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Join Sekulow for a packed episode featuring the latest from the ACLJ's ambitious initiatives and courtroom strategies to uphold constitutional rules. We delve into the engrossing dialogue about the activism in American district courts that is shaping the legislative landscape, impacting executive directives, and the precedence of national policy. Featuring comprehensive discussions with our team stationed around the globe, listen to the pressing reports on antisemitism in universities, insights from Rick Grinnell on Trump’s first 100 days in office, and the role of ACLJ in these distinct yet interconnected realms.
SPEAKER 10 :
We got breaking news. A Trump executive order case heads to the Supreme Court.
SPEAKER 07 :
Keeping you informed and engaged now more than ever. This is Sekulow. We want to hear from you. Share and post your comments or call 1-800-684-3110. And now your host, Logan Sekulow.
SPEAKER 10 :
Welcome to Sekulow. That's right. We got a very packed show today. My brother Jordan is here. Will Haines is here in studio. Jeff Balaban from ACLJ Jerusalem is joining us. Rick Grinnell will also be on the broadcast. So I don't know if we've ever had this much content to cover. And of course, we have another guest. And we teased this yesterday, and Jordan, you can talk about this because it's a part of one of the ACLJ's new lawsuits with the state of West Virginia. We're going to be joined in the next segment by Attorney General of West Virginia, J.B.
SPEAKER 09 :
McCuskey. This is a big reason why I support the work of the ACLJ because this is a case where we filed at the U.S. Supreme Court, but we are representing the state of West Virginia. So that honor of not only are we representing all of our ACLJ supporters, we are representing every citizen of the state of West Virginia. And so your support to the ACLJ, I will just give people a preview of how fast this moved. This is executive orders issued by President Trump. We're just talking about the first 100 days. So this is on an executive order he issued. You get those nationwide injunctions. We've talked about those issues involving immigration. There's been over 100 executive orders. So there's a number of these. But 67% of them have been issued against President Trump. Of all time. And when these cases are moving, yes, this is in U.S. history. In history. I think you've got to make sure that's clear. In U.S. He's only been president for four years and 100 days. Yeah. Sounds very like Abraham Lincoln would say that. And 67% of those injunctions. have been against President Trump. So what do we do? Of course, we wanted to file in this case, but we thought it would be great to partner with our good friend who's an ACLJ alumni, the Attorney General of West Virginia, J.B. McCuskey, who'll be joining us live next. And the issue here, of course, is should a district court, let's say you're watching from Oklahoma right now. should a district court judge in California be able to impact your daily life they're not even in your circuit so they're not even your federal circuit it doesn't make sense right so it ultimately you can say well maybe these get resolved by the U.S. Supreme Court that's not how we should live in the United States of America where a district court judge without a class being certified to protect a certain group of people jumping through all of the hurdles of an actual case and just saying I don't like this so I'm going to stop you from being able to to carry out your job as the executive usually we're talking about administrative agencies Logan at the federal level being out of control now we're seeing that at the judicial level and people I think have been wondering what can the ACLJ do and here it goes yeah first hundred days here we go this is the first foray into preventing these judges from having the ability to impact our daily lives at a district level. These are district court judges. You can't name them. Your senator likely can't name them. These are guys who go through usually with confirmation with four or five people at the same time.
SPEAKER 10 :
Not even paying attention to what's going on. And the ACLJ can get involved in this. We've been working on that for months to figure out the best path as we know it's been an issue that you have all been very vocal about. Well, now we are in the last day. This is it. Final day of our life in Liberty Drive, and it's my wife's birthday. So you know what? If you're looking for, happy birthday to my wife, but if you're looking for a way to celebrate and support, we're going to have JB coming up in the next segment. Again, Attorney General of West Virginia, someone that we have known most of our lives at this point, who again, like Jordan said, a kind of an OG ACLJ member, been with us, friends forever, and then also was a member of our team. And of course, now we're able to work with him as the Attorney General. But right now, Before midnight, we need you to go to ACLJ.org. Don't wait until midnight. Just do it right now. And your donation will still be doubled. You've heard about all the issues that we've got involved in. We're going to break those down even more as the show goes on. Then we're going to have Jeff Balaban from ACLJ Jerusalem, and he's taking it to Yale. We're going to have some fun with that, tell you about what's going on. And then, of course, one of our good friends, Rick Grinnell, will be joining us as well with, I'm sure, some breaking news updates, as it is now, the 101st day of, you know, it's like 101 Dalmatians, 101st day of, president trump's second term how are we looking how are we feeling how do you feel about that so of course we want you to call in if you support the work of the aclj because we are here to celebrate this final day of the life and liberty drive so give us a call at 1-800-684-3110 but also how do you feel 100 days in met your expectations you happy you disappointed we want to hear from you give us a call at 1-800-684-3110 once again aclj.org to support the work that the aclj we're going to break that down so much more when we get back with jb attorney general of west virginia Welcome back to Sekulow. Again, it is a packed show. My brother Jordan Sekulow is here, and of course, Will Haines is in studio. Later on, Jeff Balaban, Rick Grinnell. It's going to be packed, so make sure you stay tuned. But now we're joined by a very special guest, one of our good friends, and also happens to be the Attorney General of West Virginia. Now, I'll pitch it to Jordan, because I think, Jordan, you need to set up what we're doing here, and then introduce our guest today.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, people know about this injunction issue. They know it's a huge issue. It involves immigration. It's a huge issue. It involves enforcement by the executive branch of basically carrying out their functions. Usually we're talking about executive agencies and bureaucrats out of control. But now it's our court system. And people, I think, in this first hundred days have said, What are groups going to do? What can West Virginia do? What can the Attorney General do in West Virginia to stop these judges who are issuing orders to affect all of our lives when their jurisdiction is in a district of a state? For instance, in this case, before we go to JB, Maryland, Washington, and Massachusetts are affecting how the federal government is able to carry out its job in West Virginia and nationwide. So let's go to our good friend J.B. McCuskey. I always like to say this. General McCuskey, this is, I think, was a great example of how your team and our team were able to work together in a matter of days to go before the court to honestly put forward what these issues are really about. And it's about these out-of-control judicial—we talk about judicial activism all the time. We are now seeing it in real time.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, I think one of the most interesting parts of this, Jordan, and it was interesting that Logan brought up the confirmation process of district court judges. If we're going to allow district court judges to act like Supreme Court justices, their confirmation proceedings are not going to be like that anymore. And, you know, if you say every president has to appoint, you know, 75 or 100 district court judges. Right. If every single one of them takes three weeks like a Supreme Court justice, we will run out of judges pretty soon. Right. But on a more important note, I mean, I think the point here is. is that district courts are set up under our constitution to resolve issues and controversy that are in front of them. And what they're now doing is they are resolving constitutional issues where there isn't an actual plaintiff. They are resolving questions that are not designed for their courts to be resolving. And it has really dangerous precedent setting um it it almost doesn't matter the topic right and and to be fair i don't want republican judges doing this when there's a democrat president either right the system works beautifully and it works in the way that our framers set it up and what our office and what we're so grateful for your help in doing is arguing is that district courts need to get back to what it is that they do, and that is resolving issues and controversy with actual plaintiffs in front of them and leaving the constitutional review that affects every American, not just the Americans that are in their districts, should be left to the Supreme Court.
SPEAKER 08 :
JB, when you look at this, I'm sorry, Attorney General McCuskey, I'm so used to just calling you JB. All right, thanks. When you look at this issue, judges were never meant to be policymakers. And what we have effectively now are... hundreds if not thousands of potential policy makers in the united states that aren't constitutionally equipped to be policy makers they're not elected they don't have a mandate from the people to affect policy on the united states but we're seeing individuals and you see the percentage it's like 92 of those that have issued these injunctions against president trump were appointed by democrats you're seeing that they are now carrying out policy of even prior administrations, if you want to take it to that level, by blocking moves that they don't believe, because of their political ideology, should be the policy of the United States. And I think that's what really should hit home with every single American, especially if you did vote for this current president, and even if you didn't, That's not how this works in the United States. And that's one of the main things I think that we, along with the state of West Virginia, are trying to put a stop to.
SPEAKER 06 :
yeah and i think you know there's an important distinction to be made here right we have a supreme court and we have appeals courts for a reason and that is to determine whether the application of the law to a specific instance was done properly and when that application of the law is being done improperly or the law in and of itself is unconstitutional that is a question for a circuit judge or for the supreme court and what we're finding now is that district court judges in the interest of political expediency are overstepping, in my opinion, their bounds and what our brief says also. They're overstepping in order to stop things that they find politically untoward. And that isn't their role. And, you know, if these things get to the U.S. Supreme Court and those nine judges make a determination that these Trump executive orders, I don't think that's going to happen. I'm hopeful it doesn't happen. But at least we know that the venue was correct to determine whether or not the federal government's actions were constitutional. That is that is not in these instances the place of a district court. And it is. is the place of our circuit courts and our Supreme Court. And they are skipping what is generally the most important step. And the reason why it's so important is that's where you build the record so that the appeals courts can start to understand the totality of the issue and make an informed decision about the policy that they're reviewing.
SPEAKER 09 :
You bring up an interesting point because these cases had no trials. And when I say trials, I mean they weren't fully briefed. They weren't fully before the court. These were injunctions issued that then can try to, what they tried to do is stop the executive branch for carrying out its lawful duties, how they interpret laws that have been passed by your elected officials, by Congress. to empower the executive branch to carry out those laws and a judge in a random district says I don't agree with the interpretation of the executive branch on how to carry out this law and just to put into example this is not normal JB 67 percent of all federal injunctions issued by these courts have been against President Trump that is in the the history of the United States of America 67% and then you have to get into the politics unfortunately we know when we talk about judicial activism politics plays a role 92% of those were issued by Democratic-appointed judges, and you talked about the confirmation process. We want to get back to a place in the United States of America where we aren't politically identifying a district court judge and saying, well, they were appointed by a Democrat, so they're going to be able to stop the President of the United States from carrying out action that officials we elect at the level of Congress, so at your district level, and then at your state level with the Senate, because they don't like the way it's being carried out.
SPEAKER 06 :
or they find a lawyer that they're friends with, or it is a politically... Honestly, I think some of these judges are trying to get famous, and that stinks to say, but I think a lot of these folks love to see their name at the bottom of these rulings because it makes them feel like they are a part of a process that they don't like. The problem is that they've all sworn an oath. They're all lawyers, they're all good lawyers, or they wouldn't be district court judges, right? And there's a level of importance that they end up feeling for issuing these kind of things. But we don't live in a world of fields and we don't live in a world of importance. We live in a world of rules and we live in a world with a constitution. And we cannot allow this piecemeal system to continue or it will completely halt the all executive actions from now on and it'll hold it for democrats too right we don't want a world where our judges are doing this either we're looking for a world where these courts have the same function no matter what party the president's in and the president is allowed to do the things that they're constitutionally um asked to uh in a in an expedient way and if those if those actions do end up crossing a line We want that process to be heard in the appropriate courts. And that is very clearly the United States Supreme Court. And that is very clearly what's not what's happening now.
SPEAKER 10 :
And that's why we're headed there, JB. And the ACLJ team has been working with you, working with other people to try to figure out what's our best method here, because we see the outpouring of voices from our audience that says this is an issue we care about. We didn't even know judges could do this. And of course, there's obviously the nerves of, like you said, What happens when it does go after our smaller cases, our Bible school cases, our Bible study cases, the home churches, all those things that could be easily almost re weaponized this way. And if you allow, if we allow this to continue on this way, that is why the ACLJ team has to get involved.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes, and we have to do it quickly. So we have to have the resources to be able to work with the team in West Virginia and JB's team, the Attorney General of West Virginia, to represent the people of West Virginia. And JB, I think that's an important note, the final question to you is... We are in a state, you are standing up for all of your constituents to say we are not going to be bound in West Virginia by what a judge decides at the district court level in Maryland. It does not make sense. It is not how our founding fathers decided to set up our judiciary. Based off, we could go through a long history there. This is judicial activism at its worst.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah. And I mean, I have you know, I live in a state that believes in the Constitution. And so it's easy for me to stand up for my constituents in this way. And thankfully, the way that attorney generals, the way that our offices are set up is that we can represent both our constituents. But we also when we use the proper channels, which we're using. are able to stand up for people outside of our borders as well, because we are challenging the constitutionality of actions in the proper format that was delineated by the Constitution. And we're doing it in sort of an ironic way in this instance to fight against people doing it the opposite way.
SPEAKER 10 :
all right well jb thank you for joining us time to stand up everybody this is our last day of our life in liberty drive you heard about the new uh case we are taking on with the state of west virginia you heard from jb we know this is a issue that you have felt really passionate about and now we have a road map a path we can't do it without you tonight the midnight deadline to have your donations doubled at aclj.org or scan the qr code if you're watching we'll be right back with more on seculo Welcome back to Secula. We're getting Jeff Balaban from ACLJ Jerusalem lined up. He's actually on the air right now. We got him. Sorry. It was a little bit of a technical issue there. If you're watching online, by the way, we know that YouTube has had sort of this ongoing glitch this week and we're working on it, but we know that a lot of you are watching what I encourage you to do. If you are seeing us right now and it's working well, hit that thumbs up. That really helps us. It'll help us get reengaged with the people that maybe we've lost as well, but still thousands of you are watching it. We appreciate it. Jeff Balaban, I know people wanted to hear an update from you. This is obviously our last day of life in Liberty Drive. This is a big deal. But you are actually getting involved, if you want to say, on the front lines, if you will, of the college situation, the universities, really their anti-Semitic demonstrations that have been happening over the last couple of years, how extreme it's gotten. But now you're doing something about it.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, uh, we talked about it last week on air, what's happening at Yale university. There was a very alarming video that we showed of a Jewish student, conspicuously Jewish wearing the yarmulke, uh, trying to walk across campus and being blocked by a group of kefir clad, maybe students, but certainly protesting, yelling antisemitic slogans. And, uh, and this made the news. Um, And this resulted in a series of conversations that I've had from that time to this with a number of different stakeholders on the university, faculty members, students. And, uh, the situation is, is very uncomfortable for a lot of them. And, uh, you know, Yale has taken some measures, some things that they should be applauded. Others feel like it's not enough. And obviously our responsibilities first do no harm. So here, because of my own connection to the institution, uh, actually just pulled up on campus right now. I'm meeting with a number of stakeholders from now through the night, actually through late into the night, of all different points of view about how best we may be able to help to make the situation better. It is very complicated, and there's a big division of opinion, and that's why I'm here, really to listen. Even on the way up here, I was listening to a number of professors on both sides of the issue. What we do know is that the external pressures, the anti-Semitism, the hostility, the hate, the culture genocide, the signs, the attacks on individual students and faculty have led to internal stress and pressure, obviously, within this much smaller Jewish community here at Yale. And so, yeah, that's what we're here to find out how we can help.
SPEAKER 08 :
And Jeff, as we've talked about, obviously Harvard has been kind of the front, out front and center because of the funding fight and the issues that we've seen there. And actually that president's report from Harvard, the Presidential Task Force on Combating Anti-Semitism and Anti-Israel Bias, was released last night. And we saw what we, I think, had all seen the imagery and how bad it was publicly, but reading through that as a 300-page report and seeing just how bad it was at Harvard, how... how much bias from faculty, from other students, from the administration towards these Jewish students. It was shocking at the level that it went. And I think that's, what's also important to show people here is that we don't just talk about these things is that you're going to Yale, uh, uh, uh, big portion of this is to listen and find out what is going on there and how we can get involved not just seeing the headlines and just hearing what's saying and taking the videos and just talking about it actually going to your alma mater and trying to do something about it and find out what it's like there beyond just what we see uh in the news and that's important for our audience to know as well that we do work as well
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, that's, that's true. I mean, look, honestly, nowadays I would really today, especially I would really be in Jerusalem. I'd really be in Israel where, you know, it's, it's, it's the week of, of from their Memorial day to the day of independence, a lot's going on, but this, this seems to be a crisis here. And that video of that student really revealed it and digging into it. There's a difference here, which is to say that there's an impasse about how to approach it. But the fact that ACLJ is, both as a law firm and as having its influence in Washington, can potentially make a difference. Lots of times universities just don't understand what their responsibilities are. Sometimes they understand, but there's no pressure. I don't know yet. We don't know yet. That's what we're here to find out. What's the best way to help here? Because the current situation really is intolerable and it has to be changed. And so we're here to do that. And that is, as you say, that is uniquely something that ACLJ is able to do.
SPEAKER 10 :
Jeff, we know you're hard at work. We know you're there on campus. I want you to get back to work. Get what you need to get done done as we are wrapping up today. Our life and liberty drive. So many of you have already supported the work of the ACLJ, but know we're there. Whether that is for support of Israel, whether you hear about the case that we're doing with our friends in West Virginia to make sure that these justice or these judges don't. control everything that a president can do so nothing can get done and of course this has been alarming a lot of people have just been awoken to what's happening and that this can happen and of course it's happening so much so under this administration and then later on we'll be joining by rick grinnell i can't underscore though how much this means to us today It is a moment. Many of the cases we are gauged in are right now having historic impact and it's gonna determine the future of our nation. Now you may see, hey, we got President Trump, we got conservatives in the White House, why do we need the ACLJ? Because as you've heard, maybe it's even more so that you need us. You need us now more than ever because we are amping up because there are so many issues happening right now, so many roadblocks coming. We need you. Over the past year alone, We've had 1,200 people and organizations reach out for legal help, even more than that. We've been engaged in 193 pro-life matters. We have 225 free speech matters, 96 religious liberty matters, 158 actions battling back against the deep state and everything that goes on in the corrupt nature of Washington, D.C. Your support not only determines those fights that we engage in, it also brings you this amazing show. We've been doing this show now for close to 30 years. We have been doing this broadcast, of course, in different eras and different iterations, but we've always been there for you. And we continue to do it and we hope to do it for another 30 plus years and continue on. But we can't do that without your support. This is the time here. Go to ACLJ.org and hey, flip it back to me actually right now. I just want to take the next two minutes here. Phone lines are open for you. Some of you lose us here. And you lose us here in the first half hour. This is where a lot of terrestrial radio stations, if you're listening on Christian radio, a good number picked up the first half hour. Maybe they pick up the second half hour later. You can always find us for free, available live, noon to 1 p.m. Eastern time. And that is available on ACLJ.org. That's available on YouTube. That's available on Rumble. We are there broadcasting live. And of course, you can pick us up later on. However you get your podcasts, we are there archived later on. But you can do that at ACLJ.org or through the ACLJ app, which is really a great experience if you haven't done it yet. And none of that happens without you. None of it happens without you. We are well in this final day of our life in Liberty Drive. You're going to hear me talk about it. You're probably going to get some emails in your inbox today, and I hope you do at least. And I hope you support the work.
SPEAKER 08 :
That's right. And if you don't get those emails as well, go to ACLJ.org and you can sign up right there on the homepage. Because it also gives you updates on other cases that we're involved in. Because so much is going on that we can't cover everything that the ACLJ is doing every single day. So go there. You'll get direct emails. And become a champion if you can. That's also a way that you can support the ACLJ on a monthly recurring basis. It is very important at this time. When we talk about this case that we are now taking with West Virginia, where we represent them on this brief of the Supreme Court, you think about the power that these district court judges have assumed for themselves. that they can issue these nationwide injunction. And just think of the ramifications when you see the bias against which president is sitting. That percentage Jordan gave, that 67% of injunctions, nationwide injunctions from the federal bench over the last hundred years have been against President Trump. And think about what they could do to any of those causes that you hold dear if they just decide that I'm putting it into this nationally. And that's why we have to fight back. We have to stand up for the Constitution, stand up for the rule of law, and your ACLJ is doing that.
SPEAKER 10 :
That's right. We'll be back with the second half hour coming up. Less than a minute break. Be a part of it right now at ACLJ.org. keeping you informed and engaged now more than ever this is seculo and now your host logan seculo welcome back to seculo seems like the fastest hour today as we are wrapping up our life and liberty drive we decided let's pack it out of course you had on earlier in the show my brother jordan seculo coming in when it's important it came in when it was important today will because we are involved on a high level supreme court battle we are doing what you've been asking us for to do for the last few months as we've been working out the best method to do so. We have partnered with the Attorney General in the state of West Virginia. Of course, that is J.B. McCuskey, who is also on earlier today on the show. You want to make sure you go back and listen to what he had to say. He's an ACLJ alumni. He said he's J.B., the O-G-A-G, part of the ACLJ team. So you know what? You've been working on that one. I have been. It's been spinning in my head. I just keep spinning. 1-800-684-3110 to get on the air today. But Will, this is important. I want to make sure people hear this and know that we are taking action and we are taking action today. So though today ends our life in Liberty Drive, it really kicks off this brand new journey.
SPEAKER 08 :
That's right. So when you talk about this brief that we're filing, this case, it's... at the supreme court now and there is an oral argument uh in just a few weeks before the supreme court on this now there was an injunction issued against an executive order and this case has nothing to do with the executive order itself it's not even at that point what it has to do with is whether or not the district judge can issue a nationwide injunction even though this covers districts way outside of his jurisdiction And we at the ACLJ, along with the West Virginia Attorney General's Office and the state of West Virginia, believe that that needs to be put on hold, that we should not be seeing these district court judges being able to make policy by blocking The actions of the president nationally, they could put it on hold in their district. They could have injunctions. But there's also the problem that they're making these decisions to put these nationwide injunctions in effect. Before even the briefing is completed on this, when you have a case before the court, there's the initial lawsuit, there's the respondent's brief, and then many times the original plaintiff can respond again, and then you get amicus briefs in many cases. And that builds the record for the court to make their decision upon. And then you have the oral argument as well. And now... The judge then takes all that into account in how to rule on the underlying issue. They're putting the heart before the course, the cart before the horse, so to speak. I like the heart before the course. The heart before the course. Yes. It's for golfers out there. Exactly, yeah. They're putting the cart before the horse in this by saying we're going to go and put a hold on it before we even get to the issue at hand. And that's what we're seeing across the country. The statistics that Jordan shared are shocking that 67 percent of these nationwide injunctions have gone against one president. President Trump in his four years and a hundred days of being the president. And that goes back a hundred years. And 90% of those injunctions, 92% were by judges appointed by Democrats. And they say there's not a problem with judicial activism. That's what we see right there. And it's time to fight back.
SPEAKER 10 :
And that's what we're doing here. It's front and center. And a lot of people are taking notice. And look, a lot of you are commenting, heart before the course. Well, so I say, if you believe in that, Throw a heart emoji into the chat. Do it right now. Or maybe even a golf. If there's a golf one, do a golf one.
SPEAKER 01 :
Either one of those.
SPEAKER 10 :
Do it for Will, okay? Because look, it's my wife's birthday. It's the last day of the Life and Liberty Drive. We are getting engaged with so many important things. We need your help right now. And look, even throwing in a simple emoji in the chat gets more people to see this. And I know that's crazy. And it's the new world we live in. But trust me, our team knows the ins and outs of this right now. But I encourage you to do that. Put a little heart in the chat. We really appreciate that. Or golf, as Will said. Phone lines are open for you. We're going to take your calls towards the end of the show. 1-800-684-3110. If you're online right now, Charles and Christine, stay on hold. We'll get to you coming up next up. We've got another great team member of the ACLJ, someone we cannot have without you. He's a special envoy, former ambassador, former director of national intelligence. Of course, I'm talking about our friend Rick Grinnell. We're going to break down those 100 days, now 101 days of the Trump presidency. Of course, that interview, the ABC interview that showed up where? On Disney+. We said that was pretty interesting. Phone lines are open for you at 1-800-684-3110. Once again, give us a call today. Get in line, 1-800-684-3110. Go to ACLJ.org. Right back with Rick Grinnell. Welcome back to Secular again. Last day of our life in Liberty Drive. So you're going to hear me talk about it quite a bit. It's our final day. We're counting down the hours. If you want to donate and have your donation doubled, matched, ready to go. The biggest day you can do it for the next little bit at least is today. There will be a few months before this opportunity comes back again. If it does come back. Thankfully, there are ACLJ champions, ACLJ donors right now that are ready to support this. That doesn't mean they're always going to be there. It doesn't mean we can always offer these kind of matches. So we're only doing it through the end of today. And I mean it. At midnight, you'll probably get in some emails. You'll probably get in a lot of texts, a lot of calls. Yeah, maybe not calls. We get a lot of messages because it's a very important time for us during this life in Liberty Drive. And the midnight deadline is tonight. We are now joined again by an ACLJ team member for the last number of years. Somebody who has been deeply involved in what's been going on in Washington, D.C., whether he likes it or not. And that is our friend Rick Grinnell. Rick, 100 days in to this, or 101 days now, if you want to say, into this Trump presidency. How are you feeling?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, I think we've accomplished so much already, Logan. It's just been really unbelievable in terms of the pace. I haven't seen... anyone work so hard and so broadly on a variety of issues, whether you're looking at domestic issues like the border, whether you're looking at international issues like launching peace initiatives, bringing hostages home, the economy of really tackling what I think the Democrats have wanted us to tackle for a long time, which is this tariff problem where other countries are literally putting currency manipulation and tariffs on us at the same time we're losing the supply chain if you remember we had this whole discussion after covid everybody agreed we've got to bring home the supply chains back to america nothing's really been done about it until president trump decided to confront it and so confronting that and then watching as literally trillions of dollars have been promised by CEOs and international companies to say, we're going to bring trillions of dollars to the United States. Now, that is an enormous accomplishment. It's going to take a little time for the stock market to recognize that. But as soon as we start building up the manufacturing and supply chain here, obviously it's going to create jobs here. But more importantly, our economy is going to just take off and we're going to really fix this. I predict that in one year from now, people are going to be saying, what a genius idea to really tackle the tariff issue. And I think President Trump will get credit for that because he did it in the first 100 days.
SPEAKER 08 :
Rick, one of the other issues that we've seen is really almost a continuation of the lawfare that President Trump received before he was president for the second term while he was running for president. But you're seeing the issue of the nationwide injunctions issued by district courts trying to block basically everything the president does. And it's remarkable the ability on the border, how well they've been able to shut it down and to get that under control in spite of all these nationwide injunctions and things of that nature. But we at the ACLJ, we just filed a brief yesterday with the Supreme Court representing the state of West Virginia to try to tackle this issue of nationwide injunctions by district courts. And I just want to get your opinion. Is this what, as you travel, is Is this one of the issues that you're hearing people concerned about the most of how the left is using the courts and activist judges to try and affect and manipulate policy while the president is just trying to move forward with the mandate from the people?
SPEAKER 04 :
Look, this is a difficult question because we all recognize that lawfare is a huge problem. We have the courts that have become politicized. We see it constantly. We see what they did to President Trump. And yet, you know, we have a process where our judges are appointed by politicians. And we have U.S. attorneys who are prosecuting cases who are appointed by politicians. That's the system we have. What we need to be able to do is hire the people that are just. rejecting politics. And I have to say, I think the conservatives and Republicans are doing a much better job of hiring people who are focused on crime and not politics than the Democrats. The Democrats seem to get very aggressive about having their judges manipulate policy through these injunctions. And more times than nothing, they get overturned. So it's an activist judge who then just delays the policy because it's so egregious in what they're saying and how they're trying to stop the policy that they get overturned. And so I think that we should have this system where we're very transparent about the judges who are getting overturned. We show their record. We mock them because they're being an activist and they're missing the law and that their colleagues... through the appellate process, are mocking them to say, you got it wrong. And trying to use the power of the bully pulpit and transparency, information, public education, all of that, the power of that, to showcase the judges who are activists, who are bringing politics into this. Because I think if you could see how many times a judge is overturned, You know, the public then loses their confidence in these judges. And then we see who's playing politics.
SPEAKER 10 :
Rick, I also wanted to talk about sort of the hundred day celebration, if you will, of this and how the news has rolled out and how President Trump is accepting a lot of interviews. The Biden administration barely did any interviews, never really any press conferences. We know how that all ran out. But of course, you have President Trump not only taking friendly interviews, but he did a special with ABC that aired. And of course, that special aired not only on ABC, it aired on Disney+. It's available there. It's available on Hulu. It is a different world than we're living in. And of course, we have President Trump also accepting the invitation from the Atlantic after that whole situation. So you have a president, maybe for the first time in a while, saying, okay, I know I'm not necessarily going into a friendly room here. I know I may not even win people over. but I'm willing to still sit for these interviews. That's important.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, it's incredibly important to have a system where you can calmly debate. And if that means disagreeing sharply, so be it. I mean, we looked at the interview with Terry Moran in the Oval Office. I think everyone would agree that Terry Moran was incredibly aggressive and partisan and and really wasn't starting off by being an unbiased journalist. He was being an activist for the Democratic Party. You could see it. And so, President Trump, you know, pushes back. And when you see this process, you recognize that Donald Trump is somebody who is not afraid to go in and have a debate with somebody. Look at his conversation with Bill Maher. And Bill Maher came out and said, wow, like I was able to disagree with him. And, you know, we're not being canceled. It's one of those things that's really important.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, I think that that is important. I think it's important for people to see all the different sides of what's happening. And right now there's even a cabinet meeting happening and we see obviously a very creative group of different people, including Elon Musk, who's right there right now. I mean, the Trump administration has been willing to show that not only are they willing to work with outsiders, they are able to embrace them. Now, of course, it doesn't come without difficulties because I think you have, when you have a group, Rick, and we've talked about Washington, D.C. a lot, when you have a group of people who are Even the ones who are someone like Elon, who has the biggest businesses in the world, is the richest man in the world. There's still nothing like Washington, D.C. There's still nothing like the quote unquote swamp. And you have to learn pretty quick how to navigate.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, look, we've talked a lot about this in the past, that there's a huge difference between what happens in Washington, D.C. and what happens in the rest of the country. And I think conservatives have to stop expecting that those people who live, work, go to church in Washington, D.C., are ever going to want their city to be less powerful. They don't want fewer employees. They don't want people being cut. They don't want smaller budgets. They want a more powerful city. And so when we're talking about waste, fraud and abuse and cutting it, the people in Washington, D.C. hear an existential threat. And so we have to be able to recognize that we got to keep pushing because what Trump is doing, what Elon is doing is good for the rest of America, but it's not good for Washington, D.C.
SPEAKER 10 :
All right, Rick, thank you so much for joining us today again. Look, I see some of your comments right now. And of course, we're able to have incredible people like Rick and Rick. Hey, if you're still there, do we drop? Rick, you're there for next a little bit. We got one minute left. I just want to give you 30 seconds. It's the last day of our life in Liberty Drive. You know, there's some comments saying, hey, Logan, you're overdoing it right now. It's too much of this fundraising pitch. But guys, this is the last day and we can't have people like Rick and Rick. I'll let you speak for a second. We we can't have people like you without people's support.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, look, I understand that people, you know, you go to church, you hate to be told you got to tithe. You hate to listen to radio and say, you know, support us, support us. But I think we're different in that we're activists. We're doing things. We're actually pushing back. And so if you believe in what we're doing, if you like it, it would be great to support us.
SPEAKER 10 :
Rick, so much for joining us. In the next segment, we're going to take as many calls as we can, including we've got a couple ACLJ champions lined up. Of course, they get to the front of the line because they support the ACLJ on an ongoing monthly basis. They create a great baseline. You can become a champion today, and if you do that, your first gift is still doubled, and then it'll roll in to normal donations. And, of course, that helps us out for our next drive that helps us out in general. So go to ACLJ.org, or you can give us a call right now at 1-800-684-3110. Still one line open. We'll get you on the air. Welcome back to Seculo. Last segment of the day. Jordan's here. Will's here. We're going to take some of your calls. A lot of you have been on hold for a long time. And as we say, if you're an ACLJ champion, you get bumped up to the front. Anne's calling. And though she's an ACLJ champion, you've been on hold for a very long time. We just haven't taken a call yet today. Anne, you're on the air.
SPEAKER 01 :
Thank you, Logan. And I just say, ACLJ has been 30 years of blessing in our country. And I've been with you most of those. I'm so thankful you're taking on this district court judge issue. I've actually been praying about that ever since I heard it. It's just, it's so heartbreaking. And even all of the deplorables, myself included, know that a private or a lieutenant doesn't issue commands or orders to the general. And so I'm thankful you're doing this, and I want to support. Even though I'm a champion, and as a senior, I have this. privilege of donating for my retirement through QCD. I know I just have to give more and what time better than now when 500 can equal a thousand. So this is not a paid advertisement. This is truly from the heart blessing ACLJ for all the blessings they've given us. So I encourage fellow Americans to do this. If they can join me in this campaign, because this is really important.
SPEAKER 10 :
As Ann said, that wasn't some sort of scheduled call. Ann, I can feel it. I can feel your heart through the phone lines. I really appreciate all of your support and know that it does not go unnoticed and that everyone that's an ACLJ supporter and champion, we are also praying for you as well. And we are also doing our best to be there for you when you need us. And we appreciate if you can give, we obviously appreciate that. If you can't give, we also understand there's a lot of free ways you can get involved. Just go to the website, subscribe, do those things on YouTube. All those things help us out a lot. But Ann, thank you so much. We know this is an issue that people cared about. We just needed to take the proper time and proper action. That's what we do here at the ACLJ.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, and Jordan, that's a kind of a question I wanted to take from Ann's call is, you know, we knew people like Ann were praying about this. We're concerned about this. And we at the ACLJ wait for the right time when we know we can make the impact. We don't just rush into it where you could immediately get slapped down by a judge or have some issue. No, we knew that the right time is partnering with someone like the Attorney General of West Virginia. to put our brief in when there is an issue that's pertinent at the Supreme Court and laying out the law that way. So it's strategic. It's a lot of hard work by the legal team, but this is the right time to get involved. And sometimes you do have to have that patience to know when to strategically strike.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, and we're still talking about the first hundred days. of this of this administration I know it could seem longer than that because we've been in kind of a we've been in a non-stop campaign to get to this point but if you if you stop fighting now so if we start like sitting on our hands now what was the point of those last four years? What was the point of the first four years of the first Trump administration? What was the point of fighting back against impeachment? What is the point of getting these officials elected if you have a president who then can't act? And I want to tell you how general these laws are. For instance, on immigration, you'll have thousands of pages of US code and then at the end it says and the president can execute this so these judges will pick from one page the White House will pick from you know other pages it is ultimately these big decisions they can be decided by the Supreme Court in the meantime you should not be have to wait on your hands as president of the United States elected by the people a Congress that has enacted these laws. So you've got the separation of powers there. He should not have to wait to be able to then execute those laws or else all of those battles, all of those fights are for naught.
SPEAKER 10 :
There's no reason to engage. We got to remember this is a second term presidency. It doesn't sometimes feel like that. You got to remember what's happening here. Four years we know goes by lightning fast and things have to get done. If they don't get done now, they probably won't get done at all.
SPEAKER 09 :
I was with the Speaker of the House yesterday. We're already into midterm elections. There are big budget bills, but the next step is going to be, we've gotten, I think, used to in these hundred days, we start to see the Republican infighting, conservatives fighting conservatives. This is exactly what the left wants. You think the Democrat party is unorganized? You think the left is unorganized? Right now on paper, they win and Donald Trump gets impeached. That is what we're looking at in the House of Representatives right now. So we have got to fight back. And on this judicial activism front, We've talked about that for years, but we talk about it usually at the Supreme Court level. This is now happening at your district court where there are over 600 district court judges. And we talked about before, we can't allow those 600 to decide our policy of the United States government.
SPEAKER 10 :
Absolutely. Let's go actually have a question related to that from West Virginia. Christine's calling. She is also an ACLJ champion. Know that we really appreciate that. Christine, go ahead.
SPEAKER 02 :
Hi, thank you both. Thanks, Jordan. Thank you. I'm glad you guys had... And Logan, thank you. I'm glad you had your dad on earlier this week. Are there any other states besides West Virginia who are bold enough to...
SPEAKER 09 :
take the same stance against these district judges any other states going to join us there are there are other states that have joined now there are separate briefings so you've got probably over 20 so it's a pretty much look at your map of divided government and you get the red states in right and so that that is very key but the second part of this is remember the trump administration has to defend this usually we're on the side of an overpowered bureaucracy This is the executive trying to tell the bureaucracy this is how we're going to enforce the laws. And then you've got a judge, so another part of our separation of powers, saying you can't tell the bureaucracy how to enforce the law.
SPEAKER 10 :
Let's go ahead and take one more call for the day. Charles is calling in Georgia, listening on the radio. Charles, go ahead.
SPEAKER 03 :
Thank you, Logan, for my question. My question is, what would happen if President Trump just decided that he was not going to respond to any district court judge injunction. And even if they issued a contempt order, what practical effect would it have on the presidency? I mean, the separation of powers has no meaning if some low court judge can overrule the president in any way.
SPEAKER 09 :
I think where we have to be careful in the United States of America is what makes us different. from the rest of the world is our rule of law. So we have a respect for these institutions. That's why we have to correct them. So the idea is you don't want to get into a situation where the president of the United States is saying, I'm not going to reply. And here they have. So the Trump administration knows and here's where the problem lies the president can issue these orders to act but if the bureaucracy then goes and says well a judge told us we can't you see you get into one of those issues where there's ultimately this is what makes America great what makes America great is ultimately we have a rule of law that you can trust if we lose that we are no different than China we're no different than Russia and it may sound like hey for the two years you want your guy to have that kind of power when the other guys come in do you really want them to have the kind of power where an ACLJ goes into court to stop one of their actions let's say at the at the supreme court level and they say no I don't care then what is the what is the United States of America anymore and what makes us unique that is what we are fighting to save here and ultimately that is bigger than one president that's right and with just a minute left
SPEAKER 10 :
This is it, folks. This is the last day and the last time you're going to hear from me about the Life and Liberty Drive. So right now, throw that QR code up on the screen. It's very serious that we get involved in these issues right now. We've had a lot of fun. We've talked about it. We've had a lot of great guests on today. And I want to thank all the ACLJ champions. And tomorrow you're going to hear me hopefully thanking you for us hitting our goal, us hitting our budgets. We need your support right now. This is the Life and Liberty Drive. It does end tonight at midnight. It's your final chance to have your gifts doubled. at aclj.org scan that qr code if you can see it on the screen you've heard about the thousands of cases that we are involved in around the country that we do all year long that we do overseas internationally at the eclj at the aclj jerusalem you don't need me to remind you how important it is right now but look around you're going to want the aclj there and we can't do it without you so right now i can't underscore how important this is Go to ACLJ.org, scan the QR code that's on your screen, take a minute, pray, and if you can, support the work. We'll be back tomorrow with more on Sekulow.
Join Andy Pate as he steps in for John Rush on Rush to Reason, delivering an immersive discussion about the first century days of Donald Trump's administration. With a critical yet fair analysis, Andy and his guest Todd Watkins unpack the strides made in immigration enforcement and energy policies. They navigate through the complex landscapes of international politics and domestic reforms, inviting listeners to reflect on Trump’s legacy thus far and the lessons looming on the horizon. Don’t miss out on this thought-provoking analysis of a transformative era in American politics.
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Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life. That there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there. It is this feeling that has brought you to me.
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Filling in is Andy Pate, party of choice. And I'm your host, Andy Pate, filling in for John Rush once again. John's going to be back soon. And we are all very excited. But in the meantime, I am joined by Mr. Todd Watkins. Todd, how are you?
SPEAKER 07 :
I am well, Andy. Thanks for having me.
SPEAKER 03 :
I'm happy to have you here. This is kind of an exciting day. It's 100 days in office for Mr. Donald Trump, Mr. President, El Presidente, Donald Trump.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 03 :
It has been fun.
SPEAKER 07 :
It has been, especially after this weekend.
SPEAKER 03 :
Why?
SPEAKER 07 :
Florida and Colorado Springs. But I think we're going to get into that a little later, right?
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, we're definitely going to get into that. Because here's what I'm going to be asking folks today. If you call in, that's okay. I don't care if you are a far left, far right, whatever you are. But if you call in today at 303-477-5600, I want you to give a grade. for Donald Trump for his first 100 days. I'm going to give mine this hour. Todd's going to give his. I'm looking forward to this. By the way, if you're from Europe and you want to give that grade in the metric system, go ahead. We are very open. Europe's messed up. I don't like Europe. Okay. Let's do the impossible questions first, and then we will get into the first 100 days. Sound fair?
SPEAKER 08 :
Fair.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, here we go. Yesterday's impossible question. Maybe you would get this. I did not. Which Japanese term refers to continuous improvement in manufacturing processes?
SPEAKER 07 :
I would just go gung-ho, but I know that's not it.
SPEAKER 03 :
That is not it. It's kaizen.
SPEAKER 07 :
That was my next question.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, definitely. I know it was right on the tip of the tongue. Kaizen is a Japanese term that means continuous improvement. See, I was going to say Kaiju. Like, you know, the big monsters that come out of the sea. Godzilla. Charlie, why are you messing with me? Okay, I'd say Kaiju, like those big monsters that come out of the sea. Why do they always go after Japan? What is it about Japan that all these big monsters always want to get Japan?
SPEAKER 07 :
Victimhood syndrome?
SPEAKER 03 :
I guess so. I mean, they need to lay off Japan and go after, I don't know, Africa or America or Canada. Go after Canada after yesterday. Please go after Canada. Greenland. Yes, Greenland. Can you imagine a bunch of angry, for those who don't know what a kaiju is, that's like Godzilla, that kind of thing. I can imagine an angry herd of kaiju overrunning Greenland. That'd be pretty fun.
SPEAKER 07 :
And like all 12 people who live there?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, they'd be really afraid. Okay, today's impossible question, and I will not give the answer. Get this one. I got to say it slowly. Which rare autoimmune disease attacks acetylcholine receptors at the neuromuscular junction? Can I buy a vol? I mean. Lupus? No, that's not the answer. I will not give the answer, folks, if you want to weigh in on that. That's way above my grade, just so you know. If you want to weigh in on that, go to RushReason.com. We'll talk about it. Sound good? Okay, let's get into Donald Trump because it has been 100 days for the ages. I think we can agree it's been the most historic 100 days we've seen in, my goodness, in a presidency for at least over a century.
SPEAKER 07 :
I mean, with obviously within the last couple of generations, the most momentous 100 days.
SPEAKER 03 :
Incredible. Absolutely incredible. So another thing I'm going to ask you and I'm going to ask me and I'm going to ask others if they want to call in. I would like you to say, what are your three favorite things he's done? And what is one thing that you think he could improve on? All right. Now, we're going to go into the list here in just a moment. But first, I'm going to give my three right out of the gate. All right. All right. My three favorite things that Donald Trump has done. Number one, secure the border. I think that's going to be pretty universal. All right. Number two. And this is huge for me. Doge.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
If only because of the way it's awakened everybody to just how much money was being wasted and how. I understand the cuts they're going to make are much smaller than we had hoped for. I get that, folks, but it's still cuts. And we weren't making any before. I think it's been brilliant. I've loved every moment of it. And number three, energy. Drill, baby, drill. Unleashing American energy. We'll get to that in a moment. All right. What do you have for three?
SPEAKER 07 :
For the ones I like?
SPEAKER 03 :
What are three you really like?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, so there's the shutting off the immigration flow. And, of course, like all mine are going to be immigration-based because of my past, right? Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
And really quick, for those who don't know, what's your past?
SPEAKER 07 :
24 years U.S. Border Patrol. Thank you. Go ahead, Tom. So his first day is after he took the oath, the flow at the border just shut down. And it was all policy. And that was the easiest stroke of a pen that anybody could have had for that. That fixed that immediately.
SPEAKER 03 :
Next is whatever happened to the Democrats saying we have a broken immigration system. No, we have an immigration system that they were not applying.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right.
SPEAKER 03 :
They abandoned immigration laws that they were ignoring.
SPEAKER 07 :
100 percent. Absolutely. So anything that the resumption of building the border wall. And so there's so much more to the wall than just the physical structure of the wall. But empowering, you know, my former agency, my alma mater to go back and do their jobs. He took the leash off of ICE. the interior enforcement, which I've never seen, not even during the Bush administration, was ICE this unfettered to go do their job.
SPEAKER 03 :
Now, I want to ask you something, and this may be logistically impossible, I don't know, but could Mount Rushmore be broadened to six people, six heads, put Trump at one end and Tom Homan at the other? What do you think?
SPEAKER 07 :
With some kaiju, maybe. Exactly.
SPEAKER 03 :
Gesundheit. Okay, I love these guys. I love what they do.
SPEAKER 07 :
Go ahead. That's got to be close to three or thereabouts three. I lost track.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, basically three elements of what he's doing on immigration.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, the hunter, he gets A++ everything there. The one thing that I would like to have seen gone a lot faster, and it's probably unrealistic, you know, is to put the screws to sanctuary cities in states. I would like to have seen that heavy hand come down on that like right away.
SPEAKER 03 :
I would like to see it faster. I don't know how much he's simply being held back by the courts. I don't know. I know Pam Bondi is all in.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
She's going after him. OK, let me give mine. And I talked about this yesterday on the show. One thing where I I give Trump a very poor grade is how he's handled Canada. OK, really, a couple of months ago, the conservatives were ahead of the liberals by like 25, 30 points. Yeah, it was going to be an absolute slaughter in the Canadian elections. Then Trump comes out talking about Canada being the 51st state and launching the terror. Yeah, but it doesn't matter. You've got to think about the repercussions of what you do. And I said at the time, please don't do this. Don't do this. OK, we don't need they're not going to like this. Don't help the liberals surge in Canada. Well, guess what happened? They went from being 25, 30 points down to four points ahead. They had their elections yesterday. The liberals actually won. It is the biggest come from behind over a couple of months I have ever seen in my entire life anywhere. OK, it was unbelievable. And it was all Donald Trump. So I'm going to come down. And by the way, folks, you're going to be hearing the rest of the hour. Everything he's done well. And let me tell you something. He's the greatest president of my lifetime. Yes. But as I said yesterday, this is MAGA is a political movement. It is not a religion. He's not my God. He's the great leader of our movement, and I love him. But that was a mistake. The people in Canada were furious being said, oh, you could be our 51st state. That was incredibly condescending and demeaning. The liberals up there, and I predicted it, they jumped on that, they took advantage of it, and they won back the middle and actually won elections in a year when they were supposed to get obliterated. And they won, and it was Donald Trump. Donald Trump won the the election in canada for the left and now everybody's acknowledging that but you know you can kind of see it coming i didn't know if they would move that far they actually moved further than i thought but that was a mistake when you make these comments when you make these statements on the world stage yeah a lot of these tough tough statements are great right because you're negotiating you're working with tariffs we'll get into that in a bit which i actually like But you have to keep in mind, how am I affecting the mindset, the mood in this country? Had he not done what he did with Canada, I guarantee right now, today, we would have a conservative government in Canada that would be our complete ally for Donald Trump. Guaranteed. 100% guaranteed. The polls were absolutely off the charts in favor of the conservatives. That is... Quite possibly my only criticism of Donald Trump. What do you think?
SPEAKER 07 :
I think Canada needs a sense of humor.
SPEAKER 03 :
I do too, but I totally agree. But their touchiness, you have to take into account when you're talking.
SPEAKER 07 :
Go ahead. We'll belay the tariffs for a day so that we can export a sense of humor to Canada and maybe set it back.
SPEAKER 03 :
No extra fee.
SPEAKER 07 :
No extra fee. Okay.
SPEAKER 03 :
We'll tell you what, when we come back, Todd, when we come back, you and I, we have a list and we're going to go back and forth. And Hannity was talking about this on a show last night. So credit to Sean Hannity. Way to go. I could have come up with my own list, but I liked his. It was pretty much mine. And we're going to go back and forth and really remind people of the greatness of Donald Trump and what he has done over this hundred days. It is miraculous. So I look forward to that. So stay tuned, folks. We're going to have a lot of fun. Up next is Dr. Scott Faulkner. Get a doctor who listens only to you, not big pharma, not big insurance, just you. For a total approach to your total health, call Dr. Scott at 303-663-6990.
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And welcome back to Rush to Reason. Denver's Afternoon Rush. KLZ 560. Andy Pate filling in for John Rush along with Todd Watkins. Todd. Yes, sir. Let's jump into some Trump accomplishments. Once again, folks, 100 days. Incredible. You lead off. We'll alternate.
SPEAKER 07 :
Number one, the Lincoln-Riley Act.
SPEAKER 03 :
I mean, that was great, by the way.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, I mean, it's Congress passed it, but that never would have happened without a Trump presidency. Oh, yeah. I mean, he set the scene for that. And this requires ICE, DHS to take custody or detain. There's a couple ways that can be affected. Illegal aliens committed, accused of certain crimes like theft or anything more egregious than that.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, it's outstanding. Okay, number two, the most secure border of our lifetime. I know that's an overall one, but my goodness, numbers are down. It varies between 95%, 99%, whatever. They have locked down the border. So much for we need new immigration systems.
SPEAKER 07 :
No, it was a policy. He said no more, no catch and release, and that shut it down, like turning a faucet off.
SPEAKER 03 :
It's fantastic. You know, before we go on, since that's your, you know, neck of the woods, what more can we do? I mean, what about and I know this is going to take more time because this is legislative action. But, you know, denying all kinds of money, benefits, payments, welfare, you know, food stamps, everything. What else can we do to make that be not worthwhile to come here? The pull.
SPEAKER 07 :
So you start to diminish, take away the pull factor.
SPEAKER 03 :
Right. How can we kill the pull?
SPEAKER 07 :
So, well, federally, I mean, you've got one of, I think one of these here kind of goes in that direction, but you don't need legislation. To stop the federal aspect of the poll. The problem is the states. The states. The states. And that goes back to my, I wish he would have acted, I wish he was faster with the sanctuary states.
SPEAKER 03 :
What about cutting federal funding to states that do that?
SPEAKER 07 :
I think he should. The courts always tend to jump in, but I don't think it requires legislation to do that. You just stop sending them money.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, you do the next one, which is right in line with what we just did. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, 100,000 deportations.
SPEAKER 03 :
That's understating it, isn't it?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I could swear I heard Tom Holman, you know, over the weekend mention something like 130,000 or 150,000 deportations.
SPEAKER 03 :
It's really frustrating, though, because, folks, it takes an awful lot more time to catch someone and remove them than it does to simply wave them in. Oh, yeah. like biden was doing there's no way in four years trump can remove even 20 of what biden let in no he can't do it because of the process he has to go through and this brings up the question how is that fair okay they totally ignore due process coming in that's a good why do we need to give them a long due process going out
SPEAKER 07 :
guess what? They got their due process. Yeah. That's complete BS. They're saying, well, it's called port of entry. That's called legal immigration. So using the Maryland dad, right. As the, as the example, He didn't get due process. The hell he didn't get due process. He saw like a dozen different judges, mostly immigration judges, who ordered him out of the country. He got a temporary relief from removal. And that removal, that temporary relief was to not be removed to, I believe it was Venezuela.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. Oh, because, you know, he could be targeted if he goes back there. Uh, okay. Then if that's really, look, if he's some kind of a Siley, right. And he, and he's running from that. Why didn't he go through? I know he isn't, but I'm devil's advocate. So if that's the case, why didn't he go to a regular port of entry and say, Hey, I'm running from being killed down there. He didn't do that. It came here illegally. So I don't really don't care what you're running from. You went through, we had legal ports of entry. He could have gone through those. He didn't. I don't care.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, and it has to do with the way the asylum laws are written, that anybody who is in the United States can make a defensive claim for asylum. Defensive means defense from being removed. Right. But here's the next thing. If you're afraid, and I saw this time and again, and the further east on the globe you go, the more points of interest you get in this. If somebody say – we had people coming from Somalia, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, all the places where they want to kill us, right? And they get to the United States. It took them six to nine, some 12 months to get to the United States and they claim asylum. And the courts, we had a saying, no immigration case is finished until the alien wins. Why is this not a problem? This person went through no fewer than 27 different countries to get here.
SPEAKER 03 :
Why does asylum have to be here in the United States? Why couldn't it have been in Brazil? Isn't it supposed to be the first country they hit going out of their country?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. And that's that's that's another thing I'd like to see that heavily redacted is our asylum policies to.
SPEAKER 03 :
We'll get there. We'll get there. OK. Pam Bondi is on it. She's a rock star. OK. Number four. And this. is huge. We resumed the border wall construction. Guys, you can just say, hey, let's just do it with more agents. Let's just do it with more enforcement. Yeah, what does that do once you get a Democrat in office? I want a full wall, and I understand there is terrain where that isn't feasible. When I say wall, there's multiple portions of that that are different. I get it. But I basically want a wall across the entire southern border. Why wouldn't I? It's great, and it's so much easier. I like to ask people who say, well, I don't think it's effective, really. Let me ask you something. You protect your home, right? Some of you are armed, some of you aren't, but let me ask you something, folks, if you're listening out there, especially if you're liberal. Is it easier to protect your home with walls and doors or without them?
SPEAKER 07 :
I mean, the wall is to slow them down so we can get there.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what it is. Yes. If you have the wall, obviously that's not going to solve the entire problem. Nobody on earth ever said it was. Trump never said it was. Right. Okay. But it makes it much harder. They have to go through a lot of other steps to get in. It slows them down. They can't just fly across a field. Okay. The wall makes it so much easier for our agents to do their job because there's a barrier now that they're patrolling and not just a field. Right. And by the way, these fields are immense. They are hundreds of miles in width and length. Okay.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
I think resuming the border wall, build the wall, build the wall is spectacular. Yes, it is. And overdue. Go ahead. Number five.
SPEAKER 07 :
Offshore drilling.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yes. Yes.
SPEAKER 07 :
So the Gulf of one of my favorites, the Gulf of America, Gulf of America.
SPEAKER 03 :
I honestly don't care what we call it, but drill there.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes. Yeah. Energy independence. Yeah. Yeah. It's strategically a bad move to rely on other nations for your sustainment.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. And, you know, I'm going to add to this because it's not in the list, but also opening up coal mines again. Huge. Huge. And you know who this is best for? Is it the rich or the poor? The poor.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. It's cheap energy. The rich can afford expensive energy. The poor can't. Trump is for the poor. Okay, number six. He imposed steel and aluminum tariffs. Okay, I'm going to plead a little bit of ignorance on this. I don't know as much about it, but I'm sure it's a good thing.
SPEAKER 07 :
I believe that makes it more lucrative to use steel and aluminum that's produced in the United States.
SPEAKER 03 :
Right, I understand that, but I don't know any of the numbers of how much we import versus export. I don't know any of the hard numbers.
SPEAKER 07 :
A lot of it was supposedly coming from China or something like that.
SPEAKER 03 :
Fair enough. Cool.
SPEAKER 07 :
Number seven. Secured several trillion in new investments.
SPEAKER 03 :
Huge. Huge. We've got all these trillions that are going to be. And you can say, well, it's going to take years for those companies to be made. You know what? Along the way, you're going to have a lot of great jobs building those factories. It's going to be great. And then you're going to have the factory.
SPEAKER 07 :
And shouldn't we be looking several years down the road, not just in four-year increments?
SPEAKER 03 :
Absolutely. That's what it's called. Okay. Number eight, he rescued Americans who were held abroad. And by the way, also up in the sky, Elon. Okay. Well, yeah, but Biden wasn't doing anything. He was sitting at his hands. I know Biden was lost. I'm talking about his people, not him. But they weren't doing anything. They weren't getting these people back. Trump did. Go. Number nine.
SPEAKER 07 :
Uh, brought back service members fired for re using the backs, the vaccine, the COVID Vax with back pay. So, right.
SPEAKER 03 :
And I don't care what you think about the vaccine. I'm not a fan of it. I didn't like this. I like vaccines. I didn't like this kind of vaccine.
SPEAKER 07 :
I didn't think it would being forced on you like that.
SPEAKER 03 :
I didn't think it should be forced on people. And I didn't think this vaccine would adapt to a rapidly mutating virus. I didn't think it would work. And by the way, it didn't because of that, but whatever your feelings on that, forget that you fired people.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
They lost their jobs. They lost their careers. Now they can all come back. I love it. Okay. Number 10. He declared a national energy emergency. Now that is showing great foresight. Okay. When you do that, of course, that unlocks a lot of what you can do. And in other words, he didn't wait until energy became a real problem two, three years into his term. He declared it now. Way to go, Trump. Amen. Go. Number 11.
SPEAKER 07 :
Ended the liquid natural gas export ban.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yes. That's huge between us and Europe.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yep. Well, what was the pipeline that we blew up? Yeah. The Nord Stream or whatever. That's funny.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, that one's actually huge. The LNG experts. Okay, number 12. Here's the one everybody agrees on. Almost everybody. He banned men from women's sports. This is I think this one issue more than any other issue made us the normal party and made the Democrats the wackos. I mean, people look at the Democrats and say, wait a minute. I just watched the Olympics and there was a guy beating up a woman in the boxing ring.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
That's not cool. We don't support that. My daughter is 14, and there is somebody with male parts undressing in front of her in a locker room. This is one where this is an 80-21 all the way, and he jumped on it. Explain this to me, and then we'll go to break. We'll come back and get some more of these that are just wonderful. Why were other Republican leaders slow to jump on this issue?
SPEAKER 07 :
Fear. I think fear of being castigated, ostracized, attacked by the left. I mean, didn't we see that throughout the whole Biden time? There are a lot of conservative minded people kept quiet because of the fear of retribution.
SPEAKER 03 :
OK, and this is where I look at a lot of Republicans. This is where I look at a lot of Republicans and I say, guys, boldness sells. Yeah. OK, that doesn't mean you got to be overly brash and say, I want Canada to be the 51st state. You can go too far. You can overshoot the runway. OK, you can do it.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
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And welcome back to Rush to Reason. Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Andy Pate filling in for John Rush, along with Todd Watkins. Todd.
SPEAKER 07 :
Andy.
SPEAKER 03 :
Before we move on with some more things that Trump has done, and they are wonderful, I want you to give your take on what Trump did in Colorado Springs over the weekend. Eli talked about this a little yesterday, but hey, this is your past. This is what you've done. So what went down?
SPEAKER 07 :
So this was a big deal. And although this is being cast in the media and in the popular mind as an immigration raid, it was a drug raid. This was an investigation that was begun and an operation led by the DEA, the Drug Enforcement Administration. on a underground illegal nightclub that had been operating in Colorado Springs for probably over a year. And it was frequented by illegal aliens, cartel members, transnational criminal gangs, even the Hells Angels apparently frequent or had been seen in this place. So there's a lot of drugs trading hands. There's a lot of weapons trading hands here. And there's a lot of sex trafficking in here, too. It's just a... Hellish snakes pit. Basically worst of the worst. Yeah, yeah. This is just not something you want in your community. So I'm from El Paso County, so it's close to home, literally.
SPEAKER 03 :
You weren't at this party, were you?
SPEAKER 07 :
No, no.
SPEAKER 03 :
Because I don't know what you do after all. You're kind of a wild guy.
SPEAKER 07 :
As a retired Border Patrol agent, I would have loved to have been called back for this one. So... This is an investigation, if my professional experience tells me that this started several months ago. this investigation and to gin up this operation. And I'll bet you that it started during the Biden administration and they were waiting for a change of a leadership change of the guard so that they could actually pull the trigger on this.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay. Now they caught all these people, but 114 illegal aliens, 114 illegal aliens and 17 active duty soldiers. We'll get to that in just a moment. But, um, How do you – this is a big building. It's got a lot of exits and entries. How do you cover everything? You have to surround it. You've got to surround it. Yeah. But even surrounding it, I mean, it just seems like there's an awful lot of space people could scatter to.
SPEAKER 07 :
So, well, I mean, you know where the exits are, all the different points of ingress and egress.
SPEAKER 03 :
But you've got to really be manned up. That's what I'm saying.
SPEAKER 07 :
They had 300 boots on the ground. That's a massive force. In the police world, that's – That's huge. That's bigger than several departments.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, now think about this for a moment, though. Okay? How much manpower did it require for Joe Biden to let these people scurry right into the country?
SPEAKER 07 :
Quite a lot, actually, because we were holding their hands and serving as a concierge.
SPEAKER 03 :
That's the ones we even served as a concierge for, the ones we didn't run across. It takes a lot more to catch them, is what I'm saying.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, well, because there's a whole securing the... Yeah, I just want to mention this because there's so many people who want Trump to get people out as quick as Biden let him in.
SPEAKER 03 :
It's like, that's ludicrous, right?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yep. Oh, 100%. Yeah, sorry. Yeah, there's a lot more machinery that goes into removing than letting them in. Right. So this is now a crime scene with over 200 suspects.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, now what about the military members? What were they doing there? Because were they just acting as security? Did they just get security jobs? In which case, if that's all they were doing was acting as security, we'll get to what they were really doing in a moment. If that's all they were doing, how much do I hold them responsible for knowing or not knowing what kind of people were in there? Surely they had to know there was a criminal element.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. So basically, these members, is it very possible they're all going to be tossed?
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, yeah, yeah. I would not bet against that, that you'll lose money on that. So the reports are saying, and this is the agent in charge of the DEA mentioned, I think he said 17 members, several most acting as security. Others were patrons of the place. So I got to think I have to my my son's a soldier down at Fort Carson.
SPEAKER 03 :
I asked him patrons of a place that's not even an official bar or whatever. Yep. That gets together for these parties that are flooded with illegal immigrants and all kinds of nefarious things going on. It is going until three, four in the morning.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
And this is what they choose to go to. What is going on with our... Look, I'm ex-Air Force. I actually did a bunch of my mobility training right there at the Academy. Okay?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
Down there in the Springs.
SPEAKER 07 :
What are they doing? They shouldn't have been there. The military is absolutely held to a higher standard. You know this. There are consequences for these sorts of things that are far greater than just being a dumb civilian. You're expected to, you know... Avoid situations like this. The ones that are serving as – that were acting as security, I even saw some images. A guy had a vest on that's black, body armor type vest that said security. So those that were doing that, I guess I'd want to see the commander's memo that authorized them to work off post, off duty. I'm going to bet they didn't have one of those. Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
You know, maybe they did because they got to report it on their taxes. This is income. Unless they were getting cash.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, there's no way.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, so this is just cash on the side.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, there's no way there was anything legitimate about this place. I didn't think so. Even the owner, the building owner, and you take his statement with a grain of salt. The next morning he was out there saying, I had no idea they were doing this. I'm very disappointed that this sort of activity was taking place in the building that I own. and their lease was up at the end of the month, so tomorrow.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 07 :
So whether or not he's doing some damage control here, nothing about this was legitimate. There's no way they had a liquor license for any of this, and there was nothing but just rampant criminality.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, but does this also, setting aside all the criminal illegals and all that, Does this also speak to the deeper amount of damage that we have in the armed forces today and what Pete Hegseth is facing? Because I guarantee you, Pete, Pistol Pete, he heard about this, what's going on down there, and I'm sure he threw a fit. Because he's a smart person. And what is he going to do about this? I mean, at some point, you have to look throughout the entire... You can't get rid of all the Cancers. I get that. But at some point, you've got to look throughout the ranks and say, you know what? After years of letting in just about anyone, maybe we need to let some people out.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well... So having been a soldier myself, I can tell you that since George Washington took charge of the Continental Army outside of Boston in 1775, soldiers have made really bad life choices before. I don't know that this speaks to the law.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, yeah, and I saw them when I was in the Air Force. I saw some who made terrible life choices. I didn't see anybody do this. But I'm not saying it didn't happen. I'm sure it did. I was at Lowry at the time.
SPEAKER 07 :
I mean there have been – even when I was an agent in San Diego, there were instances of – what's the Marine? Pendleton. Cam Pendleton up in Oceanside, right? Marines would get jammed up smuggling aliens. Marines would get jammed up bringing – selling their military gear, night vision predominantly, stealing it from the supply and taking it south. So it's – I don't know that this says anything specific to our time right now. Definitely Pete Hegseth is going to want to address this. But disciplinary and conduct issues have always been a problem with the military. Well, obviously.
SPEAKER 03 :
That's why you have the code. Right.
SPEAKER 07 :
I'm sure it will be enforced, and this will serve as an example.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, well, it's going to be interesting. I think Pistol Pete is going to have some heads rolling. Probably. Right away, and I look forward to that because they deserve to, and hopefully that will send a message to the rest of the military. I never did any of this garbage when I was in. I obeyed the law. All I did is I did my job, okay?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, and I think 99% of the servicemen do. I mean, there's always going to be that, you know, Well, this was kind of dirty element.
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Now back to Rush to Reason on KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 03 :
And welcome back to Rush to Reason, Denver's afternoon rush, KLZ 560. Okay, Todd, let's start at number 13. We're going to whip through these really quick, and we are going to give our final grades. to Mr. Donald J. Trump.
SPEAKER 07 :
Go. He ended federally funded DEI programs. That's self-explanatory.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, yes. In other words, he, you know, illegalized racism with federal funding. What an idea. Great. My tax dollars don't pay for racism now. I like that. Number 14. He ended federal funding for child sex changes. That's another 80-20. Yeah. I mean, come on. Go ahead. Number... Yeah, well, really quick. I mean, folks, I'm not saying people can't change their gender if they want to, or at least try to. You can do whatever you want with your body, but you've got to be an adult because these things are irreversible. And we don't want irreversible things done to children. Children do not have the maturity level to make those kinds of decisions. Fair enough?
SPEAKER 07 :
And the federal government shouldn't be funding them if they are.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, no.
SPEAKER 07 :
Number 15, go. Revoked visas for pro-Hamas students. Visas are really easy to revoke. And I hope this is a harbinger of other visa revocations to come in the near future.
SPEAKER 03 :
I agree. Wonderful. Okay, here comes a good one. Number 16, designated English as the official language of the United States. Now, folks, I don't care if you speak another language. That's great. But we have to have one in common. We've got to function.
SPEAKER 07 :
No comprendo.
SPEAKER 03 :
No comprendo. Honestly, I think Spanish is a beautiful language. The way it flows, I love it. But we've got to have something in common. You came here to an English-speaking nation. Well, I don't know it yet. That's fine. Learn it. It's okay, but learn it so you can function, so you can read road signs, things like that. It's very important. Go.
SPEAKER 07 :
You know, to be an immigrant, not a non-immigrant on a temporary visa, but to be a legally admitted immigrant, to get legal residency here, it is still a requirement to speak English. It hasn't been enforced for decades. Yeah, it needs to be. Number 17, go. I forced colleges to address anti-Semitism on campus. That goes back to the pro-Hamas.
SPEAKER 03 :
visa revocations yeah that's so important number 18 launched the talks to end the russia ukraine war folks not only did biden what not only was biden the reason that war started he was never going to be the reason it ended yeah i mean my gosh the guy didn't care he didn't care he had so much leverage being america right and he used none of it Just go ahead and keep killing. We will keep sending tax dollars to prop up Ukraine and we will, and we will keep raising the price of oil to prop up Russia. And we'll make sure because of America that they can have this war. It was ridiculous. We played a real role. Obviously Russia was the instigator. I get that. Yeah. But we played a real role in this way to go. Trump, uh, number 19 go established doge.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. The department of government efficiency.
SPEAKER 03 :
Have you ever seen such an expose done on the American waste of money? I mean, obviously Rand Paul does it every year. I get that. But have you ever seen anything like it?
SPEAKER 07 :
No, no, entire departments and agencies being shuttered because of fraud, waste, and abuse.
SPEAKER 03 :
Magnificent.
SPEAKER 07 :
And just to watch Nancy Pelosi scream and howl about this was worth it.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, we only got three left, and they're great. Number 20, declassified the JFK files. Now, I will be honest, I never cared about this one. I really didn't. Nothing against JFK. You know, it's a terrible thing. But, you know, this doesn't affect me today. But, you know, I think it's a good thing to declassify and get it out in the open.
SPEAKER 07 :
When something has reached its expiration, there's usually a time limit that something is classified for. Yeah, we really should start declassifying those. This was just to protect people. I agree. You know, reputations. Nothing national security. It's all good.
SPEAKER 03 :
Number 21.
SPEAKER 07 :
Ended federal support for paper straws. That's my favorite one, Andy.
SPEAKER 03 :
That's a funny one. I know.
SPEAKER 07 :
That's my favorite one.
SPEAKER 03 :
Ended federal support for... I do hate paper straws. I hate them. I like plastic straws. A good oil product. I like that. I want more of them. I want whole landfills filled with them. I love plastic straws.
SPEAKER 07 :
I've never had a paper straw, but I can tell you that I hate them.
SPEAKER 03 :
OK, here we go. Number 22. Last one, folks. Negotiating new trade deals benefiting American workers. Guys, nobody has been doing this in the White House. Nobody until now. And, you know, we can say, gee, he moved too quickly or should have been more strategic or whatever with the with the whole, you know, trade war that he's doing. OK, maybe, maybe not. I don't know. I'm not an expert on that. But I do know this. The American consumer is the greatest leverage in the entire world for trade negotiations. And all the presidents recently up to Trump were not using it. So you got all this leverage. You're using none of it. And we're getting gypped as a result. OK, I think it's great. What do you think?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, he's clawing back American exceptionalism.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, I think it's fantastic.
SPEAKER 07 :
And that's not a bad thing.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, I am going to go first. I'm going to give my grade for Donald J. Trump, A through F. I'm giving him an A. And not just because I'm some right-wing MAGA guy. I'm looking at everything he's done. And notice I'm not giving him an A+. Why? Canada. What he did with Canada, that was a big mistake. It was a mistake. It was a tactical error. You have to factor in the petty emotions of people across that border and how they're going to react to what you're going to do. You have to factor that in. Had he not handled Canada in the way he did, right now Canada would have a very conservative MAGA-style government. That was coming. It was guaranteed. It was written in stone. It was going to happen. But that's one thing out of a million. This guy has been knocking it out of the park. Every day has been Christmas. Greatest president in my lifetime. Love him. Giving him an A. What do you think?
SPEAKER 07 :
I blame Canada for Canada, and I blame half of Canada for its very lax immigration policies that it's had for decades that have turned that place into just a liberal cesspool that has been for a long time. I'm not saying they're not to blame. Yeah. But I go to Ralphie's teacher from A Christmas Story, and there aren't enough pluses after the A. I would be drawing across the studio here the number of pluses.
SPEAKER 03 :
It's been magnificent, hasn't it? I mean, it is just... It's like waking up in paradise every single day. I love it. Yeah. It's beautiful.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
And, you know, in the next hour, we're going to be talking about the Colorado Republican Party because so many of those who support the last leadership, I'll get back to Trump in a second. They want to say that the coup that you were part of was illegal. OK, and they're putting that out there and they're putting that out there. And yet here's what gets me. You and I and they would all agree Trump gets an A or A+++, whatever. Trump has been fantastic. We're all Trump supporters is what I'm getting to. Yes. What we have here in Colorado is not MAGA against non-MAGA. Okay? It is one faction of MAGA against another faction of MAGA. Pretty much. That's what we're looking at. Yeah. It's so weird what we are seeing right now in Colorado, and it's making it hard for Brita to take off.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. Jordan Peterson – I watched an interview with – I think it was the Joe Rogan show. And he proposed – I guess he's got a new theory or a hypothesis on the extremism of the right. It's not a difference, a divergence of ideas, ideals or policy.
SPEAKER 01 :
Right, right. Not at all.
SPEAKER 07 :
It's strategy. We're suffering the same kind of extremism that the left had. And this is psychopathy on the right is what he's calling it.
SPEAKER 03 :
Psychopathy.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, I'll tell you what, we can see that. Individuals. We're going to talk about the Davidians in the next hour. And the reason we're doing it, folks, is because I want people to understand. There are all these posts out there all over the place saying illegal coup, illegal coup. And we're, Todd, you were on the inside. You're going to walk through it step by step and show us exactly what happened and why. Indeed, I will. All right, folks, that's it for our number one. In our two, Todd and I are going to look at the Colorado GOP coup. Was it illegal? What happens now? Until then, keep it right here on Rush to Reason, KLZ 560.
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Average Guys. Average Guys.
SPEAKER 1 :
Average Guys.
In this episode of 'Rush to Reason', we unravel the complex layers of election funding fraud involving massive, seemingly continuous donations through platforms like Act Blue. Our hosts engage in a light-hearted yet serious discussion on America's transportation woes, focusing on the massive fare evasion problem in New York City's subway system. The episode is peppered with anecdotes and an insightful dive into the controversies surrounding the reintroduction of wild species like grizzly bears.
SPEAKER 06 :
This is Rush to Reason. You are going to shut your damn yapper and listen for a change because I got you pegged, sweetheart. You want to take the easy way out because you're scared. And you're scared because if you try and fail, there's only you to blame. Let me break this down for you. Life is scary. Get used to it. There are no magical fixes. With your host, John Rush.
SPEAKER 17 :
My advice to you is to do what your parents did. Get a job, sir. You haven't made everybody equal. You've made them the same and there's a big difference.
SPEAKER 18 :
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life. That there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there. It is this feeling that has brought you to me.
SPEAKER 06 :
Are you crazy? Am I? Or am I so sane that you just blew your mind?
SPEAKER 11 :
It's Rush to Reason with your host, John Rush. Presented by Cub Creek Heating and Air Conditioning.
SPEAKER 12 :
Filling in is Andy Pate, party of choice. And welcome to hour number three here on Rush to Reason. I am Andy Pate, filling in for John Rush. And on the line right now, we've got the man, the legend, Jersey. Joe, Joe, how are you, sir?
SPEAKER 07 :
I'm fantastic. I'm surprised you had me back on two nights in a row. The protest outside the studio didn't get you to change your mind?
SPEAKER 12 :
No, not at all. I'm tough, man.
SPEAKER 07 :
I'm tough.
SPEAKER 12 :
I'm like Trump.
SPEAKER 07 :
Your thick skin, all the hate. By the way, talk about thick skin. We're going to play a clip of Tom Holman, our border czar. Love him. Talk about thick skin.
SPEAKER 12 :
But before we get into deportation. Before you even dive in, I need you to answer the questions that I've been asking in the show today. Okay? Okay. Number one, first 100 days, give a grade for Donald Trump. I'm going to give him a B+. Okay, sounds good.
SPEAKER 07 :
He shot himself in the foot a couple times, including, I know you talked about how he helped the Liberals win Canada. He did. And some of the other things that he's handled, I think he could have handled smoother. But overall, a B+. You know, a scale of 1 to 10, I'd give him an 8.
SPEAKER 12 :
That's really good. Okay, and can you mention three things that you like most that he's done?
SPEAKER 07 :
I think... Clearly, immigration, illegal immigration is down, what, better than 94%. Right. Which he did with no money. Remember, Biden said, well, we would need Congress to act.
SPEAKER 12 :
Comprehensive immigration reform. That's what we need.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right. Biden basically said, I'm powerless without comprehensive immigration reform from Congress. He lied. Well, Trump proved that was a lie.
SPEAKER 10 :
Right.
SPEAKER 07 :
So immigration is one. I think... streamline getting rid of dei and preferences and and stop funding that you know i think what he's done with doge doge was brilliant you know i think we played a clip a couple of weeks ago about obama announcing his own doge effort right headed up by joe biden zero nothing came with that absolutely nothing in fact things continue to get progressively work So I think bringing in an outside team that had no vested interest in maintaining the status quo was brilliant. That's a great idea.
SPEAKER 12 :
It's basically an outside audit.
SPEAKER 07 :
Like an outside audit. And Doge does have a website. For instance, they were paying $18 million a month for a vacant facility in Texas. Vacant. $18 million a month for a vacant facility. They were paying $27 million a month in rent on an office building in New York. city, a 600,000 square. Now let me put 600,000, your typical Walmart is about 60,000 square feet, 50 to 60. So can you imagine a multi-story office building? Imagine if you had 10 Walmarts stacked on one on top of each other. Incredible. And there were only 360 people coming to work in that building every day. Oh my. And 27 million a month is 350,000 million a year for an office building that only was holding 350 people.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, so you've given us two, obviously immigration and Doge. What next?
SPEAKER 07 :
One more. Tariff equality. Again, the rest of the world has been taking advantage from the U.S. in terms of tariffs. There are countries where you can't economically or viably sell American cars because they had ridiculous tariffs on that. China was one of the worst offenders. And yes, this is like two women pulling each other's hair, but we can pull harder. China's going to give.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, I was going to ask, what's your prediction there, Joe? I mean, how long do you think it's going to... I think China's going to hold out for quite a while. And it's killing them.
SPEAKER 07 :
It's killing them. I'm going to give it no more than 90 days. Now, by the way, Trump says we're talking to China, and China says there's been no... What China said in response is very telling. There's been no discussions between President Xi. And Donald Trump, what they didn't say is that the people under them weren't talking.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah. Yeah. In other words, I didn't believe a word they said that came off a spin to me. I believe their people are already talking behind the scenes. I believe China is desperate. And by the way, Trump kind of is, too. OK, he needs some wins and you need to start racking them up.
SPEAKER 07 :
But China's economy is in the toilet. It's literally in the toilet. And if, you know, we're China's biggest customer, and if they start laying off... Oh, it's much worse for them, Joe.
SPEAKER 12 :
I mean, it's not close. Okay. Anyway, I just wanted to ask you this, John. Before you go into your stuff, how can people read your stuff?
SPEAKER 07 :
All right. If they want to see some things we're going to talk about tonight, they may not be on there tomorrow morning, but I post my podcast on Wednesday mornings, and everything we talk about, which we talked about last night, and you'll find them On the Jersey Joe website at jerseyjoe.com, you just have to remember to spell Jersey J-E-R, as in Robert, Z as in zebra, E-E, J-E-R-Z-E-E, jerseyjoe.com. And you'll find all the story links that we talked about last night and tonight. And you'll find the video clips. You'll find links to the stories, like about the Wisconsin judge. I never post or talk about anything I haven't fact-checked and verified.
SPEAKER 12 :
Really quick, you're on the Wisconsin judge. What do you think should happen to her?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, I think she should serve a year and a day in jail. What I think will happen is that she'll get a year's probation and be disbarred.
SPEAKER 12 :
Good enough. I agree with you. I want more, but good enough.
SPEAKER 07 :
By the way, the importance of a year and a day... A misdemeanor is less than a year. A felony is a year or more. So I want her to be sentenced to a year and a day in jail.
SPEAKER 12 :
You want a felony on her rap sheet?
SPEAKER 07 :
I want a felony on her record, and I want it disbarred.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, she should have it. Okay, go ahead. What do you got for us?
SPEAKER 07 :
All right, before we get into heavy stuff, just a couple light things. You know, by the way, I've got a sister-in-law who's in her 70s. And, you know, I was starting to worry about her, that she was starting to believe things that weren't true. And initially I thought it might have been she was coming down with Alzheimer's. And then I found out that she simply switched and had begun watching CNN. Well, that would do it. Yeah. So, you know, my fears. So it's not Alzheimer's. It's just, you know, and I'm trying to convince her to switch back to Fox News or, but not CNN. The other thing, you know, by the way, Grizzly is one of the larger, you know, Grizzly bears go, can go 1500 pounds. They're immense. They're eight, nine feet tall. And they're only, and with the reintroduction of wolves in the, Colorado, other states are considering reintroducing wild species. And wildlife researchers have determined that the state of California could support up to 1,700 grizzly bears in the state of California. Now, if you ask me, I think that's a really bold solution to their homeless problem.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, that's terrible. Joe! Come on! But you're right. Okay.
SPEAKER 07 :
All right. So...
SPEAKER 12 :
What do you think really quick for you around? What do you think about this whole reintroducing grizzly bears and wolves and other predators into various areas? I've never really given it much thought either way. What are your thoughts?
SPEAKER 07 :
You know, I think if it leads to a, any sort of ecological imbalance, you should do it. But the fact that there's been no wolves in Colorado for 50 years. So what, you know, how is that harm? You know, there's plenty of wolves in this country. Why do we need them in Colorado? Um, You know, the fact that we want more ranchers, cattle and sheep killed. You know, what does it add to the to the environment?
SPEAKER 12 :
I got no idea. I really I have no idea why. I have no idea what the need was and why people thought they had to do that. But anyway, go to your next topic. Sorry, I just wanted to ask that.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, let's talk about election fraud. In this case, it's election funding fraud. Oh, now you're now under the federal election laws. The most you or anybody can donate to any... individuals, any politicians campaign fund is $5,000. And by the way, they call it Rosie O'Donnell, uh, in the last May, not this, but back in 2020, um, she donated under, she changed like, you know, R O'Donnell, RJ O'Donnell, you know, she had like five different names and using five, one was her office. One was her house. One was her place in, uh, uh, out on long Island. So she donated five different times using five different variations of her name, uh, to get around this $5,000 limit. Well, there's an organization called Act Blue, which is a big funnel and collection point.
SPEAKER 12 :
They're the biggest.
SPEAKER 07 :
The biggest. Anyway, James O'Keefe, who does all these expose videos. Right. He did them on the abortion, abortion on Planned Parenthood. Anyway, he started looking to Act Blue's record and he found these names kept popping up over and like he found this one woman, an older elderly woman. And according to ActBlue's records, she made more than 1,000 donations in a single year. And these were all $3,500, $3,600, you know, all under the $5,000 limit. But 1,000, how many days in a year, Andy? I know it's a tough question. How many days in a year?
SPEAKER 1 :
365.
SPEAKER 07 :
So if you're going to make more than 1,000 donations in one calendar year, roughly how many times a day do you have to make a donation? Three. Three times a day. And he found this over and over. So I think we've got a clip of James O'Keefe going to the home of this one elderly woman asking her, Did you make over a thousand donations to Democrat candidates? Can we play that?
SPEAKER 09 :
Here it goes. FEC data shows that some senior citizens across the US have been donating thousands of times per year. Some of these individuals' names and addresses are attached to over $200,000 in contributions. We went and knocked on a few of their doors to corroborate the data that we received. We're wondering if these donors are victims. of what appears to be a money laundering scheme. Cindy Ngo of Annapolis, Maryland, who in the year 2022 allegedly contributed over 1,000 times to Act Blue, totaling $18,849.77. That means Cindy would have had to donate three times a day, every day for the whole year. My name's James O'Keefe, and we're doing a story on the number of people that have donated. You did donate to Act Blue, right?
SPEAKER 13 :
Once in a while.
SPEAKER 09 :
What about $18,850?
SPEAKER 13 :
No, I don't think so.
SPEAKER 09 :
You know, people are using your address.
SPEAKER 21 :
I don't think so.
SPEAKER 12 :
Wow. Now, okay. So what comes of this? I'm sorry. Oh, keep going. I was just asking what comes of this?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, that remains to be seen. But by the way, so multiply this one woman by several 1000. And you're talking millions and millions of dollars of laundered donations to their chosen candidates. And that's just the way the Democrats operate. It's just. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
But if it's exposed, shouldn't people be going to prison? I mean, well, it actually happened, Joe. Will people actually go to prison for this? Because they need to.
SPEAKER 07 :
They need to. Now, it all depends how much Pam Bondi has on her plate. But obviously, well, by the way, it should actually go to the federal election, FEC, Federal Elections Commission. So I'm going to be following this. But I agree with you. This is clearly a violation of federal election laws. and somebody needs to go to jail. Um, so we'll, the time will tell this only came out last week. So we'll have to literally have to see what, what, uh, what comes of it.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 07 :
Uh, let's see, I want to maybe kind of group, you know, I want to listen before we get into, I want to kind of group all of our immigration and deportation stuff together. So I'm going to do some of these odds and ends here. Um, I mentioned briefly yesterday about how New York City fare evasion, they were losing $700 million per year in fare evasion to the subway system, and they got the videos of people jumping over and going under. Well, I started to figure out how many individual fares that is, so I looked up what the average fare is. Now, you can get a discount if you buy a one-month pass, whatever, but it averages out to about $3 a fare. Well, at $3 a fare, that's 233 million evaded fares. which works out to 640,000 per day, which is 27,000 evasions per hour, which is 450 fair evasions per minute. That's how many people... That's not possible. Is it? Sure it is.
SPEAKER 12 :
When you look at all the different lines and subways... I know there are a lot of them, but my gosh, that's an incredible speed.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, when you watch the videos, because they have got surveillance videos of all the turnstiles. Now, the turnstiles have... Your typical bank of turnstiles is anywhere from four to seven, you know, side by side. Right. Yeah, I've seen them. And they're showing these people, like, you get a group of people, like, you know, young adults. They just come along, and the whole entire group, you know, just... In 15 seconds, eight or nine people just go over under the turnstiles. And you've got a subway system that has, I think, close to 200 different stops. So it does, you know, at 450 per minute, it only means one or two per minute at each stop. Now, how do you cure it? I think if you randomly picked 10 different stops a day, and had some plainclothes officers watching live those surveillance cameras, and as soon as these people came through, put the handcuffs on them, you're going to spend the night in jail. I think if you did that, and you publicized that, and you showed their pictures, you know how they used to do it with the Johns on Colfax? Yeah, the Johns on Colfax, where not only did they show the prostitutes, but they showed the people who were soliciting the prostitutes? Right. I think if you made it known that, hey, on any given day, on any given station... we might be there waiting for you to do this, I think it would drop like a rock. That's just me. But I think it's given the – how much would it cost? If you're losing $700 million a year in fares, how much would it cost to put, let's say, 100 cops a day, plainclothes cops a day, you know, at various – Well, it would cost a lot less.
SPEAKER 12 :
Aren't there any other surveillance techniques or – I don't know something better than a turnstile.
SPEAKER 07 :
That's how they arrived at the number. Cause what they did is they, no, they didn't look at every, but they did a, they did a rough count. They figured they did a, one of the extrapolations. Okay.
SPEAKER 10 :
Right.
SPEAKER 07 :
I'm going to make up a number. Okay. It looks like 9% of our ridership is evading the toll. So they just took 9% times the total number of paid riderships. Got it. And, you know, and that's how they came up with a number. But the problem is when you have somebody with no, you know, they're in a hoodie or whatever. And you can't see their face because the surveillance cameras are looking at their back as they go over the turnstile because the cameras are all backed by the ticket booth. You can't really tell who these people are. No, you can't. But if you're a plainclothes officer on the other side and you see, okay, it's the guy in the blue hoodie with the white stripe on the sleeves. you know who to grab 30 seconds later.
SPEAKER 12 :
I think you're right, Joe. I think this is what they're going to have to do because there's no other way that they can stop it. And New York is such a fiscal mess anyway. They can't be giving away free rides like this. They can't do it.
SPEAKER 07 :
No, well, but they've been doing it for... Yeah, but they've been doing it.
SPEAKER 12 :
This is before they chased off all the billionaires who were footing the bill around there.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right.
SPEAKER 12 :
Who were paying the lion's share of the taxes.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, that's why New York State and New York City in particular is among the top three states with a net loss of population. All right.
SPEAKER 12 :
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Putting reason into your afternoon drive, this is John Rush. And welcome back to Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Andy Pate filling in for John Rush on the line. We've got Jersey Joe. Joe, what do you have for us next?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, let's stick with New York City for just another couple of minutes longer. Must we? Sure.
SPEAKER 12 :
Just kidding.
SPEAKER 07 :
Go ahead. No, no. So the answer to the question is how easy to get and carry a gun in New York City. Well, the answer to that question depends on whether or not you're a law-abiding citizen or not. Now, just to legally buy but not even carry a gun in New York City is a process that will take you at least 60 days and cost you more than $200 in fees and expenses, which, by the way, prices a lot of people in the lower income brackets out of the market. Right. Now, if you also want to get prepared to legally carry that gun as a concealed weapon, it's going to take you at least an additional six months and 20 hours of your time for mandatory training and at least another $600 in costs in addition to the cost of the gun, which clearly places low-income households out of the market. But what if you're not a law-abiding citizen, and how long and expensive is the process? Well, apparently... The time is less than one day and sometimes less than one hour, and there's no additional cost other than the cost of the gun. So you might say, Joe, well, how frequently do those illegal gun purchases take place? Well, what if I told you it was more than once an hour? And then you would ask me, well, Joe, how did you come up with that figure? Well, there's a news story which I have in the notes to my podcast. Since Mayor Eric Adams was sworn in as mayor on January 1 of 22... The city has seized, you want to take a guess at how many guns the city, that was 1,165 days ago. You want to guess how many guns they've seized in 1,165 days? No idea, 10,000. Double it, 20,700. My goodness. That was as of March 10th. Now, if you naively believe that that 20,700 guns, represents every single illegal gun in the city, that would work out to 18 per day, or roughly one gun every 75 minutes. Now, if you generally assume that that figure represented only half of the illegal guns in the city, that figure would drop to one gun every 38 minutes. And if you cynically believe, like many do, that the figure represents less than 20% of the illegal guns being purchased and carried in New York City, The frequency of illegal gun purchase skyrockets to one every 15 minutes or four per hour.
SPEAKER 12 :
Who brings them in, Joe? I mean, obviously I've never been on the streets buying a gun from a guy. You know what I mean? But who brings these guns in and distributes them and sells them on the streets?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, first I'm going to tell you why. Okay, go ahead. Remember back in 1913 we passed a law that said you can't make or sell alcohol in this country? Yep. Now, what did that law do? What industry did it create?
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, I mean, booze running, obviously.
SPEAKER 07 :
Booze running, right. You had Al Capone. We made many, many criminal millionaires. Well, I see the news story where they do these raids. So two things. One, by the way, there's one household burglary in this country. Well, there's three an hour, which is one every 20 minutes. And one out of three of those homes is going to have one or more guns in them. And the people that commit the bulk of these burglaries are people with drug addiction problems. So if they're committing five or six burglaries a day, and let's say they're netting half a dozen guns a day, by the end of the week, they've got 50 to 70 guns. Now, they don't need 50 to 70 guns. So what do they do with the 50 to 70 guns they've taken from the homes they've burglarized?
SPEAKER 12 :
I don't know. What do they do with them? They sell them for quick cash.
SPEAKER 07 :
They just sell them? For quick cash. Then the other big industry in New York City is the... manufacture of ghost guns where these people, you know, when the police had done raids, they, you know, they raid the apartment and here's a guy with all the parts, the pieces, and he's got 40 or 50 guns with no serial numbers. So they've created a cottage industry in ghost guns. Plus they're importing them. So if you commit a burglary in New Jersey and you with some guns, New York city is the place to sell them because that's where, that's where the demand is highest. So they're, they're being imported and, But there's the same thing in Chicago. All the illegal – very few of the illegal guns in the city of Chicago originate in Chicago because there are so few guns, so few legal guns in Chicago. So the criminals go over to the border to Indiana, which is – if you know the territory, you can go from Chicago to Indiana in 35 minutes on a good day, right? Right. Well, Indiana is more rural. The gun ownership is triple what it is in Chicago. So the people go to Indiana – They steal the guns from rural and suburban homes in Indiana. First place they do is they don't try to resell them in Indiana because it's too easy to get a gun. And they turn right around and bring them back to Chicago and open up the trunk of the car and the hood in Chicago. And that's where the guns that get stolen in Indiana get resold in Chicago. And by the way, there's a CBS special called The Guns of Chicago. And there was a female reporter interviewing these gang members, and they all had their bandana face masks on and every one of them had a gun in their waistband and the female reporter asked one of the gang guys and these are all 19 20 years right how how tough is it to get a gun in chicago and one of the gang members looks and it says 30 minutes and 30 dollars do you want one really yep that's amazing and meanwhile they're shooting each other up all every weekend oh every weekend and by the way those gang when two groups of gangbangers They start shooting each other on a Saturday night, and three or four get wounded and get taken to the local ER for a treatment of gunshot wounds and released. The Gun Violence Archive counts that as a, quote, mass shooting. Even though there was multiple shooters, nobody died, the victims weren't random, they count that as a mass shooting. Wow. That's how we get those ridiculous numbers.
SPEAKER 12 :
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SPEAKER 12 :
And welcome back to Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560, Andy Paik filling in for John Rush. On the line once again, we have Jersey Joe. Joe, what do you got for me next?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, let's go a little more into Doge and cost-cutting. Yes, I'm loving it. By the way, about a week ago, there was this guy that was the president of the U.S. Department, and I didn't know this thing existed. It was called the U.S. Institute for Peace, and I don't know. I didn't even know it existed, and I have no clue what they've done for the past 10 years. But the guy that was fired by Trump got a lot of press claiming that he was forcibly removed from his office, suddenly and forcibly removed by Doge Goons. That was the story that the media ran with.
SPEAKER 12 :
Doge Goons, okay.
SPEAKER 07 :
Now, if you saw the story, that's the only story you heard. Now, at a press conference late last week, a reporter, I think it was from Fox, asked Caroline Leavitt... This is the story I heard. Can you comment? Because she had a totally different take on the story than what the media reported. So can we play the clip of Caroline Levitz saying what happened, how what really transpired with the president of the U.S. Institute for Peace?
SPEAKER 22 :
So on the United States Institute of Peace, this is a little bit wild. I understand the old president refused to leave. After he was removed from his position, he barricaded himself in his offices, had to be escorted out by police, left the building without Wi-Fi, telephones, elevators, and more, and is now telling media that Doge broke in and illegally removed him. So can you comment on this sequence of events and specify, did Doge illegally enter?
SPEAKER 13 :
I'm really glad you brought this up, Mary. We were made aware of this story by individuals at DOGE, at Elon Musk's team, and also at the State Department who were unable to access this building. And it became very clear that there was a concerted effort amongst the rogue bureaucrats at the United States Institute of Peace to actually physically barricade themselves essentially inside of the building to prevent political appointees of this administration who work at the direction of the President of the United States to get into the building. There was a piece in the Daily Caller, thank you for sharing the truth on this, about what happened. Staff contacted the MPD in an attempt to prevent Doge personnel from entering. They barricaded the doors. They also disabled telephone lines, internet connections, and other IT infrastructure within the building. They distributed flyers internally, encouraging each other to basically prevent these individuals from accessing the building. I use this to say this is what DOGE and this administration is facing. It's a resistance from bureaucrats who don't want to see change in this city. President Trump was elected on an overwhelming mandate to seek change and implement change, and this is unacceptable behavior.
SPEAKER 12 :
Unreal.
SPEAKER 07 :
Unreal, Joe. That is the rest of the story. Now, I call my podcast, by the way, I know you know it, I call it News in Perspective You Won't Hear on TV. And I guarantee you, other than Fox, you will not hear that question and her answer on NBC. By the way, I checked. You can Google ABC, NBC, you can check their stories. That story did not appear on any network news station other than Fox. And you've got to ask yourself, why? They published the first one. They published his version, but they didn't publish her. I don't even want to call it a rebuttal because you don't need to rebut something. But they published his wild, outlandish version of events and didn't even think about publishing the Caroline Leavitt version.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah. The only thing where I take solace is knowing that they have so few viewers now. I mean that. I'm not being sarcastic. I mean, their reach is not nearly what it once was. Here's a fact that this happened a couple of months ago.
SPEAKER 07 :
The Food Network is now outranking CNN in terms of ratings. The Food Network. has higher ratings than CNN.
SPEAKER 12 :
I've got to be honest. I'm going to be honest. I actually like the Food Network and HGTV. I like them both.
SPEAKER 07 :
I like them both.
SPEAKER 12 :
I'm a sick person. Go ahead. So let's start getting into it.
SPEAKER 07 :
By the way, one thing I love about Caroline Leavitt, remember Kareem Jean-Pierre, every time she had to look down at her three-ring binder and flip pages? Right. I have yet to see Caroline Leavitt have to look down at any notes.
SPEAKER 12 :
I see her do it now and then when she's doing an official statement and she's reading off a statement word for word.
SPEAKER 07 :
A press release, yes. Yeah, a press release.
SPEAKER 12 :
But I'll say that, no, she just engages.
SPEAKER 07 :
When somebody asks her a question, she doesn't need to refer to notes. When she's reading an official statement, she reads from there. But if somebody asks her a question, she looks them right in the eye and answers. She knows her stuff. Oh, yeah. She's amazing.
SPEAKER 12 :
Between her and J.D. Vance, it is really incredible how well they handle the media. Throw Steve Miller in there, too.
SPEAKER 07 :
Steve Miller, too. All right, let's wade into illegal immigration and deportation. And let's talk about, at the beginning, we talked about thick skin. Let's talk about Tom Holman, who was the head of Immigration and Customs. Tom Holman, we've got a clip of him starting off. with, yeah, people don't like me, so what? So can we play that clip of Tom Holman?
SPEAKER 01 :
Border Patrol and the Biden administration, I met with hundreds of them. They felt like Uber drivers and tourist agents. These men and women joined the ranks of ICE and Border Patrol to enforce the law and make the community safer and protect national security. I hear it all the time. There's a lot of people in this country who don't like me. I don't care. When I walk to an airport, I have Many people are walking up to me and thanking me for what I'm doing, and I'm not taking credit for anything. The success of the border and immigration enforcement is President Trump and the men and women wearing that uniform. God bless each and every one of them. But I take a pleasure in seeing it because in 40 years of doing this job, people always want to say, why are you so emotional when you testify? Why are you so emotional on the network? Because if they wore my shoes for 40 years, they'd understand why I'm emotional. I've talked to little girls as young as nine years old who were raped multiple times by the cartel members. And when you get to your knees and you talk to that little girl and everything innocent and pure has been ripped from her, when you listen to the Lakin Riley, 17 Minutes, that young lady fighting for her life, don't just think, okay, a young woman died. Think of how she died, the terror that she went through. And these children are sexually assaulted. I stood in the back of a tractor trailer and 19 dead people at my feet that baked to death. Illegal immigration is not a victimless crime. And so every sick person we take off the streets, especially child rapists, it makes this country much safer. Every illegal alien we arrest, public safety threat, one at a time makes this country safer. The morale of ICE and Border Patrol is at an all-time high because they're getting to uphold the oath they took and they're enforcing the law.
SPEAKER 12 :
You know, Joe, many countries were spending tons and tons and tons and tons and tons of money having to house, clothe, feed and guard these inmates who are very expensive for them. And then when Joe Biden basically opened up the entire border and said, invade us, why did he not? I mean, did it ever occur to him that they were going to empty their prisons? Yeah, you're going to get a lot of normal people just coming in. They think, oh, wow, it's that easy to get there. I want a new life. I'll go to America. But, I mean, why is it a surprise to anyone that we have these monsters that have come in amongst us?
SPEAKER 07 :
One of the biggest was Venezuela, which is one of the biggest countries. And they're, of course, you know, they've been in dire financial straits, you know, for a decade now. Yeah. And they were a huge, you know, huge prison population. They couldn't afford to feed their own people. So basically, okay, we'll let you out if you go to the United States. You know, we'll buy you a plane ticket, a boat ticket, a train ticket. But if we catch you here again, you're probably going to wind up dead.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, but here's the worst thing about it, Joe. Everything that Tom Holman just said there, all of it, they knew. The Biden administration knew all of that. This is not new information to them. They knew that was being sent in here amongst the hordes, okay? They knew this. They knew the danger they were putting American citizens in. OK, and they didn't care. Just come in. Go ahead. Wave them in. And they knew a percentage of those being waved in were going to be this bad. And once again, people say, well, yeah, but it's a small percentage. Hey, that's the problem. OK, the reason you can't find a needle in a haystack is not the needle. It's the haystack. OK, so Joe Biden allowed the haystack to come in and they sent the needles.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yep. And whatever happened to the old Democrat, we need to do this if it only saved one life. Yeah. If it only saved one life. We need to pass this. You pick it. Gun control law, vehicle law. If it would only save one life, it would be worth it. Well, whatever happened to that logic when you, by the way, Trendier Wagra is a Venezuelan gang. Right. MS-13 El Salvador gang. So, you know, we've got these people coming. And by the way, Venezuela, we were actually flying them in at taxpayer's expense. You know that, right? The Biden administration was flying them in at taxpayer's expense. Unbelievable.
SPEAKER 12 :
You're flying these dangerous people in at taxpayer expense so they can prey upon us.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right. And we were giving them, what was it called, parole? They would fly them in and they would give them parole. And by the way, the New York City, of course, was housing, I think, 40,000 Illegal immigrants. And there's the videos of them ganging up on cops and beating New York City cops in Times Square. Yeah. They were getting $350 a week in EBT cards to buy food and clothes with. Incredible. They were being sheltered.
SPEAKER 12 :
Now, has Trump successfully stopped those cards?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. Well, he told New York City, you're on your own. Because New York City was asking for $5 billion in federal aid, which FEMA was giving them under Biden. And Trump said, no more. If you want to keep feeding 40,000 illegal aliens, you figure out how to fund it, but we're not going to do it anymore. And that's why Eric Adams, by the way, has jumped ship. Eric Adams is no longer a Democrat. He's re-registered as an independent because he's running for re-election this fall, by the way. And by the way, you know one of his, the leading opponent against Eric Adams? Who? The former governor disgraced Governor Andrew Cuomo.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, right, right, right. I forgot about that.
SPEAKER 07 :
He's running for mayor of New York City, and he's the leading... Now, there's like six different Democrats contending because Adams knows he doesn't stand a chance as a Democrat because the entire Democrat machine has turned against them for siding with Trump.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, I don't think he's going to win as an independent either.
SPEAKER 07 :
No, I don't think, but that's how they turned on him. And by the way, speaking of turning on him, During Trump's, I don't know if it was the State of the Union, but when he addressed the country back in February, remember when he talked about renaming the park in Houston for the 12-year-old girl that was raped?
SPEAKER 10 :
Right.
SPEAKER 07 :
And he went through, not a single Democrat stood up or applauded. How can you not applaud the naming of a national park? in honor of a 12-year-old girl who was murdered. Well, why would they, Joe?
SPEAKER 12 :
We're talking about a party that knew they were allowing all these countries to empty their prisons and send them in amongst the hordes that Biden was letting in. Why would they care now?
SPEAKER 07 :
And when that young cancer survivor, that young black kid, the cancer, and they announced that he was being made an honorary Secret Service agent, nobody stood up and applauded. How can you not applaud that? for the kid who's a cancer survivor.
SPEAKER 12 :
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It's time to leave your safe space. This is Rush to Reason on KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 12 :
And welcome back to Rush to Reason. Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Andy Pate filling in for John Rush. On the line, Jersey Joe. Joe, what do you got?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, as long as we're on immigration and the cost in human lives, let's play another clip. And here's another story I guarantee you did not hear on the network news. And this is Caroline Levitt again. describing about an illegal immigrant that was captured in Georgia and what he was charged with. And I guarantee you did not hear this story on the network news. Can we play that clip of Caroline?
SPEAKER 13 :
Alien, who was released by the Biden administration into our country, was just arrested in Georgia and charged with the horrific killing of Camelia Williams, a mother of five and grandmother. The suspect has now been indicted on charges of malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, rape, aggravated sexual battery, and necrophilia, which for those who don't know, necrophilia is a sexual obsession with a corpse. This sub suspect was ordered to be removed in July 2023, but the Biden administration allowed him to stay. This case represents the ruthless murderers, rapists and pedophiles who Joe Biden and Democrats let into our country over the past four years through our southern border. They should have never been here in the first place.
SPEAKER 12 :
Joe, you can really tell she was struggling a little bit with that one because it was too emotional.
SPEAKER 07 :
It was. Now, I can understand if the networks didn't want to play her particular response to that issue. But my question is, why didn't the networks feel that the underlying story itself was worthwhile reporting? Because I watch no less than three news programs a day. I watch two in the morning and one in the evening. I watch a national, a local, and then another national evening. Why didn't I hear? And I actually, again, I researched. I Googled ABC, CBS, NBC. Not one of them reported the underlying story that she was coming in. Andy, why do you think they didn't feel that story was worth covering?
SPEAKER 12 :
It's bad for Democrats. I mean, it's that simple. You know, they want Americans to think this is just such a small problem. It's out of the way over there. It's not a big deal. But when they hear that and they hear the human element and they hear the gut-wrenching details, it moves people.
SPEAKER 07 :
Mm-hmm. And it's not good for Democrats. No. Obviously, while you and I, I asked you the question, I knew the answer to it. But, yes, they don't cover those stories because it's bad. So they're in the tank, you know, with the exception of Fox. They're in the tank for the Democratic Party. Right. And that's why I call, again, my podcast, News in Perspective. You won't hear it on TV because you won't hear that side of issues. Well, sometimes you don't hear the issue at all. but you certainly won't hear the other side of the issue.
SPEAKER 12 :
No. And both of these clips you've done of her, I've not heard.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, then I rest my case. Right. And you're, you're, you're a pretty well-informed guy.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah. I watch Fox news all the time. I'm very up to speed, but I had not heard either of those.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yep. And so, and again, if you haven't heard, I guarantee you that 99% of the listeners to the show tonight, haven't heard either one of night, because if you don't listen to my podcasts, or if you don't listen to this show, you'll never hear stuff like that.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, you got about two and a half minutes left. Go.
SPEAKER 07 :
Let's talk about Spain, the power outage in Spain. Yes, this is massive. Massive, Spain and Portugal. The blip in their power grid was so significant that it actually caused an automatic, Europe has an interconnected grid, just like the United States I think we have five big interconnected regions. So in other words, like New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania. Do they know what caused it? Well, not yet. They're saying now there was some sort of oscillation within the grid. But just a week ago, they were bragging about, well, today we had 100% of our power met by renewables. And Germany's made a claim like that in France, and here's how they do it. They pick a weekend day, a mild weekend day in the spring when there's no demand for heating, there's no demand for air conditioning, all the office buildings and all the manufacturing facilities shut down, and it's a bright, sunny day with a nice breeze. Well, yes, you managed to handle that very light load, which was way less than 30% of your peak, and it was like a perfect storm. You had a breezy day. The sun was shining. Demand was at a yearly low. And on that particular day, for a couple of hours, you were able to meet it with your renewables. But never in the history of those countries have renewables ever come close. No. Never come close.
SPEAKER 12 :
They don't come close and look at the expense. Their electricity costs three times ours.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right. By the way, Colorado, I think, has seen this ridiculous increase. I think they're up to 14 cents a kilo. But nationwide... We average around 12 cents a kilowatt hour in the United States. In Europe, they're now over 38 cents a kilowatt hour. 38 cents a kilowatt hour for electricity.
SPEAKER 12 :
What does that do to a family? It just crushes them.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, there's something now called fuel poverty in places like England where people have to decide between heating their homes and eating because they can't afford to do both. And because they can't heat their homes, they get sick. Um, so it's called fuel poverty.
SPEAKER 12 :
Um, and the only reason that Americans even vote for this green new deal stuff is because they have, they don't think that this could ever come here. That'll never come here. We'll never deal with that.
SPEAKER 07 :
By the way, our, by the way, one nice thing about, uh, you know, uh, nuclear is, you know, you know, we've already exploited a hundred percent of the hydro, all the dams and all the rivers worth damming had been dammed. Um, So the only real thing we have are nuclear and gas turbines. To handle the growth, that's what we need. That's why I think Microsoft wants to revive Three Mile Island.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, Donald Trump is going to expand on all the good energies and make it cheaper for everybody. I love it. That's why I give him an A for his first 100 days. Jersey Joe, thank you so much.
SPEAKER 07 :
My pleasure, Andy. I'll talk to you next week, maybe. You take it.
SPEAKER 12 :
You take it easy. Okay, folks, that's it for today. Hour One replays next. And John will be back, I believe, on Friday with me. So we'll see you then. Until then, drive safe. God bless. And thanks for joining us at Rush to Reason, KLZ 560.
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Party of choice. And welcome to our number two here on Rush to Reason. I'm Andy Pate filling in for John Rush along with Mr. Todd Watkins.
SPEAKER 06 :
Hello, Andy.
SPEAKER 08 :
How you doing?
SPEAKER 06 :
I am well.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay. Now, you know who Mark Hampton is, of course. Yeah, I know the name. He's basically the, from what I gather, he's the third in charge after Chuck and Julie at Rhino Watch. And he also runs Parker Conservatives, the Facebook page. He's very, very active. And at one point he was asked, well, he was responding to how a lot of people were saying, of the Davidians. I call them Davidians. It's an easier way to refer to the group. I'm sorry. The supporters of Dave, the Davidians. And a lot of people were saying, why can't they just move on? Britta Horn won. It's time to move on. Why are you doing this lawsuit? Why are you doing everything you did? And he said, he listed a number of things that he was expecting, that Mark Hampton was expecting. He said, if I see these things, then I'll move on. One of them was, he wants a public confession in writing. Not berated in social media posts. Admitting that the coup was wrong. He wants this to come from Britt Horn, Eli Bremmer, Todd Watkins. That's you. Kevin McCarney, Christy Burton Brown. She had nothing to do with the coup. No, she didn't. So I don't understand that one. And the rest. Okay. Remember Gilligan's Island and the rest. Anyway, yes. So this needs to be public mea culpa on Rocky Mountain Voice and Colorado politics, acknowledging that your coup was a colossal mistake and the damage you have done that and the damage you caused with it. Own it. There was no damage from the coup, okay? But first, so many of these supporters have been saying it was illegal. Walk us through what actually happened. Why? First of all, why did you guys feel that you needed to do the coup?
SPEAKER 06 :
So my reasoning for it was that... Dave very clearly and overtly was going to and then ultimately did use all the organs of the party, all the resources and even the funding for his own contested primary.
SPEAKER 08 :
Right.
SPEAKER 06 :
Highly, highly unethical.
SPEAKER 08 :
Which, by the way, for those who say, wait a minute, Ken Buck ran and he ran for office.
SPEAKER 06 :
He wasn't contested.
SPEAKER 08 :
He never ran in a contested primary against Republicans. Guys, I don't care if you run against Democrats. That's kind of a good thing. Okay? Dave Williams was the first chair to run against fellow Republicans in a contested primary while serving as their chair. An unbelievable conflict of interest.
SPEAKER 06 :
Go ahead. Horrible conflict of interest. I even drafted a resolution on political conflicts of interest, which... I don't want to run down a rabbit trail. No, no. Bottom line, you cover it. Okay, what happened? Well, I actually spoke to him about it, about his run. I suggested that you're going to have to quit the chair to go pursue CD5.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, and for those who don't know, you and he were allies at the time.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, I mean, I have to claim some responsibility for him becoming the chair. I definitely supported him in that. But that was the deal breaker. You can't use that kind of an advantage. to then attack other Republicans. It's a bad look for the party. It's a bad look for his campaign. Highly unethical. And I wouldn't trust somebody like that to have any other seat of power. I mean, really, that says a lot about conduct and character.
SPEAKER 08 :
Totally agree.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 08 :
And there were other things. We have listed them many times on this show.
SPEAKER 06 :
Sure, sure. Nancy Palazzi is the one who started the petition to get enough members of the central committee to call for a meeting.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay, now let's get into that. Did she get the 25% of signatures? Got more than that. Okay. But the Dave crowd, the Davidians, said they're not legit because they were emailed signatures.
SPEAKER 1 :
Signatures.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, so there's nothing that says that, A, they don't need to be signatures. It just says if the bylaw – that's either Article 5 or Article 7. I forget which one. I think that's Article 7, that upon written request of 25 percent of the central committee, the chair shall call a meeting. If the chair does not call the meeting within 10 days of receipt of this request, then any member of the central committee may call that meeting and the COGOP will pay for it.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay, bottom line, you had the signatures.
SPEAKER 06 :
Go ahead.
SPEAKER 08 :
What happened next?
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, they said, no, these aren't verified. okay, so how am I supposed to verify them? And if I tell you that they're verified, would you not want to verify them?
SPEAKER 08 :
If you're challenging... How many of those signatures did the Davidians ever get to show were not verified? How many of them were they able to successfully contest and say, this is not a real signature? In other words, this person did not support the coup. You're faking this.
SPEAKER 06 :
Not one? There was one that changed her mind when they called her.
SPEAKER 08 :
No, that's changing your mind. I'm talking about at the time when they give the signatures. So they did not prove. You've got to keep in mind, folks, they were putting it everywhere. These signatures are illegal. We are going to contest this. And yet they never proved a single signature to be invalid.
SPEAKER 06 :
What they were actually saying is we didn't follow a process that they came up with after the fact.
SPEAKER 08 :
Because they wanted... Okay, bottom line, you followed the correct process.
SPEAKER 06 :
There was no process. You want 25 names? We got 25 names. I'm sorry, 25%. I think we had 113, 114. Which is way over 25. It's like 30%. Yeah, 30%. Okay, so you did well. Okay, keep going.
SPEAKER 08 :
What happened next?
SPEAKER 06 :
We notified the chair, vice chair, and secretary of our petition and request to call a meeting to hold a vote to remove officers. And they said, well, first we went back and forth on the nature of these names. And they said, okay, fine, we'll put it on the agenda for the August 31st Central Committee that we're going to call here.
SPEAKER 08 :
August 31st? When was this that you presented it to them?
SPEAKER 06 :
June 26th. Now, the bylaws say that the meeting, such a meeting, a requested meeting, must be held within 30 days. We were, you know, 60 days. And so what we didn't want to have happen is agree to this August 31st meeting. And then they say, actually, we can't hold this vote because it's invalid now because the bylaws say that it had to be held today.
SPEAKER 08 :
you know 30 days so i said well we'll call the meeting okay so the bylaws say that you guys you guys bring it to them you've got the signatures it's been confirmed yes and you bring this to them and now within 30 days they have to hold the meeting according to the bylaw that's right they did not what did they do instead well they told us they held a uh an executive committee meeting and denied our meeting said you can't have this meeting to which based on what
SPEAKER 06 :
On the sound of their own voice.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay. Okay. Now, what they were saying and what they have said, Rhino Watch has said this repeatedly, all of the Davidians, not all, but you know what I mean. I'm speaking generally here. They say that your August 24th meeting, which you eventually had, was illegal. No, it's not. No. What was the final ruling from the courts on that meeting?
SPEAKER 06 :
So there was a ruling before that because the reason it was August 24th and not July 27th is because Dave sued us. Dave began the lawfare.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay, now this is really important, and people are probably wondering why you're getting into the woods. No, we're not. Here's why it's important. Because the Davidians, Dave supporters, overwhelmingly say that the big problem is that you guys did this in the middle of an election. Well, the problem is, no, you didn't do it.
SPEAKER 06 :
They kicked the can down the road.
SPEAKER 08 :
Right. You guys went to them in June with this. They could have held the meeting right then. They could have held the meeting within a week or two. They could have brought everybody together.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, two weeks, but yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, but they could have done it.
SPEAKER 06 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 08 :
And they didn't. They actually held a meeting on the 19th of July. which wasn't the meeting under the bridge in Bayfield with five people, no quorum. Okay. So they could have held the meeting. Now here's, here's why all this is crucial money, a hundred thousand bucks roughly. Okay. In legal fees that they are saying, because you held an illegal coup. They were suing you. This is the lawsuit that Britta just got thrown out. They were suing you guys for that $100,000 back because they spent $100,000 all to stop or delay that meeting.
SPEAKER 06 :
So it's been $100,000 since August 31st, by the way.
SPEAKER 08 :
But there was a lot more before that.
SPEAKER 06 :
No, it was $100,000 in August, and they continued with lawsuits after that, claiming $100,000. Well, when did we get to this $100,000? I'll tell you when we did.
SPEAKER 08 :
I'm just going with what they say.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, but it's been a crock, if you know what I mean, of how much. So they finally broke, I think, $100,000 paid to Dave Piggott, the attorney that was representing Dave as the chair, in March.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay. Here's the bottom line. They didn't have to pay any of it.
SPEAKER 06 :
No, they didn't. They just held the meeting.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay, all they had to do was hold the meeting. That's right. Okay, the meeting, you guys had a quorum. You went and you requested the meeting. All they had to do was hold the meeting. They didn't have to spend a dime. Did you put a gun to their head and say, you know, metaphorical, a gun to their head and say, you have to spend this money legally? No. They spent all that money for one reason, one reason only, to save Dave Williams' job. Correct. And by the way, he would have won the vote because you needed 60%. You wouldn't have gotten it. He would have won the vote anyway. So the reason this is important is two things. Number one, that $100,000 was spent by them. And was never forced by you.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, absolutely not. Right. No, in fact, in order, let's back up to August 24th. We tried to hold that meeting on July 27th. Right. After Dave refused to call the meeting.
SPEAKER 08 :
That's the second point. The whole reason this happened, the coup, as they call it, happened during election season was not you. It was them. You guys tried to have it happen before election season. Right. You presented this to them back in June. OK, you're not in election season yet. OK, back in June, we're not in the general election season. The way you guys did it, the timing of it would have had it well before the general election, well before we're walking neighborhoods, walking districts, well before we are turning out the vote for Donald Trump. Your timing did not affect the election at all. No. And you did not cost the party a dime because you didn't force them to bring lawsuits.
SPEAKER 06 :
Go. Right. Well, and all of the candidates that they endorsed lost horribly anyway. I would argue that had absolutely nothing to do with this air quotes coup. They were they're just bad candidates. They lost the primary horribly. Gabe went on to win CD8. And the funding that he got from national Republicans had to go through Arizona because they wouldn't let Dave handle it.
SPEAKER 08 :
Look at this, and this comes right from Mark Hampton, what he wrote. Oh, and while we're at it, how about you open those personal wallets and pay back the $100,000 the Colorado GOP had to shell out fending off your little civil war? And he also says, I want a second apology, this time to the entire grassroots in Colorado. He's serious. For undermining the party during election season with backroom plotting that would make Frank Underwood stand back and whatever. Okay, you guys did it before election season. It was forced into election season by Dave and everybody who Mark Hampton supports. Correct.
SPEAKER 06 :
I would argue that Mark Hampton's pretty responsible for this, too.
SPEAKER 08 :
Absolutely. He helped push it back into election season. And yet he wants you to apologize for it being pushed back into election season. He wants $100,000 that you never made them spend.
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No.
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OK, when we come back, we're going to take a quick break here and we're going to take the whole hour. Just one more segment here. And I want you to talk about the lawsuit and how Matt Arnold was trying to keep it going, because this is huge. And I think this is something that the National Party is going to look at. and say we can't have this happen again. Sound fair? Sure. Okay, up next is Paul Leuenberger. Paul represents nine great companies, so he can match your insurance needs with the best coverage. Call Paul at 303-662-0789.
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Putting reason into your afternoon drive. This is John Rush.
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And welcome back to Rush Reason. Denver's Afternoon Rush. KLZ 560. Andy Pate filling in for John Rush along with Todd Watkins. Okay, Todd.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes, sir.
SPEAKER 08 :
Let's finish this up.
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Okay.
SPEAKER 08 :
All right.
SPEAKER 06 :
We'd love to. Yeah, I know.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, people say, well, why do you keep talking about the past? Because they won't go away. Yeah, I know.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 08 :
You know, people seem to forget when Dave came into power, Christy Burton Brown and her group went silent.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 08 :
They didn't bash them. They didn't attack them. They didn't put any deep state in place to counteract them. They did absolutely nothing. That's why talking about KBB and hurt people made no sense. You could say, well, what about the finances? I don't think they proved any of that, but I'll set that aside. The reason we're going into this is very simply this. In a couple of years. We're going to have another vote on the chair. Right. And I guarantee you this same group, the Davidians right now are recruiting PLs. That's precinct leaders all across the state so they can vote them back into power.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 08 :
And that's going to be very much of a problem. So I want to talk about this really quick. OK, let's finish up with the lawsuit that you guys won. Okay, so that first lawsuit that – Well, actually, you guys had a string of wins, but I was talking about the recent one. But go ahead.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, so that one, the most recent one, it's not over yet. Eli the other day was correct that we had a pretty good victory with the judge rejecting Matt Arnold vis-a-vis the Colorado Republican State Party Controversy Investigative Committee. My gosh, that's a long time, which apparently Dave about five days before the meeting where Britta was elected. Dave paid Matt Arnold five thousand dollars as a retainer. What the judge found is that Matt Arnold, who actually has a lot license. Yeah. cannot represent the party in the capacity that he was trying to represent the party. Why not? Because he's not an actual committee. In other words... No, he is not. This committee that Dave may or may not have created... did not have the kind of authority right he said that lacks the authority we're talking about the anti-corruption authority yeah yeah that's and that's what it was called publicly but this is how matt arnold presented it to the court okay was that big long investigative committee okay but basically the court laughed him out yeah and that was it so no what is there left Along comes Cody LeBlanc from Weld County and Eric Grossman from Mineral County, who filed a similar motion to join the lawsuit in the interest of the state party. And this is very, very bizarre.
SPEAKER 08 :
But they're just going to get laughed out, too.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah. I mean, if they don't think that we're not going to seek attorney's fees, they're smoking that Colorado good stuff. I guess so. Okay.
SPEAKER 08 :
Because this has been thrown out. What the... Basically, what the courts are saying is you can let this go. You can drop this.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah. The people who brought this lawsuit was Dave, Hope, and Anna as the officers of the party. Right. They're no longer the officers of the party. Right. And everybody seems to want to kind of skirt around this fact that one of the defendants, Britta Horne, was elected to chair the party while she was still a defendant. Right.
SPEAKER 08 :
And now, now this would have her suing herself, which is ludicrous. But also the whole reason they want to do this is they want to get a hundred grand back from you guys that you never forced them to spend and put it back into the party that Brita controls.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah. I'm kind of lost. It makes no sense.
SPEAKER 08 :
Bottom line, it got tossed. It's probably not going to go anywhere.
SPEAKER 06 :
No, this one's going to get tossed, too. This next, this other motion to join by these guys. Now, speaking of Doge.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yes. Cody LeBlanc. That's what I was going to ask next.
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Cody LeBlanc and Eric Grossman. Eric Grossman is the chairman of the Mineral County Party. He also was paid tens of thousands of dollars by Dave for event planning throughout his tenure. They stood up about a week and a half ago a nonprofit. They're calling it a nonprofit called the Colorado Doge. They're using the Doge logo with the little dog and everything.
SPEAKER 08 :
Has Doge given them permission? No, no.
SPEAKER 06 :
We're trying to kind of get Elon to, hey, are you guys noticing this? And again, they're fundraising off of this ostensibly so that they can fund further lawsuits against the state party.
SPEAKER 08 :
They're fundraising. How are they fundraising? What are they promising people they'll do? Be doge in Colorado? Like go after polis?
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, they're saying inefficiencies and fraud, race, and abuse. But they specifically target political party. And on their website, part of their mission is to support the Colorado Republican State Party campaign. The Matt Arnold Committee, which is dissolved now, and a judge agrees that it does not have any legitimacy to stand any longer.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay, so they are taking money in. So right now we've got this thing, because I've seen this around, Colorado Doge. It's a fraud. It's a fraud. It's a grift. Right, it's a grift. Basically, they're trying, I guess so, I don't know anything about them, but basically they're trying to raise money. And they're saying that they are going to do what Doge does nationally. They will do it locally, and that's great. But what they're really trying to do is simply bring in money that they can use to keep going after the party leaders they don't like.
SPEAKER 06 :
That's what it looks like to me. That's a disaster. Think? Yeah. Yeah. So I would bounce this back to Mark Hampton. I'll wait for my apology. Yeah, we're not apologizing to Mark Hampton or anybody else. And if this coup was so illegal, how come the courts are siding with us? And if this is a failed coup, why are we in charge?
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay, the bottom line is this, folks, and we're going to lay this one to rest. We're going to go back to some national stuff here. But here's the bottom line. The coup was legal. Yeah. Okay. Did it succeed? No, because a judge... We lost a vote. Right.
SPEAKER 06 :
That's what we lost.
SPEAKER 08 :
You lost a vote because a judge said, no, you need 60% of all the membership, not just of those who attend. Present. That's getting in the weeds. I don't want to bore people with that. Here's the bottom line. It was legal. Everyone who says online that it was illegal is lying to you. Okay? It was legal from the start. It was always legal. The courts ruled it legal. Nothing illegal was done. And they're not going to get a dime back. In fact, they're probably going to wind up shelling some out themselves. And that is the end of the Davidians and the entire Colorado coup. Can we leave it go? Couldn't happen soon enough. Yeah, okay. All right, when we come back, we're going to talk some more stuff that's national. I think you're going to like it. Up next is Affordable Interest Mortgage with Kurt Rogers. Do you need a loan? Everyone's situation is different, and Kurt Rogers can adapt the latest rates with plans fitting your needs. Just call Affordable Interest Mortgage at 720-895-0500.
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And welcome back to Rush to Reason. Denver's Afternoon Rush. KLZ 560. Annie Pate filling in for John Rush. Together with Todd Watkins. Todd, let's talk sex at summer camps. Why? Well, golly gee, because Boulder is Boulder, okay? And I think a lot of people already know about this, but I got some questions about it after we really quickly lay it out here. For those who don't know, in Boulder, at CU Boulder, they were going to have some sex ed summer camps, okay? And I'm reading this right off their flyer. It says, let's see here. It's for all incoming 5th through 8th graders. Fifth through eighth grade. Okay. What is it? Here it is. Sex ed summer camp is full of all sorts of information regarding sexual health that most students don't get to learn in schools. We will talk about everything related to sex, bodies, sexuality, sexy feelings. Sexy feelings. Okay. Media, power, and justice. Oh, yeah. You got to have that J word in there. Some topics might include bodies beyond the binary, sex, In other words, more genders, right? Feelings and how to navigate them. Gender and sexuality. Consent and communication. Relationships. Pleasure in all sorts of ways. They're serious. This is a flyer. Self-love and so, so, so much more. They were actually doing this. Oh, my gosh. This is unbelievable. This is through the Boulder Valley Health Center. That place needs to be closed down and shuttered right now.
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As if their little menu of depravity wasn't enough. What is this so, so, so much more? I know. Touching and fondling? I mean.
SPEAKER 08 :
What didn't you cover? I mean, you know, the allure of toasters. I mean, there was nothing left.
SPEAKER 06 :
How many more felonies were in this list of possibilities for this camp?
SPEAKER 08 :
We're talking 5th through 8th grade. We're not even talking 9th through 12th. 5th through 8th.
SPEAKER 06 :
It's just gross. I'm sorry. I don't have any any better description for this.
SPEAKER 08 :
What is with the left? First of all, they're sick. OK, let's just say it, folks. They are sick. OK, because I'll tell you what this is. This camp is exactly what they would like to do. The left would like to do in every town across the country. This is what they like. They like wackiness. OK, and they love sexualizing children. And it's really disgusting. Children are supposed to have some, you know, let them be kids for a while first. How about a big wheel? Yeah. I mean, my gosh. And when they get, then they get older. How about a bicycle? And how about a baseball mitt? And how about letting them be themselves? Yeah. You know, here, here's another question. I always ask this, Todd, how many teenagers, young teenagers are do you think would say yes to this question? Do you need the government to teach you about sex?
SPEAKER 06 :
they wouldn't even know what you're asking, really, and probably just say no.
SPEAKER 08 :
And older kids would obviously say, no, man, I already know. I'm good. You ever heard of the internet? I think I know what sex is.
SPEAKER 06 :
My generation, government was like, we were resisting everything. The purpose of being a teenager is to rebel. No, we don't want the government. No. Down with the man. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
Why would they want the government teaching them about sex or, in this case, Boulder Valley Health Center? Why do we have any of this? Why is there any sex education? Mankind did quite well procreating for a long time.
SPEAKER 06 :
We still are, apparently.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, still doing fine. And this is incredible. What they want to do is sexualize kids, and they want to bring them in. And this was going to be in July into August. It has now been canceled, obviously. But here's the thing that gets me. It's been canceled because it was exposed.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, that is exactly correct.
SPEAKER 08 :
Right. They didn't want to cancel it. They actually thought they were doing something that was okay.
SPEAKER 06 :
What is the matter with these people? And I mean, that says it all. The left thinks this is okay. That they're redesigning what it is to be a human or a person in America. It's social engineering.
SPEAKER 08 :
This was going to be propaganda. Let's face it. It was mainly going to focus on multiple genders.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, of course. Normalizing that even more than they already have.
SPEAKER 08 :
This entire thing. was put together for one big reason. Reject who you are.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 08 :
Reject who you are.
SPEAKER 06 :
And rely on the government. Nanny state. Right. Unbelievable. These people are sick. I mean, I've come to expect it now, but this was... kind of on a level of depravity all on its own. Yeah, that was just disgusting.
SPEAKER 08 :
Along those same lines, and this is Kaylee McEnady. She's talking about a law that is happening in Colorado. We're talking about parents and misgendering kids. Here you go.
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in custody decisions. Now, dead naming is when you refer to an individual by their birth name and not the new desired name. So in custody battles, that would now be considered coercive. The Democrats invoked a rule to avoid any debate on this bill and these changes. And now it's heading to the Democrat-controlled Senate, where it will likely pass. I mean, this is wild. Republican State Representative Jarvis Caldwell refused to stay silent, posting this.
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When we were going into debate, starting the debate on House Bill 1312, the Democrat majority invoked Rule 16. Rule 16 is calling the question and it ends debate immediately and then goes directly into a vote. And I believe they did this to silence us because they know how much negative attention this has been getting nationwide. And so what they did was they silenced us and did not let us represent our constituents and talk about the issues that we have with this bill. If you recall, House Bill 1312 says that if your child is confused about their gender identity and you don't affirm that confusion, that delusion, then you are guilty of child abuse and you can lose custody of your children. Now, here's what I wanted to say.
SPEAKER 08 :
OK, really quick here. I'm going to jump back to Kaylee. This is insane. Yes. Okay. Once again, folks, we're not talking about kids who become gay or whatever. We're talking about kids who literally believe they are in the wrong body. Right. Okay. That's mentally ill. That's crazy. And it's going to be enforced.
SPEAKER 06 :
And this is inviting the government into your house. And the government is going to raise your kids for you.
SPEAKER 08 :
Right. If the parent doesn't refer to the child by the gender label that the child wants, they can literally take the kid away from the parent here in Colorado.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes. That's right. It's the government's going to raise your kids for you. I mean, that's what this comes down to. This is the death of the family in Colorado by 1,000 cuts. Maybe not 1,000 cuts. Might only need another couple, three.
SPEAKER 08 :
All right, let's play a little more.
SPEAKER 14 :
So, Lydia, if you call your child by their birth pronoun, if you call your child by their birth name, that is considered coercive. And you could have your child taken away in the state of Colorado. I can't think of anything more Orwellian or more big brother.
SPEAKER 08 :
I'll just leave it at that. The other lady, her comments weren't very interesting. But think about this. Why can't Republicans win in this venue? I got to be honest with you. I guarantee you two-thirds of the state's voters do not like this idea. Okay? Let parents parent. Let parents parent. Okay? I mean, it should be up to a parent to be able to do that. You shouldn't be hiding. Look, if people want to change their gender or do whatever they want once they become an adult, you do whatever you want with you. You do you. Right? But when you're a kid, the state... should not have this influence on your life. The parents are responsible for you, not the state.
SPEAKER 06 :
And the parents ought not be afraid of what the state is going to say about them as parents. I mean, this is Orwellian, it's Big Brother. It's insidious. It's destructive. You know where this all comes from, Todd?
SPEAKER 08 :
This comes from school boards.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
Really? Seriously? Because let's take a step back for a moment. If you're a parent, you are a consumer. You want to get the best education for your kid, right? Okay. You should be able to simply choose, okay, I want my kid in this kind of school, not that one or that one and not this one. No. The way we have it right now with public schools and school boards, you have to fall begging before a school board, begging them to allow your kid to be – trained up, taught in a way that you approve of. It's ridiculous. So we've now spent many decades with parents begging before school boards for the right to have their kids raised in the way that they see fit. That, it is from that entire helplessness that we impose upon parents that we now have this kind of thing where, okay, not only are we going to put you in that position, now we're going to intrude into the home itself. And if you misgender your child, we can take your kid. This comes from school boards. This comes from the helplessness of a parent and their school board. It is ridiculous. Every parent out there right now should be able to choose where their kid goes. They should have a voucher. They should be able to put their kid where they want. And the school boards shouldn't have a thing they can say about it.
SPEAKER 06 :
a lot of work ahead, I think, to turn that around and not only empower parents to be parents, but face it, Andy, there's a lot of parents out there that don't want to be parents and they just want the school, the nanny state to raise a kid for them. There needs to be the onus of responsibility put back onto people who have kids. Parents, right? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
But you know what I think is also in play here? I think people just get used to their helplessness. Yes, it's comfortable. Remember the frog in the gradually hotter water? They don't understand. They don't take a step back and realize, my gosh, I'm helpless. And if I want to get the schools to change rather than simply being given the choice to go somewhere else. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. I have to either run for school board or help someone else I know runs for school board, go through whole election seasons and try to defeat union backed candidates. Right. To get the people that I want on a school board. So I got to beg the society to give me 51 percent of the vote so I can raise my kid. Right. OK, that's ridiculous.
SPEAKER 06 :
This is really illustrative of the polarity between the two parties that this country has become. You've got the dependency nanny state Democrats. Right. And, you know, us, the Republicans who are independents in personal responsibility. Right. I mean, that's a much better world is be independent, be free, and take responsibility for yourself, for your family, and not let the government have it.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, the bottom line is I'm very glad the sex ed camp was shut down. That's good. But people need to take a step back and wonder these things.
SPEAKER 06 :
How did it get that far?
SPEAKER 08 :
How did it get that far? Why would anybody even think about this? And why, oh why, do these people have any right to talk sex with our kids at all? Is there any value to sex education in the first place? No, there isn't. It's totally worthless. Tell you what, let's take a break. We'll come back and get back on this. Up next is... Okay, up next is Geno's Auto. Don't take your car to a place your friend likes. Take your car somewhere everyone likes at Geno's Auto. Just look at their online reviews, and you'll have confidence leaving your car in the expert hands of Geno's Auto. Call them at 303-794-6700.
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And welcome back to Rush to Reason, Dentro's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560 on. We had a caller, Max, and just dropped off. Max, give us a call back here at 303-477-5600. We'd love to hear your question. Sound good? Yes. Okay. Well, until Max calls back. Let's talk about Rand Paul. Now, as you know, I happen to be a big fan. I love Rand Paul. I do. But he just came out and he said, Rand Paul says he has the votes to block Trump's Liberation Day tariffs. OK, in other words, he can block the in other words, he has rallied together the votes in the Senate to block Trump's tariffs. Now, look, Rand has the right to his views and everybody has the right to their views. I get that. But this is incredibly bad timing. All right. Why? Trump right now is negotiating to get us better trade deals across the world.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, I mean, these tariffs are leveraged for the benefit of the United States.
SPEAKER 08 :
Right. And even if you disagree with that, the bottom line is this. Your president, your commander in chief, is up there negotiating with other countries to get them to lower tariffs on the United States. which will be the result of this. To some degree, they're going to lower their tariffs. Now, if they hear that our Senate is going to shoot down Trump's leverage... It kind of cuts his heel.
SPEAKER 06 :
Kind of?
SPEAKER 08 :
It's going to wreck it. Rand, be quiet! OK, what he's doing is he's killing Trump's leverage in these negotiations with other countries, whether regardless of what you think of tariffs. The last thing you want is your president to have less leverage in negotiations.
SPEAKER 06 :
And if it's internationally like that. Yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
Am I making sense here? Yes, you are. I mean, what would you let's say you knew Rand Paul personally. What would you have advised him?
SPEAKER 06 :
Don't. Put a pin in this for now. Let this play out.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, what was he thinking? That is just sad.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, I mean, it potentially backfires on Rand, doesn't it? It does.
SPEAKER 08 :
It does. Okay, I want to move on to another topic. I just wanted to mention that because I'm pretty disappointed in Rand Paul. OK, right now. And let me just say this also. We, the American consumer, we need to rally behind Trump what he's doing with the tariffs.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 08 :
Even if we disagree. And I'm saying the reason is leverage. The world needs to see that America wants what he's doing. Otherwise, he's not going to have the leverage. If he's up there negotiating at the negotiating table, the world has to know we're behind him.
SPEAKER 06 :
Right, right. If he fails, then it's going to hurt for the rest of us. If he succeeds, we all benefit.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay, really quick here. Let's finish out. I want to ask you on this topic. Trump has just put it out that all truck drivers in America have to speak English. What do you think?
SPEAKER 06 :
You know, a lot of those signs, you know, if you're a native Punjab speaker, maybe you don't see the ice forms on bridge first and you don't know what that means. Yeah, it would be important to know what the road signs are saying. Well, and also in your dealings. And also all the DOT regulations. Everything you're dealing with. Yep.
SPEAKER 08 :
I mean, English as the official language does not mean other languages go away.
SPEAKER 06 :
Right.
SPEAKER 08 :
It just means we have a common language.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes, that's right.
SPEAKER 08 :
OK, I like this. I really do. I know. I don't know how much this is really affected, but I would assume that a good number of truck drivers do not speak English. And that would be a problem. Yeah. I mean, how do they even do their jobs? Because they got to work with, you know, they got to work with businesses.
SPEAKER 06 :
I don't know how many are coming from south of the border still. The whole – I used to remember – I remember as an agent seeing trucks, thousands of trucks stacked up every morning to come north out of Tijuana into San Diego. And none of them were American truckers.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay. All right. And why don't we close on this here? I want to talk about Melania Trump. Did you hear about this? What she did with the deep fake bill?
SPEAKER 06 :
No.
SPEAKER 08 :
Revenge porn. This is really wonderful. And I like how she's asserting herself with this. Melania is so classy, right? Says here, revenge porn bill backed by Melania Trump heads to the president's desk after overwhelming House vote. She got the House to vote 409 to two. I wonder who the two were, but in favor of this. And basically, let's see what it says here. The House on Monday overwhelmingly passed a bill backed by Melania Trump that cracks down on the posting of explicit images, including deep fake nude images, you know, generated by people with AI without consent. Right. OK, so people are put. I haven't actually seen these, but I've heard of them. People are putting out all these posts and you can take some famous person and make it look like they don't have any clothes on, but it's really a different body and you're just putting their head on it. You know what I mean?
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, yeah, I've seen others where they show some not necessarily pornographic, but, you know, but embarrassing. There's Tom Cruise speaking, but it's not him. It's a deep fake. Exactly. So, yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, she says the tools to address known exploitation by immobilizing technological deep fakes on websites and networks. That's what it's called. That's long. And it's known as the Take It Down Act. It was approved 4092 and it's going to go through and Trump's going to sign it. Basically, it prohibits non-consensual, listen closely, online publication of intimate visual depictions of individuals, both authentic and computer generated. And it requires certain online platforms to promptly remove these depictions upon receiving notice of their existence. I like this. Yeah. I mean, this seems like a win-win all the way. What do you think?
SPEAKER 06 :
I... I would support it. But imagine if Trump vetoed his wife's bill.
SPEAKER 08 :
I mean, he's not going to do that. That would be pretty dumb. But I like this. And by the way, hats off to Melania for taking a step into the arena and doing it on a major issue. And she gets in there and wins 409 to two. That's pretty impressive. She is a very impressive. I think, you know, it's wonderful to have Trump back in the White House. It's also wonderful to have her back in.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
Hasn't it been great?
SPEAKER 06 :
I mean, they're kind of a package, right? They are. I would say so, yeah, they're married. But I mean, just even politically and socially, it's just... Okay, we got just a few seconds left here.
SPEAKER 08 :
Todd, thank you for joining me today. Of course. Really quick here. Sum up the Trump first 100 days again. What do you think?
SPEAKER 06 :
It's been a whirlwind of success, winning bigly and hugely.
SPEAKER 08 :
What do you predict for the next 100 days? Do you think we're going to get trade deals?
SPEAKER 06 :
I hope so. I think Trump has the stones and the backbone for it, and America has the... We're still a world power. I think we win this. I think it's just a matter of asserting ourselves, and we're an irresistible force as a nation.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, this is a president. Personally, I think the next 100 days are going to be even more exciting. I'm going to make a prediction right now. We're going to see a bunch, a stream of trade deals, and the stock market's going to go up.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
By the way, it's been basically up over the last several days.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, you were mentioning that.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah. Pretty cool, huh? Things are working well. Todd Watkins, thanks for joining me today.
SPEAKER 06 :
Thanks, Andy. Anytime, man.
SPEAKER 08 :
It has been fun. We'll have you back. Folks, that's it for our number two and our three. Once again, Jersey Joe with all the latest news and fun. Until then, keep it right here on Rush to Reason, KLZ 560.
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And welcome to the Tuesday. It is the last day of April. And it's the I should have stayed in bed version of the Best Stocks Now show today. We've got a sell-off going on in the market. And we'll get to Barry in a moment about the negative GDP report, which wasn't unexpected, but it was a little bit worse than expected, I guess. The Dow is down 675 points. That's 1.67%. The S&P is down 108%. And, of course, that ends a six-day win streak for the S&P 500. All good things must come to an end. It's down 108%, almost 2%. And the NASDAQ getting hurt, I think, by GDP report, negative. And I think also by the weak report from a super microcomputer, it didn't come to the rescue. And the tech AI stocks are leading the way down in the NASDAQ, which is now down 2.6%. It, too, had a pretty good win streak going on. The bond market right now, you're down a couple of basis points. We're clear down to 4.17% right now. Gold is down. No rush to gold today. Gold is down 0.5%. And Bitcoin was up a little bit. Now it's down $1,593,409. So welcome to today's Best Stocks Now show. With professional money manager Bill Gunderson, president of Gunderson Capital Management. I'm here with Barry Kite, our chartered financial analyst. And just when it looked like the market was looking better and better every day, we had a rough start. We're having a rough start here to the market. after a good day yesterday and it looks like a couple of things uh driving it but i can just say from my point of view barry i look at every earnings report that comes in uh since we uh did the show yesterday and i didn't see one good one today i mean it was they've been lackluster right i mean of course of course what we get meta and microsoft at the close to tonight and then we get um then we get what amazon and apple to tomorrow but
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You know, in just a mixed bag of economic data, I mean, you talked about the GDP number that looked, you know, it looks weird on the surface. And there's a great explanation for it. But also, you know, we got an ADP report today. We got a. A PCE number where inflation was 0% for the month. I mean, we've just got numbers all over the place. It's all over the place.
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Well, we added 1% yesterday, a six-day win streak. That's the first time since September. And then today, which is the last day of April, one-third of the quarter is now gone, and we're off to a rough start here this morning. Now, yesterday, there's several things, I think, here that are kind of leading, that are lending a hand to the sell-off today. I wouldn't get too worried about it. There were rumors yesterday that the U.S. was getting very close to a trade agreement with an unnamed country. I don't know what unnamed country it is. I hope it's not like Albania or Bulgaria or some little country. They talked like it was a big one. And that kind of buoyed the market yesterday. And then today, I was hoping it was India. because that would be a major major win uh... you know with the population bigger than china and india has basically shut out u.s. goods for you know never really did much trading with us not allowing our goods in there but i'm reading today that they're targeting the first deal by fall okay that's a long ways off that's not like an imminent deal at all India and the United States completed three days of negotiations in Washington last week. And I think the U.S. really wants to focus on India right now because of the size of their market and because of the standoff with China, who has the second biggest population in the world. But they did have fruitful negotiations, discussions on a broad range of tariff and non-tariff issues. But it looks like it's going to be fall. That's a long ways off. I think the market was expecting something more imminent. But it sounds like there's going to be a pretty big deal. When those two come together, both nations are seeking to more than double their bilateral trade to $500 billion by 2030. Trade between the two nations remains strong, with the United States continuing as India's top trading partner for the fourth year in a row. But, of course, they really want to ramp that up. And they've been talking about things like Harley Davidson's, Kentucky Bourbon, different things, automobiles, wine, petrochemicals, dairy items, agricultural products such as apples, tree nuts, alfalfa, hay, a lot of different things there on the table. There are some sticking points, however, such as, let's see, the sticking points here look like apparel, textiles, gems and jewelry, leather goods. uh oil seed shrimp and horticultural products but anyways that's the current status i think it's a little bit on the disappointing side that nothing going to be hammered out until fall of this year when i think fall i think october november Maybe October. We'll see. Okay, now, so there's one strike against the market today. Plus, all of those earnings reports, which we're going to get to. Now, as of last Friday, we were on a very upward trend, gaining momentum in earnings reports. I would say today's reports came from a lot of second-tier companies. Other than Visa and Starbucks and maybe Yum! Brands, really a lot of second tier stocks. I didn't see one. I read the earnings report and then I look at the futures on the stock in the pre-market. I didn't see one report that was good where you had positive momentum there. From a good earnings report. That's very unusual. It was like maybe there were 35 companies that I looked into and not one of them, except for Seagate. Seagate was the only exception.
SPEAKER 03 :
And a couple of them were off big. I mean, look at SMCI. I mean, what, they were down when I saw them. Which one? Oh, yeah, SMCI. SMCI was down close to, what, 16%, 20%.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, and that's taking wind out of Palantir, out of NVIDIA, etc., even though SMCI is a pretty small player. But that put a knife in the heart of the AI rally. The AI stocks have been doing really well. But I wouldn't read too much into just SMCI. But it is lending to all of the negativity out there right now. And probably the elephant in the room, US Q1 GDP minus 0.3 that's the first negative print we've had I saw that stat was it three years I think since the last negative print and of course two negative prints in a row equals a recession now it was only down minus 0.3 remember the Atlanta Fed they were like predicting minus 3.7 several months ago. Maybe that's the quarter we're in now. No? Okay, this is the advance estimate for the quarter.
SPEAKER 03 :
I think that was a full year number that they were giving in terms of what they reduced. The thing about this GDP number is I always think it's funny that it looks like you have negative GDP when in reality we're buying a lot more stuff. The difference is the stuff we're buying is from overseas which creates if you look at a GDP calculation The last two numbers is either a trade surplus or trade deficit. If it's a deficit, it actually minuses off of all the other stuff in the formula. And so in this case, we had a record trade deficit because of people buying stuff ahead of time.
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Yep.
SPEAKER 03 :
And that turned in. importing overcame all of the other growth that we had and so you end up with a negative number you know to me does it really mean our economy is negative no because we're buying a lot of stuff it just happens to be stuff from overseas and it's a weird number right it's the front loading that we've been talking about but yet the headlines most investors see the headlines
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And the headlines mostly come from CNBC and the Wall Street Journal. Those are the two big ones. And CNN. And they, you know, negative GDP, first time in three years, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But they really don't explain why.
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I'll tell you the investment channel that's been, it's hard to say that they're certainly pro-Trump, but the one that's been kind of the most in the middle, I think it's because they've had a relationship with Besson over the years because I've seen them on there a lot, is Bloomberg.
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actually um surprisingly enough yeah given some of the stuff that's been said back and forth between trump and bloomberg does not like trump i did hear an interview with besant last night yeah with charlie kirk and he was mentioning that he stopped by the circle k on meeting street you know where that is right by church and gets a dr pepper every morning Now, he's in Washington right now, but I said, wow, I drive by that all the time. I'm going to stop in there in the morning, maybe chat with Besant. I've got a funny story to tell you about that when we come back. And welcome back here to the second quarter of today's Best Docs Now show. You know, Bess was talking to a lot of Charlie Kirk's audience, which a lot of high school and college kids, they had a lot of people listening to that interview and they were able to ask questions. They were all asking, you know, what's the best, how do I become a millionaire over time? And, you know, I mean, look, you put some money away every week and you invest it and you continue to invest it and let it grow over time. But he said as he stops into the Circle K on Meeting Street there, a lot of people are buying lottery tickets right and they know who he is they say hey mr besson if i hit the lottery will you manage my money and he tells them you know if you took that 10 or 20 bucks that you spend every week on lottery tickets and you just bought bitcoin what if you had just started buying bitcoin 10 years ago or or the nasdaq what is it tqqq the three times nasdaq yeah he says you wouldn't need to be buying those lottery tickets right now and he makes a really good point there you know and and just think of all the things that we blow 10 or 20 dollars a week on uh you know diet coke whatever the case may be of course he he can afford the the dr peppers every morning no problem The other point he made, and I go, that's my guy. He was knocking the asset allocation model. He said, well, you know, the standard practice out there is you take your age. You know, I'm 70 years old. You subtract it from 100, and that means you should have 70% of your money in the bond market and 30% in the stock market. He says, I think that's a terrible model. And we do too. But yet, that is the most prevalent model. If you go in for a financial planning or if you have a planner or if you have some kind of plan in place, it's usually built around that model. Here you've got a billionaire hedge fund manager. Who's a native of South Carolina, by the way. I didn't know that.
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See, I didn't realize that. I was wondering how he made it here.
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Somebody, I talked to somebody within the last year and said, have you ever met Scott Besson? Because we were talking about some of the heavy hitters here in Charleston. We have a few. And this guy said, I sat next to the airplane next to Scott Besson. That guy, he is a brilliant guy. I guess so, man. And he talked about all that he's been through. He's been through more than I have. He's been in the business longer than I have. I've been in it for 25 years. He's 62 years old. He's been in it for 45 years.
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He used to be in it with Soros. Yes.
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And he talked about all the time he's been knocked to the ground. He was there in 87 when in one day the S&P went down, or the Dow went down 23%. And he said the family that he was managing money for, he was 25 years old at the time, I want to say. Wow. Told him, we have been saving money for a time like this. Let's go all in. Wow. That's what he did. He talked about the 2000. That was the biggest one I witnessed. That was the dot-com bubble bursting. He witnessed the financial crisis. That was a real bad one. That was nasty. And then we haven't really had one since then, unless you count COVID, which was very short, very swift, and it came back very quickly.
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And then we had that correction, that 20 or 20, kind of the bull market. It was a short one at the end of 2018. That was kind of where the Fed had been raising rates, and literally they turned around and said, oh, sorry, let's reduce rates. And then, of course, that sent the market on a tear in 2019. Okay.
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Yeah, and then we had 2021 where they went on the rate hike binge, and the NASDAQ was down 35% that year. So anyways, I learned a lot, and I love to hear him knocking the asset allocation model because I have never been a believer. Now, while our GDP contracted by 0.3%, now think of this. The euro area rose by 1.2%, but they have a trade surplus. They have a huge trade surplus. And I would say that most of their GDP, because they really don't grow very much over there in Europe, I would say most of their GDP comes from their trade surplus, which was another thing that Besant mentioned. And I like this. He was talking about the surpluses and whatnot. And he was talking about what they're trying to accomplish here in the U.S., And it just reminded me of, I think they're on the right track with what we're doing. And he emphasized the course that we were on, it was totally unsustainable. The printing money and borrowing and spending more than you take in, we're on a collision course with doom.
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You had to change habits, right? And, I mean, frankly, changing habits usually isn't very popular, and that's why most of us don't change our habits and go back to whatever flaw we had to begin with.
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Yeah, and one other point that he must have said four or five times. He says one of the biggest killers to enterprise, entrepreneurship, growing your economy are regulations.
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Yeah.
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And he said the more you can, I mean, you have to have regulations. I mean, you can't be making the pills in the backyard and stuff like that. You have to have certain regulations. But Europe has strangled it. and entrepreneurship with over-regulation.
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Well, and strangled innovation. I heard something about that recently just in terms of like, think of all the tech companies that have came out of the U.S. in the last 25, 30 years. New drugs. You've hardly had any coming out of Europe, and frankly it's because they've kept, they kind of keep that innovation down. If you want to innovate, you'd probably be better to come here, innovate, and then go back.
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Now, we have states here in the U.S. which, you know, are more European-like. California comes to mind. New York comes to mind where it's very, very difficult. I saw Phillips 76 is totally shutting down their refinery there. They supply about 8% of the refined gasoline to California. So you pay a hefty price for gas.
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Well, that Chevron, I mean, you have had that Chevron refinery up there kind of in the Bay Area for years. That's always kind of been a back and forth.
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Yeah, I think they're shutting it down. Okay, U.S. private sector growth cools. So we're going to get the real report on Friday, the non-farm payrolls report. another issue we have is mortgages uh are still too high 6.9 we're at 6.9 that is stifling growth uh that's stifling home buying and you know a lot of charlie kirk's audience definitely younger i mean he he did a lot of work leading up to the campaign and visiting the colleges And, you know, these young guys can't afford a 6.9% mortgage, although I think my first mortgage was probably somewhere in that neighborhood.
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Yeah, the trick was that the price of the house was less.
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Yes, when you add the price of the house and the insurance and a 6.9% mortgage, that's tough. Something's got to give there. Okay, when we come back. I have a boots on the bridge report on how many Chinese freighters were in our port yesterday because this is going to hit the wall here real soon. We'll be right back. This is Bill Gunderson. Thank you for tuning in to today's Best Stocks Now, Best Inverse Funds Now show. I put several hours of research in during the wee hours of the morning each day to bring you the very best cutting-edge stories that I can. To get two free weeks of my newsletter, go to GundersenCapital.com. To talk to us about our fee-based only money management services, call us at 855-611-BEST. Now, back to the second half of the show. And welcome back here to the second half of today's Best Docs Now show. I saw the inductees or the nominees for the... I guess it's the inductees by now for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame back in Cleveland. It seemed like pretty much everybody I grew up... It's already in there. But there was a few, you know, and I'm looking forward to heading back there this month, starting tomorrow, May 20th and 21st, Tuesday and Wednesday. At the Marriott in Warrensville. And we're going to have a good time Tuesday night. Have a fun workshop. Get up there and show you what's happening in the market at that time. You never know. I mean, that's something you can't plan way in advance, what you're going to talk about. You've got to pretty much... Put together your notes the day of the workshop. That's the way it is, other than things like valuation and whatnot. But the current state of the market, who knows what it will be at that time. That's going to be from 7 to 8.30 p.m. on a Tuesday night. I don't know what you could be doing more fun than in Cleveland on a Tuesday night than coming to the Gunderson show. and the team. That's May the 20th, Tuesday. To reserve a seat to that, you've got to call Edie at 855-611-BEST. 855-611-BEST. In addition to that, on Tuesday and Wednesday, we'll be there at the hotel during the day. We've got a nice little conference room where we're going to meet with individuals and talk about your situation and see if we can help. be of any help to you, give you some ideas, whatever the case may be. And obviously there's only so many spots available during the two days that we're there. To reserve one of those spots, call Edie at 855-611-BEST. 855-611-BEST. Okay, as I drove over the bridge last night coming home from Charleston and going to downtown Charleston, I noticed we have two rivers that combine into the Charleston Harbor. One river is the Cooper River, which turns into freshwater about halfway up. It eventually goes to a dam and a lake. And then there's the Wando River, which is a saltwater tidal river. And they come together and create the Charleston Harbor. And right at the entrance of both of those rivers are some big, big ports, right, with the big cranes. The container ships park. The cranes are GPS-driven. They take the containers off one at a time. Put them on a truck. I mean, that's a lot of trucks. That's a lot of business. That's a lot of employees. That's a big business here in Charleston. On the Cooper River, there's room for three or four freighters. I noticed there were none on the Cooper River. The Wando River is the busier one. I noticed three Chinese freighters, MSCI. I'm not sure that they're Chinese. It could have been a European one in there. But I didn't notice them being unloaded. I noticed them sitting there. And, you know, like we talked about yesterday, there's troubling signs are piling up for China as the trade war threatens the world's second largest economy, right behind the U.S. China's official manufacturing PMI, which measures factory activity, fell to 49 in April, coming in below the threshold of 50. that separates expansion from contraction. So that's the first sign of things showing up. Across the Pacific, there are also signs of pain piling up for the world's largest economy. That's us. The Port of Los Angeles announced that shipping volumes will plunge by a third week, for a third week. due to major American retailers stopping all shipments from China based on the tariffs. Now, Barry, you would think that would be a pretty big incentive to get some kind of a deal done fairly quickly. but they have stopped all shipments, all right? Air cargo holders have observed similar reductions while many U.S. companies have stocked up on goods. Hence, you know, you've got the weak. You wouldn't think stocking up in goods would lead to a weak GDP report, but it does because it increases the trade deficit. If the situation is not sorted out in coming months, it might lead to a cascading effect across logistics and transport businesses and eventually store shelves. No question about it, okay? I mean, there's at least going to be a big hiccup. If they're not unloading those ships there that I saw parked, eventually, I think inventory dries up pretty quickly on the shelves.
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Yeah, and I think some of this, right, I guess you need some of this eminence in terms of getting both parties to the table. We talked about really both countries need to make a deal. I think China probably long-term needs to make a deal more. But there's stuff we need to buy, and we buy as consumers from China. And on the other side, those goods put people to work over there. As I talked about and as Besson mentioned, in a month you could have 5 million to 10 million new Chinese layoffs if you don't. if you have to shutter some of these factories. So they need to make a deal, and we need to make a deal, because the administration is going to get blamed if you've got a bunch of empty shelves, right? And so hopefully that will bring both sides together in some kind of fashion.
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Yes, and it's not really clear if they're talking, but there's likely some contact going on behind closed doors. Each side wants a win, okay? They don't want to say Trump cleaned our clock and Trump doesn't want to give in to Xi and say we didn't get many concessions. Each side wants a win. They're creating a lot of carve-outs in the automobile industry, Apple iPhones, electronics, aircraft engines, etc., But you know what? I mean, something's got to give here pretty soon. Now, there's ways to avoid the tariffs. I was reading about this. They call it whack-a-mole. There is white labeling, which allows companies to easily rebrand products or altering customs codes, quantities, or country of origin. Tariff engineering also has taken the form of new supply chains or transshipments where goods are rerouted through third-party countries. It's no wonder that Vietnam has seen a manufacturing renaissance in recent years because of China. or that Mexico surpassed China as the biggest importer into the U.S. I'll bet you didn't know that.
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Well, and that's what China, that was a result of some of the Chinese tariffs under the first Trump administration. They've invested tons and tons, Chinese businesses have invested tons and tons of money into Mexico, so then those goods can come across from Mexico and not be subject to the tariffs. So there's a... You know, supply chains have been rejiggered a little bit, at least from that perspective. The difference is some of that investment may go for naught as well if they're going to tariff things from Mexico more.
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Yes. Okay, I've got an update on two opposite ends of the spectrum here. here in the energy patch the number one ranked stock in my app right now is a french nuclear uh a utility they're the french utility it's like e-n-g-i-f i think is the symbol and uh you know france is nuclear friendly so it has uh it's the number one ranked stock in the app right now at the other end of the spectrum first solar announced just a horrible report of course they offshore a lot of the production of goods first solar is down 9.4 percent today as solar has not been a good place and you've got one here that's on the verge of bankruptcy sun nova n o v a is now 20 cents and getting ready to file for bankruptcy they provided residential solar and energy storage services to over 441 000 customers in 50 states they're out of houston texas where there's plenty of sun but this stock was a 57 stock back in 2021 and now it's 20 cents So these are not good days for the solar industry.
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And in France, I mean, France is, you wouldn't, you know, we've talked about this before on the show, but they're, I mean, they create, I think, over 70% of their power is nuclear. And they're actually the largest exporter of nuclear-generated power in the world. So some of their neighbors actually use some of the power from their reactors. So they're... France is far along in the nuclear power realm. I think they have over 50 reactors around the country.
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Yes, and it's interesting that the app, which doesn't follow the news, which doesn't follow politics, which knows nothing about the Green New Deal and this and that, the number one ranked stock is the French nuclear energy supply. Okay, when we come back, we're going to run through several earnings reports, see if we can find a good one. Most of them pretty soggy today, and that's leading to this sell-off in the market. We'll be right back.
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In a golden cage On a winter day You gotta go where you wanna go Do what you wanna do And live whoever you Got to go where you want to go.
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Do what you want to do.
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And welcome back here to the final segment of today's Best Stocks Now show. I'm seeing some buying coming into the market here right now. The market's cut its losses by quite a bit and seeing some good buying. That's good. Buy the dip. It's been just the opposite. They've been selling the rallies, okay, and now we're buying the dips in the market. That means that the Sentiment has definitely gotten better on the overall market. And as I look at these earnings reports, you know what? A lot of these are turning around now and going positive. I think the biggest one today is the financial, and I believe it's a member of the Dow, Visa. Visa beat by a little bit. Visa is down just a little bit. It's down 8 tenths of 1%. Visa has been a pretty good performer over the years. Definitely linked to the consumer using your Visa card. And then you've got Yum Brands, where Taco Bell is the star of Yum Brands. You know, their franchise is Pizza Hut, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Yum Brands.
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The old Tricon. I remember when they were Tricon before Yum. I remember that.
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They have 61,000 fast food restaurants. And I'm sure on a corner near you somewhere is a KFC, a Taco Bell, or a Pizza Hut.
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Or all three. Yeah.
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You know what, I've got to tell you, they show these commercials of the stuffed crust pizza, and they pull it away real slowly, and the cheese stretches for like 10 feet across the room. Mine didn't do that. I mean, there was hardly any cheese. Maybe they just don't like me. They've got me on a bad list, my address. I didn't get that kind of cheese in my stuffed crust pizza, like the commercial. My dad used to say, you know, I want the one that you filmed. You know, we'd go to the fair, and a guy would be demonstrating some gadget. He'd say, I want the one that you're using. Oh, no, sir, I can't sell you that one. But, yeah, you know, it just wasn't like the billboard. It didn't look like the one on the billboard, the burger I got at McDonald's. Definitely the stuffed crust pizza did not look – the one I got was nothing like the one on TV. Caterpillar's Q1 earnings slide. But you know what? Cat is hanging in there. Cat is down.
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We've got a record backlog of somewhere like $32 billion in equipment, I think.
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And the stock is about even on the day. Stellantis, which is kind of a walking disaster. They're going to really be in bad shape when the tariffs hit. They're down 3.8%. That's a $9 stock right now.
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I think they withdrew their guidance. Best stock now, Booking.
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Booking is having a good day. And the stars of the day, Western Digital up 5.6%. So that's cloud pretty much. And Seagate. Seagate is up 9.2%. So those are two big players in the chip sector. You know, the technology group itself is divided into a lot of different subsectors. And computer data storage, think of the data storage that we have now compared to the little, you know, we used to have 40 gigabytes. We'd get a PC with 40 gigabytes. You use up 40 gigabytes, one little application that eats that up. Now you've got the cloud, which is pretty much infinite. Seagate and Western Digital both having very good days today. That's good for the tech sector. Starbucks is, on the other hand, down 7% today. And they're up against it in a lot of areas. The price, the cost of their product. They've probably overbuilt. There's a lot of competition out there. There's a lot of coffee shops buying for the dollar. And I don't know what they're going to do. I haven't heard anything on the tariffs and what kind of shape they'll be in with coffee coming in. I think El Salvador, I saw that interview with Bukele. That was very interesting. Boy, take a look at what Bukele is doing down there in El Salvador. But they're a big coffee producer and chocolate producer. uh, Coco, uh, but that's going to be tariffs unless they, you know, allow that stuff in without tariffs. I don't know.
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Well, I mean, when you look at, and when you look at Starbucks, I mean, you've got, you're, you're talking about a 29 forward PE ratios for a, you know, for a coffee shop, honestly. I mean, at this point, uh, you know, to me, it's even, even with such a pullback, I mean, it was at one 17 is a 52 week, uh, high it's at 78. And, uh, That PE still isn't very palatable, in my opinion.
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Jim Cramer, he talks up Starbucks all the time. It's in his portfolio. I think it's a dog, really, in today's world. I mean, we've saturated the world. It's in the gas state, in our supermarket. I've seen churches with Starbucks inside.
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Oh, I have.
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It's nuts. Airports. I mean, it's everywhere, but okay.
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And if you're there, you've got to be patient because they're supposed to lose 27% less earnings in 2025. They're supposed to be up 40% in 2026, but you've got to – You've got to see the turnaround. I don't see the turnaround yet with the new CEO.
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They say there's a turnaround going on underneath the surface. It's really well hidden, I guess. Then the last one is Booking.com with a good report, 22% growth in earnings. That stock is just amazing, really. Okay, well, that was a fast-moving hour. The market is doing a lot better than when we started. I think people are putting two and two together and saying, you know, that negative GDP report, there should be an asterisk next to it. It comes from all of this front-loading of ships and increase. That's why we have the record trade deficit. See why you listen to Gundersen Capital and the Best Stocks Now show? We give you the truth. The true story behind the numbers. Now, to book an appointment with us, 855-611-BEST, 855-611-BEST. I just love to see people coming on board with Gundersen Capital. We kind of share texts throughout the day, the team. I'll get a text, so-and-so is coming on from Texas, so-and-so is coming on from Ohio, etc. It's just a lot of fun. And then I get to put that money to work. It really is a fun business most of the time. And to book an appointment with us, you don't want to be in soggy stocks. And I'm not a fan of that asset allocation model. Either is Besant, our Treasury Secretary. Give us a call at 855-611-BESANT. To get four weeks of the free trial, the whole enchilada, GundersonCapital.com. That's GundersonCapital.com. Have a great day, everybody.
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Join us for an engaging discussion with Kim Munson as she navigates the complex political landscape, examining bills like the controversial House Bill 1312. Kim highlights the significance of preserving individual property rights and critiques the encroachment of force into personal freedoms under the guise of public safety and regulation. Tune in to understand the crucial difference between freedom and force in modern policymaking.
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indeed let's have a conversation and welcome to the kim munson show thank you so much for joining us you each are 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 theresa amanda and all the people here at crawford broadcasting happy wednesday producer joe happy wednesday kim And you know what Wednesday is. That means it's Wings Day at Hooters Restaurants. And you buy 20 wings. You get an additional 10 for free. That's for to-go or to dine-in. And they have five locations, Loveland, Aurora, Lone Tree, Westminster, and Colorado Springs. And a great place to get together to watch the playoff games. Hopefully the Avs are going to get it together and can pull this out so they can continue on their march towards the Stanley Cup. And the Hooters Restaurants is a great place to watch all of that happen. There is a lot going on in our world for sure, and we are always searching for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. And remember, my friends, it's not compassionate, it's not altruistic to take other people's stuff, whether or not it's their rights, their property, livelihoods. Opportunity childhoods, we're gonna be talking a lot about that today, lives via force. And force can obviously be a weapon, but it can be policy and unpredictable and excessive taxation, fear, coercion, government-induced inflation. This agenda by the World Economic Forum and the globalist elites and the United Nations, and we are seeing this play out with this Colorado state legislature and this governor. The radical activist extremists that have taken over the Democrat Party, particularly here in Colorado, It's not the Democrats of Tip O'Neill or JFK or your grandpa or your grandma. This is a radical, extreme, overreaching group. And we see that playing out at the Colorado State Legislature with this Colorado governor. We see it with land use codes and zoning regulations and forced fees and conservation easements, national monument designations, these transmission lines easements, these CO2 pipeline easements. All of these things are taking property. And one of the inherent things of our founding was property rights. And, oh, my gosh, if you don't own your property, both your physical property and your mental property, then you're basically a slave is what happens. And so that's why we have to reclaim our state and our country. Because, remember, if something's a good idea, you shouldn't have to use force to implement it. 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It could be in the form of a cloud or haze, hazy. So for a concept, it could be unclear, vague, or ill-defined. And I think a lot of public policy is very nebulous. I think that it is on purpose. And your challenge will be to use nebulous in a sentence today. So our quote for the beginning of the show, I went to... Roy Rogers, because in the second hour, we'll be talking with a couple of horse enthusiasts regarding something that is happening up in Boulder County. And, of course, Roy Rogers, he was nicknamed the King of Cowboys. He was born in 1911. He died in 1998. He was an American singer, actor, television host, and rodeo performer. And so first quote of the show, I'll do Roy Rogers at the end because we're talking to Jay Davidson about the Constitution. I used a James Madison quote at the end of the show. But I pulled two quotes from Roy Rogers. I thought both were pretty special. The first one, again, he said, this is commenting on Hollywood. He said, today they're making pictures that I wouldn't want Trigger to see. And for those young ones, Trigger was Roy Rogers' horse. Hopefully you knew that, Joe. And then I love the other one that he said. He said, until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you. And so that is Roy Rogers. and a big thing happening today is this house bill 25 1312 is being heard in the senate judiciary committee i did sign up to testify so i'm going to go down there teresa's going with me and there's going to be a a um meeting, if you will, I guess a rally, on the West Steps of the Capitol at 1030, put on by the Colorado Parents Advocacy Network. And I'm going to make sure that I'm down there for that. Lori Gimmelstein and that whole team over there is just doing amazing work. And so 10.30 will be the rally. And then I think the hearing starts about 1.30 in the afternoon. This is historic, what is happening in our country. And regarding this 13.12 is the transgender bill that basically says if you parents don't affirm your child's gender confusion delusion, the child protective services could take your child away from you and also then it's also a another freedom of speech issue and that is is that if you don't affirm somebody's gender delusion confusion that it could be considered discriminatory And those things are really tyrannical. And so big rally down at the Capitol. And I'd love to have you join me down there because this is very historic. We're at the tip of the spear on all of the stuff that is going on. And we are an independent voice. So I don't have anybody corporate coming down telling me who the guests are going to be, what we're going to talk about. We are truly an independent voice. And that's why my sponsors are so important. I know each and every one of them personally. They all strive for excellence. 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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 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. And the Center for American Values is located down in Pueblo, Colorado. And I really am honored to support them. They're doing such great work honoring our history with their Medal of Honor, Portraits of Valor, and also these great educational programs and then wonderful On Values presentations. The next one will be at the end of May. And so be sure and check out their website to see all of the great work that they're doing. And that is AmericanValuesCenter.org. On the line with me is one of my fellow CUT board members, the Colorado Union of Taxpayer Board members, and that is Mary Jansen. Mary, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 12 :
Good morning, Kim. Can you believe we're going to get through this?
SPEAKER 10 :
Oh, my gosh. It is amazing what is happening down there. And I quickly, I wanted to say thank you. This is an amazing group that we get to work with, Mary, our fellow volunteers, our board members. And that's Steve Dorman, Greg Golianski, Russ Haas, Bill Hamill, Rob Knuth, John Nelson, Wendy Warner, Marty Nielsen, Rami Johnson, you, Dave Evans, Corey Onizorg, Paula Beard, and Ray Beard. This is an amazing group. And Mary, I know you're new to the board and came in kind of mid-session. What's your read on everything and the work that CUT is doing?
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, actually, Kim, this is my second year. Is this the second year? It's amazing.
SPEAKER 10 :
Oh, my gosh. I was thinking. You know what? You can see that I am just flabbergasted with this. I guess it's Rick and Paula that just came on. I'm sorry about that.
SPEAKER 12 :
It goes by so quick, I can't even believe it. Some of the things that they're doing is just unreal.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, it really is unreal. And let's talk about 1312 first. And, well, first of all, give us your read on the board because I guess you did. You came in mid-year last year. And the work that we're doing is pretty amazing, isn't it?
SPEAKER 12 :
It is. It is. I mean, I'm flabbergasted at the knowledge that my fellow board members have. Sometimes I will think one way and then I'll read what they say and I'm like, I didn't even think about that. Or someone will pick out something of the bill that actually turns the whole thing around and actually says what it's really doing. So, yeah, it's a good thing to belong to. Makes me think, that's for sure.
SPEAKER 10 :
And the other thing is we invested and created something called Cut Engaged, where it's super easy for people to just weigh in on bills that we have selected. And one of those is this 1312. And so two things, I need to check and see if you can still go online and sign the petition for Lori today. gimble stein over at colorado parents advocacy network but also we have 1312 on cutting gauge you can very easily go on there and if you want to you can put a comment on there you don't have to and you can send the email to the bill sponsors and also to the uh to your legislator your senator and your representative and so we're really excited about that and people are using that which is which is great So first thing, House Bill 1312 that's going to be heard in committee today, this is this transgender bill where kids could be taken away from their families. What's your comments on that, Mary Jansen?
SPEAKER 12 :
It definitely needs to be put down. It's such a bad bill. It's tyranny. It's bullying. It's unconstitutional. It's going to destroy families. It's just a bad bill. Yeah. Yeah, it's just a bad bill. And I don't know, did you do your word of the day yet?
SPEAKER 10 :
Nebulous.
SPEAKER 12 :
Maybe I thought it was going to be a different one. And so I made a I made a sentence about it.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, you know what I did. So you tell me because I I went to a meeting last night and I didn't get home till late. And I looked at my word of the day and I think I left it there because I think you were going to send something over. And then I got to the outline this morning and it wasn't there. So I pull that one quickly. So what's your word of the day?
SPEAKER 12 :
So my word of the day was duplicitous. And I are duplicitous. Excuse me, I said it wrong. Duplicitous. You got to learn how to say them, too. And my sentence was the laws that our Colorado lawmakers, some of the laws that our Colorado legislature or lawmakers seem obviously immoral, duplicitous and unfair.
SPEAKER 10 :
And I will use that, and I'll get that spelling for us too. I think I know how to spell it, but we'll do that in the next hour, so great thing. Let's jump in here. There's several bills, there's so many bills that there's a lot of bad things that are under the radar. And so let's start with this, let's see, this is Senate Bill 25276, Protect Civil Rights Immigration Status. And the prime sponsors on this are Senator Julie Gonzalez, Senator Mike Weissman, Representative Elizabeth Velasco, and Representative Lorena Garcia. Your thoughts on Senate Bill 276, Protect Civil Rights Immigration Status.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, here's another bad bill. This is like nothing, it does nothing to protect civil rights of citizens. And I found that what our lawmakers do is they call them residents, not citizens. So we really don't know who they're really talking about because A resident could be anybody, but a citizen, at least we know it's us, because they can't be citizens, right, because they don't have any papers on saying that they've gone through the citizen process. And this bill is to all benefit the illegal aliens, especially those that have committed additional crimes. There's potentially a large fiscal impact from this bill also, so they're taking our tax dollars and paying for it.
SPEAKER 10 :
And so, yes, and so that's Senate Bill 276, cuts a no on that. Let's get to the next one. Senate Bill 25305, Water Quality Permitting Efficiency, and the sponsors on this are Senator Barbara Kirkmeyer, Senator Jeff Bridges, Representative Shannon Byrd, and Representative Rick Taggart. Your thoughts on this, Mary Jansen?
SPEAKER 12 :
So I'm glad our board voted no on this. It starts out good. It starts out saying, you know, we have a backlog in permitting, right? They already have, what, 18 employees working. What is causing the backlog? And so what they want to do is throw more money at it, hire more people, throw more money at it, and expect that it would take, oh, and actually more regulations and more lawyers. pay from our lawyers to do this. And the problem is that it takes money from one area, puts it in another, and you really can't follow the money. It's kind of like a shell game.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay. So next one we wanted to let people know about is Senate Bill 25307, Decarbonization Tax Credits Administration Cash Fund. Senator Judy Emma Biles, Senator Jeff Bridges, Representative Emily Sirota, and Representative Shannon Byrd are the sponsors. Your comments on this, Mary Janssen?
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, here's another shell game. We also voted no on this. And this one, like I said, on the positive side, it prevents excessive diversion of the severance tax revenue and puts it towards decarbonation efforts. But the rest of the bill is just a shell game to confuse us where the money is going. It's another... Oh, and also the safety clause. These people are using the safety clause, which is... Everybody, I hope, knows what the safety clause is. So...
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, and if you're signed up for our emails that you would get in, it's only $25 to join us at coloradotaxpayer.org. We've got an excellent explanation of the safety clause there. And so next one, House Bill 25-13-14. We had talked with this, with Mike Rolick about this, but again, wanted to talk with you about it. sponsors on this are Representative William Lindstedt, Representative Emily Sirota, Senator Kathy Kipp, peace officer status for certain Department of Revenue employees. Ugg, your thoughts?
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, again, we all voted no. And having your IRS agent armed, are we talking force or freedom or what? Are you freely paying your taxes? Are they going to be when you see that gun, when they come in to check your taxes. And also, you know, do we get due process with this?
SPEAKER 10 :
Oh, that's such a good point, such an important point on that. And then let's see, the last one was 1330. And so tell us about that bill.
SPEAKER 12 :
1330, are we talking about the quantum computing bill?
SPEAKER 10 :
I think that's it, yes. Okay. We're all really having a difficult time on that. That's the exempting quantum computing equipment on that, and I'll get the sponsors for you on that as well. But that one, we really went back and forth on this. The sponsors on this are Representative Brittany Titone, Representative Matt Soper, Senator Nick Hendrickson, and Senator Mark Baisley. And so your thoughts on that, Mary?
SPEAKER 12 :
So, yeah, this one... You know, remember when they had the Patriot Act and we all like, OK, I understand it. But I mean, this could be good. I don't understand. I think we're trying to protect certain permitting, not permits. What do you call it? Repair, repair, repair, certain repairs. So it doesn't give out money. information of how things are made. So I get it, but then again, it could be a slippery slope. I don't know, kind of like the Patriot Act.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, and we did come down as a yes on that, but it's a very teepid yes, I would say, on that because the board really did have significant concerns on that. So Mary Jansen, we have a minute left. This is great. I love your commentary. What's your final thought you'd like to leave with our listeners?
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, I just had someone call me yesterday and talk about the Get Cut Engaged and how easy it is. And it's the best thing. They said it was great. It was just easy to use. They were able to get things off to their sponsors and their representatives. And she found out that I didn't know this lady was my representative. So she did find out that. It's just a great tool. And I think it's going to make a difference. I really do. And it was something that I was so proud of Cut doing.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, and you know what? You're the one that had the idea for it.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, that was just part, but it was the rest. It just all fell into place. It was a miracle.
SPEAKER 10 :
It was great. Mary Jansen, thank you for your great work, and we will continue on. You just have a great day.
SPEAKER 12 :
Thank you, Kim. We'll see you at the rally.
SPEAKER 10 :
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SPEAKER 08 :
Thank you, Kim. It's a pleasure to be on the line with you.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, good to have you, Jay. And before we get into it, tell us just a little bit about First American State Bank.
SPEAKER 08 :
We're a community bank, a commercial community bank. We have all the retail and business products you could want. On the lending side, we have... We're predominantly a commercial real estate lending outfit, but we can certainly do a lot of home mortgages. We have a lot on our books. And on the operations or deposit side, we have full treasury management capability, mobile banking, some pretty high-tech offerings for the younger folks that know how to do that kind of stuff. But we're a high-touch bank. like any other community bank out there. And we have a long legacy of being friends with our customers, and we enjoy our customers, and they enjoy us.
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SPEAKER 08 :
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SPEAKER 10 :
Well, and so I'd recommend that people check out First American State Bank. And, Jay, also you are of the School of Austrian Economics, and explain that just a little bit to our listeners.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, okay. Austrian Economics is a school of thought that is actually diametrically opposed to what's called Keynesian economic theory. For instance, the Keynesian theory is enacted today at the Federal Reserve. And the big name there is there's two big names. One is modern monetary theory, MMT, which basically says that the government can print any number of dollars that they want and it's not inflationary. And it actually helps the economy because a dollar spent by the government has a 1.05 percent increase in the GDP. And that's totally wrong, but that's what they're saying. The other thing they do as a part of MMT is called QE, which is quantitative easing. And that's the mechanism by which the Fed printed, believe it or not, folks, $8 trillion United States dollars from 2008 until recently. And you might say, well, what does that matter? It's just it's no big deal. And actually, it's the reason for the inflation that you're seeing today. Because inflation is nothing more than devaluation of the United States dollar. The more you have of a commodity, the less that commodity on an individual unit basis buys. That's why when you go to the grocery store, you're buying the same products and you're paying 50% more for those same products. You can call it inflation, but in reality, the same thing, it's dollar devaluation. And, go ahead.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, my father called it the silent thief.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, good one. Yeah.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, because you might have $20 in your pocket, but if it only buys $10 worth of goods of what it used to, then somehow that other $10 is gone. And in a way, it is a silent thief. And it's really difficult for people on fixed incomes, Jay Davidson. Yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, it's terrible for people that are hurting, that are just living off whatever they've earned before. It kills them. And if I could go on then to what I would consider the better economic theory, which is called the Austrian School of Economics. That was started in the 1800s by a gentleman named von Mises. And his accolade, his student, and then eventually the leader of the Austrian school was Mr. Hayek, F.A. Hayek. And then their student and then eventual leader was a gentleman named Milton Friedman, who is contemporary with us. Those of us that are older than others remember him with great fondness. He was such a rational man. But the Austrian School of Economics says a couple of things. Number one, the Federal Reserve should exist only under its prime directive. And that prime directive, when it was started in 1911 under Woodrow Wilson, was to protect the value of the United States dollar. Now, that seems innocuous, but I can tell you as a banker, that is one of the most important statements you could possibly say. And I must say that the Fed has blown it. I mean, the dollar has devalued. in the 100 years since, by almost 98%. You know, it's ridiculous. And yet they continue, and then they go on and do a dual mandate, like full employment. Well, excuse me, government. First off, a strong dollar and full employment are antithetic to each other. You can't have both. It doesn't work. Second, full employment is totally and 100%. Employment in the private sector, and that's none of your business. That's what businesses do. We employ people. So the Austrian School of Economics, I'm a great adherent of it. I would recommend any book by Hayek's best, most well-known book is called The Road to Surf. And that kind of underlines my article in American Thinker called What is Trump Missing? And then anything Milton Friedman wrote is very straightforward, very simple. He takes complex economic theory and breaks it down into individual factors. If you want to understand economics, read Friedman. Whether you have an economics background or not, you'll understand him. He makes sense. And the attitude with the Austrian school is that we want a limited government. limited by, in this case, and we'll talk about later, I think, the Constitution. And that's why the Founding Fathers created the Constitution. The reason was that they didn't want the government to get too powerful and too strong, because when the government does get too powerful through regulation, taxation and spending or debt, then it crushes private enterprise, the individual. And that's what we're feeling today. That's the malice that you feel today in your work, in your home, when you're pinching your pennies. This is a direct result of a Keynesian theory, not an Austrian school theory of economics.
SPEAKER 10 :
So I think that's a good segue to your recent article in American Thinker, and that is regarding that Trump understands that government needs to be put back into its proper limited role, but he's having some messaging challenges.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, I think Trump and Musk over at Doge are—I'm impressed at what they're doing. Honestly, I'm blown away. Because in one sense, they're forcing government and all the bureaucrats there and the government employees to look at their job function, to look at what they're doing. They're forcing them to be held accountable for what they have done and what they are doing. And the message that I think Trump is missing, let me back up a second. The message that's getting out there in the media, and in this case the Democrats, not so much the Republicans, the criticism is that Trump is firing individuals. And it's a valid criticism. He is, absolutely. But so once again, the left-wing media, mass media, is pulling on our heartstrings like they always do. Here's this poor person that worked for five years in Washington, now he has to leave. And I get that. I feel sorry for the guy. I really do. We all do. But the message that is being missed here, the greater message, is that we citizens have a burden on our back, not only the taxation, which is extremely high if you're doing anything at all in your life, And if you add in all the fees and individual taxes in your county, state, municipality, et cetera, you're paying an incredible amount of your dollars into the government. And what Trump and Doge are fighting against is this excessive drain of resources from the private sector. Remember, all government revenue, all of it comes from us. in the private sector. You're paying for that government. And it's come to a point, especially with the inflation of the dollar devaluation, which is a silent thief, as you said, it's come to the point that we can no longer afford to spend the kind of money that we have been spending so frivolously. And I'm not knocking Democrats here because there's a lot of Republicans that do the same thing and they're both wrong. And so today, when I think about a politician, I talk about big government and small government or limited government politicians. And 100% of the time, I will support the limited government politician, period, and never the larger government person. So here Trump is doing some really good things, believe it or not, with cutting back on government spending. which then will force the government to cut back on these entitlement programs and these bureaucrats that they hire and force them to bring federal spending under control by reducing and getting rid of the waste in the government. So it's a brilliant move, but Trump's not taking credit for it. That's the frustrating thing. That's why I wrote the article. You know, you need to tell the people why you're doing this, Mr. Trump. You've got to say it.
SPEAKER 10 :
Why? So what would be the pushback? Because I, like you, my heart breaks when... Somebody loses a job. I think about their family and their mortgage, all those things. But I was talking with Daniel Turner with Power of the Future just right after this whole thing started. And and he said, but Kim, under Joe Biden. The Democrats didn't care at all about all of the oil and gas workers that lost their jobs when he canceled the Keystone Pipeline. You didn't hear anybody concerned about that. And I thought, oh, that is a very excellent point. And the other thing is, is a government out of control. We will have a day of reckoning. And as difficult as some of these stories are from the Democrats is, if we don't get government back into its proper role, we will have a day of reckoning that will be so painful for all Americans that we need to realize that that's the thing that Trump is trying to, I think, avoid. And to your point, he needs to articulate that with people.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, exactly. And but I've got to criticize Trump, too. And, you know, forgive me, all you mega folks. I I respect you, what you're saying and thinking. But on the one hand, Trump and Doge are reducing the size and scope of government, forcing spending reductions and holding bureaucrats accountable. Brilliant move. Thank you, guys. It's been a long time coming. On the other hand, he's adding to the tax burden of citizens who consume Chinese products. It's called tariffs. Really? What harebrained idea is that? I'm sorry, but wishful thinking is not rational thinking. And if you want to bring manufacturing back into the United States, do it a better way, a more intelligent way, rather than beating the heck out of the individual citizen with more taxes or tariffs. Do what you're doing on Doge. You're reducing the regulatory burden imposed on private enterprise by government activity. And you're reducing the spending... which will have an impact on the tax rates that we're being charged that we have to pay for living in America. That's the benefit that we have because the reason that these businesses left the United States, honestly, was the excessive government burden on private enterprise.
SPEAKER 10 :
Good point. So let's continue the discussion. I'm talking with Jay Davidson, a great sponsor of the show. He's also the CEO and founder of First American State Bank. Another great sponsor of the show is Lorne Levy for Everything Mortgages.
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and welcome back to the kim munson show be sure and check out our website that is kim munson mon son.com sign up for our weekly email newsletter and you can email me at kim kimmunson.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 And pleased to have on the line with me, you know him. He is the founder and CEO of First American State Bank, Jay Davidson. We're talking about a piece that was published recently at American Thinker back April 15th, What Trump is Missing. And he's doing, as you said, Jay, many of the right things regarding trying to get government resources. put back in its proper limited role. But you mentioned tariffs, and certainly that's something that's getting a lot of play in the media as well. And you mentioned that I don't think you really like the tariffs. I've had friends of mine that have said that the tariffs have been basically a tool in Trump's toolbox to try to negotiate with China, and he doesn't have a lot of tools in his toolbox. How would you respond to that, Jay?
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, I've heard that argument, and I've argued against it for some time. And I respect the argument. I see what people are thinking. But if you think economically and rigidly, it doesn't work. You know, let me kind of dissect this a little bit. What is a tariff? A tariff is a tax. Who pays the tariff? The American citizen buying the Chinese product, period. So how do you... increase freedom and limit government by adding another tax burden on American citizens. And I get the argument that China subsidizes their manufacturing and creates an unfair advantage. I get it. You're right.
SPEAKER 1 :
100%.
SPEAKER 08 :
But I submit that the solution to that problem is right here within our own government and our own nation, not by adding some artificial new rule or law called a tariff onto people's shoulders here in the United States. What I wrote in another article that was recently published was that we need to look at the reason that manufacturing moved from the United States, let's say into China, Singapore, Hong Kong, wherever, Vietnam, And that reason is our government. It was the government's actions that forced these businesses to go find a better way to manufacture and produce their goods. And what do I mean by that? Well, when the government excessively regulates and excessively taxes and excessively spends and puts too much debt on our shoulders, We are no longer a capitalistic economy. We're not following the proper economic theory called the Austrian school theory that works, that preserves capitalism, lets it grow. And we are actually, when all these executive orders come down, all this spending is done on federal bureaucrats, we're killing the golden goose here. And you can knock capitalism all you want, but there's nothing better to promote one's freedom than capitalism, because capitalism is based on a limited government, for one thing, and number two, the right to possess property. It's an inalienable right, honestly. And that's being subjugated by government action right now. It's a long way around the topic. There's a lot more complexity to tariffs than just smack China in the face. Well, all they're going to do is smack us back in the face. That is not an intelligent move. I'm sorry. And it doesn't solve the problem, which is manufacturing happening in China.
SPEAKER 10 :
So I think you're spot on, and that is lowering taxes and rules and regulations and fees and all those things, and we've got to work towards that. What about some of the talk has been about getting rid of the income tax. Do you think that's a real possibility or not, Jay Davidson?
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, the government revenue, income that the government receives, is almost exclusively based on taxes. So what, all right, get rid of income tax. What, what is the government going to do next to fund themselves? I mean, they're not going to change their attitude. If you go into a government job, you want safety above everything else. And you really probably don't care much what happens to the people that pay your salary because there's no accountability for it. So, I don't think you can get rid of income tax. It would be nice if you could.
SPEAKER 10 :
So the key then, really, to lower income tax would be to lower government spending. There could be that correlation, yes?
SPEAKER 08 :
Yes, absolutely. You just nailed it right there. That's a perfect statement.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, Jay, here in Colorado, this legislative session will be over soon. But this legislature likes spending money a lot. And many Republicans have tried to stop that or at least stand in the gap on that. But here in Colorado, we've got a real spending problem.
SPEAKER 08 :
We do. Absolutely. Absolutely. We're one of the bluest states out there now, and that comes with spending. And so this is the same argument or discussion that we had about Trump taking credit for what he's doing. You know, Republicans aren't doing a good job of having these kinds of discussions. They're not sitting down with citizens saying, you know what, I don't believe in more government. No. No. The politicians come to us and they say, yeah, I'm going to pass a new law to help you. I can't tell you how that sets me off. I don't want a new law, and I sure as almighty don't want your help, Mr. Government Guy. Leave me alone. I'm tired of you. You cost me too much. You put too many regulations on me. You make it difficult to do simple things. So this is the difference in what I see as necessary to limit government. and what most people are giving lip service to, which is, oh, yeah, the government can solve any problem. Let's let the government solve it. Well, think to the next step, folks. How is the government going to solve it? And why do you think they're going to solve a problem that maybe private enterprise can't solve? Who is more efficient at getting people up into space, Elon Musk or NASA? Think about it. There's a place for government. You know, we've got to have it. But there's only a place for limited government. And the point that I'm trying to make is that government has gotten way too big, way too powerful. There's unbelievable criminal waste of our taxpayer dollars, and they have the audacity to come back to us and try to tax us more every time we turn around.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, and that is the real beauty, I think, of Doge and the Department of Government Efficiency and what they have uncovered. And as I really look at that is they have been fleecing the American people for years. And when I say they, I'm talking about politicians and bureaucrats and interested parties that I've nicknamed PBIs. And here we have everyday hardworking people trying to make ends meet, take care of their families, try to live their American dream. And it's very difficult to live the American dream when government is taking a big part of your property, the things that you've worked for. And that's why we do this show. That's why these pieces that you write are so important, Jay Davidson, to get people to think and start to understand the proper role of government. And once we do that and get government back in its proper role, The sky is the limit. And so the people that may be losing their job over here that were government employees, it does pull on my heartstrings. But if we get this economy really rocking and rolling, they can probably pursue their dreams even more, though, more on the private sector, I think.
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Yeah, I agree totally. Absolutely. Capitalism is actually commensurate with constitutional republic. Capitalism believes in free trade. And the definition of free trade is very simple and very straightforward, and it will define what that means. It is a willing buyer and a willing seller agreeing on a price without outside coercion. That's fair trade. So, like, if you and I agree on the value of something, then we've established the fair value, the price of that item because we have the agreement between the buyer and seller and there's no coercion outside of us. And this is the epitome of capitalist interchange, whether it's barter or using money as a medium. It's the epitome of what... our Constitution means. Excuse me a second, I'm gonna go off.
SPEAKER 10 :
Not a problem. And I think it's important that our young people that have been taught in some of these schools that capitalism is just greedy people wanting to pad their pockets. I think it's important that we understand that the real greed is with And that is government and business that get in bed with each other to use government to maybe stifle competition or a variety of things. But I think one of the biggest examples of greed is this resolution down at the Colorado State House where Democrats are wanting to file suit against to claim that TABOR, our Colorado's Taxpayers Bill of Rights, is unconstitutional. And what TABOR does is several things. It limits government growth to excess revenue. They can collect to population plus inflation. If, in fact, government wants to grow more than that, they just have to ask we the people. It also limits spending as far as new taxes. They just have to ask us, and it limits incurring debt that we have to pay off. So the fact that the Democrats, these extreme Democrats, this is not the Democrat Party of JFK or Tip O'Neill or your grandpa and your grandma. This is a different Democrat Party. The fact that they are asking to keep it all, I think, is one of the greatest things that could happen. And I think that's important that we bring that to people's attention.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, that's a very good analysis. I totally agree with you on that. It's amazing what this Democrat-controlled House and Senate and the governor have done over the many years that they've been in power. I mean, Colorado no longer is a safe state. Our crime rates have gone up dramatically. We were number one in car thefts, number three in violent crimes, I understand now. There's Parts of downtown Denver, in fact, most of downtown Denver, I'm not going to go into, even though I can carry if I want to. I'm not going to get engaged in a gunfight just to go to see some entertainment. That's just not worth it. And so a lot of the things that the current House and Senate are doing are not helping us. And, of course, the Republican Party's meltdown with the former chair of the GOP has now thankfully been replaced. didn't help matters. Republicans are not cohesive right now, and they're not saying, they're not telling the message that we're trying to get across here with your show, which is I'm for limited government. It's a simple message. Just get that one across and then live up to it. Don't tell me that you're going to pass another law or you're going to help me out as a government employee. You can't. I've seen it too often where it fails.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, Jay Davidson, to that point, we need to be electing people that are for limited government. And I really appreciate all that you do in this piece, An American Thinker. Let me have it here. What Trump is missing is so important. So, Davidson, your final thought.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, folks, it's still a great nation. I mean, we were created with or founded with people that who fled tyranny, monarchy, overwhelming controls, and who fought a revolutionary war to gain their freedom. That blood still runs, courses through our veins, and it's not gone away. We've got to be active in our own protection, in our own policies and politics. I'm not advocating for any kind of violence whatsoever. That's ridiculous. I am advocating for standing up for your rights. And your rights are that your government is limited and must be limited and must be controlled. It's like a fire. Fire is really great when it's in a fireplace. Pretty bad when it burns your house down. Well, our government's gotten too big and they're burning the house down.
SPEAKER 10 :
well and we have we have the tool in our toolbox to do this and that was given to us it's the u.s constitution and because your piece was talking about the constitution and and you quoted james madison went to james madison for our quoted the end of the show and he said this our constitution represents the work of the finger of almighty god so my friends today be grateful read great books think good thoughts listen to beautiful music communicate less and 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. And stay tuned for our number two.
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Indeed. Welcome to our number two of the Kim Munson Show, and 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, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. It is Wednesday, Producer Joe. Happy Wednesday, Kim. Happy Wednesday. I can't believe that April is just about over. Tomorrow is the beginning of May, and there is so much going on. Colorado is at the tip of the spear of all of the crazy stuff that's going on. And I know so many of us, we used to have people that were maybe a little envious that we lived in beautiful Colorado. Now we get phone calls from all over the country saying, what is going on there? We have lost our minds. And I say, yes, we have. It is definitely crazyville out here. And one of those things is happening today down at the Capitol. And this is the House Bill 251312 will be heard in the Senate Judiciary Committee. This bill is working its way through the process. And there's going to be a rally at the Capitol at 1030. The Colorado Parents Advocacy Network is putting that on. And go to their website at That is coloradoparents.org, and you very easily can sign a petition indicating that you do – that just get rid of this House Bill 251312, which what it is, it basically says that if a family does not affirm their child's gender – delusion or confusion, which has been fomented through the education system, through Planned Parenthood, doing sex ed stuff and all kinds of other outside organizations in schools. And of course, kids are very impressionable. All these people know that. They come home, they say, hey, I'm confused. If you don't affirm it, child protection services could take your child away. And if you don't affirm somebody else's gender delusion or confusion, uh, in this bill that you could be, um, accused of, uh, discrimination. And so it's a real freedom of speech issue. It's a family, family issue. And so there will be a big rally today at 10 30, uh, down at the state house. And then you can sign up to testify as well. And, um, I would recommend that you check all that out. And that website is coloradoparents.org. And then also go over to coloradotaxpayer.org, which is the Colorado Union of Taxpayers website. And we've selected bills that you can weigh in on. 1312 is one of those. It'll take you – I think Ben Williams said yesterday it took him 20 seconds to do one particular bill. That is pretty fast. And so be sure and – Check that out and hold on here. Oh, okay. And Patty just texted me. It's not just only CPAN. It's also Protect Kids Colorado at 1030. So both those organizations, they work very closely together. So Protect Kids Colorado and Colorado Parents Advocacy Network 1030. I'm going to be there. Teresa Irby, our partnership liaison, is going to be there as well. Okay, our word of the day is Mary Jansen, who was on earlier in the first hour as our CUT representative today, is duplicitous. And it's spelled D-U-P-L-I-C-I-T-O-U-S. And it could be given to or marked by deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech, deceitful or double-dealing. And I think that you could have a synonym and just put Democrats at the Colorado State Legislature and this governor, and that could be a definition of duplicitous. And so I'll see you at 1030, all of you down there. Let's go ahead and get into the other things that we like to do and check out the website. That is Kim Munson dot com and sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at Kim Munson dot com. The text line I want to hear from you is 720-605-0647. And our quote of the day. I at the end of the show, we have James Madison because first our guest was Jay Davidson. We were talking about the Constitution and. And but in this hour, there's something going on up in Boulder County regarding the Boulder County commissioners have stopped allowing after 30 years people to use the Boulder County fairgrounds arena for horseback riding during the cold winter months. And so I thought, so we're going to have a couple of people talk about that in this last segment. So I thought, well, a cowboy, who would be? And I thought Roy Rogers. And he was born in 1911. He died in 1998. He was nicknamed the King of Cowboys. He was an American singer, actor, television host, and rodeo performer. And he had two quotes that I thought, I just thought I'd use both of them. The first one is, he was commenting on Hollywood, and this was a while back. He said, today they're making pictures that I wouldn't want Trigger to see. And then I also love this other one. Until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you. And I better explain for some of you that Trigger was Roy Rogers' horse. I'm going to ask Lorne Levy if he knew that Trigger was Roy Rogers' horse. Lorne Levy, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 01 :
Hey, good morning, Kim. And yes, I did. And yes, I'm old.
SPEAKER 10 :
That was not part of it. But I think you're right. I was thinking when I mentioned Trigger, I thought, I wonder if producer Joe and producer Luke, who are just, they both just turned 27, I think. I wonder if they knew that. But I was thinking about inflation and interest rates. And so where are we at this week?
SPEAKER 01 :
Right now we're in, you know, we talk about all the time, we're in this... I don't know if in this period of time where things are just kind of moving up and down ever so slightly. So we've seen a little bit of pullback in the 10-year treasury in the last few days, which has helped rates come down. You know, we're still with a handle on the six in front of it right now. People are looking for home loans, which is great because we know, you know, with Karen and everything, the inventory is up. Anyone driving around should be seeing more signs now, which is great. More choice for buyers. and there is still competition out there. There are people that are having to make, you know, multiple bids, and so the market is, you know, it's happening. There's transactions happening. There's more inventory, and so things are moving along, and that's because we're in the heart of the spring season right now, you know?
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, and so getting pre-qualified is super important, yes?
SPEAKER 01 :
Yes, absolutely, especially if you may be finding yourself in a position where you might have to you know get into some sort of a multiple multiple bid situation you need to know what what you can afford and what that payment would look like and um and definitely stay on top of it
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, and you could probably use this as a negotiation tool as well on a particular house as well. So let's see. I'm just thinking of a scenario. Let's say that there's a house that has been on the market for a little while, and it's probably because it came on the market maybe overpriced or didn't understand market conditions. If you're pre-qualified and you know what you can – pay, you might be able to kind of use that as a negotiating tool. Yes, no, or what do you think?
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One of the things that we make sure we do is, and I talk about this with people all the time, people always ask me what they can qualify for. And we kind of reverse engineer that into what kind of payment do they want to have? Because a lot of times people can qualify for more than what they want to spend on their mortgage. Because of the fact that a mortgage qualification does not take into effect like groceries or we don't necessarily care about your utility bills, we're only using the items that are on your credit report. So most people can qualify for more of a mortgage payment than they want to make. So when we give them a pre-qualification letter, we don't give it to them until they're making an offer on a home so that it's tailored to that offer so that they have leverage when they go talk to a seller. The seller doesn't know exactly how much they're qualified for because it's usually more. And so we want to protect our buyers, but we also want to make sure that they can, that it's a payment they can manage and they can afford when they add in all their other bills that they're going to have along with the mortgage.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay. Okay. So with the market and more houses on the market, is that affecting the reverse mortgage arena at all?
SPEAKER 01 :
No, it's not. What affects the reverse mortgage arena is if rates were to come down and the rates that are affecting the mortgage would come down, people would qualify for more money in a reverse. And we're not seeing too much of that, maybe a little bit. But the fact that there's more homes moving, the only way that would really help reverse mortgages or affect them is what price these homes sell for because reverse mortgages are based primarily on the appraisal of the home. So the more values hold up, the more values go up, the better it is for people looking for a reverse versus if values were to come down for some reason, then they wouldn't have access to as much funds. So we like to see that homes are moving and that they're not having to drop prices when it comes to helping people looking for reverses.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay. Well, and Lauren, I love the fact regarding everything mortgages. You can help people in all states, just not New York. And then you also work with a variety of different companies. So there's a variety of different products. You're just not locked in with one particular company. And so I love the fact that you have all these choices for people.
SPEAKER 01 :
Yeah, and it's not easy all the time because we're trying to find the best deal at the best rate at the best experience for people at the same time. But it is always worth the phone call. We're always going to try to point you in the best and right direction. And so whether it be for a home equity line or for a reverse mortgage or we just helped a lady yesterday that refinanced. Actually, her rate on her home went up, but she was having some issues with a pretty heavy car payment. at a high rate and a couple of credit cards that are in the 20s. And so overall, we saved her hundreds of dollars yesterday in her life. She couldn't have been happier, almost in tears, because now she can handle everything. So even refinances are an opportunity right now for certain people that need help.
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Okay. Well, how can people reach you, Lorne Levy?
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The best way is always just give a call, 303-880-8881.
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For Everything Mortgages, that's Lorne Levy, 303-880-8881. Lorne, we'll talk to you next week.
SPEAKER 01 :
Okay. Thank you so much, Kim.
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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. 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, shouldn't have to force people to do it. And I wanted to say thank you to the Harris family, my good friend Susan Harris and her family for their goal sponsorship of the show. It is Wednesday. And so that means it's a Trent Luce Wednesday. Trent Luce, sixth-generation farmer and rancher, welcome.
SPEAKER 07 :
Hi, Kim. Glad to be here.
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Joe said that I need to ask you about Roy Rogers' horse, Trigger.
SPEAKER 07 :
I actually saw Trigger. In real life? Yes, in real life.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, so does that make you old?
SPEAKER 07 :
So maybe you don't know the rest of the story, but when Roy Rogers, when Traeger, I think he was like 35 years old or something, he had him stuffed and the horse still exists. And as well as buttermilk, which was Dale Evans' horse, and Bullet, the dog, And Patrick Gotch, in his infinite wisdom, the founder of RFD TV, purchased that trio, I think, for $250,000. And then they put them on display at their – they had a little museum, RFD museum or theater, RFD theater – in Branson, Missouri, and one day I was down there on a radio deal, and, yeah, I stood there with Trigger.
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Did you get your picture taken?
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And he doesn't eat. You know, I was there 20 years ago, and we didn't pack around digital cameras like we do today. So, no, I don't think I did.
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Okay, okay.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, that's interesting you're talking about Trigger. He doesn't eat as much as he used to. He's on a diet.
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Yeah, true that. Well, I pulled two quotes from Roy Rogers, which I loved. And the first one was because we're going to be talking about some horse enthusiasts here in the last segment. And I loved both of these quotes. The first was, today they're making pictures I wouldn't want Trigger to see. And the other is, until we meet again, may the Lord take a liking to you. I loved those quotes. But first thing, Trent Luce, what happened in your life this week? Because there's so much going on out there in our world.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, I'll start with the great news. I went to a high school, spoke Monday, York High School, a couple of ag groups. And you'll remember a month or so, a month and a half ago maybe, I was in Marcus, Iowa. At another high school, I spoke there as well, and I'm talking about those two high schools because there are people within the school systems, the York High School, the Ag Department, Jason Hirschfeld and Rachel Stare, two ag teachers, and Marcus Iowa, Matt Hanson, Nick Long are two industrial technology teachers. And these two schools are doing what students need to have done today, which is teaching them skills to prepare themselves for life. And so it's a real upbeat experience at York High School. And this all started in 2014 when they farrowed a sow in the ag shop. Well, actually, go back to that. They bred the sow, artificially inseminated the sow in the ag class. And then they farrowed that sow. Interesting story. York County is the number one irrigated county in the state or in the nation. There's more irrigated acres and water used in York County, Nebraska than any irrigation county in the nation. And so I say that because it's a very agricultural county. And yet when this guilt started farrowing at a basketball game, the first home basketball game of January 2015, the the announcer of the game mistakenly said, oh, I've just been informed that there's a sow farrowing in the ag shop.
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The entire basketball stadium exited.
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They all went to the ag shop to see the sow that was giving birth to these pigs, which was pretty funny. But Jason Hirshfield and at the end, Cal Williams, who was ag advisor as well at that time, They saw that there was a real opportunity here for kids in the classroom. And now every single kid in the Ag Department of York High School, which I believe is right at 150, has an animal in that shop that they have to take care of before they go home from school every day.
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You know, that teaching responsibility is so important. And that's one of the things kids in the city don't have. You have to work a little harder to make sure that your kids are having to learn responsibility. But I've heard different employers say, say that that many times they will look for kids from agricultural areas when they are looking for employees because they know that many of these kids have learned responsibility they've learned work ethic and i'd also talked to an employer that said that there are some kids that apply for a job that have graduated from college and they've never had a job they haven't had a lawn mowing job They have not had a job. My mother said to me when I was, I think I was 13. Of course, I'd done babysitting and I'd helped work. Now, we only had crops, but I wouldn't help my dad out on the farm. But she said, okay, you're going to get a job. My first job was, I think I was 13. maybe I was 14, at Daylight Donut and Chicken Inn. And she said, you need to learn how to make change and work with people. And it was a great job. And so kids need to work, I think. And I love that. I love that whole story, Trent.
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Yeah. And the other interesting thing about York High School is that even though it's a very agricultural community and county, Only 20% of the kids in the entire ag department live on a farm. 80% are kids that have zero exposure to farm and work ethic. And in many cases, we have to believe that these are kids that come from challenged home lives. And so the sense of accomplishment and the sense of responsibility, I assure you, Kim, there is no better education than that entire system. than what those kids are getting in that egg shop with those animals. And those animals include chickens, quail, snakes, mice, rats, you name an exotic animal, rabbits, a tremendous amount of rabbits. It's a very varied group. And the big hit this week was there was a unique cat, and Jason told me what the name of the cat was, that had kittens. And so there's just so many things happening there, and the kids – are not only just providing daily care. Jason said we make a point of making sure the kids are involved in the normal worming process and all of the things that you do that typically don't get a lot of attention but are key to the future of this whole process.
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I think that's awesome. Meanwhile, Trent, you're in Nebraska. Out here in Colorado, there is a big rally today. This legislative session is just about over, and there's so many pieces of legislation. A lot of it's under the radar. People are not aware of it. This one's getting a lot of attention. national attention and it's house bill 25 13 12 and protect kids colorado and colorado parents advocacy network will be having a rally at 10 30 down at the state house i'm headed down to that this particular bill uh trent if you i think we can't remember we talked about it or not but but it basically does several things but one of them is if a family if parents do not affirm a child's gender confusion or gender delusion, which has been fomented at many of these schools, then Child Protection Services could take your child from you. That's right here in the United States of America. And if, in fact, you as a person do not affirm someone's gender confusion or delusion, that could be considered discriminatory. And Colorado used to be a wonderful state. We're crime-ridden. It's crazyville down there. And we are working to reclaim this state. But this is totally different out here in Colorado from York, Nebraska.
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Yeah, this is an atrocity. I mean, what is fixing to take place, and hopefully this rally makes a difference. And it does because, you know, we have another success story. We talked about the mods. We'll get to that. And that's happened because of people coming together and uniting and getting one voice magnified to the tune of 1,000. And you can make the same thing happen. But how we continue to commoditize these kids is just mind-boggling to me. That these kids are somehow just game for our, our prey for our games to be played by human beings and adults. I don't understand it.
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I don't either. And Eric sent a text in, and this is interesting. He's such a strategic thinker. And he said, Kim, to you and Trent, one would think that the Broncos, the Nuggets, the Rockies, and the Avalanche in full force would have reached out to me or someone about what these radical extremist Democrats are doing to our kids. But we hear crickets. And I think that's a really interesting point that he brings up, Trent.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, absolutely. And I'm continually perplexed by what gets attention, what doesn't get attention. Where is there a distraction? Clearly, there are distractions away from what is taking place here.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yes, and there's so many distractions. And that's why what you're doing, what we're doing, shedding light on this to try to get through all this chaos and confusion is really important. So we'll continue the discussion when we come back. I'm talking with sixth-generation farmer and rancher Trent Luce. You can find him at Luce Tales Media. That's L-O-O-S, Tales Media. And he's on Beck TV as well. And these are really important discussions. And not only are our children under attack, But also under attack is our Second Amendment, and that's why I'm very pleased to have the Second Syndicate as a new sponsor.
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I miss me.
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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. 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. And we were just talking about instilling work ethic and values and in our next generation. And that is one of the things that is the focus of the Center for American Values, focusing on these values of honor, integrity, and patriotism. And they're located in Pueblo, Colorado. And I love their beautiful portraits of valor honoring our Medal of Honor recipients. And so you really need to put on your bucket list to get down there. And that website is AmericanValueCenter.org, AmericanValueCenter.org. Coming in on the text line, this is from Jenny. She's wondering, apparently Bill Gates owns a bunch of land in Nebraska. Does he own land around York, Nebraska?
SPEAKER 07 :
No, he does not. He owns land within 30 miles, no, about 50 miles of my house in Howard County. And then the rest of his land is mostly in north central. Holt County is where a lot of it's concentrated. That would be O'Neill. And I am told by folks in O'Neill over to the northeastern corner of Nebraska, he's got a standing offer to buy any farmland that comes up.
SPEAKER 17 :
Wow.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay. Wow. So next thing, this came in from Susan. She said kids do need to work more and spend less time in school. And it doesn't take that long to learn reading, writing, and math. And... What we're finding, again, is there's only a certain amount of school time available, and the fact that they're pushing these agendas. I did a Zoom meeting that Ben Williams had put together, and he lives out in Bennett. And Linda White with Grandparents for Kids had done a little bit of research, and she only 18% of the kids were proficient, and I think it was math, in that school district. And my gosh, I think that we should all be, and Bennett's not alone. This is happening in lots of different school districts in Colorado, and even the best, hardly anybody is at 50% of kids being proficient in reading, writing, and arithmetic. I think we need to get our money back, or what's going on in these classrooms today? if kids are not learning how to read and write and do arithmetic. So focus on that. And then I agree with Susan as well that kids need to be working a lot more. I don't think a little work never killed anybody, right?
SPEAKER 07 :
They're not teaching the kids. And this is not a reflection of the teachers. This is a reflection of the system that they've been put in. They're asking these kids to memorize things for tests. in order to achieve what they need for standards, and that's not working either because I don't understand this, Kim. It doesn't matter what state I'm in, where I go, how much money they spend to educate the kids. They're still in the bottom third of their proficiency. It's like where are the kids in the top third? Why is every school that I'm aware of in the bottom one-third? And to bring this on home, it's bad enough that we're talking about that we are not proficient properly educating our nation's youth in these public schools we're spending more money we're physical financially breaking creating bankruptcies for farm and ranch families and business owners and real estate property or excuse me residential property to fund these schools that are not educating our kids this is not just a one-prong approach that we're not getting it done We're spending more money than people can continue to afford to put into these school systems and yet not preparing them for the future. This is a double-edged sword that needs to be fixed.
SPEAKER 10 :
And you really have nailed that. And so that's a great segue into our next subject. And first of all, this was a headline. Colorado lawmakers warn financial woes are just beginning as Governor Jared Polis signs $44 billion budget. So this budget has grown significantly. We're spending money on things that are not the proper role of government. So they are going after, they're raiding cash funds. We see that as we're looking at bills through the Colorado Union of Taxpayers. And, of course, they're going to go to the people. And Jim May had called, I talked with him, and then a text message that they're changing the ag designation order. on um it sounds like possibly on property taxes we're still trying to unpack this a bit But first of all, I really think that we need to be treating everything equally. And I think we need to have low taxes. So ideally, I'd like to have taxes just lowered across the board. But until that time, there had been, I guess, with an ag designation, the property taxes were at a different percentage, I think. And it sounds like they may be changing that. And you and I have talked about it, the inputs. for the fuel and the fertilizer and all that goes into raising our crops and feeding our livestock is so significant for our farmers and ranchers. This looks like this is another attack upon them, but what do you think?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, I know that Jim had called in last week with that very topic, and so I've been working on that. In fact, my rollout radio program on Friday is going to be with Robert Farnham from Brush, Colorado, who has been on the tax commission for the past four years, and he just got off. He's just off the tax commission, actually appointed by Governor Polis to do that. And we talked about this and what Jim brought up, and Robert said that's a direct violation of state statute. No county can do that. If they do that, if they're doing that, they are rogue and need to be reined in. And he said the bigger problem, and this is equal to what we're talking about here, is that you have large tracts of land. And apparently at Walden, a 55,000-acre tract sold to somebody that lives in New York recently, they removed all livestock from it. and they're going to have it simply as a wildlife refuge. And so then the question comes, are they still getting a tax exemption for agricultural land if it's a wildlife refuge? Because that affects the local land base, that affects the tax base of the county, and that's a direct violation. And so what has happened, according to Robert, and again, we're going to go into greater detail about this Friday, But what has happened is that the state and the county is supposed to be sending out verification that you still have livestock on property that you have purchased in order that you may be exempt with the agricultural exemption that takes place. According to Robert, there is nothing that says anybody should be targeted as a commercial property if you have livestock on that property.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay, so I guess this is going to be a stay tuned. We're going to need to do more research to understand what might be going on here.
SPEAKER 07 :
I do understand what's going on in one respect, Kim, and it's not part of this, but it's a follow-up to this. In every state, every state that I'm in, and every county assessor that I talk to, they are told they have fewer and fewer decisions, and they are being told what to do. In fact, I talked to somebody this week, York, it was in York County, a 24% increase in valuations. We continue to have whoever this central assessing is sending out, take the assessments to a sky-high level, and if you drive the assessment, I don't care what your ag exemptions are at some point, When you have all these evaluations that continue to just go up by 7%, by 12%, by 15%, at some point in time, you break the ability of the people to pay the tax to own that. You're paying a rent on property you already own. The rent happens to be to the government. You don't own it if you have to pay $1,000 a month to rent it. This has got to be fixed.
SPEAKER 10 :
It does have to be fixed. And owning your property, whether or not it's tangible or intangible property, is one of the founding principles of the American idea. And this was radical, that everyday people... would be able to own their own property. And what would happen? Well, America happened, where we had this big, amazing middle class, this American dream, the place that people, well, used to want to come for their American dream until we had all this illegal immigration. But, um, maybe some of those people were coming for the American dream, but a lot of them were coming for free stuff. And some of them, I think were coming to hurt us. And some of them, uh, and then of course, I, I think there was obviously a real strategy with that regarding elections as well, but we, um, we'll use that for for a different day but um and and what happens what what's the word uh i'm setting you up here trent what is the word when uh the fruits of someone's labor uh the things that they work for is taken by someone else that when somebody is starting to have to work for someone else really under force because their their property is taken by force what's the word for that
SPEAKER 07 :
Capitalism?
SPEAKER 10 :
No, slavery.
SPEAKER 07 :
If you're going to tell me you're going to set me up, I'm not walking into a trap. I'm just going to run the other way and pretend I don't know what you're doing.
SPEAKER 10 :
It's servitude. It is servitude. And so with our young people, many of them, one of the things they have been taught in school is that capitalism is just greedy people trying to take advantage of others. Capitalism is actually the free exchange of value for value. Cronyism is when government and big business get in bed with each other and then they use the law to their advantage. But so many of these kids have been taught that capitalist private enterprise is greedy. But I bring up the point now, again, here in Colorado, we have what's called Colorado's Taxpayers Bill of Rights. It was passed by the people in the Constitution, 1992, that says, hey, PBIs, politicians, bureaucrats, and interested parties, if you want to raise our taxes, you have to get our permission. If you want to keep excess revenue above a very generous formula of population growth plus inflation, you just have to ask us. If you're going to incur debt that we're going to have to pay off, you just have to ask us. But I think one of the greediest things is what the Democrats are proposing right now, and that is a lawsuit to try to ask that Tabor, Colorado's taxpayer bill of rights, be unconstitutional. So I think the greediest thing is they want it all, Trent Luce. And I think that we need to make sure people understand that.
SPEAKER 07 :
As you know, I addressed the Tabor issue as well, because this is a direct violation of an agreement between government entity and the state of Colorado, the taxpayers who own the government. And yet the government is just basically flipping off the taxpayers saying, we don't care what you said or did or what our agreement might have been. We're going to do what we want. That needs to be accountable.
SPEAKER 10 :
Absolutely. And then one other thing, Jenny mentioned this, and again, open space. I used to love that idea, but I realize now that open space is taking land and it's not paying taxes on that. And maybe we'll talk about that next week because we've got a cool segment coming up here, Trent. with a couple of horse enthusiasts that are concerned about something that's going on up in Boulder County. So let's go to break, and when we come back, we will continue the discussion with Trent Luce, and we'll also find out what's going on in Boulder County. These discussions happen because of Bozen Law. If you've been injured, be sure to reach out to them.
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SPEAKER 14 :
And it's a great day to be.
SPEAKER 10 :
It is a great day to be alive and a very important subject that we have for this particular segment. We're going to talk with Cindy Johnson and Carson Sander Farrakhan about something happening up in Boulder County. But they have a song that really explains it. So I thought, let's play it. So go ahead and hit it, Joe.
SPEAKER 15 :
Out in Boulder County Where the foothills rise There's a place where dreams ran wild Beneath the open skies But now the arena's empty And the gates are closed The sound of hoofbeats silenced Where the cool wind There was hay dust in the sunlight, kids learning to ride, neighbors sharing stories by the old rail side. Now the echoes linger where we laugh and play. The commissioner's ruling took it all away. No place to roam. Where the saddle felt like freedom. Now I'm far from home. They've taken what was ours. Left a hollow field. And we're all left wondering how to mend. I can still hear the wind, the strong, steady steps Of horses that taught us life's most sincere depths But now the barn grows quiet, just a shell of before No reins to hold, no trails to explore The folks in the county, they tried to speak their minds. But words can't always fight the ticking hand of time. They said the cost too heavy, the space too small. But the value of tradition doesn't show at all. No place to roam Where the saddle felt like freedom Now I'm far from home They've taken what was ours Left a hollow field And we're all left wondering
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay, that pretty well sets this up for what is going on up here. Pleased to have on the show Cindy Johnson. She's a longtime horse enthusiast, backyard horse owner. She's been with people of all ages, especially kids for decades, with their overall horsemanship skills. Cindy, welcome to the show. Hi. Hi. Good to have you. And also on the other line is Carson Sander Farrakane, and he's a horse trainer and farrier based out of Boulder, and he provides quality service for his clients and adequately supports the needs of their equine counterparts however he best can see fit. Carson, welcome.
SPEAKER 20 :
Good morning. Thanks for having us on.
SPEAKER 10 :
Good to have you. So, Cindy, this pretty well set this up, and you're really concerned about it. So tell us a little bit more. And there's going to be a meeting tomorrow, right?
SPEAKER 11 :
Yes. There'll be a meeting tomorrow on Thursday at 9 a.m. at the Boulder County Courthouse, 1325 Pearl Street, to address our concerns to the commissioners. But we're here to talk today about the kids and adults losing access to the one and only public indoor riding arena in Boulder County during the winter months. that has been historically used for over 30 years. And I might add that has been generously provided by our taxpayers. But currently it sits vacant three days a week in the winter time. And perhaps they have a valid reason, but they will not share it with us. We would like to request an audience with them to keep the vacancy rate to a minimum while offsetting taxpayer funded management costs to prepare the arena.
SPEAKER 10 :
So, Carson, how did you, you know, why are you involved in this issue? Why do you think this is important?
SPEAKER 20 :
So, I, like Cindy, I was a patron of the indoor arena on Wednesdays for their open ride. I'd also grown up using the arena. You know, the agricultural education component is a big thing for me. And growing up, you know, being a part of organizations that worked out of the fairgrounds, I had spent a lot of my summers taking horses. I had trained there. And then once I had graduated from those organizations, taking horses that were part of my own business there while I didn't have access to safe footing in the winter months. So, yeah, I'm just trying to help everybody gain historic use back of the arena there.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay. And so, Cindy, this is sitting vacant. They just made this decision that, oh, no, there's no more riding, huh?
SPEAKER 11 :
Correct. We just want to stress the importance of maintaining access to the indoor riding arena between the months of November and April. This availability is critical for the welfare of both horses and riders during Colorado's winter season. For example, consistent training, exercise, and safe conditions are essential for our equine health And rider safety and the continuity of educational youth programs, like Carson said, loss of access during these months can jeopardize our animals' well-being, and they can disrupt longstanding programs vital to the community. So without adequate indoor access during winter months, our horses are at risk.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, it seems like that there are those. Sometimes I think about Boulder County. I was going to make an editorial comment. I'm not going to do that. So, Cindy, just kind of your final thought. Carson, your final thought on what you want to have people do, and then we'll have Trent Luce weigh in on this.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay. We're just suggesting providing equitable outcomes for all Boulder County residents, including the fairground staff, workers, to develop constructive options that might help with profitability and usage. And I want one more point. Given all the people who have shown up to the seven meetings in the past nine months to visit about this in opposition to the closure of the indoor arena, naturally they deserve as constituents to be heard and respected. And we want to create an outcome that makes economic sense, one that provides value to everyone, a win-win. And right now we are just not feeling welcome at our beloved indoor arena where we love to gather, ride, laugh, and play. So we just want to talk to them.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, I think win-win is always a good goal. Carson, and thank you, Cindy Johnson, for bringing this attention. And I love the song as well. And Carson, your final thought.
SPEAKER 20 :
Yeah, so kind of like what Cindy was saying, if this really does come down to a budgetary concern, how can we lower operational costs of the arena? How can we move to, say, more volunteer-based scenario on how to run the operations of the arena? I know even our local ag ed chapter through the school district, you come out of high school usually with a 10-hour OSHA certification program, If that means that, you know, we could have younger kids operating machinery, say that we're, like I said, of legal age but also certified, I think that's a way for people to gain service hours. It seems like, again, that win-win we were kind of talking about. So I feel like maybe there are other ways than spending so much on an arena. That really is the concern with the county employees. Yeah.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay. Okay. Well, Cindy and Carson, keep us in the loop on that. Cindy Johnson, thank you. And Carson Sander-Faircane, thank you. Let's stay on this. Really do appreciate it. And I, of course, love the idea of getting creative and giving these kids opportunities on ways to work. Trent Luce, we've got about a minute left. Your thoughts on this issue? Hopefully we're going to get over to that. I know that Joe is trying to juggle several different phone lines. Okay, there we go. Your final thought on this.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, they shared the most key part of that whole story. By the way, I love the song. But it's a taxpayer-funded arena that the taxpayers are not able to use now. Somebody's got to explain this, and it needs to be a lot of people show up to say, We demand accountability. Most importantly, we want our kids to be able to access Serena. This is what it's about.
SPEAKER 10 :
Absolutely. And there is a meeting tomorrow, May 1st, 9 a.m. at the Boulder County Courthouse, 1325 Pearl Street. And also you can let your voices be heard by going to commissioners at bouldercounty.gov. So Trent Luce, always interesting. We'll do this again next week.
SPEAKER 07 :
I hope so. We'll have something fun again next week.
SPEAKER 10 :
I like the song as well. Very well done. And our quote for the end of the show is James Madison. He said, Our Constitution represents the work of the finger of Almighty God. 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, and God bless America.
SPEAKER 14 :
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SPEAKER 21 :
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SPEAKER 07 :
welcome to the good news with angie austin now with the good news here's angie angie austin here with the good news along with scott montgomery and we're talking about his book how did you get here lessons of unconventional success he also runs a successful business and we're going to talk today about being present showing up and also you know giving back to the next generation helping to teach these younger kids welcome back scott
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, thank you. Thank you. It's great to be back, and I love our conversations. I hope the audience is finding them beneficial. We've got a lot to share, right?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. You were talking about your own son. He just finished his first year of school along with mine as well. I think his last final is today. And so you were talking about giving back to him but showing up and how you have more success in front of your customers than behind an e-mail.
SPEAKER 04 :
You know, it's so true. Today I had a staff meeting. We had our quarterly business review from the first quarter with all the leaders of my team, and I invited my son and a few other folks that could benefit from seeing and being aware of what topics are covered and what we go over. And all of the folks that are on my team that we're client-facing had progressive conversations. And the thing that I think we called out most is that in those conversations, parts of the QBR that we're going over, they're in front of the customer. The partnering and being available to your customers is not done in email and it's not done over the phone. It's done in person, believe it or not. And it's so important for in a business like mine where we consult school districts and we're helping IT organizations as well as the businesses that our children are going to graduate college from to go into, being present and available in person is really a theme for today because It's where we're finding the most success and the most authenticity in growth, leadership, and opportunity. And so I thought, yeah, let's talk about that today because we've watched customers of ours sort of slip and fade away, and we start showing back up and saying, geez, it's been a couple weeks since I've been here. When we show back up, oh, well, let me send more money your way. Let's get some more help from you, and let's integrate you into our team, and let's make sure we're working as a collective in partnership. Then you are being treated as a vendor and hoping to sell something. And I think it's really important that we talk about that as it relates to your son's business too. Let's talk a little bit about what he's doing with that shirt business of his.
SPEAKER 07 :
You know, his business name is Legend Vintage, and he started when he was 12. He's 19 now, almost 20, so we're going seven to eight years into this business now. And he got such a nice post on social media. I read it, and I even thanked the people. I don't know them per se, but I said thank you for what you wrote on my – on my son's Instagram page. And it says it showed a picture of my son's store at sneaker con with all of his vintage because he started with sneakers, like reselling high end Nikes, etc. And we never bought a pair for him because you know, these these shoes are sometimes over a grand. And so you know, you're spending at least two or 300 on a pair and then They go up in price and more than that in some cases. And we didn't want to spend that much money to start his business. We're like, we're not buying you two $300 sneakers. You have to figure out how to do that on your own. So he started making money and using birthday money, Christmas money, and then making his own money. and reinvesting and then he got into this vintage thrift so now he's got this mobile store and he posted a picture of it and he ran into some people he's been in business with for a while and they couldn't believe he had such a nice store with like flooring and wood cedar ceiling and lights and music and fans and heating and you know it's really nice so anyway it says i gotta give kudos and flowers to legend vintage once again i've watched riley hustle during his lunch breaks at school to get to every possible event to grow his brand you know brother um super proud of everything you've built at such a young age your future is big And so I wrote to them and said that these are other business people that are adults because most of the people he's done business with since he was 12. Well, they've been adults, you know, so a lot of grownups have known him. And so they are really proud of him. A lot of them, they'll come up and talk to me and be like, I've seen your son and these events, you know, he does. They're so labor intensive when he doesn't have that that trailer store, which they just built. He has to load everything up in an SUV or truck, every single cart and really heavy leather jackets and NASCAR jackets and sweatshirts. And we're talking like maybe eight racks full of clothing. Well, that's hundreds of pounds of clothing that he has to drive up there. He has to first load it all up at our house. And then he's got to drive to Boulder an hour away and unload and build all the racks, haul all the clothing by himself. sell all day long. He never sits. He stands the entire eight hours that he's at any event. And then he loads everything back up by himself, then brings it back home. And he has to unload it to leave us our vehicle and then take his car back to school. So they're good 12 to 14 hour days when he does these events. And he's done multiple events this month while he's been in school. And And he's going to business school. And he has another job at Arc Thrift Stores where he works a few days a week, which, by the way, here's my really cool update on all of this. So he had multiple events this month. And I've known the president and CEO of Arc Thrift Stores for many years. And what they do is they help people with cognitive deficits like Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, et cetera, find work. When he first started at ARC, there were only five ambassadors. I believe they have well over 500 now of differently abled ambassadors. So it's a huge nonprofit that helps people who are differently abled seek and find work that really fits their gifts. And really, their gifts are amazing because there's such a joy in this organization because of the ambassadors. So anyway, my son works there, and he gets to work with ambassadors, and he's, through the years of working with me, because I work with, you know, I do work with ARC, that he's gotten to know the ambassadors and really has an affinity for kids who are young people that are, you know, different. And he loves it. He loves the ambassadors. Anyway, he asked the president and CEO if he could meet with him because he wanted to ask him about maybe doing some shadowing, because my... A friend that is the president, CEO, Lloyd Lewis, went to Booth School of Business, the Booth School, University of Chicago, and it's always in the top five of business schools, sometimes number one. And some of the big mucky mucks in the business world, that's where they went. And so, to make a long story short, He met with him on Monday, and he got hired for an internship with the president and CEO to learn about finance. And he kept him over that day to do the quarterly meeting on their financials. And Riley knows a lot of the business terms and the financial terms, and he was going over the P&Ls. And he's like, Mom, this is how much it costs to open a store, and this is how much to give back to the community. And he's just blown away that he's getting this opportunity. So it's Monday through Friday all summer long for four hours a day. He's thrilled.
SPEAKER 04 :
That's great news, and I'd like to go back to what you said about his work ethic and how he sets up the trailer, and then he's on his feet all day. The two things that I wanted to really point out on that that I thought were really commendable is he's clearly following the right habits and setting the goals high, but he's also, back to the original opener for me, he's being present to his customers. He's on his feet all day, and he's interacting with them like he is this new internship and those at the arc that need his mentoring and his mentorship. And it's really important that people stay in relationship and they be present and in the moment, not stuck behind their phones, not hiding behind email, and certainly setting yourself up for those successes, following right habits, setting those goals. But I really love what you're talking about because it's about interactive behaviors and being in the moment physically. It's so important in so many different businesses.
SPEAKER 07 :
You know, when you said that your business does better when you're in front of the customers, I think back to his first job. It was at 15, and he worked at a Christian farm, and they did the Cherry Creek Farmer's Market. And the guy told Riley that he was, like, doubling and tripling their sales from the prior year because when you walk by these booths at the Farmer's Market, people are on their phone reading a book. They're not really engaging you. And you kind of just want to walk by and, you know, not interact with them. But Riley, he never sits. He stands. And he's like, hey, I see you on your bike there. I'll bet you could use a boost of energy. I've got fresh honey over here. Let me get you a sample. Yeah, brother. You're riding that bike. You're out of breath. Come on. Let me give you a little boost over here. I hear that. Yeah. One guy put a tip in the tip jar because there were tips for, like, the kids. And he said, I'm putting a 10 in here.
SPEAKER 04 :
You get paid 100 results.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, he goes, I'm putting a $10 in here. I'm not even buying anything. Because he's like, you are the best salesman at the market.
SPEAKER 04 :
I love it. Well, and it's not even about salesman. It's about the holistic opportunity of partnering with the customer, seeing what needs to be done to fulfill. And you're there for a reason. So you can satisfy your goals, their goals, meet your objectives. And it all is so satisfying and so much more rewarding than just the transaction of an email or the transaction behind the scenes on the Internet. And I think for me, in what I wrote about and in my How You Go There workbook that's a companion guide to the How Did You Get Your Lessons of Professional Success, it's about following those exercises and then tracking those results. I have found in my business, my full-time business, you're talking about your son and his successes, there's always a better result if you can be present and in person. And Zoom does count, I guess, when there's certain times, but Just really, really wanted to use that as today's theme because I think so many people miss that. And as my son comes home from college, he's actually in the office today, and he's crafting up introductory emails. And I said, when you get any responses to those, you can rest assured you're going to be on a plane to go meet with that customer. There's our investment. Just like your son. Hey, I see you on the bike over there. Come over here and get some honey because you clearly need to be recharged. You still have to set the email. You still have to set up the tent. You still have to set up the trailer. But once you're there, be present and be with those customers. Such an important aspect of leadership and development and growth for the next generation.
SPEAKER 07 :
And when you said show up, you know, in that face-to-face interaction, et cetera, I put more into that. Showing up for me is not just like punching the clock that you are there. I remember when I was in high school and I worked at – Boulder Community Hospital. I went to school in Boulder and then went to CU. And when I went to high school and then went to CU. So I was there, I think, for seven years. And the sweet little old ladies, they figured out that if you punched out at seven minutes until the top of the hour, you'd get paid the full 15 minutes. But if you punched out eight minutes before the top of the hour, you would not get paid for that full 15 minutes because it was every 15 minutes you got paid. Not how you want to do it. They would be lined up at the, you know, to punch their time card right at the, just lined up, you know, and you stick it in and it punches the time. And so they'd want to do seven minutes before the hour, not eight minutes before the hour. And they would wait until that second. And then they'd all, you know, rush the time clock, you know, like click and then do it. It just made me laugh because, yes, and don't get me wrong. These are all really great ladies. That's not showing up. No, showing up is like actually doing a really good job to the best of your abilities every single day.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right. And not sitting on your phone at the tent where you're trying to sell stuff at the local market. It's actually engaging with the patrons. It's trying to be progressive. And it's a rewarding style and approach in any business, whether you're at a farmer's market, you're at a consulting firm, or you're you and I trying to spread what we've experienced to the next generation. It's really, really important stuff. I love it.
SPEAKER 07 :
I love it too and I'm just so excited to see our kids and for your son to be able to get a response and to fly and meet with the client and for my son to work with a financial whiz who's grown this company. They have over 30 stores in Colorado. And to see how the business is run and how they've grown it. And then, but also for it to be a nonprofit where I just saw Charles Barkley the other day saying the big cars and big houses don't matter. Like how much can I give back? How can I help change people's lives? You know, fund scholarships and make a difference. And our good friend Jim Stovall, who's written over 60 books now, that's his big thing. He opened the Stovall Center for Entrepreneurship at his alma mater. And it's just so cool to see people who get a sense of purpose for giving back. He said, every year when we do our scholarships, I ask for the one person, the next on the list who didn't get a scholarship. And I use that person to fuel me the whole next year because I want to be able to give more scholarships the next years. The next year, yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
That's really heartfelt. Yeah, that's heartfelt, big time. So important.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, yeah, making the money and the giving back. And so I like it that there's that added element of the nonprofit and working with people. All right, I want to make sure people can find you, Scott, and maybe your other business in addition to your books.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, thank you. Yeah, so you can find the consulting services firm. is www.WorldGateLLC.com, and we support staffing needs for the SLED markets, state, local education divisions. And my book and the companion guide can be easily found and purchased at HowYouGoThere.com.
SPEAKER 07 :
Excellent. Thank you, friend. Thank you.
SPEAKER 04 :
Thank you.
SPEAKER 01 :
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SPEAKER 07 :
Hey there, friend. Angie Austin and Jim Stovall here with the good news. And today we are talking about his winner's wisdom column titled Message from a Master. How fitting, Jim Stovall.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, thank you. I'm certainly not referring to myself. Late last year, I undertook a project that is completely unique in my 60 books and 9 movies so far. And I undertook to write a sequel of sorts to a John Steinbeck novel he wrote 60 years ago. Yeah, and it will be out next year, and I'm excited about it. But in the process of preparing myself to write that book, which is a little like going to the Louvre and looking at the Mona Lisa and saying, you know, I think Leonardo did a good job on that, but there should be one more thing over here. Let me pencil that in here. So I realize it's been an exercise in... egotism to write on top of Steinbeck and I've tried to do it and thankfully the Steinbeck family and the scholars and everybody have been so gracious and it's been a fun project and it'll be out next year but in the process of doing that I had an opportunity to read everything he wrote for publication and dozens and dozens of letters he wrote to Carl Sandburg and F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway and all these people that he corresponded with and So many, many things he said, and a lot of those quotes are included in the book that will be out next year. But he said the only thing that will escape criticism is mediocrity. Only mediocrity escapes criticism. If you're really, really bad, you'll be criticized. And if you're really, really good at something, you'll be criticized. And we have a tendency to want to avoid criticism. And the only way to do that is to be mediocre, and that is never a good course. And so what we have to do is prepare ourselves for criticism. And everybody that puts themselves out there in the public, whether it's you, Angie, or me, or John Steinbeck, you get criticized. I mean, it's an invitation. Everybody that can sit and listen to an hour of radio, or pick up one of my books, or watch one of my movies, They bought a ticket which entitles them to criticize me. They now have the invitation to criticize Jim. And I'm very thankful that 99% of all that we hear from readers or viewers is positive, as I know yours is. But you still get those things every once in a while where, wow, somebody doesn't have anything better to do than... then get on your case for something. And you have to be prepared for that. But if we can always remember that the price of not being mediocre means you're going to get criticized sometimes. And I think that's what Steinbeck told us, and it's important. And you have to divide that criticism from, is this a well-meaning person that really has a good point here? Or is Is this just somebody trying to get in your face and say something, you know?
SPEAKER 07 :
You know, it's interesting that in the article you talk about ice cream, and I'll have you explain that in a minute. But one of my colleagues who would always kind of try to cut the joke short when we were like on the set, when we were on the air, kind of like, um the the fathering or mothering you know the the fun we'd be having if we'd be joking around and she'd be like oh no no no no there's no time for that let's move on to serious matters or oh no that's not nice and we're like being sarcastic or laughing and everybody on the set's laughing and it would always be like you know the bad mom the bad dad that would come in and break up the party and she told me once she said um you know My agent told me that vanilla is the best way to be on the air because a lot of people maybe like pistachio or they may like chocolate, but everybody's okay with vanilla. So if you're vanilla, I'm just kind of like, you're not making the jokes. You're not straying. You're not doing anything weird with your hair. You're not going out on a limb with the colors you're wearing. You're very beige-ish. Then you'll receive less criticism. And I thought, gosh, I just don't have it in me to be beige. Like I like to laugh. I like to have fun, you know, have a giggle here and there. And I just can't imagine just like wanting to be vanilla so that I get less criticism or... I guess, to be honest with you, maybe she's smarter than I am in that fact that more employable, you know, that you'll rub people, fewer people the wrong way. Because I remember one of my general managers, like he hired me and the news director and liked me. But then his wife didn't like that I was funny. She didn't like that I tried to be funny. So then they came to me and said, we really want you if the anchors engage with you when you are doing the weather toss or whatever. And they say something funny or they want you to respond. I said, well, how do I not respond? Or how do I not be myself? And then the assistant news director said, well, just tell them you'll get back to them on that later. Okay, so he tossed this to me. It was really hot out there, Angie. Kind of like that guy you dated in the 90s. Ha! I'll get back to you on that later, Ed. It's like the dumbest thing I've ever heard, right? But they wanted to curb who I was. And I'm like, I think you're barking up the wrong tree. You should have hired someone else because this was within six months of them hiring me. And I'm like, but they liked my sense of humor. So what is this? And then I found out later when that guy was gone, the general manager was gone, his wife didn't like me. And every morning she'd say like, I'm so sick of her trying to be funny and make jokes, like tell her not to do that anymore. And so it really came from the general manager's wife, but I just can't be something I'm not in order to please those few people that can't stand me.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. And everybody's entitled to their opinion. Uh, I, I did say in this column that, uh, you know, I've met people that literally don't like chocolate ice cream. Well, I, all right. Um, everybody's entitled to their opinion. I, I, I think that's great. And, uh, You know, and it's just, you know, oftentimes criticism is nothing more than somebody's opinion. And we all have them. I mean, when I first got into the film business, I started studying all these films. And I have a small theater here at Narrative Television, just a viewing room. And I started screening films on the weekends with one of my colleagues. Since I'm blind, they could kind of help me through this. And You know, I started with the list of films, the greatest films of the 20th century. I said, okay, that'd be a place to start. And many critics agree the top film, or certainly one of the top films, is Citizen Kane. I watched it three times. I do not like that movie. I don't know what it is about that movie. I do not like it. And it doesn't mean it's not a great movie. I just don't like it. And... I would never openly criticize Orson Welles or the film itself. It's just not my cup of tea. And, you know, there's all kinds of those things. So, you know, we have to separate the criticism. Is this constructive criticism? Somebody trying to make us better? Or... Is this just somebody trying to rattle our cage? Because a lot of critics or people, nitpickers, will come by and try to rattle your cage. And if they can and you react, they'll just keep doing it. That's their payoff. But if you just don't let it bother you, they will go away and bother somebody else. So, you know, I think if you're not being criticized, you know, you really have to look at how mediocre am I? I mean... You know, because if you rise above the crowd or if you fall below the crowd, people are going to criticize you. And if you're not getting criticism, you're probably right there in the vanilla middle of the pack. I heard a great preacher say one time, if you're not coming in, running into opposition, you're probably going the wrong way. And I believe that's true. I mean, you know, if you're not constantly running into challenges and struggles... You're probably floating downstream and not doing anything.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, like how you say, as you go through your day to day, pay attention to your gifts and ignore the critics. And, you know, be the flavor you are really is what I say, because it's so hard to be a different flavor. You know, one of my girlfriends is on the radio and received a lot of criticism over the years for being kind of out there. Her dad said, well, it's like a parking lot of cars, and you're going in there to buy one. Some people like the yellow VW Bug, some like the Mercedes. I'm the yellow VW Bug, but that's not everybody's cup of tea, and that's okay. That's all right. Jim, I want to make sure people can find you. What's the best place for us to locate you?
SPEAKER 03 :
Jim Stovall, S-T-O-V-A-L-L, jimstovall.com.
SPEAKER 07 :
Excellent. Thank you, my friend.
SPEAKER 03 :
Be well.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, if you are just joining us, this is Angie Austin with the good news. Mother's Day just around the corner. And one of our favorites has some ideas for us. She is mom on the run, Colleen Burns, and a mom to six boys. And she definitely knows what makes a mom feel celebrated. Welcome back, Colleen.
SPEAKER 06 :
Great to be here. Thank you.
SPEAKER 07 :
Hey, I was just looking at DIY gifts for my mom because she's in her 80s and she likes to do things with her hands. I was looking for like crafts and things because she does that with me and with some of the grandkids. So any ideas in that arena?
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, yeah, that's a great area in which to look for Mother's Day gifts because it's more memorable if you can personalize things like cards, T-shirts, even water bottles. You can do that with this new Cricut Explore 4. If you're not familiar with Cricut, it is so easy. If you're a crafting person, you'll love it. If you're not a crafting person and you want to learn to craft, it couldn't be easier. It's now two times faster than the other machine. You can cut over 100 materials like vinyl, iron-on, or cardstock. It's a perfect gift to brighten the lives of the moms around you. You can upload and cut your designs or choose from over 1 million images and designs in the Cricut Design Space Library. I don't know if you know, but they have licensed with companies like Disney and Harry Potter and Marvel and recently just Peanuts. So if you want to make a shirt with your favorite characters, Design that. If you're going to Disney World and make your own Mickey Mouse shirts, you can do that. It's a lot cheaper than buying it at the park, obviously, and it's a great family project. One of my favorite projects is a self-care box. This is a great gift for yourself or for a friend who could use some pampering. You design the top of the box, make it personalized, and you fill it with cozy clothes, a candle or oil, beauty products. It's a great thing to open up when you want some alone time.
SPEAKER 07 :
I have seen these. They are so cool. I'm actually sending this to my girlfriend for an idea because she makes blankets for pets, you know, so she can personalize them. All right. Cool. Right. All right. How about I'm the mom that's always at all the tournaments and all the games and, you know, with the sore rear end sitting in the stands. Any ideas for us?
SPEAKER 06 :
Right. We're the ultimate cheerleaders, aren't we? Yes. The soccer pitch, the baseball field, the court side, the pickleball court, whatever it is. And why not be more comfortable? I've been seeing more of these GCI stowaway portable chairs at sporting events. And there's a good reason, because they actually rock. They're like a rocking chair with this unique patented technology. And believe me, sitting is believing. You're not going to find a more comfortable, portable chair. It's light. You can move it around. You can keep it in the back of your car or at home. You can stow it away in the off-season because it packs down so small. But it's light and it's very supportive. It's very comfortable. And for extra convenience, there's even a caddy you can put on either arm of the chair to store your water bottle and your phone. And if no one gets this for you for Mother's Day, buy it for yourself because you'll get plenty of use out of it.
SPEAKER 07 :
Awesome. Okay. All right. You know, there's just so many choices out there. I was just looking for my mother-in-law as well, what to get her, and it can be a little overwhelming. Any tips when you just really don't know what to get?
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, yeah, that's the key. I think moms fall into two camps, don't you? There's the mom who wants to spend her entire day with her kids, and then there's the mom who just wants a break. And neither one is the right answer, but if you can determine which one it is, you can then try to find a gift that will fit more with her needs. So if the mom wants to spend time with her family, you can look for a new park to explore. Buy her a book. I just found this book, 100 Parks, 5,000 Ideas. You can find a new trail to hike or bike, or you can buy a family game that you can all play together. If you're somebody, a mom who wants to be alone, well then put out a bathrobe and some bath salts and whatever. a lovely playlist on the speaker and then give that mom some space and some time. Another great idea is our gifts of service. I mean, I love those. One of my sons always helps me with the yard work every year and we're making memories while we do it. So it's like a twofer. Another one likes to make me a meal. So, Those are always great gifts, and moms do appreciate that when you take the time. You know, taking time is so important.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, I like that idea. I like that a lot. Okay. Thank you, Colleen. Where do we go to get more info? You can get more information at dailylounge.com. Always great to have you, Colleen. Thank you.
SPEAKER 02 :
Thank you for listening to The Good News with Angie Austin on AM670 KLTT.
Rick Hughes explains the significance of doctrinal orientation in The Flatline, emphasizing the importance of learning to think with a divine viewpoint. Delve into the disciplined study of the Word of God and its application in everyday life. Discover why understanding scripture accurately is vital, and how it reinforces personal growth while preparing believers to face spiritual adversities confidently. This episode offers insights that bridge personal faith with broader social and national implications.
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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 good morning and welcome to the flatline it's your host rick hughes every sunday same time same place thank you for tuning in you know the show is not about any sort of gimmicks no games not trying to hustle you for money It's just designed to give you accurate information, hopefully that will help you to verify as well as identify God's plan for your life. And my prayer always is, if you can do that, that you will orient and adjust to the plan. The Flatline, this radio show, is designed to remind you of all these biblical truths. and hopefully to introduce you to an in-depth way of studying and learning the Word of God. Again, no manipulation, no solicitation, just some education and some motivation. So it starts with the best news I could tell you today, and that is that Jesus Christ, the anointed Son of God, redeemed you and me out of the slave market of sin. He paid our debt, and we are free from the penalty of death and free from the power of sin. And if you or me, anyone who receives Christ as Savior, we are in effect accepting the offering he made on our behalf. Free gift from God, compliments of God, free, free, free. Ephesians 2, 8 and 9, for by grace are you saved through faith and that not of yourselves. It's the, and I'll put in the word free, it's the gift of God, not of works lest any man should boast. In Titus 3, 5 through 7, 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 on us abundantly. What that simply means is this. That when you are born, you are born spiritually a dead, but physically alive. You have a body and you have a soul at birth, but your spirit is dead. You're spiritually dead. And thus the reason is for by one man centered into the world and death by sin. And now death has passed on all for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. That's not referring to personal sins you commit. That's referring to your position in Adam. In Adam, all die. And so when you believe in Jesus Christ and are, quote, born again, as Jesus told Nicodemus in John chapter 3, this doesn't mean physical birth. It means a spiritual birth, that your human spirit is made alive again. Why? Because God the Holy Spirit indwelled your human spirit. And now you're indwelled by God the Holy Spirit and you are now, you have three parts to you. Trichotomous, you have a body and you have a soul and you have a living human spirit. When you depart this earth as a believer in Jesus Christ, the body goes back to dust, back to the ground. But your soul and your spirit ascend immediately to heaven. There you await your resurrection body, and what a wonderful time that will be. I don't know what it's going to be like, but the Bible gives us some hints about it. But we will get a resurrection body, and it'll be the body we live in forever. So if you learn these things and understand these things, it's a great confidence, great reward, great encouragement in your life. You know, last week I spoke about grace orientation, orienting to the grace of God in your life, beginning to see every day that every breath you take is gracious of the grace of God. Every breath you take compliments of the grace of God. The grace of God sustains us even when we fail in our lives. Even when we sin, he doesn't kill us. He doesn't take us out. He allows us to continue breathing. He allows us to continue to survive. God even provides all the logistics we need to make it. And so that's grace. Grace orientation means that not only do I understand the grace God provided me, but But in return, I'm able to multiply that grace to other people. I can grace them out also. One of my favorite things to do is grace waitresses out when they wait on us. If my wife and I go out to eat and they wait on us and they bring us a bill, I like to grace them out with a wonderful tip. Some of them work very, very hard just to try to get by. And so we never tip just like a 10% deal. We like to always go way above and way beyond that. So gracing people out is wonderful, and you can grace out your enemies when they turn on you, when they're bitter towards you. When they malign you, you can grace them out by not maligning them back, as 1 Peter 3, 8, and 9 says. Don't get into cursing and cursing each other out. That's definitely a sin for a believer to do that. So grace orientation is a wonderful problem-solving device, one of those great problem-solving devices. Because we know that by God's grace our lives will be sustained and we know by God's grace we don't have to worry about anything. We know that by God's grace the Supreme Court of Heaven is open 24 hours a day and will always be there for us if we need to go there. We know by God's grace we can rebound any known sin and confess it and God said he would be faithful and just to forgive us. and to cleanse us from that. That's grace. Maybe you have not exploited grace in your life. Maybe you've hidden sin in your life. Maybe you've lived with guilt and shame. You don't have to do that if you're a believer in Jesus Christ. Simply go to the Father, name your sin, and put it behind you. Move forward. Keep going. Go on down his way. Thy way, highway, as one person said. The thy way, highway. Not the my way, highway. The thy way, highway. Another problem-solving device that's always critical for us to understand is called doctrinal orientation. Some people call it biblical orientation. It's us learning to think with the mind of Christ. Thinking with the mind of Christ is called having divine viewpoint. And the only way you can get divine viewpoint is by learning the Word of God. Here we have a Bible in front of you, or here I have a Bible in front of me. And these words recorded by the apostles, by the writers of Scripture, are designed and kept for us. They are our textbook, and it's designed to be taught to us. It's not a novel. It's a textbook. God even ordains certain men who have the gift of pastor, teacher, and their job is to study and teach the Bible. Not to be a lonely hearts counselor, not to give you a cruise ship experience, but to study and teach the Bible. And if you're looking for someone to hold your hand through times of adversity and tell you, don't worry about it, you'll be fine. My brother died with it, but you'll make it. That's not the pastor you need. You need one that will feed you. You don't have to know him personally. You don't have to have a great camaraderie with him. You just have to have him be accurate in teaching you the Bible so the Holy Spirit can take what he teaches you and lead you to apply it into your life in a way that can glorify God to the maximum as you stand on your own two feet. not trying to depend on your pastor to tell you what to do. So why should you study the Bible? What is it about studying the Bible that I keep pushing? Well, the mandate is found in 2 Timothy 2.15. The Greek word spoudazo, S-P-O-U-D-A-Z-O, is the English word study. Spoudazo. And if we do the morphology of that verb, it is a present tense verb, which means there never is a time in your life that you're not to be a student of the Word of God. The active voice says the subject of that verb, which is you and me, that we produce the action of the verb. And being in the imperative mood, it simply means this is a command from God through Paul to Timothy. Study to show thyself approved unto God. Study. That's a mandate. We are to study to show ourself approved unto God. Why? Well, the next word says rightly dividing the word of truth. Rightly dividing. The Greek word for rightly dividing, you'll get a kick out of knowing this, We get a word orthodontist out of it. It's orthotomeo, orthotomeo. The orthodontist will straighten out your teeth and orthotomeo means to get it straight, to teach scripture accurately. It is so easy to veer off course. It's so easy to be led astray. This is something Satan is really good at doing is getting people to get away from what the Bible says and to present some sort of mixture of human viewpoint with their thinking. We are to rightly divide. Now, if you know anything about math, which I know little about, I just know how to spend it, not know how to count it. But if you know anything about math, you know that dividing means division. Divide two into 12, you get six, that's division. Bible study causes division. It has to. People study for the wrong reason. People study the wrong way. Some have hidden agendas when they study. Some have a blind, click arrogance in their life. Some teach the Bible and they're ignorant, not knowing the language of the Bible. And then sometimes people even claim extra biblical revelation that it's not in the Bible, but God told me to teach you this. It's a stretch sometimes because I've seen great men go off on these stretches to teach proclaim that they've had a new breakthrough and a new revelation about how something should be not literally understood, but understood in a different way. So they take great liberty with that. Dividing is division. Bible study causes division. So if our God told us to be careful and if our God told us to get it straight, then he must have known that there's a possibility that some people would mess up. It's here for you. The most critical thing in your life as a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, apart from staying filled with the Holy Spirit every day by rebound, is to get under the mentorship of a well-qualified pastor, a man who's dedicated his life to studying and teaching the Bible. And if you can do that, then you can begin to grow consistently studying on a consistent basis, just like you would exercise every day or just like you would clean house every day. Every day, you would take a few moments, 30 minutes to an hour every day to put in a DVD or an MP3 and listen to the pastor teach the Bible. Get a notebook, get a Bible, take notes. That's what I do every day so that I can get it straight and get it accurate. My ministry as I travel and I speak and have been doing for 50 plus years now is based on accuracy, not personality. It's not about the man, it's always about the message. And when I speak in schools, private schools, talking to kids, I can't get in public schools anymore, they won't let you mention Jesus Christ in the public schools, but private academies that I speak in have quite a few kids, and they're not just Christian academies. But my job is to be very accurate, not to entertain them, not to go in there and make them laugh. but to go in there and give them what the Bible says. And they are certainly smart enough, intelligent enough to make a decision whether they want to believe it or not believe it. But you can bet one thing, the Bible says in 1 Corinthians 14, 33, God is not the author of confusion, and it is not God's design to confuse anybody. Akatastasia, akatastasia, confusion. It's instability, it's a state of disorder, it's a disturbance, it's a confusion. I have lost close personal friends who decided that the Bible didn't mean what they thought it meant a few years ago, that it really meant something else. And so they abandoned the solid, sound, systematic teaching they had to go with a different viewpoint in a different way. And they're totally convinced that they're right and I'm wrong or we're wrong or somebody else is wrong. It's amazing to watch this happen. So the Bible says God is not the author of confusion, but a peace as in all churches of the saints. Now here's something very interesting. The very next verse, 1 Corinthians 14, 34 says, "'Let the women keep silent in the church.'" I don't know what that means. You can figure that one out, but that's the next verse. I can tell you this, the Bible does not ever contradict itself. It does not teach one thing in this chapter and another thing in that chapter. It is never unfair. The Bible is never unfair. It's never emotional. So if you're going to have biblical orientation, it doesn't come through emotional stimulation. It comes through the imputation of the Word of God into your soul. As you learn it, believe it, and apply it. We often use the term lag. A friend of mine coined that phrase. Learn, apply, and then you glorify. But learning and applying is critical. When the Bible says, study to show thy self-approved unto God, a workman rightly dividing, that's applying. You can't apply what you don't know. And so if you learn and apply, then you're able to rightly divide. Then you're able to see and discern what's right and what's wrong. And you're able to stay out of divisions that are caused by emotionalism or caused by arrogance or caused by something where somebody thinks they're smarter than somebody else and so they got a better way to do it. There's another verse that we have to take a look at on biblical orientation, and that's 2 Peter 3.18. The last verse I gave you said, Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed. now we add to that but grow in the grace and knowledge of our lord and savior jesus christ grow is another verb just like study is a verb this verb grow is pronounced oxano a-u-x-a-n-o oxano translates grow and again it is a present active imperative There never is a time as a Christian you're not to be growing. The active voice says you produce the action of the verb by your consistent filling of the Holy Spirit and your consistent submission to the authority of a qualified pastor. When you do that, the imperative mood is the mood of command. God is telling you through Peter, grow in grace. C-H-A-R-I-S. Cotteries. Grace. Last week, I talked about grace orientation and the critical need for grace orientation in your life. Learning about grace. There is saving grace. We talked about that last week. There's living grace, Colossians 1.16. That's where he provides all of your logistics that you need. Matthew 6 talks about that. Read Matthew 6 and look at it for yourself. Logistical grace provision. And then, of course, there's dying grace in Job 5, 19 through 27. God will not take you out before you come to your full age if you consistently grow. Now, God can take you out early if you get into reversionism, if you, quote, some people say, backslide. if you turn away from the lord go down the byway highway fail to rebound your sin you're going to come under warning discipline you're going to come under intense discipline and you may even come under dying discipline that means that the father could call you home way before he intended because you're incorrigible and you've reached the point of no return. I've seen that happen and you can't judge people and say, oh, I know they went out under the sin unto death, but I've seen it happen, it's real. And it can happen to you and to me if we forsake the Word of God if we forsake the filling of the Holy Spirit, if we fail to listen to what God tells us, and we continue down the road of the byway highway, then we get under tremendous discipline from God. designed to rescue us, designed to save us, designed to keep us from self-destructing. But the sin unto death is nothing more than self-destruction. And that's what happens when a believer fails to listen to God. So there are a lot of ways to shorten your life. In Ephesians 6, 1 and 2, the Bible says, children, obey your parents in the Lord. That's a prepositional phrase, in the Lord. So the ability to obey legitimate authority comes from the filling of the Holy Spirit in the Lord. And then, children, honor your father and your mother. One is obey and one is honor. There are two different words there. Honor your father and your mother seems to indicate that they're not together anymore. The father and the mother have split up. In the first part, it says children obey your parents. There, they're together. So there never is a time in the life of any child that they should be hateful, disrespectful, antagonistic towards either parent in the case of a divorce. We're always to tama'o, honor, tama'o, honor our parents. which is the first mandate with a promise, the Bible says. I'm going to read it again. Children, obey your parents in the Lord. Honor your father and your mother, which is the first mandate with a promise. Well, what exactly is the promise? If I honor my parents, if I obey my parents, what is the promise God's talking about? It's found in Deuteronomy 5.16. that it may be well with you and you may live long, long time on this earth. This is the way to live a wonderful life. A long life is for you and me to orient to authority, to learn the Word of God, to be submissive to the Word of God, orienting to the authority of the Word of God, orienting to the authority of our parents so that we learn self-discipline at home and we don't go into the devil's world like a loose cannon. I've said it before. I'm going to say it again on this radio show. If you're a parent and you don't teach your children the Word of God, you don't provide for your children an authoritative structure in your home, then you are abusing them because you're going to turn them loose in the devil's world without a prayer, not a hope, not a chance of making it because they don't know the alternative. They only know what the world tells them. There is an alternative. It's called divine viewpoint, not human viewpoint. There's a different way to think and a different way to live, and you must expose them to that. There are a lot of ways our kids can shorten their lives. If they're believers, they can commit to sin unto death for sure. Any of us could mismanage our health and abuse our bodies by doing things that are harmful to us. Our kids can run with the wrong crowd and get in trouble. et cetera. I mean, this is something that I faced in high school, hanging out with the wrong people, getting in the car with the wrong guy, scaring the fool out of me, thinking he's going to kill me, telling that guy, I'll never ride with you again, wrong crowd. but I'm to grow in the grace and knowledge and the knowledge and the knowledge to words grow in the grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ. That word knowledge is a critical word. There are two words for knowledge in the Bible, both translated knowledge, one of those greek words is the word gnosis g-n-o-s-i-s but the other word which is also translated knowledge is completely different it says the word epi g-n-o-s-i-s the difference between these two is the difference between what's in your mind and what's in your heart when you go to church and you listen to the pastor teach you the bible The Holy Spirit's job is to pick up that information, if you're filled with the Spirit, and to help you process it and bring it into your mind so you understand what the pastor taught. Now it's up to you to, by faith, believe it and apply it into your life. When you understand it, it's called gnosis. When you believe it and apply it, it's called epinosis. That's the difference. Biblical information in your heart is epinosis. It circulates in your memory center. It becomes part of your frame of reference in your vocabulary storage. If it's over just in your mind, there's a verse that says a little bit of knowledge can puffeth up. Knowledge can. People that think they're smart and wise can get arrogant about it. We learn knowledge so we can apply it into our life, not second guess it and not critique it, but to apply it. And again, you must be under a pastor you trust. You must be under a pastor who's submissive to the will of God, who's not trying to prove himself, not trying to make his own agenda, one that follows the course correctly. And if you can do that, then you'll have a long, wonderful life. You can apply the doctrine that you learn. You can live grace orientation. You can explore the grace of God and share the grace of God. You can be a faithful witness for Jesus Christ. And you don't set out trying to change the Christian world by some new doctrine that you think you've learned. See, my job is not to change the Christian world. My job is to reach out to the lost people in the world. And that's your job also. But you'll find every now and then a pastor who wants to change the way other pastors think or change the way other Christians think. And that's a wrong agenda. So grow in the grace and the knowledge of your Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Our Lord himself said these words, Come unto me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I'll give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn, learn, learn of me. Learn. That's the only way that you can become a mature believer is to learn God's Word. If we don't learn God's Word, then it reflects into our nation, into our politics, into our schools, into our homes. And instead of glorifying God with the decisions that we make as a nation, We began to go down the my way highway internationally or nationally. And this is one of the reasons that discipline comes on a nation. The Bible is very clear why nations are destroyed. Nations destroyed, Hosea 4, 1 through 6 says, and this is a verse given to the Jews, but applicable to us. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Since you rejected knowledge, I'll reject you. I would say that's true in America today. The majority of Americans are not interested in the knowledge of the Word of God or what that says because of changing social agendas, because of changing rhetoric and what's accepted. It's like everything that used to be evil has now become good. And everything that used to be good has now become evil. You know, you've seen it yourself. You've seen on the news who has hidden agendas and who has open agendas and trying to force recognition and acceptance when the Bible says, no, it's wrong. No, it's wrong. And so when the nation begins to bend to political pressure from those that oppose what the Bible teaches, we guarantee discipline on the nation. And America, I believe, is under national discipline. I thank God for the reprieve we've had for the last few years. I've never seen such an attack on the institution of president as going on today. Whether you like it or not, he's definitely under attack. But we are at a critical time in history. And who leads this nation must be oriented to the Word of God, must respect the Word of God, and must believe in divine operating principles. Divine institutions, freedom, marriage, family, nationalism, not internationalism, nationalism. These are all biblical principles that are critical for us. And that all comes from the Bible, learning the Bible, learning what God instituted in the Bible, learning what was written there, preserved, kept for you and me. If we do that and we understand that, then we have a bright and wonderful future. But to the extent that we shove it into the back closet and we forget about it and we get involved in life going merrily down the my way highway, it's a guaranteed road to destruction and loss of freedom. That's what we face in America today. I hope you've been listening. I hope you're paying attention. I hope you're grace-oriented and doctrinally oriented to the truth in your life. 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.
In a riveting conversation with Larry Elder, the episode unfurls intriguing insights into the true carbon footprint of electric vehicles, challenging the prevailing narrative. As the host navigates through complex topics such as Trump's first 100 days, border security, and the societal shifts induced by the pandemic, listeners are invited to explore diverse perspectives and engage in thought-provoking dialogue. This episode is a must-listen for those seeking balanced, nuanced viewpoints on today's pressing political and environmental issues.
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He's the happy conservative warrior. Mike Gallagher. Broadcasting across hundreds of radio stations nationwide. And seen on your trusted conservative TV network. Salem News Channel. Here's Mike.
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Happy? Oh, I'm not happy. I'm ecstatic. Let me just quickly give you a tip of the hat. I am over the moon with yesterday's visit to MyPillow in Minnesota. Can I just thank everybody who ordered a pillow, a pair of slippers, percale sheets? bath towels. Can I just tell you what the total number was? Dan, can you give me one more drum roll? Now, before we hit it, let me just first of all remind you that after all that my pillow has been put through and all that Mike Lindell has lost, do you know that we wanted to share some love, and we went and sat right in the middle of the entire factory. If you're watching now on Salem News Channel, you see me sitting there with Mike Lindell in the factory, and the equipment was going on behind us and everything else. But I just wanted to have a big blowout sale day. I thought, let's have my pillow day on the Mike Gallagher show, and let's shoot for $100,000 in sales. Tracy told me I was nuts. She looked at me like I had an eyeball grown out of my forehead. She said, Mike, I know the show does well with my pillow. $100,000 in a day? I said, if we could shower my pillow with that kind of support and love and sell over $100,000 with our audience in one show, Do you know how uplifting and what a boost that will give to the morale of the hundreds of people who work there? Not to mention Mike himself. You ready for the number? So the goal was 100,000. Bear in mind, Tracy said I was crazy. Well, it turns out I wasn't so crazy after all. Drum roll, please. The Mike Gallagher Show audience bought... $121,000 of merchandise yesterday. We had a $121,000 day. Thank you, thank you, thank you. You did more than you'll ever know. I'm so overwhelmed by this audience. And every day that I get down, anytime I get a little grumpy or cranky about whatever it is that my dumb life brings to me, I then am reminded... as to how blessed I am and how fortunate I am to be surrounded by this kind of loving audience. Thank you for your support. 121,000 in sales. Unbelievable. All right, let's buckle up. 100 days, right? This is the 100-day mark. Oh, and we're going to take you to the White House in just a moment. Scott Besson. The Treasury Secretary, Caroline Leavitt, holding a press conference in the White House press briefing. We'll take you there momentarily. And we'll get some details over Trump's first 100 days. There's been economic success. There has been border success. And yet the left... led by clowns like J.B. Pritzker, want to pretend that the sky is falling, the world is coming apart, and it's another disaster. They had the first 100-day report card written for Trump before he was inaugurated. Guarantee you. Guarantee you. And the poll numbers, oh, the polling is collapsing. The polling isn't collapsing. He's down a few points from his high watermark of only 52%. This is not a guy who's got 90% approval rating, never has, never will. So he goes from 52 to what is it, 45, 46? Okay, he's a few percentage points down. Ari Fleischer put it in perspective pretty well last night on Fox News.
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Donald Trump is still working with a lot that he can control and do well with. And you're seeing it. The base will not crack. The base is solid for Donald Trump. And they understand that he's got a lot of high hurdles because he's put high hurdles in front of himself because he's taking on consequential big issues that have been neglected for so long. But the average of all the polls, Laura, shows that Trump has a 45 percent job approval. That is not bad. In our modern polarized era, a 45% job approval is middling, but it is not the stuff of doom, gloom, negativity, or decline. It's just the way modern politics is. And the key to it is the economy. And this is where I give Trump middle grades on what's going on with tariffs. If tariffs turns into one win after another in the next 30, 60, 90 days, Donald Trump is going to be on one of the strongest upward trajectories we've ever seen. If he doesn't get any deals done or if the economy flounders, then the tariffs were a roll of the dice. It's going to come back to bite him. But that's unknown. We don't know it yet. But the point is he's taking on big consequential things like Doge, as you pointed out, finally doing something about the size and the amount of spending the government does. He does things everybody else runs from. He runs to them.
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Ari's right. I'm going to ask you a question. Anybody who voted for Trump resent it, regret it now? 800-655-MIKE. Simple question. Not a trick question. Does anybody regret voting for him? If so, why? Let me know. I think it's a fundamental question. The media narrative is that his popularity is cratering. The media narrative is that MAGA is turning on him. The media narrative is that everybody's livid. All right, let me just ask you. Is there anybody within the sound of my voice... that regrets having voted for Donald Trump on November the 5th. 800-655-MIKE. Let's put your voice front and center here on this Tuesday episode of The Mike Gallagher Show in the Relief Factor studio. It's Tuesday, final Tuesday of the month. It's already April the 29th, 2025. I am so glad you're here. Thanks for tuning in. Make sure you're following us on X. We're streaming the Salem News Channel live right now on X at Gallagher Show. Follow me. I'll follow you back. All things Team Gallagher, go to mikeonline.com to check out how you can get the podcast, how you can take us with you 24-7. And, of course, we absolutely appreciate you listening to this great radio station. If that's how you're engaging in the show today, I've just got a very simple question for you. Is there anybody listening or watching right now who regrets your vote for Donald Trump? Let's go ahead and just do a kind of a lightning round of tons of callers. 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. I hope you join us. Ph.D. weight loss has changed my life, and I've got a little secret for you. You know Big Pharma and semaglutide and the shots in the belly. You've seen the story recently about the study that shows that a lot of people that are getting this are going blind. You don't want to do this. You want a program to lose weight that's centered around science and nutrition, a proven roadmap that has helped over 8,000 clients lose weight and keep it off, like me. I lost 53 pounds a few years ago, and I've kept it off. I know what to eat and when. I know how to quiet any of the cravings I might get and release that fat. Finally released that unhealthy belly fat that I carried along for so long. Make the phone call that can change your life in the way it changed mine. It's called PHD Weight Loss. PHD Weight Loss. Dr. Ashley Lucas' program is brilliant. And how do I know? Well, 53 pounds later, here I am. 864-644-1900 is their number. Call and schedule your consultation. You can do this program from anywhere in America. Call 864-644-1900. 864-644-1900. or visit MyPhDWeightLoss.com. So, Larry Elder, it never fails. The bigger the buildup, there's always a technical screw-up when I give the most flowery, gracious, humble introduction, but I think we got it all fixed. Do we have you now live? You sure do. You're coming through loud and clear. There we go. We're hearing you loud and clear. Sorry about that.
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Well, welcome back. How you been? I've been good, Mike G. I was just saying before I was so rudely interrupted, not only did you contribute to both my campaigns, you contribute substantially. It wasn't just some nickel-to-dime thing you did. You whipped out a big, fat check, and I really do appreciate it, but I will never forget it.
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My love and support and affection for the great Aldersky is substantial because I know... What a class act and how great you would have been as governor of California. And you got real close. But we're lucky to have you still on our team here at Salem. I want to get to your movie. I want to get to the first 100 days. But I just got to first remind everybody how much fun. Have you been to Alaska before? Is this your first time?
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I have. I've been there a couple of times. The first time I was there was in 19 in the early 1970s. I was a lawyer practicing and working on the Alaskan pipeline. I was sent there by my law firm.
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Nice. Well, we're going to have a tremendous time. We've got hundreds of people already signed up. We're going to have a blast. And this ship, I got to go last time with Seb Gorka. Dr. G is now otherwise engaged, so he's not able to join us. But you and I are going to be the co-hosts, joined by the great Joe Piscopo and Jennifer Horn, Joey Hudson out of South Carolina. We're going to have a ball. Nothing like it, August 16th through the 24th. We'll see you on board the Eurodam, if not sooner. Larry, Speaker Mike Johnson, and incidentally, travelwithsalem.com if you want details on the cruise. Speaker Johnson just praised President Trump by saying he is the most consequential American leader of the 21st century, and that's an understatement. I don't know the truer words have ever been spoken to you.
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I think that's true. He's the most incredible politician I have ever seen. When I briefly ran for president, as you know, Ron DeSantis ran as well. And he was criticized, DeSantis was, for not having the kind of people skills that Donald Trump had. And I came up to him and I said, I hope you're not bothered by this because Donald Trump is box office. Donald Trump is Elvis. Donald Trump is Mount Rushmore. He is the most incredible, likable, relatable, honest, strong, fierce, confident politician I have ever seen. So please don't compare yourself to him and come away thinking that you're inferior. You're not. At some point, Donald Trump is going to leave the stage and maybe then it'll be your turn. But right now, it's the man's turn.
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I meant it when I said to that caller, we were kind of filling time and we were getting the technical stuff fixed. I took the caller and said, oh, he's mean, he's cruel, he doesn't like it. And I wish his critics could spend a few minutes with him. Every single time I've ever spent time with him, I walk away saying, this is a guy that if people saw him in real life, maybe they wouldn't have such blind hatred for him.
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You know, I heard that call and you're absolutely right. He talked about how cruel Donald Trump is because women have been deported and they brought their children with them. Well, the women have made the decision to come here illegally. They made the decision to have a child and they made the decision not to bring the child with them or to bring the child with them. That's up to them. But as you pointed out, How cruel is it to allow 15 million illegal aliens, some of whom were murderers, some of whom were in mental institutions, who've committed crimes here in America, not vetted, not vaccinated? How cruel is that to inflict that on the American people? That's what Joe Biden did. And Tom Holman, the border czar, recently said, I've worked under six presidents. Biden is the only one who intentionally unsecured the border. Why aren't more people concerned about that?
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Larry, tell us about your documentary, Electric Vehicles, the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. It's available now at salemnow.com. And I saw it and I was riveted by it because, look, my position has always been people want to buy an EV, buy an EV, just don't mandate it. You can't shove that down our throats. But what were your surprising takeaways? What did you learn as you dove into this subject? And why did you want to tackle this particular subject matter?
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Well, impactful pictures came to me and asked me what I thought were some issues that should be tackled that were tackled. And I mentioned that because I'm here in California. Governor Gavin Newsom has mandated by the year 2035 no more sale of new gas powered cars. Joe Biden made similar statements. And however you feel on the issue of climate change, whether you feel, as Joe Biden does, that climate change represents an existential threat, whether you feel it's much ado about nothing or whether you're sort of in the middle, that there is climate change, that man activity has had something to do with it. But we ought not force feed so-called renewables down people's throats. However you feel about that is pretty irrelevant. My question is. Is an EV, all things considered, better for the planet than a gas-powered car? Before I started this, Michael, I'd never driven an EV. I just sort of assumed that EVs were better for the planet than gas-powered cars. And then I got into it and drove an EV for the first time. The technology is absolutely amazing. The self-driving stuff is amazing. I went to one of the biggest auto shows in the world and saw all the cutting-edge technology involved in an EV, and it was quite riveting. But then you look at the other things. It takes fossil fuel generated energy to manufacture the EV, to transport the EV, to get it to the dealership. It takes primarily fossil fuel manufactured energy to make the electricity to charge the EV. So you look at the overall carbon footprint, it's probably not any smaller than a gas-powered car. Arguably, it might even be bigger. And then you get to the ugly part, which is the growing dependence on China for the computer chips that go into the car, and more importantly for the minerals, some called rare earth minerals, lithium, cobalt, and nickel that go into the battery. And China either manufactures this stuff or produces this stuff or mines this stuff in China or in places controlled by China, like the Republic of the Congo, where kids, children, boys and girls are using their bare hands to dig out this cobalt, which is toxic. I think if people knew that slave labor was being used, these kids are being paid a dollar or two a day to do this, they would rethink what they think about EVs. This is from just a humanitarian standpoint. And then you have the national security standpoint. We're enriching China, making us more dependent upon China. Do you really want to do that? So if you look at all these things, the good, the bad and the ugly. I think you're going to come away with saying things like, well, you know, maybe I should think this through just a little bit more. I don't tell people what to think. I don't put it down their throats. It's up to you to decide. But make sure you know exactly what goes into manufacturing, transporting. The battery has to be disposed of. The battery has a shorter shelf life than a battery used in a gas-powered car. And because of the toxic minerals that are in it, if you bury the battery, it can leak and threaten the underground water storage. There are all sorts of things that I would urge people to take into consideration before they think about buying an EV.
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It's like everything you do. It's a real balanced, reasonable approach to what has been a one-sided conversation. And look, again, the movie's available now at SalemNow.com. You go to SalemNow.com to watch it. And, you know, I just had a brainstorm. We ought to screen Electric Vehicles, the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly starring Larry Elder on the cruise ship. You know, they got a movie theater on the ship. What do you think?
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That's a wonderful idea. And by the way, the reviews have been extraordinary. I got a review by the Daily Signal. I got a review by a guy named Paul Bond. He used to be with Newsweek and Hollywood Reporter, some other reviews. And if you go on IMDb, it has a higher ranking right now than Casablanca. Now, apparently, there's a smaller sample size of reviews, but right now it has a higher IMDb rating than Casablanca, one of America's most beloved movies.
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So I'm pretty proud of that. Move over, Humphrey Vogart. Larry Elder is here. Larry's in town. I can't wait to see you in August for the big cruise. I know, look, and I'm getting a ton of text messages. You're so beloved and so popular. In fact, I just talked to Carolyn Cassidy, our general manager here in Tampa and Columbus. They had a big event the other night, I guess Friday in Columbus, big sold-out event in person where hundreds of people came out to see you. So we're going to have hundreds of people on the cruise ship, my friend, in August. I can't wait to see you then.
SPEAKER 04 :
Sounds great. It was a fantastic event I just now had in Columbus. I'm looking forward to seeing you on the cruise. Are you going to break out a song for us?
SPEAKER 02 :
We've got to break out Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat. I mean, come on, it's a cruise. So I've got to sing Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat from Guys and Dolls, right? That's a tradition.
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That's right. And Joe Piscopo and I are going to probably do a duet. I'm probably going to break out my Louis Armstrong. You've got to do it.
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I love it. We're going to have a great time. We'll see you then. Keep fighting the good fight, my friend. Great having you on the show. Thank you, sir. The great Larry Elder. That's going to be a great time. Travelwithsalem.com. Let's look at the first 100 days of Trump's presidency, since that seems to be the benchmark. We'll go back over some of the winners, like a roaring economy, a stronger border. Trump's team, incidentally, planning for impeachment. Did you hear about the guy? Have you ever heard? Of the Michigan Democrat who wants to impeach Donald Trump? Never heard of the guy. It's like right out of Saturday Night Live. Get ready for that and more coming up. Portions of our show brought to you by MyPillow and Big Deal. Two sales in one. First, they're having a closeout sale on the percale bedsheets. Any size, any color, $25. You can get Queens, Kings, Split Kings, California Kings, any size, any color, $25. It's a crazy sale from MyPillow.com. Look for the Mike Gallagher Special Square. The second sale, Mike Lindell has introduced a brand new energy drink called Rev7. It's a premium energy drink that's good for you. It tastes great, gives you energy all day. I sampled it yesterday for the first time. It is delicious. No sugar, no caffeine. Rev7 is so special because it's powered with a premium nootropic that helps fuel your mind. MyPillow is so confident you're going to love Rev7 that for a limited time you can try their introductory three-pack absolutely free. Now, these offers aren't going to last long. So go to MyPillow.com, use the promo code MikeG, MyPillow.com, promo code MikeG, or call 800-928-6034, 800-928-6034. Sing along with me.
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He's the happy conservative warrior, Mike Gallagher, broadcasting across hundreds of radio stations nationwide and seen on your trusted conservative TV network, Salem News Channel. Here's Mike.
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Let's start with some really happy news. Yesterday was an extraordinary success. I made a call a few weeks ago to go to MyPillow in Minnesota and do a day where we celebrated this great company. And we had an insane goal of $100,000 in sales for one day. I told the team, I want to try to get our audience to buy at least $100,000 of MyPillow products in one day. And they looked at me like I was nuts. You can't do that. They're not going to do that. $100,000 in a day? I mean, our audience is pretty active and aggressive when it comes to great deals from MyPillow getting the best night's sleep of their life. But come on, $100,000? Ready for the number? I got the final sales number earlier this morning. A little drum roll, please? In one day, the Mike Gallagher Show's MyPillow celebration? $121,000 in a day. You bought $121,000 worth of pillows, slippers, sheets, doggy beds, bath towels, kitchen towels, aprons, and incidentally, those percale sheets, the $25 crazy wholesale price. Mike was so grateful and impressed with our efforts yesterday, they extended it for one more day. So today's the actual final day, $25 for the percale sheets, any size, any color. They're smooth, they're durable, they're silky soft. They're like a five-star hotel sheets. So MyPillow.com, look for that Mike Gallagher special square. Click on the box, and don't forget to enter the promo code MikeG so you'll save big money. MyPillow.com, promo code MikeG, or call 800-928-6034. And honestly, you continue to stun me with the way you step up. You should know that I have other talk show hosts ask me, what's the secret? How do you get your audience to do what they do? And I'm not getting you to do anything. It's who you are. It's not me. It is the audience. This audience is as generous and loving and proactive as any audience of any platform anywhere. Incidentally, that was a record. That was the most sales, according to Mike, because I know who the host was and what his best day was. I kid you not. You want to talk about a God thing? I didn't even expect to get, to be honest, I wasn't sure we could even pull off $100,000. The record for one day, according to Mike, was 120. And that was at the height of when a whole lot of stuff was hitting the fan. So we did 121,000. It's like God gives you just enough. Sometimes he answers prayers in a profound way. He really does. I remember when I wrote one of my two books, and the one time I said, I just want to be on the bottom of the New York Times bestseller list one time, one week. And God gave me exactly what I asked for. I was on the bottom of the New York Times bestseller list one week. Now I'm praying that I get the condo sold. There's a couple. They're very interested, supposedly, and they're thinking about it. Hope they think faster because I'm getting nervous. And, you know, a lot of people are giving me advice about the upside-down St. Joseph statue. I decided I don't want to talk about it publicly. I think you know what I probably did with regards to the statue. But we'll see. I hope the couple that seems to like it, well, actually, the wife, I think, loved the place. So let's just thank you. If you are so inclined, send a couple prayers our way that I get the condo sold. And I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to stay in the Tampa Bay area, but just making some changes, some life decisions, and some big things going on in my life personally that I'm excited about. But I've got to get the condos sold. And it's a bad time, evidently. Everybody's telling me, well, people are uncertain. People are worried about their 401K. People are nervous about the tariffs, you know, the 100 days. I don't know. I don't know. I'm just hoping this couple, my realtor keeps saying, well, they seem to like it. They went back a second time. And the wife especially really liked it. So we'll see. How long do you got to think about it? They went back, what is it today, Tuesday? They went back, I think, Friday. Friday or Saturday. But see, I'm impulsive. If I see something I like, I'm all, which is why, you know, I'm not, you know, able to retire yesterday. Because I don't have a bunch of money laying around. I got to work hard. And hopefully I'll be working hard for years to come. And I love it because I get to come to work in a place like this. You know, I've tried to resist the first 100 days hype of the Trump administration only because it's sort of arbitrary. It gives the media a narrative. I can pretty well promise you they wrote their assessment of Trump's first 100 days 101 days ago. There's a predetermined outcome here. Oh, there's the economy and the tariffs and poor little children being deported. Incidentally, can we deal with this narrative that the Democrats and the Trump haters have come up with? that little children who are U.S. citizens, by virtue of the fact that they're anchor babies, I guess they were born on American soil, so they're technically U.S. citizens, but the parents are illegals, and the parents get caught in the mass deportation? What are you supposed to do with the four-year-old child? Even a four-year-old child who might be sick with cancer, which is heartbreaking. We don't want to be cruel. There should be no cruelty here. You know what's cruel? Dragging a child across the border illegally or coming to this country in order to give birth to a child in hopes that the child will become legal while you've broken the law in the first place. That's cruel. That's cruel. And incidentally, for the record, the administration insists these children who are going back to their native countries with their parents on these deportation flights, that's because that's what the mother requested. What mother wants to leave behind their two-, three-, four-, five-year-old child? So if the mother broke the law and immigrated here illegally and they are caught and they're sent home, Are we supposed to separate the child from the mother? If that happened, you know what they'd be screaming. You know the left and the media would be screeching about families being ripped apart. So instead, the families are staying together and going back to the country where they came from. I don't think normal people object to that. I don't think normal people start screaming that Trump is Adolf Hitler because we're doing that. Let me get Greg Gutfeld's assessment of the first 100 days last night on Fox News Channel.
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It is only 100 days, and yet it feels like 1,000. It's because Trump does easily 10 times what any previous president does. It's like you went from a dial-up modem to 5G. It's like I don't have to sit in front of my laptop and wait for something to happen. He says it, and it happens. And you're right. He he basically pointed to the what he called to the to the to the stands, the bleachers and said, I'm going to hit a home run. And he did that on illegal immigration. He didn't just end it. I mean, he flattened it. And by doing that, he exposed that the Democrats have been lying all the time when they were saying their hands were tied. Well, it looks like their hands had blood had blood on them because they let a lot of criminals in that killed people. He also crushed the structural racism of DEI. He fulfilled his promise to get women out of sports. And that was quick. And now you have imposters like Slotkin going, well, it really wasn't an important issue at all. Well, if it wasn't that important, why were you so cowardly and not actually defending the women and the girls who are subject to that travesty? The only thing that's kind of out there, there's a couple of things. Tariffs. You can't judge that in 100 days. But as predicted, the people that were screaming about the massive drop in the stock market are not saying a word about it returning to normal or near normal. And we also have to think about Doge. Are we even close to the goal necessary to prevent economic collapse? No. And everything we just talked about is pointless unless we solve that.
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He's so right. Why isn't the media talking about our secure, sealed border? something that Trump campaigned on for years, and he delivered on that promise. Is border security important to you? Did he not deliver in spades? Of course he did. They don't want to report on that because they know that it upsets their narrative. It disrupts their orange man bad. Trump is Adolf Hitler narrative. It's preposterous. Look, I'm going to ask you a simple question. Is there anybody listening to my voice right now or watching me on Salem News Channel that regrets their vote? If you voted for Donald Trump and you regret it, would you call? Is there any such person? I'd like to find out because that's their narrative. In addition to Trump is Adolf Hitler and Orange Man bad and the country is, you know, on fire right now because of the first 100 days, they keep saying there's so many of us who regret our vote for Donald Trump. Well, let me open up our phone lines to you. Is there anybody who regrets their vote for Donald Trump on November 5th, 2024? 800-655-MIKE. Let's throw our lines wide open to you here on this Tuesday edition of the Mike Gallagher Show in the Relief Factor Studios. 800-655-6453. Call or text. One number does it all. Give me your reaction to the question, is there anybody, anybody... A part of this show right now who regrets having voted for Donald J. Trump to be the 47th president of the United States. 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. Join us.
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There are numerous statements you made over the summer of 20 scaring people to death about the possibility of opening schools. And I hear no remorse whatsoever about the generational damage that's been done to these guys. I have two kids with learning differences. Do you know how hard it is for them to learn at home and not in a classroom that was designed for them? and for you to sit in front of Congress and the American people and say, oh, I wanted to open them the whole time.
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Gosh, what a moment that was when the great Scott Jennings called out Randy Weingarten, the powerful teachers' union head. Man, that was so good. And she just sat there and had to take it, pretending, oh, we wanted schools open. No, you didn't. You're lying. You're lying. You were... viciously and aggressively fighting against schools being opened. The damage done to our kids. Are we ever going to make this mistake again with the kind of lockdown we had during COVID? I was thinking about this the other day. I can't tell you how many offices I've been in in the last three or four years that are complete ghost towns. They're empty. And it's kind of... not only depressing, but it's really shocking to realize that the pandemic did that. The pandemic created an attitude that people don't have to go to work anymore. And people would give their left arm to work from home. Trust me, I see it with personal experience. We've got people, and I love them, if they've got a chance to work from home, that's what they live for. They crave it. Well, who doesn't want to work from home? I mean, you have to have a little bit of a different... And it's a pain in the neck. You've got to drive in. You've got to shower, get dressed. You've got to commute. Oh, you get to stay home in your bunny rabbit slippers. Put your feet up. Watch a little TV. Just clock in on the computer. And I travel all over the country. And I've been to office after office. Yeah, I'll say it. Radio station after radio station. Empty. And it's because of what the pandemic did. It changed our... In the way that 9-11 changed air travel... with now going through all the hoops we've got to jump through to get on a plane, the pandemic changed the entire workforce in America. And I don't know what happens to all that real estate. I think about all those buildings in cities like New York and Chicago and Los Angeles and Atlanta. They're empty. They're ghost towns because the workforce is home. And, you know, I get the counterargument to that. Well, maybe it's not all that bad. Maybe it's okay, well, you know, if you get your work done, you get your work done. If you can work from home and you get the job done, look to the example I used of my team. When my team works from home, they don't miss a beat. Now, you know, my show is a little bit of not a great example because we've always been sort of spread out all over the country. You know, we've got Teresa's in South Carolina and Tracy's in Florida and Christian's in New York. We've always had that sort of mindset. In fact, it's kind of funny. You should see the box that I have next to me. I call it the Brady Bunch box. I can see everybody on the screen. so that we can all interact with each other. They see me, I see them, and it's like the Brady Bunch box. Everybody is, we call it, it's on, what do they call it, Google Meets, I guess. So maybe my show is an accurate representation of what it's like to be in a building, in a company, where ordinarily people would all be together, working for a common goal of being productive and successful on behalf of your organization. And my gosh, before you know it, nobody's coming into the office. And I think about all the people, and think what it does to different occupations and trades, like people who have diners or or or restaurants that cater to the workforce they're done they're finished they can't they can't survive how are they going to survive when there's nobody coming to the office if they're again all that real estate all that expensive real estate um and and you know It's important. Somebody just texted me on the MyPillow text line. It wasn't the pandemic that did this to America. It was our government's reaction that changed everything. And it's so true. It's so true. Look, I struggle with this. Let me get Carl from Arizona in on this conversation who wants to weigh in on the work-from-home comment. Carl, is it a good thing or a bad thing that so many office buildings and companies are now virtually empty because of how many people are working from home, all because of the pandemic and our reaction to it?
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Well, it's a bad thing, but I just wanted to make one correction about When you keep saying the pandemic caused it, it wasn't really the pandemic. It was the reaction. It was what we did.
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I just said that right before. Did you hear me on hold? I just said that right before you came on. Yeah, yeah. No, you're right. You're right. I caught myself. And somebody texted from California and said the same thing. Because you're right. It's not the fault of the pandemic. It was the fault of our feckless government officials and how we reacted to it.
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You're right. You're right on the money, Carl. Good point. Thank you. Thank you very much. Sorry you missed my point. It's true. It's absolutely true. Hey, incidentally, portions of our show brought to you by MDN Owen CPA. You want an accountant that is a game changer? I've been working closely with Dean now for months. M. Dean Owens CPA has been ranked among the nation's top 150 CPAs for the last three consecutive years. That's no surprise to me because I know what kind of guy he is. He's a veteran. He's a patriot. He's a good guy. And he may be based in Paducah, Kentucky, but he and his team can work with you anywhere in America. Dean specializes in helping you reduce your tax burden and build a tax plan that's aligned with your goals, with your values. These are trusted experts. It's a great team. And again, of course they're ranked one of the nation's best in the country because that's how they roll. Make that phone call. If you want a CPA who reflects your values, call Dean Owen, 270-554-0720. M. Dean Owens, CPA. Call 270-554-0720. That's 270-554-0720. Or visit owenscpa.com. Tracy, did we put Dean on the text line? I think we did on the MyPillow text line, right? If you text CPA... To 800-655-MIKE, we'll send you back the link for M. Dean Owen CPA. Just text the letters CPA to 800-655-6453. Or again, visit owencpa.com, owencpa.com. You know, that's such a good point. We tend to blame something like a pandemic. and blame the way, you know, it had to do with our government's response. And I do believe that it's a tragedy that now there are so many empty office buildings and so many people who think that working from home is as, and look, I can see both sides of it. It's a tough issue. But it's just depression. It's just depressing. There's a text message on the MyPillow text line. I consider the pandemic to be the great overreaction of 2020. Not just 2020. It was the great overreaction of our lifetime.
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It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man.
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Oh, my gosh. All right. So here's the headline. Florida Man, dressed as Ronald McDonald, wrestled to the ground by cops, saying, quote, I am a clown, stupid. Is that his actual mugshot? I think so. So he's a white dude with dreadlocks. You know how I feel about that. He's got real messed up teeths. Okay. They're not teeth at that point. They're teeths. Yeah. When it's the color of honey, you got teeths. So apparently, so the story is body cam footage has a Florida man being busted while dressed as Ronald McDonald in a scuffle. Oh, my gosh. He's 40. Christopher Marlowe, this guy, he's 40. Oh, wow. Dude, he looks like Jeff Lebowski. He's 40. He was dressed as the McDonald's character, bright yellow, red, white costume, big nose. He was trespassing at a shopping center. Palm Bay police were called and they had to wrestle him to the ground. And he was told by one of their arresting officers, you look like a clown. And he yelled back, no redacted. I am a clown, stupid. But they were cited for trespass at the shopping plaza once, this guy. And he went back and then he got in trouble again. So he was taken into custody.
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That's a hard 40. You sure it didn't say he's in his late 40s?
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No, dude. It said he's 40. I know, right? I'm like, what? Can we talk about a dude who, I saw this, I think it was Vegas Larry that sent this to me. The man wrangling, brand new, this is a new one. I think we've seen this guy before, a barefoot alligator wrestler. So he was there to go and get this gator off the road. And it was on Sunday. It was a giant alligator. Dude was barefoot. I think he was in camo shorts and barefoot. And he was, he wrestled that gator in true Florida man style and got it off the highway. Barefoot.
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Each community on earth. If you take that away and try to distill us just down to white folks, We'll be like Europe, an aging, slowly dying former empire. The Roman Empire didn't survive because it didn't have enough strength in its diversity. It suppressed its diversity and it died. If the U.S. wants to be the Roman Empire, keep voting the way you're voting, y'all.
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Not only is she a racist, but she is an absolute bimbo, too. That's one of the stupidest things I've ever heard. It's completely historically illiterate. And it's embarrassing that she felt that that was a OK thing to say and then put it out online, ignoring the racial part of it. I think I'm I think I'm more offended by the stupidity of what she just said than I am the racism that is within it. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. That's Joy Reid, who clearly Harvard is meaningless. That's the kind of brain the brain trust that Harvard produces. You have her and then you have what's his face? That pig kid, David Hogg. Those two are products of Harvard. Some of the dumbest people I've ever seen. So first, welcome back. If you're joining us by listening terrestrially or if you're watching the stream, Channel 347, DirecTV, the chat's at Rumble. You can also find us at X and Facebook. So I love history. I am a major history buff. And one of my favorite things is reading about ancient empires and love reading about ancient Rome. And I watched, yes, I did watch the Hillsdale thing, the rise and fall of Rome. I've also been watching, I actually watched a thing last night that was about the construction of Roman roads and how all roads literally did lead to Rome. But more so to her point, she's saying that the U.S. isn't diverse enough and that's what is, and that lack of diversity is what killed Rome. That is a historical nonsense. And here's why. In fact, it was too. You can now listen to me. It was too much. I don't mean that in the racial sense because it comes down with having a shared identity. This is one of the ways that America learned from Rome's mistake and our founders learn from Rome's mistake because at some point there was admittance of, I mean, every scene, everybody got Roman citizenship. Everybody had Roman citizenship. And I don't know. I don't know if people realize that, uh, the Roman emperor at the time, uh, Karakala was the one who he, you know, that's the sacking happened on his watch. But every free person in the empire got citizenship. And previous emperors also did that. And at first it was looked at like it was Rome's strength because they would conquer and then incorporate. And that was really different in those times. They didn't just leave something conquered and they didn't force them to adopt every single thing that they did within Rome. But they did incorporated it. They incorporated it namely so that they could say, OK, you're a conquered emperor. You have to now give us X amount of foot soldiers. It's one of the reasons why they had the biggest armies is because that was part of that incorporation. But there was never any diligence in in. Creating that singular identity. Everyone talks about a Roman identity, but when we look in history, it was kind of all over the place. People wanted to consider themselves Roman, but there has to be a shared loyalty, a shared identity. And that was just one of the things. And that's like one part of it that went that went into it. is that, you know, there was citizenship given to every single person. The overspending was crazy. The amount of spending was just even on Caesar's time and before was entirely irresponsible. And then you had a lot of instability because there was a lot of corruption. There was a lot of intrigue. And the other thing, too, was you were losing a lot of traditional values. And, you know, the Eastern Empire was already starting its rise. And then you had So there were a lot of things that factored into it, but I think one of the biggest was this strain. On or an absence, a strain caused by the absence of a shared identity is one of the things that played into it. And the idea of being a Roman and what that meant and being a member of that empire was diluted as a result of that. In the United States, it's one of the things that our founders did differently. They didn't make a shared identity on a race or a religion or anything else, but it was about that animating spirit of liberty. So if you want to be free, then we are kinsmen. And that's how the founders set this up. And in the Roman Empire, they didn't even do that. They're just like, okay, you're here. You get a Roman citizenship. You get a Roman citizenship. And the absence of a shared value led to an absence of cohesion. It led to instability. It led to a complete dearth of... cultural values the whole nine yards. There was so much internal fighting as a result of that. Rome, by the time the Goths came in and sacked it, Rome had already sacked itself. That was just the straw that broke the proverbial camel's back. So everything that she's saying, it's literally actually the opposite of that, that created the fall of Rome. Now, in the United States, this is where this communist... This this cultural warfare comes in, you know, the critical race theory. Everybody says DEI. DEI is an offshoot of critical race theory, CRT, which is the Frankfurt School of Marxism. Right. It is an absolute Marxist theory. And I wrote about this 15 years ago. When Andrew Breitbart was still alive and I was working with Andrew Breitbart, Derrick Bell, who was a prominent academic, and he was at Harvard. He was kind of a mentor to Barack Obama. And I remember at the time we had this video. Barack Obama hugging Derrick Bell. And I thought it was pretty significant. The media tried to bury it and act like it wasn't a significant thing. But we're like, there's a new there's an introduction of a new tactic here. It's critical race theory. It's been it's been exploding on college campuses since the 60s. And here's how it's affecting you now. All of this stuff that you see now with DEI and wokery all came from that. Every bit of it. It all came from CRT. And it started on American college campuses in the 60s. Derrick Bell was a huge proponent of it. And that gets into... That was a tactic to... identify, isolate, and destroy their shared cultural values by turning everyone against each other based on intersectionality. So that's where all that comes in. Oh, if you have two women, if one woman's a black woman and a white woman, well, she has one more intersectional box to check than the white woman. So now she has more power. Ah, but if this chick is gay, ah, then she may have, they may equal out then. But if one of them's trans, then you see what I mean? It's like a constant one-uppance. So instead of focusing on shared cultural values and that shared identity that's based on liberty, you're now weaponizing all of these other variables to destroy that. It's an ingenious way to go after the thing that really did separate us from the Roman Empire was that singular shared identity. We had something around which we could rally and be loyal, and that was we are free to be free, and this is where you come to do it at. That's why you can be from anywhere and you can be a kinsman. and freedom. And so that's why what Joy Reid just said there is so incredibly embarrassing. I'm embarrassed for her. Can you imagine making a video and showing your ass like that with how stupid you are? I mean, there's no excuse. She's like a 50 something year old woman. There's no excuse for you to have the money that you have, be on television and have the internet and then not understand the basic concepts of history like this. I mean, that's truly something. But that's the thing. And you know what? When you are removing the recognition of that shared cultural value that is your identity, because when you think about, well, what does it mean to be an American? At its most just distilled core, what does it mean to be an American? Free. Freedom. I think that's what ultimately everyone would come down to, yeah? Freedom. Freedom. So that is the American identity. Well, when you start weaponizing all of these other things around it and attacking it, destroying it, doing this, reinventing the Mao cultural revolution with going after and attacking our history like they did with our founders. Oh, our founders were imperfect. Thus, everything that they have done is imperfect. Well, that's illogical on its face because all you got to do is read the Bible. I mean, David was imperfect. He came from one of the most imperfect lines in all of mandum. I mean, David, who sent Uriah to be killed so he could get Uriah's wife. David. And from him came the Messiah. So that completely blunts that argument. But they don't care. They want you to be separated from God. So you don't understand that. And they also want you to turn on your fellow man. and ignore that animating spirit of liberty so that we can destroy the social cohesion and obscure the identity of what it means to be American. Now, Rome did that to itself. Because they were allowing every Tom, Dick and Harry and giving everybody citizenship with just completely unfettered immigration, not even just immigration. It wasn't people even coming to Rome. Rome would go elsewhere and they would conquer a land. Oh, you're Romans now. Here's your citizenship. We are incorporated. The incorporation was smart, but everything that happened afterwards was not. So there's the she doesn't even understand she she doesn't even understand the warning cry of the fall of the Roman Empire and what that means or what it looks like in current times because she's just focused on the racial aspect of it. Immigration is a variable. And racists like her don't understand that. And I'll say it again. Immigration is a variable because the identity, once again, is about being free. It doesn't matter what your skin color is. It doesn't matter what your religion is. Do you want to be free? And we are founded on Christian values, but we're singular in that we do not demand that you worship as we worship. or do what we do in order to accept the perks of freedom, for the lack of a better way to put it. I mean, it's just one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. I'm like, golly, has she ever read a book? I don't know. But it's just truly stunning to me. But I had to I had to talk about that. I had to talk about that. Gold prices have surged over 40 percent since January 2024, consistently reaching new highs. According to Goldman Sachs research, the upward trend is expected to persist due to strong demand from central banks. It's stuff like this that's made me take action and why I've bought precious metals like gold and silver. 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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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Oh, so now they're trying to tell you that these federal cuts to weather organizations like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, oh my gosh, it's going to negatively impact climate. I don't care about climate change. I don't care about climate change so bad. I actually care more about Nickelback. than I care about climate change. It is a stupid theory of brain-dead zombies who are lazy and don't want to get off their fat, slovenly asses. And so they're trying to scare you about the planet melting so that you give up some of your money and shoot it to the sun, which is no more scientifically advanced than back in the day when people tossed virgins in volcanoes to make the fire gods happy. So tick off with all that stuff. I'm so done. Blah. If I was president, I would round up the climate change people. Oh, yeah. You don't want me. I'm glad to rail with the one ring. Not going to happen. I don't even care about this headline. I want to take that headline, print it out, and shoot some buckshot through it. All right, done. Six hours a day of sedentary behavior is linked to neck pain. You know what else is linked to neck pain? Climate change. So sedentary behavior, what does that mean? They said six hours of sedentary behavior a day is linked to neck pain. Stupid stories like this are linked to head pain. That's my other headline that's coming out. I don't know if you guys saw it. I don't know. This is like, duh. They spent money on this? Were they laundering money? That's the only thing I can think of. There was a jet that just fell off an aircraft carrier. Was there a cat on board? Like, what happened? Did a giant cat knock it off into the sea? A U.S. Navy F-A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet literally fell overboard. The U.S. says Harry S. Truman. I'm not going to ask if it was a woman driver. It was me. U.S. officials said that they indicated Truman made a hard right turn to evade Houthi fire. So there's a lot of stuff happening. So it wasn't because, you know, people were just kicking around. I mean, the Houthis were trying to kill them, OK? And they made a hard right turn. The jet fell off. Stay with us. Can't do it without our partners. And of course, that's Kel-Tec. They've raised the bar again. The new Thurgen Sub 2K folds fast. Optics stay in place and it deploys just as quickly. Zeroed and ready. And the innovation is with a twist. It's a 10 millimeter. Now, I heard about this when we were in Virginia, WRVA. I wasn't allowed to say anything because they'd probably find me and, you know, drag me out of my house and make me shoot like a subpar firearm as punishment. But no, amazing. This is the third gen. It's a fold and you fold the whole carbine. You fold it all up. It's like gun origami and it's available in a variety of calibers. Now, with new 10 millimeter chambering, single twist and fold motion of the rotating forend so it folds super fast and half optics and all and deploys super fast at yeah as easily folds down to 16 and a half inches for easy storage and transport standard 15 round Glock 20 mag it takes Glock mags offers ample capacity internal buffer for softer recoil five pound trigger pull I mean it's amazing make sure you check it out Kel-Tec makes everything right here in the US of A K-E-L-T-E-C weapons.com innovation performance Kel-Tec Kel-Tec weapons.com tell them Dana sent you on the Amazon thing We were talking about how Amazon, it was reported where, and it was Punchbowl News that said this. And I read this this morning over, I saw this at Punchbowl this morning. They were saying that Amazon is going to display the tariff costs for consumers. Where did they get their sourcing? Because Amazon is now, is denying this report. Let me pull this up. This is over at USA Today. Now Amazon is saying, no, Punchbowl News, that's not right. They said that Punchbowl cited an unnamed source that they're going to have the increase in prices caused by tariffs next to the products. And... They but it was even what's more, it was even underscored by Caroline Leavitt, who said that she got off the phone with the president of Amazon and she said it was a hostile and political act by Amazon. But then the spokesperson of Amazon said, that's not true. So what is it? Are they Amazon's trying to, I guess, clarify that?
SPEAKER 04 :
I was under the impression when I saw that conference this morning, the presser, that when she said she got off the phone with the president, she was referring to Trump and that they were responding to that rumor. I didn't get that apparently she got off the phone with Bezos.
SPEAKER 02 :
Well, I don't think she was because he's not even in charge of Amazon anymore.
SPEAKER 04 :
But I mean, my impression was that she talked to President Trump about it.
SPEAKER 02 :
Let's pause all here for a moment. I would like to think that if you're a business, you wouldn't be responded to so publicly if you knew or if it was known that you weren't doing this. And it was unconfirmed. You see what I'm saying? Right.
SPEAKER 04 :
Which is why I think she had to talk with President Trump as opposed to anyone from Amazon.
SPEAKER 02 :
But she said that it was a hostile and political act. Which I don't necessarily agree with, but... But I do think, is it disingenuous if they were going to do it, if they didn't do it for inflation? Yeah, but it's also stupidly disingenuous to not accurately note like, okay, this is legit made in China and this isn't. So apparently... I guess POTUS called Bezos. Although Bezos, he's not really involved in Amazon anymore. Because didn't he sell basically the daily operations of that? I can't remember. But he did. He's like removed from that. But apparently... And that's why it's so weird that they would... That's why I don't think that it's a political act. Because they donated a million. Now granted, you can make it a tax write-off, I think, to some extent. However it's structured. To an extent. And... To the inaugural for the inaugural party. And he was there. They were there a couple of different times. He was at Mar-a-Lago. I mean, that's definitely not the I don't think that that's the association, the level of association you would see if someone's going to do something like this later. I don't know. But they are. Amazon spokesperson said the move wasn't considered for the main Amazon site, but for Amazon Hall. And then they sent CNN a statement. This was less than an hour ago, saying that it was not approved and not going to happen. Can I just pause? What the hell is Amazon Hall? What is that? Steve, do you know what Amazon Hall is?
SPEAKER 04 :
Is it H-A-U-L?
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, H-A-U-L.
SPEAKER 04 :
No. No.
SPEAKER 02 :
so amazon haul i have no idea what i've never even heard of this it's is it like amazon but more nerd i don't know what is it we don't know larger items from amazon that require hauling i don't know yeah i don't know is it like wholesale maybe it's like wholesale stuff I feel like I need to be a better consumer at this point to know about it, right? I'm like, how do I not know about those?
SPEAKER 04 :
What I'm seeing here is, is this the regular hyperbole that we see from the media? Let's say there was a rumor that got to the Trump administration that said Amazon's considering doing these tariff numbers by their items and then trump's like well i'm gonna get on the phone with bezos and find out if this is true or not yeah and so trump calls and all this the reporting is trump is you know he he actually is complaining to bezos and they're they're just the hyperbole from the media is what i think is muddying this thing up it is and i think some of the hyperbole although i mean so if they're saying that it was supposed to be
SPEAKER 02 :
That it was being considered for Amazon Hall and not Amazon. And they said it was never approved and not going to happen.
SPEAKER 04 :
And let's consider the fact that this was an unnamed source that got all of this started. Have we seen something like that before? Where an unnamed source starts this big media frenzy and it turns out to be nothing?
SPEAKER 02 :
Here's Amazon Hall. I asked AI.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, well, here we go.
SPEAKER 02 :
Amazon haul is a new shopping experience on the Amazon app and website that focuses on budget-friendly products, primarily items reduced at $20 or less. So it's the cheap stuff. Cheap Chinese stuff. Just call it the CCS, cheap Chinese stuff. That's what it is. All right. So, okay. I didn't know what that was. I didn't know it was a whole thing. Oh, interesting. I mean, how is that different from Amazon?
SPEAKER 04 :
acquiring minds want to know i don't know how is it different and just so you know it's not that we impose this big tariff on china it's always been china's giant tariff on us the reciprocal nature of of trump's policies are what is the issue so china's next move which by the way they cannot sustain what they're doing right now is to come back to the table and negotiate a fair tariff or eliminate it completely you know what's kind of funny though because
SPEAKER 02 :
In all of the debates between the right and left that I've seen on this, you know, people are like, well, why didn't they do this? It's Biden's inflation. Why didn't they? Can we just admit that both of these things increase prices? The media is accidentally having to admit. We've always said, look, the tariff thing is going to be tough. It's a tactic to equalize the playing field. That's not what's being debated. I mean, you're going to have to take a tough move like that. I wanted tax cuts to come first. That's my big thing. But what I said, this is going to hurt for a little bit.
SPEAKER 04 :
People don't have the spine for it. Do you want the permanent pain of Biden policies or do you want the temporary pain of the Trump policies?
SPEAKER 02 :
No, but my point is the media is actually having to admit that Biden's inflation raised prices.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, and we're seeing already inflation year over year is down significantly.
SPEAKER 02 :
These people are clowns. Oh, my gosh. Sometimes when I sit here and try to understand and process like I'm like Democrats were are argue. It's weird how they argue things from a certain perspective, because I feel like they're they in order to score a win on someone that they think is a politically ideological opponent. They are admitting something that they were denying forever as as a get. It is. Is it feel like you're refereeing drunk people? When I talk, I feel like I'm referring a drunk person. Like I'm babysitting a drunk. That's what it feels like. Whenever I'm trying to dive in and understand what the hell you people on the left are talking about, it's like I'm the sober friend at the social get-together and I'm babysitting a room full of drunks, which is...
SPEAKER 01 :
chaos it's just what it's like it's this yeah it's who boy thanks for tuning in to today's edition of dana lash's absurd truth podcast if you haven't already make sure to hit that subscribe button on apple podcast spotify or wherever you get your podcasts
