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SPEAKER 08 :
It's finally Friday on Rush to Reason with your host, John Rush. So I tell him I'm a pro jack. And who do you think they give me? The Dolly Lama himself. So we finish 18, and he's going to sniff me. And I say, hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know? And he says, oh, it won't be any money. But when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness. So I got that going. And movie reviews with Andy Payton.
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I think you got the wrong impression about me. I think in all fairness, I should explain to you exactly what it is that I do.
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What I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.
SPEAKER 05 :
Chief Lane, what do you want to do tonight?
SPEAKER 08 :
The same thing we do every night, Pinky. Try to take over the world. Stick a fork in me, Jerry. I'm done.
SPEAKER 15 :
Now, here is your host of Rush to Reason, John Rush.
SPEAKER 18 :
And I'm your host, Andy Pate, filling in for John Rush today. I'm joined by Luke Cash and Tanner Cole. Man. This is always wonderful. As my wife says, I am the third best-looking guy in this room. It's incredible. Fourth.
SPEAKER 07 :
Charlie's through glass. No, he's in the next room. That's what she said.
SPEAKER 18 :
She said, by Charlie being in the next room, I am officially moved up to number three. It's very exciting, you know? It's very exciting. It sounds very exciting. Yeah, we have a great marriage. Okay, let's see here. Let's talk just a little bit. I know it's movie day. A little bit of news here. Have you heard of Hakeem Jeffries?
SPEAKER 06 :
What? No.
SPEAKER 18 :
He's the head of the Democrats in the House.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 18 :
So, you know, he's nobody.
SPEAKER 06 :
I thought you were speaking in tongues for a second.
SPEAKER 18 :
I know. Well, kind of. Yes. Well, he does a lot. Here we go. Hakeem Jeffries was asked about... The governor of California, Newsom, has been making some rather right-wing statements lately because he's trying to play the middle so he can run in 2020 whatever. So what he said was... They asked him basically, what do you think about Governor Newsom saying basically it was a mistake to let... Boys and girls sports, right? Because they're in the locker room, they're competing with them out on the track and whatever. And what Hakeem Jeffries says is, I was against, what we're worried about is boys, what was it? We are having some real problems here about boys actually... Sexual predators. Yeah, sexual predators threatening young girls. So I need you guys to help me out on this. So by taking boys out of the locker room where girls are changing, they can become sexual predators. Am I missing something here? So basically if, if I'm a young guy, okay. And you say, Hey, Andy, you can no longer go into the shower with the girls. And this makes me into a sexual predator.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 18 :
I was totally safe when I was in the shower.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right.
SPEAKER 18 :
In the locker room while they're changing. I was totally safe then.
SPEAKER 07 :
But now... I mean, middle school and high school, that's all I was trying to do was get in the girls' locker room. They wouldn't let me in. I know.
SPEAKER 06 :
I know you were. So, lots of change. I feel like you shouldn't say that on the air.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, I was underage. They were. So, it worked out.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, well, let's face it.
SPEAKER 06 :
I think that's... I still think that's illegal.
SPEAKER 18 :
There's a lot of teen boys who, let's say, but most are actually much more moral than Tanner. Okay, so, but he's saying that basically, so let's say if a guy is not allowed to beat the living daylights out of a girl in the boxing ring, what does he get bitter and then become a predator threat to women in general? I'm losing, am I missing something here? So getting women, I mean, getting men out of women's sports turns them into predators, right?
SPEAKER 07 :
Psychology 101, baby.
SPEAKER 18 :
Luke, help me.
SPEAKER 06 :
I don't know, man. I'm lost.
SPEAKER 07 :
The best part about Newsom saying that was he was talking with Charlie Kirk, and then Newsom brought up that his son is a fan of Charlie Kirk. So at least he raised his son right.
SPEAKER 18 :
That's incredible. Isn't that funny? Actually, I saw a lot of it. I thought it was a really good interview. Newsom is actually good at doing this. Yes, he is. Well, he's a good liar, but I mean, he actually has a good delivery on his show. Okay, here's another thing. Democrats being weird, they are now going to launch a 40-day boycott of Target.
SPEAKER 07 :
Target was the one that gave them the LGBTQ kids section. I thought conservatives were boycotting Target.
SPEAKER 18 :
No, no, no, no, no, no. That was before. Now Target is backing off their DEI, okay? And so leftists who are upset about the backlash, who are upset about this, are going to give up Target for Lent. Now, first of all, do any leftists believe in Lent? No. Okay, I'm sorry, but that's a small group. But at least it gives them a period of time. So it's 40 days. All right. And I guess, let's see, I'm sure this will be just as effective as, let's see, they had the Walmart blackout. Remember that from April 7th to the 13th? That's why there's no Walmarts anymore. They're all gone.
SPEAKER 07 :
I noticed this.
SPEAKER 18 :
They vanished.
SPEAKER 07 :
So did the Broncos.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, totally. Because now that Walmart's gone, we have no Broncos teams. So have you picked a new one? Well, you're already a Chargers fan. Let's see here. They also, Amazon blackout. That was March 7th to 14th. And I've noticed Amazon is no longer on my computer. It's very effective. 24-hour spending blackout. February 28th, March 28th, and April 18th. What are they talking like? Total spending?
SPEAKER 07 :
They were talking about, like, don't buy from big businesses. I saw a bunch of liberals posting it. Don't buy from big businesses. Like, support local businesses only on that day. And it was like a Friday, so everyone's probably shopping. Kind of hard to go local.
SPEAKER 18 :
It was incredibly effective. And, you know, I think they should work for Doge.
SPEAKER 06 :
Isn't it?
SPEAKER 18 :
I mean, if they want a spending blackout. Go ahead, Luke.
SPEAKER 06 :
I was going to say, isn't it a bit ironic? Isn't the whole support local businesses thing, like, very conservative? Isn't that...
SPEAKER 18 :
Generally, yeah. You know, but actually that kind of cuts across the divide, don't you think, Tanner? I mean, I think most people, I mean, I personally, I have no problem with the national chains. Do you guys shop more of the local stuff or do you like the national chains? I mean, the national chains are cheaper. Yeah. Are they?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, I mean, I'd prefer to shop locally, just like on principle, but it's hard when money's tight.
SPEAKER 07 :
Definitely, especially with like food products they have to upcharge because they don't have as much as supply.
SPEAKER 18 :
Why do you hate small business? I want to know with both of you. What is it?
SPEAKER 06 :
Because I hate people, and I don't want them to succeed.
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Do you guys feel more predatory now that men are out of women's sports? Let's get back to that. I just, you know, you're young men. Do you feel more predatory in general? I mean, is this going to turn you into evil people? No? No.
SPEAKER 06 :
No, no, I hope not.
SPEAKER 18 :
I'm sorry, but I still can't get that one out of my head.
SPEAKER 07 :
My mouth was open for 20 seconds trying to think of a reason for that guy to say that.
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, I'm sorry we had problems with the sound here. Luke is working on that right now.
SPEAKER 07 :
We're troubleshooting.
SPEAKER 18 :
Oh, thank you so much. That's going to be important in our number two. When we talk about, what are we going to talk about?
SPEAKER 07 :
Short. People. Short people in movies.
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Yes, and that's going to be in honor of Zelensky.
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Yes, he was the star of the show last week, Little Man vs. Big Boys. Yeah. And he got his teeth kicked in and is now fighting just to get back in the Oval Office.
SPEAKER 18 :
You know, I didn't watch closely. Was he in a high chair?
SPEAKER 07 :
I thought so. The memes have been great.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, there have been a lot of good ones. Well, you know, today only we can pick on short people because of Zelensky. And I had permission to do this from my wife, who is 5'1". It's fun. She skitters across the floor at home, you know.
SPEAKER 07 :
She's got one of those ice skating backpacks she rolls on around.
SPEAKER 18 :
She does. Now, this is real. Whenever I go to the store, I can't find her. Okay. You know, like when you go to these clothing places and they got all the racks that are, you know, almost up to eye level. And if I were to go with you, I could see you anywhere you were. Let's say you go to Walmart and you're in that menswear section or whatever. With my wife, I have absolutely no clue where she is.
SPEAKER 07 :
Got to go in the intercom.
SPEAKER 18 :
Oh, yes, exactly. A little girl is lost, lost in aisle five. So anyway, we're going to be having fun. If you have any ideas in honor of Zelensky in the second hour, 303-477-5600, and if If you call in with any movie characters or actors, but if you call in with any short ones who are also angry, that's extra points.
SPEAKER 07 :
Bonus, yeah.
SPEAKER 18 :
Just so you know. All right. Anyway, let's take a break. Well, before we do, I don't think the spending thing is going to hurt Target to you.
SPEAKER 07 :
People just repost and then don't even do anything. It's ridiculous.
SPEAKER 18 :
I don't think anybody cares.
SPEAKER 07 :
No.
SPEAKER 18 :
What, because Target's not liberal enough?
SPEAKER 07 :
I mean, all these companies.
SPEAKER 18 :
They are very liberal.
SPEAKER 07 :
All these big companies went left for you, and then they saw the backlash from conservatives. Yes. And then even liberals and independents who didn't agree with the LGBTQ stuff. And then now they're switching back. I mean, look at Bud Light. Those guys are still in shambles.
SPEAKER 18 :
They are in shambles. Well, now Target has even said, and this is what I don't understand. They said, we're getting rid of DEI. However, we're still going to hire based on merit. Yeah. Oh, no. We're going to factor in race and gender and these things for hiring. And yet they say they're getting rid of DEI. I don't think they understand the whole concept.
SPEAKER 07 :
I don't think so either.
SPEAKER 18 :
No, they're too liberal.
SPEAKER 07 :
They probably think DEI is like a government agency or something.
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I think they do. I think they do. Which means Trump's going to throw it out. All right, let's take a break here. When we come back, we've got movie reviews. Are you ready, gentlemen? Oh, I'm so ready. Okay, up next is Dr. Scott Faulkner. Guys, he's an innovator. Why? Because when you're not owned by insurance companies, you can innovate. You can put the patient first. For You First Medicine on the cutting edge, call Dr. Scott at 303-663-6990.
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And welcome back to Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560, Andy Pate. Filling in for John Rush along with Tanner Cole. Man. And Luke Cash. Man. Okay, Tanner, buddy, got a question for you.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, what's up?
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Are you ready for a movie? I'm ready for a movie. All right, Tanner. I got another question for you. How many lives does it take to save mankind?
SPEAKER 07 :
You probably never... Oh, I've thought about this. There's one, and he's in the White House right now. Oh, okay. Big old Donald.
SPEAKER 18 :
That was good. That was good. That was very quick. Well, there's another way to do it, and let's find out in Mickey 17.
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almost every single one of you will be remembered throughout history they made me work my ass off giving me one mission after another you're an expendable you're here to be expended every time i died they just printed me out again everyone asks what's it feel like to die
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This ship was filled with mostly dickheads. But Nasha, she's always loved me. That's when everything changed.
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We're multiples.
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In the case of multiples, we exterminate every individual. Which body goes first? One at a time is twice the fun.
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You don't look like you're printed out. You're just a person.
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This is a fight to the death.
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Okay, in this, does that sound fun?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I've seen a few trailers for this. It looks good.
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I have been looking forward to this movie. Okay, in this futuristic thriller, Robert Pattinson. Robert Pattinson, I like him. He stars as Mickey Barnes, a guy heavy in debt and running from mobsters. Mickey escapes the ice planet of, it's hard to say this, Nephilim? Anyway, with his friend Timo. But how should he make a living once he's there? OK, once again, he needs money. He's running from mobsters. He is at the end of his rope. What's he going to do? How does he make a living? How about dying? All right. So Mickey signs up to be a thing called an expendable. What's that? Well, cloning has been made illegal unless you're part of this program where they clone you in space. Just because. I guess it's okay in space. Well, it seems mankind wants to colonize Nephilim because, you know, we always want to colonize. We're kind of into that. And along the way, we want to test every environment and poison with a human test subject. Guess who? Mickey. It's awful work, but dying is a living, right? As Mickey goes through lives gaining data, his only comfort is Nasha. She's played by Naomi Ackie, and she's a brilliant soldier and Mickey's girlfriend. There are plenty of side characters. You've got Mark Ruffalo. He's playing a moronic and corrupt politician who, along with his power-hungry wife, Toni Collette, leads the mission. So we get kind of an Avatar feel. Avatar meets Edge of Tomorrow, meets Hunger Games. Okay, then. You get the feel for it, right? On Nephilim, Mickey encounters natives, and darned if they don't want to be conquered. I mean, what a shocker, right? They're gruesome, but they might have some good in them. Maybe, maybe not. Can Mickey save mankind? Should he? And just how many Mickeys are there? That's the story of Mickey 17. What do you think, Tanner?
SPEAKER 07 :
Sounds like it could be fun. Yeah. Sounded like there was some good music, some good actors. I've been excited for it.
SPEAKER 18 :
Some very good actors. Well, the look of it, just, I'll be honest, this is a movie I've been looking forward to for a few months. So here we go. What works in Mickey 17? First of all, you have a spectacular look. It's like you're combining Dune, Minority Report, Blade Runner. You're kind of mashing them all together. That sounds very cool because they were all cool looking movies. You have a lot of gray, but in cool ways. Does that make sense?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 18 :
Okay. Robert Pattinson is great again. In fact, this is one of his best performances. He is a tremendous actor.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I really like him.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, he basically nails it every time. And he gives each Mickey a unique personality. I like that. There are impressive CGI effects. You can tell they spent quite a bit of money on this. on the look of this movie, along with sad, scary deaths for Mickey, which is tough to watch. OK, he's going to die from this. He's going to die from this. I mean, they're literally testing things on him or sending him into terrible environments where, of course, he can die and they can learn how to go into those environments again. He is, you ever watch the old Star Trek show with Kirk, Spock, them? Okay, then you wouldn't know this. They would always send a guy down to the planet first. The security guy is wearing the red shirts. You were doomed. You were going to die if you were in a red shirt. You always were going to die first. Futurama, the cartoon, made fun of this. And just nobody wanted to wear a red shirt with Kirk. Well, anyway, that is Mickey. It's not a good life. And one other thing that works in Mickey 17, the first half has a nice pace. It's got a really good story for the first half. It's really kind of cooking along. What doesn't work in Mickey 17? Far too long at two hours and 17 minutes. Now that can work if you got the story to support it. They did not. The story wasn't good enough to carry that runtime. This thing definitely needed to be edited. I think the editor was the first one they sent down to the plant.
SPEAKER 06 :
That was the first guy, huh?
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, he was the first guy to go. And Mickey One was the editor. He didn't last long. Here's a big problem. It's preachy. It's hyper-woke. It's led exclusively by evil white people. And mankind colonizes and abuses. The corrupt leader's followers wear red hats and talk like a cult. Tanner, who are they making fun of?
SPEAKER 07 :
Handmaid's Tale.
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, red hats.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, yeah, MAGA. Sorry. Yeah, exactly. I own one, too. I shouldn't own that.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, I know. You would have been in row three in this movie when he's speaking. Seriously, red hats, and they talk like they're part of a religious cult. It's just, yikes. Okay, thankfully, there is a black woman and a lesbian to help Mickey in his mission, okay? Because that's what you need. Once again, I don't care, folks, but, you know, they're just doing the imagery, the woke imagery. And, of course, Christian fanaticism rules the villains. Got to pour it on, right? Us terrible Christians. We're coming to get you, and man, oh man, if we can go to another planet and go after colonizing and wiping out whatever's there, we're down for that.
SPEAKER 07 :
That's why we're going to Mars.
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, Jesus was big on that. He always wanted us to go and clobber species on other planets. It's in the Greek. I'll explain it to you later. Okay, let's see here. The performances of Ruffalo and Colette. This surprised me. They're two fine actors. They were flat out embarrassing. They were over the top. They were stupid. Colette wasn't as bad. Ruffalo was awful.
SPEAKER 07 :
I love Colette. I think she's great.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, I do, too. But this was just kind of like, you know, I mean, don't get me wrong. A lot of these futuristic movies, you have very exaggerated characters. I get that. But I just wasn't buying it. It just wasn't. It wasn't entertaining. And also you would have a lot of scenes where they were drawing it out and being ridiculous. That went long. And you're just kind of like, OK, come on, wrap it up, wrap it up, wrap it up. But worst of all was the pace after Midway. Oh, my gosh. The story slowed to a crawl. after Midway. It really did. And it was just getting into more preaching and wokeism and stuff like this, but that's okay. I didn't care because I'd lost interest and basically things were happening on the screen and I just wanted to get away. This was boring. I was really bored. I mean, I mentally checked out at about two thirds of the way through. I was just like, I was, I was struggling. I was really struggling. In the end, this is left-wing propaganda wrapped up in big style and a boring story. And that is Mickey 17. Bummer.
SPEAKER 06 :
I was looking forward to it.
SPEAKER 18 :
I know. Well, the first half's good. You know, after that, it gets just kind of... I mean, don't get me wrong. It has moments throughout. It has moments throughout because this is impressive to look at. I just love sci-fi. I really do. Right. These kinds of sci-fi. But, oh, man, pick it up. OK, Rotten Tomatoes. And this is interesting. They gave it 81 percent, but it started off. It was like at 95 percent. And this was all the initial reviews that came out. And then everyone that came out afterward, and a lot of times the ones that come in later are the more honest ones. A lot of the earlier ones, I don't know if they want to get good with the producers or the studios. But it went from 95, 94, 92, 89, 87, 85, 83, down to 81. You could kind of understand it was drifting down. But still, that's four-star territory. No, no way. Quality two stars. This is simply not entertaining enough. I love the concept. I love Robert Pattinson. I love some of the acting, but no, this was boring.
SPEAKER 07 :
Do you say Rotten Tomatoes at 81? Yes. Now down to 79. So it kept dropping.
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, this is a funny thing because this had a lot of initial reviews that came out. And like I said, this thing was up around 96. Okay. Now it's at 79. And falling. Well, I don't think it'll fall much further, but the later ones are usually the more honest ones. And I don't mean because they're usually meaner. Sometimes the later ones are nicer and they bring a film up and you go to the film and you're like, hey, that wasn't so bad. Right. This was not a very good film. I'm not saying it was terrible. I'm giving it two out of five. But was it worth watching? No. OK, political one star. I'm probably being nice there. I probably could have gone lower, but it's not like they harp on politics and political commentary all through the movie. They don't. Okay. A lot of it is just imagery. And, you know, the bad guys have to be white and the, you know, the good guys. It's just after a while, it just gets old. But also the red hats. I couldn't get over the red hats and the Jesus talk. Okay. It was just ick. Political one, more religious one. So if you are a conservative Christian, you know, that doesn't mean we can't go to liberal movies. I do it. Sometimes you just turn off that side of the brain. You just say, hey, entertain me. I'm good. I'm here to have fun, not for social commentary. But... Understand this. If you're a conservative Christian, they don't like you. OK, the people who made this and you will have that in your face. I just want to warn you. But the biggest problem is this. After Midway, this movie is too long, too boring, too preachy and ultimately not that well acted. Mickey 17. Do I recommend going to Mickey 17? I'm afraid I don't, folks, which is really hard to say because it's that time of year. I thought we needed a blockbuster. We didn't get it.
SPEAKER 07 :
Same guy who did Parasite.
SPEAKER 18 :
I know, and Parasite's great! Okay, so... But this happens. You'll have these directors who do a great movie, right? And then they come out and do another one that's got this big budget, and it bombs. I don't know that this will bomb. I think it'll have a pretty good week one, but after that, I don't think it'll do anything. Okay, let's take a break. Got another movie after that. Up next is... What is up next? Veteran Windows and Doors. Hey, did you know different windows and doors have totally different values and ratings?
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SPEAKER 18 :
And welcome back to Rush to Reason. Denver's Afternoon Rush. KLZ 560. Andy Pate filling in for John Rush along with Luke Cash. Man. And Tanner Cole. Man. And Luke. What a wuss. Okay, we got to fix that. Otherwise, I'm going to go all the way up to number two for most handsome man in the room. Man. Thank you. I'm back to three. Okay. Luke. Yeah. Buddy.
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What's going on?
SPEAKER 18 :
Are you ready for a movie?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah. I don't know. These ones have been kind of stinkers. I don't know if I want to be too excited. I've been burned a couple times. Mickey was bad. I mean, well.
SPEAKER 18 :
You've been burned before. I've been burned before.
SPEAKER 06 :
I don't want to commit that much enthusiasm.
SPEAKER 18 :
You're not sure if you want to put yourself out there. Yeah. I'm scared now.
SPEAKER 06 :
You're scared. You give me a good movie, I'll come back with more enthusiasm. Okay.
SPEAKER 18 :
I'll do my best. All right. Let me ask you this. Would you help someone become a werewolf if they said, I want to be a werewolf?
SPEAKER 06 :
You know, if they asked nicely or paid me.
SPEAKER 18 :
It just seems like a bad career choice.
SPEAKER 07 :
Really? I do it for cash. Do you mean a werewolf or a furry?
SPEAKER 18 :
They want to be a werewolf. What's the difference? They can go back and forth. They can transition when the moon comes.
SPEAKER 07 :
I love transitioning.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, you know, that's big nowadays.
SPEAKER 06 :
Everybody wants to transition. I'd do it for a Big Mac and five bucks.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yes, you would. I've seen you with Big Macs. Okay. Well, you might help someone become a werewolf in The Lost Lands.
SPEAKER 04 :
If you've got the time in the stomach for it, I've got a story for you. The world you know is gone. Consumed by the flames of a great war long ago. All that's left now are the Lost Lands. I'm looking for a guide. Someone who knows the Lost Lands. Why are you gonna leave the city? Treasure. Immense power. Friends of yours? I don't have many friends. Me neither.
SPEAKER 10 :
Find them.
SPEAKER 04 :
Outside these walls, laws of nature, they don't apply.
SPEAKER 1 :
It won't be easy.
SPEAKER 18 :
Here they come, Luke. What do you think?
SPEAKER 06 :
Sounds like someone really spent, like, 50 bucks for the generic, like, Universal Productions audio. Like, I'm sure I've heard this in our library before.
SPEAKER 18 :
No, this is totally new and cutting edge. All right. Films like In the Lost Lands, these are guilty pleasures, okay? I mean, you ever watch Resident Evil or Underworld, stuff like that?
SPEAKER 07 :
Director or someone that was involved in Resident Evil that was a part of this movie.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, Paul W. Anderson, same director, same star, actually. Mila Jovovich, who, by the way, is his wife. But these are dumb movies, and I like them. I watch Resident Evil movies because, well, you know, it's embarrassing. That's why I'm number three in this room.
SPEAKER 06 :
Are the residents, are they evil?
SPEAKER 18 :
yes whoa well they're they're zombies okay it's zombie movies wow you haven't seen these no okay have you tanner no oh wow i'm the only one well they're kind of fun all right all right well here we go there but director paul w anderson he makes a lot of these kinds of movies these guilty pleasures where you're watching this thinking this is really stupid but i'm having fun i don't care They're cool looking, they're shallow, they have crazy fights and video game action, all this stuff. Well, Mila Jovovich, once again, she stars as Gray Alice, a witch warrior in a post-apocalyptic world. Now, this is, of course, totally different from Jovovich's Resident Evil character, who is named Alice and is a super-powered warrior in a post-apocalyptic world.
SPEAKER 06 :
Very different.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, very different. Totally different.
SPEAKER 06 :
Got it.
SPEAKER 18 :
It's the same character, guys. I mean, practically the same person. I think she can do it. You know, Jovovich is actually a fine actress who has done a lot of good stuff.
SPEAKER 07 :
She just can't get away from her husband, apparently.
SPEAKER 18 :
Apparently not. Well, anyway, Grey, she's on the run from pseudo-Christian zealots. Boy, we've got a lot of that going on today. Wanting to kill her. And she also has a tough job. She grants wishes. Basically, if someone asks, Grey has to provide. Well, that's pretty tough. Yeah. But now, Queen Melange. Queen Melange. She has a new request. Make me into a werewolf. She has her own reasons. Whatever. If you're into that. You do you. You do you. Okay. Well, the problem is Grey's a witch, not a genie. She can't do everything. So she must track and kill a werewolf. Right? She's got to bring back aspects of the werewolf in order to bring its secrets back for the queen. Got that? You following me so far?
SPEAKER 06 :
I'm tracking.
SPEAKER 18 :
You're tracking. All right. Well, to aid in her quest, Gray hires a great tracker, a bounty hunter named Boyce, played by Dave Bautista. Great actor. I mean, right up there with De Niro. I'm telling you.
SPEAKER 07 :
I'm kidding. He's not even a real actor. Okay. He's like Danny Trevejo or whatever his name is.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yes. Trejo. Yeah. Okay. Well, together, by the way, we're doing short actors next hour. Danny Trejo is only 5'6".
SPEAKER 07 :
Really? Yeah. He's always portrayed as this big bad boy. I know. He looks so big.
SPEAKER 18 :
All right. Getting back to this movie because this is very important. Let's see here. Together, they're going to get that werewolf.
SPEAKER 06 :
Got to get it.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, maybe they'll buy him like Greenland. I have no idea. Boyce knows the Lost Lands. Okay, so he knows the Lost Lands, which are everything outside the city. What's happened is in this post-apocalyptic world where you've had a lot of nukes go off, right? By the way, there was a great scene where you see just the remnants of all the windmills.
SPEAKER 07 :
I saw that in the preview. That was kind of cool.
SPEAKER 18 :
Any movie that destroys windmills is my kind of movie, just so you know. Well, the Lost Lands are everything outside the one city where basically mankind still lives. Everything else outside of it has been, for the most part, destroyed. Boyce knows the Lost Lands, so he's going to guide her. Along the way, they're fleeing religious zealots who are in a locomotive. And they're trying to get away from them. Maybe they should, I don't know, stay away from the tracks. Just a thought.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, easy, I feel.
SPEAKER 18 :
Tracks go straight. I know. If you want to get away from them, turn left or right. I'm just spitballing here, but I think it's a good idea. And there are also nuclear fallout zombies. Yeah, baby. Nuclear fallout zombies. This is very important.
SPEAKER 06 :
Because famously, when you get nuked, you turn into a zombie. Yeah. And that's how that works.
SPEAKER 18 :
It is cool, though. I like nuclear fallout zombies. I dated one. All right. Back to the day. Look, I was young, okay? I didn't know what was great and what was good. I've really dated up since then. Danger and scandal are everywhere. So can these two work together and save the day? That's the question. Luke, what do you think?
SPEAKER 06 :
I fell asleep, I think, halfway through.
SPEAKER 18 :
You did? Yeah. Yeah, me too. What works in The Lost Lands? Well, first of all, Jovovich, she excels at this type of sci-fi action role. Same as Alice in Resident Evil. And by the way, you guys need to watch the first Resident Evil. You now have homework. It's very good. It's fun. It is. It's very... Am I right? See, look, Charlie, he's nodding his head. Resident Evil is very cool.
SPEAKER 06 :
The 2002 Resident Evil?
SPEAKER 18 :
Yes. The second one is not good. The third and fourth are actually pretty good.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 18 :
Charlie agrees with me. Okay, well, Mila Jovovich, she excels at this kind of role. She really does. I like her. She does the action role. She's also, this is a lady who's 50 years old, very fit, very athletic, keeps herself in great shape, and knows how to do all the fight scenes. She's actually good at it. She's not like one of these actresses who you just put into an action role. She's natural. Next, Bautista also excels at playing a big action guy. Everyone's typecast. All right? That's what he does. Big muscle-bound action guy. The look is interesting. There's a lot of orange lighting. I don't know if you noticed on the preview. Yeah. So, you know, they give it this kind of cool, otherworldly look. And that's it. That's pretty much all that works in The Lost Lands. What doesn't work in The Lost Lands? First, why add in at the beginning? Why not just call it The Lost Lands?
SPEAKER 07 :
I agree.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah. I've seen better acting in school plays.
SPEAKER 07 :
Middle school.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yes. There is literally no chemistry between Jovovich and Batista, which is bad because they're on the screen together for almost the entire movie. And there's no chemistry. I mean, there's just two people saying lines. And I want you to understand how all the lines are delivered in this movie. So I need both of you to help me out here really quick here. Okay. So we're going to do a quick play. Luke, I need you to say this like this. Just deadpan. I am fine.
SPEAKER 06 :
I am fine.
SPEAKER 18 :
I am fine.
SPEAKER 06 :
I am fine.
SPEAKER 18 :
Okay. And Tanner, I need you to say that is good.
SPEAKER 07 :
That is good.
SPEAKER 18 :
Okay. Now I'm going to give everybody an idea of the dialogue in this movie and the speed of it. Okay, I'll go first, then Luke. You know your line. You know your line. Don't speak until I point to you. How are you? I am... No! Hold! No! Hold!
SPEAKER 06 :
I saw your arm.
SPEAKER 18 :
Haven't you ever seen... Okay, let's try this one.
SPEAKER 06 :
All right, one more time, one more time. We got it. I'm locking in.
SPEAKER 18 :
How are you?
SPEAKER 06 :
Hold. Hold. I am fine. Hold. Hold. Hold!
SPEAKER 07 :
That is good.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yes! Wow. Okay, it was incredible. It was incredible. There were huge gaps between almost all the lines in this movie. I had no idea why. And they were trying to make each one melodramatic and important. And I'm just like, say it. Please. What is that movie, Zootopia, where you've got the DMV sloths? Yeah, that's what it felt like. It felt like I was watching the sloths for the entire movie. Okay, but the action scenes are very similar. Too many slow motion fights. OK, Dave Bautista, you know, is huge, muscular and everything. But I kept thinking in the time this guy throws a punch, I could beat the hell out of him. All right. And I mean, it was it was just like, guys, you're taking forever to do everything. And besides that, the action was pretty mad. All right. If you watch the action in Resident Evil, trust me, it cooks. Not here. It really doesn't. Mila, she fought like in Resident Evil, but there was no explanation why. I mean, keep in mind, she's a witch. She's not a super ninja fighter. But she was a super ninja fighter, even though she's a witch. Nobody explains why. I mean, maybe they thought she was a witcher.
SPEAKER 07 :
Did she go to, like, Dagestan or something and learn how to fight?
SPEAKER 18 :
I think she did. I think she did. She learned from a guru. All right. Yet another tired negative depiction of Christians. Look out, we're coming to get you. I mean, the glorious ending. Seriously, guys, the glorious ending. Yeah, I'm giving it away. I don't care. It featured corrupt clergy dying and a huge cross being blown up. Oh, come on. Jeez Louise, people. I think they filmed this whole movie in a basement with a green screen. I've seen toupees look more real. I'm sorry. I wonder if they made shadow animals on the screen like bunnies. That would have been funny. I mean, the hours must have just flown by on set. It just looked like you were in front of a green screen and they were moving animals. scenery behind you, the entire team. Like, behind you, there was a screensaver.
SPEAKER 07 :
Literally like a middle school play where they're rolling out the props.
SPEAKER 18 :
I know, while they're talking like this. How are you?
SPEAKER 06 :
I am fine.
SPEAKER 07 :
That is good.
SPEAKER 18 :
There you go. Exactly.
SPEAKER 07 :
This reminds me of The Room, but not funny because it's so bad.
SPEAKER 18 :
It was bad. Frankly, this was a terribly boring movie. I struggled to stay focused. Okay, with movies like this, Maybe Trump shouldn't stop the drug trade. We may need some of that stuff to get us through this. I wasn't sure if I could do it the natural way. I did. I made it. This was tough. There were claw marks all over the auditorium doors as people tried to get out. Rotten Tomatoes, they actually agreed with me. And this is the funny thing. You got a movie that beats up Christians, right? You would think all the Christian-hating reviewers on Rotten Tomatoes, which literally is over 90% of them, you would think that alone would beef it up to 40, 50%, right?
SPEAKER 1 :
16.
SPEAKER 18 :
Sweet 16, baby. That's pretty bad. They hated this movie. I hate this movie. Quality, one half star for In the Lost Lands. This was pure pain. Start to finish. Political, two. More religious, one. I have no idea why they made this movie. They have no idea why they made this movie. And Dave Bautista, dude. Learn to act. Do something.
SPEAKER 07 :
I mean, I thought he was decent in that Glass Onion movie. He was okay. He played the same role he plays every time. Big, buff guy.
SPEAKER 18 :
He played him.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, basically.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, it just wasn't working.
SPEAKER 07 :
What's funny about this movie is for the budget, they list it at $55 million plus. They don't even tell you roughly what the number is. What'd they spend it on? Exactly. Her makeup? Renting out the basement for three years. I have no idea. The basement of Paramount or something?
SPEAKER 18 :
Dude, we made a movie in our basement. It's so cool.
SPEAKER 06 :
I think it was all team building dinners. They all went out on like, you know, retreats for the film crew.
SPEAKER 18 :
Exactly. Guys, you're all doing great. What's...
SPEAKER 07 :
Smells like a tax write-off. Box office currently sits at $100,000.
SPEAKER 18 :
It's rocking, baby. Okay, folks, do I recommend, this is obvious, do I recommend going to In the Lost Lands? No, I would actually recommend going to the other movie, Mickey 17, over this. I would recommend going to Mickey 17 17 times.
SPEAKER 06 :
I recommend listening to this show over and over and over for the duration of both movies.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah. We are more entertaining. Actually, we are more entertaining, especially when we did the lines. I thought that was very. I think we nailed it. Well, you guys, you brought that dramatic heft.
SPEAKER 07 :
I was the constable and fiddler on the roof. Well, there you go. Eighth grade. So, you know, that was the jester in fifth grade.
SPEAKER 18 :
I played a tooth in a school play. A tooth? Yes. I mean, I think all of us really have the chops to excel in a movie like this. I think we do. Maybe Paul W. Anderson is going to give us a call next time. All right. Let's take a break and get away from this movie because I think a lot of people will also want to get away from In the Lost Lands. Up next is Geno's Auto Service. They have the best warranty because they have great mechanics. Don't take chances with your car. Get it fixed at Geno's. By the way, you know, we always say that, folks, go online, go to their website, and take a look at all the reviews. I mean, people love this place. People swear by Geno's. So, really, if you want to trust the place you take your car, take it there. It's 303-794-6700.
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SPEAKER 18 :
Now back to Rush to Reason on KLZ 560. And welcome back to Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. I am Andy Pate filling in for John Rush along with Tanner Cole and Luke Cash. We're going to be talking about short people in the next hour, which is kind of fun because I'm the short person in here. You guys are both pretty tall. How tall are you?
SPEAKER 06 :
I'm 6'2", last I checked. Yeah.
SPEAKER 18 :
And you're 6'2"? How tall are you? Four feet. And, you know, it's kind of embarrassing. Short king.
SPEAKER 06 :
Short king. Short king. short king so what qualifies as short what's your because to me anything under six foot short for me but you know 511 is the average height of a man is you know i am 511 short i am average i'm a hair over 511 like 511 511 and a half i think 511 and a half that's cute
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, it is cute. I am cute. And by the way, I don't take it poorly when you pat me on the head. I think that's fine. I want to play a little bit from a guy named Nick Guerra. And he is, let's hope people can hear this. Sorry, folks. It's been a weird day technologically.
SPEAKER 06 :
You know what I was thinking? I was thinking, as opposed to playing clips from your computer, let's print out the script of every clip, and then we'll table read all the clips.
SPEAKER 18 :
Or we can do it with expressive dance. It won't be great radio.
SPEAKER 06 :
But it'll be good for us.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, it'll be great for us. Okay, here we go. Nick Guerra talking about short people problems, because he's short.
SPEAKER 03 :
I'm alright with it, man. I'm 5'5", I'm short. Any other short people in here? Yeah, isn't it great when you're around other short people? Right, everything makes sense finally, right? Every conversation's eye to eye, you know? It feels like the Shire got back together, you know what I'm saying? You get four short people together, we just start dancing for no reason. We're just like, we represent, we kick it. It's a great time. It's exciting. It's tough for short people, right? Short people, we have to have little decorations, tiny Christmas trees, right? All of our pictures are right in the middle of the wall, no higher. We don't like cabinets. That's the worst, isn't it? Cabinets, and we're cocky enough to throw stuff on the top cabinets, like tuna cans. Oh yeah, I don't need those for five years, right? You got to pull out every drawer to climb up onto the kitchen counter. And then you're just stuck up there. You're just waiting for a real-sized adult to come save you. Help! I only got enough for two sandwiches.
SPEAKER 18 :
Okay. That was great. I like him. I think he's pretty funny.
SPEAKER 07 :
He's pretty funny.
SPEAKER 18 :
He is a little guy, though. He is a little guy.
SPEAKER 07 :
I got a bunch of short king friends, so.
SPEAKER 18 :
Do you? Yeah. Okay. You know, I've never known. You always hear that short people are like angry people. Have you seen this? I have not. The ones I know are quite jovial.
SPEAKER 07 :
I know a couple that it's frightening.
SPEAKER 18 :
The Napoleon complex?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, they start jumping and you can almost see them. eye level at that point and they're jumping in anger and rage.
SPEAKER 06 :
You can see them? They used to say in high school why short people are so angry. It's because they're just that much closer to hell.
SPEAKER 18 :
You know it's true though. I know. Okay, well, now in the next hour once again we're going to be doing movies and both either actors or characters who are short.
SPEAKER 06 :
Now, When we say characters... Yes. Do we... How, you know... Like all characters? Because... You know, are we limiting it to like real people? No, all characters. All characters. Good, because I started looking up short actors, and it's like, this guy's tiny. He's 5'9". I'm like, I feel like that doesn't really qualify.
SPEAKER 18 :
You know, Tanner, I hate to break this to Luke, but all the characters in movies are not real people. Just so you know, they're movie characters. The stuff's written.
SPEAKER 07 :
Ever heard of Tom Cruise? That guy looks like he's 6'3 in films.
SPEAKER 18 :
I know. And he's 5'7"? 5'6".
SPEAKER 07 :
I gave him 5'7". It says right here he's 5'6".
SPEAKER 18 :
Okay, you made him an inch taller. That's good.
SPEAKER 06 :
He'll like you. Tanner's only 6'1 now. Yeah, I lost. I gave it to him. You gave it to him.
SPEAKER 18 :
Tom Cruise... Is there anybody who's put out more movies that are just fun to watch? Than Tom Cruise? Yeah. Yes. Me. Okay. Anybody real? Actually, that last director... Luke has left reality. Go ahead there. I'm a character.
SPEAKER 07 :
That last director has put out quite a great set of films. But, I mean, Mission Impossible, there's like seven of them. Both top guns. I mean, even Collateral, people don't know about that movie. That's a great watch. I mean... You go down the line of Tom Cruise movies, it's hard to find one that's terrible. Oh, they're fun, fun.
SPEAKER 18 :
You ever see Jack Reacher?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I love Jack Reacher. Even some of those in the late 90s, I mean, he was fantastic.
SPEAKER 18 :
Oh, he's fantastic. I love Tom Cruise. By the way, the last mission is coming out here in a few months.
SPEAKER 06 :
Is it really the last one?
SPEAKER 18 :
I believe so.
SPEAKER 06 :
All right.
SPEAKER 18 :
I think so. Okay, folks, that's it for our number one. In our two, once again, we're going to honor Zelensky with short people. If you call in with short, angry people, that's even better. There's short movie actors and characters, and, you know, that's pretty exciting. Until then, keep it right here on Rush to Reason, KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 05 :
Bye. Bye.
On this enlightening episode of The Good News, host Angie Austin welcomes Jim Stovall, whose journey from an athlete to an author provides a rich backdrop for discussing his column 'Why It Matters'. Jim shares how experiences in sports and life's unexpected turns taught him valuable lessons about persistence and adaptability. He engages in discussions about passion, both in personal pursuits and as a powerful tool for connection with others. Following this inspiring conversation, Angie chats with Kenza Haddock, a licensed professional counselor, about her book 'The Three Enemies of Your Mental Health'. Kenza offers insights into combating mental health challenges, teaching the importance of distinguishing between voices that influence us and understanding the impact of social media on today's youth. Her personal journey from anxiety to finding purpose underscores the power of faith and resilience in overcoming adversity. This episode is a heartening reminder of the strength found in understanding sports as a metaphor for life and in deeply connecting with oneself and others through faith and open-minded exploration. With engaging discussions and practical advice, it promises to leave listeners equipped and inspired.
In this thought-provoking episode, Mike Gallagher takes us through the intricacies of political discourse, from Trump’s resilient policies to the divisive identity of the Democratic Party. Listen as Gallagher discusses potential threats from rising Democratic stars like Gavin Newsom, and unpacks media influence on public perception, calling for integrity in journalism. Discover why these political rivalries are more than just partisan games with real implications for future elections.
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The Mike Gallagher Show. The Democrats who couldn't find it in their heart to stand for objectively good things, including the 95-year-old mother of Mark Fogle, who got rescued from a Russian prison, and they couldn't even stand up for that. I thought Democrats came into this speech lost and defeated by Donald Trump, and today it looks to me like they're even more lost and even more defeated than when this speech started.
SPEAKER 20 :
In the ReliefFactor.com studios, here's Mike Gallagher.
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a lot of text messages approving of my white cracker voice that was not my cracker voice that was my announcer voice please please know the difference my my white cracker voice according to emory is how i sound when i'm not on air how i did the relief factor ad is my announcer voice i don't i'm not real sure maybe somebody can tell me what the white cracker voice sounds like Certainly it's got to be a southern accent because we know how tolerant the left is about the south. So it's definitely got to have a southern accent. But it would be a good question. I want to get into Charlie Kirk and Gavin Newsom. I got a text from Philadelphia today that got me thinking about Charlie sitting down with Gavin Newsom, who evidently has a podcast. And, oh, he's running. Guarantee you Gavin Newsom is running in 2028. And the way he's running is he's reaching out to conservatives big time. Big time. And I find it fascinating. I want to share with you the thoughts that some of my members of my team have because we were all talking about it internally a moment ago about what really is going on here with Gavin Newsom. And I want to get your take on it as well. But first, I mentioned a minute ago about the way the left has tried to destroy Mike Lindell. And Mike is so appreciative of the Mike Gallagher audience because you always support this company in a major way. Right now, MyPillow is offering the multi-use MyPillow 2.0 with the roll-and-go case regularly $49.94. Now just $9.98 with the promo code MikeG. Limit $15 per customer. MyPillow and Mike, they're thrilled about the first-ever mega sale on overstock clearance and brand-new products. For example, you'll save over 50% on this season's flannel sheets. Queen size, only $59.98. King size, only $69.98. And incidentally, free shipping, that free shipping offer ends Tuesday. If you've been thinking about buying some products at MyPillow and you love the free shipping offer, that's going to come to an end Tuesday. You know, some of the great things are for a limited time only, and this is an example of it. So go to MyPillow.com. Make it a MyPillow Friday. Check out the Mike Gallagher Specials Square. Click on that box, and then when you place your order, enter the promo code MikeG. so that you save a bunch of money, including the pillow that started it all for only $14.98. MyPillow.com, promo code MikeG. MyPillow.com, promo code MikeG, or call 800-928-6034. 800-928-6034. Sing along with me. For the best night's sleep in the whole wide world, visit MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG. All right, so here's a text from Philly. Conversation starter, which is what we like to do here. Why would Charlie Kirk give credibility to Gavin Newsom on his podcast interview? That's an absolute violation to elevate the status of that person. Now, first of all, I totally disagree with Philadelphia. Charlie was invited to Governor Newsom's podcast. Of course Charlie's going to accept. Why not? Charlie is a force of nature. And you're not going to probably find a bigger fan of Charlie Kirk than me. Charlie has done extraordinary work for this country, for conservatism, for the Republican Party, and certainly for President Trump. I saw a couple weeks ago, there was a week or so ago, maybe it was a few weeks ago, there was a big profile in the New York Times Sunday magazine on Charlie. I thought, oh boy, here we go. It was actually wonderfully positive, right? And giving credit where credit is due. And Charlie deserves a lot of credit. So if Gavin Newsom has a podcast, if the governor of California has a podcast, Charlie's going to go. I'm going to give you an example of Charlie just cooking Gavin Newsom. Check out this back and forth they had on the podcast that is getting a lot of attention, a lot of notoriety, where Charlie just schooled Gavin Newsom on the issue of the supposed book banning from conservatives.
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How about the book ban stuff on a serious note? 4,240 books or titles, libraries and schools are banned in 2023. Is that not as a conservative? Well, it depends.
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I mean, I think we can both agree pornography should not be taught to nine-year-olds. Fair point. Okay. So that's a book ban.
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All right.
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Well, there were some other books. That was the Moms for Liberty contention. Time out. Like I agree on Bill O'Reilly. The Moms for Liberty movement that you made a big thing of was just no porn to 10-year-olds. We agree. So those books should be banned. So what we should do right now is every California school that has porn in their library should be kicked out.
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Does that include the Bible?
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Well, I wouldn't say the Song of Solomon is porn. No, but I mean, some have made that point. Is that a fair point? I don't think that's fair at all.
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As a man of faith, and I deeply admire that about you. Thank you.
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But no, I mean, again, the Song of Solomon is rather... risque but what we're talking about in these books is not just the words it's also the images and again your audience can look at the images themselves okay it's highly graphic but again what it seems a banning binge i mean at next level sort of cancel culture but why do you think moms are doing that do you think it's because they want to have mind control or do you think that they have come across i think there's an incident of incident of highly provocative material i love moms but this moms i mean i've we don't have to get into moms for liberty it seems like the book bands though i mean deeply organized for a larger uh agenda but that's my humble opinion but i but for example let me just you know kind of complete the point is that it's easy to just call it kind of a book ban but when you actually have to read some of these books it will take your breath away of some of this stuff, right? You're like, okay, you know, we're teaching a 10 year old how to put a condom on.
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I know. I just have a problem with, you know, who the hell is going to decide that government? I mean, Doron DeSantis is going to decide what I can read or say in the boardroom.
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This is the exercise of politics though. The exercise of politics is the highest form of community because it blends morality and sociability. So what we do is we have discussion and elections and we have boards and commissions, right? And we, as a people say, okay, no porn for 10 year olds and that's politics, right?
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Now, that's game, set, match, Charlie Kirk. Let's face it. Charlie is a national treasure. I mean, he's just as good as it gets. And Gavin Newsom was left humming, humming, humming, humming, humming. Yeah, we don't want to, you know, share porn with 10-year-olds. We don't need to teach 10-year-olds how to put on a condom. Charlie's completely right. Gavin Newsom is wrong, and he knew it. But here's the thing. Gavin Newsom was just completely obsequious all throughout that entire podcast. I watched the whole thing. Oh, my teenage son loves you, Charlie. My son wanted to be here when I interviewed you. Oh, you're so good. Oh, you're so... It was sickening. And it's because Gavin Newsom is running for president in 2028. And he wants to win over anybody on our side of the aisle. So my question to you is, is the Philadelphia texter right that Charlie, maybe inadvertently, is elevating Gavin Newsom? Is that texter correct, or do you agree with me? Of course Charlie should go wherever he's invited to go. But what's behind Gavin Newsom? Now, I just asked Tracy and Christian on my team, let me bring one of my producers in, Christian, on the issue of whether or not, why conservatives like Sean Hannity and Charlie Kirk, two of my favorites, and both friends of mine, seem to have an affinity for Gavin Newsom. Christian Russell, that's your theory, that a lot of people on our side like the guy, right?
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Yeah. Sean Hannity, Jesse Waters both have said that they personally like Gavin Newsom. And I think that's the thing that's scary about a Gavin Newsom is that he's very affable. He's extremely likable. And like any good politician, there's a human element of you want somebody that you like to kind of like you, you know, and. I don't necessarily think that's what Charlie's doing. I think Charlie is a media mastermind, and I think he knows that this conversation will draw views and clicks. And from his perspective, it will get Newsom to walk back some of the more radical ideas that exist in his party. But unintended, it will also then give credence to somebody like Newsom for being more level-headed. So it's a real catch-22. I think you could view it either way. As you say, you know... To your point, in it being an unintended kind of good thing for Newsom, but then for somebody else to easily say, well, the guy just proves that he's full of crap. So I think it's a catch-22.
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Well, what it does, and Tracy happens to agree with me, that it's kind of dangerous to elevate Newsom. Newsom is manipulating people, I believe. Newsom is trying to pretend he's something he's not. Anybody who lives in California knows what a fascistic... fanatic he is. I mean, his policies have been disastrous for California. He's awful. He's one of the worst governors in the country. But he's shrewd. He's manipulative. He says, let me go on Sean Hannity's show. Let me invite Charlie Kirk on my podcast. Let me show Republicans and maybe people who are moderate Republicans or right of center or independents How palatable I'll be. I'm going to be the reasonable Democrat, and you should keep – I'm very worried about Gavin Newsom in 2028, and I think that it's because he's perfectly willing and able to manipulate plenty of people into thinking he's something he's not. I think it's dangerous, very dangerous.
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Yeah, and I would agree, but I think it's easy to go on a podcast and talk about kind of more cultural issues and say, oh, I totally agree when it's obvious the public's on one side. But when you could point to things like responding to massive wildfires and also unfettered illegal immigration that the tax bill is being footed for by the public, that's harder to kind of come back from. It's easy to look cute and nice like Gavin Newsom does.
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All right, let's find out what the audience thinks. Thanks, Christian. 800-655-MIKE. What do you think? Is it a good idea to sort of elevate Gavin Newsom? My friend Mark Davis thinks, oh, that's great. Let's see the other side. Let's see what... No, no, no. But the other side isn't acting in good faith. Gavin Newsom isn't acting in good faith. Gavin Newsom is pretending he's something he's not. Gavin Newsom wants you to think he likes Fox News. He likes Charlie Kirk. He can be one of us. He's the reasonable... Democrat when he is actually anything but. Let's see what you think. 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. I hope you join us. I was soaring ever higher, but I flew too high. I just got the daily report for our Food for the Poor campaign. Look, if the new kid on the block, Chris DeGaulle, beats us in the campaign, I'm in big trouble. I'm giving up. You can't let that happen. If you like what we do, because we're all doing this together, this Food for the Poor campaign, I'm going to give you the phone number that I didn't give you a moment ago. I just need 400 people to pop in 100 bucks. Let's get 100 people today to donate $100. Food for the Poor. This is what we do. We do this a few times a year. And here's the phone number that I left out before. If you want to make a phone call, have your credit card standing by and call Food for the Poor. 844-860-HOPE. That's 844-860-4673. Or you can go to mikeonline.com, click on that banner at the top of the page, or just text the keyword food to 800-655-MIKE, and we'll send you back the link. And thank you, thank you, thank you for supporting our Food for the Poor campaign. Come on, let's get there. Come on, 400 people. Wouldn't it be amazing? How astounding would it be if I could touch the hearts of 400 people, maybe even you, Ed, in Naples? Instead of being grumpy at me, feed starving children. Clothe the naked. Feed the hungry. Partner with the Christian ministry. All I need is 400 people to donate 100 bucks, and we're there. We've got our goal. Maybe we could do it today. Go to mikeonline.com, click on the banner, or call 844-860-HOPE. Call 844-860-4673. However you reach out, I do hope you'll join me as folks just like you all over America step up to help our friends at the Christian nonprofit international relief organization, Food for the Poor. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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He's the happy conservative warden. From the Relief Factor studios, here's Mike Geller.
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It's kind of enjoying to watch the Democrats sort of eat their own over the disastrous reaction. they had to President Trump's speech the other night. Not only politicians are calling, Democrat politicians are calling fellow Democrats out, but ordinary people. I mean, here's cut number 23. This is somebody on social media. We played a clip for you yesterday of a woman who said she'd voted Democrat all her life, but no more. We're seeing more and more of these kinds of confessions from people like this one.
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You couldn't pay me to be a liberal again. You couldn't do it. After watching that speech, I am convinced that Democrats hate America. The way that they didn't stand for Lake and Riley's mother, the way that they didn't stand for that little boy who has brain cancer, the way that they didn't stand for that young man who got accepted into West Point. Are you are you with me on this? The way that they hate America. I. My God.
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You know, it's I'm hearing this a lot from people that have voted Democrat their whole lives. And this moment reminds me of how we felt when we started seeing the anti-Semites march around on college campuses. Did you see that Trump and Marco Rubio, they're kicking college students out who are from other countries who marched around during the pro-Hamas demonstrations? They're revoking the student visas. of foreign students who are here in America who were pro Hamas. But when that moment happened, it wasn't just people from other countries. Whole bunch of American kids are pro Hamas. A lot of people in Congress, a lot of people in media. And we went, wow, are a lot of Democrats actually Jew haters? Do they really despise Jews? And, of course, the heartbreaking answer is yes. Here's Joe Manchin, often described as the moderate senator from West Virginia.
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I kept thinking, my wife Gail and I were watching this, and we said, can you imagine if I was still there? I'd be the only one standing on that side if I was still caucusing with the Democrats. And I said, where have we gone as a nation? Only in Washington do you see this type of inhumanity, disrespect, no decorum whatsoever. This is not America. It's not who we are. And the extremes on both sides are wrong. Hatred is the name of the game. Their business model is to make you afraid, so fear and hatred. And that's not who we are as this country.
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That's Joe Manchin with Chris Cuomo last night on News Nation. Over on Fox News, here's Greg Gutfeld's take.
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You know how Democrats always say, it's good to be seen. You need to be seen. Are you being seen? Well, now you're being seen by all of America, and you're making them vomit because you believe trans men have more rights than real girls or that open borders trump security and safety of a country, and that crime is only pursued if it benefits you politically. All this stuff is killing you.
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You know, two of the big prime examples of media... Hatred, media darkness came from Nicole Wallace and Rachel Maddow over on MSNBC. You may remember when we played the clip or Nicole Wallace. worries that young DJ, the little cancer patient who was made an honorary Secret Service member by President Trump, she worries he's going to kill himself. He's going to commit suicide. She said, I hope he doesn't grow up to be a cop and he has to commit suicide because of Trump supporters. Rachel Maddow called the beautiful moment of that little boy getting his wish disgusting. Well, President Trump reacted to this, and I'm not sure I completely agree with President Trump, but I want to find out if you do. Here's what he said about Nicole Wallace and Rachel Maddow and some of these ghouls over on MSNBC taking great moments and you-know-what all over them. Here's what the president said.
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I thought it was very embarrassing for the Democrats what happened the other night. And that's not said for any other reason other than it's obvious as fact. Even CNN fake news said that. They came out and they said it. And worse than CNN is MSNBC. DNC, which is the worst. And the good news is very few people watch them anymore. They have lost such credibility. And frankly, what Nicole Wallace said, I've never been a fan of hers, and she's not very talented. But I'll tell you what she said the other day about that young man is disgraceful. She should be forced to resign. And Rachel Maddow should be forced to resign. Nobody watches her anyway. I don't know if it's not possible they pay her as much money as I hear. But certainly she's lost all credibility, both of them. But what they said the other day, they should be forced to resign about that young person.
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Now, again, I rarely disagree with President Trump, and sometimes even when I've disagreed with him, he turns out to be right. I like that baseball cap that says Trump was right about everything. On this one, though, I'm not a big fan of calling on somebody to resign from a broadcast position. I just kind of wish, and maybe I'm just being ridiculously naive, I wish these two women at MSNBC... would apologize. Just say you're sorry. It was a low moment for them. It was ridiculous. The country loved seeing those moments of the young man being accepted into West Point, becoming a cadet at West Point, celebrating the return of the Russian prisoner along with his 95-year-old mother. And the Democrats wouldn't stand for any of that. Most of the Democrats. And then these two cable news hosts finding little DJ's story disgusting and revolting. And you hope DJ doesn't commit suicide. The kid's a cancer patient. This little boy... His little body has fought back against cancer thanks to the medical treatments he's gotten for six years of his little 13-year-old life. And you're going to say something that foul, that wicked, that cruel? Why don't you apologize, Nicole Wallace? Now, I get that people will say, well, she won't mean it. An apology would assume that she's got some level of awareness. But it would be the right thing to do. Look, if people like Rachel Maddow and Nicole Wallace, go watch them. I can't stomach more than 30 seconds of MSNBC. But if that's your thing, fine. There are plenty of people who don't like the Mike Gallagher show. And you wouldn't listen to it, okay, or watch it. That's fine. It's a big country. A lot of big voices. We've got people on the right. We've got people on the left. We've got people in the middle. We've got people on the left who pretend to be on the right. I'm talking to you, Gavin Newsom. We've got people on the right who pretend to be on the left. Forget it. Just whatever you want to do. But when you do something that bad, when you smear a little boy, when you're that vicious, Nicole Wallace, Just say you're sorry. Say I blew it. I got carried away. I was angry. I don't like Trump. Orange man bad. But I should never have said what I said on national television. So let's see if you agree with me or not. I just think an apology is what's more appropriate than asking them to resign. Am I wrong? 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. We're in the Relief Factor studios for a Friday, March the 7th, 2025. Hard to believe, though, this year is flying by, isn't it? Do you know we're almost on the board in our Food for the Poor campaign? We're about 6,000 away from hitting 40,000. I think we might get there today or tomorrow. I'm so excited about the progress this week. Of course, the truth to tell, we're at the goal now, thanks to Joey Hudson's $1,000 donation where he invited you to match his donation. I'm going to put out a big, big appeal because we're having a great time with our Food for the Poor campaign here on the Mike Gallagher Show. So we'll dive into that in a couple of minutes as well. But first, let's talk about the backlash the Democrats have been getting over their disgraceful behavior at President Trump's speech. Once again. President Trump exposes people for who they really are. 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. Hope you join us. And nobody knows. Ph.D. weight loss has changed my life, and I've got a little secret for you. You know Big Pharma and semaglutide and the shots in the belly. You've seen the story recently about the study that shows that a lot of people that are getting this are going blind. You don't want to do this. You want a program to lose weight that's centered around science and nutrition, a proven roadmap that has helped over 8,000 clients lose weight and keep it off, like me. I lost 53 pounds a few years ago, and I've kept it off. I know what to eat and when. I know how to quiet any of the cravings I might get and finally release that unhealthy belly fat that I carried along for so long. Make the phone call that can change your life in the way it changed mine. It's called PhD Weight Loss. PhD Weight Loss, Dr. Ashley Lucas' program is brilliant. And how do I know? Well, 53 pounds later, here I am. 864-644-1900 is their number. Call and schedule your consultation. You can do this program from anywhere in America. Call 864-644-1900, 864-644-1900, or visit myphdweightloss.com.
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Mike Gallagher.
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Lots of text messages about President Trump's comments regarding Nicole Wallace and Rachel Maddow just dumping all over that beautiful moment from his speech the other night. TMAC from Western North Carolina. Yes, Mike, you are wrong. They need to be fired. San Antonio. Mike, you're right. If they get rid of Rachel Maddow and Nicole Wallace, then Trump is contradicting himself when he said he proclaims freedom of speech. And finally, Mike from Connecticut. Mike? You're naive. You're being naive. Any apology that comes from those two idiots would be vapid. Personally, resignation is not nearly strong enough, in my opinion, but I'd take a resignation or firing rather than an apology any day. David's in Illinois. Hi, David. Thanks for joining us. How are you? I'm fine. Good morning. And how are you? I'm doing great. I'm going to get a lot of flack, I think, because I'm hoping that these two MSNBC folks would apologize for what they said. Where do you stand on it?
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Well, I agree with you in the fact that they should apologize, but you will never get a sincere and honest apology from the left communists. Fire them.
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I hear you. All right. Appreciate it, David. Let's see what others think. 800-655-MIKE. Karen in Northbrook, Illinois. Hi, Karen. How are you?
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Hi, I'm good. I just want to say that normally I agree with you, but this time I'm sorry. I think you're dead wrong. Even if those women apologize, it wouldn't come from their heart. They don't really mean it. And as far as free speech goes, does the company really want those type of people representing them?
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Well, that's the thing. I don't understand how any of their bosses would put up with that. I can't even imagine.
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If I were their boss, they'd be gone.
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Yep. No, I get that completely. I really do. And, you know, you're right. They probably wouldn't mean it, but at least they do it. Sometimes apologies are a funny thing, especially in the world that we're in, in broadcast or media. You know, a lot of people say, oh, you're only apologizing because, you know, of the pushback. Look at what's happening right now with the way the Democrats are backtracking over their behavior from the speech. I mean, they're only backtracking and they're only trying to thump their chest and say, oh, it's not a good idea because it backfired. It backfired big time. And they didn't expect that. They thought they'd be the resistance. I want to tell you about the New York Times today. I stumbled across an article where the New York Times said that. Trump critics are silencing and censoring and muzzling themselves because they fear retribution. Oh, boy. Portions of our show brought to you by Relief Factor. Every day I get to walk into the studio and say... We're in the relieffactor.com studios. Appreciate it so much because I love the pain relief that comes 100% drug-free. That's the Relief Factor way. That's the way they do things at Relief Factor. Whether it's neck, back, joint, muscle pain, Relief Factor can help. Over a million people have turned to Relief Factor. Every day you feel better is a day you live better. Give Relief Factor a try. Look, I'm a personal testimonial. I had hip surgery about 9, 10, 12 years ago, whatever it was. Always had a little spot on my sort of my lower back, my SI joint. Figured I had to live with it. I heard about Relief Factor on the radio, gave it a try. In about two and a half weeks, I woke up one morning and realized my pain is absolutely gone, completely eradicated. And you know how I know it works? If I forget to take Relief Factor, the pain starts creeping back. Let's see if we can get you out of pain. Their three-week quick start is only $19.95. Low-cost way for you to take it out for a test drive. Call 800-4-RELIEF, 800-4-RELIEF, 800 the number 4-RELIEF, or visit relieffactor.com. Portions of our show brought to you by MyPillow. And the flannel sheets are 50% off right now. You'll save over 50% the flannel sheets mega sale from MyPillow. Look, you know what Mike Lindell was put through. You understand the way they've targeted MyPillow and tried to shut them down. But you keep standing in their way, and MyPillow goes strong thanks to your support. MyPillow is excited about their first ever mega sale on overstock clearance and brand new products like the flannel sheets. And Mike is also offering right now as a thank you to you. The multi-use MyPillow 2.0 with the roll-and-go case. Regularly $49.94. It's now just $9.98. That price is unbelievable. The multi-use MyPillow 2.0 with the roll-and-go case. For just $9.98. And they've got cases with American flags and Bible verses. You've got to use the promo code MikeG. Limit 15 per customer, please, because of that incredibly low price. MyPillow.com. Look for the Mike Gallagher specials. Click on that box. And then with anything you order, enter the promo code MikeG. MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG. MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG. Or call 800-928-6034. 800-928-6034. MyPillow.
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Mike Gallagher.
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Joey Hudson will be guest hosting for me Monday because I got punished with jury duty. I know, I know. Somebody's going to write and say, do your duty. It's your civic responsibility. No, yeah, I know. But I don't want to miss work. There's too many great things going on. I got too many exciting things to share. And I don't, Joey does a great job, but I hate being away. I'm going to have vacation in a few weeks for my birthday because I'm going to try to pretend I'm not turning 65. And I'm going to go maybe to the other side of the world. I think maybe if I go to Australia, I'm thinking Australia, Dubai. Japan, Mexico, Canada, I don't know where I'm going to go. See how they're handling the tariff news. I'm going to see how they're doing all the tariff handling in Canada and Mexico. So, you know, first part of April or so, Joey will be filling in. We're going to invite Seth Holhouse to fill in for a day or two. He wants to step up and be a guest host. He's a great podcaster on the Salem Podcast Network. But anyway, all of that, I digress. Coming up Monday, I'll be in jury duty. I am going to wear my tinfoil hat. I'm not going to bathe. I'm going to just show up all disheveled, and I'll be murmuring. I'll be mumbling. I'm going to be saying, hang them high. Red light violators, hang them. I think everybody's guilty. That's what I'm going to do. I'm just going to say, if they give me like a question thing, I'm hoping once they find out my occupation, they're not going to want to have me. Then again, if it's a bunch of lefties involved in the process and they want to punish me, they'll force me on the jury and I'll be in some nine-week double murder trial. Can you imagine me being stuck in a jury? I mean, I'm going to have to fake a heart attack. I did that once after my wife died, about six months, maybe it was a year after she died. I went on a date, and the woman was so awful. Halfway through the dinner, I said, I can't get through this. She was mocking me for sleeping with my dog. She said anybody who sleeps with a dog is an animal themselves. Who sleeps with dogs? And my Rory, my Puggle, slept with me every night. I mean, Rory was like Denise's shadow. So I always wanted my... Well, she's just... smearing that whole thing, just dumping all over the idea of you sleep with it. I thought, this is the most unsufferable date I've ever been on. So I faked a heart attack. I said, I think I'm having chest pains. I have to leave. I don't feel good. I said, I don't want to alarm you, but I'm having some pain in my chest and my arm. And she said, oh, you might be having a heart attack. I couldn't get out of that restaurant fast enough. So I might do that. If I get on the jury... I may do that. I may just say, look, I'm not feeling good. I'm hearing voices in my head. That's what I'll do. When I walk in, I'll say the voices are back. They're talking to me again. And I, oh boy. Anyway, so see you Tuesday. I'll, Joey will hold down the fort on Monday. Yikes. I just realized, Christian, I should not have said see you Tuesday. Anyhow, 800-655-MIKE-23. Well, I'm in a mood today. Can you tell I'm in a mood? Let's play the little boy, little DJ. And he had a warning for anybody who goes after his beloved president, President Donald J. Trump.
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Such an honor to have met you. He has one more thing to say. I won't interrupt you.
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If you're a Democrat and you're being mean to President Trump, I'm on your bumper. That was on Real America's Voice. I'm on your bumper. If you're on President Trump's back, you criticize him, I'm on your bumper. That's going to be my new mission. I'm on your bumper. How about Stephen A. Smith? Let's play it. This is the ESPN guy. He just got a $100 million contract for five years. $20 million a year. So God bless him. I don't know where this guy's coming from, but he had an epic rant about the state of today's Democrat Party that I just had to share with you.
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Did you see me on The View Tuesday afternoon? Did you see when they said, we don't believe there's a Trump mandate? I said, oh, really? Did you see the former press secretary for the White House come on? I think Stephen A is wrong. I don't believe what he said is correct. Donald Trump has the lowest approval rating in the first month or so or two months of a presidency in American history. Oh, really? But then he went all the swing states. Didn't his popularity elevate within 89% of the counties in the United States of America? Didn't his popularity elevate within the black community, the Hispanic community, and the young voters? Didn't he win the popular vote for the first time in 20 years as a Republican nominee? Didn't he also win the electoral college vote? Isn't he in control of the White House? Don't the Republicans have the House and the Senate? All of that happened, but there's no Trump mandate. You see, is it or is it just that the Democrats are so damn lost? that they're actually going to convince themselves they can do the same old same old and still regain power, both in the midterms and in the 2028 election. I'm here to tell you that's not going to happen because Trump has the power now. And he's manipulating the proceedings. And in case you didn't notice, one of his top boys, Elon Musk, Doge, owns X. Who else was at the inauguration? Jeff Bezos. The man running TikTok. And Lord knows who else. And then you got folks like Candace Owens, who's a Trump supporter, along with various others with their microphones, their cameras, and their audience. If you think the liberals are overcoming that, you go ahead and watch Schumer and those 22 other senators talk their drivel. J.D. Vance or Marco Rubio or somebody will be the next president in 2028. You'll have nobody but yourselves to blame.
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Now, I'm not sure if anybody's worth $20 million a year to be a sportscaster, if that's what the guy is. I think he is. I think he's worth every dime. Give him a raise. Give him a raise. $100 million for five years, it isn't enough. Incidentally, I just got the best bit of advice from a texter in Maryland over jury duty. I think I've figured out the strategy. Here's my plan. Marilyn writes, Hey, Mike, a friend of mine went to the jury selection process, and when she was asked questions, she had a puppet with her and had the puppet answer all the questions. It didn't go over very well, but it worked. That's it. I'm in. I'm bringing a puppet with me. And I just got to figure out what kind of puppet. So I'm going to give me some suggestions on what puppet, and that's what I'll do. The puppet. The puppet speaks for me. I don't speak for myself. All right, your call's coming up, I promise. 800-655-MIKE. Join us.
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Six-year-old Mike Gallagher? Nope. August 66, were you grooving to some Monkees? Nope.
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Well, I remember the Monkees. Oh, dude. Hey, hey, we're the Monkees.
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People say we monkey around, but we're too busy singing to put anybody down. That's the great Mickey Dolenz out front of the Monkees there for their first hit, August of 66. Mickey Dolenz is 80 today, the last remaining monkey, I guess. Did they really, they really sang? Yes, he really sang, and Mike Nesmith really played, and Peter Tork played some things, and Mickey Dolenz played some. It was studio musicians, a lot of the songs, in some cases. Most of the songs like that one written by Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart. The TV show was like slapstick meets early MTV. It was kind of genius. I was like nine or ten, and I'm like... Oh, totally. Totally. The Monkees was genius? Yes. The songs were actually fantastic. Wow. The TV show was a kind of a wacky and yet trailblazing combination, again, of slapstick, of Three Stooges. Wow. And sort of a precursor to music videos, too. So, yes, sir.
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Yes, sir. My idea of genius in those days was the Munsters. Now, that was genius. No doubt.
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Okay, Munsters or Addams Family? Pick it.
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Either one. I liked them both. I kind of liked the Munsters more because I liked the theme song better. I love the Munsters theme song. Do you remember it? Hey, Eric, don't we have it somewhere? I love the Munsters. To me, this is the best theme song for any TV show.
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But as soon as you mention it, the first thing that occurs to me, the one that's more iconic is do-do-do-do. No, but I think the Munsters is better. You ready? Sure, go ahead. Here we go. Hit it. Of course. Has kind of a Dick Dale surf guitar feel to it.
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Yeah, like a surfer thing. But I just always loved it. Always put me in a good mood.
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And the great Fred Gwynn and the absolute great Fred. The wonderful Fred Gwynn in that. And Yvonne DiCarlo. Absolutely.
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Wait a minute. Yvonne DiCarlo. Who is Morticia in The Addams Family? Carolyn Jones. That's right. Carolyn Jones. That's right. Good for you. You're like an encyclopedia. I know this, but I can't find my car keys. Well, ask me about Broadway. You could do TV shows from the 60s and 70s. I could do Broadway. Somebody texted me from Dallas yesterday. They said, you should go on some kind of game show and just be tested on Broadway shows. I'm pretty good at that. You would own it. I don't know anything else in life, but I can tell you who played the third Phantom of the Opera in 1990. That's it.
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Can't find my car keys, but I can give you the cast of sitcoms and all 12 guys who walked on the moon.
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I'm overdosing on The Great Right Way this week here in New York. I figured, well, if I'm going to be here for work, I might as well see some shows at night.
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Do you have more coming up?
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Yeah, I saw Wicked last night. Caught up on Wicked. Kind of
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How many times have you seen Flip?
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When I see a show I like, I go back because I love the familiarity of it, you know? So seeing Harry Potter tonight.
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Okay. Is it like because I'm not a big revisitor. You're not? No, because when I'm if somebody says, well, you ought to go watch that again. I get the value of it because you maybe you see something a little different on the revisit. Wow. Didn't notice that the first time. But especially with the fire hose, the fire hose analogy again, of things that are out there. If I'm spending two hours watching some movie I've seen already, that's two hours I could spend watching something I haven't seen yet.
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You know, I'm thinking about whether I revisit TV shows. I do, though. You did Sopranos. You did the whole Sopranos again. Sopranos again? Well, there's three big long series that I've revisited and I've been binging. The Sopranos I told you about. Yep. West Wing. I know they're a bunch of touchy-feely liberals.
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But it's awesome.
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The writing is so good. And the best of all time, especially these days, Veep starring the incomparable Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Always that funny.
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And you know what? And on this, for 30 more seconds, and then I've got questions for you. I am immersed in, we are in a truly golden age, three shows that are as good as anything I've seen in ever. absolute years.
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I'm ready.
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Quick thumbnail on both one. I'm afraid people aren't seeing it. We all remember ER with young Noah Wiley is Dr. Carter. Well, he's 50 something now. And he's Dr. Robbie, Dr. Rabinowitz and a thing called the pit P I T T a Pittsburgh urban ER drama. And it is just one of the finest medical shows I have ever seen. We're 10 episodes in a 15 episode. It's on HBO, Max, whatever they're calling it, The Pit. Unbelievable cast, unbelievable medical drama. And unlike Grey's Anatomy, which is 100% soap opera and pure chick TV, and unlike ER, which was awesome but was about 30% soap opera, this is nothing but medical stuff and dramas within The Pit with two Ts. It is incredible. Number two, in the Taylor Sheridan enterprise. We're in season two of 1923, one of the Yellowstone prequels. Harrison Ford's? Oh, just... He's the hardest-working man in show business. And Helen Mirren, right? And Helen... Absolutely. Wow. Unbelievable cast. It's just underway. Good. And the third one is something I've been... I was kind of dragged to. I watched it win 47 awards. It's like, okay, all right, whatever. Ethan wanted us to watch it. It's like, oh, okay. I thought it was going to be Game of Thrones in 17th century Japan. And I don't do dwarves, realms, dragons. I don't do any of that. However, I'm... 75% through Shogun, and it is a masterpiece. Oh, Shogun. Absolute masterpiece. 1923, Shogun for your weekend streaming.
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Boom. You can't put anything past this audience, and thanks to the text line. I'll tell you what. This text message gives me more ammo against you. Instant feedback, instant shots across the bow. So you can text me. I always open up my text line before the M&M experience so that people who are listening to us from all over the country. It's always fascinating to me when we get texts from people listening to us in Hawaii, Oregon, California. People love the M&M experience, not just in North Texas, but beyond. But one of my favorite texters is Aaron. Oh, no, this is from Dallas, not from Aaron. But here's Dallas, who said, ask Mr. I never revisit. How many times he's seen Tom Petty?
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Oh, we're talking about revisiting shows. Revisiting a movie, which is exactly the same frame by frame. I got you. As far as an act that I value. Going and seeing somebody in concert multiple times. I got you. I got you. By definition, every performance is different.
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Okay, well, that's the same with theater. And that's the same with theater. Like somebody else just texted, live theater is different.
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I mean, I know it is, but it's so much less so. Because the ten times I saw Petty, the set list was different. Sometimes the players were different.
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Oh, yeah, yeah, I know.
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With Broadway, it's the exact same characters and the exact same lines. But it's different. But I do know that there's nuance that makes every... There is.
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And if you know what to look for... And they also put different people in long-running shows, which I love to see different actors. Now, this is kind of a fun fact. You probably followed the whole drama. Maybe you saw it. Hamilton will not perform at the Kennedy Center in 2026 because of Orange Man Bad. No. It's like, oh, great. OK, well, then don't let people see Hamilton. Knock yourself out there. Theater, of course, is so hopelessly woke. And they're in this little bubble. This is interesting to me. The actress who's currently who just started as Elphaba, the Green Witch. Hmm. african-american because of course they don't dare put a white actress in the role with the success of the movie starring cynthia arrivo right and you know i i've had theater people tell me they're green yeah well no but she's black yeah but that's right exactly you don't even know that's the funny part about it one would think that somebody who's black or white or any color can be turned into green well that thank you you could be You could be brown. You could be Indian. You could be Hispanic. You could be black. But Elphaba is the green witch. But oh, no, no, no, no. Cynthia Erivo is certainly very proud of her heritage, I guess. And they don't want to have... It's all about... I had a theater executive tell me, it's all about the optics, Mike. It's all about the optics. We can't... We'll get in trouble, they think, if they were to cast... We'll get in trouble. We'll get in trouble. Well, and let's talk about some trouble here, because I happen to peruse the New York Times. Do you ever browse through the Times? Sure.
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And I do. I wonder through that cesspool every once in a while just to learn something.
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Here's a headline that caught my eye from this morning. Fearing retribution, Trump critics muzzle themselves. Right. The silence grows louder every day, writes Elizabeth Bumiller. Mm-hmm. Fired federal workers worried about losing their homes ask not to be quoted by name. University presidents fearing that millions of dollars in funding could disappear are holding their fire. They're worried about Trump being mean to them. Here's what I find fascinating about this whole premise of this article and the Times now and the left bellyaching about Muslim. They're not critical enough of Trump because they're afraid of retribution. For years, we've watched conservatives lose their jobs, lose their homes, lose their livelihood. People have been canceled. Ask Mike Lindell how tough it's been for MyPillow. Ask anybody who's lost their—they've been deplatformed. They've lost their careers. Now, all of a sudden, the gripe is— Oh, well, Trump could be mean to the left, so the left is holding their fire and they're muzzling themselves. What hypocrisy. You know, this is how they are, Mark. When the shoe's on the other foot, they scream to the high heavens. They didn't care when people lost their balls. Look at the—what's her name? Shelly Luther in Dallas. Ask anybody who got canceled, who's gotten just crucified for their views, for their beliefs, for their opinions about anything from the— covid mandates to the lockdowns to border security and now the big complaint is because trump pushes back and because our side isn't rolling over for them now they're upset about it and one of the other reasons one of the other things that's happening is some of the because trump 1.0 was filled with
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faux conservatives, former conservatives, weak conservatives choosing to get mouthy about him. Some of them have simply chosen a better path of shutting up because they realize how ridiculous they have looked and how the marketplace has moved on from them. So they're just showing wisdom and restraint.
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Now Democrats, according to Axios, Democrat leadership is calling out the Democrats who engaged in all the hijinks and shenanigans at the president's speech the other night. Now they're not doing it because all of a sudden they have a soul. They're doing it because of the incredible pushback. I mean, look at these clowns with their stupid paddles and they booing and hissing. It used to be the biggest scoundrel of all was Joe Wilson for saying two words, you lied at Obama. That would have been a walk in the park compared to that circus the other night. Incidentally, poor Aaron. Aaron in Southlake said, you almost gave me a shout out. Yes, Aaron, he's listening to us vacationing in St. Thomas. So that's good. That's pretty cool. So he's taking time away from his vacation.
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In our remaining 60 seconds here, real quick. Charlie Kirk going on Gavin Newsom. I'm going to say awesome. And in fact, good for everybody involved. Good for Newsom for inviting him. Good for Charlie for going there. Charlie getting Gavin Newsom to admit that it's unfair for boys to play in girls' sports. Why is that bad?
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Well, here's what it's bad, unintentionally. I love me some Charlie Kirk, and you do too, and I'm glad he's our colleague. Here's why it's bad. Why is he elevating I don't think he means to do it. Why is he elevating Gavin Newsom? Gavin Newsom is on a rehabilitation tour.
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Indeed so, but it attracted enormous attention. The story yesterday, the story was Gavin Newsom was goaded craftily by Charlie Kirk into admitting that boys and girls sports is unfair.
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That's your version of the story. Take the win. No, here's the story. Gavin Newsom looked pretty appealing to a whole lot of Democrats and a whole lot of moderate Republicans. Gavin Newsom is going to run. Gavin Newsom, oh, Charlie, my son, he never misses your podcast. Oh, Charlie. Charlie. Obsequious much? No kidding. And he's running. He's running. Guarantee it. He's the guy in 20. Well, listen, I don't know. You better not hope so. Jasmine Crockett is mentioned as a presidential candidate. Now, that's who we have to support. This. I'm all in for President Jasmine. Me too. I love you. Happy Friday. Have a great weekend.
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In this episode of Liberty Nation, we delve into the ramifications of Donald Trump's Golden Age Agenda and why it faces staunch opposition from Democrats. Moving beyond politics, we tackle a bizarre case in Florida involving criminal threats against the President and surreal antics in the back of a Lyft. Also, listen to hear our detailed discussion with CPA Lisa Green-Lewis on managing taxes for small businesses this season.
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Can I just touch on this one story that came out? And I know that the press is so excited because they think it's fodder. They think, we got something. We got something that we can use to finally divide POTUS from Elon Musk. And they've been looking for something like this for forever. It's this story that came out where, I guess, what is it? While Doge was going through things, They said that the accusation is a sensitive CIA facility was exposed by a property sale mishap. So Doge apparently the accusation is that they there was the sale of federal properties and this list of sale of what federal properties have been sold. And it inadvertently failed. kind of released the location of what they said was a sensitive facility in Northern Virginia. And it was described as being previously used by the CIA for training or other intelligence activities. Now, the original article that talks about this does not say the phrase black site. You guys know what a black site is, right? That's usually it's a location in a foreign area. And that's where the CIA takes the baddies, right? And they have a very, how do I say this, energetic question and answer session. Robust, as you would say, Kane. That was an excellent description. Thank you, my friend. Your mastery of the English language is second to none. Robust. A robust question and answer session, you know, for the baddies. Now, the original article, and it's from, I think it's from Bloomberg. Now, Bloomberg, I tend to think, is trash. This is the first of two Bloomberg stories I got to talk about today. They didn't actually say black site. Now, I'm not saying that because they didn't say black site, it doesn't mean black site, but they didn't say black site. But I understand how everyone thinks because I think like that too. I was immediately like... That was immediately what I thought. I read it and I was like, what's a black site mean? What's it doing here? That was my first thought. Would any jury convict me for just simply speculating? I read it and it didn't say black site, but I was like, it's a black site. I didn't say that to you. I just thought it. You heard my thought. So I'm not claiming it. I just thought it as a question. Now, they're not supposed to have those here. If it, in fact, was that very thing that we were like about, they're not supposed to have. It's like illegal. I don't know what the law is. I just know that it's like apparently not allowed. It's it's so it's illegal for that to be here. And I don't know. Maybe they were training it. Maybe they were bringing people here and debriefing them. I don't know. You know, I feel like I should know now. Right. Like, I want to know more about this. So now there's all kinds of discussion about transparency and some people are saying Doge went too far. This is what happens when you have some nerds going through. No, no, no, no. Wrong. This is what happens when you have a rat bastard government because of the people in it, the people leading it, the people running these agencies and acting like they're de facto little monarchs and mini bosses. This is what happens when you have a completely unaccountable, too big to govern government. And there's no accountability and no oversight. And there has been no transparency. It has been weaponized against innocent people. Zero accountability. Zero transparency. So, no, you don't get for all of those people out there. You don't get to sit back and go, oh, well, see, this is what happens when the people try to hold their government accountable. Blank you. No, you don't get to say that. And even if in the grand scheme of things, Joe Jackson accidentally found his CIA black site. First off, why is the left going? How dare you find that illegal black site? Shame on you. What the hell is wrong with you people? Why are you not going? Is that a black site? What is that? Why is that not your first question? Why is the left like our precious government's under attack? Save them. Why is that their first reaction to everything? My gosh, it's so tiring. It's so tiring. That's their first reaction to literally everything. Meanwhile, us sanies are over here going, we're like that meme. You know, that meme of that. What is I don't know what animal it is. It's not Arthur, but it's just this weird little meme where the cartoon characters looking kind of sideways. I feel like that right now. That should be the first response. But no, everyone's like, oh. How dare you attack it? And then you have all these liberals out there making the jokes that, oh, Doge thought it was code for a DEI project. You know, black site. They try so hard to be funny. And I... You know, the nice... The good part of my psyche wants to pat them on the back and go, you tried. But I don't follow through with that. So, I don't know. I mean, if it inadvertently exposed something... I just think it's just, again, the article didn't say it, but if it did, why isn't the first question, WTF, what is it doing here? Thank you. I mean, that seems like that's the biggest, that's the bigger question, right?
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Somehow that's not journalism to wonder that.
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Thou shalt not ask questions of thy government. Now, that's the 11th commandment, and it was on the other side of the tablet. You know, a lot of people don't flip that over. I didn't. You didn't know that? Yeah, it was like double printed. God was double printing. Like before anybody, before we invented it, it was double-sided. Today you're sold. I know, right? It's still black and white, but it was double-sided. I mean, it was like mega advances back in the time of printing with the stone tablets. And by the time Moses realized, he's like, wait a minute, there's another flip. They already were going crazy. So it was, you know, you got one chance. So I just feel like that's, you know, so now they're using that as a way to attack Doge. Now, again, in the grand scheme of things, even if, even if that was accurate, even if Sage Doge was, oh, we just, we accidentally uncovered an illegal black site. Sorry, guys. That pales in comparison. First off, it's kind of a whistleblowing thing, but it pales in comparison to anything that the government has done in the past four years. Sorry, you guys locked us down in our homes. Redact it off. OK, go do something unflattering to your face. No, I'm not. I'm not having it. I'm not having it. And I feel like I'm not alone in that. Right. Sort of feel like I've got some company here. But seriously, the black site, let's just let me operate. So if you're going to do something off the books like that, give it to me. Yeah. I don't want an elected position. I don't ever want to run for office. And I feel really uncomfortable representing anybody who would vote for me. I'm sorry, but I'm questioning you. I just want to be and I will take it unpaid. Let me be in charge of like torture or something or going after the like devising ways to punish baddies. I would be happy with that. I'll do it as a service to my country. Won't even charge. It's for free. All Family Pharmacy helped me out. I got my azithromycin. I actually got it overnighted. And it immediately started helping, obviously, with my symptoms and sickness, helping with the super sore throat, all of that. They have over 200 different medications, all of the antibiotics that they have. it's all made in the usa i don't know anywhere else where you can say that but you don't have to worry about quality and safety with all family pharmacy you can always be prepared it's simple fast and affordable no insurance no problem they got straightforward pricing and their shipping is just two to four days overnight also in a pinch uh your health is always within reach so uh Order from the comfort of home as well. I mean, they can deliver right to your door. Visit allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana and use code Dana10 for 10% off of your entire order. That's allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana for 10% off, but you got to use promo code Dana10 to unlock that discount. Dana10, allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana.
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
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So Americans have fallen behind on their car payments, and it's at the highest rate in decades. Now, we all here at The Dana Show would like for you to know that included not just in this, but also in Financial Times. And it was briefly mentioned in a Wall Street Journal piece that I actually had saved a week and a half ago that it's the people who are affected. These are they. Nobody's fallen this far behind. The people who are affected got their loans before this. january uh january 20th 2025 so that's before trump was in office so kane what does that mean it wasn't trump it wasn't trump and they actually do have the the drop on that so just saying more americans are tapping their 401ks to pay for financial emergencies pre-covid the average was about two percent in 2023 it was 3.6 now it's 4.6 and once again kane when did this measure begin Oh, my gosh. It began under Biden. Well, under Biden. The reason I'm saying this is because Democrats are trying so hard to make what's coming look like it's going to be just Trump's decision, even though keep in mind, the CR is literally just carrying over the Biden financial framework literally for another fiscal year. So you keep that in mind. Dow tumbles 400 points. NASDAQ interest correction is trade policy. Fatigue ignites a sell-off. And a South Korean Air Force pilot mistakenly bombed a village near a school. Wall Street Journal. Do you want to hear something really, really dumb? So, you know how we've had the DEI purge, right? Okay, so we've had the DEI purge. Doge has been going through, looking at everything. And it seems like they're trying to get a little bit of revenge on it. So the Pentagon, their DEI purge has led to photos of the B-29 bomber Enola Gay. And you guys know the Enola Gay. That's that was named after Enola Gay Tibbetts. And I mean, it's, you know, historical, historical plane. Everybody knows it or you should. But apparently they've deleted. They've marked all of these photos of the Enola Gay for deletion. And apparently photos of soldiers who have the last name gay are also apparently marked for deletion. Now, here's the crazy thing. It's not a joke. AP, references to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and the first women to pass Marine infantry training are among the tens of thousands of photos and online posts marked for deletion as the DOD works to purge diversity, equity, and inclusion content, according to a database obtained by the Associated Press. And they're doing it? To be there. It's malicious compliance is how a friend described it. And I really feel like that's they're doing it to be malicious. Oh, it says gay in it. I mean, that's so dumb. And no, I reject the argument that, well, I mean, why do you say malicious policy? Isn't it just bad policy? No. So a friend of mine is like, if I tell you to clean your house and you start ripping out the stove and put furniture on the curb, that's malicious compliance. That's true. This is Amelia Bedelia, but on purpose. You guys know Amelia Bedelia, right? I grew up with her books. In fact, it's how I learned about literalism. Our teacher would read it and they would have to be very careful. Amelia Bedelia is the adult in her life because if they told her to do something, she would do it literally. Literally. And then the stories were the chaos and fun that ensued, right? So they're doing this on purpose. And this is probably why... I would think that some of the agencies were like, we got a little discretion over here as to how to exercise this. That's one of the things that Kash Patel had said. Tulsi Gabbard and Marco Rubio even. Excuse me. So I don't know if this is... I know that they've been using some AI to go through things, but I don't think they've been using it to go through everything. But like I said, this just seems... It seems like it's maliciously on purpose. Do you think it's an algorithm? Do you think that they were using because the article doesn't actually discuss whether or not they're using AI to go through? They're just saying that they're going through the database. And I still also don't think that they would – I mean obviously if you're going through that, you know these things are going to crop up. And I don't think that AI would just – I think that they would have like some parameters attached to what they're feeding it in terms of the algorithm. Yeah. This is just maliciousness. This is Deep State going, okay. And then there are Amelia Bedelia in it. Oh, it says gay here. It's the Enola Gay. You absolute jack wagon. You fecal bird. It's my new word. But not the fecal part. It's not a new word. It's my favorite word. It's magical.
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Thank you for censoring.
SPEAKER 08 :
I didn't censor. I just voluntarily gave you a gift. Thank you for cleaning it up. I didn't want to have to call Brennan Carr and be like, Mr. Carr.
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So are they also upset the fact that it was named after a woman? Is that part of their thing, too?
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, they're just going overboard. They're going overboard on purpose.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, it doesn't sound like this is just an AI.
SPEAKER 08 :
No, it sounds like it's overboard totally on purpose. Because, I mean... That's, especially Enola Gay. Come on, AI is going to know Enola. Everybody knows Enola Gay. I don't care if you don't know anything about history. You know about this plane. Everybody knows about this plane. Everybody knows about this crew. You know about it. That's so dumb to say otherwise. This is them just being malicious. Oh, man. I feel a great big backhand trying to form. I mean... It really does. It's malicious. I mean, think about all the other stuff that they've done malicious. Yeah, I completely believe it. I absolutely believe that this was willingly done. But this is, you know, it's an actual story. Actual story. And this is what they've been trying to, I don't know, I guess I feel like they're trying to blame the AI, but I don't really think it's not AI. This is them just trying to be smartasses. That's really what it is.
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Join us on Liberty Nation Radio with Mark Angelides as we delve into Donald Trump's ambitious Golden Age agenda and the polarizing reactions from Democrats. In this episode, we explore the complexities surrounding efforts toward settlement in ongoing conflicts, with key insights into how both sides are maneuvering for resolution. Tune in to gain a deeper understanding of international strategies and the contentious debates arising from them.
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The Press I think both parties want to settle. I think if I wasn't President, this war would have had no chance of settlement, zero chance. But I think we're going to get it settled and stopped. We've got to stop. They're losing, on average, 2,000 soldiers a week. That's a lot of soldiers.
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Do you agree, Peter? The Press It's a lot of soldiers on both sides. I agree. Do you, Mr. President, think that Vladimir Putin is taking advantage of the U.S. pause right now on intelligence, and military aid to Ukraine?
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I actually think he's doing what anybody else would do. I think he wants to get it stopped and settled, and I think he's hitting them harder than he's been hitting them. And I think probably anybody in that position would be doing that right now. He wants to get it ended, and I think Ukraine wants to get it ended, but I don't see it. It's crazy. They're taking tremendous punishment. I don't quite get it, but I suspect, Michael, he probably wants to get it ended.
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He does, Mr. President. The Russians are taking incredible losses on the front. As the president has said, this is a meat grinder of people, of material.
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So we are listening to POTUS right now, who is speaking from the Oval Office. That was Mike Waltz there. He was explaining some of the Russian comments, some of the remarks that the president was making, giving a little bit of context to it. A lot of stuff there to dive into. Now we're going to reconfigure some things on break because we got a lot of stuff to hit. Obviously, the president's address. This is probably going to be ongoing. We're going to dip in and out of it and bring it. Anything new live as needed, obviously, because it affects the content we're covering on the show. We have headlines on the way. We've got guests today. And if you're a subscriber over at Substack, you know who's coming up on the program today. So we we have a lot to get to. We're going to continue monitoring the press conference. But, you know, we do because, you know, it's never a broadcast. We do have to hat tip to the people who make all of this possible. So we're going to do that, and then we're going to return. We've got headlines on the way, all of that good stuff. So in the meantime, the folks who will bring you the program, who do we have? Because I closed it like a genius. I closed it like a genius. All right, we got headlines on the way. We got to take a quick break. I've seen the amazing changes Relief Factor has made for so many people, and I've seen it firsthand through my husband Chris's pain relief from using Relief Factor. Right now, it's easy to give their product a try because Relief Factor makes it pain-free with their three-week quick start for just $19.95. Get rid of pain and start living better. Relief Factor is a 100% drug-free daily supplement that helps your body fight pain naturally. Developed by doctors, it works perfectly. by supporting your body's response to inflammation it doesn't just mask pain for a short time it helps reduce or even eliminate it it's safe to take daily and in fact the longer you take relief factor the more effective whether it's neck back joint or muscle pain relief factor can help over 1 million people have turned to relief factor give relief factor a try with their pain-free trial you can get a three-week quick start for only $19.95 less than a dollar a day Call 1-800-4-RELIEF. That's 1-800-4-RELIEF. Get rid of pain and start living better. Give Relief Factor a try. Call 1-800-4-RELIEF or visit relieffactor.com.
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A Forbes study mentioned that a whopping 93% of small businesses overpay their taxes. And 17% of Gen Zers believed that you could write off any expense as a business expense.
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It's really important to do your taxes right.
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
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So Americans have fallen behind on their car payments, and it's at the highest rate in decades. Now, we all here at The Dana Show would like for you to know that included not just in this, but also in Financial Times. And it was briefly mentioned in a Wall Street Journal piece that I actually had saved a week and a half ago that it's the people who are affected. These are they. Nobody's fallen this far behind. The people who are affected got their loans before this. january uh january 20th 2025 so that's before trump was in office so kane what does that mean it wasn't trump it wasn't trump and they actually do have the the drop on that so just saying more americans are tapping their 401ks to pay for financial emergencies pre-covid the average was about two percent in 2023 it was 3.6 now it's 4.6 and once again kane when did this measure begin Oh, my gosh. It began under Biden. Well, under Biden. The reason I'm saying this is because Democrats are trying so hard to make what's coming look like it's going to be just Trump's decision, even though keep in mind, the CR is literally just carrying over the Biden financial framework literally for another fiscal year. So you keep that in mind. Dow tumbles 400 points. NASDAQ interest correction is trade policy. Fatigue ignites a sell-off. And a South Korean Air Force pilot mistakenly bombed a village near a school. Wall Street Journal. We got a lot more on the way. POTUS is live in the Oval Office. If you want a post-workout recovery, or maybe you just want to support your overall health, you need to check out Native Path Collagen. You can mix it into anything. It has type 1 and 3 collagen. There's no, like, fluff in there, no fillers, you're going to enjoy. You'll see the difference. I mean, there's better movement, resilient skin, all of it. And it's made with only type one and three collagen fibers. Now those are the two most important types. They make up about 90% of the collagen in the body. I mean, it's in your skin, your hair, your nails, your cartilage, your bones, everything. A lot of other brands use like a whole bunch of different, you know, rainbow amount of fibers and fillers, but you really just need like for maximum benefits, just one in three. So they keep it super simple. It's a single ingredient collagen. No additives, no artificial sweeteners, and they third-party test for any heavy metals. And it's totally... So you can put it in anything, your coffee, your oatmeal. And because the recipe is a peptide formula, it's more bioavailable and it mixes so much better than other brands. So that means no clumping. Right now, when you visit getnativepath.com slash Dana, you can stock up on Native Path Collagen. I've never had this much of a discount. 45% off. 45% off. And you get free shipping. Every order has a 365-day money-back guarantee, so try it risk-free. That's getnativepath.com slash Dana for 45% off and free shipping.
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And I'm Leah, and we're from the Grown Up Stuff podcast.
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And just in time for tax season, on this week's episode, we're chatting with CPA Lisa Green-Lewis about how small businesses can tackle their taxes using TurboTax Business.
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A Forbes study mentioned that a whopping 93% of small businesses overpay their taxes. And 17% of Gen Zers believed that you could write off any expense as a business expense.
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Can't blame them.
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It's really important to do your taxes right.
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Recently, a new client called me and started by saying, Mr. Morgan, I really need your help, but I'm just a nobody. Those words stunned me, and I immediately called him back, and we're now helping him and his family after a terrible accident. I'm John Morgan of Morgan & Morgan. Everybody who comes to our firm at their time of need is a somebody. I grew up poor, but my grandmother was like a queen to us. At Morgan & Morgan, our goal is to level the playing field for you and your family at your time of need. The insurance company has unlimited money and resources. You need a firm who can fight them toe-to-toe. For right at 30 years, we have fought them in courtrooms throughout America. Our results speak for themselves. And always remember this, everybody is a somebody and nobody is a nobody. Visit ForThePeople.com to learn about our firm. Morgan & Morgan, For The People.
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Big gains for native-born Americans for the first time in 15 months. The job gains for native-born Americans, for American people, people born in America, exceeded job gains for migrant and foreign-born workers. This is the first time that's happened in more than 15 months. Employment for native-born workers went up by 284,000 while foreign-born workers went down by 87,000. Now, you know, you've heard the same stat where foreign workers were taking up all the jobs or almost all the jobs. In some cases, literally all of the jobs. And now it's 284,000 native-born jobs here, people born in our country, 284,000, while foreign-born workers went down by 87,000. First time that's happened in a long time. So these are incredible numbers, and they're very early. I mean, you know, we're here for five weeks. But we have been talking about it since the big win in November.
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So POTUS is going through some of the jobs numbers there from the Oval Office. I think he's actually he has finished his discussion. He has finished his questions and answers. Just had a few like questions from the press and he took those. By the way, how weird is it? We're so not used to it. But for the past four years, whatever the hell Biden was, we had that. I don't wait. Correct me if I'm wrong here, because I don't want to I don't want to be I don't want to exaggerate, you know, for any kind of purpose. But I did Biden have like a sit down in the Oval Office like that where he just like took questions from the press. Biden, did he have did he sit in the Oval Office and do that?
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The hell are you talking about? No, that didn't happen ever.
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Ever.
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Ever.
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Seriously?
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Not once.
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That never happened.
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I'm pretty sure it never happened. If it did, I really, really forgot about it.
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I don't remember it happening. That's why. I didn't want to go out and say, well, Biden's never done that. I don't want to mislead anybody.
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Where he sat there for an hour and took questions.
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Yeah, I don't ever remember him doing that.
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Yeah, no.
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And just being very frank and comfortable with... answering questions.
SPEAKER 12 :
It makes me laugh that you even say that.
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Well, it's weird. I mean, I'm not, it's so weird. It's so weird. You, when you, I got to explain, and I'm not like, this is not like reaction for show purposes. When I was watching this earlier, I, because you guys see this and some of us, you know, because we're nerds and we have no lives. This is our job is no lives. And we watch this and that's fine. I like it. But day in and day out, like we're immersed in everything that the White House would say, you know, Trump or even before Biden. And we just got used to not having any answers. I was talking to a friend of mine who works in the White House press corps, and she was saying that she goes, I've never been busier in my life. And I and I said, oh, I'm like, well, you know, yeah, you know, new administration. She was like, no, you don't understand. She goes, I filed seven stories just this morning. And when I talked to her, it was like right after the show. So it was like, you know, two thirty central. She's like, I filed seven stories just this morning. She was like, there's so much happening. She's like, I am lit. She's like, I'm living here at the White House. She said before it wasn't like that. She's like, I mean, I would have I would be just like in the offices of the publication she works at. And she was like, it's so weird because no one that was the joke before when Trump was in office. No one was ever at the desk because they were always covering everything that he was doing. And she said when Biden was in office. We were here. We were actually in the newsroom, which if you're literally part of the press corps, that's not really something you're usually out covering. Anyway, long story short, we had the realization that we just got trained over those four years, especially when you're covering it every single day, that you're just not used to them telling you things. You're used to them not answering questions. You're used to not knowing what the hell is going on, right? Yeah. Now it's like you know too much. I'm pretty sure they use Charmin in the White House, right? I think we all, like, we know everything that's happening. Can I just touch on this one story that came out? And I know that the press is so excited because they think it's fodder. They think we got something. We got something that we can use to finally divide POTUS from Elon Musk. And they've been looking for something like this for forever. It's this story that came out where... I guess what is it? While Doge was going through things, they said that the accusation is a sensitive CIA facility was exposed by a property sale mishap. So Doge apparently, the accusation is that there was the sale of federal properties and this list of what federal properties have been sold and it inadvertently kind of released the location of what they said was a sensitive facility in Northern Virginia. And it was described as being previously used by the CIA for training or other intelligence activities. Now, the original article that talks about this does not say the phrase black site. You guys know what a black site is, right? That's usually it's a location in a foreign area. And that's where the CIA takes the baddies, right? And they have a very, how do I say this, energetic question and answer session. Robust, as you would say, Kane. That was an excellent description. Thank you, my friend. Your mastery of the English language is second to none. Robust. A robust question and answer session, you know, for the baddies. Now, the original article, and it's from, I think it's from Bloomberg. Now, Bloomberg, I tend to think is trash. This is the first of two Bloomberg stories I got to talk about today. They didn't actually say black site. Now, I'm not saying that because they didn't say black site, it doesn't mean black site, but they didn't say black site. But I understand how everyone thinks because I think like that too. I was immediately like, that's a black site. That was immediately what I thought. I read it and I was like, what's a black site mean? What's it doing here? That was my first thought. Would any jury convict me for just simply speculating? I read it and it didn't say black site, but I was like, it's a black site. I didn't say that to you. I just thought it. You heard my thought. So I'm not claiming it. I just thought it as a question. Now, they're not supposed to have those here. If it, in fact, was that very thing that we were like about, they're not supposed to have. It's like illegal. I don't know what the law is. I just know that it's like apparently not allowed. It's it's so it's illegal for that to be here. And I don't know. Maybe they were training it. Maybe they were bringing people here and debriefing them. I don't know. You know, I feel like I should know now. Right. Like I want to know more about this. So now there's all kinds of discussion about transparency and some people are saying Doge went too far. This is what happens when you have some nerds going through. No, no, no, no. Wrong. This is what happens when you have a rat bastard government because of the people in it, the people leading it, the people running these agencies and acting like they're de facto little monarchs and mini bosses. This is what happens when you have a completely unaccountable, too big to govern government And there's no accountability and no oversight, and there has been no transparency. It has been weaponized against innocent people, zero accountability, zero transparency. So no, you don't get, for all of those people out there, you don't get to sit back and go, oh, well, see, this is what happens when the people try to hold their government accountable. Blank you. No, you don't get to say that. And even if in the grand scheme of things, Joe Jackson accidentally found his CIA black site. First off, why is the left going? How dare you find that illegal black site? Shame on you. What the hell is wrong with you people? Why are you not going? Is that a black site? What is that? Why is that not your first question? Why is the left like our precious government's under attack? Save them. Why is that their first reaction to everything? My gosh, it's so tiring. It's so tiring. That's their first reaction to literally everything. Meanwhile, us zanies are over here going, we're like that meme. You know, that meme of that. What is I don't know what animal it is. It's not Arthur, but it's just this weird little meme where the cartoon characters looking kind of sideways. I feel like that right now. That should be the first response. But no, everyone's like, oh. How dare you attack it? And then you have all these liberals out there making the jokes that, oh, Doge thought it was code for a DEI project. You know, black site. They try so hard to be funny. And I... You know, the nice... The good part of my psyche wants to pat them on the back and go, you tried. But I don't follow through with that. So, I don't know. I mean, if it inadvertently exposed something... I just think it's just, again, the article didn't say it, but if it did, why isn't the first question, WTF, what is it doing here? Thank you. I mean, that seems like that's the biggest, that's the bigger question, right?
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Somehow that's not journalism to wonder that.
SPEAKER 23 :
Thou shalt not ask questions of thy government. That's the 11th commandment, and it was on the other side of the tablet. You know, a lot of people don't flip that over. I didn't. You didn't know that? Yeah, it was like double printed. God was double printing. Like before anybody, before we invented it, it was double-sided. Today you're sold. I know, right? It's still black and white, but it was double-sided. I mean, it was like mega advances back in the time of printing with the stone tablets. And by the time Moses realized, he's like, wait a minute, there's another flip. They already were going crazy. So it was, you know, you got one chance. So I just feel like that's, you know, so now they're using that as a way to attack Doge. Now, again, in the grand scheme of things, even if, even if that was accurate, even if Sage at Doge was, oh, we just, we accidentally uncovered an illegal black site. Sorry, guys. That pales in comparison. First off, that's kind of a whistleblowing thing, but it pales in comparison to anything that the government has done in the past four years. Sorry, you guys locked us down in our homes. Redacted off. Okay, go do something unflattering to your face. No, I'm not. I'm not having it. I'm not having it. And I feel like I'm not alone in that, right? Sort of feel like I've got some company here. But seriously, the black site, let's just let me operate. So if you're going to do something off the books like that, give it to me. Yeah. I don't want an elected position. I don't ever want to run for office. And I feel really uncomfortable representing anybody who would vote for me. I'm sorry, but I'm questioning you. I just want to be and I will take it unpaid. Let me be in charge of like torture or something or going after the like devising ways to punish baddies. I would be happy with that. I'll do it as a service to my country. Won't even charge. It's for free. We got a lot more on the way. It's Friday. I mean, you guys are like already like a spring break here. It's the time for a spritz. I know you. We got a lot still to get into because coming up. Hold on. Let me pull this up. We've got John Burke is going to be joining us because Texas is getting. I don't know. Like nobody. You know, the meme where it's nobody colon and then there's nothing. Nobody's saying anything. Texas. Oh, let's go ahead and make THC illegal. I mean, it's been legal this whole time, but now they're like, you know what? We haven't done enough. I guess they got tired of trying to pass like anti-gun bills. And so now they're going, oh, you know what? Let's try to ban this. Let's ban all the things. So we're going to discuss that. Coming up, we're also going to get into, we've got Will Held who's going to be joining us. And he's going to be talking with us a little bit about the BlackRock stuff. We need to keep an eye on that. So we've got a lot of stuff to hit. All Family Pharmacy helped me out. I got my azithromycin. Actually, I got it overnighted. And it immediately started helping, obviously, with my symptoms and sickness, helping with the super sore throat, all of that. They have over 200 different medications. All of the antibiotics that they have, it's all made in the USA. I don't know anywhere else where you can say that, but you don't have to worry about quality and safety with All Family Pharmacy. You can always be prepared. It's simple, fast, and affordable. No insurance, no problem. They've got straightforward pricing. And their shipping is just two to four days. Overnight, also in a pinch. Your health is always within reach. So order from the comfort of home as well. I mean, they can deliver right to your door. Visit allfamilypharmacy.com and use code DANA10 for 10% off of your entire order. That's allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana for 10% off, but you got to use promo code Dana10 to unlock that discount. Dana10, allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana.
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Hi, I'm Matt. And I'm Leah, and we're from the Grown Up Stuff podcast.
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And just in time for tax season, on this week's episode, we're chatting with CPA Lisa Green-Lewis about how small businesses can tackle their taxes using TurboTax Business.
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A Forbes study mentioned that a whopping 93% of small businesses overpay their taxes. And 17% of Gen Zers believed that you could write off any expense as a business expense.
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Can't blame them.
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Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States.
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Congressman. Congressman, how are you?
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Okay, thank you.
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Congressman, why should men be in women's sports? Shorts? sports. Why do you think they should not be in shorts?
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Just run him over. You don't have to be a jackass about it. Just run him over already. Run over his feet. Shorts, because then you just look stupid. And it makes us question why he should even be in Congress at all. Like, for real. That was Steve Cohen, Representative Steve Cohen. Shorts. It's not as bad as what Rosa DeLauro just did here. And I had to see this, so you do, too. This is Audio Sound by 24. Please welcome the electric blue, Mrs. Gargamel.
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Yo, this is the ranking Rizzler on appropriation. Yo! Serving Connecticut's third district. Oh my gosh, no. It's time to enter your dark academia Congress era.
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All right, besties. House appropriation is the money moves in Congress. We are not chasing the bag. We are the bag. Stop it. Democrats are making life smoother for government funding. Stop it. I can't handle anymore.
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It's giving. Just turn her down. It's hurting my soul. She's trying to say all of like the millennial stuff. It's giving me character energy.
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And Sigma.
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She's like if Gargamel had a wife. And you guys remember him? He wanted to either eat the Smurfs or turn them into gold. Like, we don't know. But he's, you know, that's what he wanted. Just, you know. I don't understand her. It's like manic panic became sentient and then developed the ability to be a bipedal human. I don't know. It's just I'm fascinated by this. Who is this supposed to reach out to? Oh, we're trying to reach out to the people. Let's get all their news on TikTok.
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The kids do, though. The kids do get their news from TikTok.
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And this is why I'm totally fine with them not voting. I'll say it if nobody else will. Look, dude, when I was younger, I was raised totally entirely by Democrats. Older me is so glad that younger me was not allowed to vote before she was 18. So glad. Because I was so dumb when I was under 18. I was so dumb. I got smarter the more educated I became. And as I got older and I realized that the fantasy that was spun by the Democrats that surrounded me was just that. It was a horrible fantasy that was actually a nightmare. And there are certain things that I never agreed with them on entirely anyway. But that's why. This is just, what is that? It's giving me, I'm just going to say a bunch of stuff. Phrases, words, little microphone. What? Yo!
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It's like their messaging has gotten lower quality since that USAID money started drying up.
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Yeah, you're right. It did. Yo! Oh my gosh. Yo!
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How you do, fellow kid?
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Yeah, how you do, fellow kids? What is up? Well, tis up. I can't deal. All right, so I had to watch it, so you had to suffer that with us. We're only going to inflict that punishment on you once. Thank you. unless you're not behaving. We've got a lot more coming up because we've got the Pentagon DEI purge. Did you hear the story? They're trying to be jackasses about this now. Wait until you hear what they did as a way to get back at Doge, at Pentagon. Wait until you hear about this. It has to do with, I'll give you two words, Enola Gay. Let your imagination run wild until we come back in just a couple of minutes. Stick with us. Second hour next. Partners, people who will bring you The program is Gold Co. We love gold. Although the URL is DanaLikesGold.com. I'm like, like isn't strong enough. It's my best friend. We're going to go get portraits at JCPenney. Do they still have those? You can get your free 2025 gold and silver kit today. Could qualify for up to $15,000 in bonus silver. Maybe even more. Gold and silver have stood the test of time. And right now, remember Trump's first term, gold served 53%. Silver was 51%. So what does that look like 2025 and beyond now that he's back in office? Protect your wealth with gold and silver today. You can request their free 2025 gold and silver kit. Learn how to diversify and safeguard your savings with time-tested safe haven assets. Experience matters when protecting your wealth. And Goldco is the company that I trust. They've secured their financial future with gold and silver. They've helped so many people do this. And they've been with this program since the beginning. They know what they're doing. Visit danalikesgold.com. Join the thousands of people who've called Goldco the number one rated gold company. And you can get a free copy of their 2025 gold and silver kit and also qualify for up to $15,000 in bonus silver or possibly even more. That's danalikesgold.com.
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And I'm Leah, and we're from the Grown Up Stuff podcast.
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And just in time for tax season, on this week's episode, we're chatting with CPA Lisa Green-Lewis about how small businesses can tackle their taxes using TurboTax Business.
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A Forbes study mentioned that a whopping 93% of small businesses overpay their taxes. And 17% of Gen Zers believed that you could write off any expense as a business expense.
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Can't blame them.
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It's really important to do your taxes right.
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Recently, a new client called me and started by saying, Mr. Morgan, I really need your help, but I'm just a nobody. Those words stunned me, and I immediately called him back, and we're now helping him and his family after a terrible accident. I'm John Morgan of Morgan & Morgan. Everybody who comes to our firm at their time of need is a somebody. I grew up poor, but my grandmother was like a queen to us. At Morgan & Morgan, our goal is to level the playing field for you and your family at your time of need. The insurance company has unlimited money and resources. You need a firm who can fight them toe-to-toe. For right at 30 years, we have fought them in courtrooms throughout America. Our results speak for themselves. And always remember this, everybody is a somebody and nobody is a nobody. Visit ForThePeople.com to learn about our firm. Morgan & Morgan, For The People.
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As President Trump has said many times, tariff is his favorite word. I would say the reciprocal is probably his second favorite word. And I think we have to be open to the idea. If you want to be a numbskull like Justin Trudeau and say, oh, we're going to do this, then tariffs are going to go up.
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Yeah, I don't... I don't understand some of the leaders of some of these countries. You think that by picking a fight that that's going to make it easier? I mean, this is geopolitics. This is negotiations. It's diplomacy. I mean, there is an art to it. And diplomats, which is why diplomatic skills, you know, diplomacy skills are incredibly important. It is an art. I mean, a good diplomat, not everybody can do it. It really is. I think you have to be predisposed in terms of personality. I see Justin Trudeau talk, and I'm like, what an A-double snakes. I mean, he's leaving, but still, you're not helping your people. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. A number of things to touch on. We were talking about how the left is trying to go crazy on Doge because Doge inadvertently may have found. Now, Lorraine says, yeah, there's some sus stuff happening over there. She said that it's they apparently were training people came to do some shadiness over there. So it was like not a full on black site, maybe, but a gray site. I'm saying that that and that they wanted to redevelop the area, she said, and they couldn't because the CIA was secretly but not so secretly there. So why are people... I mean, why is... I just am trying to understand why the response is that people are mad that... The left is mad that Doge... may have inadvertently found something that's illegal unless Congress – I think Congress has to explicitly authorize it under wartime powers to have that on U.S. soil because you cannot have facilities like that operating on U.S. soil. I mean, there's a ton of different statutes that govern this, and you have to have congressional action. And I pretty much guarantee that we all would have probably known if Congress – I'm sure Thomas Massey would have been screaming about it from the rooftops if they had to authorize a black site on U.S. soil. So I'm just saying, seems a little illegal, right? A little illegal-ish. Do you want to hear something really, really dumb? Always. So you know how we've had the DEI purge, right? Okay, so we've had the DEI purge. Doge has been going through, looking at everything. And it seems like they're trying to get a little bit of revenge on it. So the Pentagon, their DEI purge has led to photos of the B-29 bomber Enola Gay. And you guys know the Enola Gay. That was named after Enola Gay Tibbetts. And, I mean, it's, you know, historical, historical plane. Everybody knows it, or you should. But apparently, they've deleted, they've marked all of these photos of the Enola Gay for deletion. And apparently, photos of soldiers who have the last name Gay are also apparently marked for deletion. Now, here's the crazy thing. It's not a joke. AP, references to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and the first women to pass Marine infantry training are among the tens of thousands of photos and online posts marked for deletion as the DOD works to purge diversity, equity, and inclusion content, according to a database obtained by the Associated Press. And they're doing it? to be there it's malicious compliance is how a friend described it and i really feel like that's they're doing it to be malicious oh it says gay in it i mean that's so dumb and no i reject the argument that well i mean why do you say malicious policy isn't it just bad policy no if you are so a friend of mine's like if i tell you to clean your house and you start ripping out the stove and put furniture on the curb that's malicious compliance that's true This is Amelia Bedelia, but on purpose. You guys know Amelia Bedelia, right? I grew up with her books. In fact, it's how I learned about literalism. Our teacher would read it, and they would have to be very careful. Amelia Bedelia is the adult in her life, because if they told her to do something, she would do it literally. Literally. And then the stories were the chaos and fun that ensued, right? So they're doing this on purpose. And this is probably why I would think that some of the agencies were like, oh, we got a little discretion over here as to how to exercise this. That's one of the things that Kash Patel had said, Tulsi Gabbard and Marco Rubio even. Excuse me. So. I don't know if this is... I know that they've been using some AI to go through things, but I don't think they've been using it to go through everything. But like I said, this just seems... It seems like it's maliciously on purpose. Do you think it's an algorithm? Do you think, Cain, that they were using... Because the article doesn't actually discuss whether or not they're using AI to go through. They're just saying that they're going through the database to... And I still also don't think that they would – I mean obviously if you're going through that, you know these things are going to crop up. And I don't think that AI would just – I think that they would have like some parameters attached to what they're feeding it in terms of the algorithm. Yeah. This is just maliciousness. This is Deep State going, okay. And then there are Amelia Bedelia in it. Oh, it says gay here. It's the Enola Gay. You absolute jack wagon. You fecal bird. It's my new word. But not the fecal part. It's not a new word. It's my favorite word. It's magical.
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Thank you for censoring.
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I didn't censor. I just voluntarily gave you a gift. Thank you for cleaning it up. I didn't want to have to call Brennan Carr and be like, Mr. Carr.
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So are they also upset the fact that it was named after a woman? Is that part of their thing, too?
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Oh, they're just going overboard. They're going overboard on purpose.
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Yeah, it doesn't sound like this is just an AI.
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No, it sounds like it's overboard totally on purpose. Because, I mean... That's, especially Enola Gay. Come on, AI is going to know Enola. Everybody knows Enola Gay. I don't care if you don't know anything about history. You know about this plane. Everybody knows about this plane. Everybody knows about this crew. You know about it. That's so dumb to say otherwise. This is them just being malicious. Oh, man. I feel a great big backhand trying to form. I mean... It really does. It's malicious. I mean, think about all the other stuff that they've done malicious. Yeah, I completely believe it. I absolutely believe that this was willingly done. But this is, you know, it's an actual story. Actual story. And this is what they've been trying to, I don't know, I guess I feel like they're trying to blame the AI, but I don't really think it's not AI. This is them just trying to be smartasses. That's really what it is. So speaking of DEI, Wells Fargo is apparently backing off its DEI policies. One executive finally came out and said, yeah, it's over the top. Think about this for a moment. And I was writing this piece last night that I sent out on my sub stack about Gavin Newsom. And how he's like he's you know, we talked about this yesterday and he said, yeah, you know, I think it's deeply unfair for trans, you know, for boys to be on girls teams. By the way, if he really did think it was deeply unfair, he would assign an executive order like now because he's still governor of California. He would sign an executive order right now protecting women's sports. He has not done that. So he doesn't really care. Also, his wife is like, isn't she like on the board of some like group alphabet group that's trying to. assimilate trans into everything? I believe so. Yeah. So this is all goofy. I don't believe him. And he did sign the bill that actually allowed schools to socially transition kids without informing their parents or obtaining their consent. So it's all stagecraft. Anyway, think about this, though. The number of people, especially at businesses now that are coming out saying, yeah, this is bad. It went on way too. It was just way too much. It went on way too long. It was pretty egregious. They thought that this whole time. This isn't a realization that they just had. Like this DEI, this one executive at Wells Fargo. This is not a realization that they just had. They knew it was crazy from the get-go. But they're lemmings. Oh, no, I guess I better go along with it because I want to be socially acceptable and still popular in my social circles. So they go along with it. I can't stand that. I cannot stand it. I go along with it. Can I tell you a story? I'm not going to name any entity names. I don't have a problem with people who live differently than I do so long and everything is peaceable so long as no one tries to hijack my speech, my behavior or limit my rights in favor of another entity. You don't do those things. You know, I'm good. I like to be left alone. I'm not a big fan of unity because I want to be left alone and unity implies that I can't be left alone. Yeah. So I was at this event and it was a ladies event, right? I can't, I really don't, I'm so close to telling you who it, the organization, but it was a ladies event. And there was a gentleman at this ladies event, clearly a gentleman. I mean, I'm, I don't know if they were kitten heels that they were in the largest kitten heels I've ever seen in my life. And the guy was nice. He wasn't mean, you know, I actually, you know, was, I had a conversation with him for quite some time. But dude was legit over six one. You can't really wear like a four-inch heel. You can't wear a stiletto if you're over 6'1". And plus the structure of the shoe with a man's foot just makes that impossible. Anyway, kitten heel. So we're at this event. And this gentleman clearly would identify himself as being trans, right? And it really shocked me because... out of everybody there, and this was a few years ago, there was only like one or two other women that I spoke with that were like, this is because it's not, it wasn't a left-leaning organization. And we're like, why are we all pretending that this is not a dude in kitten heels who's over six feet tall? Really nice, but it's a ladies event and this is kind of nuts, no pun intended, you know? And There was one woman who was a part of our conversation. I'm not even kidding you. And she had like her giant, you know, cross necklace, you know, her Republican pin and all this stuff. And I'm like, so what do you, what do you, you know, I can't remember how I broached the subject. But I said, oh, yeah, the ladies are getting pretty diverse these days or something like that. She's like, I don't know. I don't know what you mean. I don't see it. It was like the Mariah Carey meme. I don't know her. I don't know her. And I looked at the other woman I was standing with because we were having a conversation about like, is this where this group is going now? And, you know, again, dude was super nice and that's all fine and good. But it's a lady event, right? For ladies. I mean, I couldn't even bring my husband to it. It's a lady event. That's fine. But I'm just saying. And we're like, what do you mean? You don't know what we're talking about of the ladies here. Is there one of these things that does not look like the other? She's like, no, I don't know. And I'm like the balls lady. Seriously. I'm like, come on. We're not dancing around this anymore. But what got me was that there were so like, people were just like, I don't want to see it. They put blinders on. And then when people put blinders on, they think that everyone else is going along with it when everyone else is only going along with it because they think everyone else is. Do you see what I mean? It becomes this like giant psychological group conditioning effort. And I'm just looking around at all this and I'm like, it's the tallest person in the room, literally. And I'm pretty sure that's a wig. A blonde, like corn silk wig with curls. Like I swear to you, I had a Cabbage Patch Kid with hair like that. That's why I recognize it. And I think it was all what Barbie hair was made out of. Anyway, I mean, the dude was nice. And I did say something like, you know, how them heels treat. Yeah, you know, I and I was real nice. I can't I am I any kind of small talk. I will make a smart ass comment and I can't help it. It's a thing. But I was thinking about this in context of this DEI story with Wells Fargo. These executives who are all coming out now like, yes, that's true. This has gone way too far. At what moment did you realize it was going way too far? Right? And I began thinking about this. It's a mass hysteria. It is a form of mass hysteria. No one wants to be left out. So they're willing to put on their blinders and pretend that everybody else is going along with it to make themselves feel better about not challenging the status quo. That is so weak. So weak. And that's what's happening here. It's a big just psyop. We got a lot more on the way. We got headlines coming up as we move. Our partners will bring you the program. It's our friends over at Tax Network USA. So Tax Network USA understands. that nobody wants to deal with the government theft agency i mean the legal extortion i'm sorry the irs i just easy easy verbal typo and they want to help you out because the last thing that you want to be dealing with is the pressure of thinking that you're going to have you know uh them come seize your property or bank levies or anything like that. You don't want to live with that sort of Damocles over your head. So the folks over at Tax Network USA, they are total pros. They've been doing this forever. 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Hi, I'm Matt.
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And I'm Leah, and we're from the Grown Up Stuff podcast.
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And just in time for tax season, on this week's episode, we're chatting with CPA Lisa Green-Lewis about how small businesses can tackle their taxes using TurboTax Business.
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A Forbes study mentioned that a whopping 93% of small businesses overpay their taxes. And 17% of Gen Zers believed that you could write off any expense as a business expense.
SPEAKER 02 :
Can't blame them.
SPEAKER 13 :
It's really important to do your taxes right.
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Listen to Grown Up Stuff on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your favorite podcasts.
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Recently, a new client called me and started by saying, Mr. Morgan, I really need your help, but I'm just a nobody. Those words stunned me, and I immediately called him back, and we're now helping him and his family after a terrible accident. I'm John Morgan of Morgan & Morgan. Everybody who comes to our firm at their time of need is a somebody. I grew up poor, but my grandmother was like a queen to us. At Morgan & Morgan, our goal is to level the playing field for you and your family at your time of need. The insurance company has unlimited money and resources. You need a firm who can fight them toe-to-toe. For right at 30 years, we have fought them in courtrooms throughout America. Our results speak for themselves. And always remember this, everybody is a somebody and nobody is a nobody. Visit ForThePeople.com to learn about our firm. Morgan & Morgan, For The People.
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
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So now, apparently, they're saying, do women age better than men? I actually don't think so. Mystery of why women age better. It's from The Telegraph. It's a British publication. So they're saying that they think that women age better than men, and they're trying to solve why. They said women tend to live about five years longer than men, and they usually avoid the severe mental decline that, you know, a lot of men, like apparently men deal more with like Alzheimer's and things like that. But they said that there's a number of reasons, like it may have to do, you know, the biological clock chromosomes. It's a deep dive. But I think that men physically age better than women. But women have fewer. They don't have as much issues as men do when they get up there. Second death reported in a growing measles outbreak. Is it do we are we is the government trying to tell us to panic? It's New Mexico. They said it was an adult who was not vaccinated for measles has kicked the bucket. There's a growing outbreak along the Texas-New Mexico border. And they said that six of the cases in that county are amongst adults, four kids. Seven of the 10 did not have a measles vaccination. I'm not going to fall into the psyop of accepting brand new government injections because of stuff like this. I mean, there's certain vaccines that have been out there for a long time. I'm fine with that. But the new stuff, I mean, I don't know. I just feel like it's a setup in a way. John Burke joins us next. a gun is a non-firearm firearm, you might describe it as. And you're like, Dana, what does that mean? Okay, well, it shoots chemical irritant projectiles that can disable threats from up to 50 feet away. It's great to have diverse options for your weapons. I mean, I got my gun. I carry. I have zero issue at all whatsoever using lethal force to protect myself or a loved one. I mean, I legit will not hesitate. And I also realized, too, that there are some instances where you can't carry a because you've got municipal restrictions, private property restrictions. I don't want to be left to the mercy of the criminals. And a lot of my friends, especially those who live and work in D.C., like in the media particularly, they've gone out and gotten a Burna gun, even though they have a firearm and they got a license, because they want to be able to protect themselves and not be disarmed. Burna gun does not care about gun-free zone signs. There's no waiting period. There's no background check. They'll send it right to your house immediately. And it's super affordable and no recoil. I know that's important to a lot of folks out there. And it's super accessible. And it's a great way to diversify what you have so you are never left totally defenseless. You can go to their website, Burna.com slash Dana. That's B-Y-R-N-A. And that's where you can get 10% off your purchase. Burna.com slash Dana for 10% off.
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Hi, I'm Matt. And I'm Leah. And we're from the Grown Up Stuff podcast.
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And just in time for tax season, on this week's episode, we're chatting with CPA Lisa Greene-Lewis about how small businesses can tackle their taxes using TurboTax Business.
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A Forbes study mentioned that a whopping 93% of small businesses overpay their taxes. And 17% of Gen Zers believed that you could write off any expense as a business expense. So it's really important to do your taxes right.
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Listen to Grown Up Stuff on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your favorite podcasts.
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Recently, a new client called me and started by saying, Mr. Morgan, I really need your help, but I'm just a nobody. Those words stunned me, and I immediately called him back, and we're now helping him and his family after a terrible accident. I'm John Morgan of Morgan & Morgan. Everybody who comes to our firm at their time of need is a somebody. I grew up poor, but my grandmother was like a queen to us. At Morgan & Morgan, our goal is to level the playing field for you and your family at your time of need. The insurance company has unlimited money and resources. You need a firm who can fight them toe-to-toe. For right at 30 years, we have fought them in courtrooms throughout America. Our results speak for themselves. And always remember this, everybody is a somebody and nobody is a nobody. Visit ForThePeople.com to learn about our firm. Morgan & Morgan, For The People.
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Where do you stand on this bill? Because I have I we have a lot of people in the audience that are veterans. And I know that a lot of them rely on this as like a non psychotropic thing. I just what are your thoughts on this and what's the understanding behind it?
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So I don't know the details of this bill. 5,000 bills going through the House and Senate. It's hard to keep up with every one unless it's something I'm working on, which we have many of those issues. But generally supportive of things that can help people that are not addictive and that don't do harm. So, you know, this is a bill that helps our veterans deal with health issues in a way that's not detrimental to their health. I'm all for it.
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I so this was from yesterday when we had on Attorney General Ken Paxton. Now, I like Ken Paxton. But as you guys know, I'm also not an ass kisser and I'm not a ring kisser. And I'm because I'm the taxpayer. I'm like, you work for me. What do you do for me? But I like Ken Paxton. I think he's a fighter. I think he's been real good on two way issues. You know, of a lot of politicians out there, you know, I tend to favor him. I like him. But I still got questions about some of this stuff that's rolling through. And this is part of like this ongoing look that we have. You got to watch stuff that's happening in your own state. It's super sexy to watch everything that's happening federally. But you got to watch what's coming through your own, you know, your own state legislatures. So what's happening in Texas is nobody was talking about really, you know, nobody was talking about any of this. And then all of a sudden, legislators in Texas are like, you know what? out of nowhere, let's just make some stuff illegal. Now, some of these are the same Republicans that keep passing these weird anti-gun bills and trying to get them out of committee, and I'm trying to figure out what the hell's going on there. So I don't know why they decide, out of nowhere, we're just going to go ahead. There's like two different bills. SB3 is the baddie. The other one is the teacup bill, and they're Both completely contrary to what they're trying to do in terms of THC, the chemical, as Nana would say, in the pot, in the marijuana. And I want people, before we get into this, I want people to put aside, this is not about stoner stuff. It's not about hippies. I need everybody to get that out of their head. I am very sensitive to the government telling people what they can and can't do that is out of the scope of what they're allowed to tell you. They're supposed to be there as a partner, as a facilitator, not as your nanny, not as your boss. Joining us on this, a good friend of mine, and he's a veteran, and this is his business. John Burke, who is a Texan and he has his own pilot. He's got his own podcast. He's an entrepreneur. His show is the All-American Savage Show. But he also owns Shell Shock CBD. And he's, you know, making products that are helping veterans and, you know, other individuals. What I like about what he does is that big pharma is not there. And I think we're all a little bit done with big pharma and psychotropics and everything else. John joins us now via Skype. John, good to see you.
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You too. I was looking forward to yesterday, but you know, somebody had Ken Paxton. Oh, I know. Ken Paxton. Sorry. I appreciate that. Thanks. Sorry. I know. I see where I stand as your good friend. So I appreciate that.
SPEAKER 23 :
What did you think of his response to that? I don't think he was expecting the question, but I wanted to ask him and kind of gauge.
SPEAKER 08 :
You've got to gauge this. Right off the bat, he's saying anything that supports veterans. We've got to distinguish between the two of the teacup bill and SB3. Now, the teacup bill is already in existence. The issue that we're bringing to light on that one is that essentially it's putting the state more in play to issue your medication, your THC. Like you previously said, Delta 8 and Delta 9 that we're currently selling, that's basically saying the state says we get to regulate. We get to say how much you get at whatever point. Also, the teacup is expensive. at the actual testimony there, there was a female veteran, Iraq war veteran, that said, I can't even afford the teacup. So SB3 and the teacup... I want to interrupt because John was in Austin.
SPEAKER 23 :
He was at the state capitol, and he was at the hearing on this, and he and others were speaking as to this proposition to ban, outright ban, all THC in Texas. Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah. And so Ken Paxton, I get where he's coming from. He's going to support anything that supports veterans. Well, a teacup technically supports veterans. It's SB three. We've got to put a halt on. And the reason we've got it right now is you've got Lieutenant Dan over there want to say, like, well, I don't like weed. I don't like THC. I want it banned. And of course, you know, you've got Perry down here. And I think what is a district 32 that when. Dan snaps, man. He just he comes to a little accountant over there just typing away on this little bill wanting to ban something that he himself, he said he didn't understand. And Dana, I got to read for a second. I sat there. I support our boys in blue. But I sat there and I watched the chief of police of Allen blatantly lie to the people. His expert analysis couldn't even tell us the difference between Delta eight and Delta nine. That's how stupid these people are that want to regulate and tell you what you can and cannot.
SPEAKER 23 :
It's like people who don't know about guns trying to regulate guns.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah. Thank you. So if we're talking about safety because they kept hitting on that, well, kids are getting it. No, they're not. You have to be 21 to purchase this. Now, if they want to put that into law, that's fine. I support that. What they've done, though, is those people like myself that showed up at that meeting were the law abiders. We actually go by the law. So these people that they're catching selling actual marijuana, which I don't care. Do your thing. I'm not going to sit here and be upset about it. It's your body. You do what you want to do. But they're trying to lump us in with them. So here's the basis of it. If SB3 does get passed, you are going to see 8,000 Texas businesses be destroyed like that. This is an $8 billion economy. And I have to say, this is not about safety, Dana. You and I both know the argument between the Second Amendment. Don't sit there and tell the Texas people that this is about for their own safety. You've got vape shops. Matter of fact, if you sat down with me right now and we had a joint in one hand and we had a McDonald's meal in the other, McDonald's is actually doing way more damage to your body. But we can't complain about that because, you know, it makes it makes no sense. Right. Yeah. So that's what SB3 is. It's a complete and total ban. Complete and total ban.
SPEAKER 23 :
That's that's insane to me. And you're you're right. It's these people who have no expertise in this regulating it. It is literally just like hearing people trying to regulate firearms. And that's kind of the crux. This is how I look at it for me, because you're talking about this as a business. You're you're going by the law. Some of the stuff that I heard, well, THC is killing people and the kids are all getting literally impossible.
SPEAKER 08 :
I don't even know about all this stuff.
SPEAKER 23 :
It's so dumb.
SPEAKER 08 :
You can't even OD on THC. Here's how it would work. For you to actually die from a THC overdose, you would have to smoke roughly 1,500 pounds in under 15 minutes. And, ma'am, if that was possible, Snoop Dogg would have been dead a long time ago. Nobody's pulling that. Nobody's doing that. So, again, it's not about safety. And these boomers can sit there and say, oh, it's the devil's letter. The gateway drug. They brought that one up, too. We're really still regurgitating this nonsense? Like, okay, fine. Whatever.
SPEAKER 23 :
Now this is because your product, so you have shell shock CBD, so you make the drop, you have the dropper, so that's like the liquid, and then you have the gummies, and then you have like melatonin stuff.
SPEAKER 08 :
We blew up, Dana, because here's the thing. We now give the power of veterans, and it's not just for everybody, but veterans can now self-medicate with something that doesn't have secondary and tertiary negative effects. If they want to get a bag of gummies that contain THC to get high, to get baked, or to relax, whatever, they have that option because, Dana... I've been consuming Delta-8 and Delta-9 now for about three years, and it has made a difference in my life as a combat veteran. I'm telling you, the most reoccurring statement I get from our customers is that I used to be on 15 medications from the VA. I'm on none now because this is what helps. That's why the Vietnam generation were a bunch of stoners because they had all kinds of nonsense thrown at them, and THC is the only thing that worked. So, again, they say they support veterans. Well, veterans showed up in mass at the Capitol. And God bless them. I love seeing those little funny hats, the VFWs. Don't get mad, guys. They're funny. But everybody was there. Veterans, they're for banning or they're for against SB3. So if they actually care about what the veterans want and these public servants actually work for us, then you better listen. Because, you know, old Perry boy, they're just sitting there talking about, oh, he wanted to regulate it, too. This is a libertarian in me. He wants to put a $10,000 tax on it.
SPEAKER 23 :
Because it's about money. I want to touch on this because you said that, you know, veterans and I've heard this from so many. We have a lot of in our family. We have a lot of combat vets and we have a lot of friends who are combat vets. And I've heard this from so many individuals who have said, we didn't want to be on all these drugs. We don't want to we don't want to have to take this for anxiety or because, you know, they've seen some stuff. They don't want to. They're just trying to live their lives. With something like and I had a friend explain it to me. They were taking like an I guess an edible gummy that had THC in it. I don't know how much it was in it. But they said that it's not about getting high and it's not about being like a stoner. And that's what everybody thinks. They said it helps in a way to help regulate their anxiety. That isn't addictive and it doesn't have all the side effects of prescription medication. And I just don't understand why lawmakers are so averse to that, because if they ban it, does that mean they're going to reintroduce it as like a licensing scheme? And then you have to go through like, you know, the government or an entity that they then what?
SPEAKER 08 :
partially yes so perry even led into this look i just said he want to put a ten thousand dollar licensing fee so if you look in states like laifornia and colorado they've banned delta in delta nine and they call it synthetic synthetic just basically means you're getting the delta eight and the delta nine from the hemp plant it's the same that you get from the cannabis it's just less we blow it up a little bit and therefore it circumvents the twenty nineteen farm bill that aside they ban it because it is in direct competition to the actual So big weed becomes big pharma. That's why the libertarian aspect of let the market be free. Because here's the thing. A stoner or a weed marijuana smoker, they're always going to want that. And then there's those of us that I prefer the gummies and the edibles because you don't have that smell. And you can microdose. You can basically get a more measured amount of what you want to take. So let just people choose for themselves. That's all I'm saying. We're going to watch this bill, and I guarantee you they're going to red pen some stuff, and it's going to come down to just more government regulation and more government taxation. And, Dana, I'm mainly e-commerce. You know, it's ShellShockCBD.com. I will move my operation an hour up down the road to Oklahoma, and then Texas will lose out on all of that. And if that's what he wants to do, that's fine. But I'm blessed in the fact that, you know, geographically speaking, I can do that. But a lot of these businesses, Dana, blood, sweat, and tears. And they shouldn't have to.
SPEAKER 23 :
I mean, it's Texas, for crying out loud. That's it. So... I want to tackle this because I hear this a lot. And I, I have some friends who are very good natured, but I'm like, don't spare me the Barbara Bush and no offense to Barbara Bush, but you know, spare me the Barbara Bush, the Republican, the Republican pearl clutching, you know, where, where people say, well, then you're just going to turn the whole state blue and it's going to smell like Heineken.
SPEAKER 08 :
and that's that's what i hear from what do you say she didn't say hi did she say hi i added the heineken part but but you know that's a legitimate thing look fair enough let's treat it like alcohol then you can't do it in public you can do it in your home you can grow it yourself that i can understand i don't want to smell it down the road either that's fair but still make it legal yeah and because again who's it really hurt this is a victimless crime
SPEAKER 23 :
I have to tell you, the only time I think my first exposure to like pot smokers was when I went to a Willie Nelson concert and me and my friend were behind these old people. Like, dude, like they were really they were they were advanced in age. God love them. They were very sweet, but they were in their 70s. And they smoked more pot than I'd ever seen in my life. And I thought, I don't know. Am I going to be on drugs? Because I'm sitting behind them. And I'm like, how am I going to explain this to my mom?
SPEAKER 08 :
I'm 17 years old. The way the politics are going, probably. Like, I don't know what's up anymore. Like, the big tent of conservatives.
SPEAKER 23 :
But it smelled so bad.
SPEAKER 08 :
It does, yeah.
SPEAKER 23 :
It smelled so bad. And I just... So I understand.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, Dana, so does the Trinity River. But we don't ban that.
SPEAKER 23 :
Come on, let's be real. Heineken beer smells just like it. It's a legit complaint.
SPEAKER 08 :
I understand it. But it's like... The best that you're going to get it is how you've got it right now. In edible format. But we also sell pre-rolls. So technically, I could walk down the street and smell a flower, smoke a flower, a bud, and it smells exactly like it. I just choose not to.
SPEAKER 23 :
That sounds fancy when you say that, to smoke a flower. That sounds like a Nordstrom thing. It's the flower of the... Yeah, that's almost like Neiman Marcus marketing, just there. Let me ask you this. We're talking with John Burke.
SPEAKER 08 :
That was totally unintentional, too.
SPEAKER 23 :
I think you may have just stumbled on some marketing. Isn't it isn't it legitimate to tell people if you're worried about the state flipping blue because, you know, we they THC is allowed in edibles or whatever. Why would you export that responsibility and give it to the government instead of doing your due diligence and your civic duty to win hearts and minds yourself as a free citizen? Isn't that the spirit of the republic in the first place?
SPEAKER 08 :
well first we have to go back there is a point you made you said that you know the status of the only status fought against this in florida and i understood that was a big corporation big we monopoly in terms of amendment three what it in legalize we had but here's the deal if we want to talk about states potentially flipping is that it's legal in oklahoma california was blue long before they legalize the colorado i forget the actual on that one but here's the deal We first have to look at what conservatives are actually bent up about. And I don't think it's THC. I think you're going to find more conservatives have the position that like maybe you yourself or Ken Paxton has like, look, I don't consume it, but I believe in the freedom of individual citizens. So, yeah, you probably will draw a lot of liberals. There is the possibility of that. But at the same time, it's like, again, look at the states where it has been legalized and they haven't flipped. I think it's just all about how you introduce it to the populace. And then there's other things that come into play on something like this because you do have the teacup bill. And the other part of this, Dana, is here's where it proves them all wrong. It's been legal since 2019. Texas, during the last election, we had, what, four counties flip red, even though they were border counties. We've gotten more conservative. That's a great point. The liberalism is confined to places such as, again, Houston, Dallas like that. You don't see it spread. It's not spreading. And, you know, to be fair, we've got other issues like, I don't know, fentanyl pouring over the border, stuff like that. So it's like if this is like you said, why this all of a sudden? It's because Lieutenant Dan got a wild hair and somebody's probably paying him. I don't know.
SPEAKER 23 :
We need to watch this. SB3, everybody in Texas needs to be calling their lawmakers and saying, no, don't be doing this to us because we'll remember that because it's just, again, more encroachment on individual liberty. John Burke, appreciate you sounding the alarm on this and watching it as closely as you did. Also appreciate your service. The website is shellshockcbd.com. You can go there to learn more and you can follow John on X at John Burke 39. Always good to talk with you. We'll have you back, my friend. Of course.
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Well, I think it's common sense, right? If they don't pay, I'm not going to defend them. No, I'm not going to defend them. I got into a lot of heat when I said that. You said, oh, he's violating NATO. And, you know, the biggest problem I have with NATO, I really, you know, I mean, I know the guys very well. They're friends of mine. But if the United States was in trouble and we called them, we said... We got a problem, France. We got a problem, a couple of others I won't mention. Do you think they're going to come and protect us? They're supposed to. I'm not so sure.
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I think he's, I like the way, I like his elocution, his voice, his, what am I thinking of? Not his pitch, but just the way that he talks when he... Yeah, his whole demeanor with it. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. Top of this third hour. That's POTUS. Yesterday, he was asked about, you know, can you get NATO protections and not be a member of NATO, meaning not pay into not just NATO, but have meet the. basic bare minimum litmus of spending, what is it, two or three percent of your GDP on defense? And I think POTUS gave up. I don't think there's any wiggle room out of the answer that POTUS gave just there. I don't think so. Now, I was thinking about this. There was a story I read yesterday on Substack. My subsect, chapter and verse. And it has to do with this exact topic. Now, I like watching what some conservative leaders in European nations do, because I think that you have to have, you know, I just look, I want everything else to be cool and chill so that the U.S. doesn't have to worry about nothing. And that factors into our national security. Now, there was a story, and this is the second story, the second Bloomberg story that I mentioned in the first hour of our broadcast today. I said, here's a trash Bloomberg story, and I explained it. This is the second one that I think is trashy. And this is why I can't – I mean, this could be just more garbage reporting from Bloomberg. They kind of have a history of it. So what they said is that Giorgio Maloney, who is the prime minister of Italy – that she was claiming that Ukraine should receive NATO protections without membership, meaning NATO protections, defense of Ukraine should be applicable, but they shouldn't have to pay anything into NATO. Now, the whole claim for this story rests on one indirect quote and one, it almost looks like it's an abridged quote. I get the it seems like she's replying to something and it's not like a statement, but she's I don't know. So there's only two actual quotes from her in the whole story. And this is what Bloomberg is using to prop up this whole narrative. So that's why I'm saying, I mean, I'm hoping it's just garbage reporting. The two that are quoted, it says, quote, speaking on the sidelines of a European Union leaders meeting in Brussels on Thursday. She, Maloney, said that, quote, we need to think about more durable solutions, end quote, than sending European peacekeeping troops to Ukraine. Then later on in the story, she had this, quote, it's a different thing than entering NATO, but it implies extending the coverage that NATO countries have also to Ukraine, end quote. Neither of those quotes support the claim that Bloomberg is making that Italy's Georgia Maloney is demanding for NATO protections for Ukraine without membership. It almost seems like it's a way to try to like they're attacking her. For something she didn't even say, it seems like someone asked her and she was just having a reasonable, nuanced discussion about it. And unless she says otherwise, I'm inclined to give her the benefit of the doubt for this because she is fiercely Euroskeptic. And she I mean, if you remember how she came into office, she blew through the messaging as part of Fratelli d'Italia, Brothers of Italy and her populist messaging. And this is, again, the difference. This is why populism isn't a set of beliefs, but it is a tactic. She had populist messaging that was underpinned by very traditional conservative principles. And she easily took office in twenty twenty two. She immediately formed alliances with Lega, formerly Lega Nord. That's headed up by Matteo Salvini, who's the deputy prime minister in Italy. And they have arguably held what. is, I think, Europe's hardest stance against illegal and unregulated immigration. And their refusal to bend a knee to the demands of the EU and the socialist members of parliament in Italian parliament in Italy. they've refused to bend a knee to it. I'm just thinking of all the lawfare. I can't remember how many lawsuits they had, like the socialists were filing against Mulaney's government and the Matteo Salvini. I think you guys remember they wanted to take Salvini to jail because he wouldn't allow a bunch of illegal immigrants coming in from, what was it, Algeria to disembark in southern Italy. He wasn't going to allow it. And they were trying to, they accused him of all this stuff. And of course he was, you know, victorious every single one of these cases. I, I, Like I'm inclined to give her the benefit of the doubt because they have worked really hard now. It's been difficult. I think a lot of people thought it was going to be something that happened overnight because it's a little different with Italy because they're part of the EU. They're part of the Schengen Agreement. So there's that to consider. Again, they're super fiercely Euroskeptic, but they're they're trying to deal with years of just completely unfettered. Not just immigration, illegal immigration, people just coming in and it's on the honor system. And then, you know, they go through, they either stay or they go through everywhere else. There was this one story of an Italian island that was just absolutely besieged by people coming in for northern Africa. Boats full of people that are just disembarking and take, you know, I mean, just crazy. They've they've threatened to use their their Italian Navy to dispel some of these attacks. And so or some of these these entries, these mass entrance illegal entries. So, like I said, I'm inclined to give her the benefit of the doubt. They've been working very hard to try to stop this. And then I feel like it's a psyop for the socialists in the country. They they work with the media and then they try to say that because they have they they have been undertaking this laborious act. effort to turn the immigration problem around. If it doesn't happen as fast as the media claims it will happen, then it means that Maloney is soft on immigration. And I just think that the actions of their government don't support that. So that's why I'm like, I'm inclined to kind of give her the benefit of the doubt. I mean, there were even accusations that, you know, Germans, you know, leftist leaders were trying to undermine what Italy was doing with, you know, travel in and out of different EU countries. So there's a lot there. So just be really careful with some of these stories, particularly, you know, Bloomberg and some of these others, because they have a history of really garbage reporting. And the whole claim on this rests largely literally on two crappy quotes that don't actually support what the headline's claiming. And I just don't want conservatives to start trashing the most conservative leader in Europe right now. She is the most conservative leader in Europe. And she is single-handedly, she, Salvini and others through Lega and Fratelli d'Italia, they have been trying to bring Italy back to a point of normalcy. And then from that, they are providing shade to a lot of these other European leaders who are conservative, whether it's, you know, the conservatives in France or in Spain, where they've been absolutely destroying socialists in elections, whether it's, you know, Orban in Hungary, whether it's, you know, some of the German conservatives or some of those German conservatives elsewhere. I mean, it's conservatives like in the Netherlands and in Belgium and Flanders and all of this. There are a lot of conservatives that are that are enjoying the shade that their very fierce leadership is providing in Italy. And I sort of feel like it's a bait to try to get, you know, conservatives, whether it's in Europe or in the United States, to start attacking each other. And not only I would say not only are they pretty conservative by European standards, they're almost pretty conservative by American standards. You've got to think about that, too. When you talk about conservatism, it's different, obviously, in Europe because you have a different founding document. You have different constitutions. You have different charters, etc. So it's still different. That's why I like to define conservatism about conserving individual liberty and national sovereignty. And they are the most conservative right now in the EU. Absolutely. And I just feel like it's kind of a bait. Am I being too tinfoil hat? Did I steal your tinfoil hat? Doesn't it seem like it? It seems like they're trying to delegitimize That's the impression I get because they've always been pretty like they've always been pretty hardcore. Like we're not sending boots on the ground to Ukraine. We are not doing this. And she'll listen to different leaders. I think they also under the Draghi government, they Ukraine was a contributing factor. The government that preceded hers in collapsing all of that. So I think they're very sensitive to all of this. But anyway, that's that's over at Substack. If you want to read more about that now. Also over at Substack is Lorraine's deep dive on, and this is coming up again in the news today, Judge Amir Ali. He is the, she describes him as a dual citizen DEI hire. And he is the judge who's trying to usurp. I mean, that's, I don't know how else you present this. Usurp POTUS's authority to determine justice. taxpayer dollars, right, as it relates to the Treasury and what the Treasury can and cannot do, which is weird because, correct me if I'm wrong, King, and I know I'm not, that's under the executive branch. So if you're president... You control the treasury because it's part of the it's under the purview of the executive branch. It's kind of how that works. Really weird how that works, isn't it? So there has been this effort. And I know that there's there's stuff happening today as well. They've I mean, I just it seems it kind of seems lawfairy. But they are they've been trying to constrain what POTUS can actually do, whether it's, you know, and the piece in here gets into U.S. aid funding for all of this, these projects. And if this came out, you know, if you read what, excuse me, Alito, Thomas Gorsuch and Kavanaugh had all said about. when they were talking about whether or not a judge who, I don't know how this judge has the jurisdiction, by the way, to do what he did, but a judge, does he have unchecked power to compel the government of the United States to pay out billions in taxpayer dollars? Now, they said, they literally wrote, quote, the answer to that question should be an emphatic no, but a majority of this court apparently thinks otherwise. I am stunned. This guy is dual citizenship. He's a Canadian-American judge. He has a long history of super far left activism that Lorraine gets into. She's got his donations, his nomination, like how his nomination was already pushed through after Trump won the election. And he was able to get confirmed because some Republican senators missed the vote. Remember, we talked about that. That's one of the reasons why some of us were very angry. You had text that you had Senator Ted Cruz and Mike Braun. He was going to leave to become Indiana governor. And Tom Tillis at the time told Roll Call and this is via Newsweek that he was he was, quote, very angry that Republicans failed to stop the confirmation. Why wasn't Ted Cruz there? I kind of to be honest, that pisses me off. Why? Why did Ted Cruz miss that vote? You're Ted Cruz. How did you miss that vote? Why is any Republican missing a vote this important? Because now, because that vote was missed, this guy is where he is. Now he's engaging in lawfare to stop the president all the way up to the Supreme Court from being able to determine U.S. aid funding through the Treasury. And the Supreme Court now has a precedent for it. Thank you, Republican Senators Mike Braun and Ted Cruz, because you made that happen. I know I'm supposed to be kissing butts and being like, oh, you love your podcast. I'm not doing that. You work for me. I pay your salary. Those two Republican Senators allowed this to happen. So, look, I call balls and strikes. It is about what have you done for me as a voter lately? So the whole reason... You have Judge Amir Ali, a Canadian-American who literally just got in there December 2024 because Republican senators foobarred it. How angry should you be over that? I mean, I believe in calling out the left, but sometimes the left isn't the issue. Sometimes it's your own side that gets in the way. We've got a lot more on the way. We've got headlines coming up as we move our partners that will bring you the program. We've got Caltech. It's the PR57, which I cannot wait to get this. I know I've not fired it, but I have held it. I mean, I have held it, and I've taken it apart and all that fun stuff. But... It's the PR57. It's a 5.7. And it's the lightest 5.7 that's on the market. And in fact, it's 40% lighter than the next lightest 5.7. Low recoil, built to perform. And the MSRP is only $399. 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A mental patient has escaped from a New York hospital and cops have been warning the locals, quote, do not approach him. Don't don't approach him. No, it's not. I mean, it's I was going to make a joke about it being some kind of Democrat. I mean, who knows? But he I can't tell. And the CCTV surveillance footage. Is that like a straight jacket or a puffer jacket? I can't tell. But he was like running down the hallway. They caught him. His name's Christopher Morgan. He fled the Garnett Medical Health Medical Center in Middletown, according to New York State Police. He sprinted down the hallway during his escape. Yeah, he looks like he's. He's got crazy eyes. He was seen wearing a long white jacket. And they have been telling all the locals, stay away. You got to call state police Middletown. He's got crazy eyes, totally. So just, you know, FYI. Also, South Carolina plans to carry out a firing squad execution. They say, is it safe for witnesses? Are you a moron? Of course. Don't walk down range, you absolute jack wagons. Dirt, dirt, dirt. This is so stupid. Is it safe for witnesses? You're not going to be right there by the gun watching. Shut up. So they said they're going to execute. This is pretty boss, dude. South Carolina is going to execute a baddie by a firing squad. And that's isn't that today? Yeah. And people are questioning whether this indoor setup is safe and for the prisoner. And these people know nothing about guns. It is kind of interesting that it's indoor, but it's like an indoor range. You know, I'm just saying, you know, I would say take it outside and we'll put some Tanner right in there. you know just for fun we have a lot more on the way finishing out this third hour stick with us super beats i talk about this product it's a texas-based product they support your views and they help bring you great programming and also they help bring you great products too this is the only beat brand that i trust the only beat brand that i will ever use and uh the hard shoes obviously i've talked to you about those but the new product that they have is super bering Now, the Superburine is a plant-based supplement. It's made with an ingredient that helps to support your metabolism and also helps to support your blood sugar levels. And it's three times more effective than just your diet and exercise alone. It's clinically researched. What they found when they were clinically studying this, this Burburine that they use, is that it's shown to have a nearly 10 times higher absorption rate than standard Burburine. It's used by doctors and, again, from the makers of the Super Beats Heart Juice. And it's all at Sam's Club. So you can go to your New York Sam's Club, You can save on Superfeet's hard shoes and the new Super Breen from Human. You'll love the way it makes you feel.
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Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. We're at the bottom of this third hour here on Friday. And, of course, you can listen every state in the union terrestrially, hundreds of different markets. And, of course, we've got Channel 347, DirecTV, X, and Rumble as well. We have been talking a little bit about BlackRock throughout this week. We had Carol Roth on yesterday. We were talking about it because of the changeup. Now BlackRock is taking over the – two of the biggest ports in the Panama Canal that are kind of like bookending. You know, you have Balboa, you have Crystal Ball, and they're taking over these two ports, which were owned by C.K. Hutchinson Holdings. That's based in Hong Kong. Of course, that's a CCP entity after everything that's happened there. And a lot of us are kind of scratching our heads going, wait a minute, is it better that BlackRock is taking over these ports? Is it? Then there was this piece and the timing, I'm always suspicious. I thought the timing was suspect. This came out March 2nd. And it said, headline, BlackRock's woke era is over. Subhead, asset manager has exited climate groups and eliminated diversity targets as it tries to end ESG controversy. And I thought, that seems like somebody's trying to clean up something so that this with what's happening in Panama goes down a little bit easier. I wasn't the only one who thought that. In fact, I retweeted Will Hild, who's the executive director of Consumers First, who had a big thread about this. And he said exactly what I was thinking, that don't believe this article. Will joins us now via Skype. Will, so good to see you. I'm so glad that you said this because I felt like I had a tinfoil hat on and it just felt like they're just trying to clear stuff up for BlackRock here. What was your response when you saw that story?
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You're 100% correct to be suspicious, Dana. And thank you so much for retweeting me because I was trying to sound the alarm to people. You know, us conservatives can sometimes be very cheap dates. You know, people can hate on us and attack our values and our way of life for years and years and years. And in the second, like, for example, Governor Newsom goes on a podcast and agrees with one small portion of our agenda. Oh, great. Like, welcome to the team. And that's really what BlackRock is trying to do right now. Even during the first Trump administration, no one was pushing back harder on Wall Street against conservatives than Larry Fink and his firm BlackRock. They were pushing harmful net zero targets across all of corporate America. They were pushing race and sex-based quotas into boards and hiring and promotion. And so we really should be very weary, as you rightly point out that you were, They are absolutely trying to cozy up to us, but we should not take their initial word. We need to see changes in actions. And while I'm obviously glad I support the president's agenda of making sure that Monroe Doctrine is intact here and we have control of this hemisphere, the fact that BlackRock was so quick to jump to try and complete that for the president should be viewed very suspiciously, especially, as you noted, on the heels of this Wall Street Journal article that basically is just a corporate press release. If you read that article, they don't quote a single person except for the head of a far-left activist pressure group called Ceres, of which BlackRock is still a member. They have not reportedly dropped out of that far-left climate activist group. So we should be reading this very suspiciously. You're right to look at it that way.
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That's a very good point that they're still even part of that group. So I guess they've, you know, they're not too dedicated maybe to extricating themselves from that whole ideology. We're talking to Will Hilde via Skype. And what of the companies that they invest in and help grow? I mean, I'm sure a lot of those companies are still operating according to those ESG and DEI standards.
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That's exactly right. And even if BlackRock ended all of what they call their corporate engagement, that's the mechanism by which they push this far left agenda. Even if they ended that today, it is a little bit like you've had a factory dumping toxic waste into a river. You could shut down the factory, but downstream, you now have a pond that's completely contaminated with toxic waste. That is a little bit what like corporate America is now that you've had over a decade of BlackRock pushing this far left agenda, because you have ESG metrics built into the compensation schema for hundreds, if not thousands of major US corporations. And this was adopted at the behest of BlackRock and other woke asset managers like Vanguard and State Street and these pressure groups that they were part of, like the net zero asset managers and Ceres and the UN principles for responsible investing that BlackRock was a signatory to all of these. So even if they shut down all their operations, they have a responsibility, I should say, to clean up the damage that they have done to corporate America. There is a investor named Jesse Felder also on Twitter, and he had a statistic and I don't know where he got the data, but this was his information. He's a hedge fund manager. He said that when he looked at it, 90% of oil companies, both majors and juniors, people doing, you know, finding new oil and developing those those fields have ESG metrics build to their short and long term compensation schema, which means that they are being punished for doing the very thing they're supposed to be doing, investing in oil, gas discovery and recovery. So this is we have a long road to go. We're probably only a fifth inning of this fight, and we certainly shouldn't take BlackRock's word for it when they say, oh, you got us. It's over. Please just go home. We will know we've won when this every all the damage that BlackRock has has done has been removed from corporate America.
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Well, that's just it because so much of the damage is already done. So it costs nothing for people to go, yeah, we're done with this now because they already got in deep enough where they were able to affect some kind of detrimental change that they wanted to. And isn't it true like in some of these instances, well, they're just like renaming it. They're just renaming certain things. It's still DEI and ESG, but they're just calling it something different.
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Yeah, we're seeing especially you're seeing this in the DEI space. You know, you're seeing some companies are just dropping the E because that kind of requires the most violations of U.S. labor law. So it's becoming the DEI department. Other companies are changing it to the Department of Belonging, which is just sort of an Orwellian euphemism for race and sex based discrimination in hiring and promotion. But that's all DEI ever was. So renaming it Belonging doesn't change anything. And there's also a question of even the stuff where they say we're just trying to make an inclusive work environment, that can go so far that it basically creates a hostile work environment for other groups. So when you push the LGBTQ agenda, for example, so far in people's faces, in your workers' faces every day, how is that not a hostile workplace environment for believing Christians? who don't share that position that doesn't mean that you can't you have to discriminate for one group or the other but they should both feel okay having their own opinions inside the workplace and you've seen a lot of companies for example like what happened with target uh you know how could a believing christian feel comfortable working in one of those workplaces so even the department of belonging even if they just stick to the quote-unquote inclusion which is where you see a lot of these internal cultural uh left-wing moves even that i don't think is fair to the american worker
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And it's weird to me, we're talking with Will Held, Executive Director of Consumers Research. It's weird to me that to watch a lot of people cheer, particularly the move from C.K. Hutchinson Holdings to Because that to me, that's a pretty that's a pretty powerful acquisition. I mean, you're talking about two of the biggest ports that bookend that waterway. And, you know, we we were flirting with having all of corporate America engaged. Take part in, I guess, the Americanized version of the Chinese behavioral score, which is what ESG and DEI all is. So, I mean, naturally, then you think, well, if that's still pretty much incorporated through a lot of corporate America and even really to an extent of BlackRock. How does that factor into I mean, I think it's it's not beyond the realm of, you know, realism to say, is that going to factor into what we're dealing with that in the Panama Canal and the fees that are being levied? And what happens if people wanted to really like weaponize DEI and ESG because it has happened, you know, at that level? I don't know. I just feel I have a lot of questions and I feel very uncomfortable about them being there.
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No, you're 100% right to have these concerns and these suspicions. Our first campaign, we've run about $5 million of ads educating the public about the damage that BlackRock has done to their way of life. And our first campaign was actually BlackRock Loves China. And it talks about all of the foreign entanglements that BlackRock has over there. All the quid pro quo that they seem to be engaging in as they push a destructive agenda on the US economy. doing things that they would never do to the Chinese economy. China's building 100 coal plants a year in China. They're building gas pipelines. BlackRock's helping to finance some of this stuff at one point. So I guarantee when they walk into the boardrooms of the Chinese companies that they're invested in, they do not tell them that they do not have enough blacks or women or gay people on their boards. They only push that kind of nonsense, that kind of race-baiting and race and sex-based quotas here in the United States. So it does raise the question, has China really lost control of this port? If they've got their hooks in BlackRock, then maybe this is just a cover for them to still have a lot of control. And I will even go one step further. There's an interview of Larry that I'm sure he wishes he could make disappear. This was back in 2012, 2013. And he's talking about BlackRock, and he says... In America, BlackRock is an American firm. In Mexico, it's a Mexican firm. In Italy, it's an Italian firm. We serve our clients wherever they are. Now, I understand to some extent, I get that. When he's talking to an Italian investor, he needs to be coming out from their perspective. But it does raise the question, in China, is BlackRock a Chinese firm? Should we really be thinking about this canal having been reacquired by an American firm if they don't really see themselves that way? And Larry's own words would suggest that he doesn't really see BlackRock as a at core a purely American firm. So I think it raises some significant questions that you're you're right to raise.
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And that kind of goes into that. I mean, that really validates this whole story. You know, the Congressional Select Committee that was investigating BlackRock because they were they were concerned that American savings were being unknowingly invested in a lot of these Chinese companies, these CCP companies that were blacklisted by our government for blacklisting. Nat Sack reasons and human rights abuses. And I don't even know if we have a full understanding of even whether or not that's still occurring. I mean, now it's probably I mean, now with this, I think you're you're you're I think that was completely accurate to say, is it still China still running this? I mean, is it though? Is it really entirely different with BlackRock? And then it makes me think, well, how bad was it down there that we have to have BlackRock come in and You know, that was Rubio's first trip was going down there. It just makes me a little nervous. Will Held, you guys have done such a great job watching all of this. I would love to have you back because we're going to keep an eye on this. I feel like we, you know, we absolutely have to as good Americans. So I appreciate all the work you've done with Consumers Research. Thank you.
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So one of my favorite things to do is sometimes I'll see the drive-by comments on things and people are like, you know, there's like a big CI facility at Langley. Yes, I do, scuttlebutt. I do know that. All right, Lunchbox, I got you. I know that there's a headquarters there. We're talking about maybe this isn't a headquarters. Maybe it's like, I don't know. I said I had said that questionably legal. I can't remember how I worded it, because if Congress authorizes it and that's how you would get around the statutes of not having like a CIA black site on U.S. soil, that's, you know, then that's how you get around it. But I just think it's weird that the first response from the left is like to protect the government. Like, what the hell is wrong with you people? You got turned inside and out. You would have literally been telling on Washington and going and snitching to General Howe in New York during the days of the revolution. That was you. You would have been snitches. Snitches get stitches. Just saying. Who said that? Not me. It's just weird to see people who are like, but the government says. And here's the other thing that we were just talking about. So we were talking about the gummy thing and the difference between just the CBD oil and the THC stuff, the chemical compound or whatever. I sound like a fruitcake talking about this because I know a little bit more about this than football, and that's about it. I'm trying not to sound like Joe Biden talking about guns. So... We were saying, well, you know, because Cain was like, well, you should take one one day and do radio. I'm like, I'm not going to do that.
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Yeah, that would be like if you took it at the end of the second hour and then the third hour was you just experiencing the gummy.
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And I was like, I don't want to trip my beans off. And then you were laughing at me. Because you wouldn't trip your beans off.
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I'm just saying I don't have an interest in it. All right. And then I go, well, I don't do drugs. And then you're like, well, it's not... You know what I just realized? I mean, I'm still not going to do it, but... The difference between what we view as, ooh, good drug or ooh, bad drug is literally the D.A.R.E. program. It is. D.A.R.E. to keep kids off drugs. I had a basketball. I won a basketball from the D.A.R.E. program. We had like whole assemblies and then they brought in their drug sniffing dogs. And I don't know what they sniffing us out as an elementary school. I have no idea. I was just like, ooh, pets. You know, I I was just thinking about that. I'm like, hmm. That was from that program. That's a no-no drug, then it's an okay... You know what I mean? Things like... Interesting. I'm just processing all of this.
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There's so many more side effects with pharmaceutical drugs that we consider to be just safe, even like Tylenol.
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But I think if people want to consume that, and especially if it's like... I mean, as long as you're not running a car into my house and you're taking my guns away and taxiing me, I just... I just don't care. I just don't. I'm not opposed to it.
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That's the beauty of freedom and exercising of freedom.
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I don't like the stinky stuff, though. Like the boomer hippies that smoked all of the marijuana in the world in front of us when I was a teenager at a Willie Nelson concert. I kept thinking, are we going to get arrested because we're sitting behind them smelling of it? Oh my gosh, this is crazy. I'm like, are they going to get arrested, these old people? Because they were in their 70s. It was the weirdest thing I've ever experienced. The first people I ever saw do drugs were old people, like my grandparents' age. Not all old people are innocent. I knew that was going to come in. You've got to stop hating on the old people.
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Poor old people. They're just recognizing the reality of society.
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I don't know. But they were real nice. And then one of them was like, can we get you a beer? And I'm like, I'm 17. I really don't think that that's appropriate. And you don't understand Nana. Nana's kind of... So no, not going to happen. Anyway, just very interesting things to kind of keep an eye on. But... I also think, too, if people are worried about their states flipping, conservatives need to stop feeling comfortable with outsourcing their civic responsibilities to the government. You actually are going to have to go out there and doorknock and canvas and change hearts and minds in some fashion, in some way. You can't just go, well, let's let the government regulate it. That's where I actually am very against that. I don't like... I don't like excessive government regulation and I don't like the government weighing in in places where they shouldn't. And I am very sensitive to that stuff just because it's my tea party DNA. I can't help it. I'm just, you know, I don't even like following directions. Like the moment I see the tag that says do not cut, I'm like, cut. I don't know. All right. Today in stupidity.
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All right. It is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, also known as AOC or, you know, dummy. Here's what she says about taxes and how they're so bad. If you have a tax cut, somehow it's a cost. She couldn't be more wrong. Listen to this.
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And I want you to understand, I want everyone to understand that tax cuts cost money. We have to pay for them. So every dollar that you spend... They don't cost!
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It's our money, you little commie!
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...is going to pay for some rich person's G-Wagon, and it's also going to cut... How dare you keep more...
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Of your own money to buy things that you would like. That's our money. Maybe, I don't know, stop spending because it's government spending that costs, not people who keep more of their own money. You don't have a right to it, you bartending Marxist. Good night. I can't with these people. The economic illiteracy, we're choking to death on it. Folks, that does it for us this week. I hope you have a wonderful weekend. Make sure you go sign up at Substack, Chapter and Verse, YouTube, Facebook, like and subscribe. I'll be back with you Monday.
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On today's program: Michael Cloud, U.S. Representative for Texas's 27th District, shares the latest on the government funding bill, his meeting with President Trump, and comments on the testimony from sanctuary city mayors. Kevin Theriot, Senior
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from the heart of our nation's capital in Washington, D.C., bringing compelling interviews, insightful analysis, taking you beyond the headlines and soundbites into conversations with our nation's leaders and newsmakers, all from a biblical worldview. Sitting in for Tony is today's host, Jody Heiss.
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Well, good afternoon.
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Happy Friday to you.
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Welcome to this Friday edition of Washington Watch.
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I am your host, Joey Heiss, the Senior Vice President here at the Family Research Council and President of FRC Action.
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Thank you so much for joining us today. We've got a lot to cover. Here are some of the highlights. It's just one week before the government runs out of money. And congressional Republicans are working to extend the shutdown deadline with a temporary funding measure, also known as a continuing resolution, or more often, just a CR.
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We're going to work toward getting that continuing resolution in a form where we can pass it just like we did last week. To all the people who said you could never pass that reconciliation bill with only Republican votes, wait until next week. We get another chance with the year-long CR.
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That was House Freedom Caucus Chairman Dr. Andy Harris speaking to the press on Wednesday after the Freedom Caucus had a meeting with President Trump.
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And with the slim Republican majorities in both the House and the Senate, how might this funding battle next week play out?
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Well, I'll discuss all of this here in just a few moments with Congressman Michael Cloud. He's a member of the House Appropriations Committee as well as the Freedom Caucus. And speaking of battles, a Seattle area church has been engaged in a five-year battle. A battle to stop the state from forcing them to cover abortions in their employee health care plan.
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We distinctly do not cover abortion because it's the antithesis of who we are as an organization, what our beliefs are, how we live out our faith. What we are defending and standing for are the rights of people of faith to not be forced into being complicit to something that's inconsistent with our faith.
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That was Jay Smith.
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He is the senior pastor of the Cedar Park Church in Bothell, Washington.
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Well, yesterday, a district court issued a shocking opinion, and we'll discuss that a little bit later in the program.
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And there's a new executive order from President Trump.
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It's expected to come out soon, and it will likely abolish the Department of Education. And considering, quite frankly, the return on investment we've been getting from our students, that might not be such a bad idea.
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The one thing we're doing well on, we're number one on the list, is cost per pupil. We spend more money than any other country in the world by far. So I jokingly say the one thing we do well on is the cost. We spend more money, and yet we're toward the bottom of the list.
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Well, of course, that was President Trump.
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He was speaking to reporters yesterday in the Oval Office.
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And we'll discuss this and more when I'm joined by FRC's Meg Kilgannon, who actually served in the Department of Education during the first Trump administration.
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And then to close out the program and the week, I'll be joined by David Claussen for our weekly Biblical Worldview segment to discuss many of the headlines this week and how we ought to be looking at them from the lens of Scripture.
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So we've got a lot coming your way today. You don't want to miss it. Our website, of course, TonyPerkins.com.
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You want to keep that handy. All right, let's jump into the issues, the details of tonight.
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To keep the federal government funded.
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To keep it operational, Congress has until next Friday, a week from today, March 14th. And by that time, they'll either pass a final government spending bill or they'll enact another temporary funding measure, better known as a continuing resolution or a CR, to extend the deadline. Well, according to reports, the House of Representatives plans to vote on a six-month CR next Tuesday.
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And, of course, that would be to avert a government shutdown.
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But given the slim margins in both the House and the Senate, what will it take for a CR to pass?
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Well, joining me now to discuss this and more is
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is Congressman Michael Cloud.
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He serves on the House Appropriations Committee, as well as the Oversight Government Reform Committee.
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And he's also a member of the Doge Subcommittee, as well as the Freedom Caucus.
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He represents the 27th Congressional District of Texas. Congressman Cloud, welcome back to Washington Watch.
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Always great to see you, my friend.
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Well, thank you. Good to be on with you again. Great to see you, Jody. So much going on right now. It's exciting to see.
SPEAKER 01 :
Yeah, it is exciting to see, man.
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You just don't know which plate to try to keep spinning the most. But I saw you and others that met with the president this past week, members of the Freedom Caucus. Great to see you and the others that were there. Tell us what went on. How'd that go?
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Yeah, anytime you get to meet with the president, of course, it's a great time. He's a lot of fun. Aside from being just a tremendously hard worker, we got the chance to meet with him the day after the joint session of Congress. And so he walked in, certainly applauded the great effort there, the bold and clear vision he set out for the United States. And then we got to work talking about what we're going to do to address the funding deadline that comes up this week. And so I had some ideas thrown out there. It looks like we're making progress and headway and certainly appreciate the president having us over and the leadership he's bringing to this country at this moment.
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Absolutely.
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And I think he certainly saw the leadership that so many, particularly the Freedom Caucus, seem to lead the way on the resolution last week or the week before. So here we go. We've got a lot of fiscal hawks. Many of whom are in the Freedom Caucus, and many of them, I know, some never have voted for a continuing resolution, but there seems to be some shifts in Washington that maybe could change some of that.
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Can you speak into that?
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Yeah, I certainly can. I'm certainly no fan of CRs myself. The whole notion of Congress continuing to kick the can down the road, so to speak, is very troubling. And considering that this originally started as a budget under the Biden administration, could give one pause. But as we look to where we're going, there's a couple things at play here. One is Doge is doing some great work to uncover the waste, fraud, abuse, corruption that is happening in our federal government right now. But there's a lot more work to be done. And we need to give them a little bit of time to finish the work so that we can take the lessons learned, the savings to be found for the American people, and to work that into the appropriations process. And so in the meantime, we've got to keep the federal government running. And for many of us, we can look at what the president's doing, the tremendous team he's put together, and how they're being so responsible in pulling back the reckless spending that the Biden administration did on things that were wasteful, things that were wrong, some things that were just frankly evil, and to rein in that kind of spending and making sure that taxpayer dollars are not going to those things for all the executive authority that they do have. And then when it comes to the continuing resolution, you know, for me, We trust what the president's doing. We appreciate what the team and the administration that he's put together. And we just need to make sure that Congress is fully on board. Sometimes you'll see Congress will come out and make these big, bold claims when it comes to campaigning. And we just need to make sure that we are set and ready to make those same and to really basically just codify into law into the next budget cycle. Things you hear the president talking about. He talked about in the joint session about, hey, we want to get back to a balanced budget. You hear Elon talking about finding $1 and $2 trillion worth of savings. Well, I think we can do that. We need to make sure that Republicans in Congress have the backbone when it comes down to making those cuts and finding that savings for the American people and actually putting a vote down that we're going to have the votes to get there throughout the entire process, this being just the next hurdle in that process.
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Yeah, and getting so many of these issues codified, as you said, I mean, that really is essential. I'm just going to throw this out to you. What's your sense of what the Democrats are going to do on the CR? Will they be for it or against it?
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If we could just point to a couple nights ago when they couldn't even applaud the First Lady of the United States or a 13-year-old boy who survived cancer, you could only say that maybe there's just a handful. We had 10 people support the censor resolution against Al Green, who stood up waving his cane at the president. So there's a good chance we'll pick up a few votes. But it seems to be anything that President Trump is for, they seem to be against, regardless of what it is. So I can't expect that we'll see a lot of support. I do think that if we get it out of the House, that we will see support, the needed support in the Senate to get it across the finish line. And then, of course, the president would be able to sign it in law, and then we can continue the great work that's being done in really making this a course correction. You know, all of us recognize, certainly all the Republicans recognize, and this is why you're seeing, you're seeing not necessarily unity ideas, but unity of purpose. And because of that, everybody's working toward the understanding and the goal that this is a unique moment in history, certainly a once in a generational opportunity to truly make a course correction in our federal government. I think if you look through history, I don't know if you can name a time where a country was virtually headed off the fiscal cliff not to mention all the other challenges we were facing with open borders and existential crises where you've seen a country be able to make a course correction so this is this is a unique opportunity that we have for us we are intently focused on that goal and because of that you're seeing what may have seemed as trivial battles in the past kind of melt away in the context of of what of the moment in history and the leadership that president trump is bringing
SPEAKER 08 :
Wow. Yeah, this really is a moment in history, an opportunity like none other. You brought up Congressman Al Green from your state of Texas, and of course he has now been censured, but there's the effort now to strip him of some of his committee assignments or all of his committee assignments. What's your take on his actions and the response?
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The actions were despicable. They certainly were. You know, we've all seen outbursts in Congress before. You know, you like to think we're at a place where we could appreciate the moment and what the people will refer to as the decorum of the House, so to speak. But I understand there's high passions and to have an outburst, but... Once called to order and given the opportunity to correct, to continue to sit there and to wave, his cane, a metal-tipped cane in the face of the president was just... disgusting frankly uh... and i'm certainly happy to see that democrats joined us in centering him removing him off committees would be a great next step uh... and the you know this is what's happened in the past we certainly saw the dems do that to members who did much republican members who did much less egregious things but for me this isn't even an eye for i kind of thing what he did was just despicable it was wrong he had the opportunity corrected He didn't correct it when it came back to the censor resolution. He did not accept a censure. He made a political show of it once again. And so you have an unrepentant heart here. It needs to be corrected.
SPEAKER 08 :
Absolutely. Well, hats off to you for continuing that. Real quickly, we've only got less than a minute, but your work on the Oversight Committee, the Sanctuary Cities with the mayors of the Sanctuary City mayors, what were your takeaways from that real quickly?
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Well, it's amazing to see mayors come in and try to defend what is indefensible. And they try to use a linguistic shell game to sort of conflate legal immigration with illegal immigration. And certainly specifically in their cases, all that they were doing, the issue or I should say the reason that they were there is because they're refusing ICE detainers, meaning you have people who've already been arrested in their custody. and they're refusing to hand them over to federal authorities. The fact that they were unwilling to do that and to follow federal law, federal law says it's illegal to harbor people who are here illegally, which is exactly what they're doing. I wouldn't be surprised to see this follow up. Tom Homans mentioned bringing criminal charges against them if there's not an immediate course correction in this. And so there needs to be change. There needs to be action. They were on the record under oath. Absolutely. Recognizing they understand that.
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Congressman Michael Clout of Texas, thank you.
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Always great to see you and keep up your fantastic work. All right, friends, coming up next, a church in Washington state is being forced to fund abortions. You don't want to miss this story. We'll be back after the break.
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Welcome back to Washington Watch. I am your Friday host, Joey Heiss, and so glad to have you joining us today.
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All right, yesterday, this is a story you may have gotten past you, but friends, you've got to hear this.
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Yesterday, the 9th U.S.
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Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a Seattle-area church must continue offering abortion coverage in its employee health plans. The Cedar Park Assembly of God of Kirkland argued that a Washington state law violated its First Amendment right to religious freedom.
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But catch this.
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The court ruled that the church didn't even have proper standing to launch a lawsuit. How in the world could this be? And how will this ruling affect the fight against abortion and our constitutional guarantee of religious freedom?
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What comes next in all of this? Well, here to discuss these questions is Kevin Theriault. He's the senior counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom.
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He's a key member of the Center for Life teams working to defend pro-life speech and protect medical rights of conscience. Kevin, welcome back to Washington Watch.
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Great to have you. Thanks, Jody. It's good to be back.
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Wow.
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This is such a disturbing case.
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I still, I look at this, the headlines over and over and over, just shake my head in virtual disbelief. So this all goes back to a 2018 law in Washington state. So Kevin, why don't you begin just kind of bring us up to speed.
SPEAKER 04 :
What does this particular law say? So Washington passed a law, as you said, back in 2018 that requires churches to cover abortion in their health care benefits plans for employees if they cover maternity. And of course, most people would agree that no one should have to be forced to pay for abortions, much less a church. But that's exactly what this law does. If they have a health insurance plan, a group health insurance plan like they had before the law went into effect, that excluded abortion, they can no longer have that plan under this new law.
SPEAKER 08 :
All right, so how? I mean, obviously a church, a biblically focused church, does not believe in this. So how in the world does the court say that the Cedar Park Church lacked standing in this case?
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Well, that's a great question. It's difficult to understand, but they went through some, you know, jumped through some and did some backbends, basically, in order to avoid some, actually, some Ninth Circuit law that is governing. We represented some churches, Skyline Church being one of them in California. that challenged a similar law there, and the court not only said that it violated the church's rights, but clearly that they had standing to challenge the law. And this court, the Ninth Circuit in this case, previously said that this law actually affects the church's rights, which anybody just looking at the law could understand. Unfortunately, the court ignored some binding precedent in the Ninth Circuit and at the Supreme Court to come to this conclusion. Okay, so let's go down that.
SPEAKER 08 :
So this decision reverses course, changes course, at least, on previous court precedents. So what were some of the details on this particular ruling from the Ninth Circuit? How did they depart from previous ruling?
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Well, what they said was that this is no different than an employee getting their paycheck and going out and buying something with their paycheck from the church that would violate the church's convictions, like if the church teaches against alcohol, if they went out and bought alcohol. But of course, that's ridiculous. the law is actually requiring the church to participate in the process by buying the plan that facilitates their abortion. So that would be more like the church, the state requiring the church to give them a bottle of whiskey. That's really what's going on. So yeah, the court just got the facts wrong and construed the law in a way that is contrary to what the Supreme Court and what the Ninth Circuit has said, and that is that churches can't be forced to fund abortion.
SPEAKER 08 :
So what kind of impact does this have potentially on religious freedom, on conscientious objectors to abortion? What does this mean long term?
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Well, hopefully long-term, we'll be able to get this overturned. We're going to, we plan on asking the full panel of the Ninth Circuit to rehear the case and abide by the original rulings that the Ninth Circuit had in this case and in similar cases. But I think long-term, the Supreme Court's going to have to take this up if the Ninth Circuit doesn't fix it. And we're obviously hopeful that it will. But if it doesn't, and this stands, then not only churches, but any organization that doesn't want to facilitate and help its employees get something that violates their convictions, like even, for instance, a animal rights group couldn't be forced under the First Amendment to buy hunting licenses for their employees. But that right and that freedom is under threat if this case stands.
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I know Kristen Wagner, the present CEO and general counsel there at ADF, said that ADF is going to be exploring all legal options on behalf of Cedar Park.
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What does that mean?
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I mean, what's the most likely course of action do you think that ADF will take if you're able to share that?
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Well, sure. Yeah, the first course of action will likely be that we ask the full panel of the Ninth Circuit to rehear the case. And I think there's a good chance Judge Callahan wrote a very strong dissent that explains why the panel, the two judges that ruled against the church, were wrong. And we think that the full Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is likely to take this up and reverse course. And then, of course, if that doesn't happen, then we can ask the Supreme Court to intervene.
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Have you heard any reaction from Cedar Park on this?
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I have. I spoke to Pastor Jay Smith. Well, I actually exchanged emails with him and let him know that we were disappointed in this result, but what the options were going forward. And obviously he was disappointed too, but authorized us to seek rehearing en banc because he agrees that churches shouldn't be forced to pay for abortion. We need to do everything we can to fight this law.
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Thank you so, so much, ADF Attorney Kevin Theriault. Incredible insights, and thank you and ADF for all the critical work you do in defending the unborn and defending our religious liberties.
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God bless you.
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Thank you for joining us on Washington Watch. All right, friends, coming up next, Meg Kilgannon will be joining me as we talk about President Trump's highly anticipated executive order regarding the Department of Education.
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Stay tuned. We'll be back.
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Welcome back to Washington Watch. I am your Friday host, Jody Hayes.
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Thanks for joining us.
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All right, President Trump continues to make waves in this first 100 days of his administration as he is just relentlessly attempting to weed out government corruption, fraud, inefficiency, and so forth.
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Well, reports now suggest that the president may soon abolish the education department. He plans to do so through an executive order. And, of course, this is something he's been talking about even while on the campaign trail.
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Well, the expected move is drawing a lot of reactions, as you may well imagine, frankly, from both sides of the aisle. But what exactly is—why is he targeting the Department of Education? And what would happen if it actually is abolished?
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, those are some good questions.
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And here to enlighten us on the matter is Meg Kilgannon. She's a senior fellow for education studies here at FRC.
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She previously served at the Department of Education as the director of the Office of Faith and Opportunity Initiatives during the first Trump administration. Meg, welcome back to Washington Watch. Always great to have you.
SPEAKER 19 :
It's so nice to see you, Jody.
SPEAKER 08 :
All right, the Department of Education. I don't know anyone who knows it any better than you. Why is Trump targeting this department?
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, it is just a department that does not have a track record of success, unfortunately. It was created in the Carter administration, and since its creation, sadly, student achievement has declined instead of increasing. And I think I really love the comments that Secretary McMahon made today in the clip on the news segment. She talked about the point isn't to close the department. The point is to increase student achievement. The point is to deliver a quality education to America's school children. We have the greatest country in the world, and our children should have the best educational experience in the world. And sadly, our scores are some of the lowest, even though we spend the most money of any nation. So something's got to be here.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, something's got to give. And like you, I was extremely impressed with her comments on that. I thought it was very mature and very focused on what the outcome is that we all want. And obviously, the Federal Department of Education is not accomplishing that.
SPEAKER 01 :
So let me ask you this, Meg.
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Give us some more details on what expectations there might be if this actually were to take place.
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Sure. Well, I think first and foremost, we need to remember that, of course, it would take an act of Congress to completely abolish the Department of Education. So we've had indications from the current Secretary of the Education Committee on the House side, Representative Wahlberg, that he's up for this and he's excited about it. I'm sure Speaker Johnson is. The question would be in the Senate, how do you get 60 votes? And so I think that there are a lot of ways that we can get to 60 votes in the process of tooling down the department, interestingly. I think that if you were to take, for example, the student loan department, that function, and send that to Treasury, That would be a much they'd be much better able to handle that issue. And that would be a real bonus for America. Then if you took the function of, say, the the Office of Civil Rights at the Department of Education now and you sent that to the Department of Justice, you could, you know, slim down the department and prove that. Kids are still going to school. Education is still being delivered, right? There's nothing to panic about here. This is something that we can do in the states because I mean, in a way, all of the drama about getting rid of the Department of Education is really kind of insulting to the teachers and the principals and the state executives that are that are really delivering education at the state level and the state and local level. They are the ones who are responsible for getting the kids their education in the schools. Nothing that the Department of Education does from Washington, D.C. has a direct relationship to that delivery of learning, right? So it's definitely possible. And I think that I think we could look at this as an opportunity for like a get out of jail free card for our educational system in America. Right now, we have these strings that are holding us back. that are coming from Washington and we could really unleash a whole new era of wonderful learning and student progress in this country by eliminating this department.
SPEAKER 08 :
so i agree this department was created by congressional action so it would take congressional action to abolish it but what you're saying is the president could gut it so to speak in a lot of ways and slim it down significantly i think probably at the end of the day that that might be the way to go and i would also take from our discussion you an individual who worked at the department of education
SPEAKER 01 :
You would not be opposed to this abolishing or downsizing yourself, would you?
SPEAKER 19 :
I strongly support this move, yes. I think that it's nothing against the fine people who are working at the department. I know that they're there and they're trying to do a good job. I think that it's just something that is by its very nature and design, it's destined to fail because the education of children is the purview of parents. And so that education has to be delivered and governed at the very closest level to the family unit that you can have, which is of course your locality. So the further you get a locus of control away from the parent, the worse the outcomes are going to be. And so it's just time for us to do this.
SPEAKER 08 :
Wow, and you're not the only one. I know Tim Wahlberg, the chairman of that particular committee, as you mentioned, he supports us as well.
SPEAKER 01 :
Thank you so much, Matt Kilgannon, for your insights and for your leadership at FRC as a Senior Fellow for Education Studies.
SPEAKER 08 :
Have a great weekend. All right, friends, coming up next, I'll be joined by David Claussen for our weekly Biblical Worldview segment. You won't miss it.
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Stay tuned.
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Welcome back to Washington Watch. I'm your Friday host, Jody Heiss. So glad to have you joining us today. All right, listen, before I get to my next guest, I wanted to make sure that you're aware of a new book that's about to be published. It's by FRC's very own David Claussen. David's book is entitled Life After Roe, Equipping Christians in the Fight for Life Today. And Friends, I received my advance copy last week, and it's a terrific book. Basically, it looks at abortion and the whole life issue from a theological, a biblical, historical, and a political perspective, all of this wrapped up in one volume. And here's the exciting part. Washington Watch viewers and listeners can get a 40% special discount. It's just simply using a code. So go to Lifeway.com. That's where you can get the book, Lifeway.com, and just do a search for Life After Roe, and then use the code WashingtonWatch at checkout. That's WashingtonWatch without any spaces, just WashingtonWatch, and you'll get 40% off. I hope you will take advantage of this. It's a great, great book. All right. Speaking of David Claussen, it's been another big week in Washington and around the country. And as always, we like to end the week and the program by thinking about all the headlines through a biblical worldview lens. And joining me now to talk about some of those issues is David Claussen himself. He is, of course, the director of the Center for Biblical Worldview here at FRC. David, welcome back to Washington Watch. Always great to have you. Happy Friday.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, happy Friday. It's a joy to be with you as well, Jody.
SPEAKER 08 :
All right. So, listen, we've got a lot to talk about, as we always do on Fridays. And I do want to get particularly to President Trump's address to Congress. But before we get there, David, I want to ask you about a story that's related to abortion. It occurred just a couple of days ago in the state of Idaho. Can you bring us up to speed on that particular decision that the Justice Department made in relation to abortion in that state?
SPEAKER 11 :
Absolutely, Jody. And really, this is just the latest evidence that the Trump administration, as they've found their footing very quickly, has moved to overturn many of the decisions of the Biden-Harris administration. Now, Jody, during the Biden-Harris administration, you and I had many conversations on just how aggressive the previous administration was on pushing abortion on demand wherever they could, whenever they could. And so the case you're referring to is out of Idaho. So the long story short is once Roe v. Wade was overturned on June 24, 2022, many pro-life states, including Idaho, had laws that were allowed to go into effect. And so Idaho's law specifically was called the Idaho Defense of Life Act, which protected unborn children. Unfortunately, the Biden administration moved to sue the state of Idaho for And it's interesting, the argument they used, they used a 1986 law signed by President Reagan known as the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act. This is legislation, again, that President Reagan signed that simply said that pregnant women and their children, regardless of the ability to pay, if they show up in an emergency room, they need to be provided care. The Biden administration said, argued that that federal law from 1986 required emergency rooms to provide abortion services, which is insane. Nowhere in the original law was this part of that. This went up to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court actually declined to hear the case on the merits. They sent it back to the lower court. And so as this was about to go to trial and kind of go through the case, the Trump administration notified the court that they are changing position, which, so again, long story short, Jody, this shows us that the Trump administration very clearly is sending a signal of they're going to respect states' rights when it comes to the life issue. They've already taken federal actions, you know, protecting the Hyde Amendment, reinstating the Mexico City policy, reentering the Geneva Consensus Declaration. And so this is just the latest signal that under the Trump administration, specifically this is the Justice Department, pro-life policies are being honored and pursued. We have much to be thankful for.
SPEAKER 08 :
Wow. We really do. That's huge news. And probably a lot of our listeners and viewers didn't catch that. That's one of those things that's just kind of gone under the radar. So thanks for bringing us up to speed on that. If I can't switch gears with you, David, you know, I think probably obviously the most important event of the week in Washington this past week was President Trump's address to the joint session of Congress. And I want to get to a couple of specific questions for you. But before we get to that, just kind of your overall reflection on the speech. I know you've had time to think about it over the last few days. So what's your general reaction? And also, you know, what did you think was the impact of the speech?
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, Jody, I'll be honest. I really enjoyed the speech. I know when you were a member of Congress, you got to sit in and actually watch some of those speeches in person, which must have been an awesome experience. But watching the speech on Tuesday, it was history-making. It was the longest speech of its type, one hour and 40 minutes. And I think it's clear, Jody, that President Trump has a mandate. He won all seven swing states. He increased his margin across almost every demographic imaginable, whether it's African-Americans, Hispanics, young voters. And President Trump has moved swiftly in these first couple of weeks in acting on the agenda that he ran on. And I think in this speech, he just made it clear that he feels that he has this mandate, whether it's on immigration, whether it's on foreign policy, whether it's on the economy. And clearly, he feels that he has the support of the American people. And so, you know, there was a lot of issues. And I think we'll get into some of the specifics, Jody, that those of us who are social conservatives that care deeply about creation order issues, specifically the issue of gender ideology. It's just interesting that he's specifically chose that issue to really highlight. And I guess one other general comment, Jody, is it was regrettable, in my view, to see the reaction of the Democrats. This is the party of democracy, and they just seemed intent on debasing democratic norms even further. That was regrettable. But overall, I think most Americans who tuned into the speech we're probably encouraged that Trump is clearly pursuing the agenda that he ran on.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, 76%, in fact, with a CBS poll afterwards, we're in agreement with that. So let's get to some of the specifics you've mentioned. President Trump highlighted, as you brought up, the issue of transgender ideology. I want to play a clip of one of the comments he made specific on that issue and get your reaction to this.
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Shortly after taking office, I signed an executive order banning public schools from indoctrinating our children with transgender ideology. I also signed an order to cut off all taxpayer funding to any institution that engages in the sexual mutilation of our youth. And now I want Congress to pass a bill permanently banning and criminalizing sex changes on children and forever ending the lie that any child is trapped IN THE WRONG BODY. THIS IS A BIG LIE. AND OUR MESSAGE TO EVERY CHILD IN AMERICA IS THAT YOU ARE PERFECT EXACTLY THE WAY GOD MADE YOU.
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THAT'S POWERFUL STUFF. DAVID, GIVE ME YOUR RESPONSE TO PRESIDENT TRUMP USING REALLY THE BULLY PULPIT THAT HE HAD AS THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TO
SPEAKER 11 :
You know, Jody, it is just refreshing after the last four of those speeches that President Biden gave where it was the opposite, where kind of the LGBTQ plus agenda was just continually being pushed front and center, being shoved down the throats of tens of millions of Americans that don't agree with that ideology. to hear President Trump just speak with, you know, common sense. That's a word that President Trump and many in his administration have been using a lot. And I'm going to go a step further and say these are issues of creation order. These are Genesis 1 and 2 issues. And, you know, so much has happened in Washington, D.C. in just these first six or seven weeks that I think, you know, the avalanche of news, whether it's the immigration stuff, whether it's the economic information. But for those of us who are social conservatives, and one of the reasons— you know, Washington Watch exists is to make sure that sage cons, these spiritually active governance engaged conservatives are in the know. And one of the things we've talked about is these executive orders and specifically what President Trump was doing right there was highlighting two specific executive orders that he signed within the first week of his presidency. There was one executive order, Jody, that specifically prohibits any tax dollars to go to the mutilation of children. And what does President Trump mean by that using that very clear language? This would be cross-sex hormones, puberty blockers, or physical surgeries that, of course, irreversibly harm and castrate children. This is something the Biden administration pushed. Trump has drawn a clear line in the sand. And the other executive order he was referring to was one from January 29th. It's entitled Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling. And it specifically in the executive order prohibits schools, you know, under the jurisdiction of the Department of Education. This would be all public schools in America from using gender ideology or DEI as part of the curriculum. And so and so much has happened in D.C. I'm grateful that the president decided to use his primetime speech to underscore some things that I think every social conservative in America should be grateful for.
SPEAKER 08 :
Absolutely. And he did it with such precision and clarity. Refreshing, the words you use, just so spot on with that. Elsewhere in the speech, David, President Trump discussed another issue related to the whole transgender issue, but that's about women's sports. In fact, he invited Peyton McNabb, who's a woman's volleyball player, to sit there with the first lady. But McNabb is the one I think most people probably remember. She gained attention. She was a volleyball player, got hit in that face with a volleyball that was spiked by a man, biological man, and experienced traumatic brain injury. I want to play a clip again for you from that portion of the speech and get your reaction to this.
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And if you really want to see numbers, just take a look at what happened in the women's boxing, weightlifting, track and field, swimming, or cycling, where a male recently finished a long-distance race five hours and 14 minutes ahead of a woman for a new record by five hours. Broke the record by five hours. It's demeaning for women, and it's very bad for our country. We're not going to put up with it any longer.
SPEAKER 08 :
Demeaning for women. All right. Again, your response.
SPEAKER 11 :
Again, how encouraging it is to have the commander in chief, the president of the United States, looking out over the most powerful people, the decision makers in this country, and speaking with such candor and clarity. And what's so interesting, Jody, and we remember this from the first Trump administration, you know, Donald Trump is the master performer. You know, he cut his teeth, so to speak, not only on real estate, but reality television. And so he's done this for a key individuals who will sit there with the first lady, and then he weaves their personal stories and he connects it to policy. And what President Trump did brilliantly on Tuesday was to highlight some American stories of Americans who were negatively impacted by Biden era policies. And again, The story of this young woman, traumatic brain injury. She's hit with a volleyball spiked in her face by a man masquerading as a woman. It's a horrific story. Her career is over. But again, highlighting this issue using the bully pulpit of the presidency. And again, it's not just been words. It's been actions. February 5th, he signed an executive order simply titled Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports. Again, I just imagine if my grandfather was alive today and I had to explain to him that the president of the United States was having to take an executive action to keep men out of women's sports. Any other generation would not have understood these conversations. It just shows how radical our moment is with transgender ideology today. So again, Jody, how encouraging to, again, have a president who understands the issue. He knows the voters are with him and is just moving to make a difference on this issue in the face of all those Democrats who he knows just a couple days earlier had killed a bill that would have codified his executive order. So again, you see courage and clarity.
SPEAKER 08 :
All right, David, I do want to get to I want to give you opportunity to speak about your book. And but I got one more real quick question. You mentioned the Democrats earlier about them not standing. Give me your reaction that we don't have time for another clip, but I want to just get your reaction to that.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, it's regrettable that even on some of those stories where you have a police officer's widow or you have a young man being admitted into the military academy, you know, stories where, again, a brain, a child brain cancer survivor who's deputized as a member of the Secret Service, you know, these stories that you think everyone could get behind. And the Democrats refuse to even honor that. It shows the partisanship is at an all time high. And I think I just, as a Christian, and as someone who looks at things through the lens of worldview, it shows the worldview divide. We're dealing not just with ethanol subsidies or tariffs, we're dealing with those issues, but we're dealing with creation order issues. And again, that's why these conversations are so important, because these get to the very nature of ontology and being. It's really important. And unfortunately, we see that divide in our parties.
SPEAKER 08 :
Absolutely, we do. All right, David, we're about out of time, but I mentioned your book coming into this segment. Again, can you just remind folks briefly what the book is about and where they can find it? Outstanding book.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, that's kind, Jody. Life After Roe, it looks at the abortion issue. It looks at the value of human life from a whole range of issues, whether it's polling that FRC has done, where I unpack where the church stands today on the issue, what the Bible teaches, what the church has taught for 2,000 years. And then I also look at some of the challenges facing the pro-life movement. You know, Jody, overturning Roe was never the end goal for the pro-life movement. We want to make abortion unthinkable as well as illegal, but there's challenges in the way. And so the book looks at all of those issues, and my prayer is that it will serve pastors, church leaders, and Christian parents. And again, you can go to lifeway.com, enter the title of the book, Jody, and then use that code, Washington Watch, just one word, Washington Watch, and you get 40% off. Grateful for my publisher giving that to the viewers and listeners of this program.
SPEAKER 08 :
And yes, we are grateful for it as well. Everybody loves a great buy, but when you have a great buy on a great product, I mean, that's just a double blessing. Thank you so much, David Clausen, Director of the Center for Biblical Worldview here at FRC. Always, always, I look forward to Friday afternoon and our discussion on the news from a biblical perspective. Have a great weekend. All right, friends, that wraps up this week and this edition. of Washington Watch. Hope you have a fantastic weekend. We'll see you next week right here on Washington.
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Welcome to Sekulow, executive producer Will Haynes. Happy Friday to you all. In what seems to be a dramatic shift of their planning and even philosophy on defense spending, the European Union has voted to approve a plan that will dramatically increase its defense spending over 800 billion euros. This comes after they have been heavily criticized for not paying their fair share into NATO and relying on the United States to defend them. This is also with the talk of Ukraine wanting to join NATO, of which the president, President Trump, is not in favor of at this time. But this really is a win for the American people who have been carrying the burden of European defense and NATO defense for decades. This is President Trump, the pressure he has put on Europe to see them pay for their own defense. This is an America first policy. These are nations that are very wealthy, that have large GDPs, Germany being one of the largest GDPs in Europe and in the world. and they were not previously paying their fair share. This is coming under the rearm Europe plan that was voted on by the European commission. And it also has a plan for more support for Ukraine. Once again, where the United States was disproportionately propping up the Ukrainian government through this war. But does it also mean that we will see Europe Be with President Trump as we try to see an end to the war with Russia. Many of the European leaders sounded more like President Zelensky wanting to continue the war, continue fighting. Time will tell, but it is definitely certain that President Trump, with his different style of is completely different than the previous president of the United States and is getting results. When the American people are tired of seeing their taxpayer dollars sent for foreign wars, he is showing that with pressure, others can step up and fill that gap. It doesn't have to be the United States alone propping up governments around the world and fighting their wars for them. It's refreshing to see that others will now take responsibility and say, you know, if we have an interest in this, this country that is much closer to us than the United States, maybe we should increase our defense spending as well. We've got a packed show for you today on this Friday as we close out the first week of our Life and Liberty Drive. That is where any donation you make to the ACLJ is doubled. You see the doubling of your impact when you support the work we do here. Whether it be the analysis in media that we put out to help educate you, to help show what's going on and cut through the lies that you see in the mainstream media. Whether it be the cases that we fight for individuals, for those that are trying to share the gospel in Chicago and see a quick win there. But then a week later, his two friends were arrested and detained and put in jail for six hours for just exercising their First Amendment right. We're now defending them. Or whether you're supporting us in this Life and Liberty Drive because of the campaign we're running in Massachusetts, where we're pushing back. against the government of Massachusetts using its citizens taxpayer dollars to try and silence and shut down pregnancy resource centers. Centers that give hope and options to women that find themselves in maybe a pregnancy they didn't plan on. And we know that their campaign is working because abortions have risen dramatically in the state while visits to pregnancy resource centers have gone down but we're fighting back there and you can support the work whether it be in massachusetts in chicago here in the media sphere wherever you are we will be there too the aclj needs your support in this life and liberty drive have your donation doubled go to aclj.org today and donate aclj.org
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Welcome back to Secula. We're going to take your phone calls at 1-800-684-3110. I'd love to get your thoughts on last night's speech, as well as some of the breaking news that came out of there, including the arrest and now on the way to America, the mastermind behind the Abbey Gate bombing in Afghanistan. Obviously, a topic that's been very close to our hearts over the many years, took away through all of that 13 of our own soldiers. So again, right now, I want you to call in at 1-800-684-3110. You heard in the last segment, you saw the setup here about DJ, a boy who just wanted to become a police officer. Has brain cancer, has fought it, said he had five months to live. He's now 13 years old. It's still fighting and being deputized around the country. And President Trump brought him up and deputized him as a member of the Secret Service. Real beautiful moment, real sweet moment. Again, a moment that President Trump is good at, creating those moments that stick with you forever. A memorable moment. course you flip on the coverage after and you assume you're going to hear people discuss you know maybe they don't like the doge talk they don't like some of the things that he said of course you have people on the other side and that's fine but nicole wallace on msnbc just shortly after within hours if not even within minutes of this speech ending had this to say and stick with me here because the beginning you're going to be like good for her And by the end, you're good. Hopefully if you have some sort of moral center or compass, hopefully you find this to be disgusting.
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And finding one thing that, that you let yourself feel. And I let myself feel joy about DJ and I hope he's alive for another, you know, 95 years. Right. And I hope he lives, um, and, uh, the life he wants to live. He wants to be a cop. He knows what he wants to do. And maybe when you have childhood cancer, that crystallizes for you. And I hope he has a long life as a law enforcement officer. But I hope he never has to defend the United States Capitol against Donald Trump's supporters. And if he does, I hope he isn't one of the six who loses his life to suicide. And I hope he isn't one who has to testify against the people who carried out acts of seditious conspiracy and then live to see Donald Trump pardon those people.
SPEAKER 05 :
I don't say this lightly. This was a truly disgusting moment coming from MSNBC. Taking this real sweet moment, one of the few non-political moments that maybe happened that night. Look, I'd say President Trump, it's not like he even specifically said, I realize that I'm not going to win over Democrats in this. They're not going to cheer me even for something like this. And you could see very few stood up, very few even cheered for DJ. However, Nicole Wallace goes on and she not only wants to make a spectacle out of it and bring herself into it, says that, yeah, though she hopes he lives, course she hopes he lives a long life she also hopes that he isn't one of the ones who ends up committing suicide due to president trump's supporters storming the capitol this is again a kid who had five months to live and has beaten those odds but of course you have msnbc which again i've said is a really a vile part of the universal Xfinity NBC platform. It makes no sense why it is in their portfolio, why you would even have this incredibly disturbing leftist group. It's not just a left-leaning network. It's not even CNN. It is getting to the point where you can't even have humanity for a small child, a 13-year-old child who has fought and beat brain cancer over and over again, who's still fighting, who has then been deputized because he just wants to be a police officer when he grows up. And then President Trump does a fun moment and lets him become a Secret Service. You can see the emotion on his face. We also can play a clip even from him so you can hear from him himself. We can play that a little bit later so you know that this is not disingenuous. This is the real deal. But of course, because it's coming from President Trump, not only does that have to be bad, you have to just start praying that this little boy doesn't grow up to have to kill himself because of mental health problems after President... Of course, it's all some weird theoretical because clearly when he becomes an adult, there is no President Trump. There are no situations. But I want you to hear from him. I want you to hear from DJ Daniel, this kid. You saw him last night, but maybe you didn't see. They had interviewed him before and let him make a statement that they released. And I think this should at least give you a sense of who the left is targeting here. Here's DJ.
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Because my mom, babes, me and my brothers all together. And out of nowhere, I locked up. And then my dad was calling my name and I started going to the slow thing. And he said, stop playing with me. And I started to act, I ain't gonna lie, I started to act slow. And then as soon as he said that, we was speeding all the way, running lights, going to the hospital. And then next thing you know, I was seizing on the table. They said, nah, we gonna have to go in his brain tonight. Ever since then, I had 13 brain surgeries, and that's how many times my personality has changed. And that's something that you don't hear from a terminally ill child. They have five months to live. I'm going to keep on going into my gas tanks right now, and that's when God calls you home. You never know when God's going to call you home. I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for my dad. I know he's pretty proud of me, and I'm pretty proud of him, too. And I'd like to thank President Trump, because if it wasn't for him, I wouldn't be here today.
SPEAKER 05 :
And probably that last sentence was enough to make sure that the left media decided we have to disqualify DJ Daniel. He can't be someone that we all look up to, find a positive moment out of. We have to politicize it and we have to take a beautiful moment and decide to not only politicize, but really make it into a disgusting spectacle.
SPEAKER 07 :
Don't let the left tell you that it is conservatives and Trump supporters that are dividing this country. Because when you see, after a beautiful moment, and every president does those, every president during a joint address to Congress or a speech before them, whether it be the State of the Union or otherwise, brings guests and highlights them. And many times it goes along with policies that they also want to support. And you know what the policy was here? They believe that this child's cancer was started from exposure to toxins. And he then went on to say is that we are going to look at getting these toxins out of our environment so that we can combat childhood cancer from exposure to things that cause that. And then the left decides that now it's fair game because President Trump brought him up there and did a beautiful moment. It's despicable. It shocks your soul when you see that people are so heartless, so deranged against President Trump. They could have just left it alone. They didn't have to say anything about the moment. Or they could have said, beautiful moment, it still doesn't make up for all the things that we disagree with about President Trump.
SPEAKER 05 :
I look at our friend Jared Moskowitz, who is a Democrat, Senator, and he is on there and he says, congrats to DJ. We must work together to tackle cancer. That's all you really got to say. When you're representative in your area, congressman in your area, to just say, you know what, this is a moment we can all rally together. But that's not most. Most are causing disruptions. And look, we're going to not spend the whole time on this. We're going to actually break down a lot of what happened because there were some moments. There was a brief talk about Israel. There was brief talk on a lot of the topics that we bring up here today. And yes, it maybe was a bit more, had a lot of some jokes, had a little more lighthearted from President Trump. Also because he said it, and we have that bite too, where he specifically said, I know I'm not going to win you over tonight. I'm not going to all of a sudden have both sides of this audience standing up. So why cater to them? Cater to the audience that is ready for you. And a lot of times those are the people at home. And guess what? We found out through the favorability scores that came in on all networks pretty much, that there was an extremely favorable response. First, bite eight, and then we'll go to that.
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This is my fifth such speech to Congress. And once again, I look at the Democrats in front of me and I realize there is absolutely nothing I can say to make them happy or to make them stand or smile or applaud. Nothing I can do. I could find a cure to the most devastating disease, a disease that would wipe out entire nations or announce the answers to the greatest economy in history or the stoppage of crime to the lowest levels ever recorded And these people sitting right here will not clap, will not stand, and certainly will not cheer for these astronomical achievements. They won't do it, no matter what. Five times I've been up here. It's very sad, and it just shouldn't be this way.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right, and so that is President Trump making that statement, pretty declarative statement. Look, in the next segment, we're going to premiere one of our new pro-life ads, but before we do that, Will, Briefly go over the scores here, because you'd think, you know, this is going to be 50-50, just like the country. Maybe less, because who's watching some of these networks that are doing the polling?
SPEAKER 07 :
Right, and especially a lot of it was him just talking about what they've done the first month.
SPEAKER 05 :
Which is controversial.
SPEAKER 07 :
It's controversial. Well, at least that's what they'll have you believe. But here's the reality of that. It actually isn't that controversial. CBS News, no fan of President Trump. 67, sorry, I said that wrong. 76% of Trump speech watchers approved of it. Only 23 disapproved. CNN, their poll, 69% positive about the speech. Only 31% negative. Don't believe what they tell you. when they say that it's dividing the country. Because the ones that are dividing the country are the ones who will make disgusting commentary about a childhood cancer survivor and someone who is still fighting that out.
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Phone lines are open for you right now. I want to hear from you. And in the next segment, I'm going to be happy to premiere another ad, one of our great ads that our team put together for our new Choice Begins Here campaign to spread hope and provide resources for women in needs and save lives of the unborn. You can support it today at ACLJ.org. We'll be right back. Welcome back to Secular. You're just joining us now because of that breaking news item about President Trump, Vladimir Zelensky, and shutting down the deal because now Zelensky says, hey, I want a mineral deal. And the Trump administration is saying, not so fast, not until we know there's a war. We're going to get back to that. But today is the launch of the Life and Liberty Drive. Now, if you want to call in about the other topic, I got three lines open, 1-800-684-3110. Or if you feel inspired by this one, I'd love to hear your story. So as you know, if you've been listening to this show for quite a while, last summer, I was in Boston, family vacation, was walking around and outside of our hotel, was a small sign, a billboard, if you will, that said something to the effect of, of, you know, don't go to anti-abortion clinics, stay away from them. And I look at this and I'm like, what are they talking about? Usually you see very pro choice ads, but usually not something directed at what we considered to be a pro-life pregnancy resource centers. A lot of these are volunteer run by the sweetest people you've ever met. These are, organizations that give clothes, they give diapers, they give food. And of course they have a lot of prenatal coverage. And then I looked down and I see that it's actually funded by the state and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. If you will, we do some digging. We find out it's to the tune of millions of dollars, millions of dollars just for a marketing campaign to try to stop pro-life pregnancy resource centers. pregnancy there they are void anti-abortion centers and it says you're going to be misled you're going to go in there and they're going to tell you so stay away from those and here's a mass.gov website to go to to find out immediately sent it to our team and said what can we do the legal arm took action see what could happen but then i said you know what the best thing we could do is come up with a incredibly inspiring if you look at that sad faces angry faces you Can we come up with an exciting, sweet, compassionate ad campaign to promote pro-life pregnancy centers and do it where they're doing this campaign? Do it through the state of Massachusetts, primarily in the Boston area, an area that honestly is more pro-life than you'd expect. They may be very liberal, but a lot of these are very liberal, but hardcore Catholic community, big communities of believers. And we said we wanted to raise $500,000 to put on this campaign. And we were able to do that. But look, they've got millions and millions of dollars. And our budget right now is $500,000. But as of this weekend, these ads started hitting the streets, the digital destinations of the people of Massachusetts. There's one right now. It is our Choice Begins Here campaign. We've been talking about it for months and I'm so excited to announce that it has launched. And we're going to play you one of the video ads that's going to be running in the area, in the market. You're going to see these ads everywhere, by the way. And if you see them, please tag us, send us, email us pictures. I would love to see them. If you're in Massachusetts, I want to see the impact because here's what we learned. Since their ad campaign going after what they call anti-abortion centers, but pregnancy resource centers. You want to call them anti-abortion centers? Fine with me. You know, because I don't, you know, we're trying to save all lives here. We're trying to actually give real options. If you're going to give them a choice, how about give them a choice to actually carry this baby? And maybe that's through adoption. Maybe that is through support from the pregnancy resource centers or other great ministries that they could be taken care of. But we learned through all of this that since they launched, The pregnancy resource centers have seen 30% decline in people coming through those doors. And you know what we also found out? Equally, same playing field. 30% rise in abortions in the Massachusetts area. So you know what that means? That means their marketing campaign works. So we have to fight back. And I'm going to give you an opportunity right now to support the work of the ACLJ. And I know if it comes in right now, this is why you're supporting. Go to aclj.org slash life and liberty or just scan the QR code on your screen. Do it right now because it is very important. And if, look, if this works here in Massachusetts, we're going to bring this to all the pro, the biggest pro-choice, or I like to say pro-abortion states in America because it is that important. You cannot win over hearts and minds by just the law. We have to take it to the media as well. We have to take it to the people. I have to say a thank you to the amazing even ads people that we have worked with who are taking the risk of putting these ads up. That's not that easy. You're essentially going against your own state. But I'm very proud and very happy that there are people in that great Commonwealth of Massachusetts who are also standing up. So I want to premiere this first ad. Again, Choice Begins Here, the whole thing, it's kind, it's compassionate, it's inspiring. All the ads, we're going to roll out a new one every day this week. And these ads are all based on true stories that we heard from pro-life pregnancy resource centers, people that have come through their doors. Take a look at the first one. This is Choice Begins Here, and it's because of you.
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We didn't know what to do. We had tried and tried again.
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Yeah, I think we were just considering giving up on having a family. I wanted to give up. There was no way I was ready to start a family.
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Then we thought, wait, maybe there's more than one way to have a family.
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But then I went to a pregnancy resource center and they gave me an option I never even thought of. They asked me, have I ever considered adoption?
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When the adoption agency called, I was so happy.
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I knew I wasn't ready, but I could help a family that was. I mean, she gave us our miracle.
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She gave us our family.
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To find a pregnancy resource center near you, go to choicebeginshere.org.
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Again, choice begins here is a project of the ACLJ. And I hope you enjoyed that ad. I hope you're inspired and motivated, but understand we have to come at this at a different point. You can't just fight evil with evil. And that's precisely what we're doing. We are fighting evil with hope, with positivity, with support. That is what these pregnancy resource centers provide. And we've been thankful to work with them for decades. And now we can put our money into this campaign. And by our money, I mean ours collectively. I support the ACLJ. I hope you do too. So I'm gonna encourage you right now. We are in this life and liberty drive, which means all donations are matching. I know if it's coming in right now, it is coming in because of your support, wanting to see this new campaign, which again, I understand sometimes it's hard for me to sell you on why this is important, but look at the converse. The ad campaign, being run by the state of Massachusetts, by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts over the course of the last seven or eight months has driven 30% decline in visits to pro-life resource centers and a spike in 30% of abortions. That is not happenstance. That means marketing, media, all these things that I talk about and preach about all the time on this show really matter. And sometimes that's hard because you just want to hear, go to the courts, get the lawsuit taken care of. We do that as well, obviously, here at the ACLJ. We'll do that for you. But sometimes you've got to feel motivated. So this is the time to do it. We've got a second half hour coming up on this broadcast. And look, we've got a one-minute break. That's all. And in that one minute right now, I want to give you the opportunity to support the work of the ACLJ. This is day one of our on-air Life and Liberty Drive. Your donations are doubled. We talk about the law. We've also filed a crucial lawsuit to fight back against taxpayer-funded... abortions and pro-life campaigns going or pro-choice campaigns happening in massachusetts we are taking it to the law as well and that new media counter campaign you just saw it and we're going to roll it out all week because you need to hear about it let's help beat the abortion industry together do it right now go to aclj.org have your gifts doubled it's going to take a lot more than that 500 000 be a part of it right now
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Keeping you informed and engaged, now more than ever. This is Seculo. We want to hear from you. Share and post your comments or call 1-800-684-3110. And now your host,
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Welcome to Sekulow, executive producer Will Haynes. Happy Friday to you all. In what seems to be a dramatic shift of their planning and even philosophy on defense spending, the European Union has voted to approve a plan that will dramatically increase its defense spending over 800 billion euros. This comes after they have been heavily criticized for not paying their fair share into NATO and relying on the United States to defend them. This is also with the talk of Ukraine wanting to join NATO, of which the president, President Trump, is not in favor of at this time. But this really is a win for the American people who have been carrying the burden of European defense and NATO defense for decades. This is President Trump, the pressure he has put on Europe to see them pay for their own defense. This is an America first policy. These are nations that are very wealthy, that have large GDPs, Germany being one of the largest GDPs in Europe and in the world. and they were not previously paying their fair share. This is coming under the rearm Europe plan that was voted on by the European commission. And it also has a plan for more support for Ukraine. Once again, where the United States was disproportionately propping up the Ukrainian government through this war. But does it also mean that we will see Europe Be with President Trump as we try to see an end to the war with Russia. Many of the European leaders sounded more like President Zelensky wanting to continue the war, continue fighting. Time will tell, but it is definitely certain that President Trump, with his different style, is completely different than the previous president of the United States and is getting results. When the American people are tired of seeing their taxpayer dollars sent for foreign wars, he is showing that with pressure, others can step up and fill that gap. It doesn't have to be the United States alone propping up governments around the world and fighting their wars for them. It's refreshing to see that others will now take responsibility and say, you know, if we have an interest in this, this country that is much closer to us than the United States, maybe we should increase our defense spending as well. We've got a packed show for you today on this Friday as we close out the first week of our life in Liberty Drive. That is where any donation you make to the ACLJ is doubled. You see the doubling of your impact when you support the work we do here. Whether it be the analysis in media that we put out to help educate you, to help show what's going on and cut through the lies that you see in the mainstream media. Whether it be the cases that we fight for individuals, for those that are trying to share the gospel in Chicago and see a quick win there. But then a week later, his two friends were arrested and detained and put in jail for six hours for just exercising their First Amendment right. We're now defending them. Or whether you're supporting us in this Life and Liberty Drive because of the campaign we're running in Massachusetts, where we're pushing back. against the government of Massachusetts using its citizens' taxpayer dollars to try and silence and shut down pregnancy resource centers, centers that give hope and options to women that find themselves in maybe a pregnancy they didn't plan on. And we know that their campaign is working because abortions have risen dramatically in the state while visits to pregnancy resource centers have gone down but we're fighting back there and you can support the work whether it be in massachusetts in chicago here in the media sphere wherever you are we will be there too the aclj needs your support in this life and liberty drive have your donation doubled go to aclj.org today and donate aclj.org
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Welcome back to Secular. We are going to take your voices later on in the show. Give us a call. 1-800-684-3110. We're now joined by Jeff Palabon in ACLJ Jerusalem, head of ACLJ Jerusalem. We've heard him on this show many times. But Jeff, what I want to talk about today, there's been a lot of talk in the world, whether it's dealing with Ukraine, dealing with other situations. We got to make sure we don't lose sight of what's happening in Israel. But you have actually been doing a pretty important part of what ACLJ Jerusalem, the reason why ACLJ Jerusalem exists. And that's been sort of being that bridge from the Israeli officials, the Israeli world, to a lot of the Christian evangelical world, even in America, to make sure things don't get lost in translation. And it's a big part of what the ACLJ does. And I want to make sure that you have an opportunity to kind of explain what that role is and what you've been doing the last few days.
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Sure. Well, alongside all the work we do simultaneously on combating anti-Semitism all over the world, including America, including the universities, which is ongoing, here in Jerusalem, we have a unique role. And this week, something happened that's a perfect example. This week, a series of an envoy, a group of envoys from the United States, major pastors, Christian leaders, very close to President Trump, and names that are very well known, although I'm not going to share them here, are here in Israel visiting, and there have been a series of meetings, and among them, meetings with some very senior generals and members of the security forces here, like the Mossad. And I was there, and I was asked to be there, really, actually on the Israeli side, to help Each side understand the other. It's starting off at a place of tremendous friendship and affection and respect and warmth. And yet, you know, Israel is a tiny country living in a terrible region, surrounded by terrible people, and is always concerned about its own survival. And Jews ourselves are a very small minority in the world and have never really lost that sense. And here come American Christian leaders who represent the global superpower and are themselves part of major religion, which with many, many followers dwarfs the number of Jews in the world. And so there's naturally going to be difference in understanding of how the world works, of even what's possible. And the truth is, I think the Americans come to the table with a greater idea of what's possible under Donald Trump, with President Trump, working with him, than Israel is even able to conceive of. And so Israel is living with its concerns and fears about how the world is going to respond and react. And just being able to bridge that gap and brought in to effectively explain to the American Christian leaders what it is that Israel is feeling and thinking and to the Israeli security leaders, what it is when the Americans are talking, what's possible in the world with this administration was really a remarkable meeting. And one of the series that we're having, here now.
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Well, and Jeff, I want to also bring up one we've talked about on this show that there needs to be more work done within the evangelical community in the United States. One, to shore up more support for Israel, to remind the evangelical community of the history and the necessity of the state of Israel in today's world. And the unfortunately to some degree is, and not just to some degree, Israel is used to having nations not like them. The United Nations is not a friendly body towards the state of Israel. So having one, you there to be able to bridge that gap to a group of evangelical leaders that are eager to help the state of Israel and to take that back to the United States is, With a group of Israelis that are welcoming, but probably have a healthy dose of skepticism of anyone because of the history that we know, unfortunately, is reality of so many non-allies that in even the United States over the last four years that have not been fully behind the state of Israel. And also the cultural differences, knowing that the way that evangelicals in America talk is different than the way people in Israel talk. And having you who is fluent in both to be able to bridge that gap is just an enormous testament to the work and the impact ACLJ Jerusalem can make.
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Well, I think the fact that they invited me to participate specifically for that reason, to help really bridge that gap. And again, it's a gap among friends. It's a gap among true, deep friends. And there was no negativity. There was just, I think, surprise that the Israelis didn't understand how much was possible now. And surprise... that the americans didn't understand just how concerned israel is because it's not all about donald trump there's also europe and you know and and but you just raised william a really important point and this was beneficial to me because afterwards it was a long meeting just between me and the evangelical leaders and i was discussing something we always talk about the concern about where younger evangelicals are over the last couple of decades on israel And the good news I'm hearing is that there is a gap now. There's sort of an 18 to 30-year-old problem that we have. But the next generation down, Generation Z, one of the pastors there mentioned, he calls them Generation Zion, which I love. Mm-hmm. Generation Z is coming back to this, coming back to the support of Israel and the Jewish people because they're watching what's happening in the world and they're glomming on to where Donald Trump is taking America. And so hopefully that entire narrative shifts, you know, the rising tide that will lift everything. And obviously we're very hopeful and praying that that's true. But yes, we are keeping an eye on that. And that's why we work with other groups as well.
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I think there is that moment happening. The concern is that the media and the people that are in control of the media will be the people who can control the media. If anyone's worked in it, a lot of these guys hang around 20, 30, 40, 50 years. I mean, if you actually look at the ages of some of the people that... If you think sometimes in... In Congress and the Senate, these are older people. A lot of times you go to media, these are guys who've been in it their whole lives and maybe they have a specific perspective. It's hard to break through that. You almost have to have a generational change. And that's exciting because there is a generational change happening. I can see it just among my friends and their children because my age are now having kids that are old enough to get involved in these situations where maybe the kids of the generation before mine were then taught a very liberal point of view. where the universities they were going to were warping their opinions i can actually say that i've seen within colleges the student body some of the new student body reject what the faculty is doing because the faculty is giving them the wrong we talk a lot about student protests and it's happening we also have to remember who the teachers are and a lot of times as we've uncovered many times it is the teachers that are putting this bug in their ear
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Oh, yeah. Look, I mean, first of all, there's going to be a gap, meaning even if the younger generation is coming back in the right direction, there's a gap there of a couple of decades worth of problem who are going to be the leaders and the voters. So we still we need to win hearts and minds, as you were talking about before. No question. And let's talk about the schools, because, you know, schools are back in session now and we're seeing anti-Semitism through the roof at the exact same elite universities in America. that are producing also leaders. And just one gruesome example, I saw there was a memorial at the University of Michigan for the Bibas family, for the babies and the mother that were slaughtered. And of course, it was defaced with threats against Jews and pro-Palestine messages. And so, And that very same university, the president was overheard on, you know, on a phone line. It was somehow leaked. He was complaining about the federal government wanting to fight anti-Semitism. He says, yeah, what about Islamophobia? And, you know, and he complains about, you know, like the powerful people, meaning, i.e., you know, the powerful people with money, the Jews are really behind it. Every possible anti-Semitic trope still from the top down at these universities and at Harvard University. Apparently, apparently it's a video they claim was in a Harvard employee ripping down postages of the hostages just yesterday. So this is an ongoing battle and we have to be on the front in every way, culturally, legally and politically.
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Well, and Jeff, we only have about a minute and a half left here, but I was going to bring that up that the University of Michigan, the president on a phone call leaked. was using the same tired, disgusting anti-Semitic tropes saying that you can see there's a very powerful group that is controlling this narrative that only wants to focus on anti-Semitism. It's gross, it's disgusting, but that's why we are seeing positive moves like the Trump administration saying that, hey, Columbia, if you don't address this, which was the hotbed of it, $51 million in grants and contracts are gone.
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Yeah. And there may be up to $5 billion or more contracts that they're looking at, again, just with Columbia. I mean, these universities have colossal sums of money. They have gargantuan endowments. They're like mini-governments. They're gargantuan endowments, and they have huge government contracts. And so some funding comes from the federal government, and we were very deeply involved. With the first Trump administration, with the Domestic Policy Council, and with the president when he first issued his order, executive order in December of 2019, to really reinforce the idea that civil rights in education also apply to Jews. Because until that point, there was a whole argument, well, maybe Jews aren't because we're a religion and people. It's like, no, this is an identity and no one is anti-Semitic because they care about what Jews believe or don't believe. They just hate Jews. And so, and it's about national origin also. And this is very, very important because again, across the board, we're working on this and it remains a problem, a deep problem at these universities.
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Absolutely, Jeff. And that is why the ACLJ exists and why the ACLJ Jerusalem specifically exists. And when you support the work of the ACLJ during our life in Liberty Drive, that is part of it. You are going to fund the ACLJ Jerusalem. These are not independent necessarily entities in that same way. All of it helps fund the ACLJ, the ECLJ, the Jerusalem office, all of the connections that bring the ACLJ message around the world. So right now, do it. Your donations are doubled. And while you're there, you can become an ACLJ champion. Your first donation of that will be doubled. Again, that is matched by somebody who is ready to unlock their donation. You are going to be charged double. But when you give $10, effectively that becomes $20. If you give $1,000, effectively that becomes $2,000. If you gave $10,000, it becomes $20,000. Do it right now. We're going to take your calls coming up. 1-800-684-3110. We've got some lines open. Perfect time to call. Welcome back to Tech Yellow. Phone lines are completely jammed. Let's hear from you, the most important people in the room. I do want to keep touching. Some of the comments came back about our campaign, about the Choice Begins Here campaign. We got a call coming in from Kim in Illinois with her story. She's watching on YouTube. Kim, you're on the air.
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Hi, Jordan. My mom, 51 years ago, chose life when her pregnancy with me was very high risk. And then I ended up later in a situation where I was raped and I chose life for my son. The Pregnancy Resource Centers showed me my son's image on the ultrasound. They helped me with clothing. They even threw him a first birthday party. This is an incredible organization that helps mothers in need. And I am so thankful for you guys standing up for life and for my life and my son's life as well.
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Cam, what a wonderful and beautiful, even through the tragedy call that you gave us here today. These are the stories we want to hear for pregnancy resource centers that this, they are doing great work. And again, we're not a pregnancy resource center. We are here to support them. And we've been able to support them with our legal cases for decades. but now they're being under attack by the state themselves. And it's working. They're running marketing campaigns to essentially put them out of business. And you hear from Kim, this is someone whose life was saved and her child's life was saved. And they were, again, they said they hosted the child's first birthday party. These are the real stories coming out of pregnancy resource centers. They're the sweetest, a lot of the sweetest people you've ever met. This is not a place where you go and get shamed. This is not a place where you go and get hate. This is where you actually go to get loved on and we want to make sure that they still exist. for generations to come. And that is why we've started this ad campaign and we encourage you to support it.
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And this isn't the first time states have done this. This is the new iteration. This is what they're going to do now. They're going to spend taxpayer dollars on campaigns, ad campaigns, and it's effective. It's going to work in many places. That's why we have to fight back. But we fought back against an attorney general of a state, California. You may have heard of her, Kamala Harris. where they were trying to force pregnancy resource centers to advertise for abortion. So when you walked in, there was a sign. It was mandated by law. What size? What font size? It had to be to tell people going in there where they could go get an abortion. Fortunately, that was compelled speech by the government. Not allowed under the Constitution. We fought back and won that. But that's why we're here. So we're going to find the innovative way, whether it be the law, which we're doing in Massachusetts as well by suing, or whether through a media campaign to fight back and protect life and protect the people and the places that support women and their pregnancies. And those are pregnancy resource centers.
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All right, we're going to continue on and take some more calls. Let's go to Susie who's calling in New Mexico on YouTube. Susie, you're on the air.
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Yes, I just wanted to comment on how terrible the Democrats were, and they really made them look like idiots last night, where they wouldn't even stand or anything for the people who have been murdered, the 12-year-old who was killed by the illegal. But also, how can these news places... sit there and talk so badly about that little boy who's been fighting brain cancer, and then they have the nerve to say such terrible things about him. I think we should play that real quick again.
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as we wrap up. Can we play the Nicole Wallace? Can we play it one more time? I think you all need to see this because there's a lot of new people watching. This is the response to little boy brain cancer who got to be deputized into the Secret Service as he fights for his life.
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I think this was a lesson in finding one thing that you let yourself feel. And I let myself feel joy about DJ. And I hope he's alive for another, you know, 95 years, right? And I hope he lives an... the life he wants to live. He wants to be a cop. He knows what he wants to do. And maybe when you have childhood cancer, that crystallizes for you. And I hope he has a long life as a law enforcement officer. But I hope he never has to defend the United States Capitol against Donald Trump's supporters. And if he does, I hope he isn't one of the six who loses his life to suicide. And I hope he isn't one who has to testify against the people who carried out acts of seditious conspiracy and then live to see Donald Trump pardon those people.
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That's where you want to start throwing stuff at your TV. I mean, really, when those kind of moments happen. Thankfully, probably a lot of our viewers, this is the first time they've seen it because they're not watching that propaganda network, but it is what it is. I want to continue on with calls. Lori is calling in New Hampshire. She's an ACLJ champion. Lori, note number one, how much I appreciate you. An ACLJ champion, someone that gives on a monthly recurring basis. And Lori, I really do appreciate it. You're on the air.
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Thank you, and I support you. I just want to strongly state that we are not a nation divided, and the polls show the support for Trump. We are seeing a disgusting display by a small vocal minority, and I would ask them, are you smarter than God? In Romans 13.1, it says the authorities have been established and exist. The authorities that exist, excuse me, have been established by God. So they are resisting God's will. You mentioned Afghanistan. We had to put up with that, but we did because we respect our authority. And I would like to see the Democrats start to do the same thing. Thank you.
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Will brought up and one of the callers brought up, you know, they don't stand for the other side and that has become fairly normal that you don't see a lot of support, but maybe not to this extent.
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Right. And I think that's where they showed how morally bankrupt they've become is that, uh, Trump derangement syndrome, as people like to call it, has so infected their minds and their ideology that when you hear, uh, These tragic stories, you can't even give those people respect for being there, whether it be the mother of a child who was killed by illegal immigrants, or it was the family of Lake and Riley. they were there and they were strong and bold and the Democrats mostly sat. Every once in a while, you'd see one stand, but I don't know how you can be a comms director in DC and work for one of those members of Congress and be like, I'm doing such a great job. My boss sat for victims of horrific crime and didn't stand up or a victim of childhood cancer. I would quit that job if I were a comms director for a Democrat.
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All right, let's try to take a couple more calls, see if we can get to them. Let's go to Ronald, who's calling on South Carolina. Watch it on Rumble. You're on the air.
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Yes, thanks for taking my call. I just wanted to comment on something that Logan said about a few weeks back when you were saying that one of the senators during the confirmation hearing for some Trump nominees for his cabinet, and you actually said, or the person said that Trump deserves to have the people that he needs to work with. And I thought that was most reassuring, that respect was coming back not only to the office, but actually to the man, Donald Trump, because of all he had gone through, he's still wanting to work in helping this nation. And yet, seeing a display from Schumer and all the other, and the Democrats, and all their displays and everything, it's just one-sided, because people... are no longer listening to them. They want, you know, narcissistic. They say, no, I got something to say and they will listen to me.
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We are just running out of time. The only reason I'm cutting you off and hey, Luke, I'm sorry, we're not gonna be able to get to you today. Call back tomorrow. We'll make sure you get bumped up to the front of the line. I'm sorry about that. I want to encourage you to let's last 30 seconds I have with you for today. I need you to support the work of the ACLJ that we're doing the good fight right now, fighting the good fight, and we are fighting it on your behalf. Join us, though. Let's beat them together. Go to ACLJ.org. Have your gifts doubled during our Life and Liberty Drive, which is activated right now. Again, we're fighting that campaign in Massachusetts with our own, and you can be a part of it at ACLJ.org. Of course, those funds go to continuing the work in general as well around the world, getting your voice to the masses. Again, ACLJ.org. Scan the QR code. Talk to you tomorrow.
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Six-year-old Mike Gallagher? Nope. August 66, were you grooving to some Monkees? Nope.
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Well, I remember the Monkees. Oh, dude. Hey, hey, we're the Monkees.
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People say we monkey around, but we're too busy singing to put anybody down. That's the great Mickey Dolenz out front of the Monkees there for their first hit, August of 66. Mickey Dolenz is 80 today, the last remaining monkey, I guess. Did they really, they really sang? Yes, he really sang, and Mike Nesmith really played, and Peter Tork played some things, and Mickey Dolenz played some. It was studio musicians, a lot of the songs, in some cases. Most of the songs like that one written by Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart. The TV show was like slapstick meets early MTV. It was kind of genius. I was like nine or ten, and I'm like... Oh, totally. Totally. The Monkees was genius? The songs were actually fantastic. Wow. The TV show was a kind of a wacky and yet trailblazing combination, again, of slapstick, of Three Stooges. Wow. And sort of a precursor to music videos, too. So, yes, sir.
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My idea of genius in those days was the Munsters. Now, that was genius. No doubt.
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Okay, Munsters or Addams Family? Pick it.
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Either one. I like them both. I kind of like the Munsters more because I like the theme song better. I love the Munsters theme song. Do you remember it? Hey, Eric, don't we have it somewhere? I love the Munsters. To me, this is the best theme song for any TV show.
SPEAKER 02 :
But as soon as you mention it, the first thing that occurs to me, the one that's more iconic is do-do-do-do. No, but I think the Munsters is better. You ready? Sure, go ahead. Here we go. Hit it. Of course. Has kind of a Dick Dale surf guitar feel to it.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, like a surfer thing. But I just always loved it. Always put me in a good mood.
SPEAKER 02 :
And the great Fred Gwynn. And the absolute great Fred. The wonderful Fred Gwynn in that. And Yvonne DiCarlo. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 03 :
Wait a minute. Yvonne DiCarlo. Who is Morticia in The Addams Family? Carolyn Jones. That's right. Carolyn Jones. That's right. Good for you. You're like an encyclopedia. I know this, but I can't find my car keys.
SPEAKER 02 :
Well, ask me about Broadway.
SPEAKER 03 :
You could do TV shows from the 60s and 70s. I could do Broadway. Somebody texted me from Dallas yesterday. They said, you should go on some kind of game show and just be tested on Broadway shows. I'm pretty good at that. You would own it. I don't know anything else in life, but I can tell you who played the third Phantom of the Opera in 1990. That's it.
SPEAKER 02 :
Can't find my car keys, but I can give you the cast of sitcoms and all 12 guys who walked on the moon.
SPEAKER 03 :
I'm overdosing on The Great Right Way this week here in New York. I figured, well, if I'm going to be here for work, I might as well see some shows at night.
SPEAKER 02 :
Do you have more coming up this weekend?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, I saw Wicked last night. Caught up on Wicked. Okay.
SPEAKER 02 :
interesting. How many times have you seen Flippin' Flippin'?
SPEAKER 03 :
When I see a show I like, I go back, because I love the familiarity of it, you know? So, seeing Harry Potter tonight.
SPEAKER 02 :
Okay, is it like, because I'm not a big revisitor. You're not? No, because when I'm, if somebody says, well, you ought to go watch that again, I get the value of it, because maybe you see something a little different on the revisit. Wow, didn't notice that the first time. But especially with the fire hose, the fire hose analogy again, of things that are out there. If I'm spending two hours watching some movie I've seen already, that's two hours I could spend watching something I haven't seen yet.
SPEAKER 03 :
You know, I'm thinking about whether I revisit TV shows. I do, though. You did Sopranos. You did the whole Sopranos again.
SPEAKER 02 :
Sopranos again?
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, there's three big long series that I've revisited and I've been binging. The Sopranos I told you about. Yep. West Wing. I know they're a bunch of touchy-feely liberals. But it's awesome. The writing is so good. And the best of all time, especially these days, Veep starring the incomparable Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Oh, is that funny?
SPEAKER 02 :
And you know what? And on this, for 30 more seconds, and then I've got questions for you. I am immersed in, we are in a truly golden age, three shows that are as good as anything I've seen in absolute years.
SPEAKER 01 :
I'm ready.
SPEAKER 02 :
Quick thumbnail on both. One, I'm afraid people aren't seeing it. We all remember ER with young Noah Wiley as Dr. Carter. Well, he's 50 something now. And he's Dr. Robbie, Dr. Rabinowitz in a thing called The Pit, P-I-T-T, a Pittsburgh urban ER drama. And it is just one of the finest medical shows I have ever seen. We're 10 episodes in of 15 episodes. It's on HBO, Max, whatever they're calling it, The Pit. Unbelievable cast, unbelievable medical drama. And unlike Grey's Anatomy, which is 100% soap opera and pure chick TV, and unlike ER, which was awesome but was about 30% soap opera, this is nothing but medical stuff and dramas within The Pit with two Ts. It is incredible. Number two, in the Taylor Sheridan Enterprise. We're in season two of 1923, one of the Yellowstone prequels. Harrison Ford? Shh. Oh, just... He's the hardest working man in show business. And Helen Mirren, right? And Helen... Absolutely. Wow. Unbelievable cast. It's just underway. Good. And the third one is something I've been... I was kind of dragged to. I watched it win 47 awards. It's like, okay, all right, whatever. Ethan wanted us to watch it. It's like, oh, okay. I thought it was going to be Game of Thrones in 17th century Japan. And I don't do dwarves, realms, dragons. I don't do any of that. However, I'm... 75% through Shogun, and it is a masterpiece. Oh, Shogun. Absolutely. 1923, Shogun for your weekend streaming.
SPEAKER 03 :
Boom. You can't put anything past this audience, and thanks to the text line. I'll tell you what. This text message gives me more ammo against you. All right. Instant feedback, instant shots across the bow. So you can text me. I always open up my text line before the M&M experience so that people who are listening to us from all over the country. It's always fascinating to me when we get texts from people listening to us in Hawaii, Oregon, California. People love the M&M experience, not just in North Texas, but beyond. But one of my favorite texters is Aaron. Oh, no, this is from Dallas, not from Aaron. But here's Dallas, who said, ask Mr. I never revisit. How many times he's seen Tom Petty?
SPEAKER 02 :
Oh, we're talking about revisiting shows, which is exactly the same frame by frame. But as far as an act that I value going and seeing somebody in concert, I got you. I got you. By definition, every every performance is different.
SPEAKER 01 :
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SPEAKER 02 :
I mean, I know it is, but it's so much less so. Because the ten times I saw Petty, the set list was different. Sometimes the players were different. Oh, yeah, yeah, I know, I know. With Broadway, it's the exact same characters and the exact... But it's different. But I do know that there's nuance that makes. There is.
SPEAKER 03 :
And if you know what to look for and they also put different people in long running shows, which I love to see different actors. Now, this is kind of a fun fact. You probably followed the whole drama. Maybe you saw it. Hamilton will not will not perform at the Kennedy Center in 2026 because of Orange Man Bad. It's like, oh, great. OK, well, then don't let people see Hamilton. Knock yourself out there. Theater, of course, is so hopelessly woke and they're in this little bubble. This is interesting to me. The actress who's currently who just started as Elphaba, the Green Witch. Hmm. African-American because, of course, they don't dare put a white actress in the role with the success of the movie starring Cynthia Erivo.
SPEAKER 02 :
Right.
SPEAKER 03 :
And, you know, I had theater people tell me they're green. Yeah. Well, no, but she's black. Yeah. But that's right. Exactly. You don't even know.
SPEAKER 02 :
That's the funny part about it. One would think that somebody who's black or white or any color can be turned into green. Well, thank you.
SPEAKER 03 :
You could be brown. You could be Indian. You could be Hispanic. You could be black. But Elphaba is the green witch. But oh, no, no, no, no. Cynthia Erivo is certainly very proud of her heritage, I guess. And they don't want to have... It's all about... I had a theater executive tell me, it's all about the optics, Mike. It's all about the optics. I guess. We can't – we'll get in trouble, they think, if they were to cast a – We'll get in trouble. We'll get in trouble. Well, and let's talk about some trouble here because I happen to peruse the New York Times. Do you ever browse through the Times?
SPEAKER 02 :
And I do. I wonder through that cesspool every once in a while just to learn something.
SPEAKER 03 :
Here's a headline that caught my eye from this morning. Fearing retribution, Trump critics muzzle themselves. Great. The silence grows louder every day, writes Elizabeth Bumiller. Hmm. Fired federal workers worried about losing their homes ask not to be quoted by name. University presidents fearing that millions of dollars in funding could disappear are holding their fire. They're worried about Trump being mean to them. Here's what I find fascinating about this whole premise of this article and the Times now and the left bellyaching about Muslim. They're not critical enough of Trump because they're afraid of retribution. For years, we've watched conservatives lose their jobs, lose their homes, lose their livelihood. People have been canceled. Ask Mike Lindell how tough it's been for MyPillow. Ask anybody who's lost their – they've been deplatformed. They've lost their – careers. Now, all of a sudden, the gripe is, oh, well, Trump could be mean to the left, so the left is holding their fire and they're muzzling themselves. What hypocrisy. You know, this is how they are, Mark. When the shoe's on the other foot, they scream to the high heavens. They didn't care when people lost their businesses. Look at the—what's her name? Shelly Luther in Dallas. Ask anybody who got canceled, who's gotten just crucified for their views, for their beliefs, for their opinions about anything from the— covid mandates to the lockdowns to border security and now the big complaint is because trump pushes back and because our side isn't rolling over for them now they're upset about it and one of the other reasons one of the other things that's happening is some of the because trump 1.0 was filled with
SPEAKER 02 :
faux conservatives, former conservatives, weak conservatives choosing to get mouthy about him. Some of them have simply chosen a better path of shutting up because they realize how ridiculous they have looked and how the marketplace has moved on from them. So they're just showing wisdom and restraint.
SPEAKER 03 :
Now Democrats, according to Axios, Democrat leadership is calling out the Democrats who engaged in all the hijinks and shenanigans at the president's speech the other night. Now they're not doing it because all of a sudden they have a soul. They're doing it because of the incredible pushback. I mean, look at these clowns with their stupid paddles and they booing and hissing. It used to be the biggest scoundrel of all was Joe Wilson for saying two words, you lied at Obama. That would have been a walk in the park compared to that circus the other night. Incidentally, poor Aaron. Aaron in Southlake said, you almost gave me a shout out. Yes, Aaron, he's listening to us vacationing in St. Thomas.
SPEAKER 02 :
So that's good. That's pretty cool.
SPEAKER 03 :
So he's taking time away from his vacation.
SPEAKER 02 :
In our remaining 60 seconds here, real quick. Charlie Kirk going on Gavin Newsom. I'm going to say awesome. And in fact, good for everybody involved. Good for Newsom for inviting him. Good for Charlie for going there. Charlie getting Gavin Newsom to admit that it's unfair for boys to play in girls' sports. Why is that bad?
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, here's what it's bad, unintentionally. And I love me some Charlie Kirk, and you do too. And I'm glad he's our colleague. Here's why it's bad. Why is he elevating I don't think he means to do it. Why is he elevating Gavin Newsom? Gavin Newsom is on a rehabilitation tour.
SPEAKER 02 :
Indeed so, but it attracted enormous attention. The story yesterday, the story was Gavin Newsom was goaded craftily by Charlie Kirk into admitting that boys and girls sports is unfair. That's your version of the story. Take the win.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, here's the story. Gavin Newsom looked pretty appealing to a whole lot of Democrats and a whole lot of moderate Republicans. Gavin Newsom is going to run. Gavin Newsom, oh, Charlie, my son, he never misses your podcast. Oh, Charlie. Charlie.
SPEAKER 02 :
Obsequious much? No kidding.
SPEAKER 03 :
And he's running. He's running. Guarantee it. He's the guy in 20. Well, listen, I don't know. You better not hope so. Jasmine Crockett is mentioned as a presidential candidate. Now, that's who we have to support. This. I'm all in for President Jasmine. Me too.
SPEAKER 02 :
I love you. Happy Friday. Have a great weekend. Happy Friday. Mike Gallagher there for us as soon as we're done. 10 o'clock right here on 660 AM The Answer.
SPEAKER 04 :
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In today's episode, the conversation shifts focus to critical economic factors influencing the market today. The discussion takes a turn to tariffs – pulling apart their rippling effects on both U.S. manufacturing and international markets. Drawing from historical parallels in market behavior, including insights from the COVID era, Gundersen offers a forward-looking perspective, shedding light on the European markets' current performance. As they address challenges such as policy volatility and economic indicators, Bill Gundersen stresses the importance of clear-headed decision-making in turbulent times and gives a sneak peek into the considerations for future stock moves.
SPEAKER 05 :
He's been seen on CNBC, the Fox News Channel, and the Fox Business Channel. His articles can be found on MarketWatch, Seeking Alpha, TheStreet.com, and many other places. He's the author of the weekly Best Stocks Now newsletter and the inventor of the Best Stocks Now app. He's president of Gundersen Capital Management. Here is professional money manager Bill Gundersen.
SPEAKER 02 :
And welcome to the Friday, thank goodness it's Friday, March 7th version of the Best Stocks Now show with professional money manager Bill Gunderson, president of Gunderson Capital Management. I'm here with Barry Kite, our chartered financial analyst. And we do have a little green on the screen for a change here. But I will say that the Friday pattern recently has been rally in the morning, sell off in the afternoon. We'll see if that holds true. But as of now, the Dow is up 81 points. 42,660. Of course, that's a small consolation to some of the big sell-offs we've had in the Dow this week. The NASDAQ's up 84, which again is a small consolation. It's up about a half a percent. 18,156 on the NASDAQ. S&P's up 15 points to 5,754. The Russell 2000 is up 8 points. Ugly charts are on those small cap stocks and on the Nasdaq. Russell 2000 up about 40 basis points here so far this morning. We have interest rates up a little bit today after a weak jobs report. The 10-year now is actually down a little bit now. Okay, it's moving around. It's volatile, 4.26%. is where the 10-year is, and Bitcoin is up $366,000 to $90,612. So welcome to today's Best Stocks Now show with professional money manager Bill Gunderson, president of Gunderson Capital Management, and thank goodness it's Friday. It takes on a whole new meaning these days, Barry, in the market. You're glad to see Friday come along. It's been quite a week in the market. The Dow was down 486 yesterday. I want to say it was down about 1,700 points in a three-day span there. And yesterday was particularly ugly as a lot of technical levels, individual technical levels, broke down yesterday, including NVIDIA. And, you know, I've always said I make a lot of small decisions throughout the day. And sometimes a lot of small decisions end up being a fairly big decision. And, you know, that is just the way I do things. I'm very methodical. And I have those lines in the sand. We put out – do we have Barry here? I don't hear him. Oh, yeah. Oh, okay.
SPEAKER 03 :
All right. I thought maybe he had, like, been kidnapped or something. You had plenty to say after this week, so I didn't want to – Yeah, okay. No. Okay. Well, let's do a little history. Back on January – I'm interested.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, back on January 6th of 2023, we put an all-out buy signal on the NASDAQ. The P.E. ratio was 20. The NASDAQ was putting in a very good solid bottoming position there. And we had a very big buy signal on the NASDAQ that we wrote about in Seeking Alpha back on January, early January of 2023. This is now fast forward two years. and two months and we have a little different situation the pe has gone from 20 to 35 on the nasdaq and all of a sudden you know we have all of this turbulence coming about with a regime change and uh we have a i've warned that we've had a very high valuation on the markets and We had the big run after Trump got elected. That's all gone now, by the way. It's all reverted back to where it was when he got elected. The NASDAQ is now in the midst of about an 11%, 12% correction. The tech stocks a little bit more than that. Remember, the NASDAQ is not 100% tech. It has quite a few non-tech stocks in it, too. If you just separate out the tech, they're down about 12%, 13% from their high in December. The AI, however, over the last three weeks, I measure this by the ETF WISE, W-I-S-E. which is an AI-focused ETF. It's down 21% in three weeks, Barry. And I can remember the day it started is when Palantir, that memo was discovered about the defense spending cutting, which has not materialized yet, but that started the sell-off and the panic in the AI stocks. and not even a good report from NVIDIA could rescue the NASDAQ. The NASDAQ closed below its 200-day moving average for the first time. I have to look, but I believe that's the first time it's done that since that January 2023 buy signal we put out on the NASDAQ, and I consider a break below the 200-day moving average on any stock or any index to be a very bearish development. That is long-term support. It's considered long-term support. So anyways, that's how we come into this day today. The tech stocks got trashed again yesterday on tariff fears, and weak earnings from Marvell. Today we've got a little bit of a rally in tech. We had strong earnings from Avago. I still call it Avago, but it's actually AVGO. What's the name of it now? They bought that big chip company. I can't think of the name of it right now. I always knew it as Avago. All right. It's – Not Broadcom. Vago is Broadcom, yes. They bought Broadcom to become kind of a U.S. company. And that's how they got the AVGO symbol.
SPEAKER 01 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 02 :
Right, yeah. And they're really – most of their business is done in Singapore. But, of course, Broadcom is a California-based company. It's lifting the NASDAQ a little bit, but I don't know that one stock like Broadcom, which is not the biggest significant player, can lift the entire NASDAQ on its shoulders. So I think that that break below the 200-day moving average It was pretty bearish development. Now we've got to see where it goes from here. I'll have a lot to say about it in tomorrow's newsletter. I was up very early this morning. I sent out several messages, several analysis-type emails of the NASDAQ, the Dow, the Russell 2000, and some individual stocks. So anyways, we're in the midst of a 10.4% correction in the NASDAQ. If you separate out the tech stocks, it's 12% to 13%. And the AI sector down 21.4% over the last three weeks. And I think it's all about tariffs for the most part. And, you know, Barry, one thing about the tariff policy, it's been very volatile. They're on. They're off. They're on. They're off. And I think, you know, in a way, the market has just said, we're just going to stand on the sidelines until we figure out. The market likes to know policy. It likes to know policy, right?
SPEAKER 01 :
And I think of it as, you know, and in our earnings estimates that we use, you know, that you use for the S&P, or a collection, right, of different analysts and your own thoughts. And when you look at, you know, if you were having a revenue model or earnings model for one of these, you know, auto companies, I don't see how, you know, what some of these fields, right, that you would fill in for an earnings projection. I just don't see what you would even put in there.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, it's very difficult.
SPEAKER 01 :
Makes it hard to... It reminds me of the COVID era where you had those times, remember, where all the companies took away their guidance. We're not going to guide for this. It's like, okay, well, what do we put in?
SPEAKER 02 :
And to your point, I mean, while Scott Besson, our new Treasury Secretary from Charleston, says that he doesn't see tariffs affecting earnings, I see Boeing's CEO totally disagrees with him as he this morning said, you know, we get a lot of parts from Canada and we have a lot of uncertainty right now about our supply chain and what our costs are going to be. So there's two sides to this. I think it is kind of on a company by company basis. I think there's a lot of companies that will have no impact whatsoever But I would say there's more companies than not that all of a sudden have a question mark over them as to what impact the tariffs will have on them and on their suppliers.
SPEAKER 01 :
Well, and CEOs want some clarity before they can say, hey, let's go ahead with this investment project or build the new plant or build the plant here or there, right? I mean, there's a lot of moving parts. And what happens when there's a bunch of moving parts is people freeze up and don't make a decision at all.
SPEAKER 02 :
Right, exactly, and that's what's going on right now. The non-farm payrolls were fairly solid, but 151 is not exactly robust. That's how many non-farm jobs were created compared with 125,000 in January. The consensus was 160,000. But you've got to say that the labor market is still fairly strong, even though the government labor market, the layoffs there have tripled here recently. Employment trended up in health care, financial activities, transportation, and warehousing. So, you know, overall, a decent jobs report. And yesterday's... The initial jobless claims report was certainly okay also. So at least right now we're not seeing anything out there, but the market certainly is. What is the market seeing? The market is forward-looking. We'll be right back. And welcome back to the second quarter of today's Best Docs Now show. Well, the market is looking ahead. It's a forward-looking vehicle. You learned that at no time in my 25 years in the business was that more evident than March of 2020 during the COVID year when things were absolutely the worst. The market started taking off way in advance of, you know, the economy getting back on its feet. Because the earnings picture looked so good back then. Now the market's looking ahead and it doesn't like what it sees, at least as of now. And it obviously, I'm just going to say that it sees the possibility of a recession rising. I've seen probably more weak reports, layoffs, not horrible, right? And even, you know, that Atlanta Fed thing was a shocker to me last week. with their predicting this quarter that we're currently in to be negative by 3.5%, 3.8% GDP. Now, by comparison, okay, we talked about the rotation that's taking place in the market. Europe is having another good day. It's hitting another new high. I look at VGK there, which is a European ETF. Europe's GDP is expected to expand 1.2%. year-over-year so there's another reason i mean they don't have the political turmoil that we have right now reason number one reason number two those markets have been left behind for the last five to ten years number two the multiple is much cheaper Number four, they're lowering interest rates. So the market likes easy money and that's why you're seeing that inflow into Europe. I think the best proxy stock to look at would be Siemens, S-I-E-G-Y. which is a big German conglomerate.
SPEAKER 01 :
They're making a big investment here.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, they're building a plant here. I can't remember where it was. I have that news in a little bit here. So anyways, now we may see some rate cuts here. It's the inflation fear. If the Fed's going to step back and say, no, we want to see a little more stable policy right now on the tariff front, But Feds Waller sees two or three rate cuts possible this year, which would help as long as they don't kick inflation. And Jerome Powell is going to speak later today. We'll hear what he has to say. He could move the markets a little bit. I don't know what time he's speaking. I think around 1 o'clock or so. And that could help a little bit. But right now the European markets are outperforming U.S. markets by a long shot. While many European stocks are hitting new highs, which most of them are not buyable on a big scale because most of them trade on the pink sheets. So you have to look at that volume, the average daily volume first. Sometimes, Barry, I'll queue up a buy and I'll see how many shares it adds up to. For instance, I was going to buy a stock the other day, and I think it added up to 60,000 shares, and I looked at the volume of average daily volume was like 100,000 shares. I would have been 60% of the volume. I can't do that. I mean, that would move a stock too much, and if I ever wanted to get out of it, I'd have the same problem getting out. For the most part, my hands aren't tied too much. But there are cases where there's been some good stocks that I've wanted to buy.
SPEAKER 01 :
Just not domiciled here with an ADR or something.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah. But some of those pink sheet stocks like the Chinese BYD, it trades plenty of shares. So it just depends. It's on a case-by-case basis. But Europe's especially hard to invest in. Trump delays Canada and Mexico tariffs until April the 2nd. Okay, so this is one of the problems. The tariffs are on, the tariffs are off, the tariffs are on, the tariffs are off. And the market, if there's one thing the market does not like, is uncertainty. And not only is it looking ahead to possible slowdown in the economy, but it's also looking at this current uncertainty and saying, you know, we'll just park some money in Europe. Now, some of these hedge funds and whatnot, they have more access to overseas markets and whatnot than like we do at Schwab, just because they can trade on the foreign markets where we can't really do that here in the U.S.,
SPEAKER 01 :
Some countries make you have essentially a trader in dollars out in the country to make those moves.
SPEAKER 02 :
If you're willing to go to Frankfurt, we'll start trading that German market, Barry. You can park yourself over there until Oktoberfest, and we'll just play Europe the rest of the year. Besant dismisses tariff inflation fears. And Besson said he's not even watching the market. He's focused on driving down the 10-year right now, and he doesn't seem to be worried about inflation. Okay, that's Besson. That's our Treasury Secretary. But as I said, Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg told employees the tariffs imposed this week by the Trump administration risk driving up costs for certain parts purchased from Canada, such as landing gear, I think it does leave the landing gear off and cause broader disruptions to supply chains. Ortberg said his biggest concern is tariffs turning into a continuity of supply issue that could prove really, really expensive for us. If it's really, really expensive for Boeing, that means prices go up. He says if the U.S. tariffs are enforced, adding 25% to the cost of doing business for large aerospace manufacturers such as Boeing, their ability to pass the cost on to airline customers will be limited. So in a lot of cases, you know, the companies absorb. Either they don't buy the product, which then Canada absorbs the cost of not being able to sell the product, shopping around for cheaper products elsewhere, or the company has to absorb the cost. So that's the kind of way it looks. Boeing shares have tumbled 13.5% in the last month. So that's not good. China's trade surplus surpasses forecasts. Exports grow by 2.3% and imports shrink. So China continues to, you know, their trade gap is very favorable in their favor. And that's one thing that gets into Trump's craw, and it should. I mean, there's no reason why. We have such a huge trade deficit here in the U.S. The U.S. plans to levy fees on China-linked ships and pushes allies to do the same. So you see one of these freighters coming into the Charleston Harbor where we normally have six, four to six freighters.
SPEAKER 01 :
Usually packed out, yeah.
SPEAKER 02 :
U.S. tends to charge fees of up to $1.5 million per ship just for docking at its port on any ship that is a part of a fleet containing Chinese-built or Chinese-flagged vessels. The draft executive order is an attempt by the Trump administration to boost domestic shipbuilding and reduce China's hold on the global shipping industry. Thank you. So the intent is good, but obviously it creates a lot of disruption in the markets. We'll be right back.
SPEAKER 07 :
This is Bill Gunderson. Thank you for tuning in to today's Best Stocks Now, Best Inverse Funds Now show.
SPEAKER 02 :
Now, back to the second half of the show.
SPEAKER 07 :
And welcome back here to the second half of today's Best Docs Now show.
SPEAKER 02 :
Wow, I looked at a few charts here during the break. Boeing's chart looks terrible, Barry. It is breaking down big time. We don't own Boeing. Boeing has had a rough time of it the last several years, haven't they? Boeing was up to 188, and it was hitting a new 52-week high just three weeks ago. So you've got to tie this to the tariff tantrums that are going on because that kind of coincides. The sell-off in Boeing from 188 down to 153, that's a 16% sell-off. coincides with the tariff talk, and I would say that the AI 21% sell-off uh... can be attributed to the tariffs and also some news you know the news from uh... uh... from uh... you know the uh... the software stock that all of a sudden uh... was in trouble the biggest winner palantir and of course nvidia had strong earnings but it just wasn't enough uh... nvidia broke below its long-term support uh... i sent out a uh... a message uh... this morning we had We had. We no longer own NVIDIA, but we took some big profits in NVIDIA yesterday. In the ultra-growth portfolio, we were up 531%.
SPEAKER 01 :
Well, and thankfully, trimmed some along the way, too, just because of the name. We did that, too. I mean, we owned it for over two years. January 18, 2023.
SPEAKER 02 :
Soon after that buy on the NASDAQ, that was one of our biggest, first big buys. We bought it at $17 a share. 1748, we sold it yesterday for $110.41. Then I added it to the Premier Growth Portfolio a little bit after that.
SPEAKER 01 :
Isn't that early March? Let's see.
SPEAKER 02 :
We did that on March 3rd, a couple months later, and I sold that yesterday for a 367% long-term profit. And I also sent out a message this morning as to why we sold it. So I try to teach, too, along the way in this live trading atmosphere that I've got going. Why? Why? Okay, there's reasons. I am very methodical. Barry's probably learned that over the years.
SPEAKER 01 :
I'm a very methodical. Doesn't mean we'll never own it again. There's a high probability at some point.
SPEAKER 02 :
There's a high probability that we'll come down just like we did back in January. You know, it got killed in 2022. And we got out of it then, and then we got back in it in January of 2023. What we're going through right now reminds me of 2022, very much so. The only difference is the market got way ahead of itself after COVID. 2021, you know, Kathy Woods had her best year ever, blah, blah, blah. By the way, she's down 25% in the last three weeks.
SPEAKER 1 :
25%.
SPEAKER 02 :
Okay, and her stocks were doing great and everything. And then the Fed went on the warpath. Okay, so it was a different reason. for the big sell-off in 2022. And then when we saw the selling abate early in 2023, it was time to go in with guns blazing. You know, Meta's up 110%, you know, since then, and others that we bought. But now here we are, you know, over two years later, and we got way ahead of ourselves again. I think the Trump election kind of put a finishing touch. You know, they put a lot of icing on the cake. that maybe didn't belong there. The cream cheese got a little bit rich there in the valuations and whatnot. And now you're kind of seeing a sell-off akin to 2022. It's not as bad yet, but we're kind of at the 12% to 15% mark, I would say. In 2022, the NASDAQ sold off by 35%. Is there the possibility for that to happen this time? Absolutely. I think there is. Just on fear alone, and if we get a few bad prints in the economy, we have that kind of downside risk. You know what? I don't feel bad cashing in some big profits yesterday and cutting some losses, right? It depends on when you got in. I mean, if you weren't with us in January of 2023, you might have got into NVIDIA or Palantir much later on. You may have actually lost money, a little bit of money when I sold it yesterday. But for the most part, we went in with the block trades for everybody who was with us at that time back in january of twenty twenty three okay now having said that is the S&P now a buying opportunity Oppenheimer highlights the 200-day moving average as a key level well it is a key level I just see really weak momentum as the Nasdaq pierced below its 200-day moving average which is considered a pretty important moving average You've got weakness right now. And personally, I don't see a catalyst out there on the horizon that's all of a sudden going to turn it around.
SPEAKER 01 :
Earnings season is still a way long way off.
SPEAKER 02 :
Number one, number two, the tariffs came off yesterday and it didn't move the market at all. Number three, interest rates have come down to 4.2%, and it hasn't helped the market at all. Zelensky's back at the peace talk tables trying to smoke the peace pipe to end the war. That's not moving at all. What catalyst would there be right now to all of a sudden send the AI stocks back into orbit? I don't see it right now, so I think it's better to be a bit cautious right now with a – big percentage of cash you know our cash hoard has grown it was 60 percent this morning when i looked trump establishes strategic bitcoin reserve i'm not for that idea but it has pushed bitcoin up to close to 90 000 again uh the stargate project which remember that that was the those guys uh talking about the ai and the 500 million or billion they're going to spend
SPEAKER 01 :
Yeah, that was the one, wasn't it? It was Altman and then Larry Ellison.
SPEAKER 02 :
From SoftBank and from Oracle. Well, according to, let's see, who's putting this out? Oh, Bloomberg. It's expected to require 64,000 NVIDIA chips. So if it goes through, they might have backed off a little bit, though, because they've got to raise the money to put into it, number one. And at the time, Musk said they don't have the money, which they didn't. They're hoping to raise the money to spend it and invest it into AI. But I've got to believe that there's a lot of private equity investors that are a little skittish right now. Wedbush goes all in on Tesla. Well, you know, I just say good luck with that. You know, Kathy Woods is down 25% over the last three weeks. Three weeks. Tesla has gone from 439 to 258. 439 to 258. If you do the math on that, that's not a very good, pretty picture there. Let's just do the math.
SPEAKER 1 :
439.
SPEAKER 02 :
Usually I can do it in my head, but I've got so many numbers in my head. Down to 258. That is a correction of 40% on Tesla. We sold Tesla quite a ways back. I pulled the plug when it dropped below its support level. And I think we might have taken a small loss on Tesla. I'm going to give you the truth, the honest, what those numbers were. We sold Tesla for a 6% loss, all right?
SPEAKER 1 :
6%.
SPEAKER 02 :
That's palatable. Your stomach doesn't churn. 40%. And, of course, it's a big chunk of her ARK funds. And that drove her down 25% in three weeks. Will Tesla turn around? It's got the wind in its face with China sales crumbling. European sales crumbling. China EV cars invading Europe with a $30,000 price tag. The U.S. appetite, I think the U.S. appetite for EV cars is like a person on Zepbound, you know, their appetite. for a big italian dinner it ain't there anymore there's no appetite for tesla and ev cars i just see so i don't see the catalyst that's going to turn i have to disagree with wedbush they go all in on tesla obviously they have a huge position their 12-month target price is 550 That would mean it's got a more than double from here. That's their 12-month target price. $5.50 is currently at $2.58. Will there be a buying opportunity? Well, you know, Tesla's vulnerable clear down to $200. That's where I see the chart landing. It's at $2.58. So I see further downside risk. TSDD is the inverse of Tesla. I pointed that out in the little class I taught. Wednesday night I was a guest on a class of a friend of mine I met up in New York City. And him and I are collaborating and talking about the first week of April, the first Wednesday of April, Barry, doing a class again and inviting all of our folks from the radio. So he's looking into the logistics of that. Can Zoom handle such a crowd? We're going to find out. So anyways, you've got to watch those charts. That's got to be the third leg of the stool you stand on. Otherwise, you're going to drop off that stool with all the paint all over you and spill paint everywhere. Three legs of the stool. It makes a more sturdy stool. We'll be right back.
SPEAKER 07 :
We'll see you next time.
SPEAKER 02 :
And welcome back here to the final segment of today's Best Stocks Now show. Boy, if you don't get the newsletter this weekend, there couldn't be a better weekend to get that thing. 25 years of experience watching charts and markets, et cetera. I'm going to give you my take on this current market. Not only that, you get access to the app and my messages that I send out during the day. I sent out a lot of messages yesterday, obviously. When things are going good, sometimes people don't need us as much. And when things are rocky, which, yeah, this is the rockiest I've seen it in quite some time. I've got to go back to 2022 when the Fed was on the rampage. You've got to make a lot of clear-headed decisions when something like this is going through the market. And I've always said it's a lot of small decisions. It's not one great big giant decision. We have stocks that are doing well. Our Chinese holdings, which we haven't had for about 10 years, are doing quite well. They're hitting new highs. But the other analogy that I used yesterday, you know around Christmas time they'll rent a vacant building downtown and have the ugly sweater store, Barry? They're just ugly, ugly sweaters, you know. Who knows, reindeer poop or whatever it is.
SPEAKER 01 :
I never know what it turns into after that, though.
SPEAKER 02 :
Where did all the ugly sweaters go? I guess they come back, the ones that didn't sell come back a year later. Well, yesterday was the ugly chart day. I mean to tell you. Okay, so I've looked at maybe 100 here so far. Boeing is just a perfect example of an ugly chart. And I just ran into another one. Chipotle. What is going on? We don't own Chipotle. It's gone from 67 to 49 and it's plunging today. Chipotle has kind of been one of those Teflon-coated stocks over the years. Very popular. It's got its cult following. Chipotle is getting taken to the cleaners. Kava, which we owned at one time, made a little profit on, is getting taken to the cleaners. Three earnings reports I want to go over here real quickly. Number one, Broadcom. Broadcom had a really good quarter. Somebody on the chat room that I'm in at Seeking Alpha during the day, also I'm there. The same things that go in that chat room go out to our people that aren't on Seeking Alpha. They're pretty much the same messages. Anyways, he wrote to me. He says, oh, Broadcom's going to beat after the close tonight, and the market's going to blast off in the morning. So the market closed. He saw me doing a lot of selling yesterday. The market closed, and sure enough, Broadcom beat earnings, and it was up about 12% or 13% in the aftermarket. And I'm thinking, number one, Broadcom can't hold the weight of the market on its shoulders. I mean, maybe a Palantir or an NVIDIA or an Apple or somebody like that can, but certainly not Broadcom. Now I see Broadcom's up just 3%. And when you get an anemic response to blowout earnings, that's not a good sign. That's like they're selling rallies. Instead of buying the dip, which has been going on for almost two years and two months, now they're selling the rallies, which is exactly the other side of that. And another one that surprises me here, I mean, Costco is Teflon-coated. Costco is a Teflon-coated stock most of the time.
SPEAKER 01 :
Look at Costco today. Down 6%. I mean, that one will quickly become a potential for dividend and growth. I think it's been in there years ago.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, I've owned it in the dividend.
SPEAKER 01 :
It was in there like four or five years ago, right?
SPEAKER 02 :
And it's always been just too dang expensive with the P.E. of 61%. You know, on a retailer, a warehouse club, that's very expensive. But it gets a premium multiple because how much people love to shop. But that's the biggest drop I've seen in Costco, which is indicative of a very weak market. I mean, Costco basically reported earnings that were in line. Their sales were up 9%. Their earnings were only up 8%. But that's been about where they've been recently. And Costco on four times normal volume is down $62 per share right now, or 6.1%. And I haven't seen a drop like on Costco like that. I can't even remember the last time I've seen that, okay? The last one I want to mention here that reported earnings. I mean, look, it's a trashed company already. But it's still a player. Hewlett-Packard, this is the service side of Hewlett-Packard. And Jeff, I'm sure, could lend a little bit of color on Hewlett-Packard because this is the service side. This isn't the hardware side of Hewlett-Packard. This was the space that Jeff pretty much swam in for many years. And look at the service side down 15. Look at that chart. That is just a plunge. That's a polar plunge, they call it this time of year, on HPE, which is a big name in Silicon Valley. So, yeah, I mean, this is just all adding to the fact that the sentiment on the market... You've got number one, you've got valuations, which got very, very high in January, in December, and in February. But the market was holding those valuations up because you had the momentum supporting them. And then when Palantir warned, the momentum started to come out. The starch started to come out of the white shirts in the market, kind of like a football team. All of a sudden, you know, they intercept and do a pick six, and they're right back in the game. And all of a sudden, the momentum has shifted to the other side of the field. That's the way I look at this right now. And we continue to see one crash here, a breakdown after another. So it's going to take one heck of a catalyst to turn this thing around. I just don't see anything out there right now. Now, eventually, this is a market. Eventually, markets get so cheap that the buyers come rushing back in. And that's what I'll wait for. But in the meantime, there's a lot of settling that has to happen. And I think there's still downside risks. So, you know, I think the best place is to have a big chunk of cash and be ready. And then the stocks that are working to continue holding on to them. But even watch them because sometimes it will spread to the insurance stocks. Sometimes it will spread to the blue chip stocks. So we just have to watch it right now. But those three charts... Costco, Broadcom, and Hewlett-Packard certainly back up the theory, my observation, that you've got a very, very bad sentiment on the market right now. All right, well, we are out of time. What a week it's been. I will get a good start on the newsletter. I'll be sending out alerts all throughout the day. Sign up for a four-week trial of that at GundersenCapital.com. You better grab a spot in Sarasota because they're limited. I mean, we can only meet with so many people in two days. Call 855-611-BEST, 855-611-BEST, or get the free trial at GuntersonCapital.com. And, of course, if you just want a Zoom or telephone appointment, 855-611-BEST. Have a great day. Have a great weekend, everybody.
SPEAKER 04 :
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Join Andy Pate and friends during the second hour of Rush to Reason as they dive into the fascinating realm of famous short-statured personalities. The conversation meanders from the political to the entertaining, with a delightful exploration of iconic actors such as Rick Moranis and beloved characters like Dr. Evil's Mini-Me. This episode is a tribute to the charm and impact of these figures, providing listeners with both laughter and thoughtful insights. Don't miss out on this unique blend of fun and analysis!
SPEAKER 17 :
This is Rush to Reason.
SPEAKER 15 :
You are going to shut your damn yapper and listen for a change because I got you pegged, sweetheart. You want to take the easy way out because you're scared. And you're scared because if you try and fail, there's only you to blame. Let me break this down for you. Life is scary. Get used to it. There are no magical fixes. With your host, John Rush.
SPEAKER 16 :
My advice to you is to do what your parents did!
SPEAKER 21 :
Get a job, Turk! You haven't made everybody equal. You've made them the same, and there's a big difference.
SPEAKER 01 :
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there. It is this feeling that has brought you to me.
SPEAKER 07 :
Are you crazy? Am I? Or am I so sane that you just blew your mind?
SPEAKER 08 :
It's Rush to Reason with your host, John Rush.
SPEAKER 25 :
Filling in is Andy Pate, party of choice.
SPEAKER 14 :
And welcome to hour number two here on Rush to Reason, KLZ 560. I'm Andy Pate, filling in for John Rush along with Tanner Cole. Man. And Luke Cash. Man. That was fun. Okay, we are talking this hour about short people. And who are we doing it in honor of?
SPEAKER 11 :
Vladimir Zelensky.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yep. The short little guy who got talked down to literally by Donald Trump. By the way, he's pretty tall. What is he, about 6'3"?
SPEAKER 11 :
I think he's 6'3", 6'4". He's bigger than he looks sometimes.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, he's a big boy. He's a big boy.
SPEAKER 11 :
You got Barron, who's an NBA prospect.
SPEAKER 14 :
It was just such a weird thing to watch when Zelensky was all hunched over and Trump is literally with the finger and pointing and doing this. It felt like an adult chewing out a kid.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah. He got put in timeout.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, but, you know, Zelensky, he had it coming. When you have a deal and you go into a meeting like that, you just do the deal. Okay? You don't like, and I thought Vance put it well, you don't try to re-litigate it in front of the press. All right? You have a deal. Okay? I mean, when you're at the wedding, you don't re-litigate your vows right there in front of the people who came to watch. You just get married. You say, I do. All right? You just get it out of the way. I thought it was an embarrassing thing.
SPEAKER 20 :
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 14 :
So anyway, I want to talk to some short people. What I'm going to do is play. We're going to try it. We're going to play a clip, and I want to see which one of you guesses this short person first. You ready? All right. Here we go.
SPEAKER 09 :
Before you die, there is something you should know about us, Lone Star.
SPEAKER 1 :
What?
SPEAKER 09 :
I am your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate. What's that make us? Absolutely nothing. Which is what you are about to become.
SPEAKER 12 :
Classic. And who was it? I don't know the actor, but was it Lord Helmet? Dark. Dark Helmet. Dark Helmet. Dark Helmet.
SPEAKER 14 :
And, of course, that was Rick Moranis. You know how tall Rick Moranis was? Huh. 5'1".
SPEAKER 12 :
That's pretty short.
SPEAKER 14 :
That's my wife's height. Rick Moranis was actually my wife's height. He was a funny actor for a long time. In fact, I liked him in almost every role. The first role I saw him in was Ghostbusters. And he was so incredible. I don't know if you remember him. He was the guy who lived a couple doors down from Dana. Right? And he turned into a dog too. But One thing I heard about Rick Moranis when they were filming Ghostbusters is that while everybody else needed a few takes, every single scene he did, and nobody hardly knew about this guy, every scene he did, he nailed the first time. He was so perfect with his delivery that they would just go, take, it's a take, go with it. I love Rick Moranis. Okay, Luke, you're up next.
SPEAKER 12 :
I will go with the shortest character I know. And it is Ozzy, the white blood cell from Ozzy and Trix, the old animated, what is it, cartoon about, what is it, being a white blood cell in a dude's body as he's sick?
SPEAKER 14 :
What? I've never heard of this. You've never heard of this? No, no. Wait a minute. You're just speaking random words right now. You haven't seen this? You're assembling random words together. Ozzy, the white blood cell?
SPEAKER 12 :
Ozzy, the white blood cell from Ozzy and Trix. It's a movie we watched when I was in like... I want to say middle school. Okay. I think it was like health or science or biology or something.
SPEAKER 11 :
Sounds like it's from the Magic School Bus.
SPEAKER 12 :
I mean, kind of. Yeah. I guess you could say all the Magic School Bus characters when they shrink down and go inside of Arnold's body in that one episode.
SPEAKER 11 :
Just like Rick Moranis in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.
SPEAKER 12 :
That's true. I think White Blood Cell is the smallest character we're going to get, though. Yeah. I wanted to start strong.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay. You know what? You started strong with something no one literally...
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, Luke already won.
SPEAKER 14 :
Even the makers of that have not heard of it. How could you not hear of it?
SPEAKER 12 :
It is iconic. Wow. We can go home now.
SPEAKER 14 :
I'm sorry, I'm cultured. My bad. Tanner, I need you to reach high and see if you can top that.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, definitely my top three of favorite miniature characters, Mini-Me from Austin Powers. Yes! I mean, those movies are too funny.
SPEAKER 14 :
I can't play a clip of him because he doesn't talk. He was so funny, wasn't he?
SPEAKER 11 :
Oh, it was great. Dr. Evil and Mini-Me were fantastic. Who played Mini-Me? Was that Vern Troyer? Yeah.
SPEAKER 14 :
Rest in peace. Yes, he has passed on. He was funny. Everything he did in that movie was just hilarious. I thought Mini-Me was a great character. On the line is another great character. It's John from Cheyenne John. Do you know any short people? Maybe short angry people. Oh, yeah, but first.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah, go ahead. First, Andy, do you remember Rick Moranis when he was with Dave Thomas on SCTV? No. Bob and Doug McKenzie and the Great White North. Oh, yes, I do. I remember those skits. They were funny. Funny. I remember they made a movie.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, it was so-so.
SPEAKER 19 :
It was one of those bad movies that you can't not watch.
SPEAKER 14 :
It was awful. Like I was saying in the first hour when I did that movie that shall not be named again. Named? Yeah, I'm not going to say it again, but it was a guilty pleasure, right? It's a movie that you're watching and you're just like, I'm embarrassed to like this.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah, the movie that, oh, this is so bad. Wait, just five more minutes.
SPEAKER 14 :
I know, just five more minutes. I got to watch a little more. It's got to get better. How about some old school shorter actors?
SPEAKER 19 :
Okay. I know a few. How about James Cagney? Yes. He was only five foot five.
SPEAKER 14 :
He was, and I'm telling you what, he was great.
SPEAKER 19 :
I always remember the... the scene at the end of Yankee Google Dandy where he's dancing down the steps of the White House. Oh, he's awesome. Oh, yeah. And then... No, wait.
SPEAKER 14 :
He was also... Wasn't he the bad guy in Mr. Roberts?
SPEAKER 19 :
He was the... The commander is the captain of the ship. That's what I mean. The bad captain. He was great in that. I mean... He was awesome. He's been in so many great movies. I mean, you just... One after the other if you go back and watch them. I know you have the... That youngster generation in there, do they even know who James Cagney is? Nope.
SPEAKER 14 :
They've never even heard the name James before. I mean, they're pretty new on the scene, but, you know.
SPEAKER 19 :
You know, there's a couple of books in the back of the Bible that are written by James. So, you know, if you're not sure.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, that'll get them up to speed. You got any more? Bogey. Bogey was only 5'8". Wow, I didn't even know he was that tall.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah, if you look at him in, like, in... McCall was as tall as he was in the whole movie. Right.
SPEAKER 14 :
You know, it's kind of interesting for both him and Tom Cruise how they had a fair number of romantic movies, and I don't know what they had to do with the camera work, but they made it look like they were not, you know, at least noticeably shorter than the women they were with, you know.
SPEAKER 19 :
Put them on about. Well, one more, and I'll steal this one, is Sylvester Stallone. How tall is he? I've never even, I don't have him listed. 5'7 or 5'8 maybe? Not that tall. The guy has all biceps. What? Yeah, in Rocky III in the ring scenes with Mr. T, who's not very tall either, they had Stallone standing on a box, so he would be eye to eye.
SPEAKER 14 :
That's good. I like it. That's good.
SPEAKER 19 :
All right, so last thing, Andy. Yeah, go. I'm going to totally change the subject real quick. We can get back. What are you streaming? Give me something to watch on streaming.
SPEAKER 14 :
I haven't been streaming much. Night Agent, we just finished streaming Night Agent.
SPEAKER 11 :
It was... I love the first season. Second season was boring to me.
SPEAKER 14 :
It kind of went slower in the second season. And at the end, it goes to the left. But I like the main two characters a lot.
SPEAKER 12 :
Reacher on Amazon. Good.
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, he's a big lefty. Trump hater.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, who cares? The show's good.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, it's pretty good.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yes, it's very good. But I read about... 15 or 20 of the reacher books yeah and they are even better than the reacher show yeah the books are good the book that the first reacher movie was based on with tom cruise i'm going to give cruise way big credit even though he was nowhere near the character that lee child's That was, he did justice to that role, and I thought that was very true to that book.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, and let's face it, John, he's a much better actor.
SPEAKER 19 :
Right.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay. Oh. I mean, he's such a good actor, and Jack Reacher was one of these movies, and for all those out there, if you have not seen Jack Reacher, can we all recommend Jack Reacher?
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, both of them.
SPEAKER 14 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 11 :
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, the second one's pretty good, too.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 14 :
It is fun. It's a fun movie. It's good action, good humor, and just a really, oh, and by the way, a really good mystery, a really good story, the way he unravels it. It is really good. Jack Reacher was totally worth watching, John.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah, I've seen both of them, and I'm three episodes into the third season of Reacher, having seen the other two. So, yeah, that's a phenomenal show. I'm just looking for something else. My wife is big into Reacher, and she's flying, and we have a deal. Shows that she likes.
SPEAKER 14 :
I don't watch when she's there. Now that is true.
SPEAKER 19 :
And that's how I've been happily married for 32 years. Way to go, man.
SPEAKER 14 :
Hey, I've never asked you this, John. How tall are you? I want to see if I'm still the shortest in the room.
SPEAKER 19 :
You are. I'm 6'4". Jeez. Yeah. What is it? Andy, I got you beat on that, too. My wife is only 5'2". She's 5'2"?
SPEAKER 14 :
Mine's 5'1". So your wife is giant.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah, but I'm 14 inches taller than my wife.
SPEAKER 14 :
Really?
SPEAKER 19 :
And she reminds, do you get the call, Andy? Andy, could you come get this off the shelf for me?
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, she does that. Actually, she just likes to see me work. So she likes to see me grab things.
SPEAKER 19 :
i when she used to do that in my younger days i don't do it anymore because it got her mad i'd walk up and lift her up from behind and stand her on the couch yeah i don't uh yeah like are you gonna let me down and i'd be like i don't know maybe so we kind of don't do that as much anymore but early in our marriage it was well we don't do that because we're dominated john i mean let's face it all right john thank you so much sir good job you wear the pants in our family Our wives just pick out which ones.
SPEAKER 14 :
This is true. This is true.
SPEAKER 19 :
Have a good weekend.
SPEAKER 14 :
Have a good weekend, sir. You take care. Okay, let's see if you're ready for this one, if you recognize it. Here we go.
SPEAKER 09 :
So I suggest you wipe that stupid smile off your face before I come over there and smack it off. You're feeling strong, my friend. Call me elf one more time.
SPEAKER 11 :
that's one of the best short person roles I feel like even though Peter Dinklage is only in the movie for so long it was such a great scene oh he was so great and of course it was Elf right
SPEAKER 14 :
Hilarious.
SPEAKER 12 :
Peter Dinklage is great in general. I think I've liked him in just about everything he did. He was incredible in Game of Thrones. One of my favorite roles he did.
SPEAKER 14 :
As Tyrion Lannister, right?
SPEAKER 12 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 14 :
Isn't that his name? Oh, he was awesome. He's a wonderful actor.
SPEAKER 12 :
He really is. Yeah, I really like him.
SPEAKER 14 :
And he was so mean in Elf. See, now there we go. There was an angry little guy. There you go. So, you know, I got the Zelensky Award for the moment.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, Luke, you're up. All right, we're moving up in scale. Oh, okay. Only by a little bit.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, you're not going to do a white cell, white blood cell?
SPEAKER 12 :
No, Osmosis Jones, the white blood cell. Instead, we're going to do Flick from, what is it, Disney's A Bug's Life.
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, I've actually seen that.
SPEAKER 12 :
There you go. That exists. Like I said, we're moving up. We're getting a little bigger every time, so...
SPEAKER 14 :
You know, Bugs Life is one of those early Pixar's that was the second Pixar. And it's one that nobody thinks about, but it actually wasn't that bad.
SPEAKER 11 :
I wrote down the whole cast as being short because they're all insects.
SPEAKER 14 :
They're all insects. I remember, I think it was... You know, they had to keep getting new ones. They kept getting stepped on. Yeah, the recasts were incredible. Very expensive. It took them 27 years to make the movie.
SPEAKER 12 :
I believe it. Which is crazy because the lifespan of an ant is like, what, a couple days?
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, that was hard, too, to get the filming just right.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay, Tanner, you're up. I think I went to Universal Studios or something. They had a Bugs Life exhibit. The biggest bugs in the world out there. Thank you, Tanner. My late grandpa, Gary Coleman. Oh, yes. Just in general.
SPEAKER 14 :
Now, I know he was in a couple movies, little cameos.
SPEAKER 11 :
I only know him from Drake and Josh, the TV show. Gary Coleman? He appeared in that, yeah.
SPEAKER 14 :
What was the TV show he was on all those years? That's a great... With Dana Plato and Charlie? Gary Coleman?
SPEAKER 12 :
He was in Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. What else was he in? Was he really? I didn't know that. I think a cameo.
SPEAKER 14 :
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SPEAKER 14 :
And welcome back to Rush to Reason. Denver's Afternoon Rush. KLZ 560. Andy Pate filling in for John Rush along with Tanner Cole.
SPEAKER 11 :
Man.
SPEAKER 14 :
And Luke Cash. Man. This music is in Zelensky's honor.
SPEAKER 11 :
I thought it was from Toy Story. It's got that vibe.
SPEAKER 14 :
It does have that vibe. You know, um...
SPEAKER 12 :
I feel like it's not very child-friendly. I don't think they'd let it fly.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, children are short people, so it's inclusive. True. Got to be inclusive.
SPEAKER 14 :
I hope Zelensky isn't hurt by all this. Hey, cheer up, little buckaroo. We got you. We got you covered. Okay. I want you guys to guess this one as fast as you can. You ready?
SPEAKER 12 :
All right. As fast as I can. Here we go.
SPEAKER 26 :
What's the difference between the Army and the Cub Scouts? Cub Scouts don't have heavy artillery. I'm going to get a 1600. Why? Because I have to.
SPEAKER 1 :
It's the Army.
SPEAKER 26 :
This is Robin Williams.
SPEAKER 12 :
But in what? He's been in so many things.
SPEAKER 26 :
I know it. Thank you, Bob. Can we play anything for you? Anything! Just play it loud, okay?
SPEAKER 14 :
Good Morning Vietnam with Robin Williams. How tall was Robin Williams? Take a guess.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, I'm going to guess maybe 5'5"? 5'7".
SPEAKER 14 :
5'7"? You looked it up, did you?
SPEAKER 11 :
I have been looking it up all day.
SPEAKER 14 :
Why are you cheating?
SPEAKER 11 :
I have short actors pulled up, and there's just a list. It's hard.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, without Richard here, somebody else has to cheat, so well done. That's what they call me, Short King Cheater. Way to fill in.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, up next is Luke. Go. All right, we've got to get just a little bit bigger than an ant, so let's go with Mantis, the praying mantis from Kung Fu Panda.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay, that's good. That's good. That is a good small character.
SPEAKER 12 :
There you go. Do you know his name? Yeah, his name's Mantis. That's his name. Obviously.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, remember the line, you're all so much bigger than your action figures, except you, Mantis. You're the same size.
SPEAKER 12 :
Remember that? Yes. I think that one of the funniest bits that I've heard was when Kung Fu Panda came out, China, like the government, was like, why didn't we do this? Why didn't we think to make a panda that does Kung Fu? I can't believe the Americans did it first.
SPEAKER 14 :
It was fantastic. Very funny. You know, I got to say it again, John Rush. Yes, John Rush has never seen Kung Fu Panda.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, change that.
SPEAKER 14 :
I've been trying to change that. I have. I've been sharing tracks and leaflets with him.
SPEAKER 11 :
America's First and everything. All right.
SPEAKER 14 :
I've shown up at his home at 3 a.m. I've been trying to get him to watch. Go ahead, Tanner.
SPEAKER 11 :
Every role Danny DeVito's in, obviously, is going to be a small guy. But I love him in Twins with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Oh, yes. That's just too funny.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, and obviously the relative size of the two guys. Right. Twins was a funny movie. I liked Twins.
SPEAKER 11 :
I enjoyed it.
SPEAKER 14 :
How about Hercules?
SPEAKER 11 :
You mean the cartoon?
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, the Disney cartoon where he plays, what is it, the hooves?
SPEAKER 12 :
A satyr?
SPEAKER 14 :
Is that a satyr?
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, it's a satyr. I don't remember his name, though.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah. Phil.
SPEAKER 12 :
Phil! Yes.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yes, call me Phil. Uh-huh. Danny DeVito is one of the funniest actors, and he's so good. He's so good. He started out on Taxi, and he was Louie in the cage, and he was hilarious.
SPEAKER 11 :
He's great on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 11 :
He's fantastic.
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, he's been tremendous for years. Okay, up next is someone else who's been tremendous for years. That is Soren. Soren, do you know any short people in the movies?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, so I got three short people. Okay. Humphrey Bogart, Bing Crosby.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay, Humphrey Bogart, got him. Bing Crosby, how tall was Bing? He was kind of short, wasn't he?
SPEAKER 05 :
He was, I think he was 5'8".
SPEAKER 14 :
That's pretty short. He was kind of a little guy.
SPEAKER 05 :
And then Ingrid Bergman.
SPEAKER 14 :
How tall was she? I have no clue.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, so out of the three that I just mentioned, who?
SPEAKER 14 :
You dropped out, Soren. Say it again.
SPEAKER 05 :
So out of the three that I just mentioned, who do you think would be the tallest?
SPEAKER 14 :
I'm going to go Bergman.
SPEAKER 05 :
That would be correct. She was 5'9".
SPEAKER 14 :
There you go.
SPEAKER 05 :
Humphrey Bogart was 5'8", and Bing Crosby, I think, was 5'7". Man.
SPEAKER 14 :
He was short, but I'm telling you what, Soren, I don't know if there's ever been a richer singing voice than Bing Crosby. I mean, the tone was incredible.
SPEAKER 05 :
That's very true.
SPEAKER 14 :
That's very true. Well done, sir. Well done. Way to go. Yeah.
SPEAKER 1 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 14 :
Hey, Andy. Yeah, go ahead. I got a quick joke. Oh, let's hear a joke. Uh-oh. Okay. What's the difference between the IRS and thieves? I don't know. What's the difference between the IRS and bees? Thieves don't operate on a subscription model. Oh, that's good. That's good. Thieves. Very nice. Well done, Soren. Well done. The thing about that is that that's actually a lot sadder than funny. I know it is. Yeah, but that's okay because the IRS is cutting back. Did you hear they're going to drop 40,000 employees or something like that? Well, that's good.
SPEAKER 05 :
Now they just need to drop taxes by 40%.
SPEAKER 14 :
I'd be all for that, Soren. I hope they do it. Soren, thank you so much. We'll talk to you next week.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay, sounds good.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay. Okay, guys, we're going to run another one, and I would say this is a very short character, and let's see how quickly you get it. Here we go.
SPEAKER 16 :
When 900 years old, you reach... Yoda.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yoda! Listen a little more.
SPEAKER 16 :
Size matters not.
SPEAKER 1 :
Look at me.
SPEAKER 16 :
Get me by my size, do you? And where you should not. For my ally is the Force.
SPEAKER 11 :
I need to learn how to speak in Yoda tongue.
SPEAKER 14 :
I know. You can do it. You can do it. It'll make you really cool. Trust me.
SPEAKER 11 :
I think so. I think that's how you pull chicks.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 11 :
They talk like Yoda.
SPEAKER 14 :
They really love that. Yeah, okay. No, I think you should.
SPEAKER 12 :
I think you should go for it.
SPEAKER 14 :
Good luck with that, man. I think you've got a real future single. All right, here we go.
SPEAKER 12 :
Luke, you're up. What is bigger than a praying mantis? A lot of things, but we only want to get a little bit bigger.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay, a little bit bigger. You're moving up. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 12 :
A little bit bigger than a praying mantis. Credit to Tanner on this one. Charlotte from Charlotte's Web. Spider, bigger than a praying mantis.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay, I've actually seen Charlotte's Web.
SPEAKER 12 :
It sucks.
SPEAKER 14 :
Unlike your first one, this exists. And I think that's really a step up. So well done.
SPEAKER 12 :
You knew Mantis from Kung Fu Panda. I did know Mantis. As the characters get bigger, they get more recognizable.
SPEAKER 14 :
You know, that's true. It's true. Yeah, yeah. Okay, Tanner, you're up.
SPEAKER 11 :
Let's go with Joe Pesci, Goodfellas, and then Home Alone. That's a short angry guy when they're trying to rob Macaulay Culkin.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay, really quick. Favorite Joe Pesci roles. What about, was he in Casino? I'm forgetting. Oh, okay. What about Lethal Weapon 2? He was hilarious. Remember that one? Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. I love Joe Pesci.
SPEAKER 11 :
He's pretty good.
SPEAKER 14 :
He is. And what was the other one in the legal case? Oh, I'll think of it later. Okay, guys, here's another one. It's very similar to the one I just did. Here we go.
SPEAKER 21 :
Hey, what do you mean? Heard of you. Who hasn't heard of Yogurt?
SPEAKER 20 :
Yogurt from Spaceballs.
SPEAKER 12 :
Doubling up on Spaceballs.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, well, you know.
SPEAKER 12 :
You gotta, you gotta. Spaceballs doesn't get enough credit.
SPEAKER 14 :
It was such a stupid movie. That's another guilty pleasure, by the way. I should just do guilty pleasures one week.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, Luke, you're up. All right, we're stepping up just a little bit to Woody and Buzz from Toy Story. No, no, no. The whole cast.
SPEAKER 14 :
I'm going to take a little issue with this. You're going to take a little issue with this? Because Woody was fairly tall for a toy. For a toy? But he's still a toy. Okay, because they're all toys?
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah. You could just do Mr. Potato Head.
SPEAKER 14 :
I think he's cheating. I think he's cheating. What do you think? I mean, Buzz was short.
SPEAKER 11 :
Oh, there's Mr. Potato Head. There's a couple shorter ones.
SPEAKER 12 :
I think Bo Peep was the smallest out of the humanoids.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, here's the question. Here's the question. Oh, the soldiers. Yeah, the toy soldiers. Oh, they were little. They were very little, but very violent. It's brilliant. And very, you know, they took orders. Okay, here's a question.
SPEAKER 12 :
Here's an answer.
SPEAKER 14 :
Has any movie destroyed a character more than Buzz Lightyear?
SPEAKER 11 :
Oh, they turned him gay. It's pretty hard to get worse than that.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, his partner was.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah. Oh, great.
SPEAKER 14 :
She was gay. But the movie was awful. It bombed. It almost destroyed an entire... I mean, Disney, it buried them. Yeah. So I would say that pretty much destroyed a character. Okay.
SPEAKER 11 :
You're up. It's funny how a lot of these are Disney movies, but... It's true. Puss in Boots. Oh, yes! Puss in Boots.
SPEAKER 14 :
The new one's really good. Starring... Antonio Banderas.
SPEAKER 11 :
Oh, I wouldn't know.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, Puss in Boots is great. It's one of my favorite characters. I love it. The Last Wish was very good. Yeah, it was very good. Okay, why don't we take a break? We'll come back with more short people.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, let's keep going.
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SPEAKER 10 :
Live and local, back to Rush to Reason.
SPEAKER 14 :
And welcome back to Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560, Andy Pate filling in for John Rush along with Tanner Cole and Luke Cash. Okay, guys, let's see if you pick up on this one. Here we go.
SPEAKER 17 :
That's great. Go ahead, make your jokes, mister. Jokey. Joke maker, but let me hit you with some knowledge.
SPEAKER 18 :
You should quit now and save yourself the embarrassment of losing with these losers in Las Vegas, LeFleur. Alliteration aside, I think I'll take my chances in the tournament. Yeah, you will take your chances. I know. I just said that. I know you just said that. Okay, I'm not sure where you're going with this. Well, I'm not sure where you're going with this. That's what I just said. That's what I'm saying to you. All right.
SPEAKER 11 :
I know that it's Vince Vaughn on one side. Ben Stiller. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 14 :
Ben Stiller from Dodgeball. Oh, yeah. He was hilarious. I loved him in that. By the way, okay, Ben Stiller, take a guess. How tall?
SPEAKER 12 :
5'8". I have no clue. 5'6".
SPEAKER 14 :
5'7". Split the difference.
SPEAKER 12 :
Split the middle.
SPEAKER 14 :
He is a little guy. He's very funny. And Luke, you're up next.
SPEAKER 12 :
I should have done this earlier. Okay. I should have. I missed a step because that reminded me of Lego Batman.
SPEAKER 14 :
No, I love Lego Batman.
SPEAKER 12 :
Lego Batman's hilarious, and Lego's pretty small.
SPEAKER 14 :
Legos are pretty small.
SPEAKER 12 :
Legos are pretty small.
SPEAKER 14 :
Factual. You're doing well on this, and once again, that exists.
SPEAKER 11 :
When did Lego Batman come out?
SPEAKER 14 :
I don't know.
SPEAKER 11 :
It's been a while. Like 2019, maybe? Oh, I completely miss that. I love Batman.
SPEAKER 14 :
There were two iterations of it. I actually like the earlier one better. Okay, Tanner, you're up.
SPEAKER 1 :
2017.
SPEAKER 11 :
Wow, that was forever ago.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay, I'm going to do, I have a couple doubles, same movie, so I'm going to do Jack-Jack and Edna E. in The Incredibles. Oh, Edna. She's so funny.
SPEAKER 14 :
We love Edna. She was so fantastic. She was hilarious in that. And Jack-Jack, of course. Okay. No capes. Let's see if you know this one. And it's a girl.
SPEAKER 04 :
You're at 114 Selenski Plaza, third floor. We have an F-22 exactly eight miles out. Put the woman on the phone or I will blow up the block before you can make the lobby. We need you to come in. Are you kidding? I'm working. This takes precedence.
SPEAKER 13 :
I'm in the middle of an interrogation with this moron who's giving me everything. Everything?
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, I recognize Scarlett Jo.
SPEAKER 20 :
Let me put you on hold.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay, you don't remember?
SPEAKER 12 :
I don't know the movie, but I know Scarlett Johansson.
SPEAKER 14 :
She was Black Widow, and it was the Avengers.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, that was the Avengers.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, when she was doing the interrogation.
SPEAKER 12 :
All right.
SPEAKER 14 :
They had her in a chair.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 14 :
5'1"? Close. 5'2". She always looks so tall. She isn't. She is tiny. Scarlett Johansson is little.
SPEAKER 11 :
Makes me like her more.
SPEAKER 14 :
Luke, you're up.
SPEAKER 11 :
All right. Well, going back.
SPEAKER 14 :
By the way, Tanner, she's 78 years old now. Whoa! Sorry, that can't work. Go ahead, Lou.
SPEAKER 12 :
Bummer. Let's go with Judy Hopps from Zootopia.
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, okay. Well done.
SPEAKER 12 :
Now we're in the animal stage, like mammals. Tanner. We'll eventually get to a person. Maybe it'll be my last one.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, probably your last one. Tanner, go!
SPEAKER 11 :
I remember seeing that movie and falling asleep in ten minutes. Let's go with a movie I've never seen, but Andy is begging me to. Groot and Rocket Raccoon. You've stolen it. I was going to do Rocket Raccoon next.
SPEAKER 14 :
I would say Rocket. Yeah. Because Groot is different heights. You got baby Groot. You got bigger Groot.
SPEAKER 11 :
I've never seen it. That's what the internet says.
SPEAKER 14 :
You've got to see Guardians of the Galaxy. You're just not a man.
SPEAKER 11 :
That's a liberal manipulation. They told me he was tall.
SPEAKER 14 :
I'm in short, but... You see right now, Luke, man. Andy, man. You, boy. Okay? I mean, as soon as you see Guardians of the Galaxy, you're going to grow up. Tsss. Okay, let's see if you guys, I think you're going to know this character, even though the movie is way before you. Here we go. All right.
SPEAKER 1 :
I've heard it too many times.
SPEAKER 14 :
Kermit the Frog. Yes! Listen a little. It's something that I'm supposed to be.
SPEAKER 1 :
Someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection.
SPEAKER 11 :
I think I've realized I don't like short people or shorter characters because that kills my brain hearing that.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, what's the matter with you? Kermit the Frog is one of the greatest characters of all time and a pretty good singer.
SPEAKER 11 :
That guy has a more nasally voice than me. Oh, for goodness sake.
SPEAKER 12 :
Luke, you're up. Kermit the Frog caused 9-11. Look that one up. It's true.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, he's very sorry. Go. You're up.
SPEAKER 12 :
Again, I forgot one. I should have done this one earlier. I've got to roll it back. I'm sorry. We'll do it now. Remy from Ratatouille. Good one.
SPEAKER 14 :
That was good.
SPEAKER 12 :
Rats, pretty small. Pretty small. Also, shockingly decent chefs. We should put more rats in kitchens and see what they come up with.
SPEAKER 14 :
I thought he was very talented. He did great cuisine. I think you're right.
SPEAKER 12 :
It's true. I'm surprised that they were able to train a rat to really, I mean, play the role of Remy. I mean, it's very technical, too.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay, you know, once again, these are not real people. They're not? Tanner, help them out later, would you?
SPEAKER 11 :
I saw it on TV. Luke's confused. I mean, Kermit the Frog did 9-11, so who knows what Remy could do?
SPEAKER 14 :
Luke, who drives you home every night? I don't remember. Okay, good.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay, Tanner. Tanner, you're up. I got another rodent, Stuart Little.
SPEAKER 14 :
Stuart Little. Oh, yes. And who played Stuart Little?
SPEAKER 11 :
Michael J. Fox, wasn't it? Peter Dinklage, yeah.
SPEAKER 14 :
No, I think it was Michael J., wasn't it?
SPEAKER 12 :
I don't like Stuart Little. Oh. Gives bad vibes. He gives bad vibes, yeah. I think he'd deal coke, probably.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, he had nightmares as a kid about Stuart Little. Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
I heard he did the Holocaust. Who goes to the adoption center and picks out a rat, you know? Who does that?
SPEAKER 14 :
That's a good question.
SPEAKER 12 :
They're sick. The owner of Remy.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay, let's do two short actors. Here we go. One best movie.
SPEAKER 04 :
Hello, Raymond. Do you feel a little more relaxed in your favorite Kmart clothes? Tell him, Ray. Kmart sucks. I see. Look, I have the tickets, and I'll be on this car right here for the ride. Why don't you take a couple minutes? See you, Charlie.
SPEAKER 26 :
You made a joke, Ray. Yeah.
SPEAKER 14 :
Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise. Dustin Hoffman is, I believe, 5'5". Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay. Shocking.
SPEAKER 14 :
He was a short guy. Okay, Luke, you're up.
SPEAKER 12 :
All right. They're, I mean, technically people, but not really. Okay. Sam and Frodo, Lord of the Rings.
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. In the Shire.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, they're hobbits, so, you know.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, hobbits are very short.
SPEAKER 12 :
Hobbits are very short.
SPEAKER 14 :
And by the way, those are short actors in real life, too.
SPEAKER 12 :
They are.
SPEAKER 14 :
They're 5'6", and I believe 5'6". I think they're both very short.
SPEAKER 20 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay. By the way, another movie he was in, Rudy. I mean, they were in a lot. They were in a lot of movies. Okay, Tanner, you're up.
SPEAKER 11 :
Maybe the cutest short thing we'll talk about today, the Ewoks from Star Wars.
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, my gosh. Why didn't I think of those? Corey loves those. My wife loves the Ewoks.
SPEAKER 11 :
I had an Ewok teddy bear for years.
SPEAKER 14 :
I've always wanted Ewok stew. I think that would taste delicious. I mean, they look very tender.
SPEAKER 12 :
What do you think? They look like they do great in barbecue.
SPEAKER 14 :
I would hunt wild Ewok as they're running along a herd of Ewok.
SPEAKER 11 :
A Cajun Ewok stew. That'd be great. I'm getting hungry now.
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I am too. And Luke, oh wait, I'm up. You're up. Here we go. This one's way before anybody's time. Actually, here we go.
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The lollipop guild. The lollipop guild.
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You guessed it. Zelensky. We got it. Isn't that great? What a talent. I thought it was out of place when he greeted Trump that way. Yeah.
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Could you imagine if when he shows up at the White House, it's blasting on the speakers?
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They should probably do that.
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Luke, you're up, sir. Let me ask you this, Andy. Yes. How do you feel about chocolate? I like it. Well, you got to get through the Oompa Loompas. Oh, yes. To get to the chocolate first, so...
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I learned all my wisdom as a child from that.
SPEAKER 12 :
Wow. All of it. That explains so much. Yeah, I know.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, yeah, I don't have a lot of wisdom. Tanner, you're up.
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Let's go with one of the funnier ones who kind of looks like Zielinski is Lord Farquaad.
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Oh, yes. From Shrek. Oh, he was great. Who's the actor?
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I don't know.
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John Lithgow. Okay. Oh, he's very funny. Once again, way before your time. And it's a short one. Here you go.
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The big one. What? Over? Did you say over? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
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Forget it. He's rolling.
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John Belushi in Animal House. John Belushi, guess how tall he was? 5'4". A little taller. He was 5'8". Really? He was a giant. For the characters we're doing. Luke, you're up.
SPEAKER 12 :
All right. Well, let's keep with Lord of the Rings and go just one step above the Hobbits with Gimli, the dwarf.
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Oh, yeah, yeah. I like Gimbley. Yeah. He was good. Okay, Tanner, you're up.
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Is that the same as Dobby? No, no. That's Dobby the house elf from Harry Potter.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, I hunt those, too.
SPEAKER 12 :
I hunt those, too. Not good barbecue. I hunt those for sport.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah.
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Just for the thrill.
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Just to hang them on your wall. Yeah, just to feel something.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, yeah. Can you get a Dobby doll, one of those that sticks to the wall anywhere you throw it? That'd be kind of cool. Can you get a Dobby pinata? I mean, do they make those?
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Taxidermy Dobby.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, I'm just wondering. Anyway, you should probably go, Tanner.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, let's go with Stitch from Lilo and Stitch.
SPEAKER 14 :
They have a new one coming out here. Lilo and Stitch is coming out this summer. You're looking forward to that?
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, I loved that movie when I was like four.
SPEAKER 14 :
So you're going to take a date to this, right?
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, Zelinsky and me are going to go.
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We don't yell at you, we inform you. Now, back to Rush to Reason.
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And welcome back to Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560, Andy Pate filling in for John Rush along with Luke Cash.
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Man.
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And Tanner Cole.
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Man.
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Gentlemen, are you man enough for rapid fire?
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We'll try our best.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay, first I want to lead off with a couple that came in from my wife, Lucy in Narnia.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yes.
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Okay, and the mice in Cinderella.
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Mmm.
SPEAKER 14 :
They were very cute. Okay, are you ready? Here we go.
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Yes.
SPEAKER 14 :
I'm going to go with The Seven Dwarves. That's pretty obvious.
SPEAKER 12 :
Go ahead, Luke. Jedediah, Night at the Museum. Nicely done.
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Tanner, you're up.
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Ant-Man, Paul Rudd.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay, I'm going to go with an actor, Jonah Hill, 5'7", very short. Go.
SPEAKER 12 :
All right, getting into actors. Kevin Hart.
SPEAKER 14 :
Nice. Oh, yes. By the way, Kevin Hart is only 5'1". Did you know that? Okay, Tanner, you're up.
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Dwayne the Rock Johnson, hold on, in the Tooth Fairy.
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, okay. That was good. That took a little work. Cartman.
SPEAKER 12 :
Eric Cartman? Eric Cartman. He's short. Go ahead. Okay. Daniel Radcliffe. 5'5".
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, and by the way, Daniel Radcliffe is only about, I think he's 5'6", or 5'7".
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5'5"?
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5'5", Daniel Radcliffe. Oh, you said 5'5". Okay. I thought you meant he was alive.
SPEAKER 12 :
No.
SPEAKER 11 :
I mean, I hope so. I'm kidding. Go ahead. Tom Holland, 5'7".
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, okay. Did you guys ever see the movie Arthur? It's old.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah.
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But it's very funny. Dudley Moore, he was only like about 5'3", I believe.
SPEAKER 12 :
Go ahead. This one surprised me. Robert Downey Jr., 5'8".
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, he is short.
SPEAKER 12 :
I thought he was much taller than that.
SPEAKER 14 :
I know. Well, Iron Man outfit is much taller.
SPEAKER 11 :
Go ahead. Let's go with Indian in the Cupboard. Basically all the little toys in that, yeah.
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Okay, you guys saw the movie Rocky. Burgess Meredith, his trainer, Mick. Very short. Okay, Luke, you're up. Al Pacino. Al Pacino is short. He's very short. Go, Tanner.
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Ted from Ted.
SPEAKER 14 :
Very good. That was good. I'm going to go back to Seth Green. You know Seth Green?
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Yes.
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He's in the Italian job. He's only about 5'6". Go. Charlie Chaplin. Oh, he was very short. I have no idea how. Go.
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Mike Wazowski, Monsters, Inc.
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Oh, that's good. I'm going to go with Mario from Super Mario Brothers. Go ahead, Luke.
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This one also surprised me. Bruce Lee.
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He was short. He was short. Go.
SPEAKER 11 :
Let's go with Zac Efron. 5'7".
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, he is short. He's ripped, but he's short.
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Royce.
SPEAKER 14 :
You know, since you said Bruce Lee, I'm going to go with Jet Li.
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Okay.
SPEAKER 14 :
He's short, too. 5'6". Go.
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Reese Witherspoon.
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How tall?
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I believe when I had looked it up.
SPEAKER 11 :
She's pretty short.
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5'1 or something? Yeah, she was like 5'1. She's hot.
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Tanner, go. Skipper, King Julien, Rico, Kowalski, Madagascar.
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, well done. I'm going to go with a TV guy, David Faustino from Married with Children. Very short. 5'2. Go. Okay. Timon and Pumbaa, Lion King.
SPEAKER 11 :
Good one. I had that.
SPEAKER 14 :
Very good. Go.
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Scrat from Ice Age, the little squirrel.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay, one of my favorite actors, Richard Dreyfuss. Only 5'4". Go! All right.
SPEAKER 12 :
I mean, Hugh Jackman's not short, but Wolverine, the character, is supposed to be.
SPEAKER 14 :
That's true. He is short.
SPEAKER 11 :
Go! Rob Schneider, Benchwarmers, 5'3".
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Okay, I didn't play this. I didn't have time. Marcus from Bad Santa. All right.
SPEAKER 11 :
It's very short. Go, Luke. Let's go with Carl Fredrickson from Up. Go. Mr. Chow, The Hangover.
SPEAKER 14 :
And finally, I'm going to go with Rob Schneider, who's in almost every Adam Sandler movie, and he is very funny and very short. He's only 5'4". Okay, that'll do it. What did you think? We did it. We succeeded. Did we offend Zelensky enough? Do you think we pulled it off?
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No, but I gained an inch for every name we said.
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Way to go, Luke. That was Luke, Cash, and Tanner Cole. Thanks for joining me today, guys. Folks, that's it for today. Hour number one replays next. Hour two is at six. John Rush returns tomorrow morning with Fix It and Drive Radio. Until then, drive safe, God bless, and thanks for joining us at Rush to Reason, KLZ 560.
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We're just ordinary average guys.
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Ordinary average guys.
