In this episode, we dissect the absurdities surrounding the modern interpretation of political movements, like the 'No Kings Rally'. Our analysis dives into the historical ignorance that seems prevalent in today's society and why it’s important to stay informed on the roots of such movements. Alongside, we explore the implications of humorous critiques from public figures like Jimmy Kimmel and how these can impact public perception.
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When is Jimmy Kimmel going to start being funny again? This is what they pay him for. The American Revolution was a no Kings rally. It was a freedom protest, not even remotely. The no Kings rally was it's literally sponsored by communists. I mean, literally, they are stupid enough to print up signage and they put the logos of all of the communists and socialist parties on it. You would never have seen the King Street Patriots do anything like this. You would have never have seen Paul Revere do anything like this. The committees of correspondence do anything like this. You would have never have seen Patrick Henry do anything where they had a communist logo on it or a socialist logo on it. That is historically illiterate. One of the things I tell my kids is that as you get older, you realize terrifyingly how stupid people can really be. I think that's why my taste in horror films have changed because I always like, you know, aliens and all that kind of stuff and, you know, sci-fi horror and all that. But really, the truest horror is the horror that man can perpetuate on Earth. the stupidity of man, the folly of man, the ridiculous lengths to which man will go to satisfy his own ego. That's really the true horror. And that's the true horror of the far left that perpetuates this no kings type nonsense. Because saying something like that, the American Revolution turned into an armed conflict because we wanted to be free. Is Jimmy Kimmel saying that he doesn't like the way that the 2020 election went or the way the 2024 election went, so therefore it should follow the same process of armed conflict as the American Revolution? Because that's what he's suggesting by stupidly making this comparison. Of course, again, we are talking about a rotund male who – actually isn't even bringing in the viewers to substantiate his ad rates for his failing show, who bitched and whined in order to keep his spot, not out of merit, but because he was the loudest. A guy who got his start as Adam Carolla's second banana, Oogling Women. He's not the brightest bulb in the box. picatinny style rail that lets you add vertical grips lights you can keep it flush and sleek with a cap if you want it's a smoother pump action for faster cleaner cycling and you also have enhanced durability ultra lightweight it's just under seven pounds unloaded compact bullpup design so you have maneuverability and tight spaces ambidextrous downward shell ejection and a seven plus one capacity for stopping power. And MSRP makes it affordable at just $639. So it brings all of that well within reach. It's from Kel-Tec, K-E-L-T-E-C, weapons.com, made here in the USA. It's Kel-Tec weapons.com. Tell them Dana sent you.
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He sounds ridiculous. He doesn't sound as ridiculous as some of the people sending me hate mail, though. But he sounds pretty ridiculous. Yeah, you see what I did there. So I got to tell you, I got a piece coming out that's going to be really even a whiz banger. I have I oh, man, I've got so many different screenshots. I got to pull the phone up. You can go ahead. And I guess we're going to go ahead and get into some of it. I was it can be pretty negative. So let's go ahead. Do we have the intro? Go ahead, Steve. Hit it.
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And now it's finally that part of the show where Dana monetizes the hate. All week, hateful posts, tweets, replies, and emails have been collected. The best of the best make the cut. It's Mailbag of Hate on The Dana Show.
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It is hate! Hate! Did I sound like that lunchbox in his truck? All right, so where to start? I've got a folder that I keep in my mail, and it's called Blink Holes. And I'm not joking. Kane, you can attest to this. Yes, it is true. So let me start. There were a number of, I think... Comments that I had on social media. So whenever like when we had Josh Hammer on what was the last week? When was it last week a week ago? I Started getting all of this stuff From people who were livid that I had on Josh Hammer and I'm just gonna read you some of the comments now by the way, if you send me mail and And if you're mean, I will literally put you on blast. I will have your IP address, your email address, and your name. And I will make it public. And you consent to having me use your private information however the hell I want to. That is the downside of being a jerk to me. And no one's anonymous on the internet. So starting with this is a guy who's a hairstylist. And I went and looked. And he gives Karen cuts. His name is Davian. Davian does hair. Quote. There is literally no difference between scum like you and scum like the Democrats. You're all the same retarded peas in the same retarded pods just spewing different words. He was very upset because one of my guests was Jewish. Yeah, very upset. Very, very upset. Some people said, let's see, Weaver Chris, another $7,000 check. David Kostaski, get that 7,000 shekels. I had to Google that. I literally, it's Israeli currency. Two shills for Israel, says EW. Jeffrey, 32, says 7,000 per post. Is that right? Traitor. Are we getting 7,000 per post? No. I didn't know. I wasn't aware I was receiving any posts. Steve, you put stuff on Insta. Are we getting 7,000 for that? Where do we sign up? Yeah, where's your check, ma'am? Where did we sign up? A guy named Knucklehead83 on Insta. Wow, who funds you, Dana? BBPainInfluencer7k, a post. Propaganda. Oh, these are actual real, by the way. I mean, make no mistake, these are real. Propaganda, they're losing the narrative. Wait, what? Yeah. Let's see. I mean, that's like all of these. You're funded by Zionists. What do they have on you, Dana, from Gen Z pan? Let's see. 7000 a post, 7000 a post, 7000. Oh, and then we get into some of the emails, too. I have, let's see, I have Joyce who says she loves listening. And I don't know if I want to give her last name. I think I may. She says, I've noticed your face is plumper. You are much more attractive without the surgery. Just my opinion. They're from Englewood, Florida. Her husband's name is Bill.
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What effing surgery?
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Cain, you see me every day. Every day. You would know if I'd even do something even remotely.
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Even quick. Even a weekend little something.
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Yeah. No, it's not happening. With all my surgery. Give me a break. Exactly. Exactly. Let's see. Eileen said, I need you to go back to your real hair. This wig does you no favors. It makes you look unattractive and it makes you look like a Karen. Eileen, a female viewer. She actually typed that. It is literally my real hair, guys. It's real. I've never... I cannot even believe some of the stuff people say. It's hysterical. Oh my gosh, you guys want me to keep going? Somebody doesn't like my microphone, Cain. This is from Jack Tittle, who says, I like you, but I don't like your mic. And I don't like that you look down. Other people use better looking microphones. Yours is ugly. Sorry, Charlie. Jack.
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I actually take offense to that.
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Okay, Cain, tell them about the microphone.
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My dad has a plating company in downtown St. Louis, and we chrome plate everything that you could imagine that looks great when it's chrome. And the casing of that microphone was isolated and chromed specifically for Dana because it's kind of an homage to Rush's golden microphone. This is just the chrome kind of version to it. Yeah. So I take offense to that.
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Yeah. And then last but not least, I don't even think I can read this one. I had to block this guy because he's obsessed with feet. Cain's like, please, dear heavens, no.
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You said only one more and now you're bringing feet into it.
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This is such a sick headline. Luigi Mangione was lavished with forty thousand dollars in prison cash, along with I mean, he's gotten all kinds of erotic letters every day from ladies, lusty ladies who were sending him all these letters. Twenty seven year old faces a federal murder charge. Remember, he shot UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson dead yesterday. on the streets of New York as he was attending a conference in December of 2024. And people think that he's a hero. They think he's a folk hero. And they they said they've been putting money on his commissary at the detention center and that he can spend up to one hundred and sixty dollars every day on snacks and stuff like that. That's like he's being rewarded for murdering a guy. It's just this is insane. This is the assassination culture of the left. Pro Hamas hackers hijack airport loudspeakers across North America. They spewed Netanyahu. They attacked Netanyahu. They had Jewish slurs. They went after Trump and caused lots of delays. I can't believe they were able to just do that as easily as they did. Passengers at airports in Pennsylvania, British Columbia, they were stunned when they started hearing what was coming out of these loudspeakers. They had videos that they posted, and it showed all of these pro-Hamas recordings blasting through these terminals at Harrisburg International Airport and Kelowna International Airport in Canada. And they flashed messages praising Hamas, urging a, quote, free, quote, unquote, Palestine. just wild absolutely wild uh police um it's actually no it's one of these we have in here twice uh oh china this is a very interesting conversation china talking about rare earth elements they are bristling because rare towards this rare earths retaliatory movement they're uh Their expansion, they're trying to control measures on their rare earth minerals, and now it's backfiring. France and others of the group of seven, they said they want to unite and respond to China's actions. The Trump administration slammed their global power grab efforts because they, we talked about this a million times, they have a chokehold on rare earth minerals. And it's, this is going to come really into play.
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Something that's said is he has no experience. And this is not a job for someone who has no management experience to run 300,000 people, no financial experience to run $115 billion budget. He literally has never had a job. On his resume, it says he interned for his mother. This is not a job for a first-timer. Any day, you could have a hurricane, you could have, God forbid, a 9-11, a health pandemic. If you don't know what you're doing, people could die.
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Well, and he would know all about that, about the people dying. Remember all of the elderly people that he put into, or all the people with COVID that he put in these nursing homes and he killed a bunch of elderly people. I mean, you know, just saying. He would know about that. Yeah, if you don't know what you're doing, like me, but Mandani is not smart enough. He didn't come back with that statement. He didn't. I would have been right out the gate with that. I would have been just ready to rock and well, you know, you would know that, wouldn't you? Because you killed X amount of people, but Mandani doesn't know any of that. This debate last night, I don't want to, you know, cheer uh Cuomo. I really don't like Mandani at all. And this debate last night was pretty wild and pretty insightful. This is the cut that really got me. I'm going to call for cut 17 here. So on the stage, I don't know why. Well, I mean, I do, but At the same time, if you're debating, and I guess if you don't have a resume, because Mandani has literally nothing. I mean, the guy has nothing. He has no resume. He's a nepo baby, etc. I guess this is the only thing that he has to try to show some sort of authority over Cuomo. This is cut 17, and he... was questioning him about whether or not he's ever been to a mosque. And just listen to this and then we're going to dissect it.
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Two totally separate things.
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Mr. Mamdani, you want to respond?
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You know, it took Andrew Cuomo being beaten by a Muslim candidate in the Democratic primary for him to set foot in a mosque. He had more than 10 years, and he couldn't name a single mosque at the last debate we had that he visited. And what Muslims want in this city is what every community wants and deserves. They want equality, and they want respect. And it took me to get you to even see those Muslims as part of this city. And that, frankly, is something that is shameful and is why so many New Yorkers have lost faith in this policy.
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Why does it matter if he steps into a mosque? Who cares? Why does he have to step into a mosque? We're not doing this kiss the Islamist ring nonsense. We are not doing this. But that's all he has. So he plays this Muslim, Muslim, Muslim card because he has no nothing. He has nothing. Mandani has no achievements. He has no resume. He has literally, I'm not using that incorrectly, literally zero private sector work experience. Not even that. The dude doesn't even have public sector work experience. He's a nepo baby who decided he wanted to be mayor and his parents are financing his campaign. He also wants to take your guns, but he refuses to call for the disarmament of Hamas. And what's what's funny, too, he didn't he get he when did he get married in Uganda came? Was it spring that we were talking about that? It was this year. OK, so he got married in Uganda and he had. He had like a whole spec ops crew. I mean, that's what was reported as their wedding security. You couldn't even get in. It was armed guards, everything. Now, he doesn't think you should be able to have that. He went to Uganda and had it for himself. He is a... a nepo baby who violates the terms of his own marxist beliefs by he's not a worker he's not one of the working class and he just lives richly and he wants to deny the same ability to build that wealth to you he doesn't want you to have those opportunities it's quite simple but this idea that you got to kiss the ring who gives a rat's ass if he stepped into a mosque or not who cares and He's lived here in America longer than you. You want to really get down to it? There you go. Or you haven't stepped into it. Well, you don't need to step into a mosque. You don't need to go and worship someone else's faith in order to be a good governor, which he wasn't. And he wouldn't be. I mean, would he be a better mayor than Islamist Mamdani? Yeah. Just because he's not an Islamist. I can't even believe I'm saying that. But those are the choices New Yorkers have left themselves with. But that was really troubling. To me, I didn't like that. Well, you've never even stepped foot. So? Have you stepped foot in a church? When's the last time you went to a worship and praise service, Ma'am Donnie? Or a mass or anything like that? When's the last time you put up a Christmas tree, Ma'am Donnie? You want to do this? Let's do it. Let's go all the way. When is the last time you did anything to affirm the beliefs held by our founders that formed the creation of this republic? You don't even believe in the same divine hierarchy that we believe in and that affords free will. Your faith doesn't just your faith even practice free will. I mean, let's go ahead. If we're going to if he's going to do this religiously bigoted nonsense, then let's drive it off the cliff to its full conclusion. It's ridiculous. Did you interpret that the same way I did, Cain, or am I just overreacting to it? It felt like a ring kissing request.
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Yeah, who needs to kiss the ring? Nobody needs to kiss the ring.
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Cain, have you ever been into a mosque?
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I thought there was like this healthy separation of church and state from the left. I don't understand why they have to do this.
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Well, Islamism, that's what's so funny. The left screams about Christianity because they're tools for tyranny, but they have no problem when it's Islamism. And you bring up a great point. I mean, you want to talk about an absence of church and state. There you go. There you go. They don't realize that's the that's the real battle, by the way, and they don't realize it. That is the real battle. We're building up to that. There's going to be one not epic knockdown drag out in the years to come. Unless it comes sooner, but know that. Now to his, we're going to have more. Do I want to, yeah, let's do 22. So this was, I guess, one of his proposals for free bus rides in New York City. Just listen to this. This is, okay, yeah, cut 22.
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I think it's one of the key reasons why we have to make buses free is because it reduces the assaults on bus drivers. It creates a safer work environment.
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So, you know, if someone wants to come up and stab you to death, they're going to be less likely to do so if the bus ride's free. That's his logic. So free bus rides so you don't get assaulted. Who pays for the bus fares? Oh, what you don't know is that he has, in other instances, said that they're going to have to raise taxes more in order to make that possible. So it's not free. They think that they can just relegate everything to taxation and that makes it free somehow, which is astounding. He has no idea how governance works. We're relegated to taxes. And yeah, it's free then after that, Cain. It's free. Free bus rides.
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He was asked that directly. I think Juan is pulling up this video, but I just put this in Slack. He was asked directly, how is this going to be paid for? It's clearly not free. We know it's not free. Free is not how it works. But Juan's ready to go.
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Well, yeah, taxes. It's the taxes. Yeah, listen. Oh, he'll get it.
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We will fund the revenue that would have otherwise been brought in from fares. And that's something that we would do in partnership with Albany. And I've put forward two proposals. The first is to raise taxes on the top 1% of New Yorkers by 2%. That would raise $4 billion. The second is to raise the state's top corporate tax rate to match that of New Jersey, which would raise $5 billion.
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So everybody pays for it. It's not free. So in order to not get stabbed, you have to pay more in taxes. You have to pay protection money. This is called extortion. You have to pay protection money so that the people who are dangerous and would kill you and your baby on the bus, they don't do that, Cain.
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We're already seeing millionaires and billionaires leaving. We're already seeing companies leaving. So what he's going to do is essentially put the burden more on those who are already fleeing because the burden is huge.
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Yes.
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This is not making any sense.
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Not at all. Not at all. Man, I'm telling you what. It's something. This debate was something last night. I don't know how anybody could cheer for anything that he said at all. It's... I don't know. He said he was working to raise taxes. And he he did mention the Cuomo thing about seniors to deaths in nursing homes. But that was in a separate comment. But then he also he really audio. This is cut 15. He never actually denounced Hamas. He's always danced around it. And he was asked about that at this debate last night. Listen.
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I covered your speech in an Upper West Side synagogue where you said anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism. There is no difference. And you were talking about Mr. Mamdani. Is that not an allegation?
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No, I make that statement all the time. I was referring to Mamdani. OK, all right. Mr. Mamdani, a brief response, then we have to move on.
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I have denounced Hamas again and again, and it will never be enough for Andrew Cuomo because what he is willing to say, even though not on this stage, is to call me the first Muslim on the precipice of leading this city, a terrorist sympathizer, is to send mailers that artificially lengthen my beard, is to say to New Yorkers that they should be fearful.
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So he gets into this stupid thing. Cuomo should have jumped in and said, you literally refuse to condemn, globalize the intifada. Isn't that true? That's where Cuomo should have jumped in and said that you have literally repeatedly been asked to condemn it. The slogan of Hamas. And you won't. You have also repeatedly refused to condemn from the river to the sea repeatedly. Another chant from Hamas. And you won't. Why is that? That makes you a sympathizer. Does it not? That's the way he should have handled it. I don't think that Cuomo was ready for that. Democrats are not ready to address the zealots and the crazies in their own party. And the right isn't either. But the left, they have accommodated them for too long. People like Mamdani used to be agitators that they would use to get out the vote for people like Pelosi and Schumer, etc. Well, then they wanted a piece of the pie. They wanted a seat at the table. They wanted some recognition. And so they weren't being given it. So they decided to really just, you know, take that opportunity and raise their influence themselves within the party. And now you have a Frankenstein's monster situation. That's what Cuomo should have said because he's trying to skirt the issue. He refuses to condemn everything that they're doing and everything that they're saying. Case in point, I mean, just check out this language here. This is Audio Soundbite 21. Listen.
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I want to be very clear. The occupation is a reference to international law and the violation of it, which Mr. Cuomo has no regard for since he signed up to be Benjamin Netanyahu's legal defense team during the course of this genocide.
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Well, first off, he can do that as a consultancy. Secondly, why are you kissing the backside of international law, which we, the United States... We recognize American jurisprudence. We recognize our system of law and order. We're not talking about what a bunch of Europeans determine in The Hague. And first off, anyone who uses the term occupation, you are already a sympathizer to Hamas because that's not even correct. The occupation is by Hamas. The colonizers are the Jordanians that moved into the strip and decided to invent for themselves an ethnicity and called themselves Palestine, which, once again, to remind you, was a resurrected hijacked name that was given to the area to spite the Jews after the second Judean uprising by an old dead Roman emperor named Hadrian. And it was the name of a people that hadn't even been there 200 years in 200 years. And they weren't even from the area. They were from Crete and they were a seafaring people. So you are the occupiers. You are the colonizers. That is who you are. That's what Cuomo should have said. When you go to these debates, you have to go for bear. And he wasn't ready. And Mandani didn't. as ridiculous as he is, wasn't challenged on it. He's a smooth talker, but you got to rock him.
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In this episode, we delve deep into the controversies surrounding the 'No Kings' rally and its implications on the government shutdown. With candid commentary from various speakers and a humorous take on the absurdity of current political narratives, listeners are in for an engaging discussion. Explore how the 'No Kings' rally is ironically sponsored by communist groups and what this says about modern protests and their motivations. And, humor abounds as the episode intertwines the humorous tones of Oktoberfest celebrations with serious political discourse.
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Mr. President, do you think that the government shutdown is all about this rally that's happening this weekend, the No Kings rally?
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No, I mean, some people say they want to delay it for the king. This is not a king. You know, they're saying they're referring to me as a king. I'm not a king. Right.
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No, but just so that Chuck Schumer could go and say, I'm fighting Trump.
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Well, Chuck is, you know, at the end of the line. He's being beaten by everybody that they poll against him. And, you know, what he did is he did the right thing. a couple of years ago on something like this and he got hurt by his party and it doesn't i don't think it matters to him i think he's just so dead that he'll do anything i think they could just stay out forever i mean to be honest with you now what we're doing is we're cutting democrat programs that we didn't want because I mean, they made one mistake. They didn't realize that that gives me the right to cut programs that Republicans never wanted, you know, giveaways, welfare programs, et cetera. And we're doing that, and we're cutting them permanently. We're cutting a $20 billion project that Schumer fought for 15 years to get, and I'm cutting the project. The project is going to be dead. It's just pretty much dead right now.
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You know, Cain, we were talking about this as we were getting ready to go on air, and you made a good point. You're like, well... I'm not going to try to do your voice because I can't. But you said essentially that, well, if it really was an issue of kings, then the government would be open. You know, if it really was a king's thing, then the government would be open.
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If Trump was a king, we'd have an open government right now.
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Yeah. I mean, I completely agree. We absolutely would. We absolutely would. Welcome to the show. It's the heck day, is it? Friday. I don't even know. I've been buried in so many things, pulled in a million different directions. It's Friday. Welcome to the program. Dana Lash with you. We are at the top here of this first hour. So the No Kings. Look, I'm going to just tell you guys this. So it's, you know, it's Oktoberfest where I live. And well, I mean, it's I mean, it's October, but it's like, you know, the little towns, they have their little Oktoberfest things. And, you know, my very nice husband, God love him. His family's, they're, you know, German. And they... going to Germany is something that's not on the list until they get some of their illegal immigration in check and their government in check and some things, you know, a little correct course. So the closest you can do is go to a town square in America, right? And, you know, put beer in a stein and walk around and listen to the Oompa bands. And he wears this little green hat. I don't know. I just don't ask questions. I just go Irish and American Indian. Okay. Just go along with it. And that's my descent. And, you know, it's fun. It's entertaining. You eat all the baked goods. You have the spaetzle. I'll be damned if I see a No Kings thing interrupt the Oompa Band enjoyment, the spaetzle, and the strudel, and all of the other fun stuff, Cain. I will be throwing spaetzle. Not going to happen. Do not. Just saying. It's like the one time where I don't, when I'm like... Oh, my gosh. I just can't. It's also a time of enjoyment where we meet because they have a lot of vendors that are from Germany and they come. I'm going to get to the point. And whenever my husband pronounces our last name, they recoil in horror because they're like, that is not how it's pronounced. It is. And I can't even make the umlaut sound over the O's. We say lash. I don't know, man. Originally, it was von losch. And they left Germany. So long story short, I don't want to see no king's nonsense to bust up my oompa spaetzle enjoyment. Or I will be oompa ticked. Not having it. Can you just, there's no, it's just a stupid phrase that is meaningless because we're looking around like there's no kings. There is no kings. There's no monarchy. If I were Donald Trump, I would be bitch slapping people right and left. Oh, no kings. I would be the king that you would feared. So these people need to just pray to the Lord, a prayer of thanks. Thank you. Thank you that we don't have anyone horrible. in the White House, and that it's POTUS. POTUS is Trump. They ought to be happy instead of complaining. This idea, no kings, no kings. They put halos around Barack Obama's head. Have we forgotten this? Well, I mean, we haven't, but apparently they have. So welcome to the show. So they're having, didn't they have, wait a minute, let me pull this up. I had this in my notes. Didn't the no kings, they're, what is it their advertisements or their handbills or? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Didn't they have the sponsor, a communist party? Because I think that they put the little hammer and sickle literally on the thing. And I remember seeing that online. Which I'm totally not surprised about at all whatsoever. I mean, yeah, they're literally sponsored by the Communist Party with this. So they have this... I just find it funny because they're communists. I mean, it's really a communist movement. They're communists and they... yet put all these sponsors like it's indicative of capitalism. So I'm looking at it. Forgive me because I have to enlarge this graphic. They literally have the Communist Party's little logo, CPUSA, on there. This is the funniest thing I've ever seen. No kings, no troops in our cities, no billionaires. Wow, wow, wow. And then if you guys go on the left-hand side of your screen, all the way at the bottom. What's that little red square, Kane?
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Look at that. CPUSA. What's that? The Communist Party of the United States of America, which is so oxymoronic, by the way. Yeah, I mean, it's... Which is closer, by the way, to kingship. Is it communism or a representative republic?
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I'm surprised that I don't see like Internet Explorer on this and Crocs and all this is sponsored by, you know, I'm just Publishers Clearinghouse, Internet Explorer. What is that smelly cream that we used to all wear in high school after sports? What is that? Bengay. Can you even say that or is it politically incorrect? Been questioning his orientation. It's that cream. And it's probably, you know, now it's probably a chick. Bernadette Gay. Just saying. They have CPUSA as a sponsor. And then, oh, oh, look who else they have. Literally, oh, they've got two communist things. Oh, did you see them? So they got CPUSA. Then you kick over. Oh, Freedom Socialist Party, which is like litter on a turd. That's how meaningless that is. It's a socialist party, but let's put freedom in front of it. Yeah, because that makes it less stupid. It's great. And then right over the Young Communist League. So you got two commies, two commie groups, and then the socialists, the Freedom Socialist Party. What is even that? That's so stupid. Technically three communists. No, we're not just like socialists. We're freedom socialists. Oh, wait. Then you go up, up top. Oh, look at that. In New York City, Democratic Socialists of America. Same thing with the freedom socialists. It's stupid. And they're like, well, it's pretty democratic in front of it. It's less dumb. No, it's still the same level of dumb. And it's that's right there front and center. Look at that. Oh, wait, let's go up one more. Oh, a little group called Indivisible. That's a Soros funded group. I know that for a fact because I ran their financials because one of them, they try operating it here. It's this cranky old pervert who follows young students, namely female around. protesting about commie stuff. And that's in my town. So yeah, look at all of that. Oh, and there's another one. Oh, we're another Indivisible Brooklyn, another little commie group. Oh my goodness. Look at all the commies there. I mean, there's so many commies. You can't throw a stick without hitting one. So fascinating stuff. That's who No Kings is sponsored by. No Kings. But we're going to totally like be endorsed by communists, which essentially is just like a dumber version of like the traditional monarchy. You can't make this stuff up. You cannot make this stuff up at all. So that's who's sponsoring everything. So I better not see any damn commies out. I don't even know. Are they doing anything in Texas? As we type. Oh, that's right. I love how they write the headline like you want to know these things. North Texas is no king's protest. When, where, what to know. Um, no. And dumb. I mean, it's just stupid. And you know what it is? It's a bunch of leftists who have no rhythm that get together with their dumb signs. That's all it is. That's all it is. So, uh, yeah. There you have it, Kane. The No Kings Protest. Sponsored by commies. It's not surprising. We're not surprised over this. This is how they work. So a few other things that we are watching. You got Zielinski. Are we going to have another showdown in the Oval Office? I got a drink out of my new John Wayne mug because I went to the John Wayne Museum, by the way. If you're watching, it's a Friday, so we're just doing whatever today. This is the largest mouthed mug I've ever had in my life. I feel like I'm going to go diving in it when I have it. Black and bitter like my heart. So the... We're going to come back to the no commies thing. Zelensky is visiting the White House probably, I don't know, to maybe Trump can get him on task to not, you know, kind of make to not make waves. Although I would. I really would like to have another showdown in the Oval Office while we're here on air. I would like that. That would be nice. So we're going to keep an eye on that and come back to that topic. Also, everyone was freaking out over what the White House press secretary said in an interview yesterday when she was talking about who the Democrats' main constituency is. And this is cut eight, please. Danke.
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proved that the Democrat Party's main constituency are made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens and violent criminals. That is who the Democrat Party is catering to, not the Trump administration and not the White House and not the Republican Party, who is standing up for law abiding Americans, not just across the country, but around the world.
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And the left is apoplectic. So I saw this last night and it I mean, people were freaking out. People being, you know, people on the left saying, that's so mean. Can you believe that? That language, that's, you know, that's, can you believe that that's, she said that. Where's the lie? I don't hear one. Yeah, for real. Like, where is the lie here? There isn't. Yeah, I would actually add. So she says it's Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, violent criminals. You know, trannies. I'd throw the trannies in there. The old cat ladies that are covered in cat hair like toddlers with glitter on a craft project. Feminists, old angry, you know, old angry barren feminists. Let's just throw it all in there. I mean, all the every every avatar of the left that you can imagine. Right. Criminals. Well, violent criminals, all level level of criminals. Let's just go ahead and throw it all in there. The left is mad, but that's who they are. That's who you are. Oh, by the way, killer trainees, sidebar, killer trainees. You know how you had, what was the movie? What's the movie I'm thinking of? Killer Clowns from Outer Space. Killer trainees from Earth. A Plague Upon the Universe or Plague Upon the Galaxy. You can have that one for free. So she's not incorrect with anything that she just said here. Do they not like having to see the reflection in the mirror? I'm just curious. We have more on the way. It's I don't know. We're in a weird mood today. It's Friday. And who knows? We're going to watch what happens with Zelensky at the White House. We've got a ton of stuff to bring you up to date on, including not just that, but also the debates last night, Virginia and then Ma'am Donnie. So there was a very interesting exchange at one point in the debate last night where Cuomo and Mandani were going back and forth. And Mandani was basically asking him, so can you name a mosque? Can you name a single mosque? When did the litmus test have to be to kiss the ring of Islam to do anything? So we're going to discuss this. We have a lot more to get into, including some things that I can't read a lot on air, but I have it listed on my rundown this way. our friends at All Family Pharmacy. This website can never cease business because I will not know what to do. I love All Family Pharmacy. I use it. Not only can you get the stuff that gatekeepers try to keep from you, the hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, the whole nine yards, NAD+, all of that, but You can also get your emergency medications and daily medications. You can get antibiotics. Like, for instance, if I know that I'm getting strep, I've had it enough. I know what it is. I'm not an idiot. I'm not going to go out there and abuse antibiotics to the point of rendering them ineffective. But I'm not going to go and pay like an $80 whatever fee and go and have a doctor tell me what I know I have and then have to wait. No, no, no. I'm going to go to all family pharmacy, put in my symptoms. The doctor is going to look at it. approve, and then send my prescription in and my medications right to my house. That's how it works. You can get it in two to four days, overnight, in a pinch if you need it. I also got my anti-nausea meds when I went on the MRC cruise to Norway. Ladies, I went and got the Latisse for your eyelashes, so if they start looking really good, that's why. You can choose your medication, not insurance or risk-averse physicians. Try it today. Take your medical freedom back. Visit allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana. Use code Dana10 today. That's allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana, code Dana10.
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Ace Fraley has passed away. I think everybody's aware of it now. This news hit, what is it, like early yesterday evening. He was 74 years old. The family announced it in an emotional statement yesterday. They said they were devastated and heartbroken. Variety broke the news. And, of course, you know, founding member, amazing guitarist. I mean, he's one of the greats, so this is wild. So that does, as Lorraine was noting yesterday, complete the rule of three because there were two other individuals. So... We're sad. That's because Kiss is great. They're all very nice. Also, let's see. We've got a couple of other things here. So Los Angeles Times, they're seeking investors after they lost 48 million dollars. The Hollywood Reporter says that the L.A. Times is. owner. They're pitching to investors. They generated $237 million in revenue, but they saw a loss of $48 million last year alone. This is what gets me. They have only 500,000 combined print and digital paying customers. We have like 11 times that for daily listeners. That's insane. They have 615 full-time staff. That's crazy. I cannot believe that they only have that many customers. That's Wow. Words fail. I don't think they're going to get the investment that they're seeking. Just saying. Just saying. Trump team is planning an IRS overhaul to enable the pursuit of left leaning groups. This is something to watch. Wall Street Journal says that the effort would. It's going to install Trump ally at the agency's criminal unit. They've drawn up a list of investigative targets. I mean, precisely, this is about going after Antifa because it's funded. You know, people used to say that, you know, some of these other criminal organizations in the United States weren't organized until they started investigating it. And then they found out, oh, lo and behold, they are. Same thing with Antifa. And according to a stupid study that I'm not paying attention to, no amount of alcohol is safe, at least for a dementia risk, according to this bad study. We have a number of things to touch on. We got those debates. We got the left. We got all kinds. Stick with us. It's Friday. As we move our partners, it'll bring you the program. It is the folks who make Super Beats, the company called Human. They were founded out of the UT Health Science Center and built on real cardiovascular research around blood flow and nitric oxide. And unlike other supplement brands, Human is science-born and not just science-ish. Their products work and you can feel them working. UT athletes have used Super Beats for over a decade, calling it their cheat code for recovery and endurance. And you can use it for the same reason, to support healthy blood pressure and circulation. Today, more than 160 college and pro teams use human products, And so your favorite team probably does also. And if you've seen the human logo on the Longhorns field for football season, it's more than a sponsorship. It's a signal from human and UT leading the future of cardiovascular health. So the super beats heart chews from human heart, healthy energy without the crash. And you can find them at your local Walmart and start supporting your cardiovascular health today. Get on the better road. Get on the road to better health with human.
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What the Assemblyman said is he has no experience. And this is not a job for someone who has no management experience to run 300,000 people, no financial experience to run $115 billion budget. He literally has never had a job. On his resume, it says he interned for his mother. This is not a job for a first-timer. Any day, you could have a hurricane, you could have, God forbid, a 9-11, a health pandemic. If you don't know what you're doing, people could die.
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Well, and he would know all about that, about the people dying. Remember all of the elderly people that he put into, or all the people with COVID that he put in these nursing homes and he killed a bunch of elderly people. I mean, you know, just saying. He would know about that. Yeah, if you don't know what you're doing, like me, but Mandani is not smart enough. He didn't come back with that statement. He didn't. I would have been right out the gate with that. I would have been just ready to rock and well, you know, you would know that, wouldn't you? Because you killed X amount of people, but Mandani doesn't know any of that. This debate last night, I don't want to, you know, cheer uh Cuomo. I really don't like Mandani at all. And this debate last night was pretty wild and pretty insightful. This is the cut that really got me. I'm going to call for cut 17 here. So on the stage, I don't know why. Well, I mean, I do, but At the same time, if you're debating, and I guess if you don't have a resume, because Mandani has literally nothing. I mean, the guy has nothing. He has no resume. He's a nepo baby, etc. I guess this is the only thing that he has to try to show some sort of authority over Cuomo. This is cut 17, and he... was questioning him about whether or not he's ever been to a mosque. And just listen to this, and then we're going to dissect it.
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two totally separate things.
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Mr. Mamdani, do you want to respond?
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You know, it took Andrew Cuomo being beaten by a Muslim candidate in the Democratic primary for him to set foot in a mosque. He had more than 10 years, and he couldn't name a single mosque at the last debate we had that he visited. And what Muslims want in this city is what every community wants and deserves. They want equality, and they want respect. And it took me to get you to even see those Muslims as part of this city. And that, frankly, is something that is shameful and is why so many New Yorkers have lost faith in this politics.
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Why does he have to step into a mosque? Why does it matter if he steps into a mosque? Who cares? Why does he have to step into a mosque? We're not doing this kiss the Islamist ring nonsense. We are not doing this. But that's all he has. So he plays this Muslim, Muslim, Muslim card because he has no nothing. He has nothing. Mandani has no achievements. He has no resume. He has literally, I'm not using that incorrectly, literally zero private sector work experience. Not even that. The dude doesn't even have public sector work experience. He's a nepo baby who decided he wanted to be mayor and his parents are financing his campaign. He also wants to take your guns, but he refuses to call for the disarmament of Hamas. And what's what's funny, too, he didn't he get he when did he get married in Uganda came? Was it spring that we were talking about that? It was this year. OK, so he got married in Uganda and he had. He had like a whole spec ops crew. I mean, that's what was reported as their wedding security. You couldn't even get in. It was armed guards, everything. Now, he doesn't think you should be able to have that. He went to Uganda and had it for himself. He is a... A nepo baby who violates the terms of his own Marxist beliefs by he's not a worker, he's not one of the working class, and he just lives richly and he wants to deny the same ability to build that wealth to you. He doesn't want you to have those opportunities. It's quite simple. But this idea that you got to kiss the ring, who gives a rat's ass if he stepped into a mosque or not? Who cares? And He's lived here in America longer than you. You want to really get down to it? There you go. Or you haven't stepped into it. Well, you don't need to step into a mosque. You don't need to go and worship someone else's faith in order to be a good governor, which he wasn't. And he wouldn't be. I mean, would he be a better mayor than Islamist Mamdani? Yeah. Just because he's not an Islamist. I can't even believe I'm saying that. But those are the choices New Yorkers have left themselves with. But that was really troubling. To me, I didn't like that. Well, you've never even stepped foot. So? Have you stepped foot in a church? When's the last time you went to a worship and praise service, Ma'am Donnie? Or a mass or anything like that? When's the last time you put up a Christmas tree, Ma'am Donnie? You want to do this? Let's do it. Let's go all the way. When is the last time you did anything to affirm the beliefs held by our founders that formed the creation of this republic? You don't even believe in the same divine hierarchy that we believe in and that affords free will. Does your faith even practice free will? I mean, let's go ahead. If he's going to do this religiously bigoted nonsense, then let's drive it off the cliff to its full conclusion. It's ridiculous. Did you interpret that the same way I did, Cain, or am I just overreacting to it? It felt like a ring kissing request.
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Yeah, who needs to kiss the ring? Nobody needs to kiss the ring.
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Cain, have you ever been into a mosque?
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I thought there was like this healthy separation of church and state from the left. I don't understand why they have to do this.
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Well, Islamism, that's what's so funny. The left screams about Christianity because they're tools for tyranny. But they have no problem when it's Islamism. And you bring up a great point. You want to talk about an absence of church and state? There you go. There you go. They don't realize that's the real battle, by the way, and they don't realize it. That is the real battle. We're building up to that. There's going to be one epic knockdown drag out in the years to come. Unless it comes sooner, but know that. Now to his, we're going to have more. Do I want to, yeah, let's do 22. So this was, I guess, one of his proposals for free bus rides in New York City. Just listen to this. This is, okay, yeah, cut 22.
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I think it's one of the key reasons why we have to make buses free is because it reduces the assaults on bus drivers. It creates a safer work environment.
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So, you know, if someone wants to come up and stab you to death, they're going to be less likely to do so if the bus ride's free. That's his logic. So free bus rides so you don't get assaulted. Who pays for the bus fares? Oh, what you don't know is that he has, in other instances, said that they're going to have to raise taxes more in order to make that possible. So it's not free. They think that they can just relegate everything to taxation and that makes it free somehow, which is astounding. He has no idea how governance works. We're relegated to taxes. And yeah, it's free then after that, Cain. It's free. Free bus rides.
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He was asked that directly. I think Juan is pulling up this video, but I just put this in Slack. He was asked directly, how is this going to be paid for? It's clearly not free. We know it's not free. Free is not how it works. But Juan's ready to go.
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Well, yeah, taxes. It's the taxes. Yeah, listen. Oh, he'll get it.
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We will fund the revenue that would have otherwise been brought in from fares. And that's something that we would do in partnership with Albany. And I've put forward two proposals. The first is to raise taxes on the top 1% of New Yorkers by 2%. That would raise $4 billion. The second is to raise the state's top corporate tax rate to match that of New Jersey, which would raise $5 billion.
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So everybody pays for it. It's not free. So in order to not get stabbed, you have to pay more in taxes. You have to pay protection money. This is called extortion. You have to pay protection money so that the people who are dangerous and would kill you and your baby on the bus, they don't do that, Cain.
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We're already seeing millionaires and billionaires leaving. We're already seeing companies leaving. So what he's going to do is essentially put the burden more on those who are already fleeing because the burden is huge.
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Yes.
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This is not making any sense.
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Not at all. Not at all. Man, I'm telling you what. It's pretty something. It's something. This debate was something last night. I don't know how anybody could cheer for anything that he said at all. It's... I don't know. He said he was working to raise taxes. And he he did mention the Cuomo thing about seniors to deaths in nursing homes. But that was in a separate comment. But then he also he really audio. This is cut 15. He never actually denounced Hamas. He's always danced around it. And he was asked about that at this debate last night. Listen.
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To interrupt, I covered your speech in an Upper West Side synagogue where you said anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism. There is no difference. And you were talking about Mr. Mamdani. Is that not an allegation?
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No, I make that statement all the time. I wasn't referring to Mamdani. OK, all right. Mr. Mamdani, a brief response, then we have to move on.
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I have denounced Hamas again and again, and it will never be enough for Andrew Cuomo because what he is willing to say, even though not on this stage, is to call me the first Muslim on the precipice of leading this city, a terrorist sympathizer, is to send mailers that artificially lengthen my beard, is to say to New Yorkers that they should be fearful.
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So he gets into this stupid thing. Cuomo should have jumped in and said, you literally refuse to condemn, globalize the intifada. Isn't that true? That's where Cuomo should have jumped in and said that you have literally repeatedly been asked to condemn it. The slogan of Hamas. And you won't. You have also repeatedly refused to condemn from the river to the sea repeatedly. Another chant from Hamas. And you won't. Why is that? That makes you a sympathizer. Does it not? That's the way he should have handled it. I don't think that Cuomo was ready for that. Democrats are not ready to address the zealots and the crazies in their own party. And the right isn't either. But the left, they have accommodated them for too long. People like Mamdani used to be agitators that they would use to get out the vote for people like Pelosi and Schumer, etc. Well, then they wanted a piece of the pie. They wanted a seat at the table. They wanted some recognition. And so they weren't being given it. So they decided to really just, you know, take that opportunity and raise their influence themselves within the party. And now you have a Frankenstein's monster situation. That's what Cuomo should have said because he's trying to skirt the issue. He refuses to condemn everything that they're doing and everything that they're saying. Case in point, I mean, just check out this language here. This is Audio Soundbite 21. Listen.
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I want to be very clear. The occupation is a reference to international law and the violation of it, which Mr. Cuomo has no regard for since he signed up to be Benjamin Netanyahu's legal defense team during the course of this genocide.
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Well, first off, he can do that as a consultancy. Secondly, why are you kissing the backside of international law, which we, the United States, We recognize American jurisprudence. We recognize our system of law and order. We're not talking about what a bunch of Europeans determine in the Hague. And first off, anyone who uses the term occupation, you are already a sympathizer to Hamas because that's not even correct. The occupation is by Hamas. The colonizers are the Jordanians that moved into the strip and decided to invent for themselves an ethnicity and called themselves Palestine, which, once again, to remind you, was a resurrected hijacked name that was given to the area to spite the Jews after the second Judean uprising by an old dead Roman emperor named Hadrian. And it was the name of a people that hadn't even been there 200 years in 200 years. And they weren't even from the area. They were from Crete and they were a seafaring people. So you are the occupiers. You are the colonizers. That is who you are. That's what Cuomo should have said. When you go to these debates, you have to go for bear. And he wasn't ready. And Mandani didn't. as ridiculous as he is, wasn't challenged on it. He's a smooth talker, but you got to rock him. our partners that help bring you the program. It's our friends over at Patriot Mobile, the only Christian conservative cell phone service that is in existence. Patriot Mobile not only protects the things that you vote to protect at the ballot box, but they also give you great coverage, reliable nationwide coverage with access to all three major U.S. networks. There's no compromise on quality for your values. They have unlimited data plans, mobile hotspots, international roaming, device protection. i mean internet backup to stay connected and it's so easy to switch you can keep your phone or in your number or upgrade and get entirely new everything change your number and don't tell anyone it's up to you fast activation by their 100 us-based support team right from your house or office you don't have to go into brick and mortar you can stay comfy in your sweats if you want or just you know chill at your desk before you leave for work get it all switched over nationwide coverage that's fantastic and veterans and first responders you get 15 off your bill every month Switch over to the cell phone service that I've used for over a decade, PatriotMobile.com slash Dana, or you can call 972-PATRIOT. And don't forget to use promo code Dana, because when you do, you get a whole free month of service. Switch today, PatriotMobile.com slash Dana, promo code Dana, 972-PATRIOT.
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The American Revolution was a no-kings rally. And if you are planning to go to the rally, and you're going to be making your own sign, everybody there has a sign. I just want to ask you, remember, our president is very sensitive about his weight, so please do not use the word Shamu Salini to describe him.
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When is Jimmy Kimmel going to start being funny again? This is what they pay him for. The American Revolution was a no Kings rally. It was a freedom protest, not even remotely. The no Kings rally was it's literally sponsored by communists. I mean, literally, they are stupid enough to print up signage and they put the logos of all of the communists and socialist parties on it. You would never have seen the King Street Patriots do anything like this. You would have never have seen Paul Revere do anything like this. The committees of correspondence do anything like this. You would have never have seen Patrick Henry do anything where they had a communist logo on it or a socialist logo on it. That is historically illiterate. One of the things I tell my kids is that as you get older, you realize terrifyingly how stupid people can really be. I think that's why my taste in horror films have changed because I always like, you know, aliens and all that kind of stuff and, you know, sci-fi horror and all that. But really, the truest horror is the horror that man can perpetuate on Earth. the stupidity of man, the folly of man, the ridiculous lengths to which man will go to satisfy his own ego. That's really the true horror. And that's the true horror of the far left that perpetuates this no kings type nonsense. Because saying something like that, the American Revolution turned into an armed conflict because we wanted to be free. Is Jimmy Kimmel saying that he doesn't like the way that the 2020 election went or the way the 2024 election went, so therefore it should follow the same process of armed conflict as the American Revolution? Because that's what he's suggesting by stupidly making this comparison. Of course, again, we are talking about a rotund male who – actually isn't even bringing in the viewers to substantiate his ad rates for his failing show, who bitched and whined in order to keep his spot, not out of merit, but because he was the loudest. A guy who got his start as Adam Carolla's second banana, oogling women. He's not the brightest bulb in the box. Coming up, we got a lot of other things to hit. We got Zelensky visiting the White House. We'll keep an eye on that and see how that goes and bring you anything if it comes to that. But also, England banned fans of an Israeli soccer team from attending a sporting event because they just might be attacked by the anti-Semites who elected the MP that decided to ban them. in England, in Birmingham. We're going to talk about that coming up. Stick with us. Our partners that will bring you the program, it's our friends over at Ammo Squared. This is a great company that's going to make sure that you stay topped up on all of your ammunition. It is America's ammunition reserve. It's a worry-free solution to stockpiling ammo for the future, and you can avoid getting caught empty-handed. Choose from over 70 calibers, set your monthly budget, and then let Ammo Squared curate your supply automatically so you set up, forget it, and ship it when you need it. It's a secure, climate-controlled facility. It keeps your ammo fresh and safe until you decide to get it delivered. There are no minimums, no hidden fees, and you've got free shipping on orders over $250. Join the 100,000-plus members in a community with thousands of five-star reviews. Your readiness is their mission. Visit AmmoSquared.com and secure your ammo supply for the future. Don't run out when it counts. Stock up before training and restock after to stay ready. Visit AmmoSquared.com and be sure to mention that you heard about it on The Dana Show.
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Obviously, and I've explained this, or at least we did in a statement, you know, that I went on vacation with my wife, with some friends. I was incredibly lucky. You have to be to end up ahead, frankly, going to a casino anywhere. It was in Las Vegas, and I like to play cards, and so, you know, that I founded a... charitable poker match here in Chicago called the Chicago Poker Challenge that raises millions, has raised millions of dollars for the Holocaust Museum here. And particularly to stand up for civil rights, that's much of what the Holocaust Museum does. And so anyway, that's all I can say about it. I mean, I had fun doing it. I encourage people to come to the state of Illinois and gamble in our casinos here. We have some really lovely places to go.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, let's go to Illinois. What do they tax you at if you try to go get your winnings, I'm sure?
SPEAKER 15 :
It's 40 plus percent. Yeah.
SPEAKER 21 :
Why would anybody go there? I don't gamble just because I just... When you grow up poor, you don't. So I can't even imagine going over there.
SPEAKER 16 :
Imagine what it would take to win $1.4 million. You'd have to have one hell of a credit line or something going on to put down the bet to win that in a game of poker or blackjack or anything.
SPEAKER 21 :
Well, he is a caprillionaire. So I would say J.B. Pritzker, the governor of Illinois, whom you just heard, he is a caprillionaire. So that, you know, it makes sense that he's got that kind of money to do that. I mean, it's but he's didn't because wasn't he getting in trouble for failure to report? And then that's how some of this stuff all came to light. Isn't that just interesting? Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you at the top of the second hour. Yeah, he. Well, he reported his latest tax filings after he was playing blackjack. I just think it's funny that a billionaire nepo baby, because that's what he is, goes and gambles in Vegas. Is that weird? I just that's not an activity that I would. But of course, he didn't make any of his money. So what is it to him? It's meaningless to him. He's a part of a family that made it for him. You know, isn't that the left loves being all of the things that they claim to hate just because they don't want you to ever have the opportunity to be that. That's really what it, that's what so much of it's about. So welcome back to the program. I got to tell you about this insane story that I, it is stunning. It's a stunning story. I first saw this online and this, it has to do with, I'm going to pull up my other piece here. It has to do with... The soccer team in Birmingham and how apparently Israeli soccer fans were banned from the Aston Villa match. And this is going to be very interesting for their Prince of Wales over there because he's a big fan of Aston Villa and they're probably going to try to pressure him to speak out. So police today, they're getting tons of pressure because there's a there's a ban that's been implemented on supporters of one of the Israeli club attending a match at Aston Villa. And the Tel Aviv team, they've been controversially barred from their Europa League visit to Villa Park in Birmingham on November 6th because they said that there's public safety fears. So the let me pull this up. The MP. that implemented this, of course, is Islamist adjacent. There's no other way to put it, is Islamist adjacent. And he put out this statement that the Tel Aviv fans will not be permitted to watch the match at Aston Villa. And they were like, well done to everybody who signed our petition. The guy, the MP said, thank you to all who put the safety of Aston Villa fans, Birmingham residents and the British police above the Zionist and political pressure to let Israeli hooligans and terrorists run riot in our city. I don't know if you've ever seen some of this stuff, but. And in fact, one of the reasons that one of the reasons I started to see Tommy Robinson everywhere is because they were soccer. They're football fans and they would leave matches and they were they were they would be like attacked by Islamists. There was this like way, way back long ago that you can read about his origins. But it kind of started with that group. pushing against Islamists. There was like a Veterans of Foreign War or something like that parade in one of the towns. And you had a bunch of, you know, football fans. And then you had a bunch of Islamists that were protesting the parade. And you can imagine how that turned out. So they said in a statement, this MP, Barrister Ayub Khan, He says, I welcome the safety advisory group's decision to advise that the Tel Aviv fans are not going to be permitted to attend Villa Park on the 6th of November. He said that from the moment the match was announced, it was clear that there were latent safety risks that even our capable security and police authorities would not be able to fully manage. And with so much hostility and uncertainty around the match, it was only right to take drastic measures. Maybe you could tell your Islamists to stop Islaming. That's a... Yeah, maybe you could... Wow. And sorry, you're a colonizer. This MP is a colonizer. I believe in e pluribus unum, but with a caveat. You assimilate and you appreciate and accept the freedom of your nation and you don't do anything to alter it. Anything less than that is colonization. This guy's a colonizer. And so... I... It's the Islamists in Birmingham. They apparently cannot be counted on to not commit acts of violence against visiting foreigners who simply want to watch a soccer slash football match. There's never been a Jewish terrorist attack in the U.K., There's been tons of Islamist ones, though. I mean, you had an elected MP that just called, like visiting Jewish soccer fans, act like they're terrorists for this. This is crazy. Apparently they are going to review the decision. But there was an imam in Birmingham who's saying no mercy, no mercy to these people, to the visiting Israelis. The... This Birmingham-based British Islamist, whatever he is, he's really been, I think he's been trying to incite. I just don't know how he isn't. Asrar Rashid, he said that Mercy has a time and a place, but not at Villa Park when they have their match. You're a colonizer. He's a colonizer. Now, they've been having they've had ever since they had the terror attack at the synagogue, they've had people protesting. And a lot of these there's there's a lot there's this is indicative of a lot. When you look at the makeup of Birmingham as well, it's changed dramatically. And this is, again, going back to the United States with E Pluribus Unum. E Pluribus Unum is we all are we we share the common denominator of spirit of liberty and we don't do it. We conserve individual liberty and we don't do anything to to break down or damage the republic, the construct in which we enjoy these freedoms. And when you cease to do that, when you refuse to honor that, you are not becoming you're not a plural bassoon. I mean, you're not acting within that goodwill. You are a colonizer in the same respect that these people that are going to the UK, that are going to Britain and that are doing this there. Does this sound like in any way that they are trying to mesh with their adopted country? No, it's colonization. So they banned an entire group of people because they're Jewish, because the Islamists can't be counted on to not attack them. And the MP who was elected by the Islamists is the one who implemented the ban. I mean, this is crazy. They had Rupert Rupert Lowe, who is the independent MP for Great Yarmouth, who said we shouldn't be banning groups of football fans from Britain because Muslims might get offended. Now, at the Europa League match that they had last year, they had Israeli fans that I mean, they were attacked by pro Hamas fans. And then they had a dust up after that. And that that descended into riots. And I I just don't know how because everyone's now saying Prince William needs to get involved in this because he's a Villa fan. He might have to. This is just crazy. They had the Jewish Leadership Council that criticized the decision. They said that it's perverse that a Wave fan should be banned from a football match because West Midlands police can't guarantee their safety. Nigel Farage, who's the reform leader over there, says it takes racial discrimination to a new level. This is rough. I can't imagine something like that happening in the United States, but the United States is on that track. And the Muslim population in Birmingham has grown significantly. It is one outside of London. It's, I think, like the largest in the UK. So it's like a minority majority. And it's been growing really quickly. They saw a substantial increase. I was looking at their Office of National Statistics. They saw a substantial increase. So in 2011, it was 21%. In 2021, it's 30%. That's really big. And just that amount of time, it went from 21% to 30%. And the Muslim population is the largest increase of all of the religious groups in the city. Theirs is the largest. The absolute largest. To break down the religion, Christianity, those identifying as Christians, 34%. Those identifying as Muslim, 30%. Sikhism is like, what, maybe 3%. That's it. Judaism point 10. It is it's almost a Muslim majority city. It's probably within the next five years it will overtake. So now you can see this MP why he did why how he got elected and what he's how he's doing what he's doing. It's like what we've been seeing in Minnesota. And again, this has nothing to do for all of the people who want to do a Mott Bailey and they want to deflect and say, oh, that just sounds, you know, it sounds jingoistic. It sounds that's not what the issue is. And you're conflating it because you're a moron. The issue is that you have people who refuse to honor the jurisprudence of the land to which they are adopting as their new home. They are refusing assimilation. You do not have successful immigration without assimilation. If I were wanting to move to Italy, I'm not going to demand that Italy become more like the United States. That's stupid. It's also entitled. It's grifty. It's colonizing. Things that the left purportedly hates. But yet they do it themselves. And they defend it when it's done with Islamism. So... Keir Starmer had released a statement. It was kind of a wishy-washy sort of thing where he had said that, oh, this was basically, I was trying to find the statement here, that it was in, you know, it's kind of in bad taste. He shouldn't have said it or they shouldn't have done this. This isn't going to help. But he really didn't, you know. You know what? It's not any different than what Mamdani's been saying here in New York. You know, he said pro-Israel Democrats are not welcome in his coalition. He actually said that to The New York Times, according to The Washington Free Beacon, that had an excerpt of the story. They said that that the Mamdani said the left should not make an exception for progressives who back Israel. Sounds very similar, right? I'm telling you, the UK is just several years ahead of from us. We are going down that path right now. By refusing to accommodate any other type of legal understanding other than American Western jurisprudence. By refusing to silo people off. By refusing e pluribus unum. You will get that. That is where we are heading. And everyone wants to fight over influence in the Trump White House. And who gets invited to what cocktail party. And the right is too busy. It's so stupid. This is the real battle. And if you can have literal fans because they're Jewish banned from going to a soccer match. We got more on the way as we roll towards headlines. Chapter is a partner that you can trust that will walk you through all of the craziness with the quote unquote Medicare enrollment season, which you hear over and over and over again. Now, with chapter, they're going to get you squared away. It's a partner that you can trust. They are salaried. They do not work on commission and they advocate for you and not the insurance company. Medicare plans change every year, you see. So if you're unhappy with your plan, you have got to check what's coming for 2026. And failing to review your options could mean losing the coverage you depend on. 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SPEAKER 16 :
And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
SPEAKER 21 :
This is such a sick headline. Luigi Mangione was lavished with $40,000 in prison cash along with, I mean, he's gotten all kinds of erotic letters every day from ladies, lusty ladies who were sending him all these letters. 27-year-old faces a federal murder charge. Remember, he shot UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson dead yesterday. on the streets of New York as he was attending a conference in December of 2024. And people think that he's a hero. They think he's a folk hero. And they said they've been putting money on his commissary at the detention center and that he can spend up to $160 every day on snacks and stuff like that. He's being rewarded for murdering a guy. This is insane. This is the assassination culture of the left. Pro-Hamas hackers hijack airport loudspeakers across North America. They spewed Netanyahu. They attacked Netanyahu. They had Jewish slurs. They went after Trump and caused lots of delays. I can't believe they were able to just do that as easily as they did. Passengers at airports in Pennsylvania, British Columbia, they were stunned when they started hearing what was coming out of these loudspeakers. They had videos that they posted, and it showed all of these pro-Hamas recordings blasting through these terminals at Harrisburg International Airport and Kelowna International Airport in Canada. And they flashed messages praising Hamas, urging a, quote, free, quote, unquote, Palestine. just wild absolutely wild uh police um it's actually no it's one of these we have in here twice uh oh china this is a very interesting conversation china talking about rare earth elements they are bristling because rare towards this rare earths retaliatory movement they're uh Their expansion, they're trying to control measures on their rare earth minerals, and now it's backfiring. France and others of the Group of Seven, they said they want to unite and respond to China's actions. The Trump administration slammed their global power grab efforts because they we talked about this a million times. They have a chokehold on rare earth minerals. And it's this is going to come really into play. Coming up, our friend Josh Hammer joins us on a number of issues. Stick with us. So apparently we have to stop falling for the whole higher thread counting because it doesn't necessarily mean better sheets. That's fake news, apparently. It's like believing that you use like 10% of your brain. So the secret isn't thread count, it's thread quality. And this is where Bull & Branch has won a lot of folks over at yours truly. They use the best organic cotton. End of. I mean, these are sheets that feel incredible, like the moment you take them out of the box. So the first night that you put them on, you can tell right away that they're softer, they're cooler, and they have a great weight. It's like kind of having a five-star hotel room in your own house. And I'll tell you something else. The sheets get better every time that you've washed them. I've washed mine countless times and they just keep getting softer. You can't do that with cheap sheets because they totally fall apart. Bowl and branch, they get more luxurious. So you'll sleep better and you kind of feel like a spoiled brat, but it's okay. I'm not going to go back to the old sheets. Once you try them, you're not going to either. So if you're ready to upgrade your sleep, and you should, visit bowlandbranch.com slash danashow because there you'll get 15% off your first set plus free shipping. So that's bowlandbranch.com slash danashow for 15% off. Exclusions apply.
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SPEAKER 21 :
Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. You can listen coast to coast. We're all over terrestrially as well as digitally. Channel 347, DirecTV, Rumbles, The Chat, X, Facebook, all of it. I was talking to Kane on break that there's a Ramones song for every occasion. They got you covered every occasion. And I was thinking about this because the stories that I'm getting ready to dive into with my friend Josh Hammer in a minute. I played Now I Want to Sniff Some Glue by the Ramones. These stories make me want to sniff glue. Never been a glue sniffer, but I really do want to start now because of some of the headlines that I've seen. I've seen... I have a massive post coming out about this on Substack. And it deals with the... the leaked chat, the leaked texts. But that's just the entry point to a broader conversation. And on this and, of course, a million other issues, and we were just talking about this story in Britain where you had Israeli fans that were literally banned from going to a soccer match in Birmingham because the Islamist MP has decided that they don't feel like protecting foreign visiting fans from the Islamists that won't assimilate in the U.K., There's a lot to discuss. My friend Josh Hammer joins me. You know him. He's senior editor at large at Newsweek, host of The Josh Hammer Show and America on Trial with Josh Hammer. And he's got a book, Israel and Civilization, The Fate of the Jewish Nation and Destiny of the West. You're kind of like Marco Rubio. You just do a whole bunch of stuff. I've realized this, Josh.
SPEAKER 23 :
Yeah, but Dana, very high on the list that you neglected is that I'm also your friend. So thank you.
SPEAKER 21 :
Oh, thank you. It is a job. I tell you, it is a full time job. It's good to see you, my friend. Let me before I dive into this other stuff, can I get your thoughts on this this story coming out of the UK? So you you have, you know, in Birmingham, which we were going over some of the. demographics in that city, and it is a really quickly changing city. They have a lot of very strong Islamist representation in their parliament, and so you had visiting fans, Tel Aviv fans of that club, who were supposed to be visiting Birmingham for a match, watching Aston Villa, and they're banned now from attending because apparently they would be attacked by Muslims, and oh my gosh, they just, you know, UK just doesn't want to do anything about that. I... I'm not shocked to see it happen, but I am. And I think that it's a you know, this is the canary in the coal mine because Mandani, Mandani was just saying that there is no room in his coalition for anyone who recognizes Israel as an ally or is supports Israel's basically their right to exist. What are your thoughts on this?
SPEAKER 23 :
Well, sadly, I'm totally unsurprised. I'm just I'm so fazed at this point. I'm so utterly jaded at this point when it comes to again, this is not talking about anti-Zionist. We're not even having a debate over whether or not Israel's an ally. I mean, we're talking here in the UK.
SPEAKER 21 :
We all know that that's a veneer.
SPEAKER 23 :
Correct. It is here, there, and everywhere a veneer. But, I mean, Britain has been going down this rabbit hole, Dana, for so long. I mean, I actually lived in London for a few months. I studied there over the course of a university semester back in 2009, around the time this whole thing was getting started. In fact, Dana, maybe I grew up kind of sheltered. I probably did, frankly. But my first real encounter with vitriolic, face-to-my-face Jew hatred came in England, actually, during those few months that I was living there. It was not in Birmingham. It was actually in London itself. I was going out to a bar on the Tube on the London subway, the Metro, with some of my friends. And I don't even remember, frankly, how this Englishman, who was just a white Englishman, wasn't even a Muslim guy, I don't actually remember how he found out that we were Jewish, but he did. And he just started talking about how Hitler was right and how the Nazis should have won. And I actually had to physically restrain my friend from punching him. In retrospect, I probably should have just let him punch him, to be honest with you. But Britain has been going down this road for a very long time now. And It's really sad because in my heart, Dana, I'm an Anglophile. I really am. I am a huge proponent of all that Britain has given the world when it comes to the English common law, when it comes to parliamentary principles, separation of powers, the very notion of the reconciliation of individual liberty and the common good is very much kind of a British English concept. It's our language, obviously, but – I mean, you can't help people fundamentally that will not help themselves. I want Britain to recover. I want much of Europe to recover. I'm actually flying to Europe somewhere else in Europe this Sunday evening for a conference. I want these places to recover. But again, you just you can't help them that are willing to commit national suicide. It's really, really sad. But tragically, I'm not I'm not particularly surprised at all.
SPEAKER 21 :
That's a great point, because I mean, do they you know, there's obviously some good people over there that definitely are pushing back against this. But it's like, why now? Because this has been building for over 10 years. I mean, we saw it, gosh, back in 2008. We've seen it before then. And to that point, it's happening here. And we can talk about, you know, the Mamdonis and all of that. There was a. I've seen a lot of mutual friends that we have that have been making really good points about what I think is the entry point conversation. You know, you had the story that this week about the Politico leaked texts or chat or whatever, this leaked conversation. They called a group of young Republicans and young is doing a lot of heavy lifting here because there's some 30 year olds and there are a lot of 30 year olds and some 40 something year olds as well. But regardless, they're all professionals who are operating within the highest levels of political influence. know work working in the political structure here in the united states and they were reckless enough to allow themselves to now be judged and penalized by stating i don't know if i don't whether it was a joke or what from the heart the mouth speaks is the number one issue for me and then secondly that you would commit that You have two fail safes here. You know, you're typing it in and then you're hitting send and that gets past those two fail safes and you're putting that out there. This is a growing problem on the right. You and I have talked about this. But what angers me is that people on the right think that we are too weak in our own principles in order to be victorious on our own. So we have to become the left in order to beat the left, which then just means the left has won, Josh.
SPEAKER 23 :
Yes. So there are two things going on here. I want to try to separate them out a little bit because I view them, analyze them slightly differently. What is there's this notion that I think there is a difference between how people conduct themselves and how they talk privately versus publicly. I'm not justifying horrific language by any stretch of imagination. But I do think back, Dana, to my old friend Kyle Kashuv. Kyle was denied admission to Harvard University. He was a survivor of the Broward County, Florida, school shooting, Marjory Stone Douglas. And he was essentially – his offer to Harvard rescinded because on some Google doc at the age of 16, he made – I honestly don't remember what he said, but it was deemed to be a racist comment there.
SPEAKER 21 :
But he was 16, Josh. These people are in their 30s.
SPEAKER 23 :
For sure, no, again, and to be clear, you have to be really, really, really stupid to say this stuff in a group chat. Dana, I have personally been on multiple group chats that have leaked, including one that was leaked in extremely high profile fashion. Yeah, let's talk about that. Yeah, about a week and a half, a week or so. I mean, you have to be really, really dumb to put these thoughts in any kind of group chat, especially with people that you don't intimately know and trust there. So you're really, really, really dumb. I guess the only point that I'm making there, Dana, is that I think a lot about what Dennis Prager once said, which is that especially for folks like me and you who are kind of in the in the public light, you try to judge people for what they say and do publicly, not privately to an extent. But the more important point here, the more important point where I think you and I are entirely on the same page is that the right has to clean its own house. OK, you know, I see a lot of folks saying that, you know, the reason the right is not winning right now is because we don't act more like the left. We're not kind of all kumbaya, all sites focus on the right. Well, last I checked, the left was not doing particularly well in America. Last I checked, Kamala Harris was losing every single swing state to Donald Trump. Last I checked, the Democratic Party had historically low approval ratings there. I think part of that is because they've allowed the crazies to take over the asylum.
SPEAKER 21 :
Can I ask you, don't you think that we're being sold a false narrative that we're not winning? Because we have the White House, we have the House, we have the Senate. We are we're beating the snot out of Democrats in terms of Republican registrations. If we're talking about party ideal advancement, you know, you go through Republicanism. We're beating them. And we're I mean, my gosh, New Jersey's competitive for the first time ever. Florida was flipped. I kind of wonder, too, if we're not being sold a lie by people who want to make money like the left always agitates. Maybe that's kind of happening on the right as well, trying to undercut our victories.
SPEAKER 23 :
Look, by any objective metric, the Republican Party, from a partisan perspective, is in about as good a shape, if not the best shape, that it's been in my entire adult lifetime, certainly. I mean, probably the best shape it's been in, at least since George H.W. Bush's massive victory in the 1988 presidential election, which is literally the year before I was born, so I guess in my entire lifetime. I mean, things things are going pretty well for the Republican Party at this time. Things are are still going less well, I think, from a conservative cultural perspective and a lot of the private institutions there. But the Trump administration is indeed waging a lot of these these righteous wars and crusades there when it comes to the fight against DEI and anti-Semitism and higher education and the general fight against DEI and corporate America. So really, I think to be a conservative right now in America. is not the same way that it was during the height of the Biden administration, is not the same way that it was during the height of the Obama administration. Times are overall pretty good at this moment. And this would not be a good time to start mimicking the left, which, again, is not weeding out its crazies at all. Rather, their crazies are about to lead cities like New York City.
SPEAKER 21 :
Exactly. You were talking with our friend Josh Hammer, and you mentioned you were a part of – You were a part of some chats that leaked and that were, you know, very that was that's kind of wild to watch, especially when you're grieving for the loss of a friend and having all of this stuff play out. Of course, we're talking about Charlie Kirk and some of the stuff that you've kind of been lassoed into as a result of this. So there were there was this big debate over Charlie Kirk's views towards Israel. And, you know, it's been really well covered and documented because I think there are some people that are trying to hijack his legacy for their own financial advantage. and take, you know, posthumously take the mic from him and try to redefine what he believed. You knew all of this and you were very classy. You stayed very silent. And then some of these, some of the texts came to light. Some other texts came to light. But the bottom line is there is a huge difference between questioning the decision making in terms of battling narratives and then the theory that Mossad killed a guy for like whatever reason. Tell us about this because you've actually filed suit over this.
SPEAKER 23 :
Well, not yet.
SPEAKER 21 :
We've had discussions. Talking about it, yes.
SPEAKER 23 :
Yeah, I've been openly mulling it. I mean, to be clear, Dana, if we do decide to proceed, I think there's a very serious potential claim here for defamation. But I'm still mulling it over. Litigation is obviously not something to be joked about. I'm a lawyer. I know that all too well. But look, I did try to stay above the fray when it came to this debate. This whole screenshot war started. or really escalated last Monday, so about a week and a half ago, literally 20 minutes before I'm logging off for a Jewish holiday, the holiday of Sukkot, which Christians typically call the Feast of Tabernacles. So I was literally about to turn my phone off for like 49 hours, and I see that Candace Owens has these screenshots, and I turn my phone back on last Wednesday evening, and essentially all hell had broken loose. And yeah, a week ago, I felt compelled to release the very final screenshots of what Charlie finally sent in his final messages to this particular WhatsApp chat that I was in there, showing that he was very grateful for a Zoom call that we had had the night prior to his death, a Zoom call that Charlie reached out to organize where he reached out to me and a couple others. He was very concerned about rising anti-Semitism on campus, Dana, and he wanted to know the best ways to get rid of it, to basically try to, in amiable fashion, because he was a very happy warrior, to try to persuade these keffiyeh-clad crazies and their quote-unquote right-wing fellow travelers that no, the Jewish people are actually a historical force for good, that no, actually the state of Israel is a force for good in the Middle East. So really until his final moments, Charlie Kirk really did remain a staunch friend to the Jewish people. And how do I know that? Because I was that Jewish friend, Dana. I mean, you know, he talked the talk of Jewish-Christian alliance and he literally walked the walk. I mean, this WhatsApp chat that he formed was a mix of Jews and Christians. It was like eight people, small chat. He literally called it saving civilization. It was his words because he literally felt that a Jewish-Christian alliance and from a geopolitical perspective, the U.S.-Israel relationship, these are the pillars. We might call these the four pillars of Western civilization. He believed that with every fiber of his being. And you're totally right. There are a lot of people, Candace among them, who are now engaging in reckless, deceitful, and propagandistic revisionist history, trying to rewrite his legacy as something other than it was for the purpose of trying, I think, to steer Turning Point USA. It seems to me that that is what their goal is, is to try to influence the direction of Charlie's organization, Turning Point USA. They're not going to be successful because there is just a voluminous Internet archive of Charlie Kirk talking about things like keeping the Sabbath, of quoting the book of Genesis, the book of Psalms, Proverbs. He was a huge fan of quoting the Hebrew Bible. He talked over and over and over again about the imperative of defending the Holy Land from a Christian perspective there. He was all in on this issue, and it's a tremendous loss. And, Dana, we're not going to let the bad faith provocateurs win here.
SPEAKER 21 :
And good for you on that. And I just the way that you handled it, I just have to say, was incredibly classy and incredibly transparent. And I don't think that you've received enough credit for that.
SPEAKER 23 :
Thank you.
SPEAKER 21 :
It was I mean, and it was just in perfect keeping with honoring the memory of of Charlie, which, you know, that seemed to have gotten lost with a lot of other people claiming to carry the banner. But you kept it. I would love to have you back because there's so much to talk about. I think that this is an ongoing conversation like this is an entry point of something very serious. happening in the United States. And, you know, I've talked about that, you know, a few times, you know, on air and off air. There's something happening that has to be addressed, especially with the other generations that are coming up. And we'll have those conversations in the weeks to come. But it's so good to see you, my friend. And God bless you and safe travels as well. And we'll talk again soon.
SPEAKER 23 :
Always a pleasure. God bless you.
SPEAKER 21 :
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It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida, man.
SPEAKER 21 :
So a North Florida man is facing multiple felony charges after deputies say that he attacked two of his relatives with knives. And then he injured himself in the incident over the weekend. It happened just south of Tallahassee. They arrested 73-year-old Allison Hatton, who is a man with the name Allison. He was charged with one count of attempted felony murder, aggravated battering a person over 65 years of age, one count of assault. Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa. You can be 73 and attack somebody who's 65 and then or 66 and then you get charged with. But you're 73. You know what I mean? Like, how is that? Anyway, and a count of assault with the intent to commit a felony. They said that the 69-year-old relative of Hatton was awoken earlier as Hatton was repeatedly stabbing her in the chest and neck with a kitchen knife. Good night. Another individual intervened, managed to disarm him. Holy cow. He said that he was going to kill, when police were talking to him, Hatton said he intended to kill the 69-year-old, the other adult relative, his dog, and then himself because he was, quote, trying to get him up to heaven. They had to be choppered out of their life flight in order to get treatment. And he's in jail on all the aforementioned charges. We have more to come. POTUS is speaking right now from the White House. We're going to watch this. We have a whole other hour on the way. Stick with us. All Family Pharmacy is a family-owned business dedicated to helping you get the medications that you need when you need them the most. With over 200 essential medications, including antibiotics, antivirals, ivermectin, emergency kits, and so much more, they have you covered for everything from daily prescriptions to even biohacking support. Right now, they've lowered prices on ivermectin and minbendazole by up to 25%, starting at just $2 a capsule. Plus, save an extra 10% using code GENERAL. Dana10. Each order includes a doctor's prescription, so there's no hassle or middleman. And as flu season approaches, now's the time to stock your medicine cabinet with essentials like Tamiflu, antibiotics, and vitamins to help keep you and your family healthy. And beyond basics, All Family Pharmacy offers biohacking products like NAD+, Methylene Blue, all kinds of stuff to boost energy, focus, immunity, the whole nine yards. Visit allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana and use code Dana10 to save 10% today. Don't wait. Be ready for flu season with All Family Pharmacy. That's allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana and use code Dana10. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. Top of this third hour and a lot to get into. But right now, POTUS is speaking from the White House. Lots of really good questions. He's got Marco Rubio with him as well. He was talking about his discussions with Putin and Zelensky as well as fielding questions from the press. This is stuff that you're going to want to know. So we're going to go ahead and drop in on this live in progress. And POTUS is sitting right across from Zelensky as well. And the press is behind Zelensky just to give you the idea of the setup.
SPEAKER 08 :
Mr. President, it has been reported that Maduro offered everything in his country, all the natural resources. He even recorded a message to you in English recently offering mediation.
SPEAKER 06 :
What should we do in order to stop that? He has offered everything. He's offered everything. You're right. You know why? Because he doesn't want to f*** around with the United States. Thank you, everybody.
SPEAKER 05 :
Thank you.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, uh...
SPEAKER 21 :
There you go.
SPEAKER 16 :
Didn't expect that.
SPEAKER 21 :
What? Steve, do we catch that? God, that's full.
SPEAKER 16 :
Did we get that, Steve?
SPEAKER 21 :
Look, I just think that if POTUS gets us in trouble, Brendan Carr should not make us use the get out of jail free card with the FCC, Kane.
SPEAKER 16 :
This was news. I mean. Steve said he caught it. Steve said he caught it. I think we had to dump 30 seconds of audio right there.
SPEAKER 21 :
So if you were listening and you're like, wait, what just happened? Trump was like, well, they were talking about Russia and Ukraine. You don't want to blink around with the United States. That's how you drop an F bomb, Democrats. That's how you do it. That's how you dropped an F bomb. Oh, my gosh. Well, so. Wow. That rocked me because that came out of nowhere. That came out of nowhere.
SPEAKER 16 :
It sure did. It sure did. Now, the online folks heard it, and there's no delay there. So the radio audience, though, I don't think they caught that.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah. Wow. So the radio, Trump was, if we can get it censored, just that one little part, if we're able to turn it around, that otherwise I can act it out. I don't even know how.
SPEAKER 15 :
No, you can't. No, no, no. You're not acting it out.
SPEAKER 21 :
We're just sitting here and I'm listening. I'm like, oh, those are good points. You know, I'm just like taking it. And then he does that. I'm like, whoa, that. But what fascinates me is that it was said, you know, the way that someone who has to drop it every now and then would say it. Right. That's my only vice in life. Man. All right. So, hi. Welcome back to the program. We were listening to POTUS there. in the Oval Office and Zelensky is sitting right across the table from him. You know what I like? Sorry, there's a meme out there that shows, it's like a comic panel, right? There's three on one side, three on the other. So there's six squares, it goes down vertically. And you have Barack Obama, I wanna negotiate. And then Hamas member on the phone, we're gonna blow blank up. And then you have Joe Biden, I wanna negotiate. And another Hamas guy on the phone, I'm going to blow blank up. And then you have Trump on the phone. I'm going to blow blank up. And Hamas going, we want to negotiate. I just think it's kind of funny. Just saying. So, yeah, that's how you drop an F-bomb. That's how that works. So the president, oh, it's already, there it is. Yeah, he says, he's talking on the screen. He says, we're not losing people. We're not spending money. We're getting paid for the ammunition and missiles. And we made a good deal with NATO. I mean, that's, if we're getting paid from it and we don't have to get involved in it. Yeah. Yeah. That's, yeah. So he's talking about Venezuela when he was talking about Maduro. He was saying, yeah, Maduro's offered everything. And then he goes, Maduro doesn't want to, you know, around with the U.S. So, huh. You believe him.
SPEAKER 16 :
At first, I was like, when he talked about the tunnel from Russia to Alaska, and then he's like, what do you think about that, Zelensky?
SPEAKER 14 :
He's like, I don't like it.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 14 :
I don't like it. And then he drops the F-bomb.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, here, I got the, sorry, we got the, yeah, then he threw out the F-bomb. So there it is. But he said, you know, he's offered everything. You're right. And he goes, you know why? Because he doesn't want to blink around with the United States. Kind of like that. I like that. I voted for that. That's what I like. Because, you know, I don't want to be playing around with that stuff. So just as soon as we get it up. But he's sitting there at the table. What was he saying at one point? He just like knocked you. He knocked Ukraine over something. And you got Zelensky sitting across the table. He's just got to take it. You know, what do you think Zelensky does when he's got to go back to the White House? Oh, my gosh. He's got he doesn't know what's going to happen when he goes in, if he's going to get, you know, going to get slapped, if he's going to get he doesn't know what's going to happen when he goes in. So that's that's it just just took me totally off guard. We were all very serious. And then. One of my friends who's in the media, who's in the media, is in the White House press pool, was like, after, because she saw my tweet, was like, after it happened, we all just kind of paused. And then she said half of the room started kind of chuckling because they, you know, they appreciated it. And the left, the lefty press, there's only a couple lefty pressers in there, said that they were just like, all of a sudden they were after, after months of Democrats trying to act tough. Right. I think one of the things that makes it real is that Trump is also 11,000 feet tall. The first time I ever met him in person when I shook his hand, and I've known him for years, he used to come on the show all the time, my hand like disappeared. It was like it went into a meat mitten and it just disappeared. And then it... You know what I mean? Like when you shake someone's hand and they're so much larger than you and you can't even fully wrap your fingers around the rest of the palm when you're shaking the hand. It's funny. All right, so that was very interesting. We're watching all of that, and we're going to bring you updates on it. Also, some of the other stuff that we have coming up on deck. You know, you got the no kings thing. No draft kings. No, it's no kings rally. We're going to get into that. Also, some country guy, I don't even know who this dude is, went on a, like, he went off about ICE. Good on him for finding camo that fits him. He went off on ice. Do you know who this guy is? He's a country artist. Oh, yeah, I saw that. I don't know who this is. Is this some pop country twink?
SPEAKER 16 :
They're trying to say he's up and coming, and I guess this is part of his effort to be up and coming.
SPEAKER 21 :
It's some chubby twink. Dana, you're so mean. You're new here, clearly. Anyway, he went off on ice. We got that for you. I got a couple of other things. Oh, did you see what they did to Dungeons & Dragons? I actually may have to go play Helldivers after this just to get what I saw out of my eyes. We'll talk about that. We'll come back to that. We're going to come back to that. We've got to go to headlines. Otherwise, I'm going to be here forever. We've got Days of These United States coming up as we move. Our partners that help bring you the program, Caltech's KS7 Gen 2 shotgun. It's one of the newest ones that they've made. It's on the popular KS7 platform. The Gen 2 is packed with all kinds of upgrades. You have a five-slot Picatinny style rail that lets you add vertical grips, lights. You can keep it flush and sleek with a cap if you want. It's a smoother pump action for faster, cleaner cycling. And you also have enhanced durability. Ultra lightweight. It's just under seven pounds unloaded. Compact bullpup design so you have maneuverability and tight spaces. ambidextrous downward shell ejection, and a 7 plus 1 capacity for stopping power. And MSRP makes it affordable at just $639. So it brings all of that well within reach. It's from Kel-Tec, K-E-L-T-E-C, weapons.com, made here in the USA. That's keltecweapons.com. Tell them Dana sent you.
SPEAKER 16 :
And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
SPEAKER 21 :
You know, they actually have betting odds on whether or not or for how long will Trump and Zelensky shake hands today. I'm actually looking at a graph for it. It's hysterical. How long will they shake hands? You can buy yes. You can buy no. There are people betting on it. So far, I think it's like at 3%. 3% say it'll be like 6 to 8 seconds. But it looks like 2 to 4 seconds is the 80%. That... I don't know why, but I find that people are literally going to lose money on the length of the handshake. So that's, you know, it is funny. J.B. Pritzker is probably sad that he's not in on it, you know, really. Wait, somebody's gambling and I'm not in on this? Don't even get me started on him again. Okay, so in addition to that, we also have a flying electric boat, which is a hovercraft, to showcase cutting commute times in half. They're doing it in D.C., Hey, Steve, you're in D.C. Would you get on a flying electric boat? A hovercraft? Would you ride one?
SPEAKER 03 :
That's going to be a no from me, dog.
SPEAKER 21 :
Okay, can I just say that it looks kind of lame? If you're just only going to have it a little bit above the water, then just be on a regular boat. That's stupid. If it's only like not even a foot above the water, just get on a basic boat. That's just, oh, well, look, look, my boat is just kind of hovering half a foot above the water. It's special. Just nothing to write home about, dude. Unless you're like jet propelled up into the ether. I don't think so. Let's see. Apparently Microsoft pushes AI updates in Windows 11 because it's Microsoft. Okay. Microsoft says Russia and China are increasingly using A.I. to escalate cyber attacks in the U.S. I'm trying to get my youngest son who's going into all of this to go into weaponizing A.I. because he's mean enough where he could. He's considering. Let's see. Jack-o'-lanterns. They didn't start as pumpkins. They were turnips and beets first. Relief factor is a great way to remedy. your your uncontrollable for the lack of a better way to put it inflammatory response so a lot of people when you work out like I talk about you know if I especially if I'm doing arms I did soccer and ballet for so long that you know legs I can go cut through a leg day and I can be sore and deal with it arms upper body is a little bit different and oh my gosh like shoulders I die whenever I'm like lifting weights I'm actually going to start taking relief factor my husband already takes it because he has he played hockey and And he really jacked up his knee really bad in sports when he was younger. So he takes Relief Factor to help deal with that. Relief Factor is 100% drug free. And it is a way to support your body's healthy response to inflammation and decrease discomfort from exercise and everyday living. So like if pain is holding you back, you need to find out why so many people make Relief Factor a part of their daily routine. You can try their three-week quick start today and see how it works for you. It includes resveratrol, turmeric, and a bunch of ingredients that target that inflammation and help your body have a healthy response so you can avoid the soreness and the stiffness and discomfort after exercise or daily activities. Try Relief Factor's three-week quick start for just $19.95. It's only 95 cents a day. It's less than a cup of coffee. Visit relieffactor.com or call 800-4-RELIEF. Get your three-week quick start today for just $19.95. Support your body with natural anti-inflammatory power and see if Relief Factor is right for you.
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SPEAKER 08 :
Maduro offered everything in his country, all the natural resources. He even recorded a message to you in English recently, offering mediation.
SPEAKER 06 :
He has offered everything. He's offered everything. You're right. You know why? Because he doesn't want to f*** around with the United States. Thank you, everybody.
SPEAKER 21 :
Thank you. There you go, right there. Yeah, there it is right there. The mic drop. It's classic. I love it. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. And that's how I said properly drop an F-bomb. And he was doing that as a what's up to Maduro because he's not, I mean, you know, not playing around. And I think, you know, you could say 15 years ago, oh, gosh, you know, should a Republican president say that? You have to understand, though, too, he adjusts how he speaks and his manner. depending on the party to whom he is speaking. And when you were dealing with brutality from brutes, brutes only recognize brutishness. They believe anything other is a sign of weakness, which empowers them. So he's he's letting them know right away. Look, this is not like Biden where I forget where I'm at. This is different. So I don't have no problem with it. So there it is. So I wanted to set this up for you. This is, what cut is this? This is cut 33. Now, I mean, I've literally been on when he was on CNN, right? Where he supported gun control. I don't know if he supports that anymore now. Listen to this.
SPEAKER 18 :
Black people, brown people of all stripes, whether you're an Indian American or a Mexican American or whoever you are, go out. in your place where you live and get a gun legally get a license to carry legally because when you have people knocking on your door and taking you away without due process as a citizen isn't that what the second amendment was written for go back and read what the second amendment says and perhaps it will knock some sense in the head in the heads of these people who are saying Well, it's all great. I don't believe they're doing it without due process. They're asking people for papers. They're not really beating people up. These people are doing things that are illegal. Nobody is illegal.
SPEAKER 21 :
Wait, why do they act like ice removing people who entered illegally and then continue to commit criminal offenses? Why do they act like they're victims? It's not, they're not like going up and rounding up grandmothers. Come on. You're talking about people who entered illegally who continue to commit illegal actions after the first illegal action when they entered illegally. That's the thing. That's the issue. That's the point. So is he, wait, I can't tell. Is he for gun control anymore?
SPEAKER 15 :
Sure doesn't sound like it.
SPEAKER 21 :
Doesn't sound like it. He's in New York, so he's never going to get a license. No. New York is like, we're never going to issue you a license.
SPEAKER 16 :
You can't even have a hobby.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, you can't do anything in New York. You can't do nothing there. So a couple of other things as well. You mentioned to me, Cain, because I wanted to make sure I get all of this. There's a lot of stuff that's popular. We got, you know, Zielinski there, Bolton pled not guilty. We'll talk about that more next week because kind of a lot different from what he said previously, me thinks. You also, the Don Lemon thing though, I don't know, maybe now he thinks that It's good to carry firearms. Although he thinks I will add this. He apparently thinks that the only lesson that he thinks law enforcement needs to learn a lesson. And the only way to, I guess, impart that upon them is violence. So it's more fetishizing violence.
SPEAKER 16 :
He thinks ICE enforcing law is somehow tyranny. He doesn't understand what tyranny actually is.
SPEAKER 21 :
His whole thing is a mess. By the way, nobody, nobody, no defense lawyer is going to go. Yeah, you can go out there and take a shot at a cop. Yeah, go ahead. No defense attorney is going to tell you to do this. Not a single one. Only idiot commentators. Yeah, exactly. Only idiot commentators like him. It's just crazy. Let's show the Dungeons and Dragons thing real quick. Kane's dying. This is horrible. Dungeons and Dragons posted this two days ago. They said, in this realm, your story is yours to tell. And for those of you who are listening and not watching the simulcast, let me explain it. So it's, imagine Dungeons and Dragons with trannies and pastels. And there you go. They said it's their Dungeons and Dragons 2025 Pride Collection. That stuff is supposed to happen in June, not in October. It's October now. They took it and made it look like My Little Pony. And it's that's so dumb. I'm not I've never I've only played it like a couple of times because I had a lot of cousins who did. But I know that it doesn't look like a Disney pastel thing with dudes and trainees and all of that other stuff. I mean, it looks like they went and drew a random street in San Francisco or Why is it that they got it? Why do they turn everything into a trans storm of feces? Why? Every single thing they touch, they make it G-H-E-Y. That's just, I can't believe Dungeons and Dragons put that out. They, hang on, let me, let me. They actually made the baddies look like the sun from, oh, what's the, oh my gosh, Teletubbies. The Teletubby Son. They made, I don't know. I am without. Yeah, throw that up there. Did you show everybody one? I didn't see. I wasn't paying attention because I was too busy pulling up this cringe. I was zooming in. That's, that is not Dungeons and Dragons. Stop. Stop it. Look what, look what, oh my gosh. And they said that's their 2025. This is, we're all going to die of cringe. Everything is, we're just going to be cringed to death. That's it. I don't know.
SPEAKER 16 :
Would you play Dungeons and Furries? Would you?
SPEAKER 21 :
Oh my gosh, that's actually more accurate the way you just said it. I also want to touch on, I'm going to try to go through all of everything, get through everything. The cut of that country singer, this country singer who can barely fit in his car, he, Brian Andrews, who is he? I don't know. He does. He makes he's I guess a wannabe. Oh, he's real hateful on on Instagram. Apparently, he went after went off on ice raids. I guess he couldn't get enough people to pay attention to his music. And so he decided to do this. That's really what it seems like. Go ahead and play this. Go and play it.
SPEAKER 17 :
It's crashing out, you wanna crash out? Fine, I'll give you one. If we don't wake the up soon, and I mean quick fasting in a hurry, we are like a football bat. We got the Department of Homeland Security out here sharing hype videos of ice agents flying in on American cities, banging in doors, jacking people out of their houses, zip tying them in the streets naked. And then carting them off in the back of U-Hauls with no warrants or due process like it's a trailer to the newest Call of Duty game. And the worst part is I got to watch some of y'all cheer it on like you're watching a football game. And then the cherry on top of it all, I got to sit here and listen to y'all call yourselves Christians? Bulls**t.
SPEAKER 21 :
Well, there you go. Go ahead and police the faith by doing that. That's real good consistency there. That's a winner, wiener, chicken dinner right there. He is, like, made of rage. It's crazy, this guy.
SPEAKER 16 :
And cholesterol.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, I mean, he's going to have a heart attack. I screenshotted my favorite image and dropped it in Slack for you. He looks like he's about to go, duh, bears. Doesn't he? It looks like the SNL skit. First off, he's objecting to them using zip ties to tie trend to Aragua before taking them to El Salvador, because that's where that image came from. So he's mad that a violent child trafficking gang was apprehended by ICE and they were deported because those were the people who were zip tied out in the street like that. And then shoved into trucks to be taken to the airport to be deported. Wow. Who is this guy? I don't know. I don't want to know. I'm not asking because I'm interested in knowing. I'm just asking because I just don't know who he is. By the way, I think he mentioned due process. People who are American citizens receive due process. I mean, I actually... I think that natural rights are reserved for citizens. I don't think that we pay everything and do everything that we do with our time and treasure and blood in order to have this codified structure for every Tom, Dick, and Harry that wants to roll into the country illegally. I think that you have to go through the steps to be able to enjoy those rights also. They people who enter the country illegally are afforded the due process that honestly, some people here aren't even afforded, to be honest about it. I don't even know what he's talking about. He sounds like a moron. He sounds ridiculous. He doesn't sound as ridiculous as some of the people sending me hate mail, though. But he sounds pretty ridiculous. Yeah, you see what I did there. So I got to tell you, I got a piece coming out that's going to be really even a whiz banger. I have, I, oh man, I've got so many different screenshots. I got to pull the phone up. You can go ahead and I guess we're going to go ahead and get into some of it. I was, it can be pretty negative. So let's go ahead. Do we have the intro? Go ahead, Steve, hit it.
SPEAKER 14 :
And now it's finally that part of the show where Dana monetizes the hate. All week, hateful posts, tweets, replies, and emails have been collected. The best of the best make the cut. It's Mailbag of Hate on The Dana Show.
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It is hate! Hate! Did I sound like that lunchbox in his truck? All right, so where to start? I've got a folder that I keep in my mail, and it's called Blink Holes. And I'm not joking. Kane, you can attest to this. Yes, it is true. So let me start. There were a number of, I think... Comments that I had on social media. So whenever like when we had Josh Hammer on what was the last week? When was it last week a week ago? I started getting all of this stuff From people who were livid that I had on Josh Hammer and I'm just gonna read you some of the comments now by the way, if you send me mail and And if you're mean, I will literally put you on blast. I will have your IP address, your email address, and your name. And I will make it public. And you consent to having me use your private information however the hell I want to. That is the downside of being a jerk to me. And no one's anonymous on the internet. So starting with this is a guy who's a hairstylist. And I went and looked. And he gives Karen cuts. His name is Davian. Davian does hair. Quote. There is literally no difference between scum like you and scum like the Democrats. You're all the same retarded peas in the same retarded pods just spewing different words. He was very upset because one of my guests was Jewish. Yeah, very upset. Very, very upset. Some people said, let's see, Weaver Chris, another $7,000 check. David Kostaski, get that 7,000 shekels. I had to Google that. I literally, it's Israeli currency. Two shills for Israel, says EW. Jeffrey, 32, says 7,000 per post. Is that right? Traitor. Are we getting 7,000 per post? No. I didn't know. I wasn't aware I was receiving any posts. Steve, you put stuff on Insta. Are we getting 7,000 for that? Where do we sign up? Yeah, where's your check, ma'am?
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Where did we sign up?
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A guy named Knucklehead83 on Insta. Wow, who funds you, Dana? BBPainInfluencer7k, a post. Propaganda. Oh, these are actual real, by the way. I mean, make no mistake, these are real. Propaganda, they're losing the narrative. Wait, what? Yeah. Let's see. I mean, that's like all of these. You're funded by Zionists. What do they have on you, Dana, from Gen Z Pan? Let's see. 7,000 a post, 7,000 a post, 7,000 a post. Oh, and then we get into some of the emails too. Um, I have, uh, let's see. I have Joyce who says she loves listening and I don't know if I want to give her last name. I think I may. She, uh, says, uh, I've noticed, I've noticed your face is plumper. You are much more attractive without the surgery. Just my opinion. They're from Englewood, Florida. Her husband's name is Bill.
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What effing surgery? Cain, you see me every day. Every day.
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You would know if I'd even do something even remotely.
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Even quick. Even a weekend little something. Yeah. No, it's not happening.
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With all my surgery.
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Give me a break.
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Exactly. Exactly. Let's see. Eileen said, I need you to go back to your real hair. This wig does you no favors. It makes you look unattractive and it makes you look like a Karen. Eileen, a female viewer. She actually typed that. It is literally my real hair, guys. It's real. I cannot even believe some of the stuff people say. It's hysterical. Oh my gosh, you guys want me to keep going? Somebody doesn't like my microphone, Cain. This is from Jack Tittle, who says, I like you, but I don't like your mic. And I don't like that you look down. Other people use better looking microphones. Yours is ugly. Sorry, Charlie. Jack.
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I actually take offense to that.
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Okay, Cain, tell them about the microphone.
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My dad has a plating company in downtown St. Louis, and we chrome plate everything that you could imagine that looks great when it's chrome. And the casing of that microphone was isolated and chromed specifically for Dana because it's kind of an homage to Rush's golden microphone. This is just the chrome kind of version to it. Yeah. So I take offense to that.
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Yeah. And then last but not least, I don't even think I can read this one. I had to block this guy because he's obsessed with feet. Cain's like, please, dear heavens, no.
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You said only one more and now you're bringing feet into it.
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Yeah, I know. Well, it was a weird one. So anyway, that's just... Now... At this rate, what we're going to do is we will continue, if we keep getting it, we'll continue to read Mailbag of Hate. We'll bring it back on Fridays. And then I think I'm just going to go do something that my haters would hate so badly that they would dissolve into puddles of rage with the proceeds from this sponsored segment. So there you go. I always carry... I've told you a million times I have no problem using the lethal force to protect myself or my loved ones, but I also realize, too, that... Not everyone is American. Not everyone wants to exercise or believes in natural rights. And so you have municipal or private property restrictions that may disarm you. And we always don't have the luxury of choosing where we go, especially if it's for work. But you want to be protected. Maybe you carry a stun gun. And that's nice. That has like maybe one round to the burn a gun, which shoots chemical irritant projectiles that can deter threats from up to 50 feet away. The CL, the compact launcher, it has 15. It's a 15 round shot capacity per cartridge. There's no recoil, easy target acquisition. And it's small, it's as small as a smartphone, so it's easily concealed. And you don't have to, there's no background checks, there's no fees, there's no waiting periods, they can send it right to your door, making it accessible to everybody. And I think it's incredibly important, especially for college kids, that they're old enough to go carry a full auto overseas in defense of their country, but they can't carry a semi-automatic here at home to protect themselves, which is insane. But they've got to go to school. They maybe live alone. This is an option for them as well. You can visit Burna.com slash Dana. Check out the Burna, C-L-B-Y-R-N-A. Burna.com slash Dana. Ready when you are.
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Ah, yes. So, uh... I want to make sure I give Cain his allotted time, for sure. But make sure that you find us on Substack, Chapter and Verse. Like and subscribe over at YouTube and Facebook. Today in stupidity, Cain.
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Well, I don't know if we have anything short enough, but I think we can do cut 23 here. This is Jimmy Kimmel. Him explaining what this whole no kings thing is all about. Listen to this authority.
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The American Revolution was a no-kings rally. And if you are planning to go to the rally, and you're going to be making your own sign, everybody there has a sign. I just want to ask you to remember, our president is very sensitive about his weight, so please do not use the word Shamu Salini to describe him.
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I can't wait until he gets funny again. Also, the Revolutionary was actually, that war really won independence, not some frivolous rally.
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Yeah, there it is. Folks, that does it for us today. Have a great weekend. Again, find us over at Substack, YouTube, Facebook, like and subscribe. I will be back with you on Monday.
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Join Phil Anderson as he steps in for John Rush on this episode of Ready Radio. As the seasons shift, so do our preparedness needs. Dive into a comprehensive discussion about how to transition your car for fall and winter with essential tips. From handling sudden weather changes to ensuring you have the right gear in your vehicle, Phil covers it all with practical advice and real-life scenarios. Discover how knowledge and experience play a crucial role in staying prepared.
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This is Ready Radio, preparing you to be ready for anything, now. Here's your survival guide for Ready Radio, John Rush.
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Good afternoon, everybody. This is Phil Anderson in for John today. And this is a live show, October the 17th. And if you want to call in and or text in, the main line is 303-477-7000.
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5600 or text 307-200-8222. So last week we were on the topic of its fall and I know when I got it in the car this morning it was ice on the window. So yep here it is. It doesn't matter whether we're ready or not. It is that time. I think as far as I know it's the first ice that I've experienced you know on the car in the morning. So we definitely have turn that corner and you know we have nice days it's nice outside right now but have frost advisories already in effect for tonight depending where you live but here it is and so last week we were talking about things you can do to be ready for this season this transition of seasons in particular with your car and we could you know leave in the middle of the day let's say at 10 o'clock and go about our business. And then, you know, by noon, three o'clock, we could see a 20 degree temperature swing, which is normal for Colorado. It's happened. Very common. And all of a sudden it goes from a 60 degree day down to a 40 degree day. Maybe some rain comes. Maybe that rain turns to snow. Maybe it turns to ice. And now we've left the house. In our short sleeve shirt. And now we're, you know, now we're cold because it's, you know, much colder outside. So we talked about having some things in your car and taking some time now to say, hey, this is a good time to make sure this is there. Spend maybe a half an hour or so going through your car. We had some great suggestions. One of the suggestions from last week was using the, you know, side compartments that you would get into for your lights and things. you know, to use those as storage places because, you know, real estate, meaning space within the car and how much can I store, what can I take, how much can I carry with me, you know, becomes an issue. If you have a smaller compact car, you know, you may not have the space for that. And one of the suggestions was to put these items in these spots. And the first thing I said to John, I actually texted him and I said, yeah, the problem is, is I forget they're there. You know, I probably have stuff stored away in these nooks and crannies and hey, I forgot the stuff was there. And not only that, but I have stuff in plain sight and I forget it's there. I'll dig all over the place looking for something and it was right there the whole time. So, you know, take 30 minutes or so, whatever, go through your car, make sure all your stuff's in working order. You know, in the military, we always performed what we call functions checks on our weapons. You know, functions check your system, functions check your prep, functions check, go through, make sure there's batteries in those flashlights, make sure there's you know, power charged to your, you know, your jump starter and your little inflators, make sure you got those gloves in there. Make sure a mouse didn't get in there and, you know, chew up all your stuff, chew your spare socks and your shirts and things like that. So I kind of want to pick up a little bit or pick up where we left off and finish that topic. And then I got another topic that I want to finish the program out with. And so we talked about things like, you know, having candles for your car, having flares, either the LED style and or the, you know, the old traditional kind of light, having a jacket in your car, having some type of a water container carry device. We talked about having tow straps or a tow rope. We talked about having tie-down straps and I mentioned, you know, if you're going to do that, get the high orange visibility ones because you can, you know, dual purpose that and maybe use it as a flag or an indicator tied on your antenna or on something. So if you're calling for help, you know, you can say, hey, I've got, you know, an orange ribbon tied around my door handle or something just to help, you know, identify, you know, your car a little quicker if you need that. One thing that... we would like to continue on with this conversation is on that very topic is consider getting a safety vest and you can pick them up at Home Depot or whatever. They come in orange or I've seen them in yellow, but they've got the reflective kind of stripes on them. And you know, that's good if you got to put that on, visibility's low and you're out there having to do something, dig out of your car with those foldable shovels we talked about last week. um maybe you're out there and you've got that extra you know visibility because you know it's a little harder to see it's getting dark or it's getting dusk out and yeah we like to change tires you know on an off ramp or somewhere where not you know even if we've got to drive on the rim for a little bit to get to a little safety you know safer spot you know that's always a good idea but sometimes you can't sometimes you're stuck and you got to change that tire right there on the side of the road put your your flares out your led lights out throw that vest on It just helps people see you. And on a side note with that, if you do find yourself in the middle of a riot or an event or something happens and it's chaotic, you throw that vest on and people associate you as part of the event. And you'll be amazed that you can just walk right through, walk right across lines and barriers and all kinds of stuff just because you got that vest on. You look official. So there's another dual purpose for that guy right there. One thing you can do is, you know, around this time of year, you can find deals on those hand warmers, those toe warmers, those little packet things that you can put in your gloves. I do have some that, you know, have the chargeable battery kind where you can, you know, recharge and the power pack is in a sock or in a glove, you know, you could do that. But again, with any of those things, you got to make sure that you have the ability to power them up. Because there's nothing worse than thinking you're all set, and you're all good, and you pull that out, and oh, the battery's dead. So you want to make sure that you have the availability to keep that charge, check on that, make sure it stays charged. So those little hand warmer things are great. They last forever. You can buy them in bulk, throw them in your glove box, and at least you've got something there that can provide you a little bit of warmth if you need it. The other thing we did not talk about is the jump starter, jumper cables. I like the jump boxes with the tire inflator. Now, you're not going to inflate your tire very fast with one of those, but it could be something that you're a little low or whatever, and you need to top it off. It takes a little bit of time. Yes, I understand that, but it's better than nothing. And if you have the ability to pull a nail and use a plug kit, I think that's something that everybody should know how to do is plug a nail as long as it's not in the sidewall. And even if it's in the sidewall, it could get you out of a pinch. It could get you somewhere else. Learn how to use that. And they make some now that are actually mechanical. And so, you know, you have to push those in really hard, those plugs. and reaming it out can take some strength there. But they have mechanical ones now, and you can have that in your kit. All these things are great ideas to save you, but consider this too. You can also now become a good Samaritan and help somebody else out if you want to. That's really important. So you come out of the store, and somebody's there with a flat tire or a you know, dead battery and you're able to jump them and get them going, you know, great. I mean, I was at 7-Eleven fueling up and this guy had this really nice car. It was like a 1972 something. I don't know. I do remember the year, but he had his hood up and I came by and I was, hey, everything okay? You know, this is a gas station. People have their hoods up for checking their oils or whatever, but he kind of looked at me and kind of waved and I said, you okay? He's like, hey, could you give me a jump? And he told me, it's like, you know, I was really surprised that you're the only one that would help me. Everybody else just wouldn't look at me, wouldn't make eye contact, just drove right by. And, you know, it's still okay to be a good person. It's still okay to help people out. You know, there's wisdom in that. You know, if you're a female, I probably wouldn't help a guy out, but that's just using wisdom. You can't trust everybody. Unfortunately, evil does exist. But, you know, you can be a good Samaritan, help out. John mentioned last week that having some snacks in the car, I'm kind of, I'm not too worried about snacks in the car because to be honest with you, pretty much every American's probably got two to three days, if not a couple of weeks worth of groceries around their waistband. So you're not going to starve to death if you don't eat for a few hours or maybe in a few days. But what it does do is it helps with that mental state. It's a comfort. And, you know, people think they're starving to death and they're not. Maybe their sugar gets a little low if you're diabetic. This is a different conversation, by the way. But, you know, there's something to be said about, hey, I'm in a stressful situation and I'm going to eat a granola bar or a Snickers bar or something with a little bit of sugar in there. And all of a sudden now my stressful situation is a little bit more manageable. So there is something to be said about that. But as far as like survival food in your car, you know, again, that real estate is pretty important. Kind of goes along the same lines around this time of year of water. You know, if you're carrying water bottles around, it can be pretty hard to keep it from freezing. And then if you have a bottle frozen and it's a block of ice that's not much good to you, yeah, you can put it in your dashboard and you can heat it up. Yeah, yeah. I understand all that stuff, but That also takes other resources. Speaking of which, having a lighter, having a flashlight, all the basic stuff that we had, a boo-boo kit, band-aid kit, whatever you want to call it, trauma kit, accidents happen, things go through, body parts cause bleeding, you might need to turn a kit, you might need to pack a wound, you might need to do these things. One of the other things I would strongly suggest around this time of year is make sure you've got the windshield wiper fluid topped off in your car. and go ahead and check those wiper blades because, you know, we haven't used them. Yeah, we've gotten some rain here and there, but maybe it's time to go ahead and change those guys out. Check your tires. Make sure you've got plenty of tread on your tires. If you want to carry chains, great. They also make those nylon strap things that you can put around there. Kitty litter I mentioned last week, having a jug of that can sometimes get you out of the tight spot, especially with the wet, slushy snow that we tend to get during the fall and the spring. These things are all great. And if anybody else has any other ideas or wants to add to anything, you know, you can call or text in and we'll talk about that. Charlie will get me and get my attention and let me know that someone's on the line. Carry a couple pairs of gloves. I like to carry a lightweight pair of gloves and then a heavier pair of gloves and then I also can double stack those gloves. So if I have the lighter pair, it can serve as an under layer to the heavier pair. And I'll usually buy a size bigger with the heavier pair. So I buy, let's say, a really tight medium. I have to stretch out a medium with my hands. It should really be a large pair. But I like that really tight fit. Or they have those flexible gloves. You can pick them up, you know, Home Depot, whatever. You can buy them in bulk usually. I don't know what they're called. They're not like the dentist gloves or the medical gloves. They're worker gloves. I usually use those a lot. And, you know, they kind of flex and stretch to the shape of your hand, but they make a great under layer. And then you can put that heavier glove on top and you can put that hand warmer in between the layers if you want. You do have to be careful with the hand warmers because your body temperature will regulate based on the palm of your hand and the bottom of your feet. And so if I'm putting that hand warmer in the palm of my hand, it's going to heat my body up, which is what we want. But you've got to be careful that you don't keep it there too long, that now you're overheating. And so that's something else you've got to really watch. And wintertime is a dangerous time where you can become dehydrated really easy and not realize it because you're not as thirsty as you are in the heat of the summer. So you want to make sure that you're drinking plenty, plenty of water during this time. So one thing... that I want to kind of sum up with this, this car preparation for the fall winter here is, you know, I do all my gun classes with this. I start every single cloth. I say, Hey, fill in the blank, right? Knowledge is here's the blank. Knowledge is blank. And everybody shouts power. Knowledge is power. And I said, okay. And he says, you have a book. It's at home on your bookshelf. Right. Is that telling you, you're telling me that that's power. What good is that going to do? Or you have so much information on your phone. Is that power? Well, yeah, sure. Because all I have to do is go read what the book tells me to do. And therefore I'm powerful. So I said, oh, you just answered the young question. So it's not power. It's potential power. But even at that, it's not power. So what is real knowledge? Knowledge is information. You see the stuff we talk about on the radio show, or if you go to church and you hear something from church or you attend a seminar or you read a book or whatever it may be, that's just information. Now, if you just take that information and put it on a shelf, does you no good? Sure. It's potential. I could go back and I could read it. I could incorporate it into my life, but, but the information itself, but I've received it or put on a shelf or whatever, doesn't really do anything. It's not until I take that information and I apply it to something. And we call that experience. So I take the information and I go, okay, I'm going to try this. The information is plant this seed. Now, depending on where I'm at, whether I'm in Florida or whether I'm in Colorado, and depending whether it's December in Colorado or September or July or April in Colorado, all of those have different outcomes. So the information just says take the seed and plant it. Great. Experience goes, hey, I can't do that in December. I can't do that in, you know, I can't take an orange seed and plant it in Colorado. It doesn't work. It may sprout, but it's going to die. We don't have the climate for it. So I take the information and then I test things out. And then I say, okay, I gain experience. Maybe you've got to tweak the information a little bit. Maybe you've got to adjust. But you go, oh, okay. I've applied the information. I've gained experience. That is knowledge. So knowledge is experience times information. Very important. So as we go through this stuff in our car, we go through it. Then we start to get reps in. And this is where the good Samaritan can help it, right? Because I got this jump kit and I go, somebody's got dead battery and I pull out my jump kit and I'm like, huh, it doesn't work. Or maybe that's not a big enough amperage jump kit to jump a bigger car. Guess what I'm getting? Experience and I'm gaining knowledge. So getting the reps in, guys, is super important for us to do. Going through your stuff, functions check, looking in those nooks and crannies, you know, testing out my lighter and different various things, testing out hand warmers, playing around with, hey, can I cook, you know, can I make coffee in a parking lot? I do this a lot. I'll make, you know, with my little camping gears or whatever. I got various different coffee makers, things like that. And yeah, I'm sitting in a Starbucks parking lot and I'm not buying Starbucks, but I'm making my own coffee. I'm getting a rep in. I'm getting experience going, okay, this works, this doesn't work. Because in the time that I need it, that's not the time to try to figure out what works and doesn't work. Super important. So get the reps in. Get the experience in. You can't control the variables, but you can gain understanding of what to do when a variable arises. I've seen this before. We've been doing electrical and HVAC work for a long time, and we still come across things that are brand new. We came across one just the other day, and I was talking to my son-in-law about it, and he's like, out of the hundreds and thousands of furnaces that I've fixed and repaired, I have never seen that. And I said, okay, well, put it in your back pocket because now you've got that needle in that haystack, that unicorn that you can pull back from your experience, and now you've got knowledge. And now when you go into a similar situation, similar call, similar recovery shooting thing, you can go, hey, I remember that time that it was this. And now you can go check it. You see, guys, that's knowledge. That's knowledge. All right. So I'm going to talk about we're going to change topics here. But I did want to wrap that one up so we can complete that, because I think it's important to understand the time. So after the break, we are going to come back and we're going to talk about a new thing. One of my favorite topics I mentioned on the radio all the time. And it's a controversial topic. So stay tuned and we'll come right back. 560 Kelsey.
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All right, so we are changing topics now and if you want to call in, you can do so. The number is, I got to look it up, 303-477-5600 and or text 307-200-8222. Okay, so here is the thing I always say because a lot of times the prepper community, the readiness community,
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can become extreme in situations. They can become extreme and caught up in the potentials of what the news is talking about, things of that nature. I mean, if you look at even like Y2K, you know, for many of us that remember that, how extreme that went and actually nothing happened. But there were a lot of people that were You know, going to the extremes of, you know, quitting jobs, selling houses, doing all kinds of crazy stuff because they were fully convinced that something was going to happen. And it wasn't really within any of their control. So here's what I want to talk about. What you can't control and what you can. I've said this a lot here on the show with John. And I said, you know, there's things that you can control in the world and there's things that you can't. And a lot of times we get hyper-focused on things that honestly, folks, you can't control. And when I say that, a lot of people respond with, well, are you just telling us to ignore it? Are you just telling us to be lemmings and walk off the cliff? Are you telling us just to stick our head in the sand and ignore these things that it's just, you know, what's going to happen? And we just got to go along with the system. And I'm not saying that at all. I'm just saying it's, that's factual, that there's things that are going to happen in this world that you cannot control. If a tornado comes down my street, I can't control that. And what people will do is they'll run outside and they'll yell and scream and get all mad and, you know, get on the internet and have all kinds of conversation about how bad the tornado was and, you know, how wrong it was to come down their street. And you can't control that. But if you live down tornado alley, you know, you should know that that's what's going to happen. And we are living in a time where we're seeing things at rapid pace. We're seeing the very world we live in change at a rapid pace. And maybe you're not noticing it, but the crime's up. The expression of the division is up. You know, I live in a very conservative county. And there's people going around and all the political signs, all the Republican political signs, they're spray painting swastikas all over them. You know, this is stuff that, you know, even honestly, a couple of years ago, never would have happened. It's coming. It's faster. The things that are happening are they're getting bolder and they're coming more quicker. And yeah, there's nothing you can do about it. You have to understand that. So what can't you control and what you can, we're going to sum this up is you need to own your circle. And that's what I will say, because that's what you can control. In the book, the seven highly habits of the highly effective people. He says this, he says, proactive people focus their efforts in the circle of influence. Reactive people focus on the circle of concern. So I'll say that again, proactive people focus, focus their efforts in the circle of influence, meaning proactive people spend their time and their efforts in the circle of what they can influence. Reactive people spend their time and their focus on the circle of concern. The what ifs. What if tariffs go up? What if You know, Donald Trump becomes a king and goes for a third term and, you know, declares that, you know, we're a dictatorship now. What if the Ukraine Russia war never ceased? What if the tariffs go up? What if China gets into our grid? What if the Gaza strip peace deal doesn't fall through? It doesn't come through. What? What if? Who killed this person? Who killed that person? Was he the only shooter? Was he part of a team? Was the people on January 6th, how many of them were insiders? My point is this is all interesting conversation, but what are you going to do about it? You're going to do nothing about it. At the end of the day, you're not going to do anything about it. People that are spending their time griping and worrying about things they can't control aren't being proactive in their very lives. Let me ask you this question. If something were to happen, if that tornado did come down your street, wipe out your house, took away your job, took away the place where you worked, how long could you survive without a paycheck? Most people say, oh, you know, a couple of weeks, whatever. Okay. You're not in control. You only have two weeks worth of money saved up in a, in a very likely event that you could lose your job. The place could go out of business. You could just get fired. They could downsize. Um, some new company could come in and buy it and say, Hey, we don't need you anymore. You could be reaching that, that age where they're like, sorry, we're going to force you to retire. You could be driving, somebody run into you and now break your leg, break your back, whatever, you can't work. Well, no, I'll call Frank Azar and I'll get my million dollars. Okay, sure, but there's a time gap between the event and when you get the check. Can you float the time gap? Or is it going to be such a big time gap that you've gone into so much debt that now everything you want in your case now has to back pay everything, get you caught up. But I'm worried about what's happening. Who shot this guy? Who shot that guy? I'm worried about the terrorists. I'm worried about our president claiming to be a king. I'm worried about the Democrats not voting and keeping the government shut down. See where I'm going with this, guys? These people that are complaining and spending all their efforts and time don't have two weeks worth of financial ability to float the boat if they have to? What if they can't buy food? What happens if their freezer goes out and now they got no food? How long could you go without going to the grocery store? Whatever. So this is my point. So don't focus, and I say focus your attention. I didn't say Hey, we're not paying attention. We're not listening. We're not involved in the conversation. I'm not saying that. We're not doing our part with our votes and things of that nature. But I'm not focusing my efforts, my time, my resources on things I cannot control. I'm going to take those resources and I'm going to put them into the circle of influence. Because the reality is, You can't fix the system. But what I can do is I can build a life that is resilient, that is ready, that the system doesn't matter. Yeah, I've got enough money put away. Got enough resources put away that this happens. Yeah, I'm good until I can replace that with something else. It's the same thing. Stop wasting time on what you can't change and master what's in your reach. So what can I control? The economy, government policy. Yeah, I've got a local vote, but your one vote probably didn't change the party or the outcome one way or another. If one election came down to one vote, then everybody could say, yeah, that was my vote that changed it. But we can't because there's such huge margins in there. I still do my part. Please hear me what I'm saying. Because this is the extreme that people do. Oh, well, he said not to vote, so it doesn't really matter, so I'm not going to. No, that's not what I'm saying either. Doing my part. I can't control weather, disasters, global events. I can't control what's going on on the other side of the world. I can't control, here's a big one, other people's opinion. I can't control other people's reactions or beliefs. Can't control it. If that guy believes that killing me because of my beliefs gets him 70 virgins in heaven, I can't control that. But I can protect myself against that person. I can't change his beliefs. I can't control what he's going to believe. Right? But I can protect myself for sure. I can't control traffic. I can't control prices. Supply shortages, tariffs, can't control any of that. And here's another big one that a lot of people need to realize. You can't control the past. You got to let that stuff go. Right? Yesterday is gone. Yesterday is gone. No do-overs, no repeats. Can't change anything that happened yesterday. What can I control? My response. I can control how I act and how I act towards others. I can control my response. I can control my preparation, my skills, my supplies, my finances, my health, what I put in my car for the time of the season change. I can control that. I can control my attitude. I can be prepared, be ready, be watchman. I can be grateful or I can be bitter, angry, mad at the world, hold resentment. I can control my habits. What I do on a day-to-day basis. I can control my priorities. What I give attention and energy to. Am I giving my attention and energy to watching CNN, NBC, Fox News? Am I giving my attention to that? I'm going to tell you something. All of those news stations, I don't care who they are, they are educating you. They're not informing you. They're educating you. That's the system, folks. We are educating you on this radio show. Hopefully in a good way to be ready and be prepared. But it's not information. Here's what happened today. That's long gone. They try to dress it up as here's your nightly news. Here's what happened today. But if you watch closely, they're not informing you. They're educating you. They're trying to get you to go one direction or the other. So watch your inputs. What you read, watch and listen to. You know, especially in today's world with social media and with everybody has a voice. You really have to use discernment of who you're listening to. I can tell, you know, at church, you know, any given Sunday, oh, I heard this from so-and-so. Somebody else comes and they'll have something totally opposite. Oh, I heard this. And this is a man of God. They're both men of God. And they're saying two opposite things, which tells me they're probably not men of God because God's not an author of confusion. But anyway. And then you can also control your circle, who you choose to associate with, right? You can pick your friends. And hopefully you're picking friends that build you up, not tear you down, building that community. So what do I do? Well, you need to start auditing your circles. Where are you spending your time and your resources? Is it in the concern or is it in the influence circle? And then start to make those shifts. Right? Somebody yesterday said to me, hey, life's too short to be worried about such a petty thing. Are you worried about a petty thing that you can't really change? Or maybe you've got to call somebody and talk to them and make amends with them and get past it because life's too short. He's right. Life's too short. Start your day. You own your day. You control your time. You do. And if not, guess what? I train people. I teach, I coach at 6 a.m. You know why? Because that's the only time I can do it. And you know what the response is that when people, I tell people that, oh my gosh, there's no way I could get up that early. Why not? You can control the time you go to bed. You can control, you know, how well you sleep. You can control. And if you got to, you know, shorten your sleep to get up a little early to do something that you don't have time to do because you got to be at a job at eight o'clock or whatever, seven o'clock, whatever, it doesn't matter. Get up earlier. You can work out in your home. You can control it. Are you making excuses or are you making effort? That's a big one. We have a saying in our family. It's like, hey, FSO, figure stuff out. Figure it out. You got to go do it. And then build those habits, right? Build the habits and start small. Pick one area. Maybe it's your health. I can control my health. You know, I can buy what I put in my body, what I don't put in my body. Whether I get a little bit of exercise, I can control my finances, what I spend my money on, what I don't spend my money on. Most of the time, me, myself included, you know, we spend our money on wants. All your spending breaks down into two categories, needs and wants. And that's really it. And a lot of times we kind of make it a really gray area Well, I need that, and it's really a want that. All right? So really break that down. You can do that. And then you can also do mindset and preps and whatever. Just break them down like we talked about earlier. Hey, I'm going to go spend 30 minutes on going through my cars, making sure my car is set, make sure, you know, my wife's car is how many cars I got, making sure they're all set and ready to go for the winter. Trim the noise. That's important. You know, turn off. the input of negativity, get trapped in it. And I don't care. I don't care who you're listening to. They're all educating you, right? I can go from one station and I often do this, go from one station and one is anti-president and the other one is, well, the president could do no wrong. It's two extremes and it's really hard. If you go to a source called Ground News, they try to analyze all the new sources and they go, hey, this is leaning left, this is leaning right, this is factual, this isn't, this is kind of in the middle, and they kind of give you that non-biased grading, if you will. It's called ground news. And then you need to stack wins, small victories, right? When you think of any major battle, It's, hey, we took the beach in Normandy and then we went into France and then we took town by town and city by city and then country by country. And then finally we got all the way in. But, you know, little, little steps. That's how you overcome this little tiny stacks. Teach it. If you really want to learn something, go and teach it. You might say, well, I'm not equipped to teach. I'm not qualified to teach. If you know more than somebody in a particular area, you are qualified to teach them because you know more. You're qualified. So go and teach it. And then also review what you did. How can I make this better? What worked? What didn't? And what am I gaining? putting that information into experience, and then gaining knowledge. You see, guys, it's about stewardship, not control. And I can't control things that are happening to me, but I am responsible regardless of what happens to me. Okay, that's a big statement. Can't control, but I am responsible. So I can't control whether it's going to snow tonight, but I'm responsible whether or not I was ready for it. I can't control if it rains tonight, but I can control, and I am responsible to make sure the roof doesn't leak. Super important. All right, we got one more break, and then we'll wrap this up with some more kind of personal readiness ideas and home readiness ideas that we can talk about as we conclude, and even community readiness. 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And I was talking about our circle of influence, what we can control and what we can't, whether it's the circle of influence or the circle of concern. And so I'd like to wrap up today talking about here's some things we can look at at different areas of our life. Maybe we can apply. So personal readiness. First thing you should do, hey, get that food and water storage supply. 30 days. Like I said, in my example, you know, some people are like, yeah, I could probably last a couple of weeks, 30 day, 30 day. And if you're able to, you know, grow a garden, you know, start somewhere. And again, everybody is, you know, in different places, different situations. Some people in an apartment, some people have land, just, it doesn't matter. FSO, figure it out. right? We have a tower garden inside. It's a Juice Plus item, but there's many different brands out there. It's a little hydroponic system. I have a mushroom grow tent, and I do all this stuff indoor. In fact, last night, I made some spaghetti squash from spaghetti squash in my garden. I made my own spaghetti sauce from tomatoes that I grew, onions that I grew, bell peppers, jalapenos that I grew, basil that I grew all from that tower garden there that basil was from there. The garlic and everything made it all and we cooked it up. The only thing I didn't provide was the hamburger and You know, I have rabbits and chickens. I could have threw that in there, but I didn't go that route this last night. But that meal 100% was stuff from my own garden there. And learn to can, put stuff up. You know, that could be part of the 30-day thing. You know, you can buy a little instant canner. It's Nesco is the one that we have. It's an automatic one. So you don't have to deal with, you know, the old, the old pressure pots and things like that. This is one, but it's all automatic. You put it in, push the button, set it. And then when it beeps, you go and push another button and it's done. And we've canned a lot of stuff. You know, you come across deals at the store sometimes at church someone will bring like one day somebody brought three cases of bananas that they had gotten and here's a whole bunch of bananas so everybody took a whole bunch and my wife made like four or five different banana bread loaves and we threw them in the freezer so you can do this um you know so you can start to build your own 30-day readiness thing so before we move on the next one we got a caller coming in hello
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Hey, it's Mark from Wiggins. How are you this afternoon?
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Good, Mark. How are you doing?
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Good. So you're talking about readiness and something that came into my mind when you were talking about water. So I keep like a stock tank full of water and I put a little bit of chlorine in it. And we also have a hot tub. And over the years, I've learned that using the liquid chlorine is too much work. Using the granule chlorine works, but it's expensive unless you buy the 25-pound box or the container that's 25 pounds, which is a lot. It may be that we don't use that for like 10 years, but the amount of money per pound or ounce or however they figure it is lowest cost when you buy it in the 25-pounders. And the other comment real quick was – For cars, I always tell people to get a flashlight that's headband type, that has a little strap and you can put it on your head. So if you have to change a tire in the dark, you can have your hands free. And I've heard a lot of people change tires over the years. I mean, dozens of people. And usually the biggest hurdle for them was getting the lug nuts off because they were trying to do it with their arm with a little tiny wrench. And I said, just stand on it while the tire's still on the ground. You know, use the gravity. Use your weight. Stand on it to make it loose because you're not going to hurt anything. And then jack the vehicle up to get the tire off. But anyway, that's all the comments I had for you, Bill.
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You know, that's great. You make a great point because you see that builds into what we're talking about. You can't control the price of the individual smaller chlorine, but you can control what you buy and what you do with it. So you're buying in bulk and you are kind of, you know, adjusting a little bit and saving on how you can buy. I remember one time with our hot tubs, somebody had given us those really big, they're about hockey puck sized. chlorine and I said okay yeah I can use those and I took them to my bandsaw and I thought I was going to cut them up Worst mistake ever. First of all, holy cow, I had a mask on, but it still got through and it corroded my whole bandsaw. I had to throw the thing away because all that chlorine got up in there. So that was a bad idea. But yeah, buying in bulk, that's good. On the headlamp thing, I like to carry two, okay? And here's the reason why. You make a really valid point about, you know, the hands-free stuff, which is huge. The problem with that is that if I'm not in that scenario, and let's say we're in more of a safety scenario, and I'm having to navigate through maybe downtown or in the woods or whatever it may be, I don't like that on my head because, one, I can't control on and off, but also, two, when I look at my partner or whoever I'm with, I look at my wife, guess what I do? I blind them. So that's one thing that I don't like about the headlamp. So I kind of go both ways on that. I have the handheld one and then the headlamp one. But I have the Mini Warrior 2. It's by Olight and it has a really big clip. And if you wear a baseball cap, it can clip on there. It's what one of my son-in-laws does. He clips it onto his baseball, but then it's also a handheld. I don't wear baseball hats. So there's options in there, but that's a really good point about that. And then on the lug nut thing, so I had some elderly relatives that travel. They live in Arkansas, and they come up to visit my parents there in Iowa. And they went out and they bought – I think it was a DeWalt one. I don't know. They all make them, but they DeWalt a bigger impact wrench, a battery packed one to bust lug nuts just in case, because they just didn't have the strength. They were elderly and they threw that battery pack, you know, and if you get, if you got the means, you can, it's got the space, you know, that's another option too, is to, you know, get one of those impact wrenches that will bust a lug nut, you know, such as a DeWalt or, or, or a Milwaukee is one or two. So yeah, that's great stuff.
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Great stuff. Have a great day, sir. Appreciate your time.
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All right. You take care. All right. Moving on. We're only going to probably get through this personal radio side. We got the home stuff later, but. We'll see what John wants to talk about when he comes back next week. But the next item I have is, you know, that seven-day blackout box. We've talked about these with, you know, lots of batteries, lights, things like that, that when the power goes off, you have those stages. You have level one, level two, level three. You've got, hey, the power's going to be out for a couple hours to a couple days to a couple of weeks, and you stagger those stages. Those kind of state levels, if you will, based on the power outage you want. And, you know, again, you know, most of the time, guys, power goes out for an hour or two. We're going to be OK. You know, the world's not going to end. Your food's not going to go bad. You're going to be OK. You know, that's where you want a couple of those little little things. So, you know, bash your toe or whatever. Or if you got to cook something or, you know, you can get in the kitchen and use a can opener or something. You need some kind of lights. And again, those headlamps work work well for those. Uh, batteries are good radio, you know, something that if you got to listen to the weather station or, you know, get some kind of a news, they have alerts on them, you know, have your first aid kits. I've got several first aid kits staged throughout the house. I've talked about this before, but my big trauma, my big medical kit is actually in a backpack and it's hanging in the garage right next to the door. And the reason for that is because it's my biggest kit, but it's a grab and go. You know, I live on a couple acres here and if I got to grab that thing and run down to the, you know, the back of the fence there, you know, I've taken that with me or if I get a call. and I need to jump in. My wife says, hey, I just went off the road. I'm hurt. I'm just down the block, whatever. I can grab that backpack easy enough on my way to the car and go with it. Personal readiness. Here's a big one. Guys, you are your best tool. You got to get yourself in shape. A lot of people neglect this. A lot of people have desk jobs. A lot of people can't run a mile. I don't care what pace. You can't even run a mile. A lot of people can't do You know, 10 push-ups, 10 sit-ups. They can't do three pull-ups. I mean, these are simple things that you should get up every day. You know, do some squats, do some push-ups, some sit-ups, do some pull-ups. Do something. Get better. Get stronger. Are you able to carry your loved one out of a burning house? I mean, that's how you need to look at that. I mean, heaven forbid, you know, you lose your loved one in a fire. because you were too weak to carry them out. Now I understand age and disability. So don't get all, you know, mad at me for saying that, but most of us can figure stuff out, right? Most of us aren't there and we should be able to, you know, be able to carry our loved ones out in emergency. Cause I don't know. I just couldn't imagine the guilt I would have myself going, man, I was just, I neglected my body so much that I wasn't able to carry my grandchildren out. That's, that's, That would be a bad day. That just would be horrible. Learn skills. This is your biggest asset is learning skills. I'm all for it. You're never too old to learn. Learn how to start a fire. Learn first aid. You're more likely to encounter a first aid event than any of this other stuff, guys. 90 seconds. Every 90 seconds, somebody suffers from cardiac arrest. Are you trained and prepped to give basic CPR? Do it. Our church gives it for free. Come out to our church. We'll get you in a class. We'll get you certified. It's a tangible skill that, yes, I did it 10 years ago. Okay, that's too long. I did it 10 months ago. That's getting too long. These are practical skills. We've got to get those reps in. Learn water purification, just like our caller said. Is there other means to purify that stock tank or whatever? Tool repair, basic repair. Reduce your debt. Create small cash reserve. Invest in other things, gold, silver, Bitcoin, all that stuff. Do it all in small, small chunks. All right, gang. Well, that's all I had for you today. I mean, actually, it's not all I had, but that's all the time we have today. And I'm sure John's got a great topic for us when he comes back next week. In the meantime, be ready. Stay alert.
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In the midst of a tense political climate, 'Washington Watch with Tony Perkins' delves into crucial issues across the national and international sphere. This episode brings insights from the Pray Vote Stand Summit in Southern California, addressing the ongoing protests labeled as 'No Kings' by organizing activists. These demonstrations against President Trump's federal powers overlap with a significant government shutdown, eliciting reactions from key political leaders featured in our discussion.
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from the heart of our nation's capital in Washington, D.C., bringing compelling interviews, insightful analysis, taking you beyond the headlines and soundbites into conversations with our nation's leaders and newsmakers, all from a biblical worldview. Washington Watch with Tony Perkins starts now.
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These are snot-hate rallies, as some of the right-wingers try to say. These are Save America rallies, Love America rallies, Care About America rallies.
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That was Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer defending what Republicans are calling the Hate America rallies planned for this weekend across the country, including right here in Southern California at the site of this year's Pray Vote Stand Summit at Calvary Chapel, Chino Hills. Welcome to this October 17th edition of Washington Watch. I'm your host, Tony Perkins, and we're broadcasting in front of a live audience here at the Real Life Network studios. in Chino Hills, California, which is the site of the 2025 PrayVote Stand Summit. Thanks so much for tuning in. By the way, if you live here in Southern California, there's still room for you. If not, you can still join us for this weekend's event on the Stand Firm app. You can download the Stand Firm app in the App Store or you can watch on the Real Life Network. Well, coming up on this Friday edition of Washington Watch, liberal activists and Democrat lawmakers are preparing for the second nationwide No Kings protest on Saturday, targeting President Trump's so-called use of federal authority. Republicans are calling it a pure political theater amid the ongoing government shutdown. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise will join us in just a bit to break it all down. And in the Middle East, a senior Hamas leader says the group will retain control of Gaza and will not disarm, openly defying the terms of the ceasefire agreement. Former Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann joins me with what this means for Israel and the region's fragile peace. We begin tonight with that fragile ceasefire in the Middle East where Hamas terrorists continue to tighten their grip on the Gaza Strip by killing and intimidating their opponents. Joining me now is Washington Stand reporter Sarah Holliday, who's been following today's developments. Sarah, what's the latest on the ceasefire violations and what do we know about the remaining deceased hostages who have yet to be turned over to Israel?
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Tony, Israel says Hamas terrorists have so far returned only 10 bodies, with one not even confirmed to be an Israeli hostage. That leaves 19 remains still missing. People are saying this is clearly in violation of the terms of the deal. At the same time, Hamas has released 20 living hostages, while Israel has already freed around 2,000 Palestinian prisoners. Israeli officials say they won't tolerate any further delays. Defense Minister Yoav Galant warned today that if Hamas doesn't fully comply, and soon, Israel is prepared to resume full military operations. Tony.
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Yeah, as I mentioned, very fragile, something we need to be praying about and something we will be praying about here at the PrayVoteStand Summit in Southern California. Also in international news, President Trump met with Ukrainian President Zelensky today at the White House. It seems like he's ready to push for another peace deal. What's the latest update from that meeting?
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Yes, Tony, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the White House today, and he had a key request on the table, Tomahawk missiles to bolster Ukraine's defense against Russia. President Trump has been positioning himself as a mediator, and he says that both sides are interested in a peace deal.
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We have to get together. It's a very small group of people. It's the president, the president, and the president, okay? Three presidents. And I'm the mediator president. And I'm mediating not an easy situation, but the threat of that is always there. Tomahawks are very dangerous weapons. They're incredible weapons. If you like warfare, it's one of the most accurate.
SPEAKER 02 :
Tony, this comes just one day after President Trump spoke with President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, on the phone for two hours. Trump called the conversation productive and he announced plans for another summit. The details of what led to this sudden meeting remain unclear, especially after their last summit in Alaska in August ended without progress.
SPEAKER 08 :
I think Tomahawks had something to do with it. Thanks, Sarah. I want to switch gears to the government shutdown, which may be further impacted, actually, by tomorrow's nationwide protest. Liberal activists are planning a second round of these No Kings demonstrations on Saturday, aimed, again, at criticizing President Trump and his use of federal authority. What's the latest on the breadth of these protests?
SPEAKER 02 :
That's right, Tony. Organizers of these protests are accusing the Trump administration of threatening First Amendment rights. However, many conservatives argue that the demonstrations are really more political theater than they are patriotism. Several Democratic senators and members of Congress are expected to join in these protests. many of which will be taking in cities all across the country, including here in Washington, D.C. House Speaker Mike Johnson, though, he went a little further. He claimed that Democrats are prolonging the shutdown in order to stage these protests.
SPEAKER 05 :
Republicans, by the way, are the party that fights to maximize your liberty. And we believe, just as our founders did, that every American has been endowed by God himself with unalienable rights, and that includes the rights to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness. But tomorrow, this rally is not about freedom. It's about the opposite. For many of our Democrat colleagues, tomorrow is about creating, really, a spectacle.
SPEAKER 02 :
Meanwhile, the government shutdown continues after Senate Democrats have blocked a Republican funding bill for the 10th time. GOP leaders say they've offered multiple compromises, but Democrats refuse to negotiate. And at what cost? It is leaving troops and federal workers in limbo as political gridlock drags on. Tony.
SPEAKER 08 :
All right, Sarah, thanks. I did mention this at the top of the program. We've received reports that liberal protesters plan to show up here at our PrayVoteStand Summit. This is going to be their No Kings rally, but I actually have news for them. We are celebrating a king here, King Jesus. And give us the latest, though, on the left targeting our event out here in Southern California.
SPEAKER 02 :
That's right, Tony. Well, as you mentioned, this weekend in Chino Hills, California, thousands of Christians are gathering for Family Research Council's Pray, Vote, Stand Summit, which, as you know, is a powerful two-day event. It calls on believers to stand firm in faith, protect parental rights, defend religious freedom, and engage the culture with truth. While the summit promotes prayer and principled action, left-wing activists behind the so-called No Kings protests are organizing mass demonstrations, attacking the Trump legacy, and accusing America of systemic injustice. In fact, I'm hearing reports that some protesters are already outside of the building that you are in right now. So as protesters take to the streets, the PrayVoteStand movement is offering a clear alternative. faith over fear, conviction over chaos, and a call to restore godly leadership in our nation. And speaking of the summit, Liberty Council is demanding the reinstatement of Baton Rouge pastor Luke Ashe, one of the speakers at Prevost Stan's summit, who was fired from the public library for refusing to use transgender pronouns. And he cited his Christian faith as the reason for why. Liberty Council has given the library until November 10th to reinstate him and revise its pronoun policy or face a lawsuit.
SPEAKER 08 :
All right. Thank you, Sarah. Thanks for that update. Well, I want to jump right into the Pray, Vote, Stand Summit that will begin tonight. And as you mentioned, Pastor Luke Ash is going to be a part of a panel of a number of individuals who have stood firm for the faith. But before I get to that, I want to bring in the chairman of the board at the Family Research Council, former congresswoman from Minnesota, Michelle Bachmann. Michelle, thanks so much for joining us.
SPEAKER 16 :
Hello, Tony. Thanks. Good to be with you.
SPEAKER 08 :
And, of course, Michelle's going to be a part of the PayVoteStand Summit. And I want to go to the issue of the... kind of fragile peace agreement in Israel between Hamas and Israel. It doesn't look like Hamas is going to go easy.
SPEAKER 16 :
No, I don't think they're going to comply. I think they've made it clear they're belligerent right now about not complying. They won't return the corpses of the dead hostages. They refuse to demilitarize or de-radicalize. So I think we've been told what their position is. Therefore, it's almost like we skipped to the end of the agreement and President Trump promised Israel... that if Hamas wouldn't comply, they have the right to go in and to finish the war. So it almost feels in some ways that we're there, but I don't think so. I think the administration is going to demand that Hamas be given chances, and then we'll see what happens.
SPEAKER 08 :
You know, listening from the very start of the agreement, Benjamin Netanyahu was very clear that they are not going to compromise on the security of the nation. They are not going to relive October the 7th.
SPEAKER 16 :
That's right, nor should they. So I think, again, I'm of two minds about this. I really was opposed to the agreement when I first read it because it's doing exactly what the Bible forbids, and that's dividing the land of Israel. That has serious and profound consequences. But that hasn't happened yet. I don't know if it will. But the good news is we got all living hostage back. We're getting some of the deceased hostages back. We may get another eight or nine of those. But then I think the world is seeing this is who Hamas is. So there's no playing around about this. And especially when we're seeing Hamas killing their own people. And President Trump is weighing in on that.
SPEAKER 08 :
Where's the international community that's been criticizing Israel for the, well, what they call civilians. There's been, many terrorists have been killed. The fighters have been killed. The international community criticizing Israel for that collateral damage. But yet saying nothing as Hamas is killing people, executing people on the streets.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, yeah, and there's a phrase that says, no Jews, no news. So if media organizations can slam Israel, that's what they'll do. But the bad guys are Hamas. So does the media really want to show the bad guys that Hamas is? They're probably going to have to at a certain point. So I'm a little bit optimistic that Israel is going to be able to go in and finish the job. But under no circumstances should Qatar or Turkey or Egypt or Saudi Arabia get the ability to control Israel.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, but they're already exerting control. At the 2025 Gaza Peace Summit in Egypt, Erdogan, president of Turkey, objected to the presence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and he was disinvited.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, but I think it's actually, I think probably the Prime Minister was happy to be disinvited, to not be there. I read that agreement that they signed, and it was like cotton candy. It was saying, you know, love, peace, tolerance, and sustainability is what it said. And so actually, it was a great day where President Trump got to speak in the Knesset, and that was the real event. And then he went down to Egypt. And honestly, again, if people read what they signed, it doesn't bind anyone to anything. I think it's still the jury is out and I think God is going to have his way. He is the defender of Israel. I really believe Israel won that war with Gaza. They won it. They controlled 80% of the land. They won it. And so I think that we may, my best hope is that they'll go back and they will control it and they'll be in charge of the disposition of what happens. And actually, there's a fair amount of people who should be allowed to just leave and go elsewhere, not to the United States, but go elsewhere, you know, to other Muslim countries. And so I'm hoping that that'll happen.
SPEAKER 08 :
All right, Michelle, just a minute left, talking about the Pray, Vote, Stand Summit here at Calvary Chapel Chino Hills. Why is it so such a significant time for us to gather to pray, vote and stand?
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, because we know who we are. We are people of the living God. We believe in the power of prayer. We've seen the power of prayer working. Just the hostages coming home is answer to the prayer. But voting is extremely important. So when God's people show up, we see a completely different type of government, a godly government versus an ungodly government. And then when we stand, we are informed about the word and we stand on the word. That's our greatest strength. And I saw the protesters when I came in. I came in just a few minutes ago. They were out there. The police far outnumber them. And I almost felt sorry for them. They looked pathetic standing over there. They don't stand on the word. They stand on lies.
SPEAKER 08 :
We're going to pray for them, too.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yes, that's right.
SPEAKER 08 :
Michelle, thanks for being here. Always great to see you.
SPEAKER 16 :
Thank you.
SPEAKER 08 :
All right, folks, don't go away. We're back with more Washington Watch right after this.
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Right now, like-minded Christ followers from across the country are gathering at Calvary Chapel Chino Hills in Southern California for Family Research Council's Pray, Vote, Stand Summit. If ever there were a time we needed God to move in our nation, it is now. The Pray, Vote, Stand Summit brings together Christian leaders, issue experts, and government officials for a time of prayer, inspiration, and action. A sample of topics include chemical abortion and the future of the pro-life movement, the search for peace as Israel struggles against the world, and how to engage artificial intelligence from a biblical perspective. We encourage you to join this powerful gathering as we seek cultural renewal and spiritual revival. Stream the summit on the Real Life Network and the Stand Firm app. For more information, visit PrayVoteStand.org.
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For over 4,000 years, the Jewish people have had legal, historical, and biblical ties to the land of Israel, especially the heartland of Israel, Judea and Samaria, which much of the world still calls the West Bank. To Israelis, Judea and Samaria is far more than a name. It's the center of their ancestral homeland where nearly 80% of the Bible's events took place. Abraham purchased property in Hebron, Jacob in Shechem. Joshua made an altar on Mount Ebal and led the Israelites into a covenant before God. On Mount Gerizim, overlooking Shechem, Jesus talked to the Samaritan woman at the well about worshiping neither on Mount Gerizim nor in Jerusalem, but in spirit and in truth. Judea and Samaria is nearly a quarter of Israel's current land mass, not a small strip of land on the Jordan River, but a vital and strategic part of the nation's identity. The October 7 massacre, launched from Gaza, shattered the illusion that giving away territory brings peace. Gaza, which was once seen as the cornerstone of a two-state solution, became a launch pad for terror. Today, only 21% of Israelis support a Palestinian state. Trust in a two-state solution has all but collapsed. The Middle East is changing. Iran's grip is weakening. New alliances are forming. But Western countries and some U.S. officials still chase the mirage of a two-state solution. History speaks clearly. The 2005 Gaza withdrawal, backed by the U.S., led not to peace, but to a terrorist regime. Judea and Samaria are 24 times larger than Gaza, deeply woven into Israel's geographic and spiritual fabric. To surrender them would not bring peace. It would invite conflict and existential danger. Family Research Council stands with Israel's rightful claim to sovereignty. It's time for America to do the same for history, for justice, and for lasting security in the Middle East. Welcome back to this Friday edition of Washington Watch, where we're broadcasting in front of a live audience here at the Real Life Network studio in Southern California. And we're doing this in advance of the PrayVote Stand Summit, which begins this evening, if you're in Southern California. Depending on traffic, you can get here in time. If not, you can join us on the StandFirm app. Go to the App Store, get the StandFirm app, or watch on the Real Life Network. All right, I want to go back to discuss the latest on the government shutdown and get some perspective from the House leadership. Joining me now to discuss this and more is House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, who represents the 1st Congressional District of Louisiana. Leader Scalise, welcome back to Washington Watch. Thanks for joining us.
SPEAKER 06 :
Thanks for having me back, Tony. It was great to see my friend and former colleague Michelle Bachmann with you a few minutes ago.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, absolutely. She's out here with us in Southern California. I just wanted to check before we jump into this. Are you planning on going to any of the No Kings rallies this weekend?
SPEAKER 06 :
I don't think they want to have me. And, you know, I'd be there with the fire extinguisher to put out the American flags they'd be burning. But, you know, it's going to be a circus of the far left and accumulation of all the nutty groups that are taking over the Democrat Party. You know, the people that are about to elect Mondami as mayor of New York are the center base of the Democrat Party, sadly. And that's who you're going to see, you know, probably waving Palestinian flags and just spewing hatred towards America and Donald Trump.
SPEAKER 08 :
I want to play, I played this clip at the top of the show. I want to play it again. This is Chuck Schumer, clip number 10, please.
SPEAKER 01 :
These are snot hate rallies, as some of the right wingers try to say. These are save America rallies, love America rallies, care about America rallies.
SPEAKER 08 :
Now, I don't know if you heard what he said. These are snot, these hate rallies. So they're on the defensive on this. They know what is happening here. How does this correlate? What's the relationship with the government shutdown? Word is that the Democrats are afraid to come to an agreement and get the government open again until after these rallies have taken place.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, Tony, and remember Chuck Schumer and those others that are saying that these are the same people that said they were mostly peaceful protests during the summer of love when they were burning American cities down and killing cops and, you know, just having all kind of crazy roughshod in cities all across America. That's not peaceful protests. It's not people that love America. But at the end of the day, the far left has taken Chuck Schumer hostage. And so in return, he's taken America hostage by shutting down the government to try to appease them. It's all everybody in Washington knows. This is Chuck Schumer fearing for his political life, knowing that AOC would beat him in a primary in New York and to try to shore up the far left. socialist based of his party. He shut down the government, not paying our troops, not paying our federal workers just to try to wreak havoc over the country to prove to the far left that he's fighting Donald Trump in some kind of way. It's a sick, twisted game that the left is playing with our country.
SPEAKER 08 :
I was talking with the speaker, Mike Johnson, this morning, and he basically said the Democrats have painted themselves into a corner. There's really no way out. There's nothing that the Republicans can negotiate because this is a clean CR. It's a measure that Democrats have voted for many times before. What is the way out for Democrats?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, it's, you know, like you said, the same level of funding that Chuck Schumer himself voted for just in March. And then he got eviscerated by the left because they were angry that he didn't take on donald trump and shut down the government back then and so you knew this was coming it's just a shame that the american people especially federal workers you know are men and women in uniform many of whom live paycheck to paycheck are the ones that are getting the collateral damage from it so you know i think the only off-ramp is whenever the the far left lets chuck schumer go and releases him that he's going to release the rest of the country uh it's a twisted game. I think the American people, especially in swing states like Georgia, you know, where you've got both senators representing a swing state of Georgia that are voting with Chuck Schumer and the socialists haven't taken over states like Georgia. And yet their senators are both voting with the socialists. And so if those people, people in Georgia, people in You know, go down the line, Arizona, where both senators are voting to shut the government down. It only takes five Democrats to have some courage and take on Chuck Schumer and we can get this government back open and still deal with the big differences that divide us.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, I think self-preservation is going to kick in at some point. Some of these Democrats are in cycle, are going to break with Chuck Schumer. Now, if my memory serves me right, we're 17 days into this shutdown. This is about halfway to the longest shutdown in history. How long do you see this going on?
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, it's surely going to go through the hate America rally. But I think beyond that, They're not hearing the anger from the American people yet. And if you look, the mainstream media is covering for the Democrats. They're trying to say, well, it's both sides, as if there's some kind of equivocation. Look, there's only one bill that opens up the government, and all the Democrats are voting no. 99% of them voted no in the House. 99% of them are voting no in the Senate. So there's one party, the Democrat Party, that is shutting down the government. And until they change... Their tune doesn't mean they're going to agree with us on big policy differences. This is just a short term funding bill to get us to November 21st. And that date's coming soon as well. So, you know, when Chuck Schumer comes to his senses, who knows? All you need is five Democrats. Chuck Schumer can still stay tied to the loony left. All you need is five Democrats to get some common sense and end this madness, Tony.
SPEAKER 08 :
Steve, you've been in D.C. for a while. I'm finding unusual discipline on behalf of the Republicans under the leadership of the Republicans, yourself and Speaker Johnson, where there seems to be a pretty unified message coming out of the Republicans. And, of course, you just have a small margin to work with among Republicans, but there seems to be pretty strong unity.
SPEAKER 06 :
There really is. I mean, I've never seen Republicans more unified. You know, we're getting a lot of big things done with President Trump. You know, President Trump came in this term. I think you would recognize even more focused than the first term where we've been able to get bigger things accomplished in a shorter amount of time. But there's more work to do. And I think that's what the Democrats are trying to do. The Democrats want to ensue chaos throughout the country to slow down the progress we're making. Families just want to see lower prices at the pump, which they're seeing, by the way, lower prices at the grocery store, lower interest rates, which we're finally starting to see. But all of that is just the beginning of what we're trying to accomplish. And there's more we can do. We did it all with just Republican votes. We stabilized the tax code when we secured America's border, when we passed legislation to produce more American energy. They were all party line votes. They shouldn't have been. But all Democrats voted no because they just want to fight and oppose Donald Trump. And I think the voters are going to punish them at the polls next year for it.
SPEAKER 08 :
All right. Leader Steve Scalise, thanks so much for taking time to join us on this Friday. Always great to see you.
SPEAKER 06 :
Thank you. And keep pressing the message of voting, how important it is. Let's keep prayer. Prayer is so important, but voting as well. God bless you, Tony.
SPEAKER 08 :
All right. We will do that. Pray, vote, stand. And folks, you can do that this weekend by joining us at the Pray, Vote, Stand Summit. Download the Stand Firm app or watch on the Real Life Network. Coming up next, Congressman Kevin Hearn of Oklahoma joins us. So don't go away. More straight ahead.
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The family is the oldest, most tested, and most reliable unit of society. It is divinely created and sustained. And yet, there are those who are always tampering with its values and structure. That's why we need organizations like the Family Research Council that can effectively defend and strengthen the family.
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Family Research Council began over 40 years ago, like all great movements of God, with prayer. Today, rooted in the heart of the nation's capital, FRC continues to champion faith, family, and freedom in public policy and the culture from a biblical worldview.
SPEAKER 10 :
FRC is one of those bright lights that helps us focus on true north. And I shudder to think, had they not been here, that it could have been worse, worse, worse.
SPEAKER 12 :
The Family Research Council is key. It's one of a handful of groups that I think will determine whether our children live in a country that enjoyed all of the freedom and all the opportunity that we enjoyed in this great land.
SPEAKER 15 :
It's just a wonderful parachurch organization that doesn't seek to take the place of the church, but it seeks to assist the family and the church as we try to move forward successfully, not in a defensive mode, but in an offensive mode as we seek to live our lives according to the Holy Scriptures.
SPEAKER 09 :
FRC is not going to be whooped. You know, we're going to fight. We're going to take a stand.
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And again, we don't retreat. You will never see in front of this building here in Washington, D.C., a white flag fly. We will never step back. We will never surrender. And we will never be silent. Welcome back to Washington Watch. All right, it all begins tonight. That's right, the Prey Boat Stand Summit here at Calvary Chapel, Chino Hills in Southern California. And we're broadcasting from the Real Life Network studios in front of a live audience. You heard them there just a moment ago. All right, live, live. If you can't make the trip to California, you can still be a part of this powerful gathering. The Prevost Stand Summit, as I mentioned, kicks off at 7 p.m. Pacific time. If you're a late night person, it's 10 p.m. Eastern. It's available on the live stream on the Stand Firm app and the Real Life Network. So be sure and tune in. President Trump met with Ukrainian President Zelensky at the White House today, just one day after having an over two-hour phone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, as we heard earlier. Now, while Ukraine is pressing for new weapons to fight Moscow, President Trump seemed reluctant to provide Kiev with the long-range Tomahawk missiles they want, saying the U.S. would rather the war be over. Given what President Trump did in the Middle East, could the Russia-Ukraine conflict soon be over? Joining me now to discuss this and more, Congressman Kevin Hearn. He's the chair of the Republican Policy Committee and a member of the House Ways and Means Committee. He represents the 1st Congressional District of the Sooner State. Congressman Hearn, welcome back to Washington Watch. Great to see you.
SPEAKER 17 :
Great to be with you, Tony. Thanks for all you do.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, it's good to have you on the program on this Friday. Let's talk about Russian President Putin coming to the table, actually wanting to talk with the president after resolution of the conflict, or at least what appears to be a resolution of the conflict in the Middle East. I tend to think it's probably his conversation or the comments he made about the Tomahawk missiles possibly going to Ukraine. What say you?
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, I think that we all know, or certainly what we're seeing with President Trump, it's unorthodox. He's being a strong leader, unlike what we've seen in the past, just what we saw just a few years ago that unleashed Vladimir Putin. When we saw the debacle in Afghanistan in August of 21, where 13 Gold Star families, we saw that happen because of Joe Biden. And then it's unleashed the world. I mean, President Trump has spent the first nine months in office trying to put out these fights all over the world, and he's got one big one left. And I think what you're seeing right now, I had a Democrat once tell me, leadership used to work for Obama. I said, why do these leaders not start wars under President Trump? And they all think, they said, because he is a very scary individual, and that's how you have to deal with these guys.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, I mean, he's unpredictable. President Trump, unpredictable. You don't know what he's going to do. And I think that works to his advantage. A two hour conversation with Putin after he basically gave the stiff arm to the president earlier. It appears to me that Putin's looking for a way out.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, it was just reported today that he's lost over a million Russians, either killed or maimed so badly that he's having to rely on North Korean troops or, you know, renegades from around the world to come in and fight his war. And that's very problematic for him. And so I think what he's seeing is that President Trump is going to solve this issue. with or without him, and he's going to do it through Ukraine, and he's going to do it through NATO. I just had NATO people in my office this past week, and they're concerned about what's going on there and how it's continued to fester and go on, and they're supporting President Trump 100%. It's totally different today with NATO than it was in his first term. They understand he is serious about stopping these wars around the world, and they're getting on board.
SPEAKER 08 :
You mentioned the troops that are fighting for Russia. I mean, don't forget the North Korean troops that went over to fight with Russia as well. So they are scrounging. They're looking everywhere they can to find troops that they can put on the battlefield. Speaking of wars, the Senate Democrats this week voted to block the annual full-year defense appropriations bill despite the measure passing out of committee with strong bipartisan support. What does this tell you about the Democrats' priorities?
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, certainly they hate President Trump more than they love our military. This started back in mid-September when the House passed a clean CR, a Biden funding level CR, because that's what we thought and Senator Thune thought we could get through quickly so we could get back to regular order with the appropriation bills and pass things like the defense appropriation bill. But Hakeem Jeffries and all Democrats except one voted to shut down the government then. Then we sent it to the Senate, and now we've seen Chuck Schumer vote almost a dozen times, including not voting for the defense authorization, the defense appropriation yesterday. When 11 Democrats supported it out of committee, those 11 Democrats voted against it. Had they voted for the bill that they voted out of committee for, We would be funding our troops right now. But they don't even want to fund our troops. Thank God for President Trump for what he did in finding money to support our men and women in uniform. But unfortunately, the very people that protect the Democrats and Republicans in the House and the Senate are not getting paid to Capitol Police. I don't know how the Democrats walk by these individuals every single day and say thank you when they're the ones withholding their pay.
SPEAKER 08 :
Congressman Hearn, you just have a little over a minute left. Government shut down the House back in their districts, working in their districts. What's waiting for the Republican House and their agenda to deal with when Congress opens back up?
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, we have the things that Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer want to talk about, health care. We've been doing health care hearings in ways and means. We think it's a very bipartisan issue. We need to work on it. This idea that Chuck Schumer wants to get Hakeem Jeffries and Senator Thune and the Speaker together and cut a deal on funding $40 billion a year or $400 billion in premium tax credits that they shortened themselves two years ago because they didn't think they needed them longer than two years. These are the things we need to get on and make sure that the American people's health care costs don't rise. But this idea of just shutting down the government and hurting everyone is ludicrous. You know, they want to send checks to the insurance companies. We want to make sure that underlying health care is affordable for everyone, not just those folks that are on Obamacare.
SPEAKER 08 :
Congressman Kevin Hearn, thanks for joining us on this Friday. Always great to see you, my friend.
SPEAKER 17 :
Tony, take care.
SPEAKER 08 :
All right. Coming up, we'll talk about what parents can do to protect and educate their children amid today's increasingly hostile and dangerous environment. And we're going to share the story of a Christian leader in New York. So don't go away.
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Three years ago, the Supreme Court issued its historic Dobbs decision, a ruling that overturned Roe versus Wade, which for nearly 50 years imposed abortion on demand, silencing voters and bypassing the democratic process across the country. The Dobbs decision was a huge step forward against abortion, but it didn't outright ban it. It returned the power to the people. Now, 29 states have laws on the books protecting life. However, there's a catch. Abortion numbers since Dobbs have actually gone up with an increase of 12% since 2020, climbing from 930,000 to over 1 million in each of the most recent years. So how can this be? The answer is simple. The abortion drug. Today, over 60 percent of U.S. abortions involve abortion drugs, many of these without medical oversight. In 2021, the Biden administration quietly removed bare minimum longstanding safety protocols for the abortion drug that have existed for 20 years to protect women from life threatening risks and ensuring informed consent. The Biden DOJ then declared that they would not enforce the Comstock Act, which prevents the mailing of anything that causes an abortion. This is not only illegal, but also dangerous. A study shows nearly 11% of women who take the abortion drug end up in the emergency room with serious complications. Unless the Trump administration reverses these reckless Biden-era policies, pro-life laws will remain largely symbolic. Without a full review and repeal of Mifepristone, unborn lives will remain in grave danger, and pregnant mothers will remain at risk. Let's stand for life and end this mail order abortion drug pipeline. Sign the petition urging the Trump administration to take action at frc.org slash stop chemical abortion.
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You're making the effort. I know you got up early. Here we go. Welcome back to Washington Watch. Thanks for joining us on this Friday. Pray vote stand edition of Washington Watch as we broadcast in front of a live audience here at the Real Life Network studio. All right. You can be a part of the Pray, Vote, Stand Summit if you are watching on the Real Life Network, or you can get the Stand Firm app and watch online. Better yet, if you're in Southern California, come join us. Our word for today comes from Romans chapter 8. Now, if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again. Death no longer has dominion over him. For the death he died, he died to sin once for all. But the life he lives, he lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. Let not sin, therefore, reign in your mortal bodies to make you obey its passions. Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as though those who have been brought from death to life. And your members to God as instruments for righteousness, for sin will have no dominion over you since you are not under the law, but under grace. You see, when we've been made alive in Christ, we have a new mission to serve God, not sin. As Christians in this day and age, when people are being identified by their behaviors, we're to be identified and defined by our Savior. To find out more about our journey through the Bible, text Bible to 67742. That's Bible to 67742. All right, as we've mentioned throughout the week, California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law last week AB495, a deeply troubling piece of legislation that undermines parental rights and increases the risk of child abduction and exploitation. And it's a policy that could easily spread to other blue states across the nation. We discussed this yesterday with Jonathan Keller of the California Family Council, but we've only got We only got to a few action items in that segment. So here to help us ensure that laws like AB495 don't go any further is Heidi St. John. She is the founder and chairman of the board at Firmly Planted Family and host of Off the Bench. She is also the author of about a dozen books, including the bestseller Becoming Mom Strong, How to Fight with All That's in You for Your Family and Your Faith. Heidi, welcome back to Washington Watch. Thanks for joining us.
SPEAKER 14 :
Great to be here, Tony. Thanks for having me.
SPEAKER 08 :
And thanks for being here at the PrayVote Stand Summit.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, I'm excited. What a time to be alive.
SPEAKER 08 :
Momentous occasion, momentous times in which we live. Very consequential, I think, on the timeline of human history. Let's talk a little bit about that. You recently spoke at a rally regarding 495. You live in Washington state, but you understand there's a bigger issue here. Talk about it.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, Pastor Jack called me and it's the first time I've talked to him on the phone when I felt like this man is close to tears, explaining what was happening in the legislature here under the watch from Gavin Newsom. And what we see happening is a tremendous overreach, another assault on parental rights. And what's happening in our public schools, as we were discussing a moment ago, is really a five alarm fire. And parents need to watch what's happening in California because what's happening in California is happening in Oregon and Washington and New York and New Jersey. one of the most recent states to enact or try to enact legislation that will hurt homeschooling because educators understand that what they want more than anything is access to children.
SPEAKER 08 :
They fear homeschooling.
SPEAKER 14 :
Absolutely. It's a freedom movement.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, and what they'll do, and this is something that homeschoolers have to be eternally vigilant in that they will try to work their way in through regulation, controlling the curriculum. They will find some way to silence this competition.
SPEAKER 14 :
That's right. And I think parents cannot afford to sit this out. And I think it's easy for us to say, well, we've got a Republican governor or Republican president right now. Some people in red states feel very, very safe. There is no safety. There is no quarter from the attack that is being launched against parents in this country, particularly in education.
SPEAKER 08 :
So, Heidi, let's talk about that for just a moment. As you mentioned, you and I were talking during the break. I think President Trump has kind of opened the door. I don't think this administration can solve all the problems because many of our problems are spiritual, they're moral, and that's not the role of the government. But what the government has done is opening the door and protecting the rights of religious Americans to make those changes. So what should parents be doing in light of this moment that we have?
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, I think the first thing we need to do is we need to know who's in charge of the education of our children. And so whether you are homeschooling your kids like I am, all seven of our kids were homeschooled, or your kids are in a private school, you still need to be very aware of what's happening in our public schools. And this is not a time for people to sit back and just pretend and coast through us. This is a time for, I think, it is all gas, no brakes, that we need to be very, very aware and also stand up and tell the truth. We have a moment in time right now. in which we can tell the truth and stand boldly for it. Christians need to engage. Now's the time.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, that's one of the other benefits of what President Trump has done by standing up and just deflecting the fake news. And it's given the ability for others to stand. Because, you know, people don't believe the media and the attacks are just, they're kind of routine. And so I do think it is time, as we are doing here this weekend, to pray. We have to first understand the spiritual nature of what we're up against. We wrestle not against flesh and blood. We need to know, I think, on God's timeline where we are. And I'd be interested in your thoughts on that from looking at, you know, from a scriptural standpoint, this moment in time that we occupy. Yeah.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, watching what's happening in Israel right now and in God's prophetic timeline, I think it's pretty safe to say that we're living in extraordinary times. And I'm hearing a lot of people talk about the return of the Lord, and I'm excited for that, too. But this isn't the time for Christians to sit back and wait for that. I think we have an extraordinary moment to get involved. I heard a statistic recently that one point three million Christians. People who identify as followers of Jesus Christ in Washington state did not vote in the last election. If we would turn out to vote, if we would engage, if it would matter to us, we wouldn't just win. We'd win in a landslide. And I think that is the message that needs to come from pastors and Christian leaders across the country right now. Engage, engage, engage.
SPEAKER 08 :
It's interesting you mention that because, you know, the Apostle Paul in his letter to the Thessalonians, he he actually was dealing with that issue 2000 years ago where Christians thought, oh, Jesus is coming back. So let's just I'm going to quit my job. I'm going to pack my suitcase and wait for the Holy Ghost bus to pick me up. And, you know, it. He said, don't do that. Not only is it hurting the advancement of the kingdom, but it is hurting the reputation of the church. We need to be busy and be salt and light. And that includes voting.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, especially important, I think, for Christian leaders, pastors in particular, to realize that Christians need to be engaged in the policy shaping business. Politics determines policy and policy shapes the nation. And if Christians would engage in the policy shaping business, I think we'd seen amazing things happen in the country.
SPEAKER 08 :
So that's, again, part of our focus here, pray, recognizing the spiritual aspects of this, but voting. I mean, we have a responsibility, and that is the minimal of Christian citizenship is voting, but also standing, standing for that biblical truth. You ran for Congress in Washington State, a blue state. We can do more. We can run for school board. We can run for city council. I mean, there's more that we can do to be involved and influence our communities.
SPEAKER 14 :
I'm old enough to remember Keith Green saying one time famously, Lord, how about me not sending my money this time? How about me going? And this was a huge part of the reason why my husband and I decided that I would run for Congress in 2022. And I think the message needs to be really clear to Christians. It requires courage to stand for righteousness in the public square right now. But we understand God didn't give us a spirit of fear, right? The apostle Paul reminding young Timothy that fear is not an emotion. It's a spirit and it's not from the Lord. And when we understand who we are and that our days belong to the Lord and we're not going to live a single day beyond what the Lord of Heaven's armies has already ordained for us. It takes that spirit of fear away and allows us to step into the calling that God has for our lives.
SPEAKER 08 :
If we have a fear or a reverence for God, we will not fear man. Just about 30 seconds left. Your focus for this weekend. What are you going to be talking about?
SPEAKER 14 :
I'm going to be talking about courage. I'm going to be talking about the need for God's people to stop sitting on the sidelines and to engage. I love to tell people on my podcast, get off the bench, get onto the battlefield. You got one life. God has you here for this time in human history. Show up for it.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, Heidi, thanks for being on the field. Thanks for having me. We're glad you're off the bench and on the field. We appreciate your leadership and thanks for being here this weekend. Thanks, Tony. All right, folks, you can actually hear what Heidi has to say. If you are watching online or joining us here at the PrayVote Stand Summit, you can get the app, the StandFirm app, or watch on the real-life network. All right, as I mentioned early on in the program, processors this weekend will be assembled for the No Kings demonstration in D.C. and across the nation. And one thing will be very clear, the fanatical animosity against President Trump, President But what's also been increasingly clear is the far left's animosity against conservatives and Christians and even liberals who won't bow to the radical leftist ideology. And sometimes that animosity drives people to take extreme measures in order to silence, intimidate, and even worse, Well, among those who have joined us here in California for the PrayVote Stand Summit is someone who experienced firsthand what happened when someone with animosity against conservatives uses the legal system to go after individuals like you and me.
SPEAKER 04 :
My name is Jason McGuire. I'm a husband. I'm a father. I'm a Christian leader here in the state of New York. But I'm also to the state of New York, inmate number 090198. You know, when you think about politics in our day, we tend to watch California and New York and what happens on either of those coasts that begins to drift into other places across the country. I am the canary in the coal mine here in New York. If you gave the opportunity to leftists, to progressives anywhere around the country, this is what they would seek to accomplish. This is a wake up call. And for the rest of my life, as a result of Letitia James Lawfare, I will always carry a number with my name and they will know me as inmate 090198.
SPEAKER 08 :
With me now to share his story, Jason McGuire, Executive Director of New York Families Forum, which is the family policy council in New York that accomplishes at the state level what FRC does at the national level. Jason, welcome back to Washington Watch. Thanks so much for joining us. Tony, it's good to be with you.
SPEAKER 04 :
The last time you and I were together was on the eve of my incarceration. And for those who may not be familiar with that story, Essentially, Letitia James, she's not just coming after the president, she's not just coming after pro-life pregnancy centers, but she's actually coming after individuals like myself and organizations that I represent. Letitia James had used a bogus claim to open up a wide investigation to my organization that went on for multiple years, looked at millions of dollars of transactions, tens of thousands of digital transactions, costing us nearly three-quarters of a million, well, costing the state of New York nearly three quarters of a million dollars in my organization, almost a half a million dollars in expenses and lost revenue. And you ended up being sentenced to jail. Yeah. So in late July, I went into court. We had agreed to plead a two misdemeanors eventually to try to make it stop. And we thought it was a good faith effort to fix a couple of filing errors and some paperwork. Well, when we walked into that courtroom, No sooner had I signed the paperwork than Letitia James' office put out a hit piece against me, essentially accusing me of a litany of things that were not true and never happened. I believe it was libel. As a result of that, though, the judge saw some of her writing, some of the things she said, some of what was in the papers, and then sentenced me to 53 days of intermittent incarceration over three different errors on a campaign filing report for less than $1,300. No missing money, just an error on a campaign finance report.
SPEAKER 08 :
You pled to this just to make it go away. It was a clerical error.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, we were facing two different trials, one for each of the misdemeanors that would have cost us an additional quarter of a million dollars. And so my board and I prayed about it and decided it was time to bring it to an end. And that's when they found out they couldn't beat us in court. They were going to destroy us through the politics of personal destruction.
SPEAKER 08 :
And so you were sentenced to jail time for that.
SPEAKER 04 :
I served jail time in Livingston County Jail. And so I would surrender every Friday in the evening. I would spend Friday night, Saturday, Sunday and Monday in jail for 53 days of weekends.
SPEAKER 08 :
I want to ask you about that, because my first assignment when I was in law enforcement, I worked in the Louisiana. We have parishes, not county. I worked there in the county jail. Difficult position even for me as a deputy, but I can only imagine as someone who was an inmate who was actually, I mean, what was that like for you?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, I'll tell you, I was not ready for what it was like. When we walked into that jail, I was not prepared for that door to clink behind me. I walked in to set down my bedding they provided and all of that, and I no sooner, my back was still to the door and I heard the start of the door to close, I didn't realize that I'd be in total isolation for that first four days I spent in jail. For two weekends I was in isolation. I didn't realize how long it would take to work through that system. Then when I got out into the more general population, I was only allowed out in the pod. You couldn't even attend a Bible study without going through a strip search. And so there were a lot of things I learned in that system that I was not accustomed to.
SPEAKER 08 :
So let me ask you, Jason, how has that changed you? I mean, we don't go through anything in life that doesn't change me. I can just say that I understand because I've been in that environment. It can be traumatic.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. It's interesting you use the word trauma because that's what people have said to me. They said, you know, this is a form of trauma that you've dealt with. And I recognize it as that. My wife has also felt that. You know, just flying out here to California to be with you for this, she was getting agitated at just the thought that I'd be gone again for another weekend after having gone through that experience. And it's impacted me personally in the sense that I probably take things, I hold things a lot looser than I used to, you know, and you view things differently. But we also recognize that while I would not have chosen this path, it's the one the Lord allowed into our lives. We're anxious to see what he does with this part of our story.
SPEAKER 08 :
All right, we just have a little over a minute left. There's a documentary that has been done on this so people can know all about it from start to finish. How can they see that? Tell us more about it.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, so we put out a documentary called Inmate 090198. That's the number the New York State has assigned to me. I'll carry it for the rest of my life. You can find out more about that on our website at NewYorkFamilies.org, NewYorkFamilies.org. And we're actually scheduling private screenings. And then there'll be a public release coming in late October and early November. Folks can sign up to hear about that at our website at newyorkfamilies.org.
SPEAKER 08 :
And folks, you're going to be able to hear more of Jason's story if you're tuned in to the Pray, Vote, Stand Summit, because he's going to be speaking this weekend. Just a little over half a minute left. How can people be praying for you, Jason?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, right now, I feel like we're very much in a rebuilding phase. I mean, we've gone through this process of we have suffered bankruptcy. We sold our home. The organization I direct has shrunk in size. And yet through that process, we see that God is beginning to move. We believe we're on the cusp of some amazing growth. So I'm praying that we will grow and have a great impact in the state of New York and really across the nation for the things that matter for America.
SPEAKER 08 :
Jason, give the website again that people know how to get in touch with you. NewYorkFamilies.org. NewYorkFamilies.org. Folks, I want to encourage you to pray for Jason. Check out the website and get in contact with him about the documentary. You want to hear the story. Jason, thanks for being with us. Thank you, Tony. And folks, thank you for joining us as well for this PrayVote Stand Eve. edition of Washington Watch, and I leave you once again with the words of the Apostle Paul found in Ephesians 6, where he says, when you've done everything you can do, when you've prayed, prepared, and taken your stand, by all means, keep standing.
SPEAKER 03 :
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Join us on this episode as we delve into the breaking news of John Bolton's surrender following a federal indictment. We explore the details of his charges related to handling classified information, drawing comparisons to previous high-profile federal cases like those of James Comey and Letitia James. Our hosts provide insights into the political ramifications considering past presidential administrations and the broader implications for national security. Amidst this legal turmoil, we also spotlight President Trump's success in brokering peace in volatile regions such as Gaza, reflecting his unique leadership style and its responses on the global stage.
SPEAKER 05 :
We got breaking news. John Bolton surrenders to authorities after his federal indictment.
SPEAKER 07 :
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SPEAKER 05 :
Welcome to Sekulow. This is Logan Sekulow. Will Haines joining me in studio. We've got some special guests joining us later on. It's going to be a packed show, but we want to hear from you. As we said, phone lines are open at 1-800-684. Actually, not open. Let's open up those phone lines. Let's see. Can we do it? There they are. Phone lines are open for you at 1-800-684-3110. 1-800-684-3110. Have your voice heard today on the show. Of course, we are talking about some of the big breaking news. President Trump, by the way, is about to host Vladimir Zelensky at the White House. So we will follow that. As you know, he has made so much success in Gaza. Now eyes are turning to what's going on in Russia and Ukraine. We'll keep the update if there's anything. Yesterday, he had a call with Vladimir Putin, and maybe this is headed towards another conflict resolution. We will see. But that is not the breaking news we want to start with today. The big breaking news, of course, that John Bolton has surrendered. to now face charges of sharing classified information. Some of this on an AOL account, which look, no shade. Some of us still have our AOL accounts active. Not going to say who, but some of us maybe. You're looking at one of them. You know what? It's okay. A lot of deep history there. You got to do it. But with that being said, Will, why don't you give us a bit of an overview of what led to this moment?
SPEAKER 08 :
So we remember that there was that raid of Bolton's office and home just a few weeks back. Now he has been charged with 18 counts of mishandling classified materials. Eight of those counts are related to transmission of national security information, and 10 of them are related to retention of classified material. All of this falling under 18 USC section 793. That was a part of the Espionage Act and that is the code section in the U.S. Code, gathering, transmitting, or losing defense information. He surrendered to authorities this morning was processed and then already had his first appearance before the judge who explained the charges, asked if he understood them. And just moments ago, he entered a not guilty plea before the court.
SPEAKER 05 :
Oh, that's really breaking news.
SPEAKER 08 :
That's right. And so what we're looking at here though, He's a third critic of President Trump that has been now indicted federally. We remember James Comey and Letitia James. While the media would love for this one to be another look, retribution, you're already seeing headlines like this from CNN. Why the Bolton indictment is different from the Comey and James cases. In this one, it's a 26-page indictment. It's what they call a speaking indictment where it really lays out the narrative of what they found. And it appears that this investigation actually began under the Biden administration. The prosecutor here, Thomas Sullivan, is a veteran U.S. prosecutor. He's out of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Maryland. and has dealt with national security type cases over his career he's seen as a non-partisan person this isn't a new u.s attorney that was put in by the trump administration but we're going to get into some of the allegations because they are kind of shocking especially when you think about how critical john bolton was of president trump during that classified documents case of course we got to back up a little bit remember he was working
SPEAKER 05 :
For President Trump. So again, this is not necessarily someone who's unfamiliar with the situation. Of course, John Bolton has been a voice that people have known for years. If you go back far enough, you'll probably find him in some of our documentaries, some of the works that we've done before.
SPEAKER 08 :
He used to be on this broadcast.
SPEAKER 05 :
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SPEAKER 08 :
That's right. So what we're looking at here as well is 18 counts of mishandling classified materials under 18 U.S.C. Section 793, the gathering, transmitting or losing defense information. And it appears from the indictment that what John Bolton was doing was he was sending. diary entries that he would memorialize classified information, some including attack plans, sources and methods, human intelligence sources, and things about our allies as well. that he was sending this through an AOL email account, a Gmail account as well, and he would send them to what, according to the indictment and according to the reporting on it, was his wife and daughter. There was even conversations back and forth where he would say, we didn't talk about this, and someone would respond with, shh. as if they understood that this wasn't material that should have been transmitted in this way. He makes reference that he's going to use it for a book in one of the messages, not just memorializing it. As we do know happened. Exactly. And even in that case, because the Trump administration tried to block the publication of that book, a lot of because there was national security information that was classified not for public release in his book. And the judge in that, which... ended up letting the book be published, did chastise Bolton by saying in the ruling that he likely jeopardized national security by disclosing classified information in violation of his nondisclosure agreement obligations. So even a judge noticed and was saying that judge sided more with the First Amendment with his right to publish, but was pointing out it was also a civil case. There wasn't a criminal angle to that. That, look, you likely jeopardize national security by even writing this. So that has been the pattern. We also know that this apparently was a case that was started under the Biden administration. The Department of Justice attorney started looking at this in the U.S. attorney's office in Maryland, and they went forward. It is just coming to a culmination now. When you look even at the left media that has been trying to frame all this, even with Kash Patel talking about, you know, you will see more indictments. We're looking at people in positions of power that have abused that position in criminal ways. He even said the ones you'll see coming aren't even the end of it. It's just the beginning. But the media has been trying for so long to frame this as political retribution that And even CNN is having to, a frequent person on CNN is John Bolton, are having to frame it like this. We're going to play Byte 4. This is from one of their reporters that has been following this and reports on these things. And this is Caitlin Palance. Here's how even she framed it when talking about this indictment that came forward this morning, Byte 4.
SPEAKER 01 :
And that is the sort of thing that the Justice Department does say frequently, not just in the climate of a Trump administration, that that's something that you should not do. We have seen many charges like this before of other high ranking officials. And that also with John Bolton in those search warrants and what we're very likely to see in court going forward is that the Justice Department saying he should have known better.
SPEAKER 08 :
And I think that also, when you look at Logan, the way he likely did well and won, he did know better. And clearly in some of the messages, it seems like that intent and knowledge that this wasn't OK seemed to be present in even some of these messages back and forth. The other thing is that that AOL email account also was allegedly and apparently hacked by Iranians. So it wasn't just that he was- Probably most of our AOL accounts at this point.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, fair.
SPEAKER 08 :
That is probably a fair statement, but he wasn't taking the necessary care when sending and transmitting all this information by making sure it couldn't fall into the hands of foreign adversaries that then had, like we've already talked about, future attack plans. human intelligence sources, things that are, as other commentators have said, could get people killed. It wasn't just like, oh no, they know that we're going to spend more here in the Department of Defense. No, these were very real things that related to our national security that our adversaries even gained access because he wasn't using secure channels. He had an accredited SCIF in his home. He could have, if using this for work, could have taken it and done what needed to do in the proper channels. But that wasn't the point. The point was he was trying to use it to write a book, to make money off of his service in government, to use this national security secrets in a way that would benefit him to the detriment of the country. And I think that's where you're starting to see the difference. And this is the guy that was out there so loudly. talking about the President of the United States in that entire special counsel investigation retaining classified documents, it was saying this is the worst thing ever. This is the end of President Trump's career. He needs to go to prison for this. This is terrible. How reckless, how careless. But yet, there's a very key difference between John Bolton and President Trump. One is the President of the United States. Facial hair. That has power to, one, yes, facial hair. That's a key difference. But also has the power to declassify.
SPEAKER 05 :
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 08 :
The classification is with the president, not an advisor that's not even a position that's not even confirmed by the Senate. This is just a national security advisor that gets to be a part of this process, but then acting as if you are the supreme authority in the United States government and able to do whatever while then criticizing the president for something that he actually has the power to do is just so rich because it always seems to be the things they criticize you for are the crimes that they are actually committing.
SPEAKER 05 :
We got a call related to that. It's going to Michael in Florida. I was watching on YouTube where thousands of people watch each and every day. Michael, go ahead.
SPEAKER 06 :
I think sometimes I really need to kind of sit back and kind of understand just how blessed we have been given someone like president Trump. He is legitimately a force of nature. And again, Just as Charlie Kirk even once said, look, I'm not a Trump minion by any means. I mean, maybe eight, nine, ten times out of... I agree with him, but there are certain things that I don't necessarily... But he's just... He's a man of our culture who's just made...
SPEAKER 05 :
tremendous difference well michael i think that's true i think you can look at it and go look i i i've been very vocal my thoughts on president trump the the stuff i agree with him on the stuff i disagree with him on there are many times where that has happened uh however when you look at something like what happened in gaza uh honestly his middle east plans first term and this term No one's done it better. No one has done it better, and you can't take that away from them. You can't take away what happened with the Abraham Accords, and you can't take away what happened now with the current peace plans that are hopefully going to continue on, but at least the freeing of the hostages in Gaza. Because those moments are incredibly difficult, and we see, you know, there's sort of the blessing behind the curse of having the Biden administration for four years. We've got to see how quickly that can fall apart. when you have an administration that is not staying up on what's going on in the Middle East, who does not care as much, who does not have as much tact or as much trust or as much fear. Does it put as much fear into his opponents? So you have to say, for President Trump, there are things that I agree and disagree on, but there are moments that you do have to look at and go, you're right, he's a force of nature and completely different than any other president that we've had in our lifetime. That being said, phone lines are open. I'd love to hear from you in more conversation like that. Because look, it is a, you know, they're going to spin something like this well with John Bolton as this is political retribution. Of course, we saw what happened in the four years of Biden. We know what that looks like firsthand.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, and we saw a lot of political retribution, but not to big names under the Biden administration. That's how they got away with actual political retribution, by chilling the speech of their opponents, of conservatives, of voters, by going after parents that wanted to advocate for their children at school board meetings, to want to go after those that were standing up for the unborn, that were pro-life advocates. That was a much more political retribution regime because they went after everyday Americans that weren't going to be talked about on the news, whose name you didn't know. And they did that to silence their speech, to get them to back down. And this is a different era. Now, it's also going after people that are bad actors that according to the indictments, committed crimes. So therefore, they will have their day in court, unlike a lot of people who were spied on, surveilled, and put as a threat tag as a domestic terrorist to try and chill the speech. That's what was happening under the prior administration.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right, we'll be back in just a moment. Before we do that, though, I want to encourage you to go to ACLJ.org. Spend some time on there and take action with us if you can. That means supporting the work financially, not just our legal work, but also this show and the media work we do here. We can't do it without you. Go to ACLJ.org. Great way to also be a part of it. Sign our petitions. That's an absolutely free way to do it. Or become an ACLJ champion today. We'll be right back with special guests. Welcome back to secular. Do we have a special guest on today? Craig Bouchon is joining us. He is a, not only just a media host, someone who has his own show entrepreneur and founder executive director of unified America. Uh, he is also, like I said, creator and host of the Craig Bouchon show. And look, there's been a topic that has come up. We've been talking about it for years, but thankfully it is finally making news. Well, of course this is, uh, the persecution, persecution and genocide of Christians that's happening around the world. Uh, You know, I'm not talking about what's going on in our country necessarily. We hear a lot about the issues that happen with Christians in our country. But there is so much bigger happening. And finally, it's starting to work its way into the mainstream media. Thankfully, people like Craig as well.
SPEAKER 08 :
That's right. up at CraigBouchon.com that's titled The Silent Genocide, Why the World Ignores the Slaughter of Christians. And it's an important piece for people to read. I encourage everyone to go read it at CraigBouchon.com. But it goes through these nations like Nigeria, Syria, the Congo, Pakistan, as well as others that there is a, as titled in the piece, a silent genocide. This is a systematic process purging of Christians in these nations and the world looks away. And so, Craig, we wanted to bring you on today to talk about this piece and really what prompted you to publish it and what you've learned in looking into this silent genocide.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, you know, thank you so much for having me on today. And I wish I was on for a better subject for sure. But the fact is that ACLJ has been covering this subject for many years. And I wish it was harder for us when we were doing our digging. We didn't have to dig too far to put this information together. It should be top of mind. And it is really an atrocity that's happening across the globe. It's a full spectrum scenario that we need to discuss. And specifically in this country, you know, we are still a majority Christian country. Of course, there's many other religions here as well. But We are a majority Christian country, and it's just not spoke about. And it is a real problem. So we were trying to put together something that was simple enough for people to understand, not get too deep into the weeds. But the fact is that more and more news agencies, podcasts, churches, political leaders need to speak about this because it is happening every single day.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, and as we've seen recently, one, we know what makes headlines. We know the conflict between Israel and Gaza has obviously taken over for years now, the headlines. But this is something that when you look at a nation like Nigeria, where they have the most persecution of any country in the world, and they're systematically killing Christians with Boko Haram and other Islamist groups that attack them there. But we are fortunately one. This piece is digestible and it's shareable and it gives you a primer and also allows folks that once they read that to dig deeper, to find out more information about these these nations that you may not have been top of mind thinking about the persecution that's going on. But you are starting to see, to some degree, alternative voices start to bring this up more. We spoke about a couple weeks back on the show where Bill Maher even brought up on his show that, listen, everyone should be talking about what's happening in Nigeria. This should be something that the UN is writing resolutions about all the time because of how devastating it is and how many people are being massacred and churches burned down and lives destroyed. But once again, it's taking people even like Bill Maher, who's very proudly an atheist, does not love organized religion, to call out these atrocities because our mainstream media just won't touch it.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, it's a fact. And again, the whole goal of this piece that we did is to make it digestible, bring it top of mind, let people know what's happening, start asking more questions, make sure that we're focusing in on the protection of Christians around the world. It can be a controversial conversation for some, But the fact is that it is a genocide that is happening. There are particular leaders around the world that they're doing it on purpose and that needs to be showcased. And you're right. There are people, I think, because there's more than mainstream media now. We have a tremendous amount of ways to get information out, just like this show, for example, that more and more people are talking about it. But it needs to be broadened. It needs to be top of mind. We should be seeing statistics, data. Yes, Nigeria, Syria, the Congo, Pakistan. There's a whole lot of data there. And we're doing some updates, as a matter of fact, because we did another post called Follow the Money, Why Global Christian Persecution is Met with Silence. So the next thing we're working on is we're following who's stopping this information from getting out, because there are those people as well. Look, we're all in this together. I'm a huge fan of what you do with with your show and with the ACLJ and the bigger picture. And we're proud to be a part of that messaging. Get the information out. And so we're going to stay on the subject. And it's important. And me as a Christian, I think it's also my duty to do it.
SPEAKER 05 :
Absolutely, Craig. And I wanted to maybe the last question that we get to today. But as you state in your article, it feels like evil isn't hiding anymore. Do you think this is more of a spiritual battle, spiritual warfare than anything else? You brought up your faith. And I think that is something we look at. Of course, this is a targeted Christian. So it feels like that this is something much, much bigger than some sort of political violence.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, absolutely. We are, and I've said for years, you know, many years ago when I was on air in Austin, Texas, I was even talking about this. Now that I've come back on the air after a hiatus, I'm talking about it again. We are in a holy war. As a Christian, it goes back all the way to Genesis. This is a biblical fight. At some point, we have to start having the real conversation about what we're doing, why we do it. What does it mean to be a Christian nation? What does it mean to be an American? What is our relationship with Israel explained in more detail from a biblical standpoint so people understand and just kind of get it right? I personally believe that we're in a holy war, but it's not a new war. It's a war that's been going on for generations, thousands of years.
SPEAKER 05 :
There's a lot of great content in your article and so much more. I want to give you a second. We only got about a minute and a half here to plug, though, how people can follow you and check out this article and hear your show.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, go to CraigBouchon.com. We have articles up every single day. We're also partnered with the Spreely Network as well, where we're going to have our video podcast. We have our audios up right now. Again, go to CraigBouchon.com. And we're excited about getting reengaged in the conversation because, you know, the First Amendment to the Constitution is... that important. And we talk about that. The motto on my show is the truth is not hate speech. And so we coin that phrase every single time because the truth is what sets us free. And we got to talk about it every single day. So I thank you so much for having me on. Keep up the great work. please go to CraigBouchon.com. We read between the lines. We just don't follow the top stories. We actually read between the lines of what's driving those stories so we can hopefully find a solution to some of these issues that we're facing in our society.
SPEAKER 05 :
Craig, thanks for joining us. We really appreciate it. Always good to hear from you. Again, you can check out Craig's work. Hey, we do have a second half hour coming up on this broadcast right now. So if you don't get us in your local station, find us broadcasting live each and every day, 12 to 1 p.m. Eastern time. That is on ACLJ.org, on YouTube, Rumble, however you get your podcasts. We're there. Of course, you can catch us on Archive on all those platforms as well. And support the work of the ACLJ while you do it. We only got about a minute break, but it's a great time to go make a donation, support the work. Come in, ACLJ champion. If you can, that's someone that gives on a monthly basis, automatically, like a membership. Do that today. It helps create a great baseline. Join the tens of thousands of you that have already done that at aclj.org. Opt in. Become a champion. We're back in less than a minute.
SPEAKER 07 :
Keeping you informed and engaged, now more than ever, this is Seculo. And now your host, Logan Sekulow.
SPEAKER 05 :
Welcome back to Sekulow. We got a second half hour for you. It's just Will and I for this half hour. It is. So what are we going to talk about, Will?
SPEAKER 08 :
We're going to talk about a lot of things. We're going to talk about this Bolton indictment.
SPEAKER 05 :
You said that like a beetle. We're going to talk about a lot of things.
SPEAKER 08 :
A lot of things. A lot of things. John Bolton, yes. We're also going to talk about that wonderful... like had to watch debate last night in New York City.
SPEAKER 05 :
I watched the highlights. Highlights, you had Mamdami, you had Cuomo, and you had the guardian angel, what's his name?
SPEAKER 08 :
Curtis Lewa.
SPEAKER 05 :
Curtis Lewa. It was, you know, which of all the Siwas, My favorite is Curtis. It was an interesting debate. We'll discuss it. If you watched it, I'm curious, because a lot of it was not about New York City. I think we had a discussion about that. Half of it, I'd say, was about New York City. If that, half of it was about President Trump and about other things in national politics. What do you think about it? Obviously, Cuomo kind of came in as trying to be almost- a trump conservative in some ways those things because president trump will listen to him he'll still he'll back down if i tell him to back down of course you had on the other side and cuomo comes off like the most i mean if you want to look at like who would be if you're casting a movie to be the mayor of new york it is uh andrew cuomo i mean he's just exactly the character you think he should be i had a lot of good things to say it's like he was in ghostbusters I mean, he really does feel like that. And then you turn, because I mean, their dad kind of was. Their dad's basically a character. And then you go over and you look at Mondami, who I have to say, came off super slick. Though I think he dodged a lot of the answers, he had good dodges for those answers.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, that's what the New York Post front page was today.
SPEAKER 05 :
I couldn't even read that.
SPEAKER 08 :
Mom dodger.
SPEAKER 05 :
Mom dodgy. Mom dodging.
SPEAKER 08 :
Not their best work. Of all their puns. Normally pretty good.
SPEAKER 05 :
That one, boned it in. Yeah, I mean, look, I think that the polls are showing that he's running away with it right now. And if you watch that and say that you are a liberal Democrat who is voting in the mayoral race in New York, I think your answer is pretty clear, even though I think it could end up being an absolute disaster for the city. Someone who loves New York City had seen what it looks like under Republican control, under Democrat control, under independent even control, what it can look like. And I think you can flashback 20 years, then flashback 10 years, flashback five years and see how different New York City has gotten, you know, as what you'd say is the capital of the world. You would hope it is a place that people want to travel, visit, the crime is taken care of, that things are under control. And look, President Trump has talked about doing what he's done now in Chicago, doing what he's done now in Memphis. And Memphis, look, you've got to give it up. President Trump, it's a little scary. We've said when you bring in the National Guard and those things start happening, you have to start going, okay, where does federal control come in? 45 children, missing children, were located in Memphis, Tennessee in the first few days of this campaign. 45 missing children. Some of them runaways. Some of them runaways that ended up getting involved in trafficking just because they ran away and had to have something to do. So you have to say, those are the kind of stats and the numbers where you go, all right, there's something to this right now. And really it's saying there's something to what's going on locally in these areas that they can't control this themselves.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, even at that point, we have to give credit to one, the governor of Tennessee for requesting and working with the president, but also Senator Bill Hagerty, who worked very closely with the president to make sure that happened. And in the two weeks that the National Guard and the federal task force was in Memphis, they made 854 arrests and seized 180 illegal guns. And they took violent criminals off the streets, as well as you mentioned the children that were rescued. But just think about that. 180 illegal guns were seized by the federal task force in a city that is just has so much rot with crime in it. The fact that this isn't being celebrated by the left taking illegal guns off the streets. This should be New York Times front page headline of look at what is success to bring down and combat gun violence in this country.
SPEAKER 05 :
We're here in Tennessee. We're here in Tennessee. I love Memphis. Memphis, my favorite places here in the state. However, the last few years, it's gotten out of control. I took my family there just about a year ago, and look, they'll tell you some stories. Those stories aren't the most flattering for what happens in Memphis, and I would love to see a better place to visit and a better place to live for those who live there as well. Because it's a great city, great culture, great food. With that being said, we've got two more segments coming up, and I want to hear from you. Give me a call at 1-800-684-3110. We're going to play some bites also from that debate. And so much more coming up in the next segment of Secular. The Seculo phone lines are open for you at 1-800-684-3110. Wasn't going to spend a whole lot of time on the debate, but I do see a lot of comments coming in. Clearly, a lot of you did watch that New York mayoral debate between Andrew Cuomo, Mom Donnie, and Curtis Lewa. Right. And it was an interesting one. Look, I have to say. You have to take your political blinders off and go, look, there are a lot of things I disagree with. I would actually say almost everything that I disagree with with Mamdami. But what you can't take away from him, he is a very gifted speaker. And as someone who comes in as a young man, this is a guy we got to keep our eyes on because he is someone who could take it further and further because of his charisma, the way he's able to speak. Even if he's dodging a question, it comes off a better answer. He had rebuttals to almost every gotcha moment. It was pretty impressive. Now, of course, he is competing against two old guys who've been around forever. And I don't mean that in a mean way, but they're certainly not the next generation of New Yorker. These were two classic New Yorkers, one of which was Andrew Cuomo, who had a pretty rough ending to his career after COVID and all the things he's had to go unapologetically. He made an apology to the Jewish community for the way he treated them during COVID. There's so many things he's had to do to try to make up for it. Honestly, if it was anyone else, I think he would have a much better chance. But the fact that it is someone who New Yorkers have a love-hate relationship with already... isn't going to go over super well. And the poll numbers are really saying that Mamdani is running away with it. That's right.
SPEAKER 08 :
So the polls that came out before the debate have among registered voters a 21 point lead with Mamdani at 49% then 28% to Andrew Cuomo and 13% to Curtis Sliwa but then when you go to the likely voters it's 52% for Mamdani and then you have 28% for Cuomo and 14% for Sliwa so And just based off those numbers, it's not an overcomable margin there for someone like Cuomo, even if Sliwa were to drop out or vice versa. The other problem with the Republican candidate Sliwa is that he, one, has been around a long time. He was a fixture in old New York, helping clean up the city, which I think he's tried this multiple times running for mayor. I think that he's thinking, okay, we're at that time where everyone's talking about cleaning up New York. This is my moment. But it doesn't play the same way. I feel like the nostalgia for the Guardian Angels probably just isn't even there in New York anymore, as well as... He has a contentious relationship with President Trump. When President Trump became president, he left the Republican Party. He said, I don't want to be associated with him. So it's not as if he can even play off that and try to reach a base in New York that may be a silent majority or something or old school, you know, blue collar populist New Yorker. That's not who he's necessarily going to win over there. So then you take all that when you're up against a charismatic candidate like Mamdami. You have to think he has higher aspirations. Obviously, he cannot be president of the United States based off the Constitution. He was born in Uganda. But senator, congressman, governor of the state. I mean, those are options that he has to gain more power, although being the mayor of New York is a very big position. But he did have some issues. You know, he's talking with there. You talked about dodging and everything. But then he was even asked by the moderator about making things free. This is by 10. We should play because it. It shows how slick he can be, but also that, I mean, there's not a ton he can do. You can run on these campaign promises, but also as mayor, he doesn't have the authority to raise taxes by himself. It's either through the city council or through the state legislature. Let's go ahead and play by 10.
SPEAKER 01 :
The question is how you'll make them free.
SPEAKER 03 :
We will fund the revenue that would have otherwise been brought in from fares. And that's something that we would do in partnership with Albany. And I've put forward two proposals. The first is to raise taxes on the top 1% of New Yorkers by 2%. That would raise $4 billion. The second is to raise the state's top corporate tax rate to match that of New Jersey, which would raise $5 billion.
SPEAKER 08 :
So right there, he's saying he wants to raise the state's top corporate tax rate as mayor of New York. This isn't something he can do. So he can offer these things and run on these campaign promises. But it's also very slick because then he can blame Albany. He can blame the governor. He can blame the legislature of saying that. I ran on this. The people want it, but they won't give it to me. Throw them out of office. And then what's he doing? He's running for governor next. I mean, there's that you see the trajectory there because his promises are not something he as mayor of New York has the authority or capacity to even pull off.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, I think that it's an interesting time for New York City. I would have not thought this is where they would have gone after Eric Adams and after all the issues they've had to then go this way. But it does feel like they want a new fresh face. And look, there are times they've called him out for his rhetoric around Israel, because obviously the largest Jewish community outside of Israel is in New York City. It accounts for about 10, 12 percent of the residents of Manhattan, which is a lot in that area. And whenever he brings that up, he quickly dodges it, says, of course, he agrees that Israel should be a state. He definitely doesn't think it should be a Jewish state. He's been pretty clear about that should be a state for all people. And of course, Israel already does that. But it is founded in in the Jewish homeland. Now, they've also brought up tweets he's stated, and you had him going back and forth with Cuomo. I think you should hear this to kind of hear how he kind of could speak the language of both sides here. So let's take a listen. Byte 11.
SPEAKER 03 :
I have been clear time and time again that as much as Andrew Cuomo wants to bring up tweets from 2020, which is around the same time that he was sending seniors to their death in nursing homes, I am looking to work with police officers, not to defund the NYPD, looking to ensure that officers can actually do one job when they're signing up to join that department.
SPEAKER 01 :
Not the many jobs we're asking them to do today with the mental health crisis. He was specifically referring to comments you made. We will come back to that, but we're out of time. You said they are waiting to interrupt.
SPEAKER 05 :
candidates and racists we're moving on that's what you said your words your words we're moving on see they're moving on they're moving on he was saying that your words were racist trying to talk to him and of course like an interesting moment as i said mamdami plays about three conservative talking points right there talk specifically about not defunding the police giving the police more authority to do the job that they were hired to do talks about the nursing home situation that happened during covid Under Andrew Cuomo, again, another talking point that is largely being presented by conservatives. This is someone who is certainly understanding how to talk to the masses, and we need to keep an eye on it. Because as you said, New York City, though it is not a city that most of our listeners probably live in, there is consequences, just like what goes on in California, just like what goes on in some of our major states, Texas, Florida.
SPEAKER 08 :
um there's ripple effects that happen when you elect somebody like this in uh again one of our biggest cities that's right this isn't just someone that's like i'm a democrat and you look at their policies and you say oh these are socialist policies this is someone who says he is a democratic socialist this is someone that will then lead one of the largest economic centers in the country based off socialist policies that has been having a rough go at it And it's a very dangerous thing when you start to bring that in. Now, to some degree, there are people on the right that are like, okay, let him get elected and see the failure of those policies in a place that's an economic center. But that does do damage to the rest of the country, but it also makes it more attractive to other places. It normalizes democratic socialism This is the same party that was criticizing the Hamas-Israel deal because it said just last week that, no, it doesn't give back all the stolen land that Israel has, meaning all of Israel, from the river to the sea. So this isn't a group that... has normal mainstream thought that's just a little wonky on economics. This is a very anti-American ideology that he's going to bring forward and lead the city. I mean, anything can happen in politics, but he has a very clear trajectory to being the next mayor of New York.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, I think if you're a betting person on it, the odds look very much in that favor. Hey, I want to hear from you. Coming up in the next segment, we've got a few lines open at 1-800-684-3110. We can talk about John Bolton. We can talk about what's going on right now. President Trump meeting with Zelensky after having that conversation with Putin. They're looking like he's going to have a meeting with Putin here coming up, I believe. I forgot what they said it was going to be. We'll look up where it is. where they said it was going to be a neutral playing ground, another neutral playing ground with Putin. Of course, the last one didn't turn out as well as maybe they had hoped, but we'll see what that is. Maybe you have a thought process on that's going to be in Hungary. That's right. Phone lines, again, are open for you at 1-800-684-3110. That's 1-800-684-3110. I do want to take a minute right now. Look, we have been working hard here at the ACLJ. It's not just our media team. These kind of shows we come in we kind of give you some breaking news items we discuss what we're working on a little bit but in you know behind the scenes not just on this show since president trump's inauguration our legal team has been filing amicus briefs in cases where the president's executive authority is under a relentless attack You heard about what's going on in all these areas, the good and the bad, and of course, all the rogue judges. And today, we file in Trump v. Slaughter, defending President Trump's authority to remove federal trade commissioners according to his policy agenda. Today, today's filing will mark 16th. briefs defending president trump just this year we have had two big wins on this issue with executive authority so we're hoping for another one that was with planned parenthood being defunded and take action with us right now you can help us really right now there's a great way to do it we only have 15 seconds so i can't even read the rest of my pitch just go to aclj.org sign a petition play around on there but most importantly make a donation if you can of any kind five dollars fifty dollars whatever it can be we'll be right back Last segment of the day. Welcome back to Secular. We are going to take your calls. We've got four lines open right now, so this is a good time to call in at 1-800-684-3110. Let's go to Jim in Ohio on line two. Go ahead, Jim.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yes, hi. Good afternoon. Yeah, thanks for taking my call. I just have a question. Does President Trump have an avenue that he can go down to be financially reimbursed from all of the... privileged lawsuits that were brought against him?
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, Jim, one, these were, most of them would have been the federal government in some ways. Not all lawsuits. These were criminal cases in many cases. When you talk about the special counsel, you think about there was that civil lawsuit in New York where the judge actually threw out the $500 million judgment against him in that appeals court. So As far as that goes in the criminal cases, no, there was charges. They were dropped in most cases. So it wouldn't be something that they'd be being an avenue of a frivolous lawsuit. Although we look at them and say these are frivolous lawsuits, it wouldn't necessarily be to that standard as well as I think the president isn't looking to necessarily get reimbursed. I think he's doing OK and is just more focused on leading the country at this point.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. Thank you, Jim, for calling. We do have some lines open again, as you said, 1-800-684-3110. We are following. President Trump still has not greeted Zelensky. It has not happened yet. They've been talking about like it was going to happen in any second. Of course, this has been multiple meetings that have happened now with Zelensky over the last few months. After that, the one we kind of think of is the one that was. Very contentious. Then after that, it seems to have been a friendship that has blossomed a little bit, specifically after the end of the war in Gaza. Now, of course, there are still updates going on what's happening in Gaza. President Trump said if they don't quit killing their own people, we're going to go in and take care of them. That has been some of the threats coming from President Trump over the last 24 to 48 hours. Of course, we're all monitoring that to see what that looks like. But I'm sure he sees, look, if something like this can happen, it's a different kind of scale war. when it comes to ukraine and russia but in some ways i don't want to say it's a different kind of dispute but it's a it is a different kind of you know it's not religion necessarily there is some religion involved they'll like they'll certainly say that there is a religious uh backbone to it but it is more of a uh i don't say a traditional land war but there is some of that
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, yesterday we spoke with former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo about this and talked about some of the momentum that the president has by even getting Hamas to that first step, like getting them to agree to the terms, even if they don't live up to it, was such a monumental task that it shows the difference in the strength that President Trump projects instead of just telling the adversaries don't. Don't go forward. Don't attack your neighbor. And that's what the previous administration was. So while the first rounds may have not been successful, just like the first rounds of him trying to end the Gaza conflict didn't necessarily get that far. We also are only seven months into this presidency at this point. I'm sorry, no, nine months into this presidency starting in January. That's wild. But when you look at what has happened in that time is that we're not even a year in. You're like calendars, man.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
gotten to this point where he's having these summits with putin and i think putin sees what he was able to pull off and actually praised what he's able to pull off in israel that it starts to show that okay the president has these economic tools that he can use he has these military tools they they said in that phone call he joked about would you mind if i uh sent a couple thousand tomahawks to ukraine like that's how he's talking to putin uh showing that he can be almost like whimsical about it but also I'm dead serious about what I'm doing.
SPEAKER 05 :
How do you scare somebody? I think President Trump has known that really that's maybe one of the only answers for dealing with Putin and dealing with Russia is to give them that 10% of maybe you'll do something great.
SPEAKER 08 :
But that's also what a lot of this discussion with Zelensky is supposed to be today, is talking about increasing what the United States gives to Ukraine. It's not sending more troops or more advisors, as the Biden administration liked to call all the special forces units that he had stationed in Ukraine. But what it really is, is going to be, hey, we're going to give them weaponry. We could give them arms that could really make a difference in Tomahawk territory. It is an escalation of what the armaments that we would be giving to Ukraine would be that would allow them to hit targets a lot further into Russia, a lot bigger targets. This is a different phase of that. And then if you couple that with putting more economic pressure on the trading partners of Russia, it really could bring about a Hamas-Israel style agreement that comes out of it. Now, one other thing. The people on the left aren't going to be happy with that either. Because when you look at what the Hamas-Israel agreement was, if you are Israel, you had to give up a lot. There's a lot of things that takes it out of Israel's control, such as the presence in Gaza, pulling back, the releasing of thousands of Palestinian prisoners.
SPEAKER 05 :
So on the face of it, there were a lot of... I think we have to bring that up because I keep saying hostages. I keep seeing the term hostages.
SPEAKER 08 :
It's because you have so many leftist friends, Logan. I do.
SPEAKER 05 :
It's also because they don't understand the difference. Let's say hostage release for hostage release. And of course what we're talking about is here. We're talking about who got released from Israel back into the Palestinian territories, back into Gaza. You're talking about people who were arrested for crimes, not hostages in war. Murderers, terrorists. People that involved mass murders, people that planned the bus bombings, all those things in the early 2000s that they were dealing with. So don't think that Israel didn't give up anything. They weren't giving up hostages. They were giving up hostages, not innocents, which is what was going on in Israel, which were the ones who were kept in Gaza.
SPEAKER 08 :
Someone that was running a soundboard at a music festival. Right. I mean, that was one of our clients. That's the type of people that were the real hostages. And then you're talking about terrorists on the other side. And that's my point to that, is that If you are an Israeli or even a diehard Zionist, that deal on paper, there are some things that we even talk about that we didn't love because you look at it and you're like, oh, this is an actual deal negotiation. I think the same thing is what is likely to come out of if President Trump is able to broker something between Ukraine and Russia. It will look like that. So people on the left will have a lot to be upset about. they will have a lot to say. How dare he force Ukraine to do this? But if there's resolution, I think that is more what it would look like rather than a Russia go home, Ukraine gets all the land back.
SPEAKER 05 :
I think the hope is that it comes to a solution where both Ukraine and Russia also come back can get back open to trade with the United States and all of those things. I know that's kind of controversial. People are like, how dare you? It's like Russia, the import export business, what was going on in Russia, that being shut down, that's a whole nother show we can talk about. But man, you're talking about an economic boom that would probably happen in some ways if you were able to reopen Russia to trade. So hopefully there can be an end of war scenario here. And if President Trump could broker it in Gaza, I'm pretty confident he could probably figure out how to deal with it with Ukraine and with Russia.
SPEAKER 08 :
And I think that's what's interesting about his approach to all these wars is what he leads with is I just want people to stop dying. It's a very humanitarian approach, which a lot of people may criticize because it isn't a very geopolitical approach. It's not a picking a side, winner, loser. Whose politics do I like better? He's just like, I just want these people to stop killing each other, whether it be Gaza in Israel, whether it be Russia and Ukraine. And I think that is what makes it such a novel approach because everyone else is colored by all the geopolitical baggage that they have when they approach these things.
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Dive into a riveting conversation with Senator John Kennedy as he discusses his new book, 'How to Test Negative for Stupid and Why Washington Never Will.' In this insightful interview, discover what drives this outspoken senator and why his stories resonate with clarity and humor in today's political landscape. Senator Kennedy shares his experiences in the U.S. Senate, offering behind-the-scenes insights into the dynamics of Washington, D.C., and the surprising anecdotes that make up his compelling narrative.
SPEAKER 01 :
I feel a little bit like Captain Ahab and I snagged Moby Dick because I've wanted to interview Senator John Kennedy for a very, very long time. I have to say of all the great quotes from Senator John Kennedy, the junior senator from Louisiana, my favorite is when he said, I say this gently, this is why the aliens won't talk to us. I mean, this guy's a classic. He's smart. He's got clarity coming out of his pores. And he's got a brand new book out called How to Test Negative for Stupid and Why Washington Never Will. Senator Kennedy, I hope you can hear my voice, how excited I am to get to spend a few minutes with perhaps one of my favorite senators of all time. Thanks for joining us, sir.
SPEAKER 02 :
Oh, thank you, Mike, for having me. I love your show, man.
SPEAKER 01 :
It's great to have you on as well. And I'm so grateful. I thought the book might have just been all of your one-liners, all of your favorite expressions, because they always ring true. This is what I love about the kind of leadership that you've given to the U.S. Senate and to the American people. your constituents in Louisiana. So let's, we got a lot to cover in the few minutes we have together, but let's talk about the book and the evolution of it, how to test negative for stupid. What are, what are readers going to find in your new book, Senator?
SPEAKER 02 :
Well, it's a, it's not a policy book per se, Mike. It's a storybook. I use stories to try to make my points about policy. Um, Some of those stories are funny. Some of them are bizarre. All of them are true. I use stories to explain what the United States Senate is really like behind the scenes to try to explain to people why in Washington, D.C., normal is just a setting on the dryer. The clothes dryer. And I try to, I think, I hope, successfully use the stories to explain why it doesn't have to be that way if we return to common sense. I talk about what it's like to work with President Trump, what he's really like in person. I talk about the one and only meeting that I was very, very few senators had this opportunity. the one and only meeting I had with President Biden. I've got stories about, I don't know, Chuck Schumer, Chuck Grassley, Mitch McConnell, Ted Cruz, John Fetterman, Marco Rubio. I hope the book will make people think. I think it'll maybe make you laugh. It may even make you daydream, but it's all true.
SPEAKER 01 :
Well, and what is important to know, and I've got people in Washington who know you and work with you and say, you're like the E.F. Hutton back in the day. When John Kennedy speaks, you've got to listen because you do provide clarity and honesty in a way that – Very few politicians do these days, and you truly are a breath of fresh air. I'm told that the book is just rip-roaring funny and also very insightful. So Senator Kennedy's book, How to Test Negative for Stupid and Why Washington Never Will, is now available where books are sold. And Senator Kennedy, I have to say, the theme of how they never will... test negative for stupid seems truer now than ever before. As a talk show host, every day we get treated to one crazy story after another. If they're not rejecting the federal help to lower crime rates, They're rejecting out of hand a secure border. They don't want apparently a better economy. I guess they object to peace in the Middle East. Every single day they seem to get crazier and crazier. And, Senator, yesterday Jim Jordan said – Look, not all Democrats are crazy, but the leadership is. Is that the problem, do you think, right now with the Democrat Party, that the leadership has just become so far left that they'll never come back to normal again?
SPEAKER 02 :
Well, here's what I think most Americans say, Mike. It's a great question. Republicans aren't perfect. God knows we're not. But the other side is now crazy. If you want to understand the shutdown, you can read my book. Here's what's going on. About Tuesday, a couple of weeks ago, two weeks ago, yesterday, or whatever day it is, Our country was rocking along. We were minding our own business. Our federal budget expired at midnight, but we weren't worried. We'd been talking to the Democrats about just extending it and continuing to negotiate. And then all of a sudden, Senator Schumer comes forward at the last minute and says... I'm not going to vote to keep government open, and I'm not going to let my people vote to keep government open unless you give the Democrats $1.5 trillion, and we're going to tell you how it has to be spent. well you can imagine our reaction my mother didn't raise a fool and as i say if she did it was one of my brothers and my colleagues felt the same way and president trump felt the same way and that's what this shutdown is all about uh the democrats have tried to muddy the waters to make them look deep but that's all this this thing is about now why is senator schumer being like that um Well, first, it takes 60 votes to get anything done in the Senate, which is why Senator Schumer has leverage over us. But number two, Senator Schumer is in trouble politically with his party. The Democratic Party is now run by the Hamas wing, the Moon wing, the socialist wing, whatever you want to call it, of the Democratic Party. And they're mad at Schumer, and he wants them to love him. And the leader of the party is Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez. And Senator Schumer wants to ingratiate himself to her. And really, that's why we're shut down. It's not a policy shutdown. It's a politics shutdown.
SPEAKER 01 :
Of course it is. And Senator, we're seeing the Democrats implode. And I know as a conservative talk show host, this might seem too good to be true. But It does feel like the Democrats are cratering. This week, you saw Nancy Pelosi blow up at a young reporter and scream shut up to her and stick her finger in her face when the reporter dared asked about the then speaker's actions during January 6th. You've got this communist who possibly is going to become the next mayor of New York. They're like a drift at sea. It feels like they're a cork bobbing around in the ocean right now. Or am I overstating that? Do you think they're in as bad a shape as I think they are?
SPEAKER 02 :
Well, they're clearly in disarray, Mike. I mean, and clearly the socialist wing of the party is in ascendancy. They're in control. And again, the leader is Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez.
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SPEAKER 02 :
Yes, it's not Nancy Pelosi anymore. It's not, though I think she'd like to be. It's not really Senator Schumer. And these people, they're crazy. They hate George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln and Dr. Seuss and Mr. Potato Head. They think they're all racist. They think our children should be able to change genders at recess. They believe in open borders. They believe that cops are a bigger problem than criminals. I could go down the list. And that's why the American people, that's why they lost the last election and why the American people are just scratching their heads. And I think they're as exasperated as I am. I don't want us to be in a shutdown. But I'm not going to agree to give them $1.5 trillion.
SPEAKER 01 :
Well, and we're not going to agree. I mean, health care for illegal immigrants, Senator Kennedy, is a bridge too far. And of course, they're gaslighting us. They're pretending, well, they don't want health care for illegals. Of course they do. They want illegals to be able to vote. They want to provide more benefits to illegals than they do many poor Americans who are desperate for assistance. This is the craziness that you're talking about with today's Democrat Party.
SPEAKER 02 :
Well, they do support free health care for foreign nationals in our country illegally. In fact, one of their demands is that we repeal the portion of the one big, beautiful bill that would crack down on the provision in the blue states of free health care to illegal immigrants. And the truth is that if you're a... If you're in our country illegally and you want free health care, all you have to do is claim asylum. And we tried to, and a lot of people who claim asylum are not telling the truth. They're not here because they're being politically persecuted. They're economic migrants, which is fine. We have a legal immigration system. You're supposed to get in line and allow yourself to be vetted. So my Democratic colleagues are just not telling the truth when they say they don't want health care for people in our country at least.
SPEAKER 01 :
I've wanted to ask you this question for a long time, and it's probably why I'm so excited about getting a chance to visit with you one-on-one. Of course, we're visiting with Senator John Kennedy, his new book, How to Test Negative for Stupid and Why Washington Never Will, now out wherever books are sold. And I want to end in a moment or two with some clarity about your role with the American people, if I may. But Senator, you're the kind of guy that I've wanted to ask about the Democrats' true intention. I've said as just a big mouth talk show host that when you see the intentional, the willful way Democrats oppose law enforcement, oppose border security, oppose things that make communities better, safer, cleaner. It feels to me and to many people in my audience that this destruction is intentional, that they either hate America so much that they want to tear it down or they want to destroy our cities and our states because they want to take control. But do you agree, Senator Kennedy, that this feels like this is deliberate, that it's intentional, that they are absolutely with purpose trying to destroy our country state by state, city by city? Is that fair or not?
SPEAKER 02 :
Yes, that's fair. I mean, just look at the facts. Now, I want to add this caveat. Not every Democrat agrees with the socialist wing of their party, but the socialist wing of their party has taken control. I call them the loon wing of the party. And the more moderate Democrats are scared. They're sitting back and watching the socialists about to elect a new mayor, a socialist mayor of New York. If the reasonable Democrats, the moderate Democrats, the non-crazy Democrats would stand up to the loon wing of their party, I think they would have the votes to throw them out. But they're scared of them. And frankly, I tell this to my Democratic colleagues who aren't crazy all the time you need to go to amazon and buy a spine online why do you want to allow these these folks the loon wing of the party who do hate america they they feel they feel animosity for america when they should feel gratitude and i don't understand why the other democrats allow them to to run things but they do and that's you know from a from a selfish political standpoint, that's probably good for Republicans, but it's horrible for our country.
SPEAKER 01 :
Oh, I mean, I feel that way about as a longtime New Yorker. Finally, I fled to Florida a few years ago like our mutual friend Sean Hannity did and so many others. I hate what New York might be experiencing if they get this guy elected. But from a – like you said, a selfish political point of view, this will be great for the GOP. This will be great nationally if the country sees – what a failed experiment this is going to be like. It's good for us politically. And by the way, quickly, can I ask you, when you talk to your normal Democrat friends, and I have normal Democrat friends too, and they quietly and sort of secretly say to me that they are appalled at the Zoran Mondami and Ayanna Pressley wing of the Democrat Party, is that what you get too from your colleagues, Senator on the Hill? Do your colleagues who are normal Democrats, do they express the same feelings Yes, but they're scared.
SPEAKER 02 :
And they see that the socialist wing, the loon wing is taking control. And they don't want to be necessarily supportive, but they don't want the loon wing to be mad at them. So they just do nothing and go along. That's why Senator Schumer is behaving this way. Senator Schumer, I know Chuck very well. Chuck's a very smart man. He knows this is nonsense. He knows this is foolishness. He knows that the loon wing of his party is going to lead his party to destruction. But he's scared of it. He's up for reelection in a few years. And you have to understand this about many politicians, not all, but many politicians, the first thing they want more than anything else is to be reelected. That's part of the problem. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 01 :
I'll say this about many politicians, and I know you've got a time crunch and you're on this book tour, and I'm so thankful to get to visit with you for a few minutes, because I'll say this about many politicians. The old joke is, how do you know a politician is lying while their lips are moving? But I'll say this about Senator John Kennedy. Nobody ever says that about you. You know, whatever criticism you get, nobody ever accuses you of pulling punches or not telling the truth or not being completely and utterly transparent about and truthful to your constituents in Louisiana and to the American public. I admire you greatly, and honestly, I've been wanting to talk to you for a long time. You're truly one of my political heroes. And listen, your clarity, your truthfulness is why your book, How to Test Negative for Stupid, is going to be a big bestseller, because people are yearning for your kind of clarity, Senator Kennedy. And I'm just grateful that you're able to take time out of your busy day to visit with us here on The Mike Gallagher Show.
SPEAKER 02 :
Well, Mike, thank you for your kind words about the book. We're number one on Amazon, so I'm pleased with that. Look, I have the right to remain silent, but not the ability. That's just the way my God made me. And some people like what I have to say. Some people don't. I try not to worry what anybody thinks about me, except dogs. I really like dogs. I want dogs to like me. But otherwise, you know, if you could disagree with me, that's cool. I don't hate anybody. But I am going to say what I think. And I love your show. I thank you for having me, Mike. You're a rock star, man.
SPEAKER 01 :
Listen, like dogs, we all love you. Thank you, Senator Kennedy. Congratulations on the book. Keep fighting the good fight. We appreciate you joining us, sir.
SPEAKER 02 :
Thank you, my friend. Thanks so much.
Reggie Rocko kicks off another Freaky Friday on I’m a Uniter with a bang. From the Pledge of Allegiance to mani-pedis and machete toenails, the conversation dives straight into the realities of everyday American life. Reggie and Luke hit digital currency hard, warning about the dangers of a fully tracked economy and reminiscing about old-school cash deals—including a $17,000 Starbucks handoff.
The discussion expands into Trump’s rumored coin, demographic shifts in America, and cultural clashes surrounding language, immigration, and the American identity. Listeners get unfiltered takes on transgender ideology in schools, declining birth rates, and Trump’s fertility policy push.
Reggie and callers debate authentic food cultures, language dominance, and the changing face of communities. Then the show turns geopolitical: Russia’s prolonged war, Hamas and Israel’s uneasy peace, and Trump’s potential moves in Venezuela and Mexico. The episode closes with crypto chatter—Texacoin mining strategies, market dips, and the long game of digital assets.
It’s classic Reggie Rocko: raw, hilarious, intense, and deeply patriotic. Stand up, lock arms, and tune in—because I’m a Uniter doesn’t shy away from any topic.
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Oh, yeah. Yeah. What's up? What's up? What's up? You tuned in to 560 KLZ. KLZ. I'm a uniter. I'm a uniter. I'm your host, Reggie Rocco. Yeah. Yeah. KLZ. Yeah. Yeah. So what about now? You want everybody. I mean, everybody. Stand up. Stand up. Hold your hands up high. Lock arms. This is about America, baby. We bringing people together. I'm a United.
SPEAKER 05 :
To the flag of the United States of America. And to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God.
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Indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Woo! 560 KLZ. This is Army Uniter. Of course, this is Reggie Rocco. And of course, you know, we got the master producer, Lukey Luke. What's going on, buddy? Oh, another beautiful day, Reg. Beautiful day, man. But you know what? It's such a beautiful day. I think I'm just going to go ahead and go in. You know, this is Friday. And for me, you know, my nickname for and y'all can like it or lump it. But it's Freaky Friday for me. That is it. This is the day that I get. I had a I had a not a Long Island, but I had a hard Mike's for breakfast. So understand what today is, what it means to me. Now, you have a lot of people and I'm Christian. I'm just not perfect. But you have a lot of people married and, you know, in relationships and all that stuff. And they have their life and they, you know, have what they got to do and they have their schedules and what they do. Great, great. Kumbaya. Me? Yeah, I got a schedule, too. And so when I get here, get off here, and I got to do a couple little things, working, blah, blah, blah. You know, got to pay bills. Then, you know, got to go get the haircut. You know what I'm saying? Probably get a mani-pedi. You know, set that up. Yes, I do. I get a mani-pedi. No polish, anything. But it's good to have fingernails and toenails. Especially, you know, and I ain't hating, but I've seen some people's toes. And let me just stay in my... my demographic my race I've seen some toes on some black dudes oh my god the nails like you could ski on them things man like you go over to Africa and you look I'm like you know come on man you imagine how your feet got to be if you're out there walking on dirt and on rocks and all that kind of stuff come on man let's be real I'd be wondering like how does that how do you do it if I don't moisturize my feet and cut my nails that man I literally I Have you ever had an ingrown toenail? Yes, sir. On the toe, on the big one? No good. Not a fun time. Oh, man. On my big toe, for some reason, this nail just don't want to cooperate and grow straight. It curves. And then it starts looking like a machete. And it starts growing into my other toe. And, you know, you don't really feel these things, Luke. You're like you're doing your thing. And next thing you look down, he's like, what the heck? My toes hurting. I went I almost had to go to the doctor because I couldn't get underneath there. But I cut it. And it's like, wow, I had a literally I had a little scar from it. You know, it was bleeding from the toenail going into the other toe. So yeah, Manny Pettys, that's what it is. But dude, my boy Trump, and you know this show, We Unite People, we make jokes because we have to, we attack every subject and every person, every race, because you have to laugh at yourself and you have to hit the truth, you know, harshly, but logically, but also, you know, put a little bit of comedy in it. And so I was thinking up here about this digital money that we've been talking about for the longest. How they control you. I said, hey, if you're a barber, if you cut the grass, you can't even get paid under the table no more because they go, oh, here's my cash app or you got to go to my bank. No, how about just giving me the dollar dollar bills? And people are like, oh, digitized. And so when that happens, Luke, doesn't that mean that the banks and the government know everything, every bit of money that I'm getting, that I'm spending?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, yeah. They got their eyes on everything. But also even more than that, you look at a lot of your payment processors. If you got a MasterCard, a Visa, anything like that, a lot of these companies, every time you swipe that card, they're taking one-tenth of a cent, something like that. Yeah. well how many times are you swiping a card every day and they penalize you if you don't swipe it yeah and then how you know out of you you know out of the almost nine billion people on this planet how many times a day are they swiping those cards you know one tenth nine tenth of a cent that adds up quick you know it's hundreds of millions of dollars in you know such a short period of time you know what that reminds me of it reminded me of the time i was at your house went in your room and you had a safe in there and then
SPEAKER 07 :
I was thinking, how could I get into this safe and get out of here? And I remembered all the animals, the land, the guns everywhere. I said, you know, and this is my good friend Luke. But he believes, he knows about doom and gloom. He won't care. He's over there counting all this money. And it's like, I'm getting tired of watching him just count this money. It's like, it's just too much money, man. I'm just like, how do I get out? Just one of them one hundred dollar bills without Luke knowing. But I know Luke's going to know because Luke has cameras and everything everywhere and all kind of protections and fail safe. And so you just got to leave the devil. You got to click the devil off your shoulder. Get off. Get off. Get off. Nah, you know, I'm just playing. But that's what I imagine your house would be like from outside looking in. I'm like, yeah, yeah, buddy. Because, you know, Luke, he'll come here. He looks nice every day, but he'll tell you where he buys his shoes. He'll tell you where he buys his shirt. And I'm just like, are you serious, dude? I didn't even know they sold shirts at Costco and Walmart, you know, and King Soopers. Clearance rack special, baby. God. So that's how white people do it, though. $3 shirts. $3 shirts. They have a million in the bank, and they're going down to get the $3 shirts in the toilet.
SPEAKER 04 :
I do not have a million dollars in the bank. Reggie does.
SPEAKER 07 :
Reggie's got a million. No, no. Hey, I know what it feels like. Okay, let's be real. I know what that feels like. And then, you know, you're out. I'm in Atlanta. We got our major deals. And, you know, this is over. Man, this has got goals back, man. I'm not even going to date it, but I can just tell you from the 90s all the way up to now, I got so many stories with that money. So you're in the industry and you're like, okay, you got somebody, you got a major artist that's going to do something, do a drop for you, whatever. And you agree on a deal and a price to pay them, vice versa. And you think that you're going to pull out a digital card and pay them? Uh-uh. That ain't happening. What is this? I gave you this price. Cash, buddy. Cash, buddy. So I remember going to what was Starbucks and I'm meeting this very influential guy. And we can just I can even give you the company name just so y'all know. Love and hip hop. Big show. So what are the I'm not going to say his position on there, but when one of the cats up there. So we're doing a he's doing some work for me on the radio and some other promotion stuff. And he's charging me 17000, which what I had to do was pretty good on that level. So I'm like, here you go. No, check, huh? Oh, my bad, my bad. We really wasn't into like check cards or cash out or anything like that. But she had a debit card. Debit card, huh? Nah, cash. So I had to go to the bank, withdraw $17,000 cash. That took a minute. I didn't realize that banks don't have no money in the bank. It's like, yo, dude, where's my money? We have to order it. Order it? Order from where, Luke? From Luke? Does Luke got my money in the safe? Like, order it how? I need this right now. I got somebody waiting at Starbucks. Now I'm starting to sound like a drug dealer. Because I want my money in cash, they're asking me, well, what do you need the cash for? None of your dang business. Give me my money. So I worked that all out, finally get the money. Watching them count it to me. And dude, that's a process. Even when the machines. Filling out after it gets to the first thousand. I'm like, oh my God. So get the money. I head back. I was in Riverdale. That's where I was. Riverdale, Georgia. Head back to the Starbucks. I get out of my car. Boom. I'm coming in here and me, my naive behind. So I'm going in there and I am my computer bag. And I reach in there. He's sitting in the chair. I reach in there and I hand him this stack of money. He jumped back from me like I was handling him a rattlesnake or something. He's whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Not here. In the car. So then I had to turn around. Gil back in my car, wait for him to come out of Starbucks, get into my car, and then I had to count out $17,000. Man, I don't see how these rich people do it, to have all this cash on hand and all that, like Luke, because I'd have to be, you'd get tired of counting money. And we ain't just talking about all in hundreds. We're talking about 20s, 10s, 5s, 50s, you know, variety. and then it's coming from the bank, they're all crisp. Some sticking together. You want to make sure you ain't handing him a hundred that's really two or three stuck together. So it's a hassle, man. It is a big hassle. But I still would rather have cash in my hand than deal with the digital system. Am I wrong? No, I hear you. I hear you. So with that being said... I believe they said Trump is coming out with a dollar bill coin. Have you heard about that, Luke? No. It's got Trump on the picture. So I don't know if he's coming out with it or the federal men or whatever, U.S. men or whatever. But yeah, that's supposed to be in the workings that they're going to put this dude on a coin. What do you think about that? I love it. You do? I love it. That's my president. That's my boy. That's my stepdad. That's my dude right there. Yes. So give him all the flowers, why he's here, everything he's going through, everything he's doing. Yes. Give him, give him, give him. He should go down in history. You know, matter of fact, we need to go ahead and make a new Mount Rushmore because he needs to be on it for real. And I don't care what anybody says. I know I'll get, you know, you're not get. Man, I looked at my email, dude. I had 24,000 emails. And I said, OK, this has to be for more than one account from two accounts. So then I said, OK, let me look at the accounts. And the one that I deal with on politics and the show and the website. Oh, my God. I said, somehow I can forward all these to Luke. See, Luke ain't going to do nothing but delete them. He's not going to read them. He's like, man, are you kidding me, man? Are you kidding me? How much money is in it for me? That's what, right? Too much, Reggie. Too much. You are on one today. Oh, my God, man. So look at this, man. How do I say this so my listeners can understand? They know my personality. I have fun. But I'm serious now. And today is Friday, and it is Freaky Friday for me. And I'm going to have my fun. But it's hard to really enjoy yourself when you know... The women of today, and I, you know, come on, don't y'all all jump on me or jump at me. I'm just saying, in my generation, in a little... after it's it's not the same thing man you the women are totally different in my culture everything is a battle it's about money it's about how they can get over on you it's a it's a whole another thing there is nothing when you can just date someone and you're going to go go to the movies go to dinner and like you're supposed to do open the car door all that nah nah dude You're dealing with rattlesnake. You're dealing with devils, man. Their whole thing is about money. So somebody sent me a video of this black guy. He's dating this other black lady. And she's not even like a, you know, she's probably a seven, man. Maybe a six and a half, right? And... They're at a restaurant and she goes to the restroom and she's taking a little bit too long. So he pulls out his phone to call her like that. So that's a manly thing to do to make sure she's OK in the world we're talking about. It could be a transgender in there. It could be a dude in there. You know, I'm saying saying he's a chick and got your girl that you're on a date with cornered or something. Right. So you got to watch all that. So he calls her. But to a surprise, the phone rings right by him. So she had left their phone. When he looked at the phone, his face and picture came up, but guess what it said under the name? Go ahead. I'll give you one guess. I don't know. It said, free meal number three. Eesh. Rough. Rough, buddy. So, when she gets back, he calls her on it. And she's kind of defending and blah, blah, blah. She goes, this is why every time we go out, you never want to go anywhere but go to eat, eat, eat. And he's trying to date her. He's trying to be romantically involved with her. So he's spending the time and the money. And he don't know from the jump. He's just free meal number three. Wow. So welcome to my world. You know what I'm saying? This is why I'm single, yo. We're going to go to break. You listen to 560 KLZ. I'm a uniter, turd.
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You're listening to 560 KLZ, Reggie Rocco, Lukey Luke. Hey, buddy, seriously. The reason why I believe people should live for today, even more nowadays, live for today because tomorrow's never promised. It's crazy out here in this world, dude. And I never knew. And I would just love for someone with a pay grade above mine to really just break it down of why America wants to be so transgender and sexual orientation and all the sickness. And why and how we let this sneak in. Even under, if we didn't control the House or the Senate, you know, the Republicans, the Democrat control for a long time, it seemed like we should have been able to do something to, you know, stop that. There's a father that got with another father that raced into his son's school. They looked like they were about maybe fourth graders, third graders. And there's a little class, you know how you have special visitors that come to your class and you're supposed to talk about careers and stuff like that. They raced in there and it's a transgender dude in a skirt, big fat dude in a skirt, big beard, fake wig on, makeup, eyelashes, and he's there talking and performing to the kids. And every adult that came there, I'm just like, what? There's adults there and they have their kids here and they're doing this. And so these two fathers jump in and say, what the heck is going on? This is not permitted in schools. How are you putting this and forcing this on our kids? What are these pedophiles doing here? Blah, blah, blah. So he's going off on the teachers are coming up. It's for the kids. What do you mean it's for the kids? What the heck is this satanic going on? You know, he's going off. So then he goes over to the parents that have their kid in there that's supporting it. Well, could you could you believe it? They're all gay. They're all gay. So they're here. They're doing a complete assault on our kids, on our way of life. And think it's a brainwashing that's taking place. And. I was so proud to see these fathers and they were like, you got to get out here to call the police. Nope. They made that transgender get out and they said, call the police. We ain't going nowhere. And that's where they cut off the video. But they came in and that's the type of action that we got to have. We got to it got to be like that. Busting in there, doing whatever you got to do to run this stuff out and to bring awareness to really what's going on behind the scenes. and it was just incredible to see now trump has passed this fertility bill uh to help you know because you know luke you know you know your your race man is not you know they're not co-populating i guess uh they're they're not able their their numbers have gone down significantly why what's up with that man
SPEAKER 04 :
I don't know. I don't think it's a big issue, though, personally.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, they say it is. They say like over a half a million short.
SPEAKER 04 :
I don't mind. Well, maybe it's because my girlfriend is half Vietnamese, so she's mixed. Okay. I think it's fine. I think people are people.
SPEAKER 07 :
But is that not a call for young white males to get busy? Like, I mean, it's got that's what it looks like to me. So Trump Trump passes this bill because a lot of people say, well, we can't afford it. You know, it's if we're struggling with a family now, health care. And then, you know, it's hard for my wife or significant other to have a kid is so expensive. What they're trying to do. He done brought that down to literally. I think it's going to be from like $200 and something to like $10 or $14. I mean, it's crazy.
SPEAKER 04 :
I still think it's too expensive to have kids this day and age, right? I mean, you think what? I know my parents were having kids into their early to mid-20s, right? You know, the generation before that, same thing, early to mid 20s. You know, you come out of high school, you get a job, maybe you go to school, 24 years old, you're having your first kid. I know people in their 30s who still can't afford to have a kid. You know, they've been they've been working and climbing the ladder. They've been, you know, grinding away for the past decade. 10 years, 15 years, you know, hard labor, you know, since high school work, and they can't afford kids. I mean, it's grocery prices. Those are expensive. Kids in general, you know, diapers, baby formula, all that stuff, super expensive. Housing is the most expensive, you know. You can't get a two-bedroom apartment anywhere near a job for less than two grand a month. It's just bleeding you dry. Don't even talk about houses, you know. If you want... If you want a two-bedroom, one-bath house in the armpit of Aurora, you're almost half a million dollars. That's dodging bullets while you're eating dinner. Half a million dollars is what gets you that. Even just beside that, if you want to afford that house, if you want to afford those groceries, those diapers and that baby formula, well, mom and dad are both working. And if mom and dad are working, you've got to put the kid in some kind of daycare, and that's kind of money. It's just...
SPEAKER 07 :
it's just not so so you need you need help in all those areas and breaks and then and imagine if you if you want a family and you can't have a family because whatever medical reason or whatever and then you got to go to to you to you're going to your insurance or medicaid medicare there's nothing out there for you it's all with the illegals everything is with them for free and and so you're you're stuck so this thing that trump's doing is is amazing with that because truthfully i told you about The immigrants that are here and like the Somalians in Michigan and Detroit, you know, and I think it's in Portland. It's another it's another state. I can't remember. But they are just they are taking over, dude. And Hispanics come here. They're they're they're pregnant. already before they cross the border i mean that's just how it is and when they get here they drop in the bomb and that's what they do because you know what numbers is how they take over it may not be in our lifetime but you can guarantee the next generation every single one of them having two three four kids like as soon as they get here and guess what it's free for them It's free on top of everything else they're doing. And so America is really forming their own demise. It's a numbers thing. And with my people, what do they do? They promote abortion, abortion, abortion. So they're killing you off that way. We're in the same situation now. We can procreate. But for some reason, which I will not say on the air, they march straight to the abortion clinic. And so that is the key. I guess I would say that's the key to maintaining America as we know it. And that's to have babies, to have family, to have babies. Now, you can't overpopulate in one culture or another because then it wouldn't be America. You know, America is a melting pot. And so you don't want to turn it into war. One race, especially not a foreign race. Like that's that's ridiculous, man. It is crazy how these people come here and they think they own this country. They think the laws apply to them. I tell them all the time, just go home. I mean, I literally been in the middle of stuff in the saying, get the hell out of here. go nah they're here to get that check to take all the benefits to do everything they can and that situation is scary so when is that scary you still got to step up you got to step up and you got it you got to get it get it right so i believe trump is getting it right you got to have kids and a lot of them they're going to call them trump babies or whatever but the bottom line is the truth uh who's that johnny johnny johnny johnny you there Yeah.
SPEAKER 10 :
Hey, you know, yesterday, and I found out something just by accident. So I go have brunch with some older people probably three or four times a week. And so this lady is talking to this other lady in Spanish and stuff like that. And I'm thinking like, okay, well, she doesn't know English, whatever, I don't know, situation. And then it comes to find out that she lives in the same neighborhood I live in. She's been here for 35 years. Doesn't speak any English. Her job was at this church working in the kitchen. And I'm saying, nobody took you aside and said, hey, let's learn English step by step. And she's probably like 79, 70 years old right now. And I'm thinking, like, nobody, you didn't take the initiative to learn English, but she survived because the whole community in this area where I live They speak Spanish. She felt that she didn't need to learn English, but yet she survived, and she's like 70 years old. Nice lady, but if I lived in the country for 35 years, I would at least know English.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, I can answer that real quick. She don't need to learn English because they have took over America to where everything is Spanish. So why learn English? Every single thing, I don't care what you buy, where you go, what you do, what you read, it's all Spanish. There's even products, and it was so crazy, like if you and I had a business, Johnny, and we had a product, we would put English on there, and then we might put Spanish on there as well. But there's a lot of Hispanic owners and Vietnamese, Chinese owners and stuff. They don't even put English on their product. It's in their language in our country. Like, so I go and I want to buy something. I can't read it because I can't read Spanish. So the takeover is real.
SPEAKER 04 :
If I can offer a little counterpoint. Go ahead. Is that if I want good Mexican food, if I want real good Mexican food, the only place to sell it are the places without English on the menu. I'll tell you that. I believe it. good Vietnamese food, some authentic Vietnamese food, you go to the places where no English is on the menu, and it'll be good every time. That's my counterpoint.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, and you know what? I love that. So, you got your little section in the melting pot, right? Now, imagine if all that was forced on you everywhere to where everything you had to do, even in your own ... Johnny, you're black, right? Well, I don't know if you know, because you're blind. So, do you know what color you are? Do you know what your nationality is? Because you sure get around, dude. I just heard him say he's been going to brunch four times a day. Like, you do incredible stuff, man. You're my hero, dude. You're my hero. But without jokes aside, like, what do you feel about that, Johnny? Like, your language, you speak in Braille, right?
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah. Well, and only 10% of us know how to read Braille. And that's kind of crazy. Yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
Wow. Wow. So how is braille in Spanish? You know what?
SPEAKER 10 :
I looked at some of it because I was in Moscow and they showed me the braille in their language. It's still the dots, but it's just a different arrangement.
SPEAKER 07 :
I would go crazy. Yeah. So even what if they take over your language and now all the dots that you knew that was English are now Spanish. It would be a learning curve. It would be another learning curve, right?
SPEAKER 10 :
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
Wow.
SPEAKER 10 :
And that's one reason. I mean, I know what I know here. And I'm not interested in going to another country with another language because I know how to make money here. And I guess if I push myself, but I don't want to. I like it here. I know what's here. And I do it here. And it's not that I don't like these other countries. I love meeting people of other countries and stuff like that. But I know the rules here. And I said, why can't you learn? And I know people, they've been here for 20 years, got a business, didn't go down and do what they needed to do to get their papers right. And I'm thinking, like, 20 years, you got a business. Why don't you just get your papers right?
SPEAKER 07 :
So let me make it real clear because, you know, everybody knows I'm a Trumpster all the way. And I love America all the way. And like I said, she wasn't born great, but she was made great. And so everything I know is... I don't have a culture. And then I keep telling you that being a black American, African-Americans don't like you, you know, period. But they're here. We black Americans, what made black Americans, what made this country with the other cultures and white people? We we did this, you know, so you got all these people coming in here capitalizing on. All this work and suffering. And that's what I hate. I really can't stand that, man. And it really bugs me that you could come in here and just get all these, you know, all these systems and money systems and all this help. And just flood our country. And we got our vets and our people who live here, our poor, our homeless, that we're not doing anything for. To me, that is so treasonous, man, that we would even support something like that. And that's what's happening. And these people don't even love you. They don't like you. And they don't even like America anymore. And they want to change America to their country. Now, some years ago, I do, and I am on record saying, hey, why don't we just send our military to all these messed up countries? People wasn't hearing me. They wasn't feeling me. I said, let's shut the borders and let's let all these people stay in their country. And if their country is wrong, let's help them make it right. That way they're still over there and we can build little Americas everywhere. We can help do that instead of letting them come here. But now, I mean, Italy, you know, France, the UK. I mean, it's it's horrible, dude. It's horrible. And I always told you, you could be a big, you know, African elephant, but you could be you can get taken down, taken down by a trillion ants. It'll take you down. So what's happening here is overpopulation and the people don't have your best interest in mind. They have their interest, their country's interest. I always said here, if you make your money here in America, it should stay here. At least most of it. Do like how China do. You can't even make money over there, and a lot of it has to stay there, and they let you venture off to other countries, but it's a tiny bit. But hold on, man. We're going to go to break. We're going to go to break. You're listening to 560 KLZ. I'm a uniter.
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One, two, three. Woo! 560-KLC. I'm United. We are on one. Hey, during the break, so Luke is like, he's just being real. He's like, hey, Reg, I'm standing by that. To get the best Mexican food, Vietnamese food, you got to go to those places where they don't speak English. There is no English on any of the wrappers, the chips, anything. And I have to completely agree. I have to agree with that. But... He just told me something. We had mentioned I think he was out of town when I said I went to a little strip mall and I seen a food truck. The truck was in nothing but gravel and dirt, roped off like police sign, you know, where they put up for murder. And, you know, they had this truck. Oh, and it's the best kind of food. Empty these benches and they set up these, you know, instant seats and tables. Dude. Come on, man. What is going on here? So that's the best. That's the best kind of food. That's the best kind of food, Reg. So you're saying they didn't clean the grill. It's just what? All the flavor? It's all flavor. What do you know about flavor?
SPEAKER 04 :
Tell me how white people cook. I'll tell you. Everything I've learned about flavor has come from other people's food. No, I was saying during the break, like middle class suburban white people do not know how to make food. They don't know how to cook. They don't know how to season. Green bean casserole, gross. The flavor in there, it's like boiled chicken with salt, pepper, and water, Reg. It's disgusting. Oh, my God. I can say it because I'm a white person. White people don't know how to cook. If you want the only white people who know how to cook, the only people who know how to cook, you either got to go to like the deep south, like Louisiana, right? They know how to cook. Be like a crawfish boil, you know, the Cajun season and all that stuff. Very good. That's all culture from other people.
SPEAKER 07 :
Luke, give yourself a disclaimer. Your mom, your aunts, your family, you just said no white people can cook. They use salt, pepper, and water, which any black dude behind the scenes will be telling you. We're the seasoning. That's the first thing we say. It's so bland. I can't taste it. Luke's up here saying it on the air, Johnny. Can you believe this? Oh, my God.
SPEAKER 10 :
It's so funny that, okay, you cook a steak, right? But you put seasoning on it, but you say, you know, you got to have your meat. But why do you have to put all these, you know, tomato sauce and barbecue sauce on it if you are that much of a meat eater? So I don't know.
SPEAKER 04 :
Steak sauce? I think white people made that one. Gross. Why would we do that?
SPEAKER 07 :
Manzani. Yeah. I'm going to tell you like this. Luke is hitting it right on. Tell me some of your favorite meals, Reg. Mexican food.
SPEAKER 04 :
Mexican food. Italian food. Italian food, yes.
SPEAKER 07 :
Chinese food in reference to what they have with the orange chicken.
SPEAKER 04 :
What do we got? What does American food have? Like white American food. I think we got a burger and a hot dog. We got that going for us. That's it. Apple pie? Yeah. I mean, we got some stuff.
SPEAKER 07 :
But it is bland, man. Dude, we talk about this all the time.
SPEAKER 04 :
The best kind of pizza is Italian pizza. The best kind of burger is, you know. I mean, I think we got some burgers. We got those going for us. But everything else, I don't know. I don't think white people got it. I don't think we have it in us.
SPEAKER 10 :
And potato salad, potato salad, my mother made the meanest potato salad. I've never tasted a potato salad like that at King Soopers or Safeway or nothing like that.
SPEAKER 07 :
Give me a disclaimer, please, because I do not want the backlash from this. That's Luke and Johnny. That is not me. I am going to zip it on that.
SPEAKER 04 :
Invite Reggie to your white person Thanksgiving where you get green bean casserole, you get bland unseasoned turkey. He wants to be there. You know? No, I don't. Mashed potatoes with no cheese. Nothing. You know, you get all the plain Jane stuff, Reg. At least we're not as bad as, like, European food. European food's even worse.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, my God. Hey, man, that's why I love you, man. You're just so realistic. Realistic. And, you know, let me try to lighten the load and go back over here to this, since Johnny's on the phone with this Russia thing, because, dude... What is up with, come on, man, your wife is Russian. I know you have ties in there. Don't let me have to start investigating you. Tell me the truth. Why is it that Putin just won't stop the war? Now, to me, dude, Russia's getting their tail kicked from all my underground dark web and everything, even my Ukrainian friend that's in Ukraine. Russia's getting just took it out, man. Seriously. And it's embarrassing. It's been four years, and you can't take Ukraine out without using nuclear weapons? You're not even fighting an army. All your missiles that I see are landing in electrics and neighborhoods and electric plants and all that. So what is it, man? What does Putin want, and why won't he just stop? Because we're all tired. So the tomahawks are coming. They need to come. So whatever he tried to bluff, whatever he does, that's just what it's going to be. Sooner or later, the biggest dogs on the block are going to fight. Now, if you come to a meeting of the minds and say, hey, look, we'll just give me a way out and you take this way out and we'll go from there, then do it. But, you know, NATO is already talking about, hey, shooting down planes. You know, it's crazy, dude, which is going to get real ugly. And then Putin is going to launch nukes. He will launch the nukes.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, I figured it this way. Okay, the same way that he did, he got away with what he did. He had a bunch of enablers around him, right? He has a bunch of enablers around him. He's sick in the mind. He wants it to be like it was back in the 80s, and it's not going to be that way. This is a different world at a different time. And then he got away with it when Obama was in office. He just committed and ran over that country. It's not going to happen this way. But, you know, he has a bunch of enablers. He's crazy in the head himself. That's why I'm thinking we could just make a deal. We'll make money here. It's not working with the insane person.
SPEAKER 04 :
What do you think about that, Luke? Yeah, I think Putin is... I kind of stand by the idea that Putin's a dictator, right? He's not our friend. He's not our ally. Along with anyone who has that mindset, this idea that, you know, I am a supreme objective moral right and anyone who disagrees with me is an enemy. It's a dangerous mindset, and especially when you're in that position and have that kind of power to enforce that mindset, I think it's dangerous for everyone involved.
SPEAKER 07 :
So, speaking of danger, and like I said, I love America, and I want it to be like a melting pot. I want our rules, our language, so America stays America, and then visitors are welcome, and even people who are coming here and don't want to live here go through the right, you know, the first qualifications, you got to love the country. And if it's anything proven that you don't love this country, you're out of here. That's part of the negotiation. That's part of the contract. But What do you feel about this thing with Mexico where, since we're out there, which I told you, Trump's not sending all that firepower to Venezuela just for Venezuela. It's a setup for all ends covered. And I told you, they are going to go into Venezuela. And I'm on record saying it, so just prove me wrong. I know they're getting down. Now, I know by being in an entertainment world and all the underground stuff that happens, I don't own any cartels or any of that stuff. But I do know a lot of women that came and they cross country with drugs and go to all kinds of stuff in that life. And if Trump is stopping that from coming here, it's kicking their pockets. Trust me with that. Their pockets are being hurt. Now they're saying, if you're American, there's even Airbnb companies in Mexico that's like telling all Americans to get out of Mexico because that the cartel now is going to start attacking American citizens. I'm like, well, get out of Mexico like quick, like quick before, you know, your head be on a pole, you know, because Trump is getting them. Trump is the man, yo. Trump is the man.
SPEAKER 10 :
Also, you have to look at the source. If there was no demand, this would not be a problem. So we have to figure out, like, what is the root of this problem? Why is there such a demand for people to escape using drugs that could possibly kill them? And this has been a problem for forever.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right, right. Supply and demand. I understand that. But what I'm saying is that when things are going on, good or bad in your life, and there's depression, there's mental illness, all kinds of stuff, and then these drugs you get hooked on, you know... You get addicted to these things, and now you don't have a choice. You don't have a choice but to keep getting this. So supply and demand. So we have to help the people get off drugs, but simultaneously, you need to have them stop from coming in here.
SPEAKER 10 :
Or think about this. Maybe the government wants... as many of us doped up, because if you're doped up, like those prisoners over there in Israel, they only fed them one piece of bread a day. They kept them weak. So if you keep them weak, you can control a weak person far better than you can control a person with a clear mind, Strong person.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right. Yeah. And you can use a lot of some people's drugs, some people's food, some people's sex. It's a lot of different things you can get addicted to or hooked on. But I'm saying in reference to the drugs, that's a big, big, big operation, big money. And Trump is stopping them from coming over here. So they're going to fight back how they can. So I say all Americans just come home. And does Trump keep doing what you're doing? Invade, hurry up and get in Venezuela because I know you're going to do it. I would bet anything on that, that you're going to do some type of ground land operation in Venezuela. And it's not going to stop there. It's probably going to head over to Mexico and South America. I guarantee you that's what Trump's doing. He's the greatest for doing it. Yes, do it, do it, do it. That's what I want to see. Now, it's going to be how do they fight back? That's another thing. He needs to get all these immigrants up out of here, though, while he's doing that. Because all these sales are mules. They're mules, buddy. I know people that go and buy the weed legally and take it to other states that it's not legal. So that whole thing goes on. So, hey, wait, we got Casper's on the phone. Hey, Casper. Yes, sir. What's up, buddy?
SPEAKER 09 :
Man, you're touching like 20 different subjects all in one shot. Oh, yeah. That's how we do it. Yeah, yeah. You know, I enjoy spicy food, so I went to this place called Dave's Hot Wings off of Arapahoe Road and 25, I-25. And on the menu, they have the different levels of hotness on their spices.
SPEAKER 10 :
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 09 :
And they had one at the bottom. I said, I want that one. And he said, sir, you're going to have to sign a waiver if you want this.
SPEAKER 07 :
So that was ghost heat.
SPEAKER 09 :
I was like, what? He said, yeah, you have to actually sign a waiver if you want that spice or that sauce. I said, yeah, give me the one right above that one.
SPEAKER 07 :
Hey, man, go ahead and try it. There's ghost pepper. Yeah, you have to sign a waiver because it'll literally tear your insides out. I've heard of even making people bleed.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I don't need to bleed or I don't need to sign. No, I'm good. I just take the one right above that one. I'm good. And so so, you know, where I live right in Aurora.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
In the past week, I've heard gunshots in the evening twice.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 09 :
In the burbs. That sounds right. That sounds right. Yeah, you know, it's getting bad. But, yeah, I was calling in to kind of give you a little bit of a quick update because the crypto market right now and, you know, look, everything that you do has a high degree of risk. You know, there's no guarantees on any of this stuff. But the crypto market is kind of taking a beating right now. And people need to understand there's a difference between investing in crypto coins, just buying coins, and owning a mine. It's like the difference between buying gold or owning a gold mine. It's the same concept. If you own a gold mine, you're still producing gold even though gold price is going up and down. And if you want to capitalize on the low price of cryptocurrency or the gold you can buy more gold or you could just have a gold mine and the next day you have more gold it's the same concept so that's what we have going with texacoin
SPEAKER 07 :
All the crypto across, everything is going down. XRP, all kind of stuff. So I wonder what's really happening at the top when it comes to that. But I can say this, and I will say, and Luke, you know, I let everybody know. And see, Luke is like my visual. I always keep receipts, and I show him everything that I be telling you guys, so he can vouch. Now, I can tell you this. My account with my miner is mining coins no matter what. Now, the actual price of the coin is going down, but that's every coin, even Bitcoin, all that stuff. I've just been seeing all these different coins just going down, so I don't know what's happening at the top. But it is refreshing to know that every day you're still getting a coin. So if you just hold on, it gets low, it gets high, that's a good thing. Right.
SPEAKER 09 :
Right, so check this out. So if you just own XRP, for example... If you want more XRP, you have to buy more XRP. You got to put more money into it. If you have a mind, you don't have to buy any more coin. You just have to wait a day. You have more coins. Exactly. So when the price goes up, then everything is good. Now, with Texacoin, when I first saw it six months ago, it was at 54 cents. Today, it's like 396 or something like that. And The liquidity pools, the reason why the price can notch up is because of the liquidity pools. Right now, we have liquidity pools in place to make sure that our coin doesn't do a full dump. And we have $5 million in liquidity. Bobby, the founder, is getting ready to put another $5 million in liquidity And that's going to increase the price of Texacoin here in about two weeks.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, soon, man. Thanks for calling in and keep giving us some updates because I'm all about people making money and building communities and especially in the minority community. We got to get in on what's happening today, the new stuff, because Trump is pushing that whole agenda and I follow what he does. But why don't you give people your number real quick and so they can get in touch with you.
SPEAKER 09 :
Absolutely. So yeah, the best thing to do is just call or text me. You can 720-257-9461. That's 720-257-9461. You really just need to get informed on what's happening. Get the real story, not the fake news. Get the real story. And then jump in because it's This is the best time to do it.
SPEAKER 07 :
All right. Cool, man. Thanks for calling in. And I'll talk to you probably next week. Call in next week. Yes, sir. All right, Big Doc. Later. So, Luke, you know me with this. I follow all things Trump. So if this man is pushing so hard because he has AI.gov. And he talks about cryptocurrency, and there's even been meetings with Don Jr. and all that behind the scenes on cryptos, the banks shutting them out, and then they moving the crypto. You got to watch the big fish. You got to watch them closely for you to have a chance to win. So I don't know this business. And you and I, we're like, oh, man, this stuff is real shaky. But I can tell you, getting a mine and having that come into my account every day is a good thing. Hey, Johnny. Yeah, Johnny. So because I know we ain't got that much much time left, but I'm serious, dude. I'm really serious about this. We need Putin to end the war. Then simultaneously. Trump is going, you can't trust these. I don't want to sound racist, but you can't trust these Arabic Muslims. You can't do it, man. You can't do it. I know some. I know some. And let me tell you, some of them are the most wife abusing. They say Allah and God, all this stuff. But I see them smack their wife around. She's treated like she's a slave. You know, she's got to wear all that stuff from head to toe. If you get 100 degrees outside or 10 degrees, you know, that whole thing that they push them in that life, I don't agree with that. You know, that's not freedom to me. But I can tell you the violence that comes from them all the time, man. They are very abusive. And there's a lot of pedophilia that goes on in that religion. I don't know. I don't care. I don't want a disclaimer. I'm just telling you what it is. Yeah. I've seen a video with a nine year old. Yeah. Yeah. Nine year old having a freaking baby, a baby, a nine year old having a baby. See me. Just go ahead and, you know, give me one of Luke's guns. And I'm just like, where is he at? I'm not even asking questions. I'm not going to be like, why did you do this? What's your problem? You're mental. We need to take you to jail. I'm not going to do anything. All you're going to hear is. And then hopefully I know Luke got them switches. So I'm going to just hit it one time. 80 bullets come out. That's what I'm going to do to that dude.
SPEAKER 10 :
And also, like, they have this, you know, Old Testament, if you had a child that was just out of control, you could take him to the front, put your head on top of their head, they were still in the death. They have this thing where they will kill the children. It's called an honor kill, right? And that's legal in their country. And do they change it when they come here?
SPEAKER 07 :
They may pretend for a while, but they are still carried out. And in order to bring people together, man, you have to tell the truth. You have to talk about all these subjects. Like I just had an email like, oh, Reg, why don't you get another day and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I'm like, man, I am so busy. busy on so many levels. And then I would love to do this because I think you need to reach out to people because the only way you can unite people together is to have a conversation and then also enlighten them on all the subjects that are going on on the earth. So in this world, so people can wake up and, and, and, and investigate, you know, their self so they can wake up and, you know, and do the due diligence. It takes read, read, read, And don't be fooled by the stuff. Dive into it so you know. That's what brings people together. That's Unite, being transparent. So yes, I wish we could talk about a zillion subjects because it's so many. It's so many. And the other thing, back to Hamas, you can't trust these people. Trump, please, just go ahead. Send your forces. I don't know if it's under NATO or if it's United Nations. I don't care if it's under the bubblegum colony. Bring them in there. Every single one of them Hamas and the people that hasn't disarmed, kill them right there on the spot. Right there on the spot. That's the only way, you know, you're going to have peace because what they agreed to is, okay, we can't beat Israel and let's stop the fighting and let's bring the hostages home. And some of them are dead. Some even one is not even the right body. And what does that do? OK, that still doesn't police and set the country up to move forward. And you got them in there and they're already killing their own people. Oh, you you you talk to Israel, you talk to Trump or you we heard you like, you know what was going on and they killed. No, man, no. You got to send forces in there, you know, people like Luke. And, you know, send them in there and just go in there and annihilate them. This is gloom and doom. You know, they signed a contract. Let's get rid of them. And that way we can move forward. But they're up there literally killing their own people because they're mad that they couldn't beat Israel. And this peace deal is real, but it's only going to stay real if you disarm Hamas, period.
SPEAKER 10 :
You know, they're pushing them. They're pushing. They know that, hey, you know, we might have signed this piece of paper, but we can do what we want and put a thumb in your eye and say, hey, you know, what are you going to do about it? And Israel is, man, if he takes a chain off of Israel, fire's going to fire down.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, cool. Hey, man, we're actually running out of time, aren't we, Luke? Yes. man so you know what you guys tune in uh next week i'm actually gonna really have a real sit down in reference to like another day or something like that uh so much going on and i have so much fun doing this uh but yeah it does cost money you know what i'm saying so you everything you know we ain't all got luke's money but we're gonna count it down three two one and we out yeah it's that time
SPEAKER 06 :
We will unite the country every week, every Friday morning from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. It's about love, y'all.
SPEAKER 07 :
Have a wonderful morning and a great day.
This week on the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast, listeners were taken through a rollercoaster of current events, political insights, and heartfelt tributes. In a time marked by significant challenges and triumphs, we saw the complexity of global politics unfold, with moments of unity emerging in the unlikeliest places. From the poignant story of hostages in Israel returning home, to the stark political landscape in New York City, where candidates debate the future of leadership, each segment offered a provocative insight into today's world. The episode also explored the lasting legacy of Charlie Kirk, a formidable force whose impact on American politics resonated deeply across the nation. Discussions about Donald Trump's latest achievements prompted a reflection on political possibilities, while the fiery debates between Mike Gallagher and Hugh Hewitt highlighted critical choices facing voters as New York City’s contentious mayoral race heats up. Throughout, listeners were encouraged to consider their own perspectives on leadership and truth in the increasingly dynamic political environment. Adding another layer to the narrative, the podcast delved into Florida's bold move to reconsider its property tax structure, discussing the implications for residents and the state’s economic future. As these dialogues unravel, the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review reminds us of the importance of staying engaged and informed about the issues shaping our society.
SPEAKER 1 :
Thank you.
SPEAKER 07 :
Welcome to the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast. I'm Eric Hansen. It's Friday, October 17th, 2025. This week, Charlie Kirk posthumously receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Florida residents may get a break on taxes, and New York City hears the warning about Zoran Mamdani. But will they listen? We begin in Israel, where the remaining hostages finally returned home.
SPEAKER 04 :
It's a little bit hard to believe, isn't it? For two years, we've heard... He's Adolf Hitler. Well, Adolf Hitler just achieved peace in the Middle East, and what are they going to say now? What are the No Kings protesters going to protest this weekend? Well, you don't like the presence of the National Guard in crime-ravaged Chicago? Really? You don't want communities being made safer? Seriously? And you're going to denounce this president who brokered a deal The world is rejoicing. Israel is waving Trump flags. They're handing out red baseball caps in Israel that say he's the people's president. What an extraordinary time to be alive. And yet, and yet, I keep thinking about what people who hate him must be saying and feeling today. Everybody's acknowledging he did this. Everybody's giving him credit, even the people in the media that hate him. It's one of those rare times where there's kind of unity. In a strange way, there's a sense of unity. How about giving you Charlemagne the God? Now, this is a guy in New York City, host of a very popular urban radio show, just a very popular guy. He's a little bit like Joe Rogan in the urban media environment. This is the way Charlemagne the God describes President Donald J. Trump.
SPEAKER 08 :
Donald Trump shows me what's politically possible. Trump shows me what presidents can do if they want to do it. Donald Trump shows me what can be said if you are willing to say it. It's not about what can't be done. It's about who has the political will to do it. I don't want to hear a peep from Democrats about nothing until they get the balls to say what's really on their mind. in regards to this country and this world. Trump doesn't care if it sounds ridiculous. Trump doesn't care if it makes sense. It's no political correctness whatsoever. As I've been saying for years, the language of politics is dead, and Donald Trump killed it. Period.
SPEAKER 04 :
That's it. I mean, he doesn't care. And I think it's the not caring that really is making the difference. There's not any sort of pulling your punches, tiptoeing around, walking on eggshells. He just doesn't care. You want to criticize him? Call him Hitler. I mean, what's worse than nearly getting a bullet in the brain? They tried to kill him twice.
SPEAKER 07 :
We've talked about the contenders in the New York City mayor's race, and this week we welcomed one of them.
SPEAKER 04 :
There's got to be people who love you, who say, who know that you're a true, you're Gotham's Batman. You know, you've been fighting crime your whole life. You've got policy after policy that make economic sense, that make fiscal sense, that's going to restore safety and peace to the streets of New York. But for people who say, ah, Curtis, come on, you've got to take it for the team. You've got to do what's right for New York. You're going to cost us the election. Look, I got there, thank goodness. I know what the right thing is to do. But what do you say as the candidate to people who might be wavering like I did briefly a couple of weeks ago?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yes, Mike. You see, you're not alone. They did that when Andrew Cuomo lost against Zohan Mandami. And then all of a sudden, Eric Adams was revived and resurrected and he came back. And there was a chorus and Curtis, you got to jump out. You got to jump out. And in reality, to drop out. Why? I'm the only Republican with Republican principles. Look at what Eric Adams did. He eventually dropped out because they have paved the way for this. They have allowed the socialists into their party. It was Governor Cuomo then who actually implemented every policy that has destroyed our state and destroyed our city. No cash bail. Zoran Mandami is in agreement with that. Raise the age. Now we have teenagers doing drive-by shootings. Close our only prison. That's what Zohan Mandami wants to do. He would never have been able to actually talk about how he could do that as mayor if Governor Cuomo hadn't do it. So, Mike, that's like having the arsonist suddenly show back up after burning your house down and pretending to be the firefighter. I'm the only candidate talking about cutting taxes. That's what's causing such a tremendous flight to places that you've not only broadcast from, but live. South Carolina, Texas, Florida, Tennessee. Incredible amounts of equity and wealth have already left without there even being a Mayor Zorhan Mandami. And I'm the only one saying we got to cut the income tax. We got to cut the corporate tax. The one tax I can cut is the property tax. And we have the first ever in the United States congestion pricing, which is nothing but a tax for cars coming into Manhattan. And it has been a complete catastrophe. All these small storefronts that are closing by the day, they don't have enough foot traffic. And the merchants, the men and women who hire the working class people that I represent in New York City, are fleeing in droves. So my whole campaign is improve, don't move. And I completely disagree in every campaign policy position than Cuomo and Zohan Mandami. In fact, if you want to think of it this way, because people really don't know Zohan Mandami, he's very affable, he's very nice. It's like that song, Sade Smooth Operator. He's sort of the JV to Barack Obama. He is Bill de Blasio on steroids. Bill was hated by the left, hated by the right by the time he destroyed the city after eight years. Andrew Cuomo is constantly reinventing himself. Nobody trusts him. He's the guy who's responsible for the deaths of 15,000 elderly because of his executive orders during COVID that he refuses to apologize for. And if your listeners and viewers want to know who's Curtis Leroy, Just think of Rudy Giuliani 2.0. Mike, last week, Rudy, with a broken back, rose up and said enough of this Cuomo nonsense. The only real New Yorker, the only crime fighter, the only law and order candidate is my friend Curtis Lee. And, you know, in a city like New York. When you mention Rudy Giuliani and you say that I'm Rudy Giuliani 2.0, that resonates with a lot of people who knows how he saved this city and was the greatest mayor that we've ever had.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, Rudy Giuliani is 100% correct about you. It's a three-person race. It's Zoran Mamdani, it's Andrew Cuomo, it's Curtis Sliwa. I predicted last week, something's got to give. I mean, something maybe has to change where Cuomo and Curtis somehow form any kind of a line. I want to just ask you that question. Is there any path forward? for a Curtis Lewa to say, I'm going to make Cuomo part of my administration if I'm the nominee? Is there any way that Cuomo says, I'm going to make Curtis an important part of my administration if I stay in it over the next 22 days? Any chance of anything changing other than this three-person race between now and Election Day, Curtis?
SPEAKER 03 :
Mike, we are like two scorpions in a brandy glass, and that's all because of Cuomo. As you know, as governor, he was vengeful. He was vindictive. He believed in blood vendettas. He is a cold-hearted man. He is the reason we have so many homeless people on the streets, so many emotionally disturbed. He closed the mental health care hospitals. So every problem that plagues New York City is the result of what he did. And remember, just think of this. When President Donald Trump was being impeached, did he pick up and flee to Mar-a-Lago? No. He stood in Washington, D.C. When he was unfairly prosecuted by Tish James and Alvin Bragg in New York City, he went into court each and every time and stood there. and had to deal with the absolute insanity of the charges that were being waged against him. He never ran. He never retreated. Andrew Cuomo, when he faced impeachment by his own Democrats in Albany, fled, fled to the Hamptons. You cannot all of a sudden pave the way for a person who has waved the white flag and who recently said if Zoran Mandami were to win, he would flee to Florida also. That's not a leader. You need a leader to help recover this city. And that's not Andrew Cuomo. No way.
SPEAKER 07 :
This past Tuesday would have been Charlie Kirk's 32nd birthday. The White House marked the occasion by posthumously awarding him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
SPEAKER 04 :
President Trump, I've been told from people who know him that he's been deeply impacted by Charlie's assassination. After all, President Trump himself narrowly avoided the same fate. And President Trump was deeply, deeply impacted by Charlie's murder. Here's what he said yesterday about the will to fight, the need to carry on. And again, as sad as all of this was yesterday, I couldn't help but be inspired. I was inspired by Charlie's mom and dad, their strength, their bravery, their resolve. I was inspired by Erica. And Erica's going to be a fascinating person to watch. She didn't, I don't think she, she certainly didn't expect it, but she didn't want to take over Turning Point USA, this vast, huge organization. Anybody who's been to Phoenix and has seen the Turning Point headquarters, I mean, it is an immense operation. First time I got a tour of Turning Point by my buddy Tom Sudeika, who's one of the original board members at Turning Point, and a dear friend of ours. I couldn't believe it. I mean, the people, the equipment, the facilities. Turning Point is an immense operation. And Erica now is going to take over, has taken over from her husband. Here's what President Trump said about what needs to be done in Charlie's honor.
SPEAKER 10 :
One month after Charlie's death, we still feel the terrible shock and the pain of his loss like just about nobody I can think of. Charlie Kirk was one of a kind. He was unstoppable. And he really was. Boy, when he had an idea in his head, oh, he would call me. Sir, please, you haven't done it yet. I said, Charlie, relax. Just relax. He didn't relax. He called me the next day again. Got it done. But he was like indomitable and always will be. He's really irreplaceable. Nobody can replace him, but they're going to do great. But you can't replace that kind of person and that kind of talent. Frankly, the word talent is an important word, but that kind of talent. So we hold his memory in our hearts forever. Every single day of this administration, we will continue to carry out. the mission for which he lived, and he really did. He lived for this country. He lived for his wife and his family, but he lived for this country too. In Charlie's honor, we will continue like we have been to fight, fight, fight, and to win, win, win. We're going to win so much.
SPEAKER 04 :
It was such, and you think about who will carry on. It's going to be Erica. It's going to be his wife. And as you're going to hear this hour, because I want to play every word of her speech, you're going to hear from a young woman who is undoubtedly shattered by this horrific, life-changing event. She's now having to raise these two little babies alone without her loving husband. And it's heartbreaking on every level. But she's going to carry the torch. She's going to take over. And she's running Turning Point. And the word I get is, she's up, she's ready for it. Here was a president, and let's, this has been said often. We talked about it after Trump was reelected. A whole lot of people believe that Donald Trump wouldn't be the 47th president of the United States were it not for Turning Point and Charlie Kirk. There was such a massive get out the vote movement What did Charlie always say? You've got to chase the votes. You've got to chase the votes. You've got to knock on doors. We've got to make phone calls. We've got to get online. We've got to be involved in the digital space. We're going to get this done. One of my happiest moments of Trump's reelection was seeing the video clip of Charlie behind the Salem media microphone and cameras and breaking out in that grin when it was obvious that Trump was going to be elected. Here's what President Trump said about Charlie's impact on the 2024 election.
SPEAKER 10 :
from the time Charlie worked on my presidential campaign in 2016. And he was there right from the beginning. He liked me. I don't know. I have no idea why. What the hell was he thinking? He said, you're going to win, sir. I said, you know, I'm running against 17 senators and a lot of tough people and governors. We have all these people. And he said, no, you're going to win, sir. He said, not going to be close. And he made it happen. He helped make it happen. I'll tell you that. Without him, who knows what would be. Maybe you'd have Kamala standing here today. That would not be good.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, that would not be good. Just think a little bit about what could have gone horribly wrong had we not had the outcome that we had. And so, you know, I'm just thinking a lot about his impact, his legacy. I'm thinking a lot about this kid today. having an idea for Turning Point in his parents' garage.
SPEAKER 07 :
In a certain sign that Democrats are losing the national conversation, ABC host George Stephanopoulos bailed on Vice President J.D. Vance mid-interview.
SPEAKER 04 :
You think about the level of respect from somebody like B.B. Netanyahu and compare that to the lack of respect that our president and vice president get here in the states. Did you see the George Stephanopoulos exchange with Vice President J.D. Vance? This is so unbelievable. And I hate to take a great day like today and dampen it with an acknowledgement that the mainstream media is as corrupt as hell. And they are. Stephanopoulos, of course, is a longtime Clinton stooge. He was Bill Clinton's right-hand man. Somehow he morphed into a supposedly objective journalist. Well, he's not objective any more than I am. He has no neutrality. As evidenced by the way he cut off the Vice President of the United States mid-sentence and through to a commercial break. When J.D. Vance... was taking Stephanopoulos on ABC's This Week yesterday morning to the woodshed. When it got too dicey for Stephanopoulos, he lost his cool, blew his top, lost his temper, cut the vice president off mid-sentence, and tossed a commercial. I kid you not. Here it is.
SPEAKER 06 :
I don't know what tape you're referring to, George. I saw media reports that Tom Homan accepted a bribe. There's no evidence of that. And here's, George, why fewer and fewer people watch your program and why you're losing credibility. Because you're talking for now five minutes with the vice president of the United States about this story regarding Tom Homan, a story that I've read about, but I don't even know the video that you're talking about. Meanwhile, low-income women... can't get food because the Democrats and Chuck Schumer have shut down the government. Right now, we're trying to figure out how to pay our troops because Chuck Schumer has shut down the government. You are focused on a bogus story. You're insinuating criminal wrongdoing against a guy who has done nothing wrong instead of focusing on the fact that our country is struggling because our government's shut down. Let's talk about the real issues, George. I think the American people would benefit much more from that than from you going down some weird left-wing rabbit hole where the facts clearly show that Tom Holman didn't engage in any criminal wrongdoing.
SPEAKER 11 :
It's not a weird left-wing rabbit hole. I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Holman accepted $50,000, as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024, and you did not answer the question. Thank you for your time this morning. No, George, I said that I don't... We'll be right back.
SPEAKER 04 :
Wow. Now, how that guy continues to have... Maybe that's what they want him to do. Wouldn't you be embarrassed if you're an ABC executive? Wouldn't that be kind of appalling that ABC News actually cut off the vice president of the United States mid-sentence as the vice president was attempting to make a point to refute what Stephanopoulos had to get the last word in and had to cut him off? Even though this is not some random author, this isn't some, you know, junior, you know, freshman, this is the vice president of the United States. But this is who they are. This is why they have created so much ill will. There'll be a whole lot of people Saturday at the No Kings protest. who've been brainwashed by people like George Stephanopoulos. There's always MyPillow Christmas gifts under the tree in anything Gallagher family related. You've helped MyPillow and their employees in these tough times. Mike knows it, and he always wants to give back with deals on his most popular products. The MyPillow six-piece bath towel sets are back in stock. Now, this is a proprietary technology that makes the towels amazingly absorbent. I first heard about the towels from Peg and Joey. They said, you can't believe it. These towels actually work. Now, they're regularly $69.98, two bath towels, two hand towels, two washcloths, $69.98, but for a limited time. When you enter the promo code MikeG at the Mike Gallagher Specials Square, just $39.98. A six-piece towel set that you will just be amazed at the absorbency. So go to MyPillow.com. Look for the Mike Gallagher Special Square. Click on that box, and with anything you order, enter the promo code MikeG. MyPillow.com, promo code MikeG for this special offer and many, many more. The towels, the sheets, the pillows, the doggy beds, the slippers. Oh, boy, the slippers. MyPillow.com, promo code MikeG, or call 800-928-6034, 800-928-6034, like we love to sing. For the best night's sleep in the whole wide world, visit MyPillow.com.
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This is the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast. I'm Eric Hansen. Best-selling author and investigative journalist Peter Schweitzer visited the show this week to offer his perspective on the controversial mayor's race in New York City.
SPEAKER 04 :
the Rush Limbaugh mantra that it's hard to beat Santa Claus when he's offering a lot of free stuff. And that, of course, is what Zoran Mamdani seems to be adept at. Hey, free bus ride. Free, fast bus rides. And we're going to freeze rents to struggling young people in New York City. He's like a dream come true. But in reality, he's a nightmare. He would be a nightmare for the city. It'll be a blessing probably for the Republican Party nationally if he wins. But what you revealed with Mark Sunday night was so important, and I wanted you to share with us, for the benefit of people who didn't see it, what you learned about Zoran Mamdani's family and the Qatari royal family.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, I mean, look, New York is an international city in a lot of respects. But I think what a lot of people haven't appreciated is that there are a lot of international entities that are paying attention to this race. And I would argue that many of these are nefarious or troubling international entities. Yeah, the Al Thani family, which has ruled Qatar for decades, is all in with Mamdani. First, the family has funded the Mamdani family to the tune of millions of dollars over the years. They're the ones that bankrolled Mamdani's mother's film career. The second thing to know about the relationship is that the family has gone on social media. They have a large international following because they have a lot of money. And they are extolling the virtues of Mamdani's campaign. They're putting out his policy positions. They're encouraging people to support his campaign, to donate to his campaign. And the third thing that people need to know is that Mamdani himself sees Qatar in a way as a constituency, because what did he do in September? He's running to be mayor of New York City. I don't know of any other American mayoral candidate that when they're running for city hall goes on Qatari TV, which Mamdani did in September and, of course, denounced Israel, denounced the United States for its involvement in genocide, as he put it. The bottom line being is that he sees them as, I think, an important component to what he wants to accomplish. And going beyond the Qatari family, the Qatari royal family, you see that Iran and a whole bunch of other international entities are also watching and enthusiastic about his campaign. One final thing about the Thani family that rules Qatar, this is the same family that in the 1990s, gave refuge to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Now, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed may be one of those names that sounds familiar. Who is he? He was involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. When that happened, he fled. And where did he go? He went to Qatar, where the Al Thani family gave him refuge, gave him a paid job working for the government. When Louis Freeh, the director of the FBI in the 1990s, tracked him down to Qatar and said, we want to arrest this guy, the Al-Thani family helped to tip him off and helped him to flee Qatar, where he went to Pakistan. What did he do in Pakistan? He planned the 9-11 attack on the Twin Towers. And it's important to know, I think, that Louis Freeh explained later on that had they been able to get Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in Qatar, that probably would have prevented 9-11 from ever happening because he truly was a mastermind behind the attack. So that is an example of one of many of these international actors that are backing Moondani's campaign in New York City and enthusiastic about his campaign.
SPEAKER 04 :
Peter, it's hard to believe that we are where we are. I was in the Empire State Building the morning of September the 11th, so I still feel it quite personally, as New Yorkers do and did. It's hard to believe that we've gone from that terror attack of September 11th to today. where a guy like this could very well become the next mayor of New York City. And incidentally, we don't have to go to the past. Today, in 2025, the political organization that he belongs to, the Democratic Socialists of America, DSA, here's the headline takeaway. The Democrat Socialist group backing Mamdani condemns the Gaza ceasefire and calls for more anti-Israel resistance. Now, this is not—Peter, this isn't even being hidden. I mean, this is out here in plain sight for all who have eyes to see and ears to hear, and yet this freight train seems to be hurling down the tracks—
SPEAKER 07 :
Here's an interesting idea out of the state of Florida. Governor Ron DeSantis has proposed eliminating state property taxes. There's already no income tax, so how does that work? Our newsman, Roger P. Shulman, stopped by to fill us in.
SPEAKER 04 :
Ron DeSantis, the governor, has said, let's get rid of property tax. You buy a microwave oven, you don't pay tax on it for the rest of your life. You buy a TV, you don't pay property tax on it for the rest of your life. It's not fair to seniors, especially, to continue to pay property taxes. So, Roger, how does this work? Let's start with the Joey Hudson question. How in the world do you replace that revenue that entities like counties and the state would lose?
SPEAKER 02 :
Well, Florida is in a fairly unique position. We have millions of tourists who come here and we can raise the costs for them. We already have bed taxes, room taxes on hotels, attraction taxes, rental car taxes. They can all contribute. And we also have the ability to raise the sales tax for everyone. That is part of it. So there is a lot of funding sources. Florida is a very unique state. We have a 16 to 20 billion dollar surplus. We don't run deficits in Florida. So we have a surplus gives us a little wiggle room. So we've got a lot coming in. Problem here is the property taxes since 2019 have increased 40 to 60 percent. So if you had a house, let's say you came here 10 years ago, bought a house for $300,000. That house is now appraised at $750,000, and you're paying the increased property taxes on that. And that's why the governor wants to have an election in November of next year to see if we can eliminate the property taxes on a lot of people. Now, Mike, property taxes are not going away entirely. It's just for your homesteaded home. Your second home is not covered industrial and commercial property. They are still paying property taxes.
SPEAKER 04 :
So and explain homesteaded, because that's kind of a unique Florida proposition as well, right?
SPEAKER 02 :
Your home is not attackable. Let's say you're in debt. You can't attack your homesteaded home. You can also get a homestead exemption if you're a certain age to eliminate a large amount of the taxes on it. So your home is your castle in Florida except for the property taxes, which they can take away your home if you do not pay at this point. And that's something the governor wants to eliminate.
SPEAKER 04 :
I'm telling you, and look, I'm very lucky. I'm blessed. I make a good living. When I get that notice every year from, I don't know what his name is, Twitty or Conway or whatever, he's the property tax appraiser guy or whatever, my heart sinks because I know there's going to be a stunning number in there of what I have to pay for property tax. And to Governor DeSantis' point, This isn't right. I mean, why in the world is your home, as you put it, your castle, subject to a tax that you have to pay for the rest of your life? Seniors have scrimped and scraped and saved and in many cases have paid off their home, but yet they can't afford to live in their home anymore because of the insane rising property taxes.
SPEAKER 02 :
And they have to sell and move to something else. But even getting an apartment here now, we've got an apartment cost increase in Florida that makes it impossible for a lot of people to live in the cities that they work in. They have to drive 50 miles and live in some area that's far outside because the rents are less. So it's not a good situation. And it's something that does have to be addressed one way or another.
SPEAKER 04 :
It clearly does. Now, do you get a sense of the will of the legislature and how this might go in November of 2026? Is the Florida legislature inclined to pass this?
SPEAKER 02 :
I believe they are. And there's a lot of convincing going on. And it would take 60 percent of the population to vote this in, too. Now, I read a poll that said 33 percent of the population's in favor of it, but not everybody's educated on it. It is fairly early in the in the game right now. Now, Florida is not the only state that is looking into this. Texas, even Illinois, which is a Democratic state, is looking into doing this, too. So we're not alone in Florida in trying to eliminate these property taxes. It's getting to be a pretty popular thing around the nation.
SPEAKER 04 :
It's a great idea. And you're right. I just I'm reading about a ballot initiative that could eliminate property taxes in Michigan. And there are other states that, in fact. A listener gave me a suggestion of somebody to reach out, Carl, as somebody who we're going to maybe reach out to as well, because I'm really fascinated by this. You know what I love about, and you talked about the tourists, but somebody else told me that there are other ways, maybe an increase, and people dread this too, but perhaps an increase in sales tax to offset.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yes, and that is true. That is one of the main ways of doing it. Yeah, a lot of people do dread that. And it does have a worse effect on lower income people. But it is a possibility. And if you're not paying property taxes, you'll have a little more money to pay the sales taxes. But we'll see. There's going to be a lot of adjustments here.
SPEAKER 04 :
And with sales tax increases, you really are in control. You control your own destiny. The more you make, the more you probably spend.
SPEAKER 07 :
The Mike Gallagher Show made it onto the virtual pages of townhall.com this week after a debate with fellow talk show host Hugh Hewitt.
SPEAKER 04 :
Not so fast, Hugh Hewitt. That's the name of the column that appears in today's townhall.com from Kevin McCullough, who's a fine host in New York City. Kevin writes, A few days ago, I had the privilege of moderating a townhall forum that drew more than 1,400 attendees and reached millions more across the airwaves. It was a dynamic high-energy evening featuring two of my esteemed Salem Media colleagues, Hugh Hewitt and Mike Gallagher. as so often happens when Hugh and Mike share a stage, sparks flew. The evening's first question produced one of those quintessential Hugh Hewitt moments. In his trademark professorial style, Hugh invoked a favorite mantle. As a Buckley conservative, he said. He promptly announced that he was following the Bill Buckley rule. Vote for the most conservative candidate who can win. Then with that glint of wry certainty in his eye, Hugh added, so vote for Andrew Cuomo. You want to stop Zoran Mamdani? And just like that, Kevin writes, the fireworks began. Gallagher, never one to shy away from a little holy friction, pushed back with his own brand of common sense and conviction and said, vote your conscience and let God work it all out. Kevin says the contrast couldn't have been starker. Hewitt's clinical pragmatism versus Gallagher's convictional faith. And that exchange perfectly distilled the agony of the 2025 New York City mayoral race, a contest that has vexed me like none other. Kevin writes. Let's start with Hewitt's pick. Andrew Cuomo is nothing if not a household name. He's got brand recognition. And look, running for mayor, that's no small advantage. But his record is the stuff of nightmares. He presided over one of the darkest chapters of the COVID pandemic, sending infected patients into nursing homes, a decision that contributed to the deaths of roughly 26,000 elderly New Yorkers. And yet, in the macabre ledger of Cuomo's misdeeds, that may not even rank near the top. The bullying, the cover-ups, the arrogance that drips from every syllable he utters, these are not the qualities of a man New Yorkers should trust again with power. He despises conservatives, Kevin writes. He mocks people of faith. He treats dissent as disloyalty. Meanwhile, Curtis Lewa has done what few candidates ever bother to do— He's hit the pavement. He's everywhere. Comparing that to the Cuomo campaign, where it was perhaps the most lifeless, self-absorbed, poorly executed campaign for public office anybody's ever seen. For Curtis, he's everywhere. He rides the subways. He's walking neighborhoods. He's listening to shopkeepers, rabbis, cops, teachers, mothers. He's showing up. He's not reading polls. He's not whispering with consultants. According to the latest public filings, Sliwa and Cuomo both have more cash on hand than Mamdani, meaning neither man is limping toward the finish line. Which brings us to Mamdani, the radical assemblyman from Queens who has somehow managed to make AOC look like a moderate. Mamdani refuses to retract his vile rallying cry, globalize the intifada. Let's be clear, that's not about solidarity. That's a battle cry for genocide. The man wants to see Israel eradicated. And he would put the one million Jews living in New York City at mortal risk under his leadership. He also goes back to Hewitt's cry for pragmatism, vote Cuomo to stop Mamdani. It's on the surface tempting, he writes, but it's also misguided. Hewitt likes to cloak this kind of thinking in the legend of William F. Buckley Jr., claiming that the rule was to back the most conservative candidate who can win. Sounds clever, sounds mature, but it's a selective retelling of history. Yes, Buckley once made that statement back in 1967, but the Buckleys didn't live by it. In fact, William F. Buckley himself ran for mayor of New York in 1965 as a third-party conservative candidate. A long shot if there ever was one. His brother James ran as a third-party candidate for U.S. Senate in 1970 and won. The Buckley family didn't shrink from uphill battles. They ran into them with conviction. That's why Hewitt's invocation of the Buckley rule... feels more like theological malpractice. So, look, he said, in this race, my strong inclination, and thus my endorsement, is to side with Mike Gallagher's proposition, vote your conscience, vote for Curtis Sliwa, let God work it all out. Who knows, he says, maybe God will ordain that Mondani and Cuomo cannibalize the Democrat vote, while independents and Republicans rally around Sliwa for the win. And in a city where elections are sometimes decided by barely 17% of registered voters, stranger things have certainly happened.
SPEAKER 07 :
And finally, with the peace agreement in the Middle East and all of the success of the Trump administration, is it possible that some of his critics might be coming around?
SPEAKER 04 :
This is the start of something massive. He is the peace president. You've been wrong. And it's all right to admit when you're wrong. And I'm judging by the emails I'm getting and the text messages and the calls. People are saying, no, no, I'm coming around on this guy. Well, I hope so. I hope when you see the video of these hostages being reunited with their loved ones, I hope when you see the tears of And you appreciate the joy that the entire Middle East, not just Israel, but the Muslim countries as well, they don't want this war. They don't want the carnage and the destruction and the despair. And one guy, one guy brought peace to this complicated process. Now, if you don't think things can get even crazier, hell just froze over. Is there a bigger Trump hater than Ana Navarro over at The View? Check out what she said today on The View.
SPEAKER 01 :
I'm cautiously optimistic because we've been here before and then it's gone wrong. And I pray that this time it's different. I stayed up last night until, I don't know, two or three in the morning watching the first batch of hostages as they were And I love that there was a split screen that was showing the joy of the hostages being released, but also the throngs of people from Gaza walking back. A sea of people walking back into that city that's rubble. And you think of all the suffering just. Two plus years of relentless, unending, unimaginable suffering. The families suffering, the victims suffering, the hostages suffering, the people who had to flee Gaza, the innocent ones suffering. And for what? For what purpose were these two years of such pain? So, you know, honestly, let me just quote John Lennon. Can we please just try to give peace a chance? Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
Now, that's a different Ana Navarro from the Ana Navarro we've heard for years. And, of course, you can answer her question when she says, for what? You'd have to ask Hamas. You'd have to ask the men who raped and mutilated and burned alive and destroyed the lives of innocent Jews in Israel. Hey, Ana, you want to ask that question for what? Go ask the terrorists, because they're the ones who did it. You want to know why there's not one living female hostage? You want to know why they slaughtered all the female hostages? The 20 living hostages are all men. It's because of what they did to those poor women. The hell that they put those women through. The torture, the rapes, the mutilation. And they didn't dare allow one living female hostage to tell the world what these monsters did to them. So they killed them all. Ana Navarro, you want to know why? That's why. That's why. One more example of nature healing. Charlemagne the God. And he isn't really one of the typical rabid Trump haters. Very popular morning personality in New York. Listen to Charlemagne the God explaining Donald Trump in a nutshell.
SPEAKER 08 :
Donald Trump shows me what's politically possible. Trump shows me what presidents can do if they want to do it. Donald Trump shows me what can be said if you are willing to say it. It's not about what can't be done. It's about who has the political will to do it. I don't want to hear a peep from Democrats about nothing until they get the balls to say what's really on their mind. In regards to this country and this world, Trump doesn't care if it sounds ridiculous. Trump doesn't care if it makes sense. It's no political correctness whatsoever. As I've been saying for years, the language of politics is dead and Donald Trump killed it. Period.
SPEAKER 04 :
He's right, and you know, his comments make me think of what is the secret sauce, the superpower for Donald Trump. He just doesn't care about the haters, about the critics. Look, none of us love to be criticized. None of us love it, right? It's not our favorite thing. When somebody writes me a hateful email or sends me a text or calls and is all enraged at me, it's uncomfortable. Nobody likes that. The key, the secret... is to ignore it. The secret is to ignore the No Kings protest this Saturday. The secret is to ignore the haters. That's the superpower. And that's Donald Trump's kryptonite.
SPEAKER 07 :
And that'll do it for the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast for Friday, October 17th, 2025. I'm Eric Hansen. Be sure to subscribe to all of the podcasts and follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And if you like the show, be sure to share it with a friend. We'll see you back here next week on the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast.
In this episode of The Good News with Angie Austin, Angie catches up with Dr. Cheryl Lentz, an academic entrepreneur, as they discuss the power of mindset in overcoming life's challenges. Cheryl shares her personal experiences of living life to the fullest, despite physical limitations, and how a shift in mentality can open doors to new adventures. Angie also shares insights about her family's journey through health challenges and the importance of using aids like canes or walkers to enhance one's quality of life. Join us as we explore how courage and vulnerability play vital roles in experiencing life-enhancing moments and fulfilling dreams. Later in the episode, Angie is joined by Karen Collins and Andy Cope, experts in wildfire preparedness, to discuss practical ways of protecting homes and finances. The conversation highlights the significance of regular insurance checkups and preparing homes to withstand fires, focusing on ember-resistance techniques. This comprehensive discussion offers invaluable tips to ensure safety during wildfire seasons, emphasizing the importance of preparation to safeguard both physical and financial well-being.
SPEAKER 01 :
Welcome to The Good News with Angie Austin. Now, with The Good News, here's Angie.
SPEAKER 06 :
Hello there, friend. Angie Austin here with The Good News along with the academic entrepreneur, Dr. Cheryl Lentz. Hey, Cheryl.
SPEAKER 04 :
Hey, it is so good to talk to you. It's been a few weeks in there. Yes. Life just happens. I think somebody pushed the accelerated button somewhere, you know?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes. I'm just telling my girlfriend who does not have children. I said, I feel like a whole new world has opened up for me because I'm traveling a lot and doing a lot of things with my friends that I used to travel with in my twenties and early thirties. And I said to her, you don't even know what a full-time job it was to have three kids in year round sports. When I was driving them to practices, the swim meets took all day. We'd have to be like you know, timers at the swim meet, you'd get up at like five 30 in the morning, set up a tent outside the pool and you'd be there to like three or four in the afternoon. And then, you know, just going to baseball practices and sitting, they were so far, but I'd sit in like a parking lot, you know, for a few hours while one kid was in there or like dance class, if they were too far away, you just sit in your car, you know? And, uh, I just, it was like a full-time job. So like a whole new world is opening up to me. And you talked about a book the last time we talked and a mindset. So we're going to talk about how A student asks you about this and then how you put this mindset into your own life. So let's start there.
SPEAKER 04 :
That's cool in there. Yes, I'm teaching a mentoring and coaching class right now. And a lot of it is teaching them when to ask for help because the the result at the end of each week is they take an idea of. Now that you're telling us, we differentiate between coaching, which is skill set, mentoring, which is mindset. And so we're looking at how might you have benefited from this. And a lot of them are trying to get over the fact that, well, gee, you know what? Asking for help is kind of a sign of weakness. And I'm like, no, it's not. It's kind of a sign of strength because you want to sit on the sidelines and watch everybody be successful. The reason they're being successful is they're willing to open their mouth and take the shot. and talk to people, but they're doing it with a calculated risk, right? They're not willing to, for example, I was on the phone with one of my students in Dubai today, and he's thinking of starting a business. He knows that I, as faculty, have had a business for 15 years, and he's willing to risk being vulnerable to ask me questions about his business. that he wants to start versus having the regret going, I can't go to my grave not knowing that I tried to do this, and I've been trying to do this for years, but I'm too afraid of it. Now your class is giving me inspiration that going, I can't sit on the sidelines. I'm not going to do it right 100%, but I'm also not going to be able to do it at all if I don't do it at all. And I'm like, there you go.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, I just love the way that you're putting it into action as well because you've been dealing with some health issues. And then prior to that, you had your dog, Gracie, your heart dog, that you had to nurse through many years of, you know, some medical issues. And then you had told me, you know, I'm going to travel then, you know, when I don't have Gracie anymore because she took up so much of your time and you didn't want to leave her with anyone. And then you told me it's more than just that you don't have Gracie right now, that you want to keep living your life to the fullest, even if it's not an optimal situation. And just to kind of add a little side note to that before you explain what we're talking about with my mother and my mother-in-law, my mom has had difficulty walking really since she was in her fifties. And, um, She had bad knees and I got those replaced. I thought, oh, she'd be a great walker after that. Well, she's in her 80s now. And even after the knee surgery, she wasn't. And I've always admired that my mom, I have a wheelchair for her that travels. I have a walker for her that you can sit in. I have an old school walker that's really light for her to use in the house. I have a four prong cane and a regular cane. And with the wheelchair, that was a new thing. But she can walk behind it like a walker. And then when she gets tired, she can sit and I can push her. So we have every tool to help her get up. Well, my mother-in-law, on the other hand, will not use anything. And I can tell that she limits herself and doesn't go to certain things because she has pain in her knee and she has difficulty walking. So she's made her world smaller. Whereas if she'd use a walker or a cane, she could go a lot more places. But she thinks it makes her look old. But I think it makes you look old to be limping around everywhere and have all of your family members and friends be worried that you're going to fall and break a hip. It doesn't make you look old to get some help because a lot of people at various ages need help with a cane temporarily or a walker or maybe not temporarily. But I love it when people have the courage to just use it and get out there and live your life. So explain your mindset on traveling and what's going on without, you know, don't give any more info than you feel comfortable giving.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, I understand that. And I have no secrets. That's the whole point of learning to be vulnerable in there. But my dog, her last nine months of her life were seizures. And so I had to be around the clock with her medication. And so I vowed that I wasn't going to replace her as a dog, even though I've had dogs for 20 years, simply because I wanted the freedom to be able to go out and do things. Then, unfortunately, I had a medical kind of a to-do thing that I'm working through, and there's this sense of urgency, and I think I've had it since COVID, of a I'm not getting any younger, and my point is life happens to you, not for you, and you have to decide what you want to do with it, and these tools that I have... I'm currently in Albuquerque at International Balloon Fiesta. I'm in a house with friends because I used to live up here. And I came and because it's a nighttime event, both we went for the evening night glow and we went for the mass ascension. I used a wheelchair as a walker because I didn't bring mine with me and I'm using one temporarily. And here's the choice. You can either sit home and whine about it or you can use the walker and be there. I got to be there and nobody made any big deal other than, you know, we got a few advantages because I have my ADA temporary certificate. So we got to park a little closer and everybody else got to take advantage of it. And we got to be there as a family group together. And it was wonderful that I would have missed that had I not been willing to not bring the walker. And it just gave me a little stability. And yes, I could sit when I needed it. Other people could sit when we needed it. We used it as a tool. Nobody made a big deal about it. But the point is, I was there and I'm now still here and I don't get to go on Wednesday. And I've been able to come back and do a Broadway musical a couple of weeks ago. I'm going out to a football game in a couple of weeks in Seattle. I'm no longer willing to wait. And the reason is the why is because too many people around me are dying and too many people around me are willing to sit home and allow life to happen to them. And I'm more of the mindset life will happen to me. And if I have to be in a wheelchair when it does, I'd so be it. But I'm not going to stay home and miss it. That's my mindset.
SPEAKER 06 :
You know, and you told me, like, I didn't realize that you were, you know, sometimes using a walker wheelchair, not necessarily around the house, but, like, when you're out for a while. Like, my mom doesn't use them here, but when she's out for a while, it's great to have that backup and to be able to sit down or have something to just lean on, right? Exactly. And especially in crowds, like she gets knocked around so much. I'm like, mom, it's not safe to go to a basketball game or, you know, a swim meet or anything like that, where people are going to bump into you and knock you over. My aunt is, she walks three miles a day and has her entire life. She's in her mid nineties now. And she just fell and broke her hip now because she's been walking three miles a day for, I mean, the entire time I've, I can't remember when she didn't walk three miles a day. And so she's lived longer than all of her siblings because of this activity that she's involved in. And I don't – we'll see what happens. If still in her mid-90s, she could survive a broken hip because that's usually not the norm. So I'll report back on that one. But when I was going to come visit you, which I'm still going to do, but it didn't work out this last time, you kind of forewarned me. You said – Hey, just so you're not freaked out, I do use bring a walker so I have a place to rest or this, that, and the other because I'm dealing with some medical issues right now. And I'm just so proud of you. I would say 50% of people would rather stay home than have strangers see them with a walker or a cane because they're afraid it'll make them feel old. Same thing with hearing aids. Like, really? You're going to stop living life because you're worried strangers might think you're five years older than you look?
SPEAKER 04 :
Isn't it amazing? We've placed so much stock into people we know. And I'm thinking, here's my philosophy. If you don't pay your bills, you don't get a vote. I'm the one that matters. You're not the one that's paying. Remember in college, he who pays the bills, right? Your parents paid your college. They have some say in some of that because they're footing the bill. I pay my own bills, and so I get the choice. And I'm just not one of those that I use it sometimes. Not around the house. I do go kayaking, but I have to limit certain things. And so I've adjusted it. But I'd rather adjust it and have the amazing things that I'm going around and seeing stuff. Rather than sitting home and whining about it or saying, oh, I wish I could have. So do it in a wheelchair. You might not do it exactly. I mean, I'm not dancing the Irish jig these days, but I was able to experience one of the most monumental things here in Albuquerque that people only dream about. And I had the courage to come. And to me, it's not courage. It's having friends that you trust. that just in case they just do a little extra for you but if i can be more self-sufficient then they don't have to worry about me because now i'm there and i'm part of it and i don't have to feel bad at christmas vacations or or family events when we're all talking about it and they're like oh you remember the trip and i wasn't there i want to be there so i can have those memories and i'm not willing not to be so it really is more of a mind shift and if you have the tools why not
SPEAKER 06 :
I love that. And would you please tell us, I love balloon festivals and I've been to a few, but you're at like. I think the world's best, right? I mean, isn't it known as like one of the best in the world? Okay, so tell us what it is. Talk about the Ascension. I want to know about this drone show because I haven't seen one of those yet. So tell us where you are and what this event is all about.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, I am in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and it's called the International Balloon Fiesta. And while there are fiestas all over the world, this is the largest and the only one of its kind because of a unique geographic location. atmospheric thing that happens because the mountains, it's called the Albuquerque box where balloons can literally, if the box is in place, take off and land exactly where they started from. And it's amazing. So they have, when I was first here years ago, cause I used to live here, they had over 1200 balloons. I think we had a, the equivalent of that last night. So the glow on Saturday night, cause I got here on Saturday was, is that all of the balloons tether on the field. They just light them up, and you have this huge celebration. And we had, oh, I don't know, at least 100 balloons there, and they light them up, and they do flicker burns and special shapes, and you can go right up to the basket and talk to everybody. It's this huge Balloon Fiesta Park. I mean, we're talking millions of people are here. I think they, you know, their city doubles in size for the first 10 days. The mass ascension was we all get up at, you know, four in the morning, if not earlier, and you make it down here and they have down patrol. That means they have 13 balloons that go up to see how the atmosphere is as the sun's coming up. And then they put them off the field in waves. We must have had more than 1,000 balloons in special shapes from Smokey the Bear to Yoda and Darth Vader. And with all of the music and the food and the people and the weather, it was gorgeous. It went from 45 degrees to 85 degrees in the span of three hours. They do this for 10 days, and you try to have it because sometimes the weather, so for the night glow, for example, they had to put off weather alert because the winds were a little out of limit. But once we got there, they had jumpers originally that were going to jump from a plane at night with sparklers and pyroglyphics and all that kind of stuff, but they couldn't do it because the winds were out of limit. They still did the drone show. And the drone show was that you have literally over 100 drones that make pictures in the sky. And then when the drone show was over, then we had the fireworks. And I'll tell you, the fireworks are better than anything I've seen at Disney. Sorry, boys, but it was phenomenal that they had. And so all of these ways to celebrate light, ballooning, and they have all kinds of competitions. We were looking at, you know, buying. We had breakfast burritos because there's certain food that I like from Albuquerque. It's like being in a snow globe. So, yes, the first two weekends in Albuquerque, every year they've been doing this for – I think this is the 53rd International Balloon Fiesta. And so it's something you have to experience. Yes, you can watch it online and streaming on the weekends with KOB.com and all of that. But being here with people from around the world that you can share such an experience of literally hundreds of balloons going up around you and having lived here. Right now, I get up this morning and I'm staying at my friend's house in Albuquerque. I went outside this morning when she was telling me she was driving to work. And the balloons are just around town, and they're going over the house. They feel like I've entered the Wizard of Oz. It's absolutely amazing. You've got to come visit.
SPEAKER 06 :
Now, yeah, I've seen it many times and thought about it. Like you did, you've got to plan ahead. You've got to book it. You've got to get there. You've got friends to stay with. If you don't have that, you've got to get your hotel. So you really have to plan ahead. But this is definitely one of those bucket list items. Absolutely. The drone show, I've never seen one of those. It lights up. Does it look like fireworks? What does it look like?
SPEAKER 04 :
It does look like fireworks, but without all of the pyrotechnics and the smoke and stuff like that. I'll send you a video of it. All it is is... Do you remember what light bright used to look like, and you would put the screen that would have... This is moving light bright in the sky, and then you go up in there, and it creates pictures. It was making coffee cups and coffee that would pour into the cup, and it would have the sponsors, because they were sponsoring it in there, but... You would see things about masks. And they had a different drone show every darkness. So for mass ascension in the mornings as the sun's coming up. So they're looking for ways to keep people entertaining while you're waiting for atmospheric conditions. And when they do mass ascension, they raise the flag and we sing the national anthem as the sun is just brimming over. And then they do all kinds of stuff. But the drone show is something I've seen at University of Illinois. I've done it at a few of their events. They've done it at the Olympics. They've done it at a lot of sporting events in the middle thing, and it's just the coolest thing. These are just itty-bitty drones with lights on them that they form together, and they make moving pictures in the sky. It's absolutely amazing.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, you've got to send me the video of that. Absolutely. All right, Cheryl, your website? DrCherylLenz.com. Thank you, friend. You betcha. Thank you.
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SPEAKER 06 :
Well, we hear about it in the news all the time, unfortunately. Massive wildfires. The Eaton and Palisades wildfires in L.A. in January. You know, I worked at NBC for many years there, so I know so many people that live in that neighborhood. I was right down the road. And then here, you know. The 2021 Marshall Fire in Colorado, where I'm living now, and then the Lahaina Fire in Maui, what was it, like 23? And it's just unbelievable how many of these fires we have now and how quickly they spread. But the good news is today we are learning how to prepare our homes and our finances for wildfires. And we're talking science-backed action steps to help prevent ember ignition and why it's important to contact wildfires. your insurer to make sure you have the right coverage so you could actually have another house if you did lose one in a fire. Joining us are two experts in the area, Karen Collins, Vice President at American Property Casualty Insurance, and Andy Cope, Chief Engineer at the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety. Welcome to both of you.
SPEAKER 05 :
Thanks.
SPEAKER 06 :
Great to be here. You are welcome. All right. So this is definitely something that I think a fair amount about, you know, due to where I live right now. So, Karen, let's just start with you and talk about how to prevent underinsurance and ensure your finances are protected before you have a problem with a wildfire.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes, under insurance has been a challenge across the U.S. with the surge in inflation that we've seen since the COVID-19 pandemic. We saw that, unfortunately, with the Marshall Fire right at those peak years. But you can take steps to protect against under insurance. uh make sure that you're doing an annual insurance checkup to go over your coverages call your agent or insurance company and talk about your policy limits and your coverage do it at least annually you want to make sure the policy reflects the right square footage and materials of your home if you've done any upgrades since like covid for example Kitchen upgrades, whatever it might be. Make sure that's included and reflected. There's other optional coverages that can also help in protecting against underinsurance. We are seeing that demand surge. So we have inflation that's roughly 40% higher now for rebuilding than it was at the beginning of the pandemic. Those costs can go up even higher from demand surge when there's a disaster because everyone's fighting over those same materials or construction labor. So things like expansion. extended replacement cost coverage. That'll give you an additional layer of financial coverage to absorb those demand surge costs. In Colorado, we're seeing changes like requirements for solar panels. So if you have to comply with a newer code, increase your ordinance and law coverage, which will give you additional financial benefits. These additional living expenses are also significant where they might extend from beyond just a year to two or three years as you're out of your home. So talk about maybe higher coverage limits for additional living expenses also to absorb some of that. And then also make sure you know what your policy covers. There's a difference. There's replacement cost coverage that will replace all your items at current market price. And then there's also actual cash value that takes depreciation into account and pays less for over items. So knowing the difference in what you have before the event is really important. Two other quick tips, just make sure that if you've got loved ones with paid off homes, make sure they continue to maintain that homeowners insurance policy so they're not caught with a way to rebuild without a way to rebuild. And then also our renters in Colorado and the LA area, we have a lot of renters in these regions, but they can lose everything in a fire just like homeowners. And so Talk to your company about getting a runner's policy that's very affordable and usually can be bundled with your auto policy, but they'll give you financial benefits for all your personal belongings inside the home and also that additional living expense benefits and other coverage benefits. So these are really helpful to address, you know, how you can financially withstand it and recover after these events.
SPEAKER 06 :
One of our renters in Boulder, Colorado, which is right in the foothills, she just got a policy. One of the kids did. And you're right. They're very inexpensive. And we had to do a bunch of fire stuff related to this rental home because it's so close to the mountains and all the trees. And You know, the location of what you're talking about. I'm going to ask you about embers. I've got friends in Altadena, you know, where the Eaton fire was. And I was watching a woman right down the street from my girlfriend's house and they were trying to keep embers from burning their home. Right. And my husband said, oh, my gosh, like it's almost an impossible task because. they were running, and then they had a hose, and there was an ember there, and then there was one there, and then one was in the palm tree, and it was like insanity trying to catch up with the embers. So what can they do to make the home more ember-resistant? Because that seems to be a big issue in these fires where the homes are so close.
SPEAKER 03 :
That is absolutely the biggest issue. When things are burning, the wind-borne embers, that's what's It spreads those spot fires to the neighborhoods and to all other pieces of the neighborhood. And it was a primary cause. Once a home gets burning, then those embers spread to the whole rest of the neighborhood. So there are a couple of key things that you can do to make your home resistant to those embers. First and foremost, you want to have a Class A roof. Now, the good news is most of the roofing is Class A, metal, tile, asphalt shingles. If you've got a wood shake roof, you need to think about would it be time to replace that wood shake roof to make sure you have the roof that's non-combustible. And no matter what type of roof you have, you need to keep it free from all those leaves and things like that that want to be on the roof. That stuff is just tinder. So make sure you're keeping your roof clear. Second thing people want to do, is check on those vents, the vents to the attic and the vents to a crawl space. Those allow your house to breathe. But the embers get into those vents, and now they're burning stuff in your attic. Right, yeah. So you want to keep the embers out of the vents. And the easiest thing that you can do is replace them with ember resistant vents. Or if you're a do-it-yourselfer, you can get some of that wire mesh that's an eighth inch or tighter. And you can put that wire mesh on there to keep the big embers from getting into your attic space and trying to burn your home from the inside out.
SPEAKER 06 :
Are those vents on the outside of your house?
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, those are the vents that allow air to get into your attic. So they're part of the roof or they're part of the underneath. And you can easily replace them or if you're a do-it-yourselfer, you could hire somebody to come and put the wire mesh on those vents to keep the embers out of your attic. Okay. Third and critical piece. Yeah. Third and critical piece. And we saw this in the Marshall fire, the wood fences and stuff like that, that connect to your house. So the third and very critical piece for people to think about is you want to have a safety zone right around your house. We're talking about the five feet, the zero to five feet. That's right there closest to your home. You don't want anything that can burn. So we're talking about wood mulch, we're talking about firewood, we're talking about wood fencing, we're talking about bushes, particularly those little juniper bushes. Those are things that can burn when the embers get there, right? That's what your neighbor was trying to put out with all the hose. They burn and then they light your house on fire. So you want to have a gorgeous, fantastic yard with all the beautiful landscaping, but you want that stuff to be away from the safety zone. You don't want anything in that zero to five feet that can catch your house on fire.
SPEAKER 06 :
You know, this that depending on where you live, you know, I'm in a big community outside of Denver now with big lots, but tons of trees. Now, my cousin is in not far from where the Paradise Fire was in California. And their entire winter job, because they're retired teachers, their winter job is clearing trees. And I am not kidding you. It is like massive work every day clearing stuff because they're in a forest. And their home has not been burned even though they've lost some in the area. I think it was – was it Marshall? I don't remember. No, no, that wasn't it. But anyway, they – what they – The firefighters came in and wrapped their outbuildings kind of like burritos that you get at Chipotle. I was fascinated by it. And then they have water that comes up from the stream and onto their property. I don't know how they've kept it from burning because fires have come so close to them so many times. But it is a job to keep that landscaping that you're talking about away from their home. And when you live in a forest, it's a little more complicated than my place, just keeping my fence away, which I wouldn't even have thought of making sure the fence is at least five feet or more from my house. Anything else that we should know about landscaping and protecting our home?
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, changing your landscaping doesn't mean you have to give up on curb appeal. It can be absolutely beautiful. Just move it away from the structure. And if you need to have a fence for pets and other reasons, you can have the wood fence. Just replace the last five feet. All you have to do is, you know, replace that with noncombustible like metal or something else. You can still have a gorgeous fence. You can still have a gorgeous yard. Just include the safety zone in your planning so that embers that land there have nothing to burn and they can just fizzle out.
SPEAKER 06 :
Now, Karen, you might be a good person to ask this question. I've had a lot of friends, especially in L.A., do home inventories now and especially my organized friends to make recovery easier. How do you go about doing that?
SPEAKER 05 :
You know, a home inventory is so important. We're seeing a lot more attention for what you just mentioned. It's important for every disaster, but even more so for wildfire, because what we're seeing, sadly, is that when a home ignites in one of these big wildfires, over 90% of the time, there is nothing left. So how do you create a list of what you own to then get the reimbursement for that? That's where the home inventory comes in. You've got to do it before the event. And it's really simple. Go through each room of your house. Pull out your phone, turn on the camera, whether it's video or still pictures, and go through room by room. Open the drawers, open the closet, go into the garage or attic, and just document what you have with some sort of image. If you're doing a video, you can even kind of narrate it as you're going. You know, describe, I've got this and this and higher-end items, my electronics, appliances, whatever. It's literally just creating a record of what you have, so that after, if an event does happen, you can then use that to try to compile what it is that you're needing to get reimbursed for. So having it, again, you don't want to be thinking about this as you're going through the emotional challenging aftermath of a fire or other event. Create it beforehand create the document, the files, and then just save it somewhere you can access, your shared drives, your Google One drives, whatever, email it to yourself just so you have the ability to access that. It is such a helpful tool that is so often overlooked, but will help your recovery process and that claim be a lot smoother, a lot less emotional, and what you're trying to think through as you're preparing that documentation.
SPEAKER 06 :
So it could be as simple as just doing a video from room to room, opening each drawer and narrating what you have.
SPEAKER 05 :
That's exactly it.
SPEAKER 06 :
Now, in terms of going over all of your insurance prior to. Do you want to give us any more tips? Oh, and one more question before we get to that. When do you recommend like a certain, you know, something to bring with you when you leave? You know, do you have like, you know, the safe or, you know, all your documents together? Are there any tips that you guys offer for that as well?
SPEAKER 05 :
In the evacuation process, yeah, you want to have a go bag. We live in areas that are prone to disasters, and if you have to leave suddenly, having a go bag that you can grab that has whatever you need in it on critical things, you want to have, you know... If you have to gather them quickly, we have kind of a red light, orange light, green light system of ready, set, go in the wildfire space. So they will often give you a warning like, hey, get ready. So you're pulling all these together for your go bag. Get set is where you're about to leave, and then you go when you're being told to evacuate. Things like... medications, your pet's food, things that could be important records, insurance documents if you have them printed out, obviously some basic clothing or other things. So just anything that you need to have to reestablish if you're going to be out of your home, several days of basics and just have that where you're ready to go. Anything that can't be replaced. personal family mementos, photo albums, things like that. You want to kind of stage some of those items as you're getting yourself ready from an evacuation standpoint. And then there's also things you can do to prep your home, again, as you're leaving.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, and right there as you leave, if you've got, like, you know, cushions and things like that on your porch, move those things. You know, toss them inside your house. Put your garbage can inside so that your garbage can is not, like, right up against your house trying to catch it on fire. If you have time. The most important thing, though, is you. Right? If you're told to evacuate, go. And give your house the last fighting chance. If you have time, establish that safety zone right around your home.
SPEAKER 06 :
Excellent. Thank you, ladies, so much. Is there a good website for us to get more info?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes. For anything on financial preparedness, how to review your insurance policy, how to do those home inventories, we've got all of that available at www.insurance. That's apci.org slash wildfire.
SPEAKER 03 :
And for those things about how to prepare your home, go to wildfireprepared.org.
SPEAKER 06 :
Thank you, ladies, so much. Great info.
SPEAKER 01 :
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Join Barry Kite and Jeff Webster as they unravel the complexities of today's market dynamics. In this episode, they touch upon the intriguing rise of gold as a safe haven and its comparison with Bitcoin. The dialogue takes an insightful turn into the unfolding credit risks among regional banks, reminiscent of the March 2023 banking turbulence. Listen as they dissect these events and their implications on the current investment landscape. Moving to the realm of AI, our hosts explore the ambitious infrastructure investments led by industry giants such as NVIDIA and Oracle. The discussion provides a thorough analysis of the significant deals shaping the future of AI and data centers, offering listeners a window into the ever-evolving AI landscape. Tune in to understand how these developments affect market strategies and what investors should keep an eye on.
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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.
SPEAKER 02 :
Welcome to the Best Docs Now show. Right outside of Sarasota, but also excited to have Jeff Webster joining me on the show today, an advisor here at the firm. And as we look at the market, we have a little bit of green on the screen, kind of surprisingly. Pretty much markets are fairly flat. We've got the Dow Jones up. 0.28% today. That's 129 points if we're counting at home. We've got the S&P 500 up just 13 basis points, but in the green to 6,636. And NASDAQ pretty much flat up 20 points, 22,582. Bitcoin continues its slide, down 2.36% at the moment, down about 2,500. to $105,663. And then lastly, surprisingly enough, gold down today, $94, down 2% after just an amazing run so far. But good morning again and welcome to the Friday, October 17th edition of the Best Docs Now show. I'm your host, Barry Kite, player and analyst here at Gunderson Capital. Sitting in for Bill today, and we've got Jeff Webster joining us on the show as usual. How's it going? Good morning, Jeff.
SPEAKER 03 :
Good morning, Barry, and good morning to everyone out there listening to us. Happy Friday.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, it always seems like sometimes we get some eventful stuff on Friday, but at times, not exactly what I thought was going to be on the bingo card at the end of this week, but I don't know, at times I guess the market acts like a time machine of some sort within. You know, the last 24 hours, it feels like the market got caught up in a time warp back to transporting us back to March of 2023. And that was when we had the failure of Silicon Valley Bank. I want to say it was around March 8th or so. But, you know, among some others needed cash infusion, some others. failed as well. I don't know, are we on the cusp of a regional bank crisis? The markets kind of acted like it towards the end of the day, and that's kind of been some of the narrative this morning.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, it looks like there's a little bit of a bounce with the regional banks, with Amex doing a beat. But some of these guys, yeah, and I think we'll jump into it a little bit later, but some of these guys have reported uh... from fraudulent loan activity that they got caught up in where they were duped a little bit. We can dive into that a bit later.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, kind of some of the skeletons from March of 2023 with the names Zion's Bank Corporation and Western Alliance were a couple of the names of choice around there. Comerica was even getting caught up in it the last go around. Of course, I believe they and just had a merger or got purchased by another bank. So I guess their name will be off the list this go-round. But, yeah, we'll see how that plays out. But, obviously, before we get too far ahead into headlines of the day, you know, we look back yesterday. We had, you know, basically a down market across the board. S&P was down 0.6%, NASDAQ was down 0.5%, and the Dow was down 0.7%. So kind of read across the board, continuing some ongoing trade conflict and some of the rhetoric back and forth between the U.S. and China. And then, of course, towards the end of the day is when we had some of the news from Zion's Bancorp and Western Alliance. And that's really kind of what led to the red numbers across the board. Of course, the one thing that didn't change much yesterday is that, as we discussed also on Wednesday's show, was just how gold continued to lead the market. I think we had the quote, Eddie Ardeni said that gold is the new Bitcoin. And, you know, we look at gold continuing to go up and Bitcoin's hit a pretty big stiff resistance since topping it. And then got up to about $126,000 a coin earlier this month. and what i think trading around 105 000 at the moment um so uh gold has uh continued to rise i mean the the the the number of tailwinds um and kind of the this bank banking crisis and kind of a flight to safety is the you know kind of the newest you know kind of driver jeff in terms of it being you know potentially a safe haven trade but I mean, you've just seen this historic rise in the metal for the last handful of years, whether it was in terms of all the tailwinds that they've had, that gold's had in terms of inflation hedge coming out of COVID, right? We had, of course, with Russia's invasion of Ukraine, you had... Many central banks around the world started to step up demand for gold. So I believe right now it's the most held asset by central banks around the globe. U.S. Treasury is being pretty close to that too, by the way. But then you also had, I mean, this year's leg up, you had kind of the uncertainty driven by the tariffs and everything. in a bit of a weaker dollar and also Fed interest rate cut hopes. I was looking at the percentages this morning and literally 100% right now pricing and 100% chance of another 50 basis points being cut. this year, which would essentially equate to two 25 basis point cuts at the remaining two meetings, one in October, I believe, and the other being in kind of earliest December. But that essentially was looking at the percentage of that, so really 100%, really half a percent of potential cut in interest rates. And when you have, you know, as we know, gold doesn't pay much of a dividend, does it, Jeff? I mean, not much cash flow there. It actually has a negative cash flow in terms of cost to store it, right? So you're giving up potential interest and also it usually has a cost in terms of storage, but... As interest rates go down, that cost of holding gold actually diminishes, which gives it another kind of tailwind. And then, of course, the newest piece being the safe haven trade. So it's just amazing to see kind of the records that it's been hitting.
SPEAKER 03 :
Indeed, indeed. Yeah, it's like those gold guys, they always have to, you know, when you try to sell the physical gold, you know, the folks that you typically sell it to, you know, there's some type of a wholesaler and they've got to deal with their spread. And so it can be problematic at times.
SPEAKER 02 :
You know what I mean?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, you know what I'm saying? We lean towards those other types of gold investments.
SPEAKER 02 :
Right, but we get our exposure via GLD and ETF or even IAU. But you know what I haven't seen, this gold kind of rush moment, is I haven't seen the sign flippers anymore. Remember when gold was going up, you'd have the sign flippers on the side and sell your gold here?
SPEAKER 03 :
I was just thinking a couple days ago. Yeah, you'd be cleaning out your sock drawer or something like that on a Saturday afternoon, and you'd find, you know, some little gold bracelet or chain that you got when you were a kid or whatever, and you're like, okay, I'm going to swing by that retail establishment and see what I can pick up for this thing to pick up a little bit of pocket change.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, I mean, maybe the sign, I guess maybe the sign flipper is like, you know, kind of a lost art item. you know, in terms of skill set that we haven't seen. I mean, it got replaced by the, you know, the thing with the air that shoots through it, and it has all the little ribbons that makes you kind of look over to the side. But, yeah, that's one thing I've kind of been, you know, you kind of judge, you know, some of these moments by, right, and that's kind of what you would see. But a lot of this demand has really been driven by central banks and central bank demand across the globe. So it's pretty interesting when, of course, we normally are talking a lot more about equities, but gold's been one of the assets to be in of 2025 for sure. Yep, yep. And even Jamie Dimon finally said that, you know, he said it seems semi-rational to own gold. So he's never been a huge, he's never been a huge bigger buyer of gold. As he says, it costs 4% to own it, at least right now in terms of deposit, right? Obviously the banker in him is always thinking of interest, so. opportunity cost he doesn't want to hold it in gold he'd rather lend it out to you and uh you know and make uh four percent on it in some form or fashion so well we're just uh getting started here uh this morning on uh on this uh friday october 17th we'll come back we'll uh talk a little bit about uh the regional banks and some of the issues that they're having and we'll be right back
SPEAKER 1 :
Thank you.
SPEAKER 02 :
Welcome back here to the Friday end of the week edition of the Best Docs Now show. It's October 17th. I'm Barry Kite, planer and analyst here at Gunderson Capital. Taking the wheel for Bill today as he's giving a presentation down there in the lovely St. Regis Hotel or Resort down in Longboat Key, Florida. So it'll be interesting to see what he brings back from that conference.
SPEAKER 03 :
Hopefully Bill's getting a little bit of a suntan, you know, in between sessions there. He deserves a little bit of an opportunity to relax. You know, he's a hardworking folks, not only for everyone here at Gutterton Capital, but for all the folks that he services out there, you know, on our radio listeners, our clients and stuff like that.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, picture him with the two screens in front of him by the pool. Anywhere you can get two screens, or at least one, that'll be... Maybe the sun will reflect off of him and give him a tan, a little bit of a tan that way, right? Got to get the vitamin D. Well, we've got, you know, the good news is we should be having, whether the headlines or not, you know, from a market perspective, fairly quiet. We've got, you know, still got all of the major U.S. equity markets in the green up just under a quarter percent, actually. All of them trading within about two basis points of each other. In terms of, as we've talked about a little bit on Wednesday, in terms of kind of that push-pull narrative we've had, especially on one end with headlines where we didn't have any earnings during that kind of earnings season lull. And then, of course, now on the other end, we are getting earnings. earnings data. You get this push-pull between information and actual numbers and actual data and earnings. We're, of course, in the very early innings of earnings season, but as we've highlighted, things have been going well out of the gates, particularly with the big bank earnings have outperformed. Of course, the primary news driver continues to be tariff talk and This morning, actually, I think President Trump kind of cooled things down a little bit in terms of calling, I guess he referred to the triple-digit tariff rates on China as unsustainable. I guess which the assumption is there if they're unsustainable, then that would increase optimism that you'd get to some type of deal at some point. So I guess in terms of reading those tea leaves, that's part of the narrative. And then, of course, yesterday the market had a new narrative in terms of introduced into the markets was credit risk, right? So particularly... Credit risks surrounding regional banks. As we talked about, the two names making the headlines were Zions Bank and Western Alliance. Those are some of the names that you probably remember back during the regional banking crisis in March of 2023 where we lost names like Silicon Valley Bank. A few others got gobbled up because they didn't have enough capital, but And, you know, so yesterday, that's kind of what broke into it. And, you know, Jeff, I know you've got some info in terms of, you know, what quite was happening on the bank side, I guess, first, you know, with the banks. And then we can get into those individual defaults, you know, later on.
SPEAKER 03 :
It all boils down to lending and credit. And, you know, I'll take. You know, if we have any time today, I'll talk about some things that we can correlate to the crash of 1929, what we saw in 2008 with the mortgage crisis. But it's all talking about people and companies and banks becoming overextended. And so, you know, Zion's, you know, going back to them, they're taking a 60% Uh, there's a, they're taking a $60 million provision and a $50 million charge off on two commercial loans that they did through, uh, one of their California, uh, bank subsidiaries. And, you know, the, the allegations are that it involved misrepresentation, contractual default, and really irregularities in respect to borrows, grantors, and the collateral. And they're actually, uh, filing a lawsuit in, in California. which is, again, it's too bad. To me, the bigger story is what's happening with First Brands and Tricolor, both companies involved in the automotive industry, one being an auto parts supplier, and they filed bankruptcy, and again, it's tied to lending. They started to sell their receivables. So, Barry, you know when organizations need cash flow, they look at what collateral they have, and they have monies that are coming into them in the form of accounts receivables. And so what they end up doing is they end up packaging those receivables, and they sell them off.
SPEAKER 02 :
For some immediate liquidity. Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yep, and they get some cash that helps them run their operation, and they give up a little bit, and in return, they get immediate cash to help them out. And so they started, you know, packaging up these challenges, and some of the big banks bought into these things. And, well, they found out that in many cases, the way that these things were packaged were you know, not necessarily above board. You know, we've heard bills the last couple weeks warn about... Some parts of the private credit markets, correct? That's right. That's right. I mean, in the public markets, you know, we have the SEC, we have... you know, accounting firms that come in and audit and they have to report and we can see what's going on. But in many cases, when these other things occur, they don't have to fully disclose all this stuff. And, you know, Tricolor Holdings, they're a company that sells used cars, but for all intents and purposes, Barry, they are a financing company. You know, buy here, pay here type of concepts. And they got into a scenario where they started doing auto loans for people that had, you know, they were subprime loans. Very high. People didn't have great credit.
SPEAKER 02 :
Right. At very high rates.
SPEAKER 03 :
They didn't even have social security. Yeah. And so it can be very profitable business. But, you know, if the ceiling falls out and people start – not paying those loans, it becomes very, very risky. And so that's that's what's happened to them. And, you know, it draws a lot of analogies to what happened in 2008 with the mortgage crisis. Certainly that was significantly larger, much deeper. But it's very, very similar where it just people got overextended and lending institutions got a little bit too aggressive. and giving their money out.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, the market time machine in full effect. Well, we've gotten through the first half of today's Best Stocks Now show, and we'll be back in the third segment to talk about some of the big AI boom and some of the big deals this week. We'll be right back.
SPEAKER 01 :
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We've got to get together sooner or later.
SPEAKER 02 :
Welcome back to the second half of the Friday, October 17th edition of the Best Docs Now show. I'm Barry Kite, planner and analyst here at Gunderson Capital, serving as the relief captain for Bill this morning. Also, as usual, I've got Jeff Webster joining me on the show. Jeff's an advisor here at Gunderson Capital Management. And, of course, to stay up to date with our thoughts on the market, get Bill's newsletter online. at GundersonCapital.com, or if you'd like to chat with Jeff, myself, have a discussion about where your portfolio is, what your allocation's looking like, and how you're getting that exposure, give us a call at 855-611-BEST. That's 855-611-2378. We're here to be a resource. Looks like markets are kind of teetering back and forth between red and green here, which no change after some of the headlines that we woke up to this morning. I think I'll kind of take it. I do see, interestingly enough, in terms of the risk-off move in Bitcoin. I mean, we've had Bitcoin kind of defy gravity, a lot like gold. Oddly enough, gold down 2% today as well, but... And he had Bitcoin hit $126,000 a coin, and right now it's trading under $105,000. I don't know what the percentage is on that one real quick, but I think it's close to a, what, 14%, 15% pullback if my brain's working well this morning. You know, I guess, you know, to kind of finish up the bank side of it and also the default with first brands and tricolor products, You know, in that sense, they seem to be, at least the banks are trying to say, hey, we got tricked. You know, there was some fraudulent activity or at least some nondisclosure in some of those particular deals. And it sounds like maybe collateral getting used twice, if you will. Yep. You know, essentially using the same collateral on two different loans and neither one, you know, probably knowing about it and thinking they've got the first, you know, first lien on it. But it gets complex quickly. But, you know, why is it important? You know, it's important because if you look back at, you know, kind of if you look back at, you know, essentially March of 2023, last go around, you know, it was really after we had Silicon Valley Bank and a lot of that, you know, all that turmoil kick in. And then the one thing that pulled it out. announcement of something we like to call ChatGPT, and then we had the first NVIDIA earnings report that rocked the investment world, and then AI took off ever since. So really, I'll credit AI for finishing off the regional bank crisis. um in uh you know in march of 2023 and you know if we look i was looking at the number of of deals this week jeff in terms of you know we had a bunch of stories we didn't even get to on monday i mean on wednesday and uh you know a lot of those were uh just you know deals that have been done in the uh you know in the ai space and of course you know what it just seems with no matter what tailwinds or headwinds are out there for the market that you know really since you know, March of 2023, you know, kind of that AI trade has, you know, kind of just been the stalwart pretty much through, you know, through thick and thin. Of course, you know, he got caught up in it and just like everything did in the market and during the tariff tantrum in the first part of first part of 2025. But, It's just amazing when you go through. I mean, yesterday you had just this morning, I think, a deal announced with Meta and Blue Owl, essentially a $30 billion deal. They're buying a big data center. infrastructure project in Louisiana. One of the biggest purchases, I think, in terms of private capital deal on record. And the interesting thing about the project is to be completed in 2029. So You know, there's some runway there, right? And so that's where, you know, as Bill talks about long duration, you know, a lot of these deals, you know, you kind of, you know, this isn't, I don't think these are necessarily the first and last set of deals. I think, you know, these companies are trying to build out this infrastructure for an extended period of time. We talked about NuScale. They had the massive Texas AI data center for Microsoft. They're basically buying, what, 200,000 NVIDIA chips for? And you're talking about these projects in megawatts where it's a 240-megawatt hyperscale AI campus. And it's going to have – NVIDIA is going to deliver 104,000 GB300 GPUs. And, of course, earlier we had the BlackRock NVIDIA.
SPEAKER 03 :
talking about their acquisition proposal for Align data centers. Yep. $40 billion. I checked that. Not acquisition, but investments in them. So, you know, Meta is aligning with Blue Owl, BlackRock, NVIDIA. Some other investors are going with Align data centers. And it'll be interesting to see how these, emerging players, you know, compete against the, you know, the legacy data center companies, you know, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Azure. That's something that I'm very intrigued to track and see how those relationships play out and, you know, to see if these guys, in fact, disrupt the, you know, the old school guard as it relates to the data center business.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, and it's, I mean, and it's global, right? I mean, you've got, you know, announcement of Microsoft renting a data center capacity in Portugal, you know, via NuScale, right? I think they're going to, you know, there they're going to utilize, you know, 12,600 units. NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs, right? And so just building capacity, not just here, but abroad where I believe NuScale is working and Microsoft are working with... the UK to make their largest AI supercomputer, right? I mean, it's the story where, and it's not just NVIDIA now, right? You've got a story this week where Oracle is going to deploy 50,000 AMD AI chips, right? Right, and so essentially... What did I say?
SPEAKER 03 :
Oracle's projecting that their data center revenue is going to be like $144 billion by 2030?
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, with like a 30% to 40% gross margin, I believe, as well. Unbelievable.
SPEAKER 03 :
I mean, it's like the proof's in the pudding. It's all based on conjecture and their planning and stuff like that, but that's substantial, Barry.
SPEAKER 02 :
Well, and, you know, and that's the, you know, and I think kind of early estimates, I believe, you know, were, you know, you had, I think it came out last week that, you know, the gross margins were going to be potentially 15% when historically they've, you know, for data center, you know, it's been in that 30 to 40% range. And I think, you know, whether it's a CapEx involved at the beginning or, you know, just whether it's, you know, the use of energy or what they were expecting, you know, potentially those margins to be much smaller and, And Oracle, I think, has kind of proved that they're going to be in the 35% range. And when you do the math on – and they gave a five-year earnings target, actually, in the – in the example that they gave. And, you know, their five-year, you know, earnings figure is much higher than, you know, than the street at this point, which, you know, if you look, it doesn't have to be a genius. Look at the chart of Oracle and what it's done. And, you know, you can see the days that, you know, earnings-driven news or revenue-driven news has pushed that stock up. Like Bill says, you know, stocks follow earnings, right? And so... And that's where kind of the bubble talk versus AI is going to work and we're going to have lots of productivity gains, right? And it's going to pay off in these particular areas and you can actually equate it into better margins or what have you. So, you know, that's kind of the, you know, on one side of the argument, right, you've got, you know, kind of that bubble narrative. This is like, you know, 2000 or, you know, or what have you. And there's, you know, smart people who've written papers, you know, from in that camp. And then, of course, you know, there's people, you know, on the other side who are, you know, have highlighted, right, even some of the early stories. benefits that we've seen and just you know in terms of future investment of three trillion dollars over the next handful of years so um you know kind of both sides can be a little bit right along the way it'll just see uh you know there's going to be certainly winners and losers in that space as we keep going which is what makes this exciting on a day-to-day basis well we're uh third through the show uh three-fourths of the way through the show and we'll be right back for the final segment of the week it's about
SPEAKER 07 :
Do what you want to do with it.
SPEAKER 02 :
And welcome back to the October 17th edition of the Best Docs Now show. At the end of the week edition, I'm Barry Kite, planer and analyst here at Gunderson Capital, sitting in for Bill today. And as he finishes up the week, speaking out at the St. Regis on Longboat Key in Florida, hopefully sunny Florida today. And, of course, as always, we've got Jeff Webster joining me on the show, advisor here at Gunderson Capital. And still excited. Still teetering around even today. We've got the NASDAQ down basically three basis points now, down seven points. We've got the S&P up almost three points. And we've got the Dow up just under 100 points. So biggest mover is the Dow up 0.22%. Everything else is basically flat today. Gold gaining some back there. It was down about 2.5% earlier, down only about 1.63% at the moment. It's on track to actually finish for its best week in five years, by the way. Jeff, you know gold must be moving if somehow I know that stat.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, it's everyone's acting on J.B. Diamond's tip that it's for the semi-rational person or whatever it was that he stated, right?
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, I mean, I think if most of us were semi-rational investors, we're probably doing pretty good. But, you know, I think it's interesting in terms of, you know, as we're talking about, you know, AI and it's kind of the risk of AI and, you know, all the benefits. You know, it's also, you know, there's also going to be winners and losers along the way. And, you know, I think it's interesting. It makes sense to highlight Astero Labs this week was kind of on the losing end of it in terms of there was a deal, I believe, with AMDs and Oracle's partnership. Like we said, Oracle was going to buy. What, 50,000-something chips from AMD. Some of that news hurt Astera. I mean, they were down one point this week, I think almost 20%, 19%. I mean, if you look at the stock and where it was from a chart standpoint... um i think uh you know we owned it for a bit i think we we finally exited the full position i think it was uh at the very end of september september 30th to be exact but um you know the stock wasn't i don't know trading around 150 range since then and so you know you've got uh you know we've had a lot of these names you know amd was a was a quiet one right for an extended period of time and then of course now You look at the direction it's gone in, and then, of course, you look at the direction of, you know, not picking on, you know, A-Lab, but it's just, you know, that's one that, you know, you've got for every winner, you know, there can be a loser in some of these big deals that are kind of going back and forth out there. So that's... You keep hearing that it could be, you know, circular capital, right? I'll do a deal with you, then you do a deal with them, and it all comes around and, right, everybody benefits. In this case, it would have been, you know, in that particular deal, it would have been more like, you know, musical chairs and everybody had a chair. And then, of course, there's, you know, A-Lab is sitting there, you know, kind of didn't have a chair when the music stopped, at least in that sense, right? Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, I spent 30 years in the software space, and we were involved in plenty of balance of trade deals where it's like, okay, you know what? You guys want us to buy this. We also provide this, which you can utilize in your operation. Let's do some horse trading here and figure out how we can do some work together. So you see a lot of that happening. You know, you see, yeah, there's just, you know, some interesting results out there. You know, you mentioned interactive brokers reported yesterday. They beat their estimates. I like to track those guys. I like to track Robinhood. You know, of course, a few weeks ago, you and I had an opportunity to meet with a good friend of the show who works for Robinhood. They're in Santa Clara. That was an enjoyable conversation. Yeah, yeah, to get his perspective on things. SoFi is kind of in that space as well. You know, you have Bull that's stepping up now as well. So some of those folks that are, you know, attracting the new gen investors, you know, As platforms that allow those people to do their trading and investing and stuff like that, I think are picking up steam for the self-service types of folks and do-it-yourselfers.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, and if you look at IBKR, I mean, you know, interesting. I always use some of these numbers as kind of, you know, fervor for appetite, right, for risk out there. And, you know, their Q3 revenue and earnings beat, right? The trading volume in stocks surged 67% year over year. Options trading volume was up 27% year over year. And so... And, you know, the way I look at that is, you know, and you've got to remember, that's year over year, right? So we're, you know, we've been in recovery mode in terms of the market, really. I think that this particular leg up since the correction in 2022, I believe, just started. I think it's, you know, three-year anniversary was a few days ago. So, you know, not only that, I mean, it had been a great time up to, You know, 2024 in the markets, right, 2023, 2024 were great years. Well, you know, they've got 67% more volume right now than they even did then. So it just shows you kind of how that, you know, further and just the, you know, the trading activity, you know, how much, you know, You know, in terms of as the market continues to hit all-time highs, right, we keep, you know, pushing up and valuations push up, and that's where, you know, where we get a little, you know, Bill gets a little restless in terms of, you know, having to, you know, keep an eye on and be vigilant there.
SPEAKER 03 :
Can I offer up just a recommendation? This week I just started a book, 1929. by Andrew Ross Sorkin. He's the individual that, he's a co-host of Squawk Box. He's a creator of billions. Yeah, too big to fail. But I just started that book and it's fascinating, you know, to dive into it. And it really gives you an opportunity as an individual and as a consumer to think about how you utilize credit and to understand, again, how credit It can be a good thing, but it also can be a bad thing. And, you know, if anyone's looking for a good read, highly recommended. I'm enjoying it. You know, I'm several hours into it, and it's so far so good, and I'm learning a lot.
SPEAKER 02 :
Well, yep, I'm going to pick that one up too. You got it on my list. And, of course, to stay up to date with that and other thoughts on the market, get Bill's newsletter at GundersenCapital.com. That's GundersenCapital.com. Or if you'd like to have a discussion with us, give us a call, 855-611-BEST. That's 855-611-2378. Have a great weekend, everyone.
SPEAKER 04 :
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