Join Father Andre for a unique perspective on Pope Francis' contributions to the Church and his lasting legacy. The conversation delves into the significance of Pope Francis' funeral and contemplates the future direction of the Catholic Church under new leadership. Carolina offers an eyewitness account from Rome, adding depth to this introspective dialogue about faith, leadership, and continuity in challenging times.
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One day you stole me, nuncia vit Mariae,
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At age 10, Father Andre escaped Christian massacres by living in caves in Mount Lebanon with his family. Today, Father Andre works tirelessly to encourage American leaders to keep God in the public square, defending religious freedom at home and abroad, so that all might live in peace for the glory of God. Founder and President of the Mission of Hope and Mercy, Father Andre has learned the secret to safety, joy, and peace. Love God and one another. Now, let us spend 33 minutes on the Lord's Day, retuning ourselves to the truth of love in the hands of God.
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Praise be the most holy name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, now and forever and ever. Amen. Christ is risen. Christ is truly risen. A reading from a letter to the Corinthians by Pope St. Clement I. Having received their orders, the apostles went out, fully convinced by the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, trusting the word of God and assured by the Holy Spirit. They went out proclaiming that the kingdom of God was at hand throughout the countryside and in the cities. they tested in the spirit the first fruits of their preaching and appointed them to be bishops and deacons for those who would later come to believe. Our apostles knew also through our Lord Jesus Christ that there would be strife over the office of the episcopate. And so with perfect foresight, When they ordained those men, the apostles gave them the mandate that when they pass away, other proven men should succeed them in their ministry. We pray for the soul of Pope Francis, and we say, Let us pray. hear whose favor our prayers, which we humbly offer, O Lord, for the salvation of the soul of Pope Francis, your servant and priest, that he who devoted a faithful ministry to your name may rejoice in the perpetual company of your saints, through Christ our Lord. Amen. My dear friends, I want to welcome you to this beautiful morning of Sunday of Divine Mercy. And of course, yesterday the whole world was watching the funeral of Pope Francis. I would like to welcome with me, due to the time restraints, so we can benefit from the maximum time we have, our collaborator from Rome, Carolina. Carolina, buona sera o buongiorno.
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Buonasera, buonasera.
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Sì, da voi buonasera, lo so, da noi è il mattino. Però come stai? Sì, infatti.
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Well, well, it was an important day, there were the funerals of Pope Francis and it was a moment for the whole Christian community, a moment of absolute sharing and very important. In Rome, in my city, all the the main reference points of the whole world. There was President Trump, there were the presidents of all European nations and, in short, it was also an important opportunity to verify
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Yes, I can translate a little bit of what you said in English, which is beautiful what you said. So the event of the funeral of Pope Francis is a significant event for the whole world, right? Not only for Italy. To Italy comes the entire world every so often. This is the only nation in the world where all the nations come from time to time to assist and to be present at the burial of a priest, a burial of a shepherd, a burial of the bishop of Rome, the burial of the vicar of Christ. As you said in Italian, what an acknowledgment from all the authorities of the world, whether they believe in Jesus Christ or not, whether they believe that the Pope is the vicar of Christ, the successor of Peter, the Bishop of Rome or not, but they come witness the funeral of the Bishop of Rome, the vicar of Peter, the vicar of Christ and successor of St. Peter. Go ahead, please comment on that in English. Can you hear me?
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Okay, I try to do that in English. And it was very important for all the community, Christian community, because, as you said, it was clear to everybody that in this case, in this occasion, all the world, all the world, made from all the words that stay. It was completely unique. Unique.
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Unique. Unique. Unique. OK.
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and probably that's to be sincerely I think God if see that from the heaven think that it was a good it was a very good occasion because all the people
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Regardless of the contradictions, regardless of the resistance and the problem inside the Christian world, right? Because Christians fight. Is the Pope a good Pope? Is the Pope a bad Pope? Did he stand for the good causes or really he was not standing for the good causes? What you're saying, in the end, at the funeral, Christianity wins. The church wins. And the Pope is buried with dignity, the dignity of an apostle, basically, right? I mean, it's an event.
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Yes, absolutely, yes, what I said. I think it was historical and a thing who make a very important historical for all the humanity.
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It's historical for all of humanity. And in fact, you know, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, who is in fact the dean of the cardinals, he is older, he is 91 years old. 91 years old, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re. He is the Cardinal Dean of the College of the Cardinals. He presided the actual funeral of Pope Francis. And in fact, Cardinal Re, which I know you know of him as well. He served in the Curia of the Roman Empire. of the Roman Curia, meaning the offices of the Vatican, for 50 years, for 50 years. So he basically accompanied, let's say, but who were the popes from 50 years ago to today? Well, he knew them all. He knew them all, no? Personally. Right, who were those popes from 50 years? Let's go, subtract 50 years, so that would be 1970s, right? So this is still the time of a pope of the six, Pope Paolo VI. Then Pope John Paul I, Paolo I. Then John Paul II, Giovanni Paolo II. And then Benedict XVI. And then Pope Benedict XVI. And here's Pope Francis. He served as a Curia priest, basically, for 50 years. So he was with all of these popes. All of them happened to be after Vatican II. So all these popes, 50 years ago, So this is a council of contradictions for many, but this is a council that led the church in all directions. You said when I spoke to you and we were watching the funeral, you personally and me with you through the waves, you said, La chiave per sapere chi è il Papa adesso, chi verrà come Papa, è dentro l'Omelia del Cardinale Re. So the key, you said, to know who is the upcoming pope after Pope Francis is actually inside the homily of Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, which he pronounced during the actual funeral. Why did you say that?
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Just to know, I have to speak in English or is it possible to speak in Italian to explain? Absolutely.
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If you can speak in English, that's fine. If you speak in Italian, every time I raise my hand, I stop so I can translate. Like this, the listeners will remain in the context of what you're saying.
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So I speak in Italian. It's better for me. Nell'Omelia del Cardinale Re è stato reso... He brought in a very official way and professional way the 12 years of service of Pope Francis. And he highlighted evidently all the actions, all the events, all the facts, every move and every word that Pope Francis did during his pontificate of 12 years. underlining the attention of this Pope, who was the Pope of the last, and who tried to bring the vast majority of people closer to the Church.
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So he highlighted them, he presented them as being the Pope degli ultimi, of the least, of the last. Of the least. You know, of the least and the last, I guess. And the last. When Jesus says the last becomes first, the least of these, my brothers and sisters, meaning... meaning the poor, the marginalized, the people who probably usually we don't look at them as a people inside the church. So basically, according to Cardinal Ray, he highlighted in an evidential way that Pope Francis was the Pope of these least and last brothers and sisters of Jesus Christ, right? And then of the people in all the world, regardless of their faith in Jesus Christ.
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In fact. vorrebbe dire che si è voluto soltanto santificare un Papa che non è quella l'occasione
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So Carolina, our collaborator for the Mission of Hope and Mercy in Rome was Giuseppe, a very good friend since the foundation of our Mission of Hope and Mercy have been with us, is interpreting that to know who is going to be the next Pope after Pope Francis now is entombed and is buried and the Christian funeral has been celebrated. for the rest of his soul. Yesterday, on Saturday, April 26, 2025, after 12 years of services, she's telling us that basically the proper attention must be given to the homily, which was delivered and pronounced and written, obviously, by Cardinal Giovanni Battista Rea. who is the dean of the College of Cardinals, 91 years old. He served in the Vatican Curia for 50 years. And she's telling us the reason why the homily is the key to know who is going to be the next pope, because the attention in this homily was given through the evident qualities and actions of Pope Francis to the pilgrimage that the church is doing in the world. The pilgrimage, the walk, the path. which is the pilgrimage in the world towards the poor, the marginalized, and the modern times. Carolina, what kind of pilgrimage is the Church taking? The Church is the center of attention within the homily of Cardinal Rey. So it wasn't really a funeral about Pope Francis. It was also a statement about the centrality of the walk of the church inside the world through what Pope Francis has opened wide, the doors of the church.
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Exactly, exactly. That's the focus. Because I think, and I'm not the only to think about that. Also, many, many... Vaticanist think like me that what Papa Francesco do it was the beginning of the next of the next church
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I wish, honestly, my assistants were with me. So really, Cardinal Ray stated that the ministry of Pope Francis is an inauguration for the new era of the church. It's a new era. Exactly, exactly.
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So I think they want to...
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They want to continue, they want to continue in this progress, in this progressive movement, walk of the church.
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Absolutely, yes. Con tutte le dovute cautele dovute al fatto che si tratta comunque della Chiesa Cattolica. Questo è molto chiaro, chiaramente, anche ai cardinali che voteranno dal 10 in poi, insomma.
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You think cautele vol dire prudence, right? Yeah, yeah. So they're going to give a proper attention to all the, you may call them probably due diligence to make sure they walk towards modern times with paying enough attention to the Catholic identity, that this is the Catholic Church walking in modern time and no one else. Is that what you're trying to say?
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I try to say that probably it will be possible that after the new Pope can be another Concilio Vaticano that can change more and more things of the Church. Because now the Church needs absolutely to be in that world, in that place, I want to make some examples. Many cardinals have, for instance, Facebook or X account. And they use... They use that to, I told about cardinals, not only the priest that needs that, of course, for work, but the cardinals directly. For instance, the cardinal of Philippine have the most important X profile from the other cardinals.
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Yeah, yeah, is it? Is it? And also other cardinals have the same profile and try to have an approach with the whole population.
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I realize that we are talking about the next pope, but the next pope is a next pope who must continue the path started by Francis. This is what the Church wants.
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So for sure, the centrality in the homily was given to the new era of the church, the centrality that the Pope is actually incorporating all the values, the principles, and is applying the Second Council of Vatican, which makes the church walk into the modern times, They are paying attention, according to what you're saying, to the given due diligent attention, basically, that this is the Catholic Church walking in modern time. And Cardinal Ray, who presided the funeral of Pope Francis, basically, you're saying the key in his homily is that the new pope has to walk. in the path of Pope Francis. So he's speaking at the Dean of the Cardinals and he's saying the next Pope will have to walk in the same path of Pope Francis. I want to tell you, you know, during his homily, It's actually impressive. It's actually impressive. Impressionante, veramente. To see that Pope Francis was almost pronounced dead two months before or three months, you know, since February, right? He was almost dead many times. Even in the world started the litigating and saying and making their way to Rome that, oh, the Pope is dead, the Pope is not dead. But I know I spoke to you and one of your friends was one of the nurses in the hospital where the Pope was. And he was telling me, his son actually was telling me, Pope Francis in February was really almost dead, was very sick.
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He was very sick.
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And then you told me, Father Andre, when they took him out of the hospital, you're the only one who told me, actually, this is not a sign of improvement. This is a sign that he is already in terminal moments, but he wants to go back home. He wants to go back to the Vatican. And they want him to spend his last days in the Vatican, not in the hospital. It's not a good sign that he left the hospital. It's not that he's been improving his health.
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It's not like he was... It's exactly like what we do with our loved ones when they're sick in the hospital, when there's no hope left. They make them go home to be able to...
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to do with our elderly when we lose every hope medically, that there could be a solution for them medically. We actually, in a dignified way, we bring them back to their homes. And echo, in fact, Cardinal Ray said the same thing, that using the gospel of St. John, which was the gospel of Jesus asking Peter Peter, do you love me more than these?
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Three times. He said, Papa Francesco left the hospital, was very sick, but he also followed the footsteps. Ha fatto lo stesso cammino del Signore. He followed the footsteps of the Lord as a good shepherd. He was really an image of the good shepherd at the very end of his life and with a strength and serenity. he decided to die close to his flock. Actually, this struck my mind because in fact, you know, you and me, we've been in papal events for years now, you know, Matthew and Giuseppe. Usually the Pope dies behind the closed doors. Usually the Pope dies in his papal floor in the Apostolic Palace. And then we only have rumors, let's pray, and the people will be gathered in the piazza, in big assemblies, praying to know what time is the Pope going to die. So sometimes the agony, the agony of the Pope, sometimes it took a week, with Pope John Paul II... We have followed this motion of accompanying the Pope as a dying Pope yet in his bed, in his bed of rest. And usually the Pope was already away from the public for a month, for two weeks. That's not what happened with Pope Francis. It's almost what Cardinal Ray is saying. He came back from the hospital. And he decided to practice his ministry to the very last moment of his life, including he met with the state officials. He met with J.D. Vance. He met with the public officials.
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He wanted to greet the square. He wanted to greet the square. He wanted to greet the square.
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He wanted to greet the square.
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He wanted to greet the square. He wanted to greet the square.
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He was very human.
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Human, absolutely very human. Because... We would have behaved like this with our grandfather who was leaving the hospital and we would have made him do the things he liked the most to be able to greet him well.
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The Pope died like he is the grandfather of many people in the world. He died almost in the hands of his own people. It's like he is a grandfather and we are living in... home at home and the vatican turned to become this common house for all the populations of the world and everybody was there and the pope was close to them he even walked in their midst and him outside to the piazza and then he went to sleep and he died suddenly immediately he died in his bed and uh i think uh
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that what the Vatican people do for him and for all the Christians in that occasion, it's very important. That's also the great difference from the other Pope.
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Because... I want to thank you so much. I want to take a moment because some of our listeners now will leave us on KNUS radio station. After listening to your eyewitnessing of the funeral of Pope Francis, I want to say thank you so much for being such a representative for the Mission of Hope and Mercy. And I want to encourage people to go online, missionofhopeandmercy.org, and please follow us. as we continue doing our campaign for the mission of hope and mercy. And may you have all a wonderful day of divine mercy on this beautiful Sunday. And may God grant rest to the soul of Pope Francis. And may God give us a shepherd, a good shepherd for the Holy Church to keep it as one holy Catholic and apostolic church in the whole world without no doubt. difference at all in its deposit of faith and in its evangelization for all the nations of the world. Let Jesus be the way, the truth, and the life. Amen. Carolina, possiamo continuare, infatti. We can continue with our radio show. We have about six minutes left. I love this image. He is so unique from the other popes. What a courageous personality coming in the image of a grandfather. So this explains why they took the pope in his wheelchair on Easter vigil. He was in Borghese. He was in Borghese. He was just like with a little blanket on top of him. dressed up in pantaloni, like almost in pizza. And he was taken amongst his children. And he made St. Peter's Basilica a home, a house.
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Exactly, exactly, exactly. Exactly as he did at the beginning of his pontificate, when, I don't know if you remember, at the beginning of his pontificate, One of the first activities was to eat with the poor and let them enter the Basilica. I don't know if you remember.
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Actually, if you remember, he opened the doors of the Basilica of St. Peter. He invited the homeless and he sat with them and he ate with them. He shared the bread with the poor, actually, and the marginalized. That was one of the very, very...
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That's beautiful. This is really an event such as what the Pope Francis did in the beginning of his ministry as a Pope.
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back when 12 years ago, usually the gates and the Basilica of St. Peter is open and the people comes inside the Basilica for food. So it becomes like a big kitchen. And we have seen something like this during the days of great wars, big World War I, World War II, you know, when Rome was at war. We have seen popes opening the doors of the Basilica and transforming that Basilica to become a kitchen, to become like a sala da manjari, basically.
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To become exactly a house.
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A house, to become a house. Except that Pope Francis did it at the initiation of his ministry. He opened it and he made it a house and people actually ate inside the Basilica of St. Peter. The last event, he also walked again like a nonno, like a grandfather of the human family. And when he died, he wasn't dying like in agony. There was no cardinals around him. There was no nuns around him. He wasn't in his room in a papal palace. He did all his ministries. He went to sleep and he suffered immediately. Unfortunately... How did he die? Because, in my opinion, he suffered... He had a lictus. Oh, mamma mia.
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So... He suffered the brain injury first with the bleeding, and then he went in coma, and then he suffered irreversible heart attack, all suddenly like this. Exactly. It was, as they say, I don't think he suffered. It was the death of the just.
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I don't think that the Pope Francis suffered before his death. He died just death because it was all sudden after a long day, according to Cardinal Ray, after he had to spend the day following the footsteps of his Lord. He gave the blessing for Easter. He walked in the Piazza of St. Peter, which is the place of many, many world events. And he walked as a good shepherd who loved his sheep to the point of giving his life for them because he literally said, went that evening and he gave his life to his people. Carolina, we have a few minutes, due minuti. Voglio chiedere per Santa Maria Maggiore.
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Santa Maria Maggiore proprio perché... precisely because Pope Francis was a Pope different from the clergy who had brought him to be Pope and therefore as he did not live in So you have to say that in English in your own words. I do not want to translate it. Okay, okay. Why did you tell St. Mary Major to be buried there, not inside the walls of the Vatican? Exactly, because Pope Francesco was different from the other popes before, and he decided to leave his pontificate in Santa Marta, and not in the apartment of... He was totally different, he was different from beginning to end.
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To the end is exactly the good end because he wants to have, how do you say, the burial?
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The burial, yeah.
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The burial in the Santa Maria Maggiore, his favorite church in Rome.
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So, secondo te, in 30 secondi, lui è stato il pastore di Roma, del popolo romano? Was he the shepherd of the people of Rome? Did the Romans feel that he was their shepherd?
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For all the Catholic Roman, all the Catholic. For me, Romans means all the Catholic, yes.
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He was. May God bless you, Carolina. Next week, I would love to host you again so we can speak a little more to follow the move of the conclave when the Cardinals will be gathered together. Absolutely, yes.
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It will be a pleasure.
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May God bless us all. And thank you so much for coming to the radio show. May you have all blessed and wonderful Divine Mercy Sunday. May God grant rest to the soul of Pope Francis and let us pray that the College of Cardinals will gather guided by the light of the Holy Spirit. They listen to the will of God. and they elect the good shepherd for the one holy catholic and apostolic church that will keep with its apostolic faith yet will take the church to all the nations of the world to bring them into faith hope and love in our lord and savior jesus christ in the witness and the testimony and the professional faith of peter you are jesus the son of the living god the savior of the world amen
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Join John Rush as he returns from vacation to tackle critical questions about power outages and readiness. Through a deep dive into the recent blackout in Spain and Portugal, listeners are encouraged to think critically about their own preparedness, particularly while traveling. Listen as John engages with callers, debating the pros and cons of different technology platforms and emphasizing the value of having a communication backup plan.
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This is Ready Radio, preparing you to be ready for anything, now.
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Here's your survival guide for Ready Radio, John Rush. All right, welcome. Ready Radio, KLZ 560 live program today, May the 2nd. Already into the month of May. The year is rolling by. Appreciate Bill filling in the last couple of weeks for me. And he's becoming an integral part of what we do here on Ready Radio, Bill Anderson. But he is out, actually on vacation as well. So, Bill, if you're listening, I appreciate you very much. Thanks for all that you do. And several things I want to discuss today. For those of you listening, you're more than welcome to call in, 303-477-7000. 5600. You can also text us a question or a comment, 307. 200 82 22 307 282 22 so first things first and i don't pay a lot of attention to the news and things when i'm out on vacation and so when i talk about that on the daily program but i did notice this past week which i thought would be a really good topic for ready radio today And I'm not sure that they will ever admit, even if they do know what happened, I don't know if they'll ever admit to the entire blackout that they had, the power outage in Spain and Portugal. It affected a large part of Europe. I think there were, oh, I don't know, tens of millions affected. of individuals businesses and so on that were without power and it lasted a couple of days and i think they've now gotten everything back up and restored and at first they had an excuse of there was some sort of a atmospheric disturbance that was one of the first things i read this past week and i'm like yeah i doubt it probably not now could be you know i could be wrong and that could be Although I highly doubt that's the case. And the reason I say that is because if it was that type of a disturbance, chances of it affecting them and them only is probably slim. Some, some, I don't know, I don't have an opinion on this one way or the other. I haven't studied enough to know or talk to anybody on the inside that can give any insight as to what exactly happened in that particular power outage. But some say that a lot of it has to do with their high share of renewable energy, solar and so on, and that something there happened. happened regardless here's the point of the program today it affected tens of millions of people to the point where they didn't have wi-fi they couldn't pump fuel i mean this was almost like an apocalypse type setting to where literally everything was out and granted it the rest of the world wasn't so there was ability somehow for them to communicate uh with others but bottom line It did affect a lot of people. Some are also claiming that maybe it was a cyber attack and on and on we go. The prime minister, Spanish prime minister, is calling for answers. Again, will we ever know what actually happened and why the power went out? No, I don't think we ever will. And even if they do know, I doubt if they ever admit to you what exactly it is. And even if they do. chances of it being some made-up excuse as to what happened, that I could believe. Will you get to the real crux of what actually happened? I highly doubt it. Keep in mind, this shut down airports, transportation, all sorts of things were really, I was reading it as I was gone, at a standstill. And again, millions of people, tens of millions of people affected by that. And my point is this could happen anywhere. This could happen anywhere. And for those of you that are here in our country, those of you that might even travel, some of you travel on a local basis, some travel internationally. These are things that, again, we talk about this stuff on Ready Radio on a regular basis. I've done entire one-hour programs on if this were to happen while you're traveling. Are you prepared? I can go back in the archives and even find some of those programs we've done. But literally, if this were to happen to you, you're getting off the airplane or you're traveling, you're in your hotel, whatever the case may be, and there's some sort of a total blackout, how are you managing even while you're away? Because remember, when you're traveling, you don't have all the same items with you that you would normally have. And I've got some essential items I'm going to talk about today in regards to the show alone, which kind of tie into what we're talking about here. But... Bottom line, if this were to happen to you while you're traveling, how do you survive? And I get it. It's only a couple of days. But, man, for a lot of people, there are folks out there that would struggle to even go a couple of days without power, especially when you can't travel, can't do anything. Now, in this case, it didn't shut down vehicles other than the lack of fuel for some that would be running on empty, of course. But the reality is this was a big way. Me, personally, I look at this as a big wake-up call across the world as far as how the grids, grids plural, function. And the reality that this literally could happen, I think, to a lot of places. We've seen huge power outages in the wintertime in Texas because they have their own grid and they rely a lot also on renewable energy and they've had issues there. You know, we see these things happen from time to time. And I know I talk a lot about, are you ready in case the power goes out? I'm going to continue to talk about, are you ready if and when the power goes out? Because I think that's one of our largest concerns. threats, I guess that's the right way to say that, that we could face when it comes to our modern civilization, power. And the fact that... All of us, myself included. I mean, what we're doing right now requires power. I wouldn't be on air right now without power. We as a station have backup generation just in case things go completely down. We have the ability to do an emergency broadcast. We can help in that particular end of things. We can still broadcast our shows and other things. Reality is, though, we have backup generation because, again, we can't do this without power. Well, Charlie, you gave a great point there in my ear a moment ago. How do people hear us without power? You've got to have some sort of a portable radio battery operated, some of them. I have a wind-up one to where you can actually wind it up, and it generates its own internal electricity, if you would, that give you the ability to listen to certain stations, emergency broadcasts, which we are one of those, and there are some other stations in town that are also. So the reality is, though, Yes, how would you actually listen to these things? In this case, there was even cell phones that were down. A good percentage of cell phones weren't even working because, again, the Internet itself was down. Cell towers were down. Some of those have backup generation for a limited amount of time. And depending upon how they're set up, they may not have any. There's a lot of cell towers with no generation backup. Some of the larger sites will have generation backup. But not all do. And you can typically look at different sites and know whether that's actually got backup generation or not. And the way they do that is they will put in certain towers with certain, some of you that are in that industry know more about this than I do, but they will put certain towers on generator backup, and I'm guessing so they can get spotty coverage if they need to. It won't be like you would have normally with all the different cell towers that interlace, but they pick prime towers. Towers, I guess you could say, that they want to keep operational. And I know this from personal experience. They will typically pick those that are the highest and have the most effect upon an area. They'll do generation backup for those particular sites, but they don't do it for every site. So point being, in this case, they even lost cell service. So I go back to, if this were to happen to you personally, Do you have the ability to survive and get by in case power is out for an extended period of time, even while you're traveling? And again, that's a question that I ask a lot of people a lot of the time, because frankly, I don't think most people put much thought into it. They just flip the switch. They start the car. They do whatever they need to do. And off they go. And nobody thinks twice about how that power is actually delivered. And what if... Something were to happen to where that power is no longer delivered. What do you do? And this is a big one, by the way. You guys know. I mean, a lot of you listening travel on a routine basis. Do you have the ability to handle things along those lines if you're traveling and there's no power? Mark, go ahead, sir.
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Hey, good afternoon. Good afternoon, Mark. I missed you for a little while, and I hope you had a good vacation. I did. Thank you, sir.
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Appreciate you.
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Awesome. Did you get some suntan?
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Yeah, I had some sun. I mean, you know, weather over there is always a little bit dicey at times. It's this time of the year where it can rain and so on. But, you know, all in all, still good. Absolutely.
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Good. So I got a question. This is the second time this has happened since I got a smartphone. My dog decided to use it as a chew toy. Oh, boy. And cracked the screen so I could see the screen, but I couldn't access anything.
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Right.
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And so, therefore, I can't text anybody online. and nor can I do any banking. And so when I was trying to log into my bank accounts, that was a no-go because they try to send you the two-step verification via text. And I couldn't open the phone to access the text to be able to access my banking. Not only could I not text, I couldn't do any banking either. So as far as Apple goes, I've heard that there's some way to do – there's like a workaround for people that have Apple to check texts. But I have an Android. Have you ever heard of anybody or do you know how to access texts? via android because i tried going through like verizon through the website through the provider that i bought the phone from and i couldn't find anything to be able to access texting and that and i'm going to throw that out to everybody else listening because i i guess charlie you're an android user you might know more about this than i would i i honestly mark
SPEAKER 09 :
I have no idea, and as you know, I'm an Apple guy, and some would be mad at me for that. Others, like me, use the platform. I'm always one where it teaches on. I'm not going to criticize anybody one way or the other for the platform that you use. iMessage, to your point, Mark, gives you the ability through online or with another device, iPad, iPad, My laptop, for example, I can get text messages through that way, so I don't have to have my phone to actually get a text message, and that's the one beautiful thing that Apple has going for them. I don't know, and this is something that, again, a lot of you Android users folks, users would have to answer for me. If you had an Android tablet, Mark, as a backup, even an older unit that you just had kicking around, you know, go buy a used one for $30, $40, $50, and I'm not exaggerating when I say you can buy them that cheap because you can, will that still pick up your text messages?
SPEAKER 03 :
I have no idea. I mean, because wouldn't you have to have the same SIM card or take the SIM card out of your phone and put it into that unit? Because I tried going on my laptop. I tried going through YouTube to try to find hints. I couldn't find anything. Charlie, do you have any?
SPEAKER 09 :
I'm asking Charlie because he's an Android user. Do you know of anything? Charlie thought maybe, and this is something to check out, if you've got, for example, Samsung phone, if you use a Samsung tablet, could you then do some of what you're talking about? And again, Mark, you bring up a great point because, hey, I'm not an Android user and I don't have that answer.
SPEAKER 03 :
So I do have Samsung.
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, Charlie sent another great idea. Do you happen to save any of your old phones where you could just pop a SIM card into an old phone?
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, I do keep all my own phones, and that actually didn't even cross my mind. I actually went to Samsung's website because it said something about how you could link it up, but I guess you have to do that when you get the phone maybe, and I didn't have that already set up. It actually had my TVs on there for whatever reason, but that doesn't help me on the texting side. So, yeah, no, I didn't think about trying an old phone, and, yeah, I could have – I thought about it a little more, maybe poked around with that, but my particular phone, when you pull the back off, like my older phones, when you pull the back off, it would have kind of an area where you could pop a SIM card out, a memory card, and the battery. Well, this one doesn't have any of that. that I could find. It's all embedded.
SPEAKER 09 :
Right, right, yeah, and the newer iPhones now for years have very, well, they've always been that way. You've never been able to take the battery out of an iPhone. You've been able to take the SIM in and out. Now, I will say, Mark, that the later phones now, they're all SIM-less. They're all a built-in, quote-unquote, you know, digital SIM, if you would. So even that becomes a little different situation. Now, what you can do for those of you that are Apple users, where if that were to happen to you and you're not using iMessage like I am, where it's on multiple devices and so on, you could call your provider and say, hey, I've got a new phone. Here's my IMEI number. My old phone has, you know, bit the dust. I need to re, you know, I need to re-up this one. And they would do that for you as long as you had a backup phone.
SPEAKER 03 :
Right. Yeah. And I didn't want to have to go back and forth because I had already I already have a place in Greeley that does phone repair. No, no. I'll put a plug out there. They did a great job. I called them. They ordered the screen. They had it fixed within three days. Nice. So, you know, it was a first world problem.
SPEAKER 09 :
No, well, you know, they are, although this situation that was happening over in Spain and Portugal, they had a huge first world problem, Mark, because when people can't get on the phone, I had a text message a moment ago from Mickey that said AM radios, AM portable radios over there were selling like hotcakes.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, wow. Wow. Yeah, we keep at least half a dozen in the house. And for years, my family has kind of called me old man for it, but whatever. It's funny.
SPEAKER 09 :
I was going through some stuff last night looking for – long story, but I was looking for a – how do I want to explain this? I had a device where I thought my power supply – had gone bad and so i thought you know i've got i say you know when i throw even a device away i'll i'm one of those guys mark where i keep a tub of of those power supplies and they're all different as you know i mean they can range anywhere from you know five volts to seven volts to nine volts to 12 volts they come in all sorts of different ends and so on well as it turned out I end up going through my tub of those and find the exact one I needed. It was only a volt or so off of what my old one was, plugged it all in, got what I needed up and running and so on. And so I'm one of those like you where I save a lot of that stuff just for that reason, have backup.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yep, I do. It's funny. I was going through another box, and I was actually trying to find some fittings of all things. And I'm like, you know, I know I have these fittings, and I normally keep everything – categorized, you know, fittings with fittings, parts with parts, electric with electric. Same thing. I went through and I'm like, you know what? I remember in my mind just a few months ago, I was doing X and, and I think I put these fittings in with a bunch of cables for whatever dumb reason. So I went and looked, and sure enough, I found the box with the cables and had the fittings in there. There you go. And I found cables that I needed. So I was like, oh, great, okay. I'm so glad I'm not fully losing my memory.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, in my case, when I was going through all of that, I didn't finish my story, but as I was going through all those things last night, Mark, looking, and I knew they were there, but it was a reminder that I probably have, I don't know, three or four different battery-operated AM, FM. I've got an old sports Walkman, the whole nine yards. I'm going through this tub, and I'm like, well, you know what? I'm hanging on to those. They might come in handy someday.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, the other thing they're great for is, like, sporting events. Right. And I know you've never been to the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, but I have several times. And when you go up there, they broadcast the race over on AM Station. So as you're on the mountain, you can hear, you know, hey, this is what's going on, this is what's going on, instead of having, like, a scanner. which of course is all the inside radio and you could do that too but a simple battery powered and and i i brought it up there and i had like a bunch of people standing around me like hey man can we listen to your radio Yeah, sure. Yeah, this is really neat. But, yeah, this will be one year. I won't be able to make it up there because tickets are like $100 now. But they are going to be televising. I know this is the wrong show, but they are going to be televising, I believe, this race.
SPEAKER 09 :
I read that. No, Mark, you were right. I'm sorry that I hadn't said that earlier on even my daily programs. I think that's news. It doesn't matter if it's drive radio or not. I had read the same thing. That's going to be, I think, one of the only or first times I've ever done that, right?
SPEAKER 03 :
I believe it's the first time. So in years past, they've been running literally hand-running cables up and down the mountain, and they'll have sections where they make sure that the cables are not messed with with the spectators. And hopefully not the cars because, man, they are booking up that hill. But this year, I don't know how they're doing it, if they're doing like a fiber optic line or something. But I guess they're going to have the whole thing televised, which is going to be amazing. Because they did, you know, I think it was last year, you could log in and watch it. And it wasn't bad. You know, it was not as grainy as you would expect. think of like an older recording or anything like that. But to watch these guys cook up that mountain, I mean, it's the second oldest race in America other than 8500. It's amazing technology. Absolutely amazing.
SPEAKER 09 :
Very cool. Very cool. And I did a little bit of browsing as you were – Chatting about Pike's Peak a moment ago, and Mark, I think you're correct. I did a little bit of checking when it comes to Android and getting text messages in when your phone dies. And other than swapping the SIM into another device, I don't think there's anything out there you can do.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, that's unfortunate, and it feels very vulnerable, and it's really brought up a thing. I've been talking to my wife, like, what do we do? She worked for herself as a real estate agent. I mean, if you work for yourself, that's your whole world.
SPEAKER 09 :
Right. Well, and for me, and this is not plugging Apple, everybody can do whatever they want to, and some guys love Android, and that's fine. Again, I'm not trying to sell or push anything. But for me personally, because of everything I do and my ability to communicate quickly, whether it's a text message and I don't have to pick up my phone and grab it and respond and so on, the ability, Mark, for me platform-wise to use multiple devices and do all the same thing literally simultaneously on the Apple side is why I keep using it.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, that might be my next step is just to switch over and bite the bullet, as they say.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, and again, everybody, you know, everybody can criticize one versus the other. And what I've learned over the years, Mark, is everyone has a pro and a con to it. And at the end of the day, you pick your platform and go forward. And, you know, I've and by the way, I read all of the different things where people, you know, they did this and they did that. And this guy hates this and this guy hates that. And Again, at the end of the day, it really comes down to what are you used to, and platform-wise, and or, you know, for like your wife, for example, on the business side, how do you get all of these things done simultaneously and never lose contact with anybody on the business side?
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, yeah. Google's really figured out a way to mainstream things as far as technology goes. I know I'm taking up some time, but... No, no, you're fine.
SPEAKER 09 :
This is all great to me. This is stuff that affects everybody, Mark.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, and I hate to age myself, but my daughter is actually – she's written five books now. She's 11 years old, and she's on her fifth book. She's going to be publishing them herself. And she's using Google Docs, which I've never used before. Oh, that's great. And then she asked me, hey, can you help proofread this? And I'm like, this is incredible. I mean, I feel so ridiculous that I've never used this before.
SPEAKER 09 :
I've used it for years. I've been using that end of things probably since the, gosh, I want to say probably last 15 years, Mark, pretty easily.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, it's impressive. If you've never tried it and you're listening... It's worth it. I mean, even if you use it for something basic, but she was, you know, as I didn't realize this. So she was logged in. I was logged in. You can see what each other's doing. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm proofreading and changing her stuff. Right. And then she would approve it and then edit live, like at the exact same time.
SPEAKER 09 :
Basically, you can collaborate back and forth that way. Yeah, I do that with a lot of my coaching clients, Mark. We'll have a particular document or a spreadsheet or something that maybe they're like you. They're wanting me to go through and do some different things for them, make sure we've got everything handled, I's dotted, T's crossed, and so on. And collectively, we can work on the same spreadsheet, same document, whatever it happens to be at the same time. That's awesome. And not even be, you know, literally I'm on the phone in one place, and they could be in some cases I've got clients on the East Coast. They're on the East Coast, and I'm here locally in Denver, and we're doing the same thing at the same time.
SPEAKER 03 :
That's awesome. That's really cool. Yep. So I will probably be looking into the iPhone, even though I've been an Android guy, and I just – I don't know why I picked Android. Probably what it was was Fallout from PC versus Mac back in the 1980s when I was in high school and we had these things that looked like shoeboxes. And I'm like, what is this? But I know things have really advanced.
SPEAKER 09 :
Really quick, I'll just put a plug in, and I've said this before, and the only plug that I'll give Apple is, and even though they're, by the way, they're as liberal as a company as anybody, and as woke as any of them out there are, Mark, but by the way, they're no different than Google or anybody else that's out there in that space. They're doing the exact same thing that they're doing. They're all equal when it comes to that, with one exception. I will tell you that I believe, and because you've seen it over and over again, Apple is very sensitive to their customers' data and who has access to it, i.e. FBI and others. And they will do everything they possibly can to protect your data from getting into hands that it does not belong in, period. And they are really big on that. And they have fought for your rights and mine when it comes to the feds trying to recover different things on different devices. And that's probably the other reason why I keep using Apple or even started way back when, is they are very, very big on your personal security, making sure nobody else has access to your stuff.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, that's a very attractive comment for such a ready radio show. So thank you for that, John.
SPEAKER 09 :
You're very welcome. No, that was a great question, by the way, Mark, because I think that's something that a lot of people don't think about is, okay, if your main device that you're using right now goes kaput, what do you do? How are you going to communicate? Yep, yep. Great topic, and that's one that I'll do a little more investigative work on and maybe come back with a show for that, Mark. Thanks, John.
SPEAKER 03 :
Thank you, man.
SPEAKER 09 :
Appreciate you very much. We'll take a quick break. We'll come right back. Our text line, 307-200-8222, 307-200-8222. Studio line here, of course, 303-477-5600. We'll be right back. Ready Radio, KLZ 560.
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All right, we are back. Ready Radio, KLZ 560. Our website, by the way, ready-radio.com, ready-radio.com. John and Cheyenne, what's up, sir?
SPEAKER 12 :
Hey, John. So I was laughing when you were talking about it. My wife was in Barcelona. She got there Monday and left Tuesday.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, wow.
SPEAKER 12 :
She said the hotel, the power was going on and off, you know, intermittently. The air conditioning never worked. Oh, and only a few of the elevators were working.
SPEAKER 09 :
Wow. Yeah, that was a big deal. I was telling Charlie during the break, that's about one of the only, or maybe I read a couple of different articles when I was out because I try my best not to look at stuff. That one I couldn't avoid, John, because it was such a big deal.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, yeah. The one thing for the previous caller... A lot of times, if it's going to send you a two-party authentication, if you're on your computer, it'll ask you, do you want a text or an email? And he might be able to change it to email to get on until his phone sticks.
SPEAKER 08 :
Good point.
SPEAKER 12 :
You know, you've got to be able to access your email if you're on your computer. But Samsung, you can have a tablet and a phone that'll sync to each other.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 12 :
Just like a smartwatch, too, will sync to it. Most Android devices will work that way.
SPEAKER 09 :
And will it still pick up text messages and so on from one device to the other?
SPEAKER 12 :
I'm not totally sure, but I know back in the day, I used to be able to log into my Verizon account on my computer and look at my text messages. I don't know if that's still around. I'm not with Verizon anymore, but I don't see why it wouldn't be.
SPEAKER 09 :
And I am, but I've never had to do that, so I've never looked into it, John.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, it was years and years ago the last time I did it. But you were talking about crank radios, and sitting in my workshop garage, I have a realistic Radio Shack AM-FM weather band that has a crank on it.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 12 :
And you know what? It still works, and it works pretty good.
SPEAKER 09 :
Nice.
SPEAKER 12 :
And it runs on, I think, three AAA batteries. But the other thing I have, and I don't know if I told you, I have a Ryobi One tool set, and I have the radio that goes with that. Oh, cool. And it's AM-FM, but it runs off the same battery.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
So if you lose power and you've got all your batteries charged, the thing would probably last about five days without having it charged.
SPEAKER 08 :
Good point.
SPEAKER 12 :
And the nice thing about it, it's got a USB-A port. on it where I can connect the charging cord and charge my phone off of it.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, that's a good idea, too.
SPEAKER 12 :
But the other thing when it comes to phone charging, and I have one for backpacking, is pick up a 20,000 milliamp phone battery. That thing will charge. I know the one I have, it'll charge my phone, it'll charge my wife's phone, and it'll keep our phone charged for five days without backpacking. And the one I have has a little solar panel on it, and I think it costs $30 on Amazon or something like that, maybe a little more with the tariffs, but not by much. And it's just a battery pretty much, but it'll charge my phones and everything else. And that's the key. If you lose power and you don't have a generator, if it's a power outage, A lot of people you've seen go out to their cars and plug their phone in, which always would work. But did you see the conspiracy theory that it was a targeted EM pulse?
SPEAKER 09 :
You know what? I have read a lot of different things. I've read that. I've read where, again, as I was saying earlier, folks are blaming it on alternative energy. There's some excuses out there that, well, you know, there was a shunt, quote, unquote, and that shut down part of the grid. And then even though it tried to come back up, that failed and blah, blah, blah.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, in August of 83, I'm sorry, 2003. One switch knocked out the whole Northeast for a 24-hour period, if you'll remember.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, very true.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, it took out New York City, and this is where people should have learned. The subways were down. They had to be let out by the police with flashlights. The stores had no power, and some people would go in and say, like, I need to buy a bottle of water or whatever. No cash in their pocket, so they couldn't do that.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right.
SPEAKER 12 :
And then the opposite was also some people in the store, well, I don't know how to make change because they couldn't use the machine. They didn't know how to do change back. You know, $250, and I give you a five, and they didn't know how to make change. Got it. And the other thing is how many people, not our generation, but younger than us, have no cash?
SPEAKER 09 :
Most.
SPEAKER 12 :
In their pocket.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, most.
SPEAKER 12 :
And hours out, you need to buy something. You can't use a debit or a credit card.
SPEAKER 09 :
What are you going to do? That's a great point, and that's why I think everybody out there, period, I don't care what age you are, John, should be carrying a certain amount of cash, small denominations as well, ones, fives, tens, twenties. I mean, you really should be carrying probably, I know a lot of people would probably argue with me, but I think you've got to have at least $100, if not a couple hundred bucks in denominations along those lines.
SPEAKER 12 :
Especially if you're traveling.
SPEAKER 09 :
Absolutely if you're traveling.
SPEAKER 12 :
And then the same thing, you know, you don't have to use it, but get 50 euros in small or, you know, and just have it in your pocket in case of an emergency like that.
SPEAKER 09 :
So over, and I've been to Europe for years and years, John, your wife would know this. Will they still take a Benjamin over there if need be?
SPEAKER 12 :
Will they still take an American dollar?
SPEAKER 11 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 09 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 11 :
So some of the kids, people on my crew, they went to a restaurant and the restaurant couldn't take cards. So between U.S. cash, I think maybe they had some euros and some British pounds they were able to pay for.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 09 :
So...
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, we're in the car, as you can tell.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, well, because Charlie was mentioning during the break that things like ATMs and other things along those lines, when the power's out, they're not working. Drugs, all that kind of stuff.
SPEAKER 12 :
Anytime my wife and I travel or we're traveling, if I'm going, even if it's just away for the weekend or something, I'll grab a couple of hundred in cash just to have pocket money. Just in case. Because you never know. And then the other thing You want excellent service in a restaurant, when they come back, when you tip and catch, you get a big smile.
SPEAKER 08 :
Good point.
SPEAKER 12 :
Great point. That waitress all of a sudden realized, wow, maybe I don't have to tell Uncle Sam about this tip.
SPEAKER 09 :
Good point, John. No, absolutely. 100%.
SPEAKER 12 :
You guys have a good day.
SPEAKER 09 :
We'll do it, John. You do the same. Tell your wife hi. Thank you guys very much. Appreciate it. Let's take another break. We'll come back. Ready-radio.com is our website. Ready Radio, KLZ 560.
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John, really quick, too. Mark had called or Mark had texted back in and said in his particular situation with his particular bank, it's either a text or a phone call. And I'm guessing, depending upon your financial institution, might very well be the case. There's no email option is what Mark was saying. So in that particular scenario, you've got to find... Some other method of communicating and I think for and I think this is a we never talked about this on ready radio By the way, I think for a lot of folks, you know, you look at your old cell phone and think well What I'm gonna do with this now in some, you know Particular providers give you the ability at times to trade that phone in and upgrade and do some things along those lines but you know depending upon circumstances you may think about just hanging on to an old phone I do actually I got I think an old iPhone and believe it or not an old Android as well that I just hang on to for reasons like what Mark just mentioned reality is there's not a lot of value for those old phones and as long as I could get a phone call Which, by the way, most any device, all the way back to where we had flip phones, if you can get a SIM card in them, will take a phone call. So the reality is on the banking end of things, like what Mark was talking about, even being able to retrieve a phone call, listen to a phone call, have somebody talk to you, you could pretty much get whatever you need handled in that manner. And most any old phone that you could slip a SIM card into would allow you to do that. So... Charlie had a great point there. Make sure that if you hang on to any of those older devices, you've got the ability to charge them. Some had really unique charging systems for some of the old phones. Some used some micro-USBs, mini-USBs, USB-C. Apple, for the longest time, had their lightning connectors. I mean, there was all sorts of different chargers back in the day. Now, with the A lawsuit that was over in Europe with Apple, almost everything now, whether you're Android or Apple, uses USB-C to do the charging. So most modern phones in the last several years are using USB-C. But if you've got some old things you're kicking around, hanging on to like we're talking about, make sure you've got the ability to charge those up. Because if it's dead and you can swap your SIM card over, well, that's great, but it ain't going to do you any good if it's dead. So to Charlie's point, and this is one of those two folks where what I would do, and I do do this, I actually keep those particular devices in a drawer that's really accessible where I know I've got everything in one place. I've got the charger. I've got the phone. I've got it very easy. In other words, I don't have to go dig around some – you know box it's got 500 other things inside of it to go find that phone i keep that readily available for some of you you may want to get a shoe box or one of the plastic storage boxes or something like that go ahead put that on a shelf whatever i mean everybody's different as far as how you guys store things in my case i've just got it in my desk drawer where i sit and do the majority of my business I work from home for the majority of the time unless I'm here. And I've got that in my desk drawer, makes it really easy. It's right at my fingertips. If something were to happen and I needed it, I've got it right then and there. I don't travel with that. I mean, I don't bring that with me because typically unless I'm going out of town, you know, I'm not that far away. And for those of you listening to when you travel as a pair. You can typically even use the other person's device if you ever got in a really big pinch and you needed something. Most cell companies, this is something else that I should throw out there. I didn't know we were going to go down this path, but Mark, thanks for taking us down this path because these are things everybody should know to do. You ought to be able to log into your cell phone provider account. For all of you listening, it's really important. Now, a lot of you pay your bills and do things along those lines and have that access, but believe it or not, a lot of people hardly ever, if ever, log into their account. You get set up on an auto payment, maybe through a credit card or something along those lines, and you may not ever log back in to your actual cell phone provider account. T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon, you just don't have much reason to log back in, so you don't. My point is... If you had another device that can access Wi-Fi and you're in Mark's position, you could typically log into your account, re-register whatever that old phone is with that SIM card, or if your SIM card's getting swapped, whatever. Sometimes you've got to go online and re-register something online in your account to get that device to work. My point is you can do all of that online without ever having to make a phone call. You're not on terminal hold with AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, Mint, whoever it happens to be. You can do all of that online pretty easily. I know Verizon, for example, gives you that ability where you can literally log into your account, go look at that particular device, change out the IMEI number, which is what that communication – basically the communication number is for that particular either hard – Hard SIM that's built into the phone like a lot of the new iPhones are, or your digital SIM, I should say, or an actual SIM that would slip in if you need to change something along those lines, you can. Now, one other thing that I always do, and this is something that maybe I'm weird for doing, I save old SIMs as well. Now, I don't save every old SIM, but I probably still, and this I do carry around with me. I'm not sure why now because my phone doesn't take a SIM, but I do carry with me a couple of extra SIM cards that are able to be accessed. They're open. They're not locked. I could re-register those if I had to. So point being, even if I got into a real pinch and somebody else that I was hanging around with had a SIM, phone with a SIM card, I could literally take one of my SIM cards, go online, go to Verizon, re-register what I need to do there, slip that in somebody else's phone really quick, make whatever phone call I would need to do or get this particular two-step verification handled like Mark was talking about a moment ago, and off I go. So I do carry that with me for that reason alone to where even if I got in a bind and I needed to borrow somebody else's phone for a moment, say, hey, let me slip my SIM in really quick so I can make a phone call or get a verification so I can get my passcode and everything else I need to do banking-wise handled, you know, off you go. So lots of ways to do these things. And what I'm saying is I don't think it's ever a bad idea to hold on to an old cell phone. and for sure hold on to, if not one or a couple, old SIM cards. At one time, you used to have to buy SIMs. Literally, they'd charge you $8, $9, $10 for a SIM back in the day. There's a gazillion of them kicking around now. You can pretty much pick up one pretty much anywhere. You probably have some kicking around a desk drawer someplace. Round those up. If you have to tape them to the back of these cell phones we're talking about keeping stored, And the charger along with it, you know, rubber band all that together or however you want to keep tabs on those things and store that stuff together so that if something like that were to happen to you, like what happened to Mark, you've got the ability to get back up and running fairly quickly because, yeah, things happen. You know, I've done everything. You know, I've... I've never had one lost to the dog chewing it up, but I have accidentally jumped into water with your phone in your pocket, and yes, I've done stupid things along those lines to where everything at that point then is fried, and no, once it goes, at least the older phones, the new ones are different, but the older ones, when they got wet, you were done. No, a bag of rice isn't fixing it. Been there, done that back in the day. I get it. Most of the modern phones, Charlie, I think even your new Samsung is probably waterproof now, so they're a lot different than they used to be along those lines. But even still, you can sometimes, even with the modern, quote-unquote, waterproof devices, if you plug those in – this is another reminder, too, that I should mention. If you've been out with your phone and it got wet – don't plug it in. Even in a rainstorm, don't plug it in. If you've got wireless charging, use that to charge your device up until things are dried out really well because I'll tell you, if you plug in when things are wet, you can do damage. How do I know that? Voice of experience. Okay, so these are things that over time we all learn through different sets of circumstances. And reality is if your device is wet, make sure that it is fully dried before you go plugging anything into it. And if you need to charge it, use your wireless charging if your device is so equipped, which a lot of devices now for the past, gosh, Charlie, probably 40, Five years or so have been wireless ability to charge that way. And that's something else, by the way, that you should always have handy. If you don't use a wireless charger, but you ever got into a bind where your regular cord won't charge for whatever reason, the port gets damaged, something like that happens. Always have a spare wireless charger kicking around that you could go throw your device on and utilize that way if you have to. So just as a side note, there's all sorts of ways you can handle those things. A lot of cars have wireless charging in them as well. A lot of the newer cars that give you the ability to charge a wireless phone. So just be thinking ahead. That's what we do on Ready Radio is try to get you guys to think ahead on what if X, Y, Z were to happen. How do I handle that moving forward? So just something to think about along those lines. All right. I watched a video that Dan sent me the other day. Dan, thank you for all the videos you do send me if you're listening. I do appreciate it very much. I try to watch every one of them if I can. I don't watch all of them through and through, but I get the gist of the majority of them and do watch probably 90% of the ones that you send me. And there was an actual video that he sent me the other day that – talked about 10 essential items that this particular person would use for the show alone. In other words, if they give you the ability to bring certain things with you, what would those items be? And this is a person that's actually been on some of those shows. I thought that was rather interesting as well. And he was talking about some of the different things that happen on the shows and so on, and I found it very interesting. But I've got time here really quick to go through what these 10 items are, because I think these 10 items, by the way, are things that you probably would want to keep handy, period. I mean, if these would work for the show alone, where you're literally out in the wilderness dropped off, and you've got to figure out how to survive up to 120 days, whoever survives the longest wins the, what is it, Charlie, a million bucks or something? It's a pretty big number. A hundred grand, I don't remember what it is. A hundred grand, a million, I don't know what it is. I think it's a million bucks, Charlie. I think it's what they get. I don't remember that exactly. It's a sizable amount. Somebody can correct me on that if I'm wrong. I don't watch Alone a lot, but... The 10 items. First one, sleeping bag. Yeah, that one's pretty self-explanatory. You can pretty much, with a good sleeping bag, pretty much weather most any storm, along with some of these other devices I'm going to throw at you, no matter what time of the year it is. So having a good sleeping bag on hand, great idea. A bivy bag, we've talked about this one before on this program, one of the different items we talk about keeping with you. And a bivy bag is basically an outer bag for your sleeping bag that makes it waterproof. You know, weatherproof is what I should say. So, in other words, you've got a good sleeping bag. You maybe don't have time to get your shelter all built. It's getting close to dark, but you still need to get, you know, warm and so on. Reality is that sleeping bag with a bivy bag over the top of it, you could pretty much weather a lot of storm with that, even without a lot of shelter around you. Now, if you have this next item with you, you've now got yourself double covered, and that's a tarp, just a 12 by 12 tarp. Easy to carry. A 12 by 12 tarp will do a lot of different things, not only protect you from the ground, but can protect you from storms overhead. Tarps are so versatile that it's one of those things that I'm not really sure why, when I go through a lot of these lists of things that you talk about for the essentials that people should have around, I don't know why tarps aren't listed more often than they are. To me, that's like tarps and bungee cords. are like, to me, some of the most essential things you can have. You can literally take either some parachute cord, some bungee cords, a tarp, a sleeping bag, and the next item is, of course, a fire starter. You have some of those things handy, and you're going to pretty much survive most anything that gets thrown at you within the first 24 to 48 hours to where you can then start building a really good shelter. But fire starter was next on here. And not like fire starter that's in like a brick form, but the regular old magnesium stick fire starters where you scrape things off, you know, get a spark going, and you've got fire and off you go. I know. There's all sorts of other things you can do. Vaseline, you know, soaked in a, you know, or a cotton ball soaked in Vaseline, blah, blah, blah. Yes, I know there's all sorts of other ways you can actually, you know, use, you know, things to start a fire with, steel wool and a battery and so on, but this is easy. You can take a fire starter, actually loop it onto your body where it never leaves you. You can even put it on a lanyard-type setup to where once it's in your pocket, if it were to even come out accidentally, it doesn't get lost because if you're out and about and you need fire, that's the first thing you're going to turn to, of course. Of course, a cutting tool, knife, machete, something along those lines. This is an interesting one that I thought was really good on his part. A large metal pot for water. And think like old coffee pot, the old type that used to stick on top of the campfire, that type of a metal pot. You can use it to... boil things in you can put all different things inside of it not just water but you can put you know if you've killed an animal something along those lines and you're looking for some food you know make some stew whatever that large metal pot makes it really easy to put water in and make something out of when it's all said and done a sewing kit this one that's another one i thought yeah great idea having a small sewing kit which you can pick up at probably the dollar store You can use that to fix all sorts of things from tears in your clothing to something that might happen in your sleeping bag to on and on we go. So a sewing kit is a good one. This is the need if you're looking at, okay, how do I collect food items? In other words, how am I going to survive an extended period of time? What do I need to capture or kill said animals? Bow and arrow. And if you're not proficient at it, in most cases, I know there's some HOAs that probably frown on you shooting your bow and arrow in the backyard, but for most people... You can do archery pretty easily in your basement, your backyard, all sorts of ways to do that. And trust me, there's lots of videos on how to make backstops and so on. If you want to know how to do that, just go look it up. And, yes, you can get pretty proficient with a bow and arrow, and you would be surprised how many things you could actually take down with one. Key with a bow and arrow, patience. patience fishing equipment that's the other one that he had on his list which i thought was a great idea as well a line and a rod and of course a multi-tool to go along with that you can do all sorts of things with fishing equipment including making nets and things like that that would aid you and also catching fish and things along those lines if you find yourself out to where you'd need to do some of that and then last but not least is the one thing that he said that he should he would take with him anytime he would go anywhere is salt plain old salt. Why? Because your body needs it. It helps you retain water, which you're going to be, you know, you're going to be expelling a lot of when you're working and doing things. And it's just naturally also gives you flavor to food that you would be cooking that you wouldn't get otherwise, making you actually eat more of said food, which you're going to need at that point in time as well. So those are the 10 items. And folks, if you've got any other suggestions for us, things you'd like us to talk about, please send me a text message, 307-282-22. Go to ready-radio.com for our website. This is Ready Radio, KLZ 560.
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Rick Hughes dives deep into the concepts of soul renovation and divine viewpoint in this eye-opening episode. As he elaborates on a soul in chaos, Rick gets to the heart of why many are left feeling hopeless and alienated from the life God designed for them. Highlighting key scriptures, he reveals the transformative power of divine wisdom over arrogance and ignorance and offers hope through the path of spiritual awakening.
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Welcome to The Flatline with your host, Rick Hughes. For the next 30 minutes, you'll be inspired, motivated, educated, but never manipulated. Now, your host, Rick Hughes.
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Good morning and welcome to The Flatline. I'm your host, Rick Hughes. And for the next few minutes, you have a cordial invitation to hang around, listen up, stick with me. Just a few minutes of motivation, some inspiration, some education. And as always, we do not use manipulation. We don't solicit money. We don't sell anything. We're not asking you to join anything. All we're asking you to do is listen. Listen as I try to verify and identify the plan of God for your life. And if you can understand that, you have the freedom, you have the privacy to orient and adjust to the plan. But remember that God gave you two ends, one of those ends you sit with and one of those ends you think with. And success in your life will depend on which one you use. As they say, heads you win, tails you lose. And so as we study the Bible, as we study the Word of God, our objective is to give divine viewpoint. Our objective is to help you renovate your thinking, soul renovation. Soul renovation comes before physical renovation. You see, you're really a living soul, which means you have mentality. You have the ability to think, logic, comprehend, make decisions. You have volition, which means you have the ability to choose. You have choice. You choose what you want to do. You choose what you want to wear. You choose what you want to eat. And you choose whether or not you wish to listen to God. And you have a conscience. You have a conscience. You have the ability to think about things and remember things and put things in your conscience that can bother you sometimes. And there's a self-consciousness, an awareness. Sometimes it surfaces when you least expect it in your dreams. But your soul is made up basically of mentality, volition, consciousness, self-consciousness. You do have emotion. But that seems to be more part of your mentality than your format of your soul. And where the big problem gets in is when we try to live by letting our emotions dictate policy. So we have to change our soul before we change our actions. And until we learn, until we apply the Word of God, we continue to follow the same trends, sometimes destructive trends. But the Word of God, if you learn it, if you metabolize it, which means you use it, put it into application, then it can remove old patterns in your life that are destructive and thus fulfill your purpose for life. which is to have the reason God created you, to have a wonderful, full, meaningful life that glorifies him. That's why he created you. But so many people today are in chaos. I call them, as a friend of mine who's a pastor talks about it, a soul in chaos. That's what we have today. Many, many young people across this great nation are souls in chaos. Loneliness and hopelessness are a disease that is rampant, causing many young people to even commit suicide to end their lives, seeing no way out. having burned up all their energy and all their time, they just see there's no way out left. And so they kill themselves. It's a tragic end to a tragic life. That's never the design that God has for you. God has a wonderful plan for you. He said he knows the plans that he has for you in Jeremiah to bless you and to promote you and to give you a great life. But when you stupidly choose to ignore the word of God, and I use the word stupidly, I said it, yes, the fool is stupid, the Bible says, because he thinks he's smarter than God. He thinks, I know God said that in the Bible, but I don't really believe the Bible. And so they reject any divine viewpoint. They reject the word of God. And they trot down this main highway, my way highway, thinking they're smarter than God and they don't need God. And everything in the Word of God, everything in the Bible is designed to give them a wonderful, full, meaningful life, and they reject every bit of it. They reject the knowledge of the Word of God, and consequently, they get no wisdom. And without wisdom, there's no discernment or insight in your life. And so the Bible does talk about the soul in chaos. I'm going to go to Ephesians chapter 4. I'm going to read to you verses 17 through 21 out of the King James Version of the Bible. And here's what it says. This I say therefore and testify in the Lord. This is written by the Apostle Paul. That you henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart, who being past feelings have given themselves over unto lasciviousness to work all uncleanness with greediness. But you did not learn this from Christ. If so be it that you have heard him and have been taught by him as the truth is in Jesus Christ. Here we find a soul with scar tissue, a heart that is hard. And we're going to break this passage down for you and show it to you because you may have a grandchild, you may have a child, you may have a friend that is in this condition. Their heart is hard. They don't see themselves as they really are. They see themselves as they think they are. This is a trend of arrogance. Self-justification always sees itself as it thinks it is. And an arrogant person always demands an unrealistic expectation. He demands or she demands to be treated in a way they're not worthy of being treated because they think they're something they're not. So here's what the Bible says. This is Paul writing about the soul in chaos. This I testify in the Lord. Now, if you will allow me. I would like to go into the Greek New Testament where these words have a different meaning. We go to the morphology of these words. And that's why I use these Greek words sometimes, not because I'm trying to show off, because I'm not a Greek scholar. I just have enough knowledge to use Greek helps to get these words and to understand what I'm studying. But he says, I testify in the Lord, and the word testifies, the Greek word martyromai, And that word means to solemnly exhort or solemnly testify. This is a very emphatic statement by the Apostle Paul. He emphatically, like sitting at a desk and pounding his fist on the desk, I am telling you, I am testifying to you. And then he says, in the Lord. And that's a prepositional phrase that shows the source of this, where it's coming from. The source of the information he's about to give comes from God the Holy Spirit. God the Holy Spirit revealed it to him, and he reveals it to us in the pages of the Scripture. When Paul wrote this letter to Timothy, I don't know if he ever envisioned that it would eventually be in what we call the canon of Scripture or a Bible that we would be reading it thousands of years later. But God the Holy Spirit preserved the writings of the Apostle Paul, the writings of John, the writings of Peter, the writings of Titus, others. well, Titus didn't write, Paul wrote to Titus, but he preserved the writings of Matthew, Mark, Luke, all of these things for us so that we can learn how Jesus Christ thought. Why do we need to learn how Jesus Christ thought? Because the Bible says in Philippians, let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus. That's called thinking divine viewpoint. Unless we learn to think divine viewpoint, We will all self-destruct through human viewpoint by being sucked into the devil's cosmic system and buying into the lies that Satan gives, just like Eve bought in. She bought into the lie in the garden because she, in her arrogance, thought, well, maybe God's hiding something from me. That's what Satan made it sound like. He's hiding something from you. And so when we see testify in the Lord, this is the source of the information, God, the Holy Spirit. And then he comes on to say, I want you not to walk like Gentiles walk. The word walk is not talking about taking a stroll down the street, you know, on a lazy Sunday afternoon with your wife or with your dog or with your children walking down a dirt road or walking down a street. This is the word peripatao. Peripatao, and it means to regulate your life, conduct your affairs. It's just a way of putting it. I want you to conduct your affairs, regulate your lives, not like Gentiles do it. Don't live your life like Gentiles live their life. The word for Gentiles is ethnos, and we get ethnic from that, but ethnos. That's the unbeliever, reference to the unbelievers. And so a Christian is never to mimic an unbeliever. Whatever the unbeliever finds to be entertaining, whatever the unbeliever finds to be motivational, whatever the unbeliever finds to be stimulating is not part for the Christian. We are to walk differently. We are to live differently. And how do they live? How does the unbeliever live? Well, the Bible says he lives in the vanity of his mind, in the vanity of his mind. Listen again, this I say therefore and testify in the Lord that you walk not as the unbelievers walk in the vanity of their mind. What does that mean? The word vanity is an interesting Greek word. It's the word metaiotes, metaiotes. And it means a vacuum or an empty head, a vacuum or an empty head. Now think about this for a minute. What exactly is a vacuum? I'm not talking about a vacuum cleaner that sucks up dirt. No, we all have one of those at home or two or three like I do. But a vacuum here, I always like to use the illustration of if you take a... like a flower vase and you put some Kleenex in it, and if you'll put a soft-boiled egg over the cover of the vase or over the mouth of the vase and drop a match in there and light the Kleenex, if the soft-boiled egg covers the mouth of the vase entirely, once the Kleenex burn up all the oxygen in the flower vase, then the egg will magically pop down as if some finger pushed it in there. And what that is, that's pounds per square inch. That's air pressure. We live under PSI, pounds per square inch. And the pressure on the outside was greater than the pressure on the inside. Now, if you just set it there without lighting it and burning up the oxygen inside the vase, well, the pressure would be the same. But once you burned up all the oxygen, then the outside pressure forced the egg into the vase. Does that make sense? This is what happens when you have an empty head. When you reject the knowledge of the Word of God, when you have no divine insight, when you're trapped in the cosmic system, you have arrogance plus ignorance, and as a friend of mine often says, that equals artificial intelligence, AI, arrogance and ignorance. Many people choose to ignore the Word of God, and the Bible says they're a fool. The Bible says they're stupid because they think they're smarter than God. God preserved his word for you. God laid out a plan for your life where you can have not only the best life now, but even eternal life through the sacrifice of his anointed son, Jesus Christ, our Lord, who was our substitute on the cross, who paid for our sin. But if we reject that and we say, I don't believe that, and then we reject all the provisions and the principles and the promises taught in the Bible, you're setting yourself up for one miserable life. You're going to self-destruct eventually. There's no way around it. You have to. Because of the parameters of what God laid out in eternity past, you will self-destruct. And so if you have an empty head, this means you have rejected the knowledge of the word of God. You do not have any divine insight, and thus you are trapped as a prisoner chained to the cosmic system. An empty mind, the word mind is the Greek word nous, N-O-U-S. So if your mind is empty, what's on the outside is greater than what's on the inside. If there's no divine viewpoint inside, then the cosmic system forces into your head, just like the outside pressure forced the egg into the vase, the cosmic system will force into your head all of the satanic strategy, the satanic viewpoint, the satanic plans that Satan has, which are all called evil as opposed to God's plan, which is grace. and you will live one miserable rotten life as a slave to Satan and his agenda. You won't know it. You'll think you're having a wonderful time for a while until it catches up with you. So the empty mind, the mentality of the soul is empty. If there's no divine viewpoint, that means there's no knowledge of God in your mind, which means you have no wisdom, you have no insight, you have no discernment to what's going on, and thus you are stupid, stupid. Because you choose to go through life on your own. Proverbs 3, 6, do not be wise in your own eyes. Do not be wise in your own eyes, thinking you know better than God. But fear the Lord and depart from evil, or Satan's plan. Satan's plan is evil. So don't be wise in your own eyes. Fear the Lord and depart from evil. That's the writer of Proverbs. And then listen to what Paul said. Ephesians 5, 17, don't be foolish or stupid, but understand what the will of the Lord is. Don't go through life stupid. Don't reject the word of God. Don't reject the claims of Christ. Don't reject everything God provided for you because in your own eyes, you think you're smarter than God. Don't be wise in your own eyes, the passage says. And so a person that has an empty head who has no divine viewpoint stored upstairs in the brain, has a vacuum in his head. He's rejected knowledge, she's rejected knowledge, she or he's trapped in the cosmic system, living on artificial intelligence, arrogance plus ignorance. And look at verse 18. having their understanding darkened. This goes right along with the passage. I'll read it to you again. This I say, therefore, testifying the Lord, don't live like the Gentiles live in the vanity of their mind, having their understanding darkened. Understanding is the Greek word dianoia, D-I-A-N-O-I-A, dianoia, and it means the ability to think and reason. Thus, the people who have a vacuum in their mind have no ability to think and no ability to reason, meaning they have no insight and no discernment since they operate on emotions. So if it feels good, they do it. If it feels bad, they stay away from it. They are an emotional overload in their soul, and eventually they will self-destruct going down the my way highway. This is where the hopelessness comes from, and this is where the loneliness comes from, and this is why people commit suicide because they think there's no way out. They didn't listen to God to start with, and then they think it's at the end of the road. Listen carefully. It is never the end of the road for you. God loves you. God has a wonderful plan for your life. You can recover. You can get back with the program. But first, you must accept Jesus Christ as your Savior. You must come to the Father and say, Father, I'm a sinner and I know it and I'm willing to receive Christ today. If you'll make that decision, then you'll start on the road to learning how to glorify God. If you're a Christian and you've been out of fellowship because of sin in your life, Then you recover by going to God and using problem-solving device number one, the rebound technique, which says if we confess our sins, he's faithful and just to forgive us and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. You can do this at any time. And I encourage you, if you are a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ and you've broken fellowship with God, you have not been growing, you have not been advancing in your spiritual life, You have not been keeping your sin nature in check and you've let it run amok in your life to where it's gotten you in trouble. Stop and confess the sin to God. He is not through with you. He still has a plan for your life. If you're here, when the smoke clears, there's still something he wants you to do. There's never the time in your life when you should consider ending it all with suicide. That's crazy. And so people that have a vacuum in their mind have their understanding darkened. Verse 18, Ephesians chapter 4. They don't have the ability to think. And the understanding is darkened. Darkened is the word scotizo, S-K-O-T-I-Z-O, and it means blackout, blacked out. A person goes through life with blackout understanding. Listen, in 2 Corinthians 4, 4, the Bible says, in whom the God of this world has blinded, the minds of the unbelieving so that he can prevent them from seeing the illuminating light of the gospel of the glory of Christ who is the image of God. Satan is good at blinding people, putting people in darkness, blacking people out. and people willingly, voluntarily follow his plan. They reject the word of God, they reject the plan of God, and they follow that satanic plan of evil right to their death. It's unbelievable. Having their understanding darkened, separated from God's plan in their life, separated from God's plan, they're on their own highway. Proverbs 1.7 says, the fear of the Lord is where knowledge begins. But fools, stupid people, despise wisdom and instruction. They don't want it. Number one, they don't have enough humility to admit they've been wrong. And number two, they're so arrogant that they still think they're smarter than God, and Satan gets a big chuckle out of that. But the respect of the Lord, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. But fools despise wisdom and despise instruction. They don't want it. They don't like it. It doesn't taste good. It's like trying to get a kid to eat his broccoli. He won't do it. And the believer out of fellowship with God, the believer who's on the my way highway in his arrogance will despise instruction and wisdom from God. Why do they do it? Well, the verse tells you, because of the ignorance that is in them. Ignorance in them is the word agnoia, agnoia, A-G-N-O-I-A, agnoia. And that's the result of the negative volition. Negative volition to God. They are not interested in the claims of Christ. And you cannot convince them to be interested in the claims of Christ. Now, the best you can do is pray for them. You can ask God the Holy Spirit to open their eyes and to reveal to them their natural state and what state they're in. And pray that he does that through divine discipline in their life if they're Christians. And if they're not Christians, if they're unbelievers, you can pray for them specifically for them to hear the gospel and for them to make a positive decision to believe in Jesus Christ. Ignorance that is in them. Now listen to Proverbs 1.10. When wisdom enters your heart, and knowledge is pleasant to your soul, then discretion will preserve you and understanding will keep you. When wisdom enters your heart, the first thing is to have the wisdom of God, which is the plan of Christ. That's the first thing. That's the wisdom of a God in eternity past. He provided a way for us to go to heaven. He who knew no sin was made sin for us so that we could be made the righteousness of God through him. God in his infinite wisdom and motivated by his eternal love for you and me provided a way out of our sin and his own son paid our price. So when wisdom enters our heart, when we come to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and we see the plan of God, And then knowledge is desirable. It's pleasant. It's like chocolate cake. You can't get enough of it. It's pleasant to your soul, to the mentality, the thinking of your soul. If you come to the place in your life where you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and begin to have a hunger for the word of God, the Bible says then discretion will preserve you and understanding will keep you. That means you won't self-destruct. That means you will get off of the my way highway and get on the thy way highway. So why do these people do this? Having their understanding darkened, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindness of their heart, the Bible says. Because of the blindness of their heart. The word blindness is not blindness at all. It's a mistranslation. It's the word P-O-R-O-S-I-S and pronounced porosis. And it means to be covered with a callus, to be hard, to be dulled. Dulled in spiritual perception. Have you ever seen a farmer sit around and take a knife and whittle away the calluses on his hand or the calluses on his feet when a person's heart gets hard then the callousness covers his heart no guilt no shame they simply are have dulled spiritual perception and this is what happens by completely ignoring the Word of God over and over and over again How do they do it? Romans 1.21, because when they knew God, they did not glorify him as God, neither were they thankful, but they became vain in their imagination and their foolish hearts were darkened. Scotizo. Their foolish heart was darkened. Blacked out, the word we use, blacked out. And then in Proverbs 1.32, the waywardness of the simple will kill him. That's the stupid person. And the complacency of a fool, that's the stupid person, will destroy him. But whoever will listen to me will live in safety and be at ease without fear of harm. There is a divine promise of divine protection. So these people have rejected that and they are past feelings. They are soul in chaos. They feel no guilt. They feel no shame. They feel nothing. Their heart is hard. This is why a young kid could take a gun and kill somebody and laugh about it. And this goes on all across America every day with gang initiation. Go out and kill somebody and laugh about it. Prove to me that you belong in the gang. See, they'll do that sort of stuff. But that's what the Bible says in Proverbs 435. The wise will inherit glory, but shame shall be the promotion of a fool. And so the Bible goes on to say they give themselves over to lasciviousness to work it with greed, to work uncleanliness with greed. They can't get enough of it. Romans 1.28, even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind to do the things which are not seemingly right. Romans 1.32, who knowing the judgment of God that they who commit such things are worthy of death, not only do they do the same, but they have pleasure in what they do. What's a reprobate mind? It's a mind called an adokimasu. It's a mind that cannot stand the test. Documus is a word for approved, but we have a negative A in front of it, meaning not approved. It's a way of thinking that God does not approve of since they rejected his knowledge. As in Proverbs 1.29, they hated knowledge. They did not choose the fear of the Lord. And so what happened to them? They worked uncleanliness with greed. What does that mean? Well, lustful living, fulfilling the desires of the flesh, could not get enough of it, rejected the plan of God, a soul in chaos, with greed, pleonoxia. Pleonoxia means to covet it more and more and more. Romans 1.29, being filled with all unrighteousness, fornicators, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity, whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, insolent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, wow, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful. Does that sound like America today? Oh my gosh, it does. We have souls in chaos. I'm here to tell you that you can break out of that because the Bible says if any man's in Christ, he's a new creature, a new creation. All the old things are passed away and they become new. In an instant, by making one simple decision to believe in Jesus Christ, You can start again. You can have the slate wiped clean. You can have eternal life and a spiritual life in which to grow and mature and understand and learn God's plan. I hope you've listened. I hope you are not a soul in chaos. If you need help, write to me anytime, anywhere, any day. Until then, this is your host, Rick Hughes, saying thank you for listening to The Flatline.
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Thank you for listening to The Floodline with your host, Rick Hughes. If you'd like to contact Rick, please write to him at P.O. Box 100, Cropwell, Alabama, 35054, or online at www.rickhughesministries.org.
John and Andy tackle the complex interface between globalism and spirituality, questioning popular narratives around international politics. In a deep dive, they explore the biblical prophecies concerning global governance, sparking thought-provoking discussions on how current events may tie into age-old predictions. Later, they lighten the tone with a review of the film 'Until Dawn', dissecting its chilling premise and supernatural elements.
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It's finally Friday on Rush to Reason with your host, John Rush. So I tell him I'm a pro jack. And who do you think they give you? The Dalai 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. And when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness. So I got that going. And movie reviews with Andy Payne.
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I think that you got the wrong impression about me. I think in all fairness, I should explain to you exactly what it is that I do.
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What I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.
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Chief Lane, what do you want to do tonight?
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The same thing we do every night, Pinky. Try to take over the world. Stick a fork in me, Jerry. I'm done. Now, here is your host of Rush to Reason, John Rush.
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All right, happy Friday. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Myself, Andy Pate, Charlie Grimes, and how's Andy?
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Andy's doing pretty well. And may I bring up this moment to mention that how many times did you and I tell people to stop freaking out about the stock market? We told Jordan that. We told Jordan it'll gradually keep coming back. The thing got down into, I believe, 36-something, right, at one point.
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Didn't it edge under 37?
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I think that's right, yes. I think you're correct, yes. And what did it do today, John? It topped 41,000.
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Yeah, I was watching that a little bit earlier today. Little by little. I don't watch it super closely, Andy. It's not a huge thing. But 41,317 is what it closed at.
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Right, after two straight good job report months. And don't get me wrong, it's going to go up and down. It's going to fluctuate, of course. But it's been fluctuating up consistently now for a few weeks. And I'm just loving it.
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I'm loving it. Despite all of the tariff porn, fear porn that's being promoted by the media.
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How many times do we tell people, look, guys, first of all, the initial shock is going to set in. And then you're going to start hearing rumblings about deals. And then you're going to start seeing deals.
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Well, and the reality is the majority of the tariffs, even on the China side, I talked about this yesterday, but the majority of tariffs, if the average person just shut off the TV, stopped reading anything news-wise on any of the social media outlets that are out there, and just went around and minded their own business, Andy, they would see little to no change at all.
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Americans are barely noticing these tariffs are in place. Meanwhile, in China, they're rioting. They're losing jobs. They're being thrown out of their factories. Okay, it is exactly as Scott Besson said from the start. We buy about five times as much from them as they do from us. They need us as a customer.
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We are the customer.
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We're the customer.
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Which, again, we keep reminding everybody of, Andy, on this program, that others, and of course the news media is never going to admit that, the left's never going to admit that, but we are the customer.
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Why has America gotten sucked into the idea over the last several decades, really, that we have no leverage? Here we are, the world's biggest customer, main customer, the one everyone wants to sell to. I have the answer. And they're acting like we have no leverage.
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I have the answer. Go ahead. Richard and I spent quite a bit of time talking about this a little bit earlier in the week. In some of this, I'm not going to get super spiritual, but there's a lot of folks out there, and they've got time that we can cover this.
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Okay.
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First of all, that's because the globalists. The globalists have fed into our school system, our media. They've been doing it now, Andy, for the past 50 plus years. They've been pushing this one world globalist movement, which, by the way, is hugely due to the spiritual end of things as to how this world will end when it's all said and done. Because without a one world government, the Antichrist cannot set up what he wants for his dominion when it's all said and done. There's nothing to run. There's nothing to run without a one world government. So I will tell you that all of those people, whether they know it or not, that are in favor of globalism are a part of the Antichrist movement, period. No matter how you want to sum it up, those of you that are even on the church end of things that are all for the globalism end of things, you are very much a part of that as Satan himself is.
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Well, let's keep in mind also, globalism, where did it start? Tower of Babel. Thank you, Andy.
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Okay, I mean, it's right there. And it's just repeating itself all over again.
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We will all unite together, and as one people, we will rise to greater heights and build a greater tomorrow as one.
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Anytime I see anybody on social media talk about Trump being the Antichrist, I want to just laugh until I'm crying, because whether you like Trump or not— Spiritually speaking, no, Trump is not the Messiah. No, Trump is not the Antichrist, because everything Trump is doing is anti-Antichrist.
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All Trump is – Am I right, Andy?
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It's anti-globalism, meaning it's anti-antichrist.
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Anti-globalism is anti-antichrist. Correct. Absolutely. What Trump really is is an America first president.
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Right. And whether he knows it or not – That doesn't work with globalism. Whether he even understands the spiritual ramifications of that, which frankly I would highly suggest he probably doesn't, but really he's doing as much in what he's doing now in the White House and those around him are doing – to stave off the Antichrist as anybody else out there is. Right. So for those of you that are in the spiritual end of things and have any kind of literacy along those lines, I hope you would take the time to look at what I just said and realize that, like him or not, he's doing things to push off the second coming of Christ And I get it. There's a lot of people out there who say, well, why would you want to push that off, John? Don't we want that to happen? No, we don't. And here's why, folks. What does God himself say when it comes to those coming to him? Not one should perish. No, not one. Right, Andy? In other words, God's given us this free will. But it is his desire that we would all come to him, right, Andy?
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Yeah, people don't seem to understand. You've got some of these Christians who look around the world and say, oh, my gosh, it's such a miserable place. Christ, please come. Please come. I can't take anymore. And God's looking down here saying, I can be with you right now. Don't you understand? I'm there already.
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Wrong answer, dude.
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I'm next to you on the couch. I'm with you.
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Oh, by the way, aren't you supposed to be out rounding up as many as possible? And if we can turn the tide and keep that second coming from happening even a little bit longer, more will come to me? Yes, but think about it.
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Those people who look and say, why won't he come soon, come soon, come soon? When you say that, you're saying that out of a desire for comfort, not out of a desire for purpose and impact.
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That's right. So, again, folks, I could go off for a long time on that whole topic. I won't because I know that's not the type of program that we have on a daily basis. But I wanted to throw that out there, especially on this Friday as we just rolled out of Easter and all of that. And we're rolling now into the rest of the year. And the reality is that Trump is about as anti-Antichrist as anybody you will find. He is not the Antichrist because anybody that would be this much against globalism cannot be.
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Right. And not just Trump. Anyone who's anti-globalist.
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Yeah. Thank you, Andy.
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Is against the system that is necessary for the Antichrist.
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That's right. Whether they know it or not.
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Yeah, yeah. Whether they know it or not.
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They could be a total atheist. They may have other motives outside of that, but that's exactly what's happening, Andy.
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You could be talking about John Stossel. Guess what? Same thing.
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Absolutely. So just a little lesson for all of you listening, and hopefully you can use some of that in your day to day, you know, talk and walk and around the water cooler and so on. And any of you that see anybody that posts and says anything to the effect that Trump is the Antichrist, number one, that tells you that's a very misguided and frankly, uneducated person, spiritually speaking. And I mean that in all sincerity, because they just don't know scripture and how things work when they say something as ludicrous as that.
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Right.
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I'll leave it at that. All right. With that, we'll take a break. We'll come back. Movies. What are we doing today, Andy? Okay.
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First, we're going to do Until Dawn and then Thunderbolts.
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And welcome back to Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560, John Rush, together with Andy Pate and John. It's been a couple weeks here. I'm ready. Okay. Are you ready for a movie?
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Absolutely.
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All right. Well, John, how many times can you die?
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Well, once in my world.
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No, no, no, no. Quite a few if you're waiting until dawn.
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Wait. I can't. I can't.
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No, please stop! Help us!
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Up the road. There's a place, stuck in time. What is that?
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Every time we die, we find ourselves back here again. But the night is never the same.
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We're here again.
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But the night is never the same. Every night, something new is trying to kill us.
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Something new is trying to kill us.
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What is that? What is that? If we want to survive, we have to make it until dawn.
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I want out. Until dawn. Will you let me out?
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Up the road, that's where people get into trouble.
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All right, John, if someone says that, where do you not go? Up the road. Up the road, okay. But, you know, come on, not in this movie. Well, the film begins with a young woman desperately crawling out of an underground cavern in the woods. We later learn her name is Melanie. Well, soon she encounters a masked man with a large blade, and as he closes in for the kill, she pleads with him, saying, No, not again! A year later, five friends are driving in the woods. One is Clover. She's played by Ella Rubin. She's a young actress you may have seen before. And she's looking for closure after her sister, Melanie, disappeared there a year ago. Retracing Melanie's steps, Clover hopes to find her or at least learn what happened. Now, the other four are Clover's ex-boyfriend, Max, semi-psychic friend, Megan, tough party girl, Nina, and Nina's psych major boyfriend, he's a psych major, Abe. Now, the quintet, they stop at an old general store where Clover shows a picture of her sister to the creepy old storekeeper, Dr. Hill. That's who you heard talking there. He says he's seen her, but that she went up to Glore Valley, where a lot of people have gone missing. Okay, get the idea. Don't open that door. Now, if they say don't open that door, what are they absolutely going to do in a horrible way? Open the door. Open the door. He says, don't go up to Glor Valley. Where are they going, John? They're going up there. They're going up to Glor Valley. Well, naturally, the group goes to Glor Valley. Ominously, they must travel through a downpour that abruptly stops when they reach the visitor center. And I mean abruptly. It's a wall. A rain wall, right behind them, which is, of course, pretty freaky. Well, this center is abandoned, so we've got a classic cabin-in-the-woods feel, right? As night falls, the killing starts. Big, blade-wielding guy slays them with ease. Movie over, right? Wrong. They all wake up alive with the evening starting over. I haven't given away anything, because that's all in the trailer. Now they're stuck in a time loop in which they must search for clues and figure out how to get out of this perpetual hell. But unlike Happy Death Day, the night isn't the same every time, so they can't just prepare for one killer. There are undead kills, demonic kills, even the water can kill. But eventually, they learn one key fact. You either survive the night or you become part of it. There is also an hourglass, and there's sand going down through it. Somehow, they must survive one night until the sand runs out. And that's the story of Until Dawn.
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What do you think? Doesn't sound bad.
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Not too bad. Well, what works in Until Dawn? First of all, you have, I think, an interesting premise, don't you? Yeah, pretty interesting. Lots of personal dynamics are in this movie, with characters helping each other and turning on each other. So you've got some of the interplay between them. There are also plot twists, as an unexpected villain emerges. Now, you have cool special effects with the rain wall. Very cool. You can tell they spent a few bucks on that, and I liked it. There's plenty of gore, of course, for the slasher fans. And they also have a really good timing on the kills, you know, where you stress out the tension enough, but not too quickly. So some come quick, some are dragged out more, and they mix it up really well to keep the tension throughout the movie. That's important. But what doesn't work in Until Dawn? Well, first of all, no explanation of either the time loop nor the almost unkillable nature of the villain. Think about that for a moment. No explanation. Since these are the two central elements of the movie, we're just left hanging, and it's really frustrating. Let's see here. These are five beautiful young actors who can't act. Not very well, okay? I mean, really, they're saying their lines, but you almost expect to see all five of them on some midday soap. They're just not very good. Also, there wasn't enough humor, and a lot of these young, hip, you know, kind of... teenage slasher movies you mix in a fair amount of humor especially ever since the scream movies you always want to mix in some humor and keep it going right it peps it along they have a little but not nearly enough and they needed more uh at one time a character is possessed oh okay well that's pretty big right but then the storyline that storyline goes nowhere they wasted it hmm I mean, that's a cool storyline and they don't do anything with it. I'm just like, okay, I guess we'll just leave that loose end too. And another time, a villain is revealed who is studying them. But how is he controlling any of the supernatural events? I mean, this whole time loop phenomenon. Again, no explanation. This thing is nothing but loose ends. Okay. I mean, have you ever seen somebody who just came in out of the wind and their hair is everywhere?
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Yeah.
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That's this movie. Loose ends everywhere, John. And you're just kind of like, why any of it? Okay, why is this all happening? I mean, we understand what they got to do to get through it. They got to survive the night. I get that. Okay, at least that part makes sense. But what's going on here? Why is this going on? Are you maybe prepping for a sequel? I hope not, because I don't think this is going to make the money for a sequel. All right. Rotten Tomatoes gave Until Dawn 52%. I think that's too rich. I'm giving it one and a half stars for quality. It just wasn't very good. It was boring. It was not very funny. The characters weren't very well acted. It wasn't all that well written. And the one thing that was good about it was the director, whoever the director is, did a good job timing the kills and so forth, which is always important. I've seen a lot of horror movies where that's not the case. They drag it out way too long or they go too quick. Political three.
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So quality again really quick?
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Quality one and a half.
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One five. Really quick. Somebody also texted a moment ago and said, sounds like Groundhog Day, only a horror movie.
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Right. But if you want to watch Groundhog Day. Groundhog Day was great. Yeah. If you want to watch Groundhog Day, only a slasher movie, you watch Happy Death Day.
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Okay.
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Which is, by the way, a funny movie.
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Okay.
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Definitely worth watching. So watch Happy Death Day where they actually reference Groundhog Day.
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Okay.
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Political three doesn't say anything. That's nice. More religious, two, just because. Because of what it is. Because of what it is. So there you go. Until Dawn. Do I recommend going to Until Dawn? Not only do I not recommend it, I'm not saying it's a horrible movie. I've seen much worse. But they're putting out so many horror movies lately, and many are quite good. Wait for the next one.
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There'll be a better one coming along.
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Yeah, wait until after dawn.
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Okay.
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All right? There you go.
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The best export we have is Common Sense. You're listening to Rush to Reason.
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And welcome back to Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560, John Rush, together with Andy Pate and John. Are you ready for another movie? Absolutely. Yeah, after a couple weeks, you are ready for another movie. Absolutely.
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Yes, I am. Definitely.
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Okay, well, John, would you agree that Marvel needs a serious kickstart?
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You think?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. Let's see if they get it in the Thunderbolts.
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We have no reliable heroes. And yet we still need protection. Witness the invincible, stronger than all of the Avengers rolled into one, and soon to be known as Earth's Mightiest Hero.
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Why would a god take orders from anyone at all? Maybe I need to show you what I'm capable of.
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Sentry's gone off the rails and he's dangerous. Avengers, you're gone. No one is coming to save the day.
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We could be the people that are coming.
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Wait, us?
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Yeah, you. Why, you got some place to be? I love that guy. Bucky, you have the wrong people. We have all done bad things.
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You can live with it forever. Or you can do something about it. Being the hero. Saving people in the streets. There is no higher calling.
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You guys done with therapy? Let's do this.
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You may not see what I see, but this has the makings of a team that can raise to glory.
SPEAKER 08 :
There's no use fighting. You're not Earth's mightiest heroes. No?
SPEAKER 05 :
All right, John, what do you think? Sound fun? Yeah, premise is. They all sound fun, though. You know, every Marvel movie sounds fun in the previews.
SPEAKER 06 :
True.
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Let's see how it goes. Florence Pugh, who I love, by the way. I'm a big Florence Pugh fan. She stars as Yelena Belova. Now, she's the sister of the Black Widow. Okay. And she's a government assassin who begins our film on the latest of a string of missions, this one in Malaysia. Now, as usual, she's killing and acquiring intel through brutal methods. But Yelena is wary of her role. She feels lost, aimless. So she seeks a reunion with her estranged father. You just heard him there, Alexei. Yes. He's played by David Arbor.
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Okay.
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Funny actor, by the way. He's always been very funny. And he has left behind his Red Guardian days and is now a limo driver. He, too, feels lost and aimless. Well, something struck me while watching these early scenes, John. This is exactly how Marvel has felt for quite some time. lost and aimless, needing some connection, a reason to go on. What they were showing with their lives in the beginning was actually kind of the Marvel universe in these characters, and that really struck me. Yelena tells her boss she wants out of the field and into a desk job. She's had enough. But little does she know her boss, Allegra DeFontaine, played by Julia Dreyfus, has bigger problems. Well, due to unsanctioned experiments on human subjects, Allegra's department is under fire. Allegra is hiding evidence. Deep State. Have we heard that before? She's hiding evidence. But now, Senator Bucky Barnes, the Winter Soldier, played by Sebastian Stan, he wants to expose her. So when Yelena asks to leave the field, Allegra gives her one last mission. But Allegra has bad intentions, both for Yelena and those she's targeting. Well, naturally, this winds up uniting Yelena with the others, and thus a team is formed, the Thunderbolts. This kooky name comes from Yelena's childhood. Well, this group includes Yelena, Bucky, Red Guardian, the failed Captain America John Walker, Ava Star, who is Ghost, and Bob, a lab specimen with emerging powers. Well, the Thunderbolts must battle Allegra and their own insecurities. They're very insecure about a lot of things they've done in their past. But what about Bob, right? What about Bob? Well, before long, we see shifting allegiances and rising threats, all with our hapless group fighting corruption while they fight each other. Can they win? That's the story of the Thunderbolts. Sounds good. Yeah. Well, what works in Thunderbolts? First of all, I like this. There's no multiverse or save the universe nonsense. I can't take that anymore. I needed a movie off from that, didn't you? yes yeah because it's too confusing it's just too confusing it gets old this is more personal and at times it's engaging uh thunderbolts is also for anyone who has felt used and discarded in life anywhere our personal struggles mean nothing the moment our superiors feel threatened it's true right so here you're going through a personal struggle but your superior is feeling threatened they don't care about you they don't want to hear it and they can just discard you by the way don't get don't get vicious and kill your boss okay Because sometimes in this movie, people want to do that. There are some fun action sequences. I like that. Some very fun ones, especially one on the road. Red Guardian, played by David Arbor, brings good humor. You could tell he was really giving his all in this role. And of course, Florence Pugh is always good. She's always good. This left politics and woke nonsense out. I like that, right? Marvel's kind of getting that hint. Although Allegra, she did look like an evil Tulsi Gabbard.
SPEAKER 09 :
Really?
SPEAKER 05 :
She really did. Yeah, she had the little streak of gray hair on each side. Yeah. She looked a little bit like an evil Tulsi Gabbard my wife leaned over. Evil Tulsi.
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Okay.
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I thought that was kind of funny. All right. What doesn't work in Thunderbolts? Well, ugh. It's too depressing and slow, definitely. Now, there's moments where it's good. It opens good with Yelena, you know, and doing her thing. And then it slows down. And then it picks up a little while while they get to know each other and they're interacting. Then it slows down some more. And then it really starts to slow down a lot. And it just doesn't go anywhere. Yelena's strength as a character, you know, and this is true of the actress because she's Florence Pugh, is being witty and fun, not depressed.
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Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 05 :
She's depressed pretty much the whole movie, John. And that's just not something you want to watch. She's a funny actress. Use it! It felt longer than two hours and six minutes. Much longer. Corey was mentioning that, too. This felt like two and a half easy.
SPEAKER 06 :
Really?
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Yeah, it should have been an hour fifty and tighter. Now, here's a biggie. There was virtually no chemistry between these characters. Do you remember in the Avengers, the first Avengers? They had just met. And instantly, BAM! The lines were going back and forth in the chemistry. The way they were playing off each other was fantastic. And obviously, that was because you had Tony Stark in the middle of it all, right? Because of his incredible personality. But all of them, Thor, Black Widow. David Banner, Bruce Banner, I'm sorry, being the Hulk and so forth, each one of them was contributing, and they were funny, and it was just snappy, back, forth, back, forth, back, forth, back, forth. Here they try to do that, and it just doesn't go anywhere. They're just not very interesting. They have a little of that repartee, but it's not nearly as good. No chemistry between the characters. And this, in my opinion, became more of a problem as the movie went along. They were just saying lines, bickering and coping with personal regrets. It just wasn't working. Sentry, the major villain, is very conflicted. I won't go into why, but Sentry is one thing, then becomes another thing, which is a hard-to-explain thing, and is a very ambiguous thing, and... Yuck. Okay, ultimately the greatest battle feels like a therapy session. Boring. I don't want that. And so many times you can imagine a funny line could have been added. There were many scenes or moments where I'm like, oh, that's a great time for a funny line. Bam, that's a great time for a funny line. And it doesn't happen. Or the line isn't that funny. It just comes up short. This is a movie... That should have been better written. They should have taken longer putting together a better script with better writers with funnier writing because they had the characters who could have pulled it off. Ghost, they barely do anything with her character. She's just there. She's one of the characters saying her lines, but they don't do much with her with her personality at all. They basically don't give her a personality. She's just one more. The, you know, failed Captain America. He has personality. Florence Pugh, shockingly, has very little personality at all. And it was just a real waste of opportunity again and again and again throughout the movie. Now, surprisingly, Rotten Tomatoes gave Thunderbolts 88%. I don't understand that. I can't imagine that the crowd felt that way. I wasn't hearing any cheering or big laughter at various lines or anything. I just saw a bunch of people watching a movie, John. I'm going to give this quality... I'm going to be nice and give it two and a half stars. It wasn't for me. For me, it was one and a half.
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Okay.
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I was bored. Corey, about one and a half. We were bored. All right. But I'm going to say for general audiences who, quite honestly, are very forgiving for anything that's at least Marvel, right? Marvel-ish, whatever. Superhero-y. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think general audiences will give this average movie status. And so two and a half stars. Obviously, it's going to be the big movie of the week and maybe the big movie of a couple of weeks. Who knows? There's not much coming out. Political three. Thank you. More religious three. Thank you. It didn't beat up my faith or my politics. I like that. They just did a movie. They seem to be getting it. but they could have made a better movie.
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And really... So is there any saving them?
SPEAKER 05 :
Saving the characters?
SPEAKER 06 :
Because they're struggling and have been.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. Right? Oh, yeah. I'm trying to think what could save Marvel at this... You know what Marvel really needs, John, desperately, is another Iron Man. They need another central character whose personality is so exciting and fun that... that you love the characters around them because they're playing off of that one character. They don't have anyone in the center of their universe anymore. And they used to have a few. They had Iron Man. They had, well, what's his name from Guardians of the Galaxy?
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, right.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah.
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And then they made him boring in the last Guardians movie. He was just depressed and out of it. Is this because of Disney? Well, I've talked about this before. One time when you weren't here with the guys, right? Tanner and Luke. I went through all of the white men. that Disney, the white male heroes that they had replaced with women, mostly women, some black, some black women, this. But almost every single one, they've gotten rid of white male heroes. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. And the heroes that their personalities were at the center of the Marvel Universe were those two that I just mentioned and also Thor. Because he had a personality too, especially with his white male brother, Loki. And those two playing off each other. And I don't care if you're a white male. I couldn't care less. One of my favorite characters was Black Panther, but the actor died. And that was very unfortunate. Wonderful actor. But they just haven't found anyone to put at the middle of it. to really for the Marvel Universe to center around anymore. They've got nobody in the center. And so now they've just got a bunch of boring people kind of circulating around. Does that make sense? And I don't really know what they're going to do. I really don't. Would you agree that's what they need? I mean, they got some of that back when they did... You revived Tony Stark. I mean, when they did Deadpool and Wolverine, they got some of that back, right? But that was a one-off. And they're not going to get another Tony Stark, so I don't know.
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Can they bring him back? He's too old now.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, the actor is... He's coming back to play the villain in the next one. And, you know, that'll be fun. I don't know. I don't know how excited... He'll play Doctor Doom, which is a key villain in the Marvel Universe.
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I... And I'm sure he'll do it fine. That kind of screws it up because he's not known for that.
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No.
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Right?
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Yeah, I just don't care either way. It's like, look, guys... There are some tremendous young actors. You and I talk about them every week. There are some really good young actors we like. Use them. Hire them. I think it's about time they get some more young actors. I don't care if it's black, white, female, whatever. It doesn't make any difference. But get somebody good who has a really magnetic personality that you can put at the center. And they don't have that right now. Guardians of the Galaxy, I mean, right from the first scene, he dominated. Remember? Tony Stark, right from the first scene, dominated. They need it again.
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Now back to Rush to Reason on KLZ 560. And we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Myself, Andy Pate. Andy, you wanted to add something else to that?
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Yeah, one last thing about that movie. You know what it really reminds me of? Imagine Suicide Squad without Harley Quinn. Yeah. Yeah, just depressing. Yeah. It didn't have anybody who's, I mean, Red Guardian is wild and flamboyant, but you don't see him enough and he's not good enough. Harley Quinn was a much more compelling. Harley Quinn is one of the best comic characters brought to the big screen I've seen. I mean, she's hilarious. She's not on the level of Joker. He was unbelievable, but she was great. And she almost rescued, let's face it, without her, the Suicide Squad movies were awful.
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Agree. Yeah.
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Does that make sense?
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Yeah, because they were borderline awful with her.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, I mean, they were pretty – every time she was off – But she made them. When she was off the screen, you're just kind of yawning and saying, bring her back.
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Yeah, no, I agree. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, yeah. There you go. Oh, okay. Well, all right, question of the day. Okay. Throw this in really quick. Name – this is today's – name the animal whose tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.
SPEAKER 05 :
A whale?
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It would have to be of some kind, right? So put your answers on our Facebook page. It's a specific whale, by the way. Name the animal whose tongue can weigh as much as an elephant. I'll say blue whale. That's a big tongue.
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That's a big tongue.
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Yeah, you think?
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Yeah.
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Meaning, could it swallow a man like Jonah? I'm pretty sure it could. I think so, right? Not too tough, yeah. It could ski on that thing. Yeah. Wouldn't advise it, but, you know, yeah. We've got a couple minutes left here of this particular hour. I know we'll come back Tuesday, talk a little bit more about this. But I just had to get this in because I didn't have a chance while I was gone and didn't spend a lot of time, you know, reviewing politics and things like that. But a lot of stuff happening inside of the Colorado GOP. And there were. Different things that have come out over the past couple of weeks and all sorts of accusations being thrown around from the Davidians about how there's no action out of this particular chair and she's not doing anything. And why isn't she down on Capitol Hill on the steps being the activist that she should be, which, by the way, folks, that's not the job of the GOP chair to do, period. Absolutely, I don't want the chair down there doing that.
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The Davidians are acting like the entire job of the chair of the Colorado Republican Party is to be an activist putting out statements about things.
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Which, by the way, do nothing.
SPEAKER 05 :
They do nothing.
SPEAKER 06 :
Statements don't do anything.
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And by the way, that is literally all... the uh dave cult um achieved while they were in power without all they did they put out statements they achieved nothing they helped no one get a lot of statements don't do anything andy right i mean we you know you can talk about something until you're blue in the face that's not going to change anything yeah they divided the party in ways never done before and they put out a lot of statements about things you know which were immediately laughed off by the democrat majority I mean, what was their point?
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To them, that is leading the party. It's not leading the party, folks. I talked about it in depth. I'm not going to get back into it because I've done it so many times that some of you are probably tired of me talking about it. But I've talked about what real leadership looks like. We didn't get that out of the last individuals that were leading the party. We will see where we're headed with the next party or the next election. folks that are in charge of the party. But I'll tell you right now, they're doing more in that regard than what the last party did the entire two years they were there. These guys have done more in a month than what the others did the entire time where they were there. And I'm not exaggerating when I say that.
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Well, yeah. And let's face it, in your first month, what are you really doing? First of all, you don't even have all your people in place. Secondly, you're doing an audit. really, of what you were left and where the money is, not just where the money is, but where the people are, where the connections are and everything. There's the systems, all of it.
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And the other thing that cracks me up, and some of you listening are the ones I'm talking to because you do listen to me, whether you admit it or not. You're accusing this particular leadership team of accusing the last leadership team of doing things in a very poor fashion and leaving them with a mess and so on and so forth. What do you think Dave and his cronies did from the second they entered?
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Dave immediately sent—I know because I would be at speaking engagements where I was speaking, and his cronies that he sent out— would like go before me and they would lay into Chrissy Burton Brown and attack their predecessors right there in a meeting where I'm there to do a training.
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So those of you that are accusing this leadership team of doing what you did yourself, you're just like Democrats. Yeah. Pointing the finger at those that you did the exact same thing of. In other words, you're doing what you're accusing the others of doing, just like the Democrats do all the time.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right.
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You're a Democrat, basically.
SPEAKER 05 :
Only there's one big difference that makes them even worse, John. Christie Britton Brown immediately went away.
SPEAKER 06 :
True. These guys are not.
SPEAKER 05 :
They were attacking somebody who went away. Okay. The new leadership right now is at times calling out the previous leadership because the previous leadership isn't going away. They're attacking them nonstop.
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I read this last week. There were things Dave was doing internally on documents all the way up until April the 8th. april the 8th mind you he was ousted out of office if you would in march right and yet april the 8th he is still dinking around with documents inside of the party unacceptable folks right unacceptable and i want to go one step further some of you out there listening and i would love to get a text message from you because you owe me an apology i told a lot of you one-on-one via text message that that whole lawsuit nonsense the the committee that was you know formed the you know the committee was well you were you know was out there you know trying to you know go after these individuals and so on and so forth and all of that's been dismissed it's gone it's done it's handled the fact of matter is everything andy and i talked about came to be true dismissed is too kind laughed out of court
SPEAKER 05 :
Is how I would put it. Is more like it? Oh, yeah. Matt Arnold and his attempt to try to prolong this lawsuit and attach himself to it. The court just said flat out, you have no standing.
SPEAKER 06 :
I'm going to say laughed out of court. And some of you listening owe me an apology. Because I and Andy both were right on a lot of the things that we said. You were being misled. Yes. Literally being misled by those that were in charge, Dave Williams and Anna Ferguson and Hope Shuppelman. You guys were being deceived and lied to by them. And I don't know why you guys are smarter than that. Why did you buy into that?
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They were telling you folks that they thought this could really go somewhere. They were going to get $100,000 back and all this. You know what? They're probably going to wind up paying lawyers' fees. There's a good chance of that. They're certainly not going to get anything. The bottom line is this, John. They were kooks.
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And the other thing that's going on, being circulated right now, and there's some folks on Facebook that are talking about how it's wrong for the current party leadership to be bringing an outside accounting firm in. And they're accusing this accounting firm of improprieties and so on, which, by the way, I looked into all of the improprieties. This, by the way, is an accounting firm that works specifically with PACs. and parties and so on typically on all on the gop conservative side they're about a 30 million dollar a year company and the fact of the matter is yeah you're probably going to find one or two fec things that didn't quite get done exactly the way they should you're doing 30 million dollars worth of business a year is there going to be one or two things that slips through the crack doing $30 million a year. I could find multiple companies doing that kind of volume and go pick at different things they're doing and find multiple things, I guarantee you, that fall through the cracks because that's what happens when you get to be that big. Does it mean they're a bad company? No. No, of course not. No.
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And by the way, I don't even care about them. I care about what they find. Well, I do, too. If they go in and find, here's a picture of the evil thing being done, and there's a knife being put in, whatever. All I care about is the evidence they find. I don't care about who finds it.
SPEAKER 06 :
I want the forensic audit done. I want to see exactly what's done. I've talked about the FEC reports in the past, and some of what I felt like were a lot of shenanigans going on inside of the party, financially speaking, and one of the few hosts out there that I believe has gone through that FEC report like I've done. I spent an entire show one day going through it, and I hope this forensic audit comes back and proves a lot of the things that I talked about on that particular day, and I believe it will, Andy, when it's all said and done. And a lot of you are going to owe me another apology when it's all said and done.
SPEAKER 05 :
Last question. Will some of the Davidians finally wake up when they see how much their leaders were lying to them?
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Live and local, back to Rush to Reason. Really quick, too, also, a couple of you texted me when Andy was on the other day talking. He and Eli and Todd were talking, and I got a couple of text messages I didn't pass on to Andy because it wasn't necessary at that time, but basically saying that, man, I hope you guys are okay. You're talking about a lot of things. Is Dave and his cronies going to come after you guys? And my answer back was, no, they're not. No, they're not. After us for what? Exactly. We haven't done anything that would lead. And my answer back was I would encourage them to because I'll bury them. That's the one thing. And I think it's the one reason why Dave and his Davidians have not come after me personally is because they know that I personally will bury them.
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Well, and also people forget there has been a wide open invitation for them to call in any of these times and counter any of our points.
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Go ahead. We'll put you on first, front of the line. Yeah, I think they know that I've been through a lot of these things forensically, not like what this accounting firm's going to do, but I have found things and discovered things like the grifter Eric Grossman, who's doing things we'll talk about on Tuesday. So guys, hang tight. We'll have more for you on Tuesday. But up next... Action girls, women in action movies. That's our rental hour. Coming up next, Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
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All right, Hour 2 on this fine Friday. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Myself, Andy Pate, Charlie Grimes, Richard will be joining us here shortly. Action girls, women in action movies will be our topic for today. Any rules here, Andy, at all?
SPEAKER 15 :
Nope. It doesn't even have to be the main character. It just needs to be a woman who is involved in the action in an action movie. That's it.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, I might revise my list a little bit.
SPEAKER 15 :
I was about to say it's very broad. Now somebody will say I'm making a sexist comment.
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, no. It's a very broad topic.
SPEAKER 15 :
It's a very broad topic. Say it that way. By the way, these are fun movies. These are a lot of fun. I really enjoy them.
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so those of you that are listening you know the routine 307 200 82 22 is our text line you can text us your thoughts 307 200 82 22 you can call in as well 303 477 5600 again a very wide array of movies that would fit into this i've got quite a few and i try to do most of mine with at least being the lead or a really strong second. Most of mine are. But now I'm going to modify mine maybe a little bit. We'll see here.
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Mine are mostly the lead.
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Okay.
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But there are a few exceptions.
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Anyways, we'll have fun. We always do. We're never criticizing anybody. If you come up with something that we haven't thought of, by all means, that's what we do. And just as a side note, For you guys that are out there listening, I personally will go back, and depending upon what movie we get to chatting about or whatever, and it's kind of a reminder to me that, oh, yeah, that was a really great movie, I may go watch that movie based upon what we talk about during this hour.
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I'm the same.
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Putting reason into your afternoon drive, this is John Rush.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush. Myself, Andy Pate, and Charlie Grimes, of course, our engineer. Richard, are you with us now as well?
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I am. I have two helpers, Joshua and Samuel, that are aiding me, but we are ready to roll.
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All right, Andy. I'm glad you have two helpers. We wanted to make sure the quality was kept up. There we go. All right. I'm going to start off with an obvious one. Here's a few words from the bride in Kill Bill.
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I've killed a hell of a lot of people to get to this point. But I have only one more. The last one. The one I'm driving to right now. And when I arrive at my destination, I am going to kill Bill.
SPEAKER 15 :
Uma Thurman was great. I'm going to kill Bill. Was she terrific in those movies? I think so. Richard, did you see Kill Bill?
SPEAKER 17 :
I did. Well, I saw one. That's Tarantino, right, Andy? Yeah, yeah. I'm not a huge Tarantino guy, just kind of the way he puts his movies together. But that one was good. He did a good job on that.
SPEAKER 15 :
The thing about Tarantino, because he likes to be arty, is that his movies do drag in between the action. But boy, when the action hits, it's something. So there you go.
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You are up, sir. He does an exceptional job at that. Okay, another one that was kind of artsy, but in its own way, but that is, I think it's Julianne, not Julianne Moore, maybe Julianne Moore, in Kingsman, Poppy.
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, yeah. Oh, that's a good one. She was good. Don't have that on my list.
SPEAKER 17 :
She was pretty good. I mean, Kingsman, kind of a weird little, you know, feel, but it was good.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, it was a fun movie, I thought. Yeah, I'll buy that. John, you're up. Top of my list, Lucy. Lucy.
SPEAKER 15 :
Weird movie, but good. She does really good action movies. You know, she really does. She's getting up there, but she's got another one, by the way, coming up. Oh, really? The next Jurassic movie. Oh. Yeah.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay, speaking of Jurassic. Okay. I don't know how. I didn't watch hardly any TV on vacation at all because I just normally don't. Did you check out? I don't know. I was at one point, I don't know, waiting for the wife, doing something, whatever. So I flipped the channel on, and there's a Jurassic Park one on. And I don't know which one this is, but Vince Vaughn was in it. And I'm like, I don't remember Vince Vaughn in Jurassic Park. What did I miss? He was? I don't remember that. Richard? Richard?
SPEAKER 17 :
I don't think he was in. Yes, he was. I watched it. It was number two, The Lost World.
SPEAKER 14 :
There you go. Really? Yes, and I did not remember. I mean, was it that bad? I don't remember. I guess so.
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97.
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I don't know about the cameraman.
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Yeah, I don't know if he was a cameraman, or he was like the assistant.
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He was something, because he was in there when the dinosaurs were shaking the two-truck thing, or the truck and trailer that's going over the cliff, and he's in there, and the T-Rex is shaking it all apart. Anyways, side note, I don't remember him being in Jurassic Park.
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I did not either.
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So there you go.
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Okay. All right, up next, and this is just a little bit of Harley Quinn from Suicide Squad. Here we go.
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by which she's just crazy what was that i should kill everyone and escape sorry the voices i'm kidding that's not what they really said this is the deal she was yeah fabulous she made the movie yeah we talked about it earlier absolutely she did yep richard you're up
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All right, you made me think of a deck, because if we're going to say Jurassic, or Lucy one, we have to go Jurassic Park, which Laura Dern in the first one.
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Oh.
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Oh, yeah. Yeah.
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Yeah, that would count.
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She was good. She was good. And then they kind of brought her back into the other one, but that was a good one.
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Yeah. That was one of the, I guess because it was one of the first ones we had seen and experienced and so on, but yeah, great movie, by the way. Great movie.
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Very intense.
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You think? Yeah. That first one especially was. Wow. Absolutely.
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But at least they gobble up a lawyer. That's good.
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And Newman from Seinfeld. Yes.
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Yes. Great. Anyways. And Samuel L. Jackson, although they did not gobble him up.
SPEAKER 14 :
No, they did. Good point. Good point. Okay, I'm going to do one, and I hadn't seen this movie. I still need to watch the rest of it. I watched about two-thirds of it on the airplane here. I don't know, a trip or two back, but Bumblebee. Oh, yeah. I haven't watched the rest of it, but so far, so good. I'm through about, I don't know, two-thirds of it.
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And the girl in that was very good, wasn't she?
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Yes.
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And by the way, that is one of the best Transformers movies. I liked it.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah.
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I liked it, too. Okay, here's an obvious one. Katniss Everdeen, The Hunger Games. Here we go.
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Oh, yeah. And so it was decreed that each year, the 12 districts of Pan Am... shall offer up in tribute one young man and woman between the ages of 12 and 18 to be trained in the art of survival and to be prepared to fight to the death.
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This is the time to show them everything. Make sure they remember you. I just keep wishing I could think of a way to show them that they don't own me. If I'm gonna die, I wanna still be me.
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I just can't afford to think like that.
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Anyway, they didn't have a lot of lines with her. It was mostly showing what she's doing with the arrows, but she was terrific. Good movie. Yep. J-Law was great in that movie. Richard, you're up.
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All right, Andy, I'm going to kind of go with one. I'm going to go for two, because we can't go down to the series too much. But, Dad, you made me think of it with Bumblebee. I'm going to go with Transformers, because you had Megan Fox, and then you had Rosie, I think, Huntington, Whiteley, or I'm not sure. But you want to talk about a transition – of obviously they couldn't get Megan Fox to kind of come back for the third movie, I think it was, right?
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Right.
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And so they sort of – but you want to talk about like a – they just didn't really – usually there's sort of like a weird – like they have to sort of introduce it. But there wasn't even that, Andy. There was just a – you know, they kind of glossed over and Sam Witwicky just moved right on.
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I agree.
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Yeah. Good. No, that one, definitely. Now, which one was the worst Transformers? You and Dan talked about it way back when.
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Dark Side of the Moon was awful. They had, like, three that were just so breathtakingly bad. The Beast one was just... Was it not good?
SPEAKER 17 :
I haven't watched that one yet.
SPEAKER 15 :
They had three different Transformers movies that were all down near zero level. Not bad. Under one star. Under one star, yeah. So it's kind of hard.
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So not Bumblebee.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah. It just depends on which one you see in a worse mood. Bumblebee, no, I gave that three and a half stars, and I gave the latest one, Transformers 1, four stars.
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Yeah.
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So they've had some good ones.
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Okay. Let's see here for me. Let's do Atomic Blonde.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah. That was good. Yeah. Okay. I know you'll hate this, but I got to say it. Furiosa.
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Oh, jeez. It's on my list.
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A Mad Max saga. Here we go.
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Terrible movie.
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However long it takes, I promise you'll find your way home.
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I cannot watch this movie anymore.
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And that was actually the sequel with Anya Taylor-Joy, and she was terrific. She did a great job. Right up there with Charlize Theron. So there you go. Richard, you're up.
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There you go, Andy. All right, I'm going to go with one that is Well, the kids actually said it because they obviously liked it, which is Sonic. And the gal, Andy, who's the wife of Mr. Donut Lord, you know, 3000 or whoever he is.
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Yeah. Does she do a lot? I forget.
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Yeah, they stop it, especially in the last one here with Shadow. Okay, yeah. Granted, there is a new one coming out, so you kind of play into it, but she's in it. Plus, again, the kids wanted to mention Sonic, Andy.
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Okay, they got to mention Sonic. Way to go. Can't deny that.
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Okay.
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He'd be a bad father if you denied that.
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How about... And I know it wasn't a great movie, but it wasn't... I mean, I think Andy probably thought it was worse than I did. I watched it. I wouldn't watch it again, but Captain Marvel.
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Oh, you know, I didn't hate it as much as a lot of the critics did, but I didn't think it was very good.
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It wasn't great, but it's worth watching once.
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I found Captain Marvel to be a little below average.
SPEAKER 14 :
Much below average.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, well, no, much below would be the Marvels. Okay. They dropped off a cliff with that one. Okay, how about this? And as you well know, one of my favorite actresses is Emily Blunt. Let's be honest. And here she is in Edge of Tomorrow with Tom Cruise. Good movie.
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I watched it the other day.
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Again. Again.
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Again. Again.
SPEAKER 14 :
She keeps killing him every time. Yeah, this is a Groundhog Day theme.
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Just wait, wait. I think I'm okay.
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On your feet, maggot. Maggot. Maggot. I'm trying to be nice to you, maggot. Now move.
SPEAKER 31 :
You okay, Cage? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I'm good. I'm good. Your leg's broken. No, I can still feel my toes. Come on.
SPEAKER 14 :
I had forgotten how many times he died. Oh, I know. Until watching that the other day. I hadn't seen it forever, and I watched it the other day. But come on.
SPEAKER 15 :
Is she wonderful or what?
SPEAKER 14 :
The whole movie's good.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, the whole movie's great, of course. He's always great, but she's always great.
SPEAKER 14 :
Agree. Great movie.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 14 :
Good one, Andy.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay, go ahead. Richard, you were up. Gotcha. Okay, I can't believe we haven't said this one, and I'm not sure. So if I do a Bond movie, do I have to specify or can I just say the Bond?
SPEAKER 15 :
The Bond girls?
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, the Bond girls. I mean, you had lots of different ones, right? You sort of had the helpers or his assistant people.
SPEAKER 15 :
It is hard to pick a best one for an action girl in a Bond movie. Which would be the best one? The Asian lady in that one Pierce Brosnan one was really good.
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Tomorrow Never Dies. Halle Berry wasn't too bad. Oh, she was great. But it was a good story, I thought.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah. She had the classic scene coming up out of the water. I know. I'm a guy, okay? I'm a guy. No, you're right. You're right. Besides which, I've always loved Halle Berry. She's terrific. We'll go with her. We'll go with Halle Berry. Who, by the way, another action movie, she played Storm in the X-Men, and she was great in that, too. Oh, Andy, way to go. Was that one of yours? Yes. Oh, I'm sorry. And he went out of turn. I'm so sorry.
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My turn? Go ahead, John. I'm in trouble. You guys just reminded me of, I think all of the Austin Powers had at least one female. Oh, yeah. As part of the repertoire of actors.
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They were great, too.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah. Am I correct? Wasn't Halle Berry one of those also? Beyonce. Beyonce.
SPEAKER 17 :
No. No, no. Halle Berry wasn't in. No, it was Beyonce.
SPEAKER 14 :
Beyonce. Sorry. Way to go, Dad. It's been a while since I watched it. I'm sorry.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, and let's face it, none of us have seen the third one more than once.
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, that's true.
SPEAKER 15 :
It wasn't that good.
SPEAKER 14 :
That's true. Good point.
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Okay, how about a little Sandra Bullock here in Miss Congeniality? Here we go.
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Get ready.
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Guns!
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For the new face of the FBI.
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Of course he had a gun. This is Texas. Everybody has a gun. My florist has a gun.
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Miss Congeniality.
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What is the one thing our society needs?
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World peace. World peace. World peace. Harsher punishment for a parole violator, Stan. And world peace.
SPEAKER 14 :
That's pretty good.
SPEAKER 15 :
I thought that was a fun little movie. I enjoyed that. Richard, you're up.
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Okay, let's see. Okay, I don't know.
SPEAKER 15 :
I know one you can't use now.
SPEAKER 17 :
Sorry. I know you can use it. So this isn't quite action-y, Andy, but my daughter's here, so I have to go with it, which is Elsa. Because there's some action parts in there, you know? I would say so, yes. And, Dad, I know you can't say no because it's your granddaughter, so I'm just taking advantage of you two.
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You got to go with it. Okay, I have one. I like it. Probably not an action movie, but I watched it on the plane. It's been forever since I've seen it. Forgot how good the movie really is, and it's a true story. And it's only because of the female portion of the story that this horse went on to become the most famous racehorse of all time, Secretariat.
SPEAKER 1 :
Oh.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay.
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And she was a hero because had it not been for her saving the family farm and doing everything she did to keep things rolling along, it never would have happened.
SPEAKER 15 :
Works for me.
SPEAKER 14 :
Great movie, by the way. I forgot how good that movie was.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay. Well, here's a movie that I guarantee we always forget how good it was, but Alita Battle Angel. Here we go. That was on my list.
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I will take on anyone in this room. And if I win, you fight alongside me. This bitch broke my nose. Yes, I did. Heroes? All I see are junkyard punks, assorted cyber trash, and a bunch of drunken motorball burnouts too slow to play the game.
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And then she beats them all. Yeah, yeah. Good movie. Yeah. Surprisingly. Did Spielberg do that?
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I don't remember.
SPEAKER 15 :
I thought he might have. I can't remember. Okay, Richard, you're up. Richard, did you see Alita Battle Angel?
SPEAKER 17 :
I never saw that one, Andy. That's a good movie. It's a fun movie.
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Yeah, it's a good movie.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay. I'll take your word for it. I'm going to go with one that maybe you're not going to think of, and that is Thor, but not for Natalie Portman. I'm going to go with Thor Ragnarok for the Valkyrie chick.
SPEAKER 15 :
Oh, yeah. Yeah, they were good.
SPEAKER 14 :
I agree.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 15 :
And Ragnarok, by the way, was very funny. That was a fun movie. Good one. It was. Go, John. Go.
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Quick and the Dead.
SPEAKER 15 :
The Quick and the Dead. Here we go.
SPEAKER 14 :
She saves the town.
SPEAKER 15 :
Here we go.
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You're not fast enough for me. Today I am.
SPEAKER 14 :
Today I am. Today I am. Okay, speaking of Westerners, really quick, before we go to break, before we go to break, I was watching two guys the other day on a video, and they were talking about Tombstone. And Val Kilmer and his character in Tombstone. Fantastic. Talking about how you can take almost every single line Val Kilmer said in Tombstone and make it a one-liner. Yes. Almost every single thing he said you can pull out and it's a one-liner. I know. He was so good. They're all good.
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It was so good. And it wasn't just the way they were written. It was his delivery.
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Everything. One of his best movies of all time.
SPEAKER 15 :
I believe it was, for me, it was his best performance ever. Now, he's had so many, I know, but for me, that was his best ever.
SPEAKER 14 :
Because he was sick, played the part well.
SPEAKER 15 :
Oh, so good.
SPEAKER 14 :
I mean, everything about it, just solid, by the way.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah.
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SPEAKER 14 :
And we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Myself, Andy Pate, Charlie Grimes, and, of course, Richard Rush joining us as well. Andy, your turn.
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Okay, an actress who redefined women in action movies, and she really did, was Sigourney Weaver as Ripley in Aliens.
SPEAKER 14 :
Very well said.
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I hope you're right. I really do.
SPEAKER 30 :
Yeah, okay, right. Thank you, Ripley. We also have Ripley's report on disk. I suggest you study it.
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Because just one of those things managed to wipe out my entire crew in less than 24 hours. And if the colonists have found that ship, then there's no telling how many of them have been exposed. Do you understand?
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Anyway, we have it on disk, so you better look at it.
SPEAKER 15 :
They're not listening to her. Guys, there could be hundreds of those things down on this planet where you're going. Aliens was a war, and what a great movie. And she was spectacular in it. And her final battle with the Queen, wow, incredible. Richard, you're up.
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All right, Andy. We haven't mentioned the most famous one, right? Wonder Woman, have we?
SPEAKER 15 :
No, we have not mentioned her. Here we go. Here we go.
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Who are you? I am Diana of Themyscira. Daughter of Hippolyta, in the name of all that is good, your wrath upon this world is over.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yep, that's not gonna work. Please put the sword down.
SPEAKER 22 :
It doesn't go with the outfit.
SPEAKER 15 :
At all. Wonder Woman was also a pretty funny movie. It was just a very, very good movie. I gave it four stars. I thought it was really good.
SPEAKER 14 :
You hated 1984, right?
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, yeah. But everybody alive hated 1984.
SPEAKER 14 :
I didn't think it was that bad.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay. Except you. Except me.
SPEAKER 14 :
There we go.
SPEAKER 15 :
You're the only one, man. One of us. Everybody else says it ruined a franchise.
SPEAKER 14 :
But John? I mean, it wasn't their greatest movie, but I didn't think it was that bad. You know what? You should buy up all the copies. There we go. I'd probably be the only one out there with them. There you go. Richard. You're up? Richard.
SPEAKER 15 :
Oh, I'm up? Richard did Wonder Woman.
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, Richard. Oh, that's right. You played. Okay, gotcha, gotcha. Okay. I have one that came in from a listener, Helen Moran in Red.
SPEAKER 15 :
Oh, yeah. Helen Moran in Red was amazing. She was so good.
SPEAKER 14 :
Agree.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay. One of my favorites, of course, Kate Beckinsale, one of my heartthrobs until I got married, in Underworld. Here we go.
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You're in the middle of a war that's been raging for the better part of a thousand years. A blood feud between vampires and lycans.
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Werewolves. Now, a decision must be made.
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Why did you bring him here? You saved my life.
SPEAKER 20 :
Between an oath sworn centuries ago. Perhuman. He's not a human at all. He's a lycan. And a power that can't be no such human.
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Greater than vengeance. You'll be lucky if I can convince the consuls to spare your life. Absolution will be yours the moment you kill Michael.
SPEAKER 15 :
She was fantastic in Underworld. Have either of you seen Underworld? Am I the only one here?
SPEAKER 14 :
No, I'm not.
SPEAKER 15 :
Oh.
SPEAKER 17 :
It's been a minute, Andy, but I'm with you.
SPEAKER 15 :
It's a classic. She was so good. Richard, you're up.
SPEAKER 17 :
All right, Andy. In honor of Kate Beckinsale, like you just did, I'm going to go with this route, which is Van Helsing. Yes! She was so good. I've never seen that. Dad, you're missing. You have it, and we go through this every week.
SPEAKER 14 :
I know. We do go through this. You've got to watch it. I guess I'll download it one of these days and watch it.
SPEAKER 17 :
It's just a good action movie. I mean, it's not like amazing acting. It's not amazing storytelling. You're not going to walk away thinking, like, this is the masterpiece of the century. But it's good old-fashioned everything, right?
SPEAKER 15 :
It's monster fun. Okay. It's monster fun, and it's just a really good movie. Hugh Jackman is the star, and Kate Beckinsale is in it. They're terrific. I love it. Angelina Jolie, Laura Croft, Tomb Raider. Oh, she was terrific, wasn't she?
SPEAKER 14 :
First one I think was still the best.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, totally, totally. I totally agree. Okay, here we go with Resident Evil.
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Now, an elite team has been sent in to stop it.
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Five hours ago, Rick, we went homicidal.
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Who's the Red Queen?
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State-of-the-art artificial intelligence. The corporation's keeping a few secrets down here.
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But they have only three hours left before it begins infecting and mutating the whole human race.
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Everyone stay calm.
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You have to get out.
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Don't listen to anything she says. She's a holographic representation of the Red Queen.
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She may be our only way out of here.
SPEAKER 15 :
That's Mila Jovovich, and the first Resident Evil, when it came out, took the world by storm. People loved it, and they made a million of them, you know, but Mila Jovovich was wonderful in that role. Okay, Richard, you're up.
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Oh, let's see here. Andy, oh, where's my, what was she in? I can't remember that. Okay, well, my kid said this, and he's helping me right now. I'm going to go Spider-Man. And, of course, Mary Jane, which is Kirsten Dunst. Or Zendaya, right? I mean, they're both really good.
SPEAKER 15 :
Or who? What? Oh, Zendaya.
SPEAKER 17 :
And the newest Zendaya, yeah.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, you know, I didn't like the Zendaya one as much. I mean, she was okay, but some of the other characters I didn't like much in that one. I really liked the one with Kirsten Dunst. She was my fave. She was pretty good. She was really good. All right. John, you're up.
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Terminator 2, Judgment Day, Linda Hamilton.
SPEAKER 15 :
Oh, here we go.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay. And here we are. Morning, Sarah.
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Good morning, Dr. Silverman. How's the knee?
SPEAKER 08 :
Fine, Sarah. She stabbed me in the kneecap with my pen a few weeks ago. Repeated escape attempts.
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Just listen to her. She was just... She was fantastic. Linda Hamilton remade herself for that role. And, oh, was she awesome. Yeah. Just a great role. Yeah. Okay, another great role. Geez, I'm forgetting the actress's name now. I'm sorry about this, but The Hunt. Here we go. And she was wonderful. There's been a killing spree. You've got to come here right now. Oh!
SPEAKER 22 :
You actually believed we were hunting human beings for sport. But you are.
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We have an opportunity here to teach these people.
SPEAKER 16 :
These are not real people. They're actors.
SPEAKER 09 :
I'm playing an Arab refugee, but I identify as white. I think that's problematic too, in some way.
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You wanted it to be real, so you decided it was.
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Hilary Swank.
SPEAKER 15 :
Hilary Swank was the bad lady. The good one was Betty Gilpin. Betty Gilpin. And by the way, The Hunt, once again, was a movie where Trump supporters get hunted, but the movie is actually about hunting the liberals who hunted them.
SPEAKER 14 :
Interesting.
SPEAKER 15 :
And if you want to see a bunch of liberals get hunted down, well, that movie, you're really going to enjoy it. All righty then. I've seen it twice. I loved it. Okay, Richard, go.
SPEAKER 17 :
All right, did we, I think, did we say Tomb Raider?
SPEAKER 14 :
Yes. Lara Croft.
SPEAKER 17 :
I thought you did. I was just making sure. Just was making sure. All right, let's see here. Oh, Princess Leia, Andy. Yeah.
SPEAKER 15 :
Leia, she was very action-y. Take charge, lady. We missed it. I'm just saying, she was. Yeah, good one. Especially in the later ones, she took charge, right? Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah. Good one. Good one. John, go. And what was the actress's name? Anybody? Anyone?
SPEAKER 15 :
Carrie Fisher. Carrie Fisher.
SPEAKER 14 :
There we go.
SPEAKER 15 :
Carrie Fisher was short. I just want to say that.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, you're right.
SPEAKER 15 :
There was not a lot of her.
SPEAKER 14 :
All right, we'll take calls in a moment. Mine is going to be Divergent, Chalene Woodley. Yeah. That was a good movie. The first one, again, way better than the second, as always. Yeah, the second one fell off. Yeah, it fell right off the old planet there. Yeah, it did. All right, let's go to John and Cheyenne. Go ahead, John.
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Yeah, I got a few of them. If you don't mind if I mention them. Sure, go ahead. Yeah, the first one is Alita, Battle Angel.
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Yep, we got that one.
SPEAKER 11 :
Oh, we did? Yeah, Andy got it. That's a good one. How about Paycheck with Uma Thurman? Oh!
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, I forgot about that one.
SPEAKER 11 :
Nicely done, sir.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, good one.
SPEAKER 11 :
Two comedy action movies. First one is Hot Pursuit with Reese Witherspoon. Yep. That's a good action comedy.
SPEAKER 14 :
It's with Thea Begar as well.
SPEAKER 11 :
We're going to... Second action comedy is Keeping Up with the Joneses.
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, I almost had that on my list, but I didn't put it down, so good job.
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Okay, a Western is Raquel Welsh and Bandolero.
SPEAKER 14 :
That's one of Charlie's that he wanted us to mention, so good job. Classic. Okay, and did you tell me... And One Million Years B.C., he said as well, for Raquel.
SPEAKER 11 :
Oh, that's a good one. That's a good one, too, yeah. And anybody mention the Guardians of the Galaxy series?
SPEAKER 15 :
We did not. It's on my list, but I had not mentioned it yet. She was wonderful.
SPEAKER 11 :
Sorry to steal your thunder there. No, that's okay.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay, thank you. John, thank you very much. Appreciate it. Donovan, you are next. Go ahead.
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Hey, John. Boris Leachman in Young Frankenstein and High Anxiety.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay, I'm typing out here. Yeah, he's typing. Good ones. I like Cloris Leachman. Boy, she was funny.
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And then there would be one other one that, of course, I was young then, but the woman that played Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
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Who won Best Supporting Actress for that role. I forget the name of the actress, but she was wonderful.
SPEAKER 16 :
She was wonderful. There was a little blurb on that I read.
SPEAKER 15 :
I don't think that was Leachman.
SPEAKER 16 :
No, that wasn't Leach. I can't remember her name. But she always played that real uptight nurse in that movie.
SPEAKER 15 :
She was wonderful.
SPEAKER 16 :
The last day of shooting, she came out in broad panties and danced on top of the table. Charlie just got it for us. Louise Fletcher.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yes, yes. Wonderful, wonderful. There you go.
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I thought she was just gorgeous.
SPEAKER 15 :
All right, guys, love the show.
SPEAKER 14 :
Donovan, thank you very much, as always. We appreciate it. All right, Andy, take it away.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay, how about Gina Davis in The Long Kiss Goodnight?
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Here we go. Charlie Baltimore's alive, sir.
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Who are you? Name's Charlie.
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The spy. Back when we first met, you were all like, oh boy, I burned the darn muffins. Now, you go into a bar, ten minutes later, sailors come running out. How about up with that? This fall.
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Honk if there's any trouble.
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Yes, Miss Daisy, I be honking. If you have plans for a calm, quiet evening.
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Cover your ears. Hey, should we get a dog?
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It's time to kiss them all.
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Good night. She and Samuel L. Jackson were really good together in that movie. I don't know if you ever saw it, but it was good. Richard, you're up. All right, first I have someone who wants to say something.
SPEAKER 31 :
Hi, Papa.
SPEAKER 14 :
Hey, buddy, how are you?
SPEAKER 31 :
Good.
SPEAKER 14 :
Good. Are you helping? He's helping. All right. Good job.
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I'm going to go. He did not help on this one. Which is an Apple TV movie, Dad. I'm not sure if you've seen this one yet. Ghost with Anna de Armas and Chris Evans.
SPEAKER 14 :
I have not seen it. Is it good?
SPEAKER 17 :
I mean, it wasn't great. You know, it kind of sounds like it looks like it was. I may watch it on my upcoming trip, but we'll see.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay. Bond girl, Charlie said. Yes, she is. Yes. Okay. So I have my next one because there's quite a few that I'll rattle off in here. So Oceans 8, Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Sarah Paulson, Rihanna, and the list goes on. Yeah. Awkwafina.
SPEAKER 15 :
Awkwafina. I thought she made it.
SPEAKER 14 :
You know, that's one of those movies where it wasn't that great, but it's still watchable.
SPEAKER 15 :
I'm not going to play a clip here, but I got to mention my Emily Blunt again with A Quiet Place.
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Oh, so good.
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Richard, you're up.
SPEAKER 17 :
I'm not sure if that's quite action anymore. Oh, come on.
SPEAKER 15 :
It was tense, but they were also on the run.
SPEAKER 14 :
She had a baby while the alien was after.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, come on. Come on. Did we do Sandra Bullock in the net?
SPEAKER 14 :
No, it's on my list. No, we did not. It's on my list. There you go. Let's see here. Oh, let's see here. Jodie Foster, Panic Room.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 14 :
Weird movie, but... Yeah, but I like her. I watched like a half an hour of that the other day just to where I was like, okay, I've seen enough. I'll watch something else now.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, it's not a two-timer.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, it's a little slow at times. Get to the point, people. Let's go.
SPEAKER 15 :
Here's one I can only see once and two actresses, Grace Curry and Virginia Gardner in Fall. Here we go.
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I'm not sure how do we get down. I don't have a signal.
SPEAKER 22 :
The water is down there in that bag.
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We have 50 feet of rope.
SPEAKER 25 :
I think I can drop myself lower.
SPEAKER 22 :
Can't watch this movie.
SPEAKER 26 :
Okay, I'm going to jump onto the flag. Hunter, no. Hunter!
SPEAKER 23 :
Every hour that passes, the weaker we get. If anyone called 911, they'd be here by now. What is it that Dan used to say? If you're scared of dying, don't be afraid of it.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, can't watch it. I watched parts of it, and I'm like, yeah, I can't do it.
SPEAKER 15 :
Oh, I know. That was hard for me, because you know me. I'm afraid of heights.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, I don't like it.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, no thanks. Can't do it. But it was a four-star movie. It was very good. Richard, you're up.
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All right. I'll do another Angelina Jolie movie, which is Wanted, where they bend the bullet.
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Yep.
SPEAKER 17 :
Good one. Good one. Easy as I'll get out, but not a bad little Friday night.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah. Yeah.
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Red Sparrow, Jennifer Lawrence.
SPEAKER 15 :
Oh, okay. Well, tell you what, since we're seeing with Angelina Jolie, here we go. Salt.
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Today, a Russian agent will travel to New York City to kill the president. This agent is K-12.
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The K-A program.
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name.
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You're good. You can tell the rest of your story to one of my colleagues.
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The name of the agent is Evelyn Salt. My name is Evelyn Salt. Then you are a Russian spy.
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And from there, she's on the run. That was good. I love Angelina Jolie. She's terrific. Okay, Richard, you're up.
SPEAKER 17 :
Alright, let's see here. Oh, you did Atomic Blonde, Andy, didn't you?
SPEAKER 14 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 17 :
Kate Beckinsale Canary Black.
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, yeah. I don't think I've ever seen that movie. I'll have to watch it.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah. I think it was good. Honestly, I was actually planning on watching it coming up here, but I heard it was good.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, it was pretty good. Go ahead, John.
SPEAKER 14 :
All right, let's see if you guys can name the movie. Cameron Diaz, Lucy Liu, and Drew Barrymore.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, Charlie's Angels.
SPEAKER 14 :
Charlie's Angels. Good job.
SPEAKER 15 :
We did Florence Pugh earlier. Let's use her again. Fighting With My Family. I mean, that was action in the ring, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. And by the way, very good movie. Richard, you're up.
SPEAKER 17 :
Oh, let's see here. Okay, I've got one. Swordfish with Halle Berry through Jackman. One of my favorites.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay. I hadn't thought of that. That's a good one.
SPEAKER 15 :
Go ahead, John.
SPEAKER 14 :
Um... Got to pick these out here. Charlie had requested that we try to get actress names along with this as we do this. So I'm doing my best to do that as we're rolling along here. So Margot Robbie, Birds of Prey, which goes along with the suicide.
SPEAKER 15 :
Right, right, back to Harley Quinn. She was great. How about Michelle Dockery? And she was in a movie with Mark Wahlberg that just came out, Flight Risk, which is a better movie than the critics gave credit, and it did much better than they expected. So there you go. Richard, you're up.
SPEAKER 17 :
I'm going to go with Natalie Portman, Andy, in V for Vendetta.
SPEAKER 15 :
Oh, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER 14 :
She did a good job. Black Widow, Scarlett Johansson. I know, it wasn't that great of a movie, but...
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay, how about a cartoon? Mulan.
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh. Come on. Who plays Mulan?
SPEAKER 15 :
I don't know who did the voice. It's a cartoon. But she was great. By the way, Mulan is one of the funnest little Disney cartoons I've seen. It was terrific. Richard, you're up.
SPEAKER 17 :
There you go, Andy. All right. Oh, I can't say that one because Charlie's going to get me. I will go with The Kitchen, which is Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Adish, Elizabeth Moss.
SPEAKER 14 :
Good job. Okay. How about Trinity, Matrix, and that's Carrie Ann Ross. Or Moss, I mean.
SPEAKER 15 :
I loved her in that. Wasn't she fantastic?
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, and for being a co-character, pretty good. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Pretty solid.
SPEAKER 15 :
Let's go back to Scarlett Johansson. Always great in action movies in The Avengers. There you go. Black Widow. We got a user there.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay, Richard, you're up. Jodie Foster, again, in Flight Plan.
SPEAKER 14 :
No, he just said that one. Or no, that's a different one. It's a different one. Same name. Flight Risk was mine. Flight Risk, Flight Plan. Very close.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well done.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay. Now, this one we could probably, you'd have to pick which female actress played Catwoman, but there's the movie itself and then, of course, other. That would be Halle Berry. Yeah, and then there's others that were along the line with, you know, Batman and all of that, but yeah. Michelle Pfeiffer and so on, so yes.
SPEAKER 15 :
All right, well, let's go back to Scarlett Johansson again in Ghost in the Shell, a remake of the Japanese cartoon movie. Very well done. Richard, you're up.
SPEAKER 17 :
All right, I'm going to go with one that you may not think of, Andy, and it's just, again, I'm kind of going to the bottom of my barrel a little bit, which is Death Race, and it is Natalie Martinez. Yeah.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah. That's an interesting movie.
SPEAKER 17 :
Jason Statham, yeah.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, yeah. No, I agree. I agree. Let's see here. Hitman's wife or Hitman. I can't talk. Hitman's wife's bodyguard. But I don't know the actress. Somebody ought to help me with that one.
SPEAKER 15 :
Salma Hayek. Salma Hayek.
SPEAKER 14 :
There we go. Thank you.
SPEAKER 15 :
She's great. Okay, this one you wouldn't think of, but this is the ultimate action girl, Chloe Grace Moretz as Hit Girl in the movie Kick-Ass.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 15 :
And boy, was she action and killing. That's all she did. Richard, you're up.
SPEAKER 17 :
Double Jeopardy, Ashley Judd.
SPEAKER 15 :
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 17 :
Good job.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay. Um... Hang on, I'm looking up the female character, Ava, and that was played by Jessica Chastain.
SPEAKER 15 :
I like Jessica Chastain. How about Charlize Theron again in The Italian Job? There was action in that.
SPEAKER 14 :
One more, Richard. This will be it for you.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yep, Richard. Oh, this is perfect. This is going to be it for me. I'm going to go with Saps and the Furious, and you've got Jordana Brewster, you've got Charlize Theron, you've got Michelle Rodriguez, lots of them.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 17 :
And a great action movie.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yep. Good one. G.I. Jane. And that was... Oh, why can't I think of her name off the top of my head?
SPEAKER 15 :
She was married to Bruce Willis.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah. She was in the... Demi Moore.
SPEAKER 15 :
There you go.
SPEAKER 14 :
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SPEAKER 14 :
All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Myself, Andy Pate, Charlie Grimes, Richard dropped off because we've only got a little bit of time left here. About a minute and a half or so, Andy, so rattle off. I don't have that many left, but go ahead and rattle off a few for us if you would like.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay, I've got some names. Sandra Bullock, of course, in Speed.
SPEAKER 14 :
Good one.
SPEAKER 15 :
Charlize Theron in Aeon Flux. Michelle Yao in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Felicity Jones in Rogue One. Mila Jovovich in Ultraviolet and The Fifth Element. You got Daisy Ridley in Star Wars, The Force Awakens. You got Daisy Ridley again in Cleaner, which came out recently. And young Lily Sullivan was phenomenal as Beth in Evil Dead Rise.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay. I've got just a few here that I'll rattle off. Luckily, we've got plenty of time. So The Killer, and I don't know the names of these actresses, so my bad. I did not look those up ahead of time. The Killer, Ghosted, and you might know some of these, Peppermint, Jolt.
SPEAKER 15 :
Peppermint, Jennifer Garner.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay, and Kidnapped.
SPEAKER 15 :
Kidnapped. I don't know that one.
SPEAKER 14 :
And I didn't look those up. I apologize. Oh, Jane Fonda, Barbarella. There you go.
SPEAKER 15 :
Oh, classic. Okay. And I don't have the names in front of me. I do know Charlize Theron was in Prometheus. Sucker Punch. Don't remember the actress. Haywire. Don't remember the actress. The Descent. Don't remember the actress. Sorry, guys.
SPEAKER 14 :
I know. Look them up.
SPEAKER 15 :
Brave, which is a cartoon. La Femme Nikita, which is actually a foreign film. Very good. Hannah. which was very much an action film. Planet Terror, I don't know if you've heard of that one. That was an action film, which was actually quite good. In the Lost Lands, not very good. I saw it recently. Elektra, which was also Jennifer Garner. The Point of No Return, that was Bridget Fonda. 47 Meters Down, I didn't really know the young actresses, but that was intense. And Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
SPEAKER 14 :
All right, that's it for tonight, folks. Have a great weekend. Don't forget, first thing in the morning, Fix It Radio at 9, followed up by Drive Radio. Again, have a great evening. Have a great weekend as well. Myself, Andy, and Charlie, this is Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 12 :
how's everybody doing this afternoon we are klz 560 am we are the guys perspective remember you can always reach out to the guys at 303 477 5600 again that's 303 477 5600 um i'm super excited we're no longer 30 minutes we're going a whole hour and before we do before we go around the room and announce ourselves i first want to do the pledge allegiance to the flag man you know what i'm saying do you remember i actually i do i think i do okay so let's do this all right okay i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all When's the last time you said that, man?
SPEAKER 13 :
Fifth grade.
SPEAKER 12 :
I'm telling you, right? It's been a long time since we said that stuff right there. That was legit. Come on with it, Colorado. I'm telling you, we love being on the air with all you guys. And again, this is KLZ 560 and we're at 303-477-5600. If anybody else has been a long time since they said to pledge allegiance, call in and tell us about it, man.
SPEAKER 13 :
It's been a while. Hope you were doing it with us. In your car.
SPEAKER 12 :
In your car. Okay, let's go around the room. Introduce you guys yourselves.
SPEAKER 05 :
I'm Reno, local electrician. It's good to have you, man.
SPEAKER 12 :
You're with us every week.
SPEAKER 13 :
And I'm Heath Hine. I run Clearview Windshield Repair, which is a franchise business. And so I'm looking for more franchisees if you want to be out there with me. And then, yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
and we are missing um andre he's he's you know kind of going through some things so he's not with us today he's with his family and um we're missing truth in the booth you know what i'm saying i mean you know he's he was telling us the truth when he ain't feeling well you know okay i think we oh before we get started um uh do you want to tell the address to the upper room
SPEAKER 05 :
Oh, it's 1001 South Pearl Street in Denver, Colorado. If you're looking for a place to go to church to fellowship, that is a very friendly place.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, if you have a baby dedication or anything like that that you want to, you know, baptism, baby dedication, anything of that sort, look it up. Pastor Derwood Tate is... Do we know his number off the top of our head? You know, let me... I think I... Yeah, either way, look up the upper room. Look up the upper room. One other thing, if y'all miss our show or you want to go back and listen to our show, you can go to our, what's our social media platform?
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, we've got Facebook, we've got Spotify, we've got iTunes, and our YouTube got shut down because of my guy in Bangladesh. The Bangladesh people, man. And John from Bangladesh got us shut down.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, that's a tough one right there.
SPEAKER 13 :
Maybe we're talking about some two real topics, man.
SPEAKER 12 :
I'm telling you right there.
SPEAKER 13 :
They couldn't handle it.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, we're pretty real.
SPEAKER 13 :
Soon to have a website. And hey, if you build websites, let us know. You could build us one.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, if you build websites, give us... Give us a chime. If you go to our Facebook, you can post topics and you can talk to the guys. We had a gentleman. We don't say anybody's name on the air except for our own, but he was asking us on Facebook. He was saying, are you guys some kind of rogue group? Are you guys trying to start your own movement? Just to let everybody know, we're the guy's perspective. We talk about everything.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yep. A to Z. Well, one million. One to infinity.
SPEAKER 12 :
There you go. So if you've got anything you want to ask us, we're more than willing to chat with you. But just to let people know, we are... We talk about everything. If whatever topic comes to the top of our head or one of these guys want to talk about this week, that's what we do.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, not a rogue group.
SPEAKER 12 :
We're definitely not a rogue group. We've got structure. That's what it's about. And today we're going to talk about prison and does it work? Does the prison system work? Is it set up right? Is it flawed? Right.
SPEAKER 13 :
I mean, I'd like to tear into the –
SPEAKER 05 :
I believe it's definitely flawed. I mean, I'd rather be, if I had to go through the system, I'd rather be an American than any place else. But it's definitely flawed.
SPEAKER 12 :
Right. You wouldn't want to be locked up in Venezuela or some Siberian prison in Russia, man. That would be rough, man.
SPEAKER 13 :
That is true. Well, see, I guess it's important to compare to certain things. Yeah, for sure. But what I've studied and what I've learned is, I mean, I've been in jail a couple of times and I don't recommend it to nobody, first of all. What did you go to jail for, man? DV, domestic violence. Oh, gotcha. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, wow.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
They'll throw you in jail for that.
SPEAKER 13 :
Oh, yeah, man. Nowadays, it's like three strikes and you're out. You go to prison. Yeah, you go to prison. So I stopped beating women.
SPEAKER 11 :
Come on, man.
SPEAKER 13 :
No, I got a wife who's real strong. She'd beat me up. I'm telling you, yeah, she would. She'll handle business.
SPEAKER 12 :
Why do you think it's flawed?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, it's biased. What do you mean? Well, a certain group of people will get a certain amount of time for certain crimes. Another group of people will get a different outcome. I mean, you see it all the time.
SPEAKER 12 :
So we got a caller coming in. I can agree with you. Let me ask you this. If the system's flawed, like because I believe that if a judge gives you a set amount of time, let's say he sends you to prison for three years, why is that when you get out you've got to do, you've got to have an ankle bracelet, you've got to do like monetize.
SPEAKER 13 :
That's about what we're talking about here.
SPEAKER 05 :
You don't always do the full time. What do you mean? You have a parole date. Okay. And if you parole, then you have a certain period of time you have to be on parole. Okay. And if there's an ankle monitor involved or...
SPEAKER 12 :
I've never been in prison, so I don't know how any of it works. I've read about it, though.
SPEAKER 13 :
Even going to jail, man. It was like $30 a week.
SPEAKER 12 :
Dre, how's it going? Do we know this guy? Hey, what's up, guys? Oh, this is our show host. What's up? Do we know this guy? Do we know you? It's your local crackhead.
SPEAKER 04 :
what's up buddy hey hey guys just wanted to say i'm sorry i wasn't able to be a part of it but i'm listening to you guys and man there's so much to be said about you know the prison system and how much money that even you know people make just off of us as the taxpayers and i mean And also, to answer your question, are we a rogue entity? Heck yeah, we are. We're a rogue.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, with that being said, do you know what the Pledge of Allegiance is? You know, so you're our first caller. I was standing up in my truck. Good job, buddy.
SPEAKER 04 :
I'm telling you, that's how it's got to be.
SPEAKER 12 :
All right, man. We're going to let you go, buddy. Buddy guys. Yeah.
SPEAKER 13 :
Oh, see? He caught us on that. Yeah, he did. We should go to jail. We were sitting down while we said the Pledge of Allegiance. We didn't hand over the heart. We didn't stand.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, my hand was on the heart, though. But you are supposed to stand, right? When you say the Pledge? There's the flag. That's true.
SPEAKER 13 :
I kind of scratched my butt while we were saying it.
SPEAKER 11 :
Jesus, man.
SPEAKER 12 :
So, okay. So tell us about it being flawed. So, I guess... Maybe what listeners want to know is if they sentence you, why are you still being sentenced your whole entire life, basically? I mean, you see what I'm saying? You get out of prison. Let's say you get a felony. Now nobody wants to hire you. Why doesn't people ever take into consideration you change?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, full disclosure, I am a convicted felon. Okay. But there's things that you can still do. Your life's not over as a felon. That's good. I'm a master electrician. Yeah, and you're good. I've worked for the city and county of Denver for 18 years. Wow. Before I went out on my own. Wow. I didn't have to lie about my background. It was full disclosure with them. There's people out there that are felon friendly. My company is felon friendly.
SPEAKER 13 :
Mine too.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yours too? Yeah. I don't have a company. But the company I work for I don't think is felon friendly. I know for a fact they aren't.
SPEAKER 05 :
Me going to jail didn't reform me. It's a choice on the inside. You make that choice for yourself. So you don't think prison reformed you? I didn't go to prison. Or jail? You know, going through my situation, no, it didn't reform me at all. Gotcha. It's a choice that you make. Wow. Whether you want to keep going down that road. I have friends that are still going down that road. Gotcha.
SPEAKER 12 :
It's a choice. Are they... Yeah, because that's one of the things that we're seeing our PRISM systems thought about. It's that currently right now locked up from the research that I did, according to the U.S. Department of Justice, there's a million two hundred and some thousand people locked up. They release probably four hundred thousand a year. And after three years, they go back. Why is that?
SPEAKER 13 :
It's because it's the prison industrial complex and it's because it's about money. Okay. And therefore the morality is challenged when it comes down to money. It's a design.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yes. They design it.
SPEAKER 13 :
Wow.
SPEAKER 12 :
That's how it's designed. It's on purpose. It's designed so that when you get out, you fell and go back.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah. If you reform somebody, then you don't have a customer anymore. You don't have a client anymore. That's a good point.
SPEAKER 05 :
That's just like the medical system. They don't want you cured. No. They want to keep treating you.
SPEAKER 12 :
Wow. So everything's revolving around money when it comes to the prison system.
SPEAKER 05 :
It's for profit.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
Wow.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, it's been a pretty bad thing for a long time. I think it goes all the way back to Reagan, Reaganomics, and war on drugs. And to Reno's point, man, the sentencing for cocaine being predominantly used by white people was very... lenient. But for crack cocaine, which was predominantly in black neighborhoods, was very harsh and hard time.
SPEAKER 12 :
Like the RICO Act. Right. Why is it that it seems like certain races of people are judged harder by police officers than other people? For example, like That white privilege card is really real, guys. Let's be real with that.
SPEAKER 13 :
Like you change your speech pattern and stuff when you get pulled over. Hello, sir. Nice to meet you.
SPEAKER 12 :
It's just – it's awkward. To me, it seems like there's – it's almost like our prison system is – set up to go after a particular type of person. Right? Or is it just set up for everybody? If you commit a crime, you're going, period. No, I believe it is.
SPEAKER 13 :
There's still systemic racism, without a doubt. But I do also believe that one of the leading factors is Um, the, uh, wealth inequality and unfortunately minorities, um, are a lot of time still in, um, uh, poverty. And so then when you cannot afford representation and they will be appointed to you that you could have one, those guys ain't looking out for you, your best interest or to help you win. They just funnel you right to the system.
SPEAKER 12 :
Judges, too. And if anybody wants to call in and talk to us, and if you know more about it, again, we're at 303-477-5600. Give us a call.
SPEAKER 13 :
But I agree with you, Reno. It took me straightening myself up and choosing a different path for myself. It wasn't anything with reform or something. I wanted to grow. I wanted to change. I wanted to be better. and uh and sometimes uh it was about circumstances changing my circumstances people i hung out with um people i um associate with so that i could level up yeah you have to change if you want change you definitely have to change your circle if you look at your friends that's that's uh what is it if there's five millionaires you'll be the sixth if there's a
SPEAKER 12 :
That's a true statement right there.
SPEAKER 13 :
If you're hanging with five criminals, you're going to be the sixth.
SPEAKER 12 :
No, you're right. If you're hanging out with some crackhead now in Colfax, you're going to be a crackhead, period. That's just how that works.
SPEAKER 05 :
So you've got to look at your circle and ask yourself, where am I going?
SPEAKER 12 :
That's amazing that you're saying that because a lot of people, especially young people nowadays, I don't think they – I don't think they understand that concept.
SPEAKER 05 :
It's the truth. I've seen it. I've lived it. Wow. It's the absolute truth.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, it's who you associate yourself with. It's who's going to influence you, basically.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
If you want to stop drinking, you're not going to hang around a bunch of alcoholics.
SPEAKER 12 :
That's a true statement. So back to what I was saying. Why don't you think the prison system works? Why doesn't it reform people? I mean, because, oh, well, let's take Shayshank Redemption, the movie.
SPEAKER 13 :
Oh, Shawshank.
SPEAKER 12 :
Shawshank. I mean, those dudes were sitting there tarring the roof. And, man, I guarantee if I was down south in, you know, let's say, you know, Mississippi tarring some roof, that would probably work on me, man. So why don't we implement that kind of stuff again?
SPEAKER 13 :
Oh, like real hard labor?
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 13 :
Like breaking rocks and stuff?
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah. Ball and chain stuff.
SPEAKER 13 :
There's still prisons that do that.
SPEAKER 12 :
They still have that. Oh, wow.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah. That would be crazy. Yeah, Leavenworth. Places like that. You think it's still like that? Alcatraz, I ain't around no more.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, you'd have to have been a smart guy to escape Alcatraz. We're going down a rabbit hole with that. But, I mean, Alcatraz would have been a rough time to be in prison.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah. Well, I think it's the, again, when it's for profit, as I believe it to be, well, I believe it to be, it's publicly traded on the market.
SPEAKER 05 :
It is? Yeah, you could buy stocks in prison. What in the world? It's not going to say prison. Right.
SPEAKER 13 :
No, it's, yeah, it's through some of the big boys, man, like Vanguard and BlackRock. And it's like GeoGlobal or something like that. They're entities that purchase prisons to put people in.
SPEAKER 12 :
Because at least for me, the way I think about it, and like I said, I've never been to prison. I've read about it, studied about it. I've had to write papers in college about it. And where I think they're flawed is you go in, you do your time, But they don't give you any way of coping when you get out. Because we had a friend who he ended up committing suicide. This is just for everybody who knows. He was in and out of the prison system. From a young age. Yeah. And the last time he got out, and like I said, we don't use any names. He died. He got out, and he ended up going to a different state, wanted to change, because nobody would give him a chance. After seven years of being in prison, he didn't even have an ID. So he used to tell us, like, well, how do I get an ID if I don't even have any proof of who I am? They just kind of dropped me on the street when he got out. He didn't have a mom. He didn't have a dad. He didn't have a family.
SPEAKER 13 :
Therein lies one of the real issues is when people get out, do they have people who are there for them? And a lot of times they don't. Who's there for them is the people that they were running with that got them there in the first place.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER 13 :
It's cyclical. It won't end.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, well, because if you've been locked up for 20 years, how much has society changed by the time you get out? And that's probably the reason why they're going back, because there's no help for who they are.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, it's called being institutionalized.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, there's people who have gone to jail before cell phones. They get out, and now they're cell phones. Yeah, what would that be like?
SPEAKER 13 :
Hey, beat me on my pager, man.
SPEAKER 12 :
No, you're right. You're 100% right. They go in in the 80s, they get out, and it's 2025. 30 or 40 years has elapsed. How do they even know how to function?
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah. Yeah. Has to be people that they have that are supportive there for them.
SPEAKER 12 :
But how do they even – that's – God, we can make – we can talk four days on this. Because if a person gets institutionalized, like you said, like our buddy, who we'll just let everybody know, he ended up because – It was so hard when he got out. He had no help. We tried helping him.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, it led to depression and suicide.
SPEAKER 12 :
Right. He ended up committing suicide because he couldn't get a job. He couldn't function in society. He couldn't even get an ID, which to me was blowing me away. You have an American citizen who got locked up for things he did as a juvenile that transpired into an adult, and he couldn't function once he got out.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, it's a trap.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, and then there's people who will commit a crime just to go back. They do their sentence. Wow. Like Keith said, they're institutionalized. Yeah. And they will commit a crime just to get back locked up.
SPEAKER 13 :
Ends up being too hard out here, and they need that so-called structure that they had of being told when to go to sleep, what to eat.
SPEAKER 05 :
Wow. They're fed. Mm-hmm. You get a, you know...
SPEAKER 12 :
three hots and a cot yeah basically do they still get the paper lunches that you know when people get locked up they give you the paper bag i wonder if they do that stuff anymore like if anybody knows more about no it's on little school it's on them little school lunch plastic plate things man separate that's why some people now you know if somebody's been to prison because they want their food separated
SPEAKER 05 :
Do that, man. Separate my food. Not all the time. I haven't been in prison. I want my food separated. I do want my food separated, too. Even though I mix it on my fork.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, but I can't have my salad and salad dressing running over into my mashed potatoes, dude. I can't do that. I can't have it all mixed up.
SPEAKER 13 :
See, you're talking salad dressing. You don't get salad dressing in prison.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, I don't know what they get in prison. I would imagine they get a salad eventually, right? Don't they?
SPEAKER 05 :
They get a tossed salad. What?
SPEAKER 13 :
That's horrible.
SPEAKER 12 :
That is horrible. My God, man. Anyway, back to what we're saying.
SPEAKER 13 :
I was watching a couple of videos to get up on this again, but what I remember, man, was it was, oh, it actually even pours into, because when we're saying bias and racist and all that stuff is involved in this for sure. it goes back to like Sugar Hill Gang and remember when it was like happy rap man it was like a hippie to the hippie and everybody's break dancing and stuff then it switched over to like gangster rap gangster rap which was criminal but it was funded and influenced by or it was I believe it was funded by entities unknown that and this is conspiracy this is conspiracy but it was funded so that it could hypnotize the youth into criminal activity and behavior really
SPEAKER 05 :
Now, I didn't do the research myself. Okay. So this is hearsay. Okay. But the prison systems funded some record labels. Really?
SPEAKER 12 :
So you guys were saying that music, as it evolved, came from one type of music?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, they wanted you to rap about certain things.
SPEAKER 13 :
Okay. Right. So they would glorify drug, pimping, cars.
SPEAKER 05 :
But that's what's happened. Okay. So I don't know if it was influenced, who it was influenced by, but it took a turn at some point.
SPEAKER 12 :
Because I've always wondered, like, does music influence, like, the structure of people? You know how, like, you got crazy death metal, and they're all, yeah, and then you got, like, gospel music, oh, I love you, and then you got, you know, all the other crazy stuff.
SPEAKER 05 :
I'm not going to say the names of anyone, but there's certain groups that have satanic, names or references. Gotcha. So if you look at the artists back when rap started being gangster rap, you'll find them.
SPEAKER 12 :
God, that is... So with that being said, wow, I did not know we were going here. That's how deep it goes, though. Do you guys think that rap glorifies people committing crimes? That way it builds you up? That way you can commit crimes? Absolutely.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, it's being conditioned. Right, being conditioned. When one is conditioned by what they – be careful of the eyes what you see and little ears what you hear, right?
SPEAKER 05 :
But what you put in, you continually – what are you putting into your body? Through your ears, through your mouth, whatever, whatever you see.
SPEAKER 13 :
Good input, good output, good – or crap input is crap output.
SPEAKER 12 :
God, man, I wish the whole group was here for this. This is deep. Oh, that's why I switched.
SPEAKER 13 :
I switched from, because I love hip-hop, man. I grew up on it. It's my favorite.
SPEAKER 12 :
What was your favorite, like, artist?
SPEAKER 13 :
I mean, you know, the Great White Hope Eminem, obviously. But before all that.
SPEAKER 12 :
There's a lot of dudes like Eminem.
SPEAKER 13 :
I used to get high all the time to The Chronic and, you know, all that stuff with Dr. Dre and Snoop.
SPEAKER 12 :
You were all about Snoop Dogg, huh?
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, Domino.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, we got a brother here from Chicago. What was your jam growing up? See, Tupac, Twister. Everybody was loving some Tupac, right? Do people still listen to Tupac? Oh, yeah, I think so. Yeah, I'm sure. I'm sure, because he was probably the biggest rapper for that day, right? Well, one of them. So now let me ask you this. All these main rappers that rapped all these songs, do you think they went to prison, too? Do you think they went to jail?
SPEAKER 05 :
Tupac went to prison.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, Tupac went to prison.
SPEAKER 05 :
There's a lot of rappers who are college-educated.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, absolutely. Wiz Khalifa is like a PhD. Really? Yeah, he's like an aerospace engineer. These guys are smart people then. Many of them. Weird Al Yankovic. I mean, I know that's a dip. That's a dip. But Weird Al Yankovic was like a rocket scientist, man. You're telling me these guys were that intelligent? He found it to be better and you could influence more people and make a better impact in that industry.
SPEAKER 12 :
Your reach is better and greater. Wow.
SPEAKER 13 :
What are we doing here?
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, we're entertainers too and we're influencing people. So I never thought about the type of songs and structure in people's thoughts that would cause them to commit crimes that would ultimately lead them to prison. Right.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, there's rappers who have made it big and gone to prison because they rapped about the crime they committed.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, my God. This is amazing.
SPEAKER 13 :
Oh, so because it was in their rap, they basically told on themselves and got busted?
SPEAKER 05 :
Sort of.
SPEAKER 13 :
Sort of? Oh.
SPEAKER 05 :
That is, think about that. Incriminated themselves. Well, they used it. I think they used it in the trial. I'm not sure. Yeah. But there was one that I used to listen to.
SPEAKER 13 :
That's a confession, man.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay. Now he's in prison for life, I think.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah. Well, let me ask you this. Do you think – and just for our listeners, again, it's 303-477-5600. We are now going an hour, so stay tuned for our second half. Just to leave everybody with a thought – Do you think the type of money you have can influence whether you go to prison or not?
SPEAKER 13 :
So whether one has money?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. To a certain extent. Okay.
SPEAKER 13 :
Money can keep you out of prison.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 13 :
I believe that.
SPEAKER 12 :
What makes you say that? What makes you say that?
SPEAKER 13 :
Johnny Cochran. Oh, well. Okay, yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
And OJ. OJ didn't go to prison. If you have money for the attorney, for a defense attorney, I mean...
SPEAKER 12 :
That's another thing that gets me. You've got young men and women. Because we're trying to reach groups of 20 years old to 100 years old. What's crazy about it is if you get the public defender, he could care less. He's getting paid hourly. So your chances of not going to prison are probably so much higher if you can hire an attorney, right?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, I think your chances are higher, but... I had a public defender, and I didn't go to prison.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, there you go. Wow. So here I am bashing public defenders.
SPEAKER 05 :
I guess they were. But I had a praying mom.
SPEAKER 12 :
There's the difference right there.
SPEAKER 05 :
You had the what? I had a praying mom.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yes, yes, yes. Wow. The Lord.
SPEAKER 05 :
And that's the only reason why my sentence range got cut in half, and I ended up doing probation. And I kept my mouth shut.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
That's probably a huge one, too. Just kind of like shutting up and letting other people talk for you.
SPEAKER 13 :
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And that's Pastor Derwood Tate. If you're looking for somebody to talk to, he's the perfect person. Again, we're talking about prison. And if you all know anything better than us, again, reach out to us at 303-477-5600. And one of the other things that I was reading about with prison is it changes people. Not necessarily for the good, because... it makes you lose your identity. It takes away your self-worth when you're locked up. Do you think it was built like that on purpose? Because when you're segregated from society, because we're creatures of habit, we want to be around other people. That's the reason, you know, COVID, people being locked down, it messed up their heads so much. So prison's the same way, right?
SPEAKER 13 :
Absolutely. I mean, yeah, it's meant to break one's spirit. Wow. It's meant to break a spirit.
SPEAKER 12 :
To just get you to do their will and obey what the prison's telling you to do, basically.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, yeah. I mean, some people go there and thrive if you're that minded, if you're quite criminal minded or something. You can go there and that becomes your college. You can learn all of the dark, seedy ways of life. Wow, wow. Yeah, yeah. You could multiply your skill set, come out a better criminal.
SPEAKER 12 :
Because it makes you wonder, like, when you're locked up, like, let's be real. Take the zoo, for example. If you took those animals that were born in the zoo, let's say you took a lion and you introduced them back into, like, the Serengeti, would that lion actually function like all the other lions?
SPEAKER 05 :
I'm not an expert, but I don't think so. I mean, there's things that are just a lion's nature. Right. But if he was born in a zoo. Right. And he was fed continually. And he doesn't need to hunt.
SPEAKER 13 :
Right. Does an animal become institutionalized?
SPEAKER 05 :
It makes you wonder, right? I wonder. I don't know the answer to that. I don't know if he would survive after being put in the zoo.
SPEAKER 12 :
Because I'm correlating that with prison. You have somebody who's locked up there for 40 years, and their mental health has been deteriorated because they don't have the things we have on the outside. Is it like an animal that you introduce back into the wild?
SPEAKER 13 :
But does an animal have the same capacity as humankind? I forget what it's called, like bahit ma or something like that. It is what it is. An animal is what it is. Whereas we as human beings are... Um, like we're creators. We, we think we feel we, um, uh, we're sentient, uh, a lot of, a lot of other things that, um, the experiences we have in our life, we can either, um, learn from, grow from, or be consumed by. But I think an animal, man, uh, it's, it's primal, right? It's, uh, eat, um, have sex, uh, procreate. Um, and, uh, I don't know. Oh, it's fight or flight, right?
SPEAKER 12 :
Fight or flight.
SPEAKER 13 :
The basis of instinct.
SPEAKER 12 :
And I think everybody's built with fight or flight inside of them. We have a call coming in. But we'll stay on this mental deterioration because at least from the way I think is that if you lock somebody up for years and you take them out and you give them no direction, it's no different than taking a lion. Hello, whoever this is. Dre, you know, I. Oh, sweet.
SPEAKER 04 :
I'm just listening to you guys. And I did take criminal justice and, you know, because I wanted to be a cop, believe it or not. Right. So I remember there was a few things where there's certain people that they would say have men's right or otherwise the criminal mindset. And some people can thrive with that criminal mindset, knowing that, you know, I'm not good at this, but I'm great at that. You know, look at Al Capone, for instance. Organized crime. These guys had the ability to build a business, but they built a criminal entrepreneurship. And so intricate. And so, you know, to the point where they could actually... manipulate our government and have the new york harbor and such you know pay or do the payola scheme on them so that way they could make money and profit off of them protecting the new york city shores and whatnot i mean look it up so i've always wondered that too you know because
SPEAKER 12 :
know you obviously have your so well let us ask you this so do you think that when a person's been locked up for 40 years is it kind of does their mind switch does does it do something to their mind or to their who they are as a human being i think they got used to it just like every one of you said i think they become institutionalized just like the lion
SPEAKER 04 :
How do they know how to survive when you've been given three meals? How do they know how to get a job? Basically, everything that we're supposed to grow up and learn to do, whether it's through college, on-the-job training, apprenticeship skills, what do prisons teach? And where's the true reform? Really, there is no reform when you think about it. This is a profiteering scheme, in my opinion.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, thanks for calling, buddy, man, and we'll look forward to seeing you into the studio next week, buddy.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, hey, guys, just real quick. And I wanted to be there with you guys, but, you know, first of all, thank you, KLZ. On their website, they have a GoFundMe set up for our son, Austin. You know, he tragically passed a few weeks ago. We had to let him go on live support, and I know you guys have supported him. you know, my family and such. And I just want to thank every listener out there and everybody on the podcast from and such, thanks for all your support. Yeah, guys, I just had to chime in. It's a really good topic. There's a lot to be said. Thank you.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, brother, thank you.
SPEAKER 12 :
Bless you. So that's interesting because you do, when you're segregated from society, you really do start to lose your identity somewhat. Like you said, you can either You can either learn from it and be a more corrupt criminal when you get out, or you can, like you guys said, you've got to make a choice of what path am I going to take from that point. Because isolation and loneliness separates us. We were never built to be isolated from everybody else. That's just not the way God built us.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, in prison, you do have other guys to hang out with. If you're a guy, if you're a girl, you have other girls to hang out with. Yeah, but it's not the same. I understand what you're saying.
SPEAKER 13 :
You do until you don't, and you get thrown into the shoe, into the hole.
SPEAKER 12 :
Do they still do that?
SPEAKER 13 :
Oh, yeah. Yeah, I knew a guy who had like a 23-hour lockdown. Oh, wow.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, they still do that. Was it Supermax? Does Colorado have a Supermax? Yes, in Florence, Colorado.
SPEAKER 12 :
Really?
SPEAKER 05 :
That's where a lot of... High-profile prisoners are sent. Oh, my goodness.
SPEAKER 12 :
Because when you're, like you said, if you're locked down for 23 hours out of the day, why would you even want to live, man? If the judge hits you with a 50-year sentence and you're locked down 22 hours out of the day, that would— Imagine what that does to your sanity. That's what I was going to bring up. Sanity, yeah. Like, it would drive you crazy. Mm-hmm. I mean, how big do you guys think this room is right now, our studio? 12 by 12 or 10 by 10? 12 by 12?
SPEAKER 05 :
It's about 12 by 12-ish.
SPEAKER 12 :
So if you're locked up like that, I mean, it would drive you crazy.
SPEAKER 13 :
Oh, this is probably four times the size of a room, though, too.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, this is probably bigger than the room. I mean, listen, people, if y'all know better than us, give us a call at 303-477-5600. I've never been to prison, so this is an excellent topic that we're learning about. But I do know people that have went to prison, and they hated it. Hey, absolutely hated it. There should be Google reviews on prisons.
SPEAKER 13 :
I'm advocating for Google reviews on prisons. One star. One star all day long.
SPEAKER 12 :
This is how I picture prison. I picture prison. You got your double bunk and you got your homeboy that's your roommate. That dude's going to be taking a crap next to you while you're sleeping, man. That's going to be a rough life, man. Prison is not for me. But one of our best friends had went to prison for a long time. And it shaped him up because he don't want to go back.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah. Yeah, I don't even know what the reform is, though. Like, how would it... I don't know how anybody would institute, like, reform or if there ever was reform through prison.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, we have somebody else calling in.
SPEAKER 13 :
You know.
SPEAKER 12 :
This is wonderful. Yeah, people, this is a hot topic. It's in you, yeah. It just... I just don't think our prison system works, guys, at the end of the day. That's me, though. I feel like it's flawed because you're standing in front of a judge who doesn't know you. They're presenting evidence in front of him. How's it going? How are you doing, Monica?
SPEAKER 09 :
I'm good. How are you?
SPEAKER 13 :
Good. Welcome to A Guy's Perspective.
SPEAKER 09 :
Good. I work in a prison in Denver.
SPEAKER 13 :
Oh, right on. Right on.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, so I thought I'd give you guys a little bit of insight. Please do. The hole, they changed the hole. So if you get sent to the hole, you're only there for 15 days. 15 days? Yeah, a lot of guys don't like to be housed with other people. They don't like to share cells. So what a lot of guys will do is they'll get into a fight, so they get sent to the hole. And then as soon as they get out of the hole, they'll get another fight, so they get sent back to the hole.
SPEAKER 11 :
Wow.
SPEAKER 09 :
And they just want their own cell. I mean, it's kind of gotten ridiculous.
SPEAKER 12 :
Let me ask you this. Why don't they have their own cells? Can you kind of tell us? Describe to us what the prison looks like from the inside.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, I mean, there's not enough cells to house everybody separately. They go based off of tiers, what your... you know, what your levels are. They go based off of numbers that they assign to you when you go through the processing thing. So they don't put, like, they're not going to put a pedophile with a gang member. They're not going to put a KKK member with a black guy, you know?
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, so they keep everybody separated. Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, and then they also have to have the same amount of diversity in every unit. Wow. So they go based off of that, too.
SPEAKER 12 :
Thank you for shining a light on that for us. That really opens up our topic.
SPEAKER 13 :
And you're a corrections officer?
SPEAKER 11 :
I am.
SPEAKER 13 :
Oh, awesome.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah. Well, thank you for keeping those boys in line.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, no problem.
SPEAKER 12 :
Thank you for calling.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yep, no problem. Have a good day.
SPEAKER 12 :
Bye. We're coming to find out this is a hot topic, buddy. Did you hear what she said? That they will get locked up for 15 days. Get out and get locked back up because they want to be by themselves.
SPEAKER 05 :
To me, 15 days is a long time to be alone. But I mean, if that's what you want, then it's no big deal to go to the hole.
SPEAKER 12 :
God, that changes our whole thought process. I thought people would be like freaking out, but they're like wanting to go be by themselves.
SPEAKER 13 :
You know?
SPEAKER 12 :
That's interesting. That is very interesting.
SPEAKER 13 :
They want to get away from General Pop.
SPEAKER 12 :
And if everybody was listening to that, this is a good show. Like, she works at a correctional facility. So she knows firsthand.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
And did you, another thing she said that they keep everybody, I thought everyone was together. They keep them all segregated. They're not going to put, you're a black man from Chicago. They're not going to put a black man from Chicago with a skinhead. Like it's never going to happen.
SPEAKER 13 :
But maybe, maybe it comes down to like affiliations though. Like if he was affiliated with a gang or if, if, if the guy was affiliated with a gang or, or no, they just probably.
SPEAKER 12 :
No, it must be. It sounded like she said they were segregated. Like they keep them away from each other. Well, I know of a case where. Because, well, if you don't mind, let us use you. You're a black man from Chicago. You're not going to room with a skinhead, some dude who is flat out white, German and Irish. You know what I'm saying? And he's a skinhead and you're a gang member. It's never going to work.
SPEAKER 05 :
There was an actor that ended up going to prison and they put him in a cell with a. Either a skinhead or some type of... No, they put him in a cell with a Satanist.
SPEAKER 10 :
Oh, wow.
SPEAKER 05 :
And he was a Christian, or he was trying to be a Christian. While he was in prison, he was trying to correct him? Okay. And the Satanist ended up killing the guy that used to be an actor.
SPEAKER 12 :
What in the world?
SPEAKER 05 :
So there's a lot of instances that makes it make sense to be segregated or separated from certain groups.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, I mean, I can understand the benefit sometimes, but then it almost also perpetuates the division. So then that divide is so great that everybody's just talking amongst themselves about themselves and about the others, and then when they get in gen pop or whatever, then there's a hit or something.
SPEAKER 12 :
Right, right.
SPEAKER 13 :
But I don't know what the solution is. Can't we all just get along?
SPEAKER 12 :
So now let me ask you this. How can you tell, like, okay, so you know how, like, Everybody in prison is innocent, you know what I'm saying? Nobody's ever going to be like, yeah, man, I'm in here because I was a hardened criminal. Everybody's kind of like, yeah, this happened to me, so I got a bad rap. I get it. I would say the same thing. Everybody's innocent. If I was in front of the judge, I'd be like, yeah, my home life sucks, dude. Give me 10 years instead of 100. You know, I would hit them with that scenario too. But at the end of the day, like, it makes you wonder how sincere people are. Like, if they go before the parole board, how do you know if this person's telling you the truth, if they've been institutionalized for the last 20 years? You see what I'm saying? Like, there's no, how do you determine the truth behind people? Like,
SPEAKER 05 :
I think the truth will just find itself out as far as the judge is a subject matter expert. Right, right. So they're going to be able to see. They see things. Day after day, they're dealing with criminals. They're dealing with people who have been accused, whether they're criminals or not. So I would think that they would be able to read through the lines for sincerity and different people trying to make a play.
SPEAKER 12 :
Do you think we're, as a society, do you think we're too hard on criminals?
SPEAKER 13 :
That's a good question. I mean, what I want, I mean, obviously I like empathy and I would like people to be empathetic toward the plight of people and what leads them to that. And I think it's easier when somebody has a friend, a family member that has been in the prison system to kind of... not necessarily exonerate that person of anything that they did of their crimes, but to kind of be a determining factor of like their character. They know the character of the person. They're like, look, they just got hemmed up. They got, you know, tied up in this trap because they're okay.
SPEAKER 12 :
This is good.
SPEAKER 05 :
So my son is in prison.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 05 :
And I believe the crime he committed, he deserves to be there. The time they gave him and the charge they charged him with is not right. Okay. It's a first-degree murder. Your boy got first-degree murder. They proved medically that he didn't kill him. And he still got a first-degree murder charge? Right. Wow. So when I say the system is flawed... Oh, then you know about it firsthand. Firsthand. When they say the medical evidence shows that he didn't kill him, but we're not changing it. The reason why I believe that they're not changing it is because his victims were white.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, are you... If his victims were black...
SPEAKER 05 :
I don't believe he would have got the same amount of time.
SPEAKER 12 :
This is deep. Again, you can call us at 303-477-5600. This is by far the best show we've ever had. Continue. Tell us all about this.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, without taking too long with details, he defended someone in the wrong way. Hit someone in the head, they fell, and they never got back up. The guy died of a ruptured spleen. So through the autopsy and the medical evidence, they showed that my son didn't kill him. He committed a first-degree assault or assault with a deadly weapon, but he did not commit first-degree murder. So, yes, the system is very flawed.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, it doesn't seem like a fair judgment call on that one, especially in light of the evidence that was provided.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right, and he was told that he would get a higher sentence if he fought it. They make an example. They used a scare tactic to get him to cop to a plea so he wouldn't get 100 years or whatever they were trying to give him.
SPEAKER 12 :
I cannot believe this brother hasn't been talking the whole time like this. You could have took the whole show. This is deep. So you believe if it wasn't a white person but it was another black person, you don't think he would have got that much time?
SPEAKER 05 :
No, he might have got 10 years maybe. And I could say maybe that's what he deserves, but 30? He got 32 years.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah. Can he parole out after a certain amount of time? If you don't mind us asking you.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, and I guess the way it works is the time that you – His end date can change.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, it can change. Does a judge have to change it?
SPEAKER 05 :
No, no.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, we have another person calling in. This is a hot topic, man. People want to know about this. So the judge has to change it or does the warden or somebody?
SPEAKER 05 :
The judge doesn't change it, but his parole eligibility will change. Okay. What do you mean by that? As he gets, you know, good time or however they work in the prison.
SPEAKER 12 :
Mike, how are you doing? Talk to us, Mike.
SPEAKER 13 :
Good, we're doing good. You're talking to the guys. Good, Mike. Yeah, let us know.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, good. Well, I was talking about some of the, he was talking about court cases and everything. It's the truth that basically there's a book called California Criminal Procedure by Lori Levinson.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, we're writing that down.
SPEAKER 03 :
It's a VA fan book. It's written in writing, which seems really unconscious to me, that D.A.s, cops are encouraged to write the reports in such a way to allow the D.A.s to overcharge the defendants being charged with crimes they did not commit.
SPEAKER 13 :
Really?
SPEAKER 03 :
In order to get them to take a deal.
SPEAKER 13 :
Uh-oh, you're being scrambled now.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, Mike, that was some good stuff. We're losing you, buddy. Can you come on back? Hello? Mike, I think we lost you.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, that's what happens when we talk.
SPEAKER 12 :
We'll keep going, Mike. If you hear us, we've got five more minutes, so call us back. So we'll have to let you go. So what was the name of this book? Did you hear what he said? He said Larry Levinson. Larry Levinson. Okay, Larry. But I forgot the name of the book. We'll look it up. Basically, he was going with what you just said, and the man doesn't even know you.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, I mean, it happened.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah. Wow. Did you hear what he said? The DA is paid to make sure you take a different charge. Right.
SPEAKER 13 :
So then we're back to a for-profit industry. Oh, my God. And when money is involved, it changes the morality of an individual.
SPEAKER 12 :
This is wild. I mean, look at all the callers we've had call in today to talk about this, guys. So this must be true, what we're hitting on, that there's a profit behind the prison system. Well, that's a fact. We have another caller. Let's see who this gentleman is.
SPEAKER 05 :
I hope it's Mike back. I really do hope it's Mike back.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah. Yeah. Or anybody in general. Everybody can call at 303-477-5600. Mike, how you doing, buddy?
SPEAKER 03 :
How you guys doing?
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, we lost you, so tell us. Name that book one more time.
SPEAKER 03 :
California Criminal Procedure by Lori Levinson.
SPEAKER 05 :
Oh, Lori.
SPEAKER 03 :
I don't know. I fought a case for three and a half years in Orange County Jail. And one of the things that people don't realize is that the gangs run the jails and the prisons, especially in California. Okay. You've got the Southsiders, the Norteños. Southsiders are Mexican-American gangbangers. Norteños are the Mexicans from Mexico. They're black and white. They're all segregated into separate groups. And basically, if I'm a white guy, I run with the woods. If I want to put hands on another race, I've got to go and talk to their leader.
SPEAKER 13 :
Otherwise, you'd start a race war.
SPEAKER 03 :
Wow. Wow. Basically, it's run by the leaders of the different races.
SPEAKER 12 :
Mike, well, it was good talking to you. We'll have to let you go. We've got another caller calling in. We appreciate you, buddy. Thank you.
SPEAKER 03 :
Take care.
SPEAKER 13 :
Have a great day. Bye. Thank you so much. What a good book that he mentioned.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, we have another caller online, too, coming in. Everybody's trying to chime in at one time. Our screen's getting filled up, guys. Yeah, it's lighting up, chiming in. Yeah, call in. Let us know. This is...
SPEAKER 08 :
I didn't give a name.
SPEAKER 12 :
Hello, how are you doing? You're talking to the guy's perspective. Tell us about it.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, so my son is also in prison, and I believe that he should have gone to prison for some of it, but they added so many charges that weren't true. Oh, my God. They said that if he... If he fought it, they would separate the charges so that he would get convicted on the one part. Wow.
SPEAKER 05 :
That sounds so familiar.
SPEAKER 08 :
If anything came out on the second part, then... You didn't give us your name.
SPEAKER 12 :
She didn't want to. Okay. Oh, perfect. Okay. Yeah, never mind. Sorry.
SPEAKER 08 :
So, that's okay. And then the other thing is, as soon as he got there, guys were like, you're going to pay me rent. And he was like, what? No, I'm not. And they're like, yeah, you are. And so he had to get into some fights to hold his ground. And he said, and if they overcome you, they'll throw you underneath the beds. There's like a drawer. And they'll throw you in there and spray chemicals on you and all kinds of stuff. And he said, so there's a ton of politics in there. And just getting through, it's like not just doing your time. You have to make it through life.
SPEAKER 12 :
um the shanking and there's so many drugs in there it's crazy thank you thank you for we have one minute left so we have to close the but we're doing we're doing a second episode so please call back next week thank you miss jane okay yes thank you we'll look forward to hearing from you um guys it's an amazing show today um again everybody tune in we're going to do prison next week again all right yeah bye hot topic
SPEAKER 02 :
It's a lonely road And they don't care about what you know It's not about how you feel But what you provide inside that home
Today on The Flatline, Rick Hughes explores the crucial difference between wisdom that comes from human rationale versus the wisdom rooted in divine scripture. Delving into historical and current spiritual dynamics, Rick underscores the timeless need for spiritual maturity and offers guidelines for acquiring wisdom that can spark transformation in personal, national, and global contexts. This episode serves as a wake-up call for those ready to move beyond casual faith practices into a deeper, more informed Christian walk.
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Welcome to The Flatline with your host, Rick Hughes. For the next 30 minutes, you'll be inspired, motivated, educated, but never manipulated. Now, your host, Rick Hughes.
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Good morning and welcome to The Flatline. I'm your host, Rick Hughes. For the next few minutes, I'm going to ask you to stick around. It'll be 30 minutes of motivation, inspiration, education without any type of manipulation. We don't play games. We're not trying to hustle you for money. We're not trying to get you to join up, give it up, fess it up, nothing like that. We're just trying to get you to listen up, listen to the information. My job is to verify and identify the plan of God for you, for your family, for your nation. Your job is to orient and adjust should you desire to do so, but that's up to you. But I can promise you this. I'll be accurate. I won't mislead you. I won't lead you into some kind of goofy stuff. I will show you what the Bible says and let you figure it out on your own. But it's my prayer that you are the person I'm looking for. This show, I'm always on the search. I'm searching for people that are hungry to learn God's Word. That's why we do this show. Those sort of people can become what I call part of the pivot that can deliver this nation from the coming disaster. A pivot potential, a pivot member, a mature believer that God can count on like Gideon. Gideon was a pivot person and God counted on him to deliver Israel from the Midianite army. And that's what God is looking for, a few good men and women that love him, that love his word, that want to grow to spiritual maturity and glorify Jesus Christ to the maximum. Unfortunately, we live in a nation that seems to be rejecting the plan of God today. that's what we've been talking about the spiritual climate change in america in the year 2019. what's going on well let's pick up where we left off last week and see if we can dig into this a little bit because the key word is wisdom no one wants wisdom no one wants understanding no one wants knowledge people are not willing to get it they just seem to want to go by their own wisdom and their own knowledge. They think they know all the answers. And as we started off in this verse, in this study, we quoted a verse, and I'll see if I can go back to it real quick for you here. We quoted a verse that was very, very instrumental. It said, in the heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left. Even as fools walk along the road, they lack sense and show everyone how stupid they are. America is showing the world how stupid we are. Why are we stupid? Because everything that used to be evil is now accepted as good and everything that used to be good is now being touted as evil. And we have began to formulate plans for a successful nation based on the wisdom of fools. And we are in trouble because we've neglected the divine establishment principles that made this country what it is, freedom, marriage, family, and nationalism being the four critical components of the divine institutions. So the Bible warns us, do not be wise in your own eyes. That's human viewpoint, Proverbs 3.8. Do not be wise in your own eyes. What's wrong with looking to the Bible for answers? What is it that is so offensive that people don't want to read the Bible? They don't want the Ten Commandments in a school. They don't want the Ten Commandments in the courthouse. What's wrong with that? Why is that so offensive? Do people not realize that Satan has done a tremendous job of dividing this country And he's used people that have organizations like Freedom From Religious Foundation that as soon as anyone in leadership begins to offer a prayer or have a Bible on their desk, they get slapped with a letter of threat of a lawsuit. It's pitiful. And that's where we stand today. Wise in our own eyes, human viewpoint thinking. Fear the Lord, the Bible says. Respect him, in other words. And depart from evil, that's Satan's cosmic system. You go to the right, go to the left. You go to the right, that's God's wisdom. You go to the left, that's the satanic cosmic system. Satan is a wonderful counterfeiter. He counterfeits God's plan. He can't offer you what God does, but he can offer you something else. God offers you eternal life through Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. Satan offers you eternal life maybe through organized religion if you're good enough. And that's not what the Bible says. The Bible says, for by grace are you saved through faith and that not of yourselves. It's a gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should brag about it. Paul picked up this same concept in Ephesians 5, 17 and said, don't be a fool. Don't be foolish, Ephron. the Greek word, but understand what the will of the Lord is. How can you understand it if you don't know it? And how can you know it if you don't learn it? And how can you learn it if you don't hear it? And that's what Satan has been successful at doing, shutting off the teaching of the Word of God in our schools, in our public arena, even in a football game, somebody's offended if they have a prayer. It's crazy. And so it's not a lack of knowledge, but the inability to use that knowledge wisely that's going on. People know about God. They can look around, and Romans tells you that. You can look into the stars and realize somebody made that. You didn't make it. Somebody else made it. But then you reject that knowledge, and you don't use it wisely. And you don't want to know where the information comes from, what the knowledge is. And somebody says, well, let's try reading the Bible. And then you reject that. You are wrong. You are making a critical mistake. That word fool or moron or moros denotes stupidity. but also it can denote ignorance and willful, willful, I said willful rebellion against God and his will. And we quoted Romans 1, 18 through 32 and ask you to read that for yourself. Where it says, professing themselves to be wise, they became fools and they did not like to retain God in their knowledge. Not interested in anything God has to say. They're interested in going down the my way highway. They're interested in somebody's human viewpoint thinking rather than the scriptures. Now, God has given you the opportunity to understand his wisdom. He's recorded it for you in the Bible, in the scriptures. It's called the mind of Christ in Philippians 2.5, and that's what the disciples were tasked with doing, recording the thoughts of Christ, the words of Christ, the deals with Christ, what he did. So it's all there for us if we take the opportunity to learn it, if we take the opportunity to understand it. He's even equipped men with a gift of pastor-teacher who can go into the Scriptures and into the original languages of the Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic and explain to you what these words mean that you don't understand, whether so everest thou goest. That's the thundering diction of the King James, whether so everest thou goest. I mean, that's not how it was written. People get violent and say the King James Bible was good enough for Paul, it's good enough for me. Well, I'm sorry, the King James Bible was written way after the life of Paul. So the scripture, as in the original languages, as close as we have to the canon of scripture, the original languages that we have and we know, you gotta have someone that can explain the isagogics of these words, what they mean, such as love, love, love. You know, we gotta love each other, but there are four words for love in the Greek New Testament. I mean, it's just constantly you've got to have someone that understands it. A well-qualified pastor is what all of us have to have. I have one. You must have one. There's not a morning goes by, rarely, that I don't get up and listen to my pastors. I put in a DVD and study his teachings as he teaches in his church each week. And I'm watching. I'm learning. I'm growing. There never is a time when you quit growing. So God gives us that opportunity to grow. And we learn to respect the Lord, and that's the beginning of all knowledge right there. But listen to the next part of Proverbs 1-7. Fools despise wisdom and instruction. Why will the America we know not survive if it continues on the current path? Because we are being led by fools. If we continue on the current path, not the administration, I'm not talking about the president, I'm talking about the House, the Senate, the Congress, the House of Representatives. Most of our leaders reject even the notion that God's wisdom is found in Christ. They reject that concept completely. Why will we not survive if we continue on the current path? Because most of our leaders reject the idea of God's wisdom concerning those four divine institutions that I talked about, such as marriage between a man and a woman, no one else. Marriage as an institution of God has given away today to humanism and diversity. and the concept of the family has fallen apart today and thus no authority structure and if there's no authority then who a kid raises you know he's just no discipline you know that I've said before the biggest child abuse is to raise a child send him out into the devil's world and not arm him with divine viewpoint not give him a chance not let him know what the Bible says not give him the opportunity to choose at least Which road he wants to follow because if he doesn't know his choices He's going to go the wrong way So most Americans are going to surrender their freedom for security and that's what we're looking at today So the words of Solomon ring true. How long will you that are simple love your simple ways? How long will you mockers delight in mocking God because fools hate knowledge? So what can we do about the future? Well, in Ecclesiastes 9, 14, and 15, my pastor's been teaching a great series on this. One poor man with wisdom delivered a city. Just one. One poor man with wisdom. You can be that person with wisdom that can deliver your city, your nation, your family, your home, but you have to do this. Number one, you can't buy it. And you cannot inherit wisdom. You must acquire it for yourself before you can have any sort of impact. You must acquire wisdom. And what is wisdom? It's simply you acquiring the mind of Christ or fulfilling Romans 12, 3. Stop thinking of yourself in terms of arrogance beyond what you should think. but think in terms of sanity as God has assigned to each one of us a standard of thinking from his word. Wisdom is you rejecting the control of arrogance in your life. Wisdom is you saying no to self-justification, self-deception, self-absorption, you saying no to these things, and you saying yes to what the word of God has to say. Wisdom is simply you acquiring the mind of Christ. And all wisdom comes from knowledge, All wisdom comes from knowledge and produces insight and discernment. Do you hear me? Wisdom comes from knowledge and produces insight and discernment. Insight and discernment. Discernment gives you the ability to see what other people don't see. Wisdom is a byproduct of your personal love for God because the Bible says if you love me... you will obey me and my mandates are not hard, they're not grievous. So 1 John 5, 3, if you love me, you'll obey me and my mandates are not hard. So here's a suggestion. Do you want to really live life? Psalm 34, 12 through 16 tells you how. If you want to really live a long and happy life, here it is, then make sure you don't speak evil words or use deceptive speech. Turn away from evil and do what is right. Strive for peace and promote peace. And I go on to quote now. The Lord pays attention to the godly and hears their cry for help. But the Lord opposes the evildoer and wipes out all memory of them from the earth. Did you get that? Psalm 34, 12 through 16. I'm going to read it one more time. Do you want to really live? Would you like to live a long, happy life? Really live a long, happy life? Then make sure you don't speak evil words or use deceptive speech. Turn away from evil. Deceptive speech, evil words, a public lie, that goes on so much today in politics, you can't believe it. If you yell it loud enough, long enough, and often enough, people believe it. It's unbelievable, the strife, the contention, the division that's in this country today. So you want to live a long, happy life? Quit running people down. Quit lying about other people. Turn away from evil. Do what's right. Strive for peace and promote it. And the second part of that verse is the Lord is paying attention to the godly, and he hears their cry for help. This means your prayer will not go unanswered. As you pray for our nation, as you pray for our president, as you pray for your family, God hears your prayer. In 2 Peter 3.15, Peter tells us we need to grow in the grace and the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. In Proverbs 2, 1 through 6, listen carefully. My son, Solomon says, if you will hear my words and if you will treasure my mandates. He heard the word if, if, if. If you will hear my words and if you will treasure my mandates within you so that you incline your ear to wisdom. and apply your heart to understanding and you will cry out for discernment and lift up your voice for understanding. If you seek wisdom as you would silver and search for her as you would a hidden treasure, then, then you will understand the fear of the Lord. Then you will find the knowledge of God for the Lord gives wisdom from his mouth comes knowledge and understanding. He stores up sound wisdom for the upright. and he is a shield to those who walk uprightly. He guards the path of justice and preserves the way of his saints. Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity and every good path. Those are the words of Solomon written hundreds of years ago. So what happened to your wisdom? Where did your wisdom go? Has it given you any insight to God's will for your life or the direction that God wants you to go in your life when dealing with other people? Or do you fail people testing because you have no wisdom? You never learned how to use impersonal love. The problem-solving device, number eight, you never learned how to use impersonal love. Has it given you insight, your wisdom? Did you get distracted or discouraged from growing spiritually or just plain tired of going to church and tired of going to Bible study? You got other things going on that are more important, don't you? Your children, and you got to go to workout class, and you got to go to work, and by the time this time comes around at night, you're too tired. In the morning, you're too tired. So you've allowed Satan to divide and conquer you through the failure of your own spiritual life. Your family's divided, your thoughts are divided, and you're in deep trouble. That's exactly what's going on in this nation. And sometimes Satan divides and conquers us through the failure of people that we admire. We see them fail like Peter failed the Lord and the disciples saw it and they all got a little upset and Peter ran. People said, no, I don't know him. I've never heard of him. I don't know what you're talking about. Even when the Lord warned him that he was going to do that. Did you, you, not Peter, did you fail to use wisdom of impersonal love and let the justice of God handle the details in a people test that you faced? You know, here's the principle. How could you ever be that one wise man that delivers the nation? How could you ever have an invisible historical impact in a nation that's failing like America if you can't control your own sin nature? I mean, there have been thousands of hours of the Word of God taught flowing from pulpits. Where were you when the pastors were watering that flock? The truth is this, without an active current spiritual life, you're not helping anyone, not even yourself. Look, even the disciples got distracted from time to time. They argued over who were the greatest and who did Jesus love the most, but Did he really come back to life and they got tired of waiting for him in Galilee so they went fishing? They'd been sent there to fish for men, not for fish. Even pastors get distracted, especially when they think they're smarter and wiser than those who mentored them. So remember the words of Paul to young Pastor Timothy. This is critical. Study to show thyself approved unto God, rightly dividing the word of truth. Blind arrogance can cause you to see things that are not there. I'm saying it again. Blind arrogance can cause you to see things that are not there. This is true for pastors. A wise pastor produces a wise congregation that imparts blessing by association to a dying nation. A wise pastor produces a wise congregation that imparts blessing by association to a dying nation. The invisible impact you could have as a mature believer on this nation is incredible. Invisible impact of you, invisible God, invisible assets, invisible power, that equals invisible heroes, which you must be if we're going to leave our children or our grandchildren a future with any opportunity. Because the Bible says you can have a personal impact in history by being a blessing by association to others. Remember what David said, surely goodness and mercy follow me all the days of my life. Anybody in his periphery was blessed, blessing by association. You can have a historical impact. That means that your life can be a blessing to the client nation, USA, good old America. Your spiritual life is the key here. As goes your spiritual life, so goes the future of this country. You can have an international impact by blessing, by association to non-client nations, by means of missionary activity when we support, pay for, fund missionaries that go to nations that don't necessarily worship God. You can have an angelic impact by being a witness for God in the appeal trial of Satan, and you could have a heritage impact by being a blessing by association to your loved ones even after you're dead. That's true. So with available assets provided by God's grace, There's only one reason why we fail, and that's because we have negative volition. Negative volition. We're not interested, we're not hungry, we're distracted, we're divided, and we're failing. This client nation to God is blessed by a pivot of mature believers whose invisible historical impact is the key to the function of the American and the key to the perpetuation of this nation. And so again, as you go, as your life goes, and as any believer in any generation, so goes the history of that nation. So how goes your spiritual life? You know, this is where we mess up. The problem is not sin in America. You know, point your finger and say, oh, those people and those people and look what they're doing, look what they're doing, look what they're doing. The problem is not sin in America. The problem is distracted Christians. Those who cannot and do not maintain their momentum. remember second chronicles 7 14 if my people that are called by my name will humble themselves turn from their wicked ways and seek my face and i'll hear their prayer and heal their land you're the solution you it's not the sin it's you it's because you have no desire to gain wisdom you have no desire to get understanding You just want to be a casual Christian and play church. As goes your spiritual life, so goes the history of this nation. Where are you? Are you hungry for word? Are you hungry to grow? Are you hungry to become a mature believer? Are you hungry to be that one man that God can count on? Because inconsistent spiritual growth leads to an inconsistent spiritual life. And I can tell you the first thing that goes in your life is failing to study the word of God, failing to show up for church. The second thing is the rate of forgetting gets greater than the rate of learning. And the next thing is you forget to confess your sins. You forget to rebound. And then you lose all your momentum and you replace your spiritual momentum with your hobby, with your children, or chasing the details of life. Has that happened to you? Have you lost your spiritual momentum? Maintaining spiritual momentum is never easy, I promise you. And there are some mandates in Scripture if you hope to fulfill God's plan and purpose for your life, such as 2 Peter 3.18, grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Grow is the Greek word oxano, and it is an imperative mood verb. It's a present tense, which means there never is a time you're not to grow. As long as you're here, as long as you're occupying space, as long as you're breathing air, you are to grow spiritually. This imperative verb, oxano, It's a mandate, not merely a suggestion. So there's never a day in your life that you can skip growing spiritually. This mandate is for you to accumulate knowledge, grow in the grace and knowledge The mandate is to accumulate knowledge and also to understand grace. It's not hard to see who understands grace when people testing comes along. I mean, you can be around someone a short period of time and find out if they know how to grace people out, if they know how to give people grace, the same kind of grace God gave them. And knowledge, like the knowledge of Matthew 7, keep your mouth shut, don't judge other people, keep your nose out of other people's business, Matthew 7, 1 through 5. That comes before the act of treating people in grace or letting God handle the details. So if you don't have the knowledge of Matthew 7, 1 through 5, you don't have the positive volition to obey it, then you're a problem. You cannot have a historical impact if you can't have a grace impact, especially on your own family and your own friends and your own local church. So it requires impersonal love and grace extended, just as God gave the same kind of grace to you. I mean, God didn't get his feelings hurt when you ignored his will for your life, did he? But you get your feelings hurt when another believer doesn't do what you want them to do. If you get your feelings hurt by another believer, that's a tough test to pass if you don't use the grace asset of impersonal love. Never, and I repeat this, never try to defend yourself. Even if the fact is untrue, don't try to justify yourself. Let the Supreme Court of Heaven handle it. 2 Timothy 2.16 says, avoid another imperative mood verb. Avoid profane and idle babbling, for they will increase to more ungodliness and spread like cancer. That means don't get into territory you don't belong because it will divide and conquer your family, your church, your spiritual life. So just as we can only fall to our own internal self, so a local church, maybe like where you go, can only be destroyed from within. by people that get into idle babbling. In 2 Timothy 2.15, another mandate says, study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. And that word study is another imperative mood verb called spoudazo. Spoudazo is the Greek word. It means to make haste or to exert yourself, to do diligence. To make haste to do what? Show yourself approved. Dokimos, the Greek word, dokimos, approved. You know, in the ancient world, there was no banking system as we know it today, no paper money. All money was made from metal, heated with liquid, poured into molds, and allowed to cool. And when the coins were cooled, it was necessary to smooth off the uneven edges. The coins were comparatively soft, and of course, many people shaved them very close. in one century more than slightly more than 80 laws in one century more than 80 laws were passed in athens so stop the practice of whittling down the coins that were in circulation but some money changers were men of integrity who would not accept no counterfeit money they were men of honor who put only genuine full weight money into circulation these men were called the dokimas And this word is used here for Christians as he is to be seen by the world, a dokimas. And that's quoting Donald Gray Barnhouse in his book on Romans, God's Glory, page 18. So does your spiritual life meet God's approval? Are you a dokimas? Are you rightly dividing the word of truth? Orthotomeo, when we get our word orthodontics, are you cutting straight? Are you getting it straight? Rightly dividing the scriptures? It's your job to do that. Because if you can't, then there's trouble on the horizon. Your job is to pass on what you learn. And if you're not learning it, how can you pass it on? How can you divide it rightly if you don't have someone to teach it to you correctly? That's why the need for a local pastor that understands the languages and can teach the word of God correctly. There's a lot more to say and I'm running out of time quickly, but I pray you're listening. I pray you're paying attention and I pray this show will encourage you to be that one man with wisdom that can deliver this nation from what we face in the coming future. Until next week, I'm your host, Rick Hughes, saying thank you for listening to The Flatline.
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Carl Jackson takes the helm of The Mike Gallagher Show to dissect the left's concerted efforts against Trump, elucidating the Cloward and Piven strategy and its implications for America's future. He points out the hypocrisy surrounding immigration procedures and media bias while applauding Trump's determination to dismantle the progressive legacies of FDR and LBJ. Joined by a roster of callers, Jackson navigates the intricacies of America's socio-political landscape, underscoring the urgency for conservatives to rally and uphold American values.
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He's the happy conservative warrior, Mike Gallagher, broadcasting across hundreds of radio stations nationwide and seen on your trusted conservative TV network, Salem News Channel. Sitting in for Mike today, here's Carl Jackson.
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Hello and welcome to the Mike Gallagher Show. I'm your guest host, Carl Jackson, sitting in for the one and only and the great Mike Gallagher. Lou's got my back right here at AM 950, TheAnswerOrlando.com. I have Christian in my ear, Tracy out there in the ether, Dan on the boards. The number to call in, 1-800-655-MIKE, 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. And I want to take the time, obviously... to thank Mike Gallagher for allowing me to sit behind his microphone and guest host for him. Obviously, one of the biggest names in all of radio. So it's always a pleasure and an honor, and I'm always humbled to do so. Eric Hansen is out today. Both Mike, Eric will be back with you on Monday. Guys, we got so much to get to. It is unreal. I was developing or developed a outline this morning And even as I'm developing the outline, rushing into the studio, I get news or you hear news as well. I'm sure that Trump is at it again. He's going to be cutting federal loans, obviously, to to Harvard. Harvard is going to have to dip into their own piggy bank. to pay for the nonsense there. And I want you to understand what we're up against, because again, we're going to get to so much. The speech at the University of Alabama, we got some great clips for you. We got 100 days of Doge. But I want to try to put this into a larger context. Now, I'm a little ADHD. For those of you that may not remember, I do take on a lot of topics. I don't believe they exist in a vacuum. I believe that the left is systematically trying to destroy America. Some of you are sitting here wondering why is the left doubling down on stupid? Why are they talking about Kilmar, Obrego, Garcia? Why are these judges, these right, these left wing, excuse me, these left wing radical judges? working against the Trump administration. Literally one lady escorting a criminal out the back door so that he could escape ICE. Why are they doing that? It's because the mainstream media The Democrat Party and these left-wing judges are in cahoots. Why do they fear Trump? I'm going to take a trip back to memory lane. I want to remind you guys of something called Cloward and Pevens. And again, I'm going to get to all the stories. I'm going to get to all the breaking news. But I like to bring stuff into focus. I like to talk about the macro and a lot of the stories that you'll hear today. fit into the macro. They are symptoms of a greater disease and the greater disease that Trump is busting up. And this is why the left can't stand him. And this is why the left, no matter how much good he does for America, are going to continue to attack him is because Trump is demolishing. I want you to hear me. Trump is actually dismantling. I like that. I think that was my thing this morning when I sent in the outline. I think it's better. Trump is dismantling progressivism. Trump is an existential threat to the left. You understand that, right? You understand that no matter how good things may get right now, we're experiencing a little bit of turbulence when it comes to the economy. If you say otherwise, I got to be honest with you. I think you're lying. We can be honest that we're going to feel a little pain when it comes to the tariffs. But we do believe that we're going to come out on the other side much stronger, much safer, much more resilient as the United States of America. We are the greatest country that God has ever given man. And that is why so many illegals want to flock here. So we'll talk about illegal immigration as well. But again, right here, where is it at? Where is it at? I've got my stack of brilliance too. And also I'm going to talk about religious liberty. I'll mix that in. Because there's something happening that the left doesn't like. And frankly, it was one of the most important stories yesterday. President Trump launches Religious Liberty Commission. And with all the news going on, we might want to minimize that as conservatives. I'm here to tell you that's not what we should do. It's one of the most important things, in my opinion, that Trump has done. Carl, how could you say that? We've got those, we've got this, we've got that. He's doing this, tariffs. You're saying this is one of the most important things that Trump will do or would have accomplished? Yes. If you understand the founding, yes. And that's exactly why we have Cloward and Piven. Remember what the Cloward and Piven strategy is to collapse America. And again, some of you out there are aware of Cloward and Piven. Basically, Cloward and Piven were a couple of I believe they were professors that literally developed a strategy on how to collapse America from within. And this is what the left has been working on. And this is why they can't stand Trump, because some of the things that he's taken on are third rail issues. are like, oh, my God, I don't want to touch those. We might lose an election. Trump has nothing to lose. He has nothing to lose. America has everything to gain from his presidency. And this is why I believe Republicans must fight and they must fight hard. I'm so tired of these freaking rhino Republicans that are not willing to push back, make cuts in some of this deficit spending that we have. Even the cuts that Doge or the corruption that Doge has exposed, if the Republican Congress does nothing about it to codify what Doge has exposed into law, it's all for naught. We cannot allow this Republican Congress to waste this presidency. Cloward and Piven, how do they destroy the system? There's several ways in which they'll do it. And I'll bring some of the stories. And I'm telling you, these stories are going to tie in. The first thing you have to do is control health care. If you control health care, you can control the people. And frankly, I believe this is why they hate RFK Jr. so much. This is why they hate the Maha movement so much. Because if you give people choices, if you give people freedom, then the federal government can't control them. You guys remember what we experienced during the covid lockdowns. You remember what Fauci and his people did to us. We know now that the well, actually, if you're listening to the Mike Gallagher show, you knew it all along. All right. But we know. But we know now that it was a big hoax. It was a big lie. Fauci was trying to cover his butt. We know that the we know that the the. The pandemic started from the Wuhan lab. We've got some soldiers that were affected going all the way back to 2019. Frankly, that's an old story. It's funny to me that it's being reported. I read that story in 2020. So the information was out there. These people lied to us all along. But why lie to us besides covering his butt? If you can control health care, Medicaid, Medicare, get more people on the dole, you can control virtually everything. Poverty. You want to increase the poverty. All right. So you would think that the left would be excited about those cuts. Oh, you mean as a taxpayer, I'm going to be getting some money back. Oh, I love that. Thank you, Jesus. No, no. No, not with the left. They can't celebrate money going back into your pocket or you keeping your money because it disrupts their plan. They have to destroy the middle class. Don't you get it? This is what the left is up to. This is why Trump is such an existential threat. This goes far beyond. Frankly, this is bigger than Trump. This is bigger than Democrat and Republican. This is an existential threat to a party that is hell bent on destroying America. They need you poor. You understand that the left wants you poor. The Democrat Party wants you poor. Now they want to be rich because they're part of the elite, but they need you to stay poor. They have to dismantle the middle class. Carl, why would they bother dismantling the middle class? Well, the middle class gets in their way. Those rascals in the middle class, people like myself, quite frankly, that can either move down into poverty, that can move up into wealth. But we're the ones that vote. We're the one that calls the shots. We're the ones that makes the decision. This is why the left can't stand Trump. He's busting up FDR's legacy. He's busting up LBJ's legacy. He's busting up the Cloward and Piven strategy. He's making America stronger. And that terrifies the left. So don't expect them to be nice. They're going to double down on meanness and they're going to double down on stupidity. This is Carl Jackson sitting in for the great Mike Gallagher. We'll be back in a few.
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He's the happy conservative warrior, Mike Gallagher, broadcasting across hundreds of radio stations nationwide and seen on your trusted conservative TV network, Salem News Channel. Sitting in for Mike today, here's Carl Jackson.
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All right, welcome back to the Mike Gallagher Show. Again, I'm your guest host, Carl Jackson, sitting in for the great Mike Gallagher. He will be back with you on Monday. I want to thank Christian in my ear, Tracy out there producing the program, Dan on the boards for helping me out here. Lou's got my back. Right here at a.m. nine fifty. The answer Orlando dot com. The number to call into the program. Eight hundred six five five. Mike eight hundred six five five six four five three. And we're talking about how the left is absolutely the reason why the left hates Donald Trump so much. And no matter how much good comes from his presidency. Why they're going to continue to throw shade at him is because he is an existential threat. You've got to understand this. He is an existential threat to progressivism. That's why they'll continue to back illegal alien criminals. You guys may have heard on the last hour. Thank you, Tracy. Where, I mean, there's more damning evidence against this guy, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, where his wife was in court. They've got audio. He beat her. It wasn't like it happened here and there. It sounds like. It happened a lot, quite frankly. USA Today has now obtained an audio. A hat tip, Bill Malusion from X. Thank you, Tracy. USA Today has now obtained an audio recording of Kilmar Abergo Garcia's wife in court in 2020 when she was seeking a protective order. She says he repeatedly hit her. She has video evidence of her injuries. And when she called out to a neighbor for help, he grabbed her hair. Yeah, that's that's one of the Democrats favorite constituents there. And they'll continue to fight for him and people like him because they need their votes. Or they need that new victim class. They've got a lot of illegals that they brought into this country. I believe it's closer to 20 million. I don't know, but I believe it's closer to 20 million that they brought into this country. And they are depending on those votes. That's why states like California don't want voter ID. If they had voter ID in California, Republicans, I think, would fare much better. They don't want that. They can't have that. Another. Let me let me just mention this quickly, because obviously it's big news. But again, I'm one of these guys. I believe a lot of the news are just symptoms of a greater issue. And they they kind of again, they're just symptoms of a greater issue. Even a story with with Mike Walsh. Now, the story with Mike Walsh, obviously, you guys have heard the news. But the story with Mike Walsh is, OK, the signal chat scandal that broke. He was the NSA director as of as of yesterday. But now he no longer is. I want to play a video for you. This is video clip number three, Christian. VP Vance tells Bret Baier Mike Walsh did his job. It was time for him to move on. I'm going to dive into this just briefly. I don't want to stick here, to be honest with you, because I want to show you that I think this is just Trump learning to navigate through the swamp better than the first go round. Cut number three, por favor, Christian.
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Was it a direct result of the signal chat? I mean, you were on that chat and we saw the fallout from it. Is this a result of that?
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No, it's not, Brad. I mean, look, what we came into the administration and, of course, the president in his first term had some serious issues with the National Security Council. He said, Mike, you need to go in here. fire, frankly, a lot of people, people who aren't loyal to my agenda, who we think aren't even loyal to the American people, bring in the right collection of people to actually make the National Security Council function. And Mike has done that. And now it's time for Mike to do something else because he's done the job that I think he was asked to do. If the president wanted to fire him over the signal thing, which, by the way, was a total nothing burger of a story, he would have just done it. But he actually decided it's better for Mike to be in this new role. He's given Mike the new role. That's it.
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OK, so I think this is Trump navigating through through the swamp better than the first go around. And honestly, these aren't my original thoughts. I was watching a black gentleman. He does movies for The Daily Wire. Forgive me. I forget his name, but he was on Trace Gallagher's show, Fox News late last night. And he said something that just made total sense to me. So I want to make sure that I give him credit for it. But this is a great way. for Trump to get the media kind of off of his back and refocus on some of his agenda, put them back in traps while at the same time allowing Mike Walsh to go through the fire and anyone surrounding him or around him that may have been compromised. And then you allow Mike Walsh because he is a guy. I believe he's a good guy. He's more moderate than people think. But he is a good guy. I think he is. I thought he was a good congressman. And I thought he was a good NSA director. But that signal chat was an issue. All right. So you deal with that. You bring in now Marco Rubio is has a dual role of the secretary as the secretary of state. Also, as the NSA director, that's the first time since Henry Kissinger Kissinger, excuse me, under under Nixon. But and then you put Mike Walsh to the fire. Make sure he answers all of the questions. Make sure that he definitely can be trusted. And I believe that Trump does trust him. Otherwise, he wouldn't have given him another shot. But he wants to make sure. And I think that's brilliant. I just think that's brilliant. So that wasn't my own idea, but I thought it was brilliant. And sometimes people have a better take than I do. And if they do and I hear it, I'm going to steal it. All right. And I'll be honest. I'll be honest with you about it. And that's exactly what I've done. All right. But and I see the callers out there. Eight hundred six five five. Mike, Karen, you'll be next. Eight hundred six five five. Mike, eight hundred six five five. We're talking about Trump dismantling progressivism. This is another story. This happened last night. I missed this. So Trump defunds NPR. We already know what he's done to Harvard. Now Trump has defunded NPR and PBS. He says no media outlet has a constitutional right to taxpayer subsidies. And I know there's a lot of people out there whining, hey, listen, all this stuff that he's doing, this is Congress's job. OK, Congress can take it back, but they haven't. All right. So if Congress wants the role of deciding where monies go, then take your role back. But I love this. I don't think we should be paying for NPR and PBS. That's total nonsense. They should survive or have to survive, just like Salem Radio has to survive, just like Salem Media has to survive, based upon audience, based upon ad dollars. That's how it works. We don't need NPR, another brainwashing and PBS brainwashing outlets to indoctrinate the masses. They're ran by a bunch of left wing radicals. Remember the I think she was the CEO, president of I don't know if it was NPR or PBS. Either way, 100 percent of the board that existed were all Democrats, all Democrats. Are you kidding me? Oh, I didn't know that. I didn't even think about it in that way. Yeah, right. They know exactly what they're doing. So this is what Trump is up against. Let me just go through a couple more things. If I could find them right here in my formerly fingerprinted fingertips. Sometimes I throw papers around. And they'll move around the studio as quick as words come out of my mouth. So forgive me for that. But I just real quick, I'm going to go back to Cloward and Piven because there is a strategy to to destroy America and what Trump is doing. This is a counterrevolution against progressivism. Making America great again. You heard what he said to the graduates at the University of Alabama. I don't want you to just build a great resume or a strong resume. I want you to build a strong America. I love that. Man, that is such a good line. Wish I had thought of it. But it's so good. It's so good. We talked about health care, poverty, debt, gun control, welfare. The left has to take control of every aspect of their voters lives. That includes food, housing, which I'll get to momentarily because there's something I haven't heard people talking about. And this is the left, how they're trying to destroy the housing market. It's crazy. These guys, listen, never underestimate the left. Caller that called in earlier, I believe her name was Jennifer. We got to show up at every election, every midterm election, every special election, local, national, state. We got to show up. All right, I'll wrap up this clobber pivot on the other side. Carl Jackson in for Mike Gallagher. I'll get some of your calls in as well. We'll be back in a few.
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Why is it that we can let 20 million people into the country just walk across, whatever, and there's no real process for them to do that, but then we have to individually pick out every single person and... go through years upon years upon years of paperwork and this and that and the other, and all we're trying to do is send them back to where they came from because they came here illegally in the first place.
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All right, welcome back to the Mike Gallagher Show. I'm your guest host, Carl Jackson, sitting in for the great Mike Gallagher. Such an honor and privilege to be able to do so. Again, Christian is in my ear. Tracy out there producing the show. Dan on the boards. And Lou's got my back at AM 950, TheAnswerOrlando.com. And, of course, those of you that are in the listening audience, callers, I will get to you shortly. Teresa will be next. On line five. But why is it that there is no process for these illegals? You heard Scott Jennings. Why is it that there's no process for 20 million illegals walk across our border, invade our country? And yet and yet, for some reason. Oh, sorry. Okay. Sorry, Teresa. All right. All right. But there's no process. There's no process to send them back. As a matter of fact, there was a story. Do I have it in my formerly fingerprinted fingertips? I printed it out this morning. I hope I didn't walk out with it. But nonetheless, the good news for you is that I have a somewhat decent memory. But President Barack Obama, you guys remember him. Did you guys know? that in 2013, there was a process, hat tip to CNS News, because I do know that's where I found it earlier. And for some reason, I don't think I brought the printout. But in 2013, oh, yes, it is, hat tip, Dems demand due process for illegal aliens, but Obama deported 83% without a judge. Say what? Yeah. Democrats and liberal media are crying due process when it comes to Trump's Trump and their efforts to demonize the administration's efforts to swiftly remove illegal aliens from the U.S. But in fiscal year 2013, 83 percent of the illegals deported by Democrats, a Democrat president, Barack Obama, weren't given a trial. In fiscal year 2013, when the Obama administration set a record by deporting 438,421 illegals, four of five of them were deported without appearing before a judge. You don't say. Due to the administration's increased use of two non-standard procedures that circumvent the court system. What are those? Expedited removal, number one. DHS officers and agents may order the expedited removal of certain aliens who are inadmissible because they do not possess valid entry documents or are inadmissible for fraud or misrepresentation of material fact. Or... Because the alien who has not been admitted or paroled in the United States has not affirmatively shown to the satisfaction of an immigration officer that the alien had been physically present in the United States for the immediately preceding two year period. Number two, reinstatement of final removal orders is the other nonstandard procedure that the Barack Hussein Obama administration used. A foreign national who is found to have reentered the United States illegally after being removed or leaving under voluntary departure can have their prior removal order reinstated by DHS. The reinstatement order is not subject to review by an immigration judge. Well, how about that? Now, why do they want the Kilmore-Abrego-Garcias in the country? Hat tip, just the news. Michigan review of non-citizens on voter rolls skipped those without driver's licenses. Ha! Isn't that convenient? The Michigan Secretary of State's review of non-citizens on state voter rolls only included those with driver's licenses, excluding any who registered to vote without a driver's license or another form of identification, raising concerns about more non-citizens being on voter rolls than previously disclosed. You don't say, huh? That's weird. So when Democrats wanted them out, they could leave or they could kick them out. But if a Republican is in office, there's no such way to do that, except there is. There's two ways, the expedited removal and the reinstatement of final removal orders. For some reason, I guess that doesn't apply to the Trump administration. Guys, don't get it twisted. I know there's some even some conservatives I hear sometimes due process, due process, due process. This has to be figured out. If there's not due process on how to stop people from invading our country. I'm sorry. There should be something in existence that allows us to kick their butts out quick, fast and in a hurry. Makes no sense whatsoever, except it does make sense. What am I saying? Bad host, bad host, bad host. Of course it makes sense. Of course it makes sense. But Cloward and Pivens, you overwhelm the system. You overwhelm the system. And Teresa, thank you. You're doing a good job taking calls. She was a caller. She's a screener. So I got to give her props, Teresa. Thank you. Thank you so much. A.M. Greatness, the Trump counterrevolution and the moral ledger. Victor Davis Hanton always writes a brilliant column. He talks about the economy. The counterrevolution will be decided by the economy. Guys, in 2026. No matter what Trump does, if we don't get the economy cooking, if we don't get it cooking, he could be in danger of losing power by losing the midterm elections. We cannot let that happen. Republicans on the Hill, you cannot let that happen. And frankly, I do believe I know some would disagree with me on the right. I do believe we should go with stronger policies that like a Chip Roy recommends. Why? Because we can do it now. We can do it now. Guys, do you know how frequently it's been since we've had a president, a Senate and the House? And I understand the numbers aren't huge. I understand the votes are close. I get it. Four times in 100 years. Four times in 100 years. Can you explain to me why Republicans are delaying on codifying what Doge has exposed into law? Can you explain why Republicans don't have a bill yet? Oh, they're working on it. They're working on it. Okay. Okay. They better work fast. They better work fast. We're not going to get this opportunity again. I'm getting honestly, I'm just as sick as sick of rhinos as I am on the left, because neither one of them help America. Neither one of them do, in my opinion. All right. Another strategy of the Cloward and Piven welfare take control of every aspect of their lives. I talked to you about it. Food, housing and income. Where is it? Where is it at? In my formerly fingerprinted fingertips. Let me see if I. Oh, oh, oh. Oh, here's an older article from Zero Hedge. Here's how elites want to destroy the housing markets. Rent control. All right. So unsurprisingly, politicians are calling for more government intervention to address this problem. Namely, in the form of rent control is one of the most played out tricks. Politicians pull to show the public they're doing something about a given crisis. This is something that they do. Oftentimes, low-income rent, urban communities, California, you'll see it. Rent control consists of a ceiling the government imposes on residential rental rates within a particular jurisdiction. The price ceiling artificially boosts housing demand. Guys, I used to live in low-income apartments. back in the day. And it's true. You have low income apartments and obviously there's a waiting list, right? Because the demand is huge. If this ceiling falls below the market level for rental rates, shortages begin to surface as housing demand outstrips current housing supply. Another consequence of rent control, some of the other unintended consequences, the degradation of housing units, Because there's less of an incentive, obviously, for owners of rent control units to spend money on apartment residents. And then the owners can't make enough money to keep the properties up nice and neat. Hat tip. This from legal insurrection. You guys hear about this? This is another Cloward and Piven strategy. Make no mistake about it. Hattip legal insurrection. Washington Governor Ferguson expands law helping first-time minority homebuyers. Carl, you sell out. You Uncle Tom. I mean, we've been oppressed. Shouldn't we get to get some homes here, some mortgages with some government buy-in? Washington Governor Bob Ferguson signed a law expanding the Covenant Home Ownership Program to make it easier for minorities to buy homes. Washington passed a program two years ago meant to help first-time homebuyers. Quote, if their descendant... from someone affected by racist real estate practices in Washington before 1968. Close quote. Wow. So these are the people. These are the groups, if you will, that can be considered for these first time homebuyer loans. You have to be black. You have to be Latino. You have to be indigenous or Pacific Islander, Korean, Asian, Indian, man. Man, I'm sorry, whites. You can't apply. It does not apply to you. This is the left. Are we surprised by this? Are we surprised at the party of the KKK? Are we surprised that the party of the Jim Crow South would pull some crap like this? The Covenant Home Ownership Program offers home buying assistance to minorities who have faced housing discrimination in the past. The program is open to those who lived in or had a parent. Oh, a parent, huh? Grandparent or great grandparent living in Washington before 1968. And who meet one of the following government defined racial identities again. I've already listed them. Everybody but white, basically. This was launched on July 1st, 2024, but the program allows qualified homebuyers, listen to this, to apply through their lenders for zero interest loans to help fund down payments and closing costs. The loans are funded by fees on real estate documents recorded with the state. Wealth redistribution? SSHB or reparations even SSHB 1996. Listen to this. Listen to this would increase the income threshold for applicants to 140 percent of the area median income. And and here's the dagger and allow for loans to be fully forgiven after five years of repayment. Wow. Wow. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I got to admit, I'm tempted to move to Washington for the first time ever. But I won't because this is disgusting and it's racist. But this is Cloward and Pivens. Carl Jackson in for Mike Gallagher. We'll be back.
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All right. Welcome back to the program. Carl Jackson sitting in for Mike Gallagher. Please follow me online. All things social media, X, Instagram and Facebook primarily at Carl Jackson show at the Carl Jackson show. And please subscribe to my podcast, The Carl Jackson Show. I'm on the Salem Podcast Network, YouTube and Rumble as well. I got so much more to get to, but I also see some calls out there. I will get to you momentarily if you want to call in 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. Bill, Carrie, Sandra, I see you out there. I will get to you shortly here. But we are talking about how Donald Trump is dismantling progressivism and where he's doing it basically by taking on LBJ's legacy. He's taking on FDR's legacy. He's fighting back against the Cloward Piven strategy to undermine America, to destroy America. There's a lot of useful idiots there. Like I saw yesterday sitting on corners talking about how this was the most destructive 100. One sign said this is the most destructive first 100 days in U.S. history or something like that of a presidential campaign. You know, of a presidency. I mean, just absolutely insane, nuts type of stuff. But this is what many of the lemmings of the left believe. And this is what the left needs them to believe. The left needs people mad. The left needs people angry, particularly at conservatives, particularly at people of faith. That's what they need because that's the only way that they retain power. They got to keep us divided. They cannot have a United States of America and be in power. That's why they like class warfare. They're still using it. They also use D.I.C.R.T., which is basically. Race warfare, right? But that's why you see AOC, you see Bernie Sanders out there fighting oligarchy tour when the truth is if the socialists like Bernie Sanders and the AOCs got their way and even the David Hoggs got their way. They would be the oligarchs. I think even James Carville understands this. I want to play video clip number eight. This is James Carville speaking to David Hogg, the fake, the fraud. That is the DNC vice chair now, only 25 years of age. claims he was in danger during the Parkland shooting. He was not, but he's exploited that to make buttloads of money and also end up in a very powerful position in the Democrat Party. Cut number eight, por favor, Christian.
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Let me be very specific. I think it is abominable that an official of a political party who is being paid or supported by that political party to go out and raise money to defeat members of the same party. I think that's a jackassery of the highest level.
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James, can you tell me what you want?
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If you want to beat Republicans, of which, of course, lefties never do, they never even run against them. That's one thing. I'm not into beating Democrats. I'm into beating Republicans. And I just will tell you right to your face. I think it's abominable that you have anything to do with the DNC and you're going to go and raise 20 million dollars to beat other Democrats.
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All right. That's James. James Carville just shooting straight with David Hogg. And you could see the little prick on camera and what a prick he is. I hope, I hope he remains the face of the DNC. I got a sneaky suspicion he isn't simply because there are three, quote unquote, women of color that have come out against him to say that he cheated in order to gain that position. And I think the DNC is starting to really see this guy as a liability. Just like Kamala Harris isn't going anywhere. You guys saw some of that speech, heard some of it the other night. She isn't going anywhere. That lady is a complete and utter disaster. If she runs for California governor, which I presume she's going to, this will be the best chance that Republicans will have to beat a Democrat in a long time, as long as they get out the vote. All right. But again, we're watching Trump dismantle FDR's legacy. We're watching Trump dismantle LBJ's legacy. We're watching Trump dismantle progressivism. And this is why the left is out there kicking and screaming. AOC, AOC and what's his name? Bernie Sanders with their whole oligarchy tour again. And if it were up to them, they would be the ones that are the oligarchs. Remember, they have to destroy the middle class. Socialists do. And frankly, that's what they're aiming to do. You're listening to The Mike Gallagher Show. I'm his guest host, Carl Jackson, sitting in for Mike. Mike will be back on Monday, and we'll be back in a few. You guys stay tuned.
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It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man.
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I'm trying to make this one make sense. So this was in Port Charlotte. A Florida man. Now let's just listen to this one sentence. Listen to this first sentence. A Florida man known to throw cans of food and other items around a Florida neighborhood, as one would do, and at others, was arrested after a neighbor said he threw canned corn through her window and broke it. per the arrest affidavit. This happened on April 25th. The woman called Charlotte County Sheriff's Office to report vandalism. She said she was outside. She heard the sound of glass breaking. She turned around, find one of her neighbors, 38 year old Earl's Ernest Sandville, running from another neighbor's front yard back towards his home. The left front window was found broken at the top, like somebody threw something through the glass. The witness got a key from another neighbor in the neighborhood who watches the owner's house when she's away. Went into the home to see what happened and that's when they found a can of Del Monte corn inside The guy apparently is not literally known in the area He goes to the food banks gets food and then goes and throws it around at people and cars and houses Because they need food. He has also thrown bottles of urine and chunks of raw meat Oh Yeah, so they're pressing charges because they go, he's always just throwing things at people. So why is he like, how long has this been going on? Apparently a really long time. So now they're actually going to finally do something and press charges against this guy. I mean, that's kind of crazy that it goes on that long. Come on. A Florida man frustrated with the McDonald's drive-thru just tried stealing the cash register. Okay, well, there's other things you can do to express your discontentment. But this one, Cape Coral, the guy tried to steal a cash drawer at the McD's because he was frustrated in the drive-thru. It was four in the morning. Police responded to a robbery in progress. And they said he got into an argument with an employee, tried stealing the register and took off in his car. They caught up with him. He was taken into custody. They also put his photo all over social media. Like what? Like control thyself. Florida man was arrested for having three wives in three different counties. Yeah, it is not an okay thing to do, feller. They say the women said that there weren't adequate safeguards to prevent it. I don't know, maybe being a little bit curious about what the hell he's doing when he's not with you. That's probably one safeguard, you know, just like your woman's innate suspicion. Do you really need the government to go, well, since you broads are too stupid to realize that he's got three wives in three counties, we're going to have to expand ourselves and make a law. Come on now. They're saying there's no safeguards. He took each one of us to a county to get married, said one of the wives. They're looking. I mean, how does that happen? How does something like that happen? He married apparently one of them within the same year or two of them in the same year and in 2022. And I just how would you not know? They met him on a dating app. And I just don't understand how you wouldn't know. He was arrested for felony bigamy. And after the first wife figured out that there were two others. That's kind of... Let's see. Birthday suit bandit. Naked Florida man caught trying to break into a lady's home. And then I got another story. I'll save this for you for Monday. But a Florida man is accused of touching realtor's feet during open house showings. That's nasty. It'll be nasty and a freak elsewhere. As we move, our partners are bringing the program. Our friends over at Kel-Tec. Great company. Great all-American company. They got the PR57, the rotary barrel pistol, the lightest 5.7 on the market, 40% lighter than competition. It's perfect for concealed carry. You can actually really concealed carry this 5.7. It's awesome. Unique top-loading design replaces the traditional magazines with stripper clips for a slimmer carry profile in a 20-plus-1 capacity. MSRP is only $399. It's super sweet. And this is one you absolutely have to have. You know, Kel-Tec, it's all about made in America, family-owned values at their best. These are American materials, American workers, American labor, American production, the whole nine yards. America needs more companies like Kel-Tec. Learn more at Kel-TecWeapons.com. Innovation, performance, Kel-Tec, K-E-L-T-E-C-Weapons.com. Tell them Dana sent you. Guys, remember the letter people? I remember the letter people. They didn't teach me how to read at all, though. They were on PBS. I just thought the song was catchy, and it sounded like it was written by a long-haired, barefoot hippie.
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And it was. It totally was. Tall Teeth was my favorite character. Tall Texas Teeth. Remember Tall Teeth?
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Tall Teeth. He's got tall teeth. I remember that. Yeah, I letter people. It was entertaining, but they didn't teach me how to read. First off, welcome back. We're in a weird mood. Dana Lash with you. We're at the bottom of this first hour. We're talking about the funding, the PBS stuff, and how they're trying to, you know, POTUS has this executive order. Congress is going to sit here and twiddle their thumbs, not do anything, and then it's all going to... We're only getting a reprieve from this because Congress isn't doing anything to codify it. But, uh... I was a latchkey kid, like the quintessential Gen Xer. And these shows didn't teach me nothing. Although the stereotypes are true. And Kane, you can attest to this. You know, we know how to get blood out of clothes. We grew up drinking hose water. We were filled with neglect. And yet we were still happy and, you know, pretty much thriving, you know, for the most part.
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Yeah, because we didn't know better.
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We knew how to make our own meals by like nine years old. Like we knew how to do all this. You could throw us out in the middle of nowhere and we'd survive.
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I think by seven. I think I knew how to make a full meal by seven. Yeah.
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Like you would, you would run around the neighborhood all day during the summer and, and just basically hope that some neighbor gives you a sandwich. Like one of your, your, your friends, families would give you a sandwich. My favorite thing in the world. There's a, there's this one family, one of my friends, their family was, our family was kind of broke. I mean, kind of, we were poor kids, but we had a friend that was, you know, pretty well off. Right. I mean, you know, upper middle class, they weren't, it wasn't like dynasty or nothing, but you know, they were pretty well off. But man, their mom would go when she would come back from the grocery store. It was like Christmas for us. We're like, what? And she would have like all this lunch meat and then all the potato chips. I've never seen anybody buy like five bags of potato chips at the store. They had two kids. And, I mean, it was good eating. It was good eating then. Not that we were poor. I don't want to say like we were like, well, I mean, when I was a kid, we were, yeah.
SPEAKER 02 :
When I was a teenager, it got a little better. There was like a lunch meat boom in the 80s. Like all the families enjoyed the old lunch meat.
SPEAKER 03 :
Lunchables and Hot Pockets. I think I'm partially made of them.
SPEAKER 02 :
And that's how we used to categorize our friends, like based on what their moms would give us.
SPEAKER 03 :
Isn't that right? That is absolutely correct.
SPEAKER 02 :
Some moms would be like, sure, you can have Kool-Aid. And some moms are like, there's too much sugar in that.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh my gosh. The moms that made you drink just like fruit flavored water. That was abusive. You know, that, that right there, that that's abusive. Should have called division of family services on you ladies. Cause that was mean. It's like your drink and you don't want to be rude and you're sipping it like Tom's mom has Doritos. Oh man. So great. And the ones, the families that just let you take the bag and you would run around the house or whatever with your friends. There's a special place in heaven for them moms. So, yeah, that's it. Just I never learned how to read anything from these shows. But all of the leftists are like, there's going to be just an epidemic of stupid children. Well, it's already happening. First off, that's already happening. Have you seen our test scores? Good old Randy Weingarten's up there getting hers and then screwed him, kids. That's how she looks at it. But only that, they're going to be able to sit here and tell you all the made-up genders, but they can't do math. So, yeah, we were already struggling academically, especially compared to some other countries, because our educational system is just insane. And we punish really good educators and we reward the frauds and not on top of it. Then you have the frauds that are like, we need to teach people about, you know, gay sex when they're in second grade. Let's do it. That's not educational. It's brainwashing. So no wonder these people don't care about these kids. I also think, too, and I don't know why this fascinates me. I think it's very nostalgic. Compare today's kid shows to the kid shows of yore, right? I showed my kids one day. This was some years ago. Bugs Bunny, like old Bugs Bunny, Warner Brothers, right? And they were shocked. They were shocked. I forced them to watch it. I was like, this is good. We're watching Warner Brothers today. I mean, that's how I was that meme. The violence. Yeah, I was like, no, I'm going to desensitize you to this programming, this societal programming. So they watched and they ended up loving it. I learned, I will say, it wasn't PBS that got me into like classical music and all of that. Not like I'm into it, into it, but I enjoy it. It was Bugs Bunny and Killed a Rabbit. Got me into Wagner. Killed a rabbit. PBS didn't do that. I learned about all that from Bugs Bunny. I learned every bit of that from Bugs Bunny. I learned about geology as an adult from Minecraft. So I didn't learn. We didn't learn nothing from PBS or NPR. These people are lying to you, parents. They're lying to you, lying to your face. You know what you get now on PBS? That bald, whiny kid, Caillou. I'm just a kid, it's for each day. I hate that kid. That kid made me believe in abortion. I have never, I'm joking, but for him.
SPEAKER 02 :
Take that back.
SPEAKER 03 :
I will not. I believe he should be aborted. Abort Caillou. Do the world a favor. That Canadian whiner. It's like a bald Justin Trudeau up there. Hate him. Hate him to death. Oh my gosh, that show will go on.
SPEAKER 02 :
Happy Friday, everyone.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, you all, you all... What, you think there are people out there in the audience that love Caillou? All you people watching and listening all across the nation, y'all hate that kid. I know it.
SPEAKER 02 :
But they don't let animation change their stance on abortion.
SPEAKER 03 :
I just said for him. Like, I don't want him to exist. Like post-birth. I'll give into a little post-birth abortion just for the sake of Caillou. Some might call it murder. Now we're going to borrow Democrats. It's not murder if I say it's not murder, you know. Can't stand Coyote.
SPEAKER 02 :
But can we have like a substantive conversation about why it's also dumb? Because how many stations across the country exist without a dime of federal money? They actually have a business model that allows them to exist.
SPEAKER 03 :
What? What is that? Say government status.
SPEAKER 02 :
So over 15,000 radio stations across the country, over 2,500 broadcast TV stations across the country, they all have to operate without a dime of federal money. Maybe during election season is about as close as they get to federal money. So I don't understand how people can conflate the two ideas where just taking away federal money doesn't mean that they can't operate as a business. They can do that if they want to. I don't understand why. What? What am I getting? What?
SPEAKER 03 :
I don't get it. I don't think they know how to sell anything. Of course, it's all maybe get some better programming. I don't know. Julia Child had a program on there in the days of yore. You can see some of it on YouTube. I mean, if you want to support it, support it. I don't care. But don't force everybody to do it with our tax dollars.
SPEAKER 02 :
And it's all community-driven, which any successful radio station is mostly focused on the community.
SPEAKER 03 :
I mean, my big thing is the way that I see... These all I mean, I've seen a number of people on the left and like I'm not talking about randos. I mean, you know, these are people who are on who are cable news commentators or editorialists, and they act like this is a formative. building block for children. They, I think that they have, they have an outsized description of the role that public broadcasting plays in the lives of people, particularly children with us because every, I mean, I have a million headlines here where they're all acting like our kids are going to be dumb and not able to read and can't do math and everything's going to go to hell because.
SPEAKER 02 :
So today.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. Because, uh, we're not going to be funding, uh,
SPEAKER 02 :
this stuff and we all know that that's but are there people who believe this i mean i just i argue it's because we funded this stuff yeah is why all of our kids are so dumb i mean ma'am our kids aren't dumb you know maybe theirs are but yeah right but statistically as we see now we have a good like we're talking above 50 percent that cannot read yeah at eighth grade levels and got worse over when everything got locked down
SPEAKER 03 :
That's when Randy Weingarten and her surrogates, they just wanted to be able to have a vacation. Man, that thunder. So, by the way, welcome back to the program, Dana Lash. It is storming Norman here in Texas. Hoo boy. So, again, I'm just going to warn you. If the power goes out, we're going to be here in the dark. But we'll power through. Our generator will kick in. We'll power through. But there is a chance. It's always a 50% chance. That thunder is crazy out there. It's dark. I do suspect maybe a tornado, Cain. If a Nader blows in here, you know, just saying, just saying. All right. A couple of other things I want to hit because we have the I mean, I have a lot on the budget. You guys want a break from the budget. You want me to keep going with the budget because I got a lot there. Also, I mean, they're looking at slashing. Let's see the way that NBC always slashing everything, but growing the military. Well, the Constitution actually only allows for military funding. If you want to be really pesky about it, they allow for nominal amounts of public funding for things like. Like maybe arts, things like in Article I, Section 8, where they get into essentially about preserving American culture ultimately is what it goes down to. So there's different – to create like an arts endowment, things of that nature. There's – there is some nominal federal support for that. But that's all going towards preserving American culture, not like we're going to fund all of this extra pork nonsense. Our partners that help bring you the program, our friends over at All Family Pharmacy, they've got you covered, whatever it is that you need. Is it any of the medications or therapeutics that the system tried to keep from you during lockdown? You know, things like And ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, which are so completely safe to take. I mean, they even allow pregnant women. They sometimes will suggest hydroxychloroquine for them, you know, that because you can't rush through experimental injections and hand Pfizer multibillion dollar paydays if you if you don't ban therapeutics. This is the thing. They didn't just dismiss alternatives. They outright destroyed them. They wanted you to rely on the government and just listen to whatever they were ordering you to do. Well, things have changed. And there's All Family Pharmacy. All Family Pharmacy has your daily maintenance medications. They also have the ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, antibiotics, everything. Simple, fast, and affordable. No insurance, no problem. They've got straightforward pricing, online ordering, shipping in just two to four days, or overnight in a pinch if you need it. Everything is made in the U.S.A., All of their medications are manufactured right here in the USA, ensuring high standards of quality and safety. Visit allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana for 10% off using promo code Dana10. Don't wait. Be prepared. Protect yourself and your family today. That's allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana. Use coupon code Dana10 to save 10%.
SPEAKER 02 :
And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, today in Delco, which Steve gave us all a lesson on, You heard of Hawk Tua. Now meet Hawk Pua. A crazy woman. How do I put this? She literally did a do on the hood of a car. During a little traffic, a little minor traffic fender bender. A mountain dude? Uh, sure. Yeah, she mountain dude all over the hood of that car.
SPEAKER 02 :
What?
SPEAKER 03 :
Now, that's gross, yes. And it's so, there's horrible video of it. And we're getting ready to show you because it's Friday. No, we're showing it. Yeah, we're doing it. Why? We're doing it live. Doing it live, Kane. Um, I'm just more impressed that she could do it on command like this than I am anything else. They arrested the woman. There was another video of her being arrested. But apparently it was in Delco, which Steve said is a very culturally significant part of Philly. And this woman, I guess she got rear-ended and then got out and rear-ended that car in a whole other way. She ended up being arrested. I think that... I don't even know what kind of legal violation that is, but... Yeah, here she is.
SPEAKER 01 :
I have a sickness.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, she does have a sickness. That's right, girl. You do got the sickness. That's exactly correct. Oh, my gosh. Let's see. Also, a man is in critical condition after he plunged from the stands at a pirate game. What is happening? 21 feet. What? Oh, my gosh. How do you do that? How do you fall out of the stands? Well, that's what happened with this feller. They stopped the game in Pittsburgh. Players were obviously shocked. He's in critical condition, 20 feet. Fans and players alike were both horrified. He was taken to the hospital where he remains in critical condition. And they said it was a terrible accident. But man alive.
SPEAKER 02 :
That's a two-story drop.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, that's a major drop. A British woman, 115 years old, named the world's oldest person.
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115.
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She was born in 1909. And she takes the record after a Brazilian nun. I don't know what her secret is. I bet it's like whiskey and something. That's usually what they say. It's funny. Let's see. Oh, apparently Hillary Baldwin. I don't care. Are they going to get divorced? I don't care. Nobody cares about that fake Spanish tart. Nobody cares about her and her murdering husband. I know. We have a lot more on the way. Stick with us. I hate musicals, right? Golly, I hate musicals. My mom took me to Cats when I was like 13 years old. It ruined me for life. I have no idea what that was about. I told you this before, I think. It just is like a bunch of furries and they sang some song about memories. And that's all I think all I remember.
SPEAKER 02 :
I thought it was about cats. It's not?
SPEAKER 03 :
I really don't know. It was weird, and to this day, I have no idea what happened. And I just don't get it. It made me hate musicals forever. She made me go see Wicked one time. I wanted to die. I wanted to launch myself off the balcony. I wanted to yeet myself into the floor below. I just didn't care. I'm not into musicals. I'm not into all that stuff. And the... Now you have a musical where they want to celebrate. I'm not making this up. This is New York Post. Luigi Mangione. They want to do a musical about him. That's kind of a pretty short musical, isn't it? I mean, he ran up and shot a dude in the back and ran away. I mean, what is there? Is it going to be a song and dance? Is he going to be like, woo, with a gun and woo, going up there to shoot this dude? I mean, how does that work? It's called Luigi the Musical. Now, at first glance, I'm not going to lie. I thought this was like a Super Mario Brothers thing. And then I'm like, oh, no, it's this guy. He's like ruining that name, right? And it's going to debut in June. And they say they're going to be bold and unafraid about what he did to leave two kids without a dad. Now, the opening night is already sold out. What does that say about how stupid people are? The opening night is already sold out.
SPEAKER 02 :
Do we even know who the cast is?
SPEAKER 03 :
I don't think so. I mean, there's some names I don't know. I don't know who these people are. I don't know who the theater kids are. I don't pay attention to that.
SPEAKER 02 :
I mean, to stay true to what the left has been doing with entertainment, they should probably find a black female to play that Luigi lead.
SPEAKER 03 :
Why do they do this? I'm just waiting for the musical about Diddy. The Diddler. The story of Sean Diddy Combs. I'm just waiting for that. Is he going to make an appearance in it? Is he going to come out with a dancing part? Who's going to play Diddy? To make it truly Netflix, they should probably have a blonde woman play him. I just, what in the world? So they said that it's going to be surprisingly thoughtful and funny and blah, blah, blah, and show tunes. And they said, Luigi is your new favorite felony. What? That's the tagline. As if you didn't hate musicals enough.
SPEAKER 02 :
Felony or felon?
SPEAKER 03 :
Felony. They said the songwriter, Ariel Johnson, and the director, Nova Bradford, So they drew inspiration from Chicago, the musical. And they had a snippet that they had behind the scenes footage that they posted. And this song is horrible. One of the lines was, I'm not kidding you, this is a line. Flash those pearly whites. There were cameras there that night. And that's what let the police take me in. The guy named Johnny Stein is apparently playing Luigi Mangione. And that's a reference to him pulling down his balaclava to smile at the New York youth hostel clerk. And that's how they were able to get a good look at him. This sounds like the dumbest. This sounds like a high school musical project. I mean, as if you didn't have enough reasons to hate musicals. Jazz, hand it up.
SPEAKER 02 :
There's nothing about the story to glorify. There's nothing about the story, no matter what position you're on, there's nothing to glorify other than murder. Is that what people are doing?
SPEAKER 03 :
Apparently, I mean, they love the left loves their murderers. I don't know what to say. I mean, they literally had Earth Day earlier about a dude who composted his girlfriend. He loved the earth so much. He murked his girlfriend, chopped her up, composted. He's just composting her for the planet. You know, you can justify anything if you, you know, pay tribute to one of their stations. So I got to do.
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as i look at this initially the one thing that really jumped out to me that i love transportation and warehousing those are the jobs that were supposed to be hit Right? Yeah. Up 29,000. The prior three months was up 2,000, up 18,000, up 17,000. An acceleration in those type of jobs that were supposed to be the ones that were hit. So maybe some of this manufacturing, some of these deals that the White House has announced, maybe we're starting to see that already play out. I know that we saw earlier in the week, Elon Musk needing another 1,000 workers. Taiwan Semiconductor starting their third opening, third plant in Arizona. So this is phenomenal. Goods producing was a positive job number. This is just, it just proves that we have an economy that all the experts continue to underestimate. And I think they're looking through a prism of political hatred, for lack of a better term, rather than being logical about the greatest economy in the world. There are reasons countries want to come here. There's a reason people buy our treasuries. There's a reason a dollar is the world's reserve currency. And the notion that they can flip a switch and find a replacement for America is nuts. And yet that's been the Wall Street narrative all along.
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That's right, because the media can't get out of its Trump derangement syndrome.
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Well, and and I don't know. I mean, even if it's hard to even understand when you look at jobs numbers, what the hell's happening? Because the media, if you're reading the media, because the way the media puts it. we're all dying a horrible death, and that's just kind of the way it is. And it's because of Trump. I mean, you can't get a fair shake, and people wonder why no one trusts the rat bastard press, because you can't get a fair shake from any of them. If you look at any of the headlines, it's, oh my gosh, the jobs are horrible. And then they're more upset over stupid NPR than they are of anything else. They're livid over that. They're livid over it. They don't understand the relationship between incessant government spending And the economy and jobs, they just, they don't get it. These people are just, I don't know if they just, they don't, it's because they're communists. Either that or they just want to be willfully stupid. It's one of the two. And it's frustrating because it's all of our tax dollars. It's frustrating because we're the ones who have to foot the bill for all of this stuff. I don't know. We got a lot of stuff to hit today. And just to get you set up for the weekend, welcome to the show. Dana Lash with you. You're at the top of this first hour and that's you know, the top thing today. We have jobs. We have another executive order. And I know I sound like a broken record, and I don't care when I talk about how Republicans in the House have to do something because, look, we've got another... We have another EO that came out, an executive order that came out. And this is the executive order. POTUS says it's about biased media with regards to NPR. And The government, the the subsidies, the subsidization of it. And he was saying that, you know, they why I agree. I completely agree. Why the hell do taxpayers why do we have to fund any of this stuff? Why do we have to fund a single bit of it? And I keep seeing these media people go. I learn like Jake Tapper was like, well, I learned to read because, you know, of of Sesame. It was you say Sesame Street. He learned to read because of Sesame Street or something like that. Sesame Street isn't even owned, by the way, by PBS anymore. They sold that. They're not even owned by PBS anymore. It's just it's asinine. They don't even they don't even understand this stuff. And also, you know, if they cared so damn much about it, why can't they write a check for it themselves? Why is it always our responsibility to do it? You know, that's that's just real rich. The left, isn't it? Super rich. They it's cheap sentiment. I hate cheap sentiment. I hate cheap sentiment more than anything else in the world. It's lazy and it's callous. And I hate it, especially with this, because these people make a big deal about, oh, you've got to support public broadcasting. You've got to support it. Oh my gosh, look at all these, all these Muppets are going to be out of work. If you're not, if you don't support this, all these Muppets, what are they going to do? What's Big Bird going to, well, they don't own them anymore. So, you know, there you go. They don't even own them anymore. But the thing is, is write a check. Write a check if you care so damn much about it. Headline after headline. So let me just show you here. I hate following the legacy press. I hate starting off my Friday by following these. I'm not going to use my get out of jail free card with the FCC on this, but you get the sentiment. let's see, Trump, tyrant Trump ending federal funding for NPR and PBS. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But my favorite is, I saw a couple. One of them had, one of them was saying, yeah, tyranny, Trump, Trump expanding propaganda, ending public, ending public funding for PBS. Okay. explain to me how oh my gosh oh my gosh it's for is it too early to day drink to understand to get with these people good night uh the other one uh the executive order blah blah some of them are i will say some of them like ap had a pretty benign but everybody else is just garbage oh trump is ending federal funding to npr and pbs and there are all of these ancillary stories How many children have been benefited by NPR and PBS? First off, if your kids only learn how to read from PBS and NPR and all this stuff, you're a crap parent. You're a glorified welfare parent that expects Uncle Sam to raise your child. Shame on you. gets sterilized what i mean it i'm tired of this is so oh it's asinine but they're like oh my gosh trump said did you guys know that it's propaganda to end public funding for government media Let that one sink in the same. By the way, these are the same people who were like, no, that Hunter Biden laptop story. It's just not it's just not important. It's not important. And it's it's just it's oh, gosh, it's just a local story. Local crime story. That's what they said. So that's how they put it. So I'm happy to see this because I don't want my, you know, I actually stopped. And like I said, Sesame Street's not even owned by them anymore. But I remember when I was in college and they had, who was that, that old lady doctor who talked about sex all the time, Ruth something. I keep wanting to say Ruth Bitter Ginsburg, but that's a SCOTUS judge. She's dead too.
SPEAKER 03 :
It's Dr. Ruth.
SPEAKER 02 :
It's Dr. Ruth. Why should I name her? I can't remember her last name. Anyway, she was literally on Sesame Street one day. I remember I was in college. And I had no idea. I was like flipping through channels after school one day. And I saw her on Sesame Street. And I'm like, that's the sex lady. Why is she on Sesame Street? You can Google it. She's been on a ton of times. Can anybody explain to me why? Like, what was the purpose of... That's what I'm saying. And I get it. They would have celebrity guests and stuff. But that's the first time I went, wait a minute. Why is this lady on? I mean, I get it that she's famous, but famous for what? And why is she on a kid's show? Okay, groomer. All right. I just, you know, it's kind of weird. But I don't see the point of it. If they love it so damn much, then all of you rich leftists out there, Get off your fat, slovenly backsides and write your own damn check. I'm tired of the cheap. These people don't care about NPR and PBS. You know what? That's just nothing but a bumper sticker to them. These morons don't care about any of this stuff. And if they because if they did, they would donate to it. Do you if you see a cause that you like, what do you do? You donate to it. You would donate freely of your own free will, correct? Your own volition. You would write the check. You would donate. You see the little red kettle, the Salvation Army for Christmas? What do you do? You put money in the kettle of your own free will, your own volition. You do it yourself. You don't wait for someone to force you and everybody else to put a paltry amount. That's the leftist idea of charity. The least we can do for you. through the ineffective arm of the government. That's what we're going to do. The least. And they call it caring. They act like that's caring. Oh, we care about public welfare. No, you guys don't. They absolutely do not. You know, the left actually spends the least on this kind of charitable stuff, by the way. They love funding, you know, street activism and, you know, burn loot murder and all that. Oh, they love that all day long. They've actually done studies on this. We've talked about this on there before when said studies came out. But The it's actually Christians that donate more than anybody, by the way, just FYI. But I digress. The the act of writing one's own check and sending an extra check to the Treasury. Clearly, they understand how to do this. They just don't want to because it's not the same. They think that it's charitable to force everybody to part with your hard earned tax dollars to send to this stuff. Actually, Masterpiece Theater is the only thing I like. Now, I'm going to tell you something. I'm a big kid, you know. Make my own decisions. Live my own life. And I wanted that because I don't ever watch. I hardly ever watch cable. And there was one series that I wanted to watch. And it's the master is a masterpiece thing. It's and that's on public broadcasting. Right. PBS masterpiece. I will pay twelve dollars for a season pass for a series. I don't mind paying that if I want to watch it. It's good content. Now, why can't they do that? Oh, no, everyone has to fund it. By the way, if they're getting that much in tax dollars, why do I have to buy a damn season pass on a streaming service in order to watch it? But that's a whole other gripe that I have. They don't answer your emails when you ask them. I mean, politely, by my terms, they don't answer emails on it. So they can do this themselves. This has always been the problem with the communist left, though. Communists are always like this. Oh, and I think Thatcher had a quote, something to that extent. It's always easy to be generous with other people's money. And that's exactly what this is. They want to be generous, just not with their money. They want to be generous with your money because they want to spend their money on things like George Soros and his Tides Foundation and far left activist DAs. That's what they want to spend their money on. They'll leave this stuff. They'll just browbeat you all into spending money on this. Now, the thing that makes me the angriest about this, about the reaction to it, is that the Republicans in Congress don't have a reaction to it. What are they doing to codify any of this? There is not a single thing that they're debating on the floor right now about codifying any of these executive orders in place. You know what that means? We lose in 2028. Guess what? You may have like a Gavin Newsom who will undo every single one of these. In fact, it's not even guaranteed that if you get another Republican president that they won't undo these just as easy with a pen. That's not legislating. And I get it that it's all he can do right now because you have these do nothing Republicans in Congress. I get it. But that's not what that's not legislating. That's just signing an executive order and using the nominal authority that you have in that instance to do it. That's all it is. We need to see some action. They got together for a group photo yesterday, the House Republicans, and I was really trying to be on my best behavior by not commenting on it publicly. So I feel like I need to get I feel like I need backpats. I need some kind of positive. I don't respond to criticism. Positive reinforcement is my only motivator. And I just I feel I feel really good about myself because I didn't shred them like they deserve because I don't care about your stupid class photos. Get thine backsides on the floor and get something done. Otherwise, all of this is for not the clock is ticking. It's ticking. It is ticking. We don't have a lot of time. We really don't. Because now they're going to start. They're already starting with the midterm process. My gosh, you already see they're already pushing 2028 stuff. So we don't have a lot of time. And all of these tricky Republicans that have been dragging their feet this whole time, what do you think is going to happen the closer that we get to fall and people start filing and getting ready for these midterm elections? Do you think that they're going to be more amenable to come to the conservative constitutionalist perspective? If they won't now, when they're a little far removed from an election, how do you think it's going to work when we're in the middle of an election cycle? And these people who at the safest moment would not could not bring themselves. They could not be prevailed upon to pass any legislation on this. Do you think it's going to get easier? If you do, I have a bridge to sell you. It's frustrating. It's incredibly frustrating. I don't know. We got a lot more on the way. 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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
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I read some kind of article that said that all the horses that are racing, like in the derby and that, they all basically have some form of secretariat lineage. That's amazing. The Kentucky Derby, the 151st running of the Grade 1 Kentucky Derby. They... I don't even understand what the point of this story is. Was it a horse called Journalism that's the top choice? That poor horse. Why'd you give that horse that name? Why'd you give that? That horse is too pretty for that. But apparently that horse is the... I watch for the hats. I really don't care. I don't. I love the pageantry of it, and I love the hats. You're not doing the derby right if you don't got your mint julep. I love that mint julep. I mean, I love looking at the horses, but I'm not watching the horse races. I'm like, oh, my God, those are so pretty. And I'm looking at all that. I love it. I do love that. But Kentucky Derby, American is get out. So that's pretty cool. So the horse journalism, that's going to be the horse that's that's tipped. That's the favor. Steve says he likes American Promise. Now, that's a great horse name. How do you name a horse like this? How do you name one of these horses? They're all like fancy, meaningful names.
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The next one will be Noname.
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Oh my gosh, stop. We're not going to do Noname. Not having that. The tariffs. Apple results top Wall Street estimates as iPhone sales rise. They've already moved so much of their stuff to India and elsewhere out of China. They really have moved a lot out of China. I think they don't get enough credit for that. You know, I'm just saying. But so far, I guess, you know, I thought those tariffs were supposed to kill all that stuff guess not although they were exempt weren't phones and some of the other stuff things exempt they uh mcdonald's u.s sales are in decline in a shaking economy kane says they should start using beef tallow again that's kind of crazy if mcdonald's sales are down like in a tough economies usually those are the things that stay pretty like even Yeah, they stay pretty reliable. They're, let's see. Oh, California. Most Californians, according to a new poll from Newsweek, they want more guns in schools to protect their kids. Of course they do. We have a lot more on the way. The big budget, the fight over what to slash. Stick with us. GoldCo is making it easy to take that first step toward protecting your savings. Just fill out a quick form, no commitment, just free information. And then they'll ship you your free 2025 gold and silver kits straight to your door. No shipping fees, no strings. just a free info kit to help you understand how gold and silver can fit into your financial plan. I'm a big believer in doing your research, and this kit is a great place to start. So I'm really excited to be partnering with Goldco because not only do they support my show, which I truly appreciate, but they've made the whole process of buying precious metals Super straightforward. Because if you're a fan of the show, Gold Co. is also going to tell you how to qualify for unlimited free bonus silver on eligible orders. If you qualify, you can even get a free half ounce silver Ronald Reagan coin. Totally free. Don't wait. Take that first step towards protecting and diversifying your savings with Gold Co. Visit danalikesgold.com to learn more. That's danalikesgold.com.
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Guys, remember the letter people? I remember the letter people. They didn't teach me how to read at all, though. They were on PBS. I just thought the song was catchy, and it sounded like it was written by a long-haired, barefoot hippie.
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And it was. It totally was. Tall Teeth was my favorite character.
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Texas Teeth. Remember Tall Teeth? Tall Teeth. He's got tall teeth. I remember that. Yeah, I letter people. It was entertaining, but they didn't teach me how to read. First off, welcome back. We're in a weird mood. Dana Lash with you. We're at the bottom of this first hour. We're talking about the funding, the PBS stuff, and how they're trying to, you know, POTUS has this executive order. Congress is going to sit here and twiddle their thumbs, not do anything, and then it's all going to... We're only getting a reprieve from this because Congress isn't doing anything to codify it. But, uh... I was a latchkey kid, like the quintessential Gen Xer. And these shows didn't teach me nothing. Although the stereotypes are true. And Kane, you can attest to this. We know how to get blood out of clothes. We grew up drinking hose water. We were filled with neglect. And yet we were still happy and pretty much thriving for the most part. Yeah, because we didn't know better. We knew how to make our own meals by like nine years old. We knew how to do all this. You could throw us out in the middle of nowhere and we'd survive.
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I think by seven. I think I knew how to make a full meal by seven.
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Yeah. Like you would, you would run around the neighborhood all day during the summer and, and just basically hope that some neighbor gives you a sandwich. Like one of your, your, your friends, families would give you a sandwich. My favorite thing in the world. There's a, there's this one family, one of my friends, their family was, our family was kind of broke. I mean, kind of, we were poor kids, but we had a friend that was, you know, pretty well off. Right. I mean, you know, upper middle class, they weren't, it wasn't like dynasty or nothing, but you know, they were pretty well off. But man, their mom would go when she would come back from the grocery store. It was like Christmas for us. We're like, what? And she would have like all this lunch meat and then all the potato chips. I've never seen anybody buy like five bags of potato chips at the store. They had two kids. And, I mean, it was good eating. It was good eating then. Not that we were poor. I don't want to say like we were like, well, I mean, when I was a kid, we were, yeah. When I was a teenager, it got a little better.
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There was like a lunch meat boom in the 80s. Like all the families enjoyed the old lunch meat.
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Lunchables and Hot Pockets. I think I'm partially made of them.
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And that's how we used to categorize our friends, like based on what their moms would give us.
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Isn't that right? That is absolutely correct.
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Some moms would be like, sure, you can have Kool-Aid. And some moms are like, there's too much sugar in that.
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Oh my gosh, the moms that made you drink just like fruit-flavored water. That was abusive. You know, that right there, that's abusive. Should have called Division of Family Services on you ladies because that was mean. It's like you're drinking and you don't want to be rude and you're sipping it like mmm. So nice.
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Tom's mom has Doritos.
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Oh man, so great. And the ones, the families that just let you take the bag and you would run around the house or whatever with your friends. there's a special place in heaven for them moms. So, uh, yeah, that's, it just, I never learned how to read anything from these shows. But all of the leftists are like, there's going to be just an epidemic of stupid children. Well, it's already happening. First off, that's already happening. Have you seen our test scores? Good old Randy Weingarten's up there getting hers and then screwed him, kids. That's how she looks at it. But only that, they're going to be able to sit here and tell you all the made-up genders, but they can't do math. So, yeah, we were already struggling academically, especially compared to some other countries, because our educational system is just insane. And we punish really good educators and we reward the frauds and not on top of it. Then you have the frauds that are like, we need to teach people about, you know, gay sex when they're in second grade. Let's do it. That's not educational. It's brainwashing. So no wonder these people don't care about these kids. I also think, too, and I don't know why this fascinates me. I think it's very nostalgic. Compare today's kid shows to the kid shows of yore, right? I showed my kids one day. This was some years ago. Bugs Bunny, like old Bugs Bunny, Warner Brothers, right? And they were shocked. They were shocked. I forced them to watch it. I was like, this is good. We're watching Warner Brothers today. I mean, that's how I was that meme.
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The violence.
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Yeah. I was like, no, I'm going to desensitize you to this programming, this societal programming. So they watched and they ended up loving it. I learned, I will say, it wasn't PBS that got me into like classical music and all of that. Not like I'm into it, into it, but I enjoy it. It was Bugs Bunny and Killed a Rabbit. Got me into Wagner. Killed a rabbit. PBS didn't do that. I learned about all that from Bugs Bunny. I learned every bit of that from Bugs Bunny. I learned about geology as an adult from Minecraft. So I didn't learn. We didn't learn nothing from PBS or NPR. These people are lying to you, parents. They're lying to you, lying to your face. You know what you get now on PBS? That bald, whiny kid, Caillou. I'm just a kid, it's for each day. I hate that kid. That kid made me believe in abortion. I have never, I'm joking. But for him. Take that back. I will not. I believe he should be aborted. Abort Caillou. Do the world a favor. That Canadian whiner. It's like a bald Justin Trudeau up there. Hate him. Hate him to death. Oh my gosh, that show will go on.
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Happy Friday, everyone.
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Well, you all, you all... What, you think there are people out there in the audience that love Caillou? All you people watching and listening all across the nation, y'all hate that kid. I know it.
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But they don't let animation change their stance on abortion.
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I just said for him. Like, I don't want him to exist. Like, post-birth. I'll give into a little post-birth abortion just for the sake of Caillou. Some might call it murder. Now we're going to borrow Democrats. It's not murder if I say it's not murder, you know? Can't stand Coyote.
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Can we have a substantive conversation about why it's also dumb? Because how many stations across the country exist without a dime of federal money? They actually have a business model that allows them to exist.
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What? What is that? Say government status. Yeah.
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So over 15,000 radio stations across the country, over 2,500 broadcast TV stations across the country, they all have to operate without a dime of federal money. Maybe during election season is about as close as they get to federal money. So I don't understand how people can conflate the two ideas where just taking away federal money doesn't mean that they can't operate as a business. They can do that if they want to. I don't understand why. What? What am I getting? What?
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I don't get it. I don't think they know how to sell anything. Of course, it's all maybe get some better programming. I don't know. Julia Child had a program on there, The Days of Yore. You can see some of it on YouTube. I mean, if you want to support it, support it. I don't care. But don't force everybody to do it with our tax dollars.
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And it's all community-driven, which any successful radio station is mostly focused on the community.
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I mean, my big thing is the way that I see... These all I mean, I've seen a number of people on the left and like I'm not talking about randos. I mean, you know, these are people who are on who are cable news commentators or editorialists and they act like this is a formative. building block for children. They, I think that they have, they have an outsized description of the role that public broadcasting plays in the lives of people, particularly children with us because every, I mean, I have a million headlines here where they're all acting like our kids are going to be dumb and not able to read and can't do math and everything's going to go to hell because.
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So today.
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Yeah. Because, uh, we're not going to be funding, uh, This stuff. And we all know that that's, but are there people who believe this? I mean, I just.
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I argue it's because we funded this stuff.
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Yeah.
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Is why all of our kids are so dumb.
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I mean, ma'am, our kids are dumb. You know, maybe theirs are.
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But statistically, as we see now, we have a good like we're talking above 50 percent that cannot read.
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Yeah.
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At eighth grade levels.
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And got worse over when everything got locked down. That's when Randy Weingarten and her surrogates, they just wanted to be able to have a vacation. Man, that thunder. So, by the way, welcome back to the program, Dana Lash. It is storming Norman here in Texas. Hoo boy. So, again, I'm just going to warn you. If the power goes out, we're going to be here in the dark. But we'll power through. Our generator will kick in. We'll power through. But there is a chance. It's always a 50% chance. That thunder is crazy out there. It's dark. I do suspect maybe a tornado, Cain. If a Nader blows in here, you know, just saying, just saying. All right. A couple of other things I want to hit because we have the I mean, I have a lot on the budget. You guys want a break from the budget. You want me to keep going with the budget because I got a lot there. Also, I mean, they're looking at slashing. Let's see the way that NBC always slashing everything, but growing the military. Well, the Constitution actually only allows for military funding. If you want to be really pesky about it, they allow for nominal amounts of public funding for things like. Like maybe arts, things like in Article I, Section 8, where they get into essentially about preserving American culture ultimately is what it goes down to. So there's different – to create like an arts endowment, things of that nature. There's – There is some nominal federal support for that. But that that's all going towards preserving American culture, not like we're going to fund all of this extra pork nonsense. But I mean, yeah, I mean, I don't believe that military spending. And we talked about this yesterday. We had the secretary of the army and General George, chief of the army. They were on the program. Talking about the major cuts that they were going to be making and how they're going to allocate, reallocate these resources to the future of drone warfare. Drone warfare is where it's at. We're going to get to the point where we don't have human resources necessarily on the ground. The human resources are going to be running. We're going to have AI that are going to be rolling out all of our strategy. And then we're going to have people just implementing that. And we're going to have like unmanned, you know, aerial assault thingies. It's the official term. I don't know if you know that. Yeah. That's U-A-T. Unmanned aerial. U-A-A-T. Unmanned aerial assault thingies. It's the official military term. You heard it here first. It's a scoop for you guys. Because we're special. But yeah, you know. We're going to be using those instead. I mean, drone swarms are crazy and you can really do a carry out a war of attrition with something like that while preserving your human resources. And we were kind of behind it. Now, I had a headline that I think I sent this out in your prep. I'm going to make sure for those of you that get the prep email. I had a link in there. Okay, yeah. 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Congresswoman Omar, I'm Miles Morrell with the Daily Caller News Foundation. Do you think more of your Democratic colleagues should be traveling to El Salvador to advocate on behalf of Obedego Garcia? I think so. I'm sorry, what? Congresswoman? Who should? You. Why me?
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I'm not taking any of my questions right now, but here you go.
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How classy. I mean, we talked a little bit about this yesterday, but what gets me is, remember all the times if anyone is rude to a member of the press, the press would freak out? If anybody, if a Republican was rude to a member of the press, the press freaks out. But on something like this, no. Even though Daily Caller is a legit entity, Daily Caller News Foundation particularly, There's no objections to this. They think it makes them look tougher because they can say curse words. You know, I mean, you can teach a parrot to say a curse word. I mean, I've watched the videos on Instagram. And in fact, those are the only videos now that Instagram shows me. It's not me. It's the system. It has a problem. But my point is that they love the sanctity of the press when it suits them. And they love asking questions when it suits them. Reverse the roles. What if that was a Republican lawmaker and it was a left-leaning reporter? And I don't even know the politics of that reporter. You might say, well, it's Daily Caller, so go figure. But that Daily Caller doesn't necessarily hire conservatives. There have been a number of people that have worked there that are like on CNN and MSNBC now. They just hire people that want to get out the story more than they want to get out their name, right? Does that make sense? And so if the roles had been reversed, can you imagine the reaction? These are the same people that are up in arms over some of the new media being invited to the White House press room, which I don't have a problem with. Just don't ask stupid questions. You know, ask something decent. But I don't know. Maybe there's problems at home with brother. I don't know. Maybe she's just having some brother problems, you know.
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Has he been husbanded?
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Yeah. I mean, can I ask a question? I mean, for real, I'm just curious. So when she married her brother, how did that, how did the family sit at the wedding? Like, how does that work? Because, you know, you get the bride's family on one side and the groom's family on the other side. But when you're siblings, how, I mean, how do you divide that up? And that's like not just for like, you know, Christian wedding ceremonies. I mean, there are other religious wedding ceremonies where they have seating like that. I'm just curious.
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Based on religion, it's probably on the left side, women, right side, men.
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Oh, you think that they just divided it by men and women? Probably. I mean, because they're all family, you know. I mean, who pays for the who pays for what then? If you're a sibling, like who pays for the reception?
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USAID.
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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe your campaign money. Because she did get in trouble for that at one point, using campaign money to spend. That's why she had to pay a big old fatty fat fine. You guys remember that? Yeah, I'm just saying. We've got a number of things coming up, including the, they call it the far right party. The EU is such scum. They're trying to identify. They're saying that the AFD, which is the right-leaning party in Germany, it's extreme right party. They try to act like everything is Hitler. That's the message that they're trying to send. So we're going to talk a little bit about that coming up because they're saying, oh, the AFG has been classified as extreme right. What does that mean? They don't want unfettered immigration. It's crazy, right? They don't want a bunch of people coming in illegally. It's so crazy. How is that? How does that make them extreme right? Also, I had a gross story two weeks ago. You guys might remember. A guy who raped a corpse on the New York subway. Kane, if you had to guess whether or not this feller was in the country legally, what would your guess be? Not the corpse, but the guy who raped the corpse.
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Yeah, thank you for that clarification. I would say that the person is probably not legal.
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Ding, ding, ding. How many times not legal, though? We're going to talk about that coming up as well. And then we got another another little leak drip drip in the Abrego Garcia case. Stick with us. Hard work, self-reliance showing up. That's what built this country. And it's exactly how our president leads. No excuses, no handouts, just results. But let's be honest, even the most dedicated Americans can't run on empty. Real sleep isn't a luxury. It's essential. And that's where Beam's Dream Powder comes in. It's proudly American-made, created by folks who believe in the same values that we do, discipline, integrity, and doing what it takes to succeed. Dream is a clean, science-backed blend of re-sheet, magnesium, L-theanine, apigenin, and melatonin, carefully formulated to help you fall asleep fast, stay asleep, and wake up refreshed. If you're serious about showing up strong for your family, for work, and your country, then start with better sleep. So here's the deal. Beam is giving my listeners the ultimate Patriot discount of up to 40% off. Try their best-selling dream powder and get up to 40% off for a limited time. Just visit shopbeam.com slash danashow and you can use code danashow at checkout. That's shopbeam.com slash danashow and use code danashow for 40% off. Sleep better, wake up stronger, and show up ready for your family, your work, and your country. Because when you're well-rested, you're unstoppable.
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Curtis giving a commencement address at Bama. That's a very friendly, very friendly venue down there. University of Alabama, Roll Tide. Welcome back to the program. Top of the second hour, Dana Lash with you. So heads up, major storms in Texas. And we got, I mean, it is thunder. It sounds like World War III outside right now. We already had our generator kick on. I warned y'all this was going to happen, right? Isn't that basically just because we lost power.
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Yeah, I think one of our UPS systems is activated.
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So yeah. So there is a chance. We could go dark. That's just on the camera. So if that happens, we're going to transition the program to goth talk. Right. And we're going to have like flameless candles and it's going to be all dark and spooky and just, you know, just to go with the vibe. I feel like that's, you know, and and, you know, came to and I got more. I have more audio about from POTUS at Bama and I'll play it. But I really want to get to the story because it fits the like horror theme of the day with a storm outside and it's all dark and spooky like this story, for instance. Did you guys hear about that? I'm sure Democrats are going to be falling all over themselves to have margarita photo ops with this guy. So y'all remember the story. I'm not making this up. It is a real story. I tweeted it because someone's like, that's not real. It's totally real. And I don't mean to under... the giant question mark of the corpse on the subway train. But it's a story about a corpse on the New York subway and an illegal immigrant who raped it. It was caught on their CCTV footage. Yeah, it was. And it's gross. It's super icky. Yeah, I get it. It's super ew. This guy... He's he raped this corpse on a Manhattan subway for 30 minutes and it was all on CCTV. He is an illegal immigrant who has illegally entered the United States at least five times. Felix Rojas. He's 44. He crossed the U.S. Mexico border on several occasions. He was caught by Border Patrol once and then he was turned back another time, according to ICE. But he apparently crossed it one more time, and he has remained in the United States undetected until he met the dead body of 37-year-old family man Jorge Gonzalez, who had passed away suddenly on the R train. Apparently, he was on there for a little bit. That corpse was on the New York subway for some time. Now, I agree with you. That by itself is its own issue. I don't know if you've ever ridden the New York subway. I mean, it's not like the stench would be immediately identifiable because it's pretty nasty. But apparently he was slumped on a train bench on April 8th. Surveillance footage first shows Rojas rifling through Gonzalez's pockets. He's robbing him. And then he comes back and he, well, you know, you know what happened. I don't need to say anything else. Imagine Pulp Fiction, the basement scene. That's all you need to know. Bring out the gimp. I wanted to let people know what happened in case there were some questions. And it unfolded over the course of over 30 minutes. 30 minutes. Now, Gonzalez, they believe, passed away from natural causes. So Rojas faces charges of rape and grand larceny. And they finally did get him. And they're holding him without bail. And he has repeatedly crossed illegally into the United States. So now he's at he's at Rikers. He's being held at Rikers. Cyber, you know who else is being held at Rikers? Our good friend Carbon Mike. Dexter Taylor. He's at Rikers, yeah. He's at Rikers with this guy because he was legally building his own firearm for his own personal enjoyment that he wasn't selling to anybody. Even though it's a federally protected thing, New York decided to change that law recently and not grandfather anything in and make a bunch of people felons and go out. And they just hate him because he's a black conservative firearm enthusiast. So they think that that's as bad as this, apparently. I'm not even kidding you. How much you want to bet that this guy is going to get less of a sentence or less of a penalty than Dexter Taylor? I mean, I'd bet a lot of money on it if you're a betting type. So he's in Rikers. This, I mean, that's pretty stunning. And yeah, it's pretty stunning. I feel so bad for that guy's family. Because Gonzalez, I mean, he was, Gonzalez was here legally. He came to this country legally. He's a family man, hardworking family man. Natural causes, it just happened, you know. And his family has to find out that after he passed, this is what happened to him. Happened to his body. I mean, that's, this is, I mean, yeah. So POTUS, when he talks about the people who are repeatedly killed, Entering and committing crimes. This is who he's talking about. I mean, this is just... Now, on top of this, there's an update on the Abrego Garcia case. You know, the Maryland man. Now there's footage. It is very much a drip drip, is it not? Very much a drip drip with this case. So... There's body cam footage in Tennessee when they stopped him. It shows that troopers weren't able to do anything. This was during the 2022 encounter. And they had called ICE, Tennessee Highway Patrol. They pulled over Kilmar Obrego Garcia during this 2022 encounter. They didn't respond to go and get him, even though he didn't have any identifying information. He wasn't here legally, etc., etc., And the footage, I mean, he's in... We told you about this. He's driving the vehicle that was registered to a known human trafficker, right? Known human trafficker. And he's in the car with a ton of other people. And... They're asking him like, okay, what's with all these people and his story keeps changing and they have the footage of it. And he was, this was November 30th, 2022. Patrol stops him. It was a routine traffic stop. It was just like something routine that they stopped him for. And they were suspecting right off the start that this is an issue of human trafficking because it's a trafficking corridor. And the you can hear in the officer's voice when they stop him and they ask him to show his license. And then the officer realizes that there are eight people in the car, all dudes. And he goes, well, how many rows have you got in there? Oh, you got four seats. Listen to this audio. Somebody 16. You can hear it that they realize something is up while they're talking to him. Listen. How dark are your windows?
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How dark's the back windows? Stand by. How dark are they? Yeah. How many rows have you got in here? Four? Four seats? Four rows of seats? Yeah, with this. Did y'all put an extra one in? Huh? Did y'all put another one in? No. They come like this? I've never seen one with that many seats in it. What you say? It's my boss. I said I've never seen one with that many seats in it. Oh, really? Yeah. That's why I was asking if you could put an extra one in. No, it's the same. Like this. Okay.
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Who's the guy that's in charge of scaling straight forward like a zombie?
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You know what you got, right? You know what you got here, right? He said that, oh, my boss is in Texas and we're going to St. Louis and then I'm going onward to continue working, is what he said. Now,
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None of the men had luggage and all of their addresses were the exact same as Abrego Garcia's. And the troopers noted that he tried to pretend to know less and less English than he was capable of knowing. And in 2019, remember, that's when he had the deportation order. And there were two different judges that concluded, based on tons of evidence, yeah, he's affiliated with MS-13. To say nothing of the MS-13 branding that he had tattooed on his knuckles. Each of the symbols meant MS-13. That's what it means. And you can hear him. He's like, yeah, they were hauling these people for money. They were in possession of $1,400 in cash. He didn't have a valid license. And despite this, despite this, despite the fact that the car was registered to a known human trafficker, despite the fact that he had an expired license, they had to let him go. ICE would not. This is under Biden and Harris. Remember, they notified ICE and ICE wouldn't come to pick him up. They couldn't because Biden Harris. Remember this? That's how this happened. That's how this happened. He was a human trafficker and he was driving the vehicle of a known, known to the FBI, known to law enforcement in numerous states, a known human trafficker. And also this that trafficker on the vehicle was affiliated with MS-13. So they were still not able to. To take him in because Biden Harris, they allowed that. Remember, you have these edicts. We're not going to listen to these these detainers. We're not going to follow through on this now because they had to let him go. The left was like, we'll see. That's proof of his innocence. So wait, you have the president at the time, Biden, who issues these edicts demanding that agencies and states not follow edicts. the immigration law and to refrain from enforcement. And as a result of that order, they can't enforce current law. And then you cite that as like proof of innocence. That's a nice little manufactured excuse. Is it not? This is this. This is everything. And that's even after the judge. He had two court cases where they said, yes, he's MS-13. And then after that, he tried to petition for asylum again. He changed his story. And then they said, oh, well, you really you're a flight risk. And then he's like, oh, my gosh. So he married his he married his baby mama to try to boost his claim. And that still didn't work. Just unbelievable. I don't even I don't even know what he's probably telling her and her family because her family apparently I think they're still in Mexico. And who knows what he's telling her and her family to get her to keep her mouth mostly shut. But this is just crazy, crazy. And also so that was this was the year before was when he had the first petition for domestic violence filed on him. So all of that and that would be on his record. But they can't do anything. No license. He already had a petition for PO on him. He's, you know, eight people that have no luggage. One of them can't speak. He just looked forward like a zombie. That's obviously shifty as all get out. And they couldn't do anything. Because it's the Biden administration. So this is stuff that they're dealing with. This is crazy. Absolutely insane. Coming up, Senate Democrats. They've decided, I think, on messaging going into midterms. Wait until you hear what they've decided to settle on. We're going to get into that and more as we move our partners that bring you the program, our friends over at Kel-Tec. Great company, great all-American company. They got the PR57, the rotary barrel pistol, the lightest 5.7 on the market, 40% lighter than competition. It's perfect for concealed carry. You can actually really concealed carry this 5.7. It's awesome. Unique top-loading design replaces the traditional magazines with stripper clips for a slimmer carrier profile. slimmer carry profile in a 20 plus 1 capacity. MSRP is only $399. It's super sweet. And this is one you absolutely have to have. And you know, Kel-Tec, it's all about made in America, family-owned values at their best. These are American materials, American workers, American labor, American production, the whole nine yards. America needs more companies like Kel-Tec. Learn more at keltecweapons.com. Innovation, performance, Kel-Tec, K-E-L-T-E-C, weapons.com. Tell them Dana sent you.
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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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Well, today in Delco, which Steve gave us all a lesson on, you heard of Hawk Tua. Now meet Hawk Pua, a crazy woman. How do I put this? She literally did a do on the hood of a car yesterday. During a little traffic, a little minor traffic fender bender. A mountain dude? Uh, sure. Yeah, she mountain dude all over the hood of that car. What? Now, that's gross, yes. And it's so, there's horrible video of it. And we're getting ready to show you because it's Friday. No, we're showing it. Yeah, we're doing it. Why? We're doing it live. Doing it live, Kane. I'm just more impressed that she could do it on command like this than I am anything else. They arrested the woman. There was another video of her being arrested, but apparently it was in Delco, which Steve said is a very culturally significant part of Philly. And this woman, I guess she got rear-ended and then got out and rear-ended that car in a whole other way. She ended up being arrested. I think that... I don't even know what kind of... legal violation that is but yeah here she is getting face you i have a sickness yeah she does have a sickness that's right girl you do got the sickness that's exactly correct oh my gosh uh let's see also a man is in critical condition after he plunged from the stands at a pirate game what is happening 21 feet what oh my gosh how do you do that how do you fall into the stands Well, that's what happened with this feller. They stopped the game in Pittsburgh. Players were obviously shocked. He's in critical condition, 20 feet. Fans and players alike were both horrified. He was taken to the hospital where he remains in critical condition. And they said it was a terrible accident. But man alive.
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That's a two-story drop.
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Yeah, that's a major drop. A British woman, 115 years old, named the world's oldest person.
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115.
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She was born in 1909. And she takes the record after a Brazilian nun. I don't know what her secret is. I bet it's like whiskey and something. That's usually what they say. It's funny. Let's see. Oh, apparently Hillary Baldwin. I don't care. Are they going to get divorced? I don't care. Nobody cares about that fake Spanish tart. Nobody cares about her and her murdering husband. I know. We have a lot more on the way. Stick with us. 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 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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And she's going to do it. Mom, I love you. I'm going to do it for you, Mom. And she goes, and she goes, and she goes, Mom, I'm going to do it, Mom.
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Can't tell. I think it's funny. He had a teleprompter, but he likes to go off it a lot. I mean, he talked about that yesterday. He's like, you can have more fun. Audio sound by two. I think it's funny that he had to explain this. Listen. Funny.
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That's not here. That's not here. Actually, most of what I've said tonight is not on the teleprompter. That's all right. Isn't it nice to have a president that doesn't need a teleprompter and can sort of have a little fun?
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There you go. Welcome back to the program, Dana Lash with you. We're at the bottom of this second hour. And we've been I mean, he was making a joke about the trans stuff a little earlier, because you had main that keeps pushing back against that. And it's pretty amazing that it's still I don't know that they're they're still trying to fight that one. Clearly, they didn't get the message from the voters. I don't know if you I'm gonna change it up a little bit. I don't know if you saw this. I don't like New York magazine. I think they're trash. I've never liked New York Magazine. I once argued with them or whoever ran their New York Magazine account at one point. I always think it's funny when like an actual newspaper tries to argue with someone like using the newspaper account. But I can't remember what they got mad at me about, but they got mad at me for something. Anyway, they wrote a hit piece on John Fetterman. Now, normally I would say, oh, well, I don't really care about a Democrat. But he's like a Democrat that's not stupid, right? He's like common sense to the point where he's got the hoodie pass, right? He can wear his umbros and his hoodie. I'm okay. I like how he trolls the anti-Semites. It's funny. But they did this hit piece on him. And I got some – well, first off, I think it's in such bad taste that they did this. It's called John Fetterman's struggle, and they're kind of hitting him on that point. They're saying that, oh, he's in good health, but staffers past and present say they no longer recognize the man they once knew because he's starting to be, what, more conservative? Are you kidding me? I mean, he had a stroke and became smarter. I don't know. But so they're hitting him because of that. Now, can I read this? I'm going to read this short paragraph and I want you to tell me what you think of the origin or speculate as to the origin of this hit piece. Ready? All right. Here's what they say. Quote. Later, a still visibly upset Giselle, that's his wife, pulled the staffer aside. She asked him if members of Fetterman's team were pushing him to take these stances for political reasons. The staffer told her that the opposite was true. Many of them were as upset as she was. Quote, if you're pushing back on this, there's no hope, the staffer recalled her saying. This is horrible news. A few days later, Giselle texted a different staffer. Quote, I'm at my breaking point and I can't co-sign this any longer. I'd love some help in language to separate myself from this. Can anyone help me? End quote. I don't want it to be real. Because... If it was real, that would mean that she's a traitorous tart and that she is undermining her husband because she is putting her self-absorbed, navel-gazing viewpoints ahead of his work and his purpose in serving taxpayers. Now, I'm not saying it's wrong. I'm just saying that would be the case if it was real. Do you think it's real, Cain?
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On the surface, no, it doesn't sound real. Did they name the source, by the way? They said they got it from a staffer or that they were whoever they had their sources. Whoever it is, did the source give their name? Because this is a litmus test that most people should be thinking about when hearing stories like this. And they talk about unnamed sources and sources say, but if they don't name who those sources are, it's literally typically hit pieces.
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Well, and I think, too, remember when he was running against Dr. Oz and I was not a fan of Dr. Oz because he was a big gun control guy, like a big time gun control guy, not a little time, like a big major gun control proponent. And that's my that was my reason why I didn't like him. But. During that time when they were running against each other, everyone was saying Fetterman's totally fine. How dare you question his mental acuity? He's recovering from a stroke. You're so ignorant to stroke victims, all this stuff.
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It's true.
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So did that change? I mean, he still had a stroke and he recovered from a stroke and he's still a stroke victim. But because has that changed because they don't like what he's saying right now?
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It's different.
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I mean, he supports Israel against Hamas. So that means that they're trying to spread doubt about his mental fitness. That's so shady. And I hope that they're not trying to use his wife to do it. And I hope it's not his wife doing it. I hope it's not a staffer. It sounds like it's a staffer. But they're trying to get you to believe that he's somehow impaired cognitively. Based on what? If they're trying to argue that support of Israel over Hamas is indicative of cognitive impairment, you might be an anti-Semite.
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We talked about this before, how the Democrats are so Borg-like in their thinking that anybody that skirts even a little bit like Fetterman, this is what happens to them.
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Exactly. Because he's come a really long way. And you can tell. He works a normal Capitol Hill schedule now. He keeps normal hours. He didn't at first when he came back. And you could even hear in his interviews, he was he was he had the ideas in his head, but he was struggling to articulate them and verbalize it. And now he's I mean, he's really good. I mean, you can see that there's still some thing, not anything huge, but he's worked really, really hard. And I, you know, I mean, Fetterman sat down for an interview with Joe Rogan. And I don't even think he uses captioning devices all the time like he used to. I think he's even like weaned off of that. These are the same people that defended Joe Biden when Joe Biden didn't even know where the hell he was. Oh, he's cognitively fine. But now they're going after John Fetterman. John Fetterman knows where he is. He can do his job. But because he isn't crazy like the rest of them are, suddenly he's persona non grata. They were the ones who set that up, by the way. I had a friend of mine who said this is like what they did to Dianne Feinstein in 28. Because Dianne Feinstein, they didn't think during the whole confirmation process for Brett Kavanaugh, if you remember, Dianne Feinstein was getting a lot of heat because she wasn't as hardcore on his... on him and she could have done more with the Christine Blasey Ford stuff. Like when they went back and they started doing the post-mortem, they tried to throw her under the bus for it. Now it's like they're trying to do this. Now they're, oh, here you got the New Yorker. Oh, it looks like he's got a decline in his cognitive ability. Actually, it looks like he's gotten stronger. He seems more cognitively aware than most of the Democrats in Congress. I mean, if you hear Hank Johnson talk, I mean, my gosh, I question his cognitive ability just hearing him talk. Are we sure Hank Johnson hasn't had a stroke? For crying out loud, most of these people do math like unrecovered stroke victims, right? So they're just getting mad at Fetterman. I mean that's – but to sit here and act like, oh, well, his support of Israel is mean. It's just – this is crazy. Yeah, and as Steve notes, now they want to question cognitive ability. Oh, now they want to do it. I just – It's insane. I didn't pay to read the article. It's behind a paywall. I went to removepaywall.com, by the way, and that's how I was able to strip all that out. And if that doesn't work, go to the Wayback Machine because they usually do a snapshot of it on Paywall and you can read it there. Yeah, I don't like giving crap media any money. I don't give any money. It's an undocumented access is what it is, Cain. Undocumented access. Yeah, I'm just accessing. I have undocumented access to their publication.
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Sounds like a humane way to handle it.
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Exactly, yeah, for the people, right? It's exactly what it is. I mean, speaking of all of that law and order, we're going to talk about this coming up. I hate musicals, right? Golly, I hate musicals. My mom took me to Cats when I was like 13 years old. It ruined me for life. I have no idea what that was about. I told you this before, I think. It just is like a bunch of furries and they sang some song about memories. And that's all I think all I remember.
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I thought it was about cats. It's not.
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I really don't know. It was weird. And to this day, I have no idea what happened. And I just don't get it. And it made me hate musicals forever. She made me go see Wicked one time. I wanted to die. I wanted to launch myself off the balcony. I wanted to yeet myself into the floor below. I just didn't care. I'm not into musicals. I'm not into all that stuff. And now you have a musical where they want to celebrate. I'm not making this up. This is New York Post. Luigi Mangione. They want to do a musical about him. That's kind of a pretty short musical, isn't it? I mean, he ran up and shot a dude in the back and ran away. I mean, what is there? Is it going to be a song and dance? Is he going to be like, woo, with a gun and woo, going up there to shoot this dude? I mean, how does that work? It's called Luigi the Musical. Now, at first glance, I'm not going to lie. I thought this was like a Super Mario Brothers thing. And then I'm like, oh, no, it's this guy. He's like ruining that name, right? And it's going to debut in June. And they say they're going to be bold and unafraid about what he did to leave two kids without a dad. Now, the opening night is already sold out. What does that say about how stupid people are? The opening night is already sold out.
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Do we even know who the cast is?
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I don't think so. I mean, there's some names I don't know. Some, like... I don't know who these people are. I don't know who the theater kids are. I don't pay attention to that.
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I mean, to stay true to what the left has been doing with entertainment, they should probably find a black female to play that Luigi lead.
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Why do they do this? Like, I'm just waiting for the musical about Diddy. The Diddler. The story of Sean Diddy Combs, right? I'm just waiting for that. Is he going to make an appearance in it? Is he going to, like, come out with a dancing part? Who's going to play Diddy? I mean, to make it like truly Netflix, they should probably have like a blonde woman play him. I just, what in the world? So they said that it's going to be surprisingly thoughtful and funny and blah, blah, blah, and show tunes. And they said, Luigi is your new favorite felony. What? That's the tagline. As if you didn't hate musicals enough.
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Felony or felon?
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Felony. They said the songwriter, Ariel Johnson, and the director, Nova Bradford, said they drew inspiration from Chicago, the musical. And they had a snippet that they had behind the scenes footage that they posted. And this song is horrible. One of the lines was, I'm not kidding you, this is a line. Flash those pearly whites. There were cameras there that night. And that's what let the police take me in. The guy named Johnny Stein is apparently playing Luigi Mangione. And that's a reference to him pulling down his balaclava to smile at the New York youth hostel clerk. And that's how they were able to get a good look at him. This sounds like the dumbest. This sounds like a high school musical project. I mean, as if you didn't have enough reasons to hate musicals. Jazz, hand it up.
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There's nothing about the story to glorify. There's nothing about the story to glorify. No matter what position you're on, there's nothing to glorify other than murder. Is that what people are doing?
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Apparently. I mean, they love... The left loves their murderers. I don't know what to say. I mean, they literally had Earth Day earlier about a dude who composted his girlfriend. He loved the Earth so much he murked his girlfriend, chopped her up. He was just composting her for the planet, you know? You can justify anything if you... you know, pay tribute to one of their stations. That's all you got to do. Hard work, self-reliance, showing up. That's what built this country. And it's exactly how our president leads. No excuses, no handouts, just results. But let's be honest, even the most dedicated Americans can't run on empty. Real sleep isn't a luxury. It's essential. And that's where Beam's Dream Powder comes in. It's proudly American-made, created by folks who believe in the same values that we do, discipline, integrity, and doing what it takes to succeed. Dream is a clean, science-backed blend of re-sheet, magnesium, L-theanine, apigenin, and melatonin, carefully formulated to help you fall asleep fast, stay asleep, and wake up refreshed. If you're serious about showing up strong for your family, for work, and your country, then start with better sleep. So here's the deal. Beam is giving my listeners the ultimate Patriot discount of up to 40% off. Try their best-selling dream powder and get up to 40% off for a limited time. Just visit shopbeam.com slash danashow and you can use code danashow at checkout. That's shopbeam.com slash danashow and use code danashow for 40% off. Sleep better, wake up stronger, and show up ready for your family, your work, and your country. Because when you're well-rested, you're unstoppable.
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It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man.
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I'm trying to make this one make sense. So this was in Port Charlotte. A Florida man. Now let's just listen to this one sentence. Listen to this first sentence. A Florida man known to throw cans of food and other items around a Florida neighborhood, as one would do, and at others, was arrested after a neighbor said he threw canned corn through her window and broke it. per the arrest affidavit. This happened on April 25th. The woman called Charlotte County Sheriff's Office to report vandalism. She said she was outside. She heard the sound of glass breaking. She turned around and found one of her neighbors, 38-year-old Earls Ernest Sandville, running from another neighbor's front yard back towards his home. The left front window was found broken at the top, like somebody threw something through the glass. The witness got a key from another neighbor in the neighborhood who watches the owner's house when she's away. Went into the home to see what happened, and that's when they found a can of Del Monte corn inside. That's a good stuff. The guy apparently is literally known in the area. He goes to the food banks, gets food, and then goes and throws it around at people and cars and houses.
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Because they need food?
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He has also thrown bottles of urine and chunks of raw meat. Oh. Yeah, so they're pressing charges because they go, he's always just throwing things at people. So why is he like, how long has this been going on? Apparently a really long time. So now they're actually going to finally do something and press charges against this guy. I mean, that's kind of crazy that it goes on that long. Come on. A Florida man frustrated with the McDonald's drive-thru just tried stealing the cash register. Okay, well, there's other things you can do to express your discontentment. But this one, Cape Coral, the guy tried to steal a cash drawer at the McD's because he was frustrated in the drive through. It was four in the morning. Police responded to a robbery in progress. And they said he got into an argument with an employee, tried stealing the register and took off in his car. They caught up with him. He was taken into custody. They also put his photo all over social media. Like what? Like control thyself. Florida man is arrested for having three wives in three different counties. Yeah, it is not an okay thing to do, feller. They say the women said that there weren't adequate safeguards to prevent it. I don't know, maybe being a little bit curious about what the hell he's doing when he's not with you. That's probably one safeguard, you know, just like your woman's innate suspicion. Do you really need the government to go, well, since you broads are too stupid to realize that he's got three wives in three counties, we're going to have to expand ourselves and make a law. Come on now. They're saying there's no safeguards. He took each one of us to a county to get married, said one of the wives. They're looking. I mean, how does that happen? How does something like that happen? He married apparently one of them within the same year or two of them in the same year and in 2022. And I just how would you not know? They met him on a dating app. And I just don't understand how you wouldn't know. He was arrested for felony bigamy. And after the first wife figured out that there were two others. That's kind of... Let's see. Birthday suit bandit. Naked Florida man caught trying to break into a lady's home. And then I got another story. I'll save this for you for Monday. But a Florida man is accused of touching realtor's feet during open house showings. That's nasty. Go be nasty and a freak elsewhere. Stick with us. Third hour on the way. Our partners that help bring you the program, our friends over at Super Beats. You guys are familiar with the Super Beats folks, the Super Beats hard shoes. Well, now they have the Super Boreen and it's available at the Sam's Club and your metabolism affects everything. You can support it with Super Boreen. It's $5 off at Sam's Club through April 29th. It's just $24. It's plant-based, doctor-formulated. It has a unique form of berberine and Italian olive fruit extracts. You get additional antioxidant and cardiovascular support. It's a unique berberine. They clinically studied it, and it delivers nearly 10 times higher absorption than standard berberine. So that means you only have to take one capsule a day. It's highly concentrated, easy to swallow. And if you're worried about GI distress, it includes grapeseed extract for greater tolerability. Visit Sam's Club to restock your heart health support with Super Beats Heart Chews and expand your routine with the new Super Barine for healthy metabolism and blood sugar support. And don't forget, Super Barine is $5 off at Sam's Club through April 29th. Snag this offer at Sam's Club while it lasts. Start today and get on the road to better cardiovascular health support.
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So the president signed an executive order just this week threatening to defund sanctuary cities for their policies. Why not just arrest the leaders who are harboring and shielding illegal aliens, actually terrorists from deportation?
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Wait to see what's coming.
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Yeah, wait to see what's coming. I like Tom Holman. I wish he was like my uncle or something, or we were like related somehow. He reminds me of one of my late grandpas. Welcome back to the program. Top of this third hour. Dana Lash here with you. You can listen coast to coast. Channel 347 is the stream. And X and YouTube, the chats at Rumble, all good things. Yeah, I Democrats are going to fight all this tooth and nail. Tooth and nail. This... I mean, hopefully, I mean, so far, I mean, it seems like we're getting a really good handle on the border and deportations. A lot of that is down to, you know, good Republican governors and some really good AGs in a number of different states. Doesn't help you got Democrats out there defending everybody from the dude who's in the El Salvador in prison. And then the other guy who raped a corpse on the subway. That's going to be they're going to be falling over trying to get margarita photos with that guy. It's about as dumb as this quote from Tim Waltz's daughter. So the daughter of the Minnesota governor, Tim Walz, is on TikTok. And I don't know. I didn't even know there's a running influencer. I hate the word influencer. They're just people online. So there's this lady that runs. Her name is Kate Max. I know nothing about her. I used to run the mile and two mile when I was in high school and college, and I have not ran for fun. I would only run if I'm running from a killer. That's the only way I'm going to be running anymore. I hate cardio. I just like heavy weights. Cardio is what you do in between sets. That's resting in between sets and getting your heart rate back at an optimal level. So... I didn't I didn't know there was this running influencer and they're mad. People are mad at her because she was at the White House and she did like a little short interview with the White House press secretary. So what this lady does is she does interviews with famous people and then runs while they do them. She did one with Tim Walz before. But people are mad at her because she featured Caroline Leavitt in one. And I guess that... And people were saying, that's disappointing. We can't even believe that you did this. And it's so horrible. And why are you platforming this? And they were just going on and on and on. And I... It was kind of wild to see this because she's interviewed from what I understand. I had to look into it. She's interviewed Tim Waltz, a number of Democrats, Hollywood celebrities like actors in that. But nobody objected until she featured Caroline Leavitt. Right. So Tim Waltz's daughter blasted her for platforming Leavitt. And in her video, she said she was disappointed that. And that because the administration is keeping people away from joining the running community by not combating climate change and cutting social funds, federal social funds. This is what her her quote is. Oh, my gosh. Should we just play it? I mean, this woman is is she's not the brightest tool or brightest bulb in the box. But she had said that you're sending people away without due process, villainizing minorities. I don't know what she's talking about. And she said, you're preventing people from getting into the running community. Like, what the hell does that even mean? No one's preventing it, you stupid half brain snowflake. No one's no one's preventing it. So because she talked to Caroline Leavitt, that's like somehow magically physically stopping people from going to run. What a stupid remark. And she said, it's damaging to society. We shouldn't normalize these people. Oh, heaven forbid you act like a grown-up and talk to people whose opinions you don't share. If you are so scared of your inability and intellectual vapidness that prevent you from articulating a defense of your ideals, then that's on you, not on anyone else. Listen to this. This is so stupid.
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to be in a good mental state, to be able to run. All of those things are hard to come by. And if you have them and are a part of the running community, that is a privilege. And that, again, was the first thing he taught me. So I don't really understand how platforming and administration that... cuts, mental health services cuts, you know, funding and literal shipments to food banks, um, is entirely hurting the climate because you can get into running in the climate. That's a whole nother thing. Um, but it's kind of cutting, you know, funds to climate initiatives and actively hurting the planet in that way. Um, sending people away without due process, villainize villainizing minorities. All of those things are preventing people from getting into the running community, which is what I thought Kate's platform was for. But it's also just damaging to society as a whole. We should not be normalizing these people. I'm not going to tell anyone what to do with their page, but I think it's insulting to my dad to leave a certain video.
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Oh, shut up, you stupid half-witted nipple baby. This girl clearly has been told that she's special when she's not. First off, can you stop saying stupid things like the running community? That sounds so stupid. You sound like a snotty, entitled, trust fund brat when you say the running community. You're just a runner. Shut up. You're just a runner. They're running community. You don't have to sit here and create a construct that you can appoint yourself as gatekeeper of. That's why they use those phrases because they want to gatekeep people from participating in it. So you're just a runner. There's no like running community. Shut up. It's so stupid. And her platform is that this chick can do whatever she wants with her platform. This Kate Max or whatever her name is. she can do whatever she wants she's interviewed democrats and republicans i think it's hateful and bigoted for her to say that you can't platform people that don't share your viewpoints that's a signal of weakness you're signaling absolute weakness you want to be accommodated and you demand a seat at the table but by god you don't want anybody else that you don't agree with to have a seat at the table It's not because you object to their ideas. It's because you're too stupid to articulate an actual educated defense of your own ideas. That's the first thing I think. Actually, that's really what it is. It's not what I think. That's what it is. When they want to silence you, it's because they are too afraid. And this has been gosh, I've seen this from big companies. I've seen this when they want to silence you because they're afraid of you. That's what it is. They're afraid of you. And they're not smart enough to articulate a defense of their own of their own perspectives. It's pretty unbelievable. And I just this stuff that she's she's like, what is it? Climate running? What the hell is that? It's just called weather. You know, people have too much time on their hands. They create these super complicated issues where you don't have to have complicated issues like it. This doesn't make sense. did no one told her she can't run I mean no one went out there and told his daughter you can't run running community I don't even know what this means but it sounds like it sounds like peak privilege is what it sounds like it sounds like peak privilege but the whole thing we should not be normalizing these people is bigoted and it's hateful running it's she goes running uh as an act as political is what she said i mean it's just a it's an exercise shut up and she says that apparently i guess what it's privileged you're privileged to have the time to run access to funds to buy the gear okay hold up i was a runner like varsity i set records what what gear do you need I think she's a fake runner. If you're talking about needing gear, you need a pair of tennis shoes. That's it. What are you talking about gear? Stop acting like a gatekeeper for something that anybody can do. There's no community for you to protect. But this is how they try to this is how they try to grift power by creating these little constructs to which they appoint themselves gatekeeper. Then that gives them some kind of a power and authority. Like there's it's not privileged to run. You just run. I could go out and run right now. Kane was telling me about a stunt that they used to do back in his early days in radio and they would have chicks running high heels. Anybody can run. I mean, it's very simple. So I know she's talking about here. I don't want this family plaguing us for the rest of. I'm so glad that they lost. Can you imagine this chick? She would be all over the place elevating herself as like some sort of White House influencer. Gag me. Just done with it. Now, the Tesla vandalism is still ongoing. Oh yeah, they're still burning down the Teslas. They're still very upset about the Teslas. I was reading this story about how a guy in Arizona is facing federal charges because he will not stop setting fire to things they arrested a guy it was an arson attack that was on a just like brand new just delivered cyber truck can you imagine you just get a brand new car and some moron sets it on fire because they don't like the fact that they don't like the car that you're driving again even though the left was telling everybody to go out and get these cars for forever and then they wrote the word thief on the side of a And this was in, yeah, Arizona.
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They're helping.
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Huh? They're helping. They're helping. That's right. Yeah, they wrote thief on the side of the building. They misspelled it too, which was great. They literally couldn't spell thief. They spray painted T-H-E-I-F on the side of the building. Thief. Look, I spelled it. They're not the sharpest folks. They're not the sharpest folks. So the guy, Ian Moses, is the guy who's being accused. He apparently torched the Cybertruck and then misspelled the word thief on the side of the building. He's charged with five counts. I mean, if you're going to if you're going to carry out domestic terrorism, spell your stuff right. Right. Spell your messages right. This is the least you can do. He's charged with five counts of malicious damage to property. If he's convicted, he could get at minimum five years for each count. I hope he does. They need to throw the book at this dude. He's the seventh person now facing charges, federal charges for vandalizing Tesla's in politically motivated domestic terrorism. The sixth person, they charged this guy. He's a 19-year-old Kansas City college student, Owen McIntyre. And he was in Kansas City. He's the guy who threw a Molotov cocktail at a Cybertruck and lit it on fire. And then it burned the whole damn lot. And it required like the Casey Fire Department and others to respond. And I mean, I can't even they had two charging stations that were burnt. All the Cybertrucks were burnt. That guy's got some charges coming in him as well. They need to throw the book at these people. This is not acceptable. This but this is what Democrats incite. You haven't seen a single Democrat go out and condemn any of this stuff or try to quell it at all. In fact, they just want to inflame it further. GoldCo is making it easy to take that first step toward protecting your savings. Just fill out a quick form. No commitment. Just free information. And then they'll ship you your free 2025 gold and silver kit straight to your door. No shipping fees. No strings. just a free info kit to help you understand how gold and silver can fit into your financial plan. I'm a big believer in doing your research, and this kit is a great place to start. So I'm really excited to be partnering with Goldco because not only do they support my show, which I truly appreciate, but they've made the whole process of buying precious metals Super straightforward. Because if you're a fan of the show, Gold Co. is also going to tell you how to qualify for unlimited free bonus silver on eligible orders. If you qualify, you can even get a free half ounce silver Ronald Reagan coin. Totally free. Don't wait. Take that first step towards protecting and diversifying your savings with Gold Co. Visit danalikesgold.com to learn more. That's danalikesgold.com.
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
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A woman traveling solo makes a terrifying discovery under her hotel bed after noticing a weird smell. This was in Britain. And she, well, no, a woman from Britain, she thought Japan was a very safe country. Somehow, in her Japanese hotel room, a dude was able to get under her bed. And they found a power bank and a USB cable under the bed. They did not give her any compensation after the experience. She said the hotel was legit. She's like, you know, I went in, got into my room as usual, laid down on the bed, and I noticed a weird smell, and I thought it was coming from the sheets, and I realized it was under the bed. And when she said, I leaned over to check, and I saw a pair of eyes staring at me. A literal man under my bed. And there wasn't any CCTV in the building. But she said she moved to a new hotel that same night, but she was constantly on edge. I've had it happen before where I was staying in a hotel room. And thankfully, I always travel with Chris because the left and the woke right love to make up stories. And somebody walked into our room in the middle of the night. Like, was able to walk right into our room in the middle of the night. And then they realized the mistake, and they were like, oh, and they left, because we were about ready to murder them. So, yeah, they were about to get murked. So... You just got to be careful with that stuff. And it was the one time I was too tired that I didn't. I always take great precautions and I block the door and I do crazy stuff. A copy of a Jumanji book got returned to a New Jersey school library 43 years overdue. And they left a $40 money order. So it's like less than a dollar per year. Well, at least they returned it, right? I mean, a community is in disbelief after a seven-year-old's joyride ends on their street. This is wild. It's in Utah. A seven-year-old boy with his little sister drove his mom's car through several towns. He could barely see over the steering wheel. They don't know how he made the 10-mile trip. And then he took off and it ended in their community at 8 a.m. on Sunday. The police kept getting a call about reckless drivers. People just all along the path kept calling the police. They said the car wasn't in its lane. The driver appeared to be super young, like a little kid. And they found the boy and his younger sister were both behind the wheel. Jeez, I can't even imagine. They tried to pull him over, but he wouldn't stop. So they didn't chase him out of safety concerns. They later found the car three miles down the road. It hit a parking strip and was disabled. So they wrecked it. The kids are okay. No injuries are reported. But how do you not know your kid's gone and driving your car through multiple towns? It's kind of scary. Let's see. This... And see, I'm going to pull this one up. This is in the Carolinas, Fox Carolina, a robot calf confronting shoppers downtown. It's like a PETA thing. I think PETA, if they really care about animals, then you wouldn't like try to aggrieve people with the advocacy. You know what I mean? No. Yeah. We got more on the way, including some culture stuff. I got a friend who's doing a comic book. He's going to join us next. I'm always going to tell people to carry. I'm always going to tell you to carry lead. And I have zero issues at all whatsoever using lethal force to smack down a threat to me or my family. But I understand also that not everyone wants you to be safe. The people who pass these gun-free zones... And gun control. They don't care if you're a statistic. They don't care about your family. They don't care if you live or die. They just want a virtue signal about this stuff. So this is where Burna Gun comes in because they understand certain places are disarming you legit. And, you know, we're big kids. I would love to be able to pick and choose exactly where I go all the time, but I can't. So as a result, you know, a lot of my friends have gone out and gotten the Burna Gun, right? It's good to have a diversified weapons array. You have blades, you have different calibers. With something like this, when you are disarmed and you're not able to carry in certain spaces, this comes in clutch. It shoots chemical irritant projectiles that can deter threats from up to 50 feet away. And instead of like one or two rounds, like a traditional taser or something, this is five rounds. They have several different models, the CL, which we'll be talking about soon. But the SD, I have a lot of friends that have gone out and gotten SD. They have rifles in that. But I think, you know, for for this purpose, this is, you know, the SD is what you need to get. And that's what I would recommend. There's no recoil at all whatsoever. And there's no background check. This thing doesn't care about stupid gun free zone signs. It's illegal in all 50 states. No background checks, no permits. 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A little bit of cracker. Not like the white person or the food. Just like the band. Welcome back. Dana Lash here. We're at the bottom of this third hour. We made it to Friday. Yay! It's good to be with you. Coast to coast, you can listen terrestrially. One of our hundreds of markets. You can also watch the stream. Channel 347, DirecTV. Find us on X. Rumbles where the chat is. YouTube, all that good stuff. So I feel like we don't... We're always so... critical of culture here in this space. And for good reason, because it sucks. So much of it is just heinous, like so much art and so much music and everything. I feel like I sound like a boomer almost because we are just so hypercritical of it, but it is trash. And one of my biggest criticisms of the right is that they don't encourage actual good stuff that's not like politically driven. The stuff that I see promoted is politics first and then artistic consideration second. And I always have a huge issue with that because it should be about, you know, the expression first and making something that's really cool and is, you know, pretty or whatever. And then if you want to, you know, if it has a political point, then fine. But don't make that be, you know, the vehicle for the art. It's backwards. One of my friends who is a great illustrator, I think that's the preferred term, has been doing all kinds of, you know, comics. And he has a podcast and I've known him for a really long time. In fact, our first meeting was hysterical. But you can find him on X at Salty Draws. He is a writer, creator. His pronouns are Lord and King. And he has a comic book series. It's actually really cool. It's about the teenage Ben Franklin, who is caught in this virtual world that is regulated by AI, which is weird because when he started this, I kind of wonder if he knew we were going to be here all these years later. I mean, we're almost there. Sean Salter now joins us. You can find him at Salty Draws on X. Good to see you, my friend. Okay, so every time you join me, your office gets like, your studio gets bougier and bougier in the background. I'm going to point that out.
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Well, because I'm just going along with my pronouns, King and Lord.
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That's right. Respect them. I have the comic here, by the way, and you've got this nice shiny foil on the top. This thing is thick as all get out, too. And this is like beautifully illustrated. It's silence. Do good. Ben Franklin, time travel agent. I want to get into all of this, but because you were in you were in Hollywood for a really long time. I want to give people a background on you. You were in Hollywood for a long time. You work for big studios. You worked on all kinds of very commercial things that people seen on television and theaters. And you got red pilled, although I think you always were kind of born and raised. Yeah, red pilled. but you weren't public about it because you couldn't be.
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No, no.
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What would have happened if you would have been vocal about it then?
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Well, what would have happened is what happened to us right before I ended up leaving Hollywood, which was we had sold, me and my writing partner had sold a show to a major Hollywood studio, and we were developing that in Hollywood. It was an animated series. You're familiar with that one, but we can't talk about NDAs. And when they found out we were conservative Christian straight white males, well, they knew we were straight white males, but when they found out the conservative Christian part, it was phone call. We're not going to do this show.
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Just like that. As easy as that.
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Just like that. That's crazy. And when you're nobody, you don't have an established name, it's really easy to do to you. And so it was time at that time, at that moment, I knew it was time to leave.
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Yeah. And then you went to beautiful Tennessee. I can say that while you talk about it. I mean, it's, I'm not going to say where you are, but it's like you live out in nature. It's beautiful.
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Yeah. I live in the forest. And so it's hard to get to where we're at. And if you're here, it's not a good idea.
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Right. That's right. And it's so much better now. Do you feel like you're able to be I mean, is it I mean, in some in some respects, I would imagine it's harder because it's an important point that I think you made. If you don't have that name recognition, I think even if you do have the name recognition, I don't even think that you can be exactly free with your ideological beliefs that they if they fall out of line with what, you know, the upper echelon in Hollywood dictates.
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Well, look what happened to Gina Carano. And then that happens to so many people. They just what happens is the phone, the phone stops ringing the call. You stop getting the job. You stop getting any interest around you. And it has to they'll say things like, oh, you're difficult to work with. Or, you know, you had an ad. There was another problem. Make something up because they don't want to be seen as bigoted. But really, at the end of the day, it's just because they're fascists.
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Yeah. I mean, that's that's and everything that they've come out with has been garbage. There's I rarely go see movies anymore.
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Yeah, we don't go at all. Triple Wolverine was funny.
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Oh, yeah. Well, I didn't even see that in the theater. I was trying to think the last thing I saw in the theater and I can't remember. The first time I went back to the theater after a really long time was Top Gun. Okay, I did see John Wick. Yeah, that was a good one. I really haven't gone because there's not a lot. It's all like repurposed, rehashed, reimagined. It's the same story that they make duller and duller with every iteration. And there's not a lot of originality out there.
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There's not a lot of originality. And I think they do the reboots because the stuff that is original is so just twisted and just full of their nonsense that does not relate to the regular American that they're like, well, what about this? And then they shove their stuff in it still. And it's just like, you made it worse.
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Yeah. Yeah. So this I'm going to get into the comics because you do. This is a great series that you've been working on for a long time. But have you been you're because you you you were born really conservative. Like, how would you say like a Reagan conservative? Like, how did you what was your belief set? Like, how would you describe it if you had to package it?
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When I was younger, I was Alex P. Keaton. I mean, I would debate my father over Richard Nixon being a great president. As I got older, I became a little bit more, you know, into my 20s, I became libertarian. And then when I got older and wiser, I realized I don't like anyone and you've all gotten it wrong. The founders had it right. Let's go back to that. So constitutional conservative.
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Yeah, I think that's right. I like that. Like constitutionalists. I think there's something as you get older, you realize I just want to be left alone more and more.
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Yeah.
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Tired of everybody's garbage.
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I'm done with the Democrats. I've never voted for a Democrat in my life, but the Republicans get on my last nerve. I just happen to, you know, it's like the party of stupid or the party of evil. And it's like, I'll go with the stupid guys again.
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Well, they're not conservative enough. Yeah, I'll go with the dumb people, I guess. But they're not. I mean, we tend to vote for them as a strategy to kind of get closer to what we want. But they're not constitutionalists.
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Have to because, I mean, what's the alternative? A dystopian future where, you know, it's not even communism. It's neo-feudalism. You have no rights and you're a serf. I mean, let's be honest. Income tax is slavery. We need to get rid of that. But we're serfs. We're slaves. And we need liberty. And that's what this book is about.
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Yeah, exactly. Well, you made an important point, too, about because we kind of agree on this, although I think people don't understand the nuance about voting, because like just to throw this out there, this is I think you throw this out there. There's the you immediately see the difference between who is a constitutionalist and who isn't. Because it's not a right. Voting isn't a right. It is. It's relegated to the states to administer. So it's something that it's a privilege that the states administer. But it's not a right. And people freak out when you say this.
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Yes. Well, I say it's an earned responsibility. It's not even a I mean, you have to earn that. And that's what the states used to determine who was responsible enough to have a say over how society governs itself. You cannot let people that are on the take that are on the dole that are essentially parasites. And I lump politicians in with that. You can't let them have a say. You know, those that are actually putting in the blood, the sweat and the tears, those that have skin in the game, they have the privilege or the responsibility to to govern society. The rest of us, we are we were founded as a republic and we need to get back to that because the longer we stay a democracy, the more our rights are in jeopardy by the mob.
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Yeah. Yeah. And that's one of the reasons why I like this series, too, because you you explore. How do I put it? You explore these ideals without it being overbearingly political, if that makes sense. Like, I don't feel like I'm reading a political missive that is. politics first and then like, you know, the really cool artwork and coloring and the panels and the characters. That's like a second consideration. Is that and I feel like a lot of people on the right struggle with that. I mean, clearly you don't because you get the concept of it. But talk a little bit about that, because this is what some of the people don't know. Ben Franklin is Silence Do Good. This is his series and this is the latest. I mean, it's like really pretty. I love I mean, it's a great read. And if you like comics, I like I like manga and I watch anime and all that stuff. And I love this series. But it's I love the way that you approach it. And tell me a little bit about it, because this is I think this is something that, you know, people obviously should check out. But I like that it's it's just originality forward, for the lack of a better way to put it.
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Yeah. Well, the idea really started as just me thinking, like, what would our founding fathers think of if they saw the America we've built? And it kind of snowballed from there. I love time travel. Big fan of Doctor Who. You know, I loved. I could not see them in the back.
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Um, but, uh, so obviously time travel was how I wanted to do it. I wanted to treat American history as kind of a backdrop. I didn't want to change history. I wanted to keep it like, Oh, this was what happened. How are we going to do that? And so it just problem after problem and you just solve the problems. And one of the, one of the ways we solved it was what if we had Ben Franklin, who was a scientist and inventor of all, he was like the Renaissance man of the age. He seemed like the perfect person for this. And I, he's my favorite founding father. This is one of the most interesting guys ever.
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He was a teenager. His air baths. That's my favorite.
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Yeah. One of his inventions was just sitting around in the nude air bath, you know, air bath. But yeah, so it was like take a teenager, a teenage Ben Franklin. So it's more of a coming of age. So he has the principles of the Enlightenment era, but he's also going to be maybe more wrestling and questioning and doubting, but also rebellious, a little bit more rebellious than he would be as an adult. And what would that be like? Because Ben Franklin was also a loyalist. So how does that so it creates all kinds of complexities where we get to then have a fun time exploring the ideals of liberty and free will and what that would look like in a future where the algorithms dictate every move humanity takes.
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And we're there right now. I mean, because you start how long ago did you first start this series? Because we've talked about it before. I mean, it's continued and it's grown. But I feel like it was very prescient because now here we are where AI is really I mean, it's going to dominate everything. I mean, it's going to dominate warfare. It's going to dominate every aspect of American life. We're right there by singularity. And so this was very I mean, this was very thoughtful and anticipating that.
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yeah i started it a decade ago actually um and it's evolved so we added in ai probably about eight years ago because ai was starting to be murmured and we were you know you have ai in video games and so it's just kind of like thinking of like a virtual world and i remember a lot of my friends and me included would get super addicted to video games and you'd be like oh i could just call out sick because i'm gonna play video games all day long and it was like What would it be like if we just all lived in a video? Oh, my gosh, that would be scary. So for me, it was just like trying to trying to create the scariest world possible. But that seems that's so candy coated that it would be very sweet to the world. And so that's what I think that this dystopian future would be like. And that's the world we're creating. And Ben Franklin is like, nope, we got to stop it. And lasers and robots.
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Yeah. And I think he's I think you were pitch perfect on that because out of all the founders, he's the one he was very forward. He's like, I would say maybe the most classically Tocqueville liberal of all of them. I mean, he was a very, very forward thinking. He was really the only one like you could send him to France and he can go over there and, you know, wine and dine with Louis and all of the nobles and get money to help. fund our you know war of independence not everybody had the patience to do it other people tried and they struggle like john adams really struggled to deal with them but ben franklin was like no no you got to finesse it you got to handle it a certain way he was very i mean he really understood the times then and the times that were coming so he's like the perfect character through which to explore all of this um are you going to do others are you going to branch off and like maybe explore with other founders
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Uh, yeah, we're going to explore with other just Americans in general. Uh, I don't want to say exactly who, but it's going, it'll be a little bit, you know, it'll be fun. We're going to have fun with it. Uh, definitely. I think that silence do good will be a moniker that, uh, gets applied to other people as Ben Franklin will kind of age out. Cause you know, eventually he's got to go back. Uh, cause what we're doing is he's 18 at this time and he's supposed to be in England procuring a printer, uh, And American history doesn't really know what he was doing there other than getting odd jobs trying to get back for about three years. So when he comes back to America, you know, we might have to change the story a bit and get a new hero in there. But for right now, we got about three years with Ben Franklin. And that's a lot of that's a lot that can happen while you're time traveling.
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exactly a lot that can happen the series is Ben Franklin is silence do good time travel agent it is great you can find it at his website as well and they also have he's promoting the comic book pre-order campaign on Indiegogo and you can see that the website turkey robot.com and you can check out a show salty and savage on YouTube my good friend always so good to have you would love to have you back the next time you're all in Dallas you need to holler the next time we're in your neck of the remote woods we're gonna holler at you but it's so good to come out here congrats on all your success here's the here's the here's the latest nice pretty foil look at that this gorgeous you did you do such great work and i appreciate that you're still an artist and you don't you you you it's artistic forward preaching second so the politics are the it goes along naturally with it and it makes it so much more engaging you're a really good storyteller so congratulations thank you i appreciate you for having me on Of course, always. I'm like, I got this. I'm like, oh, we got to have Sean on to talk about this because it's really great. And I actually, since COVID, I got really into manga and anime and I actually started getting into your stuff more because of it. So that's like the silver lining of all of it. So it's so good to have you, Sean Salter. Always a pleasure, my friend. We'll have you back.
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Thank you.
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Welcome back. Dana Lash with you. It's a very stormy day in Texas. Ken, I think it's been thundering and rumbling the entire time we've been on air, like loudly. Like Steve can hear it through the microphone all the way in D.C. from where we are. That's how loud the thunder and all of that is. Like the heavens have opened up. No tornadoes, though. All right. I don't want to rob you today in stupidity because they did it like twice this week. So, Ken, go.
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It's Hillary Clinton. Get sometimes tongue-tied. I apologize for that. This is cut 11. This is what she says the Democrats need. And this is what she says the Republicans should heed. Listen to this. Cut.
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We still have to figure out how to get that enforced. Even if the press does lots of exposés, you're dealing with an administration that has no shame. They don't care that they are, you know, being seen as corrupt or cruel or whatever.
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Because, of course, it's all about smearing your political opponent.
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She literally, like, took classified emails and then, like, tried to delete the evidence. You tried a nation built in Libya and literally usurped the authority there.
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And no matter what context we're talking about, she's the worst.
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Yeah, she's absolute worst. She's never going to go away, is she? That does it for us this week, folks. I hope you have a wonderful, dry, safe weekend. And I'll be back behind the mic with you on Monday. In the meantime, find us YouTube, Facebook, like and subscribe. Substack the newsletter, chapter and verse. Have a great night. Have a great weekend.