In this gripping episode of The Dana Show, guest host Greg Collins dives into the complex web of accountability in politics today, using James Comey's testimony as a case study. Through an in-depth analysis of Comey's contradictory statements under oath, Greg explores the broader implications of such actions in our justice system. Moreover, he reflects on how these instances of hypocrisy reflect a broader trend in political and media landscapes, urging listeners to stay informed and vigilant. Join us as we navigate these turbulent waters with full disclosure and a critical lens.
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This is The Dana Show. My name is Greg Collins filling in on special assignment. Thrilled to be with you. D Lash, Dana Lash Radio on X on Twitter. Great ways to stay connected to her and all the awesome things that are happening on social media for her and her team. And honestly, you really should follow that because there's a lot of great things that happen there. All right, let's do some stuff. Let's talk about things. James Comey has to be a topic of conversation. And I want to do this the best way I can, because I think a lot of mainstream media is going to trash this. And then a lot of far right media is going to praise it without contextualizing what exactly is happening. Or they'll do some version of it, but I don't think it'll be good enough. So I really want to go the extra step here to help you understand what is occurring. The left forever has told us that no one's above the law. It doesn't matter what you do. If you break a law, any law, you deserve to have the book thrown at your face as hard as it possibly can be. And that would be essentially their their big, giant version of we didn't go after Trump unfairly. We went after Trump because he deserved it. All the crazy times that they tried to get him in a courtroom. What I think is amazing about that is Comey definitely lied under oath. And that is something that is against the law. You're not allowed to do it. You're not supposed to do it, etc., etc., especially not if you're someone who's involved with, say, the FBI, for example. Let's go ahead and prove that first before we do anything else. Comey, who in his own book has made certain mentions to things and also has definitely demonstrated that he was a source that leaked things to news media. Well, under oath to Congress, he said, I did no such thing. How dare you for even accusing me of something like this? You horrible, terrible people on the right.
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Director Comey, have you ever been an anonymous source in news reports about matters relating to to the Trump investigation or the Clinton investigation?
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Never.
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Have you ever authorized someone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source in news reports about the Trump investigation or the Clinton investigation?
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No. I needed to get that out into the public square, so I asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with a reporter. I do it myself for a variety of reasons, but I asked him to because I thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel.
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Wait a minute. So you lied under oath. And you're the one admitting it, by the way. James Comey is the one saying, yeah, I did the thing that I told you I didn't do. My bad. Whoops-a-daisy. How dare I do this? And by the way, remember, everyone was so, so happy when they said that no one was above the law. Everyone deserved to be in trouble, including, I think, James Comey, who at several times during 2024 said that Trump needed to be thrown in the hooscow and had absolutely no remorse in believing that Trump was guilty of something and deserved to be imprisoned, even as he was running for political office and evidently in front of Joe Biden at the time.
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a lot of people have suggested that there are a range of factors that would make it difficult to put a former there's not the system has not been tested in this way do you agree with that that would be difficult or nearly impossible for the law enforcement institutions to put him in in actual jail no they would just put him in a double wide somewhere out near the fence out in the grass and he would eat there he'd shower there he'd exercise there he'd be away as donya perry said from general population but it's obviously doable
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Obviously doable. We'll throw him in a double wide. I hope James Comey gets thrown in a double wide. But anyway, all of these things were to demonstrate the fact that Comey definitely broke the law. And that's what he is being indicted for, for making false statements and obstructing justice. It's that simple. By the way, James Comey's son-in-law apparently has also resigned. He was someone who helped prosecute the January Sixers. He has left his office as assistant U.S. attorney because the trash is now taking itself out, as Nick Sordo and others said, which I love. There's so many versions of this, though, that seem to demonstrate to us How ridiculously hypocritical a certain side of the political world is, the landscape in which we live today. And actually, this might be another interesting example of that. The FBI has finally acknowledged that there were plainclothes agents in the massive crowd on January 6th. But you're going to be surprised at the exact amount. I'm not surprised, meaning you didn't think this was true all along, but surprised that they've finally given us a number that seems to demonstrate how many of the, I don't know if you want to call them conspiracy theorists anymore because they keep being right about stuff, but how many of the conspiracy theorists really thought existed. 275 plainclothes agents were in the massive crowd on January 6th, 2021.
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That's a lot of people. That's a significant amount. of the individuals who are in that crowd, maybe potentially telling people what to do or how to make something worse and not better. All of this seems to matter quite a bit. Again, In the grand scheme of things, there's a lot of people who have forgot about it. It's four and a half years now. Who cares? You've moved on. Well, actually, if you're the left, you haven't moved on from the idea that January 6th was the worst day in society, which it wasn't, of course, not at all. And context definitely demonstrates how far from the truth that actually is. But more so than anything else, what I think is important about that idea or about that discussion is Because it's just the same old, same old for people who pay attention that eventually you get the truth. You eventually hear it at a place when they believe that we're not paying attention anymore. And that's when we have to pay attention the most. We have to eventually throw this in people's faces because we want the truth from jump. We don't want them to delay it. We don't want them to try to avoid it and try to push the goalposts as far back as possible before inevitably, you know, doing what they're doing. All right. I do want to play this audio, too. This is James Comey talking about how there's a cost to standing up to Donald Trump. He's an innocent man, even though he himself admitted that he lied under oath when he gave a different answer later on to a question he had definitively said no to. It seems pretty easy in the grand scheme of things. If you haul this gentleman into court and just play his audio against his audio, you should have an open and shut case.
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My family and I have known for years that there are costs to standing up to Donald Trump, but we couldn't imagine ourselves living any other way. We will not live on our knees and you shouldn't either. Somebody that I love dearly recently said that fear is the tool of a tyrant and she's right, but I'm not afraid. I hope you're not either. I hope instead you are engaged, you are paying attention, and you will vote like your beloved country depends upon it.
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You know what's really interesting about this, too, by the way? James Comey is someone who absolutely lied under oath by his own admission. He didn't say it that way, but he demonstrated that it's true. And then he goes the other road in telling you that you need to be motivated and fight the tyrant. Every time that they tell us, that we're the bad guys, which the left does all the time. They claim not to. They claim not to have supercharged and this version of rhetoric that does make things dangerous in society. They claim that that's not them. And every time they say that you're the bad guy and they're the good guy, you just have to see stuff like this. because it's always about what's best for them. It's always about what helps them the most. Complaining or pretending that this is a version of dictatorship because James Comey is actually going to be held accountable to something he did that was wrong. And remember, nobody is above the law. I believe that's something they told us a whole lot of times. that everyone is, you know, the same and we're all supposed to be prosecuted no matter who we are, no matter what our role is. I think Letitia James said that multiple times. I think I even have the audio of that, actually.
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No one is above the law. No matter how rich, powerful, or politically connected you are.
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Our job is to follow the facts and the law without fear or favor.
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The fact is, no one is above the law. No one, not even the president, is above the law.
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Yeah, but James Comey is. Apparently, according to the left. But anyway, they tell you you're the bad guy, that they're the good guy. And then you find another example of how they are liars. How they are people who are manipulating and changing anything and everything for their own benefit. And by the way, one other quick thing. We're doing a walk down memory lane, I guess, to start the show today. All the late night hosts who were up in arms about Jimmy Kimmel. And the fact that he was almost fired and then he was allowed to have his job back. What I think is amazing about that. And there's two things, actually, that I think are really important. First, Jimmy Kimmel wasn't imprisoned. He wasn't murdered. He was allowed to keep doing everything that he wanted to do, just maybe not on network television. That is definitely an example of the freedoms that exist in our country. If this was actually a dictatorship and a horrible place where free speech wasn't allowed, Jimmy Kimmel wouldn't be a man walking around free. He'd be in jail somewhere, imprisoned there by a dictator who didn't want to hear him talk anymore. That didn't happen. That never happened with Kimmel. But the other thing that's amazing is the hypocrisy. It's always the hypocrisy, people, because so many times... Late night media praised the idea of Donald Trump, President Trump at the time, being silenced, being removed from social media because they thought it served the greater good. And then Jimmy Kimmel absolutely tried to pretend as though the person who murdered Charlie Kirk was somehow a MAGA Republican. He claimed that. Absolutely, he did. There's no version of rewatching that where you think something else happened. 100%, that's what occurred. And then he pretended as though he didn't say that when he came back in his non-apology. But again, nonetheless, people wanted someone to be held accountable if it's someone on the right or if it's someone as significant as Trump. to things on social media. They wanted them actually to be removed from society much more than Kimmel was. His Twitter wasn't shut down. None of the things he had access to were taken away other than network television. And really because he made a whole lot of people mad, which he's done for a while. And that doesn't really help his ratings. It has nothing to do with punishing him because the people who are upset with him are in power. It has to do with the fact that it's bad for television business if half the people in the country think you're an absolute jerk. But here is late night media celebrating Silicon Valley and the removal of Trump, the censorship of Trump, something that they then were up in arms about when it even sort of kind of not even all that much at all happened to Jimmy Kimmel.
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Trump has been suspended from Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and even Snapchat. But don't worry, Mr. President, there are still plenty of apps you do have access to. You still have Spotify to drown out the sound of millions of people cheering as you leave. Google, Apple, and Amazon removed the Parler app from their platforms. Parler is where all the right-wingers gather to post QAnon sense and misspell the word parlor. Trumpers are complaining bitterly that they're being silenced. In fact, they won't shut up about being silenced.
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I love having Donald Trump off Twitter, not to mention all the other toxic racists and conspiracy theorists that have been booted off.
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Oh, damn. A lifetime Twitter ban has got to sting. They took away his precious. Twitter isn't the only social media. I'm good.
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You get the idea. There's a whole bunch more of this, but it's terrible. It's awful. And they were thrilled about it when it was someone they disagreed with, not when it was one of their own. How dare you do that? That's the end of society. All right. Quick break. A lot coming up. 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. My name is Craig Collins filling in. At least two scientists are telling us the best way to fight back against AI is to bomb the labs. That's real. A couple scientists say that right now artificial intelligence is outpacing human thought at a very scary amount. Essentially, the computer can think about things in about 16 hours that would take the human brain 14,000 years. to process, which is bad, according to at least two scientists out there. They say there's no real way to turn it off. It'll just figure out how to turn itself back on for the best course of action, and they think we should do it now. Bomb the AI lab. I think I'm fine with this, in all honesty. The version of AI that I experience on a daily basis that is constantly annoying is when it tries to finish my text messages for me. It's never right. It's always wrong. I don't want it to do that anymore. Stop it, AI. Let's bomb the labs. I'm all for that too. Obviously, you want people to leave the labs first and then we bomb the labs in case anyone wants to go after me for saying bomb people. I didn't say that part. This is a great story. Producer Steven sent this along. There is a South Bay area woman in San Francisco who's trying to find love, and she's doing it in a very weird way. She's put up a bunch of billboards throughout all of California asking people to marry her instead of going on the dating apps, which apparently might not have worked so well for this young woman, although she's not exactly that young either. She's now doing it this way. And I think Channel 4 News in San Francisco decided to cover this story, which I thought was ridiculous.
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When it comes to love, some people swipe right, but one Bay Area woman named Lisa is taking her search for a husband to new heights, quite literally with digital billboards from Santa Clara all the way to San Francisco off 101. I just want to meet somebody, and I was just not having any luck any other way.
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the billboards showcase lisa's face and her website marylisa.com a page she built after too many bad dates and there it's where you can apply to be her future husband yeah uh no everybody should be saying no to every part of this this is crazy this is scary and in all honesty the thing i love most about the ridiculousness of marylisa.com and that is you'd never ever want to admit to anyone this is how you met the person you're married to You wouldn't be like, well, I was driving around one day and your mom put up a bunch of billboards throughout all of California begging someone to marry her. And I was like, I'll give it a shot. She's obviously got some cash because she spent all this money on these billboards and this website. So maybe that's what it is for some guy out there. But no, this is a level of desperation you should not reach in your life. We all know this. And you would never want to be again proud of someone eventually meeting you this way. Just talk to people at bars, lady. Men are easier than women, I think, in that way, in who you talk to. No one's going to get mad at you. Just try it out. No more billboards. 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 D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio on X on Twitter. A great way to stay connected to everything going on for her in this show. By the way, this is just sort of fun for me or anyone else out there. The president's at the Ryder Cup this weekend, which is something I would do if I were the president of the United States and got an opportunity to travel to the Ryder Cup. There was also a really cool flyover. that occurred as President Trump, I think, arrived there at the Ryder Cup, which is a golf competition for anyone that doesn't follow or isn't aware of that part, which is just sad. You should be more aware of these things. But here we go. Here's a little of that.
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For the land of the free
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By the way, every part of that. You know what I love about Trump going to a bunch of sporting events, whether it's UFC, anything, is how different it is than Biden showing up in this stuff or anybody on the Democratic side of the aisle. Because there's two things that are great about it. First, when Trump goes to certain events, he demonstrates that sports is something that's accessible to conservatives, which oftentimes the agencies that run these sports, you know, like the NBA and whatnot, would desire for you to stop paying attention. They seem to almost hate you and how they behave on certain things. Golf is not within that world. I think that's one of the exceptions. UFC, other things are. But the other reason I love Trump going to this stuff is that Biden would have been afraid to be seen in public. It seemed like very, very often. And there are other people in the Democratic Party who show up and get booed places. But Trump often gets celebrated at a bunch of the sporting events he attends, which demonstrates how much of the actual American people like him. how much they actually do approve of this man, even if mainstream news media is going to tell you that he's a horrible, terrible, awful person. By the way, this is just funny. I'm going to play this audio too. This is Trump saying that Jasmine Crockett is a low IQ person. Again, he's been saying this a lot. The Texas politician does seem to be a person who's just Definitely not up there. I would not rank her high along the Einsteins of the world in society, especially as she becomes more and more of a person that likes to speak in that weird slang that she didn't use when she first ran for office. But she definitely seems to use now. And she wants to be this tough person all the time and how she talks about certain political issues. But this was this was pretty funny. Here's Trump.
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Jasmine Crockett.
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Remember what I said? Is she a relation to the late great Davy Crockett? I don't think so. Jasmine Crockett, let me tell you, before you even ask. She's a very low IQ person. I mean, if we ever had to pass an aptitude test, that's the one should take one because she shouldn't even be in the crowd. So I have no idea what you're going to. But I don't think we should waste our time. This is a low IQ person who I can't even believe is a congressperson between her and Ilhan Omar.
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OK, I do like that he mispronounced Ilhan Omar's name. That was pretty funny.
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Somalia. Did you know that? And I suggested that maybe he'd like to take her back. And he said, I don't want her.
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That's hilarious, too, by the way, that he's like, hey, we have someone here in our country that claims that our country is terrible. Would you like to reacquire this individual? And Somalia says no. Like, no, thanks. We're good. You keep that one. She can stay with you. That's hilarious. By the way, Trump did actually touch on something important, too. He talked about how George Soros and others might actually be probed for how they back left wing terror groups. This is absolutely stuff that I voted for. I love when someone on the left actually shares their version of this and says, did you vote for this? This is authoritarian or a dictatorship again or whatever crazy Nazi Germany version of things. And I'm like, yeah, I absolutely voted for the rules to be applied equally to both sides and not disproportionately applied to just one side of the aisle. Investigate people like Soros to see if they have ties to terror groups. And guess what? If they do, throw them in jail for it. That would be wonderful. That is not a bad thing. I hear Trump talking about that.
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Yeah, go ahead. Let's see you defend them, Jeff. No, I'm not defending anyone. So that we can explain this in our stories, could you name a couple?
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You don't explain it right, though, Jeff. Go ahead, let's go. Maybe let's give you another chance.
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Go ahead. Antifa, Soros. What names are we talking about?
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Well, Soros is a name certainly that I keep hearing. I don't know, but Soros is a name that I hear. I hear a lot of different names. I hear names of some pretty rich people that are radical left people. maybe i hear about a guy named reid hoffman somebody's a pretty rich guy i guess and i hear about him i don't know maybe maybe could be him could be a lot of people we we are the same names but they're bad and we're going to find out and if they are funding these things they're going to have some problems because they're agitators and they're anarchists these are anarchists Really bad. Okay, yeah.
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Yeah, they're really bad people. The Antifa and the individuals who show up and do horrible things at all kinds of events, they're not good people. And if you're forking over cash to get them to show up at things, you in fact are part of the problem and you need to be held accountable for it. I love the version of media that tells you that you can do anything you want to investigate the right. Any red herring that you want to chase down is fine if it's in the name of making sure that everything's on the up and up. That's what mainstream media will tell you is there's nothing wrong with an investigation. Let's see what's going on here, except when the investigation is on the left. And yeah, if nothing gets turned up from this, fine. If something does get turned up, I love this part of it too, actually. I'll respond to this idea because I'll have this conversation with a friend of mine on the left and he'll say, well, they'll make something up. They'll investigate and then they'll create something that's not real. And then they'll hold somebody accountable for this fake thing. I've never heard of that before. No one's ever done that to the right or to Trump before. But here's the part that I love about that. is it immediately assumes that you're an idiot or that I'm an idiot or that everybody in society is a moron because we wouldn't be able to parse out the truth ourselves given more information. The left is terrified of giving you more details. They don't want you to even want them. And as I said before in the show, the fact that 200 plus plainclothed FBI agents were part of the January 6th crowd, even though they denied anyone being involved for quite some time till eventually getting to the point where, oh, yeah, we had almost 300 people in that group of individuals. The thing about it is they always tell you that like the information could hurt you. If it looks bad for us, it'll radicalize you and that'll make you a danger to society. So we have to keep this secret. But also we have to go after anything and everything, no matter how ridiculous it sounds, as long as it's going after the other side, because at the end of the day, all they believe is that they can shape the narrative. They believe that they can convince you of anything. And unfortunately, there's a lot of people on the left who repeat all the talking points that demonstrate to me that you haven't done enough research. You haven't looked far enough. I'll tell you this. I have a social media page, Radio Craig C. It's nothing compared to the Dana Lash, D. Lash radio pages that you should be following. Those ones are way bigger, way more important. But I put something up on my Facebook at Radio Craig Z, and this crazy lefty came after me. And all I said was that I was shocked and needed to process the death of Charlie Kirk. That's literally all I said. I said there'd be a podcast out. I'll talk about this in more detail. But right now, it was one of the most shocking moments of my entire professional life, honestly, of my entire life. Not the most shocking. That would be 9-11. But one of the most shocking. And this left person was so angry. that I would actually care about the murder of Charlie Kirk at all, that they came after me and they said all kinds of crazy things. And my favorite thing happened within that interaction with this nuts person who seemed to be overly mad about something that they shouldn't be anywhere near this mad or mad at all about. If I care about Charlie Kirk and you don't, which says something about you to me, why does it make you mad that I care? Why do you want to change my opinion of who and what matters to me? That's a unique thing that makes the left so deranged and insane. But going back and forth, the person accused me of not caring about January 6th. And then I told them that they had the wrong data. And so I shared a link with them. And I think the link was from like factcheck.org, which is overwhelmingly to the left, that demonstrated a lot of the things they were saying were false. And my favorite thing happened. There's a long story. I promise it has a value. They shared the same link back, which means they didn't read my link. And they said, we can play the link game all day long. And then they sent me back the article I sent them. And this is a wonderful demonstration of, I think, what we deal with a lot when you talk to people on the left. They are so arrogant. They are so full of their own opinion that they demonstrate how little research they actually do. My response to the person who tweeted me back, or this was on Facebook, sent me back the link I sent them, disproving their narrative, believing it proved their narrative simply because of the source and the headline, and they didn't actually read the article. The only thing I said back is maybe you should actually read that, that thing that disproves what you're saying and proves what I'm saying, that I cherry-picked from the left, even though there's more of them, because the truth is simply the truth in that scenario. But I love the arrogance of that. And when the left is confronted with the idea that they've done very little research to have the opinion they have, they double down even harder. They go, how dare you? How dare you say this? How dare you say that? And they continue to demonstrate how little information they actually have and how little information they want. So, of course, their side of the aisle assumes that they're idiots. It's a unique version of demonstrating how little you care about finding the truth to do something like that, where you share something that disproves your point that someone just sent to you, not paying attention to any part of it. I know I'm overly harping on this, but it was such a chef's kiss moment of the stupidity of this is incredible. Because if it were me, like, let's say, and I know I'm... Sort of a public figure, barely a public figure. Certainly the fanciest thing I do is fill in on the show for Dana, who's definitely a public figure. But let's say that in a scenario where I'm arguing with someone, I share a link that definitively disproves my point. The first thing I do is read the article, especially if someone had to point out to me that I hadn't read it, which is uniquely embarrassing. I would go and read it and I would actually sit there for a second and try to process why I believed something that I accidentally proved to myself wasn't true. Like there's something about that, that desire for more information that just seems to be the biggest weakness for some. You just shouldn't, you need more of it. And so again, to go back to, I guess to make the main point, I was trying to make this odd rant of a thing and promoting my social media page at Radio Craig C. If you want to follow, that would be awesome. It's not really valuable. At DLash, at DanaLashRadio is better. I probably shouldn't say that about my own social media pages. But the thing that I love most about all of this is the idea that some people absolutely knee-jerk away from gaining more information. I think that's why people hated Charlie Kirk so much on the left and seemed to celebrate someone's death. which is uniquely horrible. That's a part of our society that you think you'd never get to. We're even the people who are doing it. I think if they really searched their soul, there has to be something. At least I knock on wood and pray there has to be something in them that knows they're doing something horrible. But it's because Charlie Kirk would disprove people to their face using basic truth and knowledge and information and did it respectfully. As Dana said, they killed the nice guy. He was very nice and respectful. And all these videos you might be seeing now of Charlie pop up after his death, which makes him more significant, more impactful in society, continue to show how respectful he was compared to the average person, especially a lot of people on the left and how they behave in these arguments. But it's just amazing to me. Again, to watch all that unfold and to watch someone actually be a useful idiot, you know, in the moment, showing me how little information truly matters to them and how that can be weaponized and used. The best thing you can do left, right, middle, I don't care what you're at, is to actually educate yourself more. And this is something that Charlie Kirk also said a lot by being someone who's constantly learning. who learns for your entire life, who never stops learning, who never accepts a narrative simply because you heard it once. Dive deeper, read more, see if you believe it after that. All right, quick break, a lot coming up. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in just for the day. Dana will be back on Monday. Thrilled to be with you. DLash, DanaLashRadio on X, on Twitter, on all kinds of social media. You should be following The Dana Lash Show. Both Dana and her team, including producer Stephen, do a great job of keeping you up to date and giving you a whole bunch of stuff that you might have missed that you should check out there. The NFL is going to Brazil, baby. In 2026, they'll be playing a game in Rio. This is part of, I think, a five-year deal to play NFL games in Brazil. I think this is abundantly cool. I think it's cool when baseball does it. I think it's cool when football does it. When you go play our sports, somewhere else in the world, you give more people an opportunity to appreciate our version of football or our version of anything, not the horrible soccer version that people everywhere else in the world seem to think is actually football. No, no, baby. It's the real deal. There was an odd thought that came across my mind, and I don't know. I'm going to use this as a word vomit section of the show where I just tell you or a thought vomit section of the show where I tell you stuff. For some reason, I thought that Brazilian cheerleaders would also be a big draw. Brazil is known to have very attractive women. Maybe during the game in Rio, they also get a set of Brazilian cheerleaders to pop up onto the field for a bit. there but we'll see but it should be cool I love that they do this again that the NFL that MLB this is the best thing they're doing all the woke horrible stuff that happens in the world of sports right now is the stuff that makes me and I'll never tune out I like sports too much to ever turn it off I definitely will tune out to the stuff that I don't care about though and only pay attention to the stuff that I do but this is an exactly different version of that and you know what's also funny You see this anytime they go somewhere else. They don't preach as much. It's not about anything other than the product of the sport. There's not, you know, the woke statement inside the end zone as often as you see other places because the other countries don't care about that. And oftentimes you'd actually be unpopular in some of these countries for some of these things you might say and do, which is why I think they don't do that. All right. other stuff out there. There is one other thing that I thought was pretty interesting, and we'll probably get to it more in a little bit here, but the UK is going to have a digital ID for the right to work there, which is crazy. I have some audio I'll likely play after the break about that. But the United Kingdom... Maybe one of the only places that's an exception to the rule I just said about how wokeness is unattractive, at least for the politicians, maybe not the people, is blazing this crazy trail that we've seen again and again fail in other places throughout the world. but getting further and further away from you having any rights and freedoms at all as a person. No freedom of speech, no freedom of all these certain issues, which is just interesting to see from afar how terrible of an idea it's been. Quick break, a lot more. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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This is The Dana Show. DLash, DanaLashRadio, and X on Twitter. Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo some boobs on is just a great... I need that as a bumper sticker for DanaLash. My name is Craig Collins. I'm filling in. That is funny. You cannot do that, by the way. nor would you ever want to. Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo some boobs on. All right, let's talk about some things. This is amazing. This is the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth. By the way, much cooler name. I would prefer if we had always used Secretary of War instead of ever getting away from that. But he called for an urgent meeting for all military leaders to report to Virginia. They're going to have a chit chat. A rare urgent meeting is how it's been described a whole lot of places. The big question being asked by some is our woke generals getting fired. And I think that would also be great. I think there's no problem with that. Actually, it's funny. Let me parallel it with another story out there. Let me try to add both of these together. The White House has said it might lay off some people. This is a response to a potential government shutdown, which the left is saying is not their fault. And the right is saying is not their fault, of course. You know, it's interesting about this, too. Whenever the government's about to shut down and the left is in power, my reaction is I don't care. Not that it's changing because the right is in power. I want to make sure that you expect that going in. I'm not going to change my mind, but I don't care. The government can shut down for a little while, for a long while, and I feel like it's not actually going to impact my life all that much, your life, a lot of our lives. And eventually, unless you work for the government again, you're probably not even going to notice when it gets turned back on because it will. They also should stop. They should stop paying the politicians who are in charge of shutting down the government. They never do that, but they should anytime they shut it down. The only exception to this rule is I think it's ridiculous that we stop paying military. A military always deserves to be paid, should always be paid. That should be the group of people that's above shutdown, not the politicians who are doing the shutting down for all kinds of political and stupid reasons. But anyway, when that happens and when the left is in charge, that's usually my reaction. What I think is interesting is that people actually react differently now with the right in charge, who would also say that they would say, oh, it's important or all the left is being terrible. I don't actually care. And to be honest, I'd kind of like to see it if the White House can use it as a way to fire people who are probably far left leaning, bureaucratic, longtime, you know, government employees who don't need jobs. If the secretary of war can use it as a catalyst to fire people from that part of our military slash military. a political system. I'm fine with that too. Maybe all of this barreling towards shutdown is inevitably to actually fire a bunch of people, which again is something I voted for. I'm totally fine with that. That sounds great. Let's do it. I just think it's funny when people do flip flop on some of these issues, when they're not intimidated by the idea of it, when Democrats are wielding power and seem to be doing it on purpose. And for some reason they and I'm not saying who, but other people less so seem like they're gung ho about it. If the Republicans are in charge, I'm totally fine either way. Shut the baby down and fire a whole bunch of people. I totally fine with me. All right. Other things out there? I thought this was interesting. President Trump said that he believes there's going to be a deal in Gaza, a deal to end the conflict, another conflict that the president would end, yet even more so demonstrating that he is the commander-in-chief of peace, something that he will not get credit for here in this country, but may get credit for on a world stage. Let's hear a little bit of that.
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I think we have... Maybe a deal on Gaza and very close to a deal on Gaza. I think it's a deal that will get the hostages back. It's going to be a deal that will end the war. It's going to be a deal. It's going to be a deal. I think we have a deal. That'll be number eight, Peter.
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Number eight, Peter. He's talking to the Fox News guy. That's number eight as far as the amount of peace deals we've created during my time, my very short time in office. What I think is really interesting about this, too, and that was right before Trump headed off to the Ryder Cup, where he definitely seems to be having a good time, and I would be, too, if I was the president and got to go to the Ryder Cup. What I think is interesting about the potential for a deal in Gaza or a deal anywhere else or any of that ushering in of peace is how the left inevitably tries to change it. They try to somehow discredit it, somehow find an avenue to where this was done wrong or this could have been done sooner. Biden not only was terrified of being in front of media, he did not do what Trump does on a daily basis. Anyone who does what I do for a living, what Dana does, anybody who pays attention to media, you can find a Trump clip every day. And it's not because he did one thing that's been viral for weeks. It's because Trump is providing a clip to media every single day. When the left says that his brain doesn't work, that it's broken, that he can't pronounce acetaminophen, which I don't know, that did happen. I'm not going to pretend it didn't. I don't know why. Maybe Trump's not a guy who takes Tylenol a lot, so isn't aware of that. But nonetheless, when they point to those things, they ignore the ridiculous amounts of audio that exist on a daily basis that disprove that idea. I would not have said that Biden's brain was broken if he was doing this many interviews this well with media every day. But of course, his administration knew that he wouldn't. So they protected him at all costs from anyone and everyone in media. And actually, it's not like they could roll out the vice president. Her word salad broken crazy things seem to demonstrate that her brain might also be broken at a much younger age, which is probably bad. A case in point might be this. There's a new viral clip that shows Kamala Harris talking about how babies would be passed around at her rallies. This is a weird thing to brag about, by the way. Like, not pass to her to kiss them. She just, like, would see in the audience a whole bunch of people just passing around babies. Whether or not that's my child and I trust all the people around me to give the child back to me, that's not important. We're celebrating the vice president, apparently, and her run for office by passing around babies just at any kind of event for some reason. Here is how Kamala Harris described this.
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You know, one of my favorite things to see, and it would always happen spontaneously at our rallies, and thousands of people would come, and it would happen is invariably somebody would want me to take a picture or to hug their child, and someone in the back would hand that baby over. Just hand the baby. Through the crowd. Up to you. Of people who would hold and care. But pass the baby.
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See.
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And then pass the baby back.
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Pass the baby back. This is ridiculous. It didn't happen, by the way. This not only didn't occur as often as Kamala Harris wants to say it did, but if it did, she should have immediately said no to this. Like, don't just hand your baby to strangers. Don't do that just to get a picture with me and the baby. This seems ridiculous and bad. It's insane. And there's so many different versions of just broken, ridiculous, lying craziness. But that is Harris. And she also said it with that twang and voice that she's trying to use, depending on who she thinks her audience is. Her speech changes, which is weird, and it happens for a lot of people in politics. And I want to say another thing about that real quick. I know that's not what this rant is about, per se. If you're someone, Jasmine Crockett's another name that comes to mind, and Trump recently called her low IQ again. But if you're someone who talks like that in your real life, like when the cameras are off, when you're not in front of the microphone, and you can say it's because of your ethnicity or whatever you want, If you're someone who talks in, you know, that weird version of speech that I don't use as a white dude, then do it all the time. Don't do it occasionally. Do it constantly. Own who you are. Be yourself. Don't be performative in another way if your performance is actually the version of you that doesn't speak like that. I think that that would be good for society is to be who you are all the time, because it would make me not accuse you of being performative when you do it occasionally, when in front of certain audiences. And Hillary Clinton did this. A bunch of other people did this. And I know if you're a black, you'll couch this in. Well, this is how I actually am. I just can't be this way because white people wouldn't like it. Well, that's as inauthentic as the opposite, as pretending that you're something you're not, depending on what crowd you're in front of. Just be yourself and see if you can get votes that way. But that's why I don't believe it. I don't think that these individuals are like this. And actually, what I most appreciate... I guess this is the last thing I'll say before I take a break. I most appreciate about Trump, about Elon Musk, about Charlie Kirk. Very tragic to have lost Charlie Kirk. I know I didn't fill in for Dana after that, and she did an amazing job. You should check out the videos and audio that's out there, Dana, who knew Charlie and how she talked about him. But something that they said about Charlie Kirk that they say about Elon and Trump, same person. in front of microphone, in front of camera, as they are off camera, off microphone, exact same, same beliefs, same thoughts, same mannerisms, just identical individual. And that is so rare in our society, especially in politics. It's so rare that it deserves to be celebrated. And these individuals who don't do it, who don't do any form of it, deserve to be told that they need to behave differently and be rejected by society until they actually are the real version of themselves, whatever it is. Because the performance is the thing that acts like you and I are stupid. It definitely does not respect the audience when you do performative versions of anything. And so I think it's sort of amazing that we have that version of defense that comes out whenever someone does throw in the slang more. And then they say, well, that's who I actually am, but you can't take it as the white people out there or the whoever out there in society. So I can only be myself occasionally. That means you're a liar. And that means you're probably lying about a whole bunch of other things, if it's even true that the lie you're telling us is actually a fact and not just another lie. All right. One last thing. I do want to play this. This is an announcement in the UK that a digital ID will be required to work there. More authoritarian, crazy Nazi type of stuff is happening in the world. It's not happening here. It's happening in the United Kingdom.
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And that is why today I am announcing this government will make a new free of charge digital ID mandatory for the right to work by the end of this parliament. Let me spell that out. You will not be able to work in the United Kingdom if you do not have digital ID. It's as simple as that.
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Yeah, this is a thing that's happening. More things are happening. A digital ID is the first step toward Chinese government takeover is what many people are reacting to on social media because China. use this as a foundation for their own surveillance, their own state surveillance of their people. So great job, UK, barreling further and further toward an unrecognizable thing, or at least it should be unrecognizable, to the people here in the United States and what we deserve to have, the freedoms that we think everybody is entitled to, a right that you were given by God and not by any sort of military or political system. All right, quick break. A lot more. 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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That's right. It's time for a Quick Five on the Dana Show. Thrilled to be with you. My name is Craig Collins filling in. This is funny whenever this happens. But a ref turned on a microphone during Thursday night football last night. And just as he was talking and making a call, a player walked by him and said a very bad word. Seattle, Arizona, final score 23-20. This moment probably, you know, as entertaining as a very good game. Here we go.
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Jackson Smith and Jigba, who didn't really need to make the hole, is right in front of the ball carrier. Offense number 11. 10-yard penalty. Be careful. He even looked. He did. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Uh-huh. Oh, yeah.
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beautiful I love all the reactions to it after they hear the bad word that gets played on television mostly because I bet you the player did it on purpose I think that you know as the mic's on you want your side of the equation to be thrown in there and that's what it was so I like that all the time I like when players are mic'd up I like when baseball does it everything about it is just a lot of fun let's get more of that going on I don't care if bad words happen it's a part of the game baby They're saying a whole lot of bad things on the field all the time. Amazon has agreed to pay $2.5 billion to settle a lawsuit about deceptive practices and forcing you into certain things as far as your Amazon Prime membership is concerned. Deceptive Prime enrollment practices is what it was saying. The suit was filed in 2023 under the Biden administration. It claimed that Amazon created confusing and deceptive user interfaces that led consumers to enroll in Prime without knowing it. pay a whole bunch of money. So yeah, yet another company that's big and terrible and overly powerful in our society doing something bad and getting hit with a speed bump that they'll pay. Even if the speed bump is that significant, they'll figure out a way to throw that money in and just keep going, just keep doing more of the same. All right. Another thing out there, Starbucks has announced significant store closures and layoffs. This is causing a whole lot of chaos on the left. CNN is one of the places that reported on this and talked about how it might be because Starbucks has dealt with a whole lot of employees who have unionized. And that means that Starbucks is bad, not the other thing. The thing is that Starbucks is struggling a whole lot because a bunch of its stores not as popular. apparently, and the amount of money they're paying off their workers, maybe not as great as it used to be. So again, a big reason why likely this whole thing is shutting down or not all of them, but a bunch of Starbucks are closing is because you can't force a business to do something that doesn't benefit the business. Inevitably, they just close the whole thing down. Not surprised at all. And again, I don't think I'll go into the fear mongering version of this is bad because because this is how companies react to losing money. They close businesses. There's a guy that needs to be publicly roasted. Ticketmaster CEO says concert tickets are too cheap. Actually, that's ridiculous, of course, to a whole lot of us. But the CEO at Ticketmaster would like concert tickets to be more expensive. So he makes more money. Mostly what he's saying is that they get resold on the secondary market for more money than actually people pay for them originally, and it's cutting into his profits, baby. What an idiot. 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 for the day. Dean Lash, Dana Lash Radio on X on Twitter. Great ways to stay connected to her at Radio Craig C if you want to follow someone way less successful than Dana who's way less active because I don't have people like the fancy producer Stephen helping. Dana does a lot of it herself too. I make for some awesome social media posts. All right, let's talk about Call Me. It's the topic of conversation. The left is going to tell you that this is politicizing the DOJ, weaponizing it against your political opponents. All the stuff the left did to Donald Trump while he was running for the office of president is now happening to James Comey. This is according to the left again. Not someone who's actually significant. Comey's not going to be running for the president and winning anytime soon, which is why that narrative is uniquely ridiculous. But let's first prove that it's a thing that actually deserves to happen. Comey lied under oath. He is going to be in trouble for that, most likely, in trouble for all kinds of things like, you know, preventing obstructing justice is actually the way to say it, but preventing investigations from going the way they should go because of the lying and the dishonesty and the whatnot and the illegal stuff. Again, all ways to say it. But here's proof that Comey actually did the thing that Republicans are likely to hold him accountable for doing.
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Director Comey, have you ever... been an anonymous source in news reports about matters relating to the trump investigation or the clinton investigation never uh question i really love how quiet it got after that answer from years ago uh because everybody's like yeah no we know he's done this two one relatively related. Have you ever authorized someone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source in news reports about the Trump investigation or the Clinton investigation? No.
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By the way, eventually Comey went on under oath to say that he did exactly that thing that he just said he didn't do. So lying under oath all that bad, not good. These are things that get you in a lot of trouble. Comey, for his part in all this, is saying, let's have a trial. Let's figure out if what I admitted to doing is something that I inevitably did. And you can prove in a courtroom I did because you can just play tape of me doing it and then, you know, disagreeing with myself years later. Here we go.
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My family and I have known for years that there are costs to standing up to Donald Trump, but we couldn't imagine ourselves living any other way. We will not live on our knees and you shouldn't either. Somebody that I love dearly recently said that fear is the tool of a tyrant and she's right, but I'm not afraid. And I hope you're not either. I hope instead you are engaged, you are paying attention, and you will vote like your beloved country depends upon it.
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Which it does. Yeah, by the way, I love the fact when he says she and then he's trying to refer to somebody he loves because it sounds a whole lot like it's Hillary Clinton. That's not my joke, by the way. I'm stealing that from Sergio Sanchez of KURV, a Dana affiliate, who texted me that this morning. He's like, hey, man, you should just say that it's Hillary that he's talking about because it kind of sounds like it's Hillary that he's talking about. But I love the fact... That he says we're going to fight. We're not going to bend the knee to Donald Trump. This was a person when he was in a position of power that claimed he wasn't politically biased, which seems ridiculous and insane when you watch who the person's been after he thinks the rules don't apply anymore. And they're they're off and he's allowed to say and do whatever he wants. By the way, I'm fairly certain. that a whole bunch of people claim that no one's above the law. So if Comey lied under oath, if he obstructed justice and prevented an investigation from going the way it should go by protecting himself from getting in more trouble, but actually causing himself to likely be in a lot of trouble now, then he deserves to have the book thrown at him. That's not my opinion. That's the left's opinion.
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No one is above the law. No matter how rich, powerful, or politically connected you are.
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Our job is to follow the facts and the law without fear or favor.
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The fact is, no one is above the law.
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No one, not even the president, is above the law.
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And not as James Comey, above the law, according again to the left and their rhetoric, at least as I'm supposed to believe it. By the way, James Comey's son has also quit. He was a assistant U.S. attorney. He resigned. He said it had something to do with his dad or some crap. But the reality is he's probably hiding and running from anything that's terrible that he's also doing and a part of. What I love most about this And this is what I'll go back to in the audio from Comey before. I can play a little bit more of it, but some part of me doesn't want to. I think that's enough. He said, let's have a trial. And I agree with him. Let's have a trial and see how much trouble he actually gets in. But the thing is, they always have to make it about you. It always has to involve you. A James Comey lied under oath about leaking information to the press that he shouldn't have leaked to the press. And his version of rhetoric to try to get you to support him is you're next. You're the next person on the chopping block. And the Democrats as a whole, the people who voted for the Democratic Party, haven't done that. They haven't had the opportunity to lie under oath themselves. So it's not about everybody. It's about him. It's not a fight against authoritarianism. It's not a fight against, you know, the dictator that Donald Trump is not, but they claim he is. It's actually just a person getting their comeuppance that they deserve, that they were stupid enough to admit themselves to having done. All right. Another piece of audio that's pretty interesting out there and more left-leaning people or just far-left crazy people that could get in a lot of trouble involve George Soros and Reid Hoffman, President Trump, who said he doesn't really know who they are, which I do love that, too. I don't believe it, but I find it amusing when he says these things. But he's not deeply tied to the investigation is what he's trying to get across. They might get in some trouble for backing some left-wing terrorist groups. That would be another no-no in our society.
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Yeah. Go ahead. Why don't you defend it?
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Let's see you defend them, Jeff.
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No, I'm not defending anyone. I just want so that we can explain this in our stories. Could you name a couple?
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You don't explain it right, though, Jeff. Go ahead. Let's go. Maybe let's give you another chance.
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Go ahead. Antifa, Soros. What names are we talking about?
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Well, Soros is a name certainly that I keep hearing. I don't know. But Soros is a name that I hear. I hear a lot of different names. I hear names of some pretty rich people that are radical left people. maybe i hear about a guy named reid hoffman maybe he's a pretty rich guy i guess and i hear about him i don't know maybe maybe could be him could be a lot of people we we hear the same names but they're bad and we're going to find out and if they are funding these things they're going to have some problems because they're agitators and they're anarchists these are anarchists Really bad. OK.
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Yeah, they're really bad people. A whole lot of people are very bad people. In fact, actually, in other news that seems somewhat related to the whole anarchist thing and the whole funding of terrorism thing. And this is just something that the FBI has finally admitted. They had almost 300, like 250 plainclothed agents in the crowd on January 6th. And of course, those people didn't actually try to push to have the thing that happened happen that day. Of course, that wasn't the FBI agents in the crowd trying to make something worse and not better because they were doing it for political reasons at the time. Of course not. But they finally admitted this years later that a whole bunch of, quote, conspiracy theorists thought was happening that were then told and, you know, yelled at for being horrible people that needed to be canceled and their social media pages needed to be removed. And then apparently they were right all along. Because very often now the conspiracy theorists are actually right, which is why we probably can't call them conspiracy theorists anymore. And by the way, celebrating Kimmel this week has probably been one of the most annoying things the left has done. I don't think they'll be watching long term because Kimmel's just really not that good. He alienates half his audience and how hardcore politically he is. Something that, you know, I really love a quote from Johnny Carson about this. And I'm about to be 40, so I'm not someone who grew up watching Carson. But you can still appreciate the significance of Johnny Carson to late-night television. And one thing he said about not sharing his own opinion in that world is that if you do it too often, it starts to become something that you believe is more important than just entertaining people. You start to be so full of yourself—this is Carson's opinion— That you no longer are serving your audience. You're serving yourself and how you throw out your opinions on a daily basis in the world of late night entertainment television. And I think he's absolutely right about that. There are places and forums where what you choose to go and consume is going to be opinionated, political, whatever. I mean, this show is a great example of that. Dana is not going to be shy about her opinions on a daily basis on this show because that's what this show is about. But if she were given a late night, you know, entertainment talk show, I shouldn't speak for Dana, but I think if anybody were given a late night entertainment talk show, some part of them might say, hey, if I can try to lay off the politics a little more in that atmosphere, maybe I'd have a larger audience. This is something that Kimmel and others seem to refuse to learn that Johnny Carson knew is that if you're not coming to me for political opinion and when you used to turn on late night entertainment interview TV, you weren't going there for political opinion. And a whole lot of people do not go there for political opinion now. That's why they don't watch it. Then you shouldn't add it. You actually you know what I also love? It's something that a couple guys in sports radio talk about. I won't name them. I don't want to push you anywhere other than this show. But I do love when people say that the audience determines what I pay attention to, not what I think of it. That's not how the audience gets to tell me what to do. My opinion will always be my own. I have to share my own. I have to be honest about what I think because anything else is going to fail. Honestly, that's the number one trick I think of media in general, whatever form you're on, is say what you actually think. It'll be easier than trying to make up stuff that you don't believe. But as far as what topics you discuss, absolutely the audience can dictate which ones you should be focused on because it's the ones they care about. and the ones they probably most want your take on. And that's something that comes from sports media too. And I love that when people say that, when they push you that road, because it is true. It is valuable to pay attention to the things that other people are paying attention to. Now, case in point, to get back to something else I was trying to say, though, is late night hosts celebrated Trump being censored and removed from all media. Jimmy Kimmel, for about a week, lost a network talk show. He got it back, but he lost it for a few days. He wasn't silenced at any form of social media. He absolutely joked about the death of Charlie Kirk, and he absolutely tried to point the finger at MAGA and claim that the killer of Charlie Kirk was a MAGA individual, which he's absolutely not. No part of that makes any sense. He then came back without apologizing and said that he never meant to say the things he evidently said. But nonetheless, he wasn't silenced as much as Trump was. This did not occur in the same capacity whatsoever. And here is the left celebrating the silencing of someone that they heavily disagree with. Again, something that didn't even happen to Kimmel. But now Kimmel and others are pretending as though it's a freedom of speech thing for them and for, you know, this one person to be kept on network television, even though, as I said a moment ago, he's already alienating half of the audience. and how he chooses to be overly political when they're really coming there for entertainment, or at least used to come there for that and not for the political ranting.
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Trump has been suspended from Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and even Snapchat. But don't worry, Mr. President, there are still plenty of apps you do have access to. You still have Spotify to drown out the sound of millions of people cheering as you leave. Google, Apple, and Amazon removed the Parler app from their platforms. Parlor is where all the right wingers gather to post QA nonsense and misspelled the word parlor. Trumpers are complaining bitterly that they're being silenced. In fact, they won't shut up about being silenced.
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I love having Donald Trump off Twitter, not to mention all the other toxic racists and conspiracy theorists that have been booted off.
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Damn. A lifetime Twitter ban has got a sting. They took away his precious. Twitter isn't the only social media site that wants nothing to do with our president. He's also been banned or restricted from a bevy of other platforms, including Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Reddit, and even Twitch. What are you waiting for, Pornhub? It's not a coincidence. Yeah, way to go.
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Stephen Colbert, hilarious, hilarious stuff. Anyway, again, they all celebrated this. And these are the same people that are up in arms now saying that, you know, the right to have a talk show is the same as the right of a president of the United States to be left on social media platforms. The silencing of Trump while he was still in the office of president is absolutely one of the most ridiculous things that ever happened in our society. And it should be the same thing where the, you know, free speech warrior is up in arms screaming and yelling and all of them were celebrating it. So you reap what you sow seems to be an aspect of that in the world of these individuals being so proud of something. If it inevitably even remotely close to the same, which it wasn't happens to them, they get to react the way they do. But guess what? We're not all that surprised that it occurs. And maybe more of these people deserve to be fired because they don't have anywhere near the audience that Carson used to have. Because no one cares about hearing their political opinion so much. Let the audience tell you what it wants to hear you talk about. Don't be defiant in the face of that when your ratings are terrible. All right, quick break. A lot more. Craig 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. I am Craig Collins filling in. A Florida man put somebody else in his car over a crazy, crazy argument that happened at a 7-Eleven. So a Florida clerk is working, and a dude comes into the 7-Eleven in Florida, of course. The guy, I think, is 49 years old. This is in Seminole County where it happened, and he wants to buy some black and milds. He wants to buy some cigars, some very popular small cigars, actually. He said that the clerk didn't immediately stop cleaning up to serve him. So he got mad. He started to yell and they got into a verbal argument. And at one point, the clerk at the 7-Eleven decided to usher the man out of the establishment into his vehicle and lock him up. which I find hilarious. I also do think that it's the kind of thing that you're sort of weak if you allow someone to do. But anyway, nonetheless, yes, the guy, the defendant, wound up getting shut inside a vehicle that he couldn't get out of for some reason. That's when he called 911 to say that he had been detained and arrested by the 7-Eleven clerk who thought he was being disrespectful in the first place. This only happens in Florida, man. You only have somebody walk into an establishment, get mad about the service they provide, and then have that person who you're mad at decide to pseudo arrest you, which is illegal. That is a crime. You do get in trouble for that. He said the defendant that he was scared that something else might happen, which is part of the reason he went along with being locked inside the guy's car. Come on, dude. Just leave. Just decide not to get your black and mild and leave when the clerk is berating you for being upset with them and then also threatening to lock you into their vehicle. This story is crazy, though. Another Florida man that I do like, a guy in Marion County, decided to build a tire fortress around his property. when he thought people were being a little bit too nosy. This is the kind of thing I just accept and not even really pay attention to, to be honest. If I live next to a Florida tire fort guy, I just think that was the cost of living in beautiful Florida. 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. D-Lash, Dana Lash, Radio on X on Twitter. Great ways to stay connected to her. I'm going to laugh every time I hear bippity boppity some boobs on. That is not something you can do and not something you want to do, in all honesty. Great show, as always, for Dana. Great everything. Check it out on social media. I listen to this every single day. Thrilled to be here today for... All right, let's do this. The president signed a national security memorandum that's going to establish a comprehensive strategy to investigate, disrupt, dismantle, do everything against organized political violence. Essentially, the people who fund what is domestic terrorism in our country, we're going to attack it and go after it. This should be universally praised as a good thing because and this is kind of crazy that I'm going to say this as if it's something people don't agree on. Terrorism is bad. All kinds, even the domestic kind, even the kind that causes all kinds of violence and horrible things in our country based on politics. Here we go with President Trump.
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Sir, this is a presidential memorandum on countering domestic terrorism and organized political violence. In recent weeks, months, and years, we've seen a tremendous upsurge in some highly visible but also other acts of domestic terrorism and organized political violence being perpetrated by radical politically motivated groups all over the country. What this presidential memorandum will do is set off an administration-wide response to that. ranging from the Joint Terrorism Task Forces to other components of the Department of Justice to the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Treasury. We're looking at interdicting these groups, preventing them from performing acts of violence and also looking at sources of organization and funding and support that prop them up and allow them to do the acts that they have been doing.
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This is great. Let's let Trump continue to say that, but this is a good thing.
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We're looking at the funders of a lot of these groups and... You know, when you see the signs and they're all beautiful signs made professionally. These aren't your protesters that make the sign in their basement late in the evening because they really believe it. These are anarchists and agitators, professional anarchists and agitators. And they get hired by wealthy people, some of whom I know, I guess, you know, probably know them. And you wouldn't know it at dinner with them. Everything's nice. And then you find out that they funded millions of dollars to these lunatics.
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Yeah, this is the kind of thing that we should actually investigate and go after and check. And anyone who says that this is a slippery slope, that all you're going to get is a whole bunch of manufactured fake, you know, not actually guilty of anything accusations in order to go after your political opponents. I'll then prove that when it happens. That's usually my best response. Let's actually see what the accusations are. Let's react to them in the moment as they're happening. But let's go ahead and make sure that people can't fund terrorism. Even here domestically, that seems like a good thing, even though somehow this is something that people disagree on, who are saying that the DOJ is now weaponized and that James Comey is an example of it, which is insane in other ways. All right, I'm going to shift gears for a second away from Comey. I'll probably talk about it in about 20 minutes or so before we get out of here today just because it is such a big story. He has been indicted by a grand jury, and he's likely to get in a whole lot of trouble for lying under oath, something that you can easily verify he did via the video of him doing it, and then the other video years later of him contradicting the thing he said. So this should be an open and shut. a version of a thing where Comey gets in trouble for actually breaking the law. And if no one is above the law, then it's good, right? On the left, that Comey's in trouble? No, of course not. All right, let's play this. I have two pieces of audio. that I love. There is an obsession with talking about race that doesn't need to exist in our society right now because it seems to be designed only to get political points. A case in point might be Representative Presley, who recently said that as a black woman, she is both hyper-visible and invisible, which doesn't make sense. That begs the logical question, how are you both of those things? I'll play this audio real quick.
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There has been such a targeting. To be a black woman is to just walk in this dichotomy of being hyper-visible, where you are surveyed, targeted, criminalized, while also hyper-invisible. Because contributions are ignored and denied, if not relegated to a footnote, and our pain delegitimized. And that's the dichotomy that we're
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Yeah, no, wrong. I'm sorry. I don't know how to say this differently. And I know that you're not allowed to talk about race at times. Some people believe this. I don't believe this. I'm assuming you don't believe this. I'm a white guy. I'm going to talk about race. Charlie Kirk would often debate certain topics with race as a component of it. And then the left called him a racist, which he evidently wasn't, not even at all. And essentially they killed it for they being society in general, for being willing to have these types of discussions as a white guy. I think that is a byproduct of what happened there. But anyway, what I think is crazy about this idea is that saying that you're being silenced because of your race provides you a microphone in our current society. There's a lot of things that provide you a microphone saying, this thing that I did is not getting the amount of recognition that it deserves because of my race, my sex, my whatever. If you're anything other than a white guy, the odds of someone amplifying that megaphone around you because they believe that narrative is through the roof right now. So Presley absolutely has more of a presence in society and the things she says and does are focused on by a whole bunch of people in society because they believe it's somehow a reaction to the racist world in which they believe they live in, not the actual society that we live in where people are hyper-focused on in a positive way. for being people that say they're being marginalized. That is simply the world we live in now. Jasmine Crockett is another individual who all the time says that the focus on her isn't fair or isn't enough or it's too much at other times. When she also says a bunch of really ridiculous and idiotic things, this is something that Trump reacted to yet again. Someone asked a question about Jasmine Crockett and Trump did not pull any punches in how he feels about the representative.
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Jasmine Crockett.
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Remember what I said? Is she a relation to the late great David Crockett? I don't think so. Justin Crockett, let me tell you, before you even ask. She's a very low IQ person. I mean, if we ever had to pass an aptitude test, that's the one should take one because she shouldn't even be in the crowd. So I have no idea what you're going to, but I don't think we should waste our time. This is a low IQ person who I can't even believe is a congressperson between her and Ilhan Omar and the group. You know, I met the head of Somalia. Did you know that? And I suggested that maybe he'd like to take her back. And he said, I don't want her.
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He doesn't want her back. Here's the thing. Jasmine Crockett and a bunch of other people are going to say that Trump's being a racist. And then anything I say that's negative about someone who's in a position of power politically, if they happen to be a black woman, is racist. Like, oh, that's racism. That's horrible. That is a protection that exists in our society that wouldn't happen if someone says that Trump's a low IQ person. And the left obviously says this all the time. No one would be like, how dare you marginalize a white man? That's not how they behave in society. So that inevitably allows you to protect someone who does seem like just a low IQ person. And it has nothing to do with her race, her sex, anything. It simply has to do with the ability of her brain to think valuable thoughts and the lack of ability to do that. That's a Jasmine Crockett. That's some of these other people in society, but they're protected. To a certain extent, they're immune to criticism because they can pull the race card, the sex card, the whatever, a marginalized version of a card that they want to try to pull in order to get a larger microphone, not a smaller one, which is why it's ridiculous for politicians to say, Presley and anyone else, that it makes them invisible to be anything other than, say, a politician whose thoughts matter most. There's a reason why Democrats... keep trying to bring a woman forward to be the next president of the United States. The reason why is they think that you would vote for her because she's a her, not because her thoughts are valuable or good. They want to do the same thing they did when they believe Obama got elected because of his race. even though Obama, I think, partially got elected because he's a very eloquent speaker. Now, granted, he didn't actually do things that were good for society the way that he might have convinced people in 2008 he was going to. He did all the bad stuff that people behind closed doors do. But I think the real reason... that someone got elected has more to do with, you know, their capability, at least publicly, more so than their, you know, simple color of their skin or whatever. But that's not how Democrats think. I mean, look at the politicians that they've paired with Hillary Clinton and with Kamala Harris when they ran them. Generic older white dude who's overly woke, overly, you know, feminine. The Tim Walls, the Tim Canes of the world are people that are eerily similar because they also think very little of you. They think that you will vote for someone based on anything other than the the content of their character. And the beliefs and the, you know, things that they espouse, the policies and the things that they stand by, those things are things that are marginalized on the left instead of your race, your sex, etc. And yet the left still complains that somehow those things are what's holding those people back. That is insane. Anyone and everyone. who's in a position of power because of DEI type of stuff, knows it. They know that it's something, and they lean on it, and they claim that it's still harming them when it's done anything but. And as a white dude saying that out loud, I could get in trouble, and yet I don't care at all. All right, 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. D. Lash, Dana Lash Radio and X on Twitter. Great ways to stay connected to her and everything going on for this show. Let's do this first. An elderly care home had introduced robotic dogs and cats as a way to tackle loneliness. Also, I think in China right now, there are more robot workers than anywhere else in the world combined. The amount of robots doing work in China is skyrocketing. scary. But elderly people in England now get to interact with robotic dogs and cats instead of just getting real dogs and cats, which feels like the thing you should have done. I think there's some audio for this story, too. I'm not okay with the robotic cat purring sounds or the robotic dog barking sounds. All this just seems wrong. It just seems weird. I'm not okay with it. Robots are slowly taking over, essentially, is the story there. And a twofer, both in China and in the UK. All right. Another story out there that I thought was interesting. A Linkin Park lullaby album is dropping today. A Rockabye Baby is the name of a group that turns music into lullaby music. I have a piece of audio for this one, too. But I just think it's hilarious that Linkin Park is the latest to get the Rockabye Baby treatment. Because if you're someone who loves this music and you want your kids to love it too, no better way to start the brainwashing early than to play it as lullaby music as they're going to sleep. Here's an example.
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Okay. Okay.
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If you can't tell, that's In The End by Linkin Park without any vocals and a lot of lullaby treatment. This is a company that does a whole bunch of this. I actually kind of like this. I think this is kind of cool to be able to rock your kid to sleep with whatever the rock music of choice or whatever music of choice you have is. so that you can demonstrate to them how great this music is and slowly and surely turn them into someone who's as big of a fan as you are without them even knowing it. You're brainwashing your baby in the best of ways to make their musical taste match yours. That I'm okay with. A lot of brainwashing I'm not okay with. But the music today is so much worse. I'm not even calling Linkin Park an example of great music. You got to go back further than that. But darn it, so much good music. The ACDC Rockabye album is a good one to check out too. That's my own suggestion. Miriam Webster dictionary added more than 5,000 terms, which seems ridiculous and demonstrates how it's not really a dictionary at all anymore. Among those terms are things like beast mode and dad bod, which apparently were not defined before. A dad bod, by the way, as defined by Miriam Webster, is a physique regarded as typical of an average father, especially one that is slightly overweight and not extremely muscular physically. See, now this is interesting because my perception of a dad bod is it's a dad who hasn't given up entirely. That's what I thought it was. There's demonstrations of how you still care about your physical fitness while you might not currently be in good shape. That's what I thought it meant. I thought that, you know, sometimes hitting the gym was the version of creating the dad bod that may or may not. be a reflection of even myself now. As I get closer to 40, you haven't given up entirely. You've just mostly given up, is a version of it. A dumb phone is another term that got defined by Merriam-Webster. This is a cell phone that's anything other than smart. something that can just make phone calls and maybe not do things like browse the internet. Essentially, you could just call it a phone and not the computer that's in your pocket now. And finally, love language is something that's been defined. It's a person-specific desire for how they're shown love or care, meaning that you have a specific love language that people communicate to you that you like and stuff that you don't like. I'm not really sure how I feel about the idea that that's a Merriam-Webster-defined term. But it is a reality. There are versions of treating someone a certain way that they like that other people don't. My wife loves to be bought gifts. I imagine very few people don't like to be bought gifts. But my wife says that's her love language. Buying her things, you know, nice things is a great way to show her that I care. Convenient, I'm sure, of course. For me, it's just anything. It's just any sort of niceness, any sort of anything at all. You don't even have to buy me stuff. I'm a dude. I'm much, much easier to make happy. One final thing. Hershey's defended a lawsuit claiming its Halloween candies weren't spooky enough. Someone brought a $5 million suit against Hershey's, a woman, last year, saying that their Halloween candy needs to be scarier. The pumpkin, essentially, on the Reese's shouldn't be smiling. It should be upset. Hershey's actually defended themselves in this lawsuit because they don't want the frivolous suit to gain any kind of benefit to the woman who brought it. Way to go, Hershey's. Quick break. A little bit more coming up. 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 whole bunch of stuff to talk about out there in the world. And yet a big announcement happened today. Sinclair has folded. They have decided to stop preempting Jimmy Kimmel Live starting tonight and air the show. Now, Sinclair has tried to have some sort of moral victory or some sort of lesser than actual victory. They lose, but they're claiming that they didn't completely because they've made suggestions on how to make the show better, how to make it something that doesn't alienate half of the people here in the United States of America with how Jimmy says and does stuff or his lack of apology. Now, granted, I will say one thing about Kimmel when he first came back. His praising of Erica Kirk was, I think, genuine and also a smart thing to do, an easy thing to do, because Erica's behavior over the last week or so has been incredible. Her saying out loud that she forgave the person who killed her husband a mere days after it happened was one of the most Christlike things I've seen in society in a long time. And so praising someone like that is uniquely easy, even for the hardcore lefty that is Jimmy Kimmel. But that shouldn't be enough for Sinclair to, quote, bend the knee or fold or say that, you know what, that's fine. He tried, you know, and so we're going to start carrying the show again. But here's what I think is really interesting about this. I'm not exactly upset that it's going to occur because the ratings aren't going to be good. Long term, the ratings are going to be as bad as they've always been. Kimmel will continue to struggle. We know that. You know that. I know that. And so inevitably, the narrative won't be that the big bad media outlets like Sinclair prevented Kimmel from having the audience that he's supposed to have, but his own behavior. his own inability to retain that audience that may or may not have been watching for the last couple of days is in fact going to be the true narrative, the true story. And eventually these late night shows will go the way of everything else that slowly and surely faded from our society because it's just not relevant anymore. He's just not relevant. The only thing that made Kimmel relevant was him becoming the news. And that's the worst case scenario. For you as a broadcaster or an entertainer or anyone out there, you never want to be the news. And on the off chance that you are the news, it's going to be the least permanent form of having people pay attention to you. And he made it all about himself when he actually came back, too. He did not apologize, et cetera, et cetera. But I'm not surprised by this, to be honest with you, too. to be honest with anyone out there, anyone that's upset with Sinclair or any of these other broadcast platforms, because essentially the narrative was too easy to wield against them, that they're the big, bad, horrible person doing the terrible thing, when the reality is that, say, a year from now, if Kimmel gets fired like Colbert, because his ratings don't wind up being amazingly better long-term because he's as hardcore to the left and unapologetic about it as he is, then eventually you won't be able to say that it was the fault of the conservatives that prevented this from happening. And also it continues to demonstrate that we do live in a free and fair society. Well, I don't know about fair all the time, but we live in a free society because he is not, you know, in jail and incapable of doing a show. He's doing his show. It's fully back. None of the things that that were talked about happen. And if the FCC and Trump actually go after him, which I know that Trump has made some more references to that on social media, on Truth Social. which Kimmel then used to his own benefit to say that it's still like a silencing of his speech thing, they still would go to a courtroom, they'd still battle it out in a courtroom, and they'd still decide whether or not what Kimmel is doing is essentially free propaganda media for the left, which is absolutely what it is. But the thing that makes me most mad And I think it's the thing that I wish we could all agree on. Because just agreeing on it, even if you don't think that it's, you know, something that should have happened differently or you can be upset about it, happy about it, I don't care. But we should at least be able to agree that Jimmy Kimmel absolutely made a joke that not only seemed to belittle the death of Charlie Kirk in comparing the president's reaction to the way that a baby reacts, you know, not getting a toy or candy or something. but also said that it was a MAGA person who did the killing. That is what Kimmel said. And that is what Kimmel should apologize for in the horrific response to the death of Charlie Kirk from that show and from that entertainer, if that's actually the word you want to use to describe him. And that's not a thing that happened. If there were anything that made me want to have Sinclair and these other places continue to preempt the show, it was the inability for Kimmel to tell the truth and to apologize for the thing that he absolutely did. And actually, you know what's really interesting? Out of all the people who reacted to this, Bill Maher might have been one of the more interesting ones to me. Because Bill Maher said something to Jimmy Kimmel that I thought was... He said it publicly. He said it into a television camera and a microphone. He probably also may have tried to communicate it directly to Jimmy. But I don't care. The thing that I thought was interesting about it, and I'm certainly a guy who disagrees with Bill Maher on a lot of stuff... But he said that you're allowing hate to run your life, more or less. I'm paraphrasing. But Bill Maher told Jimmy Kimmel that he was blinded by the hatred he had for Donald Trump, for the right, for wishing that people during COVID would die who disagreed with him. All kinds of things that Jimmy Kimmel has done He was allowing that to influence all of his thoughts and behaviors. And that's why he would accuse someone who killed Charlie Kirk of being a MAGA Republican. That it's just hate that motivates you that far and then makes you refuse to acknowledge when hate has pushed you that far into the corner. Because that's the other thing about the power of hate is it's influential and significant enough to make you double and triple down on the horrible things that you say and do and never repent or never acknowledge the mistakes you're making. And so, again, I just think it's sort of amazing that Sinclair is going to start airing the show, mostly because he never apologized. But as I said a moment ago, it does selfishly give me some level of of, you know, I wouldn't call it happiness, but some level of, see, I told you so, because I believe that when Kimmel fails, it won't be something you can blame on Sinclair or any sort of media that stood up to him. You'll be able to say that it's just the fact that he's terrible at entertaining people on television and his ratings actually are awful. This is not an untrue statement when Trump made it that he gets something like I think like a million viewers or something, which is horrible for a late night network television. But all of the late night network television people are fighting it with a million here or a million there. And the YouTubers have way more people bet this radio show. has way more people that pay attention to it than late-night television does, and that should say something to the late-night television people. Maybe give Dana a show at some point. All right. President Trump also referenced George Soros, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, as people that might be probed for funding left-wing terror groups. I think this is great. I think it's weird... Let me say it this way. This is the best way I can say it. I think it's weird that the left is now a proponent of violence in cities because Trump trying to end violence in cities by using the National Guard in places like D.C. should be something that everybody's fine with. It feels like a lot of the traps being set by Republicans right now for Democrats are trying to show just how extreme the Democrats have become. They're for violence in cities, apparently, because they don't like ICE and they don't like the military. They're also for terrorist groups getting money from their would-be giant rich financial backers themselves because they think that this is political witch hunts or some other version of something else, as opposed to just being an investigation to see if Money is being given to Antifa, who then riot and loot in cities with Democratic dollars and us thinking that's bad as a society. Essentially, all of these are ways to demonstrate how far the left has gone from what the average American thinks simply makes sense. Here we go.
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Yeah, go ahead.
SPEAKER 22 :
Let's see you defend them, Jeff.
SPEAKER 07 :
No, I'm not defending anyone. I just want so that we can explain this in our stories. Could you name a couple?
SPEAKER 22 :
You don't explain it right though, Jeff. Go ahead, let's go. Maybe let's give you another chance.
SPEAKER 08 :
Go ahead. Antifa, Soros. What names are we talking about?
SPEAKER 22 :
Well, Soros is a name certainly that I keep hearing. I don't know, but Soros is a name that I hear. I hear a lot of different names. I hear names of some pretty rich people that are radical left people. Maybe I hear about a guy named Reid Hoffman. He's a pretty rich guy, I guess, and I hear about him. I don't know. Maybe it could be him. It could be a lot of people. We hear the same names, but they're bad, and we're going to find out. And if they are funding these things, they're going to have some problems because they're agitators and they're anarchists. These are anarchists. Really bad. Okay, yeah.
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Here's my favorite part of what happens very often in society right now with left-leaning media. The tariffs is a good example. The Hunter Biden laptop is, of course, a great example people still lean on today because of how amazing it is in demonstrating this. COVID's another example of this. They tell us the future, they claim definitively to know the future, and then they're absolutely wrong about the future they told us was going to happen. They say tariffs are going to be bad for the economy, and that doesn't happen the way that they claim it would, as quickly as it would, etc., etc. They claim these things about COVID and the shots, and then everything that's the opposite of that winds up being true. Again and again, they tell us the future because they don't want to react in the moment where the actual information is there. They want to tell you they know what the information is going to be. You don't have to pay attention to what it is or what it ends up being. You have to look away by the time that we know for sure that we get the receipts to whatever the story was and that you just have to trust that they were right all along. The FBI agent story is another amazing thing. And if you don't know what I'm talking about, just quickly, there were 250 plus plain clothed FBI agents in the crowd on January 6th. This is something that the left and left leaning media definitively told us could not have happened, was not true, was absolutely a conspiracy theory. Years later, we now know that it absolutely was true and the FBI has admitted it and acknowledged that it happened. And whether or not those people were agitators is you and I's obviously a best guess that they were. But nonetheless, what's amazing about that is they just assume you no longer care on the left. And so you won't pay attention to that part. And it's ridiculous and it's upsetting because it works and it needs to stop working. The people who pay attention more now to the end result of a story are the people who are best informed. And as Trump said a moment ago, when investigating whether or not left leaning money is going to, you know, domestic terrorists, we're going to find out is what he said. We're going to investigate it. We're going to find out. And the American people are going to be told about the things that we find. In that moment, at that time, you could then decide whether or not you think it's true. But media won't give you that opportunity, or at least they'll discourage you from taking it when it does happen. They'll convince you that you need to react now. You need to be sure that there's no way that George Soros could be funding Antifa. And then when inevitably the proof comes out, they hope that you've already made up your mind and will no longer look back. They count on you to be the type of society, and a whole lot of people who listen to this show are not these people, but they count on their supporters to be the type of society that only reads the headline once and doesn't go back for the real information later. And I told this story before, but I'll do it very quickly now. I had an argument on my social media page at Radio Craig C. This was on Facebook, not Twitter, with someone about January 6th, which was totally not the context of what I had posted. I had posted about Charlie Kirk and how impacted I was and shocked I was that he was killed and how I was going to put out a podcast about my own feelings about it. And someone came at me and tried to make it about January 6th, which was uniquely stupid. But then when I tried to share with them proof that what they thought happened didn't happen and I cherry picked out a left leaning source that still told them that they were wrong about what they believed to have occurred on that day. The funny thing about it is they responded back by trying to defend themselves by sharing the exact same link, which showed me they didn't read the link when I sent it to them. They Googled for what they thought was going to be their opinion. They found a source that they thought they'd agree with. And then they shared that back with me. It's the funniest thing I've seen happen on my social media page in a while because it absolutely demonstrates how little thought goes into the feelings that the left has as strongly as it does in a wide variety of topics. Because if they had read the story the first time when I gave it to them, it would have disproved the thing they thought instead of when they shared it back with me, believing it proved them right. Because they only read the headline, and they only did it once, and they did it well before the story had all the facts. That's what the left wants. That's what the right refuses to do. And for some reason, they get incredibly mad at us. We know the reason for doing that, for actually caring about the truth. All right, quick break. A little bit more coming up. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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SPEAKER 04 :
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. A couple quick things in the world of sports. College football has been incredible this year. Week five has a bunch of really interesting games. Oregon Penn State is probably one of the best ones. Penn State doesn't know how to cover a spread, by the way. That's just a helpful tip for you, for anybody out there. No matter what the spread is, betting with Penn State is usually a mistake that you shouldn't make, that we don't want to make. But anyway, Oregon-Penn State, good game. Lots of good games. College football has been incredible, even as my favorite team, Notre Dame, has lost a lot more at the beginning of the season than you would have wanted them to. But those games were interesting, too. Also in the world of sports, Aaron Judge is clearly the MVP in the American League. It's not Cal Raleigh. It's not the big dumper. I know this isn't a sports show. I know that I can talk about other things and I will, I promise. But I love an article in The Athletic about this for anyone who does care about this out there. Because part of the argument being made is that Judge, and I quote, is obviously superior statistically. He was superior to Shohei Ohtani in 2022. He is superior to Cal Raleigh this year in 2025. But that's not the reason that voters might decide that Cal deserves the MVP award. It is, quote, novelty, at least in some part. The fact that Cal's a catcher, that he's a switch hitter, and that he's hit 60 home runs so far this year with three games left to go all make him someone that a lot of voters would like to vote the MVP award for. even if, in fact, he's not actually statistically better than Aaron Judge, which feels like the part that should matter. Darn it, I'm a Yankee fan, though, so I can't help it. All right, two other things, non-sports, before we get out of here. First, I thought this was hilarious. A first grader told his teacher that he was ill. I wonder if this is a demonstration of woke being an aspect of what is happening for him at home, or if it's just a misunderstanding, like a cute kid is one to do. But the kid told his teacher that his illness was caused by something unique. And here's how the teacher responded to it. I loved this audio.
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You said the reason you cough was what? Morning sickness. Morning sickness. So do you have morning sickness? Sometimes. Sometimes? You know who have morning sickness? Pregnant women. Are you a pregnant woman? No. So you don't have morning sickness. You just got the sniffles, okay? Bye. morning sickness.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay. I love everything about that audio because it demonstrates something about actual people in our society that the left doesn't seem to understand, which is that we think a lot of the things the left says is insane, but the left would think that a man can get morning sickness. And obviously that teacher doesn't think a little boy can have that. So it's sort of insane. All right. That's it. That's the show. Thrilled to be with you as always. Dana back Monday, Greg Collins filling in on the Dana show.
In today's episode of Sekulow, we dive deep into the recent indictment of former FBI Director James Comey. Out of the Eastern District of Virginia, Comey faces charges for making false statements and obstructing congressional proceedings. Join us as we analyze the details of the indictment and discuss the legal journey ahead for Comey with insights from our experienced legal panel, including Jay Sekulow and Jordan Sekulow.
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Today on Sekulow, we have breaking news. James Comey set to surrender to law enforcement after his indictment.
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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. And now your host...
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Welcome to Sekulow. Will Haines here, joined in studio by Jordan Sekulow. Hey. And you have heard it right, folks. We got an indictment. That's right. Out of the Eastern District of Virginia in the case United States of America versus James B. Comey Jr. Jordan, we talked about it yesterday. We expected this could happen, but now we have it.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes, and I think it's likely what we kind of talked about on this broadcast. You guys talked about the broadcast yesterday with count one being false statements to Congress and then count two an obstruction of a congressional proceeding. It appears that those both arise out of the same because they're dated the same. I'm going to read it for folks because I think that, one, this is short enough, clear enough, and it just kind of shows you again, you know, we've been seeing these when it comes to – president trump and former uh trump officials uh what we don't usually see is this um when it's this comey world that felt like they could kind of i think get away with saying anything they wanted to to congress usually very coy which is why i think you probably only got a couple indictments usually he didn't really answer questions directly because he was a professional at doing these hearings and you know of course coming from the fbi knowing exactly the opposite of of what you are the uh, uh, don't want to do, but here it is. Count one false statements within the jurisdiction of the legislative branch of the United States government. That's 18 USC, uh, 1,001. That's one we talk about all the times as a, one of the easier, uh, uh, uh, ways they get you legally is that you, again, you take that oath before Congress, and if you answer questions with any kind of definitive statement, a yes or no or something similar, then if they've got evidence that you were incorrect, that you didn't correct that in a very timely manner, again, so let's read it. So on or about September 30th, 2020 in the Eastern district of Virginia, the defendant James B. Comey Jr. Did willfully and knowingly make a material false fictitious and fraudulent statement in a matter within the jurisdiction of the legislative branch of the government of the United States by falsely stating to a U S Senator that during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that he, James B. Comey Jr., had not, quote, authorized someone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source in news reports regarding an FBI investigation concerning person one. Number two, that statement was false because as James B. Comey Jr. then and there knew, he in fact had authorized person three to serve as an anonymous source in news reports regarding an FBI investigation concerning person one. All in violation of 18 USC 1001. So that is count one. Count two is the obstruction that goes along with that of a congressional proceeding. That's 18 USC section 1505 on or about September 30th, 2020. So again, same incident. The defendant, or at least during that hearing, did corruptly endeavor to influence, obstruct, and impede the due and proper exercise of the power of inquiry under which an investigation was being had before the Senate Judiciary Committee by making false and misleading statements before the committee. all in violation of 18 U.S.C. Section 1505. So we know at some point today, James Comey will be surrendering in the Eastern District. That means he will go through the process again and then likely released. But he will be fingerprinted, and the photograph should be taken and should be released, just like it has been for the others.
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And Jordan, we're joined in the next segment by... By your dad, Jay Sekulow, to break this all down. He was on yesterday talking about what may be coming. Now we know he'll be joining us to talk all through that.
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I want you to know what's coming will be an honest assessment because I think a lot of people probably have questions out there knowing, okay, this guy, we know he's pretty – He knows, for the most part, how to not answer and try to get around this. He's gotten around it for so many years. So what's the likelihood here? How serious is this for James Comey? We'll take your questions. 1-800-684-3110. Right back on Sekulow. Share it with your friends and family.
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Welcome back to Sekulow. Will Haynes here in studio with me, Jordan Sekulow. And we have Chief Counsel Jay Sekulow of the ACLJ joining us to break this down. Jordan, I'm going to toss it to you.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, Dad, I want to go right to you because I told people, you know, after yesterday when we knew this was coming, but was still some speculation on exactly what it would be, we now have the two grand jury indictments. So I want to get your first... your reaction to the indictments themselves, because we're always fair and honest with people. I would say usually there's a bit more than one statement, usually, or there's more people involved. Now, there are others involved here that we believe obviously represent were the impetus for this. People like Andrew McCabe who said, yeah, he told us to leak things and he would tell which person to do which thing and had me do it before. So that may be it. But just first, your reaction to the actual indictments themselves for our audience.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, first of all, I think it was probably very wise to just have the two counts. So it's a very focused indictment. It's not a scattershot indictment. Sometimes you talk about these talking indictments or speaking indictments here. It's very specific. And, and we just played in the clip that just aired for those that got to see that, you know, I think what, What you have here is it's either yes or no. Either he lied under oath or he didn't. Andrew McCain basically said he did. Andrew McCain was his deputy and did lie under oath because he said he was authorized by James Comey to make the leak. And then you have the second aspect of the leak, which is the one involving the professor, who was also, by the way, a special government employee at the Justice Department. At the FBI. So, look, I think it's very targeted. So I've heard I've seen some criticism where people are saying there should have been more. I can't believe this is enough. No, this was the smart way to do it. It's very clear. It's very concise. It's very direct. Now, look, the indictment is the easy part. trying the case in the Eastern District of Virginia, the rocket docket, as I mentioned yesterday on the broadcast, is going to be another matter. It's not going to be easy, but I think that this was the right move by the Department of Justice and the targeting the narrow scope of the injunction, excuse me, the indictment, I think is really the right move here.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, and usually, Dad, we didn't see a lot of yes and no's from Comey when he was asked these types of questions. We would get, even the question on the professor, it was, I think his answer, or one of his answers, I remember saying, multiple times he would use is that you know I wasn't exactly sure what he might do with it he might share it he might not you know it was always those kind of again as someone who led the FBI he kind of knew how to answer but so there were kind of rare moments even when you go back through these years of his testimony where it does feel like he's not being truthful to Congress and the American people, that he gets himself caught with the, as you said, it's either yes or no. And we've already got someone on the record, his deputy, who, again, no ally of the president, no ally of the administration, but who was, when being questioned about this themselves by investigators, said, yes, this happened, in fact, all the time. This was a regular occurrence. So he said no to something that others have said he has said yes to, that he's told them to do many times. But as you said, you've got to then take that into court, into Virginia, a lot of former bureaucrats there. A lot of people have prepped people to testify or have testified before Congress or at least have been in part of investigations. I would say they don't always usually reach the level of actually testifying before Congress. So it's like D.C., a unique place to try these types of individuals.
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And not easy because the Eastern District tends to skew very much Democratic in its political leanings. So the jury selection is going to be critical here. But I want to focus on one thing here that people may have forgotten. You've got to remember what James Comey did throughout all of this, not only what he did to President Trump, but the stuff he did with Democrats. And the way he handled the Hillary Clinton investigation and then opened it back up days before the election. So there's a lot of stuff with James Comey. But don't forget this. And I want everybody to remember this. And we had to deal with this, of course, during the representation of President Trump and during the first impeachment proceedings. But here's what you have. James Comey left the meeting of the President of the United States, went into his government vehicle, took out his government computer, typed a memo, and sent it to a professor in New York, who then allegedly leaked it to the press. So think about that for a moment. The head of the FBI meeting with the then sitting President of the United States, and this is what happens. So it's outrageous what he did. His conduct was illegal in my view, and I think this
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indictment very tailored very specific narrow is the way to approach this case and when you look at also the fact that he even admitted that that memo that you talked about uh he he told susan collins that he he showed it to that professor to give to the new york times to leak he had already counsel He'd already established a pattern that this was his M.O., but yet was trying to have it both ways when it came to his testimony before Congress. The fact that, as you mentioned, this is very narrow and very tailored. I think that is one thing that our audience I know is thinking about is, wait, you know, with when Trump, they raided Mar-a-Lago. with other associates of Trump. They raided their home. The Justice Department here, I feel like, is showing restraint, using the appropriate charges and not raiding his home, letting him know, you're indicted, surrender. I wanted your take on that.
SPEAKER 09 :
No, I think that, look, the Department of Justice under Pam Bondi is doing it the way you're supposed to do it. None of the showboating, none of this calling CNN when you're raiding someone's house so that they can get it on camera. Here it was done in the way it's supposed to be done. So I think that's Very good for the Department of Justice and it's restoring some credibility, but also procedure and process that was necessary. But what everybody needs to realize going forward. This is going to be now in the litigation mode and Virginia is pretty quick at the Eastern district, particularly, and I think it's going to move relatively quickly. But the reality is, by targeting it with just the two counts, I think that was a really smart prosecutorial move in order to tailor the evidence to the specific charge. And I think that will serve the country well, and hopefully There will be, in my view, hopefully a verdict of guilty. And then this matter can be put to bed. But what the Department of Justice did and the FBI under James, remember, he jumped over Loretta Lynch's his attorney general, who's his boss in some of these announcements he made on the Clinton matter. So. None of this is right, what Comey did. His attitude after leaving office has also been unbelievable. I mean, you had those threats on the beach earlier, about six months ago. This is just James Comey's modus operandi, and I think it finally has now caught up with him. But he'll get lawyers, and they'll put up a real fight.
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One final question for you. I know it's something we care about here at the ACLJ and fight for every day, and that is upholding the rule of law, upholding the trust in the justice system. Do you feel like this indictment is a first step at restoring some of that trust?
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I do. I think it reminds me very similarly of when we were vindicated in our case that we brought against the IRS for targeting the Tea Party a decade ago. And when the case was resolved, you felt like we got justice. I think this is the first step it's the first step though there's going to be a lot of motions and a lot of activity between now and the actual trial but i do think it was the right step and i hope the american people and our audience understands it takes time but the right thing was done here and the right process is being followed and we need to now give the department of justice the ability to do their job and of course you know we know about this case probably more than any lawyers in america is the truth
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Yes, and when we come back, we're going to play for you now that we can kind of piece together the statements that led to this indictment so that you can hear them for yourself, hear the evidence that likely the grand jury heard and that the jury will be hearing in this case. We also have James Comey has issued a video statement, so we can play that for you when we come back. This is his first, at least, full statement. He's making it, I will tell you this, very political. Um, goes after Donald. I think Donald Trump's name is said within the first sentence. So, I mean, this is again, I, you see how he's setting it up already, which is, this is just me standing up to Donald Trump. And as my dad reminded everybody. talking about interfering in the election, if you were Hillary Clinton, wouldn't you have fired James Comey too? I think I said it multiple times. The answer would be yes. I mean, the fact that he went against or didn't inform the Attorney General Loretta Lynch, we'll see if we ever get answers to that, and just reopened investigation, and ultimately what was found on that other laptop was the same information. But it was days before. So, you know, this bipartisan in the sense of, you know, that feeling that at that time were the were the FBI. We run the government. You know, you put these politicians in, they come and go, but we're the ones who are really in charge. And while we've gotten used to maybe just in the last months of a very different FBI, that has been kind of the, and of course, you know, the Trump administration was fighting it. This has been kind of the norm. And so we've gotten used to a new normal. Don't get used to it, you know, too long because we've got other elections coming up. But you see the difference already. The feel is that it's not an FBI there to try and say, we run the government. We'll take your calls, too. We come back. 1-800-684-3110. Support the work of the ACLJ. Donate today at ACLJ.org.
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Welcome back to Sekulow. We're going to continue this discussion on James Comey's indictment. But I did also want to point out, you saw on the break maybe there, some sound from Bibi Netanyahu's speech at the UN. We represented many of the hostage families that were taken by Hamas on October 7th. We've had some celebrations and some tragedies out of that. But Prime Minister Netanyahu read the names of the 20 hostages believed still to be alive. And two of those are brothers, twin brothers that the ACLJ represented the family, took their brother to Congress to meet with the Speaker of the House and to advocate for them. So there was some good news this morning that Bibi Netanyahu mentioned that Gail and Ziv Berman are among those still living. They were taken hostage by Hamas. We'll talk about a little bit of that more later, but say a prayer for them, their family. Absolutely. And for a resolution to this, that they can be brought home to their family because we have been advocating for more than two years for those, or almost two years as we approach October 7th next week.
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saw during the break, but maybe if you're listening at radio, as well as you had President Trump saying they think there's a new deal in place. That's something brand new that wasn't really being discussed much and it didn't look like there was something on the horizon, actually. Things had kind of stalled out. So would that deal involve those brothers returning home alive and how wonderful that would be because Israel has had a lot of criticism of saying when they started the conflict to say it will not end until all the hostages are released and returned, that that was always going to be a very difficult or maybe impossible standard. And so to say you won't end the conflict on that and, and, Maybe now we're at a point where those remaining living hostages and any other bodies of those who were killed are ultimately returned and that we can continue on then into getting Gaza kind of figuring out these situations in a way that I think takes some attention off of Israel for a little bit, which would not be a bad thing for the state of Israel right now because of the ongoing war and just the PR campaign that Israel has had to face. Jordan, let's go ahead and switch back to this James Comey indictment.
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Let's play this. This is from Instagram that James Comey posted after the announcement of the indictment. This is bite six. And then we'll break down just what his statement is. Bite six.
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My family and I have known for years that there are costs to standing up to Donald Trump. But we couldn't imagine ourselves living any other way. We will not live on our knees. And you shouldn't either. Somebody that I love dearly recently said that fear is the tool of a tyrant, and she's right. But I'm not afraid, and I hope you're not either. I hope instead you are engaged, you are paying attention, and you will vote like your beloved country depends upon it, which it does. My heart is broken for the Department of Justice, but I have great confidence in the federal judicial system, and I'm innocent. So let's have a trial and keep the faith.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay, Jordan, a lot to break down there with that statement. But first of all, it can't be lost on anyone where he says, my family and I have known for years that there are costs to standing up to Donald Trump. Boom, right away politics. What was standing up to Donald Trump, to James Comey, sending spies into the new White House? Two days, yeah. Entertaining and weaponizing intelligence that they knew. was from the Clinton campaign to go after him and then leaking his personal notes to try and get a special counsel to undercut the president that fired him because he was undermining his presidency. That's what standing up was to him. That is at best disloyalty. I know he says he has a higher loyalty.
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right in his his uh writing career but at best disloyalty at worst constitutionally troubling when it comes to uh treasonous conspiracy as tulsi gabbard has called it yeah i mean right away listen jim comey was someone who decided um to try and make this case that he is fbi director and um different you know because he even talks about the so upset about the Department of Justice and what became of it in some of the Obama years, certainly towards the end of the Obama years, and then especially as James Comey exposed even the worst of it. I mean, there were some things done in the Obama years, Fast and Furious and others, where Eric Holder was held in contempt of Congress, a big deal. But then you got to James Comey and it took it a step further. And it said, we are actually going to play politics and we're going to decide winners and losers and we're going to have insurance policies. And if a guy is going to come and say, you know what, I think Washington needs a shakeup, just like all these conservatives have been saying for years that we need a shakeup at our Department of Justice, which oversees the FBI directly. And then he goes along in this statement and his heart is broken over the Department of Justice. The Department of Justice is finally doing its job, which is law enforcement. Its job is not to play politics. You know, Kash Patel had said today, the FBI, the entire investigation was done by career. It was not done by political appointees. By the way, the FBI has a handful. I mean, I think there's three, four. It depends on administration to administration, but it's very small. Department of Justice, of course, has more political appointees leading those different departments, but the FBI who conducts the actual investigation does not. And on top of that, so on top of that,
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The idea here that it's a call to vote. Right. This is what I want to ask you about because he says, I'm not afraid. I hope you're not either. I hope you instead are engaged. You are paying attention and you will vote like your beloved country depends on it. Here's the only thing I can take from that because president Trump can't run for another term. The midterms. What? I mean, he cares about litigation and blocking funding bills. No, what he's calling for there is another impeachment. Why else would, would voting in this instance matter?
SPEAKER 04 :
It would matter because you could, yes, you could midterm elections and impeaching Trump again, which I have no doubt, as we know that we've already seen impeachment resolutions, but I have no doubt, especially if some of the new leadership that's been discussed, if the Democrats do take control of even just the House of Representatives, that they will impeach, even if it is a loser in the Senate, and they will drag the country through that, they will drag the administration through that, and as someone who's been through that, they will try... and distract the administration and Donald Trump from doing their job I thought they may have learned from the first impeachment that that was not the case that Donald Trump you know what first of all look at what they did to him out of office this is a guy who could who could take everybody again and go three hours further and three hours longer and work that much more and And I don't say that about many people, but I can say that about people I actually have worked with, and he can. And he no doubt showed that as he was sitting through those ridiculous criminal trials in New York. And that is who James Comey is demonizing. A man who has faced the worst of both the federal and local justice systems. Donald Trump. He is the man who has faced the worst of the federal and local justice systems. And you know what he said? I want to come back because I want to fix it so that those Tea Party groups, all of you, You don't have to fear that they're going to investigate you or do this to you because of your politics. You know, we do this work at the ACLJ with those whistleblowers. Support our work today. Donate right now. ACLJ.org. Donate today. This moment.
SPEAKER 08 :
Keeping you informed and engaged now more than ever. This is Sekulow.
SPEAKER 05 :
Welcome back to Sekulow. Will Haines here, joined in studio by Jordan Sekulow. We've got Rick Grinnell coming up in the next segment, so stick around for that.
SPEAKER 04 :
And if you missed my dad, too, he was on in the second segment. So if you're watching, listening, however you get podcasting, Go back and definitely listen to that because he again, he's been on the last couple of days. He knows his stuff when it comes to obviously Comey, but also when it comes to this indictment, because you're going to hear people breaking it down lots of different ways. I told you we want to be very honest about it here. Honest about our thoughts about the initial indictment itself, but then honest about what's the road like in court. And I think as you saw from that Jim Comey video we played, he's kind of smiling. That's kind of his style, is smiling about it, that this is part of being Comey and trying to make it. The unfortunate part about indicting Jim Comey is that it puts Jim Comey back in the news. Right. and so it gives him a platform. That's the only part I think I don't like about this whole thing is that Jim – most people that get indicted, they're quiet. Right. But Jim Comey will take the opposite. He'll probably be on the morning shows tomorrow.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, he'll do the full Ginsburg on Sunday. Maybe he'll be on Jimmy Kimmel. Right, probably. Let's go to the phones, and if you want to be on air with us, 1-800-684-3110. Martin is calling from North Carolina on line two. He's an ACLJ champion. Welcome to Sekulow. You're on the air.
SPEAKER 07 :
Thank you. You guys are doing great, but do you have a comment, question? First of all, what Jordan just said, that's the height of hubris, what Comey is, that he's got that smirk on his face. But what I wanted to ask about, With all the, as Will said, recorded documentation of what he did and the written applications Letitia James had, actual evidence, why did the previous prosecutor not think that there was enough to go for an indictment? It doesn't set well with me for some reason.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, and we can get into that as well. But one thing, sometimes false statement cases are difficult for a prosecutor to bring because you do have to prove the intent that the false statement was meant to... I also always want to look into their background where they conflicted out of people that could be involved in this.
SPEAKER 04 :
And again, we've had a lot of issues. And I think this is a Washington issue, folks. Not a Republican Democrat issue. It's a Washington issue of draining the swamp. Right. Of, you know, the kind of saying, well, you know, we don't do this to our own. And so I'm not I don't feel comfortable doing this. I'm resigning. And and and so and again, if you feel like you don't have a case. um and you're a prosecutor and you feel like um i'm just not the person to do this you should step aside that doesn't mean there there may not be a case there um and we've have someone new come in and they believe very quickly boom boom well and this this speaks to that exactly so ken delinean who is right msnbc legal analysis but he put out on on x what i'm hearing from doj sources
SPEAKER 05 :
The Comey indictment is among the worst abuses in DOJ history. Shocking. It's hard to overstate how big a moment this is. So those are people still in the Department of Justice, right? Really? Raiding the home of a former president wasn't one of the biggest abuses. Crossfire hurricane wasn't one of the biggest abuses. Going after Catholic churches, trying to send spies in there wasn't one of the biggest abuses. All these things that went after the constitutional rights of Americans weren't some of the biggest abuses in DOJ history. That's where their mindset is. So there's still these people within DOJ talking to MSNBC saying, it's shocking, hard to overstate how big a moment this is. No, he lied before Congress. Justice is coming.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes, I mean, it's clear there's laws on the books on that. You lie before Congress, you can be indicted. And in fact, you will be indicted. And usually that's the case. It's just that oftentimes these individuals... hedge every answer they give, and so it's very tough to bring. I think just remember who you're dealing here. You're dealing with Jim Comey. We're going to play more from it when we get back from the break. We're going to take more of your calls at 1-800-684-3110. Rick Grinnell is going to be joining us, too. Let's support the work of the ACLJ. We've been battling this out for over a decade. ACLJ.org. Donate today.
SPEAKER 05 :
Welcome back to Sekulow. Will Haynes here, joined by Jordan Sekulow in the studio and also joined by Rick Grinnell. As always, Rick, thanks for joining us today. Before we get to the James Comey talk, I have to ask you, you were in the lion's den yesterday. I saw you at CBS News. You were in person. It wasn't a remote, but you were talking about the good work of the Kennedy Center. And I will say they were very respectful. What's changing in big media, Rick? I don't understand it.
SPEAKER 02 :
Well, as you know, CBS has been purchased and there's a new set of owners. And so I think they're reading the room, as we say. But you're right. I mean, I sat there with Gayle King and she was lovely. She came into the green room beforehand to talk with me and she couldn't have been nicer. And I thought that they were very respectful and we had a good back and forth. And they asked tough questions about the Kennedy Center and allowed me to answer. And I think that's... You know, that's what's crazy about today's world is that some people still believe in critical thinking to be able to sit, listen, and then lo and behold, find your own opinion and your own belief. And so we got to get back to that.
SPEAKER 04 :
Something I wanted to ask you actually with the Kennedy Center was, as someone who lived in D.C. for over a decade and still is there a lot, obviously with our office there, is that, you know, it did get, it felt like for a while, like, again, like those family kind of friendly, the ones I'd want to take my kids to, just didn't. weren't there. They might have been in other theaters in Washington, smaller productions, but they weren't in our capitals, a premier facility. And now they're coming back and tickets are selling because I think families can go again. It's not just going to be kind of whatever, again, the arts community is interested in, which Kennedy Center has lots of different theaters for different size events. That's fine. But also bringing back some of these, like you said, like Sound of Music, and things like that that have brought back and honoring some of the people from the Kennedy Center honors that mainstream America really loves.
SPEAKER 02 :
Look, President Trump's vision was always to make it more accessible and less elitist. And that's exactly what we're doing. I think President Trump was once again ahead of the curve because the New York Times this past week did this big, huge profile of how Broadway is dying. And when you look at between the ticket price for Broadway, the content that they're pushing, it's just not appealing to the masses anymore. And so they're struggling, but I don't think it's anything more than a supply and demand. You have to supply something that a huge crowd wants if you're going to run a theater. And so what we're trying to do here at the Kennedy Center is, first of all, say everyone is welcome. Two, we're gonna have programming that appeals to the common folk so that we can fill seats and not make this place elitist. I don't want people coming into the Kennedy Center who get booed just because they happen to be a Republican. And I certainly don't want it On the other side, I wouldn't want someone walking into a theater who's a hardcore Democrat and getting booed either. What we want to be able to do is sit and watch shows that are inspirational. And there's so many genres of dance, music, spoken word, lecture series, all sorts of different arts genres that can really inspire. And that's what we're going for. That's what President Trump asked us to do. And it's making us get on a better financial path. And as we see so many arts institutions struggling, I think this is gonna be the path they need to follow.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, I can't believe the New York Times was shocked that people didn't want to pay seven, eight hundred dollars to get preached at for three or four hours in New York. But Rick, we got to go to this other issue of the day. James Comey has been indicted by a federal grand jury.
SPEAKER 04 :
It's a lovely man.
SPEAKER 05 :
He is. He's responded. What is your fresh take on this, that now James Comey has been indicted for false statements to Congress and obstructing proceedings?
SPEAKER 02 :
Well, I was hoping that this whole bloviation from James Covey about walking on the beach and finding these shells in a formation, which is clearly a lie, and he stood there and pretended like we believed it. The funny part is that he's so gullible, he thinks people believe him. This is a man that has consistently, consistently created a whole alternative universe for himself. And he aggressively does it and he's confident in his lies. And I'm just glad that we have a system where no one is above the law And there are a whole bunch of people who manipulated the public, who lied to Congress, who certainly did some injustices to our system that need to be held to account. And that doesn't mean that they go straight to prison. It means that we have a trial and the prosecutors put forward their arguments. The defense gets to put forward their arguments. And let's see what happens. It's exactly what the left kept telling us about President Trump when President Biden was in charge. That's all they wanted to see was the process work. And so here we are. Let's let the process work.
SPEAKER 04 :
You brought up, too, how Comey kind of creates this alternative universe like he did in the video even that he released in his first statement about this. I wouldn't be surprised if he's on some of those morning shows, too, or evening maybe with Jimmy Kimmel, as I said earlier tonight, because he kind of lives in this own world where he forgets, too. And unfortunately, many on the left forget. his election interference you might want to call it when he reopened the Hillary investigation three days before an election and it ended up being the same information there was nothing new there made a big deal of it and the Clinton campaign and the Clintons and the left then were outraged at who? Jim Comey and then he did similar kind of things to Donald Trump he was living in this world where it wasn't even about he's gotten a little bit more partisan now I wish the left didn't let him back in. I wish they remembered, kind of, Rick, what he did to think that law enforcement and the FBI should be really running Washington, D.C., not elected politicians.
SPEAKER 02 :
Look, these elite individuals on the left have enjoyed decades of controlling the institutions of America, whether it's government or academia or NGOs. They have enjoyed this small group that cater to just a portion of the country. And they forget the rest of us. They forget the masses. They forget the rule of law. They got together and they created this idea of sanctuary cities, for instance, which is an undermining of democracy, a ridiculous concept where people ignore federal law, but they were immune from prosecution because they created this nice name. These are the types of things that the elite left do. And I have to say, Thank God that we won the election. Elections have consequences, people. Get out, get involved, vote, get more people registered to vote because otherwise this small elite try to control us and they give us people like James Comey. When we're in charge, when the people are in charge, when we try to take over institutions and bring common sense back, then we have real rule of law. And that's what James Comey has seen, and I'm glad for it.
SPEAKER 05 :
And in James Comey's video, he did say, my family and I have known for years that there are costs to standing up to Donald Trump. We can't let people forget what he thought standing up to Donald Trump was. It was weaponizing intelligence. It was going along with a rival campaign's made-up dossier to try and smear him. Leaking to get a special counsel. when he got fired because he had already done these things. Sending FBI agents into the White House to spy on members of the incoming team. This isn't standing up to a president. This is subverting the duly elected president of the United States. We can't let people forget that.
SPEAKER 02 :
Such a good point. Well, but, you know, they don't believe that they're doing anything wrong. This is the whole elitist mentality where they believe that by any means necessary, they should be able to to to. make sure that Donald Trump fails, that they stop him. And by any means necessary, we're now finding ourselves in the place where violence is what mentally unstable people are doing because they think they have permission from the elitist left. When people like Eric Swalwell and Adam Schiff and some others come forward and call people Nazis and fascists. Nazis and fascists are the people who kill other people by tens of thousands and millions. And so the idea that we are like that, that a whole nother political party that you disagree with is like that, you're giving permission to unstable people to go kill them.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes, and we've seen just unlimited violence. Even today, there was a rioting somewhere, again, against ICE officials and just preventing them from doing their job. And we saw that out of California, they have to take their mask off by January, which most law enforcement, again, when you are in the process of actually going in and doing the job, you're going on to the mission to make the arrest. Many times are masked, many times. different kinds of protection levels, none of which is because they're being photographed a lot of times on camera, even with their own cameras, and just their personal security and their families' personal security as well, and the security of those that are being apprehended. That's also on camera for our legal system, which is the best in the world. Rick, thank you for being on with us, folks. When we come back, we'll take your calls on this 1-800-684-3110. You want to be part of the show.
SPEAKER 05 :
Welcome back to Sekulow. We're going to get right to your phone calls. We're going to go to Bill calling from Wyoming on line one. Bill, you're on Sekulow.
SPEAKER 06 :
Hi, thanks for taking my call. I'd like to present my opinion to you guys, because I think after seeing this video of him talk about what he is, I think he's going to try and troll the president, By proving that he's more intelligent as well as innocent compared to the two of them. By putting his mug shot out on the Facebook as well as on coffee mugs and t-shirts. Are you guys more familiar with this than I am?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, I mean, Bill, I think, and I'll get your thoughts on this, Bill. I think the difference is that, listen, I have that shirt from Donald Trump. One, because I thought it was historic. And two, hilarious. The former FBI director doing that, yes, he might do things like this because he acts a lot more like a politician, but he's actually more of like a salesman now. He's the Jim Comey salesman, and it's the books and the appearances and just the industry of being anti-Trump. That's why in the first sentence in the video, That's what it was about. It wasn't about his innocence. It was just about standing up to Donald Trump. But Bill, I mean, your thoughts are, and I guess as Rick said, it's like the left just kind of forgot that he was trying to make the FBI into an institution that was above the law, Republican and Democrat. So he especially didn't like... Donald Trump saying drain the swamp. But he also wanted to push Hillary Clinton too. And he did that by, I think inappropriately, making that whole press conference about reopening investigation before they looked and saw what was in there, which was information they already had. Yet the left just forgets this bill. And so I guess I want to go back to you, Bill, and just say, do you think he's still got a big enough constituency? And is it just the... Trump derangement syndrome crowd that jumps on?
SPEAKER 06 :
I think my intelligence has grown a little bit more ever since listening to this guy, so I don't think so. I think people are really thinking, are really going to turn their backs on him as far as I'm concerned.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right, yeah, that's what I kind of think. Jim Comey, the 86, 47, first of all, you know who he's acting a lot more like?
SPEAKER 05 :
J. Edgar Hoover. Who didn't have the greatest reputation.
SPEAKER 04 :
And the weird part is he's still acting like it when he has zero power. Right, exactly. And I'm not sure how many friends he has left. I'm really honest about that, though he might have some liberals that say, oh, this is horrible, and the press says this is horrible. Maybe the press, because it's a good story. But actual friends inside Washington, do you want to be around Jim Comey? Because even Andrew McCabe, who was a very close deputy of his, totally contradicted him. I don't know what their relationship like is now, but I'm assuming that if he is the person that it sounds like in some of these documents, that he will be called before And I doubt that he is not going to just repeat the same line unless he takes the fifth, which is a whole other issue since he's already... I think he was probably under oath when he was giving that testimony to congressional investigators. If he was, I don't think he would then be able to take the fifth then. First, they could play it as well. I'm sure they have the audio, if not the video, of that for the jury. So I don't want to go too far down that... Well, let's go back to the phones at 1-800-684-3110. If you want to be on the air, I'd call right now.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, let's go ahead and take Annie calling from Florida. Line four. Annie, you're on Seculo.
SPEAKER 01 :
Thank you. Make sure that all my thoughts, that I don't lose trend in the conversations that have followed from the time I called are incredibly online. I mean, just on point. I think that this person, years ago, he would have been executed. And I think that it is extremely dangerous, the posture that he has taken. I realize that he has been favored. So he took a very political stand that That he chose to do. That is not what he should have done under a... People have said traitor.
SPEAKER 05 :
People have used the word traitor. Tulsi Gabbard described what both Jim Comey and John Brennan and James Clapper as a treasonous conspiracy.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes, yes. The whole... And listen, we know what the punishments for that can be if proven. in court now that is not what this case is this case is lying to lying to congress so you know again serious so i don't think we have to jump to these other conclusions if we have fbi directors lying to congress And these were guys who hardly ever answer with yes or no's. But the one time he did, and it might be one of the very few or only times that he really kept doubling down with the yes and no's, is the time to get them in trouble. And why is that? Because the one time they actually sound like they're trying to be definitive in their answer and honest with the American people, it appears at least to this grand jury and the Department of Justice that they lied.
SPEAKER 05 :
If you were to go through James Comey testimony, you would hear a lot of, I don't recall, or that doesn't ring a bell, which are ways to get around definitively answering.
SPEAKER 04 :
Or it's possible someone interpreted my words as that. I didn't know exactly what the professor might do with the documents.
SPEAKER 05 :
Even the professor, the documents that just the news got with John Solomon, they asked him, did you ever leak documents? classified material that james comey gave you and he said i i don't believe i did but with a discount which is the most open-ended like saying no but a discount how much was that discount 100 off and the reason why they were answering like that is because they were prepared right
SPEAKER 04 :
They knew ultimately that, listen, when you start playing politics like this, the other side is going to investigate. Ultimately, they're going to get that information. So you couch almost everything you say. That's why so many of those congressional hearings can be so just kind of infuriating for those members of Congress who are just looking for answers from government servants. They are there to serve the people. That is why they are there. We pay their salaries to provide a service to the American people. And in the FBI's case, it's to protect us from criminals, from both. And typically their involvement is mostly domestic. But they've seen, of course, kind of an increase into, and I think that's the global economy, some of that makes sense. It's gotten a little bit more difficult, and I think that's why the position that Rick Ronell, who's on staff with us, and Tulsi Gabbard, who was on staff with us, has now as Director of National Intelligence, is so important because really all of these agencies, play part in these roles. Like she said, you don't just say Comey because he only does domestic in this. In fact, he was doing Russia and he was doing Ukraine. I mean, it was going through. And look at the actual consequences of some of their politics. War, I mean, you could look to Ukraine and say, this certainly could play a role because we were debating it around and throwing it around to play domestic politics with. And so I think this is why, it's a reason why to support the work of the ACLJ. Because I don't know of another organization... especially that has got the legal policy, the C4 side with ACLJ action, the Washington, the international representation, that can have this conversation in one hour with you on all of these topics, bring in experts who have lived it, some of us who really lived these, and bring it to you in one hour. And really, it's less than that if you take out the commercials. And some of you who listen to the podcast can see that. That is why you support the work of the ACLJ. It's not the commentary. It's the commentary that comes from the people who are doing this work. And we're doing this work because you make the donations so we can. So donate today so our team continues to do the work at ACLJ.org. In fact, donate right now.
Reggie Rocko brings the energy on I’m a Uniter with a powerhouse episode featuring Aurora City Council members Danielle Jurinsky and Amsalu Kassar. The conversation dives into Aurora’s future, public safety, and the fight to keep communities secure and thriving. Jurinsky recounts her undercover efforts exposing crime and trafficking, while Kassar shares his journey from refugee to city leader. Together, they highlight how Aurora Republicans are reshaping the city, pushing back against crime, and charting a bold path forward. Later, Reggie and callers discuss election integrity, crypto opportunities, and national security concerns—from Trump’s chess-like strategy to global flashpoints with Russia and China. This episode is packed with passion, patriotism, and raw truth.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, yeah. Yeah. What's up? What's up? What's up? You tuned in to 560 KLZ. KLZ. I'm a Uniter. I'm a Uniter. I'm your host, Reggie Rocco. Yeah. Yeah. KLZ. KLZ. So right about now, we want everybody, I mean everybody, stand up. Stand up. Hold your hands up high. Lock arms. This is about America, baby. Yeah. We bringing people together. I'm a United.
SPEAKER 07 :
to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all
SPEAKER 16 :
Woo! 560 KLZ. This is Reggie Rocco. I'm a Uniter. Lukey Luke is out. Where is Luke? But we got Super Joe. We got Mighty Joe in the house. What's up, buddy? Not too much, Reggie.
SPEAKER 13 :
How are you doing, man?
SPEAKER 16 :
Good, good, man. Busy, busy week, man. You know, I know the show airs like two or three times a week, but we record live Friday, right? So a lot of things that go on. And I'm like, I can't wait till Friday. I can't wait till Friday. So I guess I'm gonna sit down with Mike and like, yo, Mike, let's go ahead and go ahead and do a couple more days. But, you know, so to answer your question directly, do you know where I was the other day? Like literally last night. I was at the city council event up at Stampede, the Aurora City Council, and met all the candidates, and they just hype, man. They are so hype. And everybody, man, was just so great. And we have one of them on the line, I believe, now. Who's on the line, Big Doc? It's Councilman Amsalu Kassar. Hey, what's up, buddy? Are you there?
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Thank you. You got it right, though. That's a hard one, right?
SPEAKER 16 :
Not too many people get that right. that's mighty joe for you though so hey man tell us about the event last night what you're doing your thoughts on moving aurora that you know and not just aurora the whole state you know you guys are very impressive i like uh what i was hearing and i just want to give you this opportunity which i'm sure you have plenty of opportunities but yeah but you're on army uniter so you go ahead we talk we tell it like it is man so go ahead you know open up your your ears your eyes and open up that mouth and everything i heard last night bring that energy man tell what's going on well thank you so much reggie thank you for you know having me over here in that you know nice best show so yeah i guess that last night we have a good successful event uh that's just you know uh
SPEAKER 15 :
encouraging people, make sure, you know, people are, you know, united, make sure people are getting together and, you know, ready for the coming up election in November 4. And we are excited to continue serving. And then also we want to, you know, keep Aurora safe and secure for the, you know, our families. And then just to remind, you know, people that, you know, Aurora is the best place. And, you know, that team last night, we want to show the meaningful opportunities in building a separate community and then showing in the community that we are the best team to improving our infrastructure and reducing barriers, economic growth. So it was a lot and very successful. And we believe Aurora deserves a city that works for everyone. And we are committed to making that, you know, happen. So that's what happened last night. It was very nice and successful.
SPEAKER 16 :
It sure was. I felt the energy. And you're right about Aurora. Everybody talks about Denver, but Denver is really the, that's not the place. Aurora is, you know, when things happen in Aurora, you guys come through and make it happen.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yes. Let me tell you, you know, just myself, you know, I came into this country about 18 years ago as a refugee. And, you know, Aurora is the place that gave me, you know, a lot of opportunity. And so Aurora, you know, it's really, it means to us, you know, a lot. So Aurora is actually the best place. And that's why we call it home.
SPEAKER 16 :
So let me ask you, with all the illegal immigration and really Aurora's been cleaning it up way faster than Denver, it seems like Denver is fighting against it and you guys are fighting for cleaning the city up, taking care of the crime, eliminating that. You seem like you guys are really for your people, for your citizens. Am I correct?
SPEAKER 15 :
Absolutely, absolutely. Protecting the family is our priority. So we really need to protect our families, business, and neighbors. We want our kids to walk into the street without any fear, without any, you know. We want our neighborhoods to walk around in the park. And so, yeah, we are really prioritizing our public safety and strong, and we want to be tougher. And, you know, the funny part is even in our immigrant community, they want a safer and safe community. They want that, you know, environment. So it's just, you know, clean up the mess is really important for one community, especially for Aurora, for the diverse community. We want that. So we are really focusing on public safety. Make sure Aurora remains safe and secure for everyone.
SPEAKER 16 :
And you know what? I agree 100 percent. And I feel that energy. And guess what? One of your partners is on the line, too. We are going to punch her in. You know who she is, right? Daniel! Are you there? Are you there?
SPEAKER 10 :
I'm here. Good morning.
SPEAKER 16 :
Good morning. So we got two of the heavyweights on. Hey, I was very impressed. And you know what? So while you're on, I have to say this. Remember, Joe, when I had the show and the episode and we were telling about how the – ice agents and that detective that was heading the investigation he was talking about this lady you know saying that went into the apartments who are turning the agua you know what she was good armed and everything and i'm looking you know i didn't know who this person was but they're telling me what what you know they want to know what they want me to say come to find out It was Danielle. She's like a buck-oh-five, man. I would not mess with her, man. Like, that was her. So tell our audience what you went through. Because I seen her at the Trump event when Trump was here. She was on stage speaking. I was right over with the press pass and right on the VIP in the corner. I'm like... This can't be the same person, is it? But it is, man. And seeing her in person, man, it's just hard to believe. So tell my audience what took place then and what you guys are doing now to keep that same energy going.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, absolutely, and thank you so much for having me. You know, last year at this time, starting before this time, it started in July of last year, it was very, very dark days for me. I was being tipped off by Aurora police officers about what was going on in these apartment complexes and what was going on in the city, and 911 calls that they were responding to and what they were seeing with their own eyes, and I said, This cannot be happening in my city. This cannot be happening on American soil. I started going over to these apartment complexes. I got scared away. Honestly, the first time I went over there, they pulled an alert whistle, and I knew exactly what that meant. And all of a sudden, there was all eyes on me. I got in my car and took off. So I made sure that I always went with a gun. I got myself a body camera. I started going in undercover. I would climb through windows. I mean, you name it. But I was making my way into these apartment complexes to talk to these people and get their stories out about how they were being victimized. And meanwhile, I'm fighting against the city. The city can't figure out what... They want to tell the truth about what they don't want to tell the truth about. The governor's calling the police on me. Jason Crowe's calling me a liar. Kyle Clark, I mean, was just obsessive about trying to tear me down during these days. And as everybody now knows, I was telling the truth. I had support from some colleagues. This was before OMSLU. was on council, but I had support from other colleagues. It's just, you know, we all fight differently. We're all vocal at different levels, right? And I'm definitely the loudest. But, you know, I just kept beating the drum and beating the drum, but my colleagues knew I was telling the truth, and they supported me, and they started asking questions. You know, and I just... I went in, I started moving Americans out. But even after I got the Americans out, Reggie, you know, you have to know that this became a true issue of human suffering. And I no longer cared where these folks came from, what their status was. I didn't care. I was watching women, holding women who were being sex trafficked, raped, drugged. They didn't know where they were. Some of them literally did not even know where they were at at all. Couldn't even tell you where they were at. And so this became an issue of human suffering for me. It transcended far beyond who's here legally and who's here illegally.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, I can tell you this. I talk about all the time. I went national. I mean, four, three, four national television shows. They flew down from New York and follow me around. But you went worldwide. Yeah. So I think I'm just shut my mouth because you went worldwide. How does that feel? And then representing Aurora and with the team that I've seen that you guys had last night, how does that feel with you as the leader and marching towards what we want to happen in Colorado?
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah. Well, first of all, I am so blessed and so honored to be running with the candidates that I am, and some of them are my current colleagues. I'm so honored and so blessed that they trust me, that they do look up to me, that they do view me as the leader. It means a lot to me. I intend to lead us in the right direction at any fight we come up against. I will lead the charge to overcome it. You know, being a leader has its goods and its bads. It's ups and downs. It's not always the best, right, to be the leader of the pack. But I, you know, I intend to stand strong. I intend to stand up. And I intend to bear the brunt of anything that comes against us, and I will. You know, having the support that I had when I was going through all of this last year, I mean, this was terrifying. I mean, you saw me in person last night. I'm not a very big woman. Wow.
SPEAKER 16 :
I can't believe it. Exactly.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, but I, you know, I just, I will fight if I have to. I will protect people. I will, you know, I will put myself in between a Trendy Aragua gang member and a woman who is being sex trafficked and say no more. And I did. And a couple of them, I got right into their faces. A couple of them, it did turn physically violent. But, you know, it is what it is. And I'm a proud American. And I will stand up and fight. I may not always win, you know, but I will stand up and fight. And I truly believe that all five of us, this is a group of individuals that I am so proud of. I love each and every one of them. We're going to make history, like I said last night, electing the first candidate. uh... immigrant onto the aurora city council with arms who we are going to be made history in appointing him but now it's going to be the people's choice and we're going to get him elected we're going to continue to make history we're going to continue to make headlines for for positive things even if they want to call me a liar on things i want to call out but i'll tell you what ready moving forward uh... I think they're going to think twice before they call me a liar. I think they're going to start looking into some things that I say because they were very embarrassed.
SPEAKER 16 :
Very, very. Hey, I'm about six feet tall, 250, and I wouldn't do what you did. I am literally shocked when I seen this. I said, no, this can't be her. This can't be her. It's incredible. Now, is it my interpretation or speculation? I'm a victim of crime here, okay? So they broke into my car three times, the fourth time they stole it. Matter of fact, at the radio station, I was on the Kim Monson show. I looked out, okay, bam. Then I was at a library when they actually stole the actual car. But the crime, the violence, the murders, assaults, everything was going on like so bad. But it seemed like Aurora was cleaning up everything way better than Denver. Am I wrong?
SPEAKER 10 :
Oh, you are not wrong. You hit the nail on the head. We have prioritized public safety. They have prioritized supporting illegals. over American citizens. You saw they shut down DMVs. You saw that they started housing the illegals in recreation centers. So they started taking services away, away from their people. Now, in Aurora, you know... We did what we could, specifically with these apartments, right, to help these people. And, you know, even myself, I went out there with the Salvation Army multiple times. I started feeding these people, feeding these people, because they were being starved by the gang. But we kept Aurora's citizens first, and we never wavered on that.
SPEAKER 01 :
You did.
SPEAKER 10 :
We have a balanced budget going into 2026. You know, we're not cutting services. We have decided to double down and cut waste. There's been a lot of waste, you have to understand, before my election in 2021. It was a socialist-leaning council.
SPEAKER 16 :
Wow. So, look, can you guys hang on? We're going to go to break, and we're going to come back to you guys as soon as we get from break, and then we'll wrap it up because I'm dedicating this time for you, for you guys' voice. You're listening to 560 KLZ. I'm a Uniter. We will be right back, back, back, back.
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SPEAKER 16 :
phones are blowing up we got superstars here 560 klz army uniter so uh danielle you guys look i was very impressed and i don't i know you guys are very busy but i wanted to dedicate you know this time for you to speak anything you need to say to the people how you feel in the direction just go ahead the floor is yours sure is i'm still on too yeah yeah yeah i'm here
SPEAKER 10 :
I can go first. What I would say, not just to the people of Aurora, but to the people of Colorado, truly... you know it's never going to matter to me what title i have in front of my name i'm an american first and foremost so i speak about whatever i want and because we're protected right by the constitution it's called the first amendment yes ma'am and i you know serving on the aurora city council what i want people to understand no matter where you live in this state If you have an issue and you feel that your representation is not hearing you, not listening to you, I'll never, ever prioritize anything over Aurora. But I will help you. I will help you. It is time to hold these Democrats accountable. It is time to take our state back. It is time to unite and it is time to lead the way. And I believe in Aurora, we are leading the way. I said it last night. We currently have three, three members of council who are black. All three were put on by Republicans.
SPEAKER 08 :
All three.
SPEAKER 10 :
So if you want to talk about truly the party of inclusion, it's us. It is the Republicans. But we have to continue to lead. We have to have strength. We have to have confidence. And we have to show who we are. We will continue to do that. We are going to make history with Amsalu Casal. We are going to get Stephen Elkins on the council. We're going to reelect Steve Sundberg, and we are going to bring Marsha Versions back. I, myself, Danielle Jurinsky, I'm going to win, and we're ready for battle. We are battle-tested. We are battle-approved over here in Aurora, and we have set the blueprint and will continue to on how we turn this entire system around one of my biggest mottos is change is coming and it's going to come out of Aurora for the state.
SPEAKER 16 :
What about you?
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, first of all, I really, you know, I'm so proud to be a part of the, you know, this party. And then, you know, I really proud the American, America as a nation of immigrants and as someone who can, as a refugee, I'm firsthand the promise and opportunity this country offers. And I'm so proud of my journey and grateful to call Aurora home. So I really believe that we must be legal. We must be safe. We must be fair. I know our system is broken, but we must fix by enforcing the law. enforcing those who can here follow the rules, work hard, contribute to our society in, you know, supporting immigrants who want to build a better life the right way, like Americans dream. So as myself, as an immigrant, I always, you know, stand for opportunity, right? As a conservative, I always stand for the rule of law. So Aurora is a migrant community, just like everyone else. We want safety. We want security. We want to be, you know, free from the crime. So, you know, we want to make sure that values are protected here in Aurora. So we will fight for that. And, you know, as Daniel says, we're here to fight for the community. So make sure, you know, November 4th, make sure everybody was for us. Thank you so much.
SPEAKER 16 :
So I have a question. One, a comment first. I think I'm going to be moving to Aurorio. That's number one. You better. You better. And the question to both of you guys. In my experience in the entertainment industry, so I have a publishing deal with Lowry Music Group, Sony, and I do a lot of videos, videography, editing, AI, CGI, all that stuff. And I've done several commercials with major companies. Trump pushes AI. He pushes, you know, cryptocurrency. He pushes all of this stuff to the future. And he's exactly 100 percent right. I want to know what you guys think about and what are you going to do to push our party there? Because it seemed like the Democrats are so far advanced and they spend so much money. on, uh, you know, online and social media and, and all that kind of stuff. But we don't do as much nowhere close. I don't know if it's budget wise or if we have the people to do it. Cause I'm definitely one, but how do we get our party over there, you know, up to speed?
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, I would say, uh, I would say that, that we are headed in that direction. Um, You know, you have to understand about Republicans, right? We're the free thinkers. We're not the party of sheep of follow, you know, just follow blind followers.
SPEAKER 08 :
Right. Right.
SPEAKER 10 :
It's a little harder to wrangle some folks in our party. But I do believe that we are headed in that direction. We hear President Trump talk about. Bitcoin and cryptocurrency all the time. I think a lot of people are being attracted to that. I think a lot of people are looking at investing in that. I think that is happening. As far as um ai stuff like that you know ai i excites me at the same time it frightens me um you know i think that ai can go a little too far i mean i look back at at the last you know, 20 years, what social media has done to us as a country, what it has done to our youth, and, you know, the violence that is portrayed and shown in our schools. And they think it's cool, you know, to put up videos and stuff of these fights and people, kids just being jumped and beaten. And so as with everything, I think, you know, AI can be a double-edged sword. It can be wonderful if used correctly. I am not advanced in AI. I am advanced in social media. I run all my own social media platforms, and they've grown fairly large. I think we're headed in that direction. But it may still take a little bit more time. But I am very supportive of cryptocurrency. I am very supportive in bringing our party into, bringing us up to speed. I just want to be careful with cryptocurrency. some of the AI stuff.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yes, it definitely needs to be monitored. And I have several accounts where they always block me and kick off. I use VPNs. I got all this equipment, computers, four or five phones. And just to get our message out, they shadow ban, they do a lot of things. But then you turn around and they have all this violence on there. nudity and and you know people saying the n-word and all kinds of nothing happens to them they're very the videos are just going going viral viral but if you say anything about conservatism republicans trump you know you you know your your names in there so it's like uh they they they try to shut that down so if they're selling tiktok and we're we're buying it do you think that we're going to control the other rhythms and we'll be able to have true freedom of speech and also to police some of the things you're talking about
SPEAKER 10 :
I think so. I think we saw that, right? I think the trailblazer of that was Elon Musk purchasing Twitter. I think that was huge. But, you know, I think that that transcends out of our party. I mean, look at what just happened with Jimmy Kimmel. I think that there is more and more pressure being put on the left that, listen, People are being murdered. over their political beliefs. We have got to shut this vitriol down. Now, Jimmy Kimmel, if you want to go home and you want to talk about us the way that you want to talk about us and you want to say these things about Charlie Kirk, you have that right. As an American, you have that right. But all of these liberal peers and all of this meltdown over Jimmy Kimmel and the Constitution and blah, blah, blah, blah. Listen up, folks. Let me give you a little lesson here. If your boss doesn't like what you say, you're fired. That has nothing to do with the Constitution. You can still say what you said, and you're not going to go to jail. You have that First Amendment right. That is freedom of speech. And that is a constitutional right that I would fight to defend, 100%. But... What these liberals don't understand, while they're over there crying about someone losing their job, meanwhile someone lost his life for what he believed in, okay? You can say whatever you want, but it may have consequences. You may be fired.
SPEAKER 16 :
Wow. You think Phil the same way? You there, buddy?
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, yes, yes, absolutely, absolutely. She nailed it well, so I don't know what to add.
SPEAKER 16 :
You can't really follow that, huh? No, no.
SPEAKER 15 :
Why is she so feisty, man?
SPEAKER 16 :
Like, I'm kind of afraid. I'm glad she's on our team. Yep, absolutely.
SPEAKER 15 :
Seriously.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, is there anything else that you guys want to say individually, together, whatever, before we let you go?
SPEAKER 10 :
What I would say is, you know, please, please check us out. If you live in Aurora, start making phone calls. My website is danielleforaurora.com. That's F-O-R, danielleforaurora.com. You can email me. You can sign up for my newsletters. You know, we have some fun events coming up, some honking waves. We're going to be doing some phone banks. We need your help. We are the beacon of hope. We are the beacon of hope for the entire state. The Democrats cannot figure out how we have a super Republican majority in a blue city. I don't believe it's a blue city anymore. I believe we're going to win all five seats. We've set the blueprint. Join our team. Help us. It will be my great honor to be a part of history and watch the first immigrant be elected and stand side by side and serve shoulder to shoulder with him.
SPEAKER 16 :
And go ahead.
SPEAKER 15 :
What's your thought? Thank you, Rich. Yeah, thank you so much. I just want to say, you know, we are really proud of, you know, Aurora's progress. But I know, you know, our work is not done yet. So we got to get reelected this coming November. So with your support, you know, we can continue building a safer, stronger, and more inclusive Aurora together. So, you know, you can go to my website. And I'm still looking for Aurora.com and, you know, looking for your support this coming November. Thank you so much.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, thank you. I know you guys are busy. Keep up the good work. I'm going to send both of you guys something later, probably later tonight or tomorrow. Thanks. I'm glad you're on the team. And, you know, I'm just very proud of what you guys are doing in Aurora. And hopefully it will spread out through Denver. We just take our state back. Amen. Okay, cool. It was very great talking to you. Thanks for calling in, and you guys have a great day. You too. Bye-bye. God bless.
SPEAKER 15 :
Bye-bye. Thank you.
SPEAKER 16 :
Ooh-wee. Heavyweights. heavy weights so yeah man uh the people you know i'm a i'm an energy type person and um you want to go to break yeah let's go ahead and go to break and we'll be right back it's an army united
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SPEAKER 16 :
Yes, you're listening to 560 KLZ. I'm a Uniter. Boy, it's hot in here. It's getting hot in here. So, like I said, that city council, the lineup, I really liked. It's diverse, and it's built on passion, strength, courage, intelligence, and you got the right leader. Like, she literally scares me, dude. Like, I tower over her, right? I'm like, this cannot be the lady that was on there with this gun and going through all the windows and all that and was standing on the Trump stage. I'm just like. I just can't believe it. But you hear how feisty she is. She is a warrior, yo. She's a warrior and exactly what we need, exactly who we need. And then I think the personalities go together because you can tell that they really merge. They really work together well. And so I just want everybody to get in so we can keep rolling. Who we got on the line? Johnny? Is Johnny on the line? Yeah, what's up? What's up, man? Get out of your smooth voice, man, and speak up, man.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, I'm in the cafeteria at the Denver General Hospital just hanging out for a minute. Okay. So that's why I'm kind of laid back. So when I listen to them, okay, I wonder, like, how many of these mail-out ballots were sent out and how was the ground game? It seemed like the ground game was pretty good. Now, here in Denver... Of course, Alex Valdez, he's no longer running. He turned out, and now I'm running, and they're going to have to pick another opponent. But here in Denver, it seemed like I had 4,451 votes both times. It didn't go up. It didn't go down. His went up. And I'm thinking, is it the machine?
SPEAKER 16 :
Wait, wait. You're talking like you had the exact amount of votes each time? Yeah. No way. No, no, no. No. You got to be mistaken. I checked it. I checked it. So didn't you know that's corrupt? There's no way. There's no way you're going to get the exact amount of votes both times. Not one over or under exact. Yeah. Wow.
SPEAKER 06 :
You hear this, Joe? I want that.
SPEAKER 16 :
Joe's shaking his head. He's like, oh, man, come on, man. Man, well, you know something's up with that then, John.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, before, I was going to put up my website because I was going to – I know Voldemort is running against DeGette. He's going to announce in November. So I don't want to get ahead of him. And we're working out a team plan to go this time. But I'm thinking, like, if I can't get even – Oh, like I say, 10% of the people that just donate $10. I mean, that'll be like $4,451. Then, you know, what am I doing? You know, it's like, come on, you guys.
SPEAKER 16 :
Dude, you're in Denver. You know that's all correct. You know what? I would, all y'all just get with Danielle. That's it. That's all you got to do, man. Get with her.
SPEAKER 06 :
Aurora. Yeah.
SPEAKER 16 :
Hey, get how she moves, you know, how she works, that passion, that fire, you know, and, and it will, it will happen because it's in you. But you can feel it like she's fed up. She don't even care what you say, what you think. This is how it is. This is the truth. And she's marching forward and in truth and in God. I mean, in country. So, hey, that's a leader right there. I think everybody should pick up her vibe. And do it like that. I have that same vibe too, but I'm just like, I try to be mutual, but nah. I'm a Trump supporter all the way, 1,000%. And Colorado is red no more. So it has to come back to that. So yeah, Denver, that's serious. But I watched, dude, Aurora was horrible, yo. It was horrible. And it's much better. And like they said, they're not done. They're not done. But you can definitely tell. You know, I'm out here in these streets. How they say it in the slang? I'm out here in these streets. And you can definitely tell the difference everywhere. You can definitely tell the difference. But we got to get from blue to red. So whatever is going on in that situation, man, you need to have somebody check that because there's no way you should be getting the same exact – i could bet how much i got left maybe a hundred thousand the whole the whole lump sum that there's that that there's no way that your vote could have came out the exact same way that's that's very very fishy dude
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, I thought it was fishy too. And I'm thinking like, okay, but then who are these people? And why are they not? Because I met people that read my website. I got the donation thing there. But that didn't even move. And I'm thinking like, come on, something's up with this.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, what about, okay, so budgets and everything, you know, that's why when they wanted me to run, I wanted to do it so bad, buddy, I did. You know, Kim got with me. Matter of fact, Kim and Evelyn, they actually went down with me and They were like the guard dogs and listening to what they were saying and why they wanted me to run and all that kind of stuff. And the main reason why I couldn't do it, I had a lot of stuff going on, but still in the same direction. But the whole situation is that campaigning, that fundraising thing. I hate asking for money. And you need money. You have to have money because you're battling against the left, and they got tons of money. So we need to have stuff to support the candidates. And me, if I did it, I have to go 100%. There is no job. There is nothing. There's 100% doing what I need to do. But if you got bills that need to be paid, where does that come from? So to me, you have to get an investor or somebody on the side, take care of that, while you can donate and dedicate money. your whole time to the movement. And that's the only way I could really do it. So I, go ahead.
SPEAKER 06 :
I'll give you some clarity on Alex. When he, when he started, someone donated or he donated because he had a, he had a business that was in the solar panels. And then as you know, you put a law that you have to have an all new commercial ability at that sort of solar panels. So I know that, Hey, that was a gift that they gave to him. But when he started out, he had $100,000. And when I got in the race, he had $38,000. Then when I ran against him the last time, when he was about to be turned down, he had $16,000. And I was just running off of my money, which wasn't a lot. But he already had it stacked up and was just running off of that money. So in Denver, we've got to get the same kind of support. But if someone's fighting against the GOP, within the GOP now, about kicking out the old school and kicking out the new school and the Trumpsters and they're all fighting, stop fighting against each other and just fight against the real enemy, which is on the left.
SPEAKER 16 :
They don't seem to get it. Okay, I agree. I haven't seen me personally, like early on, you know, when we were in the bus, you know, we had people following us around and, you know, threatening to kill us, shoot us. You know, they were sending me tombstones, you know, my name on it. Yeah. You know, die of wishing out, die of COVID and all this other stuff. And I got that energy like Danielle. I'm like, bring it. Because once I'm locked in, I'm going all the way. But yes, even being locked in, you have to support. You have to have... finances to do what you need to do that's just that's you know that's just what it is maybe you should like put it try to get a a campaign manager or something or even you know try to get in touch with danielle and oh yeah and different people like that but speaking of money speaking of money oh where where's casper man casper ain't called me yet But that money, maybe we'll get a Bitcoin account. But no, all seriousness, man. You're a great guy. You call it every week. I see you out there moving, moving. And being visually impaired, that's even more hype. But yeah, I got to get to Trump. When I was out in D.C., I've been there twice. And I've never been at the White House. I need to get to the White House for real. Got a lot of connections up there, but I got to get out there and camp up and get out there. But I believe I believe like this, man. No matter what you do, don't give up. Stay on course and just be more aggressive. See, you're such a nice guy. I got a heart of a lion like Danielle does. And it seems like her whole team is like that. So I'm very, very excited about that. But, yeah, buddy, you just got to dig in with somebody over there and have them – be your eyes and ears and find out what's really going on on there because that definitely sounds a little fishy to me. Hey, hold on. Hold on. We got somebody online? Casper? Casper, you there?
SPEAKER 05 :
I am.
SPEAKER 16 :
Where you been, man?
SPEAKER 05 :
Just listening in.
SPEAKER 16 :
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm glad you called. I'm glad you called. So what's popping, man? What's going on?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, as you know, I was at the event last night as well and heard Danielle and the whole team. And I'm excited to be living in Aurora. That's where I've lived for a long time. So I'm happy that we're moving in the right direction when it comes to all the political stuff. But they've got to fight ahead of them because it's not going to be just a They're not going to just walk it in. They got to run it in. They got to push through.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, yeah, 100%. I see that. But let me tell you this. I know you listen all the time, but when I say crypto or money or something, boom! One of your brothers, you, one of your brothers alert you and you're on the phone. But I told you, buddy, I told you that I'm going to hold your feet to the fire. And, you know, I love you. You know, I tell the story that when we first had everything and came in and cast, the only one that called us back. And the next thing you know, we blew up nationwide. Now, I'm going to tell you this. So maybe this will happen. I can't. I'm not a crypto guy. I'm not telling you this is something that you need to do. You know, I'm not in any way telling that. I'm just. But what I will do is I will tell the truth. And I'm just telling you. So my listeners, because I promised them that I would definitely report on this like every week. So I'm going to log into my account.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay. While you do that, let me tell them about what happened last night because I was talking to Danielle. She said, well, you need to have a Texacoin table at the event and kind of hopefully educate the community, the conservative Republican community about crypto because the leader of the free world is trying to make America the crypto capital of the world, and it would be really good if our community was leading that charge. You know, so that's why I was there last night. And Danielle is on the team. You know, she has a Texas minor and stuff. And right now she can't do a lot with it because she's running. But her minor is growing every day. Everybody's minor is growing every day. And the coin is going up. And there's some new projections that are just, you know, this is not financial advice. I don't want people to freak out and everything. But the new projections are just off the charts. So it's definitely something people should look into. You know, whether they do it or not is up to them, but they definitely need to look into it and really get all their questions answered to make sure that it, you know, they need to be comfortable with their decision because everything has a degree of risk to it. But this is one thing that they really should be considering to put in their portfolio.
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OK, so I'm I'm logged in. Wow. Yep. Hey, Joe, when you get a chance, because I know you're a crypto guy, come look at my account. Remember, Joe and I had a conversation like, what, a year ago about mining and stuff like that? Roughly about that time. And I didn't know what the heck he was talking about, but he did. And he taught me some stuff. And then, Lord, have mercy, because I'm looking at it right now. It's definitely my account. Come here, Joe. This is crazy, man.
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Yeah. So, so people, a lot of people are confused between crypto and crypto mining. They don't quite understand the difference. And crypto mining can be very complicated because, you know, to mine, you need to have this massive computer systems or computing power. But with Texas coin, you don't need any of that because it's all done in Texas. You know, we have digital miners. We don't have to maintain them. We don't have to worry about the electricity. We don't have to worry about any of that. All we do is just get a digital mining slot or space, and that's it. It's like a passive account. It just keeps growing every day.
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So tell me, I did look this up, and I want to know straight out, because you know I got to get real. Man, they're calling already. That's the big dog from Atlanta. Hold on, Casper. Oh, my God. He has a message for you. So he's listening in, too. But he said he's going to get with me after the show. He has a message for you. So my thing is this. I heard that this company is signing up like 800 people, six, 800 people. Is that a day or a month or what?
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Yeah, no, no, that's a day right now. People are getting minors. Now, now here's the thing. So this is a temporary, um, build out. In other words, once the mind, the physical mind, this is, these are physical computer systems. The company is using crowdfunding to build the mind. A lot of these, um, cryptos, They use venture to capitalists, right? So they use investors that come in and the investors control the entire project. Texacoin is using average people to crowdfund to build a mine. That's a difference between an XRP or some of these others compared to Texacoin. And it's just a phenomenal opportunity for the average person You don't have to know anything about crypto mining. You just have to be smart enough to recognize the opportunity. and take advantage of it. Again, this is not financial advice.
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Yes, and it's not advice from me. You know, KLZ, Crawford Brighton, nothing. We have nothing to do with this. But all we're doing is reporting the truth. And it's working. It's working for me. And you know me, I dig. I like your miners. I get a lot of information. And I got Atlanta calling me saying, hey, we want to talk. You know, Hey man, it speaks for itself. So, but why don't you give people, give people your, uh, give people your information so they can get in touch.
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Sure. It's been five months for me and it has transformed my financial cycle. I was retired, man. I was, in my hot tub, but I came out of retirement because this is one of those things that just comes along and you need to take advantage of it while it's here because it's only going to go for about six months and then the mine will be built and then that'll be the end of that side of it, but the mining operation will go on for the next 135 years. If they want to get more information, they need to reach out to me. Just call me at 720-257- nine four six one that's seven two zero two five seven nine four six one and i'm getting ready to go on vacation here uh in a couple of days courtesy of texacoin luke's on vacation you going on vacation can can i get some of this mine can i get some of this
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Well, hey, man, be careful out there because I know you're out of the political business, but you're really not. It's in your blood. I know. So do your thing. Have a great time where you're going. And let's hook up, man, when you get back.
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Hey, I'm going to the great state of Texas so I can open carry there.
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Oh, my God. He's even going there. Can you believe this, Joe? Joe, me and you going, Joe. Freak this, man. We're going. We ain't letting you. We're not missing this money train, buddy. Well, thanks for calling in, man.
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You bet.
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I'll talk to you next week.
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All right.
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All right, later. So, Joe, can you explain this? Can you explain this at all?
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I am in no way a professional by this. Just a big disclaimer. But I think of it much like stocks. You know, you've got... It values the company and then you've got a certain amount of that value that you can utilize. And so I kind of think of it like investing stocks when I'm kind of trying to explain.
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See me, I got what I do well and other things and I can't be everywhere. I'm reporting, I'm getting information and I got to be in the studio and I got to be in the TV studio, radio studio, all this work. And I don't have time to learn this crypto or blah, blah, blah. But what I do know is numbers and what I can read. I'm fairly intelligent and I see my account. So that's all I can tell you guys. I can cash this in right now if I wanted to. And a miner would still keep mining my coins. So that's residual income. So we'll leave it at that. But I want to get to some other stuff. And I want your opinion because we talk like this all the time and Luke and I talk as well. So with the Secretary of War calling all these admirals and generals to meet this month on the 30th. What's up, man? That's a major move. Something's going on. Can you tell me? Do you know?
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I have no idea. I would venture, and this is a conjecture, I would venture a guess as something bigger is happening between China and Russia that might be alluding to something. So it's concerning.
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Well, last week I said Trump plays chess. So last week, was it last week, end of the week before? I can't remember. But when we started moving all that firepower, you know, in the Caribbeans and in Puerto Rico and the Caribbeans and all that, I'm like, there's no way that Trump is bringing all that firepower just for Venezuela. You know, we could probably take that out with like a thousand Marines, you know what I'm saying, and some Marines. And some some A-10 warthogs, you know, why is all that equipment there? So I'm thinking that they're using that as a cover. And they already know something else bigger is going on. So they're just putting all the pieces in the right place because that's how Trump thinks. What do you think?
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You know, I agree, but I also – like you were saying, Trump's a chess player. He's thinking about the grand scheme of things. So he's being cautious, but I think it's – oh. I lost my train of thought. Sorry.
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That's okay. Hey, man, people are blowing me up on my phone all the time. They just always do it on the phone because they either can't get through or they got questions and all that. But I think, like you're saying, Trump is a chess player. And he would put all those boats and ships and firepower around everywhere because I do think he knows that there's something bigger going down and they're just prepared. I don't understand why Russia just won't chill, man. Can we just stop? Nobody wants to see World War III. I couldn't even imagine missiles coming here, hitting our homeland. And to tell you the truth, we already could activate Article five, you know, and nobody's holding Putin accountable for the Geneva Convention. It's supposed to be your army against my army. But he's launching missiles into neighborhoods and communities like these. What what is up? That is like Hitler type stuff. So people are getting tired of it. The EU, everybody, the NATO, Trump is getting pissed. So I don't know what to think.
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Much like America, though, I think the world has this same problem is we don't punish anymore. We're doing this soft parenting thing. But, you know, Trump is one of the only people who follows up with what he says. And he's given warning to Putin about, hey, maybe cool it down a little bit. He doesn't cool it down. Trump's going to do something. And that that's where I think he's preparing. I 100 percent agree.
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You know, and I'm glad that they're – first, I didn't know about Bondi, Pam Bondi. But, you know, I'm glad that she's finally, you know, bringing – you know, I call him Corny, the FBI guy. You know, Comey, but Corny. And he's so arrogant. And you could just see in his face he's such a liar. So I hope we get him. But what's taking so long for – to get them all? Like, can we have, like, a mass trial? Like – All of them at the same time. I mean, I just want to get Obama, Hillary, all of them, because the sooner we get to them and show the world that you can't get away with what they're doing and because they're they've committed crimes and treason. Like, come on, man, we need to get we need to really prosecute these people. And why is it taking so long? And we got the power now.
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There was a huge controversy about Edward Snowden. But if you compare and contrast, that's basically what the left has done is similar to what Edward Snowden has done. And he went to jail. So why don't we have others in jail? Exactly.
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One hundred percent. And, you know, I hear, you know, the Chicago thing. And then we had ICE agents being shot at, you know, people. The bullets are very big, by the way. And because I'd never seen a bullet so big that you can write a sentence on, you know. That's crazy. That is crazy. I want I want to turn it up. I want to turn it up. I want more ice age. I want to even have more firepower. I just want this to even increase it even more. Like even go three times as hard, three times as powerful, because that's what it's going to take to get. Everybody up out of here that's not supposed to be here. And it also shows a lesson because they don't listen to anything but force. We try to love things, but you got to have that Danielle attitude. That's it, buddy. Man, we are running out of time, huh? How much time we got, buddy? About a minute 25. A minute 25. So I will say this because it won't take too long. Trump announced something about maybe there's a peace deal in Gaza. I want to hurry up and get that over because that's too much killing over there, too. No matter how you look at it, genocide is genocide. And I know you want to get Hamas and all these other people. Yeah, we need to get them. But I'm not with, you know. little baby's head's falling off you know i'm saying we can't we can't do that so let's hurry up and get this piece up but putin i'm praying stop it because trump ain't playing it's going to be some serious stuff if he doesn't what do they say cease and desist but with that we're gonna let you go so i'm gonna count it down three two one and we out out out yeah It's that time. We out of here. But you've been listening to KLC 560 AM.
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I think I'm going to try that.
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Well, it's funny you say that because the word of the day is prudence. P-R-U-D-E-N-C-E. It's a noun. So it's the ability to govern and discipline oneself by the use of reason. So we might, you know, the past couple months I've had to use prudence with how I've chosen my food because my emotions and my desire to eat great food like fish tacos can get me in trouble, right? Yes, sir. So, yeah, I wanted to go over to the quote of the day as well. So in the in the bottom of the hour, we'll be talking a little bit about U.S. Constitution Week and Grand Lake and all the fun that I got to have there. Kim was there as well. And they had great speakers like Jonathan Turley. So, of course, it got me in my founding father spirit. So to that end, this one is by John Adams. Hopefully we all know him pretty well. And he wrote this to to Abigail. He said, posterity, you will never know how much it costs the present generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. It hits you pretty hard that even then they understood the magnitude of what they were doing, right?
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I think it's amazing that these young men, hundreds of years ago, knew how relevant that statement would be today. Because there are many that don't really care about our freedoms.
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They don't. It was kind of one of those... It's interesting to think about. We take it a little bit for granted how when they signed the Declaration of Independence, when they signed the Constitution, what they were truly signing up for and that they put their lives and sacred honor on the line literally. And it makes me wonder how many high school students understand that an 18-year-old, a 22-year-old were willing to put their name on a document knowing that if the British ever got a hold of them, they would get the death penalty.
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And many of them did. And many of them died broke because of progressives, I guess, that wanted to destroy them. And it's relevant today. Look at what's happening today.
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It is. It's bold to actually take a stand on things. Right, Ben?
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Absolutely. Yeah. And, you know, I'm so pleased. I believe that people are really waking up to what's going on. And they're seeing, like, wow, we have been asleep at the wheel. We got to get real here.
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And, you know, we're kind of going right into some headlines. And I did want to point this out. Very rarely do we get to acknowledge and praise some folks in Hollywood. Most of the time they are on the wrong end of the stick. Yeah. But I do want to point this out because this was a pretty bold move by, by some folks in Hollywood here. So the, the headline is fighting back 1200 plus entertainment leaders reject the boycott of Israeli film and television industry. Um, Earlier, there's been a big call to boycott Israel for lots of different reasons, lots of different entertainment folks. Most of the headliners signed on to that. But this week, 1,200 entertainment leaders put their name down on a letter saying, we need to stop just singling out and condemning Israel. And they specifically state, for defending itself in a war it didn't start, for trying to free hostages that are still being held. So this was spearheaded by the nonprofit Creative Community for Peace and the Brigade. It was published in response to a pledge from film workers for Palestine in which nearly 4,000 industry professionals, including major award winners, vowed to boycott Israeli productions, festivals, and institutions who they accuse of being complicit in genocide and apartheid. So this letter states, to censor the very voices trying to find common ground and express their humanity is wrong, ineffective, and a form of collective punishment. So Paramount Studios also blasted the former pledge, saying it was antithetical to the very mission of storytelling. So some of the names in the article that I knew right away, Deborah Messing, Mayim Bailik with Big Bang Theory, and then probably a little bit more... your guys's blast from the past rebecca de mornay there she uh she was um she signed on as well so if you want peace it says call for the immediate release of the remaining hostages support filmmakers who create dialogue across communities stand against hamas so good for them man that's awesome Yeah, that's a very bold thing for them to do.
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For Hollywood, because they will get canceled. And I would say this. I can't talk about the political aspects of Israel and the Palestinians. However, if you come into my tribe... and you take 10% of the children, the women, you strangle babies, I am going to unleash wholly on you. Don't care about the politics. I think what happens is we forget that innocent children, babies were strangled, were set afire, alive. And so what do you do? What do you do if someone comes into your tribe, Democrats, Mark Seacombs, what do you do? Don't you stand up and go, you'll never do, that person that did that will never be able to do that again to another human being.
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And we kind of forget, too, I mean, Yom Kippur is coming up. This happened on their holiest day of the year. It happened the equivalent of while we were at Easter services. And just a reminder, there are still hostages being held right now. And so two years, it's been two years that they've held these hostages. I mean, the videos are horrifying of them being starved in the tunnels.
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And frankly, I think they should show more. I think the world, excuse me. I think the public should see exactly what these people did.
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Yeah. Amen. So on, on the front of the world should know, we probably all saw yesterday. Comey was indicted for lying to Congress. So just wanted to make a point. It is an indictment. This, this does not mean he is necessarily guilty yet. It means the, the, The grand jury saw enough to say, hey, let's go forward with the case. But they are bringing him up on charges of giving false statements and obstruction of congressional proceedings. The interesting part about this was the statute of limitations, I think, goes out on Tuesday. So they're kind of... flying in under the barely under the due date but uh the indictment stems from statements the former fbi had made to congress in september 2020 when he testified regarding his handling of the investigation into russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election comey's indictment comes just days ahead of the major deadline like we said september 30th um So kind of interesting, kind of wish, I mean, we know Trump sent out that tweet last week, so it kind of muddies the water a little bit. But at the very least, it's definitely something we would have seen if the shoe was on the other foot. Probably would have seen it much sooner. Do wish he hadn't made it seem like he was going after his enemies. But at the very least, it'll be very interesting seeing what evidence comes to light, because obviously they have quite a bit.
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Yes. And I think this is the first of many. And I would say this as a police officer years ago, if you punched me in my face, You're going to have a bad day. And for years, they've been punching President Trump in the face. So I think he does muddy the water a little bit, but I understand. Like, this is what you've done to me. This is what you've done to the American people. And so justice moves slow. I get this complaint all the time. When are they going to do something? It moves slow, and it's supposed to move slow.
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Yeah.
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Mm-hmm.
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Any thoughts, Ben?
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Yeah, it's like you said, justice does move slow. And that, I think, is one of the key things that has been built into the American system. Like, oh, we're not just going to go out and lynch somebody, right? So that is a good thing. But, boy, it sure is frustrating to just sit back and watch it go tick, tick, tick.
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But I'm thrilled that at least some action is being taken. We'll see what comes out of it. I don't know if there will be anything. But, I mean, they did their best to put him in jail and destroy his family, destroy everything about him. So, yeah, I don't see this as retaliation. I see this as true justice.
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And again, it's more the narrative could have been controlled better. Yeah. You know, and that's a lot of the frustration with Trump is it's like, don't allow them to build a narrative against some of your actions by throwing out these tweets that make it look similar to what Democrats say. Because at that point, it's very human to want to react and to treat others the way you've been treated. However, when we allow the narrative to get away, what happens in four or eight years when they have the seat of power and they can look back and point at this and say, this is why we're going to be doing it. Of course, they do it anyway, so they don't really need a reason why anyway, right? But at the same time, it's important to know that there is justice. There is a good way to do things. And we want to make sure that we are doing them for the right reasons and Hopefully the evidence comes out and shows just how duplicitous this whole process was of targeting a U.S. citizen and a politician.
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So I may end up sounding like the crazy one with the testosterone three. But when someone attacks you and you decide that's it, it's on. And I think I kind of understand Trump and he doesn't care what people think. He doesn't care that they might use that statement six months from now. He does not care. He is going to get his message across and that he is a true leader. He is one of the most testosterone-filled presidents we've ever had. And when someone punches you, they try to kill him twice. I don't have a problem with it. I think he's... He's one of the most odd speaking people I've ever heard in my life. He has his own style of speaking. But I'm okay with him saying anything. The left is going to attack. It doesn't matter if he's kissing babies. They're going to call him a pedophile. They will make up something. They will come up with some kind of negative comment about anything. And so I don't care what they say. I think he says what's on his mind. If... If I'm in an altercation, you're not going to like what I have to say. The people around me are not going to like what I have to say. My neighbors are not going to like it because I'm going to express myself.
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Yes, sir. And if I can say this.
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I am Charlie Kirk. Very good. Thank you. Good man.
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And we'll be talking a little bit more in the second hour with Kane to see all the happenings and what you're doing. But we're also joined in studio with Ben Williams with Ben's plumbing, heating, and cooling today. And luckily you've got something here for us, Ben.
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I do, and you mentioned Kim's website. If you guys missed the presentation last month, we had a very riveting discussion about furnace filters. Kim could hardly contain the excitement. So you can go to her website and look that up. And I had failed to ask the test question, what does MERV, M-E-R-V, stand for on furnace filters?
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I think I got this. I think I have it. Let's hear it. Minimum efficiency... Rating value. You are awesome.
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Ding, ding, ding, ding.
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Gold star for cane. Yeah, so that's just talking about how porous the filters are, right? How much air it lets through, how much particulates are trapped. And I just want to put in a quick little thing. I know the nights are getting colder. We're starting to fire up our furnaces. This is a primo time to make sure that you've got a carbon monoxide detector in your house. They're very inexpensive. You can even get ones that just simply plug into an outlet. But a lot of, like if you have the furnace and or water heater that has the metal venting coming up off the top, those things do rust through in time. And you'll see little pinholes. I've seen gaps so big I could put my fist through there. And, of course, it's an odorless gas. But if you come home and you're like, man, every time I come home, I just start feeling like I got the flu, kind of woozy. You might have some carbon monoxide going on.
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So that's our tip for the day. A simple, inexpensive device will save your life. Yes.
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Yep.
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Is there a recommended place for that close to the furnace?
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They're supposed to be on each level of your house, like basement, main floor, if you have a second floor, whatever. Yep. They require one. And some are a combo where it's a smoke detector and a carbon monoxide detector. But it doesn't have to be necessarily close to the furnace. It'll pick up if something's going on. Very good. Yeah. So in our last commercial break there, you might have heard the promo for Sybil Ludington. And I just wanted to go into that a little bit and give a little bit more background because this is a very meaningful part of our history. So the American Revolution came about because of overbearing political pressure and a refusal to give the colonists any consideration or representation. The government in England had become extremely bloated. Hmm. And they felt like the American colonies would be a great source of tax revenue. So they kept coming up with more and more ways to tax the colonies to pay for their out of control spending. Hmm. As the colonists pushed back, the government doubled down and said that British soldiers could stay in the people's houses, be fed by them. This was known as the Quartering Act. Maybe you learned that in school. Well, the conditions were becoming really intolerable to the point that some of the people started to talk about separating themselves from England. So they sent Benjamin Franklin over to England to try to work things out. Well, that failed. So eventually the Declaration of Independence was signed and sent to England, which resulted in the war breaking out. Well, militias were formed in most of the existing counties. Not everybody was in favor of this, so sometimes you had neighbors that were sympathetic to the crown, and they would pass information on to the British about the local militias, what they were up to, and British troops would be sent out to squash the rebellion and teach them a lesson. So this is where our hero, Sybil Ludington, comes in. Sybil was born on April 5th, 1761. She had just turned 16 years old a few weeks when the British soldiers went to get the stores of weapons and ammunition that the militia had stored in a supply depot near Danbury. The two men who had been left to guard the place ran off when they saw the British coming. Their names didn't go down in history. So the British not only ransacked their supplies, but they decided to get drunk and burn the town down. So late in the evening of April 26, 1777, this is just a couple weeks after Sybil turned 16, a wounded messenger who escaped from the town barely reached the Ludington home late in the evening. He came to their house because Sybil's father was a colonel and a commander of the militia in Dutchess County, New York, which was close to Danbury, Connecticut. So to get an idea of the distance, think about if you were traveling from Parker to Golden. That kind of gives you an idea of how far he had to travel. So Colonel Ludington knew that the militia had to be notified, but they'd all been allowed to go home on leave because it was planting season. These guys were, you know, funding themselves, their families. Sybil was the oldest of 12 children, and she said that she would go notify the 400 members of the militia so that her father could plan out the strategy and meet the troops as they arrived at his house in the morning. Sybil got on her horse named Star and set out in the rainy night to notify the men that they were to meet at her father's house at daybreak. She rode 40 miles through the driving rain, twice the distance of Paul Revere, with no help from anyone. She fought off the attack of a highwayman, evaded British soldiers, and used a stick to bang on the shutters of the neighbors' homes, yelling, the British are burning Danbury. Rally at my father's home at daybreak. Let's pause for a moment and think about these guys in the militia. They were snuggled in their beds with their beautiful little colonial wife, with their heads resting on a comfortable goose-down pillow that they probably purchased from Mike Lindell's great-great-great-grandfather. Kids were fast asleep. They were feeling good that they were going to be able to get their crops in so they could feed their family and animals for the next year. Glad they had a roof over their heads. And now someone's banging on the window shutter in the middle of the night. What if they didn't respond to that call? Our history could have been a lot different. But because these guys quickly kissed their wife goodbye and headed out into the rain in the middle of the night, Colonel Ludington was able to take his 400 minute daybreak and drive the British back to their ships, potentially saving a number of other towns from destruction. Sybil completed her 40 mile loop and showed up at about the same time that the troops were arriving at her father's house. She was drenched to the bone, cold, tired, exhausted. If you've ever ridden horseback for any distance, you know how tired your leg muscles get. I can't imagine how she felt trying to walk after that kind of a journey and chilled to the bone. Fortunately, the militia was able to inflict some damage on the British soldiers that had burned Danbury. General Washington later paid a visit to Sybil to personally thank her for her courage and commitment in the face of overwhelming odds. Her brave act was so inspiring that around 3,000 more people joined the cause in the fight for freedom. I see a lot of parallels with our modern-day Sybil Ludington, known as Kim Monson. She comes to us in the middle of the night, right? Yes, sir. It feels true. Bringing groundbreaking news. In this world of news media, she doesn't get any help from big national syndicated news media outlets. And because she speaks the truth without regard to cronyism, sometimes it feels like she's all alone out there in the cold, driving rain, fighting off bad guys. And just like Sybil, she never gives up because she knows that there's a greater cause. Kim loves our state and our nation. She honors God with her life, and she wants the best for your children and your grandchildren. So you can join us in the battle for freedom by doing several things. Using the services of our sponsors is great, and sending words of encouragement and praying for Kim is very important. What we really want to see come out of this is that people would pick up one thing that they could really get engaged in. Go to your school board meetings, run for office, testify at the Capitol. If you're a mom or a dad in the middle of raising your family, be present and focused with your kids. That's a high calling. Give them your love and attention. Teach them what's right. And encourage them to stand against the evils of our day. So one last thing that I want to share here. This battle that we're in isn't just a political one where you pick which flavor you want or which causes you want to see advanced. This is a battle of good versus evil, where the demonically driven forces have taken the hill while we, myself included, have been busy doing our own thing. They have worked relentlessly to get into a position to control our government, our schools, colleges, and even some of our churches. Laws can be passed, and I'm really glad to see that the momentum is changing. But ultimately, if hearts and minds aren't changed, none of this stuff that we're working for will ever last. The one thing that brings about a true heart change is the ability for people to know that they're loved by God, and that he wants to be involved in the details of their life. There's this book called the Bible, where God tells about how much he loves us, and it gives guidance and encouragement, comfort. So, if you or anyone you know would like a free Bible with easy to read English or Spanish, or Russian, I don't know if that's easy to read, not for me, but I have Bibles in Russian. I'd be happy to either mail one to you or personally give it to you. So I want to be really clear, this is not a gimmick. I'm not trying to get you to go to a certain church or use our plumbing, heating, and cooling services. This is just a free gift that will hopefully impact somebody's life and in turn change our culture one heart at a time. So feel free to call or text me at 303-995-1636, and I'll be happy to give you a Bible. So once again, that's 303-995-1636. Thank you. That's awesome.
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Thank you, Ben. That's amazing. What do you think, Jamie?
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I want to add a quote. In fact, I just heard it this week from Charlie Kirk. And it says, "'Courage only requires a yes.'" And so I think about Sybil and then Kim, and I don't think people really understand with Kim, She covers a lot of controversial subjects. And so with courage, it doesn't mean that it's without fear. I mean, as a police officer, I was afraid almost every day. But courage allows you to step past that fear and handle that task. And then Sybil, like I was getting goosebumps thinking about this kid. riding down they didn't have street lights they didn't have you know sufficient roads she's probably running probably a wagon muddy wagon trail through the yeah yeah and so um it just reminds me that we there is suffering there is suffering involved in achievement doesn't matter what it is i don't care if you're a millionaire or you live on the street there's going to be suffering so
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Definitely. And, you know, like you said, one of the best ways that we can actually help out Kim's show and everything she does is going and supporting her sponsors. And one of those sponsors is the Second Syndicate.
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And welcome back. This is Alan Thomas. I'm filling in for Kim while she is traveling. Make sure and sign up for Kim's weekly email newsletter at Kim's website, KimMonson.com. And you can always email her at Kim at KimMonson.com. Thank you all for contributing to support our independent voice and exercise the right of freedom of speech. And if you're ready for financial freedom, call our friends at Mint Financial Strategies. As an independent firm and accredited investment fiduciary, they always put your interests first. Mint means more than money. It stands for meaningful relationships, information sharing, a network of smart strategies, and a thoughtful advisor who puts you in control. No cookie cutter plans. Everything is tailored to you. Call Mint Financial Strategies today at 303-285-3080. Again, 303-285-3080. And I'm joined in studio today. We'll be talking with Kane a little bit more in the second hour. Kane with Task Force Freedom NOCO. Task Force Freedom, nocode.com. And also, we just heard from Ben Williams with Ben's Plumbing, Heating, and Cooling. Yes, sir. Very excited to be here with you guys, and really love that, Ben. That was a great... Actually, a perfect segue into kind of this last bottom part of the hour that I got to talk with Grand Lake U.S. Constitution Week. I was invited to speak there last Friday, a week ago, and then Kim, of course, got to emcee the main event on Saturday. on Saturday but it's very interesting because a lot of what I focused on was actually uh why we should read the Federalist Papers why it's important and and one of the the main points I made was it's it's not enough anymore to just know what the Constitution is We have a lot of folks that say they know best what to do with the Constitution. They know best how to rewrite it. And we forget a lot of where it came from. And that's why I appreciated everything you said. It's a good reminder to put into perspective where our constitution was birthed out of. And, and again, the quote at the beginning of the hour was from John Adams. It's you will never know how much it costs the present generation to preserve your freedom. And that's why it's so important to highlight stories like civil Levington is because if you forget where we came from, you, you forget the lessons learned. And I know off, off air, um, Kane made a comment and you said, I learned all those lessons at the School of Hard Knocks, right? You have to sometimes live through some of these things to learn the lessons.
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Absolutely, yeah.
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And we forget that when we put into perspective the Constitution, we sometimes forget that we had already learned lessons as a country. We already knew the lessons that we learned. And that's one of the things the Federalist Papers really gets to put into writing. You know, when you think about the Constitution, it's a pretty short document. I mean, I think every one of us here, if we grabbed a blank sheet of paper and had to copy it down word for word, It may take us an hour or two, but for the most part, we could get through it pretty quickly. The Federalist Papers is 500 pages of very, very tiny, difficult to read writing. But it's important because since our Constitution has such brevity, Everything that's in it is for a purpose and serves a purpose. So one of the points I made at the talk was we need to read the Federalist Papers because it's not enough anymore to know what the Constitution is. It's almost equally important when talking with folks who aren't constitutionally literate to know why things are in the Constitution, to know the purpose that it actually serves, that That it goes just beyond, hey, this sounds like a good idea, so we're going to put it in there. Because we have too many TikTok stars that say, I don't know why the Constitution didn't have this in it. Or I don't know why, if I were to do this, I would put a clause in here saying, free healthcare for all. The fact that they didn't put it in there shows how ignorant and stupid they were. And actually they had learned a very deep lesson, especially with the bureaucratic state of Great Britain. And one of the things also I wanted to add, not only were they taxed and not represented, but actually a lot of the grievances in the Declaration of Independence had to do with justice, had to do with judges and not administering justice. to the colonies the way they deserve to be governed the colonies were actually asking to be governed but the correct way and that was a large portion of the grievances in addition to the taxes and the representation they're saying no no we we need to be governed we need judges here to hear our cases we need to be able to meet and convene with our representatives in a Huh. Just wait till I get to the taxes portion about how the Federalist Papers actually makes the case to the colonies that taxes are a good thing and that they're actually necessary. So, you know, I guess we can jump right to that. Actually, can you imagine making the case today as a conservative, if I was sitting here at the microphone, trying to tell conservatives that taxes are a good thing and that we do need them?
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Yeah, I'm not buying that.
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But I'll listen. But, you know, administered in the right way I think is great because I am so thankful I was able to drive in here this morning on I-70 and 225, you know.
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And that's the key, right, is taxes need to be done the right way, but there still is a need for them. And that was the case that they were trying to make in the Federalist Papers because if you go back to Washington during the war, Sure, he was a general. He had to try and do military matters. But it seemed like his most pressing activity that he constantly engaged in was... Asking for money from the Continental Congress saying it's not here. My men need food. My men need supplies. I need to pay them because we forget this wasn't a free endeavor. I mean, these these folks were away from planting season. They were away from their families. They needed a way to support themselves and their families. And Washington's basically giving them IOUs. He's not actually giving them money because the Continental Congress goes back to the states and says, here, I need money. And the states go, oh, that's a nice suggestion. We'll think about it. Some did. Some didn't. And the case made through the Federalist Papers is like, hey, this isn't a popular thing. But guess what? In times of emergencies, we do need money. And we do. Taxes are a good thing when they're done properly. Yeah.
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And so I can agree with that. And to Ben's point, I would simply say it's not the taxes. It's what these people do with our money.
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Absolutely.
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I would venture to say probably half the money that they're spending should not be allocated for anything. It should come back to the people or reduce our taxes. Yeah.
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And again, that goes back to the importance of why the Constitution exists. And part of that is defining the proper role of government. Right. And a lot of what the Constitution says is, listen, we're not giving this federal government a free open pass to do whatever they want. In fact, we are binding it down. We're shackling it. If it's not explicitly stated in the Constitution, then your federal government doesn't have the power to do it. And actually, this is where a lot of consternation comes in, is actually they say the states have a lot of power. As long as it's not explicitly prohibited by the Constitution, your state can do it. But that's where we get into this idea of prudence, right?
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So last month, Kim sent me a text and says, thanks for coming on the show. And she goes, thank you for the robust message. I'm like, hmm, I've never been called robust before, but I guess I'm a robust communicator. I would ask you, what do we do when you have those in positions of power or politicians that don't honor the Constitution? They could care less about it. They come up with laws that's antithetical to the Constitution. What do we do with those folks? And what does the...
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papers that the federalist federalist papers what does that say about that like what do we does that give us a solution to how to deal with these people you know that is a that is a great question that i don't think i can answer in just one minute so i think we're now we'll shoot over and listen to some of our sponsors and one of the great sponsors of the show is uh lauren levy
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And welcome back. This is Alan Thomas filling in for Kim Monson today. Make sure and check out the website, kimmonson.com. And also, if you're anywhere near the city of Pueblo, make sure and visit the Center for American Values. It's on the beautiful Riverwalk there in Pueblo. The center is focused on the foundational values of America, honor, integrity, and patriotism. Through their K-12 educational programs, training for educators, and portraits of valor of over 160 Medal of Honor recipients, the center is helping to instill honor, integrity, and patriotism for our next generation. So check out their website. It's AmericanValueCenter.com. That's AmericanValueCenter.com. I'm joined in studio by Kane with Task Force Freedom NOCO.
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Yes, sir. And I have to say, please take your children out of the government schools. They are not safe.
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And I'm sure we'll be talking more about that in the second hour. So make sure and stay on after this. And also joined by Ben Williams with Ben's Plumbing, Heating, and Cooling.
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Glad to be here.
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Glad to have you. So before the break, Cain, you asked the question of what happens when our legislators start passing laws that are blatantly unconstitutional? What happens when we start to go down the path of, that is divergent from the purpose and the reason why we had the Constitution? And that answer needed a little bit longer than we could have before we needed to get to sponsors, right? So, you know, obviously the first one is... That's the reason why we have the judicial system is they purposely said we need to make sure and have a Supreme Court that will rule on the constitutionality. One of the things the founders did not predict was the legislative and executive branches getting together to basically create a fourth branch of government like we have in the bureaucratic system. The massive the massive bureaucracy that we have. They always figured that each branch would want to retain and keep as much power as possible, that the executive and the legislative would actually clash and clamor with each other to try and obtain power. And one of the ways we got around that was to create this bureaucratic class where the legislative said, hey, we're going to give the executive this power to create this agency to bypass our need to legislate, which is why there's a very compelling and a very good argument as to why most agencies are actually unconstitutional, because it bypasses the need of the legislature. And the reason it does that, and probably the second part to this answer to your question is, It's we, the people, that have to hold legislators like that accountable. And that was one of the key points. That is what made our Constitution radically different from any other method of governance seen before. Is that it put the impetus down to the people. Not a selected group. Not a nobility. Not a very specific type of group. But it put the agency all the way down to the people to be involved in their federal government. This was very different from anything ever tried before. And that's what's so unique about this American experiment. Is that it relied on the people. But to that end... Since it does rely so much on the people in Federalist 57, they talk about objections that come up because the Federalist Papers were actually written as newspaper articles. And so one of the things they repeat themselves a lot just because they are newspaper articles, they kind of have to make the point again and again. But one of the things they get to do is they get to say, hey, somebody said this and this is why it's incorrect. And in 57, he's responding to a bunch of doomsday scenarios. What happens if this happens, right? And he makes a point like, listen, no government can ever be constructed to respond to all of these horrible doomsday scenarios. But if that ever does happen, it's because the people allowed it to happen. And it's going to be their problem to fix, right? And so that is where we need to make sure that we are constitutionally literate enough to be able to tell our legislators and more importantly, to be able to tell their constituents. This is why what your legislator is doing is so bad for us. not just because it's unconstitutional like that that can just be thrown around and there's a whole section of our society that'd be like so what i don't really like the constitution anyway but if you can make the case of why it's a bad idea that it's unconstitutional not just that it is because they don't it's almost an appeal to authority at this point right to say it's unconstitutional it's an authority they don't recognize as being lawful and so if you appeal to that authority and they say well I don't care if it's unconstitutional because I think the Constitution was written by rich white men that just want to further their patriarchy, right? So they'll throw it out of hand. And these are people that swore an oath to our country that are saying this. Right. And so it's more important to be able to elucidate the reasons why and to say, here is why it's a bad idea. Here's why it's bad to consolidate the power in the federal government.
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And so our founding fathers gave us the ability to vote. Here's the problem, Ben. What if that system is corrupt? What if that system is completely flawed? So what do we do next?
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Well, and that's again, they created, as we well know, they created the freedom of press. They created the freedom of speech and the ability to get out there and to say, here is what is wrong. And to that point. One of the things they did is they allowed local control to be as local as possible. And we have county clerks and recorders for a reason. I mean, I know we have Jenna Griswold. I know we have what's happening at the state level. But there is a reason why we have county clerks and recorders and why it's important to be involved in who is elected county clerk and recorder. And it's local enough now. That you should be able to know and you should be able to go to events and you should be able to see your county governments and be able to talk to your county clerk and recorder and say, hey, I want to know that things are on the up and up. I mean, I live in Douglas County. I know I can go to Sherry Davis and say, I have some major concerns. Here's the concerns I have. Can you either tell me that they're being taken care of or can you start to take care of them? Mm hmm. And so that's why we don't want federal election rules. That would actually be a bad thing because it's bringing that control to a higher level than it should be. We need to be able to control elections at our local level because we can hold them accountable.
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Yeah, and I get that because each, the cities have their own cultures. The states have their own cultures, different thought processes. The way we think here in Colorado is different than California or New York or Texas. I get that. However, so you mentioned something about the media. The pathetic line teleprompter reading harlots? So we have the solution you mentioned, or we have the media. They can address these issues. They are corrupt to their core.
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So what else is next? Well, and that's where luckily we have a free market system, right? Yes. Where as long as they want to bankrupt themselves on terrible late-night talk show hosts like Jimmy Kimmel and Stewart. Target stores. We can influence it through the free market. And that's really the only way we can right now. Or you could just stop listening to them, which is another idea. And you could listen to great shows like this. So definitely want to hang on for the second hour. So thank you, Kane. And thank you, Ben, for joining us today. And I think you guys will both like this final quote for the show. So this is James Madison in Federalist 51. It may be a reflection on human nature that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. Today, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. You are not alone, so God bless you, and God bless America, and stay tuned for hour number two.
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And fast on a rough road riding High through the mountains climbing Like a new moon rising fierce Through the rain and lightning Wandering out into this great unknown And I don't want no one to cry But tell them if I
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Let's have a conversation. Welcome to the Kim Monson Show. This is Alan Thomas. I'm thrilled to be hosting the show today while Kim is out. Thank you all for listening. You are each valued, treasured, and you have a purpose. Today, strive for excellence. Take care of your heart, your soul, and mind, and your body. You were made for this moment in history. Thank you, Producer Joe, for helping out with all the calls and the nurtures and everything. Couldn't do it without you back there. Oh, it's my pleasure, Alan, and great show. Thank you. We're joined in studio with Ben Williams from Ben's Plumbing, Heating, and Cooling, and we got to listen to some good story time hour at the first part of the show, so make sure and listen to the rebroadcast later today if you missed it.
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Yeah, thanks, Alan. It's great to be here, and I love what you're sharing.
SPEAKER 06 :
Always love having you in the studio. We're also joined by Kane from Task Force Freedom NoCo. We'll be talking to you more the second half of the show, but always love having your commentary throughout.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes, sir. TaskForceFreedomNoCo.com. And if I can say this real quick, Free Tina Peters and Derek Chauvin is a political prisoner.
SPEAKER 06 :
And with that, make sure and visit Kim's website at kimmonson.com. You get a first look at all your guests, so you'll know to tune in every time that Kane and Ben are in studio. There you can sign up for the weekly email newsletter. You get the first look at all the upcoming guests, as long as the recent essays. So you can email Kim at kim at kimmonson.com. Thank you all for contributing to support our independent voice and exercise our right to freedom of speech. And thank you to Laramie Energy for their gold sponsorship of the show. It's reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant power from naturally occurring hydrocarbons such as oil, natural gas, and coal that powers our lives, fuels our hopes and dreams, and empowers us to change our own personal climate. To be warm in the winter and cool in the summer. And then from Parker to Golden, Little Richie's Pizza and Pasta is your go-to for real New York-style pizza. Hearty pastas and that unbeatable local vibe. Little Richie's is serving up daily specials, quick and tasty weekend lunch deals, and happy hour the locals actually build their plans around. Whether you're bringing the crew, catching up with friends, or flying solo for a hot slice, Little Richie's is your neighborhood hangout. And so, like we said at the first part of the hour, again, as soon as we start talking about food this early in the morning, it's tough for me to not have a little bit of prudence here. So the word of the day is prudence. It's a noun. P-R-U-D-E-N-C-E. It's the ability to govern and discipline oneself by the use of reason. So too often that stomach starts grumbling and I stop listening to reason. Right, Ben? Yeah.
SPEAKER 18 :
I think reason would lead us to go get some pizza from Little Richie's.
SPEAKER 06 :
Ah, I like what you did there. Yeah. I wonder if they're open this early in the morning. Maybe we'll have to make that a lunch special, right? Yeah, that'd be great. Also, the first part of the hour, we talked a little bit about how I was invited to speak at Grand Lake Constitution Week. And so the founding fathers were top of mind. So this one is from John Adams for the quote of the day, posterity. You will never know how much it costs the present generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you'll make good use of it. And on the line, we are joined by Alicia Garcia with the Second Syndicate. And welcome to the show, Alicia. What do you think about that quote of the day?
SPEAKER 10 :
I love it. My name is Alicia, by the way.
SPEAKER 06 :
Alicia, I'm so sorry about that.
SPEAKER 10 :
It's okay. It happens all the time.
SPEAKER 06 :
I'm sure it does. Well, what's on your mind over there with the second syndicate?
SPEAKER 10 :
Just absolutely happy to be here. Very proud of the work that we're doing and what we stand for and really looking forward to bringing our message to everybody in Colorado to understand the importance of just exactly what you said, preserving their freedoms and making sure that they make good use of it.
SPEAKER 06 :
And, of course, one of those ways that we preserve it is, fortunately, the Second Amendment, right?
SPEAKER 10 :
Absolutely. Absolutely. Our tagline literally says where the second is first because we believe the Second Amendment stands for more than just the right to bear arms. It gives you the ability to say no. It gives you the ability to resist. It gives you the ability to say, hey, you know what, not today. And to prevent people from imposing their will on you. And that is the entire point is whether it be, you know, one person or the government. We don't want anybody being able to force their will upon you. We want to give people the right to protect and preserve their freedoms. And the best way to do that is with the pew-pews, is with firearms. And just to make people understand that this is not because... You know, we're promoting people to be dangerous or people to be violent in a negative way. We want to promote people to understand that, you know, everybody deserves the right to resist. Everybody deserves the right to, you know, say, hey, you know what, I don't have to do what you're telling me and you're not going to force me to do those things and have the ability to level that playing field.
SPEAKER 06 :
And we talked a little bit about this in the first hour, that some lessons were learned by our founding fathers the hard way, right? And one of the stories that Ben shared with us is the story of Sybil Levington. And part of that was the British knew the first thing they needed to do to bring this country back under their thumb was to go after munitions and supplies. And really, the Second Amendment was there to prevent tyranny from ever coming into this country ever again.
SPEAKER 10 :
Absolutely. And we're seeing that now, right? Because one thing I don't think that the public understands is that they can't take your rights away from you. You have to give them up. So by convincing the people of horrible things, by gaslighting the people with violence and, you know, pain and emotion, they are allowed to manipulate that by the guise of safety. And that's one of the things that I want people to really understand is that we're not so different from, you know, the anti-gunners. Their motivation is they just want safety. Also, we just have a very different opinion of what that safety looks like. And for people to understand, like, hey, look, you know, we want to be proactive in our safety. We don't want to wait to say, hey, I hope the cops show up or, hey, I want to wait. To make sure that, you know, I have the ability to fight another day. No, we want access to that immediately because, you know, the sense of urgency to live should be important. It should be immediate and it should be high on everybody's priority scale.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, and the primary right that they talk about in the Declaration of Independence is the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And this is what we're securing, first of all, is to say, I have the right to live, and I am going to protect that right from people who want to disabuse me of that right, shall we say. That might be my nicest on-air way of saying that. But it's saying, no, I have a right to, and I deserve to live, and you don't deserve to take that away from me.
SPEAKER 10 :
Absolutely. And that's exactly what we stand for at the Second Syndicate. We stand for everybody's right to exist, everybody's right to stand for their own individual freedoms and their ability to protect and preserve their life and the lives of their loved ones and the people that they surround themselves with.
SPEAKER 06 :
And, you know, it's kind of funny, because if everybody is respecting those rights, you don't really need the Second Amendment, do you? But it sure is nice to have when people don't understand or play nice in the sandbox.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, that goes back to the old saying, right? The armed society is a polite society. That's exactly why it's so important that everybody is under the assumption that everybody is armed, because... Hey, when you think about it, is it worth people losing their lives over? Well, somebody, it was worth it to somebody, right? So that's why we have those freedoms today is that people value those things enough that they actually walked the walk. And I think we've really become a society of apathy where people don't have that drive or that importance to say, be able to stand and defend, and that's exactly what we want to resurrect and protect in society today.
SPEAKER 05 :
Excuse me. Alicia, this is Kane. I'm a former police officer, and I would ask that. Doesn't a single mom with a couple of kids living by herself, doesn't she have a right to defend herself against those who want to harm her? Because this happens every single day. Women are victimized, harmed, and killed, and if they had that great equalizer, then the tide would turn.
SPEAKER 10 :
I absolutely agree. I absolutely agree. And I had a woman in my class the other day. She was in her late 80s. And I mean, she was about 90 pounds wet and wearing boots. She was so frail. And, you know, her hands were like paper. And, you know, she was an older woman. And I was like, how am I going to get this lady not only confident enough, but build up the strength and the determination to be able to handle a firearm because she wanted to that was the whole point of her being there but it was at the point in her life that you know it was something she had never prioritized so you know she didn't have strength in her hands she didn't have the ability to you know offset that recoil when we're firing a firearm and you know I did a very good job. The range that I work with did a very good job also. You know, we made it to the point where everybody else was gone. It was just her and me, a range and a firearm. And I was able to, you know, show her and demonstrate. She was able to shoot a firearm, but not without assistance. And I was like, hey, you know, I hope you realize that I can't give you this certificate today, but guess what? I'm willing to work with you and to get you to the point where you don't have to be afraid, that you have the confidence. And sometimes it's just reminding people, like, the old saying goes the same way with everything else. If you don't use it, you're going to lose it. So make sure that you are training, you are prioritizing those actions and those motives because you never know what tomorrow holds. And I want everybody to understand that, you know, it's secondary for me to teach people about the right to bear arms. It's secondary. teach them about firearms. What I'm truly teaching them is that self-defense truly is self-love. Self-love is self-care, and prioritizing your ability to grow old is a privilege that not very many people are afforded these days. We live in a very violent time, and I'm one of those people that I'm looking forward to getting older. I don't want to be, you know, the young girl out, you know, doing the things that I used to do. I want to enjoy, you know, the fruit of the work that I've put in and see the people that I love, you know, grow and have families. And, you know, those are things that are privileges. But we don't want to treat the right to defend our life as a privilege. We want to embrace that as truly one of the most important things that we have available to us right now and make that a sense of urgency and exercise it.
SPEAKER 06 :
Completely agree. Thank you so much, Alicia. And again, this is Alicia Garcia with the Second Syndicate. And how can people get in touch with you and follow everything that you're doing and support you?
SPEAKER 10 :
Head over to thesecondsyndicate.com. They can follow us on all platforms. If people want to follow me directly, they can always Google the Boomstick Babe or Boomstick Babe. That's one of the ways that people can find me. We have a lot of really cool fundraisers that are going on. One is free that you can go follow us on our links, and that will enter you into a pretty cool pew-pew. We have another one that we are raising funds to offset the tuition cost. for any armed educators that want to be involved in their defense of their schools so for every donation the second syndicate for every five dollar donation they get entered into that giveaway as well so step out and come support what are what we're doing to help protect our our kids
SPEAKER 06 :
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SPEAKER 06 :
Indeed, it's Friday, and welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. I'm Alan Thomas, filling in for Kim today. Make sure and visit the website, kimmonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. You can sign up for the weekly email newsletter. You get a first look at upcoming guests, like when the studio's being taken over by myself, Kane with Task Force Freedom, and Ben Williams with Ben's Plumbing, Heating, and Cooling. Thank you guys for joining me in studio today. It's a little bit more fun to be able to bounce around and have banter between breaks with all of us here.
SPEAKER 05 :
Should hear that.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, we should. As you all know, Kim does a lot of work with veterans, and through all that work, she's honored to highlight the USMC Memorial Foundation and all the work that they're doing to raise the money to remodel the official USMC Memorial, which is located... right here in Golden, Colorado at 6 in Colfax. Paula Sarles is the president of the foundation. She's a Marine veteran and a Gold Star wife. Paula and her team are working diligently to make the remodel a reality, and you can help by donating at usmcmemorialfoundation.org. And, you know, Cain, we're going to – in the next segment, I think we're going to focus a lot on what you have to say and things that you're doing. But we've had a lot of conversations, a lot of side conversations, especially about what we can be doing. We've talked a little bit off air about – You know how our politics is downstream of our culture. How do we change that culture? And one of the things that we've kind of been circling the idea around is we've really lost this idea of a virtuous culture. And that's one of the sad realities of this victim mindset, of this idea that it's somebody else's fault, is you lose that self-agency of self-reliance, self-restraint, self-assertion. And by default, the civic knowledge portion of the civic virtues that you need is lost because you lose the former. And we've talked a little bit at the end of the hour, how do you hold these people accountable? And really, it's having the courage to assert yourself in the realm of public opinion and public ideas. And that's something that we've seen gone by the wayside is this lack of courage. And unfortunately, or actually, I would say fortunately, through the loss of Charlie Kirk, I'm seeing a... renaissance of self-assertion that I haven't seen before of people saying you know what you've crossed the line if we're truly if our lives are going to be put at stake for having pretty normal political ideas well you know what I'm gonna have to assert myself and I'm gonna have to stop standing back and just letting you run roughshod over me by just accusing me of being racist fascist a horrible immoral person just for having pretty normal ideas
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, when you remove the Bible from schools, this was all planned. This is decades and decades of trying to bring our culture to this point in time. You remove Bibles from school. You don't teach people about the greatness of this country. We end up with the situations we have today. But, yeah, there's really no virtue. I mean, no. There's many that have no virtue in that we get...
SPEAKER 06 :
what's happening today and well it and to that point the founders were pretty pretty bold in saying that this was made to be a religious country and in fact when when the constitution was signed i think it was upwards of nine to ten of the state constitutions had a state religion that they actually sponsored So it was understood, and that wasn't unconstitutional at the time when the Constitution was signed. They said, yeah, you can have your state. This only applies to the federal government. And since we've lost that religiosity, since we've kind of lost our way, it takes folks like Ben saying, hey— Contact me. Text me. I'll send you a Bible. I'll talk to you about this. And it's great assertion and self-reliance to not say, hey, go to somebody else and find a Bible. You're saying, no, you know what? I'll help you out.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, and you know, it's interesting how God has been removed out of the equation. And so just using, say, a writing pen for an example. You know, you can go to the dollar store and get whatever, eight pens for a buck or something like that. I don't know what they cost. But, you know, just your typical cheap pens. Like, okay, whatever. If I lose it, here's another one. It doesn't really matter. But my son makes pens on a lathe. And he made one for me. It has a little bolt action thing on it, you know, bullet tip. It's a really cool pen. And he made that for me. And that is my favorite pen. I love it. I care about it. I take care of it. And God made you. And he cares about you and he has a plan for you. And that's how he and in the Bible, he expresses these things. And it gives us wonderful guidance and comfort. And so when God is removed and people feel like, well, I don't even matter. I'm just a blob of cells. You know, when I die, I just die. But if you realize God made you, he cares about everything in your life. Life takes on a whole new meaning.
SPEAKER 05 :
And what is and what is your plan? What is your what is the plan that God gave you? There's a plan that God has for each and every one of us, and you need to find that and pursue that. And then he will bless your path.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 05 :
Isn't there a verse about that? I think so.
SPEAKER 06 :
But, you know, I kind of want to take a maybe an even 50,000 foot view of that because it's a very important point. You know, Socrates at one point in time came out and he using just reason and logic said, you know what? There seems to be this this idea of a prime mover like something. This couldn't just happen. Somebody had to get it going. And a non-Christian was able to say, listen, there's something higher than us. And if there's something higher than us, then we all must be kind of equal. In the declaration, they call it nature's God. That's why that little addition was added. And it's a brilliant addition saying, you know what, even if you aren't a Christian, you can still acknowledge that there's something above us. When you take God out of the equation or a God out of the equation, you lose something very important. And it's this idea that there is truth and that truth can be discovered and reasoned and found. And that's, I think, a lot of the problem of the ideological differences that we have today is when you take God out of the equation and you say, listen, I don't necessarily believe that there is a truth. There's my truth. There's your truth. Truth is relative. You lose out on this idea of something being above us, and you become your own personal god. So then it makes sense, by extension, that if you are your own personal god, and I say you are not a woman, you're a man, I'm threatening the very deity of yourself. And so it is a somewhat... I don't agree with the language, but I can understand why they would say, well, now speech is violence. And it's because we've lost this idea of an absolute truth and that we can discover it. And that's a very, very critical distinction. And that's why our founding fathers said we were built to be a religious country because we are built. on the very foundation that there is a truth and it can be discovered, it can be reasoned, and that we should acknowledge it. And so that's an important thing. I'm sure we'll discuss this a little bit more after we hear a little bit more from great sponsors of the show. And one of those is Karen Levine.
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SPEAKER 06 :
And welcome back. This is Alan Thomas. I'm definitely excited to be hosting the show today with these two in the studio. Kane with Task Force Freedom and Ben Williams with Ben's Plumbing, Heating, and Cooling. And that's Ben's with a Z. So make sure when you're Googling it, make sure you spell that right.
SPEAKER 18 :
I don't know if I'm even on Google.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, when you look them up in the phone book, then. In the phone book, yes. There we go. So make sure and visit Kim's website at kimmonson.com. You can sign up for the weekly email newsletter. You can email her at kim at kimmonson.com. Thank you all for contributing to support our independent voice in the exercise of our right to freedom of speech. Also wanted to thank another sponsor of the show because Financial Freedom starts with the right guide and Mint Financial Strategies is here to help. As an independent firm with over 25 years of experience in the credentials of an accredited investment fiduciary. They offer advice that's focused on you, not a sales quota. Their strategy-first approach is all about helping you live life on your terms with clarity, confidence, and control. Call Mint Financial Strategies today at 303-285-3080. Your path to independent financial confidence is waiting. So, like I said, we're joined in studio by... by Kane and Ben. And, boy, we've had a lot to talk about already, and it feels like we only have a half hour left. So we're going to – I don't think we're going to have any trouble filling up the rest of the show at all.
SPEAKER 05 :
Not at all. If I can. Absolutely. We were talking about – being a CCW carrier and situational awareness. And I just want to cover a couple topics. In light of the Charlie Kirk assassination, the murder, we just need to pay attention. So situational awareness is not necessarily like John Wick. Like you're looking for something so you can pull out your guns and start shooting. It's just paying attention to your environment. And The first thing you want to look at is, how do I feel in this room? Does it feel like something doesn't feel right? And when that sixth sense is telling you something doesn't feel right, leave. I told my daughters as they were growing up, if you're in a party and all of a sudden it just doesn't feel right, leave. That's the first thing. The other thing is with situational awareness, it's not. It's really what's going on. So if I'm at a restaurant and I hear a glass break, I want to turn around and confirm that it's just a glass. It's not some guy that just punched his girlfriend. And it's simple things like that. Like we ignore gunshots. Like, don't you want to know where that is and where that's coming from? We ignore people yelling. If you see someone yelling in a public place, see what that is. For a split second, you turn and look and go, that's not a threat to me or my family. Maybe it's a threat to someone else, and you can decide if you want to get involved with that. But it's a minor issue. We were talking about carrying, and how do I give a speech and I carry? Like, how am I thinking about protecting myself? Well, when violent things happen in front of you, you're going to search for your tools. Immediately, whether you train for it or not, you're going to search for your tools, how do you protect yourself? But the main thing is, like, I sit facing the door at a restaurant. I don't sit with people sitting behind me. I'll sit in the back row. If I am sitting with people behind me, I casually turn around and go, everybody looks fairly normal. It's not something that you have to be paranoid about. You just want to pay attention to your surroundings. Just like watching your kids when you're walking down the street. You're not paranoid, but you for sure have your mind on your child and trying to keep them from running into the street. I'm going to cover a whole bunch of things really quick if I can.
SPEAKER 06 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 05 :
So I want to say again, take your kids out of the government schools. Kim pushes back on, she goes, Cain, you know everybody can't do that. Well, yeah, they can. Will they? No. Like, I know they won't, but that's okay. If you're going to leave your kids in the government school, you have to stand up and fight against the indoctrination. Understand that these people, these transit transformers, trans Tifa people, they all went through the government schools. Every last one of them, they are indoctrinated. Then they go off to college and they become radicalized. And so if you're not paying attention to your kids, here's the thing. Do you think furries are okay in school? No, there's only a handful of them. But what does that do to the kids that are watching that every day? Those kids are going, you can pretend to be a rabbit and these adults are okay with it. How is that affecting their mindset? A boy going into a girl's bathroom. It is having a negative effect on every single child in that school. Whether you see it or not, it is having a negative effect.
SPEAKER 06 :
And to that point, not necessarily pushing back, but maybe the way I would phrase it, Cain, is don't be reliant on government teaching to educate your kids. And I think for the folks that say, I can't pull my kids out of government schools, as long as you are not relying on them to teach your kids these things, that's where I would say the thing is. It's the parents' right and responsibility to teach their kids. And I was talking to one of my friends, and he finally was getting a turning point chapter started at his high school. which was really good. They'd been talking to him for several years, and this was obviously the impetus to push him. And we were talking about what he was doing, and he made a comment to me that I was like, wow, what a great thing to be able to say, to have that confidence. He said, I'm not worried when he goes to college. because i've already taught him these things i've already instilled all this into him that as a parent to be able to say i've taken charge of my kids education to the degree that even if they do go to a public school i'm not worried because i know that i have taken that into my own hands i've been reliant on my ability as a parent to teach my kids i believe that's kind of what you're speaking to is don't rely on these public schools to teach your kids be involved Be so involved that you can say, hey, I know this is what the teacher's teaching you, but we need to learn a little bit more about natural rights. We need to learn a little bit more about science and why what you're experiencing at school is incorrect.
SPEAKER 05 :
So this is where we differ with Donald Trump and the way he speaks. If the if the school building is on fire and nobody else sees it, but I do. I see the fire in the basement. Do I say, yeah, go ahead and send your kids there. They'll be okay. I'm like, no, don't go. The basement is on fire and it's going to have an adverse effect on your kids. But I understand there's a softer way to say it. If the building's on fire, I'm not being soft. I'm screaming at the top of my lungs, don't go in there. And so I'm simply saying to the parents, This system was set up to do what it's doing today, and that is to mentally have a negative effect on your kids. And that's what it's doing. I mean, we have the proof. It is 100% happening.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, and I just want to put in a little plug for young families who are raising their kids. You're putting them in daycare. Do the math. Moms, if your entire paycheck is going to pay for daycare and your gas and clothes to go to work, raise the kids at home. You think of Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego who were taken off to Babylon in a very wicked king system. But their parents had invested in them as young children. They were able to stand up against the evil. And So, you know, some parents may or may not be able to, you know, send the kids to a charter school or private school. But if you invest in them in those early years, that forms the catalyst for their whole life.
SPEAKER 05 :
So my opinion is your child's better to stay at home playing computer games than to go on into that burning building. Yeah. I believe this 100 percent because it's adversely affecting their their mental state.
SPEAKER 06 :
Now, I had especially with the things that you found. I mean, this is what you're it's not that every student is necessarily going to happen. But if if it even happens to one innocent kid, that's one innocent kid too far. Right. And I mean, you found some horrible things, horrific.
SPEAKER 05 :
It's not a place for kids. And I say what I would say this to teachers. I love you. I know that you trained your entire life to do this, but you can change everything today. the teachers can stand up and say, I'm not doing this. I'm not recognizing that Johnny is a Sally. I'm not letting Johnny go in the girl's room. I'm not, you know what, if you're walking around here looking like a dog, I'm gonna put you on the leash and we're gonna tie you to a tree. I'm not going to acknowledge and accept this because children are watching the adults. And so I simply say, teachers, you can stop it. My next thing I would say is... Which takes a boldness and a courage. It does take courage. But I'm trying to get into heaven. I don't want to hurt kids. I don't want to hurt kids. I don't want you to hurt kids. And maybe you don't see it. Maybe you don't believe that in 10 years, that child that you didn't stand up and protect will grab a gun and start shooting schools again. And so I say to teachers, there's some of you out there, you don't want to do this. You don't have to do this. There's many, many other jobs and occupations that you can do that surrounds helping children. So leave. It's going to take a long time to change this. They've been planning this since I was in junior high school.
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Be a Sybil Ludington. 100%.
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Yeah. What's next on your list here, Ken?
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Okay, here's the next one. Because I know you've got a lot to get to.
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We won't get to all of it.
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So tune in next month. Donald Trump is not a racist. He's not a racist. He's not a Nazi. We're not Nazis. I'm not the black face of the KKK, whatever they call me nowadays. But he's not a racist, and I'm going to prove it. I'm going to prove it to you. You go to our website, taskfirstfreedomnoco.com. I have about 12 to 15 photos, pictures of Trump hanging out with Jesse Jackson. Al Sharpton, every type of black athlete, movie stars, and this is from years and years ago. People don't even know that President Trump was the one billionaire that supported Jesse Jackson. He ran for president twice. He donated millions and millions of dollars. What's frustrating and disappointing to me is that Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, not one of those bozos, yes, bozos, has stepped forward and says, y'all stop calling this man a racist. Stop it. Stop it. Why aren't they saying anything? Why hasn't the media, lying teleprompter reading harlots, why haven't they gone out and go, is Trump a racist? I mean, tell me. I mean, I got pictures of you hugged up with him at a club. Make them answer you. They're not going to do it because they know he's not a racist.
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Well, and that kind of goes to the whole point, too, that we are all not fascists, and yet I'm sure it'll be thrown our way eventually, right? Because... It's not that he's not a racist. It's the fact that whenever the accusation of racism comes out, it's a way to silence people. It's no longer because we are using the word correctly. It is a word to say, I do not want to debate with you. I don't want to have this conversation. So I'm going to shut you up by calling you a name that destroys your credibility. Which... The horrible part of that is it actually destroys the credibility of the word itself. And so when you come across real racism, then when you say, hey, this is actual racism, the word means nothing now. Because it's been so diluted by somebody crying wolf with no wolf being around. 100%.
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One hundred percent. I've been discriminated against years and years ago. I know what that looks like and I know what it feels like. It's a very small percentage of our population that believes that way. And I had recourse. Hey, how about that? I had recourse in this great nation. And guess what I did? I did. I handled that guy and I received compensation for what they did to me. When we're called, when people are saying they've been discriminated against, I simply say, who? Who did it to you? Where?
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Show me because you have recourse. And that's important. And it's not just, again, it's not crying wolf. Because if you have been wronged, you do deserve to be made whole. That is something that's very important. integral to our country to a big degree. And we'll continue this conversation for sure, but we do get to have these conversations because of great sponsors like John Boson with Boson Law.
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Thank you for that, Alan. It is hard to find Friday songs. Come to find out.
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I know one of the last producers, Steve, he had that, it's Friday. That song is always good. So make sure to visit Kim's website at KimMonson.com. You can sign up for the weekly email newsletter. You can email Kim at Kim at KimMonson.com. And something that should be on your bucket list, especially on a great weekend like this weekend, is to visit the Center for American Values located on the beautiful Riverwalk in Pueblo. The Center for American Values was co-founded by Medal of Honor recipient Drew Dix and Emmy Award winning documentary maker Brad Padula. Centers focus on honoring our Medal of Honor recipients in teaching and upholding the principles of America, which are honor, integrity, and patriotism. So for more information, check out the website, AmericanValuesCenter.org. Again, that's AmericanValuesCenter.org. Thank you, Kane and Ben, for joining us in studio. And actually, we have somebody on the line right now, Debbie Perry-Smith. She's going to tell us about some happening-ons that are going on next week. Welcome to the show, Debbie. Thank you.
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Oh, thank you. Good morning, Alan. Appreciate it. I'm excited. It's kind of fun to be the bookend of Kim's show this week. I was on on Monday sharing this and then to be on today. I am part of the event team for the Arapahoe County Lincoln Day Dinner, which is next Thursday, October 2nd. And this is our last call. And I would say you just mentioned bucket list. I think to see and be in the present and to hear Laura Logan speak would be on my bucket list. She is a world-renowned... award-winning journalist and we are just thrilled and honored to have her don't know when she'll be back in colorado so i just would hate for anybody to miss this opportunity um tickets uh will be on sale through sunday night uh they start at 125 dollars and that is for a remarkable evening that we have planned with great fair friends family community We'll be having candidates from all of Arapahoe County cities, both school boards, city council members from Aurora, Centennial, Englewood. It'll give people an opportunity to, you know, come and meet the candidates. We have a special presentation we're doing for veterans. It's just going to be a lovely evening. And you can go to arapahorepublicans.org to get your tickets. The invitation is right there on the homepage, arapahorepublicans.org. And I just want to share something with you, Laura. put up a post yesterday on her ex account and so this is to colorado from laura logan colorado friends i'm honored to be joining you as the keynote speaker at this year's tip of the spirit lincoln day dinner with the arapahoe county republicans and then she gives you know the day at the time from six to ten um and tickets available until midnight and then she says this evening is about more than dinner it's about standing together for truth faith and the future of our nation I hope you'll come out, bring your friends and family, and be a part of a night that matters for Colorado and America. And there is so much truth in that. This is really about us rallying around taking our state back, taking Arapahoe County back, which used to be a red county, and turning Arapahoe County red again. It's an opportunity, and I just say, you know, if you're trying to figure out something for an early birthday present or Christmas present, I can promise you that the time with Laura Logan will be well worth it. It's going to leave you full, proud to be an American, and perhaps, you know, maybe our hearts will be reignited in that Isaiah 6 moment of, here I am, Lord, send me. Kim, we talked about security. Just want everybody to rest assured that you'll have an evening stress-free. We have a very, very intensive security protocol in place for the evening. Location will not be released until you purchase a ticket, and that will happen sometime next week. So a little bit more about Laura. If you don't know her, her career has taken her, you know, from some of the most politically and war, you know, war charged areas in the world. And she's just full of tenacity, fearless and determined to tell the truth. And, you know, it earned her some of the most prestigious journalistic awards. like the DuPont Columbia University Silver Baton, the Eric B. Murrow Award.
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Sounds like it would be a great evening here. And that's October 2nd, correct?
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes, sir. Thursday, Thursday, October 2nd. Last call tickets will be on sale through midnight on this Sunday. You go to ArapahoeRepublicans.org. And, yeah, we're excited. Something, too, Alan, and I don't know if people realize this, Laura's not unfamiliar with Colorado. She was one of the first to interview Tina Peters after her home and Sharona Bishop's homes were raided by the FBI back in 21. And so she's very, very familiar with what's going on here. Her focus is going to be on just really the election issues and what we have going on, which Arapahoe County is in the tip of the spear and some of those things founded by mathematician Ed Solomon with the cast vote record things, the impact of illegal immigration, which we know with the cartels and what's going on in Trendiagua. in aurora and the trafficking and family rights so these are all things that are very centric to colorado that she's passionate about and uh you know it's time again like i said for us for arapahoe county to return to our red conservative roots and just really pray that people yeah answer that call um you know one other thing too i might mention that i think is really charging hers you know she was a good friend of charlie kirk and uh and also to ben cutler So she has lost two good friends inside of a week. And, you know, she's going to be carrying their message forward to save our nation, our state, to honor our veterans. And just kind of back from Canada, literally just got back from Canada on Monday and testified what it's like. Canada is no longer a Christian nation. And so I think I can, you know, she's a God fearing woman and she knows what the cost is if we lose our foundation and our principles in God.
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So definitely make sure and sign up. Go to ArapahoeRepublicans.com and sign up for that fun dinner with Laura Logan. And thank you very much, Debbie, for coming on and sharing that with us. And hopefully we sell out. You guys make lots of money to help get Republicans elected. So thank you again for coming on.
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Yeah, just one correction. You said .com. It's actually .org.
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.org.
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Yeah, ProRepublicans.org.
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ProRepublicans.org. Google hopefully would get you there. So thanks again for coming on and for that. So we just got a quick little bit here, Kane. So what's your 30-second thought to wrap up the day this morning?
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I have another Kane-ism. So, you know, I came up with the marxicoms. This one is the demoncrats. This is evil. This is not a political issue. These are just evil people. I would encourage folks to support Tina Peters. She's a political prisoner, as well as Derek Chauvin. I'm the only person, I think, in the whole nation that's talking about Derek Chauvin, but he was railroaded and he did not kill that guy. And the other thing is take your kids out of the government school.
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Take them out. And thank you so much for joining us here today, Cain. And Ben, what's your last words of wisdom you'd like to leave with everyone?
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Yeah, I just want to encourage people, like Cain said, this is not a political thing. This is really a spiritual battle. Feel free to reach out to me. I would love to give you a free Bible or somebody that you know who needs one, 303-995-1636. We can change this nation one heart at a time.
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And thank you for doing that. And thank you both for joining us in studio. So the quote for the end of the show here is from James Madison in Federalist No.
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51.
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It is, If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. So today, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. You are not alone. God bless you, and God bless America.
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like a new moon rising fierce through the rain and lightning wandering out into this great unknown I don't want no one to cry but tell them if I don't
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In this illuminating installment, Angie Austin hosts a dynamic conversation with actress Erica Gimpel about her role in the movie 'Bang Bang' and explores themes of family, legacy, and personal growth. Erica shares intimate details about her character's journey and the powerful narrative that examines the scars boxing leaves on lives. The episode intertwines discussions on financial prudence, the significance of deliberate money management strategies, and heartwarming personal anecdotes about making smart financial choices.
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Welcome to The Good News with Angie Austin. Now, with The Good News, here's Angie.
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Hey there, friend. Angie Austin here with The Good News with Jim Stovall, and we are talking about his Winner's Wisdom column, and this week it's titled Cash is King. Oh, this is a good one, Jim. What's this all about?
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Well, you know, we are all bombarded with so many advertising messages and emails and pop-ups and everything in the middle of our TV and radio and everything. And it would be interesting to learn what is the most advertised thing there is. You know, it's not cars. It's not soft drinks. It's not potato chips. It's not travel. The thing that we are most sold is debt. Whether it's credit cards, whether it's student loans, whether it's home loans, whether it's car loans, everybody wants to loan us money. And we have to remember, whether you go to Ben Franklin, a penny saved is a penny earned, or the scriptures that the debtor is enslaved to the lender. And you have to realize that this is just a bad way to go. But we've already had a housing crisis in 2008. Then we've had the student loan crisis. And now we're getting ready to have a major credit card crisis. Coming out of COVID and things, I am told now that one in five American families have $30,000 or more in credit card debt. And at an average rate of 22%. And Angie, if your listeners don't get anything else out of our conversation on this today... If you're one of those and you have that kind of credit card debt you're carrying and you have a rate approaching 20% or 22%, which is the average, some are more than that, I want you to do one thing this week. In your town or your city, wherever you live, close to your home, there is a credit union. And the average bank card right now is charging you 22%. The average credit union only charges their members 12% on credit card debt. Well, that difference of 10% on a $30,000 debt is $250 a month. And you can wipe out a lot of debt and take care of a lot of things for $250 a month. And it's simply for transferring your balance back. from a bank to a credit union in your hometown, and it's easy to do. So I would encourage anybody, you know, first and foremost, get rid of that credit card debt as quickly as you can. But while you're doing it, you will erase it so much quicker if you will just get that rate down to, you know, the average of 12% and save $250 a month.
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You've been helping us a lot with money the last few weeks. I think it was two weeks ago we talked about missingmoney.com. And you were saying that people need to go there because the U.S. government or different corporate entities, they turn in the money and then it gets listed on this website. And then you might have to go to your state website, but you can check all the states you've lived in. And we found a significant amount of money for my mom. But then I found for myself, I used to work for NBC in Los Angeles. I must have done like some side job or something. And I knew I did something for a soap opera. But I had one payment for $122, which already came in. And then the bigger ones, you have to get it notarized. And I'm looking at one here. $65, no big deal. Salary and wages, NBC Broadcasting Company, $65. Insurance premium from New York Life. I worked there right after college, $169. And then I have one more that's over $1,000. And so I just have to get these notarized, and then they send you a check. But one that was small for $122, it already came in. I already put it in the bank. And that was like, you know, what we put. We talked two weeks ago. And so, yeah, it's pretty fast once you get it going. And these are through California. And then I had one through Colorado. So anyway, it works. So check in my mom. Like I said, I think my brother found six different. Well, I found it for him. And then she's with him now. So he's handling it. But it's surprising how something just can kind of get lost in the wash when you move, you know.
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Well, the Winner's Wisdom column is read by, they tell me, somewhere between 2 and 3 million people. Probably half of them are in the United States. And that column has been out a couple weeks. But just in the first few days after it happened, we heard from people. And we quit counting at 100,000. It's probably half a million dollars or more now. That has come from just people. Go look at missingmoney.com. It's just that simple. And, wow, there's money on the table. Pick it up. It belongs to you.
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Oh, I should check my dad's name, too. I checked some of my cousin's parents' names, and you'd be surprised at deceased parents' things that have come up as well. All right, so let's get back to this week, then, since I just wanted to say thanks for that one. Cash is king, so go to the credit union. And there are other cards, if that doesn't work for you at credit union, that will also let you roll over and get your debt onto a lower interest rate card and just start paying more than the minimum.
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as well yeah i mean you know debt is your enemy you're at war with debt but you're in a battle with your interest rate and you can you can impact that right now and go do it and now whatever you do do not transfer that balance somewhere else and now you realize well i've got this bank card completely empty over it let me run that up again no this is time when you quit borrowing money you know when you know when you earn money You trade your time today for someone else's money, for your expenses. When you borrow money, you're mortgaging your future and your children's future and your grandchildren's future, and it's just ridiculous what you do. It's just so much easier to do that. One of the things I've done is, once you've got cash, and I haven't borrowed money in 40 years, I did it once, and it scared me to death, and I've been on a cash basis ever since. People say, well, Jim, you can't get into business without borrowing money. I own a television network and make first-run movies with studios. I don't know anything more capital-intensive than that, and we don't borrow money. So you may have to get strategic partners. You may have to do some other things. But several amazing things happened. I have offices and studios here, and Every year we renegotiate with the building people, and I always remind them, I'm different than any other tenant you have because I'm going to write you a check for the whole year up front. And I get about an 18 to 20% discount just for doing it. Well, I don't know anywhere else you can go get 20% guaranteed on your money just because you did that. And then our bills come in every day in the mail just like everybody else's or email. And we pay them the day they come in. Most companies and people, well, they wait until the end of the month and they write all the checks at once. We pay them the day they come in because when I need a vendor, when I need a product or a service or some special out of one of the peoples that supply us, I can just call up and say, hey, I need your help. You'll remember me. I'm the first check you get every month. And we need some help here. And you become a super consumer when you do that and you pay cash for everything. So cash is king. Debt is your enemy. And, wow, it's just a great way to live. And the best money you will ever have, the best thing you will ever buy with money is a six-month emergency fund. So every time the car starts smoking or the refrigerator makes a weird noise or the roof starts leaking, you know, a calamity anymore. It's not a tragedy. It's an inconvenience. It's not that big a deal. And you can just change your life by getting all that noise out of your world.
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You know, I was, I think, 16 when I took out my last car loan, and it was $3,000 or $4,000 for like a 79 Camaro or something of the sort that my grandmother co-signed with me. And I... Then after that, you know, because I graduated without any student debt, I actually graduated and I had $12,000 in the bank and I paid for all my books, all my tuition, lived in low income housing, worked full time. And that, you know, obviously was a long, very decades ago. So after that, I paid cash for all of my vehicles. I haven't had a loan since, and we just bought a new car, which we don't do. Our cars were a 2000 Chevy and then two SUVs that are a 2003 and a 2006. So I got a Tesla, and I know people have mixed feelings on those, but there's like a $12,500 government incentive right now, 75 from Tesla. The federal government and then five thousand because I'm based in Colorado. They give a tax break on. And so anyway, we paid cash for that. And it's just such a good feeling having grown up poor. I was just with a friend of mine who's been out of work because of the Hollywood strikes, you know, with the writers and the actors are still striking, as you know, because you're getting ready to work on a movie.
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Yeah.
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And so she's been out of work for eight months. And she last time we were together on a trip said, you talk about money too much. Stop talking about money and you worry about money too much. Well, what's interesting is that we just were together and I paid for everything for her because she's been out of work for so long that she has huge credit card debt. And I, having worried about money all these years, and I wouldn't say worried. I've just been frugal because I've been poor. She doesn't have retirement savings. And I am proud to say I have a very healthy retirement account because I saved so much in my 20s and 30s. And so I said to her, maybe there could be a good combination of the two of us. maybe i you know am too conscious of always you know getting the best deal or saving like i told you just bought a ticket back from california for 24.98 you know because i look for these deals i don't need to fly first class i don't need a ton of luggage but i think she's seeing that maybe my um frugality um and i'm not cheap though i always leave a 20 25 tip i'd say more like 25 like i'm very i bought all her tickets to universal i bought her tickets to the pumpkin festival I gave her money for groceries. I bought all of her meals because I know right now she's in a bind. And so she sees I'm not cheap, but that I'm frugal. And there's a difference there, that I'm kind of thrifty. So I think she's seeing that maybe... I don't know. She didn't make any comments about me talking about money or savings too much. But I distinctly remember the disdain in her voice when we were at Disney World a few years ago and she wanted to go to some expensive restaurant. And I said I wasn't a foodie and it really wasn't my cup of tea. And she's like, you talk about money too much and you worry about money too much. And you're worried because I would tell her like a deal I got or something because it's kind of fun to get a really... I mean, come on, when you get a ticket home from California for $24.98... You know, I'm like, hey, that's a great deal. But guess what? That same day, her son bought a ticket out of the same airport I use because there's an airport outside of L.A. called Ontario, and it's much smaller, and it's easier to fly out of, and there isn't as much traffic, and it's hardly any further than LAX for me. So anyway, to make a long story short, he bought his round-trip ticket out of that same airport. So I thought, hmm, well, maybe these people are catching on to my ways. Yeah.
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There you go. Now, sooner or later, you will worry about money. You'll either worry about it in advance or you'll worry about it after the fact. And it's always more expensive to worry about after the fact. If you're old enough, you remember those old Fram oil filter commercials where They're junk in a car, and the mechanic says, you can pay me now or you can pay me later. And, you know, pay me now is buy the oil filter. Pay me later is you need a whole new engine. And, you know, worrying about money is just a matter of taking care of it. You know, money's not the most important thing in the world. But it affects the things that aren't the most important things in the world, our family and our friends and the things that we do that we take care of each other. So it's a tool, and you do need to take care of it, and then it will take care of you.
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You know, I was also with, oh gosh, I have to tell you this really quick. My old cameraman friend from NBC, we hadn't seen each other in 23 years and we met for lunch and then I came to his house and he said, boy, when I covered the OJ Simpson case, we called it OT Simpson because he was telling me how much his take home was. Well, it's suffice it to say these cameramen were making in the $200,000 to $300,000 range because the overtime was unbelievable when they would be camped out at the courthouse all day. And he said, Angie, I said, oh, how much do you save? Because, Jim, the majority of my retirement savings was for my 20s and 30s when I worked for these big, you know, NBC and Fox and all these big stations. Anyway, he said nothing. I spent it all. And and then when we went to his house, he had tons of collectibles. He had five sheds full of collectibles. So when we left, I said to the kids, I said, that's the difference, you know, in how. I don't have five sheds of collectibles, but I also have retirement money because I saved in my 20s and 30s. And it blew my mind that he's like, yeah, if I were to save some of that money, life would be so much easier now. So I just it's interesting, you know, to see the difference in choices people make. All right. We're out of time. Jim Stovall dot com. Friend, it's always so fun. The time just flies by when we talk. Thank you, Jim. You're a real blessing to our program and to me. You're the best.
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Hi, friend. Welcome to Good News with Angie Austin. Joining us is Erica Gimpel. You may know her from Criminal Minds, the Fane TV series, and ER. She's now starring in Bang Bang, and she's here to discuss the film's theme of family, legacy, and redemption, as well as her career. Welcome, Erica.
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Thank you so much for having me.
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You are welcome. Well, it looks really powerful. So kind of give us the background on this retired boxer and the whole theme of the movie.
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Well, I really think it has a lot to do with expectation. And especially if in boxing, like he has a, I don't want to give too much of the film, like I want people to see it, but he, he had a fight that was going to be his everything that was going to be determining his legacy and, And the fight did not go the way he thought. So it really looks at what happens when, in a sense, a dream is deferred. But what do you do with that moment? And this is a man who holds on to that and it festers. And it becomes something very bitter and drives him throughout his whole journey. And so what the film really looks at is in this time period of the movie, what he awakens to and what boxing became for him in the course of his life. And what I loved about this movie and what I love about the movie is that it really is an homage to boxers, meaning that it really looks at the hidden scars that a lot of boxers carry and the percentage of what happens to boxers after their time in the ring. And I really think this man awakens to that in a very unique way, the way the film goes about looking at this man's journey.
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Yeah, it's a unique breed of person that gets into boxing. There's so much involved in not just the physical aspects but the mental aspects of really taking your body to the brink of almost killing yourself in some cases where you continue to subject your body to that but then mentally can keep trying to win. And then what's behind that? Is there like rage there? Is it an attempt? You know, a lot of these boxing clubs back in the day, you know, were in areas where maybe this was the kids way to get out of their neighborhood or whatever it may be. And so, you know, they're fueled with a desire to succeed. And maybe this is the only way they see out and then to succeed. lose out on his chance per se and then to maybe get another chance not himself to box but I know that it involves someone that's been estranged in his life so I'm curious what drew you to Bang Bang and to the character?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well I have to give a shout out to the most incredible casting director who has brought me projects six other times and he brought this to my attention and I was very blown away because this is a moment, and my character's name is Sharon, and she's just come through a double mastectomy. And she and Bang Bang were lovers early when they were both on the rise in their careers. She was a singer. She still sings in a bar that she owns. But this double mastectomy that she's walked through, she's really making a complete life change to live. So for her, it's what I loved about their relationship in this movie, that he's become very bitter by what's happened. And with her, you see this caring side of him. And also they give each other a soft place to land with both of the scars they've walked through in life. Life hasn't been easy for both of them. And you just get to see this moment of solace that they give to each other and which I'd never seen on film before. I don't want to give it away, but it's just the intimacy of seeing people's physical scars on them, but also the internal scars we have in life. And how do we carry them? And she's really made a conscious choice to live. And that's what's in front of her. So I found that it was just a very... a very powerful look at, you know, being in Detroit, being that we're, you know, I feel like this movie is really resonating right now because of how challenging it is right now in our country and people struggling with work and jobs and prices of things are so expensive and, having Detroit be a big part of the film is really big, looking at a place that was at one time thriving. And I know there are pockets of Detroit that still have incredible culture. It's not that, but it's just kind of the larger picture of, like, wow, where something was really thriving and now it's struggling is a symbolic nature of what's going on in their lives as well.
SPEAKER 05 :
It sounds like maybe your character, Erica – has experienced maybe a lot more growth and healing in the movie than your former boyfriend.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, she's at the beginning stages of committing to that. So you're watching her also get stronger and stronger in her commitment to her life. And that's powerful. That's really powerful.
SPEAKER 05 :
Is there any of the scenes that were particularly challenging for you to shoot? I mean, I can imagine the connection, you know, being in Detroit, being in these scenes that are probably pretty moving. Anything that was particularly challenging or maybe memorable to shoot or even fun for that matter?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, there were, I'll just say two scenes. It was the bar scene. You know, I hadn't, a lot of time as a bartender. There's a certain kind of flick you got to have when you're pouring bourbon and pouring, you know, that kind of thing. And so the hotel we were staying at, I met the night manager. He was like, One night he stayed up with me for three hours. He was like, I'm going to open the bar for you. You pretend that I'm your client and come in and, you know, I'll show you. He gave me the most incredible bartending lesson. Like in a couple hours. And it was like, it was just so beautiful. And I just feel like as actors, we're always going, okay, how can I learn? How can I make this more? You know, and you just utilize what you have with you, you know? And so that was really a fun moment. And I really felt the scene with Tim and I, I don't want to give it away, but there's more of like an intimate scene that we share, and that wasn't easy for me to film, but it was the reason I wanted to do the movie, because I've never seen a woman bearing her scars of a double mastectomy. I've never seen that on film. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yes, and really seeing behind the wig, behind the scarf, And what does it mean to be intimate with a partner when you come through that? And I felt like that was, and it's not just about that. It's more of their relationship and what they're, you know, the solace they're giving to each other. But it was something really powerful to film. And I was able to really, it's almost like a painting in a sense of like myself and the wonderful makeup artist named David Atherton, who's actually Tim Blake Nelson's, personal makeup artist. And we really came up with the way the scars were going to look and how my head was going to look and the bits of hair that are there or not there. We really came up with a whole character. And so that was really what drew me to this was showing those intimate moments that I have not seen on film. And you've got it.
SPEAKER 05 :
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to step on you. You've got a pretty diverse career, I know. Yeah. We mentioned you did Criminal Minds, A Fame, Chicago Med. I know you've done some Grey's Anatomy, ER. I mean, Veronica Mars. I mean, you've had a really long career. Are movies a lot different to shoot than a series?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes. I mean, because, you know, you're very specifically on this one character for this amount of time. And so it can be very intense because you're so focused on that, which I really love. And on a series, you have the opportunity of developing a character over a longer period of time, which has another gift to it as well. but it really depends on the heart of the film. I mean, this was a, I'm going to call it a gritty, raw, more of a raw piece. So I, that's why I like being on location because you really pick up the vibe and every, everybody who's come to either flown there to be a part of it, you just, you're all together. And so there's a sense of, okay, we're going to, we're in the trenches together. We're going to make this work. And it's different than coming back to your home when you're at home working, you know, it's just, it's different. And I, I like, You know, it can be challenging being allocated, but it's also, but it really puts you a complete commitment to what you're doing and where you are, which I really like. And I feel like that shows up on the film.
SPEAKER 05 :
How long did it take you to shoot the film?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, I think they did it in 18 days, but I was just down there, I think, for two weeks. So I wasn't there for the full amount of time. Because I'm not in throughout the whole entire film. So that was my amount of time being there.
SPEAKER 05 :
Now, it sounds like this was a pretty moving character to play with a lot of depth. Anything that the role or any of the scenes affect you personally or have an impact on you, which you're walking away with saying, yeah, that really was something that I'm going to remember forever. Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, thank you for that great question. It really felt to me about, again, going back to when life throws you this obstacle and you make a choice, I'm going to live, I'm going to change the way I've been living, what that kind of resilience looks like when you're in the same environment. This character works in a bar, so she's serving everybody she used to drink to in her life, and now she's choosing not to. She's choosing to change her patterns and what that takes, that strength of character. I felt like I had a lot of respect for that. And just I walk away with a reminder of that kind of resilience when you're really looking to have a healthier life, when you're committing to living your life in a different way. That resonated with me a lot.
SPEAKER 05 :
And in terms of watching the film, is there a website that you'd like to send us to to get more info? I mean, it was really easy to find. The Bang Bang trailer is pretty cool.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, I know. I don't know where you are, what state you are in. I'm sorry. But it's, you know, it's now being released in a very unique way because it was just in L.A. and New York. And I know it's going to Arizona. It's going to different states now. So it's opening around the country. So I think if you just Google Bang Bang and show times locally, I think you'll be able to see if it's playing closer to you. That's what I would just say at this point.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay, and then I'm also curious, what's next for you?
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, thank you for that question. I have written a film that I'm going to be directing and acting in, and that's been really my, I call it my love project, and it's dedicated to women of a certain age. And it's called Rise, and it's really about this character really loses a lot in her life, but then comes to realize it's never too late to reclaim your life and rise.
SPEAKER 03 :
That's pretty cool.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, and it's really for women. It's my dedication to women to really know that we can always reclaim ourselves no matter how much we've lost.
SPEAKER 05 :
That's neat. I have two friends that you remind me a little bit of. My girlfriend, Beatrice, she's the drill sergeant of life. She was a drill sergeant. She always wanted to be an author. And she's been like a truck driver. She's been a drill sergeant. She's been a hairdresser. And she, in her 60s, has now gone back – to school to finish her bachelor's and to go to law school to help other veterans and she lost her husband a few years back and it just blows my mind she's um you know ministers to a lot of veterans and she said a lot of these kids you know came into the military really broken and from maybe sometimes some of them you know just entering at 18 from painful backgrounds. She's dedicating her life to helping these people. In her 60s, I'm like, oh my goodness, I can't imagine going back to law school at this point in my life. That is so cool. Of all your jobs that you've done, because you've had so many different acting jobs, what are a couple of your favorites and why?
SPEAKER 04 :
That's a great question. I'll just say, there was a show called Nikita a couple years ago with Maggie Q. And I love that arc, the arc I was playing. I was like a homeless woman, but you come to find out that I was behind the creation of this, I guess, organization that was taking people who were on death row and and taking them out of death row and turning them into incredible spies or or agents who are working and in a sense on behalf of something good but then unfortunately it turns into something negative but i just i loved I love that arc of being this woman who's on the streets and you don't know what she just really spoke to me about how much you're speaking of your friend, how much as women we've done so much behind the scenes and we don't get the credit for it.
SPEAKER 05 :
And that's pretty neat. That was on the CW. I worked for a station that was a CW station that had the Gilmore Girls. So, yes, I remember that show being on. Oh, that's so neat. Well, I'm really pleased that we got to speak today.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes, me too.
SPEAKER 05 :
Thank you, Erica. And again, the movie is Bang Bang. Erica Gimple, thank you so much for joining us on The Good News. Appreciate it. Thank you. Have a great day.
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Dive deep into today's pressing issues with Mike Gallagher and Mark Davis. The duo delves into the Comey indictment, dissecting reactions from both sides of the political spectrum. They further discuss the state of accountability in politics and reflect on the tumultuous events surrounding the Trump administration. In a different segment, we explore alternative approaches to healthcare as Christian Healthcare Ministries offers a faith-based, cost-effective solution to rising medical debts. The podcast also touches on the advancement of autonomous vehicles, how they're reshaping transportation, and the intriguing experience of using Waymo cars.
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It's 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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How did that Comey indictment grab you? I saw something that was so perfectly, because they're all screaming on the left about it. This is vengeance. It's revenge. Retribution. Oh, this is the biggest. This is the most. Corruption. Listen to what this guy wrote. I want to read this. I love smart people. I don't know who Will Chamberlain is. He's some lawyer in North Carolina. But here's what he said. We went through four years of BS indictment after BS indictment. And people were indicted on obviously frivolous charges. Think about Roger Stone and his skivvies in the front yard in the middle of the night. Or Steve Bannon or Peter Navarro dragged like a cartel member out of the airport in leg shackles. So now Comey and MSNBC, by the way, those legal hyenas, they cheered all that on. That was perfect. Oh, you bet. Now Comey gets indicted on the most straightforward crime imaginable. This is not gray. Lying under oath to Congress. That's it. And they're calling this the greatest abuse in the history of the Department of Justice. Spare me, as I have Trump's mugshot on my office wall, spare me that this is the greatest abuse in the history. Did you see the clip of Comey with that hyena Nicole Wallace? at some event where he bragged about how they set up and entrapped General Flynn. Have you seen that clip, Mark? Did. He was proud of it. He was absolutely proud of it. Oh, he bragged about it. Audience is laughing. She's giggling like a schoolgirl. Can we play that for Mark, guys? Do you mind playing this? I think we've got it. Let's try to play it. This is James Comey on a – because he dared anybody to come after him. He bragged about it. This is the goofy, the guy walking on the beach and found the shells that happened. It just magically appeared that said, kill Trump.
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8647, exactly. Yeah, kill Trump. That's what kill Trump means, Mark. Well, we had to do some explaining on that. Not everybody was hip to the restaurant lingo, which led to one of my favorite memes of yesterday. Comey on a beach in an orange jumpsuit over a shell distribution that says F-A-F-O. Yeah. I know. I love it. But go ahead.
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Finally. All right. So here it is. Now, this is before you think that Comey's a good guy. Check out this chat in front of a listen to him preen in front of a sycophantic audience and Nicole Wallace one day.
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Look at this White House now. And it's hard to imagine two FBI agents ending up in the same room. How did that happen?
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I sent them. something I probably wouldn't have done or maybe gotten away with in a more organized investigation, a more organized administration, in the George W. Bush administration, for example, or the Obama administration, the protocol, two men that all of us have perhaps increased appreciation for over the last two years. Thank you. And in both of those administrations, there was process. And so if the FBI wanted to send agents into the White House itself to interview a senior official, you would work through the White House counsel and there'd be discussions and approvals and who would be there. And I thought it's early enough. Let's just send a couple of guys over.
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I mean, Mark, this is what I mean about a guy. This is rotten. Thanks, guys. This is the rottenness. This is one of the most egregious examples of the weaponization. A corrupt man with his Kamala Harris for president T-shirt and his coffee mug. Trying to hobble the Trump administration. And, oh, by the way, they destroyed General Michael Flynn's life. They destroyed that man. He was a public servant. He's a good and decent man. And they ruined him. And that guy did it. So when you see images of James Comey in an orange jumpsuit, you remember that. I will see what happens.
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This is why we have trials. I mean, I can't guarantee he's going to be convicted. I don't know. Juries are filled with human beings. It's a human process.
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And it's Virginia, and it's blue Virginia. But you know what? It's a start. It's the first shot across the deep state bow. Yes, it is. That's why they're screaming. Accountability is at hand. That's right. And finally, the deep state is actually being challenged. This is why we you said it the other day. I asked you about you said, I'll believe it when I see it.
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I see it. Because Bondi is supposedly, now I don't know if it's true or not, believe half of what you hear or less, but allegedly she had been waffling on this. She really didn't want to go forward with this. I'm worried about her, Mark. I appreciate her, but I... But I got it. But hey, we got it done. She got it done.
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I'm a bottom line person. And I'm speaking of skepticism, everybody. And I think it's possible that some people are overpraised and some people are overcriticized. She may be both. So I'm going to let let it all come out in the wash and see exactly what she does. And the next thing I'd like to see her do is go after Clapper and go after Brennan, because these these these scoundrels are guilty of things as well. or at least there's sufficient reason to believe they are, and they belong on the inside of a courtroom as well.
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They did a lot of damage to this country. They really hurt this country, and you just can't say that enough. How about the story from The Blaze that sources are reporting that the FBI is acknowledging it had, get this, 275 plainclothes agents in the crowds on January 6th? And what might they have been there for? Huh. A senior congressional source told The Blaze that number is not necessarily a surprise. The FBI often embeds counter-surveillance personnel. But they look, because they have been refusing, the FBI has been refusing to disclose what kind of presence, if any, they had there on that day. You know, this is a rabbit hole. I got in trouble yesterday because I pointed out a guy was calling in and he said, oh, you know, every single violent person on January 6th, they were all Antifa people. You can't say that. You can't say that. But when you push back, then people get mad at you and me for pointing the obvious that there were hundreds of people who behaved badly that day. But it's such a frustrating issue. There is a disconnect, don't you think? Isn't there a cognitive disconnect?
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Well, there is. And I think the place where I ultimately arrive is that with all that FBI and it shows that there was an absolute expectation that bad things might happen and that the Capitol was severely underprotected. And this is where you can start to get creative and where I can imagine some people absolutely wanting, rooting for exactly what happened on January 6th, knowing that there would be some sliver of the Trump support bandwagon that would go a little nuts. And so that they could have it and weaponize it for years, which they then tried to do.
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I think people are annoyed and understandably frustrated that if it's 1,000 people or 1,100 or 1,200 or whatever that number is, that's a sliver compared to what happened in the aftermath of George Floyd. Boy, you got that right.
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Let's do it. We've got to do it. What happens the moment you come down to the hotel lobby? It's time to go to the airport. Do you take your phone out, hit the Waymo app? How long does it take for the devil car to arrive? Three minutes. Three to five minutes. So you stand there in front of the hotel. What if the front of the hotel is crowded? You've got a bunch of people parked in front of the hotel. It's busy. It's checkout time.
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The car goes around. It does exactly what a driver would do. I've never been in a smoother ride in my life. I can't drive that smoothly. Understand now, it's not like a Tesla. There's actually a huge radar. Every vehicle is radar equipped. They have sensors all over the place. They're Jaguars. They're white Jaguars. And they've got a big radar dome on the roof, and they've got all these things projected on the side. But it pulls up. It does. And it pulls up.
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Does it say something to you?
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The doors automatically unlock when you approach the car. Then you get in the back seat and it says, hello, Mike. And then please buckle your seatbelt. What music would you like? And I say jazz. And it starts playing light jazz in the background. And then it pulls out. And let me tell you something. It goes fast. It does not inch along. You would have a heart attack. You would have a stroke.
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Of course I will.
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The Eminem Experience. Subscribe to the Mike Gallagher Show podcast wherever you get your podcasts. Thanks for joining us. Have a great day. Be safe. Keep fighting the good fight. I'm Mike Gallagher. God bless America.
In this episode, Bill Gundersen dives deep into the current state of the stock market, observing the latest trends and upheavals. He shares insights on the recent rally marked by significant movements in the Dow, Nasdaq, and S&P 500, and discusses the potential causes ranging from favorable inflation reports to global geopolitical tensions. Learn how the upcoming earnings season might unfold as corporate America prepares to close its quarterly books and why this could be significant as we end 2025 and begin 2026.
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He's been seen on CNBC, the Fox News Channel, and the Fox Business Channel. His articles can be found on MarketWatch, Seeking Alpha, TheStreet.com, and many other places. He's the author of the weekly Best Stocks Now newsletter and the inventor of the Best Stocks Now app. He's president of Gundersen Capital Management. Here is professional money manager Bill Gundersen.
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And welcome to the Best Docs Now show. This is Bill Gunderson. It is Friday, the 26th of September, and the market likes the inflation reports and the news overnight. And we've got a bit of a rally going on in the market with the Dow doing best. The Dow's up 313 points right now, which is 70 basis points. I'll have to look at which stock is driving it. I'm thinking it's Boeing. The Dow is at 46,259. The Nasdaq is up just a scant 1916 right now. A little sell-off in Bitcoin and the crypto stocks this past week. and the AI, which is a little bit overheated right now. The S&P 500, meanwhile, is up 29 points. That's 44 basis points. The Russell 2000 is up 15. It was down this morning. Maybe that was a misprint on Yahoo Finance, but it is up now a little bit. It's up 60 basis points. Meanwhile, over at the bond market, the 10-year is stubbornly high. 4.18%. I thought maybe that PCE cool number would send it down a little bit, but it didn't. It's at 4.19. Gold is at 3,789. It's been hitting new highs all year. It's just below its all-time highs. Crude oil's got a little lift underneath it right now with all the world turmoil, and there's plenty of that, $65.56. And the crypto, Bitcoin, is down $1,600. That's quite a sell-off here recently in Bitcoin. So welcome to today's Best Stocks Now show on this Friday, September 26th. And the last day of the quarter is going to be on Monday. And that's when the books of Corporate America close for the quarter. Most of the companies, if you have an odd year end and maybe their quarter closes November 1st, but most close on September 30th. And that whole earnings parade, get ready. They're getting warmed up. They're getting in line, right? The elephants, the lions, the tigers, the bears, the bulls, et cetera, will be coming around that corner here in a couple of weeks here in the earnings parade. The last one of the year. 2025 will begin soon. In the meantime, we've got a little rally, as I said, in the market today after a pretty decent sell-off yesterday. And I think it's mostly the Fed that is causing the sell-off. And, of course, you can also point to valuations on the market, which I've been saying for some time now. In fact, last Friday we hit a 20-year high on some of the valuation measures, some of the lesser looked at valuation measures, price to book value, price to sales. But price to earnings, which is probably the most common valuation measure, is also pretty high right now. And you have to keep that in the back of your mind. Okay, we've got a lot going on in the world today and in sectors of the market, especially the pharmaceutical drug sector. Rate cut uncertainties remain with Jerome not doing us any good, not helping at all by talking down the market, how high it is, how richly priced it is, the fear of inflation, and at the same time, seemingly weakening labor market. But we always begin with world events. There's a couple of big ones today that caught my eye. Russia, Iran, Iran signs a deal with Russia to build seven, I think, or eight nuclear power plants. And any time you mention the word nuclear between Iran and Russia... I think, number one, we would think twice about bombing Iran again, which we did. We took out a lot of their nuclear enrichment facilities. But now they're calling in big brother, Russia. So that's my Ezekiel 38 update for the day. If you don't know what I'm talking about, you go to the Old Testament and read Ezekiel chapter 38. which I think will have relevance at some point in the future, hopefully not anytime soon, but we have to always keep an eye on that. And the other issue is NATO is ready to shoot down any Russian jets. What happens if NATO shoots down a Russian jet? Is that World War III? Maybe Martin Armstrong's prediction, Barry, which we heard again while we were in the Silicon Valley from one of the folks we met with. He's predicting World War III. That's what his Socrates computer is saying. He spent 11 years in prison honing that machine after running quite a Ponzi scheme. But it's still out there. Martin Armstrong has a lot of followers, believe it or not. But the EU ready to shoot down a Russian jet? Don't you dare cross into Poland. And EU leaders are discussing a drone wall in the sky. So that's good for the drone makers. Oil slipped a little bit, but it's headed for its biggest weekly gain in three months on geopolitical tensions. So, you know, nowhere does the state of the world and the geopolitical tension show up more than in the oil markets. And they have been rising. But, you know, any oil rally has not followed through here. It's been a terrible sector to be invested in. And then there's one last one here, breaking news, that Trump is saying, I think we have a Gaza deal. And, of course, his emissary there, Witkoff, has spent a lot of time trying to work out a Gaza deal. That's the impossible one, right? That goes back to the times of Ezekiel, Barry. What do Trump and Ezekiel have in common? They both have seen the trouble in the Middle East. And, of course, Trump did do the Abraham Accords. Maybe he can pull off something in Gaza, which is not easy.
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There have been a lot of negotiations in that part of the world over the years, right?
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Yes. Yes, and then let's not forget, we have one more thing to worry about over the weekend, and I do think it has something to do with the correction in the market, the threatened government shutdown. The government has directed federal agencies to prepare for mass firings, there goes the label market, If the government shuts down on October 1st, Barry, when's October 1st? That's Tuesday, right?
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It's Wednesday. I think it's Wednesday.
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That's when the funding will expire. Both sides, the Democrats and the Republicans, their feet are not moving. They're not budging. And that's just something else to worry about. And I'll give you one more if that's not enough to worry about. Not only your SEC team playing this weekend on Saturday, whatever your college team is, your pro teams on Sunday, the MLB playoffs, but Trump's 100% drug tariffs send pharma stocks lower. Not all of them. But the ones that manufacture, so your AstraZeneca's, any of your European, Novo Nordisk, GlaxoSmithKline, Takeda Pharmaceutical, Bayer, Sanofi, Novartis, which is a Swiss company, Those stocks are under pressure here today. Lilly actually is up today, however, because they just announced that they're going to manufacture in Houston, right? They're going to manufacture their ZipBound drug in Houston. TikTok. You know, I'm kind of surprised. I thought that thing would be worth... I don't know if I were to just run a number in my head, $75 to $100 billion, but it's $14 billion is what the deal is coming in at, which really that's not even a mid-cap. That's a small cap. That's a small cap.
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It's just for the American piece of the business. Okay.
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All right. So it is a private company. BDNCE is kind of the moniker that they use there for TikTok. But I was kind of surprised at that valuation. Oracle seems to be the big beneficiary of the TikTok deal. They're going to be the steward over the algorithms. they're going to babysit, they're going to be the custodian, I guess you could say, of the algorithms to make sure that there's no spy software in there or algorithms that would lead to spying. Well, okay, and if you do the math, Dan Ives estimates that TikTok was worth around $100 billion. That's what I was thinking. $100 billion overall, but I guess this U.S. version, $14 billion. Trump's executive order provides a 120-day window to complete the deal. What's unclear is if China will approve the deal. Now, when we come back, which companies will be affected most by this new HB1 deal? What's really going on with the U.S. economy? We're seeing cross currents there. And is Costco entering into soggy territory? More on that when we come back. This is the Best Stocks Now show. And welcome back to the second segment of the Best Docs Now show. Well, you know, we were in that Silicon Valley last week. And since then, this HB1 is pretty – or H1B, I'm sorry, Visa deal is pretty controversial, Barry. And it will have a major impact. The new H-100,000 H-1B visa application fee has sparked debate on the need for STEM professionals in the U.S. and how they contribute to the economy. Some argue that the H-1B visa program takes away jobs from native workers and lowers their wages. Others believe H-1B holders complement U.S. workers and fill employment gaps in STEM fields. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Wang and OpenEye CEO Sam Altman have backed Trump's move. Others are more skeptical. Gary Tan, CEO of startup accelerator Y Combinator, said the new fee will not bother the big tech, but it kneecaps startups. There's a few startups out there and across the country He says that this current policy outcome equals a massive gift to every overseas tech hub. In the middle of an AI arms race, we're telling builders to build elsewhere. Here's the biggest employers of H-1B workers. Number one is Amazon, 10,044. TCS, 5,505. Who's TCS? Do a little Google search on TCS. I know who it is, and I can't think of it right now. Microsoft, 5,189. Meta, 5,123. Apple, 4,202. Google, 4,181. Now, we met, obviously, with a lot of folks from India last week, and we had just such a good time talking with the folks. I don't know how many. I would imagine that most are citizens now, by now. And I don't know if we met with any H-1B. I'm sure we could find out, Barry, about one guy we met with that runs the M&A company. He would certainly have a handle on that. He'd be an interesting guy, in fact, to have on the show because he works with startups and does M&A activity with them. Okay, what's really going on with the U.S. economy? We're getting a lot of mixed signals here. You're our Chief Chartered Financial Analyst. I have a perspective on the U.S. economy, and I'm going to see what you think of my perspective. We had GDP of 3.8%. The market's hitting all-time highs. Inflation is cool. The tax situation is set in place, and the trade has been tilted in the direction of U.S., U.S. workers and U.S. factories. I think the economy is pretty darn good. What do you say, Barry? You can disagree. I don't care.
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No, I mean, I think it's got a lot of, you know, tailwinds to the economy, particularly some of the stuff that's harder to, you know, harder to quantify, right, in terms of, you know, less, you know, more deregulation, just more business-friendly environment, right, a lot of these things. influx of investment that these different companies have said they're going to do. At some point, that helps keep pushing things. I think from the tax policy, having that is going to give a shot in the arm to the economy in the first quarter of 2026 in terms of potential growth. retail uh spending so yeah i mean i think there's uh you know there's a lot of reasons why um gdp should remain uh you know pretty strong going forward not to mention a lower rate environment as well you know i understand that different sections of the world of the country uh you know are ebb and flow and
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That's all I can say. We went to the Silicon Valley there, and we went out to dinner one night at a little area that was pretty neat. Was there a parking place in that area? There was about five restaurants. I had to slip the guy a 20 to park my car, and we went to Fleming's, which was the only place we could get into. Was there an empty seat in there, Barry? No.
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There was an NPC in that whole complex.
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Were wine glasses being clinked together and toast being made? Was there a buzz inside of there? And when we drove by the Apple complex, there was a buzz all around that. When we went to Alexander's Steakhouse in Cupertino, right by Apple, people were spending the bucks and eating the cotton candy for dessert afterwards. I didn't see the economy suffering at all there in the Silicon Valley. Now, obviously, it depends on where you go. But also, like you said, I mean, we've had massive investments coming announced by Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, OpenAI, Meta, Lilly. And, you know, that hasn't even kicked in yet. So anyways, I'm not seeing a weak economy myself. And here in the Charleston area, I would say this, though. Economies that depend upon tourism, I don't think tourism was as good this year as it normally is. But, you know, we have a place here in Isle of Palms called Wild Dunes. That place was packed every weekend, Barry. It's all I know. Right. But I did hear a little bit of grumbling from some of the downtown restaurants that tourism was. We're not the number one tourist destination. destination anymore here in charleston we've been replaced by somebody maybe orlando i don't know but maybe that was down but i'm seeing strong gdp uh the the weakening labor market seems to be the one thing they point to uh these days okay perky stocks intel Intel has really perked up. It broke out yesterday. Well, they've got kind of a backstop, I suppose, with an investment from the U.S. government.
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And NVIDIA.
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And NVIDIA and Jensen Wang's money. And Tesla continues to break out. Very perky. It gets a street-high target price from Wedbush today to $600. You know, Barry, I'm almost thinking... It belongs in our ultra-growth portfolio. That thing will go up $100 and down $100 a share just like that.
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It's got some volatility for sure.
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I don't think it belongs in the premier growth just because of the dang volatility of the thing. But Wedbush is calling out the AI opportunity with Tesla. Because I don't think the opportunity is the electric vehicle. No, it's certainly not the car. No. So there's the issue I have. And I don't know how much of that AI is in the stock Tesla. It seems to me like a lot of it is private, in the private part of Tesla, where SpaceX and others and the brain connections and everything, Neuralink. And the last thing I would say here, speaking of the Apple campus, which is absolutely beautiful. I would love to just walk through there, have lunch in the cafeteria, blah, blah, blah. But they are seeing a solid start to the iPhone 17 sales. I'm in the market for a new phone, and I'm thinking maybe the i17 Pro is made for Bill. It's got my name on it. We'll see. I'll be the guinea pig. But meanwhile, the Apple stock, not all that perfect. This is Bill Gunderson. Thank you for tuning in to today's Best Stocks Now, Best Inverse Funds Now show. I put several hours of research in during the wee hours of the morning each day to bring you the very best cutting-edge stories that I can. To get two free weeks of my newsletter, go to GundersonCapital.com To talk to us about our fee-based only money management services, call us at 855-611-BEST. Now, back to the second half of the show. Call out the instigator Because there's something in the air And welcome back here to the second half of today's Best Docs Now show. And I called it, Barry. It is Boeing that is leading the Dow higher. And I've never seen a week or two weeks like Boeing has had. I mean, somebody's making some big commissions over there. Maybe it's Trump. I don't know. It's Turkish Airlines, China, Kazakhstan.
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Everybody gets a plane.
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Norwegian Air Shuttle. Where are they going to put them? I guess they'll figure it out. That's a good problem to have. Because when I drive by that thing, it's like, wow, where are they going to put another plane to deliver? They better get the deliveries going there. Now, I want to mention something here. Don't forget, there's a couple of big contractors that Boeing uses. One is named Rolls-Royce, those jet engines, R-Y-C-E-Y, which now trades on the – there's an ADR for it now, Barry. It used to just be on the pink sheet. So, you know, that's a very viable stock. It's not that expensive, and they also have a hand or two in the nuclear business. And they're opening a nuclear facility here in South Carolina. Number two, let's not forget GE Aerospace, which has been hitting new highs. And these two, of course, are the engines, the spare engines, the engine maintenance services for the planes, etc., And then there's a third one, Francis Safran, which I've looked at before. It's a pretty good company. It was the number one ranked stock in the app here for a while. S-A-F-R-Y. It's French, and it does trade on the pink sheets, but it trades heavy volume. So anyways, Erdogan's visit, he leaves after signing a deal for, I don't know, it was quite a few airplanes. So anyways, that Boeing parking lot and all that clutter around our airport, it's all one big complex if you've ever been to the Charleston airport. Man, that thing is growing. They're adding a whole other giant parking garage. We're becoming like the Charlotte Airport. Not quite that big. But when you add the Boeing presence right next to it and really integrated with the airport, it's massive. Okay, this is just my opinion, but I'm seeing it. Eventually, great stocks become soggy. stodgy old growth giants of yesteryear okay so you know look i mean walmart is not building a store in every town anymore they've pretty much saturated the market right okay starbucks would enter into that procter and gamble would enter into that they've been soggy for quite some time And I'm going to make a bold statement here that's not going to be popular with a lot of people because everybody seems to love Costco. I think it's becoming a single-digit grower, maybe 8%, somewhere in that range. That's not a good chart there on Costco. Costco is breaking its support level today down at 920. It's been as high as 1,100, so it's down a couple hundred points off of its high. That works out to about an 18% sell-off in Costco. Who knows? Maybe it'll show up on the relative value portfolio.
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Yeah, show up on the radar there, maybe.
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But a retail box bricks-and-mortar retailer trading at 52 times earnings, I'm not so sure that's sustainable. When you're growing by 8% to 10%, let's call it, okay, 8% to 10%. The forward P.E. ratio is 47%. And so you say, why is Target trading at 8% or 9% and Costco? Well, number one, there's something in the market called goodwill. Right, Barry? It's something you can't quantify, right? Okay, there was a lot of goodwill in Chipotle stock. Just the name, the popularity. There's a lot of will in Tesla stock because of the name Elon Musk. There's a lot of goodwill there. And, you know, it's something you can't quite quantify. And it can go the other way sometimes.
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And it's got a bit of a cult following, too. I mean, we spend there regularly. I should buy stock in it. Unfortunately, I just spend there.
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Yes, there's a lot of goodwill in Gunderson Capital because of Bill and Barry. That's the goodwill portion in that balance sheet that you can't quantify.
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The stock is down 14% from its 52-week high. That's not a great-looking chart, for sure.
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To me, it's soggy, all lower caps. When it gets to upper cap soggy, it's Johnson & Johnson, it's Procter & Gamble, it's Kimberly-Clark. Those are all upper caps, S-O-G-G-Y. But I'm going to give Costco lower cap soggy right now. They're going to open 35 new stores, but for a company that size...
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I mean, it could show up on the old relative value spot.
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But not at 52 times PE. No. It's got to get down in the 30s or something. Okay, and I mentioned Intel, how it's surging as investment news bubbles and the PC market is stronger than expected. You know, people are, you just have to upgrade your PCs. Now, can a company get rid of it, shake its sogginess off? Yes. We've seen some great examples. GE went from being a very soggy stock to a very relevant stock. Intel seems to be in that kind of a transformation. I'm going to give you another one to keep an eye on, and I added it to my daily watch list. Cisco shows off new software to connect quantum computing cloud. Okay, right? I mean, Cisco made their claim to fame was the telephone networks. Networking, yeah, the switches. Now, quantum cloud. And who else has become relevant lately again? Oracle. Right? It had entered lowercase soggy territory, and all of a sudden, no, it's relative again. GE is big-time relative again. It crossed out a long time ago. with the spin-off of GE Vernova.
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I've seen some use cases recently for IBM even on the AI front. I'm trying to remember what it was that I saw. I want to say it may have been in the athletics market.
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Yeah, and a little bit of quantum too for IBM. And Cisco definitely. So I'm going to keep my eye. You know, I mean, it's a low single-digit grower, but it showed some promise here. Their last quarter, their earnings were up 14%. That's the best quarter they've had in a long time. There's not stupid people working at Cisco. I mean, this was one of the great companies, one of the great stocks. of all time i remember the powerhouse and of course it's headquartered in san jose california we never did see their headquarters i never did see it we probably might have driven right by it and not even noticed it i think i have seen it off the 101 freeway but let's keep an eye on cisco maybe they can become relevant again they've got some pretty good management over there They're starting to get into the right areas of the market now. So anyways, never count one of these big guys down and out. They're now talking quantum, and they're now talking the cloud and computing. Those are all the buzzwords. Okay, another one, perpetual resources. Rare earth stocks continue to be on fire. Perpetua Resources is one I've talked about, PPTA. They're in talks with Glencore, which is one of the biggest basic material companies in the world. And Perpetua PPTA has got some rare earth exposure. But what's the number one rare earth stock in the world today? Well, it's in the app. I own a few shares. It's a pink sheet stock. It's Zijin Mining. Never heard of it, right? It's Hong Kong listed. You might wake up a little bit when you hear that it's got a valuation of $100 billion. Now, we've heard that 80% of the rare earth comes from China. Well, this is the company, Zijin Mining, Z-I-J-M-F. I'll bet Chairman Xi's got a few shares in this thing. But it's had a blistering rally. You can look up a chart on Yahoo Finance. Z-I-J-M-Y. There's two versions, or Z-I-J-M-F. You want some exposure to rare earth? There you go. And nuclear remains hot. When we come back, one we haven't talked about for a while, but they're getting a deal worth 1.1 gigawatts of gas and nuclear technology. We'll be right back.
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You've got to go where you want to go, do what you want to do, and then whoever you are.
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And welcome back here to the final segment of today's Best Stocks Now show. And I do see that the NASDAQ has gone negative, down 59 right now. And I did draw, as I always do, every time you hit a peak. And start to roll over a little bit. I draw a line like it was the top, Barry. You can look at my chart. You see just a little short line there up at 23,000 almost. And in my mind I say, was this the top? And that was the title of last week's newsletter. Look, the NASDAQ, believe it or not, let's just review this for a moment. On April the 8th, it bottomed, the day of my article. The NASDAQ was 14,784. Okay? 14,784. And on earlier this week, it was Monday, I want to say, the NASDAQ hit an all-time high of almost 23,000. That is a 50% move. If you do the math, no, not quite, not quite. But 40 plus, 40% plus move in the NASDAQ from 14,784. to the ultimate top. There it is. It closed at 22,788 on Monday. It might have been Friday of last week. That's a heck of a move by any measure, okay? So that's in the 40% range. When I say top, I don't believe that we've reached the ultimate top in the bull market. That began in 08 and 09 because the earnings expectations still look good for the next few years. But you also have secondary corrections within primary trends. If you look at the primary trend, if you pull up a chart and set your start date at 2009, do the NASDAQ, and your end date of today, 16 years, You're not going to see a leveling off yet. You're not going to see a downtrend, but you'll see lots of secondary corrections within that primary uptrend. Barry knows all this lingo now. I'm sure it came up a lot in getting there were a lot of questions on the test, the CMT test. I just know it from 25 years of looking at charts. Okay, so let's assume that that was the top there. It would be a correction. That means it would be ready for a correction. You'd get a secondary correction within this primary uptrend, which could take it down to the $20,000 area or something like that.
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And can be, I mean, for markets, it's actually, you know, healthy. Can be healthy having those pullbacks and, you know, test some kind of support level, right, and then continue to grind higher. You know, it makes for a healthier market than something that's just going straight up, you know, the entire time.
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And if we were to pull back right now, there's pretty good support at 21,000. So that's 1,200 points below where we're at now on the NASDAQ, which is quite a bit, but it's 3%, 4%, 5%. So during a time like this, we've done some profit-taking. Obviously, others are doing it too. You wouldn't have this little crest, this little peak that we recently hit. So we've raised some cash. We've cut some big winners in half. We cut some positions in half that went on a torrid run. Torrid? Torrid run since April the 8th. We've sold maybe one or two that were not performing. We sold one that was underwater and was just not looking very good. It's in that buy now, pay later space, which all those stocks are not looking real good in that space right now. I'm going to send you over a chart, Barry, of Affirmed. It's breaking its little support level there. Right. Something to keep in mind. And then we've got the AI stocks. Okay. And the other thing that you can do is other than doing some profit taking, there's nothing wrong with the harvest. I'm glad I harvested my tomatoes when I did because about three weeks later, I got hit with the fungus that killed every plant. So I was able to put up 25 jars of some good salsa before the fungus hit. Now, I don't know that the fungus is going to hit the NASDAQ, but there's definitely going to be some rounds of profit-taking. And I think, as I've said before, it's the highfalutin areas that get hit first. And my number one and number two areas that I think are the most vulnerable, I'll give the top three. Four. I've got four. Number one is always good old Cathie Wood's. Her stuff starts to go down first because she's out there on the frontier. So Sark comes into play, which is inverse Kathy Woods. Number two, I think the real bubble is in crypto. I'm talking Coinbase, BSMR, all these ones that she's been loading up on. So if you buy SARC, you're also getting a lot of short, you know, inverse action on the crypto players, Galaxy. I mean, there's been so many crypto stocks, the coin, the miners. She's loaded up in a lot of those. Okay, so that's one and two. Number three would be Hibs. hibs is the inverse high beta okay and that's the stocks that are the next ones to correct obviously those that have gone up the most are those that have the most downside risk and vulnerability to profit taking so hibs hibs would just be one of those and then the nasdaq in general PSQ or QID, which is 2x the NASDAQ. And then my fourth one, small caps are always very vulnerable in times of profit-taking. And I look to inverse the Russell 2000, which 1950 stocks, in my opinion, are junk. Junk doesn't do well during a time of profit-taking or correction. And I look to RWM, which is inverse one time, the Russell 2000. If you want to double your fund, TWM. And if you want to get really crazy, TZA is triple inverse, the Russell 2000. You might want to check into this week's newsletter. We'll all be addressing this whole topic again. Go to GundersenCapital.com to get four free weeks of the newsletter. Is anybody looking at your portfolio on a daily basis? Set up an appointment with us at 855-611-BEST. 855-611-BEST. Have a great day, everybody.
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On this episode of The Mike Gallagher Show, Mike takes listeners deep into the chaos surrounding mass deportations, political violence, and the media’s selective silence. From the recent ICE facility shooting in Dallas to the attempted assassinations of President Trump, Mike questions why the public hears so little about these violent actors and their motives. He and longtime colleague Phil Boyce discuss the generational divide over immigration enforcement and how young Americans perceive mass deportations.
The program also highlights the powerful spiritual aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, including a listener testimony about an unlikely conversion sparked by the memorial service. In between heavy topics, Mike shares practical help for everyday Americans with sponsors like Chapter for Medicare solutions, PHD Weight Loss, and MyPillow. Later, veteran pollster John McLaughlin joins the show to break exclusive polling data showing Republicans holding a lead in the 2026 generic ballot and why preserving healthcare tax credits is a winning issue for conservatives.
Mike’s candid exchange with a first-time caller named Law showcases his commitment to respectful dialogue even with those who disagree. This episode combines hard truths, heartfelt stories, and real solutions for listeners navigating one of the most turbulent political climates in modern history.
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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 Show.
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I saw a headline this morning on TV, one of those graphics. They call them chyrons. Democrats accused of demonizing ICE agents. Accused? The sun was accused of setting in the west. The sky has been accused of being blue. Democrats accused of demonizing ICE agents. You want me to play the litany of slurs and smears and attacks that ICE agents have had to endure from Democrats? Prominent Democrats. Not your garden variety, purple-haired weirdo in the basement. I mean the big-time Democrats, the Hakeem Jeffries, the Gavin Newsoms, all of them have vilified and eviscerated ICE agents. And then all of a sudden we're surprised when somebody shows up at an ICE office, a detention facility in Dallas, and shoots the place up and kills... One of the very people that the leftist was trying to protect. Wow. We're in a dark time right now. It's a dark, dark period in our nation's history. I was just talking to Tracy. Some of the best shows happen off the air. I had this great conversation with my boss, Phil Boyce. Phil was a lecturer in front of a bunch of college kids yesterday. And the college kids were asking Phil questions. Do you guys realize how many young people recoil at seeing families, migrant families they call them, rounded up, terrified, and sent home? Do you guys have any compassion at all for that? And, you know, of course, you and me, we dig our heels in and we say, with love, this is what we voted for. Trump promised this would be happening. He's delivering on the promise. It's happening, and at least according to most polls that I've seen, Americans approve. But Phil and I agreed, and, you know, maybe this is not a time to start getting squishy, but there are young people who are seeing this and they're saying, is this the way to go? And, of course, it's up to us to inform, to illuminate, to educate with love, sure, with compassion, and say to these young people, we always knew this was going to be rough. We always knew how hard this was going to be. You and I talked about it when Trump was not even in office, when he was on the campaign trail. We talked about what would happen when the day came and the mass deportations began. You better get ready for all the tearful media coverage of the poor families, the hardworking migrants, like they like to call them, being ripped apart, shipped back to Guatemala or Haiti or Mexico or El Salvador or Venezuela. We all knew this was going to be here. What we didn't recognize, I think, was the way Democrats would normalize political violence. And they have. And they have. Whether it's trying to kill President Trump, killing Charlie Kirk, putting pipe bombs under Fox News vehicles, shooting up places, on and on. This is getting uglier and uglier, and we're left with what do we do about it? You know, back to the shows that are great that are off the air. So Tracy and I were talking. Isn't it fascinating how we know so little about some of these bad actors, these violent leftists? We don't know anything about the guy who tried to kill President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania. And, of course, they killed him. He's gone. What was his story? We don't know a lot about the guy that tried to kill President Trump on the golf course. What's his story? The other day, yesterday, I guess, he got convicted and tried to plunge a pen into his neck. But this is the guy that was making all these trips to Ukraine? Why don't we know much about him? And the guy yesterday. who killed an illegal at the Dallas ICE detention facility. What about him? I saw little snippets about his mother. She hated Trump. His brother said he wasn't a very good marksman. But what was his agenda? He apparently wrote anti-ICE on the shell casings. And we're actually saying, what was the agenda? He couldn't make it any clearer if he held a press conference before he climbed up on the roof. If you're going to write anti-something on a shell casing and then fire bullets at ATF officials and officers, rather, your agenda seems pretty clear. But still, MSNBC, CNN, New York Times, Washington Post, we don't really know what the motive was. We don't know why. We don't know much about this guy. Why is that? I mean, let's start there for a couple of minutes. As we kick off a Thursday in the Relief Factor studios, welcome in, incidentally, 800-655-MIKE. Thank you for being there. Thank you for being part of this show. Thank you for listening to us on the radio or watching us on Salem News Channel or streaming online, however you get the show, because I don't know what I'd do without you. Look, I love celebrating great times with you. And I appreciate getting through hard times with you as well. And we're going through a hard time. We're going through a very difficult time right now. So let's start here. 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It's a pleasure to see you again, Mike. Thanks for the opportunity.
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You bet. Welcome back. You know, I've been talking about this campaign with Americans for a Balanced Budget, and I've shared that your polling shows that over 70% of Trump supporters favor preserving the health care tax credits. Can you share with us why you think that resonates so strongly, even in traditionally conservative areas that typically oppose government spending, or even with the president's own base?
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Because it's a tax credit. You're seeing stories and hearing reports coming out of Washington right now about Congress negotiating to wipe out these health care tax credits because these are not handouts. This is basically a tax credit to help working people whose employers don't give them health insurance. They might be working two, three jobs, but they don't have health insurance. And they get, under the exchanges, they get a health care tax credit to help them pay for, if they qualify, if they have need to qualify to buy their own health insurance. But in Washington, the crazy language is that they call it a subsidy. And when we asked about if they, right, and you know what it is? I mean, it's an attempt by Washington to just bleed working Americans, to bleed working class Americans. If you take away those healthcare tax credits, what happens to the working class people that have it? Well, you have to go on Medicaid. So, you know, they'll have to be, you know, Washington Congress, they didn't want to even take the Democrats. They want to take illegal immigrants off Medicaid. So you'd have to go on Medicaid and then we'd have to, you know, provide that type of expense. But when we asked about people, if they support I mean, if they support these health care tax credits, 86 to eight, all voters did. This was on June 19th. We were the first pollsters that did this. And then Republicans, they supported 84 to 9. Trump voters, 82 to 10. It's common sense. If somebody can't afford health care and they want to work and they want to pay for it themselves, if health care is kind of expensive for a lot of people, If they need help paying it, the government has been giving them health care tax credits, not subsidies, not handouts, not a welfare check. And as they earn more money, you know, they need less of a tax credit. But this is this is crazy. Only Washington where they want to take away, take something away from working class people. And. These are the voters that elected Donald Trump. We turned the Republican Party into a party of working class voters instead of country club Republicans. And here they are in Washington wanting to take away the health care of these working class Americans.
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So, John, based on your own polling. What do you what would you how would you advise Republicans? Look, we're facing a high stakes election in 2026. You have a lot of Republicans who campaigned on lowering health care costs. What words of wisdom would you have for those Republican candidates as to how to navigate this kind of sticky, complicated issue?
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This is so easy because tomorrow we'll release a national poll of 1,000 likely voters where the generic ballot favors the Republicans 47-41. Because we voted for the Trump tax cuts. We voted for the Trump tax cuts. The Democrats wanted a tax increase. And now you've got, okay, they're negotiating in Washington. No brainer. 77% of all voters are more likely to vote for a senator or congressman who votes to preserve these tax credits. 74% are less likely to vote for a candidate who votes against preserving these tax credits. This is one where we steal one from the Democrats. So, you know, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, their goal is not to give us anything. They're just ruthless. They don't care how many people they hurt. They don't care, you know, they want government to get bigger. They want Donald Trump to be gone. They want to be able to start the impeachments. I mean, this is ridiculous. We have to vote for this because it's this is I mean, it's a health care tax credit for working class voters. It's so easy. This is, you know, like my friend who worked for Donald Trump with us years ago, but he passed away was Pat Goodell. And Pat had a saying that Democrats are the crooked party and Republicans are the stupid party. We need to be the stupid party. We need to pass these. Get this done. Get it off the table. Put it in our budget. Keep the health care tax credits. We love tech.
SPEAKER 04 :
I appeared with Pat on Fox News before. Great guy. Let me just close with this. Let's not bury the lead. You're one of the most respected pollsters in America. You gave us a scoop, I think, here on the Mike Gallagher show. So tomorrow you're releasing a poll. We've only got about 30 seconds left here, but 47 to 41 percent Republicans are ahead in 2026.
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Right, in the generic ballot for Congress. But we're not over 50, and a lot of that undecided will go back to the Democrats. So we need to keep setting the agenda and watch the Democrats collapse, because their future? Zora Mondami.
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There you go. Yeah, that's right. Look, it breaks my heart for New York, but it gives me hope for the country, because if the country sees New York electing that guy, that's pretty good for Republicans. John, thank you. Keep fighting the good fight. Go to StopHealthCostHikes.com. Tell Congress... to make sure you extend these vital tax credits. StopHealthCostHikes.com StopHealthCostHikes.com A great initiative from our friends at Americans for a balanced budget. Stick around. There's a lot more coming up. Every single day, it's a joy to remind you that portions of our show are sponsored by MyPillow. As you know, our friend Mike Lindell, big legal victory last week. He's been in a ton of hot water, as you know, because he believes in election integrity. Of course, due to his friendship with President Trump. Well, last week, there was a $5 million... judgment against Mike that was overturned by the courts. Good news for MyPillow. So you keep praying for MyPillow and you keep supporting this great American company. The premium MyPillow, limited time, great price, $18.98. If you go to MyPillow.com, this pillow is a godsend. Look, I bring the MyPillow products with me when I'm on the road. Here at the hotel in Washington State, I've got the MySlippers with me. Those unbelievable slippers because I pat around in the hotel room. I don't know what's on that rug. I bring the MyPillow with me. I roll it up into the suitcase. I've even got my MyPillow loungewear. Tons of great products. If you haven't been to the site in a while, go check it out. Go to MyPillow.com. Look for the Mike Gallagher specials. Click on that box. And with anything you order, enter the promo code MikeG. You're going to save big. The slippers, the doggy beds, and the Giza dream sheets. MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG. MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG. Or call 800-928-6034. 800-928-6034. Like we love to sing.
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Want some good news? Church attendance nationally is skyrocketing. More and more people after Charlie's murder, his assassination, are going back to church. I had a really wonderful exchange with a caller named Jennifer earlier this week. If you missed it, I want to replay it for you. I think it might lift your spirits. And to be in that arena, maybe my friend just didn't have that. He was watching it on TV. Maybe you couldn't feel that energy, that emotion, that spiritual beauty of Sunday's service. And maybe nobody knows that better than Jennifer in Pennsylvania because, Jennifer, as I understand it, you had somebody who had quite a conversion, quite an experience while watching the Charlie Kirk Memorial. Is that correct?
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That's correct.
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Tell me all about it.
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A little bit of background. My girlfriend lives two hours away. Her husband has a type of dementia that caused him to go blind, and now he has Lewy body dementia, and he needs assistance walking. He needed to get away, so I thought, well, I wanted to watch Charlie Kirk's memorial anyway, so I would watch it with her husband, Doug, who has for years rejected Jesus as his Savior. and always makes a joke about it when we try to talk to him. So he's losing his memory. He still has his long term, but he's losing so much so fast. And I prayed on my way down to her house, Lord Jesus, today may be his last opportunity to get this. So my girlfriend left, and he was more receptive with me being there. And he was so touched by the speakers and by what happened. I've never seen him so touched. When the pastor, and I can't remember which pastor, said, if you are a believer, if you've received Christ as your Savior, you stay seated.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right, Rob McCoy. Yep. Okay. Charlie's pastor, by the way, Jennifer.
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Okay.
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I kind of thought that might be the one. Sure.
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So then he said, if you want to receive Christ as your Savior, and he had explained before this what it means to receive Christ as your Savior. He said, I want you to stand. Doug, my friend who's blind, popped off of the couch like he was shot out of a cannon and let out a groan and stood there, unable to see, but staring at the television and And then the pastor said, I want a believer now to go over and pray with somebody who's standing. So I went over to my friend, I put my arm around him, and I said, Doug, do you want to receive Jesus as your Savior? And he said, yes. He was lucid in that moment. I prayed with him, and then I asked him, did you receive Christ as your Savior? And he said, yes. His life is eternal. bouncing off the walls because we knew time was running out, and God was just so gracious to give this man one last opportunity. How about that?
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I love sharing conversations that happened off the air on this show. Tracy and I, Eric, Christian, Alex, Joey, all the people that we work with. This morning, I have a little routine. I check in pretty regularly with my boss. My boss, who is probably one of the most respected content evaluators of talk radio and television content in the country. And I've worked for Phil Boyce for many years. And Phil was a guest lecturer in front of a bunch of college kids yesterday at a big Ivy League school. I don't think he traveled there. I think it was on Zoom. But Phil shared with me what a whole bunch of well-meaning young people said to him. And in the aftermath of the ICE shooting in Dallas, in the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination, As we're seeing leftists resort to violence over the mass deportation that is going on. Look, we knew it was going to be bad. You and I talked about this a long time ago. That when the mass deportation that Americans voted for commenced, the left would lose their minds. And they are losing their minds. They are turning to violence, political violence. Yesterday was an act of political violence. Utah was an act of political violence. Butler, Pennsylvania was an act of political violence. The left is embracing and utilizing political violence. No way around that. You can spin it all you want. I got a montage here from MSNBC about how they tried to pretend that maybe, just maybe, the guy that shot and killed an illegal yesterday outside a Dallas ICE facility wasn't really a leftist. It's comical. I don't even want to stain the airwaves with that garbage from MSNBC. It's all they got. It's all they got. So the group of college kids began peppering Phil with questions about what we believe as conservatives and Republicans and what the Trump administration is doing. And Phil said the common theme from a lot of these, you know, wide-eyed young people is why can't the right have more compassion with this mass deportation process? Why can't Trump be more compassionate? Why can't there be more empathy for a family of five from Venezuela who has been rounded up and shipped back to Venezuela? The optics of it all is what these kids kept talking about. And it's a fair question. I mean, the problem with even entertaining the question though is that I don't want you to think that any of us believe that political violence and terrorism should result in a policy change. There will be no policy change. The Trump administration isn't going to say, well, yeah, you know, the left is mad at the mass deportations, so we're going to stop doing it. No, no, it's not going to work that way. In fact, the political violence, these acts of terrorism will probably compel the Trump administration to double down. Just like Charlie's murder is leading people to go to churches. And we're having a nationwide revival. And many people are being drawn to Christ and to God in a way that they hadn't prior to that young Charlie Kirk being our colleague and our friend being assassinated on a college campus in Utah. You see, the political terrorism that the 22-year-old in Utah attempted, while horrific for this country, is also a way to show some clarity. It's also backfiring. It's also resulting in unintended consequences. And these are consequences for the left because they don't want people to go to church. They don't want people to be unified. They don't want people to find peace. That's the antithesis of political violence and political terrorism. So let's look at whether we can find common ground. I have a wide circle of people in my life, and I've got plenty of people in my life who don't agree with me politically. I don't hate them for that. Some of them hate me for that. And it hurts my heart because a lot of them know me. They know what kind of person I am. They know that I don't like us to be butting heads all the time. I was married to a Democrat. And I miss Denise every day. And I don't know if there can be common ground today with people on the left. Often when somebody calls the show to disagree with me, it goes off the rails. And I hate that. I hate that. The caller is typically defensive. The caller is always ready to interrupt everything I say. It's like watching Scott Jennings on CNN. They don't let him get five words out before they all gang up on him. Well, that's what happens a lot of times with a caller who wants to disagree with me. So when a caller comes along that wants to disagree with me and it goes well, I treasure that moment. I relish that. And yesterday, the caller's name was Law. And I liked the exchange with him so much that I wanted to play it for you again, especially in case you missed it. Here's Law in Springfield, Missouri on the Mike Gallagher Show. Hi, Law. How are you?
SPEAKER 03 :
Mike, are you there?
SPEAKER 04 :
I'm right here. How are you?
SPEAKER 03 :
Hey, thanks for having me on your show. You bet. I'm a first-time listener to your show, and I keep changing the stations, and all I hear is this mean vitriol from everybody, and everyone's taking a side. I wish you would have watched Jimmy Kimmel last night because it was very touching. Did he apologize? Well, we do need to come. I'm sorry? Did he apologize? Absolutely. No, he said if anybody. That's not true. Yes, he did. If anybody misconstrued my remarks, I apologize.
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Here's what I want to do here. And I want to well, first of all, I want to welcome you because I appreciate very much you calling. I always love the respectful dialogue. I welcome you to the show. You're a first-time listener. But do you understand that either you're lying intentionally when you said he used the words, I apologize, or you don't know any better? He did not apologize, Law. He absolutely did not. So why are you saying he did? It would have been easy. If he apologized... I'm right there with you. If he was able to say, I apologize. Two little words. I'm sorry. I apologize. I shouldn't have said that the guy was MAGA. Because you know he said the guy was MAGA when he wasn't. And he knew better. All he had to do was say, I'm sorry. And he couldn't do that, Law. Why is that?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yes, he could. You could. All right. Maybe he didn't say the actual word of Paul. I'd have to rewatch it. And the attention that I got, the guy was crying. Oh, was he crying? Talking about Charlie Kirk and how it was misconstrued. And all he said. He misconstrued it. He misconstrued it, Law. He said the guy was anything but their own. That's all he said.
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He said MAGA spent the whole weekend trying to pretend he wasn't one of their own. That's what he said, Law. Come on, we've got to go at these things with truth and with facts. You can't make stuff up, sir. It is the truth. I just told you exactly what he said.
SPEAKER 03 :
That's right, that he was one of us, MAGA. And that was a lie. And so now, and let's talk about the ramification. It's not a lie. It is a lie. It was an absolute.
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All right. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. I got a hard break, but I don't want to lose you. Don't go away, okay? You want to hang in? All right. All right. So we did have a break like we have one now, but I want you to hear the continuation of my call yesterday with law because it was good. It was positive. It was productive. And I want to share it with you because it gets better. It really does. It kind of started out a little bumpy. But it actually got to a good place, and I want to share the rest of that with you.
In this enlightening episode of The Flatline, Rick Hughes explores how Christians can grow in grace and knowledge while navigating life's challenges. Learn about the essential problem-solving devices for Christian living, the significance of being filled with the Holy Spirit, and the scriptural mandates that guide believers in their daily walk with God.
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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 30 minutes, please stick around. It'll be a short time of some motivation, some inspiration, some education, and we say at every show, no manipulation. That's right. We're not trying to con you for money. We're not trying to solicit membership. We're just trying to give you some accurate information that can help you verify and identify God's plan for your life. If I'm able to do that, you can orient and adjust to the plan whenever you feel like it. I hope you will. I hope you will make it a priority in your life to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ because the single greatest decision you could ever make in your life is to accept Christ as your Savior. And so if you've never done that, that's my prayer that you would do that by listening to this show and be encouraged to learn the things that God has done for you through the cross and what Jesus Christ supplied for you. And that's total forgiveness and a new life and a new opportunity to live your life all over again. Before we get started, let me remind you, as the new year comes through, we have great new books for you. A new book in the Crash Course in Christianity we've reprinted, and it's free. All of our materials are free. We don't charge for anything. We're not selling anything. We have a lot of different bookmarks. One of them that's been very popular is 10 Reasons Why Your Prayers Are Not Answered. And if you'll get in touch with us through the website, rickhughesministries.org. That's rickhughesministries.org. We'll be glad to send you any of these if you so choose. The new book on Christian Problem Solving is available as well. It lists all 10 problem-solving devices. That's what my pastor taught me years ago, and I reteach it constantly on this radio show, because it's the secret to living the Christian life and fulfilling God's plan for you. Today, as we head into the new year, I want to talk to you about obedience. obedience. In the New Testament book of Acts, we find Dr. Luke writing to a man named Theophilus. And this is actually the second of his writings. He wrote the book of Luke and now the book of Acts. And so two of his books that he wrote, two letters that he wrote, made it into the canon of Scripture. And here in this book of Acts, Luke accounts for the first 30 years of the church being established, as well as giving the accounts of the life of the Apostle Paul. But it's here that we learn how the gospel spread after the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ and the persecution that the apostles faced as they talked about it. And specifically, Luke writes about the life of Peter as he evangelized his Jewish brethren, as well as Paul when he carried the good news to the Greeks or the Gentiles. Here's what Paul said to the Gentiles. He said in Romans 1.16, I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ because it, it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. The power of God is the gospel, the death, burial, and resurrection of our Savior. That's where the power is. And when you believe that, whoever believes that, that's when you become a Christian. He that believes in him shall not perish, but have everlasting life. And he that believeth not, the wrath of God abides on him already. That's quoting from the Bible. Quoting from the Bible, believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. You don't have to go forward. You don't have to go backwards. You don't have to raise your hand. You don't have to stand up. You just have to believe. And that's what the Lord Jesus Christ made plain. They didn't believe he was a Messiah. Many of the religious Pharisees, Sadducees rejected his claim. And so in order to become a Christian, you believe that he went to the cross, he died for you, he paid the sin penalty for you, and you accept that and you express that belief in prayer to the Father by simply telling him, I believe that Jesus Christ is your anointed son, and I'm willing to accept him as my savior. That's what it is. That's how you get saved. That's what I did. It's what anybody does, regardless of what someone else may tell you. But in the early stages of the Apostle Peter's ministry, we find he's very bold to proclaim Jesus Christ was the Messiah. That didn't go over too well among the religious crowd. They hated him for that, especially the Orthodox Jewish leaders. So let me read to you what went on in Acts 5, verses 17 and 18. Then the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him, which is the Sadducees, And they were filled with indignation. There's another word for that. You can figure out what that means. They were PO'd. And they laid, let me roll these notes over. They laid hands on the apostles and put them in a common prison. And here the disciples were forewarned about this. Jesus had already told them that was gonna happen. In John 16, verses two through three, this is what the Lord Jesus Christ told them before he departed. Quote, they will put you out of the synagogue. Yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think he's offering God's service. And these things they will do to you because they have not known the Father nor me. So it wasn't any surprise what happened to Peter when he wound up in prison because he was talking about Jesus being the Messiah. But in the middle of this opposition, The apostle Peter did not back down even though he was arrested for disobeying the commands of the synagogue. So they put him in prison with the common prisoners and an angel of the Lord appeared to him and opened the gates and took Peter and those that were with him out and told him to go back into the temple and to continue proclaiming that Jesus whom they crucified was indeed the true Messiah. And so when the high priest learned that they had been released from the prison, They immediately ordered them to be rearrested. And once they got them back in custody, they brought them back before the high council. And this is what they said. The captain went with the officers and brought them without any violence because they feared the people lest they should be stoned. So they didn't rough them up. They were worried about the people getting mad at them. And when they brought him, they set him before the council. And here's all these self-righteous religious people. The high priest asked them, did we not strictly tell you not to teach in this name and took you and though you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrines and intend to bring this man's blood on us? But Peter and the other apostles answered and said, we must obey God rather than man. This is what I want to proclaim to you today. We must obey God rather than man. Peter went on to say, the God of our fathers raised up Jesus, who you crucified, who you murdered by hanging on a tree. And it's him that God has exalted to his right hand to be prince and savior and to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sin. And we are his witnesses to these things, and so also is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey him. So let's keep that in mind. We must obey God rather than men. This is for you as well and for me. Obedience is something that we have to learn. Here's some principles that I want to remind you of. obedience to God is mandated in the scriptures. In 1 John 5, 3, the Bible says, this is the love of God that we keep his mandates and they are not hard, they're not a burden, that we obey him. We keep his mandates and they are not a burden. God is not going to ask you to do something you cannot do. He's not going to ask you to sacrifice something you can't afford to sacrifice. As a matter of fact, the Bible promises he will not put more on you than you can stand. But the Bible is very clear that God the Father expects you to obey him. Even our Lord Jesus Christ had to be obedient to God the Father's plan. Listen to Philippians 2.8. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient, there's the word, even to the point of death, the death of the cross. So in order to be obedient, it requires some humility, and that's what our Lord Jesus Christ was noted for. He humbled himself and became obedient. It wasn't exactly an exciting venue to come to the earth and go to the cross and be crucified, but it was the Father's plan, and that's exactly what the Son did. So number three, each one of us have our own volition, and it's here that we either obey God's mandates or we disobey. Volitional responsibility is the word you need to become familiar with. Volitional responsibility. And the Bible says in Galatians 6, 7, don't be deceived. God will not be mocked because whatever a man sows, this he's also going to reap. So disobedience is a sin. We can all agree on that. There's no problem there. We know that disobedience to God is a sin. And so what exactly are we supposed to obey? This is where it gets a little tricky because some people want to pile things on you that are not in the scripture. Some people will tell you it's a sin to smoke. The Bible doesn't say it's a sin to smoke. Some people will tell you it's a sin to dance. The Bible doesn't say it's a sin to dance. Some people will tell you it's a sin to drink. The Bible doesn't say it's a sin to drink. The Bible does comment on these things, but to the abuse of them, not the fact that it's whether you did that or not. So we make sins out of a lot of things that may not be sins. And so I could go on and on and on about that, but let me tell you things that are sin. Let me set the record straight here. So here's what we can agree on. Ephesians 5.18, be filled with the Spirit. That's a command from God through the Apostle Paul. If we disobey God, then we are not filled with the Spirit. And that means you're either spiritual or you're either carnal. Right now, this very moment that you're listening to me, you're either in fellowship with God or you're out of fellowship with God. So the question is, why does God demand this and how do we do this? Well, the first problem-solving device is called rebound. 1 John 1.9 says if we confess our sin, he, God, is faithful and just to forgive us of our sin and to purify us from all wrongdoing. When we sin, we quench the Holy Spirit if we're believers. When we sin, we shut down his power in our life and we grieve the Holy Spirit. But when we go to the Father and we do exactly what 1 John 1 says, if we name our sin to God, then he's faithful and just to forgive us. There's no sense trying to hide it, no sense trying to act like he didn't do it. Go ahead and admit it. I just lied. I just lusted. I just this. I just that. Whatever you did, tell the Father. And he will be faithful. He'll do it every time. And he will be just. He doesn't compromise his righteousness for forgiving you. He'll be faithful and just to forgive you and cleanse you from all unrighteousness. That means you're back in fellowship. That means that's how you're filled with the Holy Spirit. You're indwelled with the Holy Spirit the moment you believe in Christ. you're sealed with the holy spirit the moment you believe in christ you're filled with the holy spirit the moment you believe in christ but you can quench the filling of the holy spirit you don't lose the ceiling you don't lose the indwelling but you can quench the holy spirit and grieve the holy spirit and become carnal and fleshly by sinning so why were we supposed to be filled with the spirit because this is the only way we can truly replicate the life of christ When the Bible talks about stop thinking in terms of arrogance beyond what you should think, but think in terms of humility, as God has assigned to each one of us a standard of thinking from his word, this is what it requires. We must have some humility to be obedient to the plan of God. And you cannot live the Christian life, you cannot learn the Christian life, you cannot execute the Christian life unless you're filled with the Holy Spirit. Anything else is just energy of the flesh. Being moral is a good thing. Being nice is a good thing. Being polite is a good thing. But even unbelievers can do that. But no one believer can live the Christian life by means of the filling of the Holy Spirit. Only you can do that. And if you don't, then all the good works you do, all the good deeds that you do, all the money you gave, all the times you sang in the choir, all the visits you made, That winds up being wood, hay, and stubble and burned up at the judgment seat of Christ in 1 Corinthians chapter three. That's why it's critical that you are filled with the Holy Spirit. That's why it's critical you understand how to be filled with the Holy Spirit. You cannot grow unless you're filled with the Holy Spirit because the Holy Spirit intercepts the word as your pastor teaches it to you and helps you to recognize truth and understand truth And then you, by faith, have to apply truth. So we have a communicator that communicates the truth to you called a qualified pastor. And the Holy Spirit helps you to capture that information that he gives it to you. And then you comprehend it, and then you comply with it. It's essential that you understand that. Because the Lord Jesus Christ said, happiness belongs to people who hear my Father's word and keep it. So if you're sitting in church and not hearing, you're wasting your time and the pastor's time if you're not paying attention. The most rude thing you can do in church is to talk while the pastor's teaching, to not pay attention, to check your cell phone, to look at your messages. That's rude, and that's wrong. And so I would suggest you park that thing until you get out of there. All right, so the filling of the Holy Spirit is critical for the believer to understand. If it's not obeyed, the Christian life becomes a charade, going through the motions, but you'll have no impact in time and certainly no impact in eternity. So obedience, again, back to that word, it requires you submitting to authority. All of that starts in the home. Everywhere starts in the home. Obedience starts in the home. It's mandated in divine institution number three, the family. In Ephesians 6, one through three, the Bible says, children, obey your parents in the Lord. There's obedience. For this is right. Honor your father and your mother, which is the first mandate with a promise that if you will do this, You can live a long time on this earth. So here's a promise. If you get authority orientation and you learn to obey authority, you won't shorten your life. If you don't, if you can't handle authority, chances are you will shorten your life because you'll do something stupid. So children, obey your parents and the Lord. It doesn't mean you have to like them. Now listen, let me make one thing clear. If your parents tell you you need money, go down and rob the liquor store. Don't do that. That's a sin, that's wrong, that's child abuse. But if they tell you to clean your room up, if they tell you to take a bath, take a shower, if they tell you to change underwear, you have to do that. You have to learn to obey your parents. And a lot of parents today don't want to enforce discipline, but if you don't enforce discipline, they never respect authority. And the Bible is clear. Fathers, do not dishonor your children. Don't provoke them to wrath. Bring them up in the nurture and the admonition of the Lord. That means those two words, nurture and admonition, means to put something in their mind or something on their fanny. One of the two ways they're gonna respond to authority. But it has to start in the home. Divine institution number three, the family, is where we learn obedience by respecting authority. So without learning authority orientation, any child that doesn't will enter into the adult world as a misfit. And he or she will be maladjusted to society because they couldn't handle the authority of their parents. They won't be able to handle the authority of the police officer. They won't be able to handle the authority of the principal. They won't be able to handle the authority of their boss because they'll always be self-centered. They'll always be arrogant and justifying why they're right and the rest of the world is wrong. It's sad to watch people like that. So self-centered arrogance will destroy someone because they can't be obedient to God's plan. Now, that's a problem in America today. You know it and I know it. We have a real problem with authority because a lot of people react rather than respond. Here's something you need to remember. Authority is not always perfect. Authority can make mistakes. And how you handle it is a different story. I heard a story, I don't know if it's true or not, I believe it is because I did ask the daughter, but there was a coach named Bum Phillips who used to coach in the Orleans Saints and the Houston Oilers. And during his tenure as coach at Beaumont High School, he whipped a child for something the child didn't do. And he thought the kid was cursing a teacher. There were a lot of kids standing around and one of them was mouthing off cursing his teacher and he heard it. He grabbed this boy, took him down to the office and laid the board to him and said, don't ever talk like that again. If I hear you talk like that again, you're out of here. You ought to be on the team. It took 10 years before the kid finally told him, you whipped the wrong person. And Bob was really upset about it, and he said, I'm so sorry, why didn't you tell me? And the guy told him, look, coach, I just kept my mouth shut. Wasn't no big deal. I figured I could handle it. Don't worry about it. See, most people that are arrogant and self-centered would throw a fit if they got whipped for something they didn't do. They can't handle it because they don't have any humility. Remember what our Lord Jesus Christ did? He humbled himself and went to the cross. He didn't get mad. He didn't lose his temper. He didn't say, I'm going to kill every one of you people that are crucifying me. He didn't call the angels down to zap them right there. He went and he obeyed. You have to learn, even authority is not perfect. And then when authority mistreats you, if you get pulled over for something you didn't do, the police officer stops you. You can react and get mad, get self-centered, justify why you're right and the police officer's wrong, or you can just keep your mouth shut, take it, and move on down the road. Nobody's perfect. No boss is perfect. No parents are perfect. No police officer's perfect. You can be if you have some humility. To what I mean respond, I mean forgive them. Respond with forgiveness. Isn't that what God did for you? God forgave you. Doesn't he forgive you for your sin? He doesn't get mad. He doesn't react. He doesn't stomp you out. Why can't you do the same thing? Because of your arrogance. So we do have a real problem with authority in America. A lot of people don't like the police officer, don't like what he stands for. They think he's wrong. They think he's overbearing. And in some cases that may be true, but not all cases, very few indeed. So you have to learn to either react or respond to authority. obedience will respond and if the authorities wrong you forgive them if authorities wrong and you react then you're wrong here's another mandate that requires obedience found in the Bible very clearly in second Peter 318 grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ That's a requirement. That's obedience must take place here. You are told to grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. So evidently, When we get saved, we are not born again as mature believers. 1 Peter 2 says, as newborn babies desire the pure milk of the word so that you may grow thereby. God wants you to grow, but you have to start off with the milk. You don't start off with the deeper doctrines, imputation, justification, sanctification. You don't start off with all of that. You start off with those 10 unique problem-solving devices, learning how to be filled with the Holy Spirit, learning how to operate under the face rest drill, learning what grace orientation and doctrinal orientation are, developing your personal sense of destiny, developing a personal virtuous love for God and using impersonal love with others. Learning how to share the happiness of God and being occupied with Christ. 10 unique problem-solving devices. It requires you learning them. This is how we grow up. So we're not born mature believers. We have to learn. I mean, when I got saved, I went to Bible college and they gave me a test with 100 different questions. I answered one. What color is the Bible? Black. Okay, you got that right. I didn't know anything about the Bible. I just never went to church. And then I got saved and went back to college, went back to a Bible college and had to learn, learn about the Bible, learn what God wrote and learn how to apply it into my life. You know, it's a shame, but some people have been saved for years, but they've never obeyed this mandate to grow up spiritually. In Hebrews 5, verses 11 through 16, the Bible says this, We have much to say, but it's hard to explain since you've become dull of hearing, which means you're not interested. For though by this time you ought to be a teacher, in fact you need someone to teach you again the very first basics of the Word of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food. For anyone who partakes only of the milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness. He's just a baby. Solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that's mature. That is those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. And you may think that means nice and bad, and it doesn't. Good and evil are both tactics of the devil. Human good, divine good, evil is the opposite of grace. There's a lot to be said right there. I could take that and teach on that for a long time. So you have to learn what evil is. Evil is a copy of the original. And good can be divine good or human good. You have to understand these things in the Christian life. So here's another principle, obedience. Adam and Eve committed the first act of disobedience in the Bible recorded in Genesis 2, 16. The Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree in the garden you can freely eat, but the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, do not eat it. For in the day that you eat that, you will surely die. That was the first sin. And the Bible says, For by one man sin came into the world, and death by sin. And then Romans 13, 3 through 4, this passage says, Avoid civil disobedience. Civil disobedience and unlawful violence is bad. It's wrong. And you'll be protected by the client nation and the laws of divine establishment if you'll avoid that. We do have a civil responsibility, such as military service, paying our taxes, fulfilling certain civic responsibilities like voting, but this does not include violence, does not include destruction of property, does not include intrusion on the privacy of other people, or any form of civil disobedience. We are to obey the government. Civil disobedience is what we call moral degeneracy. It's when you use force to get your way, to get what you want. We call that crusader arrogance. And it's the righteous indignation out of control. It ignores the honorable and the judicial system to regress our grievances. The crusader believes in vigilante solutions which bypass the government law and order. Hence, crusader arrogance practices and advocates civil disobedience. Can't do that. That's wrong. So whatever sin you've committed before your salvation is an act of disobedience. And listen to what the Bible says about all of your disobedience before you became a Christian. Isaiah 43, 25. I, even I, am the one who blots out your sins for my own sakes. Therefore, I will never remember your transgressions. What a wonderful promise that is. So when God's children become disobedient, God can discipline to correct us. In Hebrews 12, 11, for the moment, all discipline seems not to be pleasant, but painful, yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields a peaceable fruit of righteousness. So there are hundreds and hundreds of divine mandates about obedience in the Bible. Ephesians 5.22, wives obey your husbands. 1 Peter 3.7, you husbands in the same way live with your wives in understanding way as with someone weaker since she is a woman and show her honor and as a fellow heir of the grace of life so that your prayers will not be hindered. Husbands love your wives, Ephesians 5.25. Ephesians 4.32, be kind to one another. 2 Timothy 2.15, be diligent to present yourself approved to God. A workman does not need to be ashamed. Over and over and over, the Bible demands obedience. I hope you're listening. I hope you will look at your life and decide, have I been obedient to the plan of God? If you need more information about this, don't hesitate to contact us. We'll be glad to send you any material, copies of this message, transcripts, whatever you need. Thank you for giving me some time today. I hope you've enjoyed this message. Until next week, when I get back, same time, same place, same station. This is your host, Rick Hughes, saying thank you so very much for listening to The Flatline.
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Thank you for listening to The Floodline with your host, Rick Hughes. If you'd like to contact Rick, please write to him at P.O. Box 100, Cropwell, Alabama, 35054, or online at www.rickhughesministries.org.
This episode dives into the controversy surrounding Jimmy Kimmel's recent non-apology, exploring its implications on public discourse. Simultaneously, we explore the rise of political violence in the country, pondering its roots and repercussions. As technology marches forward, discover the emerging future with driverless cars and learn about the notable guests at the Charlie Kirk Memorial.
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Welcome to the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast. This is Friday, September 26, 2025. This week, we go to Glendale, Arizona, the site of the Charlie Kirk Memorial. We went there. As you know, we'll hear from the newly reinstated Jimmy Kimmel. We'll assess the crisis of political violence in America. It's been a busy, heartbreaking, difficult week. Let's begin at State Farm Stadium in Arizona and hear some of the people who worked with Charlie Kirk at Turning Point USA. What? Here's the chief operating officer for Turning Point USA, Justin Streif.
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He started with nothing more than an idea and a folding table. And over 13 years with time and courage and faith, he built a movement that changed the world. Now that Charlie's gone, what happens next? It's up to us. Time is fleeting, but the decisions we make here right now are eternal. So let us honor Charlie by doing what he did. Stand for truth. Confront evil. Live courageously. And we do it the way that Charlie did. With compassion. But never compromising on truth. Demanding the best from ourselves, from each other, and from our country. Charlie reminded us that courage requires only a yes. And he said yes every single day. And now it's our turn. It's our turn to say yes, to speak boldly, speak honestly, to fight for our families, to love our country, to honor God, and to wisely use the time that we've been given. And it's to do for the next generation what Charlie did for us. Because this, all of this, right here and right now, is our turning point. We love you, Charlie, and we won't let you down.
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Well done, Justin. You know, for those of us who had the privilege and blessing of knowing Charlie personally, we all know how humble he was. You know, pretty heady stuff for a 31-year-old to be atop of a major organization like Turning Point USA. And look, he lived a good life. 31 years of age, beautiful home, beautiful wife, children. lived kind of a jet-setting lifestyle, but remained extraordinarily humble always and was committed to helping everyone he could. Stacey Sheridan is someone who worked for Turning Point USA and talked about that loving, helpful spirit, that servant's heart that Charlie Kirk possessed.
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In 2022, my husband Mike became sick with cancer. Two years later, that cancer took his life. Throughout those two years, Charlie called me consistently to ask how he could help us. At one point, he had critical medication and an oxygen machine sent to my doorstep without my knowledge. I still to this day have no idea how he made that happen. But that was Charlie. He did the right thing. There was no limit to how far he'd go to help a friend. He wasn't looking for publicity or credit. He did it because that's what a leader does. That's what a friend does. And that's what a Christian is supposed to do. Sometimes I would express guilt to Charlie that I couldn't do my job at 100%. Charlie's response every single time was family first.
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A few months ago, there was an event in Tampa Bay with a bunch of our sponsors and advertisers. And I was at the event, and Andrew Colvette, who is the executive producer of Charlie's show, the Charlie Kirk show, was at that event, at that dinner. In fact, I sat with Andrew. And Andrew stood up and said that it's been repeated a lot that Charlie grew up listening to Rush Limbaugh. But Andrew told the group that Charlie loved talk radio and also grew up listening to Mike Gallagher. That touched my heart so deeply, and I keep thinking about that graciousness of Andrew Colvette, who is absolutely hurting over the loss of his friend. And Andrew did a wonderful job in helping the Salem family navigate through everything this week. And we're praying for Andrew, and of course we're praying for everybody at Turning Point. But Andrew, who's well-known to Charlie Kirk Show audiences, spoke as well on the future of the Charlie Kirk Show.
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We've been worshiping, we've been singing, we've been joyful. Our hearts are grieving, but we do not grieve as the world grieves. Because it says in scripture, oh death, where is your victory? Oh death, where is your sting? Christ has overcome death. And Charlie, we are so grateful for the harvest that your life and legacy is producing all around us. And you can see it. The workers. There's a whole lot more workers than there were before. And so let me leave you with this. For all the fans of the Charlie Kirk show out there, you'll know the line. We will see you Monday. Until then, buckle up. Here we go. Thank you. God bless you.
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Great job, Andrew. And again, thanks for your hospitality this week. Jimmy Kimmel returned to the airwaves this week from what turned out to be a brief indefinite suspension. So did he apologize for lying about Republicans and Charlie Kirk? Don't hold your breath. I just saw Scott Jennings' reaction to Jimmy Kimmel. Scott Jennings, of course, our Salem Radio Network colleague and CNN contributor. I'm sure a lot of people are wondering what Jimmy Kimmel said last night. I can spare, I can break it down in four words. He refused to apologize. He refused to apologize for lying about Charlie Kirk's assassin. He refused to say two little words. I'm sorry. It's all he had to say. And this story becomes a non-story. Instead, he cried and he said, I didn't mean what people think I meant. Well, let me play the clip for you. And then I'll give you Scott Jennings' always succinct response to the crocodile tears non-apology from Jimmy Kimmel last night on ABC TV.
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I've been hearing a lot about what I need to say and do tonight. And the truth is, I don't think what I have to say is going to make much of a difference. If you like me, like me. If you don't, you don't. I have no illusions about changing anyone's mind. But I do want to make something clear because it's important to me as a human. And that is you understand that it was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man. I don't think there's anything funny about it. I posted a message on Instagram of the day he was killed sending love to his family and asking for compassion. And I meant it. I still do. Nor was it my intention to blame any specific group for the actions of what it was obviously a deeply disturbed individual. That was really the opposite of the point I was trying to make. But I understand that to some that felt either ill-timed or unclear or maybe both. And for those who think I did point a finger, I get why you're upset. If the situation was reversed, there's a good chance I'd have felt the same way. I have many friends and family members on the other side who I love and remain close to, even though we don't agree on politics at all. I don't think the murderer who shot Charlie Kirk represents anyone. This was a sick person who believed violence was a solution. And it It isn't. Ever. And also selfishly... I am a person who gets a lot of threats. I get many ugly and scary threats against my life, my wife, my kids, my co-workers because of what I choose to say. And I know those threats don't come from the kind of people on the right who I know and love. So that's what I wanted to say on that subject. But I don't want to make this about me because and I know this is what people say when they make things about them. But I really don't. This show. This show is not important. What is important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this.
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I will tell you that I rarely, if ever, disagree with my friend and colleague, Chris DeGaulle. Chris precedes me on many stations around the country. Chris's take was, well, that's as close to an apology as we're going to get, so I accept what Jimmy Kimmel said. And look, you can accept or reject anything you want. This is, of course, America. I'm just so fascinated by how casual people are about someone's refusal to apologize. There's two little words. And the only reason Jimmy Kimmel didn't utter those two little words is because he didn't want to be accused of bending the knee to Donald Trump. He did lie about Trump. the killer of Charlie Kirk. He did smear more than half of the country by suggesting, by making light of the fact that, in his words, we were all spending the weekend trying to distance ourselves from one of our own who killed Charlie Kirk. And I just have to respectfully say to my friend Chris, don't accept a non-apology. Accept an apology. It's not hard to do. I'm sorry. I had the facts wrong. I jumped to conclusions. Say it. Say I'm sorry. It's not hard. It's not hard. It's not tough. It's not tricky. If you refuse to apologize, and let me read for you the great Scott Jennings' response. His answer to what you just heard from Jimmy Kimmel last night, Scott Jennings wrote, you used the phrase MAGA gang, and then you lied about what happened. You definitely intended to make light of it, and you misled the American people. Pathetic! And that's the perfect, appropriate, spot-on response. Jimmy Kimmel's monologue last night was pathetic. And it was pathetic because he is refusing to apologize. I mean, there's no way he thinks factually he was correct. There's no way factually he thinks he's on solid ground. And in case you don't know, I mean, it's on tape. It's not like we can memory hole what he said. Here's what he said originally that got him in all the hot water with the Sinclair and Nexstar ABC affiliates.
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We had some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.
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Ah, yeah. I didn't... You thought that I was trying to say that it was an ideology that spurred him on? You think I was making... You hear the audience laughing. I wasn't making light of anything. That's pathetic. All he had to do was say, I'm sorry. Let's go back to Arizona to hear from two standout leaders who worked for the president at the White House. Wow. Was Stephen Miller on fire? Here he was yesterday, the White House deputy chief of staff, with passion and fire in his belly, paying tribute to his friend Charlie.
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The light will defeat the dark. We will prevail over the forces of wickedness and evil. They cannot imagine what they have awakened. They cannot conceive of the army that they have arisen in all of us. Because we stand for what is good, what is virtuous, what is noble. And to those trying to incite violence against us, those trying to foment hatred against us, what do you have? You have nothing. You are nothing. You are wickedness. You are jealousy. You are envy. You are hatred. You are nothing. You can build nothing. You can produce nothing. You can create nothing. We are the ones who build. We are the ones who create. We are the ones who lift up humanity. You thought you could kill Charlie Kirk? You have made him immortal. You have immortalized Charlie Kirk. And now millions will carry on his legacy. And we will devote the rest of our lives to finishing the causes for which Charlie gave his last measure of devotion. You cannot defeat us. You cannot slow us. You cannot stop us. You cannot deter us. We will carry Charlie and Erica in our heart every single day and fight that much harder because of what you did to us. You have no idea the dragon you have awakened. You have no idea how determined we will be to save this civilization, to save the West, to save this republic.
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Susie Wiles is the White House Chief of Staff. She is described as the real, the core, the glue that holds the White House together. Tough lady. Daughter of Pat Summerall, the great sportscaster. She doesn't give a lot of speeches, but she did a beautiful job yesterday.
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When the President's 2024 campaign partnered with Turning Point, Charlie did not just promise, he delivered. Charlie and his team embraced the assigned mission completely, and they didn't meet expectations. They shattered them and blew them out of the water. President Trump's victory, winning the popular vote in every swing state, was powered by young people. Most brand new to politics. That was Charlie's army, and he made sure they understood the stakes. They outworked, they out-hustled, and out-performed everyone else. Charlie just didn't help. He made the winning difference. I promise you that.
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What a joy it was to be able to attend the memorial yesterday. Many say the assassination of Charlie sparked a spiritual revival in America. Our friend Mike Lindell from MyPillow believes that's exactly what America needs. We've had callers say that their loved ones have accepted Jesus. Mike, a lot of people are saying that Charlie's assassination is leading to a spiritual revival. Number one, do you believe that too? And number two, do you see it happening as well? Do you think we're experiencing the beginning of a nationwide revival?
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I think this just expanded a thousandfold. We were already in, I believe, this revival. I've said it for the last four years. People don't look to God when things are going good. They usually look to God and Jesus when things are going bad. And that's what's happened over the last four and a half years or five years. And with Charlie's assassination, it is beyond anything I could imagine. I mean, you watch from around the world revivals going on in all these other countries. But then to sit here and watch this event, I'm going to call it an event. It's a revival event. I mean, that's what they mean. Every speaker, the people that have the courage now to use Jesus Christ in there and to speak about him, people that you then think, They didn't even know Jesus, and they were on that stage talking about him. And everybody's not afraid to put their faith out there. Remember what Charlie said, everybody. One of the last things he said when they asked him, what would you like to be remembered if you were killed or died? And he said, die. And he said, well, if I did die, I would like to be remembered for the courage for my faith and to speak out for Jesus. And that's what's happened to me. This is the biggest revival, I believe, in history. It's just, and it's not going to stop. You get, you know, this is so amazing. You could feel it. Almost every speaker, I'm going, well, I wonder if, you know, Don Jr. is going to talk about this. I wonder if, you know, Pozo. I mean, all these different people that spoke, and they're all speaking about Jesus Christ and how, and what Charlie was saying. You know, God uses all things for good, but this one is massive, absolutely massive, that it's awoken everyone. Like I've said it before the last four years, if you're an evangelist, if you're a pastor, if you couldn't get people to the Lord, you know, people are longing to have hope, and that hope is Jesus Christ. And now it just shows out there that, like, hey— You know, it just exploded. And it's going to continue to go on and on and on. And because of people aren't afraid to speak out and use the word Jesus Christ in there, you know, say, hey, this is how I got through. This is how I made it. This is how I got saved. And it's just so awesome. Remember, Mike, I said it before. God's given us grace for such a time as this. God's given us grace. And this is the grace we're getting that everyone can get as many people to the Lord as possible.
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For such a time as this, and as we conclude here, Mike, some breaking news, even as we're visiting with one another. Sinclair, that owns a big group of ABC affiliates, they operate 30 ABC affiliates. They said yesterday they will preempt Jimmy's show tonight. Well, next star. has just announced they will follow suit. Next Star is going to preempt ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live, despite Disney ending the suspension. Next Star has 32 stations, so there's at least 62 stations that will not be carrying the Jimmy Kimmel show, which is going to really... It would be devastating for them as far as a business model. Let me close by a business model that I love because you're a blessing in my life, and my pillow is a blessing to the Mike Gallagher Show audience. And I am so proud to always see how our audience steps up for your company because they've tried. Look, all the big home shopping networks and the big box stores, they've kicked you out. They've deplatformed you. But not our audience. And you brought back the towels. I remember a couple of years ago, you said, Mike, I got tired of towels that don't absorb the water. Well, the MyPillow towels do. They're regularly priced. The six-piece towel set, $69.98 is the regular price, which is a good price. But now, for a limited time, you enter the promo code, MyPillow. $39.98. Two big bath towels, two hand towels, two washcloths, only $39.98 with the promo code MikeG. And Mike, it's about time towels actually work, right? You were tired of towels that weren't absorbing the water.
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Let's have a big day. Let's celebrate MyPillow together. Go to MyPillow.com. Look for that Mike Gallagher special square. Click on the box, and then with anything you order, enter the promo code MikeG. Mike, God bless you. Keep fighting the good fight. Great seeing you, my friend. God bless you, Mike. Thanks for having me on. This is the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast. Let's hear from a trio of White House Cabinet Secretaries, all speaking at the Charlie Kirk Memorial that we attended in Phoenix. I don't know who the Republican nominee is going to be in 2028, but political watchers saw a couple of contenders, J.D. Vance, the current vice president. And Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, speak yesterday. I saw somebody post on social media, after this speech today, Marco Rubio will be the nominee. I don't know. I know it's probably inappropriate to speculate based on speeches yesterday, but there's no question. Marco Rubio soared.
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One of the things he wants us to take away from this, from all of this, is the following. His deep belief... that we were all created, every single one of us, before the beginning of time, by the hands of the God of the universe, an all-powerful God, who loved us and created us for the purpose of living with him in eternity. But then sin entered the world and separated us from our creator. And so God took on the form of a man and came down and lived among us. And he suffered like men. And he died like a man. But on the third day he rose unlike any mortal man. And then, and to prove any doubters wrong, he ate with his disciples so they could see and they touched his wounds. He didn't rise as a ghost or as a spirit, but as flesh. And then he rose to the heaven, but he promised he would return. And he will. And when he returns, because he took on that death, because he carried that cross, we were freed from the sin that separated us from him. And when he returns, there will be a new heaven and a new earth. And we will all be together. And we are going to have a great reunion there again with Charlie and all the people we love. Thank you and God bless you.
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Wow, wow, wow. I know Charlie loved Pete Hegseth, and Pete Hegseth, of course, the former Fox News host and now Secretary of War, clearly loved Charlie.
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Charlie Kirk was a citizen who had the biblical heart of a soldier of the faith, who put on every single day the full armor of God with a smile, as the scriptures tell all Christ followers to do. Charlie Kirk. a warrior for country, a warrior for Christ. He ran the race. He finished the fight. Now it's our turn. My charge to all of you, live worthy of Charlie Kirk's sacrifice and put Christ at the center of your life as he advocated for giving his.
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Sadly, if you're a Kennedy, you know all about assassinations. We know how much tragedy and violence has impacted the Kennedy family. So that's why I think it was very meaningful to listen to the Health and Human Services Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., talk about his friend, Charlie, from his perspective as a Kennedy.
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In one of my first conversations with Charlie in July of 2021, we were talking about the risks that all of us take when we challenge interest, the physical risk. And he asked me if I was scared of dying. And I said to him, there's a lot worse things than death. And one of those things is if we lost our constitutional rights in this country and that our children were raised as slaves. And I said to Charlie, I said, sometimes the best consolation we can hope for is that we get to die with our boots on. Well, Charlie died with his boots on. And he died to make sure that we didn't have to undergo those fates that are worse than death. Oh, let's remember Charlie. He was, for those of us who were friends with Charlie, we don't need any more evidence of the love of God. Because the evidence of friendship is the best evidence that God loves us all. Thank you and God bless you.
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RFK Jr., whose own father was felled by an assassin. We're left with an unavoidable question in the wake of Charlie's assassination and so many other instances of violence over the recent past. Where is it coming from and why is it happening? Throughout September, escalating clashes occurred between protesters and federal agents. You see, what happens when the left doesn't like what's happening, they turn to violence. And they commit acts of violence in a variety of ways. Maybe they'll kill one of the most prominent, successful, influential, young conservative influencers. A fellow that you know of, I'm sure you've heard of. The late Charlie Kirk. Maybe they'll shoot up an ICE facility. If there's an event that leads... to a massive response to a troubled man named George Floyd who died. Buildings are burned. Stores are looted. People are injured. People are killed. The left is desperate. The left is frantic. And frankly, they are becoming increasingly violent. Not really any way around that. 1-800-655-MIKE proved me wrong. Even the Atlantic yesterday, I was shocked. The Atlantic, big banner headline, left-wing violence has now surpassed the right-wing violence in America. Over the last few years, even the Atlantic forced to admit violence. that the political violence is coming from the left. If you consider the love affair that leftists have with monsters like Luigi Mangione, you understand what's happening in this country. When life is marginalized, when assassinations are glorified, When evildoers like Hamas are celebrated, all of this is coming from one side. So what do we do about it? If you're a Democrat, what do you have to say about it? I'm not trying to provoke you. I really would love to have a dialogue with you. In the spirit of Charlie Kirk, let's have a dialogue. When Hillary Clinton, just this morning, goes on MSNBC, just today, and says the following, do you think that doesn't contribute to the climate of violence that we're right now witnessing? Here was Hillary on Morning Joe.
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I view it as very dangerous. It is right out of the authoritarian playbook, Willie. I mean, this is, you know, this is point four of the authoritarian playbook. Silence your opponents. Cripple the media that doesn't give you the slavish attention and agreement that you desire.
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She's talking about that. She's talking, of course, about the Trump administration. She knows that just yesterday, Google executives told House lawmakers. that the Biden administration pressed them, censored, removed, deplatformed people whose content the Biden administration disagreed with. She knows that. She knows full well, just yesterday, that it was revealed and confirmed that the Biden administration absolutely censored people YouTube content and shut down people with their YouTube. Ask Seb Gorka. Ask Mike Lindell. Ask Dinesh D'Souza. Ask Steve Bannon. Ask anybody who got in the Biden administration's crosshairs. What did they do with those folks? They shut them down. They censored them. They deplatformed. This is the biggest story, incidentally, of the week. I could give a rat's rear end about Jimmy Kimmel. I'm so over even talking about Jimmy Kimmel. Some people want to. That's fine. That's all right. I don't want to discourage you. But at the end of the day, I could care less. I care about prominent Democrats who do matter. The governor of California should know better. A failed presidential candidate like Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State, a former U.S. Senator, she should know better. And she does know better. but they don't have the integrity to speak the truth. You can't keep calling your political opponents tyrants and fascists without violence occurring. The visit to Phoenix was certainly a somber one, but we did manage to find a little fun. For example, driverless cars. My boss got a great ride to the airport yesterday morning in Phoenix. When I was leaving the hotel, I ran into Phil Boyce, and he was on his way to the airport. I said, let me get you one of these Waymos. He said, oh my gosh, one of the driverless cars? I said, yeah, let me do it. Phil just followed up. He sent a text to somebody, and he copied me on it. He said, the Waymo ride to the airport was fabulous. I was amazed at how effortlessly that car weaved through the traffic. Just before I got to the airport, on a three-lane road, I noticed another Waymo next to me and another one next to them. Three Waymos going to the airport simultaneously and all avoiding each other. Stunning. It's the future. I know that I talk about this crap too much. I mean, when I get excited about something. But I really am excited about... I mean, I take Uber all the time. Look, there's real consequences to these driverless cars, because all the drivers are going to be out of work. And I know that. I understand that. I'm sensitive to that. But I'm going to tell you, right now in Phoenix, in Las Vegas, I think in Atlanta now, Los Angeles, soon to be New York City, they're going to have these Waymo cars. And it's the most remarkable experience. You have the app. You summon the car. Car pulls up. It's got a big dome on the roof and all these. Here's what was crazy. I got on the plane last night, and there was a Vanity Fair in the seat pocket. I read this. I picked up Vanity Fair. There was a profile of the CEO of Waymo and the future of Waymo, one of these big Silicon Valley startups, you know? And her story is pretty inspirational. It's a female. I forget her name. She's like the co-CEO. But this is the future. This is what's going to happen. And I hate to break it to you. It's one of the smoothest rides, a lot smoother than a physical driver. I mean, I love Uber drivers and cab drivers and people that drive car services for a living. Hate to break it to you. You've been outdone by this technology. And I was reading, it's a lot about the battle between Google and Waymo and Tesla. Because Elon wants to do robo-taxis. Look, there's no comparison to these Waymo cars. And it's because of all of the extra layers of technology. They have radar. They have light sensors. They have darkness things on the sides of it. I mean, it looks almost like a little spaceship. It's a Jaguar. I don't know what the make is. But it is a really, look, I'm still stunned by that whole experience. And I'm intrigued about what the future will look like. And I, look, when Uber came along, like, for example, in New York City, the yellow cab drivers were really hurt by that. And I get that. And I hate it. I hate when the mom and pops get replaced by the big box stores. I hate it when a local talk show host gets replaced by a syndicated host. And I am. I'm aware of that, and I'm sensitive to that. But progress and technology marches on. And if you got in one of those cars, some of it is just the emotional factor. Can I get in the front or the back seat of a car with no driver? I posted on it on X. If you go to my X feed at Gallagher Show, I did a little video, a selfie video when I first got to Phoenix. And I took a Waymo all over town. I had a craving for an In-N-Out burger. No bun. Thanks to PhD weight loss. No bun. And you could still enjoy it. Had it wrapped. Had a lettuce wrap. I had to go to the pharmacy. I got in the Waymo. Took the Waymo to the airport yesterday. Summit it on the app, car pulls up, two, three, four minutes, and it's cheap. That's the best part. Hate to break it to you, Uber, but you got a real run for your money because if it's either $75 to go to the airport or $13 to take a Waymo, I'm taking the Waymo. Finally, let's hear the words of President Trump and Erica Kirk, Charlie's widow from the Charlie Kirk Memorial. What an incredible moment to see the President of the United States walk out to the podium and pay tribute to a young man who many acknowledge is probably the reason Donald Trump was re-elected. If it wasn't for Turning Point USA and Charlie's efforts to mobilize millions of young people all over the country, we'd probably be stuck with President Kamala Harris. Here is the 45th and 47th president yesterday paying tribute to his friend, Charlie Kirk.
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To Charlie's parents who lost their beloved son and to the entire Kirk family, we know that no words could ever be enough to fill the void he leaves behind. That's a void that just can't be filled. But I hope the extraordinary outpouring of emotion over these past 11 days has comforted you with the knowledge that your son brought more good and love into this world in his 31 short years than most people, even very, very successful people, can bring in a lifetime. Charlie Kirk loved America with everything he had. And as we can see so clearly today, America loved Charlie Kirk.
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And finally, finally, the moment that everybody is talking about as we endeavor today to play every single song. Speaker, for you on our coverage, Charlie's grieving widow, who now is going to take over the helm of Turning Point as the CEO. And the crowd gasped when she expressed the Christian tenant of forgiveness for the monster who slaughtered her husband.
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My husband, Charlie... He wanted to save young men just like the one who took his life. That young man. That young man on the cross, our Savior said, Father, forgive them for they not know what they do. That man, that young man, I forgive him.
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That wraps up the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast for Friday, September 26th. Be sure to subscribe to all our podcasts. Follow us on Spotify, Apple, wherever you get your podcasts. And if you like our show, share it with a friend. We'll see you back here next week for the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast.