In this episode of The Good News, Angie Austin is joined by Rebecca Maciera-Kaufman to delve into the insights from her book, Fit CEO: Be the Leader of Your Life. Learn how simple routines can foster a holistic approach to leadership and health, even in the busiest of lifestyles. Discover the secrets of maintaining fitness on the go and embracing the principles of intentional living and stress management tailored for high-performing individuals.
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Welcome to The Good News with Angie Austin. Now, with The Good News, here's Angie.
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Hey there, friend. Angie Austin here with The Good News. Joining us is Rebecca Maciera-Kaufman to talk about her book, Fit CEO. And the full title is Fit CEO, Be the Leader of Your Life, Achieve Holistic Health in Your Busy Life at Work, Home, and Play. And Rebecca, you wrote this book with Lillian So. Welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 07 :
Thank you. It's great to be here, Andy.
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Okay, so tell me, great to have you, tell me a little about your CEO background and then Lillian's personal training background and how you put that together for this, you know, these simple habits for a holistic life.
SPEAKER 07 :
Sure. So over my years as an executive, I always wanted to be CEO someday and let the universe know. And at the time, one of the places I worked at a subsidiary bank that they asked me to be CEO of that required commuting. So I looked for a personal trainer that might be willing to work with me just half an hour a month. And I met Lillian So. And Lillian The two of us had a mind meld. I had already planned to write the book, said CEO. It was an accumulation of all my habits and hacks that people were always asking about with my extensive travel and leadership about how I managed my schedule, my energy, and seeing my family. And so I asked Lillian if someday when I wrote the book she would be willing to be my co-author, and she said yes.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, that's pretty cool. All right, so when you say you wanted to work with her half an hour a month, how did that work?
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Well, at the time, I was commuting to multiple countries and states, and I was trying to figure out how to have a routine that I could do in under 30 minutes in a hotel room or in a gym. And so she and I worked together once a month, sometimes twice a month if I was in town enough, and built routines for me. So I traveled with a jump rope, some stretchy bands, and was able to create a really quick routine, 25 minutes that I could do anywhere. Five minutes of jump roping, some bands that are like using your muscles and building muscles and then some stretching and stay fit while traveling.
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And do you incorporate those workouts in your book?
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I do. They're all in the book. In the appendix, we show pictures of how to do them and then The book is written in 30 chapters. Each chapter is two to three pages. It takes a total of two hours to read the book. It's very short and sweet. And each chapter is a leadership lesson from my life as being an executive and a CEO, and then the leader of my life, as well as then Lillian adds her voice that's literally in another font, which says, what to do, immediate and imperfect action or getting in your body or pen to paper. And we give you exercises that you can do in five or ten minutes.
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You know, I love this idea because I have three kids and I have a home studio and I am, you know, fairly busy. My kids are all in competitive sports. One's going to be a college athlete next year. And we travel, I would say, 10 to 12 times a year just for their sports. And then all my old NBC News friends from L.A., we travel again together now that our kids are older that we can get together and travel. So I travel a lot more probably now, though, for fun than when I was younger. So this is very intriguing to me. I was just part of a study at the University of Colorado Health Center on the Anschutz campus. It's a huge medical campus. It's kind of cool. I do five minutes of exercise like 10 times a day. And that was to prevent diabetes. But I started to realize like, wow, even though it's a hassle to remember to do it 10 times a day, if I set a timer, it's really easy to do five minutes of exercise at a time. And even though yours is 25, like in a piece, I see how you could really fit all of these little bits of exercise into a very busy schedule and stay fit, like no excuses, you know?
SPEAKER 07 :
Right. And in the book, we share exactly what you're talking about. If you want to do five minutes a day to start, 10 minutes a day, four times a day of five minutes, whatever works for your schedule, going for a walk, parking a few blocks away from the grocery store and walking there and back with your bags. Right. Taking the stairs if you're in a place that has a, you know, there's an escalator or there's stairs. Take the stairs. And just adding it throughout the day, which we say get in your body and move.
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I'm telling you, I don't know how there are overweight sports parents because when we go to, we just got back from two volleyball tournaments and one in Boston and one in Vegas. I was walking like I'd say seven miles a day because you have to walk so far to get into these giant coliseums and all that jive. But I'm really intrigued also besides the fitness aspect, what are some of the key principles to becoming the leader of your own life? Because I know you put some of your CEO aspects into the book.
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Absolutely. I mean, like with anything in life or business, if you want to get it done, I talk about starting and we talk about starting with intention. What do you want to achieve? Where do you want to go? Setting your intention is the start to achieving the life you want or the result for a business outcome. Then set aside the time in small increments, five to ten minutes, and build the routines and habits to get you there and commit. One of the things I did in business is create a set of routines that we did as a management team consistently that signaled exactly where we were going for the whole team, how we were planning to get there, and how we were doing against that, and then celebrating each time we made a good step towards it. So these are examples in business. And in life, it's the same. It is setting the time to, say, move five minutes a day as you do 10 times a day, and then celebrating the fact that you did it. And if you don't, be nice to yourself. It will happen tomorrow.
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How about some suggestions to make the most out of each of our days? And what are some of these healthy habits?
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Well, it's really about eating right and moving as well as getting outdoors and smiling. A lot of what one can do is just start your day right with the right kind of food and Make sure you're moving throughout the day. Make sure you get some fresh air and some sunshine. And remember to smile and enjoy the day. There are other things like the fresh air really helps when you get outside, looking at the sky and maybe finding some awe. And then throughout the day in those minutes where you're going to move, maybe get on the floor and get off the floor. It really helps with your leg muscles. And then find gratitude for yourself first and foremost that you did. move and get outside, get on the floor and then gratitude for life and you'll get a lot more out of your day.
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I'm wondering, you know, for people, I mean, this is really great for people who are busy, but to be honest with you, even if they're not busy, a lot of us just take those extra moments and sit on the phone. You really can't incorporate watching a movie. I watch Netflix while I'm doing my five minutes. I sit on the stairs, my phone on the stairs, and then I do, I have my headphones on. I can still watch my Netflix and then I do my five minutes. So a lot of the things we waste time on, like a Netflix show or TV, Just playing some video game. You can walk around your yard with your dog and still do these goofy games or whatever you like to do on your phone. You can do these things together and still work out. I think stress, though, for someone like you who really truly is busy... And when you talk about your travel schedule, you know, missed planes, sleeping in the airport, trying to find a hotel, they're all taken because there's a storm and all the planes are grounded. How do you manage stress? Do you have tips for managing stress as well?
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Absolutely. We share a lot of those in the book. But start with resetting. And what I mean by reset is take a break, step back. So the problem, you're stressed, your planes cancel, meetings are all messed up. So before you allow that. stress to rise through your body. Take a break, step back and put your own oxygen mask on first and gain some perspective. Zoom out. Okay, we're going to get on another flight. Okay, I'm going to get the meetings rescheduled or I'm going to do them by phone and walk to the airport. And think about the stress at arm's length from you, maybe in the middle of the table and not on your chest as a heavy weight. Another key habit is take a breath. Move some more. And if it's a personal stress, something not related to business, you've got bad news at the doctor's office, call a friend. Gain perspective. Get some support. But one of the things I love to tell everyone is think of a metaphor. And the metaphor I love is be a duck and let it roll off your back. You can look at it in a puddle on the floor instead of, again, a weight on your body.
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You know, I just traveled with a lot of people on these trips. Um, you know, so you've got 10 players and that means usually at least 20 family members, maybe a couple of kids. So that's 30 throwing a couple of extra kids at 35. And then the coaches you're around 40 people that you're interacting with every day, just on your team. And then we actually took a spring break after that with another family and stayed in the house. Okay. So with that, I realized how many people can't let things go. Like they hate this other team because they don't like the coach. They don't like the setter on that team because they used to kid used to play with them and the dad is mean and I can't wait, you know, cheering when they fail, you know, getting irritated about some problem with the rental house or like just fixating on everything. problems and i turn to my husband and i'm like we are so blessed that we can just let things go it takes so much stress out of your life like you cannot change this so how can we make the best of this right like in one case they offered us another backyard of a house two blocks away with a waterfall and slides and a pool and a basketball court and like how is that not making the best of it right but that but my friend was still mad that our pool at our rental wasn't working and I'm like who cares we got a waterfall on a slide you know but not being able to let things go I love your duck analogy because if you can visualize it maybe you can help you let things go because that fixation on those things you can't change is exhausting yeah I have another example I used to
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You know, walk into the house. I had kids, a husband walk into the house from my job and it would sort of be on my body, all that stress.
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Yes.
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I gave me that feedback, which is great. And so I started a practice of a few blocks from home. I stopped being on the phone with a colleague or employee and I would roll down the window, have the fresh air come in and I would throw all my stress mentally, you know, metaphorically out the window. So by the time I ran home, I was back to being mom and kids would run and grab my legs and my husband and I would hug hello. So not bringing the stress into the household. And another way, roll down the window, throw it out the window. Or when you walk in the door, flush it down the toilet. Whatever you need to do, do symbolic things to take the stress off your body metaphorically. And guess what? It does help.
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I like that. I like that a lot. I do the filing cabinet in my brain. And so the filing cabinet in my brain, I go, okay, this is like right in the front right now, but I've got to go have fun at this, you know, like we had a banquet last night, let's say for basketball. So I've got to honor my kid. I can't be worried about something. So I file it in the back of my brain. I have this little visual where whatever the problem is, it goes way to the back of the file. It's so stupid, but it works.
SPEAKER 07 :
Love it. It's a great example of using an image, a metaphor to really compartmentalize the stress somewhere else so you can be present for the thing that you need to be present for, which is your kids or the game or the friend.
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Yeah, they won state. So it was really fun. So I didn't want to ruin that. Oh, yeah. Yeah, they're so excited. They have a big trophy and everything is really cute. Okay, so what we got a minute left. What do you want people? What would be your dream for people to take away from the book after they spend two hours going over all your routines and your tips?
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My dream would be that at the end of the day, people realize that they really are a collection of all of our own habits and choose the habits that nourish you.
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I like that.
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That would be my dream.
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Yeah, I like that a lot. And really easy to find the book Fit CEO. Give us a website if you'd like as well. I found Fit CEO, Be the Leader of Your Life on Amazon, but I'm sure it's all over where books are sold and a website for us as well.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes. So my website is rmkgroupllc.com. That's rmkgroupllc.com. And in there are all my publications. You can go to the publications link and there'll be Fit CEO there and other articles and things I've written. And Fit CEO is at amazon.com, barnesandnobles.com, booktopia.com, and any local bookstore you can order it. Awesome. Thank you, Rebecca. Thank you, Andy. You bet.
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Hey there, friend. Angie Austin here with the good news. Real excited about this interview. National Veterans Day is March 29th, and this April marks the 50th anniversary of the war's conclusion. Joining us again today is Monica Mohindra, director of the Veterans History Project at the Library of Congress. The Veterans History Project hopes to preserve the stories of all veterans, and at this time is particularly calling upon Vietnam vets and their families also to share their personal stories as part of our national record. Welcome back, Monica.
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Thanks so much for having me back, Angie.
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One of my favorite interviews, and you know, I've done thousands because I've been doing news and TV and radio for 30 years, and I love this project.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, wow. How flattering. How kind. It's not me, though. It's all of us. It's the Veterans History Project. That's really what gets to everyone because we're all having the opportunity here to engage in this important national mission together.
SPEAKER 04 :
I love it. All right, so let's just give an overview for those people who don't know. What is the Veterans History Project?
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It's at least three things at once. It is a national effort, as I just mentioned, created by the United States Congress through unanimous legislation in both the House and Senate in October of 2000. That law had original signatories numbering over 238 members of Congress. And their idea then, as well as what we continue to do today, is to work with people like you and your listeners all across the country to collect information, preserve, and share the firsthand experiences of U.S. military veterans, those who served from World War I through the more recent conflicts. At the Library of Congress, it is also already an archive of over 121,000 individual collections of those veterans, in their own words, absolutely unfiltered. And it's an opportunity for anyone hearing me or learning about the Veterans History Project to participate in gathering these stories and making history themselves by participating in the Veterans History Project at the Library of Congress.
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I've gone in and I've read a few of them, and it's really neat to do this. So let's also touch on what we mentioned at the beginning, that this is the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. And so what are you specifically doing to commemorate that?
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50th anniversary of the conclusion and this opportunity to understand this milestone is something that we've been working towards for many years. We're fortunate to work directly with the National Vietnam Veterans Commemorative Commission. They worked all across the country and gathered 800 interviews just through their singular effort of Vietnam War era veterans. And that was a really great start to us being able to share those stories and use those to gather more stories. So we have also really wonderful special focus Vietnam collections in an online set of exhibits on our website, which is locforlibraryofcongress.gov for government.gov. There you can find absolutely unmediated, raw collections of these Vietnam veterans, but also some curated exhibits. And what I mean by that is we're not messing with what they say or what they contributed. It's what they wanted to share. Put them together in a way that helps you connect to the through lines of their story. So one of them is in-country stories from the Vietnam War. Another is personal snapshots picturing the Vietnam War through their photographs, their eyes literally at the moments that they were there. And Vietnam War looking back, more of a retrospective. So with this and with partners... partnering organizations all across the country. We're doing what we can to really put a focus and a highlight now on these Vietnam veterans' stories and the importance of collecting them.
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You know what's so neat, I think, about the way you collect it? A lot of people that are a little bit older-ish sometimes, like my mom, for instance, she would be intimidated by, oh, how do I do this? Do I log on? I don't have a computer. What do you mean log on? But you have this VHP field kit that I've looked at that you can fill out as a PDF document. But if you're blind, they have Braille. If you can't hear well, they have options for you to be able to share your story in So that you aren't eliminated from sharing because of some unique ability or I always call it, it's not really a disability, it's differently abled. You know what I mean? Like anyone can do this and you can always get help from a family member as well.
SPEAKER 06 :
Absolutely. I love you calling out. Not only do we have Braille, but we have audio described. For those who would like that help, that's available on the website. You can also call us directly. You can leave a message. Sometimes we're able to actually pick up the phone. We continue to print the field kit. You can call us or have someone email us. We will send it out to you in that amazing thing called postal delivery. You will receive the field kit in your hands. Sometimes it's easier to talk to a family member about contributing their story when you can show them this tangible paper. You can show them the release form that ensures that they keep their copyright. You can show them the other archival forms that we need to fill out to ensure their story is told correctly. There's a biographical data form that gathers the information from a DD-214, so you know that your story as the veteran is being told in this raw, unmediated fashion and you're sharing it the way you intend it to be shared so yeah absolutely please call us please visit the website we want to make this as accessible for participation as possible
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Now, as I mentioned to you, some interviews stand out to me. I just interviewed a veterinarian that worked for the Rolling Stones when he was young, and Keith Richards told him to do something with his life, and now he's my vet, and he just wrote a book. That stands out to me. Or you talking to me about the Veterans History Project, or my friend who's blind who's written 60 books, and he's done nine movies, and he said, I'd make movies I can't see and I write books I can't read like those stand out now for you you have all these stories I know they're all amazing in their own right because everyone has a story but any that you can give us a little snippet of that really touched you or stand out to you you know it's so hard always to answer that question because
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We have so many. There's 121,000, and I like to say my favorite story is the one you're about to send in because it's true. But it's also true that while we're commemorating the end of the Vietnam War, there have been some that have been playing on my mind a little bit more recently, including Jack Danner, Jr., who was deployed with the 1st Cavalry Division in 1965. He helped establish Camp Ratcliffe before then serving as an advisor to the South Vietnamese Battalion. His collection really stands out to me because it includes vivid photographs from Operation White Wing Masher. I really, really appreciate the chance to delve in and see photographs from the eyes of the people who were there. Operation White Wing Masher was a large search and destroy mission, and it shaped his view of the war, and you can see that yourself when you get to his collection. Again, you can search that just by putting his name in our database on our website, loc.gov forward slash vets. And then, of course, there's Ray Marie. Ray Mary left. She was a nurse aboard the USS Repose, and she treated soldiers airlifted straight from the battlefield. Her photos document a harrowing and deeply human series of moments aboard the hospital ship. These stories weave together most compellingly because they're about humanity and sacrifice and bonds in this mission of purpose that lasts a lifetime. They help us understand not just what happened in the moment in Vietnam, but how that shaped the men and women who served and then how we are connected to that.
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And then people can read these, they can listen to some of them, right? Some of these are the actual vets' recordings of them?
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Oh, absolutely. Of our 121,000 and growing collections, over 80% of them, if you go into our database, you're not just reading a snippet or hearing a snippet. You're going in and you're hearing the whole thing, unedited, completely raw, what it was, They wanted to say what it was they wanted the world to witness, whether that's letters, diaries, photographs. or the actual audio and video interviews, if we were able to gather those, if people across the country were able to gather those.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, Monica, I want credit for this idea, okay? I want to do this for you. I want to do a podcast where I would share all of these veterans' stories, and then you'd cut snippets, obviously, of their interviews, just news style, so it would be like, you know, kind of the way Dateline does it, so we'd introduce someone, and then we'd share some of their story, and then I would talk and give some of their background. I think that would be an amazing podcast.
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Let's do it. I love it. I love Nancy.
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People would listen because I listen to this history podcast. It's like history made fun or something. It's just like, I can't remember the name of it, but it's like reenactments or like real life stories. And I find that so interesting where it's the real story of someone in the Wild West that... like the lady in the camp that did all the laundry because she didn't want to be that other kind of lady in the gold mine camp, you know what I mean? So I don't know. I just love hearing about history. So thank you so much for what you're doing to preserve these memories. Obviously, the Vietnam vets, not just the anniversary now, but the fact that they're getting older and we want to catch these stories while they're still here is really important. So give us that contact info again one more time.
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Please visit us at loc.gov. forward slash vets, V-E-T-S. So that's libraryofcongressloc.gov, government, forward slash vets, V-E-T-S, for veterans.
SPEAKER 04 :
I highly recommend checking it out. Thank you so much for joining us again, Monica.
SPEAKER 06 :
I really appreciate it, Angie. Thank you.
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You betcha. Well, just so fun to talk to Monica again. Okay, so obviously I think this is important to preserve these stories, but not just to preserve these war stories, but family stories as well. I know some people are interested in putting together those family trees or doing their DNA testing and figuring out who they're related to, but I also like getting the stories of family members Um, I've asked grandpa, um, my father-in-law if he would share some, they're not really that interested in it, but maybe if I can get Riley to ask him, he might cause he and Riley talk a lot. And maybe it would be nice if Riley could say, Hey, could we preserve some of your history? And could mom and I interview you, grandpa, my father-in-law, I did do some interviews with my dad and I cherish them. I sent two of them to my, uh, my stepmom not so long ago and she said it was like he was in the room that it was so wonderful to hear him and I've done several with my mom because I've toyed with the idea at times of writing a book and been told many times wow your your story your family history is pretty difficult you should write a book about this you know like overcoming or beating the odds or whatever it may be and so I have done quite a few interviews with my mom and which reminds me I need to start doing that again. And so I've saved the files on my computer. So if I do ever decide to write a book, I can have them. The hard thing with my mom is a lot of her memories are really painful. And oftentimes there's not like a positive lesson out of that. But I guess for my mom would just be survival. For my dad, it was overcoming his alcoholism. He was an abusive alcoholic. And overcoming that to really do something with his life and really make something of his life. It's so impressive what his siblings, six of them, came out of the Depression. And they all were able to, without really parents, some of the siblings had to raise other siblings, that they all went to school. universities and, you know, higher education was something each of them achieved. Teachers, a nurse, head engineer on the Hoover Dam. My dad had his PhD. So really impressive, you know, what they were able to do with their lives. So I wish I would have saved more of their stories. But some of them passed away before I really was, you know, doing this type of thing, radio, where I do a lot of recordings and a lot of interviews. TV was a little bit different. Although now with iPhones, you can record anybody, anywhere, anytime. So think about that. Think about recording, maybe even your own for your own grandkids or your own children. I think that'd be a cool idea. Maybe I should think about doing that myself for my kids. All right. Thanks so much for listening to the good news. It was a lot of fun.
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Thank you for listening to The Good News with Angie Austin on AM670 KLTT.
Join Barry Kite as he navigates the turbulent waters of today's market in the absence of Bill Gunderson. The discussion highlights the mixed performance across indexes, with a special focus on the ever-changing landscape due to economic policies and consumer sentiment. We explore GameStop's surprising strategic shift towards investing in Bitcoin amidst declining traditional revenue streams, providing an intriguing look at how companies are adapting in unpredictable times.
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He's been seen on CNBC, the Fox News Channel, and the Fox Business Channel. His articles can be found on MarketWatch, Seeking Alpha, thestreet.com, and many other places. He's the author of the weekly Best Stocks Now newsletter and the inventor of the Best Stocks Now app. He's president of Gundersen Capital Management. Here is professional money manager Bill Gundersen.
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Good morning and welcome to the Wednesday, March 26th edition of the Best Docs Now show. I am Barry Kite, planner and analyst here at Gunderson Capital Management, handling show duties for Bill today, while he and Jeff are meeting with some folks down in sunny Sarasota. I know they've been... I know they've had a full schedule. And we've got, I know Edie ended up showing up to kind of coordinate things. She's the queen of our schedule usually. So she's down there directing traffic. And I hope, please say hello to all the folks down there. We've got a little bit of a mixed bag this morning in the markets. We've got the Dow up 182 points, 0.43%. to 42,774. And we've got the S&P down 15 points, just over a quarter of a percent down. We've got the NASDAQ down 171, down just almost a percent here, down 0.95. And we've also got a risk-off move in Bitcoin down about a percent to 87,194. And we've got gold still above $3,000 at $3,018, down $2 today. And again, welcome to the Wednesday, March 26th edition of the Best Stocks Now show. And we had a quiet day, kind of a quiet day during the show yesterday. This morning's been pretty quiet. The futures were pretty close to flat. Gotten some action since the market opened here, most of it to the downside, as I mentioned. But, you know, hoping to get really some quietness in terms of I think the market's really kind of waiting for April 2nd, tariff talk kind of remains in the spotlight. Of course, it sounds a bit premature at this point, but in case you missed it, yesterday the S&P notched I think its first three-day win streak. since early February. So that's not the longest streak there, but good to be on one anyway. Yesterday, the S&P was up 0.2%. We also had the NASDAQ was up about 0.5%, and the Dow was barely up. Just a tad bit higher. So all three finished in the green yesterday. It seems stocks continue to try to get back on track after correcting. Looks like from the February high, the S&P down to the March low was around 10.5% at this point. So as Bill's mentioned, markets seem to be continuing to kind of build that bottom here. Certainly not out of the woods yet and probably won't be able to sound any green light on the market, certainly until after April 2nd when we get some of that information in terms of what the tariffs will potentially look like, basically country by country or whatever. Sector by sector or product by product, we'll find out and we'll probably all learn together a good bit when we get some of that clarity. And yesterday we had consumer confidence. Certainly some of the sentiment remains bleak, as I mentioned. A lot of the, you know, cutting, you know, a lot of the, you know, headwinds, at least for economic growth, have been easy to quantify, whether they're, you know, jobs that we're, you know, taking out of, you know, out of the cutting from the federal government or if it's an amount of budget cuts that we're doing from the federal government. Obviously, all of that's going to be a headwind for growth, you know, All of that's very easily quantifiable. The hard part to quantify is what those cuts, benefits, and other things that the administration is doing to promote investment, promote business, where that's harder to quantify. quantify what those benefits will be down the road so we keep you know sentiment as such sentiment certainly been waning here over the last few months you've had I think looking at the consensus yesterday in terms of the sentiment short-term outlook for income business and labor market conditions actually dropped to their lowest level in 12 years That obviously was on the back of the University of Michigan's survey with inflation expectations kind of jumping their highest reading since November of 2022. So sentiment-wise, right, it's another reason why we need some of these daily win streaks to kind of turn some of that sentiment around because a lot of it is based on more feeling than actual figures out there, at least from a market standpoint. If you look at, you know, we had new home sales grew recently. Gained in February, basically came in just under our estimates. So actually from a home sales grew 1.8%. We also had a durable goods order came in this morning. Those actually unexpectedly rose in February. So new orders for manufactured durable goods rose 0.9% month over month. They were actually expected to fall 1% on the month. And new orders, excluding transportation equipment, It was up 0.7% month over month. I think the consensus number was 0.3. So those durable goods numbers came in, you know, better than expected. So, you know, economic-wise, we're still growing. And, you know, whether we don't grow as quickly as we have been or, In terms of some of these sentiment surveys, even though the mood may not be quite as rambunctious as it was, say, four months ago, the economy is still growing pretty significantly. When you look at Asian markets, we had Asian markets have kind of followed the U.S. as of late 2020. A lot of them being worried about reciprocal tariffs, how that's going to play out. One interesting note is Bank of Japan has continued to look like they're going to likely be open to further interest rate hikes. Right. Bill has covered the carry trade. We've covered it a number of times here. As interest rates go up in Japan, that makes that carry trade less attractive, which ends up being less fuel for risk markets here in the U.S. where you could borrow it. in Japan and then invest here in the U.S., and you kind of had a bit of an arbitrage opportunity, at least very low borrowing cost. And so as borrowing costs go up in Japan, eventually, right, some of that will trickle through to our markets in terms of potentially less capital chasing stocks and equities out there. From a market calendar, we had the durable goods order came out at 8.30 this morning. Not a lot of economic news out there today. We do have a couple of Fed speakers again today, as we've had pretty much all week. We've got one of Bill's favorites, Kashikari, speaking at 10 o'clock, or right about now this morning. And then we've got the St. Louis Fed Bank president is going to speak around 1.10 today. Most of that story has been they've kind of all been on the same page in terms of where they think the market's at. You've seen a lot of caution in terms of just not knowing how to necessarily model what we've got ahead until we get some more clarity on the tariff talk. And also, you've seen some where they've reduced some growth forecasts. They think inflation may tick up a tiny bit. And you've had essentially from the dot pot standpoint kind of reduced the number of cuts for the Fed in 2025 from two to one. So not much, doesn't look like we may not have much Fed intervention in 2025. Certainly not as much as may have been envisioned, you know, just a handful of months ago. But we'll keep an eye out there. We will get the weekly jobless claims tomorrow, which is always a big number. And then we'll have the PCE inflation numbers. figures on Friday, which is the Fed's preferred inflation rate. So a little quiet morning, but we'll get into some things here for the show. Stay with us. Best Docs Now. And welcome back here to the Wednesday, March 26th edition of the Best Docs Now show. I am Barry Kite, planner and analyst here at Gunderson Capital. Playing relief captain for Bill this morning as he's down in Sarasota with Jeff, Edie, and the team, meeting with folks. I know they've got a busy day on tap here. Not quite as busy from a market news standpoint. It does seem that the market's kind of taking a little bit of a turn to the negative over the last break. We've got the Dow mixed bag here. We've got the Dow. Up 0.36% today. That's 151 points in the green. We've got the S&P 500 down just almost a half a percent, down 27 points. NASDAQ down 1.4% here, down 252 points. Getting close to that 18,000 range again, 18,019 for the NASDAQ at the moment. And then we've got Bitcoin down about 1,500 bucks a coin, down 1.7%. So it looks like a little bit of a risk-off move in the market today. Like I said, things have been... Yesterday it had been pretty quiet. I think today it's going to be a little quiet. We may have some quiet markets up until the 2nd. I believe on Wednesday we'll have some more news on the tariff front. Part of what Doge and the administration is trying to do is pointed out by Moody's came out with a warning on U.S. fiscal strength, essentially sounding an alarm as they did. I guess they downgraded America's credit rating. I guess that was back in around 2023. You had Fitch and the debt ceiling battle in 2023, and I think you had Fitch and Moody's remove their – AAA rating. Today, you know, they're kind of just warning about the negative, they've had a negative outlook for, Moody's had a negative outlook for the U.S. since November of 2023. And they're just mentioning evolving U.S. government policy agenda on trade, immigration, taxes, federal spending, and regulations could reshape the U.S. economy. And with significant long-term consequences, fiscal strength is on course for a continued multi-year decline. And when you couple that, I guess, with increasing fiscal risks, economic risks, they're just reaffirming, I guess, the negative outlook, which is what, from a government standpoint, and Bill's mentioned this a lot on the show, is the path we're on, you know, is unsustainable long-term. So you've got to Make some decisions. You've got to reduce spending, which any government spending is a form of stimulus for the economy, for the markets, for spending. Those dollars are chasing goods here and abroad. And so as you reduce that spending, as you weigh people off, you're going to have less economic fuel for that to continue. So you're going to have some pain before things get better, and that's one of the impetus of reasoning of why we need to you know in invoke a bit of pain is uh is in this moody story in terms of warning uh warning in the u.s about their fiscal strength so that's uh that's where we're at uh there and that's why i think uh you know from an administration standpoint that's why they're on uh the path that they're on here um you know uk wise we've got uh got an inflation report today inflation uh And it seems kind of the inflation bug has really kind of waned around the globe. It's certainly not back to where it was pre-COVID days, but certainly those inflation rates have continually dropped around the globe. It really seems in each economy. But UK's inflation dropped to 2.8% in February. So under the 3% mark, it was 3% in January. We've also got some consumer confidence in Sweden fell to 89.8%. So I guess from a sentiment standpoint, we're not the only folks out there that have kind of a sentiment issue there. And speaking of sentiment, I think at 11... 11 a.m. today, we get a survey. It's funny, a lot of these surveys, you're kind of seeing more and more now since the sentiment has gone a bit south. But you've got a survey of business uncertainty that comes out at 11. So we'll dive into that after the show and see if there's anything that we can glean from that there. Of course, you know, it really says, you know, all the discussion, you know, continues and will continue to be around. The tariff discussion, of course, you know, which I'm sure like everyone kind of tired of hearing it, really had my – heard plenty on the topic at this point. I mean, it almost gives me flashbacks back to college economics class where, you know, a lot of that – tariff discussion and terms of trade back in those classes. It put you to sleep back then, and now, of course, it's front-page news no matter what TV news you listen to. It's all about the tariff discussion. We went through yesterday a number of different parts, different sectors, different companies that affected in one form or fashion in terms of the tariff talk, some on the good front in terms of opening what I think we were talking about opening a steel mill. uh in louisiana and and you know of course uh the you know talk in terms of you know what is that going to do for prices of of other goods so uh you've had a we've had a lot of discussion on it and uh and you know some of the uh pushback from other countries in terms of uh you know we're raising this or they're raising that so we'll We'll talk about some of those. I've been putting together a number of stories that highlight the tariff talk and how that translates into our investments and how we're positioned in portfolios, how individual investors are navigating this. Because it comes at you news-wise, comes at you a bunch of different ways where, you know, you could have a news story for Lilly and positive news, say, on the GLP-1 front or, you know, something else that they're into. But, you know, on the other side of the equation, you get, you know, we hear talk of potential pharmaceuticals, talk of tariffs involving pharmaceuticals. So how do those two, good news and bad news, how do those net out and how that affects your portfolio? But we'll take a look at those coming back when we come back from break. We're through the first half of the Best Stocks Now show. Be right back.
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And welcome back to the second half of the Wednesday, March 26th edition of the Best Docs Now show. I am Barry Kite, planer and analyst here at Gunderson Capital, sitting in for Bill today while he's down in Sarasota with Jeff and Edie, meeting with the good folks down there. If you want to stay up to date with Bill's thoughts on the markets, get the newsletter, get the four weeks of the live trading alerts, please go to GundersenCapital.com, or you can always give us a ring if you want to have a discussion about portfolio allocation or any financial planning issues you may come across. Feel free to give Edie a call, get a meeting set up with us. You can reach us at 855-611-BEST. That's 855-611-2378. Always here to be a resource. From the market standpoint, we've got NASDAQ still down a little over 1% at the moment, down 205%. S&P looks a lot to be driven by. Maybe the chip sector of silver and NVIDIA is down about 4.5% here at the break. But the S&P down 0.33% here. And Dow actually up, bucking the trend a bit, up 0.41% at the moment. But we've got, like I said, I think some weakness in the chip sector or no weakness. Yesterday I mentioned where Alibaba's chairman had kind of expressed some concerns about possible AI bubble here in the U.S., primarily on the data center side. Just meaning, I guess, in terms of the size of some of these data center builds, also some of these data center builds being built on spec, so building data centers hoping that there's going to be demand. And, you know, you've had a couple big players. Microsoft backed out of a contract recently on a data center. So you've seen those things kind of bring down the overall AI trade. You've seen, you know, Oklo had posted a bigger than expected loss yesterday. Oklo was down pretty significantly from a – and obviously that's a long-duration power play, but – You know, if you've got some questions in terms of data center build, right, well, then, you know, that would lead you potentially to a question in terms of do you need, you know, as much power as we've, you know, seen forecasted. So that's probably what the drag is on primarily the chip sector, but also really anything to do with the AI sector at the moment this morning. We talked about tariffs being, all of us are probably likely tired of hearing about tariffs in some form or fashion. And of course, you've got these ripple effects across all different industries, across companies. Probably the number one company that's under attack at the moment certainly is Tesla. not just because it could be affected by these tariffs, but also certainly backlash, whether it's Doge or just as a proxy for the administration at the moment. But we've continued to talk about that company just really being under attack, literally and figuratively. But I saw where Canada is going to halt Tesla rebate payments and likely block future rebates, at least at this point. It's going to frozen payments to Tesla under the country's electric vehicle program. has directed the department to change the eligibility criteria to ensure that Tesla vehicles will not be eligible for incentive programs so long as the illegitimate and illegal U.S. tariffs are imposed against Canada. So there's backlash against tariffs. We've taken away incentives for Tesla vehicles. Toronto, I believe, had already... kind of ended financial incentives for tesla i think they did that uh i don't know how they did that maybe a few weeks ago or so um but uh you know there's also been as with here been a bunch of vandalism incidents at the dealerships in canada um so that's uh you know that's another piece i know yesterday i highlighted uh The European sales saw some more stats on that in terms of Tesla's market share shrunk to 1.4% in Europe. Companies that beat them in terms of sales in the January to February period include Ford, Volvo, and Chinese state-owned SAIC Motors. Suzuki, all of them sold more automobiles than Tesla in that time period, the last couple of months. And all at the same time, the new battery car sales grew by 28.4%. So just another example of how what's going on in the real world affects our portfolios, affects companies out there, and Tesla certainly being... One on the front lines, in terms of we've got copper out there. We're actually coppers at all time. And this is how these tariffs and talks of tariffs happen. It can affect commodity prices, but you've got copper hitting record. I think it was up over 3% yesterday. There's discussion. Trump's threatened to impose a 25% tariff on all copper imports. So that's affecting the price of copper here and abroad. We've got some steel in terms of steel plants. We had news of one yesterday that we're investing in, and then I saw one from Cleveland Cliffs is going to idle part of their Dearborn steel plant, and that's basically due to some weak auto demand. They've got one furnace that they've had down. that I believe they're going to bring back online, and then they're going to have temporarily shut down one of their other furnaces or blast furnaces. So they're not really necessarily reducing the amount of output. It's really they're kind of reshuffling it at some point, you know, You would think both of those furnaces would be on at some point. But this is kind of what we do and what Bill does. We're attempting to read the tea leaves. and see what's going on out in the market, out in particular sectors, and how that in turn affects companies and affects portfolios as a whole. We've seen other benefits. Saw news where I guess India is going to get rid of a digital ad tax for foreign firms. So this is a win for the administration. India's going to abandon 6% digital ad tax on online advertisements. That helps companies like Google, Meta, Amazon, for example. So that's a 6% tariff that will go away for those companies. So there's, for every... Cost, there's also offsetting benefits where you've got some wins and some losses in one of the More recent winds is obviously it looks like this Panama Canal port deal is moving ahead, regardless of China has some concerns over it. But it looks like that's moving ahead. With C.K. Hutchinson, they're planning to sell some ports to BlackRock. Obviously, two of those ports involve a port on each side of the Panama Canal. The deal is worth $19 billion. It involves 43 ports globally. That looks to be on track, so that certainly was a win for the administration there. In terms of progress towards, we've gotten some concessions in terms of a potential partial. Um, cease fire for, uh, in the Russian Ukrainian war. Um, that's, uh, led to fertilizer, uh, fertilizer, uh, costs going down, uh, uranium, uh, stocks going down. Uh, so all these, uh, these things have a ripple effect through, through the markets and through your portfolios. But, uh, we're, uh, through the three fourths of the best stocks now show, and we'll be right back for the fourth and final segment looking underneath the hood of the market. Good morning and welcome back to the March 26th edition of the Best Docs Now show. I am Barry Kite, planner and analyst here at Gundersen Capital. Sitting in for Bill today as they wrap up meeting with the folks down in Sarasota, but of course Bill's adding to the newsletter every day as a collection of his research, and to keep up with what Bill's doing, what he's got going on in the newsletter, and All the daily emails and live alerts that go out from live trading, you're always welcome to go to GundersenCapital.com. If you want to have a chat about your portfolio, feel free to give us a ring, 855-611-BEST. That's 855-611-2378. Well, you're finishing up in terms of how administration's progress is working towards moving markets in certain forms or fashion. I think uranium actually is a pretty great example. So we've got... There's been some discussion in terms of potential ceasefire, at least involving energy assets in the Russian-Ukraine war. In doing so, you've had fertilizer costs have gone down. Nutrien, for example, CF Industries, Mosaic, all of those companies, We're trading lower yesterday. And just because you may have more Russian fertilizer come on, grain and fertilizer come on to global markets as we work to some form of resolution in that war. Who knows when that will happen. But as we work towards it, markets are being affected. And uranium is probably... You know, a great example just in terms of something in how many different things are affecting, say, uranium prices right now. One being the Russian-Ukraine conflict. As tension goes down there, right, you're going to have uranium costs are likely to decrease. So that's one thing that's leading to... So peace equals less price for uranium in that example. And so also we've had some tariff proposals potentially have caused utilities from signing up for long-term uranium purchases. So that's affecting the price there. And last, you've had, of course, you know, deep-seek in terms of partly, you know, part of what the Alibaba chairman was mentioning yesterday in terms of, you know, AI maybe being overbuilt. Both of those things, right, with deep-seeks, you know, discovery or, you know, the way they're driving their model uses less power, so that reduces all of that, reducing the cost of uranium. So, It's just interesting where you've got something with all these different cross-currents, all of them having to do with something different out there, really, one being tariffs, one being war, one being, I guess, discovery. if you will, or technological advancement and all three of those things affecting uranium in some form or fashion. So that's what, you know, that's really probably in a nutshell kind of what we do here at Gundersen Capital and what Bill is doing is, you know, So looking at the market and looking at those various cross currents, you think of a tug of war sometimes where you have a headwind for a company or earnings or a sector and tailwinds for those sectors or companies as well and kind of netting those out. Okay, well, is it going to be a net positive, a net negative for the company? What's the story there, right? And so that's what we're doing, and that's why, you know, Bill, and while we're immersed in this on a daily basis and most importantly paying attention, So I guess if you don't have anything, you can always do what GameStop did. This is an interesting story. It kind of reminds me of, as Bill mentions, the old kind of dot-com days where you just mentioned dot-com and your name and the company went up. There have been a few. Green Energy at one point was very similar. We had the word green in your name. But GameStop has gotten approval by the board, I guess, announcing that it can start investing in Bitcoin. So GameStop apparently has $5 billion in cash. I did not know that they had $5 billion in cash, given the fact that their revenue fell 28.5% year over year. But In terms of, you know, so I guess now that cash can find Bitcoin potentially. So I haven't seen what GameStop is trading at today. But, you know, I guess soon enough maybe it could be, you know, could be the next up and coming, you know, micro strategy, I guess. GameStop on the news up 15.5%. So they're announcing that their normal business, which, as I mentioned, their revenue fell 28.5% year over year. But the company is up 15% for announcing that they are now able to invest in Bitcoin. So... I guess as a dad with three boys between the age of 18 and 10, they haven't had me purchase anything from GameStop for a while now, surprisingly enough. So I guess that tells you Bitcoin probably is maybe the next thing that they want to go into maybe. on a go-forward basis, may be more profitable than their previous business. GameStop is still alive. Who knows? We'll see how this next line of investment goes for them. As we've seen, a lot of these companies, Bed Bath & Beyond was a great example. We've got Kohl's now. Some of these companies can stick around and last longer than any of us would have ever expected in terms of remaining an entity in some form of fashion. So with a lot of these brick and mortar retail companies, they've been disrupted and that business is certainly changing and GameStop seems to be figuring out that they're going to go in a different direction. So we'll follow them as we keep looking high on the markets. Always, if you have any questions, give us a call, 855-611-BEST. That's 855-611-2378. Or look us up at GundersenCapital.com. But have a great day, everyone. Bye now.
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Are you ready to transform your spiritual journey? This episode of The Flatline with Rick Hughes dives deep into the Christian doctrines that offer freedom from stress and anxiety. Learn how to acquire the mind of Christ and practice obedience through the 'faith-rest drill.' Rick shares invaluable lessons on resilience, the importance of divine viewpoint, and the critical role of virtue love. Tune in for a powerful discourse that equips you with the tools to stand firm as an invisible hero in your life's narrative.
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Good morning and welcome to The Slot Line. I'm your host, Rick Hughes. For the next few minutes, I'd like to ask you to stick around. Simply 30 minutes of motivation, some inspiration, some education, always done without any type of manipulation. That means we don't try to con people. We're not soliciting money, funds. We're not asking you to join up and fess it up and give it up. Nothing like that. This show is simply giving you information so you can verify and identify the plan of God for your life. And if you would like to follow that plan, Well, you have the privilege and the opportunity to orient and adjust if I can make it understandable. And that's my job, to get it right, get it accurate, and make sure you understand why you need a flatline in your soul. If you are a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, meaning you've accepted Christ as your Savior, You have done the reboot. You have started your life again. Remember the Bible says, if any man's in Christ, he's a new creation. Old things are passed away and all things become new. Jesus told Nicodemus he needed to reboot when he said you need to be born again. Reboot is a technical computer term. Turn it off, turn it back on, you know, get started again. And it is possible for all of us as believers to reboot our life. Before we accepted Christ, we were lost in our trespasses and sins. And then the good news is that Christ, the anointed son of God, redeemed us, bought us out of the slave market of sin, paid the debt to God. Now we're free by putting our faith alone in Christ alone. And that's why the Bible says in Ephesians 2, 8 and 9, for by grace you're saved through faith and that not of yourselves alone. It's a gift from God and not of any works lest we would brag about it. The most wonderful decision, excuse me, that you could ever make in your life is to receive Jesus Christ as your Savior because that gives you options in life that no one else has. That gives you advantages in lives that other people don't have. Advantages and options. What a wonderful thing it is for you. And so by building a flat line, a main line of resistance made up of 10 unique problem-solving devices, which, by the way, we have a book on that called Christian Problem Solving, and we have a bookmark that you can ask for to simply get in touch with me, email or whatever, and give us your address, and we'll send you that bookmark, and it has all 10 problem-solving devices listed on it. But those 10 problem-solving devices are your main line of resistance to stop the outside sources of adversity before it ever becomes the inside source of stress. That's the unique thing about a Christian life. We can live a life free of worry. We can live a life free of fear. We can live a life free of guilt. What a wonderful life. It's the Christian life. And how do we do that? Well, we renovate our thinking. We acquire the mind of Christ. And that's why Philippians 2, 5 says, let this mind be in you that's also in Christ Jesus. As a friend of mine says, we make a course correction in life. We renovate our thinking. And we change. You know, when we accept Christ as Savior, we're born again into the royal family of God. But what's in our soul, our way of thinking, our way of living? We have to learn this new way. We have to learn divine viewpoint. We have to learn what God expects out of us. And this is the advantage of the Christian life. Freedom. Freedom from worry. Freedom from fear. Freedom from being intimidated by the world. And I think last week before I finished up, I gave you a passage in Matthew 6 where it said, therefore I say to you, don't be anxious for your life. The Lord was talking to the disciples. And he gave them some illustrations about the birds and all of that and about how much God loved them. And he said that if you will seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and he'll take care of your temporal needs, your clothes, your food, your body, whatever you need, he'll take care of it. And so this was a mandate for us to use our spiritual life. It's important that we remember that, the mandate for us to use our spiritual life. And so I want to go over some of that with you just for a minute. In this passage, in Matthew 6, verse 25 through 34, this mandate is for us to remember that adversity is always out there, but stress is always optional if we use our divine advantage. For example, our Lord and Paul forbid any believer to have anxiety, to have worried or uneasy feelings. The Bible is clear about that. But if we let our emotions take over, if we begin to act on what we feel rather than what we think, then fear sets up, trepidation sets up, and we become vulnerable and susceptible to being discouraged or or even defeated in the arena of contention in our life. So our emotions, although they're real and they're wonderful and appreciators, they can be a discourager to be careful. Emotions are great if I'm out fishing on the lake and I see a beautiful sunrise. It's beautiful. I love the emotions. It pleases me to see a beautiful day and beautiful animals and beautiful fish. And it's always great sunsets. But they're not to make decisions with. They are appreciator. And if you try to make decisions with your emotions, it will discourage you. There's nothing wrong with having passion. That's an encourager. Passion is wonderful. Passion about the Christian life is amazing. But emotions can be a discourager because if you take passion and you translate your passion into a love for God, which is your number one virtue, then that would motivate you to be obedient to Him and to serve Him. So it's okay for me and for you to be passionate about our love for the Word of God. That's the number one thing. We should be passionate about our love for the word of God. Since acquiring divine viewpoint, learning to think like he thought is technically how we worship in its purest form. It's called obedience. When the Bible says, study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth, and when the Bible says, if you love me, you will obey me, well, there you go. Obedience requires me to study, to grow, to apply the word of God into my soul so that I can live this amazing, fantastic, wonderful life by building an invisible flat line in my soul. So the end result of living a spiritual life like we're talking about is you and me having peace with God, and that would guard our hearts and our mind in Christ Jesus. So we develop what I used to call and still call the Fantastic Four, wisdom, knowledge, discernment, and understanding, all taught in the book of Proverbs chapter one. So you actually know how history will unfold. And you're not a fortune teller, I know that, but you can look at the trends of the client nation such as the United States of America, and you can tell which direction we're going. How's it look to you? It doesn't look too good, does it? You cannot believe what's coming down the road. I personally believe there's a train wreck coming, and I can hear the whistle blowing already in this country. Just read what's going on. Take a look at how this country is being divided. The hatred, the animosity, you can see it. So the Bible says in Psalm 55, 22, cast your care on the Lord and he will sustain you. He will never let the righteous be shaken. That's you. As a believer in Jesus Christ, And a growing believer, one who's studying, learning, and applying the word of God in their life, you have nothing to worry about. Because in the face of adversity, in the face of opposition, our Lord himself demonstrated tremendous resilience. Resilience. That's another word that we must understand. As a believer, we must learn to be resilient. What's the definition of resilience? It's the ability of being able to adapt to stressful situations. The ability of being able to adapt to stressful situations, things that could alter the course of our lives if we don't orient and adjust to the plan of God. So it is possible that you could actually handicap yourself by failing to be resilient. Resilience is you refusing to give up on yourself. Are you refusing to give up on other people after some sort of tragedy or failure? We have to learn this. Never cast a flawed believer aside. Our father doesn't do that. He didn't cast Moses aside when Moses made some mistakes and struck the rock at Meribah. He didn't cast other men aside. David, he didn't cast David aside when he committed adultery with Bathsheba. When people make mistakes, we don't cast them aside, especially if they're flawed and they have a sin nature trend that causes them to crash and burn and fail. We don't throw them on the ash heap of life and walk away. We're resilient towards them, resilient towards ourself, and we're always looking ahead. We don't ever look behind. That's a terrible, terrible, terrible thing to do. Always look ahead, the next day, the next hour, the next opportunity, because as long as you're alive, there's still a plan of God for you. So the secret, if I had to label it, the secret to being resilient, The resiliency of the mature believer. Here's the secret, Proverbs 3, 5, and 6. Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not to your own understanding. In all of your ways, acknowledge him. There it is as I read it. And he will direct your path. Trust in the Lord is problem-solving device number three, the faith rest drill. Standing on the promises of God. Do you know what the faith rest drill is? We've been over it on this radio show over the past 13 years about 10 or 15 times. It's standing on the promises of God, claiming the promises of God, to have a relaxed mental attitude, and coming to a biblical rationale where you know that God's in charge and you form a conclusion. If the Lord's for me, who could be against me? So here is a mandate. Trust in the Lord. Stand on his word. Trust with all your heart. That's all your fiber, everything within your heart. and do not lean to your own understanding, that's human viewpoint. If you try to figure out how God's gonna handle it, you'll never get it right. There's no way in the world that the Jews could have understood when they went into the promised land how God would handle Jericho. They were just told they would defeat Jericho and they were to destroy everybody in the city with the exception of Rahab the harlot and her family. They had no idea what God was gonna do with those walls. No idea. And this is the way it is so many times. People have no idea how the Lord is gonna handle things. So if we trust in him and we don't lean to our own understandings, if you get to thinking about, well, why would God do this? How would he do that? You don't know what he's going to do. All you need to worry about is this, that you trust him, that you're not afraid, that you're not worried, that you put your faith and trust in him. He hasn't thrown you aside. He hasn't cast you on the ash heap of life. Be resilient. Trust in him. In all your ways, acknowledge him. That means adoration and recognition. That's one of the key things in prayer to do. When you're praying, you want to do adoration. That's appreciation to God for what he's done for you and recognition of God's plan in your life. So in all of your ways, acknowledge him. And then the directive will of God, he shall direct your path. directive will of god where he wants you to be what he wants you to think what does he want you to do it's all in the bible it's all laid out for you divine guidance is a wonderful doctrine to understand and learn so that you don't have to act on your intuitions in proverbs 24 15-16 you wicked one do not lie in ambush at the home of a righteous person and do not rob his house A righteous person may fall seven times, but he gets up again. However, in a disaster, wicked people fall and fail. Seven times. Would you call that resilient? Yes. Proverbs 24, 15 in the Living Bible, O evil man, leave the upright man alone and quit trying to cheat him out of his rights. Don't you know that this good man, though you trip him up seven times... will every time rise again. But one calamity is enough to destroy you. This is one of the sayings presented in Solomon's book of wisdom in the Proverbs, and that simple saying refers to the futility of the wicked man who seeks to destroy the righteous and to seize his possessions. According to what I call the Bible knowledge commentary written by Walvoord and Zuck, The righteous man is resilient and he recovers from such attacks. But the wicked man who instigates the scheme, the attack, they're the ones who actually suffer, and it is sort of a judicial boomerang. So if you've been attacked, if you've been slandered, maligned, smeared, and this happens in churches a lot, an awful lot when someone in the church wants it to go one way and you don't want it to go that direction, and they'll start a smear campaign to malign and slander you, to get you out of the congregation, to get rid of you, thinking you're a troublemaker. What do you do? You get up. You're resilient. You may have to move on. You may just silently pick up your stuff and leave. But the Lord has a plan. They won't be able to handle it. God will discipline them. But you, in your resilience, you keep going. That's a wonderful thing. Proverbs 37, 23. The Lord makes firm. In other words, he gives solid ground to the steps of the one who delights in him. As long as you have positive volition, you're hungry to learn and hungry to know. And this is where I want to make a difference here. Many people that I meet are not hungry to learn. They want to know God, but they don't want to understand God. They are not hungry. And so if you talk about what it takes to grow in grace, if you talk about what it means to study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth, they are not willing to commit the time to do it. They don't have the hunger to do it. Only a very few that I've met over the years of my ministry, which is going on 50, have really had a desire to grow in grace. Most people are just happy to go to church and be a conventional Christian. Hello, God. Goodbye, God. I'll see you next Sunday, God. Take care of me until then, God. We call it the nod to God crowd. They're saved. They're going to heaven. They have eternal life. they're never going to have an impact for the lord jesus christ in this world because they're not willing to learn and understand the plan of god so the lord makes firm solid ground the steps of the one who delights in him positive volition though he may stumble he won't fall for the lord upholds him with his hand i've been young and now i'm old the psalmist said And I have never seen the righteous forsaken, nor have I ever seen his seed begging bread. The resilience of the Apostle Paul can also be seen in Acts 14. Notice this about how resilient he was. In Acts 14, 19 and 20, the Jews came from Antioch and Iconium. And after winning the crowds over, that's the public lie, they told the public lie loud enough, long enough, and often enough to... The idiots in the crowd believed it. So then they stoned Paul, stoned him. That means they attacked him with stones and they dragged him out of the city, presuming he was dead. He was unconscious. Stoned him. Verse 20, but after the disciples surrounded him, and I'm sure they prayed for him, he got up and he went back into the city. And on the next day, he left with Barnabas for Derbe. He got up and he went back into the city. The believer's spiritual resilience always enables him to advance undeterred to maturity in his life. Undeterred. You're going to face problems. Listen to what Paul said about it in his life. In 2 Corinthians 4, 8 and 9, using what I call the Net Bible, the New English translation, he said, we are experiencing trouble on every side, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed, but not driven to despair. We are persuaded, but not, persecuted, but not abandoned. And we are knocked down, but we are not destroyed. Now there is resilience in the face of adversity. We're troubled. That Greek word, T-H-L-I-P-B-O, thalibo, is a present passive participle, and all these are participles, by the way. And the trouble from him is the trouble from the pressure of the circumstances of antagonism. It's not self-induced. It's not something he created. It's something he received. The antagonism. We are being troubled on every side. But we are not crushed. Stenicoreo is the Greek word. Stenicoreo. That means we are not forced into a narrow space like a... getting our foot crushed in a wall or something. We are not distressed over these circumstances. We are not distressed. We have adversity, but we don't have any anxiety. He's relaxed. He has a divine viewpoint. He's troubled, yes, on every side, persecution, attacks, lies, stonings, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed. And that's aporeo. In other words, he didn't understand the attitude of the believers in the churches towards their Judaistic traditions. He said, we're perplexed. I don't quite understand it. We are perplexed, but not abandoned. We are not abandoned. And that is eg katalapo, means we're not left helpless. We're not deserted by God. So we're troubled, but we're not crushed. We are perplexed, don't quite understand it, but we're not driven into despair. And we are not abandoned and knocked down and destroyed. Let's look at this a little bit more. We are not driven to despair. Ex porreo, ex aporreo, despair. It means we still have our resources. We're knocked down, katabalo in the Greek, thrown to the ground, stoned, put in a lower place, but we're not destroyed, apolumi, we're not abolished, we're not put to an end, we're not rendered useless. So Paul lists all of these things, and then he notes the divine advantage for what he went through. The reason he went through these things, and here it is, listen carefully, 2 Corinthians 4, 15 and 18. For all of these things were for your sakes, so that the grace that is including more and more people may cause thanksgiving to increase to the glory of God. Therefore, we do not despair. Even if our physical body is wearing away, our inner person is being renewed day by day. For our momentary light suffering is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison. Because we are not looking at what can be seen, but at what cannot be seen. For what can be seen is temporary, but what cannot be seen is eternal. What did he say? We do not despair. We don't have this despair. We have the resources in our soul. We are not lost. We have not given up hope. Paul had eternal objective optimism. And that was a clear indication of his resiliency. You see, if you're subjective, not objected, but if you're subjective, it will rob you of your divine outlook on circumstances beyond your control. You won't understand it because subjectivity leads to negative volition on your part because you'll get full of self-pity. You'll begin to feel sorry for yourself and wonder why God allowed these things to happen to me. And this is not the way that Paul was about this, excuse me. So subjectivity leads to self-pity, and then self-pity is a byproduct of subjectivity. But virtue love, wonderful virtue love, is objective in its function. So virtue love is you loving God. If we love me, you'll obey me. We love him because he first loved us, reciprocal love motivation. We are mandated to love God over and over and over again. That's the friend God is looking for, the person that loves him. When we have this motivational virtue, personal love for God, then arrogance on that part is subjective. Arrogance is always towards self. That's subjective arrogance, but love for God, virtue, is always objective. It's always looking ahead, always looking for the next day. In other words, if you have an objective analysis in your soul from the Word of God you've learned and applied in your life, you have those problem-solving devices, then you can have the resiliency that you need to sustain you in times of adversity. You have the faith rest drill. You have the problem-solving devices. I mean, it's wonderful. What do you have to worry about? Paul's life was never fragmented by being arrogantly subjective. It didn't happen. He was objective rather than subjective, and that's the key to happiness in life because it allows you to counsel yourself with the Word of God that's in your soul when you hit a crisis. You don't get full of self-pity. You don't get angry at people. You use a faith rest drill from the problem-solving devices, and you live with spiritual objectivity. And it helps you avoid hang-ups in your life, which hinder you learning the Word of God or applying the Word of God. We're not perfect. None of us are perfect. We all have a sin nature. So perfectionism is not possible. But it is possible that we live as professionals Not perfectionist, but professionals. Professional believers. We are professionals. Spiritually quiet professionals who have an impact on history. The client nation USA needs some spiritually quiet professionals, which means they are members of the pivot. They are blessing by association. They have impact on the course of history as invisible heroes. Amazing what God wants you to do. You can change the course of history by your positive volition as you grow in grace and develop virtue love for God. Your life will count in such a way that you will be an invisible hero as a spiritual quiet professional. The invisible hero has invisible impact on history. And depending on your routine, your daily perception of the word of God, this is what will take place. As a winner, believer, you will demonstrate the validity of the sentence that God passed on the fallen angels. They had a chance, they rejected it. You have a chance and you've accepted it. So the invisible hero has an invisible impact. But if you don't have that spiritual resiliency, you will never have an impact on the courts of history. Not in this client nation. So think about this. The spiritually mature believer has international impact, angelic impact, heritage impact. He changes history with his resiliency based on the word of God in his soul called those 10 problem-solving devices. Hope you're listening. I hope you're learning. I hope it makes sense. I know I didn't do a great job, but we're trying. Please come back next week. Same time, same place. Until then, this is your host, Rick Hughes, saying thank you for listening to The Flatline.
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Thank you for listening to The Floodline with your host, Rick Hughes. If you'd like to contact Rick, please write to him at P.O. Box 100, Cropwell, Alabama, 35054, or online at www.rickhughesministries.org.
In this episode, we dive into the surprising versatility and utility of the 2025 Toyota Sienna Platinum Hybrid. Join us as we explore its family-friendly features like multiple cup holders, innovative storage solutions, and a built-in refrigerator that can make those soccer game days a whole lot easier. We compare the merits of minivans and SUVs, with insights from real-world use that may challenge your assumptions about these vehicles.
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All right, and up next, this is a segment that both of us, I mean, we sort of chuckle at, but on the same token, it's a segment that I think is extremely, extremely versatile. You were able to drive a 2025 Toyota Sienna Platinum Hybrid, I should say, minivan.
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Dad, it is one of my most... favorite vehicles, and some of you folks are going to laugh at me, and even my wife will laugh at me, but she will be the first to say who she drives a larger SUV of the truck-based variety. that minivans are incredibly hard to beat for their versatility and their use. This thing had, I don't know how many stinking cup holders this thing had, but for those of you that have kids, you know you always need more cup holders. It's got storage underneath kind of like the front area, kind of like a lot of these electric cars have, Dad, nowadays, kind of underneath the center console. It has a cooler... for the second-row passengers that can either be cold enough just for drinks or, heck, when you're going to those soccer games on a hot July day, for popsicles. It will do that. It also now has a vacuum built in, which is a really, really great feature. And, again, that fridge is also now available for this year. That, not to mention, it's got a standard – you mentioned the hybrid – standard hybrid powertrain, which gives you excellent fuel economy. And I can say, I drove this vehicle up to Fort Collins and back. It averages 35 miles per gallon. Dad, I think we talked about this with hybrids. I feel like it's like 20% more that you can get in terms of your fuel economy. I can just say this, on a minivan, Dad, it was every bit of 500 miles on a tank of fuel. I can just say that just from the fuel gauge and how it operated. The doors, yes, my kids love the doors, and it just frustrates the living snot out of my wife. Because they're easy. Because they're fun, right?
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They're easy. Yeah, little kids can open and close them on their own is the cool thing.
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Yes, my three-year-old daughter, folks, she can push the button on the outside and it opens the door and she doesn't have to do anything. So for those of you that, and then I had this happen to me as a kid where you get yelled at for slamming the door. You no longer have that problem, right? You just push the button, it does it. It's got, in the second row, Dad, it's got little reclining seats. So if you want to do it, my oldest was really enjoying that on the drive to Fort Collins. Oh, Dad, it's so nice to put my feet up. I think just kind of lots of different things. The third row sort of folds down into the compartment. But if you do want to lay it flat, I was able to go to Home Depot and pick up some parts for a project kind of around the house. I was able to do that.
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Really quick, they're the second best thing. I mean, you can own a pickup truck or a minivan. And the reality, Richard, for most people with a pickup truck, they don't haul any more than they could get in a minivan.
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They don't haul any more data in the minivan. We'll haul more people when they need to.
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Exactly. That's my point. Absolutely.
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And the other thing, again, for folks with car seats, I will say this. It was really great. The third row actually had car latch system, which I know is becoming more and more popular. And for those of you who don't know, a lot of these car seats nowadays come with these built-in latches. And having that in the third row is great, especially if you've got a younger family like mine and you still have some of them that are in there. Some of these other cars, you're limited. to being able to use those latches in just the second row only not in this car again dad the other piece that i'll say second row you can move them forward and backwards so you can get in and out with them they slide really easily some people knock it because the second row doesn't come out in this level wasn't a huge concern for me that everything else was great about it and folks Some of you are probably sitting in your car laughing. Yes, minivans are one of our favorite because they are super hard to beat when it comes to functionality and utility. And overall, honestly, if you could get kind of over the looks of some of these minivans, which they're really improving upon that in each generation. And I'll say this. There's a reason they're still selling it.
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Really quick before you end. I've got to throw this in because the boys, our grandsons, when my wife and I were up one day and the minivan happened to be there, they were ranting and raving and actually did their own little mini review of it as grandkids. And they were ranting and raving about all the things, Richard, that you have just said. So Toyota, I will just say this. If you're listening, you've got fans in them at least.
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Dad, and like you said, it's the simplicity of it that you can open the doors with one button push. You can recline the seats. You can move them. All the things we just talked about, folks, if you're in the market at all or you're like, man, I need to haul people, but I'm not sure what the best way to do it is, what the most cost-effective, Dad, you can get an eight-passenger minivan for $40,000. The one that we test drove. What was up there, yes, it was just under $60,000. It was about $57,000, $58,000. But again, it came with all of those features I listed. But some of the base features, as far as like the power doors and stuff, Dad, comes on those lower levels.
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There you go.
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So with that being said, head to your local Toyota dealer, test drive one if you haven't in a while, and let them know that John and Richard Rush from Drive Radio and Rush to Reason sent you.
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This is John Rush from Rush to Reason and Drive Radio. Thank you so much for listening. Check out more of our podcasts at RushToReason.com or Drive-Radio.com.
Join John and Richard as they dive into the intricacies of the 2025 Mazda 3 Hatchback. This episode uncovers the features that make this little hatchback a powerhouse on the road, from its turbocharged engine to the all-wheel-drive option. If you're in the market for a vehicle that combines functionality with affordability, you won't want to miss this insightful review.
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And we are back that time where we do car reviews each week. Richard, what have you driven lately?
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Yeah, so we'll start out, Dad, with the 2025 Mazda 3. This is the hatchback version that we drove. And we had the 2.5 turbo premium plus mouthful. Folks, this is one of the most fun, I guess I'm going to call it little hatchbacks. around town or just not around town everywhere and it was really fun to drive around town with the turbocharged engine worked really really well the hatchback obviously that in my opinion is going to give you a little bit more cargo space and obviously it looks a little bit different too right it doesn't have the sedan look it looks a little bit kind of more right SUV-ish in a way. But on the Mazda 3, Dad, you've got available all-wheel drive, which is great. You've got some onboard over-the-air updates that you can get. It's also got Alexa built in if you want to go that route if you're kind of in that side of things. But the biggest thing, Dad, is just in terms of the affordability-ness, I'll say. You can get this vehicle starting in the low 26s, 26, 135. Sorry, low 26 is a bad way of saying it. The mid-20s, right?
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26, 135.
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You can get the one that we had for under 40, which is a little bit more on the luxury side. Had heated steering wheel, heated seats, those sorts of things. Dual zone climate control, the touchscreen navigation system, that sort of deal. But a really wide breadth of options that are available. The only complaint that I had with two kids in the backseat, not even in full-on... You know, five-point harness seats, whatever it is. We just got normal booster seats. It's a little tight in the second row. Not a major concern. Just something that I want to note. And for folks, though, that are in the market, Dad, for sort of a hatchback or even, again, a sedan, urban environment, that sort of thing, I would highly encourage folks to check these vehicles out, Dad. The Mazda 3 has been around for a while now. And, again, it was updated. Let me see here. back in 2019. So it's still kind of part of the fourth generation. Encourage folks to head to their local Mazda dealer, test drive it, and when they do, let them know that John and Richard Rush from Drive Radio and Rush to Reason sent you.
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This is John Rush from Rush to Reason and Drive Radio. Thank you so much for listening. Check out more of our podcasts at rushtoreason.com or drive-radio.com.
From the vibrant discussions on the socialization of public sectors to eye-opening revelations about election integrity, this episode covers it all. Featuring in-depth analyses of current political maneuverings and legislative proposals, Kim Munson unpacks the implications for the common citizen. Listen in to stay informed, empowered, and ready to engage in the vital dialogues shaping our world.
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It's the Kim Munson Show, analyzing the most important stories.
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The socialization of transportation, education, energy, housing, and water. What it means is that government controls it through rules and regulations.
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The latest in politics and world affairs.
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Under this guise of bipartisanship and nonpartisanship, it's actually tapping down the truth.
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Today's current opinions and ideas.
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On an equal field in the battle of ideas, mistruths and misconceptions is getting us into a world of hurt.
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Is it freedom or is it force? Let's have a conversation.
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Indeed, let's have a conversation. And welcome to the Kim Munson Show. Thank you so much for joining us. You're each treasured. You're valued. You have purpose today. Strive for excellence. Take care of your heart, your soul, your mind, and your body, my friends. We were made for this moment in history. Thank you to the team. That's Producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Teresa, Amanda, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. Happy Wednesday, right?
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Yes, ma'am.
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It is Wednesday. All day long? So that means it's Wings Day at Hooters Restaurant. You buy 20 wings. You get an additional 10 for free. That's for to go or to dine in. And they have five locations, Loveland, Aurora, Lone Tree, Westminster, and Colorado Springs. And, of course, we are in March Madness. And a great place to watch all the games. is at Hooters Restaurants, great sponsors of both the Kim Munson Show and America's Veterans Stories. So be sure and check that out. And let's see here. Check out the website. That is kimmunson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. We have the recaps and podcasts of our show there. You can sign up for our weekly email newsletter that goes out on Sundays. That way you'll get first look at the upcoming guests as well as our most recent essays. You can email me at kim at kimmunson.com. I'm making some progress and text line is 720-605-0647. I'm making progress on getting caught up on both of those. So I do want to hear from you. Don't give up on me, please. And 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. It's not compassionate or altruistic to take other people's rights, their property, freedom, livelihood, opportunities, their childhoods, or their lives via force. Force can be a weapon, but it's policy, unpredictable and excessive taxation, fear, coercion, government-induced inflation. the agenda by the World Economic Forum. This played out with the globalist elites in the United Nations, this legislature here in Colorado, this Colorado governor, and then they can use all kinds of things at the local and county level, land use code, zoning regulations, force fees, nationally conservation easements, national monument designations. Joe, the Biden administration was trying to use those on their way out the door. And remember, If something's a good idea, you should not have to use force to implement it. The show comes to you 6 to 8 a.m. Monday through Friday on all KLZ 560 platforms. The first hour is rebroadcast 1 to 2 in the afternoon, second hour 10 to 11 at night, and those platforms are KLZ 560 AM, 100.7 FM, the website, the app. You can say Alexa, play KLZ, and apparently it comes in strong anywhere. And then we do, the podcast can be heard on the streaming services such as Spotify and iTunes. Our word of the day is indefatigable. And it's I-N-D-E-F-A-T-I-G-A-B-L-E. indefatigable, as in meticulous, or showing no signs of weariness even after long, hard effort. And I would say that my fellow CUT board members are indefaligable. indefatigable there we go indefatigable okay you're my my uh challenge your challenge is to use that in a sentence today which if you can pronounce it it shouldn't be that hard and we will be talking with the cut board member new board member paula beard here in the second segment as the cut board members are indefatigable in what we are doing watching the legislation down at the state house And we would love to have you join us. And when Paula gets on here, we have an amazing announcement that we are going to share with you as well. I want to say thank you to Laramie Energy for their gold sponsorship of the show. It's reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant energy from oil, natural gas, and coal that powers our lives, fuels our hopes and dreams, and empowers us to change our own personal climate. That means so that we can be warm in the winter and cool in the summer without having All the work of messing with wood and coal and all those kinds of things, we take it for granted. That has all been under assault from a regulatory and a policy standpoint, legislative standpoint, particularly here in Colorado. And so we need to continue to talk about the benefits of a reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant energy. That is why I'd recommend that you take a gander At the documentary I'm involved in, A Climate Conversation, it is the project of Walt Johnson. And it has been shown on Newsmax a number of times. And you can watch it for free at aclimateconversation.com. Our quote for this show is from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. He was a German polymath who is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language. His work has had wide-ranging influence on Western literary, political, and philosophical thought from the late 18th century to the present. He was a poet, a playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theater director, and critic. Obviously, he didn't sit around on social media all day long, Producer Joe, if he got all that accomplished, right?
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Very much so. He probably didn't have time for it.
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I don't think so. And he said this. He said, This is so important. And my dad said something to me along this line as well. He said, if you know what you want in this life and you're willing to work for it, he says, the world will step aside and you can accomplish that. And I've always thought, how is that? But the reason is, is because of focus and discipline and knowing what you want to have accomplished. So Goethe said this, he said, the moment one definitely commits oneself to then providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power, and grace. Our bill of the days, we will talk with Paula Beard. in the second segment. And again, she's one of our newest Cup board members and so delighted to have her join us. But this is really big news in our arena. And so many of you are out there doing such great work, caring about our elections. I want to get some of our guests on regarding Convention of the States. These issues, all of this is important, but it comes down to our elections must be free, fair, honest, and transparent. And Donald Trump issued an executive order on yesterday, and he said this is preserving and protecting the integrity of American elections. And he went through, and I think it makes a lot of sense, he cites a number of laws that have been put on the books. But he started this, he said, well, the United States, he said, many of the developed nations, as well as those still developing, such as India and Brazil, for example, are tying voter identification to a biometric database. while the United States largely relies on self-attestation for citizenship. In tabulating votes, Germany and Canada require use of paper ballots counted in public by local officials, which substantially reduces the number of disputes as compared to the American patchwork. of voting methods that can lead to basic chain of custody problems. Further, while countries like Denmark and Sweden sensibly limit mail-in voting to those unable to vote in person and do not count late arriving votes, duh, Regardless of the date of the postmark, many American elections now feature mass voting by mail, that's Colorado, with many officials accepting ballots without postmarks or those received well after election day. This executive order goes on to say free, fair, and honest elections, unmarred by fraud, errors, and suspicion, are fundamental to maintaining our constitutional republic. He says the right of American citizens to have their votes properly counted and tabulated without illegal dilution is vital to determining the rightful winner of an election. Under the Constitution, state governments must safeguard American elections in compliance with federal laws that protect Americans' voting rights and guard against dilution by illegal voting, discrimination, fraud, and other forms of malfeasance and error. At this point, I'm going to make an editorial comment regarding our lawsuit with the United Sovereign Americans, which you all stepped forward to raise the money for this lawsuit, which was filed last September. It puts in place just this. The lawsuit says that Colorado is not meeting the minimum standards as set forth by Congress. for our elections. So I think that our lawsuit is going to be a great compliment to what he is doing right here. Thank you. It was really a God thing, a God nudge to get these lawsuits, the money raised, and to get these funded here in Colorado. I think this is going to be huge. Then he goes on to say, yet the United States has not adequately enforced federal election requirements that, for example, prohibit states from counting ballots received after Election Day or prohibit non-citizens from registering to vote. One of our inflection points, our vulnerabilities here in Colorado, is illegal aliens, non-citizens, can get a driver's license or a Colorado ID. In Colorado, when you have an interaction with the government, you are automatically registered to vote. The illegal alien needs to self-attest here in Colorado that they are not a citizen. What could go wrong with that? Also, he went on to say later on, Maintaining accurate voter registration lists is a fundamental requirement in protecting voters from having their ballots voided or diluted by fraudulent votes. And that goes to our second lawsuit with the Wisconsin Center for Election Justice with Peter Berninger. And we have in that lawsuit, which was filed November 1st, And then we re-ran, let me put it, let's see, I wanted to rephrase that. The Secretary of State said that we had used old data for that lawsuit. So Peter Berninger got the voter records as of November 1st and ran the records. It was a targeted list. Out of that targeted list was 14,500 people in Colorado that should not have received ballots voted. And so that's the basis of the second lawsuit. I talked with both Marley Hornick with United Sovereign Americans yesterday and Peter Berninger with Wisconsin Center for Election Justice. They are thrilled with this executive order. And they said that our lawsuits have put us in an excellent position here in Colorado. Stay tuned. We're at the tip of the spear and you're in the battle, my friends. And then Colorado Secretary of State issued this press release. And she said this. Trump's executive order is unlawful. According to probably Colorado law, that may be true as far as Colorado law, but federal law trumps Colorado law. And I would say that many of the things in Colorado are probably unconstitutional. So just stay tuned on that. But she goes on to say, it would prevent eligible Americans from exercising their sacred right to vote. Don't think so. She said the Trump administration is weaponizing the federal government and trying to make it harder for voters to fight back at the ballot box. No, no, no. With all of the vulnerabilities that are going on in Colorado, it is diluting, I think, our legitimate votes. So stay tuned. She said the United States has always led the world in conducting free and fair elections. Well, that's our goal. And we cannot let Donald Trump in that legacy. No, we want Donald Trump to maintain that legacy. And so stay tuned, roll up your sleeves. We're in the fight. And we have all these discussions because of our sponsors, the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance team. can help you with all of your insurance needs. You won't know exactly what you have unless you sit down and really take a look at it. You can have a complimentary appointment with them by giving them a call at 303-795-8855. Like a good neighbor, the Roger Mangan team is there.
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Only in America do we have this right to go to work and reclaim our state and our country. And so excited about doing that. Welcome back to the Kim Munson Show. Check out our website. That's KimMunson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. And sign up for our weekly email newsletter there as well. And Producer Joe had a quick comment regarding my comments on the executive order. from Donald Trump to preserve and protect the integrity of our elections, and then Jenna Griswold, Secretary of State's office, press release, that said that this executive order is unlawful. And you had a thought, Producer Joe.
SPEAKER 16 :
My thought was, if it's unlawful, what about the 22 firearm bills that she is pushing through?
SPEAKER 15 :
That they're pushing down there, yeah.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, and also on top of that, they say in the Constitution, this right shall not be infringed upon. And so that's my question more than any.
SPEAKER 15 :
I think that's a really good question. Young producer, Joe. And let's thank you. And let's jump over here. Paula Beard is a new member to the Colorado Union of Taxpayers, an all-volunteer group that goes through and takes positions on different pieces of legislation as it pertains to the taxpayer. So we work to protect the taxpayer, TABOR, Colorado's Taxpayers Bill of Rights, our school choice for families, property rights, all those kinds of things. Paula Beard, welcome to the show. Hello there. Good morning. It's great to have you. And we are so pleased to have you on the board of CUT as well. And I want to give a shout out to our fellow board members because you all are doing such amazing work. You're all volunteers. And that's Steve Dorman, Greg Golianski, Russ Haas, Bill Hamill, Rob Knuth, John Nelson, Wendy Warner, Marty Nielsen, Rami Johnson, Mary Jansen, Dave Evans, Corey Onizor, you, Paula Beard, and Ray Beard, who I think you know. And I thank you. Thank you. for joining us. First of all, as a new member, what is your perspective on CUT? Yeah, what's your perspective on that? I don't want to give you an answer on that.
SPEAKER 13 :
I am so glad one of the board members talked to me about possibly joining this. My perspective is if people in Colorado knew what was going on in the legislature, Things would change if regular people knew the unconstitutionality of a lot of these bills. I just don't see how our legislator could just be run over by Democrats.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, and that's why shedding light on this is so important. And it is amazing. At this particular point in time, this Bill Track 50 that we use, which is pretty cool, Paula, as of this morning, there were 560 bills and resolutions that have been proposed down at the Statehouse. We at CUT have taken positions on 216 of them. And we would really encourage people to join us at coloradotaxpayer.org. But this is amazing work by volunteers, and I really think it's amazing. But we yesterday rolled out something we've been working on, and that is cut engaged, where we are going to make it easy. for people to contact sponsors of the bills and their legislators on three or four bills each week. And I'm really pleased to announce today with you that this is up and running.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yes, and I'm thankful that Corey kind of helped with that.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yes, and then Zach put it all together. And Corey's going to be taking, and he's going to be on next week, taking this, and he's going to be handling us on X, which I think is really fantastic. But we took positions on three bills that you can just go to the website, and you can click on it, and you can send a message to the sponsors, enter your name, legislators and the three that we chose are being heard well two are heard this week and one is just one that's really on the hearts of our board members but one is 1269 building the building decarbonization measures and that is house bill 1269 house bill or excuse me senate bill 37 coal transition grants And then House Bill 1211, tap fees for special districts. So go to our website and check all that out. Paula, we took positions on three bills this week, which is amazing. There's been some weeks we had 34, which is a lot of work. But let's just run through these quick like. Shall we start with Senate Bill 148, modifications to campaign finance requirements? What's CUT's position on that?
SPEAKER 13 :
Cut's position was no.
SPEAKER 15 :
And our reasoning?
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, I'm going to read the cut comment here. The bill increases the prohibition of lobbyist campaign contributions from during the legislative session to year-round. The bill also increases disclosure requirements. But, you know, all this sounds really good. But then it says fees will therefore need to be raised to cover the cost of the increased cost of the bill. The increased fees will be paid by business owners who have nothing to do with campaign contributions. So the reason I voted no on this, I mean, this sounds really good, but with all the complaints that are going to come up from this, the fees are going to go up and they're from business filings. I don't understand that.
SPEAKER 15 :
Right. And so this is what a strategy we see. They may propose something that may sound good, but ultimately this is another hit at business and businesses are having a hard enough time here in Colorado. So we're a no on that. How about the next one? And that is Senate Bill 190. Oh, I need to mention the bill sponsors. The prime sponsor on that Senate Bill 148 on these campaign finance requirements is Senator Michael Weissman. Over here on Senate Bill 196, prime sponsor is Senator Iman Joda. Insurance coverage for preventative health care services. Give us the perspective of cut on that.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, that was unanimously opposed. First of all, they're assuming that a lot of the coverage is going to be cut federally. So they're assuming that that's going to happen. And let's see, I did look up, well, I know there's 54 preventative guidelines that the US Preventative Service is in favor of. This is going to make insurance companies leave our state, and then the ones that you want to find are going to be more expensive for private individuals and businesses.
SPEAKER 15 :
Right, because it has all those force words in there, mandate, require. You know, all of those are your flags that government is probably out of their proper role. And then, let's see, the last one, appropriate use of prison beds, House Bill 1214. Cuts, thoughts on that, Paula Beard? Oh, my gosh.
SPEAKER 13 :
This was going to save so much money, which could be a possibility, except for the 15 or 16 full-time employees needed to do this. This is basically turning away class five and six felonies from a prison sentence. There have They're reducing sentencing so that there will be prison beds available for, you know, aggressive whatever. And to me, this is not how to reduce crime. You don't reward crime by enabling it. I just think... Yeah. I mean, if a kid, if you have a baby... If a baby cries to be picked up in the middle of the night over and over again, you don't go in until the baby stops crying. You're teaching the baby, you know, you're going to get what you want if you don't act up. So I think all, all cry, there's gotta be some sort of punishment that hurts.
SPEAKER 15 :
But they do this under, again, the guise of maybe possibly saving money. But to your point, significant number of full-time employees, which that's going to cost a lot more money. So cut is a strong no on that as well. And so it was a light week for all of us as I was going through that. We had taken positions already. There was now I can't remember exactly how many bills, but over 200 bills, I think, scheduled for hearing down at the statehouse. We had already taken positions on many of those bills, and then I'd already reviewed some of them as well. So we're in a little bit of a reprieve, Paula. Yeah. But our secretary, Wendy Warner, said that normally as we get closer to the end of the session, which is May 6th, that we're going to start to see a ramp up again. So I think we're resting a little bit, Paula Beard, and just stay tuned. And we really would encourage people to join us, Paula Beard.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, thank you, Kim. And yes, it's eye-opening. To know what's going on in the legislature.
SPEAKER 15 :
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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. And 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. And my friends, we have not realized that many of our school board elections, that there are radicals that are running for school boards and they have specific agendas. And it is amazing to me. There are people that are stepping forward to run for school board who really care about our children and care about curriculum, care about these things. And we need more of them. And we've got one of them on the line with us right now. And that is Nancy Rumfelt. She is a board director for the Thompson School District. Nancy, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, thank you for having me. And I would always I always add my disclaimer. Everything I say during your show is my own personal opinion. I'm not speaking for on behalf of the school board.
SPEAKER 15 :
OK, we got it. And I understand what I understand. So speaking as Nancy Rumfelt. And you're on the board of Thompson School District. This radical transgender activist agenda is prevalent in many of our schools. We don't even realize it. And apparently it's something that's being pushed there at Thompson School District as well, yes?
SPEAKER 14 :
Yes, and it's been that way for a while, starting back in – Early 2021, the school board passed a gender transition plan which allows the school district, any school, to socially transition a student without the consent of the parents. If the student says, I don't think my parents will support me, we don't investigate. We don't find out if it's true. We just say, okay, and that's it. I have asked repeatedly to add parental consent And they act as if I'm, I don't know, I'm subjecting or going to sentence that student to some horrible treatment by their parents, which I think is ridiculous. The really sad truth, Kim, though, is what we forget about is there are kids, there's actual kids getting caught up in all of this stuff that's driven by adults. We're forgetting about the real humanness of transgender kids, kids who are experiencing gender dysphoria, How do they deal with this? How do they go through school without being identified or brought out and trying to live their life? And same with those who live as biological male or females. How do we make things fair? And you can't even have the discussion without being accused of being anti-trans, transphobic, a hater, a bigot. And What kind of lesson does that send to kids with what we're modeling? What does that tell them? I mean, really.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, and we continue to delve into this issue more and more. And one of the things that has come out is some of these adults, there are those that really have this agenda regarding kids, but some of these adults in this arena that are mutilating children, both pharmaceutically and surgically, In their minds, they think they're helping children. Now, I don't know quite how they match that up, but they do. And anyone that tries to prevent that, they are demonizing them. So, tell us about your t-shirt.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, back in February 19th, I wore a t-shirt. All it said, simply, Real Women Rock. Nothing more, nothing less. I bought it after watching a video that Jennifer Say with XXXY Athletics made, showing how strong real women who are competing in sports, women like Riley Gaines and so forth, and I found it very inspiring. I also knew that this month is Women's Month, and the February 19th would really be the only public meeting because we have one today, but it's almost the end of the month. No big deal. Well, they turned it into a big deal. And the amount of male saying that I'm a hater, adding all kinds of meaning to three simple words. But I would just simply say to people, Kim, if someone can wear a rainbow shirt, a pride shirt, that doesn't mean that they hate heterosexuals or women or anything. It just means they're proud of who they are. So wearing a shirt that says real women rock, Why do I have to say, yes, that means something because I'm excluding trans women? Why do women have to give up space? Why do we have to share?
SPEAKER 15 :
Whoops, did we? She fell off. Oh my gosh, we got to get her back on right there on that. So I'm going to go ahead and give you a little bit more backstory on this. Nancy Rumfelt, who is a Thompson school board member, wore this shirt, Real Women Rock. And so she said that the other board members were fixated on that. And she also noted in this meeting with her board report that Thompson School District is not in compliance with Title IX. since the court ruling in January and that they needed to discuss it. And she certainly, she has a video link on that as well. She said there were the usual folks who sent emails and complained about the shirt, but most of the complaints were generated by the Facebook page. And so Nancy's back. So Nancy, you have the t-shirt. You wanted to have a discussion regarding Title IX. Then what happened?
SPEAKER 14 :
It's just been turned into something that it's really not about. I mean, when I engage with reasonable people, they understand then that I'm talking about, we need to talk about fair solutions. How do we accommodate athletes, girls and trans girls? How do we ensure sports remains fair and competitive, which Title IX is? compels us to do. That's what Title IX is all about. It's discrimination based on sex, and that's it. So having that discussion is needed because we need to figure this out so we don't lose federal funding. But we can't do that if they won't allow a discussion. They keep shutting it down because they want to make it about something else, which is nothing more than a distraction to the real issues we're facing.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, and what about these boys that are identifying as girls? In Thompson School District, are these boys at this particular point in time allowed in the girls' restrooms and the girls' locker rooms?
SPEAKER 14 :
They are allowed. My understanding is often they'll choose to use the unisex, but there's nothing stopping them from using the locker rooms or the girls' unisex. which I know they use the girls' restrooms. The bigger thing is, you know, we force our girls' sports team to compete against other districts that do have transgender girls, biological males on their teams, and that's just simply not fair. It creates an unfair competitive advantage. I don't know that people understand. I've had some people say there's way bigger issues than transgenders in sports. It's like, well, why don't you go talk to the parents of these girls who are trying to compete, build their self-esteem, win competitions, win medals, but more importantly, win scholarships. Scholarships are so important to the girls who go into sports, and now they have to compete for these scholarships with a transgender girl who's a biological male? They have to compete against that? How is that fair? It's not. And that's what Title IX is all about. And we need to have this discussion as a board acting like grownups who can learn to respect different views and have a conversation and figure out what is the best solution instead of making everything about a person. That solves no problems and keeps everybody distracted and just foments more hate, more division. And how is that good for our children to see? Again, how is that good for our children? They need to see us act like adults.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, and to have a discussion, seems like that's a freedom of speech issue, Nancy.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, exactly. They're all up in arms saying I violated, I don't know, laws, the Constitution, policies. The reality is there is no dress code that applies to a school board member. It also is true I still have a First Amendment right. It's also true that if a student or a staff wore the same shirt and we made them go home and change or force them to cover it up or expel them or wrote them up, they would have a solid case. for their First Amendment right being violated by a government entity. So for some reason, there seems to be this belief that if you are sitting on a school board, you lose, you check your First Amendment rights at the door. And that's just simply not true. You still have your First Amendment rights. You still have to also objectively and rationally listen to all of the information before you make a decision and vote. Again, it goes back to we're losing our ability to keep things as common sense. We just want to keep adding meaning where meaning is not there because it helps support the narrative that they've decided is true. And it's not just the far left that does that. There's also people on the right that do it. And, you know, rational people need to be able to discern the difference and see through it so we can figure out a solution. Again, we need to stop, act like adults, talk about, are we going to comply with Title IX? Oh, we're not? Okay. How do you want to replace the federal dollars? Because President Trump's made it clear they are and will and have take federal funding. If we don't want to comply, great. How do you want to find the money? If we do comply, then we need to figure out the fair solutions for the locker rooms, the bathrooms, the sports teams, so that we can also still comply with state laws, which the state laws in place are a whole other conversation. We're in a tough position, all school districts in Colorado, because you have federal and state laws, but they're in conflict. So it requires some real finesse to figure out how do we follow the law and abide by doing what's right for our students. I mean, it's a difficult conversation we need to have.
SPEAKER 15 :
So, Nancy, super interesting conversation for sure. This came in from one of our listeners, and he said, this is grooming. He said, historically, we have legally treated children differently than adults. The transgender agenda undermines this wisdom. So I thank him for that. We had some conversations this week, earlier in the week, regarding the Constitution, the Declaration, nature's God, and nature's law. And really, I think this transgender agenda goes against nature's law of male and female so I think of course those that don't believe in nature's law I guess good luck on that let's we'll have to continue to have the discussion on that and we're going to continue to do that because tonight there is an important meeting and it would be really great if people support Nancy because it probably I talked to one of our other colleagues up there in northern Colorado she said the chances are pretty high that the transgender gender activist extremist agenda is going to be out in full force tonight. So we'll talk with you about that, Nancy, when we come back. But I did want to mention the USMC Memorial Foundation, which is one of the nonprofits that I dearly love. And in mid-May, they're going to have a great golf tournament, their second annual golf tournament out at the Ridge. in Castle Rock. And there will be a certain amount of openings for golfers. And so make your reservation early on that and buy your sponsorship. You can do that by going to usmcmemorialfoundation.org. That is usmcmemorialfoundation.org. And then for everything mortgages, you'll want to talk to Lorne Levy, and we will talk to him in the second hour. So stay tuned. We'll be right back with Nancy Rumfeldt.
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Yes, and welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Check out our website. That is kimmunson.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me 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. And do check out the Center for American Values located in Pueblo, Colorado. And Pueblo is known as the home of heroes because there's four Medal of Honor recipients that grew up there. Yesterday was Medal of Honor Day. And I'm very pleased we'll have Drew Dix on the show on Friday to talk about that. And he is... a Medal of Honor recipient and co-founder of the Center for American Values. The center is non-political. It's non-partisan. It focuses on these foundational values of honor, integrity, and patriotism. You can get more information by going to AmericanValueCenter.org. That's AmericanValueCenter.org. On the line with me is Nancy Rumfelt, Thompson School Board Director. She wore a t-shirt that said, Real Women Rock. And they want to have a discussion about ethics. When I say they, that is the other school board members, about your ethics in wearing such a shirt. Yes, Nancy?
SPEAKER 14 :
Yes, they did on the March 5th study agenda. They decided to have a 15-minute conversation regarding my ethics about wearing a shirt and did a lot of the usual, you know, accusing me of hating trans, being anti-trans. when really it's just about girls' sports. How do you protect girls' sports and how do you keep things fair? And again, they always like to use these other things as a distraction because the reality is, again, it's a conversation I've asked for repeatedly. Being in the minority, I'm typically, what I would like to see on agendas is usually ignored. It's as if I didn't say it. So now we have this meeting tonight that where many people have been worked up into a frenzy that I need to be censured, I'm a bigot, I'm hateful, etc. The only good thing that's come out of this is that it's finally, I believe, awakened many parents to see what's really happening in the schools and that they can't be afraid to speak up anymore. Many of these parents will talk to me or through back channels ask if there's anything I can do to help with the girls' sports, and there's not because they're so silent. And now it's almost as if they're worried because parents and their daughters are going to speak tonight and say, no, this is a real issue, and here's my own personal experience as a girl who had to compete against a boy. And that's the reality of it. Imagine your 14- or 15-year-old daughter doing really well in wrestling. She's in third place, and she gets taken out because she had to wrestle an 18-year-old boy. Now she's out and she's done. So while they talk about fairness, where's the fairness in that? And that is exactly what Title IX is about. And I would also add to your one question. listener that as far as the grooming we need to understand that there's so many good teachers that are just stuck they're trapped in a in just a bad situation system they don't like this any more than the rest of us but they're stuck they're trapped between all of these laws and forced to do things they really don't want to
SPEAKER 15 :
And Colorado, I think, is really at the tip of the spear with this agenda. Quick question, because I so you mentioned girls wrestling. I thought wrestling was a boy's sport. And I'd always been uncomfortable with girls wrestling in a boy's sports. And as we're looking at now where we're at, I don't think girls should wrestle in boy's sports.
SPEAKER 14 :
No, and actually there's a whole sports for wrestling that's just for girls. I did not know that. Yes, and they do really well, and they enjoy it, and they get to win competitions and medals and trophies and advance, and they can even win scholarships. And so, again, it goes back to your daughter's working so hard to be a really great wrestler, and now she gets... kicked out she lost because she had to compete she had to wrestle a boy and so that is not fair and that is what title nine is all about and that's what we need to talk about you know i i get i have my own views on this whole transgender we've we've just turned everything upside down where the medical industry has always approached everything from a cess assess, assess, and then treat. And now when it comes to gender dysphoria, the law in Colorado says you must affirm. You must affirm and you can't do anything else. So where does that leave the treatment? So that's why these laws, you know, as soon as someone says they're trans, they're trans. They're now protected by all these laws when the reality is they should be going through treatment for gender dysphoria because overwhelmingly these kids have other underlying issues and they work through it and they come out accepting their body the way it is. This whole term of gender is some post-modernism construct. You know, for me, it's sex. Are you male? You're female. That's your sex. Your gender is just some word they use to just muddy the waters, in my opinion.
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Well, and watching legislation with the Colorado Union of Taxpayers, there is this whole agenda regarding that whole gender thing down at the statehouse. Two texts that have come in, one from Jenny. She said the murder of logic has taken place in today's discourse. And I'm thinking in your situation, you're not even having public discourse on these issues, Nancy Rumfelt.
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No, we're not. It's going to be interesting. We're probably going to have a lot of people signing up for public comment. Everybody deserves to provide comment and feedback to their government, which that's what public education is. We're a government. So I will sit and respectfully listen to everybody that speaks tonight. Some of it will be difficult. Some of it won't. I'm hoping that after tonight, that we'll be able to put this behind us and start focusing on all of these important issues we do need to deal with, which is Title IX compliance, the budget, discipline, student reading. Can we get kids to read? Let's focus on the real important issues and stop with the hate and division.
SPEAKER 15 :
So, Nancy Rumfelt, do you happen to know off the top of your head the reading and math proficiency numbers for Thompson School District?
SPEAKER 14 :
On average, you know, we are below 50%, you know, for third grade reading, you know, and you have to think about it. When you leave third grade and you go into fourth grade, if you're two or more grade levels behind, how well are you going to do in math? And the data supports that. If you cannot read, you also cannot do math. And so Thompson is much like many other districts in the state where we seem to have problems figuring out how to get kids to be able to read And it's because we take the money, and in my opinion, we put too much in admin and too much in some of these other programs, and we should be spending a lot, putting more reading interventionists in the schools that need them. That's what we need to do. But, again, you have to be able to have that kind of conversation with the entire board. And so we need to stop with this majority-minority. We're all elected to represent our constituents and students. Number one, focus on the classroom. What is best for the classroom, and that's it. We're not here to do any social engineering or any of that other stuff. We're supposed to educate.
SPEAKER 15 :
That's it. Okay, Nancy Rumfelt. This came in from Sandra. She said, excellent show and guest. Our dear Nancy Rumfelt has put it on the line by serving our country. Thank you, Nancy, for serving on Thompson District School Board in these trying times. She says she'll be there tonight to support you. How can people support you? We have just a minute left, Nancy.
SPEAKER 14 :
You can go to tsd.org and click on board meeting and then follow the links. You can do a phone-in comment today up until 3 p.m. if you'd like to phone in some words of support. You can also send emails to the entire board and talk about what we should be focusing on, words of support. If you're here locally, you can show up. to the district building, 800 South Taft, around 4 p.m. Stand in line, get a ticket to enter, and signed up for public comment. And we just need to remember, this is about the kids for the kids, and that's why we're here. And that's in Loveland, correct? This is in Loveland, 800 South Taft. In Loveland is where the school board meeting is tonight. And we just need to, like I said, keep the focus on the kids. It's not about us grownups and our issues. It's about the kids.
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Nancy Rumfelt, thank you for standing in the gap for our children, and good luck tonight. Thank you. And our quote for the end of the show is from Goethe, and he said this, To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together. 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 hour number two.
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Happy Wednesday, Kim.
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Boy, I tell you, Nancy Rumfelt, who was our featured guest in our number one board director with Thompson School Board, and she's going to be in this meeting tonight regarding, she just wore a T-shirt, Real Women Rock. And I guess this month is Women's Month, and those probably pushing Women's Month now are saying they can't define what a woman is. I don't know. It all seems a little crazy to me. But she wore that T-shirt, and her other board members took a real issue with that. So very important discussion. You can hear that as it's rebroadcast today, 1 to 2 in the afternoon. The show does come to you 6 to 8 a.m. Monday through Friday. First hour is rebroadcast 1 to 2 in the afternoon. Second hour, 10 to 11 at night. That's on all KLZ 560 platforms, which is KLZ 560 AM, 100.7 FM, the website, the app. You can have Alexa play KLZ, and then the shows will be on Spotify and iTunes as well. Be sure and check out the website. That is KimMunson.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter while you're over there. You'll get our Sunday newsletter, which shows all of our guests and upcoming, our essays. And you can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com. Text line is 720-605-0647. I do want to hear from you on all that. Our word of the day is an indefatigable word. And it is I-N-D-E-F-A-T-I-G-A-B-L-E, as in meticulous, or number two, showing no signs of weariness even after long, hard effort. I would say that Nancy Rumfeld is indefatigable in her pursuit of representing students and families at Thompson School District. as one of their board members. Your challenge is to use the word indefatigable as spelled I-N-D-E-F-A-T-I-G-A-B-L-E in a sentence today. Our quote of the day is from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, born in 1749, died in 1832. And he was a German polymath, so interested in all kinds of things. And he said this. He said, Action has magic, power, and grace. And our bill of the day, you can find those at coloradotaxpayer.org. The three that we took positions on this week were House Bill 25-1214. The appropriate use of prison beds, and we are a no on that at CUT. Senate Bill 25-148, modifications to campaign finance requirements. This would hire, I think, 15 additional full-time government employees on the backs of business registration, so we're a no on that. And Senate Bill 25-196, insurance coverage preventative health care services. I think that this is looking into the future to make sure that insurance companies are mandated to pay for abortions and for transgender transitioning. And so check all those out at Colorado Union of Taxpayer. And we did just roll out our Cut Engaged. And you can find that at coloradotaxpayer.org. This is an easy way for you each week to take a position, send some information to bill sponsors and your legislators. And we've worked diligently. We've made a financial commitment to make that happen. And be sure and access that by going to coloradotaxpayer.org. And while you're there, we would love to have you join us on that as well. And we look at these issues, we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you shouldn't have to force people to do it. And it's not compassionate to take other people's stuff. And whether or not, I would say it's not compassionate or altruistic to take other people's stuff via force. And in the first hour, we go through that long list. And if something's a good idea, you shouldn't have to force people to do it. On the show, we focus on the issues, and we'll talk about the people pushing those issues. We're really trying to stay out of the personalities and the fighting and all that, and that happens in politics on a pretty regular basis. I do thank Laramie Energy for their gold sponsorship of the show because it's reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant energy from oil, natural gas, and coal that powers our lives and fuels our hopes and dreams and empowers us to change our own personal climate to be warm in the winter and cool in the summer. and we get to have all these discussions because of our sponsors. And a longtime sponsor of both the Kim Munson Show and America's Veterans Stories is Lorne Levy for Everything Mortgages. He can help you in 49 of the 50 states, just not New York. Welcome, Lorne Levy.
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Hey, good morning, Kim.
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Question. When interest rates were low, I remember you sitting right here in the studio. Some people got interest rates locked in below 3%, and they were being held artificially low. At this point, they're not moving. We've had some good numbers. Are they being held artificially high now?
SPEAKER 03 :
I don't think they're being artificially held high. What we had before when they were really low is we had a Fed that was being what we call the buyer of last resort of mortgage securities. So even though Wall Street maybe didn't have a taste for them being that low interest rates, you know, Wall Street might not want to buy loans in the twos and threes on the long term, you know. So the Federal Reserve was buying them, and they haven't been buying them in a very long time. If anything, they've been selling them off their balance sheet. So the market is more of a normal market now, which is the reason why I think they're not coming down as fast as people might want, even the president, because where it was an abnormal market with a buyer of last resort, like you're saying, that buyer is not there anymore to drive the rates down. So now we're seeing true market action, and the market determines what they want rates to be, and they want them – you know, in the sixes and, you know, maybe even in the low sevens when they compare them to what they can get from U.S. Treasuries, which, you know, a 10-year U.S. Treasury right now is paying 4.3%. So you can lend your money to the U.S. government for 10 years and get 4.3%, which is risk-free because they'll just print more money. Whereas a mortgage, someone could default on, so an investor is going to want higher interest rate on that than 4.3%. to take the risk of a default potentially. So I think we're in a normal market now, whereas before we were not.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay. What about, you and I have talked about institutional buyers that had come in and been buying houses up in these markets. Are you still seeing that happen, Lorne?
SPEAKER 03 :
Not nearly as much as they were before. And again, I just had this conversation with a customer yesterday. He was asking because he's an investor. And what was happening before is those guys were also paying cash for homes at a large scale, and then putting debt back on them, getting mortgages after the fact. But they, too, were getting low-rate mortgages on investment properties. So when they add the rent in, their return on investment, or what they refer to as a cap rate, was really good for their investors as they're paying out dividends. Now, if those guys go to put debt on those very same properties, they're looking at investment rates in the mid-7s, which doesn't work for their math as far as their cap rates as much to give them such a good return on the investment to their investors. So they're not buying them as much as they were before, not to any scale like that.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay. I'm also seeing... Which is a good thing.
SPEAKER 03 :
That's opened them up for more people that want to live in the homes, you know?
SPEAKER 15 :
And you know how much I love people being able to create wealth by home ownership. And I am seeing, at least in my neighborhood, more for sale signs. So with more supply, these people that are selling homes will have to get a little bit more creative as they compete for buyers, yes? Yes.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yes and no. I mean, you hear Karen say all the time, Karen Levine, you know, if you price your home right and it looks good and it's done well, they're selling quick still. And sometimes with multiple offers, I've had a couple of purchases go through this week where people were making offers on a home and they were, you know, there wasn't maybe eight to ten offers, but there was one or two competing bids. on a nicely done home that was priced correctly. You know, there still may be people who think there's going to be way high bidding and maybe they overpriced it. But, you know, if it's done right, there is pent up demand because there's been such a long time of not a lot of inventory of homes. that there are buyers out there and there is pent-up demand. So, so far, when these new listings are coming in, we still only have maybe a two- or three-month supply of homes. We're not seeing them flood the market to where they're just sitting stagnant, unless there's something not 100% right, you know, with either the price or the property itself. But, yeah, we are seeing a pickup. And I think it comes back to this, what we call this new norm, where I think for a long time, Kim, people thought, well, I'll just wait until rates come back down again. And I think now they're getting used to the fact that they probably won't come back down drastically. And if they want to own a home, jump in now and then refinance later if the rates do come down.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay. And getting pre-qualified is a great idea. And so how could people do that by giving you a call?
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Yeah, they just call us at 303-880-8881. And most of the time, I would say almost all the time, when I talk to an agent who is selling a home that I represent the buyer on, They're asking me questions about that buyer because they may have another buyer they're competing with, and they want to know the ability to close of that buyer. And so you have to get pre-qualified, sometimes even pre-approved for an underwriter for that listing agent. That's what they want to hear so that they accept your offer and not somebody else's. So it's extremely important to do that.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay, and that number with Lorne Levy is 303-880-8881. Lorne, we'll talk with you next week.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, thank you so much, Kim.
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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Check out our website. That is kimmunson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. And thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice 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. It is Wednesday, so that means it's a Trent Luce Wednesday. Trent is a sixth generation farmer and rancher. who continues to stand for the people that feed and fuel us, rural Colorado, rural America. And we take all these things for granted. We've taken for granted affordable and abundant food supplies at our grocery store, affordable fuel for our car. All those things we've taken for granted. They've all been under assault. And hopefully we're going to get this turned around. But it's great to have him. Trent Luce, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 05 :
Hi, Kim. Great to be here.
SPEAKER 15 :
Hey, what was your week like? What did you do this week?
SPEAKER 05 :
I got to see my mother.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, oh, where does your mother live?
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Quincy, Illinois.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay.
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She lives right there where the first loose came to from Germany in 1839. And she brought my sister along. So that was fantastic.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, that's awesome. So great. So you weren't out there then. Normally you're all over the, seems like the country on all this. But you had some homework.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, actually, I do have something else that I did that aired today. And it's ironic because I know about Nancy, your first hour guest. And my Trend on the Loose program that aired this morning is probably one of the best I've ever done. And it has zero to do with me, Kim. It was where I was at on Friday. I was at a high school in Marcus, Iowa. It's in Cherokee County, Iowa. And this high school has tackled upon themselves with two industrial arts teachers to give these kids skills in this high school that want to be a part of their industrial arts program in SkillsUSA. And so I hope people take the time to go find this and watch it. And I'll post it on my sub stack yet today. But they had a construction division where they're actually building little buildings. They have a cabinet making. They have an extensive, very extensive welding and everything you can possibly do with welding. And then in another part of this building, they had a tool and die maker where they're making the components, the machinery work. They had a complete engine rehaul. They had a 1979 Case tractor. It wasn't Case IH then. Excuse me. It was just Case. They had a 1979 Case tractor that a gentleman, a farmer, had died, and the family donated it to the school, and these kids have rebuilt the engine, and now they've got to paint it and get it going on. And, you know, I'm thinking about how much money we waste in our public school systems. When I say that, when I say waste, we're spending a lot of money and we're not accomplishing development of skills or proficiency in the basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic. And I go to this school and it is absolutely incredible what these two ag teachers who are not ag teachers, excuse me, industrial art teachers are doing that are 33 years old and inspiring these kids. And if you want to know how effective it is, there's roughly 200 students in this high school, and 167 of them are part of this industrial arts program. That tells you that it is something that they want to be a part of and the culture is right. That is what needs to happen in our school systems, whether they be private, charter, or public all across this country.
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I totally agree. And my father, a farmer, German farmer, a farmer of German heritage, he could do anything. And I remember as a kid being out in his workshop with him, and he had a welder. And he's like, okay, kids, step back. I'm going to weld. We'd stand around. We'd watch him do that. I thought everybody's dad could weld. That's actually not the case, and it's a very important skill.
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Don't tell Kelly about this, but, you know, it inspired me too. And I say don't tell Kelly because if she knows, then she'll think I can be Mr. Handyman in all respects. You can be. But, you know, I have this chainsaw that's not very old, and I've been using it, and sometime during the winter it locked up on me. And we have a guy who's absolutely fantastic at taking care of these chainsaws. But I was thinking that if these high school, these 15-year-old kids in Marcus, Iowa, can go to school and learn all of these trades and skills, I'll be able to take this chainsaw apart and get it fixed without taking it to Mr. Zeller, Rod Zeller, and have him fix it. So I spent an hour and a half last night getting that chain tore apart, rebuilt, not didn't rebuild the engine. There was a lock that had gone on. I got it fixed. It took me an hour and a half getting that done. But I never had so much fun cutting cedar trees after I fixed that chainsaw myself.
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Well, that's awesome, Trent Luce. Good for you. Yeah, there is that satisfaction of being able to do a job yourself. And that's one of the things that is just robbing these children of all of these things they could learn by trying to – confuse them with all of this gender stuff is tragic. Tomorrow, Trent Luce, I'm going to have, they broke it on Daily Wire, and they wanted me to have the next story on that here in Colorado. So it was a story on Daily Wire. We're going to have the mom on the show with us tomorrow with Lori Gimmelstein with the Colorado Parents Advocacy Network down in Durango here in Colorado. This woman's 17-year-old daughter. And I know moms and daughters can have difficult times. And the daughter actually went to a teacher. She's living with a teacher. And the teacher's trans husband. I don't know exactly who. what that is exactly but anyway the mother has tried to get her her daughter back and that's not happening right now so we're going to be talking about that story it was on daily wire and we will be the the next one to break that story and that's going to happen tomorrow Trent Luce well I agree with you I have no idea what that's about and it's time just to slap people in the face and say get real and start developing something that really matters I'm going to prepare you for life And I come from a long line of people that built things, created things, and worked with their hands. So using the word created, producer Joe and I always have a very early morning call to prepare for the show. And we got into this whole discussion about Christ and the cross and God. And I told Joe that this has been... Really a recent, within the last few years, aha for me regarding when God says in the Bible that we are created in his image. Trin, I used to think that that meant two arms, two legs, whatever. But I think what it really, really means, and that may be the case, but what it really means is God is a creator. He created. And if we're in his image, then we create as a farmer, we plant, we grow as a rancher. We take care of our livestock and help them, our livestock grow and we feed the world. My dad always said, I want to take care of my family and I want to feed the world. And so if we are in the image of God, we are creators. So those that want to destroy is the opposite of what God has in plan for us. And so that was a really, I said to Joe, my, this is a heavy discussion on this early in the morning.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, well, it's a discussion we probably should have every morning because it's our time. responsibility to take care of His creation and provide for those who need it. And that's what we do. We provide the essentials of life.
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Well, absolutely, we provide for the essentials, and I hope I didn't hear him jump off. So I'm going to go ahead and go to break here. And just in case we lost Trent, I want to get him back on. And I wanted to mention Lavaca Meat Company. It truly is a premium product and a real treat, and it is the steakhouse experience at home. Lavaca Meat Company is located on the corner of Main and Nevada in Old Littleton.
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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Check out our website. That's KimMunson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity. by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And check out the USMC Memorial Foundation's website. That is usmcmemorialfoundation.org. They're hosting their second annual Marine Memorial Golf Tournament, May 15th, at the Ridge in Castle Pines North. And so you can register. There's a limited amount of spots. And it'll be a great day to Support the Marine Memorial. And also, if you're a golfer, play a great golf course. And, again, more information, usmcmemorialfoundation.org. Trent Luce, I thought I lost you for just a moment. You're back, and you know him, sixth-generation farmer and rancher. You can find him at LuceTalesMedia and also on Substack. And this came in from one of our listeners, Lynn. He said, Arnold, Nebraska has a great program where they are teaching kids how to use a CNC router to make and market things to sell. And it says, I know because I trained them on how to run their CNC. And incidentally, they bought their machine from a company in Colorado Springs, and that is Arnold Public Schools. I may need to move to Nebraska. I like what you're doing there.
SPEAKER 05 :
Do you know where Arnold, Nebraska is at?
SPEAKER 15 :
No.
SPEAKER 05 :
It's about 50 miles from my house. And it is about the farthest thing from the urbanization of Colorado Springs as you can get. At that school district, Kelly could tell me, but I don't think they've got 200 kids in the entire school system.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, look at the creativity and innovation happening in these small schools. Absolutely. And at this point, I would recommend those one-room and two-room schoolhouses, the educations that those kids had. And if you want to look at the eighth-grade exam in 1898, I think, from Saline County, Kansas, the questions on there, the kids could answer those questions, and it brings new meaning to having an eighth-grade education. It is amazing. Trent Luce, you had some homework, though.
SPEAKER 05 :
I just looked it up, Kim.
SPEAKER 15 :
Had you ever looked at it before?
SPEAKER 05 :
No, I looked up the population of Arnold, Nebraska, 591 people.
SPEAKER 15 :
So is that Arnold, or that's not for the whole county?
SPEAKER 05 :
No, that's the town. Arnold is in Custer County. Custer County is a large county. But Arnold sits, well, you know where it's at. It's halfway between Stapleton and Myrna.
SPEAKER 15 :
Oh, that's what I was going to say. Of course. Of course I know where it is. Right.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 15 :
Oh, I love it. Oh, I love I love rural Colorado, rural America. But let's get over here. I think that you're trying to avoid me on this because I've tried to bring this up several times. Did you give me homework? Yes, you had homework. And that is Emma Lazarus, who she had written the poem where part of it is on the inscription on the Statue of Liberty. We were talking about it last week because one of the French parliamentarians said they wanted the Statue of Liberty back because of Donald Trump. And then one of our listeners said that she was actually a socialist. I couldn't find that exactly. What did you find out?
SPEAKER 05 :
She was a Zionist. She was an absolute advocate for within the Jewish community. And part of that poem was placed on the bottom, the base of the Statue of Liberty in 1913, even though she wrote it, I believe it was 1883. And she spent her entire... By the way, they put the poem on the Statue of Liberty base after she passed, so she didn't even know that that was there. But she dedicated her entire life, despite growing up in... New York City, to Jewish parents that were very much Akhenazi and Zionist, that she wanted in her lifetime to see the country of Israel formed. And the truth of the matter is that the Rothschilds picked up what her activism was, and in 1947, they did what she wanted done. Now, there's a lot of discussions that can take place about the Zionists within the Jewish religion. You know, I find it interesting that there's a tremendous amount of data that the folks that are DNA of going back to the biblical Abraham are actually the ones in the Gaza and the Palestinians and the folks who occupy the Holy Land, Israel, do not even have the same DNA. So that whole thing has just gotten really interesting for me following up and doing my homework on Emma Lazarus.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay, so yes, I found that as well, that she was a Zionist, and that she had socialist tendencies. But what I find interesting is many of those, well, I guess this was the late 1800s, but even Teddy Roosevelt Jr., or yeah, that he actually had been Republican, but then he became socialist as well. And I know I'm just throwing this out at you, but what's your thoughts about him?
SPEAKER 05 :
Teddy Roosevelt Jr.?
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, because as I've done research on him, I love that one poem about, or that one quote about him about the man in the arena. I love that.
SPEAKER 05 :
Oh.
SPEAKER 15 :
But... Yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
But that's Teddy Roosevelt, not Teddy Roosevelt Jr.
SPEAKER 15 :
Whoops, you know what? I got confused. Teddy Roosevelt Jr. died in World War II right around D-Day. So let's get to Teddy Roosevelt. Sorry about that.
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It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how strong a man stumbles or where the doer of the deeds can have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs, who comes short again and again because there's no effort without error and there's no shortcoming, but who does actually strive to do the deeds, who knows great enthusiasm, and great devotions. I have that posted in my office. That's the man of the arena.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah. And I love that.
SPEAKER 05 :
I do, too. And Theodore Roosevelt did so many things that I admire, and yet Theodore Roosevelt did things that are greatly troubling to me. And so I'm mixed, because I've been a huge fan, and then I learned more of of some of the socialist thoughts that he did follow through on. But the whole idea of conservation he brought to the United States. And his idea of conservation has been hijacked by preservation because Theodore Roosevelt was a huge hunter and believed in the outdoors and actually bought a ranch and moved to Medora, North Dakota. And he said many times he would never become president had it not been for his time spent ranching in the badlands of North Dakota. And that ranch today is a federal park, and that federal park is a source of so much consternation in North Dakota and the Badlands. It's incredible. He did not create Yellowstone Park, but he expanded the national park system to put many of the resources that we have off limits to people. And so I'm torn about Theodore Roosevelt as a pretty good student of him.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, I am too as well. And then going over to Teddy Roosevelt Jr., when I was over in Normandy, as the guys were telling me the story, is that on June 6, 1944, Of course, you have all these plans for the invasion of Normandy to liberate Europe from the Nazis. And Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was a brigadier general. And he reportedly declared as his Higgins landing craft drifted about a mile from his targeted destination on Utah Beach the morning of June 6, 1944. He says, well, the war... We'll start the war from right here. So it's a remarkable story. And he was killed in Normandy as well. I've got to get this. And then he was also awarded the Medal of Honor, which yesterday was Medal of Honor Day, Trent Luce.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, I didn't know anything about Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.,
SPEAKER 15 :
It's a fascinating story as well. So anyway, I didn't know we were going to get off over here on this discussion. So let's get to our next thing that we said we would talk about when we were preparing for this.
SPEAKER 05 :
It would be really strange if we actually talk about what you think we were going to talk about.
SPEAKER 15 :
I'm going to keep trying because Zach always says, Kim, you have to make sure that you talk about what you highlight in the newsletter at least a little bit. And so I said, Emma Lazarus, we've talked about her. What about Donald Trump and public lands for housing that is affordable? What's your thoughts on that?
SPEAKER 05 :
It's the most ridiculous thing he has said yet. And he's said a lot of ridiculous things, particularly in the last 30 days.
SPEAKER 15 :
I like it.
SPEAKER 05 :
Why do you like it?
SPEAKER 15 :
Because there's all this land. I look at all of this land out there, and it seems to me like it would be great if everyday people could own their own little plot of land and start to create wealth for themselves. So I like the idea.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, that's problematic because every bit of the federal land, and we're talking about one-third of the United States landmass, is owned by federal or state governments. But within that land that's owned by federal or state government, there are individuals who have had vested rights of that property. And so in order to do this, you have to remove the vested rights of people who have been taking care of that land since about 1900, since the land office was created because the Department of Interior and the Bureau of Land Management was originally the land office. So you're going to eliminate somebody else's rights. And in many cases, that'll be tribes that you're going to do that to. And what is most interesting is somebody sent me just this week, not knowing that you and I were going to talk about this, they sent me a clip of Donald Trump before the election talking about freedom cities. And it's not too hard to see where he's talking about freedom cities being 15-minute cities. And the whole concept, and then he went into this little diatribe about we're going to take the Bureau of Land Management land, and then last week the Doug Burgum – He said that we're going to use this underutilized land to build new systems and signed an agreement with the housing director. And I'm like, where are you going to go do this? Are you going to go to the southeast Utah and a reservation land and build cities? I was in Detroit, and I used to go to Michigan once a month and did a TV show for Michigan corn growers. There are 40 square miles of vacant buildings in Detroit. Why are we going to abandon a place where we could fix it up and go into a resource where we should be recovering a resource, whether that be oil, maybe it's just grazing, maybe it's land that's utilized for wildlife habitat, whatever the case may be, and build cities?
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, the reason Detroit is where Detroit is, is because of the government that has been controlling Detroit for all of these years. And so I think in that is and Democrats have run Detroit into the ground. We've got Democrats that are running Denver into the ground as well. And so one of the things, though, Trent, is they are reducing – when I say they, that's PBIs, politicians, bureaucrats, and interested parties. They have reduced the supply for single-family homes, increased demand through illegal immigration. And it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that housing gets unaffordable when that happens. And so it seems to me by expanding the options to build additional home ownership is great. Now, I had not connected the dot with that these would be 15-minute or smart cities. And anybody that listens to the show knows that I think smart cities are a dumb idea. And so certainly I would not support something like that, Trent Luce.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, I think you should go research what he's been yakking about in terms of freedom cities, because it is a smart city. He's even talking about a city without vehicles.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay, well, I'm going to have to look at that because one of our listeners said, we need a renewed Homestead Act. The government should not own all of this land. And so I do like that because, as you know, I spend a lot of time up in western Wyoming. And as you drive in from the airport from Jackson into Jackson, there are acres and acres and acres of for the elk refuge i'm not sure they have to have all of those acres for the elk refuge that they could actually maybe use some of that acreage because jackson's always talking about affordable housing there's a difference between affordable housing which is government controlled housing and housing that is affordable and if they opened up some land for some new development i think they could have some affordable housing and land for the elk refuge but instead Wildlife trumps everything regarding human life from what I can see in that scenario, Trent Luce.
SPEAKER 05 :
And yet our wildlife is struggling like it's never struggled before because we have a government that doesn't manage their land. And by the way, I agree it's unconstitutional for the government to own land. But to turn this land into smart cities is not something I embrace. I embrace the people who have been managing this land and have invested right in the resources in this land. They should have the first option to purchase it.
SPEAKER 15 :
You and I totally agree. As you know, I'm also a big proponent of individual rights, property rights, and I would never support coming in and usurping those rights for this as well. But there's a lot of land out there that I think that we could get this figured out. So let's continue the discussion. And we mentioned wildlife, and I talked with Kevin Lundberg about this yesterday. But one of the Colorado wolves actually was killed legally and properly 400 miles into Wyoming by authorities. And apparently, Trent Luce, these wolves cannot read a map. So we're going to talk with him about that. When we come back, these discussions happen because of our sponsors. If you've been injured, make sure you reach out to John Bozen and Bozen Law.
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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 at KimMunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. and did want to mention the Center for American Values, which is located in Pueblo, Colorado, on the beautiful Riverwalk, and they do amazing work. I was down there emceeing an event last Thursday. It was an On Values presentation with Dr. Walt Larimore regarding his father, a World War II hero, and the book that Dr. Larimore had written about his father at First Light. You can Access that by going to their website. That is AmericanValueCenter.org. AmericanValueCenter.org. Trent Luce is on the line with me. Trent, I mentioned Teddy Roosevelt and then Teddy Roosevelt Jr. And he was 56. He was D-Day leading troops. And This is from Wikipedia, but it says, after serving in the Operation Torch landings in North Africa and the Tunisia campaign, followed by participation in the Allied invasion of Sicily, Roosevelt was assigned as assistant division commander of the 4th Infantry Division. In this role, he led the first wave of troops ashore at Utah Beach during the Normandy landings in June 1944. He died in France of a heart attack the following month at 56 years old. At the time of his death, he had been recommended for the Distinguished Service Cross to recognize his heroism at Normandy. The recommendation was subsequently upgraded, and he was posthumously the recipient of the Medal of Honor. And again, like you, I didn't know anything about him until I'd gone to Normandy, so I just wanted to clarify that regarding Teddy Roosevelt Jr.,
SPEAKER 05 :
It's interesting that he died of a heart attack because of what he experienced a month previous, obviously.
SPEAKER 15 :
I know. It's fascinating.
SPEAKER 05 :
His father wasn't a specimen of health either. That was one thing. The family must have been plagued by some health challenges.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, that does happen. So that's why it's important to take your vitamins, take care of yourself. That's my mom-ism right there. Let's talk a little bit about wolves. Apparently, these Colorado wolves cannot read a map, Trent Luce.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, I actually talked to Tim Rashard up at Kremlin again this week, and I'm really intrigued because I was just about 40 miles north of me, not far from Arnold, Nebraska. We're putting it on the map today. Over there at Comstock, I think Comstock's quite a bit smaller than Arnold because Comstock's maybe got 250 people. But there's a gentleman, Larry Council, who told me that there's been wolf sightings around Comstock and Sargent and that area right there in the Sandhills of Nebraska. And then five years ago, Wade Dearmon at Rose, Nebraska, which has a population of zero currently, he actually shot and killed a wolf on his property. So that can only be coming from what is taking place not only in Colorado, but in Wyoming. And anybody who understands normal animal behavior, those young males get kicked out of the of the ban because, you know, that's what males do. They kick the weak ones out and they go call them satellite males. They go off trying to find a new girlfriend. And so who knows how far they travel, but this will have implications to people beyond just the live at Kremlin, Colorado. You're absolutely right.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, and I've talked to some people that have said, but wolves have been always part of the ecosystem. So they think it's a good idea to introduce them back in. What do you say to that?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, we eliminated them because they are a vicious predator. And if you talk to the folks who are wildlife enthusiasts and elk hunters themselves, or want to go into the Rockies or go into, take Nevada. This is a great example. It ties into the whole Bureau of Land Management. The state of Nevada is 87% owned by government, either federal or state government, 87% of the entire state. And there is no control over predators, and predators are decimating the deer population, decimating the elk population. I got a friend that is an outfitter, hunts, does guided hunts in the Ruby Mountains at Lamoille, Nevada, and they're just frustrated more times than not. If people want to come and hunt mountain lions, you can do it all day because the mountain lions are getting preferential treatment. The predators are getting preferential treatment, and that is where you have to draw the line. You can't give a predator preferential treatment.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, and I mentioned the elk refuge up near Jackson, Wyoming. I find it so interesting that there are those that want to have a refuge for elk, but yet you're introducing predators in that kill the elk. I'm not quite sure how those two things match up.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, really all it's doing is keeping other people from utilizing those resources.
SPEAKER 15 :
My point exactly.
SPEAKER 05 :
You can't graze it. You can't utilize the resource that's there.
SPEAKER 15 :
Or land for housing that's affordable. Just a little bit. If we start to create more supply, then we start to address that demand. And as one of our listeners said, the only way to make housing more affordable is to create more buildable lots. One cannot argue with supply and demand. Why is that land?
SPEAKER 05 :
28.4% owned by the federal government. And in the case of the Bureau of Land Management, why is that land still owned by the government?
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, you have used the word Bureau of Land Management. So is that really the appropriate way for this land? I don't think the government should be owning land. I agree with you.
SPEAKER 05 :
But why is it owned by the government now?
SPEAKER 15 :
I don't know why.
SPEAKER 05 :
Because during the Homestead Act, nobody wanted it. It's land that has very limited, if any, water resources. The best case scenario, Las Vegas, is in the middle of a desert. The biggest challenge to Las Vegas and their development is now water. And I know ranchers 300 miles away who are losing their water rights on the Bureau of Land Management land that they run on and they are taking care of and have for generations. Because Las Vegas is the commercial urbanization and the demand for water is outpacing the resource that's readily available. Most of the Bureau of Land Management land, this is a generalization but it's true in most cases, is a place where you cannot build houses and increase the urbanization because the water resources are not there.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, and if that's the case, certainly that makes sense. But, well, two things. We had talked earlier in the show about us being creators. And I think if we really unleash creativity and innovation, we could actually... fix some of these issues. So for example, California, the Colorado River, with the water pack with all of these western states, says that there's a certain amount of water that has to go down the Colorado River to California. Well, how about if California solves their water problems by going to the Pacific Ocean and doing some desalination, decreasing their demand, which would allow then more water upstream to be used for all of us. I just think a little creativity and innovation might be a great idea on this. Trent, I'm throwing that out there, and you've got a minute.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, I think that we have places that can contribute to our housing issues. We just need some innovation and creativity in fixing those up instead of abandoning them and going and creating more concrete condos for consumers because that will not be beneficial to anybody.
SPEAKER 15 :
Thank you, Trent Luce. This is a good-spirited discussion.
SPEAKER 05 :
Always a pleasure.
SPEAKER 15 :
It is. And how can people find you?
SPEAKER 05 :
Go to trentluce.substack.com or, as you said, Lucetalesmedia. And you're going to want to find this show, Trent on the Loose, today. Just search Trent on the Loose, March 25. I know it's not today, but that's the day on the show.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay, and Loose is spelled L-O-O-S. Trent Loose, it's always great. We'll talk to you next week.
SPEAKER 05 :
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All right, hour number two, Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Larry Barron's joining us now. Communications Director at Power of the Future. Larry, welcome back.
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, it's so great to talk with you. Thanks for having me.
SPEAKER 15 :
Always a joy, and I've got to start with this. Did you ever think the day would come, because you and I have done plenty of segments over the years, in some cases an entire hour, where we've talked about everything from EVs and all the different things that were going on and the different policies and so on, but did you ever think there would be a day whereby you would be seeing Teslas, Cybertrucks, and so on literally being defaced because of the guy that owns the company?
SPEAKER 09 :
It was. And you're absolutely right. We've talked a lot, especially about EVs so many times. And, you know, I would say if someone asked me, would they turn against their own? I would say yes. But in this way, when it was Elon Musk, I would say, oh, no, they'll probably know that'd be too sacred for them. But I would have been wrong, as we've seen over the past month or so.
SPEAKER 15 :
By the way, I would have said the same, and I've taken my share of pot shots at Tesla over the years, and I will be the first to admit that way back when, especially when Elon was on the other side of the aisle, and I thought a lot of the things that went on, subsidies and so on, were not correct. I'll still stand by that. I still think to this day they weren't correct in how that was done. But at the end of the day, I honestly, Larry, never thought that true, hard-core,
SPEAKER 09 :
tesla fanboys and girls would be this way yeah and and well and that's just it right because when we disagree with a company on our side we will speak about it we'll talk about it maybe protest but resort to just destruction never destruction never yeah the destruction of property and destruction that hurts other people right you know lighting an electric vehicle on fire is the zone above lighting just an internal combustion vehicle on fire. There are leftists out there in mass deciding that this is the way they're going to get back. They see something on the news that they don't like, and the first thought in their head is, you know what, I'm just going to turn violent. The only way that I'm going to stop this is become violent. It is completely irrational thought, and we have to realize that this is a long, long pattern. of violence, sadly, from the left, and it is something that is not new.
SPEAKER 15 :
And I can't argue with anything that you just said, and you're the same way. I will always protect somebody's right to protest. I will never, ever take that away. Free speech, protest, it is the fundamentals of what we as a free country have, and I will protect somebody's right, even when I don't agree with them, I will protect their right to do those things. But, Larry, that stops at the destruction and vandalism and so on of somebody else's private property. The reality is it's theirs. They own it. It's not yours. Leave your hands off of it.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, I mean, listen, Ben & Jerry's, I happen to be on spring break with my kids, and we see a Ben & Jerry's shop. You know what I do? I just say, I'm not going there. Ben & Jerry's takes stances that I don't appreciate, so I don't spend my money. It was the same with the beer company. I'm not a drinker, but I was boycotting it, I guess, before beer was cool. But it's the same. We just say, you know what? We're just not going to spend our money there. We don't feel the need to run in there. overturn tubs of ice cream to set beer delivery trucks on fire we don't feel the need to do any of that and that is a key difference and and it's a historical difference i mean the left has been doing this with for a long time they will take something that they tell you is sacred it's electric vehicles like we're supposed to all be buying or even a forest and they will insert spikes into trees they will kill trees to save the trees And in the leftist mind, you have to get into the mindset of, it's like a religion, because they are able to look at their opponents, demonize them as less than human, and so it makes their actions completely acceptable. And there has been no massive outcry from the left saying, stop this. This should not be happening.
SPEAKER 15 :
And to your point, Larry, there should be. And folks that are listening, I'll give you other examples. personally of things that like you larry that i have done i'm i'm a you know gun toting america i conceal carry uh not long ago i shouldn't say that a while back so it is it's been a few years time flies panera bread one of those companies that basically came out and said you know if you're one of those individuals we we don't want you in our store in fact we don't allow you in so larry i was one of those that just kindly said okay fine i'll take my business elsewhere What's interesting about the Panera Bread story is I must not have been the only person that did that because, frankly, they're not doing as well as they once were. And you have to wonder at times, do some of these policies that some of these corporations put out, like Ben and Jerry's, at the end of the day, really affect them? Now, I'm going to say all that to say this. This is my prediction, Larry. I think you're going to actually end up seeing some EV owners out of this whole Tesla debacle that the left is doing. And frankly, I think you might see some people actually buy Teslas that wouldn't have otherwise bought them just because of what's going on with the destruction.
SPEAKER 09 :
You're absolutely right, John. It's interesting to see folks on our side who decried Tesla for a little while saying, you know, those Cybertrucks don't look bad. Just like you, I stand by what I said with electric vehicles. I don't think they're more environmentally friendly.
SPEAKER 04 :
They're not.
SPEAKER 09 :
They're not. I think they're okay in some specific use cases, and if you want to buy one, great. I just don't want to have to subsidize as a taxpayer, and I don't want to be forced to buy one as a consumer. And that's all we're trying to do. But again, it gives us a glimpse into the left, right? And so when they are in power, they have to force you to buy their products. When we are in power, we give people a choice, and the left just cannot handle that because they know that, by and large, the people are not going to choose what the left demands they choose.
SPEAKER 15 :
And this whole reverse psychology on this end of things might actually come back to, I don't know whether you say bite them, but at the end of the day, you may actually see more Tesla owners that wouldn't have otherwise driven Teslas. And I, like you, I own an EV, have since 2020, only so I could sit on this program and my other... my other auto program I do on Saturday, so I could really be educated about them, talk about it, and I'm like you. Number one, nobody should be forced to buy them. Number two, nobody should be subsidized to buy them. Number three, are they going to work for everyone? That's an absolute big fat no, because no, they will not work for everyone.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, and you have the Chevy Volt, if I remember correctly, right?
SPEAKER 15 :
That's right.
SPEAKER 09 :
The OG of some of those electric vehicles. So good for you getting in there and understanding things before a lot of people did. But my favorite thing that I'm seeing right now, and I'm sure you are too, is you'll see those Teslas out on the road in your neck of the woods, and they'll have the sticker on it like, against Elon, or bought it before I knew. I didn't like Elon, and I have to giggle to myself. It's like, okay, you bought this car to virtual signal to everybody else how much better you are, and now you have to throw a sticker on that same car to virtual signal to yourself.
SPEAKER 15 :
It's so ridiculous. Well, and here's what they really should be thinking inside of their own head is, okay, wait a minute. I'm now having to put a sticker on this saying who I am because otherwise my like-minded individuals will now eat my lunch and damage my car. How ironic, Larry. They're having to put a sticker on something to prove who they are so that their own kind won't destroy their property. How ironic.
SPEAKER 09 :
That's such a great point, and I never thought about that. It is self-protection of them signaling to their fellow leftists of like, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's okay if you destroy Tesla, it's just not mine.
SPEAKER 15 :
Right. Go do that to somebody else's that doesn't have this sticker, but leave mine alone.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, it is absolutely insane, and it tells you, I mean, listen, they don't, go by their principles. If they went by their principles that EVs are good for the environment, that they wouldn't be destroying EVs. If they go by their principles that trees are good for the environment, they wouldn't spike them. If they went by their principles, they wouldn't, you know, Colorado was home to one of the biggest eco-terrorist actions in the nation, and they went after a ski resort. So they go after nature, and they go after these things that they say are all-important And it just leads me to believe, and folks, it's all about power for them. It's not about the things that they say. That's right. It's all about they have to have the power to force us to impose their will on us.
SPEAKER 15 :
You're right. Talk to us about Power of the Future. How do folks learn more?
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They can head on over to the website anytime they want, powerofthefuture.com. They can send me those Elon bumper stickers at Larry at powerofthefuture.com anytime they want.
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You're awesome. Larry, always appreciate it very much. Thank you.
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You have a good one. Appreciate it.
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You too, man. Appreciate you. Have a great night. Larry Behrens again, Power of the Future. Veteran Windows and Doors is up next. We learned from Dave yesterday that he's got a special going on right now. 35% off three windows or less. Or if you buy four or more, it's 40% off and free labor to install them. Find Dave today at klzradio.com.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Dovetailing back into what we were talking about with Larry in regards to a lot of the literally vandalism that you're seeing on Teslas especially, coast to coast. And it is only Teslas. You're not seeing this with a lot of the other EV makers. Now, keep in mind, there are more Tesla EVs on the road than there are anybody else because they've been made the longest. Now, all that being said... None of the vandalism is ever correct, period. I don't care who's doing it. Never right. Doesn't matter which side is doing it. It's something that I just abhor. I think it's absolutely ridiculous that you would harm somebody else's property. I guess it's the way I was raised. I mean, I was raised to where if you're walking by and the keys are in the car, keep on walking. Not your property. Doesn't matter. House unlocked? Doesn't matter. Not your property. It's just how I was raised. Evidently, others haven't been raised the same way because they feel like it's okay to either steal or damage or set on fire someone else's property. I just can't think. And my brain doesn't work that way, folks. I just cannot think in my mind how that's okay or how someone can justify that. Destroying someone else's property, it's unjustifiable, period. Period. I was even, and I'm sure Charlie can maybe relate to this, and all of us might be able to, some better than others. So when Charlie and I were young, and some of you listening are probably the same way, there were those kids that would run out and toilet paper someone else's house. You're getting back at somebody, it's a prank, and it's a silly prank, and I get it, and it's sort of somewhat harmless, or people would egg Charlie. other houses and cars or things like that. Personally speaking, I didn't participate in those things. I might have maybe, maybe, maybe. And I got to really think back onto this. TP'd someone else's house. And TP'ing meaning you take rolls of toilet paper, you throw them over the trees and different things, and when somebody woke up the next morning, they'd see that their house had been TP'd. And my house got targeted more often than not and always made my dad mad. And I had to be the kid that always went out and cleaned it all up, which was a pain in the neck. And Charlie, I'm sure that you were very much the same way. Again, I guess because I had to clean it up as much as I did, I didn't participate in the other much because it was just one of those things I didn't want to do. And Charlie never did it, he said. I might have, I'm saying, and I'm not joking, I may have done it once or twice my entire life, and I'm not sure I even did that much, but somebody probably knows me and would correct me and say, well, remember the time? Well, okay, maybe I did. But let me just say this. It was not a regular thing for me, and I never egged anybody's house. I can tell you that right now because I also know that when you egg somebody's house or car, depending upon that car and what's happening, it actually can cause damage to the paint and other things. So I didn't do that. And it's just me. I think because I'm so particular, and I even was as a kid, that I looked at all of that as just not right. You're still affecting someone else's belongings and property by doing so, and I would never do that. So in my book, it definitely isn't okay to light somebody else's property on fire. I know this is going to sound really gross. There's actually video running around where there are these weirdo folks from I don't know where. I don't even know if I want to call them lefties because they're just gross individuals that literally are rubbing feces on Teslas, Cybertrucks, things like that. Yes, literally. I'm not exaggerating. It's the most disgusting thing you'll ever watch. And I can't think of anything more disgusting and what goes on in someone's mind to do things like that. You're mentally ill when you're doing these sorts of things. I honestly think you're mentally ill when you're out destroying other people's property like this as well. OK, so with all that being said. Would I go out and buy a Tesla? I mean, it makes you really want to support Elon Musk and a lot of what he's doing. And I'm a car guy. That's my problem with Teslas. I'm a car guy. And even to this day, even as long as he's built these cars. Unfortunately for me personally, the fit and finish of the car still isn't up to my standards. And I'm saying this is, and maybe Elon, somebody can pass this along, but you can literally go buy one of the cheapest models of any other vehicle out there, Toyota, Mazda, Chevy, I can go down the list, and the fit and finish of those will be better than a Tesla that costs twice as much. And I'm not exaggerating. So Charlie says, explain what that is. And when you, for example, walk up to the car and look at how the doors are lined up, and yes, I'm very critical of these things, but does the gap around the entire door, is it equal? And is it equal to the other side? So is the left side equal to the right side? Is the back door equal to the front door? Is the deck lid equal to the hood? And you get my drift. In other words, are the gaps all around? You know, when you fit the hood and you look at the left side versus the right side versus the nose versus what's up against the cow, is all of that equal? If it's not, then that's a problem for someone like me. It drives me crazy. I look at it, and I'm just like, this thing's crap. How could you drive that? Now, I get it. Others do. The problem, though, is I think a lot of Tesla owners aren't car people. I'll just say it straight up. Now, some are. Some folks that have bought a Plaid, which is their fastest version, and they are really, really fast. Some of those guys might be car guys, but most Tesla owners aren't car guys. And those sorts of things, body gaps and things like that, just drive me crazy. I was over at Roy from ProTech, who's one of my sponsors on the weekend, and he does wraps and clear bras and all sorts of things. And he had a couple of Teslas in there that he was working on. And I look at this one Tesla, and I'm like, is that a new car? He's like, yeah, it's brand new. And I'm like, the bumper itself isn't the same color as the rest of the car. He's like, yeah, we know. I'm like, really? I said, does the owner know that? Yeah, the owner knows that. They told him that prior to it being shipped. There was some damage at the factory, and they had a choice of fixing it there. Or he could skip and get another car and so on. But at the end of the day, he was okay with it, and he just took the car. I said, well, it's like a shade off. It's not even close. He's like, yeah, we know. That's the stuff I'm talking about when it comes to the Tesla fit and finish versus what you'll find buying other cars. They're not the same. Sorry. Even today, and again, I love everything Elon's doing with Doge and all of that, but his car company, while it's technologically advanced and they're super fast and the autopilot is fabulous, I mean, all these things he's got going for him, that's all great. But the fit and finish and the car itself does not meet my standards. Maybe that will continue to improve, and maybe I shouldn't be as judgmental as I am, but I'm a car guy. Always have been. And these sorts of things bother me. You know, body panels that aren't the same color as the rest and there's a different shade or there's a body gap difference between one door and the other or the top to the bottom or, or, or. I can go down the list. And the other thing that I just am struggling with when it comes to Tesla is when you get inside the car and all that's there on the dash is one big screen and some vents and nothing else. It just looks cheap to me. You climb in the interior of a Tesla, and it just reminds me of cheap. And yet the cars cost a pretty good penny. You go out and buy a full-bore Model X, for example, you're pushing in the 50s to 60s. If you go buy a full-bore Model S, they're way above that. They're in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, low hundreds. A Model 3, most of those are $40,000 or above. You go look online and see what the different prices are. And I may be off on some of those because I don't know their prices off the back of my hand, but I think I'm fairly close. And some of the Cybertrucks are in the high. They were over $100, but I think they're in the $90s to $100 now. And there are some deals on Tesla right now because sales have softened. That's true for every manufacturer out there, not just Tesla. And they're still making Ebola. The other complaint I have with Tesla, just might as well get it out there while I'm talking about it, A 10-year-old Tesla versus a new one, not much difference, if any. In other words, if you're driving a Tesla that's a 2020, is it any different than a 2025? Not really. That, to me, again, that's another one of those things that drives me crazy. You're buying a brand-new vehicle that looks no different than the one a decade ago. I get some of the updates of late are a little bit different, but all in all, you can't tell what model you're driving. You can't tell by the year. You can't tell the year you're driving, guess what I should say. Again, that to me, as a car person, that bothers me. I get it. Most Tesla drivers, it makes no difference. Most Tesla owners, it makes no difference. Now, I will say I've ridden in some Teslas. I've never driven one, but I've ridden in quite a few of them. And I will say that the way they perform, the way they drive, how quiet they are, a lot of that, no issues. That part of it works well. They're fine. Again, very, very close to the point where I could literally look at one. If they could just get the fit and finish a little bit better than it is now, I think I would potentially look at one. Because, again, I own an EV. I understand its limitations and how it works and all of that, and I'm okay with all of that. For what I do with them, they work fine. And I'm one that I've got other transportation where if I need to go coast to coast, I can. I'm fortunate as far as that goes. I don't own just one car. You guys all know that. So at the end of the day, though, this is a problem for me as a car guy is there's just issues they have to get around when it comes to their fit and finish and their quality. And hopefully they'll hear some of us in the car world and adjust and make advancements in that particular realm. 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And we are back, and yes, lines are open, 303-477-5600. Text line, in case some of you may not know it, 307-282-22. All right, Colorado House bill that regulates semi-automatic firearms and banning bump stocks and so on has passed. the House. And not surprised, and a lot of us have done as much as we possibly can to try to get that to not pass, although when the Democrats have essentially full control of the legislature, it's just going to happen. Now, my prediction is, and this is where it gets a little dicey, will Governor Polis actually sign this? I think he will. I think that he's got enough pressure from his own party that he'll be forced to. I think he signs it. I think then there will be a big fight, legally speaking. This thing will go all the way to the Supreme Court, and they'll lose. And this will not be in effect once that takes place. It'll be in effect until then. It goes into effect August 1st of 2026. How quickly will this go to the Supreme Court? I don't have that answer. I don't know. This will be fought in the courts, guaranteed. The minute Governor Polis signs this, it'll be a lawsuit and the process will get started. And yes, I do believe this is one of those, like a lot of other states have done, where it'll go to the Supreme Court and it'll get shot down because it has already in other states. It's far too intrusive. And it takes away Second Amendment rights, period. And despite what those on the left would say, it's not going to do anything to prevent gun violence. I'll quote some of the Democrats down at the Statehouse. The gun violence prevention legislation answers the call to action from our neighbors and will save lives. No, Representative Meg Froelich, it won't. She's from Inglewood, by the way. No, Meg, it's not. And the reason it won't is criminals don't abide by the law anyways. And before some of you on the left come out and say, well, John, that's a weak answer. No, actually, that's a very good answer. The simple word criminal, it's interesting that they even use this. The simple word criminal in and of itself means they're breaking the law. So how would a gun law of any kind keep that individual from buying guns and doing the things that they do with them? We know that semi-automatic weapons become especially deadly when they're paired with high-capacity magazines. Again, that's not totally true. We've talked about this many times in the past. There's many different weapons out there that can have a high capacity, by the way, depending upon how they're actually fed. They don't have to have an interchangeable magazine to be high capacity. This is, again, gun ignorance on the part of the left. I'll just say it like it is. It's total ignorance on the left. They don't even understand how guns work. They're going after the big, bad, black rifles, the AR-15s, or so they would call them, assault rifles, things like that. That's really what they're going after. Although this particular bill, and if it is signed into law, it affects a lot more than just that weapon. And I'll get into some of that here in a moment because most of you have been following this and probably already know, but maybe some don't. There was a law, by the way, passed in 2013 that prohibit high-capacity magazines. It's unenforceable. It doesn't work. The reality is there's still a lot of them in the quote-unquote marketplace. There's already a lot of quote-unquote magazines. And I hate the word assault weapon because a hammer can be an assault weapon. There's already a lot of semi-automatic rifles and pistols in the marketplace that are already owned by legitimate gun owners or even non-legitimate gun owners. should say law-abiding gun owners versus non-law-abiding gun owners. The reality is there's already a ton of those in the marketplace. You're not stopping anything with this. This is a really big feel-good measure from the left that at the end of the day will not do anything. We've raised a generation on lockdown drills. One in 15 people have experienced a mass shooting. That's actually not true either. Not true. That figure is sorely, sorely distorted. We're passing this bill today so we can save lives and prevent more Coloradans from having to go through the pain of losing a loved one to senseless gun violence. This bill will do none of that. This law, if it becomes that, will do none of that. Sorry, left. It's not going to. And as much as I value life and I don't want to see anybody killed, murdered, maimed, anything along. I don't see anybody die, period. The reality is this bill, it's in and of itself, it's not going to change anything. It will make it harder for regular law-abiding citizens to actually obtain what they need to protect themselves against others and the government, which is what the Second Amendment is all about, by the way. Opponents of this bill say the measure will cost millions of dollars to local sheriff's offices and Colorado Parks and Wildlife to administer the new requirements. That's true, by the way. That statement is very true. The requirements are they have to complete a hunter education course certified by CPW and within five years of making the purchase, complete a basic firearms safety course. Within five years before making the purchase, complete an extended firearms safety course or complete an extended firearms safety course more than five years before making the purchase and complete a basic firearms safety course within five years before making the purchase. To make this happen, the sheriff's offices would be required to issue firearm safety courses, eligibility cards with requirements for that card, including a completion of fingerprint based criminal history, record check and so on. Governor Jared Polis responded to the bill's forward movement with a statement from his office. Governor Polis appreciates the sponsors working on our administration on amendments to help make Colorado safer while upholding our freedom and Colorado's rich hunting and sporting rights. and shooting culture, and we'll review the final version of the bill. A Colorado governor's office spokesperson says, Governor Polis remains focused on improving public safety, including gun safety, additional funding for law enforcement and safer streets, and tougher penalties against theft of guns. Now, again, doesn't say that he'll sign it. I think he will. Because what he's going to come back and say is, well, we're really not taking anybody's rights away. You just have to do this. You just have to pass this. Now, the only thing that may stop him from signing this is the cost. Is the cost. The state's already running behind when it comes to their budget, trying to figure out what they're going to cut and what they're going to do to make ends meet. This isn't going to help that. Because all of these counties are going to cry foul and say, wait a minute, you're imposing this on us, yet you're not giving us any funding to make this happen. There's no way this can be self-funded. And again, if they make it where it has to be self-funded, in other words, putting erroneous charges on this particular program, therefore making it be self-funded, another reason why it'll get shot down by the Supreme Court. Because you're adding undue burden onto the citizen, taking away their Second Amendment right in doing so, and it'll even fail more miserably than it would right now. So my feeling is he'll probably sign it. Again, I do believe it will get shot down when it's all said and done because it's not constitutional. And all of the work and things that have gone into this, by the way, are going to be for naught because at the end of the day, this is just going to get shot down. And the amount of hoops that folks will now have to jump through, and here's my other prediction, you'll just see people doing other things to get around this law. They will figure out ways around it. People have relatives in other states. They'll get those guns bought there. They'll still end up with the gun that they want. They'll go get it. They'll bring it back. All of these things will happen. And again, at the end of the day, you're not going to stop anything. And I get what I just said is not legal, but it'll still happen. Because when you push people far enough, they'll figure out ways around the rules. Especially when they're arbitrary rules like these that have been set by a bunch of Democrats. that infringe upon your Second Amendment right. So again, at the end of the day, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, all of you lefty legislatures. This isn't going to change anything. So I'll quote another one. As gun violence continues to devastate communities across Colorado, which, by the way, that's not totally true either. It's not like we read about this every single solid day. Yes, there are shootings every day in Colorado. Happens constantly. And this bill is not going to change that. Leadership, I talked about Mayor Johnston during the first hour, that would change things. That would have an impact. But see, it's not because we have government that only cares about certain things and your Second Amendment rights aren't one of them. I, on the way here today, passed three motorcycle cops on I-70 that were doing traffic control on I-70, writing tickets. And I always think to myself when that's going on, what else could those guys be doing? There's not a car being stolen. There's not some domestic violence going on anywhere in town. There's nothing else happening that we should be paying more attention to instead of running three motorcycle cops on I-70 doing traffic control. Speed control. Speed trap, basically. And that's my complaint. And you guys all know my feelings on speed traps and so on. And while I have all respect in the world for the blue, and I get it, these guys are only being told, you know, these particular officers are only being told what to go do by those that are in charge of them. This is most likely not what they really want to be doing. There's other things that they could be doing instead. Now, some of them probably do enjoy it, but I think that's a minority. Most of them do it because they're told to. They'd rather be doing something else. But they do this because it's what they have to do, and it's a revenue collection for the city of Denver. Literally, it's a revenue collector. You know, if you're going X over the speed limit, it's a big fine. And they can collect those big fines in those particular areas. You know, somebody being in the HOV lane going 80 in a 55, that's a huge fine. Huge. In fact, there's lots of points associated with that as well. So my complaint is... you want to stop gun violence and some of the other things that are going on, then change the system. Don't change, you know, don't pass a law that's penalizing law-abiding gun owners. Because that's what you're doing in this particular situation. They go on to say, when semi-automatic weapons and high-capacity magazines get into the wrong hands, it presents a major threat to the health and safety of our communities. And this bill, by the way, is not going to change that. This law won't change. If this becomes law, it won't change that. This is the misconception that folks on the left has. Oh, if we pass a law, it will end it. No, it won't. We already have a law against murdering someone else. There's already laws on the books for the very same things they're trying to protect the citizens of. Criminals don't care. They don't care. 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Back to Rush to Reason. And we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Joe, you're next. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 19 :
John, I haven't had a chance to read the bill, but I'm sure you know the answer to this question. Now, you are correct that you can't drive to another state. You personally buy a pistol from a gun dealer and take possession of it. It would have to be shipped. But that doesn't apply to long guns like AR-15s. You can legally drive to Cheyenne, buy an AR-15 with a 30-round magazine. and take possession of it on the spot in the store in Cheyenne.
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Correct.
SPEAKER 19 :
So what mechanism is in the bill to prevent bad guys from doing that?
SPEAKER 15 :
None. Joe, there's no mechanism to keep them from going to downtown Denver on the street and finding somebody that just acquired one, stole one, did whatever, buy it out of the back of a truck. Nothing keeps that from happening. Zero. Zilch.
SPEAKER 19 :
John, you're not telling me that they're so stupid that they don't have a mechanism to prevent bad guys and evil people from driving up to Cheyenne. and buying one of these banned weapons. You're not trying to tell me that, are you?
SPEAKER 15 :
No, they do not, Joe.
SPEAKER 19 :
Oh, my goodness. Talk about stupid pieces of legislation that can be evaded.
SPEAKER 15 :
Joe, this one can be, and again, as I said earlier, yes, it's against the law, but if you had a relative, let's say, for example, living in Nebraska or Kansas or New Mexico or any other place, and you decided that, hey, you know what, can you pick me up this particular gun and these particular magazines, and oh, by the way, I need several boxes of ammo, And, you know what, I'll just come by one day and, you know, we'll get a family get-together and I'll stop in and grab them and I'll pay you then. And, you know what, nothing keeps that from happening, Joe.
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, John, and that's only necessary if we're talking about pistols. If it's long guns, there's nothing at all preventing you personally from legally, well, under federal law, from legally walking into that out-of-state gun store. And buying an AR-15, you know, filling out the form yourself and taking possession of it.
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That's right.
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And driving home.
SPEAKER 19 :
And driving home. Now, bringing it back to the state, you broke the law, but it is perfectly legal for you to drive to Kansas, buy a long gun. and walk out of the store with it in Kansas or Wyoming.
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Correct. And I had several different people texting in on, you know, even the whole, you know, high-capacity magazine thing and all of that. You know, the way around all of that is just, Joe, it's so easy, it's ridiculous.
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Go up to, you know, go up to, so as you know, John, most semi-automatic, full-size semi-automatic pistols come with a 17, 19, 20-round mag. And you can still drive up to Cheyenne, take a 90-minute drive to Cheyenne. And hanging on a rack, if you want a 20-round Glock mag, go buy half a dozen and come home. You don't even need an ID. You don't even need a library card.
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And the reality of that, too, Joe, that most people don't understand, including these Democrats, is none of those are traceable in, I guess, if you really wanted to get down to it and you could figure out through the manufacturer when the actual date stamp was and so on. But the reality is, Joe, none of that's ever going to happen. You could drag those things back here and say, oh, yeah, I bought those six months ago. No one would know the difference, Joe.
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Absolutely, gentlemen, 100 percent correct. And a lot of mags don't even have that.
SPEAKER 15 :
And by the way, Joe, here's the other thing the Dems don't understand. Law enforcement doesn't even care about what I just said. They have got such bigger fish to fry. That is non-issue to them.
SPEAKER 19 :
They do. And this is part of a larger – I think many of them know that this will never pass a legal challenge, but it's called lawfare. They are trying to bankrupt the groups.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yes, that's right.
SPEAKER 19 :
That's all this is. And that's a stated – we're trying to bankrupt them with these – and we're trying to make them spend all of their contributions.
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I think the only thing they're not understanding in this particular one is there's enough folks running around in Colorado, folks like myself, that'll give, you know, $100, $200, whatever it is to the cause, that, yeah, they're not going to bankrupt them over this particular one. It might in some other situations, but not this one.
SPEAKER 19 :
Right, and there's one more coming, John. You know how these things... Bloomberg and every town in the USA is behind these. They have a boilerplate, and if it passes in one state... They'll do it again. They just send legislators here... The boilerplate with the fill-in-the-blank, fill-in-the-name of your state.
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That's right.
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California has passed this, and their argument was that the magazine is not part of the firearm. It's an accessory. It's a mere accessory. Now, this is the same state. You're familiar with what's called a magazine disconnect, right, that the gun can't fire. So California, many years ago, passed a law that required any pistol sold in the state must have a magazine disconnect feature, meaning if you drop the magazine, even if there's a bullet in the chamber, the gun won't fire if the magazine isn't inserted. Well, so they made the magazine an essential integral part of the pistol, and here they are in court arguing that the magazine is not an essential integral part of the gun. It's a mere accessory. That's why we, the state of California, have the right to ban it, because it's not a firearm, it's a mere accessory, yet you made it an integral part of the gun.
SPEAKER 15 :
That's right. Joe, I'll leave it at that. I've got one more call. I appreciate you very much. Ben, go ahead. I'll give you a couple minutes. Go ahead.
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Yeah, I just had three comments. One, the Politburo, if they quit allowing so much crime and allowed the police to do their job, they'd probably get more people locked up and nip a lot of crime in the bud correct and then uh secondly you know on this tesla thing i'm not that i i've said on your show before i'm not a big fan but i'm against it's like the protest for me would be just don't buy the car you don't have to burn anything that's right don't buy it anymore trade it off if you own one trade it off yeah and then thirdly you know off the topic i just heard that cummins came up with a new inline gas engine cylinder yes and i'm thinking i i'd like to see how they run but uh they've got like huge torque yes and relatively making it very much like a diesel only running on gasoline yeah and i was wondering how they did that did they do like uh stroke over bore, bore over stroke, I'm guessing, and high compression. Very high compression.
SPEAKER 15 :
I have not looked at the specs, but, yeah, that's essentially what they're doing, yes.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, and, you know, I was looking at diesels, but the maintenance is so high. Oh, this will be a game changer.
SPEAKER 15 :
If this ends up working like they claim, Ben, this is a game changer.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I'm thinking there's going to be a lot of guys running around with one-ton trucks or whatever.
SPEAKER 04 :
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 07 :
And when the engine goes bad or isn't worth fixing, they're going to drop that thing in. And by the way, the electric car, I think overall is healthy because it forces developments of internal combustion.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yes, I agree.
SPEAKER 07 :
I think to be more efficient, get better mileage because they kind of rest on their laurels. A lot of these cars, they're running around getting 26 miles per gallon or whatever. And you could get that. out of a small block in the 70s.
SPEAKER 15 :
That's right.
SPEAKER 07 :
You know, if you did it right. That's right.
SPEAKER 15 :
Nope, you're right. Ben, I've got to run, but no, you are right. By the way, I appreciate the phone call. We can talk more about this even in the last hour. I'll have time. I've got one guest, so we'll have more time. Real quick, Cub Creek Heating and Air Conditioning. Find them at klzradio.com.
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All right, great first and second hour. Hour number three is next. Phil Kirpin's going to join us here at the top of the hour from American Commitment. We'll be right back, though. This is Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
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All right. Happy Tuesday. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Just myself today. Normally Andy is with me, but he's off enjoying some time away, which I appreciate all that Andy does. Andy, if you're listening, thank you and enjoy your time away. Question of the day yesterday, what is the name of the closest star to Earth after the sun? It is the Proxima Centauri. And it comprises the closest set of stars, even if their light does take over four years to reach us. So, in other words, it's close, but not that close. In fact, it's not close at all. Today's impossible question. And again, you can answer these on our Facebook page. What is the rarest naturally occurring element on Earth? What is the rarest naturally occurring element on Earth? That is today's question of the day. Today, I've got all sorts of things to cover. I, frankly, am not going to spend a lot of time. I know there's a lot of hubbub going around the particular signal conversation that happened from, you know, Hegseth and Walsh and others. And, you know, the guy from The Atlantic, one of the reporters from The Atlantic, was inadvertently put onto the chat. Or was he? And that's the question that I have. And, again, I'm not going to spend much time talking about it. There's a lot of folks out there that want to see folks resign or be punished over it and so on. And I'm sorry. Maybe this is wrong to say. But we were talking about – they were talking about a strategy in how to defeat the hooties. Honestly, folks – I don't even consider that war talk. This is how do you how do you swat the mosquito that's on your arm off? And let's talk about the strategy to do so. The Democrats, of course, are making a lot to do about nothing along these lines. And it's why I won't spend much time talking about my talk about it a little bit on the. On the National Crawford Roundtable, we might discuss that ever so slightly. Maybe Bob and Neil have a different take on it. But for me personally, not really enough there worth talking about. I could have talked about it even some yesterday because it came out in enough time. I could have mentioned it on the show yesterday. But frankly, again, I just look at it as a lot to do about nothing. And not trying to minimize any people group, but... The hooties, literally, it's like a mosquito to the United States of America. In fact, I don't know why we haven't taken care of those knuckleheads a long time ago. I mean, they're really more just a pain in the rear than they are anything else. I mean, are they really any threat to anyone? Maybe to some other countries they might be, but to us, no. And I kind of wonder, just the only thing I'm going to throw out, and I'll say this on the roundtable, is, you know, was... This particular person from the Atlantic included in the conversation just so he would maybe inadvertently, which they knew it wouldn't be inadvertently, but where he would actually comment on or make known our actual thoughts on Europe and what's happening there. In other words, they could say things indirectly to Europe and those countries that are there, Versus coming right out and having an actual direct conversation. So you have to wonder, was it really a mistake that happened? Or had this been done purposely to, again, let some information out that might not otherwise work? come out and there's even conversation over, you know, is J.D. Vance on the same team and is he looking at this the correct way and so on. Folks, there's always different conversations and opinions that happen inside of any kind of an organization. Those of you listening that have any kind of a close relationship with either your kids or your spouse or your business partner or whatever it might be, you can have the same mission in life and want to do the same things but have a direct relationship or how should I say this, have a direct disagreement in how to accomplish said goal. Happens all the time, by the way. Even two people that love one another more than life itself, people that are married, kids, et cetera, like I just said, people literally that would give their life for one another can still disagree greatly on how to accomplish X, Y, Z, or whether to even accomplish it or not. And just because there's a disagreement among two people doesn't mean that they are not for one another and they're not all going in the same direction and so on. People can have disagreements over things all the time. And by the way, that's healthy. If all that Trump was surrounded with was a bunch of yes men, I would be more worried about that than actually reading some of the comments that J.D. said in this particular string of text messages that were going around these particular individuals. So that's my comment on it. I wasn't going to spend much more time than that on it. To me, it's a lot to do about nothing. You're getting the left, you know, they're all in an uproar. And remind everybody that I also wonder at times, I said this last week in relation to other things that happen at times from this particular administration, is this also a huge distraction purposely set to get the left all wound up while Trump, Doge, and others go after the things they really want to go after. All the while, this hand over here is saying one thing, and they're over there on the other side doing something completely different, but everybody's focus is over on the other side, sort of like a magician. The way they get by with all of their tricks is sleight of hand and where your eye is actually looking at and what you're really focused on. Meanwhile, over here, where you're not really paying attention, they're actually making the trick happen. So you wonder at times, is this partly what Donald Trump and the strategy is, where they will periodically release some of these sorts of things or do some of these things that really get the left riled up, get them all in a fervor, which they are right now, all bent out of shape. While they're doing something else somewhere else. And I don't know, folks, I don't have any end to this particular administration. I have no idea what their thought process is, what this outcome really was supposed to be when it was all said and done. So point being, is it something I personally. Am worried about? No, not at all. I've got some other things that we'll talk about here as soon as I come back that might be more alarming. But what happened in that particular signal string of messages is not one of them. Dr. Scott Falkner. Oh, really quick, too. Before you before the left runs around and talks about how that's all unsecure texting and things going back and forth. That's not true. That's not true. Signal was set up initially to be one of the first encryption messaging systems out there. Talked about this years and years ago before even some of the other ones existed, Signal did. And they encrypted things to whereby they could not be intercepted and decoded and so on. So, no, it's about as secure as it gets. The question is, why was this other party involved? involved in this particular conversation, and we may never know the actual full answer of that. Dr. Scott coming up next, and he is a great doctor that thinks exactly like we do. We talk about that a lot, but I mean that sincerely. Call Scott today, 303-663-6990.
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Now back to John Rush. All right. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Somebody texted also and say, do I and my wife ever disagree? Yeah, just like any other married couple would. There are, you know, differences of opinions on all sorts of things. From, in my world, business strategies and different things I may be doing along those lines and how all that looks in the end to you name it. So, yes, there's all sorts of disagreements that can come up. And what I would say, and I've said this many times and I'll keep saying this, if you ever get into a relationship, Where the other party always agrees with you. In other words, there's never a challenge, never a disagreement, never an argument. Something's wrong. Something's wrong. Because no two people on this earth. can agree upon that many things and never, ever, ever have any kind of a disagreement or an argument. It's just not possible. Now, you can minimize those, and most people do, and most good relationships do. But in the end... Yeah, people are going to disagree, and especially I think those that even are closer to one another may even have more disagreements than otherwise just because you're close to one another and there can be differences of opinions on all sorts of things that may come up. Okay, U.S. Intelligence Report. I wanted to read some of the highlights from this, and I'm not going to go through all of it, but I'm going to read some highlights. And there are some things in here, and again, this is just an intelligence report. Is anything in here going to come to fruition? No idea. These are just that, reports. And these will come out periodically based upon information that is collected, and then they take that information, they dissect it, they... They look at what should we release to the public and what should we not. Some things the public, I'll be the first to say, shouldn't know about because it probably would freak some people out. There's other things that are very safe to share. So let me read you a few things coming out of the latest intelligence report. It says China. presents the most comprehensive and robust military threat to U.S. national security. And I'm going to stop there because, yes, I would agree with that. Although, I want to throw this in because it doesn't necessarily say this in this report, they have their own problems. Economically speaking, they have their own problems. The one thing that they do have going for them that works militarily speaking is... They don't have the same amount of regulations and hoops to jump through when it comes time to build something. So in other words, when they decide to build a new whatever, ship, submarine, whatever it happens to be, can they fast track that and get that built much faster than we can? Yes, they can. to their credit, they can do that much faster. Now, does it have the same capabilities and things that ours would? And is it apples to apples? Typically not. Keep in mind, they steal a lot of our intelligence that is used in those particular areas, which does come back then to bite us. China's dominance in critical material mining and processing is a particular threat. U.S. Annual Threat Assessment Report. So that's where that one came from. Now, I think, by the way, this current administration, Donald Trump himself, understands all of that, both parts of that, including the mineral end of things. It's why he's pretty set on opening up things here in the U.S. We have certain minerals here that we could definitely be mining. Do we have everything China has? No. But could we make a big dent in it? Yes, we could. On the same token, we have resources they don't have, things that we have a one-up on them, if you would. Oil, gas, coal, some of those things, for example. So reality is we have things they don't have, and yes, they have some rare earth metals that we don't have. But we have access to and have ability to work around that, and I think to Trump's credit, he's doing that. China seeks to displace the United States as the world's most influential artificial intelligence power by 2030. U.S. intelligence says China in 2025 is likely to apply stronger coercive pressure against Taiwan. And U.S. intelligence says China is advancing military capabilities for a cross-strait campaign. And I don't think there's any secrets there. And I'm going to go back to the artificial intelligence ends of things. Do I think... that they will be successful in taking the lead on AI by 2030. No. No, they won't. Now, some might disagree with me, but here's why I say that. And maybe some of this is just coming from the automotive background and what I've seen China do in regards to a lot of things, including how they build cars and so on. China, because of its structure... Doesn't invent anything. Never has. I doubt it ever will. Can it reinvent things that it steals from others like us? Yes. And in fact, they do very well at that. They can take something and make it better. Now, some would say, well, that's exactly what they've done with AI. Yes, but keep in mind, AI is going to continue to progress. That's why we need really good, solid people at the helm to make sure that we keep certain things with us that don't make it other places. The only reason they've got the up that they do right now AI-wise is because what they built their AI off of was open source. They really, again, they didn't have to invent anything. They built it off the backs of others, which is what China does. You can even look at their warships, submarines, and so on. Where did most of that technology come from? Us. And I'm not trying to be racist here and ditz them individually. It's just their structure, their country structure, their politics squash innovation. We talk about that all the time. It's why outside of the United States, hardly anything is ever invented. There's been some great medical advancements that have come out of places like Israel. Canada's had a few advancements and some things like that. You know, even countries that aren't as free as us will still have some advancement. But none, none like what China or North Korea, you know, they have nothing compared to what we have and they never will. There's no incentive to. So anyways, I want to make sure that I commented on that, because do I feel like they're going to be any kind of a threat to our AI? No, frankly, folks, I don't. And I don't care what any expert says. They're wrong. They're wrong. Now, this whole issue with Taiwan and so on, will China flex its muscles in regards to that? They absolutely will. That one, I think, is a given. They also say that China is likely to increase economic pressure on Taiwan. It sees Taiwan taking steps towards formal independence. A U.S. report says war on Ukraine has afforded Russia wealth of lessons about Western weapons and intelligence. So that's the other thing and reason why this war needs to end sooner than later is keep in mind every single time that there's a war like this and this stuff goes on, the enemy learns about us. Not only are they fighting Ukraine, but they're learning about us at the same time, because who do you think is supplying Ukraine with the majority of things they're fighting against Russia? Us. Everything from the type of ammunition we're using to the bombs that we're launching to the drones to you name it. Russia is learning a lot about us and our capabilities. Frankly, it should scare Russia a little bit, but to their credit, they will take some of that and they will go through that and they will learn backwards, make it backwards compatible, and apply those things as needed. So the U.S. also says that China remains most active in persistent cyber threat to the U.S. China's aggressive efforts to assert sovereignty claims in the South and East China sees heightens tensions that could trigger broader conflict. That one I would not disagree with. The Russia-Ukraine war perpetuates strategic risks to the United States of unintended escalation, potential use of nuclear weapons. Intelligence report says that, and Russia will be unable to achieve total victory but retains momentum in the Ukraine war. That's a U.S. report. Now, there's also something else that's interesting, and that is that China and Russia are eyeing Greenland. for natural resources, and I kind of added my own comment to that, basically saying maybe Donald Trump's not so dumb after all trying to get a foothold in Greenland. Evidently, he knows something that, frankly, the rest of the world, and especially the left, doesn't know. The other thing in this report that I thought was interesting is talking about how Russia has now really getting close to having a satellite that can carry nuclear weapons, which would be a game changer if that, in fact, does happen so there are some things in this report that i think are worth noting and paying attention to is there anything in this report i would lose sleep over no i'm not the kind of guy to lose sleep over much of anything especially when it comes to these things because all of what i just talked about is beyond my control anyways all i can do is take care of what i can do in my area of life in the world and the rest of it will fall into place And just be vigilant. 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All right, we are back and again. Happy Tuesday. Appreciate you all joining us today. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Dr. Paul Winfrey joining us now. Dr. Paul, welcome. How are you? I'm doing great. How are you doing? I'm doing very well. President and CEO of the Economic Policy Innovation Center. Talk to us about the Maha movement, Make America Healthy Again, and how that ties into food stamps and things that Americans can buy.
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Well, I think one of the things that the Maha movement has realized is that there are a bunch of behaviors that have been encouraged in society for a long period of time that that have ultimately made Americans less healthy. And those are re-fortified through government programs like food stamps and ultimately Medicaid, which ensures more and more people today than it did 10 years ago, in part because of the large expansions that were made during Obamacare and that were accelerated during COVID. The pandemic now got about 100 million people who were on the Medicaid program. And so ultimately, one of the things that the Trump administration is looking to do and the Congress is looking to do is to improve people's health by getting control of some of these programs and ultimately getting the right incentives in line.
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Talk to us about, because this is something that, frankly, I am not super familiar with. I have been self-employed the majority of my adult life and have worked super hard, and one of the goals I always had was, I guess my dad instilled to me, was make sure you can feed your family, put a roof over your head, do the things necessary, and I don't ever want to be on government welfare, and knock on wood, I never have been. So when it comes to some of the benefits that go out, I'll be straight up honest with you, I can't... don't have any idea what is even allowed to be purchased, not purchased. Dr. Paul, that is one of those areas where I'm about as clueless as it gets.
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Yeah, well, so one of the big controversies right now that's actually dividing some people on the right is limitations that folks are talking about putting in place over sugary beverages that can be purchased with food stamp benefits. So, you know, one of the things that folks who are food stamp participants can can do right now with their welfare benefits is to buy sodas and other sugary beverages that we know contribute to things like diabetes and other long-term health challenges. And what others are pushing for, including this HHS, is a limitation on that. But there's sort of a larger issue at play here, and that is that every time there's a crisis, whether or not it's the 2008-2009 financial crisis, or the pandemic, the left has used those opportunities to expand welfare, to make more and more people eligible to these programs. And one of the huge expansions that we saw during the pandemic was this thing called categorical eligibility, which didn't just expand food stamps, but also expanded free school lunches to really wealthy areas, making more and more people eligible for welfare benefits, and ultimately dependent on the federal government.
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In other words, people that could be sending their kids with lunch or buying lunch or doing whatever they need to do, they're now on my tax dollars and yours, essentially a part of the dole, I guess you could say.
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That's right. So I live in Fairfax County, which is a very wealthy suburb of Washington, D.C. I think it's one of the highest per capita incomes in the country. And prior to the pandemic, the school lunches and breakfasts were heavily subsidized by the federal government and the state. But today, in many of the schools in Fairfax County, everybody receives free school lunches, even if The parents are incredibly wealthy. And, you know, I mean, you know, maybe I'm old fashioned, but I think that welfare in this country should be. reserved for the people who are truly vulnerable and not widely distributed.
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No, you and I feel exactly the same way. I think there needs to be caps on a lot of these things. Now, I get it. There are some that are really down and out that struggle, but that's where we have got disability and other things that can come into play. And I'm not talking about those particular individuals, Dr. Paul. I'm talking about some of the folks that you're talking about. The reality is there's a lot of able-bodied people that – by the way, I have known and talked to personally – But because of what you and I are talking about, Section 8 housing and other benefits they get, at the end of the day, there's no incentive to change their behavior because the reality is they can work less and make more with you and I participating than they would be doing it on their own.
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That's right. And all of the federal involvement also is increasing inflation, right? Because every time you're dumping money in federal subsidies into programs, it's just driving up the price for those things.
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You are 100% correct. Okay, so I am one where I believe, A, go back to the Clinton years, if you would. I think we should have a cap on some of these things, how long you can actually be on assistance. I think we should cap even the types of things that can be purchased on assistance. I'm assuming, though, that some of the ideas I just threw out there would probably be fought heavily by a particular political party because I then would be, quote-unquote, discriminating against these individuals by not allowing them to buy whatever they want.
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That's exactly right. Right. And I mean, like one of the big things that's being debated right now in Washington, D.C., is work requirements, strengthening the work requirements for the food stamp program and adding work requirements to the Medicaid program, which is health insurance for low income people that received a huge expansion in 2014 with with Obamacare. You know, these are issues that back in the middle of the 90s were were bipartisan. Everybody believed that. That if you were able-bodied, you didn't have kids, you needed to be working as long as you were between the ages of 19 and retirement age. Now, it's just not the case. It doesn't only divide on party lines. But you even hear some people within the right saying, you know, we shouldn't be imposing overly burdenous requirements on states to implement these work requirements. I don't see it that way.
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By the way, I call BS on that because the reality is if you continue to incentivize bad behavior, that's what you get. Am I correct?
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I think that is exactly what you get, and we should expect this.
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Yeah, and I raised plenty of kids, and I've been self-employed, and I've trained workers, I coach other businesses, and so on. And what I teach everybody that I know, especially my clients, is if you continue to reward bad behavior from anyone, kids or employees, the reality, Dr. Paul, is that's what you're going to receive. And the reality is we have got an entire now section of society now that because of the things that you're mentioning, we have now created this bad behavior that is, I'll just be straight up honest, it is going to be hard to wean them off of.
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That's exactly right. And, you know, like take the Medicaid program in particular. The federal government reimburses states 50 cents on every dollar that they spend on Medicaid for the disabled, for pregnant women, and for single moms with kids. For adults who are able-bodied, non-elderly, without dependents, they don't have kids, The federal government subsidizes $0.90 for every dollar that they spend, which means that states have an incentive because they get more money for that able-bodied without children population. They have an incentive to expand into those areas. So all the incentives in the welfare system are completely backward. We really need a more work-focused welfare system that, you know, like I said, quite frankly, was bipartisan that Clinton supported back in the 90s. We need to get back to that.
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All right. So I'm like results. I'm kind of a results-oriented individual, as you could imagine. What's the fix? You know, how do we—and I get it. There's two sides to the equation here. You've got to get everybody to, quote-unquote, come together to try to get things, you know, handled. But— I know that's really, really difficult. So what's the answer? How do we move the football forward?
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Well, I think in terms of food stamps or nutrition assistance, we shouldn't be making the problem worse, right? So we shouldn't be encouraging people to use federal assistance to consume things that ultimately make them less healthy. We've got to cut that off. But for the able-bodied population without dependents who are working age, It needs to be time limited. They need to be working or they need to be off of assistance. And I mean working. There are all these things that are baked into the current system where if you just are perpetually in job training programs but don't actually have a job, then you can continue to receive benefits. Right now, if you talk to people who are in the business community, especially small businesses, We still, even several years after the pandemic, have a job market where there are a lot of openings, and we need to make sure that that population is working.
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You are talking to somebody that talks to those individuals, and I'm self-employed, so I experienced some of that as well. So, no, I can reiterate what you just said full well, and you would think by now that would not be the case, but it still is.
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That's that's exactly right. That's exactly right. You know, and during the Biden years, you know, we saw illegal immigration, you know, fill some of these holes. But with Trump, the Trump administration closing off the border, you know, and illegal immigration being cut down, I think, you know, we're going to see some job openings ultimately go up. It's going to increase wages, going to make that make those jobs look even more attractive to to to U.S. citizens. and so we need a welfare program, again, to support that transition into the job market.
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I agree. Dr. Paul, how do folks find you and what's going on with your organization, the Economic Policy Innovation Center?
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They can find me on X, at Paul Winfrey, W-I-N-F-R-E-E, and they can also find us on the Internet at www.epicforamerica.org.
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Awesome. Dr. Paul, I appreciate it. Thank you very much. Thanks for having me. You bet. Have a great night. And, yeah, we need a lot of changes in that particular realm. And, yes, I know you're going to have to step into this. In other words, stair-step into it. You can't make changes all at once. And time will tell what we can actually get done. But to Dr. Paul's point a moment ago, with the amount of job openings, things that are out there, the opportunity right now, I believe, is there to make some significant changes along these lines of the government cheese. You guys all know what I mean by that. There's a way to change that, and we should be looking at that, and hopefully Doge and others in this administration are doing so because far too many people, far too many people are on government dole that shouldn't be, that are able-bodied, able to work, able to fend for themselves, and they frankly should be. Golden Eagle Financial, speaking of finances and where we're headed, what you're doing, how are you getting to retirement, and so on. Talk to Al Smith today, Golden Eagle Financial. Find him at klzradio.com.
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Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Somebody asked a moment ago on the text line as well that all these guests that I get is more of a question. And I've talked about this before, but you may have missed that, which is fine. I can talk about it again. And somebody was just asking for maybe some of the inside baseball of how do I and other shows get a lot of the guests that we get. And the way that works is there are, you know, publicists, booking agents, if you would. It depends on what you're looking for. And there's different types of agencies that represent different type of individuals. Some represent those that are trying to enlarge their speaking, public speaking skills. End of things. Others are agents for authors and people that are trying to promote books. Some are agents that are just trying to promote different types of organizations, nonprofits, things like that. And all of these agents work on a per diem basis. In other words, they get a certain amount of money to do these different things and represent these individuals and so on. And in turn, they reach out to shows like ours here. And we'll send in requests for, I've got this particular guest. They can talk about this particular topic. Is that something that you would like to have them on for? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And some of them I've got really, really great relationships with. Some of these publishing companies or publicists, I should say, I've got really, really great relationships with. And sometimes, not often, sometimes I will reach out to them and say, hey, on this particular topic, do you have anybody that can speak to this? For example... Charlie and I, for over a year plus now, have been trying to find somebody that, and I know this sounds really out there, but we want somebody that can come on air on Health and Wellness Wednesday and talk about dreams. What do they mean? Where do they come from? What part of the brain? All these different things. It's something I'm intrigued with, something Charlie's intrigued with. So I've actually discussed this among some of my publicists and some of those folks that handle this and have said, hey, if you ever run across somebody along those lines, send them our way. I've got folks, by the way, that specialize in the health and wellness end of things. That's where a lot of those guests come from and so on. But it's this weird array of people. of companies it's a whole nother subset of businesses if you would where they go around and they help different people become more exposed more popular if you would and it's a part of how that particular end of things works now some people i just know one-on-one they may have been on in the past and i don't even use a publicist we just have them on richard battle is one of those types of individuals we just have had them for so long that he just shows up on wednesdays we have him as a routine and i like richard because he and I talk about leadership stuff, which I think is really, really, really important. But yeah, a lot of these folks that you hear that are on different radio, TV, and so on, they have got people that they have connected with, in some cases hired, to actually put them in those particular venues. And In our case, and this is by no means to boast because I don't know what other shows end up receiving, but I'll get anywhere from 25 to 50 plus of those daily people wanting to come on the program, come on air and talk about the various things that they may have ability to talk about. Now, as you guys all know, I don't take that many. There are a lot of, you know, either no's or I just file those away. Or in some cases, I just, I hate to say this, I just delete the email and it goes off and I have no interest in that particular person. Some of them can get pretty persistent. And some of them will even reach out and say, hey, you know, I'm trying to get so-and-so, so-and-so on your program. I know it would be a great fit. You know, what do you think? And sometimes I have to just literally, you know, email back and just say, you know, not a great fit, not a great fit this week. Get back to me X amount of time, things along those lines. Again, I'm very much in charge of what we do here and want to be. And if it doesn't fit, it doesn't fit. Now, this is an interesting story because I don't do this very often. I can tell you in 10 years, I can count on one hand where I've actually done this. We had a guest on yesterday. And I'd have to go back and even look at my notes, and Charlie might remember this guest better than I can probably go back and look at it. But this particular person, it was Rob Roselli yesterday. He was supposed to talk about the JFK truth issue. And the report that came out and so on. And I don't normally do this because I'm usually pretty nice. That was one of the worst interviews I think I've had in a very, very, very, very long time. He was absolutely worthless as an interview. And I'm saying that kindly. And I don't often report back on to how good or bad an interview went. That one I did. And I basically said, don't send me him ever again. He's not worth having on air. I'm not doing this again. Sorry. You should even rethink who you're representing, because if he does the same thing to me, if he does the same thing to everybody else that he did to me, that was a worthless interview. And I don't do that very often. I'm usually pretty kind, and even people will reach out and ask how the interview went and so on. And I'm usually very upfront and very kind, and typically they go very well. We rarely have a dud. You're going to get one occasionally. We do pretty well, because I research typically who these people are. Oh, we had one guy one time. Charlie and I were interviewing a guy. I think it was a Health and Wellness Wednesday guest. And we're rolling along, and everything's going pretty well, and I'm like, yeah, okay, I get where this guy's going. And all of a sudden, the whole nanobot thing comes up, and I'm just like, oh, jeez, this guy just went off the rails. Literally just went off the rails. And sometimes when that happens... All I can do is sort of be nice, kind of agree, yet maybe disagree. And you handle that as best you can. And you just sort of, you know, slowly say bye bye and off they go. And no, they're not invited back because they can get way out there. And again, doesn't happen very often. We are actually, in my opinion, very, very fortunate and lucky. And maybe that's just because of some of the research I do on some of these individuals before I have them on and some of the relationships that we have with some of these booking agents. But at the end of the day, we're really fortunate. Most of the people we get are really, really strong. I also will say this, and I've said this before. I really do look for those young people. Because I really feel like young people, of course, are our future. I'd like to hear from them. I want to hear those different perspectives. I don't want to just hear from old guys all the time. I do want to hear from the young people as to what they think. It's why I have Sonny Kutcher and others like her on on a routine basis, because I want to hear from those young people. And of late, we've had some really great young people that have joined us. And I'm always encouraged by them because it's really great to hear young people that think the way we do, knowing that, OK. Our world isn't in such bad shape after all, and if we can get some of these people online and on board and get them really involved, which they are, okay, we're going to be okay at the end of the day. So it's always a joy to me when we've got young people that are willing to come on. And by the way, some of them of late. Adrian Gray, I was just thinking, Charlie, a moment ago, she's been joining us now kind of on a semi-weekly basis. And I tell you what, holy cow, is she well-spoken for being in her mid-20s or so is all. She is extremely, extremely well-spoken, does a fabulous job. And those are the kind of individuals, young people, that I will do my very best to help them continue to get ahead by having us be one of their outlets that they can then talk to others about being on air and hopefully gain more, you know, more interviews if you would on down the road and yes i will do whatever i can to help them but yeah whoever it whoever emailed or texted me that on the text line that's how that works a little inside baseball but you know i'm there's no secrets there that's just how that end of it works and if you're somebody out there and you've written a book or there's some way that you know something you've done where you want to be more you know more known in what that particular thing is Go interview some of these different publicists and folks that can help you get some of these things done. And it's a whole other world of how things work. And that's how those people end up on a lot of the different venues that they end up on. It's through those particular organizations. And it's a business all in and of itself. So, yeah. There you go. Paul Lueger coming up next, my insurance agent. He would love to help you with all of your insurance needs, whatever they are. He's a broker now. He works for all the different companies that are out there. Call Paul today, 303-662-0789.
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All right. Welcome back. And again, thanks for letting me sort of, you know, meander around there and talk about how things, you know, work structurally speaking with the show. Also, somebody sent me a article and I have not had a chance to look this up. There was a stabbing. That just happened, I believe, in front of the Capitol, Colfax and Broadway, that literally at that last segment as we were talking, somebody texted me that and gave me that info. I'll do my best here at the top of the hour to look that up and potentially come back and talk about that. But, yeah, that's something that I did not... I did not see. And this particular texter was saying, this is just happening. Denver is a mess. Yes, it is. That's what happens when you have really poor leadership, which we have no leadership in the city of Denver right now. Mike Johnston is a complete joke. If that guy goes on to do anything else, politically speaking, that just shows you how stupid voters are. This guy, I mean, I thought... I thought we had seen it all with some of the previous Denver mayors. And I really, really thought, you know, Hancock, I didn't like at all. But I will tell you what, can we have him back? Can we have him back? I mean that sincerely. I didn't think I'd ever, ever say that. But he's way better, way better than Johnston. And I never thought I'd say that, literally. I mean, I right now, honestly, would take Mayor Hancock back in a heartbeat. And not that I'm a Denver resident or anything along those lines, but oh, my word, what a laughingstock we have become as a city nationwide because of some of the things Mike Johnston has done. And I thought Mike might be a little bit better than Mayor Hancock. And, oh, boy, was I wrong. He has been an absolute still is an absolute utter disaster when it comes to the things that he does in running the city of Denver and literally making. Because keep in mind, everybody that's outside of Denver, you may say, oh, that's just Denver. Who cares? Well, you know, the rest of the nation, like any other area around the country, they look at the capital as what goes on in the rest of the state. I know that's not true. But that's the perception around the country is what goes on in Denver is happening all around Colorado. That's why it does matter what Mayor Johnston actually does at the end of the day. That's our one. We'll be back for our two. Don't go anywhere. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
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He's the happy conservative wart. From the Relief Factor Studios, here's Mike Deller.
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No, I don't. Yes, I do. No, I don't. Yes, I do. Here we go. Welcome in. It's Tuesday. Getting a little bit of a late document and a little behind-the-scenes activity as we ramp up for today's show. I guess we're a little bit like the Signal Chatroom text group or whatever the heck it was. What do you do when your team stumbles? I saw... a post from Banshee that was so pitch perfect about all the drama and all the hysteria and all the hyper-partisan or maybe non-partisan responses to this big news that the White House apparently mistakenly shared Yemen war plans with the editor of The Atlantic. The Atlantic hates Trump. The Atlantic is left. Jeffrey Goldberg, the guy invited to the chat on Signal, which is some, I guess, data-sharing app, he is making the rounds, saying, look, I was surprised. I was... And it was a big breach. I mean, there's no question. It was a mistake. It was a stumble. Now, their side is going to say, stop the presses. Trump himself needs to resign over this. It's over. It's over. Pete Buttigieg. unloaded an expletive-laden rant. For some reason, these Democrats think if you use the F word a lot, you sound cool and hip and aggravated. I mean, I think Pete Buttigieg is pretty measured. And he's slinging around the F. Bob, this is an effing disgrace. Okay, fine. Here's what Banshee wrote that I think sums it up perfectly, and I'm going to open up the phone lines to you. 800-655-MIKE. Banshee said, one of the most mind-numbing parts of politics is the inability of anyone on any side to ever admit a mistake. Instead, you get dumb qualifiers, obfuscations, and non-denial denials. No one is going to remember this signal thing in two days. Just own it and move on. I think that's pitch perfect. I agree with that 110%. How about you? No one's going to know. I mean, no one's going to be talking about this after the media. I mean, they'll try. They're going to continue to regurgitate it for days, maybe weeks. But it is going to blow over. Thankfully, nothing was compromised in the mission. And incidentally, that's a big part of this. But of course, it shouldn't have happened. Obviously, it was a mistake. You don't want to inadvertently invite the editor of The Atlantic into a chat room or a text group talking about bombing the Houthis. And incidentally, is it Houthi or Houthis? Because I was talking to Mark Davis this morning. I noticed he kept saying Houthis. I think it's Houthis. I don't know. And I don't care. Because there was a lot of transparency, frankly, that was revealed over Hegseth's concerns and how are we going to do this. But none of that's going to matter. All they want is a scalp. All they want is a head over the mantle. They want a trophy. They want Mike Waltz to go. They want Pete Hegseth to go. All they want to do is disrupt. And look, I'm going to be very consistent here. You've got to let them. Let them have their fun. Let them have their day. It was a mistake. Own the mistake, and let's move on. I trust, and the word is that Trump has no intention of firing Mike Walsh. Mike Walsh has already said he's not going anywhere. I don't think President Trump is going to fire anybody in his administration because the mainstream media says so. I don't see that happening at all. But, you know, we'll let it play out and let the game come to us. I'll do what I always do when there's a big story like this, and I don't dispute that it's a big story. And incidentally, trying to ignore it won't make it go away. I noticed they tried to ignore it yesterday on The Five, which I thought was really, really comical. Poor Jessica was the only one who kind of got her licks in and said, I better never hear about Hillary's emails again. Okay. Again, let them have their day. Let them have their response, and we'll move on. Like Banshee said, no one's going to remember this in two days.
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Mike Gallagher.
SPEAKER 11 :
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SPEAKER 13 :
Mike Gallagher.
SPEAKER 11 :
All right, what is the president's reaction to this story that the media is in a complete meltdown over? They are in a feeding frenzy, as expected. There's a lot of news to digest, and I promise we're going to tackle a lot of the other things we have to be about today, including some information about... Mahmoud Khalil, turns out he hid some of his ties to Unraw on his green card application. Uh-oh, that won't be good for him. We'll dive into that. But first, let's bring you to the newsroom. Mike Gallagher Show newsman Roger P. Shulman reporting on President Trump's reaction moments ago to NBC over Mike Waltz and this whole secure thing, you know, this chat room thing.
SPEAKER 10 :
I mean, Roger, have you ever been on Signal before? Never even heard of it until now, so I'm behind the loop, I guess. Us boomers, I mean, we don't know.
SPEAKER 11 :
We're all trying to learn all this technology. The only thing I know about signal is when I pull up to an intersection and it goes from red to green. But it appears that President Trump, as indicated to NBC moments ago, is standing by his man, Mike Waltz.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes, and you mentioned during the last half hour this is going to be a two-day story, and probably tomorrow we'll be talking about something else. He is standing by him because there's no harm, no foul. The attack went off that was released to the Atlantic magazine perfectly. There was no resistance, no problems at all, and he says they've learned from this, and he's learned a lesson, and he's a good man, and he is not going to be removed or anything else. We have so many Ways of getting secret information to the wrong places. We've got emails, we've got texts, we've got all these things that we didn't have before. And it's so easy to to have something like this happen. It used to be that secret information was in file cabinets that were locked and handled by certain people. Now, with everything shooting out over the Internet, it's very difficult to keep a secret. And this was a major screw up. No, no doubt about that. This is something that should not have happened. But since there was no loss of life on our side about it and everything went off fine, I think Mr. Trump is right. is backing his people and wants to move on to bigger and better things.
SPEAKER 11 :
I'm really curious about the journalistic aspect of this in terms of... And let me ask you, because you've been covering news for decades, and I've been listening to you about the new Howard Franklin Bridge that opened up this morning, and that's a big story. But you've covered state, local, national stories for many, many years. Are you on... let me word this delicately. You know everything there is to know about Florida. I mean, you're my go-to for everything. In the legislature, I mean, between you and Bill Bunkley, I mean, there's nothing we don't know about what's happening out of Tallahassee. Let me ask you about your relationship with public figures. I mean, you obviously have a good relationship with a number of newsmakers. Would you find it unusual if Mike Waltz had sort of a working relationship with a Trump-hating editor like this guy from The Atlantic? Or is that just part of doing business and you keep open all lines of communications? Do you have contact with maybe progressive or lawmakers who might not share your own personal ideology? Yes.
SPEAKER 07 :
Absolutely. You keep all lines of communications open. I was just communicating with somebody who is a very you could call them a disagreeable person who has nothing to do with our corporate policy or our philosophies. But we keep the lines of communications open in a civil manner just to just to know what's going on and then keep an eye on things. And Being a patriot and a former military person, if I received some top secret information from somebody, even if I didn't like them, I probably would take steps. But that's just me because of my military background. I was in the Army for five years and am a patriot. perhaps even before being a reporter in some cases. I am not going to do anything that's going to harm this country or put our military at risk. That's my philosophy.
SPEAKER 11 :
So with that in mind, do you find fault with Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic revealing some of the details of this chat room or this group text? Was that a road you might not pursue?
SPEAKER 10 :
I might not pursue it, depending on the situation.
SPEAKER 07 :
If it's after the fact, I probably would go with it. But if it's before the fact, before military operations, absolutely not.
SPEAKER 11 :
Right. And for the record, he did this after the fact. So, you know, look, I don't read The Atlantic. I'm not a fan of, I'm sure, Jeffrey Goldberg. But you don't fault him. He got notified to be invited on this text. This group chat? And he did what any journalist, frankly, left or right, would do.
SPEAKER 07 :
After the fact, yes. After the fact, yes. But if you're jeopardizing American lives, not a good idea in my opinion. That's my opinion.
SPEAKER 11 :
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He's the happy conservative warrior. From the Relief Factor Studios, here's Mike Deller.
SPEAKER 11 :
What do you do when the team that you're rooting for makes a mistake? The media calls them out. They make it an epic bombshell when you know it really isn't all that. How do you react? What's the right way to react? President Trump is not planning to fire National Security Advisor Mike Waltz in the wake of the Atlantic's reporting of an apparent, well, what is being called a national security breach. Sources initially said that Waltz's job was safe. He's not on the chopping block. President Trump himself told NBC in a brief interview minutes ago that Waltz will not be fired. If you haven't followed it, if you haven't had the misfortune of stumbling across MSNBC or CNN or the New York Times or the Washington Post, it's a stunning, breathless, epic failure. These guys are hacks. Pete Buttigieg embraced the apparent strategy of today's Democrats. just throw around the F-bomb a lot. Former Transportation Secretary using the F-word to post his apparent disdain for what took place. What took place? Well, apparently the White House, the team, mistakenly shared information plans for attacking the Houthis in Yemen with the editor of The Atlantic. If you were going to pick the last person, there's a lot of irony to all this, if you were going to pick the last person you'd probably leak this to, it would be him. Now, a lot of people are saying, well, maybe it's perfect, it's genius, this was the plan, it was all part of the plan. I'm not sure that dog... I don't know that that explanation flies. I like what Banshee said on social media. Banshee is a social media influencer, writer over at Red State. Banshee wrote, one of the most mind-numbing parts of politics is the inability of anyone on any side to ever admit a mistake. Instead, you get dumb qualifiers, obfuscations, and non-denial denials. No one, Banshee argues, is going to remember this signal story in two days. Just own it. Move on. The story will die. It will deflate if the White House says, yeah, it happened, it shouldn't have happened, it's been dealt with. And I believe that's the strategy and that's the approach that the White House is about to take. But let's not give the media weeks of distracting intrigue so that they can devour this story over and over and over again. You've got some huge stories that are going to take over, including Mahmoud Khalil's being accused of hiding key information during his green card process. You know, I watched CBS Sunday Morning, and they did this fawning love letter to Khalil and his family. They interviewed his pregnant wife, and look, it's a sympathetic story. The wife is pregnant. He gets taken away after leading all these protests at Columbia University. But now there's some really intriguing information coming out about His ties to this organization, UNRWA, which has deep terrorist ties. Incidentally, here was President Trump's reaction. He apparently, look, I can promise you that there are plenty of people in hot water over this signal leak to Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic. Here was apparently President Trump first hearing about this controversy yesterday from a reporter.
SPEAKER 06 :
Mr. President, your reaction to the story of The Atlantic that said that some of your top cabinet officials and aides had been discussing very sensitive material through Signal and included an Atlantic reporter for that. What is your response to that?
SPEAKER 09 :
I don't know anything about it. I'm not a big fan of The Atlantic. To me, it's a magazine that's going out of business. I think it's not much of a magazine, but I know nothing about it. You're saying that they had what?
SPEAKER 06 :
They were using signal to coordinate on sensitive materials. Having to do with what?
SPEAKER 09 :
Having to do with what? What were they talking about? With the Houthis. The Houthis? You mean the attack on the Houthis? Well, it couldn't have been very effective because the attack was very effective, I can tell you that. I don't know anything about it. You're telling me about it for the first time.
SPEAKER 11 :
So that was the first he learned about it, apparently, and that's not going to go over very well. The boss, I'm sure, isn't very happy. And this happens. You move fast, things are going to get broken. Mistakes are going to get made. And it was a mistake. It was a blunder. Shouldn't have happened. And I can guarantee you it's never going to happen again. And ultimately, nothing about the airstrike in Yemen was effective. was affected. Nothing was impacted. Here was Senator Josh Hawley responding to it on Fox News last night.
SPEAKER 08 :
We don't know how much of this is accurate or not, but it looks like even if everything that Atlantic reported is true, it's the president's advisors discussing among themselves options they might recommend to the president. And nobody can deny the success of what the president is doing here, which is what Pete Higgseth just underscored. And this is what the leftist media is reduced to. They can't argue with the policies which the American people support. They can't argue with This new demonstration of American strength that is keeping Americans safe at home and abroad. And so now we're griping about who's on a text message and who's not. I mean, come on.
SPEAKER 11 :
And that was, of course, reduced to, oh, Senator Hawley says. The only gripe is who's on a text message. Well, of course, it's bigger than that. And he said more than that. He's taken out of context to some degree. But ultimately, it was a mistake. It was a blunder. It was a stumble. Shouldn't have happened. Okay. Own it. Acknowledge it. Yeah. It shouldn't have happened. It's been dealt with. What's next? What's next? And there's a lot of next coming down the pike. 800-655-MIKE. Look, this is not, of course, the end of the world. And I don't think anybody's going to get fired over this. But for us to push back and come up with theories that it was intentional or maybe it was deliberate or maybe it was... I mean, going down that conspiracy theory rabbit hole probably doesn't serve us well. I truly believe that Banshee's take on this from Red State is perfect. Own the mistake. It happened. It shouldn't have happened. It's been dealt with. Move on. Do you disagree? Let's find out. I want to throw up our phone lines wide open to you here in the Relief Factor studios for a Tuesday. We've got a lot of breaking news. I've also got a great event coming up in a couple of weeks I want to share with you. I'm going to be in Savannah, Georgia, hosting the Job Creators Network event. annual gala it's a second annual gala and i got to do this last year and it's become kind of a tradition you have a chance to join us as well we'll catch up with alfredo ortiz from job creators network get an update on that event and more in the meantime i want you to join us i mean give me your take maybe i'm all wet on this you agree with me 800-655-MIKE own the mistake when you make a mistake own it don't come up with obfuscations or dumb qualifiers Hey, made a mistake? Time to move on. Am I wrong? 800-655-MIKE. One call does it all. Call or text us on the MyPillow text line or voice front and center on the Mike Gallagher Show, 800-655-6453.
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He's the happy conservative warrior. From the Relief Factor Studios, here's Mike Gellerman.
SPEAKER 11 :
Welcome in. There's some drama on Capitol Hill. The Senate Intelligence Committee is having a field day with Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard and Radcliffe. This was always scheduled, which of course leads everybody to think, boy, that seems real convenient, the timing of The Atlantic's revelation that the editor of The Atlantic was accidentally invited into a group text chat over the Signal app regarding bombing the Houthis in Yemen. I visited with my buddy Mark Davis this morning, and he and I both had pretty much the same takeaway. When a mistake is made, you own it. You say it's going to be dealt with. It won't happen again. As for whether or not Mike Waltz is going to be out, Nope. President Trump said he's standing by his guy. The president made it clear that nobody is going to be fired over this because nothing went wrong. The mission went on without any problem. But it was a mistake. And, you know... We make the mistake, we make the flaw, we are all inclined because we're so tribal and we want to defend our side and they want to defend their side and we all go on the attack. And instead of just owning a mistake... We try to come up with obfuscation and, oh, maybe this is a conspiracy. Maybe it was done on purpose. It's not that bad. What about Hillary and the servers? Look, when you move fast, things get broke. This Trump administration is moving at breakneck speed. But what is very clear is the Democrats are desperately trying to dig themselves out of a deep, dark hole. That was the theme of an article we shared with you yesterday from Axios. Top Democrats say their party is in its deepest hole in nearly 50 years and they fear things could actually get worse. With the lowest favorability ever, no emerging voice, who's going to lead the Democrats out of the wilderness? One of my producers, Christian, just told me that among some of the gems that came out of the mouth of Jasmine Crockett, the congresswoman from North Texas, is that she mocked Governor Greg Abbott in a wheelchair. And I didn't believe it. I mean, I said that's not even possible. She's not going to sink that low. She can't be that vicious. And a lot of Democrats seem to like this lady's style. Do we have that clip? You know, again, Christian said, well, I'll play it for you. And I said, there's no way. There's no way she's making fun of a wheelchair-bound governor. As you might know, Governor Greg Abbott, the terrific governor of Texas, was injured as a young man by a falling tree and is paralyzed. Now, I happen to have... a friend and a colleague who is now facing paralysis. And my heart just aches for anybody who is in a physically limiting condition. I can't even begin to fathom making fun of a political opponent because of their Physical condition. Normal people don't think that way. But as you're about to see and hear, Jasmine Crockett is anything but normal.
SPEAKER 05 :
Because we in these hot-ass Texas streets, honey. Y'all know we got Governor Hot Wheels down there. Come on now. And the only thing... Turn it off.
SPEAKER 11 :
I don't want to hear it. Governor Hot Wheels. She thinks that's cute to mock Governor Abbott. And she's thrilled that the Tesla stock, she thinks, has fallen. Although what I saw yesterday is they can't keep Teslas on the shelves. People are lining up to buy Teslas. President Trump bought one last week. Sean Hannity bought one. He said six or seven of his friends bought one. Imagine a United States congresswoman rooting against an American company because they don't like the team that the company's owner is on. Here's Jasmine Crockett.
SPEAKER 05 :
I'm excited to see that Elon Musk, that his money as it relates to Tesla, well, Tesla's tanking right now. And I'm okay with that.
SPEAKER 11 :
They think, and I'm glad she kind of connected the dots there so I can get into the brain of a leftist lunatic like Jasmine Crockett. They think they're personally hurting Elon Musk if they can tank the Tesla company itself. That somehow a guy who's worth... How many billions and billions and billions of dollars? If one of his companies goes under, they feel satisfaction at that because they want to hurt him financially. I don't want to sound like they do and be mean-spirited or vicious here, but it doesn't exactly take a Rhodes Scholar to recognize that when you're rooting against an American company with thousands and thousands of American employees, Elon Musk, if Tesla went away tomorrow, he'd be just fine. You know who wouldn't be? The hardworking... tax-paying Tesla employee, the service providers, the technicians, the people who work on the front lines, on Tesla dealers all over the country. You know, there's a line that the cruelty is the point. Jasmine Crockett is a cruel person. petty, vicious, vindictive lady. And I hope Jeanine Pirro is right that Jasmine Crockett is the one to watch. I hope the Democrats think she's the solution. Because if she's the solution and the Democrat, that brand of leadership takes over, oh boy, this country's gone. This country is gone. 800-655-MIKE. 14 past the hour. Welcome aboard. We've got a lot to cover here on this breaking news Tuesday. And I'm going to take you to Capitol Hill. We're going to listen in to some of the testimony. Tulsi Gabbard made it very clear to the hysteric Democrat senators that no classified information was revealed or leaked in that group text over Signal that accidentally invited the editor of The Atlantic to participate. Banshee is right. Great advice on this whole drama. And it's a mind-numbing part of politics. It's one of the ugliest parts of politics. It's the inability of anyone on either side to admit a mistake. Instead, you get dumb qualifiers, he wrote, obfuscations, and non-denial denials. No one's going to remember this story. Nobody's going to remember the Signal thing in two days. Own it and move on. The story will die sooner and completely be deflated if the White House and the intelligence officials said, yeah, it happened, it shouldn't have happened, it's been dealt with. Let's not give the vicious mainstream media any more... fat to chew on. You disagree? We'll find out. One call does it all. Call or text us on the MyPillow text line, 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. Welcome in.
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It was a mistake. And there's no reason to get all upset. They're going to be exercised over this as we would be if the shoe was on the other foot. I mean, Jessica Tarloff got her little dig in yesterday on The Five. I love the dynamic of a show like The Five. I do, too. And here's what I love about it. I always am fascinated by what they won't cover. The Five didn't touch this story with a 10-foot pole, and Jessica Tarloff wanted to. So in her first round, you know, they go through rounds, and they do topics, and then They all have rotating hosts. It's kind of an interesting and it's a very successful format, obviously. So Jessica couldn't resist. She's answering some question about, you know, I don't know, college campuses. And then she got into this story. She added it on her own and she said, and I don't ever want to hear another word about Hillary's emails again.
SPEAKER 12 :
And seconds later.
SPEAKER 11 :
What do you mean, go?
SPEAKER 12 :
Seconds later, Jesse threw down about Hillary's emails.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, of course.
SPEAKER 12 :
And properly so, because when Hillary acid washes scrubs as people hammer it on phones, it's on purpose. It is intentional subterfuge. I know. This appears to be a genuine human mistake on the part of an administration that absolutely is going to keep America safer than these jokers ever did. So you've got Hillary and Mayor Pete daring to step forward out of whatever cave he's living in now to go, this is a major F-up. Have a seat, son. I'll let you know what we need from you about national security.
SPEAKER 11 :
You're right. But like Banshee said, two days, this thing is over, and we're going to move on. Look, let's be honest here. When you move fast, you break things. And things are getting broken. Mistakes are going to be made. I love the clip, and I'm going to find it. And I mentioned this to you yesterday of Elon in the White House saying, look, we're going to make mistakes. The key is when we do, we got to own it. We got to fix it. You got to know about it. I have to admit, I was a little surprised at Pete Hegseth's reaction.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, he comes on the plane and somebody asks him what's going on when national security issues are being talked about in a way that allows a reporter to be added to the chat by mistake. And he immediately goes into an attack on Jeffrey Goldberg, which, by the way, he's 100 percent right. Jeffrey Goldberg is a weasel. However, the story appears to be true, and maybe his better approach would have been what you've described, is to say, look, okay, if that wasn't great, we'll handle it, and blah, blah, blah. But anyway.
SPEAKER 11 :
You want to know what the worst part of this story, way bigger than any supposed threat to national security or whatever, the end of the world and everything. And here's the biggest question. Why is Jeffrey Goldberg on anybody's speed dial in the Trump administration? In other words, it suggests that there's a relationship there, and this is a Trump-hating left publication. So, I mean, you know, that goes back to our often – Do you engage with the other side? Do you talk to reporters?
SPEAKER 12 :
Speaking of which, first of all, that was going to be my first answer to your point, is this administration will have a bunch of reporters in their contact list. Being reporters, most of them are going to hate this administration, but there's going to be some communication. Speaking of communication, I know you love your text line and I love mine. On our text line yesterday, right after you and I finished yesterday, somebody had a little something they wanted me to ask you about having communication with the other side. And I had it in front of me, and I'm going to totally mess it up. How is it that Mike Gallagher yesterday gave us the large lecture on on we must connect with the other side and hear them and be open to them and hear their views, which, by the way, is a worthy point to be made.
SPEAKER 11 :
Which is, incidentally, a total mischaracterization of what I said. But go ahead. That's not what I said.
SPEAKER 12 :
It's the same schizo Mike Gallagher who mere days earlier was headstrong hammering anybody who thought it was a good idea for Gavin Newsom to welcome Charlie Kirk. So help me out, schizo boy.
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Well, it's fair. I mean, look, I was asking, I was pulling a Tucker Carlson yesterday. I was just asking the question. I was just asking the question, should we reach across the aisle? No, I mean, I didn't say, look, I think it's fair to acknowledge the temperature is pretty high right now. And families, you and I have talked about families being torn apart. I hear every day, heartbreaking stories. Little old lady from Long Island yesterday, whose only sister, and they've been best friends for 80 years, has cut her out of her life. And she won't talk to her. It's up to us to persuade the other side. And I get what your point is. And you're right about, look, I guess you're trying to persuade Gavin Newsom maybe not to be who he is. Gavin Newsom wants to run for president. But incidentally, apparently so does Jasmine Crockett. Wow. Can I make a prediction right here, right now? Let me make a prediction. 745 Central Standard Time, Tuesday, March 25th. She's going to go too far. She's going to say something. Well, she already has, but I mean even farther than she's gone. I mean, she's going to really step in at one of these days.
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In terms of, because this is the 30th District, South Dallas County, Member of Congress. The once for the forever Eddie Bernice Johnson seat. And Eddie Bernice looks like Margaret Thatcher compared to this woman. And she's mouthy and she's edgy and she's hard left, which makes her a darling on MSNBC. And she and she's a racist and and a hater and a smear merchant. Lately, though, in a weekend interview on Channel 5, she had this talking about the Colin Allred race against Ted Cruz. And you've got to hit him hard and you've got to aim for the head and. And listen, as much of a fool as she is, I'm going to give her some latitude as I would give anybody for using metaphors in political battle. I'm not so much worried about that. But she did also say, because Saturday is March 29th, right? You know this is the Tesla day of action or the day of outrage or the day of insanity. So I got to tell you, out at Legacy West in Plano, some of my favorite restaurants are along that stretch. There's a Tesla dealership there as well. I'm not going to say don't go. I ain't going. just three hours down the road from where I'm sitting right now, Austin, bombs found at a Tesla dealership. The violent left is on parade. And when people show you what they are, pay attention.
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And please do not debate whether this is domestic terrorism or not, because it certainly is. And I guarantee you, there's a whole lot of people going to be spending a whole lot of time in prison for these violent actions against Tesla.
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And all the Teslas have cameras. What, it's called sentry mode? Nine cameras. If I walk up in Kia Tesla today, you're going to see me as well as people are seeing me on the Salem News Channel.
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Correct. Oh, it'll be all over. Well, these are not the brightest bulbs in the box, but that brings me back to Jasmine Crockett, because not only is she celebrating the demise of Tesla and urging Texas crews to be, you know, essentially assaulted, she also said something that was really shocking. She gave an interview where she said, I don't care about any legislation. I just want to take down Trump. I mean, this, like you said, when people say who they are, believe them.
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And that's what she said about Tesla, too. Herbert said, all I want on my birthday is to take down Elon. Let's take down Tesla. And I guess she could be talking reputationally or policy-wise, and I do give latitude in certain ways. But when your party is attacking people and people on your side are engaged in a wave of domestic terrorism, you might want to raise your hand.
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You might want to pump the brakes a little, which is kind of what the theme was of the show yesterday. And it was kind of an interesting conversation because I was asking, should we pump the brakes a little bit? Do we make more? Here's what set me off. I had a guy last week call the show, and we mixed it up really big. But I know who he was. He's that troll guy. He's the call guy. You know who he is. He calls shows, and he tapes the reaction from the conservative hosts. Who cares? And he posts it on his ex-account with 13 followers. Mm-hmm. and that's how he gets his jollies. But he wants to really, really argue, and he called the other day, and I think I was kind of... Influence because I knew who he was. He didn't know that I knew who he was. But we have a way here with our phone system to know when someone like that's calling. Because he's real sophisticated. He spoofs phone numbers. He uses different numbers, different names, different parts of the country. It's a whole big thing for him. But when we started arguing, I found myself heating up the conversation. I was interrupting. I was arguing. And I'm like, you know what? And he was making arguments. And we all do that, Mark. I mean, present company included. We all try to shut down the other side too much probably and not listen when somebody's trying to make a point that we disagree with. And I'm wondering if we shouldn't kind of ease up on that approach a little bit, let them vent, let them speak, and try to win them over. You know what it is, Mark, and you and I talked about this. It's the spirit of Charlie Kirk going on to college campuses. Yeah. That's what he does. And he's not in shouting matches with these college kids. He's trying to effectively persuade them that their way is lost, that their progressive instincts are wrong. And he does a powerful job, a masterful job. Look, this guy is a treasure. And so I kind of saw a bunch of those Charlie Kirk videos before the show yesterday, and I was kind of having a good conversation with him. And it was. It was helpful. And I do appreciate the criticism because you're right. I don't want to platform Gavin Newsom. I don't want to make him palatable. Hey, let's end on a positive note. I played a clip on my X account. You can follow me at GallagherShow on X. The Buc-ee's Experience. Oh, I don't know about this. There's a young lady. Have you heard this? I have not. There's a young lady.
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Having just done some Texas Hill Country, we stopped at both the Temple Texas Buc-ee's and the Buc-ee's right by the Texas Motor Speedway on the way home. So I've got a face full of Buc-ee's experiences just in the last couple of days.
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It's the funniest clip, and it's so real. I know we're over time. Can I play it? Do we have a minute and a half, or are we too late?
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We do not.
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Okay, we do not. So tomorrow, remind me tomorrow to play for you the Buc-ee's. What are you going to tell me about it? It's her. It's this young woman in a car extolling all the virtues of Buc-ee's in a hysterical way. You do all your Christmas shopping there. There's not just tchotchkes there. You can get bathrobes. All the food groups. All the food groups. You walk it all the hell. Well, of course, she jokes about that, like beef jerky is now a major food group.
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There's a wall of jerky. There's a wall of jerky.
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You go and get a brisket. The bathrooms, she said, are cleaner than most of America's operating rooms. Correct. And the stalls are floor to ceiling. You could go in and file your taxes in a stall. She's right. I mean, oh, I'm going to play. Let's start tomorrow. Can I play this for you tomorrow? You're not going to want to miss it. Let's get it out of the way tomorrow, and off we go. You got it. All right. Happy Tuesday, my friend. Own the mistakes and move on. Two-day news cycle. Precisely right.
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It's not a big deal.
SPEAKER 11 :
It's not a big deal. I love you. I love you.
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That's Mike. He's going to share more love. 10 o'clock, soon as we're done, right here on 660 AM. The answer.
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Listen in as Dana explores the battle between Big Soda and influencers purporting to fight government overreach. This episode features enlightening discussions on libertarian influences on modern conservatism and the peculiar fable involving a man using a finger gun to rob a store. Plus, discover the pharmacist choices beyond Big Pharma, where affordability meets the crucial need for healthcare access.
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I got to give a lot of props to Uber Eats drivers and like DoorDashers because I get real weird doing small talk. And I can't even imagine going to somebody's house and leaving food there because God forbid, what do you got to talk to them? You know, like what in the world? And then what if it ends up like this? An Uber Eats driver was attacked by a Florida man over an alcohol delivery. Of course, Deltona guy. He's facing charges because he attacked a driver over his alcohol delivery. It was in Volusia County. Police responded. They spoke with a woman who was the Uber Eats driver. She said she got an order to deliver multiple bottles of alcohol to 31-year-old Miles Webb. She arrived at his home. Her boyfriend, who accompanies her for safety, remained in the vehicle. The driver asked Webb for his ID. That's required. 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Tell them Dana sent you. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lashley at the top of this third hour. We have Senator Marsha Blackburn who's going to be coming up later on in the program. I had to laugh at this article from Axios, the headline. Behind the curtain, Dems dark deep hole. It's talking about their popularity rating. It's like the worst. They have the lowest favorability ever. Ever. Ever. In the history, I don't even know how it's lower now than it was after FDR did internment camps. I don't know how it's low. I mean, were they not measuring the party's approval back then? I can't imagine it being lower than when they were against, you know, women voting or when they didn't want slavery to be criminalized. Like I just didn't, you know. No, it's now. The party has its lowest favorability ever, says Axios. This is bolstered by a couple of new surveys out, including a CNN one. I know we hate them. Democrat Party's favorability drops to a record low. OK, we got all that. They have Axios notes. There are no popular national leaders to help improve it. They have insufficient numbers to stop most legislation in Congress. Now, to that point, Republicans have insufficient numbers really to get anything done. They say durable minority on the Supreme Court dwindling influence over the media ecosystem with right leaning podcasters and social media accounts ascendant. OK, I got to stop for a moment there. They literally got the I send this word too much today. They got the government involved to actually suppress free speech on social media platforms. Yours truly was one of those targeted. They absolutely did. They absolutely did. They said young voters are growing dramatically more conservative. I told you that was going to happen. Now, 2026, they say it doesn't look great for them for Senate. It looks better for them for the House. They said that there are only three House Republicans in districts. Former VP Harris won in 24. There's not going to be a Democrat surge, but they could definitely even it out in the House. They said that Democrats may suffer another blow in the 2030 census. If the current population patterns hold, they said the party could lose as many as a dozen seats in the House and electorally. Sorry, I got a smile on that one because that's I like that. I mean, who doesn't like that? So they're they're having a bad time, you could say. They've done numerous comprehensive surveys from numerous Democrat pollsters and they. have what Axios says captured vividly and empirically the daunting data. And they add for those skeptical of polls and sampling size, for instance, David Shore, who conducted one such survey, his is based on 26 million online responses collected over just last year alone. And it is filtered to adjust any redundancies or oddities of modern polling. He is estimating a 23-point swing against Democrats amongst immigrants, particularly Hispanic Americans. Democrat support amongst that community has dropped by over 50%. Told you, natural allies. The rise of conservatism amongst young people, particularly men, And they said that millennials were the most progressive. Gen Z. This makes my heart sing. Gen Z is about to become the most conservative. I have chills saying this. Do you know why Gen Z is? Because Gen X is saving the universe is why. Because Gen X is raising Gen Z. You can't have Gen X parents and be anything but. Come on. Oh my gosh, it's amazing. All of us deserve to have that chiseled on our tombstone as an epitaph, by the way. Save the universe, Gen X. Young people particularly. I think this is something worth exploring over the months to come. The conservatism of Gen Z. Because they're a very interesting generation. They're natural cynics. From my experience, just with my own, my kids are different because my kids, what I do and all that, although we've kept them out of it. 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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
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So Anheuser-Busch announced that they're ending their sponsorship of St. Louis's Pride Fest. Isn't it like the biggest, whatever, one of the big ones? They're not doing their annual Alphabet Festival Pride Fest. This is after 30 years of partnership. They said that, I guess it's $150,000 that they gave to it every year. I wonder if that's because all the Bud Light stuff or if it's just because people are, they're broke. I don't know. I'm just wondering. Yeah, I'm just, I'm like curious. I find that kind of interesting. Let's see. The FDA approved lab-grown blood vessel. They've approved this despite some warnings. The agency okayed an artificial vessel to restore blood flow in patients even though its own scientists are flagging the questionable study results and they're saying those are some potentially fatal ruptures. Yeah, I don't think this is something that I would do. I don't think so. A man allegedly robbed a store with a finger gun. You know, Colorado Springs, the PD there said they arrested a dude because he allegedly used a finger gun to rob a store. They said when they got there, the suspect, Antonio Taylor, had a finger gun pointed at the clerk and began to take items. They know it's not going to fire, right? Like, what is that? They were able to take him into custody. They took his teenage daughter too and put her in protective care. But now he's in the pokey. He's got his mugshot all out there ready to rock. Very interesting stuff. And let's see. Oh, I can't. Oh, segues. They're recalling all these scooters. I wonder if one of mine, if mine is one of the ones that are getting recalled. Things could be so easy right now. They're going to be made more difficult by our own side. I mean, this is all like stuff like this. Can we talk about Big Soda for a moment? Jeez, I can't even believe this is a thing. So there was a thing over the weekend. Influenceable, a company apparently accused of cutting big checks to influencers on behalf of Big Soda. Is there not a big anything? There was a big supermarket. Big Soda now. And some of them, apparently, of course, there are tons of people that are paid. I can tell you who's being paid and who's not. Like right now, if you said, Dana, the world depends on you naming everybody who's getting a check, I could definitely give you a list of names. Some of them, many of them are on cable news. Nobody discloses that they're paid for this stuff. I don't care if people get paid to advocate. Just be honest about it, right? So, like, for instance, there's one account that said, oh, the government wants to block soda purchases for Americans on Snap. Remember when New York tried this and it backfired? Trump probably had a Diet Coke button in the Oval Office. It's ridiculous government overreach. Let people decide for themselves. Can I just point out the idiocy of saying something like this? You're talking about a big government program and big government involvement funded by the taxpayer. And then you're daring to call any limitation on it government overreach. You are the left right now. All of these so-called conservative accounts that I've seen make this argument. You are literally the left. You're the people bitching and moaning about cutting waste and abuse from with Doge because you're mad over. How about this? Try some conservatism on for size and ask WTF. Do we need snap for more government? If you had things, again, by the state and people helping people and we had lower taxes and a lot better fiscal policy, guess what? You probably wouldn't need all this stuff. But I love the people who are like, oh, well, this big government program, you know, people should be able to spend taxpayer dollars on whatever they want. That's what I hear. And apparently they're getting paid like they're saying, oh, it's a new war on snow on soda. Targeting purchases made through snap. It's not the government's role to decide what people should or shouldn't eat. Why do we have? It's a government program. It is a big taxpayer funded government program. Newsflash to you fake ass conservatives out there where my tax dollars go. So do my two cents. If you're getting my tax dollars, I'm going to tell you what to do with them. Be conservative for once. Stop cosplaying as it. Be consistent. Jiminy. I mean, I've got so many different, there's a lot of big accounts. A couple of them are my friends. And they all say similar things. Like, oh, they want to restrict soda purchases through SNAP. This is an unwanted attempt by the government to dictate what Americans can and can't buy on a giant government program. How many brain cells do some of you people have? Dear heavens. Where's the consistency? It's a big government program. You're saying that it's government overreach to restrict how a big government program operates? And you want to call yourself a Republican or a conservative? Get out. Get out. It's the same thing as the people who are mad over Doge's recommended cuts. But to that point, Cain, why aren't we getting bought off? Big Cab, I am for sale. Big Gin... Here I am. I wake up every morning and start my day with some big gin. I don't know. I mean, I'll sell it. Whatever. Come on. I'll tell you I am. I mean, not like, you know, in your face, but there'll be signs.
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Yeah, where's Big Probiotic when I need it?
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Yeah, Kane was one. Well, I think it's between us.
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Yeah.
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No, not you. Shh. Go look over there. Meet the radio people. Between us, Kane's already being paid by Big Probiotics. That is awesome. And big hate old people.
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You are lying right now.
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I mean, I got, I'm like all for being, I'll be paid by Big Cab.
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Big Cab.
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Big Cabernet. Right? Man. Oh, man, I'm telling you. I'm just thinking of, yeah, there's some good.
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Big Kombucha.
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Big Kombucha?
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Big Kombucha.
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What about Big Sour Patch Kids?
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Dude, Big Snacks. Yeah, there it is.
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I will totally be paid by Big Snacks. I'm just saying. Who runs Big Snacks? I don't know. Maybe the same people who run Big Soda? I just think I don't know, like apparently. So there was a text that went out. Nick Sartor. I don't know who he is totally, but I follow him. He has some good stuff. He said influencers were texted by people telling them to help push back against government overreach and they'd be paid between several hundred and thousand dollars for each post. And that's why everything kind of sounds similar. Apparently there was like a big thing. So it's like they said lobbying firms. I didn't even know. What is this? Hang on. Oh, Cart Choice. That's a lobbying firm. Ameribeth. The big beverage. Okay, so that's the non-alcoholic refreshment. But I don't care about a Mirabelle because they're a non-alcoholic beverage. I don't care about you. Go away. I want Big Gin, Big Cab, Big Moonshine, Kane. Dude. Big Moonshine. I am for sale. I'll just let you know. Like, are people... You do have to be aware of this stuff. And I think it's pretty obvious. Yes. When I see people who I can, you know, you can kind of tell. People are smart. You would get paid $1,000 to post about a big probiotic, wouldn't you?
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Oh, hell yeah. Yeah. Just to put out there my own personal experience. So it'd be easy. Easy $1,000. Yeah.
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