Owe no man nothing, says the scripture.
The fact remains, however, that every single American is in debt, EVERY ONE OF US. Every day of every month, we owe someone something. That debt could be as normal as a phone bill, electric bill, cell phone or cable bill, or currently repayable credit card bills. But, we always owe something if we wish to live in any reasonable way in this world.
What that debt admonition means is that we ought not to owe anything which we cannot repay in the present in whole or in part. None of us could own a home unless we were able to borrow a mortgage for 10, 20 or 30 years, and make the monthly payments with interest thereon. If we can repay that 30-year debt on a monthly basis and timely so, that is a manageable obligation and not the kind of debt proscribed by scripture.
Debt, unpayable debt, and especially that debt which accumulates with interest, sometimes as much or almost so as the debt principle itself is crushing. It is always there, its presence a constant reminder that so much of the future has been mortgaged and that our present spending endangers and preempts our options for the future. Families are ruined by that kind of debt. So are marriages. Profligate businesses go bankrupt and governments, nations and states which over-borrow and accumulate crushing interest obligations sacrifice the future for the present. They kick the financial can down the road.
And that, my fellow Americans, is the pathway and the financial condition of our beloved America. Our once great country, operating on a current budget, the financial envy of the world, the dollar the hallmark of financial stability, is now the unbelievable debtor in the amount of:
$36 TRILLION DOLLARS.
$36 Trillion Dollars. As incredible, hard to believe, and frightening as that number is, the interest America pays on those $36 trillion dollars of debt is now at or about:
$1.3 TRILLION DOLLARS ANNUALLY.
$1.3 Trillion dollars in interest alone!
That means, my fellow Americans, that every American household owes as much as $275,000 of that debt. Or that also means that every tax paying person in America, every citizen, owes the sum of approximately $110,000 to our creditors, foreigners and foreign nations, and American business entities and individuals. $275,000 PER HOUSEHOLD and $110,000 PER PERSON. That is the kind of debt with interest that scripture so aggressively warns against. But we do nothing, our leaders do nothing to stop the bleeding and solve the problem. The overwhelming debt problem. But some day, we will have no choice but to deal with this horrendous financial reckoning.
Economists now believe that the nation’s debt of at or about $36 Trillion Dollars is indeed an existential threat to our great country, and to us, we the people. The fact of the matter is that America does not owe this debt, we do. WE, THE PEOPLE, the citizens of this great country owe that $36 trillion dollars, with its unbelievable annual interest burdens. WE OWE THAT MONEY! And someday, we will have to pay it. What an unbelievable effect that will have on our lifestyles and our future. That existential threat threatens our very existence!
But our Federal Government continues in its profligate way. It spends, and it spends more. It never seems to care because it can postpone the debt, financing even more of its spending, and it always has what it thinks is the fail-safe remedy, and that is:
TAXATION.
More taxation, more taxes, for we the people to pay.
And more bad financial news. Economists estimate that by the year 2034, a decade from now, America will add $20 trillion dollars to its debt of $36 trillion dollars, which would put our country in debt by the staggering sum of $56 trillion dollars, $56 TRILLION DOLLARS! And some economists think those estimates are conservative, believing that the real debt will be as high as $60 trillion dollars or even more if spending continues as is. That would also mean that the annual interest alone on that staggering debt would be somewhere between $2 Trillion and $2.5 Trillion Dollars Annually, and possibly more. In the year 2034, our total debt will be approximately 120% of our Gross Domestic Product (GDP). And hear these words carefully:
NO NATION HAS EVER CARRIED THAT KIND OF GOVERNMENT-DRIVEN DEBT AND ESCAPED CALAMITY. NOT ONE GOVERNMENT IN THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF MANKIND HAS EVER SPENT OR WILL SPEND WHAT WE AMERICANS ARE AND ESCAPED ABSOLUTE AND TOTAL DISASTER AND CALAMITY.
Not to worry, say the Democrats in charge and in power and seeking four more years of spending privileges, assuming the election of Harris-Walz. We will simply tax the rich more and more. Even if there is a sharp rise in the tax rates for the wealthy, that meager amount of additional income would never begin to seriously pay down the debt which our once fiscally responsible America now owes and will owe ten years from now.
But that day of reckoning will come when we the people will pay an unbelievable price for the profligate way our Federal Government spends our money and accumulates this strangling, bankrupting debt.
Regarding the so-called rich, the top 1% of Americans in terms of earnings reported 26.3% of the country’s adjusted gross income and paid accordingly:
Almost 46% of total income taxes!
All the rest of America’s taxpayers, 99% of them, paid the grand total of 54% of all taxes. But there is never any effort to tax more the 54% but only the so-called rich and wealthy 46%. That is fiscal policy which leads to absolute disaster!
Even more interesting, the top 10% of all earners in America provided 76% of the total revenue, tax revenue, and the other 90% of taxpayers provided 24% of tax revenue. If you were not one of the so-called wealthy, you have really gotten off cheap by taxing comparison.
Our great country, We The People, face the ever-present possibility of default in payments to our creditors, now $36 trillion dollars and in 10 years to be some $60 trillion dollars. That default of any serious kind would set off a major depression and fiscal revolution THE WORLD OVER. That economic crisis could well ruin the world.
There would also exist in America HYPERINFLATION. That is what occurred in Germany where the German Mark was absolutely worthless. If those tragic and calamitous conditions arise in America, our dollar will be just like that Mark and virtually worthless itself.
That debt-caused disaster will produce incredible internal instability, even revolution, and the very real potential of the destruction of law and order. It could also occasion the rise of dictatorship, as the very same fiscal problems in Germany gave rise to Adolf Hitler and it would undoubtedly be the end of our great democracy.
But, my fellow Americans, that debt and the problems it causes, are:
OUR FAULT.
Our responsibility. We the People allowed that debt to happen. We continue one election after another to elect a president, a senate, a house of representatives which do nothing, absolutely nothing about the problem, continue to spend, talk the talk but never walk the walk, and again do absolutely nothing about this incredible end-of-America problem, nothing but nothing. But the day of economic reckoning comes, and we will pay, WE WILL PAY! Or, our children and grandchildren will pay. The life and lifestyle which they hope for and work for will never materialize and the America we now know will never be the America they will ever know. What America once was fiscally and economically will be nothing more than an historical footnote.
Wake up, my fellow Americans, please wake up. You vote, you elect these politicians to represent you. You allow them to spend your money, to tax you, to do as they please with YOUR money but the one thing they never do is hold themselves accountable for the way they spend your money, the fiscal problems they are causing, and the insurmountable debt they are creating, which may very well never be repaid. That of course would be the end of the democratic America we now love and enjoy. But again, we have no one to blame but ourselves. We the People allow these reckless economically indifferent or ignorant politicians to do what they please, spend our money as we will, and we continue to do nothing:
NOTHING
about that spending or them. When this disaster, this calamity occurs, we will have no one to blame but:
OURSELVES – WE THE PEOPLE!
Join Kim Munson as she sits down with World War II veteran Jack Thurman to delve into his incredible story of bravery during the Battle of Iwo Jima. Jack, a young Marine at the time, shares his vivid memories of the iconic flag-raising and the fierce combat that took place on this pivotal island. Listen in as Jack recounts his interactions with fellow Marine, Ira Hayes, and the admirable camaraderie they shared through one of America's significant military engagements.
SPEAKER 08 :
American war heroes from World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. They selflessly served, and these are their stories. America's veteran stories with your host, Kim Munson.
SPEAKER 12 :
Welcome to America's Veterans Stories with Kim Munson. Be sure and check out my website, AmericasVeteransStories.com. We have the recaps of these shows there. And I am just so thrilled and honored to get to talk with Jack Thurman. He was a young Marine in 1945 who fought at the Battle of Iwo Jima, which was a pivotal battle in World War II. It was a battle for airfields. that would get our bombers an airfield where they could actually go on bombing raids to Japan. And so it was a very important battle. Jack Thurman, welcome to the show. How are you today? I'm just fine. Thank you. Well, you're a pretty famous guy, Jack Thurman, because you have been very active this last year. This was the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima, and you had a couple of really cool things that happened. One of them is you are in the special National Geographic edition regarding World War II. So congratulations, and tell us a little bit about that, Jack.
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, I felt very proud of what was going on with the geographic. And the reason I'm saying that is because that's something that I grew up with in the family. And Dad just loved it. And so that was special for me. And I would love to... Go into detail with you on it.
SPEAKER 12 :
That would be great. What happened? Because, yes, almost every family has National Geographics at home. And this one, this recent addition with you in it, you have your red cap on there. It's really a cool honor. So, yes, please tell us about that, Jack Thurman.
SPEAKER 11 :
Talk about what?
SPEAKER 12 :
About what? Yeah, talk about when the interviewer came out where he interviewed you for National Geographic and took your picture. Tell us about that.
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, the picture of, did you grab it? Yes. That was great. I loved it. And it was just nice to have him here with me. And this is something I will never forget. I'll remember these things. And it was special. So how old are you, Jack Thurman? Don't tell everybody, but I'm 94.
SPEAKER 12 :
Your secret is safe with me and all the people that are listening, okay? You'll be 95 this September. Oh, my gosh. And that other voice that we hear from time to time is Jack's daughter, Karen Thurman. And, Karen, thank you so much for arranging this interview. We greatly appreciate that.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, we appreciate you taking the time. It's important to get these stories out. I remember him talking about when National Geographic came. It was a surprise to him. And he just couldn't believe that he was being interviewed and even considered for a picture or an article with National Geographic because, like he said, he grew up with it.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, yes, it doesn't happen every day and it doesn't happen to most people. So that's very cool. Now, Jack Thurman, after you did the interview with National Geographic, then you went back to Washington, D.C. Is that correct? Yes.
SPEAKER 09 :
Correct.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay. And that was for the 75th anniversary of Iwo Jima. So what happened? What did you do when you were in Washington, D.C.?
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, I enjoyed being there in D.C. And it was just a real thrill for me to be able to see the famous spots there in that area. And the one that I liked the most was George Washington. And I enjoyed that. Okay. But anyway, it was an honor to be able to participate in all the events. And the people were just wonderful.
SPEAKER 11 :
Do you remember who you met? Do you remember some of the people you met? Yes. He got to meet the commandant of the Marine Corps. Oh, yeah. Nice. Major of the Marine Corps. And the Joint Chief of Staff who gave him a coin. Nice. And remember who was yelling in the crowd at you when we were going out to look at the Arlington... They did, Kim, they did a really nice ceremony there. I hope you don't mind if I speak for him.
SPEAKER 12 :
No, I think that works okay, Karen.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay, let's put my words in his voice because I'm pretty much speaking for him. Okay. Yeah, they did a tremendous, tremendous event out there. We flew out on the 26th and then came back on the 26th of October. February and came back on the 1st of March. And that's when the epidemic was starting. So we were a little bit nervous about going. But I remember asking dad the day before we left, All arrangements were already in place, but I made sure, and I asked him, you know, educated him about the pandemic, and if he was to get sick on this trip and pass away because of it, because it sounded so serious, would it be worth it to him? And he said yes. So that was his choice, and we went ahead and went. We wore masks the whole time. Wow. Okay. Airlines flew us out there. And we had police escort from Virginia and D.C. the entire time, wherever we went. And do you remember some of the places we went to for all the planes? Oh, yeah. Tell her about some of the planes you saw at the National Airplane Museum. Yes.
SPEAKER 09 :
That was something else. Unbelievable.
SPEAKER 12 :
And then you also met the president as well. Now, was that there or was that someplace else? That was before.
SPEAKER 11 :
Long story short, I was working out trying to get some of the Iwo Jima veterans recognized. And, of course, especially my father. I'm a little biased. Yeah. The reply we got back was, oh, this is, yes, let's do this from the White House. Let's have you guys fly out on the 18th, and I'll introduce a couple of the Iwo Jima veterans. And Dad was invited. And I thought, boy, oh, boy, we've got a bunch of 90-year-olds, and you want us to fly out there on the 18th to D.C. and back in one day, maybe two. And then go to, I had heard Wynn, though, his rally. back which is a whole day trip sure and then get back on a plane on the 26th to dc again i said it's just too much that is a lot sure for these guys so that's 18 and we um ended up driving up to colorado springs on the 20th and um he was introduced at the rally there along with uh two other ilijima veterans um let's see bob whiffle don whiffle excuse me uh-huh And Jim Blaine, maybe? Jim Blaine and Al Jennings had to cancel last minute. Okay, okay. Great. And then they had a bunch of the wounded warriors and some veterans there. And then, of course, me being a veteran myself was also recognized as a woman veteran commander in the Navy. So that was nice. But they only introduced Dad and the other two veterans for Iwo Jima. It was quite an honor to hear my dad's name coming out of President Trump's mouth out of his mind. It was pretty overwhelming and awestruck that President Trump mentioned your name.
SPEAKER 09 :
What I liked about him, he just seemed to be like the average person. That's what I liked about him. I enjoy talking to him.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, it's not every day you get to talk to the president either, Jack Thurman. Let me correct that.
SPEAKER 11 :
That's why I'm here. Sometimes the memories get a little garbled. Sure. He was not able to meet President Trump, but he introduced him from the podium while we were up in the stands. Got it. Okay. Okay, I'm with you. And he did get to meet the VP, though. Okay. Okay, Mike Penston. Yeah, he did get to meet him, had a picture, got his book to him. Both of them, actually.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay. Well, and what happened 75 years ago? Let's go to that. We've got a few minutes in this segment. But Jack Thurman, tell us, where did you grow up when you were a kid? Where did you grow up?
SPEAKER 09 :
In good old South Dakota.
SPEAKER 12 :
And how did you end up becoming a Marine?
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, the one thing that I wanted to remember is my uncle was in the First World War as a Marine. And so I kind of wanted to be, you know, following his footsteps and so on. And that was my big desire to do that. What was his name? Raleigh Tormey. Walter. Walter Tormey. Walter Tormey, yeah. Okay, okay. And he was killed in Belleau Woods. What I'd like to do here is ask you, are you familiar with a war horse?
SPEAKER 12 :
I don't know. So tell me about that.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, they used the horses in Belleau Woods because of the swamp. And I have a strong feeling that when Uncle Walter was killed in the swamp, that they brought him out of there on a war horse. And that's something that I always think about, how that must have been. Wow. Yeah, it was around, if I remember correctly, there was around 1,100 horses killed, probably wounded and dead out of that swamp. It was called the War Horse, and they had a movie on it.
SPEAKER 12 :
I'm going to have to take a look at that. And warhorses, they had to be specially trained, didn't they, Jack?
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, yeah. Well, they were special, yeah. They were a very smart horse. They knew what they were doing and they knew what they were involved in. Wow. And so your uncle was killed at... I feel that they were proud to do that. They knew the danger. And it had to be a proud moment for them to carry a body out of that swamp.
SPEAKER 12 :
Wow. I'm just kind of taking my breath away. I hadn't really thought about that, Jack. So here your uncle was killed at Belleau Wood in World War I, and then World War II comes along, and you decide you're going to be a Marine, a kid from South Dakota. So what was basic training like after you decided to become a Marine? Oh, wow.
SPEAKER 09 :
Infantry training, really. And I enjoyed San Diego. And Camp Matthews also was with the Fire and Range and so on. So I really learned a lot more about weapons, and the BAR was one of them. Okay. I got real good training there in San Diego, and I was proud of it, to be a part of the group. And all of us guys worked together. We were all buddies.
SPEAKER 11 :
What were you being trained for?
SPEAKER 09 :
Infantry fighting. What were you called? Oh, Carlton Raiders, yes. You were called what? I was a Carlton Raiders.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay. It was a very elite group, and they were the first ones. They were being trained and called the Carlson Raiders for World War II. When they were done with their training, the different divisions broke up and went off to where they were needing to go. And that was the development, my understanding, that was the development of the Navy SEALs, the recon, the leaping frogs. And they broke up the Carlson Raiders at that point, but my understanding now is that the Marine Corps is starting to come back with a new group called the Carlson Raiders in recognition of these guys.
SPEAKER 12 :
Wow. Okay. So, Jack Thurman, was Iwo Jima your first battle, or where had you been prior to Iwo Jima?
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, that was my first battle, yes.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, and you turned 20 during the Battle of Iwo Jima, correct?
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, I was 19. Okay. When I was on Iwo Jima, I was 19 years old. Turned 19.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay. That's what I thought. I thought that I read that you had your birthday there. I was going to say celebrated, but I don't think that's the word that you use when you're taking a Pacific island from the Japanese. You know what? Let's go to break. When we come back, then we'll continue this story. This is Kim Munson. This is America's Veterans Stories. And I'm talking with World War II veteran Jack Thurman, his daughter Karen Thurman, who is also a veteran, is helping us out as well. And before we do that, though, one of my valued partners is Hooters Restaurants. They have five Colorado locations. They are accepting to-go orders. You can place those orders at order.hooters.com, or you can call the store. They have curbside service option. And they're actually, now you can dine in as well. I was over there the other evening and had some great food. beverages and nachos and so would highly recommend a drop by if you don't want to cook and so go to order.hooters.com for more information we'll be right back with world war ii veteran jack thurman it's time for more of america's veteran stories with your host kim munson I'm thrilled to be talking with my friend and valued sponsor, and that is Karen Levine, award-winning realtor with REMAX Alliance. You are a valued sponsor, and why do you partner with me on America's Veterans Stories?
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Well, I think what you're doing, Kim, is amazing and awesome and something that any American could benefit from. But hearing the stories of our veterans and how they have served our nation and how they have kept us... The home of the free and the brave, as we say, is something that we all need to, one, know about and appreciate. So I think the work you're doing here is marvelous. And the part that I love is I have some students in my community Bible study who actually utilize your show as part of their history course.
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SPEAKER 12 :
Welcome back to America's Veteran Stories with Kim Munson. I am Kim Munson. Be sure to check out our website. That's AmericasVeteranStories.com. The show recaps are there. This show precipitated from a trip that I took in 2016 with a group that took or accompanied four D-Day veterans to Normandy, France, in celebration of the D-Day liberation of the European continent. We return back to the States realizing how important these stories are to be told and to capture them. And that's the reason that we do this show. And I've had the great honor to interview over 130 World War II veterans. And thrilled on the line with me is World War II veteran Jack Thurman. He fought at the Battle of Iwo Jima, which was a... very important battle in the Pacific Theater in World War II. He was just a young kid. He was 19 when the battle started on February 19, 1945. He was a kid from South Dakota, long way from home. And Jack Thurman, let's talk about this battle. Now, where were you before you headed to Iwo Jima? Were you in Hawaii, or where were you exactly? Um...
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, I was still—I think if I understand you correctly, I was still in camp.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay. And then how did you get to the battle then? You know, when did you get your orders? What did that all look like?
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, I think I see what you mean. Well, we were—we left Hawaii, and— headed for the campaign. And it was something that it's hard to believe that you can be involved in something that's so ugly. And it was an honor for me to be in the battle and I could probably go on and on. I don't know where you want me to go.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, well, so you've left Hawaii, and now you had to get off the ship into landing craft to make the landing, correct?
SPEAKER 09 :
Correct.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, and can you remember what was going through your mind at that time? Were you afraid, or what were you thinking?
SPEAKER 09 :
No, I really wasn't afraid. I knew that we were going into something that had to be done, and I had no fears at all. I was ready.
SPEAKER 12 :
Did you feel that you had ample training for that day?
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, yes. I felt very comfortable about everything. When I was in the Carls and Raiders, I also went below sea. I was in submarines also training. And so I had those trainings, really. I was almost ready, really.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay. And to set this up, I would encourage people to go and try to find on the Internet the island of Iwo Jima. It is stark. Mount Suribachi is, what, about 543 feet above the water level, and it's daunting. And the Japanese had actually dug caves. They had caves and tunnels. And we thought that we had softened the island up. And you guys were surprised. The resistance was much, much stronger than we realized. My understanding, Jack, is that the Japanese let the first wave of Marines get onto the beach and they held their fire. And it wasn't until the second wave was coming on that they really opened fire. And you guys were surprised. Am I recalling that correctly?
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, what I saw was artillery fire that was just littered the sky with Japanese artillery. And we were really surprised. We weren't expecting that at all. And so that's one thing that I'll never forget. The Japanese were prepared. And we felt that this was something that had to be taken care of. And so we just hung in there and took our leggings along with the other boots.
SPEAKER 11 :
So I think her question was, and I think this is a good thing to clarify, Or limited. Yeah. Yeah. And when you couldn't even hit the beach, both M-tracks on each side of you were hit and sunk and killed. So I'd say the artillery fire was pretty significant, even with the first wave.
SPEAKER 12 :
With the first wave. Okay. Okay, so let's talk about that, Jack Thurman. First wave, Iwo Jima. Landing craft is coming up to this beach, which is volcanic sand or ash. There's not much, very many places to hide. What happened when you hit the beach?
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, first of all, it was – we weren't – we were surprised at the attacks that we were – resistance that we were getting. And it was – The whole thing about trying to get on the beach was very difficult. And the Japanese had artillery fire that just wouldn't quit. It was just unbelievable. We weren't expecting all that. But we went on in and did what we had to do. And I got in right in behind... The attack, I had a group over on the way to get out of the Japanese attack. And I think that's what you mean.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah. And so I heard there were kind of berms or something. How did you get your foothold there?
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, my first, the way we got on the beach was Amtrak. Okay, okay. And Amtrak was something that we respected. It was a good unit, and it helped us to get in, really. And it spun around and dropped? Yeah, LST, yeah. Okay, okay. Talk about that. Oh, okay. I can talk about the landing with the LSTs. And they opened up the way for us and we didn't move in. And it was, everything was happening so fast that we just couldn't, I'll put it this way. The beach was something that we didn't expect all the resistance. that we were getting from the Japanese. They were there waiting for us. And it was just... I think I've covered what you want. Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay. What happened when you hit the beach? Remember you were talking about the sand and going up the hill? Yeah. Tell her about that.
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, okay. So when I got onto the beach... I moved in to where I was on the inside of the attack, and the way I hit the beach was something that I'll never forget. and uh what was it like what is it you won't forget jack what was it like once you got onto the beach what was the sand like what what uh was it hot it was hot i'll tell you what it was hot all the way across yurijima the whole island was nothing but uh lava beds and uh the uh island was shaped five miles here about you and dumped lava all the way across the island the island it was it was warm i mean if we dug a It was warm in that foxhole. And it was hot all the time. And the idea of trying to move through the black sand, which I found out, why black sand? And I found out that the volcano was so hot and full of foxholes. that had burnt the yellow sand. And that's where the black sands come from, burnt by Montserrat Bashi. And so I was in this kind of a heat system all the way across the Ujima. And I have a feeling that the idea of trying to wipe out the hot sand and so on was difficult. But we didn't get a good start. We were alone holding on the airfield number one for the whole day. We were there. We couldn't move out. And we battled for a good solid week or more. along Motogama Airfield No.
SPEAKER 1 :
1.
SPEAKER 09 :
And that is where we got into a heavy battle. And the thing that really caught my attention was the equipment that the Japanese used to reach us and to pin us down. It was difficult for us to handle. A cosmic suicide plane came in, and... I saw it coming, and I was firing away at the nose of that plane. I could see the pilot sitting up in his cockpit, and I was firing away, and when he got to where I was at, he dropped down right in the middle of us, killing all of the Marines that were there. I was in my foxhole when that happened, and I jumped into my foxhole, and when that plane dropped down, I was covered head to foot. And I thought for sure that this is where I was going to be because of the exploding fire. And the battle went on and on. It was difficult to... pull out but i got out of i got out there thank god two guys who jumped over when he when they were running running past me and one of the one of the guys said hey he says there's a guy down here and they dug me out i really feel if he hadn't have seen me i'd probably still there today because i was i was literally buried in black sand and uh So I was able to get out of there, moved out of there. The thing that really got me was we were there a good part of the day, working, fighting, and so on. We couldn't get out of there at all. The Japanese were so powerful, unbelievable. And I finally got out. I dug myself out, and I got out of there. And the thing that really got me was the suicide plan. Well, I probably should have said that, but anyway, that's what it was. And I can go on and on in that part of the department if you want.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, tell us some more about that, Jack. Pardon? Tell us some more.
SPEAKER 09 :
Okay. I shouldn't be laughing, but you sound kind of funny. Okay. He wants to know more. Yeah. You know, we were on that beach a good week and a half. In that area, we couldn't get out of that Boneyama Airfield No.
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When that caused the plane to drop down and clear it out of the way, I heard a guy holler, I need help over here. And I jumped in, and here he was on Boneyama Airfield No.
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That's where he was at. And so he needed help, so what I did, I jumped over there on the far side of Motoyama Airfield No. 1 to get coverage behind the Japanese planes that were in wreckage. But when I got clear to run over to where he was at, I couldn't believe what was happening. I was getting bullets in the sand there, one after another. I don't know how in the world I got through, but I got through. I needed to get over to him because he was needing some help. And I finally got over there to him. and dropped in behind him in his Vauxhall. And he says, okay, you take cover here. I'm going down to the end of Moriam Airfield Number 1. He said there are three B-29s coming in, and they're going to be landing here. And I saw those B-29s flying over the beachhead when we were making our landing. They were flying real low. And the thrill of seeing those B-29s heading for Tokyo is where they were going. And so what happened was when he told me what he wanted me to do was he took off. Well, all right. So the thing was I thought, well, okay. I finally got to the point. I could cover this guy that wanted me to help him. coming back. They were there for the landing and then they were coming back. And two of them crash landed out in the ocean. And I saw the guys running down the wing of their B-29s trying to get out of the water. And what got me was the guy that was in that foxhole Let's see, what was that? Okay, getting back to where the B-29s landed in the water, and I thought, oh, boy, you guys, I hope you guys can swim, because they were running down the wings of the B-29 and trying to get out of the water. And so they made it and whatever. But it was really hectic there. And one of the guys, so one B-29 got in. And the rest of them were crashing out there in the water. And so not one B-29 got in. What I did was to run off into the area and try to give help to this guy that wanted me to come in the first place. And I took over the position. And so from this B-29 that crash landed, A officer comes running out of the plane, and he was... What was so interesting was he was running away from the B-29, and he... He was headed for me, and he got to me, and the thing that I had to do was to try to cover him. He got to me and he says, I need to get some coverage. I need to get out of here. And he tried to take over the run, but I helped him out by being there for him. He was beating this bomber that crashed. And so he ran over towards me and he says, he says, I need some help. And so this is kind of funny here, what happened. got to me, and he says, well, he says, there were kids, and there were Japanese, and there were Japanese all over the place. And I think I'm kind of getting lost here just a little bit. He said, boy, am I glad to see you.
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Okay, on that note, Jack and Karen, let's go to break. And when we come back, we'll do our final segment with World War II veteran Jack Thurman. Hey, before we go to break, I am thrilled to be talking with one of my valued sponsors, and that is Lauren Levy with Polygon Financial. Lauren, it's so great to talk with you.
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Oh, you as well. Thank you, Kim.
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You know, you're a valued partner, and this is a really special show. But why have you decided to be my partner on this?
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Okay, and you're a real specialist in helping people in finding just the right individual mortgage for them. And as you mentioned, there's some very special things as we were preparing for this. You said, this is something that we probably have gotten right, and I love that. So explain.
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So what would some of those benefits be, Lorne Levy?
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Okay, so with eligibility, a veteran is entitled to, let's say, purchase a home with 0% down. Oh, that's a big help. With huge, with no mortgage insurance added on. Someone looking to refinance, if they just wanted to take advantage of a lower rate, there's a VA EARL program, which is like a streamlined, low document. Refinance doesn't require an appraisal or income proof.
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So people could lock in a much lower rate.
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It seems like it's a great way for we as Americans to say thank you to these men and women who have stepped up and have been willing to put it all on the line to protect us and protect our freedoms. And so, yeah, I'm glad to hear that it looks like that probably we got this right.
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Exactly. I think, you know, when these guys come home from wherever they're coming back from, it's hard to, you know, step right back into society and have a big down payment saved up like most people that work a nine to five job do. So these guys are entitled to come back and have zero down and still on a home because while they're off doing their thing, they oftentimes have wives and kids or husbands and kids here that need a roof to over their head and need to be able to pay that mortgage and and without a huge down payment.
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Okay, so if people want more information, Lorne Levy, with Polygon Financial, what's the best way for people to reach out to you?
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Okay. So Lauren Levy, again, your number is 303-880-8881. So again, 303-880-8881. That's correct. And thank you so much for being a partner.
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Absolutely. Thank you.
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Well, this is Kim Munson. We're going to go to break. We'll be right back.
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Welcome back to America's Veteran Stories with Kim Munson. Be sure and check out the website, AmericasVeteranStories.com. That's where these shows are archived. The podcasts are there. On the line with me today is Jack Thurman. a World War II veteran. He'll be 95 this year. He turned 20 during the Battle of Iwo Jima. Also on the line is his daughter, Karen. She herself is a military veteran as well. So first of all, thank you to both of you for your service. We've got this last segment, Jack Thurman, and you were involved in the picture of the flag raising or near the flag raising, which is the photograph that actually served as the kind of the model or the inspiration for the Marine Memorial incident. And, you know, we all know what that is, is these Marines raising the flag on Mount Suribachi. Tell us about how did you meet Ira Hayes and tell our listeners about Ira Hayes if they don't know him. So tell us about that, Jack Thurman.
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Okay. You're asking me to talk about Ira Hayes? Yes, please. Okay. What we met was in Hawaii. And I knew that he was a code talker. He was a very famous code talker. And so I was sitting there watching him work on his switchboard, which was mounted on his jeep. And I thought, you know, I'd kind of like to get over there and meet him. So I did. And the thing that got me was the... He said, well, okay, what I want to do, I want to learn a little bit about code talking. That's what I want to do. And he says, well, sure, no problem. Sit down here. Well, after about a half hour to an hour or so, he says, did you say you're from South Dakota? And I said, yes, sir. He says, when can you go back? I couldn't speak that coach stuff for nothing, you know. And he knew it. Well, Ira and I became great buddies. He started to talk to me about his problem. And he says, I do a lot of drinking. I've got a lot of people that are, you know, put out with me and all that. And I said, Ira, you don't have to apologize to anybody. I said, you, I think what I did... I made a good remark, and I said to him, I said, you are one brave American Indian. And I don't think he ever forgot that, because he never got encouragement from anybody. He was always bad guy, bad guy. And so Ira and myself became real good buddies, real good friends. And I really felt strong about that. He was a brave American Indian.
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Tell us about that, you going up Mount Suribachi with Ira Hayes. What was that like?
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It was... So what happened was our commander wanted to, he asked me and Meyer Hayes to go up and help them raise that flag. Because the wind was blowing so strong up there, those guys were just all over the place trying to keep that flag erect. And so Ira and I, this is how we got involved. And we took off and we both went up to the mountain together. And as we got close to the flag was being swaying all over the place, the wind was so strong up there. And that was typical in the South Pacific at that point. And so what we did was, excuse me, we jumped into the, well, I'm not saying that right now. I'll put it this way, that I couldn't figure out How in the world did you get passed?
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How to get past the Japanese?
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Yes.
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Okay. So how did you do that? Were you sneaking around, or how did you do that, Jack?
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Well, how I did it was I had to get... more or less kind of get command of where I was at. And that was one of them, was to get rid of that Japanese sniper that was right in front of me there. And so that took some ingenuity to get nuts taken care of.
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Okay, so as you're going up the mountain, you ran into a bunker, is that right? Yes.
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Yes, what happened was, this happened, like I say, in a Japanese bunker. Okay, I was directing a tank, a Sherman tank. The Sherman tank was going in the wrong direction. There was so much commotion going on, it was just unbelievable. And the Sherman tank was going in the wrong direction to start with. Now, I ran out in front of this Sherman tank and directed them. I knew how to do this because I was trained in the Carlton Raider, knowing how to do this. And so I got the Sherman tank out of the way, and the bunker was right there beside me, right in front of me. And so the Sherman tank pulled away. And then what I did, I went on and down around behind this bunker. And what happened was that there was another area in there that I could jump into safely, which I did. And I did that. And so then when that was cleared, I came in with my rifle, and I caught this one sniper, and I cleared him out of the way. And then as I got him out of the way, I moved on down to the other end of the bunker. I thought there would be a place for me to get in. And so I did. And what happened was that I dropped in behind. I thought to myself there had to be a door or some sort of way to get into that bunker. And so I did. And I raced on down. And I got where I was safe. And what happened was then I had to get into that bunker. And so I fired my rifle and so on, and I got into this bunker, and here were five Japanese. They had taken their life, and they were lined up along the wall, and they were over each other in that area with... Their toe, the big toe, stuck in the trigger of their rifle, and they were head to toe, head to toe, head to toe, head to toe. There were five of them. And I fired, and here it was. They were lined up, and... There was nothing more that I needed to do. And, of course, we had to eliminate him as fast as we could. And so that's what I did. Okay.
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So, Jack Thurman, we only have a few minutes left. Tell us about you and Ira Hayes when you got to the top of Mount Suribachi. What happened there?
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Okay. Beautiful. What happened there was Ira Hayes, he wanted to grab ahold of the flagpole that was about a foot and a half extended out. And he says to me, he says, I think I'll run up there and grab ahold of the end of that flagpole and get us more support. And I said, okay, driver, go for it. I'll cover you. And so that's what he did. He went up there, grabbed the whole of that flagpole, and gave it a shove upward. And that is what started our being able to take over. And the thing was that I had to... clear my way somehow. And it was a touching moment again. And so what happened was when I moved out of the area so that, okay, I got to say something here real quick. The B-29 that flew over the beach when we were making our landing, heading for Tokyo, They came back. They landed there. They did not land, but they came back. Wow. We had the B-29s at our disposal, and that was a real thrill to see those B-29s flying around. Sure. Yeah, yeah. So the thing that I had to do was... to get out of the area, which I did. And the thing that bothered me the most was I had to get a hold of the base of that flagpole, which was about a foot and a half. And he grabbed a hold of it, and he gave it a shove upward. to give the guys on the flag, the flag raising, were all over the place. The wind was so strong up there, they couldn't keep control of that flag. But I would manage to. So what happened was, Ira and I, Everything was happening so fast there, it was just unbelievable. And so the flag raising was started with Ira, and he helped the rest of his buddies that were having problems hanging in there because of the wind. And so I... So I moved in, and the thing that got me was how everything was, like I said, happening so fast that it was difficult to get organized. as fast as we could. The thing that I lost was trying to cover the area that I was after.
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How did you get pulled in? After they did the flag raising, they did another, a second photo called the gung-ho photo. How did you end up getting pulled into that?
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Well, I already gave the orders. And that's how I got involved in the gung-ho picture. And the reason that he was on me is because I was helping him on that strike. And it was a proud moment for me.
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Well, Jack Thurman, we are out of time. But my friends, you have just... heard from Jack Thurman, World War II veteran, a piece of history when he was giving cover for Ira Hayes and the other guys to be raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima, which really gave the Americans heart for that battle. Jack and Karen Thurman, thank you so much for this interview today. I so appreciate it.
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Thank you. It was an honor.
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Thank you. God bless America. Yes. So God bless you and God bless America. This is Kim Munson signing off.
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It was tough. And so if you can stay home today, I think you probably should. But real troopers here. We're on here live. And you talk about troopers. We have in studio with us Alan Thomas. And, Kane, you can't say anything right now because I pulled that microphone off of the holder. And here comes Amanda to save the day. And then Jim May is actually going to be in here in just a minute as well. So, hail, hail, the gang's all here. And, Kane, I think you're on five. Let's try that. Yeah, if you guys could all see what's going on here, you would be... Truly, truly amazed here. So, okay, let's jump into it. Check out the website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. And while you're there, sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You'll get first look at our upcoming guests as well as our most recent essays. You can email me at Kim at Kim Monson dot com. And thank you to all of you who support us. We truly are an independent voice, and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you shouldn't have to force people to do it. And force comes in a lot of different ways, Alan Thomas. It could be rights. Well, they take away our rights, our property, freedom, livelihood, opportunities. They're taking away kids' childhood and their lives via force. And there's a lot of different things in that list.
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And, you know, I think it was a year or two ago I said that list is just going to get longer and longer and longer. And, you know, fortunately, the election of Donald Trump is going to help just slightly. We might have the bureaucrats a little bit scared right now about how much they're adding to that list.
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Well, and I find this so interesting, Alan, and I hadn't really thought about it until yesterday. Somebody had sent a meme regarding SpongeBob SquarePants, and the first one was he's skipping along the road, happy as anything, and it says, the left's reactions when people lost their jobs because they refused the vaccine. And then the next one, he's going crazy, and it says, now the left's reaction when bureaucrats are losing their jobs. And I hadn't really connected that dot, but it's true.
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It's absolutely true. And, you know, the other thing that kind of drives me crazy is you sit here and they're like, oh, my gosh, Donald Trump had a hiring freeze for the federal workforce. And it's like, well, Joe Biden did the same thing when he got elected. Some of this is just the turnover administration. You know, Barack Obama fired a whole lot of George W. Bush appointees to the Justice Department. But now that Trump does it, oh, my goodness, the world's going to end. Right.
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Well, and Kane, yesterday, Daniel Turner made a really good point, is day one, Joe Biden canceled the Keystone Pipeline and 14,000 people lost their jobs with that.
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So we have to look at the left and the media and the Hollywood type. They're fraudulent. During COVID, how many businesses were shut down? True. How many jobs were lost? Not one lefty stood up and says, this is insane what we're doing to our American public. Thousands, tens of thousands of jobs gone. Businesses that have been around for 50, 60, 70 years are gone because of COVID. But there's no tears for them. All of this is fraud. They just want to demonize Trump at every opportunity they can. And they're liars. And, Kim, you know I just speak the truth.
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And I say they're non-truths.
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Because you're sweet and I'm not. They are, like the media, pathetic, lying, teleprompter reading harlot. Every last one of them.
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And your wife said, don't yell today, okay?
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Oh, Joe's not here to help me either.
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What were you going to say, Alan? Oh, I was just going to say for the first time, it's popular with the public. Like their lies and deceit is not going anywhere because the public is fed up with all of that Doge's finding. This waste, this deceit, these billions of dollars that have been lost to these pet projects. It's like for once the public is like, you know what? I don't feel too sorry for the way he's taken a hatchet to the federal government. How often can you cry wolf before people go, oh, I'm done with this?
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And these protests, it's comical. They're out there. They're protesting that they want waste, fraud, and abuse, right?
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Yes, yes. It's insane. Well, I'll cover that later. That will eat me down, a 10-minute tyrant there. Okay.
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So let me do a few other things here. I can't remember now if I said sign up. There's a lot going on here, my friends, so just hang with me here. Check out the website. That's Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter that goes out on Sundays. You'll get first look at our upcoming guests as well as our most recent essays. And Alan will be rolling your essay out this week. So that'll be great. You can email me at Kim at Kim Monson dot com. Text line is 720-605-0647. And the show comes to you on all KLZ 560 platforms, 6 to 8 a.m. And then the first hour is rebroadcast 1 to 2 in the afternoon, second hour 10 to 11 at night. Those platforms are KLZ 560 AM, KLZ 100.7 FM, the KLZ website, and the KLZ app. Okay. The word of the day, I took this from your essay, and that is ubiquitous. And this is a good word, and you can spell it. It's U-B-I-Q-U-I-T-O-U-S, and it could be existing or being everywhere at the same time. So, for example, God is ubiquitous and on our earth, right? Right, Ella?
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Right. And I forgot how I use it in the essay, but probably to the point that the deep state is pretty ubiquitous in our lives.
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I think that's what you said. Exactly. So, gentlemen, I I had intended I was going to email this to you. Then I thought we were going to have time this morning. And then I just threw this at you. But as you know, today is Friday. So it's our Medal of Honor quote. And so I've taken this from the Medal of Honor quote book from the Center for American Values. And you can buy that by going to AmericanValueCenter.org. But with that, I wanted to have each of you take half of this because I think it's good to have these different voices. And so you've not had a chance to look at this. And intrepidity is a word that can get us kind of tripped up a bit. But, gentlemen, if you will try this. Cain, I think I'll start with you. And then you saw where I said then you'll give it to Alan on this. Because this is a quote by Sammy. L. Davis. And it's a pretty long citation because it's pretty amazing. I met him down at the Center for American Values. They did an On Values presentation. And he was born in 1946. And this is actions he took on November 18, 1967. So, Cain, if you would start with the citation.
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I will. In the future, bigger font formula. Sorry about that. That's okay. Here we go. For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty, Sergeant Davis, then PFC, distinguished himself during the early morning hours while serving as a I don't know what that is, with Battery C. At a remote fire support base at approximately 0-200 hours, the support base was under heavy enemy mortar attack simultaneously on an estimated reinforced vehicle. Viet Cong battalion launched a fierce ground assault upon the fire support base. The attacking enemy drove to within 25 meters of the friendly position. Only in the river Only a river separated the Viet Cong from the fire support base. Detecting a nearby enemy position, Sergeant Davis seized a machine gun and provided a covering fire. It's the font, I guess. Yeah, I know it. I'm so sorry.
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Do you want me to take an over?
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Yes, that's a good idea.
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Okay, I'll do that because I just threw this at you, and the font is pretty small. So, detecting a nearby enemy position, Sergeant Davis seized a machine gun and provided covering fire for his gun crew as they attempted to bring direct artillery fire on the enemy. Despite his efforts, an enemy recoilless rifle round scored a direct hit upon the artillery piece. The resultant blast hurled the gun crew from their weapon and blew Sergeant Davis into a foxhole. He struggled to his feet and returned to the howitzer, which was burning furiously. ignoring repeated warnings to seek cover sergeant davis rammed a shell into the gun and then disregarding a withering hail of enemy fire directed against his position he aimed and fired the howitzer which rolled backward knocking sergeant davis violently to the ground okay alan
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Undaunted, he returned to the weapon to fire again when an enemy mortar round exploded within 20 meters of his position, injuring him painfully. Nevertheless, Sergeant Davis unloaded the artillery piece, aimed, and fired. Again, he was knocked down by the recoil. In complete disregard for his safety, Sergeant Davis loaded and fired three more shells at the enemy. Disregarding his extensive injuries and his inability to swim, Sergeant Davis picked up an air mattress and struck out across the deep river to rescue three wounded comrades on the far side. Upon reaching the three wounded men, he stood upright and fired into the dense vegetation to prevent the Viet Cong from advancing. While the most seriously wounded soldier was helpless across the river, Sergeant Davis protected the two remaining casualties until he could pull them across the river to a fire support base. Though suffering from painful wounds, he refused medical attention, joining another howitzer crew which fired at the large Viet Cong force until it broke contact and fled. Sergeant Davis' extraordinary heroism at the risk of his life is in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service and reflect great credit upon himself and the U.S. Army.
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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. Something's a good idea. You should not have to force people to do it. I am thrilled to have on the line with me my good friend Sybil Gardner. She's at CPAC. This is her second time in attending. And this year is being held at National Harbor in Maryland. She's a former Hollywood TV writer who moved to Colorado in 2014 and left the Democrat Party in 2018. She's been politically active since her memoir entitled Sybil Rights is available on Amazon. Sybil Gardner, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 21 :
Thank you, Kim. So great to talk to you and give you all this great information about CPAC.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, and you invited me to go with you, and I am jealous. I would love to be with you. But give us an update. What's happening? It sounds pretty exciting.
SPEAKER 21 :
Oh, it's incredibly exciting. And I got here yesterday afternoon just in time to see Pam Bondi and Ted Cruz being interviewed. And the lineup was just bam, bam, bam, one amazing guest after another. And the surprise guest was Elon Musk. And that was just amazing to see him. And Javier Mure, the president of Argentina, ran onto the stage with a giant chainsaw and handed it to Elon Musk and passed that file.
SPEAKER 10 :
Oh, my gosh. So now you had texted me. You said you should have gone a day early because you missed Vance, though, right?
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, he was the opening speaker on Thursday morning. And I I think that his speech is definitely available. In fact, people can go on to CPAC dot com or no dot org and and hear all the speeches and live. I believe they're on C-SPAN so people can still see what's going on, even if they're not here. And I'm here with friends from Virginia, North Carolina, California, and Oklahoma. And we're all getting together today to hear the speeches. And This year, it's a bit different from 22. When I came back then, it was mostly politicians, congresspeople and senators speaking. And this year, it's a lot of people that are just active in the political sphere. Steve Bannon spoke yesterday, and then Ben Shapiro and all of the other hosts from Daily Wire and Elon, of course. And today, I think that one of the highlights is gonna be Megan Kelly, who's a wonderful spokesperson for truth and clarity, which I know is your theme.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, absolutely. And Sybil, you and I met through the Boulder Tapas and Topics group. And your journey is just so interesting. And your book, Sybil Writes, it's quite a story. But you grew up in New York, then you were in Hollywood all these years. And here you are now, I think one of the most fascinating, fervent conservatives that I know so focused on conserving these principles of our founding. It's quite the story, Sybil Gardner.
SPEAKER 21 :
Oh, thank you. Yeah, it's been a pretty crazy journey. And in fact, last night I went out to dinner with two of my friends, one of whom is an ex-nun who started a screenwriting program for Christians in Hollywood. That's how I got to know her because I was a teacher there. And she read my book and she said, if I had known all this about you, I wouldn't have been your friend. I have a pretty crazy past. But, you know, once you really get a handle on the truth, it's just impossible if you're a driven person the way I am to stop broadcasting it and wanting to kind of shake people and wake them up a bit, not, you know. So that's why I wrote my book. But it has lots of interesting stories. But anyway, I just encourage people to check out CPAC. It's the Conservative Political Action Conference. I was going to say this, it's really a once in a lifetime experience, but this is my second time and I'm definitely going to come back. The difference between 22 and 25 is the mood was very similar because back then people expected a red wave in the midterms. And so it was just a brilliant that everybody was so excited, so friendly, every kind of person that you could imagine. And, you know, it's not just one type of person. And now it's even more exciting because we won. And the changes, like Steve Bannon said something that I thought was so astute. He said that every one of Trump's picks for his cabinet is a change agent. They're not just people who are sort of towing the line of conservatism, but they really want to do deep changes. And as Elon said, that they're busting the matrix. And that's so exciting.
SPEAKER 10 :
So who all did you say is on for today then, Megyn Kelly?
SPEAKER 21 :
Well, this morning it's a lot of international spokespeople because CPAC has expanded around the globe. So it's in Japan, Korea, Australia, which is going to be very interesting because that's another country that is fighting for its freedom. And, you know, they have a lot of times they hold the lineup until the last minute, you know, because obviously we're only about 20 minutes from D.C. In fact, we went in to D.C. last night for dinner and it was just so thrilling to see the White House lit up and the Capitol building and all the monuments. And so I'm hoping that Cash Patel speaks today because you know it's really funny back in 22 I was such like a political groupie I mean I was I went up and just thanked people so I saw Rick Grinnell I'm a huge fan of his back in 22 and he grabbed my phone and said let's do a selfie well this year I saw him and I wanted to do that again but he was like surrounded by his little group of people who whisked him out and he gave me a smile but there was no way I was getting a picture and And in 22, I was in the lobby of the hotel back then. It was in Florida. And Cash was sitting in a chair in the lobby, hovered over his computer. And I went by and I just said, hey, nice job, Cash. He looked up and he said, thanks, and then went back to work. Well, I'm sure this year I'm not going to get a chance to say, nice job, Cash. It's just like all those people that I admired back then are now getting a chance to really make a difference in the country. Kane?
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, I was going to say, I saw a YouTube video yesterday of Cash walking down the hallway, and he was surrounded by protection. And so no one's getting close to these folks now.
SPEAKER 21 :
No, and when Elon was speaking, you could look around and you could just see all of the security there for him. And he told a funny story about getting a call from the president of El Salvador, of Bukele. I'm probably mispronouncing Bukele. Anyway, he got a call from him saying, I'm really worried about you, Elon. People are going to try to kill you. And Elon responded, look, you have 40,000 gangbangers in prison, and you're worried about me?
SPEAKER 10 :
So speaking of Kash Patel, somebody sent me this short little video, and it has a guy at an office and shredded paper up about, oh, to his waist. And it says FBI headquarters right before Kash arrives. Right.
SPEAKER 21 :
Ben Shapiro also said something that, I mean, everybody has just had a really interesting take on the current situation in our country. And Ben Shapiro said that Trump is not a classic conservative, but he's somebody who is in reality conservative. because he's a businessman and you have to know what works, you know, and what doesn't work. And, um, what they're realizing is that the bureaucracy was sort of a permanent money pipeline for the left. And so that's, you know, one of the reasons they're, they're freaking out about stocks. Um, So it's just such an incredibly exciting time to be alive, if you're sort of on this side of the political spectrum. And I have friends on the other side who are not happy at all. But we'll see how it shakes out.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, and Sybil, you have been, since I've known you, you really have been engaged in these conversations with friends. And as you have told me, many of your friends back in Hollywood certainly are on the left. But you have the courage to engage in these conversations with people.
SPEAKER 21 :
Well, I think having trust in God is a big part of it. I mean, that's when you are... a religious or a Christian or what your faith is, that's the entity that you want to please, not people. And so I certainly don't want to make any enemies, but I'm not going to kowtow to baloney. I'm not. You know, if that causes me to lose some friends, so be it. But I'm not trying to lose friends, and I'm happy to engage anybody in conversations. And I guess the journey that I've been on for the past few years since I left the Democrat Party is trying to educate myself. So I read for hours a day to just try to get to the truth of things and not And weed through the propaganda, which has been surrounding us for our whole lives and is only now being revealed when we see that USAID has been subsidizing mainstream media for years. I mean, that's appalling to me.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, it really is. And as you know, I'm an independent voice on an independent station, which means that I buy my airtime. And we saw yesterday that, and I guess Daniel Turner mentioned it, that Stacey Abrams and company got $2 billion from that money that the EPA pushed out the door. I could do a lot of shows for $2 billion, Sybil. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 21 :
Well, that's why I respect independent journalists like you and megan kelly and you know there are so many of them right now and i i just find it hard to believe that anybody like actually except for my mom whom i love but you know she still watches msnbc and cnn and you just have a very different picture of reality and that is your source for information
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, if I can back up just real quick, Sybil, it is much easier to speak the truth in difficult times when you're covered by the blood of Jesus.
SPEAKER 21 :
Absolutely. Absolutely. And everybody that I'm, all my friends that I'm here with, there are six of us that came together. We are all Christians, Catholic and Christian. And so that bond of strength and belief is just something that's irreplaceable by anything else. I mean, I, I didn't have that font, even though I had so many writer friends in Hollywood, what, what brought us together was our common career. But now the friends that I have in my life, like him, um, there's so much.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, and, uh, Sybil, you had, you gave me a manuscript of your book and, um, Yours is such a great, I'll just put it this way, yours is such a great story of Christ's redemption.
SPEAKER 21 :
Well, it's like the chapter that says so much repenting. Which I'm still doing.
SPEAKER 10 :
And so people can get your story at Sybil, S-I-B-Y-L, rights, available on Amazon. And I really would have loved to have been there with you. Do they do this every year? Yes.
SPEAKER 21 :
It's every year in February, and it's in different locations. And so you better come next year because I'm definitely going to come back. It's just something new. to experience in person. It's really the vibe is so beautiful.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, Sybil Gardner, thank you so much for this update from CPAC and just have a great day. And we're with you in spirit. So just have a great time.
SPEAKER 21 :
And Trump is going to speak tomorrow.
SPEAKER 10 :
So make sure you tune in for that. Oh, that's going to be awesome. So that's Sybil Gardner. You can get her book, Sybil Writes. It's available on Amazon. And we have all these discussions because we have wonderful sponsors. And one of those is Karen Levine.
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SPEAKER 10 :
Welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. And Kane, you said you like chaos. Oh, you are happy right now, aren't you?
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes, ma'am. Yes, ma'am. We're doing it. To be able to function in chaos is a beautiful thing. How am I doing? You're doing awesome. Okay, good. People don't know what was happening seconds before you went on air, but yeah.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay, and in studio with me is my friend Kane and Alan Thomas and Jim May. Hello. With Lavaca Meat Company, you're here, too. This is awesome.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah. Good morning, everybody. It's Friday. I'm always around here sometime on Friday, right? But I got here at, hey, just all my workers out here, I got here at 6 o'clock, and the building was still locked. So I was at work on time, guys, so you guys better be, too.
SPEAKER 10 :
So and this is from Connie. She said, Good morning, Kim, Kane, Allen and Jim. May our ubiquitous God grant you a blessed day. Thank you, Connie. Thank you, Connie. OK, so the legislature is in session here. and we're going to talk a little bit about some of this stuff. As you know, I've got this gig, this volunteer gig, as president of the Colorado Union of Taxpayers, which I tell you, this team is amazing that I get to work with. And we have this great technology called Biltrack 50. Ah! You're not going to believe it. As of this morning, between all of the bills and the resolutions, Alan, do you want to take a guess on how many? I don't know if you listened to the show yesterday. I don't even want to hazard a guess. It's just going to make me cry.
SPEAKER 1 :
495.
SPEAKER 10 :
And we're only to February. When is the end again? May, like May 8th or something like that. Way too late. We don't need another bill. I'd like to take the time to go through and see how many words that is.
SPEAKER 09 :
They're legislating tyranny. All these bills are simply meant to control us, to take away our freedoms and our liberties and our property.
SPEAKER 10 :
There's a few good ones. Yesterday we had Representative Dan Woog on who had a bill to repeal the delivery fee. But those on the left who say they want to make life more affordable, nope, they wanted to keep that fee on there.
SPEAKER 09 :
And so they didn't let that get out. And so because the left is in charge, we do have a few bills. I was supposed to speak for Bradley County. Brandy Bradley yesterday. But they don't have a system where it's efficient, where I was waiting from 1.30 to like 5.30 to get on. And then at 5.30, I had to be in a school board meeting. And so they need to improve that process so that people... It's by design.
SPEAKER 1 :
100%.
SPEAKER 09 :
And so when I say that they're creating these policies to defeat our liberties and our freedoms... The majority of the policies are from them. And they will absolutely shut down policies, legislation from conservatives. And so they're in charge. And I just simply say the way we fix it is we vote them out of office.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
And I know that you're working on some things. However, our founding fathers gave us this power. They gave us this opportunity, this possibility of voting people out so that we don't go to war again. That was the main reason for voting. We're going to allow you to remove these people that don't have your best interest in mind and they're not trained to uphold the Constitution. When that is compromised... We have a problem, and I believe that we have a problem with our voting system today. It doesn't mean that we shouldn't still vote, but we need to fix that. And once we fix it, and I think President Trump is going to do some things to fix this in the near future. I'm not sure how that will work in Colorado, but I think the entire landscape will change because our system has been compromised for decades.
SPEAKER 10 :
So on that, Kane, two things. I know that you sent me a text message, and then I sent back a list of seven things that I want to work on. And you're like, whoa, on these elections. And what has to happen, these have to happen simultaneously in Colorado here, Alan. And that is, oh, and congratulations. I need to say congratulations to you. You were elected as the first vice chair for the Douglas County GOP.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, thank you very much. You gave me a phenomenal introduction that I was very honored to have, so thank you for that.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, congratulations on that. But we need to be doing two things. We've got to get these elections cleaned up, and we need to have good candidates that understand our founding run. We need to have... good campaigns for that. So we need to have that happen. And we need to clean these elections up. So I know you're working on the candidates and the campaigns, and I'm working on the election side.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, and one way to help fix the election side is to win. And that's something Republicans haven't done a lot of in Colorado. And that's what we need to fix. And Part of it comes back to Sybil's story. It's not pushing people out. It's saying, hey, I know people are able to change. That's one of the beautiful things about our Christian faith is the fact that we can change. And that's what people have shown time and time again for centuries is that we can change our ideas. We can change our beliefs. And so We need to be reaching out to our Democrat neighbors, to our progressive neighbors, our unaffiliated neighbors and saying, hey, you know, we got four hundred ninety five bills. This is all the crazy. Here's where we are normal. Here's where we just want to, you know, love on our kids. Here's how we just want to put food on the table. How how is this helping us do that? And just. We really need to create a mass movement towards our side to say, hey, we're the party of normal. We're not the party of crazy. And if you vote for us, you're going to get common sense stuff. You're not going to get 495 bills of absolute crazy.
SPEAKER 10 :
And we're not done yet. We may hit 1,000. And I do want to say thank you to my fellow cut board members because we spent a lot of time going through these bills. We've rated, I think, 116. And so who knows how many. Let me just see how many right now they have scheduled for hearing for next week because my job is to go through and take a look at it.
SPEAKER 1 :
131.
SPEAKER 10 :
Wow. And so my job is to go through and select which ones we're going to take a look at. But we've rated 116 already. When you see these folks, say thank you to them. And that is Steve Dorman, Greg Golianski, Russ Haas, Bill Hamill, Rob Knuth, John Nelson, Wendy Warner, Marty Nielsen, Ramey Johnson, Mary Jansen, Dave Evans, Corey Onizorg. And Paula and Ray Beard have joined the board as well. But we are working to inform you. If you join us, it's just $25. You will get the email that we send to legislators and the governor each Monday, and it will keep you informed. So I'd highly recommend that people do that.
SPEAKER 09 :
And so Judy, who is one of our coordinators, we got her all signed up, and so she's representing Task Force Freedom today. Excellent.
SPEAKER 10 :
And so she should be getting those emails. Yes. And hopefully that's really helpful. So let's jump. First of all, I need to make a correction. Thank you to all of you who reached out yesterday. And that is I said that George Washington was our only six-star general. But apparently General Pershing, World War I, was also a six-star general. But I thought it was only George Washington. So several people reached out to me. Somebody even called the station manager.
SPEAKER 12 :
Wow. Got to make that correction.
SPEAKER 10 :
So I wanted to make sure that I made that correction. And I realize I have got a lot. Jim May, I've got a lot of history I've got to learn.
SPEAKER 08 :
See, I didn't think he could go any further than five-star. You know, five-star in everything is the best, right? Five-star this. So I didn't know that either. Yeah. I know Eisenhower was a general. Five-star? I mean, I think a lot of generals. Probably five. But, yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER 10 :
So George Washington and then General Pershing. So you will always learn something here on the show.
SPEAKER 09 :
If I can comment on Alan and the Democrats and how do we fight back? And it's sometimes frustrating because I don't think we take the right approach. I'm former military, law enforcement. I like to fight, and I like to speak the truth. And so if we take what the Democrats have done with all of these policies over just the last four years— And we hand it to them on a Christmas Thanksgiving platter every single day. And we will appeal to Democrats, conservatives, liberals, independents. But we have to take what they've done and we have to shove it down their throats until their bellies are full. Not next week, not during the election process. Today. Start today. We need to tell the public as often as we can, this is what they've done to your kids. This is what they've done to parents. This is what they've done to your freedoms to buy a firearm. This is what they've done to your property rights. We need to shove it down their throats until their bellies are full. And until we have that passion, until we have Republicans that are willing to stand up with the backing of God, and speak the truth to the public, we're going to continue to leave. People are, they are looking for leaders. They're looking for the truth. And most people, most Democrats, if they get the truth, they'll go, huh, wait a minute. This is not right. But they have given us all the ammunition that we need to absolutely destroy them in every single election.
SPEAKER 10 :
And when you say ammunition, you're meaning in this battle of ideas, right?
SPEAKER 09 :
I love your clarity.
SPEAKER 08 :
Look what's been exposed in just the last week or so. I mean, look at all the crap that's going through Congress. Where are our tax monies going? Look at some of that stuff and just use that. You got to use it right now. But I agree with you. But I want to say one thing. You know, we always say that we're Democrat. And now we've really got to understand that a lot of the people that we're talking about are not that crazy far wing deal. There's a lot of Democrats left around that. Look at Telsey Gabbard and look at, I mean, Elon Musk, Donald Trump. honestly wasn't a full-fledged conservative Republican. They've all come over here. And RFK, they're coming and they're coming in waves. And we need to grab them. We need to run this thing and have the majority. And then we need to stop mailing ballots in this state. And I think you're right. I think he'll fix that. But until we can get this vote straightened out a little bit, we're still a little bit in trouble, I think.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, and with that, you know what, let me make a note on that, on these elections. You're so right regarding these elections and these mail-in ballots going everywhere is crazyville. So, Alan, let's let you have just a quick word on that. Now, Kane is right. Messaging, we all are a little different in messaging. So how—
SPEAKER 07 :
We all are, but it's an idea that's been bouncing around in my head lately. It's a phrase I heard, truth does not need to be coerced. And that was one of the beautiful things about the betrayal of Christ, actually, was when they came to arrest him falsely and his follower took out a sword, he said, no, no, no, you need to step back. Because he knew the truth is, truth does not need to be coerced. And so we do not need to... We need to fight passionately, but we don't need to attack people. We don't need to tell them that they need to believe in this truth. We simply need to speak it because it will come to the light of day.
SPEAKER 10 :
And Washington said something along the line of, because I've been doing George Washington quotes for most of the week because his birthday is tomorrow, is that truth will come to light where pains are made to bring it to light. And that's what we're doing. And I still am sitting here looking outside. I can't believe that you guys are here. This is just this is this is really amazing. It does my heart such good. And we have great sponsors. I did want to mention Hooters restaurants. They have five locations, Loveland, Aurora, Lone Tree, Westminster and Colorado Springs. And great lunch specials. Jim, you and I met for lunch. Oh, a few weeks ago at Hooters. Great. I had the fish and chips and you had the fish tacos.
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SPEAKER 10 :
And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you shouldn't have to force people to do it. Kane, I don't know if you've met Paula Sarles yet. She is the president of the USMC Memorial Foundation, but she's a woman after your own heart. She is a Marine veteran. She's a Gold Star wife, and she's working diligently with her team to raise money for the Marine Memorial. But for her 75th birthday last year, she jumped out of an airplane. Wow. So for her 76th birthday, she's going to be out at Red Rocks climbing 426 steps, and that's going to be 250 steps for the Marine Corps birthday, 100 steps. steps for our Iwo Jima veterans and 76 for her own birthday. And speaking of that, this Sunday on America's Veterans Stories, we're rebroadcasting an interview that I did with Jack Thurman, who was a Battle of Iwo Jima veteran, and he just passed on, just short of being 100 years old. And he's in that photo, you know, the gung-ho photo that they have after they... planted the flag on mount cerbachi and he was good friends with ira hayes uh who was i think a navajo code talker and ira grabbed him in and he's in that photo and it's history and so anyway we're going to rebroadcast that this sunday was just going to be awesome so kane you are our featured guest this hour even though we have our other buddies alan thomas and jim may here but you have a piece of legislation that you want people to know about and so um actually i heard uh
SPEAKER 09 :
You and Kevin, a few days ago, talking about Senate Bill 63, which basically says that they're not going to allow people to challenge the books. It's the book banning bill, I think is what it's called. And I thought about it. I'm like, why would they come up with a bill like this at this time? Because... It's not necessary. These books that are in our school are there because the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that it was constitutional or it was unconstitutional not to have pornographic materials in the government schools. And, folks, you can look it up. It's called Tattered Cover Incorporated versus Tooley. And so back in 1985 is when the Colorado Supreme Court said that these books are allowed to be in there. And basically it gives the criminal case cover where it's no longer a criminal case if the book is in school. And so why do you need to... Prevent book bannings. The books are allowed to be there. In fact, the school board I talked to last night mentioned, well, they're thinking about putting some books aside. I'm like, don't do that. You're violating the law. Don't do that. What you need to do is you need to set up a system where parents have the right to decide if their kids should look at pornographic material. and give them a chance to opt out or opt in or however you want to do it i go but if you remove these books you could be facing some penalties or the heavier could you put them aside though so that parents then could if they wanted their kids to see the pornographic stuff that they could say okay it's okay for my kids to see that yes and that and that's what we've advocated at task force freedom is it's just it's parental it's a parent's right to decide and so you can you can have them available in the library but a child cannot see it without the parents approval
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, that seems to, well.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes, but they were talking about taking books out completely and setting it aside while they determine how they're going to change their policy. And I think we're going to have a big win coming really soon. I'll let you know when it happens that I think they're going to change their policy that gives parental rights to the parent and not remove these books. But so I looked at the bill and I'm like, why? Why are they pushing this bill right now? And what I discovered, it says one of the areas says that the bill would only allow challenges by parents or legal guardians with a child in the school that that book is being challenged for. In other words, if this passes, I don't have kids where I live. Oh, so I can't. I've been prevented from speaking at school boards anyway, which is fine. Not fine, but it's violation of my constitution. But they're simply saying, if I don't have a child in that school and you're trying to challenge a book, you have no right to go there. Excuse me. I believe that's taxation without representation. I have a right to that public forum. to address whatever issues that I have with them, whether it's about kids or the dirty water coming out of the faucets. I have a right. If you're going to do this, stop taking my tax money. I'm a taxpayer.
SPEAKER 08 :
It's called free speech, isn't it? Yes, sir.
SPEAKER 09 :
And so it's taxation without representation, not having the ability to go in and confront those who are using my money And harming kids. And so if this passes, that's going to give them a great deal of support and backing because they're doing it now anyway. I've been to school board meetings and they've told me I can't talk. And so I've yelled at them before they gaveled in and explained to them how they're violating my First Amendment right. And so.
SPEAKER 10 :
So this is Senate Bill 25, and so SB 25 stands for Senate Bill, or if it's a House bill, it's HB 25. It's the year 063. It's titled Library Resource Decision Standards for Public Schools. The sponsors on this, all Democrats, are Senator Lisa Cutter, Senator Daphna Michelson-Giné, Representative Lorena Garcia, and Representative Jenny Wilford. And, Kane, I have listeners that say be sure and give these bill sponsors names out there, so that's why I'm doing that. What I have seen is the left plays long ball. This is a long ball bill, isn't it?
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes. Yes, ma'am. Because there's the next issue. Take a look at this. So the the other issue that they have is that the book can only be reviewed once every two years. So a parent that has a kid in that school says there's a problem with that book. They can make that challenge. There's two years before you can challenge that book again or before you can challenge books. And so they're giving this, they're restricting our ability to protect our kids by using legislation, which is why I started out saying they are legislating tyranny. and total control over us and our kids. And if this passes, it is going to be horrific. A parent won't be able to stand up and defend their kids. The other part is they give cover for the librarian, which is weird, that simply says, in that two-year period, if a librarian says, I'm going to get this book out of here, I don't like it, I'm... Or, let me say this another way. I'm going to keep this book in here and someone says, I'm going to fire you if you keep that book. An administrator. Maybe the superintendent says, if you let those books stand, I'm going to fire you. They give the librarian cover. They cannot be fired at all for keeping pornographic material in the schools. This is demonic. It's not Democrat. It's not Republican. It's not liberal, conservative. This is This is a good versus evil fight. And why these people have chosen this hill to die on, I don't understand it. I don't understand how you could be an education or a politician, for that matter, and you're willing to harm your constituents. We're not talking about just Republicans. This is happening to the public. And I would... Appeal to our liberals. Listen, pay attention to what they're doing to you. I mean, Hitler got away with this.
SPEAKER 10 :
So as I look at it on the sponsor list, almost all the Democrats down at the legislature, both representatives and senators have their name on this.
SPEAKER 09 :
This is really unbelievable. It doesn't I'm sorry. It doesn't surprise me because look at the past bills that that polls have signed. Kids can go in and get abortions. Children. We've had two young ladies die up in Fort Collins. Really? Yes. Gentlemen. In the last week, our last seven weeks, getting an abortion.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay, gentlemen, we're out of time for our number one. This goes quickly. And I like to go to courage quotes on Fridays because of the Medal of Honor quote books. I went to George Patton. And, Alan, I think you'll love this. Better to fight for something than to live for nothing. What do you think?
SPEAKER 07 :
I mean, that was Patton's life, so he's always a good one to turn to.
SPEAKER 10 :
And when I said that we are made for this moment, I'm not kidding. So, my friends, today be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you. God bless America. Stay tuned for hour number two.
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I don't think that we should be passing legislation that is so complicated that people kind of throw up their hands and say, I can't understand that.
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And it's not fair just because you're a big business that you get a break on this and the little guy doesn't.
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Is it freedom or is it force? Let's have a conversation.
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Indeed, let's have a conversation and welcome to our number two of the Kim Monson Show. Thank you so much for joining us. You're each treasured, you're valued, you have purpose. Today, strive for excellence. Take care of your heart, your soul, your mind and your body. My friends, we were made for this moment in history. And thank you to the team. That's producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Teresa, Amanda. Thank you so much. And the whole Crawford Broadcasting team. And so thank you. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. And Amanda, I want to go back to you and just I want to say thank you on the air. And I just really appreciate you. Yeah, you're very welcome. And making all this happen this morning. Sign up for our weekly newsletter at KimMonson.com. And you can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com. Text line is 720-605-0647. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice on an independent station. Searching for truth and clarity as we look at these issues. Through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. The show comes to you 6 to 8 a.m. Monday through Friday. First hour is rebroadcast in the afternoon, 1 to 2 in the afternoon. Second hour, 10 to 11 at night. That's on all KLZ 560 platforms, KLZ 560 AM, KLZ 100.7 FM, the KLZ website, and the KLZ app. And we've got a great show going on here in studio. First of all is my friend Kane. And we talked about the main thing that you had wanted to talk about was the Senate Bill 63. Yes, ma'am. And then you also are organizing an event next week. up in Fort Collins.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes, ma'am. So I made contact with D. I think it was D. And within 24 hours, we had a conversation and we're planning a march. We're calling it March for Tina Peters on March 1st. It's up in Fort Collins, March 1st from 11 to 2 o'clock on Timberline and Prospect. And we've kind of connected with several different organizations up there, and it's going to be a big, giant event. We picked that intersection because it's about two, maybe three blocks away from the Larimer County facility where she's being held.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 09 :
We don't expect that she'll know that we're there, but she will at some point from seeing all the different posts and that kind of thing. But we would really appreciate if you come out and support Tina, bring your signs, bring your prayers and your good wishes for Tina. And it will be a good event for us to show our appreciation for the sacrifice that she's making, because I honestly believe she's a political prisoner. I believe that she discovered some things and they needed to silence her, as they have had to do with the J6, with other political prisoners like Rittenhouse. They tried to put a kid in prison for defending himself. I believe that Chauvin, I believe he's a political prisoner. I don't think he killed... What's that guy's name? The black guy that died from a drug overdose? I can't remember his name right now.
SPEAKER 08 :
George Floyd. George Floyd.
SPEAKER 09 :
I don't believe he killed that guy. In fact, it's proven that he died from a drug overdose. And so we have these people that are suffering, and they need to know that they're in support, they're not alone, and be careful what you do with God's children, because when they are released... the whirlwind that they bring upon the enemy is going to be devastating.
SPEAKER 10 :
And it's truth. That's what we search all the time for here, Cain, is for truth. And the truth will set us free for sure. So Cain's in studio. And then Alan Thomas, we're going to talk about young people, how we're going to reclaim our state. And you're working on that. So we'll talk about that. It's good to have you here.
SPEAKER 08 :
Always great being here, Kim.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, and Jim May, it's great to have you here as well.
SPEAKER 08 :
I'm glad to be here. Driving through the snow to get here, I'm just happy to be here on a Friday.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay. So several things. I did want to say thank you to Laramie Energy for their goal sponsorship of the show. It is reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant energy that fuels our lives, powers our dreams, and empowers us to change our own personal climate. How do you like the way I've used that on climate change, those words?
SPEAKER 07 :
It's been very effective. Absolutely. But if you haven't, you should also watch a climate conversation, too, where you'll hear those as well.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yes. I'm actually going to be in Steamboat on Sunday. I'm delivering the keynote for the Routt County Republicans for their Lincoln Day brunch. And they want to talk about... the policies regarding how it's hurting people talk about putting people out of jobs is because of public policy here in colorado closing down our coal-fired plants there are going to be a number of people in craig colorado that will lose their jobs and i think it's important that we talk about that absolutely and again it goes back to highlighting the real world impact of these policies that governor polis puts out that our legislators vote in And A Climate Conversation, you can watch it for free at aclimateconversation.com. Jim May, before we get over, do you have a cowboy poem for us today?
SPEAKER 08 :
I can do about anything you want me to. Do you have any requests? My new friend, Kane. Yes, sir. Yeah, so have you heard of The Horse Trader? Because The Horse Trader is probably the classic of all cowboy poems. Now it takes about four or five minutes. And if today's the wrong day, I won't do it. I've never heard it. You never heard it? It's probably in the book. I'll try to hurry through it. No, it's not. This one is not by me. It's written by, you know, I met these people out in Elko, Nevada a long, long time ago. He's dead now. But he was kind of a bronc writer. Sonny Hancock was his name.
SPEAKER 10 :
That's a great cowboy name.
SPEAKER 08 :
It is. And he was, like I say, what Lonesome Dove and Yellowstone is to like a western, this poem is to cowboy poetry. It's just my top one. Okay. Okay, I'll hurry through it. You don't have to hurry. No, I don't. No, we have plenty of time. You know, I traded for a horse one time. He'd never win a beauty prize, a great big long-eared blue-robed gelding. but not too bad for speed or size. I had to work some pretty tough circles. And that trader guaranteed that that horse would show me lots of country and not need too much rest or feed. He said, now this here ain't no kid horse, but he'll pack you up the crick. He will hump up upon occasion, and he has been known to kick. I wouldn't sell him to just anyone without having some remorse, but if you're a sure enough cow puncher, mister, why, he's your kind of horse. Well, I stepped up on that horse the next morning, and he began to buck and ball. That trader maybe hadn't lied none, but he hadn't told it all. Because he sure tore up the country where we throwed that equine fit, and I almost run out of handholds by the time he finally quit. And that just seemed to set a pattern that would hardly ever change. Though I showed him lots of country, every corner of the range, but every time I'd ride that bigger, he'd keep me sitting tight, and I knew I'd have to make at least three or four bronc rides before he'd pack me back home that night. And that would have been okay with a lot of the horses that I know, but... That old blue horse had my number, and I'd just barely get him rode. And the thing that kind of spooked me and put a damper on my pride was he was learning how to buck faster than I was learning how to ride. Well, I got back into camp one evening, and it was getting pretty late, and I see a gray horse in the corral there, and there's a saddle by the gate. And I looked that gray horse over, and, man, I sure liked what I'd seen. And then this little kid shows up around the barn. He must have been about 15. He said he lamed his horse that day coming over the granite grade, and he wondered if I might have a horse that I might maybe want to trade. He said he really didn't have time to stop and wait and let him heal, and since beggars can't be choosers, he said he'd make most any kind of deal. Well, when a feller's trading horses, they say almost anything is fair, so I traded him my blue-drawn horse for that gray one in the air. And then that night, my conscience got to hurting when I thought about what I did to trade an old flea-blown dink bronc like that off to some poor little wet-nosed kid. So the next morning after breakfast, I tells him, I said, Listen, lad, if you want to know the truth, that trade you made last night was bad. That old blue horse, he's a rank one. Mean as any you'll ever see, and he'll bite you, stomp you, kick you. He's a sorry S.O.B. That old horse bucks hard and often, and to tell it to you straight, I think you'd be plumb lucky just to ride him past the gate. Now, there's two or three old horses back there in that saddle bunch, and they ain't got much going for them, but I kind of got a hunch that they'll get you where you're going if you just don't crowd them none but... dang i hate to see you try to ride that old blue burger son he said well i told you there last night i'd make most any kind of trade and i sure appreciate you telling me about the bad mistake i made but my old daddy always told me when you're trading no matter how you feel even if you took a whooping a deal is still the deal that horse you say he's got some travel he ain't too bad for speed mr i'm kind of in a tight spot and that's just exactly what i need And I traded for him fair and square, and damn his blue-roan hide when I pull out of here this morning, that's the horse I'm going to ride. Oh, we finish cinching up his saddle, and he pulls his hat way down, and he steps right up into the rigging just like he was riding into town. Put both spurs up in him shoulders and got that blue-roan hair flying, and he tips his head straight back and screams like a hungry mountain lion. You know, I've heard a lot of stories about the Bucking Horse Ballet. I've heard about poetry in motion. But the ride I saw that day just completely defied description. Though I still can see it plain, it's almost like it's in slow motion and branded on my brain. I'm not sure I could describe it to you even if I tried. All I can say for sure is by the saints that kid could ride. He'd just sit there all relaxed like he was sitting home in bed and every jump that pony took, that kid's a half a jump ahead. When it was over, I decided I could learn a few things still. And I said, son, I'm awful sorry. I misjudged your riding skill. He just said, oh, shucks, mister. That's all right. As he started out on his way. But if you think this horse can buck, don't put your saddle on that gray.
SPEAKER 09 :
I love that. That is awesome. That's my favorite.
SPEAKER 08 :
It's good to have a little bit of light stuff after everything we're going through. Yes, 100%. Oh, absolutely. So that's what I do on Fridays sometimes.
SPEAKER 10 :
I love it. And Lavaca Meat Company, it really is a premium product. And it's a great protein source for your diet. And it is that steakhouse experience at home, Jim.
SPEAKER 08 :
Thank you. We pride ourselves on being, I think, the very best in what we can do. As far as making a piece of meat that's right, that's USDA primers, very high choice or prime, and then aged correctly and put away in the right way so it's always safe and everything, you can't get a better steak than this. I told Kane, now, he said we could go out to breakfast and we might do that here after a while. Yeah. You know, when you go to get a really – it's really hard to find good meat like this. There's a couple places in town. But – and, you know, the steakhouses, you go to – you can get that kind of steak. But you're not going to get it at Kroger's or even some of the, you know, lower-end steakhouses. You're not going to get it. But sometimes treat yourself to the very best. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, my wife and I are going to be coming back from the Springs on – Sunday, I believe. We're going to stop in the store and get some steaks and some of those burgers.
SPEAKER 08 :
And you can see our trading office there where we trade cattle and thousands and thousands of contracts at a time. And the real source of what we do and work is back there. But this is kind of our little, I call it the showroom in the... you know, in the dealership. It's just a little place where they put the very best car, right? So that's kind of how we think of it, and it's just not.
SPEAKER 09 :
So will I have the ability to go out back and just pick?
SPEAKER 08 :
You can go out. It's right there in front of you. Walk in the store, and everything we've got is right there in front of you. You can always go online and get stuff, but, you know, this is, yeah, if you swing by there, and Sunday's a good time. The parking isn't too bad. And if anybody's around, and in the weekdays it will be, I want you to meet my brother and some of the people and they'll kind of take you back through and show you some of the pictures of things we've done and ranches that we have and those kinds of things. But it's just part of what we do, man.
SPEAKER 09 :
I'll do some name dropping when I get there.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay, please do. Please do. Look forward to having you come over. Okay. You'll enjoy it.
SPEAKER 10 :
And that's lavacameat.com, right?
SPEAKER 08 :
And to the corner of Nevada and Maine. Okay. Coming over.
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It is Friday. Welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at Kim Monson dot com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. In studio with me is Kane. He is the founder of Task Force Freedom Northern Colorado. That website's Task Force Freedom N-O-C-O?
SPEAKER 09 :
Yep, noco.com.
SPEAKER 10 :
Alan Thomas, we're going to get to you here in just a moment regarding Trump's victories highlight how terrifying and ubiquitous the deep state is in our lives. So we'll get to that. And Jim May, always a treat to have you here with Lavaca Meat Company. We basically are kind of from the same place. I'm from the plains of western Kansas. You're from the plains of eastern Colorado.
SPEAKER 08 :
You're just across the state line. I know. In our country, that's not very far. You know, maybe it's an hour or something like that. I travel two or three hours a day everywhere I go. So, I mean, it's just big country. But yeah. You're kind of a country girl, too, right? You kind of grew up on the farm.
SPEAKER 10 :
I love it. I love it.
SPEAKER 08 :
It's a great life.
SPEAKER 10 :
Hey, before we get into this, Yvonne is on the line, and she had something she wanted to weigh in on. Yvonne, welcome.
SPEAKER 06 :
Thank you. Good morning, Kim and company there. And I love listening to Cain and he has a very unique style. And I want to say that what he was saying is so important. And I want to chime in with this because when he mentioned, you know, that he's not allowed to speak because he doesn't have a child in that school or school district or or whatever. I understand their position of, you know, what candle do you have at this funeral if you don't even have a kid here? And I've never heard that one before. Where we come from, that's how they put it, where I come from. But the thing is. parents who have children in that school district will be reluctant to speak out because they will fear retaliation against their child. So I can tell you, and I'm a brave one too, that I may handle what's going on in the school and everything, but I'm not sure when my child was in K-12, I would have gone to the school board because I myself was a subject of retaliation because my parents spoke up at my school. So I have that clear and present because I lived it And so that is a real thing. So people that don't have kids that can be retaliated against should and must be able to speak because retaliation is real. And all of a sudden, the kid doesn't make the sports team and all of a sudden his grades start going down. And people need to be able to speak when they cannot be attacked via their children.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yvonne, that's so interesting that you would mention that because I spoke out against a coach one time. I thought it was really inappropriate. I just had this concern about things. And I'd written a piece that says, trust your gut. And I just... Something just wasn't right. And this was an adolescent girls team. And I don't know for sure, but something just didn't seem right. And so I was concerned about it. And so this coach, they were in between games. And he was single. And he said, oh, hey, girls, why don't you all come over to my house and we'll watch a video and have some pizza. And I said, I'm coming, too. And he wasn't very excited about that. And I ended up taking it to the top, and he retaliated against my child, Yvonne.
SPEAKER 06 :
There you go. There you go. That's all I had. Y'all have fun. And I just wanted to make sure that all the listeners. know that it is not okay to censor speech, especially when the ones that get to speak are the ones people can retaliate against their children.
SPEAKER 09 :
I think people would be shocked and amazed at the amount of retaliation that comes against a child because a parent speaks out. And I've been doing this for three, for four years, and it's insane. And I just look at our system. I have zero respect for our government schools. It is horrific what they allow teachers, administrators to do. I know of a kid now who's a Navy, working to be a Navy SEAL. He had to leave his school to go to another school so that he can just perform his student duties. duties, his just to learn. And so this happens all the time. I've had a parent call me and tell me a teacher told her five, 10 year old daughter who was wearing a Trump hat. You can get shot in the face for that. This is it is it is insidious and it's sick. And this is why I speak out the way I do, because we have to speak the truth. Take your children and out of the government schools. And if you cannot, you must stand up and speak against this evil.
SPEAKER 10 :
And that's why this bill is such a problem, is because we'll be trying to close down, shut down your voices. That's right. Okay.
SPEAKER 07 :
And if I may, you know, part of this, though, there is a very real aspect of retaliation, but there also is You need to do the right thing. And you need to stand up because if it's happening to you and your children, there's probably parents that fear retribution. So if you see something going wrong, it's your right to be virtuous and to assert yourself and to... to tell the school board what is going on. And what we need to do is, especially parents need to start coming together and seeing other parents who are reaching out and support them. You know, when they voice these in front of school boards, we need to come behind those parents and support them. So find the parents that are speaking out to try and help protect your kid as well. And maybe you don't have the courage to stand behind the mic in front of the school board, but you can have the courage to support the parents that are. And so that's also part of what the article I wrote is about, is about this fact that we need to support the good. We need to put our voice out there. That way the good can be supported because a lot of times in politics, it's the negative. It's the loud people that suck the air out of the room. And that negativity can really influence everybody. But when we really put our voices behind the good and when we support the good, that's when we can really affect a lot of change.
SPEAKER 09 :
I learned this concept of theory called the second dancer in the leadership program of the Rockies. And basically what that is, you have this crazy guy named Kane who's just going at it and he'll make an impact. But it's that second person that stands up and stands with him that gives empowers others to come and stand with them. So be the second dancer and we can protect our kids.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, and it's our duty. With all the work that I do with the Center for American Values, which is located down in Pueblo, honoring our Medal of Honor recipients and great educational programs, and also with the USMC Memorial Foundation. So let me give those websites. It's AmericanValueCenter.org. And then the USMC Memorial Foundation is – these are people – we were founded, Jim May, on – Our founders put their lives on the line because they wanted to give something good and better to the next generation, liberty. And we have that same duty here to pass on the very best to our children. And having this... I seldom use this word. You use the word. And then I heard Trump's new young press secretary. Oh, Caroline. Yeah. But this is crap that we have in our schools. Okay. You heard me say.
SPEAKER 08 :
Take it easy, Kim. I thought if I stayed away from the S word, I'd be okay. Hold on. What's going on here?
SPEAKER 10 :
But it is. The Senate Bill 63 is saying we want to have this. Crap available for our children, Jim.
SPEAKER 08 :
Can I quickly say something just about schools in general? I just want to say I'm a grandfather now and all my kids are raised and everything. But, you know, we're the 40th out of 40 schools in the world. We spend twice as much as anybody else. And I guess we're number 40 when it comes to, you know, reading, writing, all those things that we're supposed to know. And and so so it doesn't work. And Trump wants to abolish Department of Education for those kinds of reasons. It's just so much money wasted, wasted, wasted money. We as as parents, grandparents, whatever, we need to take time with our kids when they come from school and we need to be with them and we need to hug them when you say, what are they telling you in school today? And I think our younger people, I really feel like they are coming back now and they're seeing some of this stuff. The pornography in schools. And that's that's ridiculous. You know, like I was telling Kane, we've been doing it against movies for our whole lives. You know, you got PG-13 and you get R and then you get X. And so but with the books, you know, it's X stuff in these books. Pornography can't go with kids coming into puberty and stuff like that. We just can't have that. But I just I just feel like our schools, you know, that's so what does my son do out there in a little school? We don't have parochial schools or we don't have a private school. He got on school board. Dr. Matt May. Shout out to him. My son. He's a room and a nutritionist and a very busy man. He's he's in Canada one day and he's in Mexico the next. He's got feed yards all over North America that he sees. But he took the time to be on the school board, and it's a thankless job. Right. Because a lot of times if something's wrong, you're the problem, and my kid's never the problem. But he understands that the raising of those young people is the most important thing we can do. And it's the most important thing for our politics and everything else because they're going to be there pretty quick, quicker than you know. So I really feel like we have to talk to our kids, love them, and let them know we're on – And certainly anybody should be able to go in there and talk about how you feel about a book being anywhere. You shouldn't be banned from anything. That's number one. That's our that's our First Amendment, the freedom of speech. But they're using they're using the idea of the call us book burners or whatever because of the pornography thing. And that's just a little whole different deal to me.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay, I've got to work on this during the break. Something about they're banning. We've got to work on that. They're banning people is what they're doing. Jim May, Lavaca Meat Company. That website is lavacameat.com. Alan Thomas, we're going to focus on your piece. You talk about young people stepping forward. You and your wife are busy. and your parents of little ones, and that's busy in its own right. And then all the stuff that you and I get to do together, and we're going to be ramping that up here soon, and then running for first vice chair of Douglas County GOP. You're a young person, you and your wife. It's both of you stepping forward to make a difference, and I so appreciate that. So when we come back, we're going to talk about your piece.
SPEAKER 07 :
Absolutely. And well, that's a great plug to say thank you for all she does, because, you know, I can't do what I do without everything that she commits to and sacrifices as well.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah. And yeah, she's she's pretty darn special. And I think that we're going to have the Lavaca Meat Company spot here as we come up. And Jim, it really is a premium product and it is a treat.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, I will just put my name on it any time, and we do our very, very best. And I know it's small, and I know the parking's tough down there, and I know online deals are – in this game, it's a little more expensive. We have to use dry ice and stuff, shipping it around. But we'll work through those things with you all. But come by and see us sometime. Just come by, even if you don't want to buy a piece of me. Come in our office and tell them – pull them on the radio and come back and Be with my family, my brothers, you'll see a pretty cool environment. We chose downtown Littleton because we grew up, as you know, out there on the plains and spent our whole life doing that. And there was an old feed store down the block. It's now a bank. It's a bank of Colorado. Our good friend Chris Dinsdale, you know, Dan and he bought the property and they put it up. But it's like being in the middle of the city in kind of a small town, you know. So we just love it down there.
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Okay. That's Lavaca Meat Company. Yep.
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SPEAKER 10 :
It is Friday. Welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That's Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at Kim Monson dot com as well. And hey, we blew right through the quote of the day from the Medal of Honor quote book that you can get at the Center for American Values. It's by Sammy L. Davis, United States Army Medal of Honor recipient, born 1946. Actions he took November 18, 1967. He did do an On Values presentation down at the center, and I think you can find that at the website as well. But he said this, Alan Thomas, he said, My life experiences have taught me that you don't lose until you quit trying.
SPEAKER 07 :
And, you know, listen to the first hour of the citation. Literally crossed the river despite not knowing how to swim. I mean, that's... He got a mattress. An air mattress, yeah. So talk about living the quote that he has, right? It's unbelievable.
SPEAKER 10 :
And the word of the day is ubiquitous. It's U-B-I-Q-U-I-T-O-U-S. That's U-B-I-Q-U-I-T-O-U-S, ubiquitous. And you use that in the title of your book. So let's talk about this. Trump's victories highlight how terrifying and ubiquitous the deep state is in our lives.
SPEAKER 07 :
Absolutely. And, you know, I think with with this group, I might start with the end first and then talk about some of the examples of the deep stakes. I'm sure we can all get geared up with with many of the DEI and the EPA and and red dye number three. But, you know, part of the point of this article is to say, you know, Trump has done a good job just taking a hatchet. to, to what's going on with this deep state and seeing how these roots extend so deep into our lives. I mean, when you talk about red dye, number three in the FDA, uh, an organization that supposedly exists to protect us. And yet, uh, all of a sudden when they see RFK coming, they go, Oh, maybe, maybe there is some science. Maybe we should get rid of this. And, uh, And there's only so much that Trump can do. You know, when we talk about the Constitution and the separation of powers, he runs the executive branch. And there's only so much power that the executive branch has. Now, that power is so much greater than it was ever intended due to the bureaucratic state. But there is only so much he's going to be able to do with our government. And so we need Congress to step up. And that is where we... The people need to also step up because many, many elected officials exist to get elected. And if we want to tell them to do something, we need to say, hey, if you do this, we are going to elect you again. And we need Congress to stand up and to codify many of the things that Trump is doing, because we've seen that when he leaves office, if the pendulum swings backwards again and we get another President Biden in, he can largely undo a lot of the wonderful things that Trump is doing. And so we need Congress to pull these roots out and salt the field over to make sure these horrific examples of the deep state just getting away with everything that they've gotten away with that Trump is exposing and putting in the light of day. We need them to do their job because Trump can only highlight and expose and show everybody the roots. It takes a literal act of Congress to get these roots out of there.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, and, Ellen, the other thing is elections really do matter. As we were talking about the Senate Bill 63, and I look at that long list of Democrats that have their name on it, I don't think that most of the people in Colorado realize, first of all, unless we talk about it, all this different legislation. I don't think that they – and I've got to think – Most Democrats, most unaffiliated libertarians, Republicans, conservatives, if they really understood that they're trying to they've accused us of book banning. But now this this thing is banning voices. And I think that most people would not be voting for that. But that's why these elections are so important. So I my ear to the ground is that Trump is going to do something regarding the federal elections. And each state has jurisdiction over their elections. But because electing congressmen and women, senators, that affects all of us. It's a federal thing. I could see how he's probably going to be able maybe to do something on that. But here in Colorado, we are the petri dish for all the goofiness that's going on. And so we need to go to work to get these elections cleaned up. And so that's one of the things I'm focusing on, as you know.
SPEAKER 07 :
Absolutely. And, you know, especially here in Colorado, many of us are represented by Democrats, unfortunately. Right. And it's not just talking to your Republican Republicans in the elected offices. It's talking to the Democrats and saying, hey, listen, this is unpopular. These are the issues. It's being polite and respectful, but also telling them the truth. And one of the things that we need to make sure and highlight is all of this fraud, all of this waste is being exposed at a federal level. But we also need to start highlighting that at the local level as well. because it's there. And that's one thing that the Trump team is doing is, you know, one of the blessings we may have gotten was Trump losing four years ago because he hit the ground an absolute sprint. And that may not have been the case four years ago because we saw the deep state eight years ago when Trump first got into office. They really just, you know, delayed as much as possible. Both sides of the aisle, too. Both sides. And Congress fought him. But then also the bureaucratic state just kind of said, hey, if we can hang on for four years, the administration might change and we can go back to business as usual. And that's one of the I mean, a couple actually two days ago. Trump finally did what many said the executive should say, that these independent agencies that are outside the control of Congress and the executive, he said, no, the Constitution says if Congress delegates powers, that is my job as the executive to be in charge of that. And he rightly differentiated between the two different to get rid of these independent agencies and to say, listen, you can't have this fourth branch of government. That's not constitutional. So I'm going to take back control of these independent agencies. But what we need is... is we've seen these independent agencies can be weaponized against people. And unfortunately, conservatives have been bearing the brunt of that. But we need to also say to Democrats, listen, if you're terrified of Trump taking charge of this agency, maybe we need to get rid of the agency. And that's where Congress needs to step up and say, yeah, we delegated those powers. It was inappropriate then. It's inappropriate now. We need to just close it out and close the books on this.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, and so Congress, I think, really abdicated their responsibilities. And because they wanted to get reelected, they didn't want to have to stand for what might be happening over here. And so Trump is bringing this all back, but the deep state – Both sides of the aisle is really, really deep.
SPEAKER 07 :
It is. And it's the ideology of progressivism, right? The ideology of progressivism that's been slow marching its way through all of our politics and doesn't know party lines. But it's this idea that you should be compliant, right? And that's why when you have 495 bills that we have, it erodes the rule of law because when you don't know whether you're breaking a law or not just by living your life, how can you say that you're following the rule of law, right? And that's where progressives really get away with this compliance piece is sometimes some codes are enforced, sometimes they're not. But depending on the person, they can say, oh, you're violating this law, but I'll let it slide this time, right? But then they'll use the force of law on somebody else. Exactly. And it's that applying of the law differently for different cases, that picking winners and losers, if you will, from a compliance standpoint, that's why progressivism has so many rules and so many laws is to keep you always on your toes wondering whether you're actually breaking a law or not. And that's why when we talk about rule of law, When we talk about encouraging our legislators to repeal laws that are inappropriate, that aren't constitutional, or just don't fix the issue, that's why we encourage it. Because why should you always be wondering whether driving down the street, whether you're breaking the law or not?
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, and it's a very important point, and that is that, and you see it at the local, the county, and the state level, is that they put in these different laws or rules or regulations, ordinances or whatever, but then they don't, they're not impartial how it's instituted. And we need to make sure there's no partiality in our government at all. The founders knew that.
SPEAKER 07 :
They did. They were very wise. They were very well read. And they predicted many of the issues that we're now seeing. And one of the things Jefferson hinted at was like, hey, you know what? If you guys deviate from this, we can't help you. That's going to be an issue you created, and that's going to be an issue that you have to solve. And that's our responsibility in this moment is we need to solve the problem because – Granted, it may have been our grandparents or our great-grandparents in FDR starting a new deal, but because of the environment that they've created, we need to be dragon slayers in a time when there's a dragon.
SPEAKER 09 :
And ignorance of the law does not absolve you of the consequences. And so I remember Bradley Beck said something one day, I probably violated 15 laws today. And then you had to get clarification, like, what did you do, Bradley? But that's what they've done to us. I'm sure I violated a law this morning getting on my bed. I mean, I don't know.
SPEAKER 10 :
But see, that's the thing is you're not free people if you have to be a compliant people.
SPEAKER 07 :
Exactly. But that's the point. And the progressive ideology disagrees entirely with the rule of law. It's an act of control to keep so many laws on the books that you don't then have a rule of law, right? And so this is the battlefield of ideas that we're up against. It's like, no, this is why you shouldn't regulate and control and pass laws over every single part of your life. We should say, hey, you know, don't violate other people's rights. That's where you should go wrong. But, you know, telling people how to live, how to be moral, that's not the purpose of the government. That's the purpose of we the people. But as soon as you violate other people's rights, that's where you need to have the protections come in. And that's where rule of law is important. But the progressive ideology just says, hey, we're going to spam you with so much that you're probably not totally in compliance with everything that we have on the books. And we can control you then when you get out of line.
SPEAKER 10 :
And control is an opposite word from freedom. And so that's where we're at. So, Alan, when I say on the show that we were made for this moment, we and I believe that we are in the third founding of our country. We are in historical times. We're in dangerous times also. We're seeing the left is I've seen different videos calling for violence. And and yet they were the ones that said that the conservatives, the people that love America are the violent ones. But they're the ones that's calling for violence.
SPEAKER 07 :
It's it's the gaslighting that that does get crazy. But at the same time, like like I said, truth does not need to be coerced. You know, we don't have to sit there and say we're not the violent ones. We merely have to live our lives and show people, hey, you know what? You can call me violent all you want, but I'm not. You know, I don't have to coerce you into believing I'm not violent because by doing so, I'm actually going to prove that I am right. So we merely need to live our lives and allow the truth the light of day.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay. And so we'll roll this piece out. Trump's victories highlight how terrifying and ubiquitous the deep state is in our lives. And we are in a historical time, Alan Thomas.
SPEAKER 07 :
We absolutely are. That's why we're all here, right?
SPEAKER 10 :
Absolutely. So we'll be right back. I have Canaan Studio, Jim May with Lavaca Meat Company, Alan Thomas. And all this happens because of sponsors. If you've been injured, be sure and reach out to John Boson and Boson Law.
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It is Friday. Welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Check out our website. That's KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. In studio with me is my friend Kane. He is the founder of Task Force Freedom Northern Colorado. That website is TaskForceFreedom, N-O-C-O.com. Alan Thomas, we do a lot of work together, and we'll be rolling out your essay this weekend, so it's great to have you here. Jim May, Lavaca Meat Company, cattlemen, great to have you here as well.
SPEAKER 08 :
Great to be here.
SPEAKER 10 :
And we have on the line with us Matt, and Matt is a concerned citizen. He wanted to talk about Senate Bill 25011, detection components for wildlife, or excuse me, wildfire mitigation, and this is using AI. And the sponsors is bipartisan, Senator Lindsey Doherty, Representative Ron Weinberg, and Representative Kyle Brown. Matt, welcome to the show, and tell us what you're concerned about.
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, good morning, Kim, and thanks for having me. This bill is primarily written to focus on what I believe is a company called Pano.ai. I'm not sure if you guys have had a chance to look into this company. Pano.ai is a company that has a proprietary artificial intelligence system. It's closed source. It's a deep learning system, so it will continually learn. And they have cameras that they put up on cell phone towers predominantly. I believe it was one thing I read was T-Mobile 5G towers. and they'll use that connection to connect a camera to their deep learning system. These cameras, according to Pano, will do a 360-degree sweep every minute, and they have a capability of zooming 10 to 20 miles. The idea is to be able to triangulate on a fire, so they want to be able to look at fires from multiple camera angles. So this is similar to something like flock safety, which would be the the cameras that are being used in multiple downtowns. But now we're talking about looking into the wilderness. Now, firefighting is a dangerous career. I support firefighters. But the idea of losing one more piece of privacy in effort to try to call forest fires is something that I think we need to really weigh heavily. Pano.ai was formed by Sonia Kastner. She was working at Nest before it became Google Nest. And then her chief commercial officer is Arvin Satyam. He's a WEF Young Global Leader. And in 2020 at the Davos Convention, according to an article I read, he was inspired to fight forest fires. Since then, they've raised some money and some initial capital rounds that I read about. And then they started working with counties such as Teller, I believe Summit, Boulder County. They've signed on with places in California. I think Big Sky County up in Montana, and I think they're working with a few different, like PG&E and other utilities between California, Washington State, and what have you. The cameras themselves are proprietary as well. From what I understand, the business model is Tano AI will sell subscriptions or contracts to certain municipalities, firefighters, BLM, U.S. Forest Service, what have you, but they own the product, and then you get a subscription, so to speak. So it's not even that the government is doing the surveilling, as it were. It's a private company, and then the government then becomes the client. Concerns would be potential hacking. I have another concern about low-level military training routes in aviation or being able to surveil military operations in general. I was told by someone who worked out in Utah, they had to buy extra land around Dugway Proving Grounds. As cameras get better, they can peer into our top secret areas, so they start buying more and more land to try to buffer that situation. Now you've got a company that can look 10 to 20 miles, and they're putting these high vantage points on mountaintops and cell phone towers. So that's the concern. I understand that the situation right now, When it comes to the testimony that's coming up on Monday, it's still in the Senate committee, not at the full Senate or full House vote. So it's a great time to before amend or against it. I'm obviously against it, but everyone has their voice. But I encourage people to show up because unfortunately, at the last Senate committee. There was three people there to testify for and maybe two or three in the amended against position. One was actually our one of our county commissioners here in Jeffco was in the men slash against because she was also concerned about the privacy concerns. The Senate committee took a five minute recess and then sent it back to the sponsors and said, come back on Monday and work on some of these privacy concerns. Additionally, there was a A representative from the Realtor Association also talking about privacy concerns. You start buying houses out in the wildland interface or just in the wilderness or, you know, just on a rural plot of land and you want to do some farming and ranching. That camera could look in. Now, I did find out that the company is supposed to pixelate your house. So what do some pixelation of people? But the problem is, what about your greater area? If you have a thousand acres, they're not pixelating the whole thing. And you can look at articles that, yeah, maybe they pixelate the house. But what about the rest of your property? So there are some privacy concerns. And one more thing, you know, like when I did a lot of research into drones versus commercial aviation photography type of stuff, aviation photography using commercially available equipment at a legal altitude is legal. By way of comparison, this is a completely closed-loop system of proprietary cameras, similar to because they're putting it at a vantage point that would equal, say, a low-flying airplane or a drone. That's another concern when we start looking at the different doctrines of how to deal with aviation and drone and privacy. So that's a kind of just a quick synopsis.
SPEAKER 10 :
Boy, that's Senate Bill 25011. And we at CUT took a no position. We were not entirely in agreement, but most members opposed. This is our statement. Our current situation regarding federal and state forest upkeep. Upkeep is dismal. Colorado is ripe for a catastrophic fire in different parts of the state, but benefits on this are projected with no guarantee of results. We are skeptical of public-private partnerships and of the gifts, grants, and donations. So what that means, Mike, is that we can use government money, we can give it to private entities, and they can use that with the force of law behind it. So we'd probably say no on that. And we said... Instead, spending $7 million on clearing underbrush and those results are guaranteed to reduce wildfires and the spread of wildfires. Mike, thank you so much for bringing this to our attention.
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, thank you. And I hope that everybody can spend the time, even remotely, to go to that Senate committee. And do you have the link for a sign-up that you can put down, I imagine?
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah. Get that over to me. We'll put it in the summary.
SPEAKER 19 :
Perfect. Thank you so much.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay, thank you. Jim May, thanks for being here.
SPEAKER 08 :
Hey, it's great to be here this morning.
SPEAKER 10 :
And we always learn a lot, yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
I really enjoy the people we're with here, too. And it's been great to be in studio today, even though it's snowy and crazy. It's a good place to be.
SPEAKER 10 :
And just great to have you here. And, Alan, I'm excited. We're going to have quite the 2025.
SPEAKER 07 :
I'm excited for it, too. And the sun's finally breaking through here. So hopefully it'll do the same on our great state.
SPEAKER 10 :
Absolutely. And Kane, thank you for all of your work. Thank you for caring for our children.
SPEAKER 09 :
Sure. And I want to thank you for giving me this opportunity. And I just want to remind people these books are imprinting on our kids. And also that we're going to put the flyer up on Task Force Freedom, no code dot com. That'll give you information on the march.
SPEAKER 10 :
for tina on march 1st on march 1st okay and our quote for the end of the show is george patton he said better to fight for something than to live for nothing so today be grateful read great books think good thoughts listen to beautiful music communicate and listen well if honestly and authentically strive for high ideals and like superman stand for truth justice and the american way my friends you are not alone god bless you and god bless america
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Talking about freedom Talking about freedom I will fight
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Join us for an exciting episode of Sportsman of Colorado, where we bring you stories and insights from the Highlands Ranch Backcountry and beyond. This week, we're joined by Mark and Joe, who share their passion for hunting and preserving nature. Dive deep into the details of the Spring Hunt Raffle, and learn how it supports youth hunts and community initiatives. Joe recounts his amazing 17-year journey leading to an unforgettable hunting experience and the impact of spending 17 preference points.
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Welcome to Sportsman of Colorado, Colorado's premier outdoor radio show heard every Saturday afternoon on KLZ 560 with insights on hunting, fishing, archery, guns, and ammo from Colorado's top outfitters featuring the industry's leading experts on how to enhance your experience in the great outdoors. Now, here's your host, Scott Watley.
SPEAKER 14 :
Welcome to Sportsman of Colorado. Thank you so much for joining us today. Hey, we've got a great show in store for you. Got some friends in the studio we're going to kick off the show with. And then we're going to be playing a few interviews for you. We were over in Salt Lake City this past weekend for the Western Hunt Expo and got to sit down with a few folks there and do some interviews. So Chad Shearer is going to join us from Shoot Straight TV and a couple of others. So, hey, stay tuned again. jam-packed show for you we're going to kick it off with our good friends from the highlands ranch back country area over there mark is back with us good to see you bud good to be here again thank you everything going good everything is great You know, it looks, every time I drive through that area over there, and especially when it snows, I mean, snow makes everything look really beautiful, but I just think, man, what a cool, prime piece of property back there.
SPEAKER 06 :
Right. That's part of the benefit to having it in the community is you get to drive through it and you have these scenic views instead of just all development like we see in the southern suburbs.
SPEAKER 14 :
No, you're 100% right.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 14 :
we've got another special guest with us joe is with us and um joe is one of the recipients of uh but being a winner uh in one of their hunts so joe good to see you thank you so much so happy to be here yeah man good to have you on and uh i'm gonna get mark to answer a couple questions then we're gonna get to you and let you tell us about your hunt and all all right sounds great all right mark so let's talk about um details for this spring hunt raffle we announced that a couple weeks ago and uh so fill us in
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, tickets are on sale now. Our website's hrcaonline.org slash backcountry. And then just click on the hunting tab and that'll take you to where you can buy raffle tickets. Raffles are open to the public. You just have to know somebody who lives in Highlands Ranch. So that's our buddy hunt. The buddy has to be from Highlands Ranch, but anybody can buy a ticket. That way our residents still benefit and they can, you know, my father-in-law or father or brother out of state can come experience hunting in Highlands Ranch with them.
SPEAKER 14 :
Right. Now, if you're just thinking, wow, I don't know anyone that lives in Highlands Ranch. Yes, you do. That would be me. All right. So, hey, you need a buddy. You got one for life. You want to pair up, you let me know. Hey, shoot me a text, 720-201-8585. I don't know if this is really fair for other people.
SPEAKER 13 :
Sure. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER 14 :
But hey, send me a text and I would love to go hunting with you. So seriously, this is a great opportunity. And I've had the privilege to hunt over there once before several years ago with a buddy. And I'm telling you, it is. And we're going to hear from Joe. I won't take any away. Here's fire right now from that. But I'm telling you, it's a great chance to get over there and hunt. And so let's talk about the couple of hunts that are available and what you're doing.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, so for the raffle, there's a cow hunt available, buddy cow hunt, and second rifle season. In the summer, we'll have another raffle for muzzle and fourth rifle season. And those all include a trophy bull, and the buddy is for a management bull. Right, right.
SPEAKER 14 :
And I'll even let you have the trophy bowl. All right? Hey, whoever puts me on, I'll let you have it. You get the trophy bowl. I'll take the management bowl. And it's how much a ticket?
SPEAKER 1 :
$25.
SPEAKER 14 :
$25. You can't beat that.
SPEAKER 06 :
And it all goes to our 501c3, the Backcountry Wilderness Area Fund, which funds a lot of great initiatives in the backcountry. We get a lot of kids out, kids programs. We're able to keep those programs either free or low cost. And this year with our raffle success last year, all of our youth hunts that are designated youth hunts in our drawings, youth hunt for free in Highlands Ranch this year because of the success of the raffle.
SPEAKER 14 :
And when you look at just what you've been able to do, you just took the last 10 years, what you've been able to do over that property, it's a lot.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, it's been fun to see and see the progress. Just this weekend, I counted 300 cow elk on the property. I've never counted more than 250 in a group. So that was something to see. And when we started this, you know, 15 years ago is when we got the property. That herd was about 150. So that herd's doubled. There's another herd on the eastern side of the property that's more than doubled. So it's pretty fun to see, and we just keep on putting money into the habitat and making sure the habitat is in prime condition so that the carrying capacity can handle this many elk.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, right. Now, again, let's touch on the youth hunt again. So all your youth hunts now.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 14 :
Because of the money that comes in for this. Yeah. Man, well, that's a cool deal.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah. We have eight total youth hunts, a bull hunt, management bull, a buck hunt, four turkey hunts, and two cow hunts. And those used to have fees associated with them, up to $500 for the bull hunt. Those are all waived. So there's no barrier, no economic barrier for kids to hunt in Highlands Ranch. Wow.
SPEAKER 14 :
you need an old guy hunt right that way i can get my fees that'd be all right joe right yeah man i'm telling you well hey hrcaonline.org all right hey you can get your tickets and i'm a thousand percent serious hey if you don't live in islands ranch you can't play the game all right and get a chance to hunt so hey now you can i'll be happy to be your buddy and uh So seriously, get my information. You can send me a text at 720-201-8585 or get in touch with me here at the station. We will have a great hunt if we are fortunate enough to win. And as I mentioned, Joe, good to have you in, as I said.
SPEAKER 05 :
Thank you. So happy to be here.
SPEAKER 14 :
All right. So tell us a little bit about yourself and, I mean, your hunting. I mean, you've been hunting all your life. You just get into it. Tell us about you.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, so I've been hunting pretty much my whole life, I would say. My first successful, really good hunt in Colorado, I was able to complete what they call the Colorado combo when I was in college. So harvested a deer and an elk in the same hunt. That was a long time ago. um every year i apply every year i go hunting um i was actually building up 17 preference points for bull wow that i was going to use my plan was to to build up those points and use them up in unit 201 or unit two for a trophy bull um and there are some there's some there's some big bulls there for sure um But as you kind of look at the at the CPW stats, you kind of really get into it. You can see that people are having to draw with about 32 to 34 preference points. It's a pretty tough draw and it just takes a long time. So by the time I get to the point where I could successfully apply there, I would be well into my 60s. You know, that's just a long time. So every year I applied for the Highlands Ranch backcountry hunt. My son was fortunate enough to draw a cow license there in 2013. And he harvested. It was great. We were hunting with Mark. Just an incredible experience. Incredible experience. My dad was... Just had a, had a, had a heart attack and he was, he came out of that and he was able to go and, and Mark set up a tripod for him so he could be kind of on this little bluff and he could just watch my son and I and Mark hunt. And it was just an incredible experience and he harvested a cow, you know, and that was his first harvest ever. So yeah. um, that's kind of where things for us started in the back country. Um, then later my, uh, I was fortunate to my, my son drew a buck tag and we went for buck, my other son. So I've had a lot of experience with the back country and, and, and in particular, getting to know Mark and really appreciating what's there, you know, when you're in Highlands Ranch and, and, um, it's just the craziest experience because you go into the back country and you're by three very exclusive golf courses, right? And then you, you're, you're, you're hiking around and you can see downtown Denver and it's just such an amazing thing. And so, um, it just, we just feel so fortunate to be part of the community and really get to to see it year after year. And then my, my youngest son was fortunate enough to start working in the back country for a summer job. He's in college, but started working there. And so anyway, so I had been applying for 13 years for a, for a license for a, for a bull license. And, um, I, last year I drew, I drew a muzzleloader license and, and it was, it was a really interesting scenario for me because I had 17 preference points and, And I came down, you know, thought about it. Mark and I talked a lot about it. And I decided, you know what, I'm going to use those 17 preference points for my muzzleloader hunt in the backcountry.
SPEAKER 14 :
Very few people can burn 17 points for where they live. Right.
SPEAKER 05 :
It was a tough decision.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, I mean, it had to be.
SPEAKER 05 :
There was a lot that went into that decision, actually. There was a lot. Because we're talking 17 years of applying. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. And, you know, I was still able to hunt because for my second choice, I was putting in for cow and other stuff.
SPEAKER 14 :
Sure, sure, sure.
SPEAKER 05 :
But, yeah, so 17 years and 13 years applying in the backcountry, and it all came together last year.
SPEAKER 14 :
Wow. So if I ask you, was it worth it, the one-word answer would be?
SPEAKER 05 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 14 :
Now, just to give people an idea, and I hope this is an all right question to ask, how many tickets do you buy? For the raffle? Yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, this wasn't a raffle draw. This was a regular draw.
SPEAKER 10 :
Oh, wow.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay. And what I mean by I had been applying for Highlands Ranch Backcountry for 13 years. All right. Mark has a preference point system set up for that.
SPEAKER 04 :
Gotcha.
SPEAKER 05 :
So this was not a raffle. I wasn't fortunate enough to draw it from the raffle. I was fortunate enough to draw it from the regular draw.
SPEAKER 14 :
The reason why I ask, I think it was last time Mark said, God bought one ticket. Sometimes I think, I've got to buy 20 tickets.
SPEAKER 04 :
I've got to buy 30 tickets.
SPEAKER 14 :
It only takes one to win. Right, Mark? Right. One to win.
SPEAKER 04 :
And I also buy raffle tickets for sure.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, absolutely. That's cool. Now, hunting with your kids. Let's talk about that a minute because I'm telling you, you know, I see all these people and they go to the Disney World. They do all these different things and there's nothing wrong with that. But I always tell people there's nothing like spending time with your kids and the kids getting to spend time with their dad or mom, you know, in the outdoors, is there?
SPEAKER 04 :
It's just incredible.
SPEAKER 05 :
And, you know, there's a lot of talk about when you harvest how special that is, and that's very special. But hunting with my sons, we're doing a bunch of amazing things. One time we were hunting in the backcountry. We found petrified wood. Oh, wow. And we saw that and, you know, got to look at that and talk through that. Um, just the experience of just being together with your boys, walking through the mountains and just, just how peaceful that is. No cell phones.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
No distractions. And you're just together with your kids. So it's, it's very, very special, at least for me and my family. It is.
SPEAKER 14 :
Right. Yeah. And you know what? When they get to see you in that environment and then get to be there and then experience you doing something, you get to see them taking an animal. I mean, it's a lifetime memory right there.
SPEAKER 05 :
It really is. And you talk about, you know, people talk about farm to table, you know, with food sources. And for them to be able to have that experience to get truly organic meat and see the whole process, you know, ultimately take it over to the wild game processor and it comes back in packages and see the whole thing. It just teaches them so much and such valuable life experiences that, yeah, it's, it's incredible.
SPEAKER 14 :
Right. Once again, if you're just joining us, we were talking with our friends from the, back country wilderness area or highlands ranch back country you'll hear it referred to that as well hrcaonline.org is where you can get your raffle tickets hey they're 25 each and um great buddy hunts um mark hit those two hunts for me again
SPEAKER 06 :
It's going to be a second season rifle and cow hunts this time around. And then in the summer, muzzle and fourth season rifle.
SPEAKER 14 :
All right. And $25 a ticket. And if you're not a resident of Highlands Ranch, you do need a buddy in Highlands Ranch. And I'm happy to be your buddy. I'm going to get a t-shirt with that. I'm happy to be your buddy in the backcountry wilderness area. All right, may get a new truck wrap for that here. But happy to do that, seriously. And I'm 1,000% serious on that. Shoot me a text, 720-201-8585, and we'll get you in and get you some tickets. And, hey, maybe we can do a hunt together. When you look at what all I think it's so cool. Like I say, we get to live in Highlands Ranch and I think blessed to be there and all. But when you look at a community association that is doing so much for the community, that's kind of a cool thing for me living there. And I'm sure it is for you, too.
SPEAKER 05 :
It really is. And just being able to drive around. I like to mountain bike. So mountain bike through the trails of Highlands Ranch, getting towards the backcountry a little bit and just seeing elk. It's incredible. And seeing deer and foxes and coyotes and golden eagles. Just yesterday I went for a ride and I see some hawks or golden eagles flying around, right, around the backcountry. It's incredible. And, you know, going back to the 17 preference points, What went a lot into that decision with Mark was where else, where else can I sleep in my own bed and drive two miles and be hunting an incredible habitat for elk? And big elk and big bulls. Yeah. Big, big bulls. You know, to me, it's just so well managed. It's just such an incredible thing to have in Highlands Ranch. And I know there's other places, Centennial Cone and some other places around the Denver Metro. But the habitat, the bulls, the cows, like Mark has already pointed out, It came down to be an easy decision to burn those 17 preference points because I had a chance at really, really big bulls.
SPEAKER 14 :
So walk us through that day that it happened. Walk us through your hunt. How did it go down?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, well, it was a really interesting hunt because I ended up harvesting the last day or the second to the last day. I can't remember which one it was. But the first day, we called in a really nice 6x6. Public land hunt, I would have taken that 6x6 for sure. For sure, without a doubt. Passed it up. Well, that week it was really hot. It was really, really hot. And... And we just, we were seeing, we were seeing good bulls, but we couldn't get close to them. There was a lot of movement. It was the peak of the rut. So a lot of them already had their cows. So, you know, we, we, we hiked a lot. Mark and I hiked a lot that hunt. And we were, we were getting close, but there was just a lot of movement. You know, the bulls were moving and it was, it was a, it turned out to be a pretty challenging hunt because of the heat and In one scenario, we had a microburst that came down right upon us, so it just started dumping rain. The wind was swirling all over. At that same time, some bulls came in and just started running through a pond that was right in front of us, and we were hidden, and it was amazing to see that happen too. So after that first day and passing up that 6x6, Um, we started going through and, and the days were hot and it was kind of becoming more and more challenging to, to, to see if I could harvest, got to the second last day. And I told Mark, whatever I see, I'm going to go for it. You know, it's, I'm kind of running out of time here. So whatever I see, I'm going to go for. And so we, we, we were hunting that day and it started getting into the late afternoon and, and Mark just said, you know, what, what do you feel like? And I said, well, let's go back to this water. It's a hot day. Let's go back to the watering hole where we saw that six by six. And so we were there, we were, we were kind of set up in a blind and, and we were just, just, you know, kind of, kind of waiting for, for things to cool down. And sure enough, saw a really nice bull, a big shooter that just started kind of walking by a ridge that was kind of to the east of us. And, and he had his cows and, And then we saw a cow come up to the watering hole and she drank and we were just watching her drink. And then she took off and then a satellite bull kind of came in and he was kind of looking around. And just over the ridge, three cows just walked over and all I saw was this big rack behind them. Just big rack, just coming up right behind them. And And, you know, Mark and I kind of looked at each other and said, well, you know, let's see where he goes. You know, let's see where he goes. And he was taking his time. He was just kind of eating in these open meadows. And he just started, the cows were coming over to drink in this watering hole. And the satellite bull came over and had interest in those cows. Well, that upset the big bull. And so he came trotting in, and he was not happy with that satellite bull being there. But he was a big bull. He's the biggest bull that I've ever harvested in my lifetime. And at that point, when I was fortunate enough to harvest, everything just came together just perfectly well. And it made those 17 preference points well, well worth it. Just absolutely well worth it. And I'll never forget, you know, Mark and I were there and he went down and, you know, that was early September and there was a full moon that was just rising right above us. I think Cherokee Ranch Castle. There's a Cherokee Ranch Castle up there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And, you know, you just see this big full moon rising. And just the whole thing was almost like surreal. It was incredible.
SPEAKER 14 :
That is so cool. Well, congratulations. Thank you so much. Thank you. Hey, you can come on and tell a story like that, too, all right? But, hey, you've got to go to hrcaonline.org, all right? And, hey, get yourself a ticket there. And, once again, if you're just joining us, we're talking about the Highlands Ranch backcountry area. But you do have to be a resident of Highlands Ranch to play. But if you have a buddy, you can put that buddy down. or if you want to put your real good buddy me down you can do that too all right because i live in highlands ranch so happy to hunt with you and um hey these folks doing a great job and um if you're in highlands ranch and you don't know really much what we're talking about of this area you know get in touch with them over there and um And, Mark, are people able to come by the office over there and talk to you guys?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, absolutely.
SPEAKER 14 :
Learn more about the backcountry.
SPEAKER 06 :
My office is at Southridge Rec Center. My email is mark.giebel, G-I-E-B-E-L, at hrcaonline.org. We also have an event, a hunter gathering event is what we call it, at Live in the Dream on March 4th at 6 p.m. We'll be there doing a few raffles there and giveaways and things like that. But it's just a fun chance to hang out with hunters and talk hunting. And that's the night where we'll actually draw the raffle tags.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay, sure. Good deal. Anything we forgot?
SPEAKER 06 :
No. Thanks for having us. All right.
SPEAKER 14 :
No, man. Great to have you guys. And, man, Joe, great to meet you.
SPEAKER 05 :
Great to meet you, and thank you for having me as well.
SPEAKER 14 :
You bet. All right. Before our break here, we went over to Salt Lake City for the Western Hunt Expo last week. And we were able to sit down and do a few interviews with some folks. One of those was Chad Shearer with Shoot Straight TV. And we're going to be playing that interview when we come back from this break. But as I mentioned that expo, let me just take a second here and mention our expo. It's the Mile High Hunt and Fish Expo. It's April 11th through the 13th at the Gaylord Rockies Resort and Convention Center. For tickets and information, you'll hear some ads on this and more upcoming shows. But just for tickets and event details, go to milehighhuntexpo.com. And there you'll find and get your tickets. And there are some evening events or separate ticket events that you'll need to get a ticket for that as well. But coming back from the break, we're going to visit an interview with Chad Shearer from Shoot Straight TV right after this.
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SPEAKER 14 :
Welcome to Sportsman of Colorado. Thank you so much for joining us today. Now, as we have already previously mentioned, we went over to Salt Lake City for the Western Hunt Expo, and I've been going over it about the last two or three years, and I'll tell you, it is a great expo, and... In Texas, we would say it is ginormous. It is huge. And we'll come over and see a lot of our friends that are here. Of course, our sponsor's already with us, but then we always get to hopefully make some new contacts as well. But one of those categories of friends is Chad Shearer. Chad is here with Begara and several other deals we'll talk about. But, Chad, thanks for taking a few minutes with us. How are you?
SPEAKER 09 :
Hey, Scott, it is always good to visit with you.
SPEAKER 14 :
You too, sir. All right. So, man, let's start out with just a TV show. Shoot Straight TV. How long have you been doing that?
SPEAKER 09 :
You know, we are going on 20 years now, and it's just been amazing. We started out all about hunting with the family. Our boys were four and five, and now Walker's going to be 24. That's crazy, isn't it? It just blows me away. It went from just being young on the show to now they run camera and Walker produces. Now they're carrying the elk out, right? That's exactly right. Walker produces the show. It's been a fun ride.
SPEAKER 14 :
Wow. What's changed? I mean, so much has changed in media through the years. What's changed in TV that first few years to where you are today with TV?
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. Well, I like to tell people it was harder, but it was easier. So now, back then, there was just a handful of networks. And if you were on one of the... Outdoor-type networks, everybody watched it. Today, you have to be a little more nimble, a little more flexible. And so where it used to be, it just went on TV, now you have it on social, you have it on all the digital networks. I mean, we're on Pursuit Channel as our main network, but then we're on Pursuit Up TV, which is a streaming app, which is fantastic. And then from there you go to Zulu, Roku, Pluto, all the different options. And on top of that, then you've got YouTube and everything else. So you still have great numbers of people watching you. They just consume it differently. And so there's more of a buffet of outdoor TVs or outdoor opportunities for people to watch it.
SPEAKER 14 :
Right. You know, when people watch the production of it and when we're watching it, it seems like everything is so smooth. But how many hours of film will you take on a hunt and then the editing part to get it to fit your time format?
SPEAKER 09 :
Right. And so we have 22 minutes that we're allowed for a 30-minute show of content. And we'll do different things like Marcia does her recipes from the field on that. We do a straight talk tip of the week. We have our other content. And so to answer your question, it depends on the hunt. Like some hunts, we may be out there for... six to ten days to get those 22 minutes and there's other times where it might be a day or two so it just depends on how the animals cooperate what the weather's doing and uh some are easier than others i mean take take an elk cut versus going out and and doing a fishing trip or going out and doing this it just it depends on on how everything plays out
SPEAKER 14 :
All right, right. Again, Chad Shearer is our guest, and we are recording some interviews here at the Western Hunt Expo, and we'll be playing a lot of those here over the next few weeks here on the show. You mentioned last night we were talking before we came on air that you guys honored a guy in Colorado that helped with Prop 127. I wasn't sure if that was a half of Wildlife Guys or Dan Gates.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, it was Dan. Dan Gates.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay, all right. When you look at all the battles going on in different states, and you're in tune with a lot of those too, how would you – describe kind of the hunting industry right now and the wildlife and what all these government entities are trying to do. I mean, it's a mess, man.
SPEAKER 09 :
You know, it is. And I'll just tell you, I've been on the board of directors for the Mule Deer Foundation for the last nine years because I have a passion for wildlife. I will tell you, I'm very happy about our new administration coming in. I know there's a lot... anytime you have a new administration, there's a lot of what ifs and questions and so forth. So time will tell how everything plays out. The Mule Deer Foundation does a lot to try and help with conservation, with habitat. They also work with several of the government entities like force us forest service blm and working on projects to to better the land and also a big thing right now is with all the fires we've had yeah in the west is wildland management and uh sitting some of the timber out and they're people are realizing okay not only is it important for us as human beings but that's also great for wildlife so um I see a lot of great things happening. I see some challenges happening. And the other thing is our Second Amendment. We have to be very aware of that. With the NRA, I was just in Harrisburg for Great American Outdoor Show, and that's hosted by the NRA. Hearing a lot of good things there. I got to visit with their CEO, their new CEO, Doug Hamlin, and was very, very encouraged by what's going on at the NRA. It really, it's exciting to see that because even when we have the administration we have in right now, it's important that we stay strong. We have to have our voices. Just like we saw with 127 in Colorado, that was a huge win.
SPEAKER 14 :
Huge win.
SPEAKER 09 :
But it just didn't happen. Sportsmen saw the need. They rallied. And I spent quite a bit of time talking to folks in Colorado and doing everything I could to help. And there were some real heroes down there. And it's just not for us. I mean, this is for our kids' kids.
SPEAKER 14 :
And that's what we were trying to get everybody to understand. While, yeah, we were fighting that in Colorado, I guarantee you it would have flooded other states in a heartbeat if they would have won. And one thing that Dan Gates did really well, he organized kind of a ground game. I mean, man, we put out yard signs. I got my tailgate wrapped. I mean, we did all kinds of stuff. Man, it was a great—and we were never behind it. Once the polls started going, I was shocked, to be honest. Not that we won a little bit, but then by the margin, it was crazy.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, it was, but it just goes to show you how if we could unite. That's the biggest thing we have to do as sportsmen and conservation is unite because there's battles, there's challenges, there's predator control, and there are people that— I live on a ranch in Montana, and you go visit some of these cities, people that are voting don't have a clue past their city limits.
SPEAKER 14 :
Right.
SPEAKER 09 :
And what the harshness of weather and if those elk and deer, if they don't have food to eat, where they're going in the migration corridors. Right. I mean, even down here in Utah, the subdivisions that the deer are just, they move into because that happens. And so conservation is such an important role. And one of the things that's cool that the Mule Deer Foundation just launched is also the Black-Tailed Deer Foundation. Blacktail deer have always been a part of the Mule Deer Foundation and what it's tried to accomplish, but now we have a separate entity that's just focusing on blacktail deer, and that's a huge thing in the West right now, especially up in Alaska.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, that's so cool. Do you think we're going about it in a better way now because of this 127 and seeing a lot of organizations coming together and different conservation groups coming together? Are we going about it the right way to see some more wins in this?
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, I think we are, and I think we have to come to the realization. Like I said, I've been on the board of directors for Mule Deer Foundation, but... other great organizations, Rocky Mountain Elm Foundation, Boone and Crockett Club, and the list goes on and on. And even NRA, what they do in their lobbying power is we have to join together as sportsmen. And this is one thing I've said for years, whether you're a bow hunter, A muzzleloader hunter, a rifle hunter, a traditional bow hunter, a traditional muzzleloader hunter. Your last name is Hunter. And we do not need to be divided. So often we get divided. Oh, this one type of hunting, they get five extra days of the season. Or this one gets here. And they start. fighting amongst themselves or you get, you can see this sometimes in with hound hunters versus people that don't want hounds out there. Instead of going, hey, we have to stay strong because when you look at the overall numbers of hunters out there, which we're the ones that are splitting the bill, picking up it. No doubt. to support wildlife conservation, when you look at those overall numbers, we're small as a whole with the whole population in the United States. So we need to be as strong as we can be and to join our efforts together. That's the thing that I applaud the Colorado voters and the Colorado sportsmen for 127. I was speaking down there last year when all this stuff was just starting to happen. Yeah. And I was encouraging folks, get out there, vote, and you're going to have to rally together. And kudos to you sportsmen in Colorado.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, no, man, it worked out. And, you know, your influence certainly helped. I mean, you know, when you get names, you know, that are out there, it really showed everybody, well, man, we need to get after this. If we would have showed up for this for the wolf issue, we probably wouldn't have wolves in Colorado. You know, if like 30% of the hunters would have voted against that, we would have probably won that.
SPEAKER 09 :
And I tell you, there are challenges when you do that. And I can give you historical stuff from when I was a lot younger when the wolves were introduced in Montana and what they've done to elk populations. And there's some challenges there.
SPEAKER 14 :
Now, most people listening to this show, if not all, understand that. What would you say to people that don't know about wolves? What's going to happen in Colorado, you see, with this wolf issue?
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Well, this is a touchy situation, I'll just tell you. I know, it is. And I was 21 years old, and I stood up. against wolves coming into Montana and it. They still came. They still gotta been here, but I will tell you there were there were things around Yellowstone Park where they always had the late season hunts and back in the day and and don't send letters if I'm off by numbers, but it was like 2500 to 3000 cow permits that they had for elk migrating out of the park. And that was back in the late 80s when I was still in high school. And we would go down there and hunt. And it was great if you didn't get your elk, they had late season migrations that needed to be managed. After the wolves were down there a few years, that season went away. And we're talking 25-plus years later, it's never came back like it has. So they're killers. I mean, wolves are killers, and they will affect the populations. And that's one thing you have to do is... You have to manage the large predators. Yeah. Whether it's grizzly bears, wolves. I mean, we have grizzly attacks in Montana every year, every hunting season. And self-defense stuff happens where these guys get chewed on or killed. And there has to be a balance with it. I'm not saying get rid of them all. I'm just saying you have to be able to manage them. And... My biggest fear is when things go into the management process by voting and not by biology. When you start managing wildlife by emotion instead of by biology, then you really start having issues. And that's what was happening with 127. Absolutely. It was all about, I mean, there are a lot of people that love dogs. I mean, I love dogs. Of course. My son trains dogs. Wolves are not dogs. Yeah. They're not. They're not pets. Yes, they're magnificent, but you really have to look at it on the balance of everything. And there are preferences. I mean, it's the same thing with mountain lions. I mean, mountain lions kill a lot of deer every year. And they're not something you just go out and see. I mean, I spend hundreds of days a year out in the wild And I can count on two hands how many mount lines I've came across.
SPEAKER 14 :
And most of us that just do the normal type seasons and hunt, we've never seen one. Right. Okay? Right. I mean, I've killed one in my life.
SPEAKER 09 :
But they're there. Yeah. They're seeing you, aren't they? They are there. And you pick them up on trail cams. And I will tell you, it's all about balance, and it's about conservation. And it's important. It's not preservation. It's conservation and having the balance. And that's what I love about sportsmen. The money from the Pittman-Roberts Act and the money that comes in from ammo sales and gun sales and stuff in this industry, license sales that support it, it's huge compared to... what some of the extreme activist groups do.
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Sure. If you're just joining us, Chad Shearer is our guest. Hey, catch him on the Pursuit Channel, Shoot Straight TV. And as he's already mentioned, there's a lot of other avenues there to catch it, but it's Shoot Straight TV and a great show. You'll pick up some good recipes as well. Man, your wife looks like she can cook.
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She is a great cook, and it's exciting. We're getting ready. We'll be filming our new cooking segments coming up shortly for the 2025 season, and it's all exciting to see what she does. There's some great things. If you go to our website, shootstraighttv.com, we have over 200 recipes on that with Wild Game, and some of our favorite ones are the backstrap, uh recipes where should show you how to stuff those uh with all kinds of things from cream cheese to chives and chopped up mushrooms wrap them in bacon put them on on your grill and that's just it's it's so incredible yeah absolutely um let's let's
SPEAKER 14 :
Couple areas that you're in as well. You do a lot of these church wild game dinners. And now by the time we're airing this, we're recording this before, by the time we're airing this, a couple have already happened. They're local, which we wish we could have got this on a little sooner. But one's in Fort Collins, which will be at a Front Range Baptist Church. And, man, I tell you, that's 500-plus people that come to that every year.
SPEAKER 09 :
Right. We're a week away, or this just happened by the time this airs. And they told me this morning they only have 50 tickets left. So it's going to be a good one. We're doing one down in Colorado Springs. And so it's exciting. I love to go to Colorado. Love to do that. And what we do is we... Talk about tips and techniques to make you a better hunter, a better fisherman. We'll show you footage that is brand new for the year, a sneak peek at the shoot straight TV season. But then most importantly, we tell people you plan and prepare for hunting season. You plan and prepare for fishing season. You get already a few bow hunters. It's right now, it's February coming into March. You're already shooting your bows. You're thinking about it, that September rut. And you're preparing for something that may last for a week, two weeks. But are you prepared for eternity? And we tell people how they can know for sure they're going to heaven. We share that with them. I share stories of things that have happened in my life. And we've been through a lot this year. We had a lot of challenges. And we share that. How when your loved one passes or you pass, tell them see you later, not goodbye. And it's just amazing the number of sportsmen we've been able to reach. And that's what it's about. If you're not 100% sure you're going to heaven, accept it. Jesus, into your heart so that you can know for sure. Because I'll just tell you, in our life, we've had some rough things this year. We lost our daughter-in-law at 23 years old to cancer. And when you go through that, I know a lot of people listening today have went through things in their life. It's a challenge. But we have that comfort in knowing it's here again someday. And that's what it's all about.
SPEAKER 14 :
Amen. And you know, it's great, too, because... there are guys that we can, and gals, and some of them that are open to the families and things, like the one at Front Range, but that'll come to something like that, that maybe have gotten, you know, a bad taste in their mouth, so to speak, about church or whatever, and man, it'd be a great way to reach people.
SPEAKER 09 :
You know, it really is, and it's neat. We'll see people that'll come to visit these events where they typically wouldn't come to church for anything else, and that's been an avenue of our TV show that, People go, hey, we recognize these folks and we want to hear about it. I'm a former world champion elk caller, so I'm going to give them just the best elk calling we can do and really focus in on what's important. Because there might be somebody out there listening today that say, man, I've got some young people in my house. I've got some kids now. There's nothing better to get them in a good church and get them plugged in because you're going to have trials in your life. I don't care who you are. I think of my other son this last year. They had a baby, and little Bennett, our first grandson, he was born five weeks early. He's been at NICU. He was born with Down syndrome, and he's just the best. Well, he had six holes in his heart, and he actually went down to Colorado to the children's hospital. And at just a few months old, they had to do open-heart surgery. And I'll tell you, the people down there in Colorado, if any of you are listening, thank you. Because our son and his wife were down there, Walker and Bree, and our little grandson. I mean, when a doctor is repairing that little heart, and now he's going to be a year in March. You're going to go through struggles. You're going to go through different things. So it's just important to have that relationship with God and be able to do that. We talked about elk calling a little bit. We are hosting the Hunt Expo elk calling championships today, and that's going to be a fun time for people. Typically, we'll have... 60 to 80 people competing, and it'll be a big event. It'll take all afternoon. And you've been in that for a long, long time. I've been hosting them all the way back to the ISE days when I started them back there.
SPEAKER 14 :
Exactly. Man, and you would talk about an industry that's exploded. Yeah. The calling world. And we just lost Wayne Carlton. We did. Yeah, a couple of days ago. And we're actually replaying a show on Sportsman Colorado today as you and I are recording this, an interview I did with him. But he was a great guy.
SPEAKER 09 :
Mark is a good friend of mine. Wayne, I called on his team years and years ago, and may he rest in peace. Absolutely. He did a lot for this industry.
SPEAKER 14 :
He sure did. All right, hey, we can't get out without talking about Bergara and CVC a little bit. So tell us about your relationship with these companies.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, I'm director of advertising and media relations. We're down here at this show. We have a Bergara booth, and we'll also have a booth at the Mile High show this year.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yep, April 11th through the 13th.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yep. And I got to verify if it's a CVA or Bergara booth. I'm not sure. I got to look at the list on, on that one. Um, but, um, just some great, great guns. Uh, we've got the, the new, uh, BMR X that we're highlighting here, which is a rimfire gun. We'll be doing some mid-year launches that are going to be exciting. And, uh, on the CVA side, uh, New Cascade, we came out with that in left-handed. So a lot of people are excited about seeing that in left-handed this year. And so a lot of exciting things will be coming up this upcoming year. Wow.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, Chad, man, I could sit here and talk with you all day, but I know you've got things to do, too. But, man, we appreciate you doing this. Look forward to our banquet. And, again, once we're recording this, we'll be next week. But, hey, catch Shoot Straight TV and follow them on social media as well. And if you're not familiar with Begara, you're not familiar with CVC, hey, go check them out. I'm telling you, they've made some huge strides over these last few years, haven't they, both of those companies?
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, McGar and CBA have just been amazing and lots of great new products out there, and just you can't beat them. Because muzzle loading, if you had to pick one. I love it. I love it. And I love coming down to Colorado. You've got to use open sites. There's some challenges down there. I hunted antelope there this last year, but I tell you, there's nothing better.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, absolutely. Well, Chad, we appreciate it, bud. All right.
SPEAKER 09 :
Thanks so much. Thanks for having me.
SPEAKER 14 :
You're listening to Sportsman of Colorado. We've got a quick break. We'll be back with more right after this.
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SPEAKER 03 :
Good morning, Kim. It's great to be here. Good morning, everyone.
SPEAKER 06 :
and we had a great adventure we were down at the conference for leadership program in the rockies this weekend and i had some great conversations saw a lot of great people and then we got up early on sunday morning and and came up to steamboat talk about a bluebird day it was gorgeous absolutely gorgeous road trip it is and uh i i at the beginning my so the reason we're up here is I gave the keynote for the Routt County Lincoln Day Brunch yesterday. And what a fun event, great people. Shout out to Heather for really putting together a great event. And I think it's DeVos, I think is how you pronounce her last name. You know how you read things and you're like, oh, I think I know exactly how to pronounce that. Now while we're sitting here, I'm thinking, oh, I don't know if I have that exactly right. But Heather was just really awesome. And I did, when I started the speech, I gave thanks to our good Lord because you and I had two kind of close calls of people that were passing in the lane that we were in. And...
SPEAKER 03 :
I thought we were headed off the road there.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, one I was headed to the ditch a little bit, so I want to say thank you to the good Lord for that. And then they say things come in threes, so there was one that was pretty far down the road, but we're counting that as our third, right? That's right. So safe travels on the way home today. Exactly. On that, so let me get over here, Teresa. Our word of the day is reticent, and that is R-E-T-I-C-E-N-T. And the definition on it is, could be inclined to keep one's thoughts, feelings, personal affairs to oneself, restrained or reserved, reluctant or unwilling. And so again, it's R-E-T-I-C-E-N-T. And sometimes I may be reticent. When we were talking about the word of the day, you said that that may not be an adjective that would be used with you that often? That's probably true.
SPEAKER 03 :
I do not tend to be reticent. I share my opinion. Pretty frequently, my children can attest to that.
SPEAKER 06 :
So your challenge today is to use the word reticent in a sentence, and that way you can impress your friends and family as we are all expanding our vocabularies. Our quote of the day is from Louis D. Brandeis, and Jonathan Turley was one of the speakers down at the conference this week. weekend, and he was really great. And you see him a lot on Fox News. But he quoted Louis Brandeis, who was born in 1856. He died in 1941. And he was an American lawyer and served as the associate justice on the Supreme Court from 1916 to 1939. And this was his quote. He said, the only title in our democracy superior to that of president is the title of citizen. What do you think, Teresa?
SPEAKER 03 :
I think that that's something that so many of us have been conditioned to almost forget, that the government is actually here to work for us. But it's not a passive arrangement. We need to be engaged as well. Absolutely. Now is not the time to sit back and be complacent. Now is the time to get involved.
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And we have an opportunity right now with the Trump administration. He basically just opened the crack in the door for us to reclaim our country. But we need to be active at the local, the county, and the state level. That's why seeing all the people yesterday at the steamboat or the Routt County Republican brunch was just so much fun. And hopefully we're going to get to talk a little bit more about that, the after party on that, if you will.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, my goodness, so much fun.
SPEAKER 06 :
So let's see. So again, his quote was the only title in our democracy superior to that of president is the title of citizen. Next thing, our bill of the day. And again, I want to say thank you to my fellow Colorado Union of Taxpayer Board members. There were 131 bills that are scheduled for hearing this week. And on Friday evening after the events down at the Broadmoor, I was up until about 1230 going through all those bills. We selected 41. This is so much work for these people to do, to go through, determine whether or not we should have a yes position, no position, do not rate, what their reasoning is. And it's all volunteer. We'd love it if you would join us.
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$25.
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It's $2.08 a month. You can join us by going to coloradotaxpayer.org. and you will receive the email that I'll be working on later today that will go out to all of our legislators and the governor, and you'll get first look at that. But I want to say thank you to these people, and when you see them, say thank you. And that's my fellow board members, Steve Dorman, Greg Golianski, Russ Haas, Bill Hamill, Rob Knuth, John Nelson, Wendy Warner, Marty Nielsen, Ramey Johnson, Mary Jansen, David Evans, Corey Onizorg, Paula Beard and Ray Beard have just joined us as well. So say thank you to them. But of those, Teresa, there's as well. Let me just do a quick check and see. As of Friday morning, there have been. 495 either pieces of legislation or resolutions that have been proposed down at the State House. This is not representative government. It's not. Not at least. Oh, 497 this morning. I bet we're going to go over 500. That's right. which is crazy.
SPEAKER 03 :
It's ridiculous.
SPEAKER 06 :
So with that, though, there's so many things. And there's been some good bills in there as well. We've had some Republicans that have brought forth some bills to try to roll back government. But this is not one of them. And this is a dangerous one. You need to take a look at it. It's House Bill 25, 1225. The sponsor on this, one sponsor, and that is Representative Stephen Woodrow, a Democrat. And it says Freedom from Intimidation in Elections Act. And it says it prohibits an individual from intimidating, threatening or coercing any individual for engaging in certain election related activities. So you go in and you take a look at this is just the. It says that it prohibits any individual from intimidating, threatening, or coercing, or attempting to intimidate, threaten, or coerce. So Teresa, first thing there, those can all be subjective, all of those words. So they're putting in the subjective criteria. For voting or attempting to vote, urging or aiding any individual to vote or attempt to vote. That's going to be interesting to see on there and get out the vote. But this next one, exercising any powers or duties to administer elections, including vote counting, canvassing, or election certification. And let's see. And this last one, I didn't really think about this. Therese, what do you think about this? The individual status as a past or present participant in the administration of elections. I'll have to think about that. That third one is bad, the fact that we cannot canvass our elections.
SPEAKER 03 :
The way that they titled that, though, seems like such a guise and a facade for what the meat is inside of that bill.
SPEAKER 06 :
I know.
SPEAKER 03 :
And so we'll have to... Because when you read the title... You don't want people to be intimidated, right? No. So it's, oh, of course, we don't want people to be intimidated. But that's not really the guise of that bill.
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No, it isn't whatsoever. So we're going to have to keep our eyes on that. Let's see, a couple of things. Since we're up in Steamboat... After the speech yesterday, I had a gentleman come up, and he said, because we talked a little bit about wolves, and this is from Complete Colorado. It says, livestock depredation estimated at $24,000 per imported wolf. This gentleman came up. He said, it's worse than you think. He said, my neighbor is losing all kinds of livestock. This is by design, and it's affecting our food supply because it's affecting them to be successful farmers. livestock producers. This is all by design. And when I say Colorado, Teresa, is at the tip of the spear, we are at the tip of the spear.
SPEAKER 03 :
Caldera said that they are actually coming in pre-trained to kill livestock. Pre-trained. The wolves? That's a quote from Caldera.
SPEAKER 05 :
Oh, boy.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. To the tune of right now, $600,000 worth of private livestock loss. Wow. $600,000. How can they stay in business?
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How can they stay in business? How does this make sense? And the gentleman that came up to talk with us after the event yesterday, he said that the wolves got into a herd of elk, that then they got into a fencing. And he said there were legs and blood and everything, everywhere. So it's it's pretty bad. And and pull us all of these all of this. Well, I guess the people of Colorado did vote on that. But I don't think that it was. I didn't either. And when I did my voters guide, I said, if the people of Boulder and Denver want wolves in Colorado, they need to put them in their backyard. I kind of agree. Yeah. So we'll talk some more about some of these headlines. I think many of you and some of you have reached out to me that, as you all know, Hooters Restaurants has been just a great sponsor of both of the shows. The franchise owners, they're great conservatives, love America, and it's how I got to know them. It was a really important story about freedom and free markets and capitalism. And I saw the headline this weekend that Hooters National has filed for bankruptcy. This whole restaurant industry is tough across the country. It's really tough here in Colorado. And so I reached out to them, and I was hoping to have lunch with them this week. So we're going to see about that. But stay tuned, but go and have lunch at Hooters. They have these great specials. and yeah they have great wings great fish and chips and this public policy from the o'biden harris administration and then here uh i think maybe i'll start to call it the opolis administration here is uh it's really making it difficult for entrepreneurs so i am very grateful for hooters restaurants and they have five locations loveland aurora lone tree westminster colorado springs So we'll keep you informed on that. And then another great sponsor is the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance Team. And Roger's been in business for 48 years, taking care of his clients as well. And so you might be able to save some money if you reach out to them and bundle your insurance together. You won't know unless you have that complimentary appointment. So you can always give them a call at 303-795-8855. And I really am blessed to work with amazing people.
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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter and you can email me at Kim at Kim Munson dot com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. In the second hour, show sponsor Susan Harris is going to be our featured guest. She is a great friend. She loves America. And I really am so grateful for the Harris family for their sponsorship of the show. And I'm on a road trip. I'm up in Steamboat, gorgeous Steamboat Springs, Bluebird Day yesterday. I gave the keynote at the Routt County Republicans' Lincoln Day Brunch. And Teresa Irby, who is our new partnership liaison with the Kim Munson Show, road tripped it with me. And here we are on location. You've got your microphone, your headphones. Good morning, everyone. And this is fun, huh?
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We're just having a great time.
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And I'm pleased to have on the line with me Darcy Schoening, and she is the director of special initiatives for the Colorado State GOP. She's done a great job on that. And Darcy, I wanted to welcome you to the show. Thank you for having me. Good morning, Kim. Well, and you've done such a great job on these special initiatives. The last Capitol Club luncheon that I was at, there was well over 100 people, if not more, there. And that has been one of your babies, right?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes, I really enjoyed Capitol Club. For the last year, we've had some really good speakers, yourself included. In addition to that, there was a really good event in Washington, D.C., the cocktail hour that we held for the Colorado delegation. There were like 300 people there. So, yeah, I really enjoyed bringing people together at these events.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, and Darcy, also, you have been active across the state. You've got two great children, elementary school age, and you have such a heart for our children. And when I say but, you have that component of being a mom, but you also are so concerned about all children here in Colorado.
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Definitely, yeah. Well, as you know, I think you were at the last Capitol Club a couple weeks ago. I was out in Durango. fighting for the kids out in Durango. They voted to sanction BLM and trans flags. But I'm actively working with several different, the Trump administration and our different congresspeople across Colorado to bring attention to that and to have their federal funding permanently frozen if they don't agree to stop damaging our children so on the way home from that trip I was routed through New Mexico because Wolf Pass was closed and I was thinking that same thing I was like this is kind of a sketchy trip on the way back I hope I make it home and then I was kind of thinking about my kids and just you know all that we do every day to to fight for families in Colorado and just how much work it is and that's why I'm so excited to have Trump in office because it's truly a new era where we talked about before we would be fighting for children, fighting for the Second Amendment or what have you. And we were just excited to have one win here and there amidst a bunch of losses. And now with You know, Trump in office and we've got control of the federal government. I think it's a new era and we are going to make so much progress over the next four years. So I'm really excited. And I've been working with donors to secure funding. We're up to about $200,000 to secure funding for the 2025 school board elections to build our benches initiative. And that's a huge deal in Colorado. We've really got to be focusing on those school board seats. Those are the seats that affect our children the most, but they're also where we get our local candidates and then those candidates become statewide candidates and so on and so forth.
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So, Darcy, you have thrown your hat in the ring as Colorado State GOP Chair, which important job, thankless job. It seems like probably in that job every day you have somebody that's happy with what you do and somebody that's not. But you've thrown your hat in the ring because, well, because why?
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Well, because I truly feel that I am the person. the best person in the state to lead us into this new Trump era. I've been putting in the work consistently year after year, and I think people have seen that. I worked tirelessly to lead the historic endorsement of President Trump by the Colorado GOP. I was instrumental in assembling the candidate initiative for the Colorado GOP, and I'm usually at the forefront of most issues, whether it's Denver Children's Hospital or local education efforts. So I feel that we need doers in our party, and especially people that want to be leaders. We need people that are willing to do the work, the people that are willing to take the media hits, you know, the people that are willing to take the calls at two in the morning. This can't just be a job where, you know, you log the miles and you show up and take the microphone for five minutes and proselytize about our party. We have to have people in office that are willing to go around and, like I said, put in the work. And I've shown that I can do that. And so I believe that, you know, putting me Voting for me as chair is just elevating the work that I'm already doing and just saying, you know what, Darcy, we trust you. We've seen you do the work. Let's lead us into the new era.
SPEAKER 06 :
So, Teresa, you had a question.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, I actually just wanted to compliment Darcy. Hi, Darcy. Hi. We've been, you know, from afar watching you. One of the things that I would be that I would say is I see you walk the walk and talk the talk. You are such a fearless warrior at putting what your your message is your message and you are not afraid to speak it out. whether it's coming down on someone that's going at our kids or a school board. And I love that about you. So I just wanted to affirm you that I see you on a regular basis on social media platforms and just all of the organizations that we're all involved in together. And I agree with you. I think you walk the walk and talk the talk, and you're ready to get out there and be bold and stand up for what's right. We're in a historical era right now with our amazing president and the things that are happening, and you are right there in the heart of it.
SPEAKER 06 :
And I will let me let all the listeners know any candidates that ever reaches out to me, I will work to get them some time on the show. So, Darcy, one of your representatives reached out to me. So it's good to have you here. And I think you're on to something that's very important, even though we're so excited about what's happening at the federal level with Trump. I really think the radical activist extremists are going to double down. I was just talking about this House bill regarding elections. And so I think that they are kind of burrowing down, if you will, into the state, the county, the municipalities, school boards, special districts. I think you're going to see a burrowing down to push that agenda in those arenas, Darcy.
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Definitely. And we saw the Democrats doing that in the last cycle in Colorado. They were really, really coming for those rural commissioner seats and some of those commissioner seats where it was really close. And so, yeah, we have to stay vigilant, especially now with Trump at the helm. They're going to really be coming for those seats.
SPEAKER 06 :
So, Darcy, what's the process? When is the election? What's the process? How can people get more information about you?
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So the election will be at the end of March, most likely that last weekend in March, March 29th. And that is the SEC, the state central committee that votes. But anybody can get information about me at Darcy, F-O-R, chair, Darcyfordchair.com. On Twitter, it's Darcy, and then the number 4CO. You can just look me up on social media or anywhere. My phone number is on my website, my social media. And as always, even if you're not looking for information about my candidacy, I'm always around to help. If you've got an issue in Colorado, especially if it's about our schools, please contact me because I will be there to help you figure it out.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay, so Darcy, one more time, what is your website?
SPEAKER 07 :
Darcy for chair.com and for a spelled out Darcy for chair.com.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay. Again, Darcy or spelled out for chair.com. So Darcy, we've got just a couple of minutes left. What, what are you, are the, maybe the two top issues that you think are so important here in Colorado that people need to be aware of?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, they need to be aware of, you know, as I continue to reiterate what's going on in our schools. But I would say that as far as the Colorado GOP goes, we need people that, like I said, that are doers. But what I want to see is all of us come together and really create an infrastructure for our candidates, for raising money for future generations of the Colorado GOP. And so what I would like to leave listeners with is. We have our values down. We just need to get our goals in line, and we all need to be working towards those same goals. So everybody needs to think, what are my top two issues? What are my top three issues? And how can I work towards solving those issues? And as the GOP, we're here to work within that framework to take Colorado back. So really, I would just like to leave everybody with the idea that if we focus on the same goals, if we keep moving in the same direction, then that's how we take Colorado back.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay. Well, great. Well, Darcy, thank you for stepping forward and throwing your hat in the ring for Colorado State GOP Chair. And again, more information for Darcy. And Darcy is D-A-R-C-Y, right? D-A-R-C-Y.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes, D-A-R-C-Y.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay, D-A-R-C-Y-F-O-R-Chair.com. And thank you so much for joining us this morning, Darcy.
SPEAKER 07 :
Thank you, and thank you for all you do.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, and right back at you. So thank you so much. And that's Darcy Shaining. I love it that people are stepping forward, Teresa, because that's a tough job.
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It is. It can be very thankless. So grateful for you, Darcy.
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And I am really excited about our next guest. Jeffrey Tucker is the founder of the Brownstone Institute, and he's the president there as well. He's an author, senior economics columnist for the Epoch Times, author of 10 books, including Life After Lockdown and articles. And he's really one of the most respected thinkers, I think, in our country today. Jeffrey Tucker, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 19 :
Thank you for saying all the sweet things about me. Thank you.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, they're all true. That's what's so great about it. But, Jeffrey, I saw this piece in the Epoch Times, and I thought this is so powerful. And you titled it, Ten Days That Shook the World. And I think it's fascinating. So where should we start with this article?
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, you know, the title comes, of course, from John Reed's classic book chronicling his time, and I believe it was St. Petersburg, at the end of the October Revolution in Russia, where the Bolsheviks overthrew the Kerensky government. And he was a communist and an American. But a very good journalist and a deluded fanatic, but a genius. And he wrote this book called Ten Days That Shook the World. And that was a time when we didn't have a whole lot of access to information sources, really. So his book came out at a rock. The world has become a bestseller in the United States and framed up. how Americans saw the Bolshevik Revolution and Lenin's role. And that interpretation survived for the better part of 20 years afterwards. That's how influential it was. It's a wonderful book. Everybody should read it, actually. It's just a great piece of journalism. Again, I think it's the work of a deluded fanatic, but it's a powerful manuscript. Well, you know, fast forward 100 and whatever, 10 years later, and I think we had our own 10 days that shook the world with the arrival of the Trump administration. That's what the article is trying to explain. We have a very strange set of historical circumstances that are presented to us in the form of a president who is returning for a non-consecutive second term. having had four years to think about everything that went right and wrong in the first term. And he had gathered around him some very, very smart people, very good strategists. And they schemed out a way to arrive in Washington while avoiding all the problems that befell him the last time. So, you know, among these things that they privately financed a transition so that they could keep, you know, sort of deep state employees and so on from some internally subverting the new administration. They had a hard four year long, hard clamp down on any speaking to the media, any public discussion of their plans. They kept it all just in sloganeering and that sort of thing, but no specifics. And then even rejected FBI vetting of their appointees because they didn't trust the FBI to do this job in a way that would not lead to leaks. In other words, they were quite desperate to preserve the element of surprise. Well, they did it. It was a surprise. It was remarkable. Yeah. One of my favorite moments happened right away when the president took the oath of office. And we were all kind of, I'm speaking maybe for myself, but I think for many others, impatient to see what he was going to do right away. And, you know, he took vows, gave a speech, this and that, went to a reception, and then did a kind of performative signing of executive orders on stage. And we were delighted by that, and we liked the executive orders. The White House website was blown up, you know, the old one, and replaced by a new one. We, you know, were able to click and watch the executive orders as they came in. And he signed, like, you know, let's say five or ten or something like that. Went to another party. Did some more dancing, some more speaking. At some point, Sancho went over to the Oval Office and held a long press conference while he was signing more executive orders, explaining things. And then went to another party and another party and another party. So he was out until like 2 a.m. And we were watching this, you know, thinking, where does this guy get his energy? Why is he doing it this way? What is taking place besides these performative signings, these press conferences, these speeches, these dances? You know, at some point he's using a sword to cut a cake, and then, you know, it was all just wild. Well, what we didn't know is that within minutes, after he took the Oval Office, he had sent a team, you know, then labeled the Department of Government Efficiency, operating under Elon Musk, directly to the U.S. Treasury Department to get into the payment systems. And they – I don't want to use the term broken. I mean, they legally entered, right, because they're now – you know, the transition has occurred. But they were the first people outside career civil service people to enter that room in – 80 years, if you can believe it. Yeah, since 1945, as far as anybody knows. And I'm saying that based on an article that was written by five former secretaries of the Treasury who said that no elected leader or appointee has ever had access to the payment system since 1945. You know, crazy, right? So in other words, they took on what is arguably the biggest, most important task. They took it on immediately. And then at the same time, another team was entering the Office of Personnel Management with mattresses in tow. and went up to the fifth floor, which is the executive offices of the Office of Personnel Management, threw all the matches on the floor and planned to stay there for days on end, working 24-7, and got access to the email systems, which, again, no appointed officer by the duly elected president has ever had access to those things before. And that's when they started sending out emails to the entire federal staff. basically inviting everybody to resign. That happened almost immediately. So all this stuff unfolded. And then we got one executive order after another taking on DEI, forbidding any kind of administrative state oversight on free speech and so on and so on. I mean, it was quite astonishing to watch. And of course, since then, we've seen plenty of other actions. But my article kind of, what I did was in the spirit of John Reed. Jack Reed, I tried to chronicle the first 10 days as the days that shook the world. And indeed, they did shake the world. I think what's unfolding right now is challenging at least 100 years of maybe 140 years of precedent in Western industrialized democracies.
SPEAKER 06 :
We are in such a historical time. Jeffrey, in some of the speeches that I give and many times on the air, I say I think that we are in the third founding of America. I think we're in this historical battle of ideas, the work that you're doing at the Brownstone Institute and all these amazing articles that you have at the Epoch Times. We're in this epic battle of ideas. And I think... I think we're going to reclaim the American idea.
SPEAKER 19 :
When you say the third founding, what to your mind is the second founding?
SPEAKER 06 :
The Civil War. The question on whether or not one man could be property of another. So obviously the Revolutionary War was our first founding, the Civil War, and then where we are now.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I think that's an interesting way to look at it. as I think back on the sweep of all this stuff there was a terrible thing that happened about 20 years after the end of the Civil War which was the creation of a very small nascent civil service and the idea of that was to create a kind of a a realm within government that was protected from the wiles of politics, so the president wouldn't really have control over the civil service. And people thought, well, that seems reasonable. Why shouldn't we have professional experts running things? It makes sense. But that ballooned over the course of all these years, and it got worse in 1913. with the 17th Amendment, the creation of the Federal Reserve, the income tax, all these things. And a President Wilson who believed very strongly in a kind of administrative state dictatorship. I mean, he did not like democracy. He thought it was dumb. So he wanted a government by expert administrators. And It's just gotten worse. Then we had the Depression. Then we had another war. Then we had this war. Then we had more wars and more economic crisis. And then at some point, we've all come to this weird conclusion. We've all had this sense that our votes don't really matter because the politicians and their appointees are always outgunned by the bureaucracy. So we've noticed that we keep voting for this thing or that thing, and then it just goes away. Where's the hope in the change? Where's the reinventing government? Where's this? Where's that? It all just seems like slogans. And it got so bad in the last president we had before Trump. You know, I think we all know this now. He wasn't actually a functioning president. He just was a kind of a figurehead, you know, and they just kind of would prop him up and say, oh, here's a guy, here's what he's going to say, and we're supposed to believe it. Well, I think that, in a sense, that was too much. You know, we had fake presidents, you know, in the form of Soviet premiers. You know, we know what those look like. And that's not what America is supposed to be. So what Trump – the burden that Trump took on in the 2024 election was to make people believe again that the elected government could do something real and important. And this is what he had to overcome. It wasn't just simply a matter of inspiring people with his personal example or – You know, rallying people with his jokes and his charm, that kind of stuff. He had to convince the voters that this time something big was going to happen for once. And enough people decided to say, OK, you know, I mean, we've been we've been, you know, Charlie Brown was a football, you know, for for a lot of generations. And we finally decided, okay, we're going to kick this thing again. But because he's had a whole one-term experience and then four years to think about that experience, he was in a unique position to actually make good on his promises. But the only way you can do that is by taking on the civil service, the bureaucracy, and doing things that are kind of without precedent, you know? Yeah, I mean, nothing like this has ever been done in the American political context and in living memory of anyone. So he's taking his job as president seriously.
SPEAKER 06 :
It is truly remarkable, and we're talking with Jeffrey Tucker. He's the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute. He writes extensively, speaks extensively, but you can find a lot of his articles at the Epoch Times. We're going to take a quick break, and we'll be right back with Jeffrey Tucker.
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Close it up.
SPEAKER 06 :
Close it up. So we're talking with Jeffrey Tucker, and as Teresa whispered to me during break, she said, he is so smart. I said, I know. And he is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute. We're talking about this article in the Epoch Times, 10 Days That Changed the World. Jeffrey, you mentioned... Biden, or I call it the Biden-Harris administration. And you said we realize as we're watching this that he wasn't really the president. There was a they. But I don't know if we've ever figured out who they is or are. Do you have any thoughts on that?
SPEAKER 19 :
You know, I'm so interested in this question. So many of the people who have actually been running this country for a very long time are people that don't have any kind of public profile. They are not – and this is all deliberate. They graduate from Ivy League colleges, win their way into the right circles. They go under deep cover. And they work to make sure they never have a Wikipedia entry. They don't have social media presence. They don't publish anything under their names. They're like rats hiding out in your basement or bats in your attic. They only come out at night. And I tell you, here's some proof of that. I'm really intrigued by this position in the U.S. Treasury called the fiscal assistant secretary. The fiscal assistant secretary is the guy who has pretty much full access to all payment systems flowing out of the U.S. Treasury. So let's say since 1939, which is when this office was created, there's been more than $200 trillion flow out of that office. And it's always been lorded over by one guy that came from within the treasury system, and he's surrounded by two or three people who are also from the treasury system. The most recent guy had been there 35 years and just walked into that position of immense power. And nobody had ever heard his name. And I never heard the name. And fortunately with Grok, now you can look up anything. And I said, okay, who – who are the fiscal assistant secretaries since 1939? And they, and, and it generated a list of 15 names, not one of whom you've ever heard a word. You've never heard of these people. And these are arguably, you know, this is arguably the most powerful position in the, The U.S. government. And you know this because if you ever work in a business, the person who signs the checks is the person who's in charge, right? So the U.S. secretary signs the checks, but he has traditionally never had access to the payment portals themselves. That's always been the physical assistant secretary. Well, what Trump did is he moved in there and fired the guy. The guy resisted, you know, giving access to legitimate government, Trump's politically appointed officers. And so he resigned, you know, under the threat of being fired. So for the very first time since 1939, we have a complete outsider in the position of the assistant secretary. fiscal secretary of the Treasury, and he's a guy that comes out of business, who's, you know, long experience with various industries and that sort of thing, really knows his stuff. So for the very first time, we have somebody in there who comes from outside the agency. So this is a dramatic change. The biggest change, again, in all living memory in government is
SPEAKER 06 :
This is I had no idea about this. And I think, Jeffrey, as you mentioned, I didn't realize that I'm wondering how were they so organized to get this done? And you said that he had been privately financing the transition team. It's taken the radical activists, extremists, a little bit of time to get organized. It's taken about four weeks. We now see them out there in the streets protesting Doge. And it's like, so you're protesting that you do want fraud, waste, and abuse? It's not making sense, right?
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah. Just one point about the private financing of the transition. That began... Only in October when they began to realize they were going to win the election. And so they began to already finance the transition. But for the previous four years, they had mapped out all these strategies. They gamed it out. Either the first 10 days, the first month, the first hundred days, they gamed it out. in great detail over four years in private, under the cone of silence and so on, so that nobody knew exactly what they were doing. One of the things that happened during the campaign, as you recall, Trump's opponents started seizing on what was called Project 2025 as sort of a Heritage Foundation thing.
SPEAKER 17 :
Right.
SPEAKER 19 :
And Heritage Foundation had put out this big book, and it's a good book, by the way, but it's a big book. It's like, here's what should happen under the new administration. And the Trump team immediately distanced itself from it, said, we don't have anything to do with Project 2025. It's not our program. That is just some nonsense. And what they did Well, I don't think I said this publicly, but privately what they explained was that you never under any circumstances want to reveal your wartime strategies to the enemy. You know, when you're conducting a war, and this is a kind of a war against theocracy in a way, you don't want to give the enemy your battle plans, you know. And they, from the Trump team's point of view, their view was always that, you know, the Project 2025 is a big public document. Of course, they're trying to raise money from their donors and that sort of thing. So, of course, they had to be public. But that's not what the Trump team wanted to do. They knew for sure that if they're going to have an effect, they had to go into this. maintaining the element of surprise just like you would in a kind of battle, you know.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, yeah. Jeffrey, we are about out of time. This has been fascinating. We've got about 30 seconds. What is the final thought you'd like to leave with our listeners?
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, I think we need to be better at putting today's events in the larger historical framework. What is really at issue right now is whether and to what extent the duly elected president is allowed to be president. I mean, you wouldn't think that would be a question, but that is the driving question of our age. So everything that's happening right now needs to be understood in that context.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay. Jeffrey Tucker, founder, president of the Brownstone Institute. You can find him at the Epoch Times. Thank you.
SPEAKER 19 :
All right. Thank you. Bye-bye.
SPEAKER 06 :
Teresa, awesome.
SPEAKER 03 :
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And we were made for this time, such a time as this. But Colorado, my friends, is at the tip of the spear. And it's a crazy bill down at the Statehouse. And almost 500 bills or resolutions have been introduced. We were at 497 this morning. And that is why the Colorado Union of Taxpayers, it's overwhelming. And we are an all-volunteer group. We're watching legislation. And it's by design that everything's overwhelming down there. So that's why our work is so important. And Sue Moore and her group over at Liberty Scorecard are doing a great job on that as well. But this is a very dangerous one. This piece of legislation is House Bill 12, excuse me, 1225, Freedom from Intimidation in Elections Act. One sponsor on this, this is Stephen Woodrow, Democrat. And this bill says that in the quick summary, and this is why this is danger, danger. It says the bill creates the Freedom from Intimidation in Elections Act, which prohibits any individual from intimidating, threatening or coercing or attempting to intimidate, threaten or coerce. Those are all subjective, Teresa.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 06 :
Problem, danger, danger. But the four bullet points they have, the first is on this intimidating, threatening, or coercing of anyone voting or attempting to vote. Number two, urging or aiding any individual to vote or attempt to vote. Number three, this is the one that's really getting me, is exercising any powers or duties to administer elections, including vote counting, canvassing, and election certification.
SPEAKER 03 :
I don't like the way that feels.
SPEAKER 06 :
No. And they say that we are the gold standard in elections in Colorado. It is an illusion. It is not true. And this would try to prevent people from looking under the hood to see what's going on. And when I say they're playing long ball, The radical activists are playing long ball, particularly with this bill right now, Teresa.
SPEAKER 03 :
Right. The title of that bill and then what that number three says, it's giving you the facade that they are protecting. It's giving you the facade that they're protecting your freedoms. But really, if you're looking at three, that's exactly opposite of what they're doing.
SPEAKER 06 :
They want to prevent us from taking a look to see if something funny is going on. That's right. With elections. And that's no freedom. Yeah, so maybe that's what we should call it is the election law to prevent everyday people from seeing possible funny stuff that's going on. So that's probably the new name of it. I wanted to mention the Center for American Values located in Pueblo. They are nonpartisan and they're nonpolitical. But they are focused on several things, honoring our Medal of Honor recipients, as well as holding up these values of honor, integrity, and patriotism. They've done some great educational programs. And Teresa, I think we're going to have to do a road trip in March on this.
SPEAKER 03 :
Absolutely. I love the Center for American Values. I had the privilege of going down there with my youngest, who was honored with the Cherry Creek School District for his patriotism. And just if you've never had an opportunity to go down and actually visit the center, it is so impressive. It's so emotional. There's actually pictures surrounding all of the walls with quotes from our Medal of Honor recipients. It's really, it's an amazing center.
SPEAKER 06 :
So I'm honored to support them on the show.
SPEAKER 03 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 06 :
And more information, you can go to AmericanValueCenter.org. That's AmericanValueCenter.org. They're nonpolitical, nonpartisan, focusing on these foundational principles of honor, integrity, and patriotism. And we get to do this because I really get to work with amazing people, Teresa. You do indeed. And I'm talking with Roger Mangan with the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance team. And granted, it's January, Roger, but hail season is right around the corner. And Colorado is one of the hail capitals of the world.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, you know, it is. And I think I've said this on the show before, but there's probably one other place in the world that has more hail than Colorado. Texas and Colorado. That would be the Himalayas, where very few people live, and no one really has property damage claims around the Himalaya Mountains. So, yeah, it's an issue. Along with hurricanes and wildfires, hail in Colorado is probably the biggest loss that we have to absorb. So insurance companies have solutions to... substantiate their ability to pay claims. Of course, price increases you've seen over the last four years, they've gone through the roof. The average premium on a homeowner's policy now runs about $2,500 a year. Five years ago, it was about $1,500 a year. So it has taken substantial hits as a result of hail. So other than increasing prices, insurance companies, particularly State Farm, has identified roofing materials that are hail-resistant impact for homes. IRR, impact-resistant roofs, IRR. So if you have had a hail loss and you've had a new roof put up, and the insurance company that you're with may not have a discount, or if they have a discount, it may not be substantial. So if you took, let's say, an average premium of $2,000 a year... with State Farm, and we gave you a 30% discount, which we do, so that's $600 that you're saving every year for the life of that policy with State Farm. That is a tremendous feather in your cap and a savings, of course, for you. So what I would suggest you do, if you have a neighbor and they had a rough put on and you talk to them and they say, yeah, I got a great discount and I'm with State Farm. And you're with maybe, I'm not sure, AAA, Allstate, Costco, whoever you might be insured with. you would want to maybe give us a call, and we would be able to give you a quote. And if you have an impact-resistant roof that was put on and you're not getting the full discount, I would suggest you protect your pocketbook and make a call and see if we can help you. 303-795-8855.
SPEAKER 06 :
So you're saying, would you have to have this impact-resistant roof? Is that what you get the discount on? Yes. Okay. And so if you have that, then give you a call at 303-795-8855. It doesn't cost anything.
SPEAKER 02 :
Nope, not at all. If you could tell us the material that was put on, and you would know what that was because you paid a bill to a roofer. You give us the name of that material, we'll check it against the list we have of pre-approved roofing materials. And if we say yes, it is eligible for the discount. At your renewal time, you get your bill from your current company. Call us, let's compare and see if we can help you.
SPEAKER 06 :
So you could save, potentially save big money. Yeah, that's big money. Yeah. That's big money. Okay, well, and all you have to do is make a phone call. So that number is 303-795-8855. Like a good neighbor, the Roger Mangan team is there.
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SPEAKER 06 :
And welcome back to the Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at Kim Munson dot com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And did want to mention the USMC Memorial Foundation. Paula Sarles, who is the president, she's also a Gold Star wife and a Marine veteran, is for her 76th birthday, she's going to walk a lot of steps at Red Rock. So a great way to support the foundation is to pledge a certain amount towards each of those steps. And you can get more information about that by going to usmcmemorialfoundation.org. I'm on a road trip up in Steamboat Springs. Yesterday gave the keynote to the Routt County Republicans at their Lincoln Day brunch. And it was really a treat. With me is Teresa Irby. She is our new partnership liaison. And I want to give a... A shout-out to the food. Johnny B. Good provided the food. And normally, Teresa, at these things, no offense to rubber chicken, but a lot of these things in the metro area are rubber chicken kind of dinners. It was amazing.
SPEAKER 03 :
It was so good. I didn't really need dinner after that luncheon.
SPEAKER 06 :
So anyway, congratulations to Heather DeVos and her whole team for the great work that they've done there. On the line with me is my friend and also a great sponsor of the show, and that is Susan Harris. She supports us. She supports a lot of different organizations, very supportive of Prager University, which Dennis Prager is doing great work over there. But I am honored that she is my friend and our sponsor. Susan Harris, welcome to the show. Hi, how are you? I am well. And how are you? We haven't really gotten to talk much since Trump 2. We've texted back and forth. But Susan, it's remarkable. So much has happened. I wanted to get your read on this because you watch things, very faithful on all this. So where are you at? What do you think about Trump 2?
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, overall, in the grand scheme of things, I'm very happy with how things are going. It's going actually better than I expected it would, I think. And I listened to the guest that was on at the end of your last hour, and it really helped clarify some things. So that was really good information. But I think, you know, they just came in and hit the ground running. And that's exactly what needed to happen. And, you know, the other side is just now starting to, you know, catch their breath, so to speak, and start to push back, which we know that they're going to. But I think because of the aggressive start of the administration's policies and all the executive orders that have been issued, you know, they're going to be on their heels for quite some time. And because of that, the Trump administration is going to be able to really, really get some things done. Not everything, but a lot of things. And, you know, just the general posture of the administration this time and the general feeling that these are things that we are not going to back off of no matter what. That has been made clear and that the bureaucrats are no longer in the driver's seat. And it's so refreshing and encouraging.
SPEAKER 06 :
Susan Harris, I always wondered how we could make any progress regarding, it's been termed the fourth branch of government, the administrative state. I remember when I was on city council, we were at a meeting where there were a number of bureaucrats, and one of them said to all of the electeds there, he said, I'll be here long after you're gone. And I thought, huh, that's pretty fascinating. But Trump has turned the tables on this, hasn't he?
SPEAKER 08 :
He really has, and I'm hoping that they're going to be able to have a long-term effect. In the short term, he really has. And so the hope is that this can be a long-term, you know, transformation really of putting the government back in the hands of the people as much as possible because, and I say as much as possible because it has just been captured way down to the lowest possible level employee. And the great news is the curtain has been pulled back, and now everyone can see that this is a bureaucracy. It's not a democracy, and that's not okay. And I think for a lot of people, they just had no idea. how much of government was being run by bureaucrats and, and not fulfilling the will of the people ever and had no intention of doing it. So it's been very encouraging. You know, I just have looked down the list of all the things that have been accomplished. And I really don't think there's a single department that hasn't been impacted by the administration. Um, and really across the country, You know, we had the California fires and the North Carolina floods. Even those people, especially in North Carolina, you know, they're actually seeing help now. It's just been really transformational and encouraging.
SPEAKER 06 :
So, Susan, speaking of North Carolina, the whole thing, the fact that Trump and company went into USAID initially, it was well planned. And most people, there may be a small portion that say, hey, it's okay if we're funding gender studies and whatever third world country, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But I would say the big, broad part of America is saying, wait a minute. And then they're looking at North Carolina. I'm going to have a guest on later on in the week that's doing work in western Northern Carolina. And they're saying, wait a minute, we're not helping our people. And so the veil has come off. And I think I think that they can't recover, recover that veil. I think that I think that this truth and I think it was attributed to George Washington. He said the truth will come to light as long as pains are taken to to bring it to light. And I think that's what's happening. Susan Harris.
SPEAKER 08 :
I agree. I agree. It's just so encouraging and such a breath of fresh air. And, you know, I'm very hopeful. I don't agree. And agree is not the right word. I guess I struggle a little bit keeping up probably with everything that's happening. And so it's hard to feel 100% positive about how things are being handled today. But I think because they're having to go so fast, they're going to make a few mistakes and probably have to backtrack a little bit on some things. But, you know, just pushing all the DEI programs out of the government completely, all the way down through the states. And that's going to be a war, you know, a continued war because lawsuits are coming, I'm sure. But pushing all of that out of... you know, the indoctrination process for all of our children. That is a huge undertaking. The peace process around the world, another huge undertaking. The border, a huge undertaking. The Department of Justice cleaning house, you know, getting rid of the weaponization of the Department of Justice, another huge undertaking. So they have really taken on the entire And I am so impressed by that. They did not hold back.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, not at all. And then let's talk a little bit, Susan and Teresa, about these appointees. And this is from Sandra. She said, great news. Kash Patel, FBI director, has appointed Dan Bongino, FBI deputy assistant director. She says more prayers are being answered and that Dan Bongino served as a secret service agent during the Obama administration. This is very possibly going to get real interesting, Susan Harris.
SPEAKER 05 :
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 08 :
I agree. And I'm just so impressed that Trump's appointees have been confirmed. And if you really think about that, that is a miracle. I mean, it really is that we finally got the Republicans, not all of them, unfortunately, but, you know, politically, some of them are in a corner and they don't know what to do and they're just humans. But The fact that they were able to get the confirmation through is, in my opinion, a real miracle. And this team is just unstoppable.
SPEAKER 03 :
I agree.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah. So, Teresa, your thoughts weighing in on these appointees? It's pretty remarkable, huh?
SPEAKER 03 :
I think I'm just going to have to mimic what Susan's saying. I mean, it really is a miracle and an answer to prayers that these are actually being confirmed.
SPEAKER 1 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, and I was talking with my friend Susan this weekend, and she's really – my other friend Susan. How's that, Susan? Yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
Susan and Susan. Women of a certain age were named Susan. Right.
SPEAKER 06 :
And, well, I think there were four Kims in my second-grade class, so I get it. But – So it is a miracle. But I think also that there are those that know where the bodies are buried. Because I'm pretty surprised when you're seeing Cash Patel confirmed, Tulsi Gabbard, RFK Jr., all of this. I'm shocked that they're all getting confirmed. I know. But I guess we don't even have to really think about that. The fact that they're in there and they're focusing on the future. They're focusing on what needs to be done for the American people, which gives us great hope. Yesterday at the luncheon, there was a whole table of young men. lacrosse players. And I decided to speak directly to them because, Susan, you and I both believe this at our founding, that our founders put their lives on the line because they wanted to pass on something really good to the next generation, which was liberty. And so I spoke directly to the table and they were Teresa, it was amazing.
SPEAKER 03 :
They were fantastic. We're talking about high school, sophomore, junior boys that came and represented at this luncheon. It was really impressive. And they were so engaged and so excited to be there. And they care about what's coming next and the liberty that we're passing on and our freedoms.
SPEAKER 06 :
And I think, Susan, they felt such hope. That's a good word. I'm so excited about that, Susan.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, I think for the first time in a long time, most people are feeling that way. You know, the other thing that got done is we had political prisoners. And the first time in my lifetime, anyway, that I can recall, I mean, maybe there were some, and I just wasn't tuned into it. But, you know, the January 6th defendants, and even just some pro-life defendants were in prison.
SPEAKER 03 :
It's crazy.
SPEAKER 08 :
And most of these people were nonviolent, especially, I mean, some of the pro-life defendants were the opposite of violence, very peaceful protesters. So that is so encouraging. And I feel like when those people were freed, it was just like, It's a relief. Oh, my goodness. I can actually go out and protest and not go to jail. Without fear. Right, right. Even just speaking freely has been difficult. And that is... such a huge relief to be able to think i can go into my grocery store and say something to a person and not have to be guarded all the time about everything absolutely um it's it's such a uh a freeing feeling and i don't know how it is in colorado but here in arizona it is So great. Everyone is so happy here. They're just over the moon that this has happened.
SPEAKER 06 :
Susan, I'm going to keep this as a cliffhanger. We have the Colorado State Legislature, and I feel this pressure every day here. It's a socialist agenda down at this legislature. But every time I go to a different state, I cross the border. Drive up to Wyoming when I was down in Arizona a few years ago. I feel freedom. But we're not feeling that here. And you lived in Colorado for a lot of years. I did. I know you're jazzed to be in freedom Arizona, right?
SPEAKER 08 :
Yes. Well, you know, but I still have some... a stake in Colorado. My husband and I, we own a business that's in Colorado in Denver and my son is living there and working there. So, you know, I'm, I still feel very strongly that I, we can't give up on Colorado.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, we're not giving up.
SPEAKER 06 :
We are not giving up. And that's why speaking truth about these issues every day is important. And that's why Susan, I so appreciate our friendship and your sponsorship of the show.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, I'm honored, quite frankly, to be able to participate and to sponsor you, Kim. I think it's really important. And your voice is so important. And the airtime that you give so many other voices is very important. And we can't thank you enough for that.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, right back at you. So we're going to continue the discussion with Susan Harris in studio on location in the hotel room at the Quality Inn in Steamboat Springs. That's our location is Teresa Irby. We will be right back.
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SPEAKER 06 :
Welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter and you can email me at Kim at Kim Munson dot com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues. Through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom, if something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And do check out the Center for American Values located in Pueblo, Colorado, on the Riverwalk. They are doing great events. They'll be having an online event. or excuse me, on values presentation in March. And Walt Larimore has written an amazing book about his father, who was a, fought in World War II. He was an equestrian, and he ended up saving, what is it, the Lippicet horses?
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, Lippizan or Stallion.
SPEAKER 06 :
Lipizzan or Stallions. Susan, this is a really interesting story. Susan Harris is on the line. And Colonel Bill Rutledge, 96 years young, who's always saying, Kim, you might want to consider doing this. You might want to consider a story on this. He said that he'd read this book, and it was one of the best books that he had ever read regarding World War II. And Walt's father was tasked... I can't quite remember... That's exactly the story. But the Nazis not only were trying to create the premier perfect human race, they were also trying to do that with horses. So they had all these different horses. And then as the war was getting near the end and they were hungry, they were killing the horses and eating them. And so these beautiful horses, I think it was a Nazi that reached out and said, you need to rescue these horses. And so Walt's father was tasked with going in behind enemy lines and rescuing these horses. And it's a fascinating story. So he's going to be presenting down in Pueblo in March. I think it's going to be amazing, Susan. I know I kind of got off track on all this, but the work they're doing down at the center is really terrific. So I'm pleased to support them.
SPEAKER 08 :
I think that's so interesting. And I think, you know, these stories are important because they're engaging. People actually listen to them. And I just think they're so important to remind us how fragile our freedom is and what the kinds of sacrifices that are needed to make sure that we maintain our liberty and And so I think these stories are very important, and I'm so glad that this one's being told. It sounds very interesting.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, it really, really is. So Susan Harris, you live in Arizona. So tell us about Arizona, first of all. You said people are happy, they're excited. Yes. Just tell us what it's like in Arizona.
SPEAKER 08 :
Arizona has – we have our struggles. We have a Democrat governor and – So the state is definitely in the throes of a leftist bureaucracy for sure right now. But our state legislature is controlled by the Republicans. And we were able to strengthen that majority in the last election. So We're feeling very confident that we can continue to fight back against the policies of Katie Hobbs, although she vetoes pretty much anything that we try to get done. But we also can keep her from achieving her agenda. But we have some very strong candidates for the next governor election, and we're very optimistic that we can take back the governorship in the next election. And the other thing that is very encouraging is I'm a member of an organization called AZ Free Enterprise Club. And they lobby down at the state legislature and try to educate all the legislatures about all of, well, not all, but many of the bills that are coming up that they're worried would restrict our freedoms. And it's similar things that go on in Colorado, restricting your ability to move throughout the state as you please, restricting your ability to develop property, restricting your ability to have school choice, which we have school choice here in Arizona, and it's very effective. And the Democrats want to take that away. So we have environmental green policies. They constantly are trying to push those through, which are destructive to the economy and to individuals because it increases utility bills. So we have that same fight going on here, but we're fortunate in that we do have a majority at the state legislature level. So we're able to fight back against that. And because the administration, uh, the Trump administration is in charge now, it really opens the door. So we're getting leadership from the top down on a federal level. And then we, because we control the state legislature can also from the bottom up, you know, support all of that, um, all that they're trying to do and, and really work in a partnership with the Trump administration. to continue to keep Arizona red. So that's very encouraging.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, yes, it is. Colorado, Susan, I think is at the tip of the spear of all of the stuff that's going on. You mentioned energy prices. This was a headline that I had wanted to get to and I hadn't. We were looking through headlines this morning. This is from Complete Colorado. It says Xcel Energy will charge millions of Coloradans more to use electricity during evening hours after state utility regulators modified part of the company's proposal this week. So we're up here in Route County, and in the next county, within the next few years, the regulators in Colorado, which – And Trump, or excuse me, Polis, really, they are pushing his agenda. He's trying to think about running for president, so he's trying to portray himself as libertarian. All of these policies are his policies. And so in the county over, they are going, they're on task to close one of the coal fire plants. I think it's called Craig 2, I think it is. And then also they... And yesterday, folks were saying that the coal-fired plant in Hayden, well, they don't have a plan for behind that. And these economies, 146 people that are employed in Craig at that plant, And those are good jobs. Those jobs are going to go away. And one of the headlines from Colorado Public Radio, which they get government money to be on the air, said that, oh, they're looking at, from an economic standpoint, that they're going to try to increase their tourism and their kayaking on the river. And... Those are not, first of all, they're not replacing those great paying jobs, and they're not replacing a business that is providing reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant energy to many rural communities in Colorado and the surrounding states, Susan. It's unbelievable.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, this always backfires. I wish people would study Germany's energy situation and learn some lessons from it because They destroyed their whole economy by trying to go green without having an infrastructure, and they're in trouble. But we don't seem to learn. We just push forward on the green policies because, really, the green policies are just a cover for – totalitarianism. It really is. Those people do not care about the environment. They do not care about energy efficiency. What they care about is control. And it's very frustrating.
SPEAKER 06 :
With our documentary, which is the project of Walt Johnson, and people can watch it for free at climateconversation.com. And it was just on Newsmax this last weekend, Susan. But what I've learned, and you've nailed it, it's about totalitarianism. And the green in the Green New Deal is the green that is going into people's pockets. So the final thing I'll throw out there is I'm sure you saw that headline that said, The EPA, as the Biden-Harris administration was going out the door, they squirreled away $20 billion over at private banks. And then they were going to dole that money out. $2 billion went to Stacey Abrams for green stuff. And, again, the green was the green that was going into her bank account, Susan.
SPEAKER 08 :
That is exactly. Oh, I'm so glad you brought that up. That's exactly what green means. And I'm sorry that I didn't. make that clear. Not only is the Green New Deal all about money, so is our entire, I mean, that is why being run by the bureaucracy, this bureaucracy has literally been set up to launder our money right back to the criminals that somehow have gotten control of the system. And I am so excited that President Trump is there He has ripped off the veil, and everyone can now see USAID is just the tip of the iceberg, that our money is literally being stolen. And he's going to put a stop to it. Hopefully it's not a temporary stop. Hopefully it's a permanent stop. And we just have to continue to pray that these people are kept safe, because the criminals that have been stealing our money are not going to go down without a fight.
SPEAKER 06 :
Absolutely. Absolutely. And that's why we have to understand what's going on and engage in this battle of ideas. And I thank you, Susan Harris, for being my partner in doing that. You have a wonderful day, and God bless you and your family.
SPEAKER 08 :
You too. Thanks so much, Kim. Have a great day, ladies.
SPEAKER 03 :
Take care, Kim.
SPEAKER 06 :
And just it's live radio. And Teresa, I do. I get it. So we're going to go to break. We'll be right back.
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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMunson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice on an independent station searching for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. I'm on a road trip with our partnership liaison, Teresa Irby. We are in Steamboat Springs, a bluebird beautiful day yesterday. Gorgeous. And a great event. Congratulations to Heather and her team with the Routt County Republicans for a great event. And we got to see an icon going to work, and that is Cookie Lockhart and her daughter, Jo. And they ran the auction. And I met Cookie a few years ago at the National Western, and she is truly an icon. And you were so excited about this.
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I was so excited to meet Cookie Lockhart. I've heard her name for years through friends and in person. She is absolutely even more fantastic than I dreamed. Cookie, are you on with us? I am. I'm hearing all these good things about myself. Oh, good morning. You were fantastic. And getting to spend some time with you, Joe, and Heather last night was just such a privilege and an honor. I just want to point out to everyone that Cookie Lockhart is actually a Hall of Fame auctioneer. I would love for you to tell us a little bit about how you got started in all of this, Cookie.
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My dad was an auctioneer and came from Fort Collins. The bank sent him in the 30s when they were repossessing equipment. And he was a teamster, meaning where the teamster union came from, where the name came from. Originally, that was men that could handle teams of horses. And, of course, that's how they fed in steamboat in the wintertime because, of course, it wasn't motorized vehicles. And there was a lot of little ranchers that had cattle. But unfortunately, we're losing those because it was just a tough place to make a living. And so Meg sent him a Tuesday moat from Fort Collins. And so he saw a need and he raised Belgium horses. And he was an auctioneer, of course. So he was the first ranch broker here. And then he moved the family here in the early 40s. And so I grew up in Steamboat, and my brother was an auctioneer and my mentor, my idol. And my brother got ill in his 30s and passed away when he was 40. So I had taken over the family business by then. So on and on I went. I went to auction school with 126 guys and me. That's fantastic.
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I have a feeling that maybe that meant that the ratio was fair. Because one cookie Lockhart and 146 guys, I think that's about even.
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Well, it wasn't easy, and of course it was, and it still is, mostly a man's world. However, you know, there's not nearly as many live auctions either. There's more, you know, so much of it has gone online now. But there are still, there always will be. Live auctioneers that people like to listen to.
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It's so much more fun to actually listen to you guys doing it live.
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Well, and your daughter works with you. And that was so fun to watch the two of you, how you work together.
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Oh, yeah. She's a lot of help. And she's been working with me, especially like fundraisers and then also estate settlements. I've I am not a regular realtor, whatever that means. There's about 400 realtors, I think, here in Steamboat. And my office is actually with United Country based out of Grand Junction. And we nationwide, United Country, they're not only the oldest farm ranch company, but they have 500 offices nationwide. And our office is number six in the nation right now. So I am leaving for Kansas City to go to the convention to celebrate.
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Nice. So you say you're not a regular realtor. So what makes you different, Cookie? What makes what you do different?
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Well, I think real estate settlement, for the most part, the number one thing is to get a listing. And then, of course, there's a lot of work to it, no doubt about that. But, you know, they put a sign on it, put it in the MLS, whatever. I take on a client, and many times it's in the state where a spouse has passed away and, you know, they don't know what to do. I spent three months settling in a state in Oklahoma where she had never, you know, she'd just cook for hired help and make quilts. She had no idea what they owed her. And so I got her appointed by the court. And I took her to three different banks, and we figured out what she owed and what she had. It was a huge estate. He had been an inventor of oil field equipment. And anyway, it took three months. And when all was said and done, it brought more than one and a half times what it was appraised for. And that was big equipment, you know, big trucks, big everything. So, I mean, when I take on a client, I usually am there to the end. So whatever time it takes, and I just focus on one or two at a time. And usually, though they don't take three months, that would happen to be extra huge. So that's kind of more me. I feel an obligation to go clear through with it, but it's the type of clients that I have for the most part. And farm ranch. I sell farms and ranches also. Okay.
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Well, Cookie, you said, hey, Teresa Kim, why don't you, let's meet down at the Primrose after the event yesterday, which we did. Lovely, lovely restaurant. But we realized, and you said the house that you grew up in was across the street. but you walk in with your sequin jacket and it is like royalty. We were hoping people were coming up to you, getting their picture taken, you know, sit here. Somebody came and said, we're buying her first drink. It was remarkable to see Cookie Lockhart. It was so fun.
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Well, thank you. It was fun. Yeah. And the place was packed. Boy, we're lucky we got to sit down. But yeah, I'm so glad we went there because it is my favorite place. I love the owner. And the place is just the best restaurant in town.
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Colin was absolutely amazing. Our whole education on aged beef. So I feel so much more educated on aged beef now.
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Well, and the other thing, speaking of that, though, the place was packed cooking. And we got there before you and Heather and Joe. And... They said, do you have a reservation? We said, no. They said, oh. And they're like, well, we'll see what we. And we said, but we're meeting. And Teresa said, but we're meeting Cookie Lockhart here. And they're like, we have a place right for you over here.
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So it's good to know the local celebrity for sure.
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So, hey, Cookie, one thing. We only have about a minute left, but you have this. And Joe, both wear these beautiful sequin jackets. You're proud of America. So just a minute. Give us some hope. Give us the Cookie Lockhart view of America.
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Well, I think it's back where it should have been, and it's been suffering for many years, the whole country. And thank God for Trump. And I can't believe anyone would be against what Musk and Trump are doing because we're going to get our country back now. Thank God. And I think that's our savior. Amen. So they are literally saving our country to be what it should be. Every man should have a job if they want to work. And my dad's tombstone, one of his favorite sayings was, there's always work for a worker. So, you know, there'll always be work, but I don't think people need to worry about anything if they have any ambition. And I think we, thank God, we will be able to, and our kids will have something to look forward to, to be the best they can be at whatever God-given talent they have.
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Cookie Lockhart, you are an icon. Thank you for coming and joining us this morning. This has just been awesome. That's Cookie Lockhart, Hall of Fame auctioneer. Thank you. Teresa, we have about 15 seconds left. Teresa Irby, it's so great that we're working together. You as our partnership liaison. This has been a blast.
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Thank you so much for letting me be a part of this today. It was incredible. Thanks to everyone. I have hope in my country. I believe in my president. I believe in all the things that he's putting forward, and I'm ready to put my feet on the ground and help however I can.
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Well, and so here is our quote for the end of the show from Louis D. Brandeis. He said, most of the things worth doing in the world have been declared impossible before they were done. So today, my friends, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you, and God bless America.
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And fast on a rough road riding High through the mountains climbing Twisting, turning further from my home Young like a new moon rising Fierce through the rain and lightning And I don't want no one to cry. But tell them if I don't.
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Join Rick Hughes in a thought-provoking discussion on the essence of God's love and how it extends beyond human emotion. This episode covers critical aspects of prayer, leveraging precise procedures to communicate with God, and the importance of impersonal love for others. Rick challenges listeners to assess their love for God through obedience to biblical mandates, aiming to inspire Christians to live a life aligned with divine purpose and understanding.
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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, stick it around. Stay with me. It's going to be 30 minutes of motivation, some inspiration, some education. And you know this. I always say it. Every show I say it. No manipulation. That's right. No gimmicks, no games, no solicitations, no asking for money, no trying to get you to join anything. This is not an infomercial. This is a show about understanding the plan of God for your life. My job is to verify and identify that plan. Your job is to orient and adjust to the plan if you choose to do so. But The Flatline is a show designed to teach you the importance of the Word of God in your life by establishing a main line of resistance in your soul. In your soul, you can build a forward line of troops, F-L-O-T, flat line, a forward line of troops. And this analogy, military metaphor we're using here, imagines 10 problem-solving devices on the main line of resistance, 10 unique problem-solving devices found in the Word of God. This is nothing new. This is no new discovery. This is not something that I'm trying to develop and sell. These are 10 problem-solving devices taught in the Word of God that have always been taught in the Word of God. If you learn them and if you use them, then you can stop the outside sources of adversity from becoming the inside sources of stress because adversity is always inevitable and stress is always optional. Notice these problem-solving devices are provided by God for the Christian. If you've never trusted Christ in your life, you can't use these. You can't access them because it starts with the filling of the Holy Spirit. And if you don't have Jesus Christ in your life, then you can't not have the filling of the Holy Spirit. So when we believe in Christ, here's the unique thing. When we receive Christ as our Savior, something happens we're not even aware of, and that is that we're baptized by the Holy Spirit or placed into union with the body of Christ. The Holy Spirit comes to live inside of us. and he is the one who activates our dead human spirit. Keep this in mind. When you're born, you're born with a body, and you're born with a soul, and you're born with a dead human spirit. If you're an unbeliever and all people are born spiritually dead, then your job is to believe in Jesus Christ and be born again. The Bible talks about being born again, but it's not a physical birth. It is a spiritual birth. And by that, we mean this. God, the Holy Spirit, at the point of your salvation, will come to indwell your human spirit, your dead human spirit, and you will be made alive in Christ. and that's your second birthday. Everyone should have two birthdays. The Bible says you're either gonna have two births or two deaths, one or the other. Birth one, you're born into this world. Birth two, you're born again. Death one, it's appointed unto man once to die, and after that, the judgment. Death to whoever's name is not found written in the Lamb's book of life was cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, Revelation chapter 20. So it's really up to you. God made the grace provisions. God provided everything in Christ Jesus, our Lord, a free gift of eternal life. That's the best news you could ever have, that the anointed son of God redeemed you and me out of the slave market of sin. He paid our debt to God. and we are now free from the penalty of death, and we're free from the power of sin. We're guaranteed a resurrection, and we're guaranteed by means of the Holy Spirit that we no longer have to live under the slavery of our sin nature. So that's a wonderful promise from God, and that's one of the unique provisions from the unfailing love of God for us. You know, we started a series last week talking about this, And I want to go back to this series and talk about the unfailing love of God for us as Christians. In Psalm 33, 13 through 18, I'm going to read it. We commented on some of it. We'll comment on the rest of it this morning. It says in verse 13, Psalm 33, From heaven the Lord looks down and sees all mankind. from his dwelling place he watches all who live on the earth he who forms the hearts of all who considers everything they do no king is saved by the size of his army and no warrior escapes by his great strength A horse is a vain hope for deliverance. Despite all of its great strength, it cannot save. But, and here's our verse, the eyes of the Lord are on those who respect him, those who fear him, and on those whose hope is in the unfailing love of God. What exactly is the unfailing love of God? What exactly does that mean? Well, let me give you some principles and break it down. First of all, before I begin to do this, I want to tell you about a book. There's a book that my pastor wrote many years ago called The Unfailing Love of God. And you can get this book free of charge. They will never charge you a dime for this book if you want it. But you will have to contact them and ask them to send it to you. You simply would contact Theme Ministries. That's T-H-I-E-M-E. Theme Ministries. T-H-I-E-M-E. Their mailing address is P.O. Box 460-829. 460-829. That's their P.O. Box, 460-829. And they're in the city of Houston, Texas. And their zip code would be 77056. So if you want this book on the unfailing love of God, and I highly recommend you get it, contact Theme, T-H-I-E-M-E, Ministries, P.O. Box 460-829, Houston, Texas, 77056. And they will send you the book free of charge. I vouch for that book. I verify it's a great book. And many of the things I'll tell you today I've learned from reading that book. And so I can never go wrong by recommending that. He was my pastor for many years, and he pastored his own church there in Houston for 53 years. 53 years in one pulpit. 53 years of changing the lives of people throughout the city of Houston. How many of you know a pastor that survived two years, three years, four years, 53 years? Thousands of hours of tapes recorded, all still available free of charge. Hundreds of books written, all still available free of charge. His ministry was predicated on grace. He never charged a dime for anything. And he was the best, solid, sound, systematic Bible teacher of those days that I ever found. So he taught me about the unfailing love of God. And these are some of the things I've learned about it. First of all, unfailing. What does that mean? Well, it means that his love can never be compromised. God's love can never be compromised. And number two, he will never tune you out when you go to him. His love is never compromised. He's never going to say, I don't love you anymore. You're a jerk. You did something stupid, so I don't love you anymore. That's not going to happen. Two, he will never tune you out. Three, he will never abandon you. Our God will never abandon you. If you're a member of his royal family, he will not abandon you. And four, he will always answer your call. You're not going to hear it verbally. It's not going to be a loud speaker coming up saying, attention, attention. That's not what I'm saying. But when you go to God and pray in the correct manner, in the correct manner, that's with no sin in your life. If you think you're going to get God to answer prayers when you have unconfessed sin in your life, you're wrong. Because the Bible says, if I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me. So the first thing you have to do to have a correct prayer is make sure you're maintained or filled with the Holy Spirit. And that's problem-solving device number one. On the flat line of your soul, that's rebound, confessing your known sin to God. Secondly, the correct procedure, following precisely correct procedure in prayer. That means this, that when you pray, you pray to God in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord. You do not pray to Jesus Christ. You do not pray to the Holy Spirit. You pray to the Father in the name of the Son, in the power of the Holy Spirit. So remember that. When you go to God using precisely correct procedure, he will answer your call. And five, there will never be a father-son spat like on television. There's a TV show that became quite popular a few years ago, and I understand it's back now. It's about some motorcycle builders, I think up around the state of New York, and It's a father and son, Paul and Paul, and they have a big running spat all the time. And sometimes they can't stand each other. Sometimes they want to fight each other. That's not that way with God. He's never going to get mad at you. He's never going to get angry and turn on you like this father and son does on television. So his love is unfailing, never compromised, never tunes you out, never abandons you. will always answer your call and there will never be a spat. You got it? So what is the love of God? What is it? The unfailing love of God. Back to Psalm 33, 18. But the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear him and on those whose hope is in his unfailing love. Well, 1 John 4, 8 tells us God is love. There, right off the bat, God is love. If you want to draw a picture of God, you're going to have to learn how to draw a picture of love because that is part of the essence of God. That's not all of it. God is sovereignty. God is righteousness. God is justice. God is love. God is eternal life. God is immutability. God is veracity. God is omnipotent, omniscience, and omnipresence. Those are 10 things that are part of the essence of God. Sovereignty, he's the king of kings and lord of lords. Righteousness, there are none that are righteous, no, not one. He's the only righteous one. And when we believe in Jesus Christ, the righteousness of Christ is given to us. And that's what 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 or by means of him. So he's sovereign, he's righteous, he's just. He doesn't make any mistakes. The Supreme Court of Heaven is open 24 hours a day. And no one gets away with anything. He's love, unfailing love, perfect love. He's eternal life. He's always existed. He always will exist. He's immutable. He never changes. He's veracity. He's absolute truth. He's omnipotent. He's all-powerful. He's omnipresent. He's everywhere at one time, imminent and transcendent. And he's omniscient. He knows everything. You want to teach your kids something? Teach them the essence of God like I just told you. If you need some information on that, let me know. We'll get it to you so you can teach it This is critical that people understand this. God is love. These components of God are wrapped in the shell of love, his love. And verse 9 of 1 John 4, 8 describes how that love works. 1 John 4, 9, In this... was manifested the love of God towards us, that God sent his only begotten Son into the world so that we might live eternally through him. That's the love of God being manifested, being demonstrated, being shown. God sent his Son, only begotten, uniquely born Son. into the world so that we might live eternally through him that's an amazing love you didn't earn it you didn't deserve it but by grace he gave it to you that's why the bible says for by grace you were saved through faith faith in what the finished work of christ on the cross and that not of yourselves not you can't produce it it's a gift from God and not of works lest any man should boast Ephesians chapter 2 verses 8 and 9 so this love of God 1st John 4 9 in this was manifested the love of God towards us that we love of God towards us that God sent his only begotten son into the world so that we might live eternally through him and Verse 10, 1 John 4, 10. Herein is love, or this is love. Not that we loved God, and we didn't, but that he loved us and sent his son to be the propitiation for our sins. John 3, 16. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son. so that whoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is the propitiation. He satisfies the justice of God. So when we come to God the Father by faith in Christ Jesus our Lord, God receives us because we have the righteousness of Christ by means of our salvation. So this is what love is, 1 John 4, 10. Not that we loved him first, but that he loved us and sent his son to be the propitiation for our sins. And then in verse 11 of 1 John 4, Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. And that's the mandate to use impersonal love, problem-solving device number seven in the front line of your soul, where you can love someone that's unlovable. And this is exactly what God did for you. John 3, 16, God so loved the world, but you were wrapped up in sin. How could he love you? How could a holy God love you? He loved you impersonally. He loved you with his character assets, not yours. And once you got saved, once you became a member of the family of God, now he loves you with a personal love, your royal family. So remember this. We have to use the same impersonal love as believers in Jesus Christ whenever we're confronted with people we don't like. if God loved us we ought also to love one another I assure you I guarantee you there are people in your church you don't like you don't want to sit next to them you don't want to be in a room with them you don't like them and that's a problem because you're mandated to love one another I mean come on did Christ die for them? yep did Christ die for you? yep Did he love them? Yep. Did he love you? Yep. So why can't you love them? I just don't like them. They just offend me. They're rude. They're this. They're that. That's not the problem. The problem is not them. The problem is you. You have to love them based on your righteousness, not theirs. Exactly what God did for you. Ephesians 2, 4 through 7. Because of his great love for us, That's the unfailing love of God. Who is rich in mercy, he made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our transgressions. Because it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus. in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. That's the love of God. But there's a difference between the love of God and love for God. That's the difference. We get to that in just a second. So there is his love manifested to you and to me. His riches to us. Let me read it again. In order that in the coming ages, Ephesians 2, 7, he might show the incomparable riches of his grace expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. His riches to us are the spiritual assets that we have as believers in the church age today. It's our unique spiritual life. We have this life. It's very unique. And the Bible calls it a treasure. Listen to this, 2 Corinthians 4, 7. But we have this treasure in our earthly vessels that the excellency of the power may be from God and not from us. Well, this may shock you, but the Greek word for treasure is an English word you probably know is pronounced thesaurus. Thesaurus. It's a word treasure. The love of God in your life as you learn Bible doctrine. As you learn God's word becomes a treasure, a great treasure to be honored, to be held, and to be used and spent by means of the faith rest drill. It's treasure. And his love was demonstrated by a sacrificial act of sending his son as our substitute. We learn that from the word of God. That's the treasure of the Bible. We learn about grace. We learn about forgiveness. We learn about justification, sanctification, propitiation. These are words you should understand what they mean. Sure, they're theological terms. You should understand them. They're not hard to understand. It's our treasure. He gave us a treasure called the Bible, the scriptures. And when you learn them, when you use them, then you can live the most unique life the world has ever seen called the Christian life. Why did he do this? Because he loved you and me. John 15, 13, greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. Christ died for you. Christ died for me. He loved you, he loved me, and he loves us today. That's what you got to remember. The unfailing love of God will never fade in eternity. That sacrificial death of Christ was a demonstration of the unfailing love of God. And your virtue love, my virtue love, is demonstrated in the same manner. We sacrifice ourself. We become a bond slave for Jesus Christ. We serve him voluntarily. And Ephesians 6, 6 says, not by way of eye service as being a man pleaser, but as slaves of Christ doing the will of God from our heart. Slaves of Christ doing the will of God from our heart. Jesus did the will of the Father. He said it. I'm here to do the will of the one that sent me. And it is our way of saying we love him when we obey him. Romans 1.1, Paul called himself a slave of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle separated into the gospel of God. His motivation, our motivation, is to serve him as free slaves because we love him. Doulos is the word for slave, D-O-U-L-O-S, a free slave, not a bond slave, a free slave. We serve him because we love him. That's our motivation. And in 1 John 5, 3, we read, for this is the love of God that we keep his mandates and his mandates are not hard. In 1 John 4, 19, we love him because he first loved us. That's reciprocal. So God demonstrated love for you to begin with by sending his son from eternity past to eternity future to be the sin bearer for the world. And we now love him reciprocally because he loved us. And since we love him, this is the love of God. You want to give yourself a little test today? Do I love God? That's a question you should ask yourself. Do I love God? Because I promise you, if I stood in your pulpit Sunday morning and asked that question, 99.9% of the people would raise their hand and say, yes, I love God. But listen to the verse. This is the love of God. This is demonstrating the love of God that we keep his mandates and his mandates are not grievous. Oh, you say you love God and you don't obey God? Well, I don't drink. I don't smoke. I don't dance. People say, dance? Listen, study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. Do you obey that one? Grow in the grace and the knowledge of your Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Do you obey that one? Do you? Oh, I know you're growing at about one mile an hour. That doesn't cut it. Listen, if you think going to church for an hour a week is growing in grace and knowledge of your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, you haven't understood it. You're not gonna grow going to church an hour a week. The only way you're going to grow is to sit under a well-qualified pastor that will teach you God's Word, and I would say a minimum of an hour a day. I know, I don't have time to do that. Oh, I know. I have the same battle that you do. I try to find my time to sit under my pastor and listen to him teach me the word of God an hour every day. Sometimes I'm able, sometimes I'm not, but I don't put it down and I don't walk away from it like you did. You did. You walked away, didn't you? You said, I don't have time to do that. I'm too busy. And you got sucker punched because you turned your back on the very one who loved you to start with. The very one who sent his son to die for you to start with because you didn't have time. You can't love someone you don't know. And you don't know God unless you know the scriptures. I gave you the essence of God earlier and I went through the whole rundown on the essence of God today. Did you know any of that? Did you know omniscience? Did you know sovereignty, righteousness, justice? Did you know immutability and veracity? Do you even know what those words mean? You know, it gets to me that people say I love God and they don't. They love their life. They love what God does for them. They don't love God. That's for sure. Well, let's move on. Our faithfulness is our demonstration of our love for him because he would never ask you to do something you can't do. Remember 1 Corinthians 10, 13, no temptation overtook you, such is not common to man, but God is faithful, he loves you unfailingly, and he will not suffer you to be tempted above what you're able. Now finally, don't equate divine love with human love. They're not the same. Emotion does not enter into God's response. Quoting my pastor, long on emotionalism and short on knowledge of Bible doctrine, people are confused about salvation, confused about the spiritual life, confused about God and his love because they try to humanize God and wind up making God like man. And that's not true. He says, my thoughts are not your thoughts. My ways are not your ways. Isaiah 55, nine, for as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways. My thoughts higher than your thoughts. And that means his love does not work off human emotion. He doesn't fall out of love like you do. He doesn't fall into love. His love is unfailingly, always consistent, never temperamental. That's important you understand that. His unfailing love for us demonstrated by providing eternal security. He promises you will be in heaven. He gave the gift of the Holy Spirit. He gave a Bible. He gave pastor teachers. He gives spiritual gifts. He gives the right spouse. He gives a geographical will. He gives spiritual gifts. I mean, I could go on and on and on what God has provided for you in his unfailing love. I hope you're listening. I hope you're learning. I hope you're beginning to see how much there is to hear. And I hope you will order that book I talked about. If you need refreshment, contact me. We'll send you the name and the address by email. Thank you for listening. I hope you've learned something. Until next week, 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.
Rick Hughes narrates the historical moment of General Patton's prayer during World War II, illustrating the power of faith and collective prayer in times of crisis. He draws parallels between historical and present-day applications of faith, urging listeners to embrace mental discipline and self-control. In doing so, Rick underscores the importance of God's love and omnipresence, offering an insightful examination of spirituality grounded in biblical principles.
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Welcome to the Flatline with your host Rick Hughes. For the next 30 minutes you'll be inspired, motivated, educated, but never manipulated. Now your host Rick Hughes.
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Good morning and welcome to the Flatline. I'm Rick Hughes the host and I'd like to invite you to stay with me for the next few minutes. It's always a short time of some motivation and some inspiration and always done without any type of manipulation because we don't try to solicit money. We're not trying to get you to join up, fess it up, give it up. We just want you to listen. Listen as I teach the Bible. I try to give you God's objective viewpoint about your life. And hopefully if I can do that, if I can show you that, then you can orient and adjust to the plan. So it's my prayer that you'll listen for the next few minutes. Listen to a unique way of studying the Word of God because this show is designed to remind you of biblical truths and introduce you to an in-depth way of studying and learning the Word of God. And my job, as I said, I just try to verify and identify the plan, your job, orient and adjust to the plan. But that plan starts with the best news you have ever heard, the best news the world has ever heard. that Jesus Christ, the anointed Son of God, has redeemed you and me out of the slave market of sin. Thus, our debt to God has been paid, and we are now free from the penalty of death and the power of sin. Titus 3.5 says, Not by works of righteousness, which we've done, but according to his mercy he saved us by the washing of regeneration. and the renewing of the holy spirit which he shed upon us abundantly through jesus christ our lord so that being justified by means of his grace not in our works his grace we would be made heirs according to the confidence or the hope of eternal life you have confidence that you can live with god forever You are heir to all that Christ is heir to in Christ Jesus. So faith alone and Christ alone, you putting your trust in the finished work of Christ on the cross, not you trying to buy your way to heaven, not you trying to impress God. How ridiculous is that? You think God's turned on with the fact that you don't cuss? Or God's turned on by the fact that you don't drink? Or God's turned on by the fact that you don't chew? Or God's turned on by the fact that you don't whatever? I mean, that may be nice, and you may have good moral habits, but that's not salvation. Salvation is faith alone in Christ alone. That's why the Bible says, he that believes in him shall not perish, but have everlasting life, and he that believes not, and the wrath of God will abide on him forever. What am I supposed to believe? Well, I'm supposed to believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. John 3.16, God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son so that whoever believed in him would not perish but have everlasting life. What did I believe in? I believed in Christ. What did Christ say? He said, this is the will of the one that sent me that you believe in me whom he has sent. What did the disciples have to do? They had to believe that he was the Messiah, the uniquely born son of God. Do you believe that? Do you believe that Jesus Christ is the uniquely born son of God? Do you believe that on the cross he took your sin as a punishment for you? He died for you. He took your place. He was your substitute. Do you believe that? Because if you do, you can express that faith to God in prayer and simply tell the Father, I believe that Jesus Christ is your son. I believe he died for me, and I want to accept him as my Savior. That's the same invitation that famous evangelists have issued for hundreds of years, from D.O. Moody to Billy Graham. would you come forward and receive Christ as your Savior? And you can do it in your car. You can do it at home. You can do it in a cell. You can do it in a lot of different places. But ultimately, you're responsible to make that decision. So the Bible says, For by grace are you saved by means of your faith, and that not of yourselves, since it's a gift of God and not of works, lest any man should boast about it. So remember that. It's very easy to get emotionally involved when you start talking about God. I have a friend who's a very wonderful friend. He can't talk about God without crying. His emotions take over. But we're not talking about emotions. The Bible says, let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus. And our Lord had emotions, but he didn't let them dictate policy. Proverbs 16.32 says, Patience is better than power, and controlling your emotions better than capturing a city. Now let me give you a few principles. One, your volition, your chooser, your decider, positive or negative, will respond to both your thoughts and your emotions. It's going to respond to one of the two, so I mean, if you go down to buy a new car, you're gonna say mentally, I like it, I can afford it. You'll run the numbers in your head. The salesman's gonna appeal to your emotions. My, you look good in that car. Doesn't that car look pretty? Imagine yourself driving that car down the road. you have to make a decision based on your content of your thought or the or the control of your emotions it's like that all the way through life so point two the conscience houses your mentality of the soul and stores your thoughts and you have a protector that's your conscience and it has norms and standards these are designed by god to protect you Your norms are the things you operate by and live by every day to maintain good health and hygiene, and your standards come from the Bible, the Word of God. So if you have norms and standards in your conscience, you have a protection of your soul. Without good norms and standards, people don't stand a chance because they are suckers for emotion, and emotion will control their life. Because point three, the emotions are part of the physiological makeup of your body. And they're there. There's nothing wrong with them. I mean, it's nice to have emotion and to have an emotional response, but not to let them control you, especially in regards to God or the Word of God. So, point four, our job is to control our emotions and act on what we think, not what we feel. And point five, if you don't control your emotions, they will control you. If you don't control your emotions, they will control you. And point six, failure to establish a biblical frame of reference. That's relating everything you do back to the word of God, biblical frame of reference. If you don't do that, then you leave yourself unprotected. and that means you can have contamination from guilt contamination from shame your emotions will run out of control you have to control your emotions any any addict is out of control emotionally any person who sins repeatedly in any area of sin is letting his emotions dictate policy to his soul And it's always fed by arrogance where you justify why it's okay. You justify why you did what you did and why you had a right to do what you do, even though you might not like it and you're not proud of yourself. You did it. Self-justification. And your emotions took over. So you've got to have a biblical frame of reference. You've got to be able to stop the emotion from controlling your soul. Self-control, point seven, is critical in the battle of mind over emotions. It's critical. So Paul said in 1 Corinthians 9, 27, I keep under my body and I bring it into subjection. So that by any means, when I'd preach to others, I wouldn't be cast away myself. That's right. That's the number one fear of anyone in the ministry is to come to end of our ministry and to be disqualified from service because we let our emotions get control of us and we wind ourselves into sin and it complicates life. So there's nothing more devastating, nothing more miserable in this life than you destroying yourself with your own emotions. You could have stopped it. You could have walked away, but the emotions were just too powerful. So there is something that you must remember these thoughts, these concepts about your life. Now I want to talk to you a little bit more about the unfailing love of God today. This is a phenomenal study we want to go into, and I want to show you a few principles regarding this and tell you where you can get a book about it. But the unfailing love of God is seen in Psalm 33, 13 through 18. Psalm 33, 13 through 18. From heaven the Lord looks down and sees all mankind. From his dwelling place he watches all who live on the earth. He who forms the heart of all, who considers everything they do. No king is saved by the size of his army. And no warrior escapes by means of his great strength. A horse is a vain hope for deliverance despite all its great strength. It cannot save. But the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear him and on those whose hope is in his unfailing love. Did you hear that? The eyes of the Lord are on those who fear him and those whose hope, and that should be the word confidence, the Greek word elpis, not hope like we do, like I hope it doesn't rain today. That's not what this word means. Those whose confidence is in his unfailing love. Now let's break it down for a little bit, okay? From heaven the Lord looks down and sees all of mankind. Psalm 33, 13. Well, what does that mean? Well, this is a reference to the omniscience of God. God is omnipresent, God is omnipotent, and God is omniscient. Omniscient means that God is all-knowing, Omnipresent means that God is eminent and transcendent in all places at one time. And omnipotent means that God is all-powerful. So here is a reference to the omniscience of God. From heaven, the Lord looks down and sees all mankind. 2 Chronicles 16.9 says this, For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, Now, that's an analogy. God doesn't have eyes like you think we do. He doesn't have eyes. He is a spiritual being. He's imminent. He doesn't have a body. Jesus Christ has a body. He has a resurrection body. That's the only body in heaven right now. There are angels there, God is there, but no one is there in a resurrection body except Jesus Christ. Old Testament saints don't have those resurrection bodies yet. And so the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth to show himself strong in behalf of those whose heart is perfect towards him. Herein you've done foolishly. Therefore, from now on, you will have war. That's a warning. Two, there's nothing you can do to hide yourself from God's presence since he's omnipresent. I remember as a youngster pulling the cover up over my head thinking nobody could see me, but God can. You know, the Bible says men love darkness rather than light and they love to get in the dark and they love to do things in the dark. But there's no darkness with God. He's watching all the time. So if you are a believer in Jesus Christ, there's nothing you can do, nowhere you can hide, no place you can be that God cannot see you. So if you turn out the lights in your room, turn out the lights in wherever you may be, and you think nobody can see you, God is watching. His eyes run to and fro. I just read it to you. Remember, the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth. He is aware because he's omniscient. Three, our loving Father dwells in what the Bible calls the third heavens. Now the first heaven is the atmosphere. That's what the rocket ships blast up through and go out into space. The second heaven is space, the universe. And the third heaven is the abode of God. So our Father dwells in heaven, the abode of God. I don't know where it is, but I'm expecting I'll find out one day. You will too if you're a believer in Jesus Christ. We'll be absent from the body and face to face with the Lord. I know we'll be coming back here for a thousand years to rule and reign with Christ in his millennial kingdom. But God dwells in what's called the third heaven. So from heaven, the Lord looks down and sees all of mankind from heaven, the third heaven. Point four, he knows who are his and he knows who are not his. So how would he know that? Well, if you have the righteousness of Jesus Christ, you're his. Plus R, God's righteousness. Minus R, man's righteousness. So here's the key. There are none that are righteous, no, not even one, because all of their righteousness is like a filthy rag, God says. Excuse me. And so God is absolutely righteous. He's plus a heart. You and I are minus R, absolutely not righteous. Now, how can minus R become plus R? It's simple. 2 Corinthians 5, 21. He, that's God, hath made him, Jesus, to be sin for us, you and me, the one who knew no sin, that's Christ, so that we may be made the righteousness of God in him. The only way that I can become righteous is through Jesus Christ. So God had absolute righteousness. Christ has absolute righteousness. I have absolutely no righteousness. But when I come to Jesus Christ and receive him as my savior, then his righteousness is accredited to me. And now I can have fellowship with God through Christ because I have equal righteousness. How about that? He has made him to be sin for us, the one who knew no sin, so that we, us, me, and you could be made the righteousness of God by means of him or in him. Psalm 33, 16, I'm going on on this passage. Then the unfailing love of God passage, Psalm 33, 13 through 18. Now I'm looking at verse 16. No king is saved by the size of his army, and no warrior escapes by his great strength. There's no doubt that freedom is preserved by military victory. And there's no doubt, point two, if God does not bless the war effort, then no army can defeat the enemy. I want to take you to General George S. Patton and his prayer for the rain to stop during the Battle of Bastogne In 1944, part of the Battle of the Bulge, the prayer was written by Reverend Monsignor James Hugh Neal. He was an American Catholic priest who served as chaplain in the United States Army through 1926 to 1952, rising eventually to the rank of brigadier general. While serving as chaplain of the 3rd United States Army during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II, he composed a famous weather prayer at the request of the 3rd Army's commander, George Patton. Here's what Patton said, General Patton. Maybe you saw the movie Patton. If you didn't, you ought to watch it. And here's what he said. Chaplain, he said, how much praying is being done in the 3rd Army? And I said, does the general mean by the chaplains or by the men? By everybody, he replied. To this, I said, well, I'm afraid to admit it, sir, but I do not believe that much praying is going on when there's fighting. Everybody prays, but now with this constant rain, things are quiet, dangerously quiet. Men just sit and wait for something to happen. And prayer out there, difficult. Both chaplains and men are removed from a special building with steeples and church-like and prayer to most of them is done in a formal ritualized affair involving special posture like kneeling down and in a liturgical setting. Sir, I don't believe that much praying is being done right now. That was the chaplain's answer. And to which General Patton said, Chaplain, I'm a strong believer in prayer. And there are three ways that men get what they want. By planning, by working, and by praying. Any great military operation takes careful planning or thinking. Then you must have well-trained troops to carry it out. That's working. But between the plan and the operation, there's always the unknown. And that unknown spells defeat or victory, success or failure. It's the reaction of the actors to the ordeal when it actually takes place. Some people call it getting the breaks. Patton said this, I call it God. God has his part or his margin in everything. Now remember our verse I gave you. No king is saved by the size of his army. So Chaplain Patton went on to say, that's where prayer comes in. Up to now, in the Third Army, God's been very good to us. We never had to retreat. We've suffered no defeats, no famine, no epidemics. And that's because a lot of people back home are praying for us. We were lucky in Africa, Chaplain, in Sicily and Italy, but simply because people at home prayed. But we have to pray for ourselves too. A good soldier is not made merely by making him think and by making him work. Something in every soldier that goes deeper than that thinking and working, it's his guts. It's something that he's built in himself inside of him. And it is a world of truth and power that's higher than himself. So great living is not all output of thought and work. Man has to have intake as well. And I don't know what you call it, Chaplain, but I call it religion itself. Prayer or God. So I want you to put out a training letter on this subject, a prayer to all the chaplains in the Third Army. Write about nothing else, just the importance of prayer. Let me see it before you send it. Because we got to get not only the chaplains, but every man in the Third Army to pray. And we must ask God to stop these reigns. These reigns are that margin that hold defeat or victory. And if we all pray, It will be like what Dr. Carrell said, and that's an illusion. That illusion was to a press quote some days previously when Dr. Alexis Carrell, one of the most foremost scientists, described prayer. He said it was one of the most powerful forms of energy man can generate. So Patton had read that, and he was quoting him, and he said it's like what Dr. Carrell said. It's one of the most powerful forms of energy man can generate. It'll be like plugging into a current whose source comes from heaven. I believe that prayer completes the circuit. It's the power we need. So the incident of the now famous Patton prayer commenced with a telephone call to the Third Army chaplain, December the 8th, 1944. And this is what he said. Now he said, as is General Patton, do you have a good prayer for the weather? We got to do something about those rains if we're going to win this war. And our chaplain that we told you said, well, uh, I know where to look for such a prayer. I could locate it and report within the hour. And he hung up the phone and he looked out at the rain and said, hmm, what am I going to do? And the few prayer books that he had contained no formal prayer about weather. that could approve acceptable to the army commander, so he sat down and he typed an original prayer on an improved copy of a five by three filing card. This is what he typed, this is what he wrote. Remember, no king is saved by the size of his army, and no warrior escapes by his great strength. Almighty and most merciful Father, we humbly beseech thee of thy great goodness to restrain these immoderate reigns with which we have had to contend. Grant us fair weather for battle. Graciously hearken to us as soldiers who call upon thee, that armed with thy power we may advance from victory to victory and crush the oppression and wickedness of our enemies and establish thy justice among men and nations. The next day the general read it and without a change directed that it be circulated not only to the 486 chaplains but to every organization commander down to and including regimental level. 3,200 copies were distributed to every unit in the 3rd Army over the signature of the Army chaplain. Strictly speaking, it was the Army commander's letter, Patton's letter, not the chaplain's. But due to the fact that the order came directly from Patton, distribution was completed on 11 December, and in 12 December, advancing the dates, 14 December, it was titled Training Letter No. 5, with a salutation from the chaplain of the 3rd Army. And this is what he said. At this stage of the operation... I would call upon the chaplains and the men of the United States Army to focus their attention on the importance of prayer. No man can win by the size of his army, no king. Now, you know and I know that prayer not done the right way is not going to be answered. Just because somebody's praying doesn't mean it's going to be answered. There is effective prayer and there's ineffective prayer. The effective prayer is done in the name of Jesus Christ to God the Father by means of the Holy Spirit. And we know that if there's sin in our life, the Holy Spirit is quenched and can't do his job. And so the Bible says, if I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me. So it's critical that any time you pray or I pray that we are in fellowship with God by means of the filling of the Holy Spirit. So verse 18 of Psalm 33, the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear him and those whose confidence is in his unfailing love. The eyes of the Lord are on those who fear him and those whose hope is in unfailing love. The word fear is yara in the Hebrew, meaning to reverence or to respect him. The Bible says, for as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy towards those that fear him. So the question I want to ask you as we wrap it up today, do you fear God? Is his will in your life your number one priority? If it's not, then you are on the my way highway. And the my way highway is a dead end. You will destroy your life eventually because of your arrogant self-justification of why you don't have to pay attention to what God told you. Stay off the my way highway. It's an emotional roller coaster. It'll lead you to the path of destruction in your life. Learn God's word and apply God's word. Grow in the grace and the knowledge of your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and you can be absolutely confident that God is in control and that he will not lead you where he cannot sustain you. Please remember that. Verse 18, Psalm 33. Here it is again. The eyes of the Lord are on those who fear him and on those whose hope is in his unfailing love. What is the unfailing love of God? That's the $64,000 question. And that's the question I will attempt to answer at our next radio show when you come back next Sunday. What is the unfailing love of God? We know in 1 John 4, 8, God is love. We know that. And we know in 1 John 4, 9, and this was manifested, the love of God towards us, that God sent his only begotten son into the world so that we might live eternally through him. I want to show you what is the unfailing love of God. It's the most misunderstood subject in the Bible, and I'll tell you how you can get a lot of accurate information about it. But you need to come back next week, same time, same place, same station. It's an honor for me to bring you these radio shows. Thank you for giving me a few minutes of your time. I pray God will bless you and the Holy Spirit will direct your thoughts through these subjects. That's my prayer in Christ's name. Amen.
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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.
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The NCAA has complied immediately, by the way. That's good. But I understand Maine. Is Maine here, the governor of Maine? Are you not going to comply with it?
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I'm complying with the state and federal laws.
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Well, we are the federal law. Well, you better do it. You better do it because you're not going to get any federal funding at all if you don't. And by the way, your population, even though it's somewhat liberal, although I did very well there, your population doesn't want men playing in women's sports. So you better comply because otherwise you're not getting any federal funding.
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I'll see you in court.
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Every state... Good, I'll see you in court. I look forward to that. That should be a real easy one. And enjoy your life after governor because I don't think you'll be in elected politics.
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Inject this into my veins. I want to play this just nonstop on a loop for the rest of the show. I want to play that soundbite nonstop. Just that is OK. That is my favorite soundbite so far this year. That literally just happened. That was Trump meeting with the governors and. I am just I can't. This is amazing. So he was talking to the main governor of Maine, Janet Mills, because she is refusing to comply with the executive order about men and women's sports. And he's like, yeah, well, you better. He just like looks at her. He's like, yeah, you over there. I'm sorry. Can I have this one more time? I just I think we all need it because.
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Are you not going to comply with it?
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I'm complying with state and federal laws.
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Well, we are the federal law. Well, you better do it. You better do it because you're not going to get any federal funding at all if you don't. And by the way, your population, even though it's somewhat liberal, although I did very well there, your population doesn't want men playing in women's sports. So you better comply because otherwise you're not getting any federal funding. I'll see you in court. Every state... Good, I'll see you in court. I look forward to that. That should be a real easy one.
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I love this so much.
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And enjoy your life after, Governor, because I don't think you'll be in elected politics.
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He just does not care. Enjoy your meal after that, Governor Mills. Oh, my gosh. He just doesn't care. I love it. You know what? It's about time somebody called these people out to their faces. I love it. This is the Trump that people love. This right here. This is what they voted for. I bet people in Massachusetts that don't like her are losing their minds with glee right now. I love it. And she's sitting right there. And the audacity for, well, I'll see you in court. And he's like, yeah, I will see you in court. Yeah, we are the federal law. You have to comply. I was told, guys, I was told that not complying is an insurrection. That's what I was told, that it's an insurrection. I, oh, my gosh. I'm not... I love this soundbite. I want to make it into like something tangible so I can become best friends with it. And we can go and get our photos taken at Olin Mills. That's how much I love this soundbite. Oh my gosh. In fact, you know what I want to, you know what patch ops should do? They should make like one of those QR codes on the back of a shirt. And then when you do it, it just goes to that clip. Oh my gosh. Or a hat patch where it just goes to that clip. Oh, my gosh. I love this clip so much. It's my best friend. I love this clip. Oh, and he's like, yeah, you better do it because you're not going to get any federal funding. I mean, I can't. I am best friends with this clip. That's amazing. And I'm glad that somebody this this is what I need POTUS to do to the Senate. To that budget bill. Oh, my gosh. If he does this. To Republicans in the Senate, like, no, no, no, this is not what the people voted for. They voted for tax cuts. Where are my tax cuts? Do you know the support he would get? Do you know the support he would get for that? You can't see, but I have chills right now. If he did that, if POTUS pushed back on weak Republicans and said, give me what I want, you will cement my executive orders into law with legislation and you will do it. And he had I would march to protest in support of it in D.C. Hells yes, I would. Oh, my gosh. Please make this happen. This is the Trump we need to deal with these jokers in the Senate. We need it. The the margin is so small in the House. And it was the House that gave him the bill he wanted. And by he wanted, I mean that we voted that we wanted that we voted for, you know, tax cuts and reduced spending and all this stuff. It was a great first like kick out right out of the gate. And then the Senate's like, here you go. Three hundred forty three billion and more spending. No tax cuts. Oh, maybe we'll come back and do more. Maybe we won't. This is if he if he reacted to those Republicans with this energy and threatened to veto it. They would have to comply. I regret to inform the Republicans in the Senate that they do not have the kind of support that POTUS has. Maybe I'll want to learn something from it. See, you can sit here and extol the virtues of the Cruzes and the Blackburns and all these other folks. But with voters, it is what have you done for me lately? We just watched two weeks. We woke up every morning depressed because we saw what our money's being spent on. And then they voted not to give us tax relief. Not even that. They voted not to even extend the tax cuts. And they voted for more spending. What? So if these Republicans think that they have support, their support stops with the last good thing that they did for voters. You get POTUS swashbuckling in there doing this, saying you better vote for this or I will. Oh, my gosh. Please inject it into my veins. That my dad soundbites my new best friend now. It's my best friend, and I'm going to refer to it forever. And I will play it. The chat wants to play it nonstop. I will play it, I promise, one more time before we end the segment. Juan's going to just do it now. The chat's demanding that we do it again.
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The NCAA has complied immediately, by the way. That's good. But I understand Maine. Is Maine here, the governor of Maine? No. Are you not going to comply with it?
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I'm complying with the state and federal laws.
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Well, we are the federal law. Well, you better do it. You better do it because you're not going to get any federal funding at all if you don't. And by the way, your population, even though it's somewhat liberal, although I did very well there, your population doesn't want men playing in women's sports. So you better comply because otherwise you're not getting any federal funding.
SPEAKER 07 :
I'll see you in court.
SPEAKER 06 :
Every state... Good, I'll see you in court. I look forward to that. That should be a real easy one. And enjoy your life after governor because I don't think you'll be in elected politics.
SPEAKER 01 :
We're going to save the soundbite forever. This is one of the best ones. This is one of the best ones. This is exactly what we want to see. Can you believe that? First off, think about this for a minute. I'm going to I'm pulling out. This is one of the things I'm doing on break here. Or actually, while that was playing, I'm pulling up. He actually did really well in Massachusetts. I got to say he did very, very well in Massachusetts. And he in looking at this. He did. He performed better than previous players. previous Republicans there. I mean, well, Romney did kind of good there, but that was Romney because he had been and was governor there. But, I mean, they already have election 2028 polls out now. I'm going to jump off my roof. But he did incredibly well in Massachusetts. Massachusetts, I mean, it's a blue state, but he ended up performing better than he did in 2016. And those issues, and this is what I'm pulling up, is my saved exit data. So Massachusetts, they were immigration, inflation, inflation, immigration, those were all huge issues. And then also men's and women's sports as well. These are all major issues. Sorry, Maine, not Massachusetts. Maine, he did... I'm actually looking at Maine, and I'm saying Massachusetts, and I have no idea why. I'm sorry. I'm looking at all of this information. He performed better in Maine. Actually, I don't even have Massachusetts up, so I don't know how I did. He performed better in Maine than he did in 2016, and it was inflation, immigration, and then there was a lot of movement on men's and women's sports, and there were a lot of parents that were up in arms in Maine about that. There were a lot of school board battles. I mean, it was not... It wasn't those battles like in Virginia or in our town in Texas. It wasn't an outlier. It was that's like that was sort of the that's the mainstream standard as to where voters were. And Maine's a pretty blue means a pretty blue state. He did perform better than he did in 2016. And now I can't even imagine. I don't have... I was looking to see if there's any state-by-state polling that shows maybe an accurate measure of how people... Because how people are viewing him now. We have national polls that have 53% approval. I would imagine, especially on the issues that... voters in these states raised a lot of ire about in Maine was one of them that that's only going to boost his approval in that state and that tanks her that tanks Mills I can't even imagine I can't even imagine how she comes out after that they have she did very I mean he did well I mean it was 52 to 45 for Harris but Clinton outperformed that during 2016. So he did better. He performed better. And I would imagine after a lot of these issues that he's making ground on, this was one of the issues... Again, these were the top three issues for Maine. And I'm looking at exit polling data. This was New York Times. It's New York Times, Fox News, and CNN. Those are the top three issues for... I can't imagine voters watching that exchange walking away thinking that Janet Mills looks good in this. I can't imagine it. So I don't think that he is over his skis by telling her this. Nor do I think that they would be successful in a lawsuit with us. I mean, what are you... You're dealing with Title IX. You're... I mean, you're actually... incorporating discrimination against women in order to make that sort of competition men and women's sports a reality I mean there's I don't see how that withstands legal scrutiny of course we have a lot of dumb judges I gotta be honest I mean he wasn't able to replace all of them in his you know his first term so we'll see but apologies for that I was looking at Maine and I'm saying Massachusetts and I have no idea why it's Friday my brain is fried I'm like it's an M uh-huh So my apologies for that. It's one of those days, guys. And yeah, Lorraine's like Lorraine and Juan are freaking out. I'm like, I'm looking at me, but I'm saying Massachusetts. It's your girls having one of those. It's because that damn soundbite. All I want to do is play that soundbite because I feel like we've had such a bare knuckle fight week that and then the news this morning with that bill in the Senate. I had a friend tell me, and she doesn't follow. She's like almost one of those apolitical people. She's like a Martian. Well, she was. And she was asking me about, you know, the cuts with Doge and all of this other stuff. And, you know, she was like, does it really have like that much of an impact immediately? And I was explaining to her, I'm like, well, let's look at it. You know, we're trying to balance the budget. We're trying to get to like a very good budget. appoint fiscally. We're on the edge of a cliff. We've got crazy inflation. I mean, the retail sector is giving us tons of warning signs right now, which is something we're going to be talking about next week. And this is it's unsustainable. I mean, we really we're going to have to implement serious cuts. And people are going to get very, very upset about it because those cuts will be felt pretty much immediately. And then for the growth to generate, that's going to take a little bit more time because you have to open up energy, number one, which is actually the first thing that he did right out of the gate, which was smart. You have to open up energy production. You have to open up and stop a lot of the restrictions that came from the Biden administration as it pertains to business. The thing that I had Carol Roth on the other day talking about was small businesses and reporting. That has to be immediately done away with because you're killing small business, and that's the engine of the economy. There was something about the new jobs being created, like 80% of it was coming from that sector. There's so many things that need to happen to generate that growth, and people are going to feel the cuts before they experience the growth. And so we've got to get started on that and handle that now because you know how Democrats are going to message that. And I was telling my friend, look, this is what happens when you have unleashed energy. You're going to be seeing cheaper energy. You're going to be seeing cheaper prices at the grocery store. When you cut spending and you're cutting taxes, you're immediately – That's like a pay increase, a major pay increase to the average American family. And I said, that's something that they're going to be able to actually tell, particularly with prices, you know, within several months. And I'm going through all of this with her and she's getting it. I need Republicans to get out there and message that more to voters because it feels like they're not. 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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
SPEAKER 01 :
All right. So first up with this, we've got, I don't know, one economist is warning that Musk is about to cause a deep recession. I don't really care what this jackass thinks. So we're deleting that headline because I don't care. I'm tired of having these partisan Marxists. decide that they're going to issue these crazy headlines and try to fearmonger everybody into thinking that spending less is actually bad. European stocks are outpacing Wall Street. There's a lot to dive into with this, but Financial Times says that it's a surprise performance driven by lack of day one tariffs on the EU, etc., etc., etc. I think this, too, is a little bit of... lead wagging the dog. Canine Hurricane. This is sad. The most decorated dog in U.S. history has passed away. And this is according to their handlers. They said that this 16-year-old Belgian Malinois who was the most decorated dog in U.S. history, was considered a special operations canine with U.S. Secret Service, became the nation's most decorated dog, took out a White House intruder in 2014. That was under the Obama administration. That's him there. He was medically retired in 2016. Because of the injuries that he sustained during the incident. And so he's won all these awards. And he's passed away. He's gone over the rainbow bridge. Sweet pup. The U.S. is weighing destroying $500 million in stockpiled COVID tests. $500 million. Coronavirus tests that no one has ever used. This was reported that they're looking into the cost of destroying them. I mean, weren't they sending them out for quote unquote for free to people? They said that the COVIDtest.gov, it shuts down, shut down at 8 p.m. this week on Tuesday. But the test would not be destroyed and they would remain in inventory until they meet their expiration date. And of course, they're saying, well, you know, the infections are decreasing after a winter peak. It's cold and flu season. You absolute halfwits. That's what it is. And the fact that they're going to just waste half a billion dollars. Again, why are we paying taxes? I'm ready for a civil war. Why are we paying taxes? This is asinine. We have gotten so soft as a people. I'm just livid over all of it. Just absolutely insane. Crazy. In addition to this, let's see, the Trump DOJ has dropped the Biden administration's lawfare case against they were trying to go after SpaceX. It was a stupid, you know, no pun intended trumped up case. They've been sued. They were suing Musk's SpaceX, claiming that they were committing discrimination, that they were not hiring people, that they were allowed to hire people. And then the case is actually being dropped. The DOJ filed a motion to have it dismissed with prejudice.
SPEAKER 02 :
So really been the one to call it out. The fact that I'm rooting for Canada and I'm rooting for Mexico a lot is really wild. But they are really the ones that are speaking truth to power right now. They can see what it is. And they were like, we are not messing with this crazy regime from Miralago and basically calling them thugs. That's what it is. But I'm like, y'all knew who he was when y'all elected him. So don't act surprised.
SPEAKER 01 :
Jasmine Crockett. She's giving AOC a real run for her money. I wonder if there's some feelings of competitiveness between the two. Because Really, she's, I don't know. I'm like, I'm coming. I don't know if I can make up my mind who says the goofiest stuff day in and day out. I really don't know. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. We're at the top of this third hour in the program. And that was Texas's Jasmine Crockett. She's saying she's rooting for Canada and she's rooting for Mexico. She said, but they're the ones speaking truth to power. What does that phrase mean? That's so stupid. Speaking truth to power. That's just like some Kamala Harris word salad nonsense. I've heard this phrase over and over again. And I'm just like, what does that even mean? That's a stupid phrase that people say when they have nothing else to fill the space with. I mean, there's truth and then there's a lie. So what is truth to power? It doesn't make any sense. I don't I don't get it. She just doesn't like the United States. That's OK. So she's backing Canada and Mexico because she's, I guess, happier with them. She's happier with the president of Mexico who doubled down on her defense of cartels. Because she was upset that POTUS, that they're designating these like seven different cartels as terrorist entities, which they are, by the way. I mean, it's kind of crazy that Mexico hasn't done it first. But here we are. I think that says her statement says way more about her than it does about the administration. I mean, it really does. I mean, she can go and live in Mexico and Canada if she likes it so much more and just see if her quality of life has improved or if she finds that she is freer in either of those countries than she is in the United States. I think that she just one of the reasons I think that these these some of these lawmakers on the left come out and say these stupid things is because they're trying to get famous. And they know that we live in a clickbait culture. That's why you see certain things on social media, especially with some folks that are kind of on the left. And I see it with some on the right, but I definitely see the people on the left. They say these crazy things. some many of them i will say believe it but they do it because they want the interaction they want people they want the feedback because they subscribe to that belief that well you know bad press is better than no press and so that's that's what they subscribe to and i think that's what you're seeing with her because they saw aoc do it and AOC made it like her whole shtick, right? And I think that Jasmine Crockett is looking at that model and saying, well, I'm going to do this for myself. And that's why she goes out and says the stuff that she does. But she's free to go. You know, she likes it so much. She can go and live in any of those countries and see how freer she is. It's just goofy. This is just asinine stuff.
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SPEAKER 11 :
Why are the decisions of this body so awful? Because there's a printing press. I had a conversation with one of my Democrat colleagues and he said,
SPEAKER 07 :
I said, we have to make a choice. You've got to decide whether you want to help the poor in our country or you want to help the poor in Ukraine, or help whoever you're paying in Ukraine. And he says, we shouldn't have to make a choice. Well, it's like, you do have to make a choice. The fact that you think you don't have to make a choice is why we're $36 trillion in the hole. You have to make choices. Which comes first, Ukraine or America? You can't do both. Because we don't have enough money. We only have enough taxes coming in to pay for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and food stamps. Everything else is borrowed. So maybe able-bodied people need to go back to work. Maybe there needs to be a work requirement. Maybe, for goodness sakes, food stamps shouldn't buy sugar drinks, chips, ding-dongs, and Twinkies.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, he's right. He's absolutely right on this. He's absolutely right. And this, so these were just like basic. These are basic. This isn't even getting into like the big cuts for Doge. This is just, can the tax cuts be made permanent, number one? Can these tax cuts be made permanent? And can we just kind of maybe even slow the rate of spending? Can we just even do that? I mean, apparently we can't. So this is just all the stuff that we're looking at today with all of this. It's just a disaster. So welcome to the program. Dana Lash with you. I'm not happy about any of this. It's just a joke. I'm tired of these ridiculous lawmakers. I'm tired of every damn day starting the program with some other BS. And all of these people talk a really good game about it. And we had Cornyn on yesterday. Even Josh Hollett. All these people go up and they go on Fox. Oh, my gosh. Everybody falls all over their own fat asses to get on Fox, run their mouths about Doge and how they love spending. And the first chance they get, they're going to stab you in the back. So it's just they're worthless. It's a worthless party. I'm just about done with them. I'm really just about done with them. I get speaking invites from Republican parties and I'm about to tell all of them to go pound sand. I'm done. I am just about done. If they can't even do something as simple as this, then the country is going to go to hell in a handbasket. And there it is. That's it. It's done. I mean, I let me just you had and I'm looking at the roll call from this. I mean, this is just 29 Republicans that voted with Democrats. 29 Republicans that voted with Democrats. And this resolution, this is the one that Lindsey Graham had said that they're going to come back to. And they'll come back to it. And then maybe we can get tax cuts and make them permanent. It's not going to happen. Not going to happen at all. They're because then you're going to get in a midterm cycle and then that's it. That's the end of it. That's it. I mean, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but that's the way it goes. So everybody gets together at like conservative conferences now. And, you know, while Elon Musk was pulling out a chainsaw, the Senate Republicans were doing this. How many of them went to the radio row at CPAC and were patting themselves on the back and talking about Doge? How many how many conservative talkers actually held them to the line? I mean, it's one thing to get to get whipped up into the frenzy and yes, be excited that we're saving. But then when they go and they vote like this, clearly they don't fear the voter enough. They don't fear the voter enough. I don't want to hear another damn thing about dividend checks. Not another damn thing about it. In addition to the $343 billion that we're spending, we've got to pay down the deficit. And I can't even believe that they raised spending and didn't make tax cuts permanent, considering all of the scandal with the USAID. Clearly, they don't care. Clearly, they do not care. And... Rand Paul's right. You know, you can't sit here and service everything. You can't throw money. You know, you can't throw money at Ukraine and then continue government spending and et cetera, et cetera. You can't. I don't know. Audio somebody for a reporter asks the White House. So this is this is we haven't even seen the deepest cuts yet. This just goes to show you these reporters don't even understand the depth of what they're asking. Audio somebody for.
SPEAKER 20 :
for either one of you so uh we reported several other outlets have reported that about 3 500 people are due to be lose their jobs at the irs by the end of the week if the goal of these spending cuts across the federal government has been to reduce the debt why impose some of the deepest cuts we've seen so far at the agency responsible for raising revenue for the federal government
SPEAKER 17 :
I think our objective is to make sure that the employees that we pay are being productive and effective and there are many many more than 100,000 people working to collect taxes and not all of them are fully occupied and the Treasury Secretary is studying the matter and feels like 3,500 is a small number.
SPEAKER 18 :
3,500 is a small number. I mean, this is just a mess. It's a mess. Now, in addition to this, and we're going to come back to this as well, because there's a lot to discuss with the budget. But you also have the news coming out of Israel, the mother and her two children died. And I'm looking at some of the latest reports on this. This is just horrifying. The mother, Sherry Beavis, and her two children, Ariel and Kefir Beavis, eight months old, although I think he was 10 months old at the time of his death. And his brother was two. They remember yesterday Hamas did their stupid big terrorist pageant where they had all of the coffins on the stage and. You had all of the Gazans cheering for their terrorist overlords because they're terrorists too. And they are. Don't sit here and tell me that they're not when you have millions of plainclothes people who are pictured on video beating the hell out of hostages. People who willingly and excitedly kept hostages in their own homes. And you even had awards of tons of money that were offered to any Gazan resident that would give up a hostage and not a single damn one of them took the check. Five million dollars to give up a hostage and not a single person took that. Don't, yeah, spare me. But apparently the mother's body wasn't even handed over. It was just some Gazan woman's body. So either they don't know where she is or they do and they're just still inflicting, I mean, either way, it's just still more emotional terrorism that they're inflicting upon the victim's families. It's horrible. We're going to talk about this, too, because Trump has a response to it. He's wanting to unleash. He wants to support the our ally in unleashing all hell. But they discovered that the two children, they weren't shot and it wasn't it wasn't an airstrike. They were beaten to death. Imagine that. And our partners that help bring you the program, it's our friends over at Caltech, the P.R., 57 rotary barrel pistol chambered in 5.7, the latest from Kel-Tec. And it's all American made, great American story, the creation of Kel-Tec. And this 5.7 is the lightest 5.7 that's on the market. It really is because I have 5.7s and I can't conceal carry any of them. I can't carry any of them because they're a little bit big for my frame. This, I actually can't. It's 40% lighter than the next lightest 5.7 and they accomplish this through two ways. They have this innovative rotary barrel design and then they also have a unique top loading design that replaces the traditional magazine with a stripper clip. No joke. So it's a slimmer carry profile and you get a 20 plus 1 capacity. It is built to perform when it matters most. Low recoil, simplicity, and reliability. That's what it's engineered for. It's great for everyday carry, and it is legit the quickest and easiest field strip available. MSRP is only $399, so this is one that you absolutely can afford to get. It's the first of its kind. Kel-Tec PR57 Rotary Barrel Pistol, chambered in 5.7, only 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 5.
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All right. So first up with this, we've got, I don't know, one economist is warning that Musk is about to cause a deep recession. I don't really care what this jackass thinks. So we're deleting that headline because I don't care. I'm tired of having these partisan Marxists. decide that they're going to issue these crazy headlines and try to fearmonger everybody into thinking that spending less is actually bad. European stocks are outpacing Wall Street. There's a lot to dive into with this, but Financial Times says that it's a surprise performance driven by lack of day one tariffs on the EU, etc., etc., etc. I think this, too, is a little bit of... whacking the dog. Canine hurricane. This is sad. The most decorated dog in U.S. history has passed away. And this is according to their handlers. They said that this 16-year-old Belgian Malinois who was the most decorated dog in U.S. history, was considered a special operations canine with U.S. Secret Service, became the nation's most decorated dog, took out a White House intruder in 2014. That was under the Obama administration. That's him there. He was medically retired in 2016. Because of the injuries that he sustained during the incident. And so he's won all these awards and he's passed away. He's gone over the rainbow bridge. Sweet pup. The U.S. is weighing destroying $500 million in stockpiled COVID tests. $500 million. Coronavirus tests that no one has ever used. This was reported that they're looking into the cost of destroying them. I mean, weren't they sending them out for quote unquote for free to people? They said that the COVIDtest.gov, it shuts down, shut down at 8 p.m. this week on Tuesday. But the tests would not be destroyed and they would remain in inventory until they meet their expiration date. And of course, they're saying, well, you know, the infections are decreasing after a winter peak. It's cold and flu season. You absolute halfwits. That's what it is. And the fact that they're going to just waste half a billion dollars. Again, why are we paying taxes? I'm ready for a civil war. Why are we paying taxes? This is asinine. We have gotten so soft as a people. I'm just livid over all of it. Just absolutely insane. Crazy. In addition to this, let's see, the Trump DOJ has dropped the Biden administration's lawfare case against they were trying to go after SpaceX. It was a stupid, you know, no pun intended trumped up case. They've been sued. They were suing Musk's SpaceX, claiming that they were committing discrimination, that they were not hiring people, that they were allowed to hire people. And then the case is actually being dropped. The DOJ filed a motion to have it dismissed with prejudice. So we have a lot more on the way. When did progressivism stop being cool and this heinous budget bill that we should be riding over? Stick with us. All Family Pharmacy provides the prescriptions you need. And they have a doctor that signs off on the prescriptions. They can send everything out in like, what, two to four days overnight, too. They can overnight it if you really need it. But they have customizable orders. They have emergency kits tailored to your needs and they support your medical independence. So I use them like, for instance, over Thanksgiving, I was getting serious sinusitis and it was turning into strep. And I'm like, I am hosting Thanksgiving. This is insane. And I immediately was on allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana. First time I did use Codana 10 and I got my 10% discount off my entire order. But you can get, you know, they have tons of different medications. They even have ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine as well, tons of antibiotics, over 200 other essential medications. And I ordered what I needed, like amoxicillin, azithromycin. And, you know, the... again, medical professionals, doctors are like, this is, you know, how you take it. This is the, you know, the dosage, et cetera. But it's simple, fast and affordable. No insurance, no problem. The pricing straightforward. And, and it's all from the USA. None of this stuff is input from China. It's not outsourced. It's made in the USA. So you can rest easy. Visit allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana for 10% off using promo code Dana. That's allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana. Promo code Dana10. That gets you 10% off. Don't wait. Put your order in today.
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SPEAKER 12 :
So Steven, we're hearing about these Doge dividend checks that would be 20% back to taxpayers, 20% to pay down the debt, 60% is left. Who gets that?
SPEAKER 22 :
Well, the way that it works is when you achieve savings, you can either return it to taxpayers, you can return it to our debtors, or it can be cycled into next year's budget and then it just lowers the overall baseline for next year. So in other words, you can just transfer it into the next fiscal window and then lower the overall spending level, and that means that you can achieve a permanent savings that way, and that reduces the deficit.
SPEAKER 12 :
And when is it that people might see those checks?
SPEAKER 22 :
Well, it's all going to be worked on through the reconciliation process with Congress that's going underway right now. As you've seen, the Senate's moving a bill. The House is moving a bill. The president has great confidence in both chambers to deliver on his priorities.
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So this is one of the things I talked about with Carol Roth the other day, and we are both completely against the dividend checks because that's just literally going to drive inflation further. To say otherwise, it's just simply not accurate. And I would rather have the abolishment of the IRS and have at least a year of no taxes. That would go so much further than just $5,000 going out to everybody. That's crazy. It's crazy. Some of us paid six figures into taxes. Mid six figures into taxes. And we're told that the government's going to spend more. They're going to spend more now because of the stupid budget bill that they passed in the Senate. really in-depth, big, big budget bill that got into a lot more cutting of spending, etc. And further, there was also the establishment of making his tax cuts permanent. And that's not what they did. That's not what Republican senators did last night. And I am livid. I told you this is going to happen. Let me just set this up as to what you can expect if this is the way that they keep working with everything. So, We've got this, this, you have the house, you have the house bill. And that's, again, that's the one that Trump had posted about on true social. And then you have this Senate bill and the Senate bill is the one that was looking at 300, $343 billion increase in spending, mostly looking at, it was mostly defense spending. There was some spending that was going towards the border, but a lot of it was defense spending. So it was a big increase there. And they did not address the tax cuts. No, no, did not make the tax cuts permanent at all. So those are going to expire. Everybody's taxes are going to go up. Yeah. How how well does that work for POTUS going into midterms, by the way? The promise that Lindsey Graham and these other Senate Republicans gave for this budget bill was that, well, they'll come back later this year. They'll come back later this year. And then that's when they're going to they'll look at, you know, maybe perhaps extending those tax cuts or making them permanent. They'll deal with it later in the year. When have they ever done that? When have they ever actually come back and made good on this promise? And implemented the second half of any kind of economic proposal that they used as an excuse just to get through this moment. When have they ever made? Never. I mean, it's rhetorical. They never have. They never have. It's I think it's disastrous. This was the first test of the swamp versus the voters in Doge and the swamp one. There's no other. I can't sugarcoat it for you. Anyone who tells you otherwise either doesn't know what's going on or they hate you. I mean, I really don't know how else to put it. Everybody should be outraged over this. And a lot of these lawmakers, I want to know what the excuses are. So I haven't seen a justification of this vote yet. Haven't seen it yet. I've had the roll call. that I put up there. Rand Paul, I actually undersold him. I said 1.4. It was 1.5 trillion. He had an amendment last night that sought to actually cut spending by $1.5 trillion. Now think about that. That's pretty crazy. And 29 of 53 Republicans voted it down. So I'm going to say that again. He wanted – and these were all, by the way, these were all based on what – because a lot of people argue over real cuts that Doge is making. Like, is it real? Is it – a lot of these were in line with Doge's recommendations. So, yeah, a lot of them are actually real cuts. 29 of the 53 Republicans could not back cutting $1.4 trillion out of $89 trillion in projected spending. Is it – It's really insane to wrap your head around numbers like this. What Juan is showing you right now, if you're watching on Rumble, where the chatters are channel 347, direct TV, the simulcast. This is the roll call of the amendment. This is this is Rand Paul's amendment. So 29 of the 53 Republicans could not affirm support. They could not cut one point four trillion dollars. out of what, 89 in projected, 89 trillion in projected spending, 22 trillion with projected deficits. So really, I mean, it's a lot, it's probably a lot higher than that if we're being honest about it. That's, I mean, there's no excuse for this. So this was, they adopted the other, the 42 billion increase. They'll allow for a slower rate of spending over the next four years. You gotta be kidding me. And Rand Paul also didn't want any extra spending. And he wanted to work towards a realistic, sustained GDP growth. That's everything that he wanted in his bill. Or his amendment, excuse me. Everything that he wanted in his amendment. And Senate Republicans voted it down. And by Senate Republicans, I mean almost 29 of 53. They don't include the tax cuts, as I said. Reuters at first, I know Reuters, you know, they got our tax money. They did not make those permanent. The vote tally 52 to 48. Rand Paul, he voted against it. He voted against the bill. He was what? The only Republican to actually stand firm and be consistent. The only one in the Senate. Yes, out of all of those, out of the Blackburns and the Cruzes and everybody else. Yes, you're right. He was the only senator that was consistent. Now, if you remember the House bill, House Republicans, they wanted to extend the $4.5 trillion in tax cuts. But it's a lot harder there. They've got a 218 to 215 majority. That's the problem with picking House people for your cabinet, by the way. They've got a very narrow majority. They barely have a majority in the House. Barely. But that's where the real, the good plan came from. Senate plan's trash. So, I don't know. We're never going to get extended tax cuts. Let's just be honest about it now. We're never going to get those tax cuts extended in 2017. They're dead. Republicans are never going to do it. They couldn't even guys. They are not going to be any stronger than they are right now. Do you think in four months time when midterm starts and people have to start filing to run and all of this and then all of their donations are going to be watched and all of the all of the opposition research and the narratives against them by Democrats will start. Do you think they're going to be braver then to do this stuff? The time to do it was now when you have all the momentum right after an election, when Trump has all this goodwill. He's got a 53 percent, a 53 percent approval rating. Some people were trying to argue. I was listening to cable news this morning. Some people, some of these operatives are trying to argue that, well, you know, there have been other lawmakers or other presidents that have had really high ratings. No, actually, his at this point is like the highest. This is when you are at your strongest and they failed to, they didn't have the balls to even do it now. They will not get any stronger as the weeks go by. They will not get any stronger. So this is the reality of the situation. We're not going to get the tax cuts. Those aren't going to be made permanent. Our taxes are going to go up. We're going to have more spending. More taxes. You guys feel real good about that right after the USAID scandal? You know, with all of our hundreds of millions of dollars of our hard-earned money going towards everything from, I mean, the one that I can't get my mind around is how do you spend millions of dollars on a study about flavored cigarettes and lesbian obesity? I would be, that's one of the dumbest things ever. Or how do you spend the amount of money that you do on Stacey Abrams and climate change? Millions and millions of dollars. That becomes billions when you start adding it up. I don't know. I'm without words. Without words. So this is, like I said, we're not going to get the, this is going to imperil midterms. And that's what I think a lot of this $5,000 thing is for Doge sending these checks out, these dividends. I'm going to be very frank about it. It's a bribe. That's what it is. Now, people can get mad about that. And I understand that people want relief, right? I understand that people want relief. And I got this... Where is it? I should revive hate mail. Because there are some people that are... I had somebody that wrote and they were super upset. And they said that... that i guess what that people who don't understand the dividends like they we don't get it well i actually had on an investment banker and an economist to explain that to you uh to this drive by that road and they were living they're like well why can't i get my 5 000 dividend uh why isn't that enough because that sort of spending without any kind of significant cuts uh and it and it's like a it's that where's the money coming from no one can even answer that That's not the remedy. The remedy is cutting spending and cutting taxes. But they can't they can't commit to it. So they think that if they pull a Biden and by they, I mean the Republicans that are coming up with, I'm not a fan of the dividend because I feel like it's so much like the student reform promise or the student tuition promise, right? The college tuition, like, oh, let's go ahead and make it all free for everyone. I mean, I understand why they're doing it, but it doesn't mean I agree with it. It just makes it even more wrong to me because people want to, they want to show that, look, we're saving something and here you're getting something back. So the goodwill towards this continues because, They know that austerity, whenever proposed, always, always is unpopular. And people can say now that they like these cuts, but when you start seeing what actually has to be cut and what actually has to be done, that's going to get really hard. And the real ones are going to be separated from the ones who were just talking real fast. We're already seeing it in the Senate. So this is... They just... voters are going to get disillusioned and they're going to get mad. You are threatening midterm success. I mean, I look at these Republicans that voted on this and I kind of want to ask each and every one of them, are you secretly trying to tank chances for midterms? Are these Republicans trying to ruin and give up their majority in Congress? Are they trying to Early lame duck POTUS? Because that's how you do it. His hands are going to be tied if they don't make these executive orders, if they do not enshrine them in congressional permanence with legislation. And so far they're not doing it. We're going to come back to this. The Gaza, the story of Shiri Beavis and her children. They're starting to let some of the details come out now. But those little babies that were kidnapped and taken hostage, apparently they were literally physically beaten to death. Remember how it was claimed Hamas said that they were killed in an Israeli airstrike? Well, that never happened. It didn't happen. We all knew it didn't. Apparently they were beaten to death and strangled. And then they tried to destroy their remains to the point where they couldn't. They thought that they could do enough damage on the children's remains that Israeli forensic investigators in their corners, et cetera, could not determine a cause of death. Well, I mean, that just goes to show you how stupid Hamas is because you absolutely can't figure out cause of death no matter what you are doing with these remains. Horrific. And it took them a long time to identify the baby's remains because he didn't have enough teeth yet. Yeah, I think these details need to be out there because this is what Gaza is. History shows gold and silver thrive under strong leadership. 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Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States.
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Mr. President, this next executive order will criminalize skinny jeans for all youth pastors everywhere in the universe. It says, quote, skinny jeans are not hip or fire or even rad, and they just simply look dumb.
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I it's fake, but it's so hysterical. I think that's I laughed my head off when I saw that because I thought I love whenever Trump signs his executive orders because there's always the guy who sits next to him or stands next to him, says, Mr. President, this is what this order is. It does X, Y, Z and all of this. You know, that's. And this was obviously a joke, but it could be true. Although I don't want him to sign an executive order banning skinny jeans because I like skinny jeans. I just don't like skinny jeans on men. Any men, youth pastors or not, no men should wear skinny jeans. Like wear regular relaxed fit. You don't need skinny jeans. Those are for ladies. And then they're not for every lady. Just like high-waisted pants are not for every lady. But I just thought that was hysterical. It was really well done. I mean, the guy had the tone down. It was great. So that's my favorite thing about Trump signing the executive orders is the guy standing next to him running down what everything is and then Trump quipping about every single one of them and then moving and signing everything. It's funny. A little bit of levity because now we've got to go back to the seriousness. Some of the things we're going to hit coming up in the second hour, the latest about the handover there in Gaza and how it's not solving anything. In fact, Hamas just escalated it. We'll talk about that, the latest with the budget and more. Stick with us. Strength and vitality inside and out, Native Path Collagen delivers the two most essential collagen types that your body needs to support strong bones and flexible joints. With type 1 and 3 collagen without unnecessary fillers, you'll enjoy smoother movement, resilient skin, and the confidence that comes with looking and feeling your best. You'll love Native Path Collagen because it'll keep your joints feeling strong and your skin looking smooth. and you can use it daily in your morning coffee to start the day feeling your best. And best of all, Native Path offers incredible bundle deals that let you stock up and save big. So you can grab a three-pack or even a six-pack at a fraction of the price compared to other collagen brands. And it's the perfect way to stay consistent with your daily collagen routine while keeping more money in your pocket. Visit GetNativePath.com slash Dana today and stock up on Native Path Collagen for up to an incredible 45% off, plus get free shipping. Every order comes with a 365-day money-back guarantee, so you can try it risk-free today.
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We can confirm that baby Kfir Bibas, age just 10 months old, and his older brother Ariel, aged 4, were both brutally murdered by terrorists while being held hostage in Gaza, no later than November 2023. These two innocent children were taken hostage alive together with their mother, Shiri, from their home on October 7th, 2023. Contrary to Hamas's lies, Ariel and Kfir were not killed in an airstrike. Ariel and Kfir Bibas were murdered by terrorists in cold blood. The terrorists did not shoot the two young boys. They killed them with their bare hands.
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That is the news this morning that everyone kind of expected yesterday. This is, of course, the Bibas family that became kind of the face of the Israeli or an American hostages that were taken to Gaza by Hamas. And this was suspected. Hamas has never, I mean, there have been so many times where they have said that certain hostages were dead or certain hostages were living and they were actually the opposite. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. We're at the top of the second hour on Friday. Channel 347, DirecTV, the chats at Rumble. Find us on X and Facebook as well. Apparently, the mother, Shiri Bebas, was not returned. They had four coffins. One was an elderly man. One was supposed to be Sherry Beavis and the other two little ones, her children, the four-year-old and then 10-month-old at the time of his death. And they had those mislabeled. So the 10 month old was actually the four year old's coffin. The four year old's coffin was a 10 month. That was apparently on purpose. And you saw, you know, the video of these terrorists that were taking their coffins to the stage and they had different colored headbands on. The different colored headbands signify which terrorist group they're with. So the green headbands were Hamas. The yellow headbands were ISIS. The quote unquote Palestinian, because it's a fake word for a fake ethnicity, a fake land and a fake people that haven't ever existed, nor is it supported by thousands of years of antiquity. That's the governing authority that supposedly controls the West Bank. But, you know, Hamas really does. They were different terrorist groups. They had the Red Cross there. The Red Cross sat on stage and signed off on receiving of the coffins. It was all big theater. They had music playing. It looked like a festival. You know, thousands of Gazans were in the streets celebrating. I mean, there's tons of videos, so there's no way to lie about it. And that's apparently the woman that was in the fourth coffin is some random Gazan woman. Not Shiri Bebas. And Hamas actually said, OK, well, can you give that one back? Not making it up. That's insane. They paraded them out on that stage where they had Netanyahu, who I guess was supposed to look like a vampire, and they were trying to blame Israel for their deaths. But as it was discovered, these children were apparently brutally physically beaten and strangled to death. A month into captivity. So they didn't even last for a month, and they were separated from their mother. So who knows where their mother is? They have no idea. Nobody has any idea. I mean, Hamas probably does. Here's the other problem, too. The location of a lot of the hostages, and we learned this from the ones that had been released, it's not necessarily always Hamas that has custody of them. It is a lot of the random everyday people in Gaza because they love Hamas. I can't underscore this enough. This is why you cannot have a two-state solution. And Hamas doesn't even want one. It's in their charter that they will never have one. That's why they're actually more popular than FATA, which will commit begrudgingly to a two-state solution, but Hamas won't. The... Hostages that have been released were saying that they they even had been exchanged and traded between regular Gazan citizens and that not even every Hamas member was uniformed and not every Gazan. You know that they said that a lot of the civilians there were. I mean, it was pretty much like they were Hamas. Because of the way that they were kept and how they were treated. And they offered, there was a reward that was offered even. Millions of dollars offered to Gazans. Hey, if you have Israeli or American hostages, can you hand them over? And they didn't do it. Nobody took it up. Nobody wanted millions of dollars to hand over innocent hostages. So that's what we're dealing with here. That's why I say you are looking at generationally programmed terror. It's unbelievable. And the mother, I don't even know if they know she's alive because it's one of the things in the statements, the IDF didn't really, I'm sure obviously they're investigating it, but so far they haven't, there's no word on her location or her body's location. They said that they're just, the family is still waiting to learn the fate, her fate. They don't know. So you had a 68-year-old UK-linked journalist, Oded Lifshitz, who his body was given over. And then they did the IDF. They had trouble, from what I read, with baby Kiefer Bibas because he didn't have enough teeth. yet to really identify him. But they could tell from apparently what's been widely reported, the injuries that the body sustained are consistent with brutal physical beatings and then the injuries around the neck, strangulation. So they didn't shoot them. It wasn't an aerial assault. They beat them to death in the tunnels in the dark. Because that's where they kept everybody. I... I mean, it's just, it's horrific. And they don't know when they were separated from their mother. They don't know anything like that. They don't know. There's no idea. So I can't even imagine what that family is living through. Trump, obviously, not happy because he has said repeatedly, you know, you're either going to release these people or there's going to be hell to pay. And this is not a... The agreement was that it would be Sherry Beavis' body. And it wasn't. And that's how Israel is interpreting it. And apparently the Trump administration is looking at it similarly, that that demonstrates a breach of agreement. Because they didn't even hand over. They didn't even hand her over. Didn't even hand her over. So... And they have no idea where she is. So Trump, obviously, livid, because what does that mean for the fate of the remaining hostages? I mean, we went through, gosh, how many... I'm pulling this story up. We went through, what, how many months where we had a number of American hostages and the Biden administration showed no concern at all whatsoever? So POTUS... I don't think that that's going to move him away from endorsing Israel going scorched earth. In fact, I think it pretty much sealed the deal because the deal was that you hand over these hostages or you risk complete annihilation. And I don't know if they're I don't honestly for the ones that are dead. And I think at this point, probably all the hostages are dead. I don't even think you'll get their remains back. I don't even think that Shiri Beavis's remains will ever be returned to her family. I don't think that she's alive. I hate saying that, but I just don't see how. And I don't think that they'll ever get her remains back. They literally thought that they could just put in some random Gazan woman in the coffin and hand it over. And then they actually had the audacity to say, well, can you go ahead and hand that one back? I mean, Hamas gave them a list of six hostages that they wanted released or 602 prisoners that they wanted released in exchange for these hostages. I don't think that at that point, I don't think that Israel should hand over a single damn prisoner because the prisoners that they took into custody. And this is something that. Either it's the biased media or it's people who are just anti-Semites or it's just Hamas that are running with these stories. The people that they took into custody are literally people that were caught trying to murder innocents, whether it was shooting them, whether it was trying to blow them up, whether they were suicide bombers. It's not like they went over to Gaza and kidnapped people and then took their own hostages. That's what Hamas wants you to believe. These were terrorists that were acting in coordination with Hamas that were trying to commit mass atrocities. That's why they were taken and imprisoned. And Hamas, this is what this is what gives me this story. Let me pull this up because this is a French press story. Hamas pretended to be surprised by the news that it wasn't Sheree Beavis' body in that coffin, and then they literally asked for the body back. In a statement, they reiterated its claim that there may have been, quote, an error or a mix-up, and Hamas called on Israel to return to Gaza the body of the Gazan woman that it handed over yesterday in place of Sheree. That's wow. This is just psychological terror. That's all they're doing here. That's all they're doing. It's amazing to me that they even asked for the body back. I mean, they not like Hamas cares about its own people that they govern. I mean, for crying out loud. I mean, they put their headquarters underneath a hospital. I don't I don't. I feel like you have a people that keep voting for war because they support Hamas. And at some point, I mean, enough is enough. When is it going to be enough? I mean, how many more babies have to be stuffed into ovens or beaten to death and strangled in dark tunnels for the world to go, you know what, let Israel take care of this problem because Israel can handle it. The problem is everyone else trying to weigh in on their decision. They need to just turn the whole strip to glass because you cannot... have a two-state solution with an entity that doesn't want it and an entity that has a populace, a population generationally predisposed by way of multiple generations of brainwashing terror and supporting terrorism. Why do you think Egypt wants none of these people within their territories? Why do you think Jordan does not want to accept any Gazan refugees? Why do you think Lebanon doesn't want them? Why do you think Qatar won't even take them? They'll take Hamas leaders and that's it. There's a reason why literally no other Arab nation wants refugees from that strip. Because whenever they come in, there is war. There is conflict. There is death. Go back and look at Lebanon in the 70s. Go back and look what happened in Egypt. Go back and look what happened any time that's happened that they've had refugees that they've taken. That's why they don't do it. So why should Israel be forced to? Or anybody else? It's just it's just sad. I know it's not the ending that anybody wanted. And it's just sad. I mean, you can't I don't care what your faith is. 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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
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Well, this is something that will guarantee to get a smile on your face. The layoffs recommended by Doge started hitting the IRS yesterday. All right. So that might warm my black and bitter heart just a little bit. Makes me a little happy. And they're all freaking out because they're saying it's tax filing season. And they said that that means that it's going to make it slower for you to get your money. No, it's not. The reductions are apparently going to hit. It's mainly enforcement. And. And I think all of the weeping and gnashing of teeth about the collections and all of that is just savor rattling. But from what I understand and what I've read, it's newly hired people, a lot of redundancies, and even those who haven't even been fully implemented into their roles at the department. And apparently there's like more cuts that they want to make. This is like the first round. So that all started yesterday. So that's some good news, you know, that you can look forward to. This... This is a weird story. So many Americans, they said COVID took out a lot of Americans and it boosted Social Security to the tune of 205 billion is what they're saying. That's incredibly morbid, if accurate. But that doesn't mean that it should stop any kind of audit. at all whatsoever. We're approaching the fifth anniversary of the start of the Wu flu. And apparently the virus affected so many that they said the Social Security Trust Fund is going to see a net increase of hundreds of billions of dollars. It's going to, at the same time, the gain is offset by the loss of tax revenue from those individuals, as well as increased survivor benefits to the families of the deceased. So really, is the savings, does it washout in the end. It's just weird. At the border, eggs are being confiscated by apparently a big, a sizable number because of the bird flu outbreak. They said more and more eggs are being confiscated and it's more expensive to bring them across the border because of additional scrutiny. 29% increase in eggs being confiscated at ports of entry compared to the same time last year, according to Customs and Border Patrol. We got a lot more on the way. Stick with us, our partners that help bring you the program, Super Beats. The Super Boreen product, kind of new for, well, sort of new. It's been out for about a year. And Super Boreen is a plant-based supplement. And it is formulated with an ingredient that helps to support your metabolism and your blood sugar levels. It's nearly three times more effective than your diet and exercise alone. So these are real results and it's super convenient to take. It's one easy to swallow capsule a day that helps you to do more to support your metabolic health and your blood sugar levels. It features clinically researched ingredients, including a berberine that's shown to have nearly 10 times higher absorption than standard berberine. It's used by doctors and all from the makers of the Super Beats hard shoes. So head to your nearest Sam's Club and save on the Super Beats hard shoes and the new Super Barine from Human. You'll love the way it makes you feel.
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The Democratic Party has in some ways become too much seen by too many Americans as the party of elites and institutions that have failed them. If you were talking about democracy over the dinner table, you probably didn't have to worry about the cost of the food on that table. If you had to worry about the cost of the food on your table, you're probably talking about that. And so I worry that the party of working people, the self-styled party of working people, is perceived by working people as elite and disdainful and removed from their experience.
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So that's David Axelrod. kind of giving like a postmortem of what has gone wrong with the Democrat Party. And I talked a little bit about this on Jesse Waters' program last night. And over at Substack, I have a piece up about this right now. It's not cool to be progressive anymore. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you, bottom of this second hour. Keep in mind that when I say, when I'm talking about progressivism, because I asked this question on X last night, and I am fascinated by the responses to this. I asked, when do you think progressivism became uncool? And by uncool, what I mean is, and you know this, everyone and everything that was considered included in our cultural zeitgeist was liberal slash progressive. Like Reagan ruined the word liberal for liberal, so now they changed it to progressive. Hollywood, art, academics, all of it. In order to be seen in those industries or be considered of influence in those industries, you... have to be from the left right that's just the nature that's something you all accept you know that if you're not that you would but if you were to watch the Oscars you know that it's going to be all leftist stuff right that's just the way it is so that's that was accepted it was always considered cool right the left was always portrayed as being the quote unquote open-minded or intellectual and deep thinking kind of movement, right? They wanted the veneer of classical liberalism while being illiberal themselves. So that's what I mean when I say cool, not like anyone thought they were hip or anything like that, but that's what I mean by this. And I was thinking about this last night because I read this piece Over at, where is it at? It's the Wall Street Journal. And it was called, quote, how MAGA is taking back the culture. And the subhead is in sports, entertainment and marketing displays of conservatism are crowding out progressive postures. And it was it's an interesting piece. And I cited it in my sub stack piece that I sent out to all of you subscribers yesterday. So, like, for instance, this is what the article says. Instead of taking a knee to call for social justice, NFL players are now doing the Trump dance in the end zone of football games. Mainstream entertainers, among them the country singer Carrie Underwood and even rapper Snoop Dogg, agreed to perform at events celebrating Donald Trump's inauguration. Something, the Wall Street Journal adds, music stars largely shunned eight years ago. A new generation of Trump-friendly comedians and wellness influencers are populating YouTube and other social media, while a snippet of audio featuring Barron and Melania has become one of the hottest online memes. And celebrities such as Paris Hilton and brands, including Frontier Airlines, use it in their TikTok and Instagram posts. And I was thinking about this. I'm like, so think about how hard... the left had to work to go at Trump and make him look toxic. Like it was very contrived and it took all of the left and it took all of their influence in academia. And it took all of Hollywood and all of the film industry and the music industry and everybody in the media, magazines, you know, it doesn't matter if it was a news media, it could be Vogue. It took all of these people colluded. They all worked together, this contrived hatred for not just Trump, but the right. And look how fast it dissipated. after the election. Look at how quickly, look how quickly. That's the other aspect of this that is so fascinating to me. It entirely dissipated after the election, except for maybe a few strongholds within the left, right? And they made an entire industry out of fomenting hate for Trump and for the right, an entire industry. And then when voters got the chance to choose between normal and bat crap crazy, they choose normal. They chose normal. It was the normie election, right? They wanted normal prices, normal lives, normal bills, normal problems, normal things, a normal society, a normal world. They weren't asking for the world. They just wanted normalcy. It's all they wanted. You had Democrats like James Carville to his credit. Now, I think he's wrong about so many things, but he's not unreasonable. I think he plays up the nastiness for the base sometimes. But he was sounding the alarm on this forever ago. And we played those audio soundbites on air and you just heard David Axelrod. David Axelrod started about a year or so ago. warning about, well, wait a minute, do the radicals know what they're going to get if they keep pushing this? Because they were watching voter enthusiasm. They were watching voter turnout amongst the left for midterms and then municipal elections and things like that. And they were also watching the coalition dwindle. You might remember, I think it was 10 years ago. No, I think it was longer than 10 years ago. When Democrats changed their plan, they changed their platform. They used to have pro-life Democrats in the Democrat Party. You used to have Democrats like Zell Miller. Even like Joe Manchin, who's now an independent. Kyrsten Sinema. They are actually considered moderates now because the party went so far ideologically left that they ran out even mildly pro-life Democrats. They were primary pro-life Democrats. There were certain issues that Democrats would allow for disagreement on so long as they came together on everything else, the 80-20, right? But something happened and they changed their platform and they ran them out. They began going after them. They wanted complete and total ideological and cultural hegemony. They wanted everything to be uniform. No daylight. Contrast that with what you've seen from the right. Just in the past eight years. Maybe a little longer. It's caused some problems. That aren't, you know, huge, but it's been a very kind of tricky to navigate. And it is a burgeoning coalition that the right created. Where you have the old school evangelical Republicans that are sitting next to, you know, maybe libertarian folks or shaved head. You know, they call them freaks probably back in the day, you know, like alternative type people who agree with them on 80 percent, but maybe not on 20 percent. So there's this like very interesting coalition that they've that the right has been able to create. And. the left used to be the valedictorians at making coalitions. And now it's like, they don't even know how to anymore. And now it's the right. When you start that, that helped to normalize a lot of the things that the right wanted to do. So I asked this yesterday, I'm like, when did progressivism become uncool? Because they were, as I said in the beginning, I don't mean like cool. Like you think it's up. I mean, they were the standard ideology for all of art, film, music, everything. And I don't know if it was when women started wearing pink knitted vaginal hats or when Hillary Clinton tried to pretend that she was down with black America by having hot sauce in her bag. Or, as someone suggested, maybe it was when they tried to mentally force-feed kids trans ideology in the most inappropriate and uncomfortable of ways. Or maybe it was when they made everyone stay indoors for two years and wear useless masks and inject themselves with experimental non-vaccines that were actually more therapeutic because they didn't provide any immunity at all whatsoever, and they sent people to jail for trying to pay their bills. Or maybe... It's when they stopped being able to take a joke. And they chose to be constantly offended all the time. Or maybe it's when they started writing and burning things down. I don't know. I do know. I think the epitaph of cool progressivism ended there. Kamala Harris. I think she's the epitaph of it. When they sent her on podcasts with people she didn't even know because they were trying to get her to plant her flag in the cultural sphere and she fell on her face. One of the great answers I got, a listener, Anna Zeigler said, quote, when their policy preferences shifted from focusing on intangible intellectual things to like pushing welfare and taxing the rich to public displays of men dressed as women, kids watching drag, men competing against women. That's a really good point. Like Gamergate smearing masculinity, mocking traditionally American values. People got so tired of this nonstop grievance industry. Nobody likes a person who's always negative or combative or perpetually looking for offense. They don't like that. And it doesn't matter if it's political or not. So this has been a shift decades in the making. some of the answers that I got, and there were hundreds of them, are so good. Like someone said, when they started being more for war than peace, that was one of the responses I got. When they came after the kids, when they came after sports, when they stopped talking about the issues that mattered to Americans and began focusing on the issues that only mattered to Hollywood was one answer. someone said when they left the blue collar voter behind. I thought that was very interesting, too, because remember, that was another thing that Democrats used to be known for. Right. And then I love the answers from some people who are like, well, it was never cool from my perspective. And again, I'm talking about like generally society. They it was very interesting. Very interesting responses. I wanted to play this, if we have time, really quickly. Poot Booty Juice, his audio on this. This was, sorry, Audio Sunbite 13. Listen.
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A little bit of that event you described, and it was a caricature of everything that's wrong with our ability both to cohere as a party and to reach to those who don't always agree with us. And we cannot go on like that. We cannot. I also think that we believe in the values that we care about for a reason. And this is not about abandoning those values. It's about making sure we're in touch with the first principles that animate them. What do we mean when we talk about diversity? Is it caring for people's different experiences and making sure no one's mistreated because of them, which I will always fight for? Or is it making people sit through a training that looks like something out of Portlandia, which I have also experienced? And it is how it is how Trump Republicans are made. If that comes to your workplace with the best of intentions, I will say he's repeating stuff that Carville has said.
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But you have to remember, because they were saying that they want their party back, like they got to take their party back. And I'm like, for what? Like to what? Like the zygote stage of insane, illiberal, anti-science Marxism? Like, what do you mean back to what? Because nobody's there. All the people, most everybody left. They became independents or they went and voted for Trump. These are these are operatives that used far left activists as pawns for the Democrat Party. They needed agitators when it came time to get out the vote. But they messed up because they were determined to keep these agitators happy. And so they placated them so they could use them in the future. So they adopted their stances. They enshrined them in the Democrat Party and they adopted them and made their issues part of their platform. So they're part of this problem. David Axelrod was part of the Valerie Jarrett orchestration of Obama-Biden. Most of the original Democrats are gone. Democrats use judgment and harassment to keep members in line. And the right makes everybody focus on the 80-20 rule. Last quick thing on this. I love this point that a listener made. They said, quote, it was never cool because it was never progressive. It has always been about regressive. It never moved society forward. It's always been about breaking society. I think that's exactly right. Because it was exactly that. I mean, progress where? Progress with what? Bigger government? More taxes? More border chaos? Everyone on prescription drugs? Like what? It was about breaking society because it was only ever a Marxist counter to the conservation of individual liberty, which is what conservatism is. And it nearly damn near did break society. But people woke up and they looked around and they voted accordingly. I don't know how the rest of the story is going to go, but I know for certain Democrats won't be the ones leading it. for now. Strength and vitality inside and out. Native Path Collagen delivers the two most essential collagen types that your body needs to support strong bones and flexible joints. With type one and three collagen without unnecessary fillers, you'll enjoy smoother movement, resilient skin, and the confidence that comes with looking and feeling your best. You'll love Native Path Collagen because it'll keep your joints feeling strong and your skin looking smooth. And you can use it daily in your morning coffee to start the day feeling your best. And best of all, Native Path offers incredible bundle deals that let you stock up and save big. So you can grab a three pack or even a six pack at a fraction of the price compared to other collagen brands. And it's the perfect way to stay consistent with your daily collagen routine while keeping more money in your pocket. Visit GetNativePath.com slash Dana today and stock up on Native Path Collagen for up to an incredible 45% off, plus get free shipping. Every order comes with a 365-day money-back guarantee, so you can try it risk-free today.
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It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man.
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So, first up here. This Florida man who says that he owns land underwater is apparently lost another court battle. know what this is about. This is just cracking me up. Palm Beach County, a Florida man notorious for claiming ownership of submerged land across Florida, has lost another legal battle in a ruling, a major ruling. A Florida judge rejected his latest claim to attempt to claim public land. So it's another defeat for this guy. His company, South Spanish Trail, says Local 10, had sued major tech firms, including GlobeNet and Caribbean Crossings, demanding $250 million in damages for the removal of fiber optic cables from the intercoastal waterway near Boca Raton. He argued that the submerged lands where the cables run belong to him rather than the state of Florida six years. And they finally said no. You know this has to cost him a ton of money. So where does he get this money from? Because this has not worked in any of the cases that he filed on this. He keeps losing over and over again. I mean, I guess he's got the money to burn. I mean, some people, Juan's showing you, he's like trying to claim all this submerged land. This is wild. This... Hang on, I wanted to pull this crazy story up because it has to do with AI. So a disabled Florida woman was banned. She was banned from using an AI voice clone because she made it say a bad word. I can't believe this. She has motor neuron disease, which leads to gradual loss of muscle control. She's a South Floridian woman named Joyce Esser. She lost her voice and an AI tool company or developed by a company called Eleven Labs brought her old voice back. But then they took it away and banned her voice because she she apparently incidentally trained it to say A.R.S.E. A bad word. So they told her she couldn't use it anymore. I'm telling you what, no good deed, right? Third hour next. All Family Pharmacy provides the prescriptions you need. And they have a doctor that signs off on the prescriptions. They can send everything out in like, what, two to four days overnight too. They can overnight it if you really need it. But they have customizable orders. They have emergency kits tailored to your needs and they support your medical independence. So I use them like, for instance, over Thanksgiving, I was getting serious sinusitis and it was turning into strep. And I'm like, I am hosting Thanksgiving. This is insane. and I immediately was on allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana. First time I did use Code Dana 10, and I got my 10% discount off my entire order. But you can get, you know, they have tons of different medications. They even have ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine as well, tons of antibiotics, over 200 other drugs. essential medications and I ordered what I needed like amoxicillin azithromycin and you know that again medical professionals doctors are like this is you know how you take it this is the you know the dosage etc but it's simple fast and affordable no insurance no problem the pricing straightforward and and it's all from the USA none of this stuff is input from China and It's not outsourced. It's made in the USA so you can rest easy. Visit allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana for 10% off using promo code Dana. That's allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana. Promo code Dana10. That gets you 10% off. Don't wait. Put your order in today.
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really been the one to call it out. The fact that I'm rooting for Canada and I'm rooting for Mexico a lot is really wild. But they are really the ones that are speaking truth to power right now. They can see what it is. And they were like, we are not messing with this crazy regime from Miralago and basically calling them thugs. That's what it is. But I'm like, y'all knew who he was when y'all elected him. So don't act surprised.
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Jasmine Crockett. She's giving AOC a real run for her money. I wonder if there's some feelings of competitiveness between the two. Really, she's, I don't know. I'm like, I'm coming. I don't know if I can make up my mind who says the goofiest stuff day in and day out. I really don't know. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. We're at the top of this third hour in the program. And that was Texas's Jasmine Crockett. She's saying she's rooting for Canada and she's rooting for Mexico. She said, but they're the ones speaking truth to power. What does that phrase mean? That's so stupid. Speaking truth to power. That's just like some Kamala Harris word salad nonsense. I've heard this phrase over and over again. And I'm just like, what does that even mean? Speaking truth. That's a stupid phrase that people say when they have nothing else to fill the space with. I mean, there's truth and then there's a lie. So what is truth to power? It doesn't make any sense. I don't get it. She just doesn't like the United States. That's okay. So she's backing Canada and Mexico because she's, I guess, happier with them. She's happier with the president of Mexico who doubled down on her defense of cartels. Because she was upset that POTUS, that they're designating these like seven different cartels as terrorist entities, which they are, by the way. I mean, it's kind of crazy that Mexico hasn't done it first. But here we are. I think that says her statement says way more about her than it does about the administration. I mean, it really does. I mean, she can go and live in Mexico and Canada if she likes it so much more and just see if her quality of life has improved or if she finds that she is freer in either of those countries than she is in the United States. I think that she just one of the reasons I think that these these some of these lawmakers on the left come out and say these stupid things is because they're trying to get famous. And they know that we live in a clickbait culture. That's why you see certain things on social media, especially with some folks that are kind of on the left. And I see it with some on the right, but I definitely see the people on the left. They say these crazy things. Some, many of them, I will say, believe it, but they do it because they want the interaction. They want people, they want the feedback because they subscribe to that belief that, well, you know, bad press is better than no press. And so that's, that's what they subscribe to. And I think that's what you're seeing with her because they saw AOC do it and they, AOC made it like her whole shtick, right? And I think that Jasmine Crockett is looking at that model and saying, well, I'm going to do this for myself. And that's why she goes out and says the stuff that she does. But she's free to go. She likes it so much. She can go and live in any of those countries and see how freer she is. It's just goofy. This is just asinine stuff. Some of the stuff we've been talking about And covering has been this budget bill, which I'm livid about. And you should be upset about as well. People have been asking if they think Trump will veto it. I don't know that he will. And I don't I don't know that he won't either. But I don't know that he will. And the reason I say that is and so far they haven't telegraphed just yet. quite yet what they're going to do with us. But I really feel like he wants to get going and do as much as possible. Of course, he's not going to be able to do that if Congress isn't making permanent all of this stuff, because otherwise, I mean, he's just not going to you're going to have whoever comes in, heaven forbid, if we get a Democrat that comes in in 2028, which we will, you'll know, you'll know that if we start losing, if we lose the House, we could lose the House in midterms. We could lose the Senate. I mean, the Senate, we have a little bit more room in the Senate, but the House is razor thin. If we lose one or both chambers in midterms, there's a really good chance I think we'll have a Democrat in 28, which is a terrifying prospect because you have to think all of this stuff that Trump is doing right now, they will literally spend their first several days on doing every bit of it. And it will be just as historic because they will have done every bit of everything that Trump has done because Congress didn't make any of it permanent. you have to accompany it with legislation because it's only in effect for as long as he's in office. And I think, I really want him to veto it and fight it, but I don't know if he will because there is so much that must be done and this is where leadership is really gonna get tested. His leadership is really gonna get tested. And just the reality of the situation is and this is with anybody who's in. And I don't think that I think Trump is a little bit more protected from this than than most previous Republican presidents. But they but the the reality is still the reality that as a president. starts heading towards the end of their term and they term out, they do start losing that influences other perspectives rise. And he really has to act on this time right now when he has the most momentum, the most power to get this stuff done. So if he was going to veto it and have this fight with them, this is the time to do it. I don't know if he's going to do it. So that's something that we're all kind of holding our breath and waiting to see. I think it's worth it for him to do. And I think if he doesn't fight them on this stuff, then he is underestimating his own influence. These lawmakers are counting on him to underestimate his ability to put pressure on them. And I think that this is actually... I do think that this is a blind spot, a blind spot for Trump. He's got people in his ear telling him where to put pressure on that. But I hope that he also has people in his ear saying, you know what? All of these people that just voted to not extend your tax cuts and provide relief to the American people will feel the pressure if you just apply it. And he is safe from having to play chess because he's not counting. Granted, he's going to count on some of these people to get his to to solidify. And it's not just his agenda. Hell, we all voted for it. So I want people to stop saying it's the Trump agenda. It's our agenda. And that's what these people in Congress need to realize. If they're voting, they're not standing against Trump's agenda. They're standing against the voters agenda, what the voters chose. I voted for this. I voted for tax cuts. I voted for cutting spending. You voted for this. We all came out together in support of this. So don't let them weasel out of their duty to you by just saying, oh, well, it's the Trump agenda. It's your agenda. It's our agenda. That's how he needs to put pressure on these lawmakers. You've seen him apply pressure in other lesser areas before. He doesn't have to worry about playing political chess because he's not up for reelection. After this, he's probably going to go and retire to Mar-a-Lago and, you know, play golf with his grandkids and enjoy life. He can still be a kingmaker for Mar-a-Lago, but he doesn't have to worry about netting the support of some of these lawmakers or some of these other donors for another reelection. He is free to put on the pressure. I'm telling you, this is the time that he's got to do it. As the weeks go by and we roll into midterms and everyone starts filing and they start their campaigns for office or reelection campaigns, you're going to lose a lot of that willingness to to come to the table and invoke some serious cuts i think that they can i'm going to pull this up to you because you know i will say uh bill clinton even i can't even believe i'm saying this he did actually uh cut a lot of uh government i will say he did shrink the federal government Now, this is back. Here's my caveat. This is back before Democrats were fully nuts. OK, this is when they still had moderates. They still had pro-life Democrats. I'm not defending them because they were still wrong on almost everything. But this is when they were in the fetus level of full, fully realized Marxism. OK, so he did actually cut. Now, the other caveat to that is he cut government so then they could turn around and push Hillary care. So I do recognize that. But he did cut hundreds of thousands from the federal workforce. That is true. And do you know what's so funny? Let me pull this up. This was USA Today. So one of the things that the press is trying to do, because for the first time I've seen the Democrat Party and the press not on the same page. Usually they're cohesive. And Democrats can't get their messaging right. They're having an existential crisis. Meanwhile, you do have at least well, not at least you do have some smarter people in the press that are seeing this. And they're like, oh, my gosh, we've got to figure out a way to salvage this. So I'm starting to see this narrative emerge. People went back into history. And they started looking, well, when did a Democrat do this? And now here's Bill Clinton. They're leaving out the fact that Bill Clinton used this as justification for massively expanding government health care with Hillary care, which was a disaster, by the way. Absolute disaster. That's like her biggest anchor. But he did cut about 400,000 jobs from the federal workforce. Again, he had an ulterior motive. So Democrats are going back and saying, oh, no, no, no. Trump isn't the first to do this. Look at what Clinton did. So they actually like it because it used to be part of Democrats' messaging, but they lost it when they went full on Marxism. So now they're trying to look back, oh, no, way back in the 90s. When some of you weren't alive, Bill Clinton cut this mini from the federal workforce. Oh, he did it before Trump. So you like it. So wait a minute. It's either we're having a constitutional meltdown because we're cutting government jobs or, hey, we're cutting government jobs. Bill Clinton did it first, so we're better. Which is it, losers? Which is it? Pick a narrative. You can't have it both ways. Can't have it both ways. In fact, Al Gore had a, I'm going to put this in Slack. This was a Reuters photo. And this was one of the USA Today pieces. Al Gore had a press conference. This is back before he was asking masseuses to release his chakra. He had this press conference and it was the make sure I get this right. The National Performance Review Initiative. It was a Pentagon briefing. He had William Cohen, who was the defense secretary at the time. They announced that they were cutting twenty eight thousand jobs from U.S. military civilian bureaucracy. Right. And he said that they were trying to do this to work towards a balanced budget. And he held up this book called Business Like Government. And this was during this whole move to cut the federal workforce and cut some of the redundancy and cut a lot of the bureaucracy. So now USA Today's writing this. There was something, I think it was a Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine had noted it on their website. Now they think, at least some of the media, and I think they're trying to get the Democrats to catch on. Now they're trying to argue that, no, no, no, government cuts are okay. Win Democrats. And again, I want to reemphasize this. It was done as a caveat. The caveat to this is it was done to make Hillary care more tolerable to the American public so that they could go out and say, we cut all these jobs. Oh, by the way, we're going to be doing this massive expanse. And Hillary cares, you know, didn't happen. It was a total failure and she fell on her face. But that's the only reason they did it. They didn't really care about shrinking government. They did it because they were actually trying to expand it elsewhere. Yeah. But at least they understood the optics of it. So I just find this fascinating that the media is like, wait a minute. Are they okay or are they not okay to cut this amount of bureaucracy from the government? Our sponsors that help bring you the program. It's the non-firearm, firearm, burn a gun, BYRNA. If you want to protect yourself in a gun-free zone area. I suggest diversifying your weapons array. 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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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The NCAA has complied immediately, by the way. That's good. But I understand Maine. Is Maine here, the governor of Maine? Are you not going to comply with it?
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I'm complying with state and federal law.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, we are the federal law. Well, you better do it. You better do it because you're not going to get any federal funding at all if you don't. And by the way, your population, even though it's somewhat liberal, although I did very well there, your population doesn't want men playing in women's sports. So you better comply because otherwise you're not getting any federal funding.
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I'll see you in court.
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Every state... Good, I'll see you in court. I look forward to that. That should be a real easy one. And enjoy your life after governor, because I don't think you'll be in elected politics.
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Inject this into my veins. I want to play this just nonstop on a loop for the rest of the show. I want to play that soundbite nonstop. Just that is OK. That is my favorite soundbite so far this year. That literally just happened. That was Trump meeting with the governors and. I am just I can't. This is amazing. So he was talking to the main governor of Maine, Janet Mills, because she is refusing to comply with the executive order about men and women's sports. And he's like, yeah, well, you better. He just like looks at her. He's like, yeah, you over there. I'm sorry. Can I have this one more time? I just I think we all need it because.
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Are you not going to comply with it?
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I'm complying with state and federal laws.
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Well, we are the federal law. Well, you better do it. You better do it because you're not going to get any federal funding at all if you don't. And by the way, your population, even though it's somewhat liberal, although I did very well there, your population doesn't want men playing in women's sports. So you better comply because otherwise you're not getting any federal funding. Every state... Good, I'll see you in court. I look forward to that. That should be a real easy one. I love this so much. And enjoy your life after, Governor, because I don't think you'll be in elected politics.
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He just does not care. Enjoy your meal after that, Governor Mills. Oh, my gosh. He just doesn't care. I love it. You know what? It's about time somebody called these people out to their faces. I love it. This is the Trump that people love. This right here. This is what they voted for. I bet people in Massachusetts that don't like her are losing their minds with glee right now. I love it. And she's sitting right there. And the audacity of her, well, I'll see you in court. And he's like, yeah, I will see you in court. Yeah, we are the federal law. You have to comply. I was told, guys, I was told that not complying is an insurrection. That's what I was told, that it's an insurrection. I, oh, my gosh. I'm not... I love this soundbite. I want to make it into like something tangible so I can become best friends with it. And we can go and get our photos taken at Olin Mills. That's how much I love this soundbite. Oh my gosh. In fact, you know what I want to, you know what Pat chops should do? They should make like one of those QR codes on the back of a shirt. And then when you do it, it just goes to that clip. Oh my gosh. Or a hat patch where it just goes to that clip. Oh, my gosh. I love this clip so much. It's my best friend. I love this clip. Oh, and he's like, yeah, you better do it because you're not going to get any federal funding. I mean, I can't. I am best friends with this clip. That's amazing. And I'm glad that somebody this this is what I need POTUS to do to the Senate. To that budget bill. Oh, my gosh. If he does this. To Republicans in the Senate, like, no, no, no, this is not what the people voted for. They voted for tax cuts. Where are my tax cuts? Do you know the support he would get? Do you know the support he would get for that? You can't see, but I have chills right now. If he did that, if POTUS pushed back on weak Republicans and said, give me what I want, you will cement my executive orders into law with legislation and you will do it. And he had I would march to protest in support of it in D.C. Hells yes, I would. Oh, my gosh. Please make this happen. This is the Trump we need to deal with these jokers in the Senate. We need it. The the margin is so small in the House. And it was the House that gave him the bill he wanted. And by he wanted, I mean that we voted that we wanted that we voted for, you know, tax cuts and reduced spending and all this stuff. It was a great first like kick out right out of the gate. And then the Senate's like, here you go. Three hundred forty three billion and more spending. No tax cuts. Oh, maybe we'll come back and do more. Maybe we won't. This is if he if he reacted to those Republicans with this energy and threatened to veto it. They would have to comply. I regret to inform the Republicans in the Senate that they do not have the kind of support that POTUS has. Maybe I'll want to learn something from it. See, you can sit here and extol the virtues of the Cruzes and the Blackburns and all these other folks. But with voters, it is what have you done for me lately? We just watched two weeks. We woke up every morning depressed because we saw what our money's being spent on. And then they voted not to give us tax relief. Not even that. They voted not to even extend the tax cuts. And they voted for more spending. What? So if these Republicans think that they have support, their support stops with the last good thing that they did for voters. You get POTUS swashbuckling in there doing this, saying you better vote for this or I will. Oh, my gosh. Please inject it into my veins. That my dad soundbites my new best friend now. It's my best friend, and I'm going to refer to it forever. And I will play it. The chat wants to play it nonstop. I will play it, I promise, one more time before we end the segment. Juan's going to just do it now. The chat's demanding that we do it again.
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The NCAA has complied immediately, by the way. That's good. But I understand Maine. Is Maine here, the governor of Maine? Are you not going to comply with it?
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I'm complying with the state and federal laws.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, we are the federal law. Well, you better do it. You better do it because you're not going to get any federal funding at all if you don't. And by the way, your population, even though it's somewhat liberal, although I did very well there, your population doesn't want men playing in women's sports. So you better comply because otherwise you're not getting any federal funding.
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I'll see you in court.
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Every state... Good, I'll see you in court. I look forward to that. That should be a real easy one. And enjoy your life after governor because I don't think you'll be in elected politics.
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We're going to save the soundbite forever. This is one of the best ones. This is one of the best ones. This is exactly what we want to see. Can you believe that? First off, think about this for a minute. I'm going to I'm pulling out. This is one of the things I'm doing on break here. Or actually, while that was playing, I'm pulling up. He actually did really well in Massachusetts. I got to say he did very, very well in Massachusetts. And he in looking at this. He did. He performed better than previous players. previous Republicans there. I mean, well, Romney did kind of good there, but that was Romney because he had been and was governor there. But, I mean, they already have election 2028 polls out now. I'm going to jump off my roof. But he did incredibly well in Massachusetts. Massachusetts, I mean, it's a blue state, but he ended up performing better than he did in 2016. And those issues, and this is what I'm pulling up, is my saved exit data. So Massachusetts, they were immigration, inflation, inflation, immigration, those were all huge issues. And then also men's and women's sports as well. These are all major issues. Sorry, Maine, not Massachusetts. Maine, he did... I'm actually looking at Maine, and I'm saying Massachusetts, and I have no idea why. I'm sorry. I'm looking at all of this information. He performed better in Maine. Actually, I don't even have Massachusetts up, so I don't know how I did. He performed better in Maine than he did in 2016, and it was inflation, immigration, and then there was a lot of movement on men's and women's sports, and there were a lot of parents that were up in arms in Maine about that. There were a lot of school board battles. I mean, it was not... It wasn't those battles like in Virginia or in our town in Texas. It wasn't an outlier. It was that's like that was sort of the that's the mainstream standard as to where voters were. And Maine's a pretty blue means a pretty blue state. He did perform better than he did in 2016. And now I can't even imagine. I don't have... I was looking to see if there's any state-by-state polling that shows maybe an accurate measure of how people... Because how people are viewing him now. We have national polls that have 53% approval. I would imagine, especially on the issues that... voters in these states raised a lot of ire about in Maine was one of them that that's only going to boost his approval in that state and that tanks her that tanks Mills I can't even imagine I can't even imagine how she comes out after that they have she did very I mean he did well I mean it was 52 to 45 for Harris but Clinton outperformed that during 2016. So he did better. He performed better. And I would imagine after a lot of these issues that he's making ground on, this was one of the issues. Again, these were the top three issues for Maine. And I'm looking at exit polling data. This was New York Times. It's New York Times, Fox News, and CNN. Those are the top three issues. I can't imagine voters watching that exchange walking away thinking that Janet Mills looks good in this. I can't imagine it. So I don't think that he is over his skis by telling her this. Nor do I think that they would be successful in a lawsuit with us. I mean, what are you... You're dealing with Title IX. You're... I mean, you're actually... incorporating discrimination against women in order to make that sort of competition men and women's sports a reality I mean there's I don't see how that withstands legal scrutiny of course we have a lot of dumb judges I gotta be honest I mean he wasn't able to replace all of them in his you know his first term so we'll see but apologies for that I was looking at Maine and I'm saying Massachusetts and I have no idea why it's Friday my brain is fried I'm like it's an M uh-huh So my apologies for that. It's one of those days, guys. And yeah, Lorraine's like Lorraine and Juan are freaking out. I'm like, I'm looking at me, but I'm saying Massachusetts. It's your girls having one of those. It's because that damn soundbite. All I want to do is play that soundbite because I feel like we've had such a bare knuckle fight week that and then the news this morning with that bill in the Senate. I had a friend tell me, and she doesn't follow, she's like almost one of those apolitical people. She's like a Martian. Well, she was. And she was asking me about, you know, the cuts with Doge and all of this other stuff. And, you know, she was like, does it really have like that much of an impact immediately? And I was explaining to her, I'm like, well, let's look at it. You know, we're trying to balance the budget. We're trying to get to like a very good point fiscally. We're on the edge of a cliff. We've got crazy inflation. I mean, the retail sector is giving us tons of warning signs right now, which is something we're going to be talking about next week. And this is it's unsustainable. I mean, we really we're going to have to implement serious cuts. And people are going to get very, very upset about it because those cuts will be felt pretty much immediately. And then for the growth to generate, that's going to take a little bit more time because you have to open up energy, number one, which is actually the first thing that he did right out of the gate, which was smart. You have to open up energy production. You have to open up and stop a lot of the restrictions that came from the Biden administration as it pertains to business. The thing that I had Carol Roth on the other day talking about was small businesses and reporting. That has to be immediately done away with because you're killing small business. And that's the 80 percent that that's the engine of the economy. There was something about the new jobs being created, like 80 percent of it was coming from that sector. There's so many things that that need to happen to generate that growth. And people are going to feel the cuts before they experience the growth. And so we've got to get started on that and handle that now because you know how Democrats are going to message that. And I was telling my friend, look, this is what happens when you have unleashed energy. You're going to be seeing cheaper energy. You're going to be seeing cheaper prices at the grocery store. When you cut spending and you're cutting taxes, you're immediately – that's like a pay increase, a major pay increase to the average American family. And I said that's something that they're going to be able to actually tell, particularly with prices, within several months. And I'm going through all of this with her, and she's getting it. I need Republicans to get out there and message that more to voters because it feels like they're not. Well, it doesn't. I mean, there are too many people that are kind of scratching their head. They need to explain that. The benefit of cost cutting and tax cuts simultaneously, instead of sending everybody $5,000 dividends, you need to message, look, you're going to have permanent tax cuts, and we're also going to cut spending. And then you're going to see, here's the timeline for this. This is when you're going to see the benefit to it. They need to be doing that instead of just a $5,000 check.
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So two things. Pam Bondi says that the Jeff, the Jeffrey Epstein client list is sitting on her desk ready for a review. I'll totally help review. I'll totally help review. I'll review it. Anybody want to help? I know y'all would, right? So that's there. And then Bill Malugin just reported that Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass just fired the Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristen Crowley effective immediately. And she's holding a press conference. And she's also blamed Crowley for not warning her about the imminent fire risk. This is going to be a fight. And I am here for it. Tea will be spilled like crazy. So some entertaining things for you to watch. All right. Today in stupidity, I think, Steve, you have a selection.
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I'm in for Mr. King today. Yes, you are. Elise Slotkin is talking about Pete Hegseth, and she's talking about how his combat experience. It's a 23-1.
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Wow. I mean, we've always had an apolitical military. People who have served and risked their life way more than Mr. Hegseth and have put themselves on the line without a political affiliation. So I think it's deeply disturbing for our apolitical military. And it's hard to miss that the chairman is African-American and the secretary is female. I mean, those are things that are hard to miss.
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What? That's a bad soundbite. She's a moron. That's good heavens. All right, folks, God bless. Have a great weekend. I will be back with you on Monday. Till then.
In this riveting episode, we delve into the hot topic of the Doge dividend proposed by Trump, examining the varied perspectives of Americans on fiscal responsibility versus personal gain. With a backdrop of the alarming fentanyl crisis discussed fervently in the studios, we connect the dots between illegal immigration and economic woes, exploring how these pressing issues are interlinked with national security. Join us as Mike Geller uncovers layers of policy decisions, media influence, and the complexities of modern conservatism.
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I had a funny feeling about the U.S.-Canada hockey game last night. I don't know. I just had a hunch that maybe the U.S. couldn't pull it off. Did you watch the game? I don't even know what it is. I'm not a huge hockey fan, admittedly. I think these are... professional hockey players from our country, and I guess theirs, right? Playing some kind of multi-country tournament, four countries. And look, how do you get mad at Canada? I can get mad at a lot of countries around the world. There's plenty of countries I can get mad at. I can get mad at Mexico. I can get mad at the UK. I can get mad at France. For some reason, I don't have it in me to get mad at Canada. So I'm not really heartbroken that we lost last night. If you didn't hear, it was overtime. Heartbreaking loss. 3-2. Canada won. Trudeau dunked on Trump. Because Trump is trolling Canada by threatening to make them the 51st state. Look, I'm not one to criticize or contradict my president. You know how much I appreciate him. He's trolling them. There's all this media analysis. Oh, I think he might be serious. Oh, it might be real. He doesn't want to make Canada the 51st state. Would you knock it off? And he does these trolls. He does these things. I was watching The Five yesterday. It was tolerable because Harold Ford was on. One of these days, maybe we ought to interview Harold Ford. I like him more and more. I know he's a Democrat, but he's a reasonable Democrat. And there are some left. I cannot tolerate Jessica Tarloff. I cannot stand Richard, what's his name, Fowler. They've got a couple of them on there that are just useless, but Harold is pretty reasonable. Kind of a moderate Democrat, and he gives Trump and the Republicans credit often when others will not. And so I forget who it was that did a monologue. It was probably Gutfeld. Gutfeld, incidentally, who's now the king of the hill. Man, they did a cover story on him in Variety magazine this week and point out that he clobbers everybody in the ratings. He's beating all of the unfunny late-night comedians on ABC, NBC, and CBS. He beats them all. And, you know, it's funny. It's subjective. TV shows are subjective. What you like, I don't like. What I may like, you don't like. It's okay. I don't like that show. I don't like that. This is just me. I don't like the cat timph and the tyrus and the comics they always say. I don't know. I don't like it. It's a studio audience. It just feels forced and canned. But, hey, what do I know? The show does great in the ratings. People are watching it. And somebody did a monologue. It was either Jesse or Greg on The Five yesterday. And I'm almost positive it was Greg. Laughing about the way Trump continues to troll the media and they fall for it every single time. They constantly fall for it. They are always taking the bait. Whether it's, we're going to make Canada the 51st state. Tracy, it'd be great if we could find that, or Christian, find that monologue. And it was about halfway into the show yesterday on The Five. And I'm almost positive it was Greg Gutfeld. And he was joking about how it's hysterical how the media continually falls for it. He made an analogy of like throwing... Oh, you know who it was? It was Jesse. It was Jesse talking about... Trump acts like the big brother and the media, the mainstream media, is the little sister. And you know how the big brother is constantly flicking the ears of the little sister? You know how the big brother is constantly picking on the little sister? And she falls for it every time. He flicks her ears or he taps her on the back and makes her turn around. And it's, Mom, Dad, Johnny's picking on me again. That's Trump with the media. And they do it every time. They always fall for it. They always take him seriously. Every single time. Every single time. We're going to make Canada the 51st state. Oh, no. He's going to make Canada the 51st state. And he has no intention of making Canada the 51st state. And so Canadians are all freaked out. They're booing our Star Spangled Banner. I mean, the only reason I wanted us to win last night was because the Canadians booed the Star Spangled Banner. But then last night, when they sang the Canadian anthem, Americans booed it. And when the national anthem, the United States, the American anthem was sung, the national anthem was sung, It gave me chills because the whole arena in Boston did a full-throated, rousing, in unison rendition of the Star Spangled Banner. And it was a beautiful moment. And look, you want to boo us, Canada? We'll boo you back. Who cares? Christian has a B-roll that we play on Salem News Channel that I saw a moment ago. of the United States-Canada rivalry, and there's fans outside the arena. And the two of these guys are like chest-bumping each other, and they're yelling at each other. But then at the end of the B-roll, everybody's kind of fist-pumping each other and shaking hands and laughing together. That's how it is with Canada. We got nothing against Canada. It's not the end of the world. Meanwhile, good things continue to come out of the White House. J.D. Vance telling CPAC yesterday, look, we get illegals out of America and make sure American tax dollars go to the American people. That's how you solve the fiscal crisis. We had a really interesting debate yesterday about the idea of this Doge dividend. And look, I want to make sure you understand me here because there was a caller, I think from Houston, who said he had $100 to his name, but he doesn't want to take the $5,000 as proposed potentially by the Trump administration because we've got to pay down the debt. And I'm like, wait a minute. You're dead broke. You've got kids probably. You don't have any money, and you would reject a $5,000 payment, which came from the wasteful spending that Trump is uncovering with Doge. Are you kidding me? I mean, I don't want to call you any names, but how dopey is that? Take the money. And then a lot of you called in and said, well, I wouldn't take it either, and I don't have a lot of money, but we've got to pay down the debt. We've got to pay down the deficit. And that's very noble that you want to pay down the deficit. You want to know how to pay down the deficit? Take $5,000 and pay off your bills. Do you have credit card debt? Do you owe maybe five grand in credit card bills? Take the $5,000 from Doge and pay off your credit cards. You're paying down your own personal deficit. You're handling your affairs. And Trump's argument is, Let's give this back to the taxpayer. And I've kind of done a little bit of a deep dive on the idea of this Doge payment. Like, look, it may not happen. It could be a long shot. But then again, with this guy, anything could happen. And yes, as many of you pointed out, this would only be reserved for those of us who've paid federal income tax. You haven't paid federal income tax, you don't get a $5,000 Doge dividend payment back. But if you've paid your federal taxes... It's like Eric Hansen from my team brought up yesterday. We want a refund. Give us some of our money back. We're not happy with the services you're providing. With all this waste and all this corruption and USAID and all this crap, all the stupid stuff we've been studying the tsetse flies in Sudan at our expense, give me some of my money back. And that's kind of what this does. So I want to revisit this for just a few minutes here on a Friday episode of the Mike Gallagher Show in the Relief Factor Studios. Our number is 800-655-MIKE. Let's spend a couple of minutes. Talking about, and again, I'm going to respect you, and I respect the guy in Houston. Hey, he's looking out for his country, I guess. He doesn't have any, he's got $100 to his name, but he doesn't want $5,000 that Dojan covers because he wants to pay down the deficit. It's a noble argument. I don't know how realistic that is. But let's open our phone lines up and dive into it together. 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. Call or text, however you get here. Get here and join us on a Friday episode of The Mike Gallagher Show. There's no better time than right now to call my friends at PhD weight loss and nutrition to start your journey to a healthier you. As I hear from you about how PhD weight loss and nutrition has changed your life. I know that each one of us has had our own reasons for starting. I started my journey because I gained enough weight and was ready to make a change. I sat down with Dr. Ashley Lucas. And like they say, the rest was history. I lost 53 pounds and I've kept it off. We all have different reasons for starting. 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He's the happy conservative warrior. From the Relief Factor Studios, here's Mike Deller.
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I have to tell you that coming into work these days, you have an extra spring in your step. It's so different from what it was during the Biden administration. I'm getting a lot of text messages and calls from our Chicagoland folks, our audience in Chicago. and in Illinois where there was a horrific discovery of enough fentanyl to kill 1.5 million people. And, of course, it was illegals. The police had to go through a dangerous chase to capture the illegals who were carrying around enough fentanyl to kill over 1.5 million people. You know, the stakes are high, but the solution is easy. People like Jake Tapper talk about the cruelty of the Trump administration. And the Jake Tappers of the world ignore the cruelty of having enough fentanyl to kill 1.5 million people. I have friends who lost their kids to fentanyl overdoses. We know of the fentanyl epidemic with illegals bringing drugs into our country, poisoning and killing American citizens. And it's real simple. Despite the media's effort to make you feel like Trump is being cruel, Trump is being mean, the administration doesn't care, we're going to see crying babies, where is mama going, where is papa going, this is terrible. The reality is clear. You want to make America great again? We have to get illegal immigrants out of the country. And I know that sounds harsh. Perhaps Vice President J.D. Vance can persuade you. If I'm not persuasive enough, here's what he said this week at CPAC.
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Everything the president has done on the border, we have got to empower him to do it, not just for a month, but for the next four years. And we've got to hire more Border Patrol agents. We've got to give Tom Homan and Stephen Miller and Chrissy Noem the resources they need to secure the border. And... Not to return to the border, but I think so many of our issues come back to the border. Because if you take 30, 40 million illegal aliens, you take Medicare fraud, Social Security fraud, why are we taking the people's Social Security payments and giving it to illegal aliens? We know that's happening in the United States of America today. We've got to stop it. If you get control of the border, Mercedes, you do more to control the fiscal problem, the financial problems that we have in this country than almost anything. Get illegal aliens out of our country. Make sure American tax dollars go to American people. That is how you solve the fiscal crisis in the United States of America.
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Now, hard to disagree with that, one would think, but the left and the Democrats disagree mightily. This week, President Trump signed an executive order that halts the subsidization of illegal immigration with American taxpayer dollars. The order directs federal departments and agencies to identify all federally funded programs currently providing financial benefits to illegals. No more. No more. The well is dry. The inn is full. Sorry. No more room at the inn. for a family that swims across the Rio Grande in the middle of the night and wants to take our health care benefits and our educational opportunities and push away American citizens. And that new day is here, and it's a day to be grateful. Vice President Vance mentioned Stephen Miller. Every single day we should play Stephen Miller expertly swatting away the legacy media. Here was yesterday's example.
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It is true that many of the people in this room for four years failed to cover the fact that Joe Biden was mentally incompetent and was not running the country. It is also true that many people in this room who have used this talking point that Elon is not elected fail to understand how government works. So I'm glad for the opportunity for a brief civics lesson. A president is elected by the whole American people. He's the only official in the entire government That is elected by the entire nation. Right? Judges are appointed. Members of Congress are elected at the district or state level. Just one man. And the Constitution, Article 2, has a clause known as the Vesting Clause. And it says the executive power shall be vested in a president. Singular. The whole will of democracy is imbued into the elected president. That president that appoints staff... to then impose that democratic will onto the government. The threat to democracy, indeed the existential threat to democracy, is the unelected bureaucracy of lifetime tenured civil servants who believe they answer to no one, who believe they can do whatever they want without consequence, who believe they can set their own agenda no matter what Americans vote for. So Americans vote for radical FBI reform, And FBI agents say they don't want to change. Or Americans vote for radical reform in our energy policies, but EPA bureaucrats say they don't want to change. Or Americans vote to end DEI, racist DEI policies, and lawyers in the Department of Justice say they don't want to change. What President Trump is doing is he is removing federal bureaucrats who are defying democracy by failing to implement his lawful orders which are the will of the whole American people.
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Guy is so good, and they hate him. The left hates him. The media hates him. They hate him so much because, well, he tells the truth, and he does it in a very transparent way. And, of course, let's talk about the legacy media for just a moment. Apparently Axios is in some hot water because Axios has gone along with calling the Gulf of America the Gulf of America. Never again will I call it the Gulf of Mexico. It's the Gulf of America. Now, the AP doesn't want to call it the Gulf of America. They want to defy the change. But it's the Gulf of America. And I live in a community on the Gulf of America. I keep forgetting to remember. I forget that. Tampa Bay is on the Gulf of America, not the Gulf of Mexico. When I first moved to Florida, I lived on the Gulf. Back then, I lived on the Gulf of Mexico. Now I live near the Gulf of America in Tampa Bay. And the media, of course, doesn't know how to handle everything that's coming out of the White House. And Tracy, my producer, found this clip I was looking for, Jesse Waters yesterday, on Fox News Channel's The Five. This is a perfect way to describe Trump's relationship with the legacy media.
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Jesse said this is like Trump treating the media like his little sister. You know, when you're a little sister, you're like always flicking her ear and stealing her food. I still feel bad about it. Teasing her about her boyfriend and sticking like a dead mouse on her bike. She falls for it every time. I only did that once. Trump has an arsenal of these little provocations that he uses with the media. And every time it works, I'm going to do another four years. And then they go crazy or he calls himself a genius. 51st state. First state. And the media, they think they're like the guardrails for the country when they, like, go crazy. No. Trump's just throwing water balloons at you guys, and we're all laughing at you. Perfectly put.
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He's right. Trump's throwing water balloons. Oh, yeah, he's going to do an extra term. He's going to do four more years. Oh, I'm the king. Long live the king. He's not a king. This is terrible. They just, like, flicking the earlobes of your little sister. And the pathetic mainstream media falls for it every time. That's why you're here. That's why you tune in to the Mike Gallagher Show every day here in the Relief Factor Studios. 800, because we're the alternative. We're the antidote to the mainstream media. And we're proud to be in that role. One call does it all. Call or text 800-655-MIKE. 800-655-6455. 5-3. Portions of our show brought to you by MyPillow. And I do want to tell you, I got a message from Mike Lindell himself today. This is an amazing offer. Free shipping on everything. So if you've thought about getting the mattress topper, which comes in a big box, and that mattress topper is like three inches of heaven. You take it and put it on any mattress, turn it into the most comfortable bed in the world. And it comes in a big box. You unfold it and everything. You unpack it. Well, guess what? For a limited time, free shipping on anything you order. Mike Lindell is so grateful to this audience for your constant support of MyPillow. They've tried to cancel him, too, just like they're trying to cancel RFK Jr. and everybody else. It isn't working because you're standing in the breach. You're defending this great American company. And for a limited time, not only can you get the classic standard MyPillow for only $14.98, limit $10, please, because that's a crazy low price, the MySlippers, the doggy beds, the flannel sheets, even the mattress itself. You can get a MyPillow mattress, which has thousands of cooling points. It has the patented technology from MyPillow in the mattress. And best part of all... Free shipping. Free shipping as a thank you for your support for a limited time. So go to MyPillow.com, look for the Mike Gallagher Specials Square, click on that box, and with anything you order, enter the promo code MikeG. MyPillow.com, promo code MikeG. MyPillow.com, promo code MikeG. Or call 800-928-6034. 800-928-6034, like we love to sing. For the best night's sleep in the whole wide world, visit MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG.
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I hear that, you know, they're upset about not having a seat. Well, they've had a seat for three years and a long time before that. This could have been settled very easily. Just a half-baked negotiator could have settled this years ago.
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In the ReliefFactor.com studios, here's Mike.
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All right, we found the right clip. We don't want to clip it off at the punchline. So here's the punchline. When the CNN host challenges poor Joe Walsh, the fierce Trump-hating ex-Republican. Now, of course, he loves the Democrats, he hates Trump, and he'll go anywhere where he has a chance to trash Trump. Even the CNN host thought that poor Joe went too far.
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Donald Trump is saying everything Vladimir Putin would say. And you mentioned the American people generally don't care about what's going on over there. The American president right now could be a plant, could be a Russian asset. I mean, think about that. Here I am. I know it's early in the morning to say something like that. But think about that. And if the American people don't care about that, that Putin might have something on Trump, that he's an asset, that he's a plant, that he's doing the bidding of Vladimir Putin. If the American people don't care about that. Well, the thing is, listen, I'm sorry to get off the topic.
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We don't have evidence of that.
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We don't have any evidence of that, Mr. Walsh. Please don't get us sued because of your crazed wild-eye theory. Look, go with that. Trump's a plant. He's a plant. He's a Russian asset. He's a KGB agent, Joe. He really is. We ought to send Joe a little gift of those nesting eggs from Russia. With Trump's head inside. You know those eggs that you pull out and it's like layer after layer? And then you get to the littlest one. It'll be a little tiny, little head of Donald Trump. And let's go back to Jasmine Crockett for just a moment. I've got to play that clip one more time. You know what her net worth is? I'm looking online here about Jasmine Crockett. Now, she makes $174,000 a year as a member of the U.S. Congress, right? Right. Let's listen to her again poo-poo the idea of a Dodge dividend payment that Americans who have paid taxes, paid federal income tax, could possibly get $5,000 apiece. Listen to her spinning this. She's going to defend the COVID payments. And, of course, there were billions of dollars of fraud associated with people, businesses, and individuals who collected money from the government, which means from us, our money. All kinds of fraud, all kinds of waste. And you're going to love the part where she says, well, we're not in the business of giving out money. Really? Here's Jasmine Crockett.
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Now, President Trump says he likes the idea of giving some of the savings from Doge back to Americans as kind of a dividend. Would you support that? Listen, he's just telling a lie. He's not the one that had anything to do with the twelve hundred dollar refunds that people had during the midst of COVID that was done by a Democratic House and Democratic Senate. Right now, what they're going to do is say, hey, we want to give you a refund, but Congress won't let us because they already know that there's just no money for that. So, no, we are not in the business of giving out money. And honestly, I don't know what five thousand dollars will do for you.
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We could isolate the last part of that, Christian, and play it on a loop. We're not in the business of giving out money, and frankly, I don't know what $5,000 would do for you. Well, look, according to stuff you see online, and I don't know how accurate this is, her net worth is anywhere from $4 to $5 to $9 million. Look at this site. Jasmine Crockett is estimated to be worth... $9 million in 2025. In addition to a $174,000 salary, she also earns rental income from her multiple real estate assets. Her stock portfolio has grown at a staggering 60% in the last year alone, according to Doge. She was a successful lawyer before becoming a politician. She was a lawyer? You imagine having her as your attorney? And her real estate assets... This is a congresswoman from Texas. According to online resources, she owns a $2 million townhouse in Dallas... a $1.5 million loft in Austin, and a $1.5 million lakefront cabin in Galveston. A congresswoman who goes on national TV, goes on ABC, and I don't know what $5,000 is going to do for anybody. Well, of course you don't think that. That would barely cover the light bill for all your properties. You're a multimillionaire. How about Bernie Sanders? You ever look into his net worth? You know, socialist Bernie Sanders, a man of the people? I mean, I happen to be stumbling across all these congressmen and what they're worth. And they all make, you know, again, $174,000. He's worth over $15 million. These are not serious people. These are clowns. These are circus clowns. But look, they're well-paid circus clowns. You can insult Jasmine Crockett all you want. I know people have called her garbage and she's trash. But she's very, very well compensated. She's managed to turn that paltry $174,000 salary... into a net worth of $9 million-plus. Line one, according to Teresa, is Helen in Philadelphia, and the topic is Hitler is literally in the White House now. Should we take that call? Do we want to take this call? It's a Friday. It's been a week. Let's do it. Let's have a little fun. I want to give Helen the opportunity to speak her mind. Hello, Helen. Hi. How are you? Not well. Uh-oh, what's wrong? You upset? No, I'm worried about the country. Are you worried? Well, look, according to what you told Teresa, you think Hitler's in the White House.
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I don't think he's in the White House. I know.
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Adolf's in the White House?
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Well, he's never going to get out. I'm telling you, he planned this. He discussed all of this, how one man can control a whole country of people. And this is how Hitler did it, how Putin did it, how Kim did it. This is how they do it. He brought a Gestapo with him. That guy, that German, and he goes around and he fires every single body in the White House almost.
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Clears them out.
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Everybody just walks around and just says, I mean, FBI? I know. Oh, my God. You've got to be kidding me. This is exactly what the...
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I was at the White House earlier this week. I don't know if you heard that. I broadcast. I went there on Wednesday of this week, and I had a chance to talk to him in the Oval Office. You know what he told me? And this is going to maybe alarm you and make your day even worse. He says he's never leaving.
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Oh, no, no, no, honey. That's what I said. Yes, you're right. He's never going to leave.
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He didn't want me to tell anybody, Helen, but I'm afraid I feel a civic duty.
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No, it's okay. You should tell everybody.
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He's never going to leave. He's going to be there for as long as he's alive.
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I know. I know. It's so sad.
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Well, Helen, hang in there. I know you're having a bad day, but please, please take comfort. because it's going to be all right. And look, someday the Lord's going to call us home. I mean, Trump's going to outlive all of us, unfortunately, and he's never leaving the White House, Helen. Just keep that in mind as you go through your day. He is never going to leave. He's going to be president for the next 20 years.
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I just got a text from the White House. Helen, look, I don't want to make your day even worse than it already is. But, Helen, I have, as you might know, and I've interviewed President Trump probably, what, 19, 20 times, been to the Oval Office several times. I was at the White House this week, and I have a pretty direct contact with President Trump. And he happened to be listening, Helen, and I'm a little worried, but... they're going to try to keep tabs on you going forward. And President Trump has dispatched Elon Musk and Doge to monitor your activities in Philadelphia there. Look, again, I just feel an obligation to give you a heads up on that. I want you to know, I didn't really understand a lot of what you were saying about calling him Hitler and all that, but look, you could be right. I mean, he told me he was never leaving the office, and he told me just a moment ago that they're going to kind of keep you on the radar. So, Helen, be sure, be sure to be very careful about your taxes. Make sure you pay all your taxes. Be careful of anything you're doing on social media. Because I regret to inform you that I think the White House is watching. Because that's what fascists and dictators and people do. Jeff in Connecticut said, Mike, you forgot to tell Helen to go in peace. Remember the clip when President Trump couldn't understand the reporter from Afghanistan the other day? Oh, this was classic. This is what I should have said to poor Helen. And incidentally, there are a number of people texting me right now saying she can't be real. Helen and Philly cannot be real. There are people like her. There really are. They are destroyed by the outcome of the November election. They just thought Kamala had it in the bag. Remember, this is a classic exchange. You wouldn't hear this from Joe Biden.
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And I have a little hard time understanding you. Where are you from?
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Actually, it's a beautiful voice and a beautiful accent. The only problem is I can't understand a word you're saying. But I just say this. Good luck. Live in peace.
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That's right. So, Helen, I just say this to you, Helen in Philly. Good luck and go live in peace. OK, and it doesn't sound like you got a lot of peace right now in your life, which worries me a little bit. Here's is it Michael or Mikkel? Line two, Iowa. Who's this? That's you. Mickle? Hello, Mike. Hello. Mickle. Mickle. All right. Nice to see you. Nice to have you on the show, Mickle. What's up?
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Yes. Love to talk to you, Mike. It's great. Love the show.
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Thank you very much. I appreciate that very much.
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I've got it figured out. Yeah, yes. I've got it figured out as to how Trump will be able to stay in office for the rest of eternity.
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How?
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And I know they'll be able to pull this off with Elon's intelligence that if you ever saw the TV show, it was a cartoon called Futurama. And in there, they took all the presidents and encapsulated their heads so they could live on forever. And Nixon was a big one that they had.
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I thought, well, you know, the rumor was Walt Disney did that. Like cryogenically frozen the head? Yeah. Yep. Yep.
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So I figure, you know, they'll be able to figure this out. And when Trump's body is too far gone, but his mind will still be there. Right. He'll just encapsulate his head in this jar.
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He'll have him in a jar. And he'll be able to rule forever. Like in a bubble, like a giant bubble, like the Wizard of Oz. You do know you've just completely ruined Helen's day, right, Mikkel? You've completely scared. I mean, she's already having a rough day. And the idea that Trump, but yeah, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Let me get a text message. Oh, it's from the White House. Mike Mikkel is correct. My head will be cryogenically frozen, and I will be around forever to be the president for all of eternity. I mean, what are you going to do? And what do you do with folks like Helen? How do you convince people who are miserable and sad and angry and desperate, they don't like any aspect of it? I don't even know how you even reason with people like Helen. Rick's in Houston, Texas. Hey, Rick, what's up?
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Hey, Mike, just wanted to give you something to think about as an option to term limits for Congress and Senate. What about if we make them do periodic lie detector tests? Nice. Just kind of random. And, you know, we do that for security forces, government people. Some of them have to do that just to. prove that they're loyal, why not Congress? I mean, how can you make all this money with only a salary of $174,000?
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Well, this is what comes up over and over again with Jasmine Crockett. I know you're referring to her net worth. And I don't know if it's $4 million or $5 million or $9 million. If you make $174,000 a year living in Dallas, Texas as a congresswoman, a lot of people would come up with the very strange The very reasonable question, how are you a multimillionaire? Do you know how many multimillionaires there are in the U.S. Congress? It's obscene. And not that making money is obscene, but the Bernie Sanders of the world, the Nancy Pelosi's of the world, who have done nothing in their lives other than be public servants, are filthy rich. Why do you suppose that is? Helen, I know exactly what you need. Helen, I'm going to encourage you. We can all commiserate together on the Patriots Alaska cruise. Because, Helen, I'll bet you're a Patriot. You're a Patriot, right? Helen, join us August the 16th through the 24th. Mike Gallagher, Larry Elder, Joe Piscopo, Jennifer Horn. Helen, four of your favorite people will be hosting the Patriots Alaska cruise, the Holland America Eurodam. We're going to set sail out of Seattle. We'll go through the last frontier. On board, Helen, you're going to be part of thought-provoking events on the ship. It's more than just a cruise. It's a chance to engage with fellow patriots. And, Helen, you're invited. Space is limited. Don't wait to book your stateroom. They're going fast, too. We're well over 200 people now. We're going to have a great time. Larry and I will be your co-hosts. And there's nothing like an Alaskan cruise. Denise and the kids and I went on one years ago. I took her mom and dad along, too. We had so much fun. whale watching and seeing all the bald eagles and the joy. Go to TravelWithSalem.com. TravelWithSalem.com. TravelWithSalem.com for the Patriots Alaska cruise. And, of course, portions of our show are brought to you by our friend Dean Owen. I had a chance to talk to Dean. You want a CPA who's one of us? You want a CPA who's our kind of folks? Well, Dean Owen is that kind of guy. Dean Owen CPA. This is a guy who's got a – I'm going to give you a phone number because he's a good guy. He's rated one of the top firms in America. 270-449-1678. 270-449-1678. 5 5 4 0 7 2 0 actually is the number to call for Owen Dino and CPA. They specialize in helping families and businesses reduce their tax burden and build financial and tax plans aligned with your goals and values, trusted experts. And there's just one of a kind Dino and CPA. You want a CPA CPA? Who's one of us call 2 7 0 5 5 4 0 7 2 0 2 7 0 5 5 4 0 7 2 0.
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