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The bottom line here, President Trump directed the most complex and secretive military operation in history. And it was a resounding success, resulting in a ceasefire agreement and the end of the 12-day war. There's been a lot of discussion about what happened and what didn't happen. Step back for a second. Because of decisive military action, President Trump created the conditions to end the war.
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decimating choose your word obliterating destroying iran's nuclear capabilities i don't know why it's a debate because we have satellite images i mean it's 2025 right kane i didn't just imagine all of this and we have uh we don't have satellite capability and You know, from to go to space and look down at a facility and determine whether or not it's still there. It's just so hokey to me that they're still trying to they're arguing this like they're debating it like it's a bad thing. that Trump took out the mullahs or the nuclear ability of the mullahs. It's just an odd thing. And that was Sukhdev Hegseth that you heard just there, who is discussing that because he's been, I mean, he should be, you know, it's crazy. He should be focusing on, you know, finishing the prosecution of this objective, which is to go out and get rid of, finish these facilities as they had stated, and now he has to focus on battling the media, which I don't think is the best use of his time. But our media demands it because their narrative must be satiated. That is the most important thing above all. They have to satisfy the media and the media's narrative. And that's the reality of the situation. So that's why we're in this position. That's why we're talking about this still. There's a lot that's related to this because we're going to get into some of the fighting on the leaks, the issue with the leaks, because there's been some developments there as well. And apparently there was somebody who was left out of a national security briefing that Maybe. I don't know. There's a lot of speculation. So we're going to dive into that. We have some of the latest, too, as it pertains to looking at my list. Immigration, the GOP as well. We have a lot with the GOP that we're going to touch on. And, of course, some some bad media. And then we got some Supreme Court decisions as well. So there's a lot to unpack. It's that weird time of summer where. You know, normally I'm on vacation this time of year. So, and Cain, wouldn't you know, the one time that I don't, there's not a big giant breaking story. What? The one year that I'm not on vacation. How does that happen? There's not a big giant breaking story.
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It almost seems intentional, like the universe does this intentionally.
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Yeah. Well, it was, for so many years, it got so... so bad with the breaking news. I mean, because you plan your vacations like forever in advance, right? And especially when you work in broadcasting. And we'd plan everything in advance and then we'd go, and oh my gosh, all hell would break loose. And I would actually have to work part of my vacation. There were at least several days that I would have to do something. And there was one time, and it was when Roe v. Wade was overturned from the one court case. And I was on a boat in, in the Exumas on some island. It was Little Farmer's Key. And we were down there literally swimming with turtles and having a good old time. And I still had, because that damned Patriot Mobile, I still had connection. No one else had connection. Me and my, like Chris and I had connection still. We're literally in the middle of an ocean and I'm swimming with turtles. And my phone's like, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh. And so I actually called into the radio program. I called into the radio program that day. And then the powers that be were like, we really don't like it if you just ever leave. You can't really ever leave. So here we are. So the, yeah, this is the one time when it is not like that. When it's not like.
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It's getting to the point where you're actually single-handedly creating world peace by not taking vacation.
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Well, when you say it like that, where's my Nobel Peace Prize?
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That's what I'm saying. I mean, you deserve another.
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I feel like I deserve a Nobel Peace Prize, you know, I mean, for not doing that this year. So there was a fight, Hegseth and Griffin, Jennifer Griffin. This was at the same time. presser the same press availability where they were colleagues at fox at one time uh he went at her for the story misrepresenting what he said was a misrepresentation of how the strikes happened and like the result of it listen to this highly enriched uranium do you have
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certainty that all the highly enriched uranium was inside the Fordow Mountain or some of it because there were satellite photos that showed more than a dozen trucks there two days in advance. Are you certain none of that highly enriched uranium was moved?
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Of course, we're watching every single aspect. But, Jennifer, you've been about the worst, the one who misrepresents the most intentionally. what the president says. I'm familiar.
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I was the first to report about the ventilation shafts on Saturday night. And in fact, I was the first to describe the B-2 bombers, the refueling, the entire mission with great accuracy. So I take issue with that.
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I appreciate you acknowledging that this is the most successful mission based on operational security that this department has done since you've been here. I appreciate that. So we're looking at all aspects of intelligence and making sure we have a sense of what was where.
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She was mad. You could hear her voice shaking in that. She was super. I mean. He has a point, though. He has a point because the way that all of this has been presented and the way that they've reported about this is though, oh, well, really, these strikes weren't as great as everybody's making it out to be. They're really not as good as everybody's making them out to be. They really weren't as successful. And I mentioned this yesterday. I am just floored by this take. Because, again, I go back to the point that I made right when we started the show. I mean, we have satellite imagery. We can see what's successful and what is. We know what's been done. And am I missing something, Cain? But what is there to get out of pretending otherwise?
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I mean, it's just orange man bad stuff.
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This is the stupidest news cycle of the summer.
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Absolutely is.
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I want to throw things. It's so stupid.
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And that's saying something.
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I just, let me, let me just, we had these strikes. This is a separate argument from whether or not you think they should have had, it's a separate argument from that. We had these strikes. We can measure, we can literally see from space. Not only that, but you, there is instrumentation, even from space, where you can measure the process of enrichment because the resources used emit a tell. To put it in layman's terms, that's that technology exists. So the strikes happen. We can measure the after effects. And then the press and the left are saying not. And that is literally our news cycle right now.
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It's absolutely true. So, of course, the destruction is under a mountain, right? So you're not able from satellite to see all the destruction, but they're using that tiny nuance to create that doubt for, I guess, political purposes, because to me, it makes no sense why we would.
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you know direct this towards essentially our military they're doing it through trump but essentially they're criticizing our military as though they're in effect i mean you literally can use lasers to to detect weapons grade uranium that is an actual thing that is something and you can also use commercial satellite imaging to detect those elements as well so for people to say that there's no way to tell you're being a flat earther it's literally flat earthing I'm not even a nuclear scientist and I know that this technology exists. Maybe it's just, and you do too. Maybe it's just because we read things. I don't know. I've been familiar with this technology for forever. So you do have that measure. You can't evaluate it in that manner. That's why I'm just saying, I can't believe what a stupid news cycle that we are in. Do you realize that this dominates literally everything? No one is writing about anything else. No one's talking about anything else. Everyone's fighting over this. Oh, and the big, beautiful bill. They're supposed to have a vote on that on Tuesday in the Senate. We're going to see how much has been stripped from... The House bill. They said that there's the Senate committee on the budget says that there are bird rule violations galore. This and the bird rule, as you know, that was where they were restricting what what can be. included in a reconciliation bill. That is what the Byrd rule is. I do think it's interesting that Democrats are the ones citing this the most because it's named after a literal Klansman, Robert Byrd. Wait, can I just stop for a minute? We're naming all these monuments. Why didn't Democrats ever want to rename this? Hmm, just stumped myself. So the bird rule is to stop in the process of reconciliation using things that are not related to the budget to put in there. So that's what it is. Anyway, the Senate is saying that, oh my gosh, there's bird rule violations galore. And they're saying that Democrats have been trying to put in tons of stuff for Medicaid, basically all kinds of entitlements. They've been trying to put in every single type of entitlement you can imagine. And that is what they've been pushing. So they're fighting in the Senate. The goal they were trying to get to is maybe perhaps a Tuesday vote. And again, you know I'm not a fan of the bill. I'm just telling you where it is, where the process is. So they... expectation is a Tuesday vote. That's the expectation. Also on deck, big, big fights in Texas. And I've been telling you to watch out for this in your state because there are big instances in other states of special interest fights. Going in and basically buying up influence to try to make the market more palatable for their business entity. We've seen it happen in other states. There's a lot of questions as to whether or not it would happen in the Republic of Texas. And I bring that up because the way that that THC banning thing works. The SB3 that Greg Abbott vetoed. It's very interesting, the players that are involved in pushing this. And Dan Patrick has gone apoplectic over it. He's the lieutenant governor. He has declared war on the governor. Seems so much like Florida. He's well, with certain Republicans, he's declared war on Governor Greg Abbott. And the word on the street is that. And I have not heard personally from a lawmaker who has said this, but there are sources I know who are saying this and it was reported today. And I actually was hearing this yesterday that he has been that they're threatening Texas lawmakers with not with basically deadlocking everything in the Senate as a consequence of the veto on SB three. which was the banning specifically of THC, which had been legal and strictly regulated. And then, I don't know, maybe it was eaten into big alcohol's profits because more people started consuming that than drinking and driving. I don't know. But long story short, he's gone apoplectic on it. And some lawmakers have been intimating that there is the chance of a deadlock in the Senate as a result of this. We're going to explore that a little bit here coming up. Recently, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis legalized gold and silver as acceptable currency, meaning that Floridians cannot make transactions in gold and silver, thus creating an alternative to the U.S. dollar. So I guess all the inflation and national debt that's spiraling out of control, not to mention the recent credit downgrade for the United States. has finally opened up all lawmakers' eyes. The writing has been on the wall for a long time, and it's time to protect yourself against the declining value of the dollar. 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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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Okay, so Chuck Schumer was apparently hospitalized for dehydration, feeling lightheaded during, I am so tired of scorching heat wave. It's summer! Summer! Stop it. People are freaking out over the weather. All the people who tell you every single day about climate change apparently don't understand that when it gets summer, it gets hot out. Like, you're going to sweat. The 74-year-old Brooklyn Democrat was lightheaded while he was working out on a stationary bike in the Senate gym. They said he was briefly hospitalized out of an abundance of caution. His electrolytes were probably low. He was dehydrated. I mean, there's a number of things. And also stationary bikes are stupid. There's a number of things.
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If he's in the gym, is it climate change? Is it because it's summer and it's hot outside when he's in the gym?
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At least he goes, look, I'll give him this. At least he's not like his predecessor. He goes to the gym to work out. He doesn't work out in his bathroom and hit his head on every available object that is near him.
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That Harry Reid misfortune.
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Yeah, when Harry Reid was working out with bands in his bathroom and it looked like someone swung him around by his ankles and hit him, used him for batting practice. That's what it looked like. That's, you know, I mean, I'm not going to say he got beaten up because he was the head of the Gaming Commission, but I'm, you know, does indicate that maybe something like that may have happened. A man, I'm going to tell you what, a man who was accused of kicking a canine at Dulles International Airport so hard that the dog was lifted off the ground. If I would have seen this guy, I would be in jail right now. You guys think I'm joking when I say something like this. I can promise you without any hyperbole that I am not. He kicked the dog so hard that the dog went airborne. And the guy whose name was Hamid Marie. attacked the canine named Freddie as it was screening luggage. And it's a little beagle. It was a little beagle that was trained to find illicit agricultural contraband. Freddie was injured and had to be taken to the emergency veterinarian room. And then the guy was taken into custody. Please, for the love of all things holy, U.S. government, if you ever do anything for me, allow me to be in charge of this dude's punishment. I'll do it for free. I will pay to do it. I'll pay extra. I don't even care. There's nothing that I love more than watching people who are mean to animals suffer. Nothing. I enjoy it. It's not great, but I do. Please let me handle this. Oh, please. I think everyone can agree with this. What would you have done if you saw a guy kick a beagle? I would have punched this guy in the throat, kicked him in the jimmies, and stomped on his head. That's what I immediately would have done. I already have 10 different ways I would have hurt him. Stick with us. Back after this. It's our partners that help bring you the program. It's our friends over at Patriot Mobile, the only Christian conservative cell phone service. That is in existence. And they want to make it easy to switch because if you haven't switched, I just don't get it. I mean, it's literally the only cell phone service that's out there that shares your values. And to that point, they want to make it to where you have coverage everywhere all across the country. I've had coverage internationally. It's never an issue. You can get access to all three major U.S. networks. No compromise on quality for your values. You can enjoy flexible, unlimited data plans, mobile hotspots, international roaming, device protection, Internet backup to stay connected. Keep your phone, keep your number, upgrade. They have fast activation from their 100% U.S.-based support team from your home or office. And veterans and first responders get 15% off of their bill every month. And you get exceptional, I mean, service. I mean, this is a company that shares your values and they're not using their money, your money that you pay for your service to work against you at the ballot box, which is supremely important. Be mindful with how you spend your money. Switch to Patriot Mobile today. That's patriotmobile.com slash Dana, or you can call 972-PATRIOT to get started. Use promo code Dana to receive a free month of service. Support our heroes too by switching to Patriot Mobile today. That's patriotmobile.com slash Dana, promo code Dana, 972-PATRIOT.
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I think from what I've seen, the 20,000 centrifuges, you had about 17,000 in the Tans, about 3,000 in Florida, they are all completely destroyed. I am very confident those centrifuges are gone. The Israelis destroyed the centrifuge manufacturing production facilities that we know of. Isfahan, which is the conversion facility, key part of the fuel site, also appears to have been destroyed. So if you add it up from what we're seeing, massive catastrophic setback for Iran's program. The term of art obliterated, destroyed. I kind of step out of that. This is an analytical process. It's important for the professionals now in the intelligence community to be able to do their work without political pressure and come out with their assessments. And we'll know soon enough. There's a lot of work going on here from U.S. intelligence agencies, from Assad and the Israelis, from other partners. But I thought that briefing was important. We now know that operation that was developed over multiple administrations worked exactly as it was designed.
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Hmm. So that was not the way that CNN thought it would go. That's Biden's White House coordinator for the Middle East, Brett McGurk, who says, yeah, this is the best. His quote was, this is about the best place we could be. I give extremely high marks to this national security team and President Trump for managing this crisis. The looks, the expressions of those talking heads were so funny. So funny. Welcome back. to the program. Dana Lash, with you. And we are at the bottom of this first hour. So that's been the other, that's been the other, that's like the big, for whatever reason, the big debate and the issue that Democrats have been wanting to fight over is this insinuation that somehow nothing was done and that Trump is, I mean, it's a huge victory for POTUS. I mean, he looks smart. He went in and aided an ally That weren't they weren't able to take out this nuclear facility by themselves. The United States went in and did it and didn't didn't commit to anything further. Very, you know, limited loss of resource in terms of the the expending the bombs and, you know, no, no casualties on behalf of the United States. So, you know, I mean, that is that's a win. And I separate from the argument of whether or not you think it should be done. For the left to deny somehow that the conclusion didn't match the promise is a little weird. especially, and then for them to try to argue, I mean, they sound like Iranian Pravda to go out and argue that nothing was done. Oh, look, there was nothing that was accomplished. There's, you know, this wasn't destroyed. The satellite imagery is out. You can go on social media or hell, you can Google it and find it. There's, it's not a question. It isn't a question. So, and then Lorraine notes too. So the hominy hasn't been the idol, the supreme leader hominy King. He hasn't been seen in like two weeks. Now, you realize that when you're a brutal dictator and you're a leader that suppresses elections and things like that, one of the avenues to maintaining your power is constant sight, right? The people have to constantly see you. For people to not constantly see the quote-unquote supreme leader, their supreme burrito over there, that's – That's sus. What are you typing over there? You look very... You look smarmy. What are you typing?
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He doesn't want to get murked by a drone at the least expected time.
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So you're saying that the United States and Israel are like an excitable toddler or an excitable elementary schooler that has eaten a lot of sugar and is at the Chuck E. Cheese at the Whack-A-Mole just holding out that big giant mallet? That's what you're saying? Just waiting for him to pop out?
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I believe that's how he feels. I'm not saying that that's how it is. He should feel that way. That's exactly right. So I think that we're just seeing him doing exactly what I would do if I was a dictator who was...
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They were saying that if they don't see the hominy by the Ashura, one of their events, then that is a bad sign. He's got to show his face. I don't think he was murked.
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No, no, no. I'm going to say if he does show his face, he feels he will get murked.
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Yeah. Well, he ought to. Yeah. I mean, just saying. So the Intel leaky, we told you yesterday that there is, um, there are, uh, I think it was FBI. They're going to call FBI into that. At least that's what Secretary of Defense was saying. This is an interesting story. I'm going to bring this up real quick. This is Daily Mail. So sometimes Daily Mail is complete and utter trash. And then every now and then it's not. But I've been hearing stuff like this. So I want to go back to what was it in March when DNI, Tulsi Gabbard, did this video that seemed to be very out of step with the rest of the administration. The word on the street was that it was not sanctioned by the White House video. And she did this video wherein she was saying that that nuclear warfare was bad. No one's contesting that. And we're saying that she this was one that a lot of people criticized her for yours truly also because I didn't like the tone and the omission when talking about nuclear warfare with respect to World War Two in the Pacific. But that being said, she's also in addition to that video, she's also gone out repeatedly and said that Iran has. Oh, they've not developed anything. They haven't. And then she did a 180 on it on social media like last week. There was a story that said she had been omitted from one intelligence briefing. And then now today, actually, I should say this was yesterday, yesterday. Well, actually, early this morning, early, early overnight, a story filed saying that she is rumored to be in POTUS's line of fire, that she has been sidelined ahead of much anticipated intelligence briefings to Congress. to detail POTUS's recent strikes on these nuclear facilities. She was forced to make the dramatic U-turn last week. And remember, this is what I was talking about when she kind of did this 180 after she had been saying relentlessly that Iran had not developed anything. They don't have anything developed. Why are we considering this? She admitted that they actually did have the ability to create nuclear weaponry after she was publicly rebuked by POTUS. And she wrote on X, I mean, this literally is completely opposite of what she had said prior. She said America has intel in Iran that they're at the point that they can create a nuclear weapon within weeks to months. If they decide to finalize the assembly, you know, I agree with POTUS, that can't happen. But literally the Friday before, I mean, the week before, though, she was saying that that didn't happen. And then she put it on X that the media was dishonest and took her testimony out of context. Well, that's not true either. I mean, she's written about it on X. That's not the media taking. When you write things and you post them on X and when you make videos and release them yourself and people can go and see what it is, that's not the media. And I say this as someone who has hated the media for a hell of a lot longer than she's been even saying that she's an independent. That's not the media doing it. That's your own words. I mean, when you have made a 180, and I think that's great that she's changed her mind on it, but that's the thing. This is kind of like part of the pattern with her. She'll have this position, and then she changes it, complete 180, without any explanation. It was like the gun control stuff. She was hardcore gun control, and then all of a sudden she decides not to be. And I'm all for persuading people and getting them to come to your side. Believe me. Otherwise, what's the point of any of this? But when you don't offer... an actual legitimate explanation and you just kind of gloss over it. She did a video where she sort of glossed over it and that was it. She didn't answer any questions at all whatsoever. She said that it wasn't until something like after she had served, you know, after she was in the military and after she served in Congress, then she started talking to people and realized, I'm like, you didn't realize like before then I don't buy it, but she never actually went in depth on it. She, and I watched the video, she didn't explain anything. And so I just like, I, I don't want to put anybody in the war room who has not satisfied my curiosity as to why they changed a complete 180 on such an important position. So that's I bring that up because that's kind of part of the pattern here. This is, again, a complete 180 without any explanation as to why. And then now you have the story that she's been sidelined from these briefings to Congress and. And she's going to be absent today because Trump officials are giving Congress evidence as to the success of the strikes. And she's not involved. She's not involved. She was originally supposed to join Ratcliffe, CIA, SecDef, Secretary of State in this briefing. And apparently now she's not. Now, someone in the administration said, oh, well, that's not really, you know, Ratcliffe is going to represent the intel community. That's it. But it kind of seems like she is might be taking the fall for this. And I cite Steve Bannon's favorite reporter that he allowed to he dragged into the White House and let them run around like free access to everything because he thought he was going to get his name in the papers that Michael Wolf guy. And he was one of the ones who also has been he's among the chorus that's saying this. So I don't know necessarily that they're having her take the blame. I said yesterday that I have a very difficult time in seeing how someone who has such a high position within the intelligence community take a complete opposite stance to that of POTUS and then barely, barely seven days later does a total 180 without any substantive explanation as to why. And I'm all about persuasion. But that is inapplicable here when you were talking about an appointed official who is the head of an intel agency. This isn't about persuading someone like you would a voter. These are people who make serious decisions that affect your lives. And I think that we're offered a little bit of explanation here. Now, the other thing that was being speculated, and I don't know that I put a lot of stock in this. Some were saying that, well, did the leaks come from her? There are enough people out there who are suggesting that maybe the leaks on this came from her, which I don't know that I necessarily buy into that simply because what was one of the reasons that she even wanted to be involved in the administration was because she was on one of those no fly lists. And that's why she's now the head of this intelligence agency. So to me, it seems like the pieces don't fit. If she would leak something like that out to the press, it would be like using the same avenues and the same methods through which she was put on a no-fly list that you would be leaking to the press about the administration. Does that make sense? It just doesn't fit. So I don't know if I think that the leaks come from her. I think that she made a poor choice with that video in March. And I think that she got a little ahead of her skis. You never get out in front of POTUS on something. And she got out in front of POTUS on something. And that's ultimately what I think the big rub is. And I don't think it has to do with ego. I think it just made it difficult for the administration to be as nimble as they needed to be when they had someone in such a high position get ahead of them on an issue. And that made it a little bit more difficult and it created a lot of discord in the press. And that's one of the reasons why we have all these headlines right now is precisely because of that. I don't think that that's leaking. I think that's insubordination. And if they decide that they want to sideline her or get her out of that job, that's completely within their right to do so. I just question how you can have something like that with someone in such a high level position. Everybody's really got to be humming on the same frequency. And it seems antithetical to having a well-oiled machine to have those kind of rookie mistakes at that level. We have a lot more on the way. So let's be real. Medical freedom isn't just a catchphrase. It's your right. 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SPEAKER 18 :
Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States.
SPEAKER 20 :
You cannot...
SPEAKER 19 :
white people that is not okay that is assault and it's 100 up to her if she wants to pursue charges i'd like to understand why you did that i'm really i apologize i was just playing because we're very playful together and i bit down too hard and i meant to she's got a mouth mark on her i know no we do not play like that i i was no i apologize no i am really pissed
SPEAKER 03 :
You have left a mark on my body, which in your 80-year-old brain you think is play. Sir, were you raised in a ditch? Is that how people treated you when you were a child? You yelled at me. You got mad. The audacity. How dare you, sir? How dare you?
SPEAKER 19 :
You definitely should not have done that when you were in the wrong. I'm very sorry that I got angry because I was indulging in something improper by doing that and... I'm very sincerely sorry.
SPEAKER 04 :
Is this not insane to you? This is the guy who's in, he's the Cobra Kai guy. He's John Kreese in the movie? Yeah, he's like the bad dude in it. And, no. Yeah, and he's in the television series too, apparently. Or was in the television series. So he bit His co-star... And I'm trying to figure out why. He goes, I was just playing. And then he was like, I'm sorry that I indulged in... I got angry and I indulged in a... All you gotta do is say, I got angry and bit you. First off, you know who does that? Dogs do that. That's weird. Why are you an 80-year-old man biting people? And you're lucky that she didn't kick your jimmies into the sun. Like, why? How... That's... I mean, he's not even European. Like Europeans have some weird greetings, but that's not even you can't even chalk it up to that. I just I bit him. Hello. Yes, that's how we do it. But he it left a mark on her arm and apparently almost he didn't draw blood, but he almost drew blood. So, yeah, she was I'd probably be pretty mad if someone. bit my arm. I mean, yeah, I would be mad. There would be violence if somebody bit my arm like that. Apparently she walked past him, tapped him on the shoulder and said hello and he turned and grabbed her arm and bit it. And then that's what happened. I don't... know where he comes from but isn't this how you say hello earth people like those cartoons where you know you see the other person they look like a piece of chicken oh yeah brothers tom and jerry all the time sometimes jerry would you know be walking around you need to look like a little chicken cutlet maybe in his old age he got all hungry Yeah, yeah, maybe it was. I don't know. That's just wild, though. So she had every right to be not happy with him. Anyway, we've got our second hour coming up. You don't want to miss any of that because all the latest happenings, and then we've got some culture immigration in New York as well. Stick with us. as we move, our partners that will bring you the program, the folks over at Relief Factor, if you're one of those people out there dealing with aches and pains for whatever reason, there is an all natural way to alleviate this. So that way you don't have to, nobody likes all the big pharma stuff and you want to be able to manage aches and pains, but do it naturally. And this is what Relief Factor does. My husband uses it because he has sports injuries with his knee. And he says that Relief Factor helps him. It really does deal with inflammation incredibly well. And it can help you whether you're just, you know, still being athletic, whether you're going to the gym, whatever. Or maybe you just want to get by in life. You know, it can help you with that as well. It has all kinds of good stuff in it. Turmeric, omega-3 fatty acids, resveratrol, everything designed to target inflammation and support joint health. 100% drug-free, all developed to support your body's natural healing process. So don't stay stuck living with pain. Try Relief Factor's three-week quick start. It's just $19.95. That's less than a dollar a day. And not only are you going to get great results, but you're also going to support a veteran-owned company. And you'll see the difference for yourself. Visit relieffactor.com or call 1-800-4-RELIEF. That's 1-800-4-RELIEF.
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We are not dealing with that. Your colleagues in the Republican Party do not hold each other accountable when it comes to the racism that comes from the party on a consistent basis.
SPEAKER 11 :
Congressman, I mean, where are you?
SPEAKER 16 :
You can't be calm about this. I'm a black man in America. The reason why I can't come. Listen to what I'm saying. The reason why heart disease and cancer and obesity and diabetes are bigger in the black community is because of the stress we carry from having to deal with being called the N-word directly or indirectly every day. If your colleagues would listen and try to learn and engage and grow and stop being so hateful, we could have a better country.
SPEAKER 04 :
But unfortunately, we're still here. So that's Jamal Bowman, who? Fire Marshal Bowman? Yeah, Fire Marshal Bowman, who thinks that people suffer, black people have heart disease and they deal with obesity because they're called the N-word every day. What? I've never heard this before. Did this come out during COVID?
SPEAKER 18 :
No, I haven't seen any studies on this at all.
SPEAKER 04 :
This is so weird. I've never, I don't know where he's getting that information. What show was he on? Was he on the Schmoo? What was that? I didn't pay attention to the show.
SPEAKER 18 :
That was CNN. It was Abby Phillips' show, I think.
SPEAKER 04 :
I don't even know who that is. I literally don't. Which one is she? I don't know. They're all the talking heads there. They're all the same level of Marxist.
SPEAKER 18 :
She's a talking head on CNN.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. So welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. And we are at the top of the second hour. I'm just still trying to wrap my head around that one. That Jamal Bowman sound right there. So I'm really tired of the racial hustle. I think we all are. Do you think it's going away? Do you think it's starting to dissipate? Or it's maybe not so much dissipate in terms that they're trying to, the same grifters are trying to push it, but that it's not having the same effect.
SPEAKER 18 :
So do you mean is the use of it being dissipated or is actual racism? Because I think actual racism, we were pretty much, it was gone by the 90s.
SPEAKER 04 :
It was not a thing. I don't know how people were raised. Dude. I mean, I do not know how people were raised because in the 90s, this was not a thing. It was not a thing. I do not know how to explain it. I tried telling this to my kids because they've been raised with this grift this whole time. And I'm like, it seems like it's worse now because people figured out they could make money off of it. That's what it is. Everybody wanted to turn into Al Sharpton. They're like, I saw that man's gold medallions and I wanted that for me.
SPEAKER 18 :
So that effort has kept racism, quote unquote, alive. It being used now effectively, I don't think it's effective anymore. I think it's been so overused that the meaning of it is diluted to the point where it's no longer effective.
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Yeah. Yeah, I think it's... I find it all completely fascinating. This whole thing, just this, the, the constant grift of this, the constant push of it. And I feel so bad for like our kids and, you know, other people in their generation, because it's, In the 90s, like I said, we did not have this. This was not a thing. Everybody could get along with everybody. If someone wanted to celebrate something, no one held it against them. If someone wanted to appreciate something, no one held it against them. Now, if you do anything like that, everything is appropriation. People figured out they could get a check off of being offended because people would try to baby you. Oh, we don't want you to be offended. And they they got power in that. They got they got power in demanding that sort of attention. So instead of doing anything that would merit any kind of respectable influence, they decided to go about it that way. It's just one of the stupidest things I've ever seen. It's so goofy. So, I don't know. This idea that people somehow their life isn't a result of their choices, but it's because someone, even if what he said was true, which it's not, because someone said a word to someone, oh my gosh, stop. And also that doesn't, he's saying that that It is an issue because people are called names every day, but it couldn't be an issue because of Democrat policies contributing to the breakdown of the American family. It could be an issue because of Democrat policies breaking down to the neighborhood within an urban environment. It couldn't be because any of those policies, heaven forbid. But then, see, he would have to explain why he's a Democrat if he actually addressed those things correctly head on. He would have to explain. That's what I don't get with the left. That's what I don't get with a lot of this stuff. So I don't get like how American Indians can be Democrats. Like, you literally were forcibly removed in a trail of genocide by Democrats. You were put on what they thought was crappy land that they didn't want. And then it turned out it had a lot of minerals in it. And then, oh my gosh, then they made it to where you can't even own your own land on a reservation. And then you got sucked into a cycle of poverty and dependence completely because of the Democrat Party policies. And then somehow... So many Native, so many American Indians vote for Democrats. It's literally like chickens voting for Colonel Sanders. It's exact. I just do not understand it. And I talk about this because our family's history, we were on the rolls. So we were, you know, we had ancestors that were on the trail. Mike, I don't even understand how you can how you vote, how you can vote for people who the same damn party that does it still today. The same party that wants to keep people disarmed. You know, I was actually shocked, and I wrote about this in my first book, Hands Off My Gun, that the Dred Scott case, how literally not being able to own a firearm was the deciding factor for Judge Taney in the Dred Scott case. Gun control is literally at its very heart and root bigoted. It's always designed for subjugation, always. So it's pretty amazing to me. Pretty amazing to me. So, I don't know. We'll see. But I, Jamal Bowman, I just I'm so tired of these people. And you would think Democrats are tired of them, too. They and then they vote and support for somebody like Ma'am Danny, Ma'am Danny in New York. So he's going to be running against Eric Adams, who's running as an independent. And there I was looking at his stronghold, like it's really white liberal women that are white progressive women that are voting for this guy. And he got a his his vote total wasn't as runaway as people think it is. But what I don't get is you have Curtis Sliwa up there who's running as a Republican. And I I'm just going to be very frank. I don't like it when I have to sugarcoat everything. It annoys me. I feel like people if they're talking about politics and they're talking about strategy. Just by admission into the discussion, people need to not be pansies and get completely upset and hurt and think everything is about them. Okay? Let me just establish that. It is my biggest pet peeve in any kind of political discussion because people immediately take everything personally and they think everything is about them. I have a friend on Facebook who... I just had to literally restrict them from seeing everything that I posted. And I know them in real life. I had to restrict them from anything that I posted because they literally thought everything, even something innocuous about like a bee, anything I would share is about them. So I'm like, I can't deal with this level of, you know, self glorification and paranoia. So just it's a big problem with politics. So I say this because I I've never met. I think I've heard Curtis Lee on my show like one time years ago. I like him. I don't have anything against him. What the hell are Republicans doing, though? Like, if you really are that scared about this ma'am Danny guy, which he is a threat posing such a threat to New York, why would you not work together and form a coalition? Form a coalition to defeat him. Why would you not do that? Why would you not form a coalition to defeat him? Anybody have any ideas? Why? Why would they not work together? Because him running as a Republican, he's not going to win. He doesn't have a chance. He does not have a shot in hell. He's ran a million times. He's run a million times. He does not have a shot in hell. Why would you not then just like work together to develop a coalition? I don't know. I don't know what they're thinking. I don't know what the strategy is. They could maybe partner with Erica. I know. But if it's about saving Manhattan, why would you not do that? Democrats, this is what Democrats are becoming. Everybody, they're all going to this guy because they're morons and they think that he's cool. It's seamster stuff. People think that they're socialists until they actually make money and they get out in the world and they realize how completely impractical these policies, these ideas and how dumb they are. I mean, it's It's I there's a million different analogies I could give. But they really should work together. They really should work together. But they're not going to because you got too many consultants involved. I hate political consultants with the burning fire of a thousand suns. I cannot stand consultants because a lot of times consultants want people getting races and they don't care if that person wins or loses because they're going to make their money either way. Right. There are a lot of consultants that are involved in the Sliwa race. Like I know people there's some people who don't like George Santos. I get it. But he's pretty plugged into New York. I will say I know him personally. You know, he's admitted his guilt. He's going to serve his time. You know, let's get you know that. Don't kill the messenger. What he's saying on this and some of the stuff is accurate. He's naming consultants right and left. He's like like like Rob Cole, et cetera, et cetera. He goes, these consultants, they only get cash once every four years during the mayoral race. And when that window opens, they go all in desperate to get these big checks and live large. And they tell people like Curtis, whatever they want to hear to keep the money flowing in the illusion alive. That is absolutely true. He got 20 percent in 2021. So why in the hell would you think that he has a chance now when the city's moved even further left? That's a good point. Consultants mess up so much strategy. They're involved in the Texas stuff. So I got some Dan Patrick simps that think that they're going to bully me. I've eaten the souls of people bigger. So do not even because it just gets really bad for you. And that's a promise. But I've had like some of these consultants. They're in his here saying you need to do this. He's like basically challenging Greg Abbott. And I've been hearing he's going around trying to push over a lot of these lawmakers in Austin because of that THC thing. There was one press conference where he threw a bag of gummies at somebody in the audience. It's on video. He threw a bag of gummies at somebody in the audience. He got so mad. And I'm like, and I got all people like, you know, all the consultants he has working with him and people talking about big liquor and all of this stuff. That's when he threw something. Look at him. He's out of control. He's out of control. And he's apparently... So the word on the street, and I retweeted some of it, and I've been hearing this from a lot of people. Now, I've only... Some lawmakers, I've said, they've had tense words with him. The word is that he was threatening to bottleneck everything in the Senate because of this bill. The only thing that they could do is either... amend it and make it more palatable to Abbott or recraft it and have new legislation it's not again it's not about smoking pot or anything like that anybody who's telling you that and I am not a consumer I just don't like government after COVID you know I tend to not like the government involved in telling you what you know all of the stuff to do and etc etc and I would think that the same like-minded people would be on the same page as this uh but um he's um He's got some I don't know, I think some questionable associations, but it's not it's it's not any of that stuff. And I think that there are a lot of people that are feeding a lot of wrong information out there. And it's really unfortunate. And the word is that he's threatening like, oh, this legislation is not going to get their Senate. This isn't going to get their Senate like as punishment for this bill. That is the quickest way to make yourself political kryptonite. I was talking to a couple of different lawmakers this week. One is is running for reelection. One is seeking a different office. And in the past, having somebody like Dan Patrick endorse their race would be huge. None of them want it. They're like, I mean, both of them expressed to me the same sentiment in different words to the extent of, oh, well, thank heavens, you know, Dan Patrick is not. He's he's over here picking a fight over gummies. So we don't have to worry about him, you know, endorsing them there. We don't need his endorsement. Literally, that was what was expressed. He is making himself political kryptonite. 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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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The first headline, Cain. How do I say this? Armenia's Prime Minister... has offered to show his male copulatory organ to the head of the church. He said he's going to prove his faith by dropping his trousers. He's had a bitter feud over his male copulatory organ and circumcision. And... I hate social media. Everyone acts like a badass until the camera goes on. It's so funny. The, uh... They went back and forth over, I can't believe this. How are you a church leader and you're going back and forth over this? By the way, if you're going after someone over this and you're a church quote unquote leader, there's a good chance you're not a church leader. I'm just saying, you're not a real one. Oh my gosh. So they've been arguing back and forth over that. Let's see. A Chinese man apparently swallowed his toothbrush when he was 12 and he's 64 now and it's stuck in his intestine and he has to have surgery. Oh my. I don't even know how a person swallows a toothbrush, number one. Number two, how you don't do anything about it for like 50-something years. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. So this is kind of weird. This is a science publication. Apparently, cannabis in human remains sent to space went missing after returning to Earth on a SpaceX mission.
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Oh, no.
SPEAKER 04 :
Gross. So gross. Can we just not eat ashes into space and stuff like that? I'm just saying let's just you know, there's probably other creative ways that we can do that. We have a lot more on the way. Bottom of the hour coming up. Stick with us as we move our partners who bring you the program. It's our friends over at Super Beats. The Super Boreem product is all about. metabolism and blood sugar support right and so um i take the super beet tarche as you guys know it's the same people super barine they don't use just like any old berberine right this is not like always sending in philadelphia where you can go with frank and under the bridge and get some bridge berberine it's not like that uh it is a unique berberine in fact it's clinically studied to deliver nearly 10 times higher absorption than standard berberine so what this means for you is it's fewer pills to swallow. Higher absorption means that you're getting the metabolism and healthy blood sugar support benefits in just one highly concentrated, easy-to-swallow capsule. And there's no GI distress. So that provides for greater tolerability. It includes grapeseed extract for that purpose. You can find both the new Superberine and the number one best-selling Super Beets Heart Chews, the only Berberine and Beets product I would recommend to you at all at Sam's Club. You can restock your heart health support with Super Beats Heart Juice and expand your routine with the new Super Boreen for healthy metabolism and blood sugar support. Start today. Get on the road to better cardiovascular health support from the folks at Human.
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my message is that i am looking to lead this entire city to represent each and every new yorker and that representation is not contingent on whether or not someone votes for me or someone agrees with me because the responsibility of a leader is to reach out to all eight-and-a-half million people who call the city their home and i know the jewish new yorkers like jewish americans are fearful in this moment of antisemitism. They're fearful especially after the horrific attacks that we saw in Washington, D.C. and in Boulder, Colorado. And they're fearful also in conversations that I have heard myself about life in this city. And I spoke to a Jewish man in Williamsburg not too many weeks ago who told me about the fact that he now locks the door that he used to close, that he used to keep open.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, it doesn't, you know, that doesn't help when they have, they're also fearful because they have a mayoral candidate that literally has backed the globalize the infantata phrase. And that's, you don't have to take my word for it. That's from the New York Times. They didn't even put that. Well, they did put it behind the paywall, but that's from the New York Times. Yeah, that's kind of a big problem there. I mean, he's he was asked. He would not condemn the phrase globalize the infant Tata. And then he was on a podcast where he was asked about it. And then he like began this very long discussion where he defended it the entire time. That's insane. He was on this podcast and it was it's a leftist that describes itself as a Republican podcast and he would not condemn it. And his his his phrase was his his defense was, well, it's, you know, you know, Muslim words can be taken out of context like it's everybody else's problem. Because they're taking a Muslim phrase out of or this phrase in Arabic out of out of context. It's not nothing is that's not even remotely accurate. There is one meaning to this and we're not going to play semantics with it. You're not going to dodge on this. This is a guy who literally just became a citizen in the past seven years. He is a nepo baby who's never worked a day in his life. This guy's never held a job. He's never had a job. He's lived off his I mean, he's in his 30s, never had a job. He's never even so much as worked a summer job, like as a kid. His mom works in film. He's a failed rapper. His mom directed his videos. I'm not even making this up. Remember how much fun we made of the SoundCloud rapper from Chaz Chop? Okay, the SoundCloud warlord. Okay, that guy was more successful than this one. He's a failed rapper who made cringetastic videos that his mom directed. And his dad's a professor at Columbia. What made anybody in New York that has the capability of voting think that's a good choice for me? What gave anybody the idea that a guy who's never worked at Dana's Life, a guy whose only item on his resume is being a failed rapper and making cringy videos that his mom directed, this is the guy that should run the biggest city in the country. Yeah. What type of person does that? This is the sewage influencer society. I have no idea how to how to dice that up. So he absolutely he believes in globalizing the infant Tata because he defended it for like 20 minutes straight on a podcast. And then he's like, oh, it just pains me to be called an anti-Semite, Globalizing Infantata. It just pains me to be called an anti-Semite, from the river to the sea. I mean, that's him. He's part of the reason why people are a little nervous and maybe fearful. Because he supports this stuff. He says it. He's involved in it. Good night. But you know what? Democrats are going, can you believe how far left our party is? First off, yes, your party is far left. But also, you guys ran the stupidest candidate you could have. You guys ran Andrew Cuomo. Like there is a dearth of Democrats in New York. I guess we have nobody else. Let's go get that guy who killed all those elderly people. Do you realize, too, there I don't know how, but there were a lot of elderly people that voted for Cuomo in this ranked choice primary, which just goes to show you that sort of system does not stop the most sensational person from winning. Someone said, oh, man, it looks like there were a lot of elderly that voted for Cuomo. It's a shame that there's not more of them. And they said that unironically, Kane. Oh, my gosh. Democrats ran the stupidest candidate they could. They're like, well, he's got the name recognition and a body count, but whatever. Right. I mean, he was disastrous during COVID. It was embarrassing. But they think that you can go away for a little bit and then come back and it's all OK. Like nobody even the thing that people used to do if someone did something bad, they would go, oh, he needs to go to rehab. Like, oh, it wasn't that he's just a major D-bag. Drugs made him be that way. And this person was. They're not on drugs. So now they had like rehab for all kinds of stuff like sex rehab and drug rehab and gambling rehab and mean rehab and anger rehab and all this stuff. Right. They have all these different rehabs for all these different things. So as to fast track. Right. your reintroduction it's not about reconciliation and redemption it's about they need to get back into office so we're going to fast track this they didn't even they don't even do that anymore now they're like ah screw it just go away for a year and then come back like that wiener anthony wiener so his ex married george soros's kid I don't know. And Anthony Weiner, they accused me of hacking his account because I... Andrew Breitbart and I broke that story because people were sending he and I these... I wrote about it in my book. He wrote about it in his book. They were sending us a photo of his own member and... We're like, oh, my gosh, like it apparently was on. It was public. Remember, he thought he was direct messaging someone and he wasn't. And then he tried to delete it. But the Internet's forever. And then we were accused of hacking his account and all this stuff. Anyway, long story short, then he did it again. Right. He did it again. He went to rehab after the first time. Then he did it again. And then his wife left him and then he went away for a while. Didn't he go to jail or he had to pay a fine or he's on probation because one of the chicks that he was sending his schlong shot to was underage. And that's a crime. Like a felony. And so he went away for a while and then they brought him back. And now he thinks he's going to run again.
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On what?
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On what? Do they not have any other Democrats in New York? I hear about how liberal this city is. And yet... They have nobody else that can run, but they couldn't get anybody other than Cuomo. And that with his background, that he would be the preferable alternative to the Ma'am Danny guy. I feel like I'm an extra in Glorious Bastards every time I say his name. Ma'am Danny. Gorlami. I'm sorry, how do you say your name again? I just love the way the Italian language just dribbles off the tongue. Gorlami. Oh, and then the other guy was like constantly with the purse. The purse hand. Oh my gosh. That was one of the funniest scenes ever. But my whole point is that they had nobody else. This is it. This is the only guy they had. Andrew Cuomo. They ran the dumbest guy possible. So you're shocked that this dude's going to win. And this guy, Santa, it's really, really hard to run against Santa. I'm going to give you all free things. Now, he has no idea how he's going to make this possible. Oh, I mean, I know part of how they're going to make it possible. They want to be exempt. They want to have exemptions for their local taxes. They're literally going to vote themselves higher taxes. And then they're going to demand that the rest of us across the nation offset it. We'll pay more federally. They'll pay less federally because they voted to pay more locally. It is the stupidest thing I've ever heard of. I've had people try to argue with me in messages. Dana, that's not how it works. Okay, you're a moron, and that's exactly how it works. I'm not even going to pretend to be nice. Kane's always like, Dana, you should probably try. I don't have time for that. I don't get offended by straight talk, and I don't care if other people do. I'm not in the business of patting backs. We're all big people. We're all talking about politics. There's no crying in baseball, and there's no sissies in politics. That's how it works. But they ran Cuomo of all the guys to run. Cain, there's like a million other people out there.
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Didn't we ask this yesterday of whether or not he was going to run as an independent? And cut 11, someone finally from the media actually asked him this.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, this is so stupid. Listen to this. Oh, for crying out loud.
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Are you predisposed to consider staying on and having a vibrant campaign through November?
SPEAKER 27 :
I am qualified. I have an independent line. That's done. And I am right now assessing that landscape and looking at the information, talking to people, talking to the stakeholders in my campaign about what that general election is going to look like. I can tell you there are a lot of people who have a lot of concerns.
SPEAKER 18 :
So he's down but not out.
SPEAKER 04 :
He needs to be out. It's not going to work anymore. The problem is this was their golden boy. This was their next guy to run. And then they lost him. And then now they have Gavin Newsom. And Gavin Newsom wasn't their first choice to be their next golden boy. It was Cuomo. They had him. He had a book coming out. He did all this. They had it all set up. And then COVID happened. And then that could have been his bright, shiny moment. And he could have been an unassailable, indefeatable candidate. And he chose to not be that way. And then, you know, all the old people in the nursing homes. And then here we are. I mean, it's one of the biggest, most spectacular face plants in all of politics. And nobody even cares to talk about it in a book form because he's so hated. And he's just, they're over it. That's how fast he fell. He was their guy. This was the guy Democrats were going to be going forward with before Newsom. Now they don't have him. Now it's Newsom. And he thinks, he can't get the answer. Dude, they didn't even, they chose a guy who's never worked a day in his life and is a failed rapper. over you. Take a hint. Take a hint. That's like a girl giving you a fake number at the bar. And then you're like, there's still a chance. Stop. Just stop it. Republicans need to find a way to make a coalition. If they really think that Ma'am Danny is so bad, they need to find a way to work a coalition together and help Eric Adams then. That's the only other way to do it. You've got to be strategic about it. And sorry, Curtis Lee, what a great guy. He doesn't have a shot in all hell. He's never going to win. The only people that are keeping that dream alive are the overpaid consultants that care more about their bank accounts than they do about preserving whatever's left of that city. And that's God's honest truth. You know, I don't know. These consultants, I tell you, all the bad choices in campaigning are usually the consultants. Well, unless sometimes they're ignored. Like if they're like, maybe don't lead with shooting your dog in a gravel pit. And the candidate does anyway. You know, maybe at that time, listen to them. The folks who help make the program possible. We have Kel-Tec, the PR-57. It's one of the new ones that Kel-Tec came out with at the start of the year, the PR-57, which is a rotary barrel pistol chambered in 5.7 available now. And you can go to your FFL, order it online, have it shipped to your FFL. Made in the USA from a Florida-based company. And with the PR-57, they achieve the smaller stature in a number of different ways, not only with the rotary barrel, but also the unique top-loading design, which uses stripper clips instead of traditional magazines. So if a leftist talks about clips instead of... The magazine in this case, they're going to be accurate. It has an MSRP of only $399, so it's super affordable for everyone. Quickest and easiest field strip available. Low recoil for ease of use and accuracy. It's very similar to my G43X magazine. in terms of lightness and all of that. And so if you like 5.7, this is an interesting option for you. But it's made in America from Kel-Tec. You can learn more at keltecweapons.com, K-E-L-T-E-C, weapons.com, Innovation Performance Kel-Tec, keltecweapons.com. Tell them Dana sent you.
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It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man.
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All right. So first up, this is not the way to handle your arrest. A man spits on a cop and then starts slurring him and then really is resisting. I mean, it's not really the same. I feel I feel bad for cops because this happens every day to cops. Yeah. Like, this is the stuff that they have to deal with. The guy Troy Green was arrested because he was stealing snacks and liquor from a 7-Eleven in Volusia County. And the body cam video footage, we can't play any of it because it sounds like a Kendrick Lamar song and we'll get in trouble. By the way, Kendrick Lamar and this guy's out here making everybody fat and giving them all heart disease, according to Jamal Bowman. diabetes it's my new song little diabetes uh sheriff mike chip would condemn the guy's actions and the mom's man publicly apologized imagine being 40 years old your mom's gonna go i'm so sorry for my child wow he's behind bars though because he's you can't be doing stuff like that uh let's see i got more he uh i wanted to get this this is the one this is crazy this you know how there's like discuss uh criticism of fema right FEMA moves real slow. This is a news investigation. I was looking for the network. It's ABC. So it's WFTS ABC Action News in Tampa Bay. Listen to how crazy this is. So FEMA just apparently now this week delivered a trailer to a woman who kicked the bucket in 2014. Yeah, it's 2025. Pasco County. They finally delivered her FEMA trailer to And she's been, she has been deaded. She was deaded in 2014. And the neighbors were like, wait a minute, what's happening here? They, you know, it's kind of a rural-esque area. But, you know, they've had Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton. But they said the area is actually 10 feet above sea level. It's not an evac zone. They were trying to figure out how in the world the FEMA trailer appeared next door. The neighbors noted it. And then they... It's like a... And then... I was reading the process by which these people are having to go to get FEMA to get the trailer back. Oh, my gosh. Just keep it. It's your free trailer now because, oh, my gosh, they have to, like, file a million things. Then they have to meet with, like, some FEMA administrator. And it's not as easy as, hey, the lady that you deliver the trailer almost 10 years too late to is no longer here. It's not as simple as that.
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More than 10 years too late. And if anyone was ever asked themselves, hey, how does federal government manage emergencies?
SPEAKER 04 :
Right? This is it. This is exactly how they do it. It is wild. This is crazy. So, yeah, that's... Oh, let's see. Oh, boy. A Florida man who is also a doctor was charged after stealing fentanyl from an ICU patient's IV using a syringe... Yeah. Fort Pierce, Florida. He was found charged with a felony, or they formally charged him with a felony. He removed fentanyl from the ICU patient's IV line during a night shift at Florida Longwood Hospital. He's been charged. Wow. He withdrew it directly from the IV line using a syringe while on duty in ICU. Actual, like, yeah. And he's... was exhibiting unusual behavior observable by colleagues. He's 52 years old. He's an anesthesiologist and critical care physician. And thankfully they, they noted hospital staff noted discrepancies in the medication dosage. And that's how they, I have to say major kudos to that staff for catching that. That is wild because I get, I bet he thought he was doing it in the most surreptitious way possible. Right. And he got caught because they were paying very close attention.
SPEAKER 18 :
Fentanyl is highly regulated, yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
Good night. So he is charged with a whole bunch of stuff, including possession of a controlled substance, specifically fentanyl, and or a fentanyl derivative. I didn't even know there were fentanyl derivatives. Did you? I didn't even know that. Drugs. We don't know anything. Let's see. And I had one more. A Florida woman chose violence. She decided to go crazy while she was handcuffed on her way to jail. She retrieved a hidden gun from her waist. How did they not get that? She opened fire. She slapped some deputies, kicked them in the neck, all kinds of stuff. And this was in Marion County, Florida. We have our third hour on the way. Stick with us. It's always good to have options and diversify your weapons array. I have no problem with defending myself or my loved ones by carrying a firearm. I have no problems using lethal force. I also recognize that there are times when you are restricted from carrying by local or municipal areas, and therefore you want to be able to have some options for your self-defense. And when you consider that regular stun guns only offer one or two rounds per the Berna gun is a good way to incorporate some continued protection in your weapons array. And there's two options now. The CL is their newest. The SD, the Berna SD, which is their pistol, was their most popular round. And these things, by the way, shoot chemical irritant projectiles that can disable threats from up to 50 feet away. And you have legal flexibility because they don't care about gun-free zone signs. This is great for college students who aren't old enough to carry a firearm, but yet they have to live by themselves in a different city far from their family. You want to make sure they're still protected. And there's no permits, nothing. It's accessible to everybody. The CL is their newest. CL stands for compact launcher. It is about 30 percent smaller and lighter than the SD launcher. They have rifles in that as well, but for this purpose, I would recommend you look at the SD or the CL. And super affordable, and like I said, you can get them shipped right to your front door. So check out either the SD or, especially ladies, the CL, the compact launcher, which is smaller, at Byrna.com slash Dana. B-Y-R-N-A dot com slash Dana. Byrna, ready when you are.
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And since we're talking about integrity, I'm confused as to why my Republican colleagues aren't talking about the lack of integrity when it comes to the president's family's visas. Let me remind y'all that Melania, the first lady. Model and when I say model I'm not talking about Tyra Banks Cindy Crawford or Naomi Campbell level applied for and was given an eb-1 visa and what that stands for is an Einstein visa now y'all that don't know Let me tell you how you receive an Einstein visa. You're supposed to have some sort of significant achievement, like being awarded a Nobel Peace Prize or a Pulitzer, being an Olympic medalist, or having other sustained extraordinary abilities and success in sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics. Last time I checked, the First Lady had none of those accolades under her belt. It doesn't take an Einstein to see that the math ain't mathin' here.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, first off, that's not accurate. She came in on a regular work visa and then went on after that. So that's, you know, and if she wants to have this conversation, then this fake M.I.C.D.S. princess and that one of her cupcake hell she's wearing. look anthropology can we just get past the whole peasant dress stuff and the puff sleeves because it's killing my soul thank you uh she came in on a regular visa and then she uh then went to get her eb1 and by the way uh she pretty much do you know how many languages she speaks she speaks seven languages yeah she's not yeah what were you gonna say well
SPEAKER 18 :
They try to say this Einstein thing is only for Nobel Peace Prize and these academics and all that. But models, artists, performers that have international acclaim are also qualified for this particular visa. And that is exactly how Melania fell under that qualification.
SPEAKER 04 :
Correct. That is exactly how she fell under that qualification. So there was nothing shady here. They're just mad because they hate immigrants. People like Jasmine Crockett, they hate immigrants. They've been saying this. It really is trying to be the new Maxine Waters because Maxine Waters brought this up first. This is not even an original line of attack. This is something that Maxine Waters actually brought up first. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you here right at the top of the third hour. And you can find us. Channel 347 is how you can watch the radio program. And, of course, you can find the chat over at Rumble. She came over. In fact, years before her and 12 years before her parents did. And she was on proper visa. She was on a work visa. And she which I don't know why they have such a problem with her. She came in like the correct way. She immigrated legally and then she was granted U.S. citizenship. There's like a big think piece. I have it on Wayback because there's a paywall that actually dives into this issue. And it's like a middle of the road, kind of an independent source. And they were just looking at the differences in visas and they did a deep dive into it. And I mean, she came on her work visa and then she was able to obtain an EB-1 and then she has citizenship now. I just think that that's, I mean, she's ridiculing. I don't know what their problem is with Melania Trump. Because Melania Trump, I mean, she became a citizen, a U.S. citizen in 05 or 06. I can't remember. It was like the beginning of the aughts, like in the very beginning of the aughts. But she is, you know, accomplished. She's got products that she deals. She has her business. And then she also had her career and she speaks seven languages. Hell, she could be a spy. You don't even know. She could be. She could be a spy for the U.S. She speaks seven languages. She has like three languages that she's fluent in. And then you've got this clown with her fake thick black glasses. She doesn't wear glasses, but she's wearing these thick black glasses as a fashion accessory. And she's wearing more material. And it's like baby poo yellow material dress. I mean, if we're going to have this conversation, let's have this conversation full on. And then she's making fun of her modeling career. Someone who wears eleventy frillion gauge fake ass lashes affixed to their face every single day of the week and dresses like a bad anthropology mannequin doesn't get to criticize someone who's prettier, more educated and more successful than they are. There you go. That's all there is to say about it. I mean, I didn't want to go down that road, but you elected to go down that road with me. And now we've interlocked arms and I'm not letting you get away. So I get so tired of this stuff. But that's the that's the. And it's because Democrats hate immigrants. They've always had a problem with immigrants. If you come here illegally and you do amazing things, they don't care. You come here illegally and you beat women and you traffic people and sell drugs, then they have margaritas with you. That's the way it goes. That's the way it goes. I don't know. Stupid, bad narratives. This is like the other thing that I saw. Jasmine Crockett's friend, Representative Premier Jayapal. Did you see this that they were pushing the other day? The left suddenly cares about babies real quick. You know this? No. Okay, like for right now. Representative Premier Jayapal was accusing ICE of being mean to a pregnant woman. They said this lady lost her baby and ICE refused to give her prenatal care. She begged for help and was denied. She was fed food full of cockroaches. She was forced to sleep on the floor. This is all the stuff that she was saying on X. And she was they said, it's disgusting. We should be outraged. Except it's false. ICE corrected the narrative on this, and so did the assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Tricia McLaughlin, also did. The woman had, which I don't think you should get full care. You come over here to the United States, you're stupid if you come over here while you're pregnant, thinking you're going to cross illegally. You know, that's your bad decisions. She had full medical, full prenatal. And they said that the 37 year old who was a citizen of Guatemala was arrested for she was they had an active warrant out for her because she killed somebody. So there was a she had an active warrant for homicide and she was arrested more times than I can count on both of my hands for child abuse. So she's a child abusing murderer. Who expected to get full house like the Ritz Carlton treatment, I guess, when she illegally crossed into the United States. Why are they so obsessed? with what women beaters and child abusers like these are the people that democrats intervene for and then you have somebody like melania trump and they hate her oh my gosh they hate her they don't like any they don't like any immigrant who comes over the right way and is a success that's that is in opposition to what apparently they want to promote Like this, with this woman. Yeah, this woman was arrested multiple times. Multiple times. But also, why do Democrats care if she lost her baby? Babies aren't people. Right? It's just a dumb, unfeeling glob of cells. Right? So why are Democrats pretending that they care about whether or not she didn't lose a baby, she just lost a clump of cells? That's what Democrats think. Huh. Huh. I mean, so technically she didn't lose her baby. I mean, those are the rules. Dems, Dems to rules. That's how we play. So there's no loss here. I mean, according to their rules, you can't get you don't get to situationally care about life. You either care about it or you don't. You don't get to care about it when you think it's convenient for you when you're trying to defend a child abusing murderer. Like some kind of like Lizzie Borden carries mom. That's what it seems like. You don't get to be situational about it. So I'm just curious. Just it's amazing that not all suddenly, suddenly now it's a baby. Suddenly now it matters. But they've never they've always been mean towards Melania Trump. They've always been mean towards her. And I don't think that's going to be anything where they ever give her her due ever. But that's just, you know, one example. one of many, many, many examples. I have a couple of other things that I want to make sure that we're touching on here because we've got, we were talking about the situation with Texas. I think I have Dan Patrick burner accounts that are trying to get sassy with me on social media. That's not going to go well for you. It's so not even original and it's so tired and cliched anymore because the story is that one of the, one Congressman in particular, Drew Darby is saying that there's pressure from the Lieutenant governor there, but they've been trying to ban THC. And Abbott vetoed it because Abbott's listening to voters and he's like, okay, this is stupid. He's listening to what voters are demanding. It's been legal the entire time, just really quickly, because there's so much misinformation by people who want a hot take but don't know what the bill is about or what the issue is. It has nothing to do with smoking pot. It has literally nothing to do with that. That's not legal in Texas. You can't just like smoke joints out in the street in Texas. It is about specifically, strictly regulated, highly regulated, THC that is in consumables. And that is specifically it. It's been legal for forever. It's strictly regulated. And now it's being targeted. Some say it's the liquor lobby that are behind it. Some say it's like other companies that are trying to edge out competition on the THC or CBD front. And then institute a structure in place where they can that they get to control. This has happened in other states. And then there's the you know, that they were saying with the liquor lobby, because Cain was I don't consume. So I I don't know. But you were saying that people there are a lot of people now that will have like a consumable or an edible drink.
SPEAKER 18 :
Some will do both. But yeah, they'd rather have the edible and enjoy a little buzz and some recreational activity than have a hangover with alcohol the next day.
SPEAKER 04 :
Because alcohol is also impacts judgment. It impacts motor skills, etc.
SPEAKER 18 :
I would say in much more severe degree. But yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. Well, that's what other people have said, too, that it's like way more. I'm not going to I don't want to name any names. We have someone in our family who is always enjoyed like wine. And, you know, we'd see them at different events and, you know, all the stuff that different family get togethers. And then they rarely drink anymore, but they might have. um like a gummy or something like that and then most of my knowledge and experience with it though comes from the veteran side because i've heard so many veterans like i didn't even know that it was something that people were thought was more beneficial or better than alcohol right until like recently
SPEAKER 18 :
The way I've heard it described, too, are people that drink alcohol to have a good time. They end up saying that it's after the third or fourth drink that we don't even realize we've gone too far. And all they want to do is be relaxed, have fun, which alcohol does provide in those first couple few drinks, but a lot of people go way overboard. And they get that from these gummies, and they're not getting the hangovers, and they're starting to prefer them over alcohol.
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So Dan Patrick has been on a tear and he's livid at Greg Abbott because Greg Abbott wants to he wants to ban it, even though for whatever for I have no idea why. Out of like nowhere, they decided they wanted to criminalize it. Anyway, long story short, he has been going to town apparently on the governor. He had a press conference where he threw a bag of gummies at somebody. He's been going to town on Greg Abbott. And apparently now lawmakers are saying, quote, per Representative Darby, quote, we were given an ultimatum. If we didn't go back to complete a ban, then there would not be another House bill advanced in the Texas Senate. That was perfectly clear. End quote. I'm going to tell you something right now. Any lawmaker, and I put this out, any Texas lawmaker that's getting pressure to ban this under threat of not having anything advanced in the Senate, I'll help give you air cover. You come in, you tell us what's happening, and you don't even have to, and if you feel uncomfortable even giving your name, that's fine. Let us know about it. I want to hear all about it because Dan Patrick is going to have some hell to pay with voters. And I'm telling you, his name is becoming kryptonite. I spoke with two lawmakers just this week alone about specific different races. And normally they would they'd welcome a Dan Patrick endorsement. Now they're like, we don't want it. We do not want it. He is kryptonite.
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
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A man got stuck in a chimney while trying to free his dog from a locked building. Oh, good enough. They had to rescue him. He was trying to retrieve his dog from a bathroom when the doors after the doors automatically locked for the night. So they were called a Sunday morning to this place for a burglary complaint. And the park employee said someone's in the chimney. they responded to the scene and they got the man out they had to remove parts of the chimney the man he wasn't injured and he was arrested and charged with burglary which i think is stupid trespassing and criminal mischief he said that he had gone inside with his dog in the building uh he was in the he was using the bathroom before leaving for the night apparently and then the door shut and his dog didn't get out before the door shut And I guess he just, I don't know if he, and so he tried to go back to retrieve his dog. To me, it seems like you're charging with burglary for that. I don't buy that. That's nonsense. They don't know how long the dog was unharmed. They don't know how long he was in there. So I don't know. So they're trying to figure out what's up because the doors apparently auto lock at night. So, I mean, I guess, you know, that makes sense, I guess, for safety. But still, that seems a little bit extra. You know, I don't know. Let's see. Oh, my gosh. Ghostbusters fans are warned about the old Ecto coolers. Yeah. So they had all kinds of Ghostbusters merchandise back in the day, and they had an ecto-cooler, and now they're saying that they're exploding? And that it's a safety hazard. Oh, my gosh. Cracked is a really horrible website that just froze my whole monitor. So I can't read you any other because they don't know how to optimize this stupid website. I used to love Ecto Cooler.
SPEAKER 18 :
Hi-C used to put out the Ecto Cooler. Remember in those cans, those like 64-ounce cans, the big cans of Ecto Cooler? That's what they're talking about are exploding right now.
SPEAKER 04 :
That's insane. That is absolutely insane. Well, it makes me think of the Tamagotchis. Remember those? Oh, yeah. And apparently those are, sometimes I feel like social media is a Tamagotchi. I really do. So anyway, so the Ecto Cooler, if you have one of those old Ecto Coolers, beware. We have a lot more on the way. Stick with us.
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Justin, we are now hearing from Iran's supreme leader for the first time since the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Iran was announced. It comes as questions have been swirling about his whereabouts. The Ayatollah had not been seen or heard from publicly in nearly a week until just moments ago. It was in a statement published in Iranian state media, also on his ex-account. The supreme leader declared, quote, victory over the fake Zionist regime and also claimed Israel's government, quote, almost collapsed and was crushed under the blows of the Islamic.
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Sure. Yeah. OK. Is that you, Baghdad, Bob? Yeah, no joke. That's Khamenei, their supreme burrito over there in Iran. Supreme burrito? Yeah. Those are delicious, by the way. I'm hungry now. Huh? Now I'm hungry. I know, right? It's like, welcome back to the program. Dana Lynch with you. Yeah, sure. And I'm sure in some world that made sense. Is this really, though, about whether or not they destroyed Iran's nuclear capability? Do you think that it was? Do you think that's really what the fight is about? Because it's the stupidest. I mean, the Fordow facility, that was pretty deep underground. We knew that was going to be a little difficult to do. And, but apparently, you know, it was done or buried, destroyed. We knew that they were enriching uranium because we have ways of like literally measuring that from space. We can measure that from space. So we know that they were doing this. I'm just saying, like, what is the, what's the point of I mean, Trump had said at one point that Mossad entered the Fort Al facility after they destroyed it. And they said there was nothing really to enter. It was just totally obliterated. And in the meantime, CNN quotes, I don't know what, a janitor in the DOD somewhere or at Pentagon. Somebody is emptying trash cans at two in the morning at the Pentagon. No, I heard that it wasn't touched at all.
SPEAKER 18 :
I saw it in this thrown away memo in this trash can.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right? That was like just right there in the trash can. Yeah. That's what it was. This, it almost seems like they're ecstatic over the chance that Iran may prevail. Right? Am I being too?
SPEAKER 18 :
It's so odd to hear said out loud, but what else are we to intimate from this?
SPEAKER 04 :
I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I mean, I feel like this is the only way to I feel like that's the only way.
SPEAKER 18 :
I mean, I knew our media was garbage, but my goodness.
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Right. They seem ecstatic at the possibility that Iran may not have lost all of their nuclear capability. They seem really excited about that. And it's like they're really excited about it because that means that the United States would fail. that we failed at something. And they seem really excited about the possibility that the United States might fail at something. And this isn't about waiting for the evidence, because they're clearly, they haven't done that. They just want the United States to look like a liar. They're so desperate. And it really is. And I don't think it's just that they want Trump to look like a liar. They want the United States to look like a liar. Because if this was just about I think I think they would even be able to compartmentalize this with Trump. This is like there is a deep seated hatred of their own nation with some of these people on the left that are perpetuating this nonsense. I mean, they I don't even know who they they get people who have no idea and are not part of it to just like speculate. Well, I don't think so. Yes, I mean, I can point I've seen Iran once on a map. And let me tell you. It's pretty crazy when you consider that they've even had to walk back their own stories. Like they had Natasha Bertrand, who she was citing this report that was a preliminary low confidence report. And then they've been trying to save face on this for what, 24 hours now? This is why nobody dislikes the media enough. They don't like it enough. It doesn't Yeah. The euphoria, though, that they seem to have is really weird to me. I was watching Town Hall had video where they had yet another fact checker trying to save face by saying that, well, you know, SecDef really actually confirmed CNN's reporting, but they didn't at all. I mean, this is pretty stunning to me, the way that they are trying to push this fake intelligent assessment. And they didn't mention at all in any of their initial reporting when they were first talking about it that it was a preliminary low confidence thing. And then they had to bring on this guy who this, I don't know, he's like an NGO, whatever, bring him out to say, oh yes, low confidence, low confidence. But they have no, I mean, everybody from Mossad to IAEA, literally everyone. I mean, I'm reading this IAEA report and they're literally saying the Fordow nuclear site is no longer operational. And the IAEA officials and this is like one of the latest with Politico, they were saying that they know the, this is a direct quote, know the installations like the back of our hand and can deduce fairly precise conclusions by looking at satellite images. Quote, given the power of these devices and the technical characteristics of a centrifuge, we already know that these centrifuges are no longer operational because they are fairly precise machines. There are rotors and the vibrations from the bombs have completely destroyed them. End quote. It's the IAEA. And so CNN has been trying to bail out its partisanship. They've spent the better part of like 48 hours now trying to do this. So however much you loathe the media, you don't love them enough. They and this has been a long I mean, this was a plan that was that I mean, they were working on this for years, years and years. Just to replay this real quick. This is Brett McGurk, who he was like the first to kind of throw all of this into the air on CNN when he was talking about the destruction and how, you know, this is these are pretty meticulously. These are meticulous, precise machines. And any kind of disruption like this is going to destroy it. This is what he said. Are you somebody 25?
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I think from what I've seen, the 20,000 centrifuges, you had about 17,000 in the Tans, about 3,000 in Florida. They are all completely destroyed. I am very confident those centrifuges are gone. The Israelis destroyed the centrifuge manufacturing production facilities that we know of. Isfahan, which is the conversion facility, key part of the fuel site, also appears to have been destroyed. So if you add it up from what we're seeing, massive catastrophic setback for Iran's program.
SPEAKER 04 :
Hmm. uh yeah but yes it was barely effective i heard in the media yes it was barely effective matter of fact it might have been just not at all effective well and this is what they were saying i'll play this real quick this was before that even with um uh brett mcgurk this was cnn they were they were trying to say again back and forth back they're a mess this network is a mess listen to this this is six
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Well, a few things here. The secretary referred to fake news CNN and then immediately proceeded to effectively confirm CNN's reporting. Again, emphasized that this intelligence assessment was preliminary, made with low confidence. That's exactly, again, what CNN reported. He also tried to back up President Trump's assertion that these nuclear facilities were completely and totally obliterated by forcefully reading out quotes from others who did not say the same thing. He read quotes from
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asserting that the nuclear sites had been badly damaged severely damaged the strikes had done enormous damage none of that is synonymous with complete obliteration and then you had brett mcgurk say yes it was completely obliterated iaea yes it's completely obliterated but what do they i mean again goes back to my original question like what do they get out of this you know all the left it's like they're ecstatic they it's like they're cheering for iran They're cheering for Iran. That's what it is. This is so stupid. An update on this, too, and this is something Lorraine sent over. Guys, remember the Maryland man? OK, so apparently the government has now told the Maryland judge that they are going to commence the removal proceedings for Kilmar Obrego Garcia to a third country that's not El Salvador. Once he's released from criminal custody in Tennessee, the government said there's no imminent plans. It's unclear if it would if that would if it would remove it before trial. It's going to be on Monday, July 7th, apparently. So that's when they're so they're. And the judge apparently has ordered him to be released before trial. So he's going to be released pending trial. And the government said, okay, well, if he's going to be released, then ICE is just going to get him the second that he's let out. So the Tennessee judge was like, okay, then let him out. And then ICE apparently is not going to go get him the moment he steps outside. Okay, that works. Why are we... You see why people get so aggravated. And in Iran, they're trying to stop the revolution before it starts.
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700.
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I've been seeing this because people in the streets that are protesting and that are burning things, they're being it's being suppressed by whatever's left of the IRGC, the Islamic. I mean, people, if you smuggle anything into the country, if you're handing out propaganda materials, if you're trying to get people. to get into the streets and protest against the Supreme Burrito, then they're going to murk you like they didn't need a sultan. It's true. Khamenei is his name, Kane. He is the Supreme Burrito of Iran. They've arrested over 700 people in the last week and a half because they said that they have connections with Israel. So if you, wow, that sounds really similar to what happens here. If you say anything like critical of Iran and you're speaking in defense of Israel, you get these like weird little anti-Semitic simps that get all on social media and they're like, you must be online with Israel. And in Iran, if you say anything in favor of Israel, you must be aligned with Israel and they arrest you. Super interesting. Anyway, they've been trying to suppress everything, trying to blocking television, blocking reports. But obviously, news is still getting in and people are still trying to organize. They apparently executed dudes that were accused of being Mossad agents on Sunday and Monday. They hung them. They hung them. They said that they were arrested and tried for cooperation favoring the Zionist regime. And the sentence was carried out and they were hanged is what the official statement was. Well, so they're doing everything that they can to put fear in the hearts of their people because they do not want to have another one of those everybody in the streets revolution. You know, the one that Barack Obama and Joe Biden ignored. like the ones that they just completely pretended weren't happening.
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And make sure you subscribe over at Chapter & Verse over at Substack. Always good stuff that goes out there regularly. And, for instance, Lorraine's latest piece dives into that ceasefire that, I mean, really has been brokered. And she calls it the get-along shirt that's been brokered for all this week between Iran and Israel. So all good things that you'll definitely want to check out. In the meantime... the i saw this a goofy headline it's over at the telegraph which is a super far left british publication and this is them trying this is them showcasing their disapproval of israel's reaction to getting attacked by iran repeatedly over how many years they said that quote bb is beyond restraint gulf states fear israel's unchecked power Yes, they had such unchecked power that they didn't even go whole hog as they should have after October 7th. Yes, the unchecked power. I think they should have utterly destroyed Gaza, the structure, everything. And they didn't, you know, but they have, quote unquote, unchecked power. This is such a stupid headline. And I feel like the guy who wrote it should be ashamed and fired because it demonstrates a little, little understanding of. the conflict in the region and the history of that conflict in the region. If they truly had unchecked power, they wouldn't be seeking permission to respond after October 7th. They would not have been seeking permission to respond any single time that Iran or Hamas have broken, well, same thing, have broken a ceasefire agreement. They would not have sought a sanction from anybody else. They would have simply responded. So this headline, they're trying to fearmonger and play up on the ignorance of people who don't understand the balance of power in this region. If they had unchecked power, they wouldn't be dealing with us this entire time. In fact, that's been the biggest criticism is that they act as though they do have checked power. If someone attacks you, if someone barges into your home and decides to rape your wife and murder your daughter in front of you and shoot your son in the head and burn your house down, are you not going to do anything to respond? Should you just like cower and accept that that is your state in life is to be treated that way by your neighbor? Because that is... That's exactly, literally exactly how the situation is being viewed by people who write headlines like this. So this is stupid. I couldn't even get into the first graph of this piece. It was just so poorly written. Like, who are these people? I don't know. We're living in a weird age where we have a very... Well, I mean, you have like Pakistan and India, two nuclear powers, right? You have Pakistan that's developing a nuke. They already have nuclear capability, but they're apparently developing an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching the U.S. So there's definitely things that, you know, this is why diplomacy is important and making sure that those lines of communication are open. And then I also was reading, too, let me pull this up, that... You could have Syria. There's a campaign to expand the Abraham Accords, and some people are getting upset over it. There's also a lot of speculation that there's a chance that Syria could sign on, too. The Abraham Accords. Apparently Syria and Lebanon are candidates for the inclusion. And Israel has already confirmed direct normalization talks with Syria. Go back to Trump's visit to the Middle East and how he was there talking about lifting sanctions on Syria. And then the new regime immediately closed airspace, therefore thereby cutting out air defense for Iran. Interesting things underway. Today, stupidity came.
SPEAKER 18 :
All right, it's Tater over at CNN. Brian Stelter has been running interference because CNN's journalistic integrity is in the toilet. This is him explaining how technically they were right, but, you know. We'll go ahead, Juan.
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Right, and journalists are not the main story here. The main story is what you just covered, the impact of the U.S. strikes on Iran. The public still has a lot that wants to know about the impact of the strikes. But the administration is picking a fight with the press and casting legitimate journalism as unpatriotic right now. The Trump administration is not actually challenging. No one believes that.
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We got breaking news. Defense Secretary Hagseth reveals the truth about Operation Midnight Hammer.
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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 13 :
Welcome to Sekulow. Phone lines are open for you. And look, we got no guest on today. It's just me and Will. So guess who's going to be our guest? Hopefully you. So give us a call at 1-800-684-3110. I'm going to try to take as many calls as I possibly can over the next hour, not just wait until specific segments, because we do have some breaking news to cover. Of course, we are still talking about, uh, the conversation, the Pentagon, they went back and forth and what's going on. Well, cause Pete Hegseth says, Hey, uh, He pretty much came out and made a moment revealing really what happened about Operation Midnight Hammer. Look, they're having to really go out of their way now to try to debunk claims that this did not work. However, that is only because the press has done this to them. And people who just want to really devalue President Trump and the Trump administration, that's their whole plan. And if their whole plan is that... Well, it's sad that we have to have a point where Pete Hexeth has to go out on the defense of this over and over day after day.
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Yeah, it's hard to declare victory and talk about the victory when the media is so quick to undermine it before the dust has even settled on Fordow. So what we're seeing here now is both General Kane as well as Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, pushing back, doing a press conference, an early morning press conference, not normal for what you see out of the Pentagon, but pushing back on these claims and these leaks. They're also pointing to the CIA and the Director of National Intelligence that it's now their role to gather the intelligence of what the successes were. in the fordow uh strike but they also have to go forward and show unfortunately how successful things were like the conversion plant where they without that they can't turn the uranium gas into uranium metal to put on a warhead and these things that keep being brought up and up and up by this uh this fake news media trying to declare a failure instead of a victory i think
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this opportunity to hear from Pete Hexeth himself. Let's go and listen to this. Look, it's a bit of a long bite, but again, I always make sure you have full context of what's going on. Here's Pete.
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There's been a lot of discussion about what happened and what didn't happen. Step back for a second. Because of decisive military action, President Trump created the conditions to end the war, decimating, choose your word, obliterating, destroying Iran's nuclear capabilities. I want to read some of the assessments that have been provided because whether it's fake news, CNN, MSNBC, or the New York Times, there's been fawning coverage of a preliminary assessment. I haven't had a chance to read it. Every outlet has breathlessly reported on a preliminary assessment from DIA. I'm looking at it right now. Again, it was preliminary, a day and a half after the actual strike. when it admits itself in writing that it requires weeks to accumulate the necessary data to make such an assessment, it's preliminary. It points out that it's not been coordinated with the intelligence community at all. There's low confidence in this particular report. It says in the report there are gaps in the information. It says in the report multiple linchpin assumptions are what this assessment, a linchpin assumption, you know what that is? That means your entire premise is predicated on a linchpin. If you're wrong, everything else is wrong. And yet, still, this report acknowledges it's likely severe damage. Again, this is preliminary, but leaked because someone had an agenda to try to muddy the waters and make it look like this historic strike wasn't successful.
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I hate that Hegseth has to do this. I really do. Because when I watched that moment unfold, President Trump came out. I heard some music there. President Trump came out with Pete by his side, Marco Rubio, and I said, you know what? President Trump picked the right guys for this job. Pete took a lot of heat, unnecessary heat, and look what he was able to do. Only people with that kind of military expertise who really have been there know it could have done something like this. So I want to give some props to Pete Hegseth, but I hate that he has to go out and keep making these statements. Let's move on, folks. 1-800-684-3110. Have your voice heard on the air. We'll be right back. Welcome back to Secular. Once again, I said I'm going to take some phone calls, and I will at 1-800-684-3110 throughout the show. So if you're on hold, stay on hold. If you haven't yet called in, we've got two lines open for you. Again, at 1-800-684-3110. There's also some ACLJ news we're going to talk about coming up in just a little bit, so stay tuned for that if you want to know why you support the work financially. And when I say the work, I also mean this broadcast. Again, this show is not paid for by major sponsors or even the majority of it by major donors. It's supported by people, individuals who give 25, 55, 70 bucks, sometimes a month, sometimes once. And you know what? We consider you all incredibly important to this. We want to be able to do this high quality of a show without you. I do want to quickly take a phone call to hopefully inspire you to call in as well. So let's go to Larisse, who's calling in Texas. You're on the air.
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Yeah, I just wanted to say that during the Afghanistan withdrawal, there was crickets. Then all of a sudden, we actually hit the target. And then they get negative. That makes no sense to me. And also, it's really dangerous for military because it pretty much says we can't hit the target. Oh, don't worry about the U.S. They can't. They can't hit any targets. You see what they did in our land? They didn't hit anything. This is what we want to do because there's no fear of being held accountable.
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100%.
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Will's actually got a follow-up to that because I've said this. Who does this benefit? It only benefits people who have historically been known. This is not Gaza. This is not some politically motivated where you go, oh, I'm on the one side or the other, humanitarian crisis, whatever it is. This is the Iranian government that has been in control since the 70s who have been hurting their own people, and we all know this. Kamala Harris said the number one threat to America was Iran a few months ago. This isn't political or partisan, but because there is a Trump administration, it will become political and partisan. And just like you said, Larissa, you're going, oh, look at America again. Our brave soldiers flew from Missouri to Iran, a 19-hour flight, multiple refuels midair, dropped precision strike bombs, and now got out of there before anyone even knew they were there, and you're going to try to discredit them? Not on our watch. That's not going to happen here. But that is precisely what the news is doing.
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That's right. And just to show how correct that Pete Hegseth was in those attacks on the media, pushing back at their reporting. This is a piece that came out last night. I saw it late at night from the New York Times. Rubio fleshes out Trump's case that Iran nuclear capacity was eliminated. Then here's the sub-headline to it. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said U.S. strikes had destroyed a facility that is key to turning highly enriched nuclear fuel into a working bomb. He railed against a less optimistic U.S. intelligence report. Okay, so that's the framing of the article. That's the headline and sub-headline. A few paragraphs down, there is this paragraph. written by someone at the New York Times, who clearly has an agenda to politicize this and make sure that it seems like Trump is a liar and a failure. Listen to this. By the end of his trip to the Netherlands, Mr. Trump seemed as focused on proving he has obliterated, in quotes, Iran sites, as he once was on proving he had the largest inauguration crowd. They are comparing... The argument with President Trump, everyone knew he loved to talk about the inauguration crowd, that that is the same thing as him talking about taking out a existential threat to the United States and Israel, an Iranian nuclear program. They are trying to say that he claiming victory and success is a vanity project for him. They are trying to diminish the work of the U.S. military in the extremely well thought out plan. And we're getting to that in a little bit, too, because General Raisin Cane, he talked about how detailed, how long the U.S. military has been studying this and focusing on Fordow. And the New York Times journalist tries to make a cute reference to the inauguration crowd argument and turn that as an analogy to the president of the United States saying, we have taken out Iran's nuclear capability. One is a crowd size and the other is national security. When they say these journalists should lose their jobs, how did this get past an editor? Do they think that's funny? Do they think American national security is a hilarious joke that these bunker buster bombs went and hit Fordow and they can laugh about it?
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Like maybe we aren't that good. You act like these companies can afford editors at this point. That's fair. Maybe you're the only one reading it.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, Logan, I have to read it so I can get enraged by their writing and tell the people. You hate watch or hate read a lot. Well, you know, something like that fires you up in the evening.
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All right, let's go to Michael who's calling from Florida on line four. He's watching on YouTube. Michael, you're on the air.
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Gentlemen, how sad is the state of affairs for our mainstream media that If you can get more straight answers from Mad Magazine than you can CNN.
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Michael, look, as a former subscriber to Mad Magazine, I'm just going to say proud subscriber. I think you're right. And of course, Mad sadly has gone away. They are now only running best of us. But I see your point, Michael. That's just my nerdiness. It is true that I think that is why people have turned to alt media, including comedians, by the way, Joe Rogan, all of these names, because weirdly you feel like you can get more unbiased news from the top. comic voices in the country than you can from CNN, from MSNBC. And look, sometimes I'll say, even with Vox, look, all of them, you can get more actual what people are thinking through independent productions. It's what we do here. We are fully independent. Sure, we're on a lot of radio stations in your local markets. We're on the Salem News Channel, but none of them are telling us what to do and what to say. We don't play by those rules. Sure, there's FCC rules, but other than that, which we wouldn't violate anyway, other than that though we can give you our opinions whether you like them or not that's why i love this show that's why i love what we do here at the aclj it's not about parroting a party line it's not about parroting some sort of uh you know political bias i know i've made our audience mad with my points of view or when i feel that i'm going to be honest with you if i feel like a case is not going to go anywhere i feel like something is not worth the time of america But that's why you have independent journalism. That's why you have independent news shows. That's why you have shows like ours that are completely independent and the organizations like ours because we're able to do that. And you're right. More people are paying attention to that and understanding it than our CNN. More people watch our show than watch a lot of CNN. We just crossed over half a million subs. That's just subs on YouTube. We're on some other platforms where it's growing also hundreds of thousands, millions. And millions watch just on YouTube a week. Millions. They would kill for those numbers.
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I think we should listen to what General Kane said at this presser as well. General Raisin Kane. I do love it. I love the nickname. But this is him talking about when they targeted Fordow, it wasn't like they just decided, OK, let's try a bunker buster bomb and go for it. Here's how long. An individual and a team of two were studying this site and how much they knew about it because of a very hardworking American at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. So this is General Cain talking about an unnamed individual for their safety. Let's listen to bite two.
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In 2009, a Defense Threat Reduction Agency officer was brought into a vault at an undisclosed location and briefed on something going on in Iran. For security purposes, I'm not going to share his name. He was shown some photos and some highly classified intelligence of what looked like a major construction project in the mountains of Iran. He was tasked to study this facility, work with the intelligence community to understand it, and he was soon joined by an additional teammate. For more than 15 years, this officer and his teammate lived and breathed this single target, Fordow, a critical element of Iran's covert nuclear weapons program. he studied the geology he watched the iranians dig it out he watched the construction the weather the discard material the geology the construction materials where the materials came from he looked at the vent shaft the exhaust shaft the electrical systems the environmental control systems every nook every crater every piece of equipment going in and every piece of equipment going out
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And that is what led to the development of the bunker busting bomb. Because he could tell, based off the soil that was coming out, how far deep in that mountain it was. Based off the ventilation equipment, everything. This is an individual, an American, a brave American, that couldn't talk about this with his family. He worked with one other person on this for 15 years. and knew everything there is to know about this secret site and how to attack it. And we developed the weapons. And that's exactly what the president of the United States deployed on that site just a few days ago. And the media is going to sit here and try to lecture the world that maybe we're not that effective and only do one thing, help out the Ayatollahs with their PR campaign.
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Hey, we're going to take some more calls coming up. And also in the next segment, we're going to talk about a big victory coming out of the united states supreme court how the aclj was involved and how you can react as well by always supporting the work and not just financially go to our website sign petitions get involved but if you're on hold right now tim ronald mike michael daniel a lot of men today give us a call at 1-800-684-3110 stay on hold we're gonna get to you i want to take as many calls as i can we'll be right back with more on secular Welcome back to Secular. As I said, we're going to continue taking phone calls as well. And I do want to tell you a big update in the ACLJ world because, look, there's always news happening. And I want to make sure you get to hear about it. But, Will, I know we want to take a call because right now, full bank of calls. So that's what I got to do, Will. I just got to say, hey, you don't have to stay on hold for an hour today. Yeah. And they call in. Right. So maybe let's go to, let's see here. You want to go to number five, Mike? Yeah. Mike in the great state of Tennessee. My favorite Sirius XM listener. Go ahead, Mike.
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Hey, guys. Appreciate all that you do. And I'm very thankful for our leadership of our country, for what they're willing to do to save us. the United States to protect Israel, to save the world. But what I do not appreciate is the fact, the amount of time and energy that they have to put into defending and refuting
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the the false narrative out there and i think it's time we just move on when once we've been told what's going on it's been validated move on we got other things to do i 100 agree with you mike which is this is a waste of time to keep going back over this the people who are supporting you are going to support you and the people that aren't you're not going to be able to turn them the other way Of course, I hope that, and what I mean by that, I mean the media. I don't mean that to be human beings. Because look, there's a reason I always say we're not on behind a paywall, because I want you to share this with your friends. I want them to see the truth, the hypocrisy, everything that's going on. But that being said, I agree with you. What more can be said? What more needs to be said? President Trump even doesn't need to keep going and saying it was a massive success, a massive success. I believe you. I am just honored that you would actually do this and would attempt something this strong that a lot of presidents have said they were going to do and never actually done. And as of right now, we've had two days of relatively quiet.
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That's right. And what we also are hearing is, once again, the president was at a NATO summit where he received commitments from the governments there that were meeting with him, other NATO governments. that are historic. They're agreeing to put 5% of their GDP into NATO. That is something that has been needed for a long time, that Rick Grinnell has come on here and talked about how they're not paying their fair share, that the United States is paying for the national defense of most of Europe through NATO. and that they're not paying their fair share. President Trump yesterday was able to secure an agreement from almost every country I think except for Spain which Spain's economy not great but they've gotten five percent commitments from every NATO government except for Spain. That should be what the press is like how did this happen because everyone's been talking about for generations why can't NATO pay more? But no, instead, they're talking about what they want to be, scandal. They want it to be a scandal that we didn't
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effectively take out nuclear sites in iran this isn't some bill that got quashed by your own party this isn't that this is american national security at stake you know ronald uh in georgia's got a great comment and i think he's right because it shows you how the narrative moves ronald i want you to tell us what you told the phone screener because i think this is a very relevant piece of information again ronald another great state of georgia my original home state listening on the radio you're on the air
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Love you guys. Hey, I was just thinking the news media was telling everybody that the Iranians weren't that far along in their nuclear program. And now that Trump has gone and knocked them out, mopped them up.
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uh they want to say oh he didn't really get their nuclear program it's still intact so they're talking out of both sides of their mouth thank you y'all have a great day ronald of course and as always you're 100 right which is what was the narrative leading up into this which is uh we don't even know why president trump thinks they have enough uranium to do this and now you're right that the answer is oh well we weren't strong enough to take it all out well and that's precisely the point if they were at least intellectually honest
SPEAKER 14 :
Their reporting would be like, you know, this didn't matter anyways. It was a waste of bombs, waste of putting our people in harm's way. Instead, they're running with a leaked thing that says, I didn't really push it back that far based off initial assessments. But they're not intellectually honest. They have Trump derangement syndrome, which allows them to not think clearly enough to even get their story right. Like, they could easily just mock it by saying... Well, what was the point? There was nothing there to begin with. But no, they get tricked by their own deceit by thinking that this is a great story we can run with, we can make the president look really bad and not successful, and they forget what they were talking about just a few days ago, that why would he strike that? They don't even have what he says they have. It's ridiculous.
SPEAKER 13 :
I'm fired up, Logan. Ronald, thank you for calling. We appreciate it. Look, this first half hour flew by. But I want you to understand some of the work the ACLJ is doing. Will, can you do it in three minutes or do you want to hold it?
SPEAKER 14 :
I think I can. So we had a big victory out of the Supreme Court today. This was a case. It was Medina versus Planned Parenthood. This is where the state of South Carolina was saying that Medicaid dollars would not go to Planned Parenthood. Effectively, they were defunding Planned Parenthood at the state level, saying our citizens don't want their taxpayer dollars going to Planned Parenthood. So we're stopping that. Planned Parenthood sued. It went all the way up to the Supreme Court. And in a 6-3 decision, which the ACLJ filed in our brief, which was tracking very closely with what the decision of the court brought forward, is they were trying to argue that they had the right. to receive Medicaid dollars that you couldn't sever that you couldn't choose to not fund them. The Supreme Court overturned that in the way it was very technical, as the court does. They decided Planned Parenthood doesn't have the right to sue the state to get Medicaid funding back, effectively paving the way for states to follow South Carolina's lead and stop giving Medicaid dollars to abortion clinics. It's for health care. not for what Planned Parenthood and other clinics do. And I think this is a wonderful decision by the Supreme Court, authored by Neil Gorsuch, six to three, with the three liberal members of the court dissenting. And I think it really is a powerful day, not just even for this, but at the fact that states can not fund things instead of being forced by these interest groups to give them your taxpayer dollars.
SPEAKER 13 :
It's not only about life, but of course life is very important to us here at the ACLJ, but the ramifications of this are well beyond. But we do. Yeah, I like striking some blows to Planned Parenthood. This is another one. And we're going to be taking them on again directly in another state to prevent them from striking down even one of Missouri's pro-life laws. They want to take down all of them. And today, though, was a big day, whether that is for life or even for just the states being able to decide what they want to do. The fight continues on. I'm going to encourage you right now as we head into the second half hour of the broadcast. Some of you lose this here. And I'm saying if you do lose this, if you're listening on your local radio station and they don't carry the full hour, number one, they should. But either way, we've got a great interactive experience going on on YouTube and on Rumble. And really, you can go there directly by going to ACLJ.org or downloading the ACLJ app. So I always encourage you to listen to the show live when you can, 12 to 1 p.m. Eastern time. You can work your way back from there because it is always, you know, we're covering breaking news. We're covering what's happening. We are making sure we stay on task with what's happening. You may hear this show later on and the world has already changed. That's okay. You can always catch us up. later on on the podcast feed again or on youtube or on rumble but you can support this show i see a lot of people saying hey no more of legacy media we got to move on well the only way we can move on is to have independent sources like ours that can continue on and you can make a tax deductible donation to the aclj which includes supporting this show by going to aclj.org And if you can, you become a monthly supporter. So we don't ever have to put this behind a paywall. Because people like you say it's important to get the word out there. Scan the QR code that's on your screen. Or again, go to ACLJ.org. Second half hour coming up. And this is a very short break. We're only gone for less than a minute. And we have one line open. Who's going to take it? 1-800-684-3110. keeping you informed and engaged now more than ever this is seculo and now your host logan seculo welcome back to seculo we have a second half hour coming up we have a full bank of calls right now of course we are going to reset talk a little bit about what's going on sadly pete hexeth has had to come out again and say look the strikes were effective president trump had to come out and say look Quit listening to your legacy medias, to your CNNs, to your New York Times. They're only trying to mislead you because, oh, they say we only knocked back the new capabilities by a few months. We had a great call coming in from Georgia that said, hey, I thought before this, the legacy media was saying they weren't even close to having it, having the ability to do this. And now they're saying we didn't hit them hard enough. Which one is it? And that's why it's important to have voices like ours out there. Phone lines are open for you at 1-800-684-3110. Stay on hold, Tim, Daniel, Candy, Bruce. Two lines actually open. Someone dropped off. So give us a call right now.
SPEAKER 14 :
That's right. And when you look at what is happening, as Logan mentioned, with the media, they are trying to pick apart. in real time like they started as soon as this attack happened they're trying to pick apart whether or not the bombing of nuclear sites was successful and it's not just like here's some questions they're relying on leaks of documents top secret documents And in no way are you hearing people in mainstream media even bringing up like, whoever leaked this document is detrimental to the national security of the United States and probably needs to be in jail. Because that's what they were arguing against President Trump when he retained materials from his presidency. And when you're the president, you do have the power to declassify. But they are running, they love to run with the story of a leaker that comes from a highly classified document. Why is that? Why are they so willing to take that material, something that is right in the aftermath, when there's a fragile ceasefire, when Iran retaliated by sending ballistic missiles at our troops, and they're running with stories that could embolden the regime. by saying maybe we didn't do that good of a job. Maybe President Trump is obsessed with obliterating their nuclear facilities kind of like he was obsessed with the size of his inauguration crowd. They're trying to say that he's lying and that Pete Hegseth is lying and that Marco Rubio is lying. When they're giving you the facts, they're being so transparent about this. They were showing videos of how these bunker buster bombs work and talking about the 15-year work at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. When have you heard that much detail about a singular bombing mission ever? And yet the media is still sitting there trying to humiliate Not just the president, not just the cabinet, but even the men and women in uniform that flew those missions.
SPEAKER 13 :
And now speaking out of both sides of their mouth, we just got a report from the New York Times that came out just less than an hour ago, and their headline is, centrifuges at Fort Doe no longer operational, UN nuke watchdog head says. Wait a second. Wait just a second, Logan. French radio said there was no escaping significant damage Again, so now the New York Times, after saying, not enough, now they're saying, oh, maybe there was a lot. They're no longer operational.
SPEAKER 14 :
The fact that they wait and we're like, okay, you know who is the one voice we can trust on this? Not the military officers or the Secretary of Defense. It's the nuclear watchdog at the UN who has not been given a ton of access under the JCPOA like they were supposed to because that's who President Obama put all his trust in. He's like, I've seen the pictures, okay guys?
SPEAKER 13 :
We've seen the pictures. They ain't operational no more. All right, when we get back, we're going to take some phone calls. I want to hear from you. I think phone lines are jammed completely right now. But if you are on hold, Bruce, Rick, Candy, Deke, Daniel, Tim, stay on hold. I'm going to get to you in just a few minutes. And if you become an ACLJ champion, by the way, and you tell our phone screener, you got to make sure you tell them, I bump you to the front of the line. You get pushed to the front. So if you call in and you're an ACLJ champion, now don't lie to them. We can check our records online. Be honest, broker here. Become a champion. Even five bucks a month. It means a lot. Do it right now. Go to aclj.org. We'll be back with your phone calls, questions, and so much more in just a moment. Welcome back to Secular. We do have some other news we're going to cover here before we start taking all the calls. And we have so many lined up, it's going to be a packed, probably last segment or two here with your calls. But Will, I know you wanted to address a couple different things. There are topics of interest that are happening around the country right now. It is the great flamingo resurgence in South Florida. Maybe that's what we want to talk about.
SPEAKER 14 :
No, that wasn't where I was going. Okay, where were you going? Well, there's a vice mayor in one of the cities in L.A. County. This is just south of Los Angeles that is getting some flack, Logan. You know, the governor of California was saying there was no need for the National Guard. He had everything under control because this wasn't a rebellion. This wasn't under the insurrection act somewhere where he thought that federal law couldn't be carried out. Even though we know we saw, we saw what happened, but this is what a vice mayor posted on social media. And she's since deleted this, but you got to hear what an elected official in California is calling for. And then you tell me, If this is a rebellion, an insurrection, or something like that, or trying to block the federal law enforcement, let's go ahead and run bite one and see what Cynthia Gonzalez, the vice mayor of this city, had to say.
SPEAKER 10 :
Not for nothing, but I want to know where all the cholos are at. in los angeles 18th street florencia where's the leadership at because you guys are all about territory and this is 18th street and this is florencia you guys tag everything up claiming hood and now that your hood's being invaded by the biggest gang there is there ain't a peep out of you it's everyone else who's not about the gang life that's out there protesting and speaking up it's We're out there, like, fighting our turf, protecting our turf, protecting our people. And, like, where you at? I'm like, dude, they're running amok all up on your streets. On your streets and in your city. and peep when the big gang guns come in nothing but like quiet and we're out here the regular ones that have never been jumped in out here calling things out trying to organize people trying to do the thing so don't be trying to claim no block no nothing if you're not showing up right now trying to like help out and organize i don't want to hear a peep out of you once they're gone trying to claim that this is my block this was not your block you weren't even here helping out So whoever's the leadership over there, just get your members in order.
SPEAKER 13 :
Get your members in order. Well, I've never thought I'd be agreeing with the L.A. gangs where they were like, you know what? This is in our battle here. Yeah. You know, I don't think this is really for us right now. This is too organized. It's too fancy. It's so crazy that this is coming from an elected official.
SPEAKER 14 :
Right. And what she is saying is gangs fight. fight for your turf fight against another gang she wants gang warfare in against the government how is this first of all how is that not a crime i'm just gonna put that to encourage your organized crime to come out yeah just say gangs, we want you to literally fight law enforcement. I feel like there's some statutes that are being violated there. But just in reality, even if it's not criminal, how are you not stepping down and resigning? Now, her attorney put out a statement and said, no, no, no, she wasn't calling for violence. She was just saying, stand up and show up and be there.
SPEAKER 13 :
Does she know what all these people look like? Is she that deep into the gang life to where she's like, I'm looking around. And I don't see you. Where you at?
SPEAKER 14 :
Unbelievable.
SPEAKER 13 :
You're not wearing the proper colors.
SPEAKER 14 :
So maybe sending in the National Guard was the right thing if the elected officials are calling for gang violence against the government.
SPEAKER 13 :
It gives me more respect for the gangs. That they're like, this is not our fight. Yeah. This is not our fight. She's like, it's not about their turf and all that. It's like, yeah, you know what? They know when to get involved and not get involved. Yeah. All right. We also wanted to talk about, and look, I don't know how we're going to even segue into this, but, well, there's been a lot of talk about alligator alcatraz.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 13 :
That's going on in Florida. And I mentioned earlier that flamingos are giving Florida a second look. I saw that as a headline in the Orlando Sentinel today, that flamingos have been going, you know what? We're going to check Florida out again. Under DeSantis, we left. We thought we weren't welcome, but we're back. They're going to try it out. However, Alligator Alcatraz is really happening. It's one of those things that you look at a headline and you go, I can't believe this. This is the most Florida thing to possibly exist. It's not even a nickname. That is what the governor, that is what people are referring to this as, which is a detention facility in the middle of the Everglades. in Florida, surrounded by alligators and wildlife. So essentially, they can't escape. Now this also is on a former airport, right? So they think that this could be an option to get people in and out.
SPEAKER 14 :
So it was a training airport that was in the middle of the Everglades. So I think one for training and situations like that, it's not amongst a lot of things. So when you're doing training flights and all this, you're not putting civilian and stuff at danger. But the Everglades are remote, vast swampland. Mm-hmm. Vast alligator infestation. By placing this center here, which could hold up to 5,000 people, one, there is the thought it has a runway that it wouldn't have to then transport migrants to a different place to then be removed from the country. But as well, it's so remote that no one's going to really be able to escape from it unless they do so at their great peril. But then also it is convenient to be able to have flights in and out. The name alone is only something that could come out of the Trump administration.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, or the state of Florida. I do have to say, when I first heard about it, I thought we were going to get a maximum security prison. in the Everglades and this was going to be like some sort of weird Hunger Games situation where it's like, if you can escape, full pardon, if you can escape, if you can make it through the swamps, you've made it, okay? And I'm kind of for that, like there's something about that that's very intriguing. I don't necessarily love that it's a immigration detention facility and we're calling it Alcatraz or Alligator Alcatraz. That feels a little inhumane, a little unkind. So here's my pitch. Is we do that. We make it a maximum security prison. But like, no gates. Maximum security just because of location.
SPEAKER 14 :
And there's maybe some small fencing.
SPEAKER 13 :
And look, Will and I spend a lot of time around alligators. We've wrestled alligators. We have. I have put myself in danger for the love of these wondrous creatures. Yeah, they're beautiful. They are. They're some of the best things in the world. And look, they're largely kind. I don't want to tell you to mess with them. But you don't hear a lot of negative things coming out of gators, crocodiles. I don't. What? I don't. First of all, kind is not the word I would use for them. They're just big old dogs that just haven't evolved yet. Yes. Right. You don't hear negative things. Doggy dog. It's not gator-y human. It doesn't happen that much. Look at the facts. It doesn't happen all that much. But the fear of them, because they are scary beasts. you have to have a good fear. You have to have, you know, a healthy fear. Healthy fear of them. They got to run zigzag, which apparently is not true. I've heard it's not true. I've heard you just got to run fast. That's how you get away from an alligator. Look, we're joking around here, but these are the real things that are happening in this country. And whether that is what's going on in New York City, as they've started to look at new mayor options, or whether that is going on in Florida, where you are building an alligator Alcatraz, the world is at a very, very interesting spot. And... our phone lines are completely jammed, which I love. And I wish we had some open so we could hear more about people's thoughts on Alligator Alcatraz. So if you want to follow up your comments with more comments, Tim, Daniel, Deacon, Candy, Rick, Bruce, we will be taking your calls. Maybe we could take one really quick. We got a couple minutes left in this segment. Let's go to Tim. He's been a hold for a long time. Tim, you're on the air.
SPEAKER 17 :
Hey, how's it going? Good show as usual. I was just wondering... The legacy media, didn't they just meet like last week in Oregon or something so they're all in lockstep throughout all the networks?
SPEAKER 13 :
know specifically about that uh we can look there may have been a summit like there's a lot of conventions and things for news media uh that's not uncommon it's not uncommon also that these news outlets do work together i think you'd probably be surprised how how closely a uh the mainstream media does have open lines of communication with each other to confirm facts to share clips to do all that i don't necessarily think that there's nefarious uh but there's also big conglomerates that own most of your local stations in an area uh and that's always a part of it wills or something
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, that's right. I'm not certain about that, but there are summits and meetings and trade shows that happen all the time. But in reality, you can tell the groupthink without even having to look for an actual meeting because they all report the same thing. The New York Times and CNN are still going with that same angle.
SPEAKER 13 :
They all use the same words. Right. It's word manipulation. It's Let me put this word in your head so now you're going to hear it 40 times. It's when they said weird. Remember weird? If I'll move past that, but during the election, how often did we hear weird? J.D. Vance is weird. Everyone is weird. Of course, that did real well for them. When we get back, we're just going to go rock through these calls. Tim, we appreciate you calling in. We've got one line open now. Who's going to be the last call, and will it be about Alligator Alcatraz? We'll find out. 1-800-684-3110. If you can't support the work of the ACLJ, regardless if you felt this segment was ridiculous or not, you know we're doing the good, hard work for you. Call in if you can, but also support the work, again, at ACLJ.org. We're going to be right back with the last segment of the day. We're going to head all over the country to hear from you. All right, it's time to take your phone calls. We're going to head all over the country. We got North Carolina, Washington, D.C., Maryland, Georgia, Nevada, Florida. It sounds like Mambo No.
SPEAKER 1 :
5.
SPEAKER 13 :
I think I did that to the beat of Mambo No.
SPEAKER 1 :
5.
SPEAKER 13 :
You did. We got Nevada and Florida and Georgia and Maryland. All right, let's go ahead and take them. Let's just go in the order they came in. Daniel's calling from Washington, D.C. Daniel, you're on the air.
SPEAKER 15 :
Oh, thank you for taking my call. You have been talking about the mainstream media lying and lying to the American people all the time. But my question is, why, when I go to a federal government building, why do I see CNN on their TV screens? That's my problem. And when you listen to a lie long enough, you begin to believe it. So our federal workers should not be listening and looking at lies all day long every day while they work.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, President Trump, if you're listening, I think Daniel's got a good point.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, maybe we can have a ban on CNN on federal TV screens. I don't know. They'd probably sue, say that's against the First Amendment or something. But Daniel, you bring up a good point. What would you put on it? um definitely not pbs even though we fund it yeah i don't know some children's programming just make it light-hearted maybe bluey people love bluey is it universally loved i don't know i'm probably gonna get hate in the in the chat for suggesting that so oh uh superbook Super, oh yeah, just indoctrinate everyone.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yep, I like Superbook. Daniel, but you know what? I'll tell you a little inside baseball here. Some of those stations do pay to be in those facilities. Right. We have been approached by organizations that want to put you in airports. So those TVs you see on in airports, a lot of times those are placed. That's not like the guy went up and turned it on. They're paying to be there. That's almost advertisement. So know that. I think you don't know how often you're being advertised to. And sometimes it's like that. It's subtle and it's happening. And I think you're right. Let's go ahead and continue on. Let's go to Candy in Georgia on YouTube. Candy, you're on the air.
SPEAKER 01 :
At first, when I saw this on the news, I was upset. But now I'm kind of amused that the Ayatollah Khomeini is saying he got the victory over the U.S. and Israel when we wiped out their nuke sites. And as far as the alligator, Alcatraz, I'm kind of amused by that, too. It's like, okay, if they're not going to have guards or limited amounts, how are they going to feed these people? Are they going to drop it, you know what I mean?
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, Candy, to cut this funny, coming on your first point, though, the clip of the Ayatollah saying that it just it feels like it's out of The Dictator, you know, like the Sacha Baron Cohen movie. It felt so hilarious to be like, actually, we won. And that was, I think, something that came out over the last couple of days.
SPEAKER 14 :
But you know what? I actually am shocked about it because, yeah, we did see it. We did see that he claimed he said the fact that the Islamic Republic has acts. That was a different one. But he said, oh, my congratulations to our dear Iran's victory over the U.S. regime. The U.S. regime entered the war directly because it felt that it didn't. The Zionist regime would be completely destroyed. It entered the war in an effort. And then he also said that we, yes, we slapped them down.
SPEAKER 13 :
He said he delivered a hand slap to America's face. With their little response. Maybe he's a fan of, you know, the Dana White power slap.
SPEAKER 14 :
He's watching on Rumble. Logan, here's the most surprising part, because, you know, the legacy media here have been doing such a great job carrying water for the Ayatollah. I'm surprised that wasn't breaking news. Iran declares victory and be like, we have finally heard from the dear leader of the Ayatollah.
SPEAKER 13 :
I got it like that. New York Post, though, put this is their headline. Iranian supreme leader crawls out of bunker to ludicrously claim victory over Israel. Tehran delivered a hand slap to America's face. Pretty funny. All right, let's move on. Thank you for calling, though. Let's see. Oh, two of you called in within seconds of each other. So I'm going to not go to you next. I'm going to Bruce first in Florida.
SPEAKER 06 :
Bruce, you're on the air. Thank you for taking my call. One of the things I wanted to talk about the legacy media, I think they're working very hard to prove themselves right after being proven wrong so many times over the past number of years. And I think that CNN is using this as an opportunity to get back on the map again, since they are being considered to be separated from Discovery Channel due to non-performing numbers decoupling the assets. So I think it's a hail Mary for them, but I think it's going to actually do the opposite.
SPEAKER 13 :
All right. Thank you so much for your call, Bruce. I think a lot of people do. You look at the numbers. Numbers don't lie. And I saw one person said, just because numbers are down doesn't mean that the accuracy of the media. No, but also means your audience is not there and don't trust you. So they could be like, yeah, just because the numbers aren't as big doesn't mean you are untrustworthy, but also means you've lost your audience. And there's a reason behind that. Continuing on, Rick in Nevada. Rick and Deacon, they were like battling it out for one second. I don't know who got first. Technically, Deacon, I think, is a half second. Well, we already got Rick. Rick in Nevada watching on Rumble. You're on the air.
SPEAKER 05 :
God bless the United States. God bless President Trump, his brilliance and the brilliance of his DOD. And God bless the ACLJ. Now, regarding the Supreme Court and its battles with the Planned Parenthood, why doesn't the Supreme Court levy a $100 million fine against the Planned Parenthood and put an end to these frivolous suits once and for all?
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, I mean, they they I don't know if the Supreme Court would even consider it a frivolous suit, even though they said they didn't have the right to sue. It was a little bit untested that whether or not the Medicaid programs could pick and choose which providers and they tried to use a portion of the law, the Civil Rights Act or something of that nature where they were saying that, you know, you can't discriminate against persons who want to use the doctor of their choice and things of that nature. So I don't know. I like where you're headed because I feel like the American people need to claw back some of the money that has gone to Planned Parenthood over the years, but I don't think that that would be the way to do it.
SPEAKER 13 :
All right. Thank you, Rick, for your call. Continuing on, Deacon now in Maryland. Deacon, you're on the air.
SPEAKER 11 :
Thank you. Go ahead. God bless my military. I have five children. Three of them are on active duty. God bless the military.
SPEAKER 13 :
All right, Deacon, thank you so much for calling in. We appreciate their service and everything that they've done. And we really do. Thank you for calling because I think it's an important time to remember when you have some kind of besmirchment of the military and what's been happening and saying, oh, they didn't quite do as good of a job. Three kids who are currently serving, and people have to understand the sacrifice that you and your family and other people go through for that. So know how much we appreciate it. It's why we're not just going to sit here and listen to the lies that are coming out about them. When you have to, again, just the basic, basic facts. Some of our American servicemen and women got on jets, flew from Missouri to Iran, strategically hit facilities, nuke facilities. And then we're able to leave without a shot being fired, without anything happening. That is because of their courage and because of their bravery and because of their intelligence. And know that we appreciate it. Let's go to Janet now, though, in North Carolina. Last call of the day. Janet, you're on the air.
SPEAKER 09 :
Hi there. Thank you for taking my call. But my specific question was regarding the Smith Month Modernization Act regarding print media or mainstream media. I guess it was President Obama that allowed them to deliver propaganda.
SPEAKER 13 :
uh news so is that something that we need to revisit look at and change that i'm only cutting you off to running out of time uh i think it's tough to start censoring organizations and start having to go i don't know if you want the government to get more involved in how news media runs i think that's a slippery slope because remember you may like it right now under a president trump you may not like it under uh whoever's the next democrat president and look there will be in our lifetime Let's not kid ourselves. It's always kind of gone back and forth. So I think any sort of moves to censor media or to really even just give them some sort of barriers, it's very concerning for me as a free speech activist. With that, though, we got to wrap up the show. Thank you so much for listening. Thank you so much for watching. We'll be back tomorrow with a brand new show, ACLJ.org.
Dr. Ben Carson joins the show to discuss enduring principles and the cultural shifts challenging America's core values. Exploring the 10th anniversary of the Obergefell decision, Tony and Dr. Carson assess the societal impact, drawing connections to current debates on gender and morality. With the backdrop of recent Supreme Court decisions, this episode is a pressing call for America to reflect on its founding values.
SPEAKER 20 :
From the heart of our nation's capital in Washington, D.C., bringing compelling interviews, insightful analysis, taking you beyond the headlines and soundbites into conversations with our nation's leaders and newsmakers, all from a biblical worldview. Washington Watch with Tony Perkins starts now.
SPEAKER 10 :
The reality is you want to call it destroyed, you want to call it defeated, you want to call it obliterated. Choose your word. This was an historically successful attack, and we should celebrate it as Americans. And it gives us a chance to have peace, a chance to have a deal, and an opportunity to prevent a nuclear Iran.
SPEAKER 09 :
That was Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth earlier today discussing the U.S. bombing of Iran's nuclear facilities and taking the media to task. Welcome to this June 26th edition of Washington Watch. I'm your host, Tony Perkins. Thanks so much for tuning in. Well, coming up, we'll take a closer look at what's ahead for Iran and the Middle East and the role China may be playing with Illinois Congressman Darren LaHood, a member of the House Intelligence Committee. And as June draws to a close, so does Pride Month. And without the government and corporations force-feeding the American public, it's becoming clear the public has little appetite for all of that. That's raising new questions on the left, including about the future of court-imposed same-sex marriage. Today marks the 10th anniversary since the Obergefell decision, which opened a cultural Pandora's box. Men and women's sports, men and women's restrooms, and the sexual indoctrination of elementary school children. just to name a few. Dr. Ben Carson will join me to unpack the cultural consequences of this ruling and how we might respond. And Planned Parenthood's president, Alexis McGill Johnson, responded earlier today to a major Supreme Court decision.
SPEAKER 05 :
This case, just like the current congressional effort to defund Planned Parenthood, is about lawmakers who want to impose their personal beliefs on everyone else. This time, it's about the court determining patients' rights.
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McGill-Johnson was responding to a court-issued ruling this morning that said South Carolina can exclude Planned Parenthood from its Medicaid program. Planned Parenthood obviously worried that the ruling will embolden other pro-life states to cut off taxpayer funding to the nation's largest abortion provider. Well, let's pray that's exactly what happens. We'll talk about it later on this edition of Washington Watch. Also joining me today, FRC's Travis Weber and Suzanne Bowdy, editorial director and senior writer at The Washington Stand, will discuss the one big beautiful bill. The Senate's giving the bill somewhat of a makeover. Will the House recognize it when it comes back? We'll talk about that as well. All of that and a bit more coming up on this edition of Washington Watch. But before we begin, as the week and our fiscal year draws to a close, there's still time to double your support for Washington Watch and the Family Research Council. For over 40 years, Family Research Council has stood firm in our nation's capital, defending faith, family and freedom from a biblical perspective. And thanks to a generous matching challenge, every gift that is given this week will be doubled. So to make your gift, we have folks standing by to take your call, 800-225-4008. That's 800-225-4008 to talk to one of our team members. Stand with us, and together, let's be a voice for truth. Well, as I mentioned during a press conference this morning, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth further defended America's targeted strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities. He and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Dan Kaine presented new information on the extent of the damage. The secretary also torched legacy media for hoping the strikes, quote, maybe weren't effective and trying to play them against President Trump. Here to discuss this, Congressman Darren LaHood, who serves on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. He represents the 16th Congressional District of Illinois. Congressman LaHood, welcome back to Washington Watch. Always good to see you. Good to be with you, Tony. So I know the House is scheduled for its own briefing tomorrow from the White House on the extent of the damage done. But what are you hearing so far? And would you call this a success?
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I would absolutely call it a success. The Intelligence Committee on the House side has been meeting throughout this week in our classified briefings in the SCIF and going over that. I can't get into the details on that. But as CIA Director Ratcliffe said yesterday, what President Trump did severely damaged the Iranian nuclear program. That was also put forth today at the press conference that you referenced with General Kane and also with Defense Secretary Hessek. This was a successful mission. But let's back up a little bit. President Trump gave the Iranians an opportunity to come to the table. Over a 60-day window, his envoy, Steve Witkoff, met with the Iranians, told them they need to come forth with a plan on how they get rid of their nuclear program. That didn't happen. And on day 61, of course, the Israelis moved in and did what they did in a very successful way. And that was followed by the bunker bombs that, again, severely damaged and decommissioned the nuclear program in Iran, which was a calculated risk. There's no doubt about it. But I'm glad President Trump made that decision after careful thought with a lot of smart, bright people in his office. in his cabinet. And ultimately, this is going to make the Middle East safer, America safer and the world.
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There's been some question about the enriched uranium that was at about 60 percent. They got to go to 90 to be weaponized to use for nuclear grade weapons that some of that was removed and hidden prior to the strikes. What do we know about that?
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Well, I don't think we know the full extent of that. I'm skeptical that that was done appropriately, but I don't think we'll know for a little bit of time here. Again, the strategic and tactical mission of what we did with these bombs hit their targets. As you know, these bunker bombs go down 20 or 30 stories. Tony, we're the only ones in the world that have this capability. And again, they severely damaged, using the words of the CIA director, the nuclear program. And I think it's a success.
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The attack, combined with what the Israelis did, has also set back Iran in their conventional warfare as well with their missiles.
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No doubt about it. Iran is in a very weakened position because of what the U.S. and the Israelis have been able to do. But you just think about what the Trump administration has done since they came in, Tony. Iran had all these proxies throughout the Middle East, the Houthis in Yemen, Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, the Shia proxies in Iraq. Assad was also one of their backers of terrorism. In many ways, those have all been eliminated. We're still dealing with the Houthis, but it has been a concerted effort, both the Israelis and the United States, to weaken Iran, and that's the position they're in. In the end, the religious zealots and the mullahs in Iran, they made a decision they'd rather have a bomb than peace, and this is the result of what happened over the last 12 days here.
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I think it would be difficult to find another period in time and history where we've seen so much transformation in the Middle East. Now, the dust hasn't settled. We don't know what the future looks like, but certainly the landscape, the geopolitical landscape has shifted in the Middle East. The key is going forward. Can peace be sustained with a Islamic regime that you just made reference to still in place?
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Well, if you look at their track record over 49 years that the Iranian mullahs have been running the theocracy in Iran, state sponsor of terrorism, everything they've been involved with, I'm skeptical and I'm dubious. I wish this would deter them from continuing to go down the path that they've already gone down. But as you know, Tony, they continue to not abide by any international norms or be compliant with – anything that's been put forth before. We'll see. This should send the ultimate deterrence. I hope this causes them to come to the table and want to negotiate and denuclearize. We can only hope. But I think we couldn't have sent a stronger message than we did over the last several days.
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Congressman LaHood, I would certainly agree to that. I want to kind of shift a bit, still related. You're a member of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party. Now, many would say, all right, so what does that have to do with Iran? It has a lot to do with Iran because China has been holding up Iran and supplying it with funds to be able to move forward with what it's been doing.
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Well, you're exactly right, Tony. And I don't think we focused on this enough. And I don't say this to scare people, but China has a plan to replace the United States, and they're working at it every single day from a national security standpoint, a diplomatic standpoint, an economic standpoint, technological standpoint. And them supporting countries like Iran, buying much of their energy, has helped fuel and fund Iran and the mullahs there. And, you know, that, again, has not been covered enough, but that's the reality. And on the Intelligence Committee and also on the Select Committee on China, we've been focused on this, but I think it's got to be raised to a whole other level. And I know the Secretary of Defense talked a little bit about it today, and President Trump is aware of this, but we can't let China off the hook on this. We've got to continue to press them to stop supporting Iran the way that they have.
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I mean, my sources in Israel, their intel suggests that Iran was able to rebuild the missile fuel sites, the solid missile fuel sites that they destroyed back in October of last year, in large part because of Chinese money that was flooding in to support Iran.
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Well, you need resources and you need money. And I mean, that's the one thing they have is energy sources there, natural gas and oil. And the Chinese continue to buy it along with other rogue nations. And that needs to be, again, prioritized and put at the top of our list. We can't allow Iran to continue to have that funding source moving forward. And I think as we think about the trade negotiations that are ongoing with China, This has to be a part of those. And I think it will be highlighted from a national security standpoint. The last point that I will make on this, Tony, is I think the national security team that President Trump has put in place is definitely much more focused on China and the Indo-Pacific region, whether that's Secretary Rubio, whether that's Vice President Vance, whether that's Director Ratcliffe, whether that's Director Patel. and others focused on China as a threat. And hopefully that will sink in as we continue the negotiations with China.
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Well, I do want to bring up one more point on China and they're the largest purchaser of Iranian oil. And the president earlier this week suggesting that sanctions might be loosened to allow China to continue to buy oil from Iran. How would you see sanctions continuing to be a tool to keep Iran in line?
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Well, I would not be of that opinion of allowing that we should loosen sanctions. Again, Iran has shown no track record of being compliant, of working in a way, has been trustworthy. Now, if Iran came forward and said, we want to negotiate, we want to recognize Israel, we want to be good actors in the Middle East, then I think that's a different story. We've heard none of that and seen none of that. We've seen just the opposite. Tony, I don't know if you saw this this past week, but, you know, the level of propaganda and misinformation that the Iranian state television has put up, they have a parade saying that they had won the war.
SPEAKER 09 :
Right. Right. And they're executing people openly to send fear among those who would challenge the regime. I do what you said, something that I think is really, really important. That could be a acid test, if you will, of whether or not they truly are going to give up their nuclear plan and want to be a part of the broader global community. And that is recognizing the right of Israel to exist. They have not done that. I would be hard pressed to see them do it.
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Well, we'll see. Again, there's a number of things that they can do to show that they are good actors. That has not been a way that anybody would describe them moving forward. But there is a pathway for them to move forward. And we'll see if those negotiations continue. And we can hope for that.
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But I think we have to be skeptical and dubious. Trust but verify. Congressman LaHood, great to see you. Thanks so much for taking time to join us today. Appreciate your insight. Good to be with you, Tony. Thanks. All right. Stay with us, folks. On the other side of the break, Dr. Ben Carson joins me. So don't go anywhere.
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Welcome back. Thanks so much for tuning in and making Washington Watch part of your day. By the way, we have team members standing by to take your call. If you would like to support and be a partner of Washington Watch and the Family Research Council for this week, just this week, so we've just got two days left, if you make a gift, it'll be doubled. That's right. We've got a generous match that's out there from some generous donors. So if you give us a call, 800-225-4008, that's 800-225-4008, your gift will be doubled. So double your impact and stand with us. For years now, LGBT activists have tried to claim June as Pride Month and force everyone to bend a knee to their radical and, frankly, immoral ideology. But a grassroots movement that began in 2023 aims to change that by making June a month of recommitment. to God, our spouses and family, our communities and country. This initiative, appropriately named Fidelity Month, comes as recent polls show an actual decline for same-sex marriage, especially among Republicans. So are more Americans beginning to connect the dots between the redefinition of marriage and the cultural Pandora's box that the court opened? Joining me now to discuss this, Dr. Ben Carson, the founder and chairman of the American Cornerstone Institute. He is also a world-renowned neurosurgeon who served as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under the first Trump administration. Dr. Carson has been a strong voice, a very strong voice for Christians and conservatives for many years, especially on the topic of marriage, family, and religious freedom. Dr. Carson, welcome back to Washington Watch. Always great to see you, my friend.
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Always good to be with you. I appreciate your steadfast, patriotic views on things.
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Well, we were together recently, I guess about two weeks ago, up on Capitol Hill for a Fidelity Month event that Dr. Robbie George of Princeton University has spearheaded and started. Why are you joining this effort?
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Because, you know, our country... was founded on Judeo-Christian principles and values. And that means a lot of our values came from the Word of God. And God tells us the kinds of things that we need to be faithful for. That includes our families, our spouses, our communities, and our nation. And we have entities going around proclaiming pride and other things, like Pride Month. Why shouldn't we talk about the pride we have in fidelity and being faithful to the commitments that we've made over the course of a lifetime and the very things that allowed this country to arise from obscurity and rise to the pinnacle of the world? It wasn't by coincidence. It was because of fidelity to various principles. And one of those principles is our families. which are the building blocks of our communities. When we have strong families, we have strong communities and therefore strong nations. It's so important for us to be proud of that and not to allow someone else to always take the banner and the attention.
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Well, and the further we move away from those founding principles, the more questionable our future becomes as a nation.
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No question about it. And all you have to do is ask yourself, are we a better nation as we abandon the principles that guided us from obscurity to the pinnacle of the world? Or are we moving in a downward spiral? And I don't think you have to be too objective to understand that we're moving in a downward spiral. But we can change that. I think I'm seeing... a lot of encouraging signs, particularly among young men in this country.
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We are. In fact, there's a resurgence of connection with Orthodox Christianity among young men. They've been given all this other ideology that's out there that is empty and does not give life its meaning and purpose, and they're returning back to that source that we find deeply rooted in America's history.
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Absolutely. They're actually observing what's going on and making decisions based on that. Not so much for the young women. We need to work on them. But it's something that we need to talk about. We need to talk about the reason that God instituted families as a place for children to be raised. There's been studies that have shown that children who are raised in traditional nuclear families do much better on all levels.
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But there is great cultural pressure not to talk about these Christian principles. In fact, when we were up together up on the hill together a couple of weeks ago in your comments, you made reference to this. Even when you came to your position at HUD during the first Trump administration, there were these government entities, forces, if you will, saying, hey, don't talk about that kind of stuff.
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Absolutely. And they still do it today. And I think we have to be bold. We have to be brave and be willing to talk about those things that we believe in. You know, the left succeeds, even though I don't think they are the majority. They succeed because they talk about what's important to them. Right. They use megaphone very effectively.
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But isn't that also why we see President Trump being successful, is that he's willing to stand up and speak and encourage, breeds courage?
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I am thrilled to see the way he gets up there. Sometimes he says things that are pretty amusing, but I'm so glad that he's willing to get up and talk and Tell the truth. You never have to really wonder about what he's thinking. It comes right out immediately. Yeah, that's true.
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The filter's not there very often. We just have about a minute left, Dr. Carson. But do you think Americans are starting to connect the dots with this redefinition of marriage when you look at this whole transgender ideology where their kids are being told you can choose your own gender and we're seeing these surgeries, experimental drugs given to adolescents? I mean, are people starting to see where this Pandora's box is leading?
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I think so. And you see last week the Supreme Court upheld Tennessee prohibitions against some of the manipulation and mutilation that we're doing to children. That's child abuse. Yeah. And I think people are starting to recognize that more people are recognizing that having men and women's sport makes no sense. You know, just starting to use our brains again. Common sense. That's what we're looking for. Common.
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But it requires people speaking up. It's one of the things I appreciated so much about you at HUD. You wouldn't allow men into women's shelters. And you took a lot of heat for that before congressional committees. But if we stand up and speak, common sense does have an opportunity to live. All right, Dr. Carson, we're up against a break. We'll be back with more folks. Stay right there. We're coming right back.
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Welcome back to Washington Watch. Again, we've got team members standing by to take your phone call. If you would like to partner with Family Research Council to ensure that Washington Watch continues on the airwaves, your gift today and tomorrow will be doubled. Just give a call 800-225-4008. That's 800-225-4008 to talk to one of our team members. All right, here with me to continue our conversation on the cultural direction of America is Dr. Ben Carson, the founder and chairman of the American Cornerstone Institute. Dr. Carson, thanks again for sticking with us. Very quickly, before I get to my next question, how can people find out more about the Cornerstone Institute?
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Americancornerstone.org. And there's all kinds of things on that website, including our Little Patriots program for children, Executive branch for America, which teaches you how the government works.
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It's great stuff. Great stuff. Great for homeschool families and others, because we've got to reach children at a young age when that worldview is being formulated. And you've got some great material for that.
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Yeah, that's what I like about it. It's right there for you folks, so check it out, America Cornerstone Institute. Speaking of children, Dr. Carson, this week not only is the 10th anniversary of the Burgerfeld decision, it's the third anniversary of the Dobbs decision, which before the program started, you and I were talking, reminded me that we were together when that decision was handed down by the Supreme Court. We were speaking on a panel together. Good things happen when you and I get together. We just need to be because there was actually another Supreme Court decision today handed down by the court saying that South Carolina has the right to defund Planned Parenthood. And that fits into what I want to ask you about, because since stops, most people aren't aware of this. But abortion rates have increased by about 12 percent in this country, in large part because now 63 percent of abortions at least are being conducted by the abortion pill, which under Biden era policy is being mailed into these pro-life states. Forty one states have some form of protection for the unborn. Those laws are being circumvented by the abortion pill.
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And there's not very good surveillance of what happens when those pills are distributed. And it can be very dangerous for a woman's health. But it's also very dangerous for their mental health because a lot of times they're sitting on the toilet and they deliver a formed baby that has arms and legs and a head. And that can have an emotional impact. devastating effect for the rest of a person's life. They don't even think about things like that. And we have 40 tons of human waste In terms of fetal bodies per year in this country, think about that, 40 tons.
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Wow. And that's going actually into our sewage system and then making its way back into our water system. We talked about that earlier in this week, a new study that's out that shows our filtration systems are not able to filter out all of these chemicals like the portions of mifeprestone that is a part of the regimen for the abortion pill. This could have long-term complications for American health beyond the mother and the child.
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It can impact fertility. And we don't really know all the things that it will affect. You know, the Republicans were putting forth an effort to study the side effects of Mifepristone, and the Democrats tried to block it. They don't want to know the side effects. Why would they not want to know the side effects unless they realize that maybe there's something there that would discourage people from using it for abortions?
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Well, as long as we this is one of the things that the Trump administration really needs to do is to to eliminate this Biden policy and go back to the preexisting protocols that require in-person medical consultation before this pill is issued. I mean, obviously, I'd like to see the pill done away with, but at least we should have these minimal requirements. And that would respect the pro-life laws of these states, because right now those laws aren't being respected.
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Now, when you make it so easy, people who really shouldn't be doing it are doing it. And more importantly, and it's something that we don't talk about very much in our society anymore, but there's a very good way to make sure that you don't have to have an abortion. That is abstinence. What about waiting until you're married and really taking the family seriously again? Why don't we do that? Why don't we talk about that anymore? And I'm aiming this at a lot of ministers and churches who just sort of have abandoned some of God's principles.
SPEAKER 09 :
That's such a good point, Dr. Carson. Whatever happened to self-control and restraint and actually doing things according to God's design, which actually the social sciences and all of the research says that if you wait until marriage or you finish school, you get married, and then you have babies, the chances are you're going to avoid poverty. It's unlikely that you'll be in poverty if you do those things in that order.
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Well, you know, we used to know that, didn't we? That used to be part of the common knowledge. Now it's a study that shocks people.
SPEAKER 09 :
Right. But in part because the government has been subsidizing bad behavior. And what you pay for, you get more of. And as long as we have these government programs that reward bad behavior, we're going to get more of it. Dr. Carson, we're out of time, but it's always great to have you on the program. I so appreciate you speaking out with clarity. And you could just enjoy life and be retired on the beach, but you're engaged, and I appreciate it.
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Well, thank you for providing a great forum to talk about things that bring us closer to our Savior.
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All right. Dr. Ben Carson, check out the American Cornerstone Institute. All right. When we come back, going to be joined by Travis Weber and Suzanne Bowdy as we look at the status of the one big, beautiful bill. It's getting a makeover in the Senate. Don't go away.
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Yeah. So, Tony, as you noted, this will give states the freedom to determine how the dollars flowing through their state are spent with regard to whether they want to side on the side of death or the side of life. This question of abortion and the most well-known abortion mill, Planned Parenthood. And so it's really a matter of state policies and state governments, as the people voice their support for life in those states, being able to say, we want these funds to go to not go to Planned Parenthood or any other similar abortion providers with regard to the interpretation of federal statute here that the Supreme Court is dealing with. So I think this is a win, certainly for the rule of law. It's a win for the voice of the people in the states, and it gives light and life to the This allows the people to voice their support for life in the states and allows the states to be a laboratory for democracy as our country should provide for and allow them to continue to support life. So I think we're very encouraged by this in terms of the pro-life policy outcome, Tony, but also for the people in the states to say, we want our state to protect life as well.
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Suzanne, Planned Parenthood in their most recent annual report said, SHOWS THAT THEY PERFORMED OVER 400,000 ABORTIONS, A RECORD FOR THEM IN TERMS OF THE NUMBER OF ABORTIONS, AND THEY RECEIVED NEARLY $800 MILLION FROM TAXPAYERS. THAT'S REALLY JUST KIND OF A, THEY PUT FORWARD THIS IDEA THAT THEY ARE A HEALTH CARE PROVIDER, BREAST EXAMINATIONS, contraceptive counsel and consultation. They're really an abortion provider. That's all they do. And that is not health care.
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I would say they're not a provider. I would say they're a business in a multimillion dollar business. Those those procedures that you talked about abortion and now that they've branched out into gender trans transition procedures are cash cows for them. They make millions of dollars off of these things and they do not need the government's money, taxpayers money in the states or federally financing them. They're doing pretty well on their own, and it's not, as you point out rightly, they're not providing the services that they claim to in abundance, which is, you know, STD testing, adoption referrals, other things.
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And that's what they were basing their claim, that they should be treated like any other provider. Well, every other provider doesn't perform 400,000 abortions, and they're an abortion business. They are not a health care provider. provider. But this, Suzanne, this also ties into what's happening on Capitol Hill right now with reconciliation.
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It does, Tony. You know, it's been really interesting to watch this process. I think a lot of Americans are probably confused about what's going on in the Hill right now. They see the headlines about a birdbath. What is that? They see the headlines about a Senate parliamentarian. And right now what's happening is that the Senate is going through, combing through the bill that's just come out of the Senate Finance Committee, which is sort of a hodgepodge of both the House and Senate bills. And they're looking at various items and seeing if they qualify under the process of reconciliation. So under reconciliation, it's just a simple majority that you need to pass this bill, but the items have to be related to budgetary things or tax issues. And one of the big provisions in that bill that FRC has been very instrumental in lobbying for is to defund big abortion. And right now, as the Senate's looking at that, that provision has been preserved, excuse me, largely because people are weighing in and saying they want their senators to defund abortion. As we've just seen, the federal government also needs to do that. It's not just states, but the federal government also needs to defund big abortion. There's a role for the federal government as well.
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So, Suzanne, just a little context, a little history on the birdbath. You know, people are thinking, what is this, some kind of like concrete pedestal up there with the birds fluttering around? That is named after Robert Byrd, the late Robert Byrd, who was a longtime member of the Senate and the finance overseeing the appropriations. Explain what that is. It is a process by determining whether or not something fits within the very narrow parameters of the the 1973 Budget Reconciliation Act.
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Right. So it's BYRD, not BIRD for Robert Byrd, as you said. And the Senate is governed by very complicated procedures and rules. And as I mentioned, reconciliation is one of those very complicated processes. And so Robert Byrd was very concerned that if people wanted to pass something with a simple majority through the reconciliation process, they might take advantage of that and try to pass things that aren't related to the budget or taxes. So what he said was, OK, we need a rule in place where everything has to be looked at in terms of the budget and taxes. For instance, you can't have some pet project of a Democrat or a Republican hitching a ride on this bill to be passed just because it's A simple majority. So the Senate parliamentarian sits down, combs through the bill, sees what which elements of that bill are budgetary and tax in nature. So that's called a birdbath. Now, if she strikes something right now, that Senate parliamentarian is Elizabeth McDonough. She's been in the job for about 12 years. If she strikes something, it's called a bird dropping, hilariously. And the senators have to go back to the drawing board to see if they can tweak that language or if there's something they can do to make it qualify. But it's very important because you don't want people to take advantage of the process just to pass something with a simple majority. So right now, that's what's happening in the Senate, and we'll see what comes out of it. We've already seen a number of provisions stripped. One of them that we're keeping an eye on is gender transition funding for minors. which which came out of the House unscathed, but may or may not be a casualty of the Senate side. I know we'll be working to convince people that, yes, this is a very important part of the budget and one that we want to see upheld as a ban and protect minors from those procedures.
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So, Suzanne, does Big Bird factor in here?
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I don't know, but it might ruffle some feathers.
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Very good. Travis, Suzanne mentioned one of these other provisions that's in the bill, and that is the gender transition procedures that are being funded by taxpayers through various means. One, Medicaid. That was taken out of the House, that funding. It's kind of caught up in the birdbath. We don't know what's going to happen. We might have to change the water there. But this is relevant this week. Actually, today is the 10th anniversary of the Burgerfeld decision. I was just talking with Dr. Ben Carson about this a few moments ago, that people don't realize that the court, when they redefined this institution of marriage, which God created and history has recognized through the millennia, that that has opened a cultural Pandora's box that I think the American people are beginning to see.
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Tony, absolutely. Right. Because if you look just in recent 10, 15 years. Right. So we can see a massive shift in terms of the public's awareness of the implications of of going down this road of approval, public approval of really, you know, I would say a taxer. degradation of God's design of the family, marriage, of us being created in his image, right? Because we're marking the 10-year anniversary of that unconstitutional decision, reading a desired policy outcome into the law in the Obergefell case, because our leaders, and those sometimes, unfortunately, those in the judiciary do not have the moral clarity, objectivity, or a spine to stand up for what is right and under the rule of law as opposed to their desired outcome. So the implications, the casualties of that are really the American people, but the public. And so now people think it's okay because the court said it, right? But Tony, as you're noting, the transgender issue emerging in recent years popping its head above ground, people seeing the ugly reality of what that is doing to our families, to parental rights, to parental authority, to children, to the teaching of children, all of the issues we've seen the last two or three years. People are rightly reacting to that, but the connection that you're noting that they need to make is the connection between that and what the court did in Obergefell and any approval of the idea that somehow marriage can be between two people of the same biological sex. That's just not true. And so this is a very important picture understanding arc of truth, we could call it, right? To use, you know, sometimes our opponents refer to the arc of history, but God is the author of truth and reality. And this is something we must call attention to and help people see when unfortunately our country has missed it in something like this. like this.
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And to make these things fit, you have to force them. You have to use the force of government to make people accept it. And that's what we've seen over the last 10 years, especially under the previous administration that targeted any dissent. Now, Suzanne, under this administration that has brought common sense back into the process, protecting religious freedom, there's a freer, even before this administration, I mean, there were Americans that said, look, truth is truth. I'm not going to abandon it. We just finished Pride Month. I was talking about this earlier in the program. Corporate America even, I'm not sure that their heart is in it, but they are dialing it back because they see where the American public is. This is so important that we speak up because as we speak up and as we take a stand, as I like to say, courage breeds courage. And we'll see more Americans standing against these lies, this deception, which is destructive and dangerous.
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And I think one thing that's important to remember is this was six justices' opinions. Until 2022, I mean, this was not done legislatively. So we were substituting the country's opinion for six justices who believed that you could redefine what marriage is. And I think that the public... never really went along with that idea. In fact, in 2022, when this was debated in Congress, people were really frustrated by the fact that we would continue down this path after we saw almost immediately the effect of Obergefell. Justice Kennedy, when he wrote that opinion, said he thought there were good people on both sides of the debate. And he cautioned people to take religious freedom seriously and protect it. And almost immediately, what did we see? We saw the religious freedom of bakers and florists, of county clerks. It opened up the door to attacks on education, conscience rights. So, yes, I mean, the American people have seen the effects, and they're horrified by it. So I think that's why, as you were talking about with Dr. Carson, you know, Republicans in particular have really pulled back on this idea that it's a good idea for the country. The support has dropped precipitously, about 14 percent on the GOP side. So I think we're going to continue to see people reevaluate this as a policy idea.
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Well, in order to get to these cultural You have to go back to the source. And I know that this is this will drive the left crazy. In fact, there was an article out today from Axios speaking about this because I think the left is fearful because the American people, now that they feel free to speak out or saying, hey, this is this is not right. I don't want my kids indoctrinated. I don't want to have to share a bathroom with someone of the opposite sex. And so people are starting to push back. I found it interesting that Axios. in making their argument for same-sex marriage is very similar to what we've seen in the past making an economic argument. Nearly 600,000 same-sex couples in the U.S. have married since the Obergefell decision, boosting state and local economies by roughly $6 billion and generating an estimate $432 million in state sales tax revenue. You know, this is where the world is. It measures everything by dollars, but not by right and wrong.
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And Tony, I would even say, just hearing that headline, I would disagree with it. They're not married. They're claiming to be married. The civil government has given them a piece of paper that says they're married, but calling something doesn't make it so. They're in denial of reality. The author of creation, the Lord God himself, has determined what marriage is, and they're in violation of that. Therefore, they're not married. They're not in line with the truth. They can run around thinking that's not a marriage. And we have to correct the language of our country when it's going off the rails. And in this case, it is just like we see on the transgender issue.
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We have to uphold truth. Suzanne Bowdy, Travis Weber, thanks so much for joining me today.
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Thanks, Tony.
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In a riveting discussion about the New York City mayoral race, Mike Gallagher sits down with Dov Hikind to unpack the consequences of Zoran Mamdani's surprising primary win. Addressing concerns from various political spectrums, they explore what's at stake and the urgent need for unity amongst conservative candidates. Hikind provides a strategic roadmap to counter Mamdani's radical platform, urging broader participation in the democratic process and emphasizing the importance of unified opposition leading into the general election.
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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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It astounds me how different. The second Trump term is from the first one. I think it's because President Trump sort of got his sea legs. I think he got kind of – he knows where all the bodies are buried now. He knows sort of how to maneuver with the jackals of the news media. This leak to CNN that supposedly – confirmed that our strike on the Iranian nuclear sites really wasn't all that successful. We just kind of clipped them. We didn't set them back. I mean, they're ready to go. They're going to be able to have a nuke next week because, you know, Trump's mission was so botched. Uh-uh. Nope. Daddy ain't playing anymore. And they're not going to pussyfoot around. There's now... Now that it's coming out that even the Iranians are confirming that the nuclear sites were obliterated. And look, there's still maybe the fog of a little bit of lack of clarity, but we're going to find out. But here's what's going to happen. There's going to be a full-fledged investigation. That leak is illegal. It is against the law. And they're going to find the leaker and they're going to, They're going to prosecute. Earlier today, Pete Hegseth held a press conference at the Pentagon and sort of set the record straight in a big way.
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Fake news, CNN, MSNBC, or the New York Times. There's been fawning coverage of a preliminary assessment. I haven't had a chance to read it. Every outlet has breathlessly reported on a preliminary assessment from DIA. I'm looking at it right now. Again, it was preliminary, a day and a half after the actual strike. When it admits itself in writing that it requires weeks to accumulate the necessary data to make such an assessment, it's preliminary. It points out that it's not been coordinated with the intelligence community at all. There's low confidence in this particular report. It says in the report there are gaps in the information. It says in the report multiple linchpin assumptions are what this assessment. A linchpin assumption, you know what that is? That means your entire premise is predicated on a linchpin. If you're wrong, everything else is wrong. And yet, still, this report acknowledges it's likely severe damage. Again, this is preliminary, but leaked because someone had an agenda to try to muddy the waters and make it look like this historic strike wasn't successful.
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Any chance they can to try to disparage this administration, the deep state is going to try. Hegseth went on to tout the unprecedented success of Operation Midnight Hammer.
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Those that understand, those that see, those that do proper assessments recognize that what the United States military did was historic. And again, before I pass it to the chairman. Because you, and I mean specifically you, the press, specifically you, the press corps, because you cheer against Trump so hard. It's in your DNA and in your blood to cheer against Trump because you want him not to be successful so bad. You have to cheer against the efficacy of these strikes. You have to hope maybe they weren't effective. Maybe the way the Trump administration has represented him isn't true. So let's take half-truths, spun information, leaked information, and then spin it. Spin it in every way we can to try to cause doubt, and manipulate the public mind over whether or not our brave pilots were successful. How many stories have been written about how hard it is to, I don't know, fly a plane for 36 hours? Has MSNBC done that story? Has Fox? Have we done the story how hard that is? Have we done it two or three times so that American people understand how about how difficult it is to shoot a drone from an F-15 or 16 or F-22 or F-35? Or what it's like to man a Patriot battery? Or how hard it is to refuel midair? Giving the American people an understanding of how complex and sophisticated this mission really was. There are so many aspects of what our brave men and women did that, because of the hatred of this press corps, are undermined because people are trying to leak and spin that it wasn't successful. It's irresponsible.
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I ask you a question. What do you think would be happening right now in the media if the Iranian strikes had been conducted by a Democrat administration? If Barack Obama's administration or even Joe Biden's administration or a Kamala Harris administration had pulled off Operation Midnight Hammer, you know how different the media coverage would be. You know it instinctively. You know it in your heart. They're not going to praise this president. Some of them are reluctantly giving him credit, but only a little bit. And Secretary Hegseth went on to lay it out in terms of giving credit where credit is due.
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The bottom line here, President Trump directed the most complex and secretive military operation in history. And it was a resounding success, resulting in a ceasefire agreement and the end of the 12 day war. There's been a lot of discussion about what happened and what didn't happen. Step back for a second. Because of decisive military action, President Trump created the conditions to end the war. Decimating, choose your word, obliterating, destroying Iran's nuclear capabilities.
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There's the money cut right there. That's the money clip. That's the truth. And we've just got to try to ignore the noise. We've got to stay focused. We've got to accept the victories. Did you see the stock market yesterday? Soaring to record highs. The economy is... Good things are coming. Good things continue to happen, both domestically and overseas. We are in the golden era. And Pete Hegseth's smackdown of CNN and MSNBC was magnificent. Florida writes a text saying, Hegseth was great. Sad to say it went in one ear and out the other. They suffer from Trump derangement syndrome. They're going to continue with their agenda. But it gives me such pride to see God-fearing, country-loving adults in charge. Isn't that right? Aren't you glad that grown-ups are in charge now? How different things would be right now if we were facing Kamala Harris now. In the White House. Welcome in. It's a Thursday. Final Thursday of the month, in fact. Wow. June flew by, huh? We're in the Relief Factor studios. In time for another hour of the Mike Gallagher Show. 800-655-MIKE. If you'd like to join us, as always, we want to put your voice front and center. You tell me. what the media would be doing if a Democrat had pulled off Operation Midnight Hammer. Am I wrong? 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 finally release that unhealthy belly fat that I carried along for so long. Make the phone call that can change your life in the way it changed mine. It's called PhD Weight Loss. PhD Weight Loss, Dr. Ashley Lucas' program is brilliant. And how do I know? Well, 53 pounds later, here I am. 864-644-1900 is their number. Call and schedule your consultation. You can do this program from anywhere in America. Call 864-644-1900, 864-644-1900, or visit MyPhDWeightLoss.com. Live look at the city of brotherly love, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where, of course, we're heard on AM 990, The Answer. If you're watching on Salem News Channel, you're seeing a beautiful shot of Philly. In fact, got a text message from Philly regarding the Iranian missile strike. The Democrats would have created a national holiday by now. It's true. If this was done by... Barack Obama or Joe Biden or Kamala or Hillary or any of the Democrats, we'd have a national holiday declared. It would be Operation Midnight Hammer Day. I mean, it's just – and what's weird is as the Trump administration is fighting back against this CNN leak, and they will, and there's no question in my mind that they're going to find out who did it, I hate the infighting on our side. Look, I think of Fox News Channel. I know people get fired up about it, but I think of them as one of them. I watch Fox a lot. I've got a lot of friends over there. I worked there for a number of years as a contributor. And I still have a lot of great memories of my time there. And I'm saddened when I see people beat up on Fox. But then again, I mean, everybody's fair game, even, I guess, Jennifer Griffin. Jennifer Griffin is the correspondent, the war correspondent, if you will. She's the Pentagon reporter. And Pete Hegseth... apparently even called her out at this press conference earlier today. Here's what he said.
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certainty that all the highly enriched uranium was inside the four dome mountain or some of it because there were satellite photos that showed more than a dozen trucks there two days in advance are you certain none of that highly enriched uranium was moved of course we're watching every single aspect but jennifer you've been about the worst the the one who misrepresents the most intentionally what what the president says i'm familiar I heard about the ventilation shafts on Saturday night. And, in fact, I was the first to describe the B-2 bombers, the refueling, the entire mission with great accuracy. So I take issue with that.
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I appreciate you acknowledging that this was the most successful mission based on operational security that this department has done since you've been here. I appreciate that. So we're looking at all aspects of intelligence and making sure we have a sense of what was where.
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She got fired up. She didn't like being called out by the defense secretary. See, it's like there's a new sheriff in town. It's different now. They're not going to roll over for anybody, including Fox News. And obviously, Pete Hegseth has some issue with Jennifer Griffith's reporting. But, man, watching people go... Are you following Mark Levin and Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon and Marjorie Taylor Greene? Gosh, they are going at it like fighters in a cage match. And I admit I'm not comfortable. I just don't like it. Maybe you do. Are you on board with the way... Look, this is coming down to, I guess... And I want to say this without criticizing these people because I like them all. I don't want to criticize Steve Bannon. I don't want to criticize Marjorie Taylor Greene. I admit that I tend to fall down on the side of Mark Levin's position. That what Trump is doing is just and righteous. What we've done with Iran is important. We cannot let them possess a nuclear weapon with which they would use it to obliterate Israel. Mark is right. But I look at social media, I see all this pushback where people are going after Mark. You're in Israel's pocket. You're just a neocon. Isn't there a way we can kind of have a debate or a discussion about our role in this Israel-Iran war without it going like DEFCON 1 right for the jugular? At one point, Mark Levin accused Marjorie Taylor Greene of crawling out from under her rock. I mean, and it goes downhill from there. And I admit it. I hate this. I don't like that. I consider these people... All of us are aiming for a common goal here. And I do not... I just don't like it at all. Maybe you do. I get that we're in a social media era where people love the back and forth and the edgier the better and you want clicks and you want, but my gosh, some of it is just sort of wildly overboard, it seems to me. I mean, but look, and there's Pete Hegseth just decimating Fox News reporter Jennifer Griffin calling her about the worst in misrepresenting information on the strikes. If you watch the clip on Salem News Channel as we played it from Fox News, you saw her kind of jump. But this infighting, to me, is what's wrong with our side. We can do better, and we should do better. In fact, Michigan just texted me on the MyPillow text line, this is a prime example of the Republicans' Achilles heel. This is our downfall. And if we're going to beat Zoran Mamdani in New York, if we're going to beat the legacy media, if we're going to beat the naysayers and the critics, we've got to be unified. And for Mark Levin and Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene and all the rest of them to try to take their heads off, that isn't going to work. We're doomed to fail. Is it too much to ask to be unified, do you think? Or am I just living in a pipe dream here? It's petty. It's embarrassing. It's tacky. Knock it off. There's a greater good here. Tell me what you think, if you think I'm wrong or not. 800-655-MIKE. Portions of our show brought to you by MyPillow and Big Deal. Two sales in one. First, they're having a closeout sale on the percale bedsheets. Any size, any color, $25. You can get Queens, Kings, Split Kings, California Kings, any size, any color, $25. It's a crazy sale from MyPillow.com. Look for the Mike Gallagher Special Square. The second sale, Mike Lindell has introduced a brand new energy drink called Rev7. It's a premium energy drink that's good for you. It tastes great, gives you energy all day. I sampled it yesterday for the first time. It is delicious. No sugar, no caffeine. Rev7 is so special because it's powered with a premium nootropic that helps fuel your mind. MyPillow is so confident you're going to love Rev7 that for a limited time you can try their introductory three-pack absolutely free. Now, these offers aren't going to last long. So go to MyPillow.com, use the promo code MikeG, MyPillow.com, promo code MikeG, or call 800-928-6034, 800-928-6034. Sing along with me. For the best night's sleep in the whole wide world, visit MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG.
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They're the ones that are acting most theatrical because they fear that they are the next target. So right now, the Democratic Party has become an orgy of appeasement. It's led by awfuls of fluent white liberal females. It happened with BLM and all the protests. There's all these crazy white ladies. That's the problem with the party.
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In the ReliefFactor.com studios, here's Mike Gallagher.
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A lot of emphasis right now on the crazy, rich, liberal females who are making decisions like this that led to this disastrous Democrat primary victor, Mamdani. And Greg Gutfeld is right. A lot of these people that voted for the guy When New York goes to hell in a handbasket, they're the ones who will be able to afford moving out at the drop of a hat, where hardworking middle-class New Yorkers are going to be trapped. They're going to be completely stuck, which is pretty fascinating. Somebody just told me they heard Mark Levin last night say on his show that he wasn't going to say anything more about Marjorie Taylor Greene. And that's a great, great response. Marjorie Taylor Greene believes that we have no business bombing Iran. She says, I don't know anyone in America who's been the victim of a crime or killed by Iran, but I know many people who've been victims of crime committed by criminal illegal aliens or murdered by cartel and Chinese fentanyl drugs. neocon warmongers beat their drums of war and act like billy badasses going to war in countries most americans have never seen and can't find on a map but never find the courage to go to war against the actual terrorists who actually do kill americans invade our land and make billions doing it day after day year after year i'm 51 she says i'm gen x I've watched our country go to war in foreign lands for foreign causes on behalf of foreign interests for as long as I can remember. I'm sick of it. I'm sick of funding foreign aid in foreign countries and foreign everything. I want to fund American interests and American issues. I want low inflation, low interest rates. I want American construction, housing, manufacturing to boom. It pisses me off, she writes... beyond comprehension that my children's generation cannot afford to buy a house, cannot afford insurance, and have little hope for their future. Americans are exhausted by all of this, and rightfully so. She says, I can also support President Trump and his great administration on many of the great things they're doing while disagreeing on bombing Iran and getting involved in a hot war that Israel started. The bottom line here is that's a point of view that millions of Americans hold. That's okay. But here's the great one, and I mean that. He's great. Mark Levin's response. Marjorie Taylor Greene, shameless nitwit. How incredibly dumb is this Marjorie Taylor Greene? She doesn't know anyone in America has been a victim of crime. Or killed by Iran? You mean the thousands of Americans, especially military personnel, killed in Maine by the Iranian terrorist regime? Well, that's not wrong either. That's true. She writes back, I also don't know anyone who watches your show on Fox News. And then Mark wrote, MTG, God, are you stupid? And you keep banging your head against the wall. Thankfully, POTUS ignored you and hit the Iranian nuclear sites. You seem very upset about it. I'm not going away. You're on my radar. And then Marjorie Taylor Greene, as if she sort of had enough, said, this is sick and disturbing. Mark, you have the exact same tone and language that the psychopaths use that send me death threats every single day. You should be fired from Fox News. Let me introduce you to my friend Jesus. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called the children of God. Look, good people of faith, people of good faith, I should say, can have a disagreement as to what our role should be in Iran. And I don't think that somebody ought to obliterate Marjorie Taylor Greene by calling her a bunch of names because she doesn't want us involved in this war between Israel and Iran. I also don't think Mark Levin should be called a bunch of names because he believes strongly that Israel is our ally, that Iran has promised to obliterate Israel and the United States. They mean death to America when they say it. They believe it. I was in Israel after October 7th. I saw with my own eyes what these monsters did, and they would do it to us if they had the opportunity to do so. Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. I believe that with all of my heart. Yet I respect... an opposing point of view, like Marjorie Taylor Greene's. And this kind of back and forth and this name-calling and this division within our side, among our side, is why we lose. It's why we lose. It's why we fall on our faces. And we've got to stop it. And I hope it's true. If the texter is right that Mark last night said sort of a truce, I hope that ultimately sanity and some civility prevails. Now, maybe you don't see it that way. And I want to find out. I want to throw the phones open to you. 800-655-MIKE. I want you to tell me if you like this sort of back and forth between people on the same side. And maybe the bigger question is, why do people do it? These are not dumb people. Tucker Carlson, Mark Levin, these are smart guys. Is it ego? Is it pride? Is it one-upsmanship? What leads them to go into this sort of hysterical mode of name-calling and personal attacks. It's a bad look. But more than just being sort of a tacky bad look, it hurts this country. It hurts our side. And we've got to win. We've got to win. We've got to beat our opposition. And we're not going to beat our opposition that way. 800-655-MIKE. Let me turn it over to you. I've got a lot on my mind today, and I just want to kind of get your assessment of this infighting between conservatives and Republicans who have a disagreement about our role in Iran. Who do you side with? Who do you believe is right? Who's wrong? 800-655-MIKE. Join us. Call, text, one number does it all.
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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.
SPEAKER 02 :
We're having a very good week for the most part. Big victory today for the pro-life movement as the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the state of South Carolina ruling against Planned Parenthood. The court ruled that South Carolina and other states can legally block Planned Parenthood facilities from getting Medicaid funding because in South Carolina they want to protect the unborn, not protect. devote federal funding to abortions, which is what Planned Parenthood has expected. Also this morning, Pete Hegseth, holding a press conference and laying out the evidence that the damage to the Iranian nuclear facilities was extensive, was devastating, it obliterated it, and now the Pentagon and the FBI have begun an investigation on who leaked the preliminary evidence report that seemed to refute the devastation of that. But speaking of devastating, there was a shocker of a primary in New York City. And most of us kept telling ourselves there's no way a radical extremist that kind of makes other radical extremists look mild by comparison could win the Democrat primary in New York. But he did. His name is Zoran Mamdani. And the reverberations are being felt throughout the Republican and the Democrat parties. Democrats are panicking. Wall Street is panicking. Entrepreneurs, business owners, all throughout the five boroughs are panicking because this guy is, in a word, nuts. Free buses, homeless shelters, and subway stations. globalized the Intifada. This guy's got quite the track record. And I immediately thought when I saw that he was going to win, I kept thinking about New York's Jewish community. What must it feel like to be a Jew in New York and know that your fellow New Yorkers would cast a ballot for such a man to run the greatest city in the country? I mean, it's beyond shocking. And I wanted to reach out to a longtime friend of the show. Dov Heikin is a former Democrat New York State Assemblyman. He represented Brooklyn's Assembly District 48 for decades, 35 years. He's the founder of Americans Against Antisemitism. I know, my friend Dov Heikin, you are as sickened and shocked and as disgusted as the rest of us. But I wanted to get your very... unique perspective and a position of clarity over the voters pulling the lever for this guy. First of all, welcome back. It's good to see you.
SPEAKER 04 :
Always good to see you, Mike. Look, I'm not sure that I was shocked because I saw it coming. You had this guy, Mamdani, very dangerous, as you described, even much worse than anything you said. And, you know, you didn't really have a... candidate in the Democratic Party to really oppose someone like this. He is not just dangerous in terms of his positions. He cannot be underestimated for November that he could possibly become the next mayor with the danger to the Jewish community. But it really is about every single New Yorker who wants New York to survive in And this guy can really bring New York down into the dumps. You know, I mean, there are people talking about moving out of New York. There are people on Wall Street talking about taking their family and moving somewhere else. This is a very serious situation. There's no need to panic. There's a need to organize, figure out which candidate, one candidate opposing him in November can beat him. He can be beaten and he will be beaten.
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And I want to get to that in a moment because I want to get your thoughts on the idea of coalescing behind one candidate to challenge him. And to your point about moving out of New York, I just talked minutes ago to my real estate agent. You should hear what realtors are going through here in Florida. The phones are blowing up. They are getting absolutely a barrage of urgent inquiries about properties that are available online. all throughout the state of Florida. It's happened, I think, all over. There's going to be a mass exodus because you're right, there's panic right now, but it's not time to panic yet. I want to share with you, before we talk about who you like, it looks like it's down to three men, one of three people who need to represent the common sense in this crazy, crazy cycle in New York City's history. Mark Thiessen is a columnist and a conservative voice, and he wrote, When he lost the Democrat primary, Ed Koch was asked if he would ever run again. And his famous answer was, no, the people have spoken and they must be punished. That's how I feel, Mark Thiessen says, about New York City right now. You put this pro-terrorist communist in Gracie Mansion, and you deserve everything you get. Dove, I'll bet you can appreciate that many, many people feel exactly that way. That, look, you made this bed, New Yorkers. Now you better be prepared to lie in it. What do you say to that?
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Yeah, I totally understand that. I mean, it makes sense. Nobody forced Mamdani on the people of New York in the Democratic primary. Choices were made. But, you know, the bet is not yet made. We still have an opportunity to make sure this guy does not reach Gracie Manchin and he does not become the mayor of New York. But it will take, in some way, that the people who are running for office, you know, Look, I spent 36 years in the legislature. I know politics. I know politicians. Everybody thinks they can always win. So you have all the candidates running now. You still have Cuomo in the race and you still have, you know, Adams in the race. And of course, Curtis Lee was a Republican candidate. If all of them stay in the race, then Mamdani will win. There's no question about it. So I am taking a close look at this. Spoke to Curtis yesterday, speaking to others. We need to coalesce behind one candidate, and then we win the election in November with a lot of hard work. But you can't have all these candidates running. It cannot be. Or we hand the city to the radical... terrorists. You know, we're talking about people who support terrorism. And Mike, I want to point out something else. First of all, it's so good to see you, I got to tell you, to be with you. But look at what's happening, Mike, right, as you and I speak. Look at people like the protector of the Jewish people. You know who that is, Chuck Schumer. Schumer has always claimed to be the protector of the Jewish people, Jerry Nadler, congressman. You know, You know, they both jumped yesterday. I know. They jumped to endorse Mamdani. I know. I know.
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Can you believe this? No. It is so pathetic. It takes your breath away, Dov, because when you've got a guy, globalize the intifada. When you've got a guy, I mean, this is, this is. From the river to the sea. Dov. Everything. We can all jump. We can all have policy disagreements. I don't mind policy. I like those. I appreciate those. I've got a lot of friends in my life who are Democrats who don't see the world the way I do. But you're crossing a line when you've got a guy who justifies intifada, when you've got a guy, like you said, Dov, this is a dangerous person. And to have him behind the desk... of arguably one of the most complicated, economically difficult cities in the world. It's the media capital. It's the financial capital of the world. That guy in Gracie, of course, I don't know if he'll want to go to Gracie Mansion, because, I mean, look, I know he'll give up all of his police protection, right? He won't need police protection since he wants to defund the police. I mean, he's going to kind of be on his own, isn't he?
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Yeah. Look, New Yorkers, you put it perfectly. We don't have to agree. We can disagree and we can disagree in a very strong way. That's fine. But now we're at a crossroads here in New York. It's not about disagreeing with someone. It's about a radical individual who supports democracy. Groups like Hamas and Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah, etc., etc. We are talking about that. It's hard to believe. But his record is there. Everyone knows. Everyone gets it. Everyone understands. What he is selling is just ridiculous. I mean, look, it's wonderful. Everything is for free. You don't have to pay for anything. Sure. Except one problem. One problem. Someone has to pay for it.
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Somebody's paying for it. There's not a free and fast bus ferry that's going to pay for the free and fast. By the way, I love the part that the buses aren't only free, but they're going to be faster. I don't know how that's going to pull that off, but he's got free. And they just take these phrases and they just regurgitate them as if they're not. This is insanity, Dov. But, Mike, people buy it. A lot of people buy it. But not enough. But not enough. Wait a minute. I want to play something for you. Dove Hyken is our guest, a great, great friend of the show and American politician, activist, talk show host. You can follow him on X at Hyken Dove, H-I-K-I-N-D-D-O-V. Let me play a clip of just an average New Yorker. This is a woman who took to X, a platform that I'm really liking these days. And I want to share with you what she said, and I want to get your response to it because you're right. This is why we shouldn't panic.
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I'm just as devastated about what happened with the New York City election yesterday as you are. But this is not over. Only 430,000 people voted for Mamdani and only 900,000 voted total. Remember, it was ranked choice voting. So this means that such a small percentage, 9% of the voting population in New York City voted for Mamdani. So in the general election, which will include independents, Republicans, and Democrats voting, we will wipe this guy out. We all have to rally behind one person. It's too early to say who that person is, but this is not over. Do not lose hope. We need way more of you to mobilize next time.
SPEAKER 02 :
Dove Hyken, she's right, isn't she?
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Oh, boy, she's so on target. And I I love what she said. Some people are jumping to one candidate, another candidate. Everyone take a deep breath. You know, we got the weekend coming up. Relax. Think about it. Let's make sure we get the right guy. And it's not about whether I love this. This one or that one. I love everything about that person. No, no. In November, I am begging and pleading to every single person who can vote in New York and the five boroughs. Please forget for a few moments whether you are a Democrat, Republican or anything else. You are an American. You are a New Yorker. And we need to be united on one single item. And that is we cannot permit New York. to become Gaza, for God's sake. I'm not kidding. Electing this guy. I mean, who, by the way, who celebrates his victory? Among those celebrating are enemies of America, enemies of the Jewish people. So please, everybody, be a Democrat, be a Republican. But in November, you got to come together and defeat this radical Islamist, who is dangerous to the well-being of every single New Yorker. New York goes down the drain of God forbid. And it ain't going to happen. Mike, it's not going to happen.
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We need to work together. We've all got to work hard. And there are reports now that Cuomo is not going to continue the campaign. He's not going to continue as an independent. So if he's out, it very likely is going to come down to Eric Adams, the current mayor, who's running for re-election as an independent, because the Democrats basically kicked him out because he sided with the Trump administration with illegal immigration. They have a crisis in New York, and he knows it. It comes down to Eric Adams or my friend Curtis Lewa, the Republican nominee. Of the two of them, Dov, who do you like?
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Well, I'm not going to say anything about that because I'm literally talking to everyone. I spoke to Curtis yesterday, speaking to others in the Adams administration. I like Curtis. That's not even a question about that. So I want to do what's best for everyone. And you know something, Mike? I want to win in November. Amen. More important than anything, I'm ready to hold my nose. I'm ready to whatever. But we need to win in November to defeat this radical Mandani who will destroy New York. I'm not just saying that.
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No, that's not hyperbole. New York is done. You're right. Dove Hyken, come back and see us again soon. We always appreciate your clarity, your wisdom. Keep fighting the good fight, my friend. Have a great weekend coming up, and Mike, it's always a pleasure to see you. Thank you. The Great Dove Hike. And joining us here on the Mike Gallagher Show, more coming up.
Join expert money manager Bill Gunderson and analyst Barry Kite as they delve into the latest market trends and economic indicators in this riveting episode of the Best Stocks Now show. From the unexpected surge in durable goods to the explosive market cap growth of NVIDIA, Bill provides a nuanced analysis of these developments and their implications for investors. The episode further explores key geopolitical events, such as the use of bunker buster bombs, and their unexpected influence on market rallies. Dive deep into the transformative trends affecting our economy. Discover how artificial intelligence and nuclear energy are reshaping industries, and gain insight into the growing importance of nuclear power, particularly through significant new developments in private nuclear company projects. Bill and Barry also discuss the rise of robotics and autonomous systems, examining how these innovations are gearing up to redefine last-mile delivery and other services. Whether you're an investor or simply fascinated by market dynamics, this episode is packed with information to guide your financial decisions. Bill also shares his seasoned perspective on why investors should watch out for the ebbs and flows of Wall Street advice. Navigating the landscape of big tech investments and emerging energy solutions, this episode helps listeners understand how to position themselves amidst rapidly changing market scenarios. Stick around to learn about impactful companies, potential pitfalls, and future market predictions that you can't afford to miss.
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He's been seen on CNBC, the Fox News Channel, and the Fox Business Channel. His articles can be found on MarketWatch, Seeking Alpha, TheStreet.com, and many other places. He's the author of the weekly Best Stocks Now newsletter and the inventor of the Best Stocks Now app. He's president of Gundersen Capital Management. Here is professional money manager Bill Gundersen.
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And welcome to the Thursday, the Thursday, June the 26th edition of the Best Stocks Now show with professional money manager Bill Gunderson, president of Gunderson Capital Management. I'm here with Barry Kite, our chartered financial analyst and certified financial planner. We are off to the races and we're out of the gate pretty nicely here so far this morning. After a little bit of a stall in the market yesterday, the Dow is up 179 right now. That puts it at 43,162. The NASDAQ up 82 points right now. That puts it at 20,000. And 55, not too far from its all-time high. The S&P 500 is up 27 points right now to 6,119. The 10-year, you're down a few basis points there to 4.27. That's the lowest it's been in a while. Actually, 4.26% right now. Crude oil is back up almost a percent, 65.44% as U.S. demand picks up. That's a good sign for the economy. Gold is down again today, a quarter of a percent to 3,334%. Silver is up 36.36. It's the stronger of the two precious metals right now. And cryptocurrency, Bitcoin down 502 right now to 107.117. So welcome to today's Best Stocks Now show with professional money manager Bill Gunderson, president of Gunderson Capital Management. And I'm here with Barry Kite, our chartered financial analyst and certified financial planner, which comes in handy to have those two designations. And, of course, you stuck with me also here on the show today. We had a little bit of a stall, a pause in the market yesterday yesterday. We had a ceasefire rally, let's call it. We had a bunker buster rally. You know, I had a coach. I had a track coach in the seventh grade. He was a strict kind of guy. He was always making us run the mile if we goofed off. And that's four laps, you know. That's not easy. Four laps, that is what it is. That's right. Yeah, he said nowadays with the metrics and the metric system, the mile is the mile. I'm sorry, but... He used to say, if you were goofing off, he'd say, listen, pal, I'm going to bust your bunker in a new place where it's never been busted before. I don't know if you can get away with that in today's world, but he was prophetic. Because I did listen to the press conference this morning from our military leaders. You know what? I mean, when I heard about the families standing there waving the American flags as they returned to their base in Missouri after flying for 36 straight hours, it did bring a tear to my eye. I mean, just the pride and the bravery there. of what they accomplished and and the 15 years that it took to develop that bunker busting bomb which was designed specifically from what i could gather for those that iran was built it's too bad we went ahead and let iran build those things in the first place But when push came to shove and they were getting ready to weaponize some warheads with nuclear energy, nuclear power. We went in and busted their bunker in a new place. We still don't know the total assessment, but it would seem that it wasn't good. I mean, you didn't want to be in that bunker at that point when those bombs hit, sitting there drinking your coffee on your coffee break, and bam, what hit. So anyways, of all the things that could start a rally in the market today, I've got to add that one to my list of reasons for the market to go up. Now, we did have a little bit of a settling yesterday. NVIDIA was the stock of the day. Have you been watching NVIDIA lately? Amazing. Man, I'll tell you what, it's now the biggest. It blows by Microsoft. I saw a stat. Microsoft has been around a lot longer than NVIDIA. Wow.
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Well, I saw a stat where NVIDIA's market cap has went up $1.5 trillion, I believe, since April. So, I mean, how many companies out there are $1.5 trillion?
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Since my article on April the 8th, right, with my article. Because, you know, in that article, not only did I say this tariff thing is going to work and the market's going to turn around, I called out one stock. One stock is the prime stock at that point in time, and it was Nvidia. So there you go. If you were listening to Bill Gunderson, if you read the newsletter, if you read the article in Seeking Alpha, you've seen $1.5 trillion added to the market cap of Nvidia. Now, okay, I know whether you like Trump or not, I play the market. I invest in the markets. I watch the markets. I can't believe all of the good news. I mean, if I hated Trump, I would be hating this news. And there's a lot of people that hate this news. And if I can put up with Trump, I'm happy to see the news. If I love Trump, I'm saying, hey, you know, what he's doing is working. Durable goods, let's just begin with this. There's about five news stories in a row.
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Lots of economics info, yeah.
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Can you believe it? Durable goods orders surge more than expected in May, buoyed by transportation equipment. And, you know, if you're going to have a durable good that sees a lot of action, that's a good one because that's a bellwether order. That's railroad cars, shipping containers, trucking. That means that commerce is happening. Do you know that the new orders for manufactured durable goods shot up 16.4% month over month? It blew past the 8.6% consensus, and it accelerated from April 6th minus 6.6%.
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And it's risen five out of the last six months.
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Exactly. I mean, this is really – I don't remember a durable goods order. Not that it's my favorite. I can't wait to see what that durable goods order is going to look like today. but uh... it is a tremendous bellwether of the economy but wait that's not all initial jobless claims unexpectedly slip by 10K in the past week. They went from 244 to 234. Numbers of claims, oh, and they also revised downwards the claims from last week. The four-week moving average was 245K. So that's another good one. The unemployment line, those filing those initial claims, dropped by 10,000. Now, wait a minute. Oil bounces after sharp sell-off on signs of strong U.S. U.S. demand. And you know, it's not just folks filling their cars up with gasoline at the local station. Fuel is used in our factories. Fuel is used in our economy. Fuel is used in transport goods. Power. So three really big reports there this morning. I saw one other one, too, that caught my eye. Coffee enters into a bear market as prices fall sharply from 2025 highs. So they were trading all of that stuff up on fear of tariffs, that it was going to destroy these commodities and destroy retailers and whatnot. Instead, those prices that they had built in were way off. They had way overestimated. And instead, coffee enters into a bear market as prices plunge. And I'm just looking at a chart. You got up to $425. Around the Columbia tip, I think. And now it's $3.09.
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Yeah.
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Can you believe it? I mean, and you've got the market back hitting, almost hitting all-time highs once again. So the New York Times is working overtime today to try to figure out how to spin all of this. Oh, pending home sales.
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Pending home sales is the other thing. That was, you know, those rose more than expected in May. I'm sure the president likes that on the home sale, with the real estate background.
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Yeah, I mean, look, you could say it's just the economy going through its cycles. It doesn't matter who's in office or not. But it is a lot of good news on the economy here. When we come back... JP Morgan figures out a way to spin it all. Marko Kalanimovic is out with his comments on this rally in the market. He must have missed it again because he's not too happy with it. We'll have his comments when we come back. It's just amazing how you can find things bad. I don't care who the president is. If you accomplish something, the market was making new highs under Biden. Also, let's not forget. So if you accomplish something, let's give credit where credit is due. And let's not spin it into a big negative headline that is not exactly honest. We'll be right back. And welcome back here to the second quarter of today's Best Stocks Now show. Well, I've seen this rally that we've had in the market over the last 10 weeks, which has taken the S&P 500 from 4,800 to 6,100. I've seen it called the most hated rally of all time. We're not buying it. I've seen others say we're going back to 5,500 real soon. But Marko Kalamityvich over at J.P. Morgan, you know, Jamie Dimon himself is very negative, very... glass half-empty side of the ledger on almost everything. Like we say, maybe that's just part of being a banker. But Kalanovich, he's the former head of global research at J.P. Morgan. I emphasize the formal former head because he made so many bad calls And I've always said, choose your gurus wisely. He says that this rally in the NASDAQ is setting off alarm bells. It's not normal, nor is it healthy. Well, I wonder if Kalamovich is normal or healthy. How can you not? Give some credit where credit is due. He says, whatever your market view is, the NASDAQ rally of 36% in two months is not normal or healthy, says Marko Kalanovich. The strong performance highlights the market's appetite for growth. Yeah, that's right, Marco. We're not happy with a 2%, 3% grower and tech-heavy exposure, even as analysts like Kalanovich urge caution amidst potential overheating. He's been urging caution ever since I've been in the business 25 years. And the market during that period of time when I got in the Dow was 3,600, and now it's 43,000. And he's been urging caution every step of the way. And I'm just telling you, I mean, if you listen to most of these guys on Wall Street, and when I talk about Wall Street, I'm talking J.P. Morgan, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers is no longer around anymore. Even getting down into the regionals, Raymond James, Goldman Sachs, they just don't give very good advice. Even though they get the best and the brightest advice, uh... from uh... from the ivy league schools they just have a history i'm just telling you just my observation over the years they have a history of being wrong pocket after pocket all right uh... q one gdp revised down to minus zero point five and that was pretty much that's q one that was pretty much caused by all of that front running We had a huge trade imbalance in the first quarter of this year due to all of the buying out there to get ahead of the tariffs, and that goes against your GDP. So we were down minus 0.5. It will be very interesting to see. What this quarter, which is going to end in four days here, it's going to be very interesting to see what Q2 is. I doubt very much that we're going to have two negative quarters in a row. I don't know. I haven't seen any estimates out there for this quarter in a while, but I'm guessing it's going to come in at 2.5%, 3%, somewhere in there. We did have the trade deficit expand again in May. We're at $96 billion. The expectations were for $90 billion. We still import a lot more than we export. We brought in $275 billion in goods, and we only sent out $179 billion in goods, as many of those trade deals were. continue to be worked out. AI is back in the driver's seat, obviously. We've seen those AI stocks really come to life again. We had Liberation Day crush Wall Street in April. Now we fast forward more than two months, and the benchmark S&P 500 is back within striking distance of its record high. The rebound has been astonishing. And it has been driven significantly by the return of the artificial intelligence trade, which exploded in 2023. That was with Chatbot or ChatGPT with Microsoft, which started it. And then all the chips underneath it that fuel it. And, of course, NVIDIA broke out yesterday to a new all-time high. And blowing by Microsoft as the largest market cap company in the world. So pretty awesome. If you would have sold back then and you'd be regretting it now, or if you didn't get back in, you'd really have missed one of the great runs of all time in the market. Okay, RFK, I see they're one by one, they're out to find out what's causing the explosion in autism since 1989. They look back at that as an inflection point. We're now one in 33 kids. Back then it was like one in 10,000. What is it? What is it? I would like to know what has done this to our children. Well, they've ruled out. I did see that they ruled out. One of the theories were the preservatives in the vaccines. They've ruled that out 100%. And now his new vaccine panel is going to examine. I mean, he got rid of it. He fired the entire vaccine panel. Got a new panel, supposedly using the gold standard of research and science. We'll find out. And they're going to examine the whole panel of childhood vaccine schedules. Which is only fair. I mean, that's one thing that they know that, you know, the number of vaccines that we give to children when they're born has increased dramatically since 1989. So there's going to be a complete, complete review. And there's a bunch of shots that have not been reviewed in over seven years. Those include hepatitis B, measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella vaccines. So that's all going to have a thorough study done. And trying to get to the bottom, is it processed foods? Is it dyes? What is it? What is it? Palantir signs a deal with the nuclear company. This is a private company to use AI and boost nuclear construction. You know, along with the rally in the AI, I'll tell you the other big rally, the other big sector that is coming back with the vengeance is that nuclear sector because at the end of the day, If you can't turn the power on to run the AI, it doesn't matter how fast your chips are or how big your warehouses are or how big your databases are. You've got to have the power to run it. And there's been a lot of news here this past month or so on the nuclear sector. And now you can add another feather to Palantir's cap. Now they're in the nuclear sector along with the AI sector. They're going to use AI to boost nuclear construction. And I just saw that they're moving up the time frame of when one of the big nuclear reactors in America will be back online much sooner than expected. 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.
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And welcome back here to the second half of today's Best Docs Now show.
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A little more color on the nuclear company, which is a private company right now with some big names behind it. And Barry, I learned something as I did my research on this company. They've got some high-powered people in that company. Nuclear has been plagued by coming in way over budget and way behind schedule. And I think we had a classic case here in South Carolina with Dominion Energy. Now, I did not know this. Governor McMaster, that's our governor here in South Carolina, welcomes the nuclear company engineering construction office to South Carolina. They are headquartered in Columbia, South Carolina, which is about two hours away. West of us, and that is where they are building their headquarters, and they just signed a top engineer from Microsoft and Tesla. He joins the nuclear company to lead the software division. They are pioneering the modernization of nuclear construction and leading fleet-scale deployment of nuclear power across America. They just opened their company's primary engineering and construction office in Columbia, South Carolina. Somebody asked me when I was down in Florida, he's a retired business guy. He worked boots on the ground, and now he teaches at the high school, which I think is a great thing. to teach kids in high school real-world type things. And he asked me, what would you say, Bill, as far as looking forward to careers? Man, I'll tell you what, I think this whole nuclear thing is huge. I think it's totally a revitalization. It's a resurgence. of something we kind of pulled the plug on, pardon the pun. But I think nuclear energy would be one area that I would look at. Now, you know, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to be a nuclear engineer. I mean, there's a lot to it at the construction end of it, the engineering end of it, the design end of it. But I would recommend some chemistry classes and some engineering classes and things like that if you're going to go that route. But I do think that this is probably going to be one of the hottest sectors. I know the Navy, they also, I think South Carolina is like number three or four in the nation as far as getting our power from nuclear energy. And the Navy has a very big plant, maybe two, three miles from me on the Cooper River. I drove by it one day in my boat. where they're doing a lot of nuclear work because, you know, look, these aircraft carriers and these submarines, they run on nuclear. And we actually have a kid in our church that works at that plant and is learning. They're teaching him. I said, you're going to be very valuable in the private industry. when you get done being trained by the Navy and he's a smart kid so anyways that that's a hot thing and now you've got Palantir involved with their software to help clear up the clogs and speed up the process of building nuclear power plants now what's driving Nvidia let's take a look at Nvidia today NVDA, they had their investors conference, right? NVIDIA's price is, and it's up again today. It's up another 1.3 today. It's now 3.8 trillion. Have we ever had a $4 trillion company? I don't think Microsoft ever reached $4 trillion.
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No, I think this is, I mean, I think this would be, it's got to be at the highest, I believe, any company.
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It is. I mean, it's at 3.7 trillion yesterday. All-time high was 153. Today it's hitting 156. All-time high. It was up 4.3% yesterday. It's by far our largest position. No, it's not Johnson & Johnson. No, it's not Procter & Gamble. No, it's not AT&T. No, you leave that to the Wall Street boys up there and girls. They love those big names that are recognizable, that lack growth in today's economy. But fueling the rally, you had Loop Capital raise their target price to $250 from $175. That's unbelievable. They believe that down the road it's going to hit $6 trillion. I totally agree. They showed a 69% year-over-year revenue surge in their latest earnings report, fueled by a 73% rise in data center segment. And you're going to put Jensen Wang up there with the likes of Bill Gates? and some of the pioneers at Intel and Steve Jobs. I mean, Wang is a superstar. He is the new superstar in the tech sector. And I wonder how many of these Wall Street firms don't have any position. I don't know. I don't know the answer to that.
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Yeah, did you see where Corweave's CEO is now? climbing up the list of richest CEOs.
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Well, that stock has had a meteoric rise. I have a real problem with the valuation on it right now. It's up 2.5% today here, but they're up there in the cloud with all of this doing their part. The other news I saw today, and this is very encouraging, Constellation Energy. which really started this whole rally. They were the first ones to get a contract. from a private industry. Microsoft went in and bought a huge, they want guaranteed power out of Constellation Energy for the next 20 years. Constellation may restart the shut Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in 2027, ahead of schedule after being put on the fast track. Now, Whether you like the Trump administration or not, they did grease the skids because that's another issue. Look how long they've been fighting over just a natural gas pipeline up in West Virginia through Joe Manchin's state where he used to be the governor and then the senator. That thing was shut down, started it up, shut, and the pipeline, you know, the one that goes through South Dakota. And it creates so much cost. Oh, and that's, you know, when you talk about being notoriously behind schedule and over budget, a lot of it is, now, yeah, you can't just throw in nuclear power overnight. We had a big accident in 1979, the infamous nuclear accident, and they finally shut it down in 2019 for economic reasons. But guess what? Now they're going to fire the thing back up. We're on track to make history ahead of schedule. Why would you own a traditional utility that provides electricity to people in Oklahoma or wherever, California, when Constellation and Vistra... And Talon. And what's the other one that we were talking about just yesterday? It's one of the biggest winners in the market so far.
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Well, Westinghouse.
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NRG, Energy. And then you've got Westinghouse, which actually builds these things. So anyways, that's good news there. Now, on the other hand, the smaller ones, I see today NuScale Power plunges on a downgrade. They want to see the order book firm up. We haven't really seen the breakthrough yet in these smaller, modular orders. All it's going to take is an NVIDIA or a Microsoft or a Meta to order 27 of these things, even though they're not going to be online until 2030. But right now, they're kind of in the wilderness, wandering through the wilderness trying to find customers. Instead of a big dome nuclear reactor, they have another solution, and I think they will be players at some point in time. New scale is definitely SMR, but the problem is you're five years out on that. Okay, Rare Earth. I see Wedbush is all over TMC, which is the one that's looking for Rare Earth under the sea, along with Ariel, Little Mermaid, and all the rest of them. TMC, the metals company, had a big pop yesterday. It was up 16.7%. That's its highest level in nearly... Four years as Wedbush upgraded the Deep Sea Mining Company to outperform... You know, it's a crapshoot, right? I mean, it's like going out there and trying to find one of these wrecks off the Atlantic coast where all of the pirates, you know, have gold doubloons. You've got to find it. It's a needle in a haystack, but TMC, the metals company, is one of the players there. It's a $7.30 company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia. We'll be right back. And looking back here to the final segment of today's Best Docs Now show, the other frontier, Barry, is, well, I would say this. You know, I mean, if I was advising kids in high school today, robotics. And automation and, you know, all of this self-driving cars, autonomous, et cetera, that's going to continue to be a burgeoning sector of our economy. CERV Robotics takes its sidewalk delivery robots to Atlanta. Now, I remember the science fairs in high school and whatnot, and I remember robots were just kind of brushing the surface. But now, I mean, we're getting into very sophisticated. And, of course, our friend Elon Musk has said several times that he thinks that's going to be his biggest accomplishment at some point, and the one that we all have to have will be humanoid robots at some point in time. But what's going on in Atlanta? I mean, now they have the Waymos and even the, not the Teslas yet, but they have the Waymos running around and maybe the Zoox from Amazon. But now they're going to have sidewalk delivery service in the Atlanta metro area. This is a California-based company, S-E-R-V. I would think in a downtown area. You know, I worked right in the center of downtown by all courthouses. The federal courthouse was right next door to us. And, you know, the big jails and everything and all of the headquarters of major businesses there in downtown. I was right in the heart of it at Front and Broadway. I mean, the epicenter. And, you know, I mean, lunchtime, there's a lot of people out there going to lunch, et cetera. I can see the robots working. I can't see it working out in the suburbs.
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I saw the robot, you know, one of those robots on the campus at the University of South Carolina in Columbia.
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Okay, well, we're becoming the tech center of the world here in Columbia, South Carolina.
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One was going by, and then later on I saw, like, one of their little charging centers where there was, like, about four or five of them all, like, you know, of the little serve robots, like, congregating around this little power thing. But it was... I mean, it reminds me of – I grew up with Star Wars, so it reminds me of those droids for special effects that they used to make. Now they're real.
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Well, this is the answer they're looking for for that last mile delivery, right? I mean, they can get it there close, and then if the robot can take over and do the deliveries – They've already started this in Los Angeles, Miami, and Dallas in an ongoing collaboration with Uber Eats. And I continue to say that Uber is becoming a tech platform, not just a taxi service. And this is another iron that they have in the fire. The robots use a combination of sensors, LIDAR, ultrasonic sensors, and cameras to perceive their environment, detect and avoid obstacles, and safely navigate busy sidewalks. That's easier said than done. I mean, you ever navigate? When you were back in New York City, ducking in and out of traffic just on the sidewalk.
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I've seen stories of people abusing those robots, pushing them over. Yeah, I can see them writing a ticket for robot abuse or something like that.
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But anyways, it opens up a whole new thing. Spun off from Uber in 2020, Serve is an independent company. It's completed tens of thousands of deliveries for enterprise partners such as Uber Eats and 7-Eleven. Serve has scalable multi-year contracts, including a signed agreement to deploy up to 2,000 delivery robots on the Uber Eats platform across multiple U.S. markets. I could also see them inside the restaurants themselves instead of waiters. snooty waiters and waitresses right that uh you know have a robot instead now now wait a minute doordash is the other one uber eats and doordash the fastest growing restaurant companies in the world they're using fly tracks to begin drone delivery in dallas fort worth look up in the sky It's a bird. It's a plane. No, it's my lunch being delivered from DoorDash through the collaboration. You know, I'm a big investor, a big fan of drones. Our AVAV had a huge day yesterday. Not only can they deliver bombs and take out Soleimani in Iran, they can deliver corned beef sandwiches. They can carry up to 6.6 pounds. Well, that would handle one of those Carnegie Deli corned beef sandwiches. They weigh about four and a half pounds. Oh, my God. They offer the region's most expansive drone operating hours and highest payload capacity. We're going to have to have Greg over there at Salem Media, who's the producer of our show. We're going to order him a corned beef sandwich or whatever he wants and see if a drone can drop it off at Salem headquarters there, and he can report back. The DoorDash and Flytrex, the two completed over 1,000 deliveries so far. So anyways, there's another breakthrough, and there's another one for high school kids. Drones and delivery, innovative delivery. Tesla's going to report their deliveries next week on cars. That's always a fun one to watch. And you've got a biotech down 64% today, alpha-immune after mid-stage trial for MASH therapy. That's the downside. You also have a few earnings that have come in here today, the biggest one being Micron. Micron is basically flat after their earnings report. And then the exciting Walgreens. which got kicked out of the Dow, replaced by Amazon. It's up an exciting eight cents today, and that'll about do it for today. If you'd like to get that four-week trial, I mean, that's four weeks of really focused, concentrated emails coming from me every day. teaching, giving examples, etc., etc., the newsletter that comes out every Saturday, access to the app, which is probably the undersung hero of it all here, guides me on a daily basis. I would be totally lost without it. And, of course, if you say, you know, I don't have time to read a newsletter on the weekends. I don't have time to pick through the app. I don't have time to see these live trades coming across the lines. You know, I'd rather have you guys do it. You're on top of it. You're there minute by minute. When those stocks break out, you're there. Give us a call at 855-611-BEST to talk about managing your portfolios. 855-611-BEST. 855-611-BEST. Have a great day, everybody.
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On this special Liberty Toastmasters Table Topics edition of The Kim Monson Show, Kim is joined in studio by Marshall Dawson and fellow Toastmasters to explore the relevance of the Declaration of Independence in 2025. From civic reflections to critiques of overreach, the conversation spans history, language, patriotism, and faith in our founding principles. You'll hear passionate commentary from local leaders including Greg Morrissey, Rick Rome, Bennett Rutledge, Fred Clifford, Ross Klopp, Bradley Beck, Dave Walden, and more. Later in the show, Kim welcomes Alicia Garcia and Teddy Collins of the Second Syndicate to break down the potential backfire of the “Big Beautiful Bill” on firearm suppressors in Colorado. Plus, Susan Harris joins from Arizona to talk Trump, tyranny, and reclaiming liberty at the local level.
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It's the Kim Monson Show, analyzing the most important stories.
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I find that it takes work to get your brain around these ideas, and it takes work to engage in these conversations.
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The latest in politics and world affairs.
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With what is happening down at the Statehouse, I used to think that it was above my pay grade to read the legislation, and it's not.
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Today's current opinions and ideas.
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I see big danger in as much as we will be giving an unelected bureaucrat the power to make rules about what we inject into our bodies.
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Is it freedom or is it force? Let's have a conversation.
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Indeed, let's have a conversation. And welcome to The Kim Monson Show. Thank you so much for joining us. You're each treasured, you're valued, you have purpose. Today, strive for excellence. Take care of your heart, your soul, your mind and your body. My friends, we were made for this moment in history. And thank you to the team. That's Producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Teresa, Amanda, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. Happy Thursday, Producer Joe. Happy Thursday, Kim. And a great show planned for you today. Fasten your seatbelts. In studio with me is my friend Marshall Dawson. He is my colleague with Liberty Toastmasters. It is Liberty Toastmasters Table Topics Day. It's great to have you.
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Thanks, Kim. Yeah, joining me in studio is my friend Kim Monson. It's so great to be here, Kim.
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It's great to have you, and we'll talk about the Declaration of Independence. Well, we have a suggested subject, and that is the Declaration of Independence and how it's relevant to us in 2025. And 250 years ago at this time, Marshall Dawson, 1775, things were hot in the colonies.
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They sure were. There was lots of unrest, if you will, and I think a lot of that was being goaded on by the behavior of the English.
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Yes, government, a king, where government was the king instead of, or in this case, it was a king. What we see, I think, in 2025 here in America is that there are those, particularly with the No More Kings movement, protests that some of them devolved into riots, is that they want government to be the king. And the fact that we've got this rub right now, this unrest, where we're trying to get government put back in the proper role that the founders wanted it to be in, there are those that are kind of co-opting that message on no more kings. But if you drill down, they want government, bureaucrats, politicians to be our kings.
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You're absolutely right. And isn't it ironic how they attempt to change the language? They are the ones who want the authoritarian government. They're the ones who want a strong figurehead. And I guess we have to give them credit on their protest because when they were done, we still did not have a king.
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True, true. And so this is going to be really interesting to talk with our fellow colleagues about this at Liberty Toastmasters. And it's great to have you here. Let's jump into a few of these things. Housekeeping, the show comes to you 6 to 8 a.m. Monday through Friday. The first hour is rebroadcast 1 to 2 in the afternoon, second hour 10 to 11 at night. And that is on all KLZ platforms, KLZ 560 AM, the KLZ website, 100.7 FM, and the KLZ app. I do thank all of you who support us. We're an independent voice on an independent station that searches for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. Marshall, if something's a good idea, you shouldn't have to use force to implement it. You should be able to engage and communicate freely. in this battle of ideas and persuade people, reason with them, persuade them to ultimately liberty, which is the responsible exercise of freedom.
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Well, of course. And, you know, if something is a good idea, people are already going to be doing it by and large anyway. They don't have to be forced.
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That's a really good point. And socialism ultimately comes down to force. The free stuff is just the carrot to get people to vote for it. I find it crazy that there is potentially a Democrat socialist that will be the mayor of our largest city, New York City. But socialism is not about free stuff. That's the carrot. Socialism is such a bad idea that ultimately, as we look at history... The Nazis were the National Socialist Party in Germany. Socialism comes down to force. And again, if something's a good idea, you shouldn't have to force people to do it, Marshall.
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And I think that that form of government requires force, not just because people don't necessarily want to do something, but it requires force in order to keep people compliant. If they start to get out of line, they have to be kind of nudged back into place. They have to be informed of where their location is, where their stature is. Government is always at the top. Government is always ever powerful in a socialist environment. And so you have to have force in order to constantly remind people of that.
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And you said another word that I think is important, and that's compliant. And we've moved people. We talk about rule of law in America, and I think people want to obey the law. People want to be good citizens. That, again, I think has been used as a cudgel to be compliant. All these little things that people, it becomes more and more onerous. And to become compliant is not free either. So I'm going to be really interested to see what our friends have to say about this.
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Same here.
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Okay. And let's see here. Check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. And while you're there, make sure you're signed up for our weekly email newsletter that goes out every Sundays. We do not bombard your email inbox. I bought something recently. I bought a new purse. And my gosh, I get an email every day. I don't need a new purse, but I get an email every day. We promise we won't do that, Marshall.
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Well, and it's absolutely the truth. I'm signed up, as you probably know. And it's one of the few, I'll call it a mass mailing. I don't know how broad your reach is, but it's one of the few mass mailings that I actually read on a weekly basis, Kim. Thank you. Yeah. Everyone out there, sign up.
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And it's very informative, and we have amazing guests. So let's continue on with all that we're doing here. First of all, I wanted to say thank you to the Harris family for their goal sponsorship of the show. We will be talking with Susan Harris in the last segment of the second hour to get her read on what is going on out there in her world. But our word of the day. appropriately is declaration spelled d-e-c-l-a-r-a-t-i-o-n eric always wants me to make sure that i spell that it could be an explicit formal announcement either oral or written number two the act or process of declaring that's not much work when they come up with that as a definition and number three it could be a statement of taxable goods or property subject to duty So the word declaration, our Declaration of Independence, I'd really recommend that people pull that out and read that over this next week. We will be running pre-records next week for the amazing interviews for Independence Week. I've named it. It's not only a day now. It's a week. What do you think about that?
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It's the first I've heard of it, I have to be honest. But let me give kudos to Eric. I mean, you know, asking you to spell out the word of the day, I think that's really valuable. The more that we rely on electronics and the Google machine and things like that, I think the less skilled and the less adept that we are at spelling and using proper grammar. So that's just great.
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And I would encourage people to make sure that they learn how to do cursive as well. I didn't realize we have a generation that was not taught that. But that hand-eye coordination, I think all that's really important. Okay, I mentioned to you as we were walking in that I had a quote from Gandalf from Lord of the Rings. And Gandalf is the protagonist of J.R.R. Tolkien's novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. He's a wizard, one of the Istari Order, and the leader of the Company of the Ring. Tolkien took the name Gandalf from the Old Norse catalog of dwarves in the Voluspa. And then J.R.R. Tolkien was an English writer and philologist. Maybe I'll have to use that as a word of the day. First of all, work on pronouncing it. He was the author of the high fantasy works, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. From 1925 to 1945, Tolkien was the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and a fellow of Pembroke College, both at the University of Oxford. He then moved within the same university to become the Merton Professor of English Language and Literature and Fellow of Merton College. He held these positions from 1945 to 1959. Then he was part of the group The Inklings. And The Inklings, would you not have loved to have been part of this? The Inklings was an informal literary discussion group associated with J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis at the University of Oxford for nearly two decades. Could you imagine?
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I know what must have been said in those circles.
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But that was from the 1930s to late 49. So through World War Two. And they were literary enthusiasts and they were praised for their value of narrative and fiction, encouraged in writing and fantasy. And it says the best known, apart from Tolkien and Lewis, were Charles Williams and Owen Barfield. This, I've always, this has just hit me to the heart. And I was with some friends last night and they mentioned Gandalf. And so I said, okay, I'm going to do a Gandalf quote today. And so this is between Gandalf and Frodo in Lord of the Rings. And Frodo says this, he says, I wish it need not have happened in my time, said Frodo. So do I, said Gandalf, and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. What do you think?
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It's pretty prescient. You know, I was thinking the other day that I'm really good about sort of romanticizing periods that I didn't live through. And it occurred to me that, no, this current time, this is really what's important. So rather than fixating on history, go out and make history. This is the time that we're in.
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That's why I say on the show we were made for this moment. 250 years ago, 1775, they were fighting for the founding of our country. I really believe that we are in the third founding of our country, and we're engaged in this huge battle of ideas. Regarding our headlines, I can't – I'm just –
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You're excited about New York, aren't you?
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Yeah, I am on New York. I used to go back to New York on a regular basis when I was in the ladies' clothing business. But I wouldn't go back there right now. But something big happened. I went out and watched the hearing out at Elbert County with Xcel Energy. applying with an incomplete application for a transmission line to go across Elbert County. With this incomplete application, xl energy has actually been out serving condemnation papers on people through imminent domain to take their land for this transmission line so i went out to the hearing on monday afternoon began at one uh one to two o'clock staff made their presentation two o'clock to 3 30 xl made their presentation meanwhile we have a room full of people that have taken time off from work farmers ranchers Time is money. At 3.30, public comment began. I finally spoke a little after 6 and left around 6.30. And credit to the county commissioners, they had let all of the public make their comments. Then they recessed and made a decision, announced it yesterday. They denied the application.
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Oh, wow. How about that? I didn't hear that, Kim. You know, one thing that's maybe worse than a government that has ultimate use of force is a government-sponsored monopoly.
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That has force to take people's lives.
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That has that same force. That's right.
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So stay tuned. This isn't over, but I congratulate these county commissioners for doing what they needed to do, and that was to represent the people and protect their private property rights. Hear, hear. Yay for them. Yay for them. And then Roger Manga was in yesterday. Roger Manga, State Farm Insurance Team. We, I'm going to start to cry. We pre-recorded, or we recorded the interview for America's Veterans Stories that's going to broadcast this Sunday, 3 to 4 p.m. His stepfather fought in World War II, began in North Africa. Let's see, went to Anzio, Salerno, the southern invasion of France, all the way up to liberating Dachau. Two and a half years. No coming home. Two and a half years. Pretty amazing. Roger shared that story. You will not want to miss that. And the Roger Mangus State Farm Insurance team, great sponsor of the show. He's been in business, I didn't realize it, 49 and a half years. And he's been taking care of his clients and his family and the community. And we are honored to have the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance team as sponsors of the show. Give them a call for a complimentary appointment to go over your coverage. If you bundle everything together, you might save some money. You don't know unless you call them. Numbers 303-795-8855. Like a good neighbor, the Roger Mangan team is there.
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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice on an independent station searching for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. My fellow Liberty Toastmaster, Marshall Dawson, is in studio. Great to have you.
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Well, thanks, Kim. I'm happy to be here.
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And fasten your seatbelt. This is the fastest two hours of the day, yes?
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That's right. And the best.
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That's a long story, but I'll try to give you the short answer. I was in corporate America for 20-plus years. I was at Connect for Health Colorado and got laid off. They laid off a lot of the executives, and I took a job. I won't say where, but I took a job and I lasted about 90 days and I quit and I said, this is not what I want to do. I'm going to figure it out. And so I figured it out.
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Wow. And I was talking with an entrepreneur yesterday and it's not a 40 hour a week work week, is it, when you're an entrepreneur? No.
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I wish it was. It is much longer. You know, it depends on, you know, it's only in a painting company. It depends on the season. So in the summer, it's pretty long hours. But then around the holidays, things slow down and it probably is a 40 hour week at that point.
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Okay. Okay. Question. Can you do indoor painting in the winter or does the weather factor in that?
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Oh, absolutely. We can do indoor painting year-round. And so, yeah, winter is a perfect time, as long as it's not a garage, because then you run into temperature issues with paint not drying, etc. But absolutely. Year-round for interior painting.
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Okay. And then also we're getting into, well, the Independence Day is next week. I'm naming it Independence Week now, Karen Gorday. But you do holiday lighting, and now is really the time for people to start thinking about that plan as well. I imagine it really ramps up after Labor Day, but it's probably a good idea to give you a call on that, yes? Yes. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 11 :
Cause I'll be running ads in July about Christmas in July and, um, try to get people to think about life now versus later, uh, because we can actually install them in October, for example, when the weather is warmer and we put a timer on and then they just have to plug it in when they're ready. Um, and a lot of customers like that is that they're ready to go. Um, versus if they wait, um, too far into, let's say, September or October, they may not get their lights up until Thanksgiving or right after Thanksgiving, depending on the volume.
SPEAKER 19 :
Okay. And how can people get more information about you?
SPEAKER 11 :
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SPEAKER 19 :
Great. Okay, now we're going to change gears because in your spare time, you have been watching all of this zoning rewrite out in Lakewood, and there's a lot going on. So just bring us up to speed on that, Karen Gorday.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yes, so there is a lot going on. As you know, there was a planning commission meeting on May 21st. And they introduced 16 amendments that evening. And then there was a city council workshop on June 2nd. And there were at least two other amendments introduced then. The newest version of zoning has not been updated. So we still have a red line version from early May. And the email was sent out yesterday saying the new red line version will not be out until the beginning of July. That is problematic because first reading is July 21st. Wow. And then second reading is August 11th. And the document is 409 pages.
SPEAKER 25 :
Wow.
SPEAKER 11 :
So I don't understand why we have to wait five to six weeks to get 18 amendments updated in the document to be able to see exactly what's in that.
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, I think it could be a strategy, Karen Gorday. It could be a strategy.
SPEAKER 11 :
It could be, yes. So we are, as citizens, we have arranged a community potluck for this evening at Addenbrook Park. In Lakewood at 530 and it's concerned citizens. We've got a very structured format. We're going to break into small groups and hear folks ideas on how to get organized, how to get city council to listen to us. not just on zoning but a couple other things and hopefully have some great takeaways for some great community involvement to be able to stand up and say kind of do what littleton did and say we don't want this okay and so that is today you said correct at 5 30 at aden brook park
SPEAKER 19 :
530 at Attenbrook Park. Okay. Karen Gorday, thank you for doing your civic duty and informing people on what's going on. And thank you for being a sponsor of the Kim Monson Show. Absolutely. Thanks for having me on, Kim. And again, we work with people that strive for excellence. Another one of those great sponsors is Karen Levine for Everything Residential Real Estate.
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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. And thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice on an independent station searching for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. As you all know, I dearly love the Center for American Values. It's nonpolitical, it's nonpartisan, but focuses on these foundational principles of honor, integrity, and patriotism. They will be doing a celebration on July 4 in the afternoon. You can get more information by going to AmericanValuesCenter.org. And then Drew Dix, Medal of Honor recipient and co-founder of the center, has started a new podcast, Words from the Silo. And I would highly recommend you check that out. His most recent one is on domestic insurrection. And with all of his experience, his views, I would highly recommend that you check that out. You can do that at AmericanValueCenter.org. My friend Marshall Dawson, you're the president, the new president, aren't you, of Liberty Toastmasters Denver?
SPEAKER 04 :
I am the incoming president, that's right, of Liberty Toastmasters in Denver. We meet at the Independence Institute, first and third Saturdays, 10 a.m.
SPEAKER 19 :
And North meets the second and fourth Saturdays. Are you a member of both groups?
SPEAKER 04 :
I'm a member of both groups, yeah.
SPEAKER 19 :
Here's something.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, I joined the second club when I was running for office because I knew that I was going to have most weekends tied up, and I didn't want to lose out on that Toastmasters experience.
SPEAKER 19 :
And learning how to communicate, to reason, persuade, hear all these different views is so important. So what's our subject today, and who do we have teed up?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, I'm going to get the word of the day in right off the bat because our subject is the Declaration of Independence and its relevance in 2025. I think that they wrote the Declaration with future generations in mind. So I'm really looking forward to hearing what our colleagues have to say. And first out of the gate is going to be Greg Morrissey. Good morning, Greg.
SPEAKER 15 :
Good morning, Marshall. How are you doing this morning?
SPEAKER 04 :
Fantastic.
SPEAKER 15 :
Me too. Yeah, the... I'd like for people to understand the Declaration of Independence was earned. It wasn't given. There's a lot of work, effort, time and risk they took in writing those documents. This should be part of the history program in all schools. They should know the foundation and all people today should be able to quote this stuff from, you know, when they're talking, when they're meeting, they're talking about that type of stuff. It's an incredible document. And go back and look at the situation they were in when they wrote the document, the things they were being faced with at the time. They were threatened writing this document. And understand how it was written and attach that emotion to the words in it and keep it. It's got to stay this way.
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, absolutely, Greg. And it is relevant to 2025, isn't it?
SPEAKER 15 :
very relevant. It's probably just as relevant now as it was back then, especially with the stuff going on in our current government situation, some of the crazy laws they're passing.
SPEAKER 19 :
Absolutely. So your final thought on this, Greg?
SPEAKER 15 :
Everyone get a copy of the Declaration of Independence and do your best to memorize it and teach it to your children and everyone gets to know it.
SPEAKER 19 :
Greg Morrissey, you always have such great advice. So Marshall, who's our next guest?
SPEAKER 04 :
See you, Greg. Yeah, our next guest is a member of the Liberty Toastmasters in Denver, and that is Rick Rome. Good morning, Rick.
SPEAKER 14 :
Good morning, Marshall, Kim. I'll tell you, I was reading through my copy of the declaration last night, and it struck me. It's not really Christmas in July. It's more like Festivus in July, because when I was going through the grievances, a lot of this struck me. Here's a couple of my favorites. He called together legislative bodies and unusual, uncomfortable and distant from the Depository of Public Records for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. That's every Zoom meeting that these city councils are engaging right now. Endeavored to present populations of the states for the purpose of obstructing laws of naturalization of foreigners, refusing to pass others and encouraging migrations hither, raising conditions of new appropriations of properties. That's every sanctuary city that we hear about. Made judges dependent on his will for tenure in their office and the amount of payment for their salaries. How much money did Michon's daughter make off of his judgments for the DNC and her own commissions? For imposing taxes without consent. It's not a tax, it's a fee. For depriving, in many cases, the benefit of trial by jury. How many years did some of these J6 protesters sit in prison without having charges leveled against them or a case being brought before trial? Four years. And of course, my personal favorite, has excited domestic insurrections among us and endeavored to bring the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless indian slash immigrant savages whose known rule of warfare is indistinguished destruction of all ages sexes and conditions look this stuff does not have the ambiguity of an ostradamus quatrain and it's no wonder to me that we celebrate this holiday by blowing stuff up now before i get my name on on another watch list i'd like to talk about what we can do we can speak truth it's truth to power We can talk about how the Jefferson County School District has turned it into a P. Diddy love shack. We can talk about an Arapahoe County District Attorney who's turned a blind eye to manslaughter from an illegal immigrant who just slaughtered a kid on the sidewalk and just gave him a probationary sentence who's since been deported. But we can also talk about the good things. like what pro-life activists are doing in the community to try and save the unborn and celebrate that truth as well. And that is how we honor our mutual pledge to each other for our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.
SPEAKER 19 :
Rick Rome, thank you. He's a little fired up after he read the Declaration.
SPEAKER 04 :
Wait till he gets his coffee.
SPEAKER 19 :
True that. True that. Who's our next guest?
SPEAKER 04 :
Our next guest is Bennett Rutledge. Hey, good morning, Bennett. What's on your mind this morning?
SPEAKER 16 :
Good morning. Good morning. Well, I'm still trying to process what Rick Rome just did. And, yeah, the current occupant of the Oval Office has been doing a lot of the stuff that the founders complained about in the Declaration of Independence. And one of the things that he's been messing with is the process of immigrants and in particular the Refugee Act of 1980 has been sliced to ribbons. The due process described there for actually becoming a naturalized citizen has had pieces cut out of it. Just the way that back on his inauguration day, he started working on his promise to preserve and protect the Constitution by trying to slice out the notion of birthright citizenship.
SPEAKER 19 :
So, yeah, that's still pertinent today. Most definitely, Bennett Rutledge. And thank you. I appreciate you sharing your views on that, Bennett. Okay. Anything else, Bennett? Okay. I think we lost him.
SPEAKER 16 :
Oh, I'm sure there'll be more, but he only gave me two minutes.
SPEAKER 19 :
And that's what we do in Table Topics. So Bennett Rutledge, thank you so much. Okay, who is our next guest?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, Kim, let me mention real quick since you said table topics. Table talks is one of the sections of our regular meetings that we have where we have the opportunity to speak impromptu. And although there's a recommended topic, we don't always recommend it. I said that completely wrong. We don't require it because we don't force people to do anything. People are free to talk about whatever topic that they want even though we have the recommended topic. So our topic for today is the Declaration of Independence, and I'm curious what Fred Clifford has to say about this.
SPEAKER 16 :
Hello, this is Fred.
SPEAKER 08 :
Hey, Fred, good morning. Yeah, and by the way, my coffee's still brewing. So I'm not sure if I'm fully alert yet, but anyway, my coffee's still brewing. I was thinking about the Declaration of Independence yesterday, and where it specifies that the purpose of government is to secure our rights. And then it lists three as an example. Then it says, among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I was thinking about the words among these, because there's a lot more than just that. And I was thinking about the fruit of our labor. I really think that's a natural right. And I don't know if it's, you know, the Ninth Amendment mentions natural rights that aren't enumerated. I think that's one of them. I was thinking of a time I worked at a travel lodge, and I'd been a busboy at a Ramada Inn, and I went roller skating one night, and I broke my finger. I went to work the next morning, and they wouldn't let me work with a splint on my finger. So what I do, I went and find another job. And I thought I was going to make more tips. But I didn't make very many tips. I made a dollar and a quarter hour plus just a few tips here once in a while. But my point is that was the fruit of my labor, and I loved it. I love having the fruit of my own labor. I don't really want the fruit of somebody else's labor. And if I want to give part of the fruit of my labor out of love to somebody else, I can do that. That's a wonderful thing. I donate to charities once in a while, but I don't appreciate theft. I don't think the left understands love, but the only thing they seem to understand is theft. So that's my thing today. The fruit of our labor is very important.
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, it is very important. And what happens sometimes, thank you, Fred Clifford, what happens sometimes with government is that you will see interested parties go to government, make a case for whatever it is, is their pet project, and then ask government to take money from other people, the fruit of their labor, to fund that project. And that's why we need to get rid of government grants, tax credits, tax incentives that we need to make sure that as the founders saw that we would all be treated equally. What a novel concept, Marshall.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, I know. And, you know, the one of the favorite pastimes is to use the force of government to get what you want to take from others. You know that what you have not earned. And that's what we see so often.
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And that's how we got into this situation. So that's why I think the declaration is very relevant to what is going on in America today. This is such a fascinating conversation with our fellow Liberty Toastmasters. All this happens because of our sponsors. And if you are looking for a mortgage, a new mortgage, second mortgage, or reverse mortgage, reach out to Lorne Levy. And I know I giggled just a little bit because he can help you in all 49 states except New York. With what's going on in New York, I'm pretty sure he's glad he's not doing business there. So again, Lauren Levy for Everything Mortgages.
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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice, and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. Something's a good idea. You should not have to force people to do it. And another nonprofit that I dearly love is the USMC Memorial Foundation. The official Marine Memorial is located here in Golden at 6th and Colfax, was dedicated in 1977. It's time for a facelift and Paula Sarles, the president of the foundation and her team are working diligently to raise the money for the remodel. And I think a great thing during Independence Week would be to make a contribution in honor of all those that have given their lives or been willing to give their lives for our liberty. And what is liberty? It is the responsible exercise of freedom. That website is usmcmemorialfoundation.org. usmcmemorialfoundation.org. In studio with me is my good friend, Marshall Dawson. He is the incoming president of Liberty Toastmasters Denver, which meets the first and third Saturdays of each month.
SPEAKER 04 :
That's right, at 10 a.m. We would love to have guests. If you would show up about 10 minutes early, let us get you a name tag and give you some of our materials. We pride ourselves on starting on time, so we are very prompt.
SPEAKER 19 :
And the Liberty Toastmasters North meets the second and fourth Saturdays of each month in Longmont. And that's a very vibrant group as well.
SPEAKER 04 :
It's a fantastic organization up there as well. We meet at the Boulder County Republican office. I should say that Toastmasters is a 501c3. We're not political, but we borrow that space. Second and fourth Saturdays, also at 10.
SPEAKER 19 :
Okay. So, Marshall, our suggested subject for Table Topics today.
SPEAKER 04 :
Suggested, yeah. Is the Declaration of Independence, and is it relevant in 2025? Yes.
SPEAKER 19 :
And who's our next guest?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, Kim, our next guest is Ross Klopp, who's a member of the Liberty Toastmasters in Denver. Hey, good morning, Ross.
SPEAKER 10 :
Good morning. Yeah, I thought about this a lot. And we got two big things out of the Declaration of Independence and the founding of the United States. And if you remember, back before the Revolutionary War, the United States was part of a tyrannical regime called the British Empire. They actually did have a Bill of Rights, but it had a lot of flaws to it. And the first flaw that was really glaring when I was looking over their old Bill of Rights from 1689 is there's absolutely no freedom of religion at all, none. So what would happen is you would be mandated to go to the Anglican Church of England every Sunday. If you didn't go, you would get fined. And if you couldn't pay the fine, you would rot in prison. That's how they handled it. And that continued long after the Revolutionary War. They eventually did change it, but it took a long time. The other big glaring difference is they did have a Second Amendment back in 1689, but it was extremely watered down. And it had a really weird condition that you had to be Protestant to or you didn't have a second amendment. So basically they were using gun control as religion control. They used their gun control to control people's religion. And that was actually sort of common back then. England wasn't the only country doing that. The US is one of the first countries that actually had freedom of religion. And if you look at today, what's going on in England. They have totally taken away any resemblance of the Second Amendment over there. And you have absolutely no right to defend yourself. The only thing you can do if a criminal wants to do harm to you is run away. And guess what? A lot of people just can't run very fast or they can't run at all. You have people with disabilities and so on. And their government is telling people not only that they don't care, it's even worse than that. They actually want the criminals to be able to catch the law-abiding citizens because they have absolutely no method for self-defense in England. And it is a huge problem over there. And hopefully we don't repeat England's mistakes in the United States. Right now we do have a Second Amendment, and hopefully we keep that for the future. So that's my little two cents of wisdom. There's over 1.6 million defensive uses of firearms per year in the United States. That equates to a population that's about the same as the Denver metro area. So firearms do a lot of good as far as protecting people and protecting people's rights.
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, thank you, Ross Clough. And then I had gotten a meme from one of our listeners that said this. Radical Democrats are suddenly worried that Iranian terror sleeper cells will now attack the U.S. from within. These are the same radical activist Democrats who let them all in and the same radical activist Democrats who want you to be unarmed. I thought, connect those dots. Ross, thank you. I He always brings it. The 1689, I didn't know anything about this.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. Ross brings it, doesn't he?
SPEAKER 19 :
He does.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. Well, our next guest is a familiar name to many people who are listening, and that is Bradley Beck. Good morning, Bradley.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, good morning, Marshall and Kim, and it's a great day to be in Colorado, be alive, and looking forward to this subject because the American Declaration does have relevance in 2025. Let me share with you a little story. When I was a kid, I played Little League baseball, and my dad was the coach. And you know what he made us do? Every time we practiced, we did the basics. We did throwing we did catching we did batting we did throwing batting catching throwing batting catching so it became like second nature and yet today as we struggle with this question of is the declaration relevant you know we don't teach our young people the basics they don't know the throwing the catching the batting in my office And Marshall's been over there. Well, both of you have been over to my house before. But up in my office, I've got quotes all over the place that inspire me. And one of my favorite presidents, Calvin Coolidge, who almost 100 years ago, next year, at the 150th anniversary of the Declaration, said the following. He said, quote, if all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final, end of quote. And then as I look at the poster of Abraham Lincoln and the Gettysburg Address, which is well known, he starts off, quote, Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal, end of quote. And then Thomas Jefferson, the man who was given the task of writing the first drafts of the Declaration of Independence, which, as Kim rightly said, is our duty to understand when you have the definition read. And what is duty? Duty is something that provides our self-mastery, which gets us to the word of happiness. But I'm more focused right now on Jefferson and the Declaration Virginia Declaration of Rights, which is the basis for the first section of the Declaration. And Jefferson wrote of that document, it states, quote, that all men are by nature equally free and independent. You notice the one word that is in all three of those quotes. It's equal. And what is that? What is equal? It's level. It's being a partner, a helper. We are all equally human. And nobody is more human than anybody else. No man is more equal human than a woman. No Jew or Muslim or Christian or Buddhist or Hindu is more human than another. And I think we need to go back to those fundamentals of teaching people about equality. We're all equal under the law, and we all have equal natural rights. And I think we need to read the Declaration as I do every year, and remind ourselves and our children of posterity that it's our duty, our responsibility to understand that concept. That's all I had for you today.
SPEAKER 19 :
Love that, Brad Beck, the basics. Thank you so much. Who's our next guest, Marshall?
SPEAKER 04 :
You know, and I like the idea of making things second nature as well. So our final guest, our final caller today is going to be Dave Walden. Good morning, Dave.
SPEAKER 18 :
Good morning. Kim and Marshall, you know, as I sign up to do these things and you schedule me last, I'm always trying to come up with something that has not yet been said. Today is particularly difficult, Marshall, because you know, having known me for a while, my thoughts on the Declaration. So at the risk of letting your eyes glaze over, I'll I'll repeat some of it, I'm sure. You know, a week from tomorrow, we will celebrate our 249-year-old celebration of No King's Day with what has gone on here recently. They seem to have forgotten that we had one of those almost 250 years ago. And every year we celebrate it on July 4th. The declaration basically comes down to two distinct documents rolled into one. And the reason that that declaration is so relevant in 2025 is because both parts of it deal with timeless human nature. We are human beings. We have been for thousands of years. and hopefully we will continue to be for thousands more. And because we all are human beings, we have certain tendencies, certain likes, certain dislikes that are common to each of us. Part one of the Declaration that begins with when in the course of human events and ends, in my judgment, with life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, it deals with human nature of the longing to just be left alone, to pursue our happiness as we see fit, mindful of the rights of others to do the same. The second part, it deals with timeless humanity as well. Only what it deals with is the tendency to become tyrannical. Because part two, the biggest part of Jefferson's declaration, deals with tyranny, in this case the tyranny of the king and crown, because it wouldn't leave the colonists alone. And so the Declaration, in my mind, is a timeless document because it deals with timeless human nature, both the good aspects and the bad aspects. So next Friday after tomorrow, when I read part one which is what i usually do to whatever audience i'm in i will be reminded of the good aspects of human humanity and that is the desire to live and let live respect the rights of others while we pursue whatever version of our happiness we have determined is important so with that being said i shall celebrate no king's day as well thank you
SPEAKER 19 :
Oh, Dave Walden, thank you so much. Marshall Dawson, we've got about a minute left. Amazing thoughts from our fellow Liberty Toastmasters. How do you want to wrap this up?
SPEAKER 04 :
It really was. Here's what I want to say, and I'm always afraid that I might be repeating Dave, so maybe I'm paraphrasing a bit. But the Declaration wasn't simply serving separation papers to King George. The Declaration is really a moral document. It's a document of morality. It's like a mission statement. The Declaration, when it talks about our rights, is saying who we are as a people, that we are all created equal. And as Dave said, these are timeless ideas. This is still who we are as a people. We are always seeking for that more perfect union.
SPEAKER 19 :
It's an amazing document, and we all need to pull that out and read that. Marshall, it's been so great to have you in studio.
SPEAKER 04 :
I couldn't have enjoyed it more, Ken.
SPEAKER 19 :
Thank you. And thank you to all of our fellow Liberty Toastmasters. And our quote for the end of the show is from J.R.R. Tolkien. And I pulled it because we are in such a historic time right now. And he said this, only a small part is played in great deeds by any hero. And I thought that that was pretty amazing. So each of us has a part to play. where we're at this time in history and I don't know what that looks like in the fabric of history as we move forward but we are called each day to play our part and again it's great to have you here.
SPEAKER 04 :
Thanks, Kim. And good morning to everyone. Glad you could join us.
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And we've got another great hour planned for you, so stay tuned. Fasten your seatbelts. I want to say thank you to the Harris family for their goal sponsorship of the show. We'll talk with Susan Harris a little bit later. Make sure that you are signed up for our weekly email newsletter, which you can do at our website, which is KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. And the show comes to you 6 to 8 a.m. Monday through Friday. First hour is rebroadcast 1 to 2 in the afternoon, second hour 10 to 11 at night. And that is on all KLZ 560 platforms, which is KLZ 560 AM, KLZ 100.7 FM, the KLZ website, and the KLZ app. And then you can listen to us on Spotify and iTunes as well. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through this 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 focus on the issues on the show, not the personalities. We'll mention the people pushing issues, but we want to stay focused on those issues. And we want to look at these issues through reason and then be able to persuade. We'll have an understanding of the issues and then persuade our colleagues and our friends and our family. To be moving towards liberty. We've been losing liberty. We've moved to a compliant society instead of a liberty-loving society. And we need to reclaim that, particularly as we're coming in on our Declaration of Independence, celebrating that on July 4. And, of course, I'm renaming it Independence Week because we have all kinds of great shows that we'll be broadcasting regularly. for Independence Week. Our word of the day is declaration. And Eric always says, Kim, make sure that you spell that. So the word of the day is declaration. D-E-C-L-A-R-A-T-I-O-N. It's a noun. It could be an explicit, formal announcement, either oral or written. Number two, it could be an act or process of declaring. Or number three, a statement of taxable goods or properties subject to duty. So I'd highly recommend declaring that you pull out your Declaration of Independence. It doesn't take that long to read it. Of course, there's the Declaration, and then there's the usurpations, of which Rick Rome in the first hour mentioned some of those usurpations. They said to King George, these are the reasons that we are breaking up. And as you look at those reasons, there's a lot of similarities to this big, huge government that we have, and it all works together on the local, county, state, and national level. We need to get government back in its proper box at the local, county, state, and national level. Our quote of the day, I was with some friends last night, and one of them quoted Gandalf from The Lord of the Rings. He's the wizard in The Lord of the Rings, which is he's the protagonist in J.R.R. Tolkien's novels, both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and, of course, Tolkien. He was born in 1892. He died in 1973, and he was a professor there. At, let's see, at Oxford, I think. Let me, yeah, at Oxford. Also Merton, at Merton College. And he was part of the Inklings. He and C.S. Lewis were part of a group that got together for, gosh, 19 years. to talk about literature and to, oh, be a fly on the wall there to hear what they all had to say. But this is what Gandalf said. He said, and this is his conversation with Frodo. He says, "'I wish it need not have happened in my time,' said Frodo. "'So do I,' said Gandalf, "'and so do all who live to see such times. "'But that is not for them to decide. "'All we have to decide is what to do "'with the time that is given us.'" And we are in a historic time. We're in the third founding of our country. It's a battle of ideas. America was founded on an idea that all men are created equal with these rights from God of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness. And that idea should be conserved and preserved. And we are in a battle of ideas to make that happen at this particular point in time. Hooters Restaurants has been a great sponsor of both the Kim Monson Show and America's Veterans Stories for many years. It's important. It's an American story about freedom and free markets and capitalism and PBIs, those politicians, bureaucrats, and interested parties that want to use power to control our lives. But Hooters Restaurants has five locations, Loveland, Aurora, Lone Tree, Westminster, and Colorado Springs. Great specials Monday through Friday for lunch and happy hour. And their nachos are particularly very yummy. So be sure to check that out. Next thing, congratulations to the Elbert County commissioners who voted unanimously to deny Excel the permission on their transmission line. They had applied for this transmission line to go across Elbert County. And amazingly, the application was incomplete, but they wanted the commissioners to approve it. Then secondly, even though the application is not approved, they've been serving Excel condemnation papers saying that they will take the land via eminent domain. And I made public comments when I went out to the meeting on – gosh, was it Monday, Tuesday? Now I can't remember – And I said, so with eminent domain, which is in the Constitution, it says that if land is to be taken for governmental purposes, that the owner of the land should receive just compensation. Right. Well, apparently there's a couple of things going on. First of all, some of the landowners commented that they thought that Xcel Energy was lowballing on that just compensation. So that's not fair. But secondly, to take land, a tangible piece of property that typically will increase in value, and replace it with dollars, which is decreasing in value because of inflation and government policy, that does not seem like just compensation to me. But anyway, the Albert County commissioners voted unanimously to deny this application, which this is huge. This isn't over. So this is a stay tuned kind of a thing. But it is pretty darn exciting that the county commissioners realized, as I mentioned in my interview, public comments that they're as elected representatives their job is to protect the property rights of their citizens they do not work for excel and so this is pretty huge i did want to mention another headline from and this is from bloomberg and it says trump policies will cut deficits up to 11 trillion dollars white house economist says Now, Trump has been getting beaten up by both sides of the aisle about this excessive spending, these deficits. And we've got to get this turned around in order for us to continue as a country. and had had Wade Miller on with the Center for Renewing America on a few weeks ago, and he said that the Congressional Budget Office uses a static modeling, economic modeling process when they then come out and say that you put in X, you put in X, then the deficit's going to go up. But our economy is not static. And so I thought this was – and he said that actually Trump, they are working to get these deficits more under control and the spending. So this is from Bloomberg. Again, this was published just – hold on here. I think it was just yesterday. I'm not getting the date here. Okay. One more time. I'd love to give you the exact date on this if I can. They should have this in the byline. Well, they said it was published 23 hours ago, so – Let's go with it. President Donald Trump's policies will reduce the U.S. fiscal deficits by up to $11 trillion over the coming decade, according to the White House's chief economist, a projection that defies analysts who say government debt is poised to climb to record highs in coming years. We calculate that overall the reduction in deficits as a result of the total suite of the president's policies is going to be roughly $8.5 to $11 trillion over the 10-year budget window. Stephen Moran, chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, told reporters on a call yesterday. Those are very big numbers. It says about half the savings, $3 to $5 trillion, would come from faster economic growth. thanks to the pending Republican tax cut bill, along with deregulation efforts. He also cited a $3 trillion bump in revenues from Trump's tariffs hikes, referring reporters to the CBO office's recent calculation. Reduced debt loads, thanks in part to those savings, will help to bring down the U.S. Treasury's interest costs by approximately $1 trillion to $1.5 trillion. I love this report. The big, beautiful bill. We've got a few things I'm concerned about. One, and I'm going to try to get her on the week after Independence Week, is regarding what could be happening in education and to homeschoolers. So we need to – there's something there that could be negative for them. Also, we'll talk with Alicia Garcia and Teddy Collins regarding suppressors, firearm suppressors. I'm concerned about that. I am also concerned about the continuing tax credits issue. for CO2 pipelines and want to get that out. We should not be having tax credits and grants because that is picking winners and losers. Government's not supposed to be doing that. And then I am concerned about the 10-year carve-out on these data centers on AI. 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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at Kim Monson dot com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. Well, we've mentioned Maggie Thatcher said you cannot have political freedom unless you have economic freedom. And so do you have big dreams for your future, but you're not quite sure how to get there? Well, call our friends at Mint Financial Strategies. They know your financial life is unique, and as an independent firm and an accredited investment fiduciary, they build personalized strategies that put your freedom and goals first. No sales pressure, no one-size-fits-all approach, just thoughtful guidance built around you. So take that first step toward your future. Call Mint Financial Strategies at 303-285-3080. That's 303-285-3080. And pleased to have on the line with me another great sponsor of the show, and that is Alicia Garcia and Teddy Collins with the Second Syndicate. Alicia, welcome. Morning. How are you doing, Kim? Doing well. And Teddy, great to have you as well.
SPEAKER 09 :
Thank you for having us, Kim.
SPEAKER 19 :
So you have founded, I'll go to you first, Alicia. You founded the Second Syndicate. Explain how, why, what's the latest?
SPEAKER 11 :
So my business partners and I, Spartan Defense, came up with the Second Syndicate in response to the onslaught of gun control that has been happening in Colorado recently. for the past few years. We work together for other organizations and for other things that we fight about. And we said, you know what? The Second Amendment is in such duress right now. We need a come to Jesus moment for the people. And we said, well, if we're not part of the solution or part of the problem, so let's be part of the solution. And let's see what we can do about building a grassroots movement that's not just for gun shops or firearms educators. It's for everybody involved and every person that wants to champion the Second Amendment and resurrect and basically humanize the Second Amendment in Colorado again.
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, and it is really under assault here. And I had read this meme. Let me get to it, Alicia, in the first hour. And this was from a listener. It said, This is the same radical activist Democrats who let them all in. And this is the same radical activist Democrats who want you to be unarmed. And I want to make a point here. This Democrat Party, the people that are in control of this Democrat Party, is not the Democrat. These are not the Democrats of JFK, Tip O'Neill, any of those. This is radical activists. But I thought that meme was very telling, Alicia.
SPEAKER 11 :
Indeed. And, you know, The reason for self-defense shouldn't be because there's a threat. It should be because you understand that it is your human and your civil right. A lot of people often say to me that, oh, you know, you champion the Second Amendment because you've probably been a victim of crime or you've experienced a tragedy. And the entire point is to prevent from having to be a victim in the first place. We shouldn't have to explain to people or justify to people why we are choosing to exercise our civil right.
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, and it is, the Second Amendment is in the Bill of Rights, in the Constitution, to protect the first. I love the fact that you say that. And that is freedom of speech and freedom of religion. And in the first hour, Ross Clough, my fellow Liberty Toastmaster, talked about the freedom of religion and how the Second Amendment is so important to that. But, Teddy Collins, before we continue our discussions on other things, tell us a little bit about Spartan Defense.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, so Spartan Defense was originally founded in 2010 as a training company, and that was originally founded in Texas. We moved out here in 2015 and started Spartan Defense as the physical brick and mortar, as you know it today, around 2017. And, yeah, been going ever since. So, yeah, it's locally owned and operated, one of the largest locally owned and operated stores in the state of Colorado that's actually family owned and not a large corporation.
SPEAKER 19 :
And where are you located?
SPEAKER 09 :
We're located in Colorado Springs. And I mean, we do pretty much everything defense related, whether it be training from lethal to less lethal, we offer it all.
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, and Alicia, you train. Do you train primarily women or co-ed men, women and both? What do you do?
SPEAKER 11 :
I actually get a huge handful of men. So I teach concealed carry classes once a week. So we'll actually either on Saturdays and Sundays with my training company, the concealed carry class of Denver. And I have about anywhere from eight to 14 students in each one of my classes. I also do court ordered classes. There's a lot of people that are, you know, do dumb things with firearms and they are court ordered to take, educational classes, they come to me and we help remedy that ignorance and carelessness and implement, you know, knowledge and discipline with firearms.
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, I think that's really important. And then creating and building the second syndicate last time that you were on, we talked a little bit about you're going to have membership. I know that some of our listeners wanted to make contributions. How can that happen, Teddy?
SPEAKER 09 :
We have a few ways to make contributions. You can go to our website, the2ndsyndicate.com. That's the2ndsyndicate.com. We do have it up and running where you can actually donate through the website there. We also have a Bonfire account with awesome Second Amendment shirts that you can purchase, and those proceeds go back to the organization. which is a not-for-profit, and those proceeds are used to fight for the Second Amendment. So those are a couple ways that you can donate to the cause. And with the shirts, of course, you can actually get something that's pretty cool. We've got some awesome, awesome shirts out there that I think people will really like that are pro-2A.
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Well, and we need to realize that here in Colorado, this radical activist legislature and governor are not going to stop. They are trying to take away our Second Amendment by a thousand cuts. So we're going to continue the discussion with Alicia Garcia and Teddy Collins. We want to get an update on what's happening regarding something I don't think that They intended with the Big Beautiful Bill, and Alicia Garcia has written an excellent essay that's at our website, The Big Beautiful Backfire, regarding firearm suppressors. So we'll see if there's been some progress that has been made on that. And all of this happens because of our sponsors, and one of those is the Second Syndicate.
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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Check out our website. That is kimmonson.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at kim at kimmonson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, shouldn't have to force people to do it. And one of the nonprofits that I dearly love is the USMC Memorial Foundation. They are raising money for the remodel of the Marine Memorial. which is out at 6th and Colfax. It was dedicated in 1977, and it is time for a remodel on that. Paula Sarles, who's the president of the foundation and her team are working diligently on raising the money to make all that happen. And as we're coming into Independence Week, Our celebration of our Declaration of Independence, as my fellow Liberty Toastmasters indicated, that was the original No Kings Day. It would be great to make a contribution to honor those that have given their lives or been willing to give their lives for our liberty. What is liberty? It's the responsible exercise of freedom. And that website is usmcmemorialfoundation.org, usmcmemorialfoundation.org. I'm pleased to have on the line with me Alicia Garcia and Teddy Collins. They are the co-founders of the Second Syndicate, as well as with Spartan Defense, which is located in Colorado Springs. Alicia Garcia, we had published your essay regarding the Big Beautiful Backfire. And apparently in the Big Beautiful Bill, there was some... unintended consequences that I know that you and Teddy have been working on regarding firearm suppressors. For those that may be new to this issue, set it up for us and then give us the latest.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay, so we have the Big Beautiful Bill that is taking over D.C. right now, talking about tons of different things. Well, one of the things that was implemented and the wording that was included in the Big Beautiful Bill was language from the hearing protection act and also the short act two acts that are affecting gun ownership in the united states so the hearing protection act has a few sections of that which would just necessarily take suppressors or what you know people come and refer to as silencers or cans as we call them in the industry off of the national firearms act that way they can be deregulated as a so we don't have to continue to pay a 200 tax stamp and have access to those in that manner as well as short barrel rifles and things that nature in the short act one of the things that we had found working with our attorney with an organization that we also work with the colorado federal firearms licensee association Our attorney, James Cook, we discovered that, indeed, even though we want to defund the NSA and, you know, start treating firearms and firearms accessories as they should be as freely accessible tools, one of the things that was written in there is in Section 2 of the Hearing Protection Act, they wanted to take away that tax stamp. So right now, if you go and buy a suppressor, since the 1930s, a tax stamp is required to get that suppressor, which is $200. It has been $200 since the 1930s. So imagine that being an extremely demanding barrier from the 1930s. That's about a $4,000 difference in inflation, if you think about it. So it still is $200. So what we want to do is take that $200 away and make it more accessible to people to get these suppressors. Well, one of the issues is that the way the bill was written at the time that we wrote the article and published that information is that Section 3 and Section 4 of the Hearing Protection Act was not included in the Big Beautiful Bill language. What essentially is going to be negative for Colorado is that the way Colorado law is written, because of course we have a state that is focused on tyranny and gun grabbing and preventing Colorado from being able to access these tools, they defined suppressors as dangerous weapons. Well, by defining them as dangerous weapons, it also says that in order to acquire these quote-unquote dangerous weapons, you need to follow a permitting process through the state of Colorado, the way that they want you to, through the law, to have them. Well, currently, the way the state of Colorado is recognizing that permit, they're saying the tax stamp suffices that permit. Well, by taking away the tax stamp, which, yay, we do want to do, It also takes away the way to appease the tyrannical textual law that we have in Colorado. So without a way to appease that law, it would make it that suppressors would become a classified felony and be unobtainable because there's no way to appease that the way it's written. So what we propose is that You can use the ATF form 4473, which we want to be very clear, we are not okay with asking the government for any type of permitting, but it is a process that is in place right now that would allow people to still be able to continue to access these devices and not completely disarm you know, millions of people nationwide. So not only would this affect states like Colorado, it would affect states like Georgia. And we've identified at least 17 other states that have language in state-level language that would prevent them from accessing suppressors. So we wrote a letter to Congress where we had pretty much every Republican in the state house sign and a few senators and a couple other 2A organizations in Colorado saying, say, hey, you know what, please put back the language for the Section 3 and Section 4 of the Hearing Protection Act in the Big Beautiful Bill. By adding Section 4, which we really want them to do, what that would do is give the federal preemption back to the government. So taking away states like Colorado's ability to override federal law and write laws like Senate Bill 25003 and You know, the conceal carry laws that go into effect in January or July 1st of this year and state permitting for gun shops that would go into effect, you know, July 1st of this year as well. So we want a way to combat those things. So that's why we wrote that article to kind of clue America and Colorado into what the constraints of this is and encourage everybody to contact. you know, their federal level representatives and say, hey, we want these freedoms, but we want them for everyone, not just for some. Include this language in the big, beautiful bill, including also the short act. which would give power back to the people to obtain and possess short-barreled rifles and things of that nature as well.
SPEAKER 19 :
Okay. Alicia Garcia, I know it's complicated. Thank you for that synopsis of what's going on. So Teddy Collins with Spartan Defense, what's your ear to the ground? Are they making progress on this with the Big Beautiful Bill?
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes, so we have had some feedback, and it wasn't oversight. They did not realize that we got the feedback like, oh, my gosh, we didn't realize that this was going to do this to so many states and that there would be so many states in which suppressors wouldn't, and SBRs and things of that nature would be illegal because of state laws that are currently in existence. And to be honest, you know, we mentioned Georgia, but there's also states like California, Washington State, Oregon, Illinois, places you would expect. And in those states, you don't have, you know, two-way friendly legislators. You don't have a legislator that's going to be willing to go in and change it. So it's pretty important to get this stuff added. So we have seen them add the SHORT Act to the bill at this point. We are still waiting for Section 3 and 4 of the Hearing Protection Act to be added, but from our understanding, it's in the works. Let's hope that it's in the final draft of the bill. Otherwise, there's going to be a huge issue with suppressors here in Colorado. But for the short act, just to bring up kind of an interesting issue. interesting situation it could put us in here is since the short act does contain preemption, federal preemption for SBRs, which would not allow the state to further regulate SBRs past what federal law allows or disallows, it could put us into an interesting quandary when SB003 goes into effect next year in September, because we'll have a bill that essentially makes nearly any semi-automatic require a state license with, you know, three days and close to 24 hours total of training when you include the prerequisite course from Parks and Wildlife on top of the two-day advanced course that they're going to require to take. And it's going to require that license for some automatics, but if the short act does stay in the Big Beautiful Bill and pass, you're going to have it where they can't require that license for for SBRs. So you might not be able to go out and buy a 16-inch AR-15, but you would be able to go out and buy a 10-inch AR-15 without a state-required license. So it might create an interesting conflict between state and federal laws, which would be a great thing for the courts to be able to take down SB-003. Okay. And
SPEAKER 19 :
Because there cannot be a legal challenge to Senate Bill 25003 until it takes effect. But this could create something that something might happen to try to get rid of 003 before that. Am I hearing that correctly?
SPEAKER 09 :
At least for now. because the preemption clauses in the Hearing Protection Act and in the Short Act would specifically be for those two items, short barrel rifles and or shotguns and suppressors. It wouldn't be for all SB003 because regular... rifle length, you know, regular length items would not be affected by the preemption clause in this bill. It would only be the items that specifically are stated in the bill with the Hearing Protection Act and the Short Act, so SBRs and suppressors.
SPEAKER 19 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 09 :
Short barrel rifles for the layman's terms.
SPEAKER 19 :
Okay. And then, Teddy, this came in from the text line. One of our listeners said, we don't need badges and we don't need permits. And I think, well, Alicia, I'll send that over to you. I think that's what you said as well, but you're trying to figure out, as we're working to get to a point where we don't need badges and permits, how we can still function. Yes? Yes. Indeed.
SPEAKER 11 :
So by design, I mean, I know I teach concealed carry classes and things of that nature, but I'm a true constitutionalist at heart. And I believe truly that asking the state for permission for a civil right is redundant. And that's exactly what the state of Colorado is imposing on Coloradans. In fact, July 1st of this year, so in a stone's throw away of time here, they are actually implementing the new concealed carry laws that will be affecting Colorado. So for quite some time in Colorado, all you needed to do was take a four-hour class that's just classroom information with a certified instructor, someone like myself, receive your certificate, and then you were able to get that paperwork as long as you weren't a federally prohibited person and be issued your state concealed carry permit. Well, Colorado legislators decided that that wasn't enough. So they updated its concealed carry laws with House Bill 24-11-74 back in 2024. and the implementation date is July 1st of 2025. So what they're doing is they're not only imposing new hoops for instructors like myself to appease, they're also implementing a eight-hour mandatory class, a written exam that also has to be passed as an addition to a live fire requirement that we, the instructor, have to supervise and procure for the student that has them shooting at least 50 rounds downrange with a proficiency level of accuracy. And for us to say, OK, you've done all these things. Now here is your certificate. So now you can go to the state and ask them for permission to exercise your constitutional right.
SPEAKER 19 :
It's crazy. That's why the work that you're doing at the second syndicate is so important. Teddy and Alicia, it is great to be partners with you in this this fight to reclaim our constitutional rights. Teddy, how can people get more information about the second syndicate?
SPEAKER 09 :
I mean, they can go to thesecondsyndicate.com, the2ndsyndicate.com. You can check us out on YouTube. We do podcasts every other week with important guests. We had Josh Griffin on last night, who's running for governor of the state of Colorado. He's a Republican. uh... we've got mike swan we've added numerous other republican uh... party officials on the and uh... other pro to a people on the and just it just to provide uh... submission query i don't know how much time we have left your camp but just provide some additional query for the uh... the comment you got on the text line there we're not the again we're not advocating for a permits here all we're trying to do is get the preemption clause added so that state law does not take away your right because as it is currently in colorado If the preemption is not added to the big, beautiful bill for suppressors and for the short at and for short barrel rifles, you will not be able to purchase a suppressor in the state of Colorado going forward at any point. Your right to purchase a short barrel rifle and or suppressor will be taken away because of an oversight of this bill. So we're not asking for any additional permits or anything of that nature. All we're asking is for that preemption clause to be added so that the state cannot have laws that affect your rights.
SPEAKER 19 :
Okay. Teddy Collins and Alicia Garcia with the Second Syndicate and Spartan Defense, thank you so much. We will talk next week.
SPEAKER 09 :
Thank you so much for having us, Kim.
SPEAKER 19 :
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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. And thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice, an independent station searching for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force. Force versus freedom is something that's a good idea. You should not have to force people to do it. You may want to spend Independence Day down in Pueblo and visit the Center for American Values. And they've got a celebration going on down at the center. And you can get more information about what's going on at AmericanValuesCenter.org. As I mentioned, the show comes to you because of our amazing sponsors. One of those sponsors is the Harris family. We have Susan Harris on the line with us. Susan, welcome. Good morning, Kim. How are you? Well, I am well. And Susan, you are watching politics. You live down in Arizona now. And so what's going on with Arizona? And you watch California. Just wanted to get your read on current events. What's your thoughts?
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, well, we continue to fight the fight down here, just like you in Colorado. Luckily, hope or I would say hopefully and I'm very hopeful because of the people that are working so hard here in Arizona, we will push back all of the advances that the Democrats have made in our state. And we're we're really working hard to just keep all of those woke. slash socialist policies out of our state. And we definitely were behind the eight ball at first. But I think we're going to be able to maintain our conservative values here in Arizona.
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, that means people probably want to move to Arizona. We're having quite a time up here in Colorado, Susan Harris, and you lived here for many years. So I know you do watch Colorado.
SPEAKER 12 :
I do, and my son still lives there and works there, and it's very disheartening to see what's happened to Colorado. It's one of the big reasons we moved away. We saw it happening. We felt it happening. We actually, quite frankly, didn't feel that we could speak freely in our own neighborhood. So it was time to leave and find a place where we could express our values independently, And feel freedom again. And that was back during COVID. And boy, when we got to Arizona, the atmosphere was so different that we realized this was the place for us, at least for right now. But we do care deeply about Colorado.
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, and I think that's one of the reasons, and we really appreciate it that you sponsor the show, is because we're engaged in this. It's really an epic battle of ideas that's occurring in our country right now. Susan Harris.
SPEAKER 12 :
It really is. And it's across the nation, especially in the large cities. And, you know, we're seeing that on so many levels. New York City, you know, shockingly is probably going to have a mayor that's Only been in our country for seven years, I believe, and he's a Muslim and he's a socialist slash communist. I'm not sure what the difference between those are, but it's just shocking to me that the citizenry of New York City, this is their choice. Well, and...
SPEAKER 19 :
And what they used, though, was this ranked choice voting system, which basically it means that a computer starts to redistribute votes until they get to somebody that's gotten over 50 percent of the votes. And that was on the ballot here in Colorado, this last election cycle. Kent Theory, very wealthy guy. put lots of money into it. In fact, I think there was about $14 million that came in to try to get the people of Colorado to vote for that. We came out as a strong voice against it, and also with the voter's guide. Amazingly, the people of Colorado defeated that, but it will be back. Something, some iteration will be back. But this is a way that ultimately, I think it takes away the voices of the people, Susan Harris.
SPEAKER 12 :
I agree. That's been debated here in Arizona very vehemently, and we're continuing to fight that battle as well. So a lot of money is being poured into all these campaigns to try to get that voting put into place because they know it will accomplish control, which is what they want, and take away the voice of the people. So it's very disturbing, and we continue to fight that battle here as well. One thing I will say, it's been an amazing week internationally. I'm just so pleased with the foreign policy that's been happening across the world with President Trump's leadership. And just as you have been on the air this morning, they held a news conference with Pete Hegseth and the generals that were in charge of the Iranian bombing. And they went over in detail the results of that bombing. And I guess I wasn't aware of this, but for 15 years, our military has been studying that Fordow site. and developing the exact weapons that they used to attack that facility. And it was, you know, I'm just so grateful that this information has now gotten out to the public and that it's been made clear that that attack was very successful, very targeted. It's like threading a needle in this type of military warfare, and it was very successful. So that was very encouraging that that information is now out in the public and that our military is on it. You know, they've been working on these issues behind the scenes covertly for many, many years in case we ever needed these types of weapons. And we had them at the ready. So I just... I just am very encouraged on that level and the incredible leadership that the United States is now guiding really the global stage with and getting all the NATO countries to agree to spend more money and to come to the table and support not just what we do around the world, but their own values, put their money where their mouths are, and not just rely on us for everything.
SPEAKER 19 :
Can you imagine the pressure on President Trump with all these different issues? And a couple of days after this attack upon these nuclear facilities in Iran, there were the mainstream media was saying, oh, the mission was not accomplished. They didn't knock everything out. Again, I questioned that reporting. It's like, how did they know as they're coming out with those reports? And so I think you bring up a really, really important point, Susan Harris.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, I don't think they do know. And, you know, I think it's been made clear now that whole mission was amazingly accomplished with no leaks. I mean, no one knew what they were doing.
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, he didn't tell the Democrats. That's why.
SPEAKER 12 :
That's exactly right. That's exactly right. I mean, it's so obvious. And they're all angry that they weren't told. And now it's like, well, yeah, because you don't maintain your integrity through the process. So you can't be told. You can't be trusted with international secrets. And I just think it's, I find it very fascinating the way he handled it and the way he is handling it with such, I hate to say it, but grace, because you would, you know, a typical person under the pressure that he's under would probably be way more emotional. And he is just, stands so strong in his convictions for our country. And I just find it fascinating.
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, we are in remarkable times, and it's a great journey that we're on right now. When I say on the show, Susan Harris, that we're made for this moment, I'm serious. I really think that we're in the third founding of our country, and I really appreciate you and your sponsorship of the show. Thank you, because it's of you and our other sponsors that our independent voice is out there.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, it's our pleasure to do it, Kim. And we just want to support you 100% with everything that you do to get the word out of what is actually going on. People do not, they don't have time to do the research and reporting and gain an understanding that you give with your reporting on what is going on at the local level. And that is where the real battles are fought. It's at the local level. And so we just greatly appreciate everything that you do.
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, Susan Harris, I wish you and your family a very happy Independence Day and a happy Independence Week. Thank you so much, Kim. Thank you. And our quote for the end of the show is J.R.R. Tolkien. He said, only a small part is played in great deeds by any hero. So 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.
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In this episode, Angie Austin sits down with Grace Fox to discuss the spiritual journey of finding joy in God's precious words. Through their engaging conversation, they explore the role of daily devotionals and how establishing fervent spiritual habits can transform lives. Grace shares personal anecdotes of adventures and reflects on the universal lessons that come from embracing the path God has set for us.
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SPEAKER 01 :
Welcome to The Good News with Angie Austin. Now, with The Good News, here's Angie.
SPEAKER 07 :
Hey there, Angie Austin here along with Scott Montgomery. He is the author of How Did You Get Here? Lessons of Unconventional Success. We've done several interviews and we're kind of breaking down, you know, how to reach that level of success through the chapters of his book. And today we are on the chapter titled Habits. Welcome back, Scott. Thank you, Angie. Good to talk to you. So give us kind of, yes, yes. Kind of just give us a brief, you know, if you had to give a, you know, a 30 second, one minute elevator speech about what your book's about for people who've missed you in the past, just kind of give us a little overview and then we'll get into habits.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, absolutely. Well, you know, I wrote this book as a way to kind of pay it forward for the next generation of business folks and folks that are driving success in sort of a different way than, you just conventional, get a degree, get a job, and call yourself successful. What I did is I tried to break down relationships and partnerships, how I communicate, my habits, my goals, and sort of correlate for my reader my experience with those topics and how they can then hopefully parlay their experience into those topics and drive and find their own happiness and success. I love it. It emerged in 2019 during COVID, and right after my brother had passed, So I wanted to kind of keep a legacy piece on the bookshelf for my family after I passed. There's a lot of reasons for this book.
SPEAKER 07 :
And I think an interesting side note that I found in us becoming radio friends is that we've got – like our kids are – you've got three kids. Our kids are like basically the same age. They're getting their driver's licenses. They're finishing up high school. They're in high school. And so – It's been kind of fun to go over all of that with you. We've done partnerships and relationships. And you talked a lot about people that you've worked with in the past who were like tens, who were shiny stars that you then hired in your own company. And then your relationship with your wife is so important and how she is a big help within your company. And I wouldn't doubt at some point maybe you even have a couple of kids working in there too. But we'll see about that. They're a little young. But you said you had a funny story for me before we get into habits.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, I did. And speaking of my wife and relationships, one of the stories that I tell in partnerships, the chapter mostly about my wife is when we were meeting with Zach Nicholas and his wife, Barbara, at a closed happy hour, we were talking to them about the trials and tribunes of being in relationship and also running a business together. And we had a really nice conversation around it. And it was there that my wife sort of indicated she felt like she was maybe more a string to my kite than she really wanted to be. And so we Sort of had an evolution in our relationship. It was back in 2017. Well, it turns out I'm going to be at this same happy hour again this month meeting with Jack and Barbara. And, you know, I call him Jack, Mr. Nicholas. And I'm going to bring my book and hopefully tell him all the good that has come of the story that I share about having met him the first time.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, I love it.
SPEAKER 04 :
I'm looking forward to it.
SPEAKER 07 :
That's so funny you mention that because yesterday Jim Stovall, one of my favorite authors, he's written like 60 books. He joins me once a week. He also was talking about Jack, and he's interviewed so many cool people over the years. I don't think he's – those are the two times he's been brought up in the last two days. So I love a good inspirational story.
SPEAKER 04 :
All right. Yeah, it'll be nice to close the loop with him. Yes. I think it'll go right into habits, and we'll talk about that for sure.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, and then tell, you know, after you meet with him, give us kind of the update of your meeting per se.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, I want him to sign my book. I want to give him a copy, and then I want him to sign my copy. So, yeah, I hope I get both of those. We'll see if that comes to fruition.
SPEAKER 07 :
Awesome. Awesome. All right. How did you get here? Chapter three, habits. So how is this going to help us reach success?
SPEAKER 04 :
So you know what I found in habits that I sort of learned at an early age is that habits sort of drive behaviors. And when I was in high school, I had bad habits. I was smoking cigarettes. I was eating unhealthy food. There was no routine to when I got up in the morning or when I went to bed at night. There was no real structure in how I was living my day-to-day. And my grades reflected on it. My attention at school and all that stuff sort of didn't go well until about 11th or 12th grade when I realized, hey, wait a minute, why don't I get rid of these bad habits and incorporate good ones? Go to the gym, eat healthy, plan my meals. And as soon as I did that, I started to realize my grades were improving, my outlook and outcomes were improving, my relationships were improving, my attitude and tone and tenor were improving. And I thought I'd talk about it in my book because I think people don't realize they get lost in their own habits. And And if they're not good ones, they can really pull you down.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes, and just a few bad habits can pull you down. Let's talk about that because, you know, since my kids are the same age yours are, I find that their habits sometimes really need to be, like, reminded out of them. I think my son's kind of past that stage where he, you know, gets up for work. You know, he's always on time. He runs his own business. He schedules things. He keeps his own appointments. And so and he just graduated. So from high school. So that that's cool. But the girls and they're not going to like this, but, you know, you know, food. Oh, you're leaving for practice. Did you pack anything healthy? Did you get enough sleep for your tournament? Did you stay up until three or four a.m. for a tournament when your parents are dropping huge amounts of money on you playing and trying to get you into college? Are you returning the emails from the coaches that are asking if they can do phone calls with you? Are you scheduling those phone calls when they ask for them? Are you studying for an exam that's coming up? Or do you, as my daughter put it once at the end of the school year, I said, are you sure you're prepared for this exam? She goes, oh, I have my ways. And so now it's become a family joke because we're retaking that class this summer. And so she's doing a grade recovery course where she's taking a college course to replace it. And she's got an A right now, but guess who's right alongside her reminding her every day to study. So we always say when the kids are like, I got to handle it. And I look at my husband, I go, she's got her ways.
SPEAKER 04 :
You know, and that's funny. We talk, it's so funny because when we talk about kids, I was lucky enough to realize that the 10th, 11th, 12th grade is when these fundamentals sort of start to get embedded. And they really do make a difference.
SPEAKER 07 :
And you did it yourself? That was all you?
SPEAKER 04 :
I did it myself, and I really will say I did it myself because I realized quickly. So cigarettes was a really bad habit for me in high school. And the minute I stopped and I replaced it with running, I felt better. So there was a really quick turn for me on, wait, if I put structure in things. There's maturity. There's examples. But there really is, if you put some structure on things, they will go smoother and more productively. They will yield you more happiness. which will ultimately drive that word success. And I think that's where I learned it early, and that's what I do now. So I still try and live in the patterns of, to your point, I have a daughter. Hey, did you make your bed? Did you clean up your room? Did you even just rinse out the sink or brush your teeth before you got up this morning and left the house?
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, my gosh. The teeth. I mean, the teeth. I mean, that's why. Because they'll be walking out, and I'm like, did you remember to brush your teeth? Oh. Oh. Yes.
SPEAKER 04 :
You're 16 now, so let's go ahead and brush our teeth and let's march right back upstairs. Oh my gosh. But I think I'm hoping that the rigor of that and those habits will drive her and my other children to more successful goals, objectives, and happiness overall. No one wants to sit in the dentist chair and get their teeth drilled.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, my goodness. Oh, okay. All right. So you started those habits when you were in high school on your own, which is so awesome. My son's been going to the gym like on his own because we do family gym night with everyone, but he kind of now does it on his own and goes later with his friends to a gym. a different gym than we go to, which I get it when you're just going into college. You don't really want to work out with mommy and daddy and your little sisters. So he's on that road. So let's talk about these habits for success for, you know, once you pass the high school years.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes, yes. So, you know, I think it's important that those patterns come into play. You know, habits are generally important. For example, this call. I'm prepared. I'm ready. I'm sitting down ready for this call 10 minutes in advance. That's a habit that will yield me more focus, more attention, and hopefully more productivity in our time together. So when you're in business and you're emerging into business, showing up late, kind of having those loose edges, not doing things on sort of a consistent basis will definitely drive perception, and that will eliminate opportunity. So When we start to get into my book further, we'll realize that because I had good habits, I then forged good relationships with people who would help me move into higher-ranked roles. So it's not always about the skill I bring and the work I do. It's the perception I bring forward that I'm in meetings 10 minutes before they start, always and forever. It's a habit. And it shows interest. It shows intent. And for those who are joining me, it shows respect. And they're now interested in driving or helping my successes. which ultimately helps theirs as well. Back to hiring those folks that I work with because they know the style of habit that I have in the structure we work in at Worldgate every day.
SPEAKER 07 :
You know, I was thinking about that too, just that when people come in, that it is really a show of respect as well, in addition to helping you be prepped and, you know, to put on a good presentation or to present good information and be organized. But it just shows the people, like, you know, I really respect your time, you know, and I'm not running, you know, by the seat of my pants, per se, to get into it.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, what else? Well, I think, you know, from those habits perspective, that's good. And, you know, there was one I was just trying to recall here about You know, one of the other lessons that I learned in habits wasn't around cigarettes or time management. It was also around finances. I found myself in a real money crunch in my senior year of high school. I was $40,000 in debt. I was driving the tiny new yellow Honda Prelude. I had all the leather jackets and I was to be seen when I showed up anywhere I was with things I couldn't afford. So what I learned real quick, well, things that I learned real quick in that was hey, maybe the habit of balancing your checkbook, maybe the habit of living inside a budget, maybe the habit of sort of not spending what you didn't earn yet. Don't use the credit card unless it's a way for you to bridge a gap or get points. And so I learned through the negative a lot in high school era that if you can switch it to what we started to talk about a minute ago, habits are all around us in everything we do. And I think if we can switch create that rigor and what i want to try and talk about in my book is creating that rigor and using these examples because then they reflect on what goals i can set for myself next chapter they talk about what relationships i have prior chapter how my partnership is instead every day how i communicate chapter six mentors and and uh coaches that engage with me that actually find me um competent because i show up 10 minutes early for example you know And so I think there's a real golden thread through this particular chapter with all the others in the book that I really want to drive home to the next generation. And the next generation is in high school. It's those who are wondering what they can do to make themselves more successful slash happy with what they're doing.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, and it's interesting how that financial piece can so adversely affect, you know, your success in every aspect of your life to be, you know, 40 grand in debt, you know, leaving high school. Right. That self-control, how difficult it is to go, wait a second, especially when, keeping up with the Joneses, my nephew lives in Los Angeles and his clothes are a little bit rough around the edges, shall we say, because he's just kind of given up on trying to compete with the Joneses. He was talking to one of my girlfriends about dating in LA and how he doesn't really fit the mold and Then somebody drove with him or met him at his mom's place right outside of Beverly Hills in Century City. And they said, oh, well, I thought you were poor. Oh, wow. You know, just because, you know, people just go by. I mean, how do you just go buy a car and clothes? To me, that's not indicative of wealth at all. But in some circles, that really is. And in some circles, that to me is indicative of debt. And I'm trying to teach the kids that, too. Like, I know you see so-and-so, the neighbor driving, you know, that car. But we know for a fact, you know, that their finances are strained or this, that, and the other. Because maybe I know the mom or this, that, and the other, you know. All right, so tell people where to get your book. How did you get here?
SPEAKER 04 :
So you can buy it on Amazon. We can get it at Target. You can get it at Barnes & Noble. It's How Did You Get Here? Lessons on Professional Success. There's also a website, howdidyougethere.com.
SPEAKER 07 :
Excellent. Thank you, Scott. Thank you.
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Hello there, friend. Angie Austin and Grace Fox with the good news. We're talking about her book Fresh Hope for today, Devotions for Joy on the Journey. And today we are focusing on precious words. Hello there, Grace.
SPEAKER 05 :
Hi, Angie. It's good to be on your show again.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes. So we both got in late last night, huh? You got in from helping out with the grandkids, and I got in from helping out my son at a big convention. So we're a little bleary-eyed. So let's focus on these precious words to bring some joy to our journey.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right. Yeah, this one is really written about... god's words being the precious words and i love what the prophet jeremiah wrote he said when your words came i ate them they were my joy and my heart's delight for i bear your name lord god almighty and i thought you know as christ followers do we regard the word of god with joy and delight or do we sometimes treat it like a something on our to-do list. Oh, got to do my devotions. Check. Done. Okay, done. Now I can go on to the next thing for the day. But do we really long for them and hunger after them and look forward to digging into them? That's a good question to ask ourselves.
SPEAKER 07 :
That is a good question because I think many of us do fall flat when it comes to pursuing the word in that manner.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, I remember reading years ago somewhere where Beth Moore had made that her prayer. She had said, God, would you give me an insatiable desire for your word? And he did that, and she's become such a wonderful Bible teacher. So I made that my prayer, too. And when my kids were still at home, I remember thinking, oh, I'm tired, and I'd love to sleep in in the morning, but well reality said i had to get up you know get some food on for them and then they had to catch a bus so we did have a schedule to keep and i found that if i waited until after my kids were gone to sit down and read the word it didn't work for me because i just got caught up in other things that i'd see around me that needed to be done and so i said to one day lord you just Wake me up at the time you want me to get up and meet with you to dig into your word today because I know I need it. And so, yeah. And I thought this is between me and the Lord. This isn't between my husband and the Lord and me. It's not a triangular thing. So if I'm going to wake up at a certain time. I don't think I need to have the alarm clock set when my husband's going to wake up, too. Let's just let him deal with that. He can get up when he needs to get up or wants to get up. And so I said, Lord, wake me up when you want me to wake up without an alarm. And the first morning, it was 5 a.m. I remember thinking, you're kidding, right? You've got to be kidding me. So I got up, dragged myself out. It took me 15 or 20 minutes to do that that morning. And then the next morning, I said, okay, Lord, let's see. or that night, you know, looking forward to the next morning, I said, let's do this again. Wait, did he let you sleep in? Did he let you sleep in? No, it was five o'clock and it was that every single morning. And like, I would wake up to sing my eyes wide open. One time the cat came in and sat beside my side of the bed and meowed at like four 58. And it was, that's the way it was. And so I got the message. And you know, it takes several weeks to develop a habit. And I just did it because I said, I prayed it. I asked him to wake me up when he wanted to meet with me in the living room. And I did it. And you know what? It was beautiful. It got to be, it wasn't a hardship at all. It was, he's waiting for me and I don't want to disappoint. I don't want to disappoint him.
SPEAKER 07 :
And so what did you do when you got up? Like, what did you read? What did you, do you have certain devotionals you like? Like, how does that work for you?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, one thing that I started doing right out of the gate when I got into that regular habit was I got myself a Bible in an easy-to-understand translation. And for me, the New Living translation is a favorite because it's in modern-day English. We actually use that overseas, too, when we're doing camps and studying the Bible with people whose first language is not English, just because it is so easy to understand. So that's one that I use. But I bought myself a Bible that reads through the Bible in a year. And I got a Bible that's got big margins in it as well. So I can write notes. It's got lines for me to write on. And so I read a little bit of the Old Testament and the New Testament, the Psalms and the Proverbs. And it's all written out for me. It's got, you know, here's day one. This is a chunk you read from each one. Here's day two. Here's a chunk you read. And I was amazed to see how I could see the thread of the gospel and the thread of Jesus woven throughout that day's assigned reading from New Testament to Old Testament and the Psalms. It was amazing to me. So I started that habit many years ago because my kids are grown and gone and they have kids of their own. I'm still doing it using the read through the Bible in a year method. It really works for me.
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You know, I love that. And I have different friends who have different routines. For me, writing things down helps. So if I am praying, then journaling helps me to keep my thoughts more clear. And then I do feel like I write things in terminology or in a way that doesn't seem like it's all me. It feels like I'm definitely being led to think or say or write certain things that might help me. So that's kind of cool. I also, if you don't mind, I did, you know, of course, when I was flipping through to get to our devotion today about the precious words, I did actually flip to the next page. And if you don't mind, I love this story. It's called The Right Path. Because I think you've had some really cool adventures in your life, like living in Nepal and everything. You were in Poland in the last year or two since we've been talking, and you were meeting with people who were helping people in the Ukraine and running a ministry and your own ministry where you were going to build up some of your people who might be exhausted from trying to help others. And in this particular one, it's called The Right Path. It says that you guys, your husband, you call him Sailor Man because you guys live on your sailboat. But anyway, you're biking through Germany into Austria, which I have to be honest with you, not a lot of people have done some of the things you've done. I don't know if you realize that. Like, you're a grandma and you go take care of the grandkids, but I don't know if you realize, like, there are little chapters in your life that not many people have done the things you've done.
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Yeah, I have to stop and remember that sometimes because I kind of get out there and I live my life and I do what the next step leads me to do. And I do forget that my life's maybe a little bit extraordinary in that way. This one was some friends of ours had done several trips riding their bikes through Europe and they kept on it. You guys got to do this. And so one summer it worked out and we drove all week. We left on a Sunday, I think, we had a hotel in Germany and then on Monday morning we left on our bikes. I'd never done anything like this. Didn't even know I had it in me to do it. But we biked every single day, sometimes through pouring rainstorms and blistering heat where we stopped for lunch and all of us were just so sweaty and hot. We couldn't even eat. We had ice cream for lunch because we didn't feel like eating anything else. But this was, yeah, we drove into a little village and We had hotel reservations, but we looked at a fork in the road, and we looked at a map. We didn't know where we were, and we could not figure out where this hotel was. So this guy on a motorcycle drove by, and he saw us studying this map of the towns, And then he motioned for us to follow him when we chatted with him a little bit, told him where we were going. He didn't speak English, we didn't speak his language, but we were pointing and trying to, you know, the actions. And he just motioned for us to follow him. So he puttered along on his bike and we pedaled behind him and he led us to the hotel. And I thought, you know, that's like God's word. As we were talking a moment ago about precious words, God directs us on how we should live in his word. Now, if we had looked at this guy and said, We don't want to follow you. What do you mean, follow you? We don't trust you. That would have been nonsensical. The guy was a local. He knew where to go, and he was being kind. He cared for us. And God, with his word, he's showing us where to go. He knows what's best for us. He cares for us. And if we say, these words, you want us to follow them? Are you kidding? Nah, nah. That would be nonsensical. But the word of God is written for our well-being, and he knows best for us. He leads us on the path we should go and we need to follow. Those words are precious. And he cares, just like this guy in Germany cared for our well-being.
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I love it that, you know, you couldn't communicate. You're pointing. You're trying to show him, like, the hotel. And he just waves, you know, follow me and goes super slow on his motorcycle to show you where to go. And you can't even really communicate to say, I mean, obviously, there's the universal communication of a smile and a wave, you know, thank you, you know, for taking us here, per se. But I love the idea that you just followed him with blind trust. And I think it is a good example of how we're supposed to follow Jesus. And I like it in your ponder and pray section. He said, ponder, how has following God's path brought a blessing to your life, your way? And then pray, God grant me the desire to follow you with enthusiasm on the path you know is best. I mean, To be honest with you, I think even taking that trip, it sounds great and glorious until you describe it as pounding rain and searing heat. So I am curious, overall, what was your experience and how long were you riding and how far did you ride?
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Yeah, so we started pedaling on Monday morning and we arrived in Vienna late Saturday afternoon. I remember getting into the hotel where we stayed for... flopping down on my back on the bed and thinking, I don't think I can ever move again. My bottom was so sore from riding on that seat. But it was great because we didn't even do a hard ride. We rode along the river. We saw cruise ships going by. But because we were along a river, it's mostly flat. There were a few places where we did have to deviate from the river and go inland more, and then we had a few hills and ups and downs. But we drove through vineyards where fruit was growing on the trees. Oh, you know, little fruit stands where the honesty system was there. So a little jar for your money and you could take a basket of freshly picked fruit. Driving through villages where you'd see the flower baskets hanging on people's windowsills, overflowing with blossoms. It was just the most incredible trip. I would do it again, but I would have to get into better shape before I did it again.
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Oh, my goodness. I love these adventures because it takes so much to get to that adventure, right? Just your tickets, the bike, the rentals, all of the little details. You know, when we take vacations with the kids, they just jump in the car and get on their phones. And I'm like, well, somebody going to navigate me? And, you know, we're going to do this, that, the other. Like my son yesterday, we got in really late because I helped him with a convention all weekend in Houston. And he wanted to fall asleep in the car. And I'm like, there's a lot left to do here, pal. You know, we've got like four hours till we even have to get to the airport for the really late night flight. So what are we going to see? What are we going to do? Where are we going to go? You know, help me with the navigation. We need to get gas. We need to repack the suitcases. Like you're not a kid anymore. You don't just plop in the back of the van and get on your phone. But these kids, they think that just these vacations just are like, I use a magic wand and I'm like Tinkerbell and I go ting. And Like, here's your vacation. No, it's like the rental car and how to get there. Do we take a shuttle bus? How do we get direction? Do we take a toll road? Is there construction here? Is there a lot of traffic there? Which room are we going to stay in? Can we have pets? Can we not have pets? Do we have to smuggle our pet in a backpack?
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I mean, there's so many little things that you have to figure out. The food, you know, I pre-ordered it.
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We have to go to the curbside pickup. But, you know, just getting to a vacation like that, it's just such a... a hill to tackle just to get there and then the achievement of, you know, tackling the vacation itself. But boy, the memories, you can't beat those. I love your stories, Grace. Thank you so much. GraceFox.com and the book is Fresh Hope for Today, Devotions for Joy and the Journey. Thank you, friend.
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Join Rick Hughes as he explores the concept of 'dead works' from a biblical perspective, detailing how human good, when conducted outside the influence of the Holy Spirit, stands in contrast to divine good. Rick provides listeners with a unique opportunity to understand the ongoing importance of spiritual growth and rewards, and the necessity of aligning one's actions with God's protocol plan. With practical guidance and scriptural backing, this episode is an invitation to deepen your faith through informed, intentional living.
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Welcome to The Flatline with your host, Rick Hughes. For the next 30 minutes, you'll be inspired, motivated, educated, but never manipulated. Now, your host, Rick Hughes.
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Good morning and welcome to The Flotline. I'm your host, Rick Hughes, and for the next few minutes, we always would ask you to stick around. Stick around for just about 27, 28 minutes of information, motivation, some education, all designed to help you understand and hopefully verify God's plan and God's will for your life. If you can do that, then obviously you have the freedom and the choice to orient and adjust to the plan if you'd like. But remember the things that I always tell you, God gave you two ends, one of those ends you sit on and one of them you think with. And success in life depends on what you think. Heads you're gonna win, tails you're gonna lose. This show is about giving you information to think. Thinking is the most important thing in your life. You make decisions based on what you think, not based on what you feel. And arrogant people always make decisions based on what they feel. They react to pressure. Where people with humility make decisions based on what they think, where they respond to pressure. And so it's important that we learn to think properly. That's why the Bible says, let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus. That's why the Bible says, stop thinking of yourself in terms of arrogance beyond what you should think, Romans 12, 3. So it's always about what you think. You are what you think, the Bible says, as a man thinketh in his heart. So he is now today on this flatline show, 778, that's 778 Sundays that I've been with you across this great nation, 778 Sundays. You know, we always make these shows available under a podcast routine, such as Spotify, Apple, iPod breaker, uh, anchor some of the various podcast venues and we also have them printed printed transcripts for you if you'd like to have them we also have printed up all of our shows from 2019 they're all available in three different volumes if you'd like to have any of our printed material just go to the website rickhughesministries.org rickhughesministries.org and request it and we will send it free of charge to you ASAP. Just as soon as we get your order in, we'll send it out. We send out hundreds of orders every month to people all across this country, from Australia to America. And I hope that you're one of the ones that makes use of this available opportunity. So today I want to talk to you about something that's little known. Very few people know about this, but it's very critical in your life. You know, as we talk about those 10 problem-solving devices, the FLOT line is made up of. FLOT, F-L-O-T, that's the name of the show, Forward Line of Troops. That's the military acronym for learning those 10 unique problem-solving devices. And when we learn those 10 unique problem-solving devices and function under them, then we're beginning to live the protocol plan of God for our life. God has protocol just like anyone else, and the right thing has to be done in the right way. And those 10 problem-solving devices, by the way, we have it in a bookmark. If you'd like to stick it in your Bible, just write to us and tell us you'd like to get the problem-solving device bookmarked. It's a very nice bookmark and fit in. Write in your Bible the marked pages that you want to say. But number one is rebound. That's confession of sin. Number two is the filling of the Holy Spirit. That's doing what Ephesians 5.18 says to be filled with the Spirit. Number three is the faithless drill. Number four is grace orientation, living grace, dying grace, surpassing grace. saving grace, and then there's doctrinal orientation. That's orienting to the word of God. These first five give you a personal sense of destiny, motivated by your personal love for God. Problem solving device number seven. your impersonal love for all of mankind, problem-solving device number eight, your happiness sharing the happiness of God, problem-solving device number nine, and then occupation with Christ, problem-solving device number 10. All these are available. We've gone over them, and we perhaps need to go over them again, but if you need a book on them, we have a book called Christian Problem-Solving that lists all 10 of these for you, and we'll be more than happy to make them available. I've gotten a lot of letters recently, email letters from people that have asked, where is a good local church? How can I begin to study? And when we talk about getting under a well-qualified pastor and learning, God's plan and moving all the way to spiritual maturity. Sometimes I don't know pastors in your areas, but I can refer you to people that I know that are genuinely wonderful pastors who teach God's word and distribute it freely without charge, without obligation, without putting you on any mailing list. but you can tap into their messages hour long. Usually each one is usually an hour long and you can take your Bible and your notebook and sit at your kitchen table or your desk and a cup of coffee and study until God shows you where he wants you to be. This is exactly what I do every day. Listen to my pastor who's in Texas. Teach me who's in Alabama, the word of God. Now, what I'm going to teach you today is something I learned from my pastor many years ago. And it's about something called human good. Human good. Have you ever heard that term before, human good? Let me explain human good to you. It's really basically the Bible calls it dead works. In Hebrews 6.1, therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, the writer of Hebrews said, now let's go on unto perfection. In other words, let's get past salvation and Let's begin to grow up. And he says, not laying again, the foundation of repentance from dead works. That was the baptism of John and a faith towards God. So dead works, anything you can do to try to save yourself, anything you can do to try to impress God, apart from the filling of the Holy spirit, uh, What we have is two words, dead works or dead deeds, nekros ergon. Nekros ergon, the Greek words, nekros, dead, and ergon meaning works or deeds. So human good, as I call it, is simply dead works. Dead works. Let's run by this for a minute, okay? The author that wrote Hebrews, whoever it could have been, is urging these people that he's writing to to move on beyond the elementary teachings on Christ and to go on to spiritual maturity. Because, you know, point two, after salvation must come spiritual growth. And point three, reviewing the fundamentals of your salvation does not advance you spiritually. This is something we run into quite often when a lot of churches where they're The pastor is a great pastor. He's a people person. He loves everybody. He shepherds people and visits people and prays with people. But on Sunday morning, he doesn't do much expository preaching. He just goes back and gives the gospel again and the gospel again and the gospel again. Nobody grows up that way. Yes, you've heard the gospel. You understand the death, burial, and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. You understand redemption and reconciliation. Now it's time to move on, to learn more things, how the protocol and plan of God operates, and that's part of what we do here. We try to give you this information so you will see it and be encouraged to grow further in your Christian life. So these dead works he talked about here in Hebrews 6.1 refer to man's efforts to save his own soul. And you know what that's called? Organized religion. Organized religion tries to save itself. That's exactly what religion is. Organized religion is you thinking you're gonna go to heaven because you don't do certain sins or because you're a certain type of individual and nothing could be further from the truth. Human works saves nobody. Human works saves nobody. Human works are what we call dead works or what we call human good. The only thing that saves people is the gospel, and that's the foundation that we build on in our lives, the foundation of the gospel. Dead works, human good, dead works, all of this that we're talking about is described as unrewardable human effort for you and me. Human good will not provide salvation to start with. Listen as I read to you from the Bible in Titus 3, 5. Not by works of righteousness which we've done. Not by works of righteousness which we've done. There's the human good right there. but according to his mercy." He saved us by the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Spirit. Works of righteousness is you trying to impress God, you trying to save yourself by being a morally good person. There's nothing wrong with being a morally good person. You should be, but that's not salvation. That's not you having a personal relationship with God the Father through His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. So human good is not ever acceptable to God at any time. So where exactly does human good come from? Let's answer that question to start with. Where does human good come from? And the answer is this. Human good comes from the area of strength in the sin nature of man. Everyone has a sin nature. You and I both have a sin nature. Even people that are unbelievers can do good works, but it's not glorifying God. It's dead works, human good. Human good comes from the sin nature. And when a believer out of fellowship does good deeds, it's coming from the energy of the flesh, not from the filling of the Holy Spirit. Cain in the Bible first demonstrated this in Genesis 4 when he tried to offer to God something he manufactured from his own efforts, whereas his brother Abel offered a blood sacrifice portraying a picture of what was to eventually come, and that's the death, burial, and resurrection of our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. So there was human good. Many years ago, Cain got mad. God didn't accept his human good offering, but God accepted the offering of Abel. So Cain just up and murdered Abel out of jealousy. Human good for the believer in the church age is anything you do for God while you're out of fellowship with known sin in your life. So let's go back to rebound. If you don't rebound when you sin... Anything you do for God after that point is human good. In order for there to be divine good, you must be filled with the Holy Spirit. Only good deeds you do under the filling of the Holy Spirit are rewardable. Any good deeds you do while there's unconfessed sin in your life is human good and it's non-rewardable. All of this production is evaluated at the judgment seat of Christ in the Bible found in 1 Corinthians 3, 11 through 15. Here's what it says. For another foundation can no man lay than that which is laid, which is Christ Jesus. Now remember what we saw in Hebrews 6.1. Let us leave the principles of the doctrine of Christ and go on. That was the foundation. So the only foundation that you can have to go to heaven is the solid foundation of faith alone and Christ alone. No other foundation can a man lay than that which is laid, which is Christ Jesus. And then verse 12, if any man build upon this foundation, gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble. You'll notice there are two different types of things. Some things will perish such as sticks, hay, and wood. And some things won't perish like gold, silver, and diamonds, emeralds, rubies, whatever, precious stones. So what this verse is comparing is is your human good, any good you do while you're out of fellowship with unconfessed sin in your life is a piece of wood, hay, or stubble. For example, if you go to church on Sunday morning and you have a big argument with your wife and your kids before you leave the house, Are you getting mad driving to church about the way somebody cut you off in traffic and you don't confess your sin? Then when the offering plate goes by and you put in your 10%, whatever you put in, that is human good. You will not be rewarded for that. God cannot accept that. The church will accept it. They'll spend it and use it, but it won't go into your account with God. That's for sure. You understand? If you're singing in the choir, the same thing. If you have unconfessed sin in your life as recently even as that morning, you are producing human good. You're doing a right thing singing in the choir. You're doing a right thing coming to church, listening to the Word of God taught, but you're doing it in the wrong way. You're doing it in the energy of the flesh. It is not divine good. So the Bible goes on to say in 1 Corinthians 3, 12, every man's, 13, excuse me, every man's work shall be made manifest. In other words, it'll be revealed. The day shall declare it and it will be revealed by fire and the fire will test every man's work of what sort it is. So here we go, we have a big fire, and we put in all of me, here's Rick, and everything I've done, every radio show I've done, everything I've ever done for God, here it goes into the fire. And the things I did while I was out of fellowship with God, with unconfessed sin in my life, even though it looked right, sounded right, did it right, It evaporates. The things that I did while I was in fellowship with God, under control of the Holy Spirit, that's rewardable. That's the gold, silver, precious stones. So everything you've done for God in your entire life will be judged here. God knows whether you did it in the energy of the flesh, which is human good or dead works, and God knows whether you did it under the filling of the Holy Spirit, which is divine good. It shall be revealed by fire. The fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. It will reveal it. If any man's work abide, that's the gold, silver, and precious stones, which he hath built upon his foundation, that's verse 14, then he will receive a reward, but conjunction of contrast. If any man's work shall be burned up, he will suffer loss, but he himself shall be saved, yet so as by fire." yet so as by fire he himself will be saved. So here's a question. What if everything you did for God since the day you got saved, nobody ever taught you how to be filled with the Spirit, you did it all in the energy of the flesh, and you did good deeds, good things, you were a nice person, Are you still going to heaven? Yes. Yet he shall be saved as though by fire. You see, the foundation won't burn up. If you build a house and you lay down a concrete foundation and build on that foundation, the house may burn up, but the concrete foundation will be there. I've known people whose houses burned and they just took a bulldozer and pushed away the embers and the dead lumber and rebuilt on the same foundation. your faith alone in christ alone is your foundation that'll never be destroyed but the question is what are you building on the foundation are you building dead works are you building human good are you building wood hay straw stubble sticks or are you manufacturing gold silver precious stones Here's the principle. Nothing of the flesh ever pleases God. Nothing of the flesh ever pleases God. And two, fleshly activity, or i.e. human good, will be destroyed at the judgment seat of Christ. Three, the believer who never understands this, the believer who never learns what I'm teaching you today, will will wind up never glorifying God to the maximum since he's producing good from the sin nature's area of strength. He didn't do anything that a lost person couldn't do. A lost person has a sin nature. A lost person can give money. A lost person can help little old ladies across the street. A lost person can be polite to people. You're no better than him in the energy of the flesh. But if you are a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ and you're filled with the Spirit, even washing dishes will be rewardable. If you're a housewife and you're cooking dinner and you're washing dishes and taking care of your husband and your kids, that's rewardable. You're filled with the Holy Spirit. The believer who never understands this will wind up never glorifying God. Point four, divine good. That's the things that are done while you are filled with the Holy Spirit. Divine good is that which is manufactured under the filling of the Holy Spirit. And it is incorruptible. Whereas human good, just the opposite. Human good is produced from the area of strength of the sin nature. And it's always corruptible. So point five, Satan is the author of human good in religion. And when you start studying about that, the word that comes up is evil, evil, evil. Evil is the human good energy of religion. And it's Satan's lie trying to get you to think you're going to heaven because you're good. So good deeds and human good can be two different things. Good deeds, that's doing something productive for the community, helping in some way or another, a good deed, and human good are two different things. All the human good of the unbeliever, everything the unbeliever does for good is registered in the books of works in eternity. You can see it in Revelation 20, verses 11 through 15. Revelation 20, verses 11 through 15. And this is what's called the great white throne of judgment. Listen as I read it. And I saw a great white throne. Now you won't be there. This is for unbelievers. You've already been before the judgment seat of Christ. 1 Corinthians 3. You were there. This is not you. I saw a great white throne and him that sat on it from whose face the earth and the heavens fled away and there was no place found for them. And I saw the books, books, plural, that were opened, and then another book, singular, that was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, plural, according to their works, dead works, human good." And C gave up the dead that was in it. Death and hell delivered up the dead that were in them. And they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whoever was not found in the book, the Lamb's book of life, was cast into the lake of fire. How do you get in the book? Well, when you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, your name is saved. It's bracketed. See, your name is put in the Lamb's Book of Life when you're born. If you die without having accepted Christ as your Savior, your name is blotted out. Your name is not there anymore. You've died the first death. The second death is being thrown into the lake of fire. It called it the second death. This is the second death. but if you have accepted Christ as your Savior, then your name is not blotted out, and your name is indeed in the Lamb's Book of Life, but you're not here. This is not about you, so what this is is a double evaluation. The first one is his name in the Lamb's Book of Life, Joblo. No, it's not, so Joblo, why should we let you come to heaven? Well, look over there at all the good things I did. I mean, I tithed, and I never cheated on my wife. I never cheated on my income taxes. I served in the military. I always said yes sir, yes ma'am, and I was a good citizen. Dead works. Won't cut it. That's not going to get you into heaven. It's very honorable, it's very nice, but it is a good deed. It won't get you into heaven. It's not divine good. So if your name is not found in the Lamb's Book of Life, you're not gonna get in heaven. And here, all of these people that are here, remember where they came from. They were brought out of hell. They were brought, the sea gave up the dead that were in them and death and hell gave up the dead that were in them. And now they're being evaluated by the great white throne of judgment. And then once they see their works are not good enough, there's a verse that said, many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, did I not do this? Did I not do that? And he said, I will tell them I never knew you. Yes, you did good deeds, dead works, but I never knew you. Human good, this sort of dead works is recognized as filthy rags in the Bible. Isaiah 64, 6 says, all of our righteous deeds, and this may embarrass you. I don't know whether I should even say it or not on the radio because it probably will embarrass you. But you know when a woman has her period each month, that's the kind of rag we're talking about. That's what's mentioned here in the Hebrew. All of our righteous deeds are like those kind of rags. The person in the cosmic system is like the person who's ceremonially unclean, like the woman who's ceremonially unclean. And the human good is like the time that she goes through. It's the discarded. It's not right. So it's totally unrighteous. So filthy rags is the best the euphemism could come up with here without going into the original Hebrew and embarrassing you and telling you what it really is. I hope you understand. All of our righteous deeds are like filthy rags. So the person in the cosmic system, the unbeliever, is like a woman who is ceremonially unclean with filthy rags. Totally unrighteous. So listen to the verse, the latter part of the verse. And all of us wither like a leaf, and our perversities are like the wind, and they blow away. So that's what human good is compared to, a filthy rag. So establishment good, that's open to both believers and unbelievers, you know. Establishment good, what is that? It refers to fulfilling the laws of establishment that are rewardable in time only, such as marriage. That's a thing God created for all members of the human race. And a person who finds a spouse and gets married has a good thing. And it is a good thing. It's an establishment good. And that may be the only happiness they have in life unless they married the wrong person. So divine good is not establishment good. Divine good is not human good. Divine good is legitimate good. It's a legitimate system of works in the protocol plan of God. The protocol plan of God mandates the production of divine good in my life and in your life as well. So the good of mankind is relative, but the good of God is absolute. So if I'm filled with the Holy Spirit, and you're filled with the Holy Spirit, anything we do, like me doing this radio show right now, if I did it out of the filling of the Spirit with known sin in my life, you wouldn't know the difference, but God does, and it would be human good. But since I'm sitting here talking to you, filled with the Holy Spirit, I'm producing divine good. It's absolute. And divine good lasts forever, while human good may last only a day, a month, a year, even less. Divine good is absolute. Divine good is eternal. Human good is relative and temporal. And remember, human good can be performed in the energy of the flesh since human good is both the function of the believer or the unbeliever. And it is related often to the laws of establishment. The believer's production of divine good is rewardable both in time and eternity. And the believer's production in the status of carnality or Christian degeneracy is classified as dead works. So if you're a Christian, you're out of fellowship, you give money to your church, you go on a mission trip, you sing in the choir, whatever you do, it's dead works. It's not rewardable because you didn't do anything the unbeliever couldn't do. You did it in the energy of your flesh. I hope you understand what human good is. Human good is dead works. It's the energy of the flesh. It's no good. It doesn't honor God. You must be filled with the Holy Spirit and produce divine good, which is rewardable according to 1 Corinthians 3, 11-16. All right, that's it. This is your host, Rick Hughes, thanking you for listening. I hope you've learned something. Write if you've got a question. Until next week, same time, same place. Thank you for listening.
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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 this engaging episode, Angie Austin shines the spotlight on Chef Jamie Gwynn for some delectable 4th of July hosting tips. Discover patriotic decorations and delicious recipes that promise to make your celebrations memorable. The conversation seamlessly shifts to wildlife conservation as Angie discusses innovative projects like wildlife bridges in California and England that are saving species and connecting habitats.
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Welcome to The Good News with Angie Austin. Now, with The Good News, here's Angie.
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Hey there, friend. It is Angie Austin and Jim Stovall with the good news. Hey, Jim.
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Hey, it is always good to be with you.
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Always good. Well, we're talking about your winner's wisdom column, the one opinion that matters. And I just wanted to tell you that I'm not going to be quite in your neck of the woods, but I have four trips this month for college visits and tournaments. We have two tournaments in Florida, which could they have picked a better month than July, you know, to be in Florida, right?
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Yeah.
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We have to go to Kansas for colleges and Portland, Oregon for ThriftCon. Oh, Cincinnati for a basketball tournament. So I just looked at all the dates and I realized my husband had slightly overlapped them. And normally I do all of the travel. That's my job under my marriage job description. But I wrote to him and I said, you overlap. And he's like, oh, well, one of us, you'll just have to go to Cincinnati for the basketball tournament. alone i said no we're going to rearrange things like we have to share the pain i mean the delight yeah it was in your wedding vows to have them to hold and share the travel vein yes travel yes to share the travel to tournaments in cincinnati not actually in cincinnati but like in a small town outside of cincinnati you know what these small towns have done now jim uh this is new since you were an athlete and you probably know about it but So they'll take a small town and they'll put in a whole bunch of these giant venues for basketball. So you can change it over to basketball and volleyball and probably even lay down a floor for hockey. I don't know. But they then can bring in all kinds of people. They sell out all the hotels in town and the neighboring cities. And then these little towns make all this money off of these tournaments. And it's just like a. metal building, you know, like you would build on a farm for like chickens or cows, you know, and then they insulate it. It's cheap construction, relatively speaking. And then it's an economy for these little towns.
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Oh, I think it's amazing. I've always fascinated that up in the Dakotas, in the middle of winter, there are all these high profile basketball tournaments, college and high school basketball tournaments. and you wonder why they go there in the middle of the winter to the Dakotas. Well, they built these amazing facilities, and everybody can play there, and it just, you know, the communities attracted people, and... And the big thing is in the middle of the winter in the Dakotas, you can get a crowd for a basketball game because what else are you going to do? So it's really pretty amazing.
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Yeah, I think it's genius. And the other thing they do is they force you to stay at their hotels, right? Like I can't rent a house or I'm not supposed to stay with a friend per se. You're supposed to because you're using taxpayer money. then they want you to stay at a hotel, and then the taxes get returned, and blah, blah, blah. So it's like a machine that they put you through to generate income for the town. But I do think it's pretty sharp.
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Yeah, just so you know, they invariably passed a bond issue with a hotel-motel tax that paid for that building that you're playing in. So as you're sleeping in their motel, just remember, You paid for the venue, too. So it's just a great thing.
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Okay, I figured it linked in like that. Okay, cool. That's good to know. All right, well, let's talk about the one opinion that matters your column this week.
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Well, one of the saddest things I see, Angie, is people who get all their self-esteem from other people. And they worry about what everybody thinks of them. Instead of the one opinion that matters, and it's what you really think about yourself. Until you can be still, be quiet, be alone, and be happy, you're really never going to have a wonderful life. Because, you know, your opinion of yourself, if it's swayed by everyone else or social media, you're never getting anywhere. You know, and we were all born like Miss America. We had one of those banners across us. instead of saying, Miss Colorado, it says, you know, your name, and then it's a clean banner. And then, you know, when we were young, the banner, you know, would say things like, I'm lovable, I'm capable, I'm able to do anything I want to do. And when we're little kids, we believe that. Then we start letting other people write on our banner. And they say, you're stupid, you don't know what you're doing, remember all the times you screwed up. And if you start believing them, these people become really, really valuable. And, you know, I Always think of the arena events where I go to make speeches. And, you know, if you have 14,000 salespeople or executives there, if I said, who wants to come up here on this stage and sing a song or draw a picture or do a dance, you would get very few, if any, people. But if I had an arena full of 14,000 third graders, everybody wants to come up there.
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Oh, you're so right.
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You know, they haven't had that scared out of them yet. And, you know, really the only opinion that matters is the one that we have of ourselves. And I remember reading a study, a profile about Warren Buffett, and this reporter stayed with him for 30 days to mirror what he did. And he picked her up in his car at the airport. And he has a three-year-old Lincoln. And she said, why does Warren Buffett, why do you, one of the wealthiest men in the world, drive a three-year-old car? He said, because I'm not willing to invest any time or money impressing you with my automobile. Hilarious. But very few people ever get to that point. We care about what people think. And, you know, we give them far too much power, and we give away all our strength when we worry about what everybody else thinks, and we forget what we think of ourselves.
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I love that. You know, I've heard things about him and I remember Sam Walton with the old truck. I joke that my husband's, his isn't Ford, it's Chevy, but it's a 2000. So it's 24 years old and he's one of the founders of the company and one of the other founders. I can't remember if he drives a Beamer or a Porsche Cayenne. And then the other one is a car collector. So he's always bringing fancy cars. And there's my husband pulling up in his 24-year-old Chevy truck, and he just loves it. Like today he could have taken my Tesla, the only new car in the family of the four that we have with all the teenagers. We've got all these 20-year-old cars. Anyway, he could have taken my Tesla, but no, he didn't even ask me. He took his 24-year-old Chevy to work, you know, and mine's just sitting there today. So it just cracks me up because it's just, I think too, Jim, does it come with success or with age? Like I cared more about what people thought of me when I was maybe in my 20s. And, you know, I grew up really poor, so it was embarrassing where I lived. I'd have people drop me off sometimes at a different like apartment complex because we lived in low-income housing. And I was so embarrassed because it all looked the same and everybody knew what it was and They were all cookie-cutter, low-income housing projects or whatever they were. So I'd have them drop me off down the street, and then I'd just kind of in the dark run to a different door and just wait until they pulled out of the parking lot and then walk to my house or my apartment. But I cared then, because maybe it was out of my control. It wasn't my fault, per se. I wasn't earning money yet, but I was embarrassed. So when does that go away? I think part of it was my faith, when I became confident in my faith, that I was complete through my faith, that... I didn't care as much and then getting older and then reaching some level of success because I did buy the oceanfront penthouse in Marina del Rey in California when I worked at NBC in LA and the convertible 911 Porsche. But then like now I couldn't care less really.
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Yeah, I mean, there's nothing wrong with the Porsche or the house on the beach if that's what you want. But if you're doing it to impress other people, you know, too often we're spending money we don't have. to buy stuff we don't want to impress people that don't care. You know, and, and even, even if they're impressed with your stuff, wait 10 minutes, there'll be somebody along with something more impressive than that. You know, and that's the different, uh, I'm writing a piece today that you and I will talk about probably in the fall. And the difference between character and charisma, character never goes away. Charisma is just the outer shell of whatever we are. And it, it comes and goes. And, uh, And character never goes away. So, you know, I think when we can get up in the morning and look ourselves in the mirror and be pleased with what is there, and when that becomes enough, I think we've really achieved wisdom and success.
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I love that. So for you, did you ever care? I mean, you had a pretty solid, nice family, and I'm sure you probably had the things you needed for school and things like that and could pay for your books and braces and things. So did you ever still feel as a teenager that these things were important for your identity or your self-esteem?
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You know, my parents made a good income. And we lived in a nice area of town. Unfortunately for me, we lived on the edge of the nice area of town and we were the poorest people in the rich area. So, you know, I'm driving the used car and the used this and all my friends have a, you know, brand new cars and they're, they're taking the, the spring break trip to all these exotic places and I'm working, you know, and I'm working, you know, and, uh, And, you know, and it's funny, Crystal and I are now members at a very, very elite country club in our town.
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And she plays tennis, right? So that's a big deal for her tennis, you know.
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And it's where they have the U.S. Open Golf Tournament. The PGA Championship was there two years ago. And, you know, when I grew up, all my friends were a member of that club. I never could go there. Well, now they're all broke and Crystal and I are members of the club. And, you know, and it just... You know, things that come to you that easily really don't matter to you. I mean, everything in life is identified in our mind in proportion to what did we have to give up to get it. You know, I mean, when I first started out as a kid, I used to, you know, mow a lawn for three bucks. I mean, three dollars to me was a lawn, and that is hard work. And, you know, so I came to appreciate that. And if somebody gives you the keys to a brand new car for no reason other than you turn 16, You know, you can't tell. Zig Ziglar used to say, I can go through any high school or college parking lot and tell who paid for their car based on the way they wash it and maintain it. You know, the people that paid for that car themselves, you're going to see a clean, well-maintained car. The people whose parents gave them the car, you're going to see a dirty, unmaintained vehicle sitting right there.
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Isn't that funny? I never even, but that is, that's a really good point. Yeah, I was just thinking about how my husband washed it yesterday because we let our son take the car. And, you know, he knows we track him, right, with a tracker. And so we can see each trip, you know, how many hard stops, how many fast takeoffs, how many times he used his phone, everything. Well, he went, I think, what was it my husband said, 93 or was it 94 times? And then one of the other kids, they narc on each other. Is that what they still call it? They tattle on each other. And so one of them told the other, because, you know, and then they have friends of friends that go, oh, look at this picture that so-and-so posted of your brother doing such and such. Look at this video of her. Or your brother told me he was racing someone in your mom's car. You know, and then they tell, of course, my daughter. And then my daughter tells my husband. And then my husband tells me. And then we look that day on the video camera because there's cameras all around the car. And all the video is erased.
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Yeah. Well, I used to have an old lawyer when I first started out. In fact, he's the basis for the lawyer in three of my movies, the Ultimate Gift Trilogy. But anyway, he said, as you go through your life in business or your personal life, just assume the truth is going to ultimately be known. Sooner or later, everybody's going to know what you did. And if you keep that in mind when you start out, you're just going to have a carefree, wonderful life. But if you assume you're going to do something that people aren't going to know about, you're going to have a disaster.
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It's funny because I said to one of them yesterday, why do they even try to hide things from us? Because we find everything out. I mean, I'd say within two weeks of something happening, that's the beauty, I guess, for me of social media is that then when I share it with other moms, like my kid will see something on my friend's kid's page. My kid will show me something. I'll say, send me a screenshot of that, and they'll send me the screenshot. And then I go tell the mom, but the mom doesn't know where it comes from. And then the mom says, oh, one of the swim team moms told me. mean that's like 400 parents right so you know it's like i said you could tell her one of the swim team moms because i like this kid right so i don't really want the kid like you know icing me out or my kids out right so i mean that's to me the beauty of social media is that you keep people on the up and up i mean i've seen things that my friends kids have done on social media that maybe i don't know them well enough to let them know and i'm kind of mortified And we've repeatedly told our kids, like, if we ever see anything like this, and because we monitor them so closely, nothing really slides through the cracks that gets on their social media. But it's a great way to find out, you know, what the kids are up to. Oh, Jim, we're out of time. JimStoval.com and this week's column, The One Opinion That Matters. Thank you, friend. That was fun. You're welcome.
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Georgetown is tuned to the mighty 670 KLT. Hey there, Angie Austin here with the good news. I love it when Chef Jamie Quinn joins us. Why? Well, she's very charming, but listen to this. I mean, I didn't even know all this. She's a former MasterChef judge, a Culinary Institute of America and Le Cordon Bleu graduate, a celebrity chef, a lifestyle expert, a nationally syndicated radio host, a certified sommelier, and a seven-time cookbook author, and I could go on and on, and a mom. Is that right, Jamie? Do I have all this right?
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You have it all. I'm most proud to be a mommy, and thank you for the lovely compliments.
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I just think you're charming. So that's why I love to talk to you and you have such great ideas. So we're talking about 4th of July and we're talking about really shining when it comes to our entertaining and adding that extra little touch. So do you want to start with that beyond the food itself in terms of like decor touches that can really elevate the party atmosphere? Because I have friends that can do it and I have friends that can definitely not. And I would probably veer a little more towards the not.
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OK, and I'd like to say I'm with you, Angie. I'm kind of right in between, but I have a new like secret arsenal now. OK, I love where you started because. I think we've all come to the point where there are phenomenal cooks out there and those that entertain in true style, and you kind of have to step up your game, right? Although you still want to enjoy the party. It's supposed to be a laid-back summer celebration. But as much as I love a star-spangled mix of food and drink, and I'd like to say my parties always have those, I do love a festive patriotic table setting or anything festive depending upon the holiday. So now I have a new addiction. My new favorite tool to get cookout ready for the 4th of July and every holiday beyond, by the way, is the Cricut Joy Extra. Do you have friends with a Cricut, Angie?
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I know about this. I actually suggested it to one of my girlfriends. So explain to us how it works because I send it to her for her blankets that she makes.
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Yes. You can make anything. So I have now personalized all of my grilling utensils. I made craft custom seasoning jars with my signature dry rub for the summer. And everybody's going on with a party favor. I customized my mason jars red, white, and blue. It was really easy. Cricut Joy Extra is a machine. It's the ultimate tool. It's not very big. It's just very powerful. And it turns every party into a DIY masterpiece. So you can cut 50-plus materials like vinyl and cardstock and iron-on. You can foil. You can make professional-looking stickers and full-color labels and cards and tags and aprons and T-shirts and oh my... So now everything is patriotic, all American, red, white, and blue. And I am like wonderfully addicted to my crickets.
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You know, this is going to sound crazy to you, but I'm actually thinking about getting one to send to my daughter's going to school outside of Nashville on a volleyball scholarship. So there's a big volleyball team and they all live together in the dorms. And I first she does really good eyelashes and nails. Right. I was trying to set up with a business. Yes, because they decorate their tennis shoes. I don't know if you've seen how these kids do that. there's sneakers and stuff. And I thought, you know, I could send her to school with this and she could kind of create her own little dorm business to make a little side hustle to make money during college for her friends.
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Absolutely. Absolutely brilliant. And I'll tell you, they'll all get involved. The ideas and the inspiration that come, you know, from everybody's, you know, adding their two cents to, oh, we should make this. That's really smart. Of course, if you're having a party, by the way, you need fabulous food, but the crickets, you know, definitely essential.
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Well, and one more thing I was going to say, they all decorate, like they all do like a team shirt or they do a team this. So they could each, usually they pay like a team mom, like five or 10 bucks to do whatever it is they're going to do. So I figured, well, she can do that. Okay. So now we're going to move on to food. So we've got the decorating covered and my, my, my daughter's new college business. And then what's next?
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Next is recipes that scream USA. Okay. So I make a patriotic sheet pan cheese board. Just imagine a flag with blueberries top left and you cut out stars of cheese or you have your kiddo do it like I did. And then stripes of red and white, everything delicious. I did raspberries. I did the round rice crackers. Then I did layers of cheese and mini marshmallows. If you have marshmallows, Marcona almonds. I mean, everything you can clean out your pantry and your fridge with because we have an excess of cheese in my house. And I've got this red, white, and blue beautiful cheese and charcuterie board. I use some salami folded in quarters, and they kind of fan out beautifully. But I'll tell you, it's a wonderful make-ahead. And I do it on a sheet pan and not a board because it maintains the chill. So store it in the fridge, and then when you put it out, I really do think it keeps colder longer, which is important during those warmer months.
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Now, a sheet pan, is it like a cookie sheet?
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Yes, exactly, a cookie sheet. And you could do, like, a half size, or depending upon what you have, you could put the crackers on the exterior and build the flag in the middle. But, yes, exactly, a cookie sheet with sides.
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Okay, cool. All right, you know, in terms of prep, I know there's a lot of prep, and you just mentioned one good time-saving tip, you know, to get that board ready prior and have it chilled and, you know, pull it out. What else in terms of prep do you do to save a little time to do ahead of time?
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Sure. I choose recipes that are make-ahead, especially when I want to enjoy the party. And I'm a girl at the grill, but oftentimes instead of grilling live fire, I'll do something slow smoked because it gives me more time with the family, right? But I do believe that most of the menus should be make-ahead. And I have a summery anti-pasto pasta salad recipe, Angie, that you have to make. I think it is the best summer pasta salad. I love a pasta salad. This is a great way to use up your pantry, too. I like to mix pasta shapes. It doesn't have to all be the same noodle. Cook off your pasta, drain it, cool it down, and then mix in fresh mozzarella, garbanzo beans, and salami for protein. Add the sweet bell peppers, the cherry tomatoes. Make sure you have my favorite Pearl's ripe black olives. We don't want to forget the briny, lovely olive. And you know I love a Pearl's olive. And then you could really clean out your produce bin with anything you have left. Add cucumber or chopped celery, et cetera. It's a very simple Dijon vinaigrette that you shake in a jar. And by the way, Pearl's black ripe olives now have nothing but sea salt and water added to the can. It's very traditional for a black olive to be made blacker, like with dye. They are all natural, no artificial colors, no preservatives the way Mother Nature intended. And I think they taste better than ever. So please look for the can of Pearl's olives. This is a recipe, Angie, that tastes better the next day. And you and I love those. I know because we've talked about it before. You want the flavors to meld. Make it a day or two in advance. It will only get better.
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You know, my mom's in her mid 80s. She lives with us. Big Cheryl. Actually, she's little Cheryl now. She lost like 100 pounds. So Cheryl. So Cheryl made the other day a pasta salad. So I go in the fridge, and I look in there, and I'm like, I love a good pasta salad. And all it had in it was edamame. And I'm like, Mom, that's a little light on the ingredients. It's just pasta and edamame. She goes, well, we didn't have anything else. I'm like, okay, well, I'll run to the store and get some other stuff. But I love that she at least found the edamame in the freezer, but it was just two ingredients and some bottled dressing. But my husband gobbled it down, so I'm sure he'd be more – being Italian, a little more impressed with that fresh mozzarella – A salami version.
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Yeah, and you can add anything you like. Maybe you have a wedge of Parmesan, grate it or chunk it in there, right?
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Nice.
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Maybe you have leftover, it could be snap peas or any veggie in your produce floor. This becomes kind of like a use it up. And I was raised, Angie, waste not, want not. So my mom made leftovers from nothing. and they were so delicious, and I think I find inspiration in that when it comes to pasta salad. Anything can go in it.
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Well, I want to make sure people can get that recipe, and then also tell us where to find you, like on social media, and if you have a new cookbook out, and I know you've got your syndicated radio show as well, again, for Chef Jamie Gwynn.
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I do. Thank you. It's very kind, Angie. I appreciate very much the support. So first and foremost, if you want my summary antipasto pasta salad, if you want to see the patriotic sheet pan cheese board so you can copy it and call it your own. And because you need a cricket and to know everything about it, go to dailylounge.com. Everything is posted there, dailylounge.com. And then my website has thousands of free recipes at chefjamie.com. And on social, I post daily gluttony at chefjamiegwen. And the cookbook you referenced, thank you, is actually called Sizzle and Smoke. It's a grilling cookbook, but it's totally digital. You can download it. And that, too, is on my website at chefjamie.com. I love that.
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My neighbor does the digital grilling, and I actually get to throw in an extra roast. We just got pork shoulder or something yesterday, and we get two, and then she grills for me on that digital thing. And those things are amazing.
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Yeah, fabulous. I agree with you. This cookbook is electronically sent to you. It's got lots of inspiration.
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Oh, I see.
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So you'll find something you love in it. Yeah.
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I got it.
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Okay.
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That kind of digital. Got it. Okay. Thank you, Chef Jimmy Gwynn. Always a pleasure. I just love talking to you. You're so fun.
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Angie, thank you. Thank you. Happy Fourth to you, and God bless the USA.
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You bet. You too. I'm talking to Jamie Gwynn because I feel like Jamie and I would be friends. You know what I mean? I have several people that I've become radio friends with. You probably recently heard me talking to Dr. Cheryl Lentz. We've become friends and we're finally going to get to meet each other. I think this summer I wrote down the date of her big event coming up at the zoo. So I'm hoping to go to Chicago then. All right. Jamie lives in California and this has a link to California. So I'm going to tell you the other story first and then link it to California. This multimillion-dollar Badger Bridge is going to enable wildlife to be saved in Cornwall. So this is over in England, and they're building these bridges or corridors for animals who are getting killed crossing major highways. Now, this one in Cornwall doesn't look nearly as big as the one that they built in California. But it's over a four-lane highway, and they've nicknamed it the Badger Bridge. And it won't just say badgers, but lots of other animals. It's designed to provide safe passage across the road for various wildlife species, including badgers, voles, and other small animals, insects, and birds. Now, insects, I would think. would just stay on their side of the highway, but apparently they also will be using the Badger Bridge. And it's just a really cool project because obviously they know that by tracking animals, you know, and tagging them, that they're losing some, you know, to this area of the highway. And in California, a very wealthy do-gooder, her name is Wallace Annenberg, She helped or funded the construction of the Wallace-Annenberg Wildlife Crossing. Now, she's done a lot of good things with her money, but my sister-in-law was telling me that she was going to volunteer for the information aspect of this. So she would take people on little tours and and kind of fill them in on the history and the need for this Walden Annenberg Wildlife Crossing. It's the world's largest wildlife bridge, provides safe passage for animals crossing the busy 101 freeway. And if you've been in California, this is like, you know, 20 lanes, you know, like 10 each side kind of thing. I mean, maybe 16, but they're huge. these freeways in California. So safe passage for the animals across the busy 101 freeway in Agoura Hills. Now, the project aims to reconnect fragmented habitats, reduce wildlife vehicle collisions, and help endangered species. Like in particular, the ones that they figured out through tagging that were being killed there were wild, pardon me, mountain lions. And so they had figured out they were losing some of these mountain lions, and they thought this bridge would be a good idea. But obviously it was more than mountain lions, lots of other animals as well. It's a $92 million project, and some of it is funded by Wallace Annenberg. So a lot of private donations, nonprofits donating to that. And the crossing is a crucial step in preserving biodiversity and connecting habitats – In particular, the mountain lions and the Santa Monica Mountains. And it's kind of a model, they say, for urban wildlife conservation. So that started in 2022 and is right about completion right now, the one in California. And so interesting that there's this one now in England as well. I just think it's a neat idea to help, you know, conserve our wildlife and, you know, provide protection for them. And it's neat that my sister-in-law is volunteering her time to kind of fill people in on the history of it. That's pretty cool. Thanks for listening to The Good News with Angie Austin.
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Thank you for listening to The Good News with Angie Austin on AM670 KLTT.
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All right, so first up, there's a couple here. One of them's sad. I don't really want to do it because it's a sad one. This, though, there's a Florida man who was naked in a mud cupboard and he vandalized a van and he was arrested. Yeah, I mean, in the middle of the day, a 35-year-old named Saeed Khan told deputies that he was following the sun under guidance from a higher power. And he was arrested because he was vandalizing a work van and trespassing on private property while being completely covered in mud and totally nude. He emerged from a barn. It was like way out, looks like it's in the middle of a swamp on the map. 31 years old. They had to blur him out on all the body cam footage that they released, but he literally came out of a barn and they took him into custody. And of course they were... Also checking him to see if he was on any kind of mind altering substances, which to be quite honest, it kind of seems like he was. A Broward, Florida man and a gas station clerk got into a fight over the price of beer and it ended up with one being shot. I mean, there's better ways to solve disputes. The Broward Sheriff's Office said that it was at a Valero, and 46-year-old Abdullah Monther got into an argument with the customer over the price of beer. The customer, he threw an unknown object at Monther, and the clerk took out a gun from under the counter and shot the man in the right calf muscle. It showed him it was it showed him take his pistol out. He called the wounded customer something I can't say. And then he proceeded to follow him around with it. And at that point. Look, you've got to be careful in those instances, even in Florida, because the moment that you become the aggressor and that you have the total power, you're going to have a prosecutor come after you and argue that you are the antagonist in that situation, and therefore you're not using it in self-defense, that you actually are the agitator, and then they're going to charge you. So this guy, because he was following this guy around, that's exactly what happened. So he was charged. I think he bonded out, though. They didn't say what his bond was, but... He was able, he apparently bonded out. A Florida man got busted with a stolen car while he was literally pumping gas.
SPEAKER 08 :
He's putting gas in the stolen car?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. I mean, it's nice of him, I guess. He's going to return it. Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. They were tracking it after getting an alert. And then they tracked it, found the guy, literally found the guy just at a Shell gas station. He stopped really close to where he stole the vehicle. And then they even got aerial footage of it. And he was standing outside filling it with gas. And they were able to quickly, immediately take him into custody and recover the vehicle, which is something that never, doesn't really happen when you get your car stolen, right? Right. Like it's that it very rarely happens that you get it back or you get it back to where it's not completely trashed and destroyed. So that was the good news for that guy. Let's see here. We also have this individual. Wait, where's this at? I almost lost it. This 74 year old Florida man, he fought firefighters with a shotgun because he was trying to steal their fire truck. Of course that was a bad choice that he made. This is why Cain doesn't like old people. 74-year-old Floridian man. He went on a rampage. He chased paramedics with a shotgun, punched firefighters, and then tried to steal the fire truck.
SPEAKER 08 :
How old is he?
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74.
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Good God.
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He's from Ridge Manor, and police had to call for backup, and then they had to get medical in. The 74-year-old, he fell once, but when he fell for the last time, he couldn't get up because he was super drunk. And then as he was trying to get up, they were trying to help him, and then he got very combative. And he was chasing them out of his house, and he hit one firefighter with his shotgun, like he just used it as a melee weapon. And then he ran to the fire truck, climbed inside, and a first responder was still in the passenger seat. As the dude tried to drive away, they pulled up as the truck was pulling out, and they intervened. The deputies had to climb literally on the moving fire truck and pull the man out. And then as they were doing that, he started punching cops. How do you go from being so drunk that you can't get up to I'm climbing in a fire truck and I'm punching out cops as they try to get me out?
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And you're 74.
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Welcome back to the program. I'm trolling. I got a screenshot of the ambiguously gay duo and a screenshot of the Human Torch writing the thing on Fantastic Four, and I just tweeted it out because it's literally the same thing. Anyway, hi. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. So POTUS, he's in the Netherlands. He's in Cain. He's in Greta Thunberg's home country. He is. It's Greta Thunberg. She's from the Netherlands. She tried to enter the Gaza. But audio somebody for he NATO chief called him daddy. Wait, actually, do we do four or five first? No, do five first and then we'll follow it up with four. We've got to do this in order. Audio somebody five first.
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I mean, we may do papers on it, Marco. Maybe we're going to do papers. I don't even know if you need them. They're not going to be fighting each other. They've had it. They've had a big fight, like two kids in a schoolyard. You know, they fight like hell. You can't stop them. Let them fight for about two, three minutes. Then it's easier to stop them.
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And then daddy has to sometimes use strong language. You have to use strong language. Every once in a while, you have to use a certain word. I think you have to join the house.
SPEAKER 05 :
Huh. Huh. So he did kind of call him daddy there. Audio Sumbite 4. Trump noticed that immediately. Listen.
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Mark Rutter, the NATO chief, who is your friend, he called you daddy earlier. Do you regard your NATO allies as kind of children?
SPEAKER 06 :
No, he likes me. I think he likes me. If he doesn't, I'll let you know. I'll come back and I'll hit him hard, okay? He did it very affectionately. Daddy, you're my daddy.
SPEAKER 05 :
I really want... Can we just save this for forever? That's pretty funny. He called me daddy. Hey, there's your daddy. There you go right there. You're my daddy. That's not what he said. It's not. Okay. I mean, you can go with it. You know, it'd be... And I was reading, somebody was noting his one-liners today. Yeah, that's my daddy, call me daddy, heads chopped off all over Africa. Did you get that one? I think you're listening to it. We do have that. Yeah, can we, let me just play this real quick. I got it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, he's right.
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No, it isn't.
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Oh, it's not because it doesn't want to play.
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It hates you. We have coming in. The Congo is coming in and Rwanda is coming in. That was a vicious war that went on, a machete war. Heads chopped off all over Africa. They're coming in. We did two others in addition to that. Nobody's ever done anything like this. No, I consider him a person that's... Heads chopped off all over Africa.
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Well, I mean... It's all over. I'm not. I actually like it. I just think it's funny the way he just says it so directly because you immediately there's no dancing around the issue. They just immediately have to go. Wait, what? Wait, what? Yes, that's what he said. That's what he said. You're my. Oh, I'm totally saving this. Thank you, Steve. We're going to have to make that a stinger. part of the show forever just saying yeah yeah i'm just saying it's gonna have to go uh it's gonna have to go on the soundboard if it goes on the soundboard man that's legit so the uh nato will they're trying to they've i think they've agreed tentatively to an increase in defense spending for their for as a percentage of gdp for each uh nation yes kane 30 Yes, this is one. And this was a this was a huge win, I think, for POTUS. And this is the secretary general of NATO. Listen to this. This is I mean, it's kind of shocked to hear them say this. I was actually kind of surprised about this. Listen.
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For too long, one ally, the United States, carried too much of the burden of that commitment. And that changes today. President Trump, dear Donald, you made this change possible. Your leadership on this has already produced $1 trillion in extra spending from European allies since 2016. And the decisions today will produce trillions more for our common defense to make us stronger and fairer by equalizing spending between America and America's allies.
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You're my daddy. That's right. That's the way it is, man. I didn't have enough audio in that cane. I'm going to need it again so I can... You're my daddy. That's right. You're my daddy. That's what he just said to him right there. It is. Yeah. And then he goes, you know what? Go ahead and... Oh, now it's not playing. We're going to Drax. Timing's everything. Just ruined it. Timing's everything. It's just ruined. It's over now. Forever. The moment's passed. It's long gone. So, yeah, that's very, I mean, I've never, I don't think NATO's ever said, you know what, you guys are doing all the work. Can we help? That's never been said.
SPEAKER 08 :
Also, I've been paying attention to the news all morning, and the media hasn't said anything about NATO thanking Trump for increasing the spending in defense, therefore lowering the United States' responsibility overall.
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Yeah, and you know, and that's funny because they always say, Trump's trying to end NATO. He's a Russian stooge. Wow, he's like the worst Russian stooge that's ever stooged because he just got everybody to agree to an increase to spending on defense per GDP. So he's like really the worst, the worst Russian stooge then. I mean, you're fired as Russian stooge. It's just bad, you know? I mean... That's just not very good. So I think right now, so far, it seems like it's going fairly well for NATO. But NATO, not so much for New York City. So let's be real. Medical freedom isn't just a catchphrase. It's your right. Your health decisions belong to you and not the government, not Big Pharma, and definitely not some unelected bureaucrat. So that's why I'm all in on what All Family Pharmacy is doing. They're putting medical power back where it belongs, and that's in the hands of you, Americans. Through the end of June, they're making it even easier to take back control because when you control your health, you protect your family, your future, and your freedom. Get 20% off site-wide. No insurance, no problem. No insurance needed. And licensed doctors in all 50 states. You'll also receive fast shipping straight to your doorstep. This isn't just about convenience. It's also about freedom. You can get ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine. You can get methylene blue, emergency kits, antibiotics, whatever you need to be prepared, proactive, and protected. So visit allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana and use promo code Dana20 to get 20% off your order. That's allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana, code Dana20. Don't wait for permission. Own your health and take your freedom seriously.
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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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Wall Street Journal has an interesting story. It says, goodbye, fancy bar. Hello, at-home pizza party. Young Americans are cutting back. There's a huge drive and decline of spending amongst Gen Z. They said, we feel rich drinking free coffee. So the shopping spree for young Americans is over. There's going to be a lot of things changing because of that. And I think it's fine. Is it going to affect our consumer culture and materialist values? predilection in society I don't know maybe but very very interesting so you know we'll we'll see how this goes let's see skimpy men's swimsuits are making a splash dudes I've heard that speedos for dudes they think are more comfortable than trunks is that true I can't imagine why Well, every man that I've heard men debate this, like friends and family debate this and everyone talks about chafing. I'm actually kind of curious. Is that really more because not every man should wear a Speedo like every woman should wear a bikini.
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I feel like that like with shoes or socks. It's like, oh, the tighter it is, the better. No, no. Yeah. No, it's not comfortable.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, I know.
SPEAKER 08 :
I'm sorry.
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Place arrest a man whose name is literally Looney Tune. After a three-day search. Oh, okay. Yeah, there we go. Literally, his name is Looney John Franklin Toon.
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Hope he goes by his middle names.
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Looney John Franklin Toon is his actual name. It's not a Florida story. It's an Oregon. K-A-T-U. Channel 2. They said that he was arrested on a search warrant. He was taken into custody without incident. And he had a warrant for his arrest. Just the name alone is shocking. I don't know. A British groom was arrested for trying to marry a nine-year-old girl at Disneyland. Was he killed instantly? A British man was arrested for trying to marry a nine-year-old girl at Disneyland Paris. And he was a registered pedophile on the British sex offenders list, according to prosecutors. I wonder what his name was. It took place in front of 100 mortified guests at Sleeping Beauty's castle. And this is Disneyland Paris. And they said that he was wanted back in his homeland. I'm pretty – yeah, he's not a regular British man. Let's just say that. I mean, he looks like a Muslim guy. I'm just going to say. He looks – that would be – I'm going to say what nobody else has the balls to say. Makes sense. Anyway, so, yeah, they said it was a fake ceremony. He had a wedding cake, chairs for guests, all this stuff. The nine-year-old girl had not suffered any harm. And an individual who was recruited to act as a wedding guest said, we thought we were all going to attend a wedding, and then we were shocked when they realized the bride was a child. Oh, no. Please tell me this guy was immediately put to death. I'm just saying this is just and it wasn't a joke. It was like he actually she had four inch heels taped to her feet. The four year old did. The four year old did. Oh, my gosh. Let's see. Church wardens resigned over a botched restoration of a Virgin Mary statue. Oh, my gosh. It really wasn't that bad. It's the Virgin of La Macarena and it's a Catholic effigy in the Basilica de Santa Maria La Esperanza in Seville. And I can't even. They said it was a bad. Oh, my gosh. I can't. This is what they said. Apparently, this is a measure that they use. They said it wasn't quite as starkly awful as monkey Christ. But they said that her eyelashes were lengthened. They changed her skin tone. They changed her dress and jewelry. I mean, is it that bad? Is it that bad? I don't think it's that bad. But honestly, I would not have known if I would have just seen it. I don't know. But they're up in arms and they had two wardens that quit. So we got a lot more on the way. I don't know if you heard about this. This was did you ever see Slumdog Millionaire came? It was this, I watched it, like, I didn't watch it in theaters, but I watched it a long time ago. Not a long time ago. It came out in 2008. Dev Patel and Danny Boyle directed it. Well, he I was reading this piece in Variety where he said he would not direct Slumdog Millionaire again today because of, quote unquote, cultural appropriation. And he would be looking for a young Indian filmmaker to shoot it. He said in a quote directly, quote, We wouldn't be able to make that now. And that's how it should be. It's time to reflect on all that. We have to look at the cultural baggage we carry and the mark that we've left on the world. And at the time, it felt radical. And we made the decision that only a handful of us would go to Mumbai. And we'd work with a big Indian crew and we'd try to make a film within the culture. But you're still an outsider and it's still a flawed method. And he said that kind of cultural appropriation might be sanctioned at certain times and other times it cannot, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And he said he wouldn't do it. I really can't stand when people use cultural appropriation when they're talking about cultural appreciation. They are entirely different things. Cultural appropriation is a man pretending to be a woman. Cultural celebration is loving Bollywood films, which I do. I like Bollywood films. Don't ask me why I like Bollywood films and I hate musicals. They hit different, man. That's all I'm saying. It hits different. The best one is RRR. It's actually a recent one. There's several that are really good. RRR was amazing. It actually took an Oscar, legitimately deserved, for best song that they did. And it's really good. Anyway, I don't know. I can't stand other musicals, though. But that's to do a film like that in that vein. I mean, he was working with I think his DP was Indian. I was trying to remember like a cinematographer was Indian. Like how much more? I mean, at some point you you've got to stop like debasing yourself. Cultural appreciation is not the same thing as appropriation. And I'm so tired of people acting like, well, you can't appreciate this or you can't like that because you're not of that culture. Or, you know, like I love anime and I like Japanese food and I like a lot of the aesthetic. But that's not appropriation. That's appreciation. Right. Same with Bollywood. Like I like I love like the colors that are used in the textiles. That reminds me of a story. on Etsy which is like a hellscape of wokery they and there's like some craft circles where there was a white woman who was like working with an Indian supplier and selling like Indian textiles on her Etsy shop and she like got bullied off of Etsy because of it it's like there's appropriation and appreciation stop it I hate people trying to run you off of liking things because you're not of the culture that it comes from That is so asinine. I had someone who sent me a hate mail one time telling me I shouldn't wear gold hoops, and I beat them down within an inch of their life in an email, which I rarely do. And I'm like, oh, it's so funny for you. I know the history of gold hoops. Are you Sumerian? Because if you're not Sumerian, STFU. And let me just tell you really quickly in a one-word sentence why you need to not be talking about this. It gets so aggravating. I feel like it's still happening. It should be happening less because it's like everything else has kind of dissipated in terms of wokery but that. Have you noticed that, Cain? No. Like, people are terrified of it. They're terrified. But nobody has a problem with St. Paddy's Day. Oh, hell. Everybody's out there at St. Paddy's Day pretending they're a leprechaun. I don't think so. Nobody cares. You know why? Because the Irish don't care. Because they're not babies. They don't care. It's only, like, white progressives that care about this stuff. I didn't hear Indian people slamming Danny Boyle for doing this film. I think they love the fact that they were using so many talents from India and costume designers and cinematographers and director of photography and lighting and gaffing and all of that stuff. They were liking that they could showcase that skill set. It's only white Marxists that get super upset over this stuff. They act like they got a white knight for everybody. It's asinine. So, I mean, if he thinks like that, then maybe I wouldn't want him to direct it. If you think about this, like you couldn't have, you know how many Italians made Western films? I mean, spaghetti Western is a phrase for a reason. That's like saying that you wouldn't have like some great films. Like, what is it? My name is nobody is one. That's a great Western film. You wouldn't be able to have stuff like that. Just stop it. Just stop it. Just appreciate the art form for the art form and celebrate just good stories and good direction and good film and good acting. This is so stupid. I can't do this. It's like saying something like, you know, somebody like Brian De Palma wouldn't be able to make... Scarface. You know what I'm saying? Like it's just stop it. It's just so dumb.
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