There’s much to unpack as Democrats blame former President Trump for the upheaval across cities. However, the discussion raises a crucial question: When blame is placed, who takes responsibility? Additionally, insights are shared on the effectiveness of sanctuary policies, with opinions from listeners and conservatives aligning on what the true issues might be. Join Mike Gallagher for a riveting episode that not only looks at political consequences but also places audience voices at the forefront.
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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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Holy moly, are you ready for an action-packed Monday after the weekend we had? Where do you want to start? I have no idea where to begin. I've got so much to tackle today, and we're going to do it together, as we always do here on the Mike Gallagher Show. Welcome in. Hope you're ready to go. Hope you're ready for a week that might be enormously eventful. You want to start with the L.A. riots and the Democrats blaming Trump? You want to start with Terry Moran getting suspended at ABC for his seemingly unhinged, wild-eyed rant against Stephen Miller and President Trump late Friday night into early Saturday morning? You want to start with Maxine Waters getting the door slammed in her face when she grandstanded and showed up at one of the ICE detention facilities in Los Angeles? You want to start with Greta Thunberg on her boat, her little merry band of sailors sailing to Gaza with some strange, bizarre trip to stand with the Palestinians, which is what Greta Thunberg is now. I don't even know where to begin. You start with me, 800-655-MIKE. I mean, I think the biggest news story, of course— is the coverage and the response of the media. You got a bunch of bad actors rioting in L.A., and they're because of the mass deportations, the wildly popular mass deportations, I might add. And the media is trying the summer of love, mostly peaceful protests again. It's like a Tourette syndrome, like a tick. They can't stop themselves. Mostly peaceful. It's like calling January 6th an insurrection. They couldn't ever stay away from the word insurrection every single time they use it. Gosh, the media is so bad. They're just horrible. And, of course, it's exemplified by Terry Moran's obvious bias. And we'll get to all of that, too. Here's an example. Of a reporter, I mean, let's look at local reporters from it. I happen to have the local CBS affiliate here in Tampa Bay on last night. It's what do they call it, Action 10, or is it ABC? It's Channel 10. And there was a young female anchor, and she was covering the riots in L.A., the anti-ICE, anti-law and order, pro-illegal immigrant riots, you know, the ones with all the Mexican flags as they were assaulting cops and raining down terror on the streets of L.A. The local anchor here in Tampa Bay on Channel 10 said, looks into the camera and admits she claimed 55% of Americans are in favor of Trump's mass deportation effort. And then she got excited and she said, but 44% are opposed. Well, if 55% are in favor of it, probably, and I wonder what the other 1%, where they went. That was an actual, I heard that with my own ears and watched with my own eyes. And she got excited about the 44% who opposed because those people matter more than the majority of us who voted for the mass deportations. Here's the reporter from ABC. You've got to hear this. How about let's go to L.A.? ? This is the ABC local news reporter in Los Angeles, ABC7. Now, thanks to X and thanks to intrepid people with cell phone cameras, we can all see what's going on there, right? We all see what's happening. Here they go again.
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Demonstrations have been going on right outside the federal detention center. Most of those demonstrations were very peaceful. They were chanting, they were shouting. People were driving by honking their horns. And again, they were expressing their anger about the detention of so many immigrants at the federal center.
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Screaming at her. They're up in her face. They're yelling at her. There's burning cars in the background. They're mostly peaceful. Very peaceful. They're not sort of peaceful. They're very peaceful. How about Dana Bash on CNN? Get ready for this doozy.
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I just want to just state for the record that what did happen in 1992 was so different from what we're seeing now. I mean, that was a real riot that went all across the city of Los Angeles after a verdict in the Rodney King case. This is a situation where... The L.A. County police, it's not good, but they're saying that they have it under control and the president is sending national troops, federal troops in a way that hasn't been done in a long time.
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We can look at this and we can obviously see that it is not under control. It's not under control. You and I both can see that. It's not under control. And a riot is a riot.
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Well, that's Mark Wayne Mullen. Yes, a riot is a riot. Now, according to Dana Bash, what's happening in L.A. isn't really a riot. It's not a real riot. I mean, Kamala Harris is claiming that the protests were overwhelmingly peaceful. That's the latest doozy from her. Look, all I can do is count on normal people to see what's going on here. But I don't know if we can. I don't know. At this point, I'm at a loss. I'm praying for normalcy. Normal people can say, people are rioting in L.A. because of the deportation of illegals, and rioting isn't Trump's fault. Trump sending in the National Guard is an attempt... to restore peace and law and order. To blame Trump for sending in the troops is insane. I mean, and of course, what Dana Bash was pushing back against is, I'm sure Mark Wayne Mullen was saying, look, we brought in the troops in L.A. during the Rodney King riots. It's happened before. I mean, when cities were failing to desegregate, the National Guard was everywhere. Remember when Kennedy sent in the troops? When George Wallace wouldn't desegregate? I'll bet that was just fine then, right? To the left? So, they're nuts. There's no question they're nuts. The question for me is whether normal Americans who have to make big decisions with the midterm elections Normal Americans have to make a big decision about 2028. Will normal Americans recognize the insanity of the loony left? In other words, do normal people sit back and watch this and say, wait a minute, you're blaming Trump for law enforcement and the military trying to keep the peace against these violent anarchists? You think that's Trump's fault? I mean, in California, every California crisis is blamed on Trump. The wildfires? Trump's fault. The empty water reservoirs? Trump's fault. Budget deficit? His fault. And now the riots in L.A.? His fault. What does Gavin Newsom take responsibility for? What does Maxine Waters take responsibility for? What does Mayor Karen Bass take responsibility for? And, of course, you know the answer is nothing. Absolutely nothing. So let's dive in here in the Relief Factor studios. Whenever there's a bunch of events like this, I always turn to you, 1-800-655-MIKE. Let's put your voice front and center. Let's see if you can make some sense of it all. We'll start with my question. Do you think normal Americans are going to recognize what's really happening in Los Angeles? Do you think normal Americans, voters, citizens, are capable of recognizing things? the kooky, wacky, radicalized Democrat Party. Are Democrats standing up against this insanity? Of course not. They embrace it. Will we win over normals? As Democrats blame Trump for this L.A. protest violence, will normal people see through that? Or will that attempt work? Do you think that they'll prevail and they'll convince enough of the people who are watching from the sidelines that somehow Trump is to blame for the riots and the protests and the violence in cities all over America. Laura Loomer posted earlier today, what you're seeing in LA is about to happen all over the country. I hope she's wrong. I'm afraid she's right. 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. One number does it all. Call or text. I hope you join us. Here on the Mike Gallagher Show for Big Breaking News Monday, PhD 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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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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Of all the lies being told about the riots in L.A., perhaps the biggest one is that they are organic. They're spontaneous. It's just a natural reaction to illegals being deported. The Trump deportation policy is enormously popular in the United States. All the polling confirms it. The majority of Americans are absolutely fine with Trump trying to pick up the pieces of the Democrats and Biden's broken border policies. We understand there's a lot of bad people here. And unfortunately, when you're an illegal immigrant, you're going to get swept up in the deportation effort, largely because of the bad people. But you can't evade or escape the fact that you broke the law to begin with. Unfortunately, this is a byproduct of what happens when millions of people invade our country. When millions of people pour into America as a direct result of these policies. I just saw a clip on CNN that is stunning because it sums everything up. And all of it can be summed up pretty simply. This is more of the same, a continual pattern in America with paid protesters and anarchists and invaders. Look at the history. Occupy Wall Street. I remember walking through Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan and looking at these degenerates who are doing all kinds of things in the park and complaining about Wall Street, Black Lives Matter riots, the George Floyd riots, and now the anti-ICE riots. These are absolute bought-and-paid-for performances. NGOs are behind this. Big, rich leftists are behind this. Nobody is organically taking to the street and breaking off a chunk of sidewalk and hurling it at the head of a cop. That's not an organic protest. That's a rioter. That's a terrorist. That's somebody who needs to spend a long time behind bars. But we're used to this by now. There's nothing unique about this. There's no reason to get... upset or panic because these masked rioters, these masked anarchists, these Antifa, violent, dangerous people represent one side of the political spectrum. You're not hearing a lot of Democrats condemning them, are you? And this clip from CNN says, took my breath away. I think I'm stunned because it aired on CNN. Now, the way it was positioned on CNN, they're kind of finding fault with the CNN anchor for cutting the discussion short. Look, I'm just glad they let as much of it air as they did because this sums everything up perfectly. Before you go down the road of trying to buy into the blaming Trump Blaming Trump, as they always do. They blame Trump for everything. In California, they blamed him for the wildfires. They blamed him for the empty water reservoirs. They blamed him for everything. Gavin Newsom's got nowhere else to go. That shouldn't be a surprise. Why wouldn't they blame Trump? They can't blame themselves. But what do you think a normal American thinks when they see all these riots happening? conducted by people waving Mexican flags. You want to know what they think? Let me translate it for you. If you're a kooky leftist who happened to have found this show, let me interpret it for you. You know what normal people think when they see riots and rocks and bottles and projectiles and pepper spray and assaults on law enforcement and assaults on the National Guard in Los Angeles and they see people waving Mexican flags while doing it? You know what they think? Normal people? Invasion. That's the only word that comes to normal people's minds. Invasion. These are invaders. These are people who have invaded our country. I got to play this clip. This one will blow you away. This was from social media. Happened to repost it from an exchange. There's an anchor and two political analysts. I don't know who the political analysts are. One's a guy. One's a gal. The man speaks complete normal truth. The woman doesn't know what to do. The woman pulls the equivalent of Jackie Gleason's Humana, Humana, Humana, Humana when he speaks truth about what's happening in California.
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Brad, what are you thinking? Well, we got to this moment because California has a sanctuary policy. The state law forbids local law enforcement from cooperating with or local government from cooperating with immigration enforcement. We have immigration laws that govern the entire land, and California is willfully ignoring them. California's left-wing politicians set this up. If California had long been cooperating and helping enforce immigration laws all along the way, this would not be...
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It's not the whole state. You do know that some of this is jurisdictions. There are certain towns that do. But there are certain towns that absolutely have cooperated with federal authorities.
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Shouldn't they all?
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You know, this is part of the issue that is always interesting here is when Republicans want to talk about states' rights, it's about states' rights when it is something that they're interested in and not when it is something that perhaps Democrats and their states are interested in.
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And so I think... We've all agreed on what immigration laws are. There's not a state... We're going to talk about this more in the hour.
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I want to bring in Steve... I don't know what her name is. I have no idea what her name is. But when she says, well, there are some little towns and little communities in California that are willing to cooperate with ICE, he says, shouldn't they all? Shouldn't they all? Shouldn't they all? Shouldn't every town, and she turns into a debate, and she turns it into a conversation about states' rights because she doesn't know what else to do. She doesn't know what else to say. Oh, my gosh. That clip is perfect. That clip is amazing. And it does say it all. You want sanctuary cities? You want sanctuary states? That's what you got. That's what you got. What you're seeing in California is a direct result of Democrats' sanctuary status. Giving illegals a safe haven. Which, frankly, is very unfair to the illegals. But ultimately... ultimately leads to the kind of destruction and violence and riots we're witnessing in a state like California. Prove me wrong. 800-655-MIKE. 800-655-6453. The guy's name is Brad Todd. I don't know what the woman's name is. He's described as a political analyst on CNN. But thank goodness, look, I've got to give CNN a little credit here. They let it air. They didn't completely shut him down. What a time to be alive. And again, don't despair. Normal people see this. Normal people are keeping track. Normal Americans are keeping score. And I like our chances in the midterm elections. I like normal people saying, I don't want that in my city. I don't want these invaders and insurrectionists and rioters and anarchists in my state. I like our chances. I'm not down about this at all. Actually, I'm feeling pretty positive. I hate it for what the normal good people of California are going through. But look, this is the underbelly. This is the weakness. This is the Achilles heel of today's Democrat Party. 800-655-MIKE. Got a lot to unpack today. Welcome into the Relief Factor Studios. 800-655-6453. I hope you join us. One number does it all. One call. You can text or call. But I want to put your voice front and center here on this Monday episode of the Mike Gallagher Show. I hope you join us. 800-655-6453. Portions of our show brought to you by MyPillow and Big Deal. Two sales in one. First, they're having a closeout sale on the percale bedsheets. Any size, any color, $25. You can get Queens, Kings, Split Kings, California Kings, any size, any color, $25. It's a crazy sale from MyPillow.com. Look for the Mike Gallagher Special Square. The second sale, Mike Lindell has introduced a brand new energy drink called Rev7. It's a premium energy drink that's good for you. It tastes great, gives you energy all day. I sampled it yesterday for the first time. It is delicious. No sugar, no caffeine. Rev7 is so special because it's powered with a premium nootropic that helps fuel your mind. MyPillow is so confident you're going to love Rev7 that for a limited time you can try their introductory three-pack absolutely free. Now, these offers aren't going to last long. So go to MyPillow.com. Use the promo code MikeG. MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG or call 800-928-6034. 800-928-6034. Sing along with me.
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That CNN clip, man, oh man, that's wild. If you're watching on Salem News Channel, live shot of our nation's capital. You see the majestic Washington Monument up against a cloudy sky. Of course, we're thrilled to always be joining you on AM570, The Answer, in the Washington, D.C. area. Christian, can we play that again? Let's play it one more time. This is astounding to me that this is a guy This Brad Todd, and he's an author, and he wrote The Great Revolt, and it's one of those conservative voices that they allow on CNN. He's clearly debating a liberal, and the poor liberal woman doesn't. just does not know what to say when this guy points out the obvious. It's Democrats' sanctuary city and state policies. California is a sanctuary state, thanks to Gavin Newsom. This is their mistake. These riots are a direct result of their policies. And I've got to play this clip, if you missed it, one more time. Brad, what are you thinking?
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Well, we got to this moment because California has a sanctuary policy. The state law forbids local law enforcement from cooperating with, or local government from cooperating with immigration enforcement. We have immigration laws that govern the entire land, and California is willfully ignoring them. California's left-wing politicians set this up. If California had long been cooperating and helping enforce immigration laws all along the way, this would not be...
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It's not the whole state. You do know that some of this is jurisdictions. There are certain towns that do. Yeah, but there are certain towns that absolutely have graded with federal authorities.
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Shouldn't they all?
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You know, this is part of the issue that is always interesting here is when Republicans want to talk about states' rights, it's about states' rights.
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I mean, she's absolutely dumbfounded. She is stunned into silence when he asks a simple question. Shouldn't every city, oh, I don't know, Los Angeles, cooperate with ICE? as she tries to give her pathetic excuse that there's some little, you know, township somewhere in Northern California that might cooperate with ICE. Holy moly. 800-655-MIKE. Let's go. Let me get your call under this show to get your reaction to all of this insanity. Bob's in Jacksonville, Florida. Again, one open line, 800-655-MIKE. Hi, Bob. Hey, how you doing, Mike? Good, how are you? I'm great. I live in Florida. Yes, I hear you. You and me both, brother. Although, you know what? I saw a note. I'm sorry to interrupt you, but I saw something on social media that they've got anti-ice protests planned for Tampa Bay this afternoon at 3 o'clock. Have you heard anything about protests coming to Florida? No, I haven't.
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My son lives over there, but they'll squash it.
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Yeah, they don't mess around here. They don't mess around in Florida.
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Not at all. Not anymore, which is a good thing. It's a good thing. I just wanted to say that everybody keeps forgetting that the reason ICE was in L.A. in the first place was to go after a business that is trafficking and laundering for the cartel. So why wouldn't every Californian want that to happen? Then Gavin Newsom took two days before he came out and said it was an unlawful assembly to And with regard to the National Guard, they're not on the streets. They're defending, they're protecting federal buildings. Exactly. Which you can see Maxine Waters attacking them at a federal building.
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Oh, I've got to play anti-Maxine. Thanks for reminding me, Bob. I've got to play Maxine Waters. First she gets the door slammed on her face as she tries to barge into an ice room. detention facility and then she starts browbeating men and women of the national guard who are standing there with their with their weapons drawn it's hysterical it's absolutely a riot uh you'll wait till you hear that that's we got that coming up for you as well you're not going to stick around for maxine waters on full display on full loony loony display
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Mike Gallagher.
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I want to ask you an honest, heartfelt question. Let's end the hour with a bunch of phone calls with answers to this question. Whatever you think, however you feel, give me your gut, give me your instincts. Does what's happening in California and maybe in other parts of the country, because Laura Loomer, I know, on social media said she thinks this is going to start happening, these riots are going to happen all over the country. I saw something late last night that said they're scheduling protests and demonstrations in Tampa, here in Tampa Bay, today. Are those going to turn violent, too? Is the summer of love going to take place in various blue cities all over America like it did in 2020 after George Floyd? Let me ask you a question. Do you think all of this helps or hurts President Trump and his agenda? Give me your honest reaction to that question. As you're witnessing Gavin Newsom now promising to sue the federal government over the presence of the National Guard, as you see these ridiculous reporters standing in front of burning cars and saying these are mostly peaceful, here we go again with the mostly peaceful protests. It's like they've learned nothing from 2020. So my question to you. And let's do a lightning round to get a bunch of calls in here. Do you think all of this helps or hurts President Trump and his agenda? 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. As you saw, maybe you were glued to social media over the weekend. You saw the mostly peaceful riots. Yeah, real peaceful. Do you think the Democrats' response, Maxine Waters and all of this clown show of Democrats... Does this help or hurt President Trump and his agenda? 800-655-6453. As you're calling, maybe you'll consider the latest declaration from CNN's data guy. The data guy is a fellow named Harry Enten. Check out what he said today on CNN.
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Why are people approving of Trump on immigration? Approve of these different immigration actions while Trump's administration's programmed to deport those here illegally. Look at this. 54% approval. How about agents searching your hometown for those that they think are here illegally? Again. Positive territory here, above 50% for Donald Trump. So it's not just on the broad issue of immigration where Trump is doing well. It's on the specifics. When you dive into the issues, Trump is above 50% and his actions are above 50%, at least with those most directly connected to what's going on right now out in Los Angeles. Okay, so there you go.
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That's CNN reporting that Trump has an approval of the majority of Americans Admittedly, it's a small majority, but it's 54 percent. Last night, I saw that poor young woman say 55 percent. I think it was a CBS poll. Majority of Americans like what he's doing. Does this hurt or help? Curtis in Dallas, Texas. Hey, Curtis, what do you think?
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I think it helps him. I just want to live my life, drive down the road, go to the grocery store. I don't want to see all these rioters and protesters.
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I know.
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You want to protest?
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Go protest where the problem is. Or go protest peacefully. You don't need to throw rocks at police officers or spray them with pepper spray. I saw one video of there were actual look like Hispanic business owners who were pouring water on the faces and trying to provide aid and assistance to law enforcement who had been assaulted by some of these jerks with pepper spray and bear spray and mace. Appreciate the call. John in Hartford, Connecticut. Does this help or hurt the Trump agenda, John? John, you there? All right, let's try Alejandro in Illinois. Hi, Alejandro. How are you? Good. How are you? I'm great. Do you think this helps or hurts his agenda? It's going to hurt. Tell me why it's going to hurt.
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It's going to help him.
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Oh, it's going to help him. Oh, okay. Yeah. Let him do it. All right. Good deal. Tyra in Arlington, Texas. Hi, Tyra. How are you? Hi, good. How are you? I'm great. What do you think? Will these riots and the Democrats' response help Trump and his agenda or hurt it?
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I think it will help it. I mean, just like everything else that we've seen the past four years, everything that they've accused Trump of has always been a projection of what they're doing. And this is just, I mean, we're seeing an insurrection in lifetime.
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This is like what an insurrection actually looks like. I mean, when you're impeding and assaulting federal ICE agents and LAPD and the National Guard, the few that they are, isn't that kind of insurrection-y? I mean, I don't know. The Democrats seem to think that Trump telling people to go peacefully and patriotically, let their voices be heard, is an insurrection. So what is this if not an insurrection? When they're saying double down. And boy, they double down. Let me give you a congressman from California. Check out, excuse me, this is a senator. This is courtesy of KTLA-TV in Los Angeles. I give you State Senator Alex Padilla.
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People have asked, what's the message for the folks that are out there demonstrating? And my message is, keep protesting. Protest peacefully. Protest peacefully, for sure. But keep protesting, because Donald Trump wants one of two things. He either wants us to go away quietly and let him continue to abuse his power and overreach, or he wants folks to, as you've seen in the last couple of days, that have exploited the situation to justify his overreaction with bringing in the National Guard who threatened to bring in the Marines to restore order. That is not necessary and it's counterproductive.
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Oh, is it counterproductive? You know what's counterproductive? Throwing chunks of concrete at the heads of ICE agents. You know what's counterproductive? Reigning machinery and weaponizing artifacts to throw at police. You think bringing in the National Guard is an overreaction? But what about the rioters? Senator Padilla. Look, we're up against a lot right now, but I feel strangely calm about it all. I feel strongly that God's in control. Halfway through the sermon of the pastor yesterday, I was thinking about a tool that we have at our disposal right now. We've got about another week or so to go in our Angel Tree campaign, and I'm asking for your help to help bless a child with a mom or dad in prison. Hey, look, many of these people on the streets of California right now who, as they're arresting people, in fact, I'm looking here at the, this is from the AP, a number of the illegals arrested had serious crime records, including murder. But children who have a parent in prison, an American child, these are for American kids who have a parent in prison. You could sponsor them and send them to summer camp for a week, and it's a very special kind of summer camp. Yeah, they've got the horseback riding and the canoeing and all that. They also get involved in Christ activities. centered activities that can transform their lives forever. $200 is all it costs to sponsor a child for a full week. And you know, right now we are at 655 kids. How about getting to 700 and whatever you can afford, please go to mikeonline.com. Click on that prison fellowship banner at the top of the page. You'll see the counter too. You'll see your donation takes about two or three minutes to kick in, but whatever you can afford. And thanks to the gentleman who gave us a big thousand dollar donation last hour. Let's keep it going. MikeOnline.com. Let's send these kids to summer camp. That'll do it for an action-packed Monday. Great job to Alex Garrett in New York, holding down the fort while Eric is away for a couple of days with his mother-in-law's funeral. Of course, Tracy, Teresa, the rest of the team, Christian, great job as well. Let's do it again tomorrow, shall we? Have a great Monday. Be safe and keep fighting the good fight. I'm Mike Gallagher. God bless America.
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What a difference a day makes.
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Dinah Washington, what a difference a day makes, and here's what I mean.
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24 little hours.
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Since I was doing the Stegall Show on one day Friday, the last time Mike and I got together, it was Thursday. The Trump versus Elon feud hadn't even happened yet. Now it seems like that was a month ago. Holy cow. How time does fly. Every time you're away. Every time you're away. I wasn't away. What do you mean? You were away from me.
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You were away from this show. Exactly. You think I care about Chris DeGaulle? You think I care about Hugh Hewitt? You think I care about Larry Elder? I care about the Eminem experience, and you're off, and all you know what breaks loose. We got riots. We got Terry Moran. We got poor Maxine Waters having the door slammed in her face.
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Dogs and cats sleeping together.
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We've got Greta Thunberg being on the selfie boat on the Madeline, the USS Madeline. We are being surrounded. Sound the alarm. Sound the alarm. I thought, what alarm does she want to have sounded? Boy, that poor thing. Let's start there real quick because we've got so much to catch up on. Welcome back. I did listen to you. I should have boycotted, but I heard you Friday morning. You did great. You ruined my day again. You threw my whole game off. Because I start my morning, 7.35, and then everything else is good with the world. Let's start with Greta Thunberg. Tracy just came in and said, did you hear what they're going to make her do? I thought, oh, Lord, how are they going to make her do anything? The Israeli forces surrounded her boat. And for people who don't know, Greta Thunberg, Thunberg, Thunberg.
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Thunberg.
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She's now abandoned climate change to adopt the cause of Hamas and the Palestinians. She's pro-Palestine.
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Shocker.
SPEAKER 15 :
I mean, color me shocked, Mark. So she decided to... Twelve of these kooks got on a boat, and they decided to sail to Gaza. That's a little bit unlike the—a little bit different from the Patriots Alaska cruise.
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Yes, the food not quite as good.
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Yeah, I don't think there's a spa. I don't think there's a spa on board. But she's on this boat, I'm sure funded by some whack job billionaire, and she sails into Gaza, right? Well— The Israeli forces surround her and she's on social media saying, sound the alarm, sound the alarm. We're being surrounded. Well, they obviously kind of confiscated them.
SPEAKER 14 :
They detained them. Well, because the boat was in some improper waters. Correct. Believe you me, you might think Israel has a few security concerns, so there's some no-go zones for the boating population.
SPEAKER 15 :
So now that they've got them, and of course she's blabbing on social media, I've been kidnapped by the oppressive Israelis. I've been kidnapped. And so please sound the alarm, sound the alarm. Okay, I'm sounding the alarm. I set off my fog alarm. I put my... Well, but you know the video that I had to sit through and watch, the 37-minute video of the horrific things that the Hamas terrorists did on October 7th? And it was a video that not everybody saw. They limited it to a select amount of people because they didn't want to hurt the families to have their loved ones exposed that way. The vulnerability is just unbelievable. They're going to make Greta Thunberg watch that video. That's her consequence for deciding to get on a boat and siding with Hamas. Israeli forces are going to sit her in front of a screen and have her watch those 37 minutes.
SPEAKER 14 :
As well they should.
SPEAKER 15 :
Isn't that brilliant? It is. I don't know if her heart... will be softened or not, but who cares? But I think that's a novel way for maybe truth to prevail. Now, let's go down the list of truth. I've been listening to you, of course, with your monologue today because I wanted to catch up with you. Terry Moran. I mean, I saw that Saturday morning. I got up. I thought, did he actually post that?
SPEAKER 14 :
This can't be real. I mean, even for today's reporters, it's like a drunk text from Joe Scarborough.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, it was like a late-night drunk test. Maybe he got into the wine coolers or something and decided, I'm going to be... But he is... after all, considered to be an objective newsman. He just sat down with Trump a few weeks ago, remember, the one-on-one? He's not an opinion guy. Now, let's be clear here. A lot of people get this confused. They see a Laura Ingraham, they say, is she a news person? No. You see a Brett Baer, is he a news person? Yes. Terry Moran is a news guy, you know, but the ladies on ABC's The View are not news people.
SPEAKER 14 :
Or when they go to the roundtable on This Week with Stephanopoulos and you have Donna Brazile and stuff like that, these are opinion people, commentators. Terry's supposed to be a White House correspondent, a reporter.
SPEAKER 15 :
And neutral. Neutral. This is the thing, Mark. I mean, look, I get that we know they're biased. Look, there's two things I'm tired of bellyaching about. I'm tired of bellyaching about the Democrats blaming Trump for the riots, and I want to get to that in a moment. But I'm also tired about the media bias. We get it. We understand that. But here's my question for you. Why is it so hard? to maintain at least a facade of objectivity. If you did a news story, if I said, Mark, if I'm the head of ABC News, and you're a news, you're a Terry Moran, and I said, go out and cover the Trump administration for a week. Why is it so difficult, despite your perhaps leftist bias, because you're Terry Moran, why would it be so hard to say, okay, here's the one side. This is what the critics say. On the other side, here's what the White House says. Why is that so difficult for the Terry Morans of the world to do?
SPEAKER 14 :
I have your answer, Mike Gallagher. The answer is twofold. Number one, they don't want to. Today's reporter class knows that activism boils within its bloodstream, and they are doing exactly what they wish to do. This objectivity thing, this covering both sides thing, okay, boomer, if that's what you want to do coming out of journalism school in the Carter administration, kind of like I did, then that's fine, but that's not what we do anymore. And reason number two is, it's no longer expected by the bosses. But it's But the ivory towers of management no longer deliver the wonderful lecture that you just did. Go out there and be fair. Go out there and be objective. They don't care anymore. But here's the thing.
SPEAKER 15 :
It would work. The thing that is crazy to me is you say they don't want to, but it would be profitable. And look, they are tanking, Mark. They're at an all-time low. You know, there's one little spunky network that seems to be kind of trying that. News Nation, have you been on it?
SPEAKER 14 :
Chris Cuomo.
SPEAKER 15 :
Chris Cuomo. I mean, they try. I think they make an effort. And incidentally, I saw one of their reporters get harassed and harangued. She was trying to cover the riots in L.A. They went after her and screamed that you're in the tank for Trump and blah, blah, blah. She made her composure. She was wonderful. But I'm mystified. They are ultimately in the ratings and revenue business. And so at the end of the day, why don't you do what would be better for ratings and revenue? Fox News beats MSNBC and CNN combined all the time. All the time. Fox News is beating ABC, NBC, and CBS in primetime. Did you know that? They're getting bigger numbers now than ABC, NBC, or CBS many nights. So obviously a formula, and you see both views.
SPEAKER 14 :
You see Jessica Tarloff. This is the most important thing because the Fox product, you think, well, that's just the mirror image of the virulent leftist MSNBC product. No. Liberals get more airtime and more fair time, one might say, more fair treatment. I see Libs on Fox all the time. I mean, they're getting argued with. They're engaged in constructive debate. But from Tarloff to Harold Ford Jr. to others, they have a genuinely good time in an atmosphere of goodwill.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, and look at the one show that performs relatively well on CNN. That's the Abby Phillips Roundtable. And look at look at the presence they have. They have conservatives. They've got Scott Jennings. They've got the other guy. What's his name? Sure, Michael. Or I mean, they've got two or three conservatives there that hold their own. They often bring on our buddy Arthur Idalla, the legal guy, the lawyer from New York. So anyway, I just I'm mystified by that. Let's look at the riots for just a moment. I'm also tired about. Of course they're blaming Trump. And it hit me late last night because I'm reading what they're saying. Oh, Daily Beast says Trump fueled the flames and poured the gas on the fire. Newsom is blaming Trump. That radical former Cuba leftist crazy at Karen Bass, the mayor. Blaming Trump. Well, of course they're going to blame Trump. They have to blame Trump. What else are they going to do? Are they going to take responsibility for their own failed policies? These are Democrats that are lighting buildings on fire. And we're back again, Mark, to the mostly peaceful protests. I know. You've seen the video, right?
SPEAKER 14 :
And it was the LAPD itself that said that the protests were mostly peaceful, proving we have some corrupt management of the LAPD.
SPEAKER 15 :
Oh, my gosh. Yeah, but the LAPD is also starting to change their tune and say things like, yeah, National Guard, maybe not such a bad idea after all. That's right. I mean, but normal people, here's what I like. You can't be normal and blame Trump for the riots in L.A. You just can't. No. What is a president supposed to do? Karen Bass has encouraged these protests. Democrat legislators, you've seen these kooky, wacky, far-left Democrat politicians in L.A. and statewide say, keep it up, keep protesting. Okay, people are saying, okay, I'll do that, sure thing, Mayor Bass. So if they're not going to quell the violence, what else is Trump supposed to do? There's a long history of presidents sending in the troops. And guess what? Just because Trump does it doesn't make it any different from any of the other presidents.
SPEAKER 14 :
One thing that's a little different about this one is it's often after the governor has requested it. Gavin Newsom, not only is he not requesting it, you see Gavin Newsom in the back and forth with the NBC reporter telling Tom Holman, come get me, tough guy. Arrest me.
SPEAKER 15 :
Let's go. Arrest me. Look, Trump was asked about that, and he said, you know what? If we find out that leaders of cities or counties or state have obstructed the enforcement of the law, they could be facing charges. And would you put that past the Trump administration?
SPEAKER 14 :
No, I would not. Now, Mike, in our last couple of minutes, I know the entire story has risen, bitten America in the butt, and seems to have receded completely. What was your Friday show like? And Trump versus Elon, the three-day DVD set? Because it seems to be. Elon is a nut. This just in, the guy is a big, giant baby. So you may get a weird tantrum like this every once in a while.
SPEAKER 01 :
Well, I don't know if he's a nut. No harm, no foul.
SPEAKER 14 :
He's a total nut. In some ways. Like many geniuses. Oh, please. He's a visionary. He's a genius. He's also out of his flipping mind sometimes.
SPEAKER 15 :
He appears to regret what he did. If you haven't paid attention or followed this, he's deleted all of his tweets. All the Epstein nonsense. He's allegedly reached out to the White House. And I'm not sure President Trump is going to be in a kiss and make up mood. Not right away. Let him stew on this for a little while. Let him stew. But we don't need this. And the mood, to your question about Friday, the overall mood was just one of kind of sadness. Like there's no need for this. It's something that isn't necessary. They both bring so much to the table. They're so... They've been so prominent. I think Elon is going through something. I hate to speculate about somebody's personal life. A lot of speculation has been about the ketamine that he admits to taking. I don't know. I'm absolutely mad.
SPEAKER 14 :
I think this is just him. I think we're looking for some reason. I think it's just him. I mean, once again, for the millionth time, Walter Isaacson biography every once in a while in his entire life, business life, personal life. He just weirds out in some colossal way. And then it gets and then it gets better in like an hour or two.
SPEAKER 15 :
Maybe. But don't you find it bizarre that when people turn on Trump? They turn on him like nothing you've ever seen. I mean, it's not like lukewarm. It's not like, well, just like a cooling off. Well, Trump's not lukewarm. No, but why do when they... It's kind of like Newton's law, you know. But when they turn on him, my gosh, it's so personal and it's so visceral. It's so... Off the charts, look at the list of people that have just gone bonkers. It's what my friend Mark Davis always says, Trump derangement syndrome makes smart people dumb and makes nice people mean. And funny people, I don't know, I don't get it, but I don't think he suffers from Trump derangement syndrome.
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, no, no, no, not at all. I mean, that's what was so weird and ironic, and as you said... for about a day, sad, now just perplexing, I think we're done here, is that their Venn diagrams overlap so much. They both love the country. They both want responsible government. The difference between Trump and Elon, Trump understands government.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, all I know is just stay put for a while because every time you go away from here, I've got to get my house in order.
SPEAKER 14 :
I was here. I was doing two shows on Friday.
SPEAKER 15 :
No, no, no, no, no. As far as I was concerned, you were in the wilderness. You were gone. I'm sorry. So come back. We'll see you Tuesday. Happy Monday.
SPEAKER 14 :
And let's buckle up for a big week. We are ready. Mike is here. We're both actually here. Confirm that. Mike gets going as soon as we're done. 10 a.m. right here on 660 AM. The answer. 660 AM.
Our discussion takes a critical look at media integrity with a focus on Terry Moran's controversial social media activity. What's become evident is the shift from objective reporting to commentary filled with bias. We also talk about the media's response to ongoing civil unrest and the tendency to blame, deflect, and politicize rather than report with honesty. Listeners are given a front-row seat to how media mechanics influence public perception and ponder the role of responsibility amidst chaos. The episode closes with a fiery debate on leadership, responsibility, and the interplay of personalities in today's landscape.
SPEAKER 02 :
What a difference a day makes. Dinah Washington, what a difference a day makes, and here's what I mean. 24 little hours. Since I was doing the Stegall Show on one day Friday, the last time Mike and I got together, it was Thursday. The Trump versus Elon feud hadn't even happened yet. Now it seems like that was a month ago. Holy cow. How time does fly.
SPEAKER 03 :
Every time you're away, something bad happens.
SPEAKER 02 :
I wasn't away. What do you mean? You were away from me.
SPEAKER 03 :
You were away from this show. Exactly. You think I care about Chris DeGaulle?
SPEAKER 01 :
You think I care about Hugh Hewitt?
SPEAKER 03 :
You think I care about Larry Elder? I care about the Eminem experience, and you're off, and all you know what breaks loose. We got riots. We got Terry Moran. We got poor Maxine Waters having the door slammed in her face.
SPEAKER 02 :
Dogs and cats sleeping together.
SPEAKER 03 :
We've got Greta... Thunberg being – On the selfie boat. On the Madeline, the USS Madeline. We are being surrounded. Sound the alarm. Sound the alarm. I thought, what alarm does she want to have sounded? She's a – boy, that poor thing. I mean – and let's start there real quick because we've got so much to catch up on. Welcome back. I did listen to you. I was – I should have boycotted, but I heard you Friday morning. You did great. Thank you. You ruined my day again. Sorry. You threw my whole game off. Because I start my morning, 7.35, and then everything else is good with the world. Let's start with Greta Thunberg. Tracy just came in and said, did you hear what they're going to make her do? I thought, oh, Lord, I hope they don't make her do anything. The Israeli forces surrounded her boat. And for people who don't know, Greta Thunberg, Thunberg, Thunberg.
SPEAKER 02 :
Thunberg, mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 03 :
She's now abandoned climate change to adopt the cause of Hamas and the Palestinians. She's pro-Palestine.
SPEAKER 01 :
Shocker.
SPEAKER 03 :
I mean, color me shock, Mark. So she decided to... Twelve of these kooks got on a boat, and they decided to sail to Gaza. That's a little bit unlike the—a little bit different from the Patriots Alaska cruise that Harry Elder and I are going to host.
SPEAKER 02 :
The food, not quite as good.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, I don't think there's a spa. I don't think there's a spa on board. But she's on this boat, I'm sure funded by some whack job billionaire, and she sails into Gaza, right? Well— The Israeli forces surround her, and she's on social media saying, sound the alarm, sound the alarm. We're being surrounded. Well, they've obviously kind of confiscated them.
SPEAKER 02 :
They detained them. Well, because the boat was in some improper waters. Correct. Believe you me, you might think Israel has a few security concerns, so there's some no-go zones for the boating population.
SPEAKER 03 :
So now that they've got them, and of course she's blabbing on social media, I've been kidnapped by the oppressive Israelis. I've been kidnapped. And so please sound the alarm, sound the alarm. Okay, I'm sounding the alarm. I set off my fog alarm. I put my... Well, but you know the video that I had to sit through and watch, the 37-minute video of the horrific things that the Hamas terrorists did on October 7th? Yeah, let's talk about that. And it was a video that not everybody saw. They limited it to a select amount of people because they didn't want to hurt the families to have their loved ones exposed that way. The vulnerability is just unbelievable. They're going to make Greta Thunberg watch that video. That's her consequence for deciding to get on a boat and siding with Hamas. Israeli forces are going to sit her in front of a screen and have her watch those 37 minutes.
SPEAKER 02 :
As well they should.
SPEAKER 03 :
Isn't that brilliant? I don't know if her heart will be softened or not, but who cares? But I think that's a novel way for... for maybe truth to prevail. Now, let's go down the list of truth. I've been listening to you, of course, with your monologue today, because I wanted to catch up with you. Terry Moran. I mean, I saw that Saturday morning. I got up. I thought, did he actually post that?
SPEAKER 02 :
This can't be real. I mean, even for today's reporters, it's like a drunk text from Joe Scarborough.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, it was like a late-night drunk test. Maybe he got into the wine coolers or something and decided, I'm going to be... But he is... After all, considered to be an objective newsman. He just sat down with Trump a few weeks ago. Remember the one on one? He's not an opinion guy. Now, let's be clear here. A lot of people get this confused. They see a Laura Ingraham. They say, is she a news person? No. You see a Brett Baer. Is he a news person? Yes. Yes. Terry Moran is a news guy, you know, but the ladies on ABC's The View are not news people.
SPEAKER 02 :
Or when they gather the roundtable on This Week with Stephanopoulos and you have Donna Brazile and stuff like that, these are opinion people, commentators. Terry's supposed to be a White House correspondent, a reporter.
SPEAKER 03 :
And neutral. Neutral. This is the thing, Mark. I mean, look, I get that we know they're biased. Look, there's two things I'm tired of bellyaching about. I'm tired of bellyaching about the Democrats blaming Trump for the riots, and I want to get to that in a moment. But I'm also tired about the media bias. We get it. We understand that. But here's my question for you. Why is it so hard... to maintain at least a facade of objectivity. If you did a news story, if I said, Mark, if I'm the head of ABC News, and you're a news, you're a Terry Moran. And I said, go out and cover the Trump administration for a week. Why is it so difficult, despite your perhaps leftist bias, because you're Terry Moran, why would it be so hard to say, okay, here's the one side. This is what the critics say. On the other side, here's what the White House says. Why is that so difficult for the Terry Morans of the world to do?
SPEAKER 02 :
I have your answer, Mike Gallagher. The answer is twofold. Number one, they don't want to. Today's reporter class knows that activism boils within its bloodstream, and they are doing exactly what they wish to do. This objectivity thing, this covering both sides thing, okay, boomer, if that's what you want to do coming out of journalism school in the Carter administration, kind of like I did, then that's fine, but that's not what we do anymore. And reason number two is, it's no longer expected by the bosses. But it's But the ivory towers of management no longer deliver the wonderful lecture that you just did. Go out there and be fair. Go out there and be objective. They don't care anymore. But here's the thing.
SPEAKER 03 :
It would work. The thing that is crazy to me is you say they don't want to, but it would be profitable. And look, they are tanking, Mark. They're at an all-time low. You know, there's one little spunky network that seems to be kind of trying that. News Nation, have you been on it?
SPEAKER 02 :
Chris Cuomo.
SPEAKER 03 :
Chris Cuomo. I mean, they try. I think they make an effort. And incidentally, I saw one of their reporters get harassed and harangued. She was trying to cover the riots in L.A. They went after her and screamed that you're in the tank for Trump and blah, blah, blah. She made her composure. She was wonderful. But I'm mystified. They are ultimately in the ratings and revenue business. And so at the end of the day, why don't you do what would be better for ratings and revenue? Fox News beats MSNBC and CNN combined all the time. All the time. Fox News is beating ABC, NBC, and CBS in primetime. Did you know that? They're getting...
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SPEAKER 03 :
Bigger numbers now than ABC, NBC, or CBS many nights. So obviously a formula, and you see both views.
SPEAKER 02 :
You see Jessica Tarloff. This is the most important thing because the Fox product, you think, well, that's just the mirror image of the virulent leftist MSNBC product. No. Liberals get more airtime and more fair time, one might say, more fair treatment. I see Libs on Fox all the time. I mean, they're getting argued with. They're engaged in constructive debate. But from Tarloff to Harold Ford Jr. to others, they have a genuinely good time in an atmosphere of goodwill.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, and look at the one show that performs relatively well on CNN. That's the Abby Phillips Roundtable. And look at look at the presence they have. They have conservatives. They've got Scott Jennings. They've got the other guy. What's his name? Sure. Michael or. I mean, they've got two or three conservatives there that hold their own. They often bring on our buddy Arthur Idalla, the legal guy, the lawyer from New York. So anyway, I just I'm mystified by that. Let's look at the riots for just a moment. I'm also tired about. Of course they're blaming Trump. And it hit me late last night because I'm reading what they're saying. Oh, Daily Beast says Trump fueled the flames and poured the gas on the fire. Newsom is blaming Trump. That radical former Cuba leftist crazy at Karen Bass, the mayor. Blaming Trump. Well, of course they're going to blame Trump. They have to blame Trump. What else are they going to do? Are they going to take responsibility for their own failed policies? These are Democrats that are lighting buildings on fire. And we're back again, Mark, to the mostly peaceful protests.
SPEAKER 02 :
I know.
SPEAKER 03 :
You've seen the video, right?
SPEAKER 02 :
And it was the LAPD itself that said that the protests were mostly peaceful, proving we have some corrupt management of the LAPD.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, my gosh. Yeah, but the LAPD is also starting to change their tune and say things like, yeah, National Guard, maybe not such a bad idea after all. That's right. I mean, but normal people, here's what I like. You can't be normal and blame Trump for the riots in L.A. You just can't. What is a president supposed to do? Karen Bass has encouraged these protests. Democrat legislators, you've seen these kooky, wacky, far-left Democrat politicians in L.A. and statewide say, keep it up, keep protesting. Okay, people are saying, okay, I'll do that, sure thing, Mayor Bass. So if they're not going to quell the violence, what else is Trump supposed to do? There's a long history of presidents sending in the troops. And guess what? Just because Trump does it doesn't make it any different from any of the other presidents.
SPEAKER 02 :
One thing that's a little different about this one is it's often after the governor has requested it. Gavin Newsom, not only is he not requesting it, you see Gavin Newsom in the back and forth with the NBC reporter telling Tom Holman, come get me, tough guy. Arrest me.
SPEAKER 03 :
Let's go. Arrest me. Look, Trump was asked about that, and he said, you know what? If we find out that leaders of cities or counties or state have obstructed the enforcement of the law, they could be facing charges. And would you put that past the Trump administration?
SPEAKER 02 :
No, I would not. Now, Mike, in our last couple of minutes, I know the entire story has risen, bitten America in the butt, and seems to have receded completely. What was your Friday show like? And Trump versus Elon, the three-day DVD set? Because it seems to be. Elon is a nut. This just in, the guy is a big, giant baby. So you may get a weird tantrum like this every once in a while.
SPEAKER 01 :
No harm, no foul.
SPEAKER 02 :
He's a total nut. In some ways. Like many geniuses. Oh, please. He's a visionary. He's a genius. He's also out of his flippin' mind sometimes.
SPEAKER 03 :
He appears to regret what he did. If you haven't paid attention or followed this, he's deleted all of his tweets. All the Epstein nonsense. He's allegedly reached out to the White House. And I'm not sure President Trump is going to be in a kiss and make up mood. Not right away. Let him stew on this for a little while. They both bring so much to the table. They've been so prominent. I think Elon is going through something. I hate to speculate about somebody's personal life. A lot of speculation has been about the ketamine that he admits to taking. I don't know. I'm absolutely mystified by it.
SPEAKER 02 :
I think this is just him. I think we're looking for some reason. I think it's just him. I mean, once again, for the millionth time, Walter Isaacson biography, every once in a while in his entire life, business life, personal life, he just weirds out in some colossal way, and then it gets better in like a day or two.
SPEAKER 03 :
Maybe, but don't you find it bizarre that when people turn on Trump, They turn on him like nothing you've ever seen. I mean, it's not like lukewarm. It's not like, well, just like a cooling off. Well, Trump's not lukewarm.
SPEAKER 02 :
No, but why?
SPEAKER 03 :
It's kind of like Newton's law. But when they turn on him, my gosh, it's so personal and it's so visceral. It's so off the charts. Look at the list of people that have just gone bonkers. It's what my friend Mark Davis always says. Trump derangement syndrome makes smart people dumb and makes nice people mean. And funny people, I don't know. I don't get it. But I don't think he suffers from Trump derangement syndrome.
SPEAKER 02 :
Oh, no, no, no. Not at all. I mean, that's what was so weird and ironic. And as you said, for about a day, sad. Now just perplexing. I think we're done here. Is that their Venn diagrams overlap so much. They both love the country. They both want responsible government. The difference between Trump and Elon, Trump understands government.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, all I know is just stay put for a while because every time you go away from here, I've got to get my house in order.
SPEAKER 02 :
I was here. I was doing two shows on Friday.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, no, no, no, no. As far as I was concerned, you were in the wilderness. You were gone. I'm sorry. So come back. We'll see you Tuesday. Happy Monday. And let's buckle up for a big week.
SPEAKER 02 :
We are ready. Mike is here. We're both actually here. Confirm that. Mike gets going as soon as we're done. 10 a.m. right here on 660 AM E-Answer. 660 AM.
Join professional money manager Bill Gunderson as he navigates through the latest market news, analyzing the impact of critical socio-political events on stock trends. This episode dives deep into the world of rare earth materials, their importance in global trade talks, and the strategic moves investors should consider. Additionally, Bill shares insights on recent horse racing events and how they metaphorically relate to stock market decisions. In a rapidly evolving financial landscape, Bill discusses the latest technological advancements such as flying taxis and their implications for future transportation industries. From cryptocurrency developments to the newest aerospace ventures, listeners will gain valuable perspectives on identifying emerging investment opportunities amidst ongoing global challenges. Tune in to uncover the fundamentals of successful investing with practical advice on balancing risk and reward in turbulent times. Whether you’re an experienced trader or just starting, this episode offers essential insights for making informed decisions in today’s market.
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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 Gunderson Capital Management. Here is professional money manager Bill Gunderson.
SPEAKER 03 :
And welcome to the Monday morning, June the 9th, with Waymo's under attack in L.A. And a big meeting in London today between the Chinese delegation and the U.S. delegation. A lot to talk about on today's Best Docs Now show. This is professional money manager Bill Gunderson, president of Gunderson Capital Management, and I'm here with Barry Kite, our chartered financial analyst. And the markets have opened a little bit on the squishy side, I would say, with that big meeting in London today. Let's hope we get some good news out of there. Rare Earths definitely at the top of the menu today. The Dow is down 68 points right now to 42,694. The NASDAQ is up 35. A little bit of strength in NVIDIA, CoreWeave, a few others, but some weakness in other spots. The NASDAQ is at 19,564. Now the S&P is above 6,000 for the first time since February. How about that? We're at 6,001. We've had quite a comeback in the market since those tariff scares back in March. We've got interest rates. That's a bugaboo. We're up at 4.51% right now. That's the highest it's been in a while. And Bitcoin is having a pretty good day. It's up $1,500 to $107,466. So welcome to today's Best Stocks Now show with professional money manager Bill Gunderson, president of Gunderson Capital Management. We are home in Charles Lakewood Ranch next Tuesday and Wednesday. I'm looking forward to that, as always. And, of course, we had a little bit of activity over the weekend. It's never a dull moment. Seems like the Trump-Musk feud has simmered down a little bit. Some are saying it was staged by Musk to try to get his fans back. That's at least Kathy Wood's opinion, but I don't know when she's been right. Maybe she's right this time. We had a little bit of problems in L.A. Now, look, I lived my first eight years in Los Angeles, and I grew up during the Watts Riots. My father couldn't go to work. He worked on the outskirts there of downtown L.A., and there were snipers on the freeway. We witnessed the Reginald Denny riots. What was his name, the guy that got beaten up?
SPEAKER 04 :
King.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, King. And, you know, they burnt the city down. Rodney King. Rodney King. And then, of course, the Black Lives Matter riots. Now it's the Hispanics for the most part. Look, I said to my wife many times, I said, you know, the ICE raids are not going to go well in certain areas of the country. There's going to be fierce opposition to them. And, of course, California would be the number one spot and Los Angeles would probably be ground zero. And they are facing severe resistance, enough so to send in 10 soldiers and Nixon coming. We're finally on our own as 2,000 National Guard troops are sent in to keep the peace in downtown Los Angeles. And they're setting Waymos on fire. So Elon thinks he's got his issues. They were setting Teslas on fire. Well, no opportunity.
SPEAKER 04 :
It's not just Teslas anymore.
SPEAKER 03 :
Now they're torching Google Waymos in downtown Los Angeles. So, you know, other than that, it's just a passive world and we should be invested in indexes.
SPEAKER 04 :
Quiet weekend. What did you think about the Belmont?
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I said to my wife on Saturday, this is the best bet I've ever seen in horse racing. Now, he wasn't a long odds. That horse should have been four to five that won the Derby. And I said, you know what? What's in our account? We have a little account. Serenity. I said put everything that we have on, what's his name? Serenity or what is it? No, no, no. Serenity. No, no. No, no, no, no, no, no. Yeah. You know, Licks, this was just Saturday. I mean, the horse that won the Kentucky Derby.
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It was the same one that won the Kentucky Derby, right.
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He's by far the better horse, by far the better horse than the other one. Sovereignty. Sovereignty. Plus, he had been arrested for four weeks, and the California horse had just run in the Preakness. I couldn't believe he was two and a half to one. So obviously I had something to cheer about as they come down the stretch, and he just ate up. that California horse journalism. So I'm a happy guy. Got a little play money in my trading, my options account at Betfair or whatever it is. I don't know. It's just there. I've never taken any money out of it, but I did build it up. That was the best bet I've ever seen. Them making journalism the favorite. Now, that does relate to the stock market because I see stocks like that. I go, how come this stock is trading at this P-E ratio? I mean, you could say that about NVIDIA right now. While they're betting the heck out of CoreWeave and other stocks, there's better values out there right now. Not to say journalism's not a good course and not to say that CoreWeave's not a good stock, but not at those odds. I'm sorry, not at those odds. Okay, well... We begin a new week in the market. We had some activity on Friday. Let me pull up my notes here. Flying taxis are in the news today. What else? I mean, there's always something fun to talk about on the Best Stocks Now show. Maybe we should fly over Los Angeles instead of drive through it. I don't know.
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I remember when the flying taxis were long-duration stocks, right?
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Yeah.
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Now they're getting some approval.
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Now you've got hedge fund managers loading up. Well, the market finished the week with a nice rally on Friday. The Dow was up 1%. The NASDAQ was up 1.2%. I think there's a little problem with interest rates right now, and I'm sure you would agree with me there that we're up over 4.5%. That's the highest we've seen in a while. This is taking a little toll on insurance stocks, on the momentum slash growth stocks, but not that much. S&P closes above 6,000 for the first time since February after a May jobs data report. So no matter what the headlines say, the market said the jobs numbers were good. And I saw a lot of negative headlines, job growth slows under Trump, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I just look at the market, no matter who the president is, I just look at the market and the market gave a thumbs up to the jobs report and the initial jobless claims on Thursday with a big rally on Friday. That's where the market usually goes with the truth. Earnings week ahead, well, you know, we've got a few stragglers. Adobe's a pretty big one. I mean, that's one of your top five software stocks, maybe top ten. At one time, it was one of the best software stocks out there, or number two or three behind Microsoft and Oracle. as they pretty much were a major disruptor, major disruptor in the printing space, in the photograph. How many companies did Adobe wipe out? Eastman, Kodak, all the photo labs.
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If they didn't wipe them out, they bought them.
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Printers, printing companies, they were an absolute disruptor. in that space impacting many, many markets. And that's why, you know, you go downtown to Santa Clara. I don't think it is anymore, but it was the Adobe Stadium, the Adobe Sports Arena, where the San Jose Sharks play. I was there when it was Adobe. Someone told me they've changed the name. It's probably something AI by now. It's the Sam Altman Memorial Arena or something like that. But Adobe's going to report. cryptocurrency oracle yeah it could be the crypto i think the staples senator it's staple center in la is crypto.com center now it's past staples a long time ago oracle's going to sap center now so we still another software company yeah sap jeff webster knows a little something about sap Now, they're a German company sponsoring an American hockey team. I'm just saying. GameStop is going to report GitLab's Chewy, which is the dog bone stock, if you're interested in that, and a few others here and there. But the action today is in London, big time. Okay, they had the talk. It finally happened. Trump and Xi. Interestingly, he's sending a vice premier named He Lai Fing. So you've got Xi and He, both of them. We don't want to discriminate against anybody here. Chinese Vice Premier He Lai Fing will visit the United Kingdom. Now, he's like number two or number three man. From June 18th to June 13th, This is a big week in London, during which time he will participate in trade talks with the U.S. This is still ground zero in this whole trade battle, trade war, whatever you want to call it. China's ground zero, and I see progress coming this week. It's a good thing. We'll be right back.
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Thank you.
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And welcome back here to the second quarter of today's Best Docs Now show. I'm looking forward a lot to the Tuesday workshop at 7 p.m. at the Even. I don't know if it's Evan or Even. It's spelled Even. So maybe we'll call it Even. Even Steven, okay? But I'm going to be there 7 o'clock. No matter what. It's a quirky kind of place, but in a good way.
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I'm going to call them and see how they answer it.
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yeah maybe that's a good idea okay and i uh you know i'm i'm looking forward to that if you can't make it this time around uh you know i'm going to be going to lakewood ranch every few months you know i got to check in on my sister down there i got a sister she's finally going to be back in her home from the hurricane in about a month i'm going to say it's been almost one year time between the Insurance companies cleaning up the mess, the permits, the contractors being overwhelmed with work, dealing with the insurance company. They came up short. She had to come up with more.
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Being displaced all at the same time.
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Being displaced for almost one year. Other than that, it went smoothly. And just in time for the next hurricane season, which has already, you know, I think been declared. So anyways, we'll be down in Lakewood Ranch on a routine, regular basis and other cities around America. But this next Tuesday at 7 p.m., got the workshop on Tuesday night at 7 and private appointments on Tuesday and Wednesday with the team. So that ought to be a lot of fun. We've got a lot of good people down in Lakewood Ranch. We'd love the people down in that area and all the cities we're in. We have a good listening audience. Okay, MP Materials jumps as U.S.-China trade talks focus on critical materials. I was thinking, you know, what's on the agenda here? You know, for us, it's rare earth. There's no question that that rare earth is very, very important.
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And that's really what it's coming down to. I mean, it's the difference between chips on one side, right, and rare earth minerals on the other side. And those are kind of those two red lines. And, you know, I mean, that's where the agreement, you know, all the other stuff, I think, will kind of shake itself out from a trading standpoint. You know, we need each other. We've talked about that already. But those... Those two pieces are important, magnets and chips.
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Yeah, and Trump would love to see them buying a lot more from us. Right now they're buying all their soybeans from South America, I think Brazil, and he would love to see them. Look what we're buying from you, China. We would love to see some buying of our goods on your side of the pond.
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And that was part of that framework initially, right, under the first Trump administration where, you know, basically the Chinese official basically said, you know, once the Biden administration got in there, they just quit buying and nobody said otherwise.
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Well, and both sides look at each other with a wary eye because, look, I mean, rare earths also used in weaponry and military. And on the other hand, China, this advanced jet engines and technology products, is they're building up a massive military. So we're wary about giving them that technology. They might turn around and use it against us someday. So both sides looking at each other. Those are two very sensitive countries. uh... issues those high-speed ships that we have which they've got plenty of them i mean they they've got that whole uh... uh... you know that whole uh... a i system that they have is full of of nvidia chips but they want easy access to our high-speed chips and we want access to their rare earth minerals mp materials is up 9.4 today. No, they didn't discover a big find on all 17 minerals there just south of Nevada, Las Vegas. But they're in play. That's thought to be one of our most promising sites.
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And you've mentioned it a number of times on the show for probably two years now.
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We own it in our emerging growth portfolio because we realize the importance of rare earth and finding it here in the U.S., whether it be under the ocean or on the way to Vegas. MP is up 9.5% on three times normal volume right now. And they're already looking at the other rare earth stocks. uh today uh the asian markets are up a little bit they're uh let's not forget they're hurting over there they're hurting big time a 30 percent tariff you know a lot of our suppliers over here just saying we're going to wait till this thing gets settled so they're hurting I did see a lot of activity at our port. I drove down that way on Friday.
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The funny thing is, every time I look at it lately, there's definitely more activity.
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There's definitely. There was one leaving the port, and all three parking spots, four parking spots were taken up at the port. uh so there's really the two sticking points rare earth and the high speed chips and then soybeans you know look i mean it would be nice for our farmers to have access to the markets in china they certainly use a lot of soybeans over there we don't want them buying from south america okay nuclear power Well, there's two other big subjects today. The flying taxis, number one, Trump signed an executive order on Friday to really ramp this up. The Jetsons have arrived. Yeah. It has arrived. There's no question about it. And it's all you got to do is get locked in on the 405 on rush hour traffic in L.A. Of course, Trump or Musk's answer was to go underground and Trump's answer is to fly over it. I just don't know how many people and how realistic that really is. But. You know, look, I can see lots of times where I would love to have a little robo-taxi and fly right over the traffic and, you know, get there at 250 miles an hour instead of 60 miles an hour. So we're going to get to the robo-taxis. There's mainly three main players. There's also not a lot of news in the drone space today. How can you say that drones are not a growth... Not in a good way. Look at the attacks that are being unleashed in Russia and Ukraine. I mean, Iran has become one of the biggest makers of drones in the world, and not in a good way. They're not carrying satellite communications. They're carrying massive weapons. And we have a couple of big drone makers. The third biggest drone maker in the world is in the U.S., in the Los Angeles area, in AeroVirement, A-V-A-V. But I want to talk about nuclear just for a minute. Westinghouse has said to eye a major role in U.S. nuclear revival. Now, this is one we've kind of left out. of our discussions and when we come back i think westinghouse at some point it stood alone as a company i remember there was the round table at disneyland the westinghouse of the future and you went around and whatnot as a big company now it's owned by a couple of big conglomerates westinghouse uh said all 10 nuclear projects that trump announced that he wants to start could use Westinghouse's signature AP1000 pressurized water reactor design. Who owns Westinghouse?
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We'll be right back.
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This is Bill Gunderson. Thank you for tuning in to today's Best Stocks Now, Best Inverse Funds Now show. Now, back to the second half of the show. Thank you.
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And welcome back here to the second half of today's Best Docs Now show.
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Sector has powered to number one rank in my Best Stocks Now app. That's an important part of that app is being in the right sectors. There are sectors that are dead. There are sectors that are absolutely dead in the water. Oil and gas come to mind. Anybody who comes to me that owns an Exxon Mobil or Chevron or a BP, those are dead stocks. Halliburton, Schlumberger, those are dead stocks. Will they heat up again and have their day in the sun? Maybe. We'll see. If that time comes, we'll see it showing up in the stats. But right now, the nuclear sector is the number one sector out of 66 or so. I've added a few lately. Maybe there's about 70 sectors. There was no AI sector five years ago. I've had to add that one. There really wasn't a nuclear sector. Now you've got all these nuclear ETFs as you've got this renaissance. Okay, Westinghouse. Westinghouse is in talks with U.S. officials about building up to 10 large-scale nuclear reactors aiming to align itself with President Donald Trump's recently announced nuclear energy push. The company's interim chief executive officer, Dan Sumner, said all 10 projects could use Westinghouse's signature AP1000 pressurized water reactor design. Now, when people transfer portfolios to me from these big firms, Barry, they own the old traditional utilities. Okay, why?
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Duke Energy SEI.
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Yeah, Duke is always in there and others. It used to be Edison and the big one in New York, Con Ed and this and that. They're not good stocks. They're just not good stocks. They're interest rate senses. If it's really like buying a bond and having bond exposure, there's no growth. Okay, now you've got a whole entire growth industry. in the utility sector, with Vistra, with Constellation Energy, and with others. What's the other one I'm trying to think of here? I'll think of it here in a minute.
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Oh, Vistra?
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Yeah, Vistra. No, there's another one, too. Valen, Talen, Talen, T-A-L-E-N. Okay, now, Westinghouse is a player. Who owns Westinghouse? Well, it's owned by two companies. To get exposure to Westinghouse, you have to own A, Cameco, and of course through Cameco you're also getting huge exposure to uranium oh my gosh look at that stock breakout today CCJ you see that I bet they're not seeing that over there at the big wire house firms they're just arriving to work with their bagels and their coffee and You know, they're pretty slow moving. They really are. Look at the breakout. Do you see that? On Cameco today, CCJ, it's up 11.2%. Now, wait a minute. There's another one involved in all of this. This is the kind of work we do at Gunderson Capital. We get up before everybody else does, Barry, you and I, and the rest of the team. We're up early. And I'm reading. I'm searching. I'm researching. Before I go out fishing in the boat, I want to know where the fish are biting. And I want to have one up on all the other guys out there. Brookfield Renewable Partners is the other one. B-E-P. Now, they're headquartered in Bermuda. That's some kind of a tax dodge.
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There's a reason why.
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They can pay a bigger dividend or something.
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You'll need a team of lawyers to explain it to you. But there's a good tax reason as to why they're there.
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Now, listen to this. Brookfield... pays a 5.9% dividend yield. Do you hear that? Our dividend and growth portfolio, all of a sudden, its ears are burning. Really? We can get a growth? Now, they have exposure to renewable energy. It used to be mostly, mostly wind and solar. Right. But guess what? Well, yeah. So they own a big chunk. I'll have to look it up. Maybe you can have the answer for me by the end of the show. What percent of Westinghouse does Brookfield Renewable Partners, BEP... Brookfield.com have, but they have several partnerships. It's not a partnership where you have to follow a partnership return. It's more like a closed-end fund, I suppose. But they generate electricity in the United States and Europe through the use of renewable resources. And bam, right in the center.
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Here's how this trades in. Essentially, Brookfield owns roughly 51% of Westinghouse. Wow. Cameco owns the other 49%. There you go. And the interesting thing is, too, when you look at this, you mention all the time stocks follow earnings and earnings expectations.
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Look at the earnings growth. Look at the sales growth.
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And the partnership actually is supposed to, I think at least on the Cameco side, I don't know, over $170 million or so in EBITDA. And so what is that going to do? Of course, that adds more earnings, right? You crank that into your valuation, and that's how you get 11% move up for the stock today.
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Yes, and BEP, Cameco is headquartered in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and we don't know where Brookfield, but probably New York. I'm going to guess they're in, I bet there's a big building down in New York, Brookfield.com. But anyways, BEP with that 5.9, that sounds like a good article to write, 5.9% dividend yield. BEP is up today 11% also, right? Let's see. No.
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Actually, yeah, the partnership itself is just basically flat.
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No, it's up 6.3%. Is it BIP?
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B-I-P? Okay. B-E-P. B-E-P. I'm on the wrong one.
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On four times normal volume. We like volume. Turn the volume up. It's good stuff. All right. Now... This is interesting. China, it's National Exam Week for the college kids in the universities in China. They shut down China's most popular AI chatbots, such as Alibaba's Quinn and Tencent's Wanbo. So they can't cheat on their test. Just turn them off for a minute. That's how a communist country works. Flip the switch.
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You've got to switch for everything, right?
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No bread tomorrow. No AI during exam week. So that's how that works. China's soybean imports hit record high. Well, I would like to see it coming from Iowa. I'd like to see it coming from Michigan. I'd like to see soybeans coming from Nebraska, etc. Instead, they're buying, and this is obviously part of all of this, they're buying it from Brazil during these trade tensions. Sam Altman's biometric eye scanner system expands to the UK. Now, here's my story. Here's my boots on the ground, eyeballs on the website. I go to Facebook to look up a local fishing guide who's on the water almost every day, not at work at all. uh... fishing and not dispelled like a not k n o t this guy is out there in my backyard everyday fishing while i'm here working so obviously when i go fishing uh... i want to check and see he posts pictures of his catch uh... with kind of cryptic where he was fishing information but i can usually kind of tell where he's been fishing Now, I go on to Facebook last week, and they want me to turn on my camera, look into it, move my eyes back and forth before I can view his Facebook page, Barry. What is Zuckerberg up to? Is that going straight? Who's that? Where is that going? But you know what? That information is so valuable. For two months, I wouldn't do it. There's no way I'm going to look into the camera for Zuckerberg and show him my eyeball so he can record it and keep it on record. Well, the fishing's... I'm seeing shrimp showing up in the creek. And I'm seeing my son-in-law through the net at the beach on Saturday and got a 16-inch trout in the surf.
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You need somebody else's eyes. That's what you need.
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So I... Did it. But that's a scary deal. And Sam Altman's biometric eye scanner. What are they going to do there with our eyeballs? Not good. Venezuela is prepping a 50% gasoline price hike. That's how communist countries work. amid oil revenue squeeze. I wonder why. They've let their oil fields get dilapidated, and they've got all of that oil underneath their feet in the ocean off of Venezuela, and they don't have enough to even serve their own country, let alone sell it. Oh, well. Okay, when we come back, robo-taxis. What is that up in the air? It's a bird. It's a plane. It's a robo-taxi. We'll be right back. And welcome back here to the final segment of today's Best Stocks Now show, Flying Taxi Stocks Soar. After the White House announced an EVTOL, has something to do with vertical takeoff, pilot program. Vertical takeoff, straight up, Barry. You're caught in traffic. You push the button and straight up and over.
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Reminds me of the old Harriers. I grew up between two Air Force bases, but I think it was an English plane, the Harrier, and they could just literally take off. Basically just like a helicopter.
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Yes, and the U.S. says, I saw those over down in San Diego. I saw many naval aircraft that could do that, go straight up and then level off and take off. Pretty amazing, yes. Now, he signed an executive action establishing an electric vertical takeoff and landing. So if you're wondering what EVTOL is, vertical takeoff and landing. Okay.
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Add that acronym to your investment knowledge base.
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Well, when I do the newsletter on Friday and Saturday, I always check it with grammar and spelling. And it'll come on a word, and it'll say, you know, either got to change this or add it to the dictionary. You know how many words I've added to my own personal dictionary because of all these terms that we didn't have before?
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Catch your own language, Bill.
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Well, I mean, the stock market is out ahead of the dictionary right now. Okay, so... Here's a few EVTOL players. And, in fact, you've got one of the big hedge fund managers, Jason Mudrick. I don't know him. I've never heard of him. But he cashed in on meme stock mania, which I'm not a big fan of. That was GameStop and AMC and the Dog Biscuit Company. He's now backing a far more futuristic gamble, flying taxis. He's known for investing in distressed companies. He recently took control of British aerospace startup EVTL, which I looked at. So a hedge fund now owns that stock. EVTL is up 9.5%. It's based out of Britain. It's a $500 million company. Now, over here in the U.S., we have two major players, ACHR, which is Archer Aviation. It's up 8.4%. They've been developing. You can watch them. I mean, they have working models. They're working on designing and developing an all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, VTOL. And then the other one is Joby Aviation. Now, we don't own any of these. For me, this is a little bit too far out on the runway for me, okay? Now, Kathy Woods, this is right up her alley. She likes stuff that won't have a product for 27 years. No, I'm just kidding. But she's pretty far out there on that scale, and that's why she got hurt so badly.
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Long duration.
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long duration when interest rates went up back in the year 2001. She got crushed, absolutely crushed, 67%. Man, I'll tell you what, you've got to make changes when the Fed jigs, you better jag, and when other things change in the world, you've got to be on top of that stuff. You can't just stay in long-duration stuff. Just ask the bank, Silicon Valley Bank that went down, in California who stuck with their long-term U.S. treasuries and got wiped out, gone.
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Well, and the biggest correlation to the market period, right, is certainly Fed policy, right? Is prevailing interest rates, you know, likely to go down in the future or up and tends to the market over a long term is, you know,
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that's been a huge piece of it so now and just staying in one thing the whole time doesn't necessarily make sense i mentioned my little betfair account i will call it now the sovereignty account because everything in there now has been actually you know i've only i've only bet two horses this year just for fun and uh it's been sovereignty both times and the last bet i made last year was the horse that won the uh breeders cup uh and uh So that's the kind of account you want to buy the flying taxi stocks in. in your uh... sovereignty account you know at betfair uh... have a little fun with it watch them fly over your head the flying taxis uh... you don't want to see your your ira invested in the flying taxis and see it you know take off and never land that's not good uh... and then of course the drones on this on this onds bags a fourteen point three million defense contract for drone systems ONDS, you can add that to your drone. There's not a lot of drone stocks. ONDIS is up 16.5% today. They're out of... I can't tell where that is. That looks like the Netherlands. I'm going to say that's in the Netherlands. Either that or Nevada, one or the other. That's a weird abbreviation they've got there. Okay, and then, of course, you've got AVAV, which is our favorite drone stock. It's up 2.4%. It's the third biggest maker of drones in the world. The other two, now, they're headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, AVAV. But they do a lot out in the Los Angeles area, not too far from Santa Anita Racetrack in Monrovia, because I've passed it a few times on my way to Santa Anita to spend a day, you know, picnicking at the park and this kind of thing. The other stock, you know, another, I don't know, the crypto stocks, this Circle. Circle went public on Friday. And it's the stablecoin stock. It doubled in its first day of trading. Then it went up another 30% on Friday. And now it's up another 12% today. These are the kind of things I wouldn't even buy in my... in my sovereignty account. That's just me. I don't have a good feeling about crypto. They provide digital currencies. They're the stable coin, which is a little bit different animal. But that's the hot IPO recently. Let's see. NVIDIA, UK financial regulator, team up for an AI sandbox. Oh, Wang is also in London today meeting with the British prime minister. They're having a big tech week over there. So a lot going on in London today, this week. The China negotiations and Jensen Wang there is part of that. Well, I hear the music. We're out of time. I've got over 1,000 charts to look at. I hope I don't have to show my eyeballs to see my charts to Zuckerberg. If you'd like to set up an appointment with us, 855-611-BEST, 855-611-BEST. If you'd like to reserve a spot, Lakewood Ranch next Tuesday and Wednesday, same number, 855-611-BEST. Have a great day, everybody.
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This episode of The Good News with Angie Austin brings various discussions to the fore with remarkable guests sharing their insights. Angie and Jim Stovall take us on a reflective journey about the power of purpose and how embracing it can lead to a fulfilling life. Dr. Cheryl Lentz introduces us to pioneering advancements in the realm of education, demonstrating the exciting potential held by virtual reality to transform online learning experience. Additionally, Dr. Contessa Metcalf provides meaningful insights into the often-unspoken challenges women face during menopause and perimenopause. Tune in for practical and empowering advice from top-notch experts who are redefining success and wellness.
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Welcome to the good news with Angie Austin. Now with the good news. Here's Angie.
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Hey there, friend, Angie Austin and Jim Stovall. And we are talking today about paying attention, which I'm constantly trying to do with my kids. Hey, Jim.
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Hey, it is great to be with you, and this week's a little different than our normal because I'm playing on the beach for a few days in what I laughingly call work. I do have to make a speech later, but other than that, Crystal and I are enjoying it here and glad we could connect with you.
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All right. Now, when you do these speeches, I'm just making the assumption that you do these so often. Do you have any anxiety? I'm thinking you enjoy them and you don't feel anxious at all.
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The only thing I feel anxious about anymore is, you know, getting on stage and finding where I'm going to be as a blind person that. But no, once it comes down to talking and doing what I do. And this session, I do a couple of times a year here on this little island in Mission Bay. This one, you know, I'll talk for an hour and then I answer questions. And, you know, as you know, from doing live stuff, you never know exactly what's going to happen. But, you know, you just you roll with it. And no, I enjoy it. I look forward to it every time.
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And then how long is your speech?
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I will talk, you know, it'll be two hours tonight. Two hours straight? Yeah, I'll talk for an hour and then I'll answer questions for an hour.
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All right. And then what's your topic tonight?
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It is kind of going from poverty to prosperity to purpose. And how we all need to go to purpose. We need to find our purpose. And I didn't realize that until yesterday. I became prosperous, and then I realized, wow, that's not the goal line. The goal line is purpose. And if you just start out with your goal to be purpose, you'll get prosperity on the way. You can have all you want if you'll help enough other people get what they want. And so it's, you know, success comes from significance. And so that's what we'll talk about. And these are leaders that come in from all over the world. Some of them are politicians. Some are business leaders. Some are philanthropists, and they come in a different group of these twice a year, and we do this.
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And what's the name of this? You say business leaders, but isn't this this big mucky muck event?
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Yeah, yeah. It's called the Compassionate Samurai. So what types of people come? Well, like I said, you'll have politicians, world leaders, actresses, actors, comedians. you know, wealthy people, philanthropists, and then people that are in the world of nonprofits and things like that. And it's all based on my late great friend, Brian Clemmer wrote a book called compassionate samurai. And it's kind of like, there's two kinds of people in the world. There's wealthy people that have a lot of power, but don't necessarily always do good. And then there's people that are focused on good, but they don't necessarily have the power. And if you get them together and, you can really make a difference in the world. And Mother Teresa was successful at doing the work she did because she combined her efforts with some very powerful people who had wealth and resources behind them.
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Now, you don't give any names, but I'm assuming from what I've heard about these events in the past that we would recognize many of the names attending.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, yeah, you would recognize a lot of them and And then others are just people that work in the world of philanthropy or nonprofit. And, you know, they may work at a mission in Somalia or, you know, in a school in Tibet, and they'll be sitting next to you. um the president of a country or the head of a banking group or whatever and it's a fascinating group of people that all come together and it's a it's a matter of putting you know the the the wealth and the power together with the people of goodwill and service and this is your favorite like island like location to go to in san diego it's like a hotel on an island Yeah, yeah, it's called Paradise Point, and it's actually a man-made island in this very successful guy 50, 60 years ago. contracted with the city of San Diego, and in the back end of Mission Bay, he got permission to dredge up and build this island. It's about 60 acres, and then he did it in such a way that almost all the units are on the water and have waterfront. And, yeah, you get off the airplane in San Diego, and 10 minutes later, you're on this busy street, and you turn into this thing, and it looks like a – jungle or garden, and you drive down this path for a ways, and you come up to this bridge, and the next thing you know, you're on an island right in the middle of this city, and it's really amazing. You feel like you're on Gilligan's Island or something. I don't know.
SPEAKER 05 :
Oh, that's so cool. That's one of my bucket list things to check that place out.
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Yeah.
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All right, so today we are talking about paying attention. That's your winner's wisdom column for the week. And I feel like I'm doing this with my teenagers all the time. But my husband, for that matter, too, because he has so much going on with his business.
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Yeah, and it's interesting because if you don't pay attention to things... you will pay for not paying attention. And here's an example. The consumer reports tell us that as many as 50% of people who are qualified for a rebate never get it. So, you know, they bought an item expecting a hundred or $200 rebate or whatever. And, you know, they've got six months to do it. So they throw it on a pile or something or put it in a drawer. And the next thing you know, It just expired. They lost it because they didn't pay attention. 20% of gift cards are never used. Oh, I believe that. Yeah, they cared enough to give you this gift card, and it just expires and runs out because you didn't pay attention. And then in the column I talked about, in my case, you know, I have to do quarterly tax estimates, as a lot of people do. And, you know, it's almost insidious the way they did it. You know, the one that includes the fourth quarter of the year runs over to January 15th. Well, a lot of people, most people don't pay attention. And about January 8th or 10th and after the holidays and the new year, oh, yeah, I got to figure out this quarterly estimate. Well, the problem is it's too late to take a tax deduction or make a donation or sell some stock if you have a profit in them. And you're just stuck with this. And invariably, if you really look at that, you think, you know, if I had done this two weeks sooner. I could have saved thousands and thousands of dollars in taxes. Or instead of paying the money to the government, I could have given it to my church or my favorite charity or whatever the case may be. And it's really amazing what happens when you do that. It all comes from just paying attention. And for the most part, it's like we've talked about before. You either do it now or you get it on your schedule. because, you know, people meant to get the rebate. They meant to use the gift card. They meant to do their tax planning. But because the date creeps up on them and then the next thing they know, somebody else is telling them to do it. And if you wait for somebody else to tell you it's time to do something, you waited too late because you've missed the deadline and the opportunity to to make it happen. And it all it just changes when you just start paying attention and just do it. So the key is when you have the rebate, when you have the gift card, when you have the tax planning, either do it right now or put it on your calendar. Make yourself a reminder to do it. It's just that simple. And with the technology we have today, there's no excuse for this. It's amazing that people let things go like that. And because they don't pay attention, they pay the price for not paying attention.
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You know, this is such a great example because, you know, you have to set reminders for things, right? And I sometimes will have like 10 or 12 alarms set per day just to remind me, like, pick up the basketball team, you know, pick up the donuts for the team, you know, drop this kid off. Oh, you have a doctor's appointment for this kid, a tournament here. And so all day long, these things go off and I label them. And then I give myself obviously leeway to get to the location and I'll, you know, have a reminders because sometimes if they'll go off, I'm like, oh gosh, what did I set that for? But last week, something pretty big happened by husband's company. Sometimes clients do chargebacks, even though they have a contract because they're irritated about something. Well, what they were irritated had to do with like, Some government paperwork that they had to do that wasn't the fault of my husband's company, but they couldn't do business until they finished this government paperwork. So a lot of people kind of got behind and they're like, hey, how come we can't do business? And I'm like, remember, you've been telling me you have to do this paperwork. So anyway, and it's not us. It's not the company that's making me do this. We are legally bound to make you do this in order to do business with you. So when you make a long story short, one client charged back several months and it's equal to like the person was supposed to handle it. It's equal to her entire salary for the whole year. Well, she missed the deadline. So they're calling and you get a receipt when you challenge a chargeback. And if you have a contract, you get the money. If that I wouldn't get to keep the money. Because he has a contract. So once you show the credit card company the contract, like you're set, they go, sorry, you know, buddy, you have a contract, you know, you're legally liable for that money and you can't take it back. But if you miss the deadline to prove that they had a contract, then you get zeroed. If you miss the deadline, it's all the legalese. Right. So anyway, they're on the phone and they're talking to the company and their employees with my husband. And she's like, but I did everything. Here's all my work. Here's all my work that I did to prove it. And then Mark's like, well, where's the receipt to say that you sent this in? Well, didn't ever get sent in. And literally, it is the amount of like her salary for the whole year. And so some people might get fired over that. But that's not really how my husband operates. But think about the salespeople, Jim. They can't get paid on money the company never got. So you've got to go to all those salespeople and say, hey, by the way, this big chunk of change that you made quite a bit of money off of, we have to take that out of your check because we can't pay you for something we never received. So it has all these ripple effects of one person missing one deadline.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, and when that does happen, it can be such a learning experience. When I was first starting out in business, I had an employee that missed a thing like that, and it cost me probably $10,000 at a time when $10,000 was a lot of money. And she came into my office in tears and said, well, I guess you're going to fire me. I said, no, why would I fire you? I just invested $10,000. in your education and you, I believe you can stay here and be a valued employee and never make a mistake like that again. And she spent the next 30 years with me and retired and was the absolute solid rock go-to person for everything and never made a mistake. And, and, you know, so I, you know, at least, at least we got a learning opportunity out of it because you're going to pay the tuition. You may as well get the lesson.
SPEAKER 05 :
Oh, yeah. I'm sorry. No, the speech that you're talking about today from poverty to prosperity to philanthropy.
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Poverty to prosperity to purpose.
SPEAKER 05 :
Perfect. Okay. I was thinking when you told me about that, about one of my friends who worked at VOA, Jim, and his name's Jim too. And he retired and he was constantly busy doing Meals on Wheels and they've got all kinds of programs for families to volunteer and homeless shelters for women, older women, and they've got a senior center, just all kinds of stuff. And it's a great Christian organization. Anyway, he was telling me at another charity event the other night, he's like, yeah, for like you know, a year or two, I just had no purpose. I didn't know what to do with myself. I was feeling really down. And he said, and then I found one thing to do every day. And one of the things he does is he works with ARC, an organization I work with and where my son's doing an internship this summer. And he said, I get books. And then I repurpose all these children's books. And he told me some outrageous number, like I've repurposed, you know, 400 and some thousand children's books over the last 10 years or whatever it is since he retired. And so every day he He has a different place he goes to and a different volunteer effort that he is involved with that helps him have purpose.
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Oh, absolutely. And that's what makes all the difference. I mean, you know, going from poverty to prosperity is nice. It's convenient. It's all that. But it really starts to matter in your life when you find a purpose. And it's as in most things, Angie, it's not about you and it's not about me. It's about what we do for other people.
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Jim Stovall dot com. Have fun, my friend.
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Hey there, friend. Angie Austin here with the good news. And Dr. Cheryl Lentz is joining us, the academic entrepreneur. She had a staff meeting yesterday. She said some new technology blew her mind. It blew you away, Dr. Cheryl. Welcome. What's this all about?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, this is really crazy. You know, technology and me are kind of a love-hate relationship. It takes a little while, but you can teach an old dog new tricks. And I've said this publicly that I'm not a fan of the metaverse.
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However... However, and there's always a however in life.
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There is. And I saw something on what is typically a boring faculty meeting, poke a stick in my eye. Oh, dear God, we've talked about the same thing for the last six months. Except... They showed a pilot that they're doing with the metaverse. And what they essentially did is created a – think of it as a campus lounge that has about five or six different corridors as if you would physically walk into an online campus or an on-ground campus. You walk in and you see like the commons and then you see the bookstore and then you see different meeting rooms and there's the union and there's – I mean it was a very interesting space they created. And it was all for both students and faculty. And so here's the interesting thing is we who are in online education in particular, online education isn't going away. But the goal is always to how do we garner that engagement? How do we increase that sense of community, that sense of as if you were really there, but. we're scattered across the world. You know, I teach for a military university and sometimes I have had conversations with students who are in Dubai or Djibouti or, or, you know, a station at Ramstein Air Force Base or something like that. And so while I don't prefer that method, Zoom, just like you and I are talking via Skype, has the ability to make those connections and make it interesting so that we don't have to be, if we can't be in person, face to face. But this was the next best thing, Angie, I'm telling you, when you could actually not just be that talking head, but sit across the table from somebody as if you were in that conference room and you could see their avatars. And you can be in that space and have it as if you were really there. And it's a little goofy. It's a little clunky right now. But I was really blown away that I could see this as a viable option for the metaverse in online education. when it's not desirable to be in that safe space because of geographic displacement, because there isn't an option to be in person. But boy, this was really impressive, Angie.
SPEAKER 05 :
Wow. So what are they going to use it for? What are you going to use it for? Like, what are you looking forward to trying it with?
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, I will say what I do now for my students is because I want my students to know I'm a real person. And it can be sometimes a real drag when you're in the online classroom and all you're doing is trading asynchronous text, meaning they post today at three. I post tonight at seven. And so we have a online conversation, just not in real time. So I post videos from YouTube that has me as a talking head when something comes up and I try to do it as a once a week kind of a thing. There's also the ability that I can create, say, a once a week for an hour, a live classroom. We call it an alternative. Some students want to meet in person. And so we kind of do a little bit of a hybrid that you can be in person on a Zoom call as part of a synchronous class. So there are some interesting options, but there's Zoom, right? It's the ability of, you know, that's a talking head and you're not there and it's a talking face. This is actually putting yourself as if it's virtual reality in a seat, in a conference room, across and around the table, not just you sitting at home. And so now we have that almost mirroring experience that I could have a classroom as if I was in the front of the classroom, walking around the classroom, integrating that real-time thing without having that Zoom feel to it. It was really impressive.
SPEAKER 05 :
Wow, that is so wild.
SPEAKER 06 :
So I have offered to be part of this pilot program. I sent my little emails as, hey, I'm in. I don't know what I'm doing. I need to be trained, but I want to know more. And so I'm going to participate in there. Even at my age, that stuff blows me away when you have to learn new tech like this. But This is something I think might be an interesting play. So I'm going to be student first, play a little bit, and then maybe I'll get to use it in my classroom to see what my kids like.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay, so for the testing phase or whatever, they're going to see how well you're able to hear each other, understand each other, and then the body movement and everything, is that all included?
SPEAKER 06 :
Correct, and this is the one that was funny. I guess there are options for body movement. And there are some really clunkiness that they were saying that right in the middle of this, you know, there was like six or seven people in this virtual reality classroom. And somebody spontaneously starts dancing. And they don't know why.
SPEAKER 05 :
But the person really wasn't dancing?
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, the person had not given the computer any commands to make their avatar dance or do any of these options, and suddenly it just erupted, and it was hysterically funny that suddenly somebody's on top of the table dancing. And they're like, yeah, I don't know what that's doing and why, but there it is.
SPEAKER 05 :
That's so funny because if they believe that that was indeed like a worker or a student, they could be like, you know, Susie's had a little too much to drink.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, exactly. And so they're doing that sort of clunkiness that. Tech doesn't always go and so there are options, but if Murphy shows up to the meeting and suddenly you're spontaneous because one of them just got up from the meeting and just started walking around the room spontaneously and they're in the chat going, I didn't do that. I don't know why my avatar went off on a rogue mission.
SPEAKER 05 :
well and then you hope i mean i'll keep it appropriate but then you hope like some of these people that don't know the cameras on let's hope that these avatars aren't um even able to do some of the things that have inappropriately been done during these meetings right you hope there's like some kind of a child safety lock on the avatar that it can only dance or walk around the room or pick its nose you know it can't do anything that would be deemed it completely inappropriate
SPEAKER 06 :
I think that may be the fail-safe, kind of like when you deal with the IRS. The IRS used to have the need to know because everybody had this giant database of everybody's tax return. Well, now technology is sophisticated enough that you only get access to those you're working on. You can't get access to the famous ones because unless you have the need to know, they can block you. Well, those types of behaviors that are inappropriate could be blocked and taken those risks and inappropriate behaviors off the table. Remember, it's an avatar, not a real person. but when you have the, you can get up and walk around and like a networking event is what they were participating. You know, the kids have a break and you want to sit and chat with your faculty and you want to have it as is it simulated in virtual reality, but with an avatar. And I guess we have to start somewhere, but you know, I was not a fan of going, Oh, that's all we need to do three years in COVID. And now we want to do this intentionally. Are you kidding me? So now I'm rescinding this and putting a caveat going, well, if we're only going to be in the online world anyway, This might be a really interesting adaptation to make as real time as we can across the miles and still have that interactive, rich experience. So I'm on the fence right now, but willing to go, hmm, when eyebrow is poised, show me what you got.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, let me know, DrSherylLentz.com, DrSherylLentz.com. And we'll keep an eye on her, too. She's single. So we'll see if there's any meeting flirting or classroom flirting with any of her contemporaries. All right. Well, stick around, Dr. Cheryl Lentz. We are going to be talking about women. Yes, women. Dr. Cheryl, as you're one of the women I respect most, too. I get such a kick out of you. All right. You're going to love our next guest. Women go through many unique issues that involve aging, hormones, menopause, overall wellness that maybe sometimes we don't talk about openly, but we talk about a lot with our friends. Well, joining us is definitely an expert in the area, and she is aging oh so well, Dr. Contessa Metcalf. You may recognize Dr. Metcalf from Bravo's Married to Medicine. She is a beautiful doctor with a lot of charisma, charisma up the yin-yang, if I can say that. She's teaming up with Secret to share timely tips for helping women through life's transitions. Welcome, Dr. Contessa Metcalf, who has charisma up the yin-yang. I can say that, right, Doc?
SPEAKER 03 :
I love you, Yang. Absolutely. One of my favorite words.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right. So this is your area of expertise, obviously. And, you know, this is something that women talk a lot about, you know, not publicly, but with each other.
SPEAKER 03 :
And look, it is an area of expertise because what I've been going through for like the last couple of years, and until it happens to you, you can't really understand it. You can learn about it in school, and you can talk to your patients about it, but when it hits you, it hits you just like gangbusters. So, I mean, women do go through a lot of changes, and like you said, Pregnancy is something that we'll talk about when it comes to perimenopause and menopause. It takes us all by surprise because we just don't know what to expect. And we don't really talk about it enough. But it can actually leave us feeling like unprepared when you hit that first hot black. Yes. Like you get slapped across the face with it or the shifts in body odor. Like it's just like, what is happening to me right now? But empowerment really starts with like awareness, knowing what's going on, what to expect and feeling supported. And that's actually why I'm partnering with Secret, because they understand how important it is to provide women with the tools and the confidence they need to navigate these changes and just to feel their best through every transition that they're going through in their lives.
SPEAKER 05 :
You know, I read recently that one of the changes is putting weight on around the middle. I'm like, great, as if I didn't have enough problem keeping that area down anyway. So let's talk about some of the challenges that women meet at this time of life.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, I'm glad you said that because it's really just all about understanding that these are going to happen and in preparation, right? But also, one proven solution is using products like Secret Clinical Antiperspirant and the Secret Whole Body Deodorant, using them together. Because this dynamic duo is specifically designed to manage the symptoms that many women face during these hormonal changes with excessive sweating and the body odor. And did you know that if you use them overnight, this regimen can provide up to 10 hours of overnight dry feel, which means you have fewer interruptions from night sweats and even less reliance on things like fans and turn up the AC unit, you know? And it's just a simple step that can really help women feel more comfortable as a part of their nightly routine.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right. How about, you know, some of the changes that may impact our wellness? Are there some of those?
SPEAKER 03 :
Absolutely. So, you know, I'll tell you, I've been tired for, again, like two years, right? Because it feels like all these hormonal changes, especially during perimenopause and menopause, can affect our wellness, mostly at night, right? The shifts in body odor, so you wake up smelling different than when you went to sleep. And the night sweats and the sleep disruptions. And, you know, you just can't operate well if you don't get any sleep. So you have to really develop a really good sleep routine. And doing that makes this nightly routine, changing your nightly routine can make a difference. So one tip that actually may surprise you and other people is that you should actually apply your antiperspirant at night because it's more effective. And so we really recommend starting that sweat and odor protection before bed. And I just loved it. Yeah, Secret Clinical Antiperspirant and Whole Body Deodorant are actually designed to work overnight. And so they offer about 10 hours of dryness. And so that means a more restful night's sleep. And so starting that routine in the evening can help you wake up feeling more dry, comfortable, confident, and just more rested.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right. How about any advice for managing other issues that impact women and anything else that's important that we should know about or consider?
SPEAKER 03 :
Absolutely. So just understanding that this phase is expected, right? You're going to experience a range of physical and emotional changes. especially doing perimenopause and menopause, and your experience may be very different from someone you're talking to. And so you've got to figure out what works for you, right? So talk to a health care provider like myself who really understands this stage and actually just knowing that, you know, you have a support system from your peers who have gone through it before, some family members maybe, and just knowing that these changes are completely normal and manageable. And that is really why Secret is thinking about us and developing products like its clinical antiperspirant and whole body deodorant.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right. Now, in terms of we'll get a website as well. And then I also want to ask you in terms I know you're continuing with your practice, but as far as TV is concerned, what's next for you in the TV arena? Anything going on?
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, we're filming season 12 of Married to Medicine right now. Yeah. So it's insane that, you know. Everybody is so funny because you've seen people, their families and kids kind of grow up over the years. And so that's what's next for me. Philanthropy is so important. So this phase of my life is just all about sharing and giving information, sharing information and giving back.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right. Well, I know you just had a birthday and I can't believe that you're the age you are. I mean, I know you look really good. I mean, not that 49 is that old, but I mean, they look really good.
SPEAKER 03 :
I'm not ashamed to tell my age. I'm happy. If I look like you, I wouldn't be either.
SPEAKER 05 :
Where should we go for more info?
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, for more information about learning about and managing all of life transitions, go to secret.com.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right. Thanks doc.
SPEAKER 03 :
Thank you for having me. Have a good rest of your day. You too.
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Indeed, let's have a conversation, and welcome to the Kim Monson Show. Thank you so much for joining us. You each are treasured, you're valued, you have purpose. Today, strive for excellence, take care of your heart, your soul, your mind, and your body, my friends. We were made for this moment in history. And thank you to the team, that's Producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Teresa, Amanda, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. Happy Monday, Producer Joe. Happy Monday, Kim. And we've got a big week planned for you today, a big show planned for you today as well. So fasten your seatbelts on all of this. There's so much going on in our world right now. And I've had a very reflective weekend. I've thought a lot about the whole MAGA, Make America Great Again, which I think that we all really want to have America be great again. But how is it that America is great? Well, maybe it's that we start a new movement, and it's called MAFA, and that's Make America Free Again. Because as I'm looking at some of the things in this big, beautiful bill, there's some things that seem to make a lot of sense. And then there's some things that I'm very concerned about. And the things that I'm concerned about are the things that make us less free. And so we need to make sure that we are pushing to always and freedom as my friend, well, liberty. as my friend Ben Martin says, is that liberty is the responsible exercise of freedom. And we need to, I guess, continue to move towards liberty. And so maybe... Maybe it's a MAFA make America free again, but we always have to be checking this litmus test of the vision of our declaration that all men are created equal with these rights from God of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, and that we are all created in the image of God. We're all creators. So we're going to continue the discussions about all of these things here today. And there's a number of headlines that I pull for you that we'll go through here in just a little bit. First off, the word of the day. Well, let's see. Let's have you check out the website. That's Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Make sure that you are signed up for our weekly email newsletter that goes out on Sundays. And that way you'll get first look at our upcoming guests as well as our most recent essays. You can email me at Kim at Kim Monson dot com. And thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice on an independent station searching for truth and clarity. As we look at these issues through this lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. 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 rights. And it could be their property, freedom, livelihood, opportunity, childhoods or lives. via force and force can be a weapon obviously but we see it with policy unpredictable and excessive taxation fear coercion government-induced inflation this agenda by the world economic forum agenda and globalist elites agenda playing out through the united nations this Colorado state legislature, this Colorado governor, even at the local and county levels as well. So remember, if something's a good idea, we should not have to use force to implement it. And on the show, we focus on the issues, and we'll talk about people pushing those issues, but really we'll work to stay out of all the personality stuff. And with that, I did have a listener that reached out and I did want to make a clarification. And I thought this was important here. And that was I had mentioned on this whole Douglas County home rule. Thank you very much. And had mentioned from the article, and I really appreciate Don for sending this, that I mentioned that the wife, Laura Tonner, Sean Tonner, who is involved with the water projects, trying to get some water projects done down in Douglas County. And then Laura Teal, the wife of Commissioner Teal, both were contributors to the project. uh support of uh home rule and uh but i did not have the amounts and then i wanted to clarify that it was only one hundred dollars from each of those women and i thank don for um reaching out and sending sending the tracer report over so the contributors in favor are ventana capital fifty thousand dollars west side property investment company ten thousand dollars And the Cundy Harbor Irrevocable Trust, which is based in Solano Beach, California, was $50,000. Otherwise, the only other two contributors as of the last report was Laura Tonner at $100,000 and Laura Thiel at $100,000. So thank you, Don, for reaching out and wanting to make sure that we had that clarification. Our word of the day is demagogue, and it is spelled D-E-M-A-G-O-G-U-E. And thank you, Dave, for the suggestion on that. And number one, it could be a leader who obtains power by means of impassioned appeals to the emotions and prejudices of the populace. Number two, it could be a leader of the common people in ancient times. And number three, it could be a leader of the rabble, one who attempts to control the multitude by specious or deceitful arts, an unprincipled or fascist mob order or political leader. And so our challenge is to use the word demagogue in a sentence today. And I would say watching all of the commentary or looking at the commentary regarding these L.A. riots, there's a lot of demagoguery. Particularly, I find it interesting that there are Democrats that have been on the Sunday show saying that it was peaceful when everything I look at regarding what's happening in L.A. is doesn't look very peaceful to me right now. And so we're going to actually in the last segment of our number two, we'll talk with Chris Harris, who is a retired border agent in the San Diego sector, to get his read on what is happening on all of this. Our quote of the day, I went to Russell Kirk, and Russell Kirk was born in 1918. He died in 1994. He was an American political philosopher, moralist, historian, social critic, literary critic, author, and novelist who influenced 20th century American conservatism. In 1953, he authored The Conservative Mind, which traced the development of conservative thought in the Anglo-American tradition, and Edmund Burke. And the book helped influence the post-World War II American conservative movement. And he said this. He said, a just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty. And, again, that's Russell Kirk. And so when I talk about Make America Free Again, again, One of them, Maggie Thatcher, said that you can't have political freedom unless you have economic freedom. And Jody Hensey with Mint Financial Strategies is in the business of helping you secure your own financial freedom. And she's on the line. Jody Hensey, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 07 :
Thank you, Kim. Glad to join you this Monday morning. And I love the new terminology. I'm going to use that. I hope you don't mind if I steal it. Oh, please. So you like NASA, huh? I love NASA. I love MAFA.
SPEAKER 20 :
I think I'm going to use that. You know what, Jodi? I think that this is the movement that we really need to get going because I did a presentation recently up at Perspectives 101 as the way out. And the way out, we've got the template, and it's this vision of our declaration. than played out in the Constitution. And we need to really be working to hold everybody accountable to these constitutional principles. And if we do, then we can make America free again, Jodi.
SPEAKER 07 :
I completely agree. I completely agree. And, you know, I see too often times in my business, people are burdened when it comes to their finances and their financial freedom. And so love the terminology. And there's a lot of things that people can do when it comes to their financial freedom to become free when it comes to their resources and their independence.
SPEAKER 20 :
Well, and that's what you are in the business of doing is helping people with that, whether or not they're starting out on their financial freedom journey or if they've been investing for a long time. You can put together that plan to assure their financial freedom, which, as Maggie Thatcher said, you really can't have freedom unless you have financial freedom, right?
SPEAKER 07 :
I completely agree, and I would say that there's a couple of things that I would recommend that everybody could do to achieve that independence and freedom. You mentioned it right away. It's just having a plan. I mean, too many times we see people kind of bumping around in the dark, and you really can't find that financial freedom if you don't actually have a plan or a strategy. And I kind of use the analogy of you going out to build a house. You don't just start by putting up walls and concrete. You have to start with that blueprint. And financial planning is the same thing. You have to start with the plan first before you start picking independent or investments or stocks or anything like that. You have to have the plan in place first before you can actually start implementing that plan. And then the second part of that, which is really hard, is the discipline to actually stick with the plan. And, you know, this year has been a perfect test of that discipline, especially with some of the volatility and the craziness that we've seen, you know, for the first half of the year is, you know, really kind of sticking with the plan when things get a little bit uncomfortable. So having that plan and then having that discipline to stick with the plan.
SPEAKER 20 :
Those are just key, I think, things about life in general. So Jody, Henzie, how could people reach you? What's the best way to set up an appointment?
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Okay. Well, Jody Henze, thank you so much. It's so great to have you as a partner of the show. And, yes, I think we need to – I think people heard it first here with you and me. We are starting this MAFA movement, and that is Make America Free Again. So we're going to work on that. Glad to be part of the movement, Kim. Okay. Thanks, Jody Henze. We'll talk with you next week. Thanks. Bye-bye. And another great sponsor of the show is the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance Team. And they want you to feel safe and well-served and to understand your insurance coverage and know their office will respond to your call or text 24 hours a day. So for that 24-hour peace of mind, call Roger Mangan at 303-795-8855. Like a good neighbor, the Roger Mangan team is there.
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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N 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. Something's a good idea. You should not have to force people to do it. And I 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. And we are starting a movement right here at the Kim Monson Show, and it's called MAFA. And it's Make America Free Again. And when we use the word free, we mean the responsibility of liberty, which is the responsible exercise of freedom. So we are starting that right. And how are we going to do this is, first of all, seek truth. And so we will be seeking truth and transparency by looking at all of these different issues and shedding light on that. And remember that our North Star is that we want to make sure that we are all treated equally equally. in America, and that we all have these rights of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. And we are going to focus on that big time. And of course, the opposite of freedom is tyranny. And how do you get to tyranny? Well, with chaos and confusion. And we are seeing that play out big time right now in Los Angeles. And this first thing is AFP. It says Trump sends military force to L.A. over immigration protests. And this is a rare deployment that he sent over against the state governor's wishes after sometimes violent protests against immigration enforcement raids. Says Trump took federal control of California state military to push soldiers into the country's second biggest city. a decision deemed purposely inflammatory by California Governor Gavin Newsom and a kind of not seen for decades, according to U.S. media. So this certainly is controversial, but it seems that Gavin Newsom should be trying to protect the citizens of Los Angeles. So we're going to talk with Chris Harris in the next hour about this a bit. um but uh this is what you know those that want to promote tyranny promote chaos division confusion and that is what's playing out right now in los angeles next thing and i'm there's there's two things that i'm really well backing up i thought okay i i just need to go read the big beautiful bill this weekend My friends, I could not get through the table of contents. And that's of a lot of concern when we have legislation that is so huge that we can't even get through the table of contents. But this is putting laws onto us. This is something that's of great concern. Now, my understanding is there's spending cuts in there. both on Medicaid and SNAP programs. And I'd like to lower taxes across the board so that people have more money in their pockets so that they can afford their food and that they can afford their medical care instead of these government programs. Because these government programs, whenever they're involved, the price goes up, the supply goes down, and the quality can be very crummy as well. We'll just put it that way. And so there's some some good things from what I hear in the bill. Lowering or making Trump tax cuts from 2017 permanent. Love that idea. Don't love a couple of other things, though. And this is this is connected. Now, Doge. It says the Supreme Court, this is from The Hill, says Supreme Court hands Doge big wins in Social Security records cases. And on one hand, this seems great because we realize there's all this waste, fraud, and abuse, and we want to stop that because all of that goes into these higher taxes, fees, takes more money out of everyday people's pockets, and also creates more debt for our next generation. The however is that having the federal government have more and more information about all of us, which then plays out into this big AI thing, this artificial intelligence. And artificial intelligence, so this goes to AP. It says House Republicans include a 10-year ban on states regulating AI in the big, beautiful bill. Well, what is AI and artificial intelligence? Ultimately, it is all of this data that they're going to be collecting will be data that will be all these data points on everyday Americans. And this could play out in the future with something very, very dangerous. And I go back to the we've got the template here in our Constitution, and that is the Fourth Amendment. It says the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated. and no warrant shall issue but upon probable cause supported by oath or affirmation and particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized now with technology we've all loved the convenience of technology And we probably have given, you know, when we say we agree to the legalities, we are technically giving up our rights to our information. We need to be electing those that will be putting forth legislation that we, the individual, owns our data, not a data company. and not now going to the federal government. And so this 10-year ban on states regulating AI, I find this somewhat of great concern. And so hopefully we're going to have people that are going to be pushing back on this, which this connects this to this next dot. And, again, love to make America great again. When Americans are doing great, then the rest of the world is doing great. But let's get the proper basis. So let's get to MAFA, and that is make America free again. This is from Newsmax. It says, Trump says, pick of Palantir to surveil Americans sparks concern. And Palantir, and I watched some of the interviews with the head of Palantir, says on Friday, the New York Times reported that Palantir, the AI-focused software and military contractor, has expanded its work across the federal government in recent months after it had been tapped by President Donald Trump for to create detailed portraits or a digital id on americans which could easily merge data on americans throughout agencies such as from the irs the department of homeland security the health and human services department the social security administration and the department of education It says the development comes after Trump signed an executive order in March charging the federal government to share data across agencies in the name of stopping waste, fraud and abuse. That sounds great. Then things can start to be used nefariously. It says Palantir employees told the New York Times that the company's engineers have been quietly discussing creating a digital ID for Americans and that they had grown worried about placing such sensitive data in one place. It says current employees are discussing the implications of their work and raising questions internally, said Linda Jia, a former Palantir engineer. Data that is collected for one reason should not be repurposed for other uses, she said. Combining all that data, even with the noblest of intentions, significantly increases the risk of misuse. Yes, I totally agree with her. In early May, 13 former Palantir employees, she being one of them, Gia being one of them, signed a letter condemning the company's breach of transparency, free speech, and rigorous debate on the impact of technology. It says anonymous government officials told the Times that Palantir's pick to create a program compiling data on Americans was driven by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency. The vague assertion does not lend one with much to go on. However, to DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin, Palantir has had contracts with the federal government for 14 years. So I'm very concerned about that. And then this last article here, and this is from Xemaphore. It says, Republican privacy advocates in Congress are criticizing the Trump administration's work with tech giant Palantir to analyze what could become a massive pool of government data on Americans. President Trump signed that order in March, as we mentioned, and to remove these unnecessary boundaries. or these barriers. And it goes on to say, it's very dangerous, Representative Warren Davidson, Republican from Ohio, told some before, when you start combining all those data points on an individual into one database, it really essentially creates a digital ID. And it's a power that history says will eventually be abused. And it says, I hope to turn it off fundamentally, Davidson added. He compared a Palantir-facilitated merged database to the dangerously powerful ring from the Lord of the Rings. The only good thing to do with one ring to rule them all is to destroy everything. the ring and so it says resistance like davidson's is striking because few congressional republicans have publicly challenged the president since his second term began and neither the sweeping cutbacks of doge nor trump's punitive global tariffs have caused a real gop rebellion the party is currently reinterpreting years uh a fury about deficits to push through a mega bill that adds trillions of dollars in debt. 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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at Kim Monson dot com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. Something's a good idea. You should not have to force people to do it. And thank you, Eric. I got mixed up on the contributors on the word of the day. Dave has one for me for tomorrow. And I'm going to And it was Eric that sent the word of the day demagogue over. So I wanted to make that clarification. And, again, I wanted 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. And I'm pleased to have on the line with me Dr. Brian Joondepth. You know him. You can find his writings at American Thinker and Rasmussen Reports. Dr. Joondepth, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 06 :
Good morning, Kim.
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And good to have you. And I wanted to let you know we're starting a new movement, and it's called MAFA. It's Make America Free Again. And I think that we love the idea of America great again, but we cannot be great unless we are free, Dr. June Depth.
SPEAKER 06 :
Absolutely. Freedom is so important, and so is safety. Safety goes along with it. And what we're seeing with these riots in L.A., soon to spread to other cities, including Denver, very likely, people are not going to be safe anymore either. And that should be a priority as well.
SPEAKER 20 :
Well, it absolutely is a priority. It has to be a priority. And I think that's probably why Trump sent the National Guard in into Los Angeles is to try to prevent this from moving to other cities. And I know it's controversial that he's done it, but I would think that's probably his reasoning on that, Dr. June Depth.
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I would agree. It's out of hand. The California officials are not doing anything. They're, they're letting this happen. And I'm half a mind to say to Trump, just let LA burn. LA voted for Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom. And, uh, part of me says, pull all the federal, uh, law enforcement out of there and let them figure it out. If they want to destroy their city, have at it. Um, Because the riots continue. Trump sends in National Guard and the media just piles on him, blaming him for the riots. And he's not. He's trying to stop it. So either have to stop it decisively or just let it burn. People voted for this. Karen Bass is not a Republican. She's a communist. She's a Castro sympathizer. This is who the people elected. And she's derelict in her duty, as is Gavin Newsom. They're way behind the curve on this, just as they were with the fires last year. And why should Trump have to go in and clean up their mess? I have a problem with that. But I also understand that L.A. is part of America and he's in charge of America and he has to do what he needs to do to restore law and order and safety because these are rent-a-mobs. A lot of these people, I bet if they rounded them all up, most would be from somewhere besides L.A. These are not local L.A. How many are illegals? And they're destroying a once beautiful city. The police headquarters is under attack. as of last night, this morning. I mean, this can't stand. This is anarchy, and if this was happening in another country, you better believe our three-letter agencies, CIA, State Department, etc., would be in there trying to quell things, or it would be part of regime change, a color revolution. This is a color revolution going on in America. And I'd like to know who's behind it. I'd like to know what government agencies are funding it. I'd like to know who pays for these pallets of bricks that are being delivered to downtown LA, just huge pallets of bricks that are being thrown at buildings and thrown at law enforcement and cars. Somebody delivered those, somebody paid for it. That shouldn't be that hard to trace back and figure out where is that from? Uh, this is, this is a revolution. And, um, It's a problem, and I'm quite certain it's going to go to other cities. This is just the start. This is a repeat of summer of 2020 with the George Floyd riots and already seeing rumblings of things in Denver and Aurora, and it'll be next. And, of course, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, other big cities. This is all organized, all being funded. The posters are being made. nice, clean, neat posters they just happen to have ready to go. It shouldn't be that difficult to trace this back. And that's where Kash Patel's FBI could be doing yeoman's work at figuring out where these signs were made, who paid for them, who's behind this. That's the real issue. And to stop this, you have to cut off the head of the snake just going after the rioters. These are crazy young people that are On hormones or on drugs or who knows what they're on, but they're basically a rent-a-bob. Somebody's in charge. Somebody's strategizing this and funding it, and that's where it needs to stop.
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What do you think their end game is, Dr. June Depp? Because this destroys people's lives. It destroys people's businesses. So what do you think the end game is? Is it control of America, ultimately? Or what do you think it is?
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Well, I think it is control, and it's destruction of the Western values, our constitutional republic and the Western values that make America stand out in the world. I think it's a destruction. They hate those Western values. And I think they would love martial law declared, set the precedent, have a revolution, and then get their people in charge of the martial law. And then it's a dictatorship. Make Trump set the precedent by starting the crackdown and somehow they take over. And that could happen. You'd say, oh, it can't happen. Well, it's happened in many other countries, these color revolutions. And I think that's their goal. It's ultimately the destruction of the America that we know.
SPEAKER 20 :
Well, explain a color revolution. I've heard that term, but I'm not sure that I'm clear on exactly what that means.
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Well, it's basically what we do in other countries. It's U.S. agencies, typically State Department, CIA, they are funding and supporting protests and revolutions in other countries. They're organizing it and they use it to overthrow a government. Arab Spring was a color revolution and overthrew at least the Egyptian government. There was a color revolution in Ukraine back in, I think, 2014. which ousted the duly elected president of Ukraine, and that was the start of the current conflict we're seeing now 10 years later. It's U.S. agencies and their NGOs that they fund. That's what you said it's all about. It's all these unaccountable agencies that are getting taxpayer money, and they're funding stuff. They're funding these L.A. riots. But they get their mobs. They have a strategy. It's, you know, Saul Alinsky-type stuff. And they destabilize the government, and the media hops on and protests and demands for new elections, and all of a sudden it's a new regime. And it never works out well. I mean, it didn't work out well in the Arab Spring that Obama was behind, and Egypt ended up with a Muslim Brotherhood leader. He didn't last long, but that's what the goal is. It's a regime change and a change in the direction of the country. It's a fomented revolution, if you will.
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Well, this is really scary, Dr. June Depth. I've really been very reflective on all this stuff this weekend, and I'm just very concerned about the direction of our country and what we are passing on to our next generation. I've just been very troubled by what's going on.
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I'm very disappointed with our leadership. Where are members of Congress speaking out about this? All I see is a couple of Democrats, Eric Swalwell and Adam Schiff from California. All they do is decry Trump, you know, Trump's a bully and he's this and he's that. We're the Republicans. There's a majority Republicans in the House and Senate. I haven't seen any of them on the media saying anything about this. They're quite quiet about all this. And the media, of course, the media is piling on and they're doing what they did in 2020. They're calling this peaceful protests. Meanwhile, you see cars on fire and smoke and tear gas and police getting injured and attacked. It's not peaceful protest. But that's the talking points on the media. CNN, MSNBC, oh, these protests are mostly peaceful. Well, tell that to the police officers that are injured. We're not hearing about that. We're just hearing about, oh, mean Trump, and he's calling in the National Guard, and he didn't. dot the i and cross the t the way gavin newsom wants and he's a dictator and meanwhile newsom's doing nothing and his largest city is burning and where does it spread it's going to spread to the suburbs of los angeles and the virtue signaling liberals that are in in santa monica and bretwood beverly hills you know wait till it's on their doorstep And that's what's going to be next. And we're going to see it in other cities. I'm sure we're going to see it in Denver this week. I'd be very surprised if something similar. And that'll be a test of Denver and Colorado leadership, the mayor and the governor. Let's see what they do. It'll be interesting. It's not good. And this is not the way the country should be. And this This needs to be put down quickly. This is truly an insurrection, not January 6th. This is the insurrection. And if our government can't protect people and property, what good is it?
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Right, because that's – I said to Joe, I said, hey, Joe, I need to make sure I have my Constitution here in front of me because that is one of the first – the things in the preamble, it says, we the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility. provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare. And general welfare is not meaning that we have big welfare programs where we take from one person to give to another. It means that we have a society where generally it's healthy and people can go after their hopes and dreams. And then lastly, to secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity. Do ordain and establish this Constitution in the United States of America. That is what government is supposed to be doing, Dr. Brian June-Depth.
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It is. It's supposed to protect that. The general welfare is that people can go to work, they can have a business, and they can lock the door at night and their business will be there in the morning, not smash the windows and loot it. And that they're safe and they're safe where they live, their work, their families are safe, their kids can go to school. They can conduct normal life. And if you live in an inner city like that, you can't. We saw that in 2020. How many businesses were destroyed? How much property damage? What about those people? And it's only going to hurt the people that live there, because when these businesses are destroyed, most of them are not going to be rebuilt. Who's going to go back and put their hard-earned money into rebuilding? They're going to say, the heck with this, and move to Texas or Oklahoma and run their business there. And you see in these big cities that it's become a desert. There's no pharmacies, so the Older and sick individuals that live there have to go miles to get their prescriptions filled. Grocery stores are leaving. Walmarts, a lot of these things, and the stores that do exist, everything's behind plexiglass. It's a war zone. I was in New York a couple years ago and went into CVS or the equivalent, and everything's behind plexiglass. You can't. How do you shop? And there's only one person working in the store, and she's at the register, and she's not going to leave the register to open the plexiglass. How do you buy anything? And I saw some homeless guy just come in, and there were a couple boxes of cereal that weren't behind plexiglass. He just took them, walked out the door. Work doesn't care. She's an hourly worker, but these stores can't survive. These are low-margin businesses, and And they can't survive long term. And you destroy these neighborhoods in Los Angeles. What about the people that live there and depend on this? What about their general welfare?
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That's gone. And that's the responsibility of the mayor, the city council. Above that, the governor. Above that, the president. Why does the president have to step in? It's like a squabble in the school. You know, some students misbehaving. The teacher should deal with that. You don't need the school superintendent to. tried in to take care of that. That should be the teacher, and at worst, the principal. And here we have the president having to step in because nobody's doing anything. They're just letting L.A. burn. That's their legacy.
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It's a travesty. We'll continue the discussion with Dr. Brian Jundep. I did want to mention American values are under attack. That's why the work of the Center for American Values, which is nonpartisan, nonpolitical, located in Pueblo, is so important. We've got to reclaim these American values. We've got to make America free again. And we've got to understand these values. and they're doing a great job making that happen. So be sure and check out their website. That is AmericanValueCenter.org. That's AmericanValueCenter.org. And we have these discussions because of our sponsors. For everything mortgages, reach out to Lauren Levy.
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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Check out our website. That is kimmonson.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at kim at kimmonson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice. 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 check out the USMC Memorial Foundation's website as well. The official Marine Memorial is right here in Colorado at 6th and Colfax and was dedicated in, I think it was 1977. And it's time for a remodel. And Paula Sarles and her team is working diligently on that. And so check that out. That's USMCMemorialFoundation.org, USMCMemorialFoundation.org. Dr. Brian June Depth is on the line. And I thought that we should mention the piece that I had teased that we were going to talk about before we continue this discussion. And that is Joe Biden and his auto pin. Although it seems like it's a little old news now with everything that's going on. But I did want to talk a little bit about that.
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Well, it shouldn't be old news. This In my article, I raised the issue of forgery, that this is forging somebody's signature on official government documents, and that's a federal crime. And the question is, who authorized it? What did Biden know? Did he authorize it? If he's not capable of signing his own name, was he capable of being president? Was he really in charge, or was this another insurrection of other people assuming the role of president. I mean, we saw President Trump sign 50 executive orders on his first day in office, and they're all on video. We watched them sign, and he held it up showing his signature. Why can't Biden do that? If Biden can't even sign his own name, is he making decisions? And if not, who is? And are these decisions legally valid? Forged documents are null and void. What about all the pardons, the executive orders, the death row commutations? Congress is investigating, and Trump has directed the DOJ to investigate, but like everything else, it's moving in slow motion. And who knows if there's going to be any accountability or reckoning for this. And if there isn't, it will continue and happen in the future. Some future president will install some stiff that's not cognitively there, but can get elected, and then background people run the show. This is like the old Soviet Politburo where, you know, Brezhnev and Chernyanko and these other people that they trot out for May Day Parade, and the rest of the time they're probably in a hospital bed. Who's running the show? Who's in charge? And you can't have that in America. You need a very visible, active, vibrant president that you know is out there making the decisions. And Trump is, because you see the pressers he's holding daily. He's answering questions, whether on Air Force One or on the tarmac. You know he's engaged and he knows what's going on with everything. Whatever they ask him, he's got an answer for. Biden, no. He wanders off. They can't ask him questions. He's I mean, it's clear he wasn't in charge. And the question is, who was? And are the decisions that have been made, are they legally valid? Or are these all forged signatures that makes them invalid? That's a good question for the Supreme Court, and I suspect that's where it will end up.
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Wow. Okay. Well, excellent piece at American Thinker, President Autopen and the Crime of Forgery, and that was published June 2nd, so just really recently. Let's go back over, Dr. June Depp, with what's happening in America right now. We know the recipe. The recipe is the individual understanding. their responsibility as a citizen for in a free society. It seems pretty daunting. I talked in the first part of the show, my concern about these data centers and all of this data on individuals all in one place. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out this could be a big problem down the road. And the fact that in the big, beautiful bill that they put in there that states can't do anything to regulate data centers for 10 years, that's a big red flag to me, Dr. June Depth.
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I would agree. In terms of being anonymous or so-called off the grid, that ship has sailed. Anybody that's flown on an airplane... Everything's facial recognition. I flew this past weekend, and I didn't show ID. I didn't do anything. Went through Clear and TSA, and all they do is take a picture of my face, and I'm cleared to get on the airplane. So we are already in government databases. And, yes, that can be abused. There's huge potential. The technology is great. This is wonderful stuff, but only if used properly. If not, you know, AI can put you at the scene of a crime that you were not at. They can put stuff on your computer or on your phone. You can be set up as a patsy and then they block you up. That's the dangerous part. AI is so realistic that there can be crime video of you murdering somebody and you're, you know, 100 miles away. And good luck getting out of that. So if it's used properly, it's great. It's like a scalpel or morphine or fentanyl or anything else. If it's used properly in the hands of a trained physician, these are wonderful drugs and instruments. But if they're used incorrectly, I mean, fentanyl is a perfect example. In operating rooms, intensive care units, fentanyl is a wonderful drug and accomplishes a lot. But when laced with Adderall and some teenagers taking it to do well on their exam, not so good. So it's how it's used. AI is great, but you have to trust that the government is not going to misuse it. And I don't think you or I or most people that are listening trust the government that they're not going to misuse it.
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Absolutely. So we're going to have to continue this discussion. We're out of time. And so we'll get Dr. Brian June Depth on next month again to talk about these important issues and see what his latest essays are as well. So, Dr. Brian June Depth, your final thought for our listeners.
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I'll put in a quick plug for an article I have today in American Thinker on long covid versus vaccine injury or vaccine injuries being mislabeled as long covid. That's my big question. So we hear about both and everybody's mystified. The health authorities can't explain anything. So are we mislabeling it? Are we just calling vaccine injury long COVID to avoid challenging the safe and effective vaccine? So read it and then decide for yourself.
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Good for you, Dr. June Depth. And we will talk again next month. Thank you so much.
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Sounds great. Thanks, Kim.
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Indeed, let's have a conversation and welcome to our number two of the Kim Monson show. Thank you so much for joining us. You're each treasured, you're valued, you have purpose. Today, strive for excellence. Take care of your heart, your soul, your mind and your body. My friends, we were made for this moment in history. And thank you to the team. That's producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Teresa, Amanda, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. Happy Monday, producer Joe. Happy Monday, Kim. And what do you think about this MAFA movement, Make America Free Again? You like that? I do. It's good stuff. And we had some other suggestions coming in as well. I'd love to make sure I could give credit where credit is due. Mark, he said, how about, no, it wasn't Mark, but I was going to give him credit. But two, I'll try to find that for you. Oh, here we go. Neil said, how about NASA? Make America solvent again. And then we had another listener that said, how about NASA? Make America safe again. And those are great suggestions as well. So check out the website. That is kimmonson.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter while you're there. That goes out on Sundays, highlighting our upcoming guests as well as our most recent essays. You can email me at kimmonson.com. at kimmonson.com and text line to 720-605-0647. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice on an independent station searching for truth and clarity 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. Show comes to you 6 to 8 a.m. Monday through Friday. First hour is rebroadcast 1 to 2 in the afternoon, second hour 10 to 11 at night. And those platforms are KLZ 560 AM, KLZ 100.7 FM, the KLZ website, the KLZ app. And you can say, hey, Alexa, play KLZ. Our word of the day is demagogue. And thank you to Eric for that suggestion. And it's D-E-M-A-G-O-G-U-E. And it could be a leader who obtains power by means of impassioned appeals to the emotions and prejudices of the populace. Number two, a leader of the common people in ancient times. Or number three, a leader of the rabble, one who attempts to control the multitude by specious or deceitful arts, an unprincipled and fascist mob orator orator. or political leader, and I think synonyms for that could be Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass. Gavin Newsom is the governor of California, and Karen Bass is the mayor of Los Angeles, and Los Angeles is burning as we speak. So we'll continue the discussions about what's going on here in the next few segments. But quote of the day is from Russell Kirk. And he said this, he said, a just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty. And Russell Kirk was born in 1918, died in 1994. And he was an American political philosopher, moralist, historian, social critic, literary critic, author, and novelist who influenced the 20th century. And he's the author of the book, The Conservative Mind. and uh i want to say thank you to laramie energy for their goal sponsorship of the show because it's reliable efficient affordable and abundant energy that powers our lives fuels our hopes and dreams and empowers us to change our own personal climate and we are starting a new movement and it is it's called matha make america free again and we need to understand what freedom is about uh what liberty is about liberty is the responsible exercise of freedom And we want to have everyday people be able to go after their hopes and dreams to pursue their life, their liberty and their happiness. Those are the things that we need to reclaim here and how we're going to do about how we're going to do it. First of all, speaking truth into these issues and then searching for transparency, shedding light on what is happening there. And remember these foundational principles of our Declaration of Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness. Very concerned about a couple of things in this big, beautiful bill. One of those is these data centers. There is no reason that we need to be collecting all this data on Americans. And technology it's a cool thing when dr june depp said he didn't even have to show any id to get on an airplane because of facial recognition on one hand that's really cool and on the other hand it's really scary and so we need to make sure that we adhere to our constitution and that is the fourth amendment Basically, it says that we should be secure in our, here we go, the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated. And I think that these data centers really are going to, they have the potential to violate that. And I don't know how we get the guardrails around this, but to have for 10 years something unfettered on that is not a good idea. And then also, I know that we'll talk with Trent Luce about this on Wednesday, but the South Dakota delegation went to Washington and indicated their concerns about the CO2 pipelines and the tax incentives around that as well. And this was reported by KELO. It says, taking the CO2 pipeline fight to Washington, Republican gubernatorial candidate John Hanson and his running mate, Representative Carla Lims, led a group to Washington recently working on a carbon capture pipeline provisions included in the so-called Big Beautiful Bill, One concern was to ensure provisions removed by the House to transfer control of approval and location of CO2 pipelines from the states to the federal government were not placed back in the bill. And we've got to make sure, and the founders knew that we needed to make sure that states had sovereignty over things that the federal government wasn't supposed to be having, didn't have the power to do. So this is pretty important what the South Dakota delegation has done. And we have these important discussions because we get to work with really great people. And I'm talking with Roger Mangan with the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance Team, great sponsor of the show. And Roger, recently I traveled and ended up renting a car. And so I reached out to you as I was going through the different options of additional things that you could purchase as you're renting a car. And one of them was a damage waiver. And so I gave you a call. You were able to give me some great advice. What should people know about rental car damage waivers?
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Okay, so you go to a rental agency, they always ask you if you want to waive the deductible that they have on that car in the event you have an accident in their car. So you really don't have to buy that because it's duplicating coverage. So if you have a car with full coverage in your household in Colorado and you go to San Diego or you go to someplace and you have a rental car all lined up, and they say, do you want to buy this waiver? And they're going to charge you substantially for that waiver, and when I say substantially, somewhere between $20 and $30 a day, okay? So what do you gain by doing that? Well, first of all, you have full coverage from your car in Colorado, as long as it's fully covered, to that rental car. So it's just as though you drove your own car to San Diego and you had an accident. We're going to take care of their rental car like it's your car. No questions The problem you have when you have that accident in that rental car using your coverage from Colorado is if the car that's damaged cannot be put back into service for two weeks, they have the right to charge you for what they could have rented that car for. So $30 a day times 10 days, you owe them $300. And most of them aren't 30, they're 50. So you could owe them $500 because you caused their rental car not to be serviceable. In addition to that, they can charge you for repairs to the car up to their deductible. So it's like you could be out probably anywhere from $300 to $1,000 out of your pocket, not covered by your insurance. if you have an accident in a rental car. So to solve that, we put on a non-owned auto endorsement, which, by the way, is about $26 per six months, and it allows you then to use your policy to cover those expenses I just indicated. Loss of use of that rental car by the rental agency. And the damage repair waiver, we're going to waive your collision deductible if you have an accident in that car. So if you have a $500 collision deductible, you will not have to pay that $500, okay? Very good.
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I mean, if you travel a lot, you really should have that coverage. Okay, that seems like that makes a lot of sense. And so that's just an additional endorsement to put onto your auto insurance then, yes? Yes, yes. Okay, and so what's the best way for people to reach you and your team, Roger Mangan, to have a conversation about this?
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at Kim Monson dot com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. and did want to say thank you to Laramie Energy for their gold sponsorship of the show. It is reliable, efficient, affordable, and dependent energy from oil, natural gas, and coal that powers our lives, fuels our hopes and dreams, and empowers us to change our own personal climate. And on the line with me is a senior. I'm drawing a blank here, Scott Powell. You're with the Discovery Institute, so welcome. Welcome.
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Well, they call it a senior fellow.
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That's what it is.
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Yeah. But no one really knows what that means.
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Does it mean you're a senior fellow, I guess?
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I guess it does. It means that I'm considered to be a wise man.
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Well, I consider you to be a wise man, and that's why we really wanted to talk with you today about what's going on in our country. And since I talked with you the other day, Scott Powell, because you and I were just thinking about what is it, what can we do? There's so much going on in our country right now. And I came up with this, MAFA, Make America Free Again. And I think that's what we need to focus on.
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Absolutely. I mean, most Americans don't even understand how we got to this place where we are. It started a long time ago, actually. You could trace sort of the departure from our constitutional republic back to the 1800s. But certainly things got launched at the time of Teddy Roosevelt. He was a Republican, actually, but he probably advanced statism more. He was more radical in some of his ideas than Woodrow Wilson, who was a two-term president, first elected in 1912. And Wilson did a tremendous amount to undermine that. because of the length of his term. He was a two-term president. And we ended up creating a lot of institutions. I mean, the income tax was established by the 16th Amendment. The Federal Reserve Bank was established during that time. And all of this really transformed America and moved America away from a constitutional republic wherein we have elected officials who we hold accountable for what they do. And when they don't perform, we have the prerogative to vote them out of office, and we have frequent elections. I mean, the legislators who make the laws are up for election every two years. So that's a pretty short window for – it gives us as citizens the opportunity to really turn over the bad legislators, the charlatans, the dishonest people, the big spenders, and so forth. But that march through the institutions in America continued, and we're really at a place now where America is more of an administrative state than it is a constitutional republic, where we have unelected officials running these government agencies that are making all kinds of rulings that really are tantamount to law, and they're not elected. And this is a huge part of our problem. So Trump comes along and wants to upset the apple cart, and he surrounds himself with like-minded people this time, which is terrific. And this fallout between Musk and Trump shouldn't be – overly alarming. You know, this is high stakes, and these are very successful, big ego people. And, you know, Musk, I think, was offended when Trump took away the subsidy for electric vehicles. But Musk knew that that was coming. I mean, Donald Trump has made no mistake about his support for traditional energy sources, notably, you know, drill, baby, drill in terms of oil and gas and gas-powered cars. uh... and uh... so he knew that was coming that didn't upset him too much but i think it was when white house aide sergio gore examined uh... this uh... nomination of this gentleman named jared isaac men uh... for heading been heading nasa and and he was a uh... a friend and business colleague of elon musk elon musk is the one who recommended him and uh... the fact the fact is though uh... Jared Isaacman had been supporting Democrat candidates almost exclusively. He was a Democrat and supported Democrats. So when Trump learned about this, he quickly decided that he shouldn't take a chance with Jared Isaacman running NASA. The big lesson of the first term was Trump's first administration term. Trump 45, if you will, was that you need loyal people around you. You need like-minded people and you don't want to take any chances with, you don't want to compromise on that issue. And Trump's administration, Trump 47 administration, has really been powerful because he's surrounded himself with like-minded people almost everywhere. And so Jared Eisenman was a huge risk. And NASA is such an important – it's a very important institution, and that really upset Elon Musk. I think he was under a lot of pressure, and he just broke. He hasn't been looking that well. He's been overworked, under a lot of pressure, and I think he just – that was sort of the event that really set Musk off. But I think that people have come to their senses – Both, you know, Musk and Donald Trump's a very forgiving man. And I don't think this fallout is going to remain an impediment. But I think Musk has got to get back to minding his businesses a little bit. But he did say that he would be, you know, checking in on the Doge process. He was upset that, you know, more of his spending cuts were not in this, you know, big, beautiful bill. But legislation is always a compromise. You don't get everything you want. You never do.
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Well, I'm concerned about two big things in this big, beautiful bill. And one of those is these data centers. I'm concerned about all of the collection of data on everyday Americans and then the amount of energy that will be taken from everyday Americans making energy more expensive and to go to these data centers. So I'm really concerned about that. And then I'm also concerned about eminent domain and the CO2 pipelines, Scott Powell. And so when I talk about making America free again, we need to be free in our persons and we need to be free in our property. And those two things I'm concerned about.
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I am too. I am too. You know, freedom and liberty are really contingent on a few things. And one of them is property rights, a very important one. So eminent domain should be used really as a last resort. But I'm with you, Kim. You know, one would hope that – I haven't quite followed the higher energy cost because of these data centers. These data centers are huge, enormous consumers of energy, right, and we're going to end up paying for it. That's what you're saying, right?
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Yes. And the other thing is, is everyday Americans have been, really they've tried to cower us into being so concerned about climate change, our carbon footprint. I think that's another thing that I'm concerned about. All of this data could be then create some kind of a digital ID on our, air quotes, carbon footprint that could then be used to control, where we go, what we eat. And so I'm super concerned about that. And I hope it sounds kind of tin hat-ish. However, if you can conceive it, it can happen, right?
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Oh, yes, absolutely. I think so long as Donald Trump's main agenda remains intact, the odds of that happening are high. are not 50-50. They're below that, I think, but I can't say for sure. That's the problem with the administrative state, is that we have embedded throughout these agencies, be it EPA or Department of the Interior, we have people that really totally buy into man-made CO2 as being a you know, a primary driver of the climate and climate change. I mean, they finally had to acknowledge that global warming wasn't really happening. And then they shifted to climate change. And it's a very easy one to, you know, to gin up concern about people because the weather is so unpredictable and it can be very violent. And so when there's a bad, destructive storm, you know, and you blame it on climate change that is because of, increased CO2 emissions, man-made CO2 emissions, it's a recipe for manipulating the public. And they know how to do it. But the fact is that we have very little influence on the climate. And our levels of CO2 are really not high relative to history. And when CO2 levels were higher in the past at various cyclical peaks, agriculture really prospered more. There was higher output. Turns out that plants and food-growing plants like CO2, and they thrive with more CO2. But anyway, we don't have a risk. And everything needs to be understood from a perspective that God created it all, that it's all possible. Everything that we have was created by God, and what an amazing God He is, in that He's given us everything we need, and we should use these resources responsibly to advance His kingdom. We need energy. Only 50 years ago, most people thought we were going to run out of oil and gas in about 40, 40 years, 40, 50 years, and then the horizontal drilling through shale revolution took place and fracking technologies developed and suddenly we had our known oil reserves that we could tap exceeded every other country in the world. Everything changed in 10 years. And so it's very humbling that we don't have it right a lot of the time. So But I think if we always remember that it's all God's creation, God created it for our benefit, we then want to allow the markets to work. God created us free, and so the natural economic system is one based on freedom, and that's called free market interaction. And free markets work – They work in how we get to the truth, the competition of ideas, leads, refines the thought further and further, and discards false ideas, and you get closer to the truth. But in the marketplace, what happens is that when different in the area of energy, if we allow different sources of energy to compete, we're going to make choices that are based on What is most economic? What is most efficient? What's most abundant? What's most reliable? I mean, the problem with wind and solar is they're not reliable. And it turns out they're more costly, significantly more costly. And the worst – at our current state in the world, the worst part of it is that – We are dependent upon China for much of it. You know, the lithium batteries are more than 70 percent of lithium batteries come out of China. China controls over 70 percent of the lithium markets. They control even more of the cobalt, you know, cobalt mining, which is almost exclusively comes out of the Congo in Africa. and it uses slave labor, child labor, to produce it. Nobody wants to talk about the negatives of how lithium batteries are actually developed, where they come from, all the stages, to say nothing of how we dispose of these things. My guess is that energy is going to keep evolving. Oil and gas probably won't be the be-all and end-all in 50 years. We'll probably have new sources of energy. And now we're turning back to nuclear power as being a viable alternative. And the entire U.S. Navy runs on nuclear power. And there hasn't been a single accident in our fleet yet.
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Knock on wood.
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I know. But there's risk in everything. So even if there's an accident, you can't just, based on one event, generalize. But there's risk in everything. And what we always want to do is allow the markets to work because they will sort it all out. They sort it all out without anybody rationally deciding anything. The marketplace decides. It opts for what is most economic, what's most reliable. And in the case of energy, energy on demand is imperative. And you don't have on-demand energy with wind and solar. You depend upon the sun shining and the wind blowing. And sometimes they don't.
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And sometimes they don't.
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You have to have a backup. So you almost have a redundant energy system. If you're going to rely heavily on wind and solar, you've got to have an underlying energy-on-demand system of either – natural gas.
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And these data centers, they want something reliable. And that Ivanpah solar field out in California was only 70% effective at many points in time. So that's not going to work. So we're going to continue the discussion with Scott Powell. and he's a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, also the author of the book Rediscovering America, How the National Holidays Tell an Amazing Story About Who We Are. These are important discussions and we have important rights. We're talking about our recipe of how to get back to make America free again and our Constitution and our Declaration are the way to do that. And the Second Amendment was put in the Constitution for a very good reason.
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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Be sure and 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. 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 do you want more freedom and confidence with your money? Then Mint Financial Strategies can help. They're an independent firm with over 25 years of experience. And as an accredited investment fiduciary, they put your best interests first always. With a strategy-first approach, they'll help you build a plan that fits your life. So call Mint Financial Strategies today at 303-285-3080. You can text them there as well. Our text line is 720-605-0647. I'm talking with Scott Powell. He is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, as well as the author of a very important book that all of us should have on our shelves at home, and that's Rediscovering America, How the National Holidays Tell an Amazing Story About Who We Are. So, Scott Powell, you and I are both freedom people, and I am concerned with a few of these things in this big, beautiful bill, because I think that they are outside of where I think I want the federal government to be, concerned a bit about these data centers and our Fourth Amendment. And what would you say that we, the people, should do about this?
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Oh, well... I mean, I think that your work and every person who cares about freedom always needs to uphold the principle of freedom and identify threats to that freedom. Because we have had – we are far less free today than we were in the 1800s and the early – 20th century, even though there were certainly things in place that were taking freedom away, we had still had sort of a residual from the founding of the country. We had embedded in the culture a real appreciation of freedom and resistance to government incursion. And we've sort of lost a lot of that. And I think part of it is that modern life is so you know, it just takes so much energy and two parents needing to work in order to maintain a, you know, to meet all the bills and take care of things. And there's just not enough, you know, there's not much time left over for political involvement, let alone staying well informed. That's a big problem for us. And that's why, you know, a minimalist government and a robust free market is is really the solution, because the market sorts it all out when you let it work. And it will allocate the resources appropriately without anybody actually orchestrating it. As soon as government gets involved in picking winners and losers, you end up getting distortions. And this is why I applauded Donald Trump's taking away the EV subsidy for electric vehicles, they should compete on their own.
SPEAKER 20 :
Absolutely.
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Absolutely. I mean, it's overdue, actually. You know, Elon Musk was given a long runway for his cars to really, you know, gain market share, and indeed they have. But, you know, it's a dynamic world. Things will always change, and it's really only the market mechanism matters. that can bring about the most efficient, cost-effective utilization of resources. So anytime we see incursion on our basic freedom, our rights, I think it's important to push back and resist. You know, because, you know, you give a little bit and it'll take more and more and more. And we've already lost a lot of our freedoms. And you know that in Colorado so well. You've seen your freedoms eroded, you know, probably more than any other state in the last 10 years.
SPEAKER 20 :
Oh, I think that's for sure, Scott.
SPEAKER 12 :
And it's very sad because Colorado is such a, you know, just such a great state. It used to be a place where competing ideas could coexist. Yes, you've got the liberal area up in – where the university is in Boulder. But in Denver, you had – and Colorado Springs, of course, the military base. It was a lovely state and a beautiful state. But politics is – Really, you know, I just hope that the freedom movement takes root, and I applaud your work, Kim. It's so important.
SPEAKER 20 :
Well, we are going to continue to focus on that. And Scott Powell, again, your book, Rediscovering America, How the National Holidays Tell an Amazing Story About Who We Are, is such an important book as well. And 250 years ago at this time, the summer of 1775, people were having to dig deep for liberty, which is the responsible exercise of freedom. I think we are in the third founding of our country at this particular point in time.
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I think we are, yeah. And I would remind the audience to know, where did the early militia in 1775 come from? They came from the churches in the greater Boston area. And even the pastors, they picked up arms to fight the British. The pastors as well as the parishioners were the main elements of the early militia. So I think today we should look to churches also. We need a spiritual revival in our country because, really, God's order is all based on freedom. He created us to be free.
SPEAKER 20 :
Well, and you mentioned the word about God. God is a God of order. And that's why when we see all of this chaos and confusion that is being sowed out there, it's the opposite of God's will. And so we've got to continue to continue to be working towards. And that was what the Constitution put in place was a country that would have order and would have justice and And we're not there right now, Scott Powell. Your final thoughts?
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, we've been heavily infiltrated, heavily infiltrated. And, you know, so we just have to keep chipping away. You know, the young generation, I find more optimism now than I've had in some years. The young generation seems to be waking up. And that's very encouraging, very encouraging.
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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is kimmonson.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at kim at kimmonson.com as well. Also check out the USMC Memorial Foundation's website. That's usmcmemorialfoundation.org to see what the remodel is going to look like as they are raising the money for that remodel. for the official Marine Memorial, which is right here in Golden, Colorado. So that website is usmcmemorialfoundation.org, usmcmemorialfoundation.org. LA is on fire right now and wanted to talk with Chris Harris. He is a retired border agent from the San Diego sector, which is just down the road from Los Angeles. Chris Harris, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 11 :
Welcome, Kim. Thank you for having me on.
SPEAKER 20 :
And what is happening from what you can see at your vantage point?
SPEAKER 11 :
So this is normally trying to be partisan or not. This is just reprehensible behavior on several levels, including by some of our elected officials. Understand that we have U.S. Border Patrol agents are up in L.A. right now assisting ICE operations. and other federal partners in enforcing federal law. These are laws that have been ratified by Congress, signed by a president, that are duly in effect. And all of a sudden we have certain groups saying, we don't want you to enforce certain laws that we don't like. That's not how the system works. If you don't like the laws, then have Congress change them. But you don't get to just say, I don't like the law, therefore I'm going to tell everybody not to obey the law, and in fact we're going to impede people who are enforcing the law. So U.S. Border Patrol, including people I know, are up there. What was problematic for me is the gaslighting that started going on. And we've seen this before, but it was very, very particular in this case that we were told it's peaceful rights. I have friends that are back on the East Coast, back in New York, and others were telling me that they're not seeing this. You know, the people standing on burning or next to burning vehicles flying proudly the flags of foreign nation states other than our own. They stopped the 101 freeway. They were throwing rocks and concrete at passing motorists. This is mayhem. This is rioting. This is not peaceful protesting. And certain groups, including some of the media, were saying, oh, it's peaceful protests. You have Governor Newsom saying that. You have Mayor Bass saying that. Simply not true. This is unchecked violence. And, you know, President Trump rightfully said, and legally and lawfully nationalized the California National Guard, and we have people in the National Guard, and they were pleased. They wanted to help restore order, and he's sending them into L.A. For those who say that he can't do that, certainly he can't. David Eisenhower, President Eisenhower did it to desegregate schools in Arkansas back in the day. So it's perfectly legal. He just was not going to wait around. for Governor Newsom to send in the National Guard. The chief of police of LAPD quoted to NBC, we are overwhelmed. Well, when the police department is overwhelmed, you have to go to the next level. And in that case, that's the California National Guard who are going in to help law enforcement, including federal law enforcement, restore order. But make no mistake, this is not something that should be tolerated or celebrated in this country. We are a nation state founded on law. And we write our own laws, and if we don't like them, we can change them. But you don't riot or assault people or law enforcement particularly because you don't like the way the laws are being enforced or that they're being enforced at all. That's the bottom line, Kim, that we have the right as a nation state to pick and choose our laws and to enforce them.
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Well, and I had Dr. Brian June depth on earlier in the show, and he said that he's concerned that this violence is going to be exported to other cities. For example, Denver this week, your ear to the ground. Have you heard anything along that line?
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I think you're going to see that in certain in certain cities. And again, I don't like to be partisan, but I think you're going to see mostly what they term blue cities. You already saw a little bit starting in New York City and Seattle. So I think you're going to see these the same cities that have rioted over various reasons over the past several years are going to probably go up in flames again. LAPD was told to stand down for the first two hours. That's disgusting. Assistance and help was requested from them, from federal law enforcement, and they were told to stand down for two hours. If we've learned nothing, it is that if you let a riot, not peaceful protesting, make no mistake about that, not peaceful protest, but if you let rioting break out and then do nothing to tamp it down, to stop it, very quickly it spreads. And I'm hoping that these other cities, and I know for you, Aurora and Denver are concerned. As you know, we had a family member stationed out there with Trendorago and everything else. Yes, Kim, I do think you're going to see flare-ups at the minimum in several other cities. Again, we've already seen a preview of it. It was happening in New York City, happening up in Seattle. You know, it's going on in L.A. I definitely think this coming weekend there's going to be a call to action. I have somebody sent me a call to action out here in San Diego. It's a group that's forming a militia group to be anti-ice, and they're going to train down at the park. They want you to bring umbrellas and canes to use to simulate rifles. They're saying at this time there won't be any rifles. They're peaceful. But that's scary stuff. And so the call is going out, this, you know, interwoven, loosely – They kind of go along with these Marxist ideals and others, but these groups, Antifa and others, that are going to show up. And we saw in LA there's people with the Palestinian flag. I mean there's people with just all kinds of flags and all kinds of groups under this kind of umbrella movement. But really what it is is anarchy and hatred and loathing for the United States and Western ideals. And, again, I just want to repeat that enforcing our nation state laws, there is nothing inherently wrong with that. There's nothing inherently racist. There's nothing inherently bigoted. If you look at the videos of the Border Patrol agents up there in L.A., the vast majority of them are Hispanic or have Hispanic surnames. That's because the U.S. Border Patrol is a minority majority agency. I mean, I represented these men and women when I was a union guy. So we've got to stop listening to some of these elected officials. We have a congresswoman out here, Maxine Waters, who is basically daring them to shoot her. That's just – I've used the term earlier, but it's reprehensible behavior, and we should not tolerate it from our elected officials because it does fan the flames. Bass said some inflammatory stuff, and even Governor Newsom has said some very inflammatory things. I'm talking about they were going and arresting four-year-old girls and things like that. These were targeted raids for criminal aliens and also some workplace enforcement. And for the years, people left the center and said, you need to go after these workplace – hire these people. Well, now they're doing that, and they're not happy with that either. So realistically, there is a group of people in this country that do not want us to enforce any immigration laws. And that's just not acceptable. No nation state can remain a nation state if it cannot control its own borders. And I use this analogy, Kim, is that your own house, you have a right to let somebody come in as a guest, which would be our visa system. But if they start acting obnoxiously or overstay their welcome, you can kick them out. You can even have them arrested for trespass. And you certainly have the right to keep people from coming in at all. I don't know who you are. I don't like the way you look. You're not coming in my house. Every nation state has that right. It's recognized around the world. So to act like we should somehow not have a border, any country that has not been able to control its borders soon after does not exist. Just ask the Roman Empire. So, yes, Kim, to circle back, I do think we're going to see bad things coming up this week around the country.
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Well, and this destroys people's businesses and their livelihoods. And here in Denver, this will be interesting to watch. Denver has just put a ton of money into what used to be called the Denver Mall. And just RTD and Denver's put a ton of money in it. It's going to be very interesting to see if during the next week or so, if all of that money goes. is wasted because of destruction, because of this anarchy that's occurring in L.A. at this time and could be exported to other cities. We've got about a minute left. Chris, thank you for late-breaking being able to be on the show, and we're going to have you as a featured guest next week to talk more about this. What's your final thought to leave with listeners as a retired Border Patrol agent from the San Diego sector?
SPEAKER 11 :
Look, the men and women of the U.S. Border Patrol, they're some of the finest I've ever worked with in law enforcement. And I spent 36 years state, local, federal, New York and California. They want to protect the Constitution. They want to enforce the laws. They want to protect the United States and the civilians therein. And you brought up about the destruction. So a lot of these vehicles that are burning are electric vehicles. These are lithium batteries. LA Fire Department has to clear the neighborhoods because of the toxic fumes. So if this is what you're doing, if this is your form of protest, throwing rocks and concrete and bottles and fireworks and setting fire to things and destroying your own communities, stop it. Just stop it. And let the men and women of law enforcement do their jobs.
SPEAKER 20 :
Very good advice. I love that. Just stop it. Okay, Chris Harris, thank you so much again. Late breaking. I appreciate you making this happen, and we'll have you on next week to get more in-depth about, and who knows what's going to happen between now and then. So again, Chris Harris, thank you so much.
SPEAKER 11 :
Thank you, Kim. Bye-bye.
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And our quote for the end of the show is from Russell Kirk. And he said this, a society which denies the heart its role becomes, in very short order, a heartless society. 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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In a world filled with uncertainties, faith stands as a steadfast pillar of hope and assurance. Through this enlightening episode, Rick Hughes explores the wonders of God’s creation as evidence of His majesty and omniscience. He sheds light on how faith transcends rational understanding, urging listeners to heed the divine promises of security and peace. With powerful insights into the role of authority within the family and the significance of staying connected to God’s word, this episode is a transformative journey towards spiritual resilience.
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Welcome to the Flatline with your host, Rick Hughes. For the next 30 minutes, you'll be inspired, motivated, educated, but never manipulated. Now, your host, Rick Hughes.
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Good morning and welcome to the Flatline. I'm your host, Rick Hughes. And for the next few minutes, please stick around. Stay with me. 30 minutes of motivation, some inspiration, some education. And we do this without manipulation. You know that. You hear me say it every Sunday morning there on your local radio station. But the Flotline is designed to teach God's unique problem-solving devices, something we desperately need in today's situation. Having a main line of resistance in your soul that stops the outside sources of adversity before they ever become the inside source of stress. That's why we always have said adversity is inevitable, but stress is optional. This show talks about soul renovation, changing the way you think, letting your mind change. Remember, you hear me say God gave you two ends, one to sit with and one to think with, and success in life depends on which one you use. You remember that? Well, the Bible talks about acquiring the mind of Christ in Philippians 2, 5. That means changing the way you think. That means beginning to think in terms of divine viewpoint, not human viewpoint. It also says it in Romans 12, 3, where it says, stop thinking of yourself in terms of arrogance beyond what you should think, but think in terms of humility as God has given to each one of us a standard of thinking from his word. So my job as a communicator of information is to be squared away, accurate, truthful, not to mislead you, not to use any gimmicks and not any games, but to give you just simple, good, verifiable information that you can take and apply into your life. That's what I seek to do. And any of the shows that we do, you know, you can always get the transcripts of these shows. All you have to do is go to our website, RickHughesMinistries.org, RickHughesMinistries.org. And you can request any of our books, any of our transcripts, or I think my 800 number is there. If you need to make a call to us, you can do that as well. But we don't have any way to solicit money on that website. We're not asking you for money. So just keep your money. The Lord's in it. He pays for it. That's always the way it goes. So we don't have to solicit funds. There's no PayPal or request for finances there. So let's get going, okay? If you want to learn some more, stick around. Hang in here with me because this is a critical time in your life. A critical time for you to orient and adjust, and I hope that these messages will give you that insight on how to do that. This message is called The Importance of Faith. The Importance of Faith. The word faith is the word pistis, P-I-S-T-I-S, in the original languages of the Greek New Testament. And the verb is pistouo, pistouo, faith and believe. Same word, faith and believe. The believe is the verb, faith is the noun. So listen to Hebrews 11, six. Here we go, you ready? But without faith, it's impossible to please God. For he that comes to God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Without faith, it's impossible to please God. So the one thing that God demands from you is faith. We know that faith comes in several stages. There's saving faith, where we believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and are saved, and we're going to talk about that today. And how it's for by grace you're saved through faith and that not of yourselves is a gift of God. But the verse here that we're looking at, it is without faith it's impossible to please God. For he that comes to God must believe that he is and he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Diligently. There's a word I want us to take a look at this morning. Exoteo. Exoteo. The Greek word. Exoteo. and it means to search out or investigate or even crave for. So the question is, do you have a craving? Do you have an insatiable desire to investigate the plan of God for your life? Are you hungry for that? You know, the Bible says when knowledge becomes pleasant to your soul in Proverbs, a lot of people don't seek out knowledge. They're not interested in knowledge of the Word of God. It's either too threatening or too boring or they just don't believe it. One of the several options there. But what about you? Do you find the Bible relevant for your life? Are you interested in knowing God's plan for your life? Because if you are, you're tuned in to the right place. Not that I have all the answers. I'm not a pastor. I'm not representing any denomination. But I'm telling you as it comes from the Word of God through my lips. what the bible says in psalm 19 1 how can i find god well let me give you one way you can do it psalm 19 1 the heavens are telling of the glory of god and their expanse is declaring the work of his hand day and tonight utter speech and night and tonight they show knowledge There is no speech and no language anywhere where their voice has not been heard. All you have to do is look up and realize there's a God. The heavens tell the story, the sun in the daytime, the moon at night, the universe, the stars, the planets. This didn't just happen to appear. They were placed there by a magnificent designer. God himself placed them there. And so it can be someone in Africa. It could be someone in America. It could be someone in Egypt. It could be someone in the Arctic. All they got to do is look up and see and realize there is a God. The heavens declare the work of his hand. Day unto day they utter speech. And you want to hear what the speech is? I'm here. I'm here. I'm here. And night and the night, they show knowledge. What's the knowledge? This is not an accident. This is God's design, God's plan. So Isaiah 40, verse 26, lift up your eyes. Look to the heavens. Who created all of this? It's he who brings out the starry host one by one and calls forth each of them by name because of his great power and mighty strength. Not one of them is missing. Could you imagine if some astronomer Look through his telescope tonight and Saturn was missing. Venus was gone or some universe somewhere was not there anymore. What would he do? God holds it all together. And here is what I really like. he calls one by one calls forth each of them by name by name principle is this if God knows the name of every star in the entire universe and I read it to you he who brings out the starry host one by one and calls forth each one of them by name if God does that then can he not know who you are as well if Yes, he knows who you are. He knows your name. He knows where you live. He knows what you're going through. This is the omniscience of God. And it's demonstrated by this thought that I just read to you. He's omniscient. So if you're his child, by faith in the finished work of Christ on the cross, that means if you have believed and received Christ as your Savior, What do you have to fear? Not one thing. Because if he can keep this entire universe in order so that not one star is missing, can he not keep his eye on you? Yes, absolutely. You have nothing to worry about. One, under no circumstances are you ever to let fear control your life, never. And two, each of us have a divine promise of security. and the provision of peace in the midst of frightening circumstances. I'm going to read that to you again so you'll hear it. Each of us have divine promises of security and the provision of peace in the midst of frightening circumstances. We are in some frightening circumstances in the United States of America today. Who knows where we're going or what's going to happen? And as I record this, and you'll hear it three or four weeks later than what I recorded it, but we really don't know what's going on with this Corona-19 virus and where we're going to go financially or financially. physically, emotionally, spiritually, who knows? But anyone who's a short-time truster, those Christians who never really develop a flat line in their soul, they will never enjoy the benefits of security or happiness in the devil's world. They'll never have it. Because there's always the dread on the horizon, you know, like what's coming next. If you think this is bad, Coronas 19, you haven't seen anything yet according to the Bible, what comes down in the tribulation. What can happen in the fifth cycle of discipline is a client nation like America goes under the discipline of God because we turned our back on him or any client nation turned their back on him. We're not the first client nation in history. But you can say we haven't exactly kept his name front and foremost. We've found every law we can to kick him out of the public venue, kick him out of schools. That is the God, not Lord Jesus Christ. And everything that used to be evil, we now make it good. And everything that used to be nasty and evil and perverse is now okay. I would say we're in trouble. I would say America is in trouble. And I've told you before, the train whistle's coming, the train wreck's coming, and you can hear the whistle blowing. So sooner or later. If you haven't seen anything yet, sooner or later, the storm will hit your life. And here's the problem. If you've neglected God and if you neglected his word, you will have no peace or no comfort in the storm. You're going to be on your own. You're going to be struggling, trying to make sense out of it instead of relaxing and using God's problem-solving devices. Your prayers might not even be answered if you try to do the right thing in the wrong way. Remember the Bible says, if I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me. So if you're frightened to death, fear is a sin. So if you're trying to pray and you're in fear, don't expect that to be answered. You got to confess the sin first. Remember that because fear quenches and grieves the Holy Spirit and doesn't let him control your life. Your sin nature thrives on fear. Your sin nature thrives on emotional revolt to the soul, letting your emotions take over. That's not the way the Holy Spirit operates. The Holy Spirit says if you're filled with the Holy Spirit, you have love and joy and peace and long-suffering and gentleness and goodness and meekness. You remember all that Galatian passage. You're not being filled with the spirit when you're running around like a chicken with his head cut off in the yard. So come on. Sooner or later, there's going to be a storm in your life. And if you're not doing the right thing in the right way, you're not going to have any peace. Proverbs 1.7, the respect of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. But unfortunately, this verse goes on to say, fools despise wisdom and fools despise instruction. They don't want it. They don't want it. They don't want anything to do with it. And that's a shame, but that's what's going to happen. Because the fool is wise in his own eyes. He thinks he's smarter than God. He thinks he doesn't need God until all the stuff hits the fan and then He wants the God in the eight ball, the genie in the eight ball to pop out and make it all go away. There are a lot of words of comfort found in the Bible. And they're not in the daily advice columns that the cosmic system offers. I mean, in my local newspaper, we got two or three daily advice columns from female women that tell you how to handle social situations. But they're not what the word of God says. Listen to this. The words of comfort you need are found in the scripture. And what you'll find in the advice column are empty words, words that carry no weight. Ephesians 5, 6 talks about this. It says, let no one deceive you with empty words. What's an empty word? That's a word that doesn't have a doctrinal application. It doesn't come out of the Word of God. The word of God is alive and powerful, sharper than a two-edged sword, piercing even to dividing asunder of the soul and the spirit and the joints and the marrow and is a critic of thoughts and intents of the heart. The word of God lives and abides forever. Empty words are words that someone comes up with and some arrogance, self-righteousness, whatever, and they try to explain what's going on. Can't do it. Can't live with empty words. Empty words are especially religious words. Religion was the enemy of the Lord Jesus Christ and was the empty words of the Pharisees and the Sadducees that were taking people to hell. And the Lord Jesus Christ came to rescue them and deliver them from the empty words of legalism. Legalism. You know what that is? That's someone tells you, oh, you can't go to heaven, brother, if you smoke that cigarette. You can't go to heaven, brother, if you drink that beer. You can't go to heaven, brother, if you watch that TV show. That's legalism. There's always some self-righteous Christian that'd love to run your life for you. The Bible doesn't say anything like that. As a matter of fact, the Bible says a lot of different things, but not what I just told you. And anyhow, persuasive words is another one. Empty words carry no weight. Persuasive words. Oh, now here we go. Colossians 2.4. I say this so that no one will deceive you with arguments. See, we got deceive again. Deception. Deceive you with arguments that sound reasonable. You know, there are only several ways to perceive truth. Pisticism, rationalism, empiricism. Rationalism is trying to rationally come up with some answer. You know, like we're really just millions of years old and we came from a monkey and all that sort of stuff. Sounds reasonable, you know. They're gonna come up with some scientific explanation. Don't let anybody deceive you with some reasonable sounding hypothesis of rationalism or empiricism where we take scientific data and try to come to some kind of conclusion. It doesn't make any difference if the data is flawed already. The way you come to truth is pisticism, and that's the word faith. Live by faith. We operate by faith. We live by faith. We focus on faith. We spread faith around. And that's the key word for you. Those that come to God, as I started off saying, without faith, it's impossible to please him. You must have faith. Faith is not empty words. Faith is not persuasive words. And faith is not deceptive words. 2 Peter 2, verse 3. In their greed, Peter said, They will exploit you with deceptive words. Well, that could be the televangelists right now. That could be what's been going on in this country for a long time, people making money off of God, exploiting people with promises that they can't fulfill, selling things that are unnecessary, and basically trying the patience of God. That's exactly what's going on. So successful living in the devil's world requires accurate instructions. If you want to live in the devil's world where you are right now, you're here, you've got to have some accurate instruction for you and for your children. So we start off with Ephesians 6, 1 and 2. Here we go. This is where we say, children, obey your parents. Honor your father and your mother. Those words lead to authority orientation. And unless a child learns authority orientation in the home, then he is going to be maladjusted in life with some sort of flaw in his life, incorrigible person that's going to be hard to deal with. Honor your father and your mother. Obey your father and your mother. Two different words. Obey, hupotasso is the Greek word. And it's a military thing like about face, attention, and the soldier snaps to attention and makes a pivot and goes in the opposite direction. That's what this word hupotasso means. It's an order of the command. Children, obey your parents. And when they don't obey, there's always a source of discipline. Sometimes you can do the Greek word paideia, and sometimes you can do the Greek word nousia. So paideia means to put something on them with a paddle and nousia means to put something in their mind. There are two ways to discipline. You discipline with instruction and you discipline with pain. It's the same thing God does to you when you discipline him as a believer. So the children have to learn authority orientation at home. You have to encourage positive volition to your children. Explain negative volition, positive volition, and expose them to the word of God. Expose them to the biblical principles and truth of the Bible. And let them see that you believe that and you live by that. If you can expose them to scripture by nightly Bible reading and explaining what it means to them, you'll be way ahead of anyone else because Satan wants to steal their thoughts and inject fear through their mind through intimidation of death. That's exactly what he wants to do. And he'll do it to you too. He will steal your thoughts, especially in this crisis we're going through. and inject fear through intimidation of death. Where did I get that? Hebrews 2, 14 and 15. For as much then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself, that's the Lord Jesus Christ, likewise took part of the same, flesh and blood, that through death on the cross, he might destroy the one that had the power of death, that's Satan, That is the devil, the Bible says, and deliver them who through the fear of death were all their life subject to bondage. Through the fear of death were all their life subject to bondage, Hebrews 2, 14 and 15. This is what Satan uses to manipulate people with. This is what Satan uses to intimidate people with. Are you afraid of dying? Has this virus gotten so out of control that you're afraid you're going to catch it and you're going to die? Are you? Where's your faith? You must trust God. You must know he's your heavenly father and he loves you. He's not going to hang you out to dry. And if he does call you home, you'll be going to a much better place than a sin-infested world where the real virus is sin and death. That's the real virus in this country and in the whole world, sin and death. And it started with Adam. For by one man, sin came into the world and death by sin. And now death... passed on all there is an antidote for sin and death and that antidote is faith alone in Christ alone God's textbook for you is the Bible the Bible why was the Bible written well Proverbs 1 2 says so you can learn wisdom and moral instructions and get some wise counsel You know, since we're all infected with this sin and death virus, we ought to learn how to avoid letting our sin nature lead us to an early death, right? Romans 8, 2, for the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus had made me free from the law of sin and death. There's the sin and death virus right there. I'm free of that thing because I have believed in the Lord Jesus Christ. And I've learned God's wonderful problem-solving devices, starting with rebound, where I don't have to let my sin nature control me any longer. I don't have to live by fear. I don't have to live with intimidation. I can stand on faith in God's Word and God's promises. Exactly what Moses told the Jews as they fled out of Egypt and got to the Red Sea, and it looked like they were all going to die. He said, stand still and watch what God's about to do. Can you do that? Can you just stand still and watch what God's about to do for you? Well, listen, you want to learn God's unique problem-solving devices? You want to learn his unique protocol plan for your life? I hope you do. Not many people really want to. If you look across this country, there are not a lot of people that are really interested in learning anything except what's on TV tonight or what their favorite sports team are doing or something like that. As Jeremiah faced it in his generation, here's what he said. For my people are foolish. They have not known me. They're stupid children and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil. Oh yeah, they know all about that. But to do good, they have no knowledge. Jeremiah 4.22, the exact same thing we face today. Stupid people that think they're wise in their own eyes and have ignored God's word and God's system of divine institutions and it brings us to places like where we are today. Jeremiah 6.10, Behold, the word of the Lord is unto them a reproach, and they have no delight in it. They don't like it, don't want it, not interested in it. This plan that I'm talking about for you starts with God's loving grace. The grace, John 3, 16, is plain. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son. That's as plain as you can be. He loved you in eternity past. Before you were born, he loved you, and he provided for you a way out from the law of sin and death. The virus of sin and death is no longer controlling you. And so it all starts with God's loving grace. Grace. For by grace are you saved by faith. And you know where it goes from there? It goes from there to mercy. God's mercy. Not by works of righteousness, Titus 3, 5. Not by works of righteousness which we've done, but according to his mercy he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the spirit which he poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Lord. Did you know that's what happens to you when you get saved? God, the Holy Spirit, comes to live inside of you. He sets up residence in your soul, Ephesians 1.13, and he dwells in you. You are sealed with the Holy Spirit until the day that God takes you home. So we have grace and we have mercy, but mercy comes before forgiveness. from grace to mercy to forgiveness. John 3, 36, he that believes on the Son has everlasting life, and he that believes not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him. That's forgiveness. If you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, your sins were paid for, judged on the cross, and they are forgiven. From forgiveness comes peace. John 14, 27, peace I leave with you, My peace I give unto you, not as the world gives, give I unto you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither do not let it be afraid. My peace I leave with you. The Lord Jesus Christ was at peace even on the cross. And you can be at peace even in a scare such as America is facing in these days. And from peace comes contentment. Contentment. Philippians 4, 11 through 13. Not that I speak in respect of want, for I've learned whatever state I'm in to be content, whether I have a lot, whether I have a little. He said, I know both how to be abased and I know how to abound. And everywhere and in all things I'm instructed both to be full or to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need, because I can do all things through Christ who gives me the strength. That needs to be your verse today. You need to understand that. You can do all things through Christ because of God's grace and mercy and forgiveness and the peace that comes with it and the contentment that's a result of it. From contentment comes confident expectations. From contentment comes confident expectations. Philippians 4, 19, but my God shall supply all of your needs according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Do you have that peace that comes from trusting Christ? Do you experience contentment in your life? Do you have a relaxed mental attitude based on your confident expectations of what God can do and will do? I mean, you should and you can. Learning God's plan for your life takes a little bit more time than just reading a short daily devotional. Nothing wrong with that, but consider it's just an appetizer, not the full meal. The real chef for your soul is a well-qualified pastor who can expound the scriptures and teach them to you. As the Bible says in Ephesians 4, 11 through 16, he gave some apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors, some teachers. That's one word, pastor and teacher. Why? For the equipping of the saints for the work of the service to the building up of the body of Christ. until we all attain to the unity of faith and the knowledge of the Son of God to become mature men to the measure of the statue which belongs to the fullness of Christ, so that we're no longer children carried to and fro, tossed around by waves and the wind and trickery of men. That's why you got a pastor. That's why God gave you somebody with that gift so you can grow. Do you have one? Do you sit under the authority of a qualified pastor? Do you learn on a consistent basis? If not, you're never going to grow up. You've got to do that. If you don't understand this, contact me. Get a hold of me. I'll tell you where you can get under a real great, fantastic, qualified pastor, and you can study even in the confinements of your own home. Until next week, this is your host, Rick Hughes, saying thank you now for listening to The Flatline.
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In this episode, we dive into the ins and outs of maintaining your lawn, just in time for the summer season. Discover expert advice on the ideal mower settings, the importance of sharpening your lawnmower blades, and how to properly balance them to prevent unnecessary wear. Our comprehensive discussion will enlighten you on the eating habits of your lawn and provide innovative solutions to keep your grass greener and healthier. Whether you're facing a jungle of overgrowth post-rain or looking to transition to eco-friendly lawn care options, we've got you covered.
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Walter? Upstairs! Are you alright?
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In the floor behind the chair.
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This is America.
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Does everybody know what time it is? Fix It Radio!
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And it is that time. Fix-It Radio, KLZ 560. Thanks for joining us today. We appreciate it greatly. If you're listening to a replay of this program, thank you so much for that as well. Live program today, June the 7th. The year is rolling by. Steve Horvath from Geno's Auto Service. It'll be with me during Drive Radio with me as well. So good morning, Steve. Good morning. Thanks for taking some time off of your Saturday.
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I love it. Beautiful day today. For those of you that haven't been out and about, it's going to be a gorgeous day here in Colorado after all of the rain and such that we've had. We'll talk a little bit about some of that today during this program as well. But Charlie Grimes, of course, our engineer, Larry Unger, answering phones. You have any questions at all for us, anything around the house, we're here to answer that. 303-477-5600. 303-477-5600. And then text line, of course, 307-282-22307, 282-22. Feel free to either call or text. And I do my very best on the text end of things to even get those answered, read them and answer them on air, if it's something that's appropriate. Sometimes you guys will just send me information or different things that might be helping out another listener, which I appreciate as well. So thank you for doing that. But any questions at all, please give us a call, 303-477-2822. Okay, one thing I thought I'd talk about, because I did this actually during this last week during a show, or during one of my daily shows, and I had several different people give me feedback on, man, that was really great information, thanks for sharing that, and it wasn't really a topic for that day, because that's a different show than here, and then I said, well, I'll talk more about it this Saturday, so I will, and that is in regards to mowers, mower height, blade sharpening, fertilization, weed control. And I got into a little bit of that on Rush to Reason earlier in the week. And I had several people, again, comment on, hey, thanks for the information. I actually had somebody that even worked for one of the large fertilizer companies reach out to me and say, hey, you know, I listen to you guys on a regular basis. And all the information you gave was spot on and keep up the great work. And I'm like, OK, well, that's a topic we'll get into a little bit more this Saturday. Plus, again, anything that you guys have. for questions so first things first and with all of the moisture that we have had and some of you have probably uh struggled to get the lawn even mowed with the rain that we have had meaning that it's going to be really long i know a lot i look around at a lot of the lawns and they're there along so given that we're now going to get into some of the heat of not necessarily you know super hot but it's going to start heating up in fact if i look at the weather here for aurora we're going to be about 80 today seven mid 70s tomorrow and monday and then we're up into the mid to upper 80s throughout the week and next weekend looks like around 90s or so low 90s next weekend so starting to get hotter meaning uh and with the longer daylight days your grass needs more water to stay healthy and all of that. That's where it gets a little bit difficult this time of the year. So one thing that I recommend and I tell people and I do myself is put your mower height on the top, the highest setting that you've got. So if you use a push mower, if you use a riding mower, whatever, they're all adjustable. And what I would suggest is you at least want to be cutting that grass at three and a half to four inches tall. In other words, as high as your mower will go. Now, some of you may say, man, that's really high and it's hardly doing anything. Well, then come down one notch. You kind of can gauge that. But the point being, keep it as long as you can. And especially now, with it being already really long, you'll find it easier to actually – cut the lawn now with it being as tall in fact in some cases depending on how long it is you may want to go if you want to go a little bit shorter than that setting i just mentioned you may want to you may want to mow it twice depending upon circumstances now i'm also a big one on this time of the year especially not bagging your clippings really okay for a lot of people they like to bag clippings because it makes the lawn look better and all that it does but keep in mind you're you're actually pulling x amount of nutrients out that if you allow them to fall back in and decay and work themselves back down into the soil it's exactly what it does they will degrade and they'll come back down into the soil and actually it gives fill in some of those dead spots and gives nutrition and so on so it actually will make your lawn thicker that's why there's a lot of mulching mowers and things along those lines now for some people you still want to bag it you know fine knock your socks off but for a lot of you that have larger properties larger yards and so on you might even find bagging it is really kind of a pain in the neck well if that's the case then go ahead and mulch now some of you say well i don't have a mulching mower well you do you do actually and for most mowers if if not all i think there's there's probably now in the aftermarket sides of things you can buy mulching blades for just about any mower out there. And all you do is pull the bag off, let the flapper back down. It keeps the deck and everything all closed. Put a mulching blade on it. And some of you would say, well, what's the difference between a regular blade and a mulching blade? A mulching... Let me back up. A regular blade... looks just like a regular blade. It's a steel blade. It's got a little bit of a lip so that it's actually sucking the grass up. It kind of creates some vacuum underneath the deck, if you would. Of course, it's got the blade side that's actually cutting the grass. I'll talk about sharpening blade or blades, plural, in a moment, but that's what a regular blade looks like. It's got a little bit of lift to the back of the blade. It's, of course, got the edge, the knife edge that it uses to cut the grass, and that's what it looks like. Now, a mulching blade, typically... if not always, a mulching blade will have a very high kick up and typically have notches in that kick-up area. So where that lift is on the back side of where you're actually having the blade that cuts the grass, it's hard to describe this on air, but where the blade is that cuts the grass, the back side of that normally just has a small lift that creates that airflow. It becomes a much larger lift, and they put big grooves in it, if you would, big slits in it, V almost, in each one of those. And in doing so, they're trying to lift that, They're lifting the grass even more so and making some turbulence to where that blade is cutting the grass more than one time. As it's falling back down, it's recutting it, mulching it up into smaller particles so that as that falls down, you don't have these big chunks of grass. So you can actually take a regular lawnmower and turn it into a mulching mower by putting a mulching blade on that mower. And all you need to do there is just go put in your type, go to the internet, Amazon, wherever, put in your type of mower, so I've got a Toro 21 inch, blah, blah, blah, model number. Mulching blade. You'll find a list of people that make mulching blades for that particular mower. You won't just find one option, you'll find half a dozen options of people that make blades. And this is something to remember too. As you continue to sharpen the blades on your mower, which I'll talk about the proper way to do that here in a moment, keep in mind that blade is degrading as time goes by. So you're only gonna run, if you're sharpening things correctly and doing it right, you're only gonna run a blade a couple of seasons anyways and have to replace it because as that blade starts to wear down, you need to replace it for it to work effectively. So in this case, you might even find yourself, well, hey, I need a blade anyway. So if that's the case, you know, buy a mulching blade and be done with it. Now, here's the other thing. You can still bag with a mulching blade. It won't work quite as well because the vacuum inside of the deck is a little bit different. So it won't work quite as well as what it would with the other blade. But can you still, you know, use the bag if you have to in a situation where, hey, I'm trying to, you know, I don't want to change my blade out this fall. I'm going to go and suck my leaves and stuff up. Will it bag some of that? Sure. You're still creating enough vacuum and it'll go out the the opening that's in the backside of it, still throw it into the bag. So you're still able to do that with a mulching blade. But I think a lot of people miss out and end up applying, A, more fertilizer, more water, and wonder, well, why does the neighbor's lawn look better than mine? Well, some of this is some of the technique that I'm talking about right now in how you take care of the grass in the first place. Make sense, Steve?
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Oh, yeah. I've got all sorts of ideas. But I did the other day at Home Depot or whatever, I bought a sharpener and a little kit. that had a little stone in it, and then it did have a balancer on it too. Key, that's key. That was kind of an interesting thing.
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I'm glad you mentioned that because most people don't realize that those blades need balance. Now, you can do that one of two ways. So first things first, as you go to sharpen the blade, A, take it off. So you want to unbolt it from the bottom of the deck. Yeah, in some cases you can try to sharpen them, but it's a pain. Just take the blade off, get it out on the bench in a vice, and really do it properly. Eye protection. all of those things you need to have sometimes that nut's a left-hand thread that's right so pay attention good point steve it does sometimes it says on the blade or somewhere in there i think when you're underneath yeah good point careful i'm glad you mentioned it yeah they're not all right hand threads so double check to see what kind of a nut you know what kind of threads you have on your shaft coming out of the motor or out of the In some cases, you've got a riding mower, the mechanism that runs the deck, the transmission is what they call that that's running the blades. In some cases, you may have two blades or three blades depending upon how wide of a mower you have and so on. Most people, unless you get above a 48-inch deck, are probably running two blades on a 48, so that's typically how that works. So, Steve mentioned something very important. A, when it goes to sharpening a blade, make sure you have all the correct angles and you're doing that right and so on. And there's lots of tutorials all over YouTube on how to sharpen blades. There's even kits now that will even help you keep the angle straight. I see them listed on social media constantly where it even helps you keep, if you're somebody that doesn't really quite understand how to keep the angle of the grinder straight and all of that, you're not somebody that's used to doing that. buy one of those kits that actually help you keep all of that straight because the key is there you want that blade to be you know sharpened at the right angle to cut properly and you you want i don't know what the degree angle is i want to say it's probably about a 30 degree angle say 30 sounds about pretty close isn't it when you when you when you're eyeballing it so you follow the follow the angle the blade came with to begin with and that's where if you're looking at a blade thinking man i can't even tell what this was then put new blades on yeah i mean if you're at that point that's right they're not that expensive a single blade quite honestly even a mulching blade won't cost you i'm not exaggerating 18 20 25 bucks i mean they're just not that expensive folks they really aren't so that that On top of that, so not only is getting that angle correct, but Steve mentioned something that was very important, and that is the balance of the blade. And some of you would say, why? Why does that matter? As you're sharpening the blade, you may find that you've had to maybe grind one side of that blade a little more than the other due to it hitting a rock or a piece of debris in the grass or whatever when you were mowing it. in doing so you may be taking more metal off of one side versus the other and when you do that you're throwing the balance of the blade off meaning you've got to go back to the other side and take the equal amount of material off of it or you end up with a blade that's out of balance and then you could have bearing issues and it vibrates and it just doesn't cut as well as it should and there's all sorts of ways to do that and in Steve's case he bought a little balance tool and they make them that way what they work they work fine here's a poor man's way of doing it though by the way it's real simple take a small nail, like a finish type nail, and just pound that into the edge of your whatever. Two by four, you can do it that way. If you have a wooden bench, just go ahead and put that nail into the side of the bench, and all you have to do is make sure that the inside hole of the blade is nice and clean, and then all you do is put the blade onto that nail and kind of spin it around, and if it wants to go one direction or the other, you know it's out of balance.
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It's kind of like hanging a picture.
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Exactly. So if you get that blade balanced, you should be able to rotate it around, and it won't want to find any other place than where you've positioned it because it's weighted equally on both ends of the blade. So that's kind of a poor man's way of looking at the balance on a blade. There's all sorts of other tools they make now and so on, but that's an easy way to do it. If you don't have any fancy tools and you're just doing a grinder like I do and you're wanting to know if it's balanced, you can even just take a nail and mount it into the vice and then put the blade – on top of the nail and determine whether or not you're you're balanced or not that way also so that that one's not that difficult to figure out and you'll know right away whether you've got a heavy side or a light you know you'll know which side's the heavy side and that's the side you need to take a little bit more material off of until you get the balance back on the blade so something to remember and That's a bit of a hard thing to do.
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I think if you're off balance, it might be a throwaway thing.
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Well, if it's that far off, throw it away, put new blades on it. And this is just practice. I can't tell you any other way to do this other than it's just practice, trial and error. It's not that hard to do. And one other trick. that I would tell you is when it comes to sharpening the blades, don't use a bench grinder or anything like that. Get a regular we call them just a small portable six inch, you know, 96 inch four inch grinders. You know, get yourself a portable four inch grinder. They make them now that are cordless corded, however you want to do that. And then what I use to sharpen blades, I think it works best is they make a paddle wheel, they call it. It's not an actual stone. It's a paddle wheel. And it actually has individual little pieces of sandpaper that are all glued together and it looks like a paddle and you'll find yourself able to keep that straighter not have it bounce around as much and do a better job of actually sharpening the blades than if you use an actual hard wheel on that so there's another little trick use a paddle wheel on a four inch grinder and you'll find yourself sharpening those blades a little easier if you do it that way joe what's going on go ahead steve 30 degrees 30 degrees there you go all right 30 degrees
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Hey, John, two things. One, I assume you've already talked that you don't want to put a knife edge in those blades. You've already talked about that, right?
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No, I haven't even gotten to that point. And like I said, this is trial and error for folks. The biggest thing is try to match. If you get a new set of blades, just match the way the blades come from the factory already sharpened. What do you mean by knife edge, though?
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Well, you mean like you'd put on a chef's knife, I mean a really, really fine knife.
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Yeah, you're not doing that. You're just using a grinder and just making sure you get all the burrs off of it and call it good. And we're not splitting hairs with it. Yeah, no, this thing is spinning fast enough, it doesn't matter.
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Yeah, most of them I think that you only want to go down to about the thickness of a dime, you know, which is fine. But that's not the reason I call. On a multi-blade deck, and I've seen people start to make this mistake, You want to make sure that the blades are at different angles. I mean, I've seen one guy, he had a two-blade mower, and he was putting both blades back on oriented 12 to 6. And, of course, when they turned, they were going to interfere. So, you know, I always... Now, is there a little tiny gap there? But if you pick up a stone, you can get those two blades binding. So I always like to orient the blades so that they're not passing each other within a hair's breadth of each other. I don't know what your feeling is, but... On my deck, I don't have any choice.
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The blades only go on... I mean, if you put the left blade on the left side, the right blade on the right side, there is no options. Mine are keyed in a way that you can't screw it up.
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Okay, because on my deck, I've just got a...
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uh a groove spindle and you can you can put that blade back on any orientation yeah mine mine are mine are made in kind of uh uh how do i want to say this uh joe like a d on each end of the of the shaft coming out of the motor and the blades match that d so you you know it's it's made in such a way that even if you flipped it 180 degrees it's still on the same way and you're not changing it only goes on the shaft one way is my point i can't change it
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No, I've got a John Deere now, and it's just got a, you know, it's a three-blade deck. It's a 54-inch deck, and it's just a threaded spindle, and you can put those blades back on any orientation you want.
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Yeah, in that case, I would highly suggest what people do is take a picture of those before you pull anything apart so you can go right back together the same way.
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Yeah, and in Colorado, I think I had a Husqvarna, and the Husqvarna was the same way. It was a three-blade, and again, it was just a... I don't want to say thread, it was just a groove spindle, and you could put those blades back on any orientation you want. So, John, I think yours is probably not the norm, because I've also helped other people do it. I've never seen one that wasn't just a groove spindle that gave you any of the latitude you want. So if you're one of those people, if you don't already have a picture, as John suggested, Just make sure. Yeah, you don't want those things interfering.
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That would be a disaster.
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Yeah, so again, if you don't have a picture or something to go by, just make sure when you put them there.
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You know, make sure that they're at different angles and just... Yeah, the idea there being you want to quote-unquote clock them, and the way to do that, for those of you that maybe, to your point, Joe, you pulled it apart, you didn't take pictures on the front side, you would want to clock those to where one blade is in the middle of the pattern of the other blade, not blade to blade. I didn't realize they went that close. Oh, yeah. Wow.
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Kind of like a helicopter. Yeah, exactly.
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You're creating that kind of force. Yeah, thinking like a helicopter. Exactly. That's exactly a good way to look at it, Steve. Absolutely. Wow.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, so that's just my two cents for today, guys.
SPEAKER 12 :
Thanks for saying that, Joe, because I would have missed that because in my particular case, and I don't know that I've ever worked on, I mean, all the stuff I've ever done is commercial, so it may be the difference between the residential side and the commercial side because on the commercial side, you don't get an option. They go on one way, one way only, and that's it. There's no options.
SPEAKER 09 :
No, and again, I've probably had three myself, John. I've helped another neighbor with his, and I've never seen them the way you've described on a residential mower deck. It's just always you can put them on any orientation you want.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, and that would make sense because the cost of doing that versus what they do on the commercial side would be less, so that would make total sense, Joe. You could do the residential side a little cheaper by not making that spindle the way mine is.
SPEAKER 09 :
Right, exactly. All right.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, totally.
SPEAKER 09 :
That was my only contribution for today, guys. Makes total sense.
SPEAKER 12 :
No, appreciate it. Thank you very much. Yeah, so yeah, if you've got a multi-blade deck, in Joe's case, he's got three. Some of you may find one where there's two. Yeah, you want to quote-unquote clock those to where you're not going to have any interference when those things start to spin. And then to Steve's point, Some mowers, be careful, sometimes they'll have right-hand threads, left-hand threads, just depends on how that particular mower has been made, how they manufactured it and so on. So double-check that. And by the way, on the balance thing, going back to that really quick. you'll know when it's not balanced right you'll feel the mower and this is where especially on a small mower 21 inch where the blade is connected to the crankshaft of the engine in those cases in particular you want to make sure they're balanced well because keep in mind all of that unbalance is putting undue wear and tear on the crankshaft of the engine and that's where you can end up with other problems even engine wise by having an out of balance blade so if you've got a a different system where like in joe's case there's a belt system that's running some transmissions on the mower blade assembly you know the gears that run the mowers and so on a little different scenario they're not i mean still important but probably not as important as it is believe it or not on the smaller mower. So I'll come back. I got more to talk about on fertilizer and things along those lines. Questions, 303-477-5600. This is Fix-It Radio. Fix-It Radio, by the way, is fixitradio.com. So Fix-It Radio, KLZ 560.
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All right, we are back. Fix-It Radio, KLZ 560. Myself, Steve Horvath from Geno's Auto Service with me this hour as well. Jeff in Montana, you're up. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 04 :
Hey, good morning, all. I have a Craftsman three-blade deck. I think it's 54-inch.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yep, makes sense.
SPEAKER 04 :
Got it nine years ago, I think, and... I've been underneath there quite a few times, and my blades do not interfere in any way. It's all belt-driven, so it wouldn't matter if you tried to orient them so that they're not interfering, that they would drift over time because of the belt, so they don't stay in one, they're not keyed to anything to keep them in a certain location. I see what you're saying.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, okay. So in other words, they can change their position. So they must not ever interfere no matter what. Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right, but what they have, the center blade goes forward, and then the other two side blades are a little bit back.
SPEAKER 12 :
Got it.
SPEAKER 04 :
And they kind of crouch in. If they were in line, they would interfere, but because they're staggered like that, they don't interfere, but they cover the whole path. That's a lot of grass, though.
SPEAKER 11 :
54 inches, that's a lot of grass to cut.
SPEAKER 04 :
About an acre and a half. Okay, I was curious.
SPEAKER 12 :
I get it, Jeff. Yeah, I get it.
SPEAKER 04 :
And even then, it's a multi-hour process.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh yeah, absolutely. The trimming is the worst part.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. My question is on that deck maintenance. I mean, being a large deck like that, and with the belt, you have to release the tension on the belt, get down on the side, and get the belt off, and then
SPEAKER 12 :
unfasten the deck and drop it and then drive the mower away or slide it up from the side and then you know after a certain age this maintenance tends to get a bit weird no it doesn't and they do make and for those of you listening that have you know tractors or things like that there are now jeff and you might want to look into this there is actually make sure it's hard to describe on air But there are now devices made whereby it's like a lever type. It's on wheels. It's kind of a lever type of a mechanism where you can put that under the front axle of the tractor, push down on it. It raises the whole front of the tractor up, giving you access to what's underneath it. So if you want to wash it out and all of that, you're not sliding the deck out or anything. You're literally just lifting the whole front of the mower up with this big lever device. Kind of like the NASCAR guys do.
SPEAKER 11 :
That's exactly right.
SPEAKER 12 :
Think of it like a jack, Jeff, only it's all done mechanically where you just get on the end of it and raise it up. And because most of the weight is distributed on the mower pretty correctly, once you get it raising in the front, it'll just keep on going up and then gives you access to the deck that way.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, actually, Harbor Freight had a sale on those. It was called ATV lifts, I think. ATV and mower lifts. Yeah. Yeah. So you can do that with the small ATVs as well.
SPEAKER 10 :
Interesting.
SPEAKER 04 :
And I got one of those, and I get about a 30-inch lift on it, and it helps. But you still have to get down on a creeper and kind of get underneath there, have problems with grass accumulating there. I had maybe at one point up to two inches of grass inside of it. It was a real pain. So I was just wondering if you had any hints on easier ways Easier, more maintenance for those of us who are getting up in the years a bit and need a little... Need a little help dealing with that.
SPEAKER 12 :
If it were me, I would do one of two things. Either have a really good jacking system like we're talking about, floor jack. In some cases, you can even build yourself a little bit of a car ramp where you're driving the front end up on the mower that gives you access. I'm also one, Jeff, to where I think things mow better if you can get underneath that deck and power wash it after every mow. I know that sounds like a hassle to a lot of people, but if you can hose all of that you know, debris and junk, especially now here in Colorado, we're going to be really wet. That grass is going to be sticking underneath there, and people will talk about you can put wax and PAM and all this other stuff underneath there. None of that does anything at the end of the day. It'll all come off pretty quickly anyway, so you're just going to have to get the grass out of it. But I'm a big one on washing that deck after every time so it doesn't build up.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, well, Craftsman did a pretty nifty thing on this. They put two little forks. to hook up a garden hose on either side so you can just put it on there.
SPEAKER 11 :
I have that on mine. Oh, really? Yeah. And do you start to mower and run it with it kind of pumping in like that? Yep.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yep, indefinitely. And after several years of doing it the wrong way, I realized that, oh, hey, if you lower that mower deck all the way down when you're washing it like that, the water stays inside. Yeah, great idea. It's a lot better, too. Great idea.
SPEAKER 12 :
So does it give like a swirl effect? I mean, how well does it do at cleaning all that out, Jeff?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, because what you do is you hook up the water, and then you pull out the little knob that activates the power takeoff, activates the blades, so you're acting like you're mowing the lawn, but just swishing the water around inside.
SPEAKER 10 :
It's kind of like a dishwasher in a way. Yeah, like a washing machine. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, more of a washing machine.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. Yeah, so... Okay. And it does okay with that. I just... It's... And mulching mowers are designed, as you said, to keep the grass up there. So with all the damp grass, it's going to want to pack that. You're exactly right, Jeff.
SPEAKER 12 :
Absolutely. Yes, yes, yes. Absolutely. And by the way, everything we're talking about, even for those of you that have just a regular 21-inch push mower, be careful which way you tip that up because you could lose fuel or oil. So know which way to tip the mower up. But same thing, Jeff. You'd want to wash those out just as well, just like you're doing with yours.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right, and so this time of year is probably good to, as you said, make sure you clean it after every use just to make sure you don't get that grass piling up inside of there. And then one, you didn't talk about this, and it's pretty difficult with the safety features on mowers now, but please do not defeat on a push mower or any other mower. Don't defeat any of the safety devices that cause the blade to stop spinning. My son years ago, 30 years ago, probably, was a medic and had to go to Haiti. And he can't remember how many different times patients came in with fingers missing because they didn't have any safety devices. And they thought they could just pick the mower up to use it as a trimmer.
SPEAKER 10 :
Oh, geez.
SPEAKER 04 :
No. Yeah. No. Dumb, dumb, dumb.
SPEAKER 10 :
No.
SPEAKER 04 :
But, you know.
SPEAKER 12 :
accidents happen so so please you know the safety features are there for a reason absolutely absolutely absolutely yeah and excuse me others are texting into that yeah depending upon your mower deck and his configuration and so on some of them won't make to your point jeff won't make a hill of beans but a difference how you put the mower blades on because they could actually change position much like what you're saying in other cases like in my mower there's only one way it'll go on they they will interfere so they're clocked specifically but again each mower is going to be a little bit different along those lines so you you should know what you have and and this is another tip for everybody if you don't Trust me, we now live in a day and age where you can go to the manufacturer's website, you can go to YouTube, you can find something on your particular mower, I don't care how new or old it is, that will tell you some of the things that we're now talking about and walk you through it. So if you're not familiar with your own mower and how your blades come on and off, how you should be sharpening and so on, then go look this stuff up specifically for your mower because I will say this, and Jeff, you know this as well, and so does Steve, there are far too many makes and models and types and so on for me to be specific any way shape or form when it comes to mowers because jeff as you know it all depends on who made it what country it came from i can go down the list they are not equal at all well i do that um and uh one thing in terms of uh
SPEAKER 04 :
organization i used to have a file cabinet drawer drawers full of manuals and things and i don't keep paper copies anymore i use electronic copies i just find them on the internet and download them keep them on my computer back them up and if i want to do maintenance on say like an oil change i just did an oil change and so i wanted to make sure i was doing it right and Look it up, and you can do a keyword search. You don't have to look through the whole manual to figure out what oil change is. Just put in oil or oil change, and you can find it. So I've done that for kitchen appliances, all sorts of different things. So I'm not a paperless guy anymore. I like to live in – I don't need that stuff, and it's going to be one less thing for my kids to get rid of. Yeah. Sometime in the very, very distant future when I pass. Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
And that, you know, again, good to know. And this is to your point, Jeff. My advice is I do the same thing you do, Jeff. If you've got a particular item, piece of equipment that you're working on maintaining, doing something with on a routine basis, then yeah, download. All the manuals are typically online from whatever that manufacturer is. And even if it's super old, Jeff, you can still typically go out on the internet and find the same manual somewhere. It's not that hard. Get those things downloaded, have the ability to have those at your fingertips and know exactly what you're working on and what needs to be done. And this comes down, Jeff, everything to, you know, what type of oil does it take? How much, what, you know, what type of other maintenance should you be doing at what intervals and so on and so forth? No, no, No different than your car, other than when it comes to this type of equipment, it's more so because you're not mowing lawns with your car. Two totally different things. And the other disadvantage that I will tell you when it comes to small engine, small equipment end of things, as I said earlier, nothing's universal. I mean, literally, you can go from one brand to another, to another, to another, and all of them being different in how they work.
SPEAKER 04 :
I don't know how many different black crafts for lawnmowers there are out there that look superficially the same, but they are all different. Different mower deck sizes, belt sizes, all sorts of things.
SPEAKER 12 :
That's right.
SPEAKER 04 :
Pretty much standard on the Kohler engines, I think.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, and some of the engine stuff will get standardized. But even then, sometimes Kohler will build something for one company that is different than another company. Even though they may look the same, they are distinctly different. And trust me, I live in that world far too often. And what you might think is universal, for some of you out there listening, it's not. Trust me, it's not. It's universal to you, but not to every other mower that's out there.
SPEAKER 11 :
Even homes are the same way. It drives me nuts. Absolutely. We come out of the automotive industry, and we see there's nothing standard on our home.
SPEAKER 12 :
There's no consistency. No. The safety thing on the automotive side of it, for all of you listening, Jeff, you know this as well. has created some consistency in the automotive thing to where certain things are just pretty standard from car to car to car, no matter where they've come from. On this end of things, we're talking small equipment, engines, things like that. Yeah, it's a crapshoot. There is no consistency at all.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, I guess I'm just going to have to live with the 30-inch lift that I get out of this ATV mower jack. And it does work really well. It's good. You pump it up, and it has actually the safety stops to allow you to not have it crash down on you. I still put – not jacks, but what do you call them – The jack stands. Oh, yeah. That's a good idea, too.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah. And you know what, Jeff? Thank you really quick for mentioning that. For any of you that are working on anything, I don't care what it is, car especially, but even some of this type of equipment where, you know, if it falls on you, it might not kill you, but you sure wouldn't want it to fall on you. It wouldn't be very comfortable. And depending upon who's around to help, it may not be a good situation. By all means, put jack stands under this stuff when you're working on it anyway. I don't care what you use to lift it up. Put a jack stand under it. I would venture to say that more people get hurt at home than out on the road driving.
SPEAKER 11 :
Absolutely, Steve.
SPEAKER 10 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 04 :
Correlated to Murphy's Law is that anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 04 :
It's a matter of time.
SPEAKER 12 :
That's a great point.
SPEAKER 04 :
Usually it's the very worst time.
SPEAKER 12 :
Great point. Jeff, thank you. Those are great tips. Appreciate that. Sure. All right, have a good one. We'll take a quick break. We'll come right back. Again, text us any thoughts or ideas or questions, 307-200-8222. And you can also call us directly, as Jeff just did, 303-477-5600. Myself and Steve will be right back here on Fix It Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 12 :
All right, we are back. Welcome, Fix-It Radio, KLZ 560. Myself, Steve Horvath, Geno's Auto Service. And as always, if you have a question even during the week and you want to ask me something that we're not on air for or even if this is a replay show and you've got a question for us, you can always text us and I'll do my best to answer that fairly quickly. So 307-200-8222. 307-200-8222. 82 22. all right somebody said here that um have a craftsman mower that the deck belt for the blades either keeps stretching or falling off the pulleys recently purchased a new belt put it on uh it's a it's a bit smaller made sure that maybe that that was the problem I do have to engage and disengage the blades every time I want to pick up because of the safety. Yep, that's exactly right. Have you any advice on how to keep the belt on other than all of the little shields to keep it on that keep it from falling off? Ooh, that is a great question. I think the first thing I would look at is do you have any pulley problems as well? Even in the automotive world, sometimes the pulleys themselves can wear and not keep the belt in like it should. Also make sure you don't have any damage to a pulley, which I know this particular texter, it's Dawn. Dawn, you probably have already done that, so that's probably not an issue.
SPEAKER 11 :
And to make sure I guess the, you know, you haven't lost the angle. One of the pulleys could be facing a little bit off.
SPEAKER 12 :
That's a good point, too, Steve. In fact, in the automotive world, and they still make them, there's little laser devices that you can use to line up to make sure that all the pulleys are straight. Now, you could do that on your own with just a laser pointer, right? and and put put in the groove tape it to the groove exactly tape it in there and then make sure that you're lining up with all of your other pulleys correctly to steve's point make sure we don't have anything canted something hasn't gotten bent or something weird along those lines yeah it doesn't take much to throw those off so that's one of those and other than that don um man i i don't know that's a great question obviously make sure they're spring freely and
SPEAKER 11 :
Or during, have you lost one of those guides? You know, like sometimes they've rattled off. You know, like a guide that keeps it from. Could be that as well. Keeping it, you know, maybe there's one missing. You don't know because you're underneath there every day.
SPEAKER 12 :
Anyways. Let me continue on. Sorry, I'm answering text messages as we're talking and all that as well. All right, really quick, fertilizer. I talked about this during the week and one of the things I wanted to talk about today, and I had a question that came in earlier in the week on what type of fertilizer do you use and all that sort of stuff. And this is personal preference and nothing against the Scotts brand. I actually had a gentleman that listens to the program that worked for Scotts, and we were talking back and forth a little bit this week. And he even said himself that, you know, for a lot of you that are do-it-yourselfers, you want the weed and feed, and you're trying to control weeds and do the fertilizing all at the same time, knock your socks off. If you have a little bit larger property, though, some of you that have been texting in, you know, Jeff just texted in, has an acre. Some of you have a little bit larger properties. And it was funny, even the Scots guy said the same thing. When you get larger properties like that and you're trying to be a little bit more cost effective, you're going to want to use a different product than theirs because of the cost. And where I'm going with that is some of you live near and or have dealings with co-ops. A lot of times your co-op will have a fertilizer that is even blended for the particular area that we're in. The other great fertilizer that I've used for years and years at different times is Rich Lawn Turf Food. It's a local company and you can't buy that typically at your big box stores. Typically Rich Lawn you're going to buy at your lawn and garden centers. So Find a lawn and garden center near you or go to Rich Lawn Turf Foods website. Find where there's a particular location near you. I like their product. It's time released. Not all of them are. That's one of the things you have to look at as well. Some fertilizers have a time release capability to it. Others, the minute you put it down, water it in, the fertilizer is there. I do know for a fact that Richelon is time-released, and you can tell by looking at the fertilizer because it'll have like a coating. If you put your hand down in it and kind of look at what you're feeling, some of the – and I don't know the chemical makeup –
SPEAKER 11 :
Kind of like when you take a Tylenol, you know.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, I can't tell you the chemical makeup of each individual little particle that's coming out of the granule. That's a good way to say it, Steve. But some of them will be coated. And I don't know which one they're coating. Probably the nitrogen is probably getting coated because that's the one that, if you're not careful, can burn the lawn and so on. And so it's probably the nitrogen particle that they're actually coating and time-releasing because as time goes by, because in our area you're going to have iron, you're going to have nitrogen, you're going to have several different things. i like about richland turf food for our area again is it's blended for our particular area our climate our watering and so on and typical application and this is where i may differ with some others if you're doing it correctly you're using the right kind of fertilizer you're using time release you should be able to go about six weeks or so maybe even eight weeks in between fertilizations It depends on, in a lot of cases, how much water we've had. So all the moisture we've had of late, it needs fertilized right now. I don't care when you fertilize. We've had so much moisture that right now, this weekend or next, it's due to be fertilized. And the key to that is if you get good fertilization down and good nutrients into it, you'll use less water. So some people think, well, man, it's going to be getting hot. Why would I fertilize now? Because you want to feed, just like us, You want to feed your body. You want to feed your grass. The more hydrated and healthy you are, the better you can go climb a 14er. Well, your grass is no different. The more hydrated and fed it is, and the other thing about it is the more you keep it fed, the more it does at keeping weeds and other things out of it as well. You'll always notice that typically those crab grasses and weeds and things like that, they will grow in from the edges of or in areas where it's thinner if you get a really good nice thick lush lawn you might get a dandelion here or there in the middle but typically you're not going to get a lot of other things that are growing up you know in that because the the lawn itself the bluegrass is healthy enough that it kind of crowds out some of those weeds and so on now as far as what chemicals to use to kill weeds and so on this is personal preference Everybody's got their own way of doing it. Some people like just buying off-the-shelf chemicals. Others, you've got some concoction you make at home. I've never been the concoction guy. I'll say it straight up. I use Roundup in the rocks and other areas. It's easy. I buy the concentrate, mix it up, put it in a backpack sprayer, spray it, off you go. And then I use the Weed Be Gone product. roundup has another product that's similar you can't use roundup in the grass you have to use a different type of chemical in the grass so you don't kill the grass roundup will kill the grass and the weed and everything around it which in some cases is great but in the grass for dandelions and so on thistles even that might grow up in the grass you want to use a product that won't kill the blue grass but it will actually kill that thistle or dandelion and that's where the the we be gone product comes in now we be gone will also kill things in the rocks and so on so you can use it for that but typically it's a little bit more expensive and the roundup is a little bit cheaper so typically you're going to use a dual product one in the grass one out of the grass and that's where that weed and feed product by the way that scotts and others make that scott's product has some of that chemical built into the fertilizer so as you're putting it down it's keeping dandelions and other things out by its nature it's the way it's chemically made and that's how that side of it works so fertilization really key and if you haven't done it if you it's I mean, hard to have done it here recently just with all the rain and everything we've had. I can tell you that if you have an opportunity today or tomorrow to fertilize your grass, you should. I don't care if you fertilized it four or five weeks ago. With all of the moisture we've had, I read something yesterday, and I believe it's true. I need to follow up on this. But we have had more rain from May 1st till now. We've had double the rain Seattle has had.
SPEAKER 11 :
Really? Really.
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Think about that. So we've had twice as much rain as the northwest because of all of the storms and things that we've had roll through. Now, it looks like we're in a pretty good dry spell. Keep in mind, we haven't gotten into the monsoon end of things, which is in later July, typically. But right now we have had a lot of moisture, which is great. Everything you look out here from the studio west and it's just lush and green and the golf courses are great and the trees look great and so on. And Right now, if you don't have a green lawn, you've either not fed it well enough or you've got some disease or something along those lines. Because right now, every lawn out there, regardless of where your sprinklers are at or even at, you should be nice and green right now just with all the moisture that we've had. But your grass also needs fed right now. Now, some people have had questions in the last couple of weeks on, hey, I've got a lot of crabgrass. How do I get rid of that? Now? Now? And I'm saying now, because if you wait longer, crabgrass is really hard to kill later in the year you get. So if you're going to kill crabgrass, go buy a crabgrass killer, get it killed now, because the longer you wait, the harder it is to get it killed. It's one of those things that you want to catch early in the year. And frankly, if not, manage it the best you can and try to kill it again next year. So if you don't get it killed right now, I hate to say this, but it'll be tough to get rid of it because you just can't. It's one of those... types of weed, I guess you could say that's what crabgrass is, is a weed. And the way it grows and so on, you've got to you've got to kill it early in the year. The longer you wait, the harder it is to kill. And in some cases, that's where you're you're liable to be just putting Roundup on it, killing it that way, digging it out, replanting it and off you go. And that's that's about the only way in some cases you can get rid of crabgrass. And again, it's one of those things where it typically starts on the edges and it will creep in. And somebody also asked me at times, where does all this stuff come from? It's blowing around. It comes from the neighbors. It comes from a field nearby. I mean, birds carry things around. I mean, you end up with different things in your lawn. You may have one of the most pristine lawns on the block, and all of a sudden a weed pops up, and you're like, where did that come from? Because of what I just said. This stuff can float in from any number of things. Animals can track it in. You name it. Now, one other thing, too, that... that I'm really big on, and for some of you that are listening, you may think I'm a freak because I am. If you have your lawn cut by a professional service or even somebody that comes around and goes from lawn to lawn to lawn, if it were me, I would be requiring that person to wash the wheels or put some Lysol on those tires before doing your lawn. Otherwise, you're liable to pick up whatever the last lawn just had. If the last lawn had some sort of fungus or something weird on that lawn, keep in mind it's now on the tires of that lawnmower that was just on that previous lawn. And as they now roll that off the trailer and roll out onto your grass, guess what? All of what was on the previous lawn is now going to be on your lawn. So I would require, if it were me, that particular service to be using a Lysol or washing it or something along those lines to make sure that those tires are good and clean before they go on your grass. Wow. I never thought of it. It happens at golf courses all the time. That's exactly right. Somebody's shoes have something.
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That's exactly right. And it gets on the greens and ruins the green.
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So that's why mowing your lawn, especially if you guys have anybody that comes by and does your service, could be just a kid that goes door to door. You should be, if you want to, make sure you've got your own can of Lysol kicking around even that, hey, kid, before you actually mow my lawn, will you make sure that you put this on all of the the wheels and you know on all the tires and surfaces before you go rolling on you know my grass and keep in mind you know that you're not washing the deck in between and all that but at least getting that main contact area that has been running on everybody else's grass sure and it's going to push it into the grass where it's going to grow the best and exactly actually you'd be helping the kid too you can give him a candlelight you can say hey you know you're doing a good service that's right you're teaching him something that he probably doesn't know and what i just said by the way uh you would be surprised how many commercial lawn services don't know what i just said they've never thought about it they don't even it's not in their wheelhouse they just go from you know lawn to lawn to lawn and away they go and if they end up with some sort of a disease in one particular area they deal with it but they don't understand what i just said either because most people don't think about what i just said it doesn't cross their that just doesn't come into their wheelhouse so and don't know why to me some of this is just common sense but yeah if you've got a lawn service and they're doing anything at all for you and by the way that includes even there's lawn services that will do you know everything from aeration they'll come by and do other things to your lawn different things along those lines make sure that they are especially if you're a freak about your lawn make sure that they are disinfecting that's probably what I should be saying disinfecting with Lysol or something along those lines and And again, it can be the spray can, you can get your own spray bottle of Lysol and mix it up and have it ready to go, however you want to do that. And it's also why I like washing the mower off on your own, even if your mower is never going anywhere else, but just washing your mower after every cutting. Getting the deck good and clean, getting the wheels good and clean, A, it makes the lawnmower look a lot better and you don't have crap all over it and all that. I mean, it just makes things more serviceable and all that. It's like washing your car after a heavy rain or snowstorm or something to that effect. But your lawnmower, same way. I have seen mowers where, you know, they... They don't take care of things, and you're literally taking a putty knife to the deck to scrape all of the grass and everything off. And again, an easy way to take care of that is just wash it after each mowing. And some of you, from the sounds of it, you have different mowers where they may even aid you in that by putting some ports in the deck and so on. But yeah, that's one of those things. And one thing I didn't talk about today, which is also important, I'm one of these where every time you go to mow, check the oil. Check the oil in the mower. It takes... 10 seconds 15 seconds maybe you know pull the stick does it have oil in it what does it look like is it all black does it still look good hopefully you've already changed the oil and on a push mower by the way the easiest way to change oil and this is simple get a pan and don't worry about pulling the drain plug because that's a big waste make sure it's empty of fuel which typically as you go into the beginning of the year it will be empty of fuel but make sure it's empty of fuel take your pan take the dipstick out and just tip the mower upside down and let all the oil run out the dipstick area Don't take the plug out and drain it and go through all that mess. Just tip the mower upside down, drain all the oil out that way, put fresh oil in it. Unless it's a bigger engine, they won't have oil filters, so all you're doing is taking oil out, putting oil back in. And on small engines, my oil of choice is Mobil One 1030. Unless your engine says something else that's specific to that particular engine or mower, 1030 synthetic, doesn't have to be mobile one, but 1030 synthetic is what I've been using for years and years and years with absolutely no problems, and that's the way I would do all small engine work. So, guys, that's it for today. Any questions, again, send me a text message, 307-282-22. Go to the website, fixitradio.com. This is Fix It Radio, KLZ 560.
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On this special episode of '33 Minutes on the Lord's Day,' Father Andre invites listeners to delve into the heart of Pentecost, a celebration of the Holy Spirit’s descent and its implications for believers worldwide. Featuring a poignant dialogue with Madame Germaine from Congo, the episode uncovers the struggles and hopes of a nation battling crises while maintaining an indomitable spirit of faith. Explore what it means to speak truth and live the mind of Christ amidst today’s global challenges.
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One day you stole me, nuncia vit Mariae.
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At age 10, Father Andre escaped Christian massacres by living in caves in Mount Lebanon with his family. Today, Father Andre works tirelessly to encourage American leaders to keep God in the public square, defending religious freedom at home and abroad, so that all might live in peace for the glory of God. Founder and president of the Mission of Hope and Mercy, Father Andre has learned the secret to safety, joy, and peace. Love God and one another. Now, let us spend 33 minutes on the Lord's Day, retuning ourselves to the truth of love in the hands of God.
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Praise be the most holy name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, now and forever and ever. Amen. We say in Latin, Send. Your spirit and they shall be created and you shall renew the face of the earth. My friends, one of my favorite, favorite feast days. I know we love Christmas. I know we love Easter. I know we love feast days like in the Catholic Church that are dear to our cultural heritage. life as well, like Our Lady of Guadalupe for Hispanic people and for Americans, you know, like the feast of Our Lady's Immaculate Conception on December 8th. I know we love many feast days in the Middle East also for particular saints. But the feast day of the Holy Spirit is today. This is Sunday, the feast of the Holy Spirit. This is Pentecost. We are 50 days after Easter. We are at this day in which the Virgin Mary and the apostles who were locked for nine days in the upper room of Jerusalem, just like a conclave. And for our listeners on Good Sunday Morning with Father Andre on KNUS and 43 Minutes with the Lord every Sunday on KLZ, I want to greet you. Our homes, our churches, our places of worship, whether at work or at rest, whether you are traveling and whether you're driving, as I heard many of my friends and parishioners who are driving, they were listening actually to the show this past Sunday. Remember now, all of us on this Sunday, the whole world is a conclave. And, you know, conclave, as you know, it's time when cardinals usually need to elect a new pope. And we have had this beautiful experience over probably two months ago when a new pope was elected, or less than two months ago, for the Catholic Church. You saw the cardinals coming together, and they sat, and they closed all the rooms, and they basically did not allow any cell phones to break through, and all of that. And they stayed in the meetings until on the third day they elected a pope. We call this conclave, with keys. With keys, meaning they go into a room, lock that room, and then they don't get out, not until God speaks. And when God speaks, it means they elected a pope. But where did this come from? Well, one of the forums, the most cherished forums in the church, is those nine days when Jesus, after 40 days to his resurrection, he went up to heaven, right? He ascended into heaven. And we call this Ascension Birthday. On the 40th day, Jesus will tell his disciples, hey, stay in that room. Stay where I told you to stay. Do not move from there until I ask my father to send you the Paracletus. And what is the Paracletus? The Paracletus or the Spirit of the Lord, who's going to come and who's going to support the apostles, who's going to come and who's going to dwell on the heads of the apostles, basically in the form of tongues of fire, as we know, heard from some. This is what we call the ascension of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ into heaven, both in body and soul. So what happened at that time? You know, the gospel tells us... As far as Bethany and raises his hands, you know, and then Jesus approached... All power in heaven and earth is given to me. Hello, Madame Germaine. Bonjour. Bonjour et bonsoir du Congo. We have a guest with us from Congo. Madame Germaine, nous sommes en train de parler. On a commencé le show. Alors, on vous écoute, on vous entend. Peut-être dans quelques minutes, on peut commencer à parler avec vous. I want to welcome Madame Germaine from Congo, from Tinshasa. And I want to welcome Gerard with us also on the radio. We are speaking about the ascension of our Lord. And today, as we are... celebrating the Pentecost Sunday, the coming of the Holy Spirit, We said how Jesus in the gospel, when he ascended into heaven, he told his disciples, go to the whole world and proclaim the gospel to every creature and to baptize and to teach him what he came meant. But he also told them after, before he was lifted up on a cloud, he told them, remain in Jerusalem, remain in this room until I send you the spirit. And of course, the descent of the Holy Spirit. Now, you know, the Holy Spirit is a parakletos. So the defender, the consoler, The one who said and who acts in us the wisdom of God and the love of God. You know, the Holy Spirit is revealed in the mystery of the Pentecost. But we have moments with the Holy Spirit that we have seen across the Bible. The very first moment, for instance, if you look in the book of Genesis chapter 1, you know, when God created heaven and earth, everything was formless and shapeless. It was almost chaotic. There was no form, no shape. But then there was darkness that covered the face of the abyss. We say in the Aramaic language, in Hebrew language, we say, And the darkness covered, was hovering over the abyss. But then the Bible tells us in the same chapter 1, probably verse 1 and true from the book of Genesis. And the spirit, the wind of the Lord was hovering or hovered on the face of the water. Well, we know the Spirit of the Lord creates the movement. But then also, let's go to the New Testament. And then when the angel appeared to the Virgin Mary, right? When the angel appeared to the Virgin Mary in the... Probably the Gospel of Luke, and when we pray in the Joyful Mysteries, we say there is an annunciation, right? The mystery of the annunciation to the Virgin Mary. And if you read on the Gospel of Luke, chapter 1, verse 26 and 27, you know when Gabriel was sent to the Virgin Mary in Nazareth, And he told her, hey, favorite one, the Lord is with you. And then he announces to her, of course, that you have found favor with God. Behold, you will conceive a new moon and bear a son, and you shall name him Jesus. He will be great and will be called son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give him the throne of David, his father. And you will rule over the house of Jacob forever. And his kingdom will have no end. And then the Virgin Mary tell him, what can this be? And I have no man. I do not know man. And of course, the angel tell her, the Holy Spirit will come upon you. And the power of the Most High will overshadow me. Therefore, the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God. You know, in this verse of the Gospel of St. Luke, chapter 1, verse 35, we see the full revelation of the Holy Trinity. This is why this feast day of the Pentecost Sunday means a lot. The Holy Spirit did not only cover the face of the water, and all creation. And in one of the Psalms, I believe, 147 or 47, we say, Send your Holy Spirit, send forth your Spirit, and it shall be created, and you shall renew the face of the earth. The Spirit renews the entire earth. but also the Spirit dwelled upon the Virgin Mary, the Father in heaven, the power of the Most High overshadowed her, and the one who was born from the virgin womb is the Holy, the Son of God. In all of this, we see now the Holy Spirit hovering on the actual apostles, and as they were locked in in the upper room of Jerusalem, when the time for Pentecost was fulfilled, according to the Acts of the Apostles, chapter 2, they were all in one place together. And suddenly there came from the sky a noise like strong driving wind, and it filled the entire house in which they were. Then there appeared to them tongues as of fire, which parted and came to rest on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in different tongues as the Spirit enabled them to proclaim. That's the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit comes to us with gifts. The Holy Spirit comes to us with the fruits. The Holy Spirit comes to us with life, renewal. Everything is manifested in the world. And also the Holy Spirit that He describes tells us this is the Spirit of the Father, the Consoling Spirit. Today, we are happy, my dearly beloved brothers and sisters, on this 50th day that we are celebrating the feast day of the Holy Spirit, the feast day of the Holy Spirit of understanding, the fear of the law, the good counsel, the courage, the knowledge, the fortitude, the piety. This is the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit that enables us to call Abba, Father. In our recent shows, as we said earlier a few weeks back when we started this beautiful radio show, I said we're going to begin with a new theme. And the new theme is we're going to go into the mind of Jesus Christ. We said that we will be talking about the mind of Christ and our mind as a human being. But also at the same time, the corruption of evil that tried to put in basically a confusion between the mind of Christ and our free will as human beings. And I defined that being the spirit of the world. Today in the world, we see many problems. We see many issues prompted in the world by confusion, by lies. You know, We live in Denver when Hope Jumple II in 1993, I believe, came to Denver, Colorado on August, basically 12 to August 15 for the World Youth Day. And he spoke about the culture of death and he spoke about civilization of life. He said, humanity is more and more endangered because actually it doesn't tell the truth. It doesn't abide in the truth. It doesn't live in the truth. And lies, in fact, can affect the safety. So we do have a national security problem on earth today in the world. That is lies. And who is the father of lies? Satan. And he is a deceiver. He is a liar. Jesus calls him the father of lies. That's why we as Christians, we have an obligation. We have a sacred duty to soldier up our world and favor Jesus Christ. And to start speaking the mind of Christ. To stand up against the spirit of the world. And this is how we will be in an utmost beautiful way utilizing our free will as a human. because we will be speaking truth. When we speak truth, the sun rises. When we speak truth, the sun sets on time. When we speak truth, we save lives. When we speak truth, people and the world will experience the joy, will experience the pardon, will experience the security in their own personal life. With us on the phone, from Kinshasa, from Congo, we have a beautiful lady, a collaborator and friend for the mission of Roque Amigosi. Who, in her own way, Madame Germaine, bonjour et je vous salue en ce dimanche du Pentecost. Je vous souhaite une bonne soirée à vous et je dis bonsoir. Comment allez-vous?
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Bonsoir. Merci pareillement. Je vais bien.
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Thank you, Father Andre. I am doing well. Madame Germaine. Oui, Padre. Les chrétiens en Afrique, ce sont des chrétiens particuliers. Ce sont des chrétiens qui ont le pouvoir, l'autorité de la joie. C'est quoi l'Esprit Saint pour vous? Pour moi?
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Oui, oui. Pour moi, l'Esprit Saint...
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that the Christians in Africa have a spirit of joy in them. You know, they face death. They face their persecutors. They face them with dances. They face them with worship. They face them with the blessed dupes. They face them with the proclamation of the gospel. So I'm asking Madame Germaine to refine, to express to us, who is the Holy Spirit for them in Africa? Allez, Madame Germaine, la réponse est pour vous.
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Pour moi, le Saint-Esprit, c'est le guide, c'est le paraclet, et c'est le consolateur. Holy Spirit, it's really difficult and complicated to accomplish our mission and to accomplish our daily tasks. You know what it means? At every moment, at every moment, we must implore the fullness of the Holy Spirit
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Our life as Christians, to save us is of the trouble. This is where the Holy Spirit is for us. I thank you for this beautiful spiritual answer. Do you see me as we speak? Can you see me? I'm just trying to wave at you. Can you see me? Yes, yes. So, I have some questions to ask you about the community in Congo. And I'm very sorry. I know that a few days ago, the U.S. administration and President Trump issued a ban not allowing any travels from certain countries, including from Congo. You know, a few days ago, the American president launched... Why are we so afraid? What is the situation in Congo? Can you please speak to us about the context and the justification of the problem? Yes, Padre. Hello? Yes, we are listening.
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The humanitarian and security situation in RDC currently, there has been a great crisis. That is to say, a crisis that is complex, a crisis that is multidimensional, multisitorial. And this crisis is characterized by recurring armed conflicts and also intercommunal conflicts. And these different conflicts lead to a large number of internal movements, especially in the provinces of North and South Kivu. They denigrate the armed conflicts following the M23, FCM23, and to that also add intercommunal conflicts in the province of Tchopo, the province of Tanganyika, and also in the province of Grand Bandung, that is to say the province of Maindonde and Kwan. And this crisis has devastated... And this crisis has devastated... Many organizations, even the Congolese state, even humanitarian organizations, are in trouble.
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à répondre à cette crise. 2024 data, more than 25 million people are currently in need of humanitarian assistance, including 7.2 million internally displaced people and thousands of refugees in neighboring countries. Madame Germaine, alors ça se voit que la situation est vraiment trop pénible. Et c'est une... C'est pas seulement pour... Et vous, comme une chrétienne, une personne chrétienne, vous avez une association, je crois, comme type NGO, lequel vous guidez vous-même, vous dirigez vous-même. Alors, vous êtes tout proche, vous êtes tout proche à la souffrance de votre couple, à la souffrance de vous. Si je peux vous demander simplement que vous pouvez répondre en français un peu plus d'une manière, s'il vous plaît. Comment est-ce que vous voyez leur foi, leur foi en Jésus-Christ? Comment est-ce qu'ils vivent leur foi en Jésus-Christ malgré toute la souffrance et malgré tout ce qu'ils ont fait? Comment est-ce qu'ils vivent, comment est-ce qu'ils expriment leur foi en Jésus-Christ? Je vais répéter la question en anglais comme ça. I am asking Madame Germaine from Kinshasa, Congo, who is a collaborator and a friend of the Mission of Hope and Mercy, how despite this executions and the millions of the people under danger and the millions of children actually under danger and in famine and execution and mass murders, how are they able to live and express their faith in Jesus Christ? This is my question to Madame Germaine. Madame Germain, the answer is for you.
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For us Africans, we have a faith that is really, I don't know, immeasurable. That's really, for us Africans, and in particular the Congo. For example, you are in Kinshasa,
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Yes. Et ce peuple, il espère qu'un jour, il y aura la paix, il y aura la restauration de la paix durable en RDC.
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And we reiterate our life in Congo every day. We pray until the day we will see a peace. So your prayer has a very special meaning. It's a prayer for peace. It's a prayer for peace. What is peace? What is peace? I am asking Mrs. Germaine, what is a peace now for a Congo people? What is a peace at this time and there?
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For the Congolese who are far away, for them, peace is first and foremost stability. Stability, security. It's because when there is peace, at that moment, there is the possibility of putting in place all the development mechanisms, all the development mechanisms. And it is also the same for the Congolese who are in the West. For example, I am in the East. We do not feel at peace with everything that is happening on the other side. Even in the East, even in the West. For example, you take in the West, the province of Kwangu and the province of Maindombe. There are also intercommunal confines. And all that affects us.
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and respond to it for us as people from Congo and our community.
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If there is peace, for what is the development of our country? And if today the RDC is in peace, I will refer you to the map of Africa. The RDC is located in the center If we can make a good and positive Christian impact in a sanitary of Africa and all over Africa.
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This is very significant. This means to us this one. My friends, what I'd like us to do at this point, for the spirit, for the Holy Spirit in Congress, for the Holy Spirit in Africa, for the Holy Spirit here in America, for us at LERN, Let us pray. Because in a few minutes, our friends will come, okay? And you ask on Good Sunday morning, on the... will believe in us, and knowing that the man of Christ wants a peace for us, knowing that the man of Christ wants to save us, knowing that the man of Christ wants to give us his man, like the African people, like Christianity in Africa, we will meet our oppressors with hymns of praise and thanksgiving. We will get baptized. You can test our faith. And we profess to you as Lord and Savior. So in this moment, let us pray for the Holy Spirit to bless us. Come, Holy Spirit, come, and come to celestial home. Shed a way of light divine. Come, Father of the poor, one source of all our store. Come, within our bosom shine. You are comforters, the best step. You are the soul's most welcome guest, the sweetest propensity below. In our labor we have blessed you with grateful coolness and heat, solace in the midst of woe. O Most Blessed, Right, Divine, shine within these hearts of yours, especially in Africa, here in the United States, in Ukraine, in Russia, and all over the world, in Lebanon, in our inmost being filled. Where you are not, we have nothing good in need of thought, nothing free from the hate of ill. Dear our Lord, Our strength renews on our dryness. Water stains are burnt away. Bend the stubborn heart and will. Melt the frozen. Warm the chilled. Guard the steps that go astray. On the faithful who adore and confess you evermore. In your seven-fold gift, descend. Give them virtue. Give them peace. Give them your salvation. Give them joy that never ends. And may Almighty God bless us all, protect us from all evil, but give us our sins. Give us peace, joy, and victory in our Lord and Savior Christ. And may God bring us all to everlasting life. My friends, don't forget to go online, missionofhopeandmercy.org, missionofhopeandmercy.org, to support our world, our offers, to start to help our people in Congo, in Lebanon, here in the United States, in whatever world that might be. So the peace of Jesus Christ will be always proclaimed, and this gospel of the union will be always preached. Amen. And now, my friends, continuing with our beautiful opponents, staying with us, every Sunday morning with Fr. Andre and K. Ali. Gerard, I want to welcome you to the show. And going back to speak about the mind of Christ, if your microphone is unmuted, hopefully you can hear us. I want to say good Sunday to you.
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Good Sunday to you, Fr. Andre, on this beautiful Sunday of Pentecost.
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But Gerard, you heard the cries of Madame Germaine, and you saw how expressive her joy is, her joy, how honestly it influenced to see that she lives in a mix of war, as you say. Their prayer to the Holy Spirit, their objective is peace and hope, stability and security. What do you think about that?
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You know, Father Andre, listening to Madame Germain made me think a little bit about the realities of war that we lived in Lebanon in the Middle East. And she said, every 30 feet, there's a church. If you go wherever you walk, every 30 feet, you're gonna see a church, you're gonna see a shrine. This solidifies the fact that people thrive on hope, thrive on prayer, and it gives them the attitude to keep moving forward. And I believe that is the mind of Christ. And I believe this is what keeps people joyful and gives them that gift of the Holy Spirit, the fortitude amid these wars and these trials. Because other than that, I cannot imagine how a human being can survive and still thrive for a good life and for hope and for prosperity in the midst of such a horrible war and amidst this very tragic and brutal persecution. So I believe that is the mind of Christ that Madame Germain was talking about, where we have the right attitude through prayers, through hope, and through perseverance to want to live. I just wanted to bring that up because it really brought back memories in these countries that were torn by war and dissent and persecution, where you always had that seed of hope coming from the grassroot of the people's faith. and that manifested in having, let's say, a church every 30 feet.
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It just brings... It's impactful, honestly. I mean, I was looking at Kelly on the other side in the studio when she said, you know, they destroy our homes, right? But then we build a church every 10 meters. I'm not sure if people heard me when I was trying to translate that, but it's very impactful. People have no money, they have nothing. I know, what does it mean for them to build a church? few stones, one pound wrenches on the screen on top to cover their heads, and just like a small altar and candle, and they pray, and they dance, and they exclaim. Madame Germaine, for the next week, you will speak again, to give an idea of how prayer is done, how liturgy is done. The liturgy of dancing, the liturgy of prayer, the liturgy of singing, the liturgy... with African life, let's say, and we pray, we do adoration through the dance in Our Lord, I pray. So Gérard was describing a little this instance in which you said, It's amazing to see this experience. I was telling Madame Germain that next time I'd like to bring her on a show to describe for us the type of worship, the way they worship in Africa, the way they do the liturgical dances, the music, you know, the praise and worship, the songs and the hymns are filled. I'd love for her to be on our show for next time. and to describe a little bit of the African worship. Gerard, we have a few minutes, and Madame Germaine was saying actually before the show, we were studying some sort, today we just wanted to give a context for the justification of the problem in Congo. You see, how much in the United States we do need a Christian task force. to address the humanitarian and the spiritual, unfortunately, and the security situation in Congo. Congo has people who are suffering. Congo has people who are willing to lead Africa, all Africa. towards faith, towards hope, towards peace. As you heard, Madame Durman telling us, our collaborator for the mission of Hope and Mercy, today live on this Pentecost Sunday from Kinshasa. Gerard, the Gospel of Matthew chapter 25, and we know that we have less than 40 seconds about that. When Jesus speaks his mind to the nations, Jesus speaks his mind to the nations. He tells them, I'm gonna judge you in the end of days. He's gonna judge them based on what, if you can recall us, in the Gospel of Matthew 25.
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That's a great point, Father. When Christ sits through people and judges nations, it's going to be very simple for people to understand why they're being judged as such. And as he says in chapter 25, Matthew 25, 35, well, I was hungry and you gave me food. I was thirsty and you gave me a drink. A stranger, you welcomed me. Naked, you clothed me. Ill, you cared for me. In prison and you visited me. This is what Jesus' rule of measure is gonna be when he judges the nations. And this is what brings us to the reality and the inspiration of the foundation of our apostle, the senior of commission of Pope Mercy is what we aim to do because this is gonna be the measure of judgment. Amid wars, persecution, it's very easy to get caught up in the politics of it. But at the end of the day, what's really gonna make the impact and what's really gonna bring peace is having that mindset of Christ where doing what Matthew chapter 25 says becomes second nature to us. And this is having that right attitude.
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From touching anecdotes to courageous feats, this episode offers a rare glimpse into the lives of those who have donned the military uniform in service of our nation. Don Whipple's tales of growing up during the Depression era, his transformative boot camp experiences, and gripping war stories from the battle of Iwo Jima highlight the resilience and sacrifice inherent to military service. Listen in to gain insight on not only the historical significance but also the personal impact of these narratives.
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World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf War, Afghanistan, and our other wars and conflicts. America's fighting men and women strapped on their boots and picked up their guns to fight tyranny and stand for liberty. We must never forget them. Welcome to America's Veteran Stories with Kim Munson. These stories will touch your heart, inspire you, and give you courage. We stand on the shoulders of giants. Here's Kim Munson.
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Welcome to America's Veteran Stories with Kim Munson. Be sure and check out our website. That is AmericasVeteranStories.com. And just it's such an honor to bring these stories to you. This show precipitated from a trip that I took in 2016 that accompanied four D-Day veterans back to Normandy, France, in celebration of the 72nd landing of the Allies to get a toehold on the European continent and start to push America. Hitler and the Nazis out of Western Europe and ultimately to defeat. Return back stateside, realizing that each of these stories are important. They're each unique and decided that we wanted to start to tell them, to archive them, to have them. And it has really been a joy of my heart to get to do this. In studio with me is a friend of mine, and that is Paula Sarles. I met her at Cooper's Troopers, which is a group of Marines that meet up in North Denver. And Paula Sarles is a Vietnam-era Marine veteran. And Paula, it's great to have you here. Thanks. It's wonderful to be here. And women Marines, there's not a whole lot of them, is there?
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No, there isn't. And there were even fewer in Vietnam. Okay. And why did you decide to get into the Marines? Well, I had a recruiter that I worked with at Kmart when I was a teenager, and he convinced me it was a good thing to do, that I would get an education. And you did. Yeah, I got an education in more ways than one. For sure. And you're also a Gold Star wife. Yes. Tell us a little bit about that. Well, Gold Star wives are war widows, and... Women who are widowed because their husband died as a result of a wound or something that happened to him during the war. And my husband died from Agent Orange in 2009, so I became a Gold Star wife and joined the association, or... the organization and helped host the 2013 convention here.
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Well, you are very active because you have a real heart for the American idea, America. But there is a Marine Memorial that is out here in Golden that you've been doing a lot of work with or work on. Paula, tell us about that.
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Well, this memorial was built in 1977. It's the only... United States Marine Corps Memorial, west of the Mississippi, dedicated by a commandant. And Lou Wilson was the commandant at that time. And this memorial is really near and dear to a lot of Marines across the country. And we wanted to remodel it to make it spectacular because when it was first built, it was really the only thing you saw on the hill there going in and out of Denver. in golden and so we got an architect that volunteered his time his company allowed him to work with us and they've been really supportive matrix design and then We've been working on getting the money to redo it, and it's going to be spectacular when we're done.
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And you're raising money, and you started something right around Christmastime. Tell our listeners about that.
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This is a build-a-brick project, and it was originally... created to raise money for maintenance for the memorial. But with COVID, we had to change things a bit. So we decided to start selling the bricks earlier. And we've sold bricks across the country. And right now we're in 12 states that people have bought bricks. So I guess the word's getting out. Yeah.
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Well, I think that that's really exciting. You have, what, 30,000 or 60,000 to sell. But you start with one brick and you just build on that. Well, congratulations on that. How can people get more information if they would like to? And it's not just Marines.
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You have a walkway that will be all branches of service. Right, because the Marines don't do it alone. We wanted to honor everybody that serves. And so we have the walk of service. That is going to have an all-services monument on it and a gold star feature of some kind. Great. How can people get more information or buy a brick? They can go to usmcmemorialfoundation.org, and it'll have a flyover view of the site. Remodel Design, and it tells about it, and then the brick purchase is on that page, too. Okay. And we have a Facebook page with the same title.
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Okay, and that's usmcmemorialfoundation.org, right? Right. usmcmemorialfoundation.org. Okay. Well, our show today, Paula Sarles, we've got something, again, very special. And Cooper's Troopers has six Iwo Jima Marine veterans that attend. And I've had the great honor to interview all of them, but we thought, let's go back and redo that. And so we're going to be talking with Don Whipple, just a young Marine. He was at Iwo Jima, and I think people will really enjoy this story. Oh, yeah, he has a wonderful story. And on the line with us is Don Whipple. He is a Marine veteran. He was at Iwo Jima and fought in World War II. Don Whipple, welcome to the show. Thank you. And tell us a little bit about you, Don. Where did you grow up?
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I grew up on a large ranch and farm in western Kansas. I was in a large family with... And we all had a job, and it was a delightful place to grow up. We had more fun growing up than you could ever imagine.
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Well, I'm a western Kansas girl, so I know exactly what you're talking about, Don. Where are you from? I'm from Goodland.
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Oh, Goodland. Good. Well, I came from Beeler. That's going down on 96th Highway, just east of Dighton.
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And I agree with you. It is a great place to grow up, and I do love it there. Tell us about how you got into the Marines, and what year was that?
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1943.
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As I mentioned, I was in a large family. I speak in a lot of high schools, and I always give a little background, and I tell them that I'm from a large family, and somebody always says, how large? And I'd say, well, there was four girls, and each girl had nine brothers. And they'd say, 36? And I'd say, no, you're math. They all had the same brothers. But it was two families together. My mother's husband was killed in World War I, and they had one son, and My father's wife died with the flu in World War I and they had five children and we went to this country grade school and they needed a teacher out there and my mom was looking for a job to put food on the table and you have a place to live and the county superintendent suggested she apply for a job out in this little country school. My dad was on the school board and they got acquainted and things began to move along and they sooner or later married and then they together had seven children. And I was in the seven children.
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You know, Don, you and I have talked many times. I never knew those stories. I did not realize that. That is remarkable. So continue on.
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That was a fun thing growing up with that big a family. And we were right in the middle of the Depression and We just didn't have any money. And farmers were going broke and moving to California or somewhere else to get a job or something. And so they, we didn't have any money much. And my brother and I, we would break wild horses for the other old ranchers to deal with them. work with their cattle and horses, riding horses, and we would bring them to ride for these other old ranchers who didn't want to get bucked off of these young horses. And that was our spending money. My dad said, you guys are the ones getting bucked off. You get to keep this money. And that's the money we went to go out on a date with or a movie or something like that. We were kind of the last of the old American cowboys. We had cattle drives and a whole shebang.
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Wow. Okay, well, where were you then when you heard that Pearl Harbor had been bombed? Do you remember that?
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Yes, I was in high school at that time, and I was down to my grandmother's place, my father's mother, and... I had one uncle that he worked for the railroad and he never got laid off or anything and he was a little bit more better off than most of those farmers and so he just bought a brand new car and that car had a radio in it and we were out looking at that car and somebody turned the radio on and that's when they announced that Pearl Harbor had just been bombed. I didn't know where Pearl Harbor was before that but From that time on, my life began to be directed in that direction. So that's where I was at with my grandmother's place.
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So a couple of years later is when you joined the Marines. How old were you when you joined the Marines?
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Well, I was really only 16 because I graduated. My birthday is in August, the last day of August. So I was able to start the school an extra bit early. Because of that, I could still get into the September starting in school. So I graduated when I was 16. And the day after I graduated, I caught a train to Denver to Marine Corps Recruiting Station and enlisted in the Marine Corps. And then I came back home and they... I had to get my parents to sign the sheets and all the stuff. So to give me, I had my permission to join. And I worked during harvest that year. In September, I mean, last of August, I got a letter from the Marine Corps with some train tickets to report to the to the boot camp in San Diego. And I left there and actually wound up at about the 23rd of September to really wind up in the middle of San Diego and became a Marine. And life was pretty different.
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And it's just remarkable to me, Paula Sarles, that here are these young kids, 16 years old, becomes a Marine and goes to boot camp. And boot camp was, would you say it was tough?
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It was tough. I knew it was going to be tough. I had studied up on every flyer I could get on the Marine Corps and everything. And I knew and I'd always heard it was tough. It was tough going. When we got there, we landed in San Diego, and there was a bunch of Marines getting ready to ship out, and they were in front of the depot, train depot in Los Angeles. It was a great big lawn. It used to be there. I don't know if it's still there. It was in front of the depot, and these Marines were laying around out there with their rifles stacked up and kind of like... in little pyramids together and they were all over the place and these guys were just kind of sprawled out laying around and they saw me waiting there I got there in the afternoon the train didn't leave there the late evening or late afternoon and so I had quite a bit of time there and got to talking to them they'd say where are you going I said I'm going to San Diego they'd say to the Marine Corps Depot and I said yes Recruit Depot and I said yes and you'll be sorry oh my gosh where you'd go that's what they would say that's the essence for me and close there on the base and we were marching around here and there getting our uniforms and to the quartermasters and all that stuff and Some Marines would be walking around out there yelling, you'll be sorry. That was what we heard almost every five minutes. Oh, my gosh.
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Don Whipple, we're going to go to break. This is Kim Munson with America's Veterans Stories. In studio with me is Marine veteran Paula Sarles on the line, is World War II Marine veteran Don Whipple. Before we go to break, though, I want to give a shout-out to one of my great partners, and that is Hooters Restaurants, located... Right here in the Front Range. They have five locations. They have all kinds of specials. So be sure and check that out. Wednesday is Wings Day. And if you buy 20 wings, you get 10 for free. And that's not good on delivery, but it's good on everything else. Go to HootersColorado.com for more information. That's HootersColorado.com. We'll be right back with Paula Sarles and Don Whipple.
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Ah, ah, ah.
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Welcome back to America's Veteran Stories with Kim Munson. Be sure and check out our website. That's AmericasVeteranStories.com. In studio with me is Paula Sarles. She is a Vietnam-era Marine veteran and doing some great work regarding the Marine Memorial out here in Golden.
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And how can people help you out on that, Paula? They can go to USMCMemorialFoundation.org and donate or buy a brick. And what you're doing is remodeling this Marine Memorial out here, which is the, is it the only? It's the only United States Marine Corps Memorial dedicated by a commandant west of the Mississippi. Okay, well. That's a mouthful.
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It is. It certainly is. And on the line with us is a good friend of yours, and that is Don Whipple. He is a World War II veteran, and he fought at Iwo Jima, and we were just talking about boot camp when we went to break. Don Whipple, boot camp, anything else you want to tell us about that? Oh, that was an experience, all right.
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I kind of went in there as a... Green farm boy from Kansas, rancher from Kansas. I'd never seen a stoplight before. I'd never seen the ocean, none of that stuff. And it was also, it was a continual month starting of things I'd never been involved before with in my life.
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When did you complete boot camp then, Don?
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Well, I... After boot camp, it was 12 weeks, I think, so in boot camp. So it must have been about, well, it was in November because we were assigned to communications and I was in radio telephone school. And we were assigned this duty because every, In every class that got out of boot camp for school, we had to be having the students serve the other guys in the communications classes. So it must have been right around November I got out. I can't remember the exact time.
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And that would have been November of 1943 then, right? That's right. Okay.
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Because I was there during Christmas. I remember Christmas Eve, serving in boot camp, and that old Miss Sergeant, he was a drunken skunk. He just had no mercy on anybody. And so he would have us working. That's through to 12 o'clock and sitting there on the floor in the water underneath those big old brass cooking kettles and polishing them up. And then that's where I was on Christmas Eve. I had a friend and he stuck his head in there and he was standing there laughing like a maniac. He was a Mexican boy that I went to school with and played basketball with. We were good friends. And he was They were hanging overtime that he had been assigned to officer's training school and getting ready to go to Quantico, Virginia. And so he was just kind of floating around there and he was coming in that night, stuck his head in and saw me sitting there on that thing polishing up that big old brass or copper cooking pot, I don't know what they call them, but there's about four inches of water in that little circle there where it was parked and to get in there to get a polishing that I had to get clear in there in the water to polish it up. And he was sitting there laughing at me.
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Don Whipple, I think young people today might say, well, why did you have to do that? But there is, in these tasks like this, there is discipline and striving for excellence and stick-to-it-ness. And even something like that, it was training you to become a Marine and preparing you for what was coming ahead.
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You know, I... I worked with teenagers all my adult life up until later years here at an organization called Youth for Christ. And so I had a real heart for teenagers and I always had good opportunity to share and get along with them. So I started working here with kids coming back from the Middle East couple years ago when they had a volunteer Marine Corps and Army and all that was all volunteer and a lot of those kids were just 16 and they enlisted and when their time was up they had during those earlier days in that war in Afghanistan and Iraq and that area they had a They had an order that they couldn't fire at the enemy until the enemy fired at them. And these poor guys would stand there and have their rifles out there and that telescope on their rifle and they could see these guys have their rifles right at them, they thought. And they could take him down, but about that time they'd see their buddy next to them fall over dead and It just broke these guys up. To see one of your own guys fall is the most heartbreaking thing in the world. So when these kids came home, they were just spit. They were committing suicide right and left. So I started working with these kids to help them know the Lord. And I became a follower of Jesus in the Marine Corps. And I began meeting up with these kids, and I had the time of my life with those kids. They were just like junior high school students, and it was just amazing. I would say, how you doing, Maureen? And they'd say, not very good. And I said, I talked to them a little while, and finally I'd say, how you doing with your journey with Jesus? They all had the same story almost. Yes, my heart went out to those kids and they were so broken. And they would say, well, I've sinned so much God could never forgive me. And I said, oh, he's a big God. Let's sit down a little bit. And I told them how that I became a follower of Jesus in the Marine Corps. And I would take some verses in the Bible and talk to them and I would ask them, like, I would take a verse, say, like, Romans 3.23, it says, All have sinned. And I said, Does that include you at all? They'd say, Yes. I'd say, Okay, see, you're not a lone ranger. God's a pretty good big God. All have sinned. That's everybody. And I'd say, Does that include you? They'd say, Yes. And I'd just take different words out like that. I was in a first-class meeting with all of them. I'd say, did that include you? And finally, by the end of our conversation, I would flip over to, I was usually running short on time, and I'd flip over to the last book in the Bible, and there is a verse there in Revelation that said, this is Jesus talking to the old apostle John from heaven. And the old apostle John's in prison because of his refusal to deny his face and say Caesar is Lord rather than Jesus is Lord and they put him on this island out there and this is Jesus talking to him and in that verse there it says behold I stand at the door and knock and if any man hears my voice and opens that door I will come in to them and we'll become one and I said Does that include you? Does that include anyone? Are you included in that? And he said, yes. And so I said, okay. God's big enough to handle all of our sin. And he paid for it all. And Jesus was hanging on the cross. He cried out, it's finished. And he was able to, because the wages of sin is death, and he gave his own son to die in our place because he didn't have anything. He was the only one that had ever just said, listen, when God did that, he played it for once and for all, I said, paid for it in full. And so finally I'd say to this boy, any reason why you wouldn't want to just open that door and ask Jesus to come into your heart and take your sin? And they'd say, I want to right now. It was just a time in my life that was fantastic. these kids would follow me around and they were living out there in the suburbs of Denver many of them and they'd usually get an apartment that was too big for them and they'd come home and the bottom had fallen out of their day and they were so having such a tough time trying to get their life together after that experience there in the Middle East and they'd commit suicide. Oh, that was a killer for me. Go ahead. I would try to get involved in churches. The ladies in these churches, the widow ladies, they would know about this. That they were just young guys. And they'd take and put their arm around them and hug them and Give them just what they needed, and that was so great. Those kids that stand there got embarrassed. I said this one kid one day, I'm having a hard time figuring out what's going on when I look at your face, when those dear ladies were hugging you and All that, and I didn't know whether you were saying, help me, or you were saying, tell him not to quit.
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Rescue me or hug me more, huh, Don Whipple? That's right. Well, and this has been, as you mentioned, part of your life's work, Don Whipple. You've been a pastor, correct? Were you also a pastor?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes, I was. I was a pastor then. And he was a missionary to Costa Rica, too. And I went out as a missionary to Southeast Asia and was out there working in Indonesia and Thailand and then that horn all around there. We had Cambodia and Malaya and all those areas. And I was working with Youth for Christ International as a missionary with them. Okay. And I had some thrilling times there. I got kidnapped by the communists and They were going to take me out in the jungle and hold me for ransom, and God just miraculously delivered me and got me out of that mess.
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You know what, Don Whipple, let's go to break. I think that we want to hear that story, and then we certainly want to get to your World War II experience as well. But we're going to go to break. This is Kim Munson with America's Veterans Stories. In studio with me is Marine veteran Paulo Sarles. On the line is World War II Marine veteran Don Whipple. We're going to go to break. When we come back, we want to hear the story about your service when you were a missionary youth for Christ and that you were kidnapped and held for ransom. So stay tuned. We'll be right back.
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God bless America Land that I love
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Stories with Kim Munson. Be sure and check out my website. That's AmericasVeteranStories.com. And in studio with me is Paula Sarle. She is a Vietnam-era Marine veteran, and she has a lot of life's work. But one of the things that you're working on right now, Paula, is this Marine Memorial, the remodeling of the Marine Memorial out here in Golden. Tell us just quickly a little bit about that.
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Well, I'm really honored to be leading the charge to remodel this memorial. It has a lot of meaning to people across the country that have been there. And there are even ashes spread on the ground there. So it's kind of hallowed ground to a lot of us. And we want to make this as spectacular as it should be. And Bo Bowers started the memorial in 1976. Well, actually, 75, when they started raising money and stuff. So it's... It's iconic, and we want to make it even more spectacular for people that drive by that they'll see it and know that it's Marines and those that serve with us. And so people can buy a brick. They can go to, I have it. USMCMemorialFoundation.org.
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And after you hear this, continue to hear this story of Don Whipple, people could just go and donate and help with this as well. So on the line with us is World War II veteran Don Whipple. And we're going to get to his experience in just a moment. But you said when you were a missionary for Youth for Christ and you were in Southeast Asia that you were kidnapped by the communists. Tell us about that, Don. Okay.
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Yeah, I was in... Indonesia and Jakarta one day and I met an old man an old Chinese guy and the Chinese young people were so closely associated with the family that they never got in any trouble but during the Japanese occupation these kids were treated so badly that they really become resentful and they begin to form in gangs with something like the M13 gang is what they kind of wound up into and they were fierce and This old man was looking for somebody that had worked with teenagers, and he'd been asking all the missionaries if they'd worked with any teenagers, and he asked me one day if I had, and so I'd been working with Youth for Christ for several years, and he'd forgotten my name. He didn't write it down, and so he was asking a Southern Baptist missionary after. They had anybody in their mission that worked for teenagers, and he was telling them why and so forth. And that old man said, no, but I know a guy out here somewhere. I don't know how to get a hold of him, but I know he worked with an organization, Youth for Christ. And that old man said, yeah, that's the man. He wrote Youth for Christ International Letter, this Southern Baptist did. He got the whole address of Youth for Christ in Chicago. And he wrote him a letter and asked if they had somebody out here and how they could get a hold of him. So they just sent the letter on the man. This old man had just scribbled on the back of an envelope to write this letter. And he had his name and address and phone number. And so I gave him a call from Singapore there into Jakarta. and talked to him on the phone. He said, when are you coming to Singapore, I mean to Jakarta next time? I said, I plan to be there in about two weeks. He said, would you give me a call and we can get together maybe when you get your hotel and get settled? So when I got down there, when I got in this hotel, Jakarta was just, it was a, most discouraging spot I'd ever been in in my life. It was just kind of the slush part of the world. And this new hotel was new, and they had a nice place there. And I got in my room, and after I got in my room, I went down to the foyer of the hotel. Dictator of... oh my mind plays tricks on indonesia the dictator of the country he had had a bunch of soldiers in a ballroom they're talking to him and i was standing there by the door and he was talking to me he dismissed the meeting and they came out and sacarno was his name and president sacarno was a real dictator there and tied in with russia and him and his wife and Some of his aides, they started out. In fact, he brushed right against me as I was standing there. So anyway, I went over and called this number I had, and this old man said, you call a taxi and give him this address. I did that. Gave him the address, and the taxi driver said, why do you want to go there? That's a terrible place in town. The communists are just taking over down there. So he said, I don't even go down there myself anymore. And I said, well, I'd sure like to go. And he said, I don't think you'll ever make it out if you do. So I finally talked him into the notion of taking me down there. And I got down there, and I went down that lone street in the dark, and God was just there with me. I said, Lord, I know that you said that that you can't remember the verse, let me now. But it says, the angel of the Lord encamps around about those who fear him and delivers them. And I believe you will deliver me. And so I walked down that street. There was clanging and clinging as the wind was blowing. The dogs were chasing cats. And they had tents backed up against this very poverty stricken place. They had tin and glass and boards stacked up against their houses. And the cats would run under those and the dogs would chase them. It was just a continuous bunch of crashes going on. I finally got to the door of the address and an old Chinese man was sitting at the door. I said to him, he said, what do you want? Kind of in broken English. I said, I want to see Mr. So-and-so. I can't remember his name right now, but He kind of grilled me for a while, wanted to know why I wanted to save and this and that. So he finally reached down to a little cardboard box by the side of his chair and said, pulled out a little slip of paper and said, he's not here, he's at this address. So at the six different houses, he got the same answer every time, and every time the taxi driver says, this is the worst area in the other one, I don't want to take you at all. I tell you, you'll never get out of here. So I finally got to the sixth one. I got to the door and a little Chinese lady came to the door. She said to me, could I help you? In a sweet voice. And I said, I want to see Mr. So-and-so. And she said, he'll be right with you. This old Chinese man came in and apologized to me for getting me in that dangerous part of town and getting shagged down all around. He was such a neat old man. I fell in love with him and him. And he began to tell me, he said, I have to move every night because the communists are out after all my assets and then they're out to kill me and my wife. And we can't stay in the same place. It's two nights in a row and I have to move every night. And that's why I had to send you all around to these other places. And because I didn't want anybody else to know where I was at. So anyway, that's... He said, I'll be by tomorrow morning and I'd like to have you. And I have a new Mercedes Benz. And he said, what I've done is I've put all my money and resources and every asset I had into cash. And I took the cash and bought Mercedes Benz cars with it. And I put these Mercedes Benz cars and friends that I can trust in Jakarta. And if I need money, I just... call these men and tell them to take that car down to the Mercedes Benz and sell it and they'll give you the money for it so he was just using the Mercedes Benz for a bank and he said I'll be by to have a driver tomorrow morning be by at 8 o'clock by your hotel to pick you up and I want you to drive around the entire perimeter of the island of Java here and I've got a place for you to stay and they'll feed you and put you up at It used to be an underground church. It's a widow lady who owns it, but everybody in those towns, these bigger cities, knows where this place is at. And they all have a group of people that they've contacted that have never worked with young people to be there, and they want you to maybe make plans with them on how you can maybe have some way of getting a way of getting a thing formed where you can get some of these young Chinese gangsters together and went him to the Lord and helped get him straightened out. So we were driving. I had heard every night on the news that the communists were out in Malaya, and I was up in Malaya at nights a lot working with teenagers. I would come down to 11 o'clock sometimes in that jungle when it was dark, and Every turn, I'd wonder if I was going to see a communist Chinese guy step out there in his orange jumpsuit and have a submachine gun to motor me over. I had a little road wagon, and I'd always drive with the lights on then because little animals were running out of the jungle to the beach to get the crabs and stuff like that. And I think they were really wild pigs. I don't know, but... I probably hit one of them. I was afraid I'd knock the whole front end out of my car, and I'd be stuck out there with those guys, and I'd be in that for sure. But anyway, I never saw anybody in Malaya, but I went to Java, and one morning after we got up and had breakfast and took out life, We rounded a curve, and there this Chinese man walked out of the jungle with his submachine gun and his orange jumpsuit. Guard motion was over, and he walked up to the car and pointed right at me. I was in the back seat, and I had an interpreter in the front seat and the passenger seat and the driver. They were in the knees, but he never paid attention to them. He just had his eye on me because I was an American, and he figured he'd get more money than Americans did. He said, out of the car, in broken English. The interpreter said, why do you want him out of the car? And he said, well, there's an epidemic here with cholera and smallpox. So he's got to get a vaccination. The interpreter said, well, he's got his international health card with him, and he's had all those shots up to date. And so he doesn't need that anymore. The old Chinese guy just said, out of the car. Anyway, I get out of the car. So finally, the interpreter said to me, you better get out of the car because he's getting kind of angry. And he got, I got out of the car and he ran that machine gun in my back and started waving and finally talking in Chinese and waving his hands. The interpreter said, he wants you to walk across the street here in that jungle trail. And I said, yeah, that's what I thought he was saying, but I was trying to stem his He could. That's what everybody wanted. So anyway, I started walking, and he had that thing in my back. So I got up there, it was about so many yards, and saw another guy standing beside a tree and a shelf that he'd built down on the tree. And on the shelf was another submachine gun and two syringes to give you shots. These were great big grease gun-sized syringes. We used to use them. because actually they're horses and they're big bulls. And they'd hold about a pint, I don't know. And they had glass sleeves on them and inside there was, you could see the color of the stuff and so they grabbed, he kept playing with my arm with the machine gun until the button came loose and my sleeve on my shirt, he pulled it up and Made his machine gun down and put this one with a black liquid in it. It looked like used oil. Just black as tar. I used to see it on the farm. Oil in a glass bottle or something. And the way it slicks on the glass, it's like nothing else I've ever seen. Anyway, that's what this did. And I was sure it was used oil, but I have no idea to this day what it was. But he laid his machine gun down and grabbed that one with it. black stuff in it. I don't know how many other people have been shot with that needle, but he rammed that in my arm and shoulder up there and pushed down the plunger and put the whole shebang in my arm and pulled it out and threw it out in the jungle. And as he reached for the other trench to give me another shot for the other smallpox is what it's supposed to be. His face went into just muscles, just went into cramps. He began to yell frantically and wave and go, go, go. He wanted me out of there just to win. And I've been reading in the Bible about Elijah. And he was down in Jerusalem and the Moabites were down there at the gates of Jerusalem and they were going to burn the gates of Jerusalem and go and kill all the Jews and go eat. Elijah was down there and he called on Jehovah that he would send his armies from heaven and this man those Moabites just turned and ran because these heavenly troops were just so fierce looking that they just ran and saved Jerusalem that way and that's what this guy did I was just reading about that, and that I said to the Lord, Lord, these guys have gotten me, and my hope is in you, and I just ask you to help me out. About that time, this guy just kept hollering and motioning for me to go. He was frantic, and so I just turned around and started walking on that jungle trail again. Walked back up in the car and was still sitting there. They didn't know what was happening to me, but they thought they'd wait a little while. And they took me back to Jakarta and I went on back to Singapore. But I know I was in Vietnam a couple weeks later and there was a missionary there in Vietnam. I was staying in a Christian missionary alliance mission home and they said, we know how you got out of there. He said, we've seen these villages in the highlands up there in Vietnam surrounded by the Viet Cong and All of a sudden, they'd just make a break and run back in the jungle. The next day, they had asked some of the people that lived in the jungle, who that other army was that was around them. And they said, there was another army there. And they said, yes, there was. They were the first spoken army we'd ever seen. These missionaries had been working for years in Jakarta and in Indonesia. They said, God sent his forces, just like he did in the days of Elijah, his heavenly hosts. And it just straightens these guys to death. And that's what God did for you. He sent his heavenly hosts. And I was thinking that was the case. And I felt a sense that something was there. I even kind of laughed to myself.
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Don Whipple, that is a story that I think that we really needed to hear. We're going to go to break. This is Kim Munson. We're talking with World War II veteran Don Whipple. Paula Sarles is in studio. We'll be right back.
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From the mountains to the prairies,
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Welcome back to America's Veteran Stories with Kim Munson. Be sure and check out our website. That is AmericasVeteranStories.com. In the studio with me is Paula Saral. She is a Vietnam-era veteran, and she is raising money for the United States Marine Corps Memorial out here in Golden, Colorado. And how can people donate to help you?
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And as you are hearing the story of Don Whipple, World War II veteran, certainly be great to go over and contribute and help them out. Don Whipple, we only have a few minutes left in this show. And then we have just scheduled a part two for your interview, which will be great. But let's talk about Iwo Jima. You were just a young kid. How old were you when you were landing on the shores of Iwo Jima? I was 17. 17 years old and a Marine. What wave were you in, Don Whipple? I went in the second wave. And what was it like when you went ashore?
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Well, I had a hard time realizing it was a real thing. So I had made so many landings, and we had trained so long for that. It was just amazing. We got up at 3 o'clock in the morning and got a big... holiday meal for breakfast and it was a Thanksgiving type menu of chicken and turkey and dressing and all of that greasy stuff and we ate that at 3 o'clock in the morning for breakfast and we went over to the side to this to get in this boat and take off. We had to the sea was kind of rough and We had to go out there and circle around and wait for a while. Rendezvous after we got loaded until everybody else that was in that wave got formed. Only seasick once in my life. And man, I just heaved all my breakfast. But it was just hard for me to realize this was a real thing. I just felt like we'd done so many trips like that. And it just seemed like another training trip and All of a sudden, it hit me that this is a real thing. And there was an airplane up above that sputtered a couple times. And that whole landing was so choreographed, it was just like a Broadway show. And it was amazing. The battleships had been there, peppering away on that island for hundreds of hours prior to this time. Those old battleships would light up like a torch. It looked like they were all afire when they'd have a broadside. And that thing would just be enveloped, and they'd have all four big old guns fired at the same time in flames. And in the dark, they would just light up the whole place. Then all of a sudden, 9 o'clock was HR. So we floated around out there to get our wave off. and then we started out towards the beach. All of a sudden, the battleships stopped about a minute before 9, and it was just, you could hear a pin drop, and the dive bombers began to come in. It was just choreographed so neat, and they began bombing the beach and dive bombing the beach, and fighter planes were in there strafing it, and that went on for just about maybe a minute, I don't know what it was, but this plane, I heard it. I heard this plane. I looked up and I heard it sputter. A little Navy fighter plane. It was actually a lookout plane for the battleship to tell them where not to shoot and to shoot. And kind of an observer up there to tell them how they were doing and All of a sudden, that little airplane began to sputter, and he was just almost right over us. He was trying to get out of the way of all of our landing craft because he didn't want to come down there, and I knew he'd probably been hit because it died out. A few seconds later, it did start up again. It went for just a little while, and then it began to sputter and died out for good, man. I looked up and I watched that thing and all of a sudden that nose began to dip down and the pilot, he was doing his best to get that thing out of the way of all of our boats. He knew he was going down. Being in communications, I got to hear that the aircraft carrier where he was at later broadcast and I got to hear it in the radio shack there on the that broadcast, and he was singing. I'm not, I can't remember the song. He was singing a song, and I'm not having a wonderful day. And oh, it's a very familiar little tune, and it just flopped out of my mind. And on the way over there, he had just gotten a card from his wife, a telegram from his wife. but she had just given birth to an eight-pound baby girl. Oh, my gosh. And I watched that plane, and it began to dip down and then begin to kind of whirl around and circle and dive down into the ocean. I watched it plunge into the ocean. And I thought, oh, what a sad thing, that little girl would never get to see her father. And he was killed. Oh, my gosh. That was kind of, and my first thought then was, because I was just so curious about all this stuff, I didn't, i didn't have any fear whatsoever i was just so like a teenager right right i just was so caught up in all of this stuff and finally it dawned on me this is for real these guys are out to kill us yeah and i remember saying that just right out loud man this is for real this isn't training yeah and from then on i was just coming into every experience was I'm amazed that this is for real. They're out to kill us.
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Don Whipple, you know what? I'm going to stop right there. We're going to have this be a cliffhanger for our part two of our interview with you. We're talking with Don Whipple, World War II veteran at the Battle of Iwo Jima, and that's just a chilling story what you just shared. Talked about the sacrifice. My friends, we have to think about the sacrifice that the men and women, American men and women, have done to stand against tyranny and to stand for freedom and liberty. So, Don Whipple, we are going to keep this as a cliffhanger. We will be doing a Part 2 interview with this that will be broadcast on America's Veterans Stories very soon. We'll let our listeners know about that. Don Whipple, thank you so much for... for sharing all this with us yep okay and paula sarles it is so great to have you in studio as well and as we've just heard this story and this this young pilot who crashed did everything he could to not hurt our guys to get out of the way and he just had a baby girl it just i don't know what to say about that paula it gives chills It truly does. And that is one of the reasons that we tell these stories, because each story is unique and it's important. And I can't wait to do part two with Don Whipple. And before we sign off, I want to share a quote with you. From Chester Nimitz, Sr., he was the Fleet Admiral of the United States Navy. He played a major role in the naval history of World War II as Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet and Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Ocean Areas, commanding the Allied air, land, and sea forces during World War II. He was born in 1885 in Fredericksburg, Texas, and he died in 1966. And as he was watching what was going on on the beaches of Iwo Jima, he said this. Of the Marines at Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue. And my friends, we stand on the shoulders of giants. This is Kim Munson with America's Veterans Story signing off. God bless you and God bless America.
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As our nation grapples with unforeseen crises, Rick Hughes delves into the perils of fear and panic, and the spiritual warfare that arises from these emotions. Offering biblical encouragement, he shares the tools and teachings needed to navigate the stormy seas of life with peace and confidence. From understanding the importance of a flatline in the soul to embracing the faith-rest drill, this episode is a beacon of hope and strength for believers in trying times.
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Welcome to the Flatline with your host, Rick Hughes. For the next 30 minutes, you'll be inspired, motivated, educated, but never manipulated. Now, your host, Rick Hughes.
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Good morning and welcome to the Flatline. I'm Rick Hughes, your host, and inviting you to stick around for a few minutes, 30 minutes of motivation, some inspiration, some education, and it'll all be done without any manipulation. The Flatline is designed to give you accurate information to help you verify and identify God's plan for your life. And if you can do that, you certainly have the freedom and the privacy to orient and adjust to the plan. You always hear me tell you that God gave you two ends, one of those ends you think with, one you sit with. And success in your life is going to depend on which one of those ends you use. Heads, you'll win. Tails, you'll obviously lose. So as we give you information, coming out of the Scripture, out of the Bible, It's called wisdom from God. It starts off acting as knowledge. When I teach you something, it's called knowledge. And in the Bible, there are two different words for knowledge. There's one word called gnosis, excuse me, gnosis, G-N-O-S-I-S. And then there's a word called epinosis. Epinosis is the preposition full knowledge. Knowledge and full knowledge. I can give you knowledge, but I can't give you full knowledge. The only way you can get that is by positive volition. Believe the word of God you hear and apply it into your life. Once it becomes epinosis, full knowledge, then it's converted into wisdom. Once you have wisdom in your soul, you have discernment and insight, the phenomenal ability to have x-ray vision, to see through the devil's lie, to see through the delusion the devil throws forth, the mirage, the stuff that's not really true. That's what wisdom gives you. The wisdom from the Word of God, from the Scripture, can save your life. Wisdom from Scripture can deliver you from financial disaster if you listen to God and pay attention to God. And so we give you this information, hopefully, to develop some sort of divine viewpoint in your life which is the viewpoint of God having what we call the mind of Christ. That's Philippians 2, 5, you developing the mind of Christ so you have the wisdom that is discernment and insight. into what life is all about. Now, there's no doubt as I talk to you today, we're living in a crisis. I don't know that there's ever been a time in this country that's like this. I don't know if we've ever even seen anything like this. There are mixed messages going around, threats of isolation and impending death. I mean, they abound everywhere in big cities and around the country. folks are being told not to come out of their home unless it's absolutely necessary fear and panic setting up in local communities and in the financial world it seems to me like people are jockeying to get the most food they can the most paper products they can even the most money they can because greed and fear have gripped this country. Well, what about you? I want to ask this simple question. Are you afraid? I mean, I'm recording this show in late March and it probably won't play to early April, but what will happen between now and then is a big question mark because I'm not a prophet. But here is something that I do know about. The enemy, a.k.a. the devil, will use our fear to make us weak. And this includes spiritual warfare, even physical warfare in a physical enemy. America's enemies and whoever they may be across this great world will use their this national panic to gain an advantage over us but the greater problem for us believers in the Lord Jesus Christ is this problem have we allowed fear to control us have we let fear take us over Because the more you surrender to fear, the more you fear. And there has to be a better way to live according to God's word. And quite frankly, there is a better way to live. You don't have to live under fear. The Bible's clear about that. So let's talk about that a little bit this morning. The believer, that's you and me who have trusted in the saving work of the Lord Jesus Christ, we have advantages and assets that the unbeliever does not have. I've often said this. I know you've heard me say this on this radio show. There's a train wreck coming and I can hear the whistle blowing. Well, I think the train wreck may be here. We're kind of standing at the crossroads right now and the warning thing is down and the lights are clanging and the train is barreling in closer. As we watch our nation sink into the depths of medical uncertainty, as we watch America sink into political unrest, you and I have to ask ourselves, How in the world do I maintain a normal life in the middle of all these abnormal times? Is it possible? And the answer is yes, it is possible. I mean, I'm not qualified to give any sort of medical or financial commentary, but I can give biblical encouragement during these changing times. So let's make no mistake about it. We're going to witness a fundamental change in our daily lives today. If this stuff ever runs its course, but don't act surprised because as a nation, as a great nation like America, most of our people have turned their focus inwards and they've been focusing on the gifts of prosperity and they forgot to give her. That's really a shame. When you focus on the gift and you forget the giver, and sometimes in a crisis like this, the gifts of money and the gifts of health, you know, you get scared and you start looking to the giver and saying, oh, please help me. Did you forget that we're living in the middle of an angelic conflict and this worldwide event that we're going through and what we've been facing is an opportunity for Satan to gain an advantage over you and over the nations. But what's bad is that we're going to sail through these uncharted waters And many who are in the storm have no moral rudder, no anchor in their soul, much less a port to pull into where they could ride out the storm. Because churches are forced to close and many do not have the harbor to pull into, you know, the local church. Many lost people do not see the beacon of hope shining from the lighthouse of the local church, illuminating the entrance to the port, the local church. This means that you and I must be the harbor of hope, wherever you are, wherever I am. We must be the light for our family and our friends. We must have a peaceful presence to calm their fears. Is it possible for us to have this? And the answer is yes. Is it possible? Can I have peace in a worldwide panic? Yes, absolutely yes. The storm about you will rage and the battle will continue. The battle, what kind of battle? The battle to control your thinking. The battle to get you to live by your emotions and not think clearly. This is how the devil defeats you. If he can get you to live by your emotions and not think clearly. Because the enemy that we're talking about, a.k.a. the devil... seeks to vindicate himself. He doesn't want to go to the lake of fire, and he wants to control his world. This is his world, you know. The Bible says we live in the devil's world, and we're sojourners. We're passing through. Our heaven is, as the Greek word says, Ouranos, or heaven. We know heaven is our home, Ouranos. So the storms are going to rage. The battle is going to continue. If it wasn't this, it would be something else. But we could face a historical disaster in America, and it could be full of personal catastrophes as we're seeing today. But as a growing believer, we can shine our light in the storm and still be standing when the storm dies out. Much like a lighthouse in Michigan that I've walked out on the pier in Michigan many times, up around Grand Haven or Holland, Michigan or Saugatuck, Michigan. And those lighthouses stand out facing across Great Lake Michigan towards Chicago or Milwaukee. And they are a way of signal to get back to land safely coming across Lake Michigan. You can be a light like this. You can be the port in the storm. In Matthew 5, 14, the Bible says, you are the light of the world. And this is our Lord Jesus Christ speaking to his disciples as he gave the Beatitudes in Matthew 5, 1 through 14. And our Lord stated that we should not cover our light, but rather set it on a lampstand. Let your light so shine among men that they may see your divine good production and glorify your Father which is in heaven. That's what we have to be. If you are a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ and you're full of panic and fear, If you're intimidated by these circumstances, your light is not shining. You have to stand firm and tall and confident and full of assurance and full of faith. And you will be a beacon of hope to those around you that don't have those things. John said that Jesus was burning and shining a lamp, and he told those people that came to hear him, you were willing for a time to rejoice in his light. That's what people do. They accept Christ as their Savior, and then they forget about it. That's what Revelation 2 talks about to the church at Ephesus where they forgot their first love. You've lost your first love, Jesus said. The only way to keep that light bright is to stay in love with the Lord Jesus Christ, and that is a problem-solving device that we call occupation with Christ. Remember on the flat line of your soul, this is what's important. In these days, you must have a flat line. All these 15 years I've been teaching about a flat line in your soul, a forward line of troops, a main line of resistance to stop the outside sources of adversity before they ever become the inside source of stress. Now is when you need it. And if we go through them again, rebound, problem-solving device number one, and that's how you get rid of the problem of sin and failure because we all are infected with that virus, the virus of sin and death. And then the filling of the Holy Spirit is how we deal with the old sin nature that we have. It's a way to live without letting the sin nature control our life. That's why the Bible says the flesh wards against the spirit and the spirit wards against the flesh. They're contrary one to the other. So when we rebound or when we confess and own sin, we allow the Holy Spirit to control us. If we don't, then we allow the sin nature to control us. And Ephesians 5, 18 says, be filled with the spirit, not the sin nature. So constantly you and I must keep a close check on sin in our life and fear and worry definitely are a sin in your life. Fear and worry are definitely a sin in your life. You got to remember that. So by using the problem solving devices, It is possible to come to the faith rest drill. In the faith rest drill, you're standing on God's promises. You're relaxed, you're confident. There are over 7,000 promises in the Bible that you can lean on and you can trust on. And that's part of the flat line of your soul, using the faith rest drill, claiming a promise, getting a biblical rationale and understanding what God's done doing. These are promises you should know. What time I'm afraid, I'll trust in him. No weapon that is formed against you will ever prosper, the Lord says, and many more we'll talk about. So we have the rebound technique, problem-solving device number one, the filling of the Holy Spirit, problem-solving device number two, the faith-rest drill, problem-solving device number three, grace orientation, orienting to the grace of God, how he saved us by grace, we live by grace, we die by grace, and There's even surpassing grace in heaven. Biblical orientation, another problem-solving device. Orienting our life to the mind of Christ, thinking as Christ thought, having divine viewpoint, not human viewpoint. All of these first five things give us a personal sense of destiny. So we know God has a plan for our life, and he has a plan for your life. And that plan's not to throw you under the bus. That plan's not to see you die in a pile of dust on the side of the road. That plan is for you to be a light to the world and to glorify Jesus Christ as you represent him to your friends. If you love the Lord, that's personal love for God, the greatest virtue you could have. That's another problem-solving device. And then you have impersonal love for mankind, the mandate that we've been told to love our neighbor as we love ourself, a great problem-solving device. And then sharing the happiness of God, my joy, Christ said, I leave with you. And then eventually occupation with Christ, occupied with the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. I hear people sometimes say, thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Sometimes that kind of gets me a little hackled because he is the Lord Jesus Christ. He is the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. And sometimes we get a little bit too familiar on first name basis here. I mean, if you saw the president, you would say, Hey, Donald, you wouldn't call him Donald. You'd call him Mr. President, the Lord Jesus Christ being occupied with the anointed son of God and is an amazing problem solving device because you know he loves you and you reciprocate that love by loving him back and it's demonstrated by your obedience and your faith. So, Jesus was the burning and shining lamp and many for a time followed his light but many wandered off to the side. But here's the neat thing. If our Lord could calm the raging storm of John 8, 18, he can calm a storm in your life that you face if you would just let him captain your boat, get in your boat. Listen to John 8, 18. Then the sea arose because a great wind was blowing. And so they had rowed about three or four miles. These are Peter, James, John, Andrew, the fishermen. And they saw Jesus walking on the sea and drawing near the boat. And they were afraid. You see, Jesus scared them more than the storm scared them. Isn't that interesting? But he said to them, it is I, do not be afraid. And then they willingly received him into the boat and immediately, immediately the boat was at the land where they were going. Let's get some principles on this. This is very interesting. One, a relationship with Jesus Christ does not remove all the storms in your life. A relationship with Jesus Christ does not remove all the storms in your life, but he will give you his assurance that he will ride out the storm in the boat with you. He is in the boat with you today if you're occupied with Christ. If you're filled with the Holy Spirit, rebounding the sin, Christ is in the boat with you. Two, accepting Christ as your Savior is you inviting him to get into your boat. I want you to notice this. He took those disciples to the other side. They didn't even have to row anymore. He just, bam, they were there. when you believe in the lord jesus christ when you turn your life over to him by faith alone in christ alone you're inviting him to captain your ship and when you're staying filled with the holy spirit when you're learning god's word and applying the principles of faith to your life when you're growing in grace and when you're developing divine viewpoint coming to a personal sense of destiny and increasing your love for god Listen, this is what it means to be riding out the storm. This is what it means for Christ to be in the boat with you. This is amazing. There's a storm going on in this nation today. And a lot of people have Christ in the boat, but they're not letting him control the boat, to use that metaphor. He's not in control. To some people, he's still out there on the sea. He hasn't even got in the boat yet. When you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you can be confident he will never leave you. He will never forsake you in any storm in life that you may ever face. God loves you. That's such an amazing statement. It's so simple. And yet you, a small speck of sand in the sea, God knows you. God loves you. You say, but you don't know what I've done. No, I don't. You don't know what I've done either, do you? He loves us. He loves us in spite of who we are. He loved us so much that he sent his only begotten son to pay for our sin. The overwhelming love of God is immutable. It's inscrutable. You can't fathom it. You can't think of it. You can't imagine it. It's just amazing. It is God. God is love, the Bible tells us that. And he loves you today. You don't have to be afraid of anything. You don't have to fear anything. Just let him take control of the boat. You be the light. You be the port in the storm. The Lord sits in heaven at the right hand of the Father, but you have a personal pilot. That pilot is just like any big ship that has to make its way into a big harbor, a big port. They have what's called a harbor pilot. and they go out and get the harbor pilot to bring the big ship into new york or to bring the big ship into la but the harbor pilot is the one that guides it in through the channels and through the narrow waters well this is what the holy spirit does for you the holy spirit is your harbor pilot he leads you to the security of the port where the storm cannot get to you Remember, this is why we studied the flatline, so you can have a main line of resistance, a spiritual radar that sees through the fog of the devil's deceit. That wisdom we've been talking about on this show, the one that gives you insight and discernment is your radar system. It's the system that the Word of God illuminates the lies and the evil plans of Satan. Listen to Psalm 119, verse 13. The entrance of your word gives light. The entrance of your word gives light. There you go. Right there it is. Go outside tonight without a flashlight. Stand in the dark. Take your flashlight and pop it on and there's light. That's what the word of God does for you. The entrance of your word into my soul gives me light. I can see now. Or Psalm 43.3, oh, send out your light and your truth and let them lead me. It's amazing. It's amazing when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, when you have believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, when you've learned God's word and applied it, the light is always with you, guiding you through the storm of life. It's called biblical orientation or doctrinal orientation. on the very flat line of your soul. That's what it is. God the Holy Spirit plus the Bible doctrine gives you the peace that the world does not have. The world doesn't possess it. The world doesn't understand what it is. They don't have peace like you can. You can have peace in the storm even though the waves may be raging. Do you remember Matthew 8 when the Lord Jesus Christ was asleep in the boat? This is another episode with the disciples and they woke him up and they said, Lord save us, we're going to die. He was in the boat with them asleep. They actually thought for a minute that they would drown and Jesus would drown, the Lord Jesus would drown. That's not gonna happen. That was not God's plan. God's plan all along was for him to go to the cross. And when he got up, you know what he called them? He called them short-time trusters. Can I ask you a question? Are you a short-time truster? Do you trust the Lord Jesus Christ and the provisions that God has for you because things were going great, the grocery store was open, you had money in your bank account, you could get fuel for your car, or when things started getting a little tight, did you quit trusting and start scrambling around and worrying and being full of fear and manipulated by Satan? That's the question I'm asking you. Your peace in this storm that we're going through is attractive to a lost person, the disadvantaged person who's alone. So the whole reason for you to have that flatline in your soul and have that relaxed mental attitude is to be attractive, to be a light, to be a port in the storm, because there are people in this nation that need what you have. And you must talk about it. Listen, if you're a fan of football and you're an Alabama fan or an Auburn fan or a Michigan fan or Ohio State fan or a UCLA fan or a fan of Texas or a fan of Texas A&M, you're going to talk about it. But how many people are Christians and say, well, that's a personal issue. I don't really want to talk about it. That's bull. Talk about it. Let folks see where your confidence comes from. Let folks see where your love is demonstrated for God in his word. It is an anchor for them. It is a port for them. It's a light in the storm for them. Your confident expectation must be demonstrated. So John 14, 27, let not your hearts be troubled, neither let it be afraid. That's what Jesus said. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let it be afraid. Troubled and afraid, these are sins. Fear is the expression of anxiety, not peace. Listen to 2 Timothy 1.7. God has not given us a lifestyle of fear, but of power and of love and of sound judgment. That's the lifestyle Paul talked about. You don't have to be afraid. Nothing to be afraid of. If the Lord Jesus Christ is in the boat and the Holy Spirit is directing it as a harbor pilot would, and the word of God is illuminating, lighting the way, what do you have to be afraid of? God was in business before you got here. He'll be in business even when you're gone. You have sound judgment because that's called faith. Faith, a lifestyle of power, that's the filling of the Holy Spirit. A lifestyle of love, that's personal love for God, impersonal love for others. And of sound judgment, that's wisdom with insight and discernment. That's what God's given you. People are always afraid. If they don't have something, they're afraid they'll lose it. Excuse me. They're always afraid if they have something, I meant to say, they're afraid they'll lose it. And if they don't have something, they're afraid they're never going to get it. That's how people live today. No matter what the circumstances, we live in insecurity in this country. It's just the way it is. Because fear is both a sin and an emotion. And you can't let emotions run your life. Why? Because fear will rob you, rob you of the ability for you to think under pressure. You can't think when you're afraid. Your mind will wag like a dog's tail that's excited to see you. You won't be able to focus. You won't be able to concentrate. So problem-solving device number three on the flatline of your soul is called the faith rest drill. And you know what that does? When you use a faith rest drill, it robs fear of its power. The faith rest drill robs fear of its power to control your thinking. That's what it does. It orients you to God's grace. It calms you down. You claim a promise. You go to a biblical rationale, and you form a conclusion. God's with me. God knew about this was going to happen a long time ago. I have nothing to sweat. He's in charge. He sits on his throne. He knows everything that's going on, and you can relax. So faith rest is fueled by the promises of Scripture. You know, we have a book on promises, and it's free if you want to have it. Bible promises, all kind of promises for all kind of situations that you're in. Feel free to order it, and we'll be glad to ship it right out to you free of charge. We also have transcripts of all of our shows in the last year, especially the year 2019, and it's a whole year's worth of messages. And we'll be glad to send those to you in three volumes, and you can read them and study them when you'd like to. This is developing faith rest fueled by the promises of the Scripture. And your faith rest is demonstrating your confidence in God's plan and your confidence in God's provision. you must have confidence. So Romans 8, 28 says, we know that God causes all things, all things, even things like going on in America today, to work together for good to those who love him and to those who are called according to his purpose. In Philippians 4, 7, and the peace which surpasses all comprehension will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Guard your heart and mind. Keep you from being panicked. Keep you from being afraid. Keep you from falling victim to your emotions. It's amazing how the answers are right in front of us, all right there in the Bible in the Word of God. I'm so glad I can give these radio shows to you, so glad we can bring these messages to you, so glad we can offer you this information, free books, and all the stuff that goes with it. 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