Explore the flux in technology stocks, with Apple at the forefront of the discussion. Learn about significant stock moves influenced by insider knowledge, as Bill Gunderson navigates through earnings season highlights. From major collapses in the tech sector to strategic stock holds and sells, this episode provides a comprehensive overview of the current market climate alongside expert insights into potential trends and future forecasts.
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He's been seen on CNBC, the Fox News Channel, and the Fox Business Channel. His articles can be found on MarketWatch, Seeking Alpha, thestreet.com, and many other places. He's the author of the weekly Best Stocks Now newsletter and the inventor of the Best Stocks Now app. He's president of Gundersen Capital Management. Here is professional money manager Bill Gundersen.
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And welcome to the Best Docs Now show with professional money manager. Bill Gunderson, president of Gunderson Capital Management, and I'm here with Barry Kite, our chartered financial analyst. And we are off to kind of a sluggish start in the market here so far today, although the futures were looking pretty good. And then once it opened up, it wasn't quite as good, but it's okay. We'll take it. On President Trump's first full day in office, the Dow is up 247 points. which translates to 57 basis points. It is helped along by 3M today, the pride of Minnesota. The NASDAQ, however, is down 11 points today, which is just 7 basis points. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 is up 23 points. to 6,020 a lot of big tech stocks were doing okay last time i checked russell 2000 having a very good day good day for small caps they are up 1.15 percent right now the bond market is pretty quiet down a couple of basis points here so far With a lot of talk yesterday, a lot of executive orders, which we'll get into, a lot of new plans. 4.58% right now is where the 10-year, actually it's up a few basis points right now. And last but not least, Bitcoin is having a bad day. It's down 3,800. uh... right now so welcome to today's best stocks now show with professional money manager bill gutterson president of gutterson capital management well barry we gotta go back uh... to where we left off it seems like uh... an eon ago uh... that the market uh... was open although it's just been three days we finished up uh... last week that that was up three thirty five The S&P was up 59. The NASDAQ was up 292 as we had a huge day on Friday. And I'm going to say that what saved the day there for the markets and the NASDAQ were the cool inflation numbers. That was definitely the headline for last week because it looked like the market was rolling over and getting ready to correct even further. The Dow was down about 6%, 7%. And it looked like the NASDAQ and the S&P were going to follow. And then along came a cool, a decent PPI report. But it was the CPI report on Thursday that really sent the market hurling higher and staving off a correction or putting off a correction for now and even kind of broke that trend line, which was starting to point down there early last week.
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And had the market, actually had the market price in one more rate cut for 2025. So, I mean, who knows if those numbers will be right. But that inflation report, some mild inflation reports last week really brought the 10-year treasury down, I think, around 15 to 18 basis points.
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Yeah, so you can see how one report, of course, it cuts both ways. I mean, one report can really impact the market. both to the upside and the downside and it saved the day last week in the market and turned the market around. Okay, well we had a little bit happen here yesterday. I would say a seismic shift in many ways.
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It went very smooth, didn't it?
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Well, yeah, I mean indoors and place to place, very well choreographed, timing good. There was definitely a lot of transparency in the Oval Office as the reporters sat there and asked Trump just about any question they wanted. And he was there to answer their questions. It was like coming into my living room and ask me anything you want. And the reporters were like, wow, they couldn't believe it. I don't think President Biden did that once during his entire administration. Anyways, and we've got a slew of executive orders. I don't even know where to begin on that, but a lot of them will impact the market. There's no question about it. Government spending definitely comes under fire. A regulatory freeze prevents bureaucrats from issuing any more regulations. until the administration has full control of the government. Okay, no more regulations, the small caps like that. A freeze on federal hiring, except military personnel. He took away the clearance of all the people that signed the Russia collusion letter, including a couple of bigwigs out there. I saw Leon Panetta was on that list. And the old, let's see, Brennan. Brennan was on that list also. They lose their security clearance. A directive on inflation directing every department in the government to be mindful of inflation and rising costs and see what they can do to reduce costs in their own little department. withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accords, no more 50% EV cars by 2030, which is just five years away. That wasn't going to happen anyways. Well, there was a mandate.
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You had to make people buy them, I guess.
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That has been a struggle to get people into electric vehicles, especially forcing them. Exiting the World Health Organization, declaring an emergency at the Mexico border, which I think you're going to start to see deportations today. We'll see how that goes.
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Cartels, listed cartels as terrorist organizations.
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Terrorist organizations. You know, I've been to Mexico many times in my lifetime. I've seen... bodies hanging from overpasses, you know, their bodies marred by the drug cartels. They're a vicious group of people. And I do think that they will fight back. The woke culture comes under fire. And ironically, you know, today is the first day of the World Economic Forum, the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. And I would just say that, boy, I mean, their whole agenda has suffered a very, very severe blow. You know, maybe their ideas are still popular in Europe, but they got a big resounding thumbs down here in the U.S. And they'll have to regroup on a lot of things. Mexico and Canada can expect tariffs on February the 1st. And now Canada has kind of changed their tune, saying, well, we're going to fight back with tariffs of our own. And, of course, Mexico is really under fire with, number one, remain in Mexico, number two, sending the people back to Mexico, even though... They're from other countries. And then the heavy tariffs and the war on their drug lords. So, boy, I'll tell you what, a lot happened.
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And the pesos under fire as well pretty significantly.
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Really? Okay, I haven't. That's not one thing I look at every morning is where the peso stands or the ruble. But I would imagine that would hurt. I'm sure the wind energy stocks are not doing very well today as well. That's been ditched for now. And, you know, I don't know if his numbers were right, but he's claiming that 28 whales have died from the wind platforms in the ocean. And I don't know if that's true or not, but... You know, save the whales. And also, it's not real good for birds if birds fly in there. So he halts all leasing, just like Biden halted all leasing for drilling in the Atlantic and the Pacific Ocean. Huge swaths of land, water, under deep sea water from drilling. Trump turns around and halts leasing and permitting for wind energy. What's that leave? Nuclear, I guess. The nuclear stocks are having a very good day today, once again. I'm seeing some of the smaller ones, especially like Oklo and SMR, Nano, Vistra. After the big fire in California, that didn't seem to hurt. Their own fire, not the wildfires, but Vistra's plant had a fire. That didn't seem to impact the stock too much, however. And I think nuclear is probably going to have a pretty good future along with the oil. Oil is definitely going to have a good future. Not so much the price of oil. Liquid natural gas is going to be a big winner, LNG. Oil is down today to $76. It was approaching $80. And now all of a sudden with the threat or the promise, the almost certainty of a lot of supply coming online and Trump using that as a bargaining chip, if you want to do business with the U.S., you've got to buy our oil from us and other products that we produce. Okay, when we come back, we've got quite a bit actually to talk about today on this Tuesday. We've also got, I believe, 40 S&P 500 companies reporting earnings this week. Let's take a look at where we are on earnings season. We'll be right back.
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Thank you.
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And welcome back here to the second quarter of today's Best Stocks Now show. The worst chart I've seen so far today, and that explains... Sometimes you take a look at an index like the NASDAQ and you say, why is it down when so many of these really good stocks in the NASDAQ are having a pretty good day? Well, one of the major players in the index, Apple... is down 3.6% today. Man, I've been warning about Apple for a long time, how it's time to change the CEO. I'm sorry. Even, who was it, one of the big tech CEOs also said... Zuckerberg.
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Zuckerberg, wow. Basically just said he was, you know, just not, essentially not innovative. Exactly. Which we've said a good bit. I've said it many times.
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Their sales in China down 19% year over year. That doesn't bode well for their earnings report coming up. Apple will report earnings on January the 30th. The Granite Shares does have an inverse Apple ETF. I don't know if it's leveraged or not. I don't think it is. I want to say it's one-to-one on the downside. That's the way you could hedge Apple. There are people out there with huge gains in Apple, right?
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And they don't want to sell it. Right. I mean, those folks always call it kind of a cost-basis jail, right? Capital gains jail. Almost something would have to really change with the stock for you to sell it. But I do think it's interesting. I see underneath Apple a news story here. From today, earlier this morning, it says, Nancy Pelosi discloses buys of Alphabet and Amazon. I saw that. And sells Apple. Yeah.
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Well, I mean, that means she's already done it before this, probably. She probably heard those China numbers, not through the grapevine, but through channels that we don't have access to. But I am happy that she bought two of our stocks. What did she buy? She bought Amazon.
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Amazon and Alphabet, and then sold Apple.
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Okay, well, yeah, and there was a few others in there, too.
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Yeah, I was just looking at it.
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That was the headline. Yeah. Okay, so anyways, yeah, the Nancy... There's a guy on... There's a guy on X that he's built his whole website and his information channel on what the insiders, the way insiders, the people in government are buying and selling. Like Nancy Pelosi has a terrific track record as a money manager, so he does always disclose. Now, back to Apple just for a minute.
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Yeah, she's in the wrong business. I know.
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Yeah, but if she wasn't in the business she was in, she wouldn't have the information, even from a hospital bed somewhere with a hip replacement. Anyways, all of a sudden a big chunk of Apple showed up at our firm. And that's what happens when somebody transfers their portfolio to us. All the stocks come over in kind. And I hadn't had a real chance to look at it the last time I mentioned that. And I said, well, I've got to look at that because there may be huge capital gains in that stock, which would be devastating to somebody to just sell it. But it was in an IRA rollover, Barry, so guess what I did with it? Kerplunk. Yeah, I mean, I don't like the stock at all. I kept just a little bit just to see if Apple can turn the ship around, but it doesn't look like it. In the biggest company race, Apple is down to $3.3 trillion. And NVIDIA, well, they're about tied right now. In fact, I think NVIDIA has now taken the lead. Let's see where Microsoft is. Not that it really matters. Microsoft is no behind at $3.2. And then the fourth player in the race is the fourth player. It's NVIDIA. Maybe it's a three-horse race.
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It might still be. I mean, LVMH was up there, but it's gone down a bit.
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Yeah, it's the biggest one in Europe. Okay, now let's take a look here at some other things that are taking place here today. This is earnings season. And we are getting earnings starting today, this morning. We've had quite a few companies report. And I'll give you an update when we begin the second half of the show. I'll give you an update on where we're at so far in earnings season. Are we off to a good start? Are we off to a bad start? So-so start. Well, you'll be surprised, I think, when you hear the start that we're off to so far. Okay, the other thing I thought was, you know, bringing in the, on the world stage, the Middle East is definitely front row center because he actually had spent some time, you know, talking about having his Middle East envoy speak on the plans there. The Houthis are going to end their attacks on Western ships in the Red Sea, But they're going to continue to attack Israeli ships. Well, I would say good luck with that. Because I think if they go ahead and continue to attack Israeli ships, there's going to be hell to pay over there. The other buys by Nancy Pelosi. Oh, she also tweaked her holding in NVIDIA. Let's see, did she buy more Nvidia? I think she did. Let's see. On Amazon, yes, according to the blah, blah, blah. Okay, so anyways, yeah, no, that's pretty much it. Nvidia, she sold 10,000 shares on December 31st. She bought Palo Alto. Yes, Palo Alto, P-A-N-W. Okay, now, write this one down.
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Did you know she holds between $1 million and $5 million worth of Palo Alto?
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Yeah, and that's just a small position in her portfolio. But here's one for you, Tempus A.I., T-E-M. I don't know if that's in the app. That's a real small AI healthcare company. TEM. TEM. Okay, there you go. Let's just take a look at the chart.
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And Vistra, too, by the way.
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Tempest AI is up 36.1% today. Okay? So, you know, not only just her moves move these stocks. Okay? I mean, it's like when Warren Buffett buys. Yes, and she bought Vistra. So we're on the right side of that Pelosi trade, too. Now, MicroStrategy, they float shares. They do secondary offerings. They keep floating shares. And what are they doing with the proceeds? They're buying more Bitcoin. So, you know, there's a house built on sand. The foundation is sand as far as I'm concerned. It's basically you're investing in Bitcoin when you invest in microstrategy.
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It's a levered play, essentially a leveraged play on Bitcoin.
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Yes. Okay, now one of our stocks is getting a downgrade today. This is one of our worst. It's down 8.3%, but, man, has it been a big winner. Astera Labs, A-L-A-B, which is in the AI infrastructure space, a big player in that space, and we own it in our – In our emerging growth, we bought it there first just to see. It was kind of like a AAA stock, AAA baseball, or AA. Then we promoted it to AAA. We doubled down. We added it to the ultra-growth portfolio, and it's had a heck of a run. A little downgrade today. We'll get into earnings when we come back.
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This is Bill Gunderson. Thank you for tuning in to today's Best Stocks Now, Best Inverse Funds Now show.
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Now, back to the second half of the show.
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And welcome back here to the second half of today's Best Docs Now show. Take a look at the earnings season so far.
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We're just barely underway. Let's take a look at the market. The Dow right now is up 257 points. A lot of that's triple M, 3M, which we'll get to in a minute. The NASDAQ has turned positive. It's up 15. If it weren't for Apple, it would be a lot better. The S&P is up 40 basis points right now. Now, as far as earnings season goes, we've been saying this ad nauseum. We don't have an earnings problem in the market. How much to pay for those earnings is the debate that takes place every day in the market. Some days they're willing to pay any price, it would seem, for equities or Bitcoin or whatever the asset class may be. And other days, just like that CPI news set the market on fire, don't forget a bad report. I mean, I think it was the previous week that the Strong Jobs report, too strong, We can't have that set the market into correction mode or headed towards correction mode until the CPI turned it around. And I think you can say, I don't have any kind of research to back this up, but I do think that when the market is trading at a high multiple, It's just logical that it's going to be more volatile. Little things like jobs reports, little things like CPI reports, people are really keyed in on that, watching it very, very closely because they know they're sitting on somewhat of a tinderbox with high PE multiples. Now, 9% of the companies in the S&P 500, so 45 companies, have reported so far 79% have reported a positive earnings surprise, and 67% have reported a positive revenue surprise, which is about in line, especially during a bull market like we've had since 2009. We've had a bull market in earnings since 2009, and every week I make sure to put that chart of earnings, that is right front row center, center pretty much, in the newsletter, and The earnings chart that explains the market more than anything I can use to explain why the market has gone up since 2009. There was only one dip. in there and that was 2020 the covid year and uh right towards uh we had just a little bit of a of a downdraft in 2019 and then earnings have been going up ever since and we're looking for record earnings in 2024 which ended 21 days ago and that's what's being reported right now I can't tell you how much the S&P made in 2024 until they're done reporting those earnings. But it's expected to come in somewhere just under $250 per share. This year, we're looking at about $270 per share. And then 2026, which obviously is way out there on the horizon, but analysts have over $300 per share projected. So you can't really look at that and be too negative on the market because earnings drive the market. The question is, how much are those earnings worth? How much are investors willing to pay? Well, over the last five years, the average has been around 18 to 19. Over the last 10 years, it's been closer to 18 times. And right now, we're up near almost at 22 times earnings right now. for the S&P 500 and you say, well, where does that fit? Over the long haul, well, that's another chart I put in the newsletter every week. You've got to go back to October, July, October, late 2022. That was the year after COVID when everything, when all that money was sloshing around. They did run the price to earnings, the P.E. ratio of the S&P 500 up to 30. And then, of course, it went down to 17.5 after that with the Fed raising interest rates in 2022. And then we've been climbing ever since, since July. And the P.E. ratio is now, the P.E. ratio, this is looking backwards, 27.4. So 30 was the high before the big downdraft in 2021. But again, that's when the Fed was moving against the market by raising rates. And right now the Fed has at least got a little wind at our back with no more rate hikes. Although there is one firm out there calling for a rate hike this year. But most people wouldn't expect that. and of course we're at twenty we we got up to twenty eight point five we've come down one point in the p e ratio uh... that helps a little uh... and uh... you know but we still keep in mind that we still are trading uh... at a very high at a very high valuation ratios uh and you know when when that really comes to the four and is put up there on the marquee is when interest rates rose rise like they did a couple weeks ago yeah and we're already back to 4.56 at the moment down uh down nine basis points on the on the treasury uh today so that's almost probably a close to a quarter point in the last year yes all of a sudden two trading days interest rates have started to head down i think it's the hawkish talk on spending
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When it hit 4.8, I mean, it was funny. I mean, that was kind of the most thing. We were kind of of the mind that 4.7 was kind of that resistance number where if it went above, we were a bit worried. And it did touch 4.8 and literally hit that number and has been going down ever since.
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I didn't think anything would stop it until it got to 5. But it finally did halt at 4.8. And now we're back to just below 4.6. So we have come down about a quarter of a point. And that's helped the market, obviously. Okay, let's take a look at, well, 3M obviously is a S&P 500 company. Their earnings will get added into those S&P 500 earnings. 3M comes in with earnings growth. You know, it's just hard for me to get excited. Sales growth is 0% at 3M, 0%. They've been mired at about $6 billion a quarter in sales for a long time. There's no growth. It's a non-growth company. Over the last five years, 3M's growth negative 5% per year if you annualize that. And their earnings growth, they beat, they came in with $1.68. They beat their earnings, but that's 31% lower than last year. So you've got to put that into context. Now, as far as the Best Stocks Now rating ranking system and my preference for stocks goes, 3M does not have the criteria that I want to see. Now, it's a very heavily owned company. You get an account from Morgan Stanley or Merrill Lynch, and it's more than likely going to have 3M in the portfolio. It's not even a $100 billion company, which in today's world kind of makes you a large cap. I think a mega cap is kind of after $100 billion. It's $79.6 billion, which is nothing to sneeze at. But it's no growth. And I've said many times, stocks follow earnings. Stocks follow earnings. And without that growth in there, you know, at least 7%, 8%, 9%, it's very hard for the stock to go up because of the lack of earnings growth. Okay, the other one that has reported is one that we're associated with. Our, what do you call it?
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Schwab.
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Schwab is our custodian, okay. So, you know, there's where your money is actually deposited. They're the bank. They're the gatekeepers of, you know, who gets into your account, who does what, et cetera. Schwab has become probably the biggest custodian of all. They're twice the size of 3M. They're not in the Dow. They had a pretty good report. In fact, their sales were up 6%, and their earnings were up 49%. So Schwab obviously is assimilating that Ameritrade purchase that they made. I remember when I was with Scottrade in St.
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Louis. Scottrade, whenever TD Ameritrade bought them.
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Yep, and then I ended up with Schwab at the end of the day. So Schwab isn't on my radar. I mean, Schwab's in the financial sector, but Schwab did have a good report. That'll go into the S&P 500 aggregate. And Schwab is up 4.2% today. So we're off to a good start. After a very good start, I would say the banks got us off to a very good start. And we're continuing on that path at least the first full day of trading this week. We'll be right back.
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We're in forever.
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And welcome back here to the final segment or the Best Docs Now show with professional money manager Bill Gunnarsson. Snow in Texas. I'm getting some photos from the Austin, Texas area of snow on the road. And I mean a lot of snow on the road. We're supposed to have snowmageddon here. In Charleston and on up to Myrtle Beach area tomorrow. Well, a seismic shift hit the market here. I mean, you couldn't be any further apart in ideology. The biggest change I've seen from one to another, I guess you have to go back to the last election when it went the other way. We were like a pendulum. We go back and forth. So a good thing to do on a day like today is to look inside the market. The parts. How are the parts? Where are we seeing the moves in the market? Are there any telltale signs? Or has that already all been built into the market? I'd probably lean more in that direction. Everybody already knew pretty much what executive orders he was going to sign, which industries, which sectors he was going to help, which ones that would be hurt by the shift in policies. So let's just look at the Dow real quick. We know why 3M is up. 3M is up 3.9% today because of a very good favorable earnings report. A very impressive chart today and a breakout on the upside. I don't know if this bodes well or not. Raytheon, RTX. which is a member of the Dow. Raytheon is breaking out. That's probably the best chart in the Dow today. It's up 2.8%. I guess we'll be selling a lot of American-made missiles from Raytheon to foreign countries that need their Their technology. Caterpillar's also having a good day, up 2.8%. I think America's open for business. We've got Caterpillar's over here. We've got Raytheon missiles over here. And don't forget Boeing airplanes. Boeing is having a very good day. It's up 2.4%. and not a bad chart, actually, on Boeing. That's the best chart on Boeing I've seen in quite some time. And then you go next to Home Depot, which is having a nice move here today, and then Walmart having a very nice move. On the downside in the Dow, Apple. Apple is your stinker today, down 4% right now. That's a pretty big move for that stock. Yes, there was a downgrade on Apple. There was Nancy Pelosi news selling her Apple.
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She downgraded Apple.
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Bill Gunderson sold all the Apple. We might still have a little bit that I kept just in case, okay, in one or two portfolios. And thirdly, their sales down 18% as Huawei... has really taken over the market there. I'm sure there's a lot of Apple technology in those Huawei phones, right, that through reverse engineering or whatever, I don't think they worry too much about patents and all that kind of thing over in China. but Apple is definitely the loser there. And then the oil stocks are actually down today, and here's the reason why. I mean, a lot of that was built in, that Trump was going to do a lot of things that would really increase America's output, number one. So that still bodes well for the equipment and the picks and shovels, but the actual oil companies themselves, that drives down the price of their product. when you increase supply. So you see down a little bit today in Exxon Mobil and also in Chevron. Now as we look inside the tech, When we look inside the NASDAQ, I don't think big tech is really quiet today. The leaders in the NASDAQ, Ulta Beauty up 4%, Dollar Tree up 3.4%, Seagate. I saw somebody saying Seagate is their top pick. today, one of the big firms. It's up 3.3%. Western Digital, which is a competitor to Seagate, is up 2.6%. I don't see big tech. Intel's up 1.7% because there's still talk of a potential buyer out there for Intel. I don't know that I see that. Google was breaking out to a new all-time high. It's pulled back a little. It's up 1.5%. I know their CEO and most of the big tech CEOs were at the inauguration yesterday. You had Google. You had Apple. Tim Cook was there. You had Bezos there from Amazon. Of course, you had Elon Musk there. You had the CEO of Microsoft there. They want to be in Trump's good graces, I guess, and put in a showing. Okay, on the downside... walgreens is getting taken apart just when you thought it was a value play uh i don't know they've warned or something it's down 13.2 percent today and tesla is down 3.1 percent today i would have to say that might have something to do with the executive order on the ev right yeah instead of 50 ev cars on the road i mean right now i think it's six five five to seven percent somewhere in there You'd have to have a heck of a lot of sales in electric vehicles to get to, well, that's been rescinded now. So that, I'm sure, is hitting Tesla a little bit. And then as we look at the S&P 500, not really seeing anything that really sticks out to me. I will say one that is catching my eye because it's breaking out. I like breakouts. That tells me that potentially a new uptrend is underway. It seems to be joining the nuclear list, and that is NRG Energy. It's a Texas utility. It competes with Vistra. It's out of Houston, and I believe Vistra is in Dallas.
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We owned it maybe two and a half, three years ago for some reason.
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You know, I don't see the growth potential, but the market seems to see something I'm not seeing, and you never want to ignore that when you see the price action as good as it is. in NRG. Okay, well, we're out of time. I've got a full day of charts and money management and all kinds of things to do here today. The four-week trial is still going strong, I can tell you that. I'm in contact all throughout the day with folks. whatever i can find that looks good and a teaching moment if i can and of course if you want to just say you know what i'd rather have gunderson's team manage it i don't have the time give us a call set up an appointment at 855-611-BEST 855-611-BEST have a great day everybody
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holidays. Thank you. Now let’s get into what we want to study today. I want to talk about
something I haven’t talked about before. I want to talk about being a soul winner. I mention soul,
not body. It doesn’t do you any good to save the body because the body is going to perish
eventually but the soul will never perish. God wants to deliver souls and so He wants you to be a
soul winner. In Proverbs 11:30,
“The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who is wise
wins souls.”
Another passage that I love is Luke 15:7,
“I tell you that in the same way, there will
be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who
need no repentance.”
Whenever you win an individual to Christ, when you win a soul and you
deliver that soul from the Lake of Fire, there is a party in heaven, joy in heaven because you did
your job. As we enter into the year 2025, I'd like to issue you a challenge about this, okay? As
you know, I've always encouraged you to study God's Word under the ministry of a well-
qualified pastor. In doing so I've used the illustration of a FLOT line in your soul to stop the
sources of outside adversity from becoming the source of stress related sins on the inside. Sins
like worry or self-pity or even fear will neutralize your spiritual life and cause you to be
unproductive.Your spiritual life is designed by God to be self-sustaining and reproductive. The
physical life and the spiritual life are totally different but both share many of the same traits. One
of these traits is the ability to reproduce. Just as a husband and wife have the ability to produce
children, we as believers have the ability to reproduce as well. Notice what Paul the apostle said
in 1 Timothy 1:1-2,
“Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus according to the commandment of God our
Savior, and of Christ Jesus, who is our hope, to Timothy, my true child in the faith.”
Although
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Paul is not the individual who led Timothy to Christ, he did consider himself to be the spiritual
mentor and a father figure, actively guiding Timothy and encouraging him in his Christian life.
On the other hand, both Paul and Timothy led many individuals to the saving knowledge of faith
in the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross. In Acts 16:13-14,
“And on the Sabbath
day we went outside the gate to a riverside, where we were supposing that there would be a place
of prayer; and we sat down and began speaking to the women who had assembled. A woman
named Lydia
[the name of my wife by the way]
, from the city of Thyatira, a seller of purple
fabrics, a worshiper of God, was listening and the Lord opened her heart to respond to the things
spoken by Paul.”
Paul led Lydia to Christ as an individual soul winner. Again in Acts 18:24-26
we find Paul witnessing to Aquila and his wife Priscilla whom he led to Christ. These two
eventually witnessed to Apollos who was an interesting individual. He knew about the Lord and
the baptism of John, but he did not have the whole picture of what really had transpired. In this
passage,
“Now a Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by birth, an eloquent man, came to
Ephesus; and he was mighty in the Scriptures. This man had been instructed in the way of the
Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he was speaking and teaching accurately the things concerning
Jesus, being acquainted with the baptism of John; and he began to speak out boldly in the
synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained to him
the way of God more accurately.”
In my early days as a new Christian, I was encouraged to
witness to people. I even went to retreats where we went out on the streets and we witnessed to
strangers with the intent of leading them to Christ. We used a little pamphlet from Campus
Crusade called
The Four Spiritual Laws
and we were supposed to interview people and
eventually go through the four spiritual laws with them. This is something that I did in the early
days of my Christian life. Actually, there was more emphasis on witnessing to people than Bible
study and the need for spiritual growth. When I got saved, this is the way it was. I was really
never comfortable with these public approaches to strangers, much less the testimonies that were
given at night where people would stand up and brag about how many they witnessed to that day.
I personally have led many individuals to Christ in both public and private situations and I can
assure you, it is amazing to see a lost person ask God to save them. If it wouldn’t violate people's
privacy, I could tell you who they were. There have been some amazing opportunities. Let’s go
over some important things for us to understand when it comes to witnessing. When this
witnessing study is concluded on being a soul winner, then I trust you will make it a priority in
your prayer life every day to ask God to lead you to a lost individual so that you can give them
the gospel and have an opportunity to lead them to Christ. Acts 1:8 says,
“But you will receive
power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in
Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.”
I heard
someone say, “Jerusalem and Judea are your house and your neighbors and Samaria is the bad
side of town.” The Holy Spirit comes upon you at salvation. One of the ministries that God does
is to indwell you with the Holy Spirit, seal you with the Holy Spirit and fill you with the Holy
Spirit. You have the ability to be a soul winner based on the power of the Holy Spirit in you and
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the dynamics of the Word of God in your soul. Let’s get some principles about being a soul
winner, what it means and what it doesn't mean. 1. Every believer in Jesus Christ is in full-time
Christian service. It’s not a matter of dedicating to full-time service. It’s simply a matter of
believing in Christ. When I first got saved, there would be revivals that I would attend and
preachers would give an invitation for people to dedicate themselves to full-time Christian
service. “Why don’t you come up and give your life to full-time Christian service?” I've seen
people say, “I feel like God's calling me to be a missionary. I feel like God’s calling me to be a
preacher. I feel like God’s calling me to be a youth director” and they say they’re going to give
their life to full-time Christian service. Actually, we are all in full-time Christian service once we
believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. We are mandated to share the gospel, to give the Word of God,
to lead people to Christ. We are mandated to be soul winners. 2. Christian service is related to
your royal ambassadorship. You are an ambassador for God. You may not think of yourself this
way, but you are a royal ambassador. Every one of us, as believers, is an ambassador
representing God to a lost and dying world. Where did I come up with a concept like this? 2
Corinthians 5:20,
“Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an
appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.”
This should be your
testimony. You are an ambassador for Christ. Your job is to win people to the Lord Jesus Christ,
to reproduce. This is why God left you here; not just to take up time and take up space. It’s so
that you personally can lead individuals to Christ. Don't think you can’t do it. All you have to do
is ask a person this one simple question, “If you died today, do you think you will go to heaven?”
Then off you go based on what they say. 3. The Church Age believer has two areas of
responsibility in witnessing. One is the witness of our life. 2 Corinthians 3:3 says,
“Being
manifested that you are a letter of Christ, cared for by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit
of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.”
Your life is a testimony
to the Lord Jesus Christ. Your consistent service to God, your consistent spiritual growth, your
consistency in living your faith the way you're supposed to is a witness to people and will win
people to Christ because you are being watched. Whether you know it or not, you are being
observed. When you fail, when you blow it, when you talk about how you love the Lord and
you’re a Christian and you’re going to obey God and then you go out and do something wacky,
people see you do this and you lose your testimony of life. There's also the testimony of the lips,
the witness of the lips. This is the second area of responsibility. This witnessing is the royal
family communication of the gospel to the unbeliever on a personal, individual basis. It’s called
personal evangelism rather than mass evangelism. I’m an evangelist. I have spoken in many
places that I have had the privilege to give the gospel to thousands of individuals in thousands of
meetings, assembly programs, schools, churches or wherever. This is mass evangelism. But I’ve
also had the privilege to do personal evangelism. You may not have the gift of evangelism like
me, but you have the responsibility to be a personal evangelist for God. This is an informal,
conversational type of evangelism where one individual communicates the truth of the gospel to
another individual. This is your job as a soul winner. You are to witness for the Lord Jesus Christ
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and to win people to Christ so that their soul will be delivered. 4. There are many false issues
related to the gospel. Here’s one. Don’t fall for this. Sin is never an issue in salvation. You have
to remember this. You don’t get saved because you quit sinning. All sins were paid for on the
cross, complements of the grace of God. This is why 2 Corinthians 5:21 says,
“He made Him,
who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in
Him.”
Your sin is not an issue. You may say, “I'm a drunkard. I'm addicted to pornography. I’m
an adulterer” or whatever. This is not an issue with you getting saved. In Colossians 2:14, the
issue is Jesus Christ and the gospel is the only thing that is pertinent to the unbeliever. Don't
make an issue out of their sin. Don’t make an issue if you’re talking to someone, “Brother,
you’re smoking you’re going to go to hell if you smoke that cigarette.” That's dumb. It’s not
what the Bible says. Don't make an issue out of sin. Make an issue out of Christ, the Person who
died for every sin. All sins were dumped out on Him on the cross including your sin and my sin.
Even if we quit sinning today, we would not go to heaven without Christ because He said,
“I am
the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me”
(John 14:6).
Telling someone they need to quit sinning is not going to get them saved. Don’t make an issue
out of this. Another false issue related to the gospel is don't argue, don't beg and don't try to
persuade anybody to believe. Just let the unbeliever make his own decision. You need to avoid
false issues such as salvation by works. “Do you want to get saved? Then you’ve got to give up
something.” Observing some sort of taboo or some other legalistic standard is not how people get
saved. Nothing is accomplished toward salvation by persuading an unbeliever that he must give
up his sins or change his behavior pattern or join a church or be baptized. These are not what
save you. This is why Paul said,
“For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel,
not in cleverness of speech, so that the cross of Christ would not be made void”
(1 Corinthians
1:17). He said in Romans 1:16,
“For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God
for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.”
The most
powerful weapon you have is the gospel. The death, burial and resurrection of our Lord Jesus
Christ can change a man's life when he understands what Christ did for him. When he
understands how God loved him, how God so loved the world, remember John 3:16. When you
share with him that he can have a new life,
“Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new
creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come”
(2 Corinthians 5:17).
People need this. People want this. They rejoice at this. If you tell them this, you can have a
phenomenal opportunity in leading individuals to Christ and being a soul winner. But don't try to
force a decision. Don't try to demand that they join something or fess up something. This is the
job of the Holy Spirit. You avoid any begging them, any emotional public invitations and
remember to respect the person’s free will. I have led hundreds of people to Christ in public
assemblies without giving public invitations. I’ll share this with you. One time I was at a school
speaking and the principal asked me if I would give up one of my five days to speak and I did.
There was a local evangelist in town speaking at a local church and he came in and he spoke. I
was in the gym listening to him and he gave a public invitation to get kids to come forward and
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promise they were never going to sin again, to publicly come down and invite Christ into their
life. You don't have to do this to lead people to Christ. Many of these kids went back up in the
bleachers and continued to be the same person the next week they were before I got there and he
got there. Public invitations don’t save people. What saves people is believing in the Lord Jesus
Christ. If you make this clear to people, they will respond. You’ve got to avoid the pitfalls in
witnessing. You can’t argue with people. You are here to give information, not argue. If you get
into a conversation with someone about the Lord Jesus Christ and they want to argue, just tell
them, “Have a nice day.” You make decisions based on pistisism which is faith or you make
decisions in your life based on empirical data or you can make decisions based on some sort of
rationalism. When someone rationalizes that they are smarter than God and smarter than the
Bible and when they say the Bible is disproved by some kind of scientific data, don't argue with
them. You are not going to change their mind. Just give them the gospel and let the Holy Spirit
do the work. You planted the seed, get out of the way. Don't argue over the validity of the truth.
If you can deal with people alone, always do it. Don't deal with them in a crowd. If you can get
them in a personal one-on-one, this is what you need to do because witnessing in front of other
people creates false issues. You can even embarrass people, that they’ll lose their prestige or that
they’ll be heckled because you preached to them and you caused them to do something publicly.
Just give them the gospel. Give them the good news. Tell them they can start their life over
again. Tell them Christ died for their sins. Tell them salvation is free, it doesn't cost anything.
Here's something else to remember. A high IQ is not necessary to witness for Christ, especially to
those who have a high IQ. You don’t have to be a genius to share the gospel with a genius. It’s
not necessary. The most powerful thing you have is the gospel message. It’s not about your IQ.
It's about what the gospel is and what the Holy Spirit does with it. The Holy Spirit takes the
Word you give and plants it into their heart and convinces them of their need to believe in Christ.
He convicts them of their need so don't worry if somebody is smarter than you or has a higher IQ
than you. Don't be afraid to talk to them and do not ever brag about your experiences in
witnessing. Don't ever get into this. I've been around people who said, “I witnessed to 15 people
today” and they brag about it. They brag about who they talked to. “I talked to a guy in the
restaurant. He was my waiter and I made him quit waiting on tables while I gave him the
gospel.” I’ve seen this happen. Don’t brag about what you have done. Just give the Word of God.
If it’s in printed form, personal form or however you do it, just give it and get out of the Holy
Spirit’s way. A lost person who is not a Christian is spiritually brain-dead. Romans 8:5-6,
“For
those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are
according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For the mind set on the flesh is death,”
spiritually
brain-dead. Only the Holy Spirit can enlighten him. Only the Holy Spirit can overcome the
spiritually brain-dead individual. We have a word for this in theology called common grace.
Once a lost man hears the gospel and understands the issue, then his choice is to accept Christ. If
he does, it’s called efficacious grace. Common grace and efficacious grace take place at the
moment of salvation. The Holy Spirit requires you to give accurate information to the lost
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individual in order to do His job. In John 16:8-9,
“And He
[the Holy Spirit]
, when He comes, will
convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment; concerning sin, because they
do not believe in Me.”
That’s the problem right here, the sin of unbelief. It’s the unpardonable
sin. If you reject Christ as Savior, there's no way to be pardoned. We cannot get in the way of the
Holy Spirit when witnessing for Christ by begging someone to accept Christ or by arguing with
someone about it. We just need to make the issue clear and get out of God's way because it is the
ministry of God the Holy Spirit alone that can break through to the spiritually brain-dead lost
man. Being saved, salvation, is by faith alone in Christ alone. It has nothing to do with giving up
something or trying to make other people over into the kind of person you want them to be. In
witnessing people often want the unbeliever to change their habits, their personality or something
else as a part of the gospel. This has nothing to do with the gospel. They don't have to quit
dressing weird if they want to get saved. Sometimes missionaries try to convince the natives that
they’ve got to dress like the English people dress. Now that they're saved, they’ve got to quit
dressing like they used to dress. Don't try to change someone's habits. Anything the spiritually
brain-dead unbeliever can do is not the way of salvation. Unbelievers can give up all sorts of
things and still not be saved. Another thing you need to remember, there are false issues in
salvation. I’ve heard this from many different people. Commitment Salvation is when people tell
you that you’ve got to believe in Christ and commit your life to Christ. This isn’t true.
“Believe
in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved”
(Acts 16:31), period, over and out. You can't commit
your life to Christ. You don't know what you're going to do. You can say, “I want to be saved. I
want to accept Christ as my Savior. I want to follow Him to the best of my ability,” but don't set
yourself up for failure by committing your life to Christ and then two weeks later you sin and
fail. You think it didn't really work. Then there's this thing called Lordship Salvation where
people say, “You’ve got to make Him Lord of your life. If He’s not Lord of everything, He’s not
Lord at all. You’ve got to make Him Lord of your life.” He’s Lord whether you make Him Lord
or not. He is THE Lord Jesus Christ. When you believe in Him, this is all that’s necessary. There
is no such thing as Morality Salvation, being good, earning it. It doesn't work this way. There is
no such thing as Ritual Salvation, believe and perform certain rituals, or Emotional Salvation.
That you’ve got to get emotional, cry and feel sorry. I remember a story about a guy praying with
a friend of mine who said, “You know, I just don't feel anything” and my friend whacked him on
the head. He said, “Why did you do that?” “Did you feel that brother? Now pray.” I thought that
was cute. Walking down some aisle, inviting Christ into your heart, is a distortion of the gospel.
Anything the spiritually dead unbeliever can do is not the way to salvation. Unbelievers can give
up all sorts of things and still not be saved. Revelation 3:20,
“Behold, I stand at the door and
knock”
is written to believers out of fellowship. You don’t invite Jesus into your heart. Scripture
verifies what is necessary. What's necessary is 1 John 5:11-12,
“And the testimony is this, that
God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has the life; he who
does not have the Son of God does not have the life.”
This is the issue. In order to be an effective
witness for the Lord Jesus Christ you must lift Him up. John 12:32 says,
“And I, if I am lifted up
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from the earth, will draw all men to Myself.”
The true issue for us as we talk to people is
Romans 4:5,
“But to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly,
his faith is credited as righteousness.”
That's all it takes, faith alone in Christ alone. A mature
believer may find opportunity in leading a young believer to the source of accurate Bible
teaching. Try to get them under the ministry of a well-qualified pastor, to be hungry for truth and
to grow in the grace and knowledge of their Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Sometimes we witness
to give the gospel. Sometimes we witness to give the importance of spiritual growth and spiritual
stability. God wants you to be a soul winner. I hope and pray today and tomorrow that God will
give you the opportunity to talk to a lost individual and share the gospel with them. Thank you
for listening to The FLOT Line. We’ll come back next week, same time, same place. We
appreciate your prayers.
This episode delves into the vital conversation with Lewis from High Five Plumbing about managing home systems during cold snaps, while also touching on the day's inauguration events. Learn practical solutions for safeguarding your plumbing, and find out how recent political shifts might impact the broader landscape. This comprehensive episode offers both valuable home advice and timely political insights.
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SPEAKER 17 :
All right. Happy Monday, everybody. It is a great day. I'll talk more about an inauguration in just a little bit as we get rolling through today's program. Of course, three full hours to get things started off, though. We've got Lewis calling in from High Five Plumbing and Electrical. Lewis, welcome. How are you, sir? I'm doing fantastic. How about yourself? Always a joy to talk to you, of course. And you're on the electric side for Hive. Or I assume, you know, I haven't spoken to you directly, but I assume that's what you're doing, Lewis.
SPEAKER 16 :
You know what? I'm kind of... I help with all three trades. Okay. So the heating side, plumbing, and electric. All right.
SPEAKER 17 :
So you're across the board. All right. Well, on a day like today or this weekend, which I'm sure you guys have been extremely busy because of all of the things that go on in regards to the cold weather when that happens. And, I mean, Lewis, where do we start? I mean, when the cold weather hits, problems are going to come up.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, that's without a doubt. That's usually when they arise. And typically, you know, starting with plumbing, obviously the obvious one is frozen pipes, something freezing in the house. And, you know, surprisingly, it happens with both your drinking water, like the supply, but also the drain. Like you'd be surprised how many people call, like, hey, something's going on, things are backed up. Well, you've got – there's ice damming happening there. So, yeah, we get a lot of that. We're bombarded with those types.
SPEAKER 17 :
For those listening where, I mean, yes, most likely going to need some sort of professional help, is there anything they can do on the front side to try to help with that? I mean, let's say, for example, they find they've got a frozen pipe. What should they do, Louis?
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, so if you've got a frozen pipe, it kind of depends on where the location of it is, right? So typically, like if it's – a majority of ones are going to be your outdoor spigot.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right.
SPEAKER 16 :
If you can kind of open up just a little bit to where if it starts to thaw, it will – or if it starts to expand, it has somewhere to go. Because the problem is what happens is – these pipes start to freeze, right? Once they're frozen, once it keeps going like what we're experiencing right now, we have prolonged days of sub-zero temperatures at night, and it doesn't really get above freezing during the day. As it's getting colder and colder, that ice expands and expands. If it has nowhere to go, it's going to break the pipes. And you won't know that until it's thawed. So right now we're getting lots of calls with people not having any water. Here in a day or two, we're going to get a whole bunch of calls with people that they have too much water in places they don't want it.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, that's the fear. And for those of you that maybe are in – and I know, Lewis, this is really hard because a lot of folks know their home really well. Some don't really know it much. Some are pretty handy. Some are not. And the reality is, you know, if you've got the ability to shut some of that water off in those areas where you know you've got a frozen pipe, you know, that's great. But, Lewis, as you know, in a lot of cases, you can't isolate it that way.
SPEAKER 16 :
No, no, and so what we usually tell people, some of the basic things are if you can keep your heat up a little hotter in the house, you know, just because that will do a little bit more as far as hopefully getting a little bit, just that little extra heat to those areas that are usually a little bit more cool. Maybe your insulation, if it's an older house, the insulation's been moved around or something, or it's not encompassing those pipes where it needs to. Turn that heat up in your house a little bit. You've got cabinet doors. Open up the cabinet doors, especially at night, so you'll get some of that warmer interior heat air, hopefully circulating some of the areas where it's not circulating. Any little bit will help at those times. And even at night, if you know you have some problem areas, some people have had some issues in the past. leave the water dripping in as many of your spigots or your faucets and things like that as you can. Those little things will go a long way.
SPEAKER 17 :
I was looking at some of the neighborhood Facebook posts and stuff over the weekend, and one of the things that came up was just, you know, what do you keep the temperature of your house right now to try to accommodate everything and then still save money and so on. I mean, man, Lewis, some of these people keep their houses at a stage where, holy cow, I would freeze to death. And on top of that, I think some of the things you just mentioned might become – a larger problem so if you're somebody out there that you know you're on a budget and i get that lewis i get you get the fact that it's expensive to keep the home a little more warm on the same token repairs aren't cheap but your water example would be one where you know a little bit of water use which you're not going to have that much with just having it you know trickle through that that little bit of movement makes all the difference in the world and if you're on a budget and you can't have the higher heat we'll at least do that
SPEAKER 16 :
Absolutely. If you're talking about the budget, I mean, we're talking, you know, maybe about four, three to four, five days ish max of keeping your heat cranked a little bit higher and keeping that water flow a little bit. That little additional, you know, expense on your utilities is going to save you a lot because a flood repair. I mean, there's no cheap way to take care of that.
SPEAKER 17 :
No, and that's where it even gets in, in some cases, depending upon how bad it is. You could get into insurance claims and deductibles and all sorts of other things. You just don't want to go down that path at all, and it's not a good situation, Lewis, as you know. So we try to avoid that at all costs.
SPEAKER 16 :
100%, yeah. Plus, you can ruin some of your possessions. There are lots of things people don't think about when they don't want to turn their thermostat up maybe four or five degrees.
SPEAKER 17 :
Now, here's a thought, too, for some folks that maybe have had a history in some areas of having some troubles along those lines. And space heaters, while they're great, you know, depending upon the type and so on, I'm not always a huge fan of Lewis. They can have as many issues fire-wise as any. As maybe, you know, again, some cases don't even want to go down that path. So here's a question I've got. And this is just something I was going to throw out today while you're here, because you guys are on the electric side as well. Depending upon, you know, that person, their home and what the history is, would Would they be – in some cases, would they be well off to have you guys out and install some sort of a permanent electric baseboard-type heat in that area to where no matter what, that particular area is always on some sort of a safety valve, quote-unquote, if you would? In other words, you're not going to set that thing so it's running at 80 degrees, but if the temp dropped to a certain – temperature, that baseboard heat, electric heat would then come on, and at least that particular area wouldn't have some of that freezing that might go on. Is that something somebody could get you guys out and do?
SPEAKER 16 :
Oh, 100%. In fact, we do that pretty often. In fact, right now we do get calls from property management companies for apartments where they have their fire control pump room where you've got the water for their sprinklers. Well, there's no heat in there. They never had a problem over the years, and all of a sudden now they're having frozen pipes in there. So, yeah, we do baseboard heaters in there. There's also these little fan-operated heaters. Electric heaters that you can get, you can adjust the heat. So like you said, you're not trying to keep it at 70, 80 degrees in there. You're trying to keep it about 50. Right. Just keep it freezing.
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That's right.
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All right, and we are back. Happy Monday. Happy New President Day. I know it's MLK Day as well, but it is also the day that Donald Trump was in J.D. Vance, Inauguration Day. And I got to watch the majority of that today, which was very fortunate to be able to do. Normally, I don't get the ability to do that, but I was able to be able to set some time aside. And some of my clients were able to work with me on that where I was able to actually watch. Otherwise, I'd normally be on the phone. Before we get into some of that, though, question of the day from Friday. What is the name of the private, all-male, historically black college located in Atlanta, Georgia, which is the alma mater of Martin Luther King Jr., Spike Lee, and Edward Moses? That would be the Morehouse College. Today's impossible question. In 1964, what was the prize motivation for Martin Luther King Jr. being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize? And if you got a chance to look at or to watch the inauguration today, if you're like me, it was, in my opinion, not like a normal inauguration. In fact, Trump's speech was very much not that way. It didn't bother him one bit that the old administration was sitting literally right behind him to his left. And he just hammered him. You know, basically, it's a new day in America. We're going to move forward. We're going to call out some of the things that have not been correct. Over the past four years, we've got a crisis at the border that he's going to stop on day one, literally announced that today as to what he's national national emergency at the border. He's going to send troops down to get things handled and get things straightened out immediately. He talked about there only being two genders. A lot of this woke DEI nonsense, it's all over government, he is going to end. And on down the line he went. He did not leave hardly a stone unturned. And all I was thinking the entire time was, it's about time. Hallelujah. Now, of course, when you looked at the faces of those sitting behind him, they were not in agreement, of course. Although I will tell you that in the first room he was in, not the second one where it was mostly his supporters, but in the first room where there's a lot of dignitaries and people like that, I will say that even when people were giving him a standing ovation, most stood. There was a few hardcore Dems like, you know, Joe and Kamala that didn't stand. Schumer, some of those. But all in all, most stood. And if they were really looking at things correctly, they would all be standing. Because it is a new day. Now, as you all probably also know, there were pardons given today, early, actually several. One, of course, being for Fauci, which you just know, okay, if he did nothing wrong, why does he need pardoned? If he can stand up to a trial and stand up on his own, be accountable, answer for the things that he did, why is it such a huge issue? Well, I guess Joe probably knows more than we do, and he pardoned him. He also pardoned a lot of his own family, which, not surprised. I predicted that he would do more of his own family. What I'm actually surprised at the most is he didn't pardon himself or Jill, his wife. It really felt like he would pardon himself and his wife because his wife's as much of a ringleader in the Biden crime family as the others that he pardoned. And I'm not exaggerating when I say that. And it really is the Biden crime family. You know, go look up some of the things that they have done, some of the pay to play and so on. And definitely there. So, again, great day as far as I'm concerned. I enjoyed it. In my opinion, one of the best parts of the entire inauguration, Carrie Underwood did a great job in a very weird place where the music, whoever the sound guy was, probably no longer has a job. I'm joking because I don't know, but never could get the music going, so she finally just went off on her own and did it. Good for her. But outside of that particular moment, the black preacher who was just stellar, Pastor Lorenzo Sewell, who President Trump picked out on his own. He's a black preacher in Detroit. And I tell you what, his prayer, which they put in the middle, they should have put at the end. Whoever decided the order of things, that was a huge mistake. They should have literally had him close, because that was a closer of a prayer, if there ever was one, to get the country off on the right foot. And I mean to tell you what, if that prayer, no matter whether you're a Christian or not, if that prayer didn't move you, I don't know what would. interlaced some of what MLK, you know, the day today is, and interlaced some things from Martin Luther King Jr. and so on. But just if you get a chance to go look at anything in the inauguration at all, look up his prayer and watch it, and it's moving. And I don't say that a lot. You guys know me. I'm not one typically to get moved by too many things, emotionally speaking. That one was moving. That one, when it was done, literally, I texted several people and said, I'm proud to be an American. Now, I always am. But after that prayer, definitely proud to be an American after he was done. It was that moving of a prayer that if you haven't had a chance to watch it, do so. That young man, because he's not super old that I can see, I'm guessing Charlie probably, what, early 30s or so maybe from – I didn't look him up to see what his age is, but I'm guessing early, mid-30s, something like that. In my world, that's a young man. Stellar. I mean, I'm speechless. I mean, the guy just did an absolutely fantastic job. Didn't mince any words. Again, laid things out in a prayer that should be said on a daily basis, and he was not apologetic about it whatsoever and just laid it out there. Now, were the other two prayers good? I honestly can't tell you what they even said. Because that one overshadowed the other two. I feel sorry for the last guy. I think he was a Catholic guy. I feel bad for him because you're not remembering anything he said because you were still focused on what the black preacher in the middle did. And I'm not exaggerating when I say that. You have to go watch that part of it and you'll know exactly what I mean by that. And then Trump's speech was good. He did nothing that I didn't expect other than, and even when he was talking to some of his supporters in the second speech where he went to the second room because everything was moved indoors. He even said there was a lot of people that didn't want me to do this speech, didn't want me to call out some of the things in the past administration. I should be the kinder, gentler, you know, first day president and so on. He's like, no, we're going to head a different direction. We're going to tell everybody the direction we're headed. I was elected by a landslide by people that want to see this new direction. Why would I not address it? I'm paraphrasing what Trump said, but that's basically what he said. Am I right, Charlie? I mean, essentially what he said was I was elected to do these things. This is what the majority of Americans want to have happen. They want to see things go a different direction. And I'm here to make sure that happens. This administration is going to head that direction. Good for him. Good for him. Just him talking about ending this whole gender nonsense to me was just, man, what a breath of fresh air. We only have two genders. And you know what? If that steps on somebody's toes, so be it. You guys have already heard my feelings on all of that anyway, so what? Get over it. Now, there were some things that I read afterwards talking about how there are some government forms and so on that I guess now will have to be adjusted because I guess there's some forms you can put down that you, I guess, don't know what your gender is. And yeah, your passport being one of them. Thank you, Charlie. So some of those things might have to change, be fixed, whatever. Okay, so not that hard, by the way. And if you don't know what you are, you know, again, I've said this many times. If you don't know what sex you are, what you were assigned at birth, I guess, I mean, I feel bad for you, but you need other kinds of help besides the kind you're looking for. And patronizing you isn't helping you. You know, ignoring the real problem isn't helping these people. And the real problem is there's some mental things going on that they really need some drastic help with, and we should help them seek that help out. So anyways, that's another conversation probably for another day. But the five pardons Joe gave out for his family, James Biden, that's Joe's younger brother. Sarah Jones Biden, that's James's wife. Valerie Biden Owens, that's Joe's younger sister. John T. Owens, that's Valerie's husband. And Francis Biden, that is Joe's younger brother. So other than Jill and him, excuse me, other than he and Jill, he's got the Biden crime family pretty well pardoned. Because remember, Hunter was first. So he's pretty well got that part of it now dialed in. His excuse is, well, you know, this administration is probably going to come after us. And so basically to make their life a little easier, I'm just going to pardon him now. Again, I'm paraphrasing. That's basically what he said. He's worried that the Trump administration is going to come after them. And my answer back would be, well, if there's nothing there that they've done wrong, what's the problem? Or are you fearful that he'll do the same thing to your family that you did to Trump and his family? Is that your real fear, Joe? That he'll weaponize the DOJ and the FBI like you did against Donald Trump? Is that the real fear, Joe? Now, in Joe's defense, I'm not sure he knows what he's signing. I watched a video from Speaker of the House Johnson, who basically said that he has seen with his own two eyes and had conversations with Joe Biden where Joe has no idea what executive order he's even signing. And I'll get into maybe that a little bit later in today's program. Literally, Mike Johnson has said he doesn't know what he's signing. His aides are coming up with things, laying these things in front of him. He is signing them, and he has no idea what he's signing. Yeah, who's in charge? That's what Mike even said. Who's really in charge right now? So for those of you that are on that side of the aisle, I don't know how you can defend that. You've got literally and I watched it today. You've got, you know, the leader of the free world who's doing well to stay awake during President Trump's inauguration. And I'm not exaggerating when I say that he was he was asleep through part of it. And I'm not joking. As he's walking out, all I would all I was thinking is, Jill, get that man a scooter. I'm not trying to make fun, but literally get that man a scooter. Because he's struggling. I'm guessing that he's glad today's over. Now, out of everything I said along those lines, and I even sent this to my boys, Bill Clinton, he and Hillary were there, which actually they were kind of jovial, and even Hillary was actually smiling, which I was kind of surprised at. But Bill, and this is not an exaggeration, if you watched Bill Clinton during the entire ceremony, even on his way out, he was having a good time today. He was smiling, jovial. I mean, now keep in mind that if Bill Clinton were to run again in his own party, he is unelectable. He's too far to the right for most people that are on the left right now running the party. And I'm not exaggerating when I say that. And not that I agreed with every single thing Bill Clinton did when he was in office. I would have taken him over Joe Biden any day, any day. I would have taken Bill Clinton over Obama any day. So Bill Clinton in today's Democrat Party, by the way, is unelectable. He's not hardcore left enough for them. Now, Hillary, that's a different situation. But Bill himself, he's unelectable. But out of everything that I noticed today, outside of all the things I mentioned a moment ago, which you'll not hear anywhere in the press, by the way. was just the look on Bill Clinton's face during the ceremony and then after on his way out, even shaking the hands of Trump's kids and so on. Honestly, Bill Clinton, to me, is still one of those guys where if you want to go to the ballgame and have a good time, drag him along. Because that's the impression that he still gives to this day. So just a side note. All right. I've got a guest joining us here. We'll talk more about this in a moment. Actually going to really get into Pete Hegseth as well here in just one moment. Stacey Washington is going to join us. In the meantime, we talked to Lewis from Hi-Fi Plumbing and Electrical a moment ago. 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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Also, the other pardon, of course, was General Mark Milley and, of course, Representative Liz Cheney and among others that investigated the J6 riots, which you heard Trump talk about that briefly earlier. Today as well, not during his inauguration speech that came afterwards when he was talking to really the rest of his room full of supporters, if you would, when it was all said and done. And even even he mentioned some of that. It's like, OK, wait a minute. These people came against Donald Trump and came out of that committee with a lot of literally false things, lies. No other way to say it. Literal lies like him attacking the Secret Service person. in the car they were in, in the motorcade, none of which, of course, was true. But these are things that that J6 committee came up with. And, of course, now, because of the pardon, none of them will be held accountable for any of those things that they did, even though they were flat out and out lies at that time. And Donald Trump had said that at that time that they were, and it's going to come out even more so that they were. Stacey Washington joining us now. Stacey, welcome. How are you?
SPEAKER 04 :
Thank you so much for having me on.
SPEAKER 17 :
I appreciate it. You are host of a nationally syndicated Sirius XM show. Stacey on the right, author of the book Eternally Cancel Proof. Let's talk a little bit. I mean, before we get into it, I'm sure you watched the inauguration. I was talking about that just a few minutes ago. And what a great day today.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, amazing. It was incredibly historic to see President Trump after four years of lawfare and almost fighting for his very life. In fact, he was fighting for his very life. He stood there and I was trying to imagine, as I was watching, if I could even begin to approach some of the feeling that he must be having standing there and experiencing that, being welcomed into the portico. President Biden actually lifted his voice up and said, welcome home. I was kind of blown back by that. It was so friendly and unlike the actions that he took against President Trump, which leads me back to some reporting that has been coming out. It's like trickling out a little here and there that President Biden wasn't really even aware of some of the actions he took the speaker, sharing a story from over a year ago that he didn't even know he had pots, oil, or liquefied natural gas.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, the LNG, right, natural gas, that's right, exports.
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Yeah, yeah, so a really interesting day. There was a lot, for me it was emotional because I did some service for Team Trump and Trump Victory in 2020. And I just remember the sense of sadness and foreboding I had when he was not the president in 2020. And I think the Democrats and their movement would have been better off had they had President Trump of 2020, because President Trump of 2024 is a whole nother beast, a beast that cannot be unmade, a beast that they will rue the day. And I think generationally. Democrats will look back to this period of time and see a lot of places where their movement will be damaged going forward. And I think the other part that was like a mandate beyond the popular vote was to have all the social media giants who canceled Trump donate a million dollars each to the inauguration and then show up for it. They actually, you know, kind of shoehorned themselves into that tiny space where I would have expected to see other great voices, other full supporters of the president. They were there, and it was an indicator that they don't believe the Democrats are coming back in four years.
SPEAKER 17 :
I think you're right on that.
SPEAKER 04 :
I agree. They plan five years out, right? Big companies plan in five-year increments, and these people were there today, which means they don't think they're going to be ushering in a Democratic president in four years. So it was an interesting day.
SPEAKER 17 :
Oh, very. After, of course, what we saw over the weekend with TikTok, which I'll get into later. I haven't covered any of that yet, but I'll get into that stuff a little bit later in the program. One of the things, too, Stacey, I talked about this when I opened up and want to get your thoughts. The pastors that prayed, the rabbi and the black pastor and the priest that prayed towards the end, Number one, whoever set that lineup up did it wrong. They should have put the black guy last because he was the closer. His was the best of the three. And if you weren't moved to tears during his prayer, something's wrong with you.
SPEAKER 04 :
There was – well, so I've heard him pray before. And so I was expecting him to bring the fire. He did. He really was spirit-filled. He was like, this is my last chance to speak to you, so I'm going to send you home.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 04 :
It was a great time of prayer. I couldn't help but open my eyes a little bit and look at the television and see who else in the space was kind of glancing around. And I feel like there's a disconnect between some of the people in the room and how serious that was. Amy Klobuchar was executing her duties as some kind of committee person who has to do with inauguration. And I understand that it's an honor and it's a great thing to do. And I didn't want her to look sad, but I just feel like Democrats are really disconnected from the feeling of the country.
SPEAKER 05 :
They are.
SPEAKER 04 :
This was a pivotal election and it was a pivotal moment today for the inauguration to fall on Martin Luther King Day.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right.
SPEAKER 04 :
With the historic level of black support for this president and a historic level of Hispanic support for this president. And then to have it happens to be my husband's birthday, which is, you know, not normally he's not normally his birthday on the inauguration, but. It was just a big day for everyone. I felt like there was so much emotional goodwill there with him today.
SPEAKER 17 :
Awesome. Well, number one, say happy birthday to your husband. So it's always a special day, of course. And I agree with you. I think there's a lot of things, you know, right now going on in the country. I think that the left, I've talked about this on my program many times. It's why they lost. They have a huge disconnect, especially with the male voter in this country, Stacey, and not just a specific, you know, like me, white male voter, but all male voters. They're just out of touch. But really, I think, Stacey, it shows that it's not only those folks are out of touch with, but to your point, they're just out of touch with the pulse of America right now. One of the things that Donald Trump started off with in his speech was just talking about from this point forward, we're going to have two genders, no more of this nonsense of multiple genders and all of this wokeness and men playing women's sports and so on. I mean, that stuff is going to end. And yet you look around the room and those things were being said. And to your point, the amount of disconnect the left has along those lines is like, Do you guys not know why you lost?
SPEAKER 04 :
So there's that, but I've actually been kind of on a – I spent about a week doing this, and I'm not ashamed of it, but I kind of was surprised at myself how often every single day for like a week – I went searching and hunting out the comments of the normal kind of lefty commentators on MSNBC and CNN. I just wanted to see what their temperature was. And I've been doing this since the election because I've been looking to see if there's a turning point. And, um, You know, former DNC chair Donna Brazile said Sunday week, she's on television, and she said there will be no resistance. We will only resist policy that we actually oppose, but we are not going to assume a stance of actual permanent resistance. That is not who the Democrats are right now. And I felt like she was giving marching orders. The only issue is, while Donna Brazile goes on the shows, and I certainly watch her clips every week, I don't believe the Democrat rank and file are listening to Donna Brazile anymore. No. They're looking for a new DNC chair. I watched that panel. That panel was full of people who were mostly concerned about genuflecting and kind of getting claps from the audience instead of truly discussing and unpacking what happened in the election. We need a viable two-party system. That's what the founders left to us. It's our heritage as a nation. And Democrats and Republicans should all believe in supporting Israel, strong national defense, You know, peace through strength, that there are two genders, that biology is real. You know, we shouldn't have an argument about climate change, which is unproven, untested science. We should not be attacking people for their for their faith. We should not be forcing gender ideology on people in either direction, whether it's, you know, adopting the kids and strapping their chest down at school. Transitioning behind their parents back or the other direction, which is to say that some children don't suffer from gender dysmorphia and that they shouldn't have counseling and have their parents supported through that so that they can make decisions as adults that aren't permanent and life altering while they're still going through puberty. So there's so much to it. But at the end of the day. Americans stood up and they said to the elites who thought they had it all locked down. They thought we got the K through 12. We have the universities. We have the unions. We have television in Hollywood. This is our country. And Americans stood up and said, yeah, but you don't really have the whole country because you don't have the voters and we're going to usher in a new era. So I still have to pinch myself. I feel like I got my favorite best Christmas present, President Trump back in office. I've just been waiting for him to go back there and And I think my favorite moment out of everything besides Melania's clothing, which is good. I'm going to be eating her up every single day. The clothes, the looks. Absolutely. But my favorite moment was Joe Biden. I guess he forgot he hated Trump. And he just said, welcome home. I just wanted to run through the television and just everybody group hug because it was so great. to see President Trump and Melania go into that door, to see them go in there and to know they're back.
SPEAKER 17 :
I agree. Let's talk a little bit. And by the way, everything you said, can't disagree with anything that you said. And I think the left has a real problem on their hands. And I think they're a faction party right now, which typically they are not. Typically they're a fractured party, I should say. Typically they're lock, stock, and barrel. They are all speaking the same language day in and day out, and they're not right now, which... by the way, is a problem on their side. We can talk about that another day. Let's talk about some of the nominations, especially Pete Hegseth, of course. That's one of the things why I wanted to have you on in the first place. And let's face it, you know, Pete is not a gifted politician. He's never really been in that end of things. Yes, he's been on TV. Yes, he knows how to speak to the camera and so on. But when it comes to the political speak end of things, That's not him. Not that that's a problem, by the way, Stacey, because I like that about him. I like the fact he's not some career politician. He'll handle things much differently. Do you think at the end of the day he'll get confirmed and has some of what I just said hurt him?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, I mean, it hurts them with people who aren't as political as you and I. Right.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right.
SPEAKER 04 :
People who don't remember. I remember being told to my space by family members, by, you know, anybody who could talk, who was a Democrat, that I should stop talking about Bill Clinton's personal life and his marriage. If Hillary was fine with what happened in the Oval Office, then I should be fine with it, too. This is right around the time of my transition from being a Democrat to a Republican. I found what he did so disgusting. And I felt that it kind of disabled him from leading the country. But none of the Democrats felt that way. And I have to tell you. I simply said, okay, if those are the new rules, they apply to everyone. And I have since not really cared. And I'm a Christian, so I do care. I do care about our leader's morals. But I also understand that God can use anyone. He used David. He was a murderer and an adulterer. Every person in the Bible is flawed, immensely flawed. And all of us are incredibly flawed. The good news for us is we don't have access to Hollywood with cameras live in our living room and dining room and bedroom to record us as we act the way that we act, as we are ourselves. That's right. So I've taken that to heart. I've studied a lot about David's life, and I feel like for him to have been who he was in the beginning and the arc of his story, and he's laying on his deathbed, a failed father, a failed husband, and a failed leader, but still... redeemed by the grace of God, then certainly God can use Trump. And he has, and I believe he will again. But the big deal for me with Pete Hegseth is, you know why they're talking about his marriage? Because he's a double Ivy League educated man. five or six-time New York Times bestselling author. That's all they have to talk about. That's all they've got. The man is brilliant, and he's a decorated warrior, and he understands the warfighter. And I'm a veteran, and I believe I speak for literally millions of veterans when I say, rather to have a man who has been through the trenches in his marriage and has come on the other side, that understands war and has shot and killed people and been shot at better to have him at the head of the dod to bring our warfighter back up to the most excellent standard so that we can break things blow up things and win wars and command air space sea and land with efficiency better to bring him back to raise that standard whatever his marital history is between him and his wife than to have some pencil pusher out of academia ruining our military with social experimentation. And also, he doesn't believe women should be in combat. Neither do most women on active duty. That's what they don't want to talk about. How I was on active duty, I actively did not want to be in combat, and I didn't really want to be deployed. I was deployed, but I didn't really want to go to Saudi Arabia for 90 days. But I went. But the point is not that I went. It's that I wasn't in a combat role. I was in a support role. And that is. That's the truth. And nobody who's a Democrat wants to talk about it, but those screaming harpies who were whining and yelling at him like they were having a marital argument were hardly the best example for women going into combat. It was a pathetic show.
SPEAKER 17 :
You're 100% correct. And by the way, really quick, to go back to your, you know, God uses all sorts of flawed people. Don't forget that the man that led the children of Israel out of captivity was a murderer before he did that.
SPEAKER 04 :
That's right, Moses. But he was also someone who he would say, Lord, I can barely talk. I don't have to serve for this. He was kind of humble, too. So they all have these qualities. And I've met President Trump so many times. I've heard him speak over 35 times in person. I've been to the White House dozens of times. I've been to Mar-a-Lago. I've seen this man in many different situations. And what I can say is he's always very kind. He's always nice. He has a ready smile for anyone. If you feel nervous going up to him and saying, can we have a picture? He'll always put his hand on your shoulder or something, put you at ease, ask you how you are, assure you that he remembers you. How is that possible? And then take a picture with you, even when he's tired and the Secret Service is trying to pull him away. So that's a minor thing, but it's major if you meet a lot of people.
SPEAKER 17 :
No, that's a major thing, Stacey. To somebody like me, that's a major thing. And by the way, I've known other people like you that know him directly. Many, by the way. I haven't talked to anybody yet that doesn't say the same thing you say.
SPEAKER 04 :
He's so nice. And it's kind of shocking because he likes firing people on The Apprentice, which was my favorite thing. That was how I got to know Donald Trump. Me and my husband watched him as we put our little jokes to bed way back then. And so, yeah, I think people who don't like him, that's fine. I have not liked presidents before. I don't really want to like them. In fact, it's an anomaly for me. I never thought I would ever meet a president at all. The fact that God has allowed me to do this is such a glorious honor for me. But it's also an outstanding honor. example of what god will do he'll take you know a little woman from out of the midwest actually i'm super tall but little meaning not unknown and allow me to go to the white house allow me to go to rallies and allow me to go on television to talk about issues he'll if he'll do that for me he'll do it with anyone he just picks the person who's unlikely and he uses them and that's what he's doing with donald trump And if you don't like Trump, how about you just watch Melania's outfits for the next four years? There you go. You will be pleased.
SPEAKER 17 :
Good job. And by the way, I feel the same way as you. I sit in this chair, and I am about as unqualified to be here as anybody, Stacey. I'm somebody that has worked their whole life, owned businesses, never went to college. I didn't do journalism or broadcasting or anything along those lines. It's only by God's grace I sit here.
SPEAKER 04 :
That's right. It's the best way to get somewhere, actually, because then you don't have to worry about it being your thing.
SPEAKER 17 :
That's a good point. Well said. All right, I'll let you go with that, Stacey. And by the way, how do folks listen to you on SiriusXM?
SPEAKER 04 :
If you are a subscriber to SiriusXM on your phone, on the SiriusXM app, and it's channel 125. And if you don't have that, I'm on television every day at 5 p.m. on Salem. That's on your Samsung television, your Pluto app, your Roku app, 5 p.m. East.
SPEAKER 17 :
Awesome. Stacey, thank you. You're welcome back anytime. I appreciate you very much.
SPEAKER 04 :
Thank you. I'll come back anytime. All right.
SPEAKER 17 :
Have a great night. Stacey Washington again. Stacey on the right. And her book is Eternally Council-Proof, A Guide for Courageous Christians Navigating the Political Battlefront. And it's an Emmy-nominated – no, sorry. She's an Emmy-nominated TV personality and, of course, author and – So, Stacey, again, thank you so much for joining us. I appreciate it. Cub Creek Heating and Air Conditioning, yes, guys, a lot of you may be having problems right now with heat, not being able to keep up, not knowing exactly what to do next. Maybe things aren't as warm as they should be. Let's just say it that way. If that's the case, give Cub Creek a call today. Find them at klzradio.com.
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SPEAKER 17 :
All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Okay, top of the hour. Scott Watley is going to be joining me, but he stepped into the studio here a minute or two early. He was going to be, if it was all outside and as it was supposed to be planned, you were going to be there today calling in. I was going to be there. And you were there.
SPEAKER 03 :
And I was there. You decided to come back a little early for obvious reasons. Yeah, the weather, you know, halfway through the Friday, I decided, okay, I'm going to get out early because I thought it might be – Hectic at the airport. So I catch like a 930 flight. Halfway through the flight, my phone starts blowing up with messages. It's moved inside. And I'm like, this is probably not going to be good. So then land there. Not get my bag until the next day. Right. So whole big story there, too. But anyway. Yeah, it was great hanging out there a couple of days and just went around and did visit with some people. You know, just see people. But a lot of people on the plane, man, a lot of people in red hats, man, MAGA hats and stuff. And so, I mean, it was really cool. So I would say there was a difference, no pun intended, in the air. I mean, man, I mean, everywhere you went. I mean, it was cool, you know. And so it's going to be really interesting. And, like, I heard you're opening the show. Yeah, you're fine. Today TV was great. I mean, I was glued to it this morning, too, because it was just awesome.
SPEAKER 17 :
It was. I mean, it was different. Again, like I said, like I opened up with, it's not what you would normally see in an inauguration speech. I mean, normally there's all sorts of platitudes and, you know, thank you for this and thank you for that. And, yes, we're going to do this and we're going to do that. Right. I mean, Trump, again, he's one of those guys. I think that's why he won this last election. People just want to be told what's going to happen next. How do I feed my family? How do we change the things in this country that aren't going the way they should? And who's going to do that? And he answered a lot of that even in the inauguration speech itself and, of course, did a lot more. more after that speaking to his own you know but in that that initial crowd and as I said there were a lot of people in that initial room that Scott said coming in this very thing and I should have said this their days are over and for a lot of them their days are over I mean, this administration is gone, whatever their role was, chances of them coming back even on down the road, if something were to happen even four or five years from now, do they have that opportunity again? You know, Scott, in a lot of cases, no, they don't. And I think a lot of them realize that when you're in that room today and things are finally ending, your world is now going to take a whole different, you know, it's going to go a different direction because it's not the same.
SPEAKER 03 :
And you actually come over to him a little bit more because of that, too. You did. I mean, I would.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, if you're smart, you would because otherwise you're – in a lot of cases, your political career may very well be over and you're going to have to figure out what are you going to do next. So we'll talk more about that when we come back. And for a lot of you listening, Scott's going to hang around with us here past 4 o'clock as well and was planning on having him here anyway. So we were, though, originally, again, like I said, planning on having Scott call in from a lot of the – And some things that had happened that day. But, you know, things happen, and the weather changed, and even Trump talked a little bit about that today in some of his speeches. So, yeah, we'll talk to Scott as soon as we come back, and then my son Richard will join us at 4.30 as well. But, guys, hang tight. Again, as always, great day here in the United States of America. I am proud to be an American. Not that I'm not every day, but especially today I am proud to be an American. We'll be back. Hour 2 is next. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 16 :
All right, we are back. Hour number two, Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Like I said earlier, Scott Wally joining us. Scott does his own program here on actually a couple different programs, one daily, Haystack Help Radio from noon to 1 every day here on KLZ, plus Sportsman of Colorado that comes up right after Drive Radio on Saturdays from 1 to 2. So thanks for being here.
SPEAKER 03 :
That's a lot of fun, man.
SPEAKER 16 :
So again, and some of you may be tuning in just now here at 4 o'clock, and we're expecting to hear, because I promoed this, Scott calling in live from some of the events going on at the Capitol and so on. And reality is, because of the change of locations and what happened, which, by the way, there were a lot of folks that were planning on being in the actual inauguration itself and not having to watch from an outside area. that were probably disappointed, Scott, because I think they limited who could actually get into the actual inauguration. It was scaled way back. Am I right? For today, it was 600. Okay. In the rotunda.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, that's what I thought. And then they had an overflow area of a couple of thousand, and a lot of that was spouses of other folks that couldn't get in. So it changed everything drastically.
SPEAKER 16 :
A lot of people had to go to watch parties and things like that to even see what was going on, right? Yeah. And at the arena, there were people were camping out last night. Yeah, I'm not doing that. Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
Sorry. Those days are over for me, Scott. Not doing that. I don't blame you. No doubt. I wouldn't do that either. But it was real fun. You know, and Greg Lopez, which you know, and has been on Kim's show. Who was our congressman for six months. Did a show with Greg a couple of weeks ago. And it was really good. And Greg was really open for the hour just talking about what it was like.
SPEAKER 16 :
you know, being really quick for those of you that may not know. So Greg took Ken Buck's spot because he resigned, remember early from his term. And so there was a special election. Greg won that election and said, I'm not going to run for the next one. I just want to serve this particular time. And to his credit, that's exactly what he did.
SPEAKER 03 :
Right. And he didn't want to go as a placeholder was his exact work. I mean, he wanted to get stuff done and man, I pulled up all the bills, things that he sponsored and different work he did. And he really worked that six months while I was there. And, uh, Made a lot of great connections and friends. And he has some stories to tell. Really shared some interesting stories. And one was, he said, like the first vote he was doing, they bring by a little machine, he said, and you pull out your card and you put it in the machine for your vote. And then the machine went to the next congressman. That guy pulled out his card, put it in, then reached in a side pocket and pulled out five cards. and kept feeding it. And Greg was like, wow, I know I'm new, but isn't this kind of like stuff in the ballot box that goes, yeah, this is for the ones that aren't here. So then we went and I said, well, how's that fair? That's kind of weird because, you know, I think records have to show like how many votes your Congressman voted on. And you would assume when you see that record that they were there present voting in person voting. And that's not the case.
SPEAKER 16 :
I didn't know that. Yeah, he didn't either. I mean, you taught me something. And by the way, a lot of people probably don't know that because those aren't things that are most likely publicized. Because they want you to think they're there. We're paying them to be there, by the way. That's their job is to be there. I get it. There's other things that they have come up from time to time that don't allow them to be there. But really, by and large, they should be there. That's my opinion. It's their job. It's what we're paying them to do. Sure.
SPEAKER 03 :
But it was great. And, you know, Greg... I tried to pull it out of him and to see what his next plans are. And he'll be doing something. He said, stay tuned. And so, you know, he's a good man. He's a good guy. I've been working with him about four years. I actually met him at the international sportsman's expo in 2020. And he just walked by the booth. I didn't know him. He didn't know me. And, Just spent about 20 minutes with him, and, man, I was like, man, this guy, I like what he's saying. I've had him on air before. He's a good guy.
SPEAKER 16 :
I like Greg. I think he's a good representation of what we have going on in Colorado. And, yeah, I think we will see how things, you know, bode for him moving forward. But, yeah, for those of you listening, I don't think Greg's done politically speaking. What happens next, who knows? We'll see. But you learn a lot in D.C.,
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, yeah, absolutely. And even during COVID, he and I went to a meeting one time, and I really started hanging with him a little bit there for all the restaurant owners were getting together, just saying, we're not going to do this anymore. And so Greg, you know, he was, I think, president of the Small Business Administration.
SPEAKER 01 :
He was.
SPEAKER 03 :
And he was mayor of Parker, you know, at a young age. So he's done a lot of things, you know, in the Hispanic community, well-respected. And so I sure hope he'll dive into the right thing.
SPEAKER 16 :
Any other interesting stories when you interviewed him about what goes on in D.C.? ?
SPEAKER 03 :
How much inside stuff actually happens? Just the politics. And he said, man, he said, you know, you're a political person, but the politics and everybody's trying to get a favor. Yeah. Well, if you'll help me with this, I'll help you with this. And I mean, it's like, let's make a deal every day of your life. Wow.
SPEAKER 16 :
of just i mean and that that one doesn't shock me because i could see how that's a lot of how that's done hey you help me with this bill i'll help you with your bill you know that sort of thing you know you scratch my back i'll scratch yours you know that sort of a thing you see some of this in tv of course from time to time and you wonder how much that's really real well i'm guessing probably probably more than you can think and it's probably worse than you can imagine is my guess on that end of things and it was amazing he said how many you know
SPEAKER 03 :
things that they would give you like to keep the government um fluid with money to whether it wouldn't stop the government um they give him this 1500 page thing like at 6 30 at night to vote at 7 30 the next morning so nobody's always reading that to read that and he said it's amazing how many things that people don't know and they ask their interns to read hey let me know what are the highlights or let me know what this guy's doing or this gal's doing and so
SPEAKER 16 :
And so what they're doing is they're taking, you know, and my take on that would be, and if it were me, because you can't read that many pages overnight, I guess you could, but you'd be up all night reading that. So they'll take four or five individuals. You read this section. The next one reads this section. The next one, you know, you get where I'm going with this. And then to your point, give me the highlights that are coming out of, you know, give me the cliff notes on those particular, you know, areas of what's going on. And, you know, then you're relying on that particular individual to find what those highlights are, report those back to you. And that's how those guys are voting.
SPEAKER 03 :
And they were saying, hey, we need to all get out of here for Christmas to get with our families. And he's like, wait a minute. We've got a responsibility here. We have a duty. To do this right.
SPEAKER 16 :
And so it was interesting. And by the way, him doing that are the guys the rest of the tenured guys don't like. Yeah, exactly. Because they're used to doing it a certain way, and now this guy comes along and in a way rocks the boat. And, of course, Scott, you know, they don't like that. The newbie's rocking the boat. We better retrain him. I know. Or retrain her or whatever the case may be. Because, yeah, I mean, the old guard has their way of doing things.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, you're absolutely right. And he said, you know, he gained some respect there, you know, of different people saying, you know, I remember when I was like that.
SPEAKER 16 :
And you know what I would ask back? If I were in those shoes and one of those guys were to say something like that to me, my comment back would be, why aren't you still? What's changed? Didn't you go here on purpose to be like me? So why aren't you still? That would be my question back. I know. Because most of them will tell you those stories that, yeah, they go there, they're on fire, they're this, they're that, and then all of a sudden they get into the routine of what's going on and where the payola is and so on. I mean, it's still amazing to me. This is a question I would ask Greg as well. It's amazing to me that most of them go not – you know, a few start out fairly wealthy. That's how they got elected and so on, especially on the Senate side. But on the House side, most of them go in, honestly – probably that's just going to be their next job. I mean, they've not built up much net worth when it's all said and done. But yet, when they leave... Somehow, somehow. Even some of those that leave after 10, 12 years, whatever the case may be. It's amazing to go in broke, but come out millionaires. And I'm not exaggerating in what I say.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, no, you're right.
SPEAKER 16 :
So how is it that it works that way? And I get it, there's speaking fees and different things along those lines and so on. But I think there's other things that happen, i.e. insider trading and so on, where these guys get tips on things that they're able to go out and make investments on that you and I can't do because we're not privy to the same information.
SPEAKER 03 :
And I assume, from just talking with him, It'd be pretty easy to lose touch with reality. Absolutely. Because, I mean, you've got a driver everywhere. You know what I mean? You've got all these aides running around, all this staff and so on, right? You've got interns, staff, and, you know, if you're not careful, you could lose touch.
SPEAKER 16 :
And the respect level of when you go different places because you're a senator or a congressman, that title goes along with that as well, right?
SPEAKER 03 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, I can see how these guys and gals can lose touch because it can quickly go to your head, and that's the problem I have with most politicians is it does.
SPEAKER 03 :
And Greg, you know, he just challenged everybody to get to know your political folks that are in your— Your leaders. Your leaders, you know, and really study them and write them. to questions and different things and emails be involved very few of us do that right i'm going to be honest including myself but no i'm telling you no most don't you're correct and you know kim and i were talking this morning a little bit i was on with kim and um we were talking about how do we get more involved you know for just the everyday person because i told her i said how could any american forget republican or democrat Not be in love with what they saw today. Right. With just, man, a leader. Right. You know, he's not the savior of the world. No. He's not going to be the pastor or starting a church somewhere. I'm not looking for all that. I'm just looking for somebody to lead the country. Hey, get us back making money. Get us back secure borders.
SPEAKER 16 :
Get us respectful among the rest of the nations and so on.
SPEAKER 03 :
Get rid of some of the nonsense. These other leaders of these nations now are awake. Yeah.
SPEAKER 16 :
Most definitely. Most definitely. Well, I appreciate you taking time, Scott, and joining us.
SPEAKER 03 :
It's been a privilege, yeah.
SPEAKER 16 :
And I wish you could have stayed out there.
SPEAKER 03 :
I know.
SPEAKER 16 :
I wish things were worked out a little bit differently. But, hey, we're not in control of the weather. And no, folks listening, I'm not a big conspiracy theorist. I don't think there were multiple threats on his life. Well, let me say this. There are going to be threats on his life every day. He is in a position right now where – and, by the way, there probably were on Biden's as well. When you're in that position, those things are going to happen, period. But do I believe – They moved it inside just because of that. No, I think it was very much weather related. It was very cold outside. He reiterated that today, you know, numerous times. And, you know, would it have been nice to have it outside? Well, yeah. But, you know, look at a day like today here. Would you want to be outside? No. No. That's miserable. That's just no fun doing that. Now, if you're the Buffalo Bills fans. Yeah, it is funny people can sit out. I mean, the two games yesterday were colder than what was in D.C. And some of the guys are not wearing shirts.
SPEAKER 03 :
I can't believe that.
SPEAKER 16 :
No. Unbelievable. Well, and I will say this. There's probably some supporters. They very much would have done that same thing, but most likely they're not there because they don't have the ability and the credentials to be there. Right. There are definitely some Trump fans out there that would have been doing it just like the games we saw yesterday. Well, I appreciate it.
SPEAKER 03 :
And real quick, do you think... These assassination attempts changed him some. Yes. I mean, you just look at demeanor. Absolutely. You know, he was at the Gaylord a couple months ago. We went there and, you know, had really good seats for that. But just watching his demeanor.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, and this is how I – really quick, and then I'll let you go. I've said this, and I know I look at things differently than most. You know, a lot of people – and you saw a lot of memes and different things over social media. You know, God spared Donald Trump's life so he could lead the nation. And I look at it differently. God allowed what happened to happen to change Donald Trump's life, not our lives.
SPEAKER 03 :
Great way to look at it.
SPEAKER 16 :
That's how I look at it. God allowed to have happen what happened, so Donald Trump's life would be changed moving forward. And even in the speech today where he said, and we're going to have – one God that will follow in this country. And to me, that's what those things did, and it was God doing that through his life, not so much for the rest of us.
SPEAKER 03 :
That's how I see it. Good read, good read.
SPEAKER 16 :
Anyway, Scott, I appreciate you.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, thank you, man.
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SPEAKER 16 :
All right, we are back again. Thanks, Scott. I appreciate you joining us there for that short time today. Give us an update. Somebody also mentioned, too, that don't forget Donald Trump said he would immediately roll back some of the EV mandates that are out there, which I'm all for. I mean, you guys all know my feelings on that. We've talked about that in depth on this program many, many times in the past, mainly because I'm not bragging, but I feel like we have as much experience. do have as much experience with EVs as probably anybody else in media has just because of my background in the automotive world and so on. So, yeah, I appreciate him saying that, and I think that's the right move. I've always said, if they're going to stand on their own two feet, then they should. Otherwise, we shouldn't be subsidizing them. Nobody subsidized the iPhone back when it came out, and somehow it made it, because it was innovative, and it was new, and it solved a problem, consolidated things that we used to all carry around at different times, and it met a need, and it sold because of it. If EVs were that way, they would stand on their own two feet as well. Somebody also asked me, did I think Donald Trump looked tired today? I will say that he's definitely older than he was the last time we had an inauguration. No doubt about that. Definitely older. Eight years older, to be exact. I, though, I didn't feel like and I'll get Charlie's opinion on this. I don't feel like it was so much that he was tired as relieved. I think for him, this was the marathon that he's run now for several years. He's had so much stuff thrown at him from all the court cases and so on, all the different trials and different things he's been through. I think today for him, and I'm speaking for him because I don't know him personally, but to me, it was just a relief getting across the finish line. And you don't have to run again. Thank you, Charlie. So for me, that was what I saw in his demeanor and attitude more than being tired. Now, would any of us be tired knowing everything he's had to do to get where he's at now? And by the way, these last 60 days for him since the election, has he had to do a lot to get ready for Inauguration Day yet? Yeah, he's going to sign. There are rumors that by tomorrow he'll sign 200 orders, something in that neighborhood. Now, that doesn't happen overnight. And he would have had to have been working on those with his staff and team all the way up to today to even be able to do that tomorrow. Again, none of that happens automatically. It takes time. Now, we all know and we hear the stories, and I think they're very true. He doesn't spend a lot of time sleeping. So he's a very energetic individual, even at his age. And I will say this, go back in time and look at where Joe Biden was at this age versus where Donald Trump is now. And I will tell you that there's very few people that have the same energy Donald Trump has at his age. Very few. Doesn't mean that he won't get tired. We all do. I can tell you being a year old or every year for me, not that I'm slowing down and getting more tired or anything along those lines, but for me personally, mentally, you'll notice even probably for 2025, it's my goal to even take a little bit more time off than I have in the past just because for me mentally, working six days a week solid, putting in the 60, 70 hours a week that I put in. Yeah, I will tell you that as I am now 60 – And I need a little more recovery time than I did when I was 40, even when I was 50. And I'll be the first to admit it. Now, I'm not Donald Trump's age. What is he, Charlie, 74, 70, 70 or 70? I thought it was 72. Sorry. We'll look it up. Anyways, he's in his 70s. You know, he's a decade older than I am. And, yeah, I could see at that age working the amount of hours and doing the things that he does where you would be, oh, thank you, he's 78. That's what I thought. I knew it was much older than myself. So he's 18 years older than me. Yeah, I can tell you that, you know, 18 years from now, will I be more tired than I am today? Absolutely. We all will. But I didn't really see, again, for me, it wasn't so much him being tired as it is being relieved. It's sort of like those football players that finally win the Super Bowl. At the end of the game, do they look tired? Well, of course, they've just played a rather intense game. But they also know that, hey, I get some time off. Yeah, I've got to prepare for the next season. But they can take time off, and they're relieved that it's over. And on to the next chapter. And to me, that's what I saw in Donald Trump today. And I will say this, too, and Charlie and I were talking about this before coming on air. And I did. I purposely went out today, like Stacey Washington was even talking about that we interviewed in the 3 o'clock hour. I purposely looked at a lot of liberal websites today on purpose. What are they saying? What kind of attacks do they have coming after Trump? And really, other than... I'm just being straight up honest. Other than opinion pieces, which take those with a grain of salt because everybody's got one. Other than opinion pieces, I didn't see any major headlines from any of the even... Now, there are some really outlandish leftist sites I didn't go to. But the majority of just leftist sites in general, and Charlie said the same thing, I didn't see major attacks being thrown at Donald Trump. They just covered the inauguration like... It was any other, you know, news day, and I really didn't see any, you know, huge attacks being thrown at him. Again, there are opinion pieces, and I'm not talking about those. You're going to see those coming from all sorts of people, and you'll see those now all the way through. You saw them with Joe Biden and so on. It's just the way things work. And they run those on purpose. Sometimes I think they run them because it gets people's, you know, dander up, makes them excited, gets people reading the rest of their pages and so on. So that's why they throw some of those things in. And most of the opinion pieces aren't written by staff at that particular publication, by the way. They're typically things that have been submitted, and they run them. Am I right, Charlie, in how I'm saying that? Typically, that's how opinion pieces work. It may be a writer there that's throwing an opinion piece in, but generally speaking, these are... Yeah, thank you, Charlie. These are leaders of a group or they're a freelance writer that writes opinion pieces and submits them to all sorts of different organizations and so on. And they become fairly well known for being an opinion writer and so on. And that's where a lot of those pieces come from. And by the way, sometimes they're paid, sometimes they're not. It depends on the circumstances and what's going on. But, you know, if you see an opinion piece and they're always titled that. And that's where even me here with what I do, I'm always careful that I don't use too many opinion pieces on air because they're an opinion. They're not factual. Right. They're based upon what somebody else thinks. And that's okay. And there can be a nugget or two of truth in some of those that you can pull out. But I typically don't use a lot of opinion pieces here because they're just that. 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SPEAKER 16 :
All right, we are back, Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Richard Rush joining us now. All right, Richard, weekend of sports, which you and Andy are usually pretty correct on most everything, but the old Detroit Lions didn't come through this weekend.
SPEAKER 08 :
You know, we were on track to be – well, I guess – I can't remember if – I think Andy and I both said Baltimore, if I'm not mistaken. So I think we missed that one, too. But, yeah, the Lions, Dad, I think it was sort of – the Lions were an example of what happens when – maybe you don't know how to win yet. You know, it's why we talked about it was so important for the Broncos to make it to the playoffs this year because – That experience, and you see it with the Chiefs, because they are unimpressive in every aspect of their game, except for maybe the one that matters the most, which is their mental fortitude and their toughness. They just know, I mean, Mahomes throws for less than 200 yards. Their offense as a whole gets outgained by over 100 yards. It was a recipe for them to lose, and yet they end up winning by, I think it was eight and a half or nine or something of that nature, right? You know, you'd even do it with eight. They should have won by more than that. But it just, the Lions just feel like a team where they had all the expectations in the world, right? The NFL world of Detroit, of Michigan, never been to a Super Bowl. They were so close, and yet they just kind of, when Washington, a team, a young team, that's really got nothing to lose, right? They've got everything to play for, everything to gain, nothing to lose, because they weren't supposed to be there in the first place. They won four games a year ago. They've got a new head coach, although he had a second go-around. They've got a rookie quarterback. They weren't supposed to be there. So sometimes that reckless abandon can go a long way in really helping a team kind of play above and beyond themselves. And I think that's what happened, Dad. And I think you saw with Detroit, again, you saw a team that, Again, I don't want to say they shouldn't have been there because they were. They were good all year. They had too many injuries. And then I think just a combination of they picked the wrong time to have their worst game of the season. And then they also, again, I think that I don't want to say next year is the year because you would have thought this year was the year. But they maybe just are figuring it out a little bit, right, figuring out how to be the favorite. Because there's something to be said. And that's why what Kansas City, as much as this pains me to say this, has been so incredible over the past few years is is they've been the team that everyone's taking a shot at, and they still are coming out on top, right? Like, they are the champions twice in a row, going for three in a row, and they're still taking everyone's best shot and still prevailing. So it'll be interesting data. I feel for Detroit as much as, you know, lots of feelings about that city and everything else I know, which is yours and I's thought. You've got to feel for them at some point in time, right? They've really had, outside of their, you know, They won a World Series. But, man, when it comes to the NFL world, the only thing football-wise they've got is Michigan. And they were lackluster this year. So, yeah, it was interesting, Dad. But, you know, again, on the other side of things, obviously you've got the Chiefs. You've got the Ravens and the Bills, which, again, was a great game. The Bills ended up prevailing. And, again, I don't care who it is, Dad. I just hope that... Here's a question.
SPEAKER 16 :
I mean, I think it's an easy one. Maybe I'm completely wrong. You and Andy will talk about it more on Friday. But Eagles are going to beat the Commanders. That one, I think, is pretty much a given. I would be shocked if it's anything different, given the fact that Eagles are home and their crowd is second to none. They and the Chiefs, I mean, let's face it, as far as home field advantage goes, those two are right up there towards the top. But the Bills and the Chiefs, I mean, the Bills... have a real opportunity, and they came very close to beating the Chiefs once. Can they do it this weekend?
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, I mean, I think they can. I mean, again, I know what Andy's going to say, which is that the Bills are a better team. They know what they're doing. And again, like I said, Kansas City is unimpressive. The thing that Kansas City does that is they really don't beat themselves, right? Like Mahomes doesn't throw interceptions. They don't throw the ball over. They don't have ill-timed penalties. They just kind of do what they're supposed to do. And in the Bills, Well, the Ravens kind of did it last weekend. The Ravens kind of beat themselves. And so the key for me this upcoming weekend, and I'll talk about it more on Friday, but can the Bills, again, play within themselves, right? You know, don't force it, because it seems like that, you know, with the Texans, Their quarterback, you know, they snap the ball right before the two-minute warning in the fourth quarter. They run a play. Well, then their quarterback gets sacked, and he's trying to call a timeout. It's like, did you not know that you guys were like a second away from the two-minute warning? So there was no need to call a timeout. And so it just feels like teams lose their minds when they play the Chiefs. And so I think the biggest key all week, I think Buffalo's more talented. I think Buffalo's a better team. I don't think they have a better coach or the better quarterback. I think Mahomes is really good, although this year Josh Allen is doing exceptionally well. But can they not beat themselves? And that, to me, will be the biggest indicator if they can win or not.
SPEAKER 16 :
We've got a comment from Bob on the Bills and Ravens. Go ahead, Bob.
SPEAKER 07 :
Hey, Richard and John. I laid a bet. I won. But I don't know how the sportsbook figures this out. The Bills and the Ravens, the Bills were favored by one and a half. They won by two. The over and under was 51.5, and the over and under was 52 at the end. How can that be a half a point on the score and the over and under on one game? It's amazing.
SPEAKER 16 :
Richard, you know more about that probably than anybody when it comes to the betting end of things.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, first I'll say this, Bob, and you know this. Those casinos, those monstrosities out in Vegas weren't built off of losers, right? They weren't built off of dummies. You weren't built off of winners.
SPEAKER 16 :
They were built off of losers.
SPEAKER 08 :
Correct. Well, exactly. They were built off of losers, I guess. Exactly. They were not built off of dumb people, right? And so I don't know exactly how they do it. It's kind of this hidden science. But whoever the odds makers are, they are stinking good at what they do. I mean, you said that one, Bobby, of the Ravens and Bills. Look at the Kansas City game. I believe that over-under was at, I think, eight and a half, and I believe they ended up winning by nine, which was a result of that safety, which is just crazy. I can't remember. I think it was nine. It's crazy. And lucky, good, rigged. I don't think it's rigged. I just think that they've been doing it long enough, Bob, to know that, They kind of know how to do it. I wish I had a better answer for you, though.
SPEAKER 07 :
But on both scores, I mean, the Bills favored by one and a half. They won by two. The over and under was 51.5, and that was a half a point.
SPEAKER 16 :
Actually, Andy said Ravens were favored by one.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, at game time?
SPEAKER 08 :
It depends on when you got it.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, okay. All right.
SPEAKER 08 :
But now... Yeah, because the line's going to move, right? And so that's part of the equation, too, Bob, is the final line is what it is. And it was close either way, but obviously it's going to move with where the money's at, right? So if more money's going on the Ravens, the Bills are going to pull ahead. And if more money's going on the Bills, the Ravens are going to pull ahead, right? Because they want to even it out. They want a 50-50 split, right, ideally. Or really not even 50-50. They just want to encourage people to bet... kind of one side or the other, and if they can kind of get more people, they'll move the line. But it is a crazy coincidence, but I'm not quite ready to say it's a rigged situation, but it's definitely a little bit eerie, as we say.
SPEAKER 07 :
But in both instances, on the score and the over and under, was decided by .5 of a point. Wow. Kansas City and the Bills are... they're real close. That's a point and a half between the two of them, and the over and under is 46.5, so I don't know.
SPEAKER 16 :
Great point, Bob. No, you bring up a great point. I appreciate that, by the way, Bob and Richard. Yeah, I mean, again, the betting end of it, I don't ever do. Don't mess with. I'm never into any of that, as you know. I leave that up to you and Andy.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, and again, it's... I've only dabbled at it, and there's lots of people that have made lots of money on that. There's also lots of people that have lost lots of money, like we were talking about, right? Vegas is built on losers, right? The backs of losers. And so I don't know if I can just say that throughout the year, you get these crazy sequences where Vegas is within a half a point where they're dead on, right? You know, maybe the Ravens were favored by a point, they win by a point, which is actually what they don't want, because then that's a push, and everyone gets their money, right? And you don't want that. So that's why usually I like to set these halves, right? Because the halves... everyone's a winner or everyone's a loser. Everyone on one side's a loser, everyone on the other side's a winner. Again, they just have it down to a science. Everything goes into it, Dad, right? Where the game's played, who's playing, how many points have been scored throughout the year.
SPEAKER 04 :
The temperature, all that stuff, right?
SPEAKER 08 :
Everything goes into it, right? Yeah, exactly. Honestly, I'm surprised that that game was at 50 points when it was supposed to be projected to be a snowy game. But again, that just goes to show you these oddsmakers know, and it goes to show you how good these teams are.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, that is true as well. I'll let you and Andy finish up and talk more about what the outcome this weekend might look like, and then of course heading down the homestretch into the Super Bowl. There's all sorts of memes, and I've seen lots of them out there today, and sorry Kansas City fans, but the reality is... The majority, and I'm not exaggerating, I think, when I say this, Richard, the majority of the country is going to be voting for the Bills.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, and you know, it's a good spot to be for Kansas City. I've talked to a Chiefs fan, and they know, well, the good Chiefs fans will say, they know that you're the hunted, right? It's what happened with New England and Brady for all those years, right? True, true. No one wanted to see them win. Everyone wanted them to lose. Good point. When you're at the King, that's what happened. I mean, even... You look at Jordan, right? Obviously, I was barely alive for those Jordan-Bowles teams, but you can remember it. I'm sure everyone didn't want Chicago to continue winning.
SPEAKER 16 :
Correct.
SPEAKER 08 :
And yet they did, right? Correct. I mean, it's a crazy thing. But, no, you are correct. Most of the country, I think, is tight. It doesn't help that when you get Mahomes and he's faking or feigning or accentuating these hits out of bounds and the refs are throwing flags when two Texans collide. And again, I'm not saying it's rigged, Dad, because I don't think it is. It's the farthest thing from it. There's just too many moving parts to go into it. But what I will say is the Chiefs definitely get a benefit of some calls that maybe they wouldn't have gotten five years ago, right?
SPEAKER 16 :
Agreed.
SPEAKER 08 :
And, again, part of it, it's good to be king in that sometimes what happens.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Got a couple car reviews that we will slip in right now. I shouldn't say slip in. We always take some time doing these, Richard. And both of us have a couple of cars. I'll start. I recently drove a 2025 Ford Explorer ST. This is a rear-wheel drive version. They do make an all-wheel drive version of the vehicle. $57,100. It's a three-liter EcoBoost V6. This is their sport model, of course. I average about 22 miles to the gallon around town. And folks listening, Richard will attest to this. I think because of working in that field for so long, owning four-wheel drive off-road stores and so on, and the Explorers for the longest time just didn't have the best reputation, Richard. And I'm just being honest, and I know Ford's going to listen to this review, but they didn't have the best reputation. So I will tell you, Richard, that Never been one of my favorite vehicles, and I'm just going to be straight up honest. Until now.
SPEAKER 08 :
No, I was going to say, it hasn't, and yeah, you kind of talked over there, until now. And folks, I can say, we drive a lot of cars, and he does not call me, we usually don't talk, and we kind of talk about a car, right, a little bit, but we don't really rave about a car. And I will say this, that you were very impressed, and I'll let you go into more details, but
SPEAKER 16 :
about this car and again it's a it's a credit to ford because like you say the reputation on explorers over the years hasn't been the greatest and i think that's changing a little bit oh absolutely and again i don't get excited about too many vehicles but after being in this car for just a couple of days we drive them for a week but just a couple of days uh thoroughly impressed the car runs extremely well It handles superbly. It handles more like a sports car than it does an SUV. The one I drove had four captain's chairs plus the rear back seat, the third seat. Now, you can configure that in multiple different ways, of course. Plenty of room inside, as you can imagine. Very quiet, very comfortable. All of the agronomic things you could ever imagine. In other words, all the bells and whistles and You know, car play, the whole nine yards. I mean, the reality, Richard, is, I mean, this thing's equipped just like anything else would be. And I will give Ford credit here. And I, again, drive a lot of different vehicles and have owned some. Chevy with the Super Cruise compared to Ford with, I believe they call it Blue Cruise. I will say this, and I've said it before driving some of the F-150s, Ford's automated system far superior to GM's. And I'm just being straight up honest. Sorry, GM, but Ford has you beat in the way their system works. It's not jittery. It's smooth. It's fluid. And their system, Richard, works extremely well.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, and you commented about that, and then obviously the other biggest feature, you mentioned the inside, the interior, but you just said the power, right, the performance of that vehicle, and obviously it's not a new engine for them, right?
SPEAKER 04 :
No, it's not.
SPEAKER 08 :
They've been running the EcoBoost for a while now, and you were just, you were really, it's probably one of the more overall impressive cars that you've driven, especially for this segment, right, and the price point. Segment and price. This car fits. It's really great.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, under $60,000, and you can buy these even for less than that with some of the discounts that are around. The ST version being their high-performance version. Car works extremely well. I mean, I can see why a lot of the police forces and that have used these things for years. They're very... uh versatile i guess would be the right word for me to use richard and in their in their segment does this car compete well absolutely and what's interesting is that it comes in a rear-wheel drive and an all-wheel drive version i actually drove the rear-wheel drive version and we actually had some snow and some slick roads during that time and i'm being straight up honest I put it in the snow mode because I assumed, because I didn't look at the Monroney before driving it, I just assumed it was all-wheel drive, so I put it in snow mode and started driving it. Honestly, Richard, I didn't know I wasn't driving an all-wheel drive. That's how well the rear-wheel drive version works with all of the automated systems they have for traction control and so on. Now, if I was going to be in Colorado, would I buy the all-wheel drive version? Yes. But this particular model being rear-wheel drive still worked very well. So I'll leave it at that. Those of you that are listening, if you want to know more about the Ford Explorer, go check one out at your local Ford dealer. By all means, make sure you tell them that John and Richard Rush, both from Rush to Reason and Drive Radio, sent you. All right, Richard, you drove a car recently as well. Was it a 2024 or 2025 Lexus UX300H?
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, 2025, Dad. And it's a, yeah, 300, which is the 25 replaces the 250H from previous year's model. And basically what they did, they upgraded the hybrid powertrain and put it more powerful. It's got a little bit more get up and go. Folks, this is a compact SUV, right? You know, the car we just talked about, a little bit more of that midsize or even large. Correct. On the board of large, right? This is a compact SUV. And the reason I say that, Dad, is because some people sort of knock this car for not having a whole lot of room. And what I would say is this is the segment, right? These compact SUVs where they sit up a little bit higher, but they don't sit up super, super high. And they also give you the ability to get all-wheel drive, which this car has. It also has a front-wheel drive model, I believe. But this was the all-wheel drive version. And when you combine that with, you know, get a little bit higher clearance, no, is there a ton of room in the back seat in the second row? No, but this car is not meant for it, right? You know, can you put some kids in a booster seat, which I did? Absolutely you can. But really you're getting an all-wheel drive SUV that you're breaking into the Lexus model, right? You're into that segment of car, you know, kind of the luxury SUV market for under $50,000. And you get all of the apportionments, the interior apportionments that Lexus is known for, their safety, their hands-free control, their automatic braking, their infotainment system, all of the Lexus benefits that you get with Lexus, with other cars, Dad, that are a lot more money, you get, again, for sub-$50,000, which is really hard to beat. We had the F Sport package on this car. There's a lot of other things. There was a really pretty color that came on this. It was a really pretty blue color. And honestly, Dad, this car works phenomenal. The best thing to me, and again, this is the hybrid version, is the fuel economy. This car, Dad, even with the all-wheel drive version, is only one mile per gallon less than the front-wheel drive version, which is an average of 42. And so you can go a lot of places, and again, I know fuel prices, hopefully you'll stay good and go down. But if they're not or you're worried about that, this is a great option for you, Dad, because you don't have to plug this car in. It uses the infamous, or not infamous, the famous, I should say, Lexus hybrid, the Toyota hybrid system, which you and I have talked about is really second to none with how well they put their hybrid technology together. And you get all of the benefits of that, again, with the luxury of the Lexus, your name and everything that goes along with it. all inside kind of, and I'm going to say it, a compact package, which is really nice, and especially that if you're more urban driving, right, where you need to fit into some tighter places, that sort of thing, maybe you're empty nesters, you're looking for something where you can maybe haul the grandkids. and still have the ability to put this in a small garage or a tight space at the grocery store, you've got the ability to do so. So I encourage folks to check it out. Again, the model we drove, 2025 Lexus UX300H. This is the all-wheel drive version. Head to your local Lexus dealer and let them know that John and Richard Rush from Drive Radio and Rush to Reason sent you.
SPEAKER 16 :
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SPEAKER 16 :
All right, we are back. Kurt Rogers is going to join us here, top of the hour. We'll get our Monday Mortgage Minute in it, and I'm going to ask him what he thinks of the new administration and what's that going to do when it comes to mortgage rates and the like. Again, one of the things I believe Donald Trump wants to get back on track is our housing market, which has suffered under this last administration. We'll see exactly what Kurt's feelings are on all of that now that Donald Trump, in fact, is president. So we'll be right back. Hour number three is next. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 1 :
Thank you. I'm a rich guy.
In this special edition, Mike Gallagher immerses his audience in the vibrant atmosphere of Inauguration Day 2025. From inside the historic Capitol Rotunda to the bustling streets of Washington, D.C., the podcast captures the day's essence with humor, analysis, and a touch of nostalgia. Tune in to hear about the whirlwind of events, from unexpected security measures to the jubilant celebrations marking a new chapter in American history.
SPEAKER 05 :
This is a special edition of the Mike Gallagher Show.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. We won! We won!
SPEAKER 05 :
And now from Washington, D.C., here's Mike.
SPEAKER 11 :
In what has to be a very painful moment for Kamala Harris, she is standing outside Blair House, which, of course, is the official residence of the president-elect before his swearing in. And right now, Trump is arriving at Blair House. And as we're continuing our inaugural coverage today from Washington, D.C., J.D. Vance is emerging from the limousine. Of course, if you're watching this on Salem News Channel, we have all of this covered for you. Doug Emhoff, the... husband of kamala harris and kamala herself are standing there at the entrance they're waiting for uh jd vance to be joined by his wife usha they are both now she looks beautiful in a pink overcoat he's wearing a uh a dark overcoat they're now shaking hands outside um to go inside for tea and And that's, again, one of the many Washington traditions. And right now they're all standing and posing for pictures. And I have to say, Kamala took a big, deep breath and sighed and said, well, I've got to do this. This is just a formality. And so now J.D. Vance, Kamala, Doug Emhoff, and Usha Vance are standing for just a few seconds posing for pictures. Kamala now says, I've had enough of that. Let's go inside. And they've all turned. And they are now getting ready to go into Blair House. Kind of a British thing because, you know, we did conquer them. But the Brits get to hold on to one last tradition, I guess. These first and second families having traditional tea. Yeah. and obviously they're going to start the dialogue, and boy, it'll be a fly on that wall. It's a weekend, and we're kicking off a week of experiences. Joey Hudson and I had quite the experience last night trying to traverse the roads of Washington, D.C., Joey, of course, is our frequent guest host and my dear friend. And Joey and his wife Peg are here. She looked beautiful last night in the balls. I posted a bunch of pictures on X. I think Tracy is posting a lot of our pictures on MikeOnline.com. So we're all up to date there. And Joey joins me in studio because, Joey, the whole plan was you were going to be at the ceremony tonight. Outside, you were all ready to go with your electric vest with the heat probes and the heat warmer gloves. It got moved inside. So you're like a man without a country. Where do you go now on Inauguration Day since nobody's allowed to be at the ceremony? And, of course, we weren't fortunate enough to be the smaller group that would be inside the Capitol Rotunda. I mean, I didn't bring you all the way here for nothing. Right.
SPEAKER 09 :
I can't imagine that the crowd has been reduced to just over 600 from, what was it, like 280,000, and we weren't included. But, you know, we're going to make the best of it, and I'm going to be out talking with people out around the mall, around the Capitol, where we should have been, bringing some reports and just getting a response of, you know, there was disappointment. When we learned that we would not be outside, as you mentioned earlier, I think it probably had more to do with security necessarily than the weather. But we're going to make the best of it because as we saw last night with people around the balls, there's just a sense of hope of the new America that we're going to see. And it's going to start right after noon today.
SPEAKER 11 :
Right now, the University of Nebraska choir is performing inside the Capitol Rotunda. Of course, all the seats have been put in place. It's going to be a much smaller gathering, and the swearing-in is going to take place inside the Capitol Rotunda. Guys, can we listen to this at all, Christian? Are we able to hear in on our feed? because this is our first inauguration with our new team, but it would be kind of fun if we, music lover that I am, I'd kind of love to be able to hear the Nebraska Choir. Let's listen in. This is Inside the Capitol Rotunda. Thank you.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well...
SPEAKER 11 :
Chills, the Nebraska choir inside the Capitol Rotunda as we continue our inauguration coverage. Joey Hudson with me here in our SNC studios in our nation's capital. Joey, you and I, you've been coming to Washington, D.C. for years. I've been here a lot. Been through lots of metal detectors. We've had a lot of, of course... security procedures.
SPEAKER 09 :
Never seen anything like this one, have you? Have not. There's reportedly 30 miles of seven-foot-tall fencing all around the city. And, of course, you and I found out, along with Peg and our boss, Phil Boyce, last night, it's not easy getting around D.C. these days. I think we tried everything but a train last night to get over to a couple of the balls. But, yeah, security is crazy.
SPEAKER 11 :
Joey, I've got to tell the pedicabs. I knew you would. You knew I couldn't let that one go. So we're at the South Carolina Ball, which is a great, great, beautiful ball. I mean, it was in the Smithsonian at the Portrait Gallery. Again, I posted a lot of pictures and videos on our YouTube channel and on X and on Rumble and Truth Social and all over the place. Tracy's been scrambling to make sure everything is posted in all the right places. But you can't take a car. There's no Uber that can get you from the Smithsonian to the Salamander Hotel because all the roads are closed to vehicles. And again, Joey, I've never seen that even in New York City when the U.N. is in session and all that. There's high security events when the president might visit Manhattan. They still keep the roads open. They might block roads for the motorcade, but they don't shut the whole city down. Understand, they've got the whole area around the White House and all a K Street, G Street, F Street. We saw all the alphabet streets last night because we were walking. Well, then we flagged down a couple of pedicabs. Now, to people who don't know what a pedicab is, that is when a guy, generally from a foreign country, is pedaling like a bicycle with a cab for two. And there were two of them, empty. So I got the bright idea that we should get into two of those and take those to the Salamander Hotel. Did you have any idea what they were going to charge us when we got to the hotel, Joey Hudson?
SPEAKER 09 :
I had no idea. And you know me, had I known, I would have continued to walk. You would have crawled.
SPEAKER 11 :
You would have crawled on your belly the two miles. The last I heard, you were arguing with, you know, Rashi or whatever his name was because he wanted a tip on top of the, wait for it. Are we really going to say this? $740 for the two pedicabs to go, what do you think, about a mile and a half? 1.2 miles. I checked it. I'll bet you did. I'll bet you did.
SPEAKER 09 :
Now, who's going to put this on the sale of expense report, you or me? Well, our boss was in there with us, so I think it's a legitimate expense, right?
SPEAKER 11 :
He was there. Yes. But his last words were, don't you dare turn this in because they'll kill us. They'll kill us all. All right, well, I don't like you in the studio here with me in D.C. I think you've got to go out and about, don't you? I mean, it's cold.
SPEAKER 09 :
It's not that cold, but it's... I have my heavy jacket ready. Nana Hudson made sure I bring my cap and my gloves. I've got my scarf. So I'm ready to hit the field.
SPEAKER 11 :
Because that was part of the problem last night when we were trying to get from point A to point B. I bought the last overcoat in the state of Florida, and it's about the thickness of a windbreaker. I thought it would be cute to get a red MAGA scarf. That was about the size of a piece of, like a Kleenex. So I've got no warmth at all last night. If I don't get, can you get triple pneumonia?
SPEAKER 09 :
Do you get triple pneumonia or is it just double pneumonia? I think you've experienced double pneumonia. I don't know if you can get triple, but hey, who knows? I'm going to get quadruple pneumonia. You've done other things that people said you couldn't do. You got that right.
SPEAKER 11 :
All right, well, let's send you out and about, Joey. You head out there and talk to the people and check in, and let's talk to some happy, jubilant revelers for today's inauguration. I'll be reporting in soon. Thanks, Joey. Joey Hudson joining us here in Washington, D.C. Norman's in Indianapolis. 800-655-MIKE. Norman, welcome to the Mike Gallagher Show, and you're in D.C. How are you? I'm good, brother. How are you? I'm doing pretty good. What's your reaction to Biden pardoning Tony Fauci and Liz Cheney and all the rest of these... Okay.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, you know... I was in the military, and I took an oath to defend our country against foreign and domestic terrorists. As far as I'm concerned, these Democrats are the biggest domestic terrorist welcome. I think every one of them should be locked up.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, thanks to Joe Biden's pardon, that isn't going to happen. 800-655-MIKE. Thank you for your service, sir. Terry is in Webb City, Missouri. Hi, Terry. Welcome to Washington.
SPEAKER 02 :
Thank you. I also agree with your caller ahead of me. When he says it's not an acknowledgement of wrongdoing, that action in itself denotes that crimes were committed. I believe they were domestic terrorists, and they need to be posted as such.
SPEAKER 11 :
All right. Appreciate it, Terry. You know, and the other thing that I'm struggling with on this news, and if you're just joining us on Inauguration Day, Biden has gone ahead and done a big pardon for the select committee from January 6th to Anthony Fauci to generals. I mean, it's it's outrageous. And it was a friend of mine who said, let's hope Trump doesn't take the bait. And let's not, my message to you is, let's not forget what a great day today is. Let's not let these rotten, corrupt people remember or take us away and distract us from what we're celebrating today. In fact, I posted this morning on X after the news came out a final evil act. I retweeted Molly Hemingway. The great Molly Hemingway wrote, Biden pardons Liz Cheney, Anthony Fauci, various others for their crimes against the country. And that's the headline. That's the takeaway. These rotten people were pardoned for their crimes against America. And so I reposted her comment, and then I wrote, a final evil act involving some truly awful people. They got away with it. But don't let this act of desperation deflate you from today. We beat them, every one of them. They'll have to live with the fact that today's inauguration is a repudiation of everything they fought for. And that's, I think, the message that we need to keep in our hearts today and keep in our heads as we navigate through this inauguration day. The Trump family is arriving now on Capitol Hill. There's Ivanka. There's the kids, Tiffany. They're all being escorted into the various... um compartments and with uh what a what a day this is inauguration day 2025 our special episode of the mike gallagher show continues we'll get your voice and your reaction to all of it 800-655-MIKE 800-655-6453 one phone number does it all call or text however you get here get here on this special episode of the mike gallagher show There's no better time than right now to call my friends at PhD Weight Loss and Nutrition to start your journey to a healthier you. As I hear from you about how PhD Weight Loss and Nutrition has changed your life, I know that each one of us has had our own reasons for starting. I started my journey because I gained enough weight and was ready to make a change. I sat down with Dr. Ashley Lucas, and like they say, the rest was history. I lost 53 pounds, and I've kept it off. We all have different reasons for starting. Maybe you got a discouraging diagnosis from your doctor. You needed to make a lifestyle change. One grandmother I talked to couldn't chase her toddler grandson and was afraid he might get hurt in her care. Another gentleman had lower back and hip pain, which forced him to give up golf. He wanted his life back. Do what I did. Start the PhD journey. Make 2024 your year to say goodbye and let go of all those unwanted pounds. Call PhD Weight Loss and Nutrition today to schedule your consultation. Call 864-644-1900. 864-644-1900. Or just go to MyPhDWeightLoss.com. MyPhDWeightLoss.com.
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This is a special edition of the Mike Gallagher Show. Inauguration Day 2025. And now from Washington, D.C., here's Mike Gallagher.
SPEAKER 11 :
Our long national nightmare is about to end. And President Donald J. Trump is about to be sworn in. Welcome in to our inauguration coverage from our nation's capital. A city that is very different from what I normally see. have seen over the years in visiting our nation's capital, nothing like this kind of security has ever taken place. In fact, as you know by now, sadly, the inauguration on the steps of the Capitol was canceled to be moved indoors to the Capitol Rotunda. And there's a lot of speculation as to why. It's a brisk, sunny, 29 degrees right now here in our nation's capital. Certainly not life-threatening conditions by any means. The expectation is that this is all going to go off without a hitch, and the rumor is that there is an enormous security threat. to today's activities. I am just filled with such joy and gratitude for the American people. This is a day that is a celebratory one. I keep hearing those beautiful words in my mind. This is the day the Lord has made. Let us be thankful and rejoice. Not everybody, though, is particularly happy about all of the security problems, the precautions. Many people traveled from all over the country in order to attend the swearing-in on the mall. Everybody could get into the mall. You might be back a ways from the seated area, but you were able to come. And I am so sad for people who really... don't have anywhere to go now, except for perhaps the Capital One Arena, where there is to be a post-inaugural swearing-in rally that President Trump is expected to attend. Now, the media is also experiencing all kinds of security challenges and hassles, not just the legacy media, but the good guys, like our team here in Washington from SRN News. SRN News U.S. Senate correspondent Bob Agnew is apparently locked out of his workstation. We thought it would be good to pop in with Bob to find out what it feels like to be a hotshot reporter who can't get to where you need to be. Bob, tell us where you are and where you'd like to be.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, Mike, it's great to be on your program, by the way. Thank you. It's a big day for me because of the inauguration, but maybe just as big as I get to be on with you. I want to let you know. You're real kind. Thank you, Bob.
SPEAKER 11 :
I'm a big fan of your work as well, and we appreciate the great work SRN News does 24-7.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, amen. Thank you, brother. Now here, as most people might know, you've got the Capitol building. That's where I normally work. And then you've got these, on one end, you've got the congressional office buildings where they spend most of their time working. and on the other end, the Senate, from the Senate office buildings. So today, when I got off the Metro and went to get into the Capitol building, not the inauguration in the rotunda, just the building to get my workspace, they blocked us out, made us come through here. And it turns out, Mike, this change of venue, whether it's because of the cold weather, security concerns, whatever, It really threw a wrench in the works for like the Senate radio and TV gallery. Some of the best people, nicest people over there, very helpful. They were not. They told me today the inauguration credentials didn't even get printed properly because just a handful of them. So nobody, it doesn't matter. The people I work around up there, CBS, CNN, whoever, they can't get in today either on the Senate side. So I'm stuck here in one of the House office buildings, a little cafe down here, very nice accommodations. But I'm over here, you know, just a little ways outside the Capitol building itself and doing what I can from right here in this little workspace.
SPEAKER 11 :
Bob, have you ever in all the years you've been here in D.C., have you ever seen security like this?
SPEAKER 10 :
No. Well, maybe a little bit shortly after the January 6th rioting and stuff. You know, the gates around. It was very similar to that this morning.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, I guess we lost our connection.
SPEAKER 10 :
We got turned away from the building like I was today. So, yeah, that's a bit of a mystery to me. I don't know if we really. No, I'm here. If you're getting me, I'm saying I've never been turned away from the Capitol building. Right.
SPEAKER 11 :
Right. And, you know, that's Bob Agnew, a little bit of an intermittent Internet connection. But, Bob, thank you for checking in from the cafe outside your workspace because the credentials that you had aren't getting you to where you need to be. So that's our Bob Agnew with some very kind words. And, Bob, of course, a great reporter, the SRN News U.S. Senate correspondent. Look, we've got a lot of breaking news today. Not only, of course, is it a monumental day for our nation. I'm sure people who hate Trump couldn't believe him up on that stage for a big rally at Capital One Arena after a very exuberant speech, dancing with the village people who were singing YMCA. My gosh. I mean, if you'd have told me... Ten years ago, that that would be an image we'd see for the 47th president of the United States. I'd say you're crazy. And it was joyful, and it was wonderful, and it was glorious. I mean, hey, can you pull that up, Christian? Can we play that, Sot? I'd love to play that full screen. Let's listen in. Here was President Trump in his power tie on stage with the village people. You got the Indian people. The construction worker, the cowboy, and whatever. And here they were celebrating this pre-inaugural ceremony yesterday at Capital One Arena. There they go. There's Trump shaking the Indian, the cowboy, the construction worker. Big beaming look of satisfaction on his face. And of course, Trump's doing the famous dance now with the fists, the back and forth. Everybody join in.
SPEAKER 1 :
Oh, boy.
SPEAKER 11 :
What a country, huh? What a time to be alive. We got a lot of stuff to talk about that isn't so happy. I am trying to control my rage at Biden's despicable 11th hour pardon of Anthony Fauci, Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, and these awful, awful people who persecuted and prosecuted so many. They're going to get away with it. I didn't think he was going to do it. And I hate to bring down the mood, but you've got to know what's happening here. Biden has issued a last-minute pardon to everybody on the January 6th Select Committee. Biden has pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci, General Mark Milley. Now, interestingly, Special Counsel Jack Smith said, Former FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland are not included in the pardon. However, the rest of them are, as Molly Hemingway put it, Biden pardoned people who had committed crimes against this country. And if you're not angry enough at that news, let's take you back... To 2020, when President Trump issued some pardons as his term came to an end, Joe Biden, then President-elect Biden, had a few choice words for President Trump's pardons.
SPEAKER 01 :
President Trump is reportedly considering a wave of preemptive pardons. Does this concern you? All these preemptive pardons?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, it concerns me in terms of what kind of precedent it sets and how the rest of the world looks at us as a nation of laws and justice. You're not going to see in our administration that kind of approach to pardons. nor are you going to see in our administration the approach to making policy by tweets. You know, it's just going to be a totally different way in which we approach the justice system.
SPEAKER 11 :
How about that? That's what Biden said in 2020. And now we learn that in addition to pardoning his own corrupt son, He has pardoned corrupt Anthony Fauci. He has pardoned corrupt Liz Cheney. And he's given preemptive pardons to the corrupt Cassidy Hutchinson. The corrupt Adam Schiff. It's sickening. And it is a final coda. It is an exclamation point to this failed, abysmal... Epically bad presidency of Joe Biden. I saw my buddy Chris DeGaulle earlier today. He and I sharing studios together. He's in Washington as well. Our new morning host for on many stations around the country. And Chris said, maybe just maybe this despicable last minute pardon will guarantee Republican control in Washington, D.C. for decades to come. I hope he's right. I'd like to be as optimistic as Chris is. And I am feeling optimistic. I think it's important not to let this diabolical act discourage us from the joy we're feeling today. Inauguration Day 2025. And we've got it all for you here on the Mike Gallagher Show. So welcome in. Pull up a chair. Get ready to see the sights and hear the sounds of Donald Trump assuming the presidency again at 12 noon Eastern time. Our number is 800-655-MIKE here in the Relief Factor studios. We always invite you to join us because this is, after all, a caller-driven show, and we are one big extended family. So let's celebrate together as a family. Give me your reaction to all of it. What are you feeling today as the Bidens are currently hosting the Trumps for a pre-inauguration tea? That'd be a conversation I'd like to hear. 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. Welcome in to this inauguration special. It's the Mike Gallagher Show from our nation's capital. I wanna welcome some brand new partners to the Mike Gallagher Show, like Equity Protect, and this is a big, big deal. Your home's title is often the most valuable thing you own. Next generation criminal technology is more advanced than ever. I've been an identity theft victim, it is no fun. You gotta have Equity Protect in your corner. If you own your home mortgage-free, or you got a lot of equity, you gotta have Equity Protect so that scammers do not steal your equity or title. For a limited time, Equity Protect is offering you a tremendous deal, 30% off your first year, giving you one year of protection for less than $12 a month. Just go to EquityProtect.com. Use the discount code Mike30. That's EquityProtect.com. Use the promo code Mike30. Once you have Equity Protect, you don't need to check. Trust the team at Equity Protect. Go to EquityProtect.com and use the promo code Mike30.
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This is a special edition of the Mike Gallagher Show.
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Somebody said yesterday, sir, don't sign so many in one day. Let's do it over a period of weeks. I said, like hell we're going to do it over weeks. We're going to sign them at the beginning.
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And now from Washington, D.C., here's Mike. Breaking now on the Mike Gallagher Show.
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We're going to go out to Joey Hudson in a moment, but breaking the president, the sitting president of the United States, Joe Biden, and his wife, Jill, moments ago emerged from the White House with President-elect Trump and our soon-to-be first lady, again, Melania Trump. all of them departing the White House and getting into the beast, as they put it. There they are, emerging from... There's a line of them and a procession of going down the red carpet and getting into the limousine. And then, of course, shortly after that, J.D. Vance and Usha will get in the limousine along with... Of course, that's actually J.D. Vance getting into the limousine, not President Trump. So the Trumps and the Bidens have already departed. I'm watching the feed here on Salem News Channel, and there's J.D. Vance after that and him getting in the car with Kamala Harris and Doug. I called him earlier Doug Burgum, Doug Emhoff. Gosh. And think about some of the goodwill that Donald Trump is enjoying right now. He's entering office with the highest approval rating he's ever had, ever, ever, 60%. Joe Biden, of course, one of the most unpopular presidents in the history of America. According to Gallup, he's under 40%. He's about 39%. I watched yesterday in the hotel room. a report on the CBS morning show, which I like, CBS Sunday morning. It's one of my favorite shows, but, boy, when they step in it, they step in it, and it was a fawning report on Joe Biden and the success he had as president. I almost fell off the couch. I mean, honestly, if I... put you on the spot, if I held you hostage and you said, in order to let you go, you've got to tell me five accomplishments of the Biden administration, what would they be? I'll take three. And the CBS report had some nonsense about, well, you know, a lot of infrastructure progress and jobs created. I always loved that one. As if shutting the country down due to a pandemic and then reopening the country with all those millions of jobs coming back because by virtue of the country being reopened is somehow Biden's accomplishment. Are you kidding? Wow. Talk about people living in la-la land. Look, they can whine and gripe and moan and complain. Today has arrived, and it's a day we should be celebrating. It's a day we do celebrate. Normal people want Trump to succeed. Normal people don't want a hair on his head harmed. And that's probably why this enormous security is underway here in Washington, D.C. There's obviously been a concern about security. Great text from Frank in Minnesota. A lot of people watching on X today, which is fun. We're doing a little experiment. I want to see what you think, because we're streaming, of course, everywhere. We're on Pluto and Samsung Plus, 1177, just about everywhere you can stream. You're going to want the Salem News Channel app, snc.tv. 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Yesterday, TikTok was back open for business again. 170 million American users of TikTok were treated to a message. And the message was delivered by TikTok as they reinstated their app. And there's a lot of drama about that. There's criticism. I get it. Listen to what TikTok wrote to every single person who tried to get back onto TikTok to discover after it was shut down, it was opened again. Welcome back, it says in big, bold letters. Thanks for your patience and support. As a result of President Trump's efforts, TikTok is back in the U.S. You can continue to create, share, and discover all the things you love. On TikTok. Thanks, as a result of President Trump's efforts, TikTok is back. Now, I know it's complicated, and I understand that it's a difficult, challenging situation. We don't want the Chinese Communist Party to spy on us. We don't want to be beholden to handing off our data. But of course, that's your choice. If you want to engage on TikTok, knock yourself out. Here was Trump yesterday, cut number two, announcing as part of his speech that culminated in the village people performing live on stage, singing YMCA. Here's what Trump said about TikTok returning. TikTok is back.
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So, you know, I did a little TikTok thing. We have a guy, TikTok Jack. He's a young kid, like 21 years old. And we hired this guy and I went on TikTok. Can you believe what I'll do to win an election? And we went on TikTok and Republicans have never won the young vote, the youth vote. They win a lot of votes, but they never won the youth vote. We won the youth vote by 36 points. So I like TikTok. I like it. I like it. I had a slightly good experience, wouldn't you say? Romney lost it by 40 points. Not so long ago, we won it by 36 points. That's a very big spread. But I said we need to save TikTok because we're talking about a tremendous... Who in this audience goes with TikTok? Many? Very popular. And frankly, we have no choice. We have to save it a lot of jobs. We don't want to give our business to China. We don't want to give our business to other people. And I said, you know, tick tock without my approval, meaning the president's approval, because Congress gave the president the right to make a deal, do whatever he wants. And they did that a long time ago when they had a different president. They didn't know that I was going to be the president, I guess. So I said, very simply, a joint venture. So if TikTok is worth nothing, zero, without an approval. You know, if you don't approve, they're out of business, they're worth nothing. If you do approve, they're worth like a trillion dollars. They're worth some crazy number. So I said, I'll approve, but let the United States of America own 50% of TikTok. I'm approving on behalf of the United States. So they'll have a partner, the United States, and they'll have a lot of bidders, and the United States will do what we call a joint venture. And there's no risk. We're not putting up any money. All we're doing is giving them the approval, without which they don't have anything. So I don't know. It sounds like that works. What do you think? Good? It's...
SPEAKER 11 :
The crowd obviously loved it. Now, look, I understand the criticism that he's gotten because he did reverse his position. He was initially... in favor of banning TikTok. I saw a lot of influencers being criticized because they, too, were once for banning TikTok. Now they want TikTok back. And as Trump very candidly admitted, and that's one of the things I love about the guy, he's utterly transparent. He said, look, TikTok helped me win. I won the youth vote and probably did it with TikTok. He's very, very blunt and honest about his reversal. But here's what I don't understand. You would think the left would celebrate a popular American app being available to the American people. 170 million people engage in TikTok. Millions of small business owners rely on TikTok to sell product. There's a lot of feel-good, touchy-feely stuff on TikTok too. You'd think the left would like that. Now, I get that they want to criticize Trump because he reversed himself. But you know why they're really mad? You want to know why they're really angry? Because of all the tons of goodwill that he's getting from young people, thankful that thanks to him, TikTok is back. That's why they're mad. Everything is going right for this guy. Everything has fallen into place. And the idea that he was able to get TikTok back, and TikTok said, thanks to President Trump, TikTok is back. The Trump haters are furious at all of the goodwill and all of the gratitude that millions of Americans, most of them young Americans, are expressing for Donald Trump. The motorcade is proceeding right now. From the White House to the Rotunda. It's a massive motorcade, of course. Many, many, probably hundreds of vehicles. The famous Beast, that Cadillac armored limousine. Of course, there's two of them because there's always two. One of them is a decoy, so there's four. One for the president. or two for the president, two for the vice president. We're going to check in with our Joey Hudson, who's on the streets of Washington, D.C. right now with one of his reports. Welcome to Washington. This is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad we did it. President Trump is about to be inaugurated 47th president of the United States. And doesn't it feel great? Christmas means giving, and for my money, Christmas means MyPillow. Make it a MyPillow Christmas for somebody on your list because the Christmas extravaganza is well underway. Because a big box retailer canceled an order, Mike Lindell has thousands of MyPillows to move. Well, he wants to pass the savings on to you, so check out this offer. You can order a standard classic MyPillow, and it's normally $49.98 for just $45. $14.88 with promo code MikeG. Limit of 10. This is the pillow that started it all, the pillow that never goes flat, stays nice and cool all through the night. You can throw it in the washer and the dryer as often as you want. You can get a classic standard MyPillow for $14.88 with promo code MikeG. A queen size, normally $69.98. You'll get it for just $18.88 with promo code MikeG. Or a king size, Normally $79.98. You can order it for $19.88 apiece. Limit $10, please, during Mike's incredible Christmas extravaganza from MyPillow.com. Look, if you haven't been to the site in a while, you can get all your Christmas shopping done by going to MyPillow.com. Look for the Mike Gallagher Specials Square. Click on that box, and then with any order you place, Enter the promo code MikeG and you'll save big. MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG. MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG or call 800-928-6034. 800-928-6034. It's the Christmas extravaganza sale going on right now at MyPillow.
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Breaking now on the Mike Gallagher Show.
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The inauguration of Donald Trump, the 47th president of the United States of America, underway on Capitol Hill inside the Rotunda. The Trump family just entered. Moments ago, the U.S. Supreme Court justices entered. Sonia Sotomayor, by the way, looking physically challenged. She was all hunched over, looked like perhaps maybe suffering from some physical problems. And I will tell you that it was kind of fun to look at the – I like studying people. I love observing human beings. And of the justices, some of them were smiling and some of them were not. I'll give you three guesses as to which of the justices were smiling and which had grimaces on their face. Let's go back out to the Capitol Rotunda where outside the inauguration ceremony, our own Joey Hudson is visiting with people who are just trying to get a little glimpse of history. Joey, you look like you're with a very dapper young man there with a big red top hat.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, Mike, I was trying to find an obvious Trump supporter. And for those of you watching us on the Salem News Channel, Kevin from Ohio has a red top hat on. And so I thought I'd chat with him for a few minutes.
SPEAKER 11 :
Nice. Let's do it. Let's find out what part of Ohio he's from and how he's doing.
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So, Kevin, you, of course, you had planned to be here like several hundred thousand more. You had planned to be inside of these fences that are behind us here. It was kind of disappointing, but you said you're more enthusiastic by the fact that in just a few minutes, Donald Trump's going to be our president again.
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That's correct. Yeah, it involved me inside. It's a nice day. It's a beautiful day. It's sunshine. It's all about the energy, everything. It's awesome.
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What do you hope one of the first things that Donald Trump does once he's sworn in?
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, we can't hear him, Joey. There's something going on with that mic, I think, when you hold it over to him.
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Okay. So Mike, Kevin is saying, of course, the borders are important to him. He wants to see energy independence so that the price of gasoline comes down. And, of course, like all of us, we want America to be more affordable again. So Kevin, like many people who are at this back gate, we're just behind the Capitol.
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kind of peering in as a lot of activity over there the army van just came out and a lot of enthusiastic people disappointed they're not on the other side of the fence but still glad to be here absolutely and joey people are disappointed but are they still pretty happy i mean even outside the capitol rotunda where they know what's going on inside they got to be thrilled to be close to the to this piece of history right
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They're very excited. Yes, they're disappointed they can't be in there, but that has not curbed their enthusiasm at all. Again, they're just excited that Donald Trump's going to be our president in just a matter of moments.
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All right. Thanks, Joey. Great job. And thank thank your friend there from Ohio for us with the red top hat. Checking in with people outside the Capitol Rotunda on this incredible day. And of course, moments ago in walks Kamala Harris. Now the curtains part and Jill Biden, the first lady, enters the Rotunda to applause with the second. gentleman, I guess you'd call him, Doug Emhoff, as we take you live to the U.S. Capitol and the rotunda. You see Jill Biden shaking Bill Clinton's hand, and there's Susie Wiles, who's the chief of staff. President Trump affectionately calls her the Iron Lady, and she's tough. She's a... She's a no-nonsense, get-it-done, very, very businesslike chief of staff that President Trump is going to appreciate, I think. Bill Clinton, of course, scanning the crowd. You know, who knows what's going through his mind. George Bush, he's sort of giggling and laughing a lot. And, of course, he's there with Laura Bush. I understand Mike Pence is there alone, just like Barack Obama. Apparently, Mrs. Pence has evidently decided to boycott the inauguration of President Trump. Now they're all standing and waiting for the big moment when the president-elect and our future first lady We'll be entering the rotunda. All the justices are, everybody's now in place. Of course, the familiar blue podium. And Trump is scheduled to go to the Capital One Arena after the inauguration swearing in. And there's a desk that is set up on the set next to his podium, a wooden desk. You know what that's for. I mean, he has already signaled that he's going to sign those executive orders right there in front of the crowd gathering at the Capital One Arena. So the 20-plus thousand people who will be packed inside the Capital One Arena are going to be in for a real treat. They're going to see him sign executive orders on issues like the border. He is going to presumably sign executive orders about lots of drama about the economy and ways that he can free up and change the disastrous Biden economic policies. And look, Trump is starting from day one to reverse the disastrous policies of the last four years. And this is a shining, shining day. This is a bright day. And for many of us, a very, very happy day. And I'm glad to be able to share it with you, you and me together, here on the Mike Gallagher Show. And welcome to people watching and streaming on X. First time we've ever done that. And I think Tracy said we've cracked 1,500 or so. Maybe we'll get 2,000. All we ask is that you follow me on X. Let's get some big... Think of that. If we got 2,000 more followers, it would be a big day for us. So welcome aboard if you're watching today or listening on X, because we decided to break in to that new world by streaming the Mike Gallagher show today on X. So welcome in. There's Newt Gingrich and Calista, his wife. There's a whole lot of dignitaries. And, you know, this was a fraction... of the amount of people who are going to be able to see the swearing-in ceremony in person. And on Saturday, Joey and I went over to the office of South Carolina Congressman William Timmons, and I just want to personally put a shout-out and a thank you to Congressman Timmons and his staff, J.R., and all the great people in his office for accommodating us with getting us those tickets to the inauguration. We had good seats. We were going to be in Section 12, and we were going to be pretty close and seated, and we would have been able to witness history. So now we've got all the ticketing and the memorabilia that will be suitable for framing. And Joey, all of us have our own copy. Phil Boyce, our boss, was to be here with his wife, Diana. And we're praying for Diana, who's a little under the weather and wasn't able to make the trip. And we know she was sad and we were all devastated not to be able to have her join us. But she was with us in spirit. And look, this is big. I know there's a lot of anger about Biden pardoning Fauci. And if you didn't hear the news, Biden did a last second pardon of Fauci and Liz Cheney and Kinzinger and all those other clowns. involving the January 6th Select Committee, which, of course, signals to the world that Biden wanted to preemptively pardon people who committed crimes against our country. And all of them are scoundrels. All of them are in their own hall of shame. And maybe, just maybe, Biden's horrific, desperate pardon of these clowns, we'll see to it now that Republicans are going to stay in control for decades to come. More from Washington and the swearing in of Donald Trump coming up.
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Hail to the host. Is that for you or me? That's for you. I'm standing.
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I'm standing.
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I'm standing for you. We properly welcome you in.
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Good morning, President Davis. Oh, my goodness gracious me. We made it. We got here. We did it. We did it. We're here. We did it. I'm exhausted from last night. I can't even get through the show. Please tell me your last night stories. Well, let me start. Oh, my God. I got stories. Have I got stories? Let me share with you all of us getting from the South Carolina ball at the Smithsonian over to the Salamander Hotel where the Turning Point USA ball was being held from Charlie Kirk's group. Now, Washington, Mark, you know, Washington, D.C. I know Washington, D.C. I've been coming here for years. I have never seen security like this. They shut to traffic the whole flipping city down. You can't get a vehicle from point A to point B. So what do you got to do? You got to walk because all of the streets are closed now. Metro working. Yeah, and I'm going to get on the Metro. I'll do that. You want me to get lit on fire? I'd like to not get lit on fire on Inauguration Eve.
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Tell me, you're going on the New York subway, which is 20 times more dangerous. But anyway.
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I don't know the Metro here. I ain't doing Metro, so we're walking. And it's bitter cold. Now, you've got to picture this. I've got an overcoat. I bought the last overcoat available in the state of Florida because they don't sell overcoats in Florida. I was going to say, why not? It's about the composition of a windbreaker. Right. I thought I'd get clever and get a red MAGA tie. It's like a tissue paper. It doesn't keep my neck warm. So we're walking and we're walking and we're all of a sudden. And it's got you got picture this Joey Hudson, his wife, Peg. She's in a beautiful ball gown. She's complaining because it's cold as you know what. She's got her coat. She's shivering. Phil Boyce, our boss, he's marching along with his gray ski cap on and his overcoat that he ordered from Amazon because he's in Orlando. He couldn't find any overcoats either. So we're all moaning and groaning. And it's about a mile and a half, two miles in the cold, in the bitter cold. So along come two... foreigners on pedicabs you know what pedicabs are you know the guy with the bike the rickshaw the little rickshaw he's got a he's he's pedaling a two-seater and they stop and i wave them down i thought guys this is our an answer to a prayer and by the way those ain't cheap ain't cheap brace yourself So they buckle us in, and it's like the two brothers from Saturday Night Live. Remember the Steve Martin, Dan Aykroyd brothers? Were those the brothers? We are the wild and crazy guys. These are the brothers. They're our pedicab drivers, and they put blankets over us. I'm back in the thing under a blanket with my boss, Phil Boyce, Joey and Peggy. And the immigrants are taking us, the illegals, they're worried about getting deported, so they're already grumpy, and they're driving us. And, of course, they've got to blare the obnoxious music because those pedicabs, they put on music tracks. So we're in the darkened streets of D.C. with YMCA blaring out of our pedicabs, and I lean over to Phil, and they're taking their time. Now they're going to charge us by the minute. By the minute. By the minute. He says he's got a stopwatch. He's got a stopwatch, right? Well, he's taking his sweet time. I leaned over to Phil. I said, Phil, you know what this is going to cost us? He said, well, I'm going to plan on giving him a 20. I said, a 20? We get to the Salamander Hotel, and Raji and Gigi pull out their calculators, and they say, okay, that'll be $376. Now, I say to the one guy who's kind of the guy that can speak English, my guy can't speak English. The other guy speaks broken English. I said, is that for both? He said, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's for both. I thought, well, okay. So I walk away. Well, now he chases me down. He goes, no, no, no, no, no, no, both. $376 each.
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Yeah, he thought both meant, yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER 11 :
He thought both meant the two people.
SPEAKER 12 :
$376 for you? Oh, the two people in his pedicab.
SPEAKER 11 :
In his pedicab. No, no. But it didn't mean to. It was $740 to drive a mile and a half in two pedicabs. Now, Joey's arguing with him. I said, Joey. Oh, no. He said, this is outrageous. This is ridiculous. And I'm trying to get away. I'm thinking, we're going to get shot or stabbed. There's going to be an international incident. And all I want to do is get inside to the turning point ball and see the village people sing YMCA in person. And the final indignity, and we'll get off of this, the guy wanted a tip from Joe.
SPEAKER 12 :
Exactly. That's exactly what I was going to ask. Joey starts screwing up on top of $700.
SPEAKER 11 :
On top of $700. I can hear Joey bellowing in his unmistakable southern accent. A tap? A tap? You want a tap on top of $750? Are you out of your mind? And I'm just thinking, that's my night. This is it. This is a Gallagher production. So we made it inside. Now, it was pandemonium at the Salamander Hotel. The turning point ball, that was the ball, I guess. It was just chaos to get in. It was crazy. I have never... I'll tell you what, it was so overwhelming. Now, there was security to go through the metal detector. We were supposed to have a high-level ticket to get... No ticket. We got in without anything. They didn't ask for a ticket. They didn't ask for a name on a list. We just got, I mean, look, anybody, I don't, but I noticed that the guys doing security, I kid you not, for the Charlie, this shows you where Charlie Kirk is in the ecosystem, U.S. Secret Service. Hello. They had Secret Service guys doing the security. I mean, I've never seen anything like it. And, of course, let's get back to the big picture for a moment about the whole inauguration weekend. Mm-hmm. All this business of moving it inside, and there's a lot of rumors about why. I'm getting word from my sources here on the Hill, and these are congressional staffers, and even one particular member of Congress told me this doesn't have anything to do with the weather. It is not weather-related. There is a massive security concern about the safety and the health and the well-being of President Trump. And everybody who would have been attending today, and that's why they moved it indoors. That's what I'm hearing anyway.
SPEAKER 12 :
I'm going to hold that at a big arm's length. Because I think those who know ain't talking and those who are talking don't know, for the most part. What if it were 45 degrees and sunny? Going to move it inside then? Or is this just a, I mean, I'm willing to believe that the cold weather gives them an excuse to do something that seems like an extra safety move. I believe that. Well, wait a minute. So you're putting what at arm's length? You don't believe that? The notion that security is the main thing. It's 10 flipping degrees. People are going to have to be outside for five hours.
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It's 28 and it's sunny. It is sunny skies and 28 degrees with a light wind. There's a lot of hype about the weather. Mark, it was colder for the Obama administration. It was colder for JFK. Colder for JFK. Now, you know, I don't know. Look, we don't have to get hung up on this because what I don't want to do, and I walked into the studio today so angry at this pardon. I'm so upset about what happened. What Biden did, this evil, desperate act of of letting them get away with it. Fauci, Liz Cheney, the I didn't think he was going to do it. I didn't think he had the guts to do the gall to do it. Mark Milley, Fauci and the January 6th committee members, including Cassidy Hutchinson, that liar who who perjured herself. You did a lot of terrible. He he he's going to let him go. I'll get away with it. Liz Cheney. The only reason you look. They got away with it. But but here's what I don't want to happen. I hope Trump doesn't take the bait. I think it's an absolute troll move. It's to stick it to the the the the exuberance of today. It's to try to put a cast a pall over that. I hope Trump barely acknowledges it. And because, look, Mark, the great one, Mark Levin posted today on X. Once again, it's mourning in America. Finally, we take back our country from those destroying it. And we're talking to you, Anthony Fauci. We're talking to you, Liz Cheney. This is me talking. None of it would have been possible today without you, the American people, and the courage and leadership of President Trump, a historic and iconic person. Today is the long-awaited day. Thank you, our soon-to-be 47th president. God bless you and keep you safe. Let's remember that. I don't want to get, in fact, on the show today, I just do not want to get distracted by how angry and just enraged I am. That smirking Liz Cheney, to think that that bad person is going to get away with this, Mark.
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But does she? Because here's the first thing that occurs to me as the news of that hit my laptop. Fauci and Cheney in particular, I don't think anybody cares about Mark Milley, but Fauci and Liz Cheney in particular. Heavy iron doors were never going to slam behind them. That was never going to happen. Mightn't there have been some type of legal action? Maybe. But they are reputationally destroyed. The court of public opinion has rendered its verdict, and they'll always be welcome at Manhattan cocktail parties. But by and large, they are damaged goods for life, and I'm pretty good with it.
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Well, I get it. I guess that's that's that's a good way to look at it. And I'm going to try to hold that in my heart because I'm capable. I'm a petty, shallow, small, small man. Denise would say, you're a little man. I'm just furious. I mean, I can't I can't believe I really thought when we got to like yesterday and the day before, I thought, well, maybe he's not going to do it.
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We're in the final hours. He's not going to do anything. But what? No, he's. Yeah.
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Here we go. One last middle finger. And the timing is everything for him. They're doing it to try to cast a poll. And isn't it hysterical to watch their rage over TikTok? Think about this over the TikTok ban. 170 million American TikTok users were greeted to a message yesterday that said, welcome back to TikTok. Thanks to President Trump. Do you realize the goodwill? I mean, imagine that negotiation behind the scenes. Trump said, OK, I'll bail you out. But you make sure you send everybody a message because it was I've got a tick tock account. And I looked at the box and it says, thanks to President Trump's assurances that he's going to blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Tick tock is back. So young people are now saying, hey, way to go, Trump. Young people. I mean, the goodwill that he was engendered by this move. And they hate it. That's why they're furious. Because, look, he did an about face on it. It wasn't all long ago. He was saying it's got to be banned. In the first term, he thought the ban was possibly a good idea. And folks like Charlie Kirk are getting called out because they were calling TikTok evil and it needs to be banned. I've never, you know, I've talked about this a lot. We have. I've never been comfortable with a TikTok ban. I don't know how you do it. I don't know why you do it. I don't know why you shoot. Can't two things be true at once? Can we not put up guardrails to make sure that the Chinese are not spying on us and taking our data and keep the app running? Is there no way to do that?
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And if anybody's concerns are profound enough, don't be on TikTok. If you don't want Beijing, you know, knowing anything about you, even though the entire world knows everything about you already, then don't have a TikTok account.
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I said that over and over again. And then people get frustrated with me. But I keep saying that. Well, it's about my kids. OK, how about keep your kids off TikTok? Exactly. Be a parent.
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I'd laugh.
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For crying out loud, be a mom or dad anyway. But again, Trump today, he's expected to take over 200 executive actions on day one. Look, I settled into the hotel room last night after these balls, and it was fun. And, you know, the South Carolina ball was wonderful over at the Smithsonian. We were in the portrait gallery, and the band was playing, and everybody's a little cheery. cheering and laughing and smiling. Mark, this is so epic to get here after as hard as we fought. And I'm talking about you, Mark. I'm talking about me. I'm talking about our audience. We fought so hard in 2024 and look what we experienced and look what we achieved.
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Today is the payoff. It is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it. I am so glad that you are there. A final couple of minutes. What do you want from me from his speech? Remember his speech from 2017? It was critics, which we are always going to do, called it dark and foreboding. Well, it kind of was because he identified the various ways in which America and the world were mightily screwed up. And the first thing you've got to do to make a problem better is identify what the problem is. And he did so in and he didn't varnish anything. Oh, it's so dark. It was a wonderful inaugural address. First time. What do you look for today?
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Well, I believe he's going to, if the reports are correct, he's going to really stress unity. That's going to be a big part of the theme. He's going to say, you know, look, Democrats and Republicans, we all have got to get together to make this country great again together. He has the highest approval rating he's ever had in his life. He's about 60 percent. A lot of even a lot of Democrats are maybe silently cheering for him. We've got to we've got to turn this all around. We've got to we've got to close these borders. We've got to make groceries affordable again. We've got to be concerned about the Chinese. We've got to be concerned about the Middle East. Look at the Trump effect. And God bless them. There were three hostages who are now are now home. You know, that wasn't Biden had 15 months to do a deal and he didn't get a deal done. Trump got that done. So it's the Trump effect. I use that phrase, the golden era, a lot, but it's also the Trump effect. And I hope his message is going to be, and I hope he says it. We've got to roll up our sleeves. He's inheriting a mess. Let's not sugarcoat it. Biden is leaving him. Biden is leaving him with a dumpster fire, Mark. Good way to put it. But if anybody's capable of putting it out, it's our McDonald's fry cooker and our garbage truck driver. Exactly. And our chief firefighter, Donald J. Trump.
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I hope they drive that garbage truck out onto the floor of the arena today. We don't get a parade. Please give us the garbage truck inside the arena. That's hysterical.
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By the way, we're going to be carrying the inauguration on our show because of the timing and all that. We've got some weird, funky times with our show and your show and my show. And we're going to be live with the inauguration coverage here on 660 AM, The Answer. Can't wait. I got a report that somebody from South Carolina, program director, said, did they move the swearing in to 1140? Have you seen that anywhere?
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No. It's supposed to be noon, right? Oh, yeah. Straight up. I think that's kind of the rules. 11 Central.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah. We'll roll with the punches, and we're going to keep it right here all day.
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And I can't wait for tomorrow's Eminem segment, because tomorrow's Mike and Mark segment, we have a different president. Isn't that crazy?
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I'm still pinching myself. I love it. Let us rejoice and be glad. It's a big, big day. And I'm so glad. And you know what? I'm going to say finally, quick note personally. The only thing I missed last night was you. We would have had so much fun together. One of these days, we've got to do one of these epic events together because I was sending you pictures like a teenager. It was tremendous. I feel like I'm there. Well, I feel like you are there. Except I have feeling in my extremities. Yeah, yeah. And you're not out $747. Exactly. Wait till the bosses get my expense account.
SPEAKER 12 :
He's going to expense it.
SPEAKER 11 :
Oh, I'm going to turn it in. Of course he is. I'm going to turn it in. This may be my last day. Hey, I loved it. I loved the ride. I enjoyed working with you, Mark. Yeah, I'll be out. Chris DeGaulle will be doing middays. It may be the last Mike Gallagher show, but we're going to make it a good one.
SPEAKER 12 :
We're ready for you, buddy.
SPEAKER 11 :
I love you. Have a great time. Greetings from Washington. Okay, take care.
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Greetings from D.C. Mike is here for us on 660 AM The Answer.
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I am very excited. I have high hopes, and I see a very big light at the end of this tunnel.
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So there's a lot. Boy, yesterday was a historical day in so many ways. But I'm so excited for our young people, our children, our grandchildren. We've got a lot of work to do. And Donald Trump went to work on day one. Amazing. But check out the website. That is Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You'll get first look at our upcoming guests as well as our most recent essays. You can email me at Kim at Kim Munson dot com. Thank you to all of you who support us. And force can be a weapon policy, unpredictable and excessive taxation, fear, coercion, government induced inflation, the World Economic Forum's agenda, the globalist elites agenda. All these things are connected with the United Nations, the Colorado state legislature, the Colorado governor. World Health Organization, land use codes, zoning regulations, force fees, conservation easements, national monument designations, and the list goes on and on. But I think that we're going to be starting to see, at least at the federal level, some of those things being shortened up. And if something is a good idea, it does not take, you do not need to have force to implement it. We focus on the issues, not the personalities on the show. Certainly we'll talk about the people pushing these different issues, but that's where we want to be is to stay focused on that. Our word of the day is an interesting word. And it's eponymous. It's E-P-O-N-Y-M-O-U-S, or it could be an eponym. And it is of relating to or constituting an eponym, which we'll explain that. So it's named after something else or deriving from an existing name or word relating to an eponym, giving one's name to a tribe, people, country, and the like. And so one of the executive orders of Donald Trump is to change the eponym of Mount McKinley back to Mount McKinley. Barack Obama changed it to Mount Denali, which is the tallest mountain on the northern continent. 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They have beautiful portraits of valor of over 160 of our Medal of Honor recipients. We can take great inspiration from them. So it needs to be on your bucket list to go to Pueblo and visit the Center for American Values. And on Thursday, they're going to have a really great event and on values event. A presentation honoring the USS Pueblo, which was taken captive in the Vietnam War by the North Koreans, was held captive for a year. And Bob Chica, who was one of those crewmen, will be presenting down at the center. And it doesn't cost anything. You just need to let them know that you're coming. And you can get all that information by going to AmericanValueCenter.org. And this is what Audie Murphy said. He said, I'll tell you what bravery really is. Bravery is just determination to do a job that you know has to be done. And again, that is Audie Murphy. Since we are in the legislative session. We are moving into our bill of the day, and we really have a lot of work to do here in Colorado while we are so excited about what is happening at the federal level. Colorado is being controlled by extreme radical activist progressives down at the statehouse and also in the governor's mansion. And so we have much work to do here in Colorado to reclaim Colorado. And because of the work that we're doing at the Colorado Union of Taxpayers, we will be keeping an eye on all the legislation and taking positions on bills as they affect taxpayers, property rights, school choice. Tabor, and I'd really encourage you to join us. It's only $25 a year or $2.08 a month. You will receive hours and hours of analysis on things that are happening down at the Statehouse. And we send an email each week, try to get it out before they get into committee hearings on Monday. and with different positions on different bills. And if you'd like to get that, join us, $25. 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This was the first bill that was heard in the Senate. And we are a no on this at... the Colorado Union of Taxpayers, and this is our position on it. And it says, the bill was written by the unions, not the workers and employees. This is payback to the unions for their political support and takes away the voices of many workers. A second vote should be required. And they also stuck on there the safety clause, which the safety clause should be used very seldom. And they've tapped that onto a number of things. What that means is, is that we, the voters cannot review it. And so we are at no on that, but want to keep you informed on what's happening down at the state house. So we here in Colorado. have much work to do. I think the big news of the day, and we'd like to say thank you also to the Harris family for their goal sponsorship of the show. We are an independent voice, and we're independent because of all of our sponsors, all of your support, sponsors such as the Harris family. And we need to have our independent voices out there so that we can really know what's going on. I made a note on some of the different... executive orders, and there were a lot of them, watched the speech. And this is what he said that he would be doing. And he did, in fact, do that a little bit later. The speech, watching some of the evening shows, some said that it was one of the Best inaugural speeches ever, which that's pretty amazing. But he got right down to business on day one. So first of all, he said he was going to revoke 80 of Biden's executive orders. Next was putting on a regulatory freeze, which that will help right off the bat. with businesses, have a hiring freeze of new federal workers, and have federal workers go back to in-person work. The 88,000 IRS agents that were hired under the O'Biden-Harris administration, it sounds like he's going to do something with them. He said they really should go to the border. So I don't know for sure what's going to happen there. No tax on tips. Every member of his cabinet will be working to defeat inflation, this crisis that we have, everyday people trying to afford life and get us out of the climate accord. And so he did that. He let the United Nations know that we were also getting out of the Paris Climate Accord as well. Right. Restore free speech, no censorship and an executive order against the weaponization of the government against political opponents. Now, this is so interesting. As Donald Trump basically was speaking, I guess it would have been right before Joe Biden pardoned his family. his two brothers, his sister, brother-in-law, I think a sister-in-law. And you have to wonder, why did he pardon all of those family members if they hadn't done anything wrong? And of course, that's along with the other pardons that we talked about yesterday of the people on the J6 committee, like Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger and Adam Schiff and General Mark Milley. Anthony Fauci. If these folks had not done anything wrong, I'm not sure why they needed to be pardoned. So I think that people that may even be watching mainstream media may be starting to hopefully scratch their heads. And I do not want our government, no matter who is in office, to be using the government and weaponizing that against political opponents. Now, I do think that justice should be served, but weaponizing the government against political opponents is not okay from no matter what side of the aisle that you're on. The other thing that he did was he pardoned or commuted sentences for over 1,500 of the January 6th prisoners. And just think about this. How is it in America – that we could have people accused of a crime, they're supposed to have a swift and speedy trial, that here it is four years after the fact that they were still being jailed or under house arrest, whatever. And so this is monumental that he has done this. And I think it'll be interesting to start to hear the stories of and the experiences of these folks. And so that is pretty amazing as well. So we have much to be grateful for here in America. This is the third founding of our country. And when I say we were made for this moment in history, I'm not kidding. We are at a historical time. And we can't let one day go by without doing the hard work that was done before us beginning in the Revolutionary War to pass liberty on to the next generation. Now, we've got our work cut out for us here in Colorado because the government has grown so big at the state and the county and the local levels. And it's going to take some real work to get this government back into its proper role. But now is the time. We cannot tarry. We have to get up each day and do the work that needs to be done. And one of the first things is to understand what's going on, engage in the battle of ideas, which is what we do every day. 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Welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is kimmunson.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at kim at kimmunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. Coming in on the text line, first of all, Gammy, she is very busy. She's already reviewing bills as well. And she said she'd written up Bill's commentary on the one that I just mentioned, Senate Bill 005, and also on Senate Bill 003, which I need to check and see which one that is. Coming in also from Connie, she says we need to withdraw from the World Health Organization. She's spot on on that. And then let's see here. This is from Dave. He said, I spent time in the Air Force under Presidents Carter, Clinton and Obama, but I also had Reagan as commander in chief. Your producer should feel good, should feel great. I felt good emotions yesterday that were buried for too long and I cried tears of joy. And that is from Dave. Okay, Kevin Lundberg is on the line, and he's a former state senator. He's the author of the Lundberg Report, and we're going to be having him on every Tuesday to talk about what's happening down at the Statehouse. Kevin Lundberg, welcome to the show.
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Well, thank you, Kim. It's great being with you, and I'm looking forward to, as we engage in the battle with the Colorado state government in this most difficult Refreshing political environment nationally.
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It was pretty amazing the first day of Donald Trump's administration. And the executive orders, I would really prefer that we do not govern by executive order in our country. But as one of our listeners, I think it was Susan maybe said yesterday earlier, Right now, we don't have time for Congress to be rolling back the executive orders of Joe Biden and doing things to get this government back in the box that it needs to be. So it was a pretty amazing day, Kevin Lundberg.
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Right. And if you, you know, oftentimes when a new president comes in, everybody's kind of wondering what they're going to do. Well, this particular gentleman said, We've already seen what he did for four years. And despite all of the, you know, the left that that he's, you know, acting like a dictator or something like that is the exact opposite. He only exercised the powers that he constitutionally possessed. And, you know, when we talk about executive orders, he is the chief executive and he does need to. orders, you know, to say, do this, don't do that, et cetera. That's all appropriate and good. So long as you stay within the box of your constitutional definition, if you're trying to replace Congress, you're doing the wrong thing. But at this point in time, what he's doing is he's trying to replace Joe Biden's terrible decisions with good ones. You know, you mentioned the withdrawing from the world health organization. I understand he did that. Uh, And tightening up the border. He has that responsibility to, you know, to direct the immigration. Actually, how does it say? Well, he has the responsibility to protect the border. I'll just leave it at that. But let me say one more thing, too, and that is you mentioned somebody compared this, his coming into power to when Ronald Reagan assumed the presidency. And there's so many parallels, all the way down to the hostages are being released, you know, because that's what happened when Reagan came in. Iran understood that he meant business, and so they cut a deal right then and there. which was pretty much what Hamas is doing with Israel. Now, I understand there are a lot of problems with the deal that's being struck, but nonetheless, that was an interesting parallel. Here's another one that I hope we don't repeat, and that is when Ronald Reagan was elected, everybody breathed a sigh of relief, and went home and expected that he was going to get the job done, despite the fact that he didn't control Congress. And I think we set ourselves up for failure at that point. I really appreciate what you've been saying. However, in this go-around, we need to understand that the work has just begun, not only for us here in Colorado, where there's a lot of work that needs to be done, And we'll get to some of that a little bit later on, I presume, today. But the national scene needs a lot of curing, and he can't do it on his own. He barely holds control. It really isn't that way. You know, the majority... functioning majority within the Senate is 60 percent, 60 senators, not just 50 plus one or 50 plus the vice president, as Joe Biden had had to deal with as well. But and that's good. It's good that the Senate has that that balance. So the minority can can hold the reins back a bit. But but Trump's got a Herculean job before him. And he will, what shall we say, he will be doing all he can, but we need to do all we can as well. And that's at every level. You know, you can't fix it, neither can he, but together we can tackle it.
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Well, that's for sure. And coming in from a number of listeners, yes, you're correct. I just looked at this. Trump did withdraw from the World Health Organization as well. That is huge because there's been talk that there might be another pandemic out there. So this is huge that he has withdrawn from that as well. Kevin Lumberg.
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Yeah, he's doing all again. I mean, If you listen to his inaugural address, he laid it on the line. He didn't just paint it in pretty platitudes that everybody can kind of shake their head and say, yeah, that sounds like a decent idea. No, he took it apart piece by piece by piece. It was somewhat entertaining because of the way it was structured, the set up they had for his speech had Joe Biden right behind him where you can – You can kind of watch his reaction or non-reaction, and that was mostly it. As most of the room is just going wild over most of what he said, you know, here's Biden kind of holding his hands in his lap because if he knew what was going on, and I'm afraid to say that that's a question mark there. Trump was basically turning around and saying, you blew it, Joe, and we're going to do everything we can to undo it and fix it because we've got to get the job done. If we are to survive as a prosperous nation, it is so far down the wrong road. I mean, there's lots and lots to be done.
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There is lots and lots to be done. Now, this is coming in on the text line, and I'll have to check this out. It says that she's heard that in D.C., Susan said, in Texas prisons they're refusing to release J6ers and that she'd heard that Lauren Boebert had to step in and have Colorado release a J6 prisoner that is in Colorado. This is the thing that I am very concerned about, and that is at the local and the county and the state level, there are people in place that will do everything they can to thwart this agenda issue. And the agenda of Donald Trump is individual freedom and liberty and prosperity for everyday people. And then I just saw another headline that said that Chicago was not going to assist in ICE deportations. Now, these are criminals. Kevin Lumberg, these are criminals. And that seems like one of the first places to start. If you have come here and you are a criminal and you are bent on trying to hurt us, you shouldn't be here. And that seems like, to me, every reasonable person would think that that makes a lot of sense, Kevin.
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Well, it does, and it's kind of curious the way you worded that. You said these are criminals, and I immediately thought of the officials refusing to cooperate. That could be criminal as well, and I'd tell them they'd better be pretty careful and watch their P's and Q's because we need to hold those who have power in those various areas we need to hold them accountable to what the law says and if if they are defying the federal government in in a very reasonable and lawful fashion in other words if if the demand is uh this person in this case has been duly pardoned by the president now act on it And in the case of Chicago refusing to cooperate with ICE, I am confident that Trump will direct his people everything they can to hold these people accountable. And I think, you know, I mean, obviously we've got a real struggle because the deep state appropriate term for all those who want to fight against what he's doing. I haven't heard anybody come up with an actual argument that, no, no, no, we need to keep these criminals here. And understand, here's the role ICE plays. It's not while they're in prison. It's when these criminals are released to go back into the public. And So, yeah, this is so obvious that ICE needs to be engaged in every one of these situations. You know, there is a high percentage of illegal aliens who are in the Colorado prison system. Now what are they going to do? Somebody suggested something to me. I don't recall where it came my way, but they said sheriffs, you know, at the county jail level, if the state of Colorado is not going to cooperate, maybe the sheriffs need to release their illegal alien Denver specified location, like maybe the state capitol building. And, you know, maybe ICE needs to just set up a permanent location or maybe, you know, at a specified time, if a county sheriff can't cooperate for some, you know, bureaucratic reason, he needs to just take those prisoners and let them go right where, right at the front door of ICE. There are a couple of ways to get around this.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, that's for sure. We're going to continue the discussion. There's so much happening right now. And, of course, with the Trump first day in office, he was ready to go. And talk about organized and precision and knowing what he's focused on. It's pretty amazing. So we're going to continue the discussion with Kevin Lundberg, also what's happening here in Colorado. And then there's something very big happening with Protect Kids Colorado that you will not want to miss. And before we go to break, this came in from Susan. This was a – it must have been a tweet or something. It says, earlier this evening, a family member who was waiting outside the prison in Fremont County was informed that the prison staff were hanging up on them when they attempted to make calls on behalf of their family member, Lucas. So the family member was able to contact Brandy Bradley, House Representative for District 39 – here in Colorado. She contacted the prison, was told by a staff member that Lucas Denny would not be released until September 25th of 2025. So Representative Bradley told him that the president had pardoned him and Lucas Denny is to be released immediately. She then contacted Lauren Boebert's team who stated that they were going to contact the governor. Representative Stephanie Luck was also contacted. and less than an hour later contacted and told that lucas denny was being processed for release and thank you to brandy bradley and also to representative lauren bobert and representative stephanie luck and this is a good time to mention the colorado union of taxpayers our event legislative kickoff will be on thursday night here at the Colorado Automobile Dealers Association. Tickets are just 10 bucks. And we will be honoring our cut warriors and guardians and champions. And we will be awarding both Representative Stephanie Luck and Brandy Bradley with awards. And so we'd love to have you join us. They're gonna be there and would love to have you join us. You can get more information by going to coloradotaxpayer.org. That's coloradotaxpayer.org. And all this happens because of sponsors. And for everything regarding residential real estate, reach out to Karen Levine.
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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMunson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. I'm just looking at, this is from, I think it's Reuters, reaction of, I have this in air quotes, world leaders to Donald Trump getting us out of the Paris Climate Accord. Of course, all of the people that I see being quoted there have been at the trough getting all the money that's been going to the Green New Deal, which the Green New Deal is all the money that's going into these people's pockets. But I talked with a friend yesterday regarding our documentary, A Climate Conversation. She said that she thought it was one of the best documentaries regarding this subject. Just good, good questioning, good experts and scientists. And so be sure and check out A Climate Conversation dot com and then also our great podcast series. Anything else? Kevin Lundberg. Kevin Lundberg's on the line. He's the author of the Lundberg report. Also, he is a former state senator. Anything else regarding Donald Trump's first day in office? Because we have other things to chat about.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, yeah, let me just build a little bit on on the whole climate change arguments, because here this is both sides are predicated on very, very different views. different set of facts, shall we say, or assumptions is more accurate, I think, on their side, because all of this rush to fix the climate has to do with this presumption that, A, carbon dioxide, human anthropogenic, human-produced carbon dioxide is bad, and don't fix it, the world's going to end. Well, I've been, you know, we've all been hearing this for about 35 years now. And at first it was, you know, like 2020 was going to be a terrible time. Well, here we are, 2025. And what do you know? I don't see a whole lot of global warming going out around here right now. I think it was 11 below or colder in my house. but you know, I know you can say, well, that's anecdotal, but the fact is things have not changed in the dramatic fashion. They said that, you know, all of these things are happening. And what Trump is doing is he's saying, he's kind of ripping the mask off and saying, no, it's not. So, and that's, that's what your documentary, a climate conversation, uh, says in, in a very eloquent fashion as well. Uh, it's obvious that we're up against a real battle of those who are just convinced that this is, this is the absolutely imperative. You know, this is the existential challenge of our culture is, is getting rid of, which, which is a complete portion. That's what, that's what I've started to do in my newsletter is to just call it for what it is, which is, and, and, I'm expecting a battle, but I also note that during the presidential election, the left did not bring up climate change as a big issue. And that's because they know, because they do a lot of careful polling, and they know the people just don't buy it anymore. So as much screaming and gnashing and yelling you're going to hear, and especially from our governor here in Colorado and his party, they know that the people are not with them. We have figured it out, thank you. So has Donald Trump, and he's acting the correct way.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, yes, and I didn't get through a lot of this day in history because yesterday was a historical day. But I do like to pull out some of these weather events. And back in the 80s, the narrative was that the climate might freeze. And so 1937, negative 45 degrees in Boca, California. In 1943, this is interesting. In Lead, South Dakota, the temperature is 52 degrees Fahrenheit, while 1.5 miles away in Deadwood, the record was negative 16 Fahrenheit. I find that hard to believe, but that's what On This Day had. And then in 1985, a cold front strikes the U.S. in at least Forty Dye, negative 27 degrees Fahrenheit in Chicago. And so the climate is always changing. And when we're looking at these temperatures right now, I would like a little bit of warming. And the other thing that I think is so important is I am so grateful that I'm able to control my own personal climate when it's negative one outside that I still have a warm house. And that has been under attack. Excel is in bed with this This Colorado governor doing his bidding and this legislature, their bidding. And Excel said that they had increased natural gas prices for heating our homes during this coal snap. And there's been this war on natural gas. We talk with Bob Boswell about it on a regular basis. We are sitting in Colorado on top of all kinds of natural gas. But from a legislative and regulatory standpoint, this governor, this state house, is doing everything to keep it in the ground instead of us having it, exploring it, developing it so that we can control our own personal climates, Kevin.
SPEAKER 11 :
Oh, absolutely. And here's a point that I... Definitely commend President Trump for doing it. President Trump, that sounds good. Anyway, he appointed Chris Wright, his energy secretary. And Chris Wright is from Colorado. He's the CEO of Liberty Energy, and he's an expert on natural gas issues. I was talking with another gentleman, John Harpoe. a friend of mine whose business has been natural gas, and he was telling me that actually if you look at the natural gas situation worldwide, it is at a critical, critical point where we need much more natural gas just to feed people because that's what's used as the core component for the fertilizer that grows – props worldwide that the problem is natural gas has become so expensive in europe in asia you know prices gone up a little bit here but it's multiple times that elsewhere they said farmers cannot afford the fertilizer anymore he's concerned that we'll have uh we'll be seeing famine shortly if we don't ramp up the production of natural gas to drive the price to a reasonable level where people can afford to use it, not just for heat, but for food. It's vitally important, and I can't think of a better person to be spearheading that than Mr. Chris Wright, who is a You know, going to be on the job pretty quick. We probably already is, even though he hasn't been approved by the Senate yet. But I expect that that he's a good choice for that. And because he's from Colorado and has as an ongoing business concern here in the state, I think he's going to figure out how to how to fight against our governor and and his administration. terrible ideas to not allow this vital component to be used, not just here in Colorado, but nationwide and worldwide.
SPEAKER 12 :
So, Kevin Lundberg, let me make a note on this so that I don't forget. Let's go to break. And I just want to talk about federal funds. And also, we've got to talk about Aaron and John Lee as well. And it always goes so quickly when you're on the show, Kevin Lundberg. And these are such important discussions, and we have them because of our sponsors. And if you are looking for a new mortgage, second mortgage or reverse mortgage, be sure – Whoops, hold on. I guess I got myself mixed up here. And that is John Boson, and Boson Law is a great sponsor of the show. If you've been injured, reach out to John Boson.
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and welcome back to the kim munson show be sure and check out our website that is kim munson m-o-n-s-o-n.com sign up for our weekly email newsletter you can email me at kim kimmunson.com as well thank you to all of you who support us we're an independent voice we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force force versus freedom if something's a good idea you should not have to force people to do it do check out the usmc memorial foundation which is a nonprofit that I dearly love and support. And they are raising money for the remodel of the Marine Memorial. And it is so important that we honor those that have given their lives, been willing to give their lives for our freedom. And you can get more information by going to usmcmemorialfoundation.org. On the line with me is Kevin Lundberg. He is the author of the Lundberg Report. You can find that at KevinLundberg.com. He's a former state senator, has a weekly call, a very important call, and then also great information in his weekly newsletter. One thing here, and lots coming in on the text line regarding this whole immigration thing, but First of all, I think we need to wean our local, our county, and our state governments off of federal funds. All these federal grants that are coming down, and it was pushing a number of different agendas in the education system. And I think we need to, I think that would be a good start to getting government back in its proper role is to wean ourselves off of all of this federal money. And one of the first things I think should happen is any of these states such as Colorado that would not institute getting rid of DEI in our school districts are not adhering to Donald Trump's immigration agenda. I think that they should
SPEAKER 11 :
use the purse strings and not send any money to these states and other jurisdictions what do you think well that's a good start yes actually though to fix the bigger problem which is a spending problem at the federal level they need to stop sending a whole lot of funds to the various states and let states sort out how to manage their their affairs in you know Education, transportation, so many areas that really responsibility of the state, not the federal government. You know, that's going to be a huge part of the mix that will fix the spending problem. If we can't get that under control at the federal level, we have severe problems continuing on as a prosperous nation. But yeah, let's start. Let's start right there. Say if you can't, because there's going to have to be a little bit of a process. I've seen suggestions that they take the federal funds and put them in the block grants. Well, yeah, but put them in a block grants that are going to shrink pretty fast everywhere. Let's start shrinking it right there.
SPEAKER 12 :
I think so. I think so. So next thing, and we haven't really talked about any bills, but we've got to talk about Aaron and John Lee and what is happening today. And Aaron had texted me and said they're going to have a presser at noon down at the, I think, the courthouse. I've got to check and see exactly where that is.
SPEAKER 11 :
I can tell you exactly where it is because I'm bringing the sound equipment. Okay.
SPEAKER 12 :
And I'm planning on coming down.
SPEAKER 11 :
Excellent. Excellent. Well, dress warm. It's going to be an icy one. The only place that they allow us is on the sidewalk in front of the federal courthouse building. And so we'll have that at noon. Hopefully the case will have been heard at that point because the purpose is to let the attorneys say, this is what we've done. This is what we observed. And to give John and Aaron a chance to respond. There are two families that are actually named in the suit, and if they want to say something as well. It's a very pivotal point in their lawsuit against the Poudre School District for doing what they did to their daughter. And if you want to know more about that, well, I've got a documentary. It's called Art Club. You can find it at artclubmovie.com. Let me jump back one thing to legislation.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, let's get that address. Do you have that address handy?
SPEAKER 11 :
I don't.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, I'll get that and I'll share that in the next hour.
SPEAKER 11 :
And understand that it's going to be kind of a cold vigil time. out there, so I don't expect people to show up before noon, but that's when we've got the press conferences scheduled. But let me double back to some legislation because, yes, the legislature has been going on for a couple of weeks, and as of last Friday night, there were 130 bills that had been introduced, and I snagged what I consider the worst and the best. I have that up on my website on the Lundberg report. But there are three bills that really stand out as being really bad, dangerous ones. And you mentioned two of them, Senate Bill 3, Senate Bill 5, and then Senate Bill, let's see, I believe it's 45. Three is the one that takes away, that really attacks the ownership and the manufacture of semi-automatic firearms. And it's such a broad stroke that that a lot of handguns and a lot of rifles are contained within this. Now, it's not an outright ban of ownership, but it's an outright ban of buying, selling, or manufacturing. So it's meant to really go after it. That's Senate Bill 3. Senate Bill 5 goes after the balance we have in Colorado between a right-to-work state and a union state. It's taking apart a very delicate balance that was established many, many years ago where Colorado doesn't have quite the union woes that you see in other states. Personally, I'd like us to be a right-to-work state, but anyway, this one goes the exact opposite direction. And I think it's very significant. Any bill that's within the first ten numbers is one that leadership – Specifically said, this is important. This is part of our agenda. And then Senate Bill 45, a bill that takes us one step closer to a single payer medical system in the state of Colorado, which is just an absolute terrible idea. But they're pounding away at it. And believe me, the proponents of it are pretty proud of their bill. It's a study, I think, on the implications of that kind of a structure. And I know how they play the game. If you can't get a bill, a big idea passed, well, you pass a bill that says, well, let's study it. And then you sort of fold it into the system so that a few years later when they come back with their results, they're like, well, yeah, I guess we have to pass it now. We have to make it law. That's what they've got in mind. And Believe me, we've just seen the tip of the spear right now. I'm sure that there are a lot of other terrible pieces of legislation. Now, there's also some great legislation out there that asks this legislature to do the right thing. It's our friends down on the Republican side, and they don't have a very good prospect of getting things passed, but they're out there swinging, and they're showing what ought to happen.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, and again, you highlight many of those good bills as well. And 1040, adding nuclear energy as a clean energy resource. 1051, love this, repeal the recycled paper carryout bag fee. 1055, repeal firearm dealer requirements and state permit. This criminal asset forfeiture, which is 1067, is important. And this 1068, malpractice ensures gender-affirming care for minors. If a doctor engages in this, as you say, this is quoting you, horrific medical practices, the doctor should be legally responsible for the results. And malpractice insurers should not be required to carry insurance for such practices. So, yeah, there's some good stuff there. We're just about out of time. How would you like to wrap all this up, Kevin Lundberg? And again, you and I will be having this conversation every Tuesday in the first hour to keep people informed on what is happening here in Colorado. I think Colorado is at the tip of the spear of this fight with the radical activist extremist agenda. And we are committed to when we reclaim Colorado, then that's going to be a really great thing, Kevin Lundberg.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, I would like us to think and work toward that goal of letting the people of Colorado know that current administration here in this state, in the legislature, in the governor's office, and for that matter, in the courts, is on the wrong track and out of step with really where the nation is moving right now. And I see every prospect. I mean, I've never been as encouraged with our political direction as I am today. I remember back when Ronald Reagan was elected, I was actually living a little short while in Santa Barbara, which was kind of his hometown at that point in time. And boy, was everybody excited about what was happening. But This is more so because I think we have incredible opportunities. I see a real movement of change. We've got to get Colorado engaged in it, and that happens through what we do every day here. So keep it up. You know, all our hard work in the last few years has finally come to some real positive results, and I'd say congratulations. Let's fully engage in this process here in Colorado. If we can fix it here, we can fix it everywhere.
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absolutely kevin lundberg so i will see you a little bit later today and uh thank you so much our quote for the end of the show is from medal of honor recipient audie murphy he said the true meaning of america you ask it's in a texas rodeo in a policeman's badge in the sound of laughing children in a political rally in a newspaper and all these things and many more you'll find america in all these things you'll find freedom and freedom is what america means to the world and to me So today, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you. God bless America. And stay tuned for our number two.
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That seems to me like government is establishing a religion. If you give people rights, women's rights, gay rights, whatever, there can't be equal rights if there are special rights. Surveys show that people still really prefer freedom over government force.
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Is it freedom or is it force? Let's have a conversation.
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indeed let's have a conversation welcome back to the kim munson show at hour number two and thank you so much for joining us you're each treasured you're valued you have purpose today strive for excellence take care of your heart your soul your mind and your body my friends we were made for this moment in history and thank you to the team that's producer joe producer luke rachel zach echo charlie mike theresa and all the people here at crawford broadcasting happy tuesday producer joe happy tuesday kim And you had a thought regarding Donald Trump's executive order. Let's see. Let's see. No, changing this. This is to the Colorado State Legislature. Potentially good bill with designating nuclear energy as a clean energy source. And during the break, you said that that is really huge, Producer Joe.
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Yes, ma'am. We thought nuclear power was going to be dangerous, but with the pop-up of all these mini plants and stuff, it kind of creates checks and balances for the electrical grid. Because if one's working at its high time and storing that energy, and then during the low times we can use natural gas and then kind of supplement in between with the nuclear energy, generally speaking, we'd stop completely having brownouts.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, well, that's good. So you find that as a good bill here down here at the Colorado State Legislature. So we'll see what happens with that. Just great conversations, big day in, really, I think it's the third founding of our country that we are in right now. And there are factions that do not want this third founding to be successful. And those are the radical activists that are in control and many at the local level, the county, the state level. And so we have great and tremendous amount of work to do in our own communities to reclaim our state and to. to implement this vision that Donald Trump has for America. And when he basically said that he would fight for us, that he would fight for America, he would fight for our children, what more could we want? And so we have to make sure that we do our part as well, because we are at a critical time in our country. And so all this happens because of our sponsors. And one of our great sponsors is Hooters Restaurants. They have five locations, Loveland, Aurora, Lone Tree, Westminster, and Colorado Springs. Great specials for lunch Monday through Friday and also happy hour specials. But they really have great fish and chips. I've not had them, but some of my colleagues have fish tacos. And it's just a great place to get together with friends. So be sure and check out Hooters restaurants. Our quote for the show, I went to Audie Murphy. And, of course, this is a good time to mention the Center for American Values. which honors our Medal of Honor recipients with their beautiful portraits of valor. But they also are doing these great On Values presentations, and they will be having one of those this Thursday, the 23rd, 4 o'clock. And normally there's the presentation and then a nice reception afterwards. And just let them know if you're planning on attending. And they're located in Pueblo on the beautiful Riverwalk. And the portraits of valor of our Medal of Honor recipients is so inspiring, and it's really a reverent place as well. So Audie Murphy was a Medal of Honor recipient, probably the most decorated, enlisted recipient. soldier in our history. He was born in 1925, died in 1971, and he said this. He said, I'll tell you what bravery really is. Bravery is just the determination to do a job that you know has to be done. Again, that is Audie Murphy. Our word of the day relates to eponym, or it could be eponym, I think. Of course, the word, actually, the way you You pronounce eponymous. Sorry, I'm thinking out loud now. Let's go with eponymous. It's E-P-O-N-Y-M-O-U-S. And it could be relating, named after something or deriving from an existing name or word. and could be giving one's name to a tribe, people, country, and the like. And so I thought it was eponymous that Mount McKinley is going to be renamed Mount McKinley. Of course, when Barack Obama was in office. He changed the name to Mount Denali and it's Mount McKinley again because of the executive order of Donald Trump. And so eponymous is spelled E-P-O-N-Y-M-O-U-S. And you should be able to figure out how to use that in a sentence today and impress your friends and family on that. Let's see here. We talked a lot about these executive orders of Donald Trump, really rolling back a lot of the terrible things that the Biden-Harris administration had put into Into place. And so yesterday was it was really inspiring. You can see how and why Donald Trump is was so successful as a businessman. He has surrounded himself with people to do a job. He's explained to them what their mandate is, what they're supposed to get done. He trusts that they will go to work and do that on day one. The executive orders that they had ready to go was amazing. And one of the... hosts on one of the evening shows last night said that I think Donald Trump got to the White House by, it was about 7.32 in the evening. And so he had started the day much earlier, and of course then they had all the inaugural balls as well. And of course, Melania Trump, is she not just so drop-dead gorgeous? And Anyway, it was a long day, and I'm pretty sure that they have gone to work again immediately today. But it was the latest that a president had gotten to the White House in history, is what this host said, which meant that Donald Trump was out there doing so much work. I also love the fact that they ended up having the inaugural parade at the Capital One Arena So all of these people and these young people and these bands and all of them that had come to the Capitol to perform, they figured out a way to make that happen, which I think was really much safer. than having that inaugural parade outside. And then Mary had sent me a great meme yesterday, I mentioned it on the air, that Donald Trump, with these cold temperatures across the nation, with one fell swoop, he's really punched a hole in this. I'm paraphrasing what Mary said, but punched a hole in this whole thing. global warming argument. And it is pretty chilly across the United States at this particular point in time. Let's see. I think that, I think really, I think we're all just so excited about what is happening in our country. And I really am excited. There is this however, and that is as the president of the Colorado Union of Taxpayers, which is an all-volunteer group that is watching legislation, we issued our first email regarding our positions on different bills that were scheduled for hearing. And I really laud the team for their good work on this. And the Senate changed the calendar on us a little bit. Things that I thought were going to be heard this week ended up getting changed to next week. So I moved the analysis for those bills to our next week's email. But I realize that as exciting as this is at the national level, that the The radical activists, extremist progressives are doubling down in our school districts, in our local government, our county government, and our state government. So we've got to be really engaged in all that is going on with all of that. So let's see. There was just a few little text messages that I wanted to get to here. This is from Holly. She said, I wonder if Trump plans on doing executive orders now to get things moving very quickly to turn this country around and then go through the legislative process. I don't know. I think and she goes on to say, I think he knows that it's not a good idea to run the country with executive orders. He probably he felt that he had did not have the choice because of all the damage that's been done in the last four years. And yes, there's been a lot of damage that's been done regarding through executive orders by the Biden Harris administration. 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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMunson.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues. Through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom, if something's a good idea, you shouldn't have to force people to do it. And pleased to have on the line with me Darlene McCormick-Sanchez, and she is a reporter with the Epoch Times. She covers border security and immigration, election integrity, and Texas politics. And she has written, I guess several of you have worked together on these executive orders that Donald Trump signed yesterday. Darlene McCormick-Sanchez, welcome to the show. Hi, thank you for having me. And boy, yesterday was quite a day, yes? It certainly was.
SPEAKER 04 :
It was a flurry of activity.
SPEAKER 12 :
And you have a piece that was published at the Epoch Times regarding these executive orders. And it's pretty remarkable. I think we're going to reclaim America with the presidency of Donald Trump. But border and immigration is one of your specialties. And he has an executive order on that. What should people know about that?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, yesterday there were 10 key executive orders that he signed surrounding border security. The most important takeaway of the whole thing, I think, is that he declared a national emergency at the border. And that actually paved the way for the military to be deployed there.
SPEAKER 12 :
So I saw different news reports that people that were on the other side of the border in Mexico, and he has the Remain in Mexico executive order as well, that they were crying and, of course, they didn't like that. But all of these things are super important. And do you think also that we will have people that will be – self-deporting themselves with the Donald Trump presidency?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, I think that's an interesting point. There was in one of his executive orders, there was a mention in there of, you know, Homeland Security doing what it could to encourage people to, you know, self-deport that are here illegally. And I'm sure, you know, that there's going to be, you know, most of the people that are here illegally probably aren't going to leave because, you know, they realize the manpower it would take to remove, you know, some 11 million illegal immigrants that have entered the country in the past four years. Now, the border, you know, Tsar Tom Homan, his focus is going to be, of course, criminal, illegal aliens, you know, the gangs, Trinidad, other, you know, criminal elements that have set up shop here in the United States. So they're going to be going after those first. Second, they're going to be going after those who already have deportation orders by judges that are basically just hanging around. So they're going to be going after those. There's also measures in there to create holding centers, authorization for that to build them, and to arrest and deport illegal aliens. Okay. I don't think we're going to see, let's say, folks that came over here 10 years ago, if they came illegally, then yes, there could be that possibility they could be removed. But I don't think you're going to see that as much as you're going to see them focusing on some of these recent provisions. For example, all the people that came over on these parole programs that ended up, Haitians, Venezuelans, They ended up in towns like Springfield, Ohio. That was a big deal. That program is going to be stopped. In fact, I think it was stopped yesterday. And once you do that and they no longer have status here, then they can be deported as well.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay. Now, this came in on our text line. We were talking about some of these executive orders in our first hour. And this listener said the church that they go to has been informed that the bishop here in Colorado has encouraged all priests to harbor any illegals who come to the church for help. The listener said, I guess they're willing to be arrested. So what do you think about that, Darlene?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, you know, Tom Holman has been very clear about what he's going to do. So authorities do not have to aid ICE in going after and trying to detain some of these illegal immigrants. mainly like we were talking about criminals. I don't know why they would want to harbor a criminal. But if you actually stand in their way of, you know, getting someone and taking them into custody, then, yes, you could be charged with a crime. And Tom Herman said exactly that. You know, he warned some of these, you know, some of these mayors in blue cities and said, look, you know, If you stand in our way, that is obstruction, and you will be arrested. So he made it very clear. You know, in the case of a priest, you know, it really doesn't matter who it is. If you obstruct, if you try to obstruct them, then they certainly have the ability to charge you with a crime. Now, not cooperating is different, and that's where, you know, the line is drawn. You don't have to help ICE. Governments don't have to, you know, city governments. You know, they say, and part of their argument is, look, we've got enough on our plates. ICE, you've got to do your own thing. But, of course, we all know that really it's very little effort if they, you know, like a city or a county already has someone in jail just to hold them so ICE can pick them up once, you know, they're up for release.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, and that seems like that's the place to really start is people that are criminals. We certainly want to not have them here. It's crazy that they got here in the first place. And Trump has said, for example, Venezuela, that they had cleaned out their prisons and those people had come here. And that that ultimately makes us less safe here in America. And so I think they're probably going to focus on criminals first, which, gosh, darling, I got to think everybody would would could be on the same side of the table on that of deporting people that are criminals. I find it hard to believe that we wouldn't have 100 percent agreement on that.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. You know, actually Tom Hillman has been on TV and, you know, talking to the press and saying, why would your leaders want to Harbor criminals or, you know, not cooperate in removing criminals from the community? I mean, some, some of these, you know, some of the stuff's going on here, you know, they've been actually like, you know, tying people up, um, you know, uh, beating them, harming them, threatening their lives, things like this, just like you would see in a movie. So these are not the kind of people you want around. So I can't imagine them actually not cooperating with that. But apparently that is what some are saying they're going to do. They're just not going to lift a finger, which, of course, endangers communities. So, yeah, I think to me that I don't understand that, you know, but that's exactly what they're thinking in some of these blue cities.
SPEAKER 12 :
And executive orders, we really don't want to be governed by executive orders because we can have someone that is in the office and does executive orders that we think are a good idea that will help the American people. And then we have those then that could be in office that don't. For example, on this day in history, I pulled this from On This Day. In 2021, U.S. President Joe Biden signed 15 executive orders on his first day in office, including the U.S. rejoining the WHO, affirming the Paris Climate Agreement, revoking the Keystone XL pipeline, mandating masks on federal properties, and halting construction of the southern border wall. So our listeners said that really – He says we have to do better than executive orders. They're too easy to change when the next administration comes in. This really should be up to our elected representatives, right, Darlene? But my gosh, Congress moves so slow.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, that's been the problem. I mean, there's been such gridlock in Congress. And, you know, hopefully some of that will ease up now since, you know, the Republicans have control, even though it's just one majority, you know, in Congress. And, of course, they have the Senate. But I think you will start to see some things move. The Republicans have to stick together in the House, or you're right, it's going to be gridlock again. I think some of the executive orders that he did come down with, some of them are pretty creative on the border. For example, he actually is going to be using a 200-year-old law 1798 alien enemies act so i think by combining you know the legislature working to change some of these you know dynamics at the border along with his executive orders i think you're going to see a huge um you know it's going to make a huge difference at the border i mean it already has i mean like you mentioned there were people crying at the border they said wait a minute um you know they were using the uh CBP app and had an appointment and they went to look at their phones and to check on their appointment and said, sorry, they've all been canceled. The app is no longer available.
SPEAKER 12 :
And that brings up a really interesting point about people having those appointments and also having cell phones down there. And who is organizing that? There's been a lot of organization in all of these illegals coming to America. And I don't think that we've talked about that enough in our conversations, Darlene.
SPEAKER 04 :
I have actually, last year, I... went to Panama, uh, to the Darien gap, which was, which is basically an, uh, a highway for migrants, uh, wanting to come to the United States illegally. So we went down there, we went into, um, some of these migrant camps, uh, you know, they're in the jungle and talk to these, uh, people coming in. And we looked at how this is happening because it was, it's basically an industry. And, um,
SPEAKER 12 :
Hello? Whoops. We had one little technical difficulty. So you said that you'd gone to the Darien Gap and talked to these people. What did you find out?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, basically, you know, when we went down there, we saw all these NGOs. One even had up a map, you know, showing them where they were at. You know, it was in Spanish and English and how they can go to different areas where all the bus routes were. centers that would help them, you know, with food and shelter along the way. You know, it was almost like a travel agency. Honestly, it was. And the United States was paying for the majority of it through grants to these NGOs. So our taxpayer money was going to NGOs, which they in turn were using it to facilitate illegal immigration, mass migration to our southern border.
SPEAKER 12 :
Did you name any names of those NGOs when you were writing your pieces?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes, and we tried to speak with them. A big part of this, too, is the United Nations. We're funding them, too. So this entire process has been funded, a lot of it, by U.S. taxpayer dollars. But some of those NGOs, one was HIAS. They were a big player there in the Darien Gap process. It's actually Mayorkas, I believe, used to be on their board. And, you know, the previous Homeland Security Secretary. And so, you know, a lot of money went to them. One of those maps down there, as I was mentioning, was, you know, produced by them. And how do you spell that? H-I-A-S. It's kind of like a... That's what they're called. It's an acronym, but nobody uses it. It's like the FBI. Everybody just says the FBI.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, okay. Super interesting. I'm talking with Darlene McCormick-Sanchez. She is a reporter with the Epoch Times, and they have a really important piece regarding all of these executive orders that was just published. And I did want to talk with her about Homeland Security, Kristi Noem and her nomination and her hearings as well. We will do that when we come back. And for that steakhouse experience at home and a great protein source in your diet, be sure and check out Lavaca Meat Company.
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welcome back to the kim munson show be sure and check out our website that is kim munson mon son.com sign up for our weekly email newsletter you can email me at kim kimmunson.com as well thank you to all of you who support us we're an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force force versus freedom if something's a good idea you should not have to force people to do it You know a non-profit that I dearly love and support is the USMC Memorial Foundation. The official Marine Memorial is right here in Colorado. It was dedicated in 1977. Paula Sarles, who is the president of the foundation and her team, are working diligently to raise the money for the remodel. of the Marine Memorial and get more information and put that on your list to make sure that you support this year. That is the usmcmemorialfoundation.org and make this remodel a reality. I'm talking with Darlene McCormick-Sanchez, who is a reporter with the Epoch Times on a number of different issues, but one of those is the border. And we were talking about these executive orders and The Congress moves slowly. And Darlene, I have great listeners. And this listener, Susan, said Congress was designed to move slowly so that laws wouldn't swing wildly one way or the other. But what's happened is legislators have become power hungry and money hungry, and it clouds their decisions. And the American people have paid the price. And the American people, many of us Americans don't have an understanding of our founding constitutional principles. So we've got a real opportunity now. I've said, Darlene, that I think we're in the third founding of America. And it's a real battle of ideas that we're engaged in. And you guys at the Epoch Times are doing great work in it.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, thank you so much. You know, I tend to agree with you on that. And the reason is, you know, like if you – You were saying, you know, people don't understand a lot of them, the founding of America, you know, what it was really about. There's been a lot of, you know, pushback about, you know, America itself, that it's, you know, evil and bad and it was founded on, you know, bad ideas. But if you really look and look at the history of America, you will see that it is exceptional. It is one of a kind. It is something that has endured for roughly 250 years. But if you look back at history, most democracies – when I say democracy, I mean a republic form of government, even though there were a few pure democracies in history. But if you look back at it, a lot of them end up dying at around that 250-year mark. And so I think this is kind of like what you were saying, a renewal. It's like, you know, America had to choose to pass this past election. And whichever path they chose would be probably the direction they would end up going and would determine its outcome, you know, years in the future.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, and there's not a lot of time because we have another election for the House of Representatives in two years, and so we really have to go to work on all of this. Now, also, you had published this piece last week. Kristi Noem had her confirmation hearing as Homeland Security Secretary, and you'd written a piece, Five Takeaways, regarding that hearing. So what should people know about that, Darlene?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, I think, of course, the main focus is the border. She is going to basically be there to help facilitate everything that's going on with the border to shut it down. She's going to be working with the Department of Defense, actually. in terms of trying to secure it. One of the executive orders was to actually focus, make it the focus, the military's job was securing our border. And that, of course, will funnel huge resources to the border. The military may itself actually be building the border wall. And so you can imagine that would be a lot quicker than trying to get a contractor out there to do it. So that sort of thing, I think, is you're going to be seeing. And I think it's going to be something to behold, really.
SPEAKER 12 :
I think it will be. I hadn't even thought about the military building that. But, gosh, that makes a lot of sense to make that happen like that. And that would speed things up significantly. Is that the proper role of our military to do that? Is that out of line or is that unique to have that happen on American soil?
SPEAKER 04 :
It is unique. And it The reason is, I mean, it's not something that hasn't happened before. And like I said, it's tying into the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, which basically allows the president – they've used it a few times in history – expel basically enemy combatants. So if the United States is threatened, if they feel it's threatened with an invasion, that term has been used a lot concerning the border. And that term has actually triggered some of this by Trump saying this is an invasion. That will help with the Alien Enemies Act where you can just expel people that are enemy combatants, like Trinidad. I mean, I'm not saying that they're going to be going around, you know, grabbing folks off the street, but, you know, those type of people, they are going after them. And there will probably be some raids today, and they're going to deport them. So, yeah, I mean, in the past it has happened. It hasn't been that frequent. It's been about 100 years ago, apparently, since we had troops on the border like this to really secure it. So I think, though... It's necessary because, you know, President Trump declared a national emergency. And I think most people, you know, who have been paying attention to this would agree it is an emergency. It's like we're, you know, we're being overrun. You know, so many people coming in. So, yeah, I think it's rare, but I think it's probably something that's going to work.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay. So, uh, any other takeaways regarding, uh, Kristi Noem? And then, uh, I have some other questions for you on a couple of other things that are happening.
SPEAKER 04 :
Um, you know, she didn't get a lot of pushback. I was kind of surprised. Um, she didn't. Um, so I think that, you know, her confirmation, whenever it comes up, uh, that she's, she will get confirmed without, you know, a lot of descent. Um, she, uh, you know, was saying that basically the Democrats were pushing her during the hearing to say, you know, what would you do if, you know, President Trump tells you to do something illegal, which, of course, they've done that with most of their, you know, that has been their line of questioning with most of these nominees, nominations for, you know, these different cabinet positions. So, you know, You know, she was like, well, that's a hypothetical. And, you know, they would talk about things like that, you know, of course, trying to elicit whatever response they were looking for. And, you know, she basically said, I'm not playing that game. I mean, that wasn't a quote, but that's, you know, basically her, you could tell, you know, her stance was, look, I'm here to do my job. I'm going to follow the law. And, you know, I'm going to do what I'm directed to do, you know, legally. So I think, you know, she's going to be a good Homeland Security secretary.
SPEAKER 12 :
So and what does this these confirmation hearings look like? What's your ear to the ground? Are these going to be held quickly so that everybody's in place or what does that look like?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, right now they're trying to get some of these, you know, key positions, getting them confirmed, you know, Department of Defense. Homeland Security, Secretary of State Marco Rubio just got confirmed. So, I mean, they're trying their best, or Trump is, to get these folks through. Now, of course, if there's, you know, Marco Rubio, he sailed through and he got Democrats voting for him as well. I think there wasn't any that voted against him. I think it was unanimous. So he had a good day, obviously. Others, I think you're going to see some more pushback. So there might be some sort of wrangling behind the scenes as to how we're going to get this particular person through this. You might see some of that, but I think for the most part they're going to get through. It's just a matter of trying to schedule them and move them through the committees and then get them up for a vote.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay. And then this just came across the wire from USA Today. It says the ACLU has filed a lawsuit against Trump's order that seeks to end birthright citizenship. And we've kicked around that issue extensively. And my understanding, I talked to some experts on the Constitution, that regarding birthright citizenship, it's really of the allegiance of the parents, what country they have allegiance to. And so if, in fact, somebody came from a different country and are a citizen of a different country, then they have allegiance to that country, not to America. So those children would not have actual birthright citizenship. Your comments on that, Darlene?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes, I think this is one of the more interesting executive orders that he did. And he did talk about it, of course, during his campaign. And it's all hinging on the 14th Amendment, the part that says all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States. So what that is, the subject to the jurisdiction thereof, that is. you know, the part that he's hanging his hat on, so to speak. Because he, in Trump's, you know, what his argument is, is that they are really not, it's the same thing as what you were saying, basically. They're really not, you know, part of the United States because they were here illegally to begin with, let's say. And then they're here illegally, they get in illegally, and they have a child. So if the mother or father wasn't here illegally, you know, legally, then how could the child be here legally? Although they were born here, that's the argument I think that he's trying to make. And it's definitely going to go to court. As you just mentioned, I expected that I expected lawsuits on pretty much all of these, um, Some have already been litigated, but a lot of them, like the birthright ones, the novel ones that are coming up, I think they'll be litigated, and most of them will win. This one, if it goes all the way to the Supreme Court, that then will be very interesting because then they'll either go along with this idea that not everybody that is born here is a citizen, or they'll reinforce previous Supreme Court decision that made it kind of the law of the land. And this was back in 1898, a Supreme Court case, United States versus Wong Kim. And the high court ruled that children born in the United States to immigrant parents are citizens. So it's been a long time since it's been before the Supreme Court. So this could be coming up perhaps in the next few years.
SPEAKER 12 :
Super interesting. Darlene, this has just been an excellent conversation. I've learned so much. Any final thoughts that you'd like to leave with our listeners?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, I think that besides this focus on the border, I think you're also going to see Trump get back to some of his campaign promises on the economy, working to get oil going again. doing away with some of the green energy because what Trump says, which makes sense, of course, is that if we drill more oil and we get that into our pipelines and supply ourselves with gasoline or at least bring the price down on the market through more production, then that is going to ease inflation itself. So I know that's really not our topic, but I think that his two areas, that he's going to really go after are the border and the economy. And that's what he promised. So I think that's what folks should be looking out for.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, Darlene McCormick Sanchez, this has been super interesting. And you can find her at the Epoch Times. She's a reporter who covers border security, immigration, election integrity, and Texas politics. Those are other things I'd like to talk with you about at some point in the future. So, Darlene, thank you so much. Thank you for having me. And, boy, these are important discussions, and they happen because of our sponsors for everything mortgages. Reach out to Lorne Levy.
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Last night, I was on a chat with a man named Viva Fry, V-I-V-A-F-R-E-I. You can find it on Rumble and YouTube. And Dr. David Clemens, the Let My People Go movie man and fighter for the J6 prisoners. Yesterday, President Trump, as you know, signed the executive order releasing 1,500 January 6th political prisoners. What happened last night was sad because a few people were let out here and there, but a lot of them were told we don't have the time to process. And after nine hours of waiting on the freezing streets of D.C. outside of the D.C. gulag, the police lined the runways, pushed all the people back that were waiting for the prisoners to be released. And one of them was Jake Lang, who was on the phone with his girlfriend. And he was telling her he was assaulted and they weren't going to let him out that night. And what they didn't know was it was televised. So all of us were on the chats for hours and hours. And finally, we started texting all over Trump news, Trump, you know, Twitter, everywhere, saying, hey, they're not letting them out after hours. And I know they need help. But it was only 20 guys there. In Littleton, there was only two. In Fremont County, there was only one. You don't need 20 hours. You need a couple of hours, legitimately. But the travesty of it was They didn't want to believe that Trump had signed the executive order in some cases. They claimed to not be informed. Look, we know that the government and the D.C. gulag set up, and the Democrat Party, set up the whole J6 debacle, not the Trump, you know, patriots. But that's only a small part of what happened last night. As we watched our system fight to get stable— All over our nation, as these executive orders are being laid out, people are so elated, they're prayerful. The J6 1791 stormtroopers went to the gulag in D.C. every night for 900 days to pray with them, along with Dr. Clemens' prisoner's record. Every night they prayed with whichever prisoners could get on the chats or, you know, wherever they were. Do you realize the momentum of patriots that have supported the political weaponization of all of us? It's been tragic. And then you add to it the elation I have with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Pam Long, and everybody, Sandy Marecki, fighting to show the COVID mess. All of Children's Health Defense Fund's VAX, V-A-X-X-E-D, you can Google all this, movies, documentaries, and thank you, Dr. Fauci, will blow your mind. It's free, either Rumble or YouTube. These are free, and our legislators need to know this, along with the medical annihilation and mutilation that our Denver legislature is allowing to our children. You're not even fully grown mentally and physically till mid-20s. And last night, I called both of Governor Polis's numbers. and asked him to free Tina Peters if she was locked up for nine years for trying to protect election records while the Secretary of State was destroying them with bios, passwords, and disinformation and dishonorable. Why is she in prison? This is such an egregious, horrible thing. So our governor needs to get on the right side of history because it's all being exposed and he needs to stop supporting the World Economic Forum.
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good and so gammy good points on all of that she is so well informed and also she she really uh she walks her talk she's already written analysis of the senate bill 003 which is the the assault upon our second amendment rights and also the one that we mentioned today regarding unions on senate bill 005 and so she is so informed on On all of this, I'm going to get to some of these text messages. This is from Jenny. She said Michael Yon brought the Darien Gap Migration Highway to light. And she said that Lutheran Family Services and Catholic Charities were part of those NGOs as well. And what has happened with all of these government grants and to the point that Darlene had made is that our money, so it's either our taxes or the money that has been borrowed, which our children will have to pay, that has been given out as government grants to these NGOs stands for non-governmental organization. that would basically kind of do the bidding of that administration. And this is super interesting that Darlene had uncovered that Mayorkas, who was our director of Homeland Security, apparently was on the board of, she said it was HIAS, I'm going to have to check that out, that was very involved down at the Darien Gap. And so the person that's supposed to be in charge Handling our homeland security was also on the board of an organization that was receiving government money to bring people to America illegally and do this invasion. We are very blessed that the Biden-Harris administration was defeated by Donald Trump. And we have to do our part now, my friends, because those that at the local county and the state level are going to be doubling down. We in Colorado are at the tip of the spear for everything that is going to occur. We're doing our best to keep you informed on everything that is going on so that we can take action on that. And so we will certainly continue to do that here at the Kim Munson Show. and also with the Colorado Union of Taxpayers watching legislation. So be sure and join us on that. Noon today is the presser regarding John and Erin Lee and this other family that had filed suit against the Poudre School District with what they had done to their children. And so that's super important as well. And I plan on being there at noon. I know it's going to be cold, but you can join us down there at District Court. And our quote for the end of the show is from Audie Murphy. He said this. He said, the true meaning of America, you ask. It's in a Texas rodeo, in a policeman's badge, in the sound of laughing children, in a political rally, in a newspaper, in all these things and many more. You'll find America in all these things. You'll find freedom and freedom is what America means to the world and to me. And today, my friends, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, and strive for high ideals like Superman's stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you, and God bless America.
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Talking about freedom Talking about freedom I will fight
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In today's episode of Dana Lash's Absurd Truth Podcast, we delve into the quirky and bizarre world of Florida's own misadventures, featuring a peculiar bag that failed to hide its secrets. Discover the unusual tale of a Florida woman with a not-so-subtle canvas bag and a bold misdemeanor. Packed with humor and sharp observations, this story is sure to leave you both bewildered and entertained. But that's not all. The episode takes a critical turn towards influential discussions on pardons granted to high-ranking officials and their ensuing ironies. Through Dana's insightful commentary, listeners are encouraged to reflect on the layers of power and the political fabric that continues to shape the narrative. Join us for a rollercoaster of laughs, critiques, and truth-telling as we navigate these absurd realities.
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It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man.
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All right. So first up, the last time we had a story like this, it was a dude. Now it is definitely not a dude. It's a chick, a Florida woman who got arrested over the weekend because police found drugs in a bag labeled definitely not a bag full of drugs. It was a little canvas bag with a black zipper. And in black writing, it says in cursive, definitely not a bag full of drugs on the side. So guess what? There were drugs in the bag that said there were no drugs in the bag. In fact, it was trafficking amounts of methamphetamine. Yeah. Possession with intent to sell all kinds of other stuff. She had to post this woman. What is her name? I was so busy looking at the design of the bag. Let's see. This Florida woman, Taryn Ackrey, at the center of all of this, they conducted a traffic stop and that's when they caught it. But she posted a $15,500 bond. That's the bag that Juan is showing you on the simulcast if you're watching. Definitely not a bag full of drugs. Look at her face. The face is her reacting to the narrator going, there was meth in the bag. trafficking amounts of meth in the bag. I mean, if I'm pulling you over and you already seem sus and you have that in your, you know, tote, definitely not a bag full of drugs with meth. Yeah, yeah, I'm pretty sure. So they've charged her. And yeah, there was Narcan, needles, meth, all the stuff to use, I guess, to... divide up the drugs right I don't know like those little accessories I don't know where you get those the drug accessories you just chop up your drugs with I don't know and that was all in the bag with the meth so yeah she in trouble I don't know a lot about the drug stuff I just I don't know everything all I know is that Miami Vice they did a lot of cocaine and I all I know about drugs are from Miami Vice and cops and so I just assume you chop everything up or it's in crystals right I don't know sure Sure. A woman claims that her murdered husband fell on a hidden cane blade during a diabetic episode. Yeah, so like he was having a diabetic episode and he just happened to fall down on a giant blade. And it came, the folks who helped bring you the program. It's our friends over at All Family Pharmacy. This is such a great service. You need to memorize the website. They make it so easy. All Family Pharmacy helped my family out a lot over Thanksgiving because, you know, right on Thanksgiving when offices are closed and you end up getting sick, it's just, it's a mess and you got to get medicine. All Family Pharmacy made it super easy. And you can visit allfamilypharma.com slash Dana. Use code Dana and you'll get 10% off of your entire order. So this is affordable access, easy and cost effective for medicine. You don't have to break the bank to access these medicines. There's no red tape. There's no hassle. Everything's made in the USA. You're not getting Chinese antibiotics. 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They're trying to guard against what they claim might be potential revenge from a Trump administration. Right. Rich coming from an administration that was nothing more than an extension of Obama that that actually weaponized government agencies to target people in a vengeance campaign. The irony of irony is right. And then one of those, Anthony Fauci, John Carl, who works over at ABC said, He spoke with Anthony Fauci and says Fauci said he's grateful because of the threats and possibility of a politically motivated prosecution creates a measurable and intolerable distress on me and my family. End quote. He was given a preemptive pardon. He I mean, it's not. And he says that he didn't seek it, didn't want it. But note that Fauci is not turning it down. He's not turning it down. The. This is why people don't like Anthony Fauci. Anthony Fauci thinks that he is the second Jesus. Anthony Fauci thinks that he is the second Messiah and that he is performing such a great sacrifice. I've never seen such a sacrifice make so many millions of dollars for someone as Anthony Fauci has made off of this gain of function research. And when he talks about the immeasurable and intolerable, quote unquote, distress on him and his family, I want you to think for a moment. of the immeasurable and intolerable distress that was put on the families of those who had to say goodbye to their loved ones behind glass walls in hospitals because Fauci's recommendations for dealing with the Wu flu wouldn't allow them to be there at the bedside of their dying relative. I want him to talk about, I want him to consider the immeasurable and intolerable distress that was placed on a friend of mine that had to choose between her and her brother to be there as their father passed away. And then which one of them was going to be able to be graveside to bury him? You know, because the regulations that Fauci recommended. Or what about the immeasurable and intolerable distress that was put on another one of my friends who had to delay her cancer treatment because everything was shut down due to Fauci's recommendations? My friend is fighting breast cancer, and she had to delay all of that because of Fauci's recommendations. Or about the people that we know that were dealing with fertility issues that had to put behind their hormone shots so they could try to conceive naturally as best as they could because all of that was interrupted by Fauci's recommendations. What about all of the kids who missed birth? Crucial years of development because they were forced to stay inside for 15 days that turned into two years thanks to Fauci's recommendations. If you want to have a discussion about immeasurable and intolerable distress, you absolute corrupt son of a bitch. That's sickening. Anyone should be dragged into jail in chains. It ought to be Anthony Fauci. And I hope Trump learned his lesson by listening to him. Because none of that is worth going through again. None of it. And this guy's pardoned. Why does he need a pardon? Why does Fauci need a pardon? General Milley, the guy who sat there, you remember the book that he was reading? What was that book, Kane? Something about white privilege or something like that? Understanding white privilege? I don't know. Why is he pardoned? Why is General Milley pardoned? What crime could Milley have undertaken that he would need a pardon? He is a general. He is in charge of our charge of our military. I don't I. I don't think that General Milley should be pardoned, and I don't think that he should be allowed in any power, make any office of decision making ever. If you need a pardon, you shouldn't be allowed to command troops. If you need a pardon like Milley needs, apparently you shouldn't be you shouldn't be allowed to call the shots when it comes to putting our loved ones in harm's way. Because they don't get a pardon. But you do? Hell no. There are service members that have the books thrown at them for less than probably now what Milley's being pardoned for. But he gets a pardon. Unreal. I want you to count the number of medals that are on General Milley's coat. And then you count the number of medals that General Patton wore. He had tons of them. But he didn't wear them. Because he didn't need to brag about himself every time like some kind of North Korean officer when he went in public. I question those people that wear all that metal and they got some baby hands. Smooth skin. Why does he need a pardon? I got a lot of questions. A whole fam damley of Bidens are pardoned. All of them pardoned. Isn't that unbelievable? I mean, and they all get the date. It's all everything. All anything committed from January 1st, 2014 to the date of the pardon. I mean, it goes all the way back for all of them. Fauci, the Bidens, everybody. Interesting that, isn't it? Interesting. But I thought none of them were guilty. I thought it was just all Russian disinformation and the audacity of them to say that they are the ones who are worried about vengeance. They are the ones worried about vengeance. Unreal. It is a big week and we're not just talking about Inauguration Day. Kel-Tec has officially unveiled their brand new pistol, the PR-57, and it's causing a huge buzz. Over a million views on the release video already. And you need to see why. Visit keltecweapons.com slash Dana today. Right now. Check it out. It's the Kel-Tec PR57. It's a revolutionary compact concealed carry pistol chambered in 5.7. It's ultra-lightweight, 20-round capacity. And here's what's the kicker. It's a unique top-loading design. It's slim, simple, and practical. You're not going to have a magazine. In fact, the PR57 loads directly into the grip. It's a rotary barrel design, and it reduces weight by 40% compared to the other 5.7 millimeters on the market. And it's not just innovative. 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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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Florida Highway Patrol's issued a safety advisory ahead of an incoming storm. They're expecting freezing temperatures in Florida. Perfect, right? Oh, let's see. Staten Island groups are using flower power against New York City speed cameras. Nobody wants this intrusive, intrusive spy government. They're taping fake flowers in front of the in front of the cameras. That's actually hysterical. I love it. So good idea. The this let's see. OK, so apparently a Jefferson County and this is in our county that we grew up in. Yeah, it's Missouri's Jefferson County. Missouri Supreme Court suspended a Jefferson County prosecutor, assistant prosecutor, his license indefinitely for a prank that he did. And the prank was when an assistant public defender left the room, this prosecutor went on that person's laptop and used their email to send the sheriff an email saying, quote, you look so good in khaki pants and that black shirt. Oh, no. That ended up getting the guy fired. And they said you had access to confidential information. That's what they were alleging. And so, yeah, he ended up... That's like one of the industries in which you can't really do that kind of stuff. You shouldn't, you know, you shouldn't do that sort of stuff. uh also let's see uh this is oh check this out bear county jury found finds this guy 100 negligent because he served what they said was dangerously hot barbecue sauce and i swear i heard a ton of you out there right when i said sauce go yeah it's not hot until i try it and say it's hot because i know you people you know those people they they'll sit there they'll eat a whole bunch of ghost peppers and sit there and they will die before they sweat to death
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Spicy hot, not temperature hot?
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I don't know. Bill Miller Barbecue has been ordered to pay $2.8 million for serving dangerously hot barbecue sausage. Spicy? Is it? I don't know. A San Antonio woman sued him. She said it was hot and it gave her burns. Spicy and it gave her burns. I'm like, well, what? Like, what in the world? Okay, I don't know. When you get hot food, you have to assume it's hot, and when you're getting something spicy, you have to assume that it's spicy. You know what I'm saying? Okay, people are dumb. Ooh, a ski lift collapsed at a Spanish resort. I'm not a big skier. I don't like snow. Apparently, the ski lift just totally collapsed, and it hurt 10 people pretty badly. Two of them were seriously injured. Okay, we've got to watch Audio Soundbite 14, because Tabra is melting down, because you have... Musk, Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, all the tech bras, the techocracy that's there. Honestly, sidebar, it's like a Warhammer thing where you're going in and you're talking to Hadron. So the Hadron juniors are all there. Listen to this.
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Anderson, between those four people, plus Elon Musk from Twitter or X, those five people that I just mentioned, the four in the photograph and also Elon Musk, control so much of the information that we receive. So much is in their hands when it comes to ascertaining, monitoring, or refusing to monitor what is real, what is not real. And we're about to enter an era of deep fakes and all sorts of misinformation. And the degree to which those five gentlemen play a role or do not play a role will be pivotal in terms of where the American people are.
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Okay. I am... Can you just want just just the screen cap of that last image that you had up there, the full screen, the CNN screen, because there's so many things in here to remark on. You have Jake Tapper freaking out about the tech bros. Right. Do you see the little black line up at the top where it says gives you the time and it tells you where everybody is? St. John's Church. Now, can correct me if I'm wrong, which is a rhetorical device. I'm not wrong. Is that not the church that the left tried to burn down? Is that not the church that CNN, the network whose screen is right there, they were trying to say that everything was mostly peaceful and at first they didn't even report on that church burning down?
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The very same. Huh.
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Imagine that.
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Weird.
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It's kind of weird, isn't it? I mean, they're worried about deep fakes and misinformation. Like, I don't know. What do you mean? Misinformation like, oh, I don't know, Russian collusion? misinformation like the laptop that had Hunter Biden's name on it and it was Hunter Biden's is not Hunter Biden's? That disinformation? I'm curious. I mean, now suddenly after they're not committing it they think everyone else will i don't know i am just floored all of a sudden these people are like wait a minute the things that we've been doing all of these years they may do well we have to talk about the threats of what they may do that we've done all these years it's only a threat if they think the right is going to also do it that's just crazy crazy Yeah, they are very upset. Van Jones is upset as well. I've not seen him this mad since he was mad over somebody telling him that 9-11 was a terror attack. Audio soundbite 15, you know, because he thought it was fake.
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I kind of hope I'm miserable. I'm sad. I'm frustrated. I'm mad at everybody. Thank you, Scott. Thank you. Look, I appreciate what you're trying to do, reminding us that we're supposed to. Look, if you're a progressive or a Democrat right now, if you're watching television, you're watching it probably with some substances, because he's going to unleash this blitzkrieg of attacks on everything we care about, immigrants, clean energy, and nothing we can do about it but watch this stuff. So I appreciate you, but I'm miserable and I'm upset. And I know you're going to say something, Scott, that's going to make me more upset. Go ahead.
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No, I'm going to make you happy because, A, we're going to cut your taxes, too.
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And we're going to cut your taxes on top of it. Amazing. So that's, you know, I'm actually, I'm excited for that one. But they're losing it. And then you have AOC losing her mind. Audio 7 by 13. She's losing it.
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Well, we are on the eve of an authoritarian administration. This is what 21st century fascism is starting to look like. Republicans really model themselves after Orban's Hungary. And so you can look to see how Viktor Orban runs Hungary to get a taste of how they will try to govern and control Hungary. media, and companies in the United States.
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You look how I feel.
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Oh my gosh, she's making me do this. Every time she talks, I just, my whole face, my butt revolts. First off, she has no idea about Viktor Orban. She doesn't know anything about Hungary. And not everyone on the right subscribes to that. She just read a story probably somewhere. And now in her little feeble progressive mind is like, oh, the whole right's going to be like Viktor Orban. If it says that somebody here is talking to Viktor Orban, then the whole right's going to be like Viktor Orban from Hungary. And I'm going to, with that, demonstrate my knowledge of knowing foreign leaders. It's the only foreign leader I know. Because she wrote a piece about it. It's so stupid. No, the United States is not seeking to model itself after Hungary. Hungary is trying to model itself after the United States. But there's a lot of big government stuff that they're doing that the United States doesn't do, that the right doesn't actually support. So her argument is probably as bad as her drinks are. That's why she couldn't cut it as a bartender. So she decided to go into the world's oldest profession. No, not prostitution. That has more respect. Politics. So they're just big mad. Big mad. You... I noticed that Karen Pence and Michelle Obama weren't there today. Yeah, that's weird. Mike Pence was there. And then Barack Obama was there. Michelle Obama wasn't there, nor was Karen Pence. Interesting. Very interesting.
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As Donald Trump takes his oath once more, seize the opportunity to delve into the heart of American politics on this remarkable inauguration day. From heartfelt moments on Capitol Hill to controversial executive orders, the landscape of political discourse is set to change dramatically. Join us for a detailed analysis as we navigate the changing winds of policy and governance, with both anticipated and unexpected developments that promise to engage listeners and spark debate. Don't miss this crucial dialogue on the shifting tides of leadership.
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Please raise your right hand and repeat after me. I, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear. I, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear. That I will faithfully execute. That I will faithfully execute. The office of President of the United States. The office of President of the United States. And will to the best of my ability. and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. So help me God. Congratulations, Mr. President.
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And so it begins. The next four years of a brand new administration and what you're watching occurred just moments ago, just moments ago after Trump took his oath of office for the second time. It is Inauguration Day, and there is a lot of stuff to cover. And we're going to be covering a lot of this live. And so there's going to be moments of the radio program where you're going to be, you know, maybe watching some of the stuff that, you know, the parades and stuff. Because you still have the inaugural parade and then there's all kinds of stuff to get into. So we're going to be taking a lot of it live and just offering commentary during those portions. But we've got a lot of stuff, a lot of behind the scenes stuff, things that, you know, you maybe aren't aware of just yet. I mean, we and we got some gossip. So we're going to dive into everything. But what you're watching there is history. You're watching history being made. And you can see in the video that Juan has the number of, I mean, who's who. I was trying to do the math of the billions of dollars that were on stage with Trump, with the tech bros, because there's a lot of them. But we're going to get into all of this because there's a lot to discuss. And we've got executive orders coming. And we've got pardons. So I know. Wait, not Trump's. No, no, no. Biden's last minute pardons. Wait until you hear who is being pardoned. We're going to dive on all of that. We also have coming up. We're going to speak with Steven Yates regarding all the TikTok stuff because TikTok back and forth over the weekend. It's just a lot. We have a lot to get to today. And we're happy to be here. So welcome. It's good to be with you, Dana Lash, here with you. And we are at the top of this very first hour on Inauguration Day. And the, I mean, where to start even? First off, let's go back. Biden's two words to Trump were welcome home because you know they do this whole thing where you have the first families that come in and they, you know, the outgoing president invites the new president in and they do this like coffee and tea thing in the morning and then they ride together, which has to be incredibly uncomfortable. They ride together to the Capitol or where, you know, now because they moved this inside, they ride to where the Capitol is and It's very, I can't even imagine what it was like in that car because Jill Biden is not having it and Melania Trump is used to not having it. So first two words were welcome home is what Biden told President Trump when he met him and First Lady Melania Trump there at the White House. They walked up the stairs. They shook hands. They posed for photos, according to lip readers, because they have a whole lineup of them. They were joking about the weather. And both Trump and Biden told each other that they were freezing. And. Then he led everybody inside. Biden did. And it's interesting. Interesting. So this and I and I have to say we're going to there's so much to get into. So that's the first thing that happened. The second thing is that now we know that there are going to be more than 200 executive orders signed on day one. Now, my hope is that these aren't just going to be executive orders. My hope is that this is leadership with legislation and that we maybe you bookmark it with the executive order now and then you can. pass the legislation, et cetera, do what you need to do later. And I mean, that's the hope anyway. 200 executive orders that are going to address border security, DEI, and energy. And we're going to get into those as we become more aware of the specificity. It's being called an omnibus of executive orders. Each of them contain dozens of executive actions. So we're going to follow up on that because that's expected immediately. Now that he is officially in office and now the president once again of the United States. Now, a couple of other things to note as well, because you have all of the previous presidents that are there. You you have the entire Trump family there. They're there, obviously. Just tons. You have you. I mean, Jeff Bezos, Altman, Elon Musk. I mean, everybody is, you know, billions of dollars. There are 200000 people that were expected to go out to the Capitol. But because of the cold, they moved everything inside. I wanted to ask really quickly, Steve, you're in D.C. Tell us about the cold.
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It's freezing. Yeah, it snowed yesterday. And then this morning, everything is a sheet of ice. Thankfully, I can take the train into work. But yeah, it's nuts. It's the wind chills in the teens.
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Welcome back to the program. We're doing it a little bit differently today because it's Inauguration Day. The president's speaking live. So while he's speaking live, we're going to bring you some of that address in progress. But then we've got a lot of other stuff to get to once he concludes. So it's already in progress. We're joining now.
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...institutional federal efforts to restrict free expression. I will also sign an executive order to immediately stop all government censorship and bring back free speech to America. Never again will the immense power of the state be weaponized to persecute political opponents. Something I know something about. We will not allow that to happen. It will not happen again. Under my leadership, we will restore fair, equal, and impartial justice under the constitutional rule of law. And we are going to bring law and order back to our cities. This week, I will also end the government policy of trying to socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life. We will forge a society that is colorblind and merit-based. As of today, It will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female.
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We have a lot more on this as the president gives his first address since swearing in. We're going to carry it live. We're also going to tell you the pardons that just dropped. Biden just pardoned his entire family. And waiting to you hear about Fauci's pardon, the language in that. we have a lot stick with us because this ain't done yet uh the folks who won't make it possible our friends over at tax network usa they help you with the government theft service i mean the irs right that's yeah that's what they're called uh tax network usa understands that with the hiring of all of these thousands of irs workers they're sending millions of pay up notices for 25 right so if you are stressed about the irs or you're worried about collection tactics You don't have to face them alone. Tax Network USA is there to help. They are the top tax relief expert in the nation. They've secured over a billion dollars in tax relief for clients. They offer penalty forgiveness, hardship programs, and compromise solutions for lump sum settlements. Whether you owe $10,000 or $10 million, they have experts there to help. It's collection season. So they're in full collections mode. Contact Tax Network USA to get personalized support. You can reduce or eliminate your debt. And they have strategic advice to set you up, making sure that you have the best possible solution for your situation. And they've saved their clients over a billion dollars. So schedule a complimentary consultation today. Call 1-800-958-1000 or visit tnusa.com slash Dana. That's 1-800-958-1000 tnusa.com slash Dana. Take control of your financial future today.
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The 47th president of the United States, Donald Trump, giving his first address after his swearing-in ceremony in the Capitol, in the Rotunda. And then, of course, after this, he is headed to the big, what is it, the Capital One Stadium there for their big rally for all of the other individuals. Remember, this was going to be a very different-looking inauguration, but the chilling, the bone-chilling cold and the winds... didn't really exactly make it safe for the young or the elderly. And so they moved things inside. And I got to tell you, that might have been more of a consideration as a nicety for some of the elderly lawmakers than anything else. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. We are broadcasting live here on Inauguration Day. And there is a lot of stuff to touch on because while you've been watching this, Pardons have been coming out fast and furiously. So this is what you need to know. Joe Biden has pardoned his entire family, including his brother, Jim. Jim has even been pardoned. That's very interesting. Now, those aren't the only people. We're going to come back to that in a moment. He issues a full and unconditional pardon are the language. James Biden, Sarah Biden, Valerie Biden, Owens, John T. Owens and Francis W. Biden. It is a full and unconditional pardon for his family. They get a clean slate. The Bidens get a clean slate. So, you know, they didn't do anything illegal, but I mean, they need pardons for it. I tell you what. And then Anthony Fauci. along with some of the J6 congressional members, have also been pardoned. They got a full pardon as well. Interestingly, with Anthony Fauci's pardon, it begins the date on that. It's dated all the way back retroactively, like Hunter Biden was, to January 1st, 2014. Very interesting. January 1st, because that's when arguably, if you look at the timeline of when gain of function and everything kicked off, isn't that the time span that they said that gain of function kicked off came? So Anthony Fauci gets a full pardon. You have Carrie Underwood is going to be singing, I believe, the national anthem there in the Capitol at the Rotunda. We're keeping an eye on everything. And if ever there's and later Trump is going to speak, I don't think that that rally is expected to kick off until 1.30 our time, I believe. And I believe the next time he speaks, we will have concluded our three hour program today. But Carrie Underwood singing now, it's a very different side in the rotunda. It's a lot more intimate and it's a lot more personal. And I would have to imagine that the weight of the event and the the solemnness of the event right now temporarily might be kind of covering up for, again, like I said, the flurry of pardons and the family of Biden. The fact that that the family was that coming out was only just literally right now. Before Trump minutes, literally like three minutes before Trump took his oath of office. That's when those pardons came out. Perfectly timed to come out right at the end. So Joe Biden is now former president of the United States and he got everything in there. He got all the pardons in a lot of very, very interesting things. Now, while Joe Biden is busy pardoning and they pardoned a lot of these lawmakers that were part of the J6 stuff. And I noted a friend of mine had suggested that nobody should anybody who was pardoned, none of these people. should be if you have to be pardoned you're a member of Congress and they pardoned you know like the Liz Cheney's etc you shouldn't be in Congress then if you're having to get pardoned for for this kind of stuff so we're going to come back to that but this is I mean there's there's a lot happening so we also have the 200 executive orders that are coming out now we already know that there's going to be an executive order as it pertains to the genders right and that's going to have effect on government documentation, things of that nature. You know, a lot of the government forms we've talked about over the years, how they've changed to where you can kind of just like pick your own gender, you know, like choose your own adventure, pick your own gender. So apparently it's immediately going to have effect on that. Additionally, it'll remake the online forms. You're not going to have all those drop-down menus. It's just going to be male or female. And... There are also this is what the New York Post is reporting, is that he's going to announce the end of birthright citizenship for people who came here illegally and then have kids. Those he's going to announce the end of birthright citizenship. Now, there's going to be a big debate about that as it pertains to the 14th Amendment. But I have to say that I really feel like the time is. And I haven't made up my mind on this yet, but I do think it's weird that – and the reason why is the 14th Amendment says, quote, all persons born or naturalized in the United States subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States. However – Coming illegally to the United States and then having a child here so as to plant a flag and claim citizenship is being abused to the nth degree. We cannot allow this. And I really feel like there needs to be a debate on this as it pertains to the context of the 14th Amendment. So that's going to be expected to be a big fight coming up in the next couple of weeks because this is going to be something that he is signing today. And I don't know. I feel like a lot of people... I mean... I feel like a lot of people have a very flawed interpretation of the 14th Amendment because think about it. It's very Sun Tzu. You could then just illegally immigrate to a country and then you could have like a million kids and take over the country without firing a single shot. And that's why I have to say I feel I really feel like people need to kind of maybe check the interpretation of that. So we're going to come back to it also because there's a million. I mean, 200 executive orders and most of them are going to pertain, as I understand it, on uh to uh immigration and the gender etc now new york times has an advanced but incomplete list of it and we're still we're still whittling it all down but uh apparently it's uh immigration and the border closing the border to asylum seeking illegal immigrants ending asylum and birthright citizenship uh ending all of those uh looking i'm like looking on my big list here involving the u.s military and border security that uh that's gonna That will probably be a legal fight because there's a lot of debate as to how the military can be used. inside the country in that respect. The declaration of declaring illegal immigrant crossings to be a national emergency. So by doing that, what he's going to do is unlock a lot of resources that he normally would not have available to him because it's not considered to be a national emergency. So that is these are some of the these are some of the executive orders that he is going to sign. That's gender diversity, equity, inclusion, established biological sex definitions, remove protections for transgender individuals in federal prisons, which is going to actually because there we have stories. And I've talked to a lot of advocates who women who do their crime and they're paying their time. And they understand this. But then they're housed with men who very advantageously determined that they are also female at the very last minute so they can be housed in female jails. And the inordinate amount of these individuals that are sexual convicted sexual predators is unbelievable. So now there's stories of women getting raped in prison, particularly in California. This would affect that. removing protections for transgender illegal immigrants in U.S. custody. As it relates to tariffs and trade, the executive orders are going to be dealing with directing federal agencies to begin an investigation into trade practices, deficits, unfair currency practices, a whole bunch of stuff. Assess China's compliance with the trade deal that Trump signed back in 2020, as well as assessing the U.S.-Mexico-Canada agreement. which was supposed to replace NAFTA back in 2020. The External Revenue Service, which we've only mentioned briefly, which is looking at collecting of tariffs and duties. Energy and the Environment, he's declaring a national energy emergency to unlock powers to speed... for the permitting process of pipelines and power plants. This may include oil refineries. I'm not quite sure. I haven't found any concrete information on it yet, but it may, which is something that we desperately need. He's also going to be ordering the federal government to roll back regulations that impede domestic energy production. So one of the things you're going to see when all of this is said and done as it relates to energy, because it also opens Alaskan wilderness, eliminates environmental justice programs, a bunch of stuff that has nothing to do with energy or conservation. He's also going to loosen the limits on tailpipe pollution and fuel economy standards, which is huge for the average everyday American. We're going to see an energy boom. That's what's going to happen as long as this stays the course. The ban on TikTok, which we're going to dive into coming up, he's delayed the ban on that. That was an executive order ban. to give ByteDance, the CCP owner of it, more time to make a sale and satisfy the law that would ban it in the U.S. So it's not permitting it. It's giving an extension on its deadline. So we've got a million things to cover because we have to talk about those pardons. Oh my gosh, you knew that was coming. But the audacity of it, right? And all of the little things that you may have missed during this whole inauguration ceremony. I love the pageantry of it because this is the one time that we can really get into the pageantry of stuff. And I love the pageantry of good old-fashioned Americana. So we're going to talk about all of that and more here as we roll towards, oh my gosh, already the second hour of the program. And as we do so, with everything going on in the world right now, the economy, conflicts, the open border, spiraling national debt, the devastating inflation, it's critical that you have a plan for diversifying and protecting your savings. And that's why so many, including myself, have turned to precious metals like gold and silver. to help protect our savings. And I've partnered with the top-rated precious metals company, Goldco, to make that happen. It's a great company with a great reputation, and they could not have made the process any easier. 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Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States.
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If you follow what I do, this shouldn't even be an argument. He's the president. He won. This isn't a campaign. This isn't an RNC. I'm not out on the political campaign. I didn't get none of that 1.5. You see what I'm saying? Like, to try to help somebody get voted. Kamala didn't invite you to vote? No, no, no, no. She didn't invite me. She didn't invite me either, man. I was going to defy it. Like, so, but I don't knock the ones that did. I don't knock the brothers and sisters that benefited from it. I don't knock the correspondents that may have gotten money to do that. I'm not doing this for money. I'm doing this because it's an honor. I respect the office.
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It don't matter. See, that's adult because Nelly's smart. Nelly's a good business person too. Nelly comes from St. Louis. From the loo, and we're proud. So, welcome back. Dana Lash with you. He's, uh, because he's performing. He performed at the, been performing at one of the inaugural events. I know the guy who manages Nelly. He's a very dear friend. And... Just so you know, not everyone that you see in Hollywood is on the left. And not everyone that you see in hip hop is on the left. And not everybody that you see in film and TV are on the left. And every now and then we play some of those people who are not on the left. That's all I'm going to say about it. But it's nice to see that people are growing up, right? Or that the, not people, but just like generally. Although I still question why Snoop Dogg did play. It was a ball that was officially not with the inaugural program. But it was an inaugural ball and Snoop Dogg played and I can't get over. Y'all remember the song he did called Lavender, right, where he pretended to shoot Trump in the head in that video. And then all of the videos that he made where he called everybody who voted for Trump dumb blank blankers. I mean, was I can't have reconciliation until you're like, you know what? I was wrong because biblically, that's how reconciliation you got to acknowledge the offenses. We got more on the way. Second hour coming up. It's our friends over at All Family Pharmacy. This is such a great service. You need to memorize the website. They make it so easy. All Family Pharmacy helped my family out a lot over Thanksgiving because right on Thanksgiving when offices are closed and you end up getting sick, it's a mess and you gotta get medicine. All Family Pharmacy made it super easy. And you can visit allfamilypharma.com slash Dana. Use code Dana and you'll get 10% off of your entire order. So this is affordable access, easy and cost effective for medicine. You don't have to break the bank to access these medicines. There's no red tape. There's no hassle. Everything's made in the USA. You're not getting Chinese antibiotics. It's not how that's working. They got a proven track record. And you work with their doctors. Their doctors get you the medication that you need. Fast delivery right to your door. You can even overnight stuff if needed. And you can rely on all family pharmacy to keep your health needs on track. If you need antibiotics, if you need things like hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin. which is actually a good antiviral, you can get those at All Family Pharmacy. Visit allfamilypharma.com slash Dana. Get 10% off using code Dana. 10% off your purchase using code Dana10. It's Dana10 for 10% off of your entire order only at allfamilypharma.com slash Dana.
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This week, I will reinstate any service members who were unjustly expelled from our military for objecting to the COVID vaccine mandate with full back pain. And I will sign an order to stop our warriors from being subjected to radical political theories and social experiments while on duty. It's going to end immediately.
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That's the president of the United States speaking just moments ago. Now, he's going to be also heading over to that. What is it, the Citibank Stadium there or Capital One Stadium? He's going to be heading there for a big rally for all of the individuals who couldn't typically sit outside of the Capitol there and watch the swearing in. And now he's headed towards that and we'll bring you we'll bring you any good stuff from there as well. Although he's not expected to speak for a little while. Welcome back to the program. Top of the second hour. It's Inauguration Day and America loves a good comeback story. the comeback story is part of the American DNA. Americans love an underdog because they see themselves in underdogs. We as Americans were the underdog. And I don't think that that ever has left our American DNA. You still have that sort of... I think it's part of that animating spirit of liberty when you're the underdog, when we were just the colonies and we were organizing and trying to form our more perfect union. I think that that... that aesthetic has stayed with us throughout the generations. And part of that is the comeback. We love a good comeback story. We love all of it. And this just epitomizes it. It's being called the greatest comeback in political history. I would say maybe second only to Churchill. Churchill's comeback story was remarkable because he was down and on the outs before World War II. He was almost a laughingstock. And they didn't take him seriously. And they had Chamberlain, who was such a better statesman and all this stuff. And then, look, Churchill came back and led England down. through one of the worst times of the country's history. And now you have this political comeback story, and we are on the precipice of going one of two ways. You know, we can grab that last ring and, you know, go a more successful path, or we can just fall off the cliff into the abyss. And voters made that choice, and you're seeing the summation of that choice as you watch the inaugural festivities happen. and the pageantry today. I have to say I love the pageantry. I love the pageantry because it's something that we as Americans don't do very often. It's not like Britain. Britain, they have pageants. It's pageantry every day for everything. It's not even like in France or even in some other countries. America is very singular and very unique in that regard. But yet we do reserve a little bit of pageantry for things like this. And I like it because I think that first off it's It's appropriate and it's necessary to be able to celebrate the peaceful transfer of power is an amazing thing because it goes against our human nature. I mean, we are celebrating the departure from our human nature by by having these this huge celebration during an inauguration. Our human nature is is not normal. Typically gracious and it's not accommodating and our human nature is fight for survival. And when you couple that with, you know, the underdog aesthetic that I just talked about, it's, you know, pretty, pretty fiery, pretty spicy. And this is a celebration of freedom and of the republic. And it's it's interesting to see everyone be all magnanimous on the day of and all the hateful stuff leading up to. But I like that Trump stood on stage and was like, yeah, it's been bad. You've been bad. And Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are sitting right there. I believe in graciousness, but I also am not going to choke down truth to satisfy graciousness because I feel like that's a lie. And I feel like doing that is lying and lying is a sin. And I don't want to participate in sinful behavior by pretending that everything has been kittens in sunshine. And you can still... you can still have grace. But grace doesn't mean an absence of justice. Grace doesn't mean an absence of acknowledgement. Grace doesn't mean an absence of a reckoning, really, either. And so just keep that in mind as we go forward today. Speaking of all of that, you know, here he's talking about the back pay for military members who were forced out. And you have these pardons that were given to Anthony Fauci. In fact, the pardons were given to General Milley, Anthony Fauci, the entire Biden family, and even Republican Jay Sixers, the people who are like Liz Cheney. They're trying to guard against what they claim might be potential revenge from a Trump administration. Rich coming from an administration that was nothing more than an extension of Obama that that actually weaponized government agencies to target people in a vengeance campaign. The irony of irony is right. And then one of those, Anthony Fauci, John Carl, who works over at ABC. He spoke with Anthony Fauci and says Fauci said he's grateful because of the threats and possibility of a politically motivated prosecution creates immeasurable and intolerable distress on me and my family. End quote. He was given a preemptive pardon. I mean, it's not. And he says that he didn't seek it, didn't want it. But note that Fauci is not turning it down. He's not turning it down. The. This is why people don't like Anthony Fauci. Anthony Fauci thinks that he is the second Jesus. Anthony Fauci thinks that he is the second Messiah and that he is performing such a great sacrifice. I've never seen such a sacrifice make so many millions of dollars for someone as Anthony Fauci has made off of this gain of function research. And when he talks about the immeasurable and intolerable, quote unquote, distress on him and his family, I want you to think for a moment. of the immeasurable and intolerable distress that was put on the families of those who had to say goodbye to their loved ones behind glass walls in hospitals because Fauci's recommendations for dealing with the Wu flu wouldn't allow them to be there at the bedside of their dying relative. I want him to talk about, I want him to consider the immeasurable and intolerable distress that was placed on a friend of mine that had to choose between her and her brother to be there as their father passed away. And then which one of them was going to be able to be graveside to bury him? You know, because the regulations that Fauci recommended. Or what about the immeasurable and intolerable distress that was put on another one of my friends who had to delay her cancer treatment because everything was shut down due to Fauci's recommendations? My friend is fighting breast cancer, and she had to delay all of that because of Fauci's recommendations. Or about the people that we know that were dealing with fertility issues that had to put behind their hormone shots so they could try to conceive naturally as best as they could because all of that was interrupted by Fauci's recommendations. What about all of the kids who missed pregnancy? Crucial years of development because they were forced to stay inside for 15 days that turned into two years thanks to Fauci's recommendations. If you want to have a discussion about immeasurable and intolerable distress, you absolute corrupt son of a bitch. That's sickening. Anyone should be dragged into jail in chains. It ought to be Anthony Fauci. And I hope Trump learned his lesson by listening to him. Because none of that is worth going through again. None of it. And this guy's pardoned. Why does he need a pardon? Why does Fauci need a pardon? General Milley, the guy who sat there and was, you remember the book that he was reading? What was that book, Kane? Something about like white privilege or something like that? Understanding white privilege? I don't know. Why is he pardoned? Why is General Milley pardoned? What crime could Milley have undertaken that he would need a pardon? He is a general. He is in charge of our charge of our military. I don't I. I don't think that General Milley should be pardoned, and I don't think that he should be allowed in any power, make any office of decision making ever. If you need a pardon, you shouldn't be allowed to command troops. If you need a pardon like Milley needs, apparently you shouldn't be you shouldn't be allowed to call the shots when it comes to putting our loved ones in harm's way. Because they don't get a pardon. But you do? Hell no. There are service members that have the books thrown at them for less than probably now what Milley's being pardoned for. But he gets a pardon. Unreal. I want you to count the number of medals that are on General Milley's coat. And then you count the number of medals that General Patton wore. He had tons of them. But he didn't wear them. Because he didn't need to brag about himself every time like some kind of North Korean officer when he went in public. I question those people that wear all that metal and they got some baby hands. Smooth skin. Why does he need a pardon? I got a lot of questions. A whole fam damly of Bidens are pardoned. All of them pardoned. Isn't that unbelievable? I mean, and they all get the date. It's all everything. All anything committed from January 1st, 2014 to the date of the pardon. I mean, it goes all the way back for all of them. Fauci, the Bidens, everybody. Interesting that, isn't it? Interesting. But I thought none of them were guilty. I thought it was just all Russian disinformation and the audacity of them to say that they are the ones who are worried about vengeance. They are the ones worried about vengeance. Unreal. I want to switch gears because there's so much to discuss. We got these we got these executive orders as well that are coming through. People have been watching. Apparently yesterday there was all kinds of video of the Bidens moving out of the White House, all the trucks that were there. Interesting. Also, the a couple of things, too. To get into this, the fashion world has finally bent the knee. Oscar de la Renta apparently did customized dresses, not just for you, Chavance, but also for Ivanka Trump and Melania Trump. I think she was also she was wearing something that was a de la Renta design. The design house named after the late Oscar de la Renta. And they put it on their social media. Breaking ranks with all of the other fashion designers that had for so long refused to acknowledge or even dress or offer the first family. And that's like a big deal. Apparently, Melania Trump during the I was reading this in-depth piece. She hired this French designer. Who's a friend of hers. He is a French stylist who used to work a number of fashion houses in Paris. And he was the one who like apparently went and got off the right was getting off the rack stuff for all of her inaugural events. And then Ralph Lauren stepped in and did that customized blue dress for 2016. But she looks I love the fact that tailoring is back again. I think that it's inexcusable in 2025 not to be tailored and not to look sharp. Make tailoring great again. I mean, it fits you like a glove. It looks nice. Proper tailoring, and it doesn't have to be expensive stuff. You can go to Walmart and get stuff. You can go to a dollar store. as long as it's tailored right you can look like a million dollars having it fit you and tailoring is not that expensive when you compare it to designer stuff make tailoring great again because i got so tired of looking at jill biden looking as though she was running a dolce gabbana slip cover and having everything be wrinkled and not fit her properly and the waist be off and their gaps in the shoulders and it just it's like when you have that money and you have that access why in the world would you not make sure That's something that is worth more than what most people make in a month is at least tailored properly to you. It's just like a finger in the air. Also, gosh, with that, there's a million things. One of the things we're going to talk about coming up is the Boromir test of big government. Here's Trump's test. And I'll explain what that means coming up. 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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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Florida Highway Patrol's issued a safety advisory ahead of an incoming storm. They're expecting freezing temperatures in Florida. What in the world? Freezing temperatures in Florida. I love Floridians. I love you all. But I also know that like most southern states that have no idea how to deal with ice and snow, none of y'all are going to know how to drive. Except a lot of them are New Yorkers. I feel like the New Yorkers and the northern transplants will. So maybe it won't be as bad. Like in Texas, everyone's like, oh, there's ice on the road. I'm going to get my biggest truck out with nothing in the bed and drive 90 miles an hour. Perfect, right? Oh, let's see. Staten Island groups are using flower power against New York City speed cameras. Nobody wants this intrusive, intrusive spy government. They're taping fake flowers in front of the in front of the cameras. That's actually hysterical. I love it. So good idea. The this let's see. OK, so apparently a Jefferson County and this is in our county that we grew up in. Yeah, it's Missouri's Jefferson County. Missouri Supreme Court suspended a Jefferson County prosecutor, assistant prosecutor, his license indefinitely for a prank that he did. And the prank was when an assistant public defender left the room, this prosecutor went on that person's laptop and used their email to send the sheriff an email saying, quote, you look so good in khaki pants and that black shirt. That ended up getting the guy fired. And they said you had access to confidential information. That's what they were alleging. And so, yeah, he ended up that's like one of the one of the industries in which you can't really do that kind of stuff. You shouldn't you know, you shouldn't do that sort of stuff. Also, let's see. This is, oh, check this out. Bear County jury finds this guy 100% negligent because he served what they said was dangerously hot barbecue sauce. And I swear I heard a ton of you out there right when I said sauce. Go, yeah, it's not hot until I try it and say it's hot. Because I know you people. You know those people? They'll sit there, they'll eat a whole bunch of ghost peppers and sit there and they will die before they sweat to death.
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Spicy hot, not temperature hot?
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I don't know. Bill Miller Barbecue has been ordered to pay $2.8 million for serving dangerously hot barbecue sausage. Spicy? Is it? I don't know. San Antonio woman sued him. She said it was hot and it gave her burns. Spicy and gave her burns. I'm like, well, what? Like what in the world? OK, I don't know. It's when you get hot food, you have to assume it's hot. And when you're getting something spicy, you have to assume that it's spicy. You know what I'm saying? Like what? OK, people are dumb. This ski lift collapsed at a Spanish resort. This is not I'm not a big skier. I don't like snow. Ten people. Apparently the ski lift just totally collapsed and it hurt ten people like pretty badly. Two of them were seriously injured. Stick with us. We got a lot more on the way. The Boromir test for the Trump administration next. Our partners over at Patriot Mobile, the only Christian conservative cell phone service in the nation. It's nationwide coverage that you can trust. You get exceptional coverage. They operate on all three major networks, so you're connected wherever you go. And you get quality, convenience. You're taken care of by 100% U.S.-based customer service team. They make it so easy to switch. Keep your current number, your phone, upgrade. It's never been easier or simpler to switch. They're a 100% U.S.-based customer service team, by the way. means also that you are helping to maintain us-based jobs and you're creating more by giving them your business and speaking of your business it doesn't matter if you're a business or a family or a single or whatever they have a plan custom they can get something tailored for you they have plans for literally everybody so make the switch today have your money and work to protect the things that you vote for instead of empowering the things that you vote against. Because if you have not switched to Patriot Mobile, I guarantee you that you are funding DEI, gun control, and who knows what else. So switch today. Patriotmobile.com slash Dana, the number 972 Patriot. You can also get a free month of service by using promo code Dana. The only way to get it. Patriotmobile.com slash Dana 972 Patriot.
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Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you at the bottom of this second hour on Inauguration Day. I got a million things we're going to get into, but really quickly. The Trump administration is now going to face... The hard part of winning the election is over. The harder part of doing what needs to be done begins. And may the celebration and the joyous feeling that everybody feels today last and sustain them as we go... It's going to be a brawl. And the administration... Is going to be tested. Like Boromir. I have talked about Lord of the Rings. And I've talked about Boromir before. Kane's going to go to sleep. Because when I start nerding out. I'm a huge Tolkien fan. Huge Lord of the Rings fan. And I've read them before I saw the movies. I'm that. Yeah. And I've talked about this before. And I was reading an editorial last night. Where someone mentioned the Boromir test. And I thought. Oh. Who else is also a Lord of the Rings nerd? Who else joins the geekdom? It was very interesting. It ended up being, I think it was like real clear LinkedIn or something to that effect. The Boromir says, you know, Boromir from Lord of the Rings. I swear to you, if you check out of this, I'm going to come to your house and spank you. So you're talking about Boromir, right? You have Faramir and Boromir. And you're talking about Boromir, who was there at the council when they were determining the Fellowship of the Ring and the One Ring. And Boromir was an antihero who was saved at the moment of death because he chose to give his life for the hobbits. But he kind of put himself in that position. Right. Boromir, if you remember, when they were sitting there and Elrond was leading the council, he was the only one who suggested using the One Ring to save Gondor, to save the people and return the kingdom, the realm of man to its rightful place on the social status ladder in Middle-earth. He was the one, the only one, who suggested using the ring. Now, Everyone from Aragorn to everybody knew how, Aragorn, all of them knew how dangerous this was. You had all of these rings that were made and you have the one ring to rule them all. And he thought we could defeat Sauron if we use this one ring to do it. Boromir's belief was that the one ring, this variable, and the ring itself is almost a MacGuffin. if you know what a MacGuffin is, like how in Citizen King, the MacGuffin was Redbud, was the sled that, you know, you just, it was like the symbol of his innocence and his youth and his childhood. Or like the Maltese Falcon was a MacGuffin. It's always discussed, but it doesn't really, it's almost a MacGuffin because it does actually play a part. But Boromir believed that that one ring, the determination of its goodness or badness lied in the heart of the person who wielded it. So the ring could be used for good if it was in the hands of someone good. The ring would be bad if it was in the hands of someone bad. And a lot of people view government this way. They think that big government, like the one ring, is bad when it's in the hands of, you know, Sauron and Saruman and bad people. But maybe if big government or the one ring, if it were in the hands of, you know, us, I think we were called hobbits once. So I'll go with it. The hobbits or the, you know, the realm of men or anything like that. Then if it's in the hands of good people, then it's then it's right. It's a it's a good thing and it can be used for good. But it ignores a very important truth about power. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. The one ring didn't care if someone was good. That person's goodness could not negate or neutralize the evil that is inherent in the one ring or the damage that the one ring could do or the allure that the one ring had. Government, big government, you know, government's not evil. Big government that goes above and beyond its mission is. It can be, especially when you see it used in places like, you know, the color revolution and China or, you know, what you've seen in Iran with the green revolution elsewhere. Boromir's mistake was thinking that his will was stronger than the ring's power. His mistake was thinking that the absolute power would not corrupt him absolutely because he was sure of the goodness in his mission. And it's a noble belief. But it's impractical, unrealistic and fantasy. And such is the same with government. That's why I think people who've been in government for a long time, you know how Frodo could never really go back to the Shire because he saw, you know, so to speak, how the sausage was made and it corrupted him a little bit. He got some corruption from that. It tainted his worldview, and that's how he had to go to the Undying Lands with the elves because he was just too broken to stay in Middle Earth anymore. And I think that that sometimes happens, people who stay too long in D.C. And people who think that their willpower, you know, Mr. Smith goes to Washington, they have all of the greatest intentions in the world, but the allure of power, it is a rare and such an exception that it's almost... it's almost, you know, considered, I mean, it's magic that you would have someone who could resist the corruption of government and the corruption of power and the allure of power. It is a, I don't know that I've ever seen anybody, if I'm being honest, in all of, I sound like I'm 90. I don't mean to sound like I'm 90, but, or to try to act like I have all these years under my belt that makes me the expert on it. But in my career, professionally, I don't know that I've ever seen anybody untouched by it. And that's why this is the temptation of Boromir. He is it is it because he's naive or is it because people are imperfect and we're always we're frail before God? We're made weak by that allure of power. Was it that that was just within him? You know, when they went to Lothlorien and they met Galadriel, Galadriel knew Boromir. She knew his heart. She was testing each one of the fellowships. She knew what he was going to do before he did it. That's why she said this is on the edge. The success of this quest is on the edge of a knife and that it will only be successful so long as the company remains true. And she was looking at Boromir when she said that. So this is Trump's Boromir moment. I know a lot of conservatives like the idea of wrestling back the reins of big government from Democrats and using it to empower what they want to do. Let me caution people. If you have to use government to convince people that something that's great for them is good for them, the problem isn't the product. The problem is how you're messaging it. If you cannot sell freedom, you suck. A friend of mine said that once, and it still remains true today. If you can't sell people on this without having government do it, giving government more power and thereby further imperiling us, if God forbid a Democrat takes over in 2028, get somebody else to message it for you. We have a lot of good people on the right who think that you can use government to affect that kind of change, and you can't. That they can use the one ring to defeat the rot of progressivism. But you can't because you're just becoming like the thing that you said you were going to fight against. And that's kind of the issue, right? I mean, he knew and the ring and Sauron knew what Boromir's desires were. Boromir still wanted to dominate. So they played on his naivete and led him into this fight. compromise this catastrophe and I don't want the allure of government to do that with anyone taking office in the cabinet or elsewhere I'm not just talking about Trump today but the great thing about Boromir is that it wasn't too late before he realized it and that's ultimately the saving grace of this story Boromir knew at the last moment not too late for it to not count either And he told the hobbits to run. And then he faced off against the orcs himself. And he lost his life. But he lost it as a hero. Not as a puppet for the one ring. This is Donald Trump's comeback. And there were things that were amazing with his first term and things that were not so amazing with his first term. Big government spending. is probably one of my biggest criticisms. And I'm going to caution you. If there's a politician that you agree with 100%, I don't say this to be insulting. Please check your head and your heart. Because I know that y'all don't even agree with your husbands or wives 100% on everything. So it would be weird if you did with a politician. It's okay to not agree. It's your God-given right as an American. People died for it. Exercise it. We have the goal of wanting to make the country strong and safe and prosperous. And sometimes that says, hey, what you're doing right there is not working so good. This what you're doing is great, but this right here isn't so good. It's not an attack. It's about strengthening and it's about shoring up any weakness in the metal. That's what it's about. And that's your responsibility going forward. Because Boromir's strength was also his fellowship. That ultimately, when Boromir, by talking with the hobbits and by them yelling at him, what are you doing? And him realizing that he had compromised himself and thus compromised the mission and he gave his life to rectify it. Politically speaking with this, Boromir was redeemed and his story played out with the success of the mission. This is the comeback for this administration. It's the second chance for this administration. Everything that was left undone that needed to be done for the first term can be done now. This is such a mandate that they have been given. You don't need the one ring of government. in order to get this done. You don't need to use big government to do it. That's what I'm saying with these executive orders that he's got. I know, at least with the immigration, and this is what DeSantis is setting up to happen in Florida, because DeSantis is anticipating a fight, DOJ-wise, with some of these executive orders. I was just telling you about the 14th Amendment with ending birthright citizenship. There's gonna be a fight. DeSantis is anticipating this. I'm using this as an example. They're the first state to do it. And they are doing they are moving their cleaning house, getting everything ready so that at least state by state they can implement. Trump's immigration agenda state by state so that while they're fighting it in the feds, at least these Republican governors led by DeSantis can do it state by state and they can. It's a dip. Imagine imagine the big battlefield of Middle Earth. Right. When they're when they're. getting ready and everybody's coming in from Minas Tirith and they're getting ready to go towards Gondor and oh my gosh, you've got the armies lined up and you remember the Riders of Rohan that appeared on it. That's what the governors are going to be doing in all of these red states. You're going to have the Riders of Rohan come up and they're going to be flanking the orcs and they're going to be coming in and helping get that agenda passed. I told you I can bring everything back to Lord of the Rings and this is no different. I have literally waited. Can I just sidebar for a moment? I've literally waited months to be able to have this whole story on air today. I know. So they're trying to get it done on that end. But this is the test, the Boromir test. And To resist the use of that one ring to get everything passed is going to be difficult. You got to shepherd it through with legislation. Every single person has to play their part. Republican governors have to play their part. They have to shepherd their states into pushing this agenda state by state. When they try to hobble it at the federal level, the attorneys general of all these red states, just like you've seen Andrew Bailey and Eric Schmidt before he became a senator and even Josh Hawley before he became a senator. Some of the strongest AGs are coming out of Missouri. I got to say they are. They are taking another approach to it as well. The legal approach through the 10th Amendment. Every single person has to play their role. The Republicans in Congress in order to get this through, particularly if it relates to spending and John Thune and the Republican majority in the Senate. Every single person is going to have to come together to this with this quasi fellowship in order to get this objective done. It's going to take everybody. And it's going to take the people. It's not just the Boromir test for Trump. It's the Boromir test for the Republican Party. Again, the biggest criticism of the Democrats is the expansion of government to carry out what they fail to do and when they fail to convince the people. We cannot have Republicans making that same mistake. And hopefully, with the help of God, they won't. I know that not everyone has the luxury of only going to places that dispel the gun-free zone nonsense. There are some people who live in cities who work in areas where maybe they have firearms, but they're not allowed to carry them inside the workplace or anywhere. in the city, et cetera. 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It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man.
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All right. So first up, the last time we had a story like this, it was a dude. Now it is definitely not a dude. It's a chick, a Florida woman who got arrested over the weekend because police found drugs in a bag labeled definitely not a bag full of drugs. It was a little canvas bag with a black zipper. And in black writing, it says in cursive, definitely not a bag full of drugs on the side. So guess what? There were drugs in the bag that said there were no drugs in the bag. In fact, it was trafficking amounts of methamphetamine. Yeah. Possession with intent to sell all kinds of other stuff. She had to post this woman. What is her name? I was so busy looking at the design of the bag. Let's see. This Florida woman, Taryn Ackrey, at the center of all of this, they conducted a traffic stop and that's when they caught it. But she posted a $15,500 bond. That's the bag that Juan is showing you on the simulcast if you're watching. Definitely not a bag full of drugs. Look at her face. The face is her reacting to the narrator going, there was meth in the bag. trafficking amounts of meth in the bag. I mean, if I'm pulling you over and you already seem sus and you have that in your, you know, tote, definitely not a bag full of drugs with meth. Yeah, yeah, I'm pretty sure. So they've charged her. And yeah, there was Narcan, needles, meth, all the stuff to use, I guess, to... divide up the drugs right I don't know like those little accessories I don't know where you get those the drug accessories you just chop up your drugs with I don't know and that was all in the bag with the meth so yeah she in trouble I don't know a lot about the drug stuff I just I don't know everything all I know is that Miami Vice they did a lot of cocaine and I all I know about drugs are from Miami Vice and cops and so I just assume you chop everything up or it's in crystals right I don't know Sure. A woman claims that her murdered husband fell on a hidden cane blade during a diabetic episode. Yeah, so like he was having a diabetic episode and he just happened to fall down on a giant blade in a cane. I don't think I believe that. We're out of time right now. We're going to have more of that. I'll have more Florida Man stories for you tomorrow, but our third hour is on the way next. Stick with us. It is a big week, and we're not just talking about Inauguration Day. Caltech has officially unveiled their brand new pistol, the PR-57, and it's causing a huge buzz. Over a million views on the release video already, and you need to see why. Visit caltechweapons.com slash Dana today. Right now. Check it out. It's the Kel-Tec PR57. It's a revolutionary compact concealed carry pistol chambered in 5.7. It's ultra-lightweight, 20-round capacity, and here's what's the kicker. It's a unique top-loading design. It's slim, simple, and practical. You're not going to have a magazine. In fact, the PR57 loads directly into the grip. 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There's a lot of stuff still to happen and we were carrying his first remarks after he was sworn in. as the 47th president of the United States just a little bit earlier. So again, welcome. Dana Lash with you. You can listen to Coast to Coast Terrestrially, the chats at Rumble. Also find the simulcast, Channel 347, DirecTV, elsewhere. So lots of stuff. We've got executive orders that are going to be coming in, a lot of executive orders, 200 executive orders so far. And a lot of it is going to be dealing with the border. Apparently the CBB, the CPB app has already, that's something that's already like apparently being canceled, these CBP appointments. That's one of the that's one of the reports coming in. So they're getting started pretty quick because remember, you don't really have a heck of a lot of time before you have the midterm election that starts that kicks into gear. So, oh, man, there's just a lot. We've talked about the pardons, the Fauci pardon all the way back going to 2024. They decided to pardon him. I know it's so weird. And then you have the whole family. All the Bidens are pardoned. All of them. What? but you meant 2014 oh yeah going all the way back to 2014 that's weird all of the but Kane I was told that they did nothing wrong yeah so why would you you know if you're as innocent pure as fresh driven snow why would you need a pardon
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You are correct. That is what we were told.
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I mean, is it like something that you keep? Like, okay, so hold up. You know when you go to a sandwich shop and you'll get the card and you punch it and it's like, if you get this many punches, you get a free sandwich and you just keep it like that? Is that what you do with pardons? Like a preemptive pardon?
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I don't know if it's a punch card, but I think you keep it.
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Think so? I think so. I'm just saying. It just seems weird to me. So you've got... Gosh, I've got so much stuff here. I'm not going to be able to get to everything today. There's just so much. It's Inauguration Day. It's a good day. And I love that tailoring has been brought back. Good tailoring. We got some audio I wanted to make sure that we have as well. Fetterman Audio Somebody 12 arrived for the inauguration. Hot look for the inauguration. Again, it's like 10 degrees in D.C. 10 degrees. This is Audio Sun by 12. He arrives. Shorts and his hoodie. Shorts and hoodie. Because he's got the hoodie pass, don't you know? He's got the hoodie pass. He's like huge. Look how much bigger he is than everybody else. It's like playing Space Marine 2. And you're the Space Marine. And then those are... That's the... Just saying. Yeah. Yeah. Well, is he though? Cause he's ginormous. He's a, but he's got, he's one of those people who can wear shorts in 10 degrees. My husband's like that. He'll just wear shorts until, you know, he has to go to like a restaurant or church. I don't understand those people who do that. I will never for the life of me. They just they're like modern day Flintstones. They can just, you know, I don't get it. So Fetterman gets a pass. But then you had this was last night. Audio soundbite six. Trump had the village people on stage and he did dance.
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Watch. We will make America safe again. And we will make America great again. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. What a great victory for everybody. Thank you, America. Thank you very much. Thank you. He's going to start the dance. He does the dance. Or is that Lee Greenwood that comes out first?
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Oh, and here they go. Here they go. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Is that? Hold up. Hold up. No, keep playing. Is that Elizabeth Warren? How did she get on stage? Someone let Elizabeth Warren on stage. Elizabeth Warren is pretending to be one of the village people. They're dancing and Trump is not. And he is not going to. But he does this Trump dance, which is hysterical. I mean, it is a riot.
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For people wondering where the music is, we're just reducing the possibility.
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So YouTube will not allow you, even for the purposes of disseminating news, to claim copyright and then we get pulled off. That's Elizabeth Warren. I'm positive Elizabeth Warren is up there in a headdress. on stage so there you go right there that's uh and then you also have rascal flats that are playing and i don't know who else is there's all kinds of stuff happening uh so it's um they've had you have your inaugural balls and he's good it's the floss move it's the floss like are That's how you got to think of it. It's the floss move.
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It's true. Wait, isn't there a dance called flossing, and that's not it?
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I have no idea. I don't know what that is.
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I think Steve will have to jump in on this one, because I'm also old.
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Yeah. And then, okay, we got to watch Audio Soundbite 14, or Playout, because Tabra is melting down, because you have... Musk, Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, all the tech bras, the techocracy that's there. Honestly, sidebar, it's like a Warhammer thing where you're going in and you're talking to Hadron. So the Hadron juniors are all there. Listen to this.
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Anderson, between those four people plus Elon Musk from Twitter or X, those five people that I just mentioned, the four in the photograph and also Elon Musk, control so much of the information that we receive So much is in their hands when it comes to ascertaining, monitoring, or refusing to monitor what is real, what is not real. And we're about to enter an era of deep fakes and all sorts of misinformation. And the degree to which those five gentlemen play a role or do not play a role will be pivotal in terms of where the American people are.
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Okay. I am... Can you just want just just the screen cap of that last image that you had up there, the full screen, the CNN screen, because there's so many things in here to remark on. You have Jake Tapper freaking out about the tech bros. Right. Do you see the little black line up at the top where it says gives you the time and it tells you where everybody is? St. John's Church. Now, can correct me if I'm wrong, which is a rhetorical device. I'm not wrong. Is that not the church that the left tried to burn down? Is that not the church that CNN, the network whose screen is right there, they were trying to say that everything was mostly peaceful and at first they didn't even report on that church burning down?
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The very same. Huh.
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Imagine that. Weird. It's kind of weird, isn't it? I mean, they're worried about deep fakes and misinformation. Like, I don't know, what do you mean, misinformation like, oh, I don't know, Russian collusion? misinformation like the laptop that had Hunter Biden's name on it and it was Hunter Biden's is not Hunter Biden's? That disinformation? I'm curious. I mean, now suddenly after they're not committing it they think everyone else will i don't know i am just floored all of a sudden these people are like wait a minute the things that we've been doing all of these years they may do well we have to talk about the threats of what they may do that we've done all these years it's only a threat if they think the right is going to also do it that's just crazy crazy Yeah, they are very upset. Van Jones is upset as well. I've not seen him this mad since he was mad over somebody telling him that 9-11 was a terror attack. Audio soundbite 15, you know, because he thought it was fake.
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I got to hope I'm miserable. I'm sad. I'm frustrated. I'm mad at everybody. Thank you, Scott. Look, I appreciate what you're trying to do, reminding us that we're supposed to... Look, if you're a progressive or a Democrat right now, if you're watching television, you're watching your product with some substances, because he's going to unleash this blitzkrieg of attacks on everything we care about, immigrants, clean energy, and nothing we can do about it but watch this stuff. So I appreciate you, but I'm miserable and I'm upset. And I know you're going to say something, Scott, that's going to make me more upset. Go ahead.
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No, I'm going to make you happy, because, hey, we're going to cut your taxes, too.
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And we're going to cut your taxes on top of it. Amazing. So that's, you know, I'm actually, I'm excited for that one. But they're losing it. And then you have AOC losing her mind. Audio 7 by 13. She's losing it.
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Well, we are on the eve of an authoritarian administration. This is what 21st century fascism is starting to look like. Republicans really model themselves after Orbán's Hungary. And so you can look to see how Viktor Orbán runs Hungary to get a taste of how they will try to govern and control media and companies in the United States.
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You look how I feel.
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Oh my gosh, she's making me do this. Every time she talks, I just, my whole face, my butt revolts. First off, she has no idea about Viktor Orban. She doesn't know anything about Hungary. And not everyone on the right subscribes to that. She just read a story probably somewhere. And now in her little feeble progressive mind is like, oh, the whole right's going to be like Viktor Orban. If it says that somebody here is talking to Viktor Orban, then the whole right's going to be like Viktor Orban from Hungary. And I'm going to, with that, demonstrate my knowledge of knowing foreign leaders. It's the only foreign leader I know. Because she wrote a piece about it. It's so stupid. No, the United States is not seeking to model itself after Hungary. Hungary is trying to model itself after the United States. But there's a lot of big government stuff that they're doing that the United States doesn't do, that the right doesn't actually support. So her argument is probably as bad as her drinks are. That's why she couldn't cut it as a bartender. So she decided to go into the world's oldest profession. No, not prostitution. That has more respect. Politics. So they're just big mad. Big mad. You... I noticed that Karen Pence and Michelle Obama weren't there today. Mike Pence was there. And then Barack Obama was there. Michelle Obama wasn't there, nor was Karen Pence. Interesting. Very interesting. Now, remember, 10 days ago, Biden said that he's only going to pardon people who committed crimes. Eight. I hear somebody at eight.
SPEAKER 18 :
So, sir, on pardons, have you ruled out a pardon for yourself or any other additional members of the family? For myself? Yes, sir.
SPEAKER 17 :
What would I pardon myself for? That's what I'm asking. No, I have no contemplation of pardoning myself, and I didn't do anything wrong.
SPEAKER 12 :
Mr. President, would you comment on Mehta's decision to... Oh, but then who does he pardon? Oh, boy. Everybody. Leonard Pelletier, the guy who he's a Native American activist who killed two FBI agents. He's they pardon him. They pardoned. But then they start pardoning his whole family. I didn't do his family commit because he said he's only going to pardon people who committed crimes. But then he pardons his whole fam damley going back to 2014. Well, why did you pardon them for? Oh, just in case the Trump administration decides to the Trump administration. You mean the same one that didn't do anything about Hillary last time? What makes you think they're going to go after you? No, you're you're using that as an excuse to pardon your criminal grifting family. That's that's that's the truth of the matter. We have a lot more on the way, including tick tock. Oh, my gosh. We've got a million things to get in some of the bits and pieces because we still have the president is going to be speaking at their big event. coming up later today. We've got the inaugural parade, although I don't know if it's going to be as long as it usually is because it's like eleven to two degrees negative in D.C. right now. So we've got a lot to hit with everything going on in the world right now. The economy conflicts, the open border spiraling national debt, the devastating inflation. It's critical that you have a plan for diversifying and protecting your savings. And that's why so many, including myself, have turned to precious metals like gold and silver to to help protect our savings. And I've partnered with the top-rated precious metals company, Goldco, to make that happen. It's a great company with a great reputation, and they could not have made the process any easier. And right now, Gold Co. is offering a free gold and silver kit that will show you how precious metals can help protect and diversify your savings. And for my audience, they're offering up to a 10% instant match in bonus silver on qualified orders. All you have to do is visit danalikesgold.com to get started today. GoldCo has helped thousands of Americans place over $3 billion in gold and silver, and they can help you as well. Join thousands who trust GoldCo. Visit danalikesgold.com.
SPEAKER 10 :
And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
SPEAKER 12 :
One of the other stories that we have as well has been the return of the Israeli hostages. The first bunch of hostages were returned and Hamas sent with them gift bags, apparently a certificate, I guess, for their time in captivity and pictures from when they were in captivity. The weirdest thing ever. We'll talk more about that coming up because it's one of the things that we have as well that we're watching. Also, a TikTok ban is apparently being blame for a an arson attack on a congressman's office a representative glenn grothman out of wisconsin is a republican a man was arrested and charged with arson following a fire outside of his office the 19 year old said he was motivated by the tiktok ban interesting So I've never heard anything like that before. Okay. Meanwhile, in Germany, a German politician was attacked by a coven of carnival witches who beat him up and broke his ribs. Alexander Quebec is a mayoral candidate for a southern German town of Lufberg. And he says he was left with broken ribs after an unprovoked attack in the Black Forest region. He's 43 years old. He was attending a local carnival when he encountered a coven of carnival witches. They look like a bunch of Krampuses, if I'm being honest. Uh, They said that they jumped and he said they hit him from the back, knocked him to the ground. They deny it. So who do you believe, the Covenant of Witches or this guy? I don't know. I mean, it's all craziness. Stephen Yates is going to be joining us this packed inaugural day. Stick with us. On January 24th, as the nation comes together for the March for Life program. Preborn proudly stands in solidarity with the movement, reaffirming their dedication with the sanctity of Life Month and the protection of every unborn child. And more great news, the abortion pill reversal treatment is giving women a second chance to choose life, bringing babies back to life and empowering women. Join Preborn Ministries in supporting women in their darkest hours. With God's love and free services, Preborn's network of clinics are ready to help women choose life. And help start the new year right by supporting life just for $28. Just $28. You can provide one ultrasound with a gift of $140. You can help rescue five babies and your donation can make a real difference. And if you're able, consider a leadership gift to save babies. A $5,000 donation sponsors Preborn's network for 24 hours, rescuing 200 babies. Donate securely at preborn.com slash Dana. Just dial pound 250 and say the keyword baby. That's pound 250 baby or donate securely at preborn.com slash Dana. Donate today for the sanctity of life at preborn.com slash Dana.
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SPEAKER 04 :
And above all, China is operating the Panama Canal. And we didn't give it to China. We gave it to Panama. And we're taking it back.
SPEAKER 12 :
Whoa. I mean, these executive orders and then, of course, his remarks on on the Panamanian Canal, Panama Canal. Pretty significant. They're hitting the ground running. All gas, no brakes. It's how it's got to be. And then this, that's huge. But then at the same time, though, is there not some disjointedness between that and then the TikTok stuff? I don't know. This is such a weird issue. I want to bring in our very good friend Stephen Yates on this monumental inaugural day. Stephen Yates, as you know, Yates comms on X. He's a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, an expert on China, served in two administrations, including the previous Trump administration. He joins us now, not in his typical hidey hole. I see he's in a different hidey hole. It's good to see you, my friend. OK, make this make sense for me, because. I want to get in. I want to talk about the TikTok ban or unban or whatever for a moment. But I agree with what he's saying about the Panama Canal. But at the same time, it seems like he's tough. This is you're being tough on the Panama Canal. But the TikTok ban is they're working out a deal. I don't know. What are your thoughts on this?
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, first, I have to note that four years ago, within an hour of inaugural address, I was fired illegally from a grantee organization of the United States government. And I sure hope the Trump transition team is off and running among their executive orders. terminating all those other people from commissions and other places the way it was done to us four years ago but on these policy things i mean the president served up i think basically an historic address that had some pretty in-your-face stuff for the people sitting there and around the world world mostly I think kind of creative destruction uh so you look at this Panama Canal thing it's just a plain fact that we did spend the money we built it we gave it over to them we are supposed to be able to have kind of privileged access to it And here they are letting ports on either end get operated by now an enemy. Now, a friend of mine said, well, did President Trump's announced we're going to war? My reaction is if so, it's gonna be brief. but uh i'd like to be the special envoy for the best deals ever because i think if we went ahead and took that back and we said americans transit for free military or civilian but all the revenues from everyone else goes to you panama that's a good deal for you good deal for us problem solved and so my guess is we're setting up the information space for the best deals ever So we'll see whether that proves to be true. But it's just a fact that Carter gave it away in ways that were unnecessary, just like we gave away our China policy and Taiwan policy under the Nixon to Carter administrations. But this is a course correction on the Panama thing. The TikTok part, I don't like. It breaks my brain when people try to tell me things that I know are not true. This is not a free speech issue. That if you have a media platform that is owned by an adversary, you're either saying they're not an adversary, they're not at war against us, and we'll never go to war with them. And so it doesn't matter. But this is not the Canadians owning a media platform. This is not the Italians owning a media platform. This is the Communist Party of China owning that data and manipulating the algorithm. And this was a divestiture movement, not a ban on speech. And so I don't like the way this has been talked about among allegedly intelligent people. There are a lot of friends of mine that are on the other side of this. I don't know what their thinking and motives are. But this is about not letting the CCP own media platforms in the United States.
SPEAKER 12 :
If the TikTok ban was or if this if the order was, I don't know, because I know the legislation as it relates to that governs all this is in the proposal for the I'm like looking at what was proposed in some of Trump's remarks here. it seems overly broad because, and I think that's, that's one of the concerns that, that people have, as I understand it, because they were worried that the government that made us all stay inside from the Wu flu for two years and the same government that claims it can't do anything with, you know, the stuff at the border that they would use national security to take over companies. And I understand that concern. Is it something as simple? Steve is just rewriting that to eliminate those concerns. I mean, can that be done?
SPEAKER 06 :
From my point of view, this has already been through both houses of Congress, signed by the president. It's gone before the Supreme Court. it's as simple as sell it to free people and you can operate it don't do that and screw you yeah and that's basically what it comes down to uh there's no way in the world someone can convince me that the geniuses that were at the inauguration the richest men in the world the tech empires that were at the inauguration can't build a short video platform that would rival this there's a craptastic app that's named red little red book yeah that a lot of people have left TikTok to go to, also run by the Communist Party of China. So you can't tell me that these guys that run the biggest empires in tech in the world can't do something that's not Communist Party owned. So we've gotta just solve that part and then I'm with you. I'll join the army for free speech because I've always been in the army for free speech. But stop this ownership conflagration of, oh, this is about stomping on every other app. No, not every other app is owned by the Communist Party of China. So let's stop there.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, and that's kind of the difference with this. We're talking with our friend Stephen Yates at Yates Comes On X because I've been watching like some of these software engineers and some of these programmers talk about the stuff that TikTok does and what it collects, like the tracking code that can monitor keystrokes and passwords and taps. And I know that Certain other apps do that as well. But the point that you just made signifies the difference. I mean, those Instagrams not owned by the Communist Party of China, nor is Facebook. I mean, Facebook famously didn't even can't even get clearance to operate in China because they wouldn't allow certain technology like this to be implemented along with the app. So that I mean, that is the difference. I mean, talk real quickly, because I know you and I've talked about this before, but maybe people who didn't see that conversation. Because you've explained before why this is it's a weapon. It's a psyop. It's a huge weapon that the CCP is using against Americans. But I think that some Americans don't see the danger. They're just like, I'm just putting up a cat video. What is it harm? But there is there is something there.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, number one, they don't know. Everyone that's either an alcoholic or under hypnosis doesn't know what the influence is that's running their life. They think they know, they think they're in charge, but there are enormous powers of suggestion that go through our eyes, ears, the addiction to the haptic response and the device that's in your hand. This is something that didn't exist 30, 40, 50 years ago, and it wouldn't have existed during the Cold War, but it exists now. And we've put it literally into the hands of the most advanced totalitarian surveillance state that is looking to do what? Looking to undermine a generation of productive Americans. If they can get the US generation of military service, entrepreneurship, that need to be making money so that old people like me someday can retire, then they can get America taken down a notch without having to fire a shot, without having to be better. So if they're using an incredibly addictive and manipulative algorithm based on the data that they harvest, to try to sow division or just make us dumb and hypnotized in our own country. It all seems innocuous and it's free speech and all that, but in the hands of wrong and unaccountable people, you don't know what it's really being used to do. At least if you have a company that's based in the United States, they can be in theory called before Congress and have to have some kind of accountability, be subjected to American law. But a Chinese-owned entity, is subjected to accountability to the Communist Party of China. Their state government is literally written into their laws that they have to give data to their state. And so this is a completely apples and oranges kind of argument when people try to compare TikTok with, say, Facebook or X or any other kind of app. But it really gets at the heart of the young people. It's also used to engage in transactions that Snapchat is also used for, but we might as well shut down the ones we know of to move illicit products, whether it's fentanyl, meth or whatever else, because addicted Americans are the CCP's friend.
SPEAKER 12 :
Mm hmm. That's a good point. We're talking with our friend Steven Yates. One last thing for you. Well, maybe one last thing. I may have something else. But the hostages, the hostage situation. I was watching these videos of these hostages being reunited with their families. And then earlier when they were. taken from, I guess, the Hamas vehicle and put in with the Red Cross. They have like these weird gift bags and they were wearing this like this Gazan stuff and they had their gift. The gift bags apparently included a certificate is that you get a certificate for your time in captivity with Hamas and then photos from their time being detained. I that's just inhuman, absolutely inhuman. But how many of these terrorists and these are people who were caught in the act, as you know, of murdering other people. Is Israel having to give up for these innocent hostages that Hamas took? I mean, we look at that and I know it's not a fair trade, but when I watch the videos of the people being reunited with their family, I'm like, I get why they had that feeling and they just wanted their loved ones back. What are your thoughts on this? Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, number one, I mean, you know, and I've shared with the audience, I've lost my daughter. And if I had the hope of having my daughter back under any circumstance, of course, my heart would be in a completely different place and it would overtake my mind. And I have to believe for these parents and the people that were taken, can you even You can conceive of 400 plus days in the charge of these absolute monsters. Your life will never be the same. The parents, the captives, they'll never ever be the same. I don't fault them at all for having a somewhat modestly heart healing moment. What a miracle to be back together. But three is not enough. These monsters killed and have still kept. So many others, even Americans that we have no accountability for. So there's a lot of work that has to be done. I mean, I really don't like the pressure that the United States government has put on the government of Israel for these 400 plus days. I think they should have greased the enemy right from the get go. When you bring the hounds of hell to me, don't try to talk to me about the laws of war. And I think is what Hegseth's testimony was about. And I hope people understand that this isn't about waterboarding people. It's sending them to the freaking ground because they went against humanity. And I think by holding Israel back, we prolong the suffering of these families. And sadly, there are hundreds of other families who still ate just the way these three families ate up until their blessed reunion.
SPEAKER 12 :
Amen to that. Amen to that. It's a new day. Inauguration day. One last quick thing before we go. What would you like to have? If you could tell President Trump, get this done right away and it will pay dividends in terms of freedom. If there's one thing you could advise him on, what would you tell him as he starts out his second term?
SPEAKER 06 :
To be honest, Dana, I think he's already doing it. I think number one by far is close the border, make America secure. There is literally nothing that is accomplished without that. Unleashing energy is the key to inflation, making us stronger than otherwise. Fall back in love with the idea of America. He does those three things. I think we've had a monumental change, of course. It is the dawn of a golden age. All the goods, if we can do those three things. I got a few others on my list, but I think that those are mine. Others will have to weigh in on those things, too.
SPEAKER 12 :
There you go. Well, it's a new day. Stephen Yates at Yates comes on X. Always good to see you, my friend. Happy Inauguration Day. And of course, God bless. We were grateful to have you every week. Thank you, my friend.
SPEAKER 06 :
Thank you, Dana. Take care.
SPEAKER 12 :
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SPEAKER 12 :
It is a brand new day, is it not? A brand new day in this republic, a brand new administration. And now apparently it is all over. pedal no break all gas no break welcome back to the program dana lash with you uh and we're covering all of this stay tuned to substack to the newsletter for the show chapter and verse where there's going to be a lot of stuff coming out uh this week as well we've been covering you know everything there's you hear this this is a headline that just broke a couple of hours ago cecile richards had a planned parenthood uh she's passed away so there's the three kane cecile richards And then the other two that we had last week.
SPEAKER 10 :
I wish she wasn't famous enough to be on that list.
SPEAKER 12 :
There's your third. She jumped on the landmine, so that's somebody who's famous and wasn't an advocate for a baby-murdering enterprise. They didn't have to go. So, 67, Cecile Richards. Apparently, as Trump was being sworn in, she kicked the bucket. I'm not even kidding. That's what's being reported. I am not joking. She passed away, like, right as he was taking the oath of office. Someone said the demons fled her body. Now... My Southern Missouri tendencies say, now, Diana, you don't speak ill of the dead. But I'm like, how many people did she kill at Planned Parenthood? I mean, think about the babies. I mean, I'm just saying what she did was demonic and evil. And I'm not going to say that it wasn't demonic and wasn't evil just because she's dead now. So she's dead. So you can't say that what she did was bad. Stop.
SPEAKER 10 :
But I would also fake my death when no one's paying attention. If I knew I was up for all these crimes.
SPEAKER 12 :
Maybe we can have an executive order until Congress can get to it about not funding this entity. Thank you. That would be really nice to have to have that. So, yeah, that's just thought that was that's an odd little headline to throw in with everything on Inauguration Day. I'll be on Fox Business. What time? Actually, I don't know. Let me look. It's coming up. I'll be on with I know Dagan. coming up in the, oh, it'll be in the five o'clock hour, five central, five central, six eastern hour. on Fox Business about all the inaugural stuff. So if you want to watch that. And, of course, make sure you find us on Facebook and YouTube. Like and subscribe. Lots of stuff. We'll be at SHOT Show later this week broadcasting from there with a lot of special guests because everybody who's in D.C., half of those people are now going to go to Vegas and get out there for SHOT Show. And, of course, we'll be there as well. In the meantime. Today in Stupidity.
SPEAKER 10 :
All right, the totally unbiased and straight down the middle journalistic entity known as CNN.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, yeah, them. Them?
SPEAKER 10 :
Jake Tapper had something to say. For some reason, it's all right for billionaires like Soros and stuff to rub shoulders with Democrats. But when this happens, listen to this.
SPEAKER 19 :
Anderson, between those four people, plus Elon Musk from Twitter or X, those five people that I just mentioned, the four in the photograph and also Elon Musk, control so much of the information that we receive. Oh. So much is in their hands when it comes to ascertaining, monitoring.
SPEAKER 10 :
You can hear that the misinformation machine is upset that there's potentially someone else putting out more information, accurate information, that battles that misinformation. That's what it sounds like to me.
SPEAKER 12 :
All right, folks. Tomorrow, make sure you join us. We'll be all back together again, too. And it's Inauguration Day. It is a brand new day. Have a great, blessed evening. Stay warm. I'll be back with you tomorrow.
Join Mike Gallagher as he recounts his latest adventures navigating Washington, D.C. during the inauguration. From attending glamorous balls to enduring the bitter cold, Mike's stories are both entertaining and insightful. Listen as he shares the chaotic but memorable experiences of traversing the city when security is at its highest and public transportation at a standstill, including a pricey pedicab ride that becomes a tale for the ages. In this episode, Mike and Mark Davis dive deep into the political atmosphere surrounding the inauguration. With discussions on security concerns, the potential for political distractions, and recent pardons causing a stir, the two reflect on the broader implications for America’s future. Don't miss their candid take on unity, leadership, and the path forward as President Trump embarks on a new term.
SPEAKER 01 :
Mike Gallagher. Every day, Mike visits with Mark Davis. Morning host on 660 AM, The Answer in Dallas. Here's today's Eminem experience.
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Hail to the host. Is that for you or me? That's for you. I'm standing. I'm standing. I'm standing for you.
SPEAKER 04 :
We properly welcome you in. Good morning, President Davis.
SPEAKER 02 :
Oh, my goodness gracious me. We made it.
SPEAKER 05 :
We got here. We did it.
SPEAKER 02 :
We did it. We're here. We did it. I'm exhausted from last night. I can't even get through the show. Please tell me your last night stories. Well, let me start. Oh, my God. I got stories. Have I got stories? Let me share with you all of us getting from the South Carolina ball at the Smithsonian over to the Salamander Hotel where the Turning Point USA ball was being held from Charlie Kirk's group. Now, Washington, Mark, you know, Washington, D.C. I know Washington, D.C. I've been coming here for years. I have never seen security like this. They shut to traffic the whole flipping city down. You can't get a vehicle from point A to point B. So what do you got to do? You got to walk because all of the streets are closed. Metro working? Yeah, and I'm going to get on the Metro. I'll do that. You want me to get lit on fire? I'd like to not get lit on fire on Inauguration Eve.
SPEAKER 03 :
You're going on the New York subway, which is 20 times more dangerous, but anyway.
SPEAKER 02 :
I don't know the metro here. I ain't doing metro, so we're walking. And it's bitter cold. Now, you've got to picture this. I've got an overcoat. I bought the last overcoat available in the state of Florida because they don't sell overcoats in Florida. I was going to say, why not? It's about the composition of a windbreaker. It's like a long... I thought I'd get clever and get a red MAGA tie. It's like a tissue paper. It doesn't keep my neck warm. So we're walking and we're walking and we're all of a sudden. And it's got you got picture this Joey Hudson, his wife, Peg. She's in a beautiful ball gown. She's complaining because it's cold as you know what. She's got her coat. She's shivering. Phil Boyce, our boss, he's marching along with his gray ski cap on and his overcoat that he ordered from Amazon because he's in Orlando. He couldn't find any overcoats either. So we're all moaning and groaning. And it's about a mile and a half, two miles in the cold, in the bitter cold. So along come two... foreigners on pedicabs you know what pedicabs are you know the guy with the bike the rickshaw the little rickshaw he's got a he's he's pedaling a two-seater and they stop and i wave them down i thought guys this is our an answer to a prayer and by the way those ain't cheap ain't cheap brace yourself So they buckle us in. And it's like the two brothers from Saturday Night Live. Remember the Steve Martin, Dan Aykroyd brothers? Were those the brothers? We are the wild and crazy guys. These are the brothers. They're our pedicab drivers. And they put blankets over us. I'm back in the thing under a blanket with my boss, Phil Boyce. Totally like an immigrant. Joey and Peggy. And the immigrants are taking us, the illegals, they're worried about getting deported, so they're already grumpy. And they're driving us. And, of course, they've got to blare the obnoxious music because those pedicabs, they put on music tracks. So we're in the darkened streets of D.C. with YMCA blaring out of our pedicabs. And I lean over to Phil, and they're taking their time. Now they're going to charge us by the minute. By the minute. By the minute. He says he's got a stopwatch. He's got a stopwatch, right? Well, he's taking his sweet time. I lean over to Phil. I said, Phil, you know what this is going to cost us? He said, well, I'm going to plan on giving him a 20. I said, a 20? We get to the Salamander Hotel, and Raji and Gigi pull out their calculators, and they say, okay, that'll be $376. Now, I say to the one guy who's kind of the guy that can speak English, my guy can't speak English. The other guy speaks broken English. I said, is that for both? He said, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's for both. I thought, well, okay. So I walk away. Well, now he chases me down. He goes, no, no, no, no, no, no, both. $376 each. Yeah, he thought both meant... Yeah, exactly. He thought both meant the two people.
SPEAKER 03 :
$376 for you? Oh, the two people in his pedicab.
SPEAKER 02 :
In his pedicab. No, no. But it didn't mean to... It was $740 to drive a mile and a half in two pedicabs. Now, Joey's arguing with him. I said, Joey... He said, this is outrageous. This is ridiculous. And I'm trying to get away. I'm thinking, we're going to get shot or stabbed. There's going to be an international incident. And all I want to do is get inside to the turning point ball and see the village people sing YMCA in person. And the final indignity, and we'll get off of this, the guy wanted a tip from Joe.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, Jesus. That's exactly what I was going to ask you.
SPEAKER 02 :
What do you tip on top of $700? On top of $700? I can hear Joey bellowing in his unmistakable southern accent. A tip? A tip? You want a tip on top of $750?
SPEAKER 05 :
Are you out of your mind?
SPEAKER 02 :
And I'm just thinking, that's my night. This is it. This is a Gallagher production. So we made it inside. Now, it was pandemonium at the Salamander Hotel. The turning point ball, that was the ball, I guess. It was just chaos to get in. It was crazy. I have never... I'll tell you what, it was so overwhelming. Now, there was security to go through the metal detector. We were supposed to have a high-level ticket to get... No ticket. We got in without anything. They didn't ask for a ticket. They didn't ask for a name on a list. We just got... I mean, look, anybody... But I noticed that the guys doing security, I kid you not, for the Charlie... This shows you where Charlie Kirk is in the ecosystem. U.S. Secret Service. Hello. They had Secret Service guys doing the security. I mean, I've never seen anything like it. And, of course, let's get back to the big picture for a moment about the whole inauguration weekend. Mm-hmm. All this business of moving it inside, and there's a lot of rumors about why. I'm getting word from my sources here on the Hill, and these are congressional staffers, and even one particular member of Congress told me, this doesn't have anything to do with the weather. It is not weather-related. There is a massive security concern about the safety and the health and the well-being of President Trump. And everybody who would have been attending today, and that's why they moved it indoors. That's what I'm hearing anyway. I'm going to hold that at a big arm's length.
SPEAKER 03 :
Because I think those who know ain't talking and those who are talking don't know, for the most part. What if it were 45 degrees and sunny? Going to move it inside then? Or is this just a, I mean, I'm willing to believe that the cold weather gives them an excuse to do something that seems like an extra safety move. I believe that. Well, wait a minute. So you're putting what at arm's length? You don't believe that? The notion that security is the main thing. It's 10 flipping degrees. People are going to have to be outside for five hours.
SPEAKER 02 :
It's 28 and it's sunny. It is sunny skies and 28 degrees with a light wind. There's a lot of hype about the weather. Mark, it was colder for the Obama administration. It was colder for JFK. Colder for JFK. Now, you know, I don't know. Look, we don't have to get hung up on this because what I don't want to do, and I walked into the studio today so angry at this pardon. I'm so upset about what happened. What Biden did, this evil, desperate act of of letting them get away with it. Fauci, Liz Cheney, the I didn't think he was going to do it. I didn't think he had the guts to do the gall to do it. Mark Milley, Fauci and the January 6th committee members, including Cassidy Hutchinson, that liar who who perjured herself. You did a lot of terrible. He he he's going to let him go. I'll get away with it. Liz Cheney. The only reason you look. They got away with it. But but here's what I don't want to happen. I hope Trump doesn't take the bait. I think it's an absolute troll move. It's to stick it to the the the the exuberance of today. It's to try to put a cast a pall over that. I hope Trump barely acknowledges it. And because, look, Mark, the great one, Mark Levin posted today on X. Once again, it's mourning in America. Finally, we take back our country from those destroying it. And we're talking to you, Anthony Fauci. We're talking to you, Liz Cheney. This is me talking. None of it would have been possible today without you, the American people, and the courage and leadership of President Trump, a historic and iconic person. Today is the long-awaited day. Thank you, our soon-to-be 47th president. God bless you and keep you safe. Let's remember that. I don't want to get, in fact, on the show today, I just do not want to get distracted by how angry and just enraged I am. That smirking Liz Cheney, to think that that bad person is going to get away with this, Mark.
SPEAKER 03 :
But does she, because here's the first thing that occurs to me as the news of that hit my laptop. Fauci and Cheney in particular, I don't think anybody cares about Mark Milley, but Fauci and Liz Cheney in particular. Heavy iron doors were never going to slam behind them. That was never going to happen. Mightn't there have been some type of legal action? Maybe. But they are reputationally destroyed. The court of public opinion has rendered its verdict, and they'll always be welcome at Manhattan cocktail parties. But by and large, they are damaged goods for life, and I'm pretty good with it.
SPEAKER 02 :
Well, I get it. I guess that's that's that's a good way to look at it. And I'm going to try to hold that in my heart because I'm capable. I'm a petty, shallow, small, small man. I'm a little Denise would say, Gallagher, you're a little man. I'm just furious. I mean, I can't I can't believe I really thought when we got to like yesterday and the day before, I thought, well, maybe he's not going to do it.
SPEAKER 03 :
We're in the final hours. He's not going to do anything. But what? No, he's. Yeah.
SPEAKER 02 :
Here we go. Well, one last middle finger. And the timing is everything for him. They're doing it to try to cast a poll. And isn't it hysterical to watch their rage over TikTok? Think about this over the TikTok ban. 170 million American TikTok users were greeted to a message yesterday that said, welcome back to TikTok. Thanks to President Trump. Do you realize the goodwill? I mean, imagine that negotiation behind the scenes. Trump said, OK, I'll bail you out. But you make sure you send everybody a message because it was I've got a tick tock account. I looked at the box and it says thanks to President Trump's assurances that he's going to blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Tick tock is back. So young people are now saying, hey, way to go, Trump. Young people. I mean, the goodwill that he was engendered by this move. And they hate it. That's why they're furious. Because, look, he did an about face on it. It wasn't all long ago. He was saying it's got to be banned. In the first term, he thought the ban was possibly a good idea. And folks like Charlie Kirk are getting called out because they were calling TikTok evil and it needs to be banned. You and I have talked about this a lot. We have. I've never been comfortable with a TikTok ban. I don't know how you do it. I don't know why you do it. I don't know why you shoot. Can't two things be true at once? Can we not put up guardrails to make sure that the Chinese are not spying on us and taking our data and keep the app running? Is there no way to do that?
SPEAKER 03 :
And if anybody's concerns are profound enough, don't be on TikTok. If you don't want Beijing, you know, knowing anything about you, even though the entire world knows everything about you already, then don't have a TikTok account.
SPEAKER 02 :
I said that over and over again. And then people get frustrated with me. But I keep saying that. Well, it's about my kids. OK, how about keep your kids off TikTok? Exactly. Right. For crying out loud. Be a mom or dad anyway. But again, Trump today, he's expected to take over 200 executive actions on day one. Look, I settled into the hotel room last night after these balls and it was fun. And, you know, the South Carolina ball was wonderful over at the Smithsonian. We were in the portrait gallery and the band was playing and everybody's cheering. Cheering and laughing and smiling. Mark, this is so epic to get here after as hard as we fought. And I'm talking about you, Mark. I'm talking about me. I'm talking about our audience. We fought so hard in 2024. And look what we experienced and look what we achieved.
SPEAKER 03 :
Today is the payoff. It is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it. I am so glad that you are there. Me too. The final couple of minutes, what do you want from his speech? Remember his speech from 2017? It was critics, which we are always going to do, called it dark and foreboding. Well, it kind of was because he identified the various ways in which America and the world were mightily screwed up. And the first thing you've got to do to make a problem better is identify what the problem is. And he did so, and he didn't varnish anything. Oh, it's so dark. It was a wonderful inaugural address first time.
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What do you look for today? Well, I believe he's going to, if the reports are correct, he's going to really stress unity. That's going to be a big part of the theme. He's going to say, you know, look, Democrats and Republicans, we all have got to get together to make this country great again together. He has the highest approval rating he's ever had in his life. He's about 60 percent. A lot of even a lot of Democrats are maybe silently cheering for him. We've got to we've got to turn this all around. We've got to we've got to close these borders. We've got to make groceries affordable again. We've got to be concerned about the Chinese. We've got to be concerned about the Middle East. Look at the Trump effect. And God bless them. There were three hostages who are now are now home. You know, that wasn't Biden had 15 months to do a deal and he didn't get a deal done. Trump got that done. So it's the Trump effect. I use that phrase, the golden era, a lot, but it's also the Trump effect. And I hope his message is going to be, and I hope he says it. We've got to roll up our sleeves. He's inheriting a mess. Let's not sugarcoat it. Biden is leaving him. Biden is leaving him with a dumpster fire, Mark. Good way to put it. But if anybody's capable of putting it out, it's our McDonald's fry cooker and our garbage truck driver. Exactly. And our chief firefighter, Donald J. Trump.
SPEAKER 03 :
I hope they drive that garbage truck out onto the floor of the arena today. We don't get a parade. Please give us the garbage truck inside the arena. That's hysterical.
SPEAKER 02 :
By the way, we're going to be carrying the inauguration on our show because of the timing and all that. We've got some weird, funky times with our show and your show and my show. And we're going to be live with the inauguration coverage here on 660 AM, The Answer. Can't wait. I got a report that somebody from South Carolina, program director, said, did they move the swearing in to 1140? Have you seen that anywhere?
SPEAKER 03 :
No. It's supposed to be noon, right? Oh, yeah. Straight up. I think that's kind of the rules.
SPEAKER 02 :
11 Central.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 02 :
Well, that's all right. We'll roll with the punches, and we're going to keep it right here all day.
SPEAKER 03 :
And I can't wait for tomorrow's Eminem segment, because tomorrow's Mike and Mark segment, we have a different president. Isn't that crazy?
SPEAKER 02 :
I'm still pinching myself. I love it. Let us rejoice and be glad. It's a big, big day. And I'm so glad. And you know what? I'm going to say finally, quick note personally. The only thing I missed last night was you. We would have had so much fun together. One of these days, we've got to do one of these epic events together because I was sending you pictures like a teenager. It was tremendous. I feel like I'm there. Well, I feel like you are there. Except I have feeling in my extremities. Yeah, yeah. And you're not out $747. Exactly. Wait till the bosses get my expense account.
SPEAKER 04 :
He's going to expense it.
SPEAKER 02 :
Oh, I'm going to turn it in. Of course he is. I'm going to turn it in. This may be my last day. Hey, I loved it. I loved the ride. I enjoyed working with you, Mark. Yeah, I'll be out. Chris DeGaulle will be doing middays. It may be the last Mike Gallagher show, but we're going to make it a good one.
SPEAKER 03 :
We're ready for you, buddy.
SPEAKER 02 :
I love you. Have a great time.
SPEAKER 03 :
Greetings from Washington.
SPEAKER 01 :
Okay, take care.
SPEAKER 03 :
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SPEAKER 01 :
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