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This episode of Washington Watch shines a spotlight on significant religious freedom challenges worldwide, focusing on Saudi Arabia and Nigeria. Travis Weber and Congressman Chris Smith provide critical insights into recent reports by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, offering a sobering look at global persecutions and the essential steps being taken to elevate human rights and dignity.
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From the heart of our nation's capital in Washington, D.C., bringing compelling interviews, insightful analysis, taking you beyond the headlines and soundbites into conversations with our nation's leaders and newsmakers, all from a biblical worldview. Washington Watch with Tony Perkins starts now.
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I'm deeply concerned about encroachment in the Western Hemisphere, not just by China, but other adversaries like Russia and Iran. I'm afraid we focus so much of our attention across the world that we've lost sight of our own neighborhood, leading to the anti-American regimes gaining permanent footholds within striking distance of the homeland,
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That was Congressman Rick Crawford, chairman of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, yesterday during the committee's annual worldwide threats assessment hearing. Welcome to this Thursday edition of Washington Watch. We're glad you've joined us. Well, coming up, we'll look at the highlights of yesterday's threat assessment hearing with Ryan King, national politics reporter for the New York Post. And pro-life activists were on Capitol Hill today calling for an end to government funding for Planned Parenthood.
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Every year about six to seven hundred million dollars flows from the U.S. taxpayers to Planned Parenthood. That must end. Reconciliation legislation offers an important opportunity to stop funding abortion purveyors like Planned Parenthood. And this is an opportunity we cannot afford to miss.
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That was New Jersey Congressman Chris Smith, co-chair of the House Pro-Life Caucus. He was at a press conference this afternoon. I was there along with several other pro-life leaders. Congressman Smith joins us later here on Washington Watch. A key conservative senator says President Trump's nominee for Medicare and Medicaid services, Dr. Oz, is being evasive regarding his past promotion of transgender surgeries and the use of experimental drugs for minors. We'll hear from the senator himself, Missouri Senator Josh Ali, will join us later on this edition of Washington Watch. Plus, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom released its annual report this week highlighting global hotspots of religious persecution. FRC's Travis Weber will stop by with more details on that report a little later. All of that and more coming up on this edition of Washington Watch. I do want to encourage you, if you have not yet downloaded the Stand Firm app, where you can have Washington Watch right there in your pocket each and every day, along with the Washington Stand, our news and commentary from a biblical perspective, along with our daily commentary, our Bible devotional commentary, which is Stand on the Word. You can get it all at the App Store by downloading the Stand Firm app. All right, before we go to our first guest, I want to bring in FRC's Kena Gonzalez, Senior Director of Government Affairs, who has been on Capitol Hill today facilitating a lobbying day on the defunding of Planned Parenthood. Kena, welcome back to Washington Watch. Thanks for joining us.
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It's great to be back, Tony.
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I see you changed out of your lobbying attire, your defund T-shirt, and you're back into a suit and tie.
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I felt I had to rise to the occasion, but yes, I was in a big defund, big abortion t-shirt along with 350 other pro-life activists who came out, many of them from out of town, most of them from out of town, with strollers, whole families were lobbying on Capitol Hill. It was beautiful.
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All right, tell us about, we know the bottom line is defund Planned Parenthood. Last year, the last number is available, about $700 million flowing into their coffers of taxpayer money. What are the vehicles? What are we asking people to do when they talk to their members of Congress?
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Well, there are several vehicles on the Hill right now, but as viewers of this program know very well, we're in a very closely divided Congress. And so if one or two or three congressional Republicans in either the House or the Senate object to any particular of a bill, they can kill it. And in the Senate, you have to get Democrats to vote with Republicans because there's not a large enough majority there to carry most votes. without uh without democrats in order to reach that 60 vote threshold that's required for most votes in the senate but on the budget there is a vehicle called reconciliation where you only need 51 votes in the senate and of course you need 50 plus one in the house and if those two bills those two budget bills can reconcile and move on reconciliation there's a lot you can do including defunding big abortion, and that's what today was all about, was to talk to Republican members about the importance of using Republican votes to defund big abortion providers like Planned Parenthood.
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So this could become reality?
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This could actually happen. For the first time really since 2017, we have a fighting shot at taking away, as you said, almost $700 million a year at last count from America's biggest abortion providers.
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All right. Well, great job today on Capitol Hill, Kana, and thanks for giving us an update. And folks, you can track this in real time and take action as necessary. Because remember, our republic was not made for spectators. It was made for participants. If you have the Stand Firm app, you can actually get notifications from Kena and his team when you need to lean in with your member of Congress and we give you all the talking points and everything you need. So get the Stand Firm app and activate the notifications on it. All right. Well, yesterday, as I mentioned, the House Intelligence Committee held an open hearing to examine the 2025 annual threats assessment. The topics range from the American war on terror to drug cartels to the infamous signal chat, which multiple government officials, especially Democrats, wanted to focus on. But. What else did the hearing address? What are the international threats which demand American attention now? Well, here to discuss this, Ryan King, the politics reporter at the New York Post, who covered yesterday's hearing and the one in the Senate the day before. Ryan, welcome to Washington Watch. Thanks for joining us. Hi, thanks for having me. So besides the signal chat discussions, what were some of your takeaways from yesterday's hearing in the House?
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One of the big takeaways was the concern that the intelligence community has that U.S. adversaries, including China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea, are working – collectively in part to counter the U.S. and undermine America abroad. There was also a lot of emphasis on non-state actors, including cartels and other groups that have hurt U.S. national security. There was talk, too, about the opioid crisis and about how synthetic opioids have killed over 56,000 Americans last year. So there are a variety of threats. And I think that the intelligence community is in a state of alarm right now about where the world is at.
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So I do want to just address the signal chat for a moment because that did seem to consume a lot of time in the hearing of both the House and the Senate. How much time was spent on that versus these major threats that are facing our country right now?
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I'd say between both the Senate and House hearings, almost half the time, roughly, it was basically a situation where Republicans would tend to focus on the national annual threat assessment and then Democrats would go back to the signal controversy. So about half the time was dedicated to the signal issue. And again, the hearing had been initially intended to focus on national threats.
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So, Ryan, I want to get your take on that. What do you think this signal, I mean, I know the media has been continuing to pound on it. Does this have legs or does it go away?
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I think that's going to stick around for a little bit because there are multiple lawmakers that have pushed for investigations into it. And it's something that Democrats, I think, are very unlikely to forget. So it might like kind of go to the back burner for a little bit. But I think that this is something that Democrats are going to be interested in revisiting. And I think one thing that'll be interesting, too, is there's a trip right now featuring the vice president, the second lady and national security adviser Mike Waltz to Greenland. So I think that that'll be interesting to see how that goes with Waltz going to Greenland after he had been the guy that admitted to inadvertently adding the Atlantic editor in chief to that signal chat.
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So let's go back to the threats. In looking at and laying out the various threats, was there a sense of what is the greatest threat right now, what we need to have our eye on right now? I mean, there's multiple threats, but did any rise above the others?
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Well, the report described China as being the most capable threat against the United States, but it was basically suggesting that China, of the four main adversaries against the U.S., has been the least adversarial in terms of aggressive actions. So it was kind of describing China as one of the biggest threats And then as like an ongoing threat, I think it was really focusing on non-state actors like the cartels and the impact that these groups can have on the U.S.
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Speaking of the cartels, since the Trump administration has been in, there's been obviously a crackdown on the border. Is there any measurable difference in terms of the cartel activity, the fentanyl coming across the border?
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Well, there was a recent study by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that had suggested, based on some preliminary data from last year, that we've peaked in terms of deaths from fentanyl. So that's very early data, but that is a little bit reassuring. And then we've also seen from the encounters at the U.S.-Mexico border that they have plummeted very significantly relative to last year under the Biden administration. And the Trump administration has announced a number of pretty high profile arrests when it comes to some of the cartels and gang members.
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Yeah. For instance, this morning, an MS-13 leader was arrested in Virginia, apparently a leader in a region, including Virginia. So is there any sense that, all right, we've we've kind of stopped the flow of them coming in and now it is a mop up, clean up operation, getting those that are in the country that pose a threat and getting them out?
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It's hard to say for sure. I mean, right now it kind of looks like it's the latter. It looks like the big problem has kind of been kind of abating a bit. And now the Trump administration is kind of focusing on just kind of cleaning up the rest of it. But it is hard to say right now because it's still pretty early.
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What was the discussion regarding Iran and their nuclear capabilities?
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So one thing that the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, had told both the House and the Senate Intelligence Committees is that the Intelligence Committee assesses that Iran is not pursuing a nuclear weapon. It was a pretty interesting claim from Gabbard. She said that this is something that they're monitoring very closely, and she also cautioned that Iran has the highest levels of enriched uranium that they have had and that they have much higher levels of enriched uranium than they would need to pursue a peaceful nuclear energy program.
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Very interesting. Any surprises for you, Ryan, that you took away that you thought, oh, because I know your track is keep your finger on the pulse. Anything that really surprised you?
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Well, two things. First was what actually we just mentioned about what Gabbard said about Iran, that assessment that Iran isn't pursuing a nuclear weapon. That's quite a bit different than what we normally hear. And then the second thing, I think, with the signal chat was both Tulsi Gabbard and the CIA director, John Ratcliffe, had been. saying that they personally didn't share classified information. And it seemed like Democrats were really going after them about how they were describing that. Both of them were trying to suggest that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was the one that would have been tasked with determining whether or not the information shared on the Signal chat that leaked was classified or not. So I think that that's something that could be revisited in the future.
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Very interesting. Well, Ryan, thanks so much for joining us. By the way, are you on Signal? Yes. Admittedly, yes. All right. Well, so am I. I'll call you later on Signal. All right. Thanks so much for joining us. Appreciate the insights and observations.
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Thank you.
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Thanks for having me. And folks, another reason to pray. It's a dangerous world out there. All right. Don't go away. We're going to be joined by Josh Hawley next on Washington Morning.
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At Family Research Council, we believe religious freedom is a fundamental human right that all governments must protect. That's why FRC President Tony Perkins went to Capitol Hill to testify on behalf of persecuted Christians in Nigeria. Islamist terror groups target Christians and other religious minorities in Nigeria with brutal violence. Representative Chris Smith, who chaired the hearing, said 55,000 people have been killed and 21,000 abducted in the last five years alone. The congressman also stressed that 89% of Christians in the world who are martyred are from Nigeria.
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Yet the government of Nigeria has failed to make progress against religiously motivated persecution of Christians despite religious freedom being enshrined as an essential human right in their constitution.
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Tony Perkins called for the United States to send an unmistakable message.
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This is systematic religious violence. Nigeria must be redesignated a country of particular concern. The Biden administration's removal of this designation was a reckless mistake that emboldened the very terrorists who are slaughtering Christians.
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Redesignating Nigeria will enable the U.S. government to pressure Nigerian leaders to protect vulnerable Christians.
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These are not just numbers. These are fathers, their mothers, their children, their families.
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Bishop Wilfred Anagabe risked his life to speak out, sharing firsthand accounts of the danger faced in his church district in central Nigeria.
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We live in fear because at any point it can be our turn to be killed. But to remain silent is to die twice. So I have chosen to speak.
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FRC is calling on President Trump to act now to promote religious freedom around the globe and speak up on behalf of Christians in Nigeria.
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Welcome back to Washington Watch. Good to have you with us on this Thursday. All right. President Trump's nominees continue to plow through the congressional confirmation process. I mean, he's got them in the pipeline. But there's been a few that have raised concerns, and there's one right now that's raised particular concerns. Dr. Oz, the TV personality nominated to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Some Republicans worry about his views on transgender surgery on kids as well as abortion, considering he had previously voiced support for them in the past. Has Dr. Oz changed his mind on these issues or is he evading really answering where he stands on these issues. Here to discuss this is one of the senators that has raised this issue quite successfully, Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri. He serves on four Senate committees, including the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Senator Hawley joins us by phone. Senator, welcome back to Washington Watch. Thanks for joining us. Thank you so much for having me. You've raised this concern about Dr. Oz. You've asked him questions before the committee regarding his positions on these issues such as abortion and transgender surgeries for children. What has been his answer?
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Well, so far, no answers, Tony. And I want to be clear on this. This is the position I've taken with all of the president's nominees. I want to make sure that all these folks are supporting the president, that they are aligned with the agenda that the president ran on. You know, we saw in his first term, there were quite a number of people who slipped through, who then got into their positions and actively undermined what Donald Trump had ran on. I don't want to see that. And I'm not going to vote for somebody who I think is going to undermine the president's agenda. So in this case, When it comes to transgender surgeries for minors, I'm just dead set against them, and so is the president. When it comes to hormone treatments and puberty blockers for minors, I think that's wrong. So does the president. And the problem is Dr. Oz has supported that stuff in the past. And I'd just like to know, is that still his position? I'd like to be sure that he is in alignment with President Trump. And I can't vote for him until I am sure about that. Ditto on life issues. You know, in the past, as you said a moment ago, Dr. Oz has criticized state laws that protect life. But, of course, we have the Dobbs decision thanks to President Trump and the justices he put on the bench. I want to know that Dr. Oz supports the Dobbs decision and supports the right of the voters to decide these issues, the people and their elected representatives to decide the life issue and to protect life. I think that is absolutely vital.
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Well, and as you've said, you have been consistent in asking the various nominees these questions as they've come before your committees. But let me ask you, what exactly did you ask Dr. Oz and what was his response?
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I asked him if he changed his views on transgender surgeries and treatments for minors, which he has supported in the past. You know, you mentioned, of course, he had that TV show for years and he'd had doctors on there that perform transgender treatments. people who had gone through transitions, so-called, including children, and had been very supportive of all of that on his show, and as recently as 2022 said that he supported hormone treatments and puberty blockers for minors. Now, that's not the president's position. It's certainly not mine. So I just asked him straight up, have you changed your mind? And I would hope the answer is easy. Yes. I hope he'd say, I don't support any of that. I'm in line with President Trump. I asked him the same questions on life. I pointed out that he's criticized state laws protecting life. And I just asked him, listen, do you support Dobbs? And do you support the right of the people and their elected representatives to protect life? It's an easy question. I mean it's just asking, do you support Trump's position? Do you support the position of Republican voters nationwide? And he hasn't answered me at all, Tony, which I find a little bit strange. I hope it's just a matter of processing some paperwork or something. But I can't support him until I know that he is going to be strong and going to be in alignment with the president.
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Now, have you sat down with him as you have some of the other nominees?
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I have not. I'm not on the committee that voted on him, and that's a reason I didn't get to ask him questions in the hearing. So I've sent him written questions. Happy to talk with him, of course, personally. I don't know him personally at all. But sooner or later, I think we need to get answers on this. Certainly, I do. And I just say again, it's important to me that people who want a job in this administration at any level, and of course, I've voted for all the president's cabinet nominees, but some people say, oh, well, this is a lower position, doesn't matter. Now, actually, I think every position is important, and anybody who wants a job at any level in this administration needs to support the platform the president ran on, needs to support what we believe in as conservatives, and needs to support the president's positions.
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Isn't it normal practice that these, I know they start with the committees and they make their rounds meeting with the members of the committees to have the conversations and to make sure there are no issues. But, you know, when you've been a very clear outspoken voice in the Senate on the life issue, on the issue of protecting children from these invasive, irreversible surgeries and experimental drugs, wouldn't it be appropriate for him to communicate with you?
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Well, I would think so. I mean, it's easy to answer questions and listen. I mean, senators do this all the time. I do this all the time. And you might remember, we talked about when I sat down with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and I had a lot of the same questions for him. And I put these same questions to him, and he answered them very forthrightly, both to me personally, and then again in public under oath. I asked him in his committee hearing, directly about all of these same things we've been talking about, and he answered them directly.
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Which helped his confirmation.
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On that basis, I voted for him, Tony. I mean, it was critical to his confirmation. I needed to know that he was in alignment with the president, and he did not hesitate to to take the clear stance that he would, and that involved, frankly, in Kennedy's case, renouncing some of his past views. So this is pretty standard, and I'm a little surprised Oz hasn't done it, but there's still time, and we'll see what he says.
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We just have about a minute and a half left, but a spokesman for Dr. Oz told the Daily Wire that he understands the harms of these transgender surgeries, and that he is, quote, committed to implementing President Trump's agenda for protecting children. But that's coming from a spokesman, not... him. Is that a concern?
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Yes, it is a concern. Listen, I'm glad that unnamed spokespersons are willing to issue those statements. I would hope they'd say that, because again, these are the president's positions. But really, we need to hear from the nominee himself. He wants to have a very important position in the government, and we need to hear from him directly. Is he in alignment with what the president has pledged and committed to, what he ran on? And if the answer to that is not yes, then I can't support him. And we need to hear soon.
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Senator Josh Hawley, appreciate you fighting the good fight on Capitol Hill, standing up for life, standing up for children, protecting them from the dangers of these experimental treatments that are designed to advance this radical gender ideology. So thanks for joining us today.
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Thank you for having me.
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And folks, these are things you need to weigh in on with your senators. If a nominee comes down on the wrong side of it, we need to weigh in on it. All right, coming up next, we're going to talk to Travis Weber, get a little insight into the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedoms. Annual report released this week, so don't go away.
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Everything we do begins as an idea. Before there can be acts of courage, there must be the belief that some things are worth sacrificing for. Before there can be marriage, there is the idea that man should not be alone. Before there was freedom, there was the idea that individuals are created equal. It's true that all ideas have consequences, but we're less aware that all consequences are the fruit of ideas. Before there was murder, there was hate. Before there was a Holocaust, there was the belief by some people that other people are undesirable. Our beliefs determine our behavior, and our beliefs about life's biggest questions determine our world view. Where did I come from? Who decides what is right and wrong? What happens when I die? Our answers to these questions explain why people see the world so differently. Debates about abortion are really disagreements about where life gets its value. Debates over sexuality and gender and marriage are really disagreements about whether the rules are made by us or for us. What we think of as political debates are often much more than that. They're disagreements about the purpose of our lives and the source of truth. As Christians, our goal must be to think biblically about everything. Our goal is to help you see beyond red and blue, left and right, to see the battle of ideas at the root of it all. Our goal is to equip Christians with a biblical worldview and help them advance and defend the faith in their families, communities, and the public square. Cultural renewal doesn't begin with campaigns and elections. It begins with individuals turning from lies to truth. But that won't happen if people can't recognize a lie and don't believe truth exists. We want to help you see the spiritual war behind the political war, the truth claims behind the press release, and the forest from the trees.
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Welcome back to Washington Watch. Glad you're with us. Earlier this week, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, of which I chaired a few years ago, released their annual report detailing trouble areas in the realm of international religious freedom. We're going to talk about this a little bit later with Congressman Chris Smith when he joins us because they've made some recommendations regarding Nigeria, Vietnam, India. But I want to focus on one particular area that is once again in the report, Saudi Arabia. They have been recognized as a country of particular concern. And the commission is once again recommending that they be a country of particular concern. And one of the things that's being highlighted is their educational materials, whether what they're teaching in their schools and what they're putting out in their textbooks, which are being exported. And given the fact that Saudi Arabia is kind of really at the center stage of world events right now with the negotiations between Ukraine and Russia, and they will probably play a key role in the area of Gaza once that war between Hamas and Israel is over. So here to take a little deeper dive into why Saudi Arabia is a country of particular concern is Family Research Council's Vice President for Policy and Government Affairs, Travis Weber. Travis, welcome back to the program. Thank you, Tony. All right. So lay out for our viewers and our listeners why Saudi Arabia is such a problematic nation.
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Yeah, well, Tony, as the USURF report, which was recently released, lays out, it again recommends Saudi Arabia for inclusion on the list of countries of particular concern. And it lays out its reasons for that. Among those include a generally oppressive, authoritarian government that's driven by an Islamist ideology. And it lists examples of of prosecuting and oppressing religious dissidents, those who would speak up against the regime out of a religious motivation. Some of these are Shia Muslims or atheists. Crackdowns on social media speech along those similar lines. It talks about the oppressive treatment of women in the kingdom, but it also discusses the issue of the textbooks and the indoctrination that takes place within Saudi Arabia, despite attempts to reform this, calls for reform going back to 2006, when there's a lot of attention on this. Anita Shea done a lot of work on it. I mean, there were hearings 10 years after that was exposed in 2017 before Congress, where members of Congress were saying there's not been progress. So even to this point, as the USURF report recognizes, there is not yet sufficient reform to align with a Western ideology a good standard of what we would want people to be educated along the lines of freedom, true human rights, a true recognition of their human dignity.
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So just to be very clear, we're not expecting Saudi Arabia to be United States of America. But let's let's just take a comparison. in that region of the world. It's an Islamic country. The United Arab Emirates is one as well. However, they get high marks on religious freedom because they have churches of many different denominations that operate within the UAE. How many churches are in Saudi Arabia?
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There's no public churches in the land. None? There's none. So there's not a true, that's just, what does that equal? It equals no religious freedom. Because if we compare that to the U.S. model, where our declaration proclaims freedom of conscience and recognition of the humanity of all people, allowing them the freedom to live out their faith and publicly worship, clear contrast, right? And you can use words of inclusion, dialogue, interfaith, none of that equals religious freedom.
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Now, Saudi Arabia, the reason it's of concern is it is the most wealthy ISLAMIC NATION, AND THEY FUND NOT ONLY MOSQUES AROUND THE WORLD, IN FACT, SOME OF THE UNITED STATES, THE WAHABI MOSQUES, WHICH ARE VERY EXTREME, BUT I WANT TO FOCUS, WE JUST HAVE A COUPLE MINUTES LEFT HERE, TRAVIS, BUT THE TEXTBOOKS This has long been a problem, even going back before I was on the Commission, when I was on the Commission. They're supposed to have reformed these textbooks, but they still fall short of recognizing others outside the Islamic faith as human beings.
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Well, if we quote from the USURF report, official textbooks continue to compare members of non-Muslim religions to maimed animals and contend that atheism results in psychological disorders. That can, the equation of human beings and the imagery and equating us, that's just equating us to animals that's still in the books. And we know from reports about the books that have been used in Gaza, the same language is in there. In all the lessons, Jews are equated to pigs and it's ingrained into the system.
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So in Gaza, this has been an issue we've talked about under the Palestinian Authority. This has been done through the United Nations, through UNRWA. They have been funding the education system in Israel under the Palestinian Authority. The concern here is that Saudi Arabia may be looked to to be a partner with or a resource in reestablishing or rebuilding the education system in Gaza once the war is over.
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So we have to look at that and say, what is going to come in? You know, we know all the focus on UNRWA, the inclusion of Hamas terrorists in the UNRWA ranks, in the educational ranks. And just this month, a report came out from a group called Impact SC examining education in Gaza, still finding lessons, equating Jews to pigs and talking about bringing blood on the land and TRAINING CHILDREN TO RECEIVE AND ADOPT THESE IDEOLOGIES, INCLUDING BRINGING THEM TO MATH LESSONS. SO AS THE TIMES OF ISRAEL IS REPORTING, EVEN TODAY ABOUT THIS REPORT, AS GAZEN IS RETURNING TO SCHOOL LAST MONTH, THIS IS IN, THIS IS A LIVE ISSUE, AND WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT THE FOUNDATION, IF IT'S REBUILT, IS NOT BUILT ON FAULTY GROUND.
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I MEAN, OCTOBER 7TH IS A RESULT OF WHAT CHILDREN HAVE BEEN TAUGHT OVER THE LAST TWO DECADES. IT DOESN'T COME FROM NOWHERE. YEAH. TRAVIS WEBER, THANKS SO MUCH FOR JOINING US. THANK YOU. All right, folks, on the other side of the break, we're going to be joined by New Jersey Congressman Chris Smith. We're going to talk about the effort to defund Planned Parenthood. So don't go away. More Washington Watch straight ahead.
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Welcome back to Washington Watch. Thanks so much for joining us. If you've not yet downloaded the Stand Firm app, I encourage you to do so. Download the Stand Firm app. Go to the App Store and download the Stand Firm app. Or you can just text me the word app, APP, to 67742. That's 67742, the word app. And I'll send you a link. Our word for today comes from Ezekiel 12, which challenges us not to disregard God's warnings. In verse 22 and 23, the Lord confronts Israel's mocking proverb, which suggests his prophetic warnings will never happen. He declares that every word of His will be fulfilled. Similarly, in verse 27, it records the people's skepticism. Quote, the vision is for many days from now. Well, they believed they had ample time to indulge their own ways without consequences. But in verse 28, declares the end has come. God's word will not be delayed. He says, none of my words will be delayed any longer. Complacency toward divine truth can numb our hearts and harden us against genuine repentance. Some may say, God hasn't done anything yet, or scoff that the sky hasn't fallen. But this passage warns us that spiritual apathy leads only to deeper rebellion. we must take his message seriously and respond in obedience with faith. Let this admonition echo in our hearts. The Lord will fulfill his word, and no one can safely ignore it. Heed the warning, trust his timing, and walk humbly before him. To find out more about our journey through the Bible, text BIBLE to 67742. Well, earlier today, hundreds of pro-life activists gathered on Capitol Hill to visit key congressional offices and demand that Planned Parenthood and other abortion organizations be defunded. The timing comes as members of Congress are busy hammering out details of the budget, which we hope will not include any funding to abortion providers every year. TAXPAYERS LIKE YOU AND ME FUND ABORTION PROVIDERS TO THE TUNE OF MORE THAN A HALF BILLION DOLLARS, WHICH IS WHAT PLANNED PARENTHOOD HAS BEEN RECEIVING. AGAIN, THAT'S EACH YEAR. IT'S TIME TO TELL CONGRESS TO TURN OFF THE SPICKET. Republican control of the House, the Senate, and the White House for the first time in eight years. The pro-life movement has an amazing opportunity to defund providers, abortion providers like Planned Parenthood. And kind of capping off the day was a press conference on Capitol Hill, which I was a part of, several members of Congress, including my next guest. who is a pro-life stalwart. He has been advancing the cause of life for over four decades on Capitol Hill. He is the co-chair of the Pro-Life Caucus and the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission. He is also the senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. He represents the 4th Congressional District of New Jersey. Of course, I'm talking about Congressman Chris Smith. Congressman Smith, welcome back to Washington Watch. Thanks so much for joining us.
SPEAKER 11 :
Tony, thank you so very much. And I thought your statements today, you know, the waste, fraud and abuse, the way you framed that was outstanding. Thank you for your leadership. And again, thank you for your very wise comments at that press conference.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, thank you, Congressman. You actually have the bill to defund Planned Parenthood. You've been advocating for this for a long time, but it looks like this could be the moment.
SPEAKER 11 :
I think we are poised if we have the courage and we could be close with a couple of votes, but hopefully people will be persuaded to put this into the reconciliation package, which does not require a super majority on the Senate side. So the filibuster has no power over this initiative. And our leadership, I think, is very committed. to ensuring that a group called Planned Parenthood that has themselves in their affiliates and their affiliates performed over 10 million abortions since 1973. I mean, that is a numbing loss of children's lives. And of course, we know what it does to the women. And one of our speakers, as you heard, we all heard, she went right after I spoke and you, I should say, she talked about her experience going in to a Planned Parenthood clinic She got the abortion pill. She was treated shoddily. And then when she had complications, they didn't want to hear a thing about it. And more and more reports are coming out that women are ill-treated and botched abortions, like we saw in the New York Times piece. And the loss of life every single day, over 1,000 babies are killed in just one organization's clinics, and that's Planned Parenthood.
SPEAKER 10 :
You know, Congressman, you and I are both opposed to abortion. We want the nation to embrace life. But what we're talking about here is government-funded going to organizations that perform abortions. In the last recorded numbers that Planned Parenthood has put out from 23 and 24, they received just shy of $700 million in taxpayer dollars. That's almost a billion dollars coming from taxpayers. Now, this was on the heels of them raising almost $500 million after the overturn of Roe. None of that money went to clinics. All of that went to their political campaigns. I mean, how is it that an organization like this can get all of this tax money and then turn around and use it in campaigns?
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, they really are shameful with regards to that. They distort people's voting records. They're very aggressive with their 30-second ads and their direct mail and all the other things that they do. And it's about time that every pro-life advocate in Congress and everywhere else realizes that they not only kill babies, They are a very deceptive organization that tries to defeat pro-life lawmakers as well. And I remember trying to persuade George W. Bush to defund Planned Parenthood, and they said, look, if you can't do it because of their anti-child policies and anti-women policies, why can't you do it? Look what they did to you. And we had all these examples of how they had totally attacked him in the campaign. And the same goes for members of Congress, House and Senate. You've been the target many times.
SPEAKER 10 :
You've been the target many times by Planned Parenthood because of your outspoken pro-life views. Look, everybody has a First Amendment right. I support that. But if you are going to take taxpayer dollars, if you're direct taxpayer dollars, then how is it as an organization you engage in political advocacy in terms of candidates? I think there should be a line there. You should be able to choose one or the other.
SPEAKER 11 :
And there needs to be an investigation. How often do they cross the line? I remember one time in one of my campaigns, they ran this whole thing, let's turn Chris Smith around. It was done right before the election time and they had petitions and they had all of this work going on to try to defeat me. And while it was thinly disguised, it had nothing to do with turning me around because I'm not going to be turned around. I'm committed to defending life no matter what the cost is. But it got their mailing list and mobilized people. And sure enough, you know, a lot of people were responding to their deception. And it is a very deceptive organization. I can give you example after example on just how they're not trustworthy. And, you know, they're part of that whole group that says don't report adverse events. You know, unfortunately, under under. Clinton and then Obama and then under Biden, adverse events attributable to an abortion to the woman have been grossly underreported. And in some cases, they're told not to report anymore, like with the abortion pill. So when they claim it's safe, based on what?
SPEAKER 10 :
Right. I want to ask you about this because you've been one of the, again, not only a pro-life advocate in the House, but also human rights advocate. And sex trafficking is a huge issue globally, but here in the United States as well. There's evidence to suggest that the operations of Planned Parenthood has covered up sex trafficking by not reporting some of the minors that have come into their clinics.
SPEAKER 11 :
It's a very serious charge. I've written five laws, not bills, laws, including the landmark Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000. We're celebrating the 25th anniversary of that law this year. And, you know, I bristle. I get very angry when I realize that there are organizations that enable sex traffickers. There was a case that live action, and they did several of these cases, but it was in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, where I actually went to high school. And they went in with a fake pimp, and it was an undercover type of operation, and a woman purporting to be an underage woman from Latin America, Central America in particular. And in the interview, back and forth, the Planned Parenthood representative, and I've watched it and I've used it in floor debate, sits there and says, you know, we can take care of this, and, you know, they could be back on the street being exploited, my word, with their sentiment. And they didn't care. They should have been calling the cops as that sting operation was underway and should have said, you know, I'll stall them. You come and you come and arrest them. But no, they were enabling it. They even said, if you need a later term abortion, we know where that can be procured as well. And they had a clinic in northern New Jersey that they were talking about. So they enable sex trafficking. And that is very, very disturbing as well.
SPEAKER 10 :
Congressman Smith, I want to get to another topic. I want to get to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom that released their report earlier this week. But before I do that, one final question on this issue of the defunding of Planned Parenthood and the abortion providers. What do our listeners and viewers need to do?
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, they need to contact their congressman or congresswoman and their senators and ask them to vote to defund Planned Parenthood wherever that argument is engaged, whether it be on an appropriations bill, which will be harder to prevail on, or on this reconciliation package, which is a once-in-a-year effort which doesn't require a supermajority of votes in the Senate. And that's why we're optimistic that we have a good, God willing, good opportunity to defund Planned Parenthood this go around. And I do believe President Trump will be solidly behind this effort. He's already called for a pause on Planned Parenthood. He's done some other great things vis-a-vis funding. So Mexico City policy, for example. So call your congressman, defund Planned Parenthood and call again and call again and have others do the same thing. Because the other side is doing it. You know, I get mail the other way all the time. Emails, you know, the old style of letters that show up and phone calls. So I would strongly urge that we need to get. And if we have any any weaker links out there, members who don't want to do it. encourage them to have the courage to defend the most innocent and the most vulnerable among us unborn babies and by extension during that period of time when they're so vulnerable, the women.
SPEAKER 10 :
Folks, you can call the capital switchboards 202-224-3121. That's 202-224-3121. Also, a better option so you can take action in real time as these things are unfolding in the days and weeks ahead is to have the stand firm app and get push notifications so we can tell you who to contact, when to contact and what to say. So we make it easy for you. All right, we just have about four minutes left, Congressman Smith. And this week, USURF releasing its report. Now, last time you were on the program about three weeks ago was after a hearing you held and your subcommittee and the Foreign Affairs Committee about Nigeria. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom once again making that recommendation that the Trump administration identify them as a country of particular concern so that measures can be taken to improve religious freedom in that country.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, Tony, thank you for testifying. You served as chairman of that very powerful commission on religious freedom. And I thank you for your leadership there. And again, your comments and the comments of our other very distinguished witnesses, including Nina Shea. We had a bishop come and testify from he flew over from Nigeria to present. And he talked about how Especially the Fulani, but also Boko Haram and other radical Islamists are killing Christians with impunity. There's no other country in the world where more Christians are killed, slaughtered simply because of their faith. In China, there are many more who are arrested. They go to prison, but they're not executed. Here we have... churches being firebombed and all the rest. So the commission that you once headed as chairman did call yesterday that there be a, you know, a designation of country of particular concern, which was a phraseology created by the great Congressman Frank Wolf. It's his law called the International Religious Freedom Act. And once they're so designated, there is a whole series of sanctions that part two designation based on the record part two is to is to sanction them uh and we would be calling on the administration to one name them speak truth to power unfortunately under biden they fecklessly dealt with human rights in on every category and on religious freedom they were horrible uh and especially as it related to nigeria uh our former secretary of state went to wabuja the capital of nigeria and just got rid of the CPC status, which is not a good status. It's a black mark on them that had been put on by Trump during his years. We need to put that on again and press hard to protect these churches and, above all, to protect the Christians from slaughter.
SPEAKER 10 :
Chris, just about a minute left. Also on that list of recommendations for CPC status was Vietnam and India, two countries that have grown increasingly hostile toward religious freedom and Christians in particular.
SPEAKER 11 :
And Nicaragua is on there as well. But you're right. Vietnam, I've gotten passed in the House of Representatives on three occasions. The Vietnam Human Rights Act. And in their narrative about Vietnam, the commission explicitly calls for passage again of my bill, the Vietnam Human Rights and Democracy Act. And also, above all, that it right now be named as CPC. They are torturing. They are forcing people to renounce their faith. This is a dictatorship. And any kind of false sense that this is part of our China card strategy needs to be jettisoned. We don't work with dictatorships that do such horrible damage to Christians. And India, of course, has one major problem after another under Modi, who's the prime minister there.
SPEAKER 10 :
Congressman Chris Smith, I want to thank you for joining us today, and again, thank you for your tremendous leadership on Capitol Hill.
SPEAKER 11 :
Thank you. Tony, thank you for your leadership. It's amazing.
SPEAKER 10 :
All right. Chris Smith from New Jersey, great friend and great patriot. This is something to pray about, the persecution of Christians around the globe. It's intensifying, and we need to speak out with a unified voice as a nation, and we need to be praying to that end as believers. Out of time for today. Thanks for joining us. Until next time, remember the words of the Apostle Paul, when you've done everything you can do, when you've prayed, prepared, taken your stand, keep standing.
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In today's episode of Sekulow, we delve into the breaking news of the FBI's successful raid in Woodbridge, Virginia, leading to the arrest of a top MS-13 leader. This significant action showcases the Trump administration's resolve in tackling organized crime quickly and effectively. Listen as we hear from key figures like Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, who monitored the operation live and share their insights on this remarkable victory for law enforcement. Beyond the arrest, we engage in a broader discussion about the impact of such achievements on local communities and immigrant populations. We also tackle the role of mainstream media in covering these events, with some outlets choosing to focus elsewhere. Join us as we explore these facets and invite listeners to share their thoughts, shedding light on how thorough law enforcement strengthens national security. The episode also turns its attention to NPR and PBS funding and the ongoing debate in Congress about public broadcasting. Engage with our in-depth analysis of the biases in public media and the implications for citizens and communities. This conversation extends into the broader theme of media representation and public trust.
SPEAKER 07 :
We got breaking news. Kash Patel unleashes the FBI in a secret successful raid.
SPEAKER 09 :
Keeping you informed and engaged now more than ever. This is Sekulow. We want to hear from you. Share and post your comments or call 1-800-684-3110. And now your host, Logan Sekula.
SPEAKER 07 :
Welcome to Sekula. We do have some breaking news and a successful raid that happened this morning in Woodbridge, Virginia, out in the suburbs outside Washington, D.C. One of the top leaders of the MS-13 gang, again, a major... leader in drug trafficking, was caught. And now, again, this is a statement from Kash Patel, who posted, I can now confirm that earlier this morning, law enforcement personnel arrested a top MS-13 leader in Virginia. Outstanding work from AG Pambandi, our brave agents, and our partners. This is a massive victory for a safer America. Justice is coming. This, again, was a big moment also. They were there live. Pam Bondi and Kash Patel were monitoring it live. There's incredible imagery of this happening. Unfortunately, this, again, happened in a suburban area. They said lots of Easter decorations up, family area. You've been to Woodbridge many times, especially if you're driving to Washington, D.C. It's kind of on the outskirts of Washington, D.C. And this top leader, what they're saying, an alleged top East Coast leader, was only 24 years old. And that shows you really what's happening with these gangs that are coming in. Knock, knock, knock at the door. And there are the FBI and everybody coming to arrest this leader. And this happens again, a successful mission that happened this morning. And it's something that we can at least look at and go, okay. Government action, things are getting taken care of. Even Bernie Sanders said, you know, the fentanyl crisis is something that he wants to agree with President Trump on and agrees with President Trump. And I believe right now, Pam Bondi is speaking. So let's make sure we're monitoring that. Hopefully we can grab a sound bite from her of what she's talking about specifically there. She's in Manassas, Virginia.
SPEAKER 10 :
That's right. And we actually do have some sound from her, from a presser that they gave right after this. And I think we should hear from the attorney general right now. This is bite two.
SPEAKER 03 :
This morning, one of the top leaders of MS-13 was apprehended. He was the leader for the East Coast, one of the top three in the entire country, right here in Virginia, living half an hour outside of Washington, DC. He is an illegal alien from El Salvador, and he will not be living in our country much longer. He's in custody this morning. One of the top leaders right here near our nation's capital.
SPEAKER 07 :
And again, that is from Pan Body. And when we say Manassas, Virginia, it is essentially a suburb of Washington, D.C. And this is what's happening in the suburbs. Of course, that means that could be happening in your backyard as well. And again, I don't want to put this too lightly. There should be a lot of information that you get from this. one is that sure we're able to catch an ms-13 leader right now that also means a few months this is just a few months into a trump presidency the trump administration which means things are being taken more seriously and this is able to happen i mean we're watching kash patel they're live talking about this early early this morning this happening uh this guy 24 years old, there with a family inside the apartment. He was the only one arrested. But again, they was there with children. A scary thing to happen. I'm sure if you are one of the members of these families, if you don't know, this is what's happening under your nose as he's apprehended at 24 years old. And one of the major leaders, again, of MS-13. And maybe if people don't know MS-13, again, this is one of the big drug trafficking organizations, big trafficking organization that you hear about all the time.
SPEAKER 10 :
That's right. And once again, I want to reiterate what you said. This is only two months into the presidency and they were able to get one of the top three leaders of this gang. And we're going to talk about it in the next segment with Rick Grinnell, what it means now that we have law enforcement actually going after the bad guys again, shutting down these operations and how quickly they were able to do this. They were able to get this operational intel and be able to execute this with no one getting harmed. And now they have someone in custody. I mean, it's remarkable that it happened, but it also begs the question, what was going on the last four years?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yep. Phone lines are open for you. I'd love to hear your thoughts on this. Action is happening. 1-800-684-3110. Once again, 1-800-684-3110. We only got a few days left here at our March Life and Liberty Drive. This is the time where we urgently need your tax deductible gift. Give now and your donation is doubled. Scan that QR code. Take your calls coming up. I'm Rick Grinnell. Welcome back to the show. Rick Grinnell is joining us live. Beautiful shot, by the way, Rick. It looks amazing right now. But of course, we are celebrating in some ways because these are the big moments that happen. This is what we've got to be paying attention to because when you have a change in administration and you want to see proof that things are getting done differently, here they are. This morning, around 6 a.m. East Coast time. You had Kash Patel, Pam Bondi in there making this arrest with their team, of course, of this MS-13 leader. Again, only 24 years old, one of the leaders. You've got to understand what we're dealing with here. One of the East Coast top leaders of MS-13 captured at his apartment, arrested, and this is showing the success and that we are not going to take this lightly. I mean, even Bernie Sanders said... I appreciate what president Trump has been doing in the Trump administration on fentanyl on border security, because these are things that we have to make sure we're cracking down on. And here's the proof.
SPEAKER 06 :
Look, one of the things that I thought was really remarkable this morning here, the governor of Virginia, he's been trying to do things like this for three years and he didn't have any cooperation from the feds. Now the cash Patel is there. Now that Pam Bondi is there, They're getting cooperation and we're going through and digging in and finding these sleeper cells of gang members who wanna do nefarious things to the United States. This is what we have to do. This is tough work. This is trying to use intelligence to dig down, find out where people are, find out where they live and go get them. Yes, it's disruptive. Yes, it's going to be loud in these communities when you go in and do something like this, but it makes our communities safer These individuals never should have been in our country. They are in our country because of the Biden administration. We now have to dig deep, find them and get them out. This is a gang member. The governor of Virginia has been trying to get out for years. And now under the Trump administration, we got him out.
SPEAKER 10 :
Rick, something I saw in these hearings, the global terror threat assessment hearings that have been going on this week, both in the House and Senate, that obviously got hijacked by the Atlantic story. But normally what we'd be hearing about is the work of the law enforcement and the intel communities around things like this. And one thing that was probably missed by a lot of people, because all the clips and everything showed on the news is about the Signalgate scandal as they're trying to make it. But I heard a member of Congress ask Kash Patel or basically put him on notice and say, hey, if when there's a terrorist attack in this country and you've been wasting your time on illegal immigration, we're going to hold you responsible. And one, the assumption that the FBI and Kash Patel is not able to, you know, chew gum and walk at the same time of being able to track terror threats in the United States, as well as this type of thing. But this proves that law enforcement is once again doing their job. And those on the left don't seem to understand that this is real police work. This is real FBI work. This is a dangerous, now designated terrorist organization leader living in the United States here illegally. They may want to say that's policing the border. But in reality, this is fighting violent criminal gang and terrorism crime in this country.
SPEAKER 06 :
Look, I was watching how this was unfolding at the press conference on TV. I was flipping back and forth between Fox and Newsmax and watching this, and I flipped to CNN this morning. And CNN was not doing this story and was not talking about the state and federal law enforcement action to get rid of the leader of MS-13 from the East Coast. Instead, they were reporting on European soccer. And I thought it was really unconscionable that we're trying to dig deep and root out individuals in our society that are making our society less safe. And the mainstream media, CNN, is disinterested. And this is an outlet that is the first one to complain when there's something going wrong. But yet when there's something going right, when you're trying to fix some of these problems, they don't even show up for the press conference. This is a press conference with the US attorney, the FBI director, the attorney general and the governor of Virginia. I would argue that CNN purposefully decided not to talk about this good news because all they wanna do is talk about bad news. This is not the way you run a society. The media have got to start doing their job. And that means covering the good news and the bad news.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I think you're right. And when we were flipping through, obviously, we have all the screens up of all the news services doing this morning. And when we were watching this, obviously, Fox had it. I think even MSNBC had it for a second. And then right in the middle of CNN, and they were saying it's opening day for baseball, which means great. You know, I mean, celebrate opening day of baseball. But you are right. These are big moments and we can't just let them slide by. And of course, it doesn't fit their narrative. And look, we see a lot of comments. I mean, you look online, you see a lot of comments, even from sort of your fans. right-wing influencers who maybe who knows how who they're being influenced by they have a lot of issues with Pam Bondi with Kash Patel they're making these statements louder and louder but the proof is in what they're doing and I think when you look at this you go okay there are days where you can wake up and though like you said it's disruptive in this neighborhood Woodbridge very suburban area they said most of the neighbors had you know Easter decorations up But likely this, like you said, was a known threat. This is something the governor wanted to go after and just has never been able to actually get it done because of the narrative, really.
SPEAKER 06 :
One thing that we will never know, Logan, never know. what the next crime that this gang leader was going to commit. The Trump administration stopped something from happening in the future by getting this leader out. And we don't know what that is, but I can tell you that it was certainly a vicious crime if you look at the history of what MS-13 has been doing. Today, we are safer by having this individual caught. He never should have been in our country. But because of the Biden open borders, he was he was like a sleeper cell sitting and waiting. And Kash Patel and Tom Homan and Pam Bondi and the governor of Virginia worked together to get him.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, and to that point also, Rick, you bring up that we'll never know what was stopped, what that next crime was, what that next tragedy for that community anywhere on the East Coast would be. And it's kind of like the old... saying that, you know, the CIA, you only know when the CIA has a failure. You never know about the victories and the things they stop. It's similar here with the FBI, except for you can showcase these wins, these victories. And when I just think about... How when you talked about CNN showing soccer, not showing this during the press conference and the reality of this is the FBI doing the FBI work that they should have been doing all along. This is the reform of the agency already just two months in. This isn't a press conference about, you know, we are investigating parents at school boards. This isn't a press conference saying, you know, we are looking into these narratives of Russian interference. This is a press conference of doing the actual job that they're mandated with doing successfully. And they were able to get this leader only two months in to this administration. When it makes you wonder what was happening for four years. That they were able to get him so quickly.
SPEAKER 06 :
A brutal gang leader was taken out of our country because we had people that were looking at the intelligence and making it a priority. If you don't make it a priority, you're going to have brutal gang leaders in your community just lying and waiting like a sleeper cell ready to act. But instead, we said, no, you're not welcome in our country. We're going to arrest you. There's more to be done, and people just need to buckle up because there's a lot more to be done.
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SPEAKER 08 :
Hey, guys, thank you for taking my call. You know, I want to piggyback a little bit on the MS-13 thing. One thing I haven't noticed just yet, and I'm a retired police officer recently, Antifa. that's the one thing too because i'm going to tell you right now guys i was in law enforcement for 33 years the tesla stuff that's going on with the arsons and that that has antifa written all over it i was in the riots in chicago um very well organized very well planned a lot of these kids were not from illinois they were bailed out by a mysterious west coast fund kim fox uh blanketed them basically immunity I was always curious about that. They're a domestic thing. And then with the Hamas protests recently, these kids on the college campuses, I was involved with that, too. All bought and paid for. And my question is, how do they not explain that when these kids get detained by ICE, immediately they have high-powered lawyers? How do we not... Put that to the American public. Look, these kids have money flowing from overseas, and that has to be shown to the American public.
SPEAKER 10 :
I think, Mark, I mean, I think it's known by people that watch this broadcast that there is coordinated efforts, one, both. They are not organic protests at universities.
SPEAKER 07 :
If you see a Molotov cocktail in the year 2025, there's a good chance that it was coordinated.
SPEAKER 10 :
It's like, man... all these people decided to take Molotov cocktails that they all decided to, to the different locations about, no, there's coordination within protest. I put that in quotes, protest groups. Um, yes, I agree. Especially the, the Tesla ones have very much that feel of that Antifa style. Um, and then they get bandwagon people to join on to give them cover for their activities. And then a lot of times those people are the ones that get in trouble. Um,
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, that's what, if you really look at those protests, a lot of times, some of those people are legitimate. They're real people that are there protesting, but they're spurred on by some sort of funded group. We know this. We've seen it. They've been taken care of sometimes and prosecuted over it. We know that these things are happening, specifically on those college campuses. We knew that was happening. So, Mark, I get that, that you feel that way, because it does all, they do all share similarities. They all do things that you're like, well, that feels like it's very connected. Now, this one this morning just seems more like finally the FBI is able to do their job.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, and when you look at this as well, and back to what Mark was talking about, we know that they are starting to go after leaders of those college campus movements that were spurring on violence against Jewish students or people that supported Israel on the campus that were made to feel unsafe. So we know that that is also a part of what the Department of Justice is doing As the same time as this. And that's what I even said with Rick. It's like the left seems to think, OK, well, they're going after one gang member. So the whole of FBI is focused on the one thing. They are ignoring everything else. No, they're actually just doing the real work of law enforcement that they should have been doing all along. but weren't doing because that wasn't the agenda of the administration. But I think we should play Kash Patel as well before we move on topics because he gave a really solid statement about police work and law enforcement at this presser that we played Pam Bondi from earlier. Let's go ahead and roll bite one.
SPEAKER 02 :
This is what happens when you let good cops be cops. And we're going to continue to let good cops be cops across this country. President Trump gave us the executive decision to go after and safeguard our communities. General Bondi is our warrior of justice leading that charge. Governor Youngkin, it's an honor to be a partner in this operation with you and U.S. Attorney Siebert. This is a mandate we have. Right now we have an American dying every seven minutes from a drug overdose. That is a national security crisis we have not seen ever before. We have a woman or child being raped every six and a half minutes in this country. We have a homicide twice an hour. No part of that metric is a safe and secure America. But thanks to the brave leadership of this administration and the folks that you see here, we are returning our communities to safety. As you heard, we took down this morning a top leader of MS-13. That is not done easily. That is done with brilliant law enforcement.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I mean, again, that was from Kash Patel just this morning. This all took place within the last few hours. And you know what? They haven't released the identity because you do have to go through the legal situation of releasing the identity. We already have more information about this than we do almost anything that happened during the Biden administration. And we have it in record time. Within hours, they have given you details. They have celebrated the success. They have celebrated the people who did it. This is the kind of action we're looking for.
SPEAKER 10 :
You know what I'm ready for, though, you know, talking about the media side of it, I can't wait to see the headlines or the commentators on CNN. And we'll probably see Scott Jennings shut them down, you know, as he tends to do over there. But I'm ready for them to start saying, well, I mean, was he really a top leader?
SPEAKER 01 :
of MS-13.
SPEAKER 10 :
He's only 24. Yeah, he's young. Do we know? We don't know the name yet, so are we certain he was a top leader or are they overselling this that they got this person off the street? Because they can't take the win. They can't give any credit. They'll probably try to spin this somehow back into the signal gate thing of like, oh, no wonder Kash Patel wasn't discussing military plans even though he's the FBI director. He was going after a low-level MS-13 gang member. They won't be able to just report it and say, you know what? for every single American, for every immigrant community in America, for anyone who is here legally and should live under the protections of American law enforcement and safety and that promise of liberty, this is a good thing. I want to see them say it. I just want to see them tell the truth one time on a story like this. But they can't because it's President Trump. So that's my prediction is that we're going to start seeing headlines that this wasn't as big of a deal as they wanted it to be.
SPEAKER 07 :
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SPEAKER 09 :
keeping you informed and engaged now more than ever. This is Sekulow. And now your host, Logan Sekula.
SPEAKER 07 :
Welcome back to Sekula. Will Haynes is joining me as well. And look, we're looking on all the news sources because Rick kind of brought that up. Hey, he flipped over to CNN. They weren't even talking about this. They were talking about soccer. They were talking about opening day. Why are they not talking about one of the top gang leaders in MS-13 who was arrested this morning with an incredible act by the FBI, a really strong act by Attorney General Bondi and Kash Patel. But no, I'm not encouraging you to go to the MSNBC website, but right now, if you went to their website, guess what is not even on the front page? This story. A lot of other stories will, but this story is nowhere to be found. It was the number one story of the morning across all of television, across all of the news. It is the thing we should be talking about, our nation's leaders, even if some reason in some weird way you disagree with it happening. This is what's happening. Well, and of course, they do kind of disagree.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, this is the most amazing thing that I found in real time while we're talking about, hey, the media may try to change the narrative on this. But one of the top pieces on MSNBC's website right now is this headline. Trump is undermining domestic terrorism prevention efforts. And the sub-headline is, the administration cites national security to justify its most aggressive actions, but it's dismantling programs to combat extremism and domestic terror. And what it's referring to are some of the cuts in funding that they're doing to what are called prevention programs. These are community programs where they give grants to community organizations to try to stop people being radicalized or something before they become radicalized now here is probably the most amazing sentence that i've read from an msnbc article because they're talking about that he's harming prevention of uh of domestic terror protection and and they say it's these these prevention programming that that they're chopping through doge it's terrible then they have this sentence While many civil rights advocates have opposed federally sponsored prevention programming for valid reasons, it'd be a grave mistake to assume the Trump administration has moved to curtail those efforts with pure intentions. So literally, the sources they would go to, the civil rights advocates, don't like these programs. And the Trump administration is cutting those programs. And what's the response at the top of their website right now? One of the three articles across the top. It says, yeah, the people we normally trust say they're bad programs, but because Trump's doing it, it's bad. It blows your mind that this is reality, that they could write a sentence like that and feature it at the top of their web page.
SPEAKER 07 :
We are going to continue on this discussion, but we're also going to talk about that NPR and PBS funding. Maybe we'll get to that in the next segment, because right now I just want to encourage you to call. We'll take as many calls as we can on that as well. And Ronald Stainhold, we'll get to you coming up in the next segment. Because right now, again, as we head into the break, some of you, this is our first break. This is a great time to support the work of the ACLJ. You've heard all about the work we're doing right now. Look, our very own Cece Heil, who you hear on this show, senior attorney, she's on every week. She just reported a real-time missile threat while she was waiting to depart Israel to come back to the U.S. That happened to her while she was there. It was one of the targets. This is what our team is dealing with on a daily basis. It's not just fun, exciting radio, fun, exciting broadcasting, podcasting. No. We are here, and there are people all over the country right now, whether that's in Chicago, dealing with those street preachers who are being arrested, or whether that's going to Israel. Yesterday, you may remember, we were on the show live, and one of our team members got to join us live as they were originally supposed to be on the show. Then they got called to a special meeting with the president of Israel. we're able to take a facetime call if you will with them and show it here live on air this is the work the eclj the aclj the aclj jerusalem and all over the world what we're doing here and you can be part of that again this is the last few days you're going to hear me talk about it a lot last few days of our life and liberty drive for the month of march which is usually focused on life and you know about that incredible campaign we've been running in massachusetts where hundreds and hundreds of people are searching for pro-life pregnancy resource centers in their area. And what we can only assume that means is they are at least considering life. Hundreds of children's lives have likely been saved because of you, the ACLJ supporter who lets us get creative, lets us do interesting things and change the way people think, their hearts and minds on these important issues. We'll be right back in just a moment. welcome back to secular i want to start this with a phone call because ronald you've been holding for a while ronald on rumble on line four and then we're going to talk a little about that npr pbs situation i promise we'll get there it's just taking us some time i know you're making me hold off loading our phone lines open for you though right now 1-800-684-3110 1-800-684-3110 if you have any question or comment related to any of the topics we've talked about today or this week i encourage you to call in because usually at the end of the show Try to take as many calls as we can. We actually, because Rick was on earlier, we don't have a guest coming up in the next segment. So let's hear from you. Ronald, you're on the air.
SPEAKER 01 :
Thank you. Thanks for taking my call. Yes. As Will had brought out earlier in the show, it says, why couldn't they have done this earlier during the Biden administration? And the reason why is because the Department of Justice and all of the agencies were geared to trying to keep conservatives and those who are supporting Trump and watching over them and everything and even in the way of bringing all the governments to come against then candidate Trump. And so I think all the times they were just literally so myopic and close-minded that they were just not aware of how many dangerous people were coming across the border.
SPEAKER 10 :
That's right, Ronald. And honestly, when you look at even how many lawsuits we had, I believe it was like 12. I asked our team for the number, but things that turned into lawsuits against the FBI during the Biden administration because of the weaponization of government. That's what we saw. It was systematic. It was so many different instances of using the federal government through the executive branch, to weaponize the government for political gain. Now, the left will try to weaponize the news of what the Trump administration is doing for political gain. But going after and getting one of the top leaders of an international gang, which President Trump warned us about this gang in 2016. MS-13 was already on the rise back during his first administration, and it was one of the angles he wanted to go after. But remember... The cabinet wasn't as amenable, I'd like to say, as it is now. And there were obstacles and there was Russiagate. And there were things that genuinely hampered the administration from doing then what they're doing now by going after and being able to use the actual executive branch the way it should be used and allowing the FBI to do the right thing. Remember, James Comey was the head of the FBI when President Trump was elected. And what was the head of the FBI doing when President Trump was elected? Sending spies into the White House, leaking things to the press. He was asked, why did you send agents over to interview Mike Flynn? Because I could, because they were disorganized. That was the FBI then. Kash Patel's FBI is different. What is Kash Patel's FBI doing the first two months of his presidency? Getting top gang members off the street. This is night and day, folks, of what happened with James Comey's FBI that was weaponized, that was politicized in 2016. Now, President Trump learned a lot in that first administration and is completely different. And now the FBI is actually doing law enforcement instead of political weaponization. I'm here for it. This is what makes America better. You fired him up. I did because when you think about the context and the history, you can't get over how wonderful a move like this is of getting a top gang leader off the street and no one's killed. No one's injured. It is successful. They get him off the street. He's here illegally. And now we'll probably no longer be here.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I think we'll learn a lot more soon. They said you got to go through some of the process. But all we know is at least up front, 24-year-old. They said one of the top leaders, really one of the top bad guys, as they said, of MS-13 was one of the East Coast leaders. Again, though, 24 years old, hanging out in the suburbs of Virginia. in woodbridge virginia good barbecue in woodbridge virginia phone lines are open for you i wonder if you wonder if we ever shared a meal with this guy didn't know because we're sitting at the table next to you that's what's going on it's pretty crazy 1-800-684-3110 to have your voice heard on the air today i would appreciate you calling in we actually have a full bank open right now because we took so many calls so if you've ever wanted to be on the show this is the time i know will likes that makes our phone screeners uh get a little itchy but you know what You know, it's their job. See what happens. 1-800-684-3110. I did want to move our attention, Will, to what was going on. This was, what, yesterday? Yes. There was a panel, NPR, PBS, the top honchos of those public broadcasting services, which, again, is a bit of a misnomer. We'll talk about that. We're getting pretty grilled by a lot of GOP lawmakers talking about what they were funding, why they were funding. Did it feel, which you would say, quote unquote, fair? Would you feel like it felt balanced at all? And of course we know, public broadcasting... historically, and look, like I told you earlier, I have been known to be a listener of public broadcasting, because I can discern whether I agree with something or disagree with, and I can appreciate good production. And you know what, they've put out some quality stuff. Some of their kids' stuff, I think is excellent. I think some of the stuff they've put out, some of the comedy stuff that's happened on NPR over the years, the Prairie Home campaigns and all that, always politically left. You knew they were politically left, but I could kinda sort through it. Now, it feels like they have taken a much larger turn towards that. And people don't really know the ins and outs of how that work. You hear public broadcasting, you hear PBS, you hear NPR, and a lot of people's minds go to government run, government operated. But what it is, is more partially government funded.
SPEAKER 10 :
That's right. And this is one of those fights that, to me, at the end of the day, is kind of a nothing burger for reality. Because the left makes it, you think, if you take this away, people will not have access to this media, this news. It's life-saving. And the right, I think, to some degree, overblows it a little bit that this is 100% state media kind of operation. But what I do agree with is that The United States government does not need to be funding this. There's about $320 billion a year that goes to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which then issues grants. It's like a quasi-government entity that doesn't really have oversight in particular. But it then gives grants to both public media stations and then also the production houses. And that's NPR stations, what you listen to, aren't owned by NPR. NPR is basically a production company. They used to only own two radio stations. I don't know if they even own those anymore. The content they create is then licensed. Right. They sell their content to affiliate stations. And so when you look at this, though, and you break it down, NPR corporate, the company that makes All Things Considered or Morning Edition, only about 1% of their entire budget comes from federal funding. And sometimes that's not even directly. That's because the local stations buy those shows. Then on the local stations, any individual station may only get about 8% of their budget from the federal government, from the corporation for public broadcasting. So in reality, we could just not spend $320 billion in, And these businesses would remain. Right. There's no reason that we should be paying for, especially because there is no conservative viewpoint. There is no balance to it. It is effectively a propaganda machine. I love the quality. I love the history. I love a lot of the content. And Will worked there. And that comes from my college internship at NPR Corporate in Washington, D.C.
SPEAKER 07 :
And I did mine at MTV Network. So you know what? We are both. You're cooler than I. I am the nerdier of the two.
SPEAKER 10 :
We're both working for... We went to the The belly of the beast, as they say. But one thing too, it's like even one of my major projects while I was there was before they went into all the podcasting. I helped create the budget, the forecasting and the philosophy as an intern.
SPEAKER 07 :
Obviously, I don't take credit for it.
SPEAKER 10 :
I like they had interns doing that work. But that was one of the projects I was tasked with. I have the Wall Street Journal business section still when the CEO, about three weeks after my internship ended, announced their plan forward because I worked on that. I like content. I like listening. I like the aesthetic. But in no world do we need to spend $320 billion on this.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, and when you have so much access to free media, whether that is online, whether that is other radio options, whether that is, again, most of them are listener supported, just like our show here, just like our organization. You can speak with your wallet and say what you want to support or not. I know Mitt Romney, I remember he got a lot of flack because he's like, Big Bird needs commercials. You know, I actually didn't like that thought. I think that there are some things that can be funded without the need for big commercial sponsors. That you can say, I think that this is good, it's necessary, and I want to make my donation for it. That could be for Sesame Street. That could be for this show right here. It could be for Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. That could be for the ACLJ. You tell, essentially, the landscape of how media looks. You control that now. With your eyeballs... And of course, with your wallet. And as we head to the last segment of this show, I want you to give us a call at 1-800-684-3110. I'd like to have some more calls. Discuss this. We can talk about that. And look, I'm looking at the chat right now. It's a lot of talk about barbecue right now, Will. It's just a lot of barbecue talk. I'll do that in the final segment if you want. A lot of debate of whether Virginia could possibly have good barbecue. And then there's a whole debate over East and West North Carolina barbecue. So if you have a question or comment about barbecue, I'm not saying this is the time to call, but it's probably the time to comment. And we can answer those on the show. Go to ACLJ.org right now as we head into the last segment and give us a call. Welcome back to Seculo. We are not just spending our time talking about barbecue. The comments are. And there's big fights going on. There's some territorial... It's like the old wrestling system. The old wrestling territories. That's happening right now. People's barbecue. What's your favorite barbecue, Will? Well, I mean... Oh, I put him on the spot. He didn't even have an answer.
SPEAKER 10 :
No, I love pulled pork barbecue. I just don't want to anger people. I love, you know, a good pulled pork sandwich. I love in Georgia when you can get the chopped pork. Okay. Georgia barbecue. And it's like the real diced pork. I know what you're talking about. I know. I love it. I love a good chopped pork sandwich. that's a Georgia thing.
SPEAKER 07 :
Love Georgia barbecue, love Alabama barbecue. I'm a Memphis man. I like a Memphis barbecue. I think Memphis has the best barbecue. Phone lines are open for you. You can talk about barbecue, but that's really not what we're talking about. We're talking about NPR. We're talking about this MS-13 raid. A lot of you are talking about my necklace on the chat today. 1-800-684-3110. I'll give you the history of my necklace. People ask it all the time. Maybe we'll do that a little bit later if you want it. Some of the anti-Semites on there really would like to know. Let's go ahead though and go to Devorah who's calling in New Jersey on line two. You're on the air.
SPEAKER 05 :
Hi guys. I just wanted to call in and give my comment about, um, the MS 13 guy that was apprehended. Um, I just wanted to, to reiterate to everyone that's listening. Um, these people really are dangerous and I'm talking from lived experience because my parents are from El Salvador. Both my parents, my whole family, they came to the U S in the eighties, um, when they were having the civil war in their country. and um before their current president president bukele got in office my family was actually being extorted by ms and so these people really don't care they are very dangerous and i am congratulating president trump on what he's doing with the gangs especially specifically ms-13 because i actually had cousins that were extorting my own family um because they were in ms-13. devora i'm going
SPEAKER 07 :
glad you called in because I think people just hear MS-13. It's almost like a boogeyman name. They don't understand sort of the organizations that are behind these groups, that they are running this way. You're right. The people of even El Salvador, they are working there. They are against even their own people and they are ready to act in an organized crime gang sort of way in a way that you almost don't imagine is still happening.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, and once again, to her point as well, when the left tries to say that they are pro-immigrant And that the president's administration is not. When you talk about people that come here legally to flee actual, you know, actual asylum seekers or get here and it's through the regular process legally because they want to leave the extortion, the terror that's being put upon them by things like MS-13. They're going to be victims here, too, when you have an open border policy that allows, you know, the third highest ranking U.S. gang member to come here from El Salvador illegally. They're also going to target people that came here legally. that are in immigrant communities or they have connections back to El Salvador, they're gonna try to pick on the easy targets they can as well. So if you are on the left and you actually want to support immigrant communities like I think we should, then you have to be praising this move because this is supporting even the communities that may be vulnerable to this kind of violence.
SPEAKER 07 :
What's interesting is I think that they're not necessarily not supporting the move. They're just going to ignore it. It's happening. That's what happened on MSNBC. That's what happened on CNN. A lot of these places are just going to pretend it doesn't happen because you can't really argue against The fact that we were able to arrest one of the top leaders of MS-13, who was not really hiding, who was under our nose, right outside of Washington, D.C., in the suburbs of Woodbridge, Virginia. This is where that's happening. They said there were Easter decorations around most of the other houses. And when they found him, he was there again with a family. This is a 24-year-old. This is not what you're thinking of. This isn't when you think of organized crime. You think of Tony Soprano. You think of these larger-than-life older characters. You were talking about what is essentially a kid, a kid that has gotten himself into a crazy situation. And of course, money is involved. Of course, drugs and death is involved. And we got to make sure that we support, like you said, these immigrant communities that come in that are amazing people. They're doing amazing things and are bringing so much life and so much culture to our country. I have no problem with that. It is when you have these situations where you're not able to go get at the bad guys and include that even in our own country, by the way. I'm not even just talking about immigrant communities. During the last administration, crime was, I mean, look at what's happening in the streets in New York or in San Francisco where your storefronts have to just be closed up. A Target, a Whole Foods just has to say, you know what? It's not even worth the risk. to be open in business in these neighborhoods anymore because there's so much crime and crime that's not getting taken care of. Last year, two years ago, I was in San Francisco. There are signs that say, roll down your windows and make sure you take everything out of your car. So then guess what? Your car's not going to get smashed in because the criminals know you have nothing. Because petty crime, as they would, I guess, say, is no longer treated that way in the state of California. Hopefully now, We can make a major adjustment and a major change. And that's what we're shooting for. Let's go to Forrest in California, who is an ACLJ champion, which by the way, that's someone that gives on a recurring monthly basis, essentially a member. And how you do that is you support the work of the ACLJ. You give a donation and there's even just a checkbox or you can go to ACLJ champions. There's a few little perks. If you give, right now, by the way, your first month will be doubled as well, and then it will roll into that. But Forrest is an ACLJ champion, which means he gives, like I said, on a monthly basis, which is amazing. It's incredible. And you get some perks, like being put up to number one on the phone screening list. And he is, right now, getting pushed to the top. Forrest, you're on the air.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes, how are you doing? One of the ways you can assess the bias of a TV or news program radio news talk show is by the ratio of the number of people on the left versus the right that they interview. I listen to NPR a lot and sometimes other leftist channels to know what they're saying. It is absolutely striking that not only are all the hosts on NPR clearly woke slash leftist, but all those interviewed are as well. I watched an hour of CNN coverage on the last night, and the ratio was four to zero Democrats, Republicans, but they occasionally aggressively interview Republican now and then. Not so NPR. Right now, today is the time for each of us to call a Republican congressman and assist a defund NPR. They might as well do PBS, too, because it's almost as biased.
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Well, Boris, thank you so much for calling in. I appreciate that, and That's a lot of sentiment of a lot of people calling in right now who feel that way. Look, I believe if you want to support NPR, you like what they do. Fantastic. I can't say I haven't given money. I'm sure I've gone to many NPR events. I've gone to things that are NPR related. Same with PBS. PBS, I think, does some of the best. children's programming now again much like npr they're not necessarily making those programs someone else is making the program they're licensing them like a mr rogers or fred rogers foundation that's making a daniel tiger's neighborhood that's not necessarily being made by pbs it's just giving them the outlet so i think there are places you can always put your money to support the content that you like and of course i'm also going to talk about us right now because this is wrapping up the aclj's life and liberty drive it's happening right now And your safety and freedoms are in jeopardy right now. Around the world, we're hearing this from Christians, from conservatives, people that feel like this. And then look at our country, it is much less. But it's still problems. There's still street preachers getting arrested. There's still churches being shut down. Churches that have been meeting for 20 years on the beaches in California and told, you can't do this anymore. You can't meet here weekly anymore. And we're there for them at absolutely no cost. So as we head into the final 30 seconds of this show, I'm going to ask you to put up that QR code. There you go. It's not that I don't want you to see my pretty face. Of course I do. But go to ACLJ.org, scan that QR code, because this is the time. There's only a couple days left in our March Life and Liberty Drive, and you are supporting our life campaign in such an amazing way. And you know we are touching hearts. We are touching minds. And of course, we are aggressively pursuing legal action at no cost to our clients. But that is because of you, and that's why we need your help. We're going to hear more about what we're doing in Israel. You're going to hear more about what we're doing all over the world. You're going to hear more about Will's favorite barbecue. He really could do that if we have your support here at the ACLJ. So I encourage you, scan that QR code right now, and we'll talk to you tomorrow.
In this enlightening discussion, Angie Austin is joined by Dr. Frances Cheng from PETA to delve into the controversial topic of animal testing in the food industry. Learn about PETA's 'Eat Without Experiments' initiative and find out how you can make informed purchasing decisions to support the end of animal testing. Dr. Cheng shares her firsthand experiences from her previous work in animal testing labs and her current efforts to bring about change. Tune in to find out how you can help make a difference.
SPEAKER 02 :
Welcome to The Good News with Angie Austin. Now, with The Good News, here's Angie.
SPEAKER 03 :
Hey there, friend. Angie Austin and Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald, my friend of like 25 years, joining us to talk more about his new book, It Started With a Turtle, One Man's Life on a Blue and Green Planet. Hey, my friend. I'm so excited to talk to you. How are you? I am doing well, and you are going to be so excited because in the next segment, I have an interview with Dr. Frances Cheng. She was a researcher in a medical school, and she was forced to do research with animals because that's part of your medical school training. And she also runs a restaurant, and she is now... has an initiative to stop animal testing in the food industry in the food and beverage industry and she has a way to do this testing without animals and uh her description of what they do to animals to be honest with you kev i'm a little shocked that when i eat an oreo what they had to do to animals in order for them to make claims about that oreo so that i would eat it like kev i know what an oreo does to my body i don't need them to test oreos on animals
SPEAKER 04 :
No, that's right. You know, and there's not always the same correlation between, you know, animal dosages in humans. You know, it doesn't always translate to the same. So there needs to be ethical, you know, regulation of this and moral. You know, I think that these are animals that share the same life force we do. And I think, yeah, there's a, There's a real dilemma there with testing in animals.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. She talks about the physiology being so different. So I'm excited to talk to her next. But another animal lover, you. Now, we talked about it started with the turtle a couple of weeks back when it first came out. One Man's Life on a Blue and Green Planet. I got my copy on computer, but you can get hard copies. And I see that you're doing a lot of book signings. And I already knew that, you know, as a young man that you did security for big rock groups like the Rolling Stones. And I knew the story about how you got involved. turned on to vet school. But just tell that little snippet of who you consulted when you were thinking about leaving your work, traveling the country, seeing the world with the Rolling Stones, doing security, but you had other opportunities. So who was one of the people you consulted?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, at the end of the tour, you know, Keith would take care of the bouncers. Keith Richards. Yeah. And so, you know, people can say what they want about the Rolling Stones, but man, they are organized and professional. And, you know, it I guess all these years, you know, in the spotlight, it didn't happen by chance, you know. And so they're good guys. And so I had another chance to stay and do another tour. And, you know, they were going out again. And I also had a chance to go to, you know, maybe go to school. And he said, look, you can't be a bouncer when you're 50. He goes, for sure, go to school. I'll write you a letter. I'll write you a letter of recommendation. I'll do whatever you need to do. But You need to go to school. And so, you know, unlikely person, unlikely source for great advice, but he's the best ever. And, you know, you listen when he says something, you know, you take it to heart. I came back to Denver and said, Keith told me I got to get a grip on my life when my brother picked me up at the airport. He goes, well, when Keith tells you something, you better listen, right?
SPEAKER 03 :
That is hilarious. When you told me that the first time, I'd already known you for like a decade. And I'm like, you have all these great stories. I'm so glad you finally wrote a book. And a lot of people know that you're a stand-up comedian. You do the Animal House segment on Channel 2 that you and I started about 25 years ago. You're still doing it.
SPEAKER 04 :
We started, yes, every 26 years in June. Oh, my gosh. But, you know, you've always been an animal lover. And, you know, we were given this wonderful opportunity. biodiversity of all the animals around us, particularly in Colorado where we live. The wildlife is so spectacular. We've been seeing the owls have been real active this spring with babies and teaching babies how to hunt and fly. The wildlife here, we're given this wonderful biodiversity and our intellect and all the other animals are waiting for us to use our intellect and save the place, but I think that there's wonderful things conservation-wise. I just did a lecture in Chicago to a wonderful group called Citizens for Conservation that they go out in their own communities around Chicago and pick up trash and try and preserve parks and go in and reclaim parks where maybe the underbrushes over-claimed it so that people can go and enjoy it. So I think the national parks and the city parks are one of the best ideas anybody's ever had. If you look at how often our parks in Denver are used, it's remarkable that people playing volleyball are just going out and enjoying the day. It's a great thing. We were meant to be outside. When we're outside, our physiology changes and you get more endorphins with sunshine and in, in, uh, And yeah, we weren't meant to be in these concrete cocoons.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. No kidding. You know, I, we have motion activated cameras and we live on, even though we're, you know, just outside of Denver, we have several acres and it's kind of like a horse property neighborhood where they have horse, like horse trails, but a lot of animals use those little trails that they've kind of fenced off in between the homes.
SPEAKER 04 :
Urban wildlife. You probably see foxes and you see coyotes. Probably you may even, even see raccoons and, and, You know, the urban wildlife in and around any big city now where these animals have learned how to exploit the place, rabbits, you know, are still. Hummingbirds.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. Kevin, we had three owls in our front yard. And it was the weirdest thing because it must have been a territorial thing because my son's like, oh, my gosh, like they're fighting. And then we had one that landed an owl that was on. We kind of have a front porchy kind of thing. And he was just like sitting there. You know, and I'm like, I mean, it's so rare, like daylight to see an owl just sitting basically on the edge of your porch. But last night, my husband just sent me this photo and he's like, there's a coyote because we have motion activated cameras. There's a coyote basically looking in our basement sliding glass door. And he's about 10 feet from the door because, you know, I have a lot of pets. And they go out that back door and I sit in the backyard with them. And they have those collars that don't allow them to leave our yard, per se. And I thought my dogs would be smart enough that I could take the collars off after a few weeks and they wouldn't. But no, they know the minute that the collar's off, they can leave the yard. And they know when the collar's on, they don't go near the edge of the yard. So anyway, that coyote knows that that's their roaming ground. And he's just like staring in the sliding glass window waiting for lunch.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, we have to be very careful. We see the lucky ones that have survived, but we see coyote and fox attacks on pets. The coyotes have learned it's easier to pull a fat cat off a porch than to chase down a bunny. So I think we have a little bit of foresight as to who goes out late at night and unsupervised. I think particularly where you live, or an area where there are big stretches and expanses of undeveloped areas where they can hide and live. Yeah, well, they deserve their place at the table, too.
SPEAKER 03 :
Right. Just not my table of my pets. You're right. No, I'm the supervisor. They don't go out after dark, not in the yard. That's for sure. We have a special pen my husband built that's outside, but six-foot fence and the whole nine yards, so they can't get near our animals. I want to... catch up now on it started with the turtle uh one man's life on a blue and green planet dr kevin fitzgerald i mentioned you know you going to vet school and you doing the animal house segment on channel two uh you're also a stand-up comedian and then your um animal planet um work as well being on tv can you tell me how you got into the comedy and the animal planet show because we haven't touched on that yet
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, stand-up, I always liked. We would go in college to see different comedians, and Steve Martin played at Red Rocks, and there were comedians that we really enjoyed. And so I had a friend that was doing it, and I'd go and watch him, and he was even getting paid, and I thought, well, I can be this bad. I should try this. And so, I mean, there's different things you do, and I think for most people, public speaking is one of their greatest fears, and for stand-up comics, there's something wrong with us because we want to get out there and tell our stuff. And so you start in the beginning on amateur nights and new talent nights. And, you know, you get torn to pieces by the crowd. Then you go back the next week and you're healed up a little bit and you're a little bit better. So it's kind of the classic thing of, you know, try, fail, try again, fail again, try again, fail again. And then finally, you know, try again, fail better. You know, you're doing a little bit better. So if you stick with it, you can You can learn, and I don't know if I've ever mastered it, you know, trying to get that perfect joke out, and you never do, but it's been a great hobby. And so we were lucky here in Denver in that, you know, we are yourself included. We're part of a wonderful television community, and Jim Berger had done, you know, How the West Was Lost, a thing from the perspectives of the Native Americans of the American West. And he had an idea for, oh, ER was real big at the time, you know, with George Clooney. And he had about an animal ER and thought that our hospital, a 24-hour hospital, might, you know, fit perfectly. And Animal Planet was brand new and just starting. And so it was a perfect storm, you know, our place and his idea and the people at High Noon out there were so talented. And it really proved it. um, you didn't have to be in New York or LA to have a hit show. And we were one of the first shows I did, you know, for 11 seasons. Wow. And two seasons of interns. And, and, you know, and so it was, it was very successful. And those things kind of have a shelf life and it ran its course, but you know, I, I realized, You know, I'm not a celebrity. I'm a poor but honest veterinarian. And it showed what we do on a daily basis, and it showed veterinarians and veterinary medicine in kind of a light that people might not always see, kind of behind the wall, and what was happening with different stories. So, yeah, so that's how that started.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, I have to say, Kev, I follow you on social media and I see you with my pets and my friends and I attempt to come see you do comedy. And you're friends with one of my other Irish friends, Karen, who just recently, Karen Boylan, well, not Boylan anymore, she's married, but went to one of your book signings. And I know, and we share our Irish heritage as well. But I have to say, and I know how humble you are and you're just going to brush me off, but you are one of the kindest, most giving, thoughtful people in terms of wanting to leave the world a better place and just like you ooze kindness. Like you bend over backwards for people and your love of animals and you only sleep like four hours a night. You're like doing standup, you're done at one. But if I message you, I mean, if it's the middle of the night, I swear within like half an hour, you're either calling me back saying, don't worry about the chocolate chip cookies. Stop Googling things. Your dog's fine. Google is the cleanest thing ever.
SPEAKER 04 :
I mean, I had a woman tell me the other day, you know, she said, I went on Google and it said that a dog mouth is 10 million times cleaner than a human mouth. And I said, well, actually, madam, we don't lick our bottoms all day. We can get, you know, bad bacteria from any dog's mouth. And so, you know, I mean, yeah, Google has heard it. People are crazy. I mean, this woman, she didn't want to give vaccines to this dog the other day. And she said, the vaccines will make my dog autistic. Oh, my goodness. How could you tell he's a French bulldog? You know, he's not doing a lot of, you know, higher math problems to begin with. And so I think. No, I think Google is great. We can pick up things, but it's not the last answer.
SPEAKER 03 :
Kev, we're out of time, but just like I figure, you brush off all my compliments. I just think you are a super terrific human. Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald started with a turtle, one man's life on a blue and green planet. Looking forward to our next interview. Thank you, friend.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, thank you. I hope I helped you. Thank you for all you say. You're too kind. Thank you.
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Kimball, Nebraska is listening to the mighty 670 KLT Denver.
SPEAKER 03 :
Hey there, friend. Angie Austin here with the good news. Now, this topic isn't going to seem like good news, but the fact that we can help is good news. Okay, so here's the deal. There is, and I wasn't even aware of the extent of this, there's animal testing that's done in the food industry and still goes on today with a lot of popular products. For instance, the Mega Stuff Oreos that my kids love so much that we just had on vacation. I've been known to have one from time to time. I know they're very unhealthy for me. I don't need any animal testing to know that an Oreo is not healthy for me. So here is what's interesting. Dr. Frances Chang is going to join us here in a minute. And she actually worked with animals in testing because if you're going to medical school, a lot of these animal tests are done in that medical school setting. And so she has about a decade of background in testing. experiments that in some cases involved animals and so she saw a lot of this done and now she has turned the tables and is working to stop this kind of testing uh and she is a restaurant owner and she is a doctor and she has a very important position now and is involved with uh you know, stopping this. She's a chief scientist of international laboratory methods with PETA. What are some of the things that they do? Well, they do things like force feed these animals, juices, candy bars, breakfast cereals, even liquor. And they are force feeding them sometimes starving them, injecting them with harmful substances, sometimes giving them cancer or giving them high blood pressure, hanging them upside down for quite some time by their tails to let them deteriorate. They're made to run on treadmills and they're forced sometimes to swim until exhaustion, electroshocked, those diseases that they can be infected with. And then at the end, they need to do away with the animal in order to dissect the animal and see the effects on the animal. Why are they doing this? Well, Dr. Chang can explain that in some cases they're doing it so that they can make claims about their food, maybe telling us a certain snack food is a junk food is healthy in some way or does something good for us or if they've added vitamins to it or something. So let's find out more about this and the initiative. We're talking about this new food initiative that's set to end animal testing in the food and beverage business. We're going to learn more about the Eat Without Experiments Global Certification and how we can get involved. Joining us is Dr. Francis Cheng, a chief scientist of international laboratory methods for PETA. Welcome, Dr. Cheng.
SPEAKER 05 :
Hi, glad to be here.
SPEAKER 03 :
Hey, before we get into the experiments and what you're doing with your initiative, I think you have a very interesting background. So you are a restaurant owner as well, so you're in the food business, but you also had work prior to working with PETA that I think is very relevant. Can you talk about a little bit about yourself and your background?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, prior to joining PETA, I was an experimenter all throughout my education up until my Ph.D., And I experienced firsthand how animal experiments don't apply to humans. It's completely bogus. And after I graduated, I came to join PETA and try to end this practice.
SPEAKER 03 :
I think because of your background, not just the restaurant business, but also working in animal experimentation, it makes your testimony and your work so powerful. When I read about your background, I'm like, hello, you couldn't have made someone better for working for PETA than you.
SPEAKER 06 :
Thank you so much.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, let's talk about, I think so too. So what is PETA's Eat Without Experiments initiative and why do we need this?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, so like I said, we have this Eat Without Experiments new global initiative and the goal is to eliminate animal experiments from the food and beverage industry. Because many people still don't know that food companies, they experiment on animals and they kill them. for profit for food that we eat every day. For example, right now we have a campaign on the Oreo maker. The company name is Mondelez International. They have paid experimenters to force feed human feces to animals. They also feed them with candies, chips, and crackers with or without food fiber, and then they kill them just so that they can attempt to make some bogus marketing health claims that they've somehow made their junk food products healthier with these fibers in order to trick people into buying more of their products. So on our website, which is PETA.org slash EWE, people can speak out and urge Mondelez International to stop this cruel, unnecessary, and wasteful practice. All you have to do is click on that Take Action button in the middle of that page, and it sends emails directly to the CEO of Mondelez. You can tell him directly how you feel about this and urge him to stop. And we also have in this program a searchable database so that people can see which food and beverage products are made by companies that experiment on animals so they can make informed purchasing decisions. We have already persuaded many food and beverage companies to stop experimenting on animals. These include Unilever, Ferrero, Gorilla, and more than 400 other companies and brands have signed on to this program already and banned experiments on animals. But there are many other bad players we need people to know about, and we need people to join us in this fight to get experiments done. out of the food and beverage industry just like how we did with the cosmetics industry we got them to switch away from the animal experiments we can do the same with the food and beverage industry because we as consumers we have power over these for-profit companies because without us consumers they cannot survive
SPEAKER 03 :
All right, let's give, I know we're going to give it at the end, but I want to give the website right now so people, we make sure people get this so they can search the database and see which food companies are testing on animals. So give that website.
SPEAKER 05 :
PETA.org slash E-W-E. So it's spelled P-E-T-A dot O-R-G for slash E-W-E. W-E stands for eat without experiment.
SPEAKER 03 :
When you mentioned the large company at the beginning, you mentioned Oreos, which I buy every week for my kids. So you're talking about force-feeding animals, junk food and other things. And then at the end, oftentimes the animals are then killed and dissected. And they're doing this in some cases to make claims that somehow their junk food is healthy because they force-fed these animals, killed them, dissected them, and then they make these claims.
SPEAKER 06 :
That's exactly right. So these animals are intentionally and artificially made sick to begin with so that the food companies can test their food products on them and artificially cure the disease. So I'll give you some more examples of what happened in these two industry experiments. Experimenters would inject animals with cancerous cells to make them grow painful and cancerous tumors. They would feed them high-fault diet to make them have high blood pressure. They would hang them by their tails for weeks so that they cannot move and their muscles would shrink and deteriorate. They would infect them with viruses to make them sick. They would run them on treadmills and repeatedly electroshock them until they cannot run anymore. And they would collapse on the treadmill. And there are so many more of these horrific examples. And at the end of the experience, like I said, they are often killed, and sometimes in violent ways, too. The most common way of killing is CO2 asphyxiation, so supplication by carbon dioxide. and sometimes neck-breaking or having their heads chopped off, having their heart ripped open and their blood drained out. And they're dissected, too, and at the end they're tossed in this garbage bag and thrown away, you know, those, like, red-colored biohazard garbage bags. And these are cruel. But not only are they cruel, they're completely useless because animals, they have different physiology from humans. The animal test data don't apply to humans. For example, if you test chocolate on dogs, You would poison the dogs and you would not prove the chocolate's health benefit. The same thing, you would not test dog food on human babies. Why are we testing these human foods, common human foods in oils and cookies and treats and candies on other animals? It doesn't make any scientific sense.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, and what's interesting is you know this because in school you saw these studies.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, exactly. I saw it for a thing. The thing is that these companies, they're not doing this for the sciences. They're just doing this so that they can create some health marketing points to generate those sensational news headlines. News studies show eating ABC can cure XYZ. And most people, they don't read the details. And I think in the companies, they take advantage of that. They know that people don't care about the details. They might not know that these are animal experiments. They might not have the access to journal articles and see the conflict of interest section that these are actually funded by the companies that made these products. So they can get away with creating these claims and people still buy the product.
SPEAKER 03 :
So they're creating these claims by testing on animals. It's not necessary. It's not relevant because our physiology is different than the animals. And these tests are not required in any way by law, correct?
SPEAKER 06 :
It depends on where you are. In the U.S., no. So the food safety regulation in the U.S. doesn't require animal experiments, and that's because We already have a ton of animal-free test methods that are internationally recognized and regulatory agencies approved that can be used to assess the safety of food. For health claim regulations, the health claims in U.S., in Canada, and the European Union, they don't require animal testing. They require human tests. They actually don't even accept the animal test data as standalone evidence. And in the regulation, they explain that it's because You know, human trials are the gold standard for food testing animals. They have different physiologies from humans and therefore experimenting on animals cannot provide scientific evidence, scientific information for humans. And, um, so they, they don't, they require human tests and these are just common human food. So there's no issue with testing on humans directly, but in some other parts of the world, uh, there are regulations for foods that would trigger animal experiments. And in those situations, PETA's focus has been on changing the regulations themselves. We have an international team of scientists and lawyers, and we regularly meet with regulators and help them update their regulations. For example, we have convinced the Taiwan FDA to remove the animal experiments recommendation from six of its health plan regulations already. There are eight more in the works. And companies who are in this situation, they say animal experiments are required by law. they can come to us for help. We regularly consult companies and provide strategies and provide proposal to get these regular agencies to accept animal-free test methods. In these companies, they can still participate in the Eat Without Experiments program because there is a category that allows animal experiments that are explicitly required by law.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, so what ethical research can food and beverage companies pursue instead of animal testing? Because I'm pretty aware, I watch my 600-pound life, I'm pretty aware of what abusive Oreos can do to the human body. I don't need any animals killed to show me what an Oreo does to my body. So what ethical ethical research can the food and beverage companies pursue instead of animal testing?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, so for foods that we buy and eat every day, foods that humans have been consuming for a very long time, clinical studies can be done and they actually have been done for most of the food that we eat already. We already have human data. In this situation, animal testing, animal experiments don't add anything to the scientific information. they're completely unnecessary because we already have human data. And more clinical studies can be done on consenting human volunteers when it comes to everyday food, like Oreos, oatmeal, green tea, chocolate, cookies, anything that you can think of. For novel foods that don't have a history of safe human consumption, again, we have plenty of animal-free test methods that can be used to assess their safety. These are mostly in vitro and computer modeling methods. They are based on created based on human physiology. So they're actually more reliable and more predictive than animal experiments. And again, these are accepted internationally, regulatory agencies accept them and prove them. Once they're deemed safe, then you can do the clinical studies with consenting human volunteers with no issues.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, so again, we want to give the website so people can search the foods that they eat, that they purchase to see if they're involved with animal experimentation and which companies are doing this. And then there's an easy way to contact those organizations and tell them we're not going to support them if they continue these painful animal testing procedures. So give us that website again, doctor.
SPEAKER 05 :
It's PETA.org slash EWE. So PETA.org forward slash EWE.
SPEAKER 03 :
And again, Dr. Chang runs her own restaurant. She's in the food business. She also worked in animal testing when she was in school, so she saw this firsthand. And now she's working with PETA to stop this unnecessary and painful, unethical treatment of animals. Thank you so much, doctor, for all you're doing to help animals and to help us as well get in contact with these companies. Thank you.
SPEAKER 06 :
Thank you so much for having me.
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You're welcome. Thank you for listening to The Good News with Angie Austin on AM670 KLTT.
In this riveting episode, Rick Hughes unpacks the importance of being a part of the pivot, a core group of mature believers that God uses to maintain national freedom. He discusses challenges in broadcasting, calling upon listeners to assist in ensuring that God's message reaches every corner of the nation. Through vivid analogies and biblical insights, Hughes provides listeners with profound understanding and encouragement to pursue growth in the grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ.
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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, once again, Rick Hughes. Thank you for tuning in and thank you for listening. I appreciate you giving me some time of yours. You know this show is about some motivation, inspiration, education without manipulation. We don't try to con people. We're only here to give you some accurate information that will help you verify and maybe identify the plan of God for your life. And if that happens... as we always say, maybe you will orient and adjust to that plan. I hope so. You are a victim of your own volition. You have your own mind, your own volition, your own chooser, your own decider. And you will be a victim of what you think because the Bible says, as a man thinketh in his heart, so he is. And whatever you think, that's what you're going to be. That's what you're going to do. When God wants to look at you, by the way, he's Not looking at your image and your style. He's not concerned with what you're wearing. He's concerned with what you're thinking. And the whole concept about believers in the Lord Jesus Christ is to acquire the mind of Christ, Philippians 2, verse 5, so that we can think divine viewpoint. not human viewpoint. Divine viewpoint is the mind of Christ. And so that's why the Bible says, let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus. You've heard me say that. Before we begin the show today, I've got something I want to talk about called the Pivot and Client Nation USA. But before I do, I want to ask a favor of you. It seems like frequently now, it seems like more than ever, a lot of times radio stations do not play our shows, even though we've contracted with them and paid them for this. And it started maybe, I didn't really start monitoring the shows till about three or four years ago. I did nine or 10 years. without ever monitoring what they did play or did not play, and I probably lost a lot of money. Because constantly, just like last week, there were three shows that didn't play on three different radio stations. And so we have to follow that up and try to get our money back, even though we paid for them, they didn't play it. And so I wanna ask you, if you live in a city where this radio show is played, I need you to spot check it for me. I need you to let me know that the show played as it was supposed to on time and in its entirety. Just a simple email to rick at rickhughesministries.org. rick at rickhughesministries.org. That's all I need. And I need you to let me know if the show played in your area. There are two ways the show plays. It plays terrestrial, which means it goes out over the radio airwaves. So those people that live in California could not listen to what's being played in Mississippi or vice versa. But it also goes out over streaming internet audio. And so sometimes if you live in Mississippi and you want to hear what's being played in California, then you go to the internet and And you download an Internet application where you can listen to streaming audio from the particular station where the show is playing in California. We're all playing the same show. That's not what I'm saying. But what I'm saying is the show comes out in streaming audio and over the terrestrial airwaves. When we check it, we can only check streaming audio because we're not in California, we're not in Texas, we're not in Mississippi, we're in Alabama. And so I need some help, just like the weatherman has weather helpers that tell him what it rained over in this part of the county or that part of the county. I need someone to let me know that the show played in your city on time as scheduled. Many of you have indeed contacted me when the show didn't play. And that's how I found out that we needed to contact the local radio station. And so we eventually had to hire someone to be a spot checker, to check the shows, to make sure they're playing. Enough said. If you want to help out in that area, we could sure use it. That way we know that we're not losing money by paying radio stations to play something and they don't play it. I've only had one radio station call up and apologize for not playing the show. Most of the time, they don't even know it didn't play because it's all completely automated with Internet, with computer-generated programming. So unless the programmer's sitting there watching it, he doesn't even know what plays or doesn't play sometimes. It's just the way life is in the world of the radio. And this is a show about the Word of God. This is a show about the Bible. I can expect satanic opposition. I can expect Satan to try to disrupt and try to discourage and try to defeat what we do. But we're going to press on, and we believe that the Lord will use it and honor it. And so we're asking for your help in that aspect. Now today, I would like to talk about another practical principle for believers in the Lord Jesus Christ called being a member of the pivot. The pivot is the core group of mature believers that God uses to sustain the freedom in a nation. The United States of America is a client nation for God. In that client nation, there is a pivot that is a core group of believers that sustains this nation. As goes the pivot, so goes the history of the USA. I think that we are losing the battle. I think the pivot is shrinking. By that I mean that many of the young people that I meet and talk to, they are drinking the Kool-Aid of liberal progressivism, and I'm not a politician. But they don't believe so much in the Bible anymore like you and I do. And so they tend to get away from the Bible for a decision-making process and tend to justify why it's okay to live certain lascivious lifestyles as if the Bible doesn't really mean anything. America is in a disaster zone. We are in a crossroads of history. And if something doesn't change, I don't think we'll survive a whole lot longer as a free nation. How long, I don't know. But I know that if you read the news like I read the news, and if you watch what's going on, First of all, you realize that a public lie floats around and that if it's told loud enough, long enough, and often enough, people will believe it. That's called drinking the Kool-Aid. And that came from Jim Jones in Guyana when he induced all those poor people to drink the Kool-Aid and commit suicide down in Guyana. many years ago. So we need a pivot. We need a strong group, core group of mature believers. You can make the analogy of Gideon and his 300 that delivered the nation Israel from the thousands of Midianites that had come to ravage and attack them. God only needed 300, 300 well-qualified men. And I believe that we don't have to have thousands and thousands and thousands because I don't believe there's that many people in this country that really love God's Word and want to learn it. I think there are a lot of Christians, a lot of thousands and thousands and thousands of Christians, yes, but hungry? Hungry to study the Bible on a daily basis? Hungry to understand the mechanics of the protocol plan of God? Hungry to glorify Jesus Christ to the maximum by means of divine good production in their life? I don't think so. I don't know. I know where there are a few solid, well-founded local churches, and I'm a part of some of those, that do stand fundamentally on the teaching of the Word of God. And they're not weirdos. They're not running around in black suits and 50-pound Bibles whacking people on the head. But they believe in studying the Bible, learning the Bible, applying what they learn, and glorifying Christ as a result of it. And these people are what God calls the pivot, the core group of mature believers. When the pivot goes down, the nation goes down. It's all taught under the five cycles of discipline in Leviticus 26 and 27. And this is what happened to Israel and Judah, and it could happen to us as well. As a client nation, we are not guaranteed perpetual freedom. As goes the attitude of the people, so goes the history of the land. In Hosea 4, 6 said, my people are rejected because they rejected knowledge. They did not want to know me, did not want to know my word. Remember Jeremiah said, God is looking for people that understand him and know him. And I have said before, there's a difference between knowing God and understanding the God you know. So I am looking for pivot potential. This radio show is designed to spot that. You, wherever you are, you may be in California, you may be in Wyoming, you may be in Texas, you may be in Nevada, you may be in Louisiana, you may be in Mississippi, Georgia, anywhere, Texas, all the way to New York. No telling where you are, but you may be a potential pivot member. so let's start off with this paul gives a mandate in second timothy two three and four in the king james version of the bible we're using that to quote from today it says there you therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of jesus christ no one engaged in warfare entangles himself in the affairs of this life so that this is called a purpose clause in the greek new testament the reason we don't entangle ourself in the affairs of this life, so that we may please him who enlisted us as a soldier. This is a military metaphor used by Paul, written to Timothy. Remember, Paul used military metaphors a lot, like in Ephesians 6, where he said, put on the armor of God so you can stand against the strategy of the devil. This show is built around a military metaphor of the forward line of troops, the flight line. So here Paul is warning these believers and Timothy as well to endure hardship as a good soldier. All right, and then he said, enduring hardship is in the verb structure of this word, endure. It's an imperative mood verb. It's the aorist tense, meaning that at the point in time, this is going to come. The active voice of that verb says Timothy has to produce the action of the verb, and the imperative mood is the command. So, kakopatheo is the word endure. Kakopatheo, endure. And hardship is coming. Kakopatheo is made up of two words, kakos, which is the word evil, and pathos, which is the word suffering. And so, to suffer hardship from the opposition. There is opposition. It is called AKA the devil, and he's going to oppose you in this stage of the angelic conflict if, if, if you wish to grow in the grace and the knowledge of your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. If you make a decision, as I have seen a lot of people do, to say, you know, I'm gonna start studying every day, and I'm gonna get serious about this, and I'm gonna learn the Word of God and understand the mechanics of God's plan, so that when I get to heaven, I don't have to be embarrassed and say, well, put my hands in my pocket and stand there and kick my feet. I didn't understand all that, God. You want to hear, well done, my good and my faithful servant. And that doesn't mean that you just went to Sunday school and church every Sunday. There's a lot more than that. It means you replicated the life of Christ. You reproduced Christ in your community, in your family, and they saw him in you, and you acquired the mind of Christ. It means that you grew spiritually, as the Bible tells you. Grow in the grace and knowledge of your Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, 2 Peter 3.18. So if you're going to endure hardship, part of it is momentum testing, right? Part of it, God allows. 1 Corinthians 10, 13 says, nothing's come upon you that's not common to man, and with it, the Father always provides a way out. Momentum testing is to test your desire to stick with it. You may be going through some sort of momentum testing now. Will you be faithful to stick with God's word? This is sort of like boot camp. When a young recruit goes to boot camp, he's momentum is tested. He wanted to be in the military. His desires to be in the military, maybe a Navy SEAL, maybe a Special Forces, maybe a Ranger, maybe a Marine, and he's going to be tested. See if he sticks with it. Sometimes we are tested. You go forward in a revival and you say, I want to serve the Lord. I want to do this. I want to do that. Your momentum can be tested. That's one of the ways that God refines you. And then there's evidence testing. There's another way we endure hardship. This is when Satan gets to cross-examine you, just as he did the Lord Jesus Christ in Matthew 4. He will cross-examine you. You'll be called to the witness stand. Oh, so you're a child of God, huh? Okay, well, let's see what you believe about this. Let's see how you'd handle that. And people oftentimes give in. Excuse me. So let me remind you of a principle. This is a principle my pastor taught a long time ago. It's called the principle of deliverance, and it depends upon the size of the pivot in the nation. The size of the pivot is derived from the fact that mature believers are a blessing by association, and they have a historical impact on the nation, USA, client nation. What do you think the pivot size is today? How big is it today? Are there three million mature believers in the United States of America? Three million? How about one million mature believers who love God's word and study on a daily basis? Is that there? Are there that many mature believers? That pivot is a remnant of mature believers who reach maximum justice to the justice of God. In other words, they have oriented and adjusted to God's grace. They have positive volition towards learning and applying the Word of God. And the principle is if there's a large pivot, if there's a lot of people, then the nation is delivered from historical disaster. But if the pivot is small and shrinks and there's only a few, then the nation is destroyed. And this happens throughout history. People, as far as Israel and Judah went, they went through the same thing in destruction under the Chaldean army. the destruction under the Babylonians, the destruction under the Romans. So the question is, what is the pivot? And are you willing to be a member of the pivot? If you are willing to stay filled with the Holy Spirit, if you're willing to begin a daily study of the Word of God in your life under a well-qualified pastor, There's no reason you cannot be a pivot potential. As you grow in grace, as you're tested, as you go through momentum testing and evidence testing, you can be a pivot member. You can be a spiritual, quiet professional, and you can deliver this nation, not by marching, not by holding a placard up, but by growing in the grace and the knowledge of your Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Here's some requirements to be in the pivot. Titus 2, 11 through 13. For the grace of God has appeared bringing salvation to all people. It, that's the grace of God, trains us to reject godless ways and worldly desires and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in this present age as we wait for the happy fulfillment of our confidence in the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ. So the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people. Yes, it has. And it trains us to reject godless ways and worldly desires. Godless ways. What is that? Godless ways is the Greek word asabaya. Asabaya. And it means a lack of respect for the laws of God. This same word is used in Romans 118, which is a passage that we should be well aware of about God. indecency and weird things that people do, men with men, women with women, those who hold the truth of God in unrighteousness. And remember where the Bible says in Galatians 6, 7, God will not be mocked. And when people begin to mock God's laws and begin to mock God's word and begin to reject any principles of decency that God gave to us, then you can bank on it that our nation will begin a decline. And we are in a spiritual decline as I speak to you. And I don't know how much longer we have, but I know that we are in trouble. So the grace of God has appeared to all men and trained us to reject godless ways and worldly desires. Whirly desires, what in the world is whirly desires? It's kosmikos, kosmikos, from the cosmos. The cosmos is the cosmic system, the system of Satan. And so the desires, whirly desires, epithumia, the Greek word for desires, epithumia, this word means a craving for or an uncontrollable appetite for sin, uncontrollable lusts. If that's going on in your life, if you are not able to control your sin nature to where when your sin nature induces you or tempts you to sin and you dive into it headfirst willingly, you're building scar tissue in your soul. And this is in 1 Timothy 4, 2, where your soul is being seared with a hot iron. You're being branded. You're being seared. Your soul, your norms and your standards, things that your parents taught you are right and wrong, it's all burned away. Things that your pastor taught you are right and wrong, it's all burned away. In your arrogance, you justify why it's okay to dive deeper into sin, immorality, into anything that is against God's laws, worldly desires. The world is a mirage. It offers you all sorts of happiness. Come on over here and try this. Come on over here and try that. and you'll be happy. However, the Lord Jesus Christ said, happiness belongs to the people who hear my Father's word and keep it. What the world offers you is a way to destroy yourself. What the world offers you is a dead-end street, an endless cul-de-sac down the highway of life. You can get on the my way highway and you will destroy yourself. Or you can get on the thy way highway, as a friend of mine in Houston put it, thy way, T-H-Y, and you can have a wonderful life. It'll be well lit and it'll be direct and God will show you exactly what he wants you to do, when he wants you to do it, and how he wants you to do it. But if you go down the my way highway, there's no lights, there's no direction. It's just you justifying why you're doing what you're doing and blaming it all on someone else. So on the contrary, we are to live self-controlled is what this verse said. Not giving in to what the Bible calls godless ways and worldly desires and But we are to live self-controlled. Sophranos is the Greek word, self-controlled. It means we have to learn how to restrain our passions. We learn how to restrain our desires. Thus, we think as Christ thought by attending the mind of Christ, by attaining the mind of Christ and getting to the thinking like Christ thought. It's not easy to restrain passions in life, especially sinful passions and sinful desires. And this is what is so strange. Paul said, the things I want to do, I don't do. The things I hate that I do in Romans 7, 15. And then he said in Romans 8, 1, don't let sin reign in your mortal bodies any longer. We need to get to where sin doesn't control us. We need to get to where we're able to control our sin natures, not letting our sin natures control us. And the only way we can do it is to, number one, be filled with the Holy Spirit, and number two, to have the resident doctrine of God's Word inside our soul. And number three, to operate on a faith rest drill. If we take in the Word of God, stay filled with the Holy Spirit, operate on a faith rest drill, it's possible, maybe not probable, but it's possible that you can overcome a lot of the desires of your flesh, that you can restrain the passions that right now drive you to do things you don't like. This word sofrana, self-control, means to be free of intoxicants, those things that rob you of clear thinking. Emotions are intoxicating. Emotions eliminate your clear thinking. And they do not restrain the sin nature. We must learn to restrain the sin nature by being self-controlled. And it starts at home with the children being taught divine norms and standards while they're still under your care so that when they get into the world, they have options. They at least know what their choices are. It doesn't mean they're gonna always choose the right thing, but it means you prepared them, you gave them a choice, and then it's up to them. They have to use their volition. If they love you and they honor you and they respect you, hopefully they will follow your advice and listen to the Word of God. So we are to keep watch over our lives and not fall asleep on duty. We are to have self-control. As a matter of fact, Paul wrote in 1 Thessalonians 5, 6, let us not sleep as others sleep, but watch and be sober. It means God does not assign responsibility to immature individuals. He expects you to develop self-control because if you don't have that, you can be enticed to disregard his plan and endanger anyone associated with you because you don't have any self-control, because you're self-centered, because you're nosy, because you're messy, because you're impatient. Maybe you're even explosive. So Titus says we are to have self-control and live uprightly. live uprightly, de chaos, de chaos. That means that we live equitably in a fair and impartial manner, never taking sides, not judging people, not predetermining guilt on our part. Let the Supreme Court of Heaven handle it. And that's why Paul wrote in 1 Thessalonians 2.10 the statement about his behavior, the way that he acted. Listen to the way he acted. He said, you are our witnesses and God is also how devoutly and justly and blamely we behaved ourselves among you who believe. Devoutly, justly, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves. Wow. I need to break those three words down. I haven't done that yet, but I will. So if we go on with Titus 2.12, he said we got to live godly lives. Eusebos, Eusebos is the Greek word, Eusebos, a godly life. Remember Psalm 116 verse 15, precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his godly ones. And so the question is, what is a godly life? What is a godly person? And I want to go over that with you, maybe not on this radio show, on the next one. Go into what is godliness? What does it mean to be a godly person? I hope you've been listening, and I hope you've been paying attention. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. Simply go to our website, RickHughesMinistries.org, and you can always email us from the website. You can there find a list of the books that we have available that are free of charge. We never charge for anything. We never solicit money. We never solicit funds. We never sell anything. I believe if God's in it, he'll pay for it without us ever having to open our mouth. And he has always done that. We are here today because of the faithfulness of believers who live by that principle just like I do. So think about it. Come back, be a part of the show, listen, learn, and apply with us this information that we give you. The most important thing is you know Christ as your Savior. I pray you have made that single most significant decision in your life, which is to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shall be saved. Until next week, this is your host, Rick Hughes, saying thank you for listening to The Flatline.
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Thank you for listening to The Floodline with your host, Rick Hughes. If you'd like to contact Rick, please write to him at P.O. Box 100, Cropwell, Alabama, 35054, or online at www.rickhughesministries.org.
In another insightful hour, John Rush sheds light on a couple's tumultuous dispute with a Mexican resort over a timeshare, unraveling the complexities and risks involved in international contracts. Listeners are urged to consider consumer protections and the legal implications of financial disputes overseas, as John shares cautionary tales that emphasize due diligence and the boundaries of U.S. law abroad.
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All right, hour number three, Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Several of you texting in after our last segment, which I didn't, I mean, I guess I didn't really think about it striking a nerve, but several of you, I reminded you now what soap tastes like. Because I guess I wasn't the only one, nor was Charlie, that got his or her mouth washed out with soap when we were younger. So several of you reminding me that, yes, I know what dial soap or lava soap or whatever soap tastes like because, yeah, we had the same experience as young men and women as, I guess, Charlie and I did. So we're not the only ones. Now, I do think that's probably a dying thing. I don't know if parents still do that, or is that now considered child abuse to wash your kid's mouth out with soap if they... Charlie said it's probably attempted murder. I don't know. I... I have some stories along these lines. Charlie said, yeah, it's because you're trying to poison them with soap. I've got some stories along these lines. And I may have told this one on air, but I'll tell it again. And I, okay, I get it that, you know, people use colorful language, okay? And I am not one of those prude types that runs around if somebody's saying something in a tongue that they shouldn't be. No, I'm not one to correct. Now, I will say this. All the businesses I've run and so on, I've never allowed my people, when speaking to customers and things along those lines, to use foul language. Just not allowed in my companies, period. I think there's better ways to communicate than using all of the colorful language that's now out in the world. So that's just a policy that I've had for years and years and years. And you guys all know me, and Charlie knows this. He can attest to this. You never have to worry about the dump button with me on air by myself. Now, sometimes callers and so on, those things can happen. And, yes, we're always careful to make sure that something doesn't slip out and we don't want a fine or anything from the FCC for having colorful language go out over the air. But for me personally, it's never an issue. I mean, I don't swear. It's just not in my vocabulary. It's the way I was raised and we weren't allowed to. And even if we got close to even swearing as kids, we got our mouths washed out with soap. That's probably why to this day, I don't swear because that's what happened to us. So I was at one time in a mall, and I don't go to the mall very often. This has been a long time ago. This has been decades ago. And it was around Christmas time. And I don't know exactly what I was there for. I guess shopping for the wife or whatever for Christmas. And I wasn't really thinking much about things. And so I'm walking around. And as I'm walking, and there wasn't a lot of people around. This must have been one evening because it wasn't a super busy evening. And there wasn't a ton of people around. I mean, there were a few, but not a lot. And there was a young man, and this is, you know, I'm 60 now, so I was probably in my, I don't know, 40s. I don't consider myself to be an old guy at that point, but, you know, younger than I am now, but still old, I guess, in the eyes of a lot of people. Anyways, there was a young man that was having a, I guess you could call a disagreement with his, I'm guessing, girlfriend. I didn't see any rings on, so I'm guessing it was the girlfriend. And he's using all sorts of colorful language, including the F word. And he's calling her basically everything under the book. And I was one of those individuals at the time where and I still am where, you know, I can listen to a little bit of that. But after a point, I'm not going to listen any longer. And in this particular situation, I actually walked up to the young man and I said, do you kiss your mouth with that? Do you kiss your mother with that mouth? He kind of looks at me kind of strange. I'm like, I'm being serious. I'm like, do you kiss your mother with that mouth and all of that garbage that's spewing out of her right now against your girlfriend? And by the way, she needs treated better than that. And he looked at me like he was totally shocked somebody would even call him out on it. And so what I got back, though, in return was mind your own business, old man. And I'm like, well, I am minding my business. I don't like the way you're treating your girlfriend. I don't like the language that you're using. And by the way, it's offensive to everybody else that's here now. So I would kindly ask you to shut your mouth, shut your trap. And he kind of looks at me like, what are you going to do about it? And I stood my ground and basically said, well, probably a lot more than you will. So bottom line, move along. Shut your trap. I don't want to hear it any longer because to me it was being very offensive at that point in time. So that's probably one of the few times I've ever said anything along those lines. There was one other time I can remember where I was at a ball game and I had my boys with me. And I think we were at a CU game and had my boys with me. And there were some guys behind us that were just every other word was the F word. And it was getting to the point where, you know, one every now and again, you know, you can put up with. And yes, I know my boys are still going to get some experience around that. And they're still going to hear some of that. And my one son went to the military. So absolutely, he's heard those words and so on. So I wasn't trying to, you know, keep them sheltered from the world in regards to that. But, you know, that just becomes a point in time where it's like, you know, I've heard enough of this. I get it. You don't like what's going on or you don't like what the coach is doing or you don't like what that player is doing. But, you know, I don't need to hear the F word every single time something is said. So, yes, I'm one of those guys is one of my downfalls where I had to turn around and say, you know, there are kids present. Could you kindly use a different word? And again, you get the immediate, you know, shocked look. But then you usually get some smart aleck response of, you know, well, why? And no, I can say whatever I want and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And yes, you know, I understand there's free speech and so on. But, you know, when you're being offensive. To all of those that are around you, and there are young kids present, I do think you need to be – you have some couth, I guess you could say. Be better than that. And, yes, I am one of those persons that if I hear that and it goes on long enough, yes, I will say something. I don't know. Again, I guess, guys, it's just the way I was raised. I go back to the bar of soap conversation we were having in the last hour before we ended that particular hour. And again, just the way I was raised. And I think you can do better. And no, you don't need to talk like that. And there's better ways to communicate. And that's my take on those things. Now, will I run around and be a goody two shoes and tell anybody that ever swears they shouldn't? No, I'm not that person. But if I'm in public and there are others around, especially young people and women especially around, and there are people being so foul-mouthed that even I get tired of it, yes, I'm going to say something and I'm going to call that person out on it. And so far, I've never been in a fistfight over it. You know, I will still say what needs to be said when that time comes. And my feeling is not enough of us do that. Thereby, these people feel like they have an open ticket to act like that all of the time. And it's not a problem ever. And the reality is it is. I could go on. And we should. Flesh law coming up next. 303-806-8886. Whatever you need, civil, criminal, whatever the representation is, Kevin is there for you. Not afraid to go to court. 303-806-8886.
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This is Rush to Reason on KLZ 560. All right, another interesting story that I read today, which some of you could probably care less about, but I found it interesting. And this was a, is, not was, is a couple that had a dispute over a timeshare that they had bought from Palace Resorts in Mexico. And evidently, there were some things that weren't the way they were supposed to be. And I don't know all the details of that. But evidently, they had a dispute over the amount owed to Palace Resorts. And they took it up with Amex. They must have put it on their credit card or the payments of or something. And in turn, American Express sided with them, gave them their money back. And I guess at that point in time, they felt like, OK, this is a done deal. You know, the dispute is settled. We don't owe them any more money. Enough said. Well, they went to Mexico a couple of different times. No problems. Until about a week or so ago. Might even be longer than that. Might be two weeks now. They were arrested upon coming through customs at the airport for fraud. for essentially defrauding palace resorts, and are now in a Mexican prison. awaiting a trial that might take up to six months to actually happen because that's how long the government has given Palace Resorts to come up with their side of the story as to why this couple owes them the money, which now Palace Resorts and the Mexican government is asking for $250,000 and a formal public apology because they feel like they were also defamed. online and elsewhere by what this couple had put out there about palace resorts here in america and it's a mess uh i guess the uh these are this is an older couple i think they're both in their early 60s she's down like 20 pounds so they've been there for a couple of weeks i want to say she's down about 20 pounds she won't eat any of the food that they are giving her because she's allergic to what they're trying to feed her she's got a major rash all sorts of other things going on and they have now gotten their local representative i think they're from michigan so they've got a representative from michigan trying to discuss things with the white house to then try to discuss things with the mexican government and here's my moral of that story if you're going to buy any kind of a timeshare which anymore i wouldn't but if you're going to buy a timeshare don't buy one out of the country They don't have the same laws and so forth that we do here in America, no matter what the paperwork says. It's not the same. And no, you're not being bound by U.S. law. You're going to be bound by whatever that country's law is, in this case, Mexican law. And at the end of the day, this could happen. So for those of you that are out there and you go to any of those presentations or things like that, and I have been to a lot of those over the years because you get all sorts of goodies when you go. That's a whole other conversation or show topic I could probably cover is what kind of timeshare goodies can you get and what's the fastest you've ever been in and out of one. My record is 15 minutes, by the way. That's my wife and I's record. I've been in and out of a timeshare presentation in 15 minutes. Most take 90. I've been in and out in 15 minutes, yes. And I'm not lying. My wife can verify that. 15 minutes. So, point being, there are ways to go through those things, still get the free stuff, still say no, still not get roped into doing anything, and still get out of it what you need, which... in some cases you can get up to 500 bucks depending upon the presentation. That's a whole nother, you know, that's a whole nother segment in and of itself that maybe I'll do at some point in time on, you know, how to, how to do those, how to not do them. And you get offered those things all over the place. Every time you travel, you get offered one in most hotels, you know, anymore, a lot of them, Marriott's, et cetera, Hilton, they're all timeshare owned. And even if you're just going and staying at a regular hotel, you may be offered one. So any, anyways, long story, uh, Don't buy one out of country. If you do, you better make sure you got all your I's dotted and T's crossed. In this particular couple's situation, they've been gone. This is also, I believe he's a veteran. He's an ex, I think it's, I can't remember the armed service he was in, but he's a vet, served his country. And so now the kids are asking, hey, what kind of help do we get to get my folks out of this Mexican prison they're in over something that's just over a, They didn't kill anybody. They weren't running drugs. They weren't running contraband into Mexico. They didn't have a luggage full of whatever that they got caught for. I mean, that would be a whole different situation. No, no, no, that's not the issue. The issue is Palace Resorts feels like they have been defrauded. They have pressed charges. This couple then was arrested at the airport. There's video of them being taken away at the airport. And the family's only talked to the husband, I think, once or twice since all of this happened. So you'll read about it. It's all over the news. If you haven't seen it, you will. If you don't know, just go look up what I just said. Just go Google what I just said, and you'll find the articles out there. It's a very interesting read. For some of you that travel and do things along those lines, it's probably in your best interest to actually read this particular article and not make the same mistakes these folks made. Now, how would you have avoided that? I mean, in their defense, they went to Mexico a couple of times, no problems, went back the third time, and then got arrested. So, again, I don't know all the details. I'm sure more of it will come out as time goes by. But very interesting story. And one that, let's just say, I wouldn't want to be in their shoes. I would not want to be in their shoes. You know, I have had this. I think I've said this many times on air. You know, I was raised by never go to jail. Always have a roof over your head. Those two things always stick in the front of my mind at all times. Keep a roof over your head. Don't go to jail. Keep a roof over your head. Don't go to jail. Keep a roof over your head. Don't go to jail. You get the drift in the front of my mind. It's always there. So at any rate, I would not want to be in jail outside of the U.S. especially. I have another story where I almost went to prison. Yes, me. I almost went to jail, went to prison. Was at an was at a Ethiopian police station or jail, if you would, for about 14 hours one day. And I started the night before. That's a whole story in and of itself. that I could tell on air at some point in time. Not a good position to be in. Let's just say that. At that time, and make a long story short, and I can tell the story more later, but I was accused of running into somebody with the car and killing them. That's what I was being accused of in Ethiopia. Not a good place to be, by the way. Not a fun place to be, because the last thing you want to be is in some foreign jail and not get out. And yes, that was going through my mind the entire time. Am I going to get out of this? Am I going to get out of this? And by the way, no, I hadn't done any of that, but that's what I was being accused of. So at any rate, that's another story for another day. Delaware, they just passed a billionaire's bill. Keep in mind, this is Joe's home state, Joe Biden's home state. A billionaire's bill to keep Zuckerberg and others from following Musk out the door. In other words, Delaware lawmakers Tuesday night passed a bill restructuring its corporate code as the state tries to prevent companies like Meta from exiting the state. The bill was designed with hopes of preventing a so-called Dexit. where companies hypothetically rushed to incorporate somewhere else out of Delaware into another state, such as Texas, Nevada. Some 2.2 million entities are incorporated in Delaware, and the state was home to 81% of all U.S. initial public offerings. Delaware is the best place in the world to incorporate your business, and Senate Bill 21 will help keep it that way, ensuring clarity and predictability, balancing the interests of stockholders and corporate boards, says Governor Matt Meyer in a statement after signing. So evidently they understand the importance of keeping companies there. I'm not sure the whole Democrat Party understands that. In fact, what I would tell you is the Democrat Party doesn't understand that end of things because what they keep trying to do when it comes to corporations and taxes and so on, the whole tax the rich scheme, which is exactly what it is, directly targets these sorts of companies. So while Delaware has figured this out, they need to send a message to the rest of the Democrat Party that, hey, we should do the same thing in the rest of the party. Otherwise, we're going to have people exiting the country because of your bad policies. If we continue after this whole mantra of tax the rich, tax the rich, tax the rich, which, by the way, is what Bernie and AOC were talking about even when they were here in Denver last Friday, they continue down that mantra, it's not going to bode well for them as a party. And I mean that with all sincerity. So somebody in the party should further that message along and let them know that that's not waning very well when it comes to those that have resources, because what they'll do is just move them other places when it's all said and done. Roof Savers of Colorado coming up next. And yes. Take care of your roof. It will take care of you. Like I was talking earlier, I always want a roof over my head. And I don't just want a roof over my head. I want a good roof over my head that, by the way, at the end of the day, is saving me money and not costing me money in all sorts of forms of maintenance and repairs and so on. 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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Charlie's getting Scott Garlis rounded up here. We'll have him in just a moment. Several of you texting in, by the way, especially on the whole Mexico thing with that couple of you messaging in that, yeah, I wouldn't have gone back there. I would have picked other places to vacation to just to double, you know, just to make sure that I didn't end up in that same place. And again, I'm not them. I don't know what their rationale was. I don't know what was going on in their mind. I don't know all of the details that went into this particular situation. All I know is, and those of you texting know the exact same thing that I'm talking about, you're not in America. You're not under the same laws. You don't have the same freedoms there that you have here. While you're an American citizen, that's great. but you still got to find somebody that's going to come and help you out when it's all said and done. Scott Garlis joining us now. Scott, welcome.
SPEAKER 15 :
Hey, John, how are you today?
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I am good. Good to hear you. Glad to be back together again. Lots and always lots happening, whether we talk or not. Bottom line, there's been a lot of things that have happened since you and I talked last.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yes, there have been. It's never a dull moment.
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No, it never is. And, you know, even with tariffs and all the different things that are happening along those lines and reality is that while people and I think the globalists especially get all bent out of shape and nervous over the tariffs so far and correct me if I'm wrong. But so far, we haven't seen huge inflationary increases out of them. In fact, they've been used as a negotiating tool on the Trump side to get other countries to do what's necessary. In fact, I think they've worked very well up to this point. I guess time will tell how much better they continue to work. But there hasn't been these huge inflationary things that the Fed and others are worried about, or am I wrong?
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Yeah, I mean, no, we haven't seen it show up in the numbers yet. As a matter of fact... if you look at the headline numbers on PCE and CPI the last couple of months, they've actually started coming back down. So it's the old, well, just wait until a couple of months down the road, just wait until a couple of months down the road. Maybe, we'll see. I mean, we heard that last time around, and inflation never really materialized. So I'm kind of right now in the camp of, You know, bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
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Well, you know, and you know my feelings on all this, of course. You know, I'm a lot like you in regards to these things, and I am not a globalist, and I have to remind folk at different times, whether they're listeners or even family members at times, you know, be careful of what you read, be careful of all of the naysayers, because globalists hate... not only tariffs, but frankly, Scott, I don't think they even like us being super competitive, because at the end of the day, that affects the whole global end of things, because the better we do, sometimes the worse other countries do. We'll get into China here in a moment, but at the end of the day, the globalists hate what we're doing right now, and they hate Donald Trump, because they ruin, or he ruins what they want.
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Yeah, I mean, you know, these countries are happy to take money from the U.S. and sort of kick... kick us in the back and walk all over us. I mean, I just feel like a lot of the stuff going on right now is people are being called out for what they've been doing for years. And it's, you know, I'm sorry, but if you've been doing something wrong and you get called out for it, you're getting called out for it.
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Right.
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And it's probably you hate it because you're getting shown out to everybody what you've been doing, but it's just sort of the way it is. Don't do it, and we won't have this problem.
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That's right. That's exactly right. And, you know, again, we'll get into China in a moment, but let's talk about some of those, you know, I guess you could call them the fear gauges and maybe what's going on behind them. Are they really as bad as some think? Are some of those easing? What are your thoughts?
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Yeah, so, excuse me, sorry. We saw a couple of the fear gauges really accelerate to the extreme fear category, and that sort of happened recently. I think last week was when we saw peak levels. We saw the Chicago Board of Option Exchanges Volatility Index. It got north of 27.5, got up to 30. Usually, during this bull market run, whenever it has gone above that level, it's been a great buying opportunity. Since that time, the stock market has bounced back like 5%. We saw the CNN Fear and Greed Index. it dropped to levels we haven't seen since the COVID pandemic and when everything was shut down. And again, that's seen a big bounce back. And then something else, the put-call ratio, which is it measures the amount of puts being bought versus calls, and puts are downside protection versus calls, or what you might call upside protection. And that got over one, and meaning... it's just the ratio of puts was way higher than the ratio of calls. And that's also a sign of extreme fear. And that's backed off, too. So some of the things we've seen from the White House that have also helped this is Trump has made commentary along the lines of, you know, these tariffs, reciprocal tariffs aren't going to be as punitive or the stories have leaked out that they're not going to be as punitive as, as maybe people have thought. And then this afternoon he actually made that statement. He said, there'll be far less than what people expect. So I think wall street has felt a little bit better and investors have felt a little bit better because we've gone from, Hey, all this uncertainty about what may or may not happen to you're starting to get some concrete detail that is removing that. And once they understand that better, They can start to money managers can start to invest more.
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Let's talk China for just a moment, because that's the biggest thing people talk about and investors even talk about. And there's some reports coming out. I was reading an article today from Bloomberg talking about the China shock to or now China, China, China shock 300. meaning China's struggling across the board. Their manufacturing side of things is really dropping. They lost, I want to say, let me read this here. They lost from 99 to 2011, they lost 2.4 million U.S. jobs at that point. And the reality is there's more to come this time around. So bottom line, Scott, they are not in great shape. And the point of this article is they make all of these goods. If they're going to keep their economy up, those goods have to go somewhere. And if we're not going to be the country buying them, who is?
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, that's a great question. I would think Europe's going to buy some, but Europe's economy is struggling right now.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, and GDP-wise, I don't think most people really realize this, you can take all of Europe combined, they still don't scratch the surface to what we do, GDP.
SPEAKER 15 :
No, I mean, I believe it's like 20% of the global economy, maybe 25%.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, because between us and China, we're half.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yes, yes, and the U.S. being the bulk of that.
SPEAKER 13 :
That's right. We're almost $30 trillion a year GDP. The next closest is China, and they're way below that.
SPEAKER 15 :
If you take the Eurozone and aggregate, they're actually bigger than China.
SPEAKER 13 :
Right. That's right.
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But they're still second to the U.S.
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That's right. That's right. Yeah. And that's where, I mean, I think, just to put things in perspective, when folks start talking about tariffs and they get mad at this and they get mad at that, and this might go up and that might go up, yeah, it may. You know, the cost of a TV, yeah, you know, it may go up. Your flat screen, you know, that you can buy right now, that 85-inch flat screen that's, you know, $9.99, you know what, Scott, at the end of the day, it might go to $14.99. And the way I look at, you know, Sorry, maybe I'm wrong in saying this, but the way I look at that is, yeah, oh well, so what? No offense, but that flat screen TV is not putting food on the table for me. So at the end of the day, does it really matter? No, it doesn't. If that's some of the little bit of sacrifice that I as a consumer have to make to get things back on track, I'm fine with that.
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You know, I have a flat screen up in my bedroom to Sony TV. And I don't know, it's 15 years old. It still works great. I mean, I just gave it the kiss of death. But you sound like you're running out to buy things like flat screens every day either, right?
SPEAKER 13 :
No, you're not. I mean, that's my point. But, yeah, that's when we start talking tariffs and things, that's one of the first things that you'll see some of the media especially talk about is, well, you know, that electronic device or that flat screen TV or that whatever, you know, yeah, it's going to go up in price. Well, okay, yeah. It will. But at the end of the day, the reality is there's a lot of other things that we're getting killed on, you know, cars, for example. You know, we've allowed cars to come into this country for very, very, very little tariffs. And yet when we try to export one to Germany, they nail us. So why aren't we doing the same thing with German cars?
SPEAKER 15 :
And exactly. And so that's that's been one of Trump's big, big fights or big points. He's like, hey, look, if you want free trade, that's great. Tear down the tariffs you're putting on our exports that go to your country. And like one of his beats with Europe is. You're happy to sell agricultural goods here, but you won't buy any of our stuff because you're saying it doesn't meet your standards. It's got to be a two-way relationship. It can't be all one-sided.
SPEAKER 13 :
Correct.
SPEAKER 15 :
You know, last time I checked, when you date somebody and you find you're in a one-way relationship, you usually get out.
SPEAKER 13 :
Hmm. That's true. That's true. Yeah. No, by the way, that's a great point. And that's kind of what we're doing right now as a country. That's what Trump is doing. And the reality is some of these countries will either figure out how to play ball correctly, get things back in line, which, by the way, then helps us as Americans, or they can keep those tariffs high. We'll keep ours high. And you just won't see as many German cars running around. If you do, they're going to cost more.
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So what you hit on another point that it really frustrates me as Americans, So an investor and then talking to friends that are retail investors and just the anxiety that's being created by a lot of the misrepresentation in the media. Like tonight, Trump announced 25 percent auto tariffs this afternoon. I'm sure you saw that. But he said we're going to start at 2.5 percent and they're going to be incremental moving forward. And they could get to 25 percent. But, I mean, I don't know the exact detail, and you probably know more than me on this, but I'm assuming he's saying, because he's talked about this before, and Scott Besson has talked about this before, we want to start at 2.5% and give everybody the chance to opt out. treat us fairly, and we won't go down that road. But if they're not, then we will dial it up. But the media isn't reporting that.
SPEAKER 13 :
No, they don't say that. Again, the media is not going to tell you that when we export a car to Germany, there's X tariff on it, and there always has been, and yet we've only tariffed, I think, German cars at like 2% or something is where, in fact, he might be raising it from that, but I think they've been 2% for quite some time.
SPEAKER 15 :
And then the other thing, too, like you're asking, well, where are Chinese goods going to be bought? You know, Europe's having a problem with China trying to dump goods into their country. And they're pushing Chinese goods back. They don't want them anymore because they're fed up with it. So I was reading an interesting article the other day that China is actually debating doing something Japan did in the 80s when there was a trade fight going on with Reagan. Japan said, well, what if we start shipping less goods to your country to sort of to nullify everything that's going on? And But that goes back to China dumping, and it's the exact thing that Trump has been fighting to stop because it hurts American workers and companies.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, and then you've got announcements, and I'm sure you've seen some of these as well. You've got Hyundai that's agreeing to spend $25 billion over here putting a plant in. And by the way, that won't just be a one-term president plant. That thing will be here for decades. You've got the UAE agreeing to put in $1.4 trillion worth of investment. You've got... chip company down in Arizona agreeing to build another huge plant down there, TSMC. I mean, the reality, Scott, is all of these things happening, this is exactly what we want as a country because these are not, you know, things that are just going to affect us over the next year or even four. These are things that will affect us for decades.
SPEAKER 15 :
For decades. And it's, yes, there's going to be some stuff up front that might feel a little discomforting to get there. But once we get there, it's, yeah, I mean, it's going to be great for the U.S. economy for a long time to come. And then if you put all the technology efficiencies we've been talking about for some time now on top of that, just think about what that can do from a profitability and maybe even a GDP standpoint. Like I've read some people that are saying you could see what the AI capabilities we're seeing right now, what that could do for business, and if business really booms in the U.S., you could see GDP pick up 2X, maybe even 3X.
SPEAKER 13 :
Right. You know, the other thing, too, that we could go off for a long time on, even the textile industry and so on, and, you know, you're a guy like me to where I understand, and I think most of my listeners understand, the value of a product. And what I mean by that is, you know, Scott, I can spend, you know, $20 on a, you know, button-down, you know, collared shirt, or I can spend $100 on a button-down collared shirt. And for some of you listening, you're thinking, geez, that's a big difference in price. Hear me out. Scott, if I spend $100 or even $120 on a really good quality button-down shirt, I can literally, and I'm not exaggerating, I can wear that thing for the next five-plus years and most likely donate it when I'm done because it's still in decent shape, whereby I buy that $20 shirt, I might get a year or two out of it. So at the end of the day, which one am I better off buying? My point is... Yes, absolutely.
SPEAKER 15 :
I agree. I mean, the biggest problem China ran into is that China got all this business over there and tried to use it and lever it against all the countries all over the world and try to steal all their technology. and now people are fed up with it.
SPEAKER 13 :
And, Scott, at the end of the day, and this is one thing that, again, the press doesn't tell you, you can buy whatever. I mean, I can go down the list. Pick your poison. Whatever widget you can think of. I'm talking to a microphone right now that is a very high-quality microphone, and I'm looking at it. This is probably a $450 to $500 microphone if it's a nickel. Yes, we as a station could go to China. Probably find a substitute, a clone, if you would, Scott, that is probably a tenth of that price. But at the end of the day, it won't sound the same, it won't last as long, and it's not the same microphone at the end of the day. And yet that cheap Chinese crap is all over the world.
SPEAKER 15 :
It is all over the world. That's right.
SPEAKER 13 :
And I'm for one, I'm said, you know what, as an American and maybe again, maybe I'm looking at this the wrong way. And I get that some people need cheap goods. But some of the things I've just described to you, you're not better off buying the cheap crap. You're actually hurting yourself by buying it. And yet Americans are addicted to it. Well said. So I'm one that says, let's clean that stuff up. Maybe that's what Trump's trying to do as well. And some of what I just got done talking about is what's in the back of his mind. I don't know.
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Completely. Along the lines of some of the other stuff he's doing, too, he's trying to get rid of ridiculous expenses. There was an interview I saw the other day that Besant and one of the guys from Doge was talking to a reporter, and this guy from Doge said the IRS should have The same IT department about the size of a mid-sized bank, which is about 1 to 200 people, and they should have an IT budget annually of a mid-sized bank, which is about $20 million. He said they had 8,000 people working in the IT department at the IRS. Wow. In a budget of $3.2 billion.
SPEAKER 13 :
Again, Scott, that could be done, and I'm not exaggerating, folks. That could be done on probably 1% of that number if everything was updated, done correctly, AI being initiated into some of that. And I'm not joking. You literally could do that with 1% of that amount of people.
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He said they are finding $20, $30, $50 million contracts and going back to people that work there and saying, why do we have these contracts? And they're saying, I don't know. And so they're cutting off these contracts, and they're finding nothing's changing.
SPEAKER 13 :
Surprise! I mean, I'm not shocked. I'm not surprised. Scott, I mean, this is stuff that the problem, and I say this a lot, and I mean this. Government is a lot like church. Let me explain. When you get something going on in church, a committee, a picture hanging on the wall, the color of the carpet, you name it, Scott. It takes literally an act of God himself to change some of those things in a church because once it's there, it's always going to be there because some person is attached to it. the same darn thing happens in government.
SPEAKER 15 :
That's right. That's a great analogy.
SPEAKER 13 :
And somehow, someway, that needs shaken up, and that's what they're doing right now. And what really kills me, Scott, is yet we've got an entire party that is upset over the shakeup that's getting rid of waste, fraud, and abuse.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, I think if you go back to what we were talking about before, about other countries being caught out for the money they're taking from the U.S. and the way they're treating us... I think people, there are some people in D.C. that are getting called out for exactly what you just said, waste, fraud, and abuse, and it's being exposed, and they don't like being exposed when they've done the wrong things.
SPEAKER 13 :
Nope, they do not. They do not. All right, Scott, how do folks find you and get updates and follow along?
SPEAKER 15 :
Sure, yeah, follow me on LinkedIn, Twitter, or Substack, C. Scott Garlis.
SPEAKER 13 :
Scott, as always, I appreciate you, sir.
SPEAKER 15 :
Hey, John, thanks for your time.
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All right. Lots of you texted in. I read as many of those through the break and responded as quickly as I could. If I didn't get to you, I still read your text message. And a lot of you talking about that segment with Scott and talking about the cheap products, the addiction to what you get in quality. Some of you even asking what type of things do I buy and how often do I replace a television set, for example, or a flat screen. I'll be honest until it dies. Yeah. I mean, I guess if there's something that I really want to update or remodel or there's something along those lines that I'm doing, I may go ahead and change something out at that time, and then you pass one off to the kids or the friends or you relocate it or put it out in the shop or whatever the case might be. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I'm not somebody that's out buying a new TV every time a new model comes out. That's not that important to me. It's not that big of a deal. Clothing, yeah, I mean, I buy high-quality shoes. I buy high-quality shirts. I gave you the reason why a few minutes ago. I feel like at the end of the day, you actually spend less when it's all said and done because I can get a longer wear. out of those particular items than I would otherwise. And I'm a guy that my kids make fun of me, but I wear a collared shirt, either short or long sleeve, pretty much all year long because it's cold in the studio. Even in the summertime, we'll wear a long sleeve shirt, might change into a short sleeve shirt at night when I get home. But I'm a collared shirt kind of guy, I guess. I don't know. I just kind of always have been. I rarely ever wear a T-shirt. I mean, if I'm doing an oil change or something like that, I might stick a T-shirt or something on. But even then, typically I've got some older collared shirts I keep around just for that one reason. And I'm just as comfortable in a collared shirt as I am a T-shirt. And, again, I buy high-quality shirts and shoes and things along those lines, and I get good longevity out of those in doing so. It's just – I don't know. I just kind of have – well – And this is going to probably not shock some of you. Charlie, it won't shock. I've been buying my own clothes since I was 13 years of age. I had income, I had a paper route, I had other money, and when it came time to go to school, I didn't want the same clothing that everybody else had to wear or that my mom and dad even wanted to choose for me to wear because they were on a much tighter budget than what I could even afford at the time. So I literally have been buying, washing, and caring for my own clothes since I was 13 years of age. I know I'm a weirdo. I get that all the time. Most kids are not buying their own clothes at that age. Their parents are. But that was just me. And it's because I felt like, A, I could help my folks out. B, I wanted to buy what I wanted to buy and wear. C, I learned to take care of them that way. And so I learned how to do laundry and iron and all of that at a very young age because I wanted to make sure my stuff was well cared for. at the end of the day I've done that since and I learned at an early age if I spend a little more money on something I got longer wearability out of it and at the end of the day actually saved money over what some others were doing the way they were doing it so just my own personal experiences along those lines and no folks I was asked do I shop at Kohl's no I do not shop at Kohl's I do not buy their dress shirts or anything along those lines sorry Kohl's just not my vibe All right, that's it for today. Guys, have a great night. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
This episode of Rush to Reason takes listeners on an in-depth exploration of the value of disruption and growth within society, as well as the individual. John Rush shares a compelling narrative on why learning each day is crucial and how Richard Battle sees service as a fulfilling mission. Together, they tackle societal pressures towards conformity and stress the importance of staying true to oneself. Stay tuned as they discuss topics ranging from education to Trump's Executive Order on Voter ID requirements.
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All right, Hour 2, Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Richard Battle joining us now. Richard, how are you, sir?
SPEAKER 09 :
Good afternoon, John. We're doing great. Thanks for having us back again.
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Temperature warming up in Texas. Are you guys still okay?
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, what time is it?
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It is, well, your time, it's five.
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Yeah, I know, it's plenty warm today, and I think winter's over down here.
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Okay, all right, well, we're not bad today. Here's 76. It's actually a really nice day today, so I'll make you a little jealous there. To succeed, we must continue to learn, grow, and serve, and yeah, those are fundamentals.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, and this is just a different way to look at things like we've looked at before, and if we want to be more, we have to do more, and doing more means continuing to learn, grow, and serve others. And if we look at it that way, I think it makes it much easier to realize what we need to do to be able to accomplish that, despite all the discouragement that we hear in the media and from politicians wanting us to be servants to them.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, and I think on top of that, and you tell me your thoughts on this, but we have now an entire education system that essentially, yeah, I mean, they'll be there to tell you to learn, although when everybody gets a prize and everybody's a winner, which, no offense, Richard, they aren't, the yearning, I guess you could say, to do better, be stronger, get faster, grow, and so on, and even the serving aspect of it, well, if you're always a winner, why serve?
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, and I think you're right. And our country was founded on the freedoms, economic and political freedoms of individual liberty, that everyone could try to be the best they could be. People didn't compare themselves to others. They just strove every day to be better. And for the last several years, and the education system contributes to this, there's been a push toward collectivism, and they want us to compare ourselves to others. They want us to limit what we can do so everyone can have equity and things of this type nature. I'm proud to say that I was educated before the Department of Education was established, and I feel very blessed to have them.
SPEAKER 05 :
yeah and the whole you know i'm glad you said that it's interesting i was given a a little um pep talk i guess you could say to one of my clients earlier this morning and we were talking about these very things and the one thing that i said is you know especially as a business owner is you know don't get in the trap of you know while it's great to look at others and their accomplishments and what they've done and yes we need to strive again to learn grow serve all of those things on the same token Richard, and not to get super spiritual here, but I think the Lord put thou shalt not covet into a commandment for a reason because really what he's saying there is, and I know what we were taught in Sunday school and so on, but my feeling on the correct interpretation of covet is stop comparing yourself to What they have and what they've done and what they've been able to accomplish in life might be completely different than you because guess what? I made each of you equal but yet totally different to accomplish different things in life. So just because they've done something that you can't do doesn't make them any better than you, so stop comparing yourself to them.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, absolutely. And I think the commandments were put in there because God knew the human nature of the fallen world, and he knew that that would be our natural thing to do. And again, our culture, the media, the politicians, they all promote that. And when we focus on ourselves and on other people being better than us in something, we don't think about the things we're better than them. Our human nature is to think about the things they're better than we are. And that promotes this depression and the thoughts, the negative type thoughts that are detrimental to us individually and as a society.
SPEAKER 05 :
You know, and as you say that, again, not to get too in-depth here, although it all dovetails together, and that's what the commandments do. Even the commandment, thou shalt not kill, you know, I know it's murder, not kill, because if we're defending our own lives or at war or whatever, that's not what that commandment means. But, you know, thou shalt not kill. And where I'm going with this Richard, is if we do that comparison enough to the point to where we get so depressed that we now even want to take our own life, they dovetail together even in that matter because God says, A, don't compare, don't covet, and then, of course, don't kill, meaning even yourself.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes, and I think we shouldn't be listening to that, and that is happening because, again, it's being reinforced about equity and everybody being alike, and I don't care who's running the government. No one can make us alike, and all we have to do is look at families with multiple children who are brought up the same, and all the kids are different regardless of that.
SPEAKER 05 :
That's right.
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And so we each need to celebrate our individual gifts.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yep.
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and collaborate to make each other successfully and each of us successfully, and everything we do contributes to the good of the whole.
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Let's talk about the learn, grow, and serve, you know, breaking those down, because yes, we need to learn. We need to keep learning, I should say. We need to grow. We need to continue to serve, and if you never have, you need to learn how. So walk us through that.
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Well, first thing is I think we need to learn daily, be lifelong learners. And whether the education system is good or not, it's imperative for parents and grandparents to make sure young people learn and are inspired to continue lifelong learning afterwards. And Einstein said, learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop learning. questioning. Well, if you notice, our government and the society now is promoting not to question some of these things that have transpired the last few decades.
SPEAKER 05 :
That's right. No, in fact, it's the old look the other way, nothing to see here.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes, and so reading books, listening to podcasts and radio programs, watching programs, develop additional skills, all these things we need to do and inspire young people to do because that thought that once you get out of school, the learning's over, if that's the case, you will never grow beyond where you are at that point, and you'll be left in the dust.
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I know this sounds a little weird, and it might sound this way to some, but you probably would understand this. I was talking to somebody the other day, and I try to take several vacations a year, A, because I keep a really heavy schedule, six days a week, and I try to take time off. And it seems like, Richard, as I get a little older, I need a little bit more of that mental break than I did even five years ago. But what I was telling somebody the other day is some of the – Greatest learning experiences I've had on a lot of levels, even business-wise, have literally come from people that I have met and encountered on vacation. Because when you're there, you're able to even talk and discuss things that you wouldn't normally do while you're here. And some of the greatest learning episodes I've ever had has been on vacation.
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Well, you're able to do it because you're not under the daily pressure that you normally are, and you're able to relax and take something for what it is and process it and take advantage of that situation. And I think we all need to have time like that where we can listen, learn, listen for the Holy Spirit to speak to us. And that's part of the growing that comes from the daily living. And the other thing that I think is so interesting right now is we're going through a disruption in Washington that's never been seen, certainly not in our lifetimes. But I got to thinking about it, and our whole country's success is based on constant disruption since the founding. The whole industrial revolution was disruption. And so for us to succeed more, we have to have more disruption, but it can't be theoretical disruptions. It has to be proven things that work. And for the last two or three decades, we've fallen for a lot of things that have failed before and or are not proven to work.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, and this coincides with what we're going to talk about even in regards to serving, Richard. When a family, a country, a church, a business gets comfortable, things are rolling along fairly well. You know, the income in the business is coming along well. Family unit is doing well. There's no disruptions. The country's doing well. The economy's doing well and so on. I hate to say this, Richard, but those are some of the worst times that probably will be coming because those disruptions in life, to your point a moment ago, is what make us grow. The easy times don't make us grow.
SPEAKER 09 :
That's exactly right. And the tendency of our human nature is when things are going well, to relax and enjoy the ride. And a great example I love to talk about, and I think we've mentioned it here, is look at Sears and Roebuck. They were the biggest retailer there were. They had everything to where they could have become the Amazon, if you will, but they didn't see it because they were resting on their success. And we've seen that in other businesses as well as individual lives as well. And as soon as we stop the discomfort of growing, we are sentencing ourselves to no better life than where we are at the moment.
SPEAKER 05 :
You are 100% correct. All right, what do you want to do to close this out?
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Well, service to humanity is the best work of life. And whenever I've been most depressed going through any adversity, I find it's because I'm thinking about myself. And the best thing I can do is if I think about how can I help others, it makes me forget about whatever negativity is going on in my life, and it helps me to think something positive to help others in their lives. And so to me, that's the most important thing we can do is besides our personal growth is help serve others.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, because as you know, what that does is, once again, it takes the focus off of us, what we either, in most cases, don't have, because that's typically when we get down on ourselves, is we're comparing ourselves to others, back to what I was opening up with. We compare ourselves to others. Oh, they're doing this so much better. Their family unit is so much better. Their business is so much better. The car they drive is so much better. And pretty soon we get down on the press because our focus now comes back to us, Rather than saying, okay, you know what, what can I do to help others, serve others, and take the focus off of me?
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes, exactly. And I can remember as a kid, I had some of my cousins who they always had the Tonka trucks. I never had one. They had the brand name bicycles. I got hand-me-down clothes from them. But we never talked about any kind of jealousy or envy or anything about them. It was just the way it was. And, of course, we were reminded that we had more than a lot of other people. But today, the culture focuses on the things we don't have and creates that envy and jealousy of others that we shouldn't have.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yep, you are exactly right. I also know in our measuring results, we say the world measures success in material things that we can see today. You and I both know that that is not the measure of success.
SPEAKER 09 :
No, absolutely. And we sow seeds that will bear fruit beyond our lifetime, hopefully. And in the movie Broken Trail, there was a great line when Robert Duvall's character was talking to his nephew who was tired of this trail drive they were on. And the nephew said, this drive is getting less profitable every day. And Robert Duvall's character said, son, you never measure wealth using money. Right. And I think that's a great piece of advice because our greatest impacts on other people and on time beyond our life will be non-monetary.
SPEAKER 05 :
Amen. Talk about your books, how folks can get them. We've got graduation not that far down the road. How do they get a hold of things that you've got, Richard?
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, thank you, John. Americans Who Made America, 18th Century Birth of the Republic would be a terrific graduation gift. The 19th century volume will be out in June to complement it. RichardBattle.com, all books are signed. If you email me after an order at Richard at RichardBattle.com, we're happy to inscribe them. If you go to Amazon, you can get Kindle and audio versions as well.
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Nice. Richard, as always, I always appreciate it. Have a great rest of your day.
SPEAKER 09 :
My pleasure. God bless America.
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All right, we are back. Trump issued an executive order on federal elections, essentially requiring ID, something that has been discussed all across this country. And no surprise, all of the liberals, and I'll even tell you what our own Jenna Griswold says in a moment. But Mother Jones, which, yeah, I just had to go there, Charlie. Those of you that don't know what Mother Jones is, go look it up. It's probably one of the most left-leaning rags of a website and publication that's out there. And this was their headline. Trump's new executive order is an astonishing and unprecedented voter suppression effort. Now, what's interesting is anytime you go to some of the men on the streets and they go into areas whereby this particular headline would read loudest, you know, you go into some of the inner cities and so on and you ask these people, you know, do you have an I.D.? ? And they look at these and I'm not you can look at a lot of these. There's more than one of these out there. We can go to YouTube and and search for some of these particular videos that I'm referring to. And I'm not exaggerating when I say that literally the people that they're interviewing will look at the person with the microphone with this bewilderment of, yeah, why? Literally, they'll look at them like, yeah, I've got an ID. I need an ID so I can not only drive but buy cigarettes and liquor and go here and go there. And, you know, you get my drift. In other words, yes, they have IDs. In fact— The interviewers will even go on to say, well, how did you get an I.D.? Because the other side will tell you that it's voter suppression to require somebody to have an I.D. because they can't get them. For some odd reason, they don't have the ability to get their hands on a government-issued I.D., It's absurd, by the way. But that's what the left will tell you. That's what Mother Jones is basically telling you in this particular article. On Tuesday afternoon, President Donald Trump signed a far-reaching executive order that Eliza Swearen Becker, a senior counsel for the Brennan Center for Justice Voting Rights and Election Programs, described it as an astonishing and unprecedented voter suppression effort. It would upend how Americans register to vote, how they cast their ballots, and how their votes are counted. By the way, hogwash. None of that statement, none of that statement is true. I don't care what side of the aisle you're coming from. None of that is true. Zero. We are at an astonishing moment where the President of the United States is issuing policy directives with the unmistakable intent of stopping Americans from participating in our democracy. Well, first of all, let me correct you there. We don't have one. So you're incorrect in what you're stating anyways. But even if I was going to add in and take out democracy and put in our constitutional republic, you're still wrong. You're still wrong. Once again, going back to some of the videos that are out there that literally go into some of these areas that people think this would make life really difficult for these individuals, and they're looking at you like, no, I have all of that. This wouldn't change anything on my end whatsoever. If I have to show an ID to match to my name that's on the voter rolls, what's the big deal? So any of you, anybody out there listening, either side of the aisle, and some of you on the left who are really out and have utter disdain for President Trump, how can you have utter disdain for voter registration and ID in that process? Do you not want the person that says that they're voting to be that person? I do. I do. I do. Now, what I will tell you is what Jenna Griswold said is, Trump, this is our Secretary of State here in Colorado. Trump's executive order is unlawful. It would prevent eligible Americans from exercising their sacred right to vote. The Trump administration is weaponizing the federal government and trying to make it harder for voters to fight back at the ballot box. The United States has always led the world in conducting free and fair elections. We cannot let Donald Trump end that legacy. Which, again, Jenna, I'm sorry to say, you again are flat wrong. He's not doing anything along those lines. And I also find it ironic that the same people that are mad at Doge and Donald Trump for wanting to shrink government down and have less of it are the same people telling you that he's now weaponizing it somehow. So how can you do both? How can you be shrinking government and the role of while at the same time weaponizing it? Jenna and those of you that are on the left that believe in this utter nonsense, I feel sorry for you because you have a screw loose. Literally, there's a screw loose somewhere. You cannot think in this manner and not have a screw loose. You cannot say in the same breath, which a lot of you will, that he's a bad guy and so is Elon Musk for shrinking government down, all the while saying that they're weaponizing it. You can't have both, folks. You can't have it both ways. You cannot say in the same sentence both of those things. And yet you guys do. Jenna Griswold, you are. You're saying exactly that. So, again, all of you that are on the left, number one, this whole having to have ID to vote and why you're against that, you're the same moron that's against shrinking government. You're the same moron that has a problem with waste, fraud, and abuse and getting rid of it. And when I say moron, I'm not using that loosely. That is exactly what you are, because you've got to screw loose. You're not thinking correctly at all. So... I'll leave it at that. We'll come back. Geno's Auto Service is up next. 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All right, we are back. We'll get to Sonny Kutcher here in just one moment. A couple of calls prior. Go ahead, Dave.
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Yeah, what I'd like to point out is the hypocrisy of the Democratic Party when they bring out those memes about voter suppression. Do we not recall the motor voter laws that were passed specifically even here in Colorado? I mean, that was straight out so that it would make it easier for people to get registered to vote. Well, if you're going to get registered to vote at the DMP, well, then why not carry around that same ID to vote? It's just another endorsement that you would receive on your driver's license, that you are registered and this is you and this is your party affiliation, whatever it is. So that shouldn't be a problem. It's a red herring that they're throwing out there.
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That's right. Well, ultimately, Dave, what this is doing, as you know, is this is going against them in the fact that, yes, we'd like to make sure that whoever votes is actually alive, they're voting, they're full well, they're able to vote, and so on. The reality is this throws a monkey wrench in all of that, and that's why they're all mad.
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Well, exactly, and that's the second point I was going to make. The president's order is just cleaning out the voter rolls so that we don't have as they do with the Social Security system, 120-year-olds collecting Social Security checks.
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That's right.
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Which is obviously an impossibility. That's right. You know, it was one of those things that even when I think it was George Bush Sr., when he died, his last statement was, I wonder if I'll still be able to vote in Chicago. You know, those things. Right. You know, there's nothing wrong with it. And there's nothing wrong with verification as a fair playing field. It's not saying that you're going to register everyone as Republicans. It's just saying that everyone's going to be verified. That's it.
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That's it. That's right. Nothing wrong with that. Dave, I'll let you go. I appreciate that. You are you are spot on. Dennis, you're next. Go ahead.
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John, this doesn't have to do with voter issues, but let me give you an example of how the state of Colorado thinks. So I was on the Great Colorado Payback website, found my dad's name. He's been gone for 29 years. So that means the estate's been closed for 28. I was the PR, so I thought, hey it's you know i'll uh fill out a claim for well i called them they said fill out a claim form and provide a death certificate so i did that okay i get an email back they want all of my personal represent representative documentation they want a complete copy of the will including all of the errors and the percentages of uh what they were to be left All for $3.
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Oh, my word. Dennis. Yeah, thank you. Proving the point. Exactly. Yeah, yeah. That's one where he's just like, okay, where do I send the $3 to?
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Well, I'm just going to leave it on their server to burn up.
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Well, yeah, I just just take up more space. No, good. Dennis, thank you. Yeah, that is a great that's a great reiteration of how government thinks. Sonny Kutcher joining us now, Young Americans Against Socialism. Sonny, and you could tell my last segment was talking about Trump's executive order and the fact now that the left is just. You know, they're blown up. Our own secretary of state here is all in an uproar. You know, this is going to go against people's voting rights and this, that and the other. I mean, nothing could be farther from the truth. But that's what the left's narrative is.
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About voter ID?
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Yes.
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Well, we know that they will stop. They will stop at nothing to get to their vote. their the fulfillment of their agenda which is importing these migrants and having a one-party state that disguises itself as a democratic uh you know uh constitutional republic which we have and that is their plan all along because they understand that the american people are not stupid right they they like to treat us as such they treat us like we're you know morons and food feed us headlines, garbage headlines that are completely fabricated. But what they want to do is, like I said, disguise their plan as a democratic thing, you know, to allow people to come into this country. But it's really simple. If you're not a citizen, you can vote. And if you want to vote, we should. If that is the rule, if you're a citizen, you can vote. If you're not, you can't vote. And how is it racist, sexist, any of those things to require identification to prove that you are who you say you are when you go to vote as a citizen of this country?
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It's not. Joe, a good friend of the show who calls in. on a regular basis. Here is our guide to identifications. And by the way, there's a lot more, but just some of the highlights. You have to have identification to bank, go to the airport, of course, and fly, go to the doctor, go to the pharmacy, pick up your prescriptions, by the way, school in a lot of cases, go to the gun store, of course, fishing, hunting, daycare, hospital, drinking, of course, smoking, I could add, but voting, though, Sonny, no, you don't need any ID to vote. But all those other things require one.
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Absolutely. And, you know, this is just one more tactic that the left will use to convince people that, you know, they are they are for, you know, the common man and that, you know, we're trying to protect your rights by, you But, you know, where was that for, you know, young women who are vulnerable or all these different people who have been vulnerable because of the less destructive policies? That's right.
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You want to talk about NPR for a moment since that's what you sent me?
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Yeah, well, this was a pretty fiery exchange, I would say.
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Would you like me to, really quick, let me double check here. I think I've got enough time. I know we have enough time. Let me make sure I've got my settings correct here where we actually can play this, and I believe I can. So, Charlie, let me make sure that I've got things dialed in here, back this up a moment, and let's go ahead and play this. Here we go.
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First of all, I do want to say that NPR acknowledges that we were mistaken in failing to cover the Hunter Biden laptop story more aggressively and sooner. Our current editorial leadership in Wuhan, we recognize that we were reporting at the time, but we acknowledge that the new CIA evidence is worthy of coverage and have covered it.
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All right, so they're admitting, Sonny, they're admitting, and that's why you sent it to me, that they failed to cover the Hunter Biden laptop story. They downplayed COVID and its origins, of course, and yet, for some odd reason, we need to keep funding them with our tax dollars? Why?
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Because it's been a racket the entire time. NPR, government-funded news programs, are nothing more than an extension of the radical left. They are a propaganda arm, and that is what they've been used as for quite a long time. I'm honestly shocked that this is coming into the mainstream conversation, and I really do hope that what comes of it is at least slashing of their funding for them to be held accountable for using those funds in not an appropriate manner. And there are some longer clips of her testifying, the CEO, Catherine Maher, of NPR on Capitol Hill. And the exchanges is like you would imagine. She just says she doesn't recall, that she doesn't believe those things. And And, you know, the lies continue. But the truth stands and the proof is in the pudding. The results show that the programs and the information, the material that comes out of NPR, PBS, these government funded programs is is a bunch of baloney. It's complete propaganda. And you can even see that they are promoting a drag queen shows for kids. I'm not sure who in their right mind would approve that. especially to be funded by the taxpayers. You know, if you're a private, you want to do something that's weird as it is. But this, you know, to have a drag queen teaching kids on PBS, I'm just not sure that that's an appropriate use of taxpayer funding. In fact, I don't believe it is an appropriate use of taxpayer funds. And she goes on to discuss, you know, Representative Gill confronts her about certain tweets that she posted back in 2020. I'm sure there were from earlier on as well, but talking about racism and how, you know, America is addicted to white supremacy. These are direct quotes. He says, you know, did you believe this is based on her tweets? Do you believe that America believes in black plunder and white democracy? And that was in reference to a book. She said she was reading about the case for reparations that she said, quote, she took a day off to fully read the case for reparations. And she says, I apologize. I don't recall that I did. Yet again, just, the left getting away with, you know, or at least they assume that they will get away with these blatant lies that Americans are stupid, but we know the truth.
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Well, and this is where, you know, I know we talk about it a lot because, you know, Young Americans Against Socialism, you guys do all sorts of things to help people get help people. I say that. I mean, I know it's kids related, but really anybody can learn from the material that you guys have out. And the only way really, Sonny, to combat this is to get people more educated on the things that are actually happening. And that's where you guys come in.
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Absolutely. And we're all about education. You know, a lot of people will talk about authoritarian regimes that have transpired over the many years and that, you know, communism. Well, they just didn't do it right. You know, Cuba just didn't do it right. And the dictators had good intentions, but unfortunately just wasn't followed through. And real communism or real socialism is when the power is lost. in the hands of the people and that the collective is more important, that when the working collective runs things, well, that's when things will really be fair. And the problem with that is that it goes against every law of human nature, that naturally there will be leaders, there will be bad actors, that there is law and order, that there is right and wrong, and people will fall into those different categories. That's why you need good leaders to promote good values. And that's what we have in this country. That's what we have to protect. with our constitution. And by that, I mean protect the constitution because it protects those rights and freedoms. And that's what we do, is point out the rhetoric, the tactics, the propaganda, the Soviet style, the socialistic style policies and tactics that the radical left uses and has used for many years to hijack the left side of the spectrum and completely eradicate all debate and any chance for two people on different sides of the spectrum to come together and find common ground. All of that has gone out of the window because the polarizing spectrums have taken over. And unfortunately, the radical left will stop at nothing, including violence. You've seen the behavior of somebody like Representative Crockett and different people who refuse to condemn the violence. of the Tesla vandalism and things that we've seen and that we've talked about on this show.
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That's right.
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And that's really what we do.
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All right, before you go, because I wanted to play this clip before, and I know we have enough time now that we've gotten all of this other out of the way. I've got time, and I wanted to play this while you're with me because another reason why, everybody listening, please hear me out on this. These are going to be college students that are being interviewed on a beach. And I get it. Sometimes the man on the street, it can kind of throw some people off and maybe they're sort of, you know, out of sorts, if you would. But I think I'm going to prove my point here, Sonny, as to not only why we don't need the Department of Education anymore, but also why we need you guys so much and getting this information that you have into the hands of those that really need it. Because I'm going to play right now. Again, a man on the street. This is, oh, I don't know, a couple of minutes long is all, but it'll really give you an idea, folks, as to why we really need to educate not only our young people, but really everybody in America about the things that we talk about here on a routine basis. Let me just play this. Here we go.
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What are your majors? Business, biology. Elementary education. What shape is the U.S. Pentagon Building?
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The U.S. Isn't it just a square?
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Who won the Civil War? Oh, it's the Civil War, so it's the civilians versus whoever was in power. How many justices are on the Supreme Court? Justices? So, like, when you say that, you mean, like, FBI? Name three states that border Canada. I didn't know Canada had a border.
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All right, so Sunny, that was, again, man on the street, pretty easy questions when it's all said and done, and the problem is these three particular young ladies with their particular majors that you heard couldn't answer any of those questions correctly.
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It's sad. What we know is that we need to speak more directly to our young people. We need to help them. We need to utilize... We need to utilize tools that are in our toolbox to reach young people. I know people are really afraid of AI, but there has to be a way forward because this is the next generation.
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I'm glad you mentioned that, Sunny, not to interrupt, but I'm glad you mentioned that because here's the other thing about AI. Yes, AI is going to come. Yes, it's going to grow. Yes, it's going to get big. No, you're not going to be able to stop it. It is what it is. The best way, Sunny, in my opinion, to work alongside of AI, because you're not going to defeat AI, but the way to work alongside AI and understand is this correct or has this machine, that's what AI is, has this machine been fed a bunch of things that aren't correct? The only way to defeat that, Sunny, is for you yourself to be educated to spot a fake when you see one or hear one.
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That's a really great point. And I think that there are actually really useful ways that you can use AI. In fact, I just saw a report from a school where they've utilized AI in terms of tutor, and actually their scores have gone up drastically. Now, I'm not saying that this is the way to go, but there has to be a common ground. Again, that's like when the Internet came about and when the computer came about. I don't really think that the educators that were teaching me when I was growing up, when I was in that generation where we suddenly had the computer introduced and the Internet introduced and all these things, They really, you know, OK, we had laptops in school. When I think about it, it's like, could I have just been surfing the Internet? And God knows what we would have found. Of course, our school did restrict. you know, certain websites and whatnot. But it just seems that there's a lack of engagement. In fact, there's actually disengagement with educators and leaders because they're afraid of how to approach these topics with kids. And we've seen the report card. We saw the national report card. Our scores have, you know, average scores of kids in this country have fallen drastically. It's embarrassing. We are the number one superpower in the world. And our kids, we are failing our children. Our children cannot read and write. They don't even teach script writing anymore. It's pathetic. It's disturbing. And 77% of eighth graders are not proficient in civics, according to that NAEP, the same one that comes out with the report card. That is a problem. We need to address it. And I really do think that, you know, people in my generation and that this millennial generation are taking it seriously. Homeschooling is on the rise. People are, you know, taking that civic responsibility to teach their kids. And that's why we create the resources that we do. That's why, you know, share as much as you can the information that we teach, because if you cannot recognize a socialist policies and why free trade is the best way to go, you see what's happening with the President Trump's ability to negotiate. and come up with a free and fair trade with people and with other countries and how that's actually going to benefit us in the long run. You know, the world is changing very much than when we were coming up, myself and then, of course, you, when we were being taught about economics and whatnot. But we have to meet somewhere in the middle because our kids need it.
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That's right. Absolutely. Young Americans Against Socialism. Sonny, as always, I appreciate it greatly. We'll talk again next week.
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All right. A couple of minutes left of this particular hour. Another full hour coming your way. Representative Jasmine Crockett. If you don't know who she is, I would recommend you go look her up. She's somebody that's in very much the news right now for her really stupid comments she makes at times. The last one, calling Governor Abbott hot wheels. Now, for those of you that maybe don't know, Governor Abbott has been in a wheelchair. I don't know his history, Charlie, but I mean, I've never known him to not be in a wheelchair. Oh, I didn't know that. He was a runner that was hit by a falling tree. paralyzed from the neck down. Yeah, thank you, because he used his arms, so waist down, paralyzed from the waist down. I did not know his history. Thank you, Charlie, for that. I did not know that. Now, I did know that he was in a wheelchair. I mean, these are some of those dumb comments that Joe Biden made the one time where he said, you know, stand up, Chuck. Well, Chuck couldn't stand up because he, again, was paralyzed from the waist down. This is even worse, though, because she knows that he's in a wheelchair. In fact... She calls him Governor Hot Wheels. Not my words, hers. And, yeah, she's from Houston. She's from that area. She knows what's going on. She's not – which, again, anybody that is around politically at all and – and has run for office and is on the national spectrum, which she is, would know the different governors that are out there and their history and so on. And, yeah, she did that on purpose, by the way. She's claiming that her Governor Hot Wheels comment was misinterpreted. No. I don't think so. She's had other comments about Governor Abbott, by the way, that would lead you to believe that, no, this wasn't a mistake. This isn't something that you did, you know, erroneously. No, this was a way to actually mock the Texas governor, your governor, by the way. It's a way to mock that individual. And, you know, he is, again, a paraplegic in a wheelchair. And she called him Governor Hot Wheels. A.S.S. Mess. I didn't say that. She did. She's a very vile woman, by the way, and she needs her mouth washed out with soap, by the way. In fact, we don't hear that much anymore, but I don't know about all of you out there listening, but I tasted more than my share of a bar of soap when I was a young kid. Charlie just raised his hand as well. I guess we don't do that anymore. I know what soap tastes like, and I can tell you right now that I haven't tasted it in a while, other than when you accidentally maybe get it in your mouth or something. But yeah, Charlie says it stays with you because yes, I can still tell you what a bar of dial or ivory soap tastes like because when I was a young man, it's probably why I don't swear today. When I was a young man, I had my mouth washed out with soap more than once. And no, it wasn't for swearing. It usually was talking back or doing something that I shouldn't have been doing or calling my brother a name that he shouldn't have been called or something along those lines. Yeah, I've had my share of bars of soap in my mouth, and I think we need to bring those back because there are vile individuals like her that actually literally need her mouth washed out with soap. I'll leave it at that. We'll be back. Hour number three is next. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
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Join host John Rush for an engaging Health and Wellness Wednesday. This week's episode covers a variety of health topics, from the recall of nearly 30,000 pounds of Chomps beef sticks due to contamination concerns to practical advice on tackling life's greatest challenges. John explores why going too big too fast might be the biggest mistake in striving for healthier living. He also addresses common concerns about vaccines for children entering school.
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I'm sorry that I'm fat. All right, welcome Health and Wellness Wednesday. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. We had a special guest today at 3.30, all lined out. Troy Duell, who we've had many, many times. And Troy had a family emergency and will not be able to join us today. But we'll get Troy rebooked in the future. Might have somebody still be able to fill in here last minute. We will get to that point and find out. If not, I've always got plenty of things planned. To talk about question of the day from yesterday, what is the rarest naturally occurring element on Earth? And it's astatine. I think I'm saying that right. A-S-T-A-T-I-N-E. I've never heard of that particular element. Some of you that are in that world probably have, but even Charlie has not. It is the rarest naturally occurring element on Earth with less than one gram present in the Earth's crust at any one time. Not only is very little of it found in nature, it is very difficult to produce, even in its most stable form, acetine-210. All of the isotopes are short-lived, and acetine-210 only has a half-life of 8.1 hours. So there you go. I have no idea what you would even do with any of that, but there's your information for today. Question of the day today, what is the technical term for the fear of long words? What is the technical term for the fear of long words? And one hint, I don't know if I can even pronounce this name tomorrow when I give you the answer, and it's really, really, really long. So there's a hint for what the actual technical term for the fear of long words is. All right, we'll dig deeper. Right into it today, I've got several things that I wanted to cover today, and as you guys all know, I do my best to stay out of the political end of things during this first hour. We'll get into that, of course, hour number two, hour number three. I do have our normal guests lined up for Wednesday. Richard Battle will join us at 4 o'clock, Cindy Kutcher at 4.30, and then Scott Garlis, I should say, will be joining us at the 5.30 mark. We'll talk a little bit about what's going on in the markets today. and so on. So I've got a few things here that I was going to talk about in regards to springtime, being healthy for spring and so on. And before that, though, and I saw a video on this last night, so I thought I'd go ahead and mention this. You may have seen this, may not, but different people eat different things. This is not a brand that I'm familiar with because I don't eat a lot of beef sticks. Now, some do. I don't know why. I just, I think for me, I don't know. I like the taste and all of that. I think just for me, because of the sodium content and just kind of how they're made and so on, the preservatives and what have you, and nothing against them. They do make a nice, handy snack at times, and they're much better than some of the other things you could have instead. But I'm not a big meat stick eater. But Chomps, which is a brand— recalled nearly 30,000 pounds of their beef sticks after consumers found some metal in the products. And again, I just happened to be watching a video. And some of you probably have seen this particular brand. They're in the red packaging. And I don't know if you've ever even noticed the name Chomps on them before. But trust me, those of you that are out there listening, you've seen this beef stick brand because it's a lot of convenience stores and places like that. But It is a very large producer of beef sticks. It's Idaho Smokehouse Partners, and they prompted the recall. Again, roughly 30,000 pounds. And it's the original beef stick mild. And there's two consumer complaints about some metal pieces being discovered in the product. So... Again, they're recalling them. That's not a cheap thing to do for a company. So, you know, kudos to them for actually doing that out of abundance of caution. They have said that they are doing that. And I would venture to guess that, you know, I'm one of those where it's like, would it stop me from eating them? No, I think if I own them, what I would do is probably just make sure I was opening them up, not eating them by opening, but, you know, take a knife, slide down the middle, look inside, see if you notice anything. And to me, if it looks good, I'm probably eating it. Now, keep in mind, that's coming from a guy that's worked in the auto industry the majority of my life, and I've probably eaten more metal shavings and things like that over the years inadvertently that one little piece of something or other, unless it's a large piece that's going to hinder your ability to chew, swallow, and so on. frankly, probably not going to affect me one way or the other. That's just me. Now, some of you listening are probably laughing because you've experienced the very same thing that I have over the years. I mean, I've had enough stuff fall in my mouth and different things that you're doing when you're working on vehicles and so on. You're spitting junk out at times and so on and dirt's falling in your face and it's really bad in the wintertime when stuff's dripping all over you and There's times with me it's like, okay, if this is the least of your worries, we're in pretty good shape. I get it. It's a recall. It needs to happen. You can't have these things out in the marketplace. If there's been a couple of consumers that have found this, I get that. But is this something I'm going to lose any sleep over if I was somebody that owned this particular product? No. Now, you can go look all of this up. I'm not going to give you all of the info. If you feel like you might have some of these things on the shelf, there's date codes and so on that will tell you whether it's a part of the recall or not. And I would just encourage you, if you're somebody that has some of these chomps, bee sticks kicking around, go ahead and go look that up and make sure it's nothing that you need to get taken care of. And I don't know where you go to actually get this recall handled. Read about it. It'll tell you. I didn't get into the details of that. 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All right, we are back. Health and Wellness Wednesday on this Rush to Reason Wednesday show. Thank you so much, by the way, for listening. I do appreciate that very much. And again, our number here, 303-477-5600. I had a question that came in. I have a question regarding vaccines. Our four-year-old is due for the next round of vaccine requirements before being allowed into school. I don't really want to do them. What is your advice? He has had all of the previous ones. I would go through the schedule. And I would look at and I think Dr. Kelly would agree with me on this and go through the schedule, look and see exactly what is required, which there's a quotation mark around required when it comes to the school sides of things as well. So, number one, first look and see what is it they're requiring. And then number two, how does that fit into what you've either already done or what needs to be done? And then I would sit down and have a conversation based upon that. If you've got any other specific questions, I can even bring that up tomorrow with Dr. Kelly Victory. She should be able to join us tomorrow. She's got an interview right before our show starts at 3 o'clock, but she's going to do her very best to join us. So I can actually ask her specifically, but I can pretty much tell you what she's going to say is, A, look and see what the schedule is. B, look and see where you're at. C, is there other ones that you may feel you need to go ahead and do? And if there's some that you don't feel you want to do, then that's where I'd have a conversation with the school and look at things, because there are laws and things today whereby there is huge workarounds for that to where all of you listening, you don't need to feel obligated ever to do anything, no matter what a particular school says. There's all sorts of court cases and other things out there along these lines whereby if you feel you know spiritually religiously whatever that these things are not fitting into what you should be doing as a family then you are not required to do so and frankly this is why a lot of folks have just flat out gone to homeschooling and done things along those lines because it avoids some of the things that we're even talking about along those lines but by all means Go through the schedule. Look and see where you're at right now. Determine if that's something that you want to proceed with. And by the way, no, you hear us talk about this all the time. No, you don't have to do every single vaccine that's out there. That is really up to you and your spouse, your family, and you make decisions based upon what you feel you need when it's all said and done. One thing, too, I'm going to talk about some spring vaccines. How should I say this? Some tips for being healthy this spring. Let's just say it that way. That's basically what my topic, I guess you could say, my title of the topic is. And before I get into that, though, one thing that I think it's important to remember is we hear all sorts of people that I interview on this particular program. Every week. Rare. In fact, this is one of the first weeks in a long, long, long time. that we haven't had a guest. In fact, I can think back to probably the past year, and we've maybe had one or two other times where we've not had any guests during this hour because there's lots of people that always want to be on during health and wellness. And by the way, just as a little teaser, I've got some other folks even locally that have reached out to me. They've got some different programs, some app-driven plans where they are really doing their best to help people get healthy, and there's some one-on-one coaching and different things that go along with that. And I had a good conversation with somebody locally recently over the weekend, whereby we may be doing some of that here in the near future. And as we get closer to that, I will definitely let you know. But I read something today, and I was just kind of perusing through. I always do this for health and wellness anyways, whether I've got guests or not. I'm still looking at health and wellness topics and so on. And one of the things that I was reading today, and I think this is really important, this was by somebody that does food prep and all of that kind of stuff, dieting and health and wellness for a living. And the number one mistake, and I thought, okay, I'm always interested in knowing what's somebody's number one, what do they feel is the number one mistake people make when it comes to staying healthy, eating right, being fit, and all of that. And I found this interesting, and I can't disagree with this. In fact, I think this is very appropriate. The number one mistake people make when it comes to being healthier, working out, all of that, is they go too big too fast. And then they fail, and then they're discouraged, and then the cycle continues. And you know what? As I was reading through that, and there's a lot more to that. I didn't copy the entire article down, but as I was reading through it, I'm like, yeah, okay. This is like a lot of other life goals, and I get it. There are some people out there, you know, I've known people. They want to quit smoking. They don't need a patch. They don't need a program. They don't need any kind of treatment. They just go cold turkey. They quit smoking, and they're done. That's the rarity, by the way. Most people don't have the fortitude to go cold turkey and just stop. Most people, there's a progression. They've got to take small bites out of it. Some people go with the gum, all of the different things that it takes to stop smoking. And for some, it's a very long process to make that happen. And by the way, changing habits, and even when it comes to being healthy, eating right, and so on, some people can do it cold turkey. Very few can, though. Very few can. And make it last. I've known some people that can go to cold turkey. They can do a 30-day fast, or they can do a whatever. And, yeah, as soon as that 30 days is over, because that's what they're looking forward to is being done with it and then going back to the way they used to be, they make it through the 30 days, sort of like being in solitary confinement. You know you're getting out at the end of 30 days, so great. As soon as I'm out, woo-hoo, off we go. You can't do that in the health and wellness fitness world. It has to be a life change. If you're not willing to make, and I'll just be straight up honest, if you're not willing to make the life changes necessary to be healthy, eat healthy, eat right, do those things that are necessary to have a more healthy lifestyle, I'll just be straight up honest. Don't bother. Don't bother. And some are going to say, well, geez, John, a little bit's better than nothing. No, actually, I would disagree with that. If you're going to be yo-yoing, where you do something, then you don't. Then you do something, then you don't. Then you do something, then you don't. If you're going to yo-yo it, you're better off not doing it at all. You're better off just leaving it alone. Maybe make a few small adjustments in your life, and hopefully a little bit helps. But to make any major adjustments, if you're just going to go back to your old habits, you're better off not doing it. In fact, studies will tell that a lot of people that diet, lose 15, 20, 30 pounds, typically will pick that up plus some after it's all over. And I'm not lying when I say that. Those are what the studies show. So, yes, I'm one that says if you don't want to make significant changes... and you don't have that wherewithal to make that change and stick with it, I'll just be straight up honest. Don't bother. Don't bother. Why get started? You're like that. I went to an auto auction last weekend, Mecham Auto Auction down in Phoenix, and I was thinking as I was looking at some of the cars that are there, and these are typically all finished cars. They're trying to get them sold. They're at auction and so on. But there's always cars that are better than others. And some of the cars I looked at, I was like, you know, no offense, this car isn't going to bring the kind of money that it needs to bring because the value just isn't there because it hasn't been done right. It's been hacked together. It's not put together properly. You might as well have never started. And that's kind of what I'm talking about here when it comes to your life, your diet, your lifestyle, and so on. If you're not going to make a fundamental shift, mentally speaking, in what you're going to do there, I would say don't get started at all. Now, I also would say that if you want to make that change, don't bite all of it off at once. You know, that old saying, don't bite off more than you can chew. Go ahead and do make the small moves necessary to gain what you need to do in that area. Count the wins as they come along and then go to the next one. So let's say, for example, you've decided that, you know what, I'm going to go ahead and get more healthy. I want to get going on the right track. I know I need to make some changes. So maybe one of those first changes is just cut out all soda from your diet. Don't worry about all the rest of the stuff. Don't worry about cutting out carbs or anything else along those lines. Just cut out soda altogether. And I mean altogether. That one is one you could definitely go cold turkey. Don't go diet. Well, I won't drink colored, but I'll go ahead and drink clear. No, if you're going to go ahead and do this and get to the goal that you want to get to, which is a more healthy lifestyle, dedicate yourself to only having coffee, tea, water. There's lots of electrolyte-type drinks that, by the way, still make water taste better than just straight water. If you're somebody that needs a little bit of flavoring, you can also flavor your water with all sorts of other things, fruit, by the way, lemon, and so on. But I would say if you're wanting to go on the path of getting healthier, one of the easiest things, and I'll just say it straight up, one of the easiest things to do and make a change on, and by the way, one of the easiest things to even get people on board around you for is cut soda out. Because even if you're going out to dinner and all of a sudden you're sitting down and the waitress or waiter comes along and says, what do you want to drink? And you say, well, I'm trying to cut back. I'm trying to change my lifestyle around. And you know what? I would like to have water or tea. And do you always have to say that? No, it depends on who you're with. And here's why I'm saying that. In some cases, if you just say, oh, I'll have water or tea, somebody might look over at you and say, where's the Coke? You always have X, Y, Z when we go to dinner. What's different today? So rather than having all that big explanation, then just right up front say, you know, I'm trying to cut back a little bit. I think what I want is just a glass of water. Okay, great. Off you go. Now, I will say this. If you're somebody that is used to having several of those a day, and I know people that have several a day, and you all of a sudden cut that out, you're going to feel like crap. Straight up, you'll feel like garbage. How do I know that? Because I was one of those in 2010. Charlie always reminds me that some people tune into this show on a new basis and don't understand my history and what I've been through and so on. But yeah, when I was in 2010, I weighed well over 315, 320 pounds and was a big boy and knew I needed to get some weight off. And that was one of the first things that I did. And I will tell you right now, cutting out all... which is essentially, I mean, you're not cutting all sugar out when you get rid of the drinks, but a lot of what you're intaking daily sugar-wise is coming from the drinks. So again, if you want to pick something small to go after and have a win in that area, then go ahead and do it that way. Just cut out your soft drinks altogether. And I will be the first to tell you, and some would argue with me on this one, but I'll be the first to tell you, I'm not a big fan of diet sodas at all. At all. So I am not somebody that is a fan of diet Coke, diet Pepsi, diet this, diet that. Now, if you want to have a treat, you've gotten yourself on track, and you want to have something as a treat periodically, you know what? Knock your socks off. You hear even all sorts of different individuals. Dr. Julie last week even talked about how, yeah, it's okay to occasionally treat yourself to something. Those guilty pleasures are okay from time to time. You can't do it every day. But, you know, can you once a month, if you're somebody that really, really enjoys a Coca-Cola, and all of a sudden you've gone this route and you've gotten yourself off of it, and, you know, a month or two down the road you want to have one, you know what? Go for it. But here's what happens, and I'll just be straight up honest. Your desire for it goes away anyways. Once you kick the habit of not having soda... Your desire to have one, for the most part, goes away. You might have a craving here or there, just like somebody that's kicked the habit of cigarettes and so on, you know, no longer have that desire. Occasionally that might kick in, although most people that have smoked and then stopped, especially cold turkey, anytime they even smell a cigarette, they're just like, I can't believe I did that. You'll kind of find yourself the same way on the soda end of things because they won't taste what they used to. And I'm not exaggerating when I say that. You kick this habit that I'm talking about, and you then go and have one a month or two later, you're going to think to yourself, why did I do this daily? In fact, in some cases, why did I do this every single solid day, every single meal of the day, you get my drift. So for me, one of the easiest things that you can change and cut out and have some small wins, and actually it's a big win, but it's not that hard, I guess is what I'm trying to get at. The whole food thing, menu, what you're eating, what you're not eating, that gets a lot more intrusive, I guess you could say, and it gets a lot more complicated at times where soda is easy. If it's a soda, it's a soda, it's a soda, you don't drink it. There's no reading the label and determining what contents are in it, and does it have this, does it have that, blah, blah. No, you're not doing any of that. If it's a soda, I don't drink it. So I do agree with this concept of you've got to have those small wins, and the biggest mistake people make is biting off more than they should right off the bat and then wondering why they didn't succeed. Yeah, because you bit off more than you could chew in the first place. All right, I'll come back to that. If you've got things you want to add to that, send us a text, 307-282-2222. Golden Eagle Financial is up next. Al Smith, who I had a good conversation with, by the way. 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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. And we have got a guest at the moment as well. He's been on with us before, Norbert Hauser. Norbert, welcome. How are you? Thanks for having me again.
SPEAKER 16 :
I'm looking forward to talk to you.
SPEAKER 17 :
I appreciate you. What you're going to talk about dovetails into what I was talking about a moment ago, which is, you know, people try to make changes, especially during different times of the year. Now that we're heading down the, you know, down the path into spring and then summer's around the corner, people are trying to get that, you know, quote unquote beach body going and they're trying to get more healthy and all these different things. So I was talking about, you know, hey, let's have some Little wins along the way. I think one of the biggest mistakes people make is trying to bite off far more than they can chew, so have some little wins. So I was talking about a win that I think is a fairly easy one to do, although it's difficult. But my point with it being easy is there's not a lot of figuring in on how to do this food-wise, and that is just cut soft drinks out of your diet, Norbert. Now, that ties in, by the way, to what you're going to talk about, which is the caffeine end of things, because caffeine isn't just in coffee. It's in those soft drinks as well, correct?
SPEAKER 16 :
Yes, and even in comparison more than in coffee, there are a lot of energy drinks. All the energy drinks, all the soda pops, they have all caffeine, all of them. And besides the caffeine, of course, which has caffeine, for me, caffeine and sugar are the widest spread drugs in the world.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay. And I know, again, we've had you on before. We've talked about both of these topics before, caffeine and sugar. But Charlie's reminding me all the time we get new listeners in that maybe haven't heard us talk about certain things in the past. So even though we've covered this before, talk about that soft drug, if you would, you know, caffeine, sugar, of course, as well. But let's talk about caffeine being that soft drug.
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Okay, sure. I'd be happy to do so. I've written a book which is called Every Coffee Drinker is a Drug Addict. Caffeine and coffee are drugs. And the book is on my website, improveyourlife.us. My website is all about improving your life in different ways. And improveyourlife.us, the book is on the website. And when we speak now, I take some quick extracts out of this book. The book, of course, goes much more intense. So it's a drug. People will... Question, why is it a drug? Why is it an addiction? Well, it's very easy. When you leave tomorrow, all soft drinks out of your diet and coffee, you will experience withdrawal symptoms. And withdrawals are always a sign of addiction. That's right. And you can be addicted to a product, to a procedure, or to a person. These are the three areas my thesis discovered, how can you be addicted to? And addiction means very simply, the addiction is stronger than your free will to say no.
SPEAKER 17 :
Right, right. Yeah, in other words, your whole mind, your body, whether, again, the three things you just mentioned, and you could correlate that to each one of those, when that becomes the focal point of your entire thought process, you're addicted, right? Right.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yes. I mean, you're not addicted to a salad, right? I never found somebody who's addicted to a salad.
SPEAKER 17 :
Good point.
SPEAKER 16 :
And we are always addicted to the wrong, the craving for the wrong. It's an addiction for the wrong. You have a craving for the wrong. At the moment, you are craving for orange juice. You're craving for sugar. You're craving for chocolate. You're craving for alcohol. You're craving for a soft drink, right? That is a clear 100% proof that you are addicted.
SPEAKER 17 :
True.
SPEAKER 16 :
And you can prove it to yourself, not to me. As I describe in the book, I made a self-test on myself and I described the self-test. All you do is just to say, for example, I will not drink coffee and caffeine products for one, two, three, four days. And you will see after how many hours or how many days your mind is spinning around that product and you have a craving and you give up and you cannot stay without it, for example, for a week. Most people cannot stay without for a week. Most people are not out without three days or so.
SPEAKER 17 :
By the way, I can't disagree with anything you're saying. It kind of goes along with what I was talking about in the last segment, people that want to have some wins. And in this case, let's say you want to cut out those soft drinks and we'll add the caffeine end of it. And when I said soft drinks, too, I didn't really think about talking about the energy drink and all of that. And I should, Norbert. I didn't think about it because I've never been somebody to find them appeasing. I'm not an energy drink fan. In fact, I'm not a guy that even drinks a lot of coffee, so I kind of stopped all of that back in 2010. So I forget about the energy drink end of things because I don't partake and don't have them around, and it's not something that comes across the top of my head most of the time.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, that's good. I mean, you are what I should call a lucky one, a good one, a solid one, a fighter. Yes, the problem is now here's my kick. We all know – I think we all know and agree – that we have a big problem in this world about drugs, the hard drugs, right?
SPEAKER 17 :
Right, right.
SPEAKER 16 :
And it's getting worse, okay? And it's getting worse with young age. Now, here is my thesis. Nowadays, over the last 20, 30 years, babies in their mother's womb get onto drugs.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 16 :
The mother, when she's pregnant, most of the women, keep drinking coffee, Coke products, energy drinks, soda pops, right? The caffeine ends up in the baby. Like all the other food the mother consumes.
SPEAKER 17 :
Good point.
SPEAKER 16 :
So the baby, as an unborn child, is already used to a drug called caffeine.
SPEAKER 17 :
Right.
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And this is, for me, the birthplace of many problems. Not all, but many problems we have in our society with people getting used or grow up with drugs. Because once you are used to caffeine, which is a drug, no question, and now it's easy to blend over to other more hard stuff and different stuff. Because you're already on the track for drugs, right?
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, your body's already used to one. What's another?
SPEAKER 16 :
Yes.
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Right?
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And you start to have a craving. So for a child, when you see three, four-year-old children in a restaurant, what do they drink, most of them?
SPEAKER 17 :
Pop, mostly. Sodas, orange juice, which you've got to be careful with some of the apple juices, juice boxes, all those sorts of things. They're all on the same line as far as I'm concerned.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, all the, what we drink nowadays in the restaurants, if it's not Coke, all the juices are full loaded of sugar.
SPEAKER 17 :
Correct.
SPEAKER 16 :
And this is the strongest... most widespread drug in the world. We have sugar in meats, in cold meats, in everything. Why the hell do they put sugar in meats, right? All right, so it's a big trap.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, and I know why, because it's more addictive and you want to eat more of it.
SPEAKER 16 :
Of course, of course, of course, of course. So I have some hope that with Mr. Kennedy there will be a slight change, but it will take time because it's habits, it takes years and years to change the habits. I agree. dreaming overnight but of course what he does is needed but what is more needed that parents realize it and take their share yeah and do something about it okay and and set an example for the children
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No, I agree. And everything you just said, you are 100 percent correct. And you're right when you look around at restaurants especially. And, you know, I'm not trying to go to restaurants in Norbert, just be super critical of everybody eating around me. I try to go and just enjoy, you know, my end of things and so on. But you're right. As you look around and you look at the things that are being done in the case of kids and so on, you look at some of the things that they're actually consuming. And then these parents, maybe they don't wonder, but you think they would. You wonder why these kids are all high strung. Well, no offense. Look what you just gave them. Look what you fed them.
SPEAKER 16 :
Sure. And go to the cashier and every cashier in a supermarket. What do you find next to the cashier where you put the money on the table? Truckloads of sugar products. Truckloads.
SPEAKER 17 :
Absolutely.
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Truckloads. And then the kids say, I want this, I want this, I want this. And most parents cannot say no. So it takes a big change in our mindset. It's all a question of mindset and education. and education in school and at home, as a family.
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Yeah, no, the education part of it, Norbert, and it's what we try to do here every Wednesday, is absolutely huge. Not that people don't have the resources to go learn these things, but the reality is, and you know this, if they've never been, quote-unquote, keyed to go find some of these answers, they won't be looking for them in the first place. And so the reality is you almost have, you know, you got to do something to get them going, you know, to jumpstart it, I guess you could say, so that they'll start asking the right questions and go do some of their research. You know, with the internet that's out there right now, as you know, Norbert, they can go find all of these answers on their own. My fear is far too few look for those answers.
SPEAKER 16 :
Exactly. They have to get out of their comfort zone, and who wants to question the comfort zone, right? They don't want to question it. Another thing is that most people don't understand that these drinks are all too acidic. I'll give you an example. We should drink drinks around pH which is called 7 to 8. If you drink a soda pop, a Coke, it has a pH of 2.5, which is 100,000 times too acidic. 100,000 times to acidic, and the body cannot handle it. So the long term, and nobody, when somebody's an alcoholic, I worked a lot with alcoholics, nobody has a liver cirrhosis after drinking for two, three, four years, but after 10, 20 years. And the same happens here with the acidic drinks. the body just passes out over the years. The same thing happens with cell phone electromagnetic radiation. You don't get a brain cancer from a cell phone in one, two years.
SPEAKER 17 :
That's right.
SPEAKER 16 :
But in 10, 20 years. And I have personally three friends who all died of brain cancer cell phone.
SPEAKER 17 :
That is sad in and of itself. Norb, what's the website one more time where folks can go and find your information and your work?
SPEAKER 16 :
It's called improveyourlife.com. ImproveYourLife.us.
SPEAKER 17 :
ImproveYourLife.us. Perfect. I'll put that in our notes as well. Norbert, by the way, thank you for coming on last minute. We had a cancellation. You were gracious enough to just step right in, and I appreciate that greatly.
SPEAKER 16 :
No, no, no. Look, hey, we're all working on the same field. it's all fine, and I'll be happy, and I'll be privileged to be on your show.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, thank you, Norbert. Appreciate you very much. Have a good rest of your day.
SPEAKER 16 :
Thank you. Bye-bye.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. All right, closing out the show today, I read something that, for some of you, might be worth looking at. And this is something that, you know, we've covered a lot of things in this health and wellness segment, this hour. We've been doing this for eight or nine years now. And some of you say, well, how do you know you've been doing that long? Because it's funny. You always get these little pop-ups on social media and so on that remind you of things you've done in the past. And I'll look at some exercise thing or some taste test or something that we did, and it'll come up seven years ago, eight years ago. And I'm like, oh, jeez, man, time flies. Unbelievable. Anyways, this is one I don't think we've ever messed with, never talked much about. Men going bald. OK, that's not something that now we maybe we had talked about that a couple of times back when Dan was with me because Dan could he's, you know, hair challenged. I guess you could say he's listening. So, Dan, you're probably laughing at me right now. I'm not sure that we've ever really covered that whole aspect of things because it's kind of an unknown science. If you know why men lose their hair. And by the way, this is something that I do know is for sure. The old, and it is an old myth, that, well, you get your hair from your mom's side. No, you don't. No, you don't. I've read even things along those lines of late where it actually can come from either side or both at times. It depends. It's not cut and dried. It used to be, oh, yeah, all your hair comes from your mom's side. No, it really doesn't. And the reason why I personally can prove that is my mom's dad, who he passed away when I was really young. So he's been gone for a very, very long time. But he died. He was like 55 years of age and was bald at that point. Had no hair. So that was my mom's site. Charlie can attest to this. Those of you that know me and see me and so on, yeah, I've got a full head of hair. Not a problem. In fact, I cut my own hair. I do it about every six weeks or so, and I have no problem growing a full head of hair at all. So, no, I did not inherit that haircut. problem from my mom's side. Now, I can tell you that my dad's side, even my dad to this day, full head of hair, not a problem. Can grow hair, no issues whatsoever. I'm quote-unquote blessed as far as that end of it is concerned because to a lot of men, that's a big deal. To some men, it's not. To some women, it's not. To some women, it is. Everybody's different. Now, I was reading something today that I thought was interesting when it comes to this whole hair loss end of things. Men going bald are now turning to a new Botox for hair loss treatment. This is an article, by the way, coming out of Fox News. Hair loss patients have new hope amid breakthrough discoveries. And this is something that, by the way, they're always working on is how do you get people that are going bald to grow more hair? Because this is something that a lot of folks don't realize. Now, some of you listening do, although a lot of young people don't know this. They will at some point, but they don't know this. Both sexes lose hair. It's not just a male thing is what I'm getting at. Women lose hair as well. Now, they may not go as completely bald as what their male counterpart does, but they can lose hair as well for all sorts of reasons. Hormone imbalance and hereditary things and so on. And women can lose hair just like men do. And that's why there's a whole world out there of everything from extensions to wigs to you name it for the female, you know, folk that are out there. Because to a woman, that is a big deal. Us men, you get a little bald spot. Okay, yeah, chalk it up to getting old. And you just figure out a way around it. And there's things men can do, hair plugs and transplants and things like that. And a lot of men will do those things. And for women, though, it's a big, big deal. My point is... that going bald is a big deal for a lot of folk. In fact, I should do my best to get some folks on that are experts in this area and actually have a really good conversation about what can you do. But I will tell you that the things that I know and have learned from family members and so on is a lot of this can be traced back to diet, hormones, do you have enough protein, things along those lines can contribute to hair or lack of, and a lot of that comes down to those things. Now, in a lot of cases, it's hereditary, and this cure for baldness, which I'm reading about, there's a UCLA study now coming out of Breakthrough talking about PP405 and that that particular molecule, and if you wake that up, You can get hair growth again. And there is now some studies being done whereby the Botox can actually encourage that awakening of that PP405. So it's an interesting study. I'll do my best to try to get some folks on here in the not-too-distant future to talk about hair, hair loss, things like that. It's not something that we've really covered a lot of on this particular program. But for a lot of people, it is. A big deal. Cub Creek Heat and Air Conditioning coming up next. Now, one thing I can tell you is they specialize not only in second opinions, but even new installs and things like that. If you've got any kind of issues with your HVAC, you want to do some additional things to it that you haven't had in the past, you want to put a split system in, you want to add air conditioning, whatever it is, give Cub Creek a call today. Find them at klzradio.com.
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All right, hour number three, Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Several of you texting in after our last segment, which I didn't, I mean, I guess I didn't really think about it striking a nerve, but several of you, I reminded you now what soap tastes like. Because I guess I wasn't the only one, nor was Charlie, that got his or her mouth washed out with soap when we were younger. So several of you reminding me that, yes, I know what dial soap or lava soap or whatever soap tastes like because, yeah, we had the same experience as young men and women as, I guess, Charlie and I did. So we're not the only ones. Now, I do think that's probably a dying thing. I don't know if parents still do that, or is that now considered child abuse to wash your kid's mouth out with soap if they... Charlie said it's probably attempted murder. I don't know. I... I have some stories along these lines. Charlie said, yeah, it's because you're trying to poison them with soap. I've got some stories along these lines. And I may have told this one on air, but I'll tell it again. And I, okay, I get it that, you know, people use colorful language, okay? And I am not one of those prude types that runs around if somebody's saying something in a tongue that they shouldn't be. No, I'm not one to correct. Now, I will say this. All the businesses I've run and so on, I've never allowed my people, when speaking to customers and things along those lines, to use foul language. Just not allowed in my companies, period. I think there's better ways to communicate than using all of the colorful language that's now out in the world. So that's just a policy that I've had for years and years and years. And you guys all know me, and Charlie knows this. He can attest to this. You never have to worry about the dump button with me on air by myself. Now, sometimes callers and so on, those things can happen. And, yes, we're always careful to make sure that something doesn't slip out and we don't want a fine or anything from the FCC for having colorful language go out over the air. But for me personally, it's never an issue. I mean, I don't swear. It's just not in my vocabulary. It's the way I was raised and we weren't allowed to. And even if we got close to even swearing as kids, we got our mouths washed out with soap. That's probably why to this day, I don't swear because that's what happened to us. So I was at one time in a mall, and I don't go to the mall very often. This has been a long time ago. This has been decades ago. And it was around Christmas time. And I don't know exactly what I was there for. I guess shopping for the wife or whatever for Christmas. And I wasn't really thinking much about things. And so I'm walking around. And as I'm walking, and there wasn't a lot of people around. This must have been one evening because it wasn't a super busy evening. And there wasn't a ton of people around. I mean, there were a few, but not a lot. And there was a young man, and this is, you know, I'm 60 now, so I was probably in my, I don't know, 40s. I don't consider myself to be an old guy at that point, but, you know, younger than I am now, but still old, I guess, in the eyes of a lot of people. Anyways, there was a young man that was having a, I guess you could call a disagreement with his, I'm guessing, girlfriend. I didn't see any rings on, so I'm guessing it was the girlfriend. And he's using all sorts of colorful language, including the F word. And he's calling her basically everything under the book. And I was one of those individuals at the time where and I still am where, you know, I can listen to a little bit of that. But after a point, I'm not going to listen any longer. And in this particular situation, I actually walked up to the young man and I said, do you kiss your mouth with that? Do you kiss your mother with that mouth? He kind of looks at me kind of strange. I'm like, I'm being serious. I'm like, do you kiss your mother with that mouth and all of that garbage that's spewing out of her right now against your girlfriend? And by the way, she needs treated better than that. And he looked at me like he was totally shocked somebody would even call him out on it. And so what I got back, though, in return was mind your own business, old man. And I'm like, well, I am minding my business. I don't like the way you're treating your girlfriend. I don't like the language that you're using. And by the way, it's offensive to everybody else that's here now. So I would kindly ask you to shut your mouth, shut your trap. And he kind of looks at me like, what are you going to do about it? And I stood my ground and basically said, well, probably a lot more than you will. So bottom line, move along. Shut your trap. I don't want to hear it any longer because to me it was being very offensive at that point in time. So that's probably one of the few times I've ever said anything along those lines. There was one other time I can remember where I was at a ball game and I had my boys with me. And I think we were at a CU game and had my boys with me. And there were some guys behind us that were just every other word was the F word. And it was getting to the point where, you know, one every now and again, you know, you can put up with. And yes, I know my boys are still going to get some experience around that. And they're still going to hear some of that. And my one son went to the military. So absolutely, he's heard those words and so on. So I wasn't trying to, you know, keep them sheltered from the world in regards to that. But, you know, that just becomes a point in time where it's like, you know, I've heard enough of this. I get it. You don't like what's going on or you don't like what the coach is doing or you don't like what that player is doing. But, you know, I don't need to hear the F word every single time something is said. So, yes, I'm one of those guys is one of my downfalls where I had to turn around and say, you know, there are kids present. Could you kindly use a different word? And again, you get the immediate, you know, shocked look. But then you usually get some smart aleck response of, you know, well, why? And no, I can say whatever I want and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And yes, you know, I understand there's free speech and so on. But, you know, when you're being offensive. To all of those that are around you, and there are young kids present, I do think you need to be – you have some couth, I guess you could say. Be better than that. And, yes, I am one of those persons that if I hear that and it goes on long enough, yes, I will say something. I don't know. Again, I guess, guys, it's just the way I was raised. I go back to the bar of soap conversation we were having in the last hour before we ended that particular hour. And again, just the way I was raised. And I think you can do better. And no, you don't need to talk like that. And there's better ways to communicate. And that's my take on those things. Now, will I run around and be a goody two shoes and tell anybody that ever swears they shouldn't? No, I'm not that person. But if I'm in public and there are others around, especially young people and women especially around, and there are people being so foul-mouthed that even I get tired of it, yes, I'm going to say something and I'm going to call that person out on it. And so far, I've never been in a fistfight over it. You know, I will still say what needs to be said when that time comes. And my feeling is not enough of us do that. Thereby, these people feel like they have an open ticket to act like that all of the time. And it's not a problem ever. And the reality is it is. 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This is Rush to Reason on KLZ 560. All right, another interesting story that I read today, which some of you could probably care less about, but I found it interesting. And this was a, is, not was, is a couple that had a dispute over a timeshare that they had bought from Palace Resorts in Mexico. And evidently, there were some things that weren't the way they were supposed to be. And I don't know all the details of that. But evidently, they had a dispute over the amount owed to Palace Resorts. And they took it up with Amex. They must have put it on their credit card or the payments of or something. And in turn, American Express sided with them, gave them their money back. And I guess at that point in time, they felt like, OK, this is a done deal. You know, the dispute is settled. We don't owe them any more money. Enough said. Well, they went to Mexico a couple of different times. No problems. Until about a week or so ago. Might even be longer than that. Might be two weeks now. They were arrested upon coming through customs at the airport for fraud. for essentially defrauding palace resorts, and are now in a Mexican prison. awaiting a trial that might take up to six months to actually happen because that's how long the government has given Palace Resorts to come up with their side of the story as to why this couple owes them the money, which now Palace Resorts and the Mexican government is asking for $250,000 and a formal public apology because they feel like they were also defamed. online and elsewhere by what this couple had put out there about palace resorts here in america and it's a mess uh i guess the uh these are this is an older couple i think they're both in their early 60s she's down like 20 pounds so they've been there for a couple of weeks i want to say she's down about 20 pounds she won't eat any of the food that they are giving her because she's allergic to what they're trying to feed her she's got a major rash all sorts of other things going on and they have now gotten their local representative i think they're from michigan so they've got a representative from michigan trying to discuss things with the white house to then try to discuss things with the mexican government and here's my moral of that story if you're going to buy any kind of a timeshare which anymore i wouldn't but if you're going to buy a timeshare don't buy one out of the country They don't have the same laws and so forth that we do here in America, no matter what the paperwork says. It's not the same. And no, you're not being bound by U.S. law. You're going to be bound by whatever that country's law is, in this case, Mexican law. And at the end of the day, this could happen. So for those of you that are out there and you go to any of those presentations or things like that, and I have been to a lot of those over the years because you get all sorts of goodies when you go. That's a whole other conversation or show topic I could probably cover is what kind of timeshare goodies can you get and what's the fastest you've ever been in and out of one. My record is 15 minutes, by the way. That's my wife and I's record. I've been in and out of a timeshare presentation in 15 minutes. Most take 90. I've been in and out in 15 minutes, yes. And I'm not lying. My wife can verify that. 15 minutes. So, point being, there are ways to go through those things, still get the free stuff, still say no, still not get roped into doing anything, and still get out of it what you need, which... in some cases you can get up to 500 bucks depending upon the presentation. That's a whole nother, you know, that's a whole nother segment in and of itself that maybe I'll do at some point in time on, you know, how to, how to do those, how to not do them. And you get offered those things all over the place. Every time you travel, you get offered one in most hotels, you know, anymore, a lot of them, Marriott's, et cetera, Hilton, they're all timeshare owned. And even if you're just going and staying at a regular hotel, you may be offered one. So any, anyways, long story, uh, Don't buy one out of country. If you do, you better make sure you got all your I's dotted and T's crossed. In this particular couple's situation, they've been gone. This is also, I believe he's a veteran. He's an ex, I think it's, I can't remember the armed service he was in, but he's a vet, served his country. And so now the kids are asking, hey, what kind of help do we get to get my folks out of this Mexican prison they're in over something that's just over a, They didn't kill anybody. They weren't running drugs. They weren't running contraband into Mexico. They didn't have a luggage full of whatever that they got caught for. I mean, that would be a whole different situation. No, no, no, that's not the issue. The issue is Palace Resorts feels like they have been defrauded. They have pressed charges. This couple then was arrested at the airport. There's video of them being taken away at the airport. And the family's only talked to the husband, I think, once or twice since all of this happened. So you'll read about it. It's all over the news. If you haven't seen it, you will. If you don't know, just go look up what I just said. Just go Google what I just said, and you'll find the articles out there. It's a very interesting read. For some of you that travel and do things along those lines, it's probably in your best interest to actually read this particular article and not make the same mistakes these folks made. Now, how would you have avoided that? I mean, in their defense, they went to Mexico a couple of times, no problems, went back the third time, and then got arrested. So, again, I don't know all the details. I'm sure more of it will come out as time goes by. But very interesting story. And one that, let's just say, I wouldn't want to be in their shoes. I would not want to be in their shoes. You know, I have had this. I think I've said this many times on air. You know, I was raised by never go to jail. Always have a roof over your head. Those two things always stick in the front of my mind at all times. Keep a roof over your head. Don't go to jail. Keep a roof over your head. Don't go to jail. Keep a roof over your head. Don't go to jail. You get the drift in the front of my mind. It's always there. So at any rate, I would not want to be in jail outside of the U.S. especially. I have another story where I almost went to prison. Yes, me. I almost went to jail, went to prison. Was at an was at a Ethiopian police station or jail, if you would, for about 14 hours one day. And I started the night before. That's a whole story in and of itself. that I could tell on air at some point in time. Not a good position to be in. Let's just say that. At that time, and make a long story short, and I can tell the story more later, but I was accused of running into somebody with the car and killing them. That's what I was being accused of in Ethiopia. Not a good place to be, by the way. Not a fun place to be, because the last thing you want to be is in some foreign jail and not get out. And yes, that was going through my mind the entire time. Am I going to get out of this? Am I going to get out of this? And by the way, no, I hadn't done any of that, but that's what I was being accused of. So at any rate, that's another story for another day. Delaware, they just passed a billionaire's bill. Keep in mind, this is Joe's home state, Joe Biden's home state. A billionaire's bill to keep Zuckerberg and others from following Musk out the door. In other words, Delaware lawmakers Tuesday night passed a bill restructuring its corporate code as the state tries to prevent companies like Meta from exiting the state. The bill was designed with hopes of preventing a so-called Dexit. where companies hypothetically rushed to incorporate somewhere else out of Delaware into another state, such as Texas, Nevada. Some 2.2 million entities are incorporated in Delaware, and the state was home to 81% of all U.S. initial public offerings. Delaware is the best place in the world to incorporate your business, and Senate Bill 21 will help keep it that way, ensuring clarity and predictability, balancing the interests of stockholders and corporate boards, says Governor Matt Meyer in a statement after signing. So evidently they understand the importance of keeping companies there. I'm not sure the whole Democrat Party understands that. In fact, what I would tell you is the Democrat Party doesn't understand that end of things because what they keep trying to do when it comes to corporations and taxes and so on, the whole tax the rich scheme, which is exactly what it is, directly targets these sorts of companies. So while Delaware has figured this out, they need to send a message to the rest of the Democrat Party that, hey, we should do the same thing in the rest of the party. Otherwise, we're going to have people exiting the country because of your bad policies. If we continue after this whole mantra of tax the rich, tax the rich, tax the rich, which, by the way, is what Bernie and AOC were talking about even when they were here in Denver last Friday, they continue down that mantra, it's not going to bode well for them as a party. And I mean that with all sincerity. So somebody in the party should further that message along and let them know that that's not waning very well when it comes to those that have resources, because what they'll do is just move them other places when it's all said and done. Roof Savers of Colorado coming up next. And yes. Take care of your roof. It will take care of you. Like I was talking earlier, I always want a roof over my head. And I don't just want a roof over my head. I want a good roof over my head that, by the way, at the end of the day, is saving me money and not costing me money in all sorts of forms of maintenance and repairs and so on. 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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Charlie's getting Scott Garlis rounded up here. We'll have him in just a moment. Several of you texting in, by the way, especially on the whole Mexico thing with that couple of you messaging in that, yeah, I wouldn't have gone back there. I would have picked other places to vacation to just to double, you know, just to make sure that I didn't end up in that same place. And again, I'm not them. I don't know what their rationale was. I don't know what was going on in their mind. I don't know all of the details that went into this particular situation. All I know is, and those of you texting know the exact same thing that I'm talking about, you're not in America. You're not under the same laws. You don't have the same freedoms there that you have here. While you're an American citizen, that's great. but you still got to find somebody that's going to come and help you out when it's all said and done. Scott Garlis joining us now. Scott, welcome.
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Hey, John, how are you today?
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I am good. Good to hear you. Glad to be back together again. Lots and always lots happening, whether we talk or not. Bottom line, there's been a lot of things that have happened since you and I talked last.
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Yes, there have been. It's never a dull moment.
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No, it never is. And, you know, even with tariffs and all the different things that are happening along those lines and reality is that while people and I think the globalists especially get all bent out of shape and nervous over the tariffs so far and correct me if I'm wrong. But so far, we haven't seen huge inflationary increases out of them. In fact, they've been used as a negotiating tool on the Trump side to get other countries to do what's necessary. In fact, I think they've worked very well up to this point. I guess time will tell how much better they continue to work. But there hasn't been these huge inflationary things that the Fed and others are worried about, or am I wrong?
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Yeah, I mean, no, we haven't seen it show up in the numbers yet. As a matter of fact... if you look at the headline numbers on PCE and CPI the last couple of months, they've actually started coming back down. So it's the old, well, just wait until a couple of months down the road, just wait until a couple of months down the road. Maybe, we'll see. I mean, we heard that last time around, and inflation never really materialized. So I'm kind of right now in the camp of, You know, bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
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Well, you know, and you know my feelings on all this, of course. You know, I'm a lot like you in regards to these things, and I am not a globalist, and I have to remind folk at different times, whether they're listeners or even family members at times, you know, be careful of what you read, be careful of all of the naysayers, because globalists hate... not only tariffs, but frankly, Scott, I don't think they even like us being super competitive, because at the end of the day, that affects the whole global end of things, because the better we do, sometimes the worse other countries do. We'll get into China here in a moment, but at the end of the day, the globalists hate what we're doing right now, and they hate Donald Trump, because they ruin, or he ruins what they want.
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Yeah, I mean, you know, these countries are happy to take money from the U.S. and sort of kick... kick us in the back and walk all over us. I mean, I just feel like a lot of the stuff going on right now is people are being called out for what they've been doing for years. And it's, you know, I'm sorry, but if you've been doing something wrong and you get called out for it, you're getting called out for it.
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Right.
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And it's probably you hate it because you're getting shown out to everybody what you've been doing, but it's just sort of the way it is. Don't do it, and we won't have this problem.
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That's right. That's exactly right. And, you know, again, we'll get into China in a moment, but let's talk about some of those, you know, I guess you could call them the fear gauges and maybe what's going on behind them. Are they really as bad as some think? Are some of those easing? What are your thoughts?
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Yeah, so, excuse me, sorry. We saw a couple of the fear gauges really accelerate to the extreme fear category, and that sort of happened recently. I think last week was when we saw peak levels. We saw the Chicago Board of Option Exchanges Volatility Index. It got north of 27.5, got up to 30. Usually, during this bull market run, whenever it has gone above that level, it's been a great buying opportunity. Since that time, the stock market has bounced back like 5%. We saw the CNN Fear and Greed Index. it dropped to levels we haven't seen since the COVID pandemic and when everything was shut down. And again, that's seen a big bounce back. And then something else, the put-call ratio, which is it measures the amount of puts being bought versus calls, and puts are downside protection versus calls, or what you might call upside protection. And that got over one, and meaning... it's just the ratio of puts was way higher than the ratio of calls. And that's also a sign of extreme fear. And that's backed off, too. So some of the things we've seen from the White House that have also helped this is Trump has made commentary along the lines of, you know, these tariffs, reciprocal tariffs aren't going to be as punitive or the stories have leaked out that they're not going to be as punitive as, as maybe people have thought. And then this afternoon he actually made that statement. He said, there'll be far less than what people expect. So I think wall street has felt a little bit better and investors have felt a little bit better because we've gone from, Hey, all this uncertainty about what may or may not happen to you're starting to get some concrete detail that is removing that. And once they understand that better, They can start to money managers can start to invest more.
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Let's talk China for just a moment, because that's the biggest thing people talk about and investors even talk about. And there's some reports coming out. I was reading an article today from Bloomberg talking about the China shock to or now China, China, China shock 300. meaning China's struggling across the board. Their manufacturing side of things is really dropping. They lost, I want to say, let me read this here. They lost from 99 to 2011, they lost 2.4 million U.S. jobs at that point. And the reality is there's more to come this time around. So bottom line, Scott, they are not in great shape. And the point of this article is they make all of these goods. If they're going to keep their economy up, those goods have to go somewhere. And if we're not going to be the country buying them, who is?
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Yeah, that's a great question. I would think Europe's going to buy some, but Europe's economy is struggling right now.
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Yeah, and GDP-wise, I don't think most people really realize this, you can take all of Europe combined, they still don't scratch the surface to what we do, GDP.
SPEAKER 15 :
No, I mean, I believe it's like 20% of the global economy, maybe 25%.
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Yeah, because between us and China, we're half.
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Yes, yes, and the U.S. being the bulk of that.
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That's right. We're almost $30 trillion a year GDP. The next closest is China, and they're way below that.
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If you take the Eurozone and aggregate, they're actually bigger than China.
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Right. That's right.
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But they're still second to the U.S.
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That's right. That's right. Yeah. And that's where, I mean, I think, just to put things in perspective, when folks start talking about tariffs and they get mad at this and they get mad at that, and this might go up and that might go up, yeah, it may. You know, the cost of a TV, yeah, you know, it may go up. Your flat screen, you know, that you can buy right now, that 85-inch flat screen that's, you know, $9.99, you know what, Scott, at the end of the day, it might go to $14.99. And the way I look at, you know, Sorry, maybe I'm wrong in saying this, but the way I look at that is, yeah, oh well, so what? No offense, but that flat screen TV is not putting food on the table for me. So at the end of the day, does it really matter? No, it doesn't. If that's some of the little bit of sacrifice that I as a consumer have to make to get things back on track, I'm fine with that.
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You know, I have a flat screen up in my bedroom to Sony TV. And I don't know, it's 15 years old. It still works great. I mean, I just gave it the kiss of death. But you sound like you're running out to buy things like flat screens every day either, right?
SPEAKER 13 :
No, you're not. I mean, that's my point. But, yeah, that's when we start talking tariffs and things, that's one of the first things that you'll see some of the media especially talk about is, well, you know, that electronic device or that flat screen TV or that whatever, you know, yeah, it's going to go up in price. Well, okay, yeah. It will. But at the end of the day, the reality is there's a lot of other things that we're getting killed on, you know, cars, for example. You know, we've allowed cars to come into this country for very, very, very little tariffs. And yet when we try to export one to Germany, they nail us. So why aren't we doing the same thing with German cars?
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And exactly. And so that's that's been one of Trump's big, big fights or big points. He's like, hey, look, if you want free trade, that's great. Tear down the tariffs you're putting on our exports that go to your country. And like one of his beats with Europe is. You're happy to sell agricultural goods here, but you won't buy any of our stuff because you're saying it doesn't meet your standards. It's got to be a two-way relationship. It can't be all one-sided.
SPEAKER 13 :
Correct.
SPEAKER 15 :
You know, last time I checked, when you date somebody and you find you're in a one-way relationship, you usually get out.
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Hmm. That's true. That's true. Yeah. No, by the way, that's a great point. And that's kind of what we're doing right now as a country. That's what Trump is doing. And the reality is some of these countries will either figure out how to play ball correctly, get things back in line, which, by the way, then helps us as Americans, or they can keep those tariffs high. We'll keep ours high. And you just won't see as many German cars running around. If you do, they're going to cost more.
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So what you hit on another point that it really frustrates me as Americans, So an investor and then talking to friends that are retail investors and just the anxiety that's being created by a lot of the misrepresentation in the media. Like tonight, Trump announced 25 percent auto tariffs this afternoon. I'm sure you saw that. But he said we're going to start at 2.5 percent and they're going to be incremental moving forward. And they could get to 25 percent. But, I mean, I don't know the exact detail, and you probably know more than me on this, but I'm assuming he's saying, because he's talked about this before, and Scott Besson has talked about this before, we want to start at 2.5% and give everybody the chance to opt out. treat us fairly, and we won't go down that road. But if they're not, then we will dial it up. But the media isn't reporting that.
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No, they don't say that. Again, the media is not going to tell you that when we export a car to Germany, there's X tariff on it, and there always has been, and yet we've only tariffed, I think, German cars at like 2% or something is where, in fact, he might be raising it from that, but I think they've been 2% for quite some time.
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And then the other thing, too, like you're asking, well, where are Chinese goods going to be bought? You know, Europe's having a problem with China trying to dump goods into their country. And they're pushing Chinese goods back. They don't want them anymore because they're fed up with it. So I was reading an interesting article the other day that China is actually debating doing something Japan did in the 80s when there was a trade fight going on with Reagan. Japan said, well, what if we start shipping less goods to your country to sort of to nullify everything that's going on? And But that goes back to China dumping, and it's the exact thing that Trump has been fighting to stop because it hurts American workers and companies.
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Yeah, and then you've got announcements, and I'm sure you've seen some of these as well. You've got Hyundai that's agreeing to spend $25 billion over here putting a plant in. And by the way, that won't just be a one-term president plant. That thing will be here for decades. You've got the UAE agreeing to put in $1.4 trillion worth of investment. You've got... chip company down in Arizona agreeing to build another huge plant down there, TSMC. I mean, the reality, Scott, is all of these things happening, this is exactly what we want as a country because these are not, you know, things that are just going to affect us over the next year or even four. These are things that will affect us for decades.
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For decades. And it's, yes, there's going to be some stuff up front that might feel a little discomforting to get there. But once we get there, it's, yeah, I mean, it's going to be great for the U.S. economy for a long time to come. And then if you put all the technology efficiencies we've been talking about for some time now on top of that, just think about what that can do from a profitability and maybe even a GDP standpoint. Like I've read some people that are saying you could see what the AI capabilities we're seeing right now, what that could do for business, and if business really booms in the U.S., you could see GDP pick up 2X, maybe even 3X.
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Right. You know, the other thing, too, that we could go off for a long time on, even the textile industry and so on, and, you know, you're a guy like me to where I understand, and I think most of my listeners understand, the value of a product. And what I mean by that is, you know, Scott, I can spend, you know, $20 on a, you know, button-down, you know, collared shirt, or I can spend $100 on a button-down collared shirt. And for some of you listening, you're thinking, geez, that's a big difference in price. Hear me out. Scott, if I spend $100 or even $120 on a really good quality button-down shirt, I can literally, and I'm not exaggerating, I can wear that thing for the next five-plus years and most likely donate it when I'm done because it's still in decent shape, whereby I buy that $20 shirt, I might get a year or two out of it. So at the end of the day, which one am I better off buying? My point is... Yes, absolutely.
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I agree. I mean, the biggest problem China ran into is that China got all this business over there and tried to use it and lever it against all the countries all over the world and try to steal all their technology. and now people are fed up with it.
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And, Scott, at the end of the day, and this is one thing that, again, the press doesn't tell you, you can buy whatever. I mean, I can go down the list. Pick your poison. Whatever widget you can think of. I'm talking to a microphone right now that is a very high-quality microphone, and I'm looking at it. This is probably a $450 to $500 microphone if it's a nickel. Yes, we as a station could go to China. Probably find a substitute, a clone, if you would, Scott, that is probably a tenth of that price. But at the end of the day, it won't sound the same, it won't last as long, and it's not the same microphone at the end of the day. And yet that cheap Chinese crap is all over the world.
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It is all over the world. That's right.
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And I'm for one, I'm said, you know what, as an American and maybe again, maybe I'm looking at this the wrong way. And I get that some people need cheap goods. But some of the things I've just described to you, you're not better off buying the cheap crap. You're actually hurting yourself by buying it. And yet Americans are addicted to it. Well said. So I'm one that says, let's clean that stuff up. Maybe that's what Trump's trying to do as well. And some of what I just got done talking about is what's in the back of his mind. I don't know.
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Completely. Along the lines of some of the other stuff he's doing, too, he's trying to get rid of ridiculous expenses. There was an interview I saw the other day that Besant and one of the guys from Doge was talking to a reporter, and this guy from Doge said the IRS should have The same IT department about the size of a mid-sized bank, which is about 1 to 200 people, and they should have an IT budget annually of a mid-sized bank, which is about $20 million. He said they had 8,000 people working in the IT department at the IRS. Wow. In a budget of $3.2 billion.
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Again, Scott, that could be done, and I'm not exaggerating, folks. That could be done on probably 1% of that number if everything was updated, done correctly, AI being initiated into some of that. And I'm not joking. You literally could do that with 1% of that amount of people.
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He said they are finding $20, $30, $50 million contracts and going back to people that work there and saying, why do we have these contracts? And they're saying, I don't know. And so they're cutting off these contracts, and they're finding nothing's changing.
SPEAKER 13 :
Surprise! I mean, I'm not shocked. I'm not surprised. Scott, I mean, this is stuff that the problem, and I say this a lot, and I mean this. Government is a lot like church. Let me explain. When you get something going on in church, a committee, a picture hanging on the wall, the color of the carpet, you name it, Scott. It takes literally an act of God himself to change some of those things in a church because once it's there, it's always going to be there because some person is attached to it. the same darn thing happens in government.
SPEAKER 15 :
That's right. That's a great analogy.
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And somehow, someway, that needs shaken up, and that's what they're doing right now. And what really kills me, Scott, is yet we've got an entire party that is upset over the shakeup that's getting rid of waste, fraud, and abuse.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, I think if you go back to what we were talking about before, about other countries being caught out for the money they're taking from the U.S. and the way they're treating us... I think people, there are some people in D.C. that are getting called out for exactly what you just said, waste, fraud, and abuse, and it's being exposed, and they don't like being exposed when they've done the wrong things.
SPEAKER 13 :
Nope, they do not. They do not. All right, Scott, how do folks find you and get updates and follow along?
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Sure, yeah, follow me on LinkedIn, Twitter, or Substack, C. Scott Garlis.
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Scott, as always, I appreciate you, sir.
SPEAKER 15 :
Hey, John, thanks for your time.
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You bet, man. Have a great night. And yeah, follow Scott. He's always got great tips and tricks and things, especially if you guys do some trading on your own. Follow Scott. He's always got some great advice on things. Affordable interest mortgages next. Speaking of rates and mortgages and so on, talk to Kurt Rogers today. Find out exactly what he can do for you on a mortgage. 720-895-0500.
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All right. Lots of you texted in. I read as many of those through the break and responded as quickly as I could. If I didn't get to you, I still read your text message. And a lot of you talking about that segment with Scott and talking about the cheap products, the addiction to what you get in quality. Some of you even asking what type of things do I buy and how often do I replace a television set, for example, or a flat screen. I'll be honest until it dies. Yeah. I mean, I guess if there's something that I really want to update or remodel or there's something along those lines that I'm doing, I may go ahead and change something out at that time, and then you pass one off to the kids or the friends or you relocate it or put it out in the shop or whatever the case might be. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I'm not somebody that's out buying a new TV every time a new model comes out. That's not that important to me. It's not that big of a deal. Clothing, yeah, I mean, I buy high-quality shoes. I buy high-quality shirts. I gave you the reason why a few minutes ago. I feel like at the end of the day, you actually spend less when it's all said and done because I can get a longer wear. out of those particular items than I would otherwise. And I'm a guy that my kids make fun of me, but I wear a collared shirt, either short or long sleeve, pretty much all year long because it's cold in the studio. Even in the summertime, we'll wear a long sleeve shirt, might change into a short sleeve shirt at night when I get home. But I'm a collared shirt kind of guy, I guess. I don't know. I just kind of always have been. I rarely ever wear a T-shirt. I mean, if I'm doing an oil change or something like that, I might stick a T-shirt or something on. But even then, typically I've got some older collared shirts I keep around just for that one reason. And I'm just as comfortable in a collared shirt as I am a T-shirt. And, again, I buy high-quality shirts and shoes and things along those lines, and I get good longevity out of those in doing so. It's just – I don't know. I just kind of have – well – And this is going to probably not shock some of you. Charlie, it won't shock. I've been buying my own clothes since I was 13 years of age. I had income, I had a paper route, I had other money, and when it came time to go to school, I didn't want the same clothing that everybody else had to wear or that my mom and dad even wanted to choose for me to wear because they were on a much tighter budget than what I could even afford at the time. So I literally have been buying, washing, and caring for my own clothes since I was 13 years of age. I know I'm a weirdo. I get that all the time. Most kids are not buying their own clothes at that age. Their parents are. But that was just me. And it's because I felt like, A, I could help my folks out. B, I wanted to buy what I wanted to buy and wear. C, I learned to take care of them that way. And so I learned how to do laundry and iron and all of that at a very young age because I wanted to make sure my stuff was well cared for. at the end of the day I've done that since and I learned at an early age if I spend a little more money on something I got longer wearability out of it and at the end of the day actually saved money over what some others were doing the way they were doing it so just my own personal experiences along those lines and no folks I was asked do I shop at Kohl's no I do not shop at Kohl's I do not buy their dress shirts or anything along those lines sorry Kohl's just not my vibe All right, that's it for today. Guys, have a great night. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
Dana Lash takes a hard look at politician Jasmine Crockett, scrutinizing her controversial rhetoric and debunking perceptions tied to her past. We also discuss the perils that come with dinner outings as we hear a story of vehicular vandalism outside an Olive Garden. Dive into intense discussions mingled with lighthearted gripes about everyday life!
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It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man.
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Sorry. I'm not laughing, but this guy, his photos. It's a Florida man. He had a Florida man with meth in underwear. Tells deputy, there's nothing wrong with drugs. The guy, Thomas Carpenter, was arrested during a traffic stop. He had already served a three-year prison sentence. He was charged with trafficking meth, possession of enough drugs to sell or deliver. They got two counts, possession of blah, blah, blah, prescription, all kinds of stuff. Anyway, so he was pulled over. He had drugs and kids in a car. And he got pulled over and told police, oh, I just smoked some pot. He had a lot more than pot. Lots more than pot. According to the Putnam County Sheriff's Office, the 41-year-old, oh my gosh, he is not 41. They said they tried to talk to him, but he kept falling in and out of sleep mid conversation. They pull him over for a traffic violation and he kept falling asleep. He told deputies that he and his female passenger accidentally smoked too much pot before they were pulled over. His guy's 41. Juan showing you his. Is it the tattoos maybe that make him look older? I don't know. I can't believe he's 41. That dude looks like he's 60. Look how gaunt he is. Well, that's the meth will do it. Little meth will do it. So they said that neither he nor his passenger had a medical marijuana card. Sure. Two kids in the car at the time. And they found all kinds of stuff, meth, stuff to like distribute meth, things like that. So they're all in jail. That's all you need to know. But I can't believe that guy's 41 years old. I'm sorry. I'm calling shenanigans on that. I love how we have Tentman Florida Man. Tentman. Okay. Yeah, Tentman. His camping supplies include... Oh, is that meth? What it looks like in crystal form? I've actually never seen it. Look at that. It looks like somebody went in a spelunking in a cave and took out some stones. They look like moon rocks. I have no idea why that fascinates me. Tentman's camping supplies include over $2,000 in cash meth and THC gummies. Oh, okay. And he apparently has not a shirt amongst him. He was selling meth from a tent behind a discount store in Fort Pierce.
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As one does.
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As one would do. His last name is Hedy. Daniel Hedy with two Ds, of course it is. He was found by his tent shirtless sitting on a Home Depot bucket behind the DQ in a tent selling meth. That works. Yeah, I believe that. Also with no shoes. I love how they just keep adding onto it. They got a search warrant for his tent. I did not know that you had to get him for a tent. I mean, I knew for like a glove compartment. You know, my glove compartment's locked, so there's a trunk in the back. I know my rights, so you're going to need a warrant for that. Okay, so they had to get a warrant for his tent. And that's where they found all this stuff. They found meth, and they found... Is it illegal to have the gummies? Oh, wait, those are the acid gummies. No, that's not right. All the pot people are going to die. The THC thingies.
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I don't even know the terms. I think it's only legal medicinally in Florida, right?
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I don't know. I thought it was just like the CBD thing. Okay, so this is the stuff that gets you high. And then he had drug paraphernalia. I don't know. So he's in jail and his bond is set at a whole $51,000. I love that he was in a tent behind a DQ, shirtless, shoeless, sitting on a Home Depot bucket selling that. There you go. Gold prices have surged over 40% since January 2024, consistently reaching new highs. According to Goldman Sachs research, the upward trend is expected to persist due to strong demand from central banks. It's stuff like this that's made me take action and why I've bought precious metals like gold and silver. I've partnered with a great company that makes it super easy to buy. Easy, transparent, and simple. And that company is Goldco. They're a huge supporter of this show, and they're the best at what they do. And right now, you can get a free 2025 gold and silver kit jam-packed with critical information about buying precious metals. 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Like as a human, you're horrible and I never want to be around you. If you think that that kind of stuff counts as a joke, then you're too dumb to talk to. And I hope that someone out there is offended and turns me off because my gosh, I don't want any association with any brain matter that practices such stupid logic. I mean, seriously, there did you see some of them yesterday, Kane? Some people supposedly on our side like, oh, well, there would be one thing if she had said this like one time and was making not a joke that like to purposely jab at him. But if it was just you guys understand the context, I don't. It's very difficult to explain the abstract to stupid people like the ones who defend this as humor. It's not humor because it's not funny. That's like saying SNL is funny. People who say this is humorous, those people are murdered comedy. They've murdered humor. They've murdered intellect. They've murdered smart discourse. She has repeatedly done this. She has tweet after tweet after tweet. She has reposted numerous tweets. She has liked numerous tweets. I mean, multiple years ago. Of making fun of Greg Abbott for not able for him not, you know, heaven forbid, it's all his fault. Right. A tree fell on him and broke his back when he was 26 years old. He was not able to walk anymore. He had to rely upon a wheelchair. And that's where that's why he's in a wheelchair today. She has been making fun of him for this for a long time. So I think people I get really mad when I see people say, well, isn't that it's not actually the same thing because she's doing it on purpose designed to make a jab at him specifically because of his inability to walk. Now, again, and I'm going to say this one last time because these people have enraged me. I get that these people are stupid and they have to be baby walked into this explanation. And I know don't waste your time. Let me do it for you because you have busier things and more important things to attend to. But it's not a joke. And again, she's done this repeatedly, as we were the first people to tell you yesterday afternoon. She's done this quite a lot. Not only that, but can she stop pretending that she's ghetto? She's not ghetto. That's like Trump going out pretending that he's a redneck. She's not ghetto. OK. If you send me hate mail, I will print it out and run it over with my Segway. And then I'm going to take it to the range and blow holes in it with some birdshot. Promise you. She acts like she's like a street queen. Again, I made mention of this last night. If you sign up to the newsletter of her chapter and verse, you have the full story. I grew up in St. Louis. Missouri is my home state. And... She and I are about the same age, which shocks me because she seems way more immature. She went to school and is from an area that is very affluent. Jasmine Crockett grew up way the hell richer than I or Kane or most of you could imagine. She attended the most elite, exclusive expensive school that you could go to in the whole state of Missouri. It's Mary Institute in St. Louis, Country Day School in St. Louis, just colloquially, M-I-C-D-S. And it is a school where, I mean, every politician's kids went there. Politicians' kids went there. Business owners, CEOs, all their kids went to MICDS. Famous people, their kids went to MICDS. The athletes, they went to MICDS. My very first job as a lowly reporter was to do a profile piece on an up-and-coming performer in St. Louis for a magazine, and this performer had attended MICDS. And they were doing an event at their school, their alma mater. And they had it was like, you know, they not a field trip. What am I thinking of, Kane? Like they had an expo or something at the school where this performer was answering questions and all of this. Thank you. Assembly. Yeah. When everybody gets into the gym. Dude, have you ever been in my CDS? Now, Kane's from St. Louis, too. You know, in my CDS very well. Have you ever been into that school? Dude, dude. Everything is top notch. It is less like a school and it honestly seemed like a resort when I went in. I'm not even going to talk about like the food court cafeteria thing. I'm not even going to touch on that. The. area where we had this assembly I have never been in like a theater like they had their own theater then they had their own state-of-the-art gym they had all of this stuff they had like super plush cushy bougie seats and their theater was just a really it smelled like money when you walked in and I drove up in my beat-up car and I'm doing you know this profile it was what 22 years old doing this profile on this performer and And, oh my gosh, this school was so bougie. This school is pretty much the equivalent for tuition. I think it's... I mean, it's like a college, you know, just give me let me see. You had all the John Danforth went there. So John Danforth was an M.I.C.D.S. grad. Right. Everybody knows John Danforth. He was a senator. Pete Wilson, who was the senator, governor of California. Pete Wilson went to M.I.C.D.S. Do you guys remember the McCluskey dude who was out in his front yard with his gun? He was an MICDS grad. And he lived in that big old fancy house there in downtown. Joe Buck went to MICDS. The famed broadcaster went to MICDS. Vincent Price. Everyone knows Vincent Price, right? One of the greatest ever. He went to MICDS. Yeah. This is their who's who. All of these people. T.S. Eliot went to MICDS. You also had, I'm trying to think of some of the other people. I mean, everybody who was everybody went to MICDS. Republicans, Democrats, Communists, Socialists. It didn't matter. Everybody went to MICDS. Betty Grable. She didn't graduate, though. But she went to MICDS. Everybody went there. All these, like the CEO of Sotheby's went to MICDS. So you kind of get an idea. MICDS also, and I'm not running down the school. I'm just letting you know perspective here. Because I think if you're going to cosplay ghetto, then let's like look at the full story. Because that's part of her identity, right? Like Poop Booty Juice being gay and having a baby is all his identity. He can't do anything without reminding you that he's gay. Just do the damn job. But, you know, we don't live in that world anymore. But this school also in St. Louis, they had... Do they still call it the Veiled Prophet Ball?
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Yeah, the VP Fair.
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So way back when, yeah, they used to have the VP Fair. And that was the big 4th of July thing that they had in downtown St. Louis. And it was called the VP for Veiled Prophet. Well, Cain, the prophet... I don't know. I... I'd make a joke about it, but people will get upset because, you know, the people who say that conservatives take things too literally. If I made a joke about somebody being in a hood, the left would lose their minds like they've done before. But I'm just going to say the veiled prophet. And I've written stories on this kind of looked a little clansy. I'm not saying it was on purpose or that they I'm just saying it was, you know, this that all of this. I'm going to bring this tugboat to shore. All of this got started back when they had strikes in the day, the railroads in the east side, all that stuff. And they had this big thing, bread and circus. Right. That's how this whole thing came to be. Anyway, they would have all these debutantes. There was one chick who was on the office or was on the office or somebody, an actress who was a debutante in the VP ball. And they found out and she got in a lot of trouble because of the history of the VP thing. So that's where all the debutantes, the socialites of St. Louis get together. If you actually look at where all those people go to school, like everybody goes to either John Burroughs or MICDS. Those are the, you know, John Burroughs is like number two. MICDS is one. So this is where Jasmine Crockett grew up. She grew up in the lap of privilege. She went to and graduated from MICDS. She was at Rosati Kane for a while, but she graduated from MICDS. So she never, she wasn't in public education. She lived in the nicest parts of town. She went to the nicest schools. I couldn't even afford to even look around except as a job at MICDS. So Jasmine Crockett, the only piece she knows is privilege, not poverty. The only streets Jasmine Crockett knows are the streets that she drove through to get to her country day school. That's it. So stop acting, stop cosplaying like you're street. That's such a racist and bigoted view of your voting bloc. And I'm not the only person saying this. There are a lot of black moderates and black conservatives and everyone is like, why is she why is she like cussing and acting like she's going to fight everybody now? Is that what she thinks her voting bloc wants and her voting bloc? By the way, I hope if you are a black politician, you think that you're representing more than just black Americans. You're representing black and white Americans, you know, not your your your district of the elected seat in which you hold is more than just that. But this idea that she's, I think if you're going to represent yourself like that, you need to be authentic. Stop transing up your identity. Now, she has no excuse for this behavior. But she is trying to throw elbows because she wants a seat at the table of this attention economy. This is what politics have devolved to. And the right is no stranger to it. Just the left invented it. They're throwing elbows trying to get some of this attention economy. I don't know what all this is going to look like in four years because I just don't know how much lower you can go. We are already ridiculous. Where's the bottom? Is there a bottom with us? I don't know. But this idea that Democrats have, I don't want to dissuade them because I think it works in our favor. Their voting base believes that they're still the same voting base that they were 10 years ago, where most moderate Democrats would turn their heads and look the other way when their base. Well, it wasn't even their base at that time. They were just like on the outside. They were on the periphery. Now they are the base because Democrats never had the brass to stand up to them. 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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
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Captain declares an emergency after a passenger keeps flicking a lighter. This was from Kansas City to Phoenix. How did they get it on board? How do you get a lighter on board? Excuse me. You can't take a lighter on board.
SPEAKER 06 :
Actually, the last time we went to Vegas, I saw the person in front of me had it in their carry-on. Really? You can take a lighter on carry-on. BS. No, it was in plain view of TSA.
SPEAKER 02 :
Okay, hang on, hang on, hang on. We're stopping right here. Can you take a lighter on carry-on?
SPEAKER 06 :
That was when I was in Texas heading to Vegas.
SPEAKER 02 :
Oh, yes, you can. You're allowed one lighter in your carry-on bag. It has to be a disposable or a Zippo-style lighter without fuel. Oh. Without fuel.
SPEAKER 06 :
Who brings a lighter without fuel? All right.
SPEAKER 02 :
The lighter has... So, yeah, they said that you can refuel it after security.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, not everybody's doing that.
SPEAKER 02 :
Not before. Okay, so I'm just, because I can't have anything over 3 point whatever, 4 ounces for hand lotion, but somebody can bring a stupid lighter on board. Anyway, so this guy, he's flicking his lighter on and off, and the pilot's like, this is your last chance. I'm going to divert this aircraft if you don't stop. And people are wondering, you know, you just can't make fire when you're on the plane.
SPEAKER 06 :
He's totally smoking on the damn plane.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, I mean, I just feel and there's a woman who tried in a separate one. She tried one showing you right now. She literally was trying to smoke on the plane and she burned the seat cover with a lighter. How do these people again? They literally confiscated my mic stand because they said it was a weapon. My microphone stand and they tried to once confiscate my son's protractor because they said it looked sharp. But these people can take lighters on? Jiminy Christmas. I can't even with these people. That's so stupid. All right, we got more. Let's see. Homeowners are demanding $10,000 from HOA as the dues are spent accidentally paying someone else's bills, and it went on for years and years. I think HOAs are insane. And I think some of them out-extend their purpose. It's in Charlotte, North Carolina. They took a look at their HOA's finances and found that they were actually paying for people's bills, like water bills, utilities, things like that. And the whole neighborhood suffered. So they filed suit. Always check this stuff. Always check this stuff. We have a lot more on the way as we roll towards the bottom of this hour and a lot still to discuss. Stick with us.
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Now she says she feels targeted. Damaging a personal vehicle does not affect Elon. If anything, it's giving him more money to fix the vehicle that you damaged. It's not damaging who you're thinking it is.
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Just before 6 p.m. on Thursday, Abigail Gill and her family were seated for dinner at Olive Garden. Over an hour later, they left, and what they found waiting for them was shocking. Quite a lot of damage.
SPEAKER 04 :
He keyed this side as well, which as you can see this side, it even looks like it affected above the tire. This is a lot more damage.
SPEAKER 02 :
So a disabled woman had her car. I'm surprised Jasmine Crockett didn't pop up to make fun of her. A disabled woman had her car vandalized because her car is a Tesla. That's what's happening now. She's eating, having a nice meal at Olive Garden. comes out and her car is busted up, scratched up, all of that because someone didn't like the fact that she had a Tesla. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. Do you realize, too, that when this story first posted, do you know what some of the comments were from the left? They were making fun of her for eating at Olive Garden. Hold up. Aren't y'all bitching about the cost of eggs? Yep. And they're making fun of her because she's eating an Olive Garden. Is Olive Garden not good for you Marxists? I thought you guys, I thought you all were part of the proles, right? You're the proletariat. You're all down with the little people. She's eating at Olive Garden. What the hell's wrong with Olive Garden? I want one of you Marxist snobs to tell me what's wrong with Olive Garden. They got good salads. I mean, not everybody lives, you know, like by the hill in St. Louis. Sorry. Not everybody lives near Trastevere. I mean, you know, sometimes that might be the only Italian they can get. What's wrong with an Olive Garden? Nothing. You go and you get a nice meal and it's reasonably priced. These Marxist snobs are like, can you believe it? That was the first hands to sky. Those were some of the first responses that I saw when people were reacting to this story. The people on the left were mocking her because she was eating an Olive Garden. Oh, Juan's going off about that fettuccine Alfredo that they got at Olive Garden. It's the real deal, man. That's a creamy sauce. It's delicious. It's been a minute since I've eaten there, but I always like Olive Garden. We had them. I feel like there's fewer ones down here in Texas than there are in Missouri, Cain.
SPEAKER 06 :
I think that's accurate.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah. Because I felt like there was an Olive Garden in every city, in every sub-city in St. Louis, right?
SPEAKER 06 :
The salad... Along with the bread is unlimited.
SPEAKER 02 :
Unlimited stick. Unlimited. It's good. So I don't know why people are getting mad. So she's eating an Olive Garden, these snots. I just got really mad about that. They've got some good stuff. They've got some decent wines, too. You know, I mean, have you a red sauce? Get you a cab? You know, have an infinite stick and some salad?
SPEAKER 06 :
I don't know about you, but when I'm there, I feel like family.
SPEAKER 02 :
Do you feel like family?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, when I'm there.
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So weird. I do as well. Isn't that something? Amazing. Hmm. Yeah, it's... I don't know why people get all upset about that. Like, oh, you're... But that was the first... I mean, I'm not... I mean, like, the first handful of comments when I first saw that posted. So right off the bat, there's your glaring difference between the right and the left. The left, which is trying so hard to make a play for the blue-collar voter... But then they're going to make fun of a disabled woman because she's eating at an Olive Garden and came out and found her Tesla vandalized because she has a Tesla. And they're making fun of her, not just because her Tesla got there. I mean, I mean, again, Jasmine Crockett's going to pop up any second, laugh at her. But then they're like, oh, you're eating. So they immediately discounted the transgression done to her. Because, and Cain, correct me if I'm wrong, nowhere in the full story does she say, oh, I'm a Republican or I'm a conservative.
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No.
SPEAKER 02 :
She didn't even talk about it. Nobody knows what she is.
SPEAKER 06 :
Nope. No stickers on the car.
SPEAKER 02 :
No. Yeah, nothing. They're just like, Tesla, you must be a Nazi. And they immediately, and then they scratch her car up before ironically getting into their Volkswagen and driving off to their eagle's nest. I mean, I've got questions.
SPEAKER 06 :
No one's accused them of being deep thinkers.
SPEAKER 02 :
No, but they want that blue-collar voter, though. Yeah. But not that one, apparently. You know how many blue-collar people got Teslas? A lot of blue-collar people got Teslas. I mean, everybody that I know who's blue collar, including a couple of family members, and they're on the left. I mean, I know people on the left, on the right, and in the middle that own Teslas. The people that bought them initially, they're like big time. I think they were the most enthusiastic members of that base. Does that make sense? They love EVs and they really do think that that's where cars are going, right? then those were the early adopters then i think you had the people that loved gadgets and they love the idea of something going that fast that you know that fast that quickly and then you got the people i think there's sure there are people out there the bottom because they you know they thought you know they liked elon musk and they wanted to support i'm considering buying one literally so i can get into a fight not for any of the other reasons so i don't know i i just um I think that they're going to have a lot of problems if this stuff keeps happening.
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You know, I was really thinking about this when I was watching day two of talking about the same thing that we talked about yesterday. And tomorrow is probably going to be us talking about the same thing that we talked about the day before. And the next day and the next day is that Jeffrey Goldberg. And I know I've got colleagues that are remarking upon his professionalism and the way that he laid this out, et cetera, et cetera. Gag me. It was dropped. If he was such a professional about it. he would have released it when he got it. He wouldn't have sat on it and timed it to be perfectly released at the moment, like the evening, like right before we were doing these hearings. So when I have people... And I've had people, you know, in email and I've talked to some of my, you know, some of my friends that work in the press that are like-minded. They're saying, oh, well, you know, I mean, that was a big story for him to have and, you know, et cetera, et cetera. But it really... No, it's it's not because there was nothing there that there was nothing there. The war plans, the war plans that he said that he claimed were leaked. I mean, I'm looking at he said he was going to leak more and we're going to talk more about this. But I was really thinking about this today as I watched all of this, that this was really timed to coincide. Exactly with this hearing today. And it's all they're talking about. It's the only thing that's the only question that they're being asked about. Although I will say the other, I think, topic that they discussed and that the press kind of ran away from. is how Signal was pretty much added. That's something that they had. It's something that they added. It's not this big... They didn't do what Hillary did and use this unsanctioned service or facilitator to have these conversations. I mean, the software, the app was directly loaded onto their stuff. And that was done, apparently. And that's what Ratcliffe said. He was like, yeah, this was all I had all this. I had all this stuff. All of this stuff here. CIA was was added to my computer. He said that that was in yesterday's hearing. So, you know, I've got a lot of questions, and I'm sure the American people do as well, about all this, because I feel like they're really trying so hard, the left, to get a scalp. And like I said, the timing of this is just all so questionable. Welcome to the show. Dana Lash with you. Day 11,000. It's almost as bad as, like, how 1923 is lately. The show where Spencer's coming home, episode 5,000. Spencer, the whole thing is just Spencer coming home. You haven't seen it, so you don't understand this reference. But it's very much like that. It's very much that whole dragged out everything. So this is one of the top stories that we're discussing today. And like I said, we're going to get into all of this. It's just so mind-numbingly idiotic because instead of talking about serious issues, Nat Sec issues. We've got to sit here and fart around with this stuff. I mean, honestly, I do think that some of the defense from certain, I don't want to say surrogates because not all of them are surrogates, but certain people within the Trump camp, I think they got to get better at messaging this stuff because pretty much all you have to do is go out and say, okay, yeah, it was an error. It was an error. That's all it was. And move on. So we're going to get into this. We're going to get into a bunch of other stuff as well. I also have some cultural things. We've got to get into some of the what we can expect with Congress. And then, of course, the whole Jasmine Crockett thing, because she clapped back. I hate the phrase clapped back. I hate the phrase clap back. So I don't know why. How did that get to be a thing? I don't know. I don't know how it got to be, but it is. She had responded on X. She responded on X. First off, let's play Audio Somebody 12. This is Greg Abbott, who we can't get on the show anymore for some reason. I don't know. Maybe if we just, you know, can't get on the show. I mean, Governor, come on. We got a lot of people here that are interested in hearing from you. This is what he had to say on Fox 12.
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Well, Sean, this is another day in another disaster by the Democrats. The reality is they have no vision, no policy. They have nothing to sell but hate. And Americans are not buying it. It's one reason why Texas is going to remain red and why Republicans are going to continue to win elections across the country.
SPEAKER 14 :
That's true. I mean, Dave, I mean, it's true. We're going to talk about this, too. We're going to dive into it. But the hearings, that's the thing, the top thing ongoing. What are we not hearing in this, though? I feel like there's a lot of issues that we could be discussing here. in these intelligence hearings. And they're instead using them as a way to rage. And it's like two minutes later, I'm watching it. They were questioning Gabbard earlier today. Are they just trying to get them with their stories not straight? Because it's the same damn questions. I watched like an hour of them asking the same stuff. An hour after this. This was, audio is done by 25, John Ratcliffe. Oh, we came in with that, yeah. Ratcliffe has been doing a great job, I think, in answering some of this stuff.
SPEAKER 05 :
Cut 26 is what he was referring to. Yes, yes, yes. He called Jeffrey Goldberg a liar because Jeffrey Goldberg said this.
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There's a covert CIA operative named on the thread, right? Well, yes, and I withheld her name from this. They named somebody who's an active CIA officer in this thread, which is on Signal, again, a commercial app in which I'm watching. And I withheld it. I didn't put it in the story because she's undercover. But, I mean, the CIA director put it into the chat.
SPEAKER 14 :
That you weren't supposed to be part of. What? That he thought. So Goldberg's like, well, you know, but then he did. Did you see everything that he released that he put out this morning? He still released everything this morning. Look. He sat on this to make it a story and timed it purposely to come out with the hearings today. So that was one. Two, he released everything else today. This transcript of all of this stuff, all this transcript. He released this. And I... The Valerie Plame, the reason I said he's trying to Valerie Plame this, because the person that they're referencing is someone who works... on John Ratcliffe's staff at the CIA. Now, yes, if you work at the CIA and you're a staff member of the director of the CIA, I'm sure that at points you are going to have access to information that might be privileged or classified, which is a very different thing from intimating as Goldberg was doing here in the audio that we just played. It's a very different thing Than what he's intimating, which is to be an active, an active agent in the field. Like you are in the middle of operations. You have assumed a different cover and you are. What's the movie? Oh, my gosh. What's the movie? The Mission Impossible. Your mission impossible in it. That's not what's happening here. This is like what they did with Valerie Plame. How many of you guys remember that story? I remember it well because it's when I started radio. It was the first big story that I did. The first big story when I started radio on October 28th of 2008, right before the elections. Do you remember that, Kane, that big story? They were acting like Republicans murdered Valerie Plame. She was alive and living and she was a pencil pusher. Valerie Plain was not like an active agent that was undercover. She was a pencil pusher and she was name checked in this column. It was a big deal. Long story short, Democrats lied and said that her cover was blown by the previous administration, which was not true. I mean, you can have your criticisms of the Bush admin, but, you know, breaking Valerie claims cover is not one of them. And she kept saying in subsequent interviews how she wished that she could go, you know, still do her job and go back and et cetera. But then she and her husband, who I think has passed since then, Joe Wilson, she and her husband had they did this huge photo shoot together. And I'm trying to remember the photographer, but not any leave of it. It was a very famous photographer. Maybe it was. They did this huge cover, this photo shoot for Vanity Fair. And it was the two of them in a convertible. And she had a straw hat. It was like this carefree life. Like, look, all these Republicans threw this at us and we're living our best life. Is that something that you would do if you were hoping to return to duty? know as like a literal undercover agent would you would you be doing photo shoots like that kane is that is that something typical that people who work in intel and you know go on these operations and embed is they do big fancy shoots with vanity fair right no they don't oh unless they're super confident in their plastic surgeon or their masks Oh, interesting. I'm just fascinated by all of this. So I remember all that. Her husband, if you remember, was the guy, one of the guys, he wrote this thing. It was all about the enriched uranium. I'm not litigating all of this because I will literally gnaw my own hands off if I do. I covered it for weeks because Democrats made it such a big deal. They wanted heads to roll. They're trying to Valerie Plame this whole thing. So Ratcliffe, and this is what we came in with, he's he's. in his own way, is correcting the intimation by Goldberg because Goldberg has absolutely stretched the truth before and just made up things out of the ether. That's not really up for debate, particularly if you are at all whatsoever familiar with any of the reporting that he's done. I think the biggest lie that he made was the Trump Cemetery thing where he said that Trump didn't want to go visit World War II veterans at the French Cemetery. It was raining and he just didn't think it was... And it was completely false. It was totally false. So they're doing all of this theater for what purpose? I am past... being outraged at them for feigning outrage at something. I want to know what they're trying to hide. Or is it just something as simple as they think in their misguided opinion that they have something and they're just going to aggravate the hell out of Americans with it and hope that does the trick? Otherwise, what else are they? They knew that if they drop this the night before these hearings began, that the hearings, which are going to be on C-SPAN, that everybody would be watching this and they could litigate it multiple hours throughout subsequent days in front of the American public. Tell me you cannot tell me that there isn't coordination with the press. I think the biggest question isn't so much. Why did Mike Waltz have Jeffrey Goldberg in his context? But who coordinated the launch of this story with Jeffrey Goldberg on the Democrat side? That's the big question we have. Much more to unpack today. You can get your free 2025 gold and silver kit today, and you can qualify for up to 10% in bonus silver when you visit through danalikesgold.com. Goldman Sachs Research, they raised the gold price forecast to $3,100 by the end of the year. That's underpinned by higher than expected demand from central banks. So now is the time to move. Now is the time to buy. 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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
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All right. So it's apparently fiscal growth is on course for I don't know how. I don't know nothing because they don't they don't have anything else passed in the Senate.
SPEAKER 05 :
They want you to panic.
SPEAKER 14 :
I'm deleting this headline. I'm going to share it with you. You know why? Because it's all about getting you to freak out over stuff that hasn't even been solidified yet. That's all it is. America's confidence in the economy hits a multi-year low. The press has constantly been telling you to freak out is mystified as to why this is happening. Wow, it's amazing. A massive study of 40 countries shows that America is an outlier. Who the hell are these headlines?
SPEAKER 05 :
That's our press.
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And to be clear, free speech is not about whatever it is that y'all want somebody to say. And the idea that you want to shut down everybody that is not Fox News is bull . We need to stop playing because that's what y'all are doing in here. You don't want to hear the opinions of anybody else. And the Constitution says Congress shall make no law respecting or establishing Of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof or abridging the... The gentlewoman's time has expired.
SPEAKER 14 :
The gentlewoman's time has expired. Hmm.
SPEAKER 12 :
Madam Chair, one quick.
SPEAKER 14 :
Vulgarity isn't a substitute for wit. That's, I think, first and foremost. And I love that this is where... democrats are they they think that they don't need to have better policies they because their base they their base is like you guys aren't being violent and ridiculous enough so you need to do it more and so democrats are like okay i know what we'll do instead of like coming up with policy that shows how much we're listening to our base and how much we're doing what we're actually going to do is cuss meanwhile everybody's going what Sorry, excuse me, what? You're going to what? Yes, we're going to cuss. That's what we're going to do instead of doing anything else that's like good with regards to policy. They're trying to be edgy and stupid people think edgy is dropping like the BS and F-bomb. Now, look, my vice in life is having a colorful vocabulary. It is not my fault that there were so many members of our naval services, our Navy in our family. I blame our sailors. And the daughters, my mother that they raised. So I'm just saying that, you know, I come I come by it honest, but that's my only vice in life. But I'm not to that extent. Democrats, though, they think that it is actually not just a substitute for wit, but policy as well. So they came up with yesterday I shared with you. And if you actually pull this up, because I had a whole separate thing on our newsletter right about this. That gets into the amount of money. Well, how worried Democrats are and the amount of money that they're looking at dumping into these upcoming races, which we're going to talk about, because, you know, Democrats only need to flip three House seats in midterms in order to take control of House. You guys know this, right? All Democrats have to do coming up in midterms is to flip three House seats, and they got the House. And they're targeting 14 different districts. One of the things that the DNC has done is they've created a PAC called Win Them Back, and they've dumped $50 million into it already. And there's way more to come. But this PAC, what they're doing is they're sending people – it's like more of the Bernie Sanders AOC summer concert series – And they are also paying influencers. So if you thought the influencer thing was insufferable the first time around, just wait, because there's more of it. They're going to get they're going to have more. They are going to be paying influencers, content creators, all of this stuff. They're going to try to convince people that Democrats have done something differently to win people back when the reality is that they haven't. They're trying to make a play to get that blue collar worker back, the middle class voter, because they can't win another election without them. And I think that they've given up on Hispanic Americans and because, you know, Hispanics, Hispanic Americans won't stop loving Jesus. So they got to give up on them. So they've been I mean, that's why I'm saying natural allies. So they are targeting the blue collar middle class voter. And that's what they are. They think that this is all of this is going to work together to convince people to vote for Democrats. So they've got this win them backpack. And they're just kind of funny. They think that the way to go about this is quite literally to go out and just start cussing at everybody. Now, I first told you before everybody else yesterday that Jasmine Crockett, when she was making all of, you know, because she's she's clapped back. I hate this phrase. I'm saying it because that's how the headlines are. Oh, she's clapping back. Democrat Princess Jasmine Crockett. We first we were the first ones to tell you yesterday that she has a history of this. She has a history. So I've had someone ask me, well, you know, she's just making a joke. So don't you think that, you know, aren't conservatives getting a little sensitive? I think that you need to redefine what you think a joke is. These people who use this excuse, if that's your measure of humor, you suck. Like as a human, you're horrible and I never want to be around you. If you think that that kind of stuff counts as a joke, then you're too dumb to talk to. And I hope that someone out there is offended and turns me off because my gosh, I don't want any association with any brain matter that practices such stupid logic. I mean, seriously, there did you see some of them yesterday, Kane? Some people supposedly on our side like, oh, well, there would be one thing if she had said this like one time and was making not a joke that like to purposely jab at him. But if it was just you guys understand the context, I don't. It's very difficult to explain the abstract to stupid people like the ones who defend this as humor. It's not humor because it's not funny. That's like saying SNL is funny. People who say this is humorous, those people are murdered comedy. They've murdered humor. They've murdered intellect. They've murdered smart discourse. She has repeatedly done this. She has tweet after tweet after tweet. She has reposted numerous tweets. She has liked numerous tweets. I mean, multiple years of making fun of Greg Abbott for him not, you know, heaven forbid, it's all his fault, right? A tree fell on him and broke his back when he was 26 years old. He was not able to walk anymore. He had to rely up on a wheelchair. And that's where that's why he's in a wheelchair today. She has been making fun of him for this for a long time. So I think people I get really mad when I see people say, well, isn't that it's not actually the same thing because she's doing it on purpose designed to make a jab at him specifically because of his inability to walk. Now, again, and I'm going to say this one last time because these people have enraged me. I get that these people are stupid and they have to be baby walked into this explanation. And I know don't waste your time. Let me do it for you because you have busier things and more important things to attend to. But it's not a joke. And again, she's done this repeatedly as we were the first people to tell you yesterday afternoon. She's done this quite a lot. Not only that, but can she stop pretending that she's ghetto? She's not ghetto. That's like Trump going out and pretending that he's a redneck. She's not ghetto. Okay? If you send me hate mail, I will print it out and run it over with my Segway. And then I'm going to take it to the range and blow holes in it with some birdshot. Promise you. She acts like she's like a street queen. Again, I made mention of this last night. If you sign up to the newsletter of her chapter and verse, you have the full story. I grew up in St. Louis. Missouri's my home state. And she and I are about the same age, which shocks me because she seems way more immature. She went to school and is from an area that is very affluent. Jasmine Crockett grew up way the hell richer than I or Kane or most of you could imagine. She attended the most... elite, exclusive, expensive school that you could go to in the whole state of Missouri. It's Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School in St. Louis, just colloquially, M-I-C-D-S. And it is a school where, I mean, every politician's kids went there. Politicians' kids went there. Business owners, CEOs, all their kids went to MICDS. Famous people, their kids went to MICDS. The athletes, they went to MICDS. My very first job as a lowly reporter was to do a profile piece on an up-and-coming performer in St. Louis for a magazine, and this performer had attended MICDS. And they were doing an event at their school, their alma mater. And they had, it was like, you know, not a field trip. What am I thinking of, Cain? Like they had an expo or something at the school where this performer was answering questions and all of this. Assembly? Thank you. Assembly. Yeah, when everybody gets into the gym. Dude, have you ever been into MICDS? Now, Cain's from St. Louis, too. You know MICDS very well. Have you ever been into that school? Dude. Dude. Everything is top notch. It is less like a school and it honestly seemed like a resort when I went in. I'm not even going to talk about like the food court cafeteria thing. I'm not even going to touch on that. The... Area where we had this assembly. I have never been in like a theater. Like they had their own theater. Then they had their own state-of-the-art gym. They had all of this stuff. They had like super plush, cushy, bougie seats. And it was just a really, it smelled like money when you walked in. And I drove up in my beat-up car. And I'm doing, you know, this profile. I was, what, 22 years old. Doing this profile on this performer. And oh, my gosh, the school was so bougie. This school for is is pretty much the equivalent for tuition. I think it's. I mean, it's like a college, you know, just give me let me see. You had all the John Danforth went there. So John Danforth was an M.I.C.D.S. grad. Right. Everybody knows John Danforth. He was a senator. Pete Wilson, who was the senator, governor of California. Pete Wilson went to M.I.C.D.S. Do you guys remember the McCluskey dude who was out in his front yard with his gun? He was an MICDS grad. And he lived in that big old fancy house there in downtown. Joe Buck went to MICDS. The famed broadcaster went to MICDS. Vincent Price. Everyone knows Vincent Price, right? One of the greatest ever. He went to MICDS. This is like this is their who's who. All of these people. T.S. Eliot went to M.I.C.D.S. You also had I'm trying to think of some of the other people. I mean, everybody who was everybody went to M.I.C.D.S. Republicans, Democrats, communists, socialists. It didn't matter. Everybody went to M.I.C.D.S. Betty Grable. She didn't graduate, though, because I was around like but she went to M.I.C.D.S. Everybody went there. All these, like the CEO of Sotheby's went to MICDS. So you kind of get an idea. MICDS also, and I'm not running down the school. I'm just letting you know perspective here. Because I think if you're going to cosplay ghetto, then let's like look at the full story. Because that's part of her identity, right? Like Poop Booty Juice being gay and having a baby is all his identity. He can't do anything without reminding you that he's gay. Just do the damn job. But, you know, we don't live in that world anymore. But this school also in St. Louis, they had... Do they still call it the Veiled Prophet Ball?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, the VP Fair.
SPEAKER 14 :
So way back when, yeah, they used to have the VP Fair. And that was the big 4th of July thing that they had in downtown St. Louis. And it was called the VP for Veiled Prophet. Well, Cain, the prophet... I don't know. I... I'd make a joke about it, but people will get upset because, you know, the people who say that conservatives take things too literally. If I made a joke about somebody being in a hood, the left would lose their minds like they've done before. But I'm just going to say the veiled prophet. And I've written stories on this kind of looked a little clansy. I'm not saying it was on purpose or that they I'm just saying it was, you know, this that all of this. I'm going to bring this tugboat to shore. All of this got started back when they had strikes in the day, the railroads and the east side, all that stuff. And they had this big thing, bread and circus. Right. That's how this whole thing came to be. Anyway, they would have all these debutantes. There was one chick who was on the office or was on the office or somebody, an actress who was a debutante in the VP ball. And they found out and she got in a lot of trouble because of the history of the VP thing. So that's where all the debutantes, the socialites of St. Louis get together. If you actually look at where all those people go to school, like everybody goes to either John Burroughs or MICDS. Those are the, you know, John Burroughs is like number two. MICDS is one. So this is where Jasmine Crockett grew up. She grew up in the lap of privilege. She went to and graduated from MICDS. She was at Rosati Cain for a while, but she graduated from MICDS. So she never, she wasn't in public education. She lived in the nicest parts of town. She went to the nicest schools. I couldn't even afford to even look around except as a job at MICDS. So Jasmine Crockett, the only piece she knows is privilege, not poverty. The only streets Jasmine Crockett knows are the streets that she drove through to get to her country day school. That's it. So stop acting, stop cosplaying like you're street. That's such a racist and bigoted view of your voting bloc. And I'm not the only person saying this. There are a lot of black moderates and black conservatives and everyone is like, why is she why is she like cussing and acting like she's going to fight everybody now? Is that what she thinks her voting bloc wants and her voting bloc? By the way, I hope if you are a black politician, you think that you're representing more than just black Americans. You're representing black and white Americans, you know, not your your your district of the elected seat in which you hold is more than just that. But this idea that she's, I think if you're going to represent yourself like that, you need to be authentic. Stop transing up your identity. Now, she has no excuse for this behavior. But she is trying to throw elbows because she wants a seat at the table of this attention economy. This is what politics have devolved to. And the right is no stranger to it. Just the left invented it. They're throwing elbows trying to get some of this attention economy. I don't know what all this is going to look like in four years because I just don't know how much lower you can go. We are already ridiculous. Where's the bottom? Is there a bottom with us? I don't know. But this idea that Democrats have, I don't want to dissuade them because I think it works in our favor. Their voting base believes that they're still the same voting base that they were 10 years ago, where most moderate Democrats would turn their heads and look the other way when their base. Well, it wasn't even their base at that time. They were just like on the outside. They were on the periphery. Now they are the base because Democrats never had the brass to stand up to them. 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SPEAKER 05 :
You know what it's like? It's like whoever's handling comms for the Dems are just making these blanket suggestions like, you know, you need to be out there. Be a little more meaner.
SPEAKER 14 :
I really want to play this so bad, but I can't look it fine. Apparently she said it repeatedly. Oh, she did. She said it's Democrat Rep Stansberry during a sanctuary hearing. She goes, it's total BS. Absolute BS. They're not making America safer. What they're doing is terrorizing immigrant families. That's what they're doing. And I'm Well, these are illegal entrants. These are people who entered illegally. And... No. Why do you... Again, it's not... Vulgarity is not a substitute for wit. And it's not a substitute for policy. And it's not a substitute for truth. Nor is it a substitute for answers or anything of the sort. This is... It's just quite really just silly. This is... I don't understand what they're doing here. No clue what they're doing. So I... You know, I just feel like... I don't know. It's clearly some kind of memo went out. And they're all they are all saying the same thing. You know, we we need to be more aggressive. Democrats think that they need to be more aggressive. On April 5th. Did you guys hear this? So pull this up. April 5th. Oh, gosh. It's the National Day of Action where liberal activists are gearing up to unleash chaos. They're protesting. And it's called Hands Off National Day of Action, Saturday, April 5th. So like, hands off what? Like what? Hands off our big government. Let it get bigger. Like what is it? It sounds like it's a day of just them having a tantrum. They don't even actually get into what they do. They're just like, yeah, we're going to go out and we're going to raise our voices. Yes, we are going to state our truth. On April 5th? For what? It just sounds like it's just an excuse for them to go and act like fools in the streets. That's what it is. Have you heard anything about this, Cain? What is the... I'm trying to find particulars on it, but they all have different... Nobody has the... No, nobody. It's supposed to be global protests. It's a hands-off protest. Signature event. They love not doing anything but yelling in the streets. They like to be seen as protesting but not actually doing anything. Like this is literally what, this is what it says. Tell me if you, I don't know. On Saturday, April 5th, we're taking to the streets to fight back with a clear message. Hands off. Hands off what? So you're going to fight people? Don't make some people's wish come true. You're going to fight people? What in the world? Bring a sign in your voice. Yes, because you normally would leave your voice at home. Understood. I mean, I am shocked at this. And then it just says schools, libraries, energy, stuff like that, hands off. I just don't understand what this means. And then the other people putting in honor of that Soros group. And they're trying to make that one indivisible group that's funded by a Soros entity. And they're trying to make it a big thing. I seriously don't even know what they're protesting, Cain. I don't know. I'm not giving Juan the link or the imagery because I don't want to promote it. I think it's the same people who do... I swear to you, it's like the same people. It seems like the same people who did the Tesla doxing site. Same network. What? Yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
Same network.
SPEAKER 14 :
So what are they... Cain, any idea? Yeah. What are they protesting?
SPEAKER 05 :
I mean, truly, do you want the psychologist-style answer? I'm no psychologist.
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, here's one sentence buried.
SPEAKER 05 :
By the way.
SPEAKER 14 :
Here, wait a minute. Add this to your analysis.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right.
SPEAKER 14 :
Quote, Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. They're taking everything they can get their hands on, daring the world to stop them. On Saturday, April 5th, we're taking to the streets nationwide to fight back with a clear message. Hands off. That's real clear.
SPEAKER 05 :
So clear.
SPEAKER 14 :
Your thoughts, sir?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, my nonprofessional psychologist analysis would say that these people, there's a level of self-loathing that they have not even recognized themselves. So they live the lives projecting that hate onto others because they have yet to internally look at themselves for their own hate of themselves.
SPEAKER 14 :
I just... Am I close?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, like listen to this. Trump, Musk, and Republicans in Congress are raising prices.
SPEAKER 05 :
On what?
SPEAKER 14 :
Things, Cain, and stuff. Did Moira Rose write this whole website? Trump, Musk, and Republicans in Congress are raising prices.
SPEAKER 05 :
So they were out in the streets then since 2021.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, I mean, prices have been up. It's so weird, Cain, how prices went up when Joe Biden got in office. That is just a mystery.
SPEAKER 05 :
They didn't just go up. They went up historically.
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
Historically.
SPEAKER 14 :
We were number one in raised prices. Number one.
SPEAKER 05 :
That was about the only thing we were number one in.
SPEAKER 14 :
So I don't, I'm at their website and I know you guys want to see it. I'm not giving it to Juan though, because I don't want to promote it. Juan's over here like, why are you doing this to me? And then I noticed at the bottom, you can share all their stuff, but only on blue sky. Blue sky is the thing that all the progressives go on, right? Yeah. That's what all the progressives go on. So what is the point of a protest? I mean, a protest, if you're protesting, people would see and go, oh, wow, you make a good point. I'm going to reconsider. But have you seen what they do? They just scare people. It's like a haunted house, but not in October. Have you ever been to a progressive protest? It's so weird. Even, again, when I was a dumb college Democrat, and remember, I did not meet a Republican until my freshman year of college. It's the first time I ever met a Republican in my life. Grew up in a hardcore Democrat family. And when I went up to the city and I was in school, And I went to a progressive protest the first time. It was all manner of weirdness and smelly. So there were dirty hippies and they would play hacky sack. The grossest thing I've ever seen in my life is hippies with dirty feet playing hacky sack. And I died. I died and had to be resuscitated and died again. It was so bad. I just all of the things I hate. Tom's of Maine before Tom's of Maine existed. You know, white people with dreadlocks, dirty feet, hacky sack, you know, like dumb people. And I don't even actually know what the protest was. It just kind of looked like a mellow rager. And that's before they started getting violent. And then as the day went on, then later on is the sunset. That's when all that's when the troublemakers came out and then they decided to get violent. And it was real weird. And I didn't stay because I would have my mother to beat me. But. I never understood that like they I crashed one protest after I started my conversion and someone had a like a not it wasn't a pinata like a traditional pinata, but they basically had an effigy of Bush that they were hitting with bats and stuff like that. And then after they knocked it down, then they set it on fire in the street. I'm like, well, just in case, you know, he wasn't dead. He isn't. It's just so stupid. But that's. I don't know if you were a person that didn't know what to think about an issue and you were to walk into that. What out of the demonstrations would persuade you to go, oh, that's a fair point. I'm going to rethink my decision. Nothing. Nobody wants to be like these people. Part of a protest, too, is you're persuading and you're hoping to make your position attractive so that other people join you. And none of this does this. I have no idea. We're mobilizing to show the strength of our movement. Democrats are adrift. They have no party leader. There's a power vacuum. But yet still, I mean, if you've seen some of these races, though, like, for instance, only Republicans could mess this up. Like Randy Fine in the 6th Congressional District in Florida. I'll give him kudos, or at least credit, not kudos. I'll give him credit for coming on the show because his other colleagues are too scared. But that race is a toss-up in a solid red district that Trump took by 30 points because he's such a bad candidate. That race is now classified as a toss-up. That is the craziest thing I've ever seen. Only Republicans can mess things up for themselves like they're doing in that district. And remember, all you need for midterms is to flip three seats in order to retake the House, for Democrats to take the House. Can you believe that? I mean, this is so stupid. This is like people that are willing to sink the ship because they can't be the captain. It's exactly what this is. So now we've got Democrats doing this. And excuse me. In addition, we've got the full I've been looking at the full chat and I'm done talking about the story after today because I think it's I think it's all they got to do is say, yeah, you know what? We messed up. We're going to we're going to rectify it and move on. I have half of my friends think Mike Waltz is an idiot and half don't. There is nobody in the middle. It is a very polarizing issue. And I do disagree, and I like Mike Waltz, and I don't want to disagree with him. I do, however, I don't know if we had this when he was on. Fox last night. And I don't think it was a good hit for him because he was he was acting like audio somebody three. This is particularly it. This was not a good this was not good.
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Listen, the president expressed complete confidence in you today and his entire cabinet. But how did a Trump hating editor of The Atlantic end up on your signal chat?
SPEAKER 09 :
you know laura i'm not a conspiracy theorist but of all the people out there uh... somehow this guy who has lied about the president who has lied to ghost our families lied to their attorneys uh... and gone to russia hopes gone that just all kinds of links lie and smear the president united states and he's the one that somehow gets on somebody's contact and it's up to date first off
SPEAKER 14 :
Signal tells you who added who. And when you are the party host, you can see there are always receipts that show who added. So I like Mike Waltz. Mike Waltz added this guy. Or he gave his phone to a staffer and said, use my phone to add him. Because nobody can just get into his account and do it. I have Signal. I use Signal. That's not how Signal works. So that just wasn't... I don't know. I just... I think that... Because he said, well, he somehow got into it. He got sucked into it. Well, just say it was, you know, messed up and added. No, I get and I have some of my friends. I feel like I need more time to talk about this aspect of it. Let me just set this up. I talked about this in my book, Grace Canceled. about admitting or acknowledging a wrong and rectifying it and why it's not popular to do so anymore, particularly in politics, because it is viewed as surrender. And also, what is the whole purpose of acknowledging a wrong? The whole purpose of acknowledging a wrong is for, at some point, reconciliation. But that's not what the left has ever wanted. The left, it's not about reconciliation. It's about total sheer destruction. They're not looking for any kind of redemptive arc for you. They just want to destroy you. You can say you're sorry that you messed up all day long, but that's irrelevant. That just means you get an extra layer of severity added to your penalty because you admitted it. So nobody why would anybody be incentivized to admit a wrong when reconciliation has never been in the cards here? It's all about destruction. Then you can see how very strategic this becomes. So I understand my friends who are giving that take. But I also think that they need to balance their view with the reality that our system and Republicans used to not be like this, by the way. This is a new thing for the right. The left made it, but now the right is adopting it to some effect. But even if, even if somebody went out and admitted a wrong, What does that get them as we move our partners that help bring you the program? It's our friends over at Patriot Mobile, the only Christian conservative cell phone service provider in the country. And not only do they not only do they bring you great service, but they're also making sure that your money is not working against you. They have nationwide coverage you can trust. operating on all three major networks. You can support what you believe in. They have seamless switching with a 100% based, US-based customer service team. So you can keep your phone, keep your number, upgrade. The choice is entirely yours. And when you visit, go to patriotmobile.com slash Dana or call 972-PATRIOT. Use promo code Dana and you get a free month of service. So that's patriotmobile.com slash Dana, 972-PATRIOT. Code Dana for that free month of service.
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Stupid headline. Could salty foods be fueling depression rates? Because, see, we have to throw out of the window the idea that moderation, when ignored, can be bad. But everything in moderation is okay. So you just have to take, you know, miles wide, inches deep. It's bad. We're all going to die. Everybody who wears shoes dies at some point. Shoes kill. That's the conclusion. Great study. San Diego has the first in the nation policy to ban digital-only coupons at grocery stores. That's a very specific thing to get mad about. And to want to immediately do away with. So they said that if you're in a San Diego grocery store, they passed the first in the nation policy. So digital only coupons are banned. I hate everything. I can't believe this is a thing. Grocery pricing, transparency. I don't care. I really don't care. You're in San Diego. You're in one of the prettiest parts of the world. Shut up. I don't care. I just don't care. I'm jealous of your weather. I'm not jealous of your government, so I'm not talking to you right now. They said that everybody's doing everything they can to stretch their dollars, but grocery chains are turning basic shopping into a rigged game. Oh, here we go. Big grocery. It's big grocery. California has more EV chargers than gas nozzles. They also have more feces and needles on the ground than anywhere else. Interesting, isn't it? A man requires medical... No. He got his girlfriend's hand stuck in his mouth and he had to go to the hospital. This guy. He got his girlfriend's hand actually stuck in his mouth and he had to go to the hospital. If you guessed, did this happen in China? Yeah. Yeah, it did. I don't even think we can show that. Juan's like, oh no, I'm going to throw it out there. Stick with us. You've heard me talk about Berna before. I always think it's good to have a diversified society. implements for self-defense and I'm always going to carry a firearm and I have zero issues using lethal force at all whatsoever to protect myself or my loved ones. So that being said, I'm not able to carry everywhere. I have friends that live in New York and D.C. They're not able to carry everywhere. They have big kids. They got big kid jobs. They got to go to work and municipal restrictions. You guys know the drill. The Burna gun shoots chemical irritant projectiles that can disable threats from up to 50 feet away. It's a good deterrent. And the best selling model is the Burna SD, right? There's no recoil. There's no background check. It's illegal in all 50 states. It doesn't care about gun free zone signs. And there's no permits, nothing. It ships right to your door. You can choose your model, the color. There's different projectiles and accessories there. So for my friends who are barred from their constitutional rights by, you know, working, living and working in D.C. or Manhattan, they do carry burner guns because you guys seen the crime rate for those cities. They don't want to be left a statistic. You carry blades. You have rifles and pistols. You have all different calibers. It's good to have diversity. So reevaluate your self-defense plans and options. Visit Byrna.com slash Dana. That's B-Y-R-N-A.com slash Dana. That's where you get 10% off your purchase.
SPEAKER 06 :
Damaging a personal vehicle does not affect Elon. If anything, it's giving him more money to fix the vehicle that you damaged. It's not damaging who you're thinking it is.
SPEAKER 07 :
Just before 6 p.m. on Thursday, Abigail Gill and her family were seated for dinner at Olive Garden. Over an hour later, they left, and what they found waiting for them was shocking. Quite a lot of damage.
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he keyed this side as well which as you can see this side it even looks like it affected above the tire this is a lot more damage so a disabled woman had her car i'm surprised jasmine crocker didn't pop up to make fun of her a disabled woman had her car vandalized because her car is a tesla that's that's that's what's happening now she's eating having a nice meal at olive garden comes out and her car is busted up, scratched up, all of that because someone didn't like the fact that she had a Tesla. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. Do you realize, too, that when this story first posted, do you know what some of the comments were from the left? They were making fun of her for eating at Olive Garden. Hold up. Aren't y'all bitching about the cost of eggs?
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Yeah.
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And they're making fun of her because she's eating an Olive Garden. Is Olive Garden not good for you Marxists? I thought you guys, I thought you all were part of the proles, right? You're the proletariat. You're all down with the little people. She's eating at Olive Garden. What the hell's wrong with Olive Garden? I want one of you Marxist snobs to tell me what's wrong with Olive Garden. They got good salads. I mean, not everybody lives, you know, like by the hill in St. Louis. Sorry. Not everybody lives near Trastevere. I mean, you know, sometimes that might be the only Italian they can get. What's wrong with an Olive Garden? Nothing. You go and you get a nice meal and it's reasonably priced. These Marxist snobs are like, can you believe it? That was the first hints to sky. Those were some of the first responses that I saw when people were reacting to this story. The people on the left were mocking her because she was eating an Olive Garden. Oh, Juan's going off about that fettuccine Alfredo that they got at Olive Garden. It's the real deal, man. That's a creamy sauce. It's delicious. It's been a minute since I've eaten there, but I always like Olive Garden. We had them... I feel like there's fewer ones down here in Texas than there are in Missouri, Cain.
SPEAKER 05 :
I think that's accurate. Yeah.
SPEAKER 14 :
Because I felt like there was an Olive Garden in every city, in every sub-city in St. Louis, right?
SPEAKER 05 :
The salad... Along with the bread is unlimited.
SPEAKER 14 :
Unlimited stick. Unlimited. It's good. So I don't know why people are getting mad. So she's eating an Olive Garden, these snots. I just got really mad about that. They've got some good stuff. They've got some decent wines, too. You know, I mean, have you a red sauce? Get you a cab? You know, have an infinite stick and some salad?
SPEAKER 05 :
I don't know about you, but when I'm there, I feel like family.
SPEAKER 14 :
Do you feel like family?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, when I'm there.
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So weird. I do as well. Isn't that something? Amazing. Hmm. Yeah, it's... I don't know why people get all upset about that. Like, oh, you're... But that was the first... I mean, I'm not... I mean, like, the first handful of comments when I first saw that posted. So right off the bat, there's your glaring difference between the right and the left. The left, which is trying so hard to make a play for the blue-collar voter... But then they're going to make fun of a disabled woman because she's eating at an Olive Garden and came out and found her Tesla vandalized because she has a Tesla. And they're making fun of her, not just because her Tesla got there. I mean, I mean, again, Jasmine Crockett's going to pop up any second, laugh at her. But then they're like, oh, you're eating. So they immediately discounted the transgression done to her. Because, and Cain, correct me if I'm wrong, nowhere in the full story does she say, oh, I'm a Republican or I'm a conservative.
SPEAKER 05 :
No.
SPEAKER 14 :
She didn't even talk about it. Nobody knows what she is.
SPEAKER 05 :
Nope. No stickers on the car. No.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, nothing. They are just like, Tesla, you must be a Nazi. And they immediately, and then they scratch her car up before ironically getting into their Volkswagen and driving off to their eagle's nest. I mean, I've got questions.
SPEAKER 05 :
No one's accused them of being deep thinkers.
SPEAKER 14 :
No, but they want that blue-collar voter, though.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 14 :
But not that one, apparently. You know how many blue-collar people got Teslas? A lot of blue-collar people got Teslas. I mean, everybody that I know who's blue collar, including a couple of family members, and they're on the left. I mean, I know people on the left, on the right, and in the middle that own Teslas. The people that bought them initially, they're like big time. I think they were the most enthusiastic members of that base. Does that make sense? They love EVs and they really do think that that's where cars are going, right? then those were the early adopters then i think you had the people that loved gadgets and they love the idea of something going that fast that you know that fast that quickly and then you got the people i think there's sure there are people out there the bottom because they you know they thought you know they liked elon musk and they wanted to support i'm considering buying one literally so i can get into a fight not for any of the other reasons so i don't know i i just um I think that they're going to have a lot of problems if this stuff keeps happening. And I do wonder what Republicans are planning in terms of countering this. And I just want to come back for a moment and point out that the biggest threat to Republicans is Republicans. It's specifically Republicans. inaction on any permanence with regard to economic policy whether it's tax cut permanency whether it is actually accepting and then putting into action the cuts that doge recommends all of that stuff and if that isn't done a lot of these people that said you know what this trump is better than biden Trump is better than Harris and they're going on with it. I feel like they those would be the people that would be convinced to go back the other way. And you got to think of this, too, coming up in midterms. Now, here's something to take and take into consideration with midterms. So you'll have, a lot of states have split ticket voting. You'll have instances where, you know, the guy at the top gets the votes and then people will maybe, you know, they'll vote Republican top ticket and then Democrat down. And we had that in a number of instances. We've had that where actually back in 2020, it was people that would vote blue top ticket and then they would vote like Libertarian or Republican down ticket. So you have to keep that in mind as well. Three seats is all it takes to flip everything from midterms. And If Republicans do not get permanency and you don't see any actual savings in bank accounts of voters and you it's one thing to flex it and brag about it on social media, but they need to actually be able to see they need to be able to to actually see this in their bank accounts. If that's not going to happen. There's going to be a lot of problems for Republicans and Democrats. Some of them are trying to get in a position to take advantage of that. But the rest of them are just getting in their own way. They're getting they're getting in their own way. So it's I don't know. But I wanted to because like I said, I'm not going to talk unless something dramatic happens. I don't want to talk about the signal thing anymore after today because I think people need to move on. I don't think Mike Waltz needs to do another damn interview. I don't think anybody needs to say nothing, nothing at all. But I do want to play this because Caroline Leavitt. announced that Musk and his team are going to investigate how Goldberg was added to the group. Now, I know how he was added to the group, but I want to hear what Levitt says, if we can pull this up, because they're having their White House press briefing right now, actually. And this was one of the things that Walt had said last night in his interview about perhaps getting Musk to investigate how Goldberg was added. Again, he added him. I get that He doesn't want to say that. And I like Mike Waltz, but I also have Signal and I know how it works. No one is just no one operates into the chat. So that's I don't think that helps him by saying this. I think people would be a lot more forgiving on our side if they're if it was just I think it would blow over easier with our side of moderates. If he was like, you know what? Sometimes this happens. But this is a CIA approved app. This is a messaging because it's hard. You're not going to get everybody in the same room. I get that. You've got to double check to see who you're adding. This was Levitt just a little bit ago talking to this. Listen.
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Previous question from Jennifer. As for your original question about who's leading, looking into the messaging thread, the National Security Council, the White House Counsel's Office, and also, yes, Elon Musk's team. Elon Musk has offered to put his technical experts on this to figure out how this number was inadvertently added to the chat. Again, to take responsibility and ensure this can never happen again.
SPEAKER 14 :
I have two questions one previous question, so it's I Think I don't think it will I don't think that this was a setup and I am of The mindset that, you know, it was, I just think it was a mistake. I don't think, you know, kind of Occam's razor. It just seems to me that, you know, the most basic explanation is the correct one. And that's what it seems like to me. It just seems as though it was an accident. He was accidentally added. Big deal. I mean, they weren't talking about anything classified. And at one point, Hegseth even said that we'd have to take that to a different platform for discussion. They just want a scalp. That's all they want. Coming up, one of the things that we're going to get into is this Supreme Court on ghost gun restrictions, 7 to 2. And I was reading some of this this morning because there was a lawsuit trying to block the implementation of the ATF's rule on ghost guns. And it was very successful when they went through district court. It was very successful when it was appealed. And now it's 7-2, led by Gorsuch, who reinstated the federal restrictions curtailing access to kits to that people can assemble into hobbyist firearms. I reject the language that I see used in a lot of these reports, like particularly the New York Times. They said, quote, easily assembled into homemade, nearly untraceable firearms. Well, that's stupid. And hobbyism, hobbyist builds have been around since before this country. In fact, firearms began as homemade. I mean, it's just all there is to it. So I do want to add some context onto this before we jump into it. A lot of people have been asking me, well, why didn't they, why didn't the second amendment come into this? Why didn't this, why wasn't this mentioned? You have to realize that this is about the administrative procedures act with regards to the purview of the gun control act. So it's not an adjudication of whether or not this particular rule is is legit as it is measured by the Second Amendment. The decision was whether or not it is acceptable under the Gun Control Act. Does the Gun Control Act make allowances for this sort of overreach? And yes, this is why I think the Gun Control Act needs to be repealed, because in order to come to this decision, it comes through the scope of that Gun Control Act. So that is why it was adjudicated the way that it was. It's not just a simple, well, is it Second Amendment or not? I understand what you're saying on this. I'm just explaining to you. why it was this decision. It's very much a procedural thing. We're going to come back to this. We have Florida man as well on the way as we move. All family pharmacy, speaking of big pharma and the government, I am never going to get over the fact that they tried to actually restrict medications and therapeutics like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine to you while they were pushing. Like, I don't know. No, I don't. Was it cleaner in a syringe? I don't know. But All Family Pharmacy, one of the reasons why I love them is because not only is everything that they make, all the precursors for everything is all USA made, from start to finish, made in the USA. All your medications are manufactured right here. But they got the ivermectin. They got the hydroxychloroquine. They got the antibiotics. They got over 200 medications. Tons of stuff also this system tried to keep from you. It's simple. It's fast. It's affordable. No insurance. No problem. They got straightforward pricing. They have online ordering. They can ship in just a couple of days. They can do overnight in a pinch. Your health is always within reach. So play by your own rules, not big pharmas, and make sure that you visit All Family Pharmacy. It's super affordable. They've saved me in a pinch many a time. Visit allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana for 10% off using promo code Dana10. Make sure you're prepared. Protect yourself and your family today at allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana. Use coupon code Dana10 if you want to save 10%.
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It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man.
SPEAKER 14 :
Sorry. I'm not laughing, but this guy, his photos. It's a Florida man. He had a Florida man with meth in underwear tells deputy, there's nothing wrong with drugs. The guy, Thomas Carpenter, was arrested during a traffic stop. He had already served a three-year prison sentence. He was charged with trafficking meth, possession of enough drugs to sell or deliver. They got two counts, possession of blah, blah, blah, prescription, all kinds of stuff. Anyway, so he was pulled over. He had drugs and kids in a car. And he got pulled over and told police, oh, I just smoked some pot. He had a lot more than pot. Lots more than pot. According to the Putnam County Sheriff's Office, the 41-year-old, oh my gosh, he is not 41. They said they tried to talk to him, but he kept falling in and out of sleep mid conversation. They pull him over for a traffic violation and he kept falling asleep. He told deputies that he and his female passenger accidentally smoked too much pot before they were pulled over. His guy's 41. Juan showing you his. Is it the tattoos maybe that make him look older? I don't know. I can't believe he's 41. That dude looks like he's 60. Look how gaunt he is. Well, that's the meth will do it. Little meth will do it. So they said that neither he nor his passenger had a medical marijuana card. Sure. Two kids in the car at the time. And they found all kinds of stuff, meth, stuff to like distribute meth, things like that. So they're all in jail. That's all you need to know. But I can't believe that guy's 41 years old. I'm sorry. I'm calling shenanigans on that. I love how we have Tent Man, Florida Man. Tent Man. Okay. Yeah, Tent Man. His camping supplies include... Oh, is that meth? What it looks like in crystal form? I've actually never seen it. Look at that. It looks like somebody went in a spelunking in a cave and took out some stones. They look like moon rocks. I have no idea why that fascinates me. Tent Man's camping supplies include over $2,000 in cash meth and THC gummies. Oh, okay. And he apparently has not a shirt amongst him. He was selling meth from a tent behind a discount store in Fort Pierce.
SPEAKER 05 :
As one does.
SPEAKER 14 :
As one would do. His last name is Hedy. Daniel Hedy with two Ds, of course it is. He was found by his tent shirtless sitting on a Home Depot bucket behind the DQ in a tent selling meth. That works. Yeah, I believe that. Also with no shoes. I love how they just keep adding onto it. They got a search warrant for his tent. I did not know that you had to get him for a tent. I mean, I knew for like a glove compartment. You know, my glove compartment's locked, so there's a trunk in the back. I know my rights, so you're going to need a warrant for that. Okay, so they had to get a warrant for his tent. And that's where they found all this stuff. They found meth, and they found... Is it illegal to have the gummies? Oh, wait, those are the acid gummies. No, that's not right. All the pot people are going to die. The THC thingies.
SPEAKER 05 :
I don't even know the terms. I think it's only legal medicinally in Florida, right?
SPEAKER 14 :
I don't know. I don't. I thought it was just like the CBD thing. OK, so this is the stuff that gets you high. And so and then he had drug paraphernalia. I don't know. So he's in jail and his bond is set at a whole fifty one thousand dollars. I love that he was in a tent behind a DQ, shirtless, shoeless, sitting on a Home Depot bucket selling meth. There you go, folks. Third hour on the way. It's our friends over at Kel-Tec, a great Florida-based company, and they have some new things out, including the new, very popular, very excited to shoot it. It's their new... Five, chambered in 5.7. It's the PR57 rotary barrel pistol. And it's the lightest one on the market. 40% lighter than the next lightest 5.7. The innovative rotary barrel makes it the lightest. And they also... achieve this with a very unique top loading design so you can the left always says oh clips they gotta it's well you can say that with this because they replace the traditional mags with stripper clips slimmer carry profile 20 plus one capacity it's great i mean super low recoil for ease of use accuracy quickest field strip available uh super easy field strip msrp is 399 so it's affordable and accessible for everybody It's the first of its kind, Kel-Tec PR-57 rotary barrel pistol chambered in 5.7. Visit Kel-TecWeapons.com to learn more. Innovation Performance Kel-Tec, K-E-L-T-E-C-Weapons.com. Tell them Dana sent you.
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It was a mistake that a reporter was inadvertently added to a signal chat with high-level national security principals having a policy discussion about imminent strikes against the Houthis and the effects of the strike. National Security Advisor has taken full responsibility for this, and the National Security Council is conducting an in-depth review along with technical experts working to determine how this reporter was inadvertently added to this chat. The conversation was candid and sensitive. But as the President National Security Advisor stated, no classified information was shared. There were no sources, methods, locations, or war plans that were shared.
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, they said, oh, now that you hear that they're trying to call them attack plans. It's the tech plans now. We're going to change the language and make it true. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. Oh, that rhymed. Ooh, look at that. So this is like day two of all these hearings. And I'm over this story as of today. And tomorrow I'm done talking about it because I'm not going to extend it. And I don't think that Mike Waltz needs to do another interview about it. I don't think he needs to ever say that he doesn't know how someone was added. I know how Signal works. But I think it was a mistake. You move on and you do an inventory. You go through security protocol again and then go forward. Because as Ratcliffe testified, this is something that they onboarded the signal application to use. They all used it. And I had the thought, too. I have less of a problem with Signal than I do another, like a government program that they would devise to use and say that was secure and encrypted. And the reason I believe this is because you've seen everything, right, that's happened with just since Trump has taken office, actually even before then. You've had a really good look at how corrupt and big and unaccountable government is. Do you trust them to make an app that they promise is going to be secure with encrypted discussion for the highest levels of government to have these discussions about foreign policy? I don't. Do you? Because I don't. I mean, it's like, what's worse, that or Signal? I mean... It didn't leak out because of a gap in security and signal. It leaked because somebody accidentally added. I think they were trying to add that Jameson Greer guy, and they ended up adding Jeffrey Kohlberg. Man, what a mistake to make. Golly. The memes, though, have been very interesting. They've been very entertaining. All right, so... A few other things, too, I want to make sure that we are touching on as well, because we were talking at one of the things I want to touch on this. And I'll have a piece about this a little later. And I think we're going to try. We're going to deep dive with one of our attorney friends on it later this week, too. That has to do with this SCOTUS ruling as it pertains to I hate this phrase, but this is ghost guns. Right. So it's the ghost gun rule. ruling and the Supreme Court upheld these restrictions about the kits that you would take to make a firearm at your leisure, a hobbyist. It was a 7-2 decision written by Gorsuch and they uphold the frame and the receiver rule, the ATF's rule on that. And they want to treat the unfinished frames and the unfinished receivers as fully functional firearms so like an unmilled block of polymer they want to they want to treat it as an actual firearm which is so dumb and this overturned the fifth circuit court of appeals they had a regulation their their holding was that the regulation was inconsistent with the gun control act of 64 so you had only two justices that dissented, Alito and Thomas. You knew Thomas would. And the majority opinion was authored by Gorsuch. And he was saying that in his, and I'm looking at his opinion, he was saying that this is why the rule is fine and not looking at this from a Second Amendment standpoint. And I want to caution people. I agree with you. I'm not, you know, you're talking to someone who may be more of a purist than you. But that's not what the court was tasked with determining. They weren't looking at this. They were looking at it from like the administrative perspective. Right. It was I mean, quite literally, it was something that has to do with the Administrative Procedures Act. as it pertains to, does this fit under the gun control act? So it's not, you're not adjudicating it from the position of, is this acceptable with the second amendment? They're adjudicating it from the position of, is this, does this work with the gun control act? Doesn't the gun control act allow for this infringement? So I know it because in order to come to this decision, and this is what they do, you know, they're justices and they literally are interpreting and applying the law. They are not there. They can only consider what is before them. And they are considering. Is this work with and I don't agree with it, but that's how they're looking at it. Does this work with the Gun Control Act? And that's that's what they are. That was the that was the focus of the whole of all of the arguments. And so they got it. They and I'll have the the Gorsuch's opinion linked. But. To have a challenge, there has to be a particular statute violation. And I mean, this is where we're going to bring on if maybe we can get Stephen Hallbrook, because I think that they I think that the Trump administration, I think they could you could repeal this rule. There's some there's things you could do just within the ATF, because this doesn't undermine the ATF's authority at all. And if anything, it kind of reinforced, oh, yeah, this is a legitimate rule. I think it also highlights how weak Congress is. Because when Congress doesn't do its job, then you have agencies like the ATF that are allowed to fill in the gaps with whatever stupid bureaucratic interpretation they want to implement and enforce on you. And that's maybe the biggest issue. But they are... There's there's ways to deal with this. And like I said, I'm still reading all of this, which is why I'm going to write more about it later. I'm still reading every the opinion Gorsuch's opinion. But looking at it, I think that there's there's there's ways to, I think, try to go with this. But it's not going to be with Supreme Court. You're going to have to have congressional action. You're going to have to have it because you can have Trump have an EO. uh to kneecap the atf but that's meaningless without congress coming in and even then there's stipulations on that congress is going to have to come in and make this stuff permanent i don't have a lot of faith in congress doing that right now i'm really frustrated with them very frustrated with them so we'll see we'll see we'll see how it goes but i'm not i can't say i'm surprised with it i don't think i was surprised with this decision and i um I think that they've been pretty friendly to a compared to previous, although I think there's some cases that they probably wouldn't take just yet. So I don't know if this goes. I think that the plaintiffs can challenge this themselves in other ways. But it's there. The rule was always about whether or not the ATF has the ability to enforce it. And do they have the ability to enforce it? Because the Gun Control Act stipulates that this is allowable. And that's literally why I just this is so stupid. I think this is also dumb. The creation, the hobbyist building of firearms predates the republic. When you think every single firearm began as a hobbyist's invention, the machine gun began as a hobbyist's invention, the boring in a rifle began as a hobbyist's invention, right? All of this. This was the evolution of firearm progression technology in the world. I mean, going back to the War of Independence, one of the ways that we were able to get an edge is because we incorporated the French boring into our rifles. And we had the Kentucky gun and they were also including that in. And we were able to get like a technological advantage over the Brits. That in our incorporation of asymmetric warfare. But that being said, I mean, all of this began, this is, it predates all of this. And so it's really dumb, I think, to argue. And I know, again, I know that's not what SCOTUS was arguing, but it's silly to have this, to argue that, oh, well, I treat it like it's a newfound thing. Gun control activists always look at this with the perspective that it's like somehow new or that technology or that the affordability now of certain tools and machinery make it to where this is like a brand new thing for gun owners. And now we're going to see like a proliferation of guns. Homemade firearms, which we're actually not still. I mean, gangbangers just want something fast and easy, right? They're not into doing what they're doing because they're fascinated by the technological progression of firearms and the inner workings of it. That's not what they're into it for. But we're going to talk more about this. I'm going to digest the opinion a little bit more. But like I said, I think there's still some avenues of pushing back on this. Also, a few other things to make sure that we are hitting on. I wanted to touch on this from the Wall Street Journal article. The administration is looking at potentially implementing tariffs that buy energy from Venezuela. This is one of the things that came out. Just over the past day or so. Pulling the story up right now. Some nations could be exempt from reciprocal tariffs, but foreign goods, including lumber and pharmaceuticals, that could you you could see you could see tariffs on that after April 2nd per the president. And some nations, too, that are, you know, perhaps, you know, buying energy from Venezuela, et cetera. That's something that they could. I'm trying to pull the story up from The Wall Street Journal and their Web site. Can someone please, dear God, tell The Wall Street Journal to stop having so many stupid pop up ads on their site? It's so frustrating. But they, because this is the place that had the scoop, they're levying these tariffs on this as a way to kind of, I think, you know, I mean, it does control what some of your alliances are. 25% on anybody that buys oil or gas from Venezuela, that would augment, so that's augmenting existing duties. And that includes the 20%, all that, those proposals include the 20% tariff levied on China. So it's like, what, 45% tariffs on China? The third largest trading partner would take effect on or after April 2nd. Remember, he said he didn't want to do anything on April 1st because it's April Fool's Day. And he extended Chevron's license to operate well through the Treasury in Venezuela through late May. They said they would give Chevron 30 days to wind down operations. They want their operations ending there in early April. Chevron's lobbying for an extension of the license. They had a meeting last week with POTUS and other U.S. officials and some other oil executives. So they the Biden administration had granted Chevron license to continue drilling and continue operating and resuming operations in like 2022. And so they all of this was was done to put pressure on Maduro. So I actually I'm not I'm not against that. I don't know. I don't I don't have a position on being again. I think it's I mean, if you're looking at it from a NatSec issue, I think it's. I it's smart if you're wanting to kind of, you know, protect allies from having to ingratiate themselves with Venezuela and do business with Venezuela. But if we're not following up by putting more energy out on the market, how does that help us? Right. That's the big thing. Are we and I know that's one of the things that the administration is focusing on unleashing our ability to generate energy. energy domestically. If we're not filling in that gap, is this off or not? 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SPEAKER 05 :
And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
SPEAKER 14 :
Captain declares an emergency after a passenger keeps flicking a lighter. This was from Kansas City to Phoenix. How did they get it on board? How do you get a lighter on board? Excuse me. You can't take a lighter on board.
SPEAKER 05 :
Actually, the last time we went to Vegas, I saw the person in front of me had it in their carry-on. Really? You can take a lighter on carry-on.
SPEAKER 14 :
BS.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, it was in plain view of TSA.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay, hang on, hang on, hang on. We're stopping right here. Can you take a lighter on carry-on?
SPEAKER 05 :
That was when I was in Texas heading to Vegas.
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, yes, you can. So there you go. You're allowed one lighter in your carry-on bag. It has to be a disposable or a Zippo-style lighter without fuel. Oh. Without fuel.
SPEAKER 05 :
Who brings a lighter without fuel? All right.
SPEAKER 14 :
The lighter has... So, yeah, they said that you can refuel it after security.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, not everybody's stupid.
SPEAKER 14 :
Not before. Okay, so I'm just, because I can't have anything over 3 point whatever, 4 ounces for hand lotion, but somebody can bring a stupid lighter on board. Anyway, so this guy, he's flicking his lighter on and off, and the pilot's like, this is your last chance. I'm going to divert this aircraft if you don't stop. And people are wondering, you know, you just can't make fire when you're on the plane.
SPEAKER 05 :
He's totally smoking on the damn plane.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, I mean, I just feel and there's a woman who tried in a separate one. She tried one showing you right now. She literally was trying to smoke on the plane and she burned the seat cover with a lighter. How do these people again? They literally confiscated my mic stand because they said it was a weapon. My microphone stand and they tried to once confiscate my son's protractor because they said it looked sharp. But these people can take lighters on? Jiminy Christmas. I can't even with these people. That's so stupid. All right, we got more. Let's see. Homeowners are demanding $10,000 from HOA as the dues are spent accidentally paying someone else's bills, and it went on for years and years. I think HOAs are insane. And I think some of them out-extend their purpose. Yep. It's in Charlotte, North Carolina. They took a look at their HOA's finances and found that they were actually paying for people's bills, like water bills, utilities, things like that. And the whole neighborhood suffered. So they filed suit. Always check this stuff. Always check this stuff. We have a lot more on the way as we roll towards the bottom of this hour and a lot still to discuss. Stick with us. Gold prices have surged over 40% since January 2024, consistently reaching new highs. According to Goldman Sachs research, the upward trend is expected to persist due to strong demand from central banks. It's stuff like this that's made me take action and why I've bought precious metals like gold and silver. I've partnered with a great company that makes it super easy to buy. Easy, transparent, and simple. And that company is Goldco. They're a huge supporter of this show, and they're the best at what they do. And right now, you can get a free 2025 gold and silver kit jam-packed with critical information about buying precious metals. It was a huge help, not just for me, but to all of you if you do this. And for my audience, you could also qualify for up to a 10% instant match in bonus silver. It's a really great deal, so don't miss out. Visit danalikesgold.com to learn more. That's danalikesgold.com.
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SPEAKER 17 :
We don't care how much money you have, Elon. We don't give a damn about Doja. We are going to defend the Constitution because we believe in democracy. So many people have sacrificed and fought and died for democracy. And Trump comes along with his ignorant and he don't even know the Constitution. If he wants to start looking so closely to find those who were born here and their parents were undocumented, maybe I ought to first look at Melania.
SPEAKER 14 :
Wow, she sounds like an old, ignorant octogenarian. That's Maxine Waters. Welcome back. That's Jasmine Crockett in the future. That's who she's trying to be. She's trying to take over from Maxine Waters. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. First off, that's kind of embarrassing for a lawmaker to say something like that, particularly when that shows a grotesque understanding of what birthright citizenship even is. Because birthright citizenship is if you're born here on U.S. soil, right? If you're born on U.S. soil, regardless of what the citizenship status of your parents is, you know, is, then you're a citizen. Melania Trump was not born here. She came here legally and became a naturalized citizen. And her parents came here legally. And that's not even the same thing as birthright citizenship. Cain, please say aloud what you just put in Slack. Share with the class.
SPEAKER 05 :
I asked who put cocaine in her Metamucil.
SPEAKER 14 :
I mean, I think that's a legit question. I feel like we deserve to know that.
SPEAKER 05 :
Some evidence of that right there.
SPEAKER 14 :
I mean, it seems, yeah. I don't know. But that's not even, so she's saying, well, he needs to look at, like she's suggesting that, I mean, right? Did I interpret that incorrectly? She's saying that Melania Trump somehow is here because of birthright citizenship. And that's not, What that was. And in fact, all of that was never established to be applicable to people who are running across the border illegally. That was after it was established after the Civil War for certain reasons as it pertained to people who were in enslavement. So that's a whole other discussion. I I'm just amazed that that's a I don't know why I'm amazed, but that's just really ignorant. That's just really dumb. It's just a bad soundbite for her. This is why, by the way, there are popularities at the lowest ever measured. I saw this. Let me share this headline with you. So I've been getting these, or rather seeing these headlines that are sounding the alarm for how bad it is for Democrats. Let me pull this because I did LOL at this. Time for a progressive rethink. Guys, don't you think that the problem with the Democrat Party is that they're not aggressive enough? They're not in your face enough. They're not offering more free things. What other free things must they offer? That's literally what they're thinking right now. Every think piece is preaching to Democrats that they need to be more aggressive, more in your face is a phrase I keep seeing over and over again, and that they need to stop the steal. That's their thing now. They need to stop the steal. That's what Elon Musk is doing. He's stealing all our dollars. He's stealing all of our monies, Cain.
SPEAKER 05 :
How's he doing that?
SPEAKER 14 :
He's just taking them up, gobbling them up in the doge.
SPEAKER 05 :
So there would be a paper trail then, right, of him doing that?
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, the government hides it, you know, because of Trump. They're hiding all of it. They're hiding all of it, and that's what, they need to get it all, they need to take it back, our dollars. It's all of our monies. I'm not kidding. This is literally what they're arguing. I'm actually quoting a family member's Facebook comment. The whole, well, wouldn't there be a paper trail? No, the whole Trump government's hiding it.
SPEAKER 05 :
So all this transparency and Musk is just going to take the money.
SPEAKER 14 :
I feel like I need to stop right there because I know you all understand this. I... Because I was writing and I was in the middle of writing a piece about this last night. I'm just going to I was in the middle. I was like three paragraphs. And I'm like, wait a minute. I am not. And I stopped the draft because I'm like this. I'm not getting to the crux of this piece because I was getting into the recommended cuts. And if you add this up, the rate of growth, et cetera, like how much money could we ultimately save? Right. And how quickly could it be implemented? And I was looking at, can you do this in one big package? Or as Massey said, is it feasible to do that? Or do you have to actually split it up into a bunch of separate things? And as I was writing this, I thought, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. I'm realizing now that Democrats, it's so stupid. The messaging is that your money is being taken out of your account your bank account magically somehow because a third party that was contracted by the government, so an NGO essentially, is recommending the bad spending to stop. I cannot pretend to be stupid enough to write something that addresses the perspective of this, Cain.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, I don't know. I mean, it's like finding a landfill in your backyard and you're discovering who put that landfill there. And you're like, my God, that's terrible. But everyone there is just pointing to the person who told them about the landfill.
SPEAKER 14 :
And I saw this headline and I got I first saw it over at memorandum and then it disappeared. And I got really hopeful for a moment. I'm like, oh, do they understand something? Because at some point they're so dumb, I start feeling bad for them. Not really. And it said, Democrats need a reality check. They must do better. And I'm like, oh, wow. Wow, that sounds like a promising headline, right? And then I look at the, oh, no, no. They need a reality check. Their base wants more aggressive. They don't want aggressive posturing. They want aggressive action. And they want the party to stop the Trump administration's overreach and the theft of taxpayer resources. What? What? What? I was so hopeful for that headline. Maybe they're getting it, but they're not. They're not. And they... I don't know. They accused them of being in bed with big corporate, with big business, big corporations. In fact, let me pull this up. I got another story. Let me get this pulled up for you. So they had, they were accused, there was one article where it said Republicans shouldn't be considered the party of blue collar workers because look at all the big business they've got with them. And they were talking about all of the tech people that they had at the inauguration, etc. And it's... No, it's just so bad. It's just really... This is so stupid. They didn't say anything about... George Soros or the even the Gavin Newsom's or the Pelosi's or the Turner's or the Buffett's or they haven't said anything about any of those big money people that have for so long shaped not just Democrat policies, but their messaging down to their fundraising, down to their their street teams that they pretend to be grassroots. This whole, you know, all of it. They've they've not they haven't they haven't none of it. And they keep acting as though it's the, you know, Republicans are the ones that are now cozying up to big business and taking money from big business. I mean, did you not, I mean, Democrats literally were part, were like intertwined with them to the nth degree. And working with the unions, that's big business by itself, particularly public sector unions. I'm looking for this story. I saved it, and I somehow – I apologize. I somehow – I saved this story, and then I ended up trashing it, but somehow, and I'm coming back to it. But I talked about this last night. And this is the angle that Bernie Sanders and AOC particularly are – keep hitting at. And I think of all of the loudmouths that are in the Democrat Party right now, I think the ones that are being the most successful, I can't believe I'm saying this, for their base are actually Bernie Sanders and AOC because they're very, very focused on this economic message. And they're trying to portray the Republican Party as being the Republican Party of big business and not for the little guy. They're trying to redefine what that looks like. And they keep using the imagery of the inauguration when you had, who all do you have up there? You had everybody, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Altman, you had all of the folks up there. And they had all of them under Biden. I mean, how are you saying that when the previous administration was working with the same tech CEOs to suppress dissent? I mean, that's kind of a big deal. Here's my story. Finally, heaven help us. So they had this from The Guardian, the courage to brawl for the working class, right? They're trying to get people to the courage to fight back. Sanders, this is an actual line that he said, quote, I've talked about the concept of the oligarchy as an abstraction. Sometimes I think people just get the sources and just want to use all the words in them. Well, I mean, you are literally that in the form of your position in the Democrat Party. This is a guy who never worked in the private sector and he's basically a political oligarch. He's a multimillionaire with multiple homes and he doesn't want those opportunities existent for anybody else. So they're they're encouraging people to brawl on behalf of the little guy. So that's what their whole summer concert series. This one. This also a couple of different places. Forbes, Wall Street Journal, GOP cements gains as the working class party across racial lines. They talk about how Trump won more minority and non-college voters. The reason I'm hammering this so hard is because this is going to start coming into play in about four months. As we are rolling into midterms, this is going to be the big fight for midterms. You're not going to be able to do anything bigger because Trump isn't on the ballot. You don't have a party leader on the ballot. This is all about shifting the House. And like I said, all they got to do is flip three seats and that's it. So there's Democrats are now they've they've come up with us and pulling this up. Forgive me. They have come up with the pack that I told you about. They win them back that they've dumped 50 million dollars in. They said they're some of them are trying to examine how they lost working class voters, even in very, very blue districts, how they did it. And so one of the things that they're doing right now is they're watching two different seats. They're watching what's going on in Wisconsin because there's an election in Wisconsin that could reshape things. And they're also now watching what's happening in the sixth congressional district in Florida, where you had a district that Trump took by 31 or 32 points. it's a solid red district that now the Republican is it's now classified as a toss up. He is within margin of error of the Democrat challenger. And Randy Fine was on the show. I don't we don't get along, but, you know, he at least came on the show. And that's what happens when you put up a really bad Republican, a weak rhino. And here's what Republicans have got to remember. You're dealing with a big tent now. And because you're dealing with a big tent, these people do not have an appetite for BS. They're not going to follow the party lines that the base does. They're not just going to blindly defend this or that policy because it's the thing to do by the party. They're not going to defend stupid actions and they're not going to tolerate or stomach them either. That's one of the reasons why they're trying to make this signal thing such a big deal. When you have a big tent, you have a lot of people that are cynical and they're not afraid to to ask the questions that need to be asked. They don't give a rat's ass about party fealty. Republicans need to learn this now before they learn it the hard way later. They don't care about party fealty. They don't care about MAGA everything or MAHA everything. If you want to keep a big tent, you need to recognize this from this voting block that is on the right part of your big tent because the coalition depends on it. So I say this because They're watching this messaging and they're hearing, you know, what have you done for me lately? What have you done for me lately that that some Democrats are smart enough to kind of seize on? And if they don't see this delivered for them, if they see stupid things being done. And they're not going to make excuses for it. They'll go somewhere else. If they see bad candidates put on the ballot like this Randy Fine, you're not going to you're not going to push these people into doing it for the party because they didn't do it for the party. They stood up against the party that they have voted for historically, election after election, and they decided to make a switch. Don't make them regret their decision. Don't make them regret it, particularly by doing a cell phone and putting up a really bad candidate. So this is something that Republicans have got to get a handle on, because as you can see right now with that sixth congressional district and in Wisconsin, you know, the coalition, they're going to ask questions. And if they find your answers insufficient, they're not going to go for you. Republicans are their own worst enemies. They really are. And so that's one of the things they're looking at. There's actually a really smart piece that ran in USA Today. I was reading it this morning that talked about the rightward bent of voters that are in historically left leaning districts. And the moderates that are in these historically left leaning districts and they they made the state purple. They didn't really or they made the district purple. They didn't really flip it red because the split ticket voting, they will vote for certain Democrat candidates on some things and then they'll vote Republicans on some of the bigger issues. And that's really what ultimately made up a lot of the victory in the blue wall states, the Wisconsin, the Michigan, the Pennsylvania for Trump back in 2016 and also Michigan. not just in 2020, but in 2024. And Republicans need to not mess this up. By the way, where is the RNC right now? Where are the heads of the RNC? Where the hell are they in these two battle races? There are 14 seats that Democrats are dumping tons, millions of dollars in. And we're going to talk more about this as we get closer to it. 14 seats that they're looking to flip, not just to keep blue, but to flip from red. And in some of them, they're very primed to do so because it was a little closer than it was in some of these other areas. But it doesn't help when you have solid red districts that are going to toss up because Republicans are putting forward bad candidates. This is an alarm. Consider it a canary in a coal mine. If Republicans don't deliver, you're going to see this repeat in race after race after race after race. Three seats is all it takes to flip. Three. I went really long last segment and I was getting right. So one of the things we're going to talk about tomorrow are the 14 seats that are being targeted by Democrats because you only have to flip three seats in the House and you need to be aware of that. And I will make up the stolen today and stupidity to you tomorrow. I absolutely promise. So we're going to dive into all of it because we're out of time. I think I'm going to be Robin Kane of this. In the meantime, though, make sure you sign up over at Substack Chapter and Verse. I'll have something out about the SCOTUS ruling, the ghost gun. I'll explain that. We'll have a piece out there for you subscribers as well. YouTube, Facebook, like and subscribe. In the meantime, I will be back behind the mic with you tomorrow. Have a great rest of your night.
