Join us on this episode of Drive Radio as we dig into the world of motorcycles and automobiles. We cover Colorado's new lane filtering laws, offering a clear understanding of what is and isn't permissible under current regulations. With recent legal changes, many riders are curious about the newfound freedom and limitations they face when navigating gridlocked traffic.
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And we're back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Myself, Ken Rackley, Tunetech Automotive. Charlie Grimes, of course, our engineer. Larry Unger, answering phones. Lines are open, 303-477-5600. Give us a call. You can text us as well, 307-200-8222. And lane filtering, let me explain, because even I had this wrong. Actually, both Ken and I were partially right, partially wrong. So as of August 7th of 2024, lane filtering is legal in the state of Colorado. Lane filtering is the exact or sorry, is the act of a rider passing a vehicle in the same lane, but only when that vehicle in any traffic in adjacent lanes are at a complete stop. So it's not even 15 miles an hour or under. Traffic has to be stopped. So even if traffic on, you know, I-70, I-25 is at, you know, 10 mile an hour and it's moving, you are not allowed to filter in between those cars. Traffic has to be at a complete standstill. You can filter at a stoplight. That's where I was wrong. I didn't think you could, but you can, and you can move to the front of the line. especially if there's a lot of traffic, things are gridlocked and so on. So let's say, for example, there's, I don't know, 20 cars in the line and you want to move to the front. You can filter in between and move to the front of the line and off you go on a motorcycle. Now, my advice, if I were a rider, if there's only a couple of cars in front of you, You know, honestly, why make other cars and people that may not know all of these laws mad by filtering up if there's only two or three cars in that intersection? Truthfully, just get behind that last car and wait your turn and off you go. Now, if there's, you know, a dozen cars or so there, sure, you know, filter up to the front and be my guest.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. The thing, you know, with motorcycles, especially if there's nobody behind you and you're stopped behind a car, you're in a risk. You could be a sandwich. No, you're in a risk. And I get that.
SPEAKER 09 :
And that's why they've allowed this, because you can filter up and get yourself out of the way. But, again, if you're, you know, you're two or three, regular traffic, two or three cars at the intersection, there's nobody coming up behind you. Somebody's already stopped. I'd probably wait my turn and not worry about it.
SPEAKER 07 :
does put you out in front you know where you want to be but true you know because you can accelerate faster you can there's a lot of you can't no i i get what you're saying too it's just because there's so many people that don't understand and so many people want to turn you don't want to create road rage when you don't need to right or they want to turn right out of the left lane and come right across your path or into your whatever so
SPEAKER 09 :
Now, the rule where it's 15 miles an hour or the law is, is if you're going to filter, you have to be going below 15 miles an hour. So if you are in that situation where traffic on a major freeway is stopped and you're going to filter in between, you must go 15 miles an hour or less. You have to be able to safely control your motorcycle to make sure there's no issues with hitting mirrors and things along those lines. And again, once again, you must be on the left and you can't enter oncoming traffic. So let's say you are in a situation where you're on a city street and everything's all backed up and you're wanting to get the front of the line. You can't go into oncoming traffic because that light might be stopped, by the way. So there might not be any traffic on the other side, but you can't go on the other side to go around everybody. You've got to stay within those lanes to make. That happened.
SPEAKER 07 :
But if there's three lanes and you have to be on the left, where do you have to – the way the law reads, where does that put you?
SPEAKER 06 :
Which one is left?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. I mean, if you're in the middle and you pull between the left and the middle, you're on the left of the middle, but you're not on the left of the left. So there's a little bit of non-clarity there.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, and by the way, that's where this – I was reading this to Ken earlier before we came back in from break – This thing isn't completely... It's not real clear.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, thank you.
SPEAKER 09 :
It's not crystal clear in a lot of these situations. And I'm pulling this, by the way, right off of the Colorado State Patrol's website this isn't coming off of the actual law or anything like that this is coming off of the state patrol's website website which uh frankly on a lot of the freeways they're going to be ones ones of the ones enforcing this probably more so than even some of the local cops would so anyways that's the breakdown of lane filtering here in colorado And that's something to remember. You're still going to see motorcycle riders for probably another month. And by the way, even on nice days in the winter months. I mean, it can be a 60-degree day in December, and you're going to see some motorcycles out. So be watching for them at all times because some of them you may not even hear, depending upon what you're doing. And if you're on the phone or if you're listening to music or whatever, you may not actually hear them coming, depending upon what they're riding.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER 09 :
So bottom line, be careful. Now, for all of you motorcycle riders, I encountered this last week. My wife and I took for a little drive. We went up one of the canyons, kind of looking at some of the leaves and so on. And we got behind a group of motorcycles, which I wasn't close to them. I gave them plenty of distance because you never know what these guys are going to do. And there was some knucklehead crotch rocket guy that literally was trying to pull wheelies as he's driving along. And I'm thinking, you know... I don't care that you can pull a wheelie. I don't know who you're trying to show off to because, frankly, I could care less whether you do a wheelie or not. Been there, done that. Those years are long gone for me. So whatever. More power to you. But what are you really proving in what you're doing? And at the end of the day, once again, you're like the guy rolling coal. You're just making all of the other riders out there look like morons when they're not. Why do you want to do that to your own industry? You know, to your own, how should I say that? Your own section of the industry maybe is the way to say it. I mean, you're putting a black eye for all of the motorcycle riders because you're that knucklehead. Yeah. Why do that? Right, exactly. I don't get it. The other thing I learned, just not to beat up motorcycle riders, but I didn't know this, but there's a lot of motorcycle riders that ride motorcycles that don't have a motorcycle endorsement. Why?
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Well, so when I got mine, and I will never let it lapse either.
SPEAKER 06 :
Me neither.
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When I got mine, it was a pain. It was a real pain in the neck to get. And I've had it since I was 16. And for the three bucks every five years or whatever it is to renew it, I just won't let it go. I don't either. There might be a chance that I get on the road again.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, I'm not going to. It's one of those things where it's sort of like riding a bike. Once you do it, yes, you're more proficient the more you do. But once you learn, you learn. I mean, you ride a bike. You can ride a motorcycle sort of a thing. Once you've done it, you can always get back on and ride again. And I don't want mine lapsing.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right, exactly. Yeah, I'll be legal when I do it. I have that endorsement. I'm not going to let it lapse. Right, exactly. So my brother, he's a big rider. He's got two big bikes that he rides on the road. And I was going to do a memorial ride with him last year. And he's like, when was the last time you rode, especially with a group? And I'm like, yeah, 20 years. He's like, yeah, it's, you know, you need, there's practice there. Yeah. You know, because you don't know the group that you're riding with. There is. No, I get that.
SPEAKER 09 :
And, you know, depending upon, you know, for a lot of you that are riders, you know this depends on what you used to ride. Some guys always, you know, rode, you know, like the Cross Rocket style bikes where you're leaning over. Some guys always rode, you know, a Sportster style bike or they rode Harleys or whatever. And every one of those – it's like cars. Every one of those handles differently.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, exactly. The last, you know, my dirt bikes, they're, you know, they – they're nimble, they're light. They, they get airborne because that's fun. Right. Exactly. And my son-in-law, he said, you can borrow my bike and it's a sport tour. So it's got, you know, lots of power, lots of, you know, it's, you know, it's fully modern. And, uh, and I, you know, so I declined that ride. I'm just like, you know, I, Yeah, I just I'm good. I'll just meet you there in my truck. Yeah, we'll be Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
So yeah. And Scott Wally just sent me this motorcycle deaths in Colorado have been on the rise reaching a record high of 165 fatalities in 2024, which was a 22% increase. And by the way, if that continues, and they figure that some of that is coming from the quote unquote, lane filtering, they'll end it. Yeah, that won't stay.
SPEAKER 07 :
I have a feeling just because what I've seen more recently is speed. I mean, seriously, on E470, on Parker Road, those are my main two roads that I drive on. Seriously, 70 miles an hour, 50 miles an hour over the speed limit.
SPEAKER 09 :
Ken, everybody knows this about me. I get in the HOV lane, and I'm driving the flow of traffic, which in a lot of cases is 70, 75 miles an hour. I get it. The speed limit is 65, but that's the going speed.
SPEAKER 07 :
That's what you drive in the HIV lane.
SPEAKER 09 :
By the way, if you're not going to drive that, get out of the HIV lane.
SPEAKER 07 :
Sure.
SPEAKER 09 :
Because the reality is everybody else is.
SPEAKER 07 :
You're still moving.
SPEAKER 09 :
All you're going to do is clog up traffic. Right, right. And with doing that, I have seen motorcycles whiz by that I know are doing 100. Sure. Easy. Yeah. Maybe more. Yeah. Maybe faster.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. Well, I'm on Chambers twice this week, and on Chambers Road, 40 miles an hour, and I had somebody pass me at 80. True. I mean, and it's not like it's light traffic. I mean, you know. That's just dumb. That's just dumb.
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Yeah, because now you're an Oregon owner.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, right. Sorry. Or you're going to take somebody else out.
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Yeah, it's just not fun. I mean, that's just not. Again, you're putting a black eye on your end of the automotive. Because motorcycles, I include in the automotive end of things. You're putting a black eye for that section of the automotive world. So, you know, bottom line, stop doing it. All right. We'll come back, take some calls, by the way. Lines are open, 303-477-5600. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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All right, we are back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Myself, Ken Rackley, Tunetech Automotive. And, again, talking about a lot of things today. We've gone everything from, you know, stuff you see on the Internet to our question of the day is, you know, driving pet peeves. We've covered all sorts of different things along those lines and then kind of got into the motorcycle end of things. And, you know, what I was talking about with motorcycles and their industry, the same thing can happen on the car thing. As of late, Charlie sent me an article later this week talking about the street racing that's happening in a lot of different areas. Jefferson County Sheriff's putting out some bulletins and some big things on street racing in that part. And again, when Bandimere went away, they have temporarily, you know, when are they coming back? Frankly, folks, I have no insight on that. I don't know. I see different blurbs on it, but I have no direct contact with anybody, so I have no insight. But I do know that the street racing thing has increased, and I will say this straight up. We've talked about this many times on this program and my daily program. We are 1,000% against any kind of street racing, period. Shouldn't happen. Don't do it. You're going to end up getting in trouble. You're going to get people injured, killed, harmed, and so on at the end of the day. And I'll say this as well, and I was taught this at a very early age when I started racing formally at places like Bandimere. When it's not controlled like it is at Bandimere, it's not even a race. In other words, when the track isn't controlled and there's no lights to tell you who's leaving when, none of it is controlled in that aspect. It's why I, by the way, won't watch the program Street Outlaws because it's fake. By the way, it's all for show. It's all for TV. And, frankly, I think it promotes something that shouldn't be happening, which is street racing. That's why I'm not a fan of that show at all. In fact, I think it never should have went on air. And as it turned out, it turned into more of these guys are very formal racers, and they even go to tracks and do different things. And that migrated as time went by. But early on, it was strictly these guys going out and closing off a section of a road and watching for cops and so on. And, again, it was a lot of hype. Yeah. reality is i'm not a fan of street racing any way shape or form it shouldn't happen again it's a really good way to get people killed and again it's a black eye for our industry it's why i'm not a fan of it never have been a fan of it yes i've i know it's been around for a very long time but it shouldn't happen if you're taking part in that you and i are going to have some major differences because Again, even who wins, you didn't win because at the end of the day, nothing is controlled. You don't know if you even started correctly and who's actually doing the timing of and who actually got across the finish line first based upon when they left and this, that, and the other. And at the end of the day, it's really a very uncontrolled thing that somebody might claim to be the winner, but you're not claiming really anything at the end of the day, in my opinion.
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All right.
SPEAKER 09 :
That's how I look at it. So don't street race. And where Ken's at in Aurora, it really is big in Aurora, but it's spread around the rest of town. And it's gotten to the point where these guys in the middle of the night will even block off all of I-225, for example, and they'll run some street racing, and they're blocking traffic at the same time, and it is a recipe for disaster.
SPEAKER 06 :
Sure.
SPEAKER 09 :
Period. So bottom line, don't do it.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
I can't say, I cannot stress enough, it's no different than a lot of other things that happen in the automotive world.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, and I would think our listeners do not. No. And they just, you know, hopefully don't know anybody that does.
SPEAKER 09 :
No, yeah, I'm probably, you know, I'm not speaking to anybody out there that most likely is listening to me. The majority of people that are doing that are probably not in our camp. Our listeners, that's typically not something you're going to be doing. But, hey, you might run into somebody. You may know somebody. You might have a family member. Here's what I would tell you to do. Discourage them from doing so. If you want to go race, then go formally race. There's Julesburg up in the northeastern part of the state. You can go over to the western slope as well. Hopefully we'll have something back in this Denver area where you can actually race. But until that happens, at the end of the day, racing on the street doesn't benefit anybody, yourself included.
SPEAKER 06 :
Right.
SPEAKER 09 :
And yes, I get it. I've been there, done that. It's fun to go fast. It's fun to race somebody else. There's a lot of adrenaline that happens. That's all cool. That's great. Do it in a controlled environment is my point.
SPEAKER 07 :
You know, in today's cars, you know, I mean, it used to be you would you would build a car to do that. You know, you used to be, you know, but now you can go out and just buy one, buy one, you know, buy one five years old that they just run good. You know, the cars are awesome.
SPEAKER 09 :
They are. I mean, the fastest car right now, personally, that I own is my, I have a 2024 Corvette Z06. That car from zero to 60 is like 2.4, 2.5 seconds or some ridiculous thing. Yeah, right. And it is one of the fastest cars I think I've ever owned, period, even back in the day when I was building cars. Now, I had an actual street roadster that we ran up at Bandimere, ran about a 9.6 quarter mile. Yes, that's really fast compared to even... But the Corvette will run up here, you know, an 11-second quarter mile all day long. That is not a slow car.
SPEAKER 07 :
Not at all, yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
I mean, there were cars back in the day we were trying to build and spend a lot of money on to make it go that fast.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, you're trying to build them to do 12s, and, you know, you're dropping all kinds of high-dollar trailers.
SPEAKER 09 :
And this car right off the shelf will run that.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, right. Is my point, Kent. And it's a daily driver. And it's a daily driver. Yeah, reliable and everything, so.
SPEAKER 09 :
Uh-huh. Point being, and Ken's right, you can buy a lot of cars today that will do that.
SPEAKER 07 :
And not even expensive cars. No. I mean, you know, just, you know, something. Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
By the way, there are some EVs out there that maybe not zero to, you know, not a quarter mile, maybe not all the way up to, you know, 100 mile an hour, you know, plus, but from zero to 60 or even zero to 40 are extremely fast.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well under four seconds. Very fast. Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER 09 :
In fact, I will tell a lot of you guys that maybe, again, have folks that are into that street racing, into things and so on, never race an EV.
SPEAKER 06 :
Right. Seriously.
SPEAKER 09 :
Even so many motorcycle guys don't race an EV. There's chances that EV will be as fast as you are.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, sure.
SPEAKER 09 :
And I'm not exaggerating when I say that.
SPEAKER 07 :
They're super fast. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I mean, they've got traction. They've got all the, yeah, exactly. So, again. Just fun.
SPEAKER 09 :
But my point for our industry, and this is for everybody listening. Do the things that make our industry better at the end of the day. Don't do things that make the industry worse. Our industry gets enough black eyes already from all sorts of things, from the environmental end of things and so on. There's so many people that are out to get the automotive industry in general. Don't make it easy for them is my point. And I know I'm kind of talking now maybe a little bit of politics here, but again, at the end of the day, don't make us an easy target. Guys like Ken and I, we have spent decades cleaning our industry up, literally, what our shops look like, how environmentally friendly we are, how we handle everything from the customer experience to taking care of the materials and the parts and the fluids and so on, and how clean, quote-unquote, we are throughout. And we've taken... You know, pride. I don't even know how to say it, Ken. We've taken pride in cleaning those things up and making the industry across the board better. The last thing I want to say our industry do, Ken, is go backwards. Sure.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER 09 :
I want to see our industry continue to move forward, not go backwards. And unfortunately, it's the knuckleheads that drive it backwards. Sure.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER 09 :
And I don't want that.
SPEAKER 06 :
No, right.
SPEAKER 09 :
And we've made strides, huge strides in the industry. Well, even talking about the cars that roll off the shelf and how fast they are, huge advancements that we now have that we didn't have at one time.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, and, you know, to have that car, you know, roll off the shelf that'll do, you know, zero to 60 in four or five seconds and still get 30 miles to the gallon and be fun to drive and quiet and, you know.
SPEAKER 09 :
uh and not smell bad and it's amazing yeah right i mean it really you look at some of the modern cars and how quick they actually are i mean to the point where it's like okay where am i going to drive this thing yeah right yeah it'll go zero to 60 in 2.6 seconds but where are you doing that you're right exactly yeah You've got to go find enough even freeway around to where there's even less traffic and so on to where you've even got the ability to do it. And that's getting harder and harder to even have happen. So bottom line, there's a lot of cars made today. The new Z car from Chevrolet, the ZL1 car, 1,088 horsepower. I mean, the car is incredibly fast. Where are you going to drive that car?
SPEAKER 06 :
Right. Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER 09 :
It's a car to say you have, but where are you going to drive that car?
SPEAKER 06 :
Anyways. Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
I know I just went through a lot there, but you guys have questions. We've got a half an hour left. Anything you want to know, please give us a call, 303-477-5600. Myself, Ken Rackley, Tunetech Automotive. We'll be right back. Again, Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Few things are life-changing.
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All right, 12 seconds. I was just telling Ken. All right, here we go. Jeff from Western Montana. Go ahead, Jeff.
SPEAKER 16 :
Hey, good afternoon again. Yeah, Pet Peeve is when you go. We have Highway 93 here. It's the main northwest conduit of Western Montana. It varies between one lanes and two lanes because of, you know, mountain conditions, going through the rez. environmental things, a whole bunch of different regions. But my pet peeve is when I'm behind somebody and they're just doing just under the speed limit on a single lane, a two-lane portion of the road, and then you get to a passing place and you try to pass them, and all of a sudden they decide that they can speed up.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. I experience that all the time, Jeff. That one I don't understand either. Yeah.
SPEAKER 16 :
And then... When you go back down to one lane, they slow back down.
SPEAKER 09 :
I don't get it.
SPEAKER 16 :
And even as you're trying to pass them, they're acting like it's a manhood issue. No, it's not a manhood issue. It's a driving issue.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. And really, Jeff, it's a courtesy issue to the folks that are behind you. It's one of the things that, you know, when you're driving defensively, you know, you look behind you, how many cars are, you know, quote, unquote, starting to stack up. And if you're driving so slow that you start to add, you know, 3, 4, 6, 10, 12 cars behind you, okay, hang on. You're not going fast enough, and you either need to get out of the way and let everybody go by or speed up, one of the two.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yep, and I have actually – Pulled off the side if I'm doing something where I have to drive slower, I'll pull off to the side and let the traffic go by. Correct. You said there could be five to 15 cars behind you. Yep. And then law enforcement, I... you said that they can actually be out there and doing speed traps with no lights. I didn't think that that was here.
SPEAKER 09 :
I believe they can in Colorado. Let me double check, but I think they can.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, okay. I don't think they can up here because typically I see them with them on.
SPEAKER 09 :
Um, I think each state is different on that.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah. Uh, also you were talking about emergency flashers. I, uh, I had a situation where I pulled off the side and put my flashes on, and then the dang things wouldn't go off. I had to push it on like a half a dozen times for the dang switch.
SPEAKER 07 :
Because they never get used yet.
SPEAKER 09 :
And really quick, I did look. Under Colorado law, a police officer is not required to have their emergency or traffic enforcement lights or even parking lights on when running radar or LIDAR to detect speed. And that changed at one point, I believe. Because at one time, Jeff, here in Colorado, they did. yep i'm seeing i'm seeing if i can if i can ask and find out because so far nobody's texted in on that i don't know when that actually changed and i'm not sure i can find that um so far i can't find an answer that so i i don't know when that launch i i know when i first started driving which was a long time ago it was required that they have parking lights on to do that but As of today, no, they don't have to.
SPEAKER 07 :
Did they even have lights on cars back then? Well, shut up. Shut up. We're the same age. We had candles. We had candles. Candles, Jeff. Light the headlights. Candles and mirrors.
SPEAKER 16 :
It's funny. Yeah, they had to last a trip. You might have to bring an extra set if you were going along.
SPEAKER 09 :
That's hilarious. I will say that when I started, we had little bubble lights on the top of cop cars. That was it.
SPEAKER 16 :
yeah right yeah yeah there wasn't light bars there were light bubbles yeah nothing heard of an led when headlights were off or turn signals were optional on pickup trucks so yeah um we had a 52 chevy pickup that had a strapped on turn signal because it didn't come from the factory that way so yeah um so and one one final question uh I was down at a grandson's military graduation this past week, and I rented a Kia Kona. I don't know. Have you ever checked that vehicle out?
SPEAKER 09 :
I have, yes.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, sure have. I really liked it. I mean, it was nimble, quick. I mean, it didn't have a whole lot of power. You know, at higher speeds, it wasn't going to run any races, but it did everything it needed to. And the driver assist was pretty cool. I had that on my Honda. Ridgeline, but it's more of a suggestion than anything else and on this Kona it was It would handle the lanes. Yeah, it's not a suggestion.
SPEAKER 09 :
It does it the wheel. Yes. Yep.
SPEAKER 16 :
Absolutely So and also the dash was you didn't have just this, you know Basically a tablet screen in the middle of the dash. It was integrated into the dashboard all the way across your instrument cluster and It was included in it. It was maybe, you know, I'm going to say three, three and a half feet long and maybe six to eight feet, or six to eight inches high. But everything was integrated in it. It was very, very elegant. It was pretty cool. I hope more cars go to that rather than that add-on screen. I think it's easier to get and cheaper, but it doesn't. It doesn't suit the needs as much as having it all integrated like that.
SPEAKER 09 :
Right. No, the Konas are, yeah, nothing wrong with them. And that's a Hyundai, by the way, but same thing. Hyundai, Kia, all the same manufacturer.
SPEAKER 16 :
Are they?
SPEAKER 09 :
Okay. Yeah, Hyundai owns Kia. It's like Chevrolet, Cadillac, et cetera, GMC, same situation. Yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, okay. Kia is kind of the sport version, sportier version.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, I think that's a good way to say it. Maybe not quite as luxurious as the Hyundai end of things would be, I think is kind of how they market that, Jeff.
SPEAKER 16 :
So it's kind of a Pontiac to a Buick? Yeah, in a way.
SPEAKER 09 :
Or a Chevrolet. In today's world, a Buick to a Chevrolet. Honda to Acura type thing. Yeah, something like that, yes. Okay. And by the way, not taking you away from the Kias because they've equipped them, to your point, they've equipped them very well. In fact, you can get the counterpart of the Kona in the Kia version and you won't see a ton of differences.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, like the Palisade and the Telluride, there's not a lot of difference. Not a ton. Yeah. No, they're pretty close. Those are SUVs. Mm-hmm. They're bigger.
SPEAKER 09 :
But no, Kona's a good car. Really quick, a lot of, I was explaining this to somebody the other day as I was on the elevator. Somebody was complaining about, you know, Kia's being, you know, cheap and inexpensive and why would anybody own one and so on and so forth. I'm like, okay, time out. First of all, let's back up.
SPEAKER 16 :
Because they're cheap and inexpensive.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, and where I think Kia and Hyundai kind of went wrong initially was they brought out cars that were very, comparatively speaking, inexpensive compared to a lot of their counterparts. And unfortunately for them, it drew in a lot of people that, frankly, Jeff and Ken probably shouldn't have bought a new car in the first place, meaning these were people that were probably barely affording to get into the car in the first place, couldn't afford to maintain the car once they bought it. And since they didn't, the cars got a bad rap because most of them were very under-maintained.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 09 :
So in turn, a lot of those early Kia and Hyundais had mechanical problems, but a lot of that was from the owners themselves, not necessarily the car, because people bought cars they never should have in the first place. Does that make sense?
SPEAKER 16 :
It does. I also think that it's a learning curve. If you're a Hyundai and you're trying to get into an international market versus... domestic Korean market, it's a whole nother level. And you've got to really step up your game. And if you don't realize that, you don't know what playing feels like, you know, I'm not going to say that Koreans are used to less quality. I just think the driving over there, distance wise, speed wise, um, expectations, it's a completely different thing.
SPEAKER 09 :
It is. And in turn, Jeff, when they came here, they sort of marketed to that lower-end car buyer. I don't know how else to say it. I'm not trying to be rude or anything, but they did market the car to kind of that lower-cost, lower-end car buyer.
SPEAKER 07 :
More affordable transportation.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, while... not training them on, okay, once you buy this car, yes, we have certain maintenance markers that we'd like to see you make. In fact, we want you to do those to keep your warranty in effect and so on and so forth. And unfortunately, Jeff, they didn't do very well in that aspect of things.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, I mean, I can remember when I was stationed in Okinawa in the mid-'70s that I had a Toyota, and it really ran well. But all of the appointments were really low quality. You could really tell that they had scrimped on the fit and finish. And so it just wasn't going to last as long, I guess is what I would say. And I think that Kia has learned from that, and Hyundai has learned from that. And, yeah, their vehicles stand up to... everybody else is very well plus they tend to be less expensive on the whole so yeah I'm not I didn't want to cast any aspersions it was just it was a good experience I'd consider buying one I'm glad you said that I can't disagree with you at all Jeff not at all alrighty good stuff appreciate it very much Mark you're next go ahead
SPEAKER 05 :
Hey, I got a question and then two comments. Sure. First question is my 2015 GMC Yukon has tire pressure monitoring system, which is cool. And I look at it periodically just to see, you know, are they at the right numbers for the tag on the inside of the door? And I've never really cared about those numbers as far as where they were located because I've always used a manual gauge. Well, now I'm getting a little older where I would like to have it aligned. And I've had multiple cars with these systems, but I've never thought twice about, you know, having to make sure they were on the right corner. And so I read through the manual this morning and talked about a GM tire pressure monitoring tool to be able to locate that. And I was just wondering, do I have to buy the tool from GM or can I go online and find a generic tool for that?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, you should be able to find a generic tool for that.
SPEAKER 09 :
In other words, you want to know what sensor is where? Is that what you're trying to say, Mark? So right, front, left, rear, so on?
SPEAKER 05 :
Correct, yeah. There was a couple days ago when they were low, and I was like, oh, I'll just go to the gas station and put an air in. I didn't grab my chuck, which is normally in the door, and it was there. I just didn't grab it.
SPEAKER 09 :
You want the easiest way to do that moving forward? that I use all the time and a lot of listeners now do because of my suggestions. Get any one of the cordless air compressors. They're made by every tool company out there and even some off-brands that you can buy that aren't very expensive. Some of these are all the way down in $25, $30 range. And literally, Mark, these things come all self-contained. You set the pressure you want the tire to be at, hit the go button, and walk away. And when it's done, it's done. You go to the next tire, and you don't have to do anything. Best thing ever.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. I've definitely looked into that.
SPEAKER 09 :
Mark, you will find yourself, I have anyways, using these on a lot more than even just the tires on your car. I use it for everything.
SPEAKER 05 :
My wife keeps giving me guff about having a 30-gallon compressor from 30 years ago with a 100-foot cable.
SPEAKER 09 :
Even me, I've got a big compressor out in my shop and stuff with air hoses and the whole nine yards, Mark. When you buy one of these, you hardly ever drag that line back out for anything. You just don't need to.
SPEAKER 05 :
Maybe I'll wait a little too closer to... Oh, they're the best thing ever.
SPEAKER 09 :
And my suggestion is, you know, whatever tool you normally use. So a lot of people are Milwaukee guys. Some guys are DeWalt guys. Some guys are Makita guys. Some guys are Ryobi and so on. Whatever brand you're already using with batteries, just buy the compressor that goes with your batteries, and off you go.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, probably the Milwaukee version.
SPEAKER 09 :
If you buy them without a battery, they're $100. Yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, so I have two comments. One, pet peeve. So I had two pet peeves, but I'll just narrow it down to one. Go ahead. And that's merging. You know, when I'm on the highway, I can't stand it when my wife is like, hey, you know, you need to be a little more kinder instead of hard-headed when you're in the right lane and someone's trying to merge in your lane. You know, there's all kinds of room, and she wants me to move over. And I'm such a hard-headed, like, heck no. The law states this. I'm driving this way, and there's all this space. They can go freaking pound sand and figure out how to learn to drive. But yet I still get chastised that I have to be a little more kinder to the people that break the law. And it just frustrates me on, you know, the merging side and then the whole wife part of it. But anyway.
SPEAKER 07 :
I always move over to the left if the left lane's empty.
SPEAKER 05 :
I do too. But, you know, that's... Well, I usually do, but sometimes I just, I'm like, I don't want to. I paid my taxes, I'm in this lane, I'm staying in this lane, and that's it.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I get it. And I'll even back off and let somebody in.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, one other comment that I've got. So I used to be on the town council. I'm not a person that likes to get into politics, but I thought I could make a difference. So I ran and I got reelected a few times, and I got a lot of stuff done. And one of the things that I was trying to accomplish was upgrading our water booster station because it runs mainly off electric and then has a backup generator if the power fails. Well... Our town has had power outages, and when it does, the controls do not kick the generator on, or the generator batteries are dead, or some kind of switch is broke, and it doesn't work. And so I've kept a stock tank full of water to make sure we always have water, and I don't have to worry about it. Well, they talked about this whole issue because our power went out, and then our water went to zero pressure a week ago, and in the meeting... You know, the mayor asked who's at the maintenance for public works, you know, when was the last time you guys did preventative maintenance on these generators? And they said, oh, we haven't changed the oil or coolant since 2018. And I'm just like, what? How can you say you're a part of the maintenance crew of the town and you can't even get basic maintenance done in the most important parts of our infrastructure?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, right. The stuff that affects everybody.
SPEAKER 05 :
It's ridiculous, you know, and I'm so glad I wasn't sitting there in a meeting. Otherwise, I would have probably had some choice words, but...
SPEAKER 09 :
Nope, good stuff. Mark, I'll let you go take our last break. We'll come back. I got a question that came in via the text line. I'll get answered as soon as we come back about buying cars with previous hail damage. I'll talk about that. Great question, by the way. This is Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 06 :
Right. Exactly.
SPEAKER 09 :
Okay. All right, let me think about, or let me go through a couple more of these text messages, by the way. Did I see the Ford video where warranty was denied because Ford can see how many times a start button's been pressed? Yes, I did, by the way. I did see that particular video. That's out of whiteface Ford. I actually follow them on social media. And what people don't understand, those of you that are in the tuning world, The manufacturers, in this case Ford, has the ability to, once you take the ECM out, for example, and reprogram it and put it back in, they know exactly how many times it's being uploaded to them constantly, and or they can pull it out of the computer itself, one or the other, but they know how many times you hit the start-stop button. So let's say the car's got 40,000 miles on it, and it's still under the factory warranty, especially on the emissions and all that kind of thing. But you did a reprogramming of the ECM and all of a sudden there's a problem now. Even though you did a complete reprogram and it doesn't necessarily show up that it's been reprogrammed. So when the tech goes in to look at everything, it looks quote unquote stock and normal. They know how many key cycles quote unquote it's had since that ECM got put in. And if it's got 40,000 miles on it, it's only had 100 cycles, yeah, that doesn't correlate. Because at 40,000 miles, you're going to have a lot more than 100, for example, key cycles. And yes, they can tell by that and by the mileage and on average how many key cycles does that take to get there, and they know. So in other words, it's getting to the point in this day and age where it's really hard to fool the factory on the upgrades you might do, especially on the software end of things.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, as far as I know, any software modification other than – Avoids a warranty. Yeah, from the factory. It just voids. Yep.
SPEAKER 09 :
Somebody also said you can't trust any of the toilet dealers, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, okay. I'm not going to go down that path because I'm not going to mention that on air. But in that case, I can't trust that dealer because of what they're saying because they're basically lying. Yeah. But really quick, back to the whole modifications. Okay. And I get this question quite often. If I put this on, does it void my warranty? If I do this, does it void the warranty? Now, there's a lot of bolt-on pieces that, because of the Magnuson-Moss Act, can't void the warranty. It may void a particular portion of the warranty. So we'll go back to the cold air intakes Ken talked about earlier. And by the way, some of them are good, most are not. It's one of those things where there's a percentage that are, most aren't.
SPEAKER 07 :
It looks really good, but it doesn't function. Sounds different, but really not doing anything.
SPEAKER 09 :
Sort of like wetting your pants in a nice blue suit. It might feel good for you, but no one really notices. Okay. Anyways.
SPEAKER 07 :
Bad for everybody else.
SPEAKER 09 :
At the end of the day, it's not a good thing. And that's an example of they can't void the warranty even on the engine or anything else when putting the cold air intake on unless they can prove that the cold air intake itself did the damage. So let's say you put it on and you left something loose and it sucked dirt into the engine and that caused the engine to fail. Well, of course, now they're not going to honor that warranty because of what I just said. But they can't void it just point blank. They've got to prove that that's what caused the problem. No, they're not going to warranty anything on that part from that point forward because you changed it out from the factory.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right. You took the mass airflow sensor off, you put on there, you did whatever, and it changed.
SPEAKER 09 :
And that's one thing, too, you might even have in this particular case because you change the cold air intake end of things, if there's a mass airflow sensor problem on down the road, they may not warranty that because they can come back and say, listen, you changed the airflow past the sensor. Unless you've done something to reprogram things properly like Gale Banks does, by the way, yeah, we're not going to warranty that part either.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, or you put an oil-filtered filter on it, and it's got buildup on it from that. It's like, well, that wouldn't happen with a cotton or whatever.
SPEAKER 09 :
And this is a deeper subject. Maybe next time Ken's on with me, we can get into. But not all aftermarket parts are created equal. Let me give you one quick example in this last minute of the show. Rear differential covers that are finned aluminum. A lot of companies make them. In fact, there's dozens of them on the market for all sorts of different applications. And you go watch a video by Gail Banks on this, by the way, and he even does an example of where he takes one of his covers that's made out of clear plastic that they actually made so you can actually see the difference between his cover and somebody else's. And the reality is most of the flat... back diff covers where it's totally flat and there's no internal dish made into the cover. They don't circulate oil properly in the rear differential. His covers actually do, but not all of them are made that way. They might look like they do, But they're not, and you're actually creating air, and you're adding heat and other things whereby you should have just left the stock cover on. You'd have been better off in the end.
SPEAKER 07 :
Starving the pinion bearings from oil, and you're aerating the fluid more so.
SPEAKER 09 :
One example where, no, they're not all created equal. All right, guys, we've got to get out of here. Ken, as always, I appreciate you. Give them your phone number real quick. It's always good to be here. 303-364-3391. Larry Unger, thanks for answering phones. Charlie Grimes, your engineer. We'll be back next week. You guys have a fabulous weekend. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 11 :
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On this episode of A Guy’s Perspective, the crew dives headfirst into one of their most passionate conversations yet: what it means to be a “traditional man” in 2025.
From handshakes and integrity to courage, provision, and protection, the guys tackle questions about leadership, societal shifts, and whether the “traditional man” still exists. Callers weigh in with stories of strong fathers, stoic wisdom, and quotes from Seneca to Stalin. The conversation ranges from light-hearted moments—like a hilarious Panera Bread parking showdown and pumpkin carving contest—to deep reflections on divorce, ego, transgender debates, leadership in the home, and the impact of cultural change on manhood.
They also explore biblical models of leadership, the role of men as providers and protectors, and how selflessness shapes real masculinity. With phones lighting up and voices from across Colorado joining in, this episode is a raw, thoughtful, and often funny look at what it means to be a man in today’s world.
SPEAKER 12 :
I can't hide myself I don't expect you to understand I just hope I can explain What it's like to be a man It's a lonely road And they don't care about what you know It's not about how you feel But what you provide inside that home
SPEAKER 14 :
you make it you can't always live up to expectations you try to please everybody while you struggle so you fake it and end up out of balance compromising situations as a good man
SPEAKER 02 :
Welcome to A Guy's Perspective, where they discuss real-life topics that men today are dealing with. Whether married, single parent, or just single, we invite you to call into this live program with your comments and questions. And here they are.
SPEAKER 06 :
How's everybody doing today? This is The Guy's Perspective at KLZ 560 AM. Before we get started and go around the room and introduce the guys, I just want to say we're... So the second caller who calls in today, we'll give them a gift card. For what? We'll give them a gift card to the Spaghetti Factory. The problem is people, whenever you call in, make sure you stay on the phone so we get your information. Otherwise, we don't know who you are. And another thing is the 25th is our last show of this month. And so go onto our webpage online. Or send a picture to theguysperspective5 at gmail.com and show us a picture of the coolest pumpkin. We're going to do a pumpkin drive. If you've got the coolest pumpkin carving, take a picture, send it to us. We'll take a vote. If you win that, we'll give you... Two tickets to a haunted house. How about we do that? Oh, spooky. Spooky, since it's Halloween time. That'll be super cool, man. Some dude and his wife or girlfriend will go to a haunted house or, you know, a dad and his son will go to a haunted house.
SPEAKER 07 :
They'll get the pumpkin scared out of them.
SPEAKER 06 :
True, but you have to go to our webpage. It's theguysperspective.org. It's all lowercase. Or go to our email, theguysperspective5 at gmail.com. And post a picture of your pumpkin that you've carved. You've got until the 25th to do it. And if so, the winner will get... um two tickets to a haunted house but in the meantime if you're the second caller today you will get a gift card but you got to come into the studio to get your gift card unless you got a terminal illness or something and they can't make it but um with that being said let's get into our topic the topic today is traditional man long established do you guys think the traditional man even exists anymore reno of course
SPEAKER 07 :
I'm looking at him.
SPEAKER 06 :
Tell us why you say that, man. First off, what's the traditional man to you?
SPEAKER 11 :
I don't know. I was going to ask you that. What do you consider the traditional man?
SPEAKER 06 :
I think the traditional man, at least for me, is... I would probably say like, actually, I've got it right here. I would say the traditional man to me is like his character, like the availability to show up. You know what I'm saying? For example, if you tell your woman you're going to take her to dinner, you should probably pick up the tab versus her pick up the tab.
SPEAKER 07 :
Or even show up. Some guys might not even show up. And that's not a man. If a man says, hey, I'm going to do that, and it's a handshake, he'll show up.
SPEAKER 06 :
You're bringing up a good point. Does the handshake even work anymore?
SPEAKER 11 :
With me, I would say yeah, but there's people who have given their word that haven't followed through, and I would say that's not a traditional man. I would think a traditional man would honor his word.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay, so you think a handshake. What about with business? I mean, honestly, think about it. If that guy shakes your hand but doesn't sign on the dotted line, are you doing business with him?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. Are you doing business with a man if they if you do handshake or you do sign on the dotted line and and they back out of the deal? Like I do. I think it's integrity. It's honesty. It's loyalty. It's showing up. That's that's what it is to be not only a man, but a good human. Somebody would follow through.
SPEAKER 06 :
Gotcha. What if you've got somebody who says they're going to be there, but they're always late 24-7? It's a late man. But you know what I'm saying? If you go back to looking at the traditional man, at least from everything that I've looked at, first off, let's ask this question. Why is the traditional man so complex today? Is it because there are so many divorces that happen? And does a woman even want a traditional guy?
SPEAKER 11 :
I don't know. Today, I think people might have a different definition of a traditional man or a man period. Some men don't even want to be men.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, my goodness. That is deep. No. It's true. He's right. Some men don't want to be men. Some men don't want to be men.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, and not just, you know, like not trying to bash or knock on like anybody trans if they want to be like woman. But there's kids that don't want to grow up. There's 40-year-old. I was going to say 40-year-old virgin, but it's like 40-year-old man who's still at his mom's. Right.
SPEAKER 06 :
Right.
SPEAKER 07 :
You haven't become a man. You're still a child.
SPEAKER 06 :
So do you think, okay, so what actually makes a man a man then in society today?
SPEAKER 07 :
Courage.
SPEAKER 06 :
Maybe. Maybe courage. Well, you can't say courage because it takes courage for a man to transition to a woman. That does take courage. No, it does in today's society.
SPEAKER 11 :
I would say that takes an extreme amount of courage. Yeah, it does.
SPEAKER 06 :
I mean, because when you think about men playing women's sports, which we've talked about that before here on the show, which I think is absolute crazy.
SPEAKER 07 :
I'm telling you, it doesn't take courage to be a man and say that you're a woman and then go beat up on women. That is the opposite of courage. That is sandbagging and planning the attack to win. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, I know exactly what you're saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's the opposite of courage in that. But yeah, that person, I don't know.
SPEAKER 06 :
So that's what makes it such a complex question. Like, is the traditional man still around? Because you have transgenderism like that. Because there's so many men nowadays who they're not going to keep their word. They're no longer going to. There's so many men that don't even want to be men. They want to be women. And I think that's absolutely crazy to think about. Like, let me ask you this. Okay, you guys are business owners, right?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
If, if a man is transitioned to a woman, are you going to do business with them?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 11 :
What do you say? Well, it's individual. It's not, it's, it does that. That doesn't matter in business. It's, it's, um, individual. So in most conversations, you can kind of gauge someone's character. And if someone that's in transition has more honor, salt, and worth than a so-called man, then I'm going to choose to do business with the one that has the most integrity.
SPEAKER 06 :
Gotcha. Gotcha. So basically at the end of the day, it's coming down to the person who's going to do the quality work better. They're going to show up on time.
SPEAKER 07 :
Or like Reno was saying, as us being business owners, we have the right to choose or deny to conduct business with somebody.
SPEAKER 06 :
Is that true, though? Oh, absolutely.
SPEAKER 07 :
Dude, just yesterday, just yesterday, man, somebody was coming at me with manipulation in their speech of how they wanted to have their windshield repaired. And then at the end, they said... Um, I said, I can't serve you. Um, so you're going to have to go elsewhere. And he, he laughed it off. Like he said, Oh, because I asked for a lower price. The guy never once asked for a lower price. The guy was asking me to compromise my integrity by showing up to do half of what my job is. And he wanted half the price for that. You see what I'm getting at? Yeah. Yeah. So, so I denied him. I said, I refuse to give you service, sir. If he was a sir, but he was not a man.
SPEAKER 11 :
And I've done the same thing. Someone asked me to hook up a hot tub that was too old to be protected. And I said, do you realize you're putting your family in danger? He wanted me to hook it up anyway. And he needed a bunch of other work done on top of that. But if I hook that up, I walk away, and his family gets electrocuted inside of a hot tub, then I'm charged with the multiple murder. But not only that. I have to live with that.
SPEAKER 06 :
And people call us at 303-477-5600. This is getting good.
SPEAKER 07 :
The traditional man. I'd say, Reno, in that scenario, out of the two, there was only one that worked with honor. Because you could have taken the out and take less money and do the bad job. But at what cost? Like, major cost.
SPEAKER 06 :
So it's funny we're talking about this because I was reading the other day about – and this was years ago, but it happened here in Colorado. In school, they had this – they were talking about this company that denied business to a certain – ethnic group or particular people who were transgenders like they wanted a certain kind of cake made but they decided they're not going to make it so they took them all the way to court for that so there are people out there that even though you turn them down because we may not feel like they're the traditional man People take people to court over that stuff all the time now. It's super crazy.
SPEAKER 07 :
To me, it blows me away. I think it's what Reno was saying and what we've been saying, which is it's honor. That makes a man and or a woman one that has integrity. I think women probably deal with the same kind of thing.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay, so let me read this to you. Approximately 21% of men have been divorced once or more in their lives. By 55, about 37% of men who have married have been divorced at least once. Divorce rate is around 2.4 to 2.5 per 1,000 people. First marriages end in a divorce about 40 to 50%. Second merit, 60 to 67%. Third merit, 70% plus. And 69% of marriages are presented to their significant other by a woman. So this is the question I want to ask you as a traditional man. Knowing these stats, if a man turns around and says he wants a divorce, does that make him less of a traditional man or does that make him more of a wimpy man?
SPEAKER 07 :
Circumstantial, I'd say.
SPEAKER 11 :
Why is he asking for a divorce?
SPEAKER 06 :
Good, good question, right? That's a deep question. Okay, let's go down that path. What if the significant other he's with is just strung out on drugs and there's no stability in their home and he wants to move forward?
SPEAKER 07 :
Right. Does that make him less of a man if he chooses divorce because he's tried every other angle to provide help to somebody who it's only enabling? God, this is a good subject.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, you flipped the script. What do you mean you flipped the script? No, what I'm saying is if you flip the script and there's a woman who stands by her husband who is on drugs, Which the only reason I'm saying that is because I know someone personally who stood by her husband until he passed away.
SPEAKER 07 :
The whole time. Really? She totally honors the marriage. She's a man.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
Hold on, hold on.
SPEAKER 11 :
Don't go down that road because we're going to talk about that. No, she stood by him when I thought, wow, I don't know if I could do that. So there's some women who are stronger in that aspect than men. But if I'm looking at... drug addict and all the stuff that comes along with it and I want to stay in that marriage it's individual how bad do you want it or when is it time to just say enough so I don't know if that's saying you're less of a man if you choose to walk away because different people go through different things throughout their life that will cause them to stay or cause them to leave. And you can't say one is worse than the other because you don't know the path that they took to get to where they're at. why they're choosing to leave or stay.
SPEAKER 06 :
Because, guys, I'll be absolutely real with you guys. I took a chance on a different career to make a lot of money. Those dudes fired my butt, and I feel like less of a man. So when does it become...
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, about provision?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, exactly. Because if you're a man, traditionally, like you're saying, like eventually there's a time where a man just gives up. But when is it that where a man feels so isolated to where he just throws up his hands and he just says, forget everything.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, it's going to be different for everyone. Yeah. Every person's going to be different.
SPEAKER 07 :
Hey, which we should congratulate everybody who here is listening and everybody who's here for having made it as far as you have. I mean, I'm at 48 years. You know, you guys are 40s as well. And we've obviously had to go through a lot of struggles to get here and all the listeners that are here, too.
SPEAKER 11 :
I'm actually 52.
SPEAKER 1 :
52.
SPEAKER 06 :
And everybody who knows better than us, call at 303-477-5600 because we'd like to know your input of like, how long do you... Endure. Endure. That's a good word. How long do you... Well, okay, so now let me ask you this. If a guy's not being a traditional man, if the woman even wants a traditional man, like when does she step up and she becomes the leader? And is it as a guy, would you follow your woman if she is the leader of everything? Hmm. That's a deep question.
SPEAKER 11 :
If I'm following my woman and she's the leader, I'm not a man. I was waiting for what you guys were saying.
SPEAKER 06 :
No, because, I mean, if you think about it. No, I mean. Okay, let's hear it.
SPEAKER 11 :
So there's a question. A model. Okay. There's a model of the way things are supposed to be. Let me hear. It comes from the Bible.
SPEAKER 07 :
God's model.
SPEAKER 11 :
God is the head of the man. The man is the head of the house. And the woman is the neck that turns the head.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right. Whichever direction it needs to go. That's good. That is really good. I mean, back to Brock's stats about divorce and stuff like that. I've been divorced. I think maybe all of us have at this table. But I called it my practice marriage because it prepared me to be better in my marriage now. But it couldn't have prepared me to be better in my marriage now if I was unwilling to and if I was too prideful to look within because I can't change another. I can change myself. And in what I'd like to say about like the Bible and how it pertains to the relationship of a man and a woman. is that she's a help meet, not a help mate. And I think a lot of guys get it twisted. They think, oh, this woman's supposed to help me do everything I have and not align in your vision for your benefit. A help meet actually gives you a different perspective of the same goal.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, OK, so so then let me ask you this. OK, since we're talking about that, like like a guy and what and his long established DNA, because as a man, it really is embedded in you to be a provider. It really is something inside of you that says, hey, I'm going to be the leader. Let's talk about this. If that situation, like you said, was your trial run for a practice marriage, how would America have done if Kamala would have been our president?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, that'd be a practice run.
SPEAKER 06 :
I mean, honestly, though, do you think it would have messed up the dynamics of men? Do you think it would have messed up the dynamics of home?
SPEAKER 07 :
Wait a second. How bad off is Europe?
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, I don't know. I don't live in Europe.
SPEAKER 07 :
Europe's probably doing pretty well. They've been around longer than the U.S. It's run by a queen.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well... You can't well your way out of that, queen.
SPEAKER 07 :
It's run by a queen.
SPEAKER 06 :
Hold on. Elaborate on that.
SPEAKER 07 :
A woman is a queen. A woman is running a country.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, I get what you're saying. Okay, okay, okay, all right. That makes a lot of sense what you're saying right there.
SPEAKER 11 :
That's a good point.
SPEAKER 06 :
That is a very good point.
SPEAKER 07 :
It's the only point I could use, though.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay, so what you're saying right there is if we had a woman president, you don't think it would mess up the dynamic of the man's DNA and who he is, right? So did your divorce feel like it affected you in any way?
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, yeah. It affected me negatively as a man.
SPEAKER 06 :
You're right. Did you feel like it took away from your manhood?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, ego is the first thing that one has to check. And when I was unwilling to check my ego, it ended in divorce. Then I was forced to check my ego if I wanted to be in another marriage.
SPEAKER 06 :
Arena, what about you? Because all three of us have been in a divorce.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, it was definitely a devastating.
SPEAKER 06 :
For sure, life-changing. Life-changing, yeah. So then that's what I'm saying. I think America, if Kamala would have became president, I think it would have went against the male ego. I don't know. Try to disagree. You guys can't disagree with that.
SPEAKER 07 :
That if our country was run by a woman?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah. Why? Why do you say that? The reason why I say it would have affected men in their household as leaders, because at the highest position... On the planet, if you have a woman making the decisions as the leader, hold on. I got you. I got you. No, no, no, no. Give me a minute after you're done. When you're done, let me tell you. All right. I'm not bashing women by any means. We're talking on a national level because guys are built to be leaders. I personally think it would affect and take away the leadership role of men.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, I just want to say I've been to the Bilbrey household when they were kids. And I know who ran the house. And it wasn't Mr. Bilbrey.
SPEAKER 06 :
My mom definitely ran the house.
SPEAKER 07 :
She ran the house, but dad was a provider. Dad was a provider. So that's why I think just like Christ loved the church is how we're supposed to love the woman. I think that that does put us in a position of we don't need to rule with a heavy hand or a rod of steel. we can work together with a woman, put her in position to kind of run household. Does that make sense? Right, no, it makes perfect sense. Like we go out and we earn, we generate. Right. But then that's the very plight that we keep arguing about. It's like, oh, is that all the worth of a man is that he's just making money and bringing money home?
SPEAKER 06 :
Wow. Yeah, because it makes you wonder, because there's a whole lot more when it comes down to being a man, right? There is. What about the protector part?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. Right, right. Somebody breaks into the house, who's up to handle that?
SPEAKER 11 :
Are you going to tell your wife, can you go see who that is? I did, actually.
SPEAKER 07 :
Let me tell you. So we got the new house, right? We got the house we're living in. And it was all being under construction and remodeling and stuff like that. And I went over there, and it was dark, and I was closing up, and I heard like a creak or a thud upstairs, and I just shut and locked the door. And I went home, and my wife's like, how's it going? And I was like, oh, pretty good. And she said, is the house locked? I said, yeah. I heard some thud or creak, and she was like, did you go to check? And I was like, uh-uh. I didn't go to check. I ain't going to lose my life for this place. And so she put on her boots and grabbed her box cutter, and we went over there.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, wow.
SPEAKER 07 :
And she went and she turned on every light, looked in every nook and cranny.
SPEAKER 05 :
Your woman did this when you walked in? This is the best story ever. Yeah. Let me hear this real. That's funny, bro.
SPEAKER 11 :
So, Heath, you're the man of the house, huh? I am the man. I think I am.
SPEAKER 06 :
I completely take back what I said about a woman governor of America. Hey, man, that's a legit story. I love it, man. So is this in your new house, though?
SPEAKER 07 :
In the new house when we didn't have, like, it was being remodeled, but nobody was living there.
SPEAKER 06 :
Wow.
SPEAKER 07 :
Wow. And I was just scared.
SPEAKER 06 :
It's so funny. Did it sound like they were coming upstairs?
SPEAKER 07 :
There was a creak and a thud, and that was enough for me. Yeah, dude, and I'm a black belt. But one of the first things about being in any martial art is knowing how to avoid the fight. I have insurance on the place.
SPEAKER 06 :
That's some funny stuff, man. That is so funny. But you know what I'm saying? Because being a protector is one of the attributes of a guy. Like making your family feel safe, making your home feel safe, making your business a safe place. I think it's like something that's installed inside of us. Anybody who wants to give us a call at 303-477-5600, give us a call. We're talking about their traditional man. So what exactly is a protector to you? Well, you just said it. Your woman's going to protect the home regardless.
SPEAKER 05 :
She's my protector.
SPEAKER 06 :
What's a protector to you?
SPEAKER 11 :
Um, someone that protects. I mean, you know, so I don't think anyone should be speaking against my wife or putting their hands on my wife coming into the house. Um,
SPEAKER 06 :
I mean, as a Christian, let's say you're at the grocery store and somebody walks up to your woman. You're probably going to defend her right then, right?
SPEAKER 07 :
He knows Jesus, but he knows how to throw hands, too. I know.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, I mean. is there ever a scenario seriously is there ever a scenario where you should not be protecting your your your children or your wife like let's say somebody walks up to you exactly you should right what scenario would create a something that you wouldn't want to protect your your own Let's say you're at the grocery store, you come walking out, somebody is just being irate, flipping you off, road rage, hopping in your car, still in your spot. At that point, do you just walk away and say, hey, leave it alone, turn the cheek, or if they make a comment to your wife... Because when you're by yourself, you can take a lot more than you can if you're with your girlfriend. You know what I'm saying? Like, you're going to turn around, and at that point, it's a fight.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, I mean, I've walked away from quite a bit.
SPEAKER 06 :
But that's by yourself, though.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, but when it's my wife, as long as you don't violate my space or act like you're going to touch my wife, I don't know. I mean... Because you know how the Bible says turn... If someone says something to my wife out of pocket and I haul off and hit them, then I'm the aggressor. Then I'm the one going to jail for assault. So you have to think about it. If I go to jail, who's providing for my house? So I want to protect my wife from what someone said. And words really don't hurt you, but It could be extremely disrespectful, and you'd have to hold a lot in to walk away from it. But what's worse, you walking away or you spending time in jail and you can't provide for your family?
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, my God, man. This is good. Smart. That is. That's logical thinking. But in the moment, are you honest?
SPEAKER 07 :
Those are chess moves, not checkers, man. Wow. Wow. Because he's thinking of, like, the outcome, the fallout. Think of how deep that was, what he just said. I got a Panera story with me and my wife.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay. And we're going to talk about this on the other side. Call us at 303-477-5600. We're talking about the traditional man. Well, I want to hear his Panera story. Panera bread. And we're going to go back to that because what you said was interesting, right? Like, if you end up in jail, who's providing for your home anyway? Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
yeah so he's thought ahead of the fight he has thought ahead of that yeah that's wow that's that's bold um give us a call people on the other side thank you i can't hide myself i don't expect you to understand i just hope i can explain what it's like to be a man it's a
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SPEAKER 12 :
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SPEAKER 14 :
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SPEAKER 06 :
How's everybody doing today? This is KOZ 560 AM. You can always give us a call at 303-477-5600. I'll slow that down. 303-477-5600 and talk to the guys. Before the show, we were talking about the traditional man. And Arino, we brought up a scenario like if you're coming out of the grocery store and someone's disrespecting you or disrespecting your significant other, like how far do you take it? And he brought a different perspective like, hey, I'm not going to just kick your butt even though I know I could whip your butt. I'm going to put my hands up, and if you're aggressive and you come at me, then I'm going to knock you out. But otherwise, I'm just going to smile, laugh at you, tell my significant other and kids to get in the car because I don't want to go to jail because if I go to jail, I can't provide for my family. And as a guy, providing is huge. When you ain't got no money in your pocket, that's the hardest thing in the world. You want to drop a dude to his knees, take his money.
SPEAKER 11 :
Real quick, I just want to give a shout out to Andre. Congratulations.
SPEAKER 06 :
Congratulations.
SPEAKER 11 :
Newborn daughter. Yeah. Just had a daughter this past week.
SPEAKER 06 :
Was it yesterday he had a kid?
SPEAKER 11 :
No, it was Sunday. Was it Sunday?
SPEAKER 06 :
It was Sunday he had his kiddo? No, I think it was. I don't know. I don't know.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, it was this past week. And congratulations. And try to get some sleep.
SPEAKER 05 :
Hope y'all are doing good. What's his baby's name? I don't know the name yet. Yeah, I don't even know the name.
SPEAKER 07 :
That's the trick, callers. You get to name the baby.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's a good one.
SPEAKER 06 :
Call in and tell us what Andre's new baby daughter's name should be. Andre, we're going to... That's funny, bro. That's some good stuff right there, man. I'm telling you. Listen to the actor. Callers call in at 303-477-5600 and throw out some baby names for Andre's family, man. Let's get him hooked up. Tell us about Panera Bread.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, you want to hear Panera Bread. I want to hear this. So picture a beautiful Colorado sunset on North Denver up in Thornton.
SPEAKER 06 :
I got it in my mind.
SPEAKER 07 :
All right. There's a Panera Bread, man, and there's very limited parking, and I don't know why they didn't take into consideration all the parking.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 07 :
So there's limited parking. We're pulling in, and we're waiting for our parking space, right? And there's somebody coming out, and this person couldn't see our car from the other side. Well, what do they do? They whip in because the way the car pulled out, they got to whip in. Well, my wife, she was being boisterous and yelling toward this guy like, hey, jerk, why'd you take our spot and all this stuff? And then he gets out and his wife get out and they start yelling too. And my wife's yelling and I'm driving past, right? And I'm like, forget this. I put it in reverse. I back up, let my wife keep talking all that trash. And so she just talked more and he talked more. And then she made him so mad that when we left, they backed out and left. Nobody had Panera that night. And he pulls up right next to us at the turn signal for the next light. And I had it on my heart to lean across and tell the guy, look, man, I'm sorry. We both lost our heads. Nobody got dinner tonight. But I didn't. And I kind of regret that. And sir, I'm sorry.
SPEAKER 06 :
Dude, that kind of stuff is for real. Like the whole road rage thing.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, and we were hangry, man. All of us were hungry.
SPEAKER 06 :
You know, who came up with the word hangry anyway? Because that is a real thing. You are upset.
SPEAKER 11 :
That is a for real thing.
SPEAKER 06 :
It is a for real thing. Like you're going to get upset when you're hungry. But what you're talking about is...
SPEAKER 11 :
But when I'm hangry and I'm in the house, my wife will ask me, she says, have you eaten?
SPEAKER 07 :
Immediately? She goes to that?
SPEAKER 11 :
No, sometimes she does. She goes, are you hungry?
SPEAKER 07 :
That's nice. She knows you.
SPEAKER 06 :
So I would have to say these are all part of traditions to a traditional man, right? Like the provider part, like you guys – That was so far from my mind, what Arino said and what you're saying. To step back, look at the whole scope and say, okay, my bigger role as a man to my home is to be the provider. Because if I lose my job and I ain't got no money. There's a lot of consequences.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, that's why I think being a man is more along the lines of what Reno was saying, which is when we set down ego and we pick up wisdom, we look for all the ways that this stuff could go sideways or wrong, and we look to the future that we're risking in a moment's notice of anger.
SPEAKER 11 :
And then what's it worth? Win or lose the fight, really, what is it worth?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 11 :
It's all about – it's actually really selfish when you think about it.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 11 :
Because you want to prove that you can win or you're right even though you know you're wrong.
SPEAKER 07 :
So, Reno, you're saying the difference between a man is selfishness or selflessness, thinking of others.
SPEAKER 11 :
Wow. That's a good point.
SPEAKER 06 :
No, he's hitting on something. It may very well be the whole fact of – not being selfish and being selfless to provide people that you care about putting them first.
SPEAKER 07 :
But I think that's also not necessarily just a man. That's a Christian selflessness.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay, well, then what does the scripture mean that you turn the other cheek? You only got two cheeks. What happens if you turn that second one? Get the other one rosy.
SPEAKER 11 :
You just keep turning, shaking your head no?
SPEAKER 07 :
I guess that's why God gave us four cheeks. Well, there's... Dude, you're killing me, bro. You don't call him or somebody. It goes from a face slap to a butt kicking.
SPEAKER 06 :
but i mean people call and tell us 303-477-5600 tell us what you think the traditional man is and tell us your situation of of he said somebody was trying to break into his home he sent the wife down there funniest thing ever man and oh truth daddy hey what's up Hey, what's happening, fellas? What's up, man? I love when you call, man.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, we do too, man.
SPEAKER 06 :
Tell us what you think about this. What's this traditional man being road rage the whole nine yards? Tell us about it.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, I don't think really the traditional man exists anymore. I don't think he can, not these days. Wow. When I'm thinking about the traditional man, I'm thinking about the men in the 40s, the 50s, the 30s, you know, chivalrous, you know. The breadwinner, wife saves at home, takes care of the kids, takes care of the house. Times have changed. I don't think you can be that way anymore. Is that society's fault? You can be a man, but a traditional man, no. I mean, depending on what you're talking about, what's the traditional man? Are you talking about caveman? That's deep, man. I mean, so yeah, I don't think the traditional man really exists anymore these days.
SPEAKER 06 :
Thanks, buddy, for calling, man.
SPEAKER 07 :
He's giving us some fat to chew on there.
SPEAKER 06 :
Right on. Thanks for calling in. I like it. Bye. I want to go on with that, too. Hold on, people. That's one caller. We need another person to call in, and that gift card goes to the second caller. Call us at 303-477-5600. He was hitting some good points right there.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, he's right. It's almost like society, how it's set up, doesn't allow the man to do what he's done in that time, which is provide.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, it's created. It's on purpose.
SPEAKER 07 :
I agree with that.
SPEAKER 06 :
It seems like we're hitting on the provision part. That's got to be the most important thing as a traditional guy or even as a guy in general. If you can't provide.
SPEAKER 11 :
What about the guy that's providing, but his wife makes more money than him?
SPEAKER 06 :
I'm totally cool with that.
SPEAKER 07 :
It emasculates a lot of men. Oh, there's a lot of men that are good at it. It's an ego.
SPEAKER 11 :
It's an ego thing, but I would be fine with it. But does that make you less of a man because your wife makes more money than you?
SPEAKER 07 :
What about Superman? What do you mean? What do you mean? Well, Christopher Reeves, man, he went from being like an able body to being disabled. Wow. He could still generate though. He could still generate on them residuals of all the films and all that kind of stuff. But did he, I'm certain he felt like he was less of a man, like he, he could not provide.
SPEAKER 06 :
So basically you're saying if you were like a quadriplegic or something and your woman had to help you go to the bathroom and things like that, that would probably make you feel like less of a man. I guarantee it.
SPEAKER 07 :
How could you show up? How could you be there?
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, my God. Didn't even think about that. Right.
SPEAKER 07 :
So much more could be stripped from us than just our money or ability to make money.
SPEAKER 06 :
So at that point, what happens psychologically to a man?
SPEAKER 07 :
I don't even know, bro.
SPEAKER 06 :
God, if any of our callers know, call at 303-477-5600 because it makes you wonder. Psychologically, if you can't do anything for your home and your significant other has to, oh, how's it going, Hank? Talk to us.
SPEAKER 16 :
Hey, just a follow-up call on that young man that just called in. I think he's probably right about today's man, not what he has been. But to me, that is a challenge to rebuild the strongman of the U.S. that made the U.S., not to just continue down a path of deterioration. And I just picked up a book on philosophy, and it's about Stoics. And it's some of the quotes from some of the Stoics. And that means bucking up, don't let them see you sweat, handle the tough stuff, and keep on trucking. So I think that that's what we need to do as men in America now. I think that's the call that's going out.
SPEAKER 07 :
Hank, Hank, thank you for your call, man. But then what about us with all of our whining on this station? No, I don't think. Because we're trying to talk a lot and stuff, you know.
SPEAKER 16 :
You're whining, but it's a version of venting. And I think it's good that you're at least that personal and saying what you believe. But I think you've got to have a vision for the future. Like where each of you going in your life? What are you going to do with your stuff? And the stoicism is just tactics to get you there.
SPEAKER 06 :
Hank, give us the name of this book. That way our listeners can look at it.
SPEAKER 16 :
I think that's... Well, the book, I picked it up at Barnes & Noble yesterday. It is called The Stoicism Book of Quotes. And it's actually fantastic. And it's a little book. It's like $12 or $13, $14. The Stoicism, S-T-O-I... C-I-S-M book of quotes. And it's only 50 pages long or so, but they're heavy, and they make you think. And that's what we need to do, is put on our thinking caps and not just react.
SPEAKER 07 :
Hank, do you have one of those quotes handy? I've got several of them.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, hit us with one of the quotes. Yeah, by all means, man.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, one thing is... This is from a guy named Seneca, and it says, the whole future lies in uncertainty. Live immediately.
SPEAKER 06 :
Wow.
SPEAKER 16 :
In other words, that's avoiding procrastination.
SPEAKER 07 :
Wow. Wayne Gretzky said, you miss 100% of the shots you never take, Hank.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah. Hank, I think that's cool that you called, because as the guy's perspective, our whole thing is to open men's eyes about everything, and we love when you call in and you correct us and put us in our place.
SPEAKER 16 :
Here's another quote from this guy, Seneca. Everything hangs on one's thinking. A man is as unhappy as he is He has convinced himself to be.
SPEAKER 06 :
Jesus, that is true. Wow. As a man thinketh, so he is. Oh, boom. Good correlation. Hank, you are the man. Hank, make sure we get your information because we got a gift card for you. Yeah, Charlie will get it for me.
SPEAKER 16 :
Would you ever be... Give it to the next caller. I'm... I'm porky enough already. Okay.
SPEAKER 06 :
Caller number three will get it in. That's all, folks. And keep listening to us and go to our webpage. Thank you for calling, man. We love callers like this. You have a good day, man.
SPEAKER 16 :
God bless. Okay, good luck.
SPEAKER 06 :
Thank you. Man, he said some deep stuff. That's true. Because it's in your mind, right? If you're a man and you're thinking you're not a traditional man or less than a man, you're going to always be. And like Truce Daddy said, are we talking about the cavemen? Like this guy piggybacked off of what the Truce said. Like how far back are we looking at the traditional man? Are we talking cavemen times or 2025 times? Right. There's been a big change. There's been a paradigm shift.
SPEAKER 07 :
Talk about stoic. Them guys didn't talk. It was all grunts.
SPEAKER 06 :
right but if you think about look how caveman days worked one was like maybe it was that grunting sound that he knew his wife was hungry and he's like okay my job is to go out and hunt I'll hunt come back home you know she gives me some like I could think of some other grunts but but But what they were saying is true. The times have changed if you think about that. This is true.
SPEAKER 07 :
Because I want to vindicate or justify ourselves in what we've tried to learn, I think, here. But what are you trying to vindicate, though? Yeah, here's the point. I'm trying to say that, yes, stoicism has its place of where you don't cast pearls before swine. You know, don't, like, over... Don't always talk about everything to everyone about all the problems. But there are places in which it's important to do so. Because I do think that a man needs to understand his emotions and how to verbalize them. So there does have to be maybe a new stoic.
SPEAKER 06 :
of of one that is thoughtful considerate considering everything and then they can and we can make our own quotes no from our life and our wisdom and that's deep but that goes right along with what the truth was saying like has time changed so much that men are now weak when they used to be strong like like hank said or are they stronger now and weaker then i would say we need to get back like hank was saying we need to get back to that
SPEAKER 11 :
All those sayings. In fact, I am going to get that book.
SPEAKER 05 :
I'm going to get that book too.
SPEAKER 11 :
The quotes. Right. We're not like that. There's none of that now. We need to get back to it.
SPEAKER 06 :
Men have became weak. Let's be real about that.
SPEAKER 07 :
What's that cycle? How that goes? It goes like...
SPEAKER 06 :
uh weak men create hard times hard times great strong men strong men create easy times i just read that right and it's it's like the cycle i know what you're talking so what so what part of that cycle are we in give us a call at 303-477-5600 again i'm gonna slow that down where the guy's perspective calls at 303-477-5600 um the third caller will get the gift card and um What cycle are we in with that? Are we weak men? It's going to become strong. Are we strong men? They become weak.
SPEAKER 07 :
That's deep. I'm going to say the guys from the 70s, from the 77s, 76s, you know what I mean? We strong.
SPEAKER 06 :
We strong, buddy. My understanding from Hank is that men nowadays are weak, and we need to get back to the strong man.
SPEAKER 11 :
I agree.
SPEAKER 06 :
I mean, if you think about it, let's go to Charlie Kirk right here, and I'm not meaning to mess up his name because in my eyes, that man's a hero. He stood up and he took a bullet for what he believed. In my eyes, that's being a strong man. I don't care what nobody says.
SPEAKER 07 :
I'm just saying I don't think he meant to take a bullet.
SPEAKER 06 :
But he was being a traditional man, though. He was being a strong man, though.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, but I'm saying that I don't think he ever thought that he and his speech would ever have faced that. Other people, Martin Luther King, they knew there was like a— Martin Luther King was a strong man, too, though.
SPEAKER 06 :
But some of these guys, when they're on the pro pit— How's it going, D, from Fort Collins? How's it going, D? Sorry about that. Tell us what you think.
SPEAKER 13 :
It's going beautifully, thank you. I was just going to give you a child of a paraplegic man's perspective.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 13 :
My father was a true leader. It wasn't just a provider, he was a leader. He was a leader in faith, in morals, in ethics. Okay. From a guy's perspective, my father, when he got hurt and was told he would never walk again, He never stopped leading his family. Never once. He had four children, a beautiful wife that he was married to for over 70 years.
SPEAKER 07 :
That's amazing, Dee.
SPEAKER 13 :
It means so much. It means so much to be that man in your family.
SPEAKER 06 :
Dee, can we pray for you real quick before we let you off the air? God, we're asking that you would bless this lady, and thank you for letting her call in, and thank you for her dad. Thank you for her family being strong people. And please give Charlie your number, and we want to send you the gift card. So make sure we get your number. Thank you so much.
SPEAKER 07 :
It's Dee.
SPEAKER 06 :
Dave, how are you doing? God bless you, Dave. You're on the air. Our phone lines are blowing up. We can't keep up with everybody. Dave, how are you doing? I'm doing too good. How about you? Good, good. Tell us about it, man. We're getting call after call. We can't keep up with everybody. So quickly, Dave, tell us what you mean about a strong man.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, what we got here, I got a quote for you. It's by Joseph Stalin. You heard of that guy?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes, sir.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yes. It says not the people that vote to count, it's the people that count the votes.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, my goodness. Thank you so much, Dave.
SPEAKER 15 :
That's a good one. Dave, we appreciate you. That's more true than anything else you're going to hear today.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes, sir. You are a strong man. We love that quote. We've got to let you off the phone. Our callers are blowing up. Okay, you have a good day, sir. Next caller. Um, hold on. Charlie, Charlie's trying to catch up on everybody. So sorry for all our callers. We're not trying to rush off the phone. It's just, we only have four lines and all four lines are being taken up. Doug, how's it going?
SPEAKER 04 :
Doing well.
SPEAKER 06 :
Tell us what you think about the traditional strong man. Tell us about it.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, the strong man, I, the previous caller hit it on the nail on the head. Uh, it's leadership, which then can be provider and all the other things, uh, purveyor of wisdom and so on. But yeah, leadership would be the top one on my list. Wow. You mentioned Europe and the Queen a while ago. The Queen died three years ago.
SPEAKER 06 :
That's what I was about to say. I thought the Queen died three years ago, but I thought you were going to go somewhere with that.
SPEAKER 07 :
No, I just go off the cuff, Doug. I just say whatever's on the top of my head.
SPEAKER 06 :
Doug, thank you for correcting us, man.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, and most of Europe is currently being overrun by Muslims, so there's over 12,000 in the UK alone have been put in jail or prison in the last few years for social media posts or just liking a post. Doug, let me ask you this.
SPEAKER 06 :
Do you think if Kamala would have became president, do you think it would have taken away from the men and their role in the House?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes, we'd all be locked up.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, my Jesus, that's powerful.
SPEAKER 04 :
Doug, thank you so much. That would have been pure socialism. And we are in the good times now. So many of the younger people are the weak ones, but a lot of them are breaking out of that mold.
SPEAKER 06 :
currently so that's good and charlie kirk didn't know that his life was under threat really he recorded a message for his kids and family you can find it online jeez man you're burying me here bro oh doug you're shaming the actor in colorado thank you we love that stuff shame us up call doug we're gonna have to let you go people have been calling our lines non-stop but please all our listeners um every week listen to us call in give us your insight your information um Guys, let's do this. I think this is appropriate. If you want to call it, actually, we would love for you to call in at 303-477-5600. Quickly, guys, throw out a two-second prayer for all our listeners. Start with you. Just say something. Say something that would build them up.
SPEAKER 07 :
Heavenly Father, I pray that everybody who's listening to you now on this radio show, that they continue to put you at the head of the household. They do their prayers at night and see that you are the provider of everything. Jehovah, Jireh, Lord, our provider.
SPEAKER 06 :
Amen. I'll do it then, Arino. Lord, bless all of our listeners. The phone line's lit up. This is a hot topic. We'll go back to it next week because we couldn't get to all the callers. So, Lord, bless every person who's listening to us this week. And, Lord, please be the provider and the leader of my home and our home. Arino, you're up.
SPEAKER 11 :
Lord, I just ask that you will bless everyone listening, lift their spirits, whatever they're going through, get them through it. In Jesus' name. Amen.
SPEAKER 06 :
And, D, if you still can hear us, we got your information. We're going to get you the gift card. So just expect our call after this. Is that the spaghetti factory for her? Yes, yes. Or, yes. And people, remember, carve your pumpkin, go to our website, and if you post a picture of the coolest pumpkin, we're going to get you two tickets to a haunted house.
SPEAKER 11 :
Which haunted house do we want to send them to, guys? How can you post? No one can post on our website. That would have to be the Facebook page.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, it's the Facebook page. They can't post on our website now? No, how can you? Because I set up the newsletter. So listen, when you go to theguysperspective.org, you click the newsletter button and it should send your information to one of us guys. And if something's wrong with it, I'll go tonight and try to tweak it. But the traditional man, real quickly, we got two minutes. I just want to say that the traditional man of all times is obviously Jesus. Would we agree on that?
SPEAKER 07 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 06 :
At least I think so.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
I mean, because Jesus had a beard, right? There's a lot of discussion about that. Are you talking about beards, man? I can't grow a beard. Whoa, you got a beard? I almost got a beard. I think men look good with beards, bro. Let's just be real. I mean, y'all are some good-looking guys. If people ever came to the radio, they'd be like, hey, man, you guys are... 10 plus models. 10 plus.
SPEAKER 07 :
In weight, maybe. Weight class.
SPEAKER 06 :
Guys, we want to tell all our listeners thank you every week. You can listen to us at 303-477-5600. It's been a really... honor to be able to talk to y'all you know that uh uh the quote in the bible i don't know if it's a quote but it's passage and it says the iron sharpest sharpeneth iron that happened today well doug sharpeneth heath he did doug doug right on doug for for just shutting the actor down that was it happens to me all the time callers call and shut me down all the time it's a good thing has any caller set you down yet i don't know actually yes because remember we talked about the cop and um
SPEAKER 11 :
No, that didn't shut me down.
SPEAKER 06 :
That was just a disagreement.
SPEAKER 11 :
I still don't agree.
SPEAKER 06 :
Thank y'all so much. See y'all later.
SPEAKER 12 :
I don't expect you to understand I just hope I can explain What it's like to be a man It's a lonely road And they don't care about what you know
SPEAKER 14 :
It's not about how you feel, but what you provide inside that home Being a man is what you make it, you can't always live up to expectations You try to please everybody while you struggle so you fake it And end up out of balance compromising situations as a good man
SPEAKER 09 :
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And it is Drive Radio KLZ 560. Thank you all for listening. We appreciate it. Had a great first hour with our other program, Fix It Radio. If you guys listen to a replay, we do a lot of around the house stuff today. We got to talking about water flow and shut off and things like that. So it's always interesting on Fix It Radio that show always goes different directions that I'm always amazed at. We always have a lot of fun. So if you're Listening to Drive Radio and you want to learn some things around the house, be sure to tune in to that as well from 9 to 10 right before our program here on Saturdays. If this is a replay you're listening to, again, Fix It Radio is 9 to 10 on Saturday mornings. And it also plays again on Tuesdays from 2 to 3 in the afternoon. So you can always catch it then if you didn't get a chance to catch it on Saturday. A Saturday morning. Ken Rackley with me today from Tune Tech. Always good to be here. Always a joy having you, Ken.
SPEAKER 03 :
You know, it's been a while. I've had a busy summer. You had a few things going on. Yeah, right.
SPEAKER 04 :
Exactly.
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That's all right.
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Go out and have fun. Nothing wrong with that. That's right. The weather permits, I'm doing it. And today is... It's not as cold as it looks, but it's a little gray day. And you can even see some pollution and things. We've got an air inversion going on right now. So you'll notice it's a little bit different outside. Not super cold. So some of you may be out doing a few things or getting... Getting things ready for winter, you know, I know for me that's exactly what I'm doing and spending the last several weekends just getting things dialed in, everything from, you know, getting things positioned, getting things put away, treating gasoline. I mean, all the different things as we start to head down that path into the fall, winter months, Ken, you just sort of start doing it.
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Well, right. Exactly. Yeah. It's easier to do it now since it's not snowing and blowing and, and things and, and you have to do it. It's better to just to do it now. Correct.
SPEAKER 04 :
And for some of you, this is something to think about too, is, you know, what are you going to store through the winter? Is it, you know, is it a lawnmower? Are you going to drag the snowblower out and get it ready to go now? And you're getting ready to put the lawnmower away. Some of you will still be cutting the grass maybe a couple of more times. Again, are, are you, you know, Are you going to put what away through the winter months? Some of you that have classic cars or that car that you only drive during the summer months. Maybe it's not a classic, but it's a car you only drive in the summer months. Are you going to be putting that away? And if so, are you getting prepped to do so? Are you still thinking you're going to drive that for another month or so, which you might be able to. Sure.
SPEAKER 03 :
Could be driving it into January. Who knows? It just depends on the year.
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Larry and I were talking about that during – fix it radio but but again for those of you where you just know you've got certain things so for example with me and this is more fix it radio than it is you know drive radio but i went through and did i've got a big metal pole barn and you know it's kind of where i work on my stuff and different things and you know pole barns ken knows this ken knows this you know they they require some maintenance at different times and they develop you know air leaks and you know different things along those lines and so i've spent a better part of the Summer this year, just sealing up some of those things, trying to keep things as warm as I can, keep the heat bill in the wintertime down because I do heat mine because I don't like working in the cold.
SPEAKER 03 :
What? I'm spoiled.
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My heat's directed right at me, so I can't keep it in the building.
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I'm like you. I like working in the warmth.
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I don't like being cold. But on the same token, trying to figure out ways we can seal some of those things up. For some of you, that might be even things you're looking at doing. Whether it's in your own garage, whether you've got a little shop, whatever the case may be, just doing some of those things and getting things prepped for winter, that's all kind of part of what we do so you've got a more enjoyable winter.
SPEAKER 03 :
Right. Keep the leaves out of the downspouts, all that stuff. But they haven't fallen off yet at our house. No, ours either. Ours either.
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Getting close, but yeah, not quite yet. But again, for those of you that have questions, anything regarding... Yes, cars, whatever. If you've got a question, we're here to answer it. 303-477-5600. Okay, I haven't done this one for a while. Question of the day. And I don't normally, because I normally like to do more positive things, but there's every now and again I've got to throw this topic out to you guys. And that is, what are your driving pet peeves? So when you see somebody do something, what's the one thing, or two or three, but what's the one main thing where you just think, oh, man, would you stop doing that? Why are you driving that way? And you tell me what that is, 303-477-5600. I have a few, and I'll rattle some off depending upon what some of you say, but I think any more. And I've talked about this, and this is from some of what we've got going on with our immigration system. I'll just say it that way. I get totally perturbed at those drivers that feel like they need to use their hazards every single time something minor comes up.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, a rainstorm.
SPEAKER 04 :
A rainstorm the other day.
SPEAKER 03 :
Not even a storm, just rain falling.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. The other day, my wife and I, we were kind of in rush hour traffic. It wasn't super bad. Traffic was kind of slowing down, and there's a big semi-truck to our right that all of a sudden throws its hazards on. I'm thinking, you have brake lights for that. Yeah, you don't need to have hazard. And again, I can tell you where that driver has come from, because I know what other countries do in regards to hazards. And literally, they I think they can wear a hazard button out. And I'm not exaggerating in my car. I have to sometimes look for it because it gets used so rarely because right now you're in the United States of America. Little tip for all of you that maybe have come here from another country. We only use hazards when there's a true hazard. So you aren't able to keep up with traffic because you've got a flat tire or a tire's going low. You're stopped on the side of the road. I was following a truck yesterday on my way home going west on I-70, and I think the guy initially thought that I was mad at him for going too slow, but that wasn't the case. I got up next to him and rolled my window down, and he had a utility truck, and one of the doors had popped open, and there was a caulking gun. There was literally, I could see sitting on the door that one more bump and that thing was going to come off and probably go through somebody's windshield or cause a flat or cause other problems. So I was motioning to him that, hey, you're back. It's hard to do when you're driving to motion all of this, but hey, your back door is open. And I think at first he thought I was motioning him to get over because he was going slow. No, I was trying to tell him that. His back door had popped open. He was going to start losing stuff out the back, which could actually cause lots of other problems when people are doing 65, 70 miles an hour. He happened to be in the HOV lane. Anyways, I did notice that he must have noticed what I had said. because he only went about another eighth of a mile and i saw the hazards come on point being okay this is this is a time where yes you do put the hazards on yeah and he pulls over to the shoulder and i could see him starting to get out and figuring out check things out what this knucklehead in this truck was trying to tell him that's an example of when you do use your hazards just to be in the rain or the snow and use hazards
SPEAKER 03 :
No. Right, exactly.
SPEAKER 04 :
And here's my fear. We're already getting to the point with so many out-of-area drivers here that in some cases, like hazards, they're getting used so much that you really don't even know anymore what's going on with that person. Don't even pay attention to them. Yeah, it gets overused.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 04 :
And that's my fear. So, yeah, that is one of my bigger driving pet peeves is people that overuse hazards, and typically they're people that haven't grown up here, and they're typically coming from out of country. And in other countries, they use their hazards a ton. I don't know why. I don't know where that comes from. Just a culture thing, I guess. But in this culture, we only use them when there's a real true hazard.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
And rain isn't one of those. No, right.
SPEAKER 03 :
Rain and snow is not.
SPEAKER 04 :
Rain, traffic jams. Yeah. Those are normalities. Those are not hazards. Those are just the things that we do when we drive, and you don't need to run your hazards in those particular situations. But that's my question of the day. What are some of your driving pet peeves? I'll throw the first one out that I'm sure a lot of people are going to say, so we'll get this one out of the way, period. talking on the cell phone not hands-free but talking on it when it's up against somebody's ear distracted i can just tell you that those people are not paying attention when they're on the phone or those that are texting and driving so the phone use in cars is a huge pet peeve of mine as well because they're not driving properly they're dangerous actually at that point in time right in fact i'm one of those where it's like yeah i'm staying completely away from you right You are going to cause an accident, so I am not going to be that person. I'm getting away from you.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. Yeah. All right.
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SPEAKER 07 :
Well, hello again.
SPEAKER 04 :
Hello, Eric.
SPEAKER 07 :
Hey, so Pet P, improperly secured loads in trucks.
SPEAKER 17 :
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, any vehicle. I mean, you'll see somebody driving down the road with nylon cord holding something on the roof. Right. Yeah. Yeah. About a month ago, I was heading south through Parker, you know, heading on down to work. And a commercial work vehicle, road work vehicle, started up from the traffic light. Dropped one of the heavy duty road sign prep pods right in my path. I drug it several feet before I could get off the road. And ended up that they had to replace the shield for my gas tank. Thankfully, that's the only damage. No suspension damage or anything like that. With as many miles as I clock, either going from the ranchette or going down from Aurora to get to work. I see it every week, every week. Somebody's dragging something, somebody's tailgate's down, somebody's roll-up door in a commercial truck is up. And you can just see that the loads are not properly secured. And it just amazes me we don't have more accidents from that.
SPEAKER 04 :
I think you're right. I can't disagree with that at all.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, lots of videos on things falling off vehicles.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, and in some cases, as you know, Eric, I mean, you can cause, you know, severe harm, damage, death even in some cases, depending upon what's fallen off of that, you know, vehicle. I mean, we saw that on I-70 where that load of pipe, you know, wasn't secured correctly. Guy went around the corner too fast coming into construction there around that wheat ridge mark. And, you know, somebody died because of that. So, yeah, Eric, it can happen.
SPEAKER 07 :
That's right. Absolutely. Yeah. So getting to my question about the 1999 Toyota Sienna was heading south on 25 when all of a sudden it went into limp mode, got it off the road, got it towed. And they you know, the shop says, you know that they're seeing low flow rate on the fuel pump. Now, My thought is that about two months ago when I had Extreme Auto work on the van, they said that the catalytic converter was the original and about to collapse in on itself. I'm wondering if possibly that's what's causing this, not the fuel pump itself, because they were wanting to drop the fuel tank and replace. the fuel pump and i'm like let me think about this first i'm wondering if that catalytic collapsed in on itself and the airflow sensor caused the computer to send the thing into limp mode to save it and it's a you said a 97 sienna 90 99 99 okay um yeah i'm trying to think they don't really have a limp mode that i know of but not saying it doesn't i just um
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, it would be interesting to see what... I mean, catalytic converters, unless there's a misfire, I would say that they're not typically going to just fail, like, right then and there. Was it making rattling noises or anything like that from the, you know, when it was running, idling, or did you ever hear any rattling noises?
SPEAKER 07 :
No, but I was... smelling more exhaust fumes up in the vehicle than in the past.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay. No hissing noises or anything like that under acceleration?
SPEAKER 07 :
No.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 07 :
No, the van was running beautifully, and then right about the Greenland exit, it just all of a sudden cut out, and I had enough power to get off that Greenland exit and sit there until I got towed.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. Go on. Yeah, kind of hard to say. I mean, they have similar symptoms. Restricted exhaust and low fuel pressure have similar symptoms. And, yeah, it's just hard to say. The only thing would be a vacuum gauge on the manifold and rev it up and see what's what. And, you know, if we have... still building vacuum then we're not a restricted exhaust if we're oh yeah if the oxygen sensors are super lean that would be a uh you know a sign that the fuel pressure is low so okay yeah no i'm just trying to you know it's not worth it to leave it at the shop and have them do it and i'm a handy person so sure
SPEAKER 07 :
thinking about tackling all that myself. I mean, you're talking a van that blue book values, you know, only, you know, maybe at most five to 800. Right. Exactly. Several thousand. Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER 03 :
And yeah, I mean, other than, you know, getting in and, you know, making sure that that's the issue. I mean, with being that age and there's probably a number of miles on it, it's, you know, it could very well be a fuel pump for sure.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, this one isn't quite at $300,000, but it's well over $200,000. Yeah, yeah. So it's definitely needing its maintenance. My wife is saying turn it into the junkyard. I'm like, I don't have the cash to buy the big pickup. I need to replace it. Right, right, exactly.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, well, and two, like, you know, sensor failure, stuff like that. Yeah, you just kind of have to definitely more diagnostic there just to verify that. But, you know, pressure gauge on the fuel system, things like that, probably they did. All right.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I'll borrow or rent a pressure gauge and recheck a lot of that and see what's going on. Yeah, no, I just was wondering if that was a possibility. I know newer vehicles, you know, you get too many. error codes and the computer will put it into limp mode. And, you know, I didn't know if the old 99s would be that sophisticated.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, I don't remember that as being something on those. Yeah, that was later, you know, probably early 2000s before any of the manufacturers really started doing that as far as I can, as far as I know. I think that's right.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. Sounds right.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, my gosh.
SPEAKER 07 :
All right, well, at least I've got a little bit of an idea on what to look for again and retrace maybe what the shop has done.
SPEAKER 03 :
Sure, yep. See what their test results were and go from there, yeah, for sure.
SPEAKER 07 :
Like everything else, it'll just go on the list until I can get to it.
SPEAKER 03 :
I have a lot of those.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yep, exactly. Well, between the mold down at the branchette and the... rodent damage at ranchette and then up here trying to get this ready to sell it in aurora the the pickup truck and now the sienna are are probably on about fifth page right always something yep exactly yep yeah all right well appreciate it thank you no good stuff no appreciate you very much let's go to john john go ahead hey john uh hey ken how you doing today good john how about yourself
SPEAKER 15 :
Good. I'm not plowing snow, which is usually what I call.
SPEAKER 03 :
Right. True.
SPEAKER 15 :
Pet peeves. The first one gets me nuts. The guy that tailgates you to the point where you can't even see his tires on the road, you glide out of the passing lane after you pass the person, and then he slows down because he doesn't want to be in the lead.
SPEAKER 03 :
Right.
SPEAKER 15 :
That guy gets me nuts.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 15 :
Because he wants you to get the speeding ticket, hopefully.
SPEAKER 03 :
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 15 :
And then the other thing is, and I'm going to probably annoy half the people listening to you, tractor-trailer drivers who don't know their equipment, yet they will block the passing lane for four or five miles because they can only go one mile an hour faster than the guy that they're trying to pass. And they'll just, on a two-lane interstate, I-80 is the worst for it. They'll just block that passing lane for four or five miles. And the other one that gets me is the guy that they're trying to pass All he'd have to do is lift for about two seconds, and that truck would go by him. But he refuses. It's like their manhood is being challenged. And that's the one that makes me crazy because, you know, you look and you'll see those eight or nine cars piled up behind him just wanting to go by, and he's going to block that lane because he had no consideration. And so those are my two worst pet peeves, John. The other one is, like you, the flashers.
SPEAKER 17 :
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 15 :
Really? Yeah, that makes me nuts, too, because put your lights on if it's raining, like you're supposed to. I believe most states have that law now, wipers on, lights on. Most newer cars, the lights come on automatically when you turn the wipers on.
SPEAKER 04 :
If you have all your settings correct, yes, they do. That is correct.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yep. And so just turn your lights on. What's the big deal? But the flashers, then you don't know if
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, you don't know if they're having an issue or if the car is having an issue or if they're seeing something in front of them. Yeah, you just don't know.
SPEAKER 15 :
Right. It'll be like a couple weeks ago last week, Tuesday morning, the fog was really bad. So instead of just driving the posted 55 speed limit that the state set, they're going to do 75, but they think the flashers will make them invulnerable to having a wreck.
SPEAKER 03 :
Right.
SPEAKER 15 :
But those are my pet peeves, John. You and Ken have a great rest of your day.
SPEAKER 04 :
We will. We will, John, as always. Appreciate you calling. Again, question of the day, driving pet peeves. Any other question you've got, by the way, we're here to answer. You name it, we're here. Ken Rackley, Toontech Automotive. And we'll be right back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 1 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
And we are Backdrive Radio, KLZ 560. All right, Charlie gave us his answer to the question of the day, and that is people that haul mattresses on the roof with just a little twine in their arm hanging out the window hanging onto that thing.
SPEAKER 03 :
On a Camry or a Malibu or something like that.
SPEAKER 04 :
Like you're going to hang onto that mattress at 60 miles an hour.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, right. It's already folded in half at 40. Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, that's a good one, Charlie.
SPEAKER 03 :
So, yes.
SPEAKER 04 :
Soren, you've got one for us. Go ahead, Soren.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay, my biggest driving pet peeve is people who pass trucks on the left when turning left.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, that's not very wise.
SPEAKER 08 :
When turning right.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yep. Yep.
SPEAKER 08 :
And then the people who don't use turn signals but will use their hazards.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, yeah. We already talked about that one. Don't get me started. Too many of those now.
SPEAKER 08 :
And then there's also the people who sit in the left lane... And do 55 when the speed limit's 75.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, I see that on a regular basis, too. Yeah, I do, too, Soren.
SPEAKER 04 :
The left lane police, I call them.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. You're not going faster than me.
SPEAKER 04 :
And that's another one where I'm still trying to figure out, Soren, is it always left lane police? Or are these, again, people from other cultures that don't understand what the left lane really is?
SPEAKER 03 :
I think, seriously, I think people are not taught that in, I don't think it's even in a driver's manual or anything. I mean, I just think they're not taught that.
SPEAKER 04 :
They're just not aware that that's what it is.
SPEAKER 03 :
They just think it's a lane. Yeah, exactly. It's just where they belong. It's where they feel like being. You could be right. Yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, people just sit in there and do 55 and... They won't get over when you come up behind them or anything.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right. No, I see it all the time. You know, Soren, how many miles I put on a week. No, I see it constantly.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, and it's a little bit like I got a lot more in tune with that when I was in Nashville a couple months ago.
SPEAKER 04 :
Interesting.
SPEAKER 08 :
I got pulled over for doing 80 in the left lane, but I wasn't passing anybody. So the police officer pulled me over and said, hey, get out of it. You're going too slow, even though the speed limit was 65. Wow. Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
Wow.
SPEAKER 08 :
No ticket.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, that's good. I'm surprised they did that.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah. Well, I don't think I fit the bill for somebody who is driving a 25 F-350 Lariat. Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, well, and it's one of those things. It's an educational pullover, which they could have written a ticket, and it's illegal here too, but I don't ever see anybody get pulled over for it.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, well, the funniest thing is that you just pulled me over and like, you know, do this. You didn't ask for registration. You just asked for my driver's license.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
But it was pretty crazy because it was a pickup registered in Georgia, and I had a Colorado license. We were in Tennessee.
SPEAKER 04 :
That's amazing. I wish they'd do that here at times. Yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, well, my uncle said, you know, you can't get perturbed by other people's driving.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, you just have to learn to live with it.
SPEAKER 08 :
Otherwise, you're going to drive yourself crazy.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER 08 :
Drive yourself crazy.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yep. Take a deep breath and say, I'm going to get there either way. That's all you can do. Yep. Absolutely. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 08 :
Sometimes you wish you could just put out some wings and get flying.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, that'd be nice. Absolutely. Yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah. Idiots driving.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 08 :
There's a lot of them.
SPEAKER 04 :
There are.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 04 :
All right. Good stuff, Soren. Appreciate you very much. Nope, you have a good rest of your day. Thanks for all you do. Gent, you're next. Go ahead. Or Gent. Gent. I'm sorry. Gent.
SPEAKER 09 :
That's okay. So the pet peeves, two of them, People that are driving with their brights on.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, I see a lot of that, too.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. And I think, like you said, I'm just going to say it the way I've seen it. Immigrant population doing that when I pulled up next to them stating they have their brights on. Some of them just smile.
SPEAKER 04 :
They have no idea what you're saying. Sorry, they don't. And again, I'm not trying to be rude, Jim, but they just don't know. The other thing, too, that I've noticed, and this is my cohort during the week, Andy Pate noticed this. I didn't think about this until he mentioned it, but he's right because I've really been paying attention since he has said so. There's a lot of these student driver stickers that a lot of transplants put on, and I think they do that thinking people won't pay as much attention to them or will give them more room or won't get pulled over or whatever the case may be. In other words, they stick a student driving sticker on thinking they're going to avoid other issues, and they're not student drivers is my point. And I didn't realize that until he said it, and then I started paying more attention, and they're not young student drivers most of the time driving these cars with student driver stickers. Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, I've seen those, too.
SPEAKER 04 :
There's a lot of them, and they fit your description, by the way, Gent, as to what you're talking about on, you know, hazards and brights and so on. Yeah. Yeah. Frankly, I think sometimes, Gent, they don't even know their vehicle and how it even operates fully. In other words, what makes those brights come on, for example?
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, and if they don't have the brights on, they're driving all night with their...
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, I see that a lot. This time of year it will get worse, especially coming out of DIA on I-70 West because a lot of folks come in, they want to go skiing or they're traveling or whatever, and they leave the rental car place, dash lights are on, they can see a little bit, so they think they're good to go and there are no lights on. Right. That's true. Yep, see it all the time.
SPEAKER 09 :
Another one would be these people that need to stop two, three, four, five cars back. so that they can text. Uh-huh. Leave a gap in front of them. I see that one as well. You could fill that gap with three or four cars.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, and you know what? And frankly, you know, by the way, this is true even when they're going down I-25 or I-70 in rush hour traffic. My other complaint is, and these people think that, I don't know whether they think they're being more safe. I don't know what they think. But really, Gent, they're rude. Because what they're doing by leaving all those big gaps is adding to the traffic jam and delay that's already out there. So all they're doing is slowing everybody else up that's behind them. They think that they're being safe, but really what they're doing is causing a lot of other problems for a lot of other people, meaning they're very rude and inconsiderate. They are. I don't know how else to say it, but they are. They're inconsiderate. These are inconsiderate drivers. Yes, sir.
SPEAKER 09 :
But that's all I've got.
SPEAKER 04 :
You're a good one. Those are good ones. I appreciate it. Thank you, Gent. And reality is there's a lot of drivers out there that aren't thinking about the other drivers around them, frankly don't care. they're going from a to b as long as they get there they really don't care at the end of the day who else they affect when they're driving and that's not how i was taught to drive and how i was raised initially you need to be thinking not only about yourself but the people that are around you and you need to be trying to keep traffic moving as well as you can because you don't want to be a part of the problem you want to be a part of the solution and and and we go and i think you know so many people look at that differently and This isn't necessarily a pet peeve, but I've got to mention this because it fits in right now. And some of you that might be working for the State of Colorado Department of Transportation, CDOT, please hear me on this. Why? I know you're doing some work on 225, and you're doing some night work. But why are you shutting lanes down at 6 o'clock at night during the middle of rush hour traffic? I get it's not the middle, but rush hour traffic runs from about 3 o'clock now to almost 7. Why are you shutting lanes down at, you know, 535, 45, 6 o'clock at night in rush hour traffic trying to shove everybody over into one or two lanes when it's a four lane highway and there's still rush hour traffic at 6 p.m.? Why are you doing that? I don't get it. Now, maybe there's signals crossed with your subs that are out running around doing traffic control and so on, but I've seen it now three times going down 225. I've been affected by it once going northbound. I've seen it happen twice on the southbound side, and literally you're jamming cars up for miles. All because you guys won't wait to put traffic barriers up until 7 o'clock when rush hour is actually over. I don't know who's in charge of CDOT. Evidently somebody that has no idea what's going on. Sorry, they don't. And I'll say that all day long. Our head of CDOT in Colorado, frankly, has no clue what's going on. That's a whole conversation I can talk about during the week. But reality is our head of CDOT in Colorado, that was a token job she acquired by our governor through a friend of a friend situation and very, very underqualified to be the CDOT director in Colorado. And it shows by some of the things that I just mentioned, by the way, anybody with half a brain knows you don't shut down traffic lanes during rush hour traffic unnecessarily. now if you got a big pothole and you're trying to fix that to avoid other issues and so on okay that i understand but you're just shutting things down because you've got night work starting uh i don't care that's getting dark you can shut you got lights you can you can shut those lanes down at you know eight o'clock at night for for example you don't have to start shutting things down at six o'clock in the evening during rush hour traffic And Ken would know this because it's right in his neck of the woods there where a lot of this stuff is going on. And for those of you that don't know, what they're doing is they're fixing a lot of the seams. It's simply a seam issue. They're fixing seams on bridges whereby there's been some settling of the roadway and there's big dips there. So they're going in and fixing some of these areas so there's not as big of a transition into some of these bridges and overpasses along the I-225 thoroughfare on the east side of town. And that's simply all they're doing. And and frankly, again, they could be shutting down, you know, a lane or two, not half the highway. In some cases, they're shutting it all the way down to one lane to do this work. And frankly, again, these are people I'm sorry. These are people that have no idea what they're doing because that's not how you would do it. And you've got other ways to flow traffic through and still make things work. But we don't have leadership here. in the Colorado Department of Transportation, and my fear is that even some of the old-timers that have been there forever have been frustrated and left, meaning we don't have anybody there that really knows what they're doing. I used to do interviews with CDOT on a regular basis, and that ended when our leadership change was made, and it really shows. I used to get a lot of good answers out of CDOT on what they're doing and what projects they've got going on and how things are going to work and so on, and I've gotten none of that in the past, I don't know, six, seven years now because the leadership change has happened. And again, the gal we've got running CDOT right now is 100% clueless. So I'll leave it at that. We'll take a break. We'll come back. Drive Radio KLZ 560.
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All right, when I opened up the show, I told you I would talk a little bit about social media, and I do this from time to time, and I feel like I probably should do this a little bit more often than I do because there's a lot of people on social media that, quote-unquote, are experts that give their opinion, thoughts, whatever, on certain things. And by the way, there's some good folks out there, and I think there's some folks that really do well at explaining things, and even though they're making a boatload of money, and I mean that sincerely, they're making a boatload of money off of social media and i'm not exaggerating when i say this and some of you probably know this but maybe some of you don't in some cases the shops that are on social media or some of the individuals that are on social media talking about certain things quite frankly they're probably making far more money off social media than they are the shop itself and i'm not exaggerating If you get enough followers, for example, you get up into that 500,000 and some of these guys will have a million followers plus. If you get to a million followers, you're probably making several million dollars a year off social media. And some of you are thinking, well, how in the world do you do that? Likes, views, shares, and so on. that's how because they're rewarded for having all of those viewers followers and so on and so keep in mind this full-time job these guys are putting content out you know one two three times a day depending upon what it is and they've probably even hired somebody in some cases it's a family member you know son something along those lines that's doing all the social media and literally becomes the social media head i guess you could say and believe me there's more than just one person in that department doing what they're doing but they're making as much off social media as they are sure you know, the shop itself. Now, is that wrong? No. Hey, I'm an entrepreneur. I'm not ever going to take anything away from anybody where they go out and set out to make money. But what you have to remember is... You know, everybody's got an angle when it comes to a particular thing they're going to talk about on social media. In some cases, it's strictly educational. In some cases, there might be more there than you're realizing. In other words, is there a certain brand of something that they're promoting, and what are they tying into that particular video? Because remember, not only can they make money off of the video itself, but if there's a particular product that they now start to push, they make money on that as well. not directly because they're not stocking and selling it. Well, in some cases they are. But in a lot of cases, they're just getting the commission off of those devices being sold, those products being sold through them. And nothing wrong with that. Again, I'm not criticizing anything along those lines. But remember all of what I just said when you start looking at some videos. For example... Several of you sent me a video of the shop up in Utah. I don't want to name names, but there's a big shop up in Utah that's gotten famous over the years. And one of the big faux pas that they had was talking about how long you should get your engine run and warm up and so on. And that was something I went over last summer. And I'll just say it straight up, not a big fan of this particular facility. That's just me personally. Now, some others might be, but I'm not because there's a lot of misinformation that comes out of this particular shop. The engine warm-up was one of those, by the way. The video of late that, frankly, I just think that this is a sales pitch, is they're criticizing General Motors and the size of an oil filter on a Duramax V8 diesel engine. Ken and I were talking about this before coming on air. And, yes, in fact, it's the same size oil filter that you find in other applications that – General Motors has. The 6.6 gas engine, for example, it's the same filter that fits a 6.6 gas engine that fits a 6.6 Duramax. And no, the filter is not the same size as what you might find on the Cummins or Powerstroke counterparts. It's smaller. Now, General Motors, I did some reading on this. General Motors will say, well, we want you to use that smaller filter, even though you could upgrade and put a bigger filter on it. We're using the smaller filter, a 30-micron filter, has the ability to still filter everything in the oil like it should be. They want more air coming around the filter and the oil cooler to do some cooling of the oil itself rather than having the larger filter that some other applications might use. And General Motors' thought is we're still going to get all the oil filtering that we need to have happen. And as Ken and I were talking coming into the show, unless you've got an engine coming apart, there's not a lot of filtering going on, to be honest with you.
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Yeah, your filter is staying clean. I mean, you know, it's there to filter out the small stuff. And as long as it's not getting restricted by people, you know. Going too long on oil changes and so on. Getting contamination in the engine, it's doing its job. Really not a problem. Right. It's not going into bypass. Everything is working just fine as it would. Correct. A bigger filter would be just less. I mean, it's not a big deal.
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Right. Not a big deal. And, you know, again, this particular video, by the way, ends with, oh, if you want to increase the filter capacity on your engine, buy this. Well, that to me just negated all of what was said in the filter presentation anyways, because at that point, all you're trying to do is sell me something. And I'll go as far as to say this as well. Even back on older engines, back in the day, small block Chevys, Fords and so on, there were always these remote oil kits the guys would put in. Occasionally you'd see one come in and it was this apparatus where you'd run lines from, you'd put an adapter onto the oil filter, the spot on the block where the oil filter would go, you'd put an adapter there, you'd run hoses up to this dual filter thing and they'd run these gigantic oil filters on the side and they'd be mounted on the fender and then it would go back into the engine and I'll just tell you straight up, folks, did any of those things ever work? Most of them, frankly, leaked oil and were more of a problem than they ever actually cured, in my opinion. The old PF35s, that was the AC Delco part number for Chevy small blocks. It was a good enough filter. There was no reason to add anything else to it. You didn't need a second one of those. Chevy has the best, you know, Chevy small blocks have one of the best oiling systems of all engines made. And if you don't know why, go look it up and you'll understand why. But yes, the distributor in the back, oil pump in the back, you know, the pickups there. Anyways, long story short, Chevrolet did a really good job of designing an oil system on that particular engine and, frankly, why they had the longevity that they had. But the reality is that double filtration system back in the day didn't do anything to lengthen the life of a small block Chevy.
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Right. If you're pumping that much garbage through the engine, it's trash anyway.
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Exactly. And back then, the biggest thing that harmed most engines was the fact that we didn't have overdrive transmissions. You're running the RPM up much higher than you are today, and we didn't have fuel injection. So you had a lot more cylinder wash on engines with carburetors than we do today. So when fuel injection and overdrive transmissions came along, engine life was extended substantially. Correct. Doubled the life overnight. Right, exactly. And I'm not exaggerating. You could take a standard small block carbureted engine from 1986, which was the last year for carburetion on Chevrolet trucks, and the average life of an engine was probably about 150K. And that was maybe even pushing it. Taken care of. If it was taken care of very well. Most of them, some didn't go 100K if they weren't taken care of. Now, you went to 87 where they had 700R4 overdrive transmissions that weren't great, but they were still overdrive transmissions and throttle body injection. Not even the new stuff we have today, but just throttle body injection. And that engine now went 300K.
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Less oil consumption during everything like that.
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Overnight, you literally increased the engine life, and nothing else on that engine really substantially changed from 86 to 87 other than those two things. Now, I get it. There was overdrive transmissions even in 86 on the carbureted engines, but they still didn't get the life that they got when they added fuel injection. So point being— When you've got the engine all dialed in and everything is working like it's supposed to and the factory's got all of their clearances and everything done and handled, and I get it, some will have problems at different times. And by the way, every manufacturer can go through those. No one's immune from that, Toyota included. For all you Toyota fanboys out there, Toyota has issues as well. Occasionally somebody will have an issue with whatever, and that could have even been the supplier they bought whatever from. Sure. the piston the ring yeah the cams yeah exactly the lifters the the bearings i mean whatever i mean all of those are coming from different suppliers and they might have had a problem with a particular supplier but point being when an engine is done correctly and all the clearances are set and everything's working like it's supposed to you're not going to get a ton of wear that you really need to worry about filtering out And no, you don't need upgraded filtration systems on these. Not in my opinion. You don't need upgraded filtration systems on the majority of these engines. There might be the one off where you're doing something very unique and you might want to add some extra filtration depending upon the application. But that's the rarity, not the norm. Right. So my point with this is you're going to go to social media and see all sorts of opinions on what I just said. And the reality is most of these guys are trying to sell something. That's really all it boils down to. They're going to try to sell you an additional product to what you have right now, and you always have to look at, okay, what is the real gist of this particular post? What am I watching and why? And is this really something that I need to worry about, or is somebody trying to sell me something?
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Right, exactly.
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Did I explain that well enough?
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Yeah, exactly. Yeah, it's like... Yeah, I've had no issues with any of my vehicles that, you know, that haven't been modified. A friend of mine bought the same truck I did, and he's like, he was towing a lot with it, towing heavy, heavy stuff with it, and used it on a commercial type basis. And, you know, he's like, well, I'm putting this, you know, different torque converter in it, and this is on an Allison. And, you know, and he had nothing but problems after trying to, somebody's telling them this is going to make it better and more reliable.
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As somebody that literally for three decades ran aftermarket performance shops, because we did all sorts of diesel upgrades, performance upgrades on gas engines. We did suspension upgrades, wheel tire, all that kind of stuff, and did regular repair work as well, much like what Ken does. So we kind of did it all. And I will tell you that, and I used to tell my customers this, anytime you take something from stock – And you modify it any way, shape, or form. Number one, you're taking that customer base that the factory designed to be a mile wide and you're getting it down to an inch. Right. Because you're designing it for you and you alone. Right. And in doing so, you're not going to have probably the same longevity and or reliability from what you had prior because they don't pay those engineers millions of dollars a year to design junk. Right. Now, some of you would argue with me on that, but trust me, at the end of the day, typically speaking, that factory setup, longevity-wise, is better than the majority of what you're going to do in the aftermarket. There are a few exceptions to that. Maybe throughout the show I can get into some of those, but rarely is that the case. Generally speaking, the add-on stuff isn't any better than what you had from the factory. And I'll stand behind that probably until I go to the grave because I lived it basically for three decades beyond. I'm still living it to this day.
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Sure.
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well and like cold air intakes you know it's it's like i see some of these cold air intakes taking air right off the radiator where it was in the fender well which isn't doing you any good at the end of the day gail banks actually talks about that he's got a video that he puts out talking about the very same thing that ken just talked about so we'll go through a few more of those things again uh pet peeve or driving pet peeves is our question of the day we'll be right back drive radio klz 560.
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In this episode of The Flatline, host Rick Hughes delves into the concept of the FLOT Line, exploring how 10 unique problem-solving devices from the Bible can protect us from external adversities turning into internal stress. Through meaningful discussions on faith and spirituality, Rick offers insights on how adopting the mind of Christ can lead to a proactive and fulfilling Christian life. Join Rick as he guides listeners through the process of becoming a new creation in Christ while understanding and overcoming our hidden flaws, like arrogance and impulsiveness.
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Welcome to the Flatline with your host, Rick Hughes. For the next 30 minutes, you'll be inspired, motivated, educated, but never manipulated. Now, your host, Rick Hughes.
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Good morning and welcome to the Flatline. I'm your host, Rick Hughes, and for the next few minutes, I'd like to invite you to stick around. Just merely about 30 minutes of motivation, some inspiration, a whole lot of education, And you know the drill. No, no manipulation. That's right. No con games. We're not asking you for money. We're not trying to solicit support. We're not selling anything. We're just trying to give you some information. Information that I believe will help you verify and identify the plan of God for your life. And if you're able to do that, and you can orient and adjust to the plan if you'd like to. But the FLOT line is a show that we use the word FLOT as a military acronym. F-L-O-T stands for the Forward Line of Troops. And what we're teaching is there are basically 10 unique problem-solving devices in the Bible This, by the way, was taught to me by my pastor years ago. And so I'm not anything original with me. And these are simply age old biblical terms. We just put a little different word phrase with them. So to make them fit into this situation, but the 10 unique problem solving devices, if you learn them and if you will use them, then you can stop the outside sources of adversity before they ever become the inside source of stress. Again, every show we tell you adversity is inevitable, but stress is optional. So you don't have to worry. You don't have to be afraid. You don't have to be bitter. You don't have to have guilt. These are all stress-related sins, and there's a better way to live. It's called the Christian life. And you live the Christian life by acquiring the mind of Christ. Philippians 2.5, let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus. It means you learn to think like he thought. And that's called divine viewpoint as opposed to human viewpoint. When we live our lives, we need to go to the scripture to find out what the Bible says, not what some writer says in some newspaper. What does the Bible say about it? And then we get back to do you believe the Bible or not? And then we get back to the fact that are you even a Christian or not? Some people listen to this radio show that are not Christians and some listen that are Christians. Becoming a Christian is not a hard thing to do. Very simply, the Bible says, believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. I don't care what you've done. I don't care what's in the past. If you would like a chance to start your life all over again, listen carefully what the Bible says. If any man's in Christ, he's a new creation. Old things are passed away. All things become new. When you're born again, you become a new person. You're made alive spiritually, and you're able to have fellowship with God through the ministry of God the Holy Spirit who comes to dwell and live in you. And you're able to receive direction by means of the Bible, the Word of God, which is the textbook that God gave us. And we're able to receive inspiration through the indwelling of the Lord Jesus Christ as he loves us and encourages us. So it's up to you. If you want to become a Christian, it's a simple thing to do. We all have to face that fact sooner or later. What thank you of Christ the Bible says. And a lot of people make it very complicated. They want you to jump through some hoop and promise God you'll never fornicate again or you'll never cheat again or you'll never steal again or you'll never whatever. That's not what the Bible says. The Bible just simply says, whosoever should call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Obviously, a Christian don't want to do some of those things we just mentioned, that's sure. But when you become a Christian, it's a simple act of faith. You're putting your faith in the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross and what he did for you. That's why the Bible says he that knew no sin was made sin for us so that we might be made the righteousness of God through him. He took our place. He was our substitute. He was judged in our place. If we go to him and tell the Father we are believing that and we would like to receive Christ as Savior in a simple prayer, expressing it in your own words, That's the minute it'll happen. Whosoever should call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. It's that simple. Father, I believe that Jesus Christ is your anointed son and I'm willing to accept him as my savior is a great place to start a simple prayer of faith. Please consider that. Those that are Christians that listen to the show, thank you for writing. Thank you for staying in touch. Thank you for your encouraging letters and mostly thank you for your prayer support. We obviously take a big step of faith by broadcasting on 113 stations across the United States every Sunday morning. They're not free, it's a big step of faith on our part. So we thank you for your prayer support and encouragement. Now let's talk about something today that I believe will encourage you. And as we do, let me remind you before we get started that we do podcast all of our radio shows. on different podcast venues such as Apple iPod or Spotify or Breaker or Anchor. You can go to any of these podcast venues and type in The Flotline and you can hear the radio shows 24-7. Anywhere, anytime, any day. And again, we have all of our printed materials free of charge. If you'd like to get any of our material, go to the website, RickHughesMinistries.org, and they'll ship it out to you the next day in the mail free of charge. Okay? Now, I want to talk to you about hidden flaws. Hidden flaws. Flaws that you and I have we might not be aware of. Of course, the number one flaw that we have is arrogance, and people that have arrogance sometimes don't recognize it. People that have arrogance have unrealistic self-image, and the unrealistic self-image motivates unrealistic expectations of how they ought to be treated. I mean, if they don't see themselves as they really are, then they want to be treated in a way they're not worthy of being treated. Arrogance is always spotted by self-justification, self-absorption, self-deception, self-destruction eventually. The arrogant person will eventually destroy himself. That's the number one hidden flaw we have in our life, and very few preachers preach on arrogance. They mostly talk about the big five, don't drink, don't dance, don't smoke, et cetera. But I want to talk to you about another hidden flaw that comes out of arrogance. And this is get ready because this is kind of different. But I want to talk to you about being impulsive. Impulsiveness is a hidden flaw that many arrogant people have. What is impulsiveness? It's acting or doing something without forethought, without thinking it through. There's a difference between being impulsive and being compulsive. A compulsive person is a person who has an irresistible urge against his wishes. irresistible, compelling him to do something. And that's like a sin nature on steroids. So when that happens, you usually go for it. But impulsive, now that's a different thing. This is you getting all hyped up, all excited, thinking something's gonna work, I need to do this, I need to do that, and you don't think it through. You don't check it out in the scriptures, and off you go, tooly down the my way highway, and then it winds up wasting time. and giving the devil an advantage. So I want to talk to you about being impulsive. You've got to stop letting yourself be manipulated like this. The key passage I want to give you is Proverbs 29, 11. It says, a fool expresses all of his emotions, but a wise person controls them. And that's the key, controlling what you think. Because emotions are not thoughts. Emotions are feelings or actions. You can't live the Christian life based on your emotions. This is where organized religion gets off the page sometimes when they get emotional. Go to church, have a big worship service, everybody sings hallelujah, praise the Lord, and get emotional. but that's not growing in grace. The Bible does not say, let these emotions be in you that were also in Christ Jesus. It says, let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus. So who is the wise person? That's the person who has the divine viewpoint of the mentality of Christ, and he controls his emotions. James 1.19 says, understand this, my dear brothers and sisters, Let every person be quick to listen, but very slow to speak and very slow to anger. Don't be impulsive. Don't get into this. And Philippians 1.9 says, this I pray for you, that your love, Paul wrote here, your love may excel and be abundant in knowledge and perception. The word knowledge is an interesting word. It's the word, and I'll give you the Greek word and show you the difference. There are two Greek words for knowledge. Both words are translated in the Bible, knowledge. But in the Greek, they are not the same. One word is gnosis, G-N-O-S-I-S, gnosis, G-N-O-S-I-S, and that's where we get the term Gnostics from. There were a lot of Gnostics around in Paul's day. But the second word is epinosis, E-P-I-G-N-O-S-I-S. And epi is a preposition meaning full. There's a difference between knowledge and full knowledge. And knowledge you hear is not epinosis, it's knowledge you acquired. Epinosis is knowledge you hear and believe and apply into your life. So when the Bible says to be abundant in epinosis knowledge and perception, and here's a word, it's only used one time in the whole Bible right here, the Greek word is eistasis, A-I-S-T-H-E-S-I-S. It's the only place it's used in the Bible, eistasis. And it means discernment, discernment. So this is a characteristic of wisdom. Wisdom gives you understanding and discernment and insight. And what Paul is saying is that your love and that your virtue love, that's your personal love for God the Father and your impersonal love for other individuals in the plan, that your love would grow or be abundant by means of epinosis and eistasis, knowledge and discernment. Virtue love is a directional asset. It's a directional asset. And virtue love is directed towards God the Father. That's personal love for God. That's one of our problem-solving devices. And if it's directed towards other people, it's impersonal love, another problem-solving device. So our love must grow in epinosis and in discernment. Discernment is very critical. You have to be able to discern where your tragic flaw could be located. If you'll let me give you an illustration, I'll try not to bore you with it, but this deals with General Jimmy Doolittle. General Doolittle is a Medal of Honor winner for the United States Air Force for his raid on Tokyo. And during World War II, it took off from the decks of aircraft carriers and bombed Tokyo, one of the reasons Japan eventually surrendered. There was a film made about it called 30 Seconds Over Tokyo, which detailed the Doolittle Raid in April 18, 1942. General Doolittle was quite an individual. I wish I could have met him personally. Distinguished Service Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, Distinguished Flying Cross with Oak Leaf Clusters, Bronze Star, Air Medals with Oak Leaf Clusters, Graduate of MIT with a Master's of Science and a Doctor's of Science, and eventually a three-star general in the United States Air Force. General Doolittle writes in one of his books about one of his impulsive acts. He wrote a book called I Can Never Be So Lucky Again, published by Bannum Books in 1991. And he wrote about this incidence that almost ruined his career, his hidden flaw, his impulsiveness. He met with General George Patton and with great General Eisenhower, we call him Ike, who was eventually the president. And they were discussing the invasion of North Africa and Operation Torch. And during that meeting, Ike was to decide who would indeed head up the air unit assigned to the British American Task Force. It was already known that General Patton would be the ground commander, and Ike needed to approve Doolittle as the air commander. And he sensed that Ike didn't like him. Doolittle figured that out right off the bat. He knew that Ike knew about his reputation as a pilot and a reckless pilot. and he thought that maybe Ike would consider him too reckless to command an air force like this. So Ike asked a question, and here's what he said. Eisenhower said, our first job will be to acquire airfields in North Africa, and as soon as they are acquired, we've got to be able to operate from there. General Doolittle made a mistake. He said, Eisenhower was right, of course, but instead of saying, yes, sir, that's exactly what we will do, yes, sir, General Doolittle said, I very stupidly said to General Eisenhower, Eisenhower, the fields will be of no value to us unless the ground forces have cleared and occupied the air bases and had brought in fuel supplies, ammunition, bombs, food, and spare parts, and then we'll be able to operate. I saw his face change, General Doolittle said, and I knew I had blown it. It was a dumb, impulsive thing to tell a general with as much logistical experience in military service as Ike Here was a then one-star reserve officer implying to a two-star general officer who had spent his entire adult life in the service that he didn't know what he was talking about. Doolittle said, I realize I made a horrible mistake, but it was too late. Well, fortunately for Doolittle, Eisenhower got upset about it, but Eventually, he did choose him to command the 12th Air Force Group in the battle for Northern Africa. He did promote him to two-star major general. But it took him years to learn what you and I are talking about here today. Think before you speak. Think before you speak. I'm going to say it again. Think before you speak. Here's a principle. You should remember this. It's not new. You've probably heard it before. It's better to keep your mouth shut and look like a fool than to speak and remove all doubt. Please keep in mind that the enemy, aka the devil, Lucifer, he's always seeking to gain an advantage and by that impugn the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. And if you and I fail to have perception of any situation, if we fail to have cognition of what's going on around us and we give an advantage to Satan, who will in fact use our lack of discernment to cause confusion and to cause controversy within the ranks of the local church or any organization. And if he can cause confusion and controversy, he can divide and conquer. Confusion can be created by an emotional response. Listen to John 18 10. This is the episode where Simon Peter made a terrible mistake. He was impulsive. Simon Peter, having a sword, drew it and smote the high priest's servant and cut off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus. Now, Malchus made it into the Bible, into the word of God, by getting his ear cut off. I'm sure that Peter was aiming for his neck, but the guy apparently was quick and dodged and then only whacked his ear off. Now, the Lord had something to say about this. In John 18, 11, he said, put your sword back in the sheath, Peter, Put your sword up. In Matthew 26, 52, put up again your sword into its place for all they that take the sword will die by the sword. By resisting arrest in his impulsive act, Peter was actually playing into Satan's hands. And those guards could have immediately killed all of them on the spot and been absolutely justified in doing that. It'd be like you trying to pull a gun on a police officer, you're gonna get shot. Peter tried to kill an officer of the court. This brings up a question that a lot of people like to know about, were the disciples armed? It's obvious that Peter was armed, he had a sword with him. Yes, he was armed. In Luke 22, 35, Jesus asked them, When I sent you without a purse, bag, or sandals, did you lack anything? And they said, No, Lord, we had everything. And then he said to them in Luke 22, 36, But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag, take it. And if you do not have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one. As it is written, he was numbered with the transgressors, and I tell you that this must be so. Yes, times were changing. Times were changing. And they were instructed to buy a sword and take with them on the road. Well, what do you think about that? Lord, one of them said, I got two swords. And the Lord said, that's enough. And he replied, that's enough talking about that. Okay, you understand. Get a weapon and take it with you. When he was through talking about the matter, he implied that two weapons would be sufficient. They didn't need to have a whole army. Did Peter seek to prevent the Lord's arrest by attacking the duly appointed arresting officer? Yes. Was Peter's act an impulsive decision? Yes. Was he thanking or emoting? His appreciation and love for the Lord Jesus Christ caused him to make an emotional decision, an emotional outreach, an emotional overload. Because emotions often trigger spontaneous actions. Remember Proverbs 29, 11. I read it to you earlier. A fool expresses all his emotions, but a wise person controls them. We must live by thinking, not by emoting. This means you and I have to pay attention to details and be sensitive to the situation we find ourselves in. Number one, God did not send us to straighten out the devil's world. So you have to remember that impulsive actions like this can be triggered by emotions. And what are emotions? They are the enemy of thought. You see, anytime something happens in your life, you can do one or two things. You can respond or you can react. If your emotions kick in, you're probably going to react. If you're thinking, considering, calculating, you can respond. When you're under pressure, do you react with emotional outbursts or do you respond? Let's say somebody treated you unfairly. Do you react and get mad or do you respond and forgive them? Impulsive actions can be triggered by these emotions. You got to remember winners execute losers emote. If you live by your emotions, you're going to be a loser in life. Uncontrolled emotions are an indication of self justification. That's your arrogance. So the Bible goes on to say in Ephesians 4, 31, let all bitterness, emotional sin, let all wrath, emotional sin, let all anger, emotional sin, let all clamor, that's sin of the tongue, evil speaking, sin of the tongue, be put away from among you along with all malice, hatred, mental attitude, sin, but rather be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God of Christ's sake forgave you. The word kind, krestos, is a Greek word. C-H-R-E-S-T-O-S, krestos. And it means fit for use, not harsh. Pleasant, virtuous, kind, tenderhearted. Interesting Greek word. A big word, uspleknos, uspleknos. It means showing compassion, having compassion. You can read about it, 1 Peter 3, 8. And then forgiving, forgiving. And that means to show favor, to be very gracious, to be very kind, to be very benevolent. These things I just read to you, kind, tenderhearted, and forgiving, are the mindsets of the Lord Jesus Christ in Philippians 1, verse 9, the mind that we are told to emulate. In the Old Testament, we have some of the same situations. Impulsive negative volition. In Numbers 13, 32, you can see this in your Bible. There's spread among Israel a bad report about the land they had explored. You remember Moses sent in 12 spies to look at the promised land and they came out. 10 of them said, nope, can't do it. Nope, nope, can't do it. Here's what they said. The land we explored devours anybody that lives in it. Those 10 failures dead. And the people we saw are great size. We saw Nephilim. That's impossible. The Nephilim were destroyed in the flood. There's no way they saw Nephilim. But they claim we saw Nephilim, the descendants of Anak, come from the Nephilim. And we look like little grasshoppers in our own eyes. That night, all the members of the community raised their voice and cried emotional outbursts. They grumbled and complained and mad at Moses and Aaron for trying to get them to go into the land to start with. And the whole assembly said, we just wish we had died in Egypt or the wilderness. Why does the Lord bring us to this land? To let us fall by the sword. And now listen to what they're about to say. This is typical of religion. Our wives and our children will be taken as plunder. Wouldn't it be better for us to go back to Egypt, they said to each other? How many stupid, impulsive decisions have been made because of our wives and our children? Oh, the children. Yes, we love our children. Yes, we want to protect our children. But we don't go against God, worrying about what's going to happen to our children. The Lord will take care of that. They were using that as an excuse. They were hiding behind the children and their wives. The arrogance of emotion is some sort of irrationality just like this because arrogant people stop thinking and their emotions become the substitute for thought and that's total preoccupation with self-arrogance. From the emotional complex of sin comes hysterical personalities. Those who fail to prevent the conversion of adversity and distress in the soul make a weak person a manipulator The manipulator, now he's trying to change everybody else to conform to what he wants them to do because he's weak. He's a manipulator. I want to give you some principles that I'd like for you to remember. Write this one down. Be very careful when you give advice. You start informing others about what is the Lord's will for their life. Okay? Got to be very careful about that. And you have to remember this. We live in an impulse driven society because people act in haste and people are very excitable. And Satan, the devil, will use that emotional impulse you have to set you up and lure you into the trap. If you act in haste, you may possibly expose yourself and others to chastisement. So here's the number one question. Do you have enough humility? Do you have enough humility to admit your mistake? and recognize the confusion and the controversy you create by doing things like this? Do you have that ability? Here's some key principles that I would like for you to remember. In here, in this situation where the Jews didn't go into the Promised Land, after Moses told them what was gonna happen, that they were gonna die in the wilderness for their rebellion and disobedience, were ready to go up and take the mountain now they're ready to go but no one confessed their sin it was just an impulsive act of self-survival and sometimes it's just too late sometimes the wheels are already in motion first john 5 16 if you see your brother or sister commit a sin that does not lead to death then you should pray and god will give an opportunity but i refer to those who sin does not lead to death There is a sin that leads to death, and I'm not saying that you should pray about that. There are believers under the sin of the death, their toast, their history, because of their arrogance and their rejection of God's word. So stay out of God's way. There has to be a chain of command in life. It has to be. This is God's design to protect you, protect me from our own bad decisions, from making impulsive acts in our life. So it's never wrong for you or for me to postpone a decision or to seek advice from our commanding officer, hopefully your pastor, your local church commanding officer, the Holy Spirit. Unless it's a matter of life and death, slow down, okay? Do not give Satan an opportunity to discredit you due to your impulsive behavior or to even discourage you due to the confusion and controversy you yourself can create. One of Satan's traps is to get you out of sync with God's timing due to your impulsive behavior. It might not be a sin, but it's equivalent to a tight end taking his eyes off the ball and running down the field before he makes the catch. So if Satan can lure you out of God's plan by means of subtle distractions, then you can lose years going down the wrong road. Impulsiveness is a destroyer of many Christian's destiny. So sum it up, listen carefully. I had to learn about this as a young Christian. Well-meaning actions are not sin, but they should be avoided to maintain undistracted momentum. Because Satan's key objective is to distract you, keep you from reaching spiritual momentum in your life, ever becoming a spiritually mature believer. And that's very possible if you let your emotions get in charge. Did you learn anything? I hope so. It's great to give you that information. I shortened it up quite a bit, but I hope you heard it, and I hope you're listening. Until next week, this is your host, Rick Hughes, saying thank you for listening to The Flatline.
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In this episode, we delve into the intricate layers of Middle Eastern politics and its connections with ancient conflicts, as noted in biblical records. The conversation pivots around Israel's political landscape, unfolding events, and the controversial red hat incident that went viral. Mike Gallagher's perspective brings an insightful critique of current headlines and public conversations, touching upon the nature of public protest and freedom of expression.
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Is war in the Middle East the revival of an ancient conflict recorded in the Bible?
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The nation of Israel is a resurrected nation. So what if there was going to be a resurrection of another people, an enemy people of Israel?
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Dinesh D'Souza's new film, The Dragon's Prophecy, offers new understanding of October 7th, Israel and radical Islam.
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We came back to a land that was largely barren and empty, and we brought it back to life, and we're going to keep it.
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From the wild world of D.C. politics to America's culture clash, brace yourself for the reality check you've been waiting for. The one and only Mike Gallagher.
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Okay, we come into the studios on a Friday with a ton of breaking news. The Jerusalem Post this morning post-accrediting President Trump entirely for the freeing of the hostages that are expected to occur either Monday or Tuesday. Gosh, this accomplishment has been epic. It is historic. We're living through history. I know we have to address the Nobel Peace Prize controversy. I feel a little dumb about expecting him to get nominated this morning. And it turns out he couldn't. Well, I mean, he could, but it would have been based on anything he did up to January 31st of 2025 of this year. In other words, the deadline had passed. Everything that he accomplished in this enormously successful peace achievement, everything, none of that is eligible for the Nobel Peace Prize. So the takeaway is he was snubbed. I saw Hugh Hewitt this morning talking about Trump being snubbed. I don't know that that's really accurate. So, you know, maybe, Tracy, we can find an expert. I mean, I Googled it and looked it up and grokked and did all of it, and it said the deadline is January 31, 2025. This is a man who stopped eight wars in nine months. But understand, all of that happened after the deadline of the Nobel Peace Prize. You see, I'm a little funny about facts. Facts kind of matter. I mean, I like to get nice and righteously indignant with the best of them, okay? You know me. But yes, he stopped eight wars in nine months, all which came after the Nobel Peace Prize deadline. And it's as if nobody knows that. How about the Time magazine headline? Trump loses Nobel Peace Prize he shamelessly campaigned for. Time.com. They wrote a column. Unlike other trinkets that Trump secured through bravado and bluster, the international panel did not bend. No amount of bullying could buy Trump a prize for peace. An irony lost only on the president. That's the senior correspondent of Time acting like he doesn't know that the deadline was January 31st of this year. So, you know, we're going to get to all of that, I promise. We've got Tish James being indicted on pretty serious crimes. But I want you to know that I've had to ask the powers that be here at the Mike Gallagher Show if ass is an acceptable word to say on the air. My boss, my mentor, a man who has guided me through my career for many years... Phil Boyce just confirmed that not only am I allowed to say the word ass on this show, but it's also in the Bible. So it's biblical. So sure we can say a biblical word. You know why I'm asking you about the word, the offensiveness of the word ass. Are you offended by that word? If you saw that word on a baseball hat on a flight, Would you be offended? A guy with a red hat got removed from a Delta flight recently. The video went viral. And it's a little bit like the Nobel Peace Prize controversy. Facts kind of matter. People were incorrectly assuming that the guy got removed because he had a red MAGA hat on. It did not say MAGA. And I thought the Delta Airlines pilot, who's now being dragged on social media, I think the Delta Airlines flight attendant, who's also being attacked on social media, acted pretty professionally and calmly and politely. Pilot even said to the guy, I'm hardcore MAGA. The pilot admitted to the guy on tape, because he pulled out his phone like people are wont to do, the guy said, I'm probably more ultra-MAGA than you are. So here's the issue. If you've seen this on social media, did you know that the hat said, build back better my ass? And again, apologies if you're offended by ass. Because I don't know if that's – I know it's not a profanity as defined by our broadcast guidelines. I think there are people who are offended by the word, and I apologize, but I think I have to say it to you so you know what is really going on here. And for somebody – I just got a text from Dallas, somebody who saw the video clip. Mike, this is easy. Stop putting filth on shirts and hats. Grow up, folks. So I got to present this to the smartest audience in the world. Our number is 800-655-MIKE if you want to jump on board and join us. 800-655-6453. I want to see if you think Delta is in the wrong or if the guy with the red hat is with the, I don't know, semi-profanity? I don't know if it's a profanity. Kinda? Sorta? I don't normally say that word on the show. I've said jackass. I mean, there's another derivation of the word you definitely cannot say, and that would be ass blank, and you know where I'm going with that. But just based on what you know, even before you see and hear the video that I'm about to play for you, do you think build back better my ass in big, bright, white letters on a red baseball cap is grounds for the flight crew asking the man to just take the hat off and put it on your lap during the short flight? And that was what they asked of him. They didn't. kick him off the flight. They didn't remove him from the flight. They talked to him about it outside the plane, and they asked him to simply keep it on your lap. And what set this whole thing off was the flight attendant asked him to take it off and put it on his lap. He did so, but then he says other passengers wanted to see it on his head again so they could take pictures. He put it back on his head, and that was when the flight attendant alerted the captain. That's the controversy. Mike Gallagher. You know how much I care about family, tradition, and the kind of meals that bring people together. That's why I love telling you about Tri-Tales Premium Beef. They're a fifth-generation ranching family down in Texas, real ranchers, not corporations, and they put together something really special, the Autumn Butcher Box. Now, this box is about more than just dinner. It's about gathering your loved ones, creating memories, and feeding your legacy with beef raised the right way. 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Mike Gallagher.
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I feel like I'm upset. I'm unnecessarily obsessed with whether or not the A word is profanity or not. Somebody just sent a text from the upstate of South Carolina. You bet you're... I'm upset. I mean, I think maybe I have to bleep myself. The guy's hat didn't say MAGA. The hat said, build back better, my... I mean, here's Pennsylvania text line, the MyPillow text message, profanity is a sign of one with a limited vocabulary. Time for people to grow up. Florida, whatever any of us thinks of the guy's hat that said, build back better, my... Ultimately, the flight crew is the law in the sky. He didn't listen to crew instructions, so they asked him to comply. Order has to be maintained. I just don't know if the word is a bad word or not. But let's check in here with Ty. We just showed you a live shot on the Salem News Channel live cam of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Beautiful, beautiful day in Pittsburgh. Here's Ty in Pittsburgh. What do you think, Ty? Is the word a profanity that we're talking about?
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It all depends on if you love the Lord Jesus with all your heart and with all your mind and with all your soul. It could be that way, yes. Are you offended by the word? Yes, because I'm a born-again Christian, and I believe that those that love the Lord...
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We shouldn't be using that word. Amen. Well, that's the point, Ty. And I'm not entirely comfortable with using the word. Let's play the video of the guy because when he was confronted by the crew and they asked him to step off the plane, they made him walk all the way down the jet bridge, which he didn't really understand. And he had to talk to the captain. The captain was very respectful. But here's what the exchange sounded like. Now, it's long. I don't want to play the whole thing. But here's a minute or two of what the encounter sounded like when the guy was removed from the plane for the red hat that said, contrary to popular belief, MAGA. No, no, no, no. It said, build back better, my... Let me put you in my perspective.
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I have to comply with... The wishes of everybody, okay? Everybody. Everybody. What about my wishes? Okay, so here's the deal. Safety is my number one concern.
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I ain't never broke a law in my life. I understand. I'm a sky priority, and I fly Delta. I wouldn't fly nothing else. I haven't said nothing to nobody, haven't touched nobody.
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Let me explain. Okay. I hope you write this up. I do. I hope you write this whole thing up, okay, and what happened. Oh, believe me, I'm videoing it.
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Oh, no, no, no. I can video, but I'm being quick here in front of people. You and I are going to stop this.
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Is Delta going to take me off the plane because of my hat? Not because of your hat. It's because you're not complying with the instructions. What's there to comply with?
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My flight crew is in charge of safety. Okay. And I'm doing something wrong? I've just done nothing wrong.
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No, no, no.
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If you can't comply with the simple instruction of removing the hat... The lady next to me asked to take a picture of you, so I put it back on. She was taking pictures for her daughter, and the next thing you know, they put them right back over there again.
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I don't know all the specifics. I'm just saying, I'm giving you the option, okay? Either you keep the hat off and you follow the instructions of the flight attendants, because in the case of an emergency, how do I know, based on this simple little issue, that you would follow their instructions in an emergency?
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Oh, I'd be glad to help with everything if there's an emergency.
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Okay, so help us all out.
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But what I'm saying is when I get back, it's Delta policy. Just because of my hat, I can be removed.
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So here's the deal. I guess you spoke to this gentleman before. My understanding after the flight attendants is as soon as you left, his hat went back on.
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because a lady was taking a picture of it, and another guy goes, man, I love that hat.
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He's videotaping this. He's going to put it on YouTube.
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Oh, I ain't going to put nothing on the Internet. I'm just making sure I'm protecting my rights. I don't fly nothing but Delta. I'm a sky priority. I fly all the time. I wore this hat to Vegas. I wore this hat to Salt Lake City. Ain't nobody said nothing. So now if there's somebody on that plane that's got something on their head or I don't like their shirt or their T-shirt, do you want to help them remove it for me? See what I'm saying? It just doesn't make sense to me. Don't let me hold the plane up. I mean, I'll hold the hat, but I'm going to address this when I get back because I think my rights are being violated. This don't say nothing bad. Do you think everything's been built back better?
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I have denied passengers that says, for example, bitch one, bitch two, or 8% of the T-shirt, they have to cover it up. So the wording doesn't. If this had an F word on it, ma'am, I wouldn't even wear it in public. I understand. I asked you.
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So anyway, you get the gist of it. And I think the guy was great in presenting his case. I frankly think the pilot was professional. She was, too. She said, I had a number of passengers who complained about the profanity on your cap. He said, well, I didn't have the F word on my cap. And as you just heard, the caller from Pittsburgh, there are people that consider... that word a profanity. And that, to me, is the crux of it. I am a little intrigued that the pilot characterized it as a safety issue. I guess what he's saying is if the passengers are all disrupted, maybe it causes a safety issue. The plane isn't going to crash because somebody's offended by somebody else's baseball cap. So there's two things at play here. Mind your business, live your life, leave people alone. On the other hand, maybe, just maybe, the one texter is right. How about not putting a word that somebody like Ty in Pittsburgh would be offended by as a born-again Christian, a very faithful guy, and there are people who find the word offensive. You know, look, we're not going to spend all day on it, but I was fascinated by it because, you know, I like these social media dramas. And I enjoy kind of bringing it up with you once in a while.
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From the wild world of D.C. politics to America's culture clash, brace yourself for the reality check you've been waiting for. The one and only Mike Gallagher.
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If you were an aspiring writer and you wanted to put a plot together to try to get Hollywood's attention, make a really cool movie with a twist, here's what you might write. You might write about... a bitter, angry, vicious woman running for attorney general in, oh, I don't know, the state of New York. And during her campaign for attorney general, she promised the voters of New York, if you elect me as attorney general, the top cop, chief law enforcement official of the state, I'll get Trump. I'll get him. I don't know what I'm going to get him on, but we're going to get him on something. We don't know what. We'll figure it out. We're going to cast a wide net because Orange Man bad, New Yorkers hate Trump, even though he's a New Yorker, and we're going to get him. And then as you're writing the movie, as you're putting together the script, there'd be a twist. First of all, she'd get elected because the idiots of New York thought that was a rational reason to vote for an attorney general because, you know, orange man bad. Same kind of people that would sit on a jury and convict Trump of a bunch of bogus, goofy, ridiculous charges because orange man bad. These are New Yorkers. New Yorkers, many of them. certainly in Manhattan, hate Donald Trump. So here's the twist. She loses every effort to stop him from being re-elected. She doesn't think he's going to get re-elected, so that's why she's so... bold and obnoxious in her contempt for Trump. In fact, that's why she sat in the front row of his trials, sneering and preening for the cameras. That's why she took to social media to insult him and attack him. I mean, she's a good old-fashioned troll, this Letitia James, this character in the Hollywood movie. She's obnoxious. She's miserable. She's angry. She's unhinged. I mean, she should be neutral. She is, after all, the Attorney General. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Not this one. Her whole life's work is to destroy Donald Trump, to bankrupt him, certainly, and to most assuredly keep him from being elected President of the United States. Well, she has failed. And then here's the twist. Here's the twist. What goes around, I guess, has come around in this movie. After building her career on the promise to just target Donald Trump, and she did, now she's been indicted for bank fraud. Now she has been charged after a jury in blue Virginia heard the evidence. Now she's been charged with the same stuff again. she accused Donald Trump of doing. The media reactions are hysterical. To hear people over on MSNBC melting down and claiming that Trump has weaponized the Justice Department by getting a grand jury to indict a woman whose sworn promise was to weaponize the Justice Department. That was her whole premise. You vote for me, I'm going to get him. In fact, hey, let's go back to 2018. Listen to NBC and the way they reported on Tish James and her campaign.
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NBC News has exclusively learned that the newly elected incoming New York Attorney General plans to launch some sweeping investigations into President Trump, into his family. Letitia James tells NBC News, quote, we will use every area of the law to investigate President Trump and his business transactions and that of his family as well. She plans to look into the following. Donald Trump's real estate holdings in New York. That June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with a Russian official. Any government subsidies that Donald Trump received, whether he's in violation of the emoluments clause, the Trump Foundation.
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They were so excited. Did you hear the enthusiasm in her voice? The exuberance on their faces? She's going to get Trump. Well, let's stay with NBC for just a moment. MSNBC, to be exact. This is a great day to check out the nearly tearful announcement from MSNBC's Nicole Wallace chatting with Andrew Weissman yesterday.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James has been indicted. Andrew Weissman, your reaction?
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I think that I want to sort of address the people who might look at this and say this is sort of tit for tat, that you see that in the Democratic administration, you see them going after Republicans and this is Republicans going after Democrats. This is where, one, two wrongs don't make a right, even if that were true. But this is where facts matter. In the Letitia James case that she brought in New York, there was a trial. Facts were adduced. We all could look at those facts. And Donald Trump had a chance and opportunity to have due process and to hear all of that. Here, the process by which this has been undertaken, like the process that was undertaken with respect to James Comey, tells you that career people and even Trump-appointed people did not think that there was evidence. There were not facts that justified this. And I think a perfect symbol of the fact that this is different, that what we're seeing is different, it is not normal, it is not everyone does it, is to take a look at Abby Lowell. Abby Lowell is the defense lawyer for Letitia James. He was also the defense lawyer for Hunter Biden. In the Biden administration, the Department of Justice actually charged and convicted the sitting president's son. And Abby Lowell represented him and defended him and lost that trial. And he is now defending Letitia James. And to me, when people say it's tit for tat, it's like, no, in prior administrations, and by the way, Republican and Democratic administrations at their normal times, which I agree with Mark, are gone. Under normal times in those administrations, there is no politics that is supposed to be considered. I'm not saying it's never considered and there aren't those aberrations. It's that that's not how you're built.
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Right, right. Andrew, let me bring Carol in.
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Why? That's too bad. So sad. Gosh, poor Nicole Wallace. She's about to break out into tears. I mean, the two of them, they both were about to break down. You could see it and hear it. Banshee has great analysis of Letitia James' indictment yesterday over at redstate.com. Banshee writes, I seriously worry about Nicole Wallace's mental health at this point. She was so sure that Trump would end up in prison that she staked her entire personality on it. Weissman, the guy you just heard from? He's even worse, because he took a taxpayer paycheck for decades while using his office to target his political enemies. Repeatedly, these people told us that no one is above the law, while they insisted that every norm broken was necessary to save democracy. Well, that kind of scorched earth strategy has consequences, doesn't it? Banshee says, look, I don't even care about the Democrat claim that this is payback or revenge and thus is deeply improper. Improper was feeding a bogus legal theory to a compliant left-wing judge to try to jail a presidential candidate for what amounted to a disagreement over a QuickBooks entry. Improper was bringing multiple federal indictments in a ridiculously dot-connecting episode whereby Trump was supposedly responsible for a riot he clearly had no prior knowledge of. Improper was pressing charges for retention of classified documents against the now president while essentially claiming that Biden was too old and senile to stand trial for the exact same thing. So yeah, Banshee says, call it whatever you like. This is what happens when a political party throws everything out the window to try to win an election without considering they might lose that election. I'm going to just quickly say this and then turn it over to you at 800-655-MIKE. I loathed Letitia James the way I loathed Nancy Pelosi, and here's why. I'll never forget or forgive the act of watching the then Speaker of the House tearing up the State of the Union speech in front of President Trump as soon as he delivered his speech. It was disgusting. It was reprehensible. It was shameless. It was tacky. It was gross. And it was one of the most shameful things I've ever seen a public figure do. A close second is a woman who would take the responsibility and the power and the authority of her job as New York's top law enforcement official and use it to try to destroy a Republican she just doesn't happen to agree with. Tish James is getting everything she deserves. And look, I understand that there is apparently a woke left judge that's going to hear the case. It's going to be a jury trial. The judge can only do so much. I love what Whale Psychiatrist posted on X. And then let's consider this great message on a social media post. Hey, dear hyperventilating Democrats, Trump 1.0 came into office like a golden retriever puppy trying to start over and play nice with you. You tried to kill him and imprison him for life over stuff that you made up. You created every bit of whatever comes to you. 1-800-655-MIKE. Welcome in. It's Friday. Look, there's a lot of great phrases that are coming to mind. Like somebody just texted, when you come for the king, you better not miss. You better not miss. And also, the hunter becomes the hunted. 800-655-MIKE. Join us.
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From the wild world of D.C. politics to America's culture clash, brace yourself for the reality check you've been waiting for. The one and only Mike Gallagher.
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It is, in fact, a big breaking news Friday. We have a lot to cover this hour. Of course, Letitia James, the Attorney General of New York, has been indicted on mortgage fraud. She's livid. She's enraged. She can't believe that the Justice Department... has been weaponized, says the woman who weaponized the Justice Department in her campaign pledge to go get Trump. Even Anderson Cooper called out Tish James supporters last night on CNN. We have that clip. I think we do, don't we? Anderson Cooper said, look, that's not a very good look that the woman pledged to get Trump. Didn't know how. You look for the, you know, what's the old deal about finding the crime? And then you find the man. Then you attach the, connect the dots. But, wow, I am still just overwhelmed by Maria Carino-Maccato, who is the Venezuelan freedom fighter who got the Nobel Peace Prize, as it was announced at about 5 a.m. Eastern time this morning. A lot of people expected Trump to get it. I didn't realize that Trump wasn't eligible to get it for the actions of his second term. The deadline was January 31st. That's a pesky little fact that gets in the way of some good old-fashioned outrage, right? But the woman who did get the award, as announced this morning... was Maria Karina Mercado. You know what she did? She dedicated the Nobel Peace Prize to her people and to President Trump. That's astounding. You talk about grace. She said, I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause. Look, she did more than Barack Obama was capable of doing. You see Obama's, you know, righteous statement about peace in the Middle East? He couldn't even bring himself to say one word about President Trump's role in this effort. The whole world is rejoicing over what Trump accomplished. But Barack Obama was so tacky and so classless that he couldn't be bothered to even mention the man's name. That's what tackiness looks like. The Obama supporters like you to think he's this real cool, elegant man. There's nothing elegant or classy about him. Welcome in. We've got a lot to absorb today. How about Newt Gingrich? Last night with Sean Hannity. We've got to get Newt back on the show. It's been too long. He's a friend of ours, friend of the show. I always say he's one of the smartest men I've ever met. And he had some wisdom about the territory that President Trump is entering with this remarkable peace agreement between Israel and Hamas.
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I think President Trump is now moving into being a world figure in the sense that President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill were. He is achieving an orchestration of all of the major Arab states. in order to support a peace agreement. And he is bringing enough pressure to bear on Benjamin Netanyahu that the Israelis are going to go along whether they wanted to or not. And as a result, he's creating sort of a forge of peace out of the sheer pressure of his personality and his ability to create friendships. Friendships in Saudi Arabia, friendships in the UAE, friendships in Qatar, friendships in Egypt. I mean, this is an amazing orchestration by Donald Trump. If it works, and I suspect it will, you're going to see a moment of history that literally puts him in the same league as Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill.
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Now, of course, the Trump haters are ready to pass out. They can't believe that this has happened. You think President Kamala Harris would have achieved a peace deal? Biden? Biden didn't know what time it was. Here was Scott Jennings last night, Salem Radio Network's own Scott Jennings on CNN, reacting to this peace deal that will lead to the return, hopefully, of the 20 living hostages either Monday or Tuesday.
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It will probably go down as the most historic moment in either of his two presidencies. Peace in the Middle East, when those hostages do walk out, I mean, they think there's 20 that are alive. All day long, I have been thinking about Edith O'Hell, who I met. In Israel this summer, I was traveling there, and she is the mother of Alon Ohel. You may have heard of Alon. He was taken hostage at the Nova Music Festival. He's the jazz pianist. They have the pianos around, the yellow pianos. And I will never forget meeting with her and just the shattered life of a mother waiting for her son to come home. And now he's going to come home. And Donald Trump is responsible for it. And I just don't think you can take anything away from it. I don't know what Hamas is going to do in the future. I don't think we should trust these people any farther than we can throw them. But for the next few days, when those people come out, this is an unqualified diplomatic victory for the United States of America. It's not just a personal victory for the president, although it is enormous. But this is the power of the United States of America when it has a president that is capable of showing bold and pragmatic leadership on the world stage. So I couldn't be happier, but mostly because of my friend Edith, who I met in Israel. She's going to get her boy back.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well put, Scott. Well put. I want to be positive today. Look, there's a lot of negativity swirling around, uncertainty about the New York City mayoral race, the indictment of Tish James and all the drama and the teeth gnashing. Can we just sit back and bask in President Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu achieving the unthinkable, the almost impossible? You know, we still have to see how it all plays out, but it's looking very good. And we should be celebrating phase one of this peace deal. You know where we're going to get to celebrate the peace deal, you and me together? In Israel. Because in a couple of weeks, I'm taking the show to the Holy Land. We'll be broadcasting from Jerusalem. I'll be there October 29th, 30th, and 31st. And I can't wait to broadcast once again from the Holy Land. I've been wanting to go so badly. I'm so thankful to the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews for their support. And they're going to sponsor our broadcast over there again. Thank you, IFCJ. Thank you, Yael Eckstein. I kept inviting myself. I'm a pest that way. I like to invite myself to the party. And I want to go back to Israel. I've never totaled up how many times I've been blessed to go to Israel. Eric and I were trying to figure it out one day. I think it's maybe 13, 14 times. Eleven? I don't know. Dennis Prager and I took a couple of groups over a few times, and I was there. Look, my first visit was when I was the morning host at WABC Radio in New York City, and Phil Boyce and I went over to the Holy Land. I've still got pictures of a very youthful-looking Phil Boyce and Mike Gallagher posing in front of some Israeli officers outside a bomb shelter. So I'm joyful today. and humbled that we get to bring the show back to Israel in a couple of weeks. And please, please honor Israel today by supporting the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. We're in the middle of our October appeal. And look, admittedly, we are off to a little bit of a slow start. And I'm hoping today maybe you got paid. You'd like to pay it forward. You want to bless Israel with bomb shelters, with food boxes, with medicine, with supplies that are urgently still needed in Israel. If you stand with Israel, support the fellowship. Go to MikeOnline.com. Whatever you can afford, $25, $50, $100, just takes a couple of moments to donate online. MikeOnline.com. Click on the link. International Fellowship of Christians and Jews banner and give what you can. Thank you. MikeOnline.com or call 800-613-5511. This would be a good day to spread the joy and share some love with Israel. Go to MikeOnline.com or call 800-613-5511. You know, being in the positive mood that I'm in, and I am, I want to be joyful today. And I also want to see if I can find some common ground with people who disagree with me, with people who don't like Donald Trump. If you're not a Trump supporter, how are you feeling about this peace deal? I really try hard to do this every once in a while. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it goes off the rails. I promise you I'm not going to argue with you. I give you my word. We won't have an argument. I truly just want to know what's going through your mind if you're not a supporter of of President Trump with this peace deal. Are you frustrated about it? Are you mad that he's getting so much credit for it? Are you glad that he didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize, even though he wasn't eligible? Let's open up our phone lines for just about five minutes to people who are decidedly not Trump supporters. If you don't like MAGA, if you don't like what's happening in America, I'm really interested in what's going through your heart and your mind today as you're hearing all of this talk. confirmation of the role President Trump and his administration played with this peace deal in the Middle East. Peace in the Middle East. Are you willing to give Trump credit? Let me just dedicate the next few minutes of our phone line space to people who do not support President Trump. We'd really like to know what you're thinking today. 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. I hope you join us.
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What would you do if standing on principle could cost you everything? In this eye-opening episode of https://Ready-Radio.com, John Rush and Bill Anderson tackle one of the most charged topics of our time—personal freedom versus the law. From concealed carry debates to real-world stories of lawsuits and financial ruin, they reveal how easily a “law-abiding citizen” can find themselves on the wrong side of the system. Are you truly prepared—not just for a crisis, but for the consequences of your choices? As the conversation deepens, the hosts challenge listeners to stop fighting battles they can’t win and start focusing on what they can control. Can you really outsmart the system—or should you learn how to live beyond it? Discover how self-sufficiency, strategic action, and informed choices can protect your freedom far better than outrage ever could. This isn’t just a talk about guns or laws—it’s about readiness for real life. When the rules change overnight, will you be the victim, the fighter, or the one who was truly ready?
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This is Ready Radio, preparing you to be ready for anything, now.
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Here's your survival guide for Ready Radio, John Rush. And it's Ready Radio, KLZ 560. Thank you all for listening today. We appreciate it greatly. And let me get Bill Anderson up with us. Bill, welcome. How are you?
SPEAKER 11 :
I'm doing well today, John.
SPEAKER 07 :
A little cloudier today, but we'll take it. Winter's coming.
SPEAKER 11 :
It's coming. It definitely is.
SPEAKER 07 :
We'll talk about some of that today.
SPEAKER 11 :
I think it's supposed to be nice tomorrow, but, you know.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, it's not going to be this way forever. We'll get into some of that. Before we do, last week we got to talking about, you know, concealed carry and the laws that are on the books and some of the changes that are coming. And I had a person just text a few minutes ago, Bill, that basically said, you know, he has a problem with the way that we stated that it's, you know, if you're caught carrying and doing things without a concealed weapons license, permit, you could lose that privilege of having that particular, you know, quote unquote, license down the road. And his point was, you know, by federal law and our Second Amendment rights, we have the ability to do so. It's the states that have infringed upon that. And my comment back is, well, I get that. And you and I both agree, by the way. But at the end of the day, the law is the law. Unless you've got a lot of dollars to go fight it. I don't really know what else to say, Bill, because it's expensive to fight these things if you don't have the cash to do so.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, and people got to hear what we're saying. And what we're saying is we're not saying we agree or disagree with what it is. We're just stating the facts. Correct. Here's the facts. Here's the law.
SPEAKER 07 :
And really quick for everybody listening, I disagree. with a lot of the gun laws we have on the books, not just in Colorado, but in a multitude of states. I'm one that says that the founders, the reason we have the Second Amendment is not to protect ourselves against the bad guys, but to protect ourselves against a tyrannical government, meaning that we have full rights to do anything we need to do. In fact, I would go one step further, and even all of those that are on the other side of the aisle that would say, well, that doesn't mean you should be able to own machine guns and cannons and bombs and so on. Frankly, Bill, there's a good argument that says, well, yeah, actually, I believe that was the founding father's intent. We have laws on the books that don't allow you to own a machine gun without a full, you know, license and a stamp and all sorts of other rigmarole you have to go through, which, frankly, I don't agree with either. But that's the law that's there. And frankly, that law has been challenged numerous times and no one has won yet.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah. Yeah. We again, we're not saying we agree or disagree. I mean, we do disagree with the law, but that's not the point of our statement. Our statement is that's what it is. And you can choose whatever battle you want to fight.
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And for me personally, that's not a battle that. I choose to fight because those are, for those of you listening, those are very expensive battles to go through. And remember that depending upon who's in charge, what jurisdiction you're in, who actually decides to, quote unquote, write you a ticket or in some cases arrest you, Bill, some of these things could result in felony charges, meaning you have a lot of other problems now.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, you've opened up the door to a lot of other stuff. And here's the situation you've put yourself into. A, I can have the proper permit so that I can carry my gun and I have my gun. Or B, I get caught and now they take and confiscate all my guns. And now through that battle, I have no gun. Right. I'm not fighting any battle. So, I mean, it's, again, I'll say it again, choose your battle, whatever you want.
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Well, and this particular person is basically saying, you know, I'd love them to challenge someone like him who is, you know, a law-abiding citizen that's never had a problem, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Again, Bill, like I just said, and I want to be a reminder to everybody listening, that's not the point. And there's a lot of law-abiding citizens that have had no record whatsoever that find themselves at the wrong end of the law, depending upon who's in charge and what jurisdiction you're in and so on. And if they want to make an example out of you, Bill, they will.
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Right. And if you ever have to use your guns— in a self-defense situation, the lawyers are coming out. Whether you're right or wrong in the use of force, you're going to fight that battle, and you're probably going to lose that civil battle because, oh, you didn't have a gun. I mean, I know a lot of people that have been in motorcycle accidents where it wasn't even their fault. But because they didn't have a motorcycle license, guess what? Now, they were a violation because they weren't supposed to be driving a motorcycle if they didn't have a license. So therefore, they took away all their power.
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And you bring up a great point. This isn't even just, for those of you listening, on the criminal side. You can sue somebody over a ham sandwich on the civil side. And I gave an example on Rush to Reason the other day of a local case whereby there was a ride up in Glenwood. I don't agree with the verdict, by the way, but the jury awarded the... into the family that was basically the victim of a child's death, at the end of the day, $200 million award. And if this continues on and they're not able to fight that and somehow get that lowered down to whatever their insurance would cover, Bill, at the end of the day, that would wipe out that business. they would say, well, you don't have anything to lose. Actually, that's not true. The way civil cases work, and by the way, this really goes along with what we talk about on Ready Radio because all of this stuff goes into preparedness end of things. For those of you that don't realize, if you lose a civil case and there is a judgment against you, You may very well not have the money to pay said judgment, but here's how that works. Your wages and whatever you make from that point forward will be garnished and go towards that judgment, meaning you won't have a pot to pee in the rest of your life.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, they can seize whatever assets you have. That's right. Your 401ks, your retirements, any stocks, anything like that.
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Here's a really quick, for all of you that don't believe me, there's a true story. I use this as an example quite a bit on Drive Radio on Saturdays when it comes to car insurance. There was an example that I got, a personal example years ago from a listener. where there was a grandfather, fairly well-to-do grandfather, and the grandson was getting the license and learning to drive and so on. So grandfather buys grandson a car and insures it in his name and so on. Well, lo and behold, something happens. There's a bad accident. Several people are killed. And because it was in grandfather's name and grandfather's insurance, grandfather lost everything. Yeah. So all of you listening, you may not think this is a big deal. I'm here to tell you it is.
SPEAKER 11 :
It absolutely is, John. And you have to awaken to that. And here's the other response to I have the other comment. I'm a law-abiding citizen. I'm good. I'm good. I'm good. But you know what? That's the same argument that the liberals are using with the immigrants. Hey, these guys are good. These guys are good. But yet they broke the law.
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Good point.
SPEAKER 11 :
So they could be totally good. They could be an asset to society. They could be great people not breaking any law. Oh, but you broke one. You came across illegally. So, you know, we've got to stop the hypocritical statements. I'm sorry, but that's what it is.
SPEAKER 07 :
You're right. No, I agree with you. I agree with what you're saying. And my point with some of this is, you know, comment back, as I doubt they would get that technical over quote-unquote paperwork. Carrying a gun concealed and then firing that weapon at some point in time, you're involved in something, Bill, and you don't, like you said, you don't actually have – you know, the proper credentials, quote unquote, to do so. That's where things start to snowball and get kind of hairy. And again, depending upon where you're at, what jurisdiction you're in and how hard a local district attorney, by the way, wants to be and how much of an example out of you he wants to make or she wants to make. Again, Bill, at the end of the day, personally speaking, that's just not a path I want to go down.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, and even if you live in a pro-gun county, you've still got that civil fight you're going to have to fight. And how much are you willing to spend to defend yourself? Right. I mean, that's – we just – having the same conversation here over and over again.
SPEAKER 07 :
I know, but my point on the ready part of it is, folks, this applies to, by the way, a lot of areas that I personally don't agree with. For example, Bill, in your world, in the electrician world, there's all sorts of things that you frankly have to go and pull permits for that personally I look at and say that's nothing more than the city or the county wanting to extract dollars at the end of the day. That actual permit for you to go do that work isn't going to really change the outcome of anything, but it's a way for them to
SPEAKER 11 :
collect revenue absolutely and the price of permits are going through the roof right now and not only that but now they're charging you per the permit based on your material cost so yeah I mean how many hands or how many times are we going to hit yep sales tax right basically that's what it is that's exactly what it is so again folks I don't agree with any of this stuff I
SPEAKER 07 :
I don't agree with the double taxation on used cars. I don't agree with property tax to really get down to it. I don't believe the way they do that. I don't believe in paying for public education for kids that aren't related to me. I mean, I can go down the list, Bill, of things that I don't agree with, but here's what happens. If I don't pay my property taxes, Bill, what happens?
SPEAKER 11 :
They're going to come and seize your property.
SPEAKER 07 :
Exactly. You don't own it at the end of the day is what happens. So you cannot agree with something in principle, and there's lots of things, Bill, that you, I, and a lot of others out there listening don't agree with in principle, but that doesn't change the outcome when something actually comes off it. That's my point.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, and here's what I'll say about this, because sometimes when we have this argument with people, they're saying, oh, well, you're just going to be a lemming, you're just going to be a slave, you're just... you know, turning your head and going along with the system, that I could hear some people saying that. Oh, so you're just telling me just to go along and not really have any protests or buck the system or anything. Here's what I'll continue to say over and over and over and over again. Stop focusing on things you can't control and focus on what you can control. And so that's the way of the world. That's the way it's always been. In my opinion, it's not going to get any better. It's going to get worse. So you can either spend all this time and energy fighting the system or you can figure out what you can do. to have a more self-sufficient life outside of the system. Right, right.
SPEAKER 07 :
And if you want to be a part of the solutions in some of these areas, well, then you know what? Go find a candidate that you really like that you can get behind that you think might have influence. Go get behind some of these organizations, Rocky Mountain Gun Owners and so on. You know, there's all sorts of organizations, you know, Second Amendment right organizations and so on out there, Bill, where you can donate and help those guys fight some of these causes. If that's something you really, truly believe in, and I do, and I do donate to these individuals or to these organizations, I should say, Bill, because at the end of the day, those are things that one individual cannot fight City Hall, but collectively can we, and that's what these organizations do. So if you really want to do something, go find somebody you trust and donate to them.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, and that's exactly right, John, because we have a lot of people, a lot of Monday morning quarterbacks, I call them. They're now called keyboard warriors. They're called whatever. They have a lot to say, but at the end of the day, they ain't doing nothing. You know, they ain't going down and participating in their, you know, Chamber of Commerce, or not the Chamber of Commerce, but their commissioners meeting or their town hall meetings or whatever their structure is and wherever they live. They're not participating in any of those things. They're not supporting organizations that, you know, to your point, have, you know, bigger weight. Some leverage. And they're just complaining about stuff. And then the biggest thing you could do, too, is vote with your dollars. Right. You know, hey, if you know that, you know, so-and-so store... is kind of anti-whatever, then don't shop there.
SPEAKER 07 :
Great example, Bill. Years ago, Panera Bread came out and said, listen, we don't want, we've got a gun-free zone, we don't want you carrying inside of our stores. Bill, I've been to one Panera ever since then, and typically if I go, it's because somebody else invited and they want to have a meeting there and there's nowhere else to go, so you just, you know, grin and bear, and by the way, I still carry inside because I really don't care about their policy, but at the end of the day, that's their policy and I can choose to spend my money elsewhere, and I do.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, exactly. So you can do your own boycott, if you will.
SPEAKER 07 :
And really quick, in that example, some of you would say, well, John, I thought you just said a moment ago you need to abide by the law and do this and do that. Store policy, Bill, is not law.
SPEAKER 11 :
It's not law, and they can't arrest you. No.
SPEAKER 07 :
They can ask you to leave if they were to actually see that you're carrying. They could ask you to leave the premises, and then you would have to leave if they're asking you to. But if they don't notice and they don't see you, there is not a single law that says you can't carry in a restaurant.
SPEAKER 11 :
And if you refuse to leave and the police get involved, the only charge that you could get is trespassing. That's right.
SPEAKER 07 :
That's right. And, again, I know we're kind of getting into some of the weeds. I probably should have our attorney on here at some point and go through some of these things. And he'll tell you the same thing. Kevin's very level-headed, Kevin Flesher. What he'll tell you is, you know, don't make a mountain out of a molehill unless you really have to. If there's a principle and there's something you really want to make a stink out of, okay, great, hire him, go for it, and do so. But in a lot of cases, Bill, you're better off to just, you know, walk away, ignore it, move on. In that case, you know, you're in a place, a business, you know, a merchant, and they ask you to leave because they see that you're carrying or something along those lines. Okay, best thing to do is say, yep, yep, you know, I get it. That's your policy. I honor that, and I'm going to leave. Goodbye. Yeah, just leave. Don't make a stink out of it is my point.
SPEAKER 11 :
The employees won't even say anything anyway. They'll just probably call the police on you, and you'll be like, oh, well, they didn't ask me to leave. Sorry, I didn't see the sign. I leave, and go on, right?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, again, just to make sure that I'm clear, a lot of folks are going to say, well, John, you just said, you know, abide by the law, do this, do that. That's not law. That's not law. Thank you, Bill. At the end of the day, that's a store policy, which, you know, hey, I'm also a business owner. And I've said this numerous times, whether you like a store's policy or not, I will always defend the right of a business to have whatever policy they want. Because at the end of the day, the customers can decide whether they want to do business there or not, and that'll take care of itself. So at the end of the day, I'm still one bill that will give every owner the right, whether it's right, wrong, or otherwise, I will honor their right to make whatever policy they want, whether I agree or disagree.
SPEAKER 11 :
Right, yeah. And you know, the thing too, John, is a lot of people like to quote what they think is law. And it's the furthest thing from law. People don't know what the law is. They've either heard somebody else, they're just regurgitating information, or maybe they're hearing something through the false news that we have, or, you know, the Google or whatever, chat GPT, which gives incorrect information all the time. My point is, is a lot of people don't actually know what law is, and they run around quoting stuff. Like, here's a great one, right? I saw on Facebook on the marketplace or next door or whatever it was. They're like, you have to have 10 acres in order to shoot in Elbert County. Nope.
SPEAKER 07 :
No, that's not true.
SPEAKER 11 :
You just have to ensure the bullet doesn't leave your property.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, because for an example, Bill, you could own 10 acres, but if you're shooting improperly and you're right next to your fence line, for example, and you're not paying attention, that bullet strays out of your area and goes somewhere else, you're still liable.
SPEAKER 11 :
Right. And that's really the only requirement is that you can insure that a bullet doesn't leave your property. There's no set amount of... No, I mean, I live in unincorporated Jefferson County.
SPEAKER 07 :
There is no law against shooting. And even though I'm close to the city, if I wanted to set up my own, quote unquote, indoor shooting range, I mean, I'm too close to houses to do any kind of outside shooting. But if I wanted to go and actually put even some of those portable shooting ranges that are built inside of containers, if I wanted to put one of those in, I'm well within my right to do so, Bill.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, yeah. So people just don't know the law.
SPEAKER 07 :
No. Okay, so before we go to break, along those lines, since we just got done talking about concealed carry and all of that, you being an instructor, what areas by law are you not allowed to conceal carry in? Federal. Federal.
SPEAKER 11 :
So you're not supposed to carry into, you know, what would be like a courthouse or, you know, a school or, you know, post office, anything that is federal government is really it. So maybe city county buildings just depends on that local code there. But federally, yeah, we're not carrying around, you know, schools. But here's the thing. They did have a thing where they're trying to pass where you couldn't even have the gun in a school parking lot. So, you know, that kind of makes it hard, right? So if you are carrying and you're going to honor the requirement that I can't carry in the school, so I properly store my firearm in my car, my car can't be in the parking lot. Now, that didn't pass. So if I'm in the parking lot of the school, I can have my gun, right? It's just when I enter into the building, you know, some people will say, oh, churches too. No, churches are private institutions.
SPEAKER 07 :
Churches set their own policy, quote-unquote.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, so churches don't fall underneath that. They tried to get it under there this last go-around. They were trying to include churches as a place of no-carry zones and stuff. But, you know, movie theaters, you know, stores, restaurants, whatever, you know, you can do whatever you want. But if they have a sign there, the only thing you can do is get caught for trespassing. And, you know, remember this. State of Colorado, statewide, you can open carry. You don't need a permit. You just need to be 18 or whatever it is. So you could open carry. Now, there's been a lot of changes because there used to be, and I don't remember the name of the law, but there used to be a law where no city or county could supersede state law. And so everybody had to kind of ride the same law as the state law. That went away. So our current governor got that out of there. Now every county and city can make up their own rules, and you go through, you know, I can't... I wouldn't open carry in Denver, for example.
SPEAKER 07 :
You're going to find yourself in a heap of trouble.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, and you're just asking for stuff anyway. I'd never open carry, because if something does go down, you're probably number one on the hit list there, because they're going to see that, and you just make yourself a target. But, you know... But anyway, you go through Westminster, hey, they've got a six-round magazine capacity, and you roll right across the road and you get into Arvada or whatever, and it changes, and it's just ridiculous now anymore as to even what. The local codes are, because they did away with that, you know, can't supersede state law. I think they were trying, they were talking about doing a national with the Second Amendment. Hey, your state firearms can't supersede the national firearms, but I don't know if that'll ever happen.
SPEAKER 07 :
Which would be nice if they did.
SPEAKER 11 :
I heard they were trying to do something. Beautiful.
SPEAKER 07 :
Point being, you, I, you know, collectively, we don't agree with everything that's on the books. And there's a lot of it we don't agree with. But all we were saying is it is. And do you really want to go down that path at the end of the day? And what I will say, Bill, is, you know what, if you feel comfortable going down that path and that's something that you're not concerned about and you feel like you've got enough resources to handle whatever would come along, then, you know what, knock your socks off.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, it's the same argument, John. Again, we're being hypocritical because we'll get a big fuss about the Second Amendment, but do you understand what all your tax dollars are going towards? Right. I don't agree with the majority of where the government is spending my tax dollars.
SPEAKER 07 :
True. True. Good point.
SPEAKER 11 :
So what do I do? Stop paying taxes? Good point.
SPEAKER 07 :
It's like this whole, not that I want to get down on a rabbit trail and we've got to take a break, but it's like this whole sovereign citizen nonsense. I saw a license plate the other day, I think it was on Facebook, where Somebody had, you know, a sovereign citizen, actual steel license plate that essentially said that, you know, they're sovereign and they're not subject to any of the regulations. You know, they're they're traveling. They're not driving all that nonsense, by the way. And I've talked to plenty of attorneys on that. And it is utter nonsense, because at the end of the day, if you don't handle that correctly after being pulled over, you're probably going to the clink.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, I mean, you could probably fight it, but how much are you willing, money and time, how much are you willing to spend to fight it?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, and that one, unfortunately, has been shot down in court so many times that, you know, those of you that believe in that sovereign citizenship nonsense, good luck with that one.
SPEAKER 11 :
And here's the best thing you can do, John. If you really have a problem with it, look up a state such as, like, Wyoming. or, you know, somewhere that, you know, they have a lot more liberties, they're more gun-friendly, and go there. Yeah, go move.
SPEAKER 07 :
Great point. No, great point. Can't argue that. All right, let's take a break. We're going to come back, talk about some things to get ready when it comes to winter, whether it be your home, your vehicle, you name it. We've got some things there we want to discuss. We'll come right back. Again, Ready Radio, it's ready-radio.com. Bill's website, prep, the number two, prep2protectco.com. We'll be right back. Ready Radio, KLZ 560.
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All right, we are back. Ready Radio, KLZ 560. Again, website ready-radio.com. All right, Bill, let's continue on. And I know we spent quite a bit of time recapping last week, but important stuff. And the only reason is because I got some text messages in on that, and I feel like when I do, and that's the pulse of what's going on, and we've got people commenting on it, I feel like it's a time to address those things. And again, all of you listening, I'm not telling you what to do or not do. You guys are... You know, grown adults, you do whatever you feel like you need to do. Just remember every decision has a consequence. Right, Bill?
SPEAKER 03 :
Right.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yep, that's it. That's all I'm saying. So, okay, let's get into prepping for winter. And given the fact that we're heading down that path, and I might even continue some of this on into my show tomorrow on Drive Radio, let's start on the vehicle side. I don't know that we'll get much further than that today anyways, given we've only got about a half an hour left. So give us some basic things that you feel, and I'll add to this as well, some basic things you feel like people this time of the year, I mean, some things should be in a vehicle at all times, but especially in winter, what are some things folks should have in their vehicle?
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, especially this time of year, fall, where it could be 70, 80 during the day, and then once the sun goes down, drop down to the 40s. I think that's something that, you know, me personally, I tend to forget. You know, you leave the house, you're like, oh, it's really nice out, and then you're out for the rest of the day or whatever, and then You know, you're getting 5 o'clock, 6 o'clock, and all of a sudden it's like, oh, it's getting chilly, and I don't have a jacket with me. So, you know, one thing that I would definitely keep in the car is, you know, a lightweight jacket, maybe one of those puffers. You know, you could buy one of those puffers for 20-some bucks on Amazon that actually pack down, fold up into a nice little jacket. tight compartment there and just have that on hand. Now, the problem is, is when you get home and you wear that jacket and take it off and you're like, oh, I didn't get back to the car. So that's that's tends to be my problem is. I'll do that. I'll keep an umbrella in there. I'll have some wool socks. These are the kind of things I just keep in there all the time anyway. Some wool socks. I'll have a hat, whether it's a stocking hat or a knit hat or whatever they're called these days, beanies or whatever they're called. I'll have those in there. You know, one thing that I also do, especially around this time of year, and, you know, historically, we have had snow by now, you know, in years past. True, true. In mid-October, we had snow before.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, we can have, yeah, sure.
SPEAKER 11 :
You know, I go to, you know, Walmart or whatever it is, and they have, like, the gallon-size kitty litter that you can buy in just a little gallon-size jug. Yeah, yeah. And I'll throw one of those in the car because those can help. You know, you get the fall and the spring snows that turn into slush, and it just gets really slick and hard to navigate. So I'll usually have a jug of kitty litter, you know, in all of my cars. I'll have some of those collapsible shovels in there. You know, when we talk about these things, John, remember, you know, you can go to the extreme of, oh, my gosh, you know, I don't got the trunk space for all the stuff you're talking about. But, you know, you've got to look at your own situation.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, and really quick, to your point, and this is where you're right, and in some cases, depending upon what you're driving, and I've had different vehicles throughout the course of my life, my driving career, I guess you could say, Bill, where some vehicles you have a little more room than others, and The downside, the ones that have more room, is you just pack it in with more stuff. You tend to not be quite as, how should I say, thoughtful in those particular things that you're carrying. But, folks, let me tell you what. There's a lot more room in your vehicle than you probably think. Here's the key. Keep it clean in the first place. In other words, keep all of your other stuff clean. to a minimum, trash bags, things like that, you know, keep things clean. And remember, you've got places that are under seats, behind seats, things along those lines. So don't just think that, well, I really don't have any room in my trunk. Okay, well, do you have any other places? For example, that collapsible shovel that Bill just mentioned, most of those are short enough they would fit underneath the seat of most vehicles.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, and usually around this time of year, Costco starts carrying a lot of this stuff.
SPEAKER 07 :
Correct.
SPEAKER 11 :
I don't know if you're Costco shoppers or not. They do. They come in two packs, actually.
SPEAKER 07 :
They do, and I always, usually this time of the year, even for my guys, I'll buy a couple of two packs and throw in different trucks because nothing worse than getting stuck and all you needed was a little bit of a shovel to get out, and that's all you need, and now you don't have one.
SPEAKER 11 :
Right, and you're not digging a trench with it, you know.
SPEAKER 07 :
No, you're just trying to clean out away from the tires and stuff to where if you can get a little bit of traction, off you go.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, and then you can throw in a little bit of that kitty litter or whatever, you know. Hey, you're good, you know. I also keep, you know, kind of debate between the two, whether, you know, you have a toe strap or you have a toe rope. You know, I tend to like the rope a little bit.
SPEAKER 07 :
It doesn't matter. I mean, really. And somebody used to sell those for years and years. Here's the reality, folks. As long as you buy a high quality of either, it's personal preference. It's like, do I drive a Chevy or do I drive a Ford? Because at the end of the day, they will both do the same thing as long as you buy a good strap. What I mean by that is you can't buy... a small inch and a half strap that's rated for 10,000 pounds and expect to get even a small car pulled out because by the time that vehicle is weighted down in the snow, has other resistance against it, that's not enough strap. If you buy a solid 25,000 or 30,000 pound strap, you won't have any problems. And the reason I know that, Bill, for years and years and years, we didn't have rope. All we had were those. That's all I sold, and they did just fine.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah. And what I was referring to, John, is I tend to think I could have more other uses for a rope other than just towing. True. And that's what I would mean by do I carry the rope or the strap? I mean, that's my only thinking with that. But there's also...
SPEAKER 07 :
I want to add one more thing to that, so folks, because this is really important. Never, ever, ever buy a strap with hooks built onto it. Those are cheap. They're chintzy. Those hooks will break. They'll fly through the windshield. They can actually kill people. At the end of the day, never buy a strap. And I'll explain how you hook things up if you don't have hooks, but you never buy any of those, Bill, with hooks on them.
SPEAKER 11 :
Right, and that's what I was trying to say there was you look for attachment points.
SPEAKER 07 :
That's right.
SPEAKER 11 :
Whether it's a little – they've got those straps that are meant just for the attachment point. And what I mean by attachment point is I'm attaching the rope to this device, which attaches to the frame of my car. Um, and they've got different ones, you know, shorter straps, if you will, they're in like the figure eight pattern or whatever they are.
SPEAKER 07 :
And the other thing too is, uh, for a lot of you listening, the other thing is in clevises are cheap. That's what they're called. They're fairly good size. Uh, most of these straps, you can take even just the, the round end of the strap, the rope, whatever, put that onto an attachment point, use the clevis to make all that happen. and off you go, and it really is handy to do that. The other thing to be really careful of, and a lot of guys will do it, all the straps have the big U at the end of it, and a lot of guys will have a trailer ball on a truck or something along those lines, and the easiest thing to do is just throw that thing over the trailer ball. Well, the problem with that, Bill, is it can slip off the trailer ball, and again, once that rope gets to slinging, it can become a really dangerous object at that point, so be careful if you just throw that over a trailer ball.
SPEAKER 11 :
Right, you need to learn that. And, you know, I'd add to that, too, is learn a couple really good knots. Like, if you don't know how to tie a bowline knot, you need to look that up, and that knot needs to be one of your go-to knots. You know, you could tie that with a rope. I could tie that with a strap. I could tie it with all kinds of different things. It's a great knot that you can back back out of if you need to, but it doesn't give. I mean, I've used that knot for years, the bowler knot.
SPEAKER 07 :
One other thing I'm going to add to the straps for those of you listening and some of you are going to think, why would I need that even in a car? But, Bill, they come in so handy at times, and that is just in these. You don't have to spend a lot of money. I ordered a few of these for our trucks even this morning on Amazon. You can buy a... I believe it's an eight-pack on Amazon for $25, and that's just the inch-and-a-quarter ratchet straps, which they come in handy for. No, you're not going to tow your car out of a ditch. But, Bill, there's other times where you just might need to secure something, or you do have to spend the night, and you've got a tarp, and now you've got the ability with the ratchet straps to make yourself a little shelter and do some other things that you wouldn't otherwise be able to do. They just come in really handy and take up very little space.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, remember the multifunction? You know, I can use this. I mean, there's been many times where you run up to the store and you're like, oh, if I had a strap, I could strap this down. Maybe the box doesn't quite fit in your trunk quite well, and you've got to leave your trunk open, whatever, you know. And here's the other thing, too, John. You know, yeah, you might not ever use a tow strap, but you know what? You might be the good Samaritan, and you might see somebody stuck in a parking lot, and you You might, I mean, we had that happen at church one year where we had somebody stuck and everybody's out there trying to push the person out. And I'm like, hang on, guys, I got a rope. I got a rope right here in my truck. And we hooked that on and pulled her right out, you know, so I didn't use that for myself, but I used that for somebody else.
SPEAKER 07 :
I think, Bill, you'll find yourself, and for me anyways, you typically use that to pull other people out far more than you do yourself. Yeah.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, or just allowing them to use your tool. Maybe somebody else is doing the pulling. It's not your car that's pulling, but there's a truck there or whatever, and they pull out the ratchet strap and it snaps, and they're like, oh, crud. In fact, that was I've been in that situation, too, where somebody's tried to pull somebody out with a ratchet strap, and they're like, yeah, the ratchet strap broke. Of course it did.
SPEAKER 07 :
It's only rated for a few hundred pounds, not thousands of pounds.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, that's a good one.
SPEAKER 07 :
I like the whole strap thing. The biggest thing there, Bill, is that just continues to keep you on your way. Now, I'm going to really quick add this in, because a lot of people go to the high country, and we'll get into tires and some of that stuff here momentarily as well, but for For those of you that are listening, maybe you're new to our area, maybe you're big skiers. I met some folks the other day, Bill, where they're new to the area, but they're big skiers, and they moved out here from Florida, and that's all fine and dandy. But this isn't Florida. And what we do even on our highways in winter, if you're going up skiing and they've shut the road down or something along those lines, you always hear those stories of somebody trying to go around or they take the back road or whatever the case may be, and they think they can get there that way. And they end up being far more stuck than if they would have just sat and waited out. They may even have to wait overnight on the freeway. But the thing about being collectively there with everybody else on the freeway is you're collectively there with everybody else.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, help is going to come more to that group of people than you being isolated off in a red road or something that nobody knows where you are. Correct. So stick together.
SPEAKER 07 :
It's sort of like that old, you know, Bill, when you're lost in the wilderness, best thing to do is sit down and wait for somebody to come to you because continuing to walk just makes it worse. That's sort of that similar situation in regard to what we just talked about with the car.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, you're lost and you get more lost.
SPEAKER 07 :
Exactly. And again, we hear these stories every single winter, Bill, whether it's in Colorado or other places where somebody decided, hey, I'll go off on my own. I'll find a shortcut. I'll still make it where I need to go. And they end up in the middle of nowhere. And in some cases, it ends very badly.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, yeah, right. Going back to the ratchet straps, John, here's another consideration, right? If you buy the bright orange ones, well, guess what? I can use that for signaling, too, if I need to. So, again, I'm using that one device for multiple things. You know, maybe I'm tying that, you know, strap to the radio antenna or something. I mean, when we had the the big bomb cyclone that hit out here in Elizabeth a couple of years back, you know, cars were buried and the only thing sticking up was their antenna. Good point. Little, little flag up on there.
SPEAKER 07 :
great point. And again, those things are so cheap that even if you had to help others and you took a, again, a pack of those, an eight pack, I didn't do the math on this, but an eight-pack is $25.50 or something. So, Bill, we've got those things down to where, you know, what are they, a couple bucks a piece at the end of the day? They're not that much. And so, regardless, even if you have to take one of those and you're cutting it up with your knife that you should always have with you, by the way, to do what you just talked about, one of those straps would identify multiple cars.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yep. Yeah. And you can leave a trail or you could do, even if you're calling a tow truck or you're calling emergency services, Hey, I've got, I've got an orange flag on my antenna. You know, it just, it just helps get them there faster and find exactly. And on that note, I sent you a link to those, those, um, led flares. you know, that you can, I don't know if you had a chance to look at those.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, I did, yes. I actually carry those in my truck. When you sent me that, I'm like, yep, I have those. I know exactly what you're talking about. That's something I keep in my truck all the time.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, those are good, you know, to have out so you can put that out. Even if you're at night, no matter what season it is, you've got to change a tire. You know, on the side of the road, throw those things out because we've got so many distracted drivers now. Anything that we could try to do to get some type of attention drawn to us is better than nothing, you know.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, because for those of you listening, what Bill's talking about is these are small little round kind of puck devices that go together and you can place them all around the vehicle and you can set them to where it's a... A steady light, a flashing light, all sorts of ways to actually attract attention to you. And not that flares aren't bad, but the problem with flares, Bill, is if they get a little wet or soggy and they may light, they may not. These, you flick a switch and off you go.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, and maybe you have both, right? Redundancy. You have a couple flares in there, and you have a bag of these. I mean, again, the flares aren't going to take up much space at all.
SPEAKER 07 :
And, again, one thing else I was going to say, Bill, thanks for the reminder, because you just reminded me of this, talking about space. For those of you that have cars or even SUVs, and you think, man, I just don't have this much space, guys. Actually, you have more space for some of this stuff than what you think. Lift up, for example, most of you with SUVs have an area. It's not a trunk because it's in the back of your storage area, but you've got a platform that you raise up, and that's where the tire is. And in most cases, there is a lot of room in that cavity where you could put some of the things we're even talking about around the spare tire. Flares, whether they're the LEDs or regular flares, the ratchet straps, a blanket. Bill, you could put half a dozen items in that particular area and still get the lid shut with no problem.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, actually, I have a Chevy Bolt, which is a tiny car, and it has two compartments in the back underneath, and I forget about them all the time. I'm like, oh, yeah, there's a huge compartment underneath this rug there. You know, my Tacoma, I actually don't have much room in my Tacoma.
SPEAKER 07 :
No, they're tight. It's tight on space. Four-door midsize trucks, which that is. And I drove a Colorado for years and years. And, Bill, it wasn't any different. It was really tight in trying to configure enough stuff. So what I ended up doing is, you know, you have the old, you know, milk crate that you bungee cord into the back or bolt down or do whatever you want to. And a lot of stuff went inside of that because you didn't have enough room in the cab.
SPEAKER 11 :
Right, you just throw it in the back. And most people now either have a Rhino lid or a topper or something that a lot of that stuff is good anyway back there. It's not getting wet and stuff. I lined my Tacoma with MOLLE panels in the back. and I have a gas can, and I have a water jug, and I have my shovel and all that stuff attached to the side, if you will, the bed on the molly. You know, because I still, the reason I have a truck is because I want to haul stuff, right? I mean, I go up and buy boards or whatever, and, you know, putting a whole shell on there kind of takes that away, John. You kind of lose a little bit of your hauling capacity, if you will. You do. So, you know, it's a pro and a con there with that.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, one thing, and we should have mentioned this to start with, guys, but got to make sure you've got light. So you need a flashlight for sure, if not a couple. I usually have a couple in my vehicles outside of what you even already have on your phone, but having a good flashlight. And I usually buy the ones now that are all USB chargeable because if you've got power in the car, you can get power to the flashlight pretty easily. So that one's kind of cut and dried. And then don't forget, I know we talk about this a lot, but inside of the vehicle, something to start a fire with. And for those of you listening now, some of you that are really handy and have access to even the car battery and so on, you know what? You could have something as simple as just a roll of steel wool that you go out underneath the hood and you touch that from one post to the other. Voila, you've got fire. Okay, that's great. As long as the battery's got juice, you could do that. But, Bill, something where you can start a fire if need be.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, I always, I mean, I have a lighter with me in my pocket, and it's interesting because whenever I pull that out, people are like, oh, I didn't know you smoked. Yeah, I don't. I've never have, never tried it, never did anything. But I use that stinking lighter a lot. I usually use it to get threads on my clothes or to seal off a piece of rope that I've cut or whatever. I can't believe, John, how many times I actually use that.
SPEAKER 07 :
And as you know, Bill, cars don't have lighters anymore.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, they don't. I remember, shoot, every car used to have that.
SPEAKER 07 :
They used to.
SPEAKER 11 :
Push that button in there. You know, John, they make electronic lighters now.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 11 :
My daughter had one at my grandson's birthday party, and it's USB chargeable, and she lit the candles with this thing. I carry one with me.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I carry one in my briefcase with my laptop and stuff. It's so small and easy, Bill, that I carry that with me all the time. That one's a piece of cake.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, I need to get one of those and play with it.
SPEAKER 07 :
And they're not expensive. For those of you listening, that's a device you can buy for, I don't know, $10, $12. They're just not much money at all, Bill. They're easy. Yeah, that's nice.
SPEAKER 11 :
So, yeah, I would get a couple of those. And, you know, you throw a couple of tea candles in there. Oh, candles are a great idea.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 11 :
If you threw that on your dashboard, I mean, that's not going to create a lot of heat, but, you know.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, great idea.
SPEAKER 11 :
It's a little something if you need to.
SPEAKER 07 :
I did a test one time here on air, been a while ago, where we actually took the, it has to be not water-based, but you can take oil-based tuna, throw that in your car, have a little bit of string with you in a match, of course, and literally, Bill, you can take and poke just a teeny hole, take your pocket knife, you know, poke a teeny hole in the top of that tuna can, thread that string down in there, light it, and that thing will burn forever.
SPEAKER 11 :
hours and then when you're done you got something to eat yeah yeah that works well too i mean that i was when i was texting you my my list of stuff you know i kind of have this debate in my mind about water this time of year because you know they freeze and then if it's a full container you know it blows up the container and you know so it's like i don't tend to carry too much water in my car and the In the winter, I do in the summer, but in the winter, I tend to pull it out just because what good is a block of ice going to do to me? It's not.
SPEAKER 07 :
I got really quick. I got Eric on where to store stuff. Eric, go ahead, man. We got some time. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, I was listening. Something like in my Toyota Highlander and I think one of my other cars, When you open the rear hatch, you've got those little plastic panels for when you go to change light bulbs.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, good point. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Great.
SPEAKER 08 :
Those cavities that are in there in the fenders. Yeah, I'm able to get a couple of small packages in there also.
SPEAKER 07 :
Great idea.
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And then, you know, you were talking about heating. I would be careful with, like, the tuna thing because you are producing carbon monoxide. Isopropyl alcohol burners do not produce the same carbon monoxide. It's got to be isopropyl, not one of the other alcohols or other fuel types, oil types.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right, right. Yeah, and even the same thing with the candle. If you're doing any of those, you've got to make sure you're cracking a window, getting some oxygen in, of course. Absolutely, Eric.
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Yeah, and I was one of the people driving from... my work all the way out towards southeast of Calhoun. I'm going through the blizzard last spring. I texted you during it, John. Yeah, we had lots of communication going on while you were stuck there. Yeah, I was able to get so far, but then what I ran into was the snowdrift coming off of somebody's truck. that had gone off road and it drifted downwind from the truck. And I was stuck in that, you know, until sometime in the morning and some volunteers were coming through and they pulled me out backwards and it pulled the, pulled the cover off my front bumper. I still need to repair that. But, um, you know, I had enough extra coats and other things and had enough fuel where periodically started up, re-warm up, and had spare flashlights, things like that. But I, because I'm moving houses, I pulled my main winter kit out. And so I did not have the extra, you know, the, what is it? They're like a six foot long tubular reflective material sleeping bag. And I didn't have, A couple of other things. And then I figured out, you know, I actually, I prefer to keep more tape in there because where the wind was infiltrating was coming through the speakers in the door.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sure, sure.
SPEAKER 08 :
Getting into the door panel and then blasting my feet through the speakers.
SPEAKER 07 :
Ah, good one. You got to put that down. Good one.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yep. Just little things like that that I found out in that storm. And then... You know, one of the things I generally keep in a kit are those, you know, they're ice spikes, but they're the type that you put onto your existing shoes.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
Right.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right. Yep. Strap them on.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yep. Yep. Those weren't there. What was I wearing? Cowboy boots. No traction whatsoever. So even when I went to get out of the car to make sure the tailpipe was clear, I had no traction. You know, whereas if I'd still had those in there, I could have gotten out on that.
SPEAKER 07 :
That's a great point. Yeah, great point. No, those are good. No, Eric, I'm going to run to John. But, no, I appreciate that. We're going to continue this conversation on the next week as well, so never fear. We'll be back talking more about it because we're close on time. But, John, I've got a few minutes. Go ahead. I've got two minutes.
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All right, John, first thing you said, you said flashlights many times. You can get a USB rechargeable headlamp, which is fantastic. Way better than a flashlight because now you have two free hands.
SPEAKER 05 :
True.
SPEAKER 10 :
So there's a couple of different brands out there, but one of the places I found for stuff like that are outdoor stores because, you know, backpacking, we use a headlamp, so we have two free hands.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right, right, right.
SPEAKER 10 :
So if you go to, like, a Sierra trading post, Just for instance, I think they call themselves Sierra now. They have a lot of seconds that work great that you can throw in the car. USB rechargeable. The ones I have also, you can pull the battery pack out and put three AAAs in it.
SPEAKER 07 :
Got it.
SPEAKER 10 :
So that's a good thing.
SPEAKER 07 :
Got it.
SPEAKER 10 :
The other thing with Bill, Bill, you gave your military experience away when you said you used your lighter to get the threads off your uniforms.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, we learned that. Good one.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yep, we all learned that in dating.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yep, good one. Good one, John.
SPEAKER 03 :
Hey, John, thanks for the tip.
SPEAKER 07 :
No, I appreciate it, John. All right, we've got about a minute left. Bill, what do you want to add? We'll continue this next week because there's a lot more still to cover, but what else do you want to close with?
SPEAKER 11 :
I want to talk about the headlamp thing. It's a great idea that John talked about, but one thing that, you know, in the self-defense context or even in the, you know, escape and evasion context of a headlamp, you know, I have both, okay, or you have a flashlight that, like the Olight Mini Warrior that I carry, if you're wearing a ball cap or whatever, the clip can go onto the bill. because here's the deal, even though I'm hands-free, wherever I look, I'm sending that light, right? And so, you know, if I'm trying to keep night vision or whatever, and I look at you, and I've got that headlamp, I just flashed you, you know, so I go back and forth on the headlamp versus the handheld, you know, and at the end of the day, if you have both, or you have a scenario to go either way, I like that option, but I don't want to be exclusive one or the other. Plus, you know, if I got a you know, depending on what I got on my head, you know, that headlamp may or may not be applicable to go around my head or whatever. So I just, you know... Yeah, that's a great point.
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Great point. All right, Bill, I'll let you go. We'll talk more next week. Thank you very much. And, again, you can find Bill on his website, prep2protectco.com. Our website, ready-radio, and a lot of the things, .com, I should say, and a lot of the things that we've talked about today are listed on our website as well. We keep adding to that as we go. We'll be right back, though. Ready Radio, KLZ 560.
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All right, closing out this hour of Ready Radio. One thing I want to add to the list, we'll continue this on next week, but trash bags. That sounds really simplistic. And by the way, more than one. I would stick, and Eric had a great idea on where you could stick some of these sorts of things. You could put trash bags and stuff them in almost any type of cavity in the vehicle that you've got. And I would say have more than even one. Have three or four. They come in handy for all sorts of things from something to kneel on if you're changing a tire. to putting over yourself if it's really raining. Bill said an umbrella, but if you're trying to change a tire, umbrellas get kind of cumbersome because you don't have your hands free. Trash bags come in handy for all sorts of things along those lines. That's something else that I would stick in the car. We'll continue this on in week two, so if you're listening to a replay, make sure you get the second part of this show as well and go to ready-radio.com for that. Again, Ready Radio, KLZ 560.
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It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man.
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That's right. It's time for Florida Man on the Dana Show. D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio and X on Twitter. Great ways to stay connected to her. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. Radio Craig C. If you want to follow me and what I occasionally say about the New York Yankees, that's totally fine. I get in on that, too. Several different Florida Man stories, some of them amazing. This one horrific, but also ridiculously Florida. A couple in Florida is facing charges after they left their 16-year-old son on the side of the road. They said they didn't want him anymore. At 16 years old, some parents might start to get frustrated with the young man, son especially, but I don't know, any teenager might be annoying. The right approach is not to leave them on the side of the road and try to drive away. That's not going to work out. Uniquely Florida about this story, they left him with a wad of cash and a bag of handguns. They're like, here you go, son. You're 16. You're an adult, according to us in Florida. So here's a wad of cash. And here's just a bag of an assortment of handguns. We don't know why you need so many. And in such a random thing, like not even in a box, man, like at least put them in a little safe or something. But now they just have them all in a bag and they're handing them to this guy. I have audio of Josh Taylor, who's the chief of staff for the North Port Police Department, talking about the ridiculousness of this story.
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The story was these people kicked him out of the car and gave him two bags. And once, through the course of that investigation, talking with him, we were able to figure out what was in those bags. There was the loaded weapons, and I believe there was a magazine as well. The report indicates that the child was handed these bags and said, you're the chosen one, good luck. So that's all.
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I got to be honest, a part of me would be a little bit motivated if someone handed me a bag of handguns and said I was the chosen one. But that's probably the wrong thing to take from this. And I'm a gun guy. I'm definitely very happy with the guns that I have right now. Of course, I don't think you could fill in on this show and not be a pro-gun person because Dana is so prolifically awesome in her own discussion and opinion of guns in her history and understanding the very important value of the Second Amendment. But no, teenager, side of the road, bag of handguns, probably not a good move. Uniquely Florida, though. A Florida man robbed $7,000 worth of lottery scratch-off tickets from a convenience store. So he goes in, he demands the scratchers, he leaves. Now, two things he did were wrong. The first one is he didn't know how to play scratcher tickets the pro way, which you don't scratch any of them. You just find your local grocery store or something and you scan them. That way you don't have to do anything other than scan to see if you won. He didn't do that part. He actually played all $7,000 of these tickets. Then he tried to bring the winning tickets back to the same convenience store that he stole them from. That's uniquely Florida. That's like, hey, bygones be bygones. Today's a new day. What I did yesterday doesn't count anymore. I'm here to, you know, take my sweet winnings from the stuff I stole from you the other day. That gets you arrested. That's usually not a good move. Another Florida man that made the news was naked and chasing Walmart workers inside a Walmart and in the parking lot of a Walmart. He was then found later in the wooded area near the Walmart, agitated and paranoid. Every part of that story 100% checks out in the world of Florida. First thing first, you show up at a Walmart and there's a naked guy. You probably think to yourself, man, there's a lot of other Walmarts. that I can go to. I don't know why I'm staying here. But if you're the employees, you're stuck dealing with it, calling the authorities. The naked dude is harassing people. I don't know if any of it was sexual in nature or if the naked thing is just an accident. That's always a confusion of mine. I always want to ask the criminal, and it's probably not the right way to go about it, but I can't help it. When nudity got into the equation for them, like the person who's arrested on the side of the road, traffic ticket, and then all of a sudden they're naked. Like, when did they decide that they were taking their clothes off? Was it an in the moment thing? I was this a premeditated nakedness that came about from like, you know, planning. If I ever get pulled over, I know it'll make the situation go away. I'll just get naked. But that feels like a byproduct and a question because I don't think in my own life I will ever be, you know, naked accidentally. I'm pretty sure I won't ever be naked accidentally. And in a situation like this. We're like, when you're arrested, you kind of want them to ignore it. You're like, and sir, you're naked. You're like, why does that matter? Why can't I be naked all the time? That's how these people seem to behave. And that is a problem. And then finally, one last Florida man story. A Florida guy stole a woman's purse. He found out that she had a one-month-old kitten inside the purse instead of any valuable stuff, which is just a weird thing to do. It's not a purse puppy. Dogs are better than cats, by the way, even if this kitten was probably adorable at one month. But you open up the purse, you've stolen the thing, and then you wind up, you have a brand new pet. That's a unique way for, say, adoption centers to try to get more of their pets adopted. Just put them in purses and leave them out on the side of the road and see if people say that doesn't sound right. Don't do that. Don't write your hate letters to me. Please, PETA, don't say anything to us. I'm kidding. But anyway, maybe it's a nice adoption thing. Put the puppy in the purse, hold the purse out and be like, look, you get a dog in a purse. And maybe that way we get more pets adopted. That's fine with me. And apparently a thing in Florida. All right. Well, sort of. Quick break. A lot more. Greg Collins filling in on the Dana Show.
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This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. DLash, DanaLashRadio and X on Twitter. Great ways to stay connected to her and everything's going on in the world of Dana. And she will be back on Monday. Let's do this. A few things. So first, Speaker Mike Johnson was furious that it's very likely that Democrats are trying to hold out in any sort of government shutdown until No Kings Day, which is a Antifa protest day, October 18th, in which a rally is supposed to happen in New York City or excuse me, in Washington, D.C., as well as New York City and other places where they protest no kings, which we don't have. By the way, we successfully already have no kings. You can all just go home. It's totally fine. But here's Mike Johnson saying that the belief is the Democrats are just waiting to keep the government shut down until that day because they like the optics of the government being shut down during no king's day, which is part of the reason that so many people hate politicians and hate the political system is this is easily believable. as a thing that Democrats could be doing just because they want to say out loud, even though it's their fault, that it's horrible that Trump is doing whatever they blame Trump for doing. Here we go.
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A very patient guy, but I have had it with these people. They're playing games with real people's lives. The theory we have right now, they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18th on the National Mall. It's all the pro Hamas wing and the you know, the the Antifa people, they're all coming out. Some of the House Democrats are selling T-shirts for the event. And it's it's it's being told to us that they won't be able to reopen the government until after that rally because they can't face their rabid base. I mean, this is this is serious business hurting real people. Yeah. And I just I'm beyond words. I can't believe they're actually doing this.
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So two things I want to say in reaction to this. First, and I'm owning this and you don't care. I don't know why I'm even holding my feet to the fire because no one who listens to shows like this where I'm just a fill-in guy even remembers probably what I say. But when Republicans threaten to shut the government down, my reaction is often go ahead. I don't care. It's not going to impact my life all that much. It'll reopen in a certain amount of weeks after it shuts down. The only thing I ever care about is military men and women getting a paycheck still, which doesn't happen, even if the left will claim it does. You actually have to pass certain laws to make sure that the military individuals keep getting paid. It's ridiculous that the politicians get paid if they shut the government down. They don't actually get their checks stopped, but the military individuals who are serving our country do. That's insane. That's the only thing I ever really care about. Other than that, shut the government down. Who cares? In all honesty, use it as a catalyst to fire a bunch of people we don't need and clean up the bureaucracy that is our federal government. And I'd be thrilled. So when that is the stance, if it's Republicans in charge, I keep the same stance when Democrats are in charge, even as Mike Johnson says that people are actually being hurt because how much they care about those people seems to ebb and flow with what side of the aisle they're on. But as I say that, there are aspects to this. that I do think are interesting because of what you're selling more so than what you're doing. And what I mean by that is Democrats often sell that they're the party that cares more. I'm probably going to be a broken record about this today because so many stories feel like they lean into this narrative. Democrats tell you they're the good guys. They embolden their supporters to feel as though that they're good people and the people that they disagree with vehemently and maybe violently on the right are actually bad, horrible people. They're sexists and racists and, you know, everything else is. And they're they're the worst kind of individuals that exist in the bucket of deplorables, a version of a thing. And so they empower their side of the aisle to feel this way. And then when they play these political games and hurt the lives of people that they claim they care about, that hypocrisy does matter. Even if I don't say that to me, I'm as worried about the government being turned on tomorrow when it's turned off today. And that came out weird. I think I probably should have phrased that differently. But nonetheless, like it doesn't really impact my life. It probably won't impact your life that much unless you work for them directly. But nonetheless, like I think that that is interesting that what they're selling becomes so obviously untrue.
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Let's do a quick five on the Dana Show. DLash, DanaLashRadio, and X on Twitter. Great ways to stay connected to her. My name is Craig Collins. Radio Craig C. If you want to see me be sad about the Yankees being terrible this year, although now I won't tweet about them for several months. All right. Amazon's MGM will release the Melania Trump documentary. This was before the big news that she ushered in a deal with Vladimir Putin that will reunite children that are displaced in Ukraine because of the war there. This documentary had nothing to do with that. It was the lead up to Trump actually being inaugurated as the president of the United States after he was almost assassinated and killed. And I don't know why I said and killed. Assassinated means killed. But turned his head and miraculously survived. A unique story about a woman who is married to someone who, you know, miraculously is alive today. And yet a lot of people will hate the fact that it exists. MGM will be putting that out in January, I think for a couple days in theaters at least. We'll see how successful it is, we'll see how much people talk about it, but interesting nonetheless, and of course crapped on by mainstream media. Amel Gibson's Passion of the Christ has a sequel that's coming out. I am a Catholic, I am a Christian, of course. I think it's weird that the Passion of the Christ has a sequel, even if it's called The Resurrection of the Christ, and that story is interesting. That's a good story to tell in a movie theater somewhere. It's just odd. This has been a long-sitting, gestating potential movie that eventually will actually happen. It's going to have an all-new cast. They're recasting all the roles. I guess Jim Caviezel didn't want to play Jesus again, or I don't know what happened there. But nonetheless, just odd. Hollywood makes a lot of sequels. The Passion of the Christ is one of those movies that you didn't necessarily think would have a sequel coming out about it. I'm saying this as respectfully as I can, again, because I'm a Catholic person. I'm not making fun of it. I just think it's odd as a news story. All right. Other things out there. Area 51 crash mystery deepens as the FBI has joined investigations into tampering into the site. For anything you say that isn't happening that you don't want or that you don't like in the world of the FBI, like we didn't get enough information here or there. More alien stuff I'm always fine with. I don't think it's a distraction. People often say that Area 51 and alien stuff comes out when they want to distract you and push you away from some other story that you might pay attention to that is more valuable or more pressing in our society today. I can do both. I think that you can do both. I think we can all do both. I think when it comes to aliens and aliens specifically, I can pay attention to what the right hand is doing while also paying attention to what the left hand is doing. That is my promise to you. And that is my promise to anyone out there that we can all do this together. And then finally, one last quick story. Political bumper stickers are making people angrier in traffic instances. I guess road rage is going off the charts. If someone does something stupid in a vehicle and they have a giant Harris Walls bumper sticker, the odds of you getting mad go up. And the same is true for any of those idiots who see the Trump sticker on the back of your car. I just find that funny. I don't think that's as bad of a thing as people say it is. And if your car is plastered with political bumper stickers, I think you kind of understand that you might be making some people mad every single day all the time. And you don't seem to care if someone gets into a fit of additional road rage because you cut them off like a moron and you have a ton of stickers all over the back of your car. I think that's kind of a non-you thing, more so an on-them thing. Freedom of speech and everything, but you're asking for trouble, I believe, in that situation, so I'm not surprised it happens. All right, quick break. A lot more. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show. This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A whole lot of stuff out there to talk about. DLash, DanaLashRadio and X on Twitter. Great ways to stay connected. This is a Democratic politician doing terrible in a debate, which we've seen time and again. But this is uniquely awesome, especially considering one of the people she's trying to stand with. Seems to be a person who's unapologetically totally fine with political violence. But let's play some audio and then we'll break this down a little bit more. But once again, Democratic politicians swinging a mess in the world of back and forth debate. And even a moderator who was being called like a far right individual who definitely was not that going back and forth with these politicians. Just asking very basic, simple questions that the left leaning politician had no ability to answer.
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Thank you, Ms. Spanberger. I just I didn't hear an answer there on the endorsement issue. So I want to make sure. Will you continue to endorse Jay Jones to be the next attorney general of Virginia? And were you aware of these text messages before they released? You have 30 seconds.
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In fact, it appears that it was those who released the text messages and held them for years. So the public was unaware who had knowledge of these text messages. What did you do about it? I learned of these text messages the day that they came out.
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Okay, look. I got to tell you something, and I got to be as honest as possible as I can in this and shoot the messenger if you want to. I'm a white guy about to be 40 at the end of this month. Literally on Halloween, I turned 40 years old. This white female politician, Spanberger, is running against a black female politician. The black female is the Republican. The white female is the Democrat. I might surprise some people with how that goes, but I love the attitude. That comes out of the opponent as she's saying, when did you know and what did you do? I want to play that part again because it's so good. And it's the kind of thing that you might attribute to, you know, a certain race, a certain attitude, a certain way of speaking, any of that stuff. The left would also celebrate if it was someone on their side of the aisle interjecting like this in this way. Of course, they said that this politician was rude. How dare she try to say and do things the way that if it's a Democrat who is of the same, you know, racial or I guess the same sex, they might celebrate the version of I don't understand what's going on here. They used to call Kamala Harris Mamala and they used to pretend as though her confusion with Donald Trump and her willingness to show it was a great expression of who she is and something to be celebrated. Wonder why it doesn't happen here.
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In fact, it appears that it was those who released the text messages and held them for years. So the public was unaware who had knowledge of these text messages for many hours. What did you do about it? I learned of these text messages the day that they came out, and I denounced them as soon as I learned of them. She denounces murder. And importantly— At this point, as we move forward, the voters now have this information, information that was withheld for them, presumably for political reasons. But the voters now have the information.
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By the way, the moderator is also a black woman. So she's pushing back on Winsome Earl Sayers and the things that she is saying. I don't know if I guess the race card won't be played by anybody because of the makeup of the individuals on the stage. But I just I love this. And I think this is the kind of thing that if it were, you know, reversed parties the way we're expected, and it's a black female Democrat objecting to a white Republican woman or man in this way, I think that most media would be so thrilled with how this went down. They are not thrilled in how this went down because of how ridiculous it is. But the answer, by the way, is atrocious.
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It is up to voters to make an individual choice based on this information.
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Mr. Member, I understand what you're saying about the voters, but for you, do you still continue to endorse Jay Jones?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, we we asked you about you. We want you to give us an opinion. We don't want you to explain how the political system works in its most basic sense, as if that's an answer to this question. Are you still throwing your support behind someone who seems to be very happy with and even celebrating political violence just weeks after Charlie Kirk is murdered?
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15 seconds. Go ahead. We are all running our individual races. I believe my opponent has said that about her lieutenant governor nominee. And it's up to every person to make their own decision. I am running my race to serve Virginia.
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What is your decision?
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What do you think?
SPEAKER 09 :
And that is what I intend to do. Thank you, Ms. Spanberger. We just want to clarify, you know, what you're saying is that as of now, you still endorse Jay Jones as attorney general.
SPEAKER 10 :
I'm saying as of now, it's up to every voter to make their own individual decision. I am running for governor. I am accountable for the words that I say.
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I love it so much. We just want one moment. You know what would be funny? It would be funny to force these politicians to have to behave like this with an obvious question. And I don't mean one about politics. I mean, like, make a video where politicians are standing in line at an ice cream store. And one after another are being asked what flavor of ice cream they want. And they have to answer that question the same way they answer their political questions today. So Abigail Spanberger would be saying, look, it's up to everyone else inside this ice cream shop, what ice cream flavor they want, what they're going to buy when it's their turn to purchase. And then someone would look at this insane human and be like, yeah, but what do you want? What flavor do you want? You know, it's not my choice. It's everybody else's choice. It's just insane. And the only way that they get away with this sort of stuff is because in politics, these rules have applied for forever. But you should. You should apply whatever the version of back and forth question is to something that doesn't matter. Like pretend it's your wife asking you if you mowed the lawn, which is something that happens to me on occasion if the lawn has not been mowed. And it is definitely one of my jobs. And I'll never let her do it. As a man, I feel uniquely horrible if I look outside and see the missus mowing the lawn. I think that Nate Bargetzi makes a joke about that. And I don't know why that is, but it's been my job since I was a little kid. My mom made me lawnmow boy, and I've been lawnmow boy ever since. That also felt weird to say in those terms. But nonetheless, if that happened, and I had the unfortunate situation of having to deal with an Abigail Spanberger in that situation, the answer to is the lawn mowed would be like, well, other lawns in the area have been mowed based on the decision-making of the people inside those homes. And if they did or didn't mow the lawn, that was their decision. Yeah, but is your lawn mowed? You know what? I'm going to plead the fifth here.
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Craig Collins fills in on The Dana Show to unpack a striking story the media isn’t giving enough attention to: First Lady Melania Trump has quietly brokered a diplomatic deal with Vladimir Putin to reunite Ukrainian children displaced by war with their families. Eight children have already been returned in the last 24 hours—an unprecedented move by a first lady. Collins contrasts this real-world diplomatic achievement with the Nobel Peace Prize committee’s decision to honor a Venezuelan opposition figure in hiding, rather than recognize Trump’s track record of brokering peace deals. The show dives into the media reactions, Fox News comparisons to Eleanor Roosevelt, and how Trump’s foreign policy consistently defies conventional wisdom. Plus, Craig draws a personal parallel about responding to political bias without giving opponents the reaction they want.
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This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of stuff out there to talk about. It is amazing that one, President Trump did not get the Nobel Peace Prize and that it actually went to someone who's in hiding. I'll tell you why she's someone that's inspiring, but maybe not impacting the world as much as the leader of the United States is, as he's ushering in peace deal after peace deal. All of that is stuff that I'd like to get to, but before I do any of that, by the way, at DLash, at DanaLashRadio, on X, on Twitter, great ways to stay connected to her, great job that she and her team does on social media. You need to follow that stuff. At Radio Craig C, if you want an occasional Yankee tweet from me, which is much less interesting. But anyway, before I get to anything on all this stuff that I plan to talk about today, Melania Trump, the first lady, has ushered in a deal with Vladimir Putin that will help reunite children that have been displaced by the Ukrainian war with their families. This is uniquely a good thing. This is the kind of thing that Democrat, Republican, all sides of the aisle can put down any version of fighting and say, yes, we're supporters of this. This is great. Of course, they won't do it. Democrats hate Trump so much they can't at all say anything that happens is good if a Trump is involved. But let's hear from Melania as she made a big announcement today about something that actually is good in the world that matters and seems to, in and of itself, maybe be capable of being nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, if only it had happened a few days ago, so they could give it to Melania and not President Trump, instead of someone, again, who's in hiding in Venezuela. But I'll get to that. Here we go.
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...with each other for the benefit of all people involved in this war. My representative has been working directly with President Putin's team to ensure the safe reunification of children with their families between Russia and Ukraine. In fact, eight children have been rejoined with their families during the past 24 hours. Each child has lived in turmoil because of the war in Ukraine. Three were separated from their parents and displaced to the Russian Federation because of frontline fighting. The other five were separated from family members across borders because of the conflict. including one young girl who has now been reunited from Ukraine to Russia. I have learned a lot about this matter during the past three months. Russia has demonstrated a willingness to disclose objective and detailed information reflective for the current situation. The Russian Federation provided biographies and photographs of each child involved in this week's reunification, along with an overview of the social, medical and psychological services afforded to the Ukrainian children.
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Yeah, it was amazing. Amazing story. And again, the craziest part about this is that a whole lot of people in a whole lot of places will refuse to acknowledge the importance of this, the value behind something like this, and tell you that it's nothing or it's a lot of pomp and circumstance for something that would have happened anyway if Democrats were in charge, whatever the way to take away from it might be. But Melania Trump making a huge announcement, doing something that Fox News at least compared to, To another pretty important first lady out there in the world, let's hear some of that audio of their reaction after Melania makes the announcement that she brokered a deal with Vladimir Putin that would return children to their families.
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Melania Trump's announcement. This is huge for a first lady to be speaking with Vladimir Putin, who, by the way, under the Biden administration, could not do a deal with our president and somehow has managed to do this backdoor deal with the first lady of the United States.
SPEAKER 05 :
You'd have to go back to Eleanor Roosevelt to find a first lady who dealt with diplomacy and security issues like this. It's extraordinary. I think there's a connection between what we just heard with Melania Trump and what's happened in Gaza. This administration takes every conventional wisdom and breaks it over its knee. The conventional wisdom in the Middle East was you can't make peace unless you first make a Palestinian state. So Donald Trump comes along in 220 and gets the Abraham Accords. The conventional wisdom in Gaza was first you have to have a ceasefire for a little while and you get some of the hostages back. He turns it around. No, we're going to get all the hostages back first all at once. And then you're going to have a long ceasefire. And so this is the secret of the success of the administration in diplomacy is that they just don't accept the conventional wisdoms and they break them over their knees.
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They do whatever they want, and they do whatever they want in a good way, which is exactly what the people on the other side of the aisle will tell you is horrible and terrible. This is amazing, though. And again, I guess a weird way to couch this is in talking about how Trump didn't win the Nobel Peace Prize. And I think the reason... that the person who was chosen for the Nobel Peace Prize is who she is. She's someone who, again, is in hiding in Venezuela as a leader of the opposition party. Her name is Maria Corina Machado. She can't do much on a world stage beyond what she symbolizes. You know, she's a person who's alive. She's a person who's in hiding. She's a person who's barred from any sort of political position in the country she's in. And the reason for all that is, you know, people in positions of authoritative power. Now, that's an inspiring story. Is it worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize when you have another person who's in charge of a very important country on a world stage ushering in peace deal after peace deal? I would say no. Trump's ability to have influence on what happens throughout the world is is singular. No one else has the kind of influence that the president would have, especially Trump, in the way in which he wields it, demonstrated by the first lady making a deal with Vladimir Putin. I think if Melania Trump is the first lady of a country other than the United States, it probably doesn't happen. This probably doesn't get done the way it occurs. But nonetheless, the fact that this becomes a byproduct of, I think, a very political decision by the Nobel Peace Prize group to choose not to supply something to Trump because they didn't like the optics of it, which is a shame because they should be above that. And to be totally honest, I've seen a lot of takes out there. I think Drudge Report is one of the places that has it, or at least is using it as a headline. What will Trump do? Who will be, you know, hurt or harmed in his reaction and his fighting back in not being given the Nobel Peace Prize? Watch out, Norway, I think was one of the headlines I saw out there. Here's what I actually believe he'll do. Here's what I think will happen. do even more to deserve a Nobel Peace Prize that you're not being given. The best way to rub salt into the wound of those who are uniquely trying to push you out is to actually continue to succeed at the thing that they're upset you're doing in the first place. They want him to throw a tantrum, to be angry, to do something that they'll decide is quote-unquote bad because that helps to say, well, see, this is why we didn't give you the prize in the first place. It's actually something that's happened to me in a workplace before. And I wonder if it's happened to you in some part of your life. People who dislike you for a reason that has nothing to do with how you treat them or how you behave and has everything to do with your political side of the aisle. They dislike you because from jump, they've decided, oh, this person can't get along with them. I don't like what they think politically. I don't like what they do. In the case of the Nobel group, it's Trump and just anything and everything that they think he is. So in that, they try to find a way to set you off to make you the bad guy, and then if you react at all. And here's my own personal story. There was a situation I was working on with a news director at the time. The news director wound up like storming in to the studio that I was in and yelling at me and a guest about the way we were covering a topic. which I thought was insane, not just because we were covering it accurately. The topic we were discussing, which doesn't matter, was about Stephen Colbert's staff going to the Capitol building and insurrecting it. And we were joking when we used that word because it was funny to talk about it in the same context of what happened on January 6th. But it made a news guy very mad. And he stormed into the room and he yelled at me and he yelled at somebody else. And it was crazy. And like, it meant nothing. And then he left. And later on, I think a producer came into the room and said, hey, they just want you to know this. And all I said in reaction is, oh, I don't care. That was my reaction. I said it like that. So you and I know I said, oh, I don't care about any of this that's going on out there. I'm going to keep doing my show my way with my guests and talk about the topics with the opinions that we have. And then it inevitably wound up in an argument between me and this person after the show in front of other colleagues. And I wound up hearing that like I was as much at fault as anyone else. And I was like, what are you talking about? There were like four or five moments where I was absolutely the cooler head in the room. And the person who's like, all right, I'm going to let this go. I'm going to let someone storm into a room that I'm in with a guest, a radio show guest and yell at us, yell at me and the guest. Like they have the authority to do that when they don't and not blow up and scream and yell. And I think that's the mistake. If I'm being honest, anytime in your own life, where you allow someone to step across line after line after line, and you don't do anything about it. I've noticed that people who react to those lines, like say I went in and stormed into the boss's office and said, how dare this occur? I think there's a chance that my position would have been better heard. So, again, to go back to Trump, to use this as a catalyst to actually talk about the news of the day and not just complain about my own things that happened years ago in my own life. But what I think is interesting about it is that if Trump reacts the way that media wants him to, they get to write off everything. They get to ignore every part of the success he's had and the reason he's deserving of a Nobel Peace Prize. And if he just continues to do the thing that they're upset he's doing, ushering in peace and doing a great job in the world, then they'll have no argument for it. So what's amazing is how you have to either react the way that Trump does all the time, which is be mad constantly in an effective way. in a way that almost makes people afraid of the level of anger you'll have if you wind up in a position in which you can share that anywhere else in the world. They're afraid of Trump. They're afraid of Trump and how he would wield his own influence in society against people for whatever it is they say about him or do about him. That's why they act this way. but then also taking the higher road all the time. If you take the higher road occasionally, you have to do it constantly, especially as a conservative, because people are desiring to attack you and desiring to find a way to make you seem like the bad guy. At least that's what I've experienced in my own life. I wonder if you have too. All right, we'll take a quick break. A lot coming up. Greg Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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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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Let's do a quick five on the Dana Show. DLash, DanaLashRadio, and X on Twitter. Great ways to stay connected to her. My name is Craig Collins. Radio Craig C. If you want to see me be sad about the Yankees being terrible this year, although now I won't tweet about them for several months. All right. Amazon's MGM will release the Melania Trump documentary. This was before the big news that she ushered in a deal with Vladimir Putin that will reunite children that are displaced in Ukraine because of the war there. This documentary had nothing to do with that. It was the lead up to Trump actually being inaugurated as the president of the United States after he was almost assassinated and killed. And I don't know why I said and killed assassinated means killed, but turned his head and miraculously survived. A unique story about a woman who is married to someone who, you know, miraculously is alive today. And yet a lot of people will hate the fact that it exists. MGM will be putting that out in January, I think for a couple days in theaters at least. We'll see how successful it is, we'll see how much people talk about it, but interesting nonetheless, and of course crapped on by mainstream media. Amel Gibson's Passion of the Christ has a sequel that's coming out. I am a Catholic, I am a Christian, of course. I think it's weird that the Passion of the Christ has a sequel, even if it's called The Resurrection of the Christ, and that story is interesting. That's a good story to tell in a movie theater somewhere. Just odd. This has been a long-sitting, gestating potential movie that eventually will actually happen. It's going to have an all-new cast. They're recasting all the roles. I guess Jim Caviezel didn't want to play Jesus again, or I don't know what happened there. But nonetheless, just odd. Hollywood makes a lot of sequels. The Passion of the Christ is one of those movies that you didn't necessarily think would have a sequel coming out about it. I'm saying this as respectfully as I can, again, because I'm a Catholic fan. I'm not making fun of it. I just think it's odd as a news story. All right. Other things out there. Area 51 crash mystery deepens as the FBI has joined investigations into tampering into the site. For anything you say that isn't happening that you don't want or that you don't like in the world of the FBI, like we didn't get enough information here or there. More alien stuff I'm always fine with. I don't think it's a distraction. People often say that Area 51 and alien stuff comes out when they want to distract you and push you away from some other story that you might pay attention to that is more valuable or more pressing in our society today. I can do both. I think that you can do both. I think we can all do both. I think when it comes to aliens and aliens specifically, I can pay attention to what the right hand is doing while also paying attention to what the left hand is doing. That is my promise to you. And that is my promise to anyone out there that we can all do this together. And then finally, one last quick story. Political bumper stickers are making people angrier in traffic instances. I guess road rage is going off the charts. If someone does something stupid in a vehicle and they have a giant Harris Walls bumper sticker, the odds of you getting mad go up. And the same is true for any of those idiots who see the Trump sticker on the back of your car. I just find that funny. I don't think that's as bad of a thing as people say it is. And if your car is plastered with political bumper stickers, I think you kind of understand that you might be making some people mad every single day all the time. And you don't seem to care if someone gets into a fit of additional road rage because you cut them off like a moron and you have a ton of stickers all over the back of your car. I think that's kind of an on-you thing, more so an on-them thing. Freedom of speech and everything, but you're asking for trouble, I believe, in that situation, so I'm not surprised it happens. All right, quick break. A lot more. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show.
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the dana show podcast your fast funny and informative news companion for those always on the move subscribe on youtube apple or wherever you get your podcasts this is the dana show uh my name is craig collins filling in thrilled to be with you d lash dana lash radio and x on twitter uh great ways to stay connected to her and everything's going on uh in the world of dana and she will be back on monday let's do this a few things So first, Speaker Mike Johnson was furious that it's very likely that Democrats are trying to hold out in any sort of government shutdown until No Kings Day, which is a Antifa protest day, October 18th, in which a rally is supposed to happen in New York City or excuse me, in Washington, D.C., as well as New York City and other places where they protest no kings, which we don't have. By the way, we successfully already have no kings. You can all just go home. It's totally fine. But here's Mike Johnson saying that the belief is the Democrats are just waiting to keep the government shut down until that day because they like the optics of the government being shut down during no king's day, which is part of the reason that so many people hate politicians and hate the political system is this is easily believable. As a thing that Democrats could be doing just because they want to say out loud, even though it's their fault, that it's horrible that Trump is doing whatever they blame Trump for doing. Here we go.
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A very patient guy, but I have had it with these people. They're playing games with real people's lives. The theory we have right now, they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18th on the National Mall. It's all the pro Hamas wing and the you know, the the Antifa people, they're all coming out. Some of the House Democrats are selling T-shirts for the event. And it's it's it's being told to us that they won't be able to reopen the government until after that rally because they can't face their rabid base. I mean, this is this is serious business hurting real people. Yeah. And I just I'm beyond words. I can't believe they're actually doing this.
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So two things I want to say in reaction to this. First, and I'm owning this, and you don't care. I don't know why I'm even holding my feet to the fire because no one who listens to shows like this where I'm just a fill-in guy even remembers probably what I say. But when Republicans threaten to shut the government down, my reaction is often, go ahead. I don't care. It's not going to impact my life all that much. It'll reopen in a certain amount of weeks after it shuts down. The only thing I ever care about Is military men and women getting a paycheck still? Which doesn't happen, even if the left will claim it does. You actually have to pass certain laws to make sure that the military individuals keep getting paid. It's ridiculous that the politicians get paid if they shut the government down. They don't actually get their checks stopped. But the military individuals who are serving our country do. That's insane. That's the only thing I ever really care about. Other than that, shut the government down, who cares? In all honesty, use it as a catalyst to fire a bunch of people we don't need and clean up the bureaucracy that is our federal government. And I'd be thrilled. So when that is the stance, if it's Republicans in charge, I keep the same stance when Democrats are in charge. Even as Mike Johnson says, the people are actually being hurt because how much they care about those people seems to ebb and flow with what side of the aisle they're on. But as I say that there are aspects to this. that I do think are interesting because of what you're selling more so than what you're doing. And what I mean by that is Democrats often sell that they're the party that cares more. I'm probably going to be a broken record about this today because so many stories feel like they lean into this narrative. Democrats tell you they're the good guys. They embolden their supporters to feel as though that they're good people and the people that they disagree with vehemently and maybe violently on the right are actually bad, horrible people. They're sexists and racists and everything else-ists, and they're the worst kind of individuals that exist in the bucket of deplorables, a version of a thing. And so they empower their side of the aisle to feel this way. And then when they play these political games and hurt the lives of people that they claim they care about, that hypocrisy does matter. Even if I don't say that to me, I'm as worried about the government being turned on tomorrow when it's turned off today. And that came out weird. I think I probably should have phrased that differently. But nonetheless, like it doesn't really impact my life. It probably won't impact your life that much unless you work for them directly. But nonetheless, like I think that that is interesting that what they're selling becomes so obviously untrue. And then you have this also, Mark Wayne Mullen putting up on social media that no King's protest day is something he was definitively told by Democrats is the plan all along. Just because, again, the optics are more important to them than doing the right thing and doing something for the people that they say they care about. They never care about you unless optically it benefits them. And then they'll tell you way too many times why they're doing something. And then get mad at you when you question if it's actually for your benefit or for their benefit, even though they they celebrated it so much because they were trying to get more people to support them. Democrats who tout DEI. It's my favorite example to use in a conversation like this because the DEI people that are out there could absolutely get what they want. Without causing all the different drama and confusion and questions and debate. If they just shut up about it. And I don't want them to do this. I think you should get a job based on your merit and skill. Not what you look like. Not whether you're a man or a woman. Whether you're black or white. None of that should matter. If you're the best for the job, hire you. But the DEI people could just hire the individuals that they think diversify their workplaces. They don't have to tell us a reason why they did it. They could just do it and they could just say it was the best person for the job. And even if you doubted it, it would be harder to have that discussion than if they're saying out loud, we're doing this for DEI reasons. Because we don't care about you and what you think matters. We only care about what you'll do to vote for us, like what will motivate you to punch our side of the aisle for their supporters. So that's why they do all this. So the no kings thing is another example of that. It's another version of we have an opportunity to do something that benefits us from an optic standpoint, we believe. So we're doing it in spite of anything we could do that might help actual people because we don't care about them anymore. It's like the fool me one shame on me thing, but 25 times deep fool me 100 times shame on you or me or everybody, because it's just crazy that this is the kind of thing we talk about. But I believe this because of how likely it is that Washington would do this. But here we go.
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Yeah, Chuckie Schumer, make sure that the people you say you're fighting for, which is a federal employee, goes without a paycheck so you will have talking points at this rally to talk to on Saturday. Chuckie Schumer! Good on you. I had a conversation with a Democrat colleague who's wanting to open the government back up, by the way. He said, do you know what's happening on the 18th of October? I was like, I don't have a clue. He said it's called No King's Day. That's a big protest against President Trump. He said, and our party isn't willing to open the government back up until after that because they're afraid that this large crowd that's supposed to be here in Washington, D.C., protesting President Trump will chastise them. They'll get thrown at the bus.
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That's an oversimplification, too. I think it is not just that they're afraid that the crazies on their side of the aisle will be mad at them. They actually want to lean in to those narratives. They're putting the guy, the crazy dude in New York, as I keep calling Mandami, Mamdani, they're putting him in a position of power. They want him to get elected because of all the things they think he represents that's good about their party to them, which is actually horrible and terrible and communism to the rest of us. All right, let's play this. This is audio of Tish James being quite upset that, you know, selective prosecution is a thing that's happening to her. No, that's not it. Actually, this is in February of 2020 when Tish James is very happy that she's selectively prosecuting a President Trump. That's what this is. This is her being a wild and ridiculous hypocrite, as they often are.
SPEAKER 01 :
You see, each and every day I wake up with a fire in my belly. I walk into my office. I sue the president and I go the hell home. That's what I do.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, look at me. I do it every day. Find a new lawsuit. Sue President Trump. That's in February of 2020. She is now quite upset. that she might be in trouble for some fraudulent things that happened as far as her mortgage is concerned. Here's the other part of this that I think is amazing. CNN covered this story by saying that it's their belief that every American is actually committing the same crime, that if If Tish James is doing it, then everybody's doing it, which, by the way, is always their M.O. They want to put you directly in the crosshairs of whatever the thing is they're talking about so that you actually care more about it than if it's just them. Because if it is just them, they know a whole bunch of people do not care. But so they have to tell you that it's you, that you're in trouble, that you're the one who's going to be next. And if you're not next, then darn it. It's only because you voted them back into power in the first place. But here I want to play this. This is CNN saying that we're all committing this crime. The reason I find this fascinating is it sounds eerily similar, actually identical to what people in business communities were saying about Trump being held to some sort of weird standard in how he actually got better deals from banks because every business inflates their value and every bank's job it is to deflate your value when coming to an agreement on how much interest you pay on your loans. Every company does that. So if every person in America is committing mortgage fraud in the way in which they go about talking about their net worth, then every business was committing business fraud in the way they talked about their net worth. You can't have it both ways. You can't say that for some this is a good argument and for others it isn't. But CNN doesn't care.
SPEAKER 22 :
aside for the for a second what tish james and again we're still getting the details but if it's related to this mortgage issue i mean this is something that everyone in america or many people at least if you're lucky enough to be able to buy a house in america you deal with this right the federal government doesn't go after all of these people um for doing this um does
SPEAKER 04 :
I love every part of that because you could just play the part after she says, you know, home mortgages and American people and turn it into business thing. And that's exactly what conservatives were saying about going after Trump for any sort of fraudulent things they claimed his business was doing in getting sweet, sweet, delicious deals that they pay back. And they paid all of it back. So there was no victim in the Trump crime either. But I just think that's amazing. I think it's so incredible to say, because to me, I guess the last thing I'll say before I take a break, that's probably the thing that makes me the most angry when talking to anybody. And I try to bottle the anger as much as I can, because it's not going to get us further to any kind of agreement to just get mad at someone. But when they say all the things I would say about a different issue, but they say it about something that's uniquely Democratic. So they think in this one, you know, case, this defense makes sense. But then you repeat all of those ideas in another scenario. And they're like, well, no, in that one, I don't agree with it. And it's only because it's a Republican. They don't actually have. people who do this, a version of morality and ethics that are across the board. What they have is a very fluid version of, if it's a Republican, no. If it's a Democrat, yes. And I feel great about this across the board. It is insane to see that happen, though. And I kind of think that's the point. Oftentimes when you call some people, I have an uncle who's very convinced of this, by the way, that Trump is like a genius who does everything to out the terrible things that exist behind the closed doors, behind scenes, which you might also believe is true. This is one of those moments that feels like it actually is a proof of that because getting Tish James in this way and getting media to say what they're saying about it feels like that was the point all along. Just to demonstrate how the case against Trump was ridiculous and calling him a felon even now for Democrats is so stupid and so hypocritical that you can't do anything other than laugh and get, you know, silently mad about it, which is what I do. Or I guess vocally mad on a nationally syndicated radio show filling in for the very talented Dana Lash. All right, quick break. A lot more. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana show.
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This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. The New York football Giants put a beat down on the Philadelphia Eagles last night, which was shocking to a whole lot of people. The Giants are not typically good at football and haven't been good for a very long time. 34-17 and the Eagles essentially playing like a football team that didn't want to win a game. More so than the Giants playing as great as it seemed like they might have played. Although Jackson Dart did look good. There were times where he kept plays alive that I was uniquely impressed by. There was a scare where he might have been hurt for a bit there. And also the Giants have a very good young running back. So those things are true. But anyway, that beatdown only hurt so much. And then even more pain, I think, was thrown to any Philly fan because of what happened between the Dodgers and the Phillies. That was something. And I have the audio of this, actually. So there's two outs, bottom of the 11th, bases loaded. force out at first base, ends the inning, you keep going. For some reason, if you're the Phillies and you get a comebacker to the pitcher, you decide to errand throw home that would have been late, that was horrible, like everything about the play was terrible, and the fact that you even have several teammates pointing and saying, throw to first base, and it doesn't go the way you want it to go, That probably hurts more than a middle of the NFL season loss for the Eagles from the Giants. Because I think, you know, fast forward several weeks and the Giants eventually will probably be like, I don't know, three or four and ten. And the Eagles will be doing much better that late into the season. And you'll totally forget about the fact that the Giants put the beat down on the Eagles. But here's the play that probably really hurt a lot of Philadelphia fans even more.
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No balls and a strike. Pahes breaks his bat, Kirk ring, gotta find it, throws to the plate, oh my goodness, he throws it away, and the Dodgers win, and they are moving on to the NLCS, and a most improbable finish. And your heart breaks for Ryan Kirkering.
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No, it doesn't. Your heart doesn't break for a major professional athlete who does a stupid thing in a stupid moment. It doesn't break for them. You think that the guy's a moron. If you're a Yankee fan, you're booing people like Anthony Volpe every chance you get. And Volpe's not making much money. But man, oh man, was he terrible. And I'm a Yankee fan, so I desire to talk about that, and I won't. But man, the Dodgers getting a gift like that to go ahead and go to the NLCS, in which they'll probably wind up winning and going to another World Series, is something to behold. Although the Cubs, interesting story. I'll say this quickly about the world of baseball. You may or may not be paying attention at this point. I think the only reason anyone winds up being a bandwagon Cubs fan is because they're always the lovable loser. They're always the team that shouldn't be winning and somehow is. If they were ever a dominant force in the world of baseball from beginning to end of the season, it felt like the unfair advantage team, people wouldn't like them as much. But people bandwagon all over Cubs because of how uniquely terrible they are. And this seems to be the case again. They don't do that for the Dodgers. So the Dodgers are not a team that will have that kind of support if that winds up being the matchup in the National League. And we will see because the Cubs get to play again. They did win yesterday, so they did force a game five. My New York Giants, my New York Yankees, excuse me, cratered like a bag of crap in their game four and lost to a much better team. And I know this isn't a sports show, but I'm also tempted to say that I think Brian Cashman is the problem. I think you've got to fire the guy. I think that even Derek Jeter said in a post-game thing that Aaron Boone is not actually calling the shots. You've got a lot of people in sports that aren't actually the leaders of their team, even if their role is manager or coach. You've got somebody else behind the scenes that's actually doing it. So maybe that's the universal way to discuss this topic. Maybe we can all get behind fire Brian Cashman, even if you don't care about baseball and you aren't a Yankee fan, because somewhere in your life, you've experienced someone who knows nothing telling you what to do all the time and screwing it all up. And that's what essentially people are saying is happening for the Yankees. Aaron Boone is the Joe Biden of leaders of that organization. He is the manager in name only. And people are telling him how to make decisions and he makes those decisions and they go poorly for all involved. Terrible, terrible baseball, at least to me and anybody that's a Phillies fan. Quick break. A lot more Craig Collins filling in on the Danish show.
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This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A whole lot of stuff out there to talk about. DLash, DanaLashRadio and X on Twitter. Great ways to stay connected. This is a Democratic politician doing terrible in a debate, which we've seen time and again. But this is uniquely awesome, especially considering one of the people she's trying to stand with. Seems to be a person who's unapologetically totally fine with political violence. But let's play some audio and then we'll break this down a little bit more. But once again, Democratic politicians swinging a mess in the world of back and forth debate. And even a moderator who was being called like a far right individual who definitely was not that going back and forth with these politicians. Just asking very basic, simple questions that the left leaning politician had no ability to answer.
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Thank you, Ms. Spanberger. I just I didn't hear an answer there on the endorsement issue. So I want to make sure. Will you continue to endorse Jay Jones to be the next attorney general of Virginia? And were you aware of these text messages before they released? You have 30 seconds.
SPEAKER 12 :
In fact, it appears that it was the those who released the text messages and held them for years. So the public was unaware who had knowledge of these text messages. The day that they came out and I.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, look, I got to tell you something. And I got to be as honest as possible as I can in this and shoot the messenger if you want to. I'm a white guy about to be 40 at the end of this month. Literally on Halloween, I turned 40 years old. This white female politician, Spanberger, is running against a black female politician. The black female is the Republican. The white female is the Democrat. I might surprise some people with how that goes. But I love the attitude. that comes out of the opponent as she's saying, when did you know and what did you do? I want to play that part again because it's so good. And it's the kind of thing that you might attribute to, you know, a certain race, a certain attitude, a certain way of speaking, any of that stuff. The left would also celebrate if it was someone on their side of the aisle interjecting like this in this way. Of course, they said that this politician was rude. How dare she try to say and do things the way that if it's a Democrat who is of the same, you know, racial or I guess the same sex, they might celebrate the version of I don't understand what's going on here. They used to call Kamala Harris Mamala and they used to pretend as though her confusion with Donald Trump and her willingness to show it was a great expression of who she is and something to be celebrated. Wonder why it doesn't happen here. Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
In fact, it appears that it was those who released the text messages and held them for years. So the public was unaware who had knowledge of these text messages for many hours. I learned of these text messages the day that they came out, and I denounced them as soon as I learned of them. is murder and importantly um at this point as we move forward the voters now have this information information that was with withheld for them you're running presumably for political reasons uh but the voters now have the information and by the way the moderator is also a black woman uh so she's pushing back on winsome earl sayers and the things that she is saying i don't know if i guess the the race card won't be played by anybody uh because of the makeup of the individuals on the stage
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But I just I love this. And I think this is the kind of thing that if it were, you know, reversed parties the way we're expected. And it's a black female Democrat objecting to a white Republican woman or man in this way. I think that most media would be so thrilled with how this went down. They are not thrilled in how this went down because of how ridiculous it is.
SPEAKER 12 :
but the answer by the way is atrocious it is up to voters to make an individual choice based on this information
SPEAKER 11 :
Mr. Member, I understand what you're saying about the voters, but for you, do you still continue to endorse Jay Jones?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, we we asked you about you. We want you to give us an opinion. We don't want you to explain how the political system works in its most basic sense, as if that's an answer to this question. Are you still throwing your support behind someone who seems to be very happy with and even celebrating political violence just weeks after Charlie Kirk is murdered?
SPEAKER 12 :
15 seconds. Go ahead. We are all running our individual races. I believe my opponent has said that about her lieutenant governor nominee. And it's up to every person to make their own decision. I am running my race to serve Virginia. What is your decision? What do you think? And that is what I intend to do.
SPEAKER 11 :
Thank you, Ms. Spanberger. We just want to clarify, you know, what you're saying is that as of now, you still endorse Jay Jones as attorney general.
SPEAKER 12 :
I'm saying as of now, it's up to every voter to make their own individual decision. I am running for governor. I am accountable for the words that I say.
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I love it so much. We just want one moment. You know what would be funny? It would be funny to force these politicians to have to behave like this with an obvious question. And I don't mean one about politics. I mean, like, make a video where politicians are standing in line at an ice cream store. And one after another being asked what flavor of ice cream they want. And they have to answer that question the same way they answer their political questions. So Abigail Spanberger would be saying, look, it's up to everyone else inside this ice cream shop. What ice cream flavor they want, what they're going to buy when it's their turn to purchase. And then someone would look at this insane human and be like, yeah, but what do you want? What flavor do you want? You know, it's it's not my choice. It's everybody else's choice. It's just insane. And the only way that they get away with this sort of stuff is because in politics, these rules have applied for forever. But you should you should apply whatever the version of back and forth question is to something that doesn't matter. Like pretend it's your wife asking you if you mowed the lawn, which is something that happens to me on occasion if the lawn has not been mowed. And it is definitely one of my jobs, and I'll never let her do it. As a man, I feel uniquely horrible if I look outside and see the missus mowing the lawn. I think that Nate Bargetzi makes a joke about that, and I don't know why that is, but it's been my job since I was a little kid. My mom made me lawn mow boy, and I've been lawn mow boy ever since. That also felt weird to say in those terms. But nonetheless, if that happened, and I had the unfortunate situation of having to deal with an Abigail Spanberger in that situation, the answer to is the lawn mowed would be like, well, other lawns in the area have been mowed based on the decision-making of the people inside those homes. And if they did or didn't mow the lawn, that was their decision. Yeah, but is your lawn mowed? You know what? I'm going to plead the fifth here. It's uniquely terrible and sort of amazing to watch. The left can't stand against other members of the left. They can't do it. They're terrified of doing it. The right does it all the time. All right. Another piece of audio I want to play. This is Kristi Noem talking about how they're doing everything they can at the Department of Homeland Security to keep things as running as smoothly as possible, I guess I should say, whether it's at the airport or anywhere, even as the government is shut down. This is part of a message that I think is playing at airports throughout the country.
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Hi, I'm Christine Ohm, the United States Secretary of Homeland Security. It is TSA's top priority to make sure that you have the most pleasant and efficient airport experience as possible while we keep you safe. However, Democrats in Congress refuse to fund the federal government, and because of this, many of our operations are impacted and most of our TSA employees are working without pay.
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we will continue to do all that we can to avoid delays that will impact your travel and our hope is that democrats will soon recognize the importance of opening the government i got to be honest if there's any way to make me madder at something it's to send a message to me at the airport when the airport isn't doing well if i'm on a delay if you know there's a line that's aggressively long if i go to the restroom and i see this message i'll be like yeah I care about this more now. As someone who often says that the government shutting down doesn't really impact my life, I don't really notice it. And when it's all turned back on, which eventually it will be, at the end of the day, most people who didn't work for the government will never have noticed. And I said before, military men and women should always be paid. The politicians' paychecks should stop. People in our military, their paychecks should never stop. It is broken that the system is the reverse of that, and not that. But as I say this, if there's ever a way to curry more favor, to make me more likely to be on your team and not whatever team I've been on before, even though I'm on your team from jump anyway, me personally, it's to do this, is to put a message in an airport where the airport is having a problem and say it's Democrats' fault that you're not on your plane right now and that things are delayed because that makes me very upset and very mad. And then you got Spanberger trying to answer the question by saying that each individual deals with a delay in whatever way they deal with it. It's amazing. That is uniquely terrible stuff. And I love when Democrats do bad in debates now, which happens more often. I know I'm just talking about this again before I take a break. I can't help it. I love when they do bad in debates now because their logic is so insanely flawed and so ridiculous that it can't stand up to basic questioning. You're seeing this again and again and again. I actually had a debate recently. with a young woman about why Harris lost, which is a terrible thing you should not do with someone on the left. And you know what they're going to say, sexism, racism, all that stuff played into it. But then you just start playing audio of the terrible things that Kamala Harris said and did in interviews where she seemed to fold and do as poorly as this politician is doing and just giving basic stances on stuff or trying to demonstrate how she's not as crazy far left as she is. And the person that's arguing with you just shuts up because there's nothing they can say to someone doing that poorly in what is, quote, a friendly interview. And the biggest reason that Harris didn't go on Joe Rogan and Donald Trump did is that Harris was terrified. of being challenged by someone who wouldn't be friendly with her. Not that Rogan's the arbiter of amazing journalism, but he absolutely would have crushed Kamala Harris, and that's why she lost the election. She was a terrible candidate. I know I'm rehashing something very old now, but I can't help it. Every time you see a new debate, you just think about that same thing. And of course, they'll say somehow it's sexism or racism or something, even if in Virginia, the person that might beat her is a black woman that might take the job from a white woman who's running for that office. So I don't know what you say that if the person who gets voted into the position of authority is a minority and a woman, is there a way that you still call it sexism or racism if they defeat someone who is not a minority and a woman? I don't know. That's a question you'll answer. I can't answer it. The left will explode as they try to figure it out. All right, quick break, a lot more. This is Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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That's right. It's time for a quick five on the Dana show. A D lash Dana lash radio on X on Twitter. Great ways to stay connected to her. You should stay connected to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. too. Cause some interesting stuff has been said recently. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that a cause of autism is Tylenol that is used after a circumcision and the internet blew up about that. I have audio. We can go ahead and play the audio real quick on this thing.
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There's many, many other confirmation studies. There's two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. We should be paying attention.
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Yeah, we should. That sounds uniquely terrifying. By the way, there are studies. You can look them up. You can find them. Actual published studies out there in the world. NIH published one of them that talk about the negative use of acetaminophen after a neonatal circumcision, something you should not give a baby and may have given a baby and may have caused harm, whatever that harm might be. But Robert F. Kennedy Jr. being accidentally anti-circumcision is not something I had on my bingo card. in uh 2025 and not something that i think that i'm as angry as so many other people are about it uh because you know uh that's a unique thing with the world of a man to talk about any sort of pain points there and what we can do to remove them i'm totally fine with that uh denmark is going to ban social media use uh for people under the age of 15 i don't like government bans but i do think that if you're a parent you probably shouldn't be letting your kid on social media uh Before a certain age and maybe 15 is appropriate for that. Denmark is saying that social media is stealing your childhood. It's causing you to care about a lot of things you shouldn't, to be afraid of a lot of things you shouldn't, to have so many issues in your life. And then, you know, things that you need to just not care about to be happier take a hold. And so I agree with that. And I think that as a parent, you probably should do what Denmark is doing. Nearly 70% of Americans are pessimistic about the economy, according to Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, which said that people don't want to buy a house right now. I don't know if all these people felt as similarly as they do right now, say, a year or so ago, when they were voting Trump into office around this time or a little bit after this month, because... Yeah, it does make sense for anyone to say they're pessimistic about the cost of housing. But I don't know if people feel as negatively about the economy as a whole as Fannie Mac and Freddie Mac are saying they do. I wonder if maybe part of this is a political place story. Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt says something out loud that everybody already knew. AI can be hacked. Of course it can. Anything on the computer can be hacked. He said AI can be trained to kill people, to do other things. You can remove any of the guardrails that might have been created by whoever first, you know, puts this AI out into the world. And yeah, we all already thought that. We all already knew that. That's why I don't want AI driving all of our cars and doing so many other things in our society because it gives somebody who's a hacker or, you know, say a government who's got a whole bunch of hackers an opportunity to cause a unique amount of harm throughout our society. You can't hack me. I feel like that should be what I say when I walk around out there telling you that a human is needed in a bunch of different places in our society because you can't be hacked. And that's great. At least not, you know, by a computer. All right, quick break. A lot more. Greg Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of stuff out there to talk about. President Trump brokered in a peace deal between Israel and Hamas, the terrorist organization that runs Gaza. I continue to call it that because that's what it is. But anyway, Trump brought this deal home, along with several people within his administration. Benjamin Netanyahu, among the many, saying that this doesn't happen without the United States. Of course, it'll be discredited. People won't care that Trump, yet again, is successful in brokering peace somewhere. The most interesting headline on this was one I saw in Reuters, which said, "'Trusting Trump. Why Hamas Has Gambled on Giving Up Gaza Hostages.'" Again, the terrorist organization that runs Gaza and its gamble to give up hostages. There are 20 people believed to still be alive, mostly young men who are likely members of the Israeli military. And there are 25 or so people that are sadly likely to be deceased. And their remains are supposed to be returned in the very near future from Hamas and the Gaza area to Israel. In exchange, Israel is going to release, I think, 2,000 or something hostages. people that are prisoners inside Israel, that are Gaza area Palestinian individuals. Whether or not these people actually are criminals or not, I don't know. Some of them, it sounds like, are pretty bad, convicted of things like murder, and yet they'll be released in exchange for the hostages. Something that you feel like could have happened a long time ago, but nonetheless finally happens because Trump is involved in actually brokering the deal. And it's just sort of amazing. That Reuters is like, I wonder if the terrorist group can actually trust the president. That's a unique level of hate to see, you know, the validity or the, you know, honesty of terrorists is more likely to be valuable than the honesty of our current commander in chief. Speaking of Trump, actually, and Melania Trump, the first lady, she made a big announcement about a deal she brokered with President Vladimir Putin. That's right. Melania Trump negotiated a deal to help reunite children with their families that have been displaced because of the war in Ukraine. This feels like a universally important thing that like right and left, all sides should support this and should praise this and applaud Melania Trump doing something as the first lady that they would love if they saw a Democrat do it. Of course, they won't do that. But here's Melania's announcement that she made herself.
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with each other for the benefit of all people involved in this war. My representative has been working directly with President Putin's team to ensure the safe reunification of children with their families between Russia and Ukraine. In fact, eight children have been rejoined with their families during the past 24 hours. Each child has lived in turmoil because of the war in Ukraine. Three were separated from their parents and displaced to the Russian Federation because of frontline fighting. The other five were separated from family members across borders because of the conflict, including one young girl who has now been reunited from Ukraine to Russia. I have learned a lot about this matter during the past three months. Russia has demonstrated a willingness to disclose objective and detailed information reflective for the current situation.
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Look, I got to be honest, reuniting kids with their families is something that the left is usually a big, big fan of. And in this case, since it's Melania, they'll find a way to hate it or at least ignore it. But it is crazy. Fox News had a unique reaction to it, though, calling Melania the most significant first lady since Eleanor Roosevelt, which is high praise for sure. Melania Trumpson now.
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This is huge for a first lady to be speaking with Vladimir Putin, who, by the way, under the Biden administration, could not do a deal with our president and somehow has managed to do this backdoor deal with the first lady of the United States.
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You'd have to go back to Eleanor Roosevelt to find a first lady who dealt with diplomacy and security issues like this. It's extraordinary. I think it goes. There's a connection between what we just heard with Melania Trump and what's happened in Gaza. But this administration takes every conventional wisdom and breaks it over its knee. The conventional wisdom in the Middle East was you can't make peace unless you first make a Palestinian state. So Donald Trump comes along in 220 and gets the Abraham Accords. The conventional wisdom in Gaza was first you have to have a ceasefire for a little while and you get some of the hostages back. He turns it around. No, we're going to get all the hostages back first.
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We're giving them to you right now. Although it still hasn't actually happened yet, it needs to happen soon. It's supposed to be a product of the beginning of the ceasefire, which has started to have the remaining hostages return. But nonetheless, I think this is interesting. And the fact that Melania is at the forefront of a deal with Vladimir Putin that reunites children with families, something that's easy for all of media to pray. You know what's funny about it? And I'll finish that sentence. Something that's easier for all of media to praise. They fail at that. the moment where they could at least convince you that they're not quite as biased as they obviously are a lot of the other times, when they have that softball version of a thing where, hey, why don't you just say, good job, Melania Trump, and then keep going bashing Donald Trump all you want, keep bashing the President of the United States, but just give a little attaboy to the First Lady for doing something that's universally good so you don't seem like you're so horribly one-sided and biased, and mainstream media fumbles that ball every time. They kind of act like the Philadelphia Eagles playing the Giants. That was mean. That was a shot I shouldn't have taken. But it just seems to be the kind of thing where you could easily get the win and you choose to once again fail. All right. That did seem overly mean. I am a Giants fan, so I apologize to Eagles fans. No, I don't. All right, another thing out there, Scott Jennings is reacting to the ridiculous narrative that Tish James is just like you and me and that the indictment that happened last night, the federal charges she's going to face for fraud and all kinds of things are a reflection of what every American would do in getting their own mortgage and that this is selective prosecution, et cetera, et cetera. And before I even play Jennings, let's remind you of who Tish James is She's a human being that celebrated her selective prosecution of President Trump. She said she woke up in the morning. She sued Trump. She went back to bed. That's how she got into a position of power as an attorney general in the first place. So she ran on selective prosecution and then seems to be upset when it's not actually happening to her. But people are claiming it's happening to her. Here we go.
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You see, each and every day I wake up with a fire in my belly. I walk into my office. I sue the president and I go the hell home. That's what I do.
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Look at me. I'm so great. I find some way to sue Trump. And that's what I do every single day. And that's why you put me in a position of power. And wait, what's happening to me now? I love that. Here's Scott Jennings saying how ridiculous all of this is and how, you know, she'll have her day in court, prove the things that are accused of her as being false, and maybe she'll actually get away with them. And then, you know, obviously very much not like Trump, also potentially have someone say that this is usually a misdemeanor. We're inflating it to a felony. You don't need to tell us why you think it's a felony, but just go ahead and tell us if Trump is guilty of it. That may not. actually happened to Tish James, which is a shame because you feel like not only should you have selective prosecution, you should also have the inflating of recharges to a ridiculous degree, which most legal people thought was insane when Alvin Bragg and others were doing it to Trump. But let's hear from Tish on this.
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If Democrats like Slotkin are going to come out today and whine about selective prosecutions over Tish James, her entire career is built on the selective prosecution of one man. Yes, Scotty. Now, I also believe what Elliott said. There's a process here. Everybody gets their day in court. Obviously, a grand jury saw enough evidence to bring charges. We don't know what they are, but a grand jury looked at this and says, OK, there's something here. She gets to go to court just like Comey, just like anyone else. But to me, it's just not going to fly to boo-hoo over selective prosecutions on this particular person who promised in her campaigns, who went after him on things, as Jonah said, that had no business, no business ever happening, if not but for the man's last name being Trump. I'm not going to... But how is that not a two wrongs make a right argument? I'm not saying it's right or wrong. I'm saying she gets her day in court. I'm saying a grand jury saw enough evidence to bring charges, and I'm saying she gets to go to court and tell her side of the story, and then we'll see what happens.
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I love when the Democratic pushback to what Jennings is saying is, how does it not appear that two wrongs make a right? Well, the reason that it doesn't matter in that case is because you don't care. Because you'd rather have your wrong be the only wrong that occurred. And if something actually happens that hurts your side after you've punished the side of the aisle that you're so spitefully against, you want that part to go away. It's the COVID thing all over again. And I think people remember this. During coronavirus and all the shutdowns, the amount of shaming that happened for someone who didn't agree with the left on any of that crap. who thought maybe the vaccines were something you didn't need to take, et cetera, et cetera. You name the issue, shutdowns, masks, all of it. All of the data that's come out since, tons and tons of data, has demonstrated how those conspiracy theorists, those conservatives in your life were right about a bunch of that stuff. And you guys were wrong about a bunch of that stuff. And the Democratic response at the time is, why go ahead and adjudicate this all over again? Why run back through these issues just to find blame? Because you were saying people could die and that's fine with you. Kimmel made those jokes. Jimmy Kimmel, who said and did horrible things after Charlie Kirk died, was murdered, assassinated, and still has a job that he shouldn't have because he's a piece of crap. That's my own opinion of it, of Jimmy Kimmel. But anyway, he said that constantly. During COVID that if you're on the right, you don't want a vaccine. You don't get any medical treatment. You get to die, which was just insane and constant. And these are the same people who then say, well, we don't want to argue now that our side no longer has what we thought was a slam dunk argument. Now that we've been proven wrong, let's go ahead and not discuss this at all. Let's just let it go away. That's the pushing the goalpost part. That's the part where the Democrats do whatever they want, how often they want, in any way that they want. And then they hope when the time comes to wield the same power against them, that you choose not to do it. And if you choose to harm them the way they harm you, then they blame you for it, even though they started it, which they never want to remember in the first place. All right, quick break. A lot coming up. Greg Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man.
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That's right. It's time for Florida Man on the Dana Show. D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio and X on Twitter. Great ways to stay connected to her. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. Radio Craig C. If you want to follow me and what I occasionally say about the New York Yankees, that's totally fine. I get in on that too. Several different Florida Man stories. Some of them amazing. This one horrific, but also ridiculously Florida. A couple in Florida is facing charges after they left their 16-year-old son on the side of the road. They said they didn't want him anymore. At 16 years old, some parents might start to get frustrated with the young man, son especially, but I don't know, any teenager might be annoying. The right approach is not to leave them on the side of the road and try to drive away. That's not going to work out. Uniquely Florida about this story, they left him with a wad of cash and a bag of handguns. They're like, here you go, son. You're 16. You're an adult, according to us in Florida. So here's a wad of cash. And here's just a bag of an assortment of handguns. We don't know why you need so many. And in such a random thing, like not even in a box, man, like at least put them in a little safe or something. But now they just have them all in a bag and they're handing them to this guy. I have audio of Josh Taylor, who's the chief of staff for the North Port Police Department, talking about the ridiculousness of this story.
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The story was these people kicked him out of the car and gave him two bags. And once, through the course of that investigation, talking with him, we were able to figure out what was in those bags. There was the loaded weapons, and I believe there was a magazine as well. The report indicates that the child was handed these bags and said, you're the chosen one, good luck. So that's all.
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I gotta be honest, a part of me would be a little bit motivated if someone handed me a bag of handguns and said I was the chosen one. But that's probably the wrong thing to take from this. And I'm a gun guy. I'm definitely very happy with the guns that I have right now. Of course, I don't think you could fill in on this show and not be a pro-gun person because Dana is so prolifically awesome in her own discussion and opinion of guns in her history and understanding the very important value of the Second Amendment. But no, teenager, side of the road, bag of handguns, probably not a good move. Uniquely Florida, though. A Florida man robbed $7,000 worth of lottery scratch-off tickets from a convenience store. So he goes in, he demands the scratchers, he leaves. Now, two things he did were wrong. The first one is he didn't know how to play scratcher tickets the pro way, which you don't scratch any of them. You just find your local grocery store or something and you scan them. That way you don't have to do anything other than scan to see if you won. He didn't do that part. He actually played all $7,000 of these tickets Then he tried to bring the winning tickets back to the same convenience store that he stole them from. That's uniquely Florida. That's like, hey, bygones be bygones. Today's a new day. What I did yesterday doesn't count anymore. I'm here to, you know, take my sweet winnings from the stuff I stole from you the other day. That gets you arrested. That's usually not a good move. Another Florida man that made the news was naked and chasing Walmart workers inside a Walmart and in the parking lot of a Walmart. He was then found later in the wooded area near the Walmart, agitated and paranoid. Every part of that story 100% checks out in the world of Florida. First thing first, you show up at a Walmart and there's a naked guy. You probably think to yourself, man, there's a lot of other Walmarts. that I can go to. I don't know why I'm staying here. But if you're the employees, you're stuck dealing with it, calling the authorities. The naked dude is harassing people. I don't know if any of it was sexual in nature or if the naked thing is just an accident. That's always a confusion of mine. I always want to ask the criminal, and it's probably not the right way to go about it, but I can't help it. When nudity got into the equation for them, like the person who's arrested on the side of the road, traffic ticket, and then all of a sudden they're naked. When did they decide that they were taking their clothes off? Was it an in-the-moment thing? I was this a premeditated nakedness that came about from like, you know, planning. If I ever get pulled over, I know it'll make the situation go away. I'll just get taken. But that feels like a byproduct and a question because I don't think in my own life I will ever be, you know, naked accidentally. I'm pretty sure I won't ever be naked accidentally. And in a situation like this, where like when you're arrested, you kind of want them to ignore it. Like, and sir, you're naked. You're like, why does that matter? Why can't I be naked all the time? That's how these people seem to behave. And that is a problem. And then finally, one last Florida man story. A Florida guy stole a woman's purse. He found out that she had a one-month-old kitten inside the purse instead of any valuable stuff, which is just a weird thing to do. It's not a purse puppy. Dogs are better than cats, by the way, even if this kitten was probably adorable at one month. But you open up the purse, you've stolen the thing, and then you wind up, you have a brand new pet. That's a unique way for, say, adoption centers to try to get more of their pets adopted. Just put them in purses and leave them out on the side of the road and see if people say that doesn't sound right. Don't do that. Don't write your hate letters to me. Please, PETA, don't say anything to us. I'm kidding. But anyway, maybe it's a nice adoption thing. Put the puppy in the purse, hold the purse out and be like, look, you get a dog in a purse. And maybe that way we get more pets adopted. That's fine with me. And apparently a thing in Florida. All right. Well, sort of. Quick break, a lot more. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. DLash, DanaLash, RadioNX on Twitter are great ways to stay connected to her and everything that she has going on in the world. And honestly, her and her team do a great job of anything on social media. So you should stay involved. Producer Steven and so many other people involved in helping make that awesome. um there is a big story out there and i do think it's interesting and dana has even tweeted about it so d lash a dana lash radio and x on twitter how to find out what she thinks about some of this before she gets back to the radio um but pete hegseth made a big announcement today uh that's Very confusing to a whole lot of people involving allowing Qatar to have a Air Force training base in the United States on U.S. soil in Idaho. Here is the announcement of that thing, which, again, is confusing a whole lot of people on both sides of the aisle.
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No one other than President Trump could have achieved the peace that we believe will be a lasting peace in Gaza. And Qatar played a substantial role from the beginning, working with our folks to ensure that came about. So I want to thank you for that historic peace. I look forward to joining the president as that gets done. uh it's already been delivered but as that's formally signed as well and i'm also proud that today we're announcing or signing a letter of acceptance to build a qatari emiri air force facility at the mountain home air base in idaho the location will be uh host a contingent of qatari f-15s and pilots to enhance our combined training increase lethality interoperability it's just another example of our partnership and i hope hope you know
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Yeah, I got to be honest. That makes no sense to me either. Dana did tweet out, I feel like if you sponsor Hamas, you shouldn't get a base in the U.S. What am I missing here? She is absolutely right about that. 100% right about that. Qatar was instrumental, I will say this, according to Israel and everyone else, along with the United States in ushering in the peace deal between Gaza and Israel and Hamas, essentially, more so than Gaza. So I think that there's something interesting about this being a fallout component likely to that kind of agreement and what Qatar got in the process of all of it. But yeah, this is the kind of thing that U.S. should not have have at all allowed to happen. Would we have unique capability to prevent it from being anything horrible? I think we would. We would have the capability if it's on U.S. soil and surrounded by U.S. military. The odds of Qatar doing something bad with a Air Force base they have here are hopefully low, but it's just surreal as a sentence. You know, in all honesty, it's a strange thing to say and think is happening. And a lot of people on both sides of the aisle are very confused by it. I wonder if that's what it is, though, if it's a level of arrogance and deserved arrogance. I'll say this. We deserve to be arrogant about our capabilities, capabilities as a military force in the world. You know, so much so that you might be able to say out loud, all right, you can build a base in our country and we'll still screw you up if you ever try to hurt any of us because of how capable we are and how much we would have insight into whatever it is you're saying and doing inside that facility inside our country. But it still feels like a thing you should never do. It feels like a bending of the knee that's just strange. And so I don't get it. And I think a lot of people don't get it. And I think that Dana specifically is quite right in saying that if you wind up on the wrong side of certain issues from the United States and begrudgingly eventually wind up somehow facilitating something that's supposed to help us, At the end of the day, the reward for you can't be this gigantic. It can't be this monumental. And you can't have the potential to use it for negative reasons, which I think that people who influence Qatar might hope it's capable of doing. The amount of individuals... or country leaders, or world leaders, whatever you want to call it, terrorist leaders of groups like Hamas that hope they have some avenue into that facility in the United States is through the roof. And so it's just interesting to open that Pandora's box ever so slightly and to believe in our capability of keeping it from being something that harms our country more. But yet that is something that I think If you were in charge of our military in this country, you might think you're literally incapable of being defeated even by a force that's on our soil of our own doing because of our capabilities as a force beyond that. So I don't know. I hate to say that this is a we'll see moment because it's not. It shouldn't have happened. I don't think it should happen. It feels like, you know, the kind of thing that we shouldn't surrender on. And yet I wonder if 10, 20, 30, 50 years, 100 years, 200 years from now, it has any impact whatsoever on our society or if we're fully capable of managing and controlling an organization that's not us having a facility like that within our country, which I think we probably are. I'm still not happy about it. All right. Another thing out there, Speaker Johnson. has said that he is furious that it's very likely the Democrats are holding out the government shutdown until no King's Day, which is October 18th in Antifa involved rally in D.C. and New York and other places. Here's part of what Mike Johnson said to I think this was Fox News earlier today about the likelihood that this is why Democrats are still refusing to open the government.
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A very patient guy, but I have had it with these people. They're playing games with real people's lives. The theory we have right now, they have a Hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18th on the National Mall. It's all the pro Hamas wing and the Antifa people, they're all coming out. Some of the House Democrats are selling t-shirts for the event. And it's being told to us that they won't be able to reopen the government until after that rally because they can't face their rabid base. I mean, this is serious business hurting real people. And I just, I'm beyond words. I can't believe they're actually doing this.
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Yeah, I can believe they're doing that. That's not remotely shocking to me at all, in all honesty, because Democrats always care more about optics than anything else. They don't care about who's helped or who's hurt. They only care about convincing you that they're the good guys and the other side's the bad guys at all costs, at all times, even if it makes them very much the bad guys in doing that. But nonetheless, I do think it's interesting, and I know that Mike Johnson is saying that, you know, you're toying with Americans' lives. This is something very often that the left will say if the right threatens to shut down the government. So it does fall on deaf ears to me to consider one side of the aisle suddenly more concerned than they appear to be when they're not in power and using this as a way to wield any sort of control of the government, even, you know, ever so slightly. And yet a part of me also knows that the Republican Party doesn't usually run on a platform of we're trying to fight the Nazis and the other side is the Nazis and all this other crap that they say all the time. By the way, Trump ushered in peace in Israel. Apparently Hitler is in charge of that. because they call him Hitler. I love the Babylon Bee and others who had headlines like that. Hitler responsible for peace in Israel is a unique headline. The Democrats seem to basically be saying themselves all the time if they are even paying attention to and not fully ignoring that story. But nonetheless, I just can't get over the fact that that what really strikes me as important here is that the people who vote on the left believe their side to be the good guys and the good guys are behaving in bad faith and bad again, as they always do, because they are, in fact, the bad guys. And now they're going to pretend as though they're just doing it for some other reason. Another thing out there, I thought this was interesting. And this is something I actually hope becomes a byproduct of the government shutting down. The funny thing about the right and fighting to have the government reopened is we'd also like to fire a whole lot of bureaucratic people that don't need their jobs. And so if that can be an end result of shutting down the government, working with skeleton crews and then being like, you know, we don't need so many people. I'm good with that. And Russ Voigt seems to also think that this is totally fine. Let's get some people fired, baby. Here we go.
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We tracked down exactly which agencies here on this Friday afternoon are now sending these notices of reduction in force, effectively layoffs, firings to their employees. And I just heard from a spokesperson over at the Health and Human Services Department that they are among those agencies, those departments that are going to be moving forward with agency rifts. I am told that here from the agency that it's going to be across multiple divisions and that under the Biden administration, that the department had become bloated. This is the spokesperson. HHS continues to close wasteful and duplicative entities, including those that are at odds with Trump administration's Make America Healthy Again agenda here. And so
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Yeah, that seems fine with me. To be totally honest, if we lose some bureaucratic positions that are, you know, just taking our money that don't need to exist, that part I think I'd consider a win. And I consider it a win no matter what I'm told or what else you say about it, because I would like to see us spend. way less money on the government in general anyway. And I know I'm not alone in feeling that way. So I just think that's kind of an interesting byproduct of all of this. And part of the thing that makes you think maybe this is why it's happening all along. Maybe the trap was set. The Democrats stepped into the trap and now we get to fire some people. That doesn't seem so bad. All right, we'll take a break. A lot coming up. I am still fairly dumbfounded at the idea that there will be an Air Force military base of some kind, a training facility for another country, a country that has close ties to terrorist groups here in the United States. And I know that the conspiracy theorists are saying it's because of a golf course. I imagine it's really more because of our unique belief in ourselves that can make you arrogant. at times, although I think that arrogance is justified, that arrogance is justified, and I think the odds of Qatar actually harming us by having a facility in our country are actually quite low because of the capability of our military. It doesn't mean I have to like it to think that it's something that may never actually have the worst case scenario play itself out. It just seems odd. It just seems like something that's a step too far, a willingness that might have been a condition of brokering peace between Israel and Hamas that the United States never should have done. And I know that I'm not alone. And a whole lot of people on both sides of the aisle are saying something very similar to that right now. I quick break a lot more Craig Collins filling in on the Dana show.
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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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That's right. It's time for a quick five on The Dana Show. DLash, DanaLashRadio, and X on Twitter. Great ways to stay connected to her even when she has a day off. She is tweeting some reaction to some things going on in the world. So stay connected with her right there at Radio Craig C. If for some reason you want to follow me as well. I love that people follow me. I'm nowhere near as prolific as her. But thank you anyone that supports the show and hears me on it that jumps in. All right. Some quick stories. Bob Ross paintings are going to be auctioned off in support of public TV stations that no longer have federal funding because they're ridiculously one side and bias. I love the fact that these public stations don't want to just sell advertising and make money the right way and have, you know, a programming that enough people actually pay attention to. So the advertising is value. Instead, you want to sell Bob Ross paintings. If anything would make me rethink my advertising budget in 2025 or 26, if I'm already planning on that one now, which many are, it would be watching a station I'm advertising on have to sell paintings by Bob Ross to make enough money to keep operating. That might make me think you don't have enough viewers for my, you know, ad to be valuable enough as is. So God forbid they try to do it that way and have engaging content that people pay attention to. Instead, they're going to crack open the vault and see what they have in storage that they can sell off for some amount of money. Speaking of like a weird money related story, though. There's another one out there in Canada. Marine Land is a theme park in Canada that says it needs emergency funding now. And apparently it has no Bob Ross paintings to sell. So it's very upset about that. It either needs that funding or it's going to euthanize 30 beluga whales. I'm not laughing because I think that's funny. I'm laughing because of the prospect of that as an either or scenario that this organization is putting out to the world. It sounds like a mob. It sounds like we're killing these 30 whales if you don't give us money now, a kind of a thing. It doesn't sound like the kind of thing that usually a theme park would go about saying or doing in a more measured way. It's you either give us funds immediately or we have to off 30 beluga whales that don't deserve it. And we're going to like send parts of them. down to the world, very mafia style, just so you know the bad thing you did. That feels like what's going on here. But Canada is actually saying that they're, you know, hard up for cash. At least this one amusement park is. And it's an either or scenario that you never thought you'd see coming by people that claim to be scientists and, you know, theme park operators and not necessarily members of the mob. Montana had a car crash, or I could actually call it a cow crash, that was unique and feels very Montana. 120 cows tipped over. They were inside a cattle hauler truck in Miles City on Sunday afternoon on I-94. It caused backups. It caused problems. Cows got everywhere, apparently. The cows survived, which is good. That's a good thing. But a lot of them got into the community, into the town. And here's my favorite part of when you know you're living in Montana and not, say, like in New York City. A bunch of cowboys got on their horses and corralled all the cows because they were called into action and capable of acting in a place like Montana without actually being then requested and called from, say, some neighboring community that's not inside their big city. They got it done, baby. And they got it done fast. The cows were removed quickly. That doesn't happen in some places. One final story, and I just found this funny. Ferrari's stock has tumbled after the big debut of its electric vehicle because surprise, surprise, no one wants an electric Ferrari. You do want a sweet, delicious, amazing sports car. You want it to sound and act like a sweet, delicious, amazing sports car. And you need gasoline, baby. For that to happen, you don't want fake sounds and dumb electricity. But the electric sports car that was finally unveiled by Ferrari that they said people have been long clamoring for apparently was overshadowed by the fact that their organization is doing terrible and their stock is tumbling. By 2030, it looks like the outlook for Ferrari would be even worse, which makes me sad. There were so many movies that focused on Ferrari recently, Ford versus Ferrari and whatnot, and Ferraris are just cool vehicles. You want the place to succeed, but you definitely don't need an electric one. All right, we'll take a break. After the break, I'll play you audio of a Democrat failing at a debate, because it happens all the time, next on The Dana Show.
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This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of stuff to talk about. You would think that it's easy for a politician, Democrat or Republican, to distance themselves from somebody within their party who seems to think that violence politically is totally fine, is totally okay. That was not, in fact, the case during a debate yesterday in which a Democratic politician was held even so smallly, like so barely to the fire. Her feet were they dabbled in the fire and she failed incredibly to give a positive or valuable answer to this question or any answer whatsoever. to a question about Jay Jones and text message controversies that you may or may not know anything about. The long and short of that is Jay Jones essentially showing that he's totally fine with his political opposition being shot and killed or people on the other side of the aisle, party-wise, being killed for their political beliefs. That's totally fine with him. A controversy that's caused some issues. Abigail Spanberger really, really struggled and just straight up refused to answer this question asked of her. Here we go.
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Thank you, Ms. VanBurger. I just I didn't hear an answer there on the endorsement issue. So I want to just make sure. Will you continue to endorse Jay Jones to be the next attorney general of Virginia? And were you aware of these text messages before they released? You have 30 seconds.
SPEAKER 12 :
In fact, it appears that it was those who released the text messages and held them for years. So the public was unaware who had knowledge of these text messages for many of us to do about. I learned of these text messages the day that they came out.
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Okay.
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Already, I feel like I need to paint the picture here for anyone who's unaware of this. I know this is a national show. If you're in Virginia, you're probably very aware of these politicians. If you're somewhere else, you might not be. But the other lady who is speaking, the political opposition, the Republican politician, is a black woman. The person who's being asked the question to begin with is a white woman. If a black mine, if a excuse me, minority woman defeats a white woman in a position, you know, in a race somewhere in the country, I don't know how the left will handle that because they want to call it sexism or racism. But the person who defeated the individuals they want to win would be subject to more of the things that they claim to be issues in our society. So it's hard to fathom how someone who is, again, a black woman beats a white woman and somehow race and or sex is a is a byproduct of the reason for the loss for the Democrats. But that's what they'll say. Somehow, some way they'll go there. But I just love the attitude to, by the way. I know it's a hallmark or a stereotype or whatever you want to call it of black women occasionally to be able to execute these types of questions in a way that maybe no one else can say them tone wise or whatnot. But you hear it there. And I think that if if it's the left and their party that's acting this way, they'd praise this. They said that the Republican was, you know, upsetting people and interrupting a lot and that Earl Sayers, excuse me, is someone who, you know, didn't behave professionally. But I feel like if she were, again, a Democratic politician, they'd love every part of this. And they'd call her Mamala 2.0, but let's continue.
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And I denounced them as soon as I learned of them. And importantly, at this point, as we move forward, the voters now have this information, information that was withheld for them, presumably for political reasons. But the voters now have the information and it is up to voters to make an individual choice based on this information.
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Can you hear the shaking in her voice? By the way, it's not because of the interruptions by the political opposition that's on the stage with her. It's the fact that she knows she's absolutely terribly avoiding this question. She's not doing it in a smart way, in a good way, in a way where it feels like she answered the question, but she didn't. She's absolutely struggling because she refuses to say the words that are evidently true. She does still endorse a political candidate who seems to be totally fine with murderers. That seems to be something that is absolutely okay. with jay jones and it's something that she should distance herself from but can't i want to play it again because i want you to hear the shaking in the voice when the best thing you can come up with is the voters get to vote now and even though you asked me a question about what i think the voters should do my answer is that they get to vote and they choose what they want to do and other than that i don't want to say anything i learned of that
SPEAKER 12 :
And importantly, at this point, as we move forward, the voters now have this information, information that was withheld for them, presumably for political reasons. But the voters now have the information, and it is up to voters to make an individual choice based on this information.
SPEAKER 11 :
Mr. Mayor, I understand what you're saying about the voters, but for you yourself, do you still continue to endorse Jay Jones?
SPEAKER 04 :
I asked you a question. You basically described the political process to me as a response to the question. Can you answer the question now?
SPEAKER 12 :
15 seconds, yes or no. We are all running our individual races. I believe my opponent has said that about her lieutenant governor nominee. And it's up to every person to make their own decision. I am running my race to serve Virginia, and that is what I intend to do.
SPEAKER 11 :
Thank you, Ms. Spanberger. We just want to clarify, you know, what you're saying is that as of now, you still endorse Jay Jones as attorney general.
SPEAKER 12 :
I'm saying as of now, it's up to every voter to make their own individual decision.
SPEAKER 04 :
Just try to envision like, because sometimes I have this with my wife, not this, not what you just heard, but the version of, hey, what do you want to have for dinner tonight? And the missus is like, whatever you want to have. But then there's definitely a right and a wrong answer. We all know this. We've seen the jokes on social media about this. Just consider this with Abigail Spanberger as a thing. Like, hey, what do you want to have tonight? Whatever you want. People everywhere throughout this country are going to be eating food this evening. All kinds of different food of different options. And that's food that they get to choose to eat based on whatever location they want to go to. Yeah, but what do you want? Yep, I definitely think that that's a great question. And the best way to answer it is that people choose to eat food based on what they... You just go crazy if you had to deal with this all the time. And it's just uniquely, uniquely horrible. For her part, Earl Sayers absolutely crushed her in another moment where it's just ridiculous to think that what's going on right now in so many different races, in so many different places, is anything other than pretending as though the American people are so incredibly stupid. that you can say and do whatever you want in any scenario, in any way, shape, or form, and they'll just keep voting for you regardless, even after Trump actually wins the popular vote and shows that substance of arguments does matter more than Democrats want it to, they continue to swing and miss on so many of these things. Here's another moment where I absolutely think Winsome Earl Sears did an incredible job of just crushing her opponent.
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If your little girl comes home and said she was forced to undress in a locker room with a biological boy, what would you say? Would you say baby?
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I love that the other politician doesn't even look her in the eye. She's like, I can't even answer that question because it does seem as though Abigail Spanberger did side with a trans sex abuser who wanted to change in, you know, women's rooms. That was a biological man, which is it's just crazy. that this is the kind of stuff they do because apparently they're terrified of their political side coming after them if they're not far enough left and woke enough. And actually, you know what? I'll play that audio again. Not the audio I just played, but something I played earlier in the show today. Because one more time I will demonstrate that yet another issue in which it seems as though The problem for many people is the No Kings protest, and not at all the fact that I think that many politicians would like to see the government open or not open or any of that crap. But No Kings Day, which is on October 18th, is a day that apparently Mark Wayne Mullen and others have been told Democrats refused to open the government before that day because if they do, the problem for them will be that the left will eat them alive, will be very upset about all the decisions that they've made, etc., etc., which is just crazy. And I want to play this audio. I'm trying to make sure to find it relatively quickly of Senator Mullen's because... It is the typical kind of thing that you'd see from the left to, you know, in any way, shape or form, say that what's happening right now, what's going on, what's occurring in this society, whether you think there's the good guys or bad guys and whatever side of the aisle you think they're on, they're really just doing it for whatever optical thing they want or they think is best to achieve. I don't think I can play the audio. I don't have it. So I'll try to find it for later and we'll take a break in just a second. But nonetheless, he's saying that because no King's Day is coming up, Democrats think of it as a political win for the government to still be closed on that day, a day when in D.C. and New York and other places they will protest having no king in this country and claiming that Trump is a king when he's not one. It's the funniest protest because I feel like they can all just go home when they show up and they're like, yeah, no kings here. And then you look at them and you'd be like, there are no kings here. Our political system is still working. There are still checks and balances. Trump still loses in courtrooms throughout the country on some of the issues that he'd like to do a certain way. It's still not going the way you want. That happens, and they're deaf ears to that. One last thing. I guess I'll throw this out there again, too. Qatar will be getting its own Air Force facility, its own training facility within the United States, which is a very odd thing. There's no positive way to spin this, even if I desire to do it, which I just desire to tell you the truth of what I think. I don't care about spinning anything. But I'll play this audio quickly of Hegseth earlier today saying that Qatar will get its own Air Force training facility in Idaho and how odd it is. And Dana actually tweeted about this too. DLash, DanaLashRadio, and Axe on Twitter, that if you stand with terrorists, that if you support terrorists, Your reward, if you do help us eventually broker peace between terrorists and Israel, isn't that you get your own military base inside the United States. That's that's a disproportionate reward for whatever level of help you actually gave us. I'm paraphrasing. She didn't say all that, but she's absolutely right about that. That feels wrong. This is insane. Let's play a little bit of this.
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We also value the close cooperation between Doha and Washington that led to the signing of the Gaza peace plan on October 8th. This historic achievement underscores what can be accomplished when our nations work together with courage and trust amongst other partners such as Egypt and Turkey. We further welcome today's signing of the letter of acceptance establishing a Qatari Emir Air Force Facility and Mountain Home Air Base in Idaho. These steps strengthen interoperability, enhance joint readiness, and advance our shared defense goals.
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Yeah, it's weird. This is a weird announcement. It's a weird thing. Hegseth did echo it and say that it was something that was happening. And I don't say this in a way where I'm judgmental. I don't know why I need to clarify that for you, but I feel like I do. I think the arrogance of the capabilities of our military is a deserved feeling. The United States is uniquely good in that world. And so our belief that Qatar could have its own facility here in the United States and it would pose no actual risk to us probably is born from that level of arrogance, and it might actually be accurate. I do imagine that in the years to come, the odds of anything actually bad happening because of the amount of oversight we'll have over that facility is probably non-existent. This probably will not actually... threaten the safety of the American people, which seems like it deserves to be said. Nonetheless, it just feels wrong. It just feels like the kind of thing we shouldn't do, even if we have the capability to make it abundantly safe to have because we are who we are. It just still seems like the kind of thing we shouldn't be doing. And a whole lot of people are saying exactly that. They're very confused. about the announcement, the decision. I don't believe it's golf course connected, but I do believe it's the kind of thing that we just think, like, what's the risk? We're too powerful to be harmed by something like this, and there's no reason to even go about opening that Pandora's box. But all right, quick break. A little bit coming up in a lot of time. Well, a little bit and a little time left. Greg Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins, filling in for just a few more minutes. Dana is back on Monday. Thrilled to be with you on a Friday show. Lots of different things to talk about with very little time left. Let's do this first. The top trending Halloween costumes this year are mostly from a movie I haven't seen, the K-pop Demon Hunter thing that your kids probably love and you may or may not know anything about, depending on how old your children are, but several. All of the top five, in fact, actually are costumes from that list. There's other things in this list that I did not recognize at all, most of the things, which makes me feel old. This is the point where you're getting older, that you realize you know less and less about the stuff the young kids are liking. I know what a Labubu is. I don't like Labubus. I think they're weird and dumb, and I don't know why people like them. They're the latest Beanie Baby, and they're horribly unattractive. But the Labubu made the list, too. My favorite one on this list was Nightwing, which is the Robin character in Batman and Robin. After he grows up and stops being Robin, he becomes Nightwing. Apparently, that's an all-time high. I don't know why. I don't know what's going on in the world of DC, you know, comics and or superheroes and Nightwing specifically. He's this high on the list, but he's up there. My favorite, too, is when you look at a breakdown of certain states and the things that people are dressing up like there or even cities within those states. And you find Indianapolis in Indiana, Ricky Bobby, the Talladega Nights character is still in the top five and has been on the top five every year since. that you've been having Halloween for quite some time, which is great, as long as we've been keeping the track of this information, I guess. If you dive into parts of Texas, I also find some results uniquely interesting or humorous as far as that goes, too. Let's see if we can find Houston, Texas, which is actually where I'm broadcasting from. I'm broadcasting from the KSEV Studios in Houston, Texas. All of them are K-pop demon hunters. We have failed to do anything unique, anything interesting. Let's check out Dallas, which is where actually Dana typically broadcasts her show from. La Boo Boo is the only thing that seemed to throw off the top five coming in at number two there. But you can go on FrightGeist.com, which is sponsored by Google, and look up your specific city and see what the top Halloween trending costumes are there and see if you've even heard of them. Most of them probably not. Other things out there, people are sharing the strange rules their parents had growing up. No turning on the lights during a thunderstorm. No wearing clothing with faces on them was a weird one. We had to drink a huge glass of milk before we had anything else was one that's out there that I like because actually I had something similar to that growing up. We had one drink cup on the kitchen sink and the entire family shared it and it was only washed twice a week. This was the water cup. If you want water, you can't get your own water cup. You have to share this one. That's gross. That's weird. And then finally, my favorite one of the strange rules people had. No stepping on the bath mat with wet feet, even if the bath mat is designed to be stepped on with wet feet. Apparently someone was told no. to that whole situation. But what weird rules did you have? What weird things did you grow up with is a question you can probably answer for Dana on all of her social media pages and not explain it. Craig Collins filled in, told me to do this if you have to. All right, that's it. That's all for me. Dana's back on Monday. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana show.
Hour 2 of Rush to Reason kicks off with John Rush, Andy Peth, and Richard Rush diving straight into breaking geopolitical news: China’s latest move to restrict rare earth mineral exports — and Donald Trump’s immediate response with 100% tariffs. From there, the trio pivots into their NFL picks segment, debating the Broncos’ rise, Bo Nix’s performance, the Eagles’ coaching woes, and which teams might actually contend this season.
The second half of the hour transitions into Movie Rental Hour, with Andy leading a rousing discussion on the most inspirational movies of all time. From Braveheart and 300 to Forrest Gump, Gladiator, and Schindler’s List, the hosts and callers trade classic speeches and memorable moments, mixing humor (Team America, Dodgeball) with gravitas (Darkest Hour, The Passion of the Christ). It’s an episode that blends sharp political commentary, football banter, and a nostalgic celebration of cinematic inspiration — classic Rush to Reason.
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All right, Hour 2, Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Myself, Andy, and Richard joining us now. Richard, are you with us?
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Know that I am.
SPEAKER 10 :
All right, before we get rolling, I know we have NFL picks coming up, but for all of you that maybe didn't see the news today, China did some really stupid things in regards to their rare earth minerals and magnets and so on, and not just to the U.S., but around the world. And in turn, Richard, you sent me some articles on this. In turn, Trump just came back and said, okay, China, 100% tariffs.
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Yeah, basically. And we'll see. Again, this has happened before, although everyone's kind of saying this is like what happened earlier this year. But it's a little bit different in the fact that, well, I guess China's kind of doing this for everyone. Now, what China's going to say is it's not a full tariff because it's not a full control. They're not blocking. Basically, they're making you get licenses. in order to export to you and companies. But obviously, that's kind of restricting in the whole point of the trade agreement that they've been working on.
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So I'll be curious. Richard, can you explain something to me, though? Why would China in any way, shape or form want to restrict selling some incredibly profitable items around the world? Well, because control, Andy.
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Because they can limit our access to everything from batteries to weapons manufacturing.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, yeah, I know that's how they can hurt America, but why do it to the whole world?
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, because it's maybe under the guise of doing it. And to be honest, Andy, if China's not first, they're last in the words of Ricky Bobby.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay. That's a good point. If China's not first, then why would they want anyone else to do that, you know? Okay. Fair enough. Good point. It'll be interesting to see how it works out. John, should we go football?
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Yeah, go for it. Because I keep track of these, so you guys get real quick. Before you do. Yeah.
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Yeah.
SPEAKER 10 :
You guys didn't pick the Broncos to beat the Eagles. Richard did on purpose because that way they might actually win, which they did.
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They did.
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Now, what about last night's game and the blowout that had happened with the Giants and the Eagles? Who picked that one, and what did you guys say?
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We don't pick Thursday games.
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You didn't do Thursday nights, so what was your thought of last night's game?
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I think the Eagles should fire their coach. No, I'm serious.
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No, they had some really bad mistakes last night coaching-wise.
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I believe that the Eagles won the Super Bowl last year based solely on talent. And I said that going in. Remember, guys, I said going into the Super Bowl last year, this is a poorly coached team that simply has a grotesque talent advantage over the Chiefs. But this is a terribly coached team.
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It showed last night.
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Now it's starting to really show itself. That's what I think. Richard, what do you think?
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Yeah, Andy, it's rough right now for Philly. Although people are saying, well, does this take some of the luster off the Broncos? I don't think so. I think it was a little bit of a difference. The Broncos did beat Philly at home. Philly only has like three days to recover from that.
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So, yeah, they're not the same team last night.
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Richard, honestly, right now I believe there's a very good argument to make that the best team in the NFL is Denver. A very good argument to make there.
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Let's not get carried away, Andy. Let's not get carried away.
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No, I'm not saying it's a good – I'm not locking it in stone. I'm not putting it on the tablets. But I'm just saying you can make a very strong argument for that because they have a very balanced offense, though inconsistent, but a very balanced offense and a tremendous defense with the best blanketing secondary in the league. I mean, they could very well be the best team in the NFL right now.
SPEAKER 15 :
We definitely have some aspects, Andy, that make me excited for what can be as we continue. But I will say, kind of before we get to picks, because we will get to the Broncos as part of our picks, which actually will be our very first pick, but I just think, Andy, Philly is, well, we talked about it a little bit last week, and actually, Dad, you and I talked about it on Monday with their receivers complaining and some things that are going on. That, yeah, if I was the Eagles or if I was their fans, Andy, I would be concerned because, well, Jalen Hurts, all of the criticism that they levied on him all last year that he sort of made up for in the playoffs. They've sort of turned to him, and you've turned away from your league's best rushing attack. And again, last night, Andy, you didn't run the ball that much, and you relied on Jalen Hurts.
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Good point.
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And look where that got you. Now, Andy, I'm also to say this. I actually think Bo Nix can be Jalen Hurts, which is, I think, both quarterbacks. can win with a good team around them, and I think that's the case. But to your point, Andy, you have coaching malpractice going on in Philadelphia right now. I disagree with you. Oh, go ahead. Sorry. Just win. Well, just win by running, right? Run the ball. You have a really great team. You have a great scheme, great defensive coordinator, all of the above, and I just don't think they're taking advantage of it.
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Well, I disagree with one thing. You said Bo can be as good as Jalen. Honestly, I think Bo is better than Jalen. I think he's more inconsistent right now, but he can simply do more. I think Jalen's a very limited quarterback. I have always thought that. And he's just got a ridiculous amount of talent around him. But here's the big thing. The coach has lost the locker room in Philly. He's lost the locker room. They barely won some games they should have won big this year. They're falling apart. They're more talented than God. It's ridiculous. And they are not playing to their talent level at all, and there's no excuse. He shouldn't have won the Super Bowl last year. He did because his team was better than the Chiefs probably at 20 out of 22 positions on the field. It was ridiculous. It's not that way anymore. They're done, and they've got to fire this guy.
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The only thing I'll say to you, Andy, is you should love this, though, because for your Packers, this is fantastic. We're not a threat. I know what you're going to say and some of the nonsense you're going to spew, but folks, don't listen to him. He's just a hater because he's a fan of the Broncos. It feels good. Yeah, you're correct. But, Andy, you should love it because they were the cream of the crop. They've now lost their last two. They are reeling. And, Andy, I'm with you. I will say this. I think the Eagles front office with Howie Roseman, really talented. I think they find a lot of different players, and they've done a lot of really phenomenal things. However, Andy, I've always been skeptical of Sirianni, been skeptical of Jalen, been skeptical of some things that are going on. And, again, if it's me, I would just be a little bit nervous if I was these fans because, I don't know, Andy, this thing could unravel pretty quickly.
SPEAKER 16 :
I think it could, too. Well, tell you what, we're going to have to go fast through these games. Are you ready? Let's roll. Okay, let's blaze through them. Up first, of course, the Broncos. They are favored by 6.5 at the Jets. I would add 20 points to that spread.
SPEAKER 15 :
I appreciate Andy, and as much as I would love to do what I've done in the past, as much as I would love to do what I did last week to say that, oh, yeah, I'm going to pick the Jets. I just can't in good conscience do that. Now, I do think that this game is going to be closer because, again, Andy, I feel like all London games are weird. That's true. They just have a weird vibe. Now, I'm not saying the Jets are going to win. I just think this game is a little bit closer than most may think, but I think the Broncos will eventually win. take advantage and end up winning. And, Andy, last thing I'll say is this on Bo Nix there. He made a little bit of a believer out of me because I turned to my wife last week in the first half and said, man, Bo, you're just giving all your haters all the fuel they need. and he proved me wrong in the second half. He came around, made some really great throws. They ended up winning that game, and it was a phenomenal thing. But I'm with you, though. This should be the Broncos by a lot.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, it should, and I'm going to make a prediction. At the end of this game, New York will ask London to keep the Jets. Just keep them there. Just take them. You can have them. We'll start a new team from scratch. They're a mess. Okay, let's whip through these. The Cardinals are at the Colts. Colts favored by six and a half. Are the Colts starting to take over their division?
SPEAKER 15 :
Real quick, Andy, New York doesn't deserve that. Let them have the lowly Jets, that awful studio. Yeah, they want Mom Donnie.
SPEAKER 16 :
They want Mom Donnie. Give them the Jets.
SPEAKER 15 :
That's what I'm saying. That works. If they want Mom Donnie, they have to keep the Jets. That's part of the package.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 15 :
All right, yeah, Andy, the Cardinals, man, I mean, and by the way, I know Jonathan Gannon got fined. I don't know if that should have been the case. Don't be a dummy and drop the ball before you get to the goal line on a 70-some yard thing. It's not like he smacked the guy. I don't know, any different conversation. Colts are better than we thought they were, Andy. Do I think they're going to come back to reality at some point in time? Yes, because I think that Daniel Jones will come back a little bit. However, he's proven me wrong so far, so if you're a Colts fan, maybe you want me to keep predicting that. But yeah, Andy, I'm going to go with the Colts here at home. Again, I just think that they're a more complete team. Andy, Tyler Murray is a hot mess.
SPEAKER 16 :
I agree. Okay, next game, the Chargers favored by 3.5 over the Dolphins. Here's my question. Are the Chargers just too injured to contend anymore? Will Herbert be wasted for another year?
SPEAKER 15 :
Great career going down the drain, man. They're going to be wasted, Andy. They are because you've lost both of your tackles. Now, I know Joe Alt's supposed to come back this year, Andy. But not only that, you've lost your stud running back. Herbae can only do so much and make up for so much, Andy. But my goodness, I semi-feel for the Chargers, semi. But in this case, Andy, I do think the Dolphins are woeful enough, especially without Tyreek Hill. So I'm going to go with the Chargers here on the road.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, I got the Chargers too. Next game, the Patriots are favored by 3.5, only 3.5 over the Saints. After upsetting the Bills, shouldn't New England be favored by more?
SPEAKER 15 :
They should be, Andy, but I will say they're a young team, and when you come off a big game like that, and then you play a team like New Orleans, sometimes it's a little bit hard to kind of maintain your, I guess, your focus, for lack of better words, right? So while I actually think the Patriots will get them here, I think this will be a tight game and may come down to it, and it'll make the young Patriots team sort of –
SPEAKER 16 :
uh kind of realize they're not there yet okay we'll both take the patsies next game browns are on the road at steelers steelers favored by six and a half how did 90 year old aaron rogers become the steelers best player they're not even that good of a team they don't have a good defense they don't have much of a running game uh this 90 year old who can't even walk barely has them winning some games
SPEAKER 15 :
Andy, better yet, how do the Steelers get so lucky where they get 90-year-old Rodgers who can actually still play, and then they fall into Joe Burrow's done for the season. Lamar and the Ravens look like a stink. They are worse than a dumpster fire. And then you've got Dylan Gabriel and the Browns and maybe Shador and... I mean, luck into everything, Andy. Everyone in Pittsburgh is going to be doing ayahuasca before too long. I know! I guess that seems to be the remedy.
SPEAKER 16 :
Now, we both, but Richard, Richard, Richard, Richard, we both know, though, they're going to be a first-round exit in the playoffs. But they're looking good in the division.
SPEAKER 15 :
Oh, absolutely, Andy, but they're still going to win their division. Tomlin's going to be this, which, again, I think he's a really good coach, but It's just frustrating, Andy, because the Steelers have been at least steady. You know, they haven't won a Super Bowl in a while, but they've at least been steady for years and years and years. But, yeah, it doesn't change here, Andy. Shador is now the backup, by the way, so something could be had later on in the season, but I'm going to go with the Steelers here.
SPEAKER 16 :
I hope we see Shador. Yeah, I'll take the Steelers too. Okay, let's pick it up here. Here we go. Cowboys favored by three and a half over the Panthers. Do you trust either of these teams? Who shows up?
SPEAKER 15 :
No, I don't, Andy. It's which of these teams decides. The only thing I trust in this is the Cowboys offense. I trust that they're going to score some points. But what do I trust that the Panthers are going to? Is it the team from last week or is it the team from the first several weeks of the season? A different matchup, Andy. Obviously one that you don't see very often for a variety of reasons. I'm going to go with the Cowboys here, Andy, on the road, just because as much as I like Bryce Young, I've been talking him off all year, kind of talked him up at the end of last season. I just don't know if I have any faith that he continues and maintains.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay. We've agreed on every one, and we can't do that the whole thing. So I am going to say right out, the next game I think is the best one of the week, and no matter who you pick, I'm picking the other one. We have to disagree on one of these. Okay, because I see some more coming up we're going to agree on. Seahawks favored by one and a half at the Jaguars. These are two teams on the cusp of showing they're for real who succeeds.
SPEAKER 15 :
Man, Andy, there's another one coming up I think is the best game.
SPEAKER 16 :
Oh, you mean Niners-Buccaneers?
SPEAKER 15 :
No, actually, see, we are disagreeing, Andy. It's a good week. It means it's normal. I'm going to go with Lions-Chief. I actually think that has the potential to be the best game of the week.
SPEAKER 16 :
Oh, you know, you're probably right. You're probably right. That's a good one.
SPEAKER 15 :
But, yeah, Andy, I just keep going back and forth. Again, we talked about with the Colts. Who's going to show up, right? Is this real Sam Darnold? Is Sam Donald the guy we've seen? I mean, I think that the Seahawks are the steady team. And then, man, Andy, if Chris Jones actually makes an effort on that play, maybe the Jaguars aren't even in this position. Right. But that's a conversation for the Chiefs game. I know we'll diverse. Andy, I don't like the Seahawks. I've never liked the Seahawks. Something about them, whatever it might be. I'm going to go with the upstart Jaguars just because I want to see Sunshine continue to win.
SPEAKER 16 :
Then I'll go with the Seahawks. Why not? Okay, next game's easy. The Rams favored by 7.5 over the Ravens. Should we add 10 to that spread?
SPEAKER 15 :
They look terrible, don't they, Andy?
SPEAKER 16 :
Oh, gosh. Awful. Let's just take the Rams and move on.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, they should, Andy. I mean, again, they are at West Coast, I believe, if I'm not mistaken. So it could be a little bit interesting there. But, man, as much as I want my last-named individual to play,
SPEAKER 16 :
You're cutting out, Richard. We're losing you. Oh, sorry. Now you're back.
SPEAKER 14 :
Rams.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay, Rams. Next game, here's one. The Titans are at the Raiders. Raiders favored by three and a half. How does Las Vegas handle actually being a favorite for once? And does Ashton Gentry finally get a hole just once to run through?
SPEAKER 15 :
I don't think the Raiders will handle it well. And I think that, unfortunately, for the Titans, or I should say for Gentee, the Titans, one thing they do well defensively is stop the run. They don't do anything else well, but they stop the run really, really well. And so, yeah, as far as they go, I think that they will. Actually, Andy, you know what? I'm going to say this. I wasn't going to take this originally. I was going to take the Raiders. I think the Titans coming off that big win, comeback win against the Cardinals, I'm going to go with the Titans here.
SPEAKER 16 :
They could very well win. I'm going to take the Raiders because we need another different one. Okay, here we go. The Bengals can't beat anyone on earth. They get to play my Packers who are awful. Green Bay has totally collapsed. How big must they win to start saving their season? I don't know. They've got to figure out how to beat Joe Flacco because they couldn't beat him earlier in the year. Green Bay's done. They're not a contender. I mean, let's face facts. Well, they're not. And the reason is very simple. They don't have an offensive line, period. at all.
SPEAKER 15 :
Fair enough, Andy. I have more faith in the Packers. I just think inevitably they tend to figure it out as the season gets on. I think LaFleur is a really good coach. I think loves a pretty good quarterback, and I think your defense will continue to carry you guys. as needed, although, you know, Parsons got to get on track, and I know you and I can debate that one. Yeah, Andy Bengals are a hot mess, although they have, again, 100-year-old Joe Flacco that's going to come in and hopefully do something good for them. But I just don't think it's enough this week, Andy. And I like – well, real quick, Andy, I know we have to run here shortly after this. Is this the best weapon that Joe Flacco has ever had in his career? Yes, easily. And we'll see what he does with them, but I don't think it'll be this week. I'm going to go with the Packers.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, I'll take the Packers. Next game, very good game. 49ers are at the Buccaneers. Is this the weakest meeting of 4-1 teams ever?
SPEAKER 15 :
I don't know about weakest, Andy. You feel for the 49ers because with Purdy, you know, I think that – which is coming to say something because I think that he's a little bit better than Mack, although not much. I think this has won a heck of a coaching job by Kyle Shanahan. I mean, again, I know everyone's kind of ready to write him off. But, man, I mean, he went in last week, beat the Rams. They did have a long week to prepare for this Buccaneers team. But I think the Buccaneers are a more complete team. And again, short weeks are hard, plus divisional games on Thursday night are hard. I'm going to go with the Buccaneers, Andy, only because I believe it's at home. Am I correct?
SPEAKER 16 :
It is.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, I'm going to go with the Buccaneers. Although, again, it wouldn't put past me if Shanahan goes to 5-1. It wouldn't surprise me at all.
SPEAKER 16 :
I'll take the Bucs, too. Okay, here we go. The Lions are at the Chiefs. Chiefs favored by 2.5. Why are the Chiefs favored? I know the Lions, because I thought the Lions had pretty much settled into being the best team in the NFC. Then they lost their number one corner for the year. So that's going to hurt them a lot. Is that enough for the Chiefs to win this game?
SPEAKER 15 :
Andy, the Chiefs, again, I know we're going to talk. They just don't seem like the same team. They don't look like the same team as they have been the past few years. They're done. And I know we've been saying, and it's nothing even against Mahomes because Mahomes is literally carrying that team, dragging them, Andy, to the point that they are right now. Kelsey does not look the same. They have no weapons. Their offensive line is a little bit of a mess. Mahomes is scrambling, making the crazy plays that he does in their defense. Again, they look like a tired team, Andy. They look like a team that has played late into the postseason three of the past four years.
SPEAKER 16 :
Richard, let me tell you, when the Broncos play the Chiefs, the Broncos will be more talented than the Chiefs at about as many positions as the Eagles were in the Super Bowl. It is going to be a terrible mismatch. I just don't think the Chiefs are very good anymore.
SPEAKER 15 :
I hope you're right, Andy. And I'm actually going to go against what I did the past few weeks because I'm going to pick the Lions. As much as I do want the Chiefs to pick them and then be happy if they lose or whatever it is, I just think the Lions are a better team. And the Chiefs, Andy, I just... Until they prove me otherwise and until some of these other players come along with them, I just don't trust them.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah. I would like to pick the other team so we could differ, but no. I'm not going to pick the Chiefs against the Lions. Forget it. I'll take the Lions. Two more games. The Bills are favored by four and a half over the Falcons. After last week's upset loss, are the Bills ready for a physical team like Atlanta?
SPEAKER 15 :
Andy, I think that this is their get-right game because I just don't think Atlanta's very good. I think that Pennix is a little bit overrated. No, they're not that good. And I think that the Bills are going to be mad. They're going to be angry, right? They're going to want to go make a statement to say that this isn't the team that you guys thought we were. So, yeah, Andy, I'm going to go with the Bills. I know it's on the road here. But, yeah, I think this is the Josh Allen get right – or not Josh Allen. The Josh Allen shows that he's still Superman game.
SPEAKER 16 :
I agree. I'll take the Bills, too. Last game is a weird game. The Bears, who are very talented and they're surging, they're going against commanders who just got Jaden Daniels back. Who wins this one?
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, this is weird. I think we're going to go in the same direction just because with Jaden Daniels back and the commanders and some of that thing. But the Bears are weird. They're just a weird team. That's probably the best way to describe them. I have no confidence in them. I have no confidence in Caleb Williams. But they're that team, Andy, where this team could be 35-33 with a last-second field goal propelling the commanders over the top. But I'm going to go with the commanders. They're at home here. I just think that they're a better team.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, I'll take Washington, too. And, John, we're done.
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SPEAKER 10 :
All right, we are back. Buckle up. Inspirational movies, Andy. Take it away.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay, and just for those who want to call in or text in, understand. It's going to be different for everybody. Everybody has different things that inspire them. Right. All right, well, here's a speech that always inspired me. Here we go. Braveheart.
SPEAKER 1 :
Right?
SPEAKER 20 :
Against that? No! We will run! And we will live! Aye. Fight and you may die. Run and you'll live. Aye. at least a while. And dying in your beds many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!
SPEAKER 16 :
Now, I would have been the guy in the back yelling no and running away. Oh, jeez. But that's just me. How about you, Richard? Yes, William. Yes, I will.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yes. Great movie.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 15 :
Richard, you're up. William Wallace, so good. All right, Andy, and the theme of war, because us men are motivated by violence and killing of things. And then also, Andy, I was motivated to look like your body double in this movie, which is 300.
SPEAKER 1 :
300.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yes. My wife wishes. If I could be a Spartan.
SPEAKER 16 :
I love 300. It's so good. Yes. Okay, John, you're up. Field of Dreams. Oh, yeah. Build it and they will come. Yeah. Yeah. Well, okay. I'm getting through some ones that I do a lot because they're just so easy. Here we go. Miracle.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, good one. You were meant to be here tonight.
SPEAKER 13 :
This is your time.
SPEAKER 12 :
Their time is done. It's over. I'm sick and tired of hearing about what a great hockey team the Soviets have. Screw them. This is your time. Absolutely. Now go out there and take it.
SPEAKER 10 :
That's what Trump is saying right now.
SPEAKER 12 :
Exactly.
SPEAKER 16 :
Screw them. Kurt Russell. I mean, how can anyone not like Kurt Russell? Oh, he's good. I know. Okay, Richard, you're up.
SPEAKER 15 :
You know, we need some more of that these days. We need an Olympic moment to unite us and put us back together again, you know? I agree. All right, one that does inspire me, Andy, for different reasons. You know, it could be a successful man and best, you know, go do all the different things. But just, you know, obviously a great acting performance, which is Forrest Gump.
SPEAKER 10 :
Oh, yeah, that's a good one.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, that's on my list here someplace. That's a great movie, by the way.
SPEAKER 16 :
And what a character that he created. I mean, way to go, Tom Hanks.
SPEAKER 10 :
In a movie where it's not super fast-paced, but it's fast enough to keep things moving along, right? Yep. Is that a good way to say it?
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah. And also, I was just marveling at his acting, honestly, throughout all of it.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay, you're up. Yeah. Okay. This one I watched the other day, and I know I've mentioned it here recently, but Seabiscuit.
SPEAKER 16 :
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 10 :
That was a fun movie. Great movie, by the way.
SPEAKER 16 :
Isn't that Tobey Maguire?
SPEAKER 10 :
uh yeah and then who's the lady who's actually the star i can't remember her name but i'll i'll find it in a second but she's really the main star of the movie and you know the inspiration is she kept going when everybody else said just sell it all off just sell the farm off be done with this exactly but she kept it going oh yeah i agree okay uh got another speech here here we go simple one gladiator my name is maximus decimus meridius
SPEAKER 21 :
Commander of the armies of the North. General of the Felix Legions. Loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance in this life or the next.
SPEAKER 16 :
That was a very inspirational movie for me. Just watching what he went through and how he came back and stuck with it. For me, it really was. What about you, Richard?
SPEAKER 15 :
No, it was phenomenal. It was right there next to 300, Andy, but I was just, you don't get a chance to mention it all the time.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, you modeled, I mean, they actually hired Russell Crowe after seeing pictures of you.
SPEAKER 14 :
You're correct, Andy.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay, you're up.
SPEAKER 15 :
If I was only not, you know, like 10 years old. Yeah. But, yeah, so, all right, Andy. You're a bulky 10-year-old. You are correct. So let's see here, Andy. Okay, Davin, you're giving me ideas here. Again, we don't get to mention this movie very often. Hidalgo.
SPEAKER 10 :
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 16 :
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 10 :
I enjoyed that one. Yeah, that's a good movie.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, good movie.
SPEAKER 10 :
Nothing wrong with that. Yeah, great movie. John? Let's do the bucket list.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, I like that. Well, I like both actors.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, it's a great movie, by the way.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 10 :
And not the ending you... If you've never seen it, it's not the ending you expect.
SPEAKER 16 :
No, it is not.
SPEAKER 10 :
It's really good as far as that goes. So, John and Cheyenne, you're up. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 14 :
Hey, guys. Hey, Andy, Richard. No love at all for the Giants last night. Oh, lots of love.
SPEAKER 16 :
Really quick here. How do you feel about your QB now, huh? Jackson? Better. Yeah?
SPEAKER 14 :
If you look at Game 5 and Game 6... And the five turnovers cost them the game to the Saints. They did five turnovers, which all wound up giving the Saints points. So they didn't turn the ball over last night. That was a good thing. But we'll see next Sunday, right? 2 o'clock, I think? You are correct. By the Broncos.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, I don't think they're up to that, but okay.
SPEAKER 14 :
You never know. You know what? If they stay competitive through the whole game, With what I thought this season would be, I'd be happy. That's good. Well, what movies do you got? Oh, gosh. How about two? I have two. And neither of mine. First one is Pride of the Yankees.
SPEAKER 16 :
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 14 :
How about the speech at the end of that? I mean, it's fantastic. True story, too. And then the other one is the opening speech from Patton. If you can't get motivated and listen to that, I don't know what's going to get you motivated. Guys, have a great weekend.
SPEAKER 10 :
Hey, John, you do the same. Appreciate you very much. Okay, Andy, you're up.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, George C. Scott.
SPEAKER 10 :
Boy, he did a great job.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay, I know I've played it before, but I love it, so I'm going to do it again. Boys in the Boat. Here we go.
SPEAKER 23 :
But they didn't understand who we were.
SPEAKER 16 :
The show was in a spot.
SPEAKER 07 :
Best fellas, they're connected. Sweat and pain.
SPEAKER 12 :
What it's worth, I'm proud of you boys. Inspiring. You missed the part where I told him not to tip over. Roll for your country. Roll for each other.
SPEAKER 26 :
For all the people who never believed in you. As one. As one.
SPEAKER 16 :
I keep telling people to watch the movie. I'm not saying it's great, but I think it's very good. I really enjoyed Boys in the Book.
SPEAKER 10 :
Good movie.
SPEAKER 16 :
All right, Richard, you're up.
SPEAKER 15 :
I feel like, obviously, we have a scene here with some of these, which is some war and whatever, but we were soldiers.
SPEAKER 16 :
Oh, yeah. Yeah, I wish I had Mel's speech from that queued up, but I do not. Oh, so good. Oh, so good. John?
SPEAKER 15 :
And Sam Elliott's in there too, right?
SPEAKER 10 :
Oh, yeah. This one's interesting because it's a weird movie, but once you get into it, you kind of keep getting into it, and it's big fish, and it's weird because the dad tells all these outlandish stories that the kid doesn't think are real, but then at the end, they are.
SPEAKER 16 :
That's pretty cool. I like that.
SPEAKER 10 :
And they connect at the end because there wasn't a great relationship there because the kid always thought dad's just exaggerating every single time he tells a story, but he wasn't.
SPEAKER 16 :
Good one, John. Okay, the next one. I always admire movies about people who overcome physical limitations. And this next guy, he was very, very short, and yet he rose to great power. Here we go.
SPEAKER 19 :
I'm the smartest, most clever, most physically fit. But nobody else seems to be rising.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, this is inspiring, all right.
SPEAKER 19 :
It really is. Yeah, yeah, sure. I change the world, maybe they'll notice me. I'm so lonely. I'll just be lonely. Lonely. Yeah, a little lonely. A little lonely.
SPEAKER 16 :
So bad. Richard, I did that for you, actually.
SPEAKER 10 :
It was an inspirational movie, though.
SPEAKER 16 :
I had to work in Team America. Team America is very inspirational.
SPEAKER 10 :
You're right, Andy. It is.
SPEAKER 16 :
It makes me patriotic.
SPEAKER 10 :
It's so wrong, it's inspirational.
SPEAKER 16 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 10 :
Richard, don't you agree? It's inspirational something, Andy.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 16 :
Thank you. Thank you. You're up, sir.
SPEAKER 15 :
Let's see here. Cool Runnings.
SPEAKER 16 :
Oh, yeah. Good old, good inspirational story. That's a fun movie, too. I enjoy it.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, no, I'd buy it. Good one, fun? Yeah, that one's good. Yeah, yeah, good one. Let's see. I'm trying to pick something we don't always talk about. Sure. And this one, only because it's related to the movie that you actually reviewed today, only it's a much better movie. Soul Surfer.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER 10 :
Much better movie than the one you reviewed.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yes, it is. And by the way, I think it's made by some of the same people.
SPEAKER 10 :
But way better.
SPEAKER 16 :
Way better, yeah.
SPEAKER 10 :
Just a way better movie. Joe, you're next. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 11 :
You know, I almost forgot. The inspiring ad by John Belushi in Animal House where he starts talking about when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 16 :
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, the Germans. How they're supposed to fight back against the university.
SPEAKER 16 :
You know, it was right after that that I went in. I saw that. I went in and enlisted. Oh, did you? Yeah. Yeah, it inspired me.
SPEAKER 11 :
Go ahead. No, you got my list of the other ones, right?
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay. Yeah, we got a bunch.
SPEAKER 11 :
All right, guys, that's all.
SPEAKER 10 :
All right. No, Joe, thanks. Appreciate it. Lendi, let's do another round. Go ahead. You got it.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay, here's one that you wouldn't think of. It's a couple years ago, a woman who was looking for lost King Richard III and digging him up, and her story was very, very inspirational. Here we go, the lost king.
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I believe this is a very important historical site. This is the equivalent of someone with a homemade rocket saying they're going to reach the moon.
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You can't stop now.
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Have faith in your research. Have faith in yourself.
SPEAKER 04 :
I'm worried I won't find you.
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Don't let them push you around. Stay strong.
SPEAKER 04 :
I'm here today to tell you a story about a person who was judged unfairly in life and never given the opportunity to show their true potential. You don't happen to know where you are, do you? Might help.
SPEAKER 16 :
I was upset that Sally Hawkins did not win Best Actress for that. I wanted her to win it. Okay, Richard, you're up.
SPEAKER 15 :
One you may not think of, Andy, but it's good and, again, makes you... I'm not saying you want to just watch it over a nice bucket of popcorn. You're a jerk. I am Sam.
SPEAKER 10 :
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 15 :
Sean Penn. Dakota fading. Really good. Good job.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, that was probably a guy that I don't like, but one of his best performances.
SPEAKER 16 :
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 10 :
Am I right in that, Andy?
SPEAKER 16 :
He was great.
SPEAKER 10 :
All right, this one, and I haven't mentioned this movie for a long time, but it is super inspirational, and I'm saying it just because I know we have enough Jew haters out there that I'm going to go ahead and play this or say this movie just for them, Schindler's List. There you go. Why not?
SPEAKER 16 :
I agree. I agree.
SPEAKER 10 :
And I meant what I just said, by the way, because there's a lot of you listening that are that to fit that description, and shame on you.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay, how about a guy who fought against the greatest Jew hater of all time, Winston Churchill, in Darkest Hour.
SPEAKER 10 :
Good one, Andy.
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We shall fight in France. We shall fight on the seas and oceans. We shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air. We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches. We shall fight on the landing grounds. We shall fight in the fields and in the streets. We shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender.
SPEAKER 16 :
The amazing thing for me, and I didn't know this because my wife knows history much better than I do. When I was watching it, I couldn't believe how much his story paralleled Trump's. It was incredible.
SPEAKER 10 :
They hated him.
SPEAKER 16 :
Oh, my gosh. I mean, all the forces he faced within their government were just like the deep state here. It was unbelievable. Richard, you were up. Oh, yes, Andy.
SPEAKER 15 :
All right. So in a similar timeframe, and I know, Andy, it's one of your most favorite movies, I would say, which is Pearl Harbor. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 16 :
Absolutely. Inspirational. That inspired me right out the door. Yes. Yes. You're a bad person, Andy. You don't love America. Apparently not. John, you're up. The King's Speech. Oh, very good. Very good. That was very inspirational.
SPEAKER 10 :
I'm surprised you don't have a clip from that one.
SPEAKER 16 :
I don't. Well, I can only do so many.
SPEAKER 10 :
No, I know. I know. I get it. That's all right.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay. I obviously love a great underdog story, so here we go. Dodgeball.
SPEAKER 17 :
Oh, jeez. That's great. Go ahead. Make your jokes, Mr. Jokey. Jokemaker. Let me hit you with some knowledge. Mr. Jokemaker. You should quit now and save yourself the embarrassment of losing with these losers in Las Vegas, Le Fleur.
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Alliteration aside, I think I'll take my chances in the tournament. Yeah, you will take your chances. I know. I just said that. I know you just said that. OK, I'm not sure where you're going with this. Well, I'm not sure where you're going with this. That's what I just said. That's what I'm saying to you. All right.
SPEAKER 10 :
Touche. Touche. Ben Stiller was perfect for that, by the way.
SPEAKER 16 :
Ben Stiller! And that was a totally different role from anything he had ever done.
SPEAKER 10 :
That's hilarious.
SPEAKER 16 :
I just thought it was great. Richard, you're up.
SPEAKER 15 :
And the most inspirational movie of all time and one of the best soundtracks, which is Rocky. Oh, yes.
SPEAKER 16 :
Absolutely. I agree. I can't believe you. I can't believe you haven't mentioned it yet.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yo.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, it's on my list, but no, I had not.
SPEAKER 10 :
How about, we've got to take a break right after this, Shawshank Redemption.
SPEAKER 15 :
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay, go with that. Great. All right, let's do this.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, inspirational because you can break out of prison.
SPEAKER 10 :
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And as always, you can find him at klzradio.com slash money. Al, thanks so much for joining us today.
SPEAKER 23 :
Well, thank you, TJ. Thanks for the conversation.
SPEAKER 05 :
You bet.
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Live and local. Back to Rush to Reason. All right, we are back. Andy, go ahead. Inspirational movies. That's our movie rental hour topic. Go for it.
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Here's a great speech that was not made by the star of the movie, Mr. Holland's Opus.
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Rumor had it he was always working on this symphony of his, and this was going to make him famous, rich, probably both. But Mr. Holland isn't rich, and he isn't famous, at least not outside of our little town. So it might be easy for him to think himself a failure, and he would be wrong, because I think he's achieved a success far beyond riches and fame. Look around you. There is not a life in this room that you have not touched. And each one of us is a better person because of you. We are your symphony, Mr. Holland. We are the melodies and the notes of your opus. And we are the music of your life.
SPEAKER 16 :
Very touching movie. Long movie. Really good. Richard, you're up.
SPEAKER 15 :
All right, it's a very similar movie, Andy, just very inspiring. So if you set your mind to something, you can do it no matter what age, which is Billy Madison.
SPEAKER 16 :
Oh, yeah, absolutely. That turned my life around. It should.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 16 :
I went back to first grade because of it. Go ahead, John.
SPEAKER 10 :
Let's do, again, I'm trying to pick ones that we don't always talk about. Moneyball.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay, Moneyball.
SPEAKER 10 :
That's a good one. Reinventing something.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay, I have a clip. Don't have time. The Holdovers. Trust me, very inspirational.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, I agree.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah. Okay, Richard, go. A Beautiful Mind. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 10 :
Russell Crowe. Russell Crowe. Absolutely. Go ahead. Imitation Game.
SPEAKER 16 :
Oh, okay. Pay It Forward.
SPEAKER 10 :
Oh, that's a good one, too.
SPEAKER 16 :
Great acting, by the way. Great acting. Richard, you're up.
SPEAKER 15 :
Let's see here. Andy... 127 hours, so in case you need to saw your arm off.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, no thanks.
SPEAKER 16 :
I can't watch that movie. You see, I'm way too impatient. I would have sawed my arm off in the first hour.
SPEAKER 10 :
Just got it over with. Go ahead, John. I know we say this one a lot, but it's such a great movie, Peanut Butter Falcon.
SPEAKER 16 :
Oh, yes, absolutely. You know what? I get called a Jew that I like Jews too much, too, so life is beautiful. There you go. Richard, you're up. see here andy october sky oh yes jill and hall i have a great clip there we don't have time go ahead john okay uh and you said pay it forward right so i get that one off of here uh let's do a man called auto by the way that's a great movie yeah tom hanks yep uh passion of the christ gotta put that in yeah richard go oh thanks andy for that one the green mile another tom hankster oh yeah yeah absolutely john
SPEAKER 10 :
How about Hoosiers?
SPEAKER 16 :
Oh, yes. Richard, I'm surprised that you remember the Titans. Andy, we use it all the time.
SPEAKER 15 :
I know, but it's inspirational.
SPEAKER 16 :
How could you forget the Titans, especially with Denzel?
SPEAKER 15 :
I never forget them, Andy. They're always in my heart. You're up. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 16 :
Million Dollar Baby. Oh, yeah, that's a good one. Good one. John? Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Oh, nicely done. Nicely done. I can only imagine. Got to have that one. Richard, go. Geez, no kidding, Andy. Twelve Years a Slave. Excellent. Excellent.
SPEAKER 10 :
Patch Adams.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay. I believe you can make any movie inspirational just by putting Morgan Freeman in it. Glory.
SPEAKER 10 :
Good one.
SPEAKER 16 :
Go ahead, Richard. Fair enough. And or Samuel L. Jackson, Andy, and Coach Carter. That's a good one. Excellent. Excellent. Go, John. Catch me if you can. Excellent. The 15, no, the 10. The 10 commandments. Go ahead. Richard, you're up.
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15.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, you know, we could do the 15 too.
SPEAKER 16 :
I've played that so much. The pursuit of happiness.
SPEAKER 10 :
Oh, good one. Excellent. Go ahead. Hitting figures.
SPEAKER 16 :
Here's one. The intouchables. Trust me.
SPEAKER 10 :
Intouchables, not untouchables.
SPEAKER 16 :
Very, very, very good. Richard, you're up.
SPEAKER 10 :
Let's see here. The impossible. Nice. Go ahead, John. We Are Marshall.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay, how about Young Woman and the Sea?
SPEAKER 10 :
Oh, that was a great movie.
SPEAKER 16 :
Richard, you're up. Saving Private Ryan.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah. Excellent. John? Chariots of Fire. Okay, cartoon, up. Oh, good one, Andy.
SPEAKER 15 :
Richard, you're up.
SPEAKER 10 :
Very good, Andy.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay, same cartoon, not a lot of human interaction here. WALL-E.
SPEAKER 10 :
Oh, I love that movie. WALL-E.
SPEAKER 16 :
It inspires us to be fat.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, exactly. No, not to be fat. I'm working on it, Richard. John, go. Let's do awakenings. Okay. No, that's it. We've got to take a break. That's it. We're done. Richard, I'll let you go. We've got to take a break. I'll let you run off into the weekend. Have a good one. All right. Next, Roof Savers of Colorado. Make sure your roof is all dialed in as we head down this stretch into fall and winter. You can rejuvenate your roof, therefore adding a lot of life to it, saving money at the same time. 303-710-6916.
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SPEAKER 10 :
All right, we are back. Andy, roll a few more off at us. We've got about 40 seconds left.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay, here we go. We've got office spaces, actually. Rudy, Rudy, Rudy. Number 24, the Norwegians against the Nazis. Stand by me, U571, lean on me, Dead Poets Society, and here's a cartoon onward.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay, Sully, the founder, American underdog, McFarland in the blindside.
SPEAKER 16 :
Excellent. How about U571? Oh, good one. Gandhi, The Miracle Worker, Ben-Hur.
SPEAKER 10 :
The Theory of Everything and Unbroken.
SPEAKER 16 :
All right. Driving Miss Daisy, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Believe It or Not, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Hidden Figures.
SPEAKER 10 :
All right. I'll get a couple more in here, then you can do it. Into the Wild, Hotel Rwanda.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay. Ordinary Angels, Babe, Invincible, The Greatest Game Ever Played, Good Will Hunting, and let's go with The Blind Side.
SPEAKER 10 :
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I'm a rich guy
Join us on Sekulow as we delve into the unfolding legal challenges facing New York Attorney General Letitia James, including potential prison time and fines. We also explore her remarkable transformation from a politician promising to sue Donald Trump, to facing her own indictment on charges of bank fraud. What are the implications of this legal battle on her career and political landscape at large? Tune in to discover the depth of this story that goes far beyond the headlines.
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Breaking news today on Sekulow as New York Attorney General Letitia James faces 60 years in prison.
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Hey, welcome to Sekulow. This is Jordan Sekulow. As you can see yet again, not in the studio, back in a home office, but we have important news to discuss today. Yesterday afternoon, you may have seen, may have heard, but maybe you don't exactly know how to describe it to your friends of what happened with New York Attorney General Letitia James, who was indicted by a grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia on two different criminal charges that would combine, if she was found guilty on both, she could be serving 60 years in prison and over $2 million in fines. That's if convicted on both. One is a fraud committed on a financial institution, another with a banking institution, and this has to do with how she purchased a second piece of real estate. And of course, it's different if you're going to, and you get different mortgage rates, different interest rates, even different down payments. If you plan on living there full-time, or making that your primary home at least, or as like a rental investment kind of property. And so we're talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars ultimately. I think in this case it's about $150,000, somewhere in that range, where she, again, checked the box that she would be living in Norfolk, even though she was a New York politician in Norfolk, Virginia. And then we ultimately— knew that she was being investigated on a 2023 transaction also in Norfolk. And during that investigation, they found a 2020 transaction where she had taken that similar step. Remember, this is also something they're looking at with Senator Adam Schiff, another one of those checking the box on what is your primary home and then ultimately going to rental. Now, I want to remind you, this is the New York Attorney General who on the campaign trail, I don't even know, I think we have time to play it right now for you, just to get you in the right mindset of Letitia James. She campaigned on suing Donald Trump, on getting, put that in quotes, Donald Trump. She didn't campaign on, I will be a great attorney general for all the people of New York and all of the responsibilities I would have as president. their attorney general, and all the responsibilities that do come. We work with a lot of state attorney generals. It's a lot of responsibility to say on your campaign trail, really vote for me so you can get someone who you disagree with politically, who's done so much in the city of New York to help the city. When it needed revitalization, when hotel needed to be redone, Donald Trump was there. And yet New York decided through its elected political officers We don't want him to feel like this is his home anymore. And she campaigned on that. I mean, she made it very clear. Let's play it for everybody. This is Letitia James running for attorney general because I want to contrast it in the second segment. We have more time with her statement yesterday after she was indicted. Very interesting. But take a listen. This is Letitia James when she was running for office.
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That man in the White House. who can't go a day without threatening our fundamental rights. Yes, we need to focus on Donald Trump and his abuses. We need to follow his money. We need to find out where he's laundered money. We need to find out whether or not he's engaged in conspiracy. It's important that everyone understand that the days of Donald Trump are coming to an end.
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to going into the office of Attorney General every day, suing him, defending your rights, and then going home.
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Again, folks, I just want to remind you, that is Letitia James, the candidate. Will you sue Donald Trump? This is before she's Attorney General, before any investigation. If I win, we're going to sue him a lot. She is declaring that she is going to get the President of the United States, Donald Trump, before she is even elected to the Office of Attorney General. But we've got more. You've got more to learn about this because her response yesterday, when you compare her tough talk then of basically, elect me and we'll get Donald Trump, she's not so happy when the judicial system finds out she may have committed a crime. We'll be right back. Share it with your friends and family. Hey, welcome back to Sekulow. This is Jordan Sekulow. Again, if you're just joining, and I encourage you especially to share the last segment of the broadcast, this segment of the broadcast. We'll make sure, too, we have it clipped out like we did yesterday so you can share this with your friends and family and understand what's going on when you hear the New York Attorney General Letitia James and many of her allies saying this is some kind of illegitimate crime. uh prosecution interesting because i guess it's done by the illegitimate president as in her words calling donald trump an illegitimate president that she promised to sue before she was even elected attorney general of the state of new york she did all that on camera so if you're watching you i want to play that again for folks but then i'll be playing her statement yesterday because it shows the hypocrisy of the attorney general and of the left in And the Trump, I mean, it truly is that Trump derangement syndrome. As if Donald Trump needed more investigations to find out if there was any criminal activity or wrongdoing done by him or the Trump organization. I mean, by the time Letitia James got around, Mueller was through, impeachments were going on. A second impeachment was then going on, and yet she was going to be the one to get Donald Trump. Mar-a-Lago ends up getting raided. And what happens? Victory after victory, ultimately vindication for President Trump. Even when she got a guilty verdict, she really lost it on appeal because her and the judge allowing this giant penalty. And we can explain that for you in a minute on what she actually did go after Donald Trump for, because it's not what you're going to hear about in these soundbites. So take a listen. This is, again, if you just heard it, I want to make sure for people joining, they know who Letitia James is as the politician Letitia James before she was the attorney general Letitia James. Take a listen and watch.
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I will never be afraid to challenge this illegitimate president when our fundamental rights are at stake. I believe that the president of these United States can be indicted for criminal offenses. That man in the White House. who can't go a day without threatening our fundamental rights. Yes, we need to focus on Donald Trump and his abuses. We need to follow his money. We need to find out where he's laundered money. We need to find out whether or not he's engaged in conspiracy. It's important that everyone understand that the days of Donald Trump are coming to an end.
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going into the office of Attorney General every day, suing him, defending your rights, and then going home.
SPEAKER 12 :
He's illegitimate. He is a fraud. He's committed fraud, conspiracy. Now, ultimately, before I play you what Letitia James and how she reacted to her indictment, we'll go through that in just a minute. What did Letitia James get a conviction on with Donald Trump that eventually the penalty was zeroed out and they said, you've got to go back. This is not going to work. Then he was elected president. So that case is on hold. So the New York attorney general, did she go after him for any conspiracy charges? No. Did she go after him for any kind of criminal activity? Not exactly. It was a civil fine. An insane civil fine, so insane that it was overturned in New York State Court on appeal. So you can imagine New York State Court's not necessarily real friendly to conservatives or someone like President Trump, but certainly they can look at penalties and say, you know what, if we start doing this to people based off this kind of bizarre... case, civil action, by the way, not criminal, civil. And what was the charge in the $500 million penalty? You remember that? It was that they overvalued their real estate to get loans. Now, it's interesting, if you know anything about real estate, you know that at one day, you could be valued, your real estate could be valued, you know, at... 10 times what it is in just a year. And we see those fallouts. You see it in your own communities and neighborhoods. Areas get very... People start spending crazy amounts of money. Then there's nowhere else to buy, so there's not anything on the table. People go other places. The economy takes a hit. So at any moment you're trying to value your entire commercial holdings or even your private holdings, there is, again... You really don't know until the day you decide you're going to sell it. You only have an estimate based off the current market. Well, she didn't like the estimate that the Trump organization put forward to some of these banks to get loans. Now, did any of the banks complain? Did they say, you know what? They said that they were worth too much. We gave them this money and they didn't have anything else. They couldn't pay it back. No, all of the loans failed. were paid back on time or early. So there are no issues with actual banks. This is just the state of New York saying they didn't want, as Attorney General James at the head, they didn't want him to get those loan terms because they don't believe his property is valued at that much. Remember, this is that judge in the case that thought that Mar-a-Lago was worth like a few million dollars or something like that instead of the, it's almost priceless, but people don't know if it could go up to hundreds of millions of dollars, even a billion dollars, if the market's right. Now, if the market was to crash in the Palm Beach area, it's still going to be worth more than $10 or $20 million when you're talking about that size of a property. But again, Letitia James, real tough talker. Then she's being investigated on real estate. Did she commit fraud? That was the question. And they were looking at 2023 deals. And then they saw a 2020 purchase in Norfolk where she marked that it would be, kind of confusingly for New York Attorney General, her primary residence. Now, that doesn't mean it has to be the only property you own, but to say it's your primary residence means that you get more favorable loan terms, lower down payments, lower interest rates. So it's very different than if you're buying a property. And many people out there know what I'm talking about, but those of you who may not be in that business, some people do it, you know, it's kind of a side job. If you're not an investor like that, again, you might not know that. But that's how that works. And so... Was Norfolk going to be a primary home? Of course they investigated. No, it was being rented out. Sometimes rented out to family, sometimes rented out to others, and it goes back to 2020. So the Department of Justice convenes a grand jury in Eastern Virginia. Now, is that the most conservative place in the world? Absolutely not. That's where the bureaucracy lives outside Washington, D.C. And she was indicted on two counts. Criminal counts, by the way. She went after Donald Trump on civil counts. She was indicted by a grand jury on criminal actions, two of them. But first, I want you to listen to this other Letitia James, now that she's been indicted. Certainly not the tough talk of, I'm just going to sue him. I'm going to be a pain. He's fraud. He is an illegitimate president. So elect me as your attorney general. So I spend all my time on one guy for the entire state of New York. And that case ends up, and even the financial fine, getting overturned. The case is now on hold. And it's a civil case, not a criminal case like the one being brought against Letitia James and what she is alleged to have done. So take a listen after the indictment was announced.
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This is nothing more than a continuation of the president's desperate weaponization of our justice system. He is forcing federal law enforcement agencies to do his bidding, all because I did my job as the New York State Attorney General. These charges are baseless, and the president's own public statements make clear that his only goal is political retribution at any cost. The president's actions are a grave violation of our constitutional order and have drawn sharp criticism from members of both parties. His decision to fire a United States attorney who refused to bring charges against me and replace them with someone who is blindly loyal not to the law but to the president is antithetical to the bedrock principles of our country.
SPEAKER 12 :
Remember, This is the state attorney general when she was campaigning, and we just played it for you minutes ago, saying that when she got elected, she would sue Donald Trump. She didn't know what for, but she would because he's a fraud and he's an illegitimate president. And ultimately, she came forward with a civil lawsuit. So you saw a very different Letitia James there. We will, again, keep you updated on this. I wanted to go through the legal issues. Again, what was she indicted by the grand jury on? Just to make it clear for everybody, I want you to know the facts. I'm going to read it straightforward. One count of bank fraud, one count of making a false statement to a financial institution. If convicted of both of those counts and is found guilty, could face up to 60 years in prison, 30 years on each count, and $2 million in fines. So we've updated you on Letitia and James. You know where that stands. Israel, Hamas, Gaza Strip, the world, and the Middle East. The ceasefire has gone into effect, which means the 72-hour clock for the hostages to be released by Hamas is now ticking. And so far, Israel is doing its steps that it has to do under the agreement. in the ceasefire, so it's slowly starting to get pulled out of the IDF, pulling out of the Gaza Strip as an international force, which is really a regional force primarily made up of militaries from Arab nations, which is even better, I think, than having the IDF there because of the cultural similarities and also this idea that it's all Israel dealing with the problem. If it wasn't Israel there, there wouldn't be these issues. We'll see what this international group may face. but if it does move forward by monday we should see those hostages released so what do we need to do well of course we've got aclj jerusalem um our office there we've represented some of these families of hostages we represent one who is uh the two twin brothers israel believes are alive they believe there's 20 hostages that are alive And so pray for them, pray that those families are reunited and pray for those who are going to be getting a body, not a live person. Support our work.
SPEAKER 13 :
Welcome back to Steculo. We are going to take your calls and comments on this because we had a lot of people calling in. Do you want to give an update on the Quiet Skies situation?
SPEAKER 12 :
We had our team, obviously, you know, we not only Tulsi Gabbard worked with us here before. Again, her job is DNI. And of course, we have Rick Grinnell, who was the former DNI. But we also represented her. as she was working at ACLJ with us as part of the time period when she was out of elected office and really kind of explaining to people her full move out of the Democrat Party, why she felt like she had no place left and kind of actually didn't just feel like she needed to be independent, but felt like the Republican Party was her new home.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, it was two steps. She went independent, released the book, and then said, you know what?
SPEAKER 12 :
And then, of course, while that happens, she travels a lot. She's fairly high profile, doing a lot of speaking and events. And she's noticing she keeps getting that designation on her boarding pass. I've gotten it before. My wife has gotten it before. It's supposed to be random. Random. And again, to get it over and over again, to have agents on the plane, and it was getting kind of personal too, like going through her personal belongings in front of people. So you would go through security, and then oftentimes she would have to do it again at the gate, and sometimes they would take her to a back room. But again, this is just, it's personally, you feel like, listen, I didn't do anything wrong, so nothing's going to actually happen to me, but I'm being actively spied on. And then we find out three more Republican members of Congress only republican this was happening to also so you have the government using a power that is supposed to protect us from terrorists to surveil and kind of i think kind of i mean make life tougher just like you know kind of show them hey you're we're the ones in charge using power in the worst way because of people's politics. And again, when the government ever faces any moves like this over politics, Logan, I mean, that's the worst of the federal government. And so what I love about the hearing and the ACLJ's work on this, and let me thank our donors again, because these are tough, complicated cases, especially we took it on in the administration that was in charge. And Rand Paul said, Senator Paul said, this was only uncovered because of Tulsi. And we uncovered it with her right here on this broadcast. And now that we uncover it, we fought back and represented her.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, absolutely. We actually have a bite from earlier this year. So this is from January this year of Tulsi Gabbard speaking about this, speaking about specifically the Quiet Skies program. When was this and where was this? Just so I know, so I can give people information. This was during her confirmation hearing. Okay, so let's take a listen to Tulsi Gabbard.
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Biden, the FBI abused its power for political reasons to try to surveil Catholics who attend traditional Latin mass, labeling them as quote unquote radical traditionalist Catholics. Personally, just 24 hours after I criticized Kamala Harris and her nomination, I was placed on a secret domestic terror watch list called Quiet Skies. Sadly, there are more examples. The bottom line is this. This must end.
SPEAKER 13 :
Remember, this is what we were living through. I mean, I think it became very normal for all of us. And maybe you're very quick to forget. You're very quick to move on. It's why, you know, we've always had to say the only thing difference is like when we start talking about the FBI now or the DNI and those kind of things. I have to reframe my mind to not immediately think of corruption and it's like, what are we talking about? Because so much in so many years, I mean, really, even during the first Trump presidency, we were dealing with a lot of it's just the beginning of draining the swamp.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah. I mean, so much of what, when you talk to Rick Grinnell, I mean, he was basically brought in as D&I after Ambassador to Germany to say, you know what, we've got to kick this off because even the first people put in place were not tough enough to fight the bureaucracy. What was already built in, yeah. And so it started with Rick and then now Tulsi, someone who has seen The abuse of this is is in charge. So they have a massive job of not only the main job of DNI, which is to keep us safe and to make sure our intelligence agencies are working together to keep us safe from terrorism, protect Americans, protect American troops. and using it in the most effective way. It's also about not letting people use this for unconstitutional and illegal ways because of politics or because of views that you have. And so the fact that it was not just Tulsi, which we assumed it would not be, but because she was brave enough to come and speak out about it, we now know three other people, they said, wait, this was happening to me too. And again, that doesn't mean that tomorrow if you fly and this is on your... No, it does happen. Randomly to people. But if after every flight, and if you start noting that there's air marshals sitting next to you or behind you, yes.
SPEAKER 13 :
Go to our website. Go to aclj.org slash help. Especially if you're someone who's very active on social.
SPEAKER 12 :
That helps people. Like Tulsi, it helps the people inside the Trump administration. There's thousands upon thousands of people here with this kind of power. So they want to route out the bad guys, the bad operators. Sometimes they're able to do that on their own. But again, it always helps if you have people come and say, this is happening to me. And this is who's doing it.
SPEAKER 13 :
Absolutely. We're looking right now, if you're watching any of the news, they're showing live shots of the floor right now. I just want to say, tell me those people look like they're panicking and it's the end of the world. No, you got people giggling and laughing in the corner. All of your bureaucrats and your senators and congresspeople are all... Don't feel like this is the end of the world the way they make it feel. It's uncomfortable. It's not great. But you can see the seriousness on there. Look at their faces. Their faces tell me it's not, you know, is there anything they're playing cards with you? They're not playing cards with themselves. Let's go ahead and take another phone call about this. Let's do the government shutdown. We can talk more about Tulsi as well if you want to call in. Let's go to Brian who's calling in Virginia. Brian, go ahead.
SPEAKER 07 :
Hey, guys. I'm just so upset. just so upset about what's going on with this government shutdown that i'm actually at the hospital now in the emergency room and i'm getting treated for government shutdown itis which is actually a real thing yeah i mean did they not they couldn't there's no one there to see you right that's uh yeah well it wasn't a government hospital i had to go to civilians so i'm good to go yeah i mean this is the thing from most americans
SPEAKER 12 :
Will not feel an impact. I'm not saying that no one will. Of course people will. They said 25% of the federal government. They will get back pay. Yeah, furloughed. So if they were supposed to get their paycheck next week and they were still shut down, that paycheck is coming. And they've been through it before if they've worked for the federal government in the last five years. So they know that the check is coming. Now, President Trump did say this. You want me to fire more people? Because the American people are about to see that we could probably keep all this going without at least 25%.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, I think that's what happens. Look, it happened, sadly, a lot during COVID. I think a lot of people realized their businesses were bloated. Unfortunately, I mean, it costs a lot of people jobs, but you realized, oh, we have gotten a bit in an American culture where we are overstuffing a lot of our organizations. Obviously, the government has been for years. We don't want to cause anyone to lose their jobs, but it becomes a little bit more of a reality.
SPEAKER 12 :
No, right. It's not like the person who's just a good civil servant should be punished here. At the same time, if your bureaucracy is so bloated that your debt and the spending is out of control, that that civil servant, even if they lose their job, ultimately that might be better for them financially and their family. In a few years, even, they might be recovering better because of what else happens if we don't get the spending under control.
SPEAKER 13 :
First half hour flew by. We want you to continue being part of this conversation. We do have a second half hour of the broadcast coming up. It's me and Jordan. We're talking it all out, talking government shutdown.
SPEAKER 12 :
Ask any of those questions you want. to be able to answer to your friends too. Use this broadcast because we're here. We've got the info. So 1-800-684-3110. And don't feel bad about any question.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, we can walk you through the next.
SPEAKER 12 :
I've been walking through my mind saying, okay, which one does get, which one doesn't, because I want to be very clear to you. So call us.
SPEAKER 13 :
And we'll also walk through what the Democrats want and why, of course, it's a non-starter for a lot of Republicans. We'll talk about that coming up and so much more. But as always, support the work of the ACLJ at ACLJ.org. Catch the second half hour. If you don't get it on your local station, on all our social platforms, ACLJ.org. And, of course, on YouTube and however you get your podcasts.
SPEAKER 14 :
Keeping you informed and engaged now more than ever. This is Sekulow. We want to hear from you. Share and post your comments or call 1-800-684-3110.
SPEAKER 12 :
And now your host, Jordan Sekulow. Hey, welcome to Sekulow. This is Jordan Sekulow. As you can tell, I am in a different office right now, not in the studio. But we thought we had to come to you today with the breaking news from yesterday evening. It was in a key meeting. President Trump was in a meeting unrelated to Israel and Hamas or Gaza. And this deal that we've been discussing, of course, on the broadcast about Israel withdrawing, the IDF withdrawing from Gaza. Hamas demilitarizing, giving up control of governance of Gaza and allowing a basically a team primarily of Arab nation peacekeepers to join in on the fight to do what the IDF was doing to secure Gaza for the Palestinian people that live there. And so instead of having the IDF do that. Well, yesterday in a meeting, there was this meeting and all of a sudden you see Secretary of State Marco Rubio. I think we have the photo we can put up on the screen for folks. You see Secretary of State Marco Rubio in the meeting. He whispers into the president's ear. And what we now know is that the president was told, as he said, that we are very close to phase one of the peace deal being signed and agreed upon by both Hamas and the state of Israel, and that he's got to be ready to go with a statement. And then not soon after that, President Trump did issue a statement on Truth Social about the deal itself. And in that statement, which we're putting up on the screen, and I think it's very key for all of us to, again, kind of, take this in for what it is and also realize it hasn't happened yet. But the statement says that they have agreed to phase one. Phase one is the IDF withdrawal of Gaza. the new international force going in. And then of course, part of that deal is that all hostages, both the bodies of those who were killed by Hamas and those who are still living. Now, Israel estimates that they still believe there are 20 living hostages. Hamas has not totally confirmed that. They haven't told in any statement said, no, it's going to be less than that. What's unique there too is that two of those 20 are individuals that we represented. We brought their brother. They are twins. We brought their brother to Washington, D.C., not long after the October 7th attacks, that winter, to meet with members of Congress and meet with our team. And I've got to thank Speaker Johnson again for setting up those meetings. They met with the top Democrats as well to bring attention to what happened on October 7th. And from, again, none of us wanted to be here two years later. for those twin brothers to return home. So there's that hope that they do remain alive and that they will return home. The other two clients that we represented in that manner, unfortunately, their loved ones were killed by Hamas. and were executed by Hamas. So if that number is 20, it would be an unbelievable moment, obviously, for those families who have waited so long with so little information, and for the Middle East itself. So we're going to talk about the ramifications of that. That's why I came to you live today right from outside of our studio, kind of a grassroots-y way to make sure We broke down all the information for you so that you're prepared for what may happen this weekend between Israel and Hamas and the Arab nations. But I just think about if this deal moves forward, this is the most significant, I think, peace effort in the Middle East that we've seen in decades and would solve a problem. what has been a problem, a serious problem for the state of Israel and its Arab neighbors as well, the Palestinian issue, if you want to call it that, for the first time to say that we're going to move forward peacefully to negotiate what this looks like in the future with a governing body made up of a number of individuals, but not including Hamas. I mean, so it's hard to even imagine getting there, you know, two months ago. So we are going to, my dad's going to be joining us. We're going to be breaking it down for you. Share this with your friends and family. Pray. because no one has been released yet, and the piece has only been in place for a few hours at this point, but it is historic if we get there, and that's why we're joining you today on Sec. Welcome back to Seculo, folks. We're joined by my dad, Jay Seculo. This, again, as you see, I'm not in our normal studio, but I wanted to make sure you heard it from us directly, some analysis of what just broke yesterday evening between Israel, Hamas, the Arab world, the United States, which has been brokering this deal to, one, get to a ceasefire, between Israel and Hamas, second for Hamas to give up governance of the Gaza Strip, the return of the hostages. Israel believes 20 of those hostages are still living. Hamas hasn't said exactly that that's the number, but we hope and pray that it is that number and that they will ultimately return bodies as well. So this will be a first step. We'll see from Hamas if they can meet what they have agreed to. And I want to make that clear. Hamas has agreed to this. Now, until any of that happens, again, we have to be praying that it does. We've represented these families. One of those families, the brother of the twin brothers that Israel believes are still alive. Again, you can understand how they're feeling right now. One, that Israel has continued to confirm that they believe that they are living. And two, that they may be returned home over the weekend or at least early next week. I want to bring my dad right into the discussion, Jay Sekulow, our chief counsel. And dad, I mean, that's kind of point one, is that this would be... ultimately maybe the most historic peace deal in history if it goes through, in the Middle East, if it goes through the way that it is planned to. But even if phase one works, I mean, we haven't seen anything like this since the foundation of Israel. There's been consistent fighting and terror attacks and war since 1948.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, this is very encouraging. First of all, it would bring regional stability, not just to Israel and including Gaza and the West Bank, but it would bring regional stability to the Middle East. And that's very important for the rest of the world. You have to put this also in a context. Iran has been significantly degraded. over the last nine months because of President Trump's orders directly in our US military degrading their nuclear capacity. So you have that also happening simultaneously. We had the introduction of the first phase, what I call it, of the Abraham Accords. I think you're going to see this open up other countries to sign those accords in the very near future. You could already see that the regional players, including the Arab countries, are looking forward to this actually happening, because it will take pressure off of all of them. Of course, our initial and primary concern has been the hostages, because as lawyers, we were retained by those families, a number of the families, to represent their interests before international tribunals, which we did. You mentioned in the first segment, we did it in Washington, we've done it at the UN, we've done it at the European legislative chambers in Europe, including the European Parliament and the Council of Europe. So we have made an international effort here. And I think what you're about to see, and look, it's The details here are the key. It's not now what's been written. That's been executed. It is the implementation of this. Will we actually see the release of the hostages? And Jordan, as you just pointed out, are there 20? Are there 30? Are there five? We don't have a specific number. Israel's intelligence thinks there's upwards of 20. I hope and pray that's the case. I hope and pray there's more. But this is a very positive development, and I think you could see a radical change in the entire region.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, I mean, we know we were with Leron Berman and his twin brothers, Gali and Ziv Berman, who Israel, throughout the conflict, throughout these two years, and their photos are on the screen now, and he joined us in Washington, D.C., Israel has believed and put it out the message they believe that those twin brothers are still alive. And that would be a miracle, but it would also be, I think, something that, again, people weren't expecting this to even be the case anymore, that this could actually come to a close. The way that Prime Minister Netanyahu actually said that this will not be over and we will not stop until every hostage is returned. And with the decimation of Hamas, the decimation of much of the Gaza Strip, a lot of pressure on Israel because of their response. But, Dad, ultimately, if Hamas decides demilitarizes and returns the bodies and those living hostages, Israel did exactly what it said it would do. Well, that's exactly right.
SPEAKER 03 :
And look, I mean, this has been a very trying time for the entire region. Gaza has been devastated. And, of course, the atrocities that Hamas did. And you're negotiating with terrorists. So you're signing deals with terrorists. We got to realize that. But there's a long term play here of regional stability with the way that it's envisioned that Gaza will be redeveloped. And I think that with the leadership of Hamas, it's also been degraded and significantly eliminated that they had no choice here. If the military action of Israel had not been taken, this deal would never have happened. If the president was not a president, Trump did not successfully order the U.S. military to strike those Iran nuclear facilities. This would not have happened. So it took a culmination of months of efforts here to do this.
SPEAKER 12 :
you realize that hamas was cut off from its allies iran no longer had the capability after those attacks to keep supplying them weapons most of their leadership has been uh taken out even when they announced new leaders the same for hezbollah so hezbollah was not able to go in and assist hamas as they usually would and other radical groups i mean their leadership is just decimated we We're not even sure who exactly is claiming to be the head of Hamas in the Gaza Strip right now. Usually they've got their entire face covered when they do any kind of media reports. They have some other political leaders, but most of them also have been taken out as well during this conflict. And I think, you know, Dad, it could rewrite history because we were getting to a point where the world was saying, you know what? This is too much from Israel. This is too much destruction, too much war. But as you just said, If this didn't all happen the way it happened, Israel would not be even thinking about right now any living hostages being returned, the bodies of those who were deceased, unfortunately, but those bodies being returned, and Hamas demilitarizing and allowing an international force, really a regional force of mostly Arab nation militaries to go in and secure the Gaza Strip instead of the Israelis having to do it. I mean... You think about that, hindsight's 20-20, but then you put it all together and realize everything that Israel did, including weathering this criticism and storm and questions about, did they go too far? Was it too aggressive in their response? Like you said, they wouldn't be here today, and they wouldn't be here today if the U.S. hadn't taken those aggressive steps on Iran as well. So we neutralized every single one of Hamas's partners. We made it clear that if you are a leader of Hamas, and Israel made it clear, even outside the Gaza Strip, that you were not safe. And so Ismail Hanei is no more. And their leadership that was inside the Gaza Strip was totally taken out so they say you know that uh they're willing to give up governance they're willing to demilitarize and that i think if that does happen it's because they basically already have given up they can't govern anymore and they can't uh they have they have very little military weaponry left i think their capacity as a both a paramilitary organization as and as uh
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functioning governments is gone. That has also been degraded and decimated. They don't have the capacity to cover. So I want to say something to some of the naysayers out there that were questioning President Trump on this and including conservatives, by the way, and well-known ones. and also those that were taking this kind of anti-Israel stance and they were doing too much. We would not be here today, first of all, if Hamas didn't start these atrocities, number one. Number two, we would not be here today unless the military action of the United States and the military action of Israel in the region had not taken place. So without those two, nothing happens. Now you've got Hamas coming to the table, giving up governance, which they're not capable of doing because they have no choice. They're not doing this because they want to. They're doing this because they have no choice. So, you know, there's vital American interests at play here in the Middle East. considering Iran was threatening to cut off the Strait of Hormuz, which would have removed, I think, 65 percent of the oil and gas transports in the region and also to the rest of the world. So this end result is very positive.
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Yeah, I just want to play this flashback really quick for folks. This is November 7th, a month after the October 7th attacks. We brought those families of the hostages we represented to Capitol Hill. This is Speaker of the House Mike Johnson two years ago.
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We want to thank these families again for their courage and their willingness to share your harrowing stories. And I will say again and reiterate once more, we will stand against these atrocities, and we will stand with Israel, and we'll stand with each of you and your families. We'll be praying for you, and we'll be taking action because that's what we're going to do here. That's what it's called for. I know that your time is short and you have to leave. I want to thank Jay and Jordan Sekulow of the American Center for Law and Justice for helping facilitate the visit today. I know you have a tight itinerary, so we'll allow you all to step off the stage, if you will.
SPEAKER 12 :
So folks, again, that just underscores how long at the ACLJ we've been working towards this kind of moment, knowing that it was an uphill battle anytime you're dealing with a terrorist organization. But I think it's a great reminder of why you support the work of the ACLJ. It's not only the work that we do in the United States, but the work that we do around the world. As you know, Jeff Balaban runs the ACLJ Jerusalem office. We need your support. Donate today. at ACLJ.org.
SPEAKER 13 :
Welcome back to Secular. Phone lines are completely jammed. We're going to do our best to get to as many of those as we can, specifically in the back half hour, but keep trying, keep calling. We'll do our best to get to all of them we can. CeCe Howell is joining us in studio, senior attorney here at the ACLJ. I did want to pivot a little bit. We're going to continue talking about Israel, and CeCe's been to Israel more recently than any of us here, so she can comment as well as we are seeing this maybe historic moment. uh as uh bb net yahoo now i feel like you could have probably played this back uh episodes of this show over the last year and heard a very similar uh thing including talking points including the big deal points now these again i think they're controversial i think when i see the comments coming in a lot of you are not thrilled with some of these plans I do think we need to lean a little bit on President Trump and lean a little bit on Bibi Netanyahu that they are doing what's best for their people. And hopefully that is the case. But it is a bit concerning, some of them, for sure. I understand that. We're going to address those. I did also want to talk... But some of the work of the ACLJ is we have been working on issues involving the persecution of Christians throughout the world, including in Nigeria and other places, for many years, for decades now. It has become part of really the DNA of the ACLJ. It has been our work internationally. As we know, Christian persecution. Now, look, we saw what happened over the weekend. in the LDS church, where you saw right here in our country, we saw many people murdered, church burnt down, all these horrible things that happened to Christians. So I don't want, now I have to say that it feels like a rising tide that's happening right now. But I think what we can do also is turn to what's happening in other countries and go, we're not there yet. We got to make sure we don't get there as Americans. We got to make sure that we don't start treating religious institutions the way that happens in other parts of the world. And it's starting to bubble up on some mainstream news where you're actually hearing people talk about it. This is a clip I want to play for you. This is from Bill Maher, a real time of Bill Maher. This just happened. He had Nancy Mace on. Again, you may go, Logan, you're playing Bill Maher. Now, of course, we know Bill Maher has, he said he hasn't moved politically, but the left has moved significantly from him. He has been someone that's been fairly critical of of uh a lot of especially the the uh he's been very critical on people who are supporting uh the palestinian uh situation the hamas situation over israel it's very pro-israel uh but he also wants to make sure people are actually noticing what's happening around the world in terms of persecution of people of faith let's hear from bill maher can't believe i'm saying that real time with bill maher from just over the weekend
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The fact that this issue has not gotten on people's radar, it's pretty amazing. If you don't know what's going on in Nigeria, your media sources, you are in a bubble. And again, I'm not a Christian, but they are systematically killing the Christians in Nigeria. They've killed over 100,000 since 2009. They've burned 18,000 churches. This is so much more. These are the Islamists, Boko Haram. This is so much more of a genocide attempt. than what is going on in Gaza. They are literally attempting to wipe out the Christian population of an entire country. Where are the kids protesting this?
SPEAKER 06 :
Thank you. No one will talk about it, so thank you. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 02 :
It's Africa, that's why. No one's talking about it, and they should be. You can't read about it on mainstream media. It's sad, so thank you for bringing it up.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, because the Jews aren't involved. That's why. It's the Christians and the Muslims. Who cares?
SPEAKER 11 :
It's just... And Cece, this is an issue that we've talked about here for a long time. If you've watched this show for a long time, you've heard us bring this up. We fought to get Nigeria listed as a country of particular concern under the first Trump administration. And one of the first acts of Secretary of State Blinken under the Biden administration was to take them off that list. But it was because of this persecution. And as you know, you're hearing truth from Bill Maher on this, not someone who's normally like rah-rah for standing up for Christians, but it's the truth and you're not hearing about it. And just talk a little bit about that and the work that we do to raise this.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, and first I'm going to say you're hearing about it if you listen to the ACLJ. You're hearing about it if you go to our website. You're hearing about it if you listen to this radio show because we have talked about it since he says, you know, kind of started in 2009 escalating. And that's true because since 2009, 12 million Christians have been displaced. But we talk about this constantly. I am at the UN constantly talking about Nigeria because as far as Christian persecution goes, more Christians are killed for their faith in Nigeria than all of the other countries combined. And in fact, this year, in 2025, the first 220 days, there have been over 7,000 Christians killed for their faith. That is phenomenal. 32, that's an average of 32 Christians killed per day. And there's over 8,000 people that have been abducted. That's an average of 35 people a day abducted. Now, you think, just like they said, if there are 32 Christians being killed every single day because of their faith, you'd think we'd hear about that. Again, ACLJ talks about it all the time. We point to it all the time. But I'm thrilled that we do now have some mainstream media and people that are paying attention to this because this is a huge concern and it needs to be fixed. and you're exactly right will we were on it because nigeria under the last trump administration was a country of particular concern and that is from the state department it's a designation from the state department and it's specifically for religious freedom violations so if there should be any country in the world that's a cpc It should be Nigeria. And then there are punishments that come along with that. That's why it's critical that it is a CPC. And again, we won't stop talking about this. And I'm thrilled that other media outlets are picking it up.
SPEAKER 13 :
It's one of the things is completely independent media here at the ACLJ. What we do here on our media side is we are able to bring up stories that are not going to get the attention of the mainstream media. But one of the goals is obviously to break through to the mainstream media. is to make sure that our clients, that anything we're supporting, makes it through. It's not just on here. We can be the constant voice yelling, but we understand we are going to be a smaller percentage of people that maybe get their news from some of these mainstream outlets. However, that's growing, that's shifting, that's changing, which is great. However, we couldn't do that without your support because we're able to do this. We're able to go to court. We're able to go to the UN. We're able to do all of these things, take action as well as report. A lot of people can't do that. So I want to encourage you, of course, to support the work of the ACLJ while you're at it. But it's true. We all live in sort of little bubbles. I send Will all the time because I'm very connected in sort of the, I guess you'd say the Israel Zionist side of this. I send Will news stories all the time where he's like, this wasn't even on my feed. It's like, yeah, it's not necessarily that you're doing anything to keep it off your feed. It's just, you have to get so plugged into such a niche audience. That sometimes these things that are big stories or are big portions of stories aren't reported.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, even that point that there was that madman that ran into a wedding at a country club in Connecticut and or New Hampshire, one of the two, and had a shooting. My feed was only headlines of mass shooting at wedding in New Hampshire. Yeah. Nowhere in the headlines that I was being fed was it that the gunman cried, free Palestine, before committing his murders. Right. Once again, the narrative changing before you, you are being manipulated. Yeah, you have to be really careful. And you're being manipulated by a lot of people on the right right now when it comes to Israel.
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Yeah, absolutely. I think you've got to make sure you're staying tuned in. Now, I'm very happy to report that it looks like a lot of our people are awake to it. You know what I think is good is that you're seeing a lot of the people who have been the most trusted sources. for decades now, including even your senators. Those are the ones whose voices are loud and have been calling out some of this. And at least you are trusting some of these voices you've trusted for years. Now, that being said, there obviously is not. It's the most I've ever seen in my lifetime. where the conservative audience, if you will, has not been supportive of Israel until the last couple months. But you know what? Maybe today things change as President Trump meets with Benjamin Netanyahu. Hey, we get back. We got a second half hour coming up. Support the work of the ACLJ. I need you to go to ACLJ.org right now. Whether it's CeCe's incredible work she's doing at the UN, whether we're supporting Christians in Nigeria that are being persecuted for their faith, or what we're doing just around the world. The ACLJ doesn't exist within the borders just of America. We're doing work around the world. Go to ACLJ.org. We'll talk to you next week.