A lot coming up. That was serious. That was heavy. It's the 4th of July. It's a holiday. I promise we'll get lighter. We'll have more fun. I just couldn't help throwing my take out on the topic. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana show.
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That's right. This is the Dana Show. D. Lash, Dana Lash Radio and X on Twitter to stay connected to her. This is her Quick Five. My name is Craig Collins filling in. A snake on a plane actually did force a flight delay for real. Samuel Jackson was not aboard the plane. A Virginia Airlines, Virginia, Australia, excuse me, Airlines flight was delayed two hours after a guy, a snake catcher named Mark Pelley, who must be a cool dude if he's a snake catcher who lives in Australia, boarded the flight after being told there was a snake on it and then took the entire amount of time, as I said, that two hours to track down the snake. He also said that at one point when he first saw it, he thought it looked very dangerous. He thought it was definitely venomous. It was not. It turned out to be just a simple tree snake that's completely harmless, but he didn't want it climbing somewhere else in the plane, which is why he took it down and he got it out of that plane. And there are several photos, I think, of him carrying the snake off the plane. But yes, that's a real thing that happened. Snake in a plane caused a delay. Probably not the first time. Microsoft is set to lay off 9000 workers. This is going to be the largest cut of its staff since 2023. A whole lot of the tech sector is firing more and more people, which is interesting because they're hiring people to trailblaze in the world of artificial intelligence. And I wonder if there's at least a few people who are sitting at desks working on something and eventually like, oh, I got it. and they send it to their boss, and the boss goes, great, you're fired, as the response back, because it does feel a little bit like that industry specifically might be working its way out of jobs. But Microsoft to lay off 9,000 people again, the biggest layoff for them, even with all the good job numbers and economic numbers that are coming out, the biggest layoff for them in the last few years. Chuck E. Cheese is planning to create a brand new concept. This concept would be aimed at targeting adults. They're calling it Chuck's Arcade, which would feel really dangerous as a place that you would have sent your kid until you know it's affiliated with Chuck E. Cheese. If some dude named Chuck was wanting an arcade, that's not the place I'd want to send my child. But Chuck's Arcade will have drinks. It'll have all the things that a video game bar has and some Chuck E. Cheese branding. They're hoping that a lot of young people like me, millennials who grew up on Chuck E. Cheese as a birthday destination, will go there via nostalgia to have pizza and other things and not feel embarrassed about wanting to go to the child version of Chuck E. Cheese, which I don't actually want to go to. So I'm not embarrassed because I don't plan to attend Chuck's Arcade. It's just crazy to me that the amount of plans for businesses in today's society that wrap around getting you in the nostalgia feelings so that you buy or, you know, overspend and whatever the item is they want to sell you. It's through the roof. Most people think that a good idea that's new is terrible and a good way to exploit the feeling of nostalgia for something you remember from the past is a way better decision. I just look at what they're doing in Hollywood and the amount of movies they're remaking and how they think those are going to be great. All right. One other story that I thought was interesting. Spicy McMuffins are coming to a McDonald's near you. Starting next week, they're putting spicy inside of all of their breakfast items. Spicy sausage McMuffin, egg McMuffin, sausage and egg McMuffin, everything. There is no reason I think that this would be good. Personally, the spicy pepper sauce being added to this thing just seems like a step too far since we all know that spicy fast food is very different than actual good spicy food made with better ingredients that don't turn things a weird shade of orange. But nonetheless, good luck to everybody out there. If you try the spicy McMuffin, report back and let us know what you think. Greg Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. Bunch of stuff out there to talk about. A few of the reactions that are going viral to the big, beautiful bill include President Obama coming out and saying that this bill is horrible and it's going to take health care away from some 16 million people. And the amount of individuals who absolutely thought that was hilarious and reacted to Barack Obama by saying that you did this to me. I can read some of these tweets back. One person said, you took me off of a barely affordable $600 a month plan with a $500 deductible. You forced me onto an $1,135 plan with a $10,000 deductible. No difference in lifetime benefits. That was just me. Not even my family plan. But you did this and your Affordable Care Act did this to a tremendous amount of Americans. A whole bunch of people pay an insanely higher cost for health care today because of you. So it's weird for you to be out there saying how any sort of restrictions that might pull back on the amount of people that have Medicaid or Medicare based on being able-bodied individuals who aren't working is somehow worse than what you did. I just love that. Also, this is funny as far as owning yourself on Twitter goes. Hakeem Jeffries is currently trying to filibuster the big beautiful bill by just talking and putting a whole lot of people to sleep. Hakeem Jeffries in 2021 tweeted, The filibuster is a Jim Crow-era relic that has been used to stop progress for decades. Enough is what he said. After it's been used to stop progress for decades, he wanted the end of people filibustering, and now he is currently on a stage filibustering in just another chef's kiss version of it can't be this hypocritical, can it? And the answer is absolutely it can't. Finally, here's a little bit of audio of Hakeem Jeffries and some of the things he's been saying that are absolutely not worth the amount of time he's taking to say them and the amount of individuals behind him that appear to be actually falling asleep while listening to him talk.
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Speaker, that's not what this country should be all about. Manu wasn't the only one. The only American citizen who's been targeted by the deportation machine, a deportation machine that will be unleashed on steroids by this one big, ugly bill.
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Don't threaten me with a good time is what a whole lot of people are saying in response to that. A deportation machine that will be on steroids if the big, beautiful bill gets passed. I know that some stats out there are now claiming that Americans have become a little more pessimistic about the way in which the Trump administration is going about getting rid of people who don't have the right to be in this country, essentially saying that it's gone too far or that you're not targeting the right people. that individuals who are getting arrested, say, outside of a place they've been working for years, whatever it might be, are the individuals that should be the last part of the equation of getting people out of this country, not the beginning of it. I have a unique take on that. At least I think I do. I am married to someone who was born and raised in a different country, in Mexico. She is a U.S. citizen now because she married me. She married an American. So she has all her paperwork. She has all her status for anyone that wants to call ICE on me. But nonetheless, what I think is really interesting about the idea of that is that the example that she set for her family is that there is a path toward actual citizenship and rights and then a whole bunch of things that have value. So at times, she's even had conversations with family members and friends about the unique difference between her experience and experiences that other people in Mexico talk about that they might know someone who's going through when you don't have any rights to be here. And honestly, and saying this as candidly as I can, without it necessarily trying to be politically on either side of the aisle, the people who want illegal immigration to exist and want individuals to work jobs without the right to work them which means that they're going to be underpaid in terrible conditions with no ability to actually combat those things if they wanted to say you know try to get uh... something improved uh... those individuals the ones most taking advantage of the people other actually coming into this country the people who advocate for unfair work situations of the people who are here now granite the only way to fix that as you know and i know and this is the part that might start to sound political to others is to only allow people in who have the right to be here only allow legal individuals to get into our country and yes i believe that the trump administration and tom homan and all involved are doing everything they can to catch every a very bad person uh... that's on the list that's committed a bunch of other crimes while they're here uh... which is exactly what they told us they were gonna do they were gonna do everything they could to get the most dangerous individuals off the street as quickly as possible they've been doing that since they got an office Well, doing that, the other thing they need to do to truly fix the system that is broken is remove everyone that is here illegally. It's not a hot take. It's not a mean take. At least I don't believe it to be. And I hope that I've demonstrated why. Not that I think a lot of people listening actually care about that part. And it might even make me sound somewhat weak to be saying it the way I'm saying it. But I don't care. It's simply the truth for me. You have to remove everyone. uh... from our society that's not here legally if you want to revamp the system legally to actually be more fair uh... to people who would come into this country the end result the end goal can be a good one can be a valuable one can be whatever one you want it to be but those conversations have to come second what has to come first is fixing the brokenness in our system and the amount of people that feel that and these are people like the south side chicago who constantly vote democratic i feel like the uh... you know loss of ability for the government in those smaller places to give more to their community because the government staff they have nothing else to give is are spending millions of dollars on people who are here legally is also unfair That if you're actually paying taxes and you think the government isn't doing enough to uplift your community, the last thing you want to hear is that they're giving a bunch of the money to people who aren't even supposed to be in the country to begin with. So the amount of people who dislike this is way beyond what regular media would tell you it is. And by the way, another thing out there that I find interesting, the job numbers have some pretty important pieces buried deep within them. There are two of them that are going viral now, being put out by a few different people on social media. First, 830,000 new jobs were given to native-born individuals in this country. Only 348,000 jobs were lost for foreign-born individuals. That does mean that there were a lot of jobs lost for people that might not actually be here with legal status. But I love the fact that they try to tell you that, you know, essentially people who have the right to be here are now stealing jobs from people who don't have the right to be here because that's insane. and then finally the other thing four hundred thirty seven uh... thousand uh... four hundred thirty seven hundred thousand jobs that were created our brand new full-time positions three hundred sixty seven uh... a thousand lost jobs are all the part-time jobs the biggest complaint during the biden era is that a bunch of jobs that were being created were for foreign-born individuals and that those jobs were part-time in nature Both of those trends are being reversed by the most recent data. This is before the big beautiful bill is even out, is even a thing that changes stuff more. Most Americans would support and like this. Most Americans would be big fans of this. And actually, one more thing I wanted to say, and I want to talk about this probably more than most other shows do, and I probably should have some audio to back it up, but darn it, whatever. I'm just going to break it down for you. This deal between the United States and Vietnam is uniquely important. It's a trade deal. The reason why it's so important is that it shows, or at least I believe it demonstrates, the path forward that the President of the United States sees for all of our trade partners. a vietnam agreed to a twenty percent import tariff by that means that stuff that we get from there will now cost an extra twenty percent is all have to pay a tariff to bring it in uh... vietnam agreed to that they also agreed to charge absolutely nothing for products that we send to them so in order to fix a trade deficit they're gonna have to pony up a little bit of extra case in order to get their products in our country and i know the people actually pay to the people importing and i get it i understand but that paper the plan on paper is what it is and the reason that is that way is because we're trying to get more products that are made here in the united states as the ones that were selling and that's going to take a bit but anyway the fact that tariffs exist at all and to the degree that they do, even in a signed deal between two countries, is important. Because I do believe, and I honestly think that that's the biggest reason that all of these numbers, all of this money is so wrongly being projected, is because everyone's ignoring the fact that Trump would like tariffs to be a long-term solution to the revenue issues united states might have the amount of spending verse the amount of uh... you know actual making of money and the other reason i think this deal in vietnam is so important is forty percent tariffs exist if you ship something to vietnam from a different country like say china slap a made in vietnam tag on it and then send it to us if you do something to change it but you got it from somewhere else we get to charge the full forty percent tariff uh... that we would charge to begin with That is also a really good thing because one of the ways they assume a lot of companies are going to skirt or countries are going to skirt around these tariff rules is find the one country that has the sweet, sweet deal with us. And then after that happens, everybody just send products there and then that country will send products to us. And we're not going to allow that either. So I just think the amount of people that are profoundly underestimating. uh... the the degree to which tariffs will be a solution to the problem either they are saying is the whole reason they vote against the big beautiful bill is somewhat amazing and uh... ideal specifically with vietnam feels too heavily reinforce that position by the way jd vance did put out on social media that the along filibuster by the king jeffries has caused an undecided congressman uh... republican voter to decide that they're definitely a firm yes now All the things they were listening to, all the versions of, he's going to do this and do that, and it's going to be deportation on steroids, apparently have convinced this one individual on the wrong side of the political aisle for Akeem Jeffries that the right answer is actually to immediately go ahead and pass this thing as soon as they're given the option to vote in it. So I love the fact that that's a thing out there too, and even if you doubt the vice president and the accuracy of his statement, I believe it could be true. And maybe it's not even the fact that he mentioned certain policies and things, but just the fact that Hakeem Jeffries is so annoying and how he's filibustering and the long pregnant pauses he's taking in between the words and sentences he's saying, because I guess he didn't bring enough material with him to last as long as he wanted to last as far as filibustering on the House floor. All right, we'll take a break. A lot to get to throughout the day. This is Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. I want to complain about something, and I feel like this is the perfect time to do it. The amount of holidays that now have, like, sales tied to them. It feels like it's every holiday. And then a bunch of times they just say that there's sales on this day, prime days, whatever you want to call them, that have nothing to do with holidays. Memorial Day, of course, we're buying things. I think you can buy your mattress for a very low price on a Memorial Day or a Labor Day. But even this July 4th, there are so many different stories about like these deals are cut. These prices are cut. It feels like stuff is claimed to be on sale so often that nothing could ever actually be on sale anymore. It feels like these have to be the actual prices of all these items. And I know this has happened before. I know everybody and their brother has pulled this game on the American people for quite a long time. It just feels like there's something unique about how Every single holiday, anything, Memorial Day, as I said, Flag Day, literally any holiday you can think of, someone somewhere is going to put out a list of the things that are way cheaper today. We promise that you should be buying right now and don't wait another week to buy these things or do wait another week because the next holiday they're going to be the same price. as they were before. There are some websites that even track this stuff for you that tell you how many of these items are actually on sale, like how many are hitting the price that's the lowest they've ever been seen at. And surprise, surprise, almost none of them are actually to the degree where they would say that this is legitimately a sale that we haven't seen before, even if other people tell you that it's absolutely a thing that you've, you know, you're only going to see this one time and you got to get in while the getting's good. It just, it's annoying to me and it's hilarious to me and I'm kind of sick of it. I guess the reason I'm complaining about this more than anything else, I'm humbugging the crap out of it, is my email inbox. It's uniquely ridiculous. You actually should just have an email that you use as a standby whenever anyone asks you for anything, if you even give it out anymore, although a whole lot of companies just buy this stuff from leaks that happen, too, because it's just inundated. with tons of companies telling me happy fourth of july which is nice and then also come buy a thing at my store because i promise it's cheaper than it's ever going to be and it's probably going to be that same price next week all right other things out there that i saw that i like i thought this was interesting there's a list of the best potato chips to buy for the fourth of july there's a definitive answer to this question by the way and you don't have to be crazy you don't have to even get creative at all the right answer is barbecue potato chips If you're going to have a cookout and a barbecue, you should get potato chips that taste like the barbecue. That's the right answer. But people are saying there's actually other options for some reason. Kettle chips is something that people are saying is good. They're not as good as just regular Ruffles, Lay's potato chips. People are also saying, depending on what part of the country you're in, the brand of chip that you choose will be specific to that place in which you live, which I love that part. And actually, I can do some of those real quick. If you're in the Midwest, it's Ruffles. If you're on the East Coast, it's either Lay's or Utz, depending on where you're at. Kettle brand is California, which is just terrible again. My favorite, though, only one state actually decided that Pringles. was the right option for them. Iowa seems to think that Pringles is the right decision. So you go that road if you want. And I like that a lot. I know this is a dumb topic, but I can't help but do it and talk about it quickly. The potato chip move is an important part of the entirety of your cookout. You do need them. And you do need good ones. If you have bad ones, you're ruining things. I think I said that before, actually, that there's really two things that can ruin the cookout. One is not having regular hamburgers, regular hot dogs. And then actually this, they did recall recently turkey bacon. I think this is Oscar Mayer turkey bacon. Thank God they did that. Because one of the biggest things that ruins a cookout for me is if someone tells me they have bacon and the bacon is turkey. It's not real. If you're going to put bacon on my burger, it better be actual bacon, darn it. That's the only way I can live. But nonetheless, as I said a second ago, stuff's been recalled, so maybe you're better off there. But those things ruin the Fourth of July party. The lack of chips, the lack of good music, and the lack of bacon. Which honestly probably ruins a whole lot of parties. All right, I'm going to move on. One last thing as far as just quick stupid stuff out there. Shaquille O'Neal is finally getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It feels like he should have had one a long time ago. Shaq feels famous enough for this. Miley Cyrus, Timothee Chalamet, other people that made the list. But the only athlete that is going to get a brand new Walk of Fame is Shaq. And again, I was kind of surprised he didn't have one. It's kind of interesting, not that I go to L.A. or care about the Walk of Fame specifically, but it is interesting that there's a tremendous amount of very famous people who don't have one of these yet. Way to go, Shaq. Proud of you, buddy. All right, quick break. A lot coming up. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of stuff out there to talk about. Hakeem Jeffries trying to filibuster the best he can filibuster by just talking about all kinds of things. I love that some of the stuff he said has gone viral as reasons that people want to support the big, beautiful bill. There was something else he said, and this is essentially boiling down the Democratic playbook to a simple message. If you like or vote for Donald Trump or any of the things that President Trump wants you to like or vote for, you're going to kill people. That's usually what they say, is that somehow, someway, President Trump equals the death of tons of people. That's their favorite. Here is a version of it being used on the House floor today by Hakeem Jeffries.
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I've been talking to my constituents. I've been reading their letters. The fear, the anxiety. I mean, there are literally people that I'm talking to that I represent, Pam, who don't know if they're going to survive, literally survive this. They can't pay for their... their health care bills, that have disabled children and the coverage for these disabled children, the care that they need to be able to work, to be able to survive, to be able to get basic care is going to go away. This is the most brutal thing I have ever seen in my time in public.
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That voice is actually Jason Crowe, who is a Democratic politician, too. It's not Hakeem Jeffries. He's just on screen in the background. I forgot about that. But nonetheless, as I'm telling you that these politicians say that it's life or death, they literally always go to this. And I love that he's saying, like, there's so many people. They're just screwed. Their lives are over. um i don't know maybe there's a chance that some individuals who truly do lose a certain social services certain welfare and they do it because they're deemed to be able-bodied and not willing to or trying to get a job maybe if they wind up getting a job they'll be able to support and help with those things and if they're not a person in that situation by the way anyone that's screaming And not that I assume there's a lot of it like, oh, it's racist or sexist or horrible, whatever you just said. Somehow it's bad. I'm sure it is. If they are someone who's trying to get a job or are someone who's a guy unique reason they can't, they still qualify. The benefits aren't profoundly changing to the degree that people are claiming it is. They're just creating new hoops for people to jump through who seem to be taking advantage of our welfare system, which seems to be a whole lot of people. So if his actual story were true, a mom who's got a special needs kid that doesn't have a way to pay for medical bills and can't work because of the demand of the special needs kid, guess what? They would still be covered. That is the way this works. It is wrong for them to claim that this person would definitively lose coverage if the bill does pass. It is just lying. just lying for the sake of life right another thing out there a couple of these are pretty awesome this is lying for the sake of life let's do this first and i'll get to uh... cnn reacting to how good the economy is doing i wish they seem very upset about uh... but this is brian stelter uh... being rolled out the idiot that he is in front of uh... uh... cameras and microphones i think this is pb s giving him an opportunity to talk and say how he thinks cbs did nothing wrong that the way they edited their Kamala Harris interview was standard TV news editing practices, which is terrifying, and I'll be honest about that too, but Brian Stelter fighting the good fight, at least in his mind, the bad fight to the rest of us, trying to convince us that a settlement from a news organization to President Trump and his library because they absolutely did something they shouldn't have done and not getting the actual court case where we would have gotten even more awesome information about it is somehow a nothing-to-see-here moment. The U.S. citizens should be paying attention to this. The everyday Americans should wonder why multiple news organizations are having to pay President Trump money. And it should be screaming from, you know, their minds and from our mouths that this means that media is as corrupt and lies as often as we think it does. And it's unsurprising. And media is trying to do its best to pretend that that's not true. Here we go.
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So, Brian, this is not the first major media company to settle with President Trump. You've been following this, though. Did anything in this settlement or its terms surprise you?
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Well, CBS did not actually do anything wrong here. CBS engaged in standard television news editing practices, but its parents...
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I love that. CBS definitively changed the answer to a question. An interview question was asked of Kamala Harris. The answer she gave was not actually to the question she was asked, and it was cleaned up profoundly to not sound as loopy and weird, which was a major criticism of the candidate running for the office of president, that she spoke in these giant circles that seemed to make no sense, which is what she did in response to a very important question, and they removed that question. But I digress. Standard operating news editing practices.
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Their company paid the price anyway, with some people likening this to a ransom or even a bribe. The terms are not surprising because, as you said, Paramount's not the first company to do this. Disney's ABC in some ways wrote the playbook that paramount is now relying on because last december when trump was still president-elect abc settled with trump out of court to the tune of 16 million dollars so here we are again with 16 million dollars heading toward trump's presidential library i love how he makes that sound as though that's somehow an indication that the money that's being spent on these cases is you know uh not real uh essentially what i mean by that is is he thinks that because both
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organization spent the same amount that that means that they're just giving in or paying a ransom or a bribe and they didn't do anything wrong when the reality is that the second organization noticed what their mistake actually deserved to cost so the first organization sets the the standard Because we've never really seen this. We've never seen a sitting president use the legal system to go after the amount of news organizations he's going after in courtrooms and winning by saying that they deceptively did certain things during a campaign. And so when ABC lost, which is what happens when you settle and give the money, CNN or excuse me, CBS decided, all right, that's probably the amount of money we owe for our version of this crime. which we also committed. I love that a stelter, though, it's just simple proof that, oh, that's the number they'll accept. So we'll just do that and we'll make the whole thing go away. I can't understand how there are people in our society who don't think this is an important story. actually believe the things that Stelter is saying on lying news media, that like, it's not a bigger deal that organizations are paying the president and his library significant sums of money as a reaction to the way that they unfairly covered the 2024 presidential election. This should matter. And I know I'm repeating myself and saying it, but I don't know how not to, because it's crazy that it doesn't. All right, quick topic change here, and then we'll take a break in a few minutes. CNN's Berman was pained when he had to tell the audience that job losses didn't materialize, that inflation hasn't gone the way that it was supposed to go, that essentially all of the projections about what Trump's tariff threats and then actual tariffs would do to our economy and society just haven't occurred and so a ton of people uh... jim kramer certainly among them who said that by now everything would be a you know smoking crater of what it was supposed to be uh... is gotta look us in the face and say we were very wrong about this and pretend they don't know the reason why other reason why of course being that all along they should have been aware that nothing would go as badly as they were projecting it to go and they actually were hoping for a worst case scenario to blame it on Trump, which is uniquely bad in our society to have people in media cheering on like an economic downturn that would be catastrophic because they want to be right more than they want their friends and families to keep their houses. That does seem to be a play. But here's the back and forth where Berman is saying he seems to be upset that things just haven't gone completely in the bleep, you know, the way that they're supposed to.
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Again, since March and before, there were predictions that the tariffs, granted a lot of them have been pulled back, most of them have been pulled back, but all that tariff policy was going to lead perhaps to inflation, would lead to job losses, predictions of doom. That doom just hasn't happened yet.
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What is going on? Why hasn't it happened? He's asking his guest. He's going to weigh in with all kinds of stupid stuff.
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It hasn't happened. And, you know, John, I've been doing a lot of reporting on this topic. What I'm hearing is that for the last few years, really since COVID, but even before, companies have realized that their supply chains can be interrupted for lots of reasons, for a virus, for a geopolitical event, for a war, for a climate event. And so they've been using technology to really streamline things. They've been getting their systems in place. And there's just a lot more efficiency in the system now.
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They can survive it. These resilient, amazing companies can deal with the horribleness that is the President of the United States is basically what she's trying to say or the position she's trying to take on that so that they can be right, media, that things should be bad, but also the companies can somehow succeed because of how much forethought they put into this. There's no chance that the other thing that's true is that it's just simply not having the negative impact that they thought it would have and things are going way better than you believe they go. That can't be true. That can't possibly be the reason for this. And even some of these policies are actually causing companies to hire even more people with the expectation that you might even create more product here in the United States, which is the entire design in the first place of this whole thing. I love that they wouldn't even dare to dabble in that road. But at the same time, that if Biden did anything even remotely resembling something positive, even though he wasn't aware he was doing it for most of the time he was in office, they would praise him to a degree that seemed uncomfortable and ridiculous. But absolutely, that is what's being talked about and going on right now is that essentially somehow, some way, all of the numbers they projected to be terrible are way less terrible and actually pretty good compared to what they were, you know, guaranteeing us would happen. All right, we'll take a break. A lot coming up. This is Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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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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That's right. It's time for the Quick Five on the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. DLash, DanaLashRadio and X on Twitter. Great ways to stay connected to her. Ohio Governor Mike DeWine did sign a two-year, $60 billion operating budget. It flattens the state's income tax. It sets aside $600 million in unclaimed funds for a new Cleveland Brown Stadium. That was a big deal in the world of football news today. The Republican governor signed the budget late Monday night, about 45 minutes before the midnight deadline. And as you're parsing through all of it, you see just how much money is being earmarked for a sweet, sweet new stadium for the Browns. Whether or not that makes the Browns actually capable of, say, winning a Super Bowl is something that's yet to be determined. But we will see how that goes and what the inevitable result may be. But at least there'll be somewhere swankier. They'll be somewhere fancier as they're losing in heartbreak fashion in the playoffs, which just sounds like a brutal thing for me to keep saying. And yet it's true. And I'm not a Browns fan, as anyone can tell. Although I don't really hate them. How can you hate people that don't win? Anyway, moving on. Other stuff out there. That was probably epically mean. I apologize. Well, nobody. South Park season debut has been delayed by streaming rights that are in limbo. South Park is a uniquely interesting show to me. One, because even though they have a lot of left-leaning thoughts that pop up there, they have a lot of hilarious trolling of the left-leaning thoughts as well. I don't know that I would really consider the people who run South Park to truly be a liberal, but they're certainly no fan of President Trump. So they're definitely people that are willing to go after anyone politically. But what's unique and interesting about this story is that essentially the streaming rights have become more valuable than the television rights to the show. Something the founders and creators of South Park have long fought for and fought to, you know, retain. Because I think that more and more people just watch everything via streaming services. There's almost nothing. that it feels like, especially Hakeem Jeffries being a moron and complaining for a while on the House floor and trying to filibuster and claim it's not a filibuster. That's the kind of stuff you don't need live television for. You can get the highlights on an ex on Twitter and feel really good about yourself. That's all you need. A beloved performer by the name of Red Panda fell off her unicycle and she was taken off the court in a wheelchair during the halftime of a WNBA game. This happened in Indianapolis. The woman is, you know, popular because she rides the unicycle, puts plates in her head, does that whole thing, and apparently quite good at it, been doing it quite a long time. An accident happened right at the beginning of her performance, and she did seem to be seriously injured. She did walk off the court with the help of others. I got to feel like that's a weird moment. You're at the game. I don't think that many people bought their tickets, even to a WNBA game, to see the Red Panda. I think you might have gone to see Caitlin Clark, who was unfortunately injured and didn't play in that game. But when you see that person get hurt during the halftime show or a timeout performance, I know you uniquely feel bad about them, but you also kind of wonder if maybe they shouldn't have had that planned. You know, maybe they could have done something else during the halftime show. Although I'm sure as long as she's successful at balancing the plates and staying on the unicycle, you're cheering, you're applauding, and then you're waiting for the game to start again. But yes, sad story. Definitely something that a lot of people seem to care about because this lady has been performing a lot of places for a very long time. All right. Other stories out there as far as quick five go. Amazon deploys its one millionth robot in a sign of more job automation occurring. I've said this a few times, even though I believe in what are aspects of what I think the big, beautiful bill is going to try to achieve. The ramping up of manufacturing, creation of products right here at home in the United States for U.S. citizens. I think what is more likely to happen in the both short and long term is a whole lot of that will wind up being automated. And it can be automated abroad or it can be automated here. We'd obviously rather have it automated here for a variety of reasons. But I think that that is inevitably the future, as does almost everybody else. And this is another one of those signs of our times seeming to tell us that, yeah, this is what's coming and this is how quickly it's coming. And, you know, we'll do everything we can to avoid it. But truthfully, the creation of those jobs is probably a temporary, not a long term solution. And then finally, one last one as far as quick five go. California just rolled back a landmark environmental policy. There's quite a bit to deep dive into here. But the overarching thing, it's a law that was signed in the 1970s. It was actually signed by Governor Ronald Reagan at the time. But it's something that the Trump administration, a lot of these policies, have been pushing back on for quite some time now. And many, many states, many cities all seem to be finally bending the knee. So rolling back some environmental policies and natural and protected land exclusions from certain exemptions does feel like you appreciate, no matter what they say publicly, no matter how defiantly they speak, that the person in charge is definitively the guy in the White House. And so I like that. I'm a fan of that. It's unique that actually the policy was originally signed by Ronald Reagan. All right, we're going to take a break. A lot coming up. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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There it is, Thunder. Thunderstruck. That is a great song by ACDC. It is a requirement at every single July 4th party that you'll be having tomorrow. It actually also is the song that I use as the intro to the radio show I do. But thank you for everyone listening today. My name is Craig Collins. I'm filling in for Dana Lash on The Dana Show, DLash on X on Twitter to stay connected to all things her, or Dana Lash Radio to stay connected to all things the show. Definitely a great place to be. All right. For anyone that's unaware, as the show is live, McKeem Jeffries is continuing to talk on the House floor in what is not a filibuster, but it's definitely a filibuster. He was supposed to speak for one minute as the minority leader in the House before a vote. He's supposed to get the, you know, simple magic minute treatment. And he stretched it out into a ridiculous thing. And I wanted to check on it. I believe we have some audio of it. That's what it sounds like. That's Hakeem Jeffries just doing his best Charlie Brown teacher up there doing whatever he wants to do. You know what? Actually, I do have actual audio. My favorite is that this one moment, this one statement he made has gone viral. And so when Jeffries finds out that a vast majority of the things he said, very few people cared about, which he doesn't know. He's probably not on Twitter as he's speaking now. But when he gets on it later and sees, he'll be fairly upset that this is the thing we all took away. But this is a brilliant, brilliant moment for us to focus on, and I'll tell you why. Here it is.
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Manu wasn't the only one. The only American citizen who's been targeted by the deportation machine. A deportation machine... that will be unleashed on steroids by this one big ugly bill.
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Okay, that's the moment where he's talking about deportation and whatnot, and he says if this ugly, horrible bill passes, then it's going to be a deportation on steroids. A whole lot of people on social media, on both sides of the political aisle, are yelling, don't threaten me with a good time, because they'd absolutely like to see that happen. And I continue to point this out whenever I talk about this, uniquely on the left. During the Biden administration, excuse me, before Trump retook office, a whole lot of people were realizing how bad it is for a bunch of government money to be funneled to people who don't have the right to be in this country. And all the different things they thought were no longer possible, not that maybe they were being funded to begin with, but no longer possible because the excuse of we have no money left was being used, like this outside of Chicago. where a whole lot of Democratic voters, a lot of black individuals, were saying their community has been unfairly treated for a very long time and they deserve additional government support, regardless of if you agree with them or disagree with them. And they were livid. that the newest excuse they were being told by a black mayor in Chicago was that he simply couldn't afford it. He gave too much money to the people with no right to be here. And that part is true. The massive amount of spending that has existed in New York and Chicago all throughout the country to deal with this is surreal. It's crazy. By the way, I believe Hakeem Jeffries finally finished his marathon speech on the House floor. And we are going to do something that's going to be quite a bit of fun to go ahead and finish this off. So I have some audio of Jeffrey's that I'll play, and then we'll go ahead and play this guy off. Here we go.
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We're going to press on. We're going to press on for our children.
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Uh-huh.
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Press on for our seniors. Press on for our veterans. Press on for our unions. Press on for our farmers. Press on for our dreamers. Press on for working class Americans. Press on for the middle class. Press on for all who aspire to be part of the middle class. Press on for the poor. Press on for the sick. Press on for the afflicted. Press on for the lease.
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It would be a little funny if he started saying, like, press on for me. Press on for my family. Press on for, you know, the guy who's going to make me my sandwich later today.
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Press on for the lost. Press on for the left behind. Press on for the rule of law. Press on for the American way of life. Press on for democracy. We're going to press on until victory is won. I yield back.
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And it's over. It's finally, finally over. Yay. Yay. That's what he deserves for it to be. I love that the end message there is we're going to press on, we're going to press on, we're going to press on, and now I'm done. It seems that he immediately decided to stop pressing on right after claiming that he was going to continue to press on, which is a weird thing to say or a weird thing to do. And I love also that Democrats seem so proud of themselves that they thought of saying the word press on as he's speaking. I'm not sure if that was pre-coordinated. I'm going to assume it was. But even if it wasn't, it wasn't exactly a genius stroke move. And they're all smiling as they're throwing their hands in the air saying press on. Press on. And then immediately, again, the guy ends his speech. You'd feel like that should have probably been the start of the whole thing, where he then does the marathon speaking thing when he claims he will not yield, he will not sit down, he will not be stopped, because it's uniquely hilarious. One last time. I feel like I'm belaboring the point, but I can't help it for someone to say that and then be done something. It would be like me in the middle of some sort of argument discussion or anything with the missus and be like, you know what? I'm not giving in on this, honey. On this one, I'm sticking to my guns. On this one, I refuse to be changed in my opinion. And then immediately I'm swayed and I'm like, you know what? Actually, I'm done. Actually, it's fine. My wife might threaten to, you know, not do certain things. I don't know how I could say that different. And then all of a sudden I'm like, you know what? I lose. I give up. It's why was I even talking about this? You're right. Let's go ahead and change the subject completely because that's how these things actually happen. All right. Other stuff out there. I do think this is interesting. This is Jason Crow. I played this audio before. I'll play this audio again because I do think it's surreal. It's the Democratic playbook. They want you to believe that if you vote against them, that people have to die. That's that's how they say it. Democracy dies and or humans die. The USAID discussion right now. There's ridiculous projections out there that have no basis in reality. The claim that a whole bunch of people will die because USAID is stopped. I responded to this yesterday, and I'll tell you again what I said about it, just so you know. If you really wanted to help people in disadvantaged situations throughout the world, you can. As a human being, as someone who might have money that you can spend on whatever you want, Just because the government stopped sending all of the government funds to places that are not the United States, which is not exactly what we're doing, but I wish we were doing more of that, doesn't mean that Americans are precluded from doing it themselves. It actually would be much better to have it happen that way. If you chose... to send your own money to the causes that you supported, which a lot of people of course do, and the government stopped doing it for you, we'd all be in a better place. That would be wonderful. They never say that part. But anyway, instead of that discussion, one of these politicians popped up on CNN to let us know that supporting Trump, supporting the big beautiful bill, supporting anything, it's pretty much murder. You're pretty much taking the lives of a bunch of people. How does that make sense? Where do those facts check out? Eh, it doesn't matter. I'm just going to go ahead and tell you it's true, and that should be all you need to know.
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You know, I've been talking to my constituents. I've been reading their letters. The fear, the anxiety. I mean, there are literally people that I'm talking to that I represent, Pam, who don't know if they're going to survive, literally survive this. They can't pay for their... their health care bills, that have disabled children and the coverage for these disabled children, the care that they need to be able to work, to be able to survive, to be able to get basic care is going to go away. This is the most brutal thing I have ever seen in my time.
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People are going to die. That's what they want to tell us. That literally has been the playbook for quite some time now, and it's theatrics to the next level, to the next degree, as many people are calling it, because it's simply not true. Just to reiterate one last time on this issue, too, before I move on to other things, that the current version of the bill that's going to be voted on— uh... completely stupid i mean people said the eight hours and forty four minutes that he spent speaking i had very little value and i was supposed to be one minute but nonetheless to go back to it uh... the big beautiful bill itself does not simply remove access to welfare are for people that might need it it creates more hoops more barriers for people who might abuse those systems so when you talk about people who are afraid they're going to lose something and it's very very important that the politicians who tell you these stories include the word afraid uh... because they don't include the word will lose these things they don't say that this definitively will happen they just say people are are worried about the possibility of it because they don't know if they'll be able to jump through the new hoops If there's someone who deserves the welfare, which is what our politicians are saying you have to be, and it's not necessarily that you have to be a working adult. There are provisions that if you have kids of a certain age, they don't even require that. But if you are an able-bodied adult without young children, you should be trying to get a job. You should be trying to fix the situation you're in on your own, not just through government funding. And so if you do that, guess what? You still actually benefit. You still qualify for many of these things if you need them. So that's the other surreal part is the idea that someone couldn't potentially get a job if the job doesn't cover enough expenses, then also still get assistance from our government. That didn't go away. And they refused to accept that. And I think that that might curb some of the potential deaths and some of the potential harm that this bill might cause, according to Democrats. One more time, just go back to it. We'll take a break in a second. We'll come back and do some sillier stuff. became jeffrey's did finally finishes eight-hour forty four minute rant about all kinds of crazy stuff and the most valuable the most interesting moment the most viral moment is when he said that deportation will be on steroids and a whole lot of people who support the big beautiful bill and a lot of people who support the idea of cleaning up the amount of people who are here legally are a hundred percent in on that they'd love to see that happen because more of that means more of the ability to help other people in our country and in the world and not spend all this money on people who don't deserve to be here, which is another thing, again, that the left wants to claim isn't true, but could very well be true if we fix the problem that is costing us incredible amounts of money. All right. Quick break. A lot coming up. This is Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man.
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That's right. It's time for Florida Man. This is the Dana Show. D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio on X on Twitter. The best ways to stay connected to her and everything she's doing. Producer Steven does a great job and as well does Dana herself at keeping you up to date on all the information, all the things going on via their social media pages. We got a few different Florida Man stories. A Florida man was arrested near the Mark Twain National Forest for drug trafficking. This feels like an odd place. to do this, although, honestly, it's Florida. They're probably doing it everywhere. Well, that sounds like something I shouldn't say out of context. They're probably selling drugs a whole lot of places. But this individual, the United States Forest Service officer William Cox said, was observed in a Dodge van that crossed the center line of Highway 99 in a careless manner. According to the probable cause affidavit, Cox initiated the traffic stop and identified the driver by his Florida driver's license as David Larkin. Cox asked Larkin if he had been drinking alcohol, and Larkin stated that the reason he crossed the center line was that he was attempting to retrieve a soda that had dropped in the back of his car. That's not usually a good excuse. It's better than, yeah, I got a bunch of drugs in here. Officer Cox eventually requested to have the Missouri State Highway Patrol on the search and substance included methamphetamine, mushrooms, 57 grams of marijuana, drug paraphernalia, all kinds of different things. This is crazy. But this Florida man caught in, you know, Missouri for this problem seemed to be just absolutely very much impacted. by all the different drugs that he had taken he also was in possession of uh different um paraphernalia uh that luckily was not hidden anywhere in his body we did a story yesterday about a guy out of florida who not only had the drugs on him but he hit it in a place you wouldn't want to hide stuff at least in this case the dude just had everything on display out there in the open But I love the fact that his excuse was, I'm just trying to grab a soda, man, and that turns into this whole thing. But that's one Florida man out there living up to his Florida man reputation. Another Florida guy that's in the news is, well, actually a Florida woman who had to tread water for 12 hours after falling out of a canoe. A Good Samaritan eventually rescued the woman. This was in Charlotte Harbor. She is lucky to be alive, of course. She's kind of impressively alive because, again, she accidentally fell out of her canoe at around 9 p.m. in what is kind of hilariously called Peace River. That's near Charlotte Harbor. She was found by Good Samaritan, as I said, almost 12 miles later, just a mile away from the shore. She might have been trying to get there. The guy who found her said, I heard someone yelling, help. And I looked over, and here's a woman yelling help, and she could wave her hands. Amazing that she could do that with that much time spent in the water. But again, he was able to save her. Maybe she's experienced in this. Maybe she's aware of how to survive hours of being stuck in the ocean because she's, in fact, from Florida. I'm not really exactly sure. But nonetheless, this is kind of the craziest thing. And honestly, I'm reacting to this a little bit oddly, and I'll tell you why. The story about that guy who saved his kid, the guy who jumped in the water on a Disney cruise and saved his child and wound up treading water for like, I don't know, 40 minutes or something like that before they saved him. A lot of people were saying that's impressive. This Florida woman just crushed that. 12 hours went by between when she fell out of the canoe and when she was inevitably saved. And the fact that the individual in that amount of time was like, I'll be fine. I can figure this out. is part of the reason I think that so many Florida stories go viral. Because even in their successes, the people seem to pretend as though this is just normal happenstance, everyday life, a version of a thing. And she did something fairly incredible. All right, one last story. And to be honest with these Florida stories, they usually shy away from anything all too violent. But this one, there's something about it that's kind of crazy. Well, there's a lot of things about it that's crazy and horrible. A Florida man who killed his family after his wife sought a divorce is finally set for execution. The Florida man, who I think on Tuesday had a death warrant signed by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, is a unique piece of crap. He pled guilty in 1996 to three counts of first-degree murder. This was killing his wife, Sylvia, and their two children, who were seven and five years old. Edward is seven. Ana is five. The reason I bring up a story or talk about this at all, and again, it's not as fun as a bunch of Florida man stories are, and honestly, it's in reference to something I was talking about a second ago, too, or a little bit ago, earlier ago, is harming children is the type of thing that even... Jesus said in the Bible is uniquely horrible. The quote, I believe, from the Bible is that if a arm that you have, a hand that you have, would cause you to hurt an innocent child, it would be better for you to cut it off and throw it at the bottom of the ocean than to keep it and harm innocent kids. So it was the most aggressive thing that's in the Bible where Jesus himself, where the Lord was saying something unique and something bad. So whenever people are up in arms and have discussions about the death penalty, and I am one who often sides with my faith on that, I do think that people who do horrible stuff like this are the exception to the rule, and I am not at all disappointed to see that this person will be facing justice in the way he will be facing it. It seems like the kind of thing that the family of anyone that was lost would absolutely be thrilled to finally see. All right, we'll take a break. A lot coming up. Greg Collins filling in on The Dana Show. This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of stuff out there to talk about in the world. And this is crazy. I do love this. Producer Steven sent this to me just a bit ago. President Biden, former President Biden, is on the part of the tour of his life, the after you were the president thing, where you just do a bunch of book tours and speaking engagements. He did a Q&A in San Diego that has gone very viral, even though the only audio I have of it is the entire nine minutes and it's shot off a camera. So I'm probably not going to go ahead and use it on the radio. It's not it's not ideal for radio conditions, but it's interesting. Nonetheless, I probably recommend you watch all of it. But several of the quotes are easy to share with you. He was asked at one point who is still calling him. This is my favorite thing. So the person doing the interview is aware that President Biden is unique in the ability of his brain to function. And you can see it several times in this video. So I think as earnestly as you try to ask it, you probably are genuinely curious. Is anybody seeking your advice? And President Biden, of course, says, I'm getting calls. I can't get into it. Can't tell you any of the people. They're giving me calls. He then says that several European leaders are asking him to, quote, get engaged. He said it's not for him to do. It's not for him to be involved in this, but that people are essentially begging him. And he even said at one point that one of those leaders said, how can you just walk away, which is literally what almost every president does after their time in the White House, which I find funny. But here's the best part of that. One of the more notorious things that President Biden got wrong while in the White House was who the European leaders are. He often named people that had died or people that had long no longer been in power because they were people he interacted with when he was a senator, not even a vice president. And so it's amazing because I wish he had actually named the leaders this time around because I and obviously he wasn't because he's probably making this entire thing up because I wonder if they would have continued to be the people who aren't even alive today as people that he's like, oh, can't get these guys off the phone. They need to talk to me all the time. And these are the voices that are just going on inside his head. Speaking of weird things involving Democrats. Which certainly is anyone that pays money to see President Biden speak. Michelle Obama has a podcast, and she's now doing ads for different companies as part of her podcast. People are wondering if somehow the Obamas are just broke. Because much like anyone else, you would assume that the paycheck can't possibly be good enough to take the reputational hit that seems to be this thing. But it seems that Michelle Obama has thrown herself entirely into podcasting the former first lady, which means doing the occasional live read is what you call it in the industry. Here's a little bit of something that's going viral with she has drinks set out in front of her to go ahead and hawk some products.
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I just love everything about the Fourth of July. Friends, family, barbecue, and fireworks. And as you and your families are out there, don't forget to stay hydrated. Plezzi Hydration or Plezzi Fizz are great options with less sugar to try out this weekend. Have a great holiday weekend, everybody.
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It is ridiculous. A 21-second plezzy fizz and plezzy water. I don't even know what this is. I've never had a plezzy. I don't think I want a plezzy. But that's the former first lady. And honestly, the road Joe Biden's going all of a sudden looks better, even though his brain doesn't work, because you just get a bunch of money from the speaking engagements. Rush Limbaugh used to talk about that all the time, about how ridiculously fraudulent that whole thing is and how every politician that will make money for the rest of their life We'll do it through like fake book deals and other crap that you're getting overpaid for what the inevitable value of whatever you're doing actually is. Mostly it's books that never even get published that just give you hand and fist dollars for. But the Plessy, I can't, I kind of want to play it again. I want to play it again because like actually genuinely saying this, This would be the kind of thing if I respected the Obamas, which I don't. But if I did, this would absolutely be a punch in the face to all that credibility stuff that you'd be looking for because she's hawking Plessy drinks. It's not even like a brand that I know. At least she could have had like Gatorade or Coca-Cola or something. I mean, it's the former first lady. You think that she'd be pulling the advertisers that are, you know, of the upper echelon. I guess not so much. I guess the podcast audience isn't big enough to go beyond the Plessys.
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Plesi Hydration or Plesi Fizz are great options with less sugar to try out this weekend.
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Can't wait for the Plesi. Plesi Fizz. I'm now looking that up to see exactly why this is the kind of thing that, and I wonder who else, you know, that's the other thought that a lot of people in the world of podcasting and whatnot wind up all hawking the same products because somebody's budget is to spend on podcasting and they just kind of spread it around. But Plesi Fizz. is the name of a group. And they have different products out there. Their cherry fizz is about 30 bucks on Amazon for a simple case of them. Although there are some special offers going on right now, they're not paying me. I'm not going any further than this. But that is weird. That's uniquely strange to watch a former first lady do that. All right, let's do one other thing in the world of weird, stupid, far left audio out there. This is Joy Reid. Joy Reid is someone who you could probably play audio from every day. None of it would make sense. You could crap on it quite easily. And then part of me thinks that I should never play audio of her again because I'm platforming this stupidity. But I can't help it. I enjoy reacting to it. So it's going to happen again. Joy Reid is fear mongering about health care. And obviously there's a subtext of transgender people and transgender care, whatever she'd call self-affirming care. uh mutilation of babies is another thing or children uh that people might call this uh but she's she's definitely lost the plot according to many here with this latest conspiracy theory type of thing that she's sharing with who knows how many followers she even has on places like tick tock but here we go okay one more thing let me just do a public service since the 1930s
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The medical establishment has never wanted to have universal health care. They didn't want to have Social Security. The super rich fought Social Security in the 1930s. They fought Medicare and Medicaid in the 1960s. Medicare and Medicaid are the only way that many seniors and poor people can get health care, and rich people do not want it. They've been wanting to get rid of it, and they've been looking for an entertainer who could be dazzling enough to poor folks, to get them to vote, to get rid of it for themselves. Y'all did that in 2024 by electing Donald Trump.
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This is so abundantly stupid for a tremendous amount of reasons. She says that since the 1930s, rich people in certain companies have been desperate to convince you that universal health care is bad. Do you know why it's a topic that actually was talked about in the 1930s? And this is really more just an educational thing for Joy Reid than anybody else. What happened just before the 1930s? Oh, that's right, the Great Depression, where people were struggling, economic hardship was at an all-time high, and so discussions about universal health care became particularly important as part of President Roosevelt's New Deal. It faced strong opposition from a whole lot of people, and it was not actually implemented, which, of course, is something that we know about in the society we live in, because they didn't think that it was the right time to spend that massive amount of money on something like this when they basically weren't doing well and no one could afford anything anyway. So what's interesting is the companies that pushed back on that did it because they thought it would be a, you know, a death knell for everything else that they were doing in the world of trying to recover from the Great Depression. But I love that she just says the 1930s, like it's a conspiracy theory that's been going on for a long time, where it would have been so easy to do. Man, they had the money, they had the capability, they had the means, and it would have made things so much better. But they fought it then and succeeded. They fought it now and succeeded because President Trump convinced you that it's bad. And one last time, I don't know if he was the charismatic leader that Joy Reid is talking about, or if it was Bill Clinton. Because Bill Clinton implemented a bunch of the same work requirement standards in the 1990s in order to campaign that he was making welfare better for the American people because he was getting people back to work. And every single Democrat seems to forget about that. You want to throw back to the 1930s? What about just throwing to 1996 as far as a time period that you can reference and say, hey, we thought these things at this point. We think other things now. I can prove this. I think it's kind of silly if you have to. But I do like Tom Elliott Grabian. I mentioned him earlier. He put up a supercut of this stuff, although a lot of it is really just the announcement of a decision back in 96 by Clinton. But then you have other people that were trying to advocate for this as well. People like Al Gore and Joe Biden, when his brain worked better as individuals that are trying to say how important and how good of a thing this is. So it's just funny to get in the old time machine. uh... that social media provides to us and hear the audio of the democratic side of the aisle embracing and campaigning on the idea that having work requirements in order to get social service benefits simply make sense and is actually good for the people uh... were utilizing these services because it encourages them to stop relying on just welfare which is not going to give you a good quality of life it might give you a standard of living that you've come to accept but there is better out there if you start to progress it as far as you know professionally and in the uh... world of employment so here it is a little bit audio for anybody that doesn't believe for some reason but this is absolutely something it doesn't remember uh... that was a hundred-percent a democratic concept just a short time ago and changes the times of the debate fortune welfare has been a way of life
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For too long, it has condemned too many on welfare to a lifetime at the margins of our society. Today, we start to change all that.
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Anyone who wants to receive welfare must sign an individual responsibility contract so that they're forced to agree up front to the conditions placed on receiving the benefit. What? And so that they will have a plan from day one on how to get themselves off of welfare. Put them to work and make them want to go to work and make it reasonable for them to go to work.
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Wait a minute, I thought that was all racist or sexist or something. It's got to be something. It's got to be a hate of some kind for Biden to have said that back when he was a senator and for the president of the United States at the time, Bill Clinton, to have said that. It can't possibly be a thing that Democrats once believed in. How could our society change so much? That's the other thing I love about all this. i'll take a break after i say it is the democrats uh... biggest holdout in any of the back-and-forth discussions about politics is that they try to convince you that their position hasn't trans hasn't like profoundly transformed over the last thirty years and it absolutely has you don't have to go back as far as a j f k to demonstrate that a lot of democratic positions are now republican positions You can simply go back 20 or 30 years and show how much has changed and how far left that side of the aisle has gone and why so many people who thought of themselves as left-leaning or in the middle now consider themselves as conservative and maybe even staunchly conservative because it's the only place for them and their ideals. All right, we'll take a break. A lot coming up. This is Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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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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That's right. It's time for the Quick Five. This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. D. Lash, Dana Lash Radio on X on Twitter to stay connected to all things that she's up to, everything that she's doing, and just expertly run by her team, by herself, by producer Steven as well. A few quick stories. First, a 106-year-old World War II veteran recently gave his secret to a long life. This guy's name is Leslie Lemon. He seems pretty awesome. Again, a living World War II veteran. He said it's just eat frozen custard. Just get yourself some Freddy's or wherever your location of choice is that you want and eat some delicious, delicious frozen custard. Do it every day. He actually has like rhubarb and stuff with it that makes it healthier. I'm not sure that's the road for me, although I'm not going to question anything he's telling me to do. But if you do this, you should live to be 106, according to him. And again, I'm not going to distrust him on anything he's saying. And I love that his favorite thing is a frozen snack. Other things out there that I saw, there are certain outfits that you should never wear to the gym. But there is one item that they say is most important to leave off when going to work out. And it's interesting and it's actually causing some controversy with fitness professionals and others. But people say the item that you should always remove is a wedding ring or an engagement ring. The reason why, especially the engagement ring, more so than the wedding one, although both are expensive, is the amount of money they cost and the likelihood for them to get damaged while working out and also the likelihood for it to hurt you. I do take my wedding ring off when I go to work out. My wife is aware of this. And actually sort of funny, and this is just a quick little story. While working out in downtown Chicago one time, I had plucked my wedding ring off. I put it in the pocket of my, you know, shorts. And then as I was walking out of the Planet Fitness down a set of stairs in downtown Chicago, I tried to pluck the ring out to put it back on and it fell and then landed in the street. And it was run over, I don't know, 50 times before I found it. Because I had no idea where it was. And it disappeared. And I kept thinking to myself, man, I show up at home. I don't have the wedding ring. The wife's going to be mad. I eventually found it. And it was squished into the pavement as much as a ring that had been run over 50 times was. The ring is nice, but not incredibly expensive because it's a guy's ring, not a girl's ring. I molded it back into something that fits on my finger. And to this day, I wear it. The exact one with all the little creases and bends in it that if you asked me if I took it off and you looked at it, I will tell you it was run over aggressively. for about 10 to 15 minutes for a bunch of cars in downtown Chicago. But I think the lesson I learned is I still found it, I still put it on, and it still works. That means my marriage will survive anything. At least that's what I told the missus when she was getting mad at me because I let the thing get run over a whole bunch of times. But I agree with this now. Do not wear your wedding ring while working out because it's likely to, at the very least, cause some cuts and things on your finger that you're not going to want. All right. Those are just a couple of stories out there. Another one just quickly that I did like is the Waffle House has announced that prices are back down on eggs. No longer an egg surcharge at the Waffle House. And a lot of people, more people than you think, are celebrating that news on social media. Good job, everybody, for doing nothing except while voting Biden, excuse me, Biden out and Trump into office. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana show. More coming up in a bit.
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This is the Dana Show. Happy holidays. My name is Craig Collins filling in just before the 4th of July. Thrilled to be with you. DLash, DanaLashRadio on Twitter. I'm at RadioCraigC. If you want to throw me a follow, I have just a fraction of a fraction of the amount of followers that Dana does. I don't do a lot on Twitter. I should try to do more. I hear it's good for this career. But yeah, if you want to throw me a follow, I wouldn't hate it. The big, beautiful bill did pass. The House got it done after Hakeem Jeffries' filibuster and everything else. We have a little bit of audio of that final moment. Republicans are cheering this as the largest middle class tax cut in American history and much, much more. Of course, Democrats are hailing this as the worst thing that's ever happened in the history of our country. We will see because inevitably this was going to pass. And to be honest, I'll say one other thing before I play on this audio of them officially passing it. The funniest part to me is let's say it didn't happen. let's say the republicans have been more measured in their spending decisions and at some point in the near future uh... democrats got back into power do you think they would do the same thing do you think the spending if one person avoids it wouldn't inevitably happen into a more ridiculous degree later that either side we use it as an excuse you know we saved money uh... back then we're gonna go ahead and spend it all now we're always gonna operate at a deficit because drunken sailors are in charge of of the finances of this company And so whenever the drunken sailors start to realize that money's going the right direction, they're going to spend, spend, spend. But here we go. This is monumental. The big, beautiful bill did pass the House.
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On this vote, the yeas are 218, the nays are 214. The motion is adopted.
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The big, beautiful bill is now a thing that exists here in our country, and... The Republicans started chanting the Conservatives USA, USA. We will see. Many people are reacting to it already by saying that it's a tremendous win for Trump and for the nation. It's absolutely a win for President Trump. He wanted this. He campaigned on this. I think Mike Johnson actually had said yesterday at night when the arguing was going on about the big beautiful bill that 85% of President Trump's promises were in this big beautiful bill. I'm not sure that that exact number makes sense to me. I can play that audio too, actually. But I do think it's interesting that if that's the narrative they're going to go with, if that's the way they're going to sell it to the American people who voted Trump into office, he won even the popular vote. while winning convincingly the electoral college, then we will want to see all of those promises actually be, you know, realized. We would like to see all that happen. But here, this is the moment when Mike Johnson last night, while they were bickering and doing test voting and all kinds of other things, said that they really needed to pass this, which they've done, because, again, it contains so much of the promises made on the campaign trail.
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And so we believe we can get everybody to yes. We've got to get the final questions answered. The White House has been very helpful in that and fully cooperative. And, you know, that increases our chances of success here. The risk of failure is too great. All those things that you just said are included in this legislation. We call it the one big beautiful bill for a reason because it is both. And 85% or so of the President's agenda and campaign promises are wrapped into this. We are going to deliver it, and we've got to do it as soon as possible. The reason we put it on this aggressive timeline to do it by July 4th is not just so we can celebrate Independence Day and all the great things here, but... It's a little bit because of that.
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They all wanted to go home. They didn't want to keep working.
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We're going to get relief to the American people. Sean, this is going to be, as you and I have discussed, jet fuel to the U.S. economy. All boats are going to rise. We're going to have...
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So what's interesting about that, too, and that's probably enough of that clip from last night. They did inevitably pass the bill. I just played the audio a second ago. But what's interesting to me about all this is that we hopefully will see the reality of that last statement relatively quickly. And we already are. There already are many things that were happening that were good within the economy, good within the amount of hiring, the jobs report numbers that we were getting, the amount of those jobs that are actually full-time and not part-time jobs, essentially flipping a lot of the things that were going one direction with the Biden administration are now going a very different road with the Trump administration, and this is good. But to immediately see more of an impact on the way in which businesses invest in the United States, invest in creating things in the United States, all of those things hopefully become the backbone of selling the reality of the big, beautiful bill to the American people, not selling your position on whether you wanted it supported or not, because again, it's going to happen. but i just want to say it one more time and i'll move on to other things and it might seem like a silly point uh to bring up or to uh put out in the world but i love the fact that people pretend as though any one rational financial decision made by the government would prevent us from making a horrible completely irrational financial decision almost immediately after if not in the near future after and at the very worst when the other political party is in charge It feels very similar. I thought I was done. I'm not done. It feels very similar to when I talk about any sort of green energy stuff or any sort of global warming stuff. And I'm a millennial. I remember going to school and being taught in science class that global warming was real. I think there's some indoctrination that might have been at play there because... Scientists seem to disagree on some things more than you would believe if you just watch mainstream media and or listen in those classroom settings. Although I'm not pretending there's not parts of it that are real. But here's the thing that matters. If we cut down on our emissions through harming our economy this way, that way, if people like President Biden, when he was in office, continue to succeed at convincing their party that a war against oil and gas is a good thing, the rest of the world just compensates. They don't also follow suit because they don't give a crap about us. And Democrats don't give a crap about the budget. They don't give a crap about balancing the deficit. None of those things. So if Republicans had passed on their opportunity to do one big, beautiful bill that included a whole lot of what they believe in and not a whole lot of what Democrats believed in, the only thing that would happen is we would have spent that money later. I continue to call us drunken sailors. We're essentially people that don't know how to not max out their credit card. That's how our politicians behave. And if you swoop in and you pay off the whole credit card for somebody, you look at them and you're like, you really should max out again. They look back at you like, but I'm probably going to max out again. I'm just going to have to do it. It's just a thing I have to do. You got to cut them up. You got to destroy them all. You got to get rid of them. That's how the government behaves. And that's how they want to behave. And it's, it's awful. It's terrible. All right. Other things out there. It is almost the 4th of July. This is, of course, a very important holiday for a variety of reasons, both the fun that people can have on this day and then also acknowledging what it took to become a country in the first place. I mentioned this a little bit ago. I wanted to mention it again. something that i think about a lot uh... from my own childhood and i'm just a filling host for dana i i don't mean to take too long talking about myself here they can help it is going and seeing fireworks is a little kid and i i have to think that in the world we live in now uh... with the amount of people especially young people who are not proud to be an american a poll came out just the other day i think was in a people uh... that said that you know forty something percent of jen's ears are proud in some way to be an american even if it's just like a little bit proud which meant sixty percent or a little under that because i think three percent were undecided are not proud they're ashamed to be an american citizen uh... the same is true for a whole lot of democrats uh... republicans by and large seem to stay about eighty ninety percent of us are being proud of the country where from because we seem to understand how it could get a whole lot worse if you left and went to live in a bunch of other places in this world uh... but july fourth feels like the absolute perfect catalyst to having a conversation with a young person uh... your kid uh... whoever about the importance of our country the importance of the freedoms that exist within it how those freedoms remain regardless of who's in charge within the white house not trying to piss uh... uh... uh... not trying to besmirch or disparage President Trump, which it might sound like that's what that statement is. It's really more about Biden when he was in office. But for any young person that thinks that you can't be proud to be an American because they didn't like Donald Trump or something, telling them all those things and instilling in them a belief that our country is bigger than the politicians who try to run it is important. It's life-changing, I think, to a degree, if it actually works. And it's something that I remember, not that that was the conversation per se that I was having with my mom or any of my military uncles during the Fourth of July, but you do feel patriotic. In that moment, as you watch the fireworks explode, as people explain to you that the reason we're celebrating this is this was us declaring that we are, in fact, the nation that we've grown up to be, all of those things, it just seems like such an appropriate moment for that. So in honor of the holiday, in honor of something special, I just wanted to take a second on the show before we take a break and come back with some silly stuff before we get out of here. To remind everybody of the opportunity you have with your family and with your kids to go ahead and make this a holiday that's more meaningful than just, you know, having hot dogs and hamburgers outside and watching some things blow up. That there's a point to all of it. There's a reason to all of it. And having those conversations might in fact be what helps people get back to a world where more of us are proud to be Americans because we should be. Regardless of who you are and what you believe, I think you actually should be proud to be from this country. Again, because situations get way worse very quickly once you leave for a bunch of other places. And by the way, just quickly as a stat on this, the things that people actually do during the 4th of July to celebrate, 11% will watch sports, 5% go to the beach, 10% will go to a 4th of July parade of some kind, which I probably recommend you also do. 16% will go to a firework display and 33% will have a barbecue or picnic or something while most of those people are spending time with family. I think the 16% firework thing needs to go up because I do think that's part of that catalyst to having that conversation about the specialness of our society and our country is you get to look up in the sky and see things sparkle and explode as someone is telling you how difficult it was for the United States to get off the ground in the first place. All right. I will take a quick break. As I said, we'll do just a little bit more, some sillier stuff. One last time to mention it, as it happened during the creation of the show today, the big, beautiful bill was in fact passed. It has been passed by the House. It will be signed by the president tomorrow on Independence Day. And I heavily encourage him to lift several different sentences from when Bill Clinton bragged about what he was doing to get people on welfare to also become employed individuals. I just lift sentences from that speech. Say it during your speech about one of the benefits of the big, beautiful bill and watch as democratic media implodes, trying to understand how they can trash something that they praised just a short time ago. All right, quick break, a lot more Craig Collins filling in on the Dana show.
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This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. Just a little bit of time left to talk about all kinds of stuff. Just before the holiday, happy 4th of July weekend to everybody out there. It feels like it's officially starting on a Thursday. Johnny Carson would make jokes about the 4th of July and say all kinds of things about the importance of celebrating it. One of his monologues or a little piece of it from 1974 has gone viral. It's funny that we have multiple people doing late night television And none of them feel even remotely relevant enough for a show like this or honestly most media to want to show what they're doing and talking about before, you know, the 4th of July or any of those holidays. But Johnny Carson still holds that weight. And it's been quite a while since the 1974 show on July 3rd. Here we go.
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I see you all started celebrating the 4th by drinking a 5th. Is this the crowd tonight? Yeah, I did not bring any fireworks out tonight, but I do have a bomb. The monologue. Everybody out here is getting ready for the fourth. Were you over at the commissary today? Yes, I was. It's all kind of red, white, and blue. And that's just the tuna fish casserole. They're having a special out here at Burbank's McDonald's. They have an Independence Burger that they're making up. It's half meat and half prunes. And I want to tell you, one bite of the Independence Burger and you're really set free.
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I'm going to be honest, I don't hate the writing of one bite of the Independence Burger and you're really set free, even if it was 50 years ago that they wrote that joke. Well done, Johnny Carson. Of course, well done to the king of late night comedy. And again, it makes you so sad that the world we live in today is so different. than a world where someone like that existed and did stuff. All right. Other things out there that I thought were funny with just a few minutes left. People are asking if the mustache is making a comeback. A lot of famous young people in Hollywood, Timothee Chalamet, Donald Glover, Benson Boone, rock a mustache. They don't rock the full beard, which has long, I think, been the millennial or the Gen Z look. We're not really clean shaven as far as my generation goes. But now just the mustache. is a kind of thing that more and more people are gravitating toward, again, according to the internet and some decision-making of some famous people. I gotta tell you that out of everything I'd ever do in the world of rocking facial hair, and I'm a beard guy, I would never do the mustache. It seems way too hard for nowhere near the benefit. The best thing about having a beard, this is a weird rant, and I wanted to do it, and I'm doing it, and I don't care, um, And I also picture Dana Lash never doing a rant about the value of a beard. I just assume that's never going to happen. But the value of a beard to me is that you don't have to try hard to have a decent one. You can clean up the edges from time to time. You can go a day or two in between doing that if you want to be a little lazy. I'm not sure that it looks great to have the neck beard growing out too much. But that's the value of the beard is that occasionally you don't do maintenance the way you're supposed to. And the value of being completely clean shaven is essentially that you're walking around billboard demonstrating that you get stuff done, that you stick to any sort of things that you're committed to doing, that you shave every day, baby. Because I do think that it's simply the act of doing it that is more impressive than the look that I have when I have no facial hair. I look like a baby. That's at least my opinion. But the mustache is the worst of both worlds. You don't get the coverage of the full beard. You don't get any of that. You just have the mustache. The only time I ever would do that look is if I was signed by the old version of the New York Yankees, where you were only allowed to have a mustache and not full facial hair because it would have been awesome. But that's the only scenario for me. But they're asking, is the mustache making a comeback? Is it a mustache renaissance? a stash-sance or whatever they're calling it. So you answer the question. You tell us if you think that this is something that's actually occurring or if you absolutely don't care even a little bit at all. And I accept that. I accept that criticism now. But darn it, it's just in time for the holidays for me to talk and do something silly. And this is what I wanted to do. Now, one last thing. Just a PSA out there before I get out of here. Your pets hate fireworks, especially dogs, dogs and cats. Not a huge fan of them. There are things you can do to mitigate that feeling. There are even some medicinal things you can buy in pet stores now that do have like THC and stuff in them. My favorite solution to that problem is the Thunder Shirt. They're not paying me. This is not an advertisement. It is, I guess, technically, but not one that I'm making anything off of. My puppy, Mancha is her name, had long been very afraid of fireworks from when we first adopted her, and putting on a Thunder Shirt made things much better. So if you're unaware of this, if there's a store where you can go and grab one before tomorrow night, before the fireworks get set off in your community, and if you have a neighbor that does it for the next week, not just the next day, It's something I think that does help out a lot. I don't know why. I think that they say it's just the comfort of the dog feeling embraced by, you know, a very tight piece of fabric that's around their body during anything scary. And if you don't care enough about pets for that, then bah humbug to you, buddy. But all right, that's it. That's the show for me today. Thrilled to be with you. I'm actually back on Monday. Dana's back after that. Happy holidays, everybody. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show.
