Serving God is your purpose in life. This is why God left you here after you were saved. “Fear the Lord and serve Him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things He has done for you” (1 Sam 12:24). You receive a spiritual gift from the Holy Spirit at the moment of salvation. Using your spiritual gift is one way to serve God. You must be filled with the Holy Spirit and have some spiritual growth for your gift to be effective. This is what the Lord Jesus Christ said about serving, “If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also; if anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him” (John 12:26).
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Serve God
Transcript of FLOT Line Episode 1012 aired on January 12, 2025
Good morning and welcome to The FLOT Line. I’m your host Rick Hughes and for the next few
minutes, please stick around. Listen as I try to verify and identify God's unique plan for your life.
If I’m able to do this, then you can orient and adjust to the plan if you’d like. Remember, God
gave you two ends. One end you sit with and the other end you think with. Success in life
depends on which end you use. Heads you win. Tails you lose. It’s the greatest thing in the world
if you learn how to think God's divine viewpoint and think God's plan. As Philippians 2:5 says,
“Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus,”
learning to think like He
thought. Today, I may be able to identify the reason that you're still here. I think I've been able to
identify this reason for me. Thank you for giving me your time. We are working on 21 years of
this radio show. Across America this morning there are close to 100 stations airing this show
from Maine to Hawaii so thank you for being with us. Can you believe it’s 2025? Did you think
you would even be alive in 2025? If you’re like me probably not. I'd like to challenge you in
regard to the reason why we are still here. Why are we still alive? In other words, why has God
kept us around? It’s a good question isn’t it? I realize that most individuals who listen to this
show are members of the adult generation. By this I mean you're probably older than 50. If this is
true, then what I'm about to teach you today will give meaning and purpose to your very
existence. Let’s take a look at some Scripture that will open the door to our discussion. 1 Samuel
12:24 says,
“Only fear the Lord and serve Him
[the key to what we are going to study today, you
serving God]
in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things He has done for you.”
You cannot serve God and be double-minded. I’ll remind you of James 1:8, the verse that says,
“Being a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.”
If you’re going to serve God, it’s going
to take single-minded purpose in your life. It’s to learn the plan of God, to live the plan of God
and to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ through the way you live. This verse says to
“serve Him in
truth.”
Jesus Christ our Lord said,
“I am the way, and the truth, and the life”
(John 14:6). You
cannot serve God unless you come through Christ. You may be the most religious person in the
world and you may be the most churchgoing person of the world but if you have never been born
again, you are not serving God. You are serving Satan because you are promoting evil. The most
evil thing in the world is organized religion. This is what Satan uses to dupe a lot of people into
thinking they’re going to heaven. If you are going to serve God, you must serve Him through the
Lord Jesus Christ. Again, Jesus said,
“I am the way, and the truth, and the life”
and Samuel said,
“Serve Him in truth with all your heart.”
This is 100% commitment. It’s you not looking back.
It’s you not second-guessing what you did. Then it says,
“Consider what great things He has
done for you.”
What exactly has He done for you? A lot of great things, I can promise you that.
In John 12:26, here’s what the Lord Jesus Christ said about serving,
“If anyone serves Me, he
must follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also; if anyone serves Me, the Father
will honor him.”
What does it mean to serve God? The Hebrew word for serve is pronounced
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awbad.
This verb is what we call a qal stem which means to do labor or to do work. The word
that our Lord Jesus Christ used in John 12:26 is different than what was used in 1 Samuel 12:24.
The word He uses is
diakoneo
. It means to be a servant or an attendant. Remember, our Lord said
“
if
” which means the verb is potential. It means maybe you will or maybe you won't. This verse
requires you to be willing to put His needs and His desires in front of your needs and your
desires. Paul identifies himself as a person who does this. He calls himself a slave in Romans
1:1,
“Paul, a bond-servant
[a slave]
of Christ Jesus, called as an apostle, set apart for the gospel
[good news]
of God.”
The word that Paul uses for slave is a Greek word
doulos
. It means one
who gives himself up to the will of another. There is no idea of bondage here. This is a free
person, a freed slave, a person who was freed but chose to remain a servant and serve the Master.
Having been bought by Jesus Christ, Paul now is willingly bound to his new Master. His old
master was organized religion, persecuting and killing Christians. Now he has a new Master, the
Lord Jesus Christ, and he serves Him as a slave, as a free slave, a
doulos
. We also have been set
free from the penalty of sin and from death. We are free to present ourselves as slaves of Christ
also, if you wish to do so. In Romans 6:18,
“And having been freed from sin, you became slaves
of righteousness.”
You have been purchased out of the slave market of sin. Your penalty has been
removed. Christ died in your place and paid the penalty for your sin. Another phrase is
“slaves of
righteousness,”
manufacturing the righteousness of God through Jesus Christ our Lord. In
Romans 6:22,
“But now having been freed from sin and enslaved
[
doulos
]
to God, you derive
your benefit, resulting in sanctification, and the outcome, eternal life.”
Here is the bottom line.
When you were saved, you were freed from an appointment with the Lake of Fire. You no longer
have to worry about this. You put your faith and trust in Christ. He died for you. He took your
place on the cross, freeing you from the penalty of sin and death. Now you are free to walk away
and go live your life and do whatever you want to do or you can make a decision to return and
serve Him because of your appreciation and your love for Him. I've seen many people walk
away. Yes, they are saved. Yes, they are going to heaven but no, they don't have time to learn
God's will or God's plan for their life. They’re too busy chasing the details of life. They’ve fallen
into the trap of the cosmos diabolocus, the lure of the world, thinking that happiness is related to
something they have or something they possess or something they do. It’s sad to see people who
are free from sin and death saying, “Thank You for saving me God. I’ll see You in eternity God.
The rest of the time, leave me alone.” This is exactly what they're doing. They are believers who
want God to leave them alone for the rest of their life. This is exactly what Paul the Apostle did
not do once he encountered the living Christ on the road to Damascus. He didn’t ask God to
leave him alone. He immediately set out as a slave of the Lord Jesus Christ. Do you want to hear
how quick it was? Acts 9:20-22,
“And immediately he began to proclaim Jesus in the
synagogues, saying, ‘He is the Son of God’
[this is the same guy that was killing people for
saying this].
All those hearing him continued to be amazed and were saying, ‘Is this not he who
in Jerusalem destroyed those who called on this name and who had
come here for the purpose of
bringing them bound before the chief priests?’
[This is exactly why Saul went there but he got
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converted. Saul had an appointment with God.]
But Saul kept increasing in strength and
confounding the Jews who lived at Damascus by proving that this Jesus is the Christ,”
He was
proving that Jesus was the annointed Son of God beyond a shadow of a doubt. This change that
came over Paul was immediate because his commitment was 100%. He now knew the truth and
what a fool he had been in his earlier life. God called Paul through a divine intervention and
bestowed upon him the gift of apostleship. Likewise, He has bestowed a gift upon each of us and
our service to Him will function through our spiritual gifts. Let’s get a few principles about
spiritual gifts. What is your spiritual gift? 1. God the Father uses the ministry of God the Holy
Spirit for giving spiritual gifts. This is one of the things that happens the moment you get saved.
You are indwelt, sealed and given a spiritual gift. In 1 Corinthians 12:11,
“But one and the same
Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually just as He wills.”
The Holy
Spirit gives you the gift but who appoints the gift to you? 2. God the Son, the Lord Jesus Christ,
is the source of spiritual gifts and this is documented in Ephesians 4:7.
“But to each one of us
grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift.”
Our Lord Jesus Christ appoints the
spiritual gift to you and the Holy Spirit instills it in your life. 3. Spiritual gifts are sovereignly
given by the Holy Spirit to each believer at the point of salvation. You may not even know what
your spiritual gift is but you have it. It's there. It may be working and you may not even know it.
4. In order for your gift to be effective, it requires the filling of the Holy Spirit plus some
spiritual growth to understand how it works. You can’t use your spiritual gift if you’re not filled
with the Holy Spirit because this is where the power comes from. If you have the power of the
Holy Spirit, the
dunamis,
then your gift is functioning and working. If you have the Word of God
and you understand what gift you have, then you have to figure what to do with it. In my case, I
did not realize I had the gift of evangelism. I remember praying when I first got saved and
reading a verse of Scripture out loud to a group of kids. We were all sitting around reading. I was
only 22 but I said,
“And pray on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in the opening of
my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel, for which I am an
ambassador in chains”
(Ephesians 6:19-20). I never realized what I was saying but one of the
kids looked at me and said, “Did you hear what you just said?” I had no idea I was going to be an
evangelist. I went with a friend of mine who was speaking at a church one night and they gave an
invitation and no one came forward. Then the preacher said, “Mr. Rick, would you like to say
something before we dismiss the congregation?” I got up and said something. I had only been
saved a week or two. I don't remember what I said but they extended the altar call and the altar
filled up with people. We didn't know what to do there were so many of them. When we left, my
friend said, “Something’s going on with you buddy. You’ve got a gift.” It took a while to figure it
out. My partner and I had an organization called Teen Crusades. We had our gifts backwards. He
was the evangelist and I was the Bible teacher but this isn’t the way it works. An evangelist can
teach the Bible, I certainly do this for you, but my gift functions greatly in front of lost people. In
order for my gift to be effective and for your gift to be effective, it requires the filling of the Holy
Spirit. 5. The category of spiritual gift which you possess is not a sign of spiritual superiority or
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inferiority because spiritual gifts are a matter of the sovereignty and the wisdom of God the Holy
Spirit. You are not better and you are not worse than anyone else by virtue of what your spiritual
gift may be. I can tell you there are two permanent communication gifts. One is called the gift of
pastor-teacher and the other is the gift of evangelism, which is me. Missionary is not a spiritual
gift, it's a function of the body of Christ. Many men that are pastors become missionaries. Many
evangelists are missionaries. But simply put, a missionary should be an evangelist who goes and
evangelizes the indigenous population, teaches them basics, looks for someone that can take it
over to establish a local church and teach them. Then he moves on to another location, not set up
shop and stay there for all of his life. There are two permanent communication gifts. I sometimes
hear people say, “I have been called into the ministry.” Really, what exactly does this mean? Do
they have a communication gift? Do you have the gift of pastor-teacher? If you do, it’s a life of
service, study and sacrifice. Do you have the gift of evangelism? If you do, it’s a life of travel,
service and evangelism. What is your spiritual gift? It’s not singing, I promise you. The fact that
you can sing like Dolly Parton doesn’t mean it’s your spiritual gift. It just means you can carry a
tune. There is another gift we call administration and there is the gift of leadership in Romans
12:8 and 1
Corinthians 12:28. Administrative leadership gifts must be possessed by church
officers and some deacons, especially the chairman of the board of deacons and those that have
standing committees. Then there's the gift of service, the gift of helps, the gift of mercy and the
gift of giving. There are a lot of different spiritual gifts. Which one is yours? Why did God keep
you around? To use your spiritual gift so that you can glorify the Lord Jesus Christ through your
life and through the use of your gift. If you're still alive, God still has a plan for you. The gift of
helps is found in 1 Corinthians 12:28 and it is possessed by thousands of believers. This gift is
very important because it's this gift that makes the royal family tick. It is the most sustaining gift
in the church and it provides real stability for a local congregation. It will function automatically
once you reach spiritual self-esteem, begin to grow spiritually and get some maturity. There is
also the gift of showing mercy, a wonderful gift. Christian service is a gift of showing mercy,
helping people. Helping people who have been mistreated is part of the gift of hospitality. Then
there's a gift of giving. Oh my goodness, what an amazing gift this is. I’ve been in the ministry
well over 50 years and every nickel I’ve gotten has come from people that had given me finances
and given me gifts. They had the gift of giving, not all of them but most of them do. It is amazing
to see it happen because you don't ask for money and we know the Lord's in it when the money
comes in. Christian service is a function of sacrificial giving, giving to a local church, giving to
missions, giving to Christian organizations and giving to the needy. You don't have to be wealthy
to have this gift because it makes no difference what your economic status quo is. Giving is the
means of inculcating teamwork and coordination into the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. The gift
of giving is an amazing gift. What's the motivation for giving? This is a question you have to ask.
In 2 Corinthians 9:7,
“Each one must do just as he has purposed in his heart
[in his right lobe]
,
not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver,”
the grace-oriented giver.
Motivation is the major issue in your giving. It is not the amount that is given. God honors the
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mental attitude which accompanies your giving because God loves the grace-oriented giver. I just
read it to you. Don't give emotionally. Don't give impulsively. Determine for yourself what you
want to give. Don’t let anybody put you on the spot. I've heard some horror stories about people
in churches standing up and saying, “I’ll give $1,000. I'll give $2,000,” and everybody goes,
“Yea, praise the Lord brother,” and pat you on the back. It's nobody's business what you give. It’s
between you and God and that's all. Nobody needs to be saluting you because you gave
something. Whenever I get a gift, I look at it as from the Lord. It comes through people, His
children who supply our needs to support this radio station. It is always through the grace of
God, through His children. Motivation in giving is key. God loves grace-oriented givers. What
about this? 2 Corinthians 9:8,
“And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that always
having all sufficiency in everything, you may have abundance for every good deed.”
You are not
going to run out of finances. The Lord will supply your needs. God graciously provides extra
finances for those who have the gift of giving and do give. How can I come to this conclusion? 2
Corinthians 9:10,
“Now He who supplies seed to the sower
[this is capital]
and bread for food
will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness.”
What a wonderful thing. You cannot out-give God. The more you give, the more God increases
your gifts. It’s just amazing to watch and see it happen. Here’s a principle I want you to
remember. Charity is from God, not socialism and not welfare. These are from man. Charity is
from God because giving is an expression of your free will without any gimmicks, without any
coercion, without anybody knocking on your door saying, “Brother, you need to give this.
Brother you need to give that.” 2 Corinthians 8:3,
“For I testify that according to their ability,
and beyond their ability, they gave of their own accord.”
Paul is talking about his support. They
gave willingly, motivated by the Holy Spirit, needs supplied by God the Father above and
beyond whatever their needs may be. Giving must express an attitude toward the Lord Jesus
Christ before you can express an attitude toward the person you give it to. In other words, love
for the Lord Jesus Christ is the first thing that motivates you to give to someone, to give to some
organization or to give to your local church. In 2 Corinthians 8:5,
“And this, not as we had
expected, but they first gave themselves to the Lord and to us by the will of God.”
Paul is talking
about finances that came his way to support his ministry. These individuals were occupied with
the Lord Jesus Christ. They had personal love for God the Father motivating them to give to Paul
and his ministry. We as believers have many ways that we can serve God. Absolutely, we can use
our spiritual gift 100%. If you don’t know your gift, you should. You should understand it. If you
need some information about this, let us know. We can get you a transcript of this message and
you can study it for yourself. You have a spiritual gift. This spiritual gift must function and it will
function if you stay filled with the Holy Spirit and if you grow in grace and knowledge and it
will function whether you even know it or not. It’s amazing to watch people with the gift of
helps. It’s amazing to watch people with the gift of mercy. It’s amazing to watch people with the
gift of administrative skills or the gift of giving. It’s amazing to watch a man who has the gift of
pastor-teacher disseminate and teach God's Word. It's amazing to watch an evangelist as he
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proclaims the gospel message of the Lord Jesus Christ. The lost people actually listen to him as
he speaks, it's amazing. There are many ways you can serve God. You can do it in prayer, with
prayers of adoration, thanking Him for Who and What He is. You can serve God by praying
intercessory prayer, praying for others, praying for your family and praying for me. This is
intercessory prayer. I ask you to please pray for me that I would have the strength to continue
teaching the radio program, to continue having the messages you need to hear, to continue
pointing the way toward the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. You can serve God by witnessing and
sharing His Word, winning souls for the Lord Jesus Christ. It is a wonderful thing to do and it’s a
way to serve God. If you're wondering why are you are still here, why are you still alive, what is
God's plan for your life? It is to serve Him. Using your spiritual gift or not, you can still serve
Him in prayer. You can still serve Him in witnessing. You can serve Him in giving. The most
wonderful, fulfilling thing in your life is for you to be absolutely in the center of God's will and
using your spiritual gift to serve God in your spiritual gift and to serve others with humility and
with the motivation of love. When I found out I had the gift of evangelism, I didn't realize what
was in store for me. I had no idea, not a clue that I would spend the next 50 years traveling,
going from school to school talking to kids, speaking in over 5,000 assembly programs all across
the southeastern United States. Oh, what an amazing thing. I wish I knew how many of those
kids got saved. I don't know, I have no way of knowing but I know I gave the gospel and I know
they responded. I think about it often. As you get older you will think backwards, not forward.
When you think forward. you know you're going to heaven and you think about this but you
have memories. You look back in your memories and look back at the places you've been, the
things you've done and this is normal. Assuming you are a believer, do you know God's will for
your life? Do you know where He wants you to be? Do you know what He wants you to do? Do
you know what He want you to think as well as what He wants you to say? You should. You
should understand His geographical will. You should know where He wants you to be. God has a
place where you can serve Him. I know people that up and moved to where there's a local church
so they could get face-to-face teaching and serve God in that local church. I know people that
have followed God's leadership so they can do exactly what God wants them to do. This takes a
lot of faith sometimes. Do you know God's will for your life? Do you know what He wants you
to be, what He wants you to do, what He wants you to say? I hope you do and I hope you're
learning something. I hope you're growing in grace. I hope these radio shows are at least
encouraging you. I know I’m not always giving you all the answers but my job is to point you to
a well-qualified pastor who can do this. If you don't know where there's a good pastor, let me
know and we’ll get you in the right direction. We’ll tell you how you can get some great
information from men that teach the Word of God accurately and succinctly. You can learn, even
in the confines of your own home, if there’s not one in your city. Thank you for being here. We’ll
be back next Sunday, same time, same place as God allows. Until then, I'm your host Rick
Hughes saying thank you for listening to The FLOT Line
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Negative. No.
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Actually, cold weather's coming Saturday. Not going to happen by Saturday.
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Not going to happen by Saturday.
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Okay.
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It's really a combination of how is that window properly engineered? Is it actually going to maintain its efficiency? And then how is it installed? Because you can get the most efficient product in the world if they just slam it in the opening and walk away. It's to no avail. Um, but my, my biggest thing is I think for all of our customers and the reason I tell them to get multiple bids, just because a door, for example, you know, I sell Provia products just because that door says Provia does not mean that it was engineered correctly for Colorado.
SPEAKER 09 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 13 :
And what a lot, many companies don't explain those efficiency values or any of that to you, you end up buying a product that's, yes, it's brand new, but it's rated for Arizona, not for the Northern region. Yeah.
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Got it. And so that's why I... You really got to compare not just apples to apples, but the slice of the apple to the slice of the apple.
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Well, that's it. That's just because it's... Just because the name is the same doesn't mean anything. Absolutely.
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Okay.
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I followed behind... a company that sold a gentleman a Provia door that I was able to build that door in the app. I sell the same product, and it wasn't ENERGY STAR certified for anywhere in the country, let alone Colorado. Didn't meet any of the energy requirements. He was able to get out from under that agreement as a result.
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Good.
SPEAKER 13 :
But that's why I kind of prefaced that. Get bids, but also be educated. Know what you're looking for.
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Know the bid. That's it. And for all of you listening, you won't know some of that without talking to Dave. And believe me, I've learned all sorts of things along these lines in the last year plus, two years even, that I did not know on the front side of this, Dave, that you learn as you go along. And I've learned a ton because of you and the education that you've not only given me but our listeners as well. Okay, so as folks are heading into this weekend, And they're like, yeah, I know, Dave, I need to just get new windows and new doors. I know my home needs it and so on, but it's not going to happen by the weekend. Do any of those cheesy kits where you glue the stuff onto the window, you take the hair dryer, heat it up, is any of that stuff worth anything at all, Dave, to help keep things warmer?
SPEAKER 13 :
I mean, it's a Band-Aid like anything. But if some of those kits where you put the plastic over the window and then you blow dry it to make it taut, those are great if you're having a lot of airflow and things like that.
SPEAKER 09 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 13 :
But it really doesn't impact some of the overall efficacy of the window.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 13 :
So it's...
SPEAKER 10 :
It's a temporary band-aid at best.
SPEAKER 13 :
It's just a band-aid, yep, to get you through that season. But that's why it's key to actually know what you're looking at from an energy standpoint, know what those values should be based on where you live, and then make your choice based on that.
SPEAKER 10 :
Now, for some of you where it's super cold, you know, hey, I've got even a threshold that's leaking in. I know I'm not going to have time to fix that by the weekend and such. Folks, this is where you can take a blanket or a cotton towel and roll it up, and sure, you can put those things at the bottom edge and try to keep some of those drafts down and so on. I know that's not correct, quote-unquote, Dave, but anything to help some of that airflow coming in isn't going to hurt at all.
SPEAKER 13 :
No, that's it. I mean, and that's – I've often – I've told many customers, you know, in the interim, you can do this. You can put this along the threshold or things like that. But, again, it's just a temporary fix.
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And my point is, is as we go through this weekend – For all of you listening, this is the true test as to how things are really working in your home. No offense, a day like today, you might know a little bit here or there, but we've got sunshine coming through the window and it's above 40 degrees. It's really hard to tell if that thing's really working like it should. When it's zero and below, Dave, you know really well then whether it's working or not.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, that's it. When your heat is kicking on every 10 minutes to keep it at 65 degrees, that's a good indicator.
SPEAKER 10 :
Frost on the inside of the windows and things along those lines. Pretty good indicator of, yeah, I probably should have Dave out.
SPEAKER 13 :
Probably time to at least take a look.
SPEAKER 10 :
Now, along those lines, too, which I know Dave would look at all of this when he would be out looking at your home anyways. But, hey, if you're going through this next weekend of cold weather and you notice some things where it's like, man, that just doesn't seem right, take pictures. You can always take pictures during that time. unlikely Dave will be out during that really cold spell time frame to look at that exact scenario. So take some pictures of what might be going on, and that gives him a really good indicator. I mean, you're going to know as you go through the process anyways, but that gives you a little bit better indicator as to what's happening in that area.
SPEAKER 13 :
Absolutely, and I do. I have quite a few customers that will send me images of what they're dealing with, and I can. I can look at it, and I can kind of discern if this is an installation thing or is this actually a product issue.
SPEAKER 10 :
Is it a product situation? What is it? Okay, so for those of you, a few tips for you. I wouldn't go out and buy a bunch of the shrink products. you know, shrink wrap window, you know, film stuff that you see. I just don't think at the end of the day, you're going to gain much for a lot of you that might have some minor leaks here and there. And yes, you need to get Dave out and do some things. This is where, hey, a few extra towels and some things like that might do really well, even on some of the windowsills and such. If you notice, you've got some frost buildup and things like that, just getting through this next little phase. But in the end, Dave, getting you out and getting things done proper is what needs to happen.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, I definitely think that's the best bet. And it's, you know, our approach is always we don't try to sell anything. That's not my effort. My effort is simply to educate. This is the reality. This is what we're dealing with. This is how these windows are made and why. And then if we are a fit, then that's great. We're going to do the best job we can. And if we're not a fit, that's fine, too. You know, we're not.
SPEAKER 10 :
Typically he is, though, everybody. What's that? Typically, he is a good fit because of everything you do. I mean that sincerely. Every single person that I've ever had message me about you being out and doing different things and so on, everybody is just super happy and very thankful for what you did for them just because of the things we're talking about right now.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, that's what we're trying to do. We're just trying to approach it from a different light and really allow people to make an educated choice that is the best for them.
SPEAKER 10 :
It's funny you say that. I was talking to a coach of other businesses, as you know, Dave, and I was talking to a client this morning, and just going back in time when I owned my own businesses on the retail end of things and so on, still do, but not on that end. And I made a comment to a client of mine where I said, you know, the best customers I had were the most educated.
SPEAKER 13 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 10 :
When I educated them well, they became my best customers, and I think you would agree, right?
SPEAKER 13 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 1 :
100%.
SPEAKER 13 :
It's amazing when people realize what they were sold as opposed to what they should have been sold. And there's a great disparity there.
SPEAKER 10 :
And what I've learned through the years, folks, is when you find a business that will help educate you, not based upon the end sale, but just helping you have the right info to make the right decisions, those are good businesses. Those are people you keep doing business with. And that's Dave at Veterans. That's what we're trying to do. And I forgot to ask, any specials for January?
SPEAKER 13 :
We're actually, our effort this year is to really grow the company. Okay. So what I'm going to do is actually 45% off doors, entry doors. Okay. And we're going to cover the installation costs for the month of January, and I'm going to do 35% off windows, any window bid, and the same thing. We will cover the cost of the installation and all of the ancillary materials we need to install.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay, I'm putting my notes down, so I'll have that for when I talk. And that's perfect. Dave, as always, it's been a joy just getting to know you more and more every time you're here. And even when we meet out of here, it's always a joy. And I learn so much from you and appreciate what you do and what you do for all of our listeners as well.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, I'm grateful to be here, and you have great listeners, and they greatly value you.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, I appreciate them as well. So, Dave, thank you also. And, again, folks, give Dave at Veteran Windows and Doors a call. If you have missed anything we've talked about and you want to get a hold of Dave, all you have to do is go to klzradio.com or rushtoreason.com. You can find Dave either way there. And, again, easy thing to do. Just go to our websites, and you can find him. And, again, Dave, as always, thank you, sir. Appreciate you very much.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yes, sir. Thank you.
SPEAKER 10 :
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SPEAKER 10 :
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SPEAKER 01 :
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SPEAKER 10 :
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SPEAKER 04 :
God. Country. Reason. Now back to John Rush.
SPEAKER 10 :
And we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. And again, thank you for joining me. And yes, big news of not only today, but probably will be all week as we watch this Arctic cold front that will be dropping into Colorado. Sounds like late Friday. Now, timing, who knows? We'll learn more as the week goes on. Most models, though, are in agreement that we will see below zero weather. How far below zero, that's where they're not all in agreement. And as we get closer, we'll know more. A lot of it has to do with how far it comes down and whether there's a particular front in California that if it stays off the coast and doesn't move in, it'll get colder. If the front does move in, that pressure may push that cold weather a little bit further east, and it may not be as cold in the Denver Front Range area. But it's going to get cold no matter what. I mean, honestly, for me, it's cold now. If it gets below zero, I don't care if it's 5, 0, negative 5, negative 10, it's cold no matter what. And it will be cold this weekend. So I want to mention, just because we have lots of partners on our program, and it's a nice not only highlight for them, but for you as well, to be prepared on the front side. All of these guys that we have that we are partnered up with, whether it's from the automotive side, whether it's on the HVAC side, whether it's plumbing and electrical, They're all going to get busy, probably already now are, but will get busier when that weather hits. So where I'm going with this is instead of waiting until something happens or breaks, be proactive and get that done now versus then. And I know some people don't know when something's going to break. That I get. OK, I understand. On the same token. been in that world long enough to also know that there are some things all of us know need attention that we procrastinate and delay on. And we keep saying, oh, I'll get to that. I'll get to that. I'll get to that. And then we don't get to it. And then that type of weather hits. And then we wish we would have gotten to it because now it's an emergency. And the reason I say all of this is because the cost of of doing those things in the emergency is always more than it is if you're doing it proactively. So the reason I wanted to mention it today, five days out, is because there are some things you could get done now versus then. So, for example, on the car side, Geno's Auto Service, you've got a problem with your car, battery that you think might be kind of on the edge where you've been putting that thing off, and, yeah, I know I need to get one, but it keeps turning over. Well, when it gets below zero, it won't. That one I can pretty much guarantee you on. So in turn, get into Geno's now before that weather hits and you're good to go. On the HVAC side, we have Cub Creek Heating and Air Conditioning. If you've had some issues with your furnace where sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, it's been good throughout the winter so far, but you're just not sure how it's going to work when it's running a lot more than it is right now, call Hunter at Cub Creek and get that end of things dialed in. Plumbing and electrical, high five. You know you've got a particular area in your house where if it does get that cold, could be a problem. Some of you know your homes very well. The last thing you want is a frozen pipe. And there's little tips and tricks that I'll talk about through the week when it comes to some of those things where even if they can't come out, we'll try to at least get you through that time frame. But if you knowingly have a problem... Get high five out now. Get it resolved prior to this event that we know is coming up. The nice thing about this storm is at least it's far enough out that they're giving us plenty of warning where these sorts of things you can get dialed in prior to this happening. And then, of course, on the electrical side, same situation. Nobody wants to be without heat or without power or without their car when it's below zero. I just hit on literally three of the hottest items for people when the weather gets that bad and don't want to get down this path of what you go buy grocery-wise because that's a whole other conversation that maybe I'll get into this week, maybe I won't. But I can already tell you people are probably already going to be out shopping and doing things, and good luck finding some things even now because some things will already start to run out because that's just how it works. My point is on the service end of things where we're talking house and car, if you've got some known problems, get those things taken care of. Now, we've got great partners. Find all of them at klzradio.com or rushtoreason.com, and you can call them and get some of this stuff taken care of on the front side versus trying to do it on the back side. And as somebody that's been in the service industry my whole life, literally my whole life, I cannot stress enough that when those times come, things break. It just happens. And some of it is because that extra temperature swing is enough to take something that was already on its way out fully out and or create problems that you didn't even know were there prior. So last little tip, and I know this isn't Fix It Radio on Saturdays, but since I do that show on Saturday mornings at 9, you'll hear a replay tomorrow at 2. Go around the house while we still have a little bit of warm weather and make sure you've got all your stuff dialed in. If you have anything that needs taking care of, anything that needs handled, I did a bunch of stuff around my place yesterday just in anticipation of really cold weather this next weekend because nobody wants, you just, A, you can't be out in it. I mean, you can, but to be all dressed and ready and to go out and do some things when it's, you know, in this case, it could get as low as 20 below. That's no fun to be out in. I've had to do that in my career over the years. And no, it is no fun. So my point is, don't procrastinate. If you've got the ability, get a few things done now. And side note, for a lot of you guys that have animals, I don't have to tell you, you already know what to do with your animals in most cases. But if you're new to our state. Maybe you're just picking this up for the first time. You have some animals and things along those lines. If they especially are transplants as well and they aren't used to the cold weather, they especially will need to be kept inside. And all of you that have livestock, you know exactly what you need to do with your livestock. I don't need to tell you what to do. But for the rest of you that are listening, be very careful. These are the types of situations where, yes, we can have people that die, unfortunately, because they don't take the precautions on the front side. And one other thing I want to add to this, if you know of people that need help that can't do this on their own, elderly and so on, please see what you can do to help them. Make sure they're also prepared. Again, most people are probably watching the news and have noticed this is coming, but some don't. Some may not know. And the last thing we want is people being caught off guard. So if you've got some neighbors... Relatives, anybody that you know that might need an extra hand, make sure that you're watching over them and giving them that extra hand as well because, yes, it will. And I'm saying this today on Monday, and I did this purposely during this segment after talking to Dave just to make sure that we've got all of our stuff dialed in as we head into the weekend because the weather's still fairly nice and will be until about, I believe, noon Friday. And I think you're going to see the temperature start to fall and drop out after that on Friday. And we may get some snow as well. That's another one that's got a huge variable to it that we have no idea at this point. But, again, just be careful. We've got great partners. Find them all. Next one, I just mentioned a moment ago, Hi-Fi Plumbing. If you've got any issues at all, things you want to get taken care of on the front side, give Hi-Fi a call today, 877-WE-HI-5.
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SPEAKER 10 :
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SPEAKER 10 :
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SPEAKER 10 :
All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Our next guest joining us now, John Eastman. John, welcome. How are you, sir? I'm well, John. Thank you very much for having me on your show. I appreciate it. Talk to us about your new film.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, it's called The Eastman Dilemma, Lawfare or Justice. And it premiered at Mar-a-Lago back on January 4th. And the president came and watched it with us, along with Italian Prime Minister... uh georgia maloney and uh marco rubio was there and incoming treasury secretary stephen descent and it was a terrific evening uh and i think people were really impressed by The detail exhibited in the story about illegality in the 2020 election and the constitutional routes I pursued to try and have it addressed, but more fundamentally, the lawfare that has resulted in the aftermath of that, a great abuse of our criminal justice and bar disciplinary systems. And the main purpose of the movie is to alert people to what's going on.
SPEAKER 10 :
I mean, the reality is, even though the other side won't admit it, the legal system has been weaponized, correct?
SPEAKER 15 :
There's no question about it. And, you know, the greatest psychiatric projection example in history, I think, is the Democrats claiming that if Trump got elected, he would weaponize the Justice Department.
SPEAKER 10 :
It already was.
SPEAKER 15 :
And just those of us that have been on the receiving end of that for the last four years weren't front row seats to the weaponization that had already occurred.
SPEAKER 10 :
And again, I... Believe me, John, these people aren't that ignorant. They're not that blind. Some of their followers, you know, some of the lemmings might be. But believe me, the powers that be, they're not ignorant. They know exactly what they've done. They know that it's been weaponized. And reality is they weaponized it. They did it on purpose.
SPEAKER 15 :
They did it on purpose. And I think they thought that they would never have to have the shoe on the other foot. But they're now all scrambling for fear that they will be criminally prosecuted. Because what I believe has gone on in the last four years is a nationwide criminal conspiracy to deprive people of their First Amendment rights, their Fourth Amendment rights, your attorney-client privilege rights. And, you know, those are federal felonies. And we've got an incoming crew at the Department of Justice and the FBI that seem bent on pursuing that.
SPEAKER 10 :
We've even seen, John, the ATF abuse their powers and take Second Amendment rights away as well, correct? Correct.
SPEAKER 15 :
We have. Second Amendment rights, the Fourth Amendment, the prohibition on general warrants. I mean, they've been issuing warrants to banks and social media platforms, cryptocurrency operations, just to give us all the data on the people, and we'll sort through and see if we can find anything. That's an unconstitutional general warrant. It's one of the reasons we fought the Revolutionary War and why we have a Fourth Amendment, and they're just shredding it.
SPEAKER 10 :
So, side note. There are a lot of individual voters out there. I'll give credit where credit's due, John. I think there's a lot of really smart voters that understand everything you and I are talking about. They're on you and I's side. They see this stuff. They know that's happening. Although the reality of this and the sad part of this is far too many don't even know what some of their basic rights are and the fact that they're being violated.
SPEAKER 15 :
They are. You know, one of the one of the things when University of Colorado canceled my classes at the last minute in January of 2021 because of my representation of President Trump. One of the things that happened is the local ladies group said, well, he's now here anyway. Why don't we have him teach a seminar on the Constitution for us? So for six weeks up in Boulder and Lakewood, we held this constitutional law seminar for people, and it was packed every night and half, double the audience size watching it on streaming. People need to be aware of what their constitutional rights are, but they also need to be aware of how the government is infringing or breaching those constitutional rights. And that's what this movie is designed to do, to get people aware and to get them angry about what's been going on so they'll do something about it.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, I was talking to one of our sponsors here just a few minutes ago, John, talking about how an educated customer is the best customer there is, in my opinion. I've been self-employed my whole life and will tell you that I love educated customers. I used to do a lot of things to educate my customer because the better educated they are, the better they are. Unfortunately, in the United States of America, we've gone the opposite when it comes to our citizenry. We're like, wait a minute, if we can dumb them down and make them last smart, then guess what? We'll take advantage of them.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, I fear that's true. And you see it happening in the public schools. Look, one of the silver linings, the few silver linings of the COVID. pandemic was that parents watching the Zoom meetings over their children's shoulders saw what was really going on. And the movement toward charter schools, toward freedom-based charter schools, and even homeschooling has just exploded because of it. I think that's a very good thing. I agree. Break the monopoly on the public education system, because it was teaching that America is the root of all evil in the world, when the opposite is true.
SPEAKER 10 :
Root of all evil. We shouldn't have a Second Amendment. There really should be no First Amendment. And granted, they didn't say it quite like that, but their end goal is that, John.
SPEAKER 15 :
Oh, that's right. First Amendment only for people that agree with them.
SPEAKER 10 :
That's right.
SPEAKER 15 :
And classifying it as misinformation, anybody that disagrees with them. And because it's misinformation, we can shut it down. You know, they have such a lock on the truth in their own minds that I think they don't realize that maybe they might be mistaken.
SPEAKER 10 :
What do you feel, folks that are listening, and we'll give them the way to watch this movie here in just a few minutes, John, but what do you feel people will be the most shocked at when they watch the movie?
SPEAKER 15 :
I think the fact that, for giving legal advice, me and other lawyers are being criminally prosecuted. for giving legal advice on open questions of constitutional law. And the electors, oftentimes just politically active volunteers in their states, are being criminally prosecuted for doing what both left and right legal scholars say needed to be done, which is cast their electoral votes Based on any contingencies and still pending election challenges. And that's now been converted into criminal behavior, not just criminal behavior, but criminal enterprise mob type stuff, racketeering enterprise claims out of Georgia, you know, forgery and false impersonation of public officials. in arizona i mean this is utter nonsense and yet it's it's costing these people millions of dollars oftentimes without any any national platform on which to raise that kind of money to provide for their defense absolutely all right so the movie the eastman dilemma lawfare or justice how do they find it where do they watch it So for a short time only, they can watch it for free streaming at MadisonMediaFund.org. After that, in another couple weeks, I think it's going to go onto one of the paid platforms. But we'll also be traveling around the country to do private showings at local theaters, and I'm pretty sure we're going to do one in the Denver area. So I will be posting that schedule up on my website, which is GiveSendGo.com slash Eastman.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay, so as you get closer, by the way, to knowing something on a Denver date, nothing else, at least send us an email, reach out, let me know when that is. I'll make sure I make announcements here for that as well. And give us that Madison Media website one more time. MadisonMediaFund.org. Okay. I'm going to put that in my notes so people can get a hold of that. John, as always, I appreciate you joining us. And unfortunately, we're at a time where – well, let me back up. Would you have ever thought that our founding fathers would have seen a need for a movie like this?
SPEAKER 15 :
No, and they're rolling over in their graves seeing what's been transpiring and that we have to fight back. But somebody asked me, do you regret ever representing Trump? And I always tell them no. Our country's on the precipice of losing the freedoms our forebears fought for. And for whatever reason, I've been cast into a front-line role in that war, and I can't think of anything more important to be doing to make sure that what I hand off to my kids and grandkids— is something remotely close to the freedoms that we inherited.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, and I think, not to belabor this, John, but I think there's so many anti-Trumpers that because it's Trump and he's the one being prosecuted, they sort of have this sort of, well, it's Trump, we don't care anyways. But yet, if the shoe was on the other foot or it was one of their family members, they sure would care then.
SPEAKER 15 :
They would. A friend of mine said it's called Trump law. If it involves Trump, there ain't no law. And unfortunately, you can't have a legal system that operates on that basis.
SPEAKER 10 :
No. But am I right? There's a certain amount of individuals out there that just because it's him, and I guess you just said it, that Trump factor or whatever you want to call it, at the end of the day, they're willing to erase the Constitution because it's Trump. Right.
SPEAKER 15 :
In other words, they're willing to shred the Constitution in circumstances which is the very reason we have those rights. You don't need the right to free speech if what you're talking about is something everybody agrees with. The right to free speech is most important when what you're saying challenges the status quo.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, I've always said on this program that the First Amendment is to protect that speech that I may not agree with.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yep. And we have it because that's the way you get to the truth. If everybody are just a bunch of lemmings and just parrot the line that comes out of some government bureaucrat, you never get to the truth. It's by challenging things and debating and discussing and deliberating that you get to the truth. And if you shut down one side of any argument, you will never get to the truth.
SPEAKER 10 :
That dialogue is really important. And frankly, that dialogue was lost, as you know, through COVID. And there was so much, you know, nonsense in regards to, you know, what treatments worked and what didn't and on and on we go. The reality was if you opposed anything outside of a shot or sending somebody to the hospital on a ventilator, you know, you might as well be burned at the stake, John. And we had no dialogue along those lines because they wouldn't allow it.
SPEAKER 15 :
No, that's right. And, you know, in the fullness of time, we find out nearly everything they were telling us, spoon-fed, thrown down our throats, was false. And they knew it to be false at the time.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yep, they did. And collectively, though, they were all behind it. To your point, they shut down all the dissenters, and we already know what the result of that was. It's not good. It never is, as you just said. It's not good. Never is.
SPEAKER 15 :
No, and the American people have more common sense than what somebody once said. I'd rather be ruled by the first hundred names in the Boston phone book than the professorship at Harvard Law School or Harvard University. Can't argue that. You know, they've gotten so wise in their own minds that they can't see common sense past their nose.
SPEAKER 10 :
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Now back to Rush to Reason on KLZ 560.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Appreciate you joining us today, by the way. And by the way, great interview. Thank you again, John, for that. And yeah, that'd be a great movie for all of you to watch. So closing out this hour. Lots about the fires in California. I talked a little bit about these last week. I'm not going to really talk a ton about them this week because pretty much have said what I need to say, went over a lot of insurance stuff on two different shows that I have outside of here, Ready Radio and Fix It Radio. At the end of last week, you'll hear one of those shows tomorrow between 2 and 3 talking about the whole insurance aspect of things. And while – how do I want to say this? Those fires are going to affect the entire country. And people don't even realize it. Some, I mean, most everybody has a concern for what's happened in people's, you know, loss of not only life, but property and so on. And, you know, hearts and prayers and so on go out to them no matter what level of life they're in. From the millionaires, because there's really, you know, you hear people talk about the billionaires that own property there. I've not found there to be any billionaires. There's some... Wealthy individuals, no doubt, and some millionaires definitely that are in that area. I don't think you could even live in that area and not be one. But there's a big difference between a millionaire and a billionaire, like 1,000 times over. Huge difference. So it doesn't really matter what level of income you're on. When you lose everything, it's not fun, period. And your – how should I say this? Your heart will hurt – No matter what. I don't care what level of income you're in because you've lost personal items. It doesn't matter whether you're somebody that makes, you know, $10,000 a year, $10 million a year. When you lose personal items, things that are, you know, very precious to you, it hurts. And my whole point with this is this is going to be costly as well. And it's going to be costly in numerous ways. One, your insurance. Everybody's insurance is going to go up. I don't care where you're at. Your insurance is going up. On top of that, here's what I think might happen for us in Colorado, and I don't think I'm wrong on this one. Some of those people are coming here. Not all, but some will. And some of you are thinking, okay, so who cares? Well, we already struggle with our inventory in Colorado, and our prices are already high, as you all know. Bringing people that, in this case, may have cash to spend to Colorado will do nothing but drive some of those things even up higher than they are right now. And a lot of people aren't thinking or talking about some of those things, because here's the reality. Even though some might say, yep, we're rebuilding. Likely not. Some will. Some will rebuild. But I will tell you that the majority most likely won't. Even though they'll say today they are, and that's an easy thing to say, at the end of the day, they probably won't. Ben, you're calling in. Go ahead, sir.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, you know, I wanted to go over a couple things I heard on these fires in L.A. Sure. Which I'm tuning in. But my comments, and I've got a couple on that constitutional thing as well, but I heard some of these people in L.A., you know, they always put together a team of police firefighters, which I'm sure they're doing the best they can with whatever water they've got. But regardless, they said, you know... We want to open up part of our county so when you start rebuilding or you need paperwork, certificates, and IDs, we want to be a one-stop shop, and we realize it's our job to get out of the way. And I'm thinking, that was your job all along.
SPEAKER 10 :
Exactly. It's funny, when you say that, and I saw some of those same reports, Ben, I thought to myself, you know what? You and every other county in America should be doing the same thing.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, that's your job, government, is to facilitate the things we, the public, want, not what you want us to want.
SPEAKER 10 :
That's right.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. And the other thing is, this guy doing the John Eastman on the Constitution, I think it should be mandatory for everybody in America, the free world and the non-free world, to go over that information. To watch it, yeah. And if you don't know about our Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Federalist Papers, the Declaration of Independence, who is giving you a diploma and for what? Even for basket weaving, you know?
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, as you know, Ben, we've got a sponsor trying to help young kids learn how to read because the literacy rates are so low. I mean, the reality is the average high schooler can't read past about a 7th or 8th grade level.
SPEAKER 03 :
And the dumber the people, the easier it is to make laws and rules so they'll comply.
SPEAKER 10 :
You got it.
SPEAKER 03 :
And that dog just don't hunt.
SPEAKER 10 :
I don't know what they're— Well, and I think, Ben, to your point also, though, it doesn't hunt because this last election proved that people are fed up. They're tired of all that nonsense. They're tired of all the wokeness. Men are tired of being put down, and they want to change.
SPEAKER 03 :
And I wanted to comment briefly on that. And I appreciate and applaud anybody— that fought through the issues and voted for Trump. And by the way, if you're not for Trump, you're kind of, in my book, you're kind of against the Constitution, the freedoms, the things that were fought for to make this country, to make the middle class. You're sort of voting against that. You were with Obama, with Biden, with Harris. And I don't want to insult anybody, but I would say this. at a certain point, you've got to wonder about the mental acuity of people that
SPEAKER 10 :
But it kind of goes back, Ben, to our initial conversation on the whole Constitution, the understanding of or not, and all of that, because I'm with you. I look at it as you may or may not like Trump, but you're either voting for freedom or you're not. I mean, the reality of voting for Trump, in my opinion, is just that. Do you want freedom or do you want oppression? Because the reality is you're going to get one or the other when this is all said and done.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, and me personally... I like the way he thinks, even if I didn't like who he was.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, Ben, you've heard me many a time on this program, and I'll do this over the next four years. I love the guy. I think he's done a lot for the country. There's some things he and I disagree on, and I'll point those things out accordingly. But all in all, was there any other choice of who to vote for? Absolutely not. And he was the top person to vote for, period, no matter what, just because of what he'll do for the country.
SPEAKER 03 :
I agree. He checked so many boxes. And again, anybody that took the time to think it through... And by the way, I don't want to put too fine a point on it, but if you even voted for Obama the first time, much less the second time, you know, this crap we've gotten ourselves into started. There was a bigger kickoff. It's been coming along for probably a half a century or more.
SPEAKER 10 :
No, but that really started, that jump started it.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, Obama, it's like, this is communism in America 2.0. You're right. And Biden was 3.0. No, no, Ben, you're correct.
SPEAKER 10 :
Obama really jump started that whole, well, he fundamentally wanted to change America, and he started that whole process.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, and when he was running, I was in downtown Denver when he was giving one of his speeches. And I'll tell you, man, you could feel it. It was kind of like you've seen speeches of Hitler, you know, revving the crowd up. I mean, I was starting to get pulled into it. I'm like, well, maybe this guy's really got something going on. And then when he won, I was in this bar, restaurant, whatever. And this girl goes, isn't it great? We're going to have this, that, and the other thing. And I looked at her and I said, who's going to pay for it? Right. You? Right. She kind of got big-eyed. And the whole bar stopped. And they looked at me, and I, you know, like, you're the enemy. And I looked at them all. I was lucky I didn't get in a fight. And I said, you're stupid, you're stupid, you're stupid, you're stupid, and you're all going to pay for this. And I did it to like 12 people. I'm surprised somebody didn't. Yeah, I am too.
SPEAKER 10 :
But you were correct. They were not very wise in their thought process, and it did cost us dearly, and it still is. Ben, I've got to run to a break. Thank you, man. I appreciate your call very much. American National Insurance, Paul Leuenberger, my agent. Not only does he sell American National, but lots of other insurance companies as well now. He is a broker. If there's something you need, just give him a call. He'll shop what's best for you. 303-662-0789.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Appreciate you all joining us. We've got two more full hours coming your way. And David Strazeski is going to join us, Sound Planning Group. He talks about how Bank of America was using XRP for $100. or sorry, for hundreds of their internal traction or sorry, 100 percent, not 100, 100 percent of their internal tractions, transactions, I should say, on a daily basis. We'll talk to him exactly what all that means and the risk factor and so on. He wrote a big article on it that is literally blown up. And I appreciate we've had David on many, many times in the past. So we'll have him on first and talk a little bit about fact checking in this next hour as well. So don't go anywhere. Hour number two is next. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
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In a world where misinformation spreads like wildfire, John Rush discusses the importance of fact-checking and media literacy. Listen in as he dissects the process of verifying news and images online, using real-life examples to underscore the necessity of truth in journalism. From viral false narratives to the role of stablecoins in the cryptocurrency ecosystem, this episode is packed with informative discussions that encourage critical thinking. Don't miss the closing segment where John and his guest, David Strzeski, deliberate on the economic landscape with President Trump's re-election looming large.
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All right, welcome back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Appreciate you all joining. Do we have David Charlie with us or not? If we do, I will get him on the horn and get things rolling. David, welcome. How are you, sir? Oh, hang on. Let me do that again. There we go. David, are you with us? Hey, how we doing? I'm good. How's David Strzeski today?
SPEAKER 05 :
You know, I'm doing fantastic. Probably better than I deserve. But happy new year to you and the listeners here. And, you know, we got some exciting things here in the news.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, we do. You wrote some things the other day about Bank of America using XRP for 100% of its internal transactions. Explain if you would.
SPEAKER 05 :
Sure. So, you know, no question. XRP is a. as a token that Bank of America has been utilizing or did utilize internally. Now, I said 100%. Was it 100% or some amount? I'm not sure. But they were successfully doing it and using it, which is why I consider them actually leaders in this blockchain space. But Bank of America was utilizing it for cross-border transfers. And so this is why they've got hundreds of blockchain patents. not just on Ripple, but on other things. And so I think that they're actually a leader to be watching in this space. But I think if we look at Ripple and understand what has been taking place, I think it's important to recognize that, you know, a lot of these big names that have been out there and saying, this is the weirdest thing in the world. We're never going to do crypto. It kind of sounds like the internet in 1993. I'll never buy anything on that. And here we are with our cell phones in our pocket, kept up to Amazon or something. So the point is, I think that we're in some early stages, places, and the banks right now are actually quickly... Getting allocated and they are building relationships right now on the ripple network because they recognize where the future is headed So bottom line is it's not just some passing whim if you would when it comes to some of the Tokens and block chains and so on it's a reality Absolutely, this is the future when we think about you know money that started out electronic and and then gets adapted to life versus money that started out as paper. Then we figure out how to make it electronic, and then we figure out how to adopt it to life. The system just has a different process, okay? And so I think when we're looking at the world, we should also understand that this is not just about money. This is about the real world has different things that are going to become tokenized. And so on the Ripple network, you just have the ability to transact in a very efficient way that doesn't just cut off at 5 p.m. and doesn't cost you an arm and a leg to send something. It's very low cost. And so banks recognize this.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, thank you. And thanks for dovetailing on that. I was going to ask, okay, what are the pros to this? And you just mentioned one. What other pros are there?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, I'll share something with you right now, and that is, you know, not sharing any specific things, but I'm actually – you know, working on right now an exchange bank. And what is the answer that I have with all these, you know, consultants and conversations about the exchange? Oh, let's put on the Ripple network. Let's put on the Ripple network. Let's put on the Ripple network. You know, so there's a lot of great networks and good things that are out there. What Ripple has is just a cross-border relationship that was already established. So think about it. If you send money to a different nation, they have different rules and laws and tax codes, et cetera. And so you have to think about the cross-border nature and how to comply with them. This has the ability to do that. And then also you can tokenize assets through things like HBAR or XLM. that will, in my opinion, be utilized to tokenize assets like homes and mortgages and businesses and cars and whatever else. I mean, there's so many applications here with the future. But some of these coins are going to work. Many of these coins will not work. I believe the utility function of... of Ripple actually has a far greater utility function than Bitcoin, which is not fast, is not used regularly for a bunch of transactions, but I do believe has value and will be seen long term as a historically very strong asset that will probably reach a million dollars or maybe even higher.
SPEAKER 16 :
When you talk about the exchange of all the different cryptos, which, by the way, I think has been one of the drawbacks to them, is it's almost like you take five different – it's not almost. You have five different cryptocurrencies, meaning you have five different exchanges based upon their own valuations on a minute-by-minute – and I'm not exaggerating – minute-by-minute basis throughout a 24-hour timeframe versus things like the dollar – and the euro, and the peso, and I can go down the list. And granted, those have changes as well, but not near as volatile and not the same as what you have on the crypto side. So to be able to exchange one to another, and correct me if I'm wrong, David, but in the past, that's not been done easily, correct?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, yeah. And candidly, this is why stable coins are so important to understand. And so let me just share something. So let's just say that the U.S. dollar is the standard that the world will continue to work with. And by the way, with Trump coming in and leadership and cuts and everything, yeah, it seems very likely we'll continue to do that. And if we can get proactive with blockchain and not just allow China to do it, because that was what was going to happen, China was going to be doing all this, then we'll continue to be the world's leader. So stablecoin is basically the U.S. dollar one for one. In a coin. So that might be USDC today, which is a coin I use on Coinbase. And so it's just you put your cash in. Now it's a one for one exchange. It's backed up, et cetera. So, you know, don't quote me on it. Look at your own particulars. But the point is, is that that these that these can be sent as dollars. What Ripple would be is like the railway that the trains run on. OK, it's like here's the highway that you can transact things through at a very low cost, very quick. way. And that can be money. That could be things. That could be a lot of things. But what doesn't work quick is Bitcoin. Bitcoin's super, super, super slow until it gets connected into the right system and wrapped and whatever else. And then you can do some great stuff with it. But I don't know that it's going to be the answer to all of life's problems in the future. I think that it's a really important idea. But, you know, I also would mention to you that, you know, Ethereum is an incredibly powerful and important coin that's out there. And, you know, they have this function. They're trying to get the function of life figured out for us. And so you're not going to look at Ethereum as a dollar, quote unquote. You're going to look at this as more like This is the Internet that gives you the ability for capacity and function and to be able to do these multi-complex transactions and ultimately be able to do it with somebody that you don't care who they are. Their asset was good. It was peer-to-peer. It was strong and secure. You're in good shape. um and so i like cardano uh ada is another great uh coin that in my opinion has incredible function and they had been a leader in the thought of of how the world is going to be changing and how things are going to be developing right now but not to say that there's not great opportunities in bitcoin because it's actually extremely illiquid and very scarce right now no one sells it they buy it and keep it which means that there's not a lot of supply floating around And we're going to take the next 100 plus years to be mining the last 1 million coins out of 21 million possible. So I think that we could actually see a more stable Bitcoin price. But if I can just do simple math for you here, John. It would say if 94% are out there and everyone thinks that one Bitcoin is worth $1 million, let's just do the simple argument and say, well, that means that one coin right now should be worth $940,000. And if over the next 100 years it's going to take to mine the next $1 million, well, then that's not going to have a whole lot of distribution that's going to be going over the next 100 years. So maybe it does kind of stabilize if you allow it. the price discovery to happen naturally as opposed to the pump and dump things that I'm watching right now happen inside of the ETFs, which is a whole other conversation. So buy on the dips.
SPEAKER 16 :
Got it. Makes total sense. David's Trzeski Sound Planning Group. David, what's the best way for folks to follow you?
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You know, I've got a lot of things coming out right now, John. So MySPG.com is just a way to get a hold of our firm and different things that are going on. I want to mention also the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act 2.0. I've got a course that I'm writing right now. I'm going to be teaching here for the first time at some local colleges, and I will be putting it out. you know, for others here around the country to be able to observe and be a part of as well. This is an opportunity of a lifetime with President Trump here in extending this. And so maybe we get back and talk about that Tax Cuts and Jobs Act 2.0 here next time.
SPEAKER 16 :
You know, I'm anxious to see really quick, before I let you go, what happens next week. Trump gets inaugurated. You and I both know there'll be lots of action the very next day. I will be shocked if there's not. I mean, if there's one thing I can bet on in life and most likely win, and I'm not a betting man, David, is... It's more of a bet of how many executive orders will happen the day after, a lot of them reversing what's already been happening in the past. But, you know, how many of them will be signed is really the question. There will be some done the very next day.
SPEAKER 05 :
You know that as well as I. First 100 days are going to be exciting. We'll see if Russia talks peace. Not saying that it's a long-term thing or whatever else, but it's going to be an interesting next 100 days. With new stuff coming out, I think they're going to be dropping some terrible economic stuff on us, but we'll also have positive things. So buckle up. I think 2025 is a great opportunity to be alive, but it's not for the faint of heart at the same time. Big ups, big downs.
SPEAKER 16 :
David, as always, I appreciate you very much. Thanks for joining us.
SPEAKER 05 :
Hey, pleasure's mine.
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Putting reason into your afternoon drive, this is John Rush.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. There's an article in CBS News. I think it's several outlets. I picked this one up on our local news source and it sent me to the main CBS website as well. But as meta abandons fact-checking, here's how to tell what's real online. Now, I'm not going to go through their whole analysis because, frankly, some of what they say will probably be true or will be false, I mean. I'm going to give you my way of fact-checking things. And I've talked about this some in the past. And I wish more of our side would actually do it. Unfortunately, we tend to look at something and then we see it and we want to believe and or we hope that that's true or we are so intent on it being true, we'll go ahead and repost it whether it's true or not. Let me give you an example. I saw a post yesterday on social media. It was supposedly a house in all of this area of California where everything has been burned to the ground, and yet there's one single house. It's a white house with a red roof and some sort of a meme along the lines of, this is what happens to Christians and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. In other words, because a Christian owned that home, the fire skipped all around them. Now, I did everything I possibly could to verify that that image was true. By the way, hoping that it was. I wasn't against it. I was hoping that it was. So I looked and I searched and I looked and I searched and I even looked, you know, did a backward search of the image. Frankly, I could find not one single source that showed that picture to be true. Not one single source. Now, does that mean that it's not true? Because I couldn't find any source that would say. I can't say that it's not true, but the chances of it being true are slim. Because as Charlie has taught me over the years, people talk. And if there was, in fact, one home in the midst of all of these that have burned down, what do you think would be making national news every night? That home. And I guarantee you there would be multiple images of this home, all different sides, above, behind, around. You'd be walking through it. You'd have video on it. You'd have interviews of these people that survived the firestorm. And they're going to give all glory to God because they were Christians and they know that God protected their home. And I'm not exaggerating in what I just said because if, in fact, that had happened, believe me, you'd see it all over the news. It would be coast to coast. Am I right, Charlie? because that's the kind of things that generate news. So the simple fact that I couldn't find any other articles or any other picture stating that were the case, I call it false. It's most likely not true. As much as we all would want to believe it is, it probably isn't. Now, for all of you listening, I did my own quote-unquote fact-checking in a matter of about two minutes. That's about all it took, two minutes. And I know some of you are going to come back and say, well, yeah, well, if they don't want you to see those things, well, of course they're going to squash it, and why would they want you to see that this Christian home stood for all the reasons I just stated a moment ago? It would already be out there if that, in fact, were true. So reality is, fact-checking isn't that hard. In a lot of cases, it's called common sense. And before you repost something thinking it's the gospel truth, think about it rationally and make that decision prior to reposting. Joe, go ahead.
SPEAKER 03 :
John, another fake news. There's a horrible story that's been picked up by all these hate-rich people, and here's the meme. It says one billionaire couple owns almost all the water in California.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, I saw that, too. It's wrong.
SPEAKER 03 :
It's not even, John, it's so close. It's a Jewish couple. They're shareholders in a company that owns some water rights, which are less than one-half of 1% of California's water supply. Less than one-half of 1%.
SPEAKER 16 :
And the dumb comments that follow is, what gives anybody the right to own something we all need? Well, it's called water rights, and they've been around for hundreds of years.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, so it's obvious, but they don't even take the time to check this out. John, less than one-half of 1% is hardly most of California's water.
SPEAKER 16 :
Correct.
SPEAKER 03 :
And it's anti-Semitic because this is a Jewish couple, and they're accusing them of hoarding the state's desperately needed water. But, John, you know the old Mark Twain, a lie can be halfway around the world before the truth can tie its shoes? Well, John, I've seen this pop up on more than half of the liberal hate-the-rich websites. Mm-hmm. They were so eager to publicize it, they never took the time to fact-check it.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, and no offense, as guilty as they are of that, our side is as guilty of putting out what I just talked about with the supposed Christian's home that stood standing among all of the ruins and the fire because God protected it. Yep, no, it's... And again, Joe, as much as I want that to be true, and I wish it were, it's just not.
SPEAKER 03 :
It's not. So it's not limited to any one side, but And just because you read it on the Internet, as Abraham Lincoln said, just because you read it on the Internet doesn't mean it has to be true.
SPEAKER 16 :
Very true. I mean, and I'm sorry to laugh. I shouldn't, Joe, because some of these things aren't laughing matters at all. But, you know, both sides look really bad when you do that. But I, you know my feelings on this, I don't want our side to do this and look bad because it only takes a few seconds, literally, Joe, as you know, a few seconds to determine if something's true or not.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, I think it took me maybe less than 30 seconds. All I did was I put in the couple's name, Resnick. California Water, and the first thing I got was both a Fortune and a Yahoo story debunking, you know, the claim, and saying, no, they're a shareholder in a company that controls... Oh, wait a minute, so Yahoo actually defended them being one of the leftist organizations, you know, one of the news organizations that's out there, which my point with that, Joe, is if there was any ounce of truth to it, they would be saying so. Correct. So, yes, and then Yahoo was quoting a Fortune article, and then I clicked over to the Fortune article, And they both had detailed, verifiable facts. No, they were a shareholder in a company that owns water rights that are equivalent to less than one-half of 1% of California's total water supply. So if anybody hears it, it's fake news.
SPEAKER 16 :
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Waiting on my son Richard. He's got a couple of things going on here before he calls in, gives us an update on the sports end of thing. We've got a couple of car reviews that we will do as well. Back to the fact-checking end of things. Gives me an opportunity to kind of finish up on that particular topic. And you're going to see and read all sorts of different things on this. And you even saw a statement come out from, or not statement, but there was an interview with Joe Biden over the weekend talking about meta and the fact that they weren't doing this any longer. And basically, Joe's unhappy. He thinks they should continue to do it. His feeling was, I'm going to not quote him directly, but basically it's their responsibility to make sure that things that are out there are accurate. Keep in mind, you also had an interview over the weekend where Zuckerberg was talking about how his staff was yelled at by the White House, literally yelled at by the White House for allowing certain things to be posted. And they had to take him down according to them. Now, I would have told the White House, go pound sand, but... They did, and that was stuff during COVID. So we have definitely had the current administration, that particular party, the Marxists, try to control speech. Fact. Those of you that are on the left that don't believe me, go look at some of the things I just said. It's a fact. Sorry. You cannot defend this any longer. It is a fact. You only want the kind of speech you want, not all speech. Gone are the days of people having to figure out what's real versus not. And for some of you, some of you on the left are saying, well, it's harder now than ever to try to figure out what's real and what's not. Not really. Now, I will say AI has made some of this harder. Some of the pictures and things that are coming out of AI make it very, very real or look very real. But that old saying that when we were kids, if it looks too good to be true, it probably is. You can apply that to AI very easily. Because a lot of things just can't look that good. It's why a lot of these social media sites, TikTok and so on, use quote-unquote filters when people get on there and they do their little thing, and they use a filter in the process, and they look a lot better than they actually do in real life, and some of them will even show you the difference, and it's huge. So I get it. There are some situations where it really is hard to determine, is this real or is it CGI-driven? But once again, use common sense. Take a step back, especially when it comes to things that are political of nature that you want to go ahead and forward, or this particular red-roofed house that I mentioned in the last segment. When those things happen, as much as we want them to be true, literally, we want them. Our brain is saying, man, I hope this is true. Man, I hope this is true. You still have to verify, is it? And I feel this is, you know, I get it. Anybody can talk the way they want. And there's been braggadocious people for years, all the way back to the beginning of time. People have bragged about certain things, overblown certain things, created false images of certain things, false impressions of certain things. I mean, it's just human nature because people like to lie. So anytime, this is why I think it's so important for our side to not push things forward that aren't true as you're lying when you do. I want you to really think hard about what I just said and let your other folks on social media that you know understand what I just said. When you push forward something on your own social media page that is in fact untrue, You're lying. Am I right, Charlie? You're basically lying at that point. You're agreeing to post something and push it out to your followers, your insiders, and you're pushing it out as truth. But if it's not, you're lying. Plain and simple. So I, especially, given what I do here, I definitely don't want to push forth anything on any of my social media that can't be proven to be true. Because, number one, I don't want to be lying. Nor do I want to be pushing things out that would give wrong impressions, i.e. this house with the red roof that somehow survived the fire. And by the way, if I'm proven to be wrong on that, I'll eat my words. But I did some searching yesterday and couldn't see anything along those lines whatsoever. And there's lots of these that you'll find. The other thing that I see from time to time is somebody will post something making it sound like it just happened yesterday when it happened eons ago. And it's just now resurfacing again. Dan and I, my cohort back in the day, went through this back when the burned kid that ran around social media and I think even collected donations because of how badly burned she was. And the reality was she wasn't burned at all. It was a gag that her dad did by putting basically like bologna all over her face. Ham, sorry, slices of ham all over her face to make it look like she was burned and she wasn't. I think that's one of the first experiences that I and Dan had about social media in regards to how those things spread. And, yeah, when you looked at the image at first, it's like, oh, man, she's really burned. But when you really studied it for a second and you realized that it was ham placed on her face, it became very apparent it was just ham on her face. And we laugh about that, and I am with Charlie, but that's how this stuff spreads. And it can spread like wildfire. And again, if we're the ones spreading it as quote-unquote Christian conservatives, and it's just not true, how dumb do we look? Where does our credibility go when we do that? And really, I'm speaking near and dear to some listeners, because some of this problem I've seen on some of your pages— Maybe you're listening right now, maybe you're not, but I've seen it on your pages. And I'm not one of those to just speak right out and say this is false. Maybe I should be, but I don't want to be that guy either. I don't want to be the quote-unquote fact checker. I want you guys to do this on your own. Now, I will say that some will come on and say, are you really sure this is true? Because I haven't seen this anywhere but here. The red roof thing yesterday, there was a comment on that particular picture where somebody actually said something to that effect. And I'm glad they did because in that particular case, I don't think it's true. So the whole fact-checking thing, it's going to get bigger as, and again, I think it's a good thing. I don't think fact-checking needs to happen, period. I think people need to learn how to do it on their own, and they shouldn't rely on any social media source to do it for them. You should be able to determine if a story is true or not. I go back to this. I've had this conversation before with you all, and I know I'm going to date myself now because younger people will have no idea what I'm talking about. But I remember standing in the checkout line at wherever I was with my mom, Safeway most likely because she used to like shopping at Safeway. We'd be in the line of Safeway or Albertsons, either one, getting ready to check out. And there was always Charlie the National Enquirer that was in the checkout lane at the supermarket. And usually there was on the front of it, you know, a Sasquatch sighting or a UFO or a two-headed this or a two-headed that or some weird thing that made the front page of the National Enquirer. And there used to be two of them, Charlie. There was the Enquirer and one other, and I can't remember now what the other one was. National Observer. And they were both just outlandish. Oh, and it was the same company. Thank you, Charlie. And just outlandish things. And I know. It was to get you to buy that publication. But at the end of the day, the majority of what was inside that publication was 100% false. And I think a lot of that same thing goes on today just electronically all over social media. So, folks, be careful. Don't post things that you know aren't true or that you haven't verified to be true. Do the fact-checking yourself. Richard, what's going on?
SPEAKER 07 :
Not too much. I just catch the internet. But yes, especially as much as we want some of this L.A. fire stuff to be, you know, to be true in a way. Right. Of, you know, the incompetence of they've got enough incompetence. Right. Let's not fuel their claims of, you know, misinformation. You know, let's let's let Gavin Newsom post the misinformation, which really directs.
SPEAKER 16 :
everyone to his own personal website that then you can donate to act blue like elizabeth warren let's focus on that right let's not give them anything else to focus on correct no thank you and there's lots of misinformation along those lines i won't get into all of those details all right before we take a quick break come back and do a couple of car reviews broncos are done see you i've been done now for a couple of weeks i mean what's left for the state anything
SPEAKER 07 :
You know, I guess you've got the Nuggets and the Avs, which they're sort of coming in. The Nuggets are getting a little bit better. The Avs made a trade for a goalie a few weeks back, about a month or so ago, I guess now, and he seems to be kind of coming in nicely. So they're making a push. I guess we'll see if they get their stuff together here before playoffs. But, yeah, Broncos done yesterday. You're going to hear lots of stuff that I think the season was a success. You weren't supposed to make the playoffs. Yes, were you playing a last-place schedule? Yes. Did you only beat... Really, one team with a winning record, which was the Buccaneers all year long, because the Chiefs were playing their B&C team. Yes, you did. But you know what, Dad? You did enough to get into the playoffs. You sort of saw what the big boys do. You played against the Bills, who are every bit as good as the Chiefs and the Ravens and are Super Bowl contenders and all that. And so you saw that. And so I think that there's no substitute for experience. You said that many times, and in life and coaching and all sorts of things, right? You know, the best experience is experience, right?
SPEAKER 16 :
Best teacher's experience, yes.
SPEAKER 07 :
You've got to actually do it and see it. And, you know, just everything from... Seeing how teams are going to play you, players just play that much harder in the playoffs, right? Because it's one and done. There's just a lot of little things that go into it.
SPEAKER 16 :
I think Bo, Nick's our quarterback. He learned a lot of valuable lessons this year. By the way, I think he's a good kid. I think he's got a great future. Is he going to be one of the famous quarterbacks of all time? I don't know. Richard is too early to tell. I do think that he's got... the right talent level, and if he'll just continue to focus on reading things the way that he needs to, keep his chin up, keep being a leader, which, by the way, he's done a very good job at. I mean, let's just say this. I would still to this day right now have him over the last guy we had.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, absolutely, and I think you saw that with Russ, to be honest, with the Steelers and losing the game that they did against the Ravens, and they had a similar thing. There was enough to like that from the very first series of several runs to the long touchdown pass to the two-minute drive. And honestly, you've got some stuff that you've got to worry about, which I will put more on coaching. I think the defense got worn down, but that's because – Let me put it this way, Dad. Most teams expect to have anywhere from... 60 to 70 plays on offense a game. The Broncos had 43 at all.
SPEAKER 16 :
Half of what they should have, almost.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, two-thirds, right? So they were down 33% from what a normal team should. That's a lot of extra time that your defense spent on the field, which I think was reflected in the score. So, yep, I think it'll be a growing thing for them, and I think it'll be a positive. And the last thing I'll say before we run a break is, yes, with the Buffs, they've been done for a little bit. However, there was some that Deion Sanders may go to the Raiders. There's now speculation he may go to the Cowboys. I'm pretty confident, Dad, that a lot of that is sort of a leverage, right? And in business, some people are saying, well, he doesn't need any more leverage. I don't think you can have too much leverage in business.
SPEAKER 16 :
You can always have more.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right? You can always have more. And so the more teams that he can say are interested, I don't think he has any desire to go to the pros. I think he wants his sons to make. I know he left the door open this past week to eventually go there, but I think that's a... a four- or five-year process. So I think he'll be here. I think it'll be a matter of time before he gets his new contract, and then we can move on.
SPEAKER 16 :
Last but not least, Coach McCartney, which you all probably saw over the weekend, saw the news of. He passed away with his battle of dementia and Alzheimer's on Friday night, and our thoughts and prayers go out to his family. That's never an easy thing. On the same token, I know exactly what they're going through, and that's not fun either.
SPEAKER 07 :
It is not, and I will say he was a great man, he led a lot of young men and a lot of older men to Christ, which ultimately, that's all that you can do, and honestly, that's all that you want in the world, and at the same time, he was a great quarterback, or not quarterback, well, he was a quarterback, he was a great coach, and he was the greatest coach, no matter what Prime does, and he did a lot for this university, and he stayed here, and All sorts of things. So, no, it is a big loss, but I am thankful that he was a part of it, and I'm also thankful that, honestly, he's in a lot better place and in a lot better place physically, obviously, now than what he was. Absolutely. So, yeah, lots of prayers to his family. We know it's difficult, and obviously we know some of them personally. So, prayers out to them for sure.
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SPEAKER 16 :
All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. This is part of the week where we stick our drive radio portion in this as well or wear that hat. And, Richard, you've given a couple cars here lately. One of these that we'll most likely replay again on Saturday is the 2025 Honda Pilot Black Edition.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes. So 2025 Honda Pilot Black Edition, Dad, which is a Honda Pilot with a $1,500 appearance package on it. So it changes the appearance. And here's the deal. That's not to knock it, because I think that some people will like the Black Edition for what it brings, right? And the different accents and the blacked out, you know, trim packages and trim pieces that it does give you. So that is not a knock. I'm just telling you what it is. So if you know what a Honda Pilot is, I encourage you to check this vehicle out, Dad. And it is It is the same Pilot, Dad, that was introduced back in 2023 and is a fantastic vehicle, especially if you're looking for kind of that midsize SUV with two full-size rows, right, with that third row as a kid hauler, right? And some people are going to say, oh, those are fit adults. Dad, I don't think that this car should, right? And this size of car and vehicle in the market and other competitors – They don't fit full-size adults, and there's nothing wrong with that. I was able to drive the kids around it, put them in the third row. They fit fine. There's still a little bit of storage behind the third row, which is great. Again, the model that we had, you can actually take out the center console in the second row, store it kind of in the storage that's behind the third row, obviously in the trunk space, Dad.
SPEAKER 08 :
Right.
SPEAKER 07 :
If you don't want that, right, and that gives you a little bit more real pass-through, but if you don't want to do that, you can have a really great storage space in the third row that gives you even more room for groceries and some other things, and so if you're okay with sort of people kind of sneaking in as you slide the second seat forward, and you don't need them to sort of pass through the middle of the second row. It gives you the ability to do that. Price-wise, Dad, on the Pilot, starts anywhere from about $41,595 for the Sport Edition to this Black Edition that we drove, which is about $56,130. Fuel economy is $19,025. We were able to average about $21,022. The acceleration and stuff, Dad, this has got a 3.5-liter V6. I believe it's got a 10-speed automatic transmission, which runs really well. Is this going to blast anyone off the line? Nope, but it's not meant to be, and I'm not knocking it for that. Relatively quiet on the inside. Got a lot of the creature comfort that you want on the inside. I'm not going to give everything to everyone on that. You can go kind of look for yourself of what you're looking for. But, Dad, you've driven pilots in the past, and you've driven the newer one, and it is a great option for that midsize SUV market.
SPEAKER 16 :
Solid vehicle. I get people all the time that ask, you know, I'm looking at this versus that. And this is a particular vehicle that always comes up in the lead, if you would, Richard, just because of its known reliability. By the way, its resale side is always high. I mean, at the end of the day, Richard, it's a Honda SUV. You can't go wrong.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, exactly. And Honda, again, lots of reliability, right, Dad? And it's got great visibility. Yes, at our altitude, what I love a little bit more, there's some different competitors out there that have got some different engine options, yes. But for the value, Dad, where you're in the mid-50s, so you're sub-$60,000, for an all-wheel drive, mind you, this is an all-wheel drive vehicle, it's really hard to beat. So I would encourage folks... Head to your local Honda dealer, test drive it. And if you've got kids, and, Dad, I know this part, next part, you don't care about, but if you've got car seats, folks, I can tell you that car seats will fit in this car, and they fit in relatively well and easily. And I encourage you to go out, put your car seats in these cars, because the last thing you want to do is buy a car, and something doesn't fit, right? And then you've got to figure out what to do there. So encourage folks, check it out. Head to your local Honda dealer. When you do that, let them know that John and Richard Rush from Drive Radio and Rush to Reason sent you.
SPEAKER 16 :
All right, what is the next vehicle you got to drive? Because we're a little bit behind for the holidays, so go ahead.
SPEAKER 07 :
A little bit behind, yeah. So a 2025 Volvo V60 T8 all-wheel drive Polestar Engineered. And I kid you not, that is the name. Here's the deal, folks. This is the Volvo V60, which is, yes, those Volvo station wagons that you still see running around, because even though they may not be popular here, they are back in Europe. And I will say this, Dad, they work great. They may not, depending on your views of them, of your looks, whatever, they work great for storage and all those sorts of things. This is essentially a V60 cross-country, a performance edition. And to tell you the difference, a normal V60, Dad, will go from zero to 60 in about seven seconds. This one, because it's got some plug-in hybrid technology and it's part of their Polestar engineered, will go from zero to 60 in about 4.3 seconds. So it really adds the oomph. Obviously, it's got a plug-in hybrid, which gets you about 40, 45 miles on a charge. You can recharge at home if you've got a level two charger in about five hours at the most. And even a plug-in, you can just plug it into the wall with a standard outlet dad and probably charge it in about 12 hours or so. You may be a little bit longer, just kind of depending. But it's got a two-liter turbocharged battery. And obviously, once you add in the performance piece of it, as far as the interior, Dad, it's everything that you would expect from Volvo, right? It's got nice plush seats. I think it's got yellow seatbelts, part of the Polestar aspect of it. It's got some really great brakes on it, some fun looks to it. It ran really, really well. This vehicle, Dad, as it sits, is about $73,000, which is about $20,000 more than the normal V60 cross-country. But again, folks... It is a performance-based model, and it's also a plug-in hybrid in that regard, Dad. In terms of fuel economy, 31 combined, 74 kind of after you factor in some of the electric aspect of it. I will say, Dad, here, this car ran tremendously well. It was really fun to drive. I believe it's all-wheel drive if I'm not mistaken.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, you did say that, yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
And, again, which, again, for our up here data, and obviously we had some snow last week. We've got some more snow on the way this coming weekend. It's definitely something that people value. And, again, like I said, the cargo space, the interior room, For kids, as we just talked about in the last review, second row is going to be a little tight for anything more than a booster seat. I'll just be 100% honest with you. However, if you are wanting to fit two full-size or four full-size adults, maybe a little bit tight there too, but you could still do it, Dad. Again, just kind of a different size car. But if you're looking for a fun car. to haul kids around, haul people around, haul some cargo around. This is the car for you, especially if you're looking for that kind of plug-in E side of things. So for folks that want to learn more, Dad, head to your local Volvo dealer, test drive it. Again, 2025 Volvo V60 T8 all-wheel drive, Polestar engineered. And when you do that, let them know that John and Richard Rush from Drive Radio and Rush to Reason sent you.
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All right, up next, Kurt Rogers will join us with our Monday Mortgage Minute, and then Paul Dayton's going to join us. He is a local author of both Correcting Our Financial Miseducation and Socialism, The Gift That Keeps On Taking. We'll be right back. Hour 3 is next. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
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All right, we're back. Hour three, Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Time for our Monday Mortgage Minute. Kurt Rogers, Affordable Interest Mortgage. Kurt, how are you, sir?
SPEAKER 20 :
I'm fine, John. How are you? Welcome back.
SPEAKER 16 :
I'm doing well, thank you. And I was just telling Charlie a moment ago, I know the sun's already set, but it's still a little bit light out, and it's past 5 o'clock.
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We'll take it.
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We're starting to come back out of it.
SPEAKER 16 :
That's right. We'll take it. All right, so speaking of New Year's and new things, and people are thinking, man, should I buy a house now, or should I wait until rates adjust and go down? What do you tell people when they ask you that, Kurt?
SPEAKER 20 :
Well, with the market the way it is right now, it's actually a good time to buy, but you have to be prepared for what's out there. One of the main reasons it's a good time to buy is homes are still appreciating at 4.5% to 5%. That's from 2003 to 2024. So they're still going up. But what's happening, because rates have got people scared, there's less buyers. So right now it's almost turning into a buyer's market for people that are looking for a home. They have more negotiation, more things they can do with the borrower, and they can still get rates in the fives and six percent if you do it correct. So there's different ways of looking at it instead of thinking, well, the rates are too high at seven.
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In other words, they might find themselves with a little higher rate, but could get a better deal on a home and watch the rates, and as things adjust down, they could still refi when that time comes, but still take advantage of maybe a lesser price on a house right now.
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I've actually got several of these deals that I'm working now. You take a half a million dollar loan, and if it appreciates at 5%, that means next year when the rates are in fives, you're going to pay $25,000 more money. If the rates go down, it's going to drive more business, which is going to drive the price up. But if you're able to get into it now, and then you do a loan called a 2-1 buy-down, you can get rates in the fives. So now you get the rate for a five, and a year from now when the rates are there, they've given you enough money to refinance it to lock in that five for 30 years. So you take advantage of the lower pricing. and the fact that they're going to help you get to 5% on a 30-year fix. You win on both ends.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yep, makes total sense to me, Kurt. All right, you guys take over Haystack Help Radio tomorrow. I should say on Tuesdays between noon and 1. What are you covering tomorrow?
SPEAKER 20 :
We're going to kind of be going over that. We've got a realtor that is going to help you understand what's really going on in the market and how you as a buyer have more power.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay, awesome. Kurt, as always, I appreciate it. Enjoy the rest of your night. I'll see you Thursday.
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You got it.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Real quick stock show. Charlie and I were just talking through the break. If you're a stock show goer, go have fun. If you're somebody that's never been, just quite frankly, and I did the stock show as an exhibitor for a very, very long time and have been many, many, many, many times over the years. But if you've never been, it is well worth going to. It's not an ad for them. They're not paying me or anything. But if you've never been to the stock show, take some time out of your day. Plan a day or night to go. Go to the rodeo while you're at it. Walk around the Hall of Education. Check out all the animals. If you've got kids, they enjoy going. It's one of those things that's definitely worth going to. It is literally a national attraction, and you should go and enjoy it, especially if you've never been before. All right, our next guest joining us now, Paul Dayton. Paul, welcome. How are you? Doing great, John. Thanks for having me. You're very welcome. Author of Correcting Our Financial Miseducation and also Socialism, The Gift That Keeps On Taking. You there, Paul? There we go. I sure am.
SPEAKER 03 :
I got you. No, you're fine.
SPEAKER 16 :
So two books, and I always start off with, okay, why the books? What made you write these in the first place?
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Great. So the reason for that is, honestly, I'm a guy, I'm just a regular guy, worked ordinary jobs, worked as a cook in restaurants and taken other similar jobs, and I was terrible with money at first, really just perpetually penniless. Then I was about, I don't know, 22 years old. I decided to change my life. I was sick of that. I began seeking answers and doing a lot of research. What I came to find is that a lot of the commonly taught lessons are actually not very good. It's sort of this whole system, the whole template of you go to school, you try to get into a college, you do whatever it takes, you get into that college, and then the college degree is the... The great achievement to have. It's a golden ticket. That's your security ticket. Yeah, right. In life. And then use that to beg somebody for a job. You cling to that one job your whole life. And then basically what you do with your money personally is. Most people, the template is your, your savings are quote in your equity in your single family home. And the rest of your money is in your 401k plan that's locked up behind these bars that you can't touch. And a lot of people don't have much, much cash, much working capital outside of that. And so what happens is, and that's not so bad. Hey, if you've got a home and you have some savings in a tax deferred account that you could do a lot worse, but there are a lot better ways to handle your money that, that lead to a greater degree of Liberty. that are achievable much sooner. You can become free much sooner. Myself, by the time I was in my late twenties, I had a net worth of about $50,000, which is not, not that that's a lot of money because it actually is not, but because I was focusing on building a portfolio of cashflow, positive assets, my portfolio has reached the cashflow that was such that I was, you know, working for somebody else was the least important thing I had to do financially. Um, which is something that a lot of people can do. I was mostly in residential real estate. I did a small secondhand store out of one of the vacant units that I had. I tried a couple other things too, you know, relatively low cost entry things. I didn't want to lose my shirt doing anything. And so one lesson is the portfolio cash flow game as opposed to a money pile game. There was a show called Breaking Bad some years ago that was very popular.
SPEAKER 16 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 03 :
A lot of people know it. And I'll tell you what, if the guy, the main character, the doctor fellow or the teacher fellow who becomes the drug dealer. Walter. Yeah, Walter White maybe, right? There you go. The dentist from Seinfeld played the character. Yeah, yeah. He did a great job, but if that guy had learned the lesson that if you just plant money trees that you could have provided for his family and his children and his wife and so forth with a much smaller amount of capital, Right, if you would have bought them a few corner stores or a gas station or something.
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Really quick, though, Paul, the problem with that, and I tell people this all the time, especially the people that I coach that are in business, the problem with everything you're saying, which, by the way, I agree with you, coach on what you're talking about. The reality, though, is the system, and government especially, is against all of that. They don't want you doing that.
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Oh, you're absolutely right about that. So doing that is like doing it with both hands tied behind your back. I'm from New York State. I mean, New York State's just about as bad as California. I mean, if you wake up in the morning and you have enough money to get out of bed and try to be productive, you must have too much. I did almost all this out of Erie County, New York, where the city of Buffalo is. And where, I mean, Buffalo is a socialist poverty factory, basically of government. So government in the first place, the city of Buffalo, it happens to be mostly black people. But it doesn't matter who lives there. It's just that that goes into the victim politics industry. Right. But there's mostly black people there. The government fails to educate them. The average literacy rate for a black male graduating from the city of Buffalo Public Schools is third grade. Wow. That's according to themselves. Wow. That is a Buffalo Board of Education's own report card on themselves. So they're telling you. And so if that's of, though, I think one out of five who actually graduate with a diploma, they get basically a fraudulent diploma. How do you get a high school-level education certified by a diploma when you can't read the diploma you just got? Right, right. And then, so after that, you have what's called paid-to-fail socials, what I call in my first book, paid-to-fail socials. The Great Failure of Socialism Part II, which is the Great Society, the War on Poverty, and the Ever-Expanding Welfare State. And so that you have this ever-rising minimum wage in the name of helping the lowest person. Well, the minimum wage is a violation of a person's right to contract for the lowest person. And during the first Great Failure of Socialism, known commonly as the New Deal, which I do cover in my first book as well, During that time, such a wage makes it illegal for a person to lower, to undercut their competitor to try to enter the job market. When a pizzeria or a shoe store or something else opens in your neighborhood, notice the first thing they do is everything's on sale. They undercut prices versus their competitors just try to get people in the door and give them a try. Later, you can try and raise. Well, first of all, 100% of nothing is nothing. So to make a sale at any price is better than nothing. And number two, you can always raise your prices later. You know what I mean? Once you get started, once you're established, you get a track record and so forth. When you have a person who these people that I'm talking about who are not educated in the city of Buffalo, they can't read. They don't have a history of going to class. The simple things like be where you're supposed to be on time. Be reliable. Show up. Live entry-level jobs. You just need to be there. These people don't have any of those things going for them. The only weapon at their disposal in competition for these jobs is to lower their price, which is removed from them, which is abrogated from them. by the state when you have these minimum wage laws. So they keep raising the minimum wage above the value, the level of value that such a person possesses when they're trying to enter the job market. And then they also, at the same time, keep paying them more generously not to work. So that it's like if a person's working at two jobs, they make $50,000 in salary at job A with no non-monetary compensation. Or if you look at job B, which is $45,000 in salary, but you have full family plan health insurance. Okay, the value of that health insurance is greater than the $5,000 in salary that you're losing, plus the health insurance is legally not taxable as income. So you're doing much. You make more money at job B even though the salary is $45,000 instead of $50,000 in the same way. When you have these people who are getting these food stamps, who are getting their apartment or housing paid for, or they have to pay very little out of pocket, they're getting unemployment checks on top of that, when you value all the value of this, You'll get about $15,000 a year for that. They're allowed to make another $5,000 or $10,000 on top of it before they start cutting into what they view as a real job, which is basically handouts from the government, handouts for the healthy. So they're caught in this trap. They're producing poverty. Every time they raise the minimum wage, they're trying to alleviate poverty. Not just the person who just graduated high school today or just turned 18 today who can't read. Is that harming? But somebody who did so 10 years ago and hasn't had a legitimate job since then. And, of course, they're turned to the underground economy of prostitution and drug dealing and petty theft and so forth. And so many of these things that are done in the name of helping the smallest person or helping uplift the poor, in fact, harm them. And that's something I talked about in my second book. Talk about unshackling the beast and shackling the, excuse me, unshackling the populace and shackling the beast. The beast is the government. These are all little shackles. It's increasing their own wages, just clasps around the person's right hand, prevents them from trying to contract and get a job. And then they pay them more handouts, which, by the way, takes from people who are trying to be productive, which is what you started out by saying. They don't want you to do this. They keep taking from you. So they don't make it easy on a person to achieve this state of liberty. I think, obviously, the first solution is get people hip to a lot of these things that we're talking about. And I've heard your show a few times, The Magic of the Internet. And you're talking about all the same things. So the first thing you do is you get people hip to it. That way the politicians will go fetch for what seems popular. And so if we can get it to become popularly demanded, to have the right and the liberty and the freedom to go do these things, to succeed or to fail, and that's the trick, folks. When you lose once in a while, you have to eat the loss. Because it's a profit and loss system. Right. So many people don't ever want to have, you know, they want to sit down at the blackjack table. They want no losses. And the second they lose a hand. Right. And so in real life, to eat a loss once in a while is part of you gain more over the course of the long haul.
SPEAKER 16 :
Very true. Very true. Paul, what's the best way folks can find you, sir?
SPEAKER 03 :
My website is called pauldayton.us, Dayton like Ohio, D-A-Y-T-O-N, pauldayton.us.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay, so third book on the way, or are you done with the two?
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, no, I'll definitely bring out a third book recently. I just finished the second book about a month ago, so it's just fresh, brand new. It's a coffee table book without any pictures is what I call it. It's about 500 pages. It's pretty big. In terms of, you know, I don't want to have small friends. I want to make it available for everybody. And socialism keeps on taking. What I try to do is there's three main fallacies. One is the fallacy of the lamp. So people beg for all these shackles in the name of their own upliftment, which in fact harnesses them from being able to start their own business, harnesses them from being able to have more. a medical treatment to choose from and so forth. So the fallacy of the lamp is, you know, government comes along or politicians come along and they say, concentrate the power into the hands of the few by decree in the name of liberating the masses. Give us the choice to say how much you can pay for things. Give us the choice to say how much you can have for in terms of health care and food and so forth. And so they think they're going to rub the lamp. Each individual person, voter, thinks, oh, well, it'll grant my wishes. I want this. I want that. When, in fact, when 7 billion people rub the lamp 7 billion times and make 7 billion different wishes, they're all going to conflict. The only persons whose wishes get granted are the people who hold power, the politicians when they do such a system. That's right. What I said before, the shackling of the beast, the unshackling of the citizenry. If you imagine King Kong, this giant gorilla, he's got all four of his limbs chained to some wall someplace. You undo one of the limbs, and in Niagara Falls, the waterfall where I'm from in Buffalo... They have this bicycle. You can sit on it, pedal it, and it shows you how many kilowatt hours you just made, and it goes into the power thing. So this one, the beast, King Kong, with one arm free, goes on there and does 100,000 man hours worth of electricity in an hour, right? We see emergency situations happen, war times, things like that. In a short burst, it happens. People say, wow. Imagine if we undid another one of its arms, or all four of its arms, but what happens is, we unshackle it enough, three of them are free, it rips the fourth arm from the wall, and now the roles of master and servant are inverted. The beast no longer does what you say. The beast is in charge now. And I'll do a few examples of that. I do France in the late 18th century, which, how anybody can utilize the French Revolution, as an instance in which the lowest people were uplifted, is mined bodily. There's no greater example of tyranny in a decade of perpetual tyranny, slaughter of the lowest people, destruction of the money. So I lay that out, of course, in Germany during the 30s and 40s. We see another example of that. China, again, in mid-century, in the 20th century. So shackle the beast. Unshackle the citizenry. Give people the freedom to choose. These are a couple of the themes that we display throughout 4,000 years of recorded human history. 4,000 years.
SPEAKER 16 :
Nice. Good job. Paul, I appreciate you joining us. Paul Dayton. It's pauldayton.us is the website. Paul, I appreciate you very much. Keep up the good work, sir.
SPEAKER 03 :
Thank you, sir. You as well.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. No more guests the rest of this hour. If you've got something you'd like to chime in about, some of the things we've even covered so far, lines are open, 303-477-5600. All right, I talked a little bit last week about some of the opening day bills. that were presented in our own Colorado legislature. And I covered some of the highlights, and I found another article, I think Friday, talking about a few additional bills. And some of these, I just have to, I mean, I get it. I know who's down there. I know who's in charge. And it's a bunch of knuckleheads. And they're going to try to run their particular pet project through. And some of these people have had, trust me, I know how this works. Some of these political leaders, politicians, newbies especially, have probably thought about the particular, at least one bill of the two they can run, they thought about for years. And I'm not exaggerating. And by George, they're going to run that. Now, some of the more tenured politicians, they're running what they've been paid to run. And I'm not exaggerating when I say that either. They've got people out there that are funding campaigns and so on. And believe me, they have marching orders. And they're going to make sure they handle that as well. And if you think I'm wrong on any level, prove me. I'm not. This is how politics works. Newbies that typically don't require a lot of money and maybe didn't even get much help, financially speaking, to get elected, they'll run whatever bill they want to. Those that are seasoned and or have had help getting elected, they will run what they've been told to run. They have marching orders. So, for example... There is Senate Bill 5, which would repeal the second election required under the Labor Peace Act for unions to deduct fees from workers' paychecks to fund negotiations. Now, if you think for one second that the Senate Minority Leader Robert Rodriguez – And a fellow Democrat, Senator Jesse Danielson, came up with that on their own. I got swampland in Florida I'd love to chat with you about. Yeah, trust me, they didn't come up with that one on their own. That came up from the union support of these individuals. And I guarantee you I'm not wrong. What they're really trying to do is, in this case, a second vote, which only comes if a majority of workers vote to unionize, which must get 75 percent approval for unions to even begin negotiating with employers to enact the fees. In other words, they want to eliminate that second round. In other words, making it easier to unionize. Yeah, we'll just eliminate part of the process. Well, why would you do that? Well, because it'll make it easier. Well, again, who do you think is presenting these bills that they want to become law? The unions. These two knuckleheads didn't think of this on their own, trust me. Trust me. This didn't come from them. They have marching orders, and they're marching. And they're going to do what they've been told to do. Joe, you're next. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 18 :
John, I don't know if you have a chance to read. I just want to tell your listeners about a risk, something called spear phishing, which is a computer hack different than regular phishing. We've all seen the phishing. We've all seen the phishing scams. You get an email that's well from like Kohl's. Well, your account, your credit card or your payment was denied or whatever. And that's kind of a broadcast. They just send it out to a million people, figuring that 5% will have a Kohl's account or whatever. Or it could be from Wells Fargo, like your Wells Fargo account. is overdrawn, you know, and then they'll direct you to a website that you think is Wells Fargo, and they're going to ask you to log in with your username and password, and it's really not Wells Fargo, so you just keep your Wells Fargo. So that's a regular old phishing account. Now, what happens is if people get a hold of your email address, so say you're on one of these Nextdoor or Neighbor to Neighbor or... They mine it.
SPEAKER 16 :
They mine your address. By the way, they can buy it. It's on the dark web and other places as well.
SPEAKER 18 :
Right. And once they get your email address... So by the way, so let's say you're foolish enough to put something up on Craigslist and you say, contact me at, you know, Joe at ABC.com. What they'll then do is they'll respond to you and say, hey, I'm interested in what you're selling or the, you know, but I want to make sure I'm not going to be scammed. So I'm going to send you a four digit code and let me know when you get it. Well, what they've done is they've tried to log into your account, your email account with your username, but they don't have your password. And then what they do is they click on lost my password. And what will then happen when they, when the, the, you were in your email service, Gmail or whoever says, uh, we're going to send you a security verification. Should we send it? And they'll, they'll put in their cell phone number, right? So they get the four digit security code and then they send it back to you saying, I need you to verify that you're a real person. And of course, as the minute you say, um, yes, and you're going to get a, I'm sorry, You're going to get the four digit security code from Gmail, but you're going to think it's coming from them. And then they're going to ask you to play it back to them. Well, you just gave them access. Now, once they have hacked your email, they then what they want is your address list. And what they then start doing is they go to it all over again. Well, but here's what they do. They'll in terms of implanting viruses. John, if you got an email from me and it said, John, what do you think of this story? And there's a link. you know me, you know my email address, you'd be tempted to click on that link, because, oh, it's from Joe, and he's asked me what I think of this story, and you're going to, maybe not you, but a lot of people who know me, I would say, and it would be personalized, it would be, Charlie, what do you think of this story, Joe? And if you click on it, you've just downloaded malware into your computer. Now they've, you know, ransomware, they lock up your computer. Right, right. So that's called spear phishing. And the reason it's spear phishing is instead of going out to a million people, it's going out to specific individualized and it's personalized. It is addressed to you personally using your first name from somebody you know asking your opinion.
SPEAKER 16 :
Much higher rate of response doing it that way.
SPEAKER 18 :
Much, much higher rate. So, again, if there's 80 people in your address book, they'll send out 80 personalized emails, one to Bob, one to Charlie, one to Sue, one to Sally. And they'll say, you know, Sally, what do you think of this story? Is it true? Question mark. And then they'll give you a link. And if you're Sally and you click on that link, you've already screwed yourself. It's over. It's done. You know, you've either downloaded a virus, they've rancidly locked up your computer, or maybe they put a Trojan horse on your computer that you don't even know about. And the next time you do go to log into your bank account, they're watching what you do. So Spear phishing is a very, very dangerous, targeted hacking attempt. And by the way, I probably get three or four of these a year from business associates, people I know very, very well, my business partners. And by the way, the unsophisticated ones will just spoof. Now, you know you can spoof an email address, right?
SPEAKER 16 :
Correct.
SPEAKER 18 :
Like it'll show up as John Rush, and unless you hover your cursor.
SPEAKER 16 :
It'll look like that, but it really isn't.
SPEAKER 18 :
It really isn't. So it'll say John Rush in the header, but if you hover your cursor over the person's name, it turns out that John Rush is not... It's Agim Balulathorpe or something, Bahrain or something like that. But once they've hacked your email account, they then can actually send... They take over your email account. They take it over. They're then sending actual emails... From your email account, so when you hover over the sender's name, John Rush, it'll come back as, yep, this is from John Rush. And until John Rush tells you that my email account's been hacked, don't reply to anything. That's called spear phishing. It's probably the most dangerous phishing out there. Again, it's called spear phishing as opposed to regular phishing.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yep. I appreciate that, Joe. Thank you for the tip.
SPEAKER 18 :
All right, guys.
SPEAKER 16 :
Have a great night. No, I appreciate that. So, yeah, for all of you, be safe on the Internet. As I always say, be careful with what you open, what you do. If there's ever a question, you could respond to that particular individual. If you know him well enough, call him on the phone. Say, did you send me an email asking me to do such and such? Ask before you do anything along those lines. I've got more to cover on some of these opening bills. Somebody, though, did text me a text line and asked me if I had seen what had happened on 16th Street Mall. I haven't talked about that yet. I might get that with Andy tomorrow. Yeah, there was two different knifings, stabbings, on 16th Street Mall. They won't tell us who the actual perpetrator is, although they think they've apprehended that same individual. They won't release who the individual is. Four stabbed, two dead. I'll just be straight up honest. It's why I don't go there. It's why I don't go there. I won't let my wife or anybody that I know go there. And those individuals, Mike Johnston and others, that are in charge of those things, you need to get this crap cleaned up. If I was a merchant, I wouldn't be, but if I were a merchant down there, and I feel sorry for some of those people because at one time, 16th Street Mall was a great place to be. And there was a lot of cool things going on, and it was a fun place to go. And I can remember, you know, Charlie, you know, decades ago, you'd go down there. It'd be all decked out for Christmas. You could take some of the, not sleigh rides, but the, thank you, carriage rides down through the mall and look at all the lights and everything. And it was a lot of fun. It really was. It was really a lot of fun to do. And as time went by, and, of course, with Democrat leadership in the city of Denver, it just kept deteriorating and deteriorating and deteriorating. And it's interesting. It's like we've gone back in time. Let me explain. Some of you remember McNichols Arena. Not McNichols Arena. Before the convention center, what was it called? Oh, come on, Charlie. Why can't I think of it right now? No, that's where they played sports. I'm talking where all the car shows and everything. Currigan Hall. Where Currigan Hall was, which is where the convention center is now because they tore it down to put the convention center up. There was always a big car show there. A couple, two or three car shows a year. Usually a couple big ones in the wintertime. World of Wheels and whatever the other one was, Tri-State Auto Show. And we'd always go down as a family even. If nothing else, my dad, brother, and I would go. And I can remember as a kid, you know, my dad saying, you know, this is an area that you should never come to unless I'm with you, and we're going to go from the car to the convention, you know, to the car show and back, and that's it. And I will be watching all around me the entire time because that's how dangerous it was at that time. And then as time went by, they did some things, cleaned some things up, made it to where you could pretty much go down there anytime you wanted to. You could have a good time. Again, you could hang out on the mall. You could shop. You could do all sorts of things. And like anything else, it cycled back to what it used to be. And it's nothing but a death trap now. And I'm not exaggerating when I say that. It is a literal death trap. Why anybody in their right mind would hang out down there after dark? is beyond me. It is the most disgusting place imaginable and yet could be a major attraction to our state. But this is what happens when you let Democrats run things. And those of you that are on that side of the aisle, I challenge you to correct me and tell me I'm wrong in what I'm saying. I challenge you. Tell me I'm wrong. Tell me the history of 16th Street Mall in downtown Denver as I just explained it. Tell me that I'm wrong in what I just described. And if you have a better explanation, I'm all ears. But nobody ever defends it because it's indefensible. And two people lost their lives. And two others were still stabbed. And the ironic thing, again, on all of this is they won't even say who. So thank you for the reminder. I didn't get a chance to talk much about that up until this point. Andy and I might be able to hit on that a little bit tomorrow. But this is what you get when you have certain people in charge. And our current mayor that's in charge of Denver right now, what a worthless you-know-what. Sorry, he is. I thought our last couple were really bad. They don't hold a candle to how bad this one is. And I really thought we'd see some improvement. With Johnston, we have not seen an ounce. It's actually been worse. So I'll be back in a moment. Cub Creek Heating and Air Conditioning again as we head into this cold weather coming in this weekend. Make sure your furnace and everything associated is all dialed in. Call Hunter today from Cub Creek. Find him at klzradio.com.
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All right, going back to some of the bills that were introduced. I don't have a lot of time, but I did mention this one the other day, but to just give a little bit more in-depth. HB 1010, that was Democrat Representative Yara Zokei, I think I'm saying that right, and Kyle Brown. They proposed prohibiting price gouging of any products like diapers. It's interesting they say diapers, but it'll be anything because it won't be limited to certain products. that are necessary for public health, safety, and welfare. Now, again, folks, that list is long because you could throw a lot of things into that. When you start talking public health, safety, and welfare, that could include plywood for your windows if a tornado is about to hit. You get where I'm saying because that's a safety item at that point. They define price gouging. which, by the way, there's no such thing, as raising prices more than 10% above the average price in the past 90 days. I'm not sure where that came from. And again, folks, please believe me when I say this. These legislatures, these politicians, trust me, I've interviewed a lot of them and know some on a one-on-one basis. They're not smart enough to come up with this stuff on their selves. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I know that sounds mean, but they're not. They're not. They're being guided, coached, and told this is what we're going to do. And I'm being very sincere when I say this. They're not that smart. I mean, a lot of these folks listen to some of the speeches and things that they'll even give. And and I'm sorry to throw this person under the bus, but I'm not the mayor right now in L.A. Of the area where all the fires are. I mean, have you listened to her speak? I mean, this is a woman that is 1000 percent clueless. How in the world she got elected is I guess she's a black woman. Sorry, I don't know any other way to say it. No other reason why she's there. She's dumb as a rock. And I'm saying that as kind as I can. She has no intelligence whatsoever. Listen to the questions that she's asked and how she answers them. And unfortunately, we have a lot of those even here in Colorado. And... Bear with me here, but here's my belief on why. And it can come into play on our side as well, but it's really heavy on the Democrat side. When you're involved in the Democrat cult in the first place and you can't see reality or even understand what it is, You can't even process things correctly in that regard. How in the world can you have enough common sense to handle things correctly being a politician? You can't. You're programmed to be dumb. Sorry, I have no other way to say it. You're programmed to be dumb. I know there's some exceptions. The governor polices of the world and so on. Yeah, there's some exceptions to that because he's not dumb. He's, you know, sly like a fox. Definitely. Definitely. And he's a very smart individual, so he's an exception. But the majority, the minions, the folks that we're talking about that are even bringing these bills up, they're not smart. In fact, I'll throw this out there. Any of them out there listening that would love to come on air and debate me, be my guest. I'll give you all three hours. Come on air, and we'll debate any topic you want to debate. Now, I have no problem saying that because not a one of them will take me up on that because, frankly, none of them can. They're not smart enough to. There's not a single topic that they could come on air and defend themselves with me being against them, you know, opposite them. And I'll be nice. I'll throw that out there as well. I'm always nice and polite, even with those they don't agree with. But they'll lose, and they know that. So my point is the majority of politicians, and it even includes some on our side, are just not very bright, folks. IQ-wise, they're not very bright. Yes, they're electable, but they're not super bright. We have a guy in charge of the Colorado GOP that fits this description. Not very bright. Sorry, just not. And I'll talk more about that tomorrow on that level. But a lot of these bills that you're going to see shoved down our throats here as Coloradans are coming from not these individual politicians, and we're going to be mad at them. Don't be mad at them. It's the people that are getting them elected that you should be mad at. They're the ones pulling the strings. Veteran windows and doors is next. 35% off windows, 45% off entry doors, free labor on either. Call Dave today. Find him at klzradio.com.
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All right, we are back. About 30 seconds left is all. Yes, got a full three-hour show planned tomorrow. Andy, you'll be with me. We've got Jordan Goodman, of course, America's Money Answer Man, joining us in hour one. And I've got a lot of things to cover in hours two and three. And a lot of text messages, by the way, talking about what goes on in downtown Denver. And, yeah, reality is it's a mess. I would not recommend a single person going down there. If you have family and friends coming into town, be sure to steer them away from downtown. It is not a place that any of us should be after dark, and I mean that sincerely. That's it for today, folks. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
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Welcome to Sportsman of Colorado, Colorado's premier outdoor radio show heard every Saturday afternoon on KLZ 560 with insights on hunting, fishing, archery, guns, and ammo from Colorado's top outfitters featuring the industry's leading experts on how to enhance your experience in the great outdoors. Now, here's your host, Scott Watley.
SPEAKER 07 :
Welcome to Sportsman of Colorado. Thank you so much for joining us today. Hey, we've got a great show in store for you. We're going to kick it off with our good friends from Colorado Gun Collector Association. And we are very proud to have Cindy Jewell in studio with us. So, Cindy, welcome to the show. How are you?
SPEAKER 04 :
Thank you. I'm fine.
SPEAKER 07 :
How are you doing? It's good. I'm good. You know, it's neat to have a lady in when talking about guns. So it's kind of unusual, to be honest with you. So thanks for coming in and doing this.
SPEAKER 04 :
Thank you. And it's not actually as unusual as you would think. In our club, we have quite a few women collectors.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, good. We're going to learn all about that today with Cindy. So let's just kind of talk a little bit about you at first, a little bit about your background and what made you want to get involved with the Gun Collector Association.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, currently, I am the secretary treasurer of the club. And probably about in the mid-90s, I started attending the annual May show called I was so overwhelmed and amazed at all the items. You looked up, and there was tables and tables and guns and uniforms and swords and rifles, and I was just overwhelmed. So I had to come back again for a couple of years. There was everything from the large military arms to the typical shotguns, rifles, and handguns that we all know about today.
SPEAKER 07 :
So how... You talk about the shows like that, and those happen in May, and we'll be pushing that real strong for you guys next year. But when you look at those first few shows to maybe last year's show, how have those changed over the years?
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, my gosh. They have changed so much. Our first show was in 1966, and it was held at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds. I think we had 140 tables then, and the admission was 50 cents to get in.
SPEAKER 09 :
50 cents.
SPEAKER 04 :
50 cents to get in. People just brought used guns and old guns. And today, it's a collection of the antiques that we mostly focus on and that we all love dearly. The antiques that made our country what it is today.
SPEAKER 07 :
That's so cool. And, man, back then, think about the freedoms of just probably people loading up guns in their trucks and coming in the front door with them. It wasn't a big deal.
SPEAKER 04 :
Exactly. It wasn't. We went from Jefferson County to downtown Denver.
SPEAKER 09 :
Right.
SPEAKER 04 :
So imagine downtown Denver in today's climate pulling up. to the Corrigan Hall or the Albany Hotel or the Hilton Hotel. We were at many of those hotels down there first. And like you said, pulling up in a truck, unloading things in the middle of downtown Denver.
SPEAKER 07 :
Wow, that's awesome. All right, let's talk about the purpose. Now, Gun Collectors kind of tells us that, but what's kind of the mission or purpose? How would you describe that?
SPEAKER 04 :
The purpose of this organization is to establish in our state of Colorado a permanent organization for the promotion of friendship among and the mutual benefit of persons interested in the collection, preservation, and study of firearms and other accessories.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay. And man, that must bring you people from all walks of life, so to speak.
SPEAKER 04 :
It does. It really does. Early on, our club began with a group of guys just sharing stories and showing some particular guns that they had brought, some that they thought were really cool. And they decided, well, let's just start a club. So in 1966 is when our club was first started. And I'm proud to say that I knew five of the founding fathers.
SPEAKER 09 :
Really?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes. And one of our founding fathers is still alive. He attends our meetings, and he's also active in our gun shows. So he's gone from gun show number one to gun show 58 so far.
SPEAKER 07 :
My goodness.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes. Wow.
SPEAKER 07 :
So when people want to get involved, well, let's let's talk about this way. Let's let's talk about the members and the growth that you've seen. And you mentioned a little diversity now, a lot of women involved in it, too. So kind of talk about the growth through the years.
SPEAKER 04 :
So our club is now a little less than 500 members. We're in 39 states, including Hawaii. We have two members that live in Hawaii. Our oldest member is a lady that's 100 years old, and our oldest gentleman is also 100. Wow. Our youngest member is 20. And we do have families that have several members of the family that is in the club. They attend regular meetings. They help with our gun show.
SPEAKER 07 :
Wow. Now, how often do you have meetings?
SPEAKER 04 :
We have meetings once a month. in Southeast Denver off of I-25. Our meetings are generally a presentation from one of our members that'll talk about a particular gun or series of guns or a type of gun. And it's very educational. We have a lot of fun with it. Then we also have social time.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, wow. Once again, Cindy Jewell is with us. We were talking about the Colorado Gun Collector Association. And, hey, if you're interested, you can check out their website. Just Google Colorado Gun Collector Association, and that will direct you to their website, and you can learn more about membership there. So do most of the members have, like, one era of firearms or swords or uniforms that they're interested in, or how does that work?
SPEAKER 04 :
Our members collect a large variety of items. They can range from military, American, British, German, turn of the century, or as special as Colts, Remington, Smith & Wessons, Winchesters. And depending on the collector, sometimes a collector wants to focus on only 1911s. So that's a model number. They will explore and try to achieve as many of those 1911s as they can. They generally try to get the most pristine. Sometimes they will go for...
SPEAKER 07 :
That's okay. Sometimes they'll go for just certain types of models or different things that they like, right?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes. Yes.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 04 :
Sometimes they will incorporate the handguns into the rifles and the shotguns. Sometimes they're only rifles. Sometimes they're only shotguns. Sometimes it's only military. For example, our big makers, Colt, Smith & Wesson, they also made military guns.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, right. A lot of people probably don't know that, right? So you were mentioned before we came on air here, the chase, you called it. And that's where certain collectors are looking for certain things to purchase for their collection. And it's fun for them to go figure out how to find that item and buy it, right?
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, it's so much fun. One of our members told me that he saw the movie Winchester 73s.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, yeah, Jimmy Stewart, yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, and he decided he wanted a Winchester 73. He wanted one of 1,000. So he looked and he searched. He went to a lot of pawn shops and smaller stores at that time. He finally acquired three of them that were one of 1,000. He acquired a .32 caliber, a .38 caliber, and a .44 caliber.
SPEAKER 07 :
Wow, how cool.
SPEAKER 04 :
And another one of our stories that I've heard is a member was at a gun show waiting to speak to the vendor. There was a guy in front of him, and he was drunk. My person was very much interested in a particular gun that was on the table. Well, the guy in front of him just happened to buy that gun when my buddy was standing behind him. So he says, well, I still want that gun. So it took him about 15 years chasing that gun, but he finally got it. Wow. And it just completed one part of his collection.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right. Yeah. So, you know, in being around you guys over these last few months, and you all were at the gun room over there when we did a live remote this summer, and really want to get more people involved, but also young people, because that's important to keep this going, isn't it?
SPEAKER 04 :
It's very important. One thing that really stands out to me a lot that I've noticed in the last couple years is that our gun shows, the young people are coming in for the history. I met, through another connection of mine, a lady that says, oh, my son would love to see all of those. He's majoring in history and firearms. So he came down to our show and thought it was awesome. This past year, we had a group of junior... junior children come in, middle school children. Okay. And they came in and they toured our show and they were learning all about guns in school.
SPEAKER 07 :
Wow. Isn't that awesome? That'd be really neat.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes, it is.
SPEAKER 07 :
I think it'd be cool for like homeschool groups, you know, different things like that, where maybe the kids don't get to normally go get to do a lot of activities for something like that, for them to come in and see something like the gun collectors. Yeah. So what does Cindy like to collect?
SPEAKER 04 :
I like unusual things.
SPEAKER 07 :
Things that... Now, your husband looked at me kind of weird when you just said that. You like unusual things. He's sitting over in the studio in the corner. What do you like?
SPEAKER 04 :
Early in my gun show travels, I saw what they call a palm pistol. And a palm pistol is a circular... gun that sits in the palm of your hand with the trigger that comes out between the second and third finger. It was just very different than anything that I had seen. And the one that I happened to see that really caught my attention was pretty well worn. And my husband had said, well, we can find one that's better than that. So again, I got in on the chase because of its uniqueness. And it took me several years to find it, but I found one. just a couple years at our show, and it was made in France in the late 1800s, and it's actually one of the first concealed carry guns.
SPEAKER 07 :
Wow. Well, that's cool.
SPEAKER 04 :
And it's very easy. You just hold it in the palm of your hand, and... Yeah. Very easy to use.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, it's amazing when you look at some of those, and if folks have ever been to the museum in Wyoming... Cody Fire Museum, which I highly recommend that. That is something to really see when you just look at the involvement of the different type of weapons through the years. I mean, it's amazing.
SPEAKER 04 :
You know, several of our members have guns on display at the Cody Museum.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 04 :
And also at the NRA Museum.
SPEAKER 07 :
Wow. Well, how special is that? Now, the other ladies, let's take that sector that are involved. What do some of them like to collect that you visit with?
SPEAKER 04 :
A lot of times the women are into the smaller guns. They're easier for us to handle, control, carry. Derringers are some of the types that they usually like, or just the small, small caliber guns.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right, right. Once again, it's the Colorado Gun Collector Association. Again, they have their big show in May every year, and that's up in Greeley, correct?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes, it is.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, and we'll get you more information on that as the time comes, but I'm telling you what, if you've been thinking about it or maybe this is the first time you've heard them on the show and you didn't even know they were around, hey, check into their website there. Become a member. It's Colorado Gun Collector Association. And you guys are even doing some things here for the holidays, aren't you, for your group?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes, we are. We just did a charity auction. And all the money that we made from that is going to go to youth shooting groups, generally the scouts, and then there's a couple of schools that have shooting teams. So we donate the money to them. We also will be having a Christmas party in December in place of our meeting.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right. Well, that always works.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, yes.
SPEAKER 07 :
Get to eat instead of have a meeting.
SPEAKER 04 :
That's right.
SPEAKER 07 :
Anything we forgot you want to touch on? That's okay. Look through there. I want to make sure we get everything that we got for you. And once again, it's the Colorado Gun Collector Association. And, hey, it would be great. Dads and moms out there, get your kids involved in this. Just give them something to learn a little bit about history of guns would be a great thing. And it's not all guns. I mean, there's swords, all kinds of different things. So anything else you saw we need to hit?
SPEAKER 04 :
No, I think I've shed a little bit of light on things.
SPEAKER 07 :
No, absolutely. You've done a wonderful job, and we appreciate it. And thanks for all you do for them. And we'll look forward to getting you back on again.
SPEAKER 04 :
All right. Thank you.
SPEAKER 07 :
Thank you. That's Cindy Jewell, Colorado Gun Collector Association. Once again, check them out. Just Google Colorado Gun Collector Association. You can learn more about them. If you've got any questions, of course, you can get in touch with us here at the station. You're listening to Sportsman of Colorado. We've got to take a quick break, and we'll be back with more right after this.
SPEAKER 08 :
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SPEAKER 05 :
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SPEAKER 07 :
Welcome back to Sportsman of Colorado. Always good to have our good buddy, Travis Peacock. Airgun Outdoors. Now, you've heard Travis on the show several times. It just seems to be a few months in between each time, which is my fault. So, Travis, great to have you back in studio. How are you?
SPEAKER 03 :
Hey, great to be here, Scott. Thanks for having me.
SPEAKER 07 :
You bet. Hey, it's Airgun Outdoors. They are located at 12543 North Highway 83, Translation Parker Road. All right, so... Sounds like North Highway 83. Where is that and how far is that? Hey, it's just on Parker Road. And that's right off of Pine Lane and Parker Road. All right. And their number is 720-603-3099. First of all, let's visit back. You came to the Mile High Hunt and Fish Expo in April, and that was our first year for that at the Gaylord. I've been asking people that we've had on the show, just as you look back on that expo and you've done other shows and stuff, your thoughts.
SPEAKER 03 :
I thought it was excellent. They really did a great job with facilitating a great show. Lots of really good vendors, outstanding people. It was run very professionally. So from my standpoint as a vendor having a booth there, it was great. I would definitely be back.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, and I'll tell you, I don't know. There was just a vibe there. It's hard to even—and I've told people, I don't really know how to explain it, but I think with just the different types of vendors and not just outfitters and things, but manufacturers, guns, archery stuff, I mean, just everything that was there, I mean, it just seemed like people really engaged with, you know, our— display folks, the folks that had booths and everything. I don't know. I think everybody loved being out at the Gaylord, too. That's not a bad place to be at.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, it was a great venue. Yeah, there was an excitement about it, and I think part of it is it was all hunter-centric. It was outdoors, everything. Every booth was something. So that was really nice. It was refreshing because nowadays you go to other shows and you're inundated with
SPEAKER 07 :
you know a lot of other stuff so it's nice to see everything you know from the outdoors world yeah right and our wives usually don't mind coming out to the gaylord right no not at all yeah exactly it was you know it was a um it was a just you know i i don't think i could pick apart anything that wasn't you know just done really well you know there were some in the evenings i mean it was long days a little bit but then we would end about six or so and then both nights we had a you know we had a real cool after party after uh friday night i think it was and saturday night we had this really nice banquet And a super nice breakfast buffet for the vendors and all. We're like, wow, who does this? So it was.
SPEAKER 03 :
It was just awesome, man. And just so many nice people. I met tons of other people at booths, and just the people running the show were super friendly. Right. Yeah, I will definitely be back.
SPEAKER 07 :
And more importantly, you sold a few guns there, so hey, that'll work.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, definitely. I've had several people come in that were at the show, and they just got kind of a taste. We had a line most days just explaining things. Right. That's the thing with the high-powered precision air guns. People, I would say 80% of the people walk through my door have absolutely no idea what they are until they walk in. And then it's, you know, my favorite part of my job, I would say, is explaining and sharing the hobby with people because it's kind of foreign to a lot of folks. Everyone thinks airsoft or BB guns, and it's completely not that. Completely. As you know.
SPEAKER 07 :
Which we'll get into. And, you know, I mean, you do. You open your door. And if you just take somebody in there and go, OK, what are you in right now? Well, I'm in a gun store, you know, which is partly true. But I mean, they do not look like the oh, and I was teaching the other day when we went out shooting a little bit. I said, well, I used to have a Benjamin Crossman 22 caliber and had to pump it nine times or 10 times to shoot each time.
SPEAKER 03 :
And wow, has this changed. Definitely. And the interesting thing is everyone's like, well, this must be a new technology. It's been around since, you know, the 1600s. Lewis and Clark had one on their expedition, a pre-charged pneumatic air gun. But this is, you know, as with everything, it's evolved and evolved. Now, you know, I have everything from 17 to 50 caliber, and the performance is outstanding. The accuracy is amazing. Yeah, really accurate.
SPEAKER 07 :
Again, Travis Peacock is our guest. It's Airgun Outdoors, 12543, I'm just going to say Parker Road. All right, and if you Google it, it's going to say North Highway 83, which is right at Parker Road and Pine there. All right. Now, let's recap a little bit about you folks. I hadn't heard you before. You've been doing this, what, 10, 11 years, 12?
SPEAKER 03 :
So in the air gun as a hobby, getting close to 20 years. OK. Business wise, I'm in my third year.
SPEAKER 07 :
OK. All right. I just know you've been doing it a long, long time. Right. Wow. And what made you pick? I mean, a lot of things you could have looked at, you know, in the outdoor world. And what made you kind of want to go this direction?
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, I think, you know, just the passion of, you know, I'm a big archery guy, too. So I was kind of like, do I go archery or do I go air guns? And there's no other retailers like that. Of the caliber guns that I sell in the area. So that helped me make my decision, which it's been a great decision. I've really enjoyed it. I've met so many nice people. And then just being able to – I would say probably on a weekly basis, I have five to ten people that come into my store, and they're like – We're so excited that there's finally a real air gun store in the area instead of having to buy stuff online and have to deal with that. You want to take something, man, that's for the family.
SPEAKER 07 :
This is it. I mean, if you live out anywhere where you've just got kind of a backyard, they're so quiet.
SPEAKER 03 :
It's ridiculously quiet. And the accuracy, like I showed you the photo where we'll literally shoot flies at 35 yards, individual flies. That's how accurate the guns are. So things like that is I have guys literally that have a long basement, and they'll set up a range in their basement because you don't have powder. So you don't have to worry about the toxic fumes and things like that. And the quiet, generally, your impact is louder than the shot. Right.
SPEAKER 07 :
Now, you mentioned from the caliber 17 to 50 and got to shoot the 50 the other day. And wow, the accuracy of that and still the quietness of that, it still targets. I mean, and the loudest noise. when you pull the trigger, it's hitting a steel target. Oh, sure.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, because it was shooting a 388-grain slug, and it wasn't long-range. We were, I think, 7,500-yard, that type of distance, but it was rocking that 10-inch AR-500 steel plate like it was nothing.
SPEAKER 07 :
And you've got something pretty cool coming up here in a couple weeks.
SPEAKER 03 :
I do, actually. A week from today, I take off to South Africa to hunt plains game with air guns.
SPEAKER 07 :
With air guns.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yep. So I've been trying to get this going for quite some time, and I'm actually working with an outfitter there. They're trying to promote air gun hunting because they know that it's gaining popularity all over the world. And so I'm going to work with them, get out, check things out. There are several different animals that are on the docket, so we're going to get out there and see what we can come across. But taking a .50 caliber and a .457.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay. Wow.
SPEAKER 03 :
Should be a lot of fun.
SPEAKER 07 :
Should be exciting, absolutely. All right, so... Somebody walks in, they kind of don't know what they're looking at. They get air guns. They see all these cool guns. How does the conversation start when somebody, you know, hadn't had one like me in 30 years? I mean, how do you find them, kind of their direction there?
SPEAKER 03 :
So it's use case. So the first thing I'll ask is, you know, what are you going to be utilizing it for? Is it targets? Is it fun, plinking? Is it competition, hunting? Then, you know, that's kind of the start. And then the next would be budget. And then after that, we'll go through form factor, things like that. We have bullpups. We have long guns. We have tactical looking. We have really nice laminate stocks or walnut. There's a bunch of different options. So it's kind of... Generally, when people are in the store, I'll hand them a few guns and they know when they've grabbed something and feel it and shoulder it. And they're like, OK, this is the fit. And then we work on getting it set up for what they're going to be using. Like I have a lot of guys that are doing, you know, small game testing, stuff like that. Prairie dogs, coyotes. I have a bunch of guys that are doing hogs in other states. So, you know, then we go through and kind of, you know, tailor it to what they want to use it for.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right. And I'm looking forward. I think I'm going mid-November down to Texas to our friends at Lone Star Hunts for a hog hunt. And I'm definitely going to take this one that I got the other day. And, man, I can't wait to just see what that's like. And, again, if you do that, what you're saying is a lot of these hog hunting places, especially, they'll have archery stands there. And that's where you say, hey, that's a great place to sit, right?
SPEAKER 03 :
Right. so that people understand why, you know, I, I, I would say, you know, get it a little bit closer. Cause you know, as you know, the pigs are, they're moving their heads. We want to do a headshot if we can. Um, so having a, just a little bit closer and we're not doing 3000 feet per second. So everything that I send out, it's generally subsonics. So, um, But if you have them, I mean, it can easily take a hog out at 50 yards, if not further, with a headshot. But as you know, they move so much, you want to try and mitigate any potential of them moving it as you're getting ready to shoot. Right, right.
SPEAKER 07 :
Now, let's take the one that I got. Okay. And you kind of break it down because there's a dial system on the back. Like if you're just wanting to plink for a little bit and get extra shots, I guess we can say, you know, from the air tank and all that. So break it down in a professional level better than me of how all that works.
SPEAKER 03 :
No problem. So the gun that you're talking about is the FX Maverick. It is a bullpup configuration, has a 700-millimeter barrel and a 580cc bottle. So the way that it works is you can increase your power, but then your shot count will go down. And it's vice versa. As you go up with one, the other goes down. So if you're going to just plink with it, there is a quick-tune system where you can just dial your hammer spring preload. So that you can say, hey, I want to just go plink in the backyard or someplace. I don't need power, but I want shot count. You can dial that down, and it's going to decrease your velocity but increase your shot count. And then you're like, hey, this weekend I'm going to go shoot hogs or prairie dogs or something. I want more performance. You just dial it up. Obviously, you just adjust your zero for that change in performance. But as you saw, I mean, it's, you know, you can pretty much dial that gun into whichever situation you're in.
SPEAKER 07 :
It was unbelievable. And, you know, again, you say air rifle, of course, it's quiet. But I'm telling you, until you really experience it... you know out shooting as we were doing the other day uh i just could not believe how quiet and yet how effective you took out several prairie dogs and it was the impact on the prairie dog at you know yeah 100 yards was louder than the shot it actually was yeah and you're not disturbing everything else around you know a lot of times these may be on some um properties and maybe there's horses around or cattle around and you don't want to disturb other game you know with a with a 22 even, you know, and that air rock, man, it's just, I mean, it's just unreal.
SPEAKER 03 :
And yours is a 25 caliber. So, you know, you can go up into the, you know, 30, 40, 50 grain projectiles with that. And we have it set up shooting slugs. So better ballistic coefficient, you're going to reach out. And I had mentioned before to you, there was a property that we took 2,100 prairie dogs off of that was just infested. They couldn't even run cattle because they had eaten everything. Right. And with that, there was adjacent properties that were shooting 17 HMR or 22, and they would have to wait because the noise of the supersonic crack and just the muzzle noise was scaring the prairie dogs, and then they'd be gone for 15 minutes. And with air guns, they have absolutely no idea. And if you need to do some mitigation, you can definitely do that.
SPEAKER 07 :
Absolutely. Once again, it's airgunoutdoors.org. 1-2-5-4-3 North Highway 83. That's what it's going to say if you Google them. It's just right off Parker Road and Pine Lane. Again, the number is 720-603-3099. Now, make sure I get this in. The first Saturday of every month. You have kind of some get-together there, and everybody's welcome to come in and chat. That's got to be a cool thing. I'm going to try to get by there one of these Saturdays and come to that. So tell us about it.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, definitely. It's called Good Morning Airguns, so I bring in coffee and donuts. Local airgun folks come in, and also it's always an open invitation to – You know, anybody that wants to come check things out and meet other people that are in the sport. And, you know, it's the community outreach is kind of a big deal to me. I like, you know, that aspect of it. And, you know, you don't always have to take my word. You know, other guys are you can be like, hey, what do you do? And, you know, there's groups of guys that will get together and shoot. And so it's a really good time. I enjoy doing it.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. No, that Charlie gentleman, that was another day when I was there. You know, we ended up having a great conversation. We've known each other a little bit, but never had really a lot of time to visit. But, man, you can just learn a lot and see what other guys are liking, see what they're shooting, see what they're doing. And, you know, it's a lot of fun for sure. Now, one thing I really love about your operation is this. You walk in, you get an air rifle. You walk out, you need nothing else, meaning you've got everything right there I need. So extra, you know, the tanks that you can do to fill up, the compressors for them. You've got optics. So, I mean, you've got pellets. So, I mean, we're good.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, and that's the thing. It's a one-stop. I mean, you don't have to worry about, hey, I can't find it. I've got to order it. I've got everything. And that's the nice thing about air guns is the ammo is ridiculously cheap, and it's always available. I mean, I remember chasing down firearms, ammo. Oh, my goodness. when it was like empty shelves i know we're in a better position now but um when things get crazy like that and shelves start getting wiped out i you know that's one really nice thing is i always have ammo um and when somebody comes in and buys a gun it's not just here's your gun see you later i you know i give everybody a card and any i tell everybody there's no no dumb question you if you have any issues questions call me i'm always there and the nice thing is is that I have a lot of guys that will come in and they're buying You know, cheaper stuff online, and it's breaking, and they have to send it back to the manufacturer and things like that. If there's issues on my end, which is very rare, you know, I'm right here. And I always put an emphasis on taking care of my customers. Sure, sure.
SPEAKER 07 :
Now, optics. Let's spend a couple of minutes there. As a matter of fact, the gentleman I just mentioned, he was telling me, he goes, Scott, he goes, I've had all the high-end scopes. I mean, $3,000, $4,000, $5,000 scope. but he likes one that you carry. And it saves him a lot of money. He can put more money into a gun. and still have great optics. So kind of talk about what you cover there.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, and that's just it. I mean, most people think, well, you have an air gun store, you have air gun specific. I mean, my optics, you can run on pretty much anything. I have night vision. I have thermal. I have optics from Arkin is probably my top seller. I have Element Optics, Athlon. I can get others through distributors, but those are the ones that I mainly stock. My night vision and thermal I have from a company called Pard, which actually have a thermal sitting right here. So they're going to check out. But just a blast, you know, being able to take a super accurate gun and put a really nice optic on it and seeing the performance from both sides. Right. Anything we missed? I think the biggest thing is people's misconception of what air guns are. So if you go out and do a YouTube search for air gun hunting, it'll probably surprise people what you can do. I mean, they've taken Cape Buffalo in Africa. I don't think we're going to be doing any Cape Buffalo, but we're definitely looking at some of the larger planes games. Yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
Man, it's going to be so cool. And I appreciate you taking me out the other day and letting me shoot some. And man, I mean, again, folks, if you're looking for something that's just totally, totally fun. And again, for kids, it's great. You can teach them firearm safety. You can teach them. you know, how to properly shoot and, you know, squeeze in a trigger and not jerk. I mean, there's so much you can do with kids and they're going to love it. I've seen so many times and, you know, I've seen videos where people give kids a gun they shouldn't be shooting. It kicks them. The kid falls back and everybody laughs. Well, that's not fun for the kid.
SPEAKER 03 :
Right. And so the air guns, there's no recoil. Yeah, there's zero. Even the .50 cal is very minimal. You don't even feel it, yeah. And then, you know, the noise. Right. I mean, in 90% of the cases, the hearing protection is not even. Oh, no. Because it's nothing. So, yeah, it's I mean, if you if you're looking for something fun like that recently, like I said, I'd set up a bunch of guns for people hog hunting in Oklahoma and Florida and Texas. But another I'm doing a lot of coyote guns. So guys that are having predator problems. these are an outstanding solution because you have one come in, you take it out, and the other one that's 200 yards away has no clue what happened. And, you know, so it's not one shot and then you're done at that location. So that's been a lot of fun, you know, those guns set up as well. But totally family-centric. It's, you know, you could have lots of folks that – it's a funny story. I'll have a guy come in and he gets an air gun. He's like, I can't tell my wife, you know. And then he'll be back in three days later with her because now she wants one. Oh, really? Yeah, because she shot his gun, and she was like, this is amazing.
SPEAKER 07 :
That's fun, man. Well, hey, it's Airgun Outdoors, and that really is spelled fun, fun, fun. All right, hey, it's 1-2-5-4-3, North Highway 83. Again, that's just Parker Road and Pine. Their number is 720-603-3099. When you go in, I don't know if you heard them here on Sportsman of Colorado, and we'd appreciate that as well. Travis is a great guy. Hey, don't forget the first Saturday of every month. What time do you open?
SPEAKER 03 :
On Saturday, it's 9 a.m.
SPEAKER 07 :
9 a.m. on Saturday and 11 a.m. during the week, correct?
SPEAKER 03 :
Correct. Yeah, it's 9 a.m. for the donut day. Other than that, it's 10 o'clock on Saturday. Oh, it's 10 o'clock. Okay, all right, cool. All right, man, thanks so much. Thanks, Scott. We appreciate it.
SPEAKER 07 :
Once again, it's Airgun Outdoors. Get by and see them, and I promise you, you will have a lot of fun just taking a look at the guns and then get you on and get out and do some shooting and have some fun. Hey, don't go anywhere. More of Sportsman of Colorado Radio coming up right after this.
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SPEAKER 07 :
Welcome back to Sportsman of Colorado. Hey, thanks so much for being with us. Good luck to everyone out there in the archery world right now going on. And I've seen some great pictures on social media so far, which have, man, I did not draw an elk tag. I didn't draw a deer tag. Kevin Flash is with us. So Kevin's wiped that tear for me. But good luck to everyone. And hey. We got a great interview here for you now. Now, back in April, of course, we had our Mile High Hunting and Fishing Expo. And by the way, we will be back at the Gaylord next April. And boy, Kevin, was that a good. It was an awesome show.
SPEAKER 08 :
It seems so long ago now.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, it was.
SPEAKER 08 :
I'm looking forward to next year. And I know the guys are busy.
SPEAKER 07 :
lining things up and you're helping them out and it's going to be awesome lots of good things that continue the growth there so it'll be awesome to see and one of our attendees there a good buddy of mine and kind of a relative in a roundabout way almost brian dean cold water outfitters how are you bud you know uh can't complain it's a good saturday morning up here in the dakotas hey good deal man Now, Brian, you were there at the Mile High Hunting and Fish Expo, and this is live. So, man, just kind of give your thoughts about the expo.
SPEAKER 06 :
I appreciated the fact that everything there was related to hunting, and it wasn't popcorn vendors. Dips and chips. And, you know, in the things that are kind of a stretch to include in the hunting world, you can – honestly, if you were after birds, if you were after – uh, upland deer elk, you could find somebody there to talk to somebody to get some information from you use products that were there. So I think the guys that ran that show, Abe and them guys did a really good job filtering through and getting, you know, getting, getting, concentrating the areas of people like this is actually guys use not, Hey, how about this jelly? That's not, that's, you know, we have enough of those. So I think, I think they did a really good job. In that aspect, really just getting core hunting and fishing people in there that people could relate to. And I thought they did a great job.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah. Well, and certainly for you, I mean, you're making the trip from the Dakotas. So, you know, you're coming over here to try to drum up some business and tell people about what you do. And we're coming into your season, aren't we?
SPEAKER 06 :
We started our season, we dropped our first inner velvet muley down in South Dakota last week.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, you did?
SPEAKER 06 :
We are there, we are fair and square, and we're rocking and rolling. Yeah. We're ready to go.
SPEAKER 08 :
The problem with your area of the world right now is that there are too many things to do. You've got two, you know, you've got the mule deer, you've got the ducks and geese.
SPEAKER 06 :
You're saying that wrong.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, right? I mean, and the fishing gets really good this time of year, too.
SPEAKER 06 :
You're right, yeah, and that's one of the things for an outfitter like myself, you have to pick... what you're going to do and when you're going to do it because you could drive yourself nuts, you know, trying to keep up with everything we do. That's why we concentrate all of our walleye catching and fishing in the spring before we go down to North Carolina for out-of-bank stuff. And right now we've got, from now until right before Thanksgiving, we've got anywhere from six to ten people a day down at our pheasant camp down in South Dakota and then our waterfowl lodge. kicks off at the end of this month with non-resident on the 28th i think this year so then we'll have 18 20 people every day from then till uh thanksgiving so we're running 40 45 people a day in two different locations and this is our this is our crazy season but you can't you know if you try that and then you try to dip into fishing and you try to oh yeah there's endless things that you can hunt up in the dakotas year round and it's uh you gotta pick what you gotta pick what you can do well and stick with it yeah for sure did you guys have a cool morning today Oh, yeah. It was 43 degrees.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah. Back at my place in northern Wisconsin, it was 36 degrees this morning. And I was like, oh, my goodness.
SPEAKER 06 :
I wish it would tip a little bit before our youth season kicks off this next Saturday. So all my boys are ripping and roaring to get out. And I hope we get like one... just below freezing, like if it touches it, then the mosquitoes will die.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
Or else we're going to be in swim trunks and tank tops, mosquito spray, trying to keep every, you know, because the ducks are here, it's going to be an incredible year. Right. We had a lot of water this summer and spring, and there's a lot of birds around. A lot of birds, good. Yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
So, Brian, kind of walk us through just a little bit to give folks a little bit of a taste kind of about you. And, you know, I remember back when your early conversations when you were going to get this business going. Oh, yeah. But, you know, and you've been – I mean, hey, you know, we got together on an elk hunt over on the Western Slope a few years ago. So you've been with other outfitters and things. So as you kind of put your program together, what were some of the points that you said, hey, I want to make sure, you know, that – that we really offer a great service because we've all been with deals we could see improvements on. So what was kind of your mission and your points there?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, it was funny because before I knew you were going to call me, I was like, man, this kind of started with Scott because I remember exactly where I was at in my driveway when I was in my truck when I called you a couple years ago trying to see, man, what do you think? Honestly, I called a lot of people that were in the business, and probably the best thing that I did was I called people that had gotten out of the business and asked them, Like what went wrong? You know, if you could do it all over again, what's a couple of things you would change? Um, in, in the commonality and really what I had found and kind of read between the lines is when guys go from making it a business about hunting rather than making it a business about hospitality, that's where, that's where the difference is. It's the, the, the companies in my, in my circles, I think that really thrive are the guys that you go out, it's a bluebird morning, there's no wind and the birds don't fly. Well, you have to deal with those 18 people back at camp, and you have to have them enjoy their day, right? Because if you didn't shoot a bird, you didn't pull the trigger one time. And those are the guys – if you can do the hospitality side of things and you can knock – I tell all the guys that come on board with us, you know, the things we can control – effort, timeliness, food, hospitality as far as the lodge and making sure it's clean – if we knock those four things or five things out of the park – the rest of it takes care of itself. Because guys that come on trips, they understand, hey, we're not going to do, nobody's going to do 10 out of 10 every single day. Nobody's going to limit out every single time. So it's the other side of things when you can take care of people on the back end and make sure that they're happy and it's easy to be a guy when you're slaying everything. That's the easiest job in the world, right? Absolutely, yeah. The good guides and the good outfitters are the ones that guys feel appreciated and they understand that the effort went into it and there's nothing we can do about it and they rebook. Those are the customers that are like, these guys understand. And it makes, you know, it just makes camp easier when you learn how to take care of people and understand, yes, it's a hunting business, but ultimately, you know, these are guys that have, you know, saved up for a couple years to come on this trip and they want to have a good time with their buddies or, you know, it's a couple that's coming for the first time trying a new experience and you're just trying to take care of people more like a hospitality business rather than just your focus is mainly on hunting.
SPEAKER 07 :
Sure. No, I was talking with Fred Eichler a couple of years ago. I don't know if you know Fred, but he was actually at the Expo. But I just said, how do you vet someplace that you've never been or an outfitter? And he said, what you just said, he said, I want to talk to people that were there that were not successful on their hunt.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
Because if they say I'm rebooking, you know, just because of everything that you just mentioned. Okay. Because again, it's hunting and it's fishing, whatever we're doing. And he said, that's who I want to talk to. Cause if they're still positive about the deal, then that I have no problem going.
SPEAKER 08 :
I think as well as those days that you don't pull a trigger or you don't catch fish. So those are the days you learn so much too. Cause then you see, you know, what you do to try to eke out that set that comes in or, you know, whatever. Yeah. that really tries to help you down the road and the guides that are working like that that are really talking to people that aren't you know cussing and and and yelling at everybody about this or that and they're frustrated too the ones that are really working are the ones that you're like i want to come back because when we are slaying it where it's going to be really good and it's going to be fun yeah i mean you're you're right yeah and that's one of the things early on we did why we decided that we're not doing any one-day trips yeah you can't because it's it's tough
SPEAKER 06 :
I mean, my wife will write a book about all the mistakes I made and how I'm not perfect, right? It goes in the guidebook. We make mistakes, right? We thought we should have been facing this direction when we came in in the morning, and then all of a sudden it flips directions. But if that's your only and one chance to get somebody a taste of what you do, that was another thing. We don't offer any one-day trips. So we're based in North Dakota, but I think in the four years we've been doing this, I've had one customer that came to us from North Dakota. Everybody else, actually, this year, This fall, I have my last state is going to get hit, Hawaii. I got people that are flying over from Hawaii to come because they bought a trip to the STI banquet over there. And they're flying in. They're going to come duck hunt with me. So we've hit all 50 states except for Hawaii. Just one customer in North Dakota. That's awesome.
SPEAKER 07 :
All right. So let's get into everything you do as much as we can here, and we're going to do this again. So getting to you, let's talk about driving there.
SPEAKER 06 :
Logistics.
SPEAKER 07 :
Colorado, Denver area, and then flying in, what airport. Kind of give us some tips there.
SPEAKER 06 :
So for our – well, we have different things, right? So we're here in North Dakota. We're in South Dakota for our pheasants. Our team – moves to Arkansas for January. We hunt ducks in the timber January. Um, and then in the June, every June we fly, everybody goes to North North Carolina, Moorhead city for the outer banks, deep sea fishing. So we're always at the locations and we're, you know, about an hour, depending on where you're at.
SPEAKER 09 :
Sure.
SPEAKER 06 :
Outer banks is about an hour away from the airport. Uh, if you come to one of our Bismarck trips, we pick you up at the airport cause we're right here. So you fly Denver, probably United, I'd imagine. from Denver up there or in the area you can go through Dallas and American. But yeah, we pick you up at the airport and We're right here. That's awesome.
SPEAKER 07 :
And we are booked for next year. Yeah. Yep. It seems so far away, but it'll be here before we know it. Yeah, the trouble with our radio show is we have too many options. That's our problem. But, man, we are looking forward to coming out there and hunting with you, man. All right, so let's break down. Give us kind of a couple-minute spiel on each one of these here. Let's talk about your pheasant hunts first.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, sure. So, well, and I can start with this. One of the things that's different about us, too, is my team that's in North Carolina and South Dakota is the same people that you hunt with in Arkansas and North Carolina.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, good.
SPEAKER 06 :
So it's the same group of guys. We're Christian people, and we tried running in that direction on purpose to try to take care of people, and we feel like we have a pretty good culture. But one of the things we do is, if not, we never subcontract out our hunts. it is just us. So if you don't like me at one of our hunts, you're not going to like the other ones because I'm going to be there too. So that's one of those things that we try to make people aware of. So our pheasant hunts, we've got 4,500 acres in South Dakota that we have. We have part of the preserve for people that want to come and shoot a lot more than their daily limit. We have that, but there's also about 3,000 acres that is wild grass or they've got this year we've got some beans down there and there's corn that's planted in we're right next to a refuge that's really highly protected um and it's it's a beautiful area um it's got a little bit of combination of every kind of pheasant uh crops that you'd want to walk through or different ground or cover so it works well if people bring their pointers or flushers it doesn't you know either dog is going to be able to thrive and what we've got down there and it's Taken a couple years to kind of build up what we needed to and work with the farmer in the area. Sure. But it's a gangbusters hunt. We have a lot of fun down there. All right.
SPEAKER 07 :
And what's your package right now for your pheasant hunt, Ryan?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yep. So it's three days, three nights. Everything's included. And that's $29.95 per person. That's all the meals, your beer, your lodging, all the guides, the dogs if you don't have any, and everything. That's, you know, you just got to get to camp and everything else after that's taken care of. Cool. So it's five pheasants per person per day down there.
SPEAKER 08 :
And what if somebody wants to bring their dog? What's the facility set up for?
SPEAKER 06 :
I would love for you to, because I wouldn't go anywhere without mine and I can't blame you to do it either. So we encourage everybody to come bring their dogs when they come. We've got kennels set up for everybody. We don't mix groups. Like if we have two different groups that brought dogs, we don't put them together so the dogs stay separate. But it's a blast to see. We've had some really weird breeds recently. that are surprising good bird dogs. So it's kind of fun to see everybody bring their pup and how they work. And, yeah, that's part of the joys of our job. That's awesome. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 07 :
Brian Dean is our guest. He's Coldwater Outfitters. Hey, check out the website. It's huntcoldwater.com. And, Brian, what's a good number if someone wants to reach you?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, 701-955-4346. All right. Say it one more time. 701-955-4346.
SPEAKER 07 :
4346. All right, and we'll put a deal on our Facebook page, Sportsman Colorado Radio, for your contact. But again, it's huntcoldwater.com. All right, slip down over to Arkansas. Tell us about that hunt a little bit.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, so that is our southern duck hunt. We have the one in North Dakota, but we all go down right after Christmas, after the last split, and you land in Little Rock, and we've got about an hour drive to camp in Searcy, and we've got a mixture of timber and crop fields, that we have down there, and that is a four-day, four-night hunt for $25.95, and it's all-inclusive like all of our trips are. So, again, you just got to get there, make sure you bring some waders.
SPEAKER 09 :
A lot of shells.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, a lot of shells. We go through, you know, spec fields. We'll shoot geese and all the ducks in the timber we can handle. Last year was a little funny for everybody in Arkansas. The weather really messed us up for the duck population, but this year is looking pretty good. We've already got some coals. cold weather up in canada pushing birds down so yeah it should be a pretty good pretty good january down there yeah was january warm down there last year then too no we haven't seen it i left it was colder in arkansas when i moved when i went down there for the month and it was in north dakota we had we had six inches ice on the main river down there no kidding the property yeah it was it was uh i left all my stuff the cold stuff here normally it's pretty you know it's pretty reasonable you're yeah you're 40 in the 40s yeah nothing it's nothing that you could handle so
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, last year was just a weird year all the way through that sort of flyway. So, yeah, it can't be that the way it was last year. Yeah, no doubt, no doubt. So it's a good year probably to book and get down there. Do you have any availability this year for the January hunts?
SPEAKER 06 :
We do. We've got a couple spots left at the end of January this year, which is kind of my favorite because after the, regular season. Then they have one last weekend for the veterans and the kids. Oh, that's cool. That's always a good time.
SPEAKER 07 :
I need a little getaway, Kevin, after the stress of the Christmas season. So stressful during Christmas. Hey, on your deer hunts, let's talk about that a little bit.
SPEAKER 06 :
Sure. So we run those concurrent with our pheasant hunts in South Dakota. We've got really good deer down there. It's a private property, so we're the only one that's on there. There's a mix of mule deer and... Whitetails. Yeah, whitetails down there. And we, unfortunately, South Dakota is one of those states that it's pretty tough to draw tags as a non-resident, but their bow tags are over the counter. And you can get, you know, some guys do the crossbow thing or whichever way, but we have about 10, 15 hunters a year that we allow on there to get bow hunt tags. Those are 4,000 apiece, and that includes, you know, your lodging. You can also... decide to do that in the morning, in the evening, and then go shoot pheasants in the afternoon.
SPEAKER 09 :
Wow, that'd be a fun day.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, kind of all day hunting. It's early morning, but it's spot and stock for the mule deer down there. It's a lot of fun. The back southern half of that property that we lease up is very mountainous, so you can get a little good exercise, but that's where the deer are at. We were So far, we're one for one. The guy dropped about 180-inch.
SPEAKER 07 :
No, dude, I showed Kevin the picture a minute ago. Yeah, that's a beautiful picture. Yeah, that's a big muley.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, he had to crawl on his hands and knees for about 100 yards to get within 60 yards, but he... The mule he jumped up and popped up and looked at him, and he stuck him. He only ran about 20 yards, so it was a pretty good hunt.
SPEAKER 07 :
Man, that's so cool. Again, Brian Dean is our guest. Coldwater Outfitters, check out the website, huntcoldwater.com. Now, listen, I didn't ask Brian anything, but, Brian, I'm sure somebody gets in touch with you through our show, anything you can do for them, we'd appreciate it. And, you know, maybe we can figure out some sportsman of Colorado radio package.
SPEAKER 01 :
That's right.
SPEAKER 07 :
Hey. Maybe we'll do something together and we'll put together a deal. Come with Kevin and I. Yeah. We'll go there. Exactly. Then Victoria won't get on me with Kevin. It's all work. That's right. It's all work. It's all work. We want to make sure we help Brian out. Yeah. And so you got your deer as far as big game. What else? Anything else here?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yep. We got our waterfowl season in North Dakota and then our walleye fishing. Our walleye fishing.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. Let's go to waterfowl real quick.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, our waterfowl, we start in three weeks, and that is the reason that I got into this crazy business, shooting ducks. And we are pumped. We have 320 people that are coming in nine weeks. Wow.
SPEAKER 09 :
My word.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, we sell out. We're completely sold out for this year, but we have some space next year. Yeah. That's one of the – this puddle duck region for North Dakota, we just get a lot of birds that come through here, and it's – Again, taking care of people when they're here and the rebookings is part of the reason that we book out so quick on the waterfowl hunts. But it's an amazing time of year. We're really excited about it this year. So, yeah, and that's four days, four nights. And it's the same price as our Arkansas at the $25.95.
SPEAKER 08 :
Brian, talk a little bit about, that's a lot of people, but talk about the resource and how you sort of manage moving people around, such as your hunting grounds and what you're doing to make sure that, I don't know if you have ducks that get sort of conditioned in any way or anything like that, but talk to us a little bit about that.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, sure. So we lease about 36,000 acres in North Dakota, and we have four or five guys that work full-time for me during duck season. So we spread out pretty good and it's part of managing, you know, remembering what field you hit and where they were coming from. So they, they stay soft and they stay in the area.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
Um, and working with farmers, you know, making sure that we're keeping them happy. And, um, yeah, that's, that's, that's how we do. We have a lodge that we actually are, it's the grand opening is in a couple of weeks for our duck season. It's 3000 square feet that we built right around the road, right around the corner from my house. And it'll hold about 24 people at a time, but it's a, it's a big, it's a big investment on our part, but we, We're excited to open it up for people, take really good care of them while they're here.
SPEAKER 07 :
Wow. Well, I tell you, Kevin, I cannot wait. When are we booked, October? October of next year. Yeah, that's what I was going to say.
SPEAKER 06 :
I thought it was October.
SPEAKER 07 :
So, man, we are looking forward to it. And you'll be back in April, right?
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, yeah. I'll be back. I've already talked to Abe. Okay, good. Good, good, good.
SPEAKER 07 :
Hey, you can meet Brian, and like I say, they are booked for a lot of things this year, but if you want to get in touch with them, you can do that through the website as well. It's HuntColdWater.com. Be sure to let them know you heard them here on Sports from Colorado, and we'd appreciate that as well. So, Brian, man, hey, great to visit with you. We'll do this more often, man. We want to let people know about you, so we appreciate it, and Kevin and I are really looking forward to seeing you, man.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes, sir. You guys have a great weekend. You too. Thanks.
SPEAKER 07 :
Kevin, thank you, sir. Thank you. All right, man. Hey, thank you for joining us. Remember, our replay is now on Sundays, 8 in the morning, 8 at night, Thursdays, 9 to 10 a.m. right here on KLZ 560. Hope you have a great rest of your weekend. We'll talk to you next week.
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In this gripping episode, we delve into the unfolding crisis of the wildfires in California, exploring the devastating impact on communities and the contentious political discourse surrounding it. As the fires rage on, host Mike Dillard sheds light on the governmental responses—or lack thereof—and invites listeners to voice their opinions on the matter. Through an impassioned discussion, we examine the role of leadership, media narratives, and public safety in tackling one of the country's worst natural disasters.
SPEAKER 19 :
He's the happy conservative warrior. From the Relief Factor studios, here's Mike Dillard.
SPEAKER 03 :
What a week we are in for. This is the final week of the Biden administration. Thank you, Lord. We've got to get through seven more days. What's happening right now in California is beyond belief. I don't get it. If you can understand how in 2025 America... there is an inability to extinguish fires in a densely populated area like Los Angeles, I'm all ears. I get it. I understand natural disasters, but something about this just doesn't make any sense. President Trump put out a post on Truth Social saying these politicians and this government leadership, they can't figure this out. That's what makes this guy so popular. He speaks for everybody who hasn't had a voice. And I want to get into all of this with you in just a little bit. You can go down a rabbit hole. Man, there's some sites I follow on X and social media that will take you down there. This is an intentional effort. This is about power. These are people that are setting them deliberately. And I keep wondering... How it can be that eight different locations, in other words, fires originated in eight different places at the same time. I get the Santa Ana winds, and I get they call them the devil winds, and very unusual. But you're telling me when it gets windy in Southern California and it's dry, that's unusual enough to lead to eight different wildfires igniting at the same time? I have no idea how you explain that. None whatsoever. Maybe you can help me understand it because I don't get it. Makes no sense. Makes no sense. And we've got to figure it out. I mean, it seems to me that when you're next to an ocean, you should be able to utilize the resources of the geographic location that Los Angeles is in and extinguish fires. Again, I admit I do not understand meteorological terms. I don't understand the conditions. I don't understand the Santa Ana winds. What I know is thousands of people are homeless. The video that I've been watching is so chilling, and you've seen it too, and if you're there, you're living it. You know, it's a strange thing where there's an event like this, whether it's a hurricane or a tornado or wildfires or a blizzard. When you're not in it, you don't fully understand it. You don't comprehend it. You can't appreciate it. Look, I don't even know the nuances of utilizing the ocean. Tracy heard somewhere that the salt water is bad for the equipment. But let's be real for a minute. Do you trust anything Karen Bass or Gavin Newsom tell us? They don't want people relying on social media. Well, of course they don't, because social media is calling them out. Newsom and Pocahontas, the Massachusetts senator, started directing people to a site that they said was going to help the wildfire victims, and it was through ActBlue, a political action committee that raises money for Gavin Newsom. Karen Bass declared a state of emergency, then hopped on a plane and went to Africa for a political event that the taxpayers paid for. You think she should be mayor? Are you kidding me? So all of it is a disgrace. All of it is an absolute, unacceptable disgrace. And once again, Donald Trump takes the truth social and says, how in the world can they not put these fires out? It is one of the worst catastrophes in our country's history. And President Trump is all about it. I mean, and I am very reluctant to start the blame game because I know people are hurting. People who lost everything don't care, you know, about the political orientation of their leadership. But you hear these things like the stuff about the smelt and the snail darter and they're trying to reposition the water and they've got budget cuts and on and on and on. And the argument is DEI is to blame. Now, make no mistake, the other side does the blame game too. They're blaming rich people. Of course they're blaming Trump. So there's a lot of incoherence right now. But I just go back to Trump's very simple question. And it just, he's right. How can they not put these fires out? They're still raging. How many, was it going to wipe out the entire, you know, Southern California region? How much are people going to put up with before people say this is unacceptable? Tracy came in today in the studio and she says, did you see Gavin Newsom? The way he's twitching and he looks like he's on something. And that inappropriate grin. I mean, on the one hand, he's pushing back on the claim that the reservoirs were empty because he said, oh, no, no, no, they were full. And then he turns around and calls for an investigation over empty reservoirs. See if you can make heads or tails out of this.
SPEAKER 06 :
I don't know what he's referring to when he talks about the Delta smelt and reservoirs. The reservoirs are completely full. The state reservoirs here in Southern California, that mis- and disinformation, I don't think advantages or aids any of us. Responding to Donald Trump's insults, we would spend another month. I'm very familiar with them. Every elected official that he disagrees with, very familiar with them. We do know, though, from reporting here locally that that one reservoir that serves the Palisades was not full. And that's exactly what triggered my desire to get the investigation to understand what was happening with that local reservoir. That was not a state system reservoir, which the president elect was referring to.
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Oh, really? You think you think he he was distinguishing between a state reservoir? designated reservoir. He wants to know why there's not water in the reservoirs, dummy. And you're spinning on NBC's Meet the Press. That's a spin. And guess what, pal? You're going to have to start dealing with... President-elect Trump, because in seven short days, he becomes your president, Gavin Newsom, and you're going to have to deal with him, and of course you're going to be begging for all kinds of federal funds. Look, I don't even know where to begin. I'll begin where I love to begin, and that's with you, our callers. 800-655-MIKE. It's Monday, January 13th. We're in the Relief Factor studios. 800-655-6453. Do you believe that this is all just a natural disaster and, you know, oh, it was the winds and it was the dry conditions and eight fires, eight different locations, but oh, what a coinkydink. It just all started at the same time. And how can the people of California believe a single word coming out of the mouths of any of their elected officials? It's unbelievable. I'm 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. Hope you join us. There's no better time than right now to call my friends at PhD Weight Loss and Nutrition to start your journey to a healthier you. As I hear from you about how PhD Weight Loss and Nutrition has changed your life, I know that each one of us has had our own reasons for starting. I started my journey because I gained enough weight and was ready to make a change. I sat down with Dr. Ashley Lucas, and like they say, the rest was history. I lost 53 pounds, and I've kept it off. We all have different reasons for starting. Do what I did. Start the PhD journey. Make 2024 your year to say goodbye and let go of all those unwanted pounds. Call PhD Weight Loss and Nutrition today to schedule your consultation. Call 864-644-1900. 864-644-1900. Or just go to MyPhDWeightLoss.com. MyPhDWeightLoss.com. You know, I understand I'm a Trump supporter, and I have to check myself. I say, gosh, am I just so excited about the Trump presidency that when he posts something or says something, it sounds like me talking? Is it me? Doesn't this sound like you and me? Let me read his truth social post. And this was it, like it often is, middle of the night, 1.32 in the morning. Here's what he wrote. Now, you know... Trump haters will roll their eyes. They'll say he's a dummy. He's bombastic. He doesn't know what he's talking about. Isn't he asking what we're all asking? How hard is it to figure out how to put these fires out? How difficult is it? Next to an ocean? To contain wildfires? It's not like wildfires are a new phenomenon out there. And entire communities are going... I saw a guy... The community starts with an A. Anadina or... I forget the name of it. It was on 60 Minutes where I watched Christopher Wray and that debacle of an interview. The outgoing FBI director. And this man stood there. He's a high school football coach. His family's lived there for generations. Just weeping. And everything is gone. Everything. Stories of people trying to use a garden hose. And L.A. is completely unprepared. Again, I've got way more questions than answers, so let me just turn to the smartest audience in the world. You, 800-655-MIKE. Tim, we'll start with you in Michigan. Welcome back, Tim. Hey, Mike. Hey.
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This is nothing short of neolithic incompetence by the leadership there. I mean, every year, players. Every year, all of them are started by somebody, especially when you've got eight of them starting at different places. And it's just impossible. I mean, he's Nancy Pelosi's nephew or whatever. So the apple doesn't fall apart from the tree.
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You want to know who the left says started the fires? You know what they're blaming it on, right?
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Trump, probably.
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Trump, rich people, and climate change.
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Yeah, the rich people's houses are burning down, right?
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Yeah, it's their fault. The rich people are losing their houses. People are mocking James Woods. I've seen all these videos from these crazy lunatic leftists laughing at people losing their money. Look, if people hold up Luigi... It's just a little baby step to cheer the destruction of wealthy people's homes. And there are a lot more than wealthy people losing their homes. That guy on 60 Minutes last night wasn't a wealthy guy. Dan in Minnesota. Dan, welcome back.
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Hey. Hey. Hi. This has morphed into something a lot worse than just wildfires. arsonists, looters, you know, criminal elements that are setting fires now to overwhelm the fire department and the police department so that they can have access to looting. You know, it's horrible. And it's like, but Dan, but Dan, Dan. If you see somebody setting a fire, you need to just shoot them, shoot them. And it's like they don't. These people need to be shot dead right on sight.
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I got Dan. Can you hear me? Okay, and it's like they don't want anybody to know about the people with blowtorches. We've seen them on video, right? You've seen the reports of this, but they don't want to talk about that.
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Yeah, they never let a crisis go to waste. They took a real problem of wildfires, and now they're making it worse.
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All right, thanks, Dan. One open line, 800-655-MIKE. Glenn in Glendale, Arizona. Hi, welcome, Glenn.
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Yes, sir. So I back every last two callers said, but I have a little bit different take on it is we've seen these natural disasters. We've seen all these things happen before and other kind of leadership. And I think it was James Woods or somebody was asking for tribunals to get these people out of office. But the problem is our country doesn't have that backbone. We're too soft as a nation to do that. And I even say I'm going to I'm going to go even a little bit further. And I'm going to say that. Gavin Newsom in particular and the mayor of L.A., Bass, they're going to get promoted, sir, because the people that vote for them, they hate us and our side so much that they would keep voting for this, sir.
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Well, I got to play this for you, Glenn. Check out Biden's FEMA chief on CBS News.
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I know the winds themselves are rare for this particular time of year, but Los Angeles and the area, they got a lot of experience with wildfires. They have a lot of regulation and a large firefighting force. Do you have a sense at this point why the area was so unprepared?
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I think that they were very prepared. This is something that they are very used to. They fight fires all the time, but they have never seen 100 mile an hour winds that are fueling the fire. And those winds and that weather condition is what really impacts where this fire is going to go. But more importantly, how they're able to try to contain it in those first few hours and days. And because it was in such a populated area, it just makes it that much more challenging to be able to get in there and
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secure the perimeter but as well try to save as many homes as possible there you go dn criswell fema they were very prepared yep they were very prepared all right tell that to the guy weeping in the middle of the rubble in his home that he's lost but they were hey where they were they were all very prepared holy cow takes your breath away 800-655-MIKE I want to welcome some brand new partners to the Mike Gallagher Show, like Equity Protect. And this is a big, big deal. Your home's title is often the most valuable thing you own. Next generation criminal technology is more advanced than ever. I've been an identity theft victim. It is no fun. You got to have Equity Protect in your corner. If you own your home mortgage-free or you got a lot of equity, you got to have Equity Protect so that scammers do not steal your equity or title. For a limited time, Equity Protect is offering you a tremendous deal, 30% off your first year, giving you one year of protection for less than $12 a month. Just go to EquityProtect.com. Use the discount code Mike30. That's EquityProtect.com. Use the promo code Mike30. Once you have Equity Protect, you don't need to check. Trust the team at Equity Protect. Go to EquityProtect.com and use the promo code Mike30.
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He's the happy conservative warrior. From the Relief Factor Studios, here's Mike Deller.
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The nation has been watching just absolutely slack-jawed, open-mouthed, in shock at the wildfires that are ravaging California. Wildfire looters have emerged. I saw a video of a guy with a blowtorch being wrestled to the ground and put in zip ties by citizens who caught him. There are people who are contributing to the wildfire disaster. President Trump posted something on Truth Social that made so much sense. And I read this and I thought, gosh, this guy speaks for us. That's why he's known as the people's president. We don't use that term enough. The people's president. You're never going to hear an incoming president, a returning president, say the kinds of things that Donald Trump says. And here's what he posted. The fires are still raging in L.A. The incompetent politicians have no idea how to put them out. Magnificent houses are gone, and many more will soon be lost. There's death all over the place. This is one of the worst catastrophes in the history of our country. They just can't put out the fires. What's wrong with them? And when he says things like that, I'm like, bingo. We're all asking that. I don't want to go down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole, but what, eight different wildfire locations, eight different origins? Now they're saying, oh, we think maybe the Pacific Palisades fire started. It was fireworks from New Year's Eve, and they put it out, but it reignited again. What? You're next to an ocean, and you've got wildfires raging, and you can't? Put it up? Put it out? I'm absolutely baffled by this. I'm so confused, and I fully admit I don't know about controlled burns. I don't know about wildfires. I live in Florida where we have to deal with hurricanes and the occasional alligator. But I do know enough about the elected politicians over there that can't seem to get their act together. I mean, they're all blaming each other. Let's look at the difference between a statewide response or even a citywide response and FEMA. Now, I've got a lot of people. I just came from the Carolinas. There are still people living in tents in the mountains of North Carolina after the last storm there. FEMA hasn't helped a lot of those people. Remember when Kamala famously said, well, they're going to get $750? Biden's going around saying, we're going to pay 100% for all these people. And let's speak the unspoken. Most of the people, or many of the people, I should say, not most, I don't know how it breaks down, but a whole lot of these people are very wealthy. They're going to be fine. I'm glad they're alive for the most part. Some of them are dead. A couple dozen people have been killed. I know that as if Dennis Prager's team hasn't been through enough with all that Dennis has experienced, his beloved producer of many years, Sean McConnell, lost everything. And I really love Sean. Been with him to Israel. He's devastated. He's in a state of shock. He was renting a home. The home burned to the ground. He lost all his possessions. And he double-checked to make sure he had renter's insurance. And it turned out his renter's insurance had expired. He didn't realize it. And, look, I'm not going to blame people where life happens. And there's been a GoFundMe for Sean. I posted it on my social media account, X. You can find it. And I hope you'll help him out. I did. Maybe you'll join me. He's not asking for hundreds of thousands of dollars, but just a little bit to be able to buy clothes and furnishings and get back on his feet again. And that's happening all over with people. So it's not just Sean, but if you care to support. I was really impacted by hearing the news about Sean because of what team Dennis Prager has gone through. Incidentally, Dennis still in a hospital with, as I'm sure you know by now, were catastrophic injuries from a terrible fall in his home in California. I checked with Sue. The hospital is okay. The hospital is safe. But I thought, golly, Sean was devastated by Dennis' accident. And now here's Sean with nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Lost it all. And, you know, I don't know what a guy like Sean thinks about the L.A. Fire Department chief calling out the mayor the way she did. Supposedly, they fired her. They were going to fire the chief. Karen Bass, Miss, you know, Ghana junket, was going to fire her. The fire chief. But then the fire chief, they met and they had a they had a conversation and then she unfired her, I guess. Or maybe the reports were wrong. But here's the from the Los Angeles Fire Department, this chief Crowley on CNN.
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Let me be clear, the $17 million budget cut and the elimination of our civilian positions like our mechanics did and has and will continue to severely impact our ability to repair our apparatus. So with that, we have over 100 fire apparatus out of service. And having these apparatus in the proper amount of mechanics would have helped. And so it did absolutely negatively impact.
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Back to Donald Trump. What's wrong with them? We've got seven days to go. We've got seven days. And I think, I believe, I'm cautiously optimistic that we're going to get out of this mess. That the American people stood up on November 5th and said, no more to this. No more to these duplicitous, diabolical, Democrats who don't put America first and certainly don't put the American people first. Enough of bending over backwards for Ukraine. Enough of open borders. Enough of people being burned alive on subways. And yes, enough of wildfires that authorities can't seem to figure how to put it out. And according to the fire chief, she's blaming the The budget cuts, as decided by the mayor, Karen Bass, and the elected officials of Los Angeles. So, you know, don't take my word for it. You don't believe me? Well, listen to the fire chief, who ought to know what she's talking about. And incidentally, do you believe anything they're telling us? Oh, eight different fires sort of started on their own because of climate change. Climate change is to blame. Trump is to blame. Rich people are to blame. I've seen that a lot on social media as well. We've got seven days to go. A week from today, we're going to be in our nation's capital broadcasting from the presidential inauguration, and I can't wait to bring you along with us. Today, we're in the Relief Factor studios taking your calls at 800-655-MIKE. Thousands of acres burning, thousands of people without homes. I know there's a lot of finger-pointing going on, and you're probably like me. You don't know who to believe. You don't know what to believe anymore. But isn't Trump right? They can't just put out the fires. What's wrong with them? These incompetent people have no idea how to put out the raging fires in Los Angeles, says the 47th president of the United States. Isn't he right? Or do you get upset at him for politicizing the wildfires? 1-800, that's the big, you know, smear, the claim that people are making against him. 800-655-6453. We have a line open just for you.
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This award to Liz Cheney really is inappropriate. This is a woman who was hand selected by Nancy Pelosi to run a committee that was extremely one sided. Liz Cheney, in the course of running this committee to supposedly investigate the January 6th incident at the Capitol, she obstructed justice. She witnessed tampered. She hid evidence that exonerated Donald Trump.
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In the relieffactor.com studios, here's Mike.
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Incidentally, this is, of course, a big week. The confirmation hearings begin on Capitol Hill for President Trump's cabinet picks. That starts tomorrow. There's also going to be a bombshell when it's determined who, if any, of the January 6th people are going to get pardoned or have their sentences commuted. J.D. Vance made it clear it won't be anybody who committed acts of violence that day. And that's as it should be. I mean, look, I know I'll get a lot of pushback for saying this. If you were breaking windows and fighting cops, look, you don't deserve to spend the rest of your life in prison. You shouldn't be spending years and years behind bars awaiting trial. You should be afforded due process. But to people in jail who were simply there. who were simply in the wrong place. It's insane what we've done. These are political prisoners, many of them. And the Democrats tried to weaponize January 6, 2021, as a way to get Kamala across the finish line, and it failed spectacularly. It didn't work. They tried, but they failed. Now Trump's going to get to decide what to do with a lot of these folks. And, you know, I mean, here's what J.D. Vance said, incidentally, just for the record, before I get to the Pastor Jack Hibbs clip that I want to play for you, and I saw it over the weekend, also getting a lot of reactions to the Japanese water system. And, of course, a lot of people are pointing out, well, if they don't have the reservoirs and they can't... I guarantee you those mansions... in Pacific Palisades, never ran out of water for their water sprinklers. I can promise you. Somebody just said, well, I've heard that the salt water would be detrimental to structures. Have you seen what's happened to the structures? They're gone. Gone. There's nothing left but a fireplace in the middle where the house used to be. Wildfires are a little more detrimental to structures than saltwater. I saw a fire chief or a fire official tell 60 Minutes he put out a fire in a house with milk. He went into the house and got milk and beer and was pouring it onto a, I think it was a fuse box that was overheating to keep the house from burning down. And it worked. So, excuse me if I'm not too concerned about the detrimental aspects of saltwater. But real quick to the J.D. Vance clip. Christian, can you play the clip of J.D. Vance? A lot of people said this was a big, big bombshell. This was a big moment because people are wondering just who will have their sentences commuted or get an outright pardon from President Trump. Incoming Vice President J.D. Vance addressed that over the weekend.
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January 6th pardons, President Trump says there's a process. Where is the line drawn and who will and wouldn't be considered for a pardon?
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I think it's very simple. Look, if you protested peacefully on January the 6th and you've had Merrick Garland's Department of Justice treat you like a gang member, you should be pardoned. If you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn't be pardoned. And there's a little bit of a gray area there, but we're very much committed to seeing the equal administration of law. And there are a lot of people we think in the wake of January the 6th who were prosecuted unfairly.
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Amen and amen. Speaking of amens, I want you to hear what the senior and founding pastor of Calvary Chapel Church in Chino Hills, it's in Southern California, Jack Hibbs and his wife, I have a ministry that's been decades in the making. And he's a fascinating guy. In fact, I think I had a chance. I met him a few years ago. But he was at the pulpit yesterday. Now, this is a Southern California pastor, Jack Hibbs, who pulled no punches, held nothing back in his assessment of what is going wrong in Southern California. I wanted you to hear it and see it.
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We have watched the... Absolute exposure of the most incompetent... Wait. Reserve your applause to the end. Nobody can hide from this. Nobody can hide from... There's no excuses. This is the most wealthiest state in the 50s. We pay the most in taxes. We pay the most in gas. We pay the most in electricity. You name it. If it's in California, we pay the most for it. Why? Why? Because of our government. Why? Because of things that Sacramento does because they can. Our flag of this state is an absolute abject lie. The flag says California Republic. It is not. A republic is where the people decide and the people have their way. What has happened to California? And you proved me wrong. I challenge you today if you don't like what I'm about to say. California has been under unmitigated Democrat 100% power control. Democrat, super majority. What does that mean, super majority? It means nobody can oppose their decision making. And now you've got it. You've got a situation where a catastrophe came and the billions of dollars that you and I gave was diverted to other woke, stupid Democrat projects. That's not hyperbole, it is a fact. You don't like it, change your party. If you don't like it, change different. But I'm telling you right now, I'm upset and I'm angry, and it's the right kind of anger. I'm telling you this right now. When you open up a fire hydrant and nothing comes out, and then Joe Biden says, it's because we need electricity. It was turned off for the fire hydrant to turn on. In some cases that might be true. If the fire hydrants are on top of a mountain, you need a motor to drive the water up. That's extremely rare and it wasn't the case in these fires. Bad management, horrific politicians who took your money and took trips like Karen Bass, the mayor of LA. She decided to go to Africa the week of the fires to be on a little trip that you paid for. She was really put out when she was told to come home. It didn't look bad. I mean, it didn't look good, but it looked very bad. You've got Gavin Newsom flying down here and then at a command center laughing it up with some people and it's caught on tape while he spends nine point so many millions of probably your dollars to buy himself a new house. It's time to replace the leadership in California. Yeah! You don't need any more examples. These fires could have been stopped.
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Now, he gets a standing ovation. It's time to replace the leadership in California. Will it happen? Well, Kurt Schlichter over at Town Hall says, nope, because Democrats have no bottom. There's no accountability. There's no rock bottom for what Democrats believe. There isn't. They just don't. They just don't. Now, I would respectfully, and I don't like disagreeing with Colonel Kurt, but Democrats can change. Make no mistake, a whole lot of Democrats voted for Donald Trump. There were plenty of Democrats who said enough is enough. So I don't accept that. that narrative that there's no hope for the Democrats. But I do want to share with you a lot of what Colonel Kurt Schlichter wrote at town hall. Meanwhile, as Jack Hibbs, the pastor there in Southern California, is saying, it's about zero accountability. A legitimate question about the wildfires is, why weren't they ready? Why weren't they prepared? Clearly they weren't. Well... This Deanna Criswall character from FEMA went on Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan on CBS yesterday and said, oh, they were very prepared. What are you talking about?
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They were ready. I know the winds themselves are rare for this particular time of year, but Los Angeles and the area, they got a lot of experience with wildfires. They have a lot of regulation and a large firefighting force. Do you have a sense at this point why the area was so unprepared?
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I think that they were very prepared. This is something that they are very used to. They fight fires all the time, but they have never seen 100 mile an hour winds that are fueling the fire. And those winds and that weather condition is what really impacts where this fire is going to go, but more importantly, how they're able to try to contain it in those first few hours and days. And because it was in such a populated area, it just makes it that much more challenging to be able to get in there and secure the perimeter, but as well try to save as many homes as possible.
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So there's the FEMA take. Oh, they were prepared. It just got windy. The Santa Ana winds, oh, the winds, because it's never windy in California. They never have winds. Dennis is in Seminole, Florida. Dennis, welcome to the Mike Gallagher Show. Hello.
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Hi, Mike. How you doing? Good. How are you? Good. Good, good, good. Just a thing about the fires and the saltwater. I just remember that a while back that the saltwater conducts electricity. I think that's one of the reasons why they won't use saltwater. I'm not saying that that's the big reason. I know they are. California is worried about the environment and also the equipment.
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Which is part of the problem. Of course they're worried about the environment. But look, let's put the saltwater issue to bed. You know what they do in Israel all the time? They use saltwater all the time. You know what they do? They have a process called desalinization. You ever heard of it?
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I agree with that. Now it's going to be my next thing to tell you.
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That's desalinization.
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California... California, for some reason, is so against that, and I don't know why.
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Well, I guarantee you there's probably some environmental aspect. It might have impacted the snail darter or the blue corner butterfly or the smelt. But this is the kind of logic that escapes them. Can they change? Again, Colonel Kurtz says no way, because they have no... There's no rock bottom for Democrats. I'll see what you think of Kurt Schlichter's assessment and we'll continue here. Incidentally, if you want that clip of Pastor Jack Hibbs, if you were standing up and cheering proverbially or maybe literally like the congregants of his church, if you text the keyword Hibbs. to the MyPillow text line, 800-655-6453. We'll send you back the video clip so you can have it on your smartphone or your laptop or your device. Just text Hibbs, H-I-B-B-S. Text Hibbs to 800-655-MIKE. That's 800-655-6453. We'll send it back to you free of charge. Standard text messaging rates may apply. Please never text and drive. All courtesy of the text line of our friends at MyPillow.
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Mike Gallagher. Every day Mike visits with Mark Davis. Morning host on 660 AM The Answer in Dallas. Here's today's M&M experience.
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Look, we got 53 things going. I need to know one thing from you right now. Did you finish the season? Don't say a word.
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You didn't? Did you go to bed? Well, no, I had to go over to the Tampa Bay game and watch the Washington Redskins, because I refused to call them whatever name they wanted to use, beat the Tampa Bay Bucs with two seconds on the clock. Heartbreaking loss.
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With a field goal that clanged off the upright. And then went in anyway.
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And went through. And went in anyway. That's a metaphor. That's a metaphor. So anyway, I made it through nine episodes of Landman. I'm up to number 10, the finale. You know what I hate about... It's an hour and a half. Well, that's why I gave up. Because I looked at it and it was an hour and 22 minutes or something. I thought, that's too late for me. So I'm going to watch it tonight. But, you know... Two quick takeaways about Takeaway. This is what I hate about the new world of streaming we're in. I know from your excitement that this final episode is pretty epic. It's remarkable. But I don't want to know anything about it until I watch it, right? Of course. But on Paramount+, on the stream, on the app, or whatever the hell you call it, pardon me, It clearly shows a scene from number 10 as the thumbnail. And I didn't want to see that. Yes. All right. Well, I'll just put it this way. It doesn't go well for our boy. So Billy Bob is in a compromised position is all I can see. That's the picture they chose to show. How about you don't give us any indication.
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Or just a generic shot. Yeah, or something.
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Don't show him.
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Not something that reveals what might lie ahead.
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Well, clearly something is revealed in that thumbnail, which I didn't want to have it revealed. Oh, dude. And number two, real quick, I know you talked earlier, but I was listening to you this morning about Taylor Sheridan. Mm-hmm. Isn't it interesting? Now, I have fond memories of Yellowstone because when I got sick with COVID over a Christmas two years ago, I binged it like the whole Christmas week by myself alone. The house was all decorated with nobody to come into because here I am with stupid COVID. And so I would wake up and watch Yellowstone episodes all day long. Okay. And I actually kind of loved it. I mean, you know, no drama, no Christmas drama. And I got to see what has become one of my favorite shows. Mm-hmm. Every time I heard the distinctive theme music to start Yellowstone, you get kind of tingles, right? It's like you love a good theme song, right? Have you noticed it is crap for Landman? It's these low, no melody sort of strings. There's nothing to it.
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And I'm surprised that he would go along with that. Small disclosure, really small disclosure. First, to the creative point that you make, I don't think I necessarily need a flourishing orchestral thing to begin every show.
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I do.
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It may be the opening theme of Landman may be as sparse as the landscape in which it takes place.
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Well, there's probably some artistic.
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But here's my thing. Speaking of which, as you're streaming, isn't there a button skip intro? I haven't listened to the opening credits or the opening theme of a TV show in five years.
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Skip, skip, skip.
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Here's a minute and a half I don't need. Boop!
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Skip recap and skip intro. You could also skip the recap.
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Marital debate, marital debate, marital debate. I love the recap. Lisa thinks I'm insane, especially when you're binging and you just finished the previous episode. Well, that's it.
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I'm just binging. I'm just watching.
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Previously on Landman.
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Right, I just saw it.
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But here's the thing. You know they're not just throwing scenes together willy-nilly. The recap is designed to bring back into focus stuff that you either saw the previous week or 20 minutes ago, as the case may be, because that's probably a connection that they're going to make and carry through in the plot of the episode you're about to see. So she goes, oh, get through this, get through this.
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Yeah, Lisa's right. Lisa's right. Yeah. She's right, because Lisa and I have an attention span more than a gnat. Evidently, you can't remember five minutes ago. That is true. It's totally true. But isn't it fascinating how everything is different with the way you watch a series now? You can watch it like that. And, you know, look, I'm a longtime veteran radio guy. I love advertising, frankly, because I know it's baked into the cake. You get to skip past all of that when you're watching it. I was thinking the other day about how many things are different. Receptionists are becoming extinct. There's no – there really is, and it's sad.
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Human beings showing up at the front of the office to meet people in your crowded office setting. Back to TV for two seconds. Number one, the ability to binge, I love it. Some I now resent shows that make me wait a week. The Greatness of Shrinking, which is with Jason Segel, Harrison Ford, just finished season two. Here comes Severance back on HBO or Apple TV, excuse me, which is that weird. It's weird. But they're going to make me wait every week, which is like old school. It's like, no, I want to see them all now, now, now, now.
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Like the Sopranos. The Sopranos was an event for Denise and the kids and I. She would make, it was ridiculous, as if we're Italian, but she'd make baked ziti. And we would, on Sunday nights, we would sit around and watch. And there's that, again, that theme. Woke up this morning, got myself good. I mean, you've got to have a theme. West Wing, one of the great classic show opens.
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Sopranos might have been the last time in America. that everybody gathered at the water cooler. Remember water coolers? That everybody gathered the following morning and talked about what they saw the previous night.
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Isn't that pretty well largely gone in America? It's gone. We don't do that anymore. Look, and you and I on air, we don't want to give things away. You don't know how far along somebody is in a series.
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I did something the other day where we talked about a show that had been on in like a year and somebody reamed me on the text line. Hey, I haven't seen that yet. It's like, dude. I know. It's been a year.
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What am I supposed to do? I know. Well, anyway, happy Monday. We'll talk tomorrow about the finale. But then we shouldn't talk too specifically about the finale.
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No, no, no. Because I'm going to give people, listen, I'll give people whatever they need. But it is just, the show is a masterpiece. Billy Bob is so good. Some of the plot lines about his wife and his daughter, who are fun, fun characters, gets a little silly. Isn't she a dead ringer for Anna Nicole Smith?
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Yes. Yes. Did you notice that? She looks and even acts just like the late Anna Nicole Smith. And I didn't recognize her name. I looked it up because she's not famous. I mean, she's a working actress, clearly. And it's a great ensemble. The son is great. Ali Larker. Never heard of her. You know, I've never seen her. But she's great. She's wonderful. And the lawyer buddy of his that's the roommate. Poor Nate. Poor Nate. Poor, put upon Nate. In this episode, really poor Nate. Well, no, don't stop. Hush. Oh, no, no. No, don't tell me they off. They don't kill Nate, do they? Oh, no, no, no. I don't mean poor Nate that he's dead. No, no, no. Oh, good, good. All right. La, la, la, la, la, la, la. All right. So anyhow, welcome in.
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You know what? Last thing, last thing, last thing. The greatness, and she's only in for a few, I think she might have more to do in the second season. Demi? The greatness of Demi Moore. I know. And how old is she? 50-ish or something. I was like, Alexa, how old is Demi Moore?
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You talk too fast when you said it. You said it too fast. Slow down. They say 62. Yeah, I think she's our age. I think she's in her 60s. And I'll tell you what. And she looks 39. She looks wonderful.
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She just won a Golden Globe for this. Did you tell me about the substance? about the movie she's in. She's great. It's very clever. It's unbelievably gross. It's just too gross.
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There are plastic surgeries that don't go well. Whatever she does, somebody ought to try to capture that in a bottle because she looks fantastic.
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She looks great. She is 62, dude.
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I thought so. See, and you tell me she looks 62. You're not a wrinkle anywhere. She looks fantastic.
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Now, she can't smile, but she looks good. What was the old Joan Rivers line? When I smiled, the garage door opened. I don't even know what that means.
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All right, so like Texans, I went to South Carolina Friday to catch some snow. Now, there's nothing more obnoxious than a Yankee making fun of Southerners panicking about the snow. I'd say the same thing about Texas. You could expand that. There's nothing worse than somebody from New York telling a Texan, you guys don't handle weather very well. But I will say this. I've never seen so much panic over literally 0.4 tenths of an inch of snow. That's what it wound up getting. It was half an inch. You'd have thought it was the biggest blizzard in the history of South Carolina. Yeah.
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Well, they shut Atlanta. Atlanta got the same storm system, and they shut it down for two or three days.
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Oh, they shut Greenville down. Shut the whole thing down. They shut schools down. They shut everything down. Now, they always go with the caveat, well, there's some ice involved. But look, I thought about the cold weather that all of us are kind of experiencing to one degree or the other, and of course, realizing it pales in comparison to Los Angeles. And this thing is... Now, Mark, here's why Trump is so good. Here's what he posted on Truth Social overnight. Mm-hmm. The fires are still raging in L.A. The incompetent Poles have no idea how to put them out. Pauls, I guess. I pronounce Pauls. Pauls for politician. Pauls for politician. He writes, thousands of magnificent homes are gone. Many more will soon be lost. There's death all over the place. This is one of the worst catastrophes in the history of our country ever. They just can't put out the fires. What's wrong with them? Mark, since this thing began, I thought, I'm a simple guy. I don't understand meteorology. I get that I don't know wildfires and burns and controlled burns. How the heck do you have a city like Los Angeles completely unprepared for wildfires? And by the way, while we're on the subject... I saw last night on the news, well, there's eight. There have been eight different wildfires that all began at the same time. How does that work, Mark? I don't like to go down conspiracy theory rabbit holes, but something doesn't add up here. No water in the fire hydrant? Well, you know, don't pay attention to that. It's overwhelmed. The system's overwhelmed.
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And anybody who brings that up, like Trump or you or me, Gavin Newsom scolding people over the weekend for politicizing people's suffering. Dude, it's your politics that's exacerbating their suffering.
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Well, let's talk about Gavin Newsom and politicization for just a moment. Have you heard that he was posting on social media, just launched a new site to ensure the public has access to fact-based data? You know what the new site is? What? It's a site that directs people to ActBlue, his political pack. He was caught for scamming his 2.1 million followers, asking them to donate to his political pack because he wants to run for president.
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So on the auspice of seeking, of guiding people toward information about the fires and certain civic-minded things, it wound up being a fundraising pitch.
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It's a fundraising thing. And Elizabeth Warren did the same thing, directing people to Act Blue. Act Blue is the scandal-ridden leftist scam to raise money for leftists like all of them. They're awful people. And this woman calling out Ted Cruz a few years ago for going to Cancun in the ice storm, she declares an emergency in L.A. and gets on a plane and goes to Ghana. Karen Bass. I mean, Karen Bass, this ridiculous. She's awful. I mean, they're all awful. And the fire chief is calling them all out, saying, look, we don't have the resources. They took the resources from us. Yes, indeed. Well, I thought she was fired. Did you see there was a report that she was fired? There was.
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She was twisting the wind there for about a day, and then all of a sudden she's keeping the gig.
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They had a one-on-one. Karen Bass and the fire chief had a meeting, and boom, all off. Now there's no firing. I mean, it's a nightmare out there. And you see these video images. Mark, we just can't really comprehend it.
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I absolutely can't. I know I've never been through a hurricane, but I know what one is. I've never had a tornado hit me directly, but I can imagine in my little brain sort of what that's like. This thing of having these mansions, or it doesn't even have to be a mansion. With a big window where the fire is like a mile away. And then three minutes later, it's eating your yard. It's like, what? I mean, is there no technology? Is there not any water resistant? Well, here's what's weird. OK, technology. Now, this is this is either the dumbest thing that anybody can say. And some people are saying it. I think Trump said it. So or it's brilliant. Hello, ocean. You're on a coastal city. You're next to the ocean. Isn't there some way, and I don't think fires care if the water is salty, the fire still goes out. Shouldn't there be some massive, some pipe? I don't even know, but it would seem like this is solvable.
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I took the show to Kansas after they had a devastating, a whole town. Remember that was at Green, I think it was, remember Eric, the town was at Greenberg? We did a broadcast from there. And that's what these images from California look like to me. Like the entire miles of cities are completely gone, house after house. And that was what that city was in Greenville, Greenberg. It was unbelievable. Every city. Every block, the whole city was wiped out. And that's what this feels like. And I'm with Trump. I'm sorry. We're going to explore this today. Of course, what a week we're going to have. I mean, we've got the confirmation hearings. Are you ready?
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The hearings are underway tomorrow. Yep. You buckled in. And then this weekend. Whose is going to be, who's going to have the most fireworks? Hegseth? Gabbard?
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Cash Patel?
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Oh, yes. Yes.
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Yep. That one's the one that's going to probably get the popcorn out for cash. Did you catch Christopher Wray? I did.
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I'm a conservative Republican. And the Chinese are a terrible threat. Well, no kidding, Sherlock. My dog knows the Chinese are a threat.
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Well, at least he didn't sit there, though, and tell the guy, well, you know, white supremacist is the terrorist. At least he did address China. But, yeah, I suffered through that and watched the 60 Minutes piece. I thought, man, if you hadn't asked any tough questions, I would have slumped over. Reputational repair underway at 60 Minutes. And then this weekend, Off for D.C. will be there Monday for the inauguration. So cool.
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Can't wait to vicariously experience it through our buddy Mike. I can't wait.
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You got it. All right. Happy Monday. No giveaways. No giveaways. No spoilers. No epics on Landman. No, sir. Go Billy Bob. I hope Billy Bob takes out the whole cartel. That's what I'm hoping.
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In this episode, Dana Lash dives into the eccentric world of Florida's news, from deputies distracted by inappropriate content to lawmakers designating state birds. The episode spins into a wild ride with a discussion on the bustling world of hoodies and advertisements, with insights on everyday products and their impacts on communities. Join Dana as she skims through the absurdities of today's headlines in her notoriously candid style. The analysis extends to a more serious commentary on the Californian wildfires and their political repercussions, bringing expert commentary to the forefront. Featuring a special interview with Kurt Schlichter, the episode examines governance in crisis and scrutinizes the leadership actions in blue states. Blabbering humor interspersed with brisk political critique ensures an engaging listen for everyone curious about the chaos unraveling across America.
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So a couple of – I'm not reading that first one because that's disgusting. We're not doing that one. Some of these are just so nasty. I'm just not – and Florida has to make their stuff public. I'm not doing bestiality stories. We're just not doing that. I'll just – so no. This is – I can't... What happened this weekend in Florida? Okay, so one South Florida lawmaker, here's a little happy story. He filed a bill to designate the American flamingo as the official state bird for Florida. Can I be real? I thought they already had that. What is up with birds that we thought were mascots or like representatives and they weren't? Like just last week, we made the eagle the official bird and they just now are making the flamingo the official bird? I didn't know that. That's kind of... A Florida man deputy crashed his patrol car into another vehicle because he was watching a naughty video that he should not have been watching. Lake County Sheriff's Office, the Internal Affairs Investigation, found that Deputy Tristan McComber was looking at something not safe for work before the crash happened. His body-worn camera captured the steering wheel airbag deploying after he crashed right into the back of another car. He picked up his cell phone, went to check on the other driver, and apparently he told a sergeant that the brakes locked up before he re-entered the other car that stopped for a school bus, I might add. And then they found out that he was looking at his phone right before impact. And apparently he was looking at something that was not only inappropriate, but visually inappropriate. And so he was entirely distracted. He's in super big trouble now. Uh, and he wasn't wearing a seatbelt and he was watching his phone while driving. He was watching prawn in case you didn't know. Uh, and he admitted to lying like during the whole thing. So that's not good. That's not good. That's that's no, uh, this, no, I'm not doing this. I know that was in Polk County, but I'm not, I'm not talking about that. This, uh, let's see. Oh, a Florida man was arrested in an alleged plot to bomb the New York stock exchange. Uh, It was a plot that charging documents were unsealed Wednesday. Oh. He, a South Florida resident, Heron Abdul-Malik Yenor. Yeah, sounds like a Florida guy. He was charged with the attempted use of an explosive to damage or destroy a building used in interstate commerce. Apparently, the FBI got a tip that he was storing – oh, they followed up on something – that he was storing bomb-making schematics in an unlocked storage unit in Coral Springs. And they found all – I mean, he was making bombs, bomb after bomb after bomb. And he apparently met with undercover FBI agents. He was asking them for photos of the New York Stock Exchange and other items. And he was very serious about it. He said he wanted a reboot of the United States government. And he apparently was ISIS adjacent, like he tried to join ISIS or was trying to join ISIS. So at least they stopped that one. It's our friends over at All Family Pharmacy. This is such a great service. You need to memorize the website. They make it so easy. All Family Pharmacy helped my family out a lot over Thanksgiving because, you know, right on Thanksgiving when offices are closed and you end up getting sick, it's just, it's a mess and you got to get medicine. All Family Pharmacy made it super easy. And you can visit allfamilypharma.com slash Dana. Use code Dana and you'll get 10% off of your entire order. So this is affordable access, easy and cost effective for medicine. You don't have to break the bank to access these medicines. There's no red tape. There's no hassle. Everything's made in the USA. You're not getting Chinese antibiotics. It's not how that's working. They got a proven track record. And you work with their doctors. Their doctors get you the medication that you need. Fast delivery right to your door. You can even overnight stuff if needed. And you can rely on all family pharmacy to keep your health needs on track. If you need antibiotics, if you need things like hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin. which is actually a good antiviral, you can get those at All Family Pharmacy. Visit allfamilypharma.com slash Dana. Get 10% off using code Dana. 10% off your purchase using code Dana10. It's Dana10 for 10% off of your entire order only at allfamilypharma.com slash Dana.
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Justin Trudeau announces he will resign as Prime Minister of Canada. Republicans get off to a very smart start in the new Congress. And the left loses its mind as Trump talks about acquiring Greenland, the Panama Canal, and even Canada. I'm Greg Karumbas. Join Jim Garrity of National Review and me each weekday for the 3 Martini Lunch podcast. We'll give you the good, bad, and crazy news of the day, and hopefully a lot of laughs too. Follow the 3 Martini Lunch on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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I told you this. The Harry and Meghan people, they went out there to tour just like they did after Uvalde where she chartered a plane, flew to Uvalde for a photo op for an afternoon. I mean, you could just do the work that you signed a contract to do over at Spotify or Netflix where they called you blanking grifters because you couldn't turn out any content after securing a $100 million deal and all you had to show for it is a incorrectly named podcast and a bunch of people that – the only people they interview are the same damn people that they interview all the time because they have no friends. Nobody likes them. They're absolute fake grifters. She can't act and he's a little bitch. That's who you got. I mean I don't want him. Send him back to the UK. I don't – and her – well, she's here. But this – they went and toured where they – A fire, a disaster area. And they apparently, according to reports on the ground, they were there for like 17 to 20 minutes and they got photos and then they left. So you're telling, of course, if you're that much of a fame whore, you're going to drive two plus hours in notorious traffic. into a disaster area around which numerous roads are closed so you can pretend to deliver meals and get a photo op so you can try to swindle more people into donating to your stupid archwell foundation i mean that's just peak left peak left they're not the only grifters out there you have this uh i'm not even going to say their name the democrat podcast they were wanting people to donate to fire relief through their act blue democrat campaign fundraiser apparatus So a portion of that is somehow going to find its way to Democrats. Be super careful who you donate to with all of this stuff, because there are so many grifters that are out there. That's what that one podcast is doing. They were trying. I mean, that's that's it's you're you're donating through the app. Say what you said, because that's a great point.
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Overseas scammers have more integrity than this. They're they're literally grifting off of people's suffering and death.
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Yeah. It's that's just horrifying. Either help and do it the gospel of Matthew way. Either help as was discussed in the New Testament or don't. I can't stand the big braggy people to like I delivered a casserole. I mean, just just do your just do the good deed and don't seek accolades. But we live in a click me thirsty trap. Kind of society where everybody's got to get attention for something. Did you really do it? And does it really count in the good book if people didn't give you comments about it on social media? I mean, that's where we're at now. The L.A. Fire Department. Did you guys see this story where it said that they were left using women's handbags to throw water on fires? So this was I've seen this all over social media. So now the L.A. department chief, Eric Scott, who's a public information officer, he told The Wall Street Journal that they're not handbags, but they're bags. They're canvas fire bags that they use regularly to put out small fires as they're easier and faster than reconnecting and connecting a hose. So if they're trying to get a fire put out that's like starting, like they see something smoking, they do that because by the time apparently they'll get the hoses either switched or hooked up or get another truck out, it'll be a lot bigger. But not to say they don't do that, but apparently they start and try to at least stop it or contain it immediately with the bag. So apparently what happened was some of the... As they were putting out one fire, I guess embers blew on like somebody's property or something like that. And it blew over their flame retardant firewall. And so then it started kicking off. And so that's what they were to try to get that in while they were getting everything else moved. They were using those bags, which I guess that makes sense. I know nothing about firefighting. I know nothing about fire science. If they say that works for them and it makes sense, then it makes sense. But at least it's not a women's handbag. I was like, are we really doing that? I mean, I guess it would work if it's top quality leather and it has a nice interior. You know, I guess it would work, but, you know, hopefully it's not, you know, a suede interior. It would ruin it. Anyway, but this, I mean, it's just, it's so sad. They had two people detained in Brentwood near the VP's house. because they were out after curfew hours so i don't know now you have the uh celebrities and the wealthy people out there hiring two thousand dollar an hour private firefighters to protect their homes and people are livid why would people be mad though i don't i don't understand why they would be upset because they can't do it is it bad that they're doing it i mean if you're hiring and bringing in people to help then isn't that you know even if it's starting with your own property I don't really have a problem with that, I don't think. I'm not going to shame people for being able to afford something. I mean, I don't know. I'm just not. And they can do that. They can bring out private firefighters. There was one guy who had, I told you this last week, they ran him off social media because he was asking about this. And apparently other people have done the same thing. One guy said that he criticized this other individual who apparently was talking about it from LA. And he said his family's evacuated and this guy's hiring private firefighters to risk their lives to save a house that he certainly has insured. Well, that's his prerogative. Shut up. Shut up. That's his prerogative then. And? I mean, someone goes, so should potentially life-saving resources, even if private, be diverted to save your house while people evacuate? Why not? And it's not you're not diverting from those resources. You're bringing your own. You're hiring people who have no obligation under any kind of municipal job to go in and fight fires. They're bringing in people to do it. I don't have a problem with it. I don't know. You're really seeing some of the class warfare shine in California. They're going to be turning on each other. Our partners that help bring you the program, it's our friends over at Caltech. They make some really awesome firearms. 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and now all of the news you would probably miss it's time for dana's quick five if this is something that matters to you the cheetos people are bringing cane what that is very aggressive listening the cheetos people are bringing back the cheese pizza flavored poofs cheesy poofs yeah they had those at one time I didn't know that. I don't know. Apparently, I guess there are a lot of people who like them. I don't know. But they said that it's been out of the lineup for 20 years. So it's the Cheetos Puffs cheese pizza flavor, if that's a big thing. If snacks are your jam, then there's something for you. Time is an illusion and doesn't exist as we know it, according to many physicists. Well, I actually don't think that that's wrong because time is determined by the sun, right? I mean, by our days and nights and The moon and the sun and the rotation around the sun. So if it's not like that elsewhere, then that does suspend the idea of time. Think of it. There are galaxies where you do not have that. So, yeah, that completely makes sense as an illusion. This is something, though, that physicists have kicked around for quite a long time. But the arguments are pretty compelling for it. Some D.C. grocery stores are limiting egg purchases amid inflation. amid a nationwide shortage because Biden was such a great president and made the economy so great that they now are having to limit like super expensive eggs. You know, I mean, the butter is more expensive. The milk is more. Everything's more expensive. But apparently they said, yes, they have to They have to limit people to three dozen eggs. So they used Whole Foods and Chevy Chase. Tell me that you are a reporter that doesn't get out of your bubble without telling me that you're a reporter who doesn't get out of their bubble. So this one reporter went to a Whole Foods and Chevy Chase, a super bougie store in a super bougie zip code. And they said, oh, the customers are only allowed three dozen eggs per person. What? I just like wait until you go to the real world and you're not in Whole Foods and Chevy Chase. It's even worse for this, even worse for those folks. Good grief. The UK has less than a week of gas left after temperatures plummeted. So it's an ally. They're running out of gas. They said that their storage sites are less than 20 or 26 percent less than they were at the same time last year. So they're about half empty. And they said that we're an outlier from the rest of Europe. And now we're seeing the implications of the storage, etc. And so they said that they're confident they have sufficient gas supply and electricity capacity to meet demand. But just saying the natural the natural gas, they said they get theirs from a diverse range of sources and that storage remains healthy. Imagine if they didn't have to worry about it because we were actually. you know, super self-sufficient, not just for our own sake, but that of our allies, which plays into national security because we could be selling them plentiful American natural gas instead of them having to get the dirty Russian stuff. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you at the bottom of the second hour. You can listen coast to coast. You can also stream the radio program, Channel 347 Direct TV. Find a separate sub stack as well. I was reading this piece this morning, in fact, because I think I'm following along with everything that they're saying, the latest out in California, because there are so many lessons wrapped up in this heartbreaking story of wildfires in California. And I was listening to them talk about the next 72 hours as being 72 hours of hell. The winds are going to pick up again. And I mean, it could get a lot worse. My friend Kurt Schlichter has a piece over a town hall today. There is no bottom for blue California. He lives out there. He knows a little something about emergencies, emergency response, emergency infrastructure, infrastructure just in that area. He knows a lot about it. So who better to talk to than our very good friend Kurt Schlichter, himself a veteran. And of course, he was there leading the response in the L.A. riots. Everybody saw that. He I mean, he was out there. That was him. He was I mean, not him like he caused it, but he was out there responding to it. I just realized that sounded so bad. Kurt, hi. How are you?
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Hi, Dana. I'm not sure I was leading. I think I was pretty much my achievement was perfect attendance at the L.A. riots. Perfect attendance. I did command most of the military forces in northern San Diego during the fires in 2007. I had to reinforce. cavalry squadron task group of about 1,300, which is in addition to thousands of others in other sectors. I'm a little concerned about why there's only about 1,700 Cal Guardsmen activated right now. It's about 7% of the total. I don't know what they're doing. I don't understand it. But, you know, the problem is I don't think the governor does either.
SPEAKER 02 :
And he's the guy who calls them out, which is the scary thing. You guys know our friend Kurt Schlichter, by the way, from his book series as well. And I just I have to think that his his last book, The Attack. I'm just saying I don't want to get into the weeds with the first off before we before we go further. You're not in the line of danger. I know you're near the danger, but you're not in like a direct fire line.
SPEAKER 07 :
No, I'm about 12 miles away. I live in the South Bay. It's this nice little hidden community where we don't allow the realities of blue California to intrude, where our cops actually do the job. And if you're a hobo, you're going to get turned around and sent off towards the poor sections. Remember, California is a feudal state. Because I'm well, until last week when I stopped practicing as a full time lawyer, I've still got my ticket. But I was a part of the elite being a trial lawyer. Yeah. So I was part of the favored.
SPEAKER 02 :
You're part of L.A. law like you could have been that series. Oh, that was.
SPEAKER 07 :
Early in my career, I actually was.
SPEAKER 02 :
I knew it. I knew it. So, you know, you because you've you've grown up in this area. You have witnessed, you know, the coming and going of countless Democrat lawmakers. And you've heard the warnings, too. I mean, good grief. In Texas, we see the news where they're like, oh, well, you know, it's a wildlife land and wildlife management. They're telling the governor of California that they need to watch for undergrowth and they need to clear this and, you know, just do basic stuff. And, you know, you had a lot of rainfall out there. I mean, on paper, it doesn't make any sense is how it has spread this fast and is this bad.
SPEAKER 07 :
No, it really doesn't. My my favorite excuse is, well, it's climate change. To which I say, so you were aware there was a giant crisis that was going to cause fires to be that much more dangerous. And what did you do besides ban straws and plastic grocery bags?
SPEAKER 02 :
Right. That's a great point.
SPEAKER 07 :
And then you get that blank stare that you always get from the semi-sentient, mindless DEI hires that they put in charge of things out here because their grandfather came from the right continent. It's I've been putting up with. So it's so long. It's now just kind of, hey, you get what you vote for.
SPEAKER 02 :
Wow. And you get what you vote for. And you didn't vote for any of this. But yet, you know, you and a lot of people are feeling the effects of it. Gavin Newsom, is he going to be forced out of office finally? Because I know there was a recall effort that just fell short of the requirement. What is it going to take for people in California to see what these policies deliver?
SPEAKER 07 :
I don't know. See, normal people fill up that empty space inside them with faith, family and, you know, the flag. These communists fill it up with this kind of leftist woke ideology. And that's literally more important to them than anything else. They would rather risk having their house burned down than somebody have an obstacle killing their baby. Wow. And that's I mean, that's that's literally it. I keep hearing how all these Californians are being red pilled. Forgive me, but if I if I if I don't quite believe that. But, you know, there's been plenty of red pill opportunities in the past. And, you know, they may be upset and grumble. But at election time, you know, they're going to vote for the communists again because, you know, Trump is bad.
SPEAKER 02 :
Trump is bad and they – I mean heaven forbid. That's the question that we were talking about. Like at some point, are you so tribal that you're more tribal than you are in favor of your own – success and your own security. And your own life. Yeah, and your own life. There's 24 fatalities there now.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, you know, we're always hearing, we're always seeing about these, and it's predominantly young women, probably on SSRIs, who will take in an illegal alien or decide they're going to go camping in Yemen to really connect with the third world, who don't understand that the world is a dangerous and ugly place. Because it's been secured by the very people that they look down on. Us gun-toting knuckle-draggers who make the world safe for them have somehow led them to the false impression that the world is safe if you don't have gun-toting knuckle-draggers. And this is the same thing.
SPEAKER 02 :
Karen Bass is mayor. I don't see her going on politically anymore after this because there are a number of people demeaning that she resigned. But I think but it also seems like it's a battle of who can get who under the bus faster. Newsom between Newsom and Bass. I feel like they're not going to have a lot of unity already. I'm kind of seeing some stuff. What are your thoughts on that?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, look, Karen Bass makes Kamala Harris look like that guy in A Beautiful Mind. Wow. Wow. And a communist, too. She literally loves Astra.
SPEAKER 02 :
More than Justin Trudeau's mom or less? Sorry, that was a bad joke. Sorry, go ahead.
SPEAKER 07 :
I was going to send him a birthday card. No, I mean, but there's a similarity there. It took a communist like Castro to turn an island full of Cubans into a poor country. It has taken a communist like Karen Bass to turn a place like California into a hellhole. Man, socialism, Dana, it could do anything.
SPEAKER 02 :
It's we're talking with our friend Kurt Schlichter, Los Angeles out of line of fire resident. And he knows a thing or two about responding to natural and some political disasters as well. And he's joining us via Skype. And you have to get his book out, The Attack, his latest book, The Attack, because which brings the arsonists. It's what so they've. Three, I think, arson. Well, two definitely firebugs. And then one of them, he was detained. And I think they're still investigating, which it seemed weird that the way that it spread. But the number of firebugs that live in the area where you live. I'm also not surprised that they feel so empowered to do this stuff because you previously had a prosecutor who was like, oh, if you're stealing from a store, we're just not going to prosecute you. Or when you reduce those deterrents, does this surprise you?
SPEAKER 07 :
Not at all. And apparently, of course, one's an illegal alien. Of course. Because you've got to put that cherry on top of the cake. No, and look, in the attack, One of the things the terrorists do, because it's so cheap and effective, is start a fire in these same mountains. That's literally right in the middle of the book, because it's so cheap and so easy to do. Imagine if we're having trouble with the Chinese or something. Some of the Chinese sleeper cells, and there are Chinese sleeper cells, just go out there and start throwing matches around. Suddenly, we've got this problem in addition to all the others. It's It's really a terrible situation. It doesn't help that a bunch of homeless junkies are living out in the woods as well. Yeah. So, you know, again, we decided we closed down the lunatic asylums because we're good, nice people. And now your house is on fire. Yeah.
SPEAKER 02 :
Exactly. We're talking with our friend. That's an important point that you made, too, because like it could be fair. And I'm not saying that that's what this is, but we would be stupid to not heed the threat that it poses, because I think everyone thinks that these sleeper cells are terrorists, that it's going to be a more sophisticated, you know, attack or there. And all it has to do, all you have to do is be a firebug out in California somewhere.
SPEAKER 07 :
Firebug loony with a rifle. I mean, California. You know, Dana, I don't have a concealed carry permit in California. I commanded thousands of guys with machine guns. And I'm apparently not qualified to decide what weapon I carry when I decide what machine gun they carry. They would not give you a license? Oh, I haven't applied because I don't want to take a psychological test and I don't want to spend $1,000 and I don't want to do all this other stuff. It's insane. Wow. Again, they've made their choices. You know, when when these bad things happen. Oh, my gosh. How could this happen? How could it not?
SPEAKER 02 :
That's the million dollar question. Last question for you. How does this... I mean, they said that the next 72 hours, it's going to be disastrous. The winds are picking up. They said... I think the Palisades fire was only 13% contained as of this morning.
SPEAKER 1 :
13%.
SPEAKER 02 :
That's insane. And I know that you know a lot of people who've been displaced. I know a lot of people have been displaced and some who've lost their homes. And it's horrifying to watch, but... How you just made a point earlier, right, when we started talking, how they only have like what they've called out seven percent of the guard there. Why isn't the governor called out more? What else could they be doing to respond to this? I mean, I know it's a historically bad wildfire, but my gosh, as you just said, and then we're finding out dry hydrants and everything else. This is a nightmare. What else can they do? Send your dog over there and go at go at Newsome. I love your dog, by the way.
SPEAKER 07 :
I'm sorry, Dane. I had one of the few contractors who's not already occupied in California. He just chose this moment to come in. But look, I don't know what the hell is going to happen in my state. I think it's going to get worse. It's like an alcoholic. All right, today with this thing, okay, you woke up in the next county wearing someone else's pants. All right, maybe you're not hitting bottom yet. Okay, maybe it has to get much, much worse. And it is going to get much, much worse. There's no upward trajectory. It's not like Gavin Newsom is going to make a 180 and decide to become competent because, of course, Democrats don't. competent. When you want competence, you get the moderate Republican. You go get the Giuliani. You hire the Richard Reardon. If you're in Massachusetts, you get the Mitt Romney. Not one of those horrible Republicans who actually believes in something, but one who's a technocrat and can kind of pick things up a little so that the completely foreseeable consequences of your ideology don't come to fruition quite yet. but of course they are and uh that's why we've got donald trump there you go and uh i don't know newson may go and newson may try in 28 if this doesn't take him out if the high-speed rail didn't golly i mean will this who knows yeah he's he's i think he's out i think he's done uh i i think he's uh you know he he'll still he would still win if he could run again california but uh He is. I think he's finished elsewhere. Who else is on the Democrat bench? Pete Buttigieg?
SPEAKER 02 :
Amy Klobuchar, maybe.
SPEAKER 07 :
Amy Klobuchar. The only thing I like about her is she's very, very aggressive by throwing staplers at people. Maybe our enemies with office supplies.
SPEAKER 02 :
I mean, if politics doesn't work out, maybe she could go into WWE. I don't know. I could see that. Kurt Schlichter, always so good to see you, my friend. Thanks for joining us. We appreciate it. Stay safe out there, too.
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The LA County Sheriff's area, overnight we had several other arrests. It brings it up to a total of 34 in our geographic area. We have 30 in the Eaton Fire area and we have four in the Palisades area. Last night specifically, again for LA County Sheriff's jurisdiction, we arrested four, two were for curfew violations. Two were arrested for one drone incident. To my knowledge, we have now had two specific drone incidents that have resulted in three arrests. So as I talk to our community again, If you do not have business in the evacuation areas, do not go there. Please, you're infringing upon the work that our first responders need to attend to. And I do want to say when I talk about these arrests, I want to clarify not all of them are for burglary or looting or for curfew violations. But it is very important when I say stay out, we are arresting people who are not supposed to be there, who do not live there, who are in possession of narcotics. We've arrested several with guns. And yeah, I'm going to tell you something. If we're if our deputies being very proactive in these areas, stopping people in a constitutional manner is always making sure that they're supposed to be there. And you have narcotics on you and you have a gun on you and police work. We call that a clue. Something's wrong there. So that's why we're arresting people.
SPEAKER 14 :
So don't do. Don't be a brat, man. Don't be a thug rat. Just, you know, mind your own business and don't make a fool of oneself. I mean, hell, it's not hard, you know. I mean, it's not difficult. It's not difficult to not go to areas where you're not supposed to be. You know what you need? You need like a grandma type security situation. You know what I mean? Yeah, like a flip-flop or a willow branch or a rolling pin. Dude, the wooden spoon. I'm terrified to cook with those damn things to this day. Like, whenever I reach for a wooden spoon, I wince. I'm like, oh. Oh. Like, is it going to sting if I touch it? Like, what? Welcome to the show. Not welcome back. It's Monday, top of the first hour. If you would like some encouragement to check out the live stream, I have no idea what is happening with my hair today. And we're just rolling with it. It's crazy. Juan's doing everything he can to keep it in frame. I mean, it's just, it is what it is. So it's what happens when your girl don't straighten it. So if you need encouragement to come in, that's literally like all I did. Woke up. I woke up like this. So it's big 80s hair edition, even though 90s was my coming of age. But still. So welcome to the show. We apparently have more fire. There's more fire to come. And I'm I am a little worried because there's a lot that has burned. A lot that has burned. In fact, I was looking at some of the latest headlines with us and they were getting into... There's like this interactive map now where you can see, you know, all of the... Everything that's burned down and where all the houses are. Like, where's the worst? It's... Man, I mean, a lot of average everyday people who are not celebrities had their houses burned down to the ground. I mean, I know a number of them. And it's expected to continue for the next 72 hours. They said that the wind's picking up. That's a huge issue because now you're going to see anywhere from 60 to 70 mile per hour winds. Again, the Santa Anas are kicking up. And so they said the wind is expected. It started picking up overnight. And in fact, all this morning when they were checking in with the meteorologist and they had their reporters on the ground, everyone was saying that they could measure and feel that the winds were starting to pick up as the morning went on. And so it's going to be in full swing. for the next 72 hours in fact elected officials are saying that the next 72 hours are going to be hell that's going to be the hell that they have to fight through and they because you have a number of these different areas so you have you know the eaton fire you have the palisades fire just different independent that that started by their own like something happened and they started on their own so it wasn't just a spread that's how many different fires there are And I think the Palisades fire, which is considered to be the biggest, I think that is only 13% contained. As of yesterday morning, it was only 9% contained. This morning, when they gave their press conference a little bit ago, they said it was about 13% contained. I mean, you had the hills behind the Hollywood sign. Burning is crazy. I mean, you just never have seen anything like this before. So... It's the worst, I think, in their history that they've ever had. And in addition to the spreading fires now, you've got firebugs out there. So that's the other thing. There are a number of people who have already been at least three, I think, by the last count that were arrested. and they've, I don't know if they're calling it, I guess their names are climate change too. Firefighters caught a second arsonist in the process of starting a new fire. This was in Los Angeles. This 29-year-old was arrested in Irwindale, 16 miles away from Altadena, and that's where the Eaton fire continues to go. They said that they responded to a brush fire when they literally watched him start two separate fires as they arrived. I guess he didn't realize they were there or realize that they could see him. And they watched him start two separate fires. So he was detained and arrested. They have limited details, but so far you have 24 fatalities, over 40,000 acres burned. And they're, again, They said that they're expecting, quote, explosive fire growth. You have had over 150,000 people have to have to evacuate. All the hotels are packed there. And I mean, it's pretty. It is. They had another in Calabasas. They had the guy, a Mexican national who was arrested. Those are the that's that's the individual that five witnesses came forward and said they they watched him with her own eyes like stuff on fire. with his little blowtorch. So you have the Hearst fire as well. That's up near Santa Clarita. So it's, I mean, the crazy thing is not to focus too much on it in terms of, you know, I feel like people in North Carolina and Hawaii sort of are scratching their heads like, why is that? This one's staying in the news so much. But in Hawaii, it was like one day and then people stopped talking about it and there are still people who are displaced there. In North Carolina, it's like people stopped talking about it and you know, now you've got, you know, people obviously still displaced there. And I do think that there's something to it because whenever something happens in New York or D.C. or L.A., because there's such major cities and because there's so much media centralized there, it gets a lot of attention, obviously. But, I mean, this fire, it's just wild. And, you know, I hope people realize that Yes, these people voted for Democrat for forever. Not everybody there's voted for Democrat voted for Democrats. And like, for instance, certain enclaves like Beverly Hills, they've had Republican mayors. they've had a number of Republican elected officials for that area. So there's different pockets within that whole Southern Californian area where, I mean, you have a lot of, it shouldn't matter, but I just want people to kind of keep perspective about stuff. You know, you wouldn't want, you know, people in North Carolina. In North Carolina, they had Democrat administration too, don't forget. They also had, you know, singularly Democrats that were representing them at all levels of government. So it's just important, I think, to kind of keep that stuff in context and you know just there's just a lot of hurting people out there a lot of people have lost everything fires are no joke man no joke so they're still working to contain all of this in the meantime karen bass the pressure on her is just continuing to swell because more and more receipts are emerging of the mismanagement at her level as well i mean keep in mind as the mayor of los angeles she is the ultimate authority on the ground She is the ultimate authority. And she's also the ultimate authority for this entire time when they've been dealing with warnings from these fires or potential fires before they even started. So now even the New York Times is saying that, you know, when she was campaigning, she was promising that she would never take trips abroad, especially in disasters. I mean, she actually was campaigning on that. After the ice storm and Ted Cruz, she she used it as a leverage to get herself an elected office. And then here she was in Ghana left after they were warned about fires and didn't come back until, you know, a significant portion of the area was burned. So the press is starting to write some negative things on her. which is very interesting because they've always been very protective of her. I think that they will throw her under the bus. They will. They're going to throw a number of people under the bus to save Gavin Newsom. And that's not to say that, you know, citizens have been doing the most work more than the media at asking him the tough questions. And then you have this audio sound by five. He's calling for an investigation. He's saying he wants answers as to why there wasn't enough water. Remember, the reservoir in the Palisades had been drained and was entirely dry for over a year before this happened. Listen to Audio Sunbite 5.
SPEAKER 02 :
They put out a letter to DWP asking, how is it that there was no water to fight this fire in certain places? We were here, and basically, these places just burned and there was nothing that could be done. Yeah. Does the state have any responsibility in that? Is there more the state can do to make sure it doesn't happen again?
SPEAKER 05 :
That's what I did. That's what the letter's about. Let's get to the bottom of it. Let's be transparent. Let's move this forward quickly. DWP and the city and the oversight as it relates to the Met. And we want to make sure that all that information is made real time and in public. I'm not interested in the finger point. I want to know what the hell happened. And would it have mattered? I mean, let's be honest about it here. I've talked to all my experts, all the firefighters I've been with. They said we could add an engine on every house in 90 mile an hour winds with all the pressure in the world. So there's you got to be realistic about that.
SPEAKER 14 :
I mean, you're the governor of this state, though. That's part of your responsibility. I mean, you control the budget as to whether or not you're going to have more reservoirs or desalination plants or a number of other things. I mean, he's completely blown it. This is for audio somebody 14. This is the media actually calling out Karen Bass because I feel like Newsom and Bass are going to be playing a game of who can throw whom under the bus fastest. Listen to this audio somebody 14.
SPEAKER 03 :
The mayor told the Times that if she was elected mayor, not only would I, of course, live here, but I would also not travel internationally. The only places I would go would be D.C., Sacramento, San Francisco and New York in relation to L.A., And the Times writes that pledge has been spectacularly broken. And then they move they move over on a 14 second here. They move over and they they talk about how she left.
SPEAKER 14 :
Even MSNBC is upset with her. They're even upset with her and they have every right. I mean, everybody has every right to be. But at the same time, this is what, you know, people like Joe Scarborough championed. So now you have this fight, which we're going to get into back and forth between the mayor and the fire chief. It's as much of a disaster as you thought. Plus, that ginger and his suitcase girlfriend, Harry and Megan, they went out to tour the damage. They're from Montecito, California, which is over two hours away from the area that they were touring. And I'm actually kind of curious because weren't most of the big thoroughfares closed? I mean, so it probably took longer than two hours for them to get there. I've made the drive from L.A. up to Santa Barbara, which is right near Montecito. It's like two hours. Because nobody ever travels quickly in L.A. Missing Persons, the group, was correct. Nobody walks in L.A. And why are they there? It's like two hours south. They went there to tour. Justin Bateman said it was disaster tourism. Plus... GOP infighting. We got to talk about some of this. There's a split right now between the vice president and president and former aides that have been scuttled to the periphery are upset that someone else has replaced them in POTUS's affections. We're going to talk about all of that. What does living better mean to you? Is it more money, a bigger house? Now think about this. What about how you feel physically? every day life is so much better when you feel good when you wake up feeling great you can do more of the things that you love and you're ready to take on the day if pain is affecting your life see how relief factor can help change that relief factor is a 100 drug-free daily supplement that helps your body fight pain naturally developed by doctors relief factor supports your body's response to inflammation and it doesn't just mask pain for a short time it helps to reduce or even eliminate it and it's safe to take daily. In fact, the longer you take Relief Factor, the more effective it is. Over 1 million people have turned to Relief Factor. Feel better every day, and you'll live better every day. Trying Relief Factor is easy. Get their three-week quick start for only $19.95. That's less than a dollar a day. Call 1-800-4-RELIEF. That's 1-800-4-RELIEF, or visit relieffactor.com.
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It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
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Okay, so first up here, I've got a lot for you. A once-in-a-lifetime comet, guys. It's a comet. A once-in-a-lifetime comet is going to be flying past. Flying past. Why do I care? No, I'm just so disappointed. You know, I mean, first, all you conspiracy theorists, you know, you tease me with the prospect of aliens, and then I don't see no aliens. And then now I'm told by the NASA people that a comet visible for the first time in 160,000 years, you're going to be able to see it today. But only, it's super exclusive, only if you live in certain parts of the world or if you're in certain parts of the United States. So they said it's a... I guess you're going to be able to see it depending where you are. They said they gave coordinates for where you can see. I don't know how to read that. The coordinates, it's going to be in the northern hemisphere. So the northern part, they said actually that if you're in the UK, the northern part of the UK, it's going to be difficult to see it. The uppermost northern part of the United States and Canada. So I guess like if you're further south, you'll have an easier time to see it. But I love how they say use caution when you're viewing these things. Like don't stare at the sun and blind yourself. That's exactly, you know what? That was my plan. Now it's been thwarted. A key economic indicator is at the highest level since 2008's financial crisis. What was that about? No, it's not. Stop it. You know what? I already had a crown fallout today. I don't need anything else. Nothing else. So they said that 686 companies filed for bankruptcy last year. Oh. It's up 8% from 23, and it's the most since 2010. That's according to the S&P. I just don't need any more of that bad news. By the way, beer hounds, congestion pricing is causing those prices to increase too. We got a lot more to come. Stay with us. With everything going on in the world right now, the economy, conflicts, the open border, spiraling national debt, the devastating inflation, it's critical that you have a plan for diversifying and protecting your savings. And that's why so many, including myself, have turned to precious metals like gold and silver to help protect our savings. And I've partnered with the top-rated precious metals company Goldco to make that happen. It's a great company with a great reputation, and they could not have made the process any easier. And right now, Gold Co. is offering a free gold and silver kit that will show you how precious metals can help protect and diversify your savings. And for my audience, they're offering up to a 10% instant match in bonus silver on qualified orders. All you have to do is visit danalikesgold.com to get started today. Goldco has helped thousands of Americans place over $3 billion in gold and silver, and they can help you as well. Join thousands who trust Goldco. Visit danalikesgold.com.
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SPEAKER 01 :
Angelinos, we're still going through it. And to any of you and all of you that have experienced a loss, the grief, the anger, the just utter shock. I've seen the devastation. It is unbelievable.
SPEAKER 14 :
Why is she smiling? This is not like a dance recital where you got to wear a smile. Maybe have your face match the tone. I'm just saying it's weird. Like the way she's talking about this disaster is kind of like how Blake Lively was doing PR for her movie about domestic abuse. It's just doesn't jive. You know what I'm saying? Like it just doesn't... It just doesn't work. That's a whole thing. That's a... I only know that because I read a horrible British website and I don't even like talking about them. I hate them so bad. It's mainly shmail. Anyway, welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. It's weird that she, am I being too picky about that chat? Is it weird? Because the chat's over a rumble.
SPEAKER 08 :
Is it weird? I think the average person, I think the average human being would look at that and say, wait a minute. That doesn't match. I'm questioning her sincerity.
SPEAKER 14 :
Because I saw the headline about this this morning, and I'm like, I mean, she does kind of look like Jim Carrey in the mask there. Sorry that your homes are burning. It's just weird.
SPEAKER 08 :
I would question her sincerity, yeah.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, I was looking at it and I'm like, wait a minute. Am I being too negative? Which is hysterical that I asked myself this because it's blind leading the blind. I'm like, am I negative? I don't know. Maybe I'm just being real mean. Maybe. I don't know. But no, I feel like I'm not being negative. She's looking in the camera and she's like got this, again, dance recital smile plastered on her face. Smiling like, I know your homes are burning down and everything's horrible and your pets are dead and 24 fatalities. It's just weird, right? I don't like overly smiley people anyway. And I don't like it when they're delivering bad news, right? Just get a poker face and just talk. I just, because usually the people that are too effusive like that, they're trying to hide the fact that they're evil. And I just, it's just weird. I just, I don't know. So you don't think I'm being too mean? Okay, good. Because I was like, why are you smiling?
SPEAKER 08 :
She hasn't even apologized either for the obvious mismanagement.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, sorry I drained your reservoirs. Made y'all lose your... I'm sorry I didn't actually maintain any kind of water reserves and drained everything. I mean, sorry that we had two record years of rainfall. Eh, let's just let that water go in the ocean. Sorry about that. Whoops. I mean, not even one of those. Not even on my bed. Nothing. And then you've got... Gavin Newsom, who I think doesn't move his face. Now, you all get upset over you all talk about Nancy Pelosi not being able to move her face. Have you watched? Just watch him. Watch the man. Men should never get Botox. Never. We expect to see that. We expect you to age like Sean Connery. Men age and they grow up and turn into wine. It's different for women. But I don't like that. I don't like a smooth visage on a 50-something-year-old man. It's weird. Makes me not trust you. Don't like it. It's just weird. I don't like it. So I'm trying not to be super highly critical, but I was watching that lady, and I'm like, how in the hell did she get anybody to trust her enough to vote for her? She comes off as so disingenuous. 100,000 people plus. have petitioned, signed a petition to force her resignation. She's just going to dig in. You all know this. Then they tried doing this with Newsom and they barely, they just fell short. Now, meanwhile, he's announced an executive order on rebuilding. Gavin Newsom, he's announced an order because now, I mean, you have 24 fatalities. The winds are picking up this week. They said the next 72 hours are going to be total hell. It'll be some of the hardest work that the firefighters are doing. And, you know, Newsom and Bass have been getting tons of, you know, deserved criticism. So now he's calling for an executive order, he says, to extend key price gouging protections, to make rebuilding more affordable, and... because California's red tape is absolutely asinine. I mean, to build anything, to even remodel or upgrade existing structures in certain parts of LA is insane. And I mean, I know my husband did a historic rehab and I know how insane those regulations can be. We know friends who've who've remodeled like houses that were built like in the fifties or sixties. And it's, it seemed like it was more ridiculous to go through the regulations, just to some friends of ours that lived out in LA, just for them to upgrade and remodel some of their house, like little, not even major stuff like new countertops and cabinets. And they moved a sink and all this stuff. And I honestly felt like it was kind of the same, the same amount of red tape. So they're infamous for this. I don't know if Newsom's actually going to make that easier. I mean, I guess you'll have to wait and see. But he's saying that they're going to extend certain – you know what they should do is for rebuilding – first off, they need to suspend property tax and have only everything be a reduced graduated consumption tax to help people easily rebuild. If he was smart, they would do that. because it's a state that has the highest taxation in the United States of America, and yet they're running a deficit. I don't even understand how you do that unless you're an irresponsible government entity that's just, you know, blasting people's money out into the ether, and you have nothing to show for it. So that... I mean, he can sit and say this, but you're still you still got tax upon tax upon tax on all of it. So is it really at the end of it? It's going to be a mild improvement, but it's not going to be this big, you know, huge extending hand to help that he's pretending that it is. And he's he's getting deservedly slammed for this. Now, in the meantime, I told you this. The Harry and Meghan people, they went out there to tour, just like they did after Uvalde, where she chartered a plane, flew to Uvalde for a photo op for an afternoon. I mean, you could just do the work that you signed a contract to do over at Spotify or Netflix, where they called you blanking grifters because you couldn't turn out any content after securing a $100 million deal and all you had to show for it. is a incorrectly named podcast, and a bunch of people that, the only people they interview are the same damn people that they interview all the time, because they have no friends. Nobody likes them. They're absolute fake grifters. She can't act, and he's a little bitch. That's who you got. I mean, I don't want him. Send him back to the UK. I don't, and her, wherever, she's here. But this, they went and toured where they... A fire, a disaster area. And they apparently, according to reports on the ground, they were there for like 17 to 20 minutes. And they got photos and then they left. So you're telling, of course, if you're that much of a fame whore, you're going to drive two plus hours in notorious traffic. into a disaster area around which numerous roads are closed. So you can pretend to deliver meals and get a photo op so you can try to swindle more people into donating to your stupid Archwell Foundation. I mean, that's just peak left. Peak left. They're not the only grifters out there. You have this, I'm not even going to say their name, the Democrat podcast. They were wanting people to donate to fire relief through their Act Blue Democrat campaign fundraiser apparatus. So a portion of that is somehow going to find its way to Democrats. Be super careful who you donate to with all of this stuff, because there are so many grifters that are out there. That's what that one podcast is doing. They were trying. I mean, that's that's it's you're you're donating through the app. Lewis can't say what you said, because that's a great point.
SPEAKER 08 :
Overseas scammers have more integrity than this. They're they're literally grifting off of people's suffering and death.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah. It's that's just horrifying. Either help and do it the gospel of Matthew way. Either help as was discussed in the New Testament or don't. I can't stand the big braggy people to like I delivered a casserole. I mean, just just do your just do the good deed and don't seek accolades. But we live in a click me thirsty trap. Kind of society where everybody's got to get attention for something. Did you really do it? And does it really count in the good book if people didn't give you comments about it on social media? I mean, that's where we're at now. The L.A. Fire Department. Did you guys see this story where it said that they were left using women's handbags to throw water on fires? So this was I've seen this all over social media. So now the L.A. department chief, Eric Scott, who's a public information officer, he told The Wall Street Journal that they're not handbags, but they're bags. They're canvas fire bags that they use regularly to put out small fires as they're easier and faster than reconnecting and connecting a hose. So if they're trying to get a fire put out that's like starting, like they see something smoking, they do that because by the time apparently they'll get the hoses either switched or hooked up or get another truck out, it'll be a lot bigger. But not to say they don't do that, but apparently they start and try to at least stop it or contain it immediately with the bag. So apparently what happened was some of the as they were putting out one fire, there were, I guess embers blew on like somebody's property or something like that. And it blew over their flame retardant firewall. And so then it started kicking off. And so that's what they were to try to get that in while they were getting everything else moved. They were using those bags, which I guess that makes sense. I know nothing about firefighting. I know nothing about fire science. If they say that works for them and it makes sense, then it makes sense. But at least it's not a women's handbag. I was like, are we really doing that? I mean, I guess it would work if it's top quality leather and it has a nice interior. You know, I guess it would work. But, you know, hopefully it's not, you know, a suede interior would ruin it anyway. But. This. I mean, it's just it's so sad. They had two people detained in Brentwood near the VP's house. because they were out after curfew hours so i don't know now you have the uh celebrities and the wealthy people out there hiring two thousand dollar an hour private firefighters to protect their homes and people are livid why would people be mad though i don't i don't understand why they would be upset because they can't do it is it bad that they're doing it i mean if you're hiring and bringing in people to help then isn't that you know even if it's starting with your own property I don't really have a problem with that, I don't think. I'm not going to shame people for being able to afford something. I mean, I don't know. I'm just not. And they can do that. They can bring out private firefighters. There was one guy... who had, I told you this last week, they ran him off social media because he was asking about this. And apparently other people have done the same thing. One guy said that he criticized this other individual who apparently was talking about it from LA. And he said his family's evacuated and this guy's hiring private firefighters to risk their lives to save a house that he certainly has insured. Well, that's his prerogative. Shut up. Shut up. That's his prerogative then. And? I mean, someone goes, so should potentially life-saving resources, even if private, be diverted to save your house while people evacuate? Why not? And it's not, you're not diverting from those resources. You're bringing your own. You're hiring people who have no obligation under any kind of municipal job to go in and fight fires. They're bringing in people to do it. I don't have a problem with it. I don't know that you're really seeing some of the class warfare shine in California. They're going to be turning on each other. We have a lot more on the way, including the Republican infighting. Now more people are wanting to take on Elon Musk. It's so ridiculous. 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SPEAKER 08 :
Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States.
SPEAKER 13 :
I'm going to guess that Chief McDonald may talk about this, but when I was out there in the Malibu area, I saw a gentleman that looked like a firefighter, and I asked him if he was okay because he was sitting down. I didn't realize we had him in handcuffs. We were turning him over to LAPD because he was dressed like a fireman, and he was not. He just got caught burglarizing a home. So those are issues that our frontline deputies and police officers are dealing with.
SPEAKER 14 :
That's crazy. That's so crazy. I mean, it's sad that they have to deal with that in the first place. But a guy dressed up as a firefighter going out there to loot. Man, I hope the penalties for looters are hardcore. Oh, my gosh. They said that they were going to fine and prosecute him. They said that they were going to get him. I mean, this is the L.A. County DA. This is the guy who ended up beating the... If memory serves, I think this is the guy who ended up taking out the Soros prosecutor. I'll do somebody 13. Listen.
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Sending the same unmistakably clear message to them that if they want to rip off people who have suffered these type of tragedies, we will come after you. We will throw the entire book at you. So please do not commit these crimes. Our goal is to deter them in the first place. That's saving a whole lot of victims in the process.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah. Well, I hope they do throw the book. It's climate change, right? So we were told it was climate change that started these fires. Mr. and Mrs. Change's son climate, I guess. That's, you know, there's no other. No other question there. But I don't know. Well, it's going to be the next 72 hours are going to be horrible. And you'll see. The crazy thing is, is that you're watching the result of leftist administration playing out live on your television. When you see the footage of all this stuff, when you see the coverage of it, that's I mean, that's what it is. You're watching legit. Years of Democrat administration fail these people miserably. I don't know if it's enough to change how they vote. I mean, I don't know. You have pockets of the whole area that already were pretty Republican in the first place. But when people lose everything that they have, when they lose their house, even if it's one that they didn't have to get a mortgage on because they're rich. You know, if they've lost their belongings, anything, personal items. they're going to feel pretty mad and betrayed. And I just don't know what is stronger, that feeling of betrayal, watching everything that you've worked for go up in flames, knowing that most of it's not insured. Is that going to actually win over political tribalism? Because political tribalism is part of the reason why the disaster is so bad in the first place. You had a group of leftists running the state, and they just didn't think that you needed to do anything like proper land management or any kind of clearing of underbrush, anything like that. Keeping the reservoirs maintained, making sure the hydrants were in proper working order and had access to water, making sure that there was enough water after two years in a row of record rainfall. And it's pretty significant. So we'll see what wins out over that. I'm not quite sure. In the meantime, we've got to talk about the GOP infighting coming up. I've been warning people that that's going to be the end of the coalition. I don't know if the right has what it takes to keep a coalition together. I mean, they barely kept it together going into this last election. I don't know that they're going to keep it together going into midterms. We've got to talk about that and more here coming up as we roll through. towards the what we're already in the second hour already it's already the second hour uh in the meantime make sure you find us youtube facebook and over at substack because we've got a lot of stuff that comes out on substack regularly uh you can catch up on anything that you missed in the meantime we have some quick messages from people who love you and bring you free programming uh we got a lot more on the way second hour next Look, as much as I hate gun-free zones, and believe me, if I'm forced to go in one, I'm really loud and annoying and insufferable about it. It's just the way things are. But if I have to go to a gun-free zone, I don't want to necessarily, but sometimes for my job, I have to. I have friends who live in D.C. and New York, and all of them got there very difficult to get licensed to carry. But half the places where they live and work... You know, you can't carry in there. It's crazy. I have a friend whose apartment in Manhattan, they live outside in Westchester, but they live and work. They work in Manhattan, them and their wife. They can't even bring guns into their apartment building. So they can't even have their firearm in their apartment building in Manhattan. And then they can't drive it because of their stupid laws all the way to where they live out in Westchester. This is a problem. These people don't want to be made. They don't want to be made into victims by these stupid laws. And so as a result, they have decided to diversify. They keep their guns. But when they got to go to certain places, they have the Berna gun. In fact, they went out and got the Berna SD. That's the most popular model. Five round capacity, a lot more than your average one to two round stun gun. And it shoots out chemical irritant projectiles that can stop threats from up to 50 feet away. Now, they've got different models. They have different projectiles, different accessories. But I think it's wise to have diverse options for self-defense in those instances where the state or property owner wants to disarm you. And there's no waiting period, no background check, none of that. Berna SD does not care about stupid gun-free zone signs. And they'll send it right to your door. The only place where you can get this, a 10% discount, is where I'm about to tell you. Byrna.com slash Dana. That's the only place to get 10% off your whole purchase. B-Y-R-N-A. Byrna.com slash Dana to get 10% off.
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When she proudly walked into your office yesterday, were you planning to fire her? Were you angry with her over her media appearance? Oh my goodness. And do you agree with her that the fire department is very underfunded?
SPEAKER 01 :
Let me just say that, as you see here, the chief and I are lockstep in our number one mission. And that mission is to get us past this emergency right now.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay, well, part of getting past the emergency is getting rid of the people who helped to cause it. And it goes to you, too. So what a... Fecal storm. This is right. Good night. That's the mayor of L.A., Karen Bass. And she said she was asked that she would fire the chief over the appearances where the chief criticized the budget. Karen Bass should just be like, no, I'm not. She's right. Why would I? And she's correct. I messed up. I shouldn't have done. That's what she should say. She would save a lot of face. But see, that's the thing with the left. They will fall on that sword. They will not apologize for nothing. They would rather go down in flames than even save themselves by just acknowledging the wrongdoing because people aren't looking for just destruction. They're just looking for you to recognize that you screwed up really bad. And they're not even willing to do that. The left doesn't even want to do that. Welcome to the show. Dana Lash with you. We are at the top of this second hour. I don't. I would imagine that people in and around L.A. are too busy, filled with rage to really focus on the political of it right now. Some of them just got the go ahead to go back to their destroyed properties. And, you know, it's sad. And you got a lot of people who are now going to be out of work because think of it again, too. It's not just celebrities that live out there and it's not just the wealthy that live out there. There are a lot of I mean, there are legitimately, you know, random average regular people that are out there, too. But then you also have a lot of people who work in these areas that now they don't have jobs. They were one of the discussions that I heard were cleaning crews, people who like cleaning companies. They send teams in and they clean people's houses once a week or whatever. And a lot of them now have no jobs. And some of the people out there are trying to keep that into consideration. A lot of them have no jobs now. I mean, this goes so far. I mean, all of the retail and then the people who worked at retail and just a lot of these restaurants. I mean, good heavens, there's so much. It's sad to see. It could have been really kind of, I think the more that we learn about it, the more I wonder, I think all of this maybe could have been avoided. Lorraine found a piece from a reporter who had been talking about how long, and also is on the neighborhood, on the city council at Venice Beach. She was talking about dry fire hydrants. So apparently the issue of dry fire hydrants in Los Angeles has been known to city officials going all the way back to 2021. She was saying that there was a commercial building that was on Venice Boardwalk that ended up catching fire. It was a cooking accident and it was right next to a homeless encampment. And then when the Los Angeles Fire Department arrived and they got the hydrant open and they hooked up their hoses, they discovered that the hydrant was dry and non-functional. In fact, in a memo, they said, according to this reporter, quote, the individual hydrant status did not exacerbate fire damage or hinder the control of flames, which I mean, they did. I don't know how it was. The reports say it was a 7000 square foot building and nothing was spared. The whole damn thing burnt to the ground. And they said that they reported that it was a nonfunctional hydrant already. That's just what they know for Venice Beach. And that's what she's been able to find out. She's a city council member there. And they've known about this for years. And I guess what? Nobody talked about it in the media. There were no articles about it. How many other... Think of how many other dry hydrants could there be in the area? How many other times before even these wildfires were there any instances of fire department pulling up and not being able to get water out of the hydrant? I mean, there's a lot of questions here. This is literally part of your emergency infrastructure. It's like emergency infrastructure. This is... And they couldn't even get this right. And they know that these fires are part of living out there. They know that it's part of living out there. They're very well aware. We're going to talk more about this coming up. My friend Kurt Schlichter, who lives in. lives out there in la and also he knows a little bit about emergency response and the emergency infrastructure because he uh what headed up the guard out there national guard he's uh uh what for a long time i think back in the 90s uh when he was a young soldier he uh was out there so he's going to talk to us about all of that i need to touch on some of the um In fighting within the GOP, why are knives out for Elon Musk? And why are they out even for people that you would think are allies? I'm not going to say the guy's name because I've known him for over a decade. I used to work with him, so I actually know him, unlike a lot of people that talk about it. Not a fan. His name rhymes with Shmeve Manon. Totally not a fan. And I've got a million reasons why. But what I don't understand, he's now he's like representative of some people on the right side that are wanting to take down Musk. Why? Because of the H-1B stuff? Because I don't think Musk understands. Can I be real? I don't think he fully understands that program. I would be shocked if he came over here on that visa. He didn't come on an H-1B, did he? I don't think he did. Because the super 1% of the 1% do not come on H-1Bs. So the... And apparently, you know, some of them are talking to the Italian press and they're going off on Elon Musk and I guess it's all over the H-1B stuff. I think there's a difference between saying, I disagree with you and then let's have the discussion as to why and then I'm going to totally destroy you. We are not going to have a coalition. This is why I say I will be shocked... if we still have a coalition by the time midterms happen. So you have, again, I've talked about this a lot. It's super important to understanding the Game of Thrones. And regardless, you got to play it. You have your party and you have your coalition. The coalition is not your party. Your party is not your coalition. The party is the hardcore stuff. That's your principles, your platforms, your non-compromising things. The coalition are things that you, with other people that don't necessarily all the time support the same issues that you support. Maybe they have even some different principles, but you guys come together on like 80% of the stuff, right? You come together on immigration. You come together on taxation. You come together on DEI. And that's where a lot of moderate Democrats find themselves as a part of the coalition, but yet not necessarily part of the Republican Party. And I say that because Musk is not part of the Republican Party. Musk is not a conservative. He is part of the coalition, however. And it does the coalition no favors to say that you're going to go and try to destroy someone, which everybody knows you have not the power to do it at all whatsoever. I just honestly think that some people in Trump's inner circle are jealous that Elon Musk is that close to Trump. And I feel like they believe that he is replacing them in Trump's affections. And that ultimately is what a lot of this is about. And I know enough of the characters that are involved in this to know that that's probably Occam's razor. That's probably the simplest explanation, and it's true. So, I don't know. I disagree with him on H-1Bs. I disagree with Musk on semi-automatic firearms, too. I agree with him on some of the speech. There's certain things I agree with him on, like the injections, all that stuff. I mean, I agree with him on it, but... I think, why would you say that you're going to destroy someone and go after somebody that's an ally for the most part? That doesn't do anybody any favors. It doesn't help our side. There's also this story where Vance and Trump have split On a big issue. And I think that this might come into play here at some point. And this had to do with the J6 stuff. The media noticed this right away. What did I tell you? They're going to try to inflame and exploit any kind of cracks. So apparently he Trump has promised sweeping pardons for people. in an interview that Vance gave over the weekend, he was saying that the question is very simple and how people who committed violence should obviously not be pardoned. Peaceful protesters might deserve clemency. He said there was a gray area in some of the instances. Trump was more broad. He was like, everybody's going to get pardoned. So the media is trying to say, okay, uh, Well, as a result of that, here's some daylight between them. And there may be. I don't think that's enough, though, to cause significant problems within the ticket. But the media knows Trump's currency. Trump's currency is he likes people to like him. He wants to be celebrated. That's a true thing. There are some people that are like that. It's not a negative declaration on someone, but that's his currency. And he also wants to be in charge. That's why, in certain respects, press secretaries or spokespeople are kind of redundant for him. And the media knows this, and this is what they're going to try to use as a way to encourage any kind of cracks or any areas where they don't agree. That's what the media is going to focus on. I told you, and they're doing it. They're going to really turn this up. You're going to see these headlines nonstop, and you're only going to see them increase with intensity. That's to come. That is to come. But again, with the coalition, you're going to have to have that coalition for midterms. you got to have it for midterms. You have six months where Trump can hit the ground, all gas, no brakes. I know he's got a flurry of executive orders that he's going to put out. Here's my problem with the executive orders. My problem, like I had a problem with it when he did it with taxes. And the reason I had a problem with it when he did it with taxes was because they were not permanent. They were set to expire, which is why our taxes went up under Joe Biden. You It cannot be a substitute for leadership and pushing things through legislatively. I think if you are issuing an executive order with the one-two punch of it's going to be followed up with legislative force, that's totally fine. But otherwise, anything that's done with an EEO can be just as easily undone. And if you lose your majority in Congress, then you're going to lose your chance to push it forward legislatively also. So it's incredibly important that we keep that in mind. You can promise a ton of different executive orders, but you have to have the legislative – they're meaningless legislatively. if they're not actually made law by Congress. Anything that's done with an EO can be undone with an EO. You watched it happen with immigration when Biden was assuming office first weekend. That's the first thing that he did was undo a lot of those executive orders that Trump had implemented as it pertained to immigration. We have more to come. We got headlines on the way. Our friend Kurt Schlichter is going to be joining us. What's going to happen with TikTok? Also, Pete Hegseth, his hearing is this week. Senators have received his FBI report. There's a lot happening. So we're going to cover it all as we move. 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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
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Suspects cut the fence at a California Army Reserve Center before they stole Humvees and other equipment. They were able to make a success. They made an unsuccessful attempt to cut a lock that also secured uniform storage. So super, super sketchy. I'm looking at this story and it's not wanting to load because everything's horrible. This, I'll come back to it because I'm tired of waiting on their story. The media entity that has it like locks up the of all these pop up ads that come up, even if you have the page open, it'll lock up. Also, let's see here. I got a lot of freezing. It always happens with quick five always happens this and we're covering, like I said, the latest ongoing stuff with the fire. And if we have any more responses from the president or the vice president, we'll have those for you as well. Or even Biden, if he's still aware that there's a fire that's happening. Also, let's see. We got FEMA kicking hurricane survivors out of temporary housing into a snowstorm and in freezing temperatures. We talked about this last week. So it's not a news story, but they were giving them a deadline. They extended it like one day, but then they were telling everyone you have to get out. And I don't I mean, there are people who still don't have homes or entire communities. It's a it's horrible. So no, I guess no more attention to the folks that were in the path of Helene's destruction. Houston police, their evidence room is infested with drug addicted rats. that require, they got to clear them out now. They said that they're invested with drug addicted rats. And it's like all types of stuff that they have collected at various crime scenes. And it sounds like a hoarder's paradise, if I'm being honest. But they said the property room and the evidence there has not been given the attention that it needs. Wait, you're storing evidence? And you have drug addicted rats running around where you store crucial evidence?
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It's almost a band name.
SPEAKER 14 :
Is this in California? No. I mean, it's Harris County, so it's Texas. It's in Houston. It sounds like something would happen in California. Harris County, it makes sense. But they said that they have 400,000 pounds of marijuana in storage that the rats, that only the rats are enjoying. That's so gross. But I'm just curious. Is there a possibility that they could contaminate other evidence?
SPEAKER 08 :
Or are they just making this up and someone else is smoking the marijuana and they're blaming it on rats?
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You think so? Surely people in government would never do that because they're always honest, which is why you must back everything blindly, right? Oh, no sarcasm detected. I'm just saying. This is kind of a boring story. I don't know if I want to get into that. There's been a gun ban proposed in Colorado. That's one of the things we're going to discuss. And they're looking at going after literally like semi-automatic firearms. They're looking at transfers, private sales, all that kind of stuff. And they want to classify what they say is a device that increases the rate of fire. We want to reclassify that as a dangerous weapon. They're going to have a fight with this stuff because none of these people know any of this terminology. We have a lot more on the way. Our friend Kurt Schlichter is going to be joining us at the bottom of the hour. You know, he lives in California. He's been on the show a lot. But he also knows a little bit of something about emergency response and emergency infrastructure, being that, you know, he was in the National Guard and he headed up the response there to the L.A. riots and all that stuff. We're going to talk to him about all of this. Now, he's, I think, pretty far away from the fires. He's in something like Orange County or something. However, seeing how quickly the fire is spreading, it's almost like anybody can be in the path of it at this point. But we're going to talk to him about his state because he's one of those people who's like, no, I love it here and I'm not leaving. I get it if you've had all your family there for generations, but still, the weather can't be that nice, right? We got a lot more on the way. We're going to talk to Kurt Schlichter coming up as well. More of the program, stay with us. It's our friends over at All Family Pharmacy. This is such a great service. You need to memorize the website. They make it so easy. All Family Pharmacy helped my family out a lot over Thanksgiving because, you know, right on Thanksgiving when offices are closed and you end up getting sick, it's just, it's a mess and you gotta get medicine. All Family Pharmacy made it super easy. And you can visit allfamilypharma.com slash Dana. Use code Dana and you'll get 10% off of your entire order. So this is affordable access, easy and cost effective for medicine. You don't have to break the bank to access these medicines. There's no red tape. There's no hassle. Everything's made in the USA. You're not getting Chinese antibiotics. It's not how that's working. They got a proven track record. And you work with their doctors. Their doctors get you the medication that you need. Fast delivery right to your door. You can even overnight stuff if needed. And you can rely on all family pharmacy to keep your health needs on track. If you need antibiotics, if you need things like hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin. which is actually a good antiviral, you can get those at All Family Pharmacy. Visit allfamilypharma.com slash Dana. Get 10% off using code Dana. 10% off your purchase using code Dana10. It's Dana10 for 10% off of your entire order only at allfamilypharma.com slash Dana.
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Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you at the bottom of the second hour. You can listen coast to coast. You can also stream the radio program, channel 347, direct TV, uh, find a separate sub stack as well. Uh, I was reading this piece this morning, in fact, because I think I was, I'm following along with everything that they're saying the latest out in California, because there are so many lessons wrapped up in this heartbreaking story of wildfires in California. Uh, And I was listening to them talk about the next 72 hours as being 72 hours of hell. The winds are going to pick up again. And I mean, it could get a lot worse. My friend Kurt Schlichter has a piece over a town hall today. There is no bottom for blue California. He lives out there. He knows a little something about emergencies, emergency response, emergency infrastructure, infrastructure just in that area. He knows a lot about it. So who better to talk to than our very good friend Kurt Schlichter, himself a veteran. And of course, he was there leading the response in the L.A. riots. Everybody saw that. He I mean, he was out there. That was him. He was I mean, not him like he caused it, but he was out there responding to it. I just realized that sounded so bad. Kurt, hi. How are you?
SPEAKER 21 :
Hi, Dana. I'm not sure I was leading. I think I was pretty much my achievement was perfect attendance at the L.A. riots. Perfect attendance. I did command most of the military forces in northern San Diego during the fires in 2007. I had to reinforce. cavalry squadron task group of about 1,300, which is in addition to thousands of others in other sectors. I'm a little concerned about why there's only about 1,700 Cal Guardsmen activated right now. It's about 7% of the total. I don't know what they're doing. I don't understand it. But, you know, I the problem is I don't think the governor does either.
SPEAKER 14 :
And he's the guy who calls them out, which is the scary thing. You guys know our friend Kurt Schlichter, by the way, from his book series as well. And I just I have to think that his his last book, The Attack. I'm just saying I don't want to get into the weeds with with the first off before we before we go further. You're not in the line of danger. I know you're near the danger, but you're not in like a direct fire line.
SPEAKER 21 :
No, I'm about 12 miles away. I live in the South Bay. It's this nice little hidden community where we don't allow the realities of blue California to intrude, where our cops actually do the job. And if you're a hobo, you're going to get turned around and sent off towards the poor sections. Remember, California is a feudal state. Because I'm, well, until last week when I stopped practicing as a full-time lawyer, I've still got my ticket. But I was a part of the elite being a trial lawyer. Yeah. So I was part of the favored.
SPEAKER 14 :
You're part of LA law. Like you could have been that series. Oh, that was...
SPEAKER 21 :
Early in my career, I actually was.
SPEAKER 14 :
I knew it. I knew it. So, you know, you because you've you've grown up in this area. You have witnessed, you know, the coming and going of countless Democrat lawmakers. And you've heard the warnings, too. I mean, good grief. In Texas, we see the news where they're like, oh, well, you know, it's a wildlife land and wildlife management. They're telling, you know, the governor of California that they need to watch for undergrowth and they need to, you know, clear this and, you know, just do basic stuff. And, you know, you had a lot of rainfall out there. I mean, on paper, it doesn't make any sense is how it has spread this fast and is this bad.
SPEAKER 21 :
No, it really doesn't. My favorite excuse is, well, it's climate change. To which I say, so you were aware there was a giant crisis that was going to cause fires to be that much more dangerous. And what did you do besides ban straws and plastic grocery bags?
SPEAKER 14 :
Right. That's a great point.
SPEAKER 21 :
And then you get that blank stare that you always get from the semi-sentient, mindless DEI hires that they put in charge of things out here because their grandfather came from the right continent. I've been putting up with it so long, it's now just kind of, hey, you get what you vote for.
SPEAKER 14 :
Wow. And you get what you vote for. And you didn't vote for any of this, but yet you and a lot of people are feeling the effects of it. Gavin Newsom, is he going to be forced out of office finally? Because I know there was a recall effort that just fell short of the requirement. What is it going to take for people in California to see what these policies deliver?
SPEAKER 21 :
I don't know. See, normal people fill up that empty space inside them with faith, family and, you know, the flag. These communists fill it up with this kind of leftist woke ideology. And that's literally more important to them than anything else. They would rather risk having their house burned down than somebody have an obstacle killing their baby. Wow. And that's, I mean, that's literally it. Now, I keep hearing how, oh, all these Californians are being red-pilled. Forgive me, but I don't quite believe that. But, you know, there's been plenty of red-pill opportunities in the past. And, you know, they may be upset and grumble. But at election time, you know, they're going to vote for the communists again. Because, you know, Trump is bad.
SPEAKER 14 :
Trump is bad. And they I mean, heaven forbid that that's a question that we were talking about. Like at some point, are you so tribal that you're more tribal than you are in favor of your own? success and your own security. And your own life. Yeah, and your own life. There's 24 fatalities there now.
SPEAKER 21 :
Well, you know, we're always hearing, we're always seeing about these, and it's predominantly young women, probably on SSRIs, who will, like, take in an illegal alien or decide they're going to go camping in, you know, Yemen to really connect with the, you know, the third world, who don't understand that the world is a dangerous and ugly place. Because it's been secured by the very people that they look down on. Us gun-toting knuckle-draggers who make the world safe for them have somehow led them to the false impression that the world is safe if you don't have gun-toting knuckle-draggers. And this is the same thing.
SPEAKER 14 :
Karen Bass is mayor. I don't see her going on politically anymore after this because there are a number of people demeaning that she resigned. But it also seems like it's a battle of who can get who under the bus faster, between Newsom and Bass. I feel like they're not going to have a lot of unity already. I'm kind of seeing some stuff. What are your thoughts on that?
SPEAKER 21 :
Well, look, Karen Bass makes Kamala Harris look like that guy in A Beautiful Mind. Wow. I mean, she's- Wow. And a communist, too. She literally loves Astra.
SPEAKER 14 :
More than Justin Trudeau's mom or less? Sorry, that was a bad joke. Sorry, go ahead.
SPEAKER 21 :
I was gonna send him a birthday card. But no, I mean, but there's a similarity there. It took a communist like Castro to turn an island full of Cubans into a poor country. It has taken a communist like Karen Bass to turn a place like California into a hellhole. Man, socialism, Dana, it could do anything.
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It's we're talking with our friend Kurt Schlichter, Los Angeles out of line of fire resident. And he knows a thing or two about responding to natural and some political disasters as well. And he's joining us via Skype. And you have to get his book out, The Attack, his latest book, The Attack, because which brings the arsonists. It's what so they've. Three, I think, well, two definitely firebugs. And then one of them, he was detained, and I think they're still investigating. Which, it seemed weird, the way that it spread. But the number of firebugs that live in the area where you live... I'm also not surprised that they feel so empowered to do this stuff because you previously had a prosecutor who was like, oh, if you're stealing from a store, we're just not going to prosecute you. Or when you reduce those deterrents, does this surprise you?
SPEAKER 21 :
Not at all. And apparently, of course, one's an illegal alien. Of course. Because you've got to put that cherry on top of the cake. No, and look, in the attack, One of the things the terrorists do, because it's so cheap and effective, is start a fire in these same mountains. That's literally right in the middle of the book, because it's so cheap and so easy to do. Imagine if we're having trouble with the Chinese or something. Some of the Chinese sleeper cells, and there are Chinese sleeper cells, just go out there and start throwing matches around. Suddenly, we've got this problem in addition to all the others. It's It's really a terrible situation. It doesn't help that a bunch of homeless junkies are living out in the woods as well. So, you know, again, we decided we closed down the lunatic asylums because we're good, nice people. And now your house is on fire. Yeah.
SPEAKER 14 :
Exactly. We're talking with our friend. That's an important point that you made, too, because like it could be fair. And I'm not saying that that's what this is, but we would be stupid to not, you know, heed the threat that it poses, because I think everyone thinks that these sleeper cells are terrorists, that it's going to be a more sophisticated, you know, attack or there. And all it has to do, all you have to do is be a firebug out in California somewhere.
SPEAKER 21 :
Firebug loony with a rifle. I mean, California. You know, Dana, I don't have a concealed carry permit in California. I commanded thousands of guys with machine guns. And I'm apparently not qualified to decide what weapon I carry when I decide what machine gun they carry. They would not give you a license? Oh, I haven't applied because I don't want to take a psychological test and I don't want to spend $1,000 and I don't want to do all this other stuff. It's insane. Wow. Again, they've made their choices. You know, when when these bad things happen. Oh, my gosh. How could this happen? How could it not?
SPEAKER 14 :
That's the million dollar question. Last question for you. How does this I mean, they said that the next 72 hours, it's going to be disastrous. The winds are picking up. They said I think the Palisades fire was only 13 percent contained as of this morning. 13 percent. That's insane. And I know that, you know, a lot of people have been displaced. I know a lot of people have been displaced and some have lost their homes. And it's you know, it's horrifying to watch. But how? You just made a point earlier, right, when we started talking how they only have like what they've called out seven percent of the guard there. Why isn't the governor called out more? What else could they be doing to respond to this? I mean, I know it's a historically bad wildfire, but my gosh, as you just said, and then we're finding out dry hydrants and everything else. This is a nightmare. What else can they do? Send your dog over there and go at go at Newsome. I love your dog, by the way.
SPEAKER 21 :
I'm sorry, Dade. I had one of the few contractors who's not already occupied in California. He just chose this moment to come in. But look, I don't know what the hell is going to happen in my state. I think it's going to get worse. It's like an alcoholic. All right, today with this thing, okay, you woke up in the next county wearing someone else's pants. All right, maybe you're not hitting bottom yet. Okay, maybe it has to get much, much worse. And it is going to get much, much worse. There's no upward trajectory. It's not like Gavin Newsom is going to make a 180 and decide to become competent. Because, of course, Democrats don't. competent. When you want competence, you get the moderate Republican. You go get the Giuliani. You hire the Richard Reardon. If you're in Massachusetts, you get the Mitt Romney. Not one of those horrible Republicans who actually believes in something, but one who's a technocrat and can kind of pick things up a little so that the completely foreseeable consequences of your ideology don't come to fruition quite yet. but of course they are and uh that's why we've got donald trump there you go and uh i don't know newson may go and newson may try in 28 if this doesn't take him out if the high-speed rail didn't golly i mean will this who knows kurt yeah he's he's i think he's out i think he's done uh i i think he's uh you know he he'll still he would still win if he could run again california but uh I think he's finished elsewhere. Who else is on the Democrat bench? Pete Buttigieg?
SPEAKER 14 :
Amy Klobuchar, maybe.
SPEAKER 21 :
Amy Klobuchar. The only thing I like about her is she's very, very aggressive by throwing staplers at people. Maybe she's terrified of our enemies with office supplies.
SPEAKER 14 :
I mean, if politics doesn't work out, maybe she could go into WWE. I don't know. Nice. I could see that. Kurt Schlichter, always so good to see you, my friend. Thanks for joining us. We appreciate it. Stay safe out there, too. Thanks for having me. Of course. And you can get Kurt's book, The Attack. Make sure you go and get it because it's, I'm just saying it's incredibly timely and it's a very interesting read, especially if that's like a genre you like. His stuff is fantastic and you can get it on Amazon. You get the e-book today even. And our partners over at Super Beats, Super Marine, they're pretenders and they want to be, you know, they're pretenders out there that try to say, oh, we're, you know, a top beat brand. They're really not though and they don't put as much science or can I just be frank, effort into the product as Super Beats does. Unlike these other places, Super Beats actually hired four real scientists. I mean, he's a very nice dude, but total dork. And I say that in a nice way. They're smarter than all of us put together. And they use science to back this. I mean, they're known for their number one cardiologist recommended heart shoes. Now they have the Superberine. Now when you consider all of the science that's gone into this and the research before they even released this, this is a plant-based supplement that's made with an ingredient that helps to support your metabolism and blood sugar levels. And the Berberine, all of this, it's three times more effective than your diet and exercise alone. And so these are clinically researched ingredients, and the berberine that they use is particular. It's shown to have 10 times higher absorption than standard berberine. It's used by doctors from the makers of Super Beet. So head to your nearest Sam's Club, and not only there can you find the Super Beet's heart shoes, but you can also find the Super Berrine from Human at Sam's Club. Find it today.
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It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man.
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So, a couple of... I'm not reading that first one because that's disgusting. We're not doing that one. Some of these are just so nasty. I'm just not. And Florida has to make their stuff public. I'm not doing bestiality stories. We're just not doing that. I'll just... So, no. This is... I can't... What happened this weekend in Florida? Okay, so one South Florida lawmaker, here's a little happy story. He filed a bill to designate the American flamingo as the official state bird for Florida. Can I be real? I thought they already had that. What is up with birds that we thought were mascots or like representatives and they weren't? Like just last week, we made the eagle the official bird and they just now are making the flamingo the official bird? I didn't know that. That's kind of... A Florida man deputy crashed his patrol car into another vehicle because he was watching a naughty video that he should not have been watching. Lake County Sheriff's Office, the Internal Affairs Investigation, found that Deputy Tristan McComber was looking at something not safe for work before the crash happened. His body-worn camera captured the steering wheel airbag deploying after he crashed right into the back of another car. He picked up his cell phone, went to check on the other driver, and apparently he told a sergeant that the brakes locked up Before he re-entered the other car that stopped for a school bus, I might add. And then they found out that he was looking at his phone right before impact. And apparently he was looking at something that was not only inappropriate, but visually inappropriate. And so he was entirely distracted. He's in super big trouble now. Uh, and he wasn't wearing a seatbelt and he was watching his phone while driving. He was watching prawn in case you didn't know. Uh, and he admitted to lying like during the whole thing. So that's not good. That's not good. That's that's no, uh, this, no, I'm not doing this. I know that was in Polk County, but I'm not, I'm not talking about that. This, uh, let's see. Oh, a Florida man was arrested in an alleged plot to bomb the New York stock exchange. Uh, It was a plot that charging documents were unsealed Wednesday. Oh. He, a South Florida resident, Heron Abdul-Malik Yenor. Yes, sounds like Florida guy. He was charged with the attempted use of an explosive to damage or destroy a building used in interstate commerce. He apparently the FBI got a tip that he was storing. Oh, they followed up on something that he was storing bomb making schematics in an unlocked storage unit in Coral Springs. And they found all I mean, he was making bombs, bombs, bomb after bomb after bomb. And he was he apparently met with undercover FBI agents. He was asking them for photos of the New York Stock Exchange and other items. And he was very serious about it. He said he wanted a reboot of the United States government. And he apparently was ISIS adjacent, like he tried to join ISIS or was trying to join ISIS. So at least they stopped that one. Imagine a young woman facing an unplanned pregnancy, feeling alone and unsure of what to do. And she's searching for hope. And that's where Preborn Ministries comes in. You can make a difference for just $28. Your generosity can be the key to a mother choosing life for her baby. And with your gift, you will receive the story of a mom who chose life as well as the ultrasound image of her precious baby. And like the story of Kelsey, who found pre-born and after hearing her baby's heartbeat, she chose life. Consider making a larger, life-changing donation of $5,000, $10,000, or $15,000. Maximize your gift that can help women in unplanned pregnancies receive ultrasounds and even help place an ultrasound machine in a women's center. Donate for the gift of life. Just dial pound 250 and say the keyword baby. That's pound or hashtag 250baby. Or visit preborn.com slash Dana to donate online. Every contribution counts. So again, that's pound 250, say the word baby, or donate securely at preborn.com slash Dana.
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that come here without authorization and they go out and try to loot the place. Give me a break. Those people need to be sent back immediately. So this will end up helping the overall situation even apart from immigration. Now, the accountability is significant. If those duties are clear in law, I have the authority, with respect to certain officials, to suspend them from their office if they are neglecting their duties. And that's an authority that I have invoked when it's been appropriate in the past. We also need to make sure that we don't have incentives for people to come illegally. We enacted E-Verify. People said that couldn't happen. We really did probably the strongest legislation in the country in 2023. So I think Florida has really done a great job With one lingering exception, so back in 2014, the legislature enacted and then the then governor signed legislation providing preferential tuition for illegal immigrants, in-state tuition. That is a benefit that you're rewarding somebody for being here illegally.
SPEAKER 14 :
That's true. That's Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. And I mean, I wish that people in California, like their lawmakers, had that kind of tough talk before all of this or maybe like always been nice. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. We are at the top of this third hour. And I was reading this whole thing. We're going to talk. We got some Republican stuff to get into. But I was reading this. Pull this up. I don't know. It's an explainer on brush clearing. In Missouri, like our family, they have a history with farming and ranching. So land management is not a foreign concept. I don't think it's a foreign concept to people who own property. You own property, you own farmland, you ranch, whatever it is. That's not a foreign concept to you. But if you live out in California and you don't really own land or livestock or anything like that, I don't know. I think some people just think that it just magically takes care of itself. I don't know. But I was reading a couple of different things on this. including a thread that was discussing the shrubby vegetation that is present on, they said, most watersheds in L.A. Chaparral is what it's called. Chaparral. It's soft and then what they call coastal sage scrub, which honestly sounds like a body scrub from Bath and Body Works. They said in the taller, hard chaparral. And that is it's dominated by evergreen and drought and, you know, shrubs that go maybe one to 15 feet tall. It's real tough, like leathery. They survive. It reduces water loss and dry conditions. And they also contain volatile oils. which produce a strong odor and increase flammability. And they said that they depend on fire as a part of their life cycle, and you must hold periodic controlled burns. You absolutely must do that. And if you don't, then when they start covering this broad area and the plants get older and tougher and drier, you're just growing kindling. Tons and tons and tons of it. And they said that usually they just are these continuous closed canopies and they have they are the perfect fuels. They have the perfect fuel characteristics to ignite easily, burn intensely and spread rapidly. And this is something that when they had Rick Caruso, he's the guy who ran against Karen Bass and lost. He actually came pretty close to her in the Palisades of all places, which is a super liberal enclave. But he had actually remarked on this a year or so ago, talking about the mitigation and the extensive brush mitigation and the programs that they use. And he mentioned this specific vegetation that's just so prevalent out there. And... Their requirements, they have companies out there that you can hire because if you're a property owner, you have a house out there. And if you're in what they call a, and this is a sub stack piece, very high fire hazard severity zone, you're apparently supposed to clear all native brushweeds, grass trees, hazardous vegetation within 200 feet of any structure, et cetera. But that's private land. The problem really hasn't been with private land. There's a lot of public land that they're just not doing this on. So it's not the private. And those restrictions are really they're very strict with that regulation. Like you can get cited and fined. But that's, again, on private land. You have almost just almost a million acres of public lands in California. They said that the land that is the... It's like 900-something thousand acres. I read a piece where it said it's the size of Rhode Island. That's a significant amount of land. There's not a lot of structures on it. Densely packed. And you've got that coastal sage scrub. That vegetation that's just kindling. And that's the problem that they have. So they have all these restrictions and regulations if you're a private property owner. But for the public land... Not so much. It's just covered with that chopper. That chopper. It's just covered with it. Probably not saying that right. The coastal sage scrub. We'll call it the Bath and Body Works brand. The coastal sage scrub. There was a piece in ProPublica some years ago where they were where one Californian journalist was talking about the that land management and how. Again, on private land, people do it, but on public land, they don't do it. They're not keeping up with it on public land. And they said that in the history of California, the second and third largest fires have been this week. And they said that the wildland fuels are building up and that you could have something like a power line that goes down in the winds. on this, you know, hundreds of thousands of acres of public land. And then that it could hit that kindling and a spark could go off. And that's the problem. You know, you're not going to be able to prevent every fire, but you can definitely prevent the severity and how far it spreads. But when you have the state and the federal government that are not properly managing those public lands the way that they demand people manage them out there, if they're in those high fire zone areas, that's a huge problem. Isn't there there's already one celebrity who said they were filing suit against the Californian government over. All of this, the lack of water, the lack of land management. And you can actually see my all. And can you probably heard this? Like all of our friends that live out in L.A., they'll tell you, oh, you can look at the land and you can tell, especially if it's in one of those zones. You can tell what's privately owned and what isn't, because if they are so eager to like levy a fine on you, if you're not clearing out all your underbrush. But how? On the land that the state manages or the federal government manages, no, they can do whatever they want. Maybe they're not going to clear it. Last fall, Gavin Newsom was just like, I'm just not going to clear it. Because they were worried that, oh, that actually might be bad for the environment to take out all this, you know. Well, it's bad for the environment worse and also for everyone else there. The restrictions, like I felt on this rabbit hole of restrictions where... Like they're very fine happy out there and they thought the controlled burns were bad for the environment. Who made that up? An illiterate hippie had to have done that. So I don't know. U.S. Forest Service, California state agencies, they're apparently pointing fingers at each other about managed burns. There's going to be a lot of stuff that comes out about this. Think about the level of incompetency demonstrated by the government. Not just with California, but go back further to North Carolina. Go back further to Hawaii. You have three states. These are Democrat policies that are ill-treating the people in each of these states. Now I want you to compare these states to Florida. How many times Florida got whacked by a hurricane in the past year? A couple. pretty damn damaging to Sanibel Island, which I've gone on vacation there before. It's beautiful out there. They had like the one bridge that apparently connects like that island system to the coast and it was out and they rebuild it like a day. Something crazy like that. Like the people in Florida, they just sit and wait for a natural disaster and they prepare for it. And then they go out. You know how Charlie Brown and the little sad Christmas tree and all the kids come together and it's like a pretty tree. And then the floor and then Floridians do that. They get it done there. We had friends in Florida who were dealing with the effects of the one or several hurricanes. And I would ask them, are you without power? Oh, I was for a couple hours. I'm like, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. You had a hurricane come through, took out your bridge, was busting up your infrastructure, and you were just without power for a few hours. And that was like one of the areas that was without it the longest. They're like, yeah. You can see why they don't care about hurricanes down there. You can see why so many people don't leave. Because they're like, no, we vote well. And we know that for the return on the investment of our vote and the tax dollars that are forcibly taken from us, that we're going to be able to get this done. And they just run their agencies there better. They do. It's wild when you compare it. I mean, good grief. Look at Hawaii. Look at North Carolina. Democrat administration. It matters. And when there's natural disasters and you see the response. You see how long it takes. I mean, Florida, after they fixed all this stuff with their hurricane and they got hit pretty damn hard. They sent all the help up to North Carolina and we're clearing roads and rebuilding bridges and all this stuff. They were offering help to California. I don't know how you can look at these states and can compare the response to these disasters and tell me that this ideology is the better way to go about it. For your own survival, you should want to vote differently. This gets beyond petty partisan politics. You literally have an ideology that celebrates mediocrity, not meritocracy. You have an ideology that demands that the government control everything, but yet they don't know how to manage it because it's too damn big and it's a disaster. There's no comparison here. Goodness. Yeah, the U.S. Forest Service in October had directed its employees in California to, quote, stop prescribed burning for the foreseeable future. And the Forest Service, they deal with the Los Angeles National Forest that covers over 650,000 acres. It's one quarter of L.A. County. And it's closed for safety. They just close it. I mean... And they've been fighting. Well, controlled burns are not an effective. It's not effective. It's not going to help. I don't know where I've ever seen that actually work. And then the reservoir. I mean, this is just a nightmare. But there's obviously a difference. And this is what I hope Republicans focus on instead of all this stupid little infighting that they're doing, which we have to touch on this. I don't know why people are mad over Elon Musk over the H-1Bs. I get it. But this is what happens when you have a coalition. Republicans need to right now be looking at all of this and be setting the foundation for midterms. This is what voting this way gets you because it's true. You have epic taxes here, and what are you getting out of it? Epic taxes in Hawaii, what are you getting out of it? North Carolina, what are you getting out of it? This is what the party should be doing. 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I mean, by our days and nights and The moon and the sun and the rotation around this. So if it's not like that elsewhere, then that does suspend the idea of time. Think of it. There are galaxies where you do not have that. So, yeah, I that completely makes sense as an illusion. This is something, though, that. Physicists have kicked around for quite a long time, but the arguments are pretty compelling for it. Some D.C. grocery stores are limiting egg purchases amid amid a nationwide shortage because Biden was such a great president and made the economy so great that they now are having to limit like super expensive eggs. You know, I mean, the butter is more expensive. The milk is more. Everything's more expensive. But apparently they said, yes, they have to they have to limit people to three dozen eggs. So they used Whole Foods in Chevy Chase. Tell me that you are a reporter that doesn't get out of your bubble without telling me that you're a reporter who doesn't get out of their bubble. So this one reporter went to a Whole Foods in Chevy Chase, a super bougie store in a super bougie zip code. And they said, oh, the customers are only allowed three dozen eggs per person. What? I just like wait until you go to the real world and you're not in Whole Foods and Chevy Chase. It's even worse for this, even worse for those folks. Good grief. The UK has less than a week of gas left after temperatures plummeted. So it's an ally. They're running out of gas. They said that their storage sites are less than 20 or 26 percent less than they were at the same time last year. So they're about half empty. And they said that we're an outlier from the rest of Europe. And now we're seeing the implications of the storage, etc. And so they said that they're confident they have sufficient gas supply and electricity capacity to meet demand. 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Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you. I'm watching video of just we're not going to play it. So no worries. Joe Biden is giving his final foreign policy address because he's got a week left. That's it. And he's trying to paint a very rosy picture. And it doesn't it's not a rosy. There's no rosy picture to paint. So welcome back. We're at the bottom of this third hour. Joining us now, we were actually just talking about on break, I heard Cain talking to him about how much jet lag Stephen Yates probably has. I don't even think he gets jet lag. I'm pretty sure he's probably immune to it. He doesn't sleep. He just sits there calmly in his seat and waits. And then arrives. That's it. I'm pretty sure that's how it works with him. Stephen Yates, as you know, is a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation. And he spent two administrations, presidential administrations, where he was advising on key issues of foreign policy. And he's a China expert. And you can find him on X at Yates Compte. He joins us now via Skype. Stephen, always good to see you. Happy New Year. Glad that you made it made it back safe and sound after traveling the world because you were recently in Taiwan. Can I say that? That's correct, right?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, Taiwan and Tokyo.
SPEAKER 14 :
Wow. Taiwan. So I'm going to get into the Panama Canal and all of this stuff. But tell me about this quarantine that China is starting to talk about as it relates to Taiwan, because now they feel like, oh, we just need to stop certain things from entering Taiwan. So we should probably start talking about maybe quarantining them. I was reading about this this morning. They're they're really planning to get away with a lot in terms of how they treat that sovereign entity.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, and why wouldn't they? They have been able to push the envelope for a very long time. They haven't faced really much price to pay. Occasionally, we'll send some kind of naval and air vessels through the Taiwan Strait to kind of brush them back in international waters and airways. But they've been encroaching upon Taiwan's sovereign territory, as well as that of Japan and the Philippines in recent times. And so this is actually one of the greatest concerns I ran into going to East Asia most recently. The people over there, their governments are trying to increase capacity. They're trying to work together to push back and be resilient. They're looking for what the United States might signal by way of helping out, not asking the U.S. to take the brunt of it, but they don't want to have to stand alone. And this is one of those big things that Team Trump is going to have on the plate right from the get-go. And Team Biden is trying to claim that all is dandy on the way out the door. And just no one in Asia believed that.
SPEAKER 14 :
Everything's great. Nothing to worry about. This is probably like a really elementary way of putting it. But when I was reading... about just the overtures that China's making. Oh, it's not a blockade. It's just, you know, a quarantine. Like they're very particular about their wording because they don't want to adopt or implement anything that could signal war because they want to leave themselves some room to walk back. So they're like, that's like the whole strategy of I'm touching you, but I'm not touching you. Right. Like you're like as a kid when you would aggravate your siblings, your cousins, you're like, I'm not touching you. I'm not touching you. And you're like right there that far away from them. This is like honestly what it feels like. I mean, a blockade is a blockade. You can call it a quarantine all you want to.
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Well, I think the accidentally on purpose, their little political word game is telling more than they know. I mean, what do you quarantine? You quarantine a virus. What is the virus they're trying to quarantine? We might call it freedom or democracy or something like that. They definitely don't want that crap getting out and infecting them over there in mainland China where they like to have a super surveillance state. lock up people in work camps in the far northwest, but don't call them Muslim, to crush freedom in Hong Kong and free speech. But it's just all about unity. So yeah, I think they accidentally on purpose say quarantine because what they're really trying to do is to keep those nasty viruses of freedom from getting out. And of course, it's really dangerous too in operation because you can't blockade Taiwan without encroaching on two U.S. treaty allies. And people can say, well, we don't want to be involved, but we're already signed on as a country constitutionally passing ratification of these things in the Senate to say that we're going to stand by our treaty allies, Japan and the Philippines. And we need alliances in order to try to keep that deterrent far from our shores. And so that's kind of the trick here. China is encroaching as much as it can. And people over there are saying, hey, we want to push back, but what can we really do? And we're going to have to solve this. We've got to make sure, I think, first and foremost, stop feeding the beast. And that's why you've got to reorient our trade. away from the funds that allow China's military machine to to run ahead and stop sharing so much technology. They steal plenty. But, you know, take these two inputs out that we have given trillions of dollars away in recent decades. And let's at least start in the basics.
SPEAKER 14 :
That's a great point. Talking with our friend Stephen Yates at Yates comes on X. So if you're Trump. You're walking into this. It hasn't been improved by the last four years of a Biden regime. What do you what do you do to even start trying to push back on this? I mean, it's it's tricky. It's a very China's very aggressive and they they want to call everything done to them that they're doing to everybody else in active war.
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Yeah, they do have this art of projection in all that they do. But they're up against, I think, probably one of the great head game players of our time in Donald Trump. I mean, he seems to live rent free in a lot of people's heads. And if he can, if he can do that to the American left, I hope he can do it to the international left too. And you don't get much further left than communists. And so I think that, uh, you know, I, I would like to believe he'll open up dialogue. I am happy not to be a part of that dialogue, but he's gonna try to take the temperature of where things are, but he'll also simultaneously put tariffs and other pressure in place. And he also wants to sell defense articles to people who want to defend themselves. And that, I hope, is what Doge gets the Pentagon-oriented right to get all of the inefficiencies and corruption to the extent possible in the swamp out of our defense manufacturing supply chain. That'll minimize risk for America, maximize deterrent, and if he can play the head games with China and its leaders, that might buy time for what I think is his mission number one, which is American revival. We start hitting on all engines with grow, baby, grow, and drill, baby, drill, and secure our border, and get people believing in America again, leading up to our 250th 4th of July. All that goodness, that just nukes this narrative that China's on the rise and America's on the decline. I think it's kind of the reverse if we get our house in order.
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, they love that narrative. They love that optic, which is kind of why I talk with our friend Stephen Yates. For those listening, Trump, he's he's I think last his last term, he talked a little bit about the Panama Canal incident. But now there seems to be a plan of action like he's very much interested in figuring out how to deal with the China factor on the canal, as we've talked about on the program. And you and I've talked about it before. They have hubs at either end of the canal. You know, that's like a Belt and Road initiative country there. I mean, do they who controls the canal? I know it's owned by the Panama government, but who really controls it?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, there are pieces of this, you know, flowing through the canal is one thing. But if you have a lot of material you're moving through, you're probably going to use port facilities in addition to just vessels that flow through. And if you have, say, five major port facilities on each end of The canal and two or three of them are Hong Kong based entities that used to be a free colony of Great Britain, but decidedly as part of the People's Republic of China. And after their national security laws passed, it's very clear even corporate entities in Hong Kong answer to the Communist Party of China. And, you know, so I think it was appropriate. This is another one of those things that Donald Trump does more than anyone in history where he says something and people lose their Froot Loops over it. And then all of a sudden you start asking basic questions and you're like, Well, who does run this? And didn't America invest an awful lot and give it away for very little? Thank you, President Carter. And now, isn't this a major national security issue for us? It's the same thing with Greenland and this other stuff. People get all over there doing backflips, but then you start asking basic questions. Well, why should it be a colony of Denmark? And what are they going to do to protect the Arctic and critical minerals there? And if it's bad for us to buy it, do you think the Chinese won't be in there trying to buy stuff? So he's forcing people to have to take a second look. And as you intimated, it's getting us to what ought to be a better deal in these things. And there have been neglected issues from multiple administrations, Republican and Democrat.
SPEAKER 14 :
Last quick question for you on that, because he's got just one term and he's termed out. And he's really of that this last term, you've got six months where you can don't have to worry about some of these other lawmakers in purple districts. Oh, I'm going to start going towards the center again. It it's like it seems like an an insurmountable task to start doing to start this. How should he I mean, how should he even approach it? If you're telling Trump, OK, this is the first thing that you need to do. What do you even tell him? This is this is the hard part.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, I think I just begin at home and it doesn't sound like it's foreign policy advice, but it's what puts America in the best possible position to achieve peace and prosperity with our partners around the world. That is, we have to respect our sovereignty and secure our border. We can't allow the death of hundreds of thousands of American youths and let that just go unabated and expect we're gonna get anywhere in the world. If we don't respect our own people's lives, then bad people will assume we're weak and they'll be right. Second thing, we have got to be serious about getting energy. I think that's why the Secretary of Interior is in charge of the Energy Committee. It's because we have so much federal land in America. Most Americans have no idea that when you get west of the Mississippi River, you can get upwards of two-thirds to three-quarters of a state that is actually owned by the federal government. And we have amazing resources there. that can be used cleaner or more efficiently to fuel america the north america the world if we just get our head out of you know where yeah and that if we do just those two things we're on our way to the bad guys going well shoot we don't really have that much leverage over america like we thought we did america's not on the climb like we thought it was And so we had better start making a better deal because this mojo is going in the right direction. And a lot of America's allies want to be on board that.
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, it's going to be a difficult six months. It could be worth it, but it's going to be a tough six months. Steven Yates at Yatescom. So glad that you got back safe. Good to see you, my friend. Happy New Year. We'll talk again.
SPEAKER 04 :
Happy New Year. Thank you so much, Dana. Take care.
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Let's talk about some unfinished business. Between Israel and Hamas, how close is anyone to a hostage deal? Well, I can answer that question in two ways. We are very, very close. And yet being very close still means we're far because until you actually get across the finish line, we're not there.
SPEAKER 14 :
What? That's Jake Sullivan. And what he said is not making sense there. So he says, Yes, it's he also he he's just they have the worst soundbites from this whole administration today, whether it's Karine Jean-Pierre or whether it's Biden or whether it's Jake Sullivan or Antony Blinken, who spoke earlier today. In fact, Biden, there's audio here. Just cue me when we have it. was saying that in his big foreign policy address that he just, his last that he gave, he was saying that, you know, the biggest threat that everybody's facing is climate change. That's the big threat.
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I know some incoming administration, some in the incoming administration are skeptical about the need for clean energy. They don't even believe climate change is real. I think they come from a different century. They're wrong. They are dead wrong. It's the single greatest existential threat to humanity.
SPEAKER 14 :
It is, though? Wait a minute. You know, did we check the names of the guys who were starting the fires out in California? Because I thought one of them was Mr. Change. First name, Climate. Right. Climate change. Mr. and Mrs. Change's son. You know, although I think that they've kind of got like a volatile family history there, the changes do. But their son, Climate, who's been causing these fires in and around. I mean, that's that makes sense if that's the guy's name. If they're if the arsonists name or climate change, that makes sense.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah. I think he pronounces it Clemente. Oh, Clemente Change. That's right.
SPEAKER 14 :
That's right. Clemente Change. It's French. It's French. The French, typical French terrorist, you know, just out there.
SPEAKER 08 :
Paris Accords. That makes sense then.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah. Yeah. You know, I mean, yeah, I get it. Totally makes makes all the sense in the world. Are you guys you guys are going to miss Biden, aren't you? You guys are going to miss his weird rambling speeches where he all of a sudden just decides to yell.
SPEAKER 08 :
No, I'm not going to.
SPEAKER 14 :
Not even at the right part. You're not going to miss it?
SPEAKER 08 :
I'm not going to miss any of it.
SPEAKER 14 :
I'm going to miss Corrine Jean-Pierre mispronouncing literally everything. That's really going to miss whether it's Emeritus or the Nordstrom pipeline, which that was actually the first and only time I got pleasantly excited by anything that the administration said. I was like, wait a minute. Are you telling me I could have a Nordstrom pipeline? pipeline like where is that i choose the bougie stuff the nord stream i mean i would like accessories more than just gas but whatever you know Maybe that's the one way to look at it. But I don't know. So this they're trying to set the stage that they're leaving, you know, right right before any economic doom. Oh, look how great it is under us. And then they're going to hand the mess to the Trump administration and blame him for everything that Biden's done. Exactly what they're going to do. Exactly what they're going to do. And then the media is going to help romanticize Biden's history. Although I will say, do you know that for the inauguration, designers are now offering to dress Melania Trump? That was a huge thing previously. They didn't want to have anything to do with her. And Ralph Laurence said out of respect for the office, he absolutely was going to create her a dress. And that's the dress she wore Inauguration Day. Now these other designers are like, oh, I guess we... Too late. Too late. Today in stupidity came.
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All right. L.A. County Public Works. OK, this guy is in charge. He's the director, Mark Pestrella. Listen to what he says here. I think it was a little bit of a slip, but did they start the fires? Listen to this.
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Let's take care of our mental and physical health. to rebuild these communities back and rebuild them better than they were when we started this fire.
SPEAKER 08 :
What? What? Are you admitting?
SPEAKER 14 :
Was that an admission? What? Yeah, it was confusing.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, boy. That's stupid. I want to see the backlash he gets for that.
SPEAKER 14 :
But is that smelt protected, that little bait fish, though? I'm curious. Folks, that does it for us today. I will be back behind the mic with you tomorrow and we'll start previewing some of the inauguration stuff. God bless. Have a great night.
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There's nothing like that that's going to be open to the public in the state. So you guys have to go check it out. I'm not saying that just because I work there. I'm saying that because I would visit that store even if I didn't work there. The concealed carry classes are going to be more comprehensive, as you know, and in-depth, eight hours long. So that's going to start happening July 1st. If you want to sign up for a concealed carry class and if you've been thinking about it, it's time to do it. As you may or may not know, Colorado's lovely General Assembly is back at it again, trying to ban assault rifles, which I can't stand that term, but I use it because that's what they use. All kinds of stuff coming down the pike, and we need to fight all this, people. Just go to the Colorado General Assembly's website and start looking at some of the bills that they've got proposed and just start fighting. You've got to fight this stuff. My next concealed carry class is going to be on January 25th. You can find all the upcoming classes on Franktown Firearms website. And also there's a new website in the works. So be on the lookout for that. But the current website is franktownfirearms.com. You can give them a call at 720-770-7777. If you'd like to inquire about inventory or Or just stop by. Like I said, you've got to come check it out anyway. Franktown Firearms is open seven days a week, Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 6. And we're located just east of the intersection of Highway 83 and Highway 86 in Franktown. You can't miss it. Well, I guess you can in the dark, but just go check it out. So I'm going to talk today about the fires in California. Obviously, you guys know me, but I'm going to start with something else. As you probably have ascertained by now, I love TikTok. I get a lot of information from TikTok, and I know a lot of people who won't touch that app with a 10-foot pole because it's owned by China. They're stealing our data. They're spying on us. And, you know, it's owned by the CCP and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And as you may or may not know, there are hearings going on right now to determine TikTok's fate. A possible ban is in the works, which makes me very sad. Not only because I use TikTok to get information and lots of it, But I'm sad for those people who make their living from TikTok. They either, you know, have a TikTok shop and they're in an affiliate program or whatever. They're monetizing their videos. It doesn't matter. There are many accounts on that platform by people who might be disabled in some way and can't work. And they have these huge followings because the content they put out is heartfelt and And they have interesting stories or perspectives on things, and they make money from the content they create and that they post. And, of course, I'm on the geopolitical side of TikTok. But I also see, like, animal rescue videos and cooking videos and travel and crochet. You may or may not know that I'm an avid crocheter. Well, not avid. I guess I'm not. I can't consider myself avid because I see some work that people put out, and I'm like, duh. There's no way that I could possibly do this, but regardless of what content shows up on my For You page, I just enjoy the app. I've learned a lot by watching these videos, and I see a different perspective from a lot of different folks who are doing the digging when it comes to conspiracy theories and things that we may not learn just from watching the nightly news. on ABC or even Fox News for that matter. Well, an attorney representing TikTok had something to say about the platform, leading everyone to the conclusion that we might have been lied to about the app and about the app's owners and its origins. What a shock. They lied? They lied to us? No, that could not possibly be. So he was talking – he was doing a news – a press conference or whatever, and he's talking about what happened in regard to the hearings that are going on right now. And here's what he had to say to the public during a press conference that aired on PBS. He says, quote, they vigorously questioned both sides. They put us through our paces, but what really came through is that we understand the importance of this case. I'm very hopeful for a favorable decision. I'd like to emphasize a few points that came up during the argument. First, and perhaps most importantly, TikTok Incorporated is a United States company. It's incorporated in the state of California. It's got thousands of employees based here in the United States. The government does not dispute that it is a bona fide U.S. subsidiary operating in the United States in accordance with all of the actual principles of American corporate law. Second, ByteDance Limited is a private company, and ByteDance Limited is the parent company of TikTok. It's a private company. It is a private holding company that is based in the Cayman Islands. It is not owned by China. And that is a quote from the attorney representing TikTok. It is not owned by China. No part of the Chinese government has an ownership stake directly or indirectly in TikTok Incorporated or ByteDance. ByteDance, rather, is 58% owned by global institutional investors, including very large American investors. institutional investors like Susquehanna and General Atlantic. It is 21% owned by its employees, many of whom are American employees here in the United States, and it is 21% owned by one of its founders, who is a Chinese national living in Singapore. Third, TikTok Incorporated exercises independent judgment with respect to the algorithm in the United States. The source code for the algorithm is brought into the United States and stored on servers located in Virginia. There, it's converted into executable code. It's modified. It's customized. It's trained. It's moderated pursuant to moderation policies, and it's implemented in the United States. So when TikTok Incorporated implements the recommendation in the United States, that is very much TikTok Incorporated's speech. That is the speech of a U.S. entity speaking in the United States. Fourth, the intellectual property for the algorithm is not owned by the Chinese government. It is owned by ByteDance LTD, which is a global entity, a company that is incorporated in the Cayman Islands and operates subsidiaries throughout the world. And then fourth, He goes on to say, my final sub-center point is that the United States government concedes. Okay, did you catch that word? The United States government concedes that it has no evidence that China has ever attempted to date to control the U.S. TikTok platform. It concedes that China has not attempted to censor content on the platform in the United States. It concedes that China has not attempted to misappropriate the user data in the United States. And if China ever asked TikTok or asked TikTok through ByteDance to do any such thing, it would refuse. And then he goes on to say, I think what we heard today in oral arguments when all of the lawyers were up, were the most important First Amendment principles at stake here. We're talking about a social media platform that is regularly used by 170 million Americans. That is half the country. This country has never taken the step in shutting down a speech platform, much less such an important speech platform. Because as the government effectively concedes in its brief, it's afraid that the content that could come out on that platform might be dangerous. We don't normally think of speech as dangerous. The Supreme Court has repeatedly said that speech is not dangerous. And you shut down a speech platform because you're worried about speech being dangerous. That is the whole point of the First Amendment, that we engage with ideas and we let the truth come out. That's the fundamental problem with this act. It doesn't reflect the trust. that the First Amendment places in the American people. We are confident that the Supreme Court will place that trust in the American people, and we look forward to a favorable decision out of the court. So I think it's important for people to know that we've been lied to about this. And I don't know if the bad information originated from someone in government or not, but what I do know is that it's been a longstanding belief held by many people, including myself at one time, that TikTok is owned by China. And even worse, some people believe it's owned by the CCP. And I'm telling you, I have, you know, I'll post a link to a TikTok video and, you know, I get responses from people that say, I will never use TikTok. I will never use that. It's owned by the CCP. They're stealing our data. In my mind, I'm thinking, okay, well, What is the CCP going to do with my account information that only includes a made-up username and an email address that I don't use? But it turns out it's all BS anyway, just like everything else. When the government tries to ban something, you know it's something they don't like. It has nothing to do with the people or what we want or what we need. If they're threatened by it, they try to get rid of it. Think about Facebook and Zuckerberg. which, incidentally, he can take his excuses and shove them where the sun doesn't shine, okay? If the government felt threatened by all the COVID disinformation, all of which turned out to be true, by the way, and Facebook allowed all of it without interfering, they probably would have tried to shut down Facebook, too, right? But companies like Meta, Facebook, Google, which is YouTube, and Twitter, when Facebook It was under Jack Dorsey. They caved. They all caved. They folded like lawn chairs and allowed the United States government to bully them into submission and censor the people with their purple-haired soy boy fact-checkers doing the bidding of the U.S. government through Facebook from their mommy's basement. That's kind of how that all played out. Not that any of these platform CEOs had a problem with the censorships. Because if they did, they wouldn't have allowed it. They would have just told the government to go pound sand. They're all radical leftists, and they probably enjoyed what they were doing, shutting down the accounts of conservatives and truth-tellers. But now people like Zuckerberg see the writing on the wall, and they understand that the incoming administration won't tolerate their anti-American, anti-First Amendment BS. And they're going to have problems. So now they're crawling out of their caves, and they're asking for forgiveness. That's kind of what we're seeing with Zuckerberg. And if you listen to this show, you've heard me talk about TikTok. You hear me talk about it all the time and why I believe government wants it shut down. I've said it before. And what do you know? It looks like I may have been right. I've always said that the government doesn't want us talking to each other about what they're doing. They don't want independent journalists who are doing actual investigative journalism, not just regurgitating their 4 a.m. talking points. delivered to them by the deep state every day. They dig in and they release anything that they don't approve of. It's just the way it is. That's how journalism is supposed to work. And so they come up with this ridiculous act, H.R. 7521, that Biden signed into law in April. And the act says that either TikTok finds an approved buyer and they sell TikTok or they're going to be banned. in the United States. So what exactly is an approved buyer? So that's my first question. Does Congress have to approve the buyer? Maybe Donald Trump can buy it. Wouldn't that be amazing? Something tells me that if Congress has to approve the buyer, that Donald Trump would not be approved. I'm just throwing that out there. What's interesting is that even as I'm researching the TikTok ban on the internet, and I'm trying to find information on this act, this 7521 act, all the AI bots are still producing results that say Chinese-owned company because that's how they were trained to produce the results. Even though what I read to you was directly from one of TikTok's attorneys currently engaged in oral arguments before the United States Supreme Court, Google still says it's a Chinese-owned company. So it doesn't matter what's truth or what's a lie, as long as it fits into the deep state's mold and the deep state's narrative and coincides with their agenda, that's what people are going to see. Perhaps on page 3,470 in a Google result, you can see the truth about TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance. But I'm confident everything is going to come out eventually. Well, maybe not confident. I'm hopeful. Maybe hopeful is a better word. I did read that even if SCOTUS rules against TikTok, that it may take years for an actual ban to go into effect. So I guess we'll see. But I just wanted everybody to understand that TikTok is not the devil. It's not. And if you... Download the app where you're saying to yourself, well, I don't want to see a bunch of 13-year-old girls dancing. If you think that's all TikTok is about, then you need to pull your head out of your behind, okay? TikTok has – okay, I'm going to tell you a little story about something. It's not even on my notes. It's something that I just want to tell you about a video that I watched this morning. There is a company out there called SB Tech. landscaping, I think, or SB, lawn care, something like that. And what this guy does, in addition to his paid jobs, is he goes around and he finds individuals, maybe elderly, maybe disabled in some way, who have really rough, you know, like their lawn hasn't been mowed and their weeds haven't been taken out and their bushes are untrimmed and their, you know, whatever. And And he will go around and he'll find these people and he will do a landscaping job for them for free. Okay. And I was watching this video and this guy, he came up to a, this woman had to have been, I don't know, at least 80 years old, had a hard time walking, had to walk with a cane and she was very slow. And he approached her and offered to clean up her property. And she said that she'd been getting, you know, warnings from, the town and everything that she needs to clean it up and, or they were going to send somebody out and charge her for it, which she doesn't have the money to pay for it. So he cleaned it up. He does a fast motion kind of video and watches the whole, you know, you can watch the whole cleanup happening as it's happening in, in fast time or whatever. So after that, he decided this woman really needs some help. because the driveway was really cracked and there was weeds growing out of the driveway and the house was not in complete disrepair from the outside, but you can just kind of imagine that the inside is probably in disrepair as well. Cause she lived there by herself and you know, there's, there's not, there's nobody with her to help her, um, you know, take care of business on the inside. So he created a GoFundMe for her. And, um, This account is gigantic. His personal SB landscaping or whatever is a huge account. And he puts this GoFundMe out. He links it on his bio in his TikTok account. And he says that he's trying to get some people to help with maybe replacing her driveway so it's a little easier to walk on for her. She's got a deck that's falling apart, and he's going to help her with that. Well, believe it or not, within two hours of that GoFundMe being set up, there was $150,000 in that account. When I saw the video and looked into it, I clicked on the GoFundMe because I was going to donate, and there was almost $500,000 in that GoFundMe account. That is mind-blowing. That is the power of TikTok. That is the power of this community coming together to help this woman replace some stuff on her house, and she was overwhelmed. She's in tears, and she can't even believe it. The guy's the owner of SB Landscaping or whatever. His name is Spencer, and she was just completely beside herself when she found out that he had set this thing up, and all these people wanted to help her. So, That is the kind of stuff that you can find on TikTok. It's not all teenagers twerking in front of the camera, okay? There's a lot of good information that you can find on TikTok. There's how-tos. There's DIYs. Like I said, there's cooking. There's crochet. There's travel. There's everything that you can imagine. So get off the fact that you think TikTok is owned by the CCP and just go download it. And I think we need to fight this ban because it's ridiculous, okay? It's ridiculous because they want it banned. You have to know that there's some good that's coming out of it, okay? Okay. So I'm going to move on to these California fires. And I guess, you know, this is a good time as any just to tell you that you can go ahead and strap on that tinfoil helmet because some of this stuff is just things that are being thrown out there. Yeah, so... Of course you know I'm going to bring you something a little edgier than what you're seeing on Fox News, right? Mama Glock always brings some spicy sauce to the talk radio party. So the updated info is that at least 25 people have died. The news is still reporting like 7 or 10 or something, some of which died trying to protect their homes from being engulfed in flames. Many people died in their homes. The Palisades Fire, this was as of 6 a.m. this morning, has burned 23,713 acres and is only 13% contained. The Eaton Fire has burned 14,117 acres and is 27% contained. The Hearst Fire has burned 799 acres and is 89% contained. And as of Sunday night, the Lydia, Archer, Woodley, Sunset, and Kenneth Fires were 100% contained and no longer considered active. So these last few fires collectively burned like 1,500 acres, roughly. So the official cause of the fires has not yet been determined. But a red flag warning is in effect through Wednesday for much of Los Angeles and Ventura counties. Now we have fires popping up in Miami, Florida. what is it with all these fires right next to the ocean? Isn't the ocean made of water? Couldn't someone pump that water onto the fires somehow? I don't know, just a thought. My husband works at it for a big, heavy civil construction firm, and he's telling me they could set up pumps and, you know, they could get this water where it needed to be in no time. But what do we know, right? So let me just dive right into what the conspiracy theorists are saying about these fires. how and possibly why they were started. And remember, my opinions are not necessarily those of Crawford Broadcasting, their advertisers, employees, or that of Franktown Firearms, for that matter. That's the beauty of living in this country. I can talk about this stuff, and you have the choice to listen to me or not, right? So do you remember when the smart meters were installed on all of our homes in Colorado? I think it was right around 2021-ish, right? I was very resistant to getting one. I was already kind of becoming awake and like, nah, I don't know about this. I don't like the, you know, this whole idea that somebody could shut my power off or, you know, whatever, just because they didn't like what I said on Facebook or whatever. And my husband and I often talked about not getting one, like resisting getting one. But one day, We got a notice on our door that said we got one anyway. So we didn't really get a choice in the matter. But some people are claiming that these fires were caused by these smart meters and on all of these fancy LA homes. So there's that. Of course, there's a lot of speculation that the fires are being set to destroy evidence in the Diddy case. Some are saying that the underground tunnel system is being destroyed as well. So that's kind of freaky. Allie Carter, if you know who she is, if you don't, go look her up. Allie Carter has her opinions on this, and we're going to dive into this scenario for just a bit, okay? This is from a post on X by The Skiff. It's The and then Skiff is S-C-I-F, okay? That's the account on X. And ex-FBI chief Ted Gunderson tried to warn everyone and explained about the existence of underground tunnels existing underneath L.A. They use these underground locations and tunnels for satanic rituals and human trafficking by the elite and even members of our own government. Ted Gunderson also warned and exposed the rituals being performed by the elites at Bohemian Grove before the public was aware of its existence. And if you don't know what Bohemian Grove is, you'll have to go look that up. I'm not going to go into it. Gunderson dedicated his life to exposing satanic elite pedophile rings. He talked to numerous victims and whistleblowers who stated that elites would rape and murder kidnapped children from around the country and perform ritualistic practices and even make and distribute snuff films at the Bohemian Grove involving some of the most famous people in the world. Gunderson also exposed the CIA's Finders cult, which also involved and our own government's involvement in child sex trafficking. Gunderson was an originator when it came to exposing the elites and their satanic cults and child sex trafficking, but the public at this time just weren't ready for such a dark truth to be revealed to them. And I'm reading to you from this ex-post, by the way. This is not me. This is this ex-post from the SCIF. Ted lost his life fighting for what was right, exposing these diabolical elites, and will never be forgotten. It is up to us now to continue exposing these satanic elites and end child trafficking once and for all. So I want you to listen to Gunderson himself as he explains what he discovered in his quest to expose human trafficking. Check this out.
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We connect all of the dots, and they've got some of the same symbols that go to Bathamon. The owl of Moloch up here in the Bohemian Grove, they sacrifice children. They do it symbolically now, maybe. No, no.
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I have a source, when he was 12, 13, 14 years old, who was put in a cage at the Bohemian Grove with another young boy who was part of their network. And they had a third young boy in there who had been kidnapped, and they had to commit sex acts with him, and then they had to murder him on camera. This is called a snuff film. These snuff films sell for $50,000 each.
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I know Sammy Davis Jr. was heavy under that.
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Well, Sammy Davis Jr. admitted he was involved in the Satanic. This all goes back to Satanic cults.
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He was with Anton LaVey, is that correct?
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That's right. In Nebraska in the 1980s. I have sources who I've talked to, and they told me they were part of the network. One of them in particular was used as a decoy in parks, public places, shopping malls, to bring children his age, 12, 13, 14 years old, near the car. They'd kidnap the kids. He'd attended auctions where these kids were auctioned off for up to $50,000 each. He's attended six auctions, as few as six and as many as 36 children were auctioned off for up to $50,000 each, as I said a moment ago. If you go to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children website, last time I checked, there are 91 Americans who disappear every hour. And it is believed 85 to 90% of them are children. Okay? These children, of course, a lot of them are returned because they're parental kidnaps and so forth. But a lot of them are not returned. And I have investigated and exposed an organization in Washington, D.C., known as the Finders. It's a CIA child kidnapping ring. Tell them. I've investigated and exposed an organization in Washington, D.C., known as the Finders. It's an international child kidnapping ring. And as I said a few moments ago, these kids sell on the auction block for up to $50,000 each. My source was there, and he was part of the network. He was one of the decoys. He uses a decoy, as I mentioned a few moments ago. So this all dovetails. And you give this to the law enforcement, they laugh at you. Because they've been infiltrated, very basically. Not every law enforcement agency, I'm sure. There's a lot of good police officers, a lot of good FBI agents, CIA agents. But it's a fact. Congressman Kucinich has announced that the CIA has their own assassination squad.
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So, you know, take that for what it is. I don't know. But you can find that video with the ex-posts. on X, obviously, from this gift. And I'm sure you can find the entire interview. We're going to be back in just a little bit here, and we're going to talk about some other causes for the California fires. We'll be right back.
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And we're back. I was just talking about Ted Gunderson. If you want to look him up, you can. He's exposing a lot of stuff, and this could all be – he says it's all connected, and I think I've always said that everything is connected. It's all connected. So there are also people with regard to these fires that say that this destruction – is necessary to begin implementing the Smart City program. Now, with that in mind, remember that Newsom has already said that they're looking at reimagining LA 2.0. Okay, he said that. And I also want to remind everyone that California is no longer in a drought. The drought was officially declared over in 2022. In fact, they have a water surplus, and they've had a water surplus for the last two and a half years. That said, I would also like to remind everyone of the horrendous negligence by Governor Newscum with regard to California's water situation. There has been a lot of runoff. Like I said, they now have a water surplus. They have more than enough water to fill their local reservoirs and perhaps the reservoirs that might feed those hydrants, right? And we'll talk about that in just a second. But this water was allowed just to be drained off, just run off into the ocean instead. And then there's the lack of forest management. Lots of brush that was left unchecked, uncleared, just allowed to overgrow and become tender for a wildfire. Probably because some endangered beetle, I don't know, used this brush as their shelter and they couldn't clear it because PETA would freak out. Johnny, I got you on the line. What you got for me?
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You beat me to the punch about him reimagining this. And what I was explaining to my wife, and she doesn't understand, is they want to put these people in high rises and put them into these 15-minute communities just so they can have more control over these people. And most of those people are going to be the middle-class ones that bought the house years ago at another price, and then it raised up to this $2 million or whatever price. And it just seemed like by force, he's saying, okay, it looks like just the Hawaiian thing and this. It looks like the same thing. By force, we can't just suggest that you guys move out of single living households. We want to force you into doing what we say and then try to say it was an accident.
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Of course. That's CMO. And, you know, you see all those properties that were perched right along the Pacific Coast Highway, and I'm going to talk about that, but all those properties just incinerated. The ones right on the ocean, like right on the ocean. There's no land between those homes and the water. It's totally evil, but it's almost like
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okay, so he wants to save those little fishes, but how many people was he willing to sacrifice to get their plan through?
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Yeah, everyone. They don't care. They don't care. They really, really don't. They know that if they build their high-rises and they build everything vertically and they pack it with people, somebody will move in, somebody will pay the rent, somebody will You know, they're all going to comply, and that's just how they think. And so, you know, we don't need these energy-consuming, giant, you know, mega mansions and stuff right on the beach. We're going to make these all into high-rise apartment complexes. And that's what they want. Absolutely.
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Adam Crow, he said something that was kind of interesting on his show. He was saying something about, okay, all these people lost their homes, but you don't see any of them being homeless. And, of course, he pointed out because they haven't broken ties with people, they can call their friends, neighbors, family and say, hey, I need to hang out with you for a while, unlike these other people that are, you know, shooting up and cutting ties and all that. So I thought that was kind of interesting, too.
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And many of them own multiple homes. So they'll just move into their other home, you know. Yeah.
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Okay. That's all I got. All right, Johnny.
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Thank you so much. So Revolver News put out a video of arsonists setting fires in Santa Monica, and I saw another video of a guy that some concerned citizens actually took down and, you know, waited for law enforcement to arrive. He had a blowtorch in his hand, or like, you know, one of those, the torches that I don't know. We use it for like lighting fireworks and stuff like that on 4th of July. Just your propane torch. He had one of those. What are you doing with one of those? OK. And he was of course, he was an illegal migrant. And of course, no charges were filed against him because that's just the way it is. And, you know, we don't see any of that on the news. I saw that on TikTok. And maybe they're just copycats who want to see the entire West Coast burned to ground. I don't know. But then we have all those fire hydrants that I mentioned earlier that were offline. Isn't that the whole purpose of a fire hydrant, to attach a hose to it and put out a fire? But, you know, they didn't work. A lot of them were, they didn't have water behind them. But the hydrants were painted with lovely LGBTQ rainbow colors. So that's all that matters, I guess. That's what's really important is that we get that LGBTQ message out there in the form of painting a fire hydrant because that's what people really need to focus on. An old video is reemerging now of Trump warning Newsom about the fire dangers around Southern California. And residents are beginning to demand Newsom's resignation. And I hope that they rise up and just – kick that guy out of there. And as Johnny was saying earlier, Adam Carolla also predicted that a lot of California residents are going to leave the Democrat Party as a result of this debacle. So, yeah, we'll see about that. But in 2022, the Los Angeles Fire Department donated all of their surplus equipment to Ukraine as the department now struggles with resource shortages amid the wildfire crisis. in an area that's prone to wildfires, why would they do that? Why do you give away all of your equipment, even if it's surplus equipment? Why? We've seen this before. We've seen these wildfires in California before. Why would they give away the surplus equipment knowing that they might need it? And they've also, they've turned down offers of help from fire departments in Oregon and Washington. What is going on? So now... Jim, I'm going to go ahead and take your call. What do you got for me?
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Well, just a couple things. First of all, I want to talk about TikTok just a teeny bit. I watch TikTok like you do, but at the same time, I'm not a huge fan of TikTok because TikTok, and I don't really mess with Facebook or the rest of them either. Well, not all of them. Because, I mean, the thing is, you know, TikTok does their share of censoring, too. I mean, yeah, they put a lot of stuff out there. But they definitely do. I mean, and especially the stuff that, I don't know, you know, you call someone out being stupid or doing stupid things or being real dumb. I mean, they'll flat out. They'll just do away with your comment. And it's because I'm probably offending somebody. I'm like... So what do you want me to do, shed a tear for them because they got offended? Give me a break. I mean, come on, grow up. Yeah, exactly. But then I was watching another thing on TikTok. And actually, I've seen this several times, not just on TikTok, but I've also heard it on the radio as well. The biggest thing about TikTok is they're being attacked by these other giant billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg. whoever the world that guy is that owns Google and stuff. And then, you know, because basically they're cutting into their market is what it is.
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Yeah, sure.
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You know what I'm saying? Well, I thought it was kind of interesting, too, because they were also talking about how Jeff Bezos is after them as well, because the TikTok shop is really cutting, I guess, really cutting into his market. into his share of the market as well, which I found kind of interesting.
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I'm sure it is. You know what I'm saying? And I'm partially responsible.
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So I found that – and I find it to be extremely believable. You know what I'm saying, Karen?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 06 :
As far as, you know, these other tech giants and these people like Jeff Bezos wanting to bring them down. Yeah, I can see it. You know, now onto the California thing. Oh, well – Before the California thing, I swear, we must be flipping up on that page on TikTok at the same time because that guy that was helping the old gal with cleaning up her yard and so forth. Yep. I'll tell you what, that really touched my heart. Me too. You do not find very many young people that will go out of their way to help senior citizens in this country and do it for absolutely nothing. I mean... That just really touched my heart that there's actually young people out there in our society that will go out of their way to help senior citizens in our society.
SPEAKER 04 :
Absolutely. And, you know, he's benefiting from it too, which I think is great. He's got a business and he's a business owner and he's, you know, but because he's giving of himself and his time and then to have, you know, the whole TikTok community to come forward and donate to that GoFundMe was just astounding.
SPEAKER 06 :
Absolutely. And now on to the California fires. You know, well, first off, Glenn Beck's extremely knowledgeable, and he's got contacts like a lot of people don't have. So the whole deal with those hydrants being dry, you know what the deal is with those hydrants? What? I bet you haven't heard this. And Glenn Beck was talking about it one day on his show. Okay, so you know what public-private partnership is, right?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 06 :
You know, like the E-470 and express lanes and all that? Yep. Okay, so California, the California Water Board has sold, put up the bid, and they sold the California water rights to the agricultural giants in California. Yeah. And so the California agricultural giants, you know, the big food companies, are the ones that control the water. They have the complete say-so over that water now. Did you know that?
SPEAKER 04 :
No, but now they've got a cloud of dioxins that are going to poison all their crops. So whatever. I guess they shot themselves in the foot.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, and I think that's a fish that's going to come out as to how – because like he was saying, now a lot of that water that used to go to the – to the city is now being diverted back into the farm fields up there in Northern California. And, I mean, and don't get me wrong, you know, I think, you know, you have to have water to have crops, otherwise you just don't eat. But I saw another thing on TikTok where they were talking about, and actually I think I've seen it in several places, that part of this whole thing with the burning down of all these fires in California is, is they want to start depopulating California. They realize California realized that they're overpopulated and they want to start depopulating that state.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, so, yeah, and what a coinkydink, right, that we've got, you know, the COVID thing, the COVID con and the vax and this and North Carolina and blah, blah, blah. I think depopulation is part of the agenda. Whether, you know, people choose to believe it or not, I really, really honestly think that that's what a lot of this is about.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, I do, too, even though some of it doesn't make no sense, though. I mean, I don't know. Sometimes if you think about it, it's like, okay, well, if they want to depopulate, then why are they letting literally millions of illegals into their state at the same time, which doesn't make no sense. But you know what? I read a lot of books. I just finished up Red Famine on Ukraine. And I'll tell you what, the things that the communists do, Just like what Joseph Stalin did over in Ukraine back in the 30s. The communists, they do things that just doesn't make no sense. You scratch your head like, what are these people thinking about? You know what I'm saying? Yeah. It's pretty crazy. Well, I mean, really, communists and Marxists, they don't think on the same level of common sense, good sense, whatever you want to call it, as everybody else do. They're in this... mixed-up world or universe of their own, I think.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, and it's ironic that you bring up Marxist because the piece that I'm about to play is going to explain a little bit about Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass. So stay tuned for that.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay, okay. Talk to you later, Karen.
SPEAKER 04 :
Thanks. Bye-bye. So we're going to talk about this radical leftist Los Angeles mayor, Karen Bass. I'm sure this is just a coincidence and that none of this information is pertinent to the job she's doing as mayor of L.A. We're going to play a piece, a little informative piece, so you can learn a little bit about Karen Bass and kind of where she comes from and what she's all about. Check this out.
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November 7, 1983. Remember this date, but first, let me introduce you to Karen Bass. Back in the 1970s, community activist Karen Bass went on at least 15 trips to Cuba, many with a group known as the Venceramos Brigade, a Marxist group started by the Castro regime to subvert American interests, weaken democracies, and spread communism around the world. Founded in 1969, the Venceramos Brigade organized trips to Cuba every year for half a century. They attracted the most radicalized and delusional segments of the American left, including overtly Maoist and pro-Soviet communist groups. In fact, a Los Angeles police investigator who infiltrated the group testified to Congress saying that to be a member of the brigade, you had to be confirmed as a Marxist-Leninist. as a brigadista and then moving up the ranks to organizer for the Venceremos Brigade. Karen Bass visited Cuba every six months. Their mission? To radicalize young, impressionable American leftists in terrorist tactics and guerrilla warfare. Members of the Venceremos Brigade were even taught how to make bombs. Karen Bass admits on her many pilgrimages to Cuba, she went to see Fidel Castro speak several times, even calling him charismatic. and upon his death, praised him, saying, The passing of Commandant Enjefe is a great loss to the people of Cuba, even though the people of Cuba see him as a dictator who impoverished their island. Another group, the M19, took its belief in revolutionary anti-imperialism to extremes, violent extremes. The M19 was the first and only women-created and women-led domestic terrorist group. Since their founding in 1978, M-19's tactics escalated from robbing armored trucks and abetting prison breaks to building their own explosives and carrying out terrorist bombings. From 1983 to 1984, M-19 bombed an FBI office the Israel Aircraft Industries Building, the South African Consulate in New York, D.C.' 's Fort McNair, and Navy Yard, which they bombed twice. But that wasn't enough for them. On the night of November 7, 1983, the M-19 called a U.S. Capitol switchboard and warned them to evacuate the building. Minutes later, the M-19 bombed the north wing of the U.S. Capitol. November 7, 2023 marks 40 years since the M-19's bombing of the U.S. Capitol. Members of the M-19, like Susan Rosenberg, traveled to Cuba with and were radicalized by the Vence Ramos Brigade. The South Los Angeles Vence Ramos Brigade was led by Karen Bass, who is now mayor of Los Angeles.
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So how do you like that? And then from the National Pulse, in a leaked memo, L.A. mayor forced huge budget cut on fire department just days before the fire outbreak. So the Los Angeles Fire Department disclosed it was struggling to implement a massive $48.8 million budget cut forced on it by the city's Democrat mayor, Karen Bass, just days before the catastrophic wildfires broke out earlier this week. A leaked January 6th department memo states, The LAFD believed a worst case scenario, worst case budget scenario, meaning no relief from the mayor would result in the closure of upward of 16 fire stations. So we have this budget cut and then we have this water mismanagement and this forest mismanagement and the whole thing, but it's all just a tragic coincidence, right? It's just a tragic coincidence. None of this is related. It just is an accident. And that's what we're led to believe, and that's what probably most of the people in the United States believe. So then we have other accounts pointing out anomalies that were detected on radar coming out of Area 51 of all places and going directly over through the weather patterns to Southern California. And I've seen them. I've seen them on video on NEXRAD and all that stuff. And after this anomaly gets to Southern California, NEXRAD radar in the west was crisscrossing right over Area 51. And then there's the insurance companies that were canceling fire insurance policies, many homeowners insurance policies, and many of those mansions along the PCH. But I'm sure that has nothing to do with any of this, right? I've seen footage of houses burning from the inside, like video taken outside, and you see inside is burning to, you know, just in tinder, whatever. And how do we explain that? Why would a fire start on the inside? Oh, that's right. It's climate change. That's right. I'm sorry. I must have forgotten about that. Where's Greta Thunberg when you need her, okay? And then we have Larry Fink's grandson who goes by Beauty Marked on TikTok. He predicted these fires were coming a long time ago. And for context, this guy, this Beauty March guy, is not proud of his lineage being associated or related to Larry Fink and says Larry abandoned his father at a very young age. Well, Larry Fink's BlackRock finances CERN. And if you don't know what CERN is, just go look it up, C-E-R-N-G. And this guy says CERN had a satellite over Maui before that fire started. And he says he's seen the blueprints for all this stuff. And last but certainly not least, there's information circulating on TikTok that the fires were intentionally set by employees of a company identified as Westland Development. Quote, sources revealed that the company's owner, Richard Graves, had millions of dollars in interest tied to the scorched lands, aiming to transform them into a massive real estate project. There was footage of these fires being ignited that was given to the FBI, and the footage left them speechless. Reports indicate that Graves used sophisticated methods designed to mimic natural fires, making it nearly impossible to trace the criminal acts back to him. Experts warned that this might be just the beginning. Evidence points to the possibility of other companies being part of a larger conspiracy to profit from the destruction of protected areas. Documents seized by the FBI contain revelations that could shock the entire nation. What they uncovered might forever change how we view environmental disasters. Yeah, well, it might change the way that the common liberal sheep views natural disasters, but I am one of those people who will look at everything with a hairy eyeball. You've already heard me talk about the hurricanes in Western North Carolina and how I don't believe for a split second that it was naturally occurring. No way. There's no way that a hurricane goes 500 miles across land and hits a mountainous region in North Carolina. No, that doesn't happen. And then you start hearing about the lithium and hearing North Carolina Governor Josh Stein saying some communities just aren't worth rebuilding. Really? Are those the ones that sit atop the area's richest in lithium by chance? Is there any chance of that? Because I would say that the residents of those areas who lost everything and they're pulling their loved ones out of the mud and the $750 loan that they were offered, if they even qualified for it, probably didn't go very far in rebuilding their lives, would probably disagree with you, Joshie. And then we have... Biden saying that no matter what, California gets our full support. We're going to take care of you guys. Blank check. You guys can have as much money as you need to rebuild. What is that? I don't believe a word that any of them say. And when it comes to news coverage on the mainstream media, I don't believe any of that either. In fact, I would venture that anything they report, I automatically just look in the opposite direction. Okay, this is just the way I'm wired now. And no matter how you slice it, no matter what or who you blame the LA fires on, you can be certain that the cloud of toxic smoke, as I was talking about earlier, that was produced from these fires is going to cause irreparable harm to the soil and the surrounding areas. Can you say dioxins? If you go to Natural News, Mike Adams' website, you can read all about that. this has a lot of trappings of East Palestine train derailment in terms of the toxins that are produced when something like this happens. And of course, we don't hear anything about East Palestine anymore. Nothing. It's all done deal. But those people are still suffering. And at least we're not hearing about it on the news. You got to kind of dig around and find information on that. So it's all a mess. It's all a mess. And I just wanted to kind of bring you some of the theories that are out there. I'm not going to call them conspiracy because that's kind of a moot term anymore, but that's just some of the info that's out there. So on to something else a little, well, it's not really lighter, but do you guys travel? And if you do travel, do you travel by air? So the TSA is releasing some information on the types of passenger behaviors that raise suspicion and may cause you some trouble when going through airport security. Jeff Price, an airport security coordinator trainer and a professor of aviation management at the Metro State University of Denver, has an extensive background in airport management and 33 years of aviation security. He spoke with Fox News Digital about certain behaviors that flight passengers should be wary of when going through TSA. He says there are really three things that you look for when you're doing suspicious awareness training and suspicious awareness activities. One is whether people are dressed appropriately for the weather at their departure or arrival point. And to me, some of these TSA agents seem like that's all they can do just to verify your name on your driver's license. It wouldn't be diving into what the weather forecast is at your destination. But anyway, another is when they see people yawning excessively, exaggerated yawning, lots of yawning that might attract attention. When people are stressed, they want more oxygen. Another bit of behavior is when you have the 1,000-yard stare or lack of eye contact. So the takeaway here is the next time you fly and are going through security, be sure to dress for the weather, do everything you can not to yawn, even if you're on a red-eye flight, and make sure you're locking eyes with that TSA agent like a creep at all times while you're being screened. Don't look away. Don't even blink. That'll get you through a lot faster and maybe keep you out of trouble. with the TSA, which I just found all this hilarious. That's going to do it for me today, you guys. Thank you so much for spending the last 58 minutes with me on Shooting the Breeze. It goes by so fast. As always, I appreciate each and every one of you. Stop by and see me at Franktown Firearms. I'm usually there on Saturdays and sporadically throughout the week. Sign up for some private training by sending me an email at karen.murray at franktownfirearms.com. We'll get you brushed up on your shooting skills. Until next Monday, you guys, Mama Glock is out for now. Take care, everyone. God bless.
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In this episode of Washington Watch, Tony Perkins dives deep into the conversations taking place in Washington, D.C., and beyond. We begin with an analysis of Donald Trump’s legislative agenda as discussed with the House Freedom Caucus members and explore the deep division within Congress regarding debt management and border security. Later, Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles shares insights from his meeting with President-elect Trump, shedding light on potential reconciliation strategies to rapidly address American concerns regarding crime and immigration.
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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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Donald Trump got a mandate on November 5th. The public expects us to deal with the excessive spending, the debt, the deficit. They've asked Donald Trump to seal the southern border, and they want to make sure they want peace and stability around the globe. I think that's what Congress will be working with Donald Trump to get done.
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That was Majority Whip Tom Emmer yesterday on ABC This Week. Welcome to Washington Watch. Thanks so much for tuning in. Well, coming up, members of the House Freedom Caucus spent the weekend at the Southern White House discussing legislative priorities and strategies with President-elect Donald Trump. We'll get the details from Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles. Or the Los Angeles fires a warning of where the left's delusional DEI woke policies could lead.
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Now you've got it. You've got a situation where a catastrophe came and the billions of dollars that you and I gave was diverted to other woke, stupid Democrat projects. That's not hyperbole. It is a fact.
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That was Pastor Jack Hibbs yesterday at Calvary Chapel Chino Hills in California in his Sunday message. He joins me later from Los Angeles. Also, multiple reports out of Israel indicate that a deal between Israel and Hamas to secure the release of the hostages is very close.
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We are very, very close. And yet being very close still means we're far because until you actually get across the finish line, we're not there.
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That was White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan yesterday on CNN's State of the Union discussing the negotiations. We'll talk with Daniel Cohen, real-life news director from Israel, with the latest. And FRC's Brent Kylan will be here with an update on the StandFirm app and some exciting, soon-to-be-released content. All of that and more coming up on this edition of Washington Watch. Don't go anywhere. Well, over the weekend, President-elect Donald Trump hosted several groups of Republican lawmakers at Mar-a-Lago to talk about his agenda and how they might be able to work together to accomplish their respective goals. Among the groups that were there to meet with the president was House Freedom Caucus members, which has had a significant impact in the House as a result of GOP's razor-thin majority in the chamber. So what came of their meeting and what were the takeaways? Well, join me now to discuss this and more. Congressman Andy Ogles, a member of the House Freedom Caucus, as well as the House Financial Services Committee. He represents the 5th Congressional District of Tennessee. Congressman Ogles, welcome back to Washington Watch. Great to see you and Happy New Year. Absolutely. And thank you for having me. Besides the sunshine, what else did you experience there at Mar-a-Lago?
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, you know, we left the cold D.C. and flew down to Miami to, quite frankly, perfect and beautiful weather. But, you know, more important than the weather or the dinner was the time spent with President Donald Trump. And we talked about we talked for several hours, as a matter of fact, into late into the evening. But it was on border security. It was on crime. It's how, quite frankly, the Biden administration has used the weapon of the pen, executive orders to attack and invade our country. and undermine every working American day in and day out.
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And I understand there was some discussion about reconciliation, and the president is really kind of following the House Speaker's lead on this, on one big, beautiful bill, as the president-elect describes it, to advance the priorities of reconciliation.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, you know, I think that's to be determined. You know, Donald Trump is strategic. I think he wants to deliver some quick wins for the American people. You know, the election was a mandate to secure the border, to, again, attack crime, to get these folks here that are illegally. We know we have murderers here. We know we have terrorists here. We need to go find them. We need to deport them. We need to get them out of our country. And so with that, I think organically there's the opportunity or perhaps even the likelihood that this could end up being two separate bills because the larger, no matter how big and beautiful it might be, the larger it is, the more complicated it becomes and the more difficult it will be to pass and the longer it will take to pass. So even if it can pass, it's going to take more time. So with that, if you deliver a smaller bill, then follow up with tax policy. We can get those done. We can make sure Donald Trump has a successful 100 days and delivers a secure border for the American people.
SPEAKER 10 :
So it sounds like you're kind of, you lean toward the two-track strategy of the two bills?
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, again, I would like to see us get something done in those first 100 days. And so understanding how the sausage gets made up here by putting border security with some strategic cuts together in a package, again, addressing the debt ceiling, we can move quickly, much more quickly than we can if ever. Everything is in there. And then, quite frankly, once you have one big, beautiful bill, it ends up typically getting filled up with a bunch of nonsense and pork, which obviously I currently rank as the most conservative member of Congress. So I'm very much against the pork. I think we've got to cut where we can cut. Look, we can't cut our way out of this mess. We're going to have to grow our way out of this mess. But every cut, every penny, every dollar matters.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, I agree with you. I think it's a combination. I do think we have to be more responsible in our spending, but at the same time grow. We can't grow our way totally out of this when we're spending more on the interest to our debt than we are national security, nor can we just cut our way out. So it's going to take a combination. But the counter, I guess, of the two-track strategy, and it makes sense what you've described, but knowing how that sausage that you made reference to is made, sometimes the sweetener there, the border security and some of these things that are more politically palatable are what helps pass debt ceiling. I mean, you're a member of the Freedom Caucus. I think you're going to have a little bit of a challenge with some of the Freedom Caucus members with the debt ceiling raise, are you not?
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, again, this gets back to understanding that we've got to change the way this town operates. And so part of that is nerdy procedural stuff. So one of the successes we had with this, when Mike Johnson was elected, I was one of the individuals that helped whip those final votes and get him across the finish line. is that you can't do suspension bills the last day right before you fly out, because what ends up happening is they put some junk bill together, they sweeten it for the Democrats, and they pass it with the majority of Democrat votes. You can't do that anymore. You can only do a suspension bill on a Monday or Tuesday. That's one of those things, again, it's nerdy. Most people don't understand why that's important, but what it does is it stops this town from running over the American people. And so day in and day out, what we're trying to do is fix how this place operates. And one big, beautiful bill might seem great, but when you understand everything that gets thrown in there, it's really counterintuitive to the mandate that the American people delivered to Donald Trump and to Congress to fix this country.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, it's going to be interesting to see how this works out. But I agree with you that something needs to be done quickly and showing that Congress and this Republican majority in the House, now the Senate and the White House, is responsive to the American people. So I think you're right in probing to find which way will move you more quickly to responding. to those mandates. I want to switch gears a little bit. I know your background is kind of on the financial services and you're focused on those issues. But I assume that in the conversation, other issues came up, possibly what's happening in California and where these woke DEI policies are leading us. I would think this is a wake up call for the president after he saw what happened with Secret Service, if their focus on DEI We see this once again in California, the focus in L.A., the fire department, DEI, woke policies. Isn't it time we get back to mission focus?
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, absolutely. And it's unfortunate. I mean, a lot of times when individuals like myself are attacking these woke policies, sometimes it may be labeled as political rhetoric, right? But which we've seen and what's unfolded with the assassination attempt with Donald Trump, DEI and woke policies were to blame. When you look at the wildfires that have taken over California, billions of dollars worth of damage, you have individuals in the fire department who aren't capable of doing the job. It's completely DEI. You know, there's a picture that I saw on X, whether it was real or not, I don't know, but it's this fire hydrant that's very elaborately painted with rainbow colors. And in the background, this entire subdivision is burning to the ground. And that was kind of emblematic of what's happening in California. And you have states like Tennessee, like Florida, like Texas that have become a destination for individuals like California, New York, New Jersey, et cetera, because they're political refugees. They're tired of the nonsense. They just want to be left alone. They want to live in God bless America. And you have certain states like California that are doing everything they can to undermine our values, and quite frankly, the family. And we've had enough. I think the American people have had enough. And look, I'll be honest with you, when Donald Trump won every single swing state, that was the wake-up call. That should be the message to the Democratic Party. You've screwed up. You went way too far left. You better find your roots, get back to who you supposed and tell the American people that you are, because right now you're lost in the wilderness, and the American people are going to make you pay for it.
SPEAKER 10 :
Politically, that is absolutely correct. And we're seeing that. I think this last election was a reflection of that. But knowing that, knowing where these woke policies lead and the next catastrophe that needs to be avoided, I immediately think of what's been happening in the last four years with our nation's military. and the woke policies that have been pushed there. And we look at what's happening in the Middle East. We look at what's happening in Europe. We look at what's happening with China. I hope that we can get a handle on the military and do a course correction before that next crisis comes.
SPEAKER 08 :
That was one of the things that we talked about at the dinner, was how DEI and the woke policies have infiltrated and infected our military and administrative state, and that one of the challenges that the president will face is rooting that out and getting back to mission focus. What's the mission statement? How are we going to execute that? How are we going to deliver excellence for the American people, regardless of the agency or department? And as you say, we've lost our way. The leadership in the military has lost its way. And part of it is priorities, too. We've spent more money in Ukraine than we spend for the entire budget of the United States Marine Corps. And look, if I have to choose between our men and women in uniform versus any other military, I'm going to choose America first. That's not rhetoric. I'm not trying to be harsh. But we're overfunding Ukraine while we're not funding our Marines. That right there is offensive. It's criminal. We've got to get back to making our military the top dominant predator on any battlefield, wherever they are, whatever the landscape is. And right now, I don't know that we have that status, but Donald Trump is going to fix it. And we will continue to be the economic top dog, the military predator. We will be the country that will lead the hemisphere. And that being said, you know, the kind of segue to Greenland, you know, why would Donald Trump talk about Greenland and maybe make Denmark upset is because you have these countries that are allowing China to have access to these precious resources. resources that really are in our backyard. And Donald Trump is putting his foot down and saying enough is enough. We're not playing these games anymore. It's America first. And you got to look at, you know, when America wins, the world wins. When America wins, the world is safer. And that's what the American people and quite frankly, the rest of the world wants.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, you know, in reality, Congressman, when the world is in trouble, they call the United States. So, again, why not be preventative in trying to make sure that we can defend and be proactive in doing that? And by the way, I appreciate you mentioning the Marine Corps as a Marine veteran. for taking care of the Marine Corps. But make sure that those dollars go to strengthen the Marine Corps and make sure that DEI policy does not continue to infect one of the greatest fighting forces in the world. I appreciate you joining us today, Andy. Always great to see you. Thanks so much and look forward to talking to you real soon.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yes, sir. God bless.
SPEAKER 10 :
All right. I am very concerned about what's been happening under the surface in our military. I know we talk about it, but it is in those moments of crisis that the reality comes to the forefront. And that's what we saw with the state with the Secret Service. That's what we saw in L.A. with the fire department. We've got to get ahead of it before we see it without a nation's military. All right, we're going to continue our conversations on the historic wildfires in Los Angeles and what's behind it. Pastor Jack Hibbs joins me next here on Washington Watch. Don't go away.
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I'm Tony Perkins and this is Washington Watch. Thanks for tuning in for this Monday edition. The fires in L.A. should be causing more than fire alarms to ring. This is a wake up call of where the godless policies of the left are leading this country. As I played at the top of the program yesterday, Pastor Jack Hibbs spoke. this very clearly to his church at Calvary Chapel Chino Hills in his Sunday message about where these policies of the left are leading us and how they endanger us as a nation. He joins me now along with Steve Hilton with Golden Together from Los Angeles. Pastor Jack, Steve, welcome to Washington Watch. Thanks for joining me.
SPEAKER 12 :
Great to be with you. Thank you.
SPEAKER 10 :
So, Pastor Jack, yesterday you described California as a third world state due to what you see as profound failures in leadership. Talk about that.
SPEAKER 03 :
Tony, first of all, what led up to that statement was a graphic image. And the reason why that image was graphic was because of this. Nobody knew that the local reservoirs were out of water. Nobody knew that there was not a water supply to fire hydrants in this critical area. What did I see? I saw an L.A. County fireman taking a potted plant out of a pot, going over to a home that had been burned down to the ground, and as the water dripped out of its broken plumbing, he filled up a, what might be a two and a half gallon pot, ran about 50 feet away to put out a little bit of a fire so it wouldn't spread anymore. And that's when I made that comment. I'm suddenly in a third world country here in one of the most wealthiest places on the planet. Makes no sense.
SPEAKER 10 :
Steve, they might not know that the reservoirs are empty, but they know what pronoun to use.
SPEAKER 11 :
I mean, exactly. You just hit the nail on the head because instead of what we need and we should expect, and by the way, what we pay for with the highest taxes in America, which is competent government and common sense policies, instead of that, we've had the people in charge obsessed with these fringe ideological issues. and this terrible combination of ideology and incompetence. And you end up with the very basics of what we expect from government, which is safety and security and these basic services like water and power delivered in a reliable and affordable manner. None of that happens in California because they are totally obsessed with their far-left ideological schemes. That's why what we're doing today together is laying out not just a positive alternative vision for us here in Los Angeles in this moment of crisis right now. But as I've been working on at my organization, Golden Together, it's a policy organization that for years now has been laying out an alternative, a positive vision, how we can bring this state back to what it should be, which is the best of America, not the worst.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, the silver lining to this, this tragedy shouldn't have to go down this path, but this It shakes people out of this idea that these delusional policies of the left are harmless. The idea that your fire chief has been out promoting the fact that she started the first diversity initiative in the fire department. Well, that's great if everything is fine. But when things start to burn, people realize that cost us dearly. So is this the opportunity for a sea change?
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, I don't know who you're asking, but I'll jump in, and Steve, you can back clean up. Tony, it turns out that D-E-I is actually spelled D-I-E. That's what's going on. It leads to death. And the bottom line is this, that I would hope that in this interview, I would represent not only the House and the believers who vote, and we know in this last election they came out and voted, But how about if I were to represent, for example, the Californian who's fed up with all this stuff, and they want to be safe, and they want to go shopping and be safe, and they don't want to pay $15 for, you know, a Taco Bell visit? We can bring the votes. But no one's been motivated to vote because we haven't had the politicians. And so what we want is a statesman. What California needs is statesmen. And I'm hoping, I hate to put my friend on the spot, but I'm hoping Steve Hilton runs for governor. There's a lot of great people, Tony, in this state. We're calling them to step up. We'll bring them the votes if they run for office.
SPEAKER 10 :
Steve, speak to that for a moment, because, you know, again, when things are going fine, people don't care the foolish, at least some people don't care about the foolishness that political leaders engage in. But this is where the rubber meets the road. I mean, this is people's lives. It is their property. It's their it's their it's everything they've worked for going up in smoke because people are playing games.
SPEAKER 11 :
Exactly. And, you know, it's so interesting. This is the kind of thing we've been focusing on today. We were joined, Jack and I, here today with a retired L.A. firefighter, with a retired unit chief from CAL FIRE, the state firefighting organization. And they're all saying the same thing. It's not complicated. We know how to do this. We used to do this. We used to have good governance in California, competent leadership that got things done and then let people live their lives, let families build their lives, let businesses do what they want to do. That's what California was all about. When was it like that? When Republicans were in charge. That's the honest truth. I mean, I was speaking just today, sorry, just this weekend with Governor Wilson, Pete Wilson. And he was telling me about his attitude to the recovery from the Northridge earthquake in 1994. Totally different from what we're seeing from the leadership, if you can call it that, in the state today. But the real point of hope for everyone is exactly as you say, this has shone a spotlight on all these failures. You've got these Democrat politicians now going on about red tape and bureaucracy as if they've just discovered it. Well, we know, and we've been going on about it for years. They're making our arguments for us. They are digging their own grave. And so what's gonna be happening in the weeks and months and years ahead as we focus on helping Los Angeles recover, we also need to focus on helping California recover and get back to what it used to be and what it can be again. But it's only gonna happen if people change the way they vote. But I'm now very confident that that's gonna happen.
SPEAKER 10 :
Gentlemen, I would take it one step further with the reality that we first saw this DEI and the deadly consequences with the Secret Service when President-elect Donald Trump was almost assassinated. DEI policies and wokeness had invaded the Secret Service. We see this now with the LA Fire Department as this tragedy sets upon Los Angeles. My concern is our own nation's military that's been saturated with this wokeness in these DEI policies that if we don't do a course correction, our nation is in tremendous danger. So hopefully not only will California wake up to this, but maybe the rest of the nation realize that these policies, as you said, Pastor Jack, it's not DEI, it's D-I-E. Gentlemen, we're out of time. I want to thank you for joining us today. Thank you for taking a stand there in California. Hopefully the rest of the nation will heed the warning as well. Great to see you guys. Great. Thank you, Tony. Good to see you. Folks, this is something to pray into. This is serious business as we're seeing it has consequences. We need to pray. We need to vote and we need to stand against this nonsense. Don't go away. We're back after this.
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SPEAKER 14 :
Thanks, Tony. Good to be with you today.
SPEAKER 10 :
So these days you can put the most ridiculous as well as helpful apps on your mobile device. What's the difference about the Stand Firm app that makes it of value? I would say great value to Christians.
SPEAKER 14 :
Tony, the Stand for Map really is designed for SAGE cons, spiritually active, governance engaged, conservative Christians, which you've talked a lot about on the program. We've been working to reach them and equip them for quite a few years now. And there's an estimated 20 plus million of them out there. They're doing incredible things. They're engaging at incredibly high levels, which is awesome. One of the things we've encountered, though, as we've worked with them is just a need for ways to connect and certain tools. And really out of those conversations and the research we did really specifically with that group to a large degree, we developed this app. And so what you'll find on this is tools to help you. It's going to be grounded in the words. We've got that stand on the word. that FRC puts out, Tony, your daily video, because, you know, with SageCons, everything they do is rooted in the word and in their faith. But then there's also tools to engage. So there's ways to contact government officials. There's ways to stay up to date on what's going on with places like, of course, Washington Watch, but also the Washington Stand and things like that. So it's really kind of been tailor designed to help meet those needs that we've uncovered in a lot of the conversations that we've had.
SPEAKER 10 :
So the three major daily news feeds you have, you have the Stand on the Word, which is the morning devotional that many folks are involved in. That's at the top of the feed each day. We've got our Washington Stand, which is FRC's news and commentary news feed, online publication. That is constantly updated, so you're getting new content constantly. And then, of course, the Washington Watch, which is right here, will appear on the app as well. Talk about some of the other features. I mean, this is all obviously content all coming from a biblical perspective, but when you talk about Engage, you can go straight from an issue oftentimes, if it's an action-related item in the Washington stand, to contacting your member of Congress, all right there at one place on the app.
SPEAKER 14 :
That's exactly right, Tony. We've been developing toolkits, and some of those are resources in the app that are just always going to be there. And then some of them are built around specific needs or specific issues or things that are happening on in culture. We had a voter impact toolkit. over the fall that got a lot of participation and engagement. We've got, just as an example for what you're bringing up here, in about a week, we're going to roll out the first 100 days toolkit. So this is going to equip you with ways to stay informed on what's going on you know in these first these critical first 100 days of the new administration but then there's going to be ways you can take action so i know with a lot of people hey if you're like me there's a lot of government officials to keep track of you know you've got federal you've got state you've got local there's going to be a tool in that tool kit where you can look all of those up just punch in your address um i put mine in and it took me all the way down to my county commissioner and city council so it's got a lot of really helpful info ways to contact them But it's also going to be tracking key issues that you can get engaged with as those come up. So if there's a key piece of legislation that we really think you as a believer need to weigh in on because it's really going to impact you, we're going to put that there, send you an alert, let you know about that. Or maybe it will be a petition on a really important issue or something like that. But there's going to be a lot of those ways to equip you to also take action on the important issues. Right.
SPEAKER 10 :
And there will also be special content like coming up next week. We'll have our inaugural praise and prayer convocation with Dr. Jim Garlow. If you can't be in D.C., you can actually watch it on the app. And then coming up next month, we'll be rolling out our God and Government series that will be exclusively on the app. Of course, we'll have more about that in the days ahead. Brent Kylan, thanks so much for joining us and appreciate all the great work you do on keeping the Stand Firm app going.
SPEAKER 14 :
You're appreciated, Tony. Thank you.
SPEAKER 10 :
All right, folks, after the break, Daniel Cohen from Real Life Network joins me from Israel to discuss the latest on the hostage negotiations. Hello, I'm Tony Perkins, president of Family Research Council here in Washington, D.C. Behind me is one of the most recognizable buildings in all the world, the U.S. Capitol. What does it stand for? Well, most people say government. But you know, the Bible talks about four institutions of government. You know what they are? And do we have a republic or a democracy? Well, what do you say? Also, what about this thing, separation of church and state? Does that mean Christians shouldn't be involved in government? Guess what? We address those issues and more in our new God and Government course. I invite you to join us to see what the historical record and the Bible has to say about government. Join us for God and Government.
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SPEAKER 12 :
Always great to be with you, Tony. We're seven hours ahead, but it's always, always a pleasure to be with you and your audience. Big day. Yeah, big day.
SPEAKER 10 :
It is. And you and I were talking earlier. You know, this is not the first time. I mean, we've we've been to this point before with Hamas pulling back. But there's something different this time.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, it's cautious optimism. And I heard you set up there, and you're spot on. They are taking the threat of a President Trump. When he speaks, and the unpredictability, sometimes it's good if a leader is... They knew all along what Joe Biden said, what he meant, what he didn't mean, what Antony Blinken, when he would... you know, threaten Israel, and then Hamas would pull back from these negotiations. But they're clearly taking President Trump's all-hell-will-break-loose threat seriously if the hostages aren't released by inauguration, which, by the way, is a week away. So let's talk about what you mentioned, the significant breakthrough. They're in Doha. It's President Trump's envoy. This is now President Biden's looped in. The Biden team is there. I guess they're sort of joining arms. But Steve Witkoff is the name of the man who's been leading President Trump's envoy. And because President Trump is involved and because it's Trump's envoy that reportedly has some kind of a draft agreement, we're talking about what could be a 42-day ceasefire, the release of 33 to 40 hostages, which, by the way, include two Americans. They're U.S. and Israeli, both nationals. So Hamas is reviewing the proposal. It's... It seems to me sad, sick, wrong that we have to negotiate with terrorists. But this is the state of play. This is where we are with the Biden administration. There are Americans, and they're negotiating with terrorists. And at this point, it sounds like Israel's bought in, and we're waiting to hear from Mohamed Sinwar, Yair Sinwar's brother, about what Hamas wants to do with this, Tony.
SPEAKER 10 :
So that's my understanding is they were going through these negotiations in Dubai that they have now taken back kind of the final proposal to their respective leaders. And really the onus is on Hamas to accept what's there. And we could be 24 hours, 48 hours away from from a deal.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, and we're also hearing that there could be hostages being released next week. So again, cautious optimism. Everyone here in Israel, we've been at the one-yard line many times with the terrorists, and then Hamas will pull the carpet out, or at the one-yard line, they'll pull the rug out. But again, President-elect Trump's team, they are not playing games. And Steve Wetkoff, he is actually in Doha right now. So Hamas is more willing. The key sticking point, Hamas wants a permanent truce. Israel doesn't want a permanent truce. They want a temporary pause. There are disagreements about where the IDF would withdraw to the forces from Gaza. Hamas wants to sort of reclaim northern Gaza, but it's very important that Israel maintain. There's a couple of strategic passes to make sure that they're able to contain what goes on and what goes in and what comes out. They want more humanitarian aid. Israel's fine with humanitarian aid. What they're not fine with is a pause that allows Hamas to rearm, to, you know, they were armed to the teeth before. And remember, this is Israel. They're not firing missiles from outside of Israel. They're inside Israel. They have their own, you know, this was as of 2007, there was the pullout, but that's why, this is what we have. So, The hard thing, I'll say, Tony, lastly this and send it back to you, is what do you do if you're Prime Minister Netanyahu? Because there's a heavy price to pay for the hostages that they want to release. What I'm hearing, and again, it's etched in jello, but that Israel is willing to give up 50 terrorists in exchange for one hostage and 50 women who were convicted, again, Hostages, 50 terrorists for one hostage. What do you do, right? Is the price too high? At what point does the price become too high? Everyone here in Israel is ready to really swallow hard and say, we'll pay the price if it means we get Israelis out that have been in for 465 days today, Tony.
SPEAKER 10 :
Right, and it's good to remind Americans back, and I remember this because I was in high school when the Americans were taken hostage by Iran and and incoming President Ronald Reagan. I didn't have a chance to vote for him the first time, wasn't quite 18 at the point, but very similar parallels to what we see with Donald Trump. And Ronald Reagan had studied the communists, he understood the Middle East as well, and he was an unknown. I think Donald Trump is a known because he already had one term, but when you talk about the unpredictability, Richard Nixon kind of used what the madman theory of dealing with foreign policy with Russia and even with China. So I do think there's that element that's there. But when you look at Israel, and you can speak to this, you touched on it, the prime minister has his own political situation to deal with, a very narrow situation. margins in the Knesset. And he has some hardliners, about 10 to 12 of those who are not wanting to give up an inch to Hamas.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah. I don't know how you have this baby, Tony. And that's really the only thing. I don't know what you do here because there are on the far right who say it's too steep a price to pay. Remember, Yahya Sinwar was in an Israeli prison. Yahya Sinwar had a brain cancer. He had some kind of a brain issue, brain tumor. Israeli doctors performed surgery. He was released from a prison, and then he went on to mastermind the October 7th terror attack. Is there another Yahya Sinwar as part of this release? But, you know, I think big picture, we have to look at it this way. The Netanyahu government and Israel's enemies know the difference between an administration that has... President Biden as the big brother, you know, kind of standing over their shoulder, and a President Trump. There's no fear of President Biden. I mean, Antony Blinken, the Secretary of State, made a shocking admission in an interview last week saying when we would pressure Israel publicly, Hamas would back off from a hostage ceasefire deal. Exactly. I mean, they were not a friend to Israel. Terrible. I mean, terrible. So they believe President Trump means it when he says there will be all hell to pay. We're looking at one week. The youngest hostage, by the way, Tony, is one year old. His name is Kafir Bibas. He's been in Gaza as a hostage. He was taken on October 7th at nine months of age. He's now been a hostage longer than he's not been a hostage. And he turns two years old in August. Five days, five days from now. It's sad. I don't know why there aren't more world leaders pressuring Hamas like they've been pressuring Israel to come to a deal. But that's heartbreaking to think this one-year-old baby, who knows if he's alive, has been a hostage longer than he's not been.
SPEAKER 10 :
Speaking of that, in terms of the hostages alive, what information is available as to the status of many of these hostages still being held?
SPEAKER 12 :
We don't know, but I was just seeing on Twitter before we came on here to speak with you that the Red Cross is admitting they were doing very little to even reach out. The Red Cross has been an epic failure in this. So there are 100 hostages or so. Again, it's always an estimate because we don't know an accurate number, but 98, 99, 100, seven Americans dead. President Biden is about to leave office, having done very little to nothing to free the Americans that have been held hostage for 465 days. The hostage families here in Israel are all very cautiously optimistic because, again, of these false promises. But it comes back to strong American leadership. They know that when there's a real leader in the White House that exudes strength, strength for the United States, strength for Israel, We'll see. We'll see what happens. But if there are hostages coming back next week, which happens to be when President Trump is sworn in for a second term, then we'll know that they took the threat from President Trump seriously.
SPEAKER 10 :
Besides the swap, the release of terrorists, which in and of itself, as you pointed out, historically has not worked out well, what are some of the other terms of the ceasefire deal that we're aware of?
SPEAKER 12 :
Right. We're talking about women. We're talking about seniors. We're not talking about the release of men. And again, Hamas has refused to provide not only proof of life, but proof of names. Israel has asked over and over again repeatedly for a list of names of the hostages that Hamas could never seem to provide. And that led Israelis to believe it's maybe because they're dead. You know, and President Biden has been coddling the terrorists since October 7th and has been riding the fence and splitting the fence. And I support Israel. I don't support Israel. You know, pressuring Netanyahu, trying to overthrow the Netanyahu government. So I could tell you, you know, in terms of the terms themselves, Tony, are just... for lack of a better term, squishy. You know, one report in the Times of Israel says this, the Jerusalem Post says that. I think what we all agree and what they all agree on is that it's not men, it's not fighting age, it's women, it's seniors. Goodness, if they would release the baby, that would be incredible. But, you know, Tony, one other thing, there's been a lot of hostility and fighting here. While everyone there is talking about California and the epic failure of Governor Newsom and Mayor Bass and the wildfires, There were five IDF soldiers killed in Gaza today. The oldest was 23 years old. One was a Jewish believer in Jesus, which is pretty rare. I'm a Jewish believer in Yeshua. And again, 18, 19, 20, 23 years old. These are young men. And so the death toll for the IDF and for Israeli forces is 804. But I think everyone here, Tony, is optimistic that it seems like as of next week, there will be no more coddling of Hamas. the Houthis, Hezbollah, no more coddling of terrorists who mean Israel's harm.
SPEAKER 10 :
Daniel, I was going to ask you about that, because my sense, you know, when I was over there just a few weeks ago and was with you and then in my conversations, there was that sense of optimism. Even then, there was discussions of a of a ceasefire deal. But the bigger issue is Israel's long term security. And that's much bigger than just Gaza. As you mentioned, it's the Houthis, it's Hezbollah, but it's also Iran. There's a sense that America is not going to get in their way now with Donald Trump in the White House.
SPEAKER 12 :
Right. Yeah. You know, and by the way, Prime Minister Netanyahu has never said, send us your soldiers. He just said, just give us, excuse me, just give us the ability to defend ourselves. We'll spill our own blood. And they have done that. Israel, I say we, I'm Israeli and I'm American both. So when I say we, that's what I mean by that. But President Trump has only said, get it over with, Prime Minister Netanyahu. We support you, get it done, and get it done quickly. Again, it's been 465 days, way too long. And I've said this with you before, Tony, but I'll say it again. This all could have been over months ago. Hamas, if they would just do two things, lay down their weapons and release the hostages. Israel has no interest in dead babies, dead women, dead civilians in Gaza. We have cowards. The terrorists are cowards who are hiding weapons in mosques and children's bedrooms, in UNRWA facilities and hospitals. And Israel can never allow October 7th to happen again. We know they're planning. We know they're planning to carry out or try to carry out another October 7th. And Israel says, just give us the ability to defend ourselves so these people can never pull off this atrocity and this evil against babies, Holocaust survivors, seniors, women, men, ever again.
SPEAKER 10 :
Daniel Cohen, we're just about out of time here, just a couple minutes left. Donald Trump, to quote him, has said, if these hostages are not released when I take office, there will be hell to pay. And as you pointed out, Israel's not asked for U.S. troops, and we're not going to send U.S. troops. We may have some support on the outside. What does that look like, that threat from Donald Trump? What would that look like to ensure that Hamas pays a price?
SPEAKER 12 :
You're a great journalist, Tony. You get it because you're asking all the right questions. That is the question. I heard a reporter trying to pin President Trump down on this very thing. Well, what does that mean? And guess what? Sometimes not revealing your cards is the best play. I don't know. That's the answer. We don't know. What could President Trump do? As long as it's supporting Israel, and not pulling back on weaponry, not pulling back on congressionally approved weapons like the Biden administration did after Congress approved a weapons package to Israel. They were slow walking. Even if it's just as simple as that, Israel knowing. There was a rocket fired, a ballistic missile fired from the Houthis in Yemen literally two hours ago. toward Jerusalem and people in the north. There are still sirens that are going off here in Israel daily, although you're probably not talking about them on the news so much anymore. The Iron Dome is very strong. And so if it's technology, if it's weaponry, if it's personnel, but sometimes it's just no one. Big Brother is standing over your shoulder watching over you, Tony, and that speaks volumes in the Middle East where the only language they speak is power. That is the language. Who's stronger, you or me? Who's more powerful?
SPEAKER 10 :
And Daniel, one thing that we can be doing is praying. All of our viewers and listeners, I encourage them to do that. Daniel, out of time. Always great to see you, my friend. Thanks for joining. Great to see you, Tony.
SPEAKER 12 :
God bless you. Good luck next week with your inaugural coverage as well, Tony.
SPEAKER 10 :
All right. Thanks, Daniel. And folks, I do want to encourage you to pray. Join Operation Prayer Shield. Text SHIELD to 67742. All right. Out of time for today. But when you prayed, you're taking your stand. Know what? Keep standing.
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