The political theatrics continue as a little-known California senator, Alex Padilla, adds his own flair to the day by interrupting a press conference led by Kristi Noem. Gallagher scrutinizes the media's portrayal of events and discusses the contentious issue of government funding for public broadcasting like NPR and PBS—a conversation that delves deep into the balance between taxpayer money and media bias. Tune in for an episode that juxtaposes heavy political discussion with Mike’s light-hearted personal anecdotes.
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He's the happy conservative warrior. Mike Gallagher. Broadcasting across hundreds of radio stations nationwide. And seen on your trusted conservative TV network. Salem News Channel. Here's Mike.
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Well, let me just say I'm exhausted from the show prep. I don't know if I can get through the show because I'm just tired of trying to sort everything out and present a cohesive Mike Gallagher show for a Friday. This might be one of the biggest breaking news days that we've ever had. I mean, this is wild. Israel bombs Iran, taking out much of their military leadership, taking out their nuclear scientists. demolishing their nuclear sites. President Trump warned them, you don't stop, you're going to get attacked. And Iran futzed around, and Iran found out. Now they are decimated. The only question for us, and look, I know as a talk show host where you're going to go. I know right where you're off to. I can tell you right now, the question on everybody's mind, what involvement, if any, will we, the United States of America, have in this war between Israel and Iran? And this is going to be tricky. It's not simple. There aren't any easy answers. Do you believe there are Iranian sleeper cells right now in the United States? If they... conduct some kind of an attack on the American people, like it or not, we're involved. If one hair on one head of any American gets harmed in this war between Israel and Iran, you understand we're in it, right? And you may not like to hear that. This may be a day where you want to shoot the messenger. I get it. It's okay. And incidentally, as I go through the list of these mind-numbing events that have happened in just the last 24 hours... You be ready to call me at 800-655-MIKE. 800-655-6453. Because I've got lots to share. I want to get a lot of calls today. Whenever there is big breaking news, I turn to you. You know, a lot of other great shows line up talking heads. And my theory is I want Americans to have a place to come. I want you to go. I think of this show. like a neighborhood the way it used to be when you could lean up against the fence in the backyard and talk to your next-door neighbor about the things that are going on in the world? That's what I love about this show. And I love this about you because you're so willing to call. 800-655-MIKE. And we can start with that question. What role do you think the United States needs to play in this war between Israel and Iran? How about Senator Alex Padilla, whoever he is, little-known California senator, deciding to engage in performance art yesterday, storm the Kristi Noem press conference in Los Angeles, disrupt it, got manhandled because he's flailing and pushing and shoving towards her, and the FBI and the security forces took him out of the room, took him to the ground, put him in handcuffs, which led to a headline. I don't mean to laugh, but there's nothing else you can do but laugh. I'm going to laugh at the Los Angeles Times with one of the funniest headlines as a result of this that I've ever seen in my life. Now, you saw it, right? You saw Alex Padilla. He rushed back from the congressional baseball game in the Washington, D.C. area to get into L.A. quickly and storm her press conference, disrupt it so that he would get, of course, arrested or manhandled or roughed up. And after it happened, of course, all the usual suspects took to the airwaves. If they could do this to him, they'll do this. I mean, it was hysterical. I think the smartest theory is Tracy, my producer. The Democrats were aching for a George Floyd moment during the L.A. riots. Well, they never got it, because thanks to largely the National Guard and the LAPD and law enforcement, they largely kept things, you know, at least people from being killed. At least nobody died. And the Democrats were like, aw, shucks, we didn't have our big moment, so let's create our own. Let's have Alex Padilla storm the Kristi Noem press conference and get manhandled. And we're playing the video for you, of course, on Salem News Channel. Watching him thrash and flail. And if you look at the video, he's doing most of the thrashing and the flailing. They're just trying to hold this idiot back. They're just trying to push him back so he doesn't storm the podium and do Lord knows what to Kristi Noem. He's like, get your hands off me. I have a question. So all that drama, it looked like a Friday night performance of Pippin at the La Comedia Dinner Theater in Piqua, Ohio. It just looked like it's just all performative. But the performance art doesn't stop with the Democrats. The media says, hold my beer. Here's the Los Angeles Times headline. It's an actual banner headline. I mean, it's big. Los Angeles Times headline. First, they came for the immigrants. Then they took down our Latino senator. Oh, boy, these theater kids. Look, I love a good play. Give me an overture. Give me a musical. Give me a great dramatic death of a salesman. They're all clowns. They're not realistic. And speaking of clowns, that leads us to tomorrow's No Kings protest. As... The government is going to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army with a massive military parade. And incidentally, doesn't that timing seem pretty appropriate? A nice warning to Iran, don't mess with us. There'll be lots of video of all those tanks and all that artillery and all those weapons of war on display tomorrow in our nation's capital. The timing couldn't be more perfect. Meanwhile, there's going to be pathetic people marching around with signs saying Trump's a king, Trump's a dictator, Trump's an evil man. I don't know what's going to happen tomorrow, and I don't really care. I will tell you to be careful. I would tell you to have your head on a swivel. I will remind you to be prepared for anything. And you make sure you have situational awareness. But honestly, after Israel's attack on Iran, is there anything more insignificant now than the No Kings protest? Do you concede how childish, how churlish, how insignificant, how petty, and how silly these people are going to look tomorrow? 800-655-MIKE. We're the Relief Factor Studios. A busy Friday the 13th. We've got lots of breaking news. And as always, I want to put your voice front and center. So you give me your reaction to Senator Padilla. You give me your reaction to Israel's bombing of Iran, the surgical strike, the tactical strike. You give me your reaction to the question that I think is on everybody's mind. What role, if any, should we play? What should America do in terms of this war between Israel and Iran? And make no mistake about it, it's war. Should we be there? Should we support Israel with our military might? Do we stay out of it altogether? Do we just give them moral support? 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If you look at NPR, the studies, I think it was zero Republicans or zero conservatives on NPR. Zero. You have the head of NPR who is an avowed anti-Republican. That is not reflective of fair media in this country. You all have First Amendment rights from other media outlets. You use it. You don't need taxpayer funding for it.
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In the ReliefFactor.com studios, here's Mike.
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And true to their word, House Republicans voted to pass the Trump White House's rescissions package, cutting $9.4 billion of spending from USAID and defunding National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service. The vote was 214 to 212. It just squeaked by. Four Republicans, for some reason, joined all the 208 Democrats who voted against it. But, look, for a lifelong broadcaster like me, I've never understood the intense determination to make taxpayers fund leftist programming from NPR and PBS. I saw an interview the other day with the head of NPR, and she said, we're not to the left. This was classic. We're not to the left. There's just debate about what the center is like. Because her point is, the middle is what they determine it to be. So if NPR determines that... having a leftist agenda is the middle, well, then it's the little. Then it's the middle. That's how that works, right? Here was Catherine Mayer, the NPR CEO on CNN this week.
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I think it's harder insofar as people don't agree on what the middle is now. It's not harder in the sense of our commitment to ensuring we're hearing from different voices. I also tend to think there's this perspective that, you know, people can be reduced to sort of political platforms. But in reality, when you drill down on people's preferences, they're far more complex than that. When you go into local communities and you talk to them about what they want in terms of economic revitalization, they will recognize real tensions perhaps around manufacturing and ensuring that their environment is something healthy for their children. And so when we do really good reporting, what we're actually offering is the ability for us to hold that context, that nuance and that complexity in ways that allow people to connect with how it affects people's lives as opposed to reducing it to sort of left versus right.
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Of course she doesn't want to reduce that way. And incidentally, keep doing your good reporting. Do your thing. Just make sure you don't expect the American taxpayer to fund it. That's all normal people believe. You're not entitled to taxpayer subsidies. You want to broadcast in rural America? Well, then you figure out how to make it work. There are broadcasters, there are companies, I happen to work for one, that do a real good job of paying the bills and making sure the lights stay on and making sure the programming gets out. There are Christian music formats that are swimming in profit and they're all over America. They're in rural America. They're in big cities. They're in Appalachia. They're all over the country. And incidentally, One of them happens to be non-profit. And they are like Fort Knox. They do great. They're fine. They keep building and building and growing and growing. NPR can do the same thing. Knock yourself out. Just don't expect. I just can't get over the simple argument that this comes down to. And you know what it's steeped in. It's steeped in entitlement. They feel entitled. to make you subsidize a portion of what they do. I can't imagine being that arrogant. That I would, in my wildest imagination, expect that you, as a taxpayer, should have part of your paycheck given to this show. I can't even imagine how you get off with that kind of arrogance. It doesn't work. And now it's not working anymore. So NPR, PBS, you've got to do what all the rest of us have to do. You've got to get out there and you've got to hustle. You've got to sell advertising. You've got to sell tote bags. You've got to offer CDs of Luciano Pavarotti at a discounted price. And you've got to make it on your own. That's what the rest of the broadcast world has to do. And for the life of me, I can't understand the argument, insisting on taxpayer funds. Look, it would be better for this show if 10, 20, 30% of my annual budget came from you, the taxpayer. The world doesn't work that way. We don't have our handouts saying, taxpayers, make sure you help it work. It doesn't work that way. That's not the real world. And for too long, public broadcasting has not existed in the real world. So kudos to the House of Representatives defunding, officially clawing back billions of our dollars for wasteful foreign aid and funding the highly biased NPR and PBS. I expect a veteran, lifelong newsman like Roger P. Schulman in the Mike Gallagher Show newsroom would agree with me. It's 21 before the hour. He's here, of course, to report on what's happening with this war between Israel and Iran. We've got the No Kings Day tomorrow, Roger. But before we even get there, let's talk a little bit about the NPR-PBS defunding. You're a broadcaster of many, many years in this business. Do you agree with what Congress did yesterday?
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Absolutely. And I even worked at the University of South Florida television station, and they received funds from the public. They had better equipment than some of the commercial stations. They didn't have to worry about paying for things. Now, I totally agree that this should have been done years ago. And the fact that they are so biased to the left is a problem, too. They should be straight down the middle if they're going to get money from the federal government. I'm glad they're not going to be getting it anymore.
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Let's dive into Israel and Iran. You know, for our audience, of course, the big question is what role, if any, should the United States of America play? Bring us up to date from the newsroom about what's happening right now in this war, where I know at least four senior Iranian commanders were killed in the IDF strikes. What do we know so far, Roger?
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Well, Israel, as always, seems to have targeted this thing with tremendous precision. They took out the Iraqis, Golami Rashid, the deputy commander-in-chief of the Iranian armed forces, the armed forces chief of staff, Mohammad Bagheri. He was killed along with Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Commander Hussein Salami and two major nuclear sites and scientists there were killed. were eliminated. This is very, very important. We have taken out their brain trust as far as their military is concerned. And it's interesting, the Israeli prime minister dubbed it as Rising Lion. That is the operation's name. And he told the Iranian people the fight is not with them, but with the rulers that have oppressed Iran for the past 46 years. It'll be interesting to see If the Iranian people rise up against them, that is a possibility. Regime change is a possibility if they feel that that could happen. As far as the United States, we have said that we were not involved in this. I don't know if that's true. We have a lot of support for the Israelis as far as intelligence and intelligence. infrastructure, refueling jets, that sort of thing. But whether we were involved in this, I really don't know. We weren't involved in the pager explosions that they so famously arranged for people in Palestine and other areas. So they're very clever. And in many ways, it seems that they're better than we are as far as carrying out some of these things. It was a devastating blow. And keep in mind, this is not over with yet. They're still doing things over there. The Iranians are not stupid people. They are very capable. They're very educated. And the Iranian military may do some things that terrorist-wise could be very devastating to people in this continent and in Europe and the Mideast. We just don't know what's going to happen. It's quite a fluid situation.
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It sure is. I know you'll be on top of it. Thanks, Roger P. Shulman, checking in from the Mike Gallagher Show newsroom. You know what you do when there's a lot of challenge and adversity in the world? I'm going to tell you a quick story. A couple of weeks ago, we started our prison fellowship campaign where we get to send kids to summer camp. These are kids of prisoners, right? Sons and daughters of American prisoners. I'm going to make this short and sweet. Our goal was 455 kids. You know where we are right now?
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862.
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Now, here's what my heart is telling me to tell you. If we hit 910 kids as our final tally, we will have doubled our goal. Our goal was 455 kids. We only have 48 children to go. And if everybody steps up, if everybody pops in $25, $50, $100, look, I want to thank everybody who's already pitched in this week to support our annual Angel Tree Camp, to send children of prisoners to camp for a week. These kids get to play. They get to be with other kids their age. They get to have a blast, right? They also experience the gospel. They also experience God. And these kids' lives are changed forever, maybe for eternity. and I need your help. I promise, if we hit 910, That's it. We will celebrate and we will be ready for the next opportunity. We're at 862. You can see it on the counter. Let's have some fun today. Let's hit 910 going into the weekend. Look, we don't know what the weekend is going to bring with this stupid, you know, no kings protests in cities all over the country. We've got a big celebration of the Army's 250th anniversary. We've got President Trump's birthday. It's Flag Day. It's a big weekend. Headed into the weekend, how about doing a little bit of God's work? 48 kids to go. That's it. Look, that means I just need 90 people to pop in $100. This morning, I mentioned it to Mark Davis during the Eminem Experience. That's the 10-minute hit that I do with Mark Daly. In just 10 minutes, his audience sponsored 20 kids. If we can get 20 kids sponsored in one market like the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, I know this national audience can sponsor 48 kids. If you'll step up and pop in $100, we're there. $910 is my goal in my heart. The official goal was $455. If we can double it, we're going to celebrate and be ready for the next one. So won't you help? Please go to MikeOnline.com. Click on the Angel Tree Camp banner at the top of the page. It just takes a couple of minutes of your time. It's tax deductible. Have your credit card ready and do the Lord's work. Send a child to summer camp. Bless these children. And this whole campaign has been a blessing. Boy, has it been a blessing. Please go to MikeOnline.com. Again, 48 kids away. I'll keep you posted on the tally. I promise. I'll keep you updated. MikeOnline.com. Click on the banner at the top of the page. And again, just 48 kids away, we can do this. It's 862 now. Come on, let's get to 910. Please, please, please go to MikeOnline.com. Click on that banner and let's get to the new goal, the Mike Gallagher Show goal, the goal of graciousness and goodness and generosity because that's how you do things. And I'm so grateful to be here. Just have you a part of my life. It just means everything. Let's get to 910 and double our goal. Thank you. MikeOnline.com. MikeOnline.com. Portions of our show brought to you by MyPillow and Big Deal. Two sales in one. First, they're having a closeout sale on the percale bedsheets. Any size, any color, $25. You can get Queens, Kings, Split Kings, California Kings, any size, any color, 25 bucks. It's a crazy sale from MyPillow.com. Look for the Mike Gallagher Special Square. The second sale, Mike Lindell has introduced a brand new energy drink called Rev7. It's a premium energy drink that's good for you. It tastes great, gives you energy all day. I sampled it yesterday for the first time. It is delicious. No sugar, no caffeine. Rev7 is so special because it's powered with a premium nootropic that helps fuel your mind. MyPillow is so confident you're going to love Rev7 that for a limited time you can try their introductory three-pack absolutely free. Now, these offers aren't going to last long. So go to MyPillow.com. Use the promo code MikeG. MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG. Or call 800-928-6034. 800-928-6034. Sing along with me.
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I guess I picked a lousy day to do favorite coffee cake recipes here on the Mike Gallagher Show. I thought it'd be Friday. You know, we're headed into Father's Day. Good Father's Day gifts. That was my plan. Whoops. Well, the world had other plans. I've seen more breaking news in the last 24 hours than I've seen in a long, long time, starting, of course, with Israel hitting Iran's nuclear and military facilities. Make no mistake, Israel and Iran are now fully engaged in war. And we better be ready for anything that comes our way. And yes, a lot could come our way. President Trump is about to meet with the National Security Council. He, of course, is in the middle of it because he warned Iran, knock it off. And they said, we're going to futz around. Well, now they found out. The top Iranian leaders have been taken out. in a surgically precise way. One guy, a missile went through his apartment building wall of just his bedroom and killed him, but didn't hurt anybody else in the rest of the apartment building. That's the precise way Israel carried out these strikes. The nuclear sites taken out because... The day would come, if Iran got the chance, where they could annihilate the state of Israel. And that will not stand. But that's their commitment, is to be completely committed to the destruction of Israel. Meanwhile, here at home, we had dinner theater, a production of Brigadoon, In L.A., Kristi Noem was holding a press conference. And a guy named Alex Padilla, I'll bet you didn't even know who he was because he is a little-known senator. He rushed back from the congressional baseball game in the D.C. area so that he could show up unannounced without any security pin on, without his U.S. Senate pin on or anything. No suit. He's got a little windbreaker on. And storms the podium, screaming at Kristi Noem. The Homeland Security chief is trying to hold a press conference. This is a little bit of what it looked and sounded like.
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I'm Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary. Because the fact of the matter is, a half a dozen selling criminals that you're rotating on your...
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And, of course, those strong, brave, heroic members of law enforcement did their best to protect Kristi Noem from this lunatic who decided to stage a bit of drama. The Democrats lapped it up. They thought they had their moment. I mean, it was so ridiculous to see how contrived and how scripted it all was. Yesterday, my X feed was filled with all of these Democrat senators and congressmen. I am sickened. This is terrible. This is awful. They put handcuffs on a senator. Well, they put handcuffs on a guy. If anybody did that, the same thing would happen to them. But after the incident, which incidentally apparently led to a sit-down between Alex Padilla and Kristi Noem that was very civil and cordial. They exchanged phone numbers. But that gets in the way of the narrative here. You know, if they can do it to him, our Latino senator, they can do it to anybody. That was actually the headline that is the complete laugh out loud hysteria. The Los Angeles Times came up with this headline. I kid you not. First they came for the immigrants. Then they took down our Latino senator. Their Latino senator wasted no time rushing in front of the cameras and microphones to continue his act.
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If this is how this administration responds to a senator with a question, if this is how the Department of Homeland Security responds to a senator with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing to farmers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California and throughout the country. We will hold this administration accountable.
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To be or not to be that as your Latino senator is the question. I was taken to the ground by thugs, by fascists. Kristi Noem is a dictator. Donald Trump is orange. And I shall not be treated this way. All I wanted to do was ask questions. I had questions for Kristi Noem. That's my duty. I was conducting oversight. This is what I do. I am your Latino Senator. Senator Alex Padilla. And scene. There we go. And, of course, they were all off to the races. I mean, what a joke. Pete Buttigieg, oh, my stomach is queasy. Chuck Schumer, they all had physical symptoms. They all developed physical symptoms when they watched their cohort, their fellow reveler, trying to stage this stunt. They all had to get tums, including Chuck Schumer.
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I just saw something that sickened my stomach. The manhandling of a United States senator. We need immediate answers to what... Your stomachs.
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Their stomachs, their poor stomachs, they're all in trouble. I mean, it's hysterical. This is really, this is as the stomach turns. Remember Carol Burnett? As the stomach turns. And last we checked, Gladys was at the kitchen table. When last we saw Alex Padilla, he was belly down on the floor having handcuffs on. put on his wrists. And of course, you know what's hysterical? When you lose CNN, you know you're on the wrong side of this. They lined up all these guests over at CNN, CNN now, who said Alex Padilla was 100% in the wrong and Kristi Noem's security and the FBI were 100% in the right. Check out CNN security analyst Josh Campbell.
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Well, it's easy to think about this as one incident. But actually, from a law enforcement perspective, we're really looking at three separate incidents that happened within a short period of time. First, you have the DHS secretary who is addressing the press. This was not a Q&A period. And she's interrupted. She's interrupted by someone who was speaking very loudly. And so her security detail confronts what we obviously now know to be the senator. And at that point, he is now going to be escorted out. without having those consequences.
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That was CNN. That was CNN. Now, speaking of drama, speaking of theatrics, last night was a little bit of a roller coaster with the National Guard's presence in California as directed by President Trump. You had some Clinton appointee judge, brother, I think, of Stephen Breyer, rule against Trump being able to dispatch the National Guard to California. And there was Gavin Newsom taking a victory lap Gavin Newsom, before the Ninth Circuit got involved, late last night, and you may not be aware of this, but let me share a little bit of theatrics. I give you more dinner theater performance, this time starring Gavin Newsom.
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Donald Trump will immediately back down. The courts have ruled on the guard. They will be back under my command, and he'll be relieved immediately. Donald Trump were relieved of his command at noon tomorrow.
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Whoops, whoops, not so fast, said the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. They absolutely stayed the lower court's judge and his ruling. And Trump has every bit of the prerogative to have the National Guard there. I mean, unbelievable, back and forth. And he had a big victory in his use of the National Guard. In California. So anyway, as the stomach turns continues, 800-655-MIKE. I want to put your voice front and center here on this Friday episode of the Mike Gallagher Show. I've got some extraordinary news to share with you regarding our Prison Fellowship Angel Tree campaign. I just got nothing but good news there. This weekend, of course, a big weekend. Flag Day, the anniversary, the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army. There's going to be a huge military parade. And incidentally, after this war between Israel and Iran has begun, pretty good timing for a military parade, huh? Nice for the world to see our military equipment and weaponry and arsenal on display for all the world to see. And incidentally, speaking of tomorrow, doesn't Israel's strike on Iran make the stupid no kings protests happen? The most ridiculous, silly, non-consequential, insignificant thing you can imagine. Aren't those folks going to feel stupid marching around complaining about Trump while Israel and Iran are at war? And there could be sleeper cells here in the United States that we have to be aware of. We could be involved in this whether we like it or not. And they're marching around with orange man badge signs and F Trump. Wow. Talk about all the wind getting out of the sails, a wind that wasn't already there. They think it's a mighty wind. It's just a little tiny little poof. and they're going to go away. Our number is 800-655-6453. Call, text. I want your voice front and center. On a busy Friday episode of The Mike Gallagher Show, we are glad you're here.
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Live look at the Space Needle in Seattle, Washington. If you're watching on Salem News Channel, we're so, of course, love to be heard every day in the great city of Seattle. Tim from Michigan texts, Padilla should be thankful that the security showed restraint. If he lunged at the secretary more forcibly than he did, he could have been shot. And I'm getting a lot of spirituality today. We need more God, less stupidity, he said. Rhode Island. Great having Rhode Island check in on the MyPillow text line. Interestingly, the only real king is Jesus Christ. The devil comes to confuse and deceive. I pray these no kings protesters tomorrow will see the truth. But the Democrats are out in force. They're all ready for Act 1, Scene 1 of Brigadoon at the La Comedia Dinner Theater. And they actually work as the waiters beforehand. Then they get into costume and come out and start the performance. We almost forgot Spartacus. Spartacus was on fire last night after Padilla pulled his stunt. I give you Senator Cory Booker.
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If you can make Alex Padilla forcibly kneel before this executive, when does it stop? He's a United States senator. And if you can force him to kneel to his knees violently, when does it stop? What does it say to other Americans who want to speak up? What does it say to other Americans that want to exercise their constitutional duty? What does it say to other Americans this weekend when they want to peacefully protest? What does it say to other Americans from humble backgrounds? who know poverty, that if a United States senator who stands up to do his job could be made to heal, driven to his knees, violently handcuffed, what does it say? What message does it send? Everybody in this body should see that this is a crossroads. And scene. And scene.
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That was, look, of all the Spartacus performances, that was right up there in the top ten. I mean, man, his eyes were bulging and his mouth was, nostrils flaring and screaming and spittle coming out of his mouth. I mean, he put it all into that. Did you see that? Wow. Gosh, that's good. Gosh, that's good stuff. And, of course, he's trying to get people fired up, of course, for tomorrow, the No Kings protest. President Trump had a pretty simple explanation of the No Kings protest. He said, you know, I'm a king? I don't think so.
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There are several No Kings protests planned across the country on Saturday as well. What are your thoughts on those? What are they called?
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No Kings? No Kings. I don't feel like a king. I have to go through hell to get stuff approved. A king would say, I'm not going to get this. A king would have never had the California mandate to even be talking to him. He wouldn't have to call up Mike Johnson and Thune and say, fellas, you got to pull this off. And after years, we get it done. No, no, we're not a king. We're not a king at all. Thank you very much.
SPEAKER 17 :
We don't deserve the guy. We just don't deserve this man. Colleen's in Chicago. Colleen, I hope you can up your game here because you're coming right after Spartacus' performance. Are you ready to be on the Mike Gallagher Show? Yes, sir, I certainly am reporting for duty, and dittos. Good. Hey, I appreciate that. That's very kind of you. What do you think about Senator Alex Padilla, who is starring as Finnegan in Finnegan's Rainbow this weekend at the dinner theater?
SPEAKER 12 :
At the end of this, I want to get back to the theater because I have something I've got to speak to you about. Real quick, real quick. I've got a minute. Go quick. Yes, Padilla, Padilla, and... took his cue, downsized it a bit from the January 6th production, and had that. There was no question that that was staged. He even had a staffer with him. Didn't say a word to validate who he said he was.
SPEAKER 17 :
Oh, he sat around, Colleen, and said, I happen to be in a building, and I noticed that Kristi Noem was over there. To be or not to be! Bunch of clowns.
SPEAKER 06 :
Let's go to Lukenbach, Texas. Waylon and Willie and the boys. Waylon would have turned 87 on Sunday, passed way back in 2002. That's our birthday for introduction to our Mark and Mike segment. Let us not waste time, my friend. Clock is running. Israeli run.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, I'm just exhausted from show prep. I'm too tired to do the show. I'm just worn out. I mean, my goodness, where do you want to start? I mean, yesterday, just yesterday alone between Israel, between the hearing with the three governors, which was, if you're a Democrat, brutal. Alex Padilla, let's start with him. Let's start with the theatrics of this clown. Yep. Was your social media feed filled with all these righteous indignation posts of all the Democrats? That this could happen to you?
SPEAKER 06 :
It's all orchestrated. Of course it was. This was all planned. We're going to send Alex Padilla in. He's going to disrupt the news conference. He's going to get arrested. And then everybody, three, two, one, go with your social media posts saying, look at these Gestapo tactics. Look at what Trump world will do to a senator who just wants to ask a question.
SPEAKER 17 :
If you look at the video, you see he's the one doing most of the thrashing and the flailing. They're not. They're just kind of holding him back so he doesn't storm Kristi Noem. I mean, and if you remember, it's so simple. The media won't connect these dots very transparently, but conservative media does. They were out in D.C., in the D.C. area playing baseball. And he rushed back to L.A. with the express purpose of the summer stock production of Pippin at the Rock Comedia Dinner Theater. It's all theatrics. Look, and the level of propaganda surrounding it has reached an unprecedented level. It has. Oh, Los Angeles Times, huge cover. First, they came for the immigrants. Then they took down our Latino senator. Hit the music, Eric. When last we checked with little-known Senator Alex Padilla, he was toiling in his office. But then we found him thrown to the ground. Handcuffs slapped on him. They took down our Latino senator. Not just our senator, our Latino senator.
SPEAKER 06 :
Exactly right. If Adam Schiff had shown up, he would have taken down our gringo senator. I don't know, whatever.
SPEAKER 17 :
My producer has a great theory about this. She said they've been waiting for days now for like a George Floyd moment in the L.A. riots. Something. And they didn't get it. I mean, largely because the National Guard went in and helped restore order. So they didn't get it. So they said, all right, well, we don't have, you know, something with a citizen. Let's do it ourselves. We'll just concoct it ourselves. Now, let's look at the courts. How about the Ninth Circuit late night? A lot of people went to bed thinking the Ninth Circuit, at least as a stay for now, Trump still has the legal authority, which of course he does. Of course he does. That would be like George Wallace. Mm-hmm. convinced the courts to allow the National Guard to leave because they're not going to enforce desegregation efforts on the federal government level. We all know that Trump has the authority to do this. But, Mark, the most depressing part of all of it is just witnessing the way the left is rooting for against America. They're cheering. I'm going to give you an example of a slew of headlines from a daily email I get from one of the liberal publications. I'm not even going to give them the mention because I don't want to give them any clicks.
SPEAKER 05 :
I don't want to know.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, I'll tell you off air. Yeah, I'll text it because here's their breakdown. Big major headline. Trump humiliated as Israel strikes Iran right after last ditch plea. What? Well, the Wall Street Journal is reporting. Yes, Trump is humiliated. Somehow Trump gets humiliated because according to the Wall Street Journal, President Trump. Israel allegedly asked Israel Monday not to do this. Don't strike. You know, there's a better way to do this. We're going to try to get this to it. But Israel decided, look, and now, incidentally, Trump's all in. Fine. It's great.
SPEAKER 06 :
How much waiting is Israel supposed to do? Are they supposed to wait until Jerusalem is turned into, as I said, glowing green glass? Correct.
SPEAKER 17 :
That's exactly right. So so but that's the first headline. Trump humiliated as Israel strikes Iran right after last ditch plea. Trump plots major Elon Musk snub after their furious feud. Let's get better headlines. I know that feud is over. It's done. Over and done. Here's another one. All in order here. This is one email, one page. Judge absolutely tears apart Trump's National Guard plot. Well, that didn't age well because the Ninth Circuit came in. Yeah, his plot. His plot.
SPEAKER 06 :
To observe the rule of law, the evil plot to protect the people of Los Angeles. Oh, what a nefarious Dr. Evil up there in his lair with the skinless cat.
SPEAKER 17 :
You know, all right, there's more. I got more. Trump tells half a million people from these four countries to leave. How about another one? Trump world troublemaker spotted amid Ice Barbie's security drama. That's their clever nickname for Kristi Noem, Ice Barbie. I'm not done. Trump uses far right buzzword in wild immigration rant. I mean, and on.
SPEAKER 06 :
What's the buzzword?
SPEAKER 17 :
i don't have i think i'm gonna look i'm just looking at headlines how about this all right buzzword like legal or law or borders military safety yes yes all right and i got two more all from the same way all from the same email which you're going to share with all of us because we've got this kind of fun dan melania how about this oh no don't don't mess with her shuns trump's attempt at shameless flattery at white house picnic and finally the best one of all that i don't even i have no idea big bird goes down as house passes doge cuts you saw they defunded public broadcast i mean and i had that off of our lightning round list even i forgot about that one I mean, my gosh. And tomorrow, the big military parade. Incidentally, considering the war now, and it is war between Israel and Iran, the big question that you and I are terrified to touch, I know you and I know me. Oh, you want to touch this issue? There's a drop. Go touch it. Go touch whether your audience wants us to be involved in this or not. Oh, you mean involved militarily? Go touch whether we should be involved in this war between Israel and Iran.
SPEAKER 06 :
It's hard knowing. You know what the difference is? Because like Ukraine, which is a European problem, this right now is an Israeli problem. And while Europe has failed to step up to handle the problem in its backyard, Israel is supremely ready to handle this. And, of course, they're doing it with a good amount of material and money that we have given them because that's what you do to help an ally. But in terms of American, you know, boots on the ground, no. And I don't think Israel wants them. I don't think they're going to ask us for them. So, no. Consider it.
SPEAKER 17 :
And if they do?
SPEAKER 06 :
And if they ask? If they ask for our help militarily? Okay, but however, I'm going to duck the question, though, because I'm not.
SPEAKER 17 :
I mean, let's understand something. Even though their Iranian guard and all the top generals were wiped out, apparently, with this, by the way, brilliant surgical strike. I mean, they took the one guy out. In an apartment building with such precision that nobody else in the apartment building was harmed. Just him. Iran is paper tiger.
SPEAKER 06 :
I mean, they've got missiles. I don't want to take it lightly. Iraq wasn't that big a military either. Remember the scuds. But to answer your actual question, which I will now do. No, this is not an issue for American troops right now at all.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, I tend to agree with you, but I also struggle with that because I know how Israel needs us and Israel relies on us.
SPEAKER 06 :
We have plenty in terms of cold, hard cash and cold, hard military material. They should be fine. Thank you.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yep, I'm with you, although you have to understand, let's recognize, let's stipulate, the position you and I have is probably contrary to the official position of the United States of America.
SPEAKER 06 :
Because I have... Trump is... The official position of the United States of America is, we ain't doing that unless there is a distinct American national security compelling interest, which in Ukraine there is not. In Israel versus Iran... There may be.
SPEAKER 17 :
Let me tell you why there may be, because Iran's immediate response was they blamed Israel and the United States. And do you think there aren't sleeper cells, Iranian sleeper cells in the United States right now? And with that in mind, anybody stupid enough to venture out among these idiotic, you know, Chrissy Walton inspired protests tomorrow? Better keep your head on a swivel.
SPEAKER 06 :
No kings. When serious things happen in a dangerous world, and I hate that all this is happening. I hope it all calms down and Iran learns its lesson. I know I'm dreaming. But there's something about this event and the seriousness and the gravity of it that makes this entire thing tomorrow, this no kings slumber party in the daytime, look so ridiculous, so irrelevant, so stupid. And I'm just...
SPEAKER 17 :
It's so ridiculous. It's embarrassing. What an embarrassment that people are going to march around with stupid sandwich boards. Trump's a fascist. And, you know, it does sort of, the Israel strike does sort of take the wind out of their sails in a big way tomorrow. It kind of puts it in proper... But you said something that made me, I went to bed last night thinking, I feel passionately and strongly about all of our positions, but I really wish the temperature would lower a little bit. Let me give you an example. I watched Mike Johnson holding a media scrum after this Alex Padilla thing happened. And Johnson was, of course, saying the reasonable things. This was theatrics. He overreacted. Anybody who charges a cabinet secretary without any kind of identification is going to say. But there was a guy behind him who was walking behind him. I believe it was a member of the House of Representatives. I'm pretty sure it was a congressman. And he was shrieking at Johnson. You're a liar, blah, blah, blah.
SPEAKER 06 :
So a Democrat.
SPEAKER 17 :
But the look of rage on his face, it was like if he could have gotten within three feet of Speaker Johnson, he would have throttled him.
SPEAKER 06 :
That's why he had to be taken down. Nobody knows who he is. Nobody cares who he is. And threatening. And guess what? We ain't doing threatening behavior right now. Our guy took a bullet. That's exactly right. A Bernie supporter tried to kill people at the baseball game. This is what you guys are doing. So excuse us if we're on a little bit of heightened alert in this era of the violent left.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, I'm going to end on a positive note because something pretty crazy has happened. We're sending 842 children of prisoners here in America to summer camp. 842? So, you know me, if I can get to 900 on a Friday, I'm going to call it a great day.
SPEAKER 06 :
842 kids. Let's do it, kids. Let's go.
SPEAKER 17 :
Go to mikeonline.com and click on that prison fellowship banner. These are Christian camps where the children of American prisoners get a week of sunshine and fun and canoeing and hiking and the gospel. That's exactly right. The gospel. A lot of these kids accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior at these camps. A lot of these kids... And you could change these kids' life. And a scholarship for a child, the cost to sponsor a child is $200. The other day I said, hey, could everybody just pop, if I could get 10 people to pop in $100.
SPEAKER 06 :
Right, if somebody said to go to All of God is $20, fine, go to MikeOnline.com. With $20, just send a kid to camp.
SPEAKER 17 :
But I said if I could get 10 people to pop in $100, Mark, 97 people popped in $100. Let's do that. Oh, it was unbelievable. That's right. So MikeOnline.com. If I could hit the ground running at 10.05 when I start the Mike Gallagher show here on 660 AM The Answer, and I can brag on the Mark Davis audience getting this post.
SPEAKER 05 :
Love that. You love when you do that.
SPEAKER 17 :
And I will give you full credit. We're at 840. And you can see the counter on the site there. So if you go to MikeOnline.com, click on the banner, you'll see it says right now 842 out of 455.
SPEAKER 05 :
That's cool.
SPEAKER 17 :
What's double 455? Let's see. 910, right? 910 would double our gold. That's going to be our goal. That's going to be our goal.
SPEAKER 06 :
So a crazy world and everybody full of it and ridiculous things happening. Let's bring some sanity, some clarity, some Christ into some kids' lives. Let's do it, do it, do it, do it.
SPEAKER 17 :
I love you so much. I love you too so much. Thanks for letting me do that on your show. And please be careful this weekend. Everybody be safe. Pretty serious. Situational awareness. Look around. Make sure you're aware. And if you're constitutionally allowed to carry, carry.
SPEAKER 06 :
This will be a good time. Happy Friday. That is Mike Gallagher, MikeOnline.com. Click that button. Let's do that for our buddy. Not for our buddy. Of course, we're doing it for him because we love him. We're doing it for these kids.
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As tensions escalate between Israel and Iran, we explore the geopolitical strategies at play. Our discussion examines how media headlines shape public opinion and the role of narrative in politics. From Trump’s press challenges to the American stance on international conflicts, we dissect current events with engaging insights. Lastly, we shift gears to focus on giving back, spotlighting efforts to support children of prisoners—a testament to the power of community and compassion.
SPEAKER 02 :
Let's go to Lukenbach, Texas. Waylon and Willie and the boys. Waylon would have turned 87 on Sunday, passed way back in 2002. That's our birthday for introduction to our Mark and Mike segment. Let us not waste time, my friend. Clock is running. Israel, Iran, go!
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, I'm just exhausted from show prep. I'm too tired to do the show. I don't know what we're going to do. I'm just worn out. I mean, my goodness. Where do you want to start? I mean, yesterday, just yesterday alone between Israel, between the hearing with the three governors, which was, if you're a Democrat, brutal. Alex Padilla. Let's start with him. Let's start with the theatrics of this clown.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 03 :
Was your social media feed filled with all these righteous indignation posts of all the Democrats? That this could happen to you?
SPEAKER 02 :
It's all orchestrated. Of course it was. This was all planned. We're going to send Alex Padilla in. He's going to disrupt the news conference. He's going to get arrested. And then everybody, three, two, one, go with your social media posts saying, look at these Gestapo tactics. Look at what Trump world will do to a senator who just wants to ask a question.
SPEAKER 03 :
If you look at the video, you see he's the one doing most of the thrashing and the flailing. They're not. They're just kind of holding him back so he doesn't storm Kristi Noem. I mean, and if you remember, it's so simple. The media won't connect these dots very transparently, but conservative media does. They were out in D.C., in the D.C. area playing baseball. And he rushed back to L.A. with the express purpose of the summer stock production of Pippin at the Rock Comedian Dinner Theater. It's all theatrics. Look, and the level of propaganda surrounding it has reached an unprecedented level. Oh, Los Angeles Times, huge cover. First, they came for the immigrants. Then they took down our Latino senator. Hit the music, Eric. When last we checked with little-known Senator Alex Padilla, he was toiling in his office. But then we found him thrown to the ground. Handcuffs slapped on him. They took down our Latino senator. Not just our senator, our Latino senator.
SPEAKER 02 :
Exactly right. If Adam Schiff had shown up, you're going to take down our gringo senator. I don't know, whatever.
SPEAKER 03 :
My producer has a great theory about this. She said they've been waiting for days now for like a George Floyd moment in the L.A.
SPEAKER 02 :
riots.
SPEAKER 03 :
Something. And they didn't get it. I mean, largely because the National Guard went in and helped restore order. So they didn't get it. So they said, all right, well, we don't have something with a citizen. Let's do it ourselves. We'll just concoct it ourselves. Now, let's look at the courts. How about the Ninth Circuit late night? A lot of people went to bed thinking the Ninth Circuit, at least as a stay for now, Trump still has the legal authority, which of course he does. Of course he does. That would be like George Wallace. convinced the courts to allow the National Guard to leave because they're not going to enforce desegregation efforts on the federal government level. We all know that Trump has the authority to do this. But Mark, the most depressing part of all of it is just witnessing the way the left is rooting against America. They're cheering. I'm going to give you an example of a slew of headlines from a daily email I get from one of the liberal publications. I'm not even going to give them the mention because I don't want to give them any clicks.
SPEAKER 02 :
I don't want to know.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, I'll tell you off air. Yeah, I'll text it because here's their breakdown. Big major headline. Trump humiliated as Israel strikes Iran right after last ditch plea. What? Well, the Wall Street Journal is reporting, yes, Trump is humiliated. Somehow Trump gets humiliated because, according to the Wall Street Journal, President Trump Israel allegedly asked Israel Monday not to do this. Don't strike. You know, there's a better way to do this. We're going to try to get this to it. But Israel decided, look, and now, incidentally, Trump's all in. Fine. It's great.
SPEAKER 02 :
How much waiting is Israel supposed to do? Are they supposed to wait until Jerusalem is turned into, as I said, glowing green glass? Correct.
SPEAKER 03 :
That's exactly right. But that's the first headline. Trump humiliated as Israel strikes Iran right after last-ditch plea. Trump plots major Elon Musk snub after their furious feud. These are all headlines.
SPEAKER 02 :
I know. That feud is over.
SPEAKER 03 :
It's done. Over and done. Here's another one. All in order here. This is one email, one page. Judge absolutely tears apart Trump's National Guard plot. Well, that didn't age well because the Ninth Circuit came in. Yeah, his plot.
SPEAKER 02 :
His plot. To observe the rule of law, the evil plot to protect the people of Los Angeles. Keep Los Angeles safe?
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, what a nefarious Dr. Evil up there in his lair with the skinless cat. All right, there's more. I got more. Trump tells half a million people from these four countries to leave. How about another one? Trump world troublemaker spotted amid Ice Barbie's security drama. That's their clever nickname for Kristi Noem, Ice Barbie. I'm not done. Trump uses far right buzzword in wild immigration rant. I mean, and on.
SPEAKER 02 :
What's the buzzword?
SPEAKER 03 :
I don't have a clue. Do you think I'm going to look? I'm just looking at headlines.
SPEAKER 02 :
How about this headline? All right. Buzzword like legal or law or borders. Military.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yes, yes. All right. And I got two more. All from the same way. All from the same email. Which you're going to share with all of us because we've got to have this kind of fun, Dan. Melania. How about this?
SPEAKER 02 :
Melania.
SPEAKER 03 :
Melania shuns Trump's attempt at shameless flattery at White House picnic. And finally, the best one of all, I don't even, I have no idea. Big Bird goes down as House passes Doge cuts. You saw they defunded public broadcast. I mean, and I had that off of our lightning round list even. I forgot about that one. I mean, my gosh. And tomorrow, the big military parade.
SPEAKER 01 :
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SPEAKER 03 :
I know you and I know me. Oh, you want to touch this issue? I'll touch it all day. There's a drop. Go touch it. Go touch whether your audience wants us to be involved in this or not. Oh, you mean involved militarily? Go touch whether we should be involved in this war between Israel and Iran.
SPEAKER 02 :
It's a Hard no. And you know what the difference is? Because like Ukraine, which is a European problem, this right now is an Israeli problem. And while Europe has failed to step up to handle the problem in its backyard, Israel is supremely ready to handle this. And, of course, they're doing it with a good amount of material and money that we have given them because that's what you do to help an ally. But in terms of American, you know, boots on the ground, no. And I don't think Israel wants them. I don't think they're going to ask us for them. So, no. Consider it.
SPEAKER 03 :
And if they do?
SPEAKER 02 :
And if they ask?
SPEAKER 03 :
If they ask for our help militarily?
SPEAKER 02 :
Okay, but however, I'm going to duck the question, though, because I'm not.
SPEAKER 03 :
I mean, let's understand something. Even though their Iranian guard and all the top generals were wiped out, apparently, with this, by the way, brilliant surgical strike. I mean, they took the one guy out in an apartment building with such precision that nobody else in the apartment building was harmed. Just him. Iran is paper.
SPEAKER 02 :
I mean, they've got missiles. I don't want to take it lightly. Iraq wasn't that big a military either with the scuds. But to answer your actual question, which I will now do, No, this is not an issue for American troops right now at all.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, I tend to agree with you, but I also struggle with that because I know how Israel needs us and Israel relies on us.
SPEAKER 02 :
We have plenty in terms of cold, hard cash and cold, hard military material. They should be fine. Thank you.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yep, I'm with you, although you have to understand, let's recognize, let's stipulate, the position you and I have is probably contrary to the official position of the United States of America.
SPEAKER 02 :
Because I have... Trump is... The official position of the United States of America is, we ain't doing that unless there is a distinct American national security compelling interest, which in Ukraine there is not. In Israel versus Iran... There may be.
SPEAKER 03 :
Let me tell you why there may be, because Iran's immediate response was they blamed Israel and the United States. And do you think there aren't sleeper cells, Iranian sleeper cells in the United States right now? And with that in mind, anybody stupid enough to venture out among these idiotic, you know, Chrissy Walton inspired protests tomorrow? Better keep your head on a swivel.
SPEAKER 02 :
No, Kings. When serious things happen in a dangerous world. And I hate that all this is happening. I hope it all calms down and Iran learns its lesson. I know I'm dreaming. But there's something about this event and the seriousness and the gravity of it that makes this entire thing tomorrow, this no king slumber party in the daytime, look so ridiculous, so irrelevant, so stupid.
SPEAKER 03 :
And I'm just... It's so ridiculous. It's embarrassing. What an embarrassment that people are going to march around with stupid... sandwich boards you know trumps of fascists and you know it it does sort of the the israel strike does sort of take the uh the wind out of their sails in a big way tomorrow it kind of puts it in proper yeah exactly but but you said something that made i went to bed last night thinking i feel passionately and strongly about all of our positions but i really wish the temperature would lower a little bit Let me give you an example. I watched Mike Johnson holding a media scrum after this Alex Padilla thing happened. And Johnson was, of course, saying the reasonable things. This was theatrics. He overreacted. Anybody who charges a cabinet secretary without any kind of identification is going to say. But there was a guy behind him. who was walking behind him i believe it was a member of the house of representatives i'm pretty sure it was a congress congressman and he was shrieking at johnson you're a liar but the look of rage on his face it was like if he could have gotten within three feet of speaker johnson He would have throttled him.
SPEAKER 02 :
He would have had to be taken down. Nobody knows who he is. Nobody cares who he is. That's right. And threatening. And guess what? We ain't doing threatening behavior right now. Our guy took a bullet. That's exactly right. A Bernie supporter tried to kill people at the baseball game. This is what you guys are doing. So excuse us if we're on a little bit of heightened alert in this era of the violent left.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, I'm going to end on a positive note because something pretty crazy has happened. We're sending 842 children of prisoners here in America to summer camp. 8455. So, you know me, if I can get to 900 on a Friday, I'm going to call it a great day.
SPEAKER 02 :
842 kids. Let's do it, kids. Let's go.
SPEAKER 03 :
Go to mikeonline.com and click on that prison fellowship banner. These are Christian camps where the children of American prisoners get a week of sunshine and fun and canoeing and hiking and the gospel. That's exactly right. The gospel. A lot of these kids accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior at these camps. A lot of these kids... And you could change these kids' life. And a scholarship for a child, the cost to sponsor a child is $200. The other day I said, hey, could everybody just pop, if I could get 10 people to pop in $100.
SPEAKER 02 :
Right, if somebody said to go to allofgoodis20bucks, fine, go to mikeonline.com, interview with 20 bucks, just send a kid to camp.
SPEAKER 03 :
But I said if I could get 10 people to pop in $100, Mark, 97 people popped in $100. So it was unbelievable. That's right. So MikeOnline.com. If I could hit the ground running at 10.05 when I start the Mike Gallagher Show here on 660 AM The Answer, and I can brag on the Mark Davis audience getting the most points.
SPEAKER 02 :
Love that.
SPEAKER 03 :
You love when you do that. And I will give you full credit. We're at 840. And you can see the counter on the site there. So if you go to MikeOnline.com, click on the banner, you'll see it says right now 842 out of 455.
SPEAKER 02 :
That's cool.
SPEAKER 03 :
What's double 455? Let's see. 910, right? 910 would double our gold. All right. That's going to be our goal. That's going to be our goal.
SPEAKER 02 :
Easy world and everybody full of it and ridiculous things happening. Let's bring some sanity, some clarity, some Christ into some kids' lives. Let's do it, do it, do it, do it.
SPEAKER 03 :
I love you so much. Thanks for letting me do that on your show. And please be careful this weekend. Everybody be safe. Pretty serious. Situational awareness. Look around. Make sure you're aware. And if you're constitutionally allowed to carry, carry.
SPEAKER 02 :
This could be a good time.
SPEAKER 03 :
Happy Friday.
SPEAKER 02 :
That is Mike Gallagher, MikeOnline.com. Click that button. Let's do that for our buddy. Not for our buddy. Of course, we're doing it for him because we love him. We're doing it for these kids.
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Join Bill Gunderson as he navigates the turbulent waters of the stock market in the wake of geopolitical unrest in the Middle East. With a focus on the recent Israel-Iran conflict, Bill examines how such events trigger significant market fluctuations, affecting everything from oil prices to gold valuations. The episode also delves into the implications of tariffs on tech giants like Apple, exploring how these economic policies are reshaping the industry's landscape. Listen as the show transitions into a discussion about the potential future of aerospace innovations and the rising interest in cryptocurrencies and digital assets as alternative investments. This episode provides not just an analysis of current market conditions but also a foresight into potential shifts that could redefine financial strategies. With expert commentary and data-driven insights, the show equips listeners with the knowledge to adapt and thrive in volatile times.
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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 Friday the 13th edition of the Best Stocks Now show with professional money manager Bill Gunderson, president of Gunderson Capital Management. I'm here with Barry Kite, our chartered financial analyst and soon to be...
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a chart what are you what's going to see yeah it's chartered market technicians i think cfa being the fundamental uh you know accounting side of the equation and then of course uh the market technician being the chart side but how are we going to fit all that on his business card i don't know i don't know how it's going to work good news is business cards are kind of going away so yes he's fine and the good news is the market could be a lot worse here this morning than it is i mean
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We're not even down like less than a half a percent overall. The market is down. The Dow is down 483. That's 1.1%, 42,483 after the attack. Last night, as we were retiring for the evening, Israel against Iran. The NASDAQ is down 163. That's 80 basis points. That puts the NASDAQ at 16,499. The S&P is down 41. 68 basis points. The big mover today, obviously, would be oil. Oil is hitting $73 a barrel. Oil had it right about the attack, and so did gold. Gold is hitting a new high today at $34.34. So welcome to today's Best Stocks Now show with professional money manager Bill Gunderson, president of Gunderson Capital Management. And I'm here with Barry Kite, our chartered financial analyst, and I would just tell Barry now that he's going to be a technical analyst, certified, certified technical analyst, things show up in the charts first. And, you know, yesterday I was going through my charts to prepare the show, and bang, there it was, oil. Something's up. And of course, Trump's going to the Rockefeller Center and being interviewed. And he says, you know, believe me, Iran is not going to get a nuclear weapon. He knew something, obviously. Then yesterday morning, he said, well, you know, there could be an attack on Iran, but it's not imminent. Obviously, he was being a decoy. because I'm sure he knew fully well what was going to happen last night. And Israel, I don't know what the extent of the damage is to Iran's nuclear enrichment process, which they refused to give up. In fact, they're even doubling down today. You know, the market knows that Iran has no defense against Israel's air power. And Israel has all kinds of defense against Iran's air power, which is mostly drones and cruise missiles that can't penetrate the Iron Dome. So it just seems to me, this is just one man's opinion, that Iran is going to turn to Russia. I think that's what's going to happen. I think Russia would love to have Iran's oil fields as part of the deal. And I think Iran would love to have Russia backing them up. Big brother, you know, with their nuclear arsenal. So that's what I worry about. As a market analyst, I'm the chief market analyst. A warrior, Barry. Is there a designation for that? It's called, I got my T-U-M-S, Tums. But you have to weigh as a risk. I heard Besson saying it. Besson said, I was always very good as a risk manager. And you have to be a risk analyst and a risk manager in weighing all of the what-ifs. I see that as a very likely scenario. And then you've got a whole new ballgame in the Middle East. So anyways, we'll see what happens. In the meantime, the market is basically shrugging it off, even though it was selling off wildly last night.
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in the after hours uh some are saying crude oil shot i mean oh my god seven percent you know that that's that's you know that it seems um you know i heard people talking today about potentially hundred dollar oil i mean the way i look at it at this point i mean iran's ability to export oil you know was already limited um you know even throw russia in there there's this limited too so You know, short of going through, you know, certain trading channels, I think at some point you kind of see this as a short-term shock to oil. Because as you mentioned yesterday, we don't have really the world growth forecast, right?
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No.
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to kind of justify a $100 barrel of oil.
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And that's where the technical charts are no help. When you have breaking news-driven charts, now before breaking news, when oil is moving before breaking news, Like, believe it or not, I wrote in my newsletter in 2020, I said, why are the protective clothing and glove stocks flying off the shelf in January of 2020 before COVID? Before, technical analysis is a predictor. Once it happens, now this chart to 73, you can say, well, that's a breakout for oil. It's going to 100. But it's a breakout on an extraordinary circumstance, which doesn't hold as much weight as just, like you say, steady growth in the world. So you have to take charts with a grain of salt. They have their limitations. Therein lies H.I., I like AI. I like charts, but I like a little bit of reasoning and logic and AI to add to that mix. So, yes, oil is up big today. It's at $73.63. I mean, oil is up 25% in the last week or so. It's going to show up with the gas pump probably temporarily. But I see some of these Wall Street analysts making big calls that I think are wrong, as usual, calling for $120 oil. That's J.P. Morgan. I don't know. I don't have a lot of faith in J.P. Morgan's macro forecast. But he seems to be very, very pessimistic most of the time. Why wouldn't I just be all over BP and APA and Chevron if oil is going to over $100? I don't think Trump would allow that. He would open up the spigots of the U.S. here. and unleash our oil. So I don't see the reasoning there with their forecast. Now, despite all the noise in the world, the Dow was up a little bit yesterday. The NASDAQ was up a little bit yesterday. The 10-year knew something was up because there was a massive flight to safety, a very active auction that drove the 10-year down to 4.37%. And if you were going to lock in a loan, yesterday was a good day to do it. Gold was up 1.9% yesterday. Gold seemed to know what was up. The gold market's new. The oil market's new. And actually, we ended a little bit higher. We had a very strong treasury auction. Hey, I saw somebody. I think this guy's probably right. He's a hedge fund manager. I can't remember who it was. He thinks Besant will be the next Fed chairman. I can see that, man. I really can see that.
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I certainly could. I'm just trying to think, what's a better job? Where can we use his talents the most? Certainly, I think as his current role, being kind of a spokesman for the administration, particularly when it comes to the finance world, um you know then you put them into a role as as the uh fed chairman right well you know you get you take some of the uh i don't know i think ah well raw side away where you're almost got to be a little bit more closer to the vest i think yeah i see the fed chairman is maybe the second most powerful man in the world be right behind the the president maybe the vp then that fed chairman he's right in there as far as as the world goes now
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Israel took out all of Iran's leading military. They knew where they were. They knew their address. They knew where they hung out at that time of night or day or whatever it was in Iran at the time. They took them out. The Ayatollah, they did not get the Ayatollah homemade, who's really the rubber stamp behind all of this.
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they did take the guy out in uh in uh in uh lebanon republican guard they took uh yeah they took all the leadership out and uh you know look i mean in the scientist community too i mean they've done that before they've taken out other scientists over the years but yeah i mean they not only did they you know they attacking structures right they also saw where you know you know you're at you're attacking leadership and on the other side i saw something where they actually had drones that they already had inside the territory of Iran that actually kind of came out and took out some of the air defense systems prior to it. So it's similar to the Ukraine deal, right, where they had some of those drones.
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Yeah, they had intelligence. Well, being the little guy in a big, big neighborhood like Israel is, they've had to come up with the weapons like David versus the Goliaths of the Middle East there. Iran launches over 100 drones at Israel in retaliatory attack. I have not heard of any causing any damage yet, and they're in. You know, lies the conundrum for Iran. If they want to inflict damage on Israel, we're going to have to go to a higher power like Russia, in my opinion, or give up the quest of destroying Iran of Israel. And I don't know that they can do that. We'll be right back. And welcome back here to the second quarter of today's Best Stocks Now show. Well, obviously, President Trump wants Iran to make a deal. They're not going to make a deal. That's my prediction. Why would they make a deal with us? When they can make a deal with Russia or China, who shares a little bit more of their animosity, they're not going to make a deal with us. And they pretty much snubbed Trump already and doubled down. You know, one of the papers I look at the headlines of when there's trouble, the Tehran Times. Read the Tehran Times. Just the headlines, T-E-R-A. T-E-H-R-A-N, like the Capital City Times. And they're basically saying, given Trump the middle finger, we're not going to give up our uranium enrichment. And, of course, they claim 100% we're doing it for peaceful purposes. Where have I heard that before? We're doing it for peace. We need energy over here. We don't have anything other than the biggest oil reserves in the world.
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Yeah, well, Trump's message was pretty ominous. I think he said, make a deal because the next set of attacks are going to be worse.
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And we still don't know the extent of these attacks. I mean, just how badly they have set Iran back. You know, I was reading that Iran was just days away from having enough uranium, enriched uranium for 15 nuclear weapons, and that's why Israel took the action that they did. And I would also just say, ask yourself this question, if Iran had a nuclear weapon, what are the chances that they would fire one at Israel?
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100%.
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100%, in my opinion. Because they've thrown everything at Israel that they possibly can, and nothing has hit yet. And now they've got to, you know, that's their only way to accomplish their purpose, and they're going to be stubborn and keep doing what they're doing. Oil prices spike. in the Israel-Iran conflict. This is JP Morgan, an attack in Iran. This was yesterday before the attack happened. So JP Morgan, let's see, we need an acronym for JP was wrong again. JPWRA was wrong again. I just don't see it. They said an attack would push oil to $120 per barrel. And inflation to 5%. That's coming from their macro analyst, Natasha Knieva. I don't know if she's in Geneva. She wrote in a note from the bank's global commodities research team. I don't know how some people get their jobs, Barry, in these very important jobs. She's the global research team on commodities. Bitcoin tumbles as Israel strikes Iran. I find that interesting a little bit. You know, is gold where they go to seek safety? Well, Bitcoin was thought to be that asset, right?
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Well, and Bitcoin's very, you know, correlation-wise, you know, negatively correlated to the dollar. So I didn't look and see what the dollar did yesterday, but probably a fight to safety, right, a fight to treasuries. That's going to increase the demand for the dollar, right? So that's one piece of it. And then liquidity, you know, liquidity, more liquidity is, you know, Bitcoin's correlated positively to that. These instances, a lot of that liquidity gets sapped up because people are buying regular gold or treasuries.
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Yes, and speaking of gold, we continue as new clients come to us. I almost immediately or within a few weeks have their position in a couple of gold stocks that we own and the commodity itself through an ETF. And it has proven to be the very best hedge against world turmoil and against turmoil here in the United States. You know, you watch the nightly news and you see the rocks and the bottles and the fires and the burning of cars in Los Angeles and in Seattle and in Colorado and whatnot and New York, etc., We have some turmoil here in the U.S. also, and gold has been the best hedge. It's hit a new all-time high, 3440. It's been very good to us this year when I have never really held gold unless there's some kind of extreme circumstance in the world. Okay, now we'll get back to the markets here. I mean, obviously the markets are affected by this. A big question I had, and I got the answer today, was what about Apple? Are they subject to the 30% tariff on goods coming in from China? The answer is yes. Currently, iPhones manufactured in China are subject to a 30% tariff. That's why we don't own any Apple. Not only have they lost their edge in innovation and creativity, they chose to manufacture those iPhones in China with Foxconn. And now they're fleeing as fast as they can to manufacture them in India, which has only a 10% tariff. But you know how that 30% breaks down? 10% is a baseline. 20% is a fentanyl tariff. Now, I would believe that that one might be movable, right? I mean, if China were to prove that we've done everything we can possibly do to not be involved at all in the whole fentanyl smuggling and everything, you would think that 20% might come off. So that gives me hope that we're not stuck at 30%. you know, for the next, until the end of the year or the next several years or what else, because 30 is disruptive to a lot of little companies here in America and big companies like Home Depot and Lowe's and Walmart, Target, etc. So maybe we have some wiggle room in that 20% fentanyl tariff. But in the meantime, you're paying full boat. And I don't know, you'd have to go to an Apple store today and say, hey, you know, I want to trade in my phone. I want that new 18 or wherever they're at these days. 30% is $300 or more on an Apple phone, whereas if it's made in India, it's $100 or more. So Foxconn ships 90% of India-made Apple iPhones to the U.S., They basically cleaned out the inventory, and they're ramping up production in India. Foxconn has got their plant humming over there in India, and in the meantime, China's losing out on producing those iPhones. Okay, Tesla. Well, he's got an upgraded Model S and Model X with a $5,000 price hike. And I just see it as, you know, BYD now has a car in the UK under $20,000. With the price hike, the Model X all-wheel drive is $89,990. the high performance plaid version is now one hundred and four thousand nine hundred and ninety the model s all wheel drive is eighty four thousand nine ninety and the plaid is ninety nine thousand nine hundred and ninety it seems to me He needs to come up with a cheap version, stripped-down version of the Tesla for the common person out there that can't afford $99,900 for a plaid version of the S Tesla. We'll be right back. This is Bill Gunderson. Thank you for tuning in to today's Best Stocks Now, Best Inverse Funds Now show. I put several hours of research in during the wee hours of the morning each day to bring you the very best cutting-edge stories that I can. To get two free weeks of my newsletter, go to 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 instigator. Because there's something in the air.
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And welcome back here to the second half of today's Best Docs Now show. I do see that Russia has condemned Israel's actions. We know that Russia has been buying their drones from Iran that they are attacking Ukraine with. There is a buddy-buddy kind of thing there already, so we'll just have to see where that all plays out. I'm sure the market is looking at all the what-ifs here today. The market is a weighing machine in the short term. What is it? What did Buffett say? It's a weighing machine in the short term and the long term. I can't remember.
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Yeah, I can't. The one thing I have heard recently, though, when I was doing some reading for this test, was that the market is the best fundamental analyst. Yeah, exactly. It's the best analyst out there.
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Well, and that's what I always look at after a big event, after an earnings report, whatever. I always look at what the market's doing. When AMD comes out with a new chip, for instance, how does the market react? Blah, blah, not very good. When Tim Cook gets up and does a new product announcement, how does the market react? Not very good. But the market's definitely weighing in all of the possibilities here today. Okay, we've got the other one here that I want to talk about. Well, okay, who's the second richest man? We've talked about Elon. Yeah, voting machine in the short term, by the way. Voting machine.
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Yeah, I think that was Ben Graham, actually. But Buffett used to quote a piece of that.
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Yes. And Benjamin Graham used to vacation in La Jolla. California, San Diego area. And that's where he stopped into a Merrill Lynch office. And the broker of the day manning the desk was Charles Brandes, who struck a friendship with Benjamin Graham and went off on his own and created his own big value fund, private. He's still one of the biggest wealth managers in the world, Charles Brandes himself. His offices, his headquarters were about two buildings down from our building that I was in for a long time up in the Del Mar area. And our trader where I worked, his wife was a trader for Brandis. Wow. And so I knew what Brandis was buying. And, you know, look, it's dull stuff that's going to take years to pan out. But for a long time, he had an 18% per year record. I don't know what it is these days. I'd have to look it up because value has kind of fallen out of favor. But that's an interesting story. Brandis was the richest guy in San Diego at the time. Wow. I don't know if he still is.
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The old intelligent investor still sits on the bookshelf.
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I'm pretty sure it was his wife that lost... millions of dollars at the indian slot machine casino she had an addiction to slot machines of all things i can't imagine the odds weren't as what would not as good as the odds were as good as his uh what are the fundamentals of four sevens coming up i mean that's the most idiotic thing sitting there and playing a slot machine in my opinion it's just mindless there's no strategy i can see blackjack where there's strategy and poker and whatnot, but sitting there with a slot machine is just... The most important strategy is when to stand up, right? Yeah. Walk away. Tesla unveils their upgrade. Okay, the second richest man in the world now is Larry Ellison. I'm surprised to see that. With that Oracle move yesterday, huh? Yeah, that was a big move. Problem is he's 80 years old, so he better enjoy it while he can. He's now worth $242 billion. Where did Buffett go? I thought he was number two. And, of course, Musk is $44 billion. But wait a minute. Wait a minute. There's a wild card in Musk, in the hand that Musk holds. There's a couple of wild cards. Cathie Wood said SpaceX could soar to $2.5 trillion by 2030. Now, this is Cathie Wood. The same Cathie Wood that said Tesla would be $2,500 by the end of this year, wasn't it? Or maybe 2030. Now she's saying SpaceX. What would that push his... He would be a trillionaire. He would become the world's first trillionaire if she's anywhere near of being right, which he never is. But she says, you know, she's right there by Sarasota. I don't know if she ever tunes in my show. But I don't imagine. She doesn't anymore. No. I know Peter Schiff did not like me at all. We met one day, and the hair stood up on the back of his neck when I handed him my card. And I doubt that Kathy Woods would be too. Well, that's okay. You know, look, we all have our own deal. But she says SpaceX could sort a $2.5 trillion. Now, SpaceX is not public, obviously, nor is X. And a lot of people are seeing him packaging those two together, X, which is the old Twitter, and SpaceX, and taking them public, and maybe Neuralink in that package, which some people have valued at $500 billion. I don't know about that. But Musk definitely has more cards. He's holding more cards than Larry Ellison has, unless Ellison's got a big bunch of private stocks in his hands that haven't gone public yet. Well, here's the problem, you know. There's not going to be a product until 2030. They've got to keep floating shares. They have a printing press down in the basement. They've announced the pricing of another 6.7 million shares. Wouldn't that be nice to just go down and print shares, send them out there to the marketplace, and in comes 6.7 million shares times, what is it per share right now? Oklo, I want to say, is about $25 or somewhere in there. Oklo is currently $64 a share. that's a lot of money as two hundred fifty million being printed out in the stock certificates of the roads valuable paper get a cover that burn rate they're covering the burn rate and uh... they're diluting the shareholders archer archer we talked about them that's the uh... electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicle they raise eight hundred and fifty million on trumps executive order Now that's another thing you'll see time and time again. They do secondary offerings when there's favorable news. I mean, it's hot, get it while it's hot, fire up the printing press overnight, out come the shares, and they float it the next day when they get a big bump in their stock because they're floating the shares at a much higher price than the stock has been. And then, of course, that crashes the shares for several weeks. And then sometimes they eventually come back, but they just continue to print shares. And some companies never get beyond that. Back in 2000, a lot of the dot-com busts, that's all they had to show for themselves was printed shares that are now worthless. That's what happened then. AMD, you know, they showed off their M1350. It was not that big of a deal, said Morgan Stanley. And the stock is down about 6% or 7% since their announcement. There's a case of what's the market think? The market's the best voting machine there? They were not impressed with AMD's latest offering. Okay, here's a private company. Now, I've got to look into this. I don't know much about this company. Jet Zero. Not Jet Blue. Jet Zero is a California-based aerospace startup. They're moving ahead to manufacture a next-generation commercial aircraft. Now, that's a big deal because right now you've got only Boeing and Airbus with the big guys and Embraer with the next size down and Bombardier up in Canada with some of the private jets. They're going to build a massive production plant in North Carolina. which has some ties to aviation, right? I mean, on their license plates, they got home with the Wright brothers. Notice they're not building the aerospace, the production plant in California. They're building it in Greensboro, North Carolina, starting next year. The project represents an investment of nearly $5 billion. and expected to create over 14,500 jobs, making it the largest jobs initiative in the state's industry in North Carolina. That's pretty big. Jet Zero, maybe you pull up a picture of that thing, give us a little, you know, what it looks like. Their flagship aircraft is the Z-4. Jet Zero Z4 features a blended wing design, so I'm sure it looks like kind of a wedge, that the company claims could reduce fuel consumption by as much as 50%, unlike the traditional tube and wing airplanes. The Z4s boast a more spacious cabin-friendly layout with smaller seating sections.
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Looks like it doubles as a stealth.
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Yes, and dedicated overhead bins for every seat. Well, that alone is worth it. Say, hey, that's my bin, pal. Don't be messing with my bin. We'll be right back.
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You gotta go where you wanna go, do what you wanna do, live in whoever you wanna be. You gotta go where you wanna go, do what you wanna do.
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And welcome back here to the final segment of today's Best Stocks Now show. Crude oil up 7%, 72, 79. Gold is really taking off, up 1.6%. $3,456. That's an all-time high on gold. And the markets have come down some since we started the show. The Dow is now down $659. And the NASDAQ is down $220 right now after the attack by Israel on Iran last night. Okay, in the final segment of the show here, well, as I said, we've been saying we're headed to Sarasota, to Lakewood Ranch on Tuesday. We will be there, bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, 7 a.m., ready to meet with folks. And as I say, Barry, I never know what I'm going to talk about at a workshop. I still, as I sit here today, I don't know what's going to happen this weekend, right? Yeah, right? So we'll have whatever is the most timely subject that I can report on on Tuesday night. But, of course, I get into my story and my background and my theories and my beliefs and my strategies and how I formulated my formulas for picking what I think are the best stocks now. It obviously involves valuations combined with momentum. It's not the Benjamin Graham version of stock picking. He was very much intrinsic value. studying the sum of the parts and really digging into what the company owned in assets that might be underappreciated. In a margin of safety. Margin of safety.
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Like a 20% margin of safety, so you had to get that thing under book value.
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Yes, and they're disciplined, and they own those stocks sometimes for years. I can tell you this, that the value investors got clobbered.
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in 08 and 09 i think brandis was down about 50 that year and had a massive outflow when a lot of value investors kept adding to it so as it would go down to obviously the the valuation right and a lot of those value names kept getting better right i guess the price went down and so it was it just kept
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And they tend to focus on financials. They're usually heavily weighted in financials because they're low PE stocks. And that was the eye of the hurricane in 2008 and 2009. ProShares had a three-time short. They still have it, SKF. Three-time short the financial ETF that went up 490% that year. So if you were in Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns and Bank of America and Wells Fargo and some of the banks that went down, a lot of the value guys were heavily parked in that area. That's why I don't know that, well, it's worked out for Buffett. I think every year is tweaked a little bit. Look at gold this year. Look at the defense stocks this year. Look at the ones that have done well and look at the ones that have done poorly. I think it's better to flow a little bit with the flow of the market, like fishing. The fish move around. Their patterns change. You've got to use a different color. You've got to fish deep or you've got to fish shallow. That's the way I see it. But I don't see the cycles changing very rapidly from this to this. It's generally gradual trends that establish themselves and you have to be parked. Now going back to this airplane, that's kind of interesting. that they're actually going to take on Boeing and Airbus which are ripe for being taken on but here's the rub okay even though they've got some big investors in the company I think Alaska Airlines is a big investor United Airlines is a big investor by the way I flew United to California I had really good service on United I've heard nothing but bad things about United I had a very nice trip landing in Denver and Chicago at O'Hare and then moving on to the Sacramento area. But anyways, they've got letters of intent for 200 aircraft. It's not a public company yet, but here's the problem. They won't have a product for several years. Several years, but they are building a new and better aircraft, commercial aircraft, to compete with Boeing and Airbus. Walmart and Amazon explore issuing stable coins. You know, we're going to have so many coins, I don't know how they all compete with one another.
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We're getting rid of pennies and adding a bunch of crypto coins.
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PayPal has launched its own token. Wells Fargo. JP Morgan had its own stable coin for years. I guess it's okay. What do I know?
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Hey, CMT actually, towards the end, they had literally a whole chapter on Bitcoin and crypto and using technical analysis for that. Only thing is, on the whole test, I don't think it's going to mess anything up if I say this, not one question on it. I'm like, you made me read this whole section, right, and didn't even ask me a question. It's new to the material.
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From my point of view, that's the only analysis you can do on the cryptos is technical analysis. How do you do fundamental analysis?
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Yeah, you can do some via the fees generated, obviously the unique email addresses on the blockchain. Obviously, Bitcoin would lead all of those. Think of them, I guess, maybe as fundamental metrics to a certain extent, kind of like when you remember the old counting users back in the dot-com days. Yeah.
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You've got to figure out where the demand and supply is somehow.
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It's a work in progress, though, isn't it?
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But that's why they call it crypto, because the demand and supply is cryptic. We don't know who's buying and selling. We just see the action of the price, the price action, which determines the technical pattern. Okay, Adobe flops again. You know, I don't know. I think Adobe's better days are behind them. We don't own Adobe. It's a $166 billion company, a major game-changer. A major disruptor down 5.8%, which isn't helping the NASDAQ today. It is a key software stock. And, of course, between the attack on Iran and Adobe's earnings, that's not helping. We did have good earnings yesterday from Oracle. And our friend, the second richest man in the world, Ellison. Okay, well, you know what? We're out of time. I never know what I'm going to write about in the newsletter, but at least I have kind of a direction I think I'll be taking here. uh world events how they impact the markets how do you hedge your portfolio how do you deal with world events this and that and where are the best stocks now there's definitely been a lot that have emerged this past couple of weeks and where are we at with earnings right now you get four weeks of my trial gundersoncapital.com to book an appointment with us in person in Florida, in Lakewood Ranch, or over the phone from anywhere in the country, 855-611-BEST. 855-611-BEST. Have a great day, everybody.
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I don't think that we should be passing legislation that is so complicated that people kind of throw up their hands and say, I can't understand that.
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And it's not fair just because you're a big business that you get a break on this and the little guy doesn't.
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Is it freedom or is it force? Let's have a conversation.
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And you can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com. The text line is 720-605-0647. And thank you to all of you who support us. We are an independent voice on an independent station, and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues. Through this lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And it's not compassionate, and it's not altruistic to take other people's stuff, whether or not it's their rights, their property, freedom, livelihoods, opportunity, childhoods, or lives via force. And force obviously can be a weapon, but we see it's more sinister with policy and unpredictable and excessive taxation. and fear, coercion, government-induced inflation, the agenda that's being pushed by the world economic forum and the globalist elites, which is anti-human. It's anti-human flourishing. And you see this being played out through the United Nations and this legislature here in Colorado, this governor, and land use codes and zoning regulations and transmission line corridors, all of these things. So remember, though, if something's a good idea, you should not have to use force to implement it. On the show, we'll focus on the issues and talk about the people pushing those issues. We work really hard to stay out of personality kind of stuff. And the show comes to you 6 to 8 a.m. Monday through Friday on all KLZ platforms. The first hour is rebroadcast 1 to 2 in the afternoon, second hour 10 to 11 at night. And those platforms are KLZ 560 AM, KLZ 100.7 FM, the KLZ website, the KLZ app. And that's where you can find us. Also, the shows are then posted on Spotify and iTunes as well. Our word of the day is clarion or clarion. And it's also clarion call. So let's see. Let's get here to this. It's spelled C-L-A-R-I-O-N. And as a noun, it's a medieval trumpet with clear, shrill tones or the sound of or as if of a clarion. And then number two, as an adjective, it could be brilliantly clear or loud and clear. And then clarion call is a strong request for something to happen. And that is one of the things that I think that we are in right now in our country, there is a clarion call for freedom. And what we see happening with all of these protests that very, as Jenny has said to me, call it what it is, is that they are trying to plan riots in a number of these different locations. And as I see reports of preparation in Los Angeles of giving protesters, I have that in air quotes, riot gear, that would mean that they're actually looking at something that would be more of a riot, which that I would say is an insurrection. And so stay tuned on what's happening with all of that. But there is a clarion call for freedom in America. And there are many voices out there working on that. And ours is one of those for sure. Since it is Friday, I go to the Medal of Honor quote book from the Center for American Values. The center is located in Pueblo on the Riverwalk, beautiful Riverwalk. They've done amazing work down there. And I'd recommend that you take the kids down sometime this summer to visit the center and enjoy the Riverwalk. Today's quote comes from Joe M. Jackson, United States Air Force Medal of Honor recipient, born 1923, died 2019. And this is his citation. It said, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty, Lieutenant Colonel Jackson distinguished himself as a pilot of a C-123 aircraft. Lieutenant Colonel Jackson volunteered to attempt the rescue of a three-man United States Air Force combat control team from the Special Forces Camp at Camp Duke. were Cam Duck. Hostile forces had overrun the forward outpost and established gun positions on the airstrip. They were raking the camp with small arms, mortars, light and heavy automatic weapons, and recoilless rifle fire. The camp was engulfed in flames and ammunition dumps were continuously exploding and littering the runway with debris. In addition, eight aircraft had been destroyed by the intense enemy fire, and one aircraft remained on the runway, reducing its usable length to only 2,200 feet. To further complicate the landing, the weather was deteriorating rapidly, thereby permitting only one airstrike prior to his landing. Although fully aware of the extreme danger and likely failure of such an attempt, Lieutenant Colonel Jackson elected to land his aircraft and attempt to rescue. Displaying superb airmanship and extraordinary heroism, he landed his aircraft near the point where the combat control team was reported to be hiding. While on the ground, his aircraft was the target of intense hostile fire. A rocket landed in front of the nose of the aircraft but failed to explode. Once the combat control team was aboard, Lieutenant Colonel Jackson succeeded in getting airborne despite the hostile fire directed across the runway in front of his aircraft. Lieutenant Colonel Jackson's profound concern for his fellow men at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty are in keeping with the highest traditions of the U.S. Air Force and reflect great credit upon himself and the armed forces of his country. Just think about what that would look like in a movie. It's unbelievable. But he said this, he said, it's not only a person's privilege, but also his duty to love his country and have the courage to defend it with honor, integrity, and his life if necessary. And again, that's Joe M. Jackson, United States Air Force, for actions taken during the Vietnam War. And going into some of these headlines, I came across the wire last night that Israel struck... Iran. And this is from the BBC. It says Israel launched strikes across Iran on Friday, saying they targeted the heart of Iran's nuclear program. The strikes killed Hossan Salami, chief of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards, a powerful branch of the country's armed forces, other senior military figures, and nuclear scientists. Some civilians, including children, were reported among those killed. The BBC had not confirmed that as of this report. Since the Israeli military said Iran launched about 100 drones towards Israel on Friday morning, which the Israel Defense Forces IDF said it was intercepting. A state of emergency was declared in Israel. The U.S. said it was not involved in the strikes. Multiple strikes were reported, including on Iran's main nuclear enrichment facility. And so this is a stay tuned, obviously. I think many of us look at this and realize we are in very serious times. And does this mean that we're looking at World War III? What does this mean exactly? I think one of the things for sure is we want to make sure that we love and protect those that we care about. And that's what we need to do each and every day. And there is an ideological battle that we are involved here in America. And we must engage in this ideological battle. That's why we do the show, so that you can get your brain around these issues and understand what's going on. And while all that is happening over in the Middle East. Next thing. And I had mentioned this just briefly. Well, well, let's see. Two things. I think the first thing is, is this is from Rolling Stone, says a judge orders Trump to return the National Guard control order. And I think this is going to be very interesting to see what happens with that, first of all. Second of all, what Newsom does with this, because it looks like Newsom, Governor Gavin Newsom of California and Mayor Karen Bass have just basically stood by. and watched Los Angeles be destroyed. And so it'll be really interesting to see what that means exactly. And then this was from the Daily Wire. It says, is distributing riot gear to Los Angeles anti-ICE agitators. And I also had read a piece at Daily Wire that this is not really about anti-ICE. This is multiculturalism is what happens. Multiculturalism does not unite us. It divides us. And years ago, when I was on the board of Lutheran Family Services, I was on the board for six years. So I learned a lot as I was watching this course. These are these NGOs that had become very involved in bringing people to our country. We're now looking at that, realizing that many of these people are here illegally. And what happened was they were not assimilated into America. They were also given a bunch of free stuff to come here. And that is not going to work because it does not unite us. It does not teach people what has made America great and what has made America good. And so all of those actions and that was back in the 90s. What we are seeing now is we are seeing what has happened with this multiculturalism. Multiculturalism does not unite as it divides us. And that's where we're at right now. So we need to come together. We need to unite around this vision of our declaration. We've got the template. As Yvonne Paez has said, the way out, we've got the template, and that is our vision of our declaration that all men are created equal with these rights from God of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness. That's what we need to conserve, preserve, and protect. And we have all of these important discussions because of our sponsors and greatly. Oh, you know what? I want to make sure that I mentioned Center for American Values. That website is AmericanValueCenter.org. And then also the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance Team. Roger's been in business for 48 years, taking care of his clients and his family, giving back to the community. and they can create a personalized plan for you. 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It is Friday. Welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Check out our website. That is KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice on an independent station searching for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And as you all know, one of the nonprofits that I dearly love and support is the USMC Memorial Foundation. And the memorial, the official Marine Memorial, is in Golden at 6th and Colfax. It was dedicated in 1977, and it's time for a facelift. And Paula Sarles and her team are working diligently to make that happen. And you can help them and see all the plans by going to USMC Memorial Foundation and contributing. And also you can buy a brick to honor your loved one's military service as well that will be on one of those pathways of service. That website is usmcmemorialfoundation.org. I'm pleased to have on the line with me Mindy Bandamere Jordan. And she has her name on the ballot as one of the potential commissioners for the charter commissioning. If, in fact, the question of two Douglas County residents on whether or not a commission should be formed to take a look at creating a home rule charter. And Mindy Bannon, Mayor Jordan, welcome to the show.
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Good morning, Kim, and thank you so much for having me. As a Colorado native and Douglas County resident for over 20 years, I want to make sure that the values that brought my family here are protected. And home rule impacts nearly every area of government and how it responds to the needs of citizens. I support home rule, but it's critical that we learn from the experiences, both good and bad, of other Colorado counties and other states. Many areas must be covered during the transition to home rule. I am fully prepared and qualified to ensure our new home rule charter considers all of these. And there's three that my campaign is focused on. First is reforming taxation and enforcing TABOR. Second is guaranteeing the continued effective operation of the county's core services. And third is maintaining the rapidly growing road infrastructure of the county. Kim, the power and flexibility of Home Rule imposes great responsibilities, and there are many other areas that must be addressed in the conversion to ensure our new Home Rule Charter creates a county government that effectively and efficiently serves its citizens.
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So that was going to be one of my questions was you are in favor of home rule. Yes, correct, yes? Yes, correct. Okay. One of the questions, Mindy, is it seems like this is being fast-tracked, that the citizens of Douglas County weren't really aware that this was coming down the pike, and now we have this election. Ballots are out with the question of should a commission be put together to explore coming up with a charter, and then all of these different names that people can vote for in your name. Mindy Bandebeer-Jordan is on, I think, At Large, correct?
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Yes, correct. So anyone in Douglas County is able to vote for the At Large candidates, and there are seven of us running. I am one of them. And I do agree that this was fast-tracked, but even though we didn't have control over the timeline, we have to respond. And so I think it's very important that we have voices of citizens on this chartered.
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Okay, and this commission, if elected, would have 21 members, correct?
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Yes. There's three that will be voted on for at-large and six from each district, and there are three different districts.
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Okay. So what do you think that this will – this is going to be a monumental task, I think, Mindy, to get – if approved to put this charter commission in place and elect these different charter members, then the actual charter questions would be on the ballot this November. Is that right?
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Yes. So the commission will come together starting in July. Okay. The ideal is to have it on the November ballot, but state law does give us 240 days to create the actual charter, so if we miss that deadline, that's okay. We still have time. We do not need to fast track the process of actually creating and documenting our charter. We also have 46 different articles that would need to be addressed, and that is also provided to us by the state constitution of what those things are. You know, we kind of have a little bit of a framework what we would need to be filling out. I know that other people that are running for this position have started to look at those 46 items. I have as well. And so I believe that when we come together in July that we're already going to have some ideas to get the ball rolling. But I am not in favor of fast tracking or condensing our timeline to the 60 days.
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Okay. So next question on this is some of the flyers that are coming out have said that from a home rule standpoint that Douglas County could then push back on much of the onerous stuff that has been happening down at the Colorado State Legislature. And I've heard some people say, yes, that could happen. Others say, no, that cannot happen. So what's your thoughts on that, Mindy Vandermeer-Jordan?
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We do have to abide by the state constitution first and foremost. We don't get to be exempt from that. And then any laws that are passed at the state capitol, we do have to abide by unless there's an exemption written in there for home rule counties. What our county would then have the ability to do if we feel that it's infringing on our rights is be able to bring lawsuits against the state saying that they're going against our constitutional rights.
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Couldn't that be done without doing home rule? Or does it have to be home rule to make that happen?
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There are some limitations. So, you know, we've all experienced our property taxes going up. And I know that the county has tried to sue the state or go around certain things to alleviate some of that tax burden, and the state has pushed back saying that we don't have the authority to do that. So that is one instance where Home Rule would give us the ability to say, no, we're advocating for our citizens, and we want to lower our property taxes, and this is how we're going to do it.
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Gosh, it sure seems like we should. If our elected representatives want to lower our taxes, it sure seems like they should be able to do that, Mindy. I agree.
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I agree.
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Okay, so let's see. Another question that's been out there is a lot of citizens did not know about trying to apply or to get their name on the ballot to be one of those to be considered to be one of the 21 charter commissioners. How did you find out about all this, Mindy?
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So I helped run my dad's state senate campaign last year. And some members from our team actually emailed me, making me aware of the process and encouraged me to get my name in. And otherwise, without our team, I wouldn't have been aware either. And I will say that it is a lot of already elected officials that are on the ballot. I am one of the few that's just an actual Douglas County citizen.
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Well, I think that's important to have citizen input as well. And I've seen the names of many of the people that's on the ballot, and I know many of them and all fine people. So I and I appreciate you stepping forward to have your name on there as well. Mindy, what's your final thought on all this regarding you running for this charter commission?
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Well, Kim, I want to thank you again for having me on your show this morning. I want your Douglas County audience to know that I will be their voice on the Home Rule Commission. While I believe the City and County Commissioners will have valuable input on the new Home Rule Charter, the Home Rule Commission itself, I believe, should be independent. If all the at-large seats are filled by the incumbent commissioners, the voices of the average citizen will be shut out. And I urge everyone to vote both ballot questions. That is, even if they vote against Home Rule, vote for the members of the commission you think will represent your interests. That way, if Home Rule passes, your voice will be heard when the new charter is written. I am Mindy Vandermeer Jordan, and I'm running for an at-large seat on the Home Rule Commission, and I'm asking for your vote.
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Well, Mindy, thank you so much for stepping forward because our country was founded on citizens stepping forward to write important documents, kick the tires on all these important ideas. And I really thank you. Is there any place where people can contact you or get more information?
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I am in the weird place, Kim, so I don't have a website or anything like that, but I do have a Facebook page, and it's Mindy4, and it's spelled F-O-R, Doug Coe.
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Okay, and that's D-O-U-G-C-O, so very good. Well, Mindy, thank you so much for stepping forward. I really appreciate it, and thank you for letting us get to know you a little bit better.
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I appreciate it, Kim. Thank you so much.
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Yes, it is Friday. Welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at Kim Monson dot com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea. You should not have to force people to do it. And some of these other headlines that we are watching, and Lauren Fix had texted me yesterday that she said that the EV mandate is officially gone. And that is big news. She's going to be our featured guest on today. Monday. So we will be talking with her about that. And this is so interesting, though. It says this is from Reuters. It says California and 10 other states sue to block Trump from killing the 2035 EV rules. And it says this group of and I think Colorado is one of them. It says a group of 11 states led by California on Thursday filed suit challenging a repeal by Congress of the state's 2035 electric vehicle rules and heavy-duty truck requirements. It says President Donald Trump signed these three resolutions approved by lawmakers. So I don't think that California has a leg to stand on on this, barring California's electric vehicle sales mandates and diesel engine rules, including to borrow California's landmark plan to end the sale of gasoline-only vehicles by 2035. Now, let's connect this particular dot. Here we have all of these demands on the electric grid and all of these demands for electricity, and then also trying to reduce affordable, reliable, efficient, and abundant energy from oil, natural gas, and coal. So they're trying to create more demand and by outlawing gasoline-only vehicles by 2035, and then increasing the price of electricity as well. And so it really puts everyday people in another squeeze. And it says, the suit filed in U.S. District Court in Northern California... includes New York, Colorado, Massachusetts, and Washington State, said the vote by Congress was unlawful, really, and asked a judge to declare the resolutions have no effect on the status or enforceability of state emissions controls program. This is government out of control. This is California out of control. And so this is a very big headline. Stay tuned on that because this is really all about our freedom of mobility. Next headline that I wanted to mention, and in this big, beautiful bill, we have talked about things that I'm concerned about. And two of those things are, well, I'm concerned about CO2 pipelines, transmission line corridors, and the other thing, and that plays into the transmission line corridors, plays into this whole AI thing, artificial intelligence. And we'll be talking with Virginia Maka in the second hour. a little bit more about that, because these transmission line corridors, and next week we'll have a guest on from Elbert County, where it's a huge land grab. And then I'm also concerned about all this data that's being collected on Americans. I think that we We should put a stop to that is what we should do. But there's some really good stuff in this big, beautiful bill as well. So if we could peel out the things that we don't like, that would be great. So this is from the Associated Press. It says the House approves Trump's request to cut funding for NPR, PBS and foreign aid. And this is this rescissions package that we talked with Wade Miller about recently, where he said that the president was going to send over this this nine point four billion dollar package. to see what Congress would do with it. And it looks like Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, and the House has delivered. It says the House narrowly voted Thursday to cut about $9.4 billion in spending already approved by Congress as President Donald Trump's administration looks to follow through on work done by the Department of Government Efficiency when it was overseen by Elon Musk. The article goes on to say the package targets foreign aid programs and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which provides money for national public radio and the public broadcasting service, as well as thousands of public radio and television stations around the country. The vote on this was 214 to 212. Republicans are characterizing the spending as wasteful and unnecessary. But Democrats say the recisions are hurting United States standing in the world and will lead to needless deaths. Cruelty is the point, Democrat leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York said of the proposed spending cuts. The Trump administration is employing a tool rarely used in recent years that allows the president to transmit a request to Congress to cancel previously appropriated funds. That triggers a 45-day clock on which the funds are frozen pending congressional action. If Congress fails to act within that period, then the spending stands. Under President Trump's leadership, your taxpayer dollars are no longer being wasted, how Speaker Mike Johnson said after the vote. Instead, they are being directed towards priorities that truly benefit the American people. So very pleased with that as well, that they're delivering on that. So next headline that I wanted to mention is that Governor Polis said, reacted to this repeal on all greenhouse gas emission standards for fossil fuel-fired power plants. And this also is very important. And this is from Fox 31. It says Polis reacted to this proposal and in his response said proposing to gut air quality standards for power plants in the country risks the nation's air quality and slows progress in the transition to clean energy. Now, there's all these words. First of all, we just have to challenge that term clean energy. We have come to realize that solar panels and wind turbines are not recyclable, so they are not clean, that we are putting them into landfills, that there are chemicals in solar panels that are detrimental to the soil. And so we have to, first of all, just challenge that. But again, the radical activists, progressives are very good at language, and we need to not cede the term clean energy to them. He went on to say, he said, well, the administration's proposal is disappointing. I'm unfortunately not surprised to see the president slash through standards that protect our clean air from reckless polluters and force ratepayers to pay more for high price legacy coal power. There's so many mistruths in that I don't even know where to begin. First of all, we don't want to be reckless polluters. And already Xcel Energy is charging more and more for people to be able to have their energy. And of course, with these smart meters, people are charged more at certain periods of time. And so we need to, again, push back on this. Coal can be abundant. It is abundant and it is affordable energy. So, again, continuing on with what Polis had to say, Polis is really the people that he has in place are really radical activists. Colorado is in trouble. And anyway, it went on to say that the EPA on Wednesday proposed that the Clean Air Act make a finding that greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel fired power plants do not contribute significantly to dangerous air pollution. The agency further proposed that the Clean Air Act find that the EPA must find greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants contribute significantly to dangerous air pollution as a predicate to regulating greenhouse gas emissions from those plants. Polis said Colorado still plans to phase out coal power and maintain protecting air quality is critical for the health of our communities and kids. And nobody wants dirty air. And the implication that we do is crazy. And we have gotten to a point where we can scrub the coal in these coal plants so that it is clean burning coal. And he really should be focused on providing abundant, efficient, affordable and abundant and reliable energy. to the people of Colorado instead of using this boot on our necks to make life more and more expensive. All of these things in taking care of the environment ultimately is anti-human flourishing. And humans can flourish and coexist and take care of the planet as well and be good stewards of our land. and our waters and our air and we all want that and so i would recommend that you check out uh the documentary a climate conversation a very important documentary it is the project of walt johnson i had the great honor to moderate that you can watch it for free at a climateconversation.com but what we kind of realize is that this whole narrative of climate And climate change is being used to control every aspect of our lives. I was thinking about it's from light bulbs to wanting to say that you can't have a gas powered stove, that you can't have certain water heaters. You can't have this. You can't have that. How about let's use creativity and innovation. 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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N. Hold on here just a second. We wanted to get Anthony Triggs on the line, and we're having some technical difficulties here. So let me just get back with Lauren Fix on this line here. Sorry about that. Can't get to Joe on this live. And... See if we can get him on the line because we wanted to talk about trucking here in America. So hopefully we're going to make that happen. In the meantime, several things coming in on the text line and wanted to go through some of this here. So first thing, we were talking about home rule. with Mindy Bandamere Jordan. And Mark has said, Home rule can cut both ways. A leftist home rule government could be very terrible. Good point on that. Then Cherise sent this in. She said, Kim, today is the day that Marquis de Lafayette arrived in America in 1777. He joined George Washington to help the revolutionary cause. He would become like a son to Washington, and he was known as the hero of two worlds. And so thank you, Charisse, on that. And the next thing, Eric said, I think that part of the EV bill that triggered Elon Musk was to act like a fool with President Trump. And it sounds like that bromance, though, might be, that rift is being fixed. And let's see. Let's go ahead and just get over here. We have gotten all the lines figured out with Anthony Triggs. He is with Interstate Trucking Company. And Anthony, welcome to the show. Good morning.
SPEAKER 16 :
Good morning. How are you?
SPEAKER 07 :
I am doing well. And you were referred to me by Lauren Fix and wanted to talk with you a bit about the trucking industry. And so tell us a little bit about your company, first of all.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay. So we are Interstate Van Lines Incorporated. We're a moving company based out of Springfield, Virginia, in the DMV area. And we operate about 75 company vehicles in and around the DMV area, but also have about 30 owner-operators that what we call go pond to pond or, you know, from the East Coast to the West Coast and back.
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Okay. And I am always amazed as I see the big rigs on highways and then also in cities making deliveries. And particularly during COVID, I was looking at our truckers, our truck drivers, and thinking, thank you for moving these goods and products across the nation so that everyday people can thrive and flourish in their lives. And so I thank you so much for that.
SPEAKER 16 :
I appreciate that because I also hold my commercial driver's license, so I'm very fond of when we hear that thank you, and I like to use the phrase, trucking moves America.
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Well, it does really move America. And you are the Director of Safety and Compliance for Interstate Trucking. And recently, Sean Duffy, the Secretary of Transportation, signed something that said that each truck driver needs to be proficient in English. What's your thoughts about that, Anthony Triggs?
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So my thoughts on that is it's always been in the regulations. It's just really brought it to the forefront. And, you know, I like to think of it as common sense. When you look at it and do some research, there's only really five states that have traffic signs that are not English, that might be in another language. And three or four of those states are along the Mexican border. The other two that I'm referring to would be Puerto Rico and Hawaii. But everyone else is Each of those states, all the traffic signs, road signs are in English, and if a driver cannot read those traffic signs, how are they going to operate safely?
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I think that that's a really valid question. Is there people out there driving trucks that can't speak English?
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At our company, no. We make certain that we have that, and we even use some individuals on a visa program that come in for labor because we're special. As I mentioned, we're a moving company, so our primary situation is labor first to be able to move household goods, and then it's a privilege to drive here at Interstate, and they have to be qualified to drive here. but we want them to be able to speak English fluently and to be able to communicate with our customers as well as to be safe out on the nation's highways and to operate. I'm sure there might be some challenges out there in the nation, but for the most part, referring back to what Sean signed into recently, there's even some things in the regulations that go through how an officer is going to determine whether a driver can operate speak fluently or be able to interpret the road signs.
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Okay. So Anthony, some other things that Lauren had mentioned that she thought was important that we talk about, and that is the use of two-way facing dash cams with drivers in the case of an incident. So tell us just a little bit about that because I don't think a lot of people know about that.
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Okay. So I'll back up here and I'll just share a little bit about my experience real quick. I've been in the business now in the trucking world for over 25 years and have about 15 plus years in dual-facing event recorders. I like to refer to them as event recorders because when you say dash cam sometimes to a driver, when you say the word camera, you think of a snapshot. These dual-facing, it's outward facing, so it's going to see traffic and what's happening out in front of the vehicle. as well as inward facing, it is in the cab. There is a perception that that's an evasion of privacy, but it's not. It's there directly to exonerate the driver and really highlight that the driver is doing everything that they were supposed to be doing at the time of the event. And really how they're utilized and why I'm excited about it here at Interstate is, as I mentioned, previous situation, I had about 15 years in this situation. And We just started implementing them here at Interstate, not because of our crash statistics saying, hey, we needed them, but it was the main point I just made. It's about driver exoneration because when you look at crashes with commercial motor vehicles, a lot of times the stigmatism is it's the big bad truck driver that caused the crash. But if you look at a statistic that the FMCSA produces, it says crashes involving commercial motor vehicles often have complex causes, but studies suggest that passenger vehicles are drivers are more frequently at fault in collisions with large trucks. And according to those reports from the FMCSA, a significant percentage of crashes involving CMVs, commercial motor vehicles, are initiated by errors made by the non-commercial vehicle operator. And as I mentioned, I have a CDL, commercial driver's license, and it takes special training and time to obtain that. It's just not studying for a written test and passing it and then going out with someone, you know, an officer to say that I'm certified. You've got to really study the the intricacies of the vehicle, air brakes, things like that, and have a knowledge and be able to talk through an air brake test, things like that, to demonstrate that you have the skills to operate that piece of equipment safely.
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Well, and to drive a big rig, I think that you really have to be on your game because what you just mentioned is passenger vehicles. Many times I don't think people may be busy. They're not paying attention. We do really need to pay attention. But we need to give the big rigs some room as well. And sometimes zipping in and out of traffic, those kinds of things can cause accidents. And we, the public that's driving these passenger vehicles, we can do a lot to help with safety on the road, yes?
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That is a great point, Kim. One of the principles that we stress and we teach is safety. You know, one of those tractor trailers at 55 miles an hour is going to take a football field plus the two end zones to get stopped. So they've got to have space to be able to get stopped. And when you see passenger vehicles cutting in and out in front of a tractor trailer, that's a serious situation because there's no way that that truck is going to be able to or that driver is going to be able to apply the brakes in time and for the air brakes to react to stop that truck. As I mentioned, it's going to take at least a football field plus the two end zones. And then there's blind spots on the tractor trailer. Normally the typical area is that right front corner blind spot, which would be right out the passenger side of the truck. There's a technique that a driver can use, which would be to kind of sit up in the seat, raise their – butt cheek right up out of the seat a little bit and lean and look over to that direction. But it's still that right front corner blind spot is a serious situation if a car is hanging out in that right front corner blind spot. There's some other blind spots directly behind a tractor trailer is another one that I would just highlight. And sometimes, you know, Passenger vehicles believe, hey, following a truck is a safe thing, but I would say back off, give them some space, and let that truck driver be able to see you in their mirrors because if they can't see you in your mirrors and you can't see your reflection in their mirror, you're too close.
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Okay, and also then regarding in town with a big rig. So near where I live, there's a Costco. So many times there will be big rigs that are delivering products there. And I am actually, I'm just amazed as I watch big rigs navigate through urban traffic. It is amazing to me what these men and women do.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yes, they're going to be delivering into areas, just like you mentioned, Costco, that they're going to have to navigate with pedestrian traffic, personal vehicle traffic, and they have to be on their game going into their situations. And specifically with us, we're going into residential neighborhoods sometimes with those tractor-trailers as well as straight trucks, and we've got to be cognizant of low-hanging wires and just every obstacle that comes could come out in front of us, we've got to be aware of that. So it does take a professional driver to be in that seat and take those precautions and identify those risks.
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So let's back up again to Secretary Duffy then. Are you seeing different things for the trucking industry under Secretary Duffy than what you'd seen with the previous administration?
SPEAKER 16 :
I would just say that The things that we are seeing or experiencing, they've been in the regulations. We're just seeing them come forward and really be in the forefront in the news media a lot. But it's things that if you're a good, safe company, you've been aware of and you've been operating those principles to begin with.
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Okay, I think that's really important. And we need to really appreciate our truckers, our truck drivers, those driving the big rigs, because we take it for granted, all of the great products that we have at our disposal, and we really have taken that for granted. And I really thank you and our trucking industry for making Americans be able to thrive and prosper, Anthony Triggs.
SPEAKER 16 :
Thank you. Thanks for having me.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, absolutely. So what's your quick final thought you'd like to leave with our listeners?
SPEAKER 16 :
So quick final thought, I'd just like to go back to the dash cams or event recorders. Companies like us have telematics that are really probably the biggest word out there is electronic logging devices. But that device gives us telematics that's connected to the truck that gives us things like the speed of the truck and things like that, that we have items such as speeding alerts set up, like as you mentioned, going into residential areas so that we monitor those things and be able to help our drivers perform at a high level. And the event recorders or dash cams is just tying into those telematics, and it's just helping the drivers continue to get better, hone their skills. A couple of the things that we've heard from our drivers from installing them – And I'll just coin the phrase, it makes them a better driver. It just identified some small habits that they may have developed that they've corrected. And, again, the reason why we really put them in is for driver exoneration to show what our drivers are doing out on the nation's highways. If there is a crash, we can protect them.
SPEAKER 07 :
Fantastic. Anthony Triggs, thank you so much. I greatly appreciate it.
SPEAKER 16 :
Thank you, and thanks for having me.
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Is it freedom or is it force? Let's have a conversation.
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Indeed, let's have a conversation. And welcome to our number two of the Kim Monson Show. Thank you so much for joining us. You're each treasured. You're valued. You have purpose today. Strive for excellence. Take care of your heart, your soul, your mind and your body. My friends, we were made for this time in history. And what a time we are in right now. I believe that we are in the third founding of our country. 250 years ago, the summer of 1775, things were really beginning to happen as people realized that they were really going to need to stand for liberty. And what is liberty? It is the responsible exercise for freedom. And here we are all these years later, 250 years later, and what we're seeing with this weekend, tomorrow is Flag Day. It is also Donald Trump's birthday. And it is also a call by left-wing activists to do protests. And I have that in air quotes because there will be some that will just be protests and And I will always support people being able to protest peacefully. I always will support that. However, we see that there is this kind of poking the bear, trying to create some kind of an incident with what we're seeing in Los Angeles and even here in Denver with these protests. They're not really protesting against ICE. What they're protesting against, they're protesting against America, the American. And what is America? America is not perfect. We know that. But what is America? It was this country that was founded on this idea that all men are created equal with these rights from God of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. and that we, instead of having kings, that we could govern ourselves. And, of course, the implication on this nokings.org is they're trying to portray that Donald Trump thinks that he is a king. However, what I am seeing is he is trying to go through the proper process the proper procedures to get government back into the proper role that it is supposed to be. And he has had to act fast. And we saw that he got a lot done immediately. And then when these activist judges then started to put injunctions in place on a variety of things, we realized they're trying to throw sand in the gear. gears to get to 2026, where they hope that the radical activists that are controlling the Democrat Party can then win either the House or the Senate and stop the good work that is being accomplished in the Trump administration. And so we've got to continue to be talking about this and understanding this. And, and I would say the delivering of riot equipment and bricks to some of these, it'll probably, it'll primarily be blue cities to end destroying people's businesses. And just think about the cost to replace businesses and, this is, it's, it's really insane. And so we have to watch what's going to happen tomorrow. It's going to be a big deal, but we do have one King. And, uh, as a Christian, that is our, my faith in Jesus Christ. He is the King. Uh, he is the King. The rest of us then, uh, are, um, we are human beings that are redeemed by Christ. And so that is the King there. And I, I, um, It's going to be very interesting to see what happens tomorrow. So let's go ahead and get into our word of the day. It's clarion. And it could be, as a noun, it's a medieval trumpet with clear, shrill tones. Or it could be the sound of a clarion. Or number two, it could be brilliantly clear, loud and clear. or as in a clarion call, we need to have a loud and clear call to reclaim freedom for everyday Americans. And so that's why we do the show. I did want to say thank you to Laramie Energy for their gold sponsorship of the show because it's 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. Our quote of the day is from the... Medal of Honor quote book from the Center for American Values. You can purchase that by going to centerforamericanvalues.org. And this is from Joe M. Jackson, United States Air Force Medal of Honor recipient. Actions he took during the Vietnam War. Born in 1923, died in 2019. He said it is not only a person's privilege, but also his duty to love his country and have the courage to defend it with honor, integrity and his life if necessary. So these again, I have this in air quote protests, as Janice said, that many of these are going to be organized riots, that this is under multiculturalism. and multiculturalism diversity is not what makes america great the unifying the united states of america unifying behind this idea that we're all created equal with these rights from god of life liberty and pursuit of happiness and then in order to make sure that that that vision that we work towards that vision and get to that we have our constitution where it is that we, the people, are to govern ourselves. Those that are saying no more kings on these, again, these protests slash riots, which will happen in some of the cities, is that actually what they want is they want government to be the king, and they want to be in control of that government, So they want to be kings over all of us. So the left is so it's so interesting their language that they use. They're brilliant at it. But we need to realize that, yes, America was has does not have a king. We have a government that is of the people, by the people and for the people. And we have our Bill of Rights, which was put in place, which I find amazing, is James Madison, as he's known as the father of the Constitution, as he was talking with the different states to get them to ratify the Constitution, some of the states said, hey, we want a Bill of Rights. And Hamilton had said, well, you know what, if the power is not delegated to the federal government in the Constitution, then the federal government doesn't have that power. However, there were many that said, we want to make sure that we do have a Bill of Rights. And Madison assured them if they ratified the Constitution, that he would make sure that they got the Bill of Rights in, which they did. So obviously, the First Amendment is so important, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion. But the Second Amendment, the right to keep and bear firearms so that we can protect ourselves and our families against bad actors was paramount to the founders. And Teddy Collins, who is one of the co-founders of the Second Syndicate, he is also the owner of Spartan Defense, is on the line. Great sponsor of the show. Teddy, welcome.
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Thank you for having me, Kim.
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And the Second Amendment, the Second Syndicate is so important. And it is really, our Second Amendment rights are really under assault here in Colorado, big time. It started probably back around 2000 or so, but it really got ramped up this last legislative session. And I know that you're working diligently to try to bring people together to understand what's going on so that we can Go to work united to protect our Second Amendment rights, Teddy.
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Absolutely, Ken. I mean, we have a number of Second Amendment groups here in Colorado, but unfortunately, they don't always get along. So we try to work with all those groups and we try to bring them together with our projects like we did with the rallies at the Capitol this year. And like we have with several legislative briefs and legislative events that we've held to try to join forces with these guys and bring everybody together so that we can stand strong together and fight back against this tyranny we're seeing against our constitutional rights.
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Well, and Teddy, one of the first things that tyrants do is they disarm the people. And I really think that that's one of the things that's happening. Just think about this, Teddy. So everyday people, look at Los Angeles, where we're seeing that Karen Bass, the mayor, and Gavin Newsom, the governor, have kind of stepped back and let these rioters destroy property. Well, one of the reasons we have the Second Amendment is so that everyday people can have a firearm to protect themselves and their property from bad actors like this. So you have to say, well, why would there be legislation and rules and regulations to try to keep law-abiding citizens from having firearms? But the bad guys can always get firearms, right?
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Yeah, the fact of the matter is criminals don't care about the law. That's why they're criminals. They will find ways to break the law and commit crime. And the only thing that these firearms laws are doing, these restrictions on law-abiding citizens, is they're doing just that. They're restricting the law-abiding. They're not restricting the criminals. They're emboldening the criminals.
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But the narrative is they say that to say, for example, the suburban educated woman that thinks that if you say, OK, criminals, you can't have a firearm, that they're going to not have a firearm and then our communities will be safer. The opposite is the case, Teddy.
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Correct. And we see that in the states that have some of the strictest gun restrictions, some of the biggest infringements on the Second Amendment. You see that in places like Chicago, which now, as of this year, only has one firearm store left in the entire city, whereas a few years ago, before they enacted their strict restrictions on firearms, had 20 or 30 firearm stores within Cook County. Now we're down to one, and yet crime has just soared in that city, and we see shootings every night, gang violence every night, robberies every night, things of that nature. And I just want to just point to a key fact that you stated. You stated that the governor of California and the mayor of L.A. are just kind of sitting back and letting things burn. This is Nero. This is an example of Nero fiddling while Rome burns.
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And so that's why the work that you're doing is so important at the Second Syndicate. Alicia Garcia, who works with you at the Second Syndicate, we published a very important piece, The Big Beautiful Backfire. And you were concerned about the Big Beautiful Bill was trying to do something that would protect our Second Amendment rights, but unless they add in this hearing protection actors that information into the bill it would make it basically illegal for coloradans to have suppressors on their firearms which actually reduces the sound so that it brings the decibels down and you both are keeping us informed on that you were taking some action last week has anything happened on that
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So we've submitted our letter to Congress and to Senator Crapo of the Senate Finance Committee. They have received it, from my understanding, from what we've been told. They are thankful that they have received that, that we've notified them of this because they were unaware. that this would affect close to 19 states from what we're being told, 17 for sure, and there's two that are maybes that this would have affected. It's because of poor state law wording. And unfortunately, we have such an anti-gun legislator and anti-gun governor here in the state of Colorado that we wouldn't have any help from them to fix this. So it's going to have to fall to Congress to fix the wording of this bill and include Section 3 and Section 4 of the Hearing Protection Act. Section 4 would be an amazing win, by the way, not just for Colorado, but for any state that has anti-gun laws, because that would be federal preemption. And just to kind of give you an idea of what that means is that would mean that federal law preempts state law, and the state could not further regulate federal gun law. So that means that Senate Bill 25-003, the semi-automatic ban that passed this legislative session, would be null and void. It couldn't be enforced because it would further restrict federal law. That means that The magazine capacity restriction that we have here in Colorado of 15 rounds would also be null and void because it could not it could not be enforced on top of federal law. Federal law would be the standard that Colorado would have to live by.
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That sounds like really good news to me, Teddy Collins. So let's keep our fingers crossed. Anything else you want people to know this week?
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Just keep following us. Definitely tune into our podcast that we do every year or every other week. We'll have our next one on Wednesday, the 25th with Joshua Griffin, who's running for governor. You know, definitely check out the second syndicate dot com. That's the two in the syndicate dot com spelled the two in the syndicate dot com. And check out our Bonfire merch store. We've got some pretty nice merch. We're a non-for-profit. All of that money goes back to the Second Amendment and to the fight. So you could definitely support us by buying some cool shirts like our Polis for Prison shirt or several of our other designs that we've come up with. And that money will go right back into the fight.
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Okay. Hey, Teddy Collins, thank you so much. And I'm so glad to be in this fight with you and the Second Syndicate and Alicia. So thank you. We'll talk again next week.
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Absolutely, Kim. Thank you for having us and glad to have you in this fight with us.
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It is Friday and welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at Kim Monson dot com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice on an independent station searching for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. Something's a good idea. You should not have to force people to do it. and did want to say thank you to Laramie Energy for their gold sponsorship of the show because it's 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. On the line with me is Virginia Maka. She is the founder of Stand for the Land Kansas. She's an expert in understanding these issues regarding property rights, transmission line corridors, imminent domain, all of what this whole AI thing might mean. And so we're going to try to unpack some of that here. Virginia Maka, welcome. Good morning, Kim. How are, how's everyone in Colorado? Well, we're pretty good, except I tell you, it feels like the boot of government is just really stepping on our necks out here in Colorado, Virginia, Maka.
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I don't think Colorado is just singular there. I believe we see that across all States. And, um, It has been an eye-opener this weekend because we now see the one big, beautiful bill has created an opportunity to have a conversation about states' rights versus feds' federal rights. And as your last guest had spoke about guns, AI has come into the crosshairs with the one big, beautiful bill. So that's been a very interesting discussion this week, especially in the tech world, as each state rushes to create these data centers. So today I thought, let's unpack a little bit about data and talk about maybe what's going to impact individuals and the data that you may not know might be impacted.
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Virginia, I remember I met, this was early on when we started to broadcast the show, and maybe even before, before I was solo, is I met with two women, very, very informed, that were concerned about data collection on our children. And they said that data is the new oil, the new gold. And I thought, really? Really? But in preparation for our interview today, you've sent over quite a bit of information. And I think it's true is I had no idea that our children, that there is all kinds of data that's being collected on them, obviously without their permission. And I wonder how we can get this walked back. But I think I saw a number that you sent over that data that was collected on children in Kansas from the public schools, that the public schools received millions of dollars for that data. So tell us a little bit about that.
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Kim, you know, in 2020, we learned so much and we were at home with our children and my governor in our state, decided to lock all the businesses down, and the state completely was locked down, no businesses open. And as a freedom-centered person, I said, no, this isn't going to happen. And as I traveled across the state, what I was hearing from parents that were actually – watching their children online hearing what was going on in the classroom was mortifying to them and I became almost a community bulletin board handing me pieces of paper and things that our children were studying and it really mortified me because on top of trying to get businesses opened in Kansas and being out on the road Delivering a little bit of hope to people, giving people permission to come out and celebrate America. I became very interested in the data. And so in 2021, I went to my first educational hearing at the Capitol and I continually heard that word. It's a four letter word data. And you think it's not that important. And what I learned at that hearing with other moms that I brought there was they were actually enrolling their children. And when they were enrolling their children, they were giving permission for our Department of Education through federal grants to collect and document data that They were issuing in the classrooms through surveys, simple surveys. And so it was an opt out only. You were opt in automatically. So I worked for several months on an opt in only where parents would have to sign on the dotted line with giving permission that it's okay to collect all this data on my child. It had to be in writing. It couldn't be a little square that you just click off. And the resistance I saw from legislators, from lobbyists was massive. And so I decided to start educating moms and dads and I had to do a little education myself. as a background in engineering, it's the data that drives the project. You don't manipulate the data because it has to tell you something at the end. And it was really an eye opener when I went over and just started tracking through the federal education department, these grants, what they were collecting, and what our children's future looked like because it was not focused on reading, writing, math. It was not focused on building our kids into critical thinkers. And so I went on a four-month tour across Kansas talking to parent groups. And it's all about the education, isn't it, Kim? Educating yourself. It's the fine lines we don't read. It's the just click the box so that you can get to the next screen. And parents slowed down and they started, we created these forms that you were going to opt your child out at the local level. And when we had parents doing that, It interrupted the entire process of our schools distributing federal grant money, collecting data on our children. And it goes into what we call a longitudinal database. And that's one word everybody needs to know about and think about. Because a longitudinal database controlled by one person, even the government, is a very dangerous thing. This database actually creates a profile of your child. Every piece of data that's collected on your child goes into their file. And so we, moms went at it on all different directions. And where I started to understand it was when a group of moms in Kansas city who were in the software design field gathered me around their table. I brought them information and they deciphered that information and they were very, very worried about what they were seeing in the codes that were writing this language.
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Okay. Virginia? It's been an experience. Definitely. And so we're going to continue the discussion on data. And of course, we see these data centers and transmission lines to have power for these data centers. All this is connected. But the data that's being collected on our children is of real concern. So we will continue the discussion. And we have these discussions because of our sponsors. And for everything residential real estate, you want to make sure that you have Karen Levine on your side of the table.
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You know, Kim, as you said before, everything's connected. So where I started was the longitudinal database. In order to even use AI, That data has to be gathered in a common place. You don't make an apple pie out of one apple. So it all has to be in the same pot. And so how do they, or whoever gather that data and put it in the same, uh, the same, maybe file so that they, the AI can go through all of that, that information. and give you an answer for whatever question you're asking. So taking that in the big beautiful bill, there was a moratorium saying that states couldn't, there's a 10 year moratorium on AI and data centers. Is that good? Is that bad?
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And the moratorium was that states or local governments could not do anything to regulate them, right? Right.
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No regulations. And is that good? Is that bad? Is that indifferent? The big argument is because you would create each state having their own framework that And you may not be protected as an individual in one state when you go to the other on the data collection. So that's the big discussion right now. And maybe the 10 year moratorium is going to give them some time to get something in place to protect us as individuals in our individual information. People need to realize your most precious asset is your information, the data, your private and personal pieces of information like biometrics, your blood type. This kind of thing is very dangerous to be gathered in one place using AI. It gives you a profile and that may not represent the person. That data may be incorrect and there's no way to check. That data. So as you go through the bill, it brings you back to this word called modernization. We saw the waste, fraud, and abuse of all the infrastructure money and the, you know, the CARES money where there was no accountability. We don't even know where all those trillions of dollars went. So they, in 22... start this modernization technology reform. So the government's going to improve their data collection systems where they can't even tell us where the money went in these last five years. And I thought to myself, why are we doing this now? And how is this all connected? Our children are sitting in classrooms and they are still being distributed surveys, but now it's not the teachers, it's the apps. And your child, by the time they're in the 12th grade, 71 apps that distribute instructional information in our classrooms will have collected thousands and thousands of pieces of data on your child. and sold it to the third party.
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That was my question. So what's the purpose of all of this collection? And I can see some very onerous things about it. But right now, is it all about the money?
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It is about the money. No one's giving any forethought to what the unintended consequences are going to be. So let's just take, for example, your child's who goes to a private Christian school has all of this information out there in the hands of third and fourth and fifth parties that are buying and selling your child's data every day. Perhaps they put your child in a category because of that information and that category says, He can't do this. It limits his opportunities to be in this field. No, he's not going to be, you know, a real follower over here. So limiting our children's opportunities through education and through maybe false information limits their freedom and finding that American dream. So we are seeing that if you feel like you've been canceled, you may have. But there's no way for us as individuals to ask what that information is.
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It's very concerning. So, Virginia, a couple of things, because now I'm going back in history in my life. When I was on city council, 2012 to 2016, a couple of things were happening. One of those was Obamacare. And with Obamacare, remember one of the things that they really, really pushed was getting medical records online. And it was under the guise of, hey, this way, if something's going on with you, your health care provider can get it over to whoever's going to be running the test and it'll all make it much more efficient. It would be easier. It'll help simplify your life. I see that again. I don't know if they were planning it or if it's just happening. But man, that seems to me like that was one of the first steps towards streamlining data collection. And then the other thing when I was on city council was I saw these different presentations regarding education and. saying, we need to be educating our children for the 21st century workforce. And I thought to myself, we don't want to be educating kids to be a worker. That sounds kind of like communism to me. We want to educate kids so that they have the tools of reading, writing, arithmetic, history, to be able to go after their hopes and dreams to create and innovate. And as you're describing this, the data collection and then putting little Johnny in a box, that a box would say, well, Johnny can't do this, and so Johnny can't have this job. I think that's what I'm hearing could be down the pike for us.
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And that is actually what we're seeing. Training for a workforce is dictating where that child is going to be And if you're, you know, you don't fit the profile, you may be a line worker, which is nothing wrong with that, but you had the mind to be a scientist. So by focusing on driving our children to a certain, say, you know, occupation, we're not building our child in the educational way to be critical thinkers and decide for themselves. I don't think in first grade my mom or dad realized what talent any of their 10 children had. And I don't think we have that ability to look at a first grader and say, you're going to be this. The American dream here is to give them the tools to decide and dream. And so I, That is exactly what we're seeing here, limiting opportunities. And it's just not our children. It's our young people graduating from college. It is people that have been in business that have been canceled. And so we see this is really impacting our freedom in a lot of different ways. When you have the ability to control 50 states and the amount of information that they are collecting through federal grants and they are asking for specific things. Just an example. There is a file I have of 249 pages and some of the questions that are collected are Did the student make their bed? Did the student join in play? Did the student... Things that happen at home. And so what was concerning to my moms around the data table was how are they collecting this information when some of these actual data points happen in my home? Wow. And that was very... Eye-opening to me because, you know, you don't think anything about carrying around a phone and what that phone is collecting. You don't think about even the cameras we see on our main streets or shopping. And all of that data is being collected and sold every day.
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Okay, Virginia, we've got to talk about solutions on this because this looks like this whole thing is a freight train out of control. And I'm very concerned about what this means for our children and our grandchildren. And this is important. It's complicated, but it's important that we have these discussions. And they happen because of our sponsors. If you've been injured, you want to make sure that you reach out to John Bozen and Bozen Law.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Check out our website. That's Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. And check out the USMC Memorial Foundation's website. That's USMCMemorialFoundation.org. It's important that we remember and honor, think about those people that put their lives on the line or gave their lives for our liberty. We are now at a time where we are being asked to stand up for liberty. And in some ways, it's more difficult to know who, what, when, where, why, what we're fighting. But we have always had a responsibility as Americans to protect our children and our grandchildren and to think about what we're passing on to them. And I think there's this question regarding AI that it is this freight train. It's get on board. This is the future. As we look at many of the big players in this, I remember during COVID-19, that they were shutting down some voices, amplifying other voices. Some of those voices were not honest. So they're playing in this arena with the Big Beautiful Bill. There's some things in the Big Beautiful Bill that I really like. I also have some deep concerns about about CO2 pipelines, transmission lines and eminent domain. And actually, all of this is connected to AI centers and then the AI centers. What is an AI center collecting? It's collecting data. And we're talking about data on our children. So Virginia Mock is on the line. She's with Stanford Land, Kansas. And Virginia, this came in a couple of things on the text line. And I want to hear from you. Text line is 720-605-0647. It says, good morning. Listening to Virginia, what's popping into my head with all the data they're collecting on children is will the government decide in the future what type of job your child will have? to have just like they do in communist China. I wonder if they will also decide what type of health care you're allowed to have based on your blood profile. Then another listener said, I'm sure the rabbit hole is much larger than that. To me, it looks like a communist ideology. Your comments on that, Virginia Maka?
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Wow. Your listeners are really getting it. Let's just look at China. And China... It's a very large country that runs, it is ran by your government and your social score, your social credit score. So if you have enough data points on a person, you can dictate their behavior. So last night I put into an AI, which was Grok, I used Grok, and I asked it, in an average size data center, which we would find in our backyards in our cities, How many data points or how much data can be processed through that data center? That is right in my backyard. And it did a deep search and what it came back with, there were 34 references that went to, and the conclusion was the size of data in one day. It's between a hundred million and a billion data points on individual information daily. That's daily. That's different levels of information, your social media, all the way down to maybe your health records that go out there online. And so reflecting on that, that is every day one medium-sized data center. So you have to imagine that when you see a camera on your main street, It is collecting data and that raster file that could take your facial recognitioning is sending it to like a longitudinal profile or whoever is collecting that on third party, fourth party. And it has to have your government's permission to be on your main streets. So there are some things that we started doing here in Kansas and we started inserting ourselves in the conversation for our kids because we know that without our kids we have no future. And you're correct on dictating what kind of healthcare, what kind of, what you get to receive may not be the same as someone that is more woke. And that being said, ask questions. Ask your child what apps they're using and ask your school for that contract and who they share their data with. And that is where you begin for your child, to protect your child. Online surveys. Don't do them. Don't do them. That drives you to websites where they gather even more information about you And most questions are already written to direct you to a final outcome. The district policies in your schools. Ask your district office, your superintendents of your schools, what is your privacy policy to protect my child's data? Ask for cyber security breaches. In Kansas, our legislature did a legislative audit on all the school districts in Kansas and less than 20% of them submitted what the post audit wanted. And the main thing that the post audit saw was they lack the structure at the local levels to protect your child's data and breaches are happening every day. Our state, Our state collects data and sells it every day to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. And I had no idea that they sold that data to anyone, nor did they collect it in one spot. So as a citizen, if you pay your utility bill to the city, ask them who is processing that payment today. What kind of data are they collecting and where is it being sold? Your city should know.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, we've got two minutes left. And yes, we need to be asking these questions. But it seems like these data centers are going up. There's government grants. There's transmission lines that are trying to get electricity to it. It seems like a freight train out of control. And it seems a bit overwhelming. And I know that's a lot to put out there with one minute left. But what would you say to that, Virginia?
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I would say go to your zoning boards and your zoning meetings because these data centers have to have permits. I would say check in to see who owns those data centers. You start asking questions at the local level because all of these centers are an economic development tool under that guise. And your city will use your tax money in some way or form, whether it's an abated tax, or not, you know, there is something connected to the economic development and voice your opinion. Because a lot of times our zoning board and our city officials do not know. They have never thought about it. You know, you say economic development and everyone goes into a frenzy. But I would say start opening your eyes in your local communities because this problem is so big and so much larger than you. That once we start educating people and they understand when they hear the word modernization, when they hear the word data center, when they, uh, flock cameras, when they hear those words, start asking questions. Uh, that is where we begin, uh, where we end will be insert yourself into the political process and stand up for freedom. Uh, that is. The best defense, they count on you for your vote. And your voice matters. The smallest voice matters.
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Virginia Maka, stand for the land, Kansas. Thank you. We will get you on again next month to continue these important discussions. And thank you for the amazing work that you're doing.
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Thank you, Kim and everyone. Go put out that flag on Saturday.
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That's right. And our quote for the end of the show, I thought this was really important by G.K. Chesterton. He said, fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed. So, my friends, today be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you, and God bless America.
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Dive deep into the spiritual insights of Rick Hughes as he challenges listeners to reflect on their relationship with God. From understanding God's discipline to embracing a personal love for Him, this episode is packed with practical biblical advice. Learn how to apply God’s Word in your life and rally to reclaim your spiritual health and strength.
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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. For the next few minutes, please stick around. 30 minutes of motivation, some inspiration, some education and And no, no, no manipulation, no con games. We're not starting to solicit money. We're not trying to sell you anything. We're just offering free biblical information, information that pertains to the plan of God for your life, if you're interested. If I can verify and identify that plan, then you can orient and adjust to it. It's up to you. My job is to give you accurate information and to help you to develop a way of thinking that's different than the world thinks. The world thinks in terms of human viewpoint. And believers in the Lord Jesus Christ think in terms of divine viewpoint. That's thinking in terms of what the scripture says. And we do everything we can to verify everything we tell you with scriptural documentation. But you have to remember that God gave you two ends, one you sit with, one you think with, and success in your life is going to depend on which one of those ends you use. Heads, you'll win, and tails, you'll lose. So God's given you the ability to have some phenomenal insight. It's called discernment. It comes from wisdom, which comes from the Bible. And wisdom's built on the knowledge that you learn and you understand. So if you're interested, please keep listening because we have a lot to say. Let me remind you of one other thing. We have all of our radio shows now transcribed. And so we have a complete list of every show we did during the year 2019 transcribed. And you can order that free of charge at three different volumes. And, you know, each show is 30 minutes long, so it may be five or six pages in the volume that you can read. But it's 52 different shows transcribed for you there. Also, all of our shows are now podcasted. on the different podcast venues such as Apple iPod. There's a free app called Spotify. There's a free app called Anchor. These are venues where you can podcast and you can hear the show if you just simply search for the FLOT line, the FLOT line, F-L-O-T, which stands for the Forward Line of Troops, okay? So what we're trying to do here on this show is teach you 10 unique problem-solving devices so that when you learn them and use them, then you can stop the outside source of adversity before it becomes the inside source of stress. That's why we say adversity is inevitable, but stress is optional. Because adversity is what the circumstances will do to you, but the stress is what you do to yourself. Now today we'd like to talk about the rally cry for believers, the rally cry for believers. As our nation moves through these days of crisis, I'm recording this actually in March, but it'll play later on in April. Actually, I'm recording it in April. It'll probably play in May. But as our nation moves through these days of crisis, it's good to call Christians to rally, to rally together. Dictionary.com describes rally as an effort to bring into order again or inspire anew when used with an object such as what we're doing. And if you use it as a verb without an object, it means to come together for a common action or an effort. And if you use it as a noun, it means to recover from disorder or to recover strength, like someone in the hospital rallied and is getting better. You've heard it used in such ways as Christian students who rally around the flagpole at their school, before school, to pray for their school. You've heard it used in organized political rallies, such as the president or some presidential candidate may have a rally. And sometimes it's used to describe a person who was near death, as I said, and rallied to get better. But what I'd like to say today is it's time for believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, those of you that listen to this show, to rally, to recover, to regain your spiritual health. If we use the word rally, R-A-L-L-Y, it's an acrostic. And by the way, this was given to me by a close associate and we discussed this message. So the acrostic rally would go like this. The R, R stands for a time of reflection. As we pull through the other side of this pandemic we've been facing, it becomes a time of reflection, both personal and national, which means we have to think deeply about what we've been going through. A believer, like you and me, has a sin nature, and thus often our individual sins bring discipline upon us. Hebrews 12, 6-10 tells us, "...those the Lord loves He chastens, and He scourges every son whom He receives." If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with a son. For what son is he whom the Father does not chasten? But if you be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then you're not a son at all, but a bastard. Furthermore, we've had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence. Shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits and live? So we know that God disciplines believers who get out of line. And we know that that discipline comes in three stages. We know it comes in a warning stage. It comes in an intense stage, and it can come in a dying stage. All right? So if you be without chastisement, you're not a son. Those whom the Lord loves, he chastens. That's the warning stage. And he scourges. That's the intense stage. And then the last verse says, shall we not much more be reverence to him and live? That's the dying stage. So discipline is tough. As we go through this national crisis that we have been going through, the question I have to ask, has God used it to discipline you? Has God used it to discipline you? Has your heavenly father gotten your attention and forced you to look to him and only him for your deliverance? If so, then it was motivated by his divine love for you and me intended to rescue us from ourselves. Since sometimes we have a tendency to drift off course and we have a tendency to discount the importance of God's word in our life, don't we? See, there are two ways that we can learn. Learn how to live and live the life God gave us. The first one is It's what we call the school of hard knocks where you learn the hard way because you're stupid and you're arrogant and you won't listen. And the second is through the grace provisions that God gave you. Now, you can learn either way you want to go. You can learn the hard way or you can learn the easy way. The easy way is God, the Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, our Lord said, when I leave, I'll send the Holy Spirit and he'll be your tutor. He'll be your mentor. He'll teach you. And then you have a Bible, a canon of Scripture. The Word of God is alive and powerful, sharper than a two-edged sword. And you have a well-qualified pastor. So you have three things there for you. The Holy Spirit, the canon of Scripture, and a pastor. All of these are linked to your positive volition, if in fact you even have any. That's why the Bible says in 2 Peter 3.18, study, study, that doesn't mean read the Bible once a day. Study is more than that. It means to show yourself approved unto God, the verse says. Study to show thyself approved unto God, 2 Timothy 2.15. A workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. If you can rightly divide it, you obviously can wrongly divide it. And then in 2 Peter 3, 18, grow in the grace and the knowledge of your Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. So two mandates, study and grow. These two mandates were for our own benefit so that when disaster hits, at least we know what to do and we know who to look to. Now, personal discipline is tough. If you've been going through personal discipline, I pray that God has gotten your attention. He hasn't thrown you under the bus. He hasn't forsaken you. But he may have brought you low to the place of where you have nowhere else to look but to him. That's a good thing. That's a good thing. Because he said in 2 Corinthians 12, my grace is sufficient. But there's another form of discipline called national discipline. I read an article by J.C. Ryle, an English evangelist back in the 1800s, who said this. He said, we know that believers are judged in the future, according to Romans 14, 12, because there is a judgment day yet to come. But for nations, like our nation, there is no future day of judgment. Thus, the sins of nations are judged in time. And so the question that we have to ask is, has God allowed a judgment in time? on this client nation that we call America, the USA. Have we become so liberal and so covetous that we've lost our virtue and our self-evaluation? I wish you'd think about that. Have we surrendered to the Lord of luxury rather than to the Lord Jesus Christ? I mean, has your lake house become more important than the church house? Because 2 Timothy 3, 4 says, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, that's a bad thing. The Reverend Billy Graham said as far back as 1949 these words, Now today in America, we find that people are more concerned with things than they are with the things of God. They're more concerned with pleasure, more concerned with money, more concerned with the things of life rather than they are the things of Almighty God. Have we, you, me, our friends, have we lost our moral direction and converted what is evil into what we doubt describe as good? I mean, is anything immoral anymore? Or do we now justify all sin as not really a choice, but rather something that God made me do because he made me that way? As a nation, have we become wise in our own eyes? Proverbs 3, 7 warns about that. Don't be wise in your own eyes. Fear the Lord and avoid evil. You know, wise in your own eyes is an arrogant concept. It's figuring that you're smarter than God, that you really don't need any information from the Bible, from the Scripture. You got it all figured out. And When you have a nation with that sort of attitude, then you have a nation ready to be destroyed. Hosea 4, 6 through 11 was a verse that I like to refer to. I know who it was written to, but I think there's an application for us today. He said, my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you rejected knowledge, I will reject you from being my priest. Since you forgot the laws of your God, I will forget your children. The more they multiplied, the more they sinned against me, and I will change their glory into shame, the Lord says. They feed on the sin of my people and direct their desires toward their iniquity. And it will be like people, like priests, and so I'll punish them for their ways and repay them for their deeds. They will eat but not have enough, and they will play the harlot but not increase because they stopped giving heed to the Lord. Wise in their own eyes. Has knowledge become pleasant to your soul? That's the Proverbs, that's the important thing. See, without knowledge, spiritual information, there's no discernment and there's no insight. When you hear the Word of God taught and believe it and transfer it into your soul, it becomes wisdom, and that wisdom gives you discernment and insight. But without biblical doctrinal information, without that wisdom, there's no divine viewpoint. You have wrong priorities and wrong way of thinking. And that's what's happening in this country today. I'm afraid to say we've ignored God's word as a whole. Not everybody, but... As a whole, it's hard to find somebody who really believes what the Bible says, especially in the educational field. So have we become so rich and so powerful that we think we can buy our way out of some sort of national disaster? And do we actually think no one can defeat our military might? I mean, there was a time in this country when we used to call on God. In World War II, in June 6, 1944, as American troops headed towards Omaha Beach, the President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, read a prayer to all Americans from the diplomatic reception room at the White House at 9.57 p.m., and that text was released well in advance so all Americans could pray it with him. And it was displayed throughout the remainder of the war. We need men of leadership that will pray for our country and encourage us to pray for one another if that prayer is offered in the right way. We've talked about that before. A right thing done in the wrong way is still wrong, and you can pray till you're blue in the face. But if you're not a child of God, that prayer is not going to be answered until you pray the one important prayer, Father, save me. And secondly, if you are a child of God and you have unconfessed sin in your life, that prayer cannot be answered because the Bible says, if I acknowledge sin in my heart, the Lord will not hear me. So we have to deal with our sin first. But if we deal with our sin, we have a legitimate opportunity to go before our Heavenly Father and plead for deliverance. If these questions that I propose are true, then what can we do to rally? What can we do to recover and reorient as a nation or just as an individual Christian? So R, the rally cry that we started with, the big R word, is what we've been dealing with. And now we're going to move into the A word. R and then A, time of reflection. And now A stands for a time of affection. From reflection to affection. All right, you ready? Affection means to get back to a divine appreciation of who and what God is. It's my opinion and mine alone, I guess, but I believe America as a whole no longer has a personal love for God. I think we fell in love with all the gifts that he bestowed on us more than the giver himself. And I offer as proof this verse in 1 John 5, 3. For this is the love of God that we keep his mandates and his mandates are not a burden. Christians come in all shapes and sizes, male, female, boy, girl, et cetera. They're different levels in spiritual maturity. It's kind of like football teams, you know. I mean, there's a lot of universities that play football, but they don't all have the same coach and they don't all have the same record and they have different schemes and different defenses and different offenses. And there's a lot of Christians that are on the team, but they play by a different playbook. But God said in Jeremiah 9, 24, he's looking for those who know him and understand him. He wants them to know what? That he exercises kindness, justice, and righteousness on the earth. God is looking for those who know him and understand him. So the question that I've asked before is how can you love the God you don't understand? For example, do you know the essence of God? If I gave you a blank piece of paper and I said write down the essence of God, What would you put? Well, I don't know. Could you say God is sovereignty, righteousness, justice, love, eternal life, immutability, omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence? He even has a sense of humor. He made us, didn't he? So how can you love God when you don't even know him? Do you understand what the righteousness of God rejects and the justice of God must judge? This is why the Bible says he that knew no sin was made sin for us so that we might be made the righteousness of God through him. The only way you can have any relationship with God the Father is to come through God the Son because that's where your righteousness comes from, not on your own. That's why the Bible says not by works have we been saved but by grace. It's the grace of God, Ephesians 2, 8 and 9. Can you explain the difference to me between spirituality and maturity in the Christian life? Do you understand the difference in those two things, spirituality and maturity? Because any believer who's filled with the Holy Spirit is spiritual. Billy Graham cannot be any more spiritual than you. Your pastor cannot be any more spiritual than you. But any Christian who is not filled with the Spirit is carnal, the Bible says. He's fleshly. So without the use of rebound, you are carnal, you're out of fellowship with God, and you're not spiritual. But if you confess your sin to God and allow the Holy Spirit to regain control of your life, you're spiritual, but that doesn't mean you're mature. Maturity is a concept based upon the content of doctrine in your soul, how much of the word of God you've learned, applied, and used in your life. So do you understand the difference between these things? Do you understand the difference between sin and evil? do you do you know that all sin is evil but all evil might not be sin evil is a system it's a plan satan's game see god's plan is based on grace grace for by grace are you saved through faith satan's plan is based on evil and it's taking grace and twisting it a little bit so it's satan saying well if you're just a good boy and you don't fornicate and you don't cheat on your taxes then when God judges you, he'll cut your break and you'll be allowed to come to heaven. That's evil. That's the organized religion. Organized religion will tell you if you're nice and sweet and give money to your church and don't do anything really bad, you'll go to heaven. And that's not true. Have we substituted emotion for knowledge in our worship? That's a good question. I mean, is that going on in America today? Have we become so emotional that we don't wanna be taught anymore? We just wanna do praise and worship and sing and raise our hands and sway back and forth and have a little message from some celebrity that might motivate us a little bit? Have we made God's name and his son the object of financial profit, like selling books, selling records, selling movies, selling Christian blogs, all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, all designed to do one thing, don't be mistaken about it, all designed to make money. If they don't make money, they wouldn't sell them. So do you hunger and thirst after righteousness? Matthew 5, 6 says you should. Listen, our Heavenly Father loves us. We know that. But the bigger question for you to answer is this. Do you love him? If you say, yes, I love God, do you hunger and thirst for righteousness? do you hunger for truth do you have a insatiable desire to get knowledge has knowledge become pleasant to your soul as proverbs 1 talks about has it because without knowledge there's no wisdom and without wisdom there's no insight and discernment proverbs 1 7 says the fear of the lord is the beginning of knowledge But a fool despises wisdom and instruction. Which one are you? Do you have a hunger for God's word? Do you pray that God would send someone that would teach you? Are you listening to this show because you're learning something and you're not getting it locally where you live? Is that going on? Fools despise wisdom. Fools despise instruction. It's awful bad when you see it in your family or when you see it in your friends that have no interest in God's word or they think they're smarter than God and they've justified why they can sin and get away with it and they don't think there's anything wrong with what they're doing. Loving God means you obey God and loving God means you grow in the grace and the knowledge of your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Loving God means you're occupied with his Son, our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. So unless we begin to focus on the giver and we quit focusing on the gifts that he gave us, then we're never gonna be truthful in our relationship with our Father because loving him means that we turn from the lure of the cosmic system and put our eyes on the Lord Jesus Christ. Occupation with Christ, problem-solving device number 10, Loving him means we turn from the lure of the cosmic system and put our eyes on Christ, who is our hope, who is our confidence, who is our security in this devil's world. That's the truth. So R-A and the L, R-A-L-L-Y, L stands for leaving the world behind and returning to our first love. When you demonstrate your love to God, the Father, by trusting him in all situations, that's using what we call problem solving device number three, the faith thrust drill, then your Father will reciprocate that back to you. He's guaranteed you eternal life. He's guaranteed you provision and protections in the storm of life. Read Matthew 8 about the disciples in the boat. The Lord Jesus Christ called them short-time trusters because they thought they were going to die in the storm. They freaked out. Our love for him, that's the Lord Jesus Christ, is reflected in our confidence and in the peace that we have in our souls in spite of whatever may be going on in the land. In spite of any crisis or any adversity or any difficulty, we're relaxed. We have great confidence in the Father. We know he's in control. In Psalm 5611, in God I put my trust, I shall not be afraid of what man can do to me. So faith does not feed on emotions. Faith feeds on facts. But if you don't have any facts, then you're not going to have any basis for a strong faith. Because Romans 10, 17 says, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Which do you hear the most, local and national news, or do you hear a well-qualified pastor teaching you God's Word? There's got to be room in your daily life for being fed Scripture, and not just the human viewpoint of the cosmic system that's on television 24-7. So another L stands for learn, apply, and glorify. Learn, apply, and glorify. When you apply God's word to your circumstances, then you will wind up reflecting Jesus Christ through your life. Because what you've done is you've assimilated the mind of Christ. You quit letting fear control you and you arrive at what we call spiritual autonomy. means you can stand on your own two feet in the devil's world alone based on your spiritual growth. And spiritual growth is mandated in the scripture, you know. This is not me making something up. Hebrews 5, 11 through 14, we have a lot of things to say, but they're hard to explain since you become dull of hearing. For though by this time you ought to be teaching, you need someone to come back and teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God, and you've come to need milk, not solid food. For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness. He's a baby. Solid food belongs to those who are full of age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised and can discern the difference between good and evil. There's a big difference between church attendance and spiritual growth. It's the difference between getting gnosis, or knowledge, and converting that knowledge to epinosis, or full knowledge, and then making that become wisdom in your soul. So when your pastor teaches you, if he does, then you learn something, and if you learn something, you have to do something with it, and you can put it in a notebook and forget about it, or you can apply it into your life on a daily basis. If you make the application, learn, apply, you will glorify. Learn, apply, and glorify. So in this worldwide crisis we're having right now, if it's shown you anything, did it show you the need for you to develop patience, trust, confidence in God's timing and in his appointed leadership? Has it shown you that? In Romans 13, 1 through 7, let every soul be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except from God. Did you hear that? There is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God. There it is in plain black and white. You might not like the president. You might not care for him at this point in time, but he's there because God allowed it. So what are you gonna do about it? Spew hatred and venom? Or can you handle authority and do what they tell you to do? The Y stands for yielding yourself to God's plan, R-A-L-L-Y, yielding yourself to God's plan. Having a personal sense of destiny, knowing the difference between his directive will And his permissive will, that's very important for you to understand that and know that because there are about seven things in the Bible declared to be the general will of God. And I'll try to come back maybe next week and we'll pick this up and go on through these things. But in the meantime, you have to remember this. God allows authority to be in a place for a certain time for a certain reason. Where we are in history, it didn't catch God by surprise. He knows what's going on. Not only does he know what's going on nationally, he knows what's going on personally in your life. So how are you handling it? What has it taught you? Where are you now? What do you intend to do when this thing is over, if it is indeed ever over, if we ever do return to normal? Is it going to affect your life? Is it going to affect your momentum spiritually? I pray it will. I pray this has been a challenge, and I hope you've enjoyed it. Until next week, this is your host, Rick Hughes, saying thank you for listening to The Flatline.
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As the dust settles over the Middle East, we turn our focus to the strategic implications of Israel's recent military actions against Iran. With esteemed guests like Dr. A.J. Nolte and Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin, we traverse the complex terrain of international diplomacy and military readiness. This episode also sheds light on the critical role of intelligence in modern warfare and the broader ramifications for U.S.-Israel relations.
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from the heart of our nation's capital in Washington, D.C., bringing compelling interviews, insightful analysis, taking you beyond the headlines and sound bites into conversations with our nation's leaders and newsmakers, all from a biblical worldview. Sitting in for Tony is today's host, Jody Heiss.
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In the past 24 hours, we've taken out top military commanders, senior nuclear scientists, the Islamic regime's most significant enrichment facility and a large portion of its ballistic missile arsenal. More is on the way. The regime doesn't know what hit them. They don't know what will hit them.
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Well, that was Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier today after Israel launched Operation Rising Lion to counter the imminent and existential threat posed by Iran. Welcome to this Friday edition of Washington Watch. I am Jody Heiss. Thank you so much for joining us and we've got a lot to cover today. After days of chatter about Israel's potential strike on Iran, It finally happened earlier this morning, local time, last night, depending on where you live. But Israel says they really had no choice.
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Israel uncovered clear evidence that the Iranian regime was planning a surprise attack in coordination with their proxies. A surprise attack with a nuclear strike, which Iran was preparing for, would have been terminal. Israel could not and would not wait for that moment to arrive.
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That was Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Dunnan, earlier today. And I'll discuss the latest on the attacks and Iran's response when I'm joined by CBN News Middle East Bureau Chief Chris Mitchell. in just a little while. I'll also get a reaction from Dr. A.J. Nolte, who's the director of the Institute for Israel Studies at Regent University, who is live right now in Jerusalem, as well as Chris Mitchell. So a lot coming from Israel today. And just how significant is Operation Rising Lion, and what has it accomplished so far? We'll get the latest read on that from retired Lieutenant General Jerry Boykin, who is FRC's executive vice president and, of course, former deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence. And while many support Israel's preemptive strike, there are always those who are quick to condemn the Jewish nation and not those who seek to annihilate them.
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The Secretary General condemns any military escalation in the Middle East. He is particularly concerned by Israeli attacks on nuclear installations in Iran. The Secretary General asks both sides to show maximum restraint, avoiding at all costs a descent into deeper conflict, a situation that the region can hardly afford.
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Well, that was UN Spokesperson Alessandra Vellucci reiterating a statement from the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. So a lot happening right now. And of course, you know what the Middle East and the rest of the world absolutely cannot afford? Well, that would be a radical regime that wants not only to cleanse the world of Israel, but also they would love to cleanse the world of the United States. So why is there so much criticism against Israel and not against those who want to wipe them off the map? Well, I'll discuss this later on the program when Tony Perkins himself joins me. So as always, we've got a lot, a lot to bring your way. You don't want to miss any part of it. Our website, of course, is TonyPerkins.com. If you miss any portion of today's program, you can get it there, as well as a lot of other resources. Again, that's TonyPerkins.com. So all right, the conflict between Israel and Iran continues to unfold even as we speak. Updates from the IDF show that Iran is unleashing more attacks and retaliation for last night's targeted strikes by Israel. And so we want to get the latest on those attacks, but also how the U.S. is responding to these attacks and what impact might they have on talks between the U.S. and Iran, which were scheduled at least to take place this Sunday. So here to discuss this and more is Dr. A.J. Nolte. As I said a while ago, he is the director of the Institute for Israel Studies at Regent University. And absolutely, in fact, he's coming live to us from Jerusalem right now. Absolutely a scholar on this. Dr. Nolte, welcome back to Washington Watch. Great to have you.
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Great to be here, Jody, and as they say over here, Shabbat Shalom. It's right just past midnight here in the old city of Jerusalem, and I'm glad to be with you.
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Well, thank you so much for staying up. I know there's a lot going on. First of all, we pray for you and the others in Jerusalem and Israel and this whole thing and just pray safety on you and the entire nation. Let's begin with your take on last night's strikes by Israel. It's a pretty fascinating military maneuver that they pulled off.
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Yeah, sometimes it's evident when you see something like this that it's been planned for a while. The fact that Israel was able to go in, hit Natanz, which was the major nuclear site that they hit as hard as they did, hit other sites around Tehran, and now we're getting confirmations of some of the major military figures they took out. I've heard reports that the Air Force strike was matched with, let's just say, considerable Israeli intelligence assets on the ground that were deployed very effectively. And so I think Israel has had the infrastructure in place for this for quite a while, the planning, all of that kind of stuff. And they were looking for a specific trigger, and I think a confluence of factors led them to decide this was the time when they had the opportunity to act and when also they had to act.
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Yes, and even as we speak, Israel's in the process of intercepting Iranian missiles with the help of the U.S., I might add, and of course Iran also had a drone attack earlier, as we all know, but Israel is saying that Iran has crossed the red line because they're now seemingly targeting civilian centers. I mean, really, Dr. Nolte, could the contrast be any more clear than it? I mean, you've got Israel, which is fighting to defend life and defend itself, while Iran and its proxies are fighting to kill.
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Yeah, I can confirm. We were at dinner with friends. They had lifted, Homefront Command here had lifted the shelter in place. And so we actually had been on tour for a while. We needed to do laundry and some friends offered us to get dinner and come over for laundry. And then we actually saw, people saw and I could hear from where we were the Missiles coming in and the interceptors going, I can confirm. I don't want to talk too much about locations because the IDF is wanting to keep that close held because they don't want Iran to know what was successful and what was not, but I can confirm that at least some of the areas were very clearly targeting civilian areas, not military targets, and pretty widespread in different regions of the country. Yes, it is a pretty stark contrast. The sense that I got just being here and being in the middle of it is that perhaps Iran is firing everything they've got, just firing what they have as they have it. I can tell you the drone, what we were told over here was Israeli time was going to be sometime between maybe 1.30 and 2.30 a.m. um and you know normally if there's something coming in you hear a siren it sounds the siren sounds basically like if you are for a blister from the front of the midwest it sounds like a tornado siren and there's no way you can miss it um and the drones i think didn't even get close because we didn't even hear anything but there were absolutely multiple waves of missiles um i can confirm people i was with saw them we could hear them um and they were certainly not head toward military targets
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Well, reportedly, the U.S. is now moving a couple of destroyers to the eastern Mediterranean. Does this indicate, at least from your perspective, that the U.S. could potentially become more involved in this war?
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I think there was a very clear statement from the United States earlier. And sometimes you have to carefully parse this. So the statement that we heard, I think, was from President Trump saying, I apologize. It might have been Secretary of State Rubio. I'm not sure which. But they said the United States will not be involved in Israel's offensive operations. Now, if you think about the military side, you'll notice a huge gap there. And the gap is it says offensive. It doesn't say anything about defensive. And so the United States – I think we're going to see – if people remember the coalition that stopped Iran from hitting Israel in the past when Iran struck the first time, I think you're going to see a similar coalition perhaps. Maybe some different actors. It's hard to say. But I do think the US is going to be involved for sure in stopping Iranian retaliation. I think also there's a signaling fact. President Trump has made it very clear in his statements to Iran, you need to negotiate or else. And I think President Trump is certainly wanting to add more leverage as well. Yep, absolutely. That's where we are right now.
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Yeah, let me come back to that. Let me come back to that in just a moment. But with all of this, I think certainly the U.S. would get involved if any U.S. bases or troops or whatever are targeted. Obviously, that would change things. But what do you think? I'd love your opinion on whether or not this is an open door for Israel to attack Iran's oil assets. Is that becoming... a likelihood as Iran continues to retaliate?
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Yeah, I think that's up to Iran. Are they going to escalate? Are they going to continue with the barrages? Eventually, Israel is going to run out of nuclear sites to hit. And so at a certain point, I think President Trump was very clear that Iran needs to make a choice. And I think we'll know that very soon because if Iran continues to fire as they did tonight, these barrages at Israel, I think the Israelis are going to continue to respond. And what we've seen thus far in every exchange between Israel and Iran since October 7th directly is that Israel is a lot more effective than Iran. Obviously, it's a little disconcerting being on the ground. But if you look at it just from a purely pragmatic perspective, Israel is doing a much better job of intercepting anything coming from Iran than Iran is. And Israel strikes have been a lot more effective.
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So going back to what you mentioned a while ago as far as the really choice being in Iran's corner right now, it appears as though reports are at least coming out that they have or going to back out of the negotiations that were scheduled for this weekend. What do you think of that? Are the talks dead or do you think there's any chance that they could still resume?
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I'm not sure. I mean, I think for Iran to pull out would be a mistake because – Basically, President Trump coming up with some sort of deal is probably the only chance they have of getting Israel to stop. I mean, some of the messaging that we're hearing from the Israeli government is that this is just the beginning from their perspective. And today was a very heavy first day, but they're not telling people like, They're not saying this is going to be over tomorrow or this is going to be quick. They're saying they will go on as long as it takes, and they're saying this is just the beginning. So I think if Iran wants to stop the pain on them, I think they almost certainly will need to do some sort of off-ramp, and the only way they're getting that is probably talks with Iran.
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Wow, so we've only got a couple of seconds here, but any chance you think Iran does back down?
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I think it's unlikely. Ideologically, I think they're so locked in for just this fight with Israel. In the same way that Israel's been preparing militarily, I think Iran may continue to escalate, but we'll see what happens in the next 20 hours.
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Dr. A.J. Nolte, Director of the Institute of Israel Studies, Regent University. Stay safe. God bless you and thank you for joining us. Next, I'll be joined by CBN News Middle East Bureau Chief Chris Mitchell. He also coming from Israel. Stay tuned.
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Welcome back to Washington Watch. I am your Friday host Jody Heiss. So glad to have you joining us today. All right, I'm sure we've all seen it by now. Israel's attacks on targeted Iranian facilities appears to be an amazing and major success. In addition to the facilities themselves, the IDF has confirmed the death of multiple Iranian officials as a result of all the attacks. But at the same time, obviously, the threat of an aggressive Iranian counterattack looms heavily over Israel. So how are those in Israel right now reacting to both the strike and the subsequent possibility of more war? Well, here to discuss this is Chris Mitchell. He is the Middle East Bureau Chief at CBN News. Chris, welcome back to Washington Watch. Thank you so much for staying up and for joining us.
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Great to be with you, Jody.
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All right, well, let's begin. Chris, are you safe to begin with? And then beyond that, what can you tell us about the situation as it's unfolding there?
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Well, the situation is unfolding as we speak, Jody. As we prayed before we got on here, we are under the Psalm 91 protection right now. There were sirens that went off here in Jerusalem just about 30 minutes ago. Apparently, Iran has launched about 100 ballistic missiles towards Israel. We understand, and I've just been watching some of the news, I think five have hit Tel Aviv. That's all preliminary, and there are some injuries right now. But it's called severe punishment. That's the name of the retaliation by Iran right now. But as to your point what you're saying it's an amazing uh military operation that israel has been uh unfolding for the last nearly 20 hours right now some people call it epic the intelligence has been precise the operation has been extraordinary where dozens if not hundreds of israeli planes have gone nearly a thousand miles or more to uh to hit many of the Iranian nuclear facilities, including Natanz, one of their main uranium enrichment facilities that's been dramatically destroyed. Also, we know today they have been attacking Fordow and Natanz, two other major nuclear facilities here, there in Iran. They've also knocked out much of the air defense systems of Iran, ballistic missiles, certainly not the ones that have been fired, but much of the ballistic missile capability has been degraded as well. And as you said, some of the top leaders have been eliminated, maybe 20 of the top leaders of the IRGC and the Iranian military. Just an extraordinary operation that's been years, literally years in the planning, Jody. You know, the Iranian nuclear program hit the world stage in 2002, 23 years ago. And now we are finally, Israel is finally, after months of speculation and years of planning, hit Iran's nuclear facilities. And just let me add, last night, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went to the Western Wall. He put a note in the wall, and it was from Numbers chapter 23, verse 24. And I'll quote. It says, he shall rise up like a lion and lift him like a lioness. And the name of the operation is called Operation Rising Lion.
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Yes, I was reading that passage. I'd heard that he had done that and was reading that passage before we came on and powerful. I'll actually have Tony on a little bit later and we'll talk about that in greater detail. But this is a continuing passage. unfolding story and the attacks on Tel Aviv, as you mentioned, maybe still taking place as we speak. But Iran also responded with the drone attacks after Israel attacked the strategic sites this morning. What happened, Chris, in that attack and how is the nation reacting?
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Well, in that attack, Jody, there was about 100 drones that were fired. Most all of them were eliminated or shot down before they even got to Israeli airspace. So that particular retaliation by Iran didn't succeed very well. But on the other hand, Israel's attacks not only against the nuclear facilities, as I said, but they actually were able to penetrate into Iranian territory with Mossad agents who had actually built apparently or established drones and missiles inside Iranian territory to be operated as soon as they gave the go-ahead, which was last night. And obviously, there had been sort of maybe a deception program or policy in the last several days, several weeks. People were wondering, are they going to have negotiations? Are they going to succeed? Is Israel going to attack? Nobody quite knew exactly what was going to happen, except, I'm sure, people in the White House and here in Israel.
SPEAKER 07 :
I understand that Israel now is in a state of an emergency following the attacks as well they should be. And at the same time, as you kind of referenced, I would think that's not all that terribly uncommon. But for those of us here in the States, what does that mean, a state of emergency? Does life continue on or does everything shut down? What does it mean for the people there in Israel?
SPEAKER 23 :
Well, right now, Jody, it pretty well shuts down. There was no work today. Schools were closed, obviously. People are instructed right now to shelter in place, especially because of these ballistic missiles that have been fired at Israel. It means you're likely to get an alert about 10 minutes before missiles may reach Israeli airspace. And so the sirens go all over the country. And that means you have to just find a shelter, go to a bomb shelter. Just outside the street here where I'm at, Jody, there's hardly any traffic. And so people are just staying in place right now, staying put and trying to stay safe.
SPEAKER 07 :
Only about a minute left, Chris. The nuclear talks I just saw before we came on looks like they may be called off right now, but that is not confirmed. What can you tell us on that front? President Trump has said Iran missed their chance. What do you expect as far as future talks are concerned?
SPEAKER 23 :
I doubt they're going to happen, Jody, but President Trump is still opening the door for negotiations. He says they still have an opportunity to go to the negotiating table, stop their nuclear program. But it doesn't look like that's going to happen the way Iran is acting right now. But we'll see what happens. And I just an encouragement, Jody, to pray. for the peace of Jerusalem. Pray for wisdom for Prime Minister Netanyahu, President Trump, and all the leaders or the advisors for both leaders. It's a very, very important time to be praying.
SPEAKER 07 :
Absolutely. And we are calling on people to do just that. In fact, we have a prayer pledge to that end. Thank you, Chris Mitchell, CBN News Middle East Bureau Chief. Thank you. God bless you. Stay safe.
SPEAKER 23 :
Thanks, Tony. Great to be with you again.
SPEAKER 07 :
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Thank you so much for joining us today on Washington Watch. I'm your Friday host Jody Heiss. Glad to have you joining us. A lot in the news today and as we continue now our coverage of the fast-moving developments of Israel's Operation Rising Lion. Well, we've looked at it already today from the perspective of Capitol Hill as well as on the ground from Israel, literally. But what about from a military standpoint? Well, here now to discuss this with his insights is Family Research Council's Executive Vice President, retired Lieutenant General Jerry Boykin. He spent 36 years in the Army, serving his last four years as the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence. And he was also, proudly so, one of the original members of the U.S. Army's Delta Force. General, welcome back to Washington Watch. Always an honor to have you, my friend.
SPEAKER 24 :
Oh, it's good to be with you. Thank you for inviting me.
SPEAKER 07 :
All right. Well, General, break down, if you can, for us the targets that Israel hit from a military perspective. How strategic were the targets that Israel went after?
SPEAKER 24 :
Well, let me start just by saying the key to success of this is... unquestionable intelligence. In other words, you know exactly what's on that target, and you go after it. So I'm going to assume that the Israelis have chosen these targets very carefully, and they know that ultimately what will happen is they will set the program back. There's no way you can stop them, but you can set their program back and buy more time. And then it's a matter of whether they're you know, inclined to want to go through this again. But I think what you see here is they have gone after anything as best I can tell. They have gone after anything that has anything to do with the facilities that house or help to construct the the weapons that they're trying to destroy. And the centrifuges are another issue that they have gone after because they need to destroy those so they can't make any more uranium. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, no, we were just having some B-roll while you were joining us here by phone. You said that they can't put a complete stop to this, but they can certainly slow it down. What do you mean by that? And to what extent do you think the effort for nuclear weapons have been slowed down for what Iran was trying to accomplish?
SPEAKER 24 :
Well, I think it depends on how effective they were to have the deep underground bunker busters. And because so much of theirs, their nuclear program is underground and these deep caverns and so forth. So it really comes down to a question of how effective has it been and have they had the right things that they needed, like the bunker busting bombs, to get down into the deep underground places. Now that said, regardless of what happens here today, their program has been set back because All of the things that the Israelis went after were selected very carefully to include the people, the leaders that they killed as well. So they have set this back because they have destroyed centrifuges. They've destroyed – different things that are involved in the making of the bombs as well as the delivery systems, which would be the missiles that they have. And so I don't think you can say that they've destroyed it all, but I think they've destroyed enough of it that in the near future, in the foreseeable future, they don't have to worry about it.
SPEAKER 07 :
And then you say it depends on whether or not Iran wants to go through something like this again at some future date. You mentioned the leaders. I think that's an excellent point. Several of their top leaders and nuclear scientists have been eliminated in all of this. Unpack for us, General Boykin, just how severely that kind of impact has on this whole thing. I mean, they can replace leaders, but can they replace leaders with the same people quality and caliber, if you will? Just how severe of an impact is the assassinations, if you will, of these leaders?
SPEAKER 24 :
Yeah, well, I think it's quite obvious that these guys were selected because they're close to the bureaucracy in Iran. They are Shia 12ers. They are believers. And they were hand-selected and moved into these positions not only because they are considered to be leaders, but they're also considered to be strong Shia 12ers. And I think that's going to be very, very hard for them to replace in the short term. Nobody has had the experience that these three guys have had. And I'm sorry they didn't get the fourth one. But nobody has had that kind of experience to this point. So they're in a building period when this is over. I hope what this does is discourages them to the point that they don't want to start over again and go through this again. But that's unlikely. I think they'll try to do it again. They'll try to build a program.
SPEAKER 07 :
Thank you so much, Lieutenant General Jerry Boykin, FRC's Executive Vice President. I know you're on the road. You've got a thousand things going on in your world. Thank you for joining us by phone. God bless you, my friend. Thank you.
SPEAKER 24 :
God bless you.
SPEAKER 07 :
All right, friends, on the other side of the break, Tony will be joining me with his thoughts on Israel's strike against Iran. Many of you will remember he was just in Israel just a few weeks ago, but he'll be talking also about a conversation he had with Speaker Mike Johnson, as well as former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. We've got a lot yet to unpack for you, so don't go anywhere. We'll be back in just a moment.
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Thank you so much for joining us today on Washington Watch. An honor to have you. I'm your Friday host, Jody Heiss. We've got a lot to cover today. As you well know, what's happening in Israel is big, big news as we've been going across it from so many different angles today on this program. And as Israel's leaders have been stressing all along, the Jewish nation is literally fighting against an imminent catastrophe. an existential threat. So I want to take this opportunity to invite you to join us in praying for Israel, for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, for the entire country for that matter. And if you will simply text the word Israel to 67742, we'll send you a prayer pledge that you can sign And I want you to know that we're going to be sending this pledge to U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, as well as Prime Minister Netanyahu. So come on board with us. As you've heard Chris Mitchell earlier requesting prayer, sign up this prayer pledge and let those leaders know that we are praying for them. Text Israel to 67742. All right. In a video statement that was released shortly after launching what now is being referred to as Operation Rising Lion, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said Israel is at a decisive point in its history and certainly is fighting to maintain its own security in the region. Absolutely. An absolute truth. So what can Christians across the world do to support the nation of Israel right now? Well, I don't know of anyone more suited to deal with that and a host of other issues that relate to Israel right now than our own president here at Family Research Council, Tony Perkins. He, of course, is the regular host here of Washington Watch and has his pulse on so many issues and certainly Israel being one of those. Tony, thanks so much for joining us today. I know you've got a lot going on. We appreciate you taking time to be with us today.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, absolutely. And Jody, as always, thanks for filling in and doing such a great job on Fridays for me as I generally am working on this week on Capitol Hill as I wrap up the week. And of course, a lot, as you said, to talk about this morning. I woke up to a couple of text messages, one from the House speaker and one from Ambassador Mike Huckabee in Israel, saying, pray, we have the whole country under a shelter in place. And, of course, we watched last night as we were going to bed as this was unfolding. So this is a big moment, as you've pointed out. It's, I think, a very significant turning point. What I found, Jody, was kind of interesting last night is that one of the first statements out was from Secretary of State Marco Rubio stating that this was a unilateral move by Israel. The United States was not involved in the strikes. And that's, quite frankly, encouraging to me because it shows that Israel realizes they have to stand on their own. Now, America has provided some material, and we are certainly supportive. But I think this is a new threshold of engagement by Israel that they have conducted this operation without outside help. This is a big game changer, I think, in the Middle East.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I agree with you, Tony. I was a little surprised to begin with with Secretary of State Rubio's comments. At first I thought, man, that just sounds like weakness on the part of the United States. But the more I thought about it and have gone through this, I agree with what you're saying. And I think actually it's a good move for Israel to stand on its own. Also, an effort to de-escalate, to some extent, some other countries, particularly the U.S., getting involved. I want to play a clip for you, Tony. I'm going to get to clip number one here in just a second, but I wanted to read this verse for you. Numbers 23, verse 24. This is, of course, in the context of Balaam, who went to curse Israel, only to have that backfire, so to speak, and God blessed them. But in the midst of all that, verse 24 of Numbers 23 says, a people rise up like a lioness. They rouse themselves like a lion. They will not lie down until they devour the prey. And we have now Operation Rising Lion coming after this passage. Play clip one, Tony, for me. And then, Tony, I'd like to get your response to this.
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Moments ago, Israel launched Operation Rising Lion, a targeted military operation to roll back the Iranian threat to Israel's very survival. This operation will continue for as many days as it takes to remove this threat.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, powerful statements. Yes. And unequivocal that they're going to see this through. And we've been seeing I've been watching the the collective body language from Israeli leaders and watching as they've been coming and going here in Washington, D.C., that the window they saw this window closing. And Iran was moving forward with the enrichment of their uranium and the ability to create a nuclear weapon. And nobody has better intelligence than Israel. And when you look at, and we're early into this, and we're just getting some preliminary reports, but the Mossad was operating deep within Iran, and the ground action was choreographed Just as the bombs were being dropped to try to limit it to limit the retaliatory actions of Iran And I think again I want to go back because I think this this point really is important Jody that Israel and this concern me Israel was really leaning on America for a lot They still do in terms of munitions and certain things and we've structured it that way. We've got to get away from that but israel was not looking to the united states for success in this i think more and more even by the name of this operation they're looking to god and we don't want to be as a nation in between them and god we want to support them and encourage them but we don't want to be you know like an idol that they look to us as opposed to looking to god and again i think early reports are another I mean, God-blessed operation as they have taken preemptive strikes to protect and defend their country in the face of repeated threats from Iran.
SPEAKER 07 :
Excellent point, Tony. I think that is an excellent point that we need to embrace and take ownership of that Israel is not reliant upon any other than God himself. And that's a great point. I know you were just over there in Israel just a few short weeks ago. In fact, one of the first thoughts I had when all of this unfolded was last night was you being there just a few short weeks ago. And in fact, we're hearing initial reports even now. And Chris Mitchell referenced this just a moment ago, that even as we speak, Tel Aviv may be under attack right now, which is where you were, where you flew out of. All commercial flights and planes have been removed from there. It's an incredible, just the timing of it all just has got to be very significant to you as well from a personal perspective. What did you see on the ground?
SPEAKER 09 :
I kind of wish I had been there. I was communicating with one of the... I'm not surprised that you would say that. Well, I mean, I was getting reports from Governor Israel Gantz, who is the governor over the area of Judea, where we spent a lot of time. And he was sending me messages this morning, and he was showing me the command center. They were in the command center because there's – While this national effort is going on and there's concern about the incoming missiles and rockets that might come from Yemen or obviously from Iran, there's also the internal threat coming from the terrorist activity in Judea and Samaria. And so they're on high alert. And so he was saying, you know, we've been up all night monitoring the situation. And I had been in his command center when I was there. And I said, man, If I were there, I would be hands on. I would be helping you. But unfortunately, can't get there right now. But look, it's just they live with this constant threat. And it's been intensifying since October the 7th. And in the meetings, and I think I've been there four times since October the 7th and met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, I think three of those four times. And, you know, behind getting the hostages home from Gaza and eliminating Hamas, next on their list was Iran and this threat of the this constant nuclear threat from Iran. And so, again, I think they saw the window of opportunity beginning to close. They became very antsy, if you will. But this is, again, a very thought out plan. I was speaking to former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo this morning. And it is very evident that this plan has been on the drawing board, just waiting for the opportunity to execute it. And they did. And so far, it looks like they executed it with great precision, as they always do. Back in my days when I was working in the anti-terrorism field, I trained with the Israelis. And they're some of the best, without question.
SPEAKER 07 :
Without question. And as a former Marine, I know you know exactly what you're talking about. Tony, I want to hit on this with you as well, just from a sheer political perspective. I don't think any of us are surprised, ultimately, that we are at this point where Iran has the capabilities that they have. But I want to go back several administrations ago. Play a clip for me, and then I want to get your reaction to this, Tony.
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For decades to come, inspectors will have access to Iran's entire nuclear supply chain. In other words, if Iran tries to cheat, if they try to build a bomb covertly, we will catch them. So the bottom line is this. Whereas Iran was steadily expanding its nuclear program, we have now cut off every single path that Iran could have used to build a bomb.
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Should I laugh now or later? Your reaction. Or cry now or later, one or the other. So, two points on that. Again, referencing my conversation with Mike Pompeo this morning, and I worked with Mike pretty closely when he was Secretary of State because I was chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom during that time, and he made religious freedom his number one foreign policy objective. But you might recall his first speech as Secretary of State, he went to Cairo. and he very clearly articulated that he was a Christian, he was a follower of Christ, he believed the Bible. The big challenge we've had in our government for decades now, especially when it comes to our foreign policy, is that we have had those who have a secular mindset and are dismissive of religion and don't believe that people believe what they say they believe. And even with some of those that have been in negotiations with Iran most recently, You can't—these people are driven by an ideology that sees the destruction of Israel and any non-Islamic country as fundamental. And so there's no reasoning to be had here. There's no—and as I said, Mike Pompeo, as we were discussing, they said he didn't see a positive outcome in terms of them laying down their nuclear program. It just wasn't going to happen. One other aspect I do want to say, because I think this was I don't know if it was a part of the decision that Israel made to go at this point. But earlier this week, the International Atomic Energy Agency, actually, the governing board issued a resolution saying that Israel was being noncompliant with their non. PROLIFERATION OBLIGATIONS IN THEIR NUCLEAR PLAN. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME IN 20 YEARS THAT THAT'S HAPPENED, THAT THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY ACTUALLY RECOGNIZED THIS. AND SO I THINK IT MAKES IT A LITTLE MORE DIFFICULT FOR THE U.N., ALTHOUGH IT CERTAINLY WON'T HOLD THEM BACK, BUT IT MAKES IT A LITTLE MORE DIFFICULT FOR THEM TO CRITICIZE THIS MOMENT OF ACTION BY ISRAEL GIVEN THE FACT THAT CLEARLY THEY WERE MOVING TOWARD THE NUCLEAR WEAPON.
SPEAKER 07 :
Absolutely. And, you know, with this, I think it's also important for us to highlight that this move by Israel is not against Iranians in general, but against a tyrannical dictatorial regime.
SPEAKER 09 :
Great point. I think that's important. Great point, because if you'll recall a few months back, Prime Minister Netanyahu actually spoke to the Iranian people and said that very thing. We don't have an issue with you. We want you to succeed. We have an issue with the regime that is suppressing you, repressing you, and threatening us. I think, Jody, I think the Islamic regime going into this had a choice. They could lay down their nuclear program, eliminate it, and hold on to power. or they could have their nuclear program taken from them and destroyed and lose their regime. I think you're going to see a regime change in Iran.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, that's another thing we need to be praying about. If that takes place, that change could be for the good or for the worse. And so that's certainly something we need to pray for now. Let me ask you one more thing, Tony. Now, go ahead, finish your thought.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, I was just going to say, we know that from history. When one evil regime is replaced, if we're not careful, that vacuum is filled by evil once again. So that is an issue that we need to be praying about and, from a policy standpoint, advocating for.
SPEAKER 07 :
Absolutely. All right. I think we just have time for one other question on which we had more time to go down other avenues. But not everyone is supporting Israel's move here. Are they just turning a blind eye to the reality, the threat that Israel is posing? Or what do you think is behind this? And how can Christians be praying right now at this very important time?
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, Jody, I just say, why do we see the rise of anti-Semitism in the world today? And I think it is not just a hatred of Jewish people, and this is going to anger some people, but I think its reality is that really anti-Semitism is a hatred of God. And so I think anything that they do is going to be criticized by those who have an issue with God.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, at the end of the day, that's what it all comes down to. There's no question about this. Tony, I want to thank you so much. I know, boy, you've got a lot of conversations, a lot of meetings, a lot of plates spinning in your world just as a general rule. But this just added yet another two or three in your orbit. And I just want to thank you for taking time out of your schedule for joining us today.
SPEAKER 09 :
Always glad to do it, Jody, and encourage people to pray. Just text Israel to 67742 and join us in praying for Israel.
SPEAKER 07 :
Absolutely. We have a prayer pledge, and that pledge is going to be going to our ambassador, Huckabee, as well as Prime Minister Netanyahu. Again, text the word Israel to 67742, and you can participate as well. That's all the time we have for today. Have a great, we'll see you tomorrow.
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We are so back, aren't we? Isn't it fun to watch Caroline Leavitt in action in the White House? Got tons of breaking news today. Tragically, an Air India passenger jet crashed in western India. It looks like hundreds are dead. One of those Dreamliner 787s, they've been talking about having some issues. And, look, this is so morbid. As usual, though, in the era of social media, they have video of the plane going down. I don't want to play it. I just don't want to put it up on Salem News Channel. I just always think about trying to respect the families of those who know that their loved one was on that plane. And I just, I hate putting those videos up. But there is video if you want to go out and try to find it. Somebody was, I don't know, you just wonder what happens. And for any of us who fly a lot, you think about this. You think, could that happen to me? Could we be on a, could you or I be on a plane that takes off and then suddenly goes down? after takeoff, crashing just very close to the airport. I don't know. Something catastrophic obviously happened to that Dreamliner, that Boeing 787, and you pray for the families and all of the loved ones. That, of course, is kind of my nightmare, that you think about the way you want to go out, the way you want to die, I don't want it to be a plane crash because there's too much time. You know, there's got to be time between the point that you realize something awful is happening and you're going down. I'm so afraid of falling. The dropping sensation... is one of the worst sensations in the world. My kids dragged me onto the Tower of Terror once at Disney World, where you're in this giant supposed elevator, and the cable snaps, wink, wink, and the elevator plummets to the ground, and you drop. I'm the same way with roller coasters. So just the thought of those poor souls on a passenger jet on an Air India flight into London, but taking off in India and crashing. Just an awful, awful, catastrophic event. And, you know, we certainly are praying for all of those impacted by this terrible, terrible accident. Meanwhile, no accident in the White House. The White House press briefing. Holy moly. Caroline Levitt. I don't know what's going to happen Saturday. What is it? The no Kings Day? And it's a funny thing. I don't know what's wrong with me. I'm not bothered by these protests at all, provided they stay peaceful. And I just worry about everybody that's going to be near them. I worry about somebody getting hurt or killed. I don't know what it's going to look like. But if there's a massive anti-mass deportation protest, okay. Okay. Okay. I mean, it's what I talked about yesterday with you about navigating through being uncomfortable with deporting an illegal immigrant who hasn't broken any laws since their original lawlessness of being an illegal. And people feel uncomfortable with that. But Trump promised this was going to happen. I suspect there are people surprised that illegals who have not committed any crimes over the possible years that they've been living here are being deported. I guess they thought mass deportation, as promised by President Trump, only meant people who were dangerous. Maybe that's their thinking. I don't know. But, of course, President Trump wants peace. Of course he wants security and safety. He wants law and order. And a reporter got in the crosshairs of this young, fierce press secretary yesterday, Caroline Leavitt, who clearly doesn't suffer fools.
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The president warned that any protests on Saturday would be met with force. Can you clarify what kind of protest President Trump does support or find acceptable?
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The president absolutely supports peaceful protests. He supports the First Amendment. He supports the right of Americans to make their voices heard. He does not support violence of any kind. He does not support assaulting law enforcement officers who are simply trying to do their job. It's very clear for the president what he supports and what he does not. Unfortunately for Democrats, that line has not been made clear, and they've allowed this unrest and this violence to continue, and the president has had to step in. So if there were peaceful protests on Saturday for the military parade, President Trump would allow that? Of course the president supports peaceful protests. What a stupid question.
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What a stupid question. What a stupid, of course he supports it. Who doesn't think he supports peaceful protest? What's he ever said? I mean, going back to January 6th, I know you're going to go peacefully and patriotically let your voice be heard. And, you know, it's not pleasant if they're protesting against me, I'm sure he's thinking. But on the other hand, peaceful protest is a tenant of American life. You feel strongly about something, go make a sign and go stand out there and protest. So what do you think will happen Saturday? Are you bothered by these protesters? Because again, I am absolutely 100% non-plussed by them i could care less good for them go protest go walk around and say you don't want to see illegals deported you have the right to feel that way if you call this show and tell me you don't like to see illegals deported you absolutely have the right to feel that way You're going to have to cope because it's going to keep happening. It's not stopping. If you think that peaceful protest against the mass deportation will stop the mass deportation, you must not know President Trump very well. You must not appreciate the resolve and the will of the grown-ups who are in charge who are going to continue what the American people expect President Trump to do. Not all, of course, but a majority. That's why he won. That's exactly why he won. But let me just ask you, what do you think will happen Saturday during the No Kings protest? 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. We want to welcome you in. It's Thursday, June 12th. Brian Wilson passed away from the Beach Boys. We'll have a little bit of Beach Boys music for you today, of course, to honor the legacy of the last surviving Beach Boy, the last one of the brothers. passing away at age 82 this week. Let's get your take, though, on the No Kings Day. Are you ready for it? Are you going to protest? Hey, call. Tell me if you're going to dive in. You won't get an argument from me. I promise. Knock yourself out. Get out the crayons and make your sign. Have a good time. Just stay peaceful. Don't get violent. Don't disrupt traffic. Don't break the law. Or you very well could wind up in the who's scow. 800-655-6453. I hope you join us. Ph.D. weight loss has changed my life. And I've got a little secret for you. You know Big Pharma and semaglutide and the shots in the belly. You've seen the story recently about the study that shows that a lot of people that are getting this are going blind. You don't want to do this. You want a program to lose weight that's centered around science and nutrition, a proven roadmap that has helped over 8,000 clients lose weight and keep it off. Like me, I lost 53 pounds a few years ago, and I've kept it off. I know what to eat and when. I know how to quiet any of the cravings I might get and finally release that unhealthy belly fat that I carried along for so long. Make the phone call that can change your life in the way it changed mine. It's called PhD Weight Loss. PhD Weight Loss, Dr. Ashley Lucas' program is brilliant. And how do I know? Well, 53 pounds later, here I am. 864-644-1900 is their number. Call and schedule your consultation. You can do this program from anywhere in America. Call 864-644-1900, 864-644-1900, or visit MyPhDWeightLoss.com.
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Mike Gallagher. Breaking now on the Mike Gallagher Show.
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All right, this is big. Are you uncomfortable with the mass deportations? Are you a little squeamish with the very aggressive policy? And look, I confessed yesterday. I have been a little bit. And I got talked back to earth. by a lot of common sense people who said, Mike, we can't have open borders. We can't have an invitation. Well, listen to this. Minutes ago, President Trump just posted something that probably will blow your mind. Check out his tweet moments ago on Truth Social. He said, our great farmers... And people in the hotel and leisure business have been stating that our very aggressive policy on immigration is taking very good longtime workers away from them, with those jobs being almost impossible to replace. He said in many cases, the criminals allowed into our country by the very stupid Biden open borders policy are applying for those jobs. This is not good, President Trump said. We must protect our farmers, but get the criminals out of the USA. You ready for this? Changes are coming. Wow. Okay. So President Trump, moments ago, hinted that his very aggressive policy on immigration may change after learning that this mass deportation is negatively impacting the hotel and leisure business and farmers. Oh, boy. All right. Where do we go from here? Because, frankly, this is going to confound his critics and It's going to possibly give the Maxine Waters of the world ammunition because they're saying we hope he changes his mind. But maybe you're thinking him changing his mind and softening the very aggressive policy right now on immigration is a good thing. And, wow, I mean, and this is on practically the eve of the No Kings protests on Saturday. What are they going to protest now if he backs off a little bit, if he backs down? This is gigantic because... First of all, and I know you're going to call me a Trump sycophant, and I know you're just going to say I'm kissing up and blah, blah, blah. But the truth is, this proves his willingness to listen to all sides of an issue and his willingness to adjust. Look, not everything is going to get done in a day. Rome wasn't built in a day. And this is complicated. It's difficult. It's painful. It's hard to read about a guy in Idaho who illegally immigrated here when he was 18, married an American woman, raised four kids, and now is going to go back to Mexico. I don't take any delight in that, nor should you. The family is disrupted. It's hard. Of course, it goes back to his bad decision in the first place. And you don't get to break the law and then not have any accountability for it. But, wow, this is going to be, I think, the post heard around the world. This is going to be a post. And again, it was just a few minutes ago. Let me read it to you one more time. And then I want, hey, Eric, clear the lines and just get reaction to President Trump's apparent willingness to pump the brakes a little bit. And I want to see what you think. Because he'll probably be criticized for it by the hardliners. He'll be, and don't think he's going to get any credit from the Democrats. Not likely. Maybe John Fetterman. But let me read it to you one more time, and then you give me your reaction. This is what President Trump posted on Truth Social a few minutes ago. Quote, our great farmers and people in the hotel and leisure business have been stating that our very aggressive policy on immigration is taking very good, long-time workers away from them, with those jobs being almost impossible to replace. In many cases, the criminals allowed into our country by the very stupid Biden open borders policy are applying for those jobs. This is not good, he said. We must protect our farmers. but get the criminals out of the USA. Changes are coming. Now, look, I don't want to read way too much into this, but I will point out, as I try to analyze what President Trump is saying here, it's back to making sure the criminals are deported, are kicked out of the country, but not people like the guy from Idaho, Sinobio Feliciano Galeano. So it sounds like President Trump is taking a look at making a change and backing off. Wow. Wow. Let's... We'll be right back. It's a crazy sale from MyPillow.com. Look for the Mike Gallagher Special Square. The second sale, Mike Lindell has introduced a brand new energy drink called Rev7. It's a premium energy drink that's good for you. It tastes great, gives you energy all day. I sampled it yesterday for the first time. It is delicious. No sugar, no caffeine. Rev7 is so special because it's powered with a premium nootropic that helps fuel your mind. MyPillow is so confident you're going to love Rev7 that for a limited time you can try their introductory three-pack absolutely free. Now, these offers aren't going to last long. So go to MyPillow.com, use the promo code MikeG, MyPillow.com, promo code MikeG, or call 800-928-6034, 800-928-6034. Sing along with me. For the best night's sleep in the whole wide world, visit MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG.
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Breaking now on the Mike Gallagher Show.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay, this is going to be pretty big. We'll see how the mainstream media touches this or how they handle this, how you're going to react to it. And I got to believe it'll probably create great debate. But President Trump moments ago tweeted out, posted on Truth Social, hinting that there are changes coming over the... Very aggressive policy on immigration, saying that he's hearing from people in the hotel and leisure industry and our farmers that the very aggressive mass deportation is taking good longtime workers away from them, almost impossible to replace those jobs. And he said, in many cases, the criminals allowed into our country by the very stupid Biden open borders policy are applying for those jobs. This is not good, he said. We must protect our farmers, but get the criminals out of the country. Changes are happening. coming. Wow. Dick's in North Carolina. I want to get a bunch of calls here, flood my phone lines with reaction to what President Trump just posted a few minutes ago on Truth Social. Hey, Dick, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 12 :
I think it's a sign of a great leader. He's able to adjust to what the country needs. He's going to face a lot of backlash on it, but by God, Trump is the man.
SPEAKER 14 :
I'm with you entirely. And I know you and I will be, oh, we're in a cult and everything. Look, this shows his ability to adapt. Look, do you think Obama would ever have a willingness to back down from whatever policy they put into place? Trump is not a politician. This is not a guy who plays ball the way a traditional, you know, establishment politician does. And, of course, there's pushback. Of course, there are people, like me even, who were like, I don't know about the, if somebody, yeah, made a mistake and broke the law when they were 18, now they're 50, and they've got four kids and three grandkids. do they get deported? Now, technically correct. Laws are laws. If you don't have any laws, you got nothing. But here's President Trump hinting, hinting that there might be a change coming. Jim's in Chicago. Jim, you're on the Mike Gallagher Show, 13 before the hour. Hello, Jim.
SPEAKER 13 :
Hi, how are you? Good show. You know, this is a very complicated subject. First of all, I think... The kids, DACA children and their parents, family's been here for years. They've been here. A lot of them are productive people in homes, run businesses. You know, kids are in school and all sorts of things. Those people should also be considered for this because to send them back home wouldn't be fair. Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
SPEAKER 14 :
Time out. So wait a minute. You mentioned the wife and the kids. Like this case I read to you from Idaho. A guy from Mexico breaks the law, illegally comes into the country when he's 18, marries an American woman. They have four kids on American soil. He's concerned that he could get deported and their family gets split apart, so they're all going back. So how do you address that, Jim? Should he be left alone because of the wife and the kids?
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, you know, if they have a clean record, I think there should be some sort of special dispensation, maybe a fine or something. Maybe a 10-year waiting period before citizenship. But, you know, a lot of DACA people, too, they've lived good, long lives, and they should also be considered to stay.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, I got it. But you said something at the beginning, Jim, that's so crucial, and you're so right, and I hope people remember this. This is a very complicated issue. This is not easy. And Trump knows that. There's nothing easy about this. And so don't be mad at him. If you think that he's backing down, what does a change look like? Well, we don't know yet. Let's not judge him until we find out what that change might be. Text from Texas, it's a sad day for America. Text from upstate South Carolina, I love you, Mike, but I don't feel that President Trump needs to adapt to industries that are culpable with hiring illegals in the first place. I get it. I really do. I appreciate that. Going to be great debate over all this, and wow, let's see. I'm going to be fascinated to see how the legacy media treats this, because if they weren't insane, they'd be giving them a bunch of credit. Are you sleeping well at night? Can I tell you a little bit about Z-Factor for a moment? Because I want you to sleep well. Z-Factor goes beyond melatonin with a combination of four natural ingredients, relaxes the mind so you fall asleep quicker and you sleep more soundly through the night. It's safe to take every night too, and you'll wake up rested and refreshed with no groggy feeling. Georgia says she sleeps soundly and wakes up early, ready to get started. I do too. Look, I can relate to this. When I'm traveling especially, when I can't sleep, I'm in a lot of different hotel rooms in my life, and I never sleep well in a hotel room. Not until like the third or fourth night. Well, you know what's great about... Z-Factor, I sleep like a baby. I want to see if we can give you the best night's sleep of your life because right now you'll save 46% on your first order, only $19.95 for a 30-day supply. Call 800-4-RELIEF, 800 the number 4-RELIEF, or visit relieffactor.com, relieffactor.com to order Z-Factor. Yes, it is brought to you by the same wonderful people who bring you Relief Factor. Better sleep, better days with Z Factor from Relief Factor. Here's Aaron in Columbus, Ohio. Hi, Aaron. Hey, Mike. Great show.
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Thank you. What do you think of Trump's tweet? Well, I don't think he's backing down from anything, Mike. I think he's just saying, listen, the guys that are good, you need to figure it out. You need to self-deport. I don't think if you self-deport, you should get a fine. And I think the immigration process is in desperate need of streamlining. It's needed it for years. That's why we're in this situation. And maybe that's what he's talking about changes. Maybe the immigration process for the people that should legally be here. should be able to immigrate legally, should be a little quicker and a little faster. I think that's what it is. Why can't there be an immigration X? There was a SpaceX. Why can't there be an immigration X? Why can't there be a healthcare X? Why can't they solve it? Let the private industry take a swing at it since the government sucks.
SPEAKER 14 :
You make a lot of sense to me, Aaron. Thank you. Here's Ray in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Hi, Ray. Hi, Mike. How are you? Good. How are you doing, sir? Thanks for joining us. Oh, appreciate it.
SPEAKER 13 :
I just want to say that I think Trump's decision is good, but his timing's off. I think that the Democrats and the Antifa people are all going to use this as an excuse to say, look what we made him do.
SPEAKER 14 :
I know. You're right. You're right. I mean, it's going to make the timing of it is probably going to be such that it's going to look like he's backing down because of the protests.
SPEAKER 13 :
I think you should have asked for some concessions from the rioters first to stop.
SPEAKER 14 :
Look, but I'm with Aaron, too. Great point, Ray, and I don't disagree with you, but at the end of the day, At the end of the day, he's not going to back down. But adjusting his policy might be interpreted as backing down. He's suggesting that the very aggressive policy on immigration is hurting farmers. He wants to protect farmers. He wants to protect the – don't forget, he's in the leisure and hospitality business with Trump Tower. and the Trump Hotel properties. So, no, I'm not alarmed about this at all. In fact, I continue to insist that this is a sign of a great leader. All right, here we go with the sanctuary state governors testifying at the House hearing. We're going to carry it for you. Don't worry. Tim Walz is squaring off in a little bit with Jamie Comer. That's going to be good. Listen, you can't miss this show today. You keep it right here on the Mike Gallagher Show because we'll carry it for you and get your reaction to all of it. Wow. Big stuff going on. Big doings. You want to talk about big doings? I walk into the studio yesterday. We had 600 and some kids sponsored to go to Angel Tree summer camps. Right now we're at 816. Wow. Might we get to 1,000? And you know what I did that just kind of blew me away is I just sort of casually said, can we get some $100 donations? And boy, did we get $100 donations. $100 donations came in buckets. You see, the Angel Tree summer camps are all about sending a child of an American prisoner and this is really timely considering all the things we're talking about, to summer camp for a week. It's $200. And many of you have sponsored one, five, ten children. A lot of you have put in $20, $30, $10. But right now, to look at 816 kids on that counter, wow. That's so astounding. And look, last year we did 1,100. We've got another few days to go in the campaign. Maybe, just maybe, we'll get to 1,000. But that's in God's hands and yours. And I hope you'll consider making a donation. Just go to MikeOnline.com. mikeonline.com, click on that Prison Fellowship Angel Tree banner. The feeling of saving a child, sending a kid who is going through so much because their mom or dad are in prison, and to get to send them to summer camp and not only hang out and camp and do all the fun things of summer camp with other kids, but they also are exposed to the Bible. They also learn about the Word of God. And many of these kids, as we know for a fact, become saved. They accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior. It's a journey that you could put a child on. with just whatever you can contribute. So visit mikeonline.com. Click on that banner at the top of the page. Again, 816 kids. I don't know what it's going to look like in an hour or a day or a week, but thank you already to everybody who's donated. It's an extraordinary effort. 816 is incredible. You've donated over $160,000 to our Angel Tree campaign here on the Mike Gallagher Show. There's nobody like you. So thank you, thank you, thank you. MikeOnline.com, click on that banner at the top of the page, and we so, so deeply appreciate your willingness to share your heart and your treasure with these beautiful children. MikeOnline.com, and click on that banner at the top of the page, and we thank you so very much for supporting our 2025 Angel Tree Campaign. All right, coming up, the governors Waltz, Hochul, and Pritzker being grilled by Republicans over their ridiculous sanctuary policies. We'll take you to Capitol Hill next. You won't want to miss a minute of the Mike Gallagher Show. Keep it right here.
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Look at that shift, a 40-point shift to the right among immigrant voters. Republicans now lead on this issue by eight points over Democrats, more so than any other group that I could find. The group of voters who became more hawkish on immigration were, in fact, immigrants themselves, immigrants who are registered to vote in this country.
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Let's take you back to Capitol Hill where a trio of some of the worst governors in the country, Democrats Kathy Hochul, Tim Walz, and J.B. Pritzker, are being grilled by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, at least the Republicans on the committee. Let's check out this exchange. I believe, between Congressman Comer and Kathy Hochul. And you get ready for hearing some, excuse me, I'm sorry, it was Elise Stefanik from New York, Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, talking to her governor, Kathy Hochul. Wow, this is rich.
SPEAKER 05 :
Hochul, on your first day in office, you signed Executive Order 1. Is that correct? And you extended this executive order not once, not twice, but three times, most recently January 16th of this year. Is that correct?
SPEAKER 06 :
If that's what your facts show, I signed countless executive orders.
SPEAKER 05 :
I would assume you know it's executive order one. And this is a continuation of your predecessor's sanctuary state policies, correct, is included in that.
SPEAKER 06 :
I want to be sure we are defining sanctuary state properly.
SPEAKER 05 :
I'll define it for you. you. It is the policy of the state that state officers or employees shall not disclose information to federal immigration authorities for the purpose of federal civil immigration enforcement. It goes on to say law enforcement officers may not use resources, equipment, or personnel for the purpose of detecting and apprehending any individual suspected or wanted for violating a civil immigration office. Law enforcement officers have no authority in the state of New York to take any policy action solely because the person is an undocumented alien. That's a quote in your executive orders that you extended. Now, do you know who Zakir Khan is?
SPEAKER 06 :
I want to get back to the first part of the question.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, I'm asking a question. Do you know who Sakhir Khan is?
SPEAKER 06 :
I want to make sure you understand that this simply says that we will cooperate with ICE.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, it does not say that. I read what it says, and let me talk to you about the results. Do you know who Sakhir Khan is? You should, as the governor of New York State. Do you know?
SPEAKER 06 :
Refresh my recollection.
SPEAKER 05 :
He was an illegal migrant in New York. And do you know what crime he committed in addition to being here illegally?
SPEAKER 06 :
No, I do not.
SPEAKER 05 :
You do not. This was widely reported. He found a 15-year-old girl, threatened her with a metal pole, told her to get into the backseat of his car. He took her clothes off and he violently raped her in Albany, New York. Do you know who Sebastian Zepeda Khalil is?
SPEAKER 06 :
I'm sure you'll tell me. There's many cases, whether they're... These are high-profile cases.
SPEAKER 05 :
New Yorkers know about them, and you don't. So let's talk about Sebastian Zepeda Khalil. Do you know who that is?
SPEAKER 06 :
I don't have the specific details at my disposal, no.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, this is an illegal migrant in New York because of your sanctuary state policies. Do you know what crime he committed?
SPEAKER 06 :
I'm not familiar at this moment.
SPEAKER 05 :
I bet you're going to be familiar when I remind you he found a sleeping woman on the subway, lit her on fire, and burned her alive. This is in Kathy Hochul's New York. And as I'm sure you are aware, I'll remind you that ICE issued an order to detain this violent criminal, but that was rejected by New York officials due to sanctuary state laws. Now, do you know who Raymond Rojas Basilio is? I just want to say this.
SPEAKER 06 :
These crimes are horrific. I condemn them.
SPEAKER 05 :
Because of your sanctuary state policies.
SPEAKER 06 :
In all of these cases, we would work with ICE to remove them.
SPEAKER 05 :
You did not in this case. They are walking down the streets because of your policies and your executive order that you signed three times. Now, Raymond Rojas Basilio, do you know who that is?
SPEAKER 06 :
I'm telling you this. I will explain to you the policies of New York. We cooperate with... I know you're just trying to... You do not.
SPEAKER 05 :
Specifically, ICE was told not to detain this individual, and he burned a woman alive on the New York subways in Kathy Hochul's New York. So I will keep on going. What about Raymond Rojas Basilio? Do you know who that is?
SPEAKER 06 :
I'm going to tell you our overall policy, which will address all this.
SPEAKER 05 :
I'll tell you who that is. He is an illegal who molested an 11-year-old in our state because, again, of your sanctuary state policies. This illegal was shielded from federal immigration enforcement and able to commit this heinous crime. And what about Wilson Castillo Diaz? Do you know who that is?
SPEAKER 06 :
I'm telling you this. We do cooperate fully with ICE and criminal prosecution. Our sanctuary regulations only deal with civil enforcement.
SPEAKER 05 :
You're not advocating for these victims. This is a five-year-old who was raped on Long Island in Nassau County. You are not advocating on behalf of these victims. You are shielding illegals, even in your opening statement. You're prioritized putting illegals first. That is not true. Rapes of young girls, beatings of NYPD cops by illegals who are here under Kathy Hochul's failed policies, burning New Yorkers alive. This is Kathy Hochul's New York. It's one of the many reasons why you're hemorrhaging support from hardworking New York families. They're horrific crimes that are committed on your watch. You signed this executive order on your first day in office. You signed it again and again this January. We deserve a governor who stands up for law-abiding New Yorkers, doesn't put illegals first, but actually puts New Yorkers first.
SPEAKER 06 :
Rather than going after the viral moment, I suggest you look at the facts.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, no, no. I'm standing up for New Yorkers. Rather than addressing the illegals in New York, you are prioritizing your far-left sanctuary state policies, which you put in place with executive orders. Instead of advocating for victims of five-year-olds who was raped, you did not. They were released because of sanctuary state policies in New York State. No amount of words is going to clean up your failed record and these horrific crimes committed in sanctuary state that you created. And with that, I represent.
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Oh, boy. Oh, boy. You know, no matter how bad a day you're having. No matter how cranky you might be, you didn't have to face Elise Stefanik because of your failed sanctuary policies. Wow. What a fierce, fierce advocate for New Yorkers. Representative Elise Stefanik is. And you're seeing the insanity on full display. I mean, she really sounds like, with the monotone voice, we support, we cooperate with ICE. We cooperate with ICE. No, you don't. You think, ask anybody at ICE what they think of your sanctuary policies. We cooperate with ICE. Okay. And doesn't even know the names of Of the monsters who committed heinous crimes in New York, those were, as Elise Stefanik said, real highly publicized cases across the board. Wow. Wow. You know, I would love to have been a fly on the wall of the green room when J.B. Pritzker and Tim Waltz and Kathy Hochul were bellying up to the pastry table this morning. getting ready to go out and face these warriors. Wouldn't you have loved to have heard that conversation? Well, we're in for it. Kathy, you know they're going to give it to us. Oh, boy. It's like I'm sure they felt like the Christians going out and facing the lions in the Roman Colosseum. Gosh, that's good stuff. And I'm glad to hear Democrat governors try to be held accountable for the disastrous policies that have hurt so many Americans. That's the bottom line. What do you think a sanctuary policy is going to do other than wreak the kind of havoc that has been wreaked? Boy, oh boy, oh boy. All right, 800-655-MIKE. More calls about the, lots of debate about President Trump's post. And he had a lot of, he's got a lot of conversation started here.
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It is a testament to the Brian Wilson Beach Boys catalog that I got a whole show filled with bumper music all day long, and I will not scratch the surface today. Wall to wall, Brian Wilson. I will not scratch the surface covering this library. Mike, are you kind of like me? And I think because you're a couple years younger than me, huge appreciation of this catalog. But when they first became huge, we're like in first, second, third, fourth grade. It wasn't like front of mind wheelhouse. We would actually need to be a little older to be the perfect Brian Wilson fan group. I don't know. What are your thoughts?
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, I mean, the last surviving brother. What a legacy. What an impact. And it must be quite the feeling for his family to know that even though he may have passed away, His music will be just immortal. I mean, it's going to always be with us forever. And so, yeah, just just what a story and what a tough life he had. There's a documentary.
SPEAKER 15 :
I think there are a couple of documentaries where there was one I saw maybe five, six, seven years ago of somebody. And he didn't do a lot of access. He didn't do a lot of interviews, especially in the later days when I was kind of scared of the world and just getting out of the house. I don't know if it was what is it agoraphobia where you just get rid of everything. But they're just kind of going around eating breakfast at places, you know, in Laguna Beach and stuff like that. It was so charming and so wonderful and kind of sad. But in a way, he wasn't unhappy. He wasn't it wasn't a miserable life. And it was just just did you ever do you ever wish? That's kind of funny. I like the era into which I was born. I'm very pleased with it. But it must have been something kind of cool to be a smidge older than we are, to be a teenager in 1963 or 64, 65.
SPEAKER 14 :
I often think about that because I wonder if people have, yeah, I mean, but to me, maybe it's because of just what we were raised on and what we heard. The music of the 70s is everything to me. I mean, there's a 70s channel on SiriusXM that I'm glued to. I ask Eric to always, you know, mirror their playlist because I like those songs. And so, yeah, I guess maybe it's just a lack of familiarity because you're right. When you think about it, I mean, they were all in their prime when we were just little kids. Yeah.
SPEAKER 15 :
I mean, everybody I love, you know, Tom Petty, every 70s act you and I love, the formative thing for them, the formative thing for them was February 1964, Beatles on Ed Sullivan, which I don't remember for a couple of reasons. Number one, we were in England, so that's kind of... And it was just it was just wasn't quite old enough. Of course, if we were a smidge older than we were, we also might have died in Vietnam. So you got that, too.
SPEAKER 14 :
True that there is that. Hey, you mentioned documentaries. You know, we always love talking about I got a couple. I always get emails from people saying I love the TV and movie ideas I get from the Eminem experience because you and I love film and movies and theater. We got to get I want to get to the Kennedy Center last night. And what did not happen?
SPEAKER 15 :
Anyway, that's right.
SPEAKER 14 :
Right, right, right. So we'll get to that in a minute. But here's my latest binge watch recommendation. Ready. True Crime Mike. The Gilgo Beach Murders, okay? This was fascinating. Serial killer, Long Island. This guy named Rex Heuermann. And Mark, it's the most fascinating story because he lived like this normal life. Family man. husband, father. They had a little house, this junky little crappy house in Massapequa Park, New York, 1,100 square feet. He's off, according to the charges, and he's about to face trial. He's off at night soliciting sex workers, murdering them, dumping their bodies in an isolated part. And the documentary that's on Fox, I think it's Paramount. No, it's Peacock. Peacock right now has a three-part documentary, and she's there giving full access to the filmmakers, the documentary makers, the wife and the daughter and the son, and they believe in him. Oh, he didn't do it. And the evidence is like... A slam dunk that he did. He's this hulking, scary-looking guy. But, Mark, he was an architect who worked in midtown Manhattan. Because Gilgo Beach is Long Island, right? That's right. He lived out on Long Island, Massapequa Park. But he would commute on the Long Island Railroad into Manhattan, do his job. And then when the wife and the kids would go away on vacation... he'd murder sex workers okay he'd torture and rape and horrible i mean this is like it's the hit of the summer it is so check it out on peacock and then and then and then let's do 30 seconds because you were so right about mission impossible man man oh man that's filmmaking right there man that is filmmaking there's a human let's talk human nature for five seconds
SPEAKER 15 :
Because as you said, and thank you for hopping onto X and saying, you know, Mark Davis is right. Don't believe the haters or the malcontents.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, who was it that said it's overrated? Jack Posobiec or somebody said, oh, it's terrible. So whatever. No, it's not.
SPEAKER 15 :
And maybe you've got the Tom Cruise Scientology bug up your butt, which I do too, but I'm compartmentalizing. There is something about, I guarantee you there are people walking around today going, Brian Wilson, Beach Boys suck. There is something about some people where they just can't have nice things, and they think the haughty taste is like, it has mass appeal, so you like it, but I'm too elevated. I'm too evolved to like that, and it's just, just stop it. I mean, not everything has to be your cup of tea, and if you got...
SPEAKER 14 :
I do that sometimes. I do that like Game of Thrones. I'm like, ugh, I don't get it.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay, me too. But you're not looking down your nose at it. You're not saying it sucks.
SPEAKER 14 :
It's just not your cup of tea.
SPEAKER 15 :
I have said I do not do Realms, Kingdoms, Hobbits, Dragons, Lord of the Rings. All 14 of those movies are great. I know it. I could not care less. Harry Potter could not care less. But they're great. They're just not my cup of tea. Now, so you're in the movie, right? Every bit of three hours. Didn't look at my watch once. Unbelievable how fast. But there is something I did do once. I'm surprised it was only once. And that's I went to the bathroom. Because, hey, it's a two-hour, 50-minute movie. There's an app. There's an app. called Run P. R-U-N-P-E-E. Tells you when to go? It tells you in a movie when you can go and when the best time is to go so you don't miss anything. And then it tells you what happened while you're in there.
SPEAKER 14 :
I loved it. I would have needed it because I had to go.
SPEAKER 15 :
I went right after the submarine part. Maybe it was all that water. I don't know.
SPEAKER 14 :
But there is no way. I refuse to believe that he does all his own stunts. I don't know. Mark, he can't. All of them? He can't. Well, that's what they say. And he's upside down hanging out of a helicopter. A plane. No way. I know. No way. No way. Because these stunts are so dangerous and he is such a gazillion dollar asset. Why would they even allow him to do that? Look, we're probably headed back to Israel in October. Yeah. And I'm excited about that. But the insurance process that we have to go through just for somebody dope like me to go, it's it's jumping through hoops, you know, because, look, we got a team. We got people that work for me. If something happens, we got to take responsibility. Well, take me, a nobody like me, times a gazillion for him. They're going to put everything in jeopardy by having him jump out of an airplane?
SPEAKER 15 :
The answer is apparently so. Now, here's my buddy, Dr. Grock, says Tom Cruise is known for performing many of his own stunts in the MI franchise, Mission Impossible, Final Reckoning, No Exception. Multiple sources confirm that Cruise personally executed the film's most high-profile stunts, including the standout biplane sequence where he clings to the wing of a vintage biplane at 8,000 feet. He trained for it for over a year, including wing-walking practice. Oh, my, Justin.
SPEAKER 14 :
Can you imagine the movie executives like, oh, no, please, let's not kill our star? Yeah. I mean, and speaking of Grok, incidentally, so you prefer Grok over Chad GPT?
SPEAKER 15 :
Don't care. Coin flip. I mean, since I'm in the Twitter landscape so much, the Grok button is the easiest thing to just click.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, Tracy tells me yesterday, because I'm into this now. I'm like overwhelmed by discovering the world of AI, okay? Big article today about the showdown between ChatGPT and all the different platforms that are emerging. And this is a space that is exploding. And you want to know why? Because it's phenomenal. It sure is. I'll never write another speech. I mean, for the rest of my life. Oh, no.
SPEAKER 07 :
Nope.
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, no. Nope. Never again. Don't do that. Don't surrender your humanity. Stop it. I'm not surrendering my humanity. I'm making my life easier. What are you talking about? I mean, let it do some research. If I've got to do a 20-minute speech, if I'm going to the Kiwanis Club and they want 20 minutes. It's not going to sound like you. I mean, it may sound like you. Yes, it will, because I know how to ad lib around it. Oh, I mean, okay, then let it do bullet points or something. No, no, no. No, no, no. But that's what it is. Fight for humanity, Mike. That baloney. Don't let the robots take over. Embrace it. Embrace it. I did. Is Mark Davis a successful talk show host? And you should see the glowing, flowery, and by the way, spot on biography they give. And they spit it out in about 20 seconds.
SPEAKER 1 :
20?
SPEAKER 14 :
What, he got a slow connection?
SPEAKER 15 :
It's like three. I mean, is Mark Davis an insufferable ideologue? And it'll probably give you some evidence of that, too. I wonder.
SPEAKER 14 :
See, I'm wondering about ideology on all this, because as we get into this world and Tracy said to me yesterday, she said, look, I don't I don't like she goes. I don't want to do chat GPT because I think it leans to the left. But Grok, I feel probably leans to the right.
SPEAKER 15 :
I don't think so. A year ago, I was asking it stuff like how many genders are there, and it gave me horrible answers, like they were taken straight from the index cards of Simone Biles. It's gotten much better, and these days, if you ask it really incendiary questions, it'll say, well, you know, there are people who believe this, and there are people who believe that. It's like, you know what? That's all I'm looking for.
SPEAKER 14 :
That's all I'm looking for. It's getting better. Let me pull the curtain back because I got into some hot water because I wore a plaid sport coat the other day on Salem News Channel.
SPEAKER 15 :
I love it. I thought you were great.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, but, you know, it's busy and it kind of blends with the – and one of the executives said, I don't really like the plaid sport coat. And they went to chat GPT – I'm not kidding you – for best practices of TV wardrobe. And it gave you back, it gave us back what we now use as our guidelines. Yes, Mark Davis is widely regarded as a successful and influential talk radio host with over 40 years in broadcasting, primarily in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. He's established himself as a prominent conservative voice in American media, extensive experience. He began his career... In 1979, I want to see if any of this is false. Totally true. He's worked at various stations, including WBAP in Dallas and KSKY right now, where his show airs weekly. He has guest hosted the Rush Limbaugh show. Airs weekly. currently airs weekdays sorry he's guest it was right he guest hosted the rush limbaugh show he uh served as friday morning host for more i mean podcast popularity his podcast is available on platforms like apple where it has a 4.4 out of 5 rating i didn't know there you go i'm telling you this is good Davis has authored two books, Upside Down, How the Left Turned Right into Wrong, Truth into Lies and Good into Bad, and Lone Star America, As Texas Can Save Our Country. Listeners appreciate his articulate and engaging commentary on current events, politics, and culture. Reviews highlight his insightful analysis and approachable style. Yeah, right, approachable. For instance, one listener describes him. You lecturing me about approachability? I'm kidding. I'm kidding. For instance, one listener described him as a Texas treasure with a velvet voice who delivers current events in a witty and intelligent manner. Davis, I don't know. Here's where it goes. Political stance. All right? Ideology. It may be about to say something. Okay, go ahead. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 15 :
Davis identifies as a libertarian conservative. That is straight from Wikipedia, and it's 20 years old. I still kind of do. Okay, well, let me finish.
SPEAKER 14 :
Libertarianism informs my conservatism. Go ahead. Expressing opposition to smoking bans, religious indoctrination in public education, and illegal immigration while supporting the war on terror and drug prohibition.
SPEAKER 15 :
What do you know about Wikipedia? Can you go change your own Wikipedia page? I mean, yeah, I mean, because that's because there's it's kind of funny. I mean, supports the war on terror. That is so 2003 because I did.
SPEAKER 14 :
But that's what it does. It just goes to the Internet and it finds Wikipedia. It finds anything. In summary, Mark Davis's longstanding career, national exposure and dedicated audience attest to his success as a talk radio host. But the point of this is you can do this with anything.
SPEAKER 15 :
You sure can. And for those wondering, listening around and going, AI, what even is that? Think of it in the following way. What the AI, chat GPTs and groks do for you. There's something you need to know about, study, deliver a speech about, do whatever about. That's right. It Googles a thousand things for you and then writes you a little executive summary, bam, and does it in five seconds.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay. And they did. And look, and they spit out two pages worth of, no, it's not. Here's what's better.
SPEAKER 15 :
Lindsay Nelson and Craig Sager. This is the world of sports, I guess. I mean, they were rocking the plaid every time.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, I mean, there's people, I know, but this is, they just want, they call it best practices. But see, this is the kind of stuff you can do in your workplace. It fascinates me. It really does. And so I know I'm late to the dance, but I'm in and out.
SPEAKER 15 :
If I ever learned that you've delivered a speech that AI wrote, I'm coming for you.
SPEAKER 14 :
I'm preparing today's show based completely on ChatGPT. Let's go to the phones. What is Mike's opinion about the No Kings Day on Saturday? Will there be riots? I am concerned, Mark. I hope nobody gets hurt. I do, too.
SPEAKER 15 :
Why do you need that many face shields for a peaceful protest? Let's go to the phones.
SPEAKER 14 :
It could be argued that face shields can prevent sunburn. In lieu of sunscreen, we need to preserve the First Amendment.
SPEAKER 15 :
The AI clock says we must go now. Go do your show.
SPEAKER 14 :
Goodbye. I love you. Have a good Thursday. I love you, too. Goodbye. Farewell. You are my friend.
SPEAKER 15 :
Bye. Yes. That's my colleague. Ready to go. Ready to rock. All the humanity. You can stay in. 10 o'clock right here.
In a world full of chaos and humor, we take a deep dive into the seemingly endless antics of Florida residents, exploring bizarre incidents involving Vienna sausages and much more. This episode also brings to light the ongoing protests and the Florida governor's controversial stance on self-defense measures. Tune in to unravel the absurd truth and enjoy the peculiar tales that make Florida one of the most unpredictable places in America.
SPEAKER 10 :
Liberty Nation with Mark Angelides.
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Author, columnist, managing editor of LibertyNation.com. Podcast host and conservative policy advocate. We dismiss history at our peril. Liberty Nation with Mark Angelides.
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SPEAKER 11 :
It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man.
SPEAKER 07 :
No, no, no, no. No, not this. Unfortunately, yes.
SPEAKER 08 :
No. It's a smoking gun. A seven-year-old Florida man peed on spam and Vienna sausages. It's not the headline you were anticipating, is it? No. Cops charged that a witness spotted Patrick Mitchell relieving himself in aisle 18 at the Sam's Club in Lady Lake in Orlando. The witness used her cell phone to take a picture of the defendant, reported the incident to the store employees per the probable cause affidavit. Sam's Club's managers reviewed the surveillance footage, spotted the dude walking up to the pallets and placing both hands in front of him below the belt line, and he stood there for several seconds. They said the, quote, behavior was consistent with urination. Yeah. They confirmed that there was urine on two pallets containing 188 bulk units of Vienna sausages and 345 units of eight count canned spam classic. They said the whole thing had to be discarded because they were contaminated with grody bodily fluids from this old weirdo. I and he apparently was a member and he's been arrested before for disorderly conduct and mischief. And oh, you know where he lives at, Steve, don't you? Yeah, if you had to guess where Mitchell lives, it's... Is it right with the village? That's right. The friendliest hometown in Florida. So he and his wife live in the villages. I don't understand what would motivate someone. I feel like that's a part of the story that really needs to be explored. But, okay. Here we have another machete. A Florida man was stabbed with a machete and driven to the hospital by the guy who stabbed him with it. Angel Ramos... Arce, Arce, Arce, I don't know, got into a verbal altercation with the guy in a Circle K. And apparently they got an argument and a machete was produced. Someone got stabbed and then the guy drove him to the hospital. But then he ran away, apparently. So they're asking for people to try to track him down. I'm sorry. I cannot believe the number of people who own a machete in Florida. And all my Florida friends are like, well, that's because, you know, it's a swamp and there's I'm like, you don't live in the jungle. I see your house on Facebook. You live in a subdivision. You've got a nice small lawn and beautiful landscaping. For crying out loud, you've got an enclosed pool. There's windows all over it. Why do you need a machete? I mean, I'm all for having machetes, but I'm just, I don't believe y'all are out there whacking, you know, jungle planes every day.
SPEAKER 11 :
But iguanas are literally falling out of trees and landing on you.
SPEAKER 08 :
Do you just like bat them away with a machete?
SPEAKER 11 :
I feel like you're in somewhat of a video game. It's like Dark Tide. But it's just with a machete and you're just protecting yourself all day long.
SPEAKER 08 :
You're just out there waylaying stuff, you know.
SPEAKER 11 :
You're just surviving.
SPEAKER 08 :
Me and my friends, we're just waylaying things. Uh, let's see. I got a couple of other. Oh, I'm not gonna. Nope, definitely not. Okay, well, let's let me do this one real quick. This Florida woman. Her last name is fail. Not making this up. And she's smiling all pretty in her mugshot. 21-year-old Miami woman. She's facing multiple felony charges because she smashed a bunch of vehicles with a baseball bat. She made her own Beyonce Lemonade video. She struck her boyfriend. She apparently left a nonverbal child alone in a parked car and went to go beat up everybody's stuff. She also got charged with a count of child neglect for leaving the child in the car. Apparently, all the people whose cars she destroyed were relatives of her boyfriend. Antonisha Fail. Oh, my gosh. What a last name. One of the victims had a nephew that alerted police. And she, like, busted off all the side mirrors. I mean, everything. She's on ring camera video footage doing it. So, basically, she got dumped and she went on a tear. Our partners that helped bring the show, make it possible, All Family Pharmacy. Great partners. Great company. I love this website. I've used this website quite a lot. And we're seeing prescription costs lower. So we're not going to pay. We're basically not going to provide welfare for all these other countries by paying double and triple what they're paying. It's all about fair prices and fair access, right? So right now, All Family Pharmacy is offering a summer sale 20% off of your entire order. This gives you a lot of breathing room. You can visit allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana. And on top of it, You got 20% off. Code Dana 20 is the way you get it. 20% off your entire order. Right now through June, they're offering that 20% off site-wide. No insurance required. They got licensed doctors in all 50 states and fast shipping right to your front door. Everything that you need, your everyday meds, antibiotics, emergency kits, ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, whatever you need, they got it. Visit allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana for 20% off using promo code Dana. Don't wait for permission to protect yourself and your family. Visit allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana and use coupon code Dana20 to save 20%.
SPEAKER 06 :
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SPEAKER 01 :
So we have the no kings.
SPEAKER 08 :
rallies or protest riots that are scheduled for June 14th and they're trying to do them in a number of different states. They're trying to do it in Fort Worth here in Texas. They announced that they were going to do some in Florida. This is what the Florida governor had to say about protesting people blocking roads. Listen.
SPEAKER 04 :
And we also have a policy that if you're driving on one of those streets and a mob comes and surrounds your vehicle and threatens you, you have a right to flee for your safety. And so you drive off and you hit one of these people. That's their fault for impinging on you. You don't have to sit there and just be a sitting duck and let the mob grab you out of your car and drag you through the streets. You have a right to defend yourself.
SPEAKER 08 :
Amen. That's true. How many of these have you seen? I mean, we've seen a lot of this stuff over the years where people have been blocked in traffic and they can't get out and then people start beating up their cars and they're just trying to leave and either get home or get to their work or whatever it is. But these are coming up. I thought it was on Monday. It's coming up on Saturday. It's these nationwide riots, the No Kings rallies. I'm so tired of this nonsense. They... have this all scheduled they keep saying it's going to be peaceful you know what this means it means news crews are going to be working overtime on saturday everything's going to get watched and they like hillary clinton was promoting it and she's also promoting her little fundraising pack everybody's trying to grift off this thing she goes the right to peacefully protest is fundamental no president can nullify it it's in the constitution well wait a minute though Is assault and arson, is that considered, is that in the Constitution? Hang on, let me control F it. Let me just see. In the Constitution, do-do-do-do, of the United States, we're gonna Google, Google, goodly Google, do-do-do-do, we're Googling right now. Okay, let's control F, arson. Oh, it's so weird. I'm not finding it in here. You know what? Maybe I used the wrong word. Let's not control a fire. Let's control a fire. No. Fires? Even though fire would have picked up the fires? Nope. Let's see. Destruction. Nope. What about assault? Nope. Nope. What about throwing chunks? Let me put in throwing chunks of concrete at police. Let me see. You probably hear me type it. Throwing chunks of concrete at police. Oh, no. That's also not in here. I'm having problems. Maybe there's something wrong with my browser. Not finding any of this in the Constitution, but Hillary, that elderly white woman who fell down in the street and lost her Tory Burch slipper and then said everyone was racist for not voting for her in 2016, she maintains, Cain, that this stuff is in the... This is peaceful protest. I have no idea. It's in the... But I'm not finding the arson... You know what? Let's look at looting. Looting. Nope. Stealing? Nope. Taking. Nope. None of it's in there. But I'm control F-ing it. I'm looking for this, Cain, and it's not coming up. None of these things are coming up in this. So what is happening?
SPEAKER 11 :
What the control F?
SPEAKER 08 :
I don't even know. Oh, my gosh. I'm looking. I don't see it in here at all. I don't see it. Now, petition, the First Amendment says, Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press or of the right of the people to peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. What do they mean, petitioning the government for a redress of grievances? What does that mean? Does that mean, would you consider taking a giant chunk of concrete and throwing it at a cop? Is that?
SPEAKER 11 :
That seems several stages past petitioning.
SPEAKER 08 :
Now, the phrase, let's say the petition, the government address of grievances. I mean, really, what that means is you are making a request by which you want to correct or somehow remedy a an injustice, a perceived wrong or a perceived injustice. And you're doing it through legal recourse. Huh? That kind of sounds, Cain, like that does not include taking giant chunks of concrete and throwing them down on cop cars from highway overpasses.
SPEAKER 11 :
I didn't hear that.
SPEAKER 08 :
That kind of sounds like that does not include burning down businesses or looting businesses. In fact, I would think that that would actually be an infringement upon someone else's right to be safe and secure on their own. So what is she talking about here? Goodness gracious. Did she fall down again? I don't know. Our partners that help bring you the program, it's the folks over at Kel-Tec, the PR57, chambered in 5.7, and it's one of the lightest and thinnest 5.7s that are out there. And with Kel-Tec, a Florida-based company, their stuff is made in the U.S. of A. And the PR57, it's... I mean, like I said, 40% lighter, made possible by the rotary barrel that they use. It's a rotary barrel pistol. And then also the top-loading design that replaces traditional magazines with stripper clips for a slimmer carry profile and a 20-plus-1 capacity, inspired by real-world data and defensive needs. And the MSRP is only $399, making it very affordable, quickest and easiest field strip available. And it's made in America with American labor and American parts. And super new, great standard set and lightweight design. It's the new, well, somewhat new, came out first of the year, PR-57 chambered N-57, the rotary barrel pistol from Kel-Tec. Learn more at keltecweapons.com. Innovation, performance, Kel-Tec. That's K-E-L-T-E-C weapons.com. Tell them Dana sent you.
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
SPEAKER 08 :
Panic in Ohio. That almost sounds like an album name. As a huge nitric acid spill grounds flights and sparks mass evacuations and creates an ominous dust cloud. So, at first when I read this, I just don't know why I thought citric acid and I was like, this? Is that a big deal? And then, no. I'm like, wait a minute. What's happening? Thousands of gallons of it. It was leaked from a tank at the Austin Powder Red Diamond plant. And they produce super fun industrial explosives that they use for construction and mining. Like, fun stuff, right? Stuff that goes biggity boom. Unclear how the leak started, but it happened. And that is... I mean, it really... I mean, it's a... What did they say? It was 185 miles from the train derailment in East Palestine. That poor area. God love them. They're just dealing with some times right now, are they not? 200-pound wild pigs overtake California parks. These feral hogs, I'm telling you what, nobody, people who are... I'll say it like my family would. Y'all some city folk. Y'all don't know how these wild hogs, these feral hogs take over. They do so much damage and they are so dangerous. I mean, once you get these these hogs going, I mean, they just destroy areas there. And they're so dangerous that nothing scares me more than a wild hog, like maybe a bear. But that's it. Like wolf does not scare me like a wild hog does. wild hogs terrify me maybe it has to do with what was it old yeller maybe I don't know old yeller I can't even talk about that but yeah they said that locals up there they're warning everyone and they said wild pigs live in 56 out of 58 counties in California And these are hybrids. They're part wild boar, part domesticated. I mean, really, that doesn't mean anything. They go wild. It doesn't matter. They're not part domestic, part wild. They go wild. If you just stop feeding them grain and then you let them run out, they get all wild looking. So that's weird to me. But they tear up all kinds of stuff. And people who have never dealt with it are freaking out in California. Can you imagine the Californians? What is this? Like these adorable little pegs. What is happening? Food shortages at one of America's biggest grocery chains after a huge tech outage hits the supply chain. Hmm. Oh, my gosh. Kane just handed me a roll of tinfoil. It's the Whole Foods. They've issued a warning following a cyber attack on its main supplier. It's called United Natural Foods. They were forced to shut down this stuff. And so that's, you know, that's unfortunate. Also, let's see. Giant invasive lizards found loose in Bay Park area. And apparently it is the white tegu, a predatory species from South America that can grow five feet. Holy. And it eats small animals and birds, bird eggs. This thing eats like a like a goat, like the animal, not the greatest of all time. Santa Clara County, they're looking for the I mean, it's not going to be hard to miss. They're huge. It was identified as the Argentine black and white tegu. And it's super predatory and it eats everything. They said they're not going to harm people. Sure. Sure, they won't. They look really weird. They look like crusty white things out. Looks like Joe Biden out in the wild. I want to switch gears here. Because you guys know we have we have our rescue pup, Wick, who's going to be a year old soon. I'm interested in your feedback. So we're trying to make sense of his behavior. I think we have it figured out, but I've just never seen a dog do this like this. And we've had Frenchies before and I've had a German Shepherd before. Wick is he's like a combo of like a Belgian Malinois and a Rhodesian Ridgeback. And he's he's a mutt. And we got him at the shelter when he was a puppy. And so he's super sweet. And we've been training him. He's a combination of working breeds. So he's kind of a handful. But he's been so good at training. I think he's like the smartest dog I've ever owned. And so he has these things, these beef cheeks, right? And I get them at the store. It's beef collagen that's rolled in like a round. It looks like a dried out like pork roll. And it's rolled up and then like the dried out cheek meat covers it. And he gets those and he chews on them. Lately, he has been taking his beef cheeks and he drops it in your lap and then stares at you. And at first we thought he wants to play fetch or something with this oddly, but that's not what he wants. He wants you to eat it. Wick expects you. He's sharing. I was reading about this. Certain dogs, like sometimes breeds will, you know, sometimes dogs will in their little pack, they'll share their toys and their treats. And he's sharing these. But the problem is, is he won't leave you alone until he's thoroughly convinced that you are enjoying it. So we literally have to pick this thing up. And we have to kind of obscure the fact that it's not exactly touching our mouth because that's gross. And then we scratch where he can't see and we have to make like noises to make it seem like we're eating this thing. And then his tail starts wagging and he gets super happy and he'll just sit there and watch you enjoy it or he'll lay right by you and watch you enjoy it for a few minutes. And then if you put it down, he nudges it back to you and then sits down and waits for you. Now, if you don't do it, he looks at you like he's disappointed. His tail won't wag and he like stares at you and he'll sigh. like waiting for you to eat it. And he will not leave you alone. This will go on until he is thoroughly convinced that you have shared it with him and you have enjoyed it. He's not going to leave you alone. Everybody gets a turn at the beef cheek. He's not going to leave. And then when you've convinced him, he'll take it and he'll go chew on it in his place, his little bed. He'll go and he'll chew on it. I've never had a dog do that. Now, Cain was like, oh, he hates Cain. Hates cane. Wick does not like cane. Does he like Juan? I think he's warming up to Juan.
SPEAKER 11 :
He barks just like that at Juan, too. It's just that he doesn't see us during the day. We should have him as a studio dog. He should be in here in the morning hanging out while we're setting up. Are you kidding me? I think he would be.
SPEAKER 08 :
He's still got that puppy energy.
SPEAKER 11 :
I think he'd eventually chill out.
SPEAKER 08 :
That is a great idea with all the equipment and the cords and the cameras, the multiple thousand dollar cameras.
SPEAKER 11 :
He won't chew on anything.
SPEAKER 08 :
No, but he will get rambunctious and he will totally knock something down. Because he's a big dog. But you just want him to share his bee cheek with you. Kind of. That's all it is.
SPEAKER 11 :
Actually, that is most of it.
SPEAKER 08 :
It is hysterical. Have you ever had a dog that did that? That would share, but like, not only like, I mean, it's one thing if you're playing with it, but they expect, he'd like want you to know.
SPEAKER 11 :
I've had a black lab. It was great at retrieving too. You know what I mean? Like it would go and bring you things, but this seems a little bit different than just bringing you things. It's like insisting that you enjoy the food and, you know, kind of sad that you're not until you start enjoying it.
SPEAKER 08 :
And the reason I bring it up is, are we right in doing that? Or is he looking at us like, you stupid morons. What are you doing? Or is he looking at it like, this is the craziest thing I've ever seen. I just wanted them to hold it.
SPEAKER 11 :
Maybe he's being grateful. He's taking biblical passages.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh my gosh. Out of the Bible from Psalms. But he does, I mean, and he will go. Ephesians. He'll give it to like Chris. And then when, you know, he's, and Chris is really good at convincing him. And then he takes it and he chews on it a bit. And then he goes and brings it to one of my kids. And they have to go through the whole thing. And he's like, okay, yeah, that's right.
SPEAKER 11 :
He's sharing to be grateful.
SPEAKER 08 :
He's, it's super sweet. It's super sweet. But I just, I guess the reason I'm asking the radio audience is, A, is that the right reaction to have?
SPEAKER 1 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
is he like, you guys are nuts. What are you doing now? I've had like Rocco would bury his stuff. Like if we were anywhere, if we were sitting anywhere, if we ever had a blanket or anything, he would, he would immediately give you one of his toys and he would bury it on you. Or he would sit by you to chew it just cause he didn't want Louie to have it. Um, and Louie would do the same thing. He, But I've never had it to where he expects you to actually enjoy it and he will sit there and watch you and then he'll literally walk to the side of you to make sure that your mouth is like if you have to convince him. It is the craziest thing I've ever experienced with a dog. So I'm just I guess I'm like, is this are we is this the right reaction? This is why we need to chat today. Is this the right reaction? Yeah. Are we or are we like not supposed to do that? I don't know. Like I've never had a dog do this. Like here, chew this with me. I don't know.
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Welcome back to the show. If you're just tuning in, we were carrying, uh, some of the president's live remarks. They're holding, he's, he's going to be signing his bills. We've got the guy who's going to be announcing them. Cause that's my favorite. When he's like, and here's this Mr. President and this person's real stupid. And this is where, those are my favorites when he signs this stuff, but he's doing the EOs. But, um, Well, they have the Stellantis Europe. That's the Italian subsidiary. So this is all very interesting. So they're behind, what, Fiat, Chrysler, Pugo. Not that we drive those, but you know what I mean. It's fun to say, and they're fun to look at. So that's going to be interesting if they're reopening that one location. So lots of stuff to dissect today. And one of the things that he said was and I wanted to pull this because I noticed that ABC just highlighted this. So I'm just warning this is going to be a narrative that they're going to try to push. I mean, it literally just posted whenever you have that ready. And yes, it is. It's a live press avail right here. the president is delivering some remarks there at the White House, and they're signing some stuff, and he's telling people a little bit about the deals with China. But I want you to listen to this quick cut right here, because ABC just highlighted it, obviously, for a reason. Listen to this.
SPEAKER 19 :
Now we know why Elon doesn't like me so much, which he does, actually. He does. And he never had a problem. You know, it's very interesting. This is not something new. This has been there from day one, Speaker, right? We're going to abolish the EV mandate. And Elon still endorsed me because honestly, he never ever spoke to me about that. And I used to say, I'm amazed that he's endorsing me because that can't be good for him. I'm abolishing the EV mandate. And I once asked him about it. You never talked to me about that. As long as it's happening to everybody, I'll be able to compete. It was a very interesting answer. I thought it was a very honest answer, to be honest with you. And I talked about it, that incredible, you know, you would have thought he would have been from day one, you got to make sure you don't do the EV memory.
SPEAKER 23 :
See, he just destroyed, because ABC was like, well, does this mean, the way that they were presenting it, that they were trying to act like he was bailing Musk out or something and defending Musk himself. And trying to rewrite history that must and it must never asked him for this stuff, though. So you even have him saying this stuff from the podium and then you have ABC. And if you look at what some of the talking heads that are already retweeting it, it's like the memo went out. They're still trying to drive that so hard. And so it's so stupid. But I mean, that's I thought that was very interesting. The the president there, what he's saying with that, because he's you know, that's what we've all been saying this entire time is that he never asked for any of that stuff. He just wanted everything to be equal. I mean, without the government trying to press down on the scale one way or the other. So a lot of stuff that we have to unpack today because also I'm pulling up a couple of other things. We've got the issue with the visas and then we've got the situation with Iran. And then we have this post from this morning. And I need to unpack this. I'm going to read it to you, then we've got headlines, and then we're going to dive into this. But I'm going to set this on the table now. He tweeted this over at Truth Social, or posted it, quote, Our great farmers and people in the hotel and leisure business have been stating that our very aggressive policy on immigration is dangerous. taking very good longtime workers away from them. And with those jobs being the most impossible to replace. In many cases, the criminals allowed into our country by the very stupid Biden open borders policy are applying for those jobs. This is not good. We must protect our farmers, but get the criminals out of the USA. Changes are coming. We have work visas. And enforcement of existing law. I don't understand what he means here unless this is amnesty. So I'm going to set this on the table and we're going to come back to it. We have headlines coming up that I know you also don't want to miss as we move our partners that will bring you the program. It's our friends over at Super Beats, the Super Breen product. If you are unfamiliar with it. Well, let me tell you, it's like, you know, you know, the super beats, this is what I've been taking. It's great for healthy blood pressure to support healthy blood pressure. The super brain is all about supporting healthy metabolism and blood sugar levels and metabolism is so incredibly important. And I have super crazy high metabolism. And it's always good to make sure that you know, you're supporting healthy metabolism and make sure that your blood sugar, you know, you don't want to it just it helps to It helps to support healthy regulation. Let's put it like that. And it's from the makers of Super Beets, doctor-formulated, plant-based. The berberine that they use is super unique. It's Italian olive fruit extract. They didn't just go and get like any hobo berberine, right? They used really top-notch stuff. And they actually include signs in this. The unique berberine that they use, that's why they call it super berberine, it's clinically studied to deliver 10 times Higher absorption than standard berberine. And you also have it's also super highly concentrated with higher absorption. That means fewer pills to swallow. So it's one easy to swallow capsule a day. And then they also include grapeseed extract in it. And so that means less. You're not going to have GI distress. It's something apparently that's common. with some folks so you have greater tolerability. You can find both the new Super Brewing and the number one best-selling Super Beats Heart Chews at Sam's Club. Restock your heart health support with these Super Beats Heart Chews and then expand your routine with a once-a-day capsule from Super Brewing for healthy metabolism and blood sugar support. Start today. Get on the road to better cardiovascular health support.
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SPEAKER 23 :
Panic in Ohio. That almost sounds like an album name. As huge, a huge nitric acid spill grounds flights and sparks mass evacuations and creates an ominous dust cloud. So I first when I read this, I just don't know why I thought citric acid and I was like, that's not a big deal. And then now I'm like, wait a minute, what's happening? Thousands of gallons of it. It was leaked from a tank at the Austin Powder Red Diamond plant. And they produce super fun industrial explosives that they use for construction and mining. Like, fun stuff, right? Stuff that goes biggity boom. Unclear how the leak started, but it happened. And that is, I mean, it really, I mean, it's a... What did they say? It was 185 miles from the train derailment in East Palestine. That poor area. God love them. They're just dealing with some times right now, are they not? 200-pound wild pigs overtake California parks. These feral hogs, I'm telling you what, nobody, people who are... I'll say it like my family would. Y'all some city folk. Y'all don't know how these wild hogs, these feral hogs take over. They do so much damage and they are so dangerous. I mean, once you get these these hogs going, I mean, they just destroy areas there. And they're so dangerous that nothing scares me more than a wild hog, like maybe a bear. But that's it. Like wolf does not scare me like a wild hog does. Wild hogs terrify me. Maybe it has to do with, what was it, Old Yeller? Maybe. I don't know Old Yeller. I can't even talk about that. But yeah, they said that locals up there, they're warning everyone. They said wild pigs live in 56 out of 58 counties in California. And these are hybrids. They're part wild boar, part domesticated. I mean, really, that doesn't mean anything. They go wild. It doesn't matter. They're not part domestic, part wild. They go wild. If you just stop feeding them grain and then you let them run out, they get all wild looking. So that's weird to me. But they tear up all kinds of stuff. And people who have never dealt with it are freaking out in California. Can you imagine the Californians? What is this? Like these adorable little pegs. What is happening? Food shortages at one of America's biggest grocery chains after a huge tech outage hits the supply chain. Hmm. Oh, my gosh. Kane just handed me a roll of tinfoil. It's the Whole Foods. They've issued a warning following a cyber attack on its main supplier. It's called United Natural Foods. They were forced to shut down this stuff. And so that's, you know, that's unfortunate. Also, let's see. Giant invasive lizards found loose in Bay Park area. And apparently it is the white tegu, a predatory species from South America that can grow five feet. Holy. And it eats small animals and birds, bird eggs. This thing eats like a like a goat, like the animal, not the greatest of all time. Santa Clara County, they're looking for the I mean, it's not going to be hard to miss. They're huge. It was identified as the Argentine black and white tegu. And it's super predatory and it eats everything. They said they're not going to harm people. Sure. Sure, they won't. They look really weird. They look like crusty white things out. Looks like Joe Biden out in the wild. Alright, we got a lot more underway. What is happening with this Chinese deal? Amnesty? And Iran. Stick with us. Angel Studios. They have a guild membership that you can join and support Angel Studios' work. They have a new animated faith-based film. And I like the animation. It's very whimsical. It's called King of Kings. It's based on Charles Dickens' book. called The Life of Our Lord. And it's a story about the life of Jesus. And it has an all-star cast. The cast is great. I mean, you have Oscar winner Kenneth Bragna. You have Oscar Isaac, Uma Thurman, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley. I mean, you've got some really heavy players that are in this film. And it's very magical. I mean, it's very Bible-based. 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SPEAKER 19 :
People said it couldn't be done. You got it done. I just have to sign, right? That's very good. This is really something. And it has to do with the California auto regulation, CRA. It's been a disaster for this country. And... I want to thank everybody for being here. We officially rescue the U.S. auto industry from destruction by terminating the California electric vehicle mandate once and for all.
SPEAKER 23 :
This is good, just because I still hate EVs. But out of spite, I was kind of interested in Teslas. But then I found out that Tesla in my town became a gun-free zone. We got to talk about that here and a million other things. Welcome back. Dana Lash with you. Audio version of the radio program today. So no video streaming. Well, everything is back to normal on Monday. Juan is traveling for a joyous occasion. And you guys think I'm joking when we say we have a skeleton crew. So when Juan's out, no TV. If you got complaints, send them to the first. But no, it's the way it is. It's fun. It's fun because... We actually get to open the curtains in the studio, so we get some natural light, which we act like we're cave trolls, and we don't know how to react to it. We're like, what is this? Because it's so dark in here with artificial light and everything. So it's kind of nice. So it's nice to kind of change it up every now and then. So POTUS here, what is this mandate? I've had some cap. I don't understand this, why they think that they're capital libertarians, but then they're like, but my state rights, this isn't a state's rights issue. You can't have someone force you to buy a product. You can't be like, well, my state, I'm going to enact my 10th Amendment privileges, the state of California. I'm going to make you purchase jorts. They're long shorts that look like skirts or not. They're called jorts. They're long jean skirt jorts. That's what they are. Everyone must purchase some jorts. You can't do that. And you can't say, well, it's good for the environment. You're using less material to make the jorts. They're a cropped wide leg capri, but not quite a palazzo pant. The guys out here are going, you lost me. Anyway, but you can't have a state that makes you do that. You know what I'm saying? States cannot do that. That's not something that they can do. It's not a state's rights issue. It's an issue of people can be free to peruse the market and purchase what they want. And I just don't like being told that I have to purchase something. The fastest way to get me, and I think a lot of patriots are like this, to do something is you have to reverse psychology us. But then we're too smart for that, really. You have to tell us we can't do something. And then we're like, well, then I want to. Right. When people were like with lockdown, when people were telling us all you have to stay home and you have to wear face mask and social distance. I social distance anyway because I hate people. No offense to you guys. I like you. But, you know, I hate everybody else. I don't I'm a situational extrovert. Small talk kills my soul. I'm awkward and weird when it's not with a big group of people. And my husband is mispopular. He will make friends with anybody and I can't deal with it. We'll be at dinner and the next table will all of a sudden be our best friends because Chris won't stop talking to them. And I'm just dying inside because Cain's laughing because he knows it's true. I mean, it hurts me. I'm physically hurt. My soul is bruised. I can't do it. I do not have that skill set or temperament. So I'm saying that, you know, this whole thing, making people do this and forcing them into behaviors that are that they, you know, trying to force them into buying behaviors. It's not going to work. That never works. So I don't know what he's going to do. Maybe Gavin Newsom needs to. He was tweeting through. What did they say? They had more some more fires in California. I don't know if they were started by rioters or not. And I think it was I don't know if it was a wildfire situation. He's just tweeting through every major disaster. So speaking of Newsom, MarioSanbite7, listen to this. He's accusing him of traumatizing people. Newsom is.
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Donald Trump's government isn't protecting our communities. They're traumatizing our communities. And that seems to be the entire point. California will keep fighting. We'll keep fighting on behalf of our people, all of our people, including in the courts. Just yesterday, we filed a legal challenge to Donald Trump's reckless deployment of American troops to a major American city. Today, we sought an emergency court order to stop the use of the American military to engage in law enforcement.
SPEAKER 23 :
And you got you got kicked down. You were completely kicked down in court. So it's not going to happen because they had the right to do that. But if you want to have a discussion about traumatizing people, you're traumatizing people by making them buy EVs. You're traumatizing people by letting everything run crazy. Rioters, arson, destruction. That's a problem. I want to switch gears here and touch on this. I don't understand what he's talking about here. So I read you this tweet before we went into headlines, right? And I'm trying to understand. What POTUS is getting at. I think you can't leave things to chance in this environment, especially when you have so many tools to be able to articulately convey an idea. You should be able to articulately convey it without any questions. So POTUS tweeted or socialed. What did it? I don't know. We posted on true social. Our great farmers and people in the hotel and leisure business have been stating that our very aggressive policy on immigration is taking very good longtime workers away from them, with those jobs being almost impossible to replace. In many cases, the criminals allowed into our country by the very stupid Biden open borders policy are applying for those jobs. This is not good. We must protect our farmers, but get the criminals out of the USA. Changes are coming. So my question for this was, don't we have A work visa program? So I don't know what he means here. I mean, don't you have like visas for temporary agricultural workers and then for non-agricultural temporary workers? Isn't that a thing, Cain?
SPEAKER 17 :
So he's saying we must protect our farmers. So are you assuming that he's thinking of implementing a new system of some sort?
SPEAKER 23 :
Well, he says that. We have a very aggressive policy. We're taking good longtime workers away, and those jobs are... Yeah, that's what the farmers are saying to him, is what he's saying.
SPEAKER 17 :
Right. And then he's saying, this isn't good. We must protect our farmers. He's not saying anything specific.
SPEAKER 23 :
Well, why doesn't he include, we need to make sure we're getting U.S. workers in these jobs? Like, you could add that in there. Yeah, I mean, he has... I don't think that that's a minor oversight. I mean, I don't want to speculate, but I'm like, what does this mean?
SPEAKER 17 :
Right. I think he doesn't have a full implemented plan.
SPEAKER 23 :
I think they need to see... But do you see how this literally incites confusion?
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, yeah. When something isn't complete, you're absolutely right. It's like, well, I have more questions now.
SPEAKER 23 :
Yeah, I have a ton of questions because I'm looking at this like, well, wait a minute. So somebody's been in the country illegally for a long time. They should get... And I'm not saying that he's saying this. I'm asking what this means. But it's like, well, just because you've been in the country breaking the law...
SPEAKER 17 :
the longest doesn't mean you get preferential treatment so i've broken the law the longest yeah and you can see that actually yes i've seen you already but you can see how this he's recognizing that the farmers are telling him this and that the void that's being left behind his policies is where the criminal aliens are coming in to fill those jobs so trump is just saying change is coming he's now identified a problem and he's going to have changes coming he just he didn't say it in this one
SPEAKER 23 :
I mean, but here's the other thing I have. Very good longtime workers who are here illegally. That's still a crime.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 23 :
Regardless.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 23 :
So you can be a very good longtime worker and that's great, but you can also still be here illegally and that's a crime.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah. There's no illegal immigration with seniority.
SPEAKER 23 :
I'm going to hammer this. I had to go to driving school one time because I went five miles over in a construction zone. So if you think for one second that I am not going to be all hammer on the law, oh my gosh, everyone is going to be equal before it by God or I'm going to knock teeth out trying. I am not ever leaving that.
SPEAKER 17 :
It is true though that some long time ones who would consider themselves quote unquote long time illegal are DACA. Some are DACA, so some fall under that program. So Trump is, I guess, being general intentionally here, only because there are so many different details that you'd have to really unpack.
SPEAKER 23 :
Even then, if you're able to apply for all of this other stuff, then you should be able to apply for citizenship. And under DACA, DACA explicitly prevented you from being deported so long as you were going through that process. So when people are like, well, I was a DACA kid. Yeah, you were literally protected from deportation. Absolutely. And you had years to become legal. And I mean, they even would expedite you.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah. And what if the changes that Trump is talking about is finding a funnel from American?
SPEAKER 23 :
What if he could just post the damn words on true social?
SPEAKER 17 :
Because what are you going to do? Say, okay, my plan is to make sure we funnel American workers.
SPEAKER 23 :
No, he doesn't have to say my plan. He could be like, we need U.S. workers in this. Let's figure out how.
SPEAKER 17 :
I've identified a problem.
SPEAKER 23 :
Here's two problems. We need people that want jobs, and we've got jobs that need to be filled. Here we go. Change is coming.
SPEAKER 17 :
You want a thousand-word tweet is what you want.
SPEAKER 23 :
It's not a thousand-word tweet. That's like five other words.
SPEAKER 17 :
Changes are coming to the system. He could have added it. that it looks like there's a funnel he's trying to connect between American workers and farmers.
SPEAKER 23 :
I'm not accusing him of saying I want amnesty, but there is no way that anyone can argue that he did not leave that open for question. That's why I'm bringing this up.
SPEAKER 17 :
I don't know why we're surgically looking at these tweets like we have to have every damn detail.
SPEAKER 23 :
Because they imply certain aspects of the law being invoked. That's why. Silly. Oh, I can't believe. Words don't mean anything, Dino. What are you talking about? Words don't even mean things.
SPEAKER 17 :
Like, what? You'd need every post to have every surgical possible angle covered.
SPEAKER 23 :
No, I'm just saying a little clarity would be great. You are the leader of the free world, right?
SPEAKER 17 :
I mean, it's pretty clear. He's found an issue.
SPEAKER 23 :
It's like him going, I love pancakes, but I didn't say that I hated waffles. Okay, well, do you hate waffles? Like, why even bring that up? Like, why? Like, make it clear, man. You can add, I didn't say I hate waffles, which I also like. And then Cain's like, well, that's a thousand word tweet.
SPEAKER 17 :
What's that? I'm looking at this like a guy. You're looking at it like a woman.
SPEAKER 23 :
I'm looking at it.
SPEAKER 17 :
Oh, my gosh.
SPEAKER 23 :
I'm going to slap your facial hair right off your head. That's not even happening right now. I'm looking at it like a person that has literacy skills.
SPEAKER 17 :
You're looking at it like a woman. I'm looking at it like a guy.
SPEAKER 23 :
I'm sorry that you hate old people. I get it. And you're trying to make up for it by spinning this. I get it.
SPEAKER 17 :
Not all people are innocent.
SPEAKER 23 :
Get it. Oh, my gosh. I'm so sorry for the early bird special folks out there.
SPEAKER 17 :
I'm so sorry. We're taking care of him here.
SPEAKER 23 :
We're really trying to rein him in.
SPEAKER 17 :
I think a guy sees this and is like, oh.
SPEAKER 23 :
This is not a guy or girl thing. Look at you, woman, interrupting. Look at you, man, over talking too damn much. Good night.
SPEAKER 16 :
All right. That's it.
SPEAKER 23 :
He says change. And that's good. Changes are coming. But I just or look, the reason I bring this up is because voters on the right have been through this before. Now, before I begin this, because I swear if I get hate mails over this, I'm going to print them out, run them over with my little mini segue that I got from Mother's Day seven years ago. And I'm going to take it to Texas gun experience where I'm going to blow giant holes through it with some buckshot.
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We need that video.
SPEAKER 23 :
Here's the thing. We've been through this before. Reagan and Reagan was a good president. I disagree with them on his gun stuff and the amnesty because, hi, three million some people with amnesty. I forget the exact number, but that was a big problem. And even under W, that was a big problem. So we are used to people who are leaders on the right doing stuff like this. And that's why I'm like, there's a there's there's a pattern there. So, yes, we have every right to. To be a little twitchy about it. And ask questions. All I'm saying is, my goodness, you have all the keys on the keyboard. Use them. Use them. Be clear. Be articulate. Because otherwise, no, we're arguing like this. And I've got to make my voice do that. And it's weird. We have a lot more on the way. Including the... because I still feel like this leads some things open, and I hope he's asked questions about this. Some of the infighting with the GOP, apparently they're having a knock-down, drag-out brawl in a little Senate meeting right now over some of the costs in rescissions and some of the stuff with border funding. So we're going to touch on that a little bit here coming up. And then also, oh boy, hey, guess who's headlining one of Minnesota's no kings, whatever thing? Hello, it's Tim Walls, everybody. The real life Elmer Fudd. Elmer Fudd could at least shoot stuff properly and he could tie his rifle in a bow. Tim Walls can't even do those things. Can you believe that? So lame. As we move, our partners that help bring you the program, the folks over at Patriot Mobile, the only Christian conservative cell phone service in the country. With nationwide coverage that you can trust, you get exceptional nationwide coverage. They operate on all three major networks, so you're connected wherever it is that you go. And you have to be mindful with how you spend your money. Patriot Mobile is not donating the money that you pay for your service to things like DEI or gun control or... You know, illegal immigration advocacy. They have a 100% U.S.-based customer service team. They give you seamless switching. It's so easy to do. My mother can do it, so you definitely can too. You can keep your number, keep your phone, or you can get entirely new everything. It's just never been easier to switch. Visit patriotmobile.com slash Dana. And again, be mindful with your dollars. You need to know where you're spending your money. And this is the only cell phone service that actually is like-minded. You can also call 972-PATRIOT. And they're offering a free month of service online. only with promo code Dana. Switch today to Patriot Mobile. Defend freedom with every call and text you make. That's patriotmobile.com slash dana972patriot.
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Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States.
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which sounds like it would be an argument against having a national compulsory mandatory vaccine for everybody in the country, which of course we didn't have during COVID-19.
SPEAKER 23 :
I'm sorry, what did he just say? Excusez-moi? There was never a mandated COVID vaccine. I know people who literally were fired from their jobs because they didn't get one. Military members were forced to get one. I have a friend who's a nurse who was fired from her job Because she did not get the shot. And she worked in neonatal care.
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And surgeries were denied. Family visitations. Funerals. You couldn't visit. It was unreal what they did.
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Absolutely. So that's a lie. Jamie Raskin lying through his teeth. That's a lie. That makes me mad that they're trying to rewrite history. Y'all, we lived that. I'm not going to say with who, but I had meetings in New York when all that happened, like scheduled. Like I was supposed to be in New York for like a week. And of the places that I had to go, three of them I wouldn't actually have been admitted into. Yeah. And then I was told certain cab companies, I might not even, because you had to use your little app, your COVID app thing. And it would have it like even like where the card readers were to do, no joke. And I canceled all of my meetings and I was trying to, I was going to keep one. But then and this was like days before I just canceled everything. They said I needed to provide proof of vaccination and send the registration, whatever this app and made sure I had the app downloaded. I'm like, I am you guys probably kind of know what I'm talking about. But I'm like, I'm not doing I don't want anything that bad. So I just canceled it. Like, I'm not coming up. I'm not coming up. My agent was like, are you insane? I'm like, nope, I'm not doing this. I've had it already. I had COVID. And they were like, oh, well, that's not. I mean, I actually talked to someone there and they said, oh, well, that's unfortunately that's insufficient. I'm like, I'm sorry. Natural immunity is insufficient. So we just now reject science. By the way, how is that any different than pretending that if you just tape your weenus back, you're a woman? How is that any different than pretending that a man is a woman, pretending that natural immunity doesn't work? Those people are all the same. So I'm like, OK, well, if you don't really if I don't want to work with anybody who rejects science. So I'm canceling this. This is literally what I said. I'm canceling it. And I'm like, I'm not doing it. And then one of my friends was like, you can fake this. You know, we did like what? And then remember, that's when the Biden administration came out and they're like, that's a felony. You know, if you're going to pretend to have the vaccine and you're going to fake a government document.
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So it's a felony if you didn't get the vaccine, but it wasn't forced.
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Your taxes are paying for this ad being disseminated on Elon Musk's platform X that says, quote, help your country and yourself report all foreign invaders. General, did Vladimir Putin write that?
SPEAKER 25 :
he might very well have uh i'll tell you one foreign invader we could deal with is elon musk but having said that i mean it's just absurd that we would uh that america is in our strength in our democracy is is our is our ability to take so many different cultures and so many different religions and make make something great and that's what we've done throughout our entire diversity has been our strength
SPEAKER 23 :
Oh, my gosh. You got to wait. I got to get in the mantra. Jiminy Christmas. Freedom is our strength, you moron. Welcome back to the program. That's a little back and forth. MSNBC, they were melting down over this ad that DHS released. And it says it's an old... It's modeled after an old World War II kind of thing. And it says... this poster that was, it's in like a cream colored blue and red. And it says, help your country and yourself. And it's uncle Sam, who's like nailing the sign that says, help your country and yourself report all foreign invaders. And it has ISIS number eight, six, six DHS two eyes. And they were really upset about it over an MSNBC. And I, I mean, I, what's the, can I just, what is it? They're talking about people who are committing crimes by entering illegally, right? So what's the issue? And what am I missing? Anything? I don't think I'm missing something.
SPEAKER 17 :
No. I mean, she even said, hey, this is what your tax dollars are. I'm like, oh, well, that's good.
SPEAKER 23 :
Yeah, enforcing the law?
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 23 :
Or, I mean, I'm sorry that I'm not studying shrimp on treadmills and feeding fish cocaine. Sorry. Hunter Biden just identified as a fish.
SPEAKER 17 :
I saw what USAID was doing. So this stuff makes me feel good when you say my tax dollars are going to this.
SPEAKER 23 :
Then you have the Libertarian Party of New York. We don't snitch to feds. Someone enters the country illegally and you're not going to – don't sit here and model yourself as like some big constitutionalist when you don't even believe in upholding law. I mean, yeah. I don't know. I mean, it's – what's the problem? I think it's – if you don't look at all of this through the context of a foreign invasion, then you're going to have a problem with it. If you are still operating in the – old mindset of, well, an invasion has to be official and they have to announce it and show up wearing uniforms and all have the same patches and drop, drop, drop, then if you think that that is your antiquated mindset, then yeah, you're going to have a problem with this. But if you have modernized in your thinking and your approach to asymmetrical warfare, you're going to recognize that you don't have to fire a single shot or have a uniform military presence to kick off an invasion and that's the point that's what people don't realize i do i believe that china is working with mexico oh hells yes i do this is why i don't go to mexico i absolutely will not we have friends and family vacation there you know a couple of times a year and they always ask us to go and we're always like nope not doing it stop giving it your money because it goes to the I don't that's if you look at it, like I said, through that very. And antiquated, it's just antiquated. It's it's then then you don't realize what the purpose is here. Trying to hamstring people up by the appearance, but not practice of their laws is what the New York Libertarian Party is getting all turned around about. Welcome to the program. Dana Lash with you. Top of the second hour. And we've been talking about a lot of stuff here, including because we've got this. Can I play this audio soundbite from Trump? This is the immigration thing. Then we're going to switch to Iran. This was from a little earlier from this press avail that just wrapped. He gave a speech. He was signing some stuff. And he was asked about this post that he had on True Social, wherein he was saying that that, put it in Slack, and you played it, where he was saying, he was asked about the workers, the quote-unquote migrant workers, people who are illegal immigrants that are working in agriculture and in hospitality. And he had posted about it on True Social. This is what he just said like minutes ago. Listen.
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Badly by, you know, they have very good workers. They've worked for them for 20 years. They're not citizens, but they've turned out to be, you know, great workers. And we're going to have to do something about that. We can't take farmers and take all their people and send them back because they don't have maybe what they're supposed to have, maybe not. And you know what's going to happen and what is happening? They get rid of some of the people because, you know, you go into a farm and you look and People don't. They've been there for 20, 25 years and they've worked great. And the owner of the farm loves them and everything else. And then you're supposed to throw them out. And you know what happens? They end up hiring the people, the criminals that have come in, the murderers from prisons and everything else. So we're we're going to have an order on that pretty soon. I think we can't do that to our farmers and leisure to hotels. We're going to have to use a lot of common sense on that.
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So what does that mean? Are we just going to allow them to stay because they broke the law the longest? I mean, is that are we preparing an executive order to prevent people working specifically in hospitality and agriculture from being deported? Why did nobody ask that question at this press avail? Sometimes even the right media sucks. Like, why did nobody ask that? So wait, are we, I mean, that's a genuine question. Are we going to be issuing, is there an executive order coming? Because he said there was going to be an executive order. Is the order going to detail preventing people who work in those two industries, in agriculture and hospitality, from being deported? How is that on amnesty? Do you consider that a fulfillment of a campaign promise? This is the issue. This is why. And it's a false choice. I mean, why in the world would this be pushed now? I mean, what has been a driving force in destroying rural America? Stuff like this. Stuff like this. So, I mean, it was reported as it was an EO that was coming. So I don't know what this all is going to entail. But I mean, we have E-Verify. We can implement, you know, the what is it? The Farm Workforce Modernization Act. We also have H2A. There's like a million different things that we could implement so that we don't have to coddle people who enter illegally. I don't care how long someone's broken the law. That's a bad argument, by the way, for allowing them to skirt the law. Well, they broke it the longest. Okay, and? Well, he's killed the most people. So, you know, what does that mean? He's stolen the most stuff. Like he gives you, as Cain said, seniority or something. That doesn't mean anything. I love the people that bitch and moan about wanting to get $15 an hour, but then they want to fill up all the workspace with people who will do those same jobs for five. Seriously, this is, this is not what we voted for. This is not at all. So keep an eye on this. Cause I'm very, I'm very interested in seeing what this executive order, what this means, because if you, so you know what that means? That means more people are going to cross illegally specifically to work in those two industries. That's what it means. Exactly. So what is it? These lobbies have been pressuring POTUS? Because it sounds like it. I mean, it's a it's a I don't if this part of the problem is that employers have been skirting the law with this. I mean, this is why you have visas. You have to make sure that people are properly vetted. You have to be able to control the amount, the the incoming population. You have to be able to control this. So I don't know why he's unveiling this or why he's even flirting with us because this was a winning issue for him for the campaign. In fact, since 2016, this has been his top issue. And in the areas where he has lost support, it has been over this issue. And that is a fact because I've seen the raw data. I sought primaries and caucuses and I've seen it at previous elections. I'm like, oh my gosh, whenever this is like his golden issue. If he stays consistent on this, he's got everything else covered. And I don't know why he's who's telling him to do this or is this because he's tweeted about this kind of stuff before. And I think maybe it's just where he is. I don't know. But man, this is unfortunate. So we're going to watch and I'm going to see. I'm going to you know, I just don't have like you guys know me. I expect the worst so I can always be pleasantly surprised. But this is it's concerning. Also concerning is the lobby to get us into a war with Iran. I'm really getting tired of this. And this absolutely is a neocon wing. And by the way, someone said that neocon was an anti-Semitic slur. I don't know. I can't remember who it was reported. And I'm like, that's actually one of the most inaccurate and dumb things I've ever heard. It's an old Cold War phrase that was applied to people who looked at, you know, they were the hammer and everything was the nail. It had nothing to do with religion. I don't know why – you know what? That's being leveraged as emotional blackmail to try to get you into supporting conflict with Iran. This – a couple of things on that. I saw that – The Saudis had remarked on this. The Saudi crown prince of the Ayatollah wanted to create a project in the Middle East. And, you know, he's he's dangerous. They don't they they're they're warning people. They can't develop it. They can't develop a nuclear bomb. And Saudi Arabia is, you know, it's Saudi. The Saudis in Iran are geopolitical enemies of the highest order. I'm why is it that we're being pushed to consider strikes in Iran? Do you know that the word came out? Did we evacuated our embassies? Hang on, let me put this up. Because that order came in. U.S. is partially evacuating embassies in Iraq as Iranian tensions rise. This was just a few hours ago from the BBC. And it's not just that. It's several Middle East embassies. So it's the one in Iraq and Baghdad. The AP said it's all being limited to non-essential stuff. And a little concern there. Audio soundbite three. This is a reporter asking POTUS about this. Listen. Hmm. We'll have to see. Audio soundbite four. This is where he says they cannot have a nuclear weapon. Listen.
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an update on Iran. We're hearing reports that U.S. personnel are being moved out of the region within striking distance.
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Well, they are being moved out because it could be a dangerous place and we'll see what happens. But they are and we've given notice to move out and we'll see what happens.
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Is there anything that could be done to dial the temperature down in the region?
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They can't have a nuclear. Yeah, we can't have a nuclear. Iran has said previously that they just want peaceful production purposes, which I don't know. But they also added, they said one of their leaders said Wednesday, quote, if a conflict is imposed on us, all bases, specifying U.S. bases, are within our reach. So, Apparently, it's not going to affect a large number of personnel. The State Department is also authorizing departure of non-essential personnel and their family members from Bahrain and Kuwait. Pentagon is supporting a potential evacuation of U.S. personnel from the embassy in Baghdad. And it looks like it's getting dicey. Why do we have to lead any action on this? Why? I've been hearing the same thing my entire life. Oh, Iran is minutes away from having a bomb, from having nuclear capacity. Oh, I've been hearing this my whole damn life over and over and over again. The United States is not a mercenary for Saudi Arabia or any other nation in the Middle East, including any allies we may have. I am completely fine with any other allies getting involved, especially Arab League or anything like that, getting involved, taking point on that and doing what they got to do. But I'll be damned if we spend any more blood and treasure fighting somebody else's wars. We're going to have more on this coming up after headlines. We got to move. And as we do so, the folks who help make the program possible, the burn a gun. I always carry and I have no problem using lethal force to protect myself. The issue, though, comes from the places that do have issue with you protecting yourself. And heaven forbid they offer any kind of armed security to protect you too, right? Talking about private property restrictions, municipal restrictions, or college kids that are old enough to live on their own and go to school, but they're not old enough to carry a handgun for protection. This is where the Burna gun comes in. So most stun guns have one or two rounds. Burna gun has five. It shoots chemical irritant projectiles that can deter threats from up to 50 feet away. There's no recoil. Target acquisition is super easy. And the big thing is that Burna is legal in all 50 states. There's no background checks. There's no waiting periods. There's no permits. They ship it right to your door. It's accessible for everybody. So you still have a means with which to defend yourself. This is why diversity with your weapons array is important. You carry different calibers. You carry rifles and pistols. You have blades. Something like this in those instances is also incredibly helpful. Now, they have rifles, but I think for this explicit purpose, the Berna SD, which is their most popular selling model, and then the Berna CL. The CL stands for compact launcher. That's 38% smaller than the SD. Everything's made right here in the U.S. of A., And you can go and look at the different projectiles. You can actually go and look at how it works. Different projectiles, different accessories, the whole nine yards. But you have an effective deterrent still. And you also have the legal access. Visit Burna.com slash Dana and get your hands on the new Burna CL. That's B-Y-R-N-A dot com slash Dana. Burna, ready when you are.
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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 they're doing another Spaceballs, a theatrical release that's going to be in, what, 2027, I think it was. Variety decided to do a pop-up ad that all of a sudden out of nowhere to block this, so I'm going to have to reopen it. Mel Brooks is apparently going to return in it, and I don't know how I feel about it. Because Josh Gad's in it, and I'm not a Josh Gad fan. Do you like Josh Gad? He was the guy who played the snowman in... frozen it was his voice but mel brooks is returning as yogurt and uh i don't know like i said i don't know how i feel about it i was a fan of the first and i'm gonna reserve i guess my criticisms uh yeah but still uh cardio before after weights new research might finally have the answer they're saying that it actually might be better to do it after you do your weights Yeah, do cardio after. They said that people who did cardio after they lifted weights, they had better results than if you did cardio before you lifted weights. And that they felt more focused and they felt better throughout the day. I thought that was kind of interesting. No, no, no. I don't like cardio. I think your cardio should be, you know, like whatever is in... In between your sets, right? In India, at least one passenger survived the crash of an Air India airliner carrying 242 passengers and crew. It was en route to the UK from India. There's like one survivor, they said. There's one guy that walked away from it. That is crazy. But they said that it crashed shortly after takeoff, carrying 242 passengers and crew. That's insane. Also, let's see here, because Safari is the worst browser on guides. Green Earth, the let's see, they said U.S. the protests in L.A. They said CNN was complaining about the smell of weed in the air. Let's see. Also, the NPR newsroom was awash in sex, drugs and rock and roll, complete with a staff cocaine dealer. Is Hunter Biden involved in this? Yeah, I don't know about that. I really don't know about that. That seems a little weird. As we move, our partners that help bring you the program, it's our friends at All Family Pharmacy. I cannot say enough good things about this website. I use this website. I have it bookmarked. And I think you need to also. Here's the thing. It doesn't matter if you have insurance or not. They have super affordable prices and they have super fast shipping. Let me give you an example. I was having my family come over for Thanksgiving. Right. I'm hosting Thanksgiving. They were going to be here in two days. Oh, my gosh. I started getting strep. I know I've had it enough where I knew I was getting it. I didn't want to go wait for forever at urgent care and pay like an astronomical fee. And I couldn't get in with my, you know, PCP. So I ended up, I had something overnighted, my medicines overnighted from All Family Pharmacy. And immediately I felt better the next day after I took it, my antibiotic and I was fine and good and Thanksgiving was great. They can do your everyday medicines in addition to antibiotics, in addition to The ivermectin and the hydroxychloroquine. They have emergency kits. I mean, they literally have everything you need to be prepared and control. And you can get your order in two to three days or overnight in a pinch. So to show your support and help out everybody else, All Family Pharmacy, to show support for you, they're offering you 20% off your entire order. 20% off right now through the month of June. Site-wide, no insurance required. Visit allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana and get 20% off only with code Dana20. Don't wait for permission to protect yourself and your family. Visit allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana. Use coupon code Dana20 to save 20%.
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No kings protests planned across the country on Saturday as well. What are your thoughts on those? No kings? No kings. I don't feel like a king.
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I have to go through hell to get stuff approved. A king would say, I'm not going to get this. A king would have never had the California mandate to even be talking to him. He wouldn't have to call up Mike Johnson and Thune and say, fellas, you got to pull this off. And after years, we get it done. No, no, we're not a king. We're not a king at all. Thank you very much.
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Well, he's right. I don't think these people know what words have meanings. He's not a king, said the people who literally put halos around Barack Obama's head for eight years. He's not a king, said people who allow Joe Biden to just be like an empty listless vessel and they use the auto pin. Come on. Welcome back. Dana Lash with you at the bottom of the second hour. So, mm-mm-mm. We're talking about Iran and how I don't know for I don't know why now the U.N. they have this board of governors. And it's I was looking at this piece that was from Reuters. The IAEA board declares Iran is in breach of something. They're in breach of nonproliferation obligations. Just now, Cain.
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Just now, the UN Nuclear Watchdog's 35-nation Board of Governors declared Iran in a breach of its non-proliferation obligations for the first time in almost 20 years on Thursday, raising the prospect of reporting it to the UN Security Council.
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We are going to report you to the hall monitors. The same people have been quiet this entire time. so weird and now we're everyone is looking at the united states everybody everybody's looking at the us going so what are you going to do us um really it's not our problem all you other guys except tulsi said stuff the other day yeah i know i'm gonna get to that i have i have a feeling that tulsi gabbard is trying to just audition for jd vance's vp And that's literally all she's trying. That's why she has this campaign video out now. Notice when Trump had the meeting of cabinet officials and all these other officials that included other security agencies talking about some of the stuff, she was not there. Just saying, I don't know. I suspect that she's auditioning already to be J.D. Vance's VP pick for 2028, which I think is dangerous and I don't back. But, you know, that's a whole other thing that we'll get to when we get there. I just don't get into cult of personality. I'm about consistency. You've got to show me that you're consistent. I'm not going to take somebody like this who just turned around and then immediately put them in charge of war operations. Not going to do it. So the. Issue with Iran. I'm not an isolationist. And I think that that is a vapid, idiotic, progressive-esque response as a way to immediately shut down the challenge that my viewpoint represents to the Lindsey Graham crowd. The Lindsey Graham crowd always is like, oh, you're an isolationist then. No, I'm not. I am totally fine with war as a last option. But I've been told that we've got to get involved and go to war with these people literally my whole entire life. My whole life has been Iran is minutes away from a nuke. My whole life. Kane, correct me if I'm wrong. Your whole life. I mean, good night. All throughout the 90s, Iran is minutes away from a nuke. The aughts. Iran is minutes away from a nuke. The 2010s, whatever those are called. Iran is minutes away from a nuke. Now, Iran is minutes away from a nuke. So what is that? Oh, you got to go to war. You got to send everyone to war. What? And then I love the people who are out there going, well, gosh, you must be stupid to think that we're still putting boots on the ground. So tell me if we conduct a strike and then we get struck in retaliation. Tell me then how that all peters out. Some of these people have the foresight of a tree stump. Jiminy Christmas. But I'm what is the UN resolution going to do? Oh, nothing. I'm not even going to wait to pretend that I don't know the answer to that. Nothing. It's nothing. I mean, rhetorical. Reuters said they saw the text, the damning IAEA report. What? Their failure to provide credible explanations of how uranium traces were detected at undeclared sites in Iran. What? But the agency has been looking at this for years, though.
SPEAKER 22 :
They found three or four locations were part of an undeclared structured nuclear program carried out by Iran until the early 2000s. And that some activities used undeclared nuclear material. OK, again, early 2000s.
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Why now are we being pushed, pushed, pushed, pushed, pushed into doing something? There is there are people in Trump's ear that are telling him, oh, you need to strike these sites. And they're all hoping that. This is they're all like, I think, hoping and praying that, you know, something like this is going to lead to, you know, look at this. So we got to strike now. And then they convince POTUS to do it. But then, you know, thankfully that there are people that are, you know, urging a lot of caution and saying, haven't we been doing this for years now? I mean, it's been the same thing for years. I just I don't see why we have any obligation to spend our time in treasure when, you know, Saudi Arabia, they're Saudi Arabia's biggest foe. Israel could handle them easily. The only reason that they haven't is because everybody's been wringing their hands and, well, you see it with Gaza. Israel gets attacked and it's somehow Israel's fault. Let them handle this stuff. It'd be like Patrick Swayze in Roadhouse. Just let them roadhouse it, man. Let them wear the tight jeans and like, you know, do aerial kicks on all these people. Let's let it happen. But they've really been pushing for this. And I don't see why we have to go in and be the Middle East's janitor. And that's what it is, really. Why are we always volunteered by every other nation to be the Middle East's janitor? Saudi Arabia is spending all this money on e-sports and cinema and everything else. They are more than capable of handling Iran on their own. Why do we have to strike? Everyone says, oh, well, they called us the great, they called us the big devil. Okay, let's go back to Roadhouse. Yeah, but what if they call my mama a whore? Well, is she? It's the Roadhouse rule. It is the Roadhouse rule. I don't understand why we, like, name calling? Really? Two nouns put together to elicit a prescribed response. That's it. That's it. But what if someone calls us the big devil? Well, are you? We're going to seriously commit a strike because actual serious talking heads have actually thrown that out there as a reason to have a military response. I'm not even kidding you. Good night. So I don't know. I don't know why this is being pushed the way that it is. And then a lot of the poll and some of the polling is weird, too. I don't trust a lot of the Republican leaning pollsters on it because Republicans tend to be pretty neocon. And again, I hate the way that that's people are trying to be emotionally black belt black mailed into thinking that neocon means something that it doesn't. It's not a slur. It's an old Cold War term specifically used to describe people who thought themselves hammers and everything else is a nail. It has nothing to do with faith or ethnicity or anything else. And shame on the people trying to argue otherwise. We have no obligation to do any of this. So why is it being pushed so hard? I mean, I get the Lindsey Graham because they love, you know, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb around. That's the way they've always been. But it's not the way forward for the U.S. The crown prince, he did an interview with 60 Minutes. And he said Saudi Arabia does not want nuclear bombs. But if Iran develops nukes, we will follow suit. I mean, it seems like to me, because he said, you know, Saudi Arabia has told the U.S. back in 2008, they said, cut off the head of the snake. This was Reuters piece. And Trump has said, well, we can't let them have nuclear weapons. Well, who's the closest over there that can do something about it? Why is it that Saudi Arabia is like, oh, they can't have this. We'll have to follow suit. Well, just do something about it to where they can't have it. We are not, again, the janitor for the Middle East. We are not mercenaries. Our sons and daughters are not mercenaries that other nations can call up to go and deal with their issues. And that's not an isolationist position. It's the opposite of that. So I I really don't want that faction within the Trump administration to win. I really don't. And I get I've been seeing a lot of debate about this and I get I'm just you can't. And also that anybody would float that after delivering to us the quote unquote big, beautiful bill. No. And all of the people that want us to go and get involved in a military conflict in Iran, they're not volunteering their children, their husbands, their wives, their sons and daughters, their family members, their loved ones, their friends. They're not volunteering their anything, anybody close to them. They want other people's families to go fight these wars. They want other people to go do it. I think if you're a lawmaker and you're demanding that we go and fight every damn foreign conflict all around the world, your kids should be forcefully conscripted. Your kids should be the first people that are conscripted. If you're not going to sit here and play kingmaker with the lives and blood and treasure of everybody else. just asinine. And it's not isolationist. It's the military industrial complex. They need to make some cash. And that's a real thing. Eisenhower talked about it. Hell, it is a real thing. This is where we got to be smart. Don't be emotionally blackmailed into thinking into this false choice. Well, if I don't want conflict as a first resort, then I must be an isolationist. No, you're not. We've relied on the dippy UN. The UN. What has the UN ever prevented? What has it ever prevented? Nothing. It hasn't done anything but rape people over in Bosnia. Hasn't done anything. The whole peacekeepers. Now, we are... Waiting to to hear more about what's going to be happening with some of these agriculture and I guess hospitality workers, their visas. And I there's another issue. I'm pulling this up because it was a tweet that I had yesterday wherein. Part of the deal with China, which we're going to dive into coming up in this third hour, the part of the deal with China that apparently is being made is including continuing to allow Chinese students to attend colleges and universities. And this has been after this was after Marco Rubio actually suspended those visas. So we're going to talk about that, suspended that, put a moratorium on that whole program. We're going to talk about all of that here coming up. Recently, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis legalized gold and silver as acceptable currency, meaning that Floridians cannot make transactions in gold and silver, thus creating an alternative to the U.S. dollar. So I guess all the inflation and national debt that's spiraling out of control, not to mention the recent credit downgrade for the United States, has finally opened up all lawmakers' eyes. The writing has been on the wall for a long time, and it's time to protect yourself against the declining value of the dollar. 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Pastor Alan Jackson says the church has abdicated its duty to stand up for biblical truth.
SPEAKER 14 :
It grieves me a lot that a president has to stand up. I mean, for the most part, a secular president has to stand up and say there's two sexes. You know, where the heck were the churches? Where was the scientific community? We were so cowed by cultural pressure that we were denying the truth.
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It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man.
SPEAKER 21 :
No, no, no, no. No, not this. Unfortunately, yes.
SPEAKER 23 :
No. It's a smoking gun. A seven-year-old Florida man peed on Spam and Vienna sausages. It's not the headline you were anticipating, is it? No. Cops charged that a witness spotted Patrick Mitchell relieving himself in aisle 18 at the Sam's Club in Lady Lake in Orlando. The witness used her cell phone to take a picture of the defendant, reported the incident to the store employees per the probable cause affidavit. Sam's Club's managers reviewed the surveillance footage, spotted the dude walking up to the pallets and placing both hands in front of him below the belt line, and he stood there for several seconds. They said the, quote, behavior was consistent with urination. They confirmed that there was urine on two pallets containing 188 bulk units of Vienna sausages and 345 units of eight count canned spam classic. They said the whole thing had to be discarded because they were contaminated with grody bodily fluids from this old weirdo. I and he apparently was a member and he's been arrested before for disorderly conduct and mischief. And oh, you know where he lives at, Steve, don't you? Yeah, if you had to guess where Mitchell lives, it's... Is it right with the village? It does. The villages. That's right. The friendliest hometown in Florida. So he and his wife live in the villages. I don't understand what would motivate someone. I feel like that's a part of the story that really needs to be explored. But, okay. Here we have another machete. A Florida man was stabbed with a machete and driven to the hospital by the guy who stabbed him with it. Angel Ramos Arce. Arce? Arce? I don't know. Got into a verbal altercation with the guy in a Circle K. And apparently they got an argument and a machete was produced. Someone got stabbed. And then the guy drove him to the hospital. But then he ran away, apparently. So they're asking for people to try to track him down. I'm sorry. I cannot believe the number of people who own a machete in Florida. And all my Florida friends are like, well, that's because, you know, it's a swamp. I'm like, you don't live in the jungle. I see your house on Facebook. You live in a subdivision. You've got a nice small lawn and beautiful landscaping. For crying out loud, you've got an enclosed pool. There's windows all over it. Why do you need a machete? I mean, I'm all for having machetes, but I'm just, I don't believe y'all are out there whacking, you know, jungle planes every day.
SPEAKER 17 :
But iguanas are literally falling out of trees and landing on you.
SPEAKER 23 :
Do you just like bat them away with a machete?
SPEAKER 17 :
I feel like you're in somewhat of a video game. It's like Dark Tide. But it's just with a machete and you're just protecting yourself all day long.
SPEAKER 23 :
You're just out there waylaying stuff, you know.
SPEAKER 17 :
You're just surviving.
SPEAKER 23 :
Me and my friends, we're just waylaying things. Uh, let's see. I got a couple of other. Oh, I'm not gonna. Nope, definitely not. Okay, well, let's let me do this one real quick. This Florida woman. Her last name is fail. Not making this up. And she's smiling all pretty in her mugshot. 21-year-old Miami woman. She's facing multiple felony charges because she smashed a bunch of vehicles with a baseball bat. She made her own Beyonce Lemonade video. She struck her boyfriend. She apparently left a nonverbal child alone in a parked car and went to go beat up everybody's stuff. She also got charged with a count of child neglect for leaving the child in the car. Apparently, all the people whose cars she destroyed were relatives of her boyfriend. antonisha fail oh my gosh what a last name one of the victims uh had an uh had a nephew that was that alerted police and uh she like busted off the all the side mirrors i mean everything she's on ring camera video footage doing it So basically, she got dumped and she went on a tear. Stick with us. We've got a lot more in store. Third hour on the way. Summer is all about making great memories. Backyard barbecues, road trips, lake days, even just relaxing in a hammock with a good book. Spending time with friends and family, catching sunset views. But if you're living with pain... Those future memories can be stolen from you. It's kind of hard to enjoy the simple moments when you're in pain. So here's a thought. Try Relief Factor. Relief Factor is a 100% drug-free daily supplement designed to help your body fight pain. It's a doctor-developed formula made with natural ingredients. And unlike pain meds that just mask it, Relief Factor works to reduce, even eliminate, your pain for good. So whether you're spending time at the lake or chasing your kids or grandkids or just enjoying a summer stroll, Relief Factor can help you feel better, move better, and do more of what you love. Reclaim your summer. Visit relieffactor.com or call 1-800-4-RELIEF to get the three-week quick start for just $19.95. That's 1-800-4-RELIEF. Fight pain naturally with Relief Factor.
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It feels like it, and I think the president does not care that he's put us in this position. And let's be clear, the president put us in this position. When we look at the fact that you are talking about a president who ran on, we're going after violent criminals, we're getting the worst of the worst out. And now he's taking people that have been here for years, have been taxpayers, have had families here, and just grabbing them up. in one seat, of course you're going to have a reaction.
SPEAKER 23 :
No, sorry, but you're not. When you're not here legally, you're not paid into federal taxes. Stop. Welcome back to the program. That's Al Sharpton. People are just snatching people up, just snatching them, snatchy snatch, snatching them up. Sharpton is blaming Trump for grabbing people up in L.A. Well, again, if you are here, I don't care how long someone's been here illegally, it's still illegal. Can we stop with this whole... idea that well if you're here if you've been breaking the law the longest then you get seniority for amnesty what let's stop with us welcome back dana lash with you top of this third hour audio only until monday juan's traveling for a joyous family occasion so we are uh old school right now so we'll have the video and all that back up on monday i told you we have a skeleton crew We so that's the way so that's what you got But it's good because we can it's we have natural light in the studio for the first time in forever And i'm we don't know I joked earlier. I joke, but it's actually true We're like cave trolls who just like got exposed to natural light for the first time in like years We don't know how to react to it. What is this bright thing in the sky? Is that an explosion? I don't know so, um The left has been melting down over deportation still. And then they have the no kings thing that's going to happen. And they've, I don't know, Karen Bass is like threatening. It sounds like she's threatening to allow all this stuff to keep on going until Trump stops enforcing the law, which doesn't make any sense. Listen.
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A week ago, everything was peaceful in the city of Los Angeles and in all of the representatives behind me in their cities as well. Things began to be difficult on Friday when raids took place. And it's important that I begin there because that is the cause of the problems that have happened in the city of Los Angeles and other cities. This was provoked by the White House. The reason why, we don't know. What?
SPEAKER 23 :
It was provoked by the White House. So they brought all those people in here illegally and then they just set all this up so that they what is it? That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Stop. Full stop. I don't understand her that nobody's nobody buys this. This is so goofy. Why are we doing this? They set all of this up. They didn't, though. That's that's the issue. You allowed all of this to happen because you refused to enforce the law. This is why the Democrats are in such a horrible position right now. Have you guys been seeing what's going on with the feet with the male asterisk version of Greta Thunberg? Have you seen Kane, the Democratic Party? They are going to once again redo, they're ordering a redo of vice chair elections. So they're having a fight over the mail, Greta, asterisk, Greta Thunberg. Yeah. Got an asterisk there after the mail. And because they got their own DEI rules and broiled them. I am here for this. I don't care. I don't think David Hogg has done anything. David Hogg hasn't done anything. He's one of those guys that just wants the title. and doesn't wanna do the work. He wasn't even there from reports when they had the shooting at Parkland, but then he like catapulted himself with the help of the PR firm that Barack Obama used, Anita Dunn's, to the forefront of it and like took over the spotlight from everybody, including like the actual survivors. And was just nasty to everybody. He wants he doesn't understand how government works. He went on CNN and MSNBC railing against me saying that I owned members of Congress, which if that's true, then why don't we have national reciprocity? You know, why don't we have why is the IRS still exist? You know, things like that. But they're fighting over control of the party. And it's not, he's just like an avatar. It's not that he has any real power within the DNC. It's just that's how disorganized they are right now. I just think it's hysterical that they're all at each other's throats. This is making it so much easier for Gavin Newsom to assume control. Sometimes I wonder if it's not a psyop. They're all fighting just so that Gavin Newsom can come in and look like he's, you know, look at me. I've calmed everything down. I'm telling you, don't underestimate this cat. It's so much of it seems that way. But I don't. Does anybody know what their new platform is? Nobody knows. Nobody knows what they're. Nobody knows. It's just amnesty. And they want to be able to talk to your kids about strangers genitals. That's all their platform is anymore on taxes. And yeah, that's it. That's it. Open border chaos. And we want to talk to your kids about strangers' genitals. That's a Democrat Party platform. In a nutshell. Completely accurate. It's asinine. I saw this headline, too. We were talking about Iran last hour. Lorraine just kicked this in. The U.S. State Department has issued a security warning now for the entire Middle East and Northern Africa.
SPEAKER 1 :
Huh.
SPEAKER 23 :
Well, so that's happening. Can we not? Just saying for some friends, for just general all of us. Can we not? I just don't want to kick off. It's the summer of everything. Good night. It's the summer of everything. I also, actually, I'm going to kick back because I forgot to play this audio. Hold up. Audio sound by six. So we have the No Kings podcast. rallies or protest riots that are scheduled for June 14th. And they're trying to do them in a number of different states. They're trying to do it in Fort Worth here in Texas. They announced that they were going to do some in Florida. This is what the Florida governor had to say about protesting people blocking roads. Listen.
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And we also have a policy that if you're driving on one of those streets and a mob comes and surrounds your vehicle and threatens you, you have a right to flee for your safety. And so you drive off and you hit one of these people. That's their fault for impinging on you. You don't have to sit there and just be a sitting duck and let the mob grab you out of your car and drag you through the streets. You have a right to defend yourself.
SPEAKER 23 :
Amen. That's true. How many of these have you seen? I mean, we've seen a lot of this stuff over the years where people have been blocked in traffic and they can't get out and then people start beating up their cars and they're just trying to leave and either get home or get to their work or whatever it is. But these are coming up. I thought it was on Monday. It's coming up on Saturday. It's these nationwide riots, the No Kings rallies. I'm so tired of this nonsense. They... have this all scheduled they keep saying it's going to be peaceful you know what this means it means news crews are going to be working overtime on saturday everything's going to get watched and they like hillary clinton was promoting it and she's also promoting her little fundraising pack everybody's trying to grift off this thing she goes the right to peacefully protest is fundamental no president can nullify it it's in the constitution well wait a minute though is assault and arson. Is that considered, is that in the constitution? Hang on. Let me control F it. Let me just see the constitution of the United States. We're going to Google, Google, Google, Google, Google, Google in right now. Okay. Let's control F arson. Oh, it's so weird. I'm not finding it in here. You know what? Maybe I used the wrong word. Let's not control a fire. Let's control a fire. No. Fires? Even though fire would have picked up the fires? Nope. Let's see. Destruction. Nope. What about assault? Nope. Nope. What about throwing chunks... Let me put in throwing chunks of concrete at police. Throwing... Let me see. You probably hear me type it. Throwing chunks of concrete at police. Oh, no. That's also not in here. I'm having problems. Maybe there's something wrong with my browser. Not finding any of this in the Constitution, but Hillary, that elderly white woman who fell down in the street and lost her Tory Burch slipper and then said everyone was racist for not voting for her in 2016, she maintains, Cain, that this stuff is in the... This is peaceful protest. I have no idea. It's in the... But I'm not finding the arson... You know what? Let's look at looting. Looting. Nope. Stealing? Nope. Taking. Nope. None of it's in there. But I'm control F-ing it. I'm looking for this, Cain, and it's not coming up. None of these things are coming up in this. So what is happening?
SPEAKER 17 :
What the control F?
SPEAKER 23 :
I don't even know. Oh, my gosh. I'm looking. I don't see it in here at all. I don't see it.
SPEAKER 22 :
Now, petition, the First Amendment says, Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press or of the right of the people to peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
SPEAKER 23 :
What do they mean, petitioning the government for a redress of grievances? What does that mean? Does that mean, would you consider taking a giant chunk of concrete and throwing it at a cop?
SPEAKER 17 :
That seems several stages past petitioning.
SPEAKER 23 :
Now, the phrase, the petitioning the government for redress of grievances. I mean, really, what that means is you are making a request by which you want to correct or somehow remedy an injustice, a perceived wrong or a perceived injustice. And you're doing it through legal recourse. Huh. That kind of sounds, Cain, like that does not include taking giant chunks of concrete and throwing them down on cop cars from highway overpasses.
SPEAKER 17 :
I didn't hear that.
SPEAKER 23 :
That kind of sounds like that does not include burning down businesses or looting businesses. In fact, I would think that that would actually be an infringement upon someone else's right to be safe and secure on their own. So what is she talking about here? Goodness gracious. Did she fall down again? I don't know. Our partners that help bring you the program, it's our friends at Patriot Mobile, the only Christian conservative cell phone service in the country. And Patriot Mobile, they want to make sure that, you know, you want to be mindful with your money. They're mindful with the money that people send them for service. And they're not going to put money behind things that you don't believe in or vote against at the ballot box. While also. providing you with exceptional nationwide coverage. They operate on all three major networks, so you get to stay connected wherever you go. And when you switch, you're working with a 100% U.S.-based customer service team. They're dedicated to making your switch easy. Keep your number, keep your phone, upgrade. It's never been easier to switch, and the choice is entirely yours. Visit patriotmobile.com slash Dana or call 972-PATRIOT and get a free month of service using promo code DANA. Switch today and defend freedom with every call and text you make. Get that free month of service using promo code Dana only at patriotmobile.com slash Dana or by calling 972-PATRIOT.
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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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I didn't want to keep this in Florida, man, just because it seems sensitive. A nine-year-old girl was snorkeling off of the shore of Boca Grande and with her mom and siblings. This is yesterday. Her hand was bitten off by a shark. Off. All the way off. It is insane. They said it looked like it was an eight-foot bull shark. It got her right hand and part of her wrist. And she emerged from the water on her own, completely covered in blood. The construction workers nearby, God love them, they saw it and were like, whoa! They called 911 and they created a tourniquet on a beach top with the family to stop the bleeding. She was airlifted 100 miles away, admitted for emergency surgery. They were hoping to reattach it. They said everybody was in shock. They heard her scream. And some people were not aware that they had just witnessed a shark attack. It was a little confusing. But they said her whole hand was only hanging by like one tendon. One tendon. One tendon. And they said the bones were complete. I mean, wow. So that's oh my gosh. So they had to get arteries from her leg to her hand to get the blood flow back. They had to install pins. So they're trying to reattach it. They said that they were able to get it to where she could move her fingers. But can you believe this? That is insane. I mean, that's you got to be so careful when you're in the water. You got to be really careful. I'm not saying she wasn't at all. It's just sometimes things like that can happen. It's oh, let's see. Apparently singing is good for your brain even if you're bad at it. Really? Really? They said that making music boosts brain and mental health, according to a study coming from the behavioral sciences at Stanford School of Medicine. And they were focusing on researching music-based treatments for mental health. And they had said that, yeah, when you sing, apparently releases dopamine and activates the brain's reward system. And that's one of the reasons why karaoke apparently is super popular. And people are, you know, without liquor, people are, you know, happy with it. They studied, for instance, 8,000 Swedish twins. And the one that played music more than the other had better emotional awareness. That's crazy. Wow. That's really interesting. That doesn't mean I'm going to start singing regularly. I'm an alto. Like, I'm a hardcore alto, you know. Sometimes I feel like the princess from Spaceballs. Nobody knows the trouble I've seen. I feel like our... over $400,000 worth of cocaine found hidden in shoes at an airport in Toronto. Why do people think they're going to get this stuff through? It blows the mind. But they, so apparently, you know, like somebody had a suitcase that they were going to check and they had different, you know, pairs of shoes in it. And you might be like, oh, okay, they're going for an extended trip. They need, you know, they need options for footwear. But apparently in the souls, they had tons of cocaine in there. And so they ended up, that gets like x-rayed. Like they're going to see that stuff. Men with broken heart syndrome are more likely to die. No, not the men. They have been studying this. They said that it's actually a whole health experience. In 2021, they did this whole study of it and they've continued it. And it's a broken heart syndrome apparently affects men more. That's really sad. Stick with us. We've got a lot more on the way.
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Let me be very clear about that. If you block an intersection or a roadway in Brevard County, you are going to jail. If you flee arrest, you're going to go to jail tired because we are going to run you down and put you in jail. If you try to mob rule a car in Brevard County... Gathering around it, refusing to let the driver leave. In our county, you're most likely going to get run over and dragged across the street. If you spit on us, you're going to the hospital and in jail. If you hit one of us, you're going to the hospital and jail and most likely get bitten by one of our big, beautiful dogs that we have here. If you throw a brick, a firebomb, or point a gun at one of our deputies, We will be notifying your family where to collect your remains at.
SPEAKER 23 :
Yes, remains.
SPEAKER 01 :
Because we will kill you graveyard dead. Graveyard dead. We're not going to play. We're not playing. This has got to stop. Got to stop. You're watching what's taking place out there. You're seeing police officers that are being attacked, being spit on. I want to be his hideout. Being put in harm's way just for doing their jobs. You're seeing ICE agents that are being targeted.
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This is Sheriff Wayne Ivey of Brevard County who's telling this to potential rioters. I've never seen any situation that needs a hype man more than this one, although he's pretty dang good. But I just want to pop in there and be like, great, you're dead. Yeah. And just run back and forth like Flava Flav in front of the podium. You know? Not going to play. Got to stop. Not going to play. Oh, man. That is... You're going to go to jail. Get bit by one of our big, beautiful dogs. Big, beautiful dog. He needs a hype man. I mean, he's good on his own, but you could really pump it up, man. Pump it up. That's the official FAFO from Sheriff Wayne Ivey. I like his, like, you're going to get dragged. And your family's going to have to go to the hospital. Why is his face all messed up? He done got dragged. Because he decided to jump in front of a car that was trying to get to work. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. They're talking, I think, about this planned Saturday protests all around the country. Oh, my goodness. They're going to have to. They're talking about the. What is it? No, I keep forgetting the name of it. The no king thingy.
SPEAKER 17 :
Whatever. No kings.
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I don't know. Just stupid. No one even. No one even said that. I can't. These people. All right. So, yeah, they got the nationwide riots coming Saturday. Don't get caught in the traffic of it for sure. I love it how they're going. We're holding trainings and trainings to do what? Be annoying. Are they going to cut plastic trash cans in half and use them as shields? Again, remember, why? That is so dumb. Oh, there are going to be so many. No, only if you're destroying stuff. No one cares if you peacefully protest. Literally, nobody cares. Data Republican launched this open source map and it literally shows how, yeah, some of our tax dollars are funding this stuff. And there's a lot like, for instance, ACLU Foundation of Texas, they got a federal grant. And they're spending a lot of money on these things. I mean, these are they get federal grants and then they spend it. Your tax. That's your tax. All our tax dollars. And then they send it to these these entities like they. Let's see. Yeah. No, the no king stuff. They have a whole thing up here analyzing the financials. And it says the page lists all the nonprofits that have a reconstructed flow of federal grant money to entities involved in the No Kings demonstration of the riots on the 14th of June to Saturday. And then you can click on it and it shows you the taxpayer trace. It's actually genius the way that this is. And it shows you, you get all of the money, the grant money, And it lists like this is a high taxpayer fund alert. This is a high taxpayer fund alert. Oh, my gosh, it is infuriating. It is absolutely infuriating. And it shows you exactly what they're giving the money, grant money to, how they're distributing it. And, yeah, you've got like the National Endowment for Democracy, the National Democratic Institute. All of these are involved in this June 14th thing. Uh, all of it, all of it, all of it. Uh, yeah, this is crazy. This is absolutely crazy. So this is, you know, your taxpayer dollars. Of course, this is part of the, one of the things, one of the reasons why Doge wanted to cut 170 billion and not just 94 billion in the rescissions package that's being proposed. I'm going to link this in your prep so you can have it. Those of you who are subscribed to Chapter and Verse over at Substack so that you can read it. It is quite a lot. And to see what our money is being spent on for this. And you know that they're going to try to be peaceful during the day and then at night is when all hell is going to break loose. Because that's usually how it goes. That's always how it is. And then they act like all of the that the response is only to the peaceful stuff that you see during the day. Like they've done this this entire time. It's just this is it's just so frustrating. And I don't close this out because this is a huge good night. There's a lot of like they 171,000 for this to I'm just looking at some of the numbers. I'm going to I'll put this in your sub stack or in my sub stack that you get if you're a subscriber. I want to switch gears here really quickly. Alex Padilla, California senator, was wrestled and detained trying to crash a DHS hearing on ICE raids. Listen to some of this.
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So he if he wanted if he really wanted to ask a question he could have asked a question and
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And he didn't do it. He wanted to make a scene. He wanted it to be a stunt. That's exactly what he wanted. He just wanted to make a scene and act like he was the one who was being roughed up. That's exactly what this was. And he apparently, so I think it's, let me look at this. Sorry, hang on. Because we're all getting this too. I think this is, Bill Mollegian had said that he was in Uh, afterwards he was in a private meeting room with gnome and they were talking about some things, but the way that he tried to just like storm in, that was just thuggery. There was no need for that. He just did that to, to make, he made an ass out of himself and to cause a scene. And so he could act like, Oh, look what they did to me. There's so many. Yeah. Cause you immediately like, like pushed your way through in front of all these reporters right up to the top. That's exactly what you did. I don't even think he should have been awarded with a private meeting, but it is what it is. It's just unfortunate. I want to switch gears here because you guys know we have our rescue pup, Wick, who's going to be a year old soon. I'm interested in your feedback. So we're trying to make sense of his behavior. I think we have it figured out, but I've just never seen a dog do this like this. And we've had Frenchies before, and I've had a German Shepherd before. Wick is, he's like a combo of like a Belgian Malinois and a Rhodesian Ridgeback, and he's a mutt. And we got him at the shelter when he was a puppy. And so he's super sweet. And we've been training him. He's a combination of working breeds. So he's kind of a handful. But he's been so good at training. I think he's like the smartest dog I've ever owned. And so he has these things, these beef cheeks, right? And I get them at the store there. It's beef collagen that's rolled in a round. It looks like a dried out pork roll. And it's rolled up and then the dried out cheek meat covers it. And he gets those and he chews on them. Lately, he has been taking his beef cheeks and he drops it in your lap and then stares at you. And at first we thought he wants to play fetch or something with this oddly, but that's not what he wants. He wants you to eat it. Wick expects you. He's sharing. I was reading about this. Certain dogs, like sometimes breeds will, you know, sometimes dogs will in their little pack, they'll share their toys and their treats. And he's sharing these. But the problem is, is he won't leave you alone until he's thoroughly convinced that you are enjoying it. So we literally have to pick this thing up. And we have to kind of obscure the fact that it's not exactly touching our mouth because that's gross. And then we scratch where he can't see and we have to make like noises to make it seem like we're eating this thing. And then his tail starts wagging and he gets super happy. And he'll just sit there and watch you enjoy it. Or he'll lay right by you and watch you enjoy it for a few minutes. And then if you put it down, he nudges it back to you and then sits down and waits for you. Now, if you don't do it, he looks at you like he's disappointed. His tail won't wag and he like stares at you and he'll sigh. like waiting for you to eat it. And he will not leave you alone. This will go on until he is thoroughly convinced that you have shared it with him and you have enjoyed it. He's not going to leave you alone. Everybody gets a turn at the beef cheek. He's not going to leave. And then when you've convinced him, he'll take it and he'll go chew on it in his place, his little bed. He'll go and he'll chew on it. I've never had a dog do that. Now, Cain was like, oh, he hates Cain. Hates Kane. Wick does not like Kane. Does he like Juan? I think he's warming up to Juan.
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He barks just like that at Juan, too. It's just that he doesn't see us during the day. We should have him as a studio dog. He should be in here in the morning hanging out while we're setting up. Are you kidding me? I think he would be.
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He's still got that puppy energy.
SPEAKER 17 :
I think he'd eventually chill out.
SPEAKER 23 :
That is a great idea with all the equipment and the cords and the cameras, the multiple thousand dollar cameras.
SPEAKER 17 :
He won't chew on anything. He'll be fine.
SPEAKER 23 :
No, but he will get rambunctious and he will totally knock something down. Because he's a big dog. But you just want him to share his bee cheek with you. Kind of.
SPEAKER 17 :
That's all it is. Actually, that is most of it.
SPEAKER 23 :
It is hysterical. Have you ever had a dog that did that? That would share, but like, not only like, I mean, it's one thing if you're playing with it, but they expect, he'd like want you to know.
SPEAKER 17 :
I've had a black lab. It was great at retrieving too. You know what I mean? Like it would go and bring you things, but this seems a little bit different than just bringing you things. It's like insisting that you enjoy the food and, you know, kind of sad that you're not until you start enjoying it.
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And the reason I bring it up is, are we right in doing that? Or is he looking at us like, you stupid morons. What are you doing? Or is he looking at it like, this is the craziest thing I've ever seen. I just wanted them to hold it.
SPEAKER 17 :
Maybe he's being grateful. He's taking biblical passages. Oh my gosh. Out of the Bible from Psalms.
SPEAKER 23 :
But he does, I mean, and he will go. Ephesians. He'll give it to like Chris. And then when, you know, he's, and Chris is really good at convincing him. And then he takes it and he chews on it a bit. And then he goes and brings it to one of my kids. And they have to go through the whole thing. And he's like, okay, yeah, that's right.
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He's sharing to be grateful.
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He's, it's super sweet. It's super sweet. But I just, I guess the reason I'm asking the radio audience is, A, is that the right reaction to have? Is he like, you guys are nuts. What are you doing? Now I've had like Rocco would bury his stuff. Like if we were anywhere, if we were sitting anywhere, if we ever had a blanket or anything, he would, he would immediately give you one of his toys and he would bury it on you. Or he would sit by you to chew it just because he didn't want Louie to have it. And Louie would do the same thing. but I've never had it to where he wick expects you to actually enjoy it and he will sit there and watch you and then he'll literally walk to the side of you to make sure that your mouth is like if you have to convince him it is the craziest thing I've ever experienced with a dog so I'm just I guess I'm like is this are we is this the right reaction this is why we need the chat today is this the right reaction Are we or are we like not supposed to do that? I don't know. Like I've never had a dog do this. Like here, chew this with me. I don't know.
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Welcome back to the program. So apparently Padilla and Noam had a 10 to 15 minute meeting and they said it was cordial and beneficial per Bill Malugian. And things are okay between the two of them. It's all good. I don't know. He like stormed in there like he was going to loot a footlocker. I gotta say. And he actually did. He was actually really trying to push his way through. And then he got pushed down. You just don't get to just walk in there and interrupt in the middle of a press conference. I mean, just there's a way to do it. And I don't think he had a... If you have a genuine concern, that's I don't think the best way to go about it. I don't know. That was dumb. It was a stunt. And he knew it. He knew that that was the way to get... you know, to get attention for himself. He knew it. Hasn't he done something like this before? Or am I thinking of somebody, I'm thinking of a different guy who sat on the steps and acted like, remember he acted like he was a prize fighter in the corner. This was like last summer. He was, he was, I'm not going to eat and I'm going to sit, sit on the steps of the Capitol for like all day. Just saying. One of the things that I was reading because they announced that they're changing the names back of some of these forts, these military bases. The Fort Pickett, Fort Barfoot is being renamed back to its original name, Fort Pickett. And there was a historian that was online talking about this. And I thought this was interesting. I wanted to share it. They're saying Van T. Barfoot received the Medal of Honor for single-handedly traversing a minefield to destroy three German machine gun nests, a tank and an artillery emplacement to save his men. He later served in Korea and flew helicopters in Vietnam. At 90 years old, he fought his homeowners association for the right to fly the American flag in his own front yard and won. His case helped inspire Virginia state law protecting that right from HOA interference. Meanwhile, General George Pickett led the infamous Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg. It failed catastrophically, resulting in over 50% casualties to his division and marking the turning point of both the battle and the Civil War. After the war, Pickett was implicated in the execution of Union POWs, a war crime so serious that he fled to Canada to avoid prosecution. Please consider leaving it as Fort Barfoot, says the historian. He earned it. And apparently, aren't they naming it after a different Pickett? Not even the not even the Confederate, but just so they could have like a play on words. I think it maybe should be Barfoot. That guy sounds badass. I think it should stay Barfoot. Right. Right.
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yeah i mean if you're gonna or build a new thing for him or name a new thing being built for him today in stupidity king what's we got well it's rep jamie raskin who i don't know he just went through a big health thing you think he'd be a little bit more up on what's going on but he's claiming here that the government never had a mandate on the covid vaccine listen to this
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Which sounds like it would be an argument against having a national compulsory mandatory vaccine for everybody in the country, which of course we didn't have during COVID-19. We most certainly did have that.
SPEAKER 23 :
People lost their jobs. That is such a lie. They absolutely lost their jobs. People lost livelihoods.
SPEAKER 17 :
Military was kicked out. People were kicked out of the military.
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People were kicked out of the military.
SPEAKER 17 :
No mandate, sir.
SPEAKER 23 :
Yeah, that's nonsense. Don't rewrite history. Folks, that does it for us today. Sign up at Substack Chapter and Verse. Find us on YouTube, Facebook. Like and subscribe. I will be back behind the mic with you tomorrow.
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This is Chelsea Handler from Dear Chelsea. Picture this. You're on an important virtual interview answering that make or break question and suddenly your screen freezes. Not the impression you want. Good internet has never been more important. I'm constantly doing podcast interviews, video calls, and important work on my computer. So I have to have a solid connection. That's why you can't take slow for an answer. And with Optimum Fiber, you won't have to. It is the fastest, most reliable fiber internet in the New York tri-state with 99.9% network reliability so you can stream, work, and game seamlessly. Plus, get a five-year price lock and a $400 prepaid card. Don't take slow for an answer. Call 888-4-OPTIMUM. Visit your local Optimum store or visit Optimum.com today. Terms apply. See Optimum.com for details.
