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Join Rick Hughes as he takes listeners on a journey of spiritual enlightenment, touching upon profound biblical truths about faith and righteousness. The discussion centers around how true spirituality is achieved not by works, but through the grace and work of the Holy Spirit. Whether a seasoned believer or new to faith, this episode offers deep insights into maintaining a spiritual life centered on God's teachings.
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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 Flotline. I'm your host, Rick Hughes. For the next few minutes, please stay with me. It'll be a time of motivation, some inspiration, some education. And of course, we do it without any manipulation because we're not trying to con anybody. No games, no gimmicks, no request for money, no solicitation to join anything. Just asking you to listen for a few minutes as we discuss the plan of God for your life. Hopefully we can verify and identify that plan, and then you, if you would like to, you have the freedom and the privacy to orient and adjust to the plan of God in your own life. You have to make your own decisions. You've given two ends, one to sit with, one to think with, and success in life depends on which one of them you use. Heads you win, tails you lose. So you are a product of your own decisions, and bad decisions always limit future options. the worst decision anyone could ever make is the decision to reject god's solution to sin that is to reject jesus christ as their savior the bible clearly says he that believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life and he that believeth not the wrath of god abides on him already So God the Father provided a solution for my sin in the person of His own Son, Jesus Christ my Lord. And by believing in Him and receiving Him as my Savior, then the Father and I now are on the same page and we have fellowship together. And that's why the Bible says, he that knew no sin was made sin for us so that we could be made the righteousness of God through him, by means of him. That's how we come to the Father, not by our works, because the Bible again says, for by grace are you saved through faith. It's a gift from God, not of works, lest anyone should brag about it. So with that in mind, we want to move on in our weekly Flatline series. 730 Sundays we've been on the air doing this show. You can add up 52 Sundays in a year and figure out how many years we've been doing this. And I'm honored that you're listening. Thank you for being there. I always love to hear from you. Don't hesitate to write. Rick at rickhughesministries.org is our email address, rick at rickhughesministries.org. Or simply go to the website, rickhughesministries.org. And you can find us there. You can order books from the website, books that we've printed and we supply free of charge. Never do we solicit money. Never do we ask for money on this radio show. So go to the website, look around. You can also listen to previous radio shows. All 730 of them are listed there, and they will play just by clicking on it, or you can Bluetooth them through your car. We also have started a new podcast, and you can find that on Spotify, The Flotline, and eventually it will be available on Apple iPod, but it takes a while to get that going. All right, are you with me? We want to study today the ministry of God, the Holy Spirit. God the Holy Spirit. Listen to what Paul prayed for the church at Ephesus in Ephesians 3.16. He said, I pray that God would grant you according to the riches of his glory to be made strong by means of his spirit in the inner man. That's where the spiritual strength comes from to live the Christian life. by means of the holy spirit in the inner man when the lord announced to the disciples that he was going to leave them in john 14 2-3 he told these guys the disciples these words quoting now from john in my father's house are many mansions and if it were not so i would have told you I'm going to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself so that where I am, you may be also." Now that was a shock to them. They didn't fully comprehend the death and the burial and the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, not yet. And they certainly didn't comprehend the exit resurrection and the return of Christ, not yet. But he did tell them that in his absence, he was going to send another teacher, one like himself, which he called the Spirit of Truth. In John 14, 16, I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another comforter so that he may abide with you forever. Forever is forever, even in our eternal life, I would assume. In John 14, 26, but when the comforter, who is the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, when he comes he shall teach you all things." and bring them to your remembrance, whatever I said to you." Prior to this time, the disciples had been getting face-to-face teaching. In these verses, we see our Lord telling the disciples that they would now have a new way of learning the Father's plan. Since our Lord Jesus Christ was going to leave them, they had been with him face-to-face for several years, and they've had face-to-face teaching, watching him, listening to him, but now he's going away. And in the future, they're going to be required to operate by faith perception since there was no more empirical evidence since Christ was leaving. So they were going to have to have faith to perceive what the plan was. And how's that going to happen? Jesus told them, he, the Holy Spirit, will bring all things to your remembrance. This is mentioned in Peter's writings where he stated that the Holy Spirit gave them the recall and the direction as they wrote the letters which we now call the New Testament. And they did not know they were writing what is considered our Bible. They did not know that. They didn't know when the Lord called them or when the Lord departed from them that they would be the most famous writers in the history of the world, that they would write what we know to be the canon of Scripture or the Bible, the inspired Word of God. They had no idea that that was gonna take place. But they did it, and the Holy Spirit prepared them for what they wrote. Peter mentioned this in 2 Peter 1, 20 and 21, where he said, knowing this first, that no prophecy of the Scripture is of any private interpretation, For the prophecy came not at any time by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. So he is letting you know that this is not some conceived plan. This was not their desire to publish a book and sell it. The Bible is the number one selling book in the world today, and if you want a Bible about God, the Bible for babies, the Bible for divorced women, the Bible for divorced men, the Bible for hunters, the Bible for fishermen, the Bible for Christians, I mean, Holy cow, there's a lot of Bibles out there, and everybody wants to sell you a Bible. I personally like to go into the New Testament and read the New Testament from the original manuscripts, and I'm not a Greek scholar, not by any means, but there's enough literary help that I can use the Greek vocabulary and go into the New Testament and look at words, like the word love, for example, love, L-O-V-E. There are four different Greek words for love, and yet they're all translated L-O-V-E. But in the original languages, it could be agapao or phileo, or even a couple of words that aren't used in the scripture like stokeo and erao. And so these are four different Greek words all translate into the English as love. So we have to understand what love the Bible is speaking about. In John 21, the Lord kept asking Peter, do you love me? Do you love me? Do you love me? And he kept using one word and the Lord was looking for another word. And so it's important when you study the Bible, especially if you're under a well-qualified pastor, that you, number one, are under the control of the Holy Spirit, and number two, that that pastor is under control of the Holy Spirit, and he's teaching you from the original languages. a lot of things lose their meaning in the translation. So we always go to the isagogics of the word, and we always try to exegete the passage so that we go line by line, word by words, like that, okay? So here we go, let's keep on with this. The same Holy Spirit was given to you, the one, the Holy Spirit that Peter spoke about, how it led them to write what they wrote, excuse me, how he led them to write what they wrote. That same Holy Spirit is given to you the moment you receive Jesus Christ as your Savior. I know this from Ephesians 1.13, in whom you also trusted God. After you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, in whom also after you believed, that's getting saved, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession under the praise of his glory. So God the Father. At the moment that you made a decision to receive Christ as your Savior, sealed you with the Holy Spirit and guarantees your inheritance. Now, that's like someone making homemade jelly and putting a sealing on it, a paraffin wax. They used to do that. Or sometimes they'll vacuum seal homemade vegetables and it seals the flavor in. The Holy Spirit seals your redemption. He will never leave you. He won't forsake you. He's always there until the time that God calls you home. So the objective of that indwelling of the Holy Spirit is to enable you and me to overcome the demands of our sin nature or what we call the flesh. The flesh is always there. All personal sins that we commit come from the desires of the flesh, and they're a product of our volition. We choose to sin. Paul again wrote about this in Romans 7, 15 through 20, where he said, I don't understand what I do, for what I want to do I do not do. But what I hate, I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, then I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it's sin living in me. That's our sin nature. For I know that good itself does not dwell in me. That's the ability to do good. That is my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. Verse 18, for I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do, I keep on doing. Now, if I do what I do not want to do, it's no longer I who do it, but it's sin living in me that does it. do is mentioned a lot in that verse there's three different words for do all three different greek words but they all translate out do do do and so what paul is saying is he has a sin nature he wants to do the right thing but sometimes the sin nature exhibits itself and causes us to fail It could be a mental attitude sin, like worry or fear of anxiety or anger or jealousy or bitterness. Or it could be a sin of the tongue, like slandering or lying or gossiping or maligning. It could even maybe be an overt sin, such as adultery or fornication or stealing. But all sins originate from the lust of the flesh. and your volitional decision, my volitional decision, to obey what the flesh desires. That's why we're given the filling ministry of the Holy Spirit. He can sustain us in this daily battle, and he uses the word of God as our comfort and our encouragement. And so we find in Galatians 5, 16. This I say then, walk by means of the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit. And the spirit desires what is contrary to the flesh. And they are in conflict with each other so that you're not to do whatever you want to do. This tells you that there is a battle going on in your mind 24 seven. A battle to control your thoughts because your spiritual life is lived in your thoughts. And those thoughts translate out of motives, intentions, and desires. And so if you're going to live the spiritual life, you have to learn to control what you think. That's why the Bible tells us, let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus, who humbled himself and made himself of no reputation. That's why the Bible says in Romans 12, three, stop thinking of yourself in terms of arrogance beyond what you should think. But think in terms of humility as God has assigned to each one of us a standard of thinking from his word. This is where you live your spiritual life and your thoughts. And this is where the Holy Spirit can sustain you and teach you and encourage you. But if you quench the Holy Spirit, if you grieve the Holy Spirit, then he's not able to do his job. And so we have two negative mandates in the Bible. The first one is in 1 Thessalonians 5.19, which says, do not quench the spirit. And the second one is in Ephesians 4.30, do not grieve the spirit of God. Quenching the spirit is you shutting off the power. It's like you're trying to water the lawn and you take the water hose and you bend it in half and it stops the water from coming out. When you sin and you do not rebound the sin, then you quench the Holy Spirit. He no longer has the power to guide you, assist you, encourage you, because you have surrendered control of your life, of your thoughts to your flesh. And now the flesh takes over. And this is the battle Paul talks about, the flesh warring against the spirit, the spirit warring against the flesh. They both want to control what you think. That's why, again, the spiritual life is lived in your thoughts, in your soul, in the mentality of your soul. And it reflects itself in your actions and what you do. So we have a term for when you're out of fellowship with God. If you're out of fellowship with God, you're carnal, the Bible says. This means you have unconfessed sin in your life. In 1 Corinthians 3.3 and 2 Corinthians 10.4 and Romans 7.14, these all talk about being carnal or sinful. It is possible for a Christian to sin, and it is possible for a Christian to wallow or stay in that sin. And if you do, you're carnal, you're in reversionism, you're going backwards. But there's also a term for a Christian that's filled with the Holy Spirit, and that's the term spiritual. In Galatians 6.1 and 1 Corinthians 3.1, Paul talks about us being spiritual. Now, this doesn't mean that if we take a famous celebrity like Billy Graham, a world-famous evangelist, he could not be any more spiritual than you because if he's filled with the Spirit and you're filled with the Spirit, it's the same Holy Spirit. So when you're filled with the Spirit, you're spiritual, but that doesn't mean that you are a mature believer. Maturity is based on the content of the word of God in your soul. Spirituality is based on whether or not you're filled with the Holy Spirit. So you can be filled with the Holy Spirit and still be a baby Christian. That's the plan because the Holy Spirit wants you to grow up. He wants you to move from being an infant Christian to being a mature believer, to understanding a complete plan of God for your life. so the word of god can protect you if you learn it if you if you learn the word of god and apply the word of god then you can stay out of sin therefore the holy spirit helps you in this matter psalm 119 verse 11 your word have i hid in my heart so that i might not sin against you And in Philippians 2.13, for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for his good pleasure. That's the Holy Spirit working in you. So this is what the Holy Spirit's job is to do, to keep you out of sin. to alert you when your sin nature is tempting you, to let you know you have failed the plan of God, you've committed a sin. And then when that comes up, not only does he sustain your spiritual life, but he also helps you comprehend the scripture. if it's taught to you by what I call a well-qualified pastor, somebody that knows what they're talking about. But without the filling of the Holy Spirit, we could never, ever, ever fulfill the protocol plan of God. It's impossible because that requires the right thing to be done in the right way. So do you know the key to being filled with the Holy Spirit? Do you understand that? In other words, if I ask you right now, are you filled with the Spirit right now? I don't mean are you foaming at the mouth and beating on a tambourine, that's not what I'm talking about. Are you spiritual or are you carnal? Is there unconfessed sin in your life, then you're carnal. Is there no unconfessed sin in your life, then you're spiritual. And I can hear you already, wait a minute. How can I keep up with all of my sins? Well, you can't, obviously. That's why the Bible says if we confess our sins, he's faithful and just to forgive us and cleanse us from all unrighteousness, all unrighteousness. even the ones you don't remember. So the key to being filled with the Holy Spirit is problem-solving device number one on the flotline of your soul. Remember the flotline, 10 unique problem-solving devices given by God through His Word to sustain us in this devil's world. When we learn and use these 10 problem-solving devices, we stop the outside sources of adversity before they ever become the inside source of stress. And the first thing every believer must learn is how to stay in fellowship with God using the rebound technique. Therefore, the Bible says if we confess our sin, he's faithful and just to forgive us of our sin. and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If is a third-class condition in the Greek New Testament. It's a subjunctive mood. Confess, if we confess, the verb confess is subjunctive, means maybe you will, and maybe you won't. But if we confess, what does the word confess mean? Well, that verb is a compound verb called homo legeo. Homo legeo. Homo being the word the same, and legeo meaning to say. So the word confess means to say the same. We use homo in our American language. vocabulary is the word homosexual the same sexually well this is not the same sexually it's the same to say so when we sin what does god expect out of us does he expect you to cry and mourn and oh god i messed up oh god help me not he expects you to name your sin tell him what you did i lied i lusted i cheated i lost my temper whatever you did tell him and when you admit your sin then what it does is it allows the holy spirit to cleanse you of the sin and to reinstate the filling of the holy spirit when you fail to rebound even though you are a christian you're out of fellowship and you're operating in the energy of the flesh. And it's very possible you can go to church. It's very possible you can sing in the choir. It's very possible you can attend Sunday school. It's very possible you can give money in the energy of the flesh because you had unconfessed sin in your life when you did it. The danger of that is it's called human good. It's non-rewardable. Anything you do for God outside of his protocol plan is all human good. The protocol plan of God demands you be filled with the Holy Spirit. So if I take those same items, going to church, going to Sunday school, singing in the choir, giving money, and I am filled with the Holy Spirit, which means I have no unconfessed sin in my life, Then I'm manufacturing divine good, and that's rewardable. And again, how can I keep up with my sins? Well, first of all, it's the Holy Spirit's job to let you know when you sin, called your conscience. And he will convict you of sin. He will let you know you've sinned. But if you fail to rebound, you may continue to sin and add sin upon sin upon sin upon sin. And even though you may try to get back to God by going to church, and even though you may try to get back to God by praying, unless you go to God and confess the sin, you cannot be filled with the Holy Spirit. But you say, I can't remember every sin I did that got me out of fellowship. I know that, I've been there. We just name the ones we're aware of, and he cleanses us from the ones we don't remember. The idea is, as David said in the 32nd Psalm, when I kept my mouth shut, I almost died. Remember, he committed adultery with Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah the Hittite, and then in order to cover up her pregnancy, he had Uriah murdered. This is David, and he didn't tell anybody about it until Nathan showed up and nailed him with it and said, God is aware of what you did. and you're not hiding it from God. And the same is true for you and me. There's not one sin we commit that God is not aware of because he's watching us 24 seven. The omniscience of God is aware of everything you and I do. And so we can't play games with God. Either today, this moment, right now, you are in fellowship with God or you are not. If you are not, you have sin in your life and you haven't confessed it to God. If you are, then you have dealt with your sin, you're trying to stay current, and you're trying to not let sin take root. Anytime you sin, name it immediately, not when you go to bed at night, immediately. Therefore, you're guaranteed that immediately you'll be filled with the Holy Spirit. Now remember, spirituality and maturity are two different things. You can be spiritual but not mature. Maturity is related to the content of the Word of God in your soul. Spirituality is related to the filling of the Holy Spirit. If you are spiritual and wish to be mature, then that's why the Holy Spirit's there to guide you, encourage you, comfort you, help you grow, learn, and produce Christ-like characteristics in your life. Thus, you need a pastor, a well-qualified pastor to teach you the Bible. As you maintain the filling of the Holy Spirit, as you listen to the ministry of a well-qualified pastor, Then you grow in the grace and the knowledge of your Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. That's Peter's word, 2 Peter 3.18. Grow in the grace and the knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed. Rightly dividing the word of truth is what Paul told Timothy. We must study. We must grow. And that's only possible through the ministry of the filling of the Holy Spirit. So I hope you're listening. I hope you're getting this. I hope you're learning this. Because I'm going to ask you one final time. Are you filled with the Holy Spirit right now? If not, go to God the Father. Lay it out before him, admit your sin, and he will be faithful and just to forgive you. God doesn't hold grudges. He still loves you. He hasn't thrown you under the bus. He hasn't forsaken you. But he's waiting on you to come back and admit your sin. Stay on top of it. Don't let sin take root in your life and grow. That's how you're filled with the Holy Spirit. I hope you're listening. I hope you'll come back next Sunday. Same time, same place, same channel. It is my honor to give you this information. So 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.
Join Dr. Scott Faulkner and special guest Donald Hudspeth on an enlightening journey into the transformative world of stem cell therapy. With a focus on umbilical cord stem cells, this episode provides a deep dive into their advantages over traditional treatments. Whether you're curious about the science behind stem cells or seeking alternative therapies for chronic conditions, this discussion offers valuable insights into FDA-approved practices and international differences. The episode also features riveting testimonials from patients who have experienced dramatic improvements in their health, highlighting the real-world impact of stem cell therapy beyond theoretical benefits. If you've ever wondered about the role of stem cells in treating conditions from sports injuries to autoimmune diseases, this is an episode you won't want to miss. Understand the future of medicine through compelling conversations and expert advice that aims to educate and inspire.
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It's Rush to Reason with your host, John Rush, presented by Cub Creek Heating and Air Conditioning.
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Welcome back, listeners, to Hour 2. You're listening to Dr. Scott Faulkner filling in for John Rush. By the way, John will be back tomorrow. If you want to be part of the program, 303-477-5600. You can go to RushToReason.com as well. Please don't try and write this down while you're driving home. Don't crash your car. We have a special guest, Donald Hudspeth, who was on for the first hour with me. He is an expert in stem cells in the lab and the process of stem cells and why is it so important to do this the right way and find a company that uses current good manufacturing processes that the FDA has approved. And that's Cord for Life there in Orlando. That's where I get my stem cells from. And when I do order stem cells, I always ask for COVID vaccine free from the birth mother. So that's one less thing that you have to worry about. I always ask for that. And Donald and I were talking in the first hour of public versus private. What does that mean? Public is the mom just donates it to whoever needs it. Private is she wants to keep that tissue or the blood products for her child later on, maybe 10, 20, 30 years down the road, thinking that maybe that her child might need that for some reason. And so that leads into the next thing. Donald, thank you for holding over. There's two issues that I really want to get to before we go into the next hour stuff. The first thing that I want to know is what about relatives? So let's say grandma has a knee that's going bad. Her granddaughter is going to have a child or mom. has a bad shoulder because she played tennis for so long. Her daughter's about to have a child or her son's wife is going to have a child. What about relatives? How does that play into this?
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So when a family chooses to privately bank their baby's cord blood stem cells with us, they are the owners of that product. We of course provide them with information, with data, cell counts, viability counts, things like that that we are able to test through the processing of that so that they know exactly what they have. But they're the owners and they're the ones that decide how and when and where and to whom some or all of their stem cells are distributed. Of course we do require that it's distributed to a licensed physician. clinician of some sort. But if they want to use that for any of their family members, as long as the physician, he or she, is willing to provide that service under their practice of medicine, their care of medicine, then we get the three parties, the physician, the parents, and the Court for Life staff, get them together to do the proper transfer, go through all the paperwork and documentation. So the mom will release some or all of those cells, depending on what the clinician decides is appropriate for the treatment that they're trying to do. And we ship that to the clinician's location. The recipient will then come in on the timeline that's been generated for that treatment and get their therapy.
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Yeah, that's exactly right. And again, since we're into a new hour, those who are listening from the FDA, by the way, when I use these cells for regenerative medicine, this is an off-label indication, but we use medications and cells off-label. So there's my FDA disclosure. So that's great for the relatives, for mom, for grandma, who maybe have a bad knee, bad shoulder, things like that. What about siblings?
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So siblings, when you're talking about, you know, from the normal, that's probably not the best word, but the common same mother, same father, by definition, if you kind of remember back to your genetics that you might have taken back in biology in high school or certainly in college, they're drawing, each of these siblings are drawing their genes from the same two parents. And so therefore... they're going to share a lot of those same genes, a lot of those same cell markers, which is what we're really concerned about here. So typically speaking, you're going to have a certain, at least medium, if not higher level degree of matching among siblings than you will even from a child to their parents or certainly to their grandparents. So every step closer to being the same generation, if you will, you're going to have a little bit higher degree of intrinsic matching. You could certainly have exactly perfect match with your grandparent, just from the sake of the genetic lottery, if you will, how things shake out, but But just as a starting point, the closer you get to the same generation, you're going to have a much higher starting point of your degree of matching.
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Yeah, and still we talked about I can use the cells from an unknown baby. I put those in Kat, who was a caller at the tail end of last hour who has multiple sclerosis. I'm glad you got to hear her story because this is what you guys are doing. You're changing lives today. And it's such a cool thing to do. I love what I do. And but I wanted you to hear the end product of why you guys struggle, why you spent so much money to get that lab to be. to that level that the FDA has approved. But here's another story for you is I have a gentleman who comes into my clinic. He is a professional motocross racer. His wife is number three, I believe, in the state of Colorado. His son, who is now a tween, he is number one in the world in his age category. He races down. He practices down in Georgia. His dad brought him in because mom had their little sister. He has a little brother who's also incredible on a motocross. Mom had a daughter. They saved the umbilical cord. The oldest son, he tore his ACL. And then, you know, in the world of medicine, the orthopedic surgeons are like, okay, you're a tween. We are not going to give you a cadaver ACL. Sorry, kid, not a lot that we can do. I mean, this kid's number one on a motorcycle. So dad's like, hey, you've given me stem cells in the past. What about this? We've banked his little sister's umbilical cord. What do you think? You shipped me a 5cc vial. I put a cc into their son's knee. I gave mom a couple of ccs, gave dad because he snapped his sternum, the breastbone, in half during a race and he finished the race. Within a month and a half, his sternum was totally repaired. Son comes back. Orthopedic surgeon does a repeat MRI, and that ACL is 100% intact. three people in the family got healed from their little baby.
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That's wonderful.
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Yeah. So what about other companies? Because as you alluded to in the first hour, there are other companies that will advertise, hey, why don't you bank on the private side your baby's umbilical cord with us? Now, I have to admit, I have tried on behalf of patients to get these stem cells from these other companies, and it's not just no, it's hell no. So, is there a way that we can help these parents out there saying, I've got these cells sitting here that I'm paying for. They're mine. Can I use them for myself, for my loved one? What say you?
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We certainly have transferred cells from other private banks in to be stored with us for that very purpose because they're having difficulty getting access to those cells. Again, we feel that these cells Cells that they have banked are the property of the mom in specific until the baby, his or herself, turns 18 or 21, depending on the state. So we feel that it's their property, it's their decision. As long as they meet certain minimum criteria, like I said, they have to have a licensed physician involved. So we're not going to just. ship them to the family's home address for them to do something.
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All right.
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Thank you. If they meet that minimum criteria, which, again, stems back to good laboratory practices, good manufacturing practices, and just kind of good common sense practices, if you will, we will provide those cells to the clinician of choice for that treatment that the clinician deems medically necessary and under their practice of medicine for that patient's family. So we have transferred units over for that very reason.
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All right, fantastic. So we're going to take one more break, and then I'm going to have one last question before I let you go. Why umbilical cord stem cells and not bone marrow aspirate? So I'll ask that question again when we come back from this break. You're listening to Dr. Scott filling in for John Rush, 560-KLZ.
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Welcome back, listeners. This is actually Dr. Scott Faulkner filling in for John, 560 KLZ, Rush to Reason, Health and Wellness Wednesday, and John will be back tomorrow. I currently have Donald Hudspeth from Cord for Life on the line. We've been talking for the last hour and almost hour and a half on umbilical cord stem cells, why you want a company that follows the FDA's current good manufacturing practices, for various reasons and you can go back and listen to that whole conversation but the last question I had for Donald because now he's in Orlando and when I let him go he's going to be in snarled traffic and he's going to hate me but I really appreciate it you holding over but my last question for you Donald is why umbilical cord stem cells and not bone marrow aspirate
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So there's several different reasons for that. The first and the easiest, the low-hanging fruit, if you will, is that the collection of cord blood, while there's one specific time that it can be done, it is very simple and it is virtually 100% painless to either the donor mom or the baby. It happens after the baby has been normally delivered. The cord has been clamped and cut and typically now the baby and the cord are on separate sides of the room. So there's absolutely no pain whatsoever to anyone involved in the cord blood collection versus if you're going to do certainly a bone marrow collection, but typically most bone marrow is actually now done through peripheral blood collections. With a true bone marrow collection, you're going to have a very large bore needle shoved and ground into your pelvic region. And it's very painful. Typically, we'll use some sort of topical anesthetic, but that's just really good for the skin. I've witnessed this. It is something that you don't want to see. Again, very, very painful. As I said, most of the time now, though, they're going to do what's called a peripheral or an apheresis blood collection from an adult. So typically they will give you a drug, something like Neupogen, that will force the blast and stem cells out of your bone marrow into your peripheral blood. Typically in the peripheral blood, there's a very small percentage, less than 1% of these cells floating around until they're needed. So in order to be effective, they will give you some sort of drug to push these out into your peripheral system. And then they're going to do a venipuncture phlebotomy in both of your arms. And so they're going to collect blood out of one side it's going to go through a special machine called an apheresis machine it's going to get centrifuged they're going to be able through that centrifugation process with some special bags and whatnot they're going to be able to collect the stem cells and then give you back most of the red cells and most of the plasma so they're able to do that in a very large total volume but they're not depleting the patient of their own blood so you know if you go and give blood typically you'll give one one unit one pint of blood but are able to take out multiple pints of blood but give most of that back to you to collect those cells. So it's a much easier and painless collection when you compare the two. But then the next part of the answer is, well, what about the cells themselves? So obviously when you collect cells from a literally minutes old baby, these cells themselves are very young and immature and they don't have the aging baggage that our cells do. So if I were to have peripheral blood collected on me today, I'm a 54-year-old man, my cells are going to look like a 54-year-old male cells. They're going to have that aging baggage that all of our cells gain as they get older and older. So the immaturity of these cells allow them to be a little more effective in how they're treating and how they're responding when they're used into a recipient. And then the last way, and this is very important we talked about a little bit earlier in a larger setting such as transplantation these cells because they are immature they have a much different way and a much different capacity of reacting to the recipient so an analogy that i i've used before is that these newborn stem cells while they they have all of the armor and weaponry of a ninja they don't know how to use it yet. They might not be able to hold up the sword. They might not be quite as quick. They might not be able to realize that someone's coming from the backside or whatever. Whereas the mature cell, they've gone through all that training. They know their jujitsu. They know all the tools that they have. And so that makes them less likely to cause graft versus host disease when you're comparing them to an adult size cell. So you've got ease of collection, absolutely pain-free when you're looking at cord blood versus adult stem cells. Then you have a more effective younger immature cell that's going to give you a better effect, but then also it's going to give you less of the negative effect that you could see in some settings. So all those combined together really show that cord blood can be in many, many ways a better alternative than adult, whether it's directly from the bone marrow or from autologous collection, those adult stem cells that the aging population may have. And quite honestly, there's really a fourth to consider as well. As we do get older, you know, the reason that we need stem cells could be something that would prevent our own cells to be used. So, for example, if I needed to have a stem cell therapy but my stem cells were damaged and that's what I'm getting that therapy for, we couldn't use my own stem cells for that. So I would have to look at some sort of donor, again, whether that's going to be one of my daughters who I've banked or whether it's going to be a donor, be it a child or another adult. But that's to be considered as well. What are we trying to treat and how are, as that recipient's stem cells, going to play into the ability to treat that condition?
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Yeah. I mean, that's exactly what I tell patients is the only absolute contraindication is if you've had a solid organ transplant, so a lung transplant, heart, kidney. Otherwise, pretty much everybody is a candidate for these umbilical cord stem cells. That is correct. Okay. I lied. I'm going to ask you one more question. Sorry, Donald. Why would somebody not want to go to Europe, to Costa Rica, to Panama, to Tijuana to get these stem cells?
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So again, we've got a multifaceted answer here. I think first and foremost, you've got to look at the additional cost. So for someone who's coming to see you there at Castle Rock, even the one patient you mentioned that might be coming from Wyoming, you're talking about a couple hours drive, a tank of gas, you know, $100 to get there. Whereas if I have to fly to Costa Rica, you know, you're talking about plane tickets. You're talking about, you know, shuttles to and from the airports, parking at the airport. You're talking about, you know, hotel nights or spa nights, whatever the trip may involve. And then the product itself is probably going to be more expensive than domestically. But more importantly, the oversight... of the FDA is not going to be there for these products that are outside the US. Certainly there are some areas that do have some similar oversights. Europe has the EU and they have things in place to protect these types of cells. But when you're looking in Latin and South America, some of these island nations, they say they might defer to the US FDA as far as what you should do, but they don't have the ability, they don't have the infrastructure to enforce that. And so you really don't know what these cells that you're getting are. In some cases, they may not even be human, unfortunately. So there's definitely, you know, the unknown and the unsure the uncertainty of what that product is that you've traveled all this way and paid all of that money to get there. And then you're getting a product that's quite honestly, almost assuredly going to be inferior to a U.S. based product that's gone through the scrutiny of accreditation, FDA, certainly if they have an investigational new drug application, things of that nature. All of those things go back to point to the quality and the high efficacy of that product that you're getting.
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Yeah, you're exactly right. And I can attest to that because I, as you know, I have a clinic in Manila, Philippines, and I've watched other providers give patients sheep stem cells, rabbit stem cells. You have no idea. In fact, one gentleman when I was there probably six months ago died from his stem cell procedure. And I can guarantee you that they gave him sheep stem cells and there was red blood cells there. And it's exactly what you said. When you have that blood that's incompatible, it can be a violent reaction up to and including death. Absolutely. So don't go out of the country. It is not illegal. It's just the FDA has not approved this. So we say it's an off-label use. But I, as a physician, tell my patients this is what we're doing. It's an off-label use, but it is not illegal. So thank you for your time, Donald. Tell people how they can get a hold of you if they have more questions.
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They can go to our website at www.cordforlife.com. And that's F-O-R, not the number four, cordforlife.com. Or they can call us directly at 1-800-869-8608.
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Fantastic. I really appreciate your time. And if people have questions for me, they can call me at my clinic. That's 303-663-6990. 303-663-6990. We're going to take a break now. Donald, thank you for your time. You're listening to Dr. Scott Faulkner filling in for John Rush, 560 KLZ.
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Now back to Rush to Reason on KLZ 560.
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Okay, you're listening to Dr. Scott filling in for John Rush on this Health and Wellness Wednesday. And just fortuitously, I have a good friend, listener to John Rush, who actually has a program on 560 KLZ, right? Haystack Help Radio. We're on noon to one. Noon to one. And we were talking over the break about stem cells and his story. So have at it.
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You know what? I did this several years ago back in 2017. Mm-hmm. And I had seen different things about, you know, stem cell, but just a little bit leery of how it would work. And I thought, you know what? You can always do surgery. Right. So why not try this? And it's not inexpensive to do, but I was like, still, hey, man, if I can put off a surgery forever or for 10 years, why not do that?
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Or get off narcotics or something. Yeah, exactly.
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And so I went and did it, and I'm telling you what. I mean, for me, and everybody's different with stem cell, and I interviewed a lot of people on my show, probably 200 people over three years that had stem cell. And I can tell you, without fail, every person I talk to, in their own words, where 80% are better, right? Every patient I talked to, and I'm talking about from NFL athletes to just normal people like us. And it was the greatest thing they ever did. Yeah. And, and I did mess up the knee several years later, ended up with a replacement. And as I was telling you, I wish I would have even put that off because that's not an easy surgery. And there's no guarantees. That was my next phrase. There's no guarantees with surgery. So I'm just a big believer in this, and I would tell everyone, hey. And also be very careful who you do it with. Not all clinics, doctors are created equal in that field, in that arena. So you get somebody like yourself that knows what they're doing, has a great, good track history with it, 100% recommend it.
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Yeah. And the take home is do it earlier, sooner rather than later, because you're asking me almost like Eric who called in earlier where his toe is now bone on bone. There is still cartilage around the outside. Now it's a heavy lift to get that cartilage to fill in. Why? Because you're walking on that joint, right? You've got to push off on your toe every step you take. So it's a heavier lift. But if there's still some cartilage there, then what we're doing is we're thickening it up, not trying to fill in a gap. So when people have mild or moderate shoulder problems, hip problems, knee problems, that's easy. I love seeing those folks. Or you heard Kat's story who has multiple sclerosis. Changed her life, gave her her life back. So I love doing what I'm doing, and you're a living testimony to it.
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No, I'm telling you, I 100% believe in it. And what's best for people, to bring you MRI if they have it?
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Yeah, because one of the things that I look for, or even a plain film, is okay. Because if you have a bone spur, right, a chunk of bone in your knee or in your shoulder, right, then I'm going to be brutally honest with you and say, you know what, I can make you feel good, but I'm not going to make you feel great because you've got a mechanical chunk of bone that is going to be there unless a surgeon with a scalpel goes in and scrapes that. And so people are, thank you for being brutally honest. I have a listener up in Wyoming. He drove all the way down to see me. And his x-ray, I sent him over to get an x-ray because he didn't know. And sure enough, he had a bone spur. And, you know, I'm not one of those guys that, oh, geez, I'm just going to take your money and I know I'll help you a little bit, but not totally. And I was brutally honest with him. It's like, you've got a chunk of bone. So I can give you stem cells, but with this chunk – you'll always have issues. So just go to the surgeon and be done with it. But if there's not a chunk of bone there, there's very few things that I can't help with stem cells. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely worth it.
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So again, just highly recommend it.
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Yep. And if you don't have a doc who's willing to, that's one of the things I was going to talk about. In fact, John had a listener who texted him. His doc just berated him, had Douglas County Sheriff at his door when he got home because he'd made an offhanded comment. This doctor took it seriously. There's a lot of providers out there that are just not mentally stable, right? Let's just say that. And they're like, well, I'm not going to do an x-ray or you shouldn't be doing stem cells. Well, you should be asking that doctor, well, how much training do you actually have in stem cells? Because if they're like me, I had about 30 seconds my very first semester as a medical student. So we're talking 33 years ago. I had about 30 seconds during embryology class, right? The first semester, first time medical student, 30 seconds on stem cells and we blow past it. So this doctor... He doesn't want to appear ignorant. So what do we do? We puff out our chest, like, because we're the experts, right? Believe me, I'm the doctor. And we tell you, oh, you don't want to touch that, or that's hocus pocus, or it's voodoo medicine, or you're going to get HIV, or it's not going to work. It's like, but you have no training in this. Right. So how do you know?
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A surgeon— He's a surgeon. And they get paid to cut. Okay. That's their job, right? And that's what I appreciate, you know, about, you know, of course, before I knew you or I would have come to you. But that's what I appreciate, you know, about like listening to you on the show when I heard you is because I know you're going to be honest with people. and tell them because it doesn't do you any good or them any good to go any other way.
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I have my reputation, and if I give people bad advice, then they're going to tell their friends, and then pretty soon my name is nothing. And the Bible says it's better to have a good name than wealth and riches. I would rather have that good name of I did the right thing for folks. I look at my wife, I look at my kids and say, you know what, you can be proud of your husband, your dad, because I did the right thing. I didn't cut corners. I didn't just take the buck from that patient. Now, there's a lot of doctors or practitioners that will do that. Oh, sure. But I just refuse to be one of those folks. Right, right.
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And, you know, just through my testimonials that I did with patients, you know, there were some that were – and this was probably the smaller portion where in 30 days they felt like a new person. Some people it took, you know, 60 days, 90 days. There were some that took six months. Yeah. But, man, I'm telling you, I didn't have one person in their words – because I said, look, I'm not looking for, you know – I just want your story. What you went through before – And now how you're feeling. And, man, it was unbelievable. And I tell people, even to come in for a consult, hey, what do you have to lose? Yeah, my consult's free. Pain. All right, that's what you got to lose. So, I mean, hey, why not just give it a try? And because, again, if your doctors are discouraging from this, to me, again, that's a red flag. Right. Because they don't really know. All right? And so... you know i would just say give it a shot hey come in get a consult see where that road leads because i'm telling you that procedure is way better than what i went through yes you replacement you're exactly right and it's not just joints it's not just knees ankles hips shoulders it's the other things like cat has ms my very first patient was my uncle who had lugare disease
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That's how I discovered stem cells and got into it. Because in classic allopathic medicine, we're not taught about this. Why? Because Pfizer doesn't make any money off of it. And in fact, they look at us saying, well, you're going to be taking money away from us because now our patients aren't going to be hooked on all these drugs, right? And these chemicals that we inject or the surgeons will inject in you. So they have pressured the FDA to keep stem cells kind of on the low down. So that's why a lot of our patients are going to Costa Rica and Panama. I think it was when Mel Gibson talked on Joe Rogan about his dad's experience, how he took him out of the Scottsdale Hospital, took him to Panama, Dr. Reardon gave him stem cells and made him a new man at like 92 years of age, that people started to kind of wake up that, hey, maybe there's something to this. Right. But you don't have to go to Panama because one of the things that Dr. Reardon does is what they call expanding the cell line. So he'll take a few stem cells, put it in a Petri dish, force it to grow faster than what God designed it to. Well, when you do that, you can actually induce a malignant transformation. I can give you cancer. So the FDA had a hard and fast rule in the past that you cannot use expanded cells in the United States. About a year ago, they relaxed that. I don't know who got to them. But if I were to use those expanded cells, I have to tell you, by the way, I can give you a malignancy. Now, who in their right mind would want to do that? I didn't ask or confirm this with Donald. I know the answer is that when you use umbilical cord-derived stem cells that have not been expanded, there has never to this date been a case of malignant transformation ever. And as he was saying, it's totally painless, right, because the baby's born. They just take the umbilical cord and strip it of the stem cells. You didn't feel a thing. So you went through a painful procedure. They knocked you out for that. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Well, in this case, I just take a little vial that's frozen at negative 80 degrees Celsius. I put it in my warmer. It takes longer for me to defrost these cells. to give to you than it does for me to give you the procedure. And if it's a medical condition, and again, this is an off-label use for those from the FDA, but if I'm treating Lou Gehrig's, if I'm treating Parkinson's, dementia, if I'm treating MS, if I'm treating COPD, heart failure, you name it, then that's an IV infusion. But if somebody like yourself who had a bad knee, I would just put it into your knee. And you're like, well, why would you do that? And the answer is blood flow. Joints have really poor blood flow, and we want all those proteins and peptides, cytokines and chemokines, to go where the problem is. In your case, it's the cartilage in your knee. So because there's poor blood flow, we have to put the stem cells right there. But if I'm treating a systemic issue like MS, like cancer, you name it, Lou Gehrig's, then we do an IV because those stem cells hang out in your lung and your liver. They expand on their own on God's timeline. A million cells will become close to a billion stem cells. And so you get the benefit for six to eight months of a billion cells producing every single protein and peptide known to heal the human body.
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So when you're treating these things other than joints, it's a series then of treatment?
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It depends on what the underlying condition is. So if you have, like in my uncle's case, Lou Gehrig's, or in Kat's case with multiple sclerosis, that underlying pathology is always attacking. It's always there in the background, right? So after the cells wear off in that six to eight months, in my uncle's case, he got 10 and a half months out of his stem cells. Then he started to peter out, and I had to give him a booster. That's exactly right. But other conditions, I can do a one and done because it's a one-time insult. So let's take a stroke, right? You had an attack, a brain attack. Part of your brain tissue died. I was always taught in medical school that you could not regrow neurons. We now know that is a lie. We can actually regrow neurons. So if I give you stem cells plus or minus a little hyperbaric therapy, I've got patients' MRIs where the infarct is this big and I'm holding up my hands in a circle and then we follow them up four or six months later or the neurologist does and that thing is half the size. We actually regrew your neurons and now you have function back. But because it was a one-time insult, you only needed the stem cells one time to start that healing process. But for something that's going to autoimmune disorders are the biggest That I'm going to have to treat you. You're going to see me every 10 months or so, yes. Yeah.
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You're seeing a big growth in that, aren't you, the autoimmune area?
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Oh, it's crazy.
SPEAKER 04 :
It's exploding. I do a show with a doctor in Dallas since COVID, actually. And we were just talking about that the other day. And he's a family doctor. But, I mean, that area has exploded.
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Oh, autoimmune disorders, low testosterone, hormone imbalances in women, especially after that COVID vaccine. I mean, I know Dr. Kelly Victory. She talks a lot with John about the COVID vaccine. So I don't want to just keep beating that issue. But that thing is it's poison. In fact, I was at my VA appointment yesterday, and I walked in there, and what was the first thing that little medical assistant asked me? It had the COVID vaccine. No, do you want the COVID vaccine? Oh, do you want? Even knowing everything we know now, our government is still pushing this crap. And I just looked at her. I said, not just no, but hell no. You shouldn't be pushing this on any of our veterans or anybody else.
SPEAKER 04 :
I was never going to get it.
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Right, exactly. Well, we've got to go to a break. I'm a little bit long, but thank you for stopping by and telling your story.
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Yeah, folks, hey, listen. I'm just telling you. Give it a try. Get in for a consultation. Don't give up things in life. We live in a beautiful state. A lot to do. Look at this weather and you look at the mountains and you're not out there climbing them. Hey, going for a walk with the grandkids, whatever the case may be. Don't live in pain when there can possibly be a good answer.
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Yes. And my consultation is free. I'm happy to talk to you. So you can reach me at 303-663-6990. Castle Rock Regenerative Healthcare there in Castle Rock. Thank you so much. Thank you. You're listening to Dr. Scott, 560 KLZ. We'll be right back.
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We inform you. Now, back to Rush to Reason. And you're listening to Dr. Scott Villanueva for John Rush 560 KLZ. John will be back tomorrow. If you want to join me on the air, 303-477-5600. If you want a consultation with me, again, it is free down in Castle Rock. I do a lot of phone consults with people up in Wyoming, western slope of Colorado, Oklahoma, Nebraska, anywhere that this signal reaches. Sometimes people will say hey to their relatives who aren't even in this area. I heard this great doctor. You need to talk to him. And so I don't have a problem with that. So give out my number 303-663-6990. And the name of the clinic is Castle Rock Regenerative Health Care down in Castle Rock. So we're getting close to the end of the second hour. I promised in the first hour that I would talk to folks about the latest and greatest on Alzheimer's dementia. So. I have become an investigational provider on a compassionate use for a new medication. I did sign a nondisclosure agreement, so I cannot tell you the name of the medication. However, the data on this thing is absolutely phenomenal. So there is a consultation that has to be done. And then it is given as an IV infusion, typically monthly. Most people who have gone through this protocol have done usually six infusions. And they are taking people with mild, moderate, or severe Alzheimer's dementia. And yes, I'm going to use the word cure in some folks. But it is absolutely phenomenal how this medication improves people. Because it is fairly new, we have a couple of years of safe data. One person had a, I wouldn't even call it a minor side effect. It was really more for the infusion itself and not something related to their brain. Whereas the medications that all big pharma had come out with Cause cerebral edema, which is swelling of your brain and hemorrhage. Trust me, you don't want that. So this is really clean. And as I noted earlier, I just got back from the A4M conference down in Palm Beach. And I'll tell you what, in the world of, there's functional medicine doctors, there's regenerative medicine doctors, there's integrative medicines. A lot of us are doing kind of the same stuff. I am classic internal medicine trained, spent a lot of my career in the intensive care unit and realized that, you know what, this isn't getting it. So I, because I do stem cells and I've been doing it for so many years, I'm that guy who doesn't have blinders on. I ask the Lord every morning in the shower. That's when I pray. to give me eyes to see, and so he has led me to the group of A4M, and the incredible things that we're doing to not only reverse Alzheimer's, dementia, Parkinson's, that's really where this medication fits in, but for mitochondrial health, for heart, for anti-aging, for reversing something called the epigenetic clock, it's absolutely fascinating. It's a great time to be a physician. I'm so excited. I tell my wife almost every day, this is the most excited I've been since I was a medical student. So I'm not throwing pills at people. But we'll talk a little bit more in the last hour on that. If somebody has a question, then you can reach out to my office, 303-663-6990. If you have a loved one who has Alzheimer's, Remember, the last time I was on, I told you we now know for a fact that Alzheimer's dementia is type 3 diabetes. It has everything to do with insulin resistance and high sugar. So now I'm telling all my younger patients, in fact, my daughter who's 23, I put her on a continuous glucose monitor. So what is that? When you see people walking around the grocery store or the mall or whatever and you see that little white thing on the back of their arm or on their belly, it's not just for diabetics. So this thing is catching on that you can watch on your phone with this app What foods do to your sugar? And if you see a spike, the A1C is not always enough. And here's the crazy thing that I just learned. If your hemoglobin A1C is over 5, you have insulin resistance. 20, 30 years down the road, you're that person at high risk for heart attacks, strokes, and oh yeah, by the way, Alzheimer's, dementia. So it behooves you, and I promise you, you go into any dock in the box with an A1C of 5.0, and they're going to look at you and be like, what are you doing here? You're perfectly fine. But you know now, no, there might be a problem. Let's address it early before this becomes a real thing. Then with good nutrition, good supplements, because, again, remember, I was the guy who never believed in supplements. I have now changed my tune, and I believe in the things that make your mitochondria healthy, your glycocalyx. Yes, I said glycocalyx. What is that? That's new. Glycocalyx, spelled G-L-Y-C-O-C-A-L-Y-X, right, for those who are driving. Listen to this later. The glycocalyx is inside every blood vessel. So we know, number one, you need nitric oxide, which comes from beets, which helps increase the nitric oxide, which keeps the vessels pliant, soft and flexible. Because a stiff vessel is a vessel that is sick and doesn't function well and can lead to heart attack, strokes, high blood pressure, and all the bad things. So you need the nitric oxide, but you also need inside is something called the glycocalyx, and that has to be healthy as well. So some of the things that help with your glycocalyx is green seaweed, something called romnin sulfate. Yeah, romnin is not like ramen noodles, but it's R-H-A-M-N-A-N sulfate. Resistance training, so pumping a little iron. Nitric oxide, again, beets help increase that. CoQ10, omega-3, methylated B vitamins. Those sorts of things and even the GLP-1s that we're going to talk about coming in the top of the next hour. The GLP-1s are what? Those are the semaglutides, the terzeptides, the retitrutides of the world. But as we're going to close out this hour, I promised John that I would read this text message that he received aimed at me and address this. So this is a quote. I hear Dr. Scott commercials all the time. I struggle with my weight. I've always had to be aware of everything I eat or drink with calories. I've lost 50 pounds on the soda SOTA plan. I went to my, quote, doc in the box, and they were mighty concerned because I lost it since my last annual checkup. They asked why I lost the weight, and somewhere along the way I said, I'd rather be dead than fat. That's a quote. When I went to leave, the Douglas County Sheriff had been called. Don't ever let anything slip at a doctor anymore, even if it's meant tongue-in-cheek. It is true I'm down to 180, and I'd rather be in the ground than ever be 400 pounds, and that's what I meant, but they thought I was physically harming myself or was fixing to. Again, you can't say anything anymore without the government being called." Then he said, next time Dr. Scott's on the air, can he address what you watch and when you have to go to the doc in a box? Well, the answer is most of these guys have been indoctrinated. So you have to watch your mouth around everything. every one of them, I suggest you find a provider more like myself who's open-minded and won't be calling the sheriff on you. So there you go. We're going to take a break. We'll be back at the top of the third hour and talking about GLP-1s and a few other things. You're listening to Dr. Scott filling for John Rush, 560-KLZ.
Join Dr. Scott Faulkner on today's Health and Wellness Wednesdays, where he explores the compelling world of stem cells with expert Donald Hudspeth. Broadcast live from Denver, this engaging episode provides valuable perspectives on public versus private cord blood banking. As the duo delves into the challenges faced by the healthcare system, they discuss promising new medications and how they are being utilized to tackle Alzheimer's. This episode is a must-listen for anyone interested in the intersection of technology, innovation, and medicine.
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Welcome listeners. You're actually listening to Dr. Scott Faulkner filling in for John Rush on this beautiful Wednesday here in Denver, Colorado. 560-KLZ. If you want to join the show, feel free to call me, 303-477-5600. That's 303-477-5600. Or you can find us on RushToReason.com. This entire three hours will be posted later this evening after it gets sliced and diced and cleaned up. So if you're driving and you hear something that's very compelling and I promise you over the next three hours, I'm going to give you brand new breaking news that you've never heard anywhere else over the next three hours. But if you can't listen, then you can go to the 560KLZ website, Rush to Reason, and listen to this so that you don't have to try and pull over or crash your car and write things down. We're going to be talking about stem cells for the first hour. So a lot of longtime listeners remember when I was very first on hosting for John. It's well over a year now. And I had a guest by the name of Donald Hudspeth. And Donald is from down in Florida, a friend of mine, and he's an expert in the stem cell world. So so much has happened over the last year. This is taking the world by storm. We're now talking about as doctors, not so much your regular doc in the box, but those of us that think outside of the norms. I just got back, Judy and I did, from A4M. What does A4M stand for? That's the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine. So it's a lot of like-minded doctors who are getting sick and tired of doing the traditional stuff. And looking at diseases and saying, wait a second, we're getting so good. And especially with AIs, AI gets really ramped up in the medical space. It's going to aid your provider in treating your illness or your genetic predisposition, your epigenetics. at an infancy stage so that we can correct these problems so that you don't get Alzheimer's down the road, so that you don't have a heart attack, so you don't have a stroke. Maybe we all just die because we got run over by a bus. But there's so many different things that we can do, and A4M is leading that charge. person had called in and said, where can I get information of like-minded doctors like yourself? And in the second hour, I'm going to talk to you. John got a text message from one of the longtime loyal listeners who asked the question, where do I find somebody like you? Well, the short answer is there's only one of me. So you can always call my office at 303-663-6990, castlerockregenerativehealth.com. and talk to me in fact yesterday there was a young lady from cheyenne wyoming who she cannot find a provider in a timely fashion or that will even address her issues and i'm in castle rock colorado so those of you who are listening who don't know the colorado geography well well cheyenne is at the bottom of wyoming then you have to go through fort collins you have to go you know past longmont and windsor you have to go through north denver central denver south denver all the way to me And this young lady is so desperate she's calling me in Castle Rock. And, yes, of course, I'm going to help her. But that's how broken our system is. But that will be in the next hour. And I'll address that gentleman's text to John specifically. We will be talking about the controversy in the GLP-1 space. Those of you who don't know what GLP-1 is, that's the semaglutide, the terazeptide, and now the retatrutide. There's a lot of hubbub. Don't panic. I still have it. I can still get it. I know a lot of your providers are going to want to try and convince you that you need to change. Why? Because the industry has really clamped down on anybody providing this. I have my ways of getting you that same medicine that you're used to. So we'll talk about that in the second hour, the third hour, as well as in the second, I'm going to tease this. There is a new medication that has come out under compassionate use. It's been through a couple of clinical trials through the IND investigational new drug phase, but it is specifically for Alzheimer's dementia. Okay. And you heard me talk the last time I was on saying that all the studies from Big Pharma, all their drugs that they were promoting cause cerebral edema, which is swelling of your brain, and hemorrhage or bleeding in the brain. So all those drugs from Big Pharma do not work. Well, I told you, I just got back from the A4M conference, and there is a medication that I have been approved to be an investigational physician for. that is reversing mild, moderate, and severe dementia. Yes. So again, if you're driving, don't try and write this down. I'll talk to you more about it in the second and the third hour. You can call my office and get more information at Yes, there's a consultation. I'll go through the whole thing. I guess the first question you're going to ask is, does insurance cover it? And the short answer is no. So there's that. But we'll talk about that longer. Right now, I want to introduce my good friend, Donald Hudspeth. They're in Florida, who, like I said, is an expert in stem cells. And so we're going to spend this next hour because there's a lot of... Lack of information, good quality information on which stem cells are the best, how do we get them, how do we deliver them, the whole nine yards. So here's my disclaimer for those of you from the FDA. What Donald and I are going to talk about and what I'm going to talk about the next three hours if I do talk about stem cells is the FDA has not approved these cells. on the regenerative side. They have been proved for over 30 years on the blood cancer side, leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma, right? But when I use them on the regenerative side, these have not been proved yet. Now, there is an IND ongoing that's an investigational drug. That's the first step for the FDA to finally approve these down the road. It costs a lot of money, a lot of time. But I don't want a phone call from the FDA saying, hey, you forgot to put out the disclaimer because I just did. So Donald, welcome.
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Thank you, Dr. Scott. Good to be with you.
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Great. Thank you for being on the air with me. I didn't fly you all the way out from Florida this time. I spared you that long, arduous airplane flight. No problem. So tell us a little bit about your background and your credentials so people realize that you are truly an expert, one of the foremost experts in this space.
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Sure. So I work for a biotherapy and cord blood bank company called Cord for Life here in the Orlando area of Florida. I've been here for 23 years, started working in the laboratory, actually handling the blood products, the cord blood products that came in, processing those to get those valuable cells and store and bank them for future use and transplantation. I've worked my way up through the ranks now and I'm now the general manager here and oversee our daily operations. We've got 14 full-time employees here, several of which, over half of which, are in the laboratory helping us to provide this service both to paying families that want to bank umbilical cord blood for themselves, but also for those who understand the value of cord blood in the stem cell's in cord blood, but want to donate that for the better good of the entire world. So we do offer donation services to any mom, any parents that are about to have a baby that don't want to privately store, but as long as they're located within the lower 48 states, They sign up with us in time. They can donate that cord blood free of cost, and we can process that and make it available to those in need.
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Okay, so we need to drill down on that public versus private. So what I want to do is take a break. We're about a minute early, but that'll give you plenty of time when we come back out of the break. So that you can educate the public because a lot of folks, their doctors don't know about this. They don't know about it. They kind of hear some whispers. What does that really mean? So I want to give you ample time to explain it. So let's go to a break right now. And when we come back from the other side, I want you to really dice this thing apart so people, there's no doubt of what that means in their minds. Okay? So you're listening to Dr. Scott Faulkner filling in for John Rush, 560 KLZ on Health and Wellness Wednesdays.
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Welcome back, listeners. You're listening to Dr. Scott filling in for John Rush on this Health and Wellness Wednesdays. If you want to join us, 303-477-5600, 303-477-5600. If you have a question for me specifically, you can call the clinic at 303-663-6600. Sorry, I got that mixed up with John's number. 303-663-6990 is our telephone number down in Castle Rock. So I have a good friend of mine, Donald Hudspeth, who is the manager of Cord for Life. Cord for Life is the second oldest tissue bank in the United States. Tissue bank, what does that mean? They deal with blood products, umbilical cord, stem cells, the whole nine yards. And Donald was going to explain to us the difference between public and private banking of birth mothers or the baby's umbilical cord. So Donald, have at it.
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Thank you, Dr. Scott. So Historically speaking, many, many years ago, umbilical cord blood and the umbilical cord itself is something that once the baby was clamped and the cord was cut, it was discarded as medical waste. However, we slowly started to realize that still remaining within that cord tissue was this umbilical cord blood that was a treasure trove of stem cells. And stem cells are the cells that can become all the different cells within the body. So whether you're talking about lung tissue or white blood cells or nerve tissue, that all comes from the first stem cells and then they slowly differentiate into all of these various types of cells and tissues within the body. And so it became obvious that these cells had a value we were already using and we have been for over 60 years, we being the industry. We've already using stem cells that have been aspirated from the bone marrow to provide transplantation, bone marrow transplants as they're commonly called, for those who had blood cancers, leukemias, lymphomas, and anemias. And so we realized these very same cells in a much less mature state were present in cord blood, and we realized that value. And so 33 years ago, the very first cord blood transplant was performed where a newborn baby girl, her cord blood was collected and was used to treat her big brother who was, I think, five or six at the time. And he is still alive and doing well. And there's just a wonderful success story. And so we realized that this really is a valuable commodity that we'd previously been throwing away. And so as we fast forward through the years, we realized that Just as you can bank peripheral blood, you go to the Red Cross, you donate blood, it gets banked for future use within the next couple of weeks. We realized that through cryogenics and cryopreservation that we could freeze these cells and then thaw them at a future date and they would still be viable, which means alive. They would still be functional, which means they can still differentiate into the various cell lines. they still secrete all the same proteins that a fresh brand new cell can do. And so we started seeing cord blood banking rise. It started out in the donation setting because they didn't know exactly where all we could use these cells. We knew that we could do the bone marrow re-engraftment. And so people could donate their cord blood instead of having it thrown into the trash. And then it could go into a registry. So if you've ever been to a bone marrow drive, you get a cheek swab. That same organization now called the NMDP, formerly stood for the National Marrow Donor Program, they oversee all the transplants in the United States. And so cord blood to a bank such as ours that is a member of the NMDP, those cord blood samples are listed on that registry so that anyone in the world can search and find a match for their patient. And so the difference between public and private, so in the public setting, the moms can decide, you know, I want to donate this for the public good. There's absolutely no cost to them. We provide them with the kit, all the collection instructions. We talk to their physician staff to make sure that the physicians know how to do the cord blood collection. We talk them through how to package it and get it back to us. We take care of getting that shipment back to the laboratory in a timely manner. But then it became evident that Some parents want to store this for themselves. So private cord blood banking started to arise, and there's several companies around the country that do this, some on a much larger scale than we. But we provide this service to those parents who want to privately bank. So instead of this being listed with the NMDP for anyone in the world to use, Now the family has control over their sample, their baby sample. So again, originally, as recently as 10 years ago, the long-term concept was this would be used potentially to treat some sort of blood-borne cancer, leukemia, lymphoma, anemia, something of that nature. But as science has come forward, we realized that there are many, many other things that these wonderful cells can do. And so that makes more important decision for these parents to decide, do I want to pay for a fee and bank this for my family's future potential use? Or do I want to publicly donate it to the betterment of mankind anywhere in the world? So that's what we offer here is those two options. And of course, if you call into our Our client services staff, they will talk with you as long as you want about all the different options, how to to go about enrolling both as a donor or as a private banking client.
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OK, and that's Cord for Life there in Altamont Springs or a suburb of Orlando, Florida, right?
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That is correct, yes. You can visit our website at cordforlife.com, or if you prefer to call in and speak to a person, you can call us at 1-800-869-8608.
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So people are driving, they're listening to this right now, and they're thinking, well, what is the downside? I mean, some people don't have the money to do the private side, let's face it. But on the public side, if you're a mom and you're going to have this baby and we're going to throw that thing in the trash can, you could potentially save multiple lives using doctors like myself because this is what I order from your company and I treat numerous patients. I want to have a patient later on who will testify to her story, her private story. What's the downside to doing the public –
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Help me. There really is not a lot of downside. There is no change in how the doctors and nurses are going to perform the delivery of the baby. There is minimal, if any, change in how they're going to provide services to the mom. There are some maternal blood samples that need to be collected, but that is going to happen anyway when you go into the hospital immediately. to deliver your baby. So typically the nursing staff will piggyback these extra tubes onto their required blood draw, but outside of the potential, if that doesn't get coordinated properly, outside of the potential of a second phlebotomy, there's really no change to how your baby is delivered. In fact, we specifically tell the physicians who want to discuss the collection process that Don't even worry about collection until the baby is born successfully, is clamped, and everything, mom and child both, are fully compatible. You know, there's no issues that they need to take care of. And if there is, whether with the mom or the baby, we tell them, forget the cord blood. Just do what you need to do to take care of the mom and the baby. And in some small percentage of cases, that's the case where they can't collect the cord blood. But the collection actually is done after the normal delivery, so there's no change in that delivery process. So there's really no downside to it. We do get a lot of questions, especially over the last several years when there was a lot of controversy about cloning and, you know, Dolly the sheep and everything. We do get questions, well, what are you going to do with my baby's cord blood? And I can certainly say that... While it perhaps can possibly be done scientifically, we certainly do not do anything even remotely related to cloning. Basically, all that we're doing with this is we're harvesting and isolating those valuable stem cells. So we're going to get rid of all the excess red blood cells that are going to be in that collection that don't have a true value in the transplant and therapy side. And we're going to get rid of some of the plasma, which is the liquid part of the blood. And so we're going to reduce that collection, which is typically around 125 milliliters of blood, reduce it down to a 25-mil concentration of all those valuable cells that now can be used for all these different things.
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Well, that's fascinating. And that's exactly right. That's what I use these cells for, whether it's arthritis in the knee or shoulder. Again, these are off-label uses to satisfy the FDA. But I use it intravenously for patients with multiple sclerosis, Lou Gehrig's, Parkinson's, dementia, a whole plethora of things. I mean, it's almost endless of the things that we can use it for. And that's one of the biggest questions I get is how can you take that baby's stem cells over there and put it in me and you didn't check my blood type or anything like that? I think you just answered the question because all the baby's red blood cells are destroyed and what you're left with is a stem cell.
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That's correct. So there's two different parts as to why that typically can be done. So yes, the first part is your typical transfusion style reaction. So I'm type O, but I'm going to be getting type A blood. How does it mix and match? Is there going to be a problem? Well, because all of the red cells that are in the stem cell product, the cord blood product, all those red cells are going to be removed during the processing. And so the product that the patient would receive virtually has no red cells. It's so few red cells in comparison that there's absolutely no concern over any sort of transfusion type reaction. And then the second potential reaction that you have in this sort of use, if you have a very, very large dose, which we would typically see in the case of bone marrow transplantation using cord blood, where they're going to wipe out the recipient's immune system and then they're going to give a large, large dose of cells from sometimes even multiple cord blood units. We're talking in the billions of cells here. Because that number is so high, there's another type of typing called HLA. And so again, if you've ever gone to a bone marrow drive, for someone at your church or community, you hear, well, I'm not a match or the brother's a match or whatever the case may be. And it's the HLA typing that they're actually talking about being a match. And so in this setting where you've got billions upon billions of cells given to a patient who's been irradiated and their immune system has been ablated, you can have the cord blood, which is considered the graft, attacking the patient in what's called graft versus host disease. But in these therapeutic settings where we're talking about a much, much smaller dose of cells as well as volume of product, we go from several billion total cells to maybe 30 million total cells. And so now, again, the fact that it's such a smaller number of cells, and the fact that the recipient does not have their immune system wiped out, that graft versus host disease is not going to be a problem as well. So that's why we typically don't have to do any sort of blood typing or HLA typing when we're using these small dose therapeutics.
SPEAKER 05 :
That's right. So we're going to take a quick break. When we come back on the other side, I want to talk to you about good manufacturing practices. And because the public does not really fully appreciate that, most doctors don't appreciate it because... Even today, I had a salesman come in trying to peddle cells from Wharton's jelly, and I want you to explain what the FDA means by current good manufacturing processes and why this gentleman… I didn't even give him the time of day. I just kind of kicked him out. But why his product most likely does not fit the FDA's criteria. So when we come back, we'll talk about that. You're listening to Dr. Scott filling in for John Rush, 560 KLZ. We'll be right back.
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Welcome back, listeners. It's Dr. Scott Faulkner filling in for John Rush on this Health and Wellness Wednesday, 560 KLZ. Give us a call at 303-477-5600 if you want to be part of the program. I have Donald Hudspeth, who's an expert in stem cells from Court for Life down in Orlando, Florida. We're having a great conversation on public versus private stem cells. uh donation or banking of the baby stem cells from the umbilical cord so just to be absolutely crystal clear these are adult stem cells and not considered embryonic stem cells right donald
SPEAKER 15 :
That is correct, yes. These are adult or sometimes referred to as perinatal stem cells. We're talking about fully developed. This doesn't have to be a full term, but a healthy, delivered baby. This is not from fetal tissue in any way.
SPEAKER 05 :
Fantastic. Okay, so the FDA has something called the Current Good Manufacturing Process, right, or GMP. So why is it that Court for Life has passed this and others have not?
SPEAKER 15 :
So it's a testament to our dedication to quality, honestly. Good manufacturing practices are rules and regulations that... the FDA in collaboration with folks that accredit labs such as the American Association of Blood and Biotherapies or the American Association of Tissue Banks or the Foundation for the Accreditation of Cell Therapy. So these are all agencies that oversee tissue and blood banking, especially in the cell therapy realm. And what they have done with these are generated basic minimums That a facility needs to adhere to in order to be considered CGMP certified and CGMP compliant and again it stems around things such as do you process within a clean room. And what state of clean room is it? So you can have a class 100,000 clean room or you can have a much cleaner class 100 clean room. So what level of clean room, how and when do you certify that that room is considered a clean room and meets those criteria? It surrounds your quality plan. So when you have a process that you're developing, has it been validated? Has it been certified to perform the way you expect it and provide the outcome that you expect? Do you do certain testing that's required? Do you have release testing that's going to, again, show that your product is what you think and what you say it will be? So it's a general process. statement about the quality of the facility, the quality of the laboratory within that facility, and then more importantly, the quality and purity of the products that that laboratory manufactures for use within humans here in the US and around the world. Doesn't sound cheap. It is not cheap. Obviously, every piece of equipment within a laboratory does cost money. Sometimes the bigger, the more expensive, and even sometimes the smaller. But it does require a lot of specialized equipment. The validations alone, when you validate a process that involves some sort of blood product or a tissue product, you actually have to get specifically designed donations where The donor understands the typical use of this is not going to be eligible because they're going to donate it for research and validation. You're going to then process that the way you would process a normal donation. But then instead of banking it for use in Jane Doe later, you're going to turn around, follow that product, and you're going to test it. Is it what we thought it was when we put it into the freezer? Is it still what we thought it was now that it's gone through the freezing and thawing process? Did the cells survive? Are they still viable? Are they still functional? Is it still sterile and not contaminated? Is the container, has it survived that process? So the validations require you to produce unusable products that you then use in ways to show that your products long-term are going to be what you say they are. And so you're talking about manpower to do that. You're talking about materials, all of that, which of course costs money, all the specialized equipment that goes into that. It is not a small undertaking for a small lab to go through that process and become CGMP certified.
SPEAKER 05 :
So to your knowledge, how many labs across the United States are CGMP, if you know, or have already met that bar?
SPEAKER 15 :
I know that there are currently about 15 accredited AABB cell therapy and cord blood banks within the United States. And as part of that accreditation process, they would need to be compliant to CGMP. And there are, I believe, 111 or 112, somewhere in that range. of AATB tissue banks that specialize in tissues instead of just cells. So I would say that there's probably another 100 or so research, like university type research labs that would meet those criteria. But again, you're talking about total of, you know, somewhere in the neighborhood of maybe 250 labs within the entire United States, whereas Right here in the state of Florida, we probably have 500 labs that do some sort of cellular slash tissue slash body fluid processing. So it is a number that, as you look in the big picture, it's a small number. But there are certainly a lot of labs around the country that do meet this criteria because, again, they choose to provide that quality to their clients, whomever they may be, whether it's individuals or corporations that they're working with.
SPEAKER 05 :
OK, so the short answer is if you're going to go down the stem cell road and there's really no reason for somebody now to go to Panama or Costa Rica or heaven forbid, Tijuana, Mexico, because here the FDA is watching you guys like a hawk. There are certain processes that you must follow. And when you send out a certificate of analysis, which is what you give me, it says this is how many cells are in there, these are how many are alive, and there's no bacterial, no viral, no fungal contamination, no hepatitis, no Zika, no syphilis, any of that stuff, right?
SPEAKER 15 :
That's correct.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. Great. So I think we have a caller. Eric from Denver wants to ask Donald a question. So, Eric, what's your question?
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, yes, sir. Thanks for taking my call, you guys. Mm-hmm. About 12 or 15 years ago, I had a kylectomy at the base of my right toe, and a piece of bone spur broke off and went in there, and he had to remove it. But he said that there's not very much cartilage there, and someday that joint is going to have to be fused with screws, you know. So I wanted to ask, is there a way to— re- grow that cartilage with stem cells without having to go through the fusion.
SPEAKER 05 :
So, Donald, it sounds more like a clinical question. You mind if I tackle that one?
SPEAKER 12 :
Go right ahead.
SPEAKER 05 :
Go right ahead, Dr. Scott. So it's the same process as if the orthopedic surgeon says you have bone-on-bone in your knee, okay? So the analogy I give to audiences or if I was meeting with you in my office one-on-one is As I said, imagine that the carpet around you is grass, and right here in front of you is a bare spot, dirt. Now, if you cordon it off, you keep the kids and the dogs and the cats off of it, with TLC and some water and some fertilizer and some sunshine, you can get the grass from around that dirt area to start to grow in. Okay. With the proper nutrition. So in this case, it's the proteins and peptides, technically called cytokines and chemokines, but the proteins and peptides that the stem cell produces, which stimulates the cartilage to grow. So in your case, we want it to grow just like that grass to fill in that dirt spot. Okay. And then once it's filled in, because we know for a fact from research that stem cells, when I put them into your body, will live about six to eight months. And I take a different approach. I talk about mesenchymal stem cells. That's what we're talking about here, right, as opposed to hematopoietic stem cells. So let me back up a little bit. In a sample, you have two different cell types. There's the hematopoietic, heme meaning blood. So think of those as chocolate stem cells. So when Donald was talking about doing a bone marrow transplant for somebody with leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma, we're really interested in the chocolate cells. However, when I as a doctor want to put these cells in your body, I'm trying to regenerate things. That's the regenerative medicine, right? So those are mesenchymal. You'll hear some doctors say mesenchymal. I say mesenchymal. Mesenchymal stem cells. Think of those as the vanilla stem cells. So they're all in the same vial. I can't separate them. Donald might be able to, but they come to me chocolate and vanilla in the same vial. I'm interested in the vanilla because it's the vanilla that is going to send out the chemical signal to tell your cartilage cells around the edges to start to grow and replicate. Well, if we're filling in a dirt patch, it takes time to fill that in. That's why if we can get to somebody who has mild to moderate cartilage wear and tear in their knee and their shoulder and their big toe and their hip, then it's so much easier. Because the lifespan of those vanilla cells, like I said, about six to eight months, they're spending most of their time keeping the kids off there, the dogs and cats, getting it to grow in. But it didn't really thicken it up. So oftentimes when somebody is severe, I will tell them, oh, by the way, in about six months you may need to come back to me and I need to give you a booster because now that it's filled in, now we want to get it to thicken up. So it's much easier when it's mild to moderate. But there is nothing else that I know of in the world of medicine right now that will give you a fighting chance to regrow that cartilage so that you don't need a fusion.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay, so basically the answer is no, it will not work.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, I didn't say that. I said you need to treat it with tender, loving care, just like the dirt patch on the grass.
SPEAKER 14 :
Uh-huh. Yes. Oh, I see. So you're saying in lame and simple terms, it can be done, but it might take a while.
SPEAKER 05 :
It's a heavy lift, right? It's much harder than somebody with mild to moderate, but it can be done. Now, do I guarantee it? No. Because why? You're walking all the time. So let's go back to the grass analogy. If you have this grass and the dogs are running over and the cat, I get a lot of people down in the Castle Rock area that are athletes, right? Douglas County, everybody's fit down there. And as soon as I make them feel good, what do they do? They go out and they run or they crash their mountain bike or whatever, and they undo that fresh repair. Now, if you can baby that sucker for about four months, then you stand a very good chance of getting that cartilage to grow back over that bone and you don't need a fusion.
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, I see what you're saying now. And then you might have to repeat this process a number of times, and then you've got to take it easy and then repeat the process, like that type of thing.
SPEAKER 04 :
You've got it. That's exactly right, Eric.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yes. Oh, I see what you're saying now. So it may not be that I have to get that fusion. That is correct. Now, I don't think Medicare would pay for something like that.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, on the regenerative side, what I do, Medicare, I take no insurance. It's all cash-based.
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, I see, because I don't think that modern medicine accepts this yet.
SPEAKER 04 :
That is correct. Oh, I see. It's pioneers like me.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, that answers my question. Sure. Can I ask you another one about a tumor?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, we've got to take a break right now. We're just a couple minutes past when I should have taken a break. Charlie's looking at me through the glass. So let's take a quick break. You can maybe ask me offline during the break, and then I'll see if I can't address it, okay? So you're listening to Dr. Scott Faulkner filling in for John Rush, 560 KLZ. We'll be right back.
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Welcome back, listeners. You're listening to Dr. Scott Faulkner filling in for John Rush on this Health and Wellness Wednesday here in the Denver, Colorado area. And I have my great friend Donald Hudspeth from Cord for Life. They're the second oldest tissue bank in the United States. They specialize in collecting umbilical cord blood for transplants for people who have leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma. But they also do regenerative medicine. They sell it to doctors like myself so I can help you, like Eric, grow cartilage in your toe or in your knee, your shoulder, or treat other conditions. And so, Donald, do you think you would be able to hold over possibly into the top of the next hour?
SPEAKER 15 :
Sure.
SPEAKER 05 :
Because we have a caller right now and she heard us a little while ago. She came to my clinic and I really want people to hear her story because let's face it, Donald, you're in a lab, you're looking at microscopes, you're making sure the day-to-day operations, but it is rare that you get to sit in my shoes and you hear the stories of the product that you and Saeed are producing and actually what it does for folks. So Kat, are you there?
SPEAKER 11 :
Yes, I am.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay, so we have Donald on the line. He doesn't get to hear from patients that often because, like I said, he's in a building there in Orlando, Florida, in the air conditioning. But do the audience a favor. Introduce yourself, tell them your back story, and then tell them what happened for you.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, so my name is Kat Tarnoff, and I had heard about – last August and told me about it. I contacted you. In my case, I'd been diagnosed with MS, and I was having issues with, especially with my gait, but with neuropathy in my feet and just numbness and tingling in my hand that ached all the time and was absolutely devastating. so cold it felt like my bone marrow was frozen and that tingling was going up my forearm. And I thought it was worth giving it a try. So what had you tried before this? Just the regular Western medicine treatments that all they try to do is keep it at bay, hopefully.
SPEAKER 05 :
And what did the neurologist tell you? Because this falls under the world of the neurologist. What did they tell you
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, the neurologist told me that I had, part of the problem was I had spasticity in my leg, especially in my ankle, that it wasn't moving. The muscle was so tight that he actually told me I was walking like a stroke victim, which is lovely to hear. So I would swing my leg out to the side, and it made walking really difficult. I could only take small steps. My balance was off, and it was really impeding me. And so all they can do is do infusion therapies to try to keep it at bay.
SPEAKER 05 :
And was that reversing it, or were you slowly going downhill?
SPEAKER 11 :
Oh, going downhill. There's no reversing it with Western medicine. All they do is address the symptom. They don't do anything about the cause.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right. They're great at treating symptoms, right? That's how I was trained in the allopathic world. That's traditional Western medicine. You're exactly right. They don't think, hey, can we back up in time? And what caused this? Is there a way that we can address this? Maybe even save people who are newly diagnosed or are not even getting this. But what happened after you gave us a call?
SPEAKER 11 :
Well... I'll try to make this a little sure. I spoke to you. Everything sounded wonderful. Then I spoke to another provider. I had tried going to other providers as well. I tried other things like homeopathy. I tried just doing physical therapy. I was doing all kinds of things like that and acupuncture. And my acupuncturist, I told her about it. She was really worried. And she said, are you sure? We want to look into this. So I did a lot of research to see, is there any reason I should not? And I'll tell you, I found no reason I should not. Because you explained to me that you use the first line cells. And so that negated some of the issues that some people can have with stem cell lines that you that you would not use right there and there was no downside so why not try it other than the cost exactly other than the cost but this is my life all right we got a minute and a half so tell me what happened to you okay so i went from not being able i didn't want to walk my dog anymore because my balance was off i thought he'd throw me over taking tiny little steps that i just It was really impeding my life, but the things that improved were weird. My balance got a lot better. I was able to walk with much larger steps. The aching in my feet that was driving me crazy at night to where I wouldn't even sleep in the bed. I was on a recliner. That went away. I'm able to sit in a car and ride for long distances where I never was able to do that. That made me crazy and in pain. And it doesn't anymore. The tingling and numbness and coldness in my hand went away. But what was crazy is my eyesight got better. I used to have prescription glasses to drive at night. And I can't use them anymore because I don't need them. And I was looking up one night thinking, my goodness, there are so many more stars. And looking up like that used to put me off balance. And I'm not off balance anymore.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. It's basically giving your life back, hasn't it?
SPEAKER 11 :
It really has. It really has. I can run and play with my dog. And before, I was standing in the door of the garage throwing the ball to my dog and having him bring it back to me. Wow. It was at that point.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, thank you for sharing that with us and with Donald because, like I said, he doesn't get to hear a lot of these stories because he's stuck in his laboratory there in Orlando. So, Kat, God bless you, and hopefully we'll see you in the clinic soon. If you want to reach me, you can reach the clinic at 303-663-6990. Donald will hold over to the next hour. Thank you so graciously. And we'll be right back for Hour 2.
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Welcome back, listeners, to Hour 3. You're listening to Dr. Scott filling in for John Rush, 560-KLZ. The phone number is 303-477-5600. For those of you just tuning in, we've had two great hours of talking about stem cells. What are they? Which ones are the best? How can they be used? What is the FDA rules and regulations? Do we really need a company that follows the current good manufacturing practices? And the answer is not just yes, but absolutely yes. You want to know where these cells are coming from. the training of the doctor putting them into your body, whether they're into a knee, a shoulder, or IV. So if you want more information, go to RushToReason.com. You can tonight listen to that rebroadcast. So I want to switch gears a little bit for this last hour. I'm still getting a ton of calls at the office for the GLP medications. And Charlie told me during the break, explain to people what GLPs are and give some of the trade names, even though companies like Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly are closed. clamping down on people, sending, you know, letters from their lawyers for the compounding pharmacies and doctors to stop using their names. We can actually use them in conversation. So the GLPs, sorry, Charlie has me a little flustered here. So the glucagon-like peptide medications are semaglutide, which is, you'll know that as Ozempic and Wegovy. The Terzeptide, which is Monjaro and Zepbound. And then the latest is Retatrutide. I don't know what the brand name is going to be because it hasn't quite been approved by the FDA. It's in phase three clinical trials. That will be the next blockbuster. That one we expect to be approved probably in late summer, early fall. But I do have it available. I use it when somebody has tried semaglutide and truzeptide before I'll go to retatrutide, but the results of that medication are pretty incredible. But again, because the FDA hasn't approved it, I want you to try the others. So because of the lawsuit that Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly won, the judge ruled in their favor, John and I talked about this in late February when the ruling just came down, is they sent cease and desist letters to every compounding pharmacy in the United States, whether a 503A or a 503B. Now, to the layperson, that doesn't mean a lot. Just know that those were the compounding pharmacies that we would get our medications from because it was either that or the name brand medication. So Big Pharma, they felt magnanimous and they said, OK, well, we'll go to direct consumer and we'll put out all these TV commercials saying, well, you can get the name brand stuff. If you just talk to your doctor, he can send a prescription over to CVS or Walgreens or Walmart or wherever. Well, in their magnanimity, they decreased the price to about $600, $650 a month, where before it was about $1,400 a month. So very big of big pharma. Well, guys like me are charging $200, $300. So you as the consumer should be scratching your head going, okay, this is just another ploy by big pharma to squash the little guy and force everybody to give us billions of dollars. I gave the figure when I was on with John a few weeks ago of how much money Eli Lilly made just on Monjaro in 2023, and it is in the billions of dollars. So you can't compete. If you're a little doctor or a little compounding pharmacy, how do you compete against that? Well, it's next to impossible. So right now, and like I said, I just came back from Florida where the A4M Spring Conference was held, and they are telling their docs to put everybody on the sublingual medications. So no longer are most facilities, doctor's offices or med spas, are they able to use the injectables? Well, I have the injectables. We know the sublinguals do not work anywhere as well as the injectable do. They're trying to come up with oral medications that don't work as well. So maybe down the road it'll be okay, but if you're doing really, really well on your medication, why in the world would you want to switch? To me, it doesn't make any sense. It's just bending the knee to big pharma. Well, those of you who have listened for a while have learned that I fear no man. Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior, and I will not go gently into that good night. So I have found a workaround. I will not tell you what that workaround is, but I have found it. And it's still the same medication. It's still approved. There's nothing untoward about this. You get the real deal. So if you're interested in that and it's been working and your doctor is trying to get you to switch over to liraglutide, which doesn't work very well at all, or one of the oral products, then just give us a call. 303-663-6990. So that is the back story on what has happened in the industry. I was telling you a little bit about the Reda True Tide. So most people are familiar with the Ozempic Wee Govee, which is semiglutide. Then there's the Ter Zepp Tide, which is the Monjaro Zepp bound. That has two mechanisms of action. And now we have good studies head to head that shows terazeptide has fewer side effects and nausea being the biggest one that most people complain of and better weight loss. But if you can get away with semaglutide, then do it. But sometimes we have to switch people to terazeptide. But just know there is the latest and greatest. So what I've done is I've told my patients, okay, if you For one reason, let's say you had nausea on semaglutide and then you went to the truzeptide and it wasn't working as well as you had hoped. Then I will talk to you about the retitrutide. And I've put probably at least 10 patients on the newest medication. And that little sucker is incredible. In fact, I haven't had anybody complain yet of a side effect, and they're all loving the weight loss. Why is this important? Why am I drumming this into your heads? It's because at the conference, we learned that you need to be at your ideal body weight. When you're overweight, there are so many bad things that happen downstream. And I don't want to make you all doctors and use all these technical terms. Just know the only disease that being overweight helps protect against is osteoporosis, right? Extra weight on your bones. Your bones get thicker. But everything else is a bad thing. And when Judy and I, we were in the airport, we started off in Palm Beach and everybody down there was fit. They were tan. They were exercising. They looked great. And then we flew up to Baltimore and we were sitting there for five hours on our layover. And folks, we have an obesity problem. Then we flew home, and then yesterday, as much as I try to boycott Costco, there was one thing that she needed. And I'm like, okay. So I reluctantly went in there. And I just started looking around at all the processed foods. It is nothing but junk. It's convenient. It's easy. I get it. When you're working all day long, you're tired. The kids are screaming when you get home, hey, I want this or that. It's easy to take one of those pre-prepped meals, throw it in the oven. But it is toxic to you, your family. I'm going to keep beating on this. If there's a way that you can start eating, I guess the new term is clean, fresh fruits, fresh vegetables, preparing your own stuff, there's a lot of reasons why. So when I come back, I have a special guest in the studio now. Thank you for showing up. I'll introduce him on the other side of this break. And then if you have any questions, feel free to give us a call at 303-477-5600. Love to entertain that. Otherwise, we'll talk to you about the latest and greatest in regenerative medicine, integrative medicine. It's all kind of blend together. So we'll be right back. You're listening to Dr. Scott on 560-KLZ.
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This is Rush to Reason on KLZ 560.
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And we're back. You're listening to Dr. Scott filling in for John Rush, Health and Wellness Wednesdays. If you're driving, don't feel like you have to write all this stuff down. You can listen to the rebroadcast or go to rushtoreason.com later tonight, and you can get all this information without crashing your car. So I have a special guest here in the studio, John Flouting. And, John, tell the audience about yourself.
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Yeah, I'm a family nurse practitioner, and I have a wellness regenerative clinic over in Littleton off of C470 in Kipling.
SPEAKER 05 :
What's the name of the clinic?
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Revitalized Health. Yep. And, you know, we've been around for about nine years, essentially doing, you know, what you do, concentrating on. You know, treatments that aren't typically available in, you know, typical Western medicine. And so, yeah, I mean, that's essentially what I do.
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Yeah.
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And you have two brothers. I do. Yes. James, he is the other practitioner. Joe, he is our business manager.
SPEAKER 05 :
So the brains of the outfit. He didn't go into medicine, right?
SPEAKER 06 :
Correct. Yeah. Lucky him. But, yeah, so it's all three of us. And, you know, actually we have our moments, but we work pretty well together.
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Yeah. And so you guys got into the same space that I did because you realized several years ago that traditional allopathic medicine is failing. And for those who don't know, allopathic medicine is traditional medical school. Correct. Here's a problem. Throw a pill at it. Yes. Yeah. And the audience can't see you. You've got a face for a radio, by the way.
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Thank you.
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But you and your brothers, you're buff guys. Let's face it. You've got a lot of muscle mass. You're not wallflowers here. No. Right? Practice what we preach. That's exactly right. So you found out the things that help you. I remember as a kid reading Muscle and Fitness from Joe Weider and following everything that Rich Gaspari and those guys were doing. Memories, yes. Now, I don't need to put a needle in my butt and get my testosterone level to be 4,000. No. But they learned how to eat well, how to fuel the machine, how to keep it running optimally. And I remember back then, even before I went to medical school, I was scratching my head going, well, why aren't we doing more of that? And as I've gotten through my career, I learned that big ag, big pharma is not here to keep us healthy. They're not here to improve the things that are ailing us. And in fact, they're the problem because they make billions of dollars when we're a sick society. Right.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, that's absolutely true. I mean they're not profiting on our health.
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Right. So it's unfortunate, but – and John's listeners are highly intelligent folks. Obviously this is conservative talk radio. Yeah. So they are starting to understand that if I want quality health care, then I'm going to have to pay for it because I can't tell you how many times I get people coming into my office and say, well, do you take insurance? And the answer is not just no, but hell no. Because once you do and you put those handcuffs on, the industry, the medical model tells you, doctor, you have to practice this way. This is standard of care. But it's not right. It's not the best thing to do. Am I correct?
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, you're absolutely correct. Yes. I mean, it should be about what you feel is the best options for your patient.
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Right.
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And it always should be that way, but it's not. In reality, it's whatever insurance deems is necessary for your patient. Yeah. And most of the time, it's not what they need.
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Right. Well, we were just talking through the break, and as I made mention before we went to the break, that now learning through the A4M conference that a hemoglobin A1C over 5 is abnormal. So to the listeners who don't know what that is, a hemoglobin A1c is a three-month blood sugar average. So to give you a visual, imagine your car this time of year. Well, let's go back a couple of months when it was colder, right? You're driving your car. How many bugs stuck to the front of your car? Hardly any. Well, this time of year, it's starting to warm up. There's more bugs. You're It's going to be covered. Well, your little red blood cell is coursing through your body just like your car going down the road. And there's always sugar or glucose. Well, it will stick to your automobile, your red blood cells. We can actually measure that. The more sugar is sticking around, the more will stick onto that red blood cell, the more damage is done to the rest of your body, to your brain, to your heart, to your arteries, you name it. And so now, I promise you, you go to your regular doctor with an A1C of 5, and they're going to go, holy cow, what are you doing right? But if you wear a continuous glucose monitor and you see, oh my gosh, my sugars spike into 130 after I have a donut, you're in trouble. Down the road, not today, but down the road, you're going to have problems, right?
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Yes, and it should be a combination of both. You should have a lower A1C. But there should also be – I think the continuous glucose monitor is an amazing idea, and they're cheap these days. You can just get them anywhere. I think I found them for like $100.
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$99.
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Stello.
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Just go online. Stello. You don't need a prescription.
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Nope. You can just order it. You pop that thing on. You wear it, and – that, it will truly tell you, you know, what you should be doing for your diet. It'll give you all the information you need.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. So what do you tell patients when they come in to, uh, revive and revitalize and, um, they say, well, this is expensive or I can't afford air. Why don't you take insurance? What is your response?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah. I mean, I, I, I mean, I tell them I understand where they're coming from, but at the same time, the the worst off your health is in the long run, it's going to cost you more even with insurance. And so if you invest a little bit into your overall health initially, it'll pay off in the long run. And you know, these, most of the stuff that we offer is, I mean, you know, it costs money to make it and then the research behind it. And so, um, I mean, it just is what it is. It costs money. So we, we, we try to present it to them with, it's a true investment into their health. You know, and if they were to, you know, do little payment plans or, or just stop with the Starbucks every day, or, you know, that right there would, I mean, they'd be able to afford it.
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Right. It's a choice.
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It's a choice.
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Yeah. And do you want to have good health? And you're actually investing your time to educate because, let's face it, the conference I just went to wasn't free. Nobody paid for it. Nope. But my wife and I. But I want to stay on the cutting edge for my patients. You and your brother are exactly the same way. And that costs money to do that. It does. And so our conferences are not sponsored by Big Pharma. No. Right? You go on a... To a center, right, Las Vegas or whatever. Oh, there's a big conference. And most of that is underwritten by big pharma. And then they read or, you know, push this stuff down your in your brain, down your throat. And then you come out and suddenly you're a zombie for big pharma. What's your cholesterol? Oh, my LDL is 132. Well, therefore, you need this pill for the rest of your life. They don't think, is this level actually causing disease?
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True. I mean, the statement is very true, and that's the go-to. I think these days the good old conversations about diet and exercise are lost. And it's between the kickbacks of big pharma, the lunches they provide to the doctor's offices, the concentration is on medication and medication alone. Whereas you take a good six months and lower that cholesterol naturally... I mean, the results are, you know, the proof right there. I mean, you don't need these medications necessarily all the time. Yeah. And let's say someone does, you know, instead of letting them know this is and there's no follow up, you're just on this statin now forever. You know, instead of just giving them, you know, potentially a trial, say, you know, it's pretty high. Let's work on the diet and exercise, but maybe take it for three months and drop it down and then we're going to remove it. I mean, there's many options that you can do, but most people will just be on it. They'd be on it forever. That's exactly how many patients have you seen? that are on these lists of medications, and they don't even know why they're on them.
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Oh, yeah. I used to see that in the hospital all the time. Somebody would come into the ICU, and they would bring a bag of pills. It's like, what are you on these for? Three pages. I have no idea. I just went to the doctor. I'm like, well, this has got this doctor's name on it. That has that doctor's name on it. Did this doctor know that that doctor was putting you on this? Because there was a huge interaction. Nope. Had no clue. Yeah. But because insurance has helped covering the cost and it's fairly inexpensive, I just went to Walmart and I got my pills and I dutifully took them.
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Absolutely. And what I think that also leads down a bad path because they'll get on these medications and then I call it the clean bill of health because my dad that that's what he would say. He's like, you know, I, oh, I, I got these medications. Doc gave me a clean bill of health. Like, no, he just trying to keep you alive, you know? And, but what are you doing to make this better on your own? What are you doing to prevent this? And, you know, and that's, that's not what, that's not, that's not what's happening with these people. So there's, there's a lot of prime time that's missed with these patients. That we, of what like you and I do, I think we have the ability, because we're not tied to insurance companies and big pharma, that we afford the ability to actually provide quality products and healthcare benefits to our patients.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, you're exactly right. Well, we're going to go to a break right now. And when we come back, we'll continue this conversation. So you're listening to Dr. Scott Faulkner filling in for John Rush, 560 KLZ. We'll be right back.
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Welcome back, listeners. You're listening to Dr. Scott filling in for John Rush, 560 KLZ on this beautiful afternoon here in Colorado. And in studio, I have John Flouting. uh who is an expert like myself in um regenerative uh integrative medicine so i never wanted to pigeon my whole self because yeah i'm not an integrative doctor not yet but i'll tell you what the more conferences i go to um i think they have the right mindset absolutely uh on where healthcare is going and we had this conversation during the break john um first off give the name of your clinic again
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Yeah, my clinic's Revitalized Health.
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And where are you guys located? We are in Littleton off of C470 in Kipling. So those of you who keep asking, hey, is there somebody like Dr. Scott but closer to me in the Denver area? I don't want to go all the way to Castle Rock. There's your answer. He and his brother do great work, so I highly recommend them. It's not competition to me. I can't treat everybody. I want, especially John's listeners. Cause you guys, you think outside of the box, you get it. Big pharma is bad. Traditional medicine sucks, but we were talking about how there's going to be a dichotomy or a split coming up here very soon in the world of medicine. Do you want to carry that on?
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Yeah. What we were discussing is that, I mean, there's going to be two different pathways that people are going to have to choose. There's those that are going to, you know, follow along with what they're told to do and, We're out of big pharma and insurance, and everything's for free or very low cost. And then there's going to be the pathway of paying for your own health care, like we were talking about owning your own health, and going down pathways of individuals like ourselves and using the services we provide, diving more deeply.
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into your actual health and providing more benefits so yeah it's going to be a interesting to see what's coming up especially when you see president trump you know shaking up the entire world with tariffs i mean i didn't know this and i like to be a historian i didn't realize that in america we didn't have an income well i knew that but i didn't know that we survived off of tariffs For, you know, like 100 years until they go and screw it up and give us the IRS and income tax.
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Yeah.
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Right. I knew that was the end of the Gilded Age. And then from there, you know, it's just been downhill. But old timers will remember something called fee for service.
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Yes.
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That's where you went to the doctor. Right. Johnny had a cold. You went to the doctor. You either paid the doctor or you gave him a chicken or you bartered with the doctor and he treated you. Now, obviously, back then, he didn't know about regenerative or integrative medicine, how to stop these things from happening. We didn't have electron microscopes, all the knowledge that we have now. It's fascinating. One of my coolest things that I saw over the conference was the CT calcium score, because I order CT calcium scores on pretty much every one of my patients. Well, now with A.I., Because on a CAT scan, you see the calcium, but we didn't know what was lying underneath it. And now these CT scanners, when they use AI, you can actually see if there's soft plaque under the calcium. Really?
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Yes. That is news to me. That is... It's probably one of the coolest things.
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It is so cool. And so I'm leery about AI because I know that's going to take us down that primrose path. And look what happened in Canada to the truckers, the debanking. Oh, you don't think the right way. And yes, Trump is president right now, but there's going to be a day when he's not. And you get these nefarious people in Washington, you give them a little power. Yeah. And, oh, we're going to use AI to do facial recognition. Oh, guess what? You can't get on a plane or you're conservative. You listen to John Rush. So that's another side note of where this is going. But in the short term, AI is going to help us clinicians to get to the root cause, to actually tailor a program for folks. And I'm so excited about it.
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Yeah. I mean, even with just charting software, you know, the time saving that AI has already provided, but from a diagnostic standpoint, that is where the future of medicine is with this whole AI thing. I mean, I'm with you. I order calcium scores on many, many of my patients. You know, I... I mean, there's things that, you know, I had a guy who was healthy, appeared healthy, 53 year olds and cholesterol levels. Everything was normal. He marathon runner, biked, hiked, skied. But he had a family history and something was off a little bit. I ordered one, and it came back at $1,800. Holy cow. For those that don't know, obviously zero is the best, and you want to be under $300. And he was at $1,800. This guy was a walking, ticking time bomb.
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That's exactly right.
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And he had no idea. I mean, the blockage in his arteries was insane. But, yeah, to be able to have AI and look past beyond that, that's going to be crazy.
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Yeah, because I have patients who have, let's say, multivessel disease. Yeah. And their CT calcium score comes back total of, say, 350. You're like, okay, you're over 300. It's not one solid lesion in one vessel like a left main. Okay. But is there soft plaque underneath? And to the listeners, what we're talking about is calcium shouldn't be in your arteries. It's hard. But when it's hard, it doesn't rupture. What we are concerned about is the soft, gooey stuff underneath. The rupture of those vessels. That's exactly right. And now with AI, they can look underneath the calcium and say, hey, you're in trouble. Because when I would get a patient with the high CT calcium score, I would then turn around and do a LP PLA2. If that's high, you better go see the cardiologist because you're in trouble. Yes, I'm going to do mitochondria health. I'm going to give you everything I can to decrease inflammation. But you're a ticking time bomb. You're in trouble. But now with the AI, it's incredible the images that we're getting. And then I don't know what you guys do. I do a whole body MRI scanning.
SPEAKER 06 :
Haven't implemented that, but I've been looking into it. Oh, my gosh.
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Yes.
SPEAKER 06 :
There's a place over in Cherry Creek that does it.
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So I usually send people, because I'm in Castle Rock, I send them over to Simon Med. And I don't have any stock in Simon Med. But over in Parker.
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That's where I send them for the calcium scores.
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Yeah. For $650, you can get a whole body MRI. Why is that important, folks, and especially if you're not claustrophobic, is because it gives us an early look at your brain, your heart, your chest, your abdomen, your pelvis. And if you have a little ditzel, right, let's say you have a lung nodule, not sure what it is, we would never know that as clinicians. There's no way we would know that. Because there's no signs or symptoms. That's exactly right. Until you come into us and you're lost 15 pounds and you're coughing up blood. It's too late. Then it's too late. Yep. It's... It's a band-aid medicine. Then you go to the oncologist. You see the surgeon. They're going to use radiation. They're going to cut the thing out. They're going to say, we're going to give you this toxic medicine to treat your cancer. And oh yeah, by the way, there's a huge chance that this isn't going to work and sucks to be you. And the recurrence rate. Correct. But guys like you and I, if we are saying, hey, you should just do for 650 bucks, own it. Go get your MRI if you're not claustrophobic. And let's take a look under the hood and see, is there a problem there that we can address now? Well, it's a small thing and not wait until, oh, by the way, it's too late.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, yeah. I mean, it could be a cluster of tumor cells or it could just be a calcified plaque. But at least you know and we can follow it, right?
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Yes, and absolutely. And then there's things with genetics and epigenetics, right? So epigenetics, folks, is what your environment does to your genes. It's the outside influence. Because just because you have a gene, let's take the Alzheimer's gene, that doesn't mean you're going to get Alzheimer's. But we talked about the hemoglobin A1C. When your sugar is up, remember we said Alzheimer's dementia is now type 3 diabetes. It has everything to do with insulin resistance. So if we're picking up high blood glucose, even though your A1C isn't that bad, 20, 30 years early, when you're in your 20s, 30s, 40s, we're going to be able to prevent you from getting Alzheimer's. Right. But what is modern medicine doing right now? Oh, we're going to wait until you can't remember where you put your car keys and your grandkids name. And then pump you full of a bunch of meds. Then we're going to pump you full of a bunch of meds that don't work. Oh, your Aricep, your Namenda, they don't work. They quote unquote slow the progression, but it doesn't reverse it. So I don't know if you were listening on your way over to the studio, but I'm now a prime investigator for a new medication. I cannot, because I signed an NAD, I can't tell you what the name is on the air. But here's the data. I mean, I've got this piece of paper in my hand and how it actually improves the mini mental status exam. They're making people with mild, moderate, and severe Alzheimer's dementia. We're normalizing people. We're curing dementia. So we're taking people who already have it and we're giving them their life back. And then you and I on the front side, we're taking our patients and keeping them from getting these horrible things. This is phenomenal. It's absolutely phenomenal. We're repairing mitochondria. We're repairing the glycocalyx. Here's another thing I just learned at A4M conference is that if you're on lisinopril and I'm one of those guys, That if you're on long-term lisinopril, did you know you have a 20% increase in lung cancer? In a non-smoker? In a non-smoker, yes. Correct. So when I was at the VA yesterday, I said, put me on an ARB. Telmosar. Yeah, but it's very expensive and the VA doesn't pay for it. So I said, okay, put me on rosuvastatin. Rosuvastatin, yeah. Yeah. So folks, you just heard that here. If you're on an ACE inhibitor, especially lisinopril, the new data shows that you have a 20% increase. This is in non-smokers in lung cancer. Now, my incidence is already low, but if I can do something to prevent myself from getting lung cancer, I think I'm going to do that just by switching up. Why wouldn't you? Right. And by going on things that boost my nitric oxide, right? Beats. Then I've noticed my blood pressure is coming down. I did take my GLP medicine, the Ozempic. Lost that 14 pounds. Blood pressure is even better. Starting to do more cardio because I have to admit I hate doing cardio.
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You and me both.
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But there's benefits to both the cardio and the resistive training. Lift pumping a little iron. Just a little bit improves so many different things.
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I mean blood flow to the brain, cognitive behaviors, insulin resistance.
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I mean you name it. That's exactly right. So I'm going to blow your mind when we come back. This is our last break before we cut out of here, but I'm going to talk to you about the glymphatics. I know you know about lymphatics, but I'm going to ask you the question, do you know about glymphatics? You just learned that at A4M. So we'll be right back. You're listening to Dr. Scott filling in for John Rush on this Health and Wellness Wednesday.
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Welcome back, listeners. You're listening to Dr. Scott Delaney for John Rush on this beautiful Wednesday in Denver, Colorado, Health and Wellness Wednesdays with special guest John Flouting here in studio. You and your brother run a, do you call it a regenerative clinic or what do you call it?
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Yeah. Functional medicine, regenerative.
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We kind of toss those words around.
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There's nothing that really is like set in stone, you know, it's like, well, what are you? I'm like, well, we're not just a hormone clinic. We do hormones, but yet we do all this other stuff and it's more regenerative. I think would be more of the umbrella.
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Yeah, because we're turning back the clock.
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Prevention, turning back versus repairing damage.
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That's why I called myself Castle Rock Regenerative Healthcare. It's not just with the stem cells because we are regenerating people. We're fixing mitochondrial damage. We're fixing the brain using hyperbaric, especially guys with traumatic brain injuries and stuff like that. We can actually induce stem cells into your body 800% using hyperbaric. So it is regenerating the body and the stem cell just goes and does what they do. I love stem cells. Oh, yeah. So I wanted to talk, this is the last segment, why is it critical for people to see either yourself, your brother, myself for hormone replacement therapy?
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Well, I mean, in general, hormones are the key to life in a sense, right? Like, I mean, hormones... you know, so many people have so many symptoms and it can be a simple hormonal imbalance where, you know, from everything from temperature to, uh, you know, body composition, to energy, to sleep, to mood, um, libido regulated through our hormones. And when they're out of, out of balance, then, you know, you don't feel well or I'm sick or, you know, where in reality, if you just balance out your hormones, I mean, life could be much better.
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Yeah. And, and earlier people wait, they think that, okay, for women, I have to go through menopause and then I'll think about going on hormone replacement therapy or my hot flashes are so bad. That's the time when they'll seek it. Yeah. Is that right or wrong?
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I mean, that's individualized. I mean, it's not necessarily right or wrong. I would lean more towards that's not the right answer, you know, and because there are so many things that can help. I mean, I have so many female patients that are in that perimenopausal stage, premenopause, that they may not be a candidate for any estrogen replacement now, but yet 80% to 90% of their symptoms may be solved with testosterone or thyroid. Bingo. And so there's a lot of overlap between these hormones. So, yeah, it's not yes or no. It's like, well, what are your symptoms and what are you looking to improve?
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So are you seeing what I'm seeing is this epidemic of hypogonadism or low testosterone levels? both in men and women in their teens and twenties.
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It's scary. It is. Yeah. You know, it's scary. And, and, you know, you think about it, but all the, you know, I mean, stress and social media and, and, and, um, you know, blue light and diets and lack, you know, microplastics and lack of exercise and, Lack of being just outdoors in the fresh air has led to a severe decline in our testosterone level.
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Yeah. And now we're seeing fertility rates tanking. Yeah. And then you throw the COVID vaccine on top of it. I mean, the miscarriage rates in these young ladies is scary. Yep. And then you see big pharma throwing out the abortion pill. Yeah. Our numbers are plummeting. We're in big trouble, folks. Whether you believe in abortion or not, I do not as a Christian. But the numbers are frightening. And then the side effects that those pills give these young ladies. And then what we don't talk about is the psychological damage that comes from that. That's the biggest part. Yeah. It really is. And it's underneath the surface. So they buy into this, oh, it'll be okay, it's just fetal tissue. And once they realize what they've done with this human life, that psychological damage stays with these ladies forever. Forever. Yeah. And it needs to be dealt with. Mm-hmm. And I have sympathy. As a Christian, do I want you to do that? No. Do I understand that some girls find themselves in a situation that maybe they thought that that was the right answer? But we have to have empathy and compassion and say, we don't think it was the right choice, but what's done is done. Let me help you heal from this trauma that you've experienced. So it may not be a car accident where we can see, okay, on an MRI, you have shearing of your, neurons and you don't have the neuroplasticity. And here's how we can help you with hyperbaric and these other things. This, but this damage is real.
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Oh yeah. It's definitely real. Yeah. But yeah, I mean, you know, ultimately, you know, from, it is astounding the, the ages that we're, we're seeing, you know, I know 10 years ago when we started, you know, our typical, we were seeing, you know, 40 year old and above and your, your, your things you would normally typically think about. and now you've got parents bringing their eight, 17, 18 year old son. And, you know, he's on the football team and he, and he can't seem to, you know, repair from an injury or he's just, he comes home from practice and he's just dead tired. And, you know, and everyone has told him he's depressed. He's gone to, you know, traditional doctor and he's depressed and they want to start his meds. And, Luckily, they bring them to us before they make that decision.
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Uh-huh.
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You know, we're like, well, I mean, a lot of that sounds like hypogonadism. Yeah. And we check it. And I'll see, you know, 17, 18, mid-20-year-olds with testosterone levels in the 200s. Yeah. Which is absolutely terrible.
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So that brings up another point I wanted to talk about is the normal – and I'm doing air quotes, folks – normal values that your regular doc in the box – He would draw, let's say, a testosterone level, and it comes back 250. Is that really normal?
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No one in the history of ever has felt normal with a testosterone at 250. Thank you. Ever. Yeah. You know, and the reason why I can say that is you just talk to the patient. You know, instead of looking at the piece of paper and being like, well, this piece of paper says it's normal. It's within a normal range. Yeah. Well, who got to decide that? I wasn't part of that. You know, you didn't ask any of my patients. None of them feel normal. Right. So yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's more of, and that's another thing. If you have to, if you're bound, hands are tied by insurance, you know, you have to look your patient in the eye and say, I can't do anything for you. That's right. That has to be a terrible feeling as a practitioner, you know, and we, we go into this to help people. Yeah. And now we get to say, you know, Oh, five, 600. Well, yeah, elsewhere, that's quote-unquote normal. But here, you present with every symptom of hypogonadism. Let's see what a little testosterone will do.
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Yeah, 800, 1,200 for a guy. Oh, good grief, yes. Yeah, I'm giving my ladies the total. We're talking total testosterone, not free. These ladies are coming in with a total testosterone of, six, eight, 10. And I'm like, I'm getting you to 80, 120. If they're working out, I'm pushing it to 225. And then they come back and they're like, oh my gosh, I feel so good.
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Well, and to be honest, the women are some of my favorite patients because, you know, I mean, man, we just don't have much to say sometimes or talk, but through your female patients, you'll change their life.
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Yeah. Oh, and here's another one I just learned at A4M. So a lot of these, so folks, a lot of these clinics are starting to get into the hormone replacement because they think it's the coolest thing and they can make money at it, but they've had no training. They have no idea what they're doing. And a lot of these men's clinics are, If you're a guy, you're going in for your testosterone. And along with that, they're giving you an estrogen blocker. OK, wrong. So we now know that when you give somebody a guy an estrogen blocker, you are leading to some serious side effects down the road because we actually need estrogen. uh, estrogen along with the testosterone for so many different things in the human body. Um, and, uh, when you lose your estradiol, it increases the glycans and increases your epigenetic age.
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Well, and, and, and estrogen is actually heart protective and bone protective and, you know, and for our brain function, but it's the, uh, the, the, um, the, the, inflammation within the heart that higher estrogen levels have shown to present with less inflammation. That's right. And so you take these blockers, you suppress that, you suppress it too low. And now you've got joint pain and aches and, and mood disorders, you know? That's exactly right.
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So if you want expert advice, you can reach out to either one of us. Give the name of your clinic. Give the phone number.
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Yeah, Revitalized Health. And we're 720-361-2302. Yeah, you're in Littleton.
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I'm down in Castle Rock, Castle Rock Regenerative Health. You can reach us at 303-663-69990. And this investigational medicine that I told you about to reverse Alzheimer's, call the clinic. We'll get you set up for a consultation, you or your loved one, and we can tell you more about it. You've been listening to Dr. Scott Faulkner filling in for John Rush, 560-KLZ, and thank you for listening.
Join Mike Gallagher as he navigates the complex landscape of America’s immigration debate. The show features passionate discussions about the Trump administration's efforts to close the southern border and the media's portrayal of these actions. In addition, listeners call in to express their opinions, offering a broad spectrum of perspectives on this contentious issue.
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Mike Gallagher.
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I never want to miss what you want to talk about, and that's one of my goals, okay? I never want to surprise you. My mentor, my boss, somebody I've worked for for many years, Phil Boyce, always has a rule about a talk show like this one. You never want to turn on the show and be disappointed in what comes out of the speakers or what you see. So in other words, I don't want to miss. So this back and forth. And Tracy came in talking to me about the tattoos on Kilmar Abrego Garcia's hand. And many of you are texting me on the MyPillow text line about the tattoos. And I told Tracy, I said, look, this is kind of in the weeds. Let me play the exchange. And if you want to talk about it, we can. I don't really want to get, because it's kind of hard to understand. There are images that law enforcement officials say is absolutely confirmation of the MS-13 gang on Gilmar Garcia, whatever his name is, Knuckles. Okay? And that came up during this rather contentious interview With President Trump on ABC last night. So I'm going to play this for you because you know what's happening. The media has gone from, it's like the Hunter Biden laptop story. They've gone from not covering it at all, trying to cover it up, to lying about it. And they're doing it now with the gang tattoos on this gangbanger's hand. Listen to the back and forth first between Terry Moran and President Trump in the Oval Office on ABC. But the court has ordered you to facilitate that.
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I'm not the one making this decision. We have lawyers that don't want to do this. But the buck stops in his office. No, no, no, no. I follow the law. You want me to follow the law? If I were the president that just wanted to do anything, I'd probably keep him right where he is. Says what the law is. Listen, I was elected to take care of a problem that was, it was a unforced error that was made by a very incompetent man. A man that turned out to be incompetent that you always said was wonderful, great genius, right? And now you find out all of the media now they're saying what a mistake they made. A man who was grossly incompetent allowed us to have open borders where millions of people float in. I campaigned on that issue. I wouldn't say it was my number one issue, but it was pretty close. I campaigned on that issue. I've done an amazing job. I have closed borders. He said you couldn't do it. You wouldn't be able to do it. It would never happen. Well, it happened. And it happened very quickly. Wait a minute. When we have criminals, murderers, criminals in this country, we have to get them out, and we're doing it. And you'll pick out one man, but even the man that you picked out, he said he wasn't a member of a gang. And then they looked, and on his knuckles, he had MS-13. There's a dispute over that. Wait a minute. He had MS-13 on his knuckles.
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He had some tattoos that are interpreted that way, but let's move on.
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Wait a minute. Hey, Terry, Terry, Terry. He did not have the letter MS-13. It says MS-13. That was Photoshopped. That was Photoshopped, Terry. Hey, they're giving you the big break of a lifetime. You know, you're doing the interview. I picked you because, frankly, I never heard of you, but that's okay. I picked you, Terry, but you're not being very nice. He had MS-13 tattooed. We'll agree to disagree. I want to move on to something else. Do you want me to show you the picture? I saw the picture. And you think it was Photoshopped?
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Here we go.
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Don't Photoshop it.
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Go look at his hand. He had MS-13. He did have tattoos that can be interpreted that way. I'm not an expert on them. I want to turn to Ukraine. I want to get to Ukraine. No, no.
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No, no. He had MS, as clear as you can be, not interpreted. This is why people no longer believe the news, because it's fake news.
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When he was photographed in El Salvador, they aren't there. But let's just go.
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They aren't there when he's in El Salvador. Oh, they weren't there, but they're there now, right? No, but they're in your picture. Terry, he's got MS-13 on his knuckles. All right. OK, we'll take a look. It's such a disservice. We'll take a look. Why don't you just say yes, he does.
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frustrated. Like, why don't you just admit it? And it absolutely is fascinating to watch this cycle about the tattoos, because they've gone from pretending it doesn't exist to now denying it. They're moving from refusal to cover it to denying it the same way they did the Hunter Biden laptop. Listen to this exchange last night with somebody, I don't even know who these people are, but a female anchor and a guest on CNN.
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Why do you think President Trump was so fixated on demonstrating that that tattoo on Abrego Garcia's knuckles, purportedly, according to ABC and others, photoshopped? Why was he so intent on proving it was not?
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Because the administration, it follows in this overall strategy. where the administration has tried to turn this from a legal argument to an immigration argument by continuing to accuse Mr. Obrego-Garcia of being a member of MS-13. The evidence that the government and law enforcement relied on for that has been the subject of scrutiny from a federal judge. It relies on an informant. It also overall relies on these tattoos. The president previously posted on social media a photo of Mr. Obrego Garcia's knuckles, and it had symbols on his knuckles and appeared to also then have a sort of translation on it. Now, while some say that those symbols are representative of MS-13, we have talked to many law enforcement experts that have said that tattoos solely are not enough to justify identifying somebody as being a member of a gang. That being said, the scorecard that ICE uses that we've obtained actually puts a lot of points on whether or not somebody has tattoos, as well as their choice of clothing and other ICE work as well.
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Wow. So that's the CNN political analyst blaming ICE for saying, if you tattoo gang symbols and letters on your body, you're a member of a gang, and that guy's acting like, well, you know, they're just trying to make this about illegal immigration. They're doing a Hunter Biden number on this issue. And let me be specific. There are symbols that represent MS-13 on Kilmar. abrigo garcia's knuckles there was a picture with the actual letters ms13 photoshopped over his hand and that's now what the left is melting down about you want to talk about this i mean we can we can i'm getting a bunch of texts about it so give me a call and let's have it out 800-655-MIKE one open line 800-655-6453
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Mike Gallagher.
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He's the happy conservative warrior, Mike Gallagher, broadcasting across hundreds of radio stations nationwide and seen on your trusted conservative TV network, Salem News Channel. Here's Mike.
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I'm in such a good mood today. There are times when I wish I could just host the show and talk to callers who didn't vote for Donald Trump. I really wish I could have a good faith conversation with people who don't agree with me or don't agree with the sealed border. I saw Hugh Hewitt on Fox News this week make a terrific point. that the signature accomplishment, the epic north star, if you will, of the first 100 days of the Trump presidency has been to close the border. And on that point, nobody can dispute it. So I wonder if you didn't vote for Trump, what it feels like to realize that even people like Maggie Haberman are on TV acknowledging that the border is closed. Because when it happened, or prior to Trump's amazing ability to get it done, that has followed a period of time where they said over and over again it couldn't be done. We have that montage, Christian, that Tracy found. There's a montage of Of all the times we were told, you can't just close the border. What do you mean, close it? It's a big border. There's thousands and thousands and thousands of people every day who come. Listen to this montage from Media Research Center.
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Republicans keep saying Biden doesn't need Congress. He can stop what's happening at the border all by himself. Can you fact check that for us? Because we here all know that's not true.
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Republicans have been saying largely wrongly, right, is saying that the president can close the border unilaterally on his own. President actually doesn't have the authority under law to do that.
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There's only so much President Biden can do with executive action. And he did try to do whatever he could. They actually are doing everything they can. The president's hands are tied. There's only so much that he can do.
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President Biden has issues, certain executive orders, but there's only so much he can do within his purview.
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What an intractable problem this is for the president with no easy solutions. No easy solutions here. There are no easy solutions here, folks. The president insisting there's only so much he can do without Congress. How much can actually be done quickly without Congress acting? How would this happen without the power of the purse, without Congress getting involved? They need Congress to act to fix the broken immigration system.
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This cannot happen without Congress resourcing this.
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There's only so much a president can do with his pen and his phone.
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And you wonder why Americans distrust the media. And you wonder why... Trust and confidence in the American media is at a historic low. Let's fast forward. Let's go to just last night, CNN. Here's the New York Times' Maggie Haberman having to reluctantly, and you can hear the the regret in her voice. You can see it on her face if you're watching us on Salem News Channel. But here she is having to confess to Anderson Cooper, yep, President Trump did exactly what he promised he would do, and that's close the border.
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There are a number of things that Trump has done that his advisers feel incredibly good about. And when you talk to them in private conversations, the main thing that they all point to is the near total sealing of the border. And that is that is not a small thing. There's something that he has been talking about for many years. There's something he finally did. It happened to some extent during covid. It is it is now basically closed. And that was a promise during the campaign.
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Oh, really? You mean he fulfilled his promise, Maggie? Is that what you said? I don't know. I've got to slow the tape down a little bit. Oh, you mean he promised, made a fundamental, epic promise that he would close the border, and now it's closed? Thank you, Maggie Haberman. Thank you. And I mean that. Thank you, Anderson Cooper, for having that conversation. You're more honorable than Chuck Schumer. Did you hear what he did yesterday? Check this out. A reporter asked Schumer, well, you know, Trump is pointing out that the border is 90, 95 percent closed. And it's true, incidentally. I mean, the New York Post has a chart here. Check this out. Illegal border crossings. In December of 2023, they hit 249,740. In March of this year, last month, 7,181. Check this one. In the first 100 days of the Biden presidency, there were 184,000 border crossers who were allowed to stay in the United States. You know how many have been allowed to stay under Trump during his first 100 days? Nine. That's right, nine. Nine border crossers have been allowed to stay in the United States under Trump. 184,000 were allowed to stay under Biden. And, of course, you know what that means when they're allowed to stay. That means they are released into the general population, and some of them do horrible things to American citizens. So we voted for this, okay? But Chuck Schumer is left lying about all of the data and all of the facts and all of the truth that the border is essentially now sealed, closed, shut down under Donald J. Trump. Check out what Chuckie Schumer was reduced to saying yesterday.
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I'd say one thing to you. I don't trust Trump's numbers.
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I don't trust Trump's numbers. You don't have to trust Trump's numbers. Trust maybe the New York Times and Maggie Haberman. Trust the Associates. Look, it's not even an argument. So again, in the good mood that I'm in, let's try this. If you didn't vote for Trump, How do you react to the knowledge that he fulfilled this fundamental, major campaign pledge that he would close the border? I mean, my gosh, he did it in the first 100 days. So, you know, maybe you'll argue with me about, well, maybe you think that Biden actually did it somehow. I don't know. I don't know what you'll say. But let's try. Teresa, let's open up the phone lines to people... who are not Trump supporters. I'm just in that kind of mood today. 800-655-MIKE. Be civil. Be polite. I'll be polite and civil with you. Let's not call each other a bunch of names. Let's not start shrieking at each other. Let's not turn it into a food fight. But if you didn't vote for Donald Trump, if you don't like him, if you don't like what's happening in America, will you at least address... The closed, sealed border. The fulfillment of this major promise that Trump accomplished. 800-655-MIKE. 800-655-6453. And again, be nice. Let's play nice here. But let's just hear from people who did not vote for the guy. In November, 800-655-6453. I want to put your voice front and center, even though you disagree with me most of the time. That's OK. Your call, your perspective on Trump's. Promises, Trump's promise made, Trump's promise kept. The border is secure, is closed, is sealed, as he promised he would do. How do you respond to that if you don't like his presidency? Join us here on the Mike Gallagher Show for the final day of April. It's April the 30th, 2025 in the Relief Factor Studios. Again, 800-655-MIKE. Your call coming up. Portions of our show brought to you by MyPillow and Big Deal. Two sales in one. First, they're having a closeout sale on the percale bedsheets. Any size, any color, $25. You can get Queens, Kings, Split Kings, California Kings, any size, any color, $25. It's a crazy sale from MyPillow.com. Look for the Mike Gallagher Special Square. The second sale, Mike Lindell has introduced a brand new energy drink called Rev7. It's a premium energy drink that's good for you. It tastes great, gives you energy all day. I sampled it yesterday for the first time. It is delicious. No sugar, no caffeine. Rev7 is so special because it's powered with a premium nootropic that helps fuel your mind. MyPillow is so confident you're going to love Rev7 that for a limited time you can try their introductory three-pack absolutely free. Now, these offers aren't going to last long. So go to MyPillow.com. Use the promo code MikeG. MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG. Or call 800-928-6034. 800-928-6034. Sing along with me. For the best night's sleep in the whole wide world, visit MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG.
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Mike Gallagher.
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All right, I'm taking big, deep breaths. I got a full phone bank full of Trump haters. No, they're not. Who knows if they're real Trump haters, but they didn't vote for him, okay? So let me get everybody's comments here. We'll start in Chicagoland. We'll start with John. John, how are you doing today?
SPEAKER 15 :
Hi, good morning, Mike. Congratulations on the success of your show. I was just going to call in. You mentioned about... So you didn't vote for Trump? I'm not a big Trump supporter. Okay.
SPEAKER 03 :
You voted for Kamala? Oh, I did, yeah. Okay, so that's okay. Tell me a little bit about how you feel about just the border, just that one sort of signature achievement of Trump's first 100 days. How are you reacting to that information, John?
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You know, I might be totally out of bounds here to your regular listeners, but I don't feel that comfortable about it. I understand that he's very successful of keeping people out of here. I just feel – this is me. I'm not trying to get into an argument. But I'm concerned that the Republican Party kind of makes this issue too political. In other words, if you disagree with this view – That somehow you're weak or you're liberal.
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Hang on, hang on. I don't want to argue with you, dude. I just want to get my point and I'll get off. I don't want to argue with you. Just let me finish my point, man, and then I'll stop. You're not doing it, dude.
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You interrupted me. Oh, my goodness. There's no reason to get this excitable, John. Please take a breath. I promise I'm going to give you – listen to me. You interrupted me. I'm going to give you all the time in the world, John. You don't need to start yelling at me. Please. I'm trying to – I'm trying to get you focused on what I'm asking you because you're talking, you're changing gears and you're changing topics. And I'm just trying to get you to stay focused on the issue of the border. And I'm asking you directly.
SPEAKER 15 :
So let's have you interrupt me, man.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, you're interrupting me now, so stop interrupting me and I'll stop interrupting you. How about that? I apologize. That's right. Take a breath and let's start. Let's try again. Let's start over. Do you think we have a problem with illegal immigration and a porous border up to Trump's election? Was there a problem or not?
SPEAKER 15 :
Mike, you know there was, okay? Absolutely there was.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, then what are you pushing back on?
SPEAKER 15 :
Let me finish my point.
SPEAKER 04 :
So did Trump fix that problem? I know you're trying to get your point. I'm not. I'm trying to ask you.
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I'm asking you how you, as somebody who voted for Kamala Harris, I'm asking you what you think about the news that the border has been closed. How do you respond to that news, John? I told you, I'm concerned.
SPEAKER 15 :
What does that mean, you're concerned? What the heck kind of answer is that? Let me explain, please. I'm concerned.
SPEAKER 04 :
What are you concerned about? You're not letting me finish. Just say it. Stop saying, just tell me what you're saying. You're making me crazy.
SPEAKER 15 :
You're not letting me finish. The reason why I'm concerned is that I think the Republican Party... uses this issue to divide people. You've just repeated yourself.
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You're not even answering the question about the merits of the border. You're saying that we're turning it into a political talking point. I'm just asking you, forget the politics of it. Was the border a problem? You said yes. Now the border's not a problem, and you're concerned. What are you talking about, John?
SPEAKER 15 :
I still think it's a problem, though, Mike. What's a problem? I still think the border is a problem, because I think... The way you're going about this, I think, is concerning me because it's very militaristic, very, like, if you don't agree with me, you know, you're going to get locked up. I mean, that's just people on my side. I think there is a fear amongst Democratic, liberal-minded people that Republicans are taking this issue too far, you know, that somehow if you don't agree with This philosophy that you're you're not American. And that to me is concerning. That's all I don't mean to argue with you. I think that's just the only point I want to make. And thank you for letting me talk.
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I've tried. Congratulations. I've stood here silently now because people get mad and you're obviously frustrated because you think I've interrupted you. I didn't interrupt you. No, I'm not. I totally thank you. Now you're interrupting me. Thank you so much, Mike. Now hang on. Now you're interrupting me again. No, I wanted to just thank you. Let me make the point. I didn't want to interrupt you so that I could hear you say what you said, which I will say, and you sound like a very nice guy, you don't make any sense, John. What you just said is gibberish. What you just said doesn't, I'm sorry, I'm not trying to be mean to you. John, do you realize, do you realize you just said, I need the minute, Dan. Do you realize you said to me, you know the border is a problem. Right? You know that we've had thousands and thousands of people flooding across the border, right? Yes, sir. Now we don't, right? Correct.
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Is that a good thing or a bad thing? I...
SPEAKER 15 :
I think it's, well, I mean, in your point, absolutely. John, John. But I don't agree with it as I'm saying.
SPEAKER 04 :
You don't agree with what? You don't agree with what? What don't you agree with?
SPEAKER 15 :
The strategy, that's all.
SPEAKER 03 :
The strategy to seal the border? You like the fact that the border is sealed, but you don't like the way he went about it? Could it be that you don't like the fact that he sealed the border, but you don't like the way he went about it? Is that what you're trying to say?
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Right.
SPEAKER 15 :
And where do we go from here, Mike? I mean, we do need people.
SPEAKER 03 :
I tried. I tried so hard. Honest to gosh. And people are going to be mad at me. I interrupted him. I know I'm a blah, blah. I, you know, I look, I try. I always, I always start out. I'm like Lucy in the football. I think I can have a conversation with a guy like him. And then I realized, no, I can't.
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Donald Trump effectively closed the southern border just by taking office and changing the attitude of the federal government. They have deported lots of violent criminals. And frankly, they are sending a different message than the previous administration. You know, the old way was, hey, just get here and we'll find a way and it'll probably work out for you. The new message is don't come here. Please don't come here. And now people know that we mean it.
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In the ReliefFactor.com studios, here's Mike.
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Okay, all right, so I'm going to read some texts. At one point with John, I literally sat back, I turned my microphone off, and let him ramble for nearly a minute. It was like 47, I watched it, it was 48, I didn't say a word. Didn't say a word. And look at these text messages. Chicago, OMG, you are like a petulant child when someone disagrees with you. Let the guy make his point. You are the worst debater on air. Debater? I turned the mic off. Florida, Mike, you do interrupt. You get frustrated with the caller and cut him off. Why don't you let him talk? He ultimately will hang himself. South Carolina, you kind of did interrupt the guy. I turned my mic off. Okay, all right, so you know what? You win. Here's the final one that really got to me. Michigan, I'm 100% behind Trump, but tell Mike to shut the hell up and let the man talk. Boy, he can be an ass. And he finished the word. Again, I'm sitting here turning, so here's what I'm going to do. All right, you win. You got it. You're right. I just interrupt. So here we go. Linda in Michigan. Linda, hold on, Linda. Let me just first of all say hello. How are you, Linda? I'm good. Good. I'm turning my mic off now. Go.
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I voted for Kamala twice. I mean, I voted for Kamala. I never voted for Trump, in other words. And my point is you always interrupt a person. They can never finish what they got to say before. You step in because you don't like what they're going to say. I don't like the way that you talk when you divide us. You say we, them. I don't like that. That's ugly. But to say you're a Christian man, you shouldn't do that. That's not appropriate for you to do that. And you like to argue with people, so you know you're wrong. And that is all that I have to say. So, goodbye and have a great day.
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24 minutes before the hour. Here's line one. Here's Harry in Anderson, South Carolina. Hello, Harry, in Anderson.
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Hi, Mike. How are you? Am I correct in saying happy belated birthday? Did you not recently have a birthday?
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Hello? I'm not interrupting you.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, I'm just calling. I'm calling and, no, I did not vote for Trump. And I do think he did what he said he was going to do as far as the border goes. But, no, I did not vote for Trump.
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Is that it? I'm here. I'm here. Okay, thank you. Is that it? Okay, thank you. Candace, Clemson, South Carolina. Hello, Candace.
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Hi, Mike. How are you doing? No, I didn't vote for Trump. I voted for Kamala, but I love what he's doing with the border. It should have been done. Only thing I have against Trump is they're not with the FEMA funds for North Carolina. When we got hit pretty hard, they're not matching that. I saw on the news they weren't matching them. They had stopped matching their FEMA funds 100%, and they're not helping Arkansas. Other than that, I love this show. I listen to it every day. I am a Democrat, but I don't agree with that men in sports and kids operation. We don't agree with that. I don't know what happened to the Democratic Party. It just went crazy. I mean, a lot of us are very conservative. You know, I like some of the Republicans. I like some of the Democrats. That's all I have to say. I thank you.
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Thank you, Candace. I kind of like this. This is actually easier for me. I mean, really, I don't have to put any work into this. This is actually going a little better than I thought it would. You happy now? Hey, South Carolina, you happy? Hey, Michigan, am I being an ass? Let's keep going here. This is kind of good. I may be on to something here. Raul in Cincinnati, Ohio. Hi, Raul. How are you?
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Hey, Mike. How are you doing? I didn't vote for Donald Trump, but there's something about a politician that says he's going to do something and actually does it. It's, you know... It makes you kind of like the man, you know what I'm saying? I am a transplant to Cincinnati from California, and I guess I could see the world different now. You know, when you're around a lot of people that think a certain way, then you think the same way as they do. And now that I've gotten away from California and the West Coast, I could see that. Maybe, uh, wasn't always right. So, um, I didn't vote for Donald Trump. I can honestly say as a liberal, uh, liberal at that, uh, I agree with it. I can see, I can understand how the wages were, were going to crap because I am in the transportation industry and I could see it now. Um, And I'm probably going to vote for him again if I get an opportunity. Thank you, Mike.
SPEAKER 03 :
Thank you, Raul. I appreciate your call very much. I'm turning my mic back on now. You should read the text messages from the jerks who were mad at me for interrupting. Now they're mad at me for not talking. I'm not kidding you. Chicago, the stupid teenage OMG, you're like a petulant child. Now OMG just wrote back and is mad at me for not engaging with the caller. So OMG says, first OMG writes, Chicago writes, OMG, you're a petulant child when someone disagrees with you. Then they just wrote back a minute ago and said, oh, grow up. Now you're just acting like a spoiled brat. You're rudely. No, I can't win. I can't win. If I interrupt because I'm emotional and I get frustrated with stupid things people say, you get mad at me for interrupting. When I literally sit back and turn the mic off. And let people say whatever they want to say. Now you're mad at me because I'm being a spoiled brat for not talking. You can't win. You cannot win. That's the way it goes in this world that I'm in. That's just the way it goes. And I proved it. Thank you. And Marlene, really nice. Marlene gets it. Marlene in Minnesota says, Mike, I am sitting here convulsing in laughter. I know it's making you crazy to not engage with these crazy callers. I love you. I love Trump. This is Radio Gold. And by the way, it is your show. So there is a point. Oh, my gosh. And listen, it's just the way it kind of goes. Sometimes, as somebody just said from Pennsylvania, you can't win with these people. You know the old saying, Mike, the haters are always going to hate. That was good. That was fun. I really did. It was kind of fun to do that. Just to sit back, go ahead, and tell me how you're glad the border's closed, but you don't like the way we closed the border. You're concerned. Okay, that makes sense.
Explore the fascinating world of blue zones and the secrets to a long and fulfilling life as Al Smith uncovers research findings on communities that boast high numbers of centenarians. From Loma Linda, California to Okinawa, Japan, these regions offer valuable insights into diet, social connections, and lifestyle choices that contribute to longevity. Additionally, learn how to incorporate these findings into practical retirement planning strategies to maintain both financial security and quality of life in your golden years.
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Welcome to Retirement Unpacked with Al Smith, owner of Golden Eagle Financial. You want a retirement plan that alleviates your fears about the future so you know your money will last. As a chartered financial consultant, Al Smith will help you find a balance between the risk and reward of the market and the safety of your retirement income. And now, here's your host, Al Smith.
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Welcome to another program of Retirement Unpacked. I want to thank you for tuning in. I'm sure there's other things you could be doing but I have some good information for you here on today's program and the information is information that I have provided in the past but it's so terribly important that probably three or four times a year, I'll continue to talk about this. And basically, the topic is longevity. How long are we going to live? For example, if we bounce all the way back to Social Security, when it was created in 1935, there was one of the very first recipients was a lady named Ida Mae Fuller. She began receiving Social Security, I think in about 1939, and she continued to draw on it until the 1970s. She paid in about $22 and collected back, I think it was around $22,000. Don't hold me to those numbers, but it was longevity. that they weren't really anticipating. Because when Social Security was created, the retirement age was 65. And back then, people didn't live terribly longer than age 65. And some of the things that are a little bit misleading, that sort of thing about life expectancy, For example, if you look up life expectancy, you will find that in the United States, it's 78.4 years, and that's based on 2023, so that's fairly recent. And now if we break that down into genders, it's 75.8 years for men, and 81.1 year for women. Now, when they look at this, they're looking at the median age that people die. And so that's considering it all the way from birth. On the other hand, what's probably more useful is if you're getting somewhere near retirement age, if you're 65 years old, obviously you can't die at age 58. So the life expectancy of people who are already age 65 is greater. For men, it's 84 years, and for women, it's 87 years. And I've also heard that there's a 25% chance that women who are age 65 will reach age 90. Now, if we, and there's been significant increases since the 1960s. Many people who suffered heart disease and so forth in the 1960s didn't make it. But there's been considerable improvements in the last, well, I guess that's 65 years. So considerable medical improvements that have extended life expectancy. For example, for couples. There's a 50% chance that one of the two will reach age 90. That's quite a stretch. So that's to be considered when we sit down and do retirement planning. We want to plan for longevity. That's an important component of retirement planning. 7% chance, it's a much, much slimmer chance that both parties in a couple who are age 65 will reach age 90. And sometimes people will ask, well, what is the leading cause of death? And the leading cause of death is heart disease. And the leading cause of heart disease, according to medical information and so forth, the leading cause of heart disease is atherosclerosis. And basically that is a hardening of the arteries. That's plaque forming in the arteries and so forth. And those of you who are taking medication for cholesterol, that's one of the reasons that you take that. In our health, we want our arteries to be clean because when they get clogged, that's what results in heart attacks. Are there people who live a lot longer than that? Well, the answer to that is yes. Jean Calment. is a woman who lived in France. She lived there until 1997 when she died. She died at age 122. Historically, she is the longest living person for whom we have any records. And there is also something called blue zones, or there are something called blue zones. There are areas called blue zones. There's a man who did some research. His name is Daniel Boothner. And he was doing research and learning about why certain people in certain parts of the world live considerably longer than most everyone else. There were a high percentage of nonagenarians. and centenarians. And for those of you who are word files, nonagenarian is someone who reaches their 90s. A centenarian is someone who reaches age 100. The areas of these blue zones include Okinawa, Okaria, which is in Greece. Okinawa, of course, is an island in Japan. Loma Linda, California. Specifically in Loma Linda, California, the Seventh-day Adventists who live there have considerable longevity. Their religion doesn't cause them to live longer, but their religion directs them to be vegetarians. And their diet and so forth puts them in the category of the other blue zones. Sardinia in Italy is another one of the blue zones. And the Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica is another blue zone. And people ask, and when I did a little research, well, do any of these consume alcohol? Well, surprisingly, there's modest consumption of wine in many of these blue zones. I don't know if that includes the Seventh-day Adventists or not, but modest consumption of wine was consistent with people who lived in these blue zones. And what they found is that there are strong social connections for folks who live in these blue zones. There's largely a plant-based diet. And that plant-based diet included vegetables themselves, a lot of vegetables. what are called legumes, whole grains, and nuts. So that was largely a part of their diet. Physical activity, and this doesn't necessarily mean membership in a gym. I don't think In the Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica, there are a lot of 24-hour fitnesses there. But the point being, their daily activity included a lot of physical activity. And another thing was a sense of purpose for their lives. More specifically about the physical activity, there was some research done that said there is greater longevity when there is vigorous physical exercise as compared with moderate physical exercise. And there's, as I say, an additional 20 or 30 percent longevity in these blue zones. Something else that they learned is they consume about 20 or 30 percent fewer calories. And one of the reasons for that is the nature of our bodies, how our bodies work. Have you ever noticed when you eat quickly, you don't feel quite as full as when you eat slowly? And the reason for that is there are hormones that activate the feeling that we experience when we're full. and eating more slowly will cause you to eat less because it takes about 20 minutes for these hormones to kick in to kick in to let you know that you are full so if you are interested in minimizing weight or maybe losing a little weight or dieting or something like that it's a rather simple recommendation but if you eat more slowly you will feel full sooner and making it a little bit easier to push some of that exercise or rather some of that additional some of those additional calories push them away from the table so exercise is important the diet is important and the social connections i found that to be really interesting that The thing in common in all of these locations, again, that's Okinawa, Ikaria in Greece, La Melinda, California, Sardinia in Italy, and the Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica. One of the big things they had in common besides diet and exercise was strong social connections and a sense of purpose in their lives. So what does that mean for the rest of us? Well, as a financial advisor who does retirement planning, planning for longevity is just as important as any of the other components of planning, like planning for safety, planning for legacy for the next generation, how that's going to work, But in my research, Forbes magazine, which along with Kiplinger, I rely on that a lot because they have really good information, good financial information, good retirement information. And Forbes had some of the very keys that are important in planning for longevity. One of those is having long-term care. because you can plan how much income you're going to need, and you can even do some of the software printouts that will show how likely it is that you'll be able to live comfortably well into the future with the assets that you've accumulated. But if either you or your spouse should need long-term care, And they sort of define that as needing care longer than 90 days. That can put a very big dent in the nest egg. And if that's not planned for, then the planning has not been done well. There are some other really important components in planning for longevity, which I will talk about right after the break.
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Welcome back to the second half of Retirement Unpacked. We're talking about planning for longevity because we know that we are living longer. Medical science is keeping us on this planet for longer. But sometimes the quality of life as we get way up in years is not as good as we would like. And we were talking briefly about long-term care. That needs to be a component of planning for longevity because if someone needs long-term care, If it's only for 90 days, that's not too devastating to the regular financial plan that you've made, but sometimes care needs to be for years, and when that's the case, The budget basically doubles because it's a ballpark $10,000 a month for care in a nursing home or a memory care facility. And we don't know if someone's going to be there for a few months or a few years. But it's something that needs to be incorporated into the plan. Again, referring to Forbes, the things they said were most important is having a source of at least one source, if not more, of lifetime income. And this show today is not about Social Security, but as far as planning for longevity, Social Security is an important component. For example, if you retire at full retirement age, which for most people is close to age 67, then you will receive the cost of living increases that are experienced every year. On the other hand, if you are able to live comfortably without drawing Social Security until age 70, that benefit will increase by 8% each year. The other thing is if I am talking with a couple, we know statistically that women live longer than men, and women can collect the full social security of their spouse when he passes away. And not in every case, but it's often the case that the male breadwinner has more Social Security benefits because many women step out of the labor force for certain periods to raise children and so forth. So by the man of the house or the bigger breadwinner of the house, by... he or she deferring to age 70, not only will that Social Security benefit be significantly higher, but when that primary or greater breadwinner passes, the spouse will be able to collect that full Social Security benefit. So that is a mechanism to help plan for longevity because there is a cost of living feature that's added to that. And that cost of living feature is a percentage. And I would prefer having a percentage increase on the benefit at age 70 than I would the benefit at age 67. Because we're talking about the difference between maybe $3,000 a month and $3,500, $3,600 a month. It can be quite significant. What else is highly recommended is if you have availability of a pension. I know when I sit down and talk to people about their pensions, there is usually about an eight or maybe even a 10-page document from someone's employer explaining about all the various options with respect to a pension. i haven't seen i don't think i've seen any that include a cost of living feature i think para which is the colorado pension and the pension for teachers i think it used to contain a cost of living feature and i don't believe it does any longer but by taking advantage of a pension That's going to pay a lifetime income. And when I'm sitting talking with a couple, we take a look at what those alternatives are for survivor benefits. They'll often have a reduced pension where the same full amount will be paid to a spouse. there is often also a benefit where there'll be a reduced benefit and the spouse will collect two-thirds of what the worker is collecting or possibly 50%. The reduction in the pension is largely determined by the age of the spouse and also how much benefit is going to the spouse, the full benefit, half, and so forth. Now, one of the things that we sometimes talk about as an alternative is collecting the full benefit benefit for the pension and instead of having the pension reduced for a survivor benefit using that for life insurance and whether that is better or not varies by every situation but one of the advantages is we know for certain that the life insurance will benefit someone in the family On the other hand, the pension, if both a husband and a wife live for 20 years and they die within a very short time of one another, then that reduction in the pension will not benefit them. It will benefit someone else who worked for the same company who also has a pension. So a lot of things to think about when it comes to planning pensions. for longevity in retirement, especially with respect to the pension. Also, annuities provide lifetime income. And I don't mean annuitization. The word annuitization is basically where a lump sum of money is given to, not given to, but it's deposited with an insurance company in exchange for lifetime income. And just like the pensions, there may be alternatives where it'll be guaranteed for 10 years or possibly a smaller amount will be guaranteed for a spouse. So annuitization, the lump sum of money used for that is gone. On the other hand, many annuities have what's called an income benefit. Sometimes that's available after having the annuity contract only for one year. Some of them have a 10-year deferral with a significant benefit. Sometimes the income will increase. Sometimes it's flat. I know a lot of people are not fond of annuities, but it's the only financial product that can guarantee an income for as long as you live. And I don't recommend that a very high percentage of someone's assets be in an annuity, but it serves a very useful purpose in filling that gap, making certain that someone's income will last as long as they do. The other obvious one is drawing income from investment accounts. There used to be what they called the rule of thumb, that you could draw 4% from your investment account, and that should allow your investment portfolio to last for like 30 years. However, with some of the volatility that we've experienced in the market, that has been adjusted. Excuse me. There's even one that's called a 3% rule, which is very conservative, and that basically says someone can start by drawing 3% of their investment portfolio as an income and then adjust that each year depending on inflation and their future income needs. The 4% rule of thumb, according to Morningstar, and if any of you out there are investors, I'm sure you're very familiar with Morningstar. They are recommending that rather than using the 4% withdrawal rate, that a 3.7% withdrawal rate be used. Now, for people who are younger, and by younger I mean like in their 40s or 50s or something like that, what I highly recommend is that you take a look at what your future income needs might be. And there are software programs that are available to me and to other advisors that you can sit down and use. estimate what your future nest egg will look like based on when you think you want to retire and it will also show if the current level of savings that you're doing will be adequate for you to retire when you want to retire and some of those or most of those software programs will come up with a percentage likelihood of success And I have worked with people where the percentage likelihood of success was as low as 7%. And I've also met with people whose likelihood of success was 100% because there were very strong savers. And no matter... what happened in the market based on previous history, and no matter how long they lived, their resources would be adequate to deal with the elephant in the room in retirement planning, and I call the elephant in the room longevity, because I think that's even more significant than taxes or market volatility or anything, because that's essentially, it used to be I started the program talking about Social Security. People retired at 65 and died three, five, eight years later. That's not the case anymore. So planning for longevity is a really important thing. component of retirement planning. If you have some concerns yourself, am I saving enough money toward retirement? Will I be paying a lot of taxes in retirement? If these are things that are a concern to you, call my office at 303-744-1128. We'll arrange a conversation and There'll be no charge for that. And we can determine if you're on track to have enough money, no matter how long you live, and to minimize the taxes you'll be paying in retirement also, which I believe is really important. Thank you for tuning in. It's the end of our program already. God bless you. And let's continue to pray for our country and the folks in the Middle East who've suffered recently that there'll be some peace there and also in Ukraine. And hopefully you'll be here next week. Again, God bless you. Have a great day.
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Thank you for listening to Retirement Unpacked with your host, Al Smith of Golden Eagle Financial.
As the conversation evolves, we engage with critical political discourse focusing on Trump's administration, including its international reputation and stance on Vladimir Putin's peace propositions. We also dissect a piece of controversial Texas legislation that threatens to criminalize political memes. Throughout, humor and pointed commentary underpin our exploration of America's penchant for viral moments and newsworthy blunders.
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It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man.
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I had I think I had this story last week, but there's an update to it. The guy who jumped into the water to save a bald eagle. So it was an alligator infested lake that he jumped in. Now, we didn't have that. I wanted to add that to the story. The Florida man who swam into a lake to rescue a struggling bald eagle because he got into a fight with another eagle and it had a hole in its talon or a hole in its wing. And it was like punctured. It was horrible. And the guy dove into the water to save it and they rehabilitated it. So, yeah, it's an alligator infested lake.
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Became the most American story that we've had all day today.
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Yeah, it is. That's the most amazing thing. Doug Hay should get a medal. That man should get a medal because his wife apparently was terrified. She's the one who took the footage of it because there was like a seven-foot gator that they just saw apparently that morning. She's sane. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. I had to share that update with you.
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He wasn't a member of a gang. And then they looked, and on his knuckles, he had MS-13. There's a dispute over that. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. He had MS-13 on his knuckles tattooed.
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He had some tattoos that are interpreted that way. But let's move on.
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Wait a minute. Hey, Terry, Terry. He did not have the letter MS-13. It says MS-13. That was Photoshopped. That was Photoshopped, Terry. Hey, they're giving you the big break of a lifetime. You know, you're doing the interview. I picked you because, frankly, I never heard of you, but that's okay. I picked you, Terry, but you're not being very nice. He had MS-13 tattooed. We'll agree to disagree.
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I want to move on to something else. Punch him.
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Do you want me to show you the picture? I saw the picture. Here we go. Don't Photoshop it. Go look at his hand.
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He did have tattoos that can be interpreted that way. I'm not an expert on them. I want to turn to Ukraine. No, no.
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He had MS, as clear as you can be, not interpreted. This is why people no longer believe the news, because it's fake news.
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Well, when he was photographed in El Salvador, they aren't there. But let's just go on.
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They aren't there when he's in El Salvador. Oh, they weren't there, but they're there now, right? No, they're in your picture. Terry. Ukraine, sir. He's got MS-13 on his knuckles.
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Ukraine, sir, but Terry.
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We'll take a look. It's such a disservice. We'll take a look at that, sir. Why don't you just say it? Yes, he does. And, you know, go on to something else. It's contested.
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So, this is one of my favorite exchanges. I wish that... Terry, he had MS-13 on his knuckles. I mean, come on, Terry. Terry! He had MS-13... That's a viral video reference. It's probably too much. Oh, welcome back. We got a lot of audio today. So that's... I told you I was going to make it up for you by robbing you guys a quick five. That was my bad because I was just... I just wouldn't shut up. That's my problem. Who knew? So everyone was saying that he does... So Trump was... Who is Terry Moran with? Is he with... Is he with ABC? Okay. So... So everyone was saying that MS-13 was added to the photo because the symbols that he has on his knuckles and it was marijuana. What was the other one? It was like the X smiley face across in a skull that that is basically the emojis that mean MS-13, right? like how the eggplant means something, and the peach means something, and different emojis mean things. Okay, so they're not really emojis, but those symbols mean MS-13. And so when they had the photo, apparently the photo was, okay, this means M, and this means S. This is what it stands for. And they're explaining what the tattoos symbolize. And so wait, so let me break this down because I'm not letting this go either. And I love that he stopped and he's like, all right, Terry, there's Trump with it right there. So the MS-13 that's on it, those symbols are literally like, those symbols mean MS-13. That's what they mean. That each of the images stand for something that translates to MS-13. And so Terry Moran was trying to argue, I guess, that that wasn't that he didn't have any kind of identifier tattooed on him. And Trump's like, no, no, no. If the if the media wants to sit here and pick nits about, oh, well, it didn't specifically say, you know, it's still the same thing, you know, just like those numbnuts saying Maryland dad. You know what I'm saying? Oh, that Maryland man. Oh, yes, you mean the gang-banging wife-beater. Yes, that one. He's an El Salvadoran man, but okay. See what I mean? Like, if you guys can sit here, if the media can sit here and try to BS us about this, oh, this poor gang-banging wife-beating Maryland man, then, yeah, we're going to go ahead and say might as well had, like, literally the actual Arabic MS-13 on it. Shut up. So stupid. Just absolutely asinine. So I'm glad that he stopped there. I mean, and the left was trying to make a big deal of this. Kane, you saw this. They were trying to make a big deal of this all last night, all last night. Oh, my gosh. Can you believe Trump said that? He just didn't get this right. But it's not wrong, right? Right. That's so goofy. It's like saying, well, those moving snakes on the Harry Potter figures, they're not really indicative of death. They are because none of the nobody else has them unless they're death eaters. See, same thing. I did that. I went to a Harry Potter reference. Just saying. Yeah. Yeah. So these are like runes. That mean MS-13. That's what it is. I thought the interview was funny. But yeah, he was... I mean, it was a very contentious interview. And I thought it was stupid that Terry Moran was even trying to contest that. And then he realized the futility of it. He was like, oh, maybe I should move on. Yeah, Terry, maybe you ought to. Maybe you ought to move on, Terry. I mean, it's just so stupid. Audio Sunday 13. And this is where Trump argues with him because, remember, the media pretended, gosh, we didn't even know that Biden was half dead. We had no clue. Listen to this.
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Do you think the reputation of the United States... has gone down under your presence.
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No, I think it's gone way up, but I think we're a respected country again. We were laughed at all over the world. We had a president that couldn't walk up a flight of stairs, couldn't walk down a flight of stairs, couldn't walk across a stage without falling. We had a president that was grossly incompetent. You knew it, I knew it, and everybody knew it, but you guys didn't want to write it because you're fake news. All right. Thank you. And by the way, ABC is one of the worst, I have to be honest with you. Thank you.
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Okay, thank you. Yes, thank you. Yeah, you guys didn't want to write about it because you're fake news. I mean, Biden falls up the stairs. I told you this yesterday. Oh my gosh, Biden stuttered with his feet. Never seen anybody do that. Man, that man stuttered all the way the hell up them stairs with his feet. Never seen anybody do that before. But they did. That's how all of them were. And I'm glad that I'm glad that POTUS called it out because the media has been going on like, oh, we just didn't know. We were just this little innocent media. We were tripped just like the rest of you. What do you mean? What? You all knew. You all knew the man really didn't have a pulse. You all knew he was just a skin suit and Joe Biden had her hand up his backside. Come on. Like a sock puppet. Is it too mean? Because I don't I just don't even care. I'm just so done with this stuff. These people try to pull so much wool over our eyes. I just feel like all civility is out the window at this point. Right. Good heavens. I mean, it was it was a really good. It was a very good interview. But this is this is audio. Audio somebody 14. They were arguing over Putin. Listen.
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He's willing to stop the fighting.
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Don't forget- You think he wants peace?
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You think Vladimir Putin wants peace? I think he does, yes. I think he does. I think because- Even with the raining missiles on? I think he really, his dream was to take over the whole country. I think because of me, he's not gonna do that. Do you trust him? I don't trust you. I don't trust a lot of people. I don't trust you. Look at you. You come in all shooting for bear. You're so happy to do the interview. And then you start hitting me with fake questions. You start telling me that a guy whose hand is covered with a tattoo doesn't have the tattoo.
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In so many ways, Trump is like an old Nana, you know, like, oh, no, but, you know, I'm going to come back to this because I'm not over it. And like 10 years later. Yeah. Remember that time? The knuckles? I remember that. Like, it's never going to go away. Oh, but good. Oh, then there was the eggs, eggs, eggs, eggs, eggs.
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but gasoline is way down. And when I took over, you remember the big thing with eggs, they hit me the first week, eggs, eggs, eggs, like it was my fault. I said, I didn't cause this problem. This problem was caused by Biden. What's the problem with eggs? And they said, they've doubled. And well, eggs are down 87% since I got involved.
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I love it. Do you know one of the things, kind of a sidebar, an accompaniment to this, One of the reasons that Trump can get there's two reasons that Trump can get away with roughhousing journalists that other politicians can't because he's he's very much a showman. And I think that was on stage. I think there was evidence on stage last night. He really loves his audience and his audience loves him. But older people, I am jealous of you because you guys get to do whatever you want. So he thinks you're not innocent. He thinks you're not innocent. You're lying. It's because of this. Because he can, he's, you know, you give him a pass. He's like, oh, he's like a grandpa. Or, oh, they're like a Nana's age, right? Like they're, you give them a pass, right? It's just funny. And I feel like Terry Moran actually liked him. Did you see his expression in this interview? I mean, he wasn't smiling like he was being a wise eight old snakes. I think he liked him.
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He was thankful to be insulted.
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Yeah, he was just happy to be there, man. However you want to kick him. I mean, Terry's... Terry! He's just happy for that big break, man.
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He's like, you guys are fake news. He's like, thank you.
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He's like, thank you. Thank you, Mr. President.
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By the way, ABC's the worst. He's like, thank you, Mr. President.
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Thank you. We are. Thank you, Mr. President. They're so... Okay, here's another one where it got a little testy-testy. Audio Soundbite 11. They were arguing over fraud referrals from Doge.
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A legal note, fraud is a crime.
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There have been no referrals to the Justice Department on any of this. Well, you don't know that, do you? How do you know that? Have there been referrals? Why would you know that, that there were no referrals?
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I think there were referrals. All right, there's been no investigation from the Justice Department.
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How do you know that? I'm asking you, sir. No, you're not asking me. You made a statement. You're not asking me. Now I'm asking you. That was a statement that you made. There have been. I'm asking you. Have there been? Yes, there have been.
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Well, I mean, he did. He was like, okay, well, now I'm asking you. Okay, so you did make a statement. And then you're, okay, that's exactly, you just proved his point. Terry, what are you doing? What are you doing, Terry? My gosh. This is full. This is so crazy. I mean, is this just one of the craziest interviews? Because he just said there, I really feel like he likes being kicked, man. He likes being kicked around. Partners, our friends over at Kel-Tec, the PR57. This is such a winner. MSRP is $3.99. It's one you've got to get. You absolutely need this one. It's from Kel-Tec. They're so innovative, and everything that they make is such great quality. George Kellgren is a mad genius. He's actually a very interesting individual. Very quiet, very soft-spoken, very loud with his designs, very innovative. This, you know, they created, you know, when they created the concealed carry category, the pistol, their P-11 and 95, and they keep innovating more and more. The PR-57, you know, It was a huge hit at SHOT Show. I got to see it for myself. I finally have mine. 40% lighter than the next lightest 5.7. It's just so great. It's great to shoot. It's actually a 5.7 I realistically could carry because the other ones, you know, I'm a littler person. I'm a woman. You know, I mean, it's a little bit harder for us ladies. But this, ladies, this is one you absolutely can. And dudes, if you're wanting a 5.7 with more ultra-concealability, this is one for you as well. We've got Mother's Day and Father's Day coming up. You know, these are great gifts. And of course, the innovation all made in America. These are family owned values at their best. Now, why it's lighter? Because the rotary barrel pistol chambered in five seven. Also, the top loading with replacing traditional mags with stripper clips, slimmer carry profile, 20 plus one capacity. It's just genius. You've got to get it made in the USA. Everything. American workforce, American labor, American parts, American materials from start to finish, every step of the way, made right here in the U.S. of A. 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.
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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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How does this happen? A student that was rescued from Mount Fuji climbed, left his phone, totally forgot his phone and had to climb back up to get it. A 27 year old Chinese student who lives in Japan was rescued twice in one week. But they didn't say whether or not he found his phone. In Japan, it produced a wave of criticism. They're mad, not that he had to be rescued, but that he had to be rescued literally twice in one week. The first time, they got a call of help from him, and then he got altitude sickness. And then the second time, four days later, he went back up there because he left his phone. And he was trying to find some of his other belongings. And they had to go get him again. This guy sounds like a moron who should not hike anymore, I feel like. Champagne protects the heart from cardiac arrest. I mean, that's this very... I'm going to believe it. It's from Shanghai, but still. I'm going to believe this study because it just confirms what I want to believe. Champagne and white wine. So, yeah, it's science. Fermented liquids. So I really feel like we need to have more of these to protect our hearts. You know. Oh, man. A child damages. This painting looks stupid, though. A $56 million painting at a Netherlands museum.
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It's basically... Somebody paid $56 million for this?
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Juan's going to show you. It's three blocks of color, and it's $56 million.
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It looks stained.
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I could make it and just charge you $56,000. That's a steal. I will make the same thing, and it's only $56,000.
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Somebody took a panel off of a poorly painted wall.
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I hate modern art. I hate modernity. Modernity is laziness. And it's ignoring and refusing to acknowledge the beauty in the everyday, which is brutalist. I hate it. Rothko's abstract paintings, which are stupid, are known for their floating color fields, which are dumb. And it was produced from 1949 to. I think modern art is what people who actually aren't good at art do. Oh, you can light me up all you want to. I'm not going to change my opinion on it at all. Go back and look what they did during the Renaissance and then go back and look at some modern art. It's stupid. You can't even stop it. Can't even compare it. Oh, young workers are already ready to quit. Burnout and pay concerns are driving the exodus. 73% of Gen Z and 70% of millennials, they don't like their jobs. They want more pay and flexible work. It's called grow up. That's what it's called. Stick with us. More to come. 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. This is one of the goofiest things. This isn't the first time. So let me just set this up. This isn't the first time that I've seen... Or that lawmakers have tried to, I guess, regulate memes. That's the word that I want. This is not the first time that they've tried to regulate memes. They've tried to do this, remember, federally before. Isn't that, Cain, when they had the, who's that annoying theater kid? The Ministry of Whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they were going to have, like they were going to try to regulate memes or something like that. And they kept saying, oh, it's for AI purposes. You know, we just were trying to protect you for AI. That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life. So no, that's not. So what happened is the Texas House, they passed a bill. It took 30 seconds with no debate. And it is a bill that actually inadvertently would criminalize political memes. Texas Scorecard writes that courts have routinely struck down these laws that try to regulate political discourse, right? Because First Amendment has pretty strong protections. It's House Bill 366. And it would make it a crime to distribute altered media, including political memes, without a government-approved disclaimer. And people who violate this could face up to a year in jail. Anyone who tries to enforce this on me in Texas, we are going to have a Waco-style knockdown drag out in Southlake. So I'm done with this stuff. Oh, I'm not joking. I'm not being hyperbolic like you. You want to push people who are good people to the point where they become criminals for criticizing bad lawmakers. If you want a civil war, that's how you start civil wars. I'm not saying this lightly. I am so sick of sick of these people. The drunk schmuck who's the House speaker. And by the way, Dade Phelan, this is his bill. We've invited him on this show and he won't come on the show. Right, Kane? We've invited him on the show. He won't come.
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Back when the Texas AG was under impeachment and it was largely led by his drunken antics then, he wouldn't come on, wouldn't respond.
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Right. So they had the State Affairs Committee. They're taking out this bill. And it's by the former Speaker of the House. And they took it up and it was alongside a couple of other pieces of legislation. It specifically targets political advertising that, quote, features image, audio recording or video recording of an officeholder or candidate's appearance, speech or conduct that did not occur in reality. The broad language is what's dangerous. So it would allow the Texas Ethics Commission, they have the authority to determine the specific format, the font, the size of the font, and the color of the required disclaimer. Yeah, it is one of the stupidest bills. And the fact that the Texas House has taken this up, the most powerful committee has taken this up. I mean, it's unconstitutional. So remember the drunk Dade stuff. So Dade Phelan, when he was speaker of the House, there was a lot of video of him out there slurring when he was trying to, you know, preside over the House. And everybody made fun of him. And they called him drunk Dade Phelan, drunk Dade. And apparently it made him mad. And he just he's you know, I've been really I've not been really I mean, I've I've criticized him, which for some of these lawmakers, that's enough. If you criticize them, people like Dade Phelan, they sit here and act like, oh, it's so bad for Trump defenders to defend Trump, even if there's rightful criticism of him. But Dade Phelan does the same damn thing. You can't criticize him for anything or you are, you know, persona non grata. So even when I was polite, we invited him on the show. They wouldn't have anything to do with us. We're the biggest talk show in Texas. And we're also literally in hundreds of markets across the nation. We are the number one broadcast in the nation in the afternoon. No one touches us. And we own this time slot. And he won't have anything to do with this because I've been critical. So I'm done being nice about it. If you're not going to come on, then OK, I'm not going to be nice and polite. You know, it's time to not be nice. If you're going to try to criminalize people's speech because you're drunk ass made a fool of yourself, then you deserve to be dragged. And this legislation, think about the implications that go far beyond political advertising. Imagine that you want to share a meme on Facebook. A meme, an image where you're joking around. Oh boy, is Texas Ethics Commission going to come and knock on your door because you didn't have drunk dates? Preferred government acknowledgement, the little disclaimer on your... on your meme. I've read the bill. So for all of the wise asses out there who want to go, well, did you read the bill? I read the bill and I probably have better reading comprehension and I'm smarter and better looking than the people who would criticize me for disagreeing with them. Dade surrogates on this bill. I've read it. It's garbage. It's anti first amendment garbage. And there are a number of Texas Republicans that voted for it. Maybe it's because they want some of drunk Dade's money. I don't know, you know, because that's what these lawmakers do is they they get a lot of campaign cash for themselves and then they spread it around. I was looking at some of these. My rep voted against it, but there are I'll publish a list on we're going to publish the list on Substack. of all the Republican lawmakers in Texas that decided to vote for this. If you vote, I'm pretty hardcore on first and second amendment. If you vote against me, against my interest one time, one time on first and second amendment, you're dead to me. These are issues where I rarely allow. Oh, it's all. Sure, I'll forgive. But that doesn't mean I welcome you back into my war room. Doesn't mean that you're back in my confidence. They betray you once on such a crucial issue. They will screw you over again and again. That is a basic issue that should not even be up for debate. And if they can't even get that right, they're no good. They're trash. This is a major, major First Amendment concern. And of course, these are the same lawmakers that have been trying to vote away our Second Amendment rights as well. I mean, we have all kinds. I mean, they've got all kinds of House bills. They've been blocking pro-gun bills. They've been dragging their feet on banning red flag law. They've been dragging their feet, for instance, self-defense protections, House Bill 170. They've been dragging their feet on a number of, like Cole Hefner, his committee, Representative Cole Hefner, he's in the 5th District. They've been dragging these bills. I'm done with it. This is nonsense. And this meme bill is one of the stupidest things I've ever seen in my life. It would imprison people for a year if a meme doesn't have a disclaimer. And Dade Phelan is doing it for revenge. Now, people are trying to argue, well, this is really pertaining to advertising. Really? Then why doesn't it exclude any non-political advertising material in the verbatim language of the bill? Feel free to try to gaslight that one away. It's done for a purpose. And I've seen it. They're not just it's not just broadcast political advertising. They're talking about the intent to influence an election. And the language specifically says if they are distributing broadcast political advertising, it's not saying that it's limited to broadcast political advertising. I feel like there are some of our brethren that struggle with reading comprehension. And that's probably because their lips are too close to Dade Phelan's backside. So they really can't see the full bill. Don't you agree, Kane? I think that's the truth. What they're talking about with this is I'm reading the bill right now. Intent to influence an election knowingly caused to be published, distributed or broadcast. So it's published distribution or broadcast. Talking about images, audio recordings, video recordings. And it mentions an officeholder or candidate's appearance, speech or conduct that did not occur in reality. You have to have a disclosure on all of it, not just political advertising. And if people dispute that, this is what the law, this is what the proposal states. Your beef isn't with me. It's with the drunk lawmakers that lack the writing ability to clearly articulate the difference in writing in legislation in Austin. You don't want a war with me over your stupidity and your reading, lack of reading comprehension. So take it to the lawmakers that wrote the bill. This is stupid. This is one of the dump. This is their priority. They're fighting. They're not giving us relief on our property taxes, but they're going to do this. Seriously. You rat bastards. This is what they're focusing on. All because some lawmaker was butthurt that people made fun of him because he was slurring his speech when he was at the microphone at the dais and he was pushing a very unpopular bill at the same time. This is just, it's insulting, it's unconstitutional, and it's un-American. Now they're trying to say, oh no, we're protecting people from AI. And again, I'm reading it. To influence an election knowingly caused to be published, distributed, or broadcast political advertising that includes an image, audio recording, video recording of an officeholder or candidate's appearance, speech, or conduct that did not occur in reality, including image, audio recording, video recording that has been altered using generative artificial intelligence technology, unless the political advertising includes a disclosure from the person or another person on whose behalf the political advertising is published, distributed, broadcast, indicating that the blah, blah, blah. Now, people are... Oh, again... Oh, but it's political advertising. You can share political advertising on your own personal pages, and there are no exemptions, and there is no, absolutely no opt-out. There's no exemptions. If you're sharing the image, you fall under the scope of this proposal. It's not limited. And if you take issue with that, then you probably struggle with the same lack of alcohol-induced absence of reading comprehension that the former speaker does. I mean, I can show these folks to the door, but you can't make them walk through it, right? I mean, this is insane. And I don't know. They're trying to regulate political expression in Texas, but they have no limitations on donations and spending. Interesting. Interesting. I mean, it's insane that people voted for this at all. And it's all because the former speaker was embarrassed that he got made fun of. That's what this is all about. So I'm going to publish this up on, I'll have it up on Substack. And then all of the yeses that are on this, all of these Republicans, there's all the good guys voted no. All the good guys voted no. Louderback voted no. You had, let's see, Schatzlein voted no. All of my, Briscoe Cain voted no. I mean, all the good guys voted no in Texas legislature. But all the bad ones, and there's a lot of them, they all voted yes. Including Giovanni Capriglione, who represents me. He's a rhino. He's rude. He was really rude to me one time. Giovanni Capriglione was incredibly rude to me and my husband one day. And I'm not over it. I'm like, you're a lawmaker. You need to have a little bit better social graces in what you're demonstrating. And I I even one time when he was pushing the Texas gold reserves, they were really they were demanding to come on the show. Oh, my gosh. Can you remember this? They were sending us all kinds of requests. I save every email. So if they want to dispute this, I will bury you in receipts. So don't. But they wanted to come on the show. Oh, let us on the show. Let us on the show. We'd love to talk about this. Oh, can you promote what Giovanni's doing? Can you promote what he's doing? Can you promote? Oh, I had him on one time. Then he was just real rude afterwards. Really rude. He's a rude guy. He, of course, he voted yes on this. So I'm going to publish this up at Substack, chapter and verse. But this this was a middle finger to voters. They don't care about your property relief, your property tax relief. They don't care. They don't care about it. You'll have a Texas majority in the legislature, but they're going to put Democrats on committees and they're going to try to hamstring you on First Amendment nonsense. It's asinine. But you know what? You know, the the the saying that we were joking about a couple of years ago, try that in a small town. You try enforcing this with people like me. And you see where it gets you.
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Explore the influential cabinet decisions, media interactions, and the notable figures shaping today's socio-political landscape. From Elon Musk's strategic retreats to the controversial MS-13 discussions, this episode offers a comprehensive overview of the power plays and political maneuvers currently captivating the nation. It's a conversation that blends humor, intensity, and critical insights into the heart of politics.
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Um... Like I said, the biggest tax cut in the history of our country. And it would be the biggest tax increase if the Democrats are successful. They're the only people I've ever seen running for office where they want to increase taxes. But this would be a 58, maybe a 60 percent tax increase. Unsustainable for the American people. Thank you very much. Great job. There you go. She's the most powerful woman in the world.
SPEAKER 12 :
We've got voters sitting there talking with this cabinet. That's what I wanted to hear. I wanted to hear about tax cuts. I don't care what I got to wade through. I want to hear about the tax cuts. That's what I want to hear. Like, what are we going to get? What are we going to get from these Republicans? Because so far, instead of getting those tax relief benefits, All we are getting is, you know, some of what Chip Roy talked about yesterday, this car registration. And then I got all these like Bush leaguers out there saying, yeah, we got to start paying women to have the babies. And I'm like, that's welfare. Oh, we love welfare. I mean, that's like, I guess the new for the for the Bush League Republicans, they love them some welfare. You can't drag them hard enough. Welcome back to the program. We're at a top of a new day, top of the first hour here on Wednesday, as my granny would say. It is raining and a storming in Texas, so I'm just going to give you guys a heads up. Because sometimes it'll rain and then all Hades breaks loose. And the power may go out. Like the other day, the power went out right when we started. And so it took us a little bit to get the visual up. You know, we got a small crew. And it's been raining and pouring. My poor dog, Wick, is terrified. He's terrified of the rain. Terrified of it. So, I don't know. So if by some chance you're watching and then all of a sudden all the lights go out, it's because we lost power and our generator kicked in and it took us months to get fixed. That's a whole other situation. But anyway, so just FYI, because it's like 50-50 chance. It's Texas. Things get crazy real quick. So I just wanted to let you guys know because it has happened before. So welcome to the program, top of this very, very first hour. And POTUS is having his... his cabinet meeting, the gang's all there. Now, absent is Musk. Now, that's kind of by plan. I don't want people to think, because a lot of you have asked me this, Everything that I've read, and what he said publicly, is that he was always going to pull back going into May, right? May 1st is what it was, I thought. He was going to start pulling back. He had his people in place, and he was going to start pulling back. I think he's also putting more effort, pushing more effort back into, well, his physical effort. He's more back at Tesla, SpaceX, etc. So... But he's got his people still there. I think they're in the Eisenhower administrative building in D.C. And so he's got people there. So that's – they're still carrying on with Doe's work. And he's checking in, and he's talking to POTUS, and he's still there when needs be. But it was never going to be where – Elon Musk was going to be a constant fixture. So just, you know, don't let the left try to go, oh, look, there's evidence that that Trump and Musk don't like each other. That's not that's like so not even accurate at all at all. So. This is we got them got the cabinet meeting. They're briefing the president on everything that's been that they've accomplished in the first 100 days. And now we need to do. the big thing, and we need to make sure that we get this, we get a budget done, and we need to make sure that we have permanent tax cuts. Otherwise, everybody's going to have a tax hike. I was talking to our friend, one of our friends, Vegas Larry, he just had to pay. I don't even want to say the amount of taxes he just had to pay. I almost vomited. It just was a gut punch. And especially considering everything that happened with us aid. So people want tax relief. And we talked about that yesterday and how that ties into the polling, et cetera. So this, uh, just saying it's, we're in for a fight from everything that I've heard from congressional Republicans. Let's talk about last night. He had a rally in, in, uh, Michigan and he called big Gretchen stage audio soundbite five. He, she didn't want to come up on stage. She didn't have a folder in her hand. He called Big Gretch because he's in Michigan. And I think he's I I want to be real careful with us for one large purpose. But I think two things to consider. First, I think he's being magnanimous and he's saying, look, we can get along. Look how reasonable I am. I'm bringing her up on stage and it infuriates Democrats. It infuriates the right Democrats because Big Gretch, as you know, has 2028 aspirations. Now, if her base thinks that she's liked by Trump, they're going to hate her, right? And moderate Dems will ratchet up attacks on her because they're going to be looking at her as trying to kickstart 2028 a little too early. That being said, you don't want to praise your ideological opponent even when you agree too terribly much because you risk elevating them over your own lasting legacy going into 2028. So very careful give and take here with all of this. But let's play this. This is audio. This is up here. Audio soundbite. I just had it in my five. Yeah, that's right. Big grudge. Audio soundbite five. Listen.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, I hadn't planned to speak, but on behalf of all the military men and women who serve our country and serve so honorably on behalf of the state of Michigan, I am really damn happy we're here to celebrate this recapitalization at Selfridge. It's crucial for the Michigan economy. It's crucial for the men and women here, for our homeland security and our future. So thank you. I'm so, so grateful that this announcement was made today and I appreciate all the work. Thank you.
SPEAKER 12 :
I thought she'd like run away. Oh, no. What are you laughing about?
SPEAKER 15 :
It's like she almost said, I'm grateful for. I mean, I'm grateful for this announcement.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yes, I'm very so grateful for this announcement. I'm so happy about that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's that was very funny because he called her up on stage last night. His speech last night was funny. He was talking about somebody's figure, a man's figure. I don't know who he's talking about, but it was funny. I watched some of it. But OK, so the other big thing that happened, like right as he was taken to the stage. So did you hear what happened with Doug Emhoff? They're calling it Kamala Harris's last big embarrassment. So he was fired. He got fired by the Trump administration from the Holocaust Memorial Council, which oversees the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. And I mean, typically members of the council are appointed by the president. They serve about five year terms. And so, as you know, Doug Emhoff is Mr. Kamala Harris and he was appointed by Biden and Trump removed him and several other Biden appointees, according to The Hill. And this was late yesterday when this emerged, when this news emerged. So it was late yesterday. He was kicked off by an appointees removed from the Holocaust board. And he was livid. Now, I understand kind of the thinking on it, because here you have an increase in targeting of Jewish students on college campuses around the country, not just Jewish students, but under Biden Harris's leadership. disastrous rain. Let's not forget that you had the snitch squad that was peeking into temples to see, oh boy, there better not be any Jews in there, you know, practicing their faith because everybody's supposed to be social distancing and locking down. You They were in New York. They were literally walking and peeking into temple windows. There's video of like, I just called them a snitch squad. Because did we ever figure out who the hell they were? Weren't they with like the health board or something? Or it was like police and then health whatever. Like the people who go and are like, do you wash your hands when you're making this burger at restaurants? Like the health squad. I don't care. You don't need to tell me. Nobody needs to tweet me or email me. But the whole point in this... is that Emhoff was removed. He's livid over this. And he apparently, he's been criticized before because by, now I'm not, I don't get into arguments of doctrine of faiths that I do not practice. But he was criticized by other Jewish leaders because they said he had, and this was back in 23, he had botched the Hanukkah story on social media. That's kind of a big one, you know. By the way, right as I just said that, you guys may not have heard this, but the thunder rang out in the sky. It was right. He apparently got the Hanukkah story wrong. This is back in 2023. He posted an image of himself in Harris lighting a menorah. And then he had his version of the events. And apparently, again, I'm not going to be the gatekeeper for A Faith I Don't Practice, but I remember this. It trended. He was dragged because... They accused him of getting it wrong and only focusing on Jews hiding and some oil. And everyone's like, yeah, no, that's not. There's a lot more. What is the matter with you? People were saying, including I think this was a contributor over at CNN. I really hope that he left this to some hapless and uneducated intern who couldn't even be bothered to consult Wikipedia. Eight days of hiding. Yikes, man. oh yeah because that's pretty much all yeah it was pretty he ended up like deleting stuff it was a big big ordeal so but this uh that yeah it was bad so he's removed so he's removed from this and he said this is what he tweets let me pull this up oh he had a big o statement i know we got to get moving okay let me share let me do headlines and then we're going to come back because i'm going to touch on this then we have uh And another more updates on the budget battle. I will always carry a firearm and I have no problem using lethal force. I and I live in Texas and I don't really like to go to gun free zones. Unfortunately, I have some I have some friends who unfortunately live in gun free areas because they have to. They're big kids and they got to go to work. Right. One of my friends lives in D.C. and they went and got that very difficult to get license to carry. But even then, they can't carry hardly anywhere because you got all of these municipal restrictions. 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SPEAKER 04 :
He wasn't a member of a gang, and then they looked and on his knuckles he had MS-13. There's a dispute over that. Wait a minute, wait a minute. He had MS-13 on his knuckles tattoo.
SPEAKER 03 :
He had some tattoos that are interpreted that way, but let's move on.
SPEAKER 04 :
Wait a minute, Terry, Terry, Terry. He did not have the letter MS-13. It says MS-13. That was Photoshopped. That was Photoshopped, Terry, you can't do that. Hey, they're giving you the big break of a lifetime. You know, you're doing the interview. I picked you because frankly, I never heard of you, but that's okay. I picked you, Terry, but you're not being very nice. He had MS-13 tattoo. We'll agree to disagree. I want to move on to something else. Terry.
SPEAKER 12 :
Punch him.
SPEAKER 04 :
Do you want me to show you the picture? I saw the picture.
SPEAKER 03 :
And you think it was photoshopped?
SPEAKER 04 :
Here we go. Don't photoshop it. Go look at his hand.
SPEAKER 03 :
He did have tattoos that can be interpreted that way. I'm not an expert on them. I want to turn to Ukraine. No, no. Jerry, Jerry, let him go, man.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, no. He had MS, as clear as you can be, not interpreted. This is why people no longer believe the news, because it's fake news.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, when he was photographed in El Salvador, they aren't there. But let's just go.
SPEAKER 04 :
They aren't there when he's in El Salvador. Oh, they weren't there, but they're there now, right? No, they're in your picture. Terry. Ukraine, sir. He's got MS-13 on his knuckles.
SPEAKER 12 :
Ukraine, sir, but Terry.
SPEAKER 04 :
We'll take a look. It's such a disservice. We'll take a look at that, sir. Why don't you just say it? Yes, he does. And, you know, go on to something else. It's contested.
SPEAKER 12 :
So this is one of my favorite exchanges. I wish that Terry, he had MS-13 on his knuckles. I mean, come on, Terry. Terry! He had MS-13! That's a viral video reference. It's probably too much. Oh, welcome back. We got a lot of audio today. So that's... I told you I was going to make it up for you by robbing you guys a quick five. That was my bad because I was just... I just wouldn't shut up. That's my problem. Who knew? So everyone was saying that he does... So Trump was... Who is Terry Moran with? Is he with... Is he with ABC? Okay. So... So everyone was saying that MS-13 was added to the photo because the symbols that he has on his knuckles, and it was marijuana. What was the other one? It was like the X smiley face across in a skull. That is basically the emojis that mean MS-13, right? Yeah. like how the eggplant means something, and the peach means something, and different emojis mean things. Okay, so they're not really emojis, but those symbols mean MS-13. And so when they had the photo, apparently the photo was, okay, this means M, and this means S. This is what it stands for. And they're explaining what the tattoos symbolize. And so wait, so let me break this down because I'm not letting this go either. And I love that he stopped and he's like, all right, Terry, there's Trump with it right there. So the MS-13 that's on it, those symbols are literally like, those symbols mean MS-13. That's what they mean. That each of the images stand for something that translates to MS-13. And so Terry Moran was trying to argue, I guess, that that wasn't that he didn't have any kind of identifier tattooed on him. And Trump's like, no, no, no. If the if the media wants to sit here and pick nits about, oh, well, it didn't specifically say, you know, it's still the same thing, you know, just like those numbnuts saying Maryland dad. You know what I'm saying? Oh, that Maryland man. Oh, yes, you mean the gang-banging wife-beater. Yes, that one. He's an El Salvadoran man, but okay. See what I mean? Like, if you guys can sit here, if the media can sit here and try to BS us about this, oh, this poor gang-banging wife-beating Maryland man, then, yeah, we're going to go ahead and say might as well had, like, literally the actual Arabic MS-13 on it. Shut up. So stupid. Just absolutely asinine. So I'm glad that he stopped there. I mean, and the left was trying to make a big deal of this. Kane, you saw this. They were trying to make a big deal of this all last night, all last night. Oh, my gosh. Can you believe Trump said that? He didn't get this right. But it's not wrong, right? Right. That's so goofy. It's like saying, well, those moving snakes on the Harry Potter figures, they're not really indicative of death. They are because none of the nobody else has them unless they're Death Eaters. See, same thing. I did that. I went to a Harry Potter reference. Just saying. Yeah. Yeah. So these are like runes. That mean MS-13. That's what it is. I thought the interview was funny. But yeah, he was... I mean, it was a very contentious interview. And I thought it was stupid that Terry Moran was even trying to contest that. And then he realized the futility of it. He's like, oh, maybe I should move on. Yeah, Terry, maybe you ought to. Maybe you ought to move on, Terry. I mean, it's just so stupid. Audio Sunday 13. And this is where Trump argues with him because, remember, the media pretended, gosh, we didn't even know that Biden was half dead. We had no clue. Listen to this.
SPEAKER 03 :
Do you think the reputation of the United States... has gone down under your presidency?
SPEAKER 04 :
No, I think it's gone way up, and I think we're a respected country again. We were laughed at all over the world. We had a president that couldn't walk up a flight of stairs, couldn't walk down a flight of stairs, couldn't walk across a stage without falling. We had a president that was grossly incompetent. You knew it, I knew it, and everybody knew it, but you guys didn't want to write it because you're fake news. All right. Thank you. And by the way, ABC is one of the worst, I have to be honest with you. Thank you.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, thank you. Yes, thank you. Yeah, you guys didn't want to write about it because you're fake news. I mean, Biden falls up the stairs. I told you this yesterday. Oh my gosh, Biden stuttered with his feet? I've never seen anybody do that. Man, that man stuttered all the way the hell up them stairs with his feet. I've never seen anybody do that before. But they did. That's how all of them were. And I'm glad that POTUS called it out because the media's been going on like, oh, we just didn't know. We were just this little innocent media. We were tripped just like the rest of you. What do you mean? What? You all knew. You all knew the man really didn't have a pulse. You all knew he was just a skin suit and Joe Biden had her hand up his backside. Come on. Like a sock puppet. Is it too mean? Because I don't I just don't even care. I'm just so done with this stuff. These people try to pull so much wool over our eyes. I just feel like all civility is out the window at this point. Right. Good heavens. I mean, it was it was a really good. It was a very good interview. But this is this is audio. Audio somebody 14. They were arguing over Putin. Listen.
SPEAKER 04 :
He's willing to stop the fighting. Don't forget- You think he wants peace? You think Vladimir Putin wants peace? I think he does, yes. I think he does. I think because- Even with the raining missiles on? I think he really, his dream was to take over the whole country. I think because of me, he's not gonna do that. Do you trust him? I don't trust you. I don't trust a lot of people. I don't trust you. Look at you. You come in all shooting for bear. You're so happy to do the interview. And then you start hitting me with fake questions. You start telling me that a guy whose hand is covered with a tattoo doesn't have the tattoo.
SPEAKER 12 :
In so many ways, Trump is like an old Nana, you know, like, oh, no, but, you know, I'm going to come back to this because I'm not over it. And like 10 years later. Yeah. Remember that time? The knuckles? I remember that. Like, it's never going to go away. Oh, but then there was the eggs, eggs, eggs. I used to buy 15.
SPEAKER 04 :
but gasoline is way down. When I took over, you remember the big thing with eggs. They hit me the first week, eggs, eggs, eggs, like it was my fault. I said, I didn't cause this problem. This problem was caused by Biden. What's the problem with eggs? And they said, they've doubled. Well, eggs are down 87% since I got involved.
SPEAKER 12 :
I love it. Do you know one of the things, kind of a sidebar, an accompaniment to this, One of the reasons that Trump can get, there's two reasons that Trump can get away with roughhousing journalists that other politicians can't. Because he's very much a showman. And I think that was on stage. I think that was evident on stage last night. He really loves his audience and his audience loves him. But older people, I am jealous of you because you guys get to do whatever you want. And this is why Cain doesn't listen. So he thinks you're not innocent. He thinks you're not innocent. You're lying. It's because of this. Because he can, he's, you know, you give him a pass. He's like, oh, he's like a grandpa. Or, oh, they're like a Nana's age, right? Like they're, you give them a pass, right? It's just funny. And I feel like Terry Moran actually liked him. Did you see his expression in this interview? I mean, he wasn't smiling like he was being a wise eight double snakes. I think he liked him.
SPEAKER 15 :
He was thankful to be insulted.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, he was just happy to be there, man. However you want to kick him. I mean, Terry's... Terry! He's just happy for that big break, man.
SPEAKER 15 :
He's like, you guys are fake news. He's like, thank you.
SPEAKER 12 :
He's like, thank you. Thank you, Mr. President.
SPEAKER 15 :
By the way, ABC's the worst. He's like, thank you, Mr. President.
SPEAKER 12 :
Thank you. We are. Thank you, Mr. President. So great. They're so... Oh, they're so... Okay, here's another one where it got a little testy-testy. Audio Soundbite 11. They were arguing over fraud referrals from Doge.
SPEAKER 03 :
A legal note, fraud is a crime. There have been no referrals to the Justice Department on any of this. Well, you don't know that, do you?
SPEAKER 04 :
How do you know that? Have there been referrals? Why would you know that, that there were no referrals?
SPEAKER 03 :
I think there were referrals. There's been no investigation from the Justice Department.
SPEAKER 04 :
How do you know that? I'm asking you, sir. No, you're not asking me. You made a statement. You're not asking me. Now I'm asking you. That was a statement that you made. There have been. I'm asking you. Have there been? Yes, there have been.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, I mean, he did. He was like, okay, well, now I'm asking you. Okay, so you did make a statement. And then you're, okay, that's exactly, you just proved his point. Terry, what are you doing? What are you doing, Terry? My gosh. This is full. This is so crazy. I mean, this is one of the craziest interviews because he just said there. I really feel like he likes being kicked, man. He likes being kicked around. We got more of this. I also want to. So the because I told you I was going to follow up on this after headlines. So Trump had fired Doug Emhoff. The second gentleman, I don't know, that dude, Kamala's husband, Kamala was his second or third wife, I can't remember. Anyway, and he got fired from the Holocaust Council that governs the Holocaust Museum. Oh man, he was raging on the social media. He said, this is what he wrote. Here's his point, or his post, quote, Today I was informed of my removal from the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. Let me be clear. By the way, that is always a statement that a jack wagon is about to wagon jacks. That's what that means. He goes, let me be clear. Holocaust remembrance and education should never be politicized. To turn one of the worst atrocities, blah, blah, blah, wedge issue, dishonors, blah, blah, blah, Imhoff. So you did make it political, though. Like you made it political when you refused to condemn the targeting of Jewish students in college campuses all around the nation. You made it political when you refused to speak up for. the Americans and Jewish citizens that were kidnapped by Hamas in a terror atrocity. I mean, where was the he? These people get their panties in a wad more over Trump than they do over actual terrorists. So, yeah. And you know what? It's the president's discretion. It is up to his pleasure whether or not you are on a council or not. And I don't want this guy on the council. I'd rather have somebody that has a little bit of self-respect and doesn't slap women in a valet line. I'm just saying. Because, you know, remember, he did that. Okay, can I just sidebar one more time? I am fascinated by that whole dynamic because I'm sorry. I got a question I want to ask you on break because it's about his psyche. He just seems so beta. Yeah. Okay, let me do this. Let me cover my mouth. He seems like a... I don't know how... I don't... Should I say it public? Okay, I said he seems like a straight bottom. That's all I'm going to say. He just... And then you shake a lady around in a valet line. You slap her in a valet line. What kind of woman is with a weak man like that? Get slapped. And then he wants to be on. He should have been kicked off that council the moment that story came out. But, you know, what if, you know, we got that he was appointed by Biden to serve on that council because he married Kamala a couple of years ago. That's why. Oh, I said what I said. All right. We got more on the way. We got days of these United States. If you work long hours and struggle to wind down at night, you're not alone. Tossing and turning and waking up exhausted doesn't have to be the norm. Beam Dream Powder helps you fall asleep faster, sleep soundly through the night and wake up feeling refreshed. Beam Dream Powder is a clean, healthy nighttime blend made with ingredients backed by science. Reishi, magnesium, L-theanine, apigenin and melatonin. Apigenin helps calm your body and your mind for rest. L-theanine supports a smooth transition into deep sleep. And reishi and melatonin work to improve REM sleep quality. Beam is proudly American-made and run by people who value hard work, integrity, and results. Supporting companies like this matters because they're doing things the right way. You'll love how Dream tastes, and it's easy to make and actually effective. Over 17.5 million nights of sleep have been improved with Beam, and yours could be next. Try it for yourself. Visit shopbeam.com slash danashow and use code danashow for 40% off of your first order. That's shopbeam.com slash danashow. Code danashow for better sleep.
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Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States.
SPEAKER 05 :
Play chords and just hit the same ones.
SPEAKER 11 :
Go to another chord, just do the sloppy strum and go to another chord.
SPEAKER 12 :
So Neil Young is changing the lyrics of one of his songs and he's saying, you know, if you're a fascist, get a Tesla, etc. Now, I'm like, should I criticize him? Because the last time I did, Billboard and Pitchfork and Daily Beast and Newsweek went all in and we had a big fight because I said that his voice had the vocal tonality of a dying cow fart. And it does. And I'm not wrong.
SPEAKER 15 :
That's science.
SPEAKER 12 :
Now, my stepdad likes Neil Young, so don't be judging me. So, yeah, that's like one example of what happened. Like, that was in 2018. It went crazy. And, yeah, he was doing this Land of Yearling.
SPEAKER 15 :
Look at the picture of you they put in there.
SPEAKER 12 :
I was speaking at CPAC, and I love that jacket and shirt, by the way, and they got mad at me saying I look like a pirate. And I'm like, you know what? Screw you. I love that outfit, and I still have that exact same outfit because I keep my stuff for forever. And yeah, Neil Young was asked about it at I guess it was at South by Southwest. And he was like, why doesn't she just shoot me? I'm like, just good grief. But I yeah, my favorite was the subhead. She's repeatedly compared his voice to a dying cow fart. I did it one time, but now I'm going to do it like a million times. But he goes, I'm glad I got under her skin. And then he they told him they go, well, you she said that you sounded like a dying cow fart. And he goes, well, why doesn't she just shoot me? And he goes, he's like, I really don't want anybody to shoot me. Don't take it seriously. Shut up. But like, why? Like, why are you a fascist if you buy a Tesla? That's so stupid. I thought he was supposed to be smart. But then I saw him play guitar. I'm sorry if you love Neil Young. I mean, what I just played for you there. I'm just going to play the same five-cent chords. Down strumming, down, blah, blah. I mean, I can do that. Why are you laughing? It's true. Why is it if you buy a Tesla, you're a fascist? If you say that you're a fascist because you have a Tesla... you're short of some brain cells.
SPEAKER 15 :
It was only a year ago where it was, you're a climate terrorist if you don't own a Tesla.
SPEAKER 12 :
Like, make up your all's mind. Doesn't make any sense. We have a lot more on the way coming up. We've got more audio. Trump spoke last night. Also, GOP, we've got to talk about a couple things. And the Democrat rep who filed the impeachment articles, that guy, who I thought was going to be asking me for my credit card number, He got in trouble for animal abuse. Big time trouble. We're going to totally talk about all of that. So you don't want to miss it. We got a lot coming up. Second hour on the way. Stick with us. All family pharmacies. This is one of my favorite, favorite people to work with. And not just because I'm actually a customer. It's like that hair club for minting. Not only am I, I'm also the president. Well, I'm not the president, but I love what they do because medicines that you need, and especially those therapeutics that the government tried to prevent you from getting during lockdown. Well, they have all of it. They've got the ivermectin. They got the hydroxychloroquine. They have all of the antibiotics. They also have your everyday medications and they're affordable. It's simple and it's fast. If you don't have insurance, not an issue because they have very straightforward affordable pricing. Online ordering. Shipping is just two to four days. You can also do overnight in a pinch, which I have done before because, oh my gosh, I was getting strut throat over Thanksgiving. I thought I was going to die. And I'm like, I couldn't get to urgent care. There was a line. They got it to me overnight. And I was immediately able to start getting better and still host Thanksgiving. It was amazing. And not infect everybody. It was so nice. The other thing that I love is everything is made in the U.S. You can't... say that with other medications or the inputs from other medications. But you can say that with All Family Pharmacy. None of the stuff comes from either China nor India. It's all manufactured all from right here in the U.S. of A. So they have very high standards of quality and safety. Visit AllFamilyPharmacy.com slash Dana. Get 10% off with promo code Dana. Be prepared. Protect yourself and your family today with AllFamilyPharmacy.com slash Dana. Coupon code Dana10 to save 10%.
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He did so great. What's the problem over there? What's the problem? Is that a radical left lunatic? He's just a child. All right, get him out. Yeah. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, ma'am. I thought it was a guy. Thank you. And she now has to go home to a mother who's a big Trump fan. Her mother's watching. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I said he, and it's a she. I'm sorry.
SPEAKER 12 :
Now I really want to see what this person looks like. I really want to know. Like, let us also know, sir. Welcome back. It's a she. It's ma'am. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. Top of the second hour. POTUS was marking his first 100 days with a big Michigan rally. Now he's at the cabinet meeting. I didn't see Elon Musk there earlier, but he is there. We're going to play some audio here in a minute, but welcome back. You can listen all across the country. Channel 347, DirecTV is the stream. The chat's at RumbleX and YouTube and Facebook also. So, okay, they're at the cabinet meeting and everybody's got these hats. They all get these hats that say Gulf of America. Now, my question is, there's red hats and blue hats like Navy hats, Navy blue. Do they get both hats or did they just stagger them? The colors like that one, you know, red, blue, red, blue to, you know, look nice. Or do they each get a hat? Now, Elon Musk is wearing both of them. He's stacked the hats. He's got a hat stack. I sound like Christopher Walken. He's got a hat stack, King. And he was asked about that. POTUS was asking him at this cabinet meeting that they're at. So he's there. You know, all the media is going to be like the most upset with the fact that he's there. So this is this is him. He's got two hats and Trump asks him about it. Watch.
SPEAKER 04 :
Thank you very much. You know, I love the double head. But yeah, he's the only one that can do. Well, Mr. President, they say I wear a lot of hats.
SPEAKER 05 :
That's true.
SPEAKER 04 :
Even my hat has a hat.
SPEAKER 12 :
Those are like big hats, too, like the big. That style of hat used to not be popular. Now it is. Now everybody's wearing that style of hat. So he's there at the cabinet meeting. And hopefully I because I know that they've been talking about, you know, Department of the Interior has been speaking about fossil fuels and they've talked about deportation. And Trump has been talking about tax relief, which we're going to talk about some rhino stuff here coming up. Additionally, can we talk about this Democrat rep? So I tweeted about this this morning. I think it was this morning. Yeah, it was this morning. I'm pulling my tweet. I mentioned this this morning. I retweeted Chip Roy, who was on the show yesterday. And it was actually a response to something that he had said about the... The budget that they're having increase in Medicaid funding. House budget is instructing committees to increase Medicaid funding by 25 percent and increasing the debt to over 50 trillion. And I made the point, like we talked about yesterday, you know, if House Republicans are not going to cut spending, we're not going to get permanent tax cuts. And without tax cuts, voters are going to feel the pinch harder and they're going to rebel at midterms. And that's going to jeopardize the very razor thin majority that we have in the House. And then you're going to have the rest of POTUS's, the final part of his term, plagued with what this Fruit Loop is doing. So let's go to this Fruit Loop. So this dude, I don't even know who the hell this dude is. And I'm trying to figure out. I just, I'm questioning how he's serving in Congress. His name is Sheree Thanadar of Michigan. And he's announced that he's filed seven articles of impeachment against POTUS because he's mad that he deported that Maryland dad, you know. And he made doge cuts and all this stuff. What gets me is he made doge cuts without congressional approval. You stupid, illiterate moron. It's an audit, and then they present those findings to Doge. Is English his second language? Because I feel like, and I don't care if it's mean to say, if you're going to make accusations like this based on such a high level of stupidity, I get to ask if English is your second language. And if it is, this guy, I feel like he just doesn't understand how this works. Doge is not making cuts. They're presenting their findings to Congress and Congress makes cuts. And so he literally filed an article of impeachment based on his lack of understanding of that process, which is why I'm asking. I mean, because he's from India and I just it's fine if you're from India. But I mean, he just seems like he's fresh off the boat. Sorry, I'm just going to say it like he doesn't know what the hell's happening here. Can I be honest, Kane? Does that mean? And so this guy barely speaks English. And he's filing seven articles of impeachment. And some people, by the way, I've noticed that they're mostly conservative Hispanics that are saying this. Like one of my friends who said, yeah, we need to ban foreign born people from serving in Congress. Now, this is someone whose dad's from Mexico. Just saying. I just feel like this guy doesn't have an understanding of of. what Doge is doing or this process. That's why a lot of people are going, wait, what? Anyway, he filed these articles of impeachment. And, I mean, this is him right here, Audio Somebody 23. This is what he was talking about.
SPEAKER 02 :
This is Congressman Sri Thanedar. Donald Trump has already done real damage to our democracy by defying a unanimous 9-0 Supreme Court ruling that has to be the final straw. It's time we impeach Donald J. Trump. The court said the wrongfully deported Kilmer Garcia must be allowed to return and receive due process. Trump ignored it. He ignored the Constitution. This guy's 70 years old. He ignored the very checks and balances that keep our democracy intact. He's 70. This isn't an isolated incident. It's part of a dangerous, deliberate pattern. That's why.
SPEAKER 12 :
OK, I got to stop. Full stop. Dude, he's 70 years old.
SPEAKER 02 :
There's no way he's 70.
SPEAKER 12 :
When he came to the U.S., I was like a baby. He's 70 years old. And he lived in St. Louis in the 80s for a while, Cain. He was at Petrolite in St. Louis for a while, apparently. I'm saying all of this because... He is 70. Yeah, he's 70 years old. He's a vampire. No, he's not from India. He's a damn vampire. Okay, is that his hair?
SPEAKER 15 :
That was my next question. Is that his real hair?
SPEAKER 12 :
I don't care about anything else right now except this question. Hold up. I don't care. We're going to look. I don't know. Nothing in his biography talks about that. I just need to know. Hold it. You're going to bear. Everybody bear with me because that he's 70 years old. I don't believe him. Did he also get eyebrow implants along with the hair plugs? I'm curious. That is a. Everyone is asking, is it a wig? Some say it's a wig. I don't know if it's a wig or not. But it seemed it maybe it is. I don't I don't know. I've just got a million questions. Let's see this. So so a couple. So there's a couple of threads and a couple of pieces that say it is. He hasn't said publicly, but I'm sorry. You're actually I think he's 71. You're 71 years old. You're doing something. You're using a serum on the eyebrows and you got plugs or that's a wig. That's something I get. My grandfather, who had a thick head of hair, wouldn't even it wouldn't even like that. And he's got like ashy black as he got older. My grandpa had black hair, so he's got ashy black as he got older. So I am just stunned by this. It is stunning. Now, he first ran for governor of Michigan in 2018. Now, here's where we get going. Oh, boy. So let's I mean, it was fun to talk about his wig and the fact that he's a vampire. But is it a wig? I'm just thinking it is. OK, I'll let the chat weigh in and the chat can determine whether or not they think it's a wig or not. I say wig because there is no way. No way. I have friends from India and I and I know their parents and their hair is not even like that. Like that, like consistently all over dark. He didn't even have a gray highlight. I don't believe you are a vampire or a liar. And that's a wig. I don't know. Anyway, so my whole point of bringing this up is he has some scandals. as it were. He's a business owner, and now there's allegations of animal abuse. He had, I guess, he owned and operated a bankrupt animal testing lab. And in 2018, the Huffington Post, you know, that beacon of conservatism, the Huffington Post, reported that there were approximately 170 dogs and monkeys that had to be rescued in 2010 from one of his pharmaceutical testing labs. And they had to shutter the facility, Annie Klin Preclinical Services. They went bankrupt in 2010. He abandoned them in the facility. They shut the door and left the animals to die. They left the animals to die in cages alone without food and water. I'll say it again. This guy who's talking about impeaching POTUS, this Sheree Thanadar, born in India, from Michigan, he had approximately 170 dogs and monkeys in his pharmaceutical testing lab. And when he went bankrupt, they left the animals in the cages, shut the door and left. These animals, there were some lab workers that were jumping the bankrupt lab's fences to bring food and water to the animals. There's video that I can't even watch because I will fly to Michigan and personally kick his ass. The Times-Herald said that some of these dogs had never been outside. They were only subjected to, and I actually don't like animal testing. I think that tests on people on death row, because everybody knows what the consequences are if you commit capital offenses. Okay, well, you know, let's save testing on animals. Let's test on rapists and pedophiles. I'm totally, I think we should actually, no, don't use animals for testing. Test on rapists and pedophiles. But these animals, they, like some of them never had their paws on the grass. They were terrified to be in the sun. They were terrified to be outside. They had a California-based group called Indefensive Animals that went through and they were saving these animals. And there's a lot of video. There's a lot of video of it, of him, of these animals being rescued. It's horrific. Absolutely horrific. And this was Huffington Post, a liberal entity, wrote about this. And they used, they tested, they did horrible tests on these animals. And I just, I mean, it breaks your heart. I think he should be deported on that alone, personally. See, I'm telling you, I know we got to get moving, but that's, that's the guy who now wants to impeach POTUS. 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 We'll be right back. That's 1-800-4-RELIEF. With their pain-free trial, you can get a three-week quick start for only $19.95. Call 1-800-4-RELIEF or visit relieffactor.com.
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick 5.
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According to the Financial Times, Cain, the Danes are boycotting the Coca-Cola. Oh, the local brand is soaring 13-fold in March. It's because, you know, the tariffs. According to the Coca-Cola Carlsberg that bottles the U.S. brand in the country, they're saying that Danish shoppers are protesting against Donald Trump's foreign policy. They're saying that the Coca-Cola volumes are slightly down. It's just fun to do that accent. They said that, yes, the Danes are mad. Remember, they remember the Danish body soldiers coming home and they feel disrespected. And so now you can see why it's a boycott to so popular, Kane.
SPEAKER 15 :
Just for the record, I don't believe a word of this story. None of it.
SPEAKER 12 :
I don't either, but I don't know. I mean, they're saying brand nationalism. Didn't they make... Wait. Remember when people made fun of the U.S. like in the early odds for Freedom Fries? I don't want to hear a single thing. Great summer sale. All right. We also have. OK, type five diabetes. What is that?
SPEAKER 15 :
Because I haven't heard of three or four yet.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, what is that? They said that International Diabetes Federation is officially recognizing a disease that's not linked to obesity but malnutrition as type 5 diabetes. Wouldn't that just be malnutrition? So why is it type 5? What am I missing? I don't understand. I don't know.
SPEAKER 15 :
Just not thinking deep enough.
SPEAKER 12 :
so we can make more pills for it, Dana. That's why. Gotta make more pills than injections. It's just weird. I've never heard of any, I don't know. Can we talk about the rats? The ritzy rats of New York City? It's like that Desperate Housewives, but ritzy rats. They're saying ritzy rats are just, are like destroying people's homes, chewing up cars, trash bins, and playgrounds. Valley of the Rats on the Upper West Side. Residents are afraid to venture out at night. Ooh, it sounds like a horror movie needs to be written. Stick with us. As we move, our partners that will bring you the program. It's our friends over at Super Beats, the Super Boreen, which is a great product if you're paying attention to your metabolism and controlling your sugar levels as well. And Super Boreen will change the way you think about it. You're going to feel balanced and energized. It's plant-based, doctor-formulated. It has a unique form of berberine and Italian olive fruit extracts. You have an additional antioxidant element and cardiovascular support. The unique berberine is clinically studied to deliver nearly 10 times higher absorption than standard berberine. You get all these benefits in one highly concentrated, easy-to-swallow capsule that you can take once daily, and it includes grapeseed extract for greater tolerability. Visit Sam's Club to restock your heart health support with Super Beats Heart Shoes and expand your routine. with a 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. Snack this offer at Sam's Club while it lasts. Start today, get on the road to better cardiovascular health support.
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SPEAKER 04 :
Great. Jeff Bezos was very nice. He was terrific. He solved the problem very quickly. And he did the right thing. And he's a good guy.
SPEAKER 12 :
So good. I mean, they pretty much I guess it's like. all said and done at this point, the whole Amazon thing. And we talked about that yesterday. It was for Amazon hall, which we didn't even know existed. And so they were denying that it was ever going to be Amazon wide, all Amazon. And apparently POTUS was mad. If you get my Wednesday, if you get my radio prep email, that's, uh, I had that in there. Like he apparently was mad. He called Bezos after learning about it. And now Amazon says the tariff cost for displays was never considered for the main site. They said nothing has been implemented and they ruled out displaying it. So apparently that's done. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. I got a couple of other things to get to. We're going to talk about some cultural stuff. But can we talk about red state rhino hunting? We need to discuss what's happening in Texas right now. All right. So did you guys hear about the meme bill? This is one of the goofiest things. This isn't the first time. So let me just set this up. This isn't the first time that I've seen. or that lawmakers have tried to, I guess, regulate memes. That's the word that I want. This is not the first time that they've tried to regulate memes. They've tried to do this, remember, federally before. Isn't that, Cain, when they had the, who's that annoying theater kid? The Ministry of Whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they were going to have, like they were going to try to regulate memes or something like that. And they kept saying, oh, it's for AI purposes. You know, we just were trying to protect you for AI. That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life. So no, that's not. So what happened is the Texas House, they passed a bill. It took 30 seconds with no debate. And it is a bill that actually inadvertently would criminalize political memes. Texas Scorecard writes that courts have routinely struck down these laws that try to regulate political discourse, right? Because First Amendment has pretty strong protections. It's House Bill 366. And it would make it a crime to distribute altered media, including political memes, without a government-approved disclaimer. And people who violate this could face up to a year in jail. Anyone who tries to enforce this on me in Texas, we are going to have a Waco-style knockdown drag out in Southlake. So I'm done with this stuff. Oh, I'm not joking. I'm not being hyperbolic like you. You want to push people who are good people to the point where they become criminals for criticizing bad lawmakers. If you want a civil war, that's how you start civil wars. I'm not saying this lightly. I am so sick of sick of these people. The drunk schmuck who's the House speaker. And by the way, Dade Phelan, this is his bill. We've invited him on this show and he won't come on the show. Right, Kane? We've invited him on the show. He won't come.
SPEAKER 15 :
Back when the Texas AG was under impeachment and it was largely led by his drunken antics then, he wouldn't come on, wouldn't respond.
SPEAKER 12 :
Right. So they had the State Affairs Committee. They're taking out this bill. And it's by the former Speaker of the House. And they took it up and it was alongside a couple of other pieces of legislation. It specifically targets political advertising that, quote, features image, audio recording or video recording of an officeholder or candidate's appearance, speech or conduct that did not occur in reality. The broad language is what's dangerous. So it would allow the Texas Ethics Commission, they have the authority to determine the specific format, the font, the size of the font, and the color of the required disclaimer. Yeah, it is one of the stupidest bills. And the fact that the Texas House has taken this up, the most powerful committee has taken this up. I mean, it's unconstitutional. So remember the drunk Dade stuff. So Dade Phelan, when he was speaker of the House, there was a lot of video of him out there slurring when he was trying to, you know, preside over the House. And everybody made fun of him. And they called him drunk Dade Phelan, drunk Dade. And apparently it made him mad. And he just he's you know, I've been really I've not been really I mean, I've I've criticized him, which for some of these lawmakers, that's enough. If you criticize them, people like Dade Phelan, they sit here and act like, oh, it's so bad for Trump defenders to defend Trump, even if there's rightful criticism of him. But Dade Phelan does the same damn thing. You can't criticize him for anything or you are, you know, persona non grata. So even when I was polite, we invited him on the show. They wouldn't have anything to do with us. We're the biggest talk show in Texas. And we're also literally in hundreds of markets across the nation. We are the number one broadcast in the nation in the afternoon. No one touches us. And we own this time slot. And he won't have anything to do with this because I've been critical. So I'm done being nice about it. If you're not going to come on, then OK, I'm not going to be nice and polite. You know, it's time to not be nice. If you're going to try to criminalize people's speech because you're drunk ass made a fool of yourself, then you deserve to be dragged. And this legislation, think about the implications that go far beyond political advertising. Imagine that you want to share a meme on Facebook. A meme, an image where you're joking around. Oh boy, is Texas Ethics Commission going to come and knock on your door because you didn't have drunk dates? Preferred government acknowledgement, the little disclaimer on your... on your meme. I've read the bill. So for all of the wise asses out there who want to go, well, did you read the bill? I read the bill and I probably have better reading comprehension and I'm smarter and better looking than the people who would criticize me for disagreeing with them. Dade surrogates on this bill. I've read it. It's garbage. It's anti first amendment garbage. And there are a number of Texas Republicans that voted for it. Maybe it's because they want some of drunk Dade's money. I don't know, you know, because that's what these lawmakers do is they they get a lot of campaign cash for themselves and then they spread it around. I was looking at some of these. My rep voted against it, but there are I'll publish a list on we're going to publish the list on Substack. Of all the Republican lawmakers in Texas that decided to vote for this. If you vote, I'm pretty hardcore on first and second amendment. If you vote against me, against my interest one time, one time on first and second amendment, you're dead to me. These are issues where I rarely allow. Oh, it's all. Sure, I'll forgive. But that doesn't mean I welcome you back into my war room. Doesn't mean that you're back in my confidence. They betray you once on such a crucial issue. They will screw you over again and again. That is a basic issue that should not even be up for debate. And if they can't even get that right, they're no good. They're trash. This is a major, major First Amendment concern. And of course, these are the same lawmakers that have been trying to vote away our Second Amendment rights as well. I mean, we have all kinds. I mean, they've got all kinds of House bills. They've been blocking pro-gun bills. They've been dragging their feet on banning red flag law. They've been dragging their feet. For instance, self-defense protections, House Bill 170. They've been dragging their feet on a number of like Cole Hefner, his committee, Representative Cole Hefner. He's in the fifth district. They've been dragging these bills. I'm done with it. This is nonsense. And this meme bill is one of the stupidest things I've ever seen in my life. It would imprison people for a year if a meme doesn't have a disclaimer. And Dade Phelan is doing it for revenge. Now, people are trying to argue, well, this is really pertaining to advertising. Really? Then why doesn't it exclude any non-political advertising material in the verbatim language of the bill? Feel free to try to gaslight that one away. It's done for a purpose. And I've seen it. It's not just broadcast political advertising. They're talking about the intent to influence an election. And the language specifically says if they are distributing broadcast political advertising. It's not saying that it's limited to broadcast political advertising. I feel like there are some of our brethren that struggle with reading comprehension. And that's probably because their lips are too close to Dade Phelan's backside, so they really can't see the full bill. Don't you agree, Kane? I think that's the truth. What they're talking about with this is, and I'm reading the bill right now, intent to influence an election knowingly caused to be published, distributed, or broadcast. So it's published, distribution, or broadcast. Talking about images, audio recordings, video recordings. And it mentions an officeholder or candidate's appearance, speech, or conduct that did not occur in reality. You have to have a disclosure on all of it, not just political advertising. And if people dispute that, this is what the law, this is what the proposal states. Your beef isn't with me. It's with the drunk lawmakers that lack the writing ability to clearly articulate the difference in writing in legislation in Austin. You don't want a war with me over your stupidity and your reading, lack of reading comprehension. So take it to the lawmakers that wrote the bill. This is stupid. This is one of the dump. This is their priority. They're fighting. They're not giving us relief on our property taxes, but they're going to do this. Seriously. You rat bastards. This is what they're focusing on. All because some lawmaker was butthurt that people made fun of him because he was slurring his speech when he was at the microphone at the dais and he was pushing a very unpopular bill at the same time. This is just, it's insulting, it's unconstitutional, and it's un-American. Now they're trying to say, oh no, we're protecting people from AI. And again, I'm reading it. To influence an election knowingly caused to be published, distributed, or broadcast political advertising that includes an image, audio recording, video recording of an officeholder or candidate's appearance, speech, or conduct that did not occur in reality, including image, audio recording, video recording that has been altered using generative artificial intelligence technology, unless the political advertising includes a disclosure from the person or another person on whose behalf the political advertising is published, distributed, broadcast, indicating that the blah, blah, blah. Now, people are... Oh, again... Oh, but it's political advertising. You can share political advertising on your own personal pages and there are no exemptions and there is no, absolutely no opt-out. There's no exemptions. If you're sharing the image, you fall under the scope of this proposal. It's not limited. And if you take issue with that, then you probably struggle with the same lack of alcohol-induced absence of reading comprehension that the former speaker does. I mean, I can show these folks to the door, but you can't make them walk through it, right? I mean, this is insane. And I don't know. They're trying to regulate political expression in Texas, but they have no limitations on donations and spending. Interesting. Interesting. I mean, it's insane that people voted for this at all. And it's all because the former speaker was embarrassed that he got made fun of. That's what this is all about. So I'm going to publish this up on, I'll have it up on Substack. And then all of the yeses that are on this, all of these Republicans, there's all the good guys voted no. All the good guys voted no. Louderback voted no. You had, let's see, Schatzlein voted no. All of my, Briscoe Cain voted no. I mean, all the good guys voted no in Texas legislature. But all the bad ones, and there's a lot of them, they all voted yes. Including Giovanni Capriglione, who represents me. He's a rhino. He's rude. He was really rude to me one time. Giovanni Capriglione was incredibly rude to me and my husband one day. And I'm not over it. I'm like, you're a lawmaker. You need to have a little bit better social graces in what you're demonstrating. And I I even one time when he was pushing the Texas gold reserves, they were really they were demanding to come on the show. Oh, my gosh. Can you remember this? They were sending us all kinds of requests. I save every email. So if they want to dispute this, I will bury you in receipts. So don't. But they wanted to come on the show. Oh, let us on the show. Let us on the show. We'd love to talk about this. Oh, can you promote what Giovanni's doing? Can you promote what he's doing? Can you promote? Oh, I had him on one time. Then he was just real rude afterwards. Really rude. He's a rude guy. He, of course, he voted yes on this. So I'm going to publish this up at Substack, chapter and verse. But this this was a middle finger to voters. They don't care about your property relief, your property tax relief. They don't care. They don't care about it. You'll have a Texas majority in the legislature, but they're going to put Democrats on committees and they're going to try to hamstring you on First Amendment nonsense. It's asinine. But you know what? You know, the the the saying that we were joking about a couple of years ago, try that in a small town. You try enforcing this with people like me. And you see where it gets you. We got a lot more on the way because this isn't done yet. 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It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man.
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I had, I think I had this story last week, but there's an update to it. The guy who jumped into the water to save a bald eagle, So it was an alligator infested lake that he jumped in. Now, we didn't have that. I wanted to add that to the story. The Florida man who swam into a lake to rescue a struggling bald eagle because he got into a fight with another eagle and it had a hole in its talon or a hole in its wing. And they were like punctured. It was horrible. And the guy dove into the water to save it and they rehabilitated it. So, yeah, it's an alligator infested lake.
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Became the most American story that we've had all day today.
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Yeah, it is. That's the most amazing thing. Doug Hay should get a medal. That man should get a medal because his wife apparently was terrified. She's the one who took the footage of it because there was like a seven foot gator that they just saw apparently that morning.
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She's sane.
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a very good defense hopefully a great defense secretary but he'll be a very good defense secretary you have a hundred percent confidence in i don't have a hundred percent confidence in anything okay anything do i have a hundred percent it's a stupid question look uh it's pretty important i have no no no you don't have a hundred percent only a liar would say i have a hundred percent confidence i don't have a hundred percent confidence that we're going to finish this interview
SPEAKER 12 :
Man, I love it. That's good. It's very good. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you. Oh my gosh. So we got a lot.
SPEAKER 15 :
Is it just me? He's more stoic now with the media.
SPEAKER 12 :
No, he's not.
SPEAKER 15 :
It's coming off better.
SPEAKER 12 :
I think he's still the same, but he's more in there.
SPEAKER 15 :
Remember, wasn't it the Axios interview that he did that seemed to take him off the rails towards the end of his first term? And it was because he got all rattled and he was all responding to these gotcha type questions from Axios. And I think...
SPEAKER 12 :
he's learned a lot from that i think now that when he's handling the media he's way more stoic than he used to be and it comes off i think better for everyone watching for me at least it does yeah i mean i i just think that he's i i like the way that he handled this guy uh who looked at him like with a sense of wonderment and like he didn't know quite what was happening the terry moran terry i'm never gonna get over it what are you doing terry oh my gosh Welcome back. Dana Lash with you at the top of this third hour, actually. I got a couple of things, including one piece that I had over at Substack as well. I wanted to touch on, I'm sure you guys, I sent this out. Did I send this out? Yeah, yesterday. The DNC vice twerp. That hog kid, he might lose his seat as the vice twerp of the DNC. So apparently, per reports, the credentials committee is meeting virtually in May to consider the challenge from Kaylin Free. She is a Native American attorney and party activist who lost a vice chair spot to hog at the party's February 1st meeting. And her complaint says, She argued that she lost a, quote, fatally flawed election that violated the DNC charter and discriminated against three women of color candidates and asks for two new vice chair elections. Oh, this is delicious. So they're going to identity each other, identity politic each other to death. Now, I actually am not surprised at this because I think he is a horrible vice twerp of the DNC. When you're a committee and it's the same for the Republican National Committee. When you are the vice chair, you have to operate within the construct of the committee, right? And the committee exists to get other party types elected, right? He has spent all of his time running down party leadership, giving the middle finger to party superiors, refusing counsel, and he has repeatedly demanded that the DNC involve itself in primary fights, which is a major no-no. Politico had this. He's he he wanted to spend committee money to take down Democrats he didn't like. And. I mean, that's crazy. They they wanted to spend 20 million dollars to go after incumbent Democrats in safe districts. And he goes, I want us to win the majority. That's what he would say. That's not how you you absolute moron. You flip. You're not going to. Going after safe incumbents, that's not how you expand your seats. You go to purple districts and you flip them that way. But that's not what he wanted. I think he is one of the dumbest people alive. I really do. It's embarrassing. And so clearly, you know, you had the other powers that be in the DNC go, yeah, that's not what we do. We get Democrats elected. We don't persecute Democrats. That's a big no-no. Everybody knows that the committees exist to promote party leaders for elections. They don't persecute party members during petty primary fights. They sure as hell don't imperil safe Democrat seats like he was demanding. Of course, you know, he once accused yours truly of literally, quote, owning Congress and, quote, supporting child murderers. So he's not the brightest crayon in the box. He really wanted to use this. He just wanted to use the DNC as a vehicle for self-promotion. Just like he did with the AstroTurf group March for Our Lives. I think he needs to go back to selling pillows. You know, to this point, I wanted to make another point on this. Like I was having a conversation with a friend of mine who's in Congress and the topic came up of Kristi Noem. And, you know, I'm ambivalent. I don't dislike her, but I'm not a fan. Does that make sense? I'm just like middle of the road. Now, I don't care if you dress up as long as you're doing your job. If you do your job and you're deporting baddies, then I don't care if you go to... spirit Halloween every damn day and get a new outfit for everything. I don't care. I don't care if you shave Aslan and then put his headdress on as your latest extensions. I don't care what you do. I literally don't care. I don't care how many Gucci bags you have. I don't care. As long as you're doing your job, you are free to just do whatever you want in my opinion. That's me. Just serve the taxpayer and I'm cool. One thing I don't like though are all these ads and I was very critical of these ads. Have you seen them on Fox? They're everywhere. That costs and Fox isn't cheap. It's like six figures a month to have an ad campaign on Fox. And I can't remember the bare minimum that you have to sign up for. I think there's like a minimum. Those are our tax dollars. And it's just her face talking the whole time with footage behind her. She's running dangerously close to having it look like a promotional vehicle for her instead of informing the taxpayer about what DHS is doing. And I would advise them to reconsider all of that. The video that Trump played at the Michigan rally last night was really making me think about this. I don't know if you guys were not. We don't need to play it because there's music behind it. I'm sure it's licensed. But he had a video when he was talking about deportation and it was showing all the trend or agua guys that were taken back to Senko. Right. That's the name of the jail that were taken back to the big jail. and taken to the El Salvador jail. Turned to Aragua, MS-13, all these dudes, going back to this big bad jail in El Salvador. And they had the music and it was great aggressive music. And they get these guys off the plane. They're in cuffs and they bend their heads down. They don't even get the dignity of walking with their heads up. They bend them over and they just march them right into the vehicles. And man, they get them out of there and take them to Senko. It's really amazing to watch. And he had all this like them busting these rings and pulling people over and arresting all illegal aliens that are vicious criminals. And he played that, and I'm like, that's what you need to show. I don't need to see Kristi Noem's face magnified times 50, barely being able to see the footage behind her. Because, again, it seems like a promotional vehicle for herself. Just show the stuff. I mean, if you're going to cut ads, then do that. But I don't even think that you need to spend that kind of six-figure taxpayer money on an ad campaign like that, because they're running PSAs, y'all. That's not how that is working with them. And I don't think you need to spend taxpayer money to do that when you have the proliferation of... When you have the ability to viralize it, for the lack of a better way to put it, throughout social media. Do you know what I mean? All Trump has to do is tweet it and he can just bypass all of these old... You don't even need that. Why are we not saving taxpayer dollars? That... That doesn't make any sense. So I caution them on that ground. A couple of other things. Culture. We have another fight with the J.K. Rowling trans stuff. So they're doing a Harry Potter reboot because Hollywood's out of ideas. And they have a new Harry Potter series that they are doing. And we've talked a little bit about it before. And they were casting... It's the HBO series. And they have a new batch of actors playing all of the original roles. And John Lithgow is all this Dumbledore. And they have Mark Rylance, who's apparently going to be... And he's really good. He's in... Wolf Hall. He's really good. He's apparently going to be cast in it. And I think you've got a couple of British actresses. I think Rachel Weisz is taking over as well. She's going to be I think she's going in. I think she's taking a role in it, too. And they Nick Frost is Hagrid. That's a good cast. And everybody was critical of the guy, Papa Isidore, that they cast as Severus Snape. And it's not about race. It's because Severus Snape is if you're not familiar with the story, Severus Snape, he was a baddie in the beginning and he was running around with Voldemort and the Death Eaters. And the Death Eaters are basically the Ku Klux Klan, the Nazis and all. It's a it's a archetype of every bad guy ever. Right. It's and they all look a certain way for a reason. So it's, you know, an archetype of every bad guy. And it all comes down to the worst identity politics, right? Identity politics is putting race and all of that above everything else. The Death Eaters were considered pure and everyone else who wasn't pure were called mudbloods. And it was very important that Severus Snape looked the way he was because that was part of his identity. It's like having Dave Chappelle play a Klan member. Right. Like in the in his Chappelle show. I mean, that's a joke. So they have an African actor who is playing Severus Snape and it completely. takes that whole huge part of Severus Snape's moral compromise out. And it ruins the character because he is pale and he's this. That's like very emphasized in the story, not as a positive. He uses it as a cudgel against everyone else who is less than. So you are rewriting her story. by blackwashing that character. It's like having Mulan played by Paris Hilton. No offense, but you see what I'm saying? You're retconning something about a character that makes them who they are. And that is actually offensive to the original story, and it dumbs down why he's so scary, why he's so shifty, why he's so untrustworthy, why he's so dangerous. And that was one of the she's reacted to that. And he's just decided, I guess he's going to go into this full jack wagon because he has signed this letter on trans rights. It was an open letter supporting trans rights against J.K. Rowling. And he's already really feeling his oats. Right. Like he's you know, he signs this letter and he like they went went directly against. I'm not saying you don't have your own viewpoints. But to immediately spit in the face of the person who created your living is an entitlement that only certain people... It's an indulgence, an entitlement that's an indulgence for only certain people. And... I think some people, when they do stuff like this, they wrap themselves in identity politics as a way to deflect accountability for their stupid decisions and rudeness and ridiculousness. I'm not going to watch this series. It already sounds like trash. And it's sad because some of the cast is good. But that's one of the cast members that his story and his appearance... Play very much. It's like it's like redoing the story of Hitler and having like a and kind of and having every somebody that that personified everything that he was against play him. You undercut the dangerousness of the bad guy and you dole down the redemptive arc that he has later. I just think it's stupid that they're doing this stuff. I'm going to tell you something. It is so easy to steal somebody's title. It's crazy easy, especially now with AI and in this cyber world. I mean, it is a top crime and we have scammers out there stealing people's home titles because your equity is the target. They can forge your signature on one document, use a fake notary stamp, pay a small fee with your county. And then the next thing you know, your title has been transferred out of your name. And one forged signature is all it takes. You're not even going to know that it happened. And then the real damage starts because they use your equity to take out all these loans. They can even sell your property outright. 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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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How does this happen? A student that was rescued from Mount Fuji climbed, left his phone, totally forgot his phone and had to climb back up to get it. A 27 year old Chinese student who lives in Japan was rescued twice in one week. But they didn't say whether or not he found his phone. In Japan, it produced a wave of criticism. They're mad, not that he had to be rescued, but that he had to be rescued literally twice in one week. The first time, they got a call of help from him, and then he got altitude sickness. And then the second time, four days later, he went back up there because he left his phone. And he was trying to find some of his other belongings. And they had to go get him again. This guy sounds like a moron who should not hike anymore, I feel like. Champagne protects the heart from cardiac arrest. I mean, that's this very... I'm going to believe it. It's from Shanghai, but still. I'm going to believe this study because it just confirms what I want to believe. Champagne and white wine. So, yeah, it's science. Fermented liquids. So I really feel like we need to have more of these to protect our hearts. You know. Oh, man. A child damages. This painting looks stupid, though. A $56 million painting at a Netherlands museum.
SPEAKER 15 :
It's basically... Somebody paid $56 million for this?
SPEAKER 12 :
Juan's going to show you. It's three blocks of color, and it's $56 million. It looks stained. I could make it and just charge you $56,000. That's a steal. I will make the same thing, and it's only $56,000.
SPEAKER 15 :
Somebody took a panel off of a poorly painted wall?
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Hey, give us your two cents on this story. It's all systems go for a controversial new program in Michigan aimed at bringing down the Canada goose population. As the state prepares to round up and gas the geese to death, animal rights groups are calling foul over this and demanding answers.
SPEAKER 12 :
Gassing geese. What the heck? So they think the best way to get their geese population under control isn't to have hunters handle it. You know, maybe give some, I don't know, like hunters out and get some licenses going, you know, increase the license. I don't know. No, they're going to gas them. So does the gas only work for just the geese? Is it just the geese gas? Because there's... Now, bear with me. In nature, there are other animals out there with the geese in nature. That's true. So is this a particular type of geese gas that only gases geese?
SPEAKER 15 :
No, I think they were going to round them up and then gas them in a... Like a chamber of some sort.
SPEAKER 12 :
I mean, they could hunt them because geese are tasty.
SPEAKER 15 :
Also, they're migratory. Do Canada geese just hang around? Is that what they're having problems with?
SPEAKER 12 :
They're leaving because they probably want to get out of there because Mark Carney.
SPEAKER 15 :
But they can't just wait until they fly away, like South?
SPEAKER 12 :
I don't know, man.
SPEAKER 15 :
They're just passing through. They're Canadian geese.
SPEAKER 12 :
Michigan's too close. Yeah. I don't know, man. They're Canadian geese.
SPEAKER 15 :
Are they not good eating?
SPEAKER 12 :
They said that there's a handful of lake... It's like what? Lakefront homeowners that are upset with the population and they want them exterminated for convenience.
SPEAKER 15 :
What? No, that's the reason?
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 15 :
So people bought property lakefront and are upset at Animals using that lake.
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Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
So it is, I was, they're going to, and then they're just going to take the dead geese to a landfill. That's Fox two Detroit that reported that.
SPEAKER 15 :
So this was the idea they landed on and this is the one they said that, no, it's a, it's an approved euthanasia method.
SPEAKER 12 :
They said they're making a mess on the sidewalks and they get in the way of golf swings. I am literally being so honest right now. I am reading the story verbatim. It's the hot new state, Michigan, where we gas geese that get involved in your golf swing. I personally am not a fan of the geese, except for eating, because they're jerks.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, geese can be jerks.
SPEAKER 12 :
I... So... Kind of an accompanying story to this. For whatever reason, geese hate me. You know I have a problem with certain animals, right? Goats, chimpanzees. I kicked a skunk once because I swear to you it hissed at me. In my defense, I was three.
SPEAKER 15 :
Do not do that.
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And I thought it was a cat that was going to attack me. I do kind of sort of hazily remember it. I was, again, like three or four. Anyway, but one time, a sweet listener sent me a pair of pink sparkly shoelaces because they heard my heart-wrenching story about how one day at the St. Louis Zoo, a goat ate the pink shoelaces off of my tennis shoes and I was heartbroken. Like literally ate them out, slurped them up like a noodle. It's crazy. I know, we had to get tape. Just like tape my shoe on my foot. It was so weird. I felt like a hobo. I was walking around the zoo for the rest of the day like a hobo with a hobo foot. I don't even, it was crazy. And then I did tell you the story of when I got into, most of you heard this, the slap fight with the chimp, right? My neighbor that, yes, they were affiliated with that Festus family that did that documentary. And I, it was a juvenile chimp in a diaper and it tried to like throw stuff at me from its diaper. And I just, and it pinched me and I slapped it without knowing, you know, I was young that it could pull my face off. Anyway, you know, we've got an issue with Seminos. Geese, for whatever reason, hate me. If I am at like a lake or a pond or whatever and there's geese nearby, I just got to leave because I don't even do anything. I'm just there existing. And the geese are like, and they don't like it. And they just come at me. They run at me. Every time. Without fail. Without fail. They will run at me and ignore the smaller children that are nearby. I don't know what it is. Dogs love me. Geese hate me because they're the cats of the air. Anyway, I don't know, man. It's just what they do. But I don't want to gas them. I do not want to gas them because that is jerk, a jerk move. And also, I would rather eat them.
SPEAKER 15 :
Are they good eating? I'm not sure.
SPEAKER 12 :
I've had goose before.
SPEAKER 15 :
Canadian goose?
SPEAKER 12 :
I mean, a goose is a goose, isn't it?
SPEAKER 15 :
Is it? No. I think there's different geese out there.
SPEAKER 12 :
I was going to make a joke.
SPEAKER 15 :
Probably shouldn't. Because when I think goose, it's like the big old fluffy white one. They're not as big as swans, but they're geese.
SPEAKER 12 :
Because it got meat.
SPEAKER 15 :
You can eat it. Canadian geese are not that. So I don't know if they're good eating or not.
SPEAKER 12 :
I'll eat it. Put a... I mean squirrel, though, so... The one thing I haven't eaten and won't is raccoon because it looks greasy as all get out. My grandpa used to go raccoon hunting all the time. Yeah, I don't eat any little greasy marsupial bandit-looking things. I don't like those. I mean, I'll eat most things, but I'm very selective still at the same time. If it's greasy and it's like an animal that would probably rob me, I'm not going to eat it. So anyway... They said that they've been talking to these waterfowl experts. They said they want to... I mean, they've relocated geese before, but they said it's not sustainable to do that. So they're going to gas them.
SPEAKER 15 :
They're migratory birds. What are you relocating? They're migratory.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah. Right? By the way, this is what an expert, a water... I'm reading this. This is from Fox 2, Detroit. A waterfowl expert with the Michigan Duck and Rescue Sanctuary... This is pretty hardcore. I mean, it's thundering out there because God doesn't like this story. So this is what they said. They go, yeah, it's kind of a disgusting way of doing it. When they gas them, they're going to tell people that they're just going to fall asleep. Nothing is going to fall asleep. It's going to fight for 20, 30, 40 minutes until it dies. That's the direct quote. I'm sending you this. I'm dropping the story. This is the actual direct quote. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, go down there and check that. So, yeah, they're not going to fall asleep. They're going to die horribly after a while. That's what's going to happen.
SPEAKER 15 :
Because they're being geese?
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah. They're just there. That's so sad. I would rather it be humanely harvested from nature via a hunter. For me to eat or someone to eat. Are there no hungry people in Michigan?
SPEAKER 15 :
I mean, it's like a wolf came up with this idea.
SPEAKER 12 :
The wolves are fine with them being gassed. I just and they said that, you know, these are it has to be a problematic site. So now the state of Michigan is like, oh, hold up, because people are like, you're going to do what? So they're saying now, wait a minute. It's a last resort, everybody. And they're going to be problematic sites. So, see, it doesn't totally sound like they're just going to round them up and take them somewhere.
SPEAKER 05 :
It doesn't.
SPEAKER 12 :
It sounds like they're going to get a Call of Duty god gun and just blast some geese gas out in the atmosphere and just, you know, hope it doesn't hit anything else.
SPEAKER 15 :
What were the other resorts? If this is the last resort, what were the other resorts?
SPEAKER 12 :
What are the other resorts? Well, SHU didn't work.
SPEAKER 15 :
We tried poison for a couple months. That didn't do anything.
SPEAKER 12 :
I mean, good heavens. So I've got a lot of questions about this. Like, why can't they, again, just, you know.
SPEAKER 15 :
Are they good eating?
SPEAKER 12 :
I mean, it's a little gamey, but, you know.
SPEAKER 15 :
That's the question. If they're good eating, then we need to think about something like that.
SPEAKER 12 :
But they said they're nuisance geese, and everybody's been pushing back on it. And I think it just sounds dumb.
SPEAKER 15 :
So is that the new threshold for gassing things? They're nuisances?
SPEAKER 12 :
I mean, if we're going to roll with that... Can we extend it to peoples? Because, you know.
SPEAKER 15 :
No, no one's evolving to that.
SPEAKER 12 :
Like for people that have bad taste or wear, you know, high-waisted jeans. Or think that, you know, yes, platform shoes don't make your feet look like Clydesdale's women.
SPEAKER 15 :
Look what Gassing Geese has already got you thinking about. No, this is bad.
SPEAKER 12 :
They said that some people see them as a lakeside pest. But yeah, it's basically the people who live by the lake. The fancy people who live by the lake that don't like the geese interfering with their golf swing.
SPEAKER 15 :
What's their next thing? Killing all the fish? What do they have against nature that nature existing and nature is enough to gas them?
SPEAKER 12 :
I don't know, but I just feel like there's other things that they could do maybe. I feel like they have not gotten to the last resort. They ought to feel lucky that the geese want to live there. I'm just, you know, like instead of being like, oh, these are nuisance animals. How nice is it that they want to be here with us? That's so sweet. But they're not. They're being jerks about it. So, yeah, gas and geese. I this is about as smart as Adam Schiff. Audio somebody 30. He's filing legislation to ban a fictional firearm. Listen.
SPEAKER 07 :
Today I will be introducing the Assault Weapons Ban of 2025, a bill that would ban the sale, manufacture, import, and transfer of military-style assault weapons. Since 2006, there have been 486 mass shootings involving assault weapons. Hundreds and hundreds of Americans have been killed in these mass shootings. This bill is a way to attack that massive threat to our safety and security.
SPEAKER 12 :
Hmm. Hmm. For what? Like what, quote unquote, assault weapons? What are they talking about? Or they're used in that again. Here we go. They're used in the fewest amount of crimes. It's always illegally obtained handguns from the black market. And if you don't believe me, you don't have to take my word for it. You can go back and look at multiple different surveys that were actually all done under the Obama administration with the very anti-gun Eric Holder as attorney general. And they surveyed thousands of felons, incarcerated felons. And what they discovered is that that's how these people are obtaining their firearms is through the black market. They're not walking into FFLs and going, yes, I would like to purchase a gun. My name is Banger, Mr. Gang Banger. That's not how this works. This is there. He's doing this because they have nothing else. Democrats always go back to this. Well, when they have nothing else. Oh, yes. Democrats. What are you going to do about inflation? I don't know. Best I can do is an assault weapons ban. That's all they have. They never have anything else. It's always that. Gosh, how are you going to stop the deluge at the border? I don't know. Best I can do. It's like Pawn Stars, the assault weapons ban. That's all they got. Every time. That's all they have. So I don't know. It just amazes me. And I got one other headline real quick. I just saw this at the New York Post. So Mel Gibson and an NFL Hall of Famer had their firearm rights restored along with nine others after petitioning for pardons. Gibson was prevented after a domestic violence conviction. He appealed to Trump. Did I ever tell you my Mel Gibson story? We were at this fundraiser. And a very good friend of mine had organized it. And it was for veterans. And we were at the table. And all of a sudden, I was sitting next to Bob Goya. And the next thing I knew, Mel Gibson was sitting at my table. And it was a little surreal. And I kept thinking, maybe it's an impersonator. This is, you know, he was in town with Jim Caviezel, who is also at our table. And because they were they're creating this film production company in Texas. And I didn't want to buy. I don't like to bother people with photos and all that. And because there's enough people that do that with these folks. But I did go over to him and tell him that I appreciated his work and I really loved Apocalypto and, you know, the other stuff that he's done. And I introduced myself and he goes, well, I know who you are. And I had no I'm really awkward, really awkward when it's one on one. I mean, you may think I'm a smooth talker when I'm in front of a lot of people, but you get me in front of like one or two people. And I'm like, Ricky Bobby, I don't what do I do with my hands? And I just looked at him and I go, No, you don't. And he looked at me like he it stunned him. And he goes, What are you talking about? Yes, I do. And I go, I don't think so. He goes, Are you seriously gonna argue with me about this? That's my conversation with Mel Gibson. It was a winner. Invite me to your parties. I'm a hoot. If you work long hours and struggle to wind down at night, you're not alone. Tossing and turning and waking up exhausted doesn't have to be the norm. Beam Dream Powder helps you fall asleep faster, sleep soundly through the night, and wake up feeling refreshed. Beam Dream Powder is a clean, healthy nighttime blend made with ingredients backed by science. Reishi, magnesium, L-theanine, apigenin, and melatonin. Apigenin helps calm your body and your mind for rest. L-theanine supports a smooth transition into deep sleep. And reishi and melatonin work to improve REM sleep quality. Beam is proudly American-made and run by people who value hard work, integrity, and results. Supporting companies like this matters because they're doing things the right way. You'll love how Dream tastes, and it's easy to make and actually effective. Over 17.5 million nights of sleep have been improved with Beam, and yours could be next. Try it for yourself. Visit shopbeam.com slash danashow and use code danashow for 40% off of your first order. That's shopbeam.com slash danashow. Code danashow for better sleep.
SPEAKER 06 :
Will you condemn Hamas here and now?
SPEAKER 09 :
I'm sorry, what?
SPEAKER 06 :
Will you condemn Hamas?
SPEAKER 09 :
Would I condemn Hamas?
SPEAKER 06 :
As a terrorist or a genocidal organization?
SPEAKER 09 :
Are you asking me to put myself on a cross?
SPEAKER 06 :
So you won't. I actually have had this experience many times. You didn't read the pamphlet because the pamphlet is chapter and verse. The main connection is that the MSA is part of the Muslim Brotherhood Network.
SPEAKER 09 :
I meant if I say something, I'm sure that I will be arrested for reasons of homeland security.
SPEAKER 06 :
If you condemn Hamas, Homeland Security will arrest you.
SPEAKER 09 :
If I support Hamas, because your question forces me to condemn Hamas. If I support Hamas, I look really bad.
SPEAKER 06 :
If you don't condemn Hamas, obviously you support it. I'm a Jew. The head of Hezbollah has said that he hopes that we will gather in Israel so he doesn't have to hunt us down globally. For it or against it?
SPEAKER 12 :
For it. That is one. This was over 10 years before all of the stuff that you saw on college campuses around the country. That's David Horowitz. at UC San Diego with a Muslim student. After he was giving a speech, he had a lengthy battle with cancer, which he fought valiantly but lost. He's passed away at the age of 86. It was announced late yesterday. He's been on the show. He was a stalwart in advocating for conservatism. He was a communist. And then he had his awakening, and hopefully it inspired, as he hoped, other Jewish students on college campuses that leaned towards Marxism to leave that ideology behind and embrace freedom and open thinking. David Horowitz, age 86, with the David Horowitz Freedom Center, and just is an icon in the conservative movement. And that does it for us today. We're going to bypass today and stupidity for a day of smartness. Make sure you find us over at Substack, Chapter and Verse, YouTube, Facebook, X. Have a great night. I will be back with you tomorrow.
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In this episode of Mobile Estate Planning, host Michael Bailey recounts the many challenges he faces to balance his legal duties with his personal life stories. Bringing his narrative alive, Bailey shares a particularly emotional story of last-minute estate planning from an ICU room, coupled with his signature humor and personal observations. Dive into this captivating episode to learn why timely estate planning is critical, and the role family businesses and personal legacies play in this legal tapestry.
SPEAKER 07 :
Welcome to Mobile Estate Planning with your host, Michael Bailey. Over a decade ago, attorney Michael Bailey turned his attention to estate law after he recognized the unacceptable number of adults without proper end of life planning. Michael recognizes that many of his clients have difficulty finding the time for making a proper estate plan. That's why he became the Mobile Estate Planner. He will go to wherever you are to assist you with your estate planning, including writing wills, trusts, and giving you the information you need to avoid probate. Now, ATX, Ask the Experts, presents Mobile Estate Planning with your host, Michael Bailey.
SPEAKER 01 :
All right, good afternoon. Welcome to Mobile Estate Planning, where we try to do something besides just leave your family alone. You're listening to 560 KLZ, possibly on 100.7 FM or the KLZ 560 radio app. phone number to talk to me on the air is 303-477-5600. And again, that's 303-477-5600. And my direct line is 720-394-6887. Once again, that's 720-394-6887. So it's a Always an interesting time. It's been a long time since I walked into the studio as my intro was playing. Normally I've been able to get here a little bit early, but today was one of those right at the last minute, even a minute after the last minute. Does that sound about right, Luke?
SPEAKER 03 :
We played some Phil to buy you some time.
SPEAKER 01 :
Yeah, did you?
SPEAKER 03 :
It's all right.
SPEAKER 01 :
It happens to the rest of us. I pulled into the parking garage at 2.28. And then I was walking in. And I was going to be on time. And then the elevator was slow. Because you've got to have the slow elevator. The slow elevator is just like a normal elevator. It's just slower. And it was going to show up. I was going to be on time and all that kind of stuff. And then there's all those people who were driving on the road. And they're totally reasonable people going about their business, just driving on the road the way that they were supposed to. They don't even know or care that I'm driving somewhere and they wouldn't get out of my way. They kept driving where they were going. It's almost like they had no clue what I was doing or any reason to know or care. So, you know, I was talking with a client this morning. We were talking about how during the COVID shutdowns and how it was nice that you could drive the roads, but you almost felt like it was the zombie apocalypse because you were driving between all the freeways and nobody was out. But, you know, it's no longer the case. But, you know, so as the mobile estate planning attorney, I do drive back and forth and go see people where they are. And sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't even go that way. So I do try to build in enough travel time to get there. But today I had a client who called me and I called her back and then she called me as I was on the phone with somebody else. And I call her, I'm like, okay, this is just going to be a two-minute call. I can make this call. We'll be fine. Well, suddenly the two-minute call became a 12-minute call. And we had, oh, it's like, okay, well, I just, you know, we need to find a time. Oh, well, you know, I need to try to find our calendar. Let me see if I can... Oh, it's not here. Well, I'll have to go upstairs. Please bear with me. And I'm like, okay, come on. We're just trying to pick a day here. And, you know, that's... We definitely want to... I don't want to ever shortchange anybody on time, and I never want to rush anybody, because when you rush estate plans, you get bad things. But I had missed what I thought would be two minutes. It ended up being 12 minutes, and that's the reason I got here at 2.31 as opposed to 2.29, which is kind of the latest I should have been here to be able to get everything done. And, you know, that's sort of the same thing that, you know, the timing that there's timing that comes up with estate planning, too. You know, you need to get it done before you die. You know, an hour after you die doesn't work particularly well. You know, an hour before you die, I suppose it's possible. And I have done it. You know, as recently as a few months ago, I was in the ICU getting things signed for a gentleman. And he had had his, we had about seven weeks before we signed everything, I had sent him draft copies. You know, just trying to get it done, hadn't heard from him. And then he got a call at 5.31 a.m. on a Saturday. Apparently he was in the ICU and wasn't going to make it. And so they had him on some sort of drug that was keeping his blood pressure up. And basically that drug alone was keeping him alive. So, I was, I think it was in November, because I was hanging Christmas lights that day, so I didn't even check, I didn't even pick up my phone until 11.30 in the morning. And I listened to the message, and I'm like, oh, alright, okay. And I picked up my phone because we were on our way to a basketball game, so... Drove over, you know, got my son warming up for a basketball game and I went and called this lady back and she's like, yeah, he's probably not going to make it. And I'm like, well, so I usually don't work Saturdays, but you know, I can make an exception for this, but I am in this game until two. And then I have to go home and I have to print everything. And then I have to drive out to the hospital where he is so I could be there around four. I was like, does that even work for your timeframe? And so she went and asked the doctors like, yeah, that we can do that. I'm like, okay, cool. So we went out about 4 o'clock, and he was completely mentally capable, knew what we were signing, knew what we were doing, was joking with my... I brought my wife with me to be a witness and joking with her that, well, if he had been 50 years younger, then he would have given me a run for my money and stuff like that. I'm like, that's fair. If you're... And so we got everything signed, left the hospital about 5.15, and they stopped administering the medication to him at like 5.23. And by 5.40, he was gone. Now, in that case... there weren't any questions about his mental capacity. He knew exactly what he was doing. His body was betraying him. Well, not everybody in the ICU is that the case. Lots of people in the ICU are unconscious and whether they're Medically, they can't really be awake and alert or whatever it is. To be able to sign an estate plan, you have to be mentally competent to know what you're doing and to understand what you're doing. That just seems like a good idea. And so because of that, I really don't like doing things at the last minute. I mean, I... I think I end up doing more things at the last minute than the average bear, so to speak, simply because I joke that lawyers don't do things at the last minute. We do things in a timely manner. Just somebody else's last minute is before your last minute, so I have to get their last minute stuff done before I can do your stuff last minute. But I also try to encourage people to do their estate planning before the last minute so that it's not in there and trying to be rushed. So you are listening to Mobile Estate Planning with Michael Bailey here on... 560 KLZ AM, also heard on 100.7 FM, or the KLZ 560 radio app. The phone number to talk to me on the air is 303-477-5600. And once again, that's 303-477-5600. And my direct line is 720- three nine four six eight eight seven and once again seven two zero three nine four six eight eight seven so as we're you know and you you want to plan ahead for things like this i mean i've you know it's we're We're at the end of April, coming into May, and I'm starting to get the group of people who call me about estate plans and say, oh, hey, we have an old estate plan. We would like to update it and get it all ready because we're going on an overseas trip. And I say, well, when's your overseas trip? Well, we're leaving on June 15th, so we'd like to get it done before then. And that's where I have to say, well, I'm booked 90 days out. I'm sorry about that. So I'm probably not the right one to try to squeeze you in when we're running out of time. And a lot of people will be like, oh, okay, well, we're sorry. We didn't know it would be that far out. And I'm like, in all fairness, it's kind of a newer thing for me. you know, it's a last year and a half, two years that it's been that way for me. So it's not like it's a, you know, everybody should expect that. Like, well, do other attorneys have that long of a wait? I'm like, probably not. I don't know. You'd have to ask them, but it's, it's kind of like, it's just, I want to help as many people as quickly as I can, but I need to do it the right way and I want to do it the right way. And I can't compromise my ability to help one person by prioritizing one thing over another simply because people haven't... done, you know, I haven't done something different. And so I help as many people as I can as quickly as I can, but within the parameters of the time that I have and the ability that I have to get people scheduled. And so, you know, to me, that kind of parallels with estate planning and, you know, the law anyway. You know, I've had many people over the past couple of weeks, they're like, oh, well, you If we have a house in a trust, it can be sold, it can be rented. How does that all work? And I say, how would you like it to work? What do you want to have happen? Well, no, but what does the law say about what's supposed to happen? I said, I just asked you the exact question. How do you want it to happen? There's not necessarily a default rule for every single situation, every single possibility, and every single thing that might ever come up. If you put a house in a trust and you don't say anything about whether it can be sold or rented or what needs to happen, then it's up to the discretion of the trustee. So your trustee who's in charge of the trust would then have the ability to decide what to do with things. Eventually, those assets would probably need to be distributed out to the named beneficiaries. But in the meantime, what do we do with assets? While they're still in the trust, it's up to the discretion of the trustee. but you can also give directions to the trustee. You can say, well, I don't really want it to be to the discretion of the trustee because I want to make, I want to give instructions on what's supposed to happen. And there are some very understandable situations when that would happen. And it makes perfect sense. So I have several clients who are kind of real estate investors, and they've bought many of the... They've bought many of the... the apartment buildings, sorry, I can't think of a word, apartment buildings. And so that's what they do. So they are a, they have rent apartment buildings. They've got a few of them. And so, you know, my biggest one probably has like 3,000 apartment units that he rents out. And his trust has very explicit and specific directions on what's supposed to happen with each apartment complex and how they're supposed to continue to be rented and which apartment management company they should use. Because he does real estate and real estate management. That's what he does. One of his children... is a horticulturist. So she is like the head horticulturist at a greenhouse. And that's what she does. And it's great. One of his other children is a like owns a grease monkey or something like that. Maybe it might be a Jiffy Lube. I don't know. But they've gone different directions with what they do with their lives. And so the children don't necessarily know or understand real estate investing and property management to the level that he does. And so he's trying what he's trying to do is keep those 3000 apartment units so that they're being rented And that after he dies, that those 3,000 apartments that are being rented will then be 1,500 apartments per child. But the rents from those will help pay for their lives or maybe completely supplant the income that they have of what they do. and he doesn't want, because he's a real estate investor and real estate landlord, he doesn't necessarily want to leave everything up to his kids to try to figure out how to do all of that. It's just not really big on his, he wants to make sure that they're okay, and he wants to use the assets that he has accumulated to make sure that those assets continue to take care of his kids and his family in the future, which is perfectly understandable. But that doesn't mean that none of his kids wanted to go into the, quote, family business of being real estate. It wasn't appealing to them. And I can understand that. I mean, we've had, I mean, whenever people ask me, they're like, oh, are your kids going to be attorneys like you? I'm like, not if I have something to say about it. You know, my brother-in-law, who's an interventional radiologist, he's a doctor. He would love for all of his kids to become doctors. So far, none of them have the desire to do so. But my oldest daughter, she wants to be a doctor. And she's been trying to find someone to shadow or someone to, you know, have control. to, um, you know, learn from. And, uh, she's, you know, we know lots of doctors, but for whatever reason, a lot of those opportunities have fallen through and we're like, well, see, the thing is that, uh, your uncle, he, uh, works from home a fair amount, so you can go do that. He also, he's not the, he's not in charge of the radiology department at the hospital where he works. But he is kind of the one running it because the department chair is busy and off and doing other things. So we're like, well, then he can kind of tell the hospital that that's the deal is that you're going to be there and following him. That's just how it's going to go and get over it. He's got that ability. So it's kind of a cool opportunity for him. The family business, so to speak, my dad, his hobby is to buy and fix broken sound equipment. And so as such, we've ended up with lots of sound equipment, so we've been a family of DJs. And I've DJed 1,000-plus weddings in my life, and I'm mostly retired now. Every once in a while, somebody from our church congregation who hasn't planned ahead comes And his getting married will ask me if I can come out of retirement to help them out. And I've done it twice in the last five years, but I'm mostly retired. But when my dad had quadruple bypass surgery, he kind of got out of the DJing business, mostly because he couldn't carry the equipment anymore. He was restricted from being able to carry the heavy equipment. So my youngest brother and I literally picked up the company and moved on without him because we had the speakers and things like that. And so when I was newly married and he was living down here in the Denver area, we would go do bridal shows and work things. And it was kind of a fun thing. And then as I had kids... And as things became more busier, I kind of found myself not being able to do a wedding on a Friday night from 6 p.m. to midnight or 1 or 2 when a wedding would end. So you had a Saturday night, and you're like, okay, we'll start at 6, do the ceremony. It's supposed to go until 1. They want to keep going, so you'd tell 2 a.m., And then one of the last ones I did, I remember it was about 2 a.m. that we finished and we got everything packed up. And so it's like 2.30 in the morning when we left. And we left Grand Lake. Anybody know where Grand Lake is? It's up through National, on the other side of Rocky Mountain National Park. So you have to drive all the way through Trail Ridge Road to get there. So we left there about 2.30 a.m. And I was driving Trail Ridge Road at 2.30 a.m., where your headlights go, and they drop off, and they just go into darkness, and it's just darkness there. And you know full well that there's a sheer cliff down there. I drove on the opposite side of the road, far away from the edge. Just so that I'm like, 2.30 a.m., yeah, I'm pretty awake, but also don't want to take chances and there's nobody else on the road. Oddly enough, at 2.30 a.m., driving through Rocky Mountain National Park. Dropped my brother off at his house in Loveland. I got home about 5 a.m. I'm like, all right, cool. And I was in a church leadership meeting at 6.30 a.m., so I got a good hour of sleep. And that was the day where I'm like, maybe I don't need to do this anymore. Maybe I don't need to carry on the family business, and rather I can kind of give this one up. And, you know, everybody has that moment, whether it's as an adult or as a kid. You don't want to do the same thing as your parents or your family. So you are listening to Mobile Estate Planning on Michael Bailey here on KLZ 560 AM or heard on 100.7 FM. Possibly the KLZ 560 radio app. Phone number to talk to me on the air is 303-477-5600. And again, that's 303-477-5600. And my direct line is 720-394-6887. Once again, 720-394-6887. So... That's a pretty good reason to not be, you know, to have more direction in your trust or your will of you have knowledge and expertise in an area that somebody else may not. And so you kind of, if you're trying to preserve the wealth and keep things going, then you want to do that so that you want to do it in such a way that you're not going to create problems or difficulties and things like that for your family. You know, sometimes it's not always that way, because sometimes we have sometimes people just they either want to have more control or they want to have more control. I have clients who are like, oh, well, my kids don't know how to invest or they don't know how to preserve things. So I'm going to give a whole list of how these are to be invested because I understand how they will be invested. And I will understand that then those investments will continue to work because my kids don't understand investing at all. And I'm like, this all makes sense. When you're trying to do things to take care of assets and preserve them for the next generation or even future generations, it's a good thing to do in an estate plan. Now, sometimes there are people who are like, oh, I just don't trust my kids, so I don't want to give it to them, or And it's a little bit trickier when you're like, oh, well, I want my kids to learn the value of work and not just live off the money that I have. And I'm like, okay. So I had one client like that where we developed an entire thing where we said, okay, your kids can get money out of the trust. But what we're going to do is say they will be limited to... pulling money from the trust to the same amount that they earn in their own work. So if somebody has a salary of $80,000, then each year they can bring their W-2 to the um trustee and say look i made eighty two thousand dollars they look at us okay we'll distribute another eighty two thousand dollars or somebody's self-employed they bring their schedule c and say look i yes i had um income of you know two hundred fifty thousand dollars but then after expenses i ended up netting fifty thousand they're like okay well we'll give you fifty thousand Now in the Schedule C thing, if you brought a Schedule C that just showed income and no expenses, you're like, well, let's see if we can maybe look at the expenses. But what they wanted to do was incentivize their kids to work and not become just dependent on the trust to support them in life. And I can see that. I can see wanting to instill a value of work in your kids. I mean, I did go to the University of Denver for law school, and it was pretty obvious that there were some what we would call trust fund individuals there where mom and dad had done extremely well. And so they were at the, uh, they were in law school and they were, um, So they were in law school, and they were going to get there. They were going to go through and do things, and I went to school with them. And here I was in law school knowing full well that my parents weren't going to be able to help me out at all. I ended up having a lovely wife who had a job that was working full-time, so she paid for life. And I did law school, and then afterwards when we decided to have kids and she wanted to stay home, we could switch. It was great. But that was a discussion we'd had between ourselves to figure it out. But some of the kids that I went to school with, and some I was friends with, some I was just classmates with, but I had one who he drove his brand new BMW to school, and his dad was worth $190 million as a land developer in Canada. And I'm like, yeah, that must be a nice fallback to have of, If your law career doesn't work out, your dad will probably at some point pass away and pass on $190 million to you, and then you'll have to live off $190 million. And you know, it's hard to survive on $190 million, except that it's not at all. And, you know, I don't have any work, you know, I have $1.90, not $190 million. I can put a whole bunch of zeros after the decimal point, but it doesn't help me out much. But As you're constructing your estate plan, you're getting your assets to your kids, but you're getting your assets to your family in such a manner that you take care of them, but you help them learn, grow, and improve, and you want the best for your kids. I suppose I've met a parent or two here and there that didn't want what was best for their kids. But that seems very unusual and not the norm. So your estate plan is an extension of your ability to take care of your kids and to make sure they're okay even after you're gone. And your will or your trust, the terms of that are part of what you can do to help make that happen. So thank you so much for listening to Mobile Estate Planning with Michael Bailey here on 560 KLZ AM. I will be back next week, but John Rush and Rush to Reason are up next, so stay tuned, and you can listen and learn. Thanks, and have a great day. Bye-bye.
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The episode takes listeners into the heart of national discourse—from religious freedom at the U.S. Supreme Court to a contentious bill in Colorado that threatens parental rights and free speech. Representative Rose Puglisi delves into the ramifications of this bill and its impacts on family dynamics. As tomorrow is the National Day of Prayer, Dr. Ronnie Floyd emphasizes the national call to turn to God in prayer, addressing spiritual needs along with societal issues. The dialogue ends with an insightful conversation about religious influence and judicial decisions shaping education today, providing a multifaceted look at faith, law, and society.
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from the heart of our nation's capital in Washington, D.C., bringing compelling interviews, insightful analysis, taking you beyond the headlines and soundbites into conversations with our nation's leaders and newsmakers, all from a biblical worldview. Sitting in for Tony is today's host, Jody Heiss.
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Well, good afternoon. Happy Wednesday to you. Welcome to Washington Watch. I am Jody Heiss sitting in today for Tony, who is in Israel. He's leading a delegation of U.S. Christian leaders, and I am honored to be sitting in for him today and deeply honored as well. to have you on board with us today. Thank you for entrusting this next hour of your time to us. All right, let me give you some of the highlights that we'll be covering today. Of course, Republicans continue to celebrate the first hundred days of President Trump's return to the White House, all the while Democrats continue to decry them, making all sorts of claims, including this one.
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Republicans howled at the moon for years about weaponizing government, but no president in American history has weaponized the government like Donald Trump has in 100 days. The Department of Justice has become his personal henchman. His deportation force is expelling American citizens with no due process. Let me repeat that. Donald Trump is deporting American citizens with no due process.
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That was Senate Democrat leader Chuck Schumer earlier today. Okay, can we really take Democrats seriously about all of this, considering what we all saw during the Biden administration? Well, I'll discuss this in just a few moments when I'm joined by Congressman Tom Tiffany. He's a member of the House Judiciary Committee. But as divisive as the atmosphere may be these days, there are indeed moments, moments, where both sides of the aisle can come together. We saw this, in fact, earlier today when the House Oversight Committee opened its meeting with a word of prayer from Republican Congressman Tim Burchett. Who is he praying for? Democrat Congressman Jerry Conley, who announced earlier this week that he is again fighting a battle against cancer.
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Dear Lord, we ask for blessings on our dear brother Jerry. We ask that your healing hand is upon him and his family. And we ask that you give wisdom to his physicians. And we just ask for his healing. And thank you, Lord, for bringing him into our lives. We don't agree on anything, but I love him like a brother. And I do, Lord. You know that. You know my heart. And I ask all these things in Jesus' name. Amen.
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Wow. So encouraging to see that. I likewise served with Jerry Conley. He's from Virginia. We served closely together. In fact, I've been in contact with him as well since his news came out. But how encouraging it is to see prayer go out like this today. And speaking of prayer, tomorrow. Tomorrow is the National Day of Prayer, and I'll be discussing this year's annual event with Dr. Ronnie Floyd. He's the former president of the National Day of Prayer and a current member of its Faith Advisory Board. And in more domestic news, the Colorado Senate is moving on a contentious bill that is a huge threat to parental rights and free speech. I'll be discussing this later when I'm joined by the Republican minority leader in Colorado's General Assembly, that's Representative Rose Pugliese. And there was big education news, a case that is being argued at the U.S. Supreme Court earlier today. It involves the Oklahoma Charter School Board's decision to allow a Catholic school to participate in the state's charter school program. Well, the Oklahoma Supreme Court had ruled that the board must exclude the school from the program solely because it's religious.
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Oklahoma's charter school program relies on private organizations to create more educational options. But state law categorically bars religious groups and programs, deeming religion to be the wrong kind of diversity. That religious exclusion violates the free exercise clause.
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That was Jim Campbell at Alliance Defending Freedom defending the Oklahoma Charter School Board before the Supreme Court. FRC's Meg Kilgannon will join me a little bit later in the program to talk about today's oral arguments. So as always, a lot coming your way today and you don't want to miss any of it. If by chance you do, TonyPerkins.com is our website. You can go there and find not only this episode, but many, many more, as well as a host of resources there. So keep that website handy, TonyPerkins.com. All right, let's jump into our first segment. segment and guest for the day, the Republicans are celebrating President Trump's first 100 days in office. The other side of the coin, Democrat leaders have made it their focus to decry the so-called 100 days of chaos, as they describe it. They're labeling President Trump and his administration as disasters. And as they frequently do, Democrats are also projecting Yep, they're accusing the Trump administration of lawlessness, of weaponization, which frankly is what we saw during the Biden administration. But isn't what we're now seeing actually a crackdown on lawlessness and weaponization? Well, here to discuss it now with me is Congressman Tom Tiffany. He serves on the Judiciary Committee. He also represents the 7th Congressional District of Wisconsin. Congressman Tiffany, welcome back to Washington Watch. Always good to see you, my friend.
SPEAKER 06 :
It's been a long time, Jody. Really good to hear your voice.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, likewise, and great to see you. All right, let's talk about Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and the House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries hosted in a unified Democrat speech from the steps of the Capitol today, doing nothing other than just bashing the Trump administration. But what was your reaction to what the Democrats have been saying about the president's first 100 days?
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Yeah, don't be fooled by the so-called unified front because Democrats are anything but unified at this point. And about all they can do at this point, Jody, is they can just scream that what Republicans are doing is wrong, dictator, you know, and all the various things like that. President Trump is following through on what he said he would do last fall and what people voted for on November 5th. Look at a secure border. It is incredible how the border has been secured. And once he can start removing these illegal aliens, oftentimes criminal illegal aliens, we will have success there also. I want to point something out to you though, Jody, that you don't hear very often. I am hearing from my in-district personnel that the agencies of the executive branch are really doing their job now. We all get complaints. You know about it, Jody, whether it's the Veterans Administration, IRS, whatever the case may be, we get constituent complaints. Well, those things rarely got resolved during the Biden administration. Now, with President Trump in office just for 100 days, my staff is telling me it is amazing the speed that the agency people are working at. And that is good news, saying that the agency heads are getting to the agency personnel and saying, you're going to act on the concerns that are being brought to you by the American people.
SPEAKER 09 :
Absolutely. Great news, and I think a strong point that needs an exclamation behind it. You know, and I look to Representative Tiffany at the Democrats right now. They're laying out what they are saying is a blueprint for a better America. Frankly, it doesn't sound like they have anything right now other than just to complain and bash the Trump administration. different is just attack the president. Did they not learn anything from the last election that that strategy doesn't work?
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I think a good example of that, Jody, would be Governor Pritzker, who just gave from Illinois, who just gave that speech out in one of the northeastern states where he just basically doubled down. We're going to have boys and girls sports. We legalized marijuana in Illinois. That's a great success. We legalized abortion. All these things like that, they're pointing as a success. That's the reason they were defeated on November 5th. So they're just doubling down on failure. And it's unfortunate for people who live in those blue states that have to live with a rule, with political leaders like a Governor Pritzker, who are taking their states down the toilet. And it's not hard to find the states that are failing. Wisconsin, we have neighbors like Illinois and Minnesota with failed governors. And it's unfortunate to see what's happening. But what is happening then is people are fleeing. They're making a decision with their feet. And that's why they're headed to the successful states that are largely run by red state governors.
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And many of them are fleeing parties as well. We're watching that in huge numbers. What do you think? I don't know if you were able to see it a few moments ago before you came on. I played a clip of Senator Schumer accusing Trump of weaponizing the government and that type of thing. What do you make of this statement coming from the senator, particularly in light of what we saw in the last administration?
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I mean, think about Senator Schumer, what he said in regards to, what did he say? Kavanaugh and Gorsuch, be careful, you're going to reap the whirlwind. I mean, he basically put a target on the back of two Supreme Court justices. Senator Schumer is being dismissed by the American people because they know it's just rhetoric. He's not providing results for the American people like they voted for on November 5th and like they're getting now. When we get through the whole tariffs thing and we get this reconciliation bill done, I think you're going to see greater certainty for the American people I can't wait to see what's ahead for America a year from now as we get some of these things put in place by Congress and the executive branch. I do believe that America's best days are ahead of us.
SPEAKER 09 :
Wow, great to hear. And you know, I look at this first 100 days compared to the accusations from Schumer and other Democrats. Really what the president's doing is cracking down on lawlessness, not committing lawlessness. He's trying to deal with it. But let's go on, if we can, on this topic, I guess, of lawlessness. Right there in your own state of Wisconsin, a judge accused of trying to aid an illegal immigrant in evading arrest has been now suspended from the bench. What's your reaction to that news?
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, first of all, I was surprised that our liberal state Supreme Court did it, but pleasantly surprised. And it was an appropriate action by them. And it is important that what the Department of Justice did, the federal Department of Justice saying, we're not going to accept judges who are truly saying they are above the law. I mean, this judge went after the ICE agents that were there and was screaming at them and then led this illegal alien out a side door and tried to set them free while you had the people who were harmed by the illegal alien sitting in the court looking out for the perpetrator rather than for victims. And I think that says everything about the Democrat Party at this point. They would rather look out for the perpetrators rather than the victims. And I would, to your point in regards to President Trump and the rule of law, I believe it's amazing the restraint that he's shown in the face of judges like this one in Milwaukee. But hopefully by holding her to account. This will send a strong message that judges, you need to make sure you stay in your lane and do your job and not try to be the executive branch.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, and that suspension to me is as good as impeachment. It sends a strong message to other judges. We've got about 30 seconds for your answer here. You've got a bill dealing with how the U.S. involvement with the World Trade Center should be handled. Real quickly, give us a bird's eye view of that.
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Yeah, simply to remove the United States of America from the World Trade Organization, globalist enterprise. There's not been a vote in 20 years. We can vote in Congress every five years. That's up this year. We should have a vote. Should we be in this organization that puts China's interests ahead of America? I can't wait to see if we can get a vote. I'm so pleased to be able to introduce that bill.
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Congressman Tom Tiffany of Wisconsin, thank you for your leadership. Thank you, as always, for coming back on Washington Watch. Great to see you. All right, friends, coming up next, we've got an extremely important and controversial bill dealing with religious freedom and parental rights. We'll give you the lowdown right after this break.
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At Family Research Council, we believe religious freedom is a fundamental human right that all governments must protect. That's why FRC President Tony Perkins went to Capitol Hill to testify on behalf of persecuted Christians in Nigeria. Islamist terror groups target Christians and other religious minorities in Nigeria with brutal violence. Representative Chris Smith, who chaired the hearing, said 55,000 people have been killed and 21,000 abducted in the last five years alone. The congressman also stressed that 89% of Christians in the world who are martyred are from Nigeria.
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Yet the government of Nigeria has failed to make progress against religiously motivated persecution of Christians despite religious freedom being enshrined as an essential human right in their constitution.
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Tony Perkins called for the United States to send an unmistakable message.
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This is systematic religious violence. Nigeria must be redesignated a country of particular concern. The Biden administration's removal of this designation was a reckless mistake that emboldened the very terrorists who are slaughtering Christians.
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Redesignating Nigeria will enable the U.S. government to pressure Nigerian leaders to protect vulnerable Christians.
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These are not just numbers. These are fathers, their mothers, their children, their families.
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Bishop Wilfred Anagabe risked his life to speak out, sharing firsthand accounts of the danger faced in his church district in central Nigeria.
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We live in fear because at any point it can be our turn to be killed. But to remain silent is to die twice. So I have chosen to speak.
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FRC is calling on President Trump to act now to promote religious freedom around the globe and speak up on behalf of Christians in Nigeria.
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Welcome back to Washington Watch. Thank you so much for joining us today. I am your guest host today, sitting in for Tony. My name is Jody Heiss, and we're so glad to have you on board with us today. All right, the Colorado, state of Colorado, their Senate is moving forward on a very contentious bill that threatens parental rights as well as free speech. The bill is known as HB 25-1312. And it would require, among other things, custody decisions to consider how a parent treats gender-confused children. It would also treat, catch this, misgendering and deadnaming as child abuse. child abuse. The bill literally passed the House earlier this month and was before the Senate Judiciary Committee earlier this afternoon. So what's likely to happen with this bill? And if it passes, what in the world would the ramifications be? Well, here to discuss this is Representative Rose Buglisi, the Republican minority leader in Colorado's General Assembly. Representative Buglisi, thank you for joining us today. It's good to have you.
SPEAKER 11 :
Thank you, Jody, for having me.
SPEAKER 09 :
All right, so the hearings for the bill in the Senate have already started today. Representative Pugliese, what can you tell us about it so far?
SPEAKER 11 :
You know, what's been really amazing is the outreach and grassroots support for parental rights in Colorado. This has become an issue that has transcended party lines. It doesn't matter if you're a Republican, Democrat, unaffiliated, or what party you are. Parents don't want to be told how to raise their kids, and they definitely don't want to be at risk of losing their children if they don't subscribe to an ideology that doesn't align with their values. And so what we have seen are hundreds of people crowding the Capitol stairs in different rooms, all waiting to testify today on this very egregious bill.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, very egregious. And to the extent that you have termed this, as I understand, as a huge violation of parental rights, go a little bit further down that path, if you will, the violation specifically on parental rights that this presents.
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And so basically, you know, if you have a child that... is, as you call it, gender confused. Basically, it could be used against a parent in a child custody battle. And I work with a lot of domestic violence survivors who have seen the system being used against them. And they find this to be very egregious and scary. It is scary for parents across Colorado to know if you don't subscribe to a certain ideology, if you You want to raise your children with your God-given right to raise them in the way that conforms to your values, that literally your children can be taken away. It is a bridge too far for all Coloradans. I think it's a bridge too far for all Americans. And so I think that's why we're seeing the outpouring of support, a lot of national attention like yours. So thank you so much for helping us to elevate this issue in Colorado, but also out.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, you are so right. I mean, what starts in one place rarely stays there. There's always this rippling effect that goes far beyond. And this is something that needs to be highlighted and dealt with. And it's the parental rights, yes. It's the free speech rights, yes. But also something that I'm not hearing a lot of mention about is the religious freedom expressions involved in all of this, the First Amendment rights. Would you have a comment to make on that end of things?
SPEAKER 11 :
No, absolutely. I'm a devout Catholic. I'm a single mom. I raise two children on my own. And again, it is my God-given right to raise them in accordance with my values and not have government subscribe an ideology to me and then threaten to take away my children. I mean, again, a bridge too far for every American.
SPEAKER 09 :
All right, I want you to explain this for me. The bill says that it would consider parental behavior antithetical to the affirmation of gender confusion as, and this is what I want to get your comment on, as types of coercive control. What does that mean? And how would it influence custody cases?
SPEAKER 11 :
You know, obviously we get to name our children when they are born. And, you know, if a child wants to go by a different name and you don't call them by that name, it could be used against you in a child custody battle as coercive control. You know, they talk about dead naming your child, your child that you named. And so, again, I think that we have the God-given right to raise our children. We have the God-given right to call them by their given name, and government should not be interfering with that. No one should tell us that we have to agree with this ideology in order to raise our children and then be at risk of losing them in a child custody battle. And we know the system's not perfect. It can always be used against parents, but again, Being able to use this ideology against parents who are just trying to raise their children in accordance with their values, it's just too much for Coloradans. And that's why we're seeing hundreds of people, hundreds, lining up in the Capitol today to make their voices heard. So I am really very grateful and very blessed that we are able to get the message out so that parents' voices can be heard in Colorado.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, hats off to you and your colleagues who are standing with you in the hundreds and hundreds that you're talking about who are showing up to let their voices be heard. But I wonder with all of this, and I know probably you can't speak to this, but perhaps from a... just observation perspective. What is the motive behind it? Is it what you said? Is it an attempt to control parents and force them into this ideology? Is that what's really seemingly behind this?
SPEAKER 11 :
You know, we have seen in Colorado over the years just this attempt at continuing to take away parental rights on different issues. I mean, in Colorado, my 13 year old can make medical decisions for herself. And she has a rare genetic disorder that she doesn't understand. And so what we've seen is this continuing erosion. I think this bill particularly goes very far in interfering with a parent's God-given right to raise their children and enforcing an ideology that you know, some of us don't subscribe to in the way that we raise our children. And so I think we have seen the incremental violation of parental rights. And this is just that next step in continuing to put government in charge of children.
SPEAKER 09 :
All right, just a very short period of time left. Where's this bill going? Do you think it's going to cross the finish line? Is it going to be stopped? What are your thoughts?
SPEAKER 11 :
It's too early to tell. You know, in Colorado, the governor is a Democrat. Both houses have majorities Democrat. So right now it is going through the Senate process. We hear that amendments will be coming forward. Whether those amendments will be enough to get support of the bill, obviously not by Republicans, but enough support to get it through and to the governor's desk, and then whether or not he actually vetoes it, it will be up to him.
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Thank you, Colorado House Minority Leader Rose Puglisi. Great job. Thank you for standing firm. Thank you for coming on Washington Watch and helping get this story out. We appreciate it. All right, coming up next, we're going to preview tomorrow's National Day of Prayer with our next guest, Dr. Ronnie Floyd, the former president of that event. Stay tuned. We'll be back.
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Everything we do begins as an idea. Before there can be acts of courage, there must be the belief that some things are worth sacrificing for. Before there can be marriage, there is the idea that man should not be alone. Before there was freedom, there was the idea that individuals are created equal. It's true that all ideas have consequences, but we're less aware that all consequences are the fruit of ideas. Before there was murder, there was hate. Before there was a Holocaust, there was the belief by some people that other people are undesirable. Our beliefs determine our behavior, and our beliefs about life's biggest questions determine our worldview. Where did I come from? Who decides what is right and wrong? What happens when I die? Our answers to these questions explain why people see the world so differently. Debates about abortion are really disagreements about where life gets its value. Debates over sexuality and gender and marriage are really disagreements about whether the rules are made by us or for us. What we think of as political debates are often much more than that. They're disagreements about the purpose of our lives and the source of truth. As Christians, our goal must be to think biblically about everything. Our goal is to help you see beyond red and blue, left and right, to see the battle of ideas at the root of it all. Our goal is to equip Christians with a biblical worldview and help them advance and defend the faith in their families, communities, and the public square. Cultural renewal doesn't begin with campaigns and elections. It begins with individuals turning from lies to truth. But that won't happen if people can't recognize a lie and don't believe truth exists. We want to help you see the spiritual war behind the political war, the truth claims behind the press release and the forest and the trees.
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Hope you're having a fantastic Wednesday. Thank you so much for joining us today on Washington Watch. I'm Jody Heiss, an honor to be filling in today for Tony. Okay, tomorrow, as you probably are aware, the United States will observe the National Day of Prayer. This is a time that is designated to be held annually on the first Thursday of May. It's a time to remind Americans and all believers, really everyone, to turn their hearts and their minds towards God and to seek His guidance. And everyone who participates, which we hope everyone will, are encouraged to turn to God in prayer and meditation at churches, in various groups, as individuals, wherever you can to be a part of praying for our country and seeking God. So what is the guidance that we should seek this year? Well, I'm honored to introduce my next guest, Dr. Ronnie Floyd. He is the former president of the National Day of Prayer. He's also a current member of its faith advisory board. He's also author of the book, The Supernatural Power of Prayer and Fasting, 12 Ways God Will Change Your Life. And I am myself reading that book right now. Dr. Floyd, welcome back to Washington Watch. My brother, it's always good to see you.
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Thank you, Jody, for the privilege to be a part of today.
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Well, listen, we're excited about this. We're excited about tomorrow. There's no greater need we have in this country than to turn to God. This year's theme is pour out to the God of hope and be filled. Elaborate on that theme, if you will. Why is it so important?
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, I believe it's important that we pour out our hearts to God for our country and that we point people to hope. And I think that's what the National Day of Prayer intends to do tomorrow in its gatherings around the country. There will be thousands of gatherings all over the country in all kind of settings. from steps of the Capitol building and where many people will live. And then, of course, courthouses and mayor breakfast and small gatherings in the workplace. And then, of course, gatherings really literally everywhere, as you know, Jody. And we're just thankful that people want to pray for America.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, and the key verse this year is Romans 15, 13. What is the significance of that as it relates to this whole National Day of Prayer this year?
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, I think the whole thing is wrapped up in the whole element of God is our hope. And as we talk to God about whatever our needs are, Jody, as a country, we need to know that God is the one who can give the hope. He is our hope. We know that. And we need to point ourselves to that hope. And we need to point other people to the God of hope.
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How would you say, and you've been in this, involved with this for a long time, actually serving as the president of the National Day of Prayer. How does this year's event differ from years before? Would you say that it does? And if so, how?
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, I'm not sure it really does. It's just going to depend on the individuals around the country, for example, who lead those events. And usually those events, while people do what they want to do, you know, they can follow a model if they would want about praying nationally and statewide and locally. the National Day of Prayer event in Washington that will happen. You know, it will be designed and where people will be coming in, including some of the members of Congress to, I'm sure, give a testimony or to call folks to prayer. So it all depends on, you know, what the leader, Kathy Brunzel, does and how she's going to do that in that specific setting.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, I know it's such a powerful event. I was personally able to be with you when you were serving, leading in that capacity several years ago with the event that was held in Statuary Hall. As it comes tomorrow, what's in store for this year's National Day of Prayer? Who are some of the speakers for the broadcast tomorrow and so forth?
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, I think that Tim Tebow will be one of those speakers. And from Tim, I mean, you're going to have a great number of speakers beyond that. And so, you know, all of that, obviously, Kathy has lined up as the leader of the National Day of Prayer now. She and her team and many of them will come in from all walks of life. Some pastors will be sharing. And depending on the members of Congress that perhaps Mike can attend for a brief period of time, perhaps they will be sharing as well.
SPEAKER 09 :
It is a powerful, powerful event in every way, something that is one of those things that is a marked memory on my life, something that I will never forget. Of course, it's something to participate in every year, but it just seems, Dr. Floyd, every year this becomes more and more a need. and more and more important, significant in our country. Before we take a quick break, what would you say to the American people? What do they need to be praying about this year specifically?
SPEAKER 03 :
I believe that we need to be praying specifically for the leaders of our nation. I don't think we need to apologize for that. I think it would be remiss not to call upon God about the leaders of our country, the leaders of each one of our states, the leaders at the local level. I believe we also need to call upon the church to be the church and the church to be the salt and the light in America and that they would be very diligent in that effort. And then we need to call upon the various, to the Lord about the various segments of society, the pillars of our country. whether it's the media and the arts, whether it has to do with government, whether it has to do with education and other matters that will be prayed about. I mean, we need to pray about what we're concerned about, Jody, and we can go to God anytime, anywhere, about anything. And relating to various communities across America, they need to take that.
SPEAKER 09 :
Let's hold on to that thought right there. If you will hang on, I want to come back after the break. We'll pick up right where you are right now. I'm talking with Dr. Ronnie Floyd, past president of the National Day of Prayer. We'll continue our conversation right after this quick break, so stay tuned.
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SPEAKER 09 :
Thank you for joining us today. I'm Jody Heiss filling in for Tony. Welcome back to Washington Watch. All right, before I continue with Dr. Ronnie Florida, I just want to make a quick announcement that Family Research Council is providing a summary of the second Trump administration's work in the area specifically of life, family, religious liberty, and some other select issues. Now, we did this in terms of a Trump tracker, in terms of the campaign trail, promises made, promises kept kind of things, but now that that first 100 days is over, we're going to continue following this administration on some specific issues like I just mentioned. And all this, what I've mentioned, is certainly not an exhaustive list, but it does highlight what FRC believes are some of the most significant and relevant actions that can be taken by our administration. So if you'd like more about this, you can access the resource. You can simply go to frc.org slash Trump actions, frc.org slash Trump actions. We encourage you to go there and keep a pulse on things. All right, I want to now continue, resume our conversation that we were having in the last segment with Dr. Ronnie Floyd. He's the former president of the National Day of Prayer and a current member of its Faith Advisory Board. Dr. Floyd, thank you for sticking around and continuing our discussion. I appreciate it. Oh, it's a privilege. Thank you very much. All right, throughout this week, we've been talking and discussing quite a bit about the first 100 days of the Trump administration from an economic standpoint, security standpoint, and all those other things. But what is your assessment of America's spiritual status right now?
SPEAKER 03 :
I believe there's some great things happening, Jody, around the country. And I think we are seeing some showers of what God is able to do, whether it be on many of our collegiate campuses, throughout many, many churches in the country. We also see that sprinkling through various professions and they're becoming open about their faith. We've seen athletes begin to stand up and many others as well. And I think all that's very refreshing and should be, obviously, an encouragement. But I really believe that we need to also really talk to God about the need for the church to experience revival, for the need for the nation to experience the next great awakening, Jody. I mean, this is the greatest need in the country today. We are seeing a political awakening to a degree. But listen, you and I both know that is important, and we don't need to by any means minimize it, but we know what God can do will stick around, and we need to be sure that we experience the next great awakening in our generation when God pours out His Spirit upon our country. And all of a sudden, we see that he does that in such a way that it transcends all denominations, all generations, all cultures, all races, and all ethnic lines. That's what I want to see God do in America.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, and I just say thank you, Dr. Ronnie Floyd, for that passion and that being specific. Because I totally agree. We cannot fix the issues in this country. And I've said it a thousand times. I know you have to. We can't fix this politically with another piece of legislation or throwing another trillion dollars at issues. We need the good hand of God to navigate us through these days and to transform hearts. And that's really where the church and spiritual leaders come in. What would you say to the church in America right now in terms of the role that they have to play in changing the heart of our country?
SPEAKER 03 :
I say the first of all, more than anything, is churches need to pray for America. And you and I both know, Jody, there is a sense of that's not good. That's political. I have one word for that. That's hogwash. We need to obey what God says. We need to do what God says. We need to pray for the leaders of our country and for our country itself. and then also we need to be involved we need to do everything we can to be the salt and the light in the towns we live in in the states we live in and in the nation that we live in and we need to stand on what the bible says what the bible says is more important than what any politician says god is faithful and god fulfills every one of his promises in his word And he is true and faithful, and we can always count on him. And he is the one that the church needs to rely upon. And I would really call upon the church not only to pray for your nation. Churches need to prioritize prayer in worship. You know, prayer has become more like a one-minute transition in a worship service than the church pouring out its heart to God, that we need God. We need the Lord to meet with us today and do something powerful in our lives and powerful in our country.
SPEAKER 09 :
Great point. Last question before I let you go. First of all, I want to thank you. You actually sent me a copy of your latest book, The Supernatural Power of Prayer and Fasting, 12 Ways God Will Change Your Life. And I have been using it devotionally. It's sitting on my desk in Washington, and I just use it as a part of devotion. It's fantastic things. What moved you to write this, and what do you hope will come out of this book?
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, you know, I've written on the subject before, but it's been about 14 years since my last book published by that. The publisher approached me about doing it and wanted me to share new insights, new things that God has taught me. And also, obviously, many of those are principles that go forward even from the past. But the real heartbeat is to really raise the flag on the awareness of prayer with fasting. We know there's power in it. The scripture references it 69 times in 57 verses, Jody, and it's rare you ever hear it talked about in the church. And the church needs to go after the Lord passionately, seeking him to do something supernatural in our lives. And he moves every time his people pray and fast, individually as well as collectively as the church. And that's what we need to do. And one of those things we need to pray for in the depth of that is our nation to believe God for the future of America.
SPEAKER 09 :
Absolutely. Thank you so much, Dr. Ronnie Floyd. You've been a leader spiritually for a long time, and we are deeply grateful. Former president of the National Day of Prayer, current member of the Faith Advisory Board. Thank you so much. God bless you. Look forward to seeing you again soon. All right. Okay, earlier today there was a big, big education case that was argued at the U.S. Supreme Court. And while the case originates out of Oklahoma and it deals with their statewide charter school board and its policies, it certainly potentially has some major implications for charter schools and religious schools nationwide. And so we want to talk about this as we wind up the program today. What are some of the potential implications? We're here now to share more about all this is Meg Kilgannon. She's a Senior Fellow for Education Studies here at the Family Research Council. Meg, thank you so much for joining us.
SPEAKER 10 :
Thanks for having me, Jody.
SPEAKER 09 :
Okay, a big, big, big case. The argument is underway at the Supreme Court. What is this case all about?
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, there is a charter school called St. Isidore in Oklahoma, and it is an online charter school. And it is a charter school is a kind of a school that receives public money. It's a privately run school, but it is supported by public dollars. And so essentially the school is saying to Oklahoma, We're a charter school. We'd like to be a part of your program, and we hope you won't discriminate against us because we're a religious school. And so Oklahoma has said no. In our Constitution, it says that we cannot have an establishment of religion in our public, over the use of our public money and in our schools. And so, no, we cannot allow you to participate in this program. So now this has risen to the level of the Supreme Court. So here we are arguing before the court.
SPEAKER 09 :
So what are some of the competing views in all of this? I know everybody's looking at this from a little different perspective. What are some of the different perspectives?
SPEAKER 10 :
This is a very, very controversial issue. I can tell you that here in Washington, D.C., I have been invited to and attended many events talking about and debating the merits of this case and the implications of this case. One of the groups of people who are concerned about this and the ramifications of this decision are charter schools in blue states like New York and California. They're very concerned that their charter programs will be discontinued or somehow impacted negatively if if this decision goes in favor of this Catholic school. So there's concern about that. There's always concern about strings attached to public money, right? And so that is an overwhelming concern for a lot of people. There are a lot of charter schools across the country and there are charter schools that are specifically designed for LGBTQ students. There are charter schools that are designed for students who want to study music, for students who want to do STEM, science technology kinds of schools. There are lots of very specific kinds of charter schools all across the country and so the question has become, why can't we have a religious charter school? And so this is a, there's a tension here between free exercise and establishment, speaking constitutionally. I'm not a lawyer. I don't understand all of those arguments, to be perfectly honest with you. But as a mom, and as somebody who wants to have a great school system, this particular situation is interesting because Parents are not going to wake up and discover that their children have become Catholic because they attended the local public school. And now they've been proselytized, right? This is a school that is an online school, and parents would have to absolutely opt into it. And so there's no question that the parents are asking for this instruction for their children. And so when I think about parents in public schools now who can find that their children have been indoctrinated with gender identity behind their backs, This idea that parents wouldn't have a right to choose this kind of education for their children seems pretty reasonable to me that this would be allowed.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, and it's interesting that you mentioned there are so many different types of charter schools across the country, so why not a religious one if that's what the people in that area want? Right. That's a great question. Let me ask you this, because I found this to be very, very interesting. The final decision in this case is not going to involve all nine of our Supreme Court justices. Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett has recused herself from this case. Right. And I'm not sure why. Do you know why?
SPEAKER 10 :
I do know why. Her background is at Notre Dame Law School, and the legal clinic at Notre Dame Law School has been advising the lawyers who have been advising the school. So she's personal friends with somebody there who's very involved in this case, and so she just felt it would be a conflict of interest for her to be involved. So it creates an interesting situation in this case. You have the three liberal justices who, from today's arguments, are very clearly not going to support this school and this idea, right? So generally, you know what the liberals are going to do. And then you have on the other side, it seemed like most of the Republican-appointed justices were going to be on the side of the school. The swing vote in this case seems like it's going to be Justice John Roberts, who is Catholic and who has been very comfortable deciding cases in favor of certain kinds of religious schools in public settings. There's a case in Maine where they have a public a pot of public money that parents can access when their children live too far away from the nearest public high school. Their parents can use this money to pay either for any kind of private school that's closer to them and more convenient for them or an online school. And they had not been allowing that money to go to religious schools. And the Supreme Court ruled in the Macon case that they did have to allow parents to be able to send their kids to religious schools because they were spending the money on any other kind of schooling. It was discriminatory to exclude religion. And that seemed to be where the reasoning was trying to go today. And so it's going to be interesting to see what Justice Roberts does. I mean, he's... He could, he's, he's been, he could go any direction, right?
SPEAKER 09 :
It's always interesting to see how he's going to go. Fair enough. Let me ask you this. We've got just a couple of minutes left. Did, did anything in the oral arguments today stick out to you? Did anything just kind of jump off the page where you had kind of an aha moment?
SPEAKER 10 :
There was one point where Justice Kavanaugh said that there was an exchange and he said, you know, I think that this school is just asking for people to not discriminate against them because they're religious. And I think that's a really good way of understanding and looking at this case because that really is the situation. There are plenty of other, if you're a parent who wants to choose a charter school in Oklahoma, there are other schools available to you. You don't have to pick the school. This is not going to be the only charter school in Oklahoma, right? So there's no reason if there are other options, why couldn't there be a faith-based option? That just seems to be common sense.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yep, therein is the problem. Common sense is often a problem. When do we expect a decision? Any idea? By June. By June. So we ought to be hearing pretty soon.
SPEAKER 10 :
We should be hearing very soon.
SPEAKER 09 :
Wow. Well, that certainly should be an item of prayer for all our viewers and listeners. This could have enormous ramifications for religious liberties, for education, parental rights, a host of things. Charter schools, a lot at stake in this. Meg Kilgannon, always, always an honor to have you on the program. Thank you for joining us today, as always.
SPEAKER 10 :
Thanks for having me.
SPEAKER 09 :
All right, friends, that wraps up yet another day of Washington Watch. I want to thank you so much for joining us, for entrusting this time to us as our mission is to keep you informed as to what's happening in the news and try to bring it to you from a biblical worldview perspective. Hope you have a fantastic remainder of your evening. We'll be back with you tomorrow right here on Washington Watch. Look forward to seeing you again.
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