In today's episode, Bill Gundersen and Barry Kite unravel the complexities of global politics and their influence on financial markets. From potential peace talks in Ukraine to Elon Musk's forays into AI, the conversation covers a wide array of topics affecting investor sentiment. Tune in to learn more about emerging market winners, the surge in semiconductor sales, and why peacemaking may hold the key to resolving some of our biggest geopolitical challenges.
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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. It is the Thursday, February the 13th live edition of the Best Stocks Now show. And well, well, well, what do you know? We have a little bit of lift in the market here since the open. The NASDAQ, this is Bill Gunnarsson, by the way, president of Gunnarsson Capital Management. The NASDAQ's up 110 points out of the gate here. That's pretty good. It's at 19,760. We have two of the biggest winners in the market today, and we have a loser. So we always say fair and balanced, right? The Dow is up 60 points, puts the Dow at 44,429. It continues to struggle with 45,000. That's the ceiling right now. The ceiling on the NASDAQ is about 20,200 right in there. We're about 500 points away from that. The S&P is up 17 points right now, 6,069. The small caps up a half a percent here so far. Interest rates were down last time I looked. I saw a drop of about four basis points down to 4.46 after a hotter than expected. No, 4.56. I had it right. A hotter than expected PPI report. If it's not the CPI, it's the PPI. And if it's not the PPI, it's something else. Okay, the ISM index or some crazy indicator like that. Crude oil is down. It's at $70.94. Okay. So welcome to today's Best Docs Now show with professional money manager Bill Gunderson, president of Gunderson Capital Management. And I'm here with Barry Kite, our chartered financial analyst. We have good news. We have bad news. It was a very busy news morning. I barely, barely got through all of the news this morning. in time for the show. I didn't want to miss anything, Barry. There's so much happening in the world, in the country, in the markets. It's just at a very rapid pace. I'm very determined to look under every rock. You've got a lot of rocks. There was a lot of rocks screwed about today. Boy, I found some good news, some good little stories here to tell you today. And then, of course, there's some real big stories to tell you here today. Well, let's begin where we left off yesterday when the Dow was down 225 points. The NASDAQ was up just six. Not much to write home about yesterday. Kind of an even day in the market. But we have news coming in today that's impacting the market. Number one. The federal deficit climbs to $127 billion in January. I thought I'd just let you know that. The U.S. government is on a 9-30, September 30th year end. So we're actually four months into the 2025 fiscal year for the government. So you can multiply that out, $127 billion. We were expecting just it exceeded the $90 billion consensus estimate. That's a big miss. And, of course, Doge. has its challenges before us now this is still reflecting the previous administration i would think you know i mean they haven't had enough time here to really put a dent in that but 126 billion in january they took they took in less than they spent which is par for the course and if you extrapolate 126 billion you're at about 1.5 trillion annual basis but as elon musk has said recently and it has been true it's been a two two trillion dollar a deficit they're hoping to cut that deficit by one trillion in the work they're doing which i would say would be a major victory if that can happen producer be a major victory for interest rates too yeah yes exactly you're you're you're you're
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Setting yourself up for a better fiscal path, right? Which is going to improve? You should improve your credit rating and outlook.
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How can anybody argue that there's nothing wrong with taking in $4 trillion and spending $6 trillion year after year after year? How can anybody argue that? Now, the devil's in the details. Okay, where are the cuts going to come? Well, I think everybody's going to feel a little bit of pain. And there's no question that our government is not run like a company where I couldn't run a, a two million dollar i couldn't take in four million and spend six million every year for very long yeah i mean it's it's it's there's there's no difference so i i i'm happy personally to see finally some responsibility and some accountability and some transparency into where the money's going producer price indexes come in hotter than expected man when i saw that this morning i said oh there goes the futures but actually the market did not react all that much 0.4 month over month. You know, if you extrapolate that out, that's about 4.8. But it actually works out to a 3.5% year over year ascent. And anyways, that was the producer price index, which comes usually before the CPI. This time it came after CPI.
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I don't know what the flip-flop was about. I don't know. It threw me off yesterday. I don't know if it's bacon and eggs or whatever.
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I do have my egg report. I was at Walmart last night. I didn't eat any eggs, but they were checking in at, I think, $5.49 a dozen, and there seemed to be plenty of the regular ones, okay, just the large grade A ones. And bacon was about $4.59 a pound. I didn't really see all of this, what people are talking about this Astra. Why are they charging surcharges over at Waffle House? I don't know, but I guess the scarcity is a big deal. Initial jobless claims drop. more than expected last week i think that probably helped the markets a little bit in other words we're not going into a jobs recession and if we're not going into a jobs recession there seems to be no sign whatsoever i love saying that every thursday no sign whatsoever of a recession on the horizon out there And those earnings estimates that are currently in place for this year and for next year should see very little change to those numbers when we add them all up and report on them in this Saturday's newsletter. I think the best news that I heard last night, And the European market certainly reacted to this news, up 1.5% yesterday. Trump says Putin agrees to start talks to end war in Ukraine. Now, we've been waiting for that for a long time. It seems to me like very little was done in the previous administration. Well, I mean, we're talking millions. Over a million people have lost their lives in that war. And, you know, I mean, one phone call, we'll see where it goes. But Trump's going to go visit Russia and he's going to have Putin come here. That ought to go over big with the media and whatnot. But anyways. At least there's progress. Look, Barry, you know what? In my 60-plus years in life, I've found you can never solve a problem unless you're willing to sit down eye to eye, man to man, woman to man, woman to woman, whatever the case may be, and talk it out, right? What's the issue? How can we solve the issue? I kind of fancy myself a little bit as a problem solver because I don't like contention. I'm not a guy that likes contention. If I sense any kind of contention, I want to resolve it now. Well, and they're in a stalemate.
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I mean, you're in a trench warfare, you know, World War I-looking type scenario, right? And it's, you know, if no one talks, then you just... Stay in the same place and keep throwing soldiers at soldiers. And it actually gets worse.
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No talking actually makes it worse because the wife says, you're not talking. You froze up on me. The man feels the same way. You have to talk things out. You can't go around carrying a grudge. And keeping that sour feeling. You know, I listen to several talk show hosts, as I have since I was a little boy, starting out with Dennis Prager, who apparently is paralyzed now, which is kind of a really sad situation there. I mean, he's one of the pioneers in talk radio. But one of the talk radio show hosts last night said, Why are we so mad? Why do we hate Putin so much? Yes, he went into a country and attacked them. Yes, I know, I know. But, you know, I mean, let's try to sit down and work things out and find out where the issues are and let's try to solve them, which that's my own philosophy on life. No matter what the relationship with is, whether it's father and son, father and daughter, wife and husband, employees, whatever the case may be, neighbors, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Peacemakers. I value peacemaking.
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He's greasing the wheels.
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Yes, he's greasing the wheels, and I think they're fatigued with it all. They want an end to it all. Okay, when we come back, we've got a whole lot more news to talk about. A lot of companies reporting earnings today. A lot. We'll be right back. And welcome back here to the second quarter of today's Best Talks Now show. Just one last thing on the whole Russia, Ukraine, U.S. Of course, we've been really at war with Russia. I mean, look. Those are American missiles that are being launched at Russia. But I would just say this. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God. Okay, that's pretty good. That's a pretty good family to be a member of. And I believe that. I'll just tell a quick little story, Barry. You know, I have an O-gauge train set, all right, for the grandkids. They come over. And sure, yeah, Grandpa plays with it, too, and have a lot of fun. My dad had built one when I was a little kid, right? And I had a lot of fun with that. I said, I'm going to build one for my grandkids. And we had a train show here in North Charleston. I said, I've never been to a train show. I'm going to go and just see some of the neat stuff they got. They had a lot of neat stuff, for sure. You could spend a lot of money on that stuff. But I walked away with like a couple little things. I walked away with a locomotive. Now, the locomotives are fairly expensive. But this was a used one. It was a Union Pacific. It was yellow. I like the looks of it. You know, I paid $270 for it. Got it home, you know, finally got around to trying it out. It didn't work. It did not work. and uh you know i tried everything it didn't respond to the remote controls that lionel uses now and so i went and bought a transformer where you hook the transformer right to the trackberry and you have your throttle you got to bring your boys over so i want to check this out yeah it's kind of fun and uh it lit up and it made the noise but it wouldn't go So, you know, this was maybe, I don't know, six, seven weeks ago, and I had the people's card, and I texted them and sent them a little video. I said, I can get the train to this point, but, you know, it will not work after that. They were the most nasty people I've ever dealt with in my life.
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I was thinking they were going to be the nicest people.
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Well, you should have tested it before you took it. I said, well... You should have tested it before you sold it to me.
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I mean, it just wasn't a good experience at all. But I did get my money back, but they never apologized. I just don't believe in doing business. that way i mean you're gonna word's gonna get around that you know you're selling people stuff that doesn't work and then you yell at them like it's my fault uh when uh when something goes wrong okay now let's move along we've got uh the uh well you know i mean that's good news for for for uh europe obviously if they can get that uh If they can get that issue solved, I mean, how long has that been going on? Three and a half, four years? And, you know, you're going to end up trading some land for this and blah, blah, blah, and the shooting can stop and the death can stop and go back to rebuilding the mess that has been created. Okay, Elon Musk says that his AI, Grok 3, coming soon, outperforms all rivals. Well, you could say that hyperbole is Elon's middle name, right? And he has a feud with Sam. He's a performer. He's a performer. He's the showman. He's the P.T. Barnum of our day. He says it's going to outperform anything. that's been released and of course this comes right after he made the offer to buy open ai so anyways uh that was interesting that's some interesting i don't think we're done with ai and ai stocks i think there's still a lot of life uh left in them semiconductor sales hit a record yearly total by a lot you know i was looking at this chart i was really surprised uh... the uh... the growth in semiconductor sales worldwide And I've always said that the information highway is paved with semiconductors. I mean, pretty much. I mean, they're in everything, whether they're very simple semiconductors in a locomotive on your O-gauge Lionel track. They've got a lot of little chips in them. I looked inside there. I mean, chips are in everything. So anyways, the chip stocks, They've not had that good of a year so far. They've lost their momentum for now. NVIDIA's having a good day, though. Look at that. That's up 2.8%, so things are starting to come back a little bit there. uh... but you know you have to be very selective in that chip sector there's only a few there's only a few there they're really any good okay then fast auto delivers fifty three thousand evs now i asked you this barry do you want to be flying down i ninety five uh... down to uh... sarasota in a car built in vietnam i don't know i'm just asking the question it's an electric vehicle i don't know that they'll ever show up in our markets
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I may not go first, but I'll observe.
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I'll let you drive it, and I'll follow behind in the big SUV. But anyways, VinFast, that's pretty good. Who would have ever thought that Vietnam... The symbol of the stock is VFS, would become an EV maker. This is now an $8.8 billion company, and I would think it's the biggest company in Vietnam.
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I remember you mentioned them, I don't know, maybe six months ago. They had an IPO or something, didn't they? Yeah, no, it's public. VFS.
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Yeah, it's public. Okay. Now, the Wall of Fame. We've had a lot of big stocks on the Wall of Fame. It just could be that the best stock that I have ever found. And my app has the symbol app. A-P-P.
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Can you believe this? Who would imagine that?
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Okay, I'm going to type in today's price. Let me take a look. This stock is unbelievable. It's up $123 per share. I wish it was in our... large-cap growth portfolio. Do you know that it's $169 billion now?
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And where did it start? Like, I mean, when we added it to the portfolio.
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Well, I'm going to tell you here. We added it to the portfolio, the emerging growth portfolio, back on August 18th of 23 at $38.70 a share. We bought a 5% position. We've cut it a couple times because it just keeps becoming this massive piece, and I don't want to have too much in any one stock. So from our initial purchase at $3,870 to $504, that's 1,200%, folks. It's now 10% of that portfolio once again. App loving. This is one of the great stories in the market over the last few years. This was a $9 stock. In 2022, 2023 it was a nine. That's the year we bought it.
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And it's up 33% today on 4.5 times normal volume.
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Let's look at the sales. Let's look at the revenue. Their sales were up 44%. Their earnings were up 200. This is NVIDIA-like numbers, 253%. They developed mobile app ecosystems. by helping app developers to market, monetize, analyze, and publish their apps. Kiss My App. Can you believe that? Up 32% today. We'll be right back.
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I said the right thing, but I must have used the wrong line. I've been on the right trail, but I must have used the wrong call.
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Hit us in a bad place, and I wonder what it's good for. 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 GundersonCapital.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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The instigators Because there's something in the air
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And welcome back to the second half of today's Best Stocks Now show. With the S&P up about a half a percent, the Dow up about a quarter of a percent, NASDAQ doing best of all. That's your high PE, high beta stocks for the most part. It's up 85 basis points right now. And I'm just going to take a quick look here at some of the biggest winners in the NASDAQ right now. uh let's see here nvidia's having a good day okay uh very good day 2.7 spotify's up 1.6 shopify spotify and shopify a couple good stocks there 3.1 t-mobile's up two percent astera labs is up 4.2 App Lovin' up 31. And the next one I'm going to talk about is another big winner for us today. We do have a loser, though. We'll get to that one. Fair and balanced. Fair and balanced. We want to be here at Gundersen Capital. The next story on my list. Oh, Dutch Brothers. Okay. When we drove down to Florida. where we eventually ended up going on a cruise there out of Port Canaveral. We did drive down. I've never been down the east coast of Florida, Barry, along the ocean there. That little town, what's the oldest city there?
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Yeah, A1A, yeah, and you went by through St. Augustine. Yeah, St.
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Augustine, which was really beautiful. I really liked that. It was so pretty. And I did see a Dutch Brothers being built. I said, hey, look. I mean, to actually see something you've invested in, you know, that's kind of cool. And I do know the story about Christine Barone. You can read about her. She's a pretty successful entrepreneur, woman-owned, woman CEO, the brains behind Dutch Brothers. And on the surface, you say, man, where are we going to put another coffee shop? Don't we have enough between Dunkin' Donuts and Starbucks? Oh, man, they're everywhere. Well, apparently she does something better than the rest. And we bought Dutch Brothers. The symbol is B-R-O-S because I've been watching the growth in it. You know, I love growth stories. I love growth stories in the early, you know, in the early innings of a growth story. Dutch Brothers is headquartered in Grants Pass, Oregon. I've been there to Grants Pass. We have a lot of listeners up in the northwest, up in Oregon, Portland area, Seattle area, a lot. A lot of clients, too. And so we bought Dutch Brothers. I owned it first. I bought it in the incubator account. I was the guinea pig. I took the risk. At first I thought, this is a crowded field. I don't know how she's going to pull this off. And it struggled. I mean, it's had its struggles. No question about it. But I bought it in the incubator account where I still own it. And it's going to really help that incubator account, which has done pretty darn good since I started it. last july and that's i i send out all the buys and sells that i make in the incubator account too and then it was doing so well i said you know what i really like this thing i kind of seasoned it watched how it traded and i bought it in the emerging growth portfolio it's a 13 billion dollar company Now, before today, it was a $9 billion company. It is up 29.3% right now, on 11 times normal volume. It's up $18.94. It just went straight up. It's going straight up today. Their sales came in at 35% growth. Now, normally, stocks start out losing money as they're growing. It costs a lot of money to equip stores and everything. Now, some of that goes to the balance sheet and isn't in the income statement. But generally speaking, she came public with a profitable company at $0.31 per share in earnings. And she just reported 7 cents versus 4 cents. That's 75% growth in earnings. And sales, she's up to about $1.5 billion in sales now annually. The revenue growth up 35%. So, you know, hey, so far so good. And I'm just going to look at our initial purchase here of Dutch Brothers, B-R-O-S. which is in two portfolios at Gundersen Capital Management. It's in the emerging growth portfolio. We bought it at $63.56, and today it's $83.64. $83.64, if you do the math on that. Not a dividend payer. It's a small cap. It's up 32% since we bought it on February the 3rd. Barry, that's just 10 days ago. So these people in the trial, the four-week trial, that was in there. That's a winner so far. Winner, winner, chicken dinner. In the incubator portfolio, about the same, $63.82. But we have a huge gain in Dutch Brothers. Now the loser, okay? Look, I think Elon said it. With his child on his shoulders, actually this stock has come storming back. It's still a little bit of a loser, but not like it was. With Elon's child on his shoulders and taking questions from the press, who don't like him anymore. They do not like Elon Musk. uh... you know he admitted he said look we're gonna get some things wrong we're gonna make some accusations of where the money's going and find out we were wrong so yeah but overall the guy's the richest guy in the world he's made a lot of right decisions along the way reddit was down about nineteen percent now it's down only three point eight percent one of my thesis behind reddit barry is they have a built-in cadre of buyers. What do I mean by that? Yeah, right. Right? I mean, they're the ones. It was Reddit and the Reddit gang that drove GameStop up to Giddy Heights.
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And took down some big hedge funds in the path.
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So, I mean, they're a force. They're not something that you... That's not the only reason I bought it. Reddit is... Reddit's looking for 130% growth in earnings this year and 117% growth in earnings next year. Take that, Cisco. Reddit's quarter, their sales were up 71% quarter over quarter. And their earnings were up 227% quarter over quarter. So it was down, but now it has come back quite a bit. And I'm going to kind of say it's that army of Reddit fans and the Reddit gang that could be propping this stock up. I just hope they don't ever decide to short the stock. I hope the Reddit management doesn't make them mad. But I've never really been on Reddit. i i i've seen i've gone to conversations on like the locomotive how do you fix the locomotive what should i do yeah and you ran into some thread right from from like four years ago yeah from four years but i'm not to the problem there's just no way you could be on all these facebook x which by the way that's elon's little boy is x you know that's his name Wait until they start taking roll in kindergarten. Where's Zach? So there he is. Robin Hood is the next one I want to talk about. I badmouthed Robin Hood for a long time, and I was right. I mean, it went from 85 down to 6. But I think they turned the corner big time last year. It started the year at about $7 or $8 a share. I think maybe the crypto helped them a lot. And I think do-it-yourselfers, I think a lot of the people that follow me and see the buys and sells I'm making have accounts at Robinhood. I've been wanting to buy Robinhood actually for quite some time. You ever wait for a pullback that never comes? You know, the train left the station and I missed it. This thing started taking off in fall of last year. That's when it started taking off. It started picking up steam. It started picking up momentum. And the other one that goes right along with it is Interactive Brokers, IBKR, which I also think is a very popular one with the do-it-yourselfers. uh... they offer a lot of uh... options and uh... a lot of uh... foreign international stocks but uh... hey look my head is off to robin hood it's up thirteen percent it's out of menlo park i know the c e o is glad glad something And it's hitting $63 a share. It's been ranked very highly in the Best Stocks Now app. And I would just say that the pullback I was waiting for never came. It was ranked number 50 yesterday with 103% upside potential. I just never pulled the trigger. So another one. You get some right and others you miss. And you get some wrong. We'll be right back.
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On a winter's day.
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And welcome back to the final segment of the Best Stocks Now show. This is the part of the show. Some days when you hear those soggy sneakers open the door and come walking in and tracking mud all through the house and squeaking and, you know, all of that. Soggy stocks, I call them. Stodgy old growth giants of yesteryear. I would say the number one owned stock when a portfolio comes to us, yeah, you could argue several. I mean, AT&T would definitely be one of them, but Cisco is always in a portfolio. Cisco was one of the great stocks of all time back in 2000, the late 90s, early 2000s. It's still a good stock. It's $251.25 billion. I mean, it's been a great company over the years. But these days, it's a low, single-digit grower. And in fact, the last three quarters, it's actually shown negative growth, dropping sales, dropping earnings. I would say they had the best quarter that they've had in a long time. Their sales were up 9% year over year, and their earnings were up 8%. But when you put that up against stocks like Reddit and Applovin and many others, Palantir, et cetera, you can just see that time has, just like my little Union Pacific locomotive, I mean, that thing probably is from the 70s maybe. I don't know, the technology. And, you know, nowadays these locomotives that they put out, they're all Bluetooth. You can record the sounds that the train makes and your own little message, you know. All kinds of high-tech stuff. It's the same way, I mean, in the markets, right? That time has passed. This will go by. But if I'm not mistaken, I believe it's in the Dow. And it has done a little bit better recently. But you go five years ago, and it was basically the same price that it is today. uh actually you could make an argument that it's averaged about eight percent throwing the dividend over the last five years a lot of ups and downs eight percent a year has been the average total return but the s&p has been 16 percent per year so if you're shopping for alpha in other words, stocks that you think have a better chance of doing better than the S&P 500, I wouldn't be shopping in the Cisco aisle. I'm just here to tell you that. And, you know, 5% grower, a dividend of 2.5%, which is also indicative of a company that can't really find much to do with their excess cash but to pay out a dividend. So anyway.
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I heard the term. It was funny. I don't know. Flipping through, taking the kids to school this morning, listening to a little finance radio, heard someone using the word stodgy, and they were talking about a few of these names. Well, they're stodgy old restaurants. They didn't include the old giants of yesteryear, but they did refer, they had a few names. A few ones that certainly fit the bill, put it that way.
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Yeah. Okay, deer. You know, look, I love the way a deer runs, and nothing runs like a deer. But you know what? I mean, farm machinery is not exactly. And now it worries me a little bit. This is out of Moline, Illinois. It's also expensive. But it says deer stock declines on grim outlook for farm machinery. Well, I hope we're not going to have shortages on lettuce and asparagus and artichokes and all this and that. And wheat, which is the staff of life. But, you know, deers had four quarters in a row. Listen to their last four quarters. Earnings down 12%. That was four quarters ago. Earnings down 38%. That was three quarters ago. Earnings down 45% last quarter. And this quarter that they just released, their earnings were down 60% year over year. At the same time, their sales were down 30%. That's horrible. And yet the stock is trading at $465 a share. That's another one. I mean, it's going to be in most stocks. accounts that come to us from the bigger firms, whether it's the biggest RIAs out there, the biggest wire houses out there. People love to own deer. They wear the hat, blah, blah, blah. But the stock has been very, very... Let's just take a look real quickly here. You know, numbers don't lie. Let's just take a look here at the actual numbers on deer. The symbol is DE. And the farm machinery, obviously, it's much needed. But the returns, the performance of deer versus the S&P 500, actually, it hasn't been too bad, okay? Over the last 10 years, it's been a market performer, and over the last five years, it's beat the market by a little bit. But these last four quarters are disastrous, okay? It may be entering into that stodgy, soggy arena. Over the last three years, it's delivered 8% per year. The market's delivered 12% per year, so I see it entering into that arena. into that soggy turf. And the last one I'm going to bring up here, and it's been a stinker, And it's very highly owned. Well, no, we have another big winner. Let's go to that one. In the, what's the little portfolio? I have the trading incubator.
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Yes, okay, there's three or four major players out there in autonomous AV cars. One is Uber, Tesla, obviously. What's the other one? I can't think of the name of it. Oh, Google, Waymo, and Pony out of China. But the one that bought the inventory or the plans to develop their own cars from Uber is Aurora Innovation, A-U-R. And that's in our incubator portfolio. They reported that by next year, maybe they're going to beat Tesla to the punch. This stock's up 28% today. So look, if you've been with us in the trial, the four-week trial, even if you've been trading on paper, I think we've certainly turned up a lot of decent winners during that period of time with no guarantees going forward other than we're going to look under a lot of rocks on a daily basis. But that's a beautiful chart there on Aurora AUR. All right. Sign up for the four-week trial. We're having a lot of fun. And if you don't have the time, say, you know what? I want you guys looking for stocks for my portfolio and management. I've seen some stinking portfolios come to us recently. I've done a lot of gardening in them, and we're cleaning them up. 855-611-BEST. 855-611-BEST. Have a great day, everybody.
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In this episode, Rick Hughes discusses how arrogance can derail a believer's spiritual journey and the crucial role of humility. Listeners are encouraged to build a spiritual foundation by embracing God's teachings and persisting through life's challenges. Whether through liberty, love, or finishing your spiritual race, find the inspiration you need to maintain your focus on God's unwavering plan and become a lighthouse for your generation.
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Welcome to the Flatline with your host, Rick Hughes. For the next 30 minutes, you'll be inspired, motivated, educated, but never manipulated. Now, your host, Rick Hughes.
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Good morning, and welcome to the Flatline. I'm your host, Rick Hughes, and for the next few minutes, you have an invitation to stick it out. Stay with me. Listen up, because it's going to be 30 minutes of motivation, a lot of inspiration, a whole lot of education. and we do it without any manipulation because we don't do any type of gimmicks no games no solicitations for money just information accurate information to help you verify and identify the plan of god for your life and if you're able to do that as we always say you can orient and adjust to the plan that's up to you but my job is to give you accurate information The show is called The Flot Line, F-L-O-T, and we always use that name because we're talking about building an invisible forward line of troops. F-L-O-T, a forward line of troops. What that is is taking God's Word, learning God's Word, learning these unique problem-solving devices found in the Word of God and using them to stop the outside sources of adversity and before they ever become the inside source of stress. Remember, adversity is inevitable, but stress is optional. So you never have to have stress as a believer in Jesus Christ. There's a unique way to live. It's called the spiritual life. And it's a pretty unique life. It's an unbelievable life. It's a life where you can live with no fear, no worry. It's not a life where you can live with no adversity. I'm not saying that. I'm just saying that adversity is inevitable. It's going to happen, but it's a life where you don't have to let adversity rule you. You don't have to let adversity control you. You never have to be afraid. You never have to worry. Because the Father's plan is always going on 24-7. The Supreme Court of Heaven is open 24-7. So when you have complaints, when you have things you don't like, you can just take it to the Supreme Court of Heaven, turn it over to the Father, let Him handle it, and that takes the monkey off your back. Isn't that a neat way to live? Wonderful problem-solving device that's found in the Bible. And as you learn them, as you put them to use in your life, then you have this invisible wall of protection. You have a main line of resistance made up of rebound. That's you learning how to confess your sin. That's something we have to do on a consistent daily basis. The Bible says if we confess our sin, then he's faithful and just to forgive us and cleanse us from all of our unrighteousness. And anytime we sin as believers in Jesus Christ, we immediately quench the Holy Spirit. We grieve the Holy Spirit because of that, and we have to recover the filling of the Holy Spirit. We are mandated to be filled with the Spirit in Ephesians 5.18, and we recover the filling of the Spirit when we confess our sin, when we go to God and admit our sin. Then He cleanses us and puts us back into fellowship. Also, the wonderful problem-solving device of the faith rest drill, standing on God's promises. using God's promises. There are thousands of promises in the Bible for you. We even put together a small book on promises that we make available to folks. And these promises are yours to claim, yours to live by. They are from Almighty God Himself and they are your protection. They are your deposit of His guarantee that He will not leave you out to suffer consequences. He's always there with you. He will always protect you. He'll always look over you. And that's some fantastic promises from God because of that. And so we have the biblical orientation. If you learn God's word, you get a new way of thinking called divine viewpoint. We have grace orientation where we have a new way of living. and living, letting the mind of Christ control us instead of us living our way, thinking our thoughts. Remember, God said, I don't think like you think. My ways are not your ways. My thoughts are not your thoughts. And the Lord tells us that in the Bible. So he thinks different. And as we learn to think like Christ thinks, I mean, how do you do that? Well, remember, the Bible says, let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus, Philippians 2, 5. You must learn to think like he thought, and he thought in terms of humility, not arrogance. The Bible says he humbled himself and made himself of no reputation, and that is the biggest enemy of any believer is arrogance. Arrogance in our soul will destroy us because arrogance always justifies why it's okay to sin. Arrogance always lies to self, telling self it's not really a problem. And then arrogance always justifies and lies and gets totally absorbed with it. So you have self-justification, self-deception, self-absorption. Whenever a person gets arrogant, his own arrogance will bring him low. That's why the Bible says God makes war against the arrogant. the book of james but he gives grace to the humble and so that's the key here thinking like christ thought in terms of humility when we do that we begin to see why we're here we get a destiny as a personal sense of destiny that's one of the problem-solving devices understanding who you are what your spiritual gift is and what god has in store for you And then we move into the greatest motivation that our life could ever have. That's personal love for God. If you love Him, you will obey Him, the Bible says, and His mandates not hard they're not grievous that's first john 5 3 my mandates are not hard and jesus even said in in matthew 11 take my yoke and learn of me my yoke is easy and my burden is light so god's not going to ask you to do something that's too tough for you to do he's just going to ask you to listen up and obey what am i supposed to obey his plan his plan for you it's the best plan in the world Now you can go down the my way highway and live your plan. You can decide you don't want anything to do with God's plan and you can make a wreck out of your life as some of you have already done. Or you can recover by admitting your sin and turning around and saying, Father, whatever it is, Show me so I can learn and understand what I'm doing wrong. And then pray that God would lead you to a great pastor, somebody that can explain the Word of God to you. The Bible is not a novel. It's not designed to be read. It's a textbook. I'm not telling you you're not supposed to read the Bible. That's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is it's a textbook. It's a book designed to be taught to you. And that's why God gave men the gift of pastor-teacher, qualified men. And Ephesians 4 talks about those that have the spiritual gift of pastor and teacher, the poimen kai didaskalos in the Greek New Testament, poet, pastor, and teacher. His job is to make you rich. That's right. Now, not wealthy in money. I know you're thinking immediately, oh boy, I need to be rich. No, the rich of the treasure that God offers you, the word is thesaurus in the Greek New Testament, treasure. It's a word treasure. And as a pastor teaches you God's word, You have a word treasure in your soul. You equip your soul with the word of God, the most wonderful treasure called wisdom and knowledge and discernment. When you have wisdom, knowledge, and discernment, you have a treasure that is just not worth, you can't count it. You can't even add it up because it's going to bless your life so much. So are you listening? Are you learning? Are you ready to advance in that life that God has for you? One of the things that I see quite often in people's lives are people wind up being spiritual failures. That means they don't advance in the Christian life. And one of the reasons Revelation talks about in chapter two is they leave their first love. They don't have that personal love for God, that motivational virtue anymore. Personal love for God is a wonderful problem-solving device because then it gives us impersonal love for other people. And that's a problem-solving device also, as well as sharing the happiness of God and being occupied with Christ. Wonderful problem-solving devices, 10 of them. And oh, by the way, we have them listed in a book. If you'd like to know, if you'd like to see them, read them over them, just let us know. Contact us. We'll send you the book free of charge. No problem. Just go to the website, RickHughesMinistries.org. RickHughesMinistries.org. And we'll be glad to send you any of the material that we printed and make available all free of charge. We never charge for anything. So some people wind up being losers spiritually. They never advance in their Christian life because they lose their first love. They lose sight of what motivates them to be that type of person God wants them to be to start with. Other people are just lazy. I mean, Hebrews 5 said you've been a Christian a long time now and you ought to be teaching others, but instead you've gone backwards where you need someone to teach you all over again the very first principles of the Word of God. We're going to talk about some of the reasons why that people wind up being spiritual failures. Recently, my own pastor was doing a series in John 16, and he's talking about skandalion, the Greek word, skandalizo, the stumbling block, becoming a stumbling block. And the Lord Jesus Christ was talking to the disciples And he was telling them what they were going to face in John 16, 1, 2, and 3, that people are going to try to kill them, people are going to put them to death, and think they're doing God a favor. And he says, I'm telling you this so you won't stumble when it happens. And this can really trip people up sometimes when they get persecuted. Sometimes they don't understand why God allows that to happen. Now we are disciples in the church age. They were with him face to face. They ate with him. They camped with him. They talked with him. And they were all martyred except one, John, who died on the Isle of Patmos. But now it's you. You are the mouthpiece today. You are God's instrument that he uses in time to represent Jesus Christ and to represent him to your generation. You are the disciple in the church age, and it's your mission to spread the gospel, the good news that Jesus Christ died for the sins of the world, that Jesus Christ is our redeemer, and through faith alone and Christ alone, we have eternal life. It's already been paid for. It's made available. And the only thing is, as the Bible says, for by grace are you saved through faith. It's a gift of God and not of works, lest anyone would brag about it. So our Lord emphasized to the disciples not to allow the persecution that they would face to distract them from finishing the race set before them. They had no idea they were going to write the New Testament. They really didn't like the idea of him going to the cross. Peter even said, God forbid it, Lord. No, no, no. And that got him a quick rebuke when Jesus said to him, you are a stumbling block to me. So the same is true for us. We must finish the race. You must complete the course God left you here for. Paul made a statement in regards to sticking with the plan when he said in 2 Timothy 4, 7, I have competed well. I have finished my race. I have kept the faith. And that same warning that our Lord Jesus Christ gave to the disciples in John 16, 2 and 3 also applied to Paul. He wasn't there in the flesh. He came later when he accepted Christ on the road to Damascus. But the same warning that they're going to kill you, they're going to think they're doing God a favor, it applied to Paul when he was put to death by means of religious persecution. For example, in Acts 23, 12, when it was day, The Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves under an oath saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they killed Paul. And in Acts 24, 5, the testimony of Ananias, the high priest, as he appeared before Governor Felix of Caesarea, he said, we have found this man to be a real pest. and a fellow who stirs up dissension among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes. Sect of the Nazarenes is the followers of Jesus the Nazarene. And this is what Ananias said about him before Felix, the governor of Caesarea. So let's get a couple of principles in regards to your life and finishing the race. One, in spite of the injustice that you and I may face in the future, none of us can afford to be sidetracked by circumstances or by people who drive those circumstances. Our job is to keep our eyes on our Savior, Hebrews 12, 1, 2, and 3. Put your eyes on Christ who, in spite of the shame, endured the cross. Look at him. Keep your eyes on him. We can't afford to be sidetracked by things that happen to us or people who drive circumstances in our life. I mean, there are going to be times in your life when people will become a stumbling block. People that you trust, people that you put faith in, people that encouraged you, and people that motivated you. If you look at their life, you're going to find out that all of us are no good. We all have a sin nature. We all have different areas of weaknesses. Keep your eyes on Christ, not on people. And so secondly, his emphasis to us, the Lord Jesus Christ, was to stay on the point, complete the mission the Father assigned. We must be professional and finish our mission, our life's course, what God left us here to do. So point three, make no mistake, to fail is to sin. To fail is to sin. That doesn't mean you're going to lose your salvation. That doesn't mean you're not going to go to heaven, but it means if you fail God's plan, you sin. Many of you listening to me right now on this radio show have been on point and have fulfilled your mission for some times now. Some people were even motivated to get under a good pastor, move to a city where there was a pastor, and get face-to-face teaching. Some have been faithful to locate and serve and persevere in whatever mission God assigned for them. So let me tell you how to become a spiritual failure. One, you can become a stumbling block to other people. The word skandalon, S-K-A, N-D-A-L-O-N, skandalon. In the New Testament, skandalon is always used metaphorically and ordinarily of anything that arouses prejudice or becomes a hindrance to other people or causes other people to fall by the way. In Matthew 16, 23, our Lord even called Peter a stumbling block. I mentioned that to you earlier. A stumbling block, a person or a thing by which one is entrapped or drawn into error or sin. Here's what Peter did in Matthew 16, 22. So Peter took the Lord aside and began to rebuke him. Can you imagine Peter rebuking the Lord? Why did he do that? Because the Lord told him he was going to be put to death. The Lord told him he was going to be crucified. And Peter just went off on him. This is what he said. God forbid, Lord. This must not happen to you. And then Jesus in verse 23 of Matthew 16 turned and looked at Peter right into the eyes with a stern look and said, get behind me, Satan. You are a stumbling block to me because you are setting your mind on God's. You're not setting your mind on God's interest. You're setting your mind on man's interest. What does that mean? It means Peter wanted the millennium to come. He wanted the kingdom to come. He couldn't stand the idea that the kingdom wasn't coming right now. And Jesus has already told him the kingdom has been postponed. It'll come later. right now they're going to kill me and that just blew peter's mind so jesus called him a stumbling block or a trap or a snare the stumbling block the scandalon is the movable stick or the trigger of a trap or a snare and metaphorically it's used for any person or anything by which someone is drawn into error or drawn into sin anyone who causes you to lose sight of your mission Or anyone who causes you to be drawn into sin and then to resulting have depression has been a stumbling block to you. When you get tripped up, the question is this. Do you want to lay there and have a pity party and feel sorry for yourself? Or do you want to get up and complete the mission? Our Lord said in Luke 17, 1, it is inevitable that stumbling blocks come, but woe to him through whom they come. Our Lord was very specific about those who cause others to stumble, others who believe in him, and now they're caused to stumble. And the Pharisees were certainly that sort of person. They were actively engaged in trying to distort the message of Jesus, as well as persecute anyone who followed him. Listen to John 12, 42. Nevertheless, even among the rulers, many believed in him. But because of the Pharisees, the religious leaders of their time, they would not confess Jesus to be the Christ so that they would be put out of the synagogue for they love the praises of men more than the praises of God. If you're going to follow Jesus Christ, there is a price to be paid. You are going to be persecuted. You may even be killed for that. There are people in this world today that would take great joy in killing a Christian. They think you are of the devil, and they would take great joy in destroying you. They would even give their life in an attempt to kill you, thinking that they would be martyrs and go to heaven if they could rid the world of people like you. Well, just get ready. You haven't seen anything yet. We are going down a road in this country, the United States of America, that is going to see more and more persecution of believers in the future. Satan is having a heyday in our schools. He's having a heyday with the destruction of marriage. He's having a heyday in organized religion with more and more absurdity coming out of our theological seminaries. I mean, I don't even want to waste your time with some of the goofy stuff I read that professors are saying about Jesus Christ. So the practical application for you and me as far as us being a stumbling block, I know you don't want to cause people to stumble. I don't want to cause people to stumble. It's not our mission to cause people to trip and fail. And so my pastor taught me this years ago, that we have the liberty to enjoy certain things, but sometimes we refrain from those things when we're in the presence of weaker believers. We don't want them to be confused by our behavior, so we simply refrain from our liberty and protect the weaker believers. Paul put it this way in 1 Corinthians 8-9. Take care that this liberty of yours does not become a stumbling block to the weak. My pastor taught me this doctrine under the laws of Christian behavior, and let me review some of what he taught me. I always kept his notes. He's gone to be with the Lord now, but I've kept his notes for years, and I certainly have his permission to reteach the things that he taught me. It's just simply out of the Bible. No one has a copyright on the truth that's in the Bible, and my pastor would want me to reteach it to you. He taught me the law of liberty in 1 Corinthians 8 and 9, what I just read. Take care that this liberty of yours does not become a stumbling block to the world. And this law is always directed towards self. Biblically, as a believer in Jesus Christ, there are things that I have the right to do, certain things I could do that are not sinful, and they would not tempt any mature believer to sin if they were in my presence. But it's different if it's a weak believer. New believers and believers without much strength only have carnal norms and standards in their conscience. The weak conscience makes a taboo out of certain things like wine or food which had been sacrificed to idols in the meat market of the heathen temples and they set up these false criteria for spirituality. And so a weak conscience substitutes taboos for the doctrinal norms and standards and it does not possess. In 1 Corinthians 8, 7, however, not all men have this knowledge, but some, being accustomed to the idol until now, eat food as if it were sacrificed to an idol. and their conscience being weak is defiled. Defiled. Oh, what is that word, defiled? Molunon, molunon. Moluno, excuse me, I'll get it right in a minute. Moluno. It's used figuratively of a conscience that's been stained with mud or filth. here's the principle since they don't have a main line of resistance in their soul new young believers then they are distracted or scared by the behavior of the mature believer when they're around him it would appear to them you're disregarding god's laws and the end result is that the emphasis shifts from god's grace to your behavior and thus you become a stumbling block you become an issue not the grace of God, you. So you never want to be an issue in anyone's life. They don't need to be looking at you and looking at me and looking at God and his words, what they need to be looking at. So my pastor used to always say, it's not the man, it's the message. Never idolize the man. Jeremiah 17, five says, cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength and whose heart turns away from me. So the enlightened believer, the smart believer, thought nothing about eating and drinking the food and maybe even having wine from the temple meat market. But the enlightened believer has the responsibility not to offend the ignorant believer as long as it's not encouraging some sort of legalism. That's a different story. If that encourages legalism, then he has no responsibility to worry about what the legalistic believer is going to say. But if it's a new believer, a weak believer, then the liberty of the mature believer may become a stumbling block. And so under the law of liberty, we refrain. We don't do it. We stay away from it because it would create a false issue. And then there's the law of love. And under the law of love, Paul said in 1 Corinthians 8, 13, Therefore, if food makes my brother to stumble, I will not eat food again, so that I might not cause my fellow Christians to stumble. The law of love is the function of impersonal love towards all believers. including legalist, self-righteous, religious types, et cetera. The law of love is generally directed towards new believers who are ignorant of the word of God or towards believers who are distracted by legitimate authority or functions. So let me just say this. Don't let some religious legalist try to establish tyranny over you and tell you what you can and cannot do because they will use your graciousness to manipulate you. I'm trying not to be so blunt with this. There are things you have the right to do. It's nobody's business between you and God, but if you let them, they will stick their nose into your business. Every believer is a minister of reconciliation, and we must refrain from doing things not because they're wrong, but because they could prevent some unbeliever from seeing the true issue of faith alone in Christ alone. There's so much more to say. I'm running out of time quickly here. Will you come back with me next week, and I'll press on with this, and we'll continue this study on what is a spiritual stumbling block. Until then, I'm your host, Rick Hughes, saying thank you for listening to The Flatline.
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Thank you for listening to The Floodline with your host, Rick Hughes. If you'd like to contact Rick, please write to him at P.O. Box 100, Cropwell, Alabama, 35054, or online at www.rickhughesministries.org.
In this episode, we break down the recently refreshed 2025 Hyundai Tucson XRT, emphasizing its appeal to young families and tech-savvy drivers alike. Richard and John discuss how Hyundai delivers a product with comprehensive warranties, ensuring buyers peace of mind with features standard at no extra cost. Whether you value creature comforts or safety performance, discover why this compact SUV is drawing attention for being reliable and budget-friendly amidst its class. Tune in to learn why the Tucson XRT may well be the car that satisfies all of your needs.
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All right, going kind of the other direction from this last review, because this is more of kind of a staple car that most anybody can own and operate if they're in that market for this particular size of vehicle. That's a 2025 Hyundai Tucson XRT.
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Yes. So this is, again, a little bit different car, Dad, but very competitive. We've driven Tucson's in the past. It's updated for 2025. There's new infotainment system, new controls. It looks different. It looks a little bit more aggressive, which I really like. They redesigned it back in 2022. So this is kind of like a mid-cycle refresh, I guess you could say that. It gives you roomy interior. Plenty of room to get, and I know you and I talked about this, which you don't care about as much, but that's the car seat factor, right? You can get two booster seats in the back of this car. You can get however you want to apportion it. You can do that. As we know with Hyundai, Dad, and how they've apportioned these cars, they've made them really easy, right? They come very well apportioned for the value. And this car, just so folks know, as it sits, 36,240, Dad. So right there in the mid-30s. all-wheel drive vehicle. It's got a, let me see here, two-and-a-half-liter, four-cylinder engine, the eight-speed automatic transmission. Dad, this thing isn't going to be a burner, but it's not meant to be. No, it's not.
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This is a car that you can get into. Great, everyday, reliable, you know, transportation. And to your point, if you go look at this compared to other vehicles in its class, this one will have better interior creature comforts than what most of its competitors have.
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Well, they will. And you even get some features that other cars don't have. For example, and I know some people may not think it's a big deal, wireless car play in Android Auto. Wireless device charging. You've got Hyundai Digital Key, which for folks who don't know, basically you can put the key on your phone. You don't even need... a key anymore for a lot of these cars, Dad. And so for the price point, really hard to beat. In terms of fuel economy, Dad, $24,000 and $30,000 for an average of $26,000, which is great. Again, especially for what this car is around town. In the mid-30s, Dad, which I think that $36,000 price point is right around, maybe even less than what the average new car costs nowadays.
SPEAKER 02 :
Oh, yeah, and then they're in the 50s, so you're well under that, absolutely.
SPEAKER 01 :
Yeah, so if you're a younger family looking for reliable transportation, something that sits up a little bit higher, but it's not a large SUV by any stretch of the imagination, but it's got all-wheel drive here in Colorado for all the snow. Some of the snow we get, and even off-road, some of that sort of stuff.
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And really quick to this one, as you were saying earlier. This is a vehicle also in its class you won't find in other vehicles because it comes standard with a bunch of the safety features like lane keep assist, lane departure warning, blind spot monitoring, a lot of those different things that in a lot of its competitors you're paying extra for you're not here.
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You are correct. And, again, one thing about Hyundai, I don't think they don't have a ton of, you know, if you pick a trim, you don't add a bunch, but they just kind of have different trim levels, right? It just depends on which direction that you want to go. You can go everywhere from their low-end SE for just over $30,000 to their high-end limited hybrid, which is about $43,000. And so I can say this middle-of-the-road XRT, it works phenomenal. That's was really impressed with it. And, again, from a kid's standpoint, taking kids to and from school, some of that capability was really nice. They were able to easily access the in and out of the car easy, close the door easy, all those sorts of things. So I encourage folks, especially if you're getting your young family, kind of looking for maybe a newer vehicle, whatever it might be. And the last thing I will say is this, Dad, we talk about this from time to time. Hyundai, five-year, 60,000-mile new vehicle warranty, 10-year, 100,000-mile powertrain warranty, seven-year, unlimited-mile anti-perforation warranty, and there's actually also a five-year unlimited roadside assistance warranty. So they've got a lot of warranties that, again, for maybe a young family, dad, whatever it is, may be the car that you're looking for because you don't have to buy all that extra stuff on top of it. So if you're interested, check your local Hyundai dealer. Let them know that John and Richard Rush from Drive Radio and Rush to Reason sent you.
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This is John Rush from Rush to Reason and Drive Radio. Thank you so much for listening. Check out more of our podcasts at RushToReason.com or Drive-Radio.com.
In this episode, experience the insightful commentary on the newly redesigned 2024 Lexus GX 550 Overtrail. John and Richard explore the car's off-road capabilities, luxurious interior, and its smooth driving experience. They also discuss the vehicle’s impressive market demand. Tune in to understand why the GX 550 is setting new benchmarks even without a hybrid option.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. We've got a couple of car reviews to do. Richard, you lately, and this is a car that's pretty popular among a lot of individuals, 2024 Lexus GX 550 Overtrain. Talk about that.
SPEAKER 02 :
No, sorry. And I missed it. 550 Overtrail.
SPEAKER 01 :
Overtrail. Overtrail. Sorry, that's my bad. I knew that, too. Overtrail.
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No, you're good, yeah. So 2024 Lexus GX550, this is the all-new, maybe one of the hottest cars on the market right now, Dad, right? It is a, well, I'll just say it's a hot item in that it is, Lexus has redesigned the GX. It was getting stale, I'll just say it. They've sort of redesigned it a few times. I think they've hit the mark on this vehicle. I've got several compliments on this car, Dad. Several people commented on it, and it's one that we've been wanting to get in for a while now. So we'll jump right into it. Different trim levels, right? There's all sorts of things you can do. The Overtrail is the one that we had more gear towards the off-road. It's got a few different off-road pieces on it as far as you can kind of read a little bit more about that yourself depending on how you want it. but equip it there's a luxury version that's actually got a third row which kind of fits into that your larger suv um sort of market but this is the over we didn't get a chance to do that we just had your typical kind of i guess it's technically a five passenger vehicle i will say this dad it's a new 3.4 liter twin turbo v6 it's fantastic and they have solved some of their power problems that they had over the years that you'll talk about here in a second that were well known, right? They did a phenomenal job on it. I think it works well. It drives really well. It drives smooth. It feels smaller than it is, Dad, right? And that you get in this car and you don't feel like you're driving a large boat because sometimes some of the large cars... out there, they have that effect where it feels like you're driving a larger vehicle than you actually are. And that's something that it just can take away from the total value of the car as far as that goes. Its body on frame, as you know, obviously has a lot of the off-road, you know, that gives it some of the off-road capabilities. But you've seen these, you haven't driven it yet, but from what I was describing to you, they made a lot of improvements from the previous generation to this iteration.
SPEAKER 01 :
I like, I've not driven this car, but I like the look of this vehicle. I think they've done a really good job on it, and I've been up and close. I've sat in it, all of that. I mean, that part of it, Richard, I really enjoy, and I think Lexus did a really great job, or Toyota, that's the owner of Lexus. They did a really good job on this vehicle. One thing, though, about this particular vehicle that you and I were commenting on, because I was driving a vehicle, you were driving that vehicle, and we were commenting on just everything from road noise and power and different things. But this particular vehicle, because of the roof rack, you didn't care for so much, did you?
SPEAKER 02 :
Dad, I had several people get in it. They are Lexus fanatics. That's all they basically own. And they love everything about this car except for the roof rack. And I'll just say it, Lexus. We had a similar vehicle. I think we had a Toyota, no, a Sequoia that had the similar roof. There's just something about the design of it that causes excess road noise or wind noise above about 50, 55 miles per hour.
SPEAKER 01 :
That would drive me crazy, by the way.
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And here's the deal, Dad. On an otherwise quiet vehicle on the inside... And like I said, smooth, got a cool, you know, nice cooler box, pun intended. On the inside, you've got really easy-to-use controls, which I got several compliments on. It takes away from the vehicle. Now, I think you can remove it, and so I'm not going to knock the vehicle for it, right? I think if you've got the luxury trim that offers that third-row seating, I think you could get away from it. I just would love, because I know the reason they put it on there on the Overtrail is so that you can put some accessories and you can do some things like that with it that you couldn't do maybe standard, right? Or you don't have to buy an aftermarket accessory. I just would love it if they would engineer it better to not have that. Outside of that, Dad, one of my most favorite cars that I've driven... over the past number of years. This vehicle, and don't fall out of your chairs, folks, $84,575, which some of you are going to say, oh, my goodness, folks, for a large SUV that's in the luxury market, which is what this vehicle is, that's right in line, Dad, and some could argue it's even a little bit less cheaper than some of its competitors out there. So I love it. The fuel economy, just for folks, if you care, with the V6, It's got the twin turbo. It doesn't have a hybrid option yet, but I guess we'll see what's coming. I'll be honest, I didn't look too much into that. It's a 15 and 21 for an average of 17. I already gave the price point. I would really highly encourage folks, and here's the deal, Dad, if you want one of these things, you've almost got to get on a waiting list. That's how much they are in demand right now. So we encourage you, if they have one, maybe they'll let you test drive it at a Lexus dealer. If they don't, still go in, check it out. And when you do that, let them know that John and Richard Rush from Drive Radio and Rush to Reason sent you.
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This is John Rush from Rush to Reason and Drive Radio. Thank you so much for listening. Check out more of our podcasts at RushToReason.com or Drive-Radio.com.
In this episode of Rush to Reason, John and Richard delve into their latest automotive adventure with a comprehensive review of the 2025 Ford Explorer ST. Known for its transforming reputation in the SUV market, the Ford Explorer ST steps up with impressive design and functionality. Listen as they discuss the driving dynamics, interior features, and the surprisingly smooth performance that has left them thoroughly impressed.
SPEAKER 01 :
All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Got a couple car reviews that we will slip in right now. I shouldn't say slip in. We always take some time doing these, Richard. And both of us have a couple of cars. I'll start. I recently drove a 2025 Ford Explorer ST. This is a rear-wheel drive version. They do make an all-wheel drive version of the vehicle.
SPEAKER 1 :
$57,100.
SPEAKER 01 :
It's a 3-liter EcoBoost V6. This is their sport model, of course. I average about 22 miles to the gallon around town. And folks listening, Richard will attest to this. I think because of working in that field for so long, owning four-wheel drive off-road stores and so on, and the Explorers for the longest time just didn't have the best reputation, Richard. And I'm just being honest, and I know Ford's going to listen to this review, but they didn't have the best reputation. So I will tell you, Richard, that... Never been one of my favorite vehicles, and I'm just going to be straight up honest. Until now.
SPEAKER 02 :
No, I was going to say, it hasn't, and yeah, you kind of talked over there, until now. And folks, I can say, we drive a lot of cars, and he does not call me, we usually don't talk, and we kind of talk about a car, right, a little bit, but we don't really rave about a car. And I will say this, that you were very impressed, and I'll let you go into more details, but
SPEAKER 01 :
about this car and again it's a it's a credit to ford because like you say the reputation on explorers over the years hasn't been the greatest and i think that's changing a little bit oh absolutely and again i don't get excited about too many vehicles but after being in this car for just a couple of days we drive them for a week but just a couple of days uh thoroughly impressed the car runs extremely well It handles superbly. It handles more like a sports car than it does an SUV. The one I drove had four captain's chairs plus the rear back seat, the third seat. Now, you can configure that in multiple different ways, of course. Plenty of room inside, as you can imagine. Very quiet, very comfortable. All of the agronomic things you could ever imagine. In other words, all the bells and whistles and car play. The whole nine yards. I mean, the reality, Richard, is this thing's equipped just like anything else would be. And I will give Ford credit here. And I, again, drive a lot of different vehicles and have owned some. Chevy with the Super Cruise compared to Ford with, I believe they call it Blue Cruise. I will say this, and I've said it before driving some of the F-150s, Ford's automated system far superior to GM's. And I'm just being straight up honest. Sorry, GM, but Ford has you beat in the way their system works. It's not jittery. It's smooth. It's fluid. And their system, Richard, works extremely well.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, and you commented about that, and then obviously the other biggest feature, you mentioned the inside, the interior, but you just said the power, right, the performance of that vehicle, and obviously it's not a new engine for them, right, Dad?
SPEAKER 01 :
No, it's not.
SPEAKER 02 :
They've been running the EcoBoost for a while now, and you were just, you were really, it's probably one of the more overall impressive cars that you've driven, especially for this segment, right, and the price point. Segment and price. This car fits. It's really great.
SPEAKER 01 :
Yeah, under $60,000, and you can buy these even for less than that with some of the discounts that are around. The ST version being their high-performance version. Car works extremely well. I mean, I can see why a lot of the police forces and that have used these things for years. They're very... uh versatile i guess would be the right word for me to use richard and in their in their segment does this car compete well absolutely and what's interesting is that it comes in a rear-wheel drive and an all-wheel drive version i actually drove the rear-wheel drive version and we actually had some snow and some slick roads during that time and i'm being straight up honest I put it in the snow mode because I assumed, because I didn't look at the Monroney before driving it, I just assumed it was all-wheel drive, so I put it in snow mode and started driving it. Honestly, Richard, I didn't know I wasn't driving an all-wheel drive. That's how well the rear-wheel drive version works with all of the automated systems they have for traction control and so on. Now, if I was going to be in Colorado, would I buy the all-wheel drive version? Yes. But this particular model being rear-wheel drive still works very well. So I'll leave it at that. Those of you that are listening, if you want to know more about the Ford Explorer, go check one out at your local Ford dealer. By all means, make sure you tell them that John and Richard Rush, both from Rush to Reason and Drive Radio, sent you. This is John Rush from Rush to Reason and Drive Radio. Thank you so much for listening. Check out more of our podcasts at RushToReason.com or Drive-Radio.com.
Join John and Richard as they review the 2025 Lexus UX300H—a vehicle that seamlessly integrates Lexus luxury with the agility and economy of a hybrid compact SUV. Apt for city drivers and empty nesters alike, this vehicle fits snugly into urban life, offering convenience for small spaces while maintaining room for passengers and cargo. The conversation highlights aspects like the renowned Lexus safety and infotainment system, bolstered by the latest in hybrid powertrains. Listeners are encouraged to explore the possibilities this SUV offers, especially those factoring in fuel efficiency in their decision-making as Richard validates its performance with the new model. Experience the comfort and technological sophistication brought by this new release, making a case for the UX300H as a luxe yet eco-friendly option.
SPEAKER 02 :
All right, Richard, you drove a car recently as well. Was it a 2024 or 2025 Lexus UX300H?
SPEAKER 01 :
Yeah, 2025, Dad. And it's a, yeah, 300, which is the 25 replaces the 250H from previous year's model. And basically what they did, they upgraded the hybrid powertrain and put it more powerful. It's got a little bit more get up and go. Folks, this is a compact SUV, right? You know, the car we just talked about, a little bit more of that midsize or even large. Correct. On the board of large, right? This is a compact SUV. And the reason I say that, Dad, is because some people sort of knock this car for not having a whole lot of room. And what I would say is this is the segment, right? These compact SUVs where they sit up a little bit higher, but they don't sit up super, super high. And they also give you the ability to get all-wheel drive, which this car has. It also has a front-wheel drive model, I believe. But this was the all-wheel drive version. And when you combine that with, you know, get a little bit higher clearance, no, is there a ton of room in the back seat in the second row? No, but this car is not meant for it, right? You know, can you put some kids in a booster seat, which I did? Absolutely you can. But really you're getting an all-wheel drive SUV that you're breaking into the Lexus, Well, I guess you're breaking into the Lexus model, right? You're into that segment of car, kind of the luxury SUV market, for under $50,000. And you get all of the apportionments, the interior apportionments that Lexus is known for, their safety, their hands-free control, their automatic braking, their infotainment system, all of the Lexus benefits that you get with that. With Lexus, with other cars, Dad, that are a lot more money, you get, again, for sub-$50,000, which is really hard to beat. We had the F Sport package on this car. There's a lot of other things. There's a really pretty color that came on this. There's a really pretty blue. And honestly, Dad, this car works phenomenal. The best thing to me, and again, this is the hybrid version, is the fuel economy. This car, Dad, even with the all-wheel drive version, is only one mile per gallon less than the front-wheel drive version, which is an average of 42, and so you can go a lot of places, and again, I know fuel prices, hopefully you'll stay good and go down, but if they're not or you're worried about that, this is a great option for you, Dad, because you don't have to plug this car in. It uses the... The infamous, or not infamous, the famous, I should say, Lexus hybrid, the Toyota hybrid system, which you and I have talked about, is really second to none with how well they put their hybrid technology together. And you get all of the benefits of that, again, with the luxury of the Lexus, your name and everything that goes along with it. all inside kind of, and I'm going to say it, a compact package, which is really nice, and especially that if you're more urban driving, right, where you need to fit into some tighter places, that sort of thing, maybe you're empty nesters, you're looking for something where you can maybe haul the grandkids. and still have the ability to put this in a small garage or a tight space at the grocery store, you've got the ability to do so. So I encourage folks to check it out. Again, the model we drove, 2025 Lexus UX300H. This is the all-wheel drive version. Head to your local Lexus dealer and let them know that John and Richard Rush from Drive Radio and Rush to Reason sent you.
SPEAKER 02 :
This is John Rush from Rush to Reason and Drive Radio. Thank you so much for listening. Check out more of our podcasts at RushToReason.com or Drive-Radio.com.
Join Scott Whatley as he hosts the Sportsman of Colorado, an engaging radio show for outdoor enthusiasts. This week, embark on a captivating journey through the Mile High Hunt and Fish Expo with special guest Abe Aaron. Dive into the exciting world of hunting and fishing expos, where premier brands unveil their latest innovations and conservation efforts take center stage. Discover how this unique event has evolved, offering attendees a jam-packed schedule of events, guest speakers, and incredible hunting opportunities. The Mile High Hunt and Fish Expo is more than just an expo it's a celebration of America’s rich hunting and fishing heritage. Guests will explore new products, engage with like-minded individuals, and indulge in the excitement of after-hours events like the casino-themed gala. If you're an avid hunter or angler, this episode provides the insights needed to prepare for a thrilling experience at Colorado’s leading outdoor expo. Tune in as Scott and Abe discuss the meticulous planning and vision that fuels this dynamic event, while sharing exclusive previews of the cutting-edge gear and special draws on display. Learn how the expo fosters community spirit among attendees, bringing together brands, conservationists, and the people passionate about the great outdoors.
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Welcome to Sportsman of Colorado, Colorado's premier outdoor radio show heard every Saturday afternoon on KLZ 560 with insights on hunting, fishing, archery, guns, and ammo from Colorado's top outfitters featuring the industry's leading experts on how to enhance your experience in the great outdoors. Now, here's your host, Scott Whatley.
SPEAKER 11 :
Welcome to Sportsman of Colorado. Thank you so much for being with us today. Hey, we've got a jam-packed show for you. Well, Colorado's premier hunting and fishing expo is back. It is April 11th through the 13th at the Gaylord of the Rockies, and it is the Mile High Hunt and Fish Expo. Abe Aaron joins us today. Abe, good to see you, sir. Hey, how are you, Scotty? I'm good, man. I'm good. So when you reflect back at a couple of years ago and Phil Mendoza and you and I, we were walking around Salt Lake City a little bit and at an expo there. And we were just kind of walking around, checking with a few people. Hey, it's kind of cool because I remember when I started my radio show, I went to people and said, hey, look, I'm going to start a radio show. I had a few people tell me. come back and see me in a couple of years. And I have to say I remember those people very vividly. You wait and see if you're still doing it in three years, you know. But, man, it was really cool last year when the doors opened for the first year, April 5th, to just see it come to fruition, wasn't it?
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, you know, look, we didn't know what to expect. We knew it was going to have a very, very good trajectory, high probability of succeeding. We did everything possible. that we could to bring in the right brands and the right conservation organizations and guest speakers and calling contests and banquets and everything we could do, you know, and drawings and whatnot for folks to give them something that they've never had before. And, you know, we didn't want to take it to, let's say, a couple notches up. We wanted to really, really set a high bar. Mm-hmm. and grow from there, because when it comes to something like a hunting and fishing expo, every year you have to innovate. People don't want to come see the same thing every year. There's got to be something new and exciting every year, and it takes some pretty creative, passionate people to do that. Our first year was a success. We definitely set a very high bar, and I can tell you already for 2025, we set goals in mind and things we wanted to bring in, and we're doing it. So it's cool to see it. I don't look at this as a, oh, we did a successful job. I look at it as, hey, this is where the bar was set. You know, for 2024, how many rungs can we set that bar higher for 25 and 26 and 27 and 28, you know? So it's pretty exciting. I mean, even stuff we have this year, people are going to be very pleased.
SPEAKER 11 :
Right. You can go to milehighhuntexpo.com for more information. And, hey, the best thing to do is follow them on social media. Again, it's the Mile High Hunt and Fish Expo, but the website is milehighhuntexpo.com. And you'll see all the things. And we're going to be coming on quite frequently between now and then with Abe and Phil, letting you know about some of these really cool things that... We're last year and a bunch of new things that were added. And, you know, I knew it was just so good when when so many people would stop by our booth and just say, this is unbelievable. I mean, you know, first year show and to have names. Many people had never seen in Denver. And if they had seen the name before, it was 20 years ago. Right. You know, and and then for the vendors, it's equally satisfying, gratifying for them because they're around a bunch of good outdoor stuff and people. Right.
SPEAKER 12 :
You know, I agree with you. And the thing is that. People want to see the big brands, the newest products, those who are innovating, right, as well as, like, your up-and-coming boutique brands. Brands that, you know, because you've got to remember, at some point in time, brands like Kuyu and many, many years ago, brands like Swarovski or Zeiss or decades ago, these were all boutique brands. They were small, up-and-coming brands, and look what they became, right? And all it was was innovations. Like, I look at one of our sponsors is Maven, right? And I look at them as one of those optics companies that, as time goes on, they will be looked at as one of the best. They're already one of the best there is. No, I've got several. And they're getting better by the minute. So, you know, you've got to have a mix of it. But really, you've got to bring, if you listen to the people, They'll tell you what they don't like about other expos across the country that they've been to. And most people are more likely to be vocal about something they didn't like than they are about what they really like.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right.
SPEAKER 12 :
So you just got to listen. You got to listen to what the people are saying. You got to listen to what the exhibitors are saying. Like, I'll give you an example. We didn't do a four day show. We did a three day show because the efficiency and the excitement, um, that the exhibitors have right over a four day show kind of drags on, you know, it really does. Uh, there's too many people working on a Thursday, but there's enough people that get off early on a Friday that it's worth having a Friday, Saturday, Sunday, right. And you can't have an all day Sunday show either because people want to get home, get ready to, for their Monday, for their week coming up, you know, and people just want to have a kind of a wild and fun weekend. I mean, I tell people this is, this is the hunting and fishing party of the year.
SPEAKER 11 :
It really is, man, because I'm telling you, from the time the doors opened last year until I was loading up my trailer, it was just action-packed. It's fun. I mean, yeah, you're running ragged, but it was an absolute blast.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, it was awesome. I'll put it to you like this. You know, when you go to the right kind of expo, you don't want to leave, right? Because you're surrounded in a building surrounded by people, like-minded individuals. And it doesn't matter if you're just a bird hunter or just a big game hunter or just a bow hunter or just an ice fisherman or just a fly fisherman or whatever you are, or guys like us who do it all, right? Every season, every species, every weapon. I love all of hunting and all of fishing. And so for that, you just there's no dull moments. There's never not something to look at. There's never not somebody to talk to. There's evenings, there's activities, there's events, there's guest speakers, there's workshops, there's calling contests. I mean, there is it's almost like. To have the maximum amount of fun, you should just not sleep for three days and be there every minute, every second of every day. And I'm telling you, get there early because you're not going to want to leave. Nobody wants to leave, you know. It feels like you're leaving the party early. Right. You know, it's just so much fun. I mean, because here's the deal, Scott. We're at the end of, I mean, we've got, I don't know, about a week left. We've got until the 16th for Canada goose season. Ducks already closed. Most all big game seasons, if not, especially in Colorado, are done with, right? And... You got snow goose. You got the conservation season coming up. And then, you know, you really got not much to look forward to as far as hunting goes until spring turkey. Sure. And, yeah, ice fishing is pretty good in some parts right now. If you're willing to brave the cold, fly fishing, there are some hot spots right now. Other than that, you know, you're not pulling the boat out.
SPEAKER 04 :
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 12 :
nobody's getting super pumped about the the walleye spawn hasn't even started let alone waiting for that to be over so that they could put the feed bag on right you can go catch a bunch of walleye so it's kind of this dead spot and everybody's thinking about their 2025 and 2026 upcoming hunting season and it's like this depression period so we have this awesome hunting and fishing expo during the depression to to keep the excitement year long right because by the time you get through the expo, well, bang, you're into spring turkey, right? And you're into thaw and you're into fishing and the boat's out. You know, fly fishing's good, lake fishing's good, you know, whatever, right? I mean, you get past that January, February, deep winter lull, that depression. So this is kind of our way to spring into turkey season and fishing season and get to planning for the hunting season ahead.
SPEAKER 11 :
Right. Now, again, we're talking about the Mile High Hunt and Fish Expo. That's April 11th through the 13th. Go to milehighhuntexpo.com for more information. You get your tickets there. And we're going to be telling you more about this, but we're going to give you some highlights today. A couple of cool parties last year. We had the first night there, the Friday night. We had the after party there, which was really cool. And then we had our big banquet. And this year we're going to do something a little different on that Friday night, a casino night.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yep. So as far as banquets go, so let's just talk after hours events regardless, right? So Friday night we have a casino-themed party. banquet, you know, and so we'll have, you know, we're not going to run a two-hour boring auction. We're going to have 14, 15 awesome hunts and items on an auction, tons of drawings. And basically, if you get into this banquet, you're going to have Poker tables and blackjack tables. You're going to come in and, you know, it's our casino night, so you just play all the tables. You know, take a little money. You buy some chips and run around and play games all evening. And then by the time you're done, you can cash in your chips, get your tickets, and we will have some awesome drawing items. Because if there's one thing you saw last year, we didn't have no cheap stuff. Nothing.
SPEAKER 01 :
We hadn't.
SPEAKER 12 :
Nice shotguns and rifles and fully loaded bows and awesome hunts, waterfowl hunts, upland hunts, archery, big game hunts, rifle, big game hunts. I mean, you name it. We didn't want to bring, you know, we didn't bring anything cheesy to the table. We brought stuff that. People would really want to go on. And, you know, I'll give you an example. The gentleman who won our rifle elk hunt, one of many hunts that we did, one guy that just stood out to me because he walked up to us and he said, my God, I've never won anything in my life, and I've never been on a guided hunt before, and I just won a rifle bull elk hunt with Cuddy Creek, right, with Justin Salibi and his crew. And that guy was just besides himself. Right. Because honestly, he may have never gone spent $5,000, $6,000 on an elk hunt, or he may have gone on a $40,000 elk hunt. Who knows, right? You don't know who the winner is going to be. But it was cool to see somebody that was that appreciative and got to do something that they've never had the opportunity to do before. Right. And we did that 40 times over last year. Right. We had so many hunts and fishing trips and and rifles and bows and shot. It was it was ridiculous. Like nothing like that had ever been done before in Colorado. So we're going to step it up. Yeah. So back to the. Sorry, I went off on. No, no, no. So Friday night we got the casino themed. With Muley Fanatic Foundation and, you know, our partners, Ducks and Limited Health for Wildlife and, you know, the Colorado Wildlife Council. And so what we're doing is we're just making it a more laid back. You know, you show up in your jeans or whatever and your cowboy boots and it's not super duper. It's nice, but it's not, you know, super fancy or. where you're not looking at $50,000, $60,000, $70,000, $80,000 hunts or $15,000 hunts, none of that stuff, you know. It's more midline, let's just say $2,000 to $7,000 hunts on the live auction or something in that realm, right? And, you know, rifle packages, bow packages. You'll have a good window to just run around, hang out with your buddies, you know, Have your food and beverage and play your games, whether you like blackjack or, you know, poker or whatever you like, right? Whatever card games you like, we'll have tables for that stuff and an opportunity, a strong opportunity at winning something, going home with something cool. You know, something worth having in your safe or in your arsenal. Right, right. Yeah. Whether it be a full get up of camo gear or a bow or a shotgun or a hunting or fishing trip to look forward to. Right. Saturday night. Saturday night is our kind of it's our, you know, upscale, real nice event. You know, you dressed impressed kind of situation for the night of conservation. And same partners, you know, Ducks Unlimited, Muley Fanatic Foundation, Howell for Wildlife came on board this year. We're very happy to have them because they are. Those guys are awesome. And those guys, man, they swing what they swing. They're spectacular partners, just like, you know, Muley Fanatic. And these guys, you know, they bring awesome hunt. and awesome gear they don't bring you any riffraff the the stuff that they bring to the table they care you know they know that at this banquet when we raise these dollars they're they're out there making a difference and they'll prove to you they'll show you where the dollars went and that's why we chose them these the group of conservation organizations we have um We've got some really good, you know, we've got celebrity hunts and, you know, without releasing too many details.
SPEAKER 11 :
Sure, sure.
SPEAKER 12 :
We're wrapping up on, you know, trophy, I'll just say trophy animal hunts that... aren't even available regardless of how deep your pockets are or are not some of these wouldn't be available to you they're priceless hunts you know so there we've got some very very and we are going to release our uh auction list okay and and our drawing list here in the next couple weeks so just be on the lookout because it's this kind of stuff has never been offered in colorado before
SPEAKER 11 :
And there'll be some tables available. Corporate tables. Corporate tables. And then individual tickets as well.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yes. And they're all, when you see them go for sale on our website. Dude, you better get on it.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah. You better get on it.
SPEAKER 12 :
Because they sold out fast last year. And we have two nights this year. And I can guarantee you they're going to sell. I mean, just by the amount of people sending messages to our website asking about it, there's people just waiting. Yeah. To get a couple of tickets, you know. And we have, you'll have, as to be expected, you know, a nice setting with a grade A food, dinner, dessert. You know, it's, you know how it was last year. I mean, it was just.
SPEAKER 04 :
It was unbelievable.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah. I mean, it's a very, very nice setting. Everything is thought through. And we'll do our best to, we're taking it up a couple notches this year.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, cool. Hey, if anyone's with us, once again, it's Mile High Hunt and Fish Expo. Mile High Hunt. For more information, again, follow them on social media. Stay tuned, even on Haystack during our weekday show. And, of course, Sportsman of Colorado, through these next few weeks, we're going to be giving you more and more and more information. But the quick information is the tickets are already on sale. Get your tickets now. And then once the banquet ticket opens up and the casino night, you want tickets for that, you better get in there and get them because these are going to sell quickly. And another thing, Just a couple of other things to point out is, you know, yeah, a lot of people come there to do excursions, whether hunts or fishing trips or whatever. But it's not just wall-to-wall outfitters. You guys went about this in a different way and different designs. So kind of give your thought process on that.
SPEAKER 12 :
So we, you know... People come to these events. There is a significant amount of people that come to these expos to buy hunting trips or get to talk to an outfitter, get to know them for their future. And so we try to make sure that we provide vetted and good options per category. Now, if you want to go to Africa and go on a safari there, okay, we're not going to bring in 30 Africa outfitters. We'll bring in four or five really good ones, right? You're looking for an out west mule deer hunter, elk hunt. Well, we're going to have five, six, seven outfitters in that realm, but we're not going to have 15 or 20. And the reason why is we pick the best ones that have a good reputation and do as much research as we can. having not gone with this outfitter ourselves, right? No firsthand experience in most cases. In some cases, we do have firsthand experience. Some outfitters are there because we've hunted with them. And so that people, we're taking the guesswork out. You came to buy a hunt. You don't have to stand in front of this guy and go, oh, is he going to try for me? Is he going to rip me off? Is he a man of his word? No. You know, we've done the majority of that work. Yeah, we can't sit here and give you a contractual guarantee. Sure. But we try to do – make as much of the research – painless for people so that if they want to book a hunt at our event there's an extremely high probability it's going to be a good experience number one number two um we cap outfitters by category so that we have room for our different uh for example we have our traditional long-standing hunting companies with new products because they're innovating every year like Leica and Zeiss and really, really cutting-edge companies like Gunwerks and Revik Optics, right, and Maven, and we have Hoyt and Elite Bows and Montana Rifle and G5. And so growing on that, you know, we'll go seek out brands that are – that are up and coming right that have a very high quality like peaks and some of these guys that have a very high quality product and you just know that they're going to have a huge market share in their category once people really know about them they're there to get the word out right and so um there's that and then you know we have some cool new additions on the uh map I'm sorry, on the manufacturer side, you know, companies like Seekins Precision, right? If you haven't heard of Seekins, I mean, everybody knows who they are. And if you haven't, they're basically a company that gives you an equal caliber to, let's say, it's a semi-custom rifle that shoots like a $7,000, $8,000 custom rifle. Right. You can buy off the shelf because they make everything in the United States in one place in Idaho. Every part they are. I mean, they are the best of the best. Right. So that was obviously a brand we wanted to have at the expo. Right. And that, you know, King's Camo came in, right? They saw, hey, you know, King's has been over the last, I would say, five, six years or so, King's has really got themselves on the map by engineering and innovating some of the best new technical hunting gear that you can get. And, of course, you have your staples, right? Top dogs like Kuyu. Of course, Kuyu's back, right? And so you have all these manufacturers, these brands. For example, for our waterfowl side, right, we have Avery, Greenhead Gear, Bandit, you know, all these different companies in the waterfowl world that are coming in. So we have a really good spread. Between waterfowl and upland and big game with a bow and big game with a rifle or however, right? So we've made sure that we cover all our bases and have more than something for everybody.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 11 :
It's going to be cool, man.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, yeah. Yeah, I mean, it's going to be fun. You know, sponsors this year, again, we have Grizzly, right? And what I like about Grizzly coolers is they're not just a cooler company, right? They're very, very innovative. Like, they have pushed into the cold plunge world, right? And they now offer a big cooler with a chiller system with a partner of theirs that you can buy. They've also went into the hunting blinds. world okay and i gotta say they're hunting blinds because they listened are kind of taking it by storm and from a guy who's owned and still owns a lot of i've owned rednecks i've owned banks i mean at one point uh even now we have i don't know a handful of the nicer redneck blinds some of our farms and and uh and a handful of the uh banks and they're nice blinds but you look at what grizzly's done with their windows and they've made slots for uh Ozonics, right? Like, why didn't anybody else do that? The innovation's there, and I love that. You know, and we have, so we've got some real good, you know, of course, Whitetail Properties, they're a staple in providing, you know, we've got quite a few really good sponsors. So Kefaru's back, best in the pack game there is. You know, nobody's going to beat them. And so we've got quite a few of our same sponsors. And honestly, one of the things I'm most excited about, You know, every year we work with our conservation organizations, the dollars we drive, you know, Ducks Unlimited will show you, hey, this is where the money went. Muley Fanatic Foundation will come and specifically say, hey, you know, we've got this project we're going to fund for a mule deer crossing through winter migration or whatever it may be. Right. A spring brooding area, whatever it may be. So these are wildlife organizations and HAL. HAL is, I'm so excited to have them because they are a serious... They're as serious as it gets where whatever the issue is, you know, this Prop 127. You know, Dan Gates and those guys, obviously, they worked very hard on that. But Hal was a swinging sledgehammer. Yeah, Charles and Mike were really good, man. Yeah, these guys, Charles and his crew, they figure out who's trying to take hunting rights away from us, and they just laser focus. And they get it done. You know, they get it done. They get awareness. They're not afraid. And they put in the work like nothing I've ever seen before. And even, you know, the Colorado Wildlife Council came in this year. And they're a big part of, you know, license. They get a part of license sales and everything. and give back to the hunting and fishing community in Colorado specifically. You know, it's not going to exterior interest. It's staying here. So it's exciting. I mean, anybody who comes through the door this year will be satisfied.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah. It's the Mile High Hunting Fish Expo, April 11th through the 13th at the Gaylord of the Rockies. Now, hey, if you want to make it kind of a really super cool weekend, got a special deal at the Gaylord. And I'm going to tell you, it's... Victoria and I, we went out for dinner the other night out there and just to go look around again. And we went to dinner out there and I was telling the person at the desk there, you know, so they were coming for the expo again. And and I showed them the rate that we got.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 11 :
And the guy goes, that can't be right. And I go, what? And he goes, I don't see rates like that. So I'm just telling everybody, if you want to stay at the Gaylord, it's good. But you guys also went an extra step and across the way, just a couple of miles away, you got some other special deals and a shuttle that will be running from an area, right?
SPEAKER 12 :
You are absolutely correct, Scott. So basically, look, everybody wants to stay at the Gaylord. You know, last year, our room block sold out so fast, we went and tried to get more. But we can only ask for so many, so many times, right? So if you see a room block available, book it. Because it's an unbelievable rate to be staying at the Gaylord No. 1 and No.
SPEAKER 1 :
2.
SPEAKER 12 :
You don't really have to worry about it because we're setting up a shuttle to run back and forth to two nicer hotels a mile down the road so that we can make sure those who want to have a room and stay close by can get to and from the expo.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
And we'll have room block discounts on that as well. So there's that option. And then the other thing that we partner with, the Gaylord Rockies Resort, is some folks, first off, let's talk about Gramps. Let's talk about the things that people didn't like last year. It was a first-year show. And let me tell you, people were vocal about, you know what the single biggest and really the only shining issue that we heard about was? parking park oh you nailed it but parking's too expensive okay all right so we've got two solutions number one um we the closest right light rail station to the gaylord rockies which is will be on our website um has a constant shuttle that runs back and forth and picks you up from the uh from the light rail station drops you right off at the front doors of the Gaylord Rockies. So if you don't want to pay for parking, fine. Just come on the light rail. But we, Phil, and Phil is, really, I got to give him all the credit. He's amazing. He was adamant. And we negotiated much lower parking rights. So, you know, we had people telling us, oh, I paid $25 a park last year. Well, this year it's come down drastically less. I mean, it's quite a bit less.
SPEAKER 11 :
And we negotiated that. Some people that came. And I said, look. You've been going downtown for years, you know, different things. You park there, and you know what? Here's the good part. Your truck's going to be out there at the Gaylord when you leave, okay? And not broken into. And not broken into. All your stuff will be there. So, hey, it's a couple bucks. But, man, when you get to be at the Gaylord, and I tell you, just watching people's faces when they entered into the exhibit area. and just seeing how beautiful it was i mean nice carpeted floors we we went to the night booths were set up properly you know i know just people just showed up with a you know a couple of metal chairs and a table and no backdrop i mean you just man everybody knew they weren't a real yeah we wanted people to know that look
SPEAKER 12 :
You know, first off, I'll just say real quick on the parking thing. The way we've got it this year, it is now more affordable to park at the Gaylord Rockies for the Mile High Hunt and Fish Expo than it is downtown.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
So how about that for a solution? We promised you we'd fix it, and we did. So that's taken care of. No more complaints. Second thing is, you know, when you walk in, you want to give people – we wanted people – We didn't want to tell people we appreciate them. We wanted to show them. So our thought was, hey, we want people to get a certain kind of feeling when they walk into this place. Not just that they belong there, but it was worth it for them to pack their family up or even if they came by themselves to drive all the way out by the airport to the Gaylord Rockies Resort and pay for parking and pay for a ticket for entry, you know. that's a commitment right sure if somebody is choosing to spend their money and especially their time and come out there and see us they're going to be pretty serious hunter and angler yeah so we wanted them to have just an off the rails experience from the second they walked in there right we wanted them to take two steps into that expo and they see that this place is nice and it's welcoming and all the floors are covered you have nice carpet easy on your knees you got beautiful drapery everywhere You know, no, there's no exposed concrete everywhere. There's no clackety chairs. This is a really nice establishment. And you belong there. You know, these these we had over, you know, 10,000 people come through the doors on our first year. And every one of them, I imagine, got a feeling of, hey, I belong here. And, you know, we we are showing you how much we appreciate you joining us.
SPEAKER 11 :
It's awesome.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 11 :
Can't wait. Hey, we'll be there as well. Of course, we're from Colorado Radio. We'll be helping emcee a few things. And I hope you'll just circle the dates now. And when I say dates, come all three dates. I'm telling you what, it's going to be awesome. April 11th through the 13th. MyHighHuntExpo.com. Get your tickets. And once everything opens up with the banquets and all, once again, if you're interested in that, which I highly recommend it, It's going to be a fun couple of nights there in the evenings as well. You can get your tickets there as well, and we'll be sharing more here in the days to come. So, Abe, appreciate you coming in, man.
SPEAKER 12 :
Hey, thanks for having me. I'm looking forward to coming back.
SPEAKER 11 :
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SPEAKER 09 :
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SPEAKER 11 :
Welcome back to Sportsman of Colorado. Again, thank you so much for being with us. Well, you've been hearing we try to each month have someone on from the Colorado Gun Collector Association. We met these folks last year while we were doing a live remote over at the gun room. And it's been very interesting getting to know the different folks from there and just me even personally learning more about gun collecting. And today we've got Les Palmer with us. He has been with them quite a while, and we'll let Les tell us all about that. But, Les, great to have you on the show. How are you? Thank you. I'm glad to be here. Well, we appreciate it very much. So tell us just a little bit about you and how maybe you got into gun collecting.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, I guess, first of all, I'm a Colorado native. And I've considered myself as a plains Coloradoan. I don't do elk hunting or deer hunting, but I enjoy bird hunting. So along that line, you get a shotgun to do bird hunting, and I just went from there. I started collecting Winchester Model 12s early on, and... Here I am today, stuck with them. I got a history with that gun. I consider it the finest shotgun that was ever made. It's a pump shotgun. The patent on the gun is a 1912, and it was produced from 1912 until 1963 when Winchester decided that was enough of that gun. Sales were dropping in one thing and another. So if you look at it in retrospect, The gun was produced from the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 all the years through the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Wow, that's an interesting perspective, yeah. And there were over a million seven hundred thousand of them made at one time. Yeah. That's what's intrigued me is the uniqueness of the gun, the appearance of the gun, and the functionality of the gun stayed basically the same for all those years. Wow. The salesman catalog... In 1973, or excuse me, excuse me, not 73, 53, Salesman Catalog in 1953 listed 175 different variances of that gun. It was made in a 28-gauge, 12-gauge, 16-gauge, and what am I forgetting here? But anyway, it's been an interesting gun over the years, and I've enjoyed all of the collecting.
SPEAKER 11 :
What would a gun like that have sold for brand new, like in the 30s or 40s or 50s? Probably...
SPEAKER 10 :
$70 in the $70 price range. Again, there's 153 variables you could put on that gun. Sure. Might raise the price $2. Yeah, exactly. So I'd say a $70 gun. Wow, that's interesting. Yeah.
SPEAKER 11 :
So someone might ask, you know, they've heard you guys on, and how does one even, if they say, do most people have a favorite era or type of gun they get into collection with most of the people in the Colorado Gun Collector Association?
SPEAKER 10 :
You need to stay focused as a collector.
SPEAKER 11 :
Or you end up with a whole bunch of guns.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah. Or yes. Yeah, you can't have them all. So I'd say basically most collectors at some point in their collecting will focus on one particular gun. Yeah. Be it a handgun or a long gun or one of a kind. Right.
SPEAKER 11 :
So when people may have a gun maybe that a grandparent passed down to them or it's just in their family and they have no idea, you know, what it is, the value. Are there are there certain books that you guys will will look at to really give true value? Or is that something that they can come and do at the show, which we'll talk about later? That's going to be coming up in May. Is that something that they can maybe bring something to and have you folks look at?
SPEAKER 10 :
That'd be the easiest way because the gun books, reference books that would give you that value will surely cost more than the admission to the gun show to get an appraisal done on that gun. There's a misnomer in collecting that old doesn't make it valuable. An old beat-up gun... probably doesn't have the intrinsic value of an old, nice gun. So, you know, there's a separation point there where people need to understand that the guy that they show it to isn't trying to take money out of their pocket. It might be that the gun isn't that worthy. Right, right.
SPEAKER 11 :
Now, one thing, you don't want to take, let's say you have an old gun that maybe passed through the family. You don't want to do anything to that gun, like refinishing it or anything like that, right?
SPEAKER 10 :
That's a no-no. That is truly a no-no. Yeah, you know, there's gunsmiths that would try to talk you out of that. The functionality of the gun, if the gun's working right, that helps the value of the gun. It's not that you can't touch the old gun. But certainly don't try to dress it up or try to clean it. Right. They're like coins. The more cleaning you do, the lesser the value of the gun becomes.
SPEAKER 11 :
All right. Les Palmer is with us. Once again, he's with the Colorado Gun Collector Association. You can check out their website. It's CGCA.com. And... Hey, all of these interviews are building up to May 17th and 18th. It's the 58th annual Colorado Gun Collector Association show. It's going to be held at the Island Grove Event Center in Greeley. And some things I read said there's about over 800 tables. So, I mean, it's a pretty big show, isn't it?
SPEAKER 10 :
That is a good-sized show. And there'll be 40, 50 displays at that show. that collectors will display their collections. We have categories and we have prize money. So you see the best of the best come out at that collector's show. And that's always been kind of the cornerstone of our collector's show is the displays that are at the show. that people can come and study the guns and look at the changes in the guns, how they've progressed over the years.
SPEAKER 11 :
Now, if somebody wants to get a booth, do they go to the website and kind of fill out an application or whatever?
SPEAKER 10 :
There are applications on the website, and they can be downloaded and filled out. And that's the easiest way to do it. Okay.
SPEAKER 11 :
That sounds good. All right. Now, you mentioned there's some classifications. Let's kind of take a minute and just, you know, if you say, what makes up the Colorado Gun Collector Association? You know, last show Tom was on, he brought a bunch of cool knives in here. So we say it's a Colorado gun collector, but there's a lot of things in this. So kind of break down what makes up this group.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, I think the word collector invites everybody in that talks about blades or talks about armor or talks about guns. The thing that I see now is the laws that are being passed in the mandate. There are three basic calibers of guns. that we need to recognize as just on-the-street type guys. The first is what they consider an antique, the federal government, ATF. An antique is a gun that was made prior to 1899. Okay. So that would include the old flintlocks, the old percussions, the old guns that your grandfather might have had stowed away that you presently have. Then the next classification of guns is called curio and relics. And a carry-on relic obviously is anything made after 1899 up until 1974. Okay. That classification of guns is what we talk about as collectors as a carry-on relic. After 74 going forward, those are considered modern guns. And each year... The calendar moves forward so that next year at 1920 or 1975 guns will then become 50 years old. So it's moving forward as far as curion relics are concerned. So we can talk about collectors, whether you collect antiques. ATF has a classification for antiques. The ATF also has a classification of cure and relic and modern guns. So there's three basic classifications of guns that people may or may not know about.
SPEAKER 11 :
What's been the most expensive gun you've ever seen?
SPEAKER 10 :
You know... I personally saw a gun that sold for $107,000 at auction. It was a Rock Island auction, big auction house. And that was a Winchester model gun. 73 that had been gifted to a president whose name I can't think of at this point. Gold inlaid, custom engraved, and never used again. And that gun sold for $107,000. Wow. That's a big gun.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah. That was a good day for that guy. Well, maybe not for the guy, but probably for the wife. Yeah, that was a good day. Now, when you get into these guns, you know, of course, we've got the background checks and three-day waits now and all that. So... If somebody comes to the show in May and they want to buy a gun there, and let's say it falls into that, you know, 1899, up to 1899 category, do they go through the same checks today?
SPEAKER 10 :
For an antique gun, there's no wait period involved. Okay. And there's no wait period involved in a cure on a rally gun. which makes our show unique.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay, but they still go through a background check.
SPEAKER 10 :
They still need to do the background check. Right. Commonly referred to as a 1473, I think it is.
SPEAKER 1 :
4473.
SPEAKER 10 :
4473, there you go. That has to be completed, and it has to be done by an FFL dealer, which we have at the show.
SPEAKER 11 :
What would you say kind of the mission is now of the group? I know when I was first talking to President Tom Hillman, which has been on the show a few times, he said, well, we really want to try to get some younger folks in with us and get them going with collecting. Is that right? Part of what you share in that, it would be a great thing to get some more young people involved?
SPEAKER 10 :
There's certainly a lot of gray hair in the Colorado Gun Collectors Association. I can say that wholeheartedly. Yes, we'd like to get some younger people in. And I think that entry level into that might be in the military arena. We're at the point now with the calendar at 1974, that 50-year window now, that even Vietnam stuff is considered our own relic for the most part. Okay. So you've got World War I and II, Korea, you know, Vietnam. It's... It's an entry-level where collectors or people that are interested in the history of the country can get involved. And I feel that that's the doorway for the young collector.
SPEAKER 04 :
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 10 :
Guys my age, they want to see wood on a gun and they want it to be pretty and blue. Whereas a military collector will know the history of the gun and where the gun was shipped to and what battles or what. infantry unit it was issued to so there's a lot they can do a lot of history and historian stuff that on their own with a specific piece and you said before we started recording today that I ask you the fastest growing segment with collecting and you feel it's the military side of things right I certainly do I see a lot of interest in the military where yeah it's It's interesting to me. Sure. And I've been collecting Model 12 shotguns since 1974. Mm-hmm. And I still like looking at military stuff today myself. So I just think it's the cornerstone for young collectors to start with. If they get into it and find out that the contracts with the government allowed the manufacturer to produce civilian models of that gun,
SPEAKER 11 :
maybe they can spur off and go get the civilian models excuse me yeah and um it's um uh you were talking about you know with the military too and the calibers that were um used um still some of the most popular calibers today you take the 45 right yes yeah uh military uh calibers
SPEAKER 10 :
have always been at the forefront of collectors, whether it's a 44-40, 45-70. Those were all military calibers that were issued and used during wars, whatever. Right, right.
SPEAKER 11 :
All right. Once again, if you're just joining us, Les Palmer is with us, and he's with the Colorado Gun Collector Association. And, hey, let me tell you about the show now. Again, it's May 17th and 18th. It's at the Island Grove Event Center. It's the 58th annual show. And, again, you can go to their website, cgca.com, and it is a fantastic show. We certainly plan to be there this year and go check it out as well. And so what we're saying, Les, the calibers, the .45, and what are a few others that are really popular?
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Well, a 12-gauge shotgun was very popular for the military. They used some entrenched guns and riot guns. The .45 that we just talked about, very popular caliber. Now the .223 is a very popular caliber. So it's pretty much military. calibers that have set collectors' interest in guns. Right.
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Well, good. Well, Les, hey, it's been interesting and fun to meet you. And, man, thank you for sharing all your knowledge here. And you've been with the group. When did you join? I joined in 94.
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Yeah. You know, that doesn't sound like so long ago, but we take a calculator to it. You've been in there a while. I've been there. Oh, good deal. Well, hey, make your plans to attend. Again, it's the 58th annual show, May 17th, 18th, Island Grove Events Center. And we'll be talking about it more through the next few months. But I hope you'll just circle that date on the calendar now. And I hope you'll plan to attend. It's the Colorado Gun Collector Association. And, hey, if you want to know more about it and join in, you can get in touch with them through the website. And they would love to answer your questions and love to have you become a member. So, Les, we appreciate your time. Hey, thanks for being with us today for Sportsman of Colorado. Again, our show is brought to you by the Mile High Hunting Fish Expo. Go to milehighhuntexpo.com for tickets and all other details, and we'll be coming back with more here in the upcoming weeks. So thanks for being with us. Hope you have a great rest of your weekend. Leave it right here on KLZ 560.
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indeed let's have a conversation and welcome to the kim munson show thank you so much for joining us you'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 theresa amanda and all the people here at crawford broadcasting happy thursday producer joe happy thursday kim And it is Thursday, so that means yesterday was Wednesday. And the girls were over last night, and we partook of the Great Wings special from Hooters Restaurant. You buy 20 wings, you get an additional 10 for free. That's on Wednesdays for to-go or to dine-in. 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And so thank you for all of you who support us on that. And as we look at these issues, we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And it's not compassionate to take other people's stuff, whether or not it's their rights, their property, freedom, livelihoods, opportunities, their childhoods. Or their lives via force and force can be a weapon policy, unpredictable in excess of taxation, fear, coercion, government induced inflation, the agenda of the World Economic Forum, the globalist elites. That's all in there. You're seeing that play out by legislation from the Colorado State Legislature. And it's being pushed by the United Nations as well. This Colorado governor, even though he's trying to opine that he is libertarian, he is not. All of these bureaucracies, all of the stuff that is happening here in Colorado is with his approval. And we are on the total radical side. side of all of these issues, very extreme. And then you see it play out taking people's property through land use codes, zoning regulations, forest fees, conservation easements, national monument designations, all of these things. And that's why we really need to keep an eye on what is going on. If something's a good idea, you should not have to use forest to implement it. And we focus on the issues and the people, but not the personalities. We're really working to stay out of all of that. Because when you focus on the personalities, you take your eye off the ball of what's really going on, and that is the issues. And so we try to stay really disciplined on that. Let's get over here. Our word of the day is capricious, and it is spelled C-A-P-R-I-C-I-O-U-S, and it's an adjective. It could be characterized by or arising from caprice, impulsive or unpredictable. Number two, governed or characterized by caprice, apt to change suddenly, freakish, whimsical, changeable. Number three, impulsive and unpredictable. And so your word is capricious. I would say with what's happening with Doge, the Department of Government Efficiency, and Elon Musk, that it is somewhat capricious. We don't know for sure what's going to happen next. It is interesting to watch. And so your challenge today is to use capricious in a sentence. Our quote of the day, Jay Davidson is our featured guest here in hour number one. And so I went to Milton Friedman because Jay is a real student of the Austrian School of Economics. And so I thought Milton Friedman would be a great, great one to quote today, The Economist. He was born in 1912. He died in 2006. And he was an economist and statistician. He received the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his research on consumption analysis, monetary history and theory, and the complexity of stabilization policy. With George Stigler, Friedman was among the intellectual leaders of the Chicago School of Economics, a neoclassical school of economic thought associated with the work of the faculty at the University of Chicago that rejected Keynesianism in favor of monetarism until the mid-1970s, when it turned to a new classical macroeconomics heavily based on the concept of rational expectations. So that's quite the resume there. And this is a long one, but I thought it was super interesting as we're watching our political landscape and as we realize politics is into all of us, so we need to be paying attention. And he said this, he said, I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing the right people will not do the right thing either or if they try they will shortly be out of office So that is Milton Friedman. And that's something to really ruminate on today. I thought there's a lot in that. So our bill of the day is House Bill 25-1120. And it is septic system replacement enterprise. And it's creating an enterprise zone to implement a loan program in order to replace failing septic systems. And the primary sponsors on this are both Democrats, Representative Leslie Smith. and Senator Dylan Roberts. And we are a no on this at the Colorado Union of Taxpayers. And this is a good time to do our little promo for the Colorado Union of Taxpayers. It is an all-volunteer group and has been in existence since 1976, looking at legislation here in Colorado. Of course, we've continued to lurch further and further to the left here in Colorado. And elections really, really do matter. And so we need to continue to work on our elections, which is one of the things that I will be focusing on this year again. But we are a no on this. And this is our comments. We said this bill... It creates the septic replacement, septic system replacement enterprise, which operates as a government owned business, imposing and collecting a fee charged on septic system permits and using the fee revenue to provide loans to replace failing septic systems as a loan program. And then we went on to say this bill stinks because it is another attack on Tabor. which is the formation of a business charging mandatory fees outside of Tabor. And they changed things around so that they could do this when they use an enterprise. And then lastly, and because this is not the proper role of government, our Constitution never contemplated charging some people fees to take care of the septic systems of other people. And so that is House Bill 25-11-20. And just to keep you updated on at this particular point in time, there have been 455 bills that have been introduced down at the Colorado State House. And we will be rating this next set of bills on this weekend with this great team that I work with, all volunteers from the Colorado Union of Taxpayers. And when you see these folks, you want to be sure and say thank you to them because they are really doing an amazing service for the people of Colorado, and they're all volunteers. And that group is Steve Dorman, Greg Golianski, Russ Haas, Bill Hamill, uh rob knuth john nelson wendy warner marty nielsen ramey johnson mary jansen dave evans corey onus org paula beard and ray beard and we will be again taking positions on this to keep you informed there's no way that we can reclaim our state unless we know what is going on and one of the best ways to know what is going on is to join us you will receive the email on monday that we send to the legislators and the governor regarding these different pieces of legislation. It only costs $25 to join us. That works out to $2.08 a month, and for that you get hours and hours and hours of volunteer time and analysis. And another group that's doing some great work over here in this is Sue Moore and her group with Liberty Scorecard, so you can also check all that out as well. There's some pretty amazing headlines. This first one, I just saw this come across just a few moments ago. This is now the news source here is the Associated Press says Hamas says it will free three more hostages as planned, paving the way to resolve the ceasefire dispute. And it's pretty remarkable, says Hamas had threatened to delay the next release of captives, accusing Israel of failing to meet its obligations to allow in tents and shelters, among other alleged violations of the truth. Truth. Israel, with the support of U.S. President Donald Trump, has threatened to renew its offensive if hostages were not freed. There was no immediate comment from Israel on Hamas's announcement, but it should allow the ceasefire to continue for now, though the future of the truce remains in doubt. Hamas said its delegation held talks in Cairo with Egyptian officials and was in contact with Qatar's prime minister about bringing into Gaza more shelters, medical supplies, fuel supplies. and heavy equipment for clearing rubble it's key demand in recent days it said in a statement that the mediators had pledged to remove all hurdles this is pretty remarkable and again and the trump ii administration has not been in office for even four weeks now and so it is pretty amazing to see what is happening with all of that another headline i think most all of you are aware of that And that is the Senate confirms Tulsi Gabbard as the next department of, well, they said this is from Washington Examiner, as the next U.S. spy chief. So she will become the director of national intelligence. And the vote fell mostly along party lines where the upper chamber voted 52 to 48 to confirm Gabbard to oversee and coordinate the work of the 18 intelligence agencies in the United States. Senator Mitch McConnell broke with Trump and voted no on that. So Republican Mitch McConnell voted no on Tulsi Gabbard. But despite that, she was confirmed. as the next director of National Intelligence, which I think that is pretty remarkable. She's a former Democrat and former vice president or vice chairwoman of the Democrat National Committee. So history certainly is being made with all of the things that are occurring here. We have these important discussions because of our sponsors. I know each and every one of them personally and highly recommend them. And one of those is the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance team. He's been in business for 48 years, taking care of his family, taking care of his clients, giving back to the community. And the reason is, is he and his team, they really strive for excellence as they serve their clients. So give them a call at 303-795-8855 for a complimentary appointment. 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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter and you can email me at Kim at Kim Munson dot com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice. 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 another headline that I think is amazing, 100 million here, 100 million there. Pretty soon we're going to be at a billion. Pretty soon we're going to be at a trillion. And I think that we might get this spending more under control, start to attack this deficit and start to attack this out-of-control debt that we have here in America as well. This is from Fox News. It says Doge slashes over $100 million in DEI funding at the Education Department. And they said that this is a win for every student. And this is these grants that have been going out to different schools to force the training, really, of our educators and the curriculum to force them to be teaching this DEI stuff. And all the DEI stuff has been doing is really trying to divide our children. Of course, I think it's been pushing the transgender agenda. And we wonder, how does this happen? It's with all of this money that has been going to all of these different schools. This is certainly going to change things significantly and also start to get a handle on this out-of-control spending that we have been experiencing here in America as well. It seems that they've been taking our money and they have been using it to undercut America. And when I say I have added in in the beginning, taking our children's childhood, this is one of the ways that they have been doing that. So this is a big deal, $100 million. It's going to change things significantly. It goes on to say here, Doge, the department led by Elon Musk to cut costs within the federal government, announced the termination of 89 DOE contracts totaling $881 million in a post on Monday evening. of the nearly one billion doge identified 101 million that was being used for dei training including teaching educators to help students understand and interrogate the complex histories involved in oppression and help students recognize areas of privilege and power on an individual and collective basis that instead of teaching the great american idea uh where all men are created equal with these rights from god of life liberty pursuit of happiness and giving them the tools are not giving them teaching teaching the tools the tools of being able to read and write and do arithmetic and so our they've been focused over there on all of this dei stuff our kids have been falling behind and so this is um there's a new game in town and that is pretty important And regarding all this DEI stuff, if you really want to understand what is happening in our schools, check out artclubmovie.com, which is the story of Erin Lee and her family regarding their daughter going to what they thought was Art Club. And in fact, it was actually an after-school indoctrination event. And so we are going to continue all these discussions. It happens because of our sponsors. One of those is Karen Levine.
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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMunson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. 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 this litmus test of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And make sure that you have in your giving this year, in 2025, it is tax deductible, the USMC Memorial Foundation. The memorial is located right here in Golden, Colorado, at the corner of 6th and Colfax. And it was dedicated in 1977. It's time for a remodel. And you can help them by going to usmcmemorialfoundation.org. That is usmcmemorialfoundation.org. Pleased to have on the line with me Jay Davidson. He is the founder, CEO of First American State Bank. First American State Bank is a community bank located right here in the metro area in the tech center and a great sponsor of the show as well. Jay Davidson, welcome.
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Well, thanks, Kim, for having me again. I appreciate it.
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Well, and before we get into it, let's talk a little bit about First American State Bank. It is a really personalized service. Community banks are really helping Main Street, helping people go after their hopes and dreams. And love the fact that with your daughter, Michelle, you are moving into the millennial generation and younger as well as your clients.
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That's exactly right. And thank goodness my daughter understands millennials because she is one. And she's moved us strongly into mobile apps and other things that I know very little about. But the younger generation, you know, in their 40s now and starting their careers or their careers have started and they're getting kicked off, they have a A MAJOR ADVANTAGE WITH OUR BANK IN THAT WE OFFER A FULL SUITE OF TECHNICAL PRODUCTS AND MOBILE APPS AND SO FORTH. BUT WE ALSO HAVE THAT PERSONNEL CONTACT AT TIMES WHEN YOU NEED IT. IT'S NOT OFTEN, BUT EVERY NOW AND AGAIN YOU MIGHT NEED A LOAN OR MAYBE YOUR BUSINESS IS BORROWING MONEY TO BUY REAL ESTATE. WELL, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN DO THAT VERY FEW OTHER BIG BANKS CAN DO. So we're very proud of our offering to the millennials in this mobile application world that we're in, and also a full treasury management suite of products.
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Okay. Well, I think with the—I'm calling this administration Trump II. I think under Trump II— I think we're going to see an unleashing of creativity and innovation in our next generations. And certainly capital to do that is important. So First American State Bank would be a great place to have a conversation regarding your hopes, your dreams, your aspirations. And what's the best way for people to reach you, Jay Davidson?
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Okay, and that's FASbank.com. So, Jay Davidson, you are really a student, I would say, of the Austrian School of Economics. Mm-hmm. And that's really based in capitalism, which is the free exchange of goods, services for value for value. And then also you understand the beauty of the American idea of the sanctity of the individual. I think that we are in the third founding of our country now with Trump to the blazing speed of how they hit the ground running. Really, I think has caught everybody a little by surprise. And certainly the radical activists, Democrats have been on their heels. What's your thoughts about all this?
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Well, I've got to say I've had my doubts and I've expressed them about President Trump because in his first term, he was a little. you know, unthinking, shall I say, irrational at times. I mean, he had the right of capitalistic ideas, and I must say the economy was doing very well under him. But, you know, he scared me a little bit. This time I'm seeing more reticence, more thoughtfulness in President Trump. And then when he got into office, what he did in the first three weeks literally absolutely blew my mind. I mean, it was like a breath of fresh air. And I hope we'll talk a little bit more about this because there's some things that he's doing that are constitutionally very sound and some things he's doing that are not. So we should talk on both sides of that one. And so I'm impressed. So far, I'm very impressed.
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Well, we really I think we look at these executive orders and he's Congress is so slow. And I think in some ways by design. But things have gotten out of our constitutional republic and Congress has been so slow. There were executive orders from the Biden administration. So he is doing a lot with executive orders, which I think is necessary. But we do not want to be. ruled by executive orders. We want to get to our constitutional republic.
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Yeah, and Kim, you're really hitting on a critical point that I hope President Trump and his advisers will hear. We're not the only ones speaking this. There is a reason that Congress is slow. There's a reason that it's a bicameral Congress. There's the House of Representatives and the Senate. There's a reason that they serve different terms and they should be doing different things, but they have certain capabilities that are granted them, strictly granted them, in the Constitution. And anything outside of what is granted in the Constitution is absolutely illegal. It shouldn't be done. So... When Trump issues executive orders, he's doing what he can do, what he's allowed to do under the Constitution as the head of the administrative branch of the government. People will bear with me. There's the congressional legislative branch, which is Congress, judicial, which ends in the Supreme Court. and the president, which is the administrative side of the government. There are three branches of government that our founding fathers created with very, very wise thought and rational thinking going into that. They said, we just kicked a dictator's you-know-what, the most powerful man in the world, King George, back in 1776, and we kicked him out, and we don't want that to happen again. Well, how do we prevent a monarch, a tyrant, a central controlling government from taking control? Well, we separate the powers, and we define them clearly through the Constitution, what they can do and what they can't do. So the first thing I want to say is that Trump can do most, if not all, of these executive orders. That is within his purview. Whatever the Dems say, or the the lefty communist guys. But the other point that I want to make here, and it's a bit subtle, so bear with me for just a second as I try to get through this. There is a fourth branch of government that's kind of metastasized like a cancer. And that fourth branch is the administrative state or the deep state. It's the bureaucrats, the government employees that have been employed for the majority of their careers and paid by the government, which is actually being paid by us, who have taken on immense powers. And I've been railing about the regulatory excesses that exist for a long time, and finally people are getting aware of it. They're seeing it. So the administrative state or the deep state, the bureaucrats, who should be reporting to the president have gone out on their own. Let's say it that way. They really have. I mean, they're unaccounted for. We saw it with the FBI, the DOJ. We saw it with the Department of Education, with FEMA. You know, across the board, we saw these bureaucrats do things that they were not allowed and should not be allowed to do. So when... Trump issues executive orders, he's telling the administrative state what to do and what not to do. And that's in his purview. But what the Democrats are missing here is that the fourth estate, the deep state, the administrative state, the bureaucrats have grown way out of proportion to what was allowed in the Constitution. Most of them are absolutely illegal and unconstitutional. So the point I'm trying to make is that the Democrats or the left are going to complain about what Trump is doing because there is a basic difference between the mindsets of the progressives, the far-left people, the communist mentality people, mostly in the Democrat Party, although there's some in the Republican Party, and we constitutionalists, who believe that government should be very limited, extremely limited, by the edict set forth in the Constitution. And the whole intent of the Constitution was to tell the government what it can do and mostly say what it cannot do. The Constitution doesn't restrict any of our rights as individual citizens. It doesn't change anything that we can or can't do. It does control the government. And with this fourth state, this bureaucratic state, getting so powerful and so independent of its boss, which is the president, I think I'm very encouraged that President Trump and Elon Musk and other people are starting to pull these guys back into reality. And it has to happen. And I haven't even started talking about the debt situation, spending. how much of the government is taken from GDP from us. And that's another reason. But the first reason that I like what Trump is doing is that he's controlling this bureaucratic state, stopping them from spending money and issuing their regulations edicts without concern for the Constitution.
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Well, and Jay, you have all these years talked about all of this spending and the deficit spending. And this is creating inflation, of course, inflation. People are feeling squeezed at the grocery store. We're looking at the price of eggs. And there's a lot of different factors because of that. But inflation is a component of that. And I would wonder, how could we get this under control? But with Elon Musk and Doge, the Department of Government Efficiency, $56 million here, $56 million there, pretty soon you're at a billion. Then pretty soon you're at a trillion. I think they actually might get at least half of this deficit under control within the next few months at this blazing rate of speed that they're working.
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Yeah, but I'm pleased that Elon has found $1.5 billion and has started the process of cutting that. That's a great start, but we're talking about $36 trillion in debt. So we have a long ways to go. And the government got way too fat, way too big. The bureaucratic state got way too big for way too long a time. So the pain is going to be It's going to hurt. You know, there's going to be government services that don't exist anymore. And so be it. I mean, the point to make here to the left when they start complaining about this is that I don't mind the federal government. We need it. I think it's good. But I want my federal government to be absolutely controlled by the Constitution. And it has not been controlled in any way, shape, or form ever since Woodrow Wilson became president over 100 years ago. So now we're trying to right the wrongs that have occurred here.
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Well, and at least we're making steps towards that because we were on this freight train headed over a cliff. And so at least we're working on getting the brakes on it and getting this thing turned around. And we have a responsibility to do that not only for ourselves and our families now, but for our next generations. And that's something that's also been really special, Jay, about America, is that we've always thought about the next generations, the founders first. were willing to put their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor on the table for liberty for the next generations. And that is a tall duty that we have as well. And so we're at a really unique time in history. And it's pretty exciting, scary, all kinds of different things, but it's pretty exciting, Jay Davidson.
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Yeah, you're exactly right. I mean, we're warring our great-grandchildren's future here with this kind of debt. It's unconscionable. You would never do that as a you wouldn't be allowed to do it as a citizen. And it's totally illegal that the Congress and the government and the presidents have all done this to us. And people got to realize that the government does not make any money. They're not a profit center. They don't understand profits. They don't understand capital. They don't know how to run a business. I don't expect them to. They're not a business. But every piece, every sort of revenue they get comes from you and me, from taxes, everything. And when they put us into debt, they put you and me into debt because we have to pay it back. So they're not only not spending within the means, within the tax revenue, they're spending more than the tax revenue. And they're putting us into debt that we have to pay off. And oh, by the way, if you look at inflation, the dollar that I made 20 years ago is worth a lot more than the dollar I'm making today. So I have to pay more of my dollars for that debt. So they're trying to absolutely crush the private economy. You and me, capitalism, mom and pop, Main Street. And they're doing a really good job, and it's time for it to end. Long past time.
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It is time for it to end, that's for sure. I'm talking with Jay Davidson. He is the founder and CEO of First American State Bank, a great sponsor of the show. And another great sponsor of the show is Lorne Levy for Everything Mortgages.
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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMunson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice, and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you shouldn't have to force people to do it. Another nonprofit that I support on the show is the Center for American Values, and they are located in Pueblo, Colorado, on the beautiful Riverwalk. And they do several things, honor our Medal of Honor recipients, but have put together great educational programs based on these foundational principles of honor, integrity, and patriotism. The center is nonpolitical. It's nonpartisan. It just focuses on those kinds of things. You can get more information about the center by going to AmericanValueCenter.org. I'm talking with Jay Davidson, and he is the CEO and founder of First American State Bank, a community bank located right here in the metro area. That website is FASbank.com, so stands for FirstAmericanStateBank.com. And they are doing such great creative products to get us into the next generation, if you will. And really, they focus on relationships. And so I would highly recommend that you check out FASBank.com. So Jay Davidson, Trump 2. I think he wants to not only get rid of this fraud and waste and abuse, and that's what Elon Musk and Doge, the Department of Government Efficiency, is focused on. But I think he thinks if he can get this economy really humming – that the economic pie will grow, which will, when you have a bigger pie, you can take less tax revenue from each person or entity, but yet you're going to have more tax revenue because the economy is growing. And that's the problem with the radical activist leftists, is they don't see that the pie can ever grow. They see that the pie is finite and that they have to fight over their peace. And so those are two real competing views of an economy.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, you're very right. And their view is that the government should control the economy. The government is the economy. The government is the nation. The government controls everything. And so they have no problems with bureaucrats issuing orders to us, civilians, citizens, and telling us what to do. They have no problem in taxing us to death. I mean, I've asked the Common Sense Institute if they would do a study on the amount of taxes, total taxes we pay, not just federal, which is 37.5%, but state, which is another, what is it, 4.75%, and then regional, local, and sales taxes and so forth. I suspect we're up around 50% of our income goes to the various government entities around here. And everything that the government takes from us it redistributes to someone else. So what they're doing through this excessive taxation is robbing from those of us who work for a living, taking from us to pay for votes, basically. And it's a pretty sad scheme that we've allowed them to get away with. You ever think about how, when they're talking about a federal program, a welfare program, There's always an individual. It's always I know a person who or here's a picture of a mother and a child, which is heartrending. And this this makes my case. And I say, well, yeah, I mean, you know what? I'll contribute to help that person individually. But you don't have any right to tell me I have to by taxing me and paying for that. So I think we need to start questioning what our government's spending the money on. You know, you greeted me when we first got on the line, and you said, how's that global warming effort working? And, you know, we were laughed about that. I mean, the government has said that it has the capability of changing climate. Now, consider how absolutely patently absurd that is on at least two levels. Number one, the Earth is much more massive than our federal government, which is pretty massive. And number two, climate does change, but it changes because that's the nature of climate. And they're kind of integrating pollution and other things in with this whole concept. Well, think about what they're doing and get real here. They spent trillions of dollars on climate change, destroyed fossil fuel production, I mean, when Trump was president, we were energy independent. And now after four years of Biden, we're buying a large portion of our oil and gas and energy from overseas at very high prices. This is absurd. And we're not questioning when the government starts spending all this money. We see the picture of a person and we can relate to that person. We all do. Even bankers who don't have hearts can relate to that. So I think we should be questioning more what our government is spending the money on. And you're going to see the lefties go absolutely ballistic. If I could go on for a second here, Kim, or should I? No, no, please do. Okay. The lefty mindset, this is what your question started this whole thing. It was their mindset is the government can do no wrong. And our mindset is that the government can only do wrong. They don't know how to run our business, and I don't want them to. I don't need their help. I'm happy to follow all the laws of the land. I don't need them telling me what to do. So we are saying, let us be independent in accordance with the edict of the Declaration and the Constitution. There are certain inalienable rights, and you're transgressing those rights, Mr. Government, with all this debt and spending that you're doing and taxation that you're doing and regulation that you're doing. So the lefties are going to say, oh, my God, you've got to make the government bigger and stronger because, as President Woodrow Wilson said back 100 years ago, well, we need that bureaucrat in there because that fellow is not tainted by greed, by capitalism. Well, actually, that didn't work out too well for any of us. And what I like to say to people is that the other side of the coin is that capitalism is enlightened self-interest. We are all going to do what best suits our own purposes. But if we're enlightened in what we do, then we can do a better job. And the beauty of capitalism is that so many people, through their own struggle and hard work, can attain a very healthy living and can employ other people who can also obtain a healthy, happy living. And that's the difference. The mindset is different. It's either a big government or it's very restricted government. And I don't think we should be talking Democrat or Republican anymore because You know, there's a lot of Republicans that don't have a clue what I'm saying. There's a lot of Democrats that have no clue about it. But there's also Democrats and some Republicans who understand what we're talking about. So we should be distinguishing between small government, small restricted government and enormous government.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, and I think that, as you said, people have been sold tax increases or new government programs because somebody is put out in front of them in need and pulls on people's heartstrings. But as I've really unraveled this and watched this over time is that person that the picture is, maybe they might get some help. with a government program but they're not the first ones to get the dollars the dollars have to go first of all to the administrative fees for the government and then there's other government fees and other government fees and yeah maybe the person that they're holding out there that you think you're trying to help they might get some money but just think about If that person's getting 5 cents on the dollar, 10 cents on the dollar of the government money or the money they're taking from us, why don't we just cut out the middleman, the government, give them that 10 cents and keep the other 90 and go build our businesses and live our lives?
SPEAKER 03 :
I like that idea. I'm hearing a flat tax there. Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
That brings up another thing, taxes and tariffs. We've heard talk about getting rid of the income tax. In fact, I was talking to new state Senator John Carson here in Colorado, and I think he's going to run a bill to get rid of the Colorado income tax. And of course, we've got the federal income tax. If we got rid of the income tax, how would we pay for government? How would you answer that question?
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, you'd have to reduce government. You can't, right? I don't know. I've never thought of it that way. Well, what's the answer, I guess? You should tell me what the answer is.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, I think you just said it, and that is that I think that we reduce the size and scope of government.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
SPEAKER 12 :
So that's one of the first things. And I love this idea of getting rid of the income tax, and I know that Jared Polis – because of politics, has mentioned that he might support that as well. But what I've also said then is, Governor Polis, we need to get rid of all these fees because they come around and they're backdooring taxes, calling them fees. And whether or not they call it a fee or a tax, they still are dipping into our pockets and taking the money. They're just calling it a different thing.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, you're right, 100% right. Yeah, you know, tax rate reductions have a moral argument, and that is that if we reduce the tax revenue, revenue from taxation that the government gets, then the government does have to be smaller. But the real point here, the real moral issue is that in that scenario of reduced tax rates, reduced taxation, The person who earned the money keeps more of it. Rather than working half a year, in my example, for the federal government and keeping only half of what he earns, that's the wrong formula. And you said it also. When people can keep more of the earnings that they have made, earned, then they will stimulate economic development and private enterprise, and that will increase the gross domestic product, the pie, as you call it, in the nation. And so the revenue that the government gets actually went up, believe it or not, after Trump's corporate tax cut in his first term because businesses were spending. They were creating new opportunities. That's what we do in business. Anybody in any business does this. So it's not just, you know, add a tax and you get so much money. No, you don't. If you increase tax rates, the revenue, the GDP actually goes down because people find other ways to spend their money. They don't reproduce it or put it back into their business to grow their business.
SPEAKER 12 :
And that's an important point. The question, we've got just a few minutes left, tariffs. And I used to be of the school of that I didn't like tariffs whatsoever. I think free trade's important. But what I learned over the years is, yes, free, fair, and transparent trade is important. but we've got other actors in the world that don't play by the same rules. For example, China was subsidizing their steel industry, selling their substandard steel here in America at lower prices, undercutting our steel industry, and that's not fair. But Trump is talking tariffs and he's getting people's attention. What's your thoughts on tariffs?
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, it's kind of a race to the bottom. It's a race to see who can hurt whom the most. I don't think they're effective. Well, a true tariff is not effective. I mean, all it does is add burden onto the consumer, right? I mean, if Trump puts a whole 10% tariff on a product from China that I want to buy, I'm paying that, not China. It's actually... Ridiculous. So what he's doing is he's using this as a bargaining ploy to try and bring China in line or Canada or Mexico or whatever. So when he says terrorist, he doesn't really mean terrorist. He means I'm going to threaten you because I'm a bigger bully than you are and I can hurt you more than you can hurt me. It's not good economics. I'm sorry. And this is one of the failings of Mr. Trump. uh, you know, if he, if he continues the tariff game, uh, for a long time, I don't think he cares about tariffs. I think he just uses that as a scare tactic.
SPEAKER 12 :
Right. It's one of the two. I agree. I think it's one of the tools in his toolbox to try to get some of the things done from a political standpoint that he wants to get done. So, uh, Jay Davidson, always fascinating, always goes too fast. Your final thought that you'd like to leave with our listeners.
SPEAKER 03 :
You know, I, we've, we've gone through, um, an incredible paradigm shift recently with the elections. Honestly, it took me by surprise, happy surprise, because the trajectory we're on is not sustainable. We could not continue spending the money that we're spending in the government. We cannot continue to increase the taxes and take away from the people that earn it. We can't do it. I mean, there's an end point here, and it's immutable. You can't get around it. So we're in this paradigm shift. I would ask Trump and all the Republicans who are in control now, moderate it a little bit, guys. I mean, you know, be wise. Trump is issuing executive orders. Will they last as long as his presidency is there? Why isn't he out trying to sell the American public on the idea behind this? what he's trying to do, because what he's trying to do is actually really good for us. But I'm not hearing the story about why he wants to reduce tax rates or reduce government spending. And if he did, then we could get a congressional act together here and get this done and make it permanent.
SPEAKER 12 :
Which is what we need to do. And in doing so, we reclaim our constitutional republic. Jay Davidson, as always, I learned so much. Thank you so much.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, thank you, Kim. It's an honor.
SPEAKER 12 :
And our quote for the end of the show is Milton Friedman. He said this, hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. So my friends today, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you. God bless America. And stay tuned for our number two.
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SPEAKER 12 :
Indeed, let's have a conversation and welcome to our number two of the Kim Munson Show. Thank you so much for joining us. You're each treasured, you're valued, you have purpose. Today's drive for excellence. Take care of your heart, your soul, your mind and your body. My friends, we were made for this moment in history. Thank you to the team. That's producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Teresa, Amanda, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. It is Thursday. Producer Joe. but it feels like a monday happy thursday kim happy thursday yes live radio and sometimes we do recordings and getting everything to work properly is tricky and in our number one we had a a hiccup regarding jay davidson's uh interview and we normally pre-record his interviews And somehow we thought we had everything just perfect and it wasn't. And so that will be fixed for the one to two rebroadcast today in the afternoon. And he is such a wealth of knowledge. You may want to be sure and check that out. The website is Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter there. You can email me at Kim at Kim Munson dot com. Text line is 720-605-0647. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues. Through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom, if something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And I do thank Laramie Energy for their gold sponsorship of the show. It is reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant energy from oil, natural gas, and coal that powers our lives, fuels our hopes and dreams, and empowers us to change our own personal climate. And how's that global warming working out for all of you right now? We've had... Very cold temperatures. And I guess we're going to warm up and then have some cold temperatures next week. And what what something to be so grateful for is the fact that we can be warm in the winter when it is so cold outside. And that all is so under attack. Regulatory, legislative. here in Colorado to actually try to force to keep the natural gas that we are sitting on here in Colorado. Polis and company are trying to keep that in the ground. When that happens, it increases the prices significantly, which makes a warm home out of reach for some people. And it's all because of regulatory stuff. And so it's important that we shed light on that. And so thank you to Laramie Energy for their goal sponsorship of the show. Our word of the day is capricious and it is spelled C-A-P-R-I-C-I-O-U-S. And it could be, it's an adjective characterized by arising from or subject to caprice, impulsive or unpredictable. Number two, governed or characterized by caprice, apt to change suddenly. It could be freakish, whimsical, changeable. Number three, impulsive and unpredictable, determined by chance, impulse, or whim. I chose it because normally, well, many times when we are on... Fridays, sharing our Medal of Honor citations, sometimes they use the word capricious. And I've got to say that that is probably that it's unpredictable that these Medal of Honor recipients, they were very brave and they were unpredictable and they were taking action to save lives of their their fellow citizens. uh... soldiers and uh... and if there was a good time to mention the center for american values located in pueblo and last night uh... drew dicks and gave a presentation and have to say i'd give a shout out to lucy one of them and one of my friend she was down in pueblo for the presentation of Drew Dick's The Real Cold War, which you'll be able to find that on their website, AmericanValuesCenter.org. But then she drove all the way back up to the metro area so that she could join the girls' group. that I have. And so when she walked in the door, I thought, oh, my gosh. But she was able to make both events. So check out AmericanValueCenter.org for more information on that. But many times in those citations, the word capricious is used. And so that is why I chose that for our word of the day. Our quote of the day is from Milton Friedman. And he was born in 1912, died in 2006. He was an American economist and statistician with the Chicago School of Economics. And this is his quote. He said, I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion, which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either. Or if they try, they will shortly be out of office. So engaging these battle of ideas and kicking the tires on all of this legislation. I shared in the first hour that we had 498 pieces of legislation that has been introduced down at the State House that is out of control. Our bill of the day is House Bill 25-11-20. It's a septic system replacement enterprise. Whenever you see the word enterprise, that means they're trying to take that revenue outside of our Colorado taxpayers' bill of rights, outside of TABOR limits. And again, not asking for our permission for these different fees. And they're calling it a fee instead of a tax so they can get around Tabor. And then they've instituted these enterprise zones again to get around Tabor as well. So you can thank these two Democrat representatives for that. That's Representative Leslie Smith and Senator Dylan Roberts. And it's House Bill 25-11-20 concerning the creation of an enterprise to implement a loan program in order to replace failing septic systems. and our Colorado Union of Taxpayers. We are recommending a no vote on this. You can join us by going to coloradotaxpayer.org. It's just $25, and you will get the... Email that we send to the legislators and the governor on Monday. But this was our comments. It says this bill creates the septic system replacement enterprise, which operates as a government owned business, imposing and collecting a fee charged on septic system permits and using the fee revenue to provide loans to replace failing septic systems. This way. Went on to say this bill stinks because it is another attack on Tabor, the formation of a business charging mandatory fees outside of Tabor. And because of this, it is not the proper role of government. Our Constitution never contemplated charging some people fees to take care of the septic systems of other people. So we are a strong no on that. We have these discussions because I have amazing sponsors. And for everything regarding residential real estate, Karen Levine is the person you want on your side of the table. She's on the line. Karen Levine, welcome.
SPEAKER 10 :
Good morning, Kim.
SPEAKER 12 :
Great to see you last night.
SPEAKER 10 :
It was a very informative evening.
SPEAKER 12 :
That it was. But when we were doing our mixing and mingling, you had had a fun event that you were involved in last weekend.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yes, Goldens and Golden. It is an annual event, generally takes place in February, and the one, I would say one of the more popular breeds of dogs, which are golden retrievers, and the City of Golden come together, and thousands and thousands of golden retrievers and their wannabe friends show up with their owners, or their caregivers and gather in the streets of Golden. And we have booths on one side of Parfait Park, and the Golden Retriever Rescue was there handing out pup cups, which are Dixie cups filled with whipped cream, which makes puppies very, very happy. And I swear, I think it's the happiest day ever. if not on Earth, at least in Colorado.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, you said there were over 10,000 dogs there, golden retrievers. And that's one of the nonprofits that you love is the Golden Retriever Rescue Group.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yes, Golden Retriever Rescue of Colorado, and they do amazing work rehoming dogs that have been relinquished. from homes that, you know, had found that they couldn't care for them properly. And so we give them a safe place to be able to relinquish their dogs, and then we prepare those dogs to be able to be rehomed into their forever homes. And the process is pretty amazing. They have some pretty strict guidelines as far as the age of children in the home because some of these dogs have been not well cared for or had very traumatic experiences. so they want to keep the dog and the children safe, fenced backyards. But we met lots and lots of adoptees at the event who have beautiful family members now because they were able to adopt them out of Golden Retriever Rescue.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, it's amazing work, and I know you have such a heart for Goldens. And they're really nice dogs. I have somebody very close to me that actually they got their dog from the rescue, Golden Retriever Rescue.
SPEAKER 01 :
They did? Yes.
SPEAKER 12 :
What a, she, I tease them. She is a beautiful dog. I said, she's the Giselle of golden retrievers. She is just a beautiful dog. And she's really developed into, she, it took some work initially to raise her. rehome her as well when she was in her rehome but they have done a beautiful job and she is a lovely dog and certainly i've been able to watch all this firsthand so of course you do that but you also help people uh maybe rehome and that would be getting a new home or selling their home and so what are what are you seeing uh this week regarding the metro real estate market well the market as it does seasonally is picking up despite our frigid temperatures
SPEAKER 10 :
There is good activity in the market. People are getting out and seeing the new listings and checking out the new inventory. The sentiment is that we have accepted the fact that interest rates are going to stay pretty much where they are, which is around that six and three quarters to seven and a quarter. And as Lorne, I'm sure, talks about when he's on with you, that date the rates, and marry the home. And so I'm here to help you find that home you want to marry. And or if you're looking to make a change and would like to sell your home, whether that's to move out of state, to move down, or to move up, coordinating that double move takes a little bit of a skill set and a knowledge of the marketplace above and beyond just, you know, writing a contract and getting you in a house. And I think my track record proves that I'm pretty... good at doing that. Yes, you are. Getting people from one place to the next and doing it as affordably as possible with the least inconvenience that we can manage based on a lot of moving parts and people.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, and so how can people reach you so they can get Karen Levine on their side of the table?
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, give me a call at 303-877-7516.
SPEAKER 12 :
And that's Karen Levine, 303-877-7516. We'll talk with you next week, Karen Levine. That sounds great. Have a good day. Absolutely. You as well. And another great sponsor of the show is the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance Team, and they want you to feel safe and well-served and to understand your insurance coverage. And their office will respond to your call or text 24 hours a day. So for that 24-hour peace of mind, call Roger Mangan at 303-795-8855. Like a good neighbor, Roger Mangan's team is there.
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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Check out our website. That is Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at Kim Munson dot com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. It is a Pam Long Thursday. Pam Long is an author here at the Kim Munson Show. We'll be rolling out her essay this weekend in the newsletter, so make sure that you're signed up for that. But she's also the director of Children Health Defense Military Chapter. She's a graduate at West Point. Ann is an Army veteran of the Medical Service Corps. She served as a medical intelligence officer for the NATO Stabilization Forces. So she really understands all of this stuff that is happening regarding our health. And welcome to the show, Pam Long.
SPEAKER 09 :
Thank you, Kim. It's not actually Pam Long Thursday. Today is a very historic day. I will say happy RFK Day.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay. Is it going to happen? I saw that Tulsi Gabbard was confirmed, but Mitch McConnell did not vote for her. So there's a lot of politics going on. What's your ear to the ground telling you?
SPEAKER 09 :
Based on the move yesterday to vote closer, I would be very shocked if RFK Jr. is not confirmed today for Secretary of Health and Human Services under the Trump administration.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay. Boy, this is historic. Two Democrats, RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard, both have run for president on the Democrat side. It's pretty historical what's happening in our country right now, Pam.
SPEAKER 09 :
It is. And I've never seen anything like this in a nomination confirmation process. I mean, probably RFK is the most controversial, most scrutinized nominee in the past 50 years. And I did my homework. I mean, 200,000 tweets were trending at the end of January during the two hearings. to three and a half hour long sessions with senators quoting from his six books, podcasts, interviews, campaign emails, blog posts, and social media from decades as his role in advocacy and environmental health law. I mean, either they really started doing good research or maybe there's some industries that are helping them try to impede his nomination.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yes. And so what can we learn from these hearings, Pam Long?
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, Robert F. Kennedy filled with poise and intellect and compassion for the health crisis facing Americans. He promised the United States radical transparency if he would be given the privilege of overseeing HHS and the CDC, the NIH, FDA. He would be in control over the largest budget in our federal agencies. And people showed up to support him. We had people overwhelming the switchboards at the Capitol. A thousand people showed up in person to support. just support his nomination, which is unprecedented. And here are the alarming things that RFK Jr. told people about our public health crisis in the United States. His opening remarks, included this alarming wake-up call to the chronic disease epidemic in the United States. 70% of adults are obese. Over 30% of children are overweight or obese. Diabetes is 10 times more prevalent now than it was in the 1960s. Cancer in young people is rising by 1% or 2% a year. Autoimmune issues, neurodevelopmental disorders, Alzheimer's disease, a long list of mental health disorders are all rising exponentially. The U.S. has the worst health outcomes than all other developed nations and yet spends the most money on health care than all other developed nations. And then for all those people listening to the first hour on economics, in 2024, the U.S. spent $4.8 trillion on health care, which is one-fifth of our GDP. That is a 20% tax on the entire economy. And the CDC reports that the U.S. spends 90% of all healthcare costs on chronic disease. And Kennedy asserted that we cannot be a strong nation when our people are so sick. He went on to say that 77% of our young people do not qualify for military service due to chronic disease. And 60% of our children have some form of chronic disease, highlighting autism, allergies, diabetes, and neurodevelopmental disorders.
SPEAKER 12 :
That is a staggering, these are staggering numbers. And how did we get here, do you think, Pam Long?
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, Kennedy pointed to part of the problem. The main problem is that most of, 9 out of 10 of our health care dollars go to fund research on infectious disease, not chronic disease. And for example, we in our NIH budget, we have about $1 billion funding the root cause of this obesity epidemic. out of a $42 billion budget. And after these hearings, there have been congressional hearings going line item through this NIH research, which has been under Fauci's watch for decades. And we are finding the most bizarre, troublesome, misguided research, such as injecting animals with aborted fetal tissue, Studies on whether transgender animals can survive drug overdoses. Studies on whether obese animals can survive wildfire smoke. I would make the same argument as Kennedy that we have been spending billions of dollars on research that does not get to the root cause of our chronic disease epidemic, where 92% of Americans are dying from chronic disease. That is a problem. And as Kennedy said, you know, we've been arguing in our politics for decades about who pays for health care, like whether it's people, whether it's the insurance networks, whether it's the government. But we're just rearranging the chairs on the Titanic. We are not asking the right questions. Why do we have a chronic disease epidemic? The root cause of any epidemic is environmental toxins, not just one, but many. And we have not been researching those toxins while Medicaid programs have, you know, grown 60%, you know, in the last years. It's a huge part of our budget, and we're not asking the right questions, and we're not researching the root causes.
SPEAKER 12 :
So Big Pharma probably does not want him as the Health and Human Services Secretary because with chronic disease, many times the way that's treated is with pharmaceuticals, right?
SPEAKER 09 :
Correct. Pharmaceuticals. We have a culture, and this was brought out, I think, by Senator Tuberville, that believes you can eat anything you want, inject yourself with drugs or take some pills, and you're going to be healthy. And that is simply not the case. That is urban legend that you can eat whatever you want, processed foods filled with chemicals. you know, microplastics, pesticides with PFAS and fluoride in our drinking water and food dyes. You can have all these chemicals in our foods, processed foods and not exercise and take a pill or take a drug, inject a drug and you'll be healthy. And that is irresponsible. And we are reaping what we have sown. We have a nation that is the sickest among all developed nations.
SPEAKER 12 :
But yet we're spending all of this money. It's kind of like the Green New Deal. There's a lot of green, obviously, that is moving around in this industry. And you mentioned something regarding who pays. And if people... were held more responsible regarding their, you know, when they go to the doctor, that they have more skin in the game instead of insurance just paying it, that it was in their best interest they might get lower rates or it would affect them in their own pocketbooks. I think that that's a place that we should probably start as well as having people be more responsible for for, I guess, the health care and medical choices that they make, yes?
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes, Kennedy, I absolutely agree with you, and he did. He was in exchange with Bernie Sanders, who said health care is a universal right. You know, advocating for the government should be paying everyone's health care bills, and Kennedy pushed back and said, you know, for the person who, example, was a chain smoker, for his or her entire life. Should we be paying their medical bills or do they have some personal responsibility towards health? And what, what can we do? There's a big concern, not the main concern, which I'll get to, but there is a big concern with Democrats with all these cuts that there will be cuts to Medicare and Medicaid. I think those are reasonable cuts. but there should be some personal responsibility in health, and we need to look at nutrition, and we need to educate the public, but also that, you know, we have a fee-based system, Kennedy discussed this, and that a value-based system in healthcare, which would give financial incentives to healthcare providers who have good outcomes. Right now, you get the same. Each provider, whether you have good health outcomes or not, gets the same fee. And I think Democrats are really concerned about any potential cuts in the Trump administration to Medicare and Medicaid because we are rewarding bad outcomes.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, so let's continue the discussion. And this is a really important piece that we'll publish this weekend in our newsletter, and then it will be on the website as well. But it is Revelations in the RFK Jr. Confirmation Hearings for HHS Secretary by Pam Long. We're talking about taking care of yourself and certainly a great protein source, premium product. Their only preservative is basically the freezer is Lavaca Meat Company, and they are located at the corner of Nevada and Maine in Old Littleton.
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SPEAKER 09 :
Well, what Americans saw and witnessed in this hearing is the preferred science and the ignored science. And they got into an autism debate on the second day about this assertion that vaccines do not cause autism, right? And so Senator Bill Cassidy, the doctor, referenced the study with 1.2 million children, right, which sounds impressive. which concluded that vaccines do not cause autism. But he didn't say that study only examined one vaccine, the MMR, and one ingredient, dimerisol. And then Kennedy countered and referenced the Mawson study, which I'll link in my article. which it's a 2025 study that found a strong correlation between autism spectrum disorders and vaccinated children on the current 72 doses of vaccines on the schedule when compared to unvaccinated children based out of the Florida Medicaid program. It's a big data set. So both Cassidy and Kennedy alluded to their, their studies being, you know, flawed in their methodology and, And this is the heart of the autism debate. Which studies do we trust? Which ones are flawed? Which ones have conflicts of interest? And ultimately, Kennedy did agree to support our vaccine program. He has always said that he is for informed consent and good safety science in the vaccine program. And what is informed consent? It requires that consumers are told both the benefits and the risk of the drug and that they can make their own choices about I would argue that Kennedy gets a lot of attacks because he points out areas where there are adverse reactions that we're not telling the public that there are risks. I mean, we've known since 2006 that the flu shot does not decrease your risk of influenza. And it's especially harmful in the elderly that it actually raises your risk of mortality, but we are not telling the public that in fact, Pharma controls marketing down to the little screen at the gas pump at our grocery stores at King Super that say, get your flu shot here today. It doesn't tell you that, oh, you know, it might not be recommended for your age demographic and it might actually raise your risk for mortality.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well... So, well, a couple of things. First thing, the 72 doses of vaccines for our children and parents want to be good parents. And so they listen to their pediatrician, they listen to their doctor. And so many of pediatricians, doctors look to the CDC for their recommended schedule. And I'm concerned about these 72 doses. And but yet young people, many young people just look to their doctor as the authority that the doctor looks to the CDC. And and I know people that that say that, yes, their child after a vaccine did get autism. That is they have correlated the two personally. So do you think that we're going to get this vaccine schedule walked back if RFK Jr. is confirmed?
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, he has promised the American people radical transparency, and I'm here for it. And so are thousands of other maha moms make America healthy again. And I think our health agencies are running scared, our congressmen who get millions of dollars for from pharmaceutical companies and chemical companies. I think they are running scared. And, you know, there was a beautiful speech by Senator Rand Paul addressing this. He said, we believe in submission, not science. Right. And he gave examples. He mentioned that giving the hep B vaccine, a disease for drug users and prostitutes to newborns is not based on science. Right. And he declared that giving the COVID vaccine to healthy children who are not at risk, not at the same risk as the elderly for respiratory fatalities, is not based on science. And he declared, we don't know what causes autism. But the current immunization schedule includes 72 doses of vaccines, and we should be open to questioning the scientific consensus because there are no double-blind placebo-controlled studies. That is the gold standard of research, measuring the effects of 72 doses and their cumulative effect in the developmental stages of our children.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay. This is making progress, I think, on this. The next question, I watched a little bit of the interaction between Bernie Sanders and RFK Jr. and the accusation regarding taking money from pharmaceuticals. What's your comments on that, Pam Long?
SPEAKER 09 :
Some of this just, I mean, was outright bizarre. There was a moment where Sanders asked the softball question. And I mean, I laughed out loud that, will you take money from drug companies? And, and RFK, you know, look like astounded at the question. He said, me, you know, who me? I don't think the drug companies want to give me money. I mean, it was just, There is so much emotion and irrational behavior in these attacks that it just derailed. I mean, the whole first hearing was constant pejoratives. You know, how can you live with yourself? I can't believe someone would ask him that. You know, you're anti-vaccine, anti-science, conspiracy theorist. you know they made you know they blamed him for a measles outbreak in samoa i mean can we i mean can we really blame one human being for a measles outbreak in another country i don't think we can i mean we just you know we we hit both guardrails of accusing him one day of you know being crazy and he he defended himself well when he was allowed to actually answer in most cases these were just five-minute rants from senators, and he was told, answer yes or no, to a long rant that's not a yes or no answer. But when he was able to answer, the American public saw his intellect and his decades of experience with examining environmental toxins and knowledge on our health agencies beyond what they probably ever expected.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, fascinating. Next question. And you've addressed this in your essay. And you've said that Democrats prioritize the abortion pill in health care. And I really find it so interesting that those that are really advocates for aborting babies, that they call that reproductive rights, but they're not really reproducing anything because they're actually aborting, killing the baby, right? But the words are, language is so important. And so address this. What do you think about that?
SPEAKER 09 :
I think – well, first let me preface what I'm about to say, that I had people texting me during the hearing saying, you know, I have a friend, they're lifelong Democrats, and they are watching this hearing, and they know that their children who are also watching will now be lifelong Republicans. Based on the behavior of these Democrats, I was taking notes from each senator, and I – every – Nearly every single Democratic senator made a demand to protect the abortion pill. This was so disturbing on so many levels. You have Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sounding the alarm that we have a chronic health disease epidemic. And then you have Democrats completely ignoring that problem, which they have been for decades. in pushing the abortion pill. And the bigger concern, or I shouldn't say the bigger concern, you know, is the Republicans' concern is that this is a tactic and strategy, this abortion pill, to mail it to states that have abortion law, you know, to violate abortion laws in certain states. And And, you know, we have these Democrats saying, I don't want you to bias the research or inform people on the adverse effects of this drug. And it really is disturbing to hear Democrats prioritize an abortion pill as their main priority for health and human services.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, and regarding the abortion pill is that there can be complications with that. And the fact that a young woman would take that, not realizing there's complications, be alone. and start to have these complications from this, it doesn't seem to me like they really care about the woman, obviously not the baby either, but it seems like this priority is really more abortion, not the care of these human beings, at least from what I can tell, Pam.
SPEAKER 09 :
Kim, this is malpractice. When you have someone mailing you drugs that's not your provider, not supervising you, no access to any follow-up care, a drug in the mail, in most cases, and as this would be provided to women, is malpractice. And, you know, I think Republicans would be very surprised if they listened to these hearings. Mr. Kennedy explaining, you know, that abortion is a tragedy. Every abortion is a tragedy. He said that several times and that aborted fetal cells and aborted fetal tissue is not needed in medical research. He also explained that it's not reasonable for any provider. to provide care that they are morally opposed to. And this is for both the provider and the patient. And he was referring to abortions and gender-affirming care. And this is why there is so much bipartisan support for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
SPEAKER 12 :
So you think he will be confirmed today? This really will be historic, Pam Long.
SPEAKER 09 :
There will be much celebrating today in the United States if you've been following health and it is your main issue. And I would tell Coloradans, our unaffiliated voters, which make up somewhere between 30 to 40 percent of our voting base, medical freedom and getting the government out of coercive drug and vaccine mandates is one of their top issues. They are paying attention to this confirmation process.
SPEAKER 12 :
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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Check out our website. That is Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you shouldn't have to force people to do it. And another nonprofit that I dearly love is the Center for American Values located in Pueblo, Colorado. They had a great event yesterday evening with Drew Dix, co-founder of the center. He's a recipient at the Medal of Honor for actions he took during the Vietnam War, but he was also stationed in Greenland. And so the presentation is The Real Cold War. And that is on their website as well. So you can access that at AmericanValueCenter.org. That's AmericanValueCenter.org. On the text line, Eric Manning says, Hey, Kim, I'm driving in eight degrees right now. Global warming weather. Toasty. He's absolutely right. Pam Long, we will be publishing your piece this weekend in the newsletter. Make sure you're signed up for that newsletter by signing up at my website. The title is Revelations in the RFK Jr. Confirmation Hearings for HHS Secretary. Pam's ear to the ground as he's going to be confirmed today, so stay tuned. Let's move over to a couple of things. Colorado. And House Bill 1027, we've talked about this. This is a bill regarding disease control. You flagged me on this initially. And I know you were very disappointed that we had two new Republican legislators on the Health and Human Services. Let's see. That's a different committee. Well, it's the Health Committee. And that they had voted to get that out of out of committee. But this 1027 is really a long ball bill, I would say, for the next pandemic is from what I can gather. What do you think?
SPEAKER 09 :
Right. 1027 CDPHE is asking for to remove the governor's expert emergency epidemic response committee and to replace it by giving sole authority to CDPHE and the governor to decide when an emergency starts, when it ends, and what the standards of care would be during that emergency, which is vaguely defined as a crisis. There was an amendment added in the House floor to include emergency bioterrorism. So an unelected bureaucrat, the director of CDPHE, would rule without inputs from parents, from school administrators, from businesses, and without liability. So it's COVID 2.0 set up with just more authority when we need more input from society. Because remember, CDPHE decided that all of us were non-essential to public health during COVID.
SPEAKER 12 :
So yesterday I was talking with Trent Luce regarding bird flu. And I was thinking about it all day. They're saying that this bird flu is infecting domestic birds. And I'm thinking, well, how can this happen exactly today? If, in fact, they have said it's been caused, though, by migratory birds, I drove by a golf course yesterday, and there were geese everywhere, and I didn't see one dead goose. And I just got to think that if this bird flu is the next bad thing, it just seems like I would see dead birds everywhere. Am I too simplistic on this?
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, okay. There's a lot to unpack here, but in essence, I personally don't believe that animal or bird diseases can jump to humans without some type of like Frankenstein gain of function science, which we are conducting here at CSU and the new multimillion dollar NIH bat lab. I'm also a bird lover and I own chickens and common senses. If, you know, you butcher an animal and it looks sick, I would not eat it, you know. So there's so much more I could say here, but I'm not worried about getting a disease from an animal or a bird. And I'm also not going to eat birds or animals that look diseased of any sort, whether it's bird flu. I will say the CDC did give instructions to hospitals to to start testing humans for bird flu. And that is a red flag, danger, danger. We're going down the same path where we did not make our health agencies accountable for everything they did during COVID. So they are set up to have a bird flu pandemic all over again.
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So what should we be doing about that, Pam Long?
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, for 1027, the people, I mean, we need parents, schools, businesses showing up. It will move now, it passed the House floor, over to the Senate and giving, backing up our senators who will be on the floor making arguments against this bill, which did not go through any type of public stakeholder process or per our Administrative Procedures Act. It gives more power to the state, which goes against the The reversal of, it escapes me, the Chevron doctrine, which says the Supreme Court said we should be giving more power to local control in essence. So we should be making strong economic arguments against giving CDP power because the state health department already decided and showed you during COVID that it will shut everyone down. We will lose businesses. They will close 30%, 38% of businesses closed permanently during COVID in Colorado. And it did create a mental health crisis with just staggering numbers on our young people on antidepressants is up 60% since 2020. And suicides are up exponentially. There has been no accountability for allegedly saving us all from, you know, a virus that 99% of us survived just fine without any help from the state.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay. Well, in this 1027, as you mentioned, it's danger, danger. And what I've seen is these radical activists, extremists are playing long ball. So while we are celebrating many of the things that are happening at the federal level, at the local county and state level, the extremists are doubling down. And that's why we really need to be paying attention to this. And so I appreciate you flagging me on that particular bill. And then the Colorado Union of Taxpayers did I think had an eloquent reasoning that we published on that is why we recommend a no vote on that, Pam.
SPEAKER 09 :
Thank you so much for that support from Cut, Kim.
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So let's move over to this septic system replacement enterprise. This is House Bill 1120, which was our bill of the day. Sponsors are Democrats, Representative Leslie Smith and Senator Dylan Roberts. And Jenny has said and so basically they're setting up an enterprise, which that means it's outside of our taper limits. So it's a run around the will of the people right there. And then they're going to charge additional fees, permit fees, for people that have septic systems. So that would be a lot of people in our rural areas, which are typically property rights. They have their property, their septic system. So they're going to get dinged with a fee. then that fee will go to the state, and the state will have a loan program for people that need to repair their failing septic system. That seems like that should be the responsibility of the property owner regarding their own specific septic system. And to ding other people for that, again, this is, again, unfair. And it is moving more towards Marxism, communism. It's going to make it more expensive for people to have their own property. What's your thoughts on this, Pam Long?
SPEAKER 09 :
I'm in rural Colorado. Everyone in my area has a septic tank. I'm paying $6,000 a year. Mine went up about 50% last year for property tax. I'm already paying my fair share. And so the thought of some fee, I don't know what the fee is. Will it be $1,000 when I need to make a very expensive payment? repair to a septic tank. Like that might be make or break that my decision, if I can afford to replace my septic tank, I know a well repair last year cost me $4,000. So if you tack on a significant financial burden for some permit to fix what is mine, what I own, I'm already paying taxes on my property in excess. I feel like you might see a revolt here where I live in Douglas County on this particular bill, 1120. Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
But a lot of people don't realize what is going on because with CUT, with Colorado Union of Taxpayers, I just mentioned as of this morning, there's 455 bills that have been introduced down at the statehouse. This is a bill mill. This is staggering. And Colorado is, I think, at the tip of the spear of all this onerous stuff. It's really starting to grind our economy to a halt. and we really need to be engaged, and that's really what you're encouraging people to do on a regular basis, Pam Long.
SPEAKER 09 :
That's right. I tell people all the time, pick that one issue that keeps you up at night and then engage at the Capitol, whether it's in person or online. You have access every day to testify online against the bill. When I testified against the health department the last couple of weeks, you know, there's maybe five people there. And like you said, they are running a long game. They are already setting up their power and control for themselves. The next, you know, bird flu crisis, all they have to do is call it a crisis or an emergency and they can suspend all of our constitutional rights and that should keep everyone awake at night.
SPEAKER 12 :
It really should keep everyone awake at night. And Pam Long, I so appreciate all the information that you share with all of us and keeping us informed. Out of 455 bills, a lot of them can sneak through that are very, very bad. And again, many of them, they're playing, the extremists are playing the long ball, trying to move us towards Marxism and communism and communism. Love this. One of our listeners said, this is the socialization of septic systems. And they're spot on on that. So Pam Long, keep up the great work. Stay in touch. Be sure you're signed up for our newsletter because we're going to be rolling her essay out this weekend regarding the RFK Jr. hearings. And stay tuned. It looks like he's going to be confirmed today. So Pam Long, thank you for all that you do. Thank you, Kim. Our quote for the end of the show is Milton Friedman. He says, hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. 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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So this is a headline that involves... Handicapped spots, churches, and punching. It's the hot new club. Parking lot beatdown. John Phillips, 65. Florida man who was arrested in Orange County. He beat a woman over a handicapped spot in a church parking lot, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Office. It happened at St. John Vianney Catholic Church. They said that the victim, Jenna DelZegaro, went to go pick up her five-year-old niece with her mother at the church, parked in a handicapped spot near the entrance. While DelZegaro was putting her niece in her car seat, a man in a black truck parked in front of their spot, blocking them from being able to leave or pull out. The man waved his handicap sticker from inside his truck. Del Zagara showed him their placard in response. So I guess she's handicapped too? Then he gets out of the truck, starts walking towards them, and he began yelling at her when she got out of her car, saying the placard did not belong to them, and he saw her get out of the car next to them, the victim told deputies. She tried to explain to them that they were not associated with the car next to them, and they were trying to leave when they got into an argument. And then Phillips told Del Zagara that... Del Zingaro that her mother would not let them and her mother they couldn't let him leave so they called security he then pushed the car door hit her and she was trying to get away from him and she shoved him back to get because he was all up in her space then he punched her in the face knocked her to the ground when she got up he overpowered her grabbed her by the neck shoved her to the ground again Her mother completely corroborated it. The granddaughter in the car began to cry, the niece. She was screaming for help until staff and other parents intervened, and they got her and the mother and the granddaughter in the church. The mother was disabled, and so she's able to use the—she's actually physically handicapped. The woman that the man punched had bruises all over her face. So I don't know if anybody in the jail wants to, you know, you guys want to deal with John Phillips, 65, a woman beater, happy to donate to the commissary in your honor. I mean, I'm not encouraging any kind of shenanigans in prison, but a lot of things happen naturally. You know what I mean? And I know a lot of the you know, these these men and women and they're doing their time. They're doing their time. And they don't like these women beaters. So, man, this is why you carry. That's why you carry a gun, I got to say. Don't touch the macaques, the monkeys. The rhesus macaques in Silver Springs State Park. Florida Fish and Wildlife are like, nope, nope. They got, they're a little nasty. They got some, they got some diseases. In fact, they can give you the herp. Ew. Oh, gosh. So just, Lena. We'll be right back. Gold and silver have historically outperformed in volatile markets, making them a crucial part of any strategy for preserving and growing wealth. And that's why I trust the partners at GoldCo. Secure your financial future today and don't wait until the next economic crisis happens. GoldCo is a trusted leader in precious metals. And with over $3 billion in gold and silver secured for hardworking Americans, they've been a top-rated company from the start. Take action and partner with a company that puts your security first. Visit danalikesgold.com right now and get a free copy of their 2025 gold and silver kit. On top of that, you could also qualify for up to $15,000 in bonus silver, possibly even more. That's danalikesgold.com. Did you guys see the presser that they had in the office? Oh, my gosh. I didn't put this on the rundown. Hold up. So where's this at? They were in the White House, the Oval Office yesterday. You know, Trump was sitting at his desk and Musk was there. He had his black goth hat on. And then their son, Lil X, his son Lil X was there. That kid was all of us, by the way, because he's hysterical. He's. He's like this. If you guys don't watch anime over lockdown, I told you how my kids introduced me to the all of I got into anime because of lockdown. Jojo's Bizarre Adventures. So only like maybe one of you out there is going to understand this. I'm sorry. But little X is like Elon Musk's Stan. like the supernatural figure that actually is an avatar for powers that you have that manifests outside of yourself and can beat up your enemies? Or is Elon Musk Lil X's stan? I don't know. But it was hysterical. And this kid, his little coat, his little coat, it was hysterical. And he sat on his dad's shoulders for a while and almost took a nap on his head. He's just so funny. He's everywhere. But they were in the office. Somebody What lawmaker was this? Because this was rich. Got really mad. Oh, here it is. I got it. This is a byline. I want to make sure I get this. Hold up. It's the Hill. Quote, Republican source tells me that special government employee Elon Musk wearing a MAGA hat in the Oval Office appears to violate the Hatch Act. what now i don't even it's not the hat didn't say like trump 2024 or whatever like the hatch act they say you're not supposed to wear or display partisan political buttons or stuff like that uh political you're engaging in political activity like if you're you know working for the government and while you're on duty in any federal room or building etc okay so the hat that he's wearing was a black make america great again hat explain to me how that's partisan anybody How's that partisan?
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The left has never liked America, Dana. So that's probably why.
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So I'm really so wanting America to be great is considered partisan and you shouldn't like that. Isn't that the whole point of government? Well, I mean, you know what I mean? Come on. Isn't that like their whole professed point? Are they admitting that that's not what their goal is? So the hat that Juan's showing you on the simulcast, if you're watching online or maybe direct TV, Channel 347, the chats and rumble, that's the hat. That's not partisan. It's a statement. I mean, if anything, it's a patriotic statement. But they're trying to say that that's a Hatch Act violation. Shut the front door. No, it's not.
SPEAKER 02 :
You got to be scared there for a second.
SPEAKER 01 :
Oh, my gosh. Juan and Kane were both dying. Shut up.
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You know how crazy it'll get, though? And you're seeing that on the screen right now. Those watching on Channel 347, DirecTV. Soon, that American flag will be considered a violation of a hatch act one day. How is this? Because that's how crazy the left has become.
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I mean, I don't even think that under the most egregiously liberal regime, interpretation of that regulation that this could be considered. That's not really, you're not supposed to engage in political activity while on duty. Or you can't wear your government uniform badge or insignia and do federal work, right? It's about making sure federal – this is what I – you know what the Hatch Act also purports to do is to make sure that you're enacting federal programs without bias. So that's a violation of the Hatch Act. All the U.S. aid funding for all of this propaganda is literally a violation of the Hatch Act. Him wearing a hat that just merely says make America great, that's a patriotic statement. You absolute communist cucks. I'm done. That's a political statement. So when they get angry over all of our taxpayer dollars being used to run hit pieces on us, to pay outlets like NPR to say that the laptop is a local story, it's not interesting. That's a violation of the Hatch Act. It's just interesting to me how it's not considered a violation of the Hatch Act for all this other stuff. It's just this hat. You've got to be kidding me. Everything is now a constitutional crisis with these people, which I think the constitutional crisis are low-level judges without the authority trying to kneecap the executive. That's ultimately really the – that's the real problem. So I – that's not – I like that hat. I like that hat. It's not going – they're just mad. They're mad and they're trying to do anything that they can to To target Musk and they want to stop this and they feel like they have to destroy him and destroy Doge in order to make that happen. That's why they keep saying, oh, we're going to impeach him. We're going to impeach him, etc. That's stupid because he didn't go through the confirmation process. So everything's been going towards Musk. None of the stuff that has been thrown at the nerd army is sticking because I think people kind of like it. There is a real underdog aesthetic to the nerd army. In fact, there's a real underdog aesthetic to all of this. Do you realize that if the shoe was on the other foot, the narratives that Democrats would be making? So Democrats are attacking an African-American right now. They are. They're attacking an actual African-American who is a great story of coming to America and becoming an American and joining the American family and all of that stuff. And, you know, these people are livid over it. They're not like us. So... Nobody's really been they can't really target the nerd army anymore because people like the nerd army. That's like such a fist in the air, rebellious, very American thing that they're doing. So now they're like, well, we're going to try to, you know, Jimmy Raskin, yesterday we played some of that audio where he said that they were talking about impeaching him, impeaching Musk on the theory that he's usurped the powers of the presidency. That would only make sense if he was bypassing Congress and actually cutting things himself. He's auditing and then presenting the findings to Congress and then Congress makes the decision if and what they want to cut and when. So that doesn't hold true. They're omitting that part to you. It's incredibly frustrating to see this. And I just, you know, I look at these people who are defending the waste and fraud and abuse of taxpayer dollars. How do these people sleep at night? It's the most anti-American thing I've ever seen. How do these people sleep? It's disgusting. One of the reasons why people on the left, why the left lost, is because of stuff like this. We see the rampant abuse in front of our faces and the left wants to pretend that it doesn't exist. Because to acknowledge it and to stop it doesn't suit their interests. They make money off of this. It's an audit. They don't want to stop making money. It's an audit. I mean, you had five treasury secretaries who wrote an editorial, who all co-authored an editorial in the New York Times to argue that people who take our tax dollars and waste our tax dollars should not be held accountable to the voter, the taxpaying voting public. In what world is that? It's just insane. We should be able to spend all your money without an audit. They're arguing literally against oversight. And the fact that the media is treating with such animosity this whole story and ignoring all of the waste that Doge has been finding that tells you everything. Everything. I don't know. I... I read this thing where it said if somebody were to, heaven forbid, if somebody were to take a shot at Musk, Democrats would maybe kind of convince them the violence and then they would turn whoever did it into like a progressive folk hero like they're doing with that Luigi Mangione guy. That Luigi Mangione guy who killed that insurance executive. 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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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So apparently there are more whistleblowers set to come forward exposing how they worked on top secret projects that involved retrieving and reverse engineering spacecraft. Yes, apparently it's all information about UFOs. This is really good news because yesterday we got the story that there's a two-person chance that an asteroid could hit the planet. That's great. Sweet meteor of death. It's, you know, yay. Yes, I long for it. Go out in one big giant flash of glory. and illuminate the universe for one brief second. The UFO thing is another thing, because I want there to be aliens. I'm just really bored with just human drama. I want some alien drama. I bet it's just as otherworldly as they are. You know what I mean? I really... I you have like real house cucks of D.C. and that's like all of the rhino lawmakers and all that stuff there. It's my word today. And I really want to I want some alien drama, Kane. I want to have the fight as to whether aliens should play on sports teams. I want that fight. Think about it. Like, how does that work? You know what I'm saying? Like, give me some new drama. Anyway, there's apparently a ton more of these. Do you I think they're I of course, I think they're out there. They're probably already here on the planet. That would explain some... That actually would explain a lot of things. So, you know, kind of like how Men in Black. Wrap that up real nice and neat. Also, let's see. This... A United Airlines flight diverts to Denver because a dude was hunting Mormons. What? Like, on the plane. What? He was going through saying, where are the Mormons at? It was a red eye bound for Chicago, diverted to Denver after a burly man sprang up from his seat repeatedly, walked to the front of the aircraft, argued with crew members and demanded that Mormon passengers be identified. Okay, well, he actually kind of looked drunk. He wouldn't say whether or not he was Mormon himself. That's kind of a very interesting story there. Thousands of Danes signed a petition to go buy California from the United States. I'm actually okay with it. And you can take your wine that has all the sulfites and the chemicals in it with you.
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I'd even say a straight trade for Greenland would be cool.
SPEAKER 01 :
I would totally. Can we build a wall around California? Let's let all the conservatives leave. If they want to do that and California does it, you know, why not? Just go ahead. Although, but then that would make us a little bit vulnerable there with the West Coast and we've got some forts and all that there. So I don't know about that. You know, I don't know. Also, the skinny jean is making a comeback. God bless America. Because nobody wants to see your stupid bell bottoms. I love skinny jeans. So the Gen Zers and Alpha people say that skinny jeans makes everybody look like Gru from the Minions. And I think that they're brats. First off, I cannot stand the high-waisted bell-bottom thing. It makes you look fat and stumpy. I don't care how thin you are or how long your waist is. You're not supposed to have a tufted area there. You know, right there at your pubic bone. It's not supposed to be there. But skinny jeans are coming back. It is not controversial. Only communists don't like skinny jeans. If you love America, you're going to be fine with skinny jeans. That's the way that you root out the communists. A microchip company ceases operations. Pet owners are urged to re-register. So check your pet's microchips. It is all of this. It's a big industry. But they said that microchips registered with a company called Save This Life. Documents from Texas show the company ceased operations. So that's something you might want to take a look at.
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I've got harsh words for the Pope. The Pope wants to fix the Catholic Church. I'm saying this as a lifelong Catholic, a baptized Catholic, a First Communion Catholic, a confirmation Catholic. He wants to fix the Catholic Church and concentrate on his work and leave border enforcement to us. He wants to attack us for securing our border? He's got a wall around the Vatican, does he not? So he's got a wall around the Texas people and himself, but we can't have a wall around the United States. So I wish he'd stick to the Catholic Church and fix that and leave border enforcement to us.
SPEAKER 01 :
I love Tom Holman. I want Tom Holman to be my uncle. I want Tom Holman. I want to be able to say Uncle Tom Holman. How badly do you want to be related to him? Real bad.
SPEAKER 02 :
I'm just going to say it and act like I am.
SPEAKER 01 :
He's the fun guy that you sit next to like at all the holiday gatherings because he doesn't take any BS. And if somebody is acting a fool, you want to hear him say something as that person. He's that dude. He's that uncle. You all got an uncle like that.
SPEAKER 02 :
Uncle Tom is the best at family gatherings.
SPEAKER 01 :
Dude, he's like for real, right? Like he keeps it 100, man. Welcome back. Dana Lash with you. Bottom of this first hour. So he's upset because the Pope – Look, this is not a denomination battle. I don't need any religious leader telling lecturing us about immigration, particularly when I mean, and there is a wall there, although you can walk, you know, part through it. But you have to go through security and there's a lot of security. There's like two different security checkpoints. And I mean, that's their thing. You know, fine. I'm going to visit your place. That's what you got. I'll go through it. I liked to look at all the antiquities and the architecture and all of that there. But I mean it's true. Then take everything down around the Vatican, right? I mean they keep the square there in front of the – in front of St. Peter's. They keep all of that cleared of any vagrants and panhandlers and all of that and there's like a clear – denotation of where that city state ends and then Italy begins. So it's very difficult for him to have any kind of authority on this. Furthermore, you know, Jesus didn't come to earth and say, just disregard whatever law you feel like. He didn't. And I'll remind everyone that when he fled to Egypt, that literally was not – he's not a refugee. People who say that and religious leaders who say that should step down from the dais at their church because it's embarrassing. I will walk out of a service if I hear a church leader say that because I know that I am listening to a dumb shepherd who is not educated and hasn't read his Bible. And I won't deal with it. I already have enough problem with women like Paula White and the prosperity gospel and people that screw anything with a pulse. And then as soon as they see a camera, it's praise Jesus. But then, you know, after the camera's off, it's I'm going to dry hump anything that isn't my husband. Oh, it needs to be said. And it's accurate. Where's the lie? So, no, I'm not a fan. I don't like prosperity gospel grifters. I don't like those people because it's demonic and it's anti-biblical. That said... The argument that, and he's even intimated this before, that he was, just to correct it, I'm going to do it every chance I get, that Jesus was a refugee. These people are absolutely ignorant of world history. Egypt was part of the Roman Empire. It was literally a province. Now, Augustus had... All of these different toadies, like Herod and everybody else, handling different parts of the Roman Empire. Herod's sons inherited and his daughter inherited, you know, different sections upon his death. But Egypt was different in that Augustus didn't have a toadie administering it he ran it personally himself so they weren't fleeing the roman empire and remember why did they go back anyway why did they go to bethlehem anyway why was it when mary was like late stages of her pregnancy that they were making this trek back to it's because they had for the census which is actually antithetical to the argument that illegal immigration puts forward. Oh, and then they went back home when they were done. Again, antithetical to the argument that illegal immigration puts forward. So maybe some of these people that are talking about this could go and sign up at Dana4, F-O-R Hillsdale.com, and they could actually take the lesson on the rise and fall of the Roman Republic, which actually touches upon this. So maybe these people could take advantage of the free online course that Hillsdale offers them, you know, as a nice, just a nice gesture, a gesture of goodwill before preaching to the flock. Now, Tom Homan is exactly correct there. Every other, we've talked about this before, every other country has its own sovereignty. They're able to do this. The United States is somehow denied. I just don't think you'd want to pick a fight with... And the Pope had said, when he came out, he's talked about this before, and he said, oh, you're supposed to welcome the stranger. Stranger and criminal are different. Go back and also read, whether it's New or Old Testament, the importance of following the law. Or are we not paying attention to those parts of the Bible, especially the red letters? That's a real important part when it's red. I guess, I don't know. But he had said, too, that back in 2016, remember, he had said that anybody who builds a wall, like what they've got at the Vatican, to keep out migrants as opposed to illegal entrants rather than bridges was not a Christian. I don't think that we want to have that debate right now. That's a different debate, isn't it?
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In this episode, we delve into the intricacies of government hacks and the surprising stories emerging from behind the scenes. From the unauthorized individuals attempting to penetrate government systems to the humorous outcomes of journalists trying to dig up dirt, there is never a dull moment in politics. Listen in as we explore these issues and reflect on what it means for those working to protect and serve the American people. We also touch upon significant diplomatic conversations between world leaders, including a potential peace deal discussion between Trump and Putin. As we consider the broader implications of these talks, other stories of returnees under President Biden's administration add a human element to the narrative. Stay with us as we also discuss the ever-relevant topic of national security and the paradoxes surrounding political ideologies.
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We work for the American people. And so if an unelected, unvetted individual private citizen is hacking our government systems, breaking the law, firing federal employees, dismantling statutorily created agencies, withholding funds, we are going to fight you in the courts. And I'm actually really sad that my dear friend Mr. Burchett left because I want to talk about that gravy train on Biscuit Wheels that he just talked about. Because that gravy train is not the federal workforce. It's the billionaires that are trying to hack that system right now. And which, unfortunately, my colleagues right now are... Okay, God help me this morning.
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I had the unfortunate experience of getting to listen to this broad, Melanie Stansberry from New Mexico. And listened to her. First off, I cannot continue this program unless we talk about some of her verbiage. Do we know how old she is? Will you find out for me really quickly? How old is Melanie Stansberry? And that's I'm not making... Stop it. I'm not making fun of anybody. I'm just... I'm just in this cold, frigid studio, curious as to her age.
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She just turned 46 on January 31st.
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So she's just barely older than me. But how are you talking like... The way she speaks. I promise you. Because this is like the second or third time. She said that. That Doge was. They were hacking people. Her idea of hacking. Is I guessed your password. Ha ha. That's her idea of hacking. She said that they're literally hacking. They're literally not. But whatever. She said they're literally hacking. They're not though. And. She added that this, yeah, she's like barely. But still, how are you talking the way she does? She said at one point when I was listening to her, she said, and they are literally, and I mean like literally, hacking. First full stop. Because I have, I see people on the left who previously might, maybe they were left before and then after Biden, remember a lot of the left became independent. And I really feel like those are the people that they're trying to target with these narratives. Because those are the people that I see saying, well, where is the oversight? And well, how is it that they're able to access all of this information? I just want to reiterate for people, this is publicly available knowledge for the drive-bys. There's this amazing tool that we called the internet. Can y'all say internet? Do it like Jan Hooks from Pee Wee's Big Adventure. And on the Internet, you can actually look up and you can see these stories and the accuracy of what they're reporting, which is not very accurate. Because, see, these nerds, again, as I've said before, there's only a couple of them. and they have read-only access, they're there to see where the money's going and then make cuts based on, suggest cuts to Musk and Congress based on what they've seen. So people need to realize it's not just an agency that's going in and saying, we're gonna cut this now. It's an agency of like two people under NDAs with read-only access that are going in and they're saying that, This is what this is, the waste. This is the fraud. This is the abuse. This is what has to be cut. And then they hand that to Congress and Congress, whom we have empowered with the authority of our vote, makes the cut. They're ignoring all that for this stupid reason. This, I don't know what it is. I mean, I'm watching this and it's one of the dumbest things I've ever seen, these accusations. Did you hear though? Oh my gosh, this is my favorite story so far of this year. I'm going to lighten it up because I know you guys are like me and you want to pull your hair out every damn day when you see where you're, I can't even barely quell my rage. You see where your tax dollars are going. One of the doge nerds, did something spectacular. So one of the Doge nerds, and this was according to apparently a very angry journalist that did this, they found that one of the Doge nerds had a sub stack. Now sub stack, you can choose to make it public. You can choose to, you choose your price, right? This guy made it to where you could subscribe to his sub stack for a thousand dollars a month. Or you could pay $10,000 for the year. And these journalists, thinking that they could get something on this Doge kid, and he's one of the ones I think who's still in college, they subscribed to his sub stack. And when they accessed his sub stack, they discovered that there was nothing on it. This dude literally made journalists make him money for trying to dig dirt on him. That, I got to say, bravo. Talk about monetizing the hate, my friend. Bravo. Someone make him graduate with honors. He needs to graduate with honors and get maybe an award. I would give him a Presidential Medal of Freedom because that took balls. I mean, probably what one of his names is. I just love it. Love it, love it. So that's my favorite story right now. We're going to cover all of this USAID stuff, but I got to hit these other things too. So Tulsi Gabbard confirmed his DNI. That's number one, but that's not the latest story. The latest story is that apparently Trump and Putin have agreed to begin negotiations on ending the war in Ukraine. He had put out, and bear with me, I'm pulling this up because this is all very coming in fast. He had, I don't want to say tweeted about it, posted on X, I guess. Posted, yeah, on X about this. And was saying that he had a nice, long conversation with... POTUS or with Putin POTUS had a nice long conversation with Putin and uh it looks like that's it looks like they're gonna I guess begin negotiations and this is gonna that's pretty significant don't you think looks like a peace deal is coming he I don't want to read this whole post uh but I I can read some of it because it's one of his longer ones he says that he had a lengthy and highly productive call with Putin. They discussed Ukraine, Middle East, energy, AI, the power of the dollar, various other subjects. We both reflected on the great history of our nations. So basically, you know what that means? That was like a phallus measuring contest between Trump and Putin. Can you imagine watching them trying to one-up each other? Just imagine it. So they... Because you remember that Tucker interview where Putin put Tucker through a history lesson. He said that we both reflected on the great history of our nations. He said that, talked about World War II. That was a nice touch point. And then he said how many people they lost. And then he also said Putin liked his common sense campaign motto. And he says that they're going to work closely together and start working. negotiations on ending these hostilities and that they are going to begin by calling Zelensky to inform him of the conversation. And then he's got Rubio and everybody, no more lives should be lost, et cetera, et cetera. He adds, lastly, I believe this effort will lead to a successful conclusion, hopefully soon. So interesting. We'll see what this with this washes out and what this becomes. But this is all all brand new, all happening now. So very interesting. Very interesting. So this is which we knew that's something that we. I think we could kind of see coming because Russia can't sustain it. I mean, there's no way it has to end. There's no way this is sustainable for them. So very interesting. So a lot of more things for Democrats to be mad about today. More things because they're infuriated over everything else. So in addition to this. We also have the guy who was released. We pulled this up. This was just... Well, I think he got in late last night. But he... Mark Fogle. He was an American citizen. He was wrongly detained in a Russian prison for the last several years. And he was brought home. He greeted POTUS. And he had on an American flag in the middle of the snowstorm. He greeted POTUS. And... was brought back. They had Steve Wyckoff, who I think accompanied him on the flight, all involved. Huge. Why didn't Biden, why wasn't Biden able to do that? Audio Sunbite 16. This is him being welcomed by POTUS at the White House. Listen.
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and amazing people that have brought me home. And I just will spend the rest of my life indebted to you. I'm so excited. I'm so glad to be here today. Some of our people, speakers, we've been asked. Pleasure to meet you, Mark. Pleasure to meet you.
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And then I like audio somebody at 18. Trump told Mark Fogle, we're going to show you the Lincoln bedroom. Listen to this.
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And Secretary Rubio, who met my son a while back. I'm a middle class school teacher who's now in a dream world.
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We're going to show you the Lincoln bedroom in a little while.
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It's a very special place. Appropriate for tonight. Very appropriate. And... Thank you all.
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I have to tell you, one of the things that when I was watching that, and I've seen him do this in person, because I've known POTUS for over a decade, and I first introduced him at CPAC. They asked me to introduce him at CPAC. And... When I watched him and this is just like observation and I always like watching people's behavior. Like, you know, if I if I'm in a group or something like that, I'm usually not. I kind of like to watch and see how people react. One of the things that he does and maybe you'll pick up maybe you've picked up on this before is when because he's sitting there as somebody's talking and he'll read you the whole time you're talking. And this guy's getting emotional, you know, and that's that's the thing for dudes, you know, I mean, even though he's grateful to be back. I mean, it's very awkward, really, if you're a man or a woman to be have all of those emotions hit you like that very publicly. You got the cameras right there, etc., And POTUS is reading this the whole time. And he's he he intercepts. You see what he did? He intercepts and he brings it back and he makes it real lighthearted in a way that I think few people could when he jokes about, yeah, we're going to show you the Lincoln bedroom. I mean, it's funny. It was very nice. But you could see he was diving in there to help lighten the moment a little bit. So this guy wasn't so entirely overwhelmed. That's a very smart thing. So a lot of things happening today. We've got Fogle coming home. We've got DNI being confirmed. We've got RFK Jr. That's still ongoing because McConnell lack of support. We're going to touch on all of that. We've got movement with some legislation with different committees, but they've they've been having hearings, Doge hearings. Marjorie Taylor Greene's been chairing those earlier today. We've got some choice cuts coming from that. And then, of course, all of the latest, because every so when you go to bed, there's more stuff that's been discovered. And then when you wake up, there's even more stuff. So we got to go over the latest. We get to play guess where our tax dollars went. Yay, I know you're so excited. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, but we got to know this stuff. So we have a lot to hit and we're going to get moving. We got headlines coming up as we move. ReadyWise is ready even if you're not. Preparedness isn't about fear. It's about peace of mind and just being responsibly prepared for you and your family. ReadyWise supports the self-reliance and preparedness and they've got you set up no matter what you may face. to protect what matters most. You know that your family's fed no matter what happens. You can visit ReadyWise.com. And use promo code Dana20 at checkout. Get 20% off of your entire purchase. Choose from an array of product choices that will meet every budget. They have different emergency supply offerings, like the one-month supply, two-bucket bundle. They got a three-month emergency supply. Two things that are really unique about ReadyWise. Number one, they have a team of in-house culinary experts that design everything. So you're getting everything. exactly what you need in terms of healthy calories, healthy carbs, protein, all of that to sustain you during such a time. That's one thing I like. The second thing I like is this is all U.S. ingredients packed in U.S. plants sent out to you by U.S. workers. So you know the chain of command for your food. You're not getting any kind of like foreign anything, which that's not really helping your peace of mind during times of emergencies either, is it? So you want to trust where your food comes from in a crisis. 25-year shelf life. Visit ReadyWise.com and use promo code Dana20 at checkout to get 20% off of your entire purchase. That's ReadyWise.com. Promo code Dana20 for 20% off.
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
SPEAKER 14 :
I don't understand how people can eat canned tuna. It's one of the nastiest things I've ever seen in my entire life. It's disgusting. It's canned. It's been in a can for who knows how long. So at Trader Joe's, Walmart, and Costco, they've been recalling them because of botulism risks. They said it was due to a defect on the can's easy open pool lid that could lead to leakage or... postridium botulinum contamination. That actually sounded like I knew what I was saying. It's that defect tab. So it's brand names Genova, Van Camps, Trader Joe's, and HEB. That's their newsroom. They said if you got them, donate it. It's like probably... So 93% of Gen Zers use AI at work and it's giving them a huge advantage. I, oh my gosh, everybody keeps like trying to like praise AI to me and I'm just not sold. They get into how it cuts their workloads using various AI tools, whether it's writing posts, doing tedious tasks like drafting emails, double checking spreadsheets. It's going to happen more and more. I mean, you can't have an anti-Napster attitude to it. You've got to figure out how to work it. That's the only thing. Apparently, an AI-powered death clock predicts how and when you'll die down to the second. So note this. It's only as accurate as the inputs it's given. So that's where AI is still reliant upon, entirely reliant upon input. So if you're not accurate, it's not accurate. You know, it's not magical. So that's... Because a lot of people aren't going to be honest because it asks you questions about your weight, your age, your general behavior, and your outlook on life, all this stuff to accurately predict. I don't think I'd want an AI bot to do that. The... Chatbots are now summarizing news. So, there are a lot of entities that are doing this. Like the quick little hits that you'll get sometimes with a lot of these news websites. It's very much, yeah, they use chatbots to summarize all of this content. Do you know how it's very expensive to insure old rockers? Like Ozzy or... Yeah, like old rock and roll artists. They said that the biggest stars are opting to tour without insurance because they don't want to spend a fortune on a non-appearance cover, but it's a very risky strategy, obviously. I've heard about that before. You know, it's the sex, drugs, rock and roll thing. We've got a lot more coming up, including Democrats' dual 180 on the courts, the latest with USAID, so much more. Stick with us. Our partners over at Super Beats. The product is their Superbarine. It's a newish product, the Superbarine. It's a plant-based supplement. It's made with an ingredient that helps to support your metabolism and also helps to support blood sugar levels. It's three times more effective than your diet and exercise alone. It's real results, super convenient. One easy to swallow capsule a day helps you to do more to support metabolic health and blood sugar levels. These clinically researched ingredients features a very clinically studied berberine that has a 10 times higher absorption than standard berberine used by doctors from the makers of the Super Beats heart shoes. So head to your nearest Sam's Club, save on the Super Beats heart shoes and the super berberine from human. You'll love the way it makes you feel.
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SPEAKER 01 :
I'm saying this is a lifelong Catholic. I was baptized Catholic. I was first communion as a Catholic, confirmation as a Catholic. You ought to fix the Catholic Church and concentrate on his work and leave border enforcement to us. He wants to attack us for securing our border. He's got a wall around the Vatican, does he not? So he's got a wall around to protect his people and himself, but we can't have a wall around the United States. So I wish he'd stick to the Catholic Church and fix that and leave border enforcement to us.
SPEAKER 14 :
I love Tom Holman. I want Tom Holman to be my uncle. I want Tom Holman. I want to be able to say Uncle Tom Holman. How badly do you want to be related to him? Real bad.
SPEAKER 05 :
I'm just going to say it and act like I am.
SPEAKER 14 :
He's the fun guy that you sit next to at all the holiday gatherings because he doesn't take any BS. And if somebody's acting a fool, you want to hear him say something as that person. He's that dude. He's that uncle.
SPEAKER 05 :
You all got an uncle like that. Uncle Tom's the best at family gatherings.
SPEAKER 14 :
Dude, he's like for real, right? Like he keeps it 100, man. Welcome back. Dana Lash with you. Bottom of this first hour. So he's upset because the Pope... Look, this is not a denomination battle. I don't need any religious leader telling lecturing us about immigration, particularly when I mean, and there is a wall there, although you can walk, you know, part through it. But you have to go through security and there's a lot of security. There's like two different security checkpoints. And I mean, that's their thing. You know, fine. I'm going to visit your place. That's what you got. You know, I'll go through it. I liked to look at all the antiquities and the architecture and all of that there. But, I mean, it's true. Then take everything down around the Vatican, right? I mean, you know, they keep the square there in front of St. Peter's. They keep all of that cleared of any vagrants and panhandlers and all of that. And there's like a clear... denotation of where that city-state ends and then Italy begins. So it's very difficult for him to have any kind of authority on this. Furthermore, you know, Jesus didn't come to earth and say, just disregard whatever law you feel like. He didn't. And I'll remind everyone that when he fled to Egypt, that literally was not he's not a refugee. People who say that and religious leaders who say that should step down from the dais at their church because it's embarrassing. I have I will walk out of a service if I hear a church leader say that, because I know that I am listening to a dumb shepherd who is not educated and hasn't read his Bible. And I won't deal with it. I already have enough problem with women like Paula White and the prosperity gospel and people that screw anything with a pulse. And then as soon as they see a camera, it's praise Jesus. But then, you know, after the camera's off, it's I'm going to dry hump anything that isn't my husband. Oh, it needs to be said. And it's accurate. Where's the lie? So, no, I'm not a fan. I don't like prosperity gospel grifters. You know, I don't like those people because it's demonic and it's anti-biblical. That said, the argument that, and he's even intimated this before, that he was, just to correct it, I'm going to do it every chance I get, that Jesus was a refugee. These people are absolutely ignorant of world history. Egypt was part of the Roman Empire. It was literally a province. Now, Augustus had all of these different toadies, like Herod and everybody else, handling different parts of the Roman Empire. And Herod's sons inherited and his daughter inherited, you know, different sections upon his death. But Egypt was different in that Augustus didn't have a toadie administering it, he ran it personally, himself. So they weren't fleeing the Roman Empire. And remember, why did they go back anyway? Why did they go to Bethlehem anyway? Why was it when Mary was like late stages of her pregnancy that they were making this trek back to, it's because they had to, for the census. which is actually antithetical to the argument that illegal immigration puts forward. Oh, and then they went back home when they were done. Again, antithetical to the argument that illegal immigration puts forward. So maybe some of these people that are talking about this could go and sign up at Dana4, F-O-R Hillsdale.com, and they could actually take the lesson on the rise and fall of the Roman Republic, which actually touches upon this. So maybe these people could take advantage of the free online course that Hillsdale offers them, you know, as a nice, just a nice gesture, a gesture of goodwill before preaching to the flock. Now, Tom Homan is exactly correct there. Every other, we've talked about this before, every other country has its own sovereignty. They're able to do this. The United States is somehow denied. I just don't think you'd want to pick a fight with... tom homan and and the the pope had said when he came out he had he's talked about this before and he said oh you're supposed to welcome the stranger and you're supposed stranger and criminal are different go back and said go back and also read whether it's new or old testament the importance of following the law Oh, are we not paying attention to those parts of the Bible, especially the red letters? That's a real important part when it's red. I guess, I don't know. But he had said, too, that back in 2016, remember, he had said that anybody who builds a wall, like what they've got at the Vatican, to keep out migrants as opposed to illegal entrants rather than bridges was not a Christian. I don't think that we want to have that debate right now. That's a different debate, isn't it? So this is a real problem. I mean, this isn't the argument that people are seeking shelter with the major crisis is a false one. It's just so goofy. So good on Tom Homan for this. Good on Tom Homan. So we've got Tulsi Gabbard in D&I. So that's a done deal. Now I guess everybody's waiting for RFK Jr. and waiting for the finality of that. And we'll see. We've got other ones, I think. These are actually, from what I understand, the cabinet nominations and the confirmations of these cabinet selections are actually faster than what they were under Biden. And it's more on par with the Obama administration speed when he was putting his cabinet together back in 08. So it's happening pretty quickly. It's happening pretty quickly. So she's been confirmed as Director of National Intelligence. And we're going to get into here coming up this fight over the courts, the Democrats 180 on the courts. An update on this Florida bill, too, because it's incredibly important that states are empowered and have cleared the way to implement... POTUS's deportation strategy. Because are you watching these judges try to step in and litigate everything that he's doing? You're going to see this. It's going to continue to happen. This is why it is so important for states to be able to do what they do. And I'm watching this with a number of states. The states that are on my radar are my own state of Texas. And I'm watching what's happening in Florida. Because Florida is my backup state. I got family there too. And they scream anytime the legislature does something stupid. And I have a lot of friends there. The immigration bill, there was finally an agreement and a stronger bill was introduced and accepted. If you remember, there's a handful, not all of them, but there's a handful of very far left. They're trans Republicans. They're Democrats who are cosplaying as Republicans. And these like people like Alex Andrade and Joe Gruters and Ben Albritton. And then you've got Daniel Perez. You have Randy Fine, who actually came on the show. I'll give Randy Fine credit. I mean, he's wrong and he's kind of a jackass, but I give him credit because at least he had, since balls is the word of the week, those to come on the program where the other ones have not responded to us at all. They want to run their mouths on social media because they know they can't get their careers destroyed as easily there. So, All of these guys, and I've done a lot of digging into their contributions. And again, it's over at Substack, my Substack chapter and verse, if you care to go read it. All of these guys are on the dole of two huge special interest groups that factor into this. Big Sugar. Oh, yeah, Sugar Daddy. It's a real thing. And the foreign Canadian pot company called Trulieve. And Trulieve was trying to dupe people. This is what the left thinks. The left thinks that they just tell you it's about legalizing marijuana, that you're just going to go like some stoner. Oh, yeah, man, I'm all about legalizing pot. I'll totally support whatever that is. They were banking on that. This was not the Amendment 3 that Trulieve was behind in Florida was never about legalization of marijuana. It was about and you better watch this in your state because they're trying to do it now in Texas. They're laying the groundwork right now. I'm watching it. They come in a foreign company. The CEO's husband was busted for corruption and all kinds of stuff. Felonies, multiple felonies was arrested because they're really shady business practices. They're also big time supporters of amnesty. But they came into Florida. They were trying to buy money. A change in the Florida state constitution under the guise of legalization of marijuana, but it was never that. If you actually read the full readout of the bill's language, the full what they were putting on the ballot, the full ballot language, true leave. And this is a fact not disputable. was putting together a monopoly for itself, a network of true leave, and only its approved partners. It wasn't about legalizing marijuana. It was about creating an unbreakable monopoly for itself in Florida for them and their partners, running all of their competitors out of business. No, you can grow your own. I don't care about pot, but what I do care about is cronyism and corruption. And they were defeated. You ought to go see some of the messes they made in some other states. There are hardcore pro-legalization groups that hate Trulieve for a very good reason. So you might want to pay attention to what some of the stalwarts, if this is a thing for you, in that community have said about Trulieve. They run everybody else out of business. They will hamstring you up. They don't care. Very corrupt people. All of these amnesty rhinos in Florida are getting paid by them. Some of them think that they're smart. Again, I started a novel research and they create little shell packs. So they'll have one pack that truly will give money to. And then that pack gives that money to another pack that gives that money to another pack that then gives it to that candidate. But they're all they're all in the dole of it. They remember created this bill. where they wanted to put immigration enforcement in the hand of this egg farmer that not only voted to protect illegal labor, he refused to fund E-Verify, and he voted to exempt himself from E-Verify. That's Wilton Simpson, a big-time egg farmer. And he's gotten a lot of money from these guys, lots of money. And I've got the receipts, again, over at Substack. And, you know, these guys, when they run these campaigns and they have they create a war chest, they give some of that money to their their toadies. Right. So Wilton Simpson gives some of his money to others and truly was donated. So that's what this was all about. These rhinos were bought off to push amnesty. So they thought they were being clever. They came up with a bill that refused deportation, removed all immigration enforcement from the governor, and put it in this egg farmer's hands, right? This egg farmer who had voted to give driver's licenses to illegal aliens. And he voted, and I have the voting record up again in my sub stack, receipts always. And he voted to allow illegal aliens to become lawyers in Florida and actually practice law. Not even kidding. That's what they support. So... That's what they were trying to give him all the power for immigration enforcement. Now, why do you think that was? Now, they thought they could call it the Trump Act. So that way they could dodge any criticism by saying, well, how dare you oppose something called the Trump Act? You see what they're doing? They were trying to make it look like anybody who was criticizing their amnesty was really criticizing Trump because they call it the Trump Act. So Trump invited all these. He's already he'd already been talking to Ron DeSantis about this. And I've got very well placed sources, by the way, as you can imagine. And like he was playing golf with DeSantis. He tweeted his support for DeSantis's approach because DeSantis was implementing Trump's thing to the letter. Like primary stuff aside, these guys are on the same page with this stuff. And so the White House, this is what these rhinos did. The White House invited all these all the Florida lawmakers. Right. When they were celebrating the Florida Panthers at the White House, they invited all the Florida lawmakers up there like they do with every state. Right. Every state and their team, if they win, like whatever. And these rhinos were acting like they got a personal invitation to visit the White House to talk about their amnesty bill. They had no photos with Trump, nothing. They were just they were trying to misrepresent this to voters. And when voters would ask them questions, they were attacking their voters. They were cussing their voters out on social media. I've never seen anything like it before. dragging them, attacking the women. It was really, really nasty. Maybe they're high on the true leave stuff. I don't know. Anyway, so I was told by someone within the White House that Trump thought their plan was untenable because he didn't understand the ag farmer thing. And he also didn't understand why in the world there was no deportation. And he's trying to keep the peace and keep everybody happy. But these rhinos really miscalculated. And the voters, they just destroyed them. So now they're a bunch of slapped asses. And they lost. And they're trying to save face. That's the story of what happened in Florida. Trulieve is trying to do the same thing in Texas. They're having a little bit of a harder time. But they're still trying. You got to watch this in your state. I promise you it's coming. 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SPEAKER 04 :
Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States.
SPEAKER 12 :
Look, let me tell you something. I'll take a bit of umbrage here. I'll speak on behalf of my colleagues. I think I can say we are all willing to work with anyone who's serious about doing the work of censoring the American people and advancing progress. But they are not serious.
SPEAKER 14 :
What did that bald man say? I mean, who is that? The bad Presley? jeez they're a little rally that's what they've been doing every day is they have a little rally and then they scream who is the lady that said really unattractive lady who said she wanted to bang trump that's what she said she said she wanted to sleep with the president what came off that way yeah because she yeah can we play do we have time or do i gotta save it one just go ahead and play it it's cut 18 yeah just go ahead one or 15 sorry
SPEAKER 16 :
I just I've been told I have 30 seconds. So I am going to tell you that we do have to. I don't swear in public very well, but we have to Trump.
SPEAKER 14 :
I don't think that. Have you seen his wife? I don't think he's interested.
SPEAKER 05 :
That sounds rapey.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, that sounds like she wants to commit rape. That's rapey. So you got Ariana Presley saying that she wants to work with anyone who is into censorship. And this one lady says that she wants to fornicate with the president. So gross. Why are they so gross? We have a whole other second hour to explore that. Stick with us. All Family Pharmacy, you just need to bookmark this website. I've never been to a website where they make it easier to get the medicines that you need. And look for like, I get it. If you want to go to a doctor and you want to have, they have doctors that are on their staff that you can actually talk to. So for instance, when I over Thanksgiving, I was getting super sick. I had sinusitis and it was turning into strep and I had people coming on. I was hosting for Thanksgiving. I don't have time for this. So I went on all family pharmacies website, all family pharma. And I use my own code name. I'm not going to even lie about it. I dropped my own name and I got it discounted for 10% off. It's all familypharma.com slash Dana. And I was able to get my azithromycin because if I were to go to my doctor, that's the exact same thing they're going to prescribe me. This ain't my first rodeo. And then I had it overnighted. Got here at 9 a.m. 9 a.m. I ordered this stuff at like seven o'clock last night. So it was amazing how quickly that they got it there. Anything that you need. This is a must have when you're traveling. They have everything. Ivermectin, which I take ahead of big events for the antiviral properties. But they have all kinds of reliable options for a variety of health needs. Be prepared. Skip the hassle. And here's the kicker. Big thing. Big, big, big. Their stuff is made in the USA, not China. So you hear about a lot of antibiotics being made in CCP China. Not these. It's all USA. So you do not have to worry about outsourced products. You're getting good quality, safe material. Visit allfamilypharma.com slash Dana. Get 10% off using promo code Dana10. Don't wait. Make sure that you're always prepared. Protect yourself and your family. Allfamilypharma.com slash Dana. Code Dana10 to save 10%.
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I find it ironic, of course, that our chairwoman, Congresswoman Greene, is in charge of running this committee. Now, in the last Congress, Chairwoman Greene literally showed a dick pic in our oversight congressional hearing. So I thought I'd bring one as well. Now this, of course, we know is President Elon Musk. He's also the world's richest man. He was the biggest political donor in the last election.
SPEAKER 14 :
Who's this lawmaker again? Let me look back at my list. Garcia. I can't say what he... I can't say that, can I? No, just listen up. We're going to have to, at some point, when we reconfigure the studio setup and I don't have to pay mid-six figures in taxes and I can do the stuff I want to do, put a camera on your face for just that type of moment. I've never seen anybody choke to death on air in an effort to just immediately shut down whatever I was asking.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, just try to play it more cautious when we're on the air. That's all.
SPEAKER 14 :
Kane, you have to understand, is like the exasperated older brother who's done with it. Done with the bratty sister. Done with it. He's just like, no, we're not.
SPEAKER 05 :
I think you can say pee-pee pick, though. You can say pee-pee pic.
SPEAKER 14 :
That's so dumb. It's dumb, though. A phallus photo.
SPEAKER 05 :
Oh, well, if you want to get all classy.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, that's the term.
SPEAKER 05 :
I guess.
SPEAKER 14 :
He called it a phallus photo. Did you guys see the presser that they had in the office? Oh, my gosh. I didn't put this on the rundown. Hold up. So where's this at? They were in the White House. The Oval Office yesterday, you know, Trump was sitting at his desk and Musk was there. He had his black goth hat on. And then their son, little X, his son, little X, was there. That kid was all of us, by the way, because he's hysterical. He's. He's like this. He's if you guys don't watch anime over lockdown, I told you how my kids introduced me to the all of I got into anime because of lockdown. Jojo's Bizarre Adventures. So only like maybe one of you out there is going to understand this. I'm sorry. But little X is like Elon Musk's Stan. Like the supernatural figure that actually is an avatar for powers that you have that manifest outside of yourself and can beat up your enemies. Or is Elon Musk Lil X's stan? I don't know. But it was hysterical. And this kid, his little coat, his little coat. It was hysterical. And he sat on his dad's shoulders for a while and almost took a nap on his head. He's just so funny. He's everywhere. But they were in the office. Somebody What lawmaker was this? Because this was rich. Got really mad. Oh, here it is. I got it. This is the byline. I want to make sure I get this. Hold up. It's the hill. Quote, Republican source tells me that special government employee Elon Musk wearing a MAGA hat in the Oval Office appears to violate the Hatch Act. what now I don't even it's not the hat didn't say like Trump 2024 or whatever like the Hatch Act they say you're not supposed to wear or display partisan political buttons or stuff like that political you're engaging in political activity like if you're you know working for the government and while you're on duty in any federal room or building etc okay so the hat that he's wearing was a black make America great again hat explain to me how that's partisan anybody How's that partisan?
SPEAKER 05 :
The left has never liked America, Dana. So that's probably why.
SPEAKER 14 :
So I'm really so wanting America to be great is considered partisan and you shouldn't like that. Isn't that the whole point of government? Well, I mean, you know what I mean? Come on. Isn't that like their whole professed point? Are they admitting that that's not what their goal is? So the hat that Juan's showing you on the simulcast, if you're watching online or maybe direct TV, Channel 347, the chats and rumble, that's the hat. That's not partisan. It's a statement. I mean, if anything, it's a patriotic statement. But they're trying to say that that's a Hatch Act violation. Shut the front door. No, it's not.
SPEAKER 05 :
You got to be scared there for a second.
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, my gosh. Juan and Kane were both dying.
SPEAKER 05 :
Shut up. You know how crazy it'll get, though? You're seeing that on the screen right now, those watching on Channel 347, DirecTV. Soon, that American flag will be considered a violation of a Hatch Act one day. How is this? Because that's how crazy the left has become.
SPEAKER 14 :
I mean, I don't even think that under the most egregiously liberal... interpretation of that regulation that this could be considered. That's not really, you're not supposed to engage in political activity while on duty. Or you can't wear your government uniform badge or insignia and and like do federal work. Right. It's about making sure federal this is what you know what the Hatch Act also purports to do is to make sure that you're enacting federal programs without bias. So that's a violation of the Hatch Act. All the U.S. aid funding for all of this propaganda is literally a violation of the Hatch Act. Him wearing a hat that just merely says make America great. That's a patriotic statement. You absolute communist cucks. It's. I'm done. That's a political statement. So when they get angry over all of our taxpayer dollars being used to run hit pieces on us, to pay outlets like NPR to say that the laptop is a local story, it's not interesting. That's a violation of the Hatch Act. It's just interesting to me how it's not considered a violation of the Hatch Act for all this other stuff. That it's just this hat. You gotta be kidding me. Everything is now a constitutional crisis with these people, which I think the constitutional crisis are low level judges without the authority trying to kneecap the executive. That's, you know, ultimately really the that's the real that's the real problem. So I that's not that's not I like that hat. I like that hat. It's not going. They're just mad. They're mad and they're trying to do anything that they can. To target Musk and to they want to stop this and they feel like they have to destroy him and destroy Doge in order to make that happen. That's why they keep saying, oh, we're going to impeach him. We're going to impeach him, etc. That's stupid because he wasn't didn't go through the confirmation process. So everything's been going towards Musk. None of the stuff that has been thrown at the nerd army is sticking because I think people kind of like it. There is a real underdog aesthetic to the nerd army. In fact, there's a real underdog aesthetic to all of this. Do you realize that if the shoe was on the other foot, the narratives that Democrats would be making. So Democrats are attacking an African-American right now. They're attacking an actual African-American who is a great story of coming to America and becoming an American and joining the American family and all of that stuff. And, you know, these people are livid over it. They're not like us. So... Nobody's really been they can't really target the nerd army anymore because people like the nerd army. That's like such a fist in the air, rebellious, very American thing that they're doing. So now they're like, well, we're going to try to, you know, Jimmy Raskin, yesterday we played some of that audio where he said that they were talking about impeaching him, impeaching Musk on the theory that he's usurped the powers of the presidency. That would only make sense if he was bypassing Congress and actually cutting things himself. He's auditing and then presenting the findings to Congress and then Congress makes the decision if and what they want to cut and when. So that doesn't hold true. They're omitting that part to you. It's incredibly frustrating to see this. And I just you know, I look at these people who are defending the waste and fraud and abuse of taxpayer dollars. How do these people sleep at night? It's the most anti-American thing I've ever seen. How do these people sleep? It's disgusting. One of the reasons why people on the left, why the left lost, is because of stuff like this. We see the rampant abuse in front of our faces and the left wants to pretend that it doesn't exist. Because to acknowledge it and to stop it doesn't suit their interests. They make money off of this. It's an audit. They don't want to stop making money. It's an audit. I mean, you had five treasury secretaries who wrote an editorial, who all co-authored an editorial in the New York Times to argue that people who take our tax dollars and waste our tax dollars should not be held accountable to the voter, the taxpaying voting public. In what world is that? It's just insane. We should be able to spend all your money without an audit. They're arguing literally against oversight. And the fact that the media is treating with such animosity this whole story and ignoring all of the waste that Doge has been finding that tells you everything. Everything. I don't know. I... I read this thing where it said if somebody were to, heaven forbid, if somebody were to take a shot at Musk, Democrats would maybe kind of convince them the violence and then they would turn whoever did it into like a progressive folk hero like they're doing with that Luigi Mangione guy. That Luigi Mangione guy who killed that insurance executive. He's like, I read a story that he has raised like, what, over a million dollars in jail? Something crazy. All these people donating money to him. That's the left. That's what the left does. It's just just shocking to me. We have more on the way, including let me just pull up. We just have a lot to get a lot to get into because now we've got I didn't know that people were living to 150 years of age and collecting Social Security. But the government says they are keen and we know that daddy government's always right. Ka-chow. 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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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So apparently there are more whistleblowers set to come forward exposing how they worked on top secret projects that involved retrieving and reverse engineering spacecraft. Yes, apparently it's all information about UFOs. This is really good news because yesterday we got the story that there's a 2% chance that an asteroid could hit the planet. That's great. Sweet meteor of death. Yay. Yes, I long for it. Go out in one big giant flash of glory. and illuminate the universe for one brief second. The UFO thing is another thing, because I want there to be aliens. I'm just really bored with just human drama. I want some alien drama. I bet it's just as otherworldly as they are. You know what I mean? I really... You have like real house cucks of DC and that's like all of the rhino lawmakers and all that stuff there. That's my word today. And I really want to, I want some alien drama, Kane. I want to have the fight as to whether aliens should play on sports teams. I want that fight. Think about it. Like, how does that work? You know what I'm saying? Like, give me some new drama. Anyway, there's apparently a ton more of these. I think they're, of course, I think they're out there. They're probably already here on the planet. That would explain some... That actually would explain a lot of things. So, you know, kind of like how Men in Black. Wrap that up real nice and neat. Also, let's see. This... A United Airlines flight diverts to Denver because a dude was hunting Mormons. Like, on the plane. What? He was going through saying, where are the Mormons at? It was a red eye bound for Chicago, diverted to Denver after a burly man sprang up from his seat repeatedly, walked to the front of the aircraft, argued with crew members and demanded that Mormon passengers be identified. Okay, well, he actually kind of looked drunk. He wouldn't say whether or not he was Mormon himself. That's kind of a very interesting story there. Thousands of Danes signed a petition to go buy California from the United States. I'm actually okay with it. And you can take your wine that has all the sulfites and the chemicals in it with you.
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I'd even say a straight trade for Greenland would be cool.
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I would totally. Can we build a wall around California? Let's let all the conservatives leave. If they want to do that and California does it, you know, why not? Just go ahead. Although, but then that would make us a little bit vulnerable there with the West Coast and we've got some forts and all that there. So I don't know about that. You know, I don't know. Also, the skinny jean is making a comeback. God bless America. Because nobody wants to see your stupid bell bottoms. I love skinny jeans. So the Gen Zers and Alpha people say that skinny jeans makes everybody look like Gru from the Minions. And I think that they're brats. First off, I cannot stand the high-waisted bell-bottom thing. It makes you look fat and stumpy. I don't care how thin you are or how long your waist is. You're not supposed to have a tufted area there. You know, right there's your pubic bone. It's not supposed to be there. But skinny jeans are coming back. It is not controversial. Only communists don't like skinny jeans. If you love America, you're going to be fine with skinny jeans. That's the way that you root out the communists. A microchip company ceases operations. Pet owners are urged to re-register. So check your pet's microchips. It is all of this. It's a big industry. But they said that microchips registered with a company called Save This Life. Documents from Texas show the company ceased operations. So that's something you might want to take a look at. We have a lot more in store on the way. Stick with us. It's our friends at Caltech, the PR57. It is a 5'7". It's called the PR-57, and it's from Kel-Tec. Brand new. They launched it just like a couple weeks ago at SHOT Show. And they changed concealed carry back in 95. Now the PR-57 rotary barreled pistol chambered in 5.7. It's redefining it with this cutting-edge design and performance. It has this innovative rotary barrel, which makes it the lightest 5.7 on the market. And by that, I mean it's 40% lighter than the next lightest 5.7. I mean, it's crazy how light this is. But it's super well balanced. It has a unique top-loading design that replaces the traditional magazine with a stripper clip. And it has a 20 plus 1 capacity. So the left can finally be accurate in saying clips instead of magazines. And it was inspired by real-world data and defensive needs. I mean, this is a 5.7 that a lady could actually conceal carry. Low recoil for ease of use and accuracy. Super simple and reliable. Perfect for everyday carry for literally everybody. And it's super affordable. The MSRP is only $399. I mean, you can get this. Visit Kel-TecWeapons.com to learn more. Up at the PR57 Rotary Barrel Pistol 5.7. Innovative and actually concealed carry. Innovative performance. Kel-Tec. That's Kel-TecWeapons.com. K-E-L-T-E-C-Weapons.com.
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We have so many unelected judges who are trying to control government spending, and there is a clear separation of powers. You know, they're doing it to Elon Musk, who is a great man and a good friend at Doge. What they're doing to him, to our country, is outrageous. You know, people work their whole lives and pay taxes, yet they find out that they've been giving $2 million to Guatemala for sex changes.
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It is outrageous. And not only is it outrageous, but this idea that a judge can tell the executive, no, you can't exercise the authority of an executive as the executive over the executive branch is asinine. I don't think it's an issue of the left not knowing that. how government works or how it's structured, I think it's an issue of them believing that you're stupid and you don't know. And that's what they're playing to. I mean, I don't know. Now they're trying to stop him from doing absolutely everything. And whether it has to do with freezing people certain federal funding as it's being audited. All of it. Like he was cutting, let me pull this up. He's cutting some of these education department contracts. And these contracts included over 100 million taxpayer dollars that dealt with DEI training. And all of that is being just canceled. Parents for Defending Education has been involved in it. And just FYI, Parents for Defending Education, these were not like Republican Stepford Wives that created these groups. These were parents across the political spectrum who were appalled. They learned during lockdown what was happening in the classrooms, what their kids were learning, some of the material. I know a lot of the parents, one of the mothers who's kind of like the face for the organization, there's a couple of different ones, but they were looking at like what their seventh graders were reading, very age inappropriate material. that dealt with intercourse and things of that nature and DEI stuff where the founding of the Republic was trashed and there were just a lot of false things that were being presented as fact. And they reacted to that and they said, this is not education. If our kids were to take an actual exam on this, they'd flunk because none of this is historically factually accurate. to say nothing of the age-inappropriate sexual material that they were being exposed to. So Trump is preparing an executive order. I mean, he wants to eventually close the education department. I completely agree. I think that education, this is an issue where if anything should be run by the state so that parents can have local control, it's this. It is insane to me that people would say, yeah, we're going to just send all the control of our kids' education all the way to D.C., where we have no hope of ever actually influencing or changing anything. It's asinine. If anything that should be state-controlled, it's that. Because it's just so much easier for parents to be involved, and I think you're not micromanaging 50 states. You're dealing with the student body of one state. And they are going to lose their minds over it. Lose their minds. They've been trying to reduce the workforce. They've been putting a lot of unnecessary administrative bloat on leave. And, you know, everybody said it was going to happen. Um, The DEI is brainwashing. It's actual racism. So this was one of the cuts that was proposed, by the way, by Doge. They found ways to save $101 million just by gutting the DEI programs. And They found, let me pull this up, that almost two, I think it was almost $2 million was spent on watching male clerks work. Now, DEI, something else that's important for people to realize, diversity and equity and inclusion, which is so stupid. It's not about, there's just a quick recap. There's equality and equity. Equality means everyone has the same opportunities, but you're going to have different outcomes based upon what you do with those opportunities. That's not enough for the Mao-esque communists who want equity. Equity is doesn't matter about opportunity. The outcomes must be guaranteed to be the same. In order to have that, you actually have to incorporate discrimination into this process. And it completely disregards the free will choices that individuals make. So if you get too far, if you're too successful, you're penalized. It's all about forcing ideological conformity. That's all DEI is. It's ideological conformity. That's why they don't say equality anymore. Because equality still suggests that there is... that there's individual control and free will involved. And in order to achieve ideological conformity, free will must be rejected. There is no individual empowerment. That's what it's all about. That's what they want. So they're ordering a federal review of all of these sub departments within the Department of Education. And I think that's perfect. This absolutely needs to happen. I mean, there's no reason why our test scores should be lower than that of so many other nations. There's no reason. None. So this, all very interesting. I saw too, let me make sure I'm hitting all of our stuff, getting into this. So the courts, getting back to this, this is one of the things that the courts are going to be fighting. They've been pushing back on Everything Trump's doing, which is weird because, you know, AOC had said previously that Joe Biden, oh, he can ignore the court because he's he's president of the United States. Remember when you had the Supreme Court that was trying to smack him down on everything from rent moratoriums that they were trying to push through the CDC to. whether it was that to whether it was paying off a student debt, like educational welfare for rich kids. And Democrats were suggesting that Biden didn't have to follow any kind of, you know, the courts are irrelevant, is what Democrats said. Now, Democrats, that's like the only thing that they can use and abuse in order to counter what voters want. So now they're trying to say that, oh, my gosh, the president, if he it's a 180. Oh, if he's not paying attention to the court system, then, oh, my gosh, it's an attack on our republic. or no, what they say is it's an attack on democracy. I mean, remember Elizabeth Warren talked about packing SCOTUS. Suddenly now they love the courts again. Interesting how that works. Now they like the courts. Oh, now it's okay. There's no consistency with any of these people. None. So we told you that Tulsi Gabbard, DNI, by the way, with this, Pam Bondi needs to bring the full force of the DOJ on these people. You control the, you, these judges fall under your purview. This, we need DOJ and we need all these FBI agents that were leaking ICE movements jailed. Done with it. Tulsi Gabbard confirmed for DNI, although Mitch McConnell's not, he's not supportive. I'm ambivalent about Gabbard. I think a lot of people are taking in with her because of cult of personality. I'm, I, I'm not, I'm not supportive or antagonistic. Like I said, I'm ambivalent. We've tried to get her on the show forever. She outright will not have anything to do with me. They absolutely refuse. To talk to us and all I wanted to do was talk about, you know, whether or not she's still opposed Second Amendment because the stuff that she said to try to clarify it didn't really clarify it. And I just was interested in that personal journey. And I, you know, a lot of lawmakers don't like to answer questions on that because they don't want to risk exposure or whatever. I don't know. Uh, but she never would come on. So I, I don't, I don't get into cult of personality. I, as you guys know, I don't do any of that stuff. So I'm ambivalent about it. I'm not like, you know, rah, rah, rah. I'm not going to show up and make sure that I'm seen, you know, there. So I don't care. Uh, I just, I look at, I look at it like another government bureaucrat. Honestly, I just I don't trust any intel agency at all whatsoever. And I think absolute power corrupts absolutely. And when you get agencies like that and people who don't really want to talk about what they used to believe or how they used to be against rights, natural rights for Americans. I have every right to be a little suspicious and to be very distrustful. So I still am. That said, switching our attention to Gaza. I don't know, man. It looks like Saturday is going to come a go and all hell is going to have to break loose, Kane. I think that's what's going to have to happen, to be honest, because there I'm just saying it doesn't Gaza. I don't know. The they've gone back to Hamas is now once again refusing to honor the terms of anything that they agreed to. Anytime that there's any sort of deal made. So now they they don't want to release any more hostages. They and apparently they feel like, you know, their propaganda has given them the upper hand in this narrative. And they've been kind of like a drip drip release on the hostages they have to torture the families. So they've proven that they still have hostages, obviously, that they still have hostages that are alive. And you've seen what happens when they're released and what they look like. It's like watching people walk out of a concentration camp. I read one story where one of the hostages that was released, and it's very selective. The hostages that are released, they usually have other family members in custody so that they can continue to torture people. And It was a younger boy that was a hostage that was released, and he was saying that he was kept in. This is why I stopped with the whole free Gaza stuff. All these hostages, and there's no residents that turn over these hostages to Red Cross. They stay in people's houses. Every single hostage has said that when they were taken to the Red Cross, to the exchange, that Gazans come out of their homes to beat them excitedly, to beat them, kick at them, spit at them, everything. And even when they were brought in, the same thing happened. Hamas actually has to help keep some of the residents from tearing them apart when they're being given to Red Cross. So spare me. But like one of the hostages that they released, this was a guy who was starved and tortured for 491 days. And they parade them out drip drip style. And they want the emotional manipulation because that's all really Hamas has anymore. That and the stupid people who still think that what they're doing is somehow respectable or justified. So I don't know. I think that they were not anticipating Trump's very aggressive reaction. If they think he's joking, this is what I like. I love when enemies don't know if our president is going to go nuts and tweet something and then press the red button or not. I like that mystery. I like the fact that they don't know what he's going to do, and they know that he might be short-tempered with this nonsense. I don't know. Jordan already said that they would take some Gazan kids in. We'll see, you know, with Egypt. 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It's time for Florida Man.
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So, this is a headline that involves handicapped spots, churches, and punching. It's the hot new club. Parking lot beatdown. John Phillips, 65. Florida Man was arrested in Orange County. He beat a woman over a handicapped spot in a church parking lot, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Office. It happened at St. John Vianney Catholic Church. They said that the victim, Jenna DelZegaro, went to go pick up her five-year-old niece with her mother at the church, parked in a handicapped spot near the entrance. While DelZegaro was putting her niece in her car seat, a man in a black truck parked in front of their spot, blocking them from being able to leave or pull out. The man waved his handicap sticker from inside his truck. Del Zagara showed him their placard in response. So I guess she's handicapped too? Then he gets out of the truck, starts walking towards them, and he began yelling at her when she got out of her car, saying the placard did not belong to them, and he saw her get out of the car next to them, the victim told deputies. She tried to explain to them that they were not associated with the car next to them, and they were trying to leave when they got into an argument. And then Phillips told Del Zagara that... Delzingaro that her mother would not let them and her mother they couldn't let him leave so they called security he then pushed the car door hit her and she was trying to get away from him and she shoved him back to to get it because he was all up in our space then he punched her into the punched her in the face knocked her to the ground when she got up he overpowered her grabbed her by the neck shoved her to the ground again Her mother completely corroborated it. The granddaughter in the car began to cry, the niece. She was screaming for help until staff and other parents intervened, and they got her and the mother and the granddaughter in the church. The mother was disabled, and so she's able to use the—she's actually physically handicapped. The woman that the man punched had bruises all over her face. So I don't know if anybody in the jail wants to, you know, you guys want to deal with John Phillips, 65, a woman beater, happy to donate to the commissary in your honor. I mean, I'm not encouraging any kind of shenanigans in prison, but a lot of things happen naturally. You know what I mean? And I know a lot of the, you know, these men and women in there, they're doing their time. They're doing their time. And they don't like these women beaters. So, man, this is why you carry. That's why you carry a gun, I got to say. Don't touch the macaques, the monkeys. The racist macaques in Silver Springs State Park. Florida Fish and Wildlife are like, nope, nope, they got, they're a little nasty. They got some diseases. In fact, they can give you the herp. Oh. Ew. Oh gosh. So just leave them alone. We got third hour on the way. Stick with us. The non-firearm firearm, the burn a gun. It's always good to diversify what you have as your weapons array. And I always, every now and then I come across someone's like, well, I don't go to gun-free zones. Good for you. I love that for you. Some of us though, we have to by nature of what we do for a living. You know, we got to put our big kid pants on and we got to go to work and sometimes that requires going to a place where municipal restrictions or private property regulations say you can't carry and maybe they don't want to keep you safe. I've got friends who work in DC and New York and they deal with the same thing every single day by way of their jobs and they are like-minded people and you want them in the jobs that they're in. My friends went out and they got the Burna SD which is the most popular model. It shoots chemical irritant projectiles that can disable threats from up to 50 feet away and it has a five round capacity. Which is much greater than the stun guns, which are maybe just one or two shots. That's it. Quick deployment, easy target acquisition, zero recoil. And you don't have to undergo a background check. There's no waiting periods. It's legal in all 50 states and you can buy it online and have it shipped right to your front door. So it's again, you know, you can't trust everyone else to take care of your security. And even when they try to make it impossible for you to defend yourself, this is another way if you diversify what you have in terms of self-defense tools that you can keep yourself safe and give yourself a chance. You can check out all of the models that they have, including the accessories and other projectiles at byrna.com slash Dana, where you can also get 10% off your purchase. That's byrna.com slash Dana for 10% off.
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Now, before I take questions, I would like to address an extremely dishonest narrative that we've seen emerging over the past few days. Many outlets in this room have been fearmongering the American people into believing there is a constitutional crisis taking place here at the White House. I've been hearing those words a lot lately. But in fact, the real constitutional crisis is taking place within our judicial branch, where district court judges and liberal districts across the country are abusing their power to unilaterally block President Trump's basic executive authority. We believe these judges are acting as judicial activists rather than honest arbiters of the law. And they have issued at least 12 injunctions against this administration in the past 14 days, often without citing any evidence or grounds for their lawsuits. This is part of a larger concerted effort by Democrat activists and nothing more than the continuation of the weaponization of justice against President Trump. Quick news flash to these liberal judges who are supporting their obstructionist efforts, 77 million Americans voted to elect this president. And each injunction is an abuse of the rule of law and an attempt to thwart the will of the people. As the president clearly stated in the Oval Office yesterday, we will comply with the law in the courts, but we will also continue to seek every legal remedy to ultimately overturn these radical injunctions and ensure President Trump's policies can be enacted.
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Speaking of those judges, Daily Caller, their news foundation does really good work in digging some stuff up. Like Judge John McConnell Jr. He's the guy who did the TRO on the temporary restraining order on stopping Trump from freezing federal funding to give the auditors time to examine the waste, fraud, and abuse, right? So this guy... has donated, wow, literally hundreds of thousands of dollars to Democrats. So you would say, okay, well, Dana, that's all right. So he's a Democrat. Oh, but wait, there's more. Don't you think it's a conflict of interest that he serves on the board of one of the taxpayer-funded NGOs that saw its funding frozen? Don't you think that's a conflict of interest? That the judge that is trying to stop Trump from freezing funds serves on the board of one of the non-government entities that got taxpayer dollars and had its taxpayer funding frozen. That's a major conflict of interest. Don't you think it's a conflict of interest that his daughter works for the Department of Education? That's among those being targeted for waste, fraud, and abuse. Huh. It's interesting. After he donated to all of these Democrats, he was appointed to be a federal judge. He's a very expensive prostitute, this judge. So he's an activist judge. And this is the guy who has been super aggressive. He's threatening the Trump administration with criminal charges. Again, once more, he literally sits on the board of an NGO that had its funding frozen for waste, fraud and abuse. And he's losing his mind and he's apoplectic over this. And he wants he demanded that the Trump administration administration, quote, immediately restore frozen funding. And he said, if you oppose it further, there's going to be criminal charges. Huh.
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Huh.
SPEAKER 14 :
Interesting. A lot of conflict of interest here. So he wants he's saying you need to keep funding the group on the board of which I said you need to keep funding it. Hmm. I mean, this is a guy who has he's got a mediocre rating from third party entities that rate, you know, judicial strength, et cetera, et cetera, and bipartisanship. But he he wants this. He wants the spigot turned back on. And this guy is just nuts. He is the some of the stuff that he is just like free willingly said. He said that the like the CRT language that he uses, he like in 2021, he said that he said Trump was a tyrant. He said that all white people were racist and that transgender people should have special sentencing privileges. And I mean, this is just... Golly, how do you expect to have any kind of law and order or justice with this kind of stuff, with this kind of guy? I mean, it's bad. He said that... He thinks that it's just the stuff that he's, he tries to be as non-racist as possible in his language. Like, you know, the left tries to be so over-policing with speech that they end up sounding like literal Klan members. The way that he talks, he thinks apparently that all criminals are black or transgender. That's the way he talks because he acts like, oh, there needs to be a special thing for criminals and all this. And he just restorative justice. He's nuts. He also said that apparently Trump's first four years was more damaging to the U.S. than the Civil War. What? What? I don't even know where you go with this stuff. I don't even know. What? He's also basically said that transgender criminals, apparently, because they're special, that's almost like an insult, that they should have a different standard of justice for them. I mean, he's settled. There's tons of video footage and quotes from this guy. Oh, my gosh. But, yeah, he's major, major, major, major conflict of interest with this guy. Now, that's just one judge. There's also another judge, Judge John Bates. He is the guy who wants Trump to restore the website information on sex change operations. His wife, Carol Reese, gets paid by USAID. She is the founder of some weirdo organization, and she's a very far-left progressive person. They get a lot of money from USAID. They're the ones who try to basically export progressivism to different countries. Yeah. Wow. I mean, this is crazy. All of these. I mean, I don't know. I don't know how much they give. There's a major conflict of interest. So that's I this is this is weaponizing the judicial system. With these super lefty judges, this is why you got to pay attention to people who are running for election as judges in your area, because all these people at some point they ascend up to this or some of them will ascend up to this level. And you have to watch who's running for these positions for court in your in your area. The. I mean, absolute. This isn't justice. None of this is justice. This is politics, right? This is all politics. But they want to prevent, they said they want to prohibit all categorical pauses or freezes and obligations or disbursements from the president's executive orders. And he said that there are no impediments to their compliance. Yeah, you're telling the executive, a low-level, far-left Marxist judge, is telling the executive that the executive cannot run the executive branch as he's constitutionally authorized to do with the mandate that he was given by voters. This is not going to go very far in court because the president has the absolute authority to do that. And that's exactly what he's exercising. They're just unhappy because they're gutting their slush funds. That's what it's all about. They're gutting their slush funds. So I don't know. The audacity, they don't have anything else. They have nothing else. Now, it's not just these judges. You also have reporters that are refusing to even acknowledge changes. So there was an AP reporter who got barred from the Oval Office because they will not stop. The Associated Press will not stop calling Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of Mexico. They won't refer to it as Gulf of America. And the AP said, well, this plainly violates the First Amendment. Right. Like when Biden would bar reporters.
SPEAKER 05 :
But it's disinformation.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, it's actual disinformation because the Gulf is now the Gulf of America.
SPEAKER 05 :
And if I learned anything from the left, we can't allow that.
SPEAKER 14 :
You can't allow disinformation. Cain, you're right. You're looking out for America's best interests.
SPEAKER 06 :
Thank you.
SPEAKER 14 :
I mean, so awkward. Remember when Biden banned the New York Post from, the White House banned the New York Post from attending a Biden event? And they did that as a punishment for the New York Post breaking the Hunter Biden laptop story. Do you remember the Associated Press freaking out about that? You guys remember that, right? They the Biden administration blocked the New York Post from attending not just like one event, several as a penalty for the Hunter Biden laptop story. They banned them from it. Nobody in the media spoke up in defense of New York Post. I mean, we talked about it. Other conservatives talked about it. But like nobody in like the media media, no Associated Press went out and said, you can't ban that. How was that not an attack on the First Amendment? And that was like an illegitimate story. That was an actual legitimate story. story. It was true. That was propaganda. So this, the Associated Press now wants to act like the First Amendment is somehow under threat. No, we're not doing this. Yeah, I remember that very, very, very well. Very well. And I didn't see Brian Stelter, I didn't see any of these stooges rush out to defend. Or remember when the Biden administration, if you want to have a discussion about the First Amendment, do you remember when they were shutting people's social media accounts down, including they were deleting posts and locking, like they even suspended briefly the New York Post account before Musk bought it for the Hunter Biden laptop store, if you want to have a discussion about the First Amendment. Them not saying... Gulf of America, I don't care how petty it sounds. I will fight on every, I'll fight on every damn blade of grass. This is disinformation and we know it kills people. Imagine the Associated Press saying, no, no, no, it's still the Gulf of Mexico. Somebody's going to get lost and die. They keep this up.
SPEAKER 05 :
Probably drown.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah. I mean, you're going to tell them to go to somewhere, a place that doesn't exist. Why do you hate people?
SPEAKER 05 :
It makes more sense, though, to call it Gulf of America. So you think about it, North America and even South America all enjoy, in Central America even, little Central America enjoys the Gulf. So it's all America. Why don't we just call it Gulf of America? It makes sense to me.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, because it's ours and it's just, that's it. The end. That's it. So I saw this real quick. What? I didn't know. Hang on. So I know we got to get moving. So FLOTUS said that they're reopening the White House to tours. Did they had they shut that down under Biden? Why is it reopening now? I didn't know it was not open. Public tours. You have to request them through members of Congress and you can submit them up to three months in advance. They're self-guided, 45 minutes, 730 to 1130. They got their times. But they said that they are they're reopening that. I didn't know that it wasn't open. So Biden had shut it down. They didn't have they didn't have those. That's news to me. I didn't know that. Interesting. The nation's healing. You know that Ivermectin, they talk about it in terms of prevention, et cetera. It's simple, fast and affordable to get it on all family pharmacy. These are doctors that you work with, like actual doctors, not like big pharma type doctors. And when you visit allfamilypharmacy.com, you can use code Dana and get 10% off your whole order. So I was taking my Ivermectin that I got from them. They've also helped me out like over Thanksgiving when I couldn't get into my doctor and I know I'm getting strut throat. I know it's a thing. and I was able to get the antibiotics I need because I've been to this gut rodeo before, and their doctor was able to sign off. They sent it like in a day and a half, and that's not even expedited. That's just like how fast they sent it. You can skip the hassle, and here's what I really like about the medicines that they offer at All Family Pharmacy. It's not made in China. They're not made in China. These are all elements from the U.S. of A. So that's huge, I think, when you're looking at medicines and antibiotics and things like that. You can get comprehensive treatment options in addition to the ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine. You got antibiotics and over 200 other essential medicines. Visit allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana for 10% off using promo code Dana. That's allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana. Coupon code Dana10 gets you 10% off today.
SPEAKER 05 :
And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick 5.
SPEAKER 14 :
Hold up. We were playing Duran Duran, Hungry Like the Wolf. You got to do the doot-doots. Don't ever attempt that song in karaoke unless you got a crew of people ready to serve and do the doots. We're here to do the doots. That's what it is.
SPEAKER 06 :
We need that on a shirt.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, right? Okay. Oh, man. The church bans non-alcoholic wine and gluten-free bread from Holy Communion. Well done. Well done! Well, it's the Church of England. I don't know. They're weird. But no, this is actually correct. This is the way. They said, no, the bread has to be made with wheat flour and wine must be fermented grape juice to be consecrated. I mean, I don't know. I mean, Jesus turned water into wine. I'm pretty sure you can do that after you imbibe it, but I don't care. I just don't like, you know, all the people who are like, I don't want that. Shut up. So, let's see. This... Oh, what a weird headline. A steakhouse owner was stabbed to death during a gender reveal party. How does that go wrong? It was at 4114 Steaks and Seafood. And this was in Illinois. And they found the guy with stab wounds to his wrist, back and right side. He was pronounced dead. And he got into an argument with his girlfriend, the restaurant manager, during a gender-revealed party. The woman's sons got involved, apparently, too. And that's when the 16-year-old stabbed the dude. I don't even know how. How did this go wrong? They just apparently got in an argument over meals and chicken tenders. Jiminy Christmas. I can't even. I'm... I'm not even touching these next stories here. We're going to save those for tomorrow because it's like I had a bunch of seven-year-olds that were like, here, let's put these in here. We have more to come. Stick with us. Achieving vibrant youthful skin doesn't have to be complicated. With the power of Native Path Collagen, you can nourish your body from within and enhance not just your skin, but also your hair, your nails. By incorporating Native Path Collagen into your daily routine, you can promote a plump, radiant complexion, reduce signs of aging, and boost your overall vitality. all without any unnecessary fillers or additives. Native Path Collagen has only type 1 and 3 collagen, the most important types, making up 90% of your body's collagen. No artificial sweeteners, just pure third-party tested goodness. It's completely flavorless, so you can just add it to about anything, your coffee, your smoothies, oatmeal, or whatever you want. And the best part is that Native Path's peptides formula makes it more bioavailable so it means your body will absorb it easily start your journey to healthier skin today get native path.com slash dana and stock up on native path collagen and save up to an incredible 45 off plus free shipping every order includes a 365 day money back guarantee don't miss out head to get native path.com slash dana
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SPEAKER 17 :
Meanwhile, Americans woke up this morning to bad news for their bank accounts. They woke up to a grim reality that Donald Trump is not going to keep his promise. To lower costs.
SPEAKER 14 :
Chuck Schumer.
SPEAKER 17 :
They woke up.
SPEAKER 14 :
He's upset because Biden really contributed to inflation and it didn't immediately go away when Trump got into office. And so he's trying to act like that. They don't have anything else. Welcome back to the program. I want to play for you this guy. The Democrat star speaker. They had this project on government oversight hearing. His name is Dylan. Hitler. Gaudet. Mr. Hitler. What? His name, Kane, is Mr. Hitler. Oh. Hitler Gaudet.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh.
SPEAKER 14 :
Mr. and Mrs. Hitler's son.
SPEAKER 1 :
Oh.
SPEAKER 14 :
That's how you say it.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, it looks like that.
SPEAKER 14 :
He says he can't see any waste, fraud, or abuse from government spending. He can't see it. Listen.
SPEAKER 19 :
Waste is different from fraud. Fraud is different from abuse and abuse is different from both. When we talk about improper payments, they are a subset of those other three categories. But that doesn't tell us.
SPEAKER 14 :
And there it is. So he's he says he can't see any of the waste, fraud or abuse. And he's blind.
SPEAKER 05 :
Oh, I thought it was because the sunglasses.
SPEAKER 14 :
He is the director of government affairs at the NGO Project on Government Oversight. Wait, the blind dude's in charge of over... Overseeing waste, fraud, and abuse. Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 05 :
And it's his testimony he hasn't seen any?
SPEAKER 14 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 05 :
I see.
SPEAKER 14 :
I mean, technically, he's not lying. He's not. He says, I didn't see it. I mean, it's real smart that Democrats put him in charge of the project on government oversight. It's real. And he's like, I don't know. I didn't see any waste, fraud, or abuse. I don't know what you guys are talking about. I didn't see anything as the director of government affairs, the project on government oversight. So I can't attest to any waste or abuse of government spending. I didn't see it, Mr. Hitler said.
SPEAKER 05 :
If I was a Republican representative, I would have asked if he smelled anything. Because you know how other senses get heightened when you lose one of them? So you would think, do you smell any government corruption at all? Do you smell any waste abuse?
SPEAKER 14 :
I'm really excited that you brought that up because that brings me to the poetry of my latest tweet, Cain.
SPEAKER 09 :
You had this guy.
SPEAKER 14 :
You had this guy, Congressman Robert Garcia, who went after Marjorie Taylor Greene a little bit ago. She's in charge of the Doge Committee. I don't know if he said this. Maybe play this. He said that basically he's arguing that Marjorie Taylor Greene should... not be in charge of the doge committee because she showed a phallus pick last year in their oversight hearing it was a phallus pick but he did what he meant what he doesn't say well should we go ahead and
SPEAKER 18 :
You want to play his? Now, I find it ironic, of course, that our chairwoman, Congresswoman Greene, is in charge of running this. Congressman Robert Garcia. Now, in the last Congress, Chairwoman Greene literally showed a dick pic in our oversight congressional hearing. So I thought I'd bring one as well.
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, see, he thinks he's being cute.
SPEAKER 18 :
Now, this, of course, we know is President Elon Musk. So he's also the world.
SPEAKER 14 :
The phallus pick that Marjorie Taylor Greene showed was Hunter Biden's coke dusted phallus that. They presented because they were talking about oversight and accountability. Was this before or after they found a bunch of coke in the White House? Nobody knows where that coke came from. It came from the magical coke fairy that just leaves cocaine in cubbies. The cocaine cubby fairy. I need a different word so I can have all C's.
SPEAKER 05 :
Cocaine cubby coalition.
SPEAKER 14 :
The cocaine cubby coalition. all about bringing the cocaine to them cubbies, the coalition of it. It just like magically appeared there, you know, as is often the case in the White House with just coke appearing in cubbies.
SPEAKER 05 :
I think Marjorie Taylor Greene brought that picture to that hearing between the coke discoveries, right? There was one coke discovery amount discovered and then there was her picture in the hearing and then there was more coke discovered yeah so i think it was then yeah i mean there was a lot of it but you know hunter biden was living at the white house remember he was living there
SPEAKER 14 :
along with the whole fam damley, all the Bidens, they acted like it was a giant clown car of white trash. That's what they treated the White House like, a giant clown car of white trash. And he came there, he had one of his baby mamas there, one of his offspring that he would acknowledge. Then one of his other kids was living there with her welfare boyfriend. It was weird. Like everybody was there. And then like cocaine started showing up everywhere. It was so shocking and unexpected. And this was all while social media entities before Musk acquired it, they were censoring people over the laptop storage. By the way, that's how the phallus picture came to be incorporated in that hearing, because the phallus picture came from the laptop that we were told didn't exist and was Russian disinformation, but not so much Russian disinformation that we can't pardon Hunter Biden for all the stuff that's on it. So, you know, take it as what you will. I think that Congressman Robert Garcia is just obsessed with fallacies. He seems like it. You know, like he just, I think he liked to say it a lot in his little remarks there that he gave during the oversight committee. I'm just saying. So just, you know, to be, that was, it was Hunter Biden's disgusting Anthony Weiner speech phallus that they had um that she showed and it was for a point i mean there was a reason why and you know he just and he just decided he's unlike unlike green who love her or hate her it was literally like a evidence whereas he was just being like you're just calling a name calling a guy a name why why do they call him did we say president george soros I never said President Soros. Did we ever say President George Soros?
SPEAKER 06 :
No.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, I don't. Because it didn't happen. That's why. So he just doesn't like Elon Musk because Elon Musk is ripping away the curtain and everybody can see where the money's going. It's really unfortunate for them, isn't it? Super unfortunate for them. So, you know, I welcome all this stuff. You know, I welcome it. It looks, you know. So we've got more tariffs on the way as well. Trump is taking additional action. I love this is this is how AP says it. Trump is making moves to upset the world trade system. That's what the AP said. You know, the AP that got mad because they got called out for dead naming the Gulf of America. and promoting disinformation. And then the White House was like, I don't know, you can't come back here. And now the AP is like, freedom of speech. We were told by the press that deadnaming people kill them and that disinformation kills people too. So why would we want to platform any kind of entity that wants to peddle disinformation or deadname things? I mean, these are your rules that we are being incredibly respectful of. So why would we continue to entertain disinformation? I mean, I'm just the Gulf is the Gulf of America. It's our Gulf. There it is. I mean, that's the end of it. So they're acting like it's a free speech issue, whatever. So the he's also going to be hosting the Indian prime minister conference. Modi met with Vance in India yesterday there. This is a move. India definitely wants to sidestep any tariffs. And so he's going to be hosting him next. And of course, you also have the Senate confirmed Tulsi Gabbard there for DNI. So that's these are all happening. I got to say that it's all happening relatively quickly. All these moves. especially the cabinet confirmation so this is all it's all good stuff uh play this what is this audio that you gave me that you stuck in the lady with the tiny house where's this at what channel is that in okay this has nothing to do with any of the stuff that they were talking about but this chick what was she she was saying that talking about how out of control government is and i was down with her until she said what she was going to build She said she has 37 acres. She wants to put a tiny home on her 37 acres. And she said the government said you can't do that, even though it's her property and she owns it. She owns 37 acres. You can't put that up on your property. You don't really own your own property, though. You know that, right? You really don't. own it. But she said she wanted to build a tiny house and I don't like the tiny house movement because I'm a maximalist. I would rather live in one large shack than a tiny house.
SPEAKER 05 :
But you wouldn't want to deny anyone that if that's what they want. She's already got a big house on the property.
SPEAKER 14 :
She just wants an additional house that's smaller. I think it's a communist psyop. I don't like tiny houses and I also don't like shiplap. All houses don't have to look like public rest stops.
SPEAKER 05 :
You know, it's our government is why we have tiny houses even to begin with. You know that, right? What do you mean? Every regulation that we've ever been imposed, that's ever been imposed on us, has been to overcharge us for everything. We have to get licenses for this, inspections for that. Everything becomes... Now, there's necessary inspections, don't get me wrong, but there's so many levels of intrusion by the government on the financial side, on the real estate side, on the actual property tax side, that homeowners themselves, they have to go small in order to afford it.
SPEAKER 14 :
It's been my dream for 20 years to build my own big, giant, real-life-sized trebuchet. And it's actually pretty disconcerting, the regulations that are against that kind of stuff.
SPEAKER 05 :
The trebuchet? Yeah.
SPEAKER 14 :
I mean, I don't really have enough property where I'm at right now to fling it.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right.
SPEAKER 14 :
But maybe someday. But it's going to happen.
SPEAKER 05 :
You need a cooperative neighbor.
SPEAKER 14 :
Or, you know, it could make a neighbor cooperative. There's also that. Anyway, can we play this more? Because she was talking about government restrictions on property. And you guys and I, I especially like state and local.
SPEAKER 05 :
I hope she doesn't cuss.
SPEAKER 14 :
Go ahead.
SPEAKER 11 :
Even if you own 37 acres of land, the government will still control your land. Did you all know that? Because I didn't know that. And I just walked into the municipal building. I'm going to put a tiny home on my property. And he immediately said, nope, you can't do that. I was like, what? What are you talking about? I have 37 acres. There's plenty of room to put a tiny home. Nope, you can't do that. You're zoned to have one house on your property. I'm like, dude, my property is massive, okay? And this is for my kid's future to have a tiny home. Ultimately, I want three, three little tiny homes in the back corner of our property. Nope, you can't do that. What do you mean you can't do that? No. Zoning is planned. What plans does the government have for my property? I don't understand what you're saying to me. And you could tell this guy had never gotten any pushback because I was pushing back. Like you're telling me I can't put a tiny home on my property for my children to live in when they're 18, 19, 20 young adults. What are you talking about? No, it's not zoned for that. Okay. And then he's like, well, there's a floodplain here. And I was like, he said a hundred year floodplain. I said, well, what year are we on? He couldn't tell me. He's like, it doesn't work like that. I was like, what do you mean? What year are we on? Cause we put a drain tile in. So I know it's not.
SPEAKER 14 :
So we have this stuff, even in our town, where if you're going to do additions and stuff like that, like you have to have, even for the studio, when we were rebuilding, like considering rebuilding a bigger studio, there's like all kinds of considerations and stuff to go through. You never really own your own property. It is ridiculous. Although I will say, tiny houses, I'm a maximalist. I can't, I can't. If I was going to build property, it would be like not a tiny property on my property, but it would be something maximalist. Can't do the tiny stuff. I can't do. But if you want to have a little shire in the back part of your yard, what if you were like, no, no, no, I'm not making these things, these structures for anyone to live in. I'm just a big Lord of the Rings fan. And I'm just recreating the shire in my own backyard for my own personal enjoyment. Could you really argue against that? I mean, if you hate good literature and everything lovely, then I'm sure those people exist. But I would build it and then never tell anybody. You can't come on my property. I'll shoot you dead. Castle doctrine. Stay out. No trespassing. Get out. You can't come on my property. I just do it and nobody would know, right? Nobody would ever know. No snitching neighbors, no snitch. I don't know. But it is frustrating. This is one of the reasons why a lot of people in Texas have been pushing on just getting rid of, reducing or getting rid of property taxes. It is crazy. We have to fight stuff every single year, and that is one big thing that you do have to really go back and forth on with Texas lawmakers, I tell you. I've seen the amazing changes Relief Factor has made for so many people, and I've seen it firsthand through my husband Chris's pain relief from using Relief Factor. Right now, it's easy to give their product a try because Relief Factor makes it pain-free with their three-week quick start for just $19.95. Get rid of pain and start living better. Relief Factor is a 100% drug-free daily supplement that helps your body fight fight pain naturally developed by doctors it works by supporting your body's response to inflammation it doesn't just mask pain for a short time it helps reduce or even eliminate it it's safe to take daily and in fact the longer you take relief factor the more effective whether it's neck back joint or muscle pain relief factor can help over 1 million people have turned to relief factor Give Relief Factor a try. With their pain-free trial, you can get a three-week quick start for only $19.95, less than a dollar a day. Call 1-800-4-RELIEF. That's 1-800-4-RELIEF. With their pain-free trial, you can get a three-week quick start for only $19.95. Call 1-800-4-RELIEF or visit relieffactor.com.
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Welcome back to the program. Make sure you also sign up over at Substack. There's a couple of things that are in the works, that drafts that will be going out. Probably, I got one that I'm preparing for tomorrow. And then we're also looking at some of this, the judicial... and sanity. Also, the budget bill that's out, I'll be diving into that actually tonight, so that's what I'm going to be looking at tonight and going through all of that so we can discuss everything in it tomorrow. And then, of course, obviously, I mean, there's And I'm sure tonight there's going to be a whole bunch of other stuff that we find that our money's been going towards. Just wait for it. It's coming. It's coming. Just wait for it. So we'll have that for you as well. We'll get into all of that. But there's a lot to cover. And then, of course, too, anything related to as we approach Saturday, Gaza. all of that. And then you got the Indian prime minister who's going to be visiting the white house. Trump's going to be hosting him. So very busy week. I don't know how the man, I don't think he sleeps. He is so busy. That's why Democrats are in total disarray. They cannot get their wits. This has been smart. He did exactly what he needed to do. All gas, no brakes. All right, Trump, today in stupidity.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right, it's Ayanna Pressley. And I think Adrienne Slade, that was a great... Because it looks like Kenan Thompson playing Steve Harvey. That's what she looks like. This is what she said she's all about. She is all about censoring Americans. Listen to this.
SPEAKER 12 :
Look, let me tell you something. I'll take a bit of umbrage here. I'll speak on behalf of my colleagues. I think I can say we are all willing to work with anyone who's serious about doing the work of censoring the American people and advancing progress.
SPEAKER 05 :
Whoa. So it's progressive. to censor Americans. And man, Steve Harvey does look weird without a mustache. Wow.
SPEAKER 14 :
He does look weird without a mustache. And you got mad at me because I said coke-dusted phallus.
SPEAKER 06 :
Wow.
SPEAKER 14 :
All right, folks, that does it for us today. Have a great rest of your evening. I'll be back behind the mic with you tomorrow. Find us on Facebook, YouTube, like, and subscribe.