Join John Rush as he navigates through a maze of current events, from unique weather patterns in Colorado to a staggering plot to disrupt New York City's cell network. In this episode, we delve into the intricacies of everyday life wisdom mixed with large-scale technological threats. Discover how these disparate elements shape our understanding of security and community in today's world.
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All right. Happy Tuesday. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. A little rainy today, but, you know, we need that from time to time. So we'll take it, and it'll be a nice weekend coming up. So it is a little weird, though, when it rains like this, because we're not used to this.
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We are not. This is Colorado.
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Especially all day. We're not used to this.
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This feels so Midwestern. Okay, back in Wisconsin, when it rains, it doesn't come in little pockets across the urban area like we have here, right? It would be a pocket here and there, sweeping across. No, it's just a blanket over the state.
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Like today.
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This is Wisconsin rain.
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Weird. Yeah, we're not used to this.
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No, we are not.
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which, luckily, it'll be out of here by tonight, be a nice day tomorrow. All right, a possible question yesterday. Each king in a deck of cards represents a king from history. Who does the spades card represent? King David is the answer. Today's impossible question, on 18th of January, 2006, Star Trek actor William Shatner sold a kidney stone that he had passed that previous year to an online casino, goldenpalace.com. How much did he sell it for? That is the question. Charlie, do you know this answer? No, Charlie does not.
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No clue, no clue.
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Sorry. In fact, I don't need to know, to be honest with you.
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Right.
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This is that need-to-know basis. I don't need to know. All right. In other news today, most of you probably already saw this before we get into the real meat of the show today, but the Secret Service has foiled a massive plot. that would have crippled the New York City cell network and threatened the U.N. General Assembly. They found, I want to say, a boatload. I don't have the exact numbers in front of me, sorry. But they found a boatload, like 300-plus people. 100,000 SIM card, 300 co-located SIM servers. Basically, they were going to try to spam with text messages and overload the entire cell network at one time, send all those out at one time, overloading the network, meaning you wouldn't have had any cell service, data service, anything along those lines. It would have literally crippled that whole area by doing that.
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How do you track that down? How do you stop something like that?
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That is a great question. There's pictures of them finding these racks of all the different devices and things. Yeah, this is not a small, Charlie said millions of dollars of stuff. It is. This is not a small operation to perform this, by the way. Highly technical.
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I mean, is this one of those things that is put together, shall we say, online between friends and they're putting it together and someone gets caught because they're connected to someone who's connected to someone? Most likely. I don't know how you unearth this.
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Most likely either that dark web stuff where a lot of people are there reading and they're all wanting to be, you know, involved and so on. Or this is, you know, a massive, you know, terrorist type organization that has put all of this stuff together, something along those lines. And I don't know that we'll know that for probably a few days until they, you know, release more information. But they did they did find it and they basically unearthed it and shut it down. So it won't happen now.
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Yeah, Dan Bongino basically says you can get it quick or get it right. We're going to get it right. So we probably won't hear for a few days, and I'm fine with that. I'm just glad they stopped it.
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That's great. I am too, and I'm with you, Andy. I'd rather know for sure exactly what went on, who was behind it, and so on, than to have a bunch of conspiracy nuts running around claiming what it is and so on. They were planning on—this just gives you the idea of the size, the scope of this— They were going to, the plan was to send up to 30 million text messages in a minute. 30 million. That would have been catastrophic for the cell network there. Oh, yeah. 30 million. That's a ton, Andy. That's incredible. I mean, yeah, that is a boatload. And they're trying to figure out, you know, one of the things that's in this particular article from the New York Post is was there any ties to another foreign government? You know, is somebody like Iran behind this?
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Well, John, think of it this way. If you send those out like that way and cripple everything, what are you able to do while everything is crippled?
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Think about emergency services and all sorts of other things that are impacted when something like that is going on.
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What about theft? I mean, it could be as simple as theft. It could be as horrible as terrorism. It could be something totally different. It could just be crazy kids who hate everybody and want them to suffer. I have no idea.
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Yeah, there's all sorts of, for those of you maybe that don't know, a lot of you would think, well, it's not going to change anything as far as all that goes. Well, yeah, it could because there is a lot of things now that are run via cell providers versus hardwired in. Everything from credit card processing machines to the way that parking lots operate, the opening and closing of gates and how those transactions are completed. And, and, and we go. I mean, there's all sorts of things. Most people have no concept, Andy, of how many things are run now over the cell network versus hardwired in like they were at one time. It's changed immensely over the years.
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Yeah, I mean, you're basically, to a large extent, shutting down society.
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You're basically, in that case, shutting the city down by doing that.
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That's exactly right. And if you want to shut down the city, are you just a terrible person who wants people in pain, or do you have some motives, some things you want to do? I wonder if they're going to track that down next.
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Well, what they're looking at as far as foreign entities are concerned is because it was involving a timing of the UN meetings at that same time, was this some foreign entity that was involved with this and so on, and who knows.
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Who knows?
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We don't know any of that. So, again, we'll know more of this. As Andy said a moment ago, it's better to be slow and accurate than it is to be speedy and inaccurate. But you can go online and look at some of the pictures that are out there on some of the things these guys were doing. And as Charlie said, you know, this is not a, you know, let's just say this. This isn't a teenage science project where these, you know, bunch of kids got together and Hey, let's go do this. No, there's far more investment in the technology. Again, for some of you that maybe don't know, as I'm looking at some of these pictures, these particular devices that they were going to use, these weren't cell phones. These are actually, how do I call them? If anybody knows what cradle points and things like that are, these are mobile hotspot devices, only much more powerful than what you would have in the little pocket-sized ones you would normally use. And there's an array of these all put together.
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Okay, so you're saying that these weren't techies in a basement. We're talking about real money that was behind this.
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Correct. One of these devices I'm looking at right now, Andy, was probably – I'd have to go out and look for sure to figure out exactly what these would cost. But I'll bet you each one of these devices in this picture, I'm seeing racks of them. I'll bet you each one of these devices, even on the wholesale end of things, is a couple of grand a pop.
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Wow.
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At least. I mean, a regular solid cradle point single SIM unit that just allows a few, probably up to 10 items to connect at once, 10 phones to connect at once. That one item, I have one I do my radio shows remotely off of. So just for an example, that's what I use when I'm out and about trying to come back to the station. That device alone is $350. That's a single antenna, one device.
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Okay, trying to be more innocent here. Could it be as simple as trying to humiliate us in the midst of the UN? Could be. I mean, I would think that you want to do more than that. There's a lot of money to humiliate. Yeah, I mean, look, if it's me and I'm an evil person, because whoever did this is evil.
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Correct.
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In whatever level they're evil.
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You're right, Andy.
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If I'm an evil person and I go through what it takes to do this, I'm doing it to commit great evil, be it theft or harm.
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Theft, harm, other nefarious things that you would be involved in. I mean, who knows, Andy? I mean, at the end of the day, this could have involved everything from kidnapping, assassinations. I mean, folks, I don't think I'm being outlandish when I say those sorts of things.
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Well, because we don't know. The sky's the limit. That's right.
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You cripple this much of a city at any given time, and the sky's the limit as to what you could do, Andy. Right. I mean, it's almost like having the front door, you know, keys to the front door of the bank. Just go in and empty out.
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Could it have preempted the Jimmy Kimmel show? It might have.
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All right, we are back. And somebody just asked me a question. I actually asked Dr. Kelly last Thursday, are cancer cells considered a parasite? I asked that last Thursday, and no, they are not considered a parasite. Please text me back and let me know that you heard me say that. But no, they are not considered a parasite. Parasites can attack cells and different things in our bodies externally. Cancer is internal to the cell is the way Dr. Kelly explained it. So no, they are not considered a parasite. a parasite it's really really quick back to that whole story on what the secret service found which by the way this proves a lot of what charlie and i and andy talk about on a pretty routine basis which is andy asked the question during the break you know how in the world would they even find what's going on here and my number one answer back is something charlie always reminds me of people talk
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Must have.
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That's typically the way these sorts of things get found out is, you know, people talk, people chatter, you know, different, you know, loose lips sink ships, the old saying. You know, they brag. I mean, they're braggers and all of that. And so they want to, you know, well, we're going to do this. We're going to do that. And man, if you only knew how much stuff we had set up, you have no idea what's coming. Those sort of things start to happen, Andy, because these guys, especially people that are probably not real. How do I want to say this? People that don't have a lot of self-esteem. I've learned through the years they like to brag a lot because it's their way of kind of producing their own self-esteem is by bragging and doing those. And unfortunately, in the IT world, a lot of those folks, and I'm not bashing anybody, but a lot of them don't have a lot of self-esteem, Andy. It just goes with the territory.
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No, and they want people to know that they are part of something. Correct. Something's coming. Something's coming. Correct. But, I mean, how stupid do you have to be? Let's take a step back. Okay, I agree with everything you just said, but, John, even so – You are in a small ring of people, obviously, and apparently you're highly financed by someone.
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Somebody.
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Okay. And that's somebody, whoever, let's say, I'm going to say George Soros. Obviously, I have no idea, but he's a big money guy who does bad things.
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Some millionaire, billionaire guy, or even some country with lots of money.
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But I just want to say Soros so I can use a name. Okay? And so Soros, he's paying you guys to do this. Obviously, he's also paying you for your silence.
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To be quiet.
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Yes. To shut up until it is done. Well, but this goes back to what Charlie and I and you... No, I don't think it was Soros. But you know what I'm saying? Whoever's the money behind this is thinking... Loose lips sink ships. You had better shut up until it comes. I would be terrified.
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Well, and you bring up a great point, which for all of you conspiracy guys that are out there. Please, listen. Everything Andy just said, he's spot on, by the way. And the reality is, though, even with all of that, even with the expectation of privacy and you can't say anything, this thing will go defunct if anybody speaks and so on and so forth. This thing will get thwarted if you guys do. The reality is, they still do. My point is, a lot of the other things that I dismantle on a regular basis... If they were really true, people talk. You would know that those things aren't real or that there's something else going on or whatever the case might be. You'd know because people talk. That's why so many conspiracy theories, by the way, are just not factual because if they were, there would be insiders talking about those very things because this is proof that people talk, Andy. Right.
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That's why I'm always concerned when people, there are so many conspiracy theorists on the right, and there are more of them on the right than the left right now. There are.
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There are.
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And I have no idea why, because we used to be the smart side.
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Well, we were going to talk about that today.
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Well, we'll talk about it later.
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Yes, we will.
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Yeah, but the big thing is, John, when you throw around these conspiracies, they never have any evidence. And, you know, for instance, let's say that they say that this guy was sleeping around with a bunch of people. Oh, okay. Well, you can say that.
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How do you prove it?
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Well, but here's the thing. If this guy is a serial philanderer, a serial whatever, right? Do you have any texts, any emails, any love notes, any hotel reservations, any surveillance? Do you understand everywhere we go today, we are tracked? Correct. Okay, phone logs, anything. Do you have anything? This is why I was concerned when people were throwing around the Epstein stuff too loosely. It's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, lots of bad stuff. But you're acting like I know this happened and that happened and this happened. And I'm saying you have all the things I just listed. They had none of that for any of those people. And I'm just like, you're rushing here. You're rushing because of what you said earlier. They basically want to be somebody who is noticed for coming out with knowing something. And it's like, guys, you got no evidence. And like you said, people talk. If this person, oh, oh, oh, what about the one, we have this Republican, I forget his name, Weinberg. Up here in Northern Colorado. Right, right, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you had a number of people who were coming out and saying, we know that he did this at this event. Okay. And his wife is saying, I was there the entire time with him. He didn't do any of this.
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Great example.
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But they came back and said, oh, yes, and he did with this girl, this girl, this girl. Okay. I just listed out like six different pieces of evidence that you can get. Are you saying that he left no trail with any of those with any of them?
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And as you know, Andy.
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And he didn't.
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In that particular case, typically people that act like that don't do it just one or two times. No. It's a pattern that they probably do continually, meaning everybody would know the guy is a creep. There would be no question about it. Right. That's typically the way those things work.
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Yeah, and so I just want to caution people, don't be so quick to pull that trigger, okay, on those conspiracies.
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Thank you, Andy, because I agree with you, and that goes on so many different levels, you know, depending upon the situation. Oh, that was a, you know, undercover thing from the CIA, that, you know, that was this, that was that, there were two shooters, there were three shooters, the bullet didn't come from here, it came from there. I mean, I can do that on almost any case andy that we start talking about because the conspiracy theorists start running around and i said this yesterday on air everybody becomes a gun and ballistics expert when in fact they've never fired one right but all of a sudden they're an expert on it it cracks me up it's like time out you you have no you have in most cases you have no idea what you're talking about you see i come out and boldly claim i am not a gun and ballistics expert expert i'm not well and what i won't try to be what i said yesterday was i'm not i talk to people who are Well, and I said this, I'm not either, but I've been around them enough and I have some basic understanding of how certain things work, how certain shots are made, how certain bullets work, how certain things work trajectory wise and so on. I mean, I have some basic understanding from being around them my entire life and shooting the majority of my, you know, not even adult life. I started shooting when I was probably six or seven years of age. So I have some basic understanding of how certain things work. Even with all of that, Andy, I would be the first to tell you I'm not an expert. No. I'm not. But yet those that aren't all of a sudden come out of the woodwork and claim to be at the 11th hour.
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You know, one thing that's really changed for me, John, and when I was first becoming a Republican, all right, and first I became a Christian, and then I became a Republican really at Colorado Christian University because I was hearing all the leftist profs. Back then it was left-wing there, okay? And they literally drove me to the right because I was listening to this saying, wait a minute.
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That's not right.
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Those are my lines from me coming up on the left. This is garbage. And before you know it, I'm a Republican. Well, back then, Republicans were so smart. They were so slow to buy into any of the kook stuff. I do not know my Republican Party today. I love MAGA. I love traditional Republicans. I love the whole span of Republicans. I love the libertarian edge because I'm very libertarian in a lot of my views. But I got to tell you something. A lot of them are nuts.
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I know.
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And I mean, a much higher percentage than I ever thought. Do you recognize the Republican Party now versus 20 years ago?
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No, it's way different.
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Yeah.
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It's way different.
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What happened?
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Well, we're going to talk about that throughout the show, throughout this next half hour or so, because that was something Andy and I even talked about last week. And so I'm going to throw it in the notes for Tuesday. It's a really, really great question. And let me give you really quick one example before Andy and I come back. And this is not a bash. This is just simply educationally speaking. We've got our morning host, Kim, and I love Kim Munson dearly, and she interviews a gal on there who is a quote-unquote car expert. Laura is her name. And I like Laura to an extent, although my problem with Laura is she's really not a car person. She's kind of a car journalist, but she hasn't grown up in the industry and been a real car person like I consider myself to be. Now, that's an area where, yes, I consider myself an expert. Well, sure. When it comes to the car end of things, yeah. I'm an expert, probably as much of an expert as most people out there on any platform are when it comes to knowing the history of, you know, working on them throughout all of these years, running different businesses involved, still coaching in that world and so on. And, of course, having the radio show for the past, you know, 27 years or so, Andy, along those lines. And where I'm going with this is, and I love Laura. But she's way off on the whole EV thing. She's coming at it completely anti-EV because I get it. Government tried to shove those things down people's throats. The left was heavy in that. And I understand politically speaking where she's coming from.
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Really quick here. Let me jump in. But you don't form your views off the emotional response to what government forced on you.
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No, you do not. You still have to look at it for what it is. Right. It's a product. And that's what I've done. And that's why I've owned one since 2020. And for example, one of the things that people like Laura will always bring up when it comes to owning an EV is having to wait to charge it and the cost of charging and so on. And again, because she's not ever owned one, she doesn't really grasp how that works. The majority of people, mainly, by the way, Tesla owners... you'll see a lot of Tesla owners go to fast charge stations and charge up because I believe a lot of Tesla owners don't have the ability at home to do so. They're a different group of individuals, by the way, that have bought cars. So you almost have to take them out as an outlier because Tesla owners, for the most part, are not typical car owners. And I mean that with utter sincerity. If you own one... Great. Love you. But typically Tesla owners are not typical car owners and buyers. They even bought the car differently than what you typically do when you go to buy a car. Okay. Because it's all done online. So they're their own breed. By and large, most people that own EVs. Never go to a charge station. They have one at home. They plug in when they get home. Right. They've got their charger even set if they've got time of use like I have. They even set their charger to where it charges when your rates for electricity are the cheapest they are. And at the end of the day, you're not running around looking for any place to charge because it's not necessary. You have plenty of range on what you're doing. And if you charge every night, you start off with a full battery the next day. The reality is you're never roaming around looking for charge stations, doing some of the things that, in this case, Laura would accuse people of doing that own EVs. Can I ask a quick question? Yes.
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If you fully charge your battery every night, does that make it to where it wears down worse?
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No, the car itself. Great question. Good question, Andy. All the cars have the ability to set where you want that battery level to be charged to. In the case of the ones I run, I only go to 80%. Still gives you plenty of range. That 20% headroom means the battery life stays really long. Okay. Because you're not charging it to the max every single time you charge. You're setting it that 80% mark. All of the cars have the ability on their internal computers to tell the charging station itself, this is how far I want the battery charged once it gets here, stop. And they communicate, by the way, back and forth. The car communicates. It communicates with the charge station back and forth so it knows when it's at 80%. The car will say, all right, I'm done. Stop charging. Even if it's plugged in, I'm done. Stop charging. The particular charge unit that I use even tells me in an app with a notification I'm either charging or I'm done. And I know from looking where things are at. Point being. When you don't own one and you've never been through the process that I've been through, while she is technically correct in the way she's explaining things, it's not real life in the way she's explaining things. She's really going off of what she's been told and what she's encountered from others and the talking points that our side typically has when it comes to EVs. All that stuff gets regurgitated over and over again. And the problem, Andy, is it's not wholly accurate.
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Yeah, what I don't understand is this, John, because, look, we have a lot of negative, and I have negative emotions about EVs because I was forced to pay for them. I do too. Okay, with my tax dollars, I was forced to pay for other people's products.
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Absolutely. Just like I have utter disdain for public schools because it's the same situation.
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Exactly. And so I look at that, and I understand that emotion, but then my response to the emotion is very simple. Don't make me pay for it. It's not, I hate the product. Exactly. It's not, you know, I don't suddenly hate the whole concept of education. I don't like public education that my tax dollars have to pay for, you know, when other people are going to use it to mold young minds in their political views.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, and on top of that, the unions have become so strong that politically speaking, you and I are now paying in our tax dollars for kids to be brainwashed.
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Why are my tax dollars going to something that's union run?
SPEAKER 15 :
Right, and it's against everything I believe in. Exactly. Yep, absolutely, Andy. Okay. Fully agree.
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Anyway, to finish with the cars, my only problem with the cars is don't make me pay for it, but take them off the market, hate them, come down on them, buy every conspiracy theory in the world about them. Oh, come on. It's a product.
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Right, and my point is this. There's a lot of well-meaning people on our side that buy into different things that are going on that are maybe a little bit true but aren't totally true. And then, Andy, it just drives a lot of that negativity that then really at the end of the day, because anybody that owns one of these starts to realize what these guys are talking about isn't the way it works for me. My point is you lose credibility when you start going down those paths, which I don't ever want to do. Right. So we'll come back. We've got more to talk about. Andy and I do. Veteran Windows and Doors is next. If you want to cut to the chase and buy Windows and Doors directly, that's what you do with Dave from Veteran Windows and Doors. He cuts out the middleman. Talk to him today. Just go to klzradio.com.
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The best export we have is common sense. You're listening to Rush to Reason.
SPEAKER 15 :
All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush. Rand, you are actually our first caller today. Go for it, Rand.
SPEAKER 16 :
My question is, I've refrained from buying an EV for these points that I'm going to ask you about. Okay. If you take the cost of the EV versus a comparable gas-powered car in terms of build quality, features, luxury features, you spend more on an EV to get a comparable gas car. Would you agree?
SPEAKER 15 :
That's a tough one because when it comes to the EVs, they've made them in a lot of ways, Rand, a step above luxury-wise. Now, there's exceptions to that like the Nissan Leafs and some of the lower-end EVs, which in that case, you can really compare apples to apples when it comes to price, so that one doesn't count. But when you take... You know, some of the higher-end EVs, for example. No, the typical EV will have more luxury, more technology, by the way, inside of it than its gas engine counterpart will.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay, but I've heard the build quality on Teslas is not up to par with...
SPEAKER 15 :
And that's one brand where taking Tesla as is, I would agree with you, and I've said that many times as a car person. I think Tesla, they've gotten better over the years, but their fit, finish, and a lot of their quality, I talked about this this last Saturday on Drive Radio, their interior noise decibel level and so on, it is not as good as a lot of the other manufacturers are when it comes to ice engine vehicles and so on. It's getting better, but take Tesla out of it, The other manufacturers that do EVs are doing a great job on the fit, finish, and quality of.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay, John, really quick here. Let me intrude. You're buying an EV. Which one do you get?
SPEAKER 15 :
Which one do I buy? That's like asking what vehicle do you buy when it comes to even a gas or diesel-engined vehicle because there's so many choices now. What are you using the car for?
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay, medium income, driving around the metro area.
SPEAKER 15 :
if I was going to buy a straight EV, I would look at either a Chevy Equinox, which I own one of. It's a fantastic car, great build, works fabulous, quiet inside. And frankly, and I said this yesterday on air, some of your Kia EVs, by the way, your entry-level, I really shouldn't call them entry-levels, but your smaller SUV-type EVs on the Kia side, you can't go wrong on. Go ahead, Ram.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay. Now, the other question is in terms of resale value, How do EVs depreciate in comparison to gas-powered vehicles?
SPEAKER 15 :
That's a great question, and they're taking a lot of hits on that because they will look like they're depreciating much faster than a gas-engine car. The problem is when they do the depreciation on them, Rand, they are looking at a regular list price. Most people aren't paying list price. They will be now because the tax credits are going away. But at one time, when you took the tax credits in Colorado, for example, at $11,500 off of the list price of the car, and then maybe that car depreciated another $5,000 to $8,000, they're looking at that car as depreciating $20-some thousand dollars, when in reality it's not because the people didn't pay full price for the car. They bought the car much less than that. So when you look at it on paper minus the credits, they look like they're depreciating much faster when in reality they're probably comparable to an ICE engine vehicle. It'll be interesting, though, in that world to see exactly how do they depreciate once people start paying full price for them and the tax credits go away.
SPEAKER 06 :
If people are going to get one, though, would you recommend get one now?
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, you've got until Monday or Tuesday to buy one with tax credits. At that point in time, everything runs out. So if you're going to buy one, yeah, buy one then. And I will say this, Rand, I don't think most people buying EVs are necessarily looking at the resale end of it. They're looking at that car, probably buying it. And, frankly, this is one of those examples of where a lease might make a lot of sense to people because then you just walk away from the car at the end, turn it in, and walk away to the next car if you want to. I'm not typically a leasing guy, but in this particular case with EVs, it might make more sense for certain individuals. But at the end of the day, that is a factor, Rand. But, by the way, it's a factor with all cars, including luxury cars. You go buy a high-end Audi, by the way, and you look at the depreciation on an Audi in a year or two, it's as bad as anything else out there.
SPEAKER 16 :
It's worse.
SPEAKER 15 :
It's worse. There you go. Thank you.
SPEAKER 16 :
What is the cost, average cost, would you say, of the installation and the... equipment to put a charger in your garage?
SPEAKER 15 :
Great question. And that one comes down to you, your home, how it's been wired, your existing infrastructure that you have now. In other words, your panel that you have. Can you add another 30 to 50 amp breaker? All of that comes into play. That's a question that, frankly, no one out there, myself included, can give you a direct answer on because there's a lot of depends in that answer.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay, but average price, would you say, just a rough average?
SPEAKER 15 :
I think most people will consider about $2,500 or so being average by the time you buy the charger and install it. But I've seen some of them ran that are $5,000. I've seen some that are $1,000. It just depends on what you have.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay, I got it.
SPEAKER 15 :
They do. They do. They wear out faster because the weight of an EV is much heavier than that of its internal combustion engine counterpart. So because of that extra weight and the fact that it does regenerative braking, your tires will wear out faster on the EV. Now, with all that being said, you're virtually, for the first 60,000 to 70,000 miles on that car, doing no other maintenance to speak of. You're not doing any oil changes. You're not going to do brakes at all because of the regenerative braking. You're really not spending any money on maintenance, Rand, other than tires.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay. Now, I've also heard that it's...
SPEAKER 15 :
costs more when you do need a repair on an eevee it's more costly than a gas powered car and that one again that's another depends answer it really depends on what goes wrong uh battery life contrary to what a lot of folks on our side of the aisle will say doesn't happen very often the batteries are good to 200 000 miles plus you can have depending upon the vehicle You know, suspension issues down the road, just like any other vehicle would have. I mean, they have ball joints and control arms and springs and shocks and so on, just like any other vehicle has. Replacing those, though, Rand, is no more expensive than any other vehicle that's out there. Where it might get a little bit more expensive is if there is a real issue, the diagnosis of might end up, and I say might, might end up being more than its gas counterpart, although... depending upon what happens on some of your gas engine vehicles. You've heard me talk about this on drive radio plenty of times. That can get expensive as well. It just depends on what the repair is.
SPEAKER 16 :
Of course. Okay. What other factor? I've heard that it's hard. If you're an accident in a Tesla, it's extremely hard to get it repaired in a timely manner. as opposed to a Toyota or a Honda?
SPEAKER 15 :
Great question. No, that's a good question as well. This one also comes down to the type of vehicle, whether it's a Tesla, a Porsche, an Audi, a Buick, a Chevrolet, a Ford, a Toyota. Again, all this comes down to how new is the vehicle. How long has the parts suppliers been able to make up and actually find the actual parts that are going to be needed most? In other words, which vehicles are involved in the most accidents? Because, as you know, there's actuaries for that, and the manufacturer will stock up parts according to what they see need for as far as the part demand is concerned. And by the way, Rand, what you're talking about can happen on any new vehicle, not just a EV. In other words, how readily available are those parts that have been damaged? How quickly can the collision center get it in and back out? And off we go. A lot of it comes down to the parts availability, but that can happen on virtually any vehicle, not just an EV.
SPEAKER 16 :
But I heard it was a pretty big problem with Teslas in general.
SPEAKER 15 :
I think Teslas in general. Personally, me, and this is me, and I'm not trying to bash them by any means. I'm not trying to bash Tesla. I wouldn't own one for a lot of the reasons. I wouldn't own one just because of how loud the interior noise is and how rough riding they are, Rand.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay. So with all that in mind, would you suggest an EV or a hybrid car?
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, and this comes down to what do you do mostly with the vehicle? And what I mean by that is if you're never going to leave our area, and all you're doing is driving to and from work, and you're never going to go anywhere outside of the city, which, by the way, that's the majority of people listening. And a lot of people think, who in the world would ever do that? Most of you listening, by the way. Rarely, Rand, do people take road trips anymore. Andy's an anomaly. He'll go on a road trip a couple times a year. I'm weird. I like them. I haven't been on a road trip in a decade, Rand. I mean, if I'm going to any place, I'm getting on an airplane. I'm not driving anywhere because I drive enough already during the week, so I'm not driving anywhere. But everybody's a little bit different, so it really comes down to, are you really going to go anywhere outside of the city with the vehicle? And if so, do you have a backup vehicle that you would take anyways? If that's the case, then buy an EV because your cost of ownership on a per-mile basis will be cheaper than anything else out there, despite what all of our conservative right side of the fence will tell you.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay. The other question is, I've heard that with EVs, the mileage per charge goes way down if you have two passengers in the car, if you run the air conditioner or the heater.
SPEAKER 15 :
I haven't seen that be an issue one way or the other. And, again, I've owned them since 2020. My cost to charge the vehicle up and run it, my wife, for example, in the Equinox, I don't think ran that vehicle costs us $50 a month to run. There's no way I could do that with gasoline.
SPEAKER 16 :
What kind of mileage are you putting on it?
SPEAKER 15 :
Oh, she'll run about 1,000 miles a month or so.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 15 :
Just for example, so I traded off my 6.2 Chevy, which they've got some issues with, with some recalls and so on. So I traded that off not long ago, about six weeks ago, and I got the new Silverado EV Trail Boss. It's the max range, so it'll do up to 400 miles on a charge. And even with that large battery capacity, it's the largest in the marketplace right now, Rand, that battery, if it's completely empty and I had to charge it up, It would cost me $25 to charge it up. I couldn't fill the old truck up for the same mileage range. Actually, it didn't even have quite that much range, but I couldn't have filled the old truck up for $25. Got it. Okay.
SPEAKER 16 :
Do you recommend, in particular, any hybrid?
SPEAKER 15 :
If you're going to buy a hybrid, go buy a Toyota.
SPEAKER 16 :
Toyota? What about the Hondas?
SPEAKER 15 :
Honda's got a good hybrid as well, but the advantage Toyota has, they've been doing it the longest, period, of anybody. They just have the technology down like no one else has.
SPEAKER 16 :
OK, well, you've answered a lot of my questions.
SPEAKER 15 :
And again, as you can tell from me, I look at it from the vehicle perspective. And what does that do for you? Not the political perspective, which so many people enter into. And I wish they didn't.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay, all right. Well, thank you for all your help.
SPEAKER 15 :
You're very welcome, Rand. I appreciate it. A lot of great questions, by the way, and that's probably a segment. I'll try my best to get Ann to cut that segment out. Andy inserted a lot of great questions. That was a good segment that goes along the lines of not bringing your political bias into the answers themselves, which I don't think I did there, Andy. No, just talk about the product. There you go. So I'll try my best to get Ann to cut that out. Up next, Golden Eagle Financial. Speaking of money, talk to Golden Eagle Financial today. Al Smith, find him at klzradio.com.
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SPEAKER 14 :
Now back to Rush to Reason on KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 15 :
All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. You might play what I did with Rand there on Saturday for Drive Radio because he asked a ton of questions. Although, Andy, you had a couple of questions that you wanted to add to what Rand asked that we might as well go ahead and finish up on.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay, just minor stuff. I don't have any major concerns about electric cars, never have. But one is we're coming into winter. Okay, first of all, of course, they're not going to run as far on a charge in the winter.
SPEAKER 15 :
Their capacity has cut back some, yes.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, I don't think that's a big deal. Most people just use them around the urban area, so it's not a big deal. But I'm just throwing that out. And secondly, what if you get caught in a snowstorm? And I mean really caught. I wouldn't want to be caught in a place where you are going to have to spend hours using the heater on that charge, and then you still need that charge to get home. That, to me, would be a bit of a concern, just determining where would I go. In other words, in the middle of winter, I'm not taking that thing even very far up the mountains, probably.
SPEAKER 15 :
That's a great question. And again, what you'd want to do, of course, is have the vehicle charged up all the way, knowing that you're full charge. And my wife runs to Breckenridge and back with ours in the wintertime, has never had an issue, one, whether you're in traffic or not. The one thing to remember is when you're in traffic and you're just sitting there. you're using very little power on all of the systems in the EV itself because you're not moving. Just running the heater, for example, running some of those sorts of things, the lights, the wipers, and so on, it's not using hardly any energy. In fact, all of those are being run off the 12-volt battery. that the EV batteries, the DC EV batteries, are being converted to energy to actually charge the 12-volt battery. So there's very little consumption of the large DC battery that's in the vehicle itself at that point. So there's not – there's – Very little draw if you would, you know, kilowatt-wise. Most of the cars, by the way, all the EVs will tell you. If you're just sitting still, it will tell you exactly how much am I drawing. For example, in mine, when you're running in the heat, so same thing. You're in the heat. You're running the AC. You've got all that going on. Most of the EVs I've driven will draw about one kilowatt an hour sitting there.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 15 :
That's it. And keep in mind, most of the batteries are going to be 100 kilowatt total. So think about how long you could sit there if you had a decent charge. You wouldn't want to leave empty. By the way, you're not going to want to do that anyways. You're going to want to leave with a full battery. If you do, the likelihood of you being stranded is pretty slim.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 15 :
Pretty slim. But that's a great question, Andy. And Charlie, did you have one more question along those lines, too? Did I get all that answered? Oh, the other thing Charlie said was, how do they do in the snow themselves, which was a great question. So for those of you that are listening, this, again, comes down to what tires does it have on it? Did you buy a single motor, which is typically front-wheel drive, or did you buy a dual-motor EV, which means they're all-wheel drive? I'll tell you right now, with the right tires in the right mode setting, which each car has the snow mode setting, if you've got the right tires, the right mode setting, and the weight of that vehicle, you can go anywhere you want to.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, yeah, it's very heavy. It's pushing down heavily on the tires.
SPEAKER 15 :
Correct. The heavier the vehicle, the better it's going to do in the snow because you've got more pressure there to actually do that.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, and does it make a big difference to have that weight evenly distributed?
SPEAKER 15 :
Which it pretty much is because that battery is sitting underneath all the floorboards, meaning it's going all the way across front to back. Okay. To your point, meaning you don't, like a truck where you put sandbags in the back because even though it's a heavier vehicle, the back end isn't. And you'll fish tail. No, you're not doing that on an EV because that platform, to your point, is distributed out evenly front to back, meaning you've got distributed weight very well.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, and on top of that, you have very smooth power.
SPEAKER 15 :
Correct. Now, last but not least, I'm glad Andy just mentioned that. Because herky-jerky power, what does that do? That slips. That's right. So Andy just mentioned something great, which I'm glad he did. The biggest, for me personally, the biggest reason in owning an EV is the performance side.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, obviously.
SPEAKER 15 :
For those of you that have never driven one. It's a rocket. Yeah, don't knock it till you try it. Because the problem is, and Richard and I have even talked about this, my wife and I have even talked about this. When you drive an EV for any kind of length of time at all, and then you go get back in a regular gasoline-powered vehicle, it's like, holy cow. Where'd all my power go? Because even pulling out into traffic is a completely different experience from a gasoline diesel powered engine than it is an EV because that power is instantaneous. Even on some of the lower end EVs that don't have, you know, they're not a performance vehicle or anything along those lines. The zero to 40 time on any of those EVs. is like second to none. There's very few vehicles, unless you're in a really high-performance vehicle, you know, Corvette, Lamborghini, Ferrari, something like that, you're typically, even your 0 to 40 time, Andy, won't be as great as it is in some of those, you know, $25,000 EVs, and I'm not exaggerating when I say that. That's how quick they actually are.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, it's instant transference of power.
SPEAKER 15 :
And, last but not least, at our elevation, everybody forgets this as well, at our elevation, you can take a performance car that makes, you know, 500 horsepower. Unless it's supercharged or turbocharged and you're adding air, a naturally aspirated engine, as you go up in elevation and there's less air, performs more poorly because you don't... An engine's a big air pump. Less air, less fuel, less power. That doesn't happen on an EV. The way an EV performs at sea level or at... 11,000 feet is exactly the same. They do not change from what's at sea level to where we are right now, which all of you driving don't realize. But if you took your existing vehicle and even drove to Kansas, where you're lower in elevation by probably 3,000 feet, you'll notice a power difference even going to Kansas versus where we are.
SPEAKER 06 :
Of course.
SPEAKER 15 :
In Denver, and as you go up the hill, it even gets less and less and less powerful. That is the other advantage that an EV has is it is a flat line no matter what elevation you're at as far as the power is concerned.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, yeah. Why wouldn't it be?
SPEAKER 15 :
Now, last but not least. My wife doesn't use this feature, but I do. So does Richard. I love it. In fact, to me, it's the best part about driving an EV. We call it one pedal driving, meaning when you let off the gas, the regenerative brake, let off the accelerator pedal, I should say. It's not gas, but you let off the pedal. There's regenerative braking, meaning that if you learn how to use the pedal correctly, you rarely, if ever, hit the brake pedal. You let the vehicle do its slowing down and speeding up. That's the one advantage an electric car has is you rarely ever push on the brake pedal because if you drive correctly with the accelerator pedal, you never have to push the brake because the vehicle slows down automatically as you literally come all the way up to a stoplight, stop sign, whatever it happens to be. It is the easiest way you could ever drive, and it really spoils you because then when you get in a regular vehicle, you're like, oh, crap, I've got to push the brake now. You don't have to in an EV. And they literally slow down quickly enough that in some cases you'll find yourself feathering the accelerator pedal just to keep things moving along because it will literally take you completely to a stop.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 15 :
So, again, for all of you listening, a lot of conservatives that hate them. Don't hate it until you try one. Don't knock it until you try it sort of a thing because for a lot of you that are out there listening, they probably fit the bill more than you actually think they would. We'll play this again as we get into Drive Radio coming up this weekend as well. So if some of you want to replay that or listen to that again, we'll actually do that. Might even take that little excerpt out and put it on the website all on its own because Rand and Andy both, you guys asked a lot of great questions that went into that.
SPEAKER 06 :
Five-second answer. Subsidies going away. Do you think they'll lower the prices a little bit? I think they're going to have to.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, they're going to have to.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yep, absolutely, Andy. I think they will. Or they'll have some other incentives when it's all said and done. So that's it for hour number one. We'll be back hour number two in a moment. This is Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 07 :
The Average Guy's Ordinary Average Guy
In this episode, we delve into the intricacies of accountability and public apologies in the light of recent comments made by Jimmy Kimmel. Our hosts discuss the media's perception of apologies, reflecting on the powerful impact of rhetoric in political and social spheres. From the casual dismissal of public criticism to the conversations about the refusal to apologize, our episode provides a comprehensive look at how public figures navigate the tightrope of responsibility and public perception.
SPEAKER 02 :
It's all he had to do. You beat me to it. He couldn't do it. No, he couldn't do it. You were right. And having found fault with the crocodile tears and the hand-wringing, somebody on Twitter observed to me... Well, you know, no matter what he said, this is what you're going to say. And I don't reply to people a lot. But I said, look, if he had come out and said, I really am sorry. What I did was wrong. What I said was wrong. I was wrong to malign millions of Americans. I was wrong to misrepresent the motives of the shooter. I'm sorry. And I need to really watch when my comedy steps across that line. I really, really regret it. If he said that, I'd be the first to accept it.
SPEAKER 01 :
But you were the one who said it was never going to happen. Correct. And I was listening before you this morning, I was listening a little bit to Chris Tagal, and it's fascinating to me how casual we are with not... acknowledging the decision not to apologize. In other words, refusing to apologize for something is motivated by something, right? If you refuse to apologize, and we've both been in positions like this our whole lives, where something happens in the workplace or in a personal relationship, and look, You either have the opportunity or the option to apologize, or you don't, right? It's one or the other. And if you choose not to, because Jimmy Kimmel knows that what he said was absolutely 100% provably false. He knows that. He knows that what he said, and that was the only beef with Jimmy Kimmel. Obviously, nobody's complaining about the way he bags on Trump and conservatives all this time. He does it every night. It's his act. So at the very least, when you smear MAGA and you smear more than half the country and you lie about the motivation of the killer, then you've got to own it. You've got to say you're sorry. Now, Chris DeGaulle, I was so intrigued by this. He's a good guy. I love him. He's a very spiritual guy. He said... Well, it's about as close as you probably would get to an apology. And I was thinking in the car when I heard that, yeah, like being a little bit pregnant? You either apologize or you don't. That's correct. You either say those two little words. And because the headline right now in the New York Times, Kimmel didn't apologize.
SPEAKER 02 :
The headline of the Daily Beast. Thank goodness, at least the Daily Beast said what?
SPEAKER 01 :
But they're proud of him for not apologizing. Don't misunderstand that. The Daily Beast gets a little more graphic with what the Times was saying. Kimmel refuses to bend a knee to Donald Trump. That's the whole takeaway. And Kimmel must have thought, if I apologize, I will be accused of bending a knee to Donald Trump. And that's the way, because this thing got all conflated and it got turned to, look, the Brendan Carr didn't do anybody any favors.
SPEAKER 02 :
Exactly right, because therein lies the problem. That's the problem. Our side was not on its best behavior, and I don't mean you, and I don't mean me. And it's funny, you almost put an asterisk by Trump. He's going to do performative blather every once in a while, and I kind of love it, and there's stuff you know he's not going to do. And there was never going to be a license pulled from anybody. Not from anybody. But this Brendan Carr, he's a problem. And Ted Cruz is absolutely right to torch him. This guy, not so long ago, could be found talking about the virtues of free speech. And now he's talking about, you know, hey, we can do this the easy way or do it the hard way.
SPEAKER 01 :
Come on, dude. Dumb thing to say. Well, Ted Cruz was right. Yes, he was. Dumb thing to do. Stupid thing to do. Dangerous as hell. to quote Ted, Senator Cruz, and it is. You don't want to go down this road.
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Because it'll blow back on us. The conservatives run the FCC now. Give me a Democrat president and a liberal FCC, and they're coming after you and me. And they'll use Kimmel as a presence.
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But we gave them an out. Brendan Carr, in his conversation with Benny Johnson, that they keep playing over and over and over again, we can do this the easy way or the hard way. Come on. Really? You're the FCC commissioner. I mean, you start talking like that. Look, Republicans are not always going to be in control. And they'll come after us. And incidentally, there's a bigger point, a much bigger point that has to be made. Incidentally, there's breaking news out of your neck of the woods. Shots fired at the Texas ICE facility in Dallas. So let's keep an eye on that. Lord knows there's a massive police response. It's in Dallas. It's the ICE facility there. Hey, dare I say, is it premature to say more left wing violence?
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And the first thing that occurs to me is Gavin Newsom yesterday or day before or whatever it was, I guess, the day before passing this tough guy law that in California, the ICE people have to unmask. The reason the ICE people are masked is. is because lunatic lefties have characterized them as Gestapo, as Nazis, and one of these guys is going to get killed.
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And finally, even The Atlantic did a report yesterday. The Atlantic is a far left-leaning propaganda arm, right? They said, ooh, statistically now, left-wing violence is exceeding right-wing violence. In the last 10 years, there are now more acts of political violence committed by the left than Look, Democrats have to grapple with this, and they don't know how, because you're right. Gavin Newsom falls on his face every time. They do performative, sort of perfunctory, well, violence is bad, but they don't condemn the actual political violence. Yeah. So if indeed, and boy, this does look like a huge story coming out of Dallas right now. And let's hope nobody's been hurt or killed. But all we've got right now that I'm getting. Shots fired at the ICE facility in Dallas. Yep. In Dallas. And boy, I'm seeing video images, a huge police presence there. So we're going to see, that's probably going to be the story of the day as the morning progresses. But they're going to have to figure out how to tamp down this awful, awful violence. And let's be honest, it starts with the rhetoric. How do you not acknowledge when you're unmasking ICE agents and you're calling Republicans tyrants and dictators and fascists, you're surprised when violence erupts?
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Exactly. And that slows. It doesn't suffocate, but it slows my optimism. You and I, if there's anything we share, it's this constant upbeat, happy warrior optimism, of course, about our country and our love of country and our prayerful wish for things to get better. And especially in this aftermath after Charlie Kirk and with the incredible – memorial service on Sunday, there's a real strong feeling that something special is at hand. But that's about people, when I say on our side, I don't just mean our Republican tribe or our conservative tribe or even our group of people who are believers, but I mean the people who are prone to be friendly to that kind of messaging. I feel great about that, and it energizes us, I think, for the midterms. But America's not going to get better. Unless our fellow countrymen on the left look hard in the mirror and say, we've got to stop. Not stop believing in the crazy things we believe. We're always going to have differences. But we've got to stop with the rhetoric. We've got to stop with the violence. We've got to stop with the ugliness. We've got to stop tearing up our families because Uncle Fred voted for Trump. We've got to stop the viciousness and the venom. And until they do that, it is hard for the country to get better.
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And boy, do I hope we can climb that steep hill. There's a massive breaking news story that's unfolding in real time now out of Dallas that speaks exactly to what you and I are talking about because now Fox 4 is reporting that the suspect, armed with a rifle, was a sniper on the roof. There are at least three people in critical condition. There are multiple people shot. The suspect reportedly died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head as agents approached. So we got a person. Look, you can connect the dots. We'll see how this plays out. According to Jimmy Kimmel last night, these incidents are all isolated and they're just disturbed people. Oh, of course.
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And if you heard me smear half of America, you misunderstood me.
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That's on you. You're too stupid to know what I was talking about. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So when we continually call ICE—when AOC and every prominent Democrat, including Gavin Newsom, calls AOC Nazis and stormtroopers, and now we're surprised somebody climbed up on a roof outside the Texas ICE facility and took a bunch of people out? Oh, boy! Who would have ever seen that coming? And until these Democrats own this rhetoric— Mark, we know it's going to keep happening. Correct. And look, it's going to keep happening. I'm going to put the 800-pound elephant out in the room here. We all have targets on our back. After Charlie was killed, you understand we're talking about one of our colleagues being assassinated. Somebody you and I knew. Somebody you and I had a relationship with. Somebody you and I worked with. Somebody, I've been in green rooms with Charlie for years, and this is not a distant thing. I was thinking about this last night. Do you know anybody personally until Charlie who's been killed? No. I've never in my life, I've never. This is the first time, but isn't, in a way, you and I have a real charmed existence. Of course. But isn't that fascinating that in my 65 years, I've never known anybody well who's been killed. I've known people in the media or in the news. This was that's why it's so personal for us, Mark. We knew him. We loved him. We worked with him. He texted us. We know we you know, we had a relationship with him. And now we lift up Erica and these babies. But but look, we're all I got an event Friday night. And Larry Elder and I are going to be in a room in Sarasota with hundreds of people. You don't think that the company is saying, well, we're going to make sure nobody can walk in there with a gun. And so now everybody walking in there is going to be wanted and go through the magnetometers and all that because we have to. And isn't that pathetic?
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It's pathetic and it's resonant because Charlie Kirk got killed for the precise beliefs you and I have. Correct. About politics and about faith and for expressing them.
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And for doing exactly what you and I do. Yep. I mean, he happened to go to a college campus. We talk into a microphone. You know, I mean, it's the same thing. We share our beliefs with people. We do it in good faith. We never want to be dishonest. We welcome dissent. His whole thing was prove me wrong. They hated him because of how effective he was. Maybe my only hope is I'm not that effective. Absolutely.
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Mike is not that big a deal. Let us proclaim your show not that effective. You're not a real resonating communicator. You're not worth the time.
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Man, oh, man. Dinesh D'Souza and I spent time together this weekend in Phoenix as well as, of course, Larry. Dinesh has a new movie out that's really exciting, the Dragon's Prophecy film. It's really interesting about Israel. It's a really interesting movie. We're going to get Dinesh on the show today. We'll talk to him. But I also want to get his thoughts on he and Debbie's experience in Phoenix with us.
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And Dinesh out there all the time, all these powerful, effective voices. Hey, in our last couple of minutes, two Trump stories. Number one, what do you think of the U.N. sabotaging him with the escalator and the teleprompter?
SPEAKER 01 :
There's nothing better than a teleprompter malfunctioning over a 15-minute speech that turns him into 55 minutes of unleashed.
SPEAKER 02 :
Freestyle unplugged Trump just reaming. Your countries are going to hell. They're going to hell.
SPEAKER 01 :
I mean, and you can hear everybody likes him. They're all clapping for him. I mean, he's even liked in that environment. They ought to take the U.N. and turn it into affordable housing. They ought to turn it into the mass of most. I have such disdain for the U.N. My anger is. And watching them and the stupid, well, it was a mechanical. No, it wasn't. They were bragging about it before he got there.
SPEAKER 02 :
They said, let's make the escalator fail.
SPEAKER 01 :
I would have liked to. Somebody could have gotten hurt there, man. What do you think would have happened if Melania and Trump fell down and got hurt? Or worse. Happy then? Well, sure, they would have loved that. But the teleprompter sabotage was perfect. I loved every bit of that. Let me be clear. I loathe the United Nations. I hate it. I hate everything it stands for. I hate everything it represents. I wish we would pull the plug on it. I don't know why we have to be involved with it. They are scoundrels. And I was infuriated. But good for him. Good on him. Just going riffing for 55.
SPEAKER 02 :
In the final 60 seconds, Putin has sufficiently frosted Trump that Trump now speaks of Europe, Europe, getting behind Ukraine enough where Ukraine actually wins the war. Wow. I don't know how that's going to happen.
SPEAKER 01 :
I don't either.
SPEAKER 02 :
I don't see Ukraine winning any war anytime soon. Me neither. But as long as it's not American blood and treasure, pfft. Knock yourself out.
SPEAKER 01 :
I wonder how Gavin Newsom, now that this story is unfolding in Dallas there at the Texas Ice Facility, I wonder how Gavin Newsom is going to respond to this story.
SPEAKER 02 :
Invoking North Korea and a police state.
SPEAKER 01 :
Yeah. His priority is to expose the ice agents so that they can get doxxed and their families can get harmed. You happy, Gavin Newsom? Hey, look at the Dallas story, Gavin Newsom. Tell us how you feel about that man, oh man.
SPEAKER 02 :
I need a vacation. Where can I go? You can't go anywhere.
SPEAKER 01 :
I gotta go somewhere. No, I told my kid last night, I was talking to Micah, I said, I need a break. I need the Mark Davis deal, because every other week you're gone somewhere, so can I go somewhere? I want to go to the hill country. I just gotta put my feet up, unplug, because look, I'm melting down here. I'm good and fired up.
SPEAKER 02 :
But melting down Mike is some of your best radio. So you've got to navigate that a little bit because we love you. I'm going to buy my own Waymo. I want my own self-driving car. Oh, my gosh. Tomorrow. Tomorrow, tomorrow. I heard your Waymo story. I'm this close to ready to do it. Tomorrow. Will you take my first ride with me so that we can die together? I'll sit in the front. You can sit in the back.
SPEAKER 01 :
And you can weep, and you can cry like Jimmy Kimmel.
SPEAKER 02 :
I'll be on the floorboards. My tears will be real.
SPEAKER 01 :
Yeah, his are fake. His are crocodile tears, but you'll be really scared. Oh, we're going to die. I love you. Happy Wednesday. That is Mike Gallagher.
SPEAKER 02 :
He is ready to go. 10 o'clock right here on 660 AM, The Answer.
In this thought-provoking episode of The Kim Monson Show, we delve into the intricacies of government control over sectors such as transportation, education, and housing. Through a detailed analysis, Kim and her guest outline the fundamental choice between freedom and force, discussing the implications on societal dynamics and personal liberties. Join us as we explore the myths, misconceptions, and the urgent need for citizens to engage in the battle of ideas in a democracy threatened by socialism.
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indeed let's have a conversation and welcome to the kim monson show thank you so much for joining us you're each treasured you're valued you're valued and you're you know what i i normally have this totally memorized let's start over here you are treasured and you are valued and you have purpose so today strive for excellence take care of your heart your soul your mind and your body my friends we were made for this moment in history And thank you to the team. That's Producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Teresa, Amanda, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. Happy Wednesday, Producer Joe.
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Happy Wednesday, Kim.
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And it is Wednesday, so that means it is Wings Day at Hooters Restaurants. You buy 20 wings, you get an additional 10 for free. Their locations are Westminster, Loveland, and in Aurora. And they have great lunch specials Monday through Friday, as well as great happy hour specials as well. So you can check that out by going to their Web site. How I got to know them. It's a very important story about these basics of freedom and free markets and capitalism and those pesky PBIs, politicians, bureaucrats and interested parties that want to try to control our lives. And so you can find that whole story at my Web site at Kim Monson dot com. As you know, we search for truth and clarity on the show by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. Something's a good idea. You should not have to force people to do it. And socialism is a bad idea. And ultimately, it has to come down to force. And so that's why we need to continue to shed light on what is happening here. We have in elected offices at the local level, in the county and the state level here in Colorado. And we're seeing, of course, in New York, the possibility of a mayor that is a socialist slash communist. But we have that occurring right here in our local government as well. So that's why we have to shed light on what is going on and continue to to assess these things through this lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. And a democracy ultimately comes down to 50% plus one. It comes down to mob rule. And when we see so many different politicians that talk about how important democracy is, that someone's a threat against democracy, and we have to realize that democracy is really mob rule. And the founders understood, they looked at all these different ways of governing and came up with a constitutional republic that is democratically elected by an engaged citizenry. Because, and let's back this out, because our citizenry has been unengaged. Now we're seeing people that are starting to pay attention again and become engaged and are making a difference. But to push back on this movement, Really, well over 100 years of this march to socialism, it takes a lot to get this whole thing turned around. And we must engage in this battle of ideas to do so. So remember, it's not compassionate and it's not altruistic to take other people's stuff, whether or not it's their rights, their property, their freedom, livelihoods, opportunity, childhoods or lives via force. Force can be a weapon, but it's policy, unpredictable and excessive taxation. Fear, coercion, government-induced inflation, the agenda of the World Economic Forum and globalist elites played out through the United Nations, this Colorado state legislature, this governor. But land use codes, zoning regulations, force fees, all of these things are taking away our property. And so that's why we have to shed light on what is happening there. On the show, we focus on the issues. We'll mention the people that are pushing the issues, but we are staying out of the eighth-grade girl fighting that can happen so easily by adults whenever we get to politics. And so we need to stay focused on the issues and understand how to articulate these issues, first of all, to ourselves and then to those that we are talking with. And my friends, we have to realize that not all ideas are equal in the battle of ideas. And when we are encouraged to take a look at foundational principles And because somebody else feels something different, that we have to, I guess, decrease the foundational principles to match up with somebody's just their idea. And we can see this. in this whole transgender, this whole language thing, where basically in Colorado, with House Bill 25-13-12, the people will be forced to use pronouns of someone who they know that the sex is actually a male, and they might be forced to use female pronouns. This is an idea that doesn't match up to nature's law. And so we need to be able to communicate these foundational principles of nature's law. Man, woman, good, evil. order, chaos. We need to understand that and be able to engage in that. So I found a really interesting, we're changing gears now, for our word of the day. And it's palimpsest. And it's spelled P-A-L-I, one more time, P-A-L-I-M-P-S-E-S-T. And in its original use, it refers to writing material, such as parchment manuscript, used one or more times after earlier writing had been erased. The underlying text is said to be in palimpsest. And it's been extended to use, refers to something that has usually diverse layers or aspects apparent beneath the surface. So they gave a couple of examples. Scholars believe the motive for making palimpsest was often economic. Reusing parchment was cheaper than preparing a new skin. And then another sentence, the ancient city is an architectural palimpsest. And the explanation on this was that long ago, these writing surfaces were so highly valued that they were often used more than once. And in its original term, it referred to a form of recycling in which an old document was erased to make room for a new one when parchment ran short. It is from the word, the Greek word palimpsestos, meaning scraped again. It says, fortunately for modern scholars, the erasing process wasn't completely effective, so the original could often be distinguished under the newer writing. The Republica by Roman statesman and orator Cicero is one of the many documents that were recovered from a palimpsest. It says nowadays the word palimpsest can refer not only to such a document, but to anything that has multiple layers apparent beneath the surface. And I would say, would you say that looking at these motives of these radicalized shooters, as you drill down through the palimpsest on that, and this was a headline that I found that I'm not this familiar with this. This is from NBC News, but it says extremists are using discord to recruit American youth officials warned this year. So this seems like this is something that we really need to take a look at. It says the tension has been increased to discord after the reports that the suspect in Charlie Kirk's killing used the platform. And apparently, it says state and federal law enforcement agencies warned earlier this year that the young people are at risk of radicalization. But I remember going into a bookstore, one of the major bookstores, and this was six years ago, and there was a whole... display in the student or the children's slash student area where it was all about becoming an activist. So this radicalization has been occurring for quite some time, and we're going to need to learn more about this for sure. Yesterday, I was talking with my friend Alan, and he suggested, well, he mentioned Alexander Solzhenitsyn. And I thought, let's go back to him for a quote. So Solzhenitsyn was born in 1918, died in 2008, and he was a Soviet and Russian author and dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system. He was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature for the ethical forces with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature. And it goes on to say that Solzhenitsyn was born into a family that defied the Soviet anti-religious campaign in the 1920s and remained devout members of the Russian Orthodox Church. However, he initially lost his faith in Christianity, became an atheist, and embraced Marxism and Leninism. While serving as a captain in the Red Army during World War II, Solzhenitsyn was arrested by SMERSH and sentenced to eight years in the Gulag and then internal exile for calling for the overthrow of the Soviet regime in private correspondence with another field officer. As a result of his experience in prison with the camps, he gradually became a philosophically-minded Eastern Orthodox Christian. So he was thrown into the gulag because he had called for the overthrow of a totalitarianism regime. So I think that we have to be very careful here in America. as we are talking about speech. Because I think that overthrowing a totalitarianism government, we need to be able to say that. And so we have to be very careful about this whole speech thing. We're going to be staying on this on a pretty regular basis in light of the fact that Charlie Kirk was murdered because of what he was saying and what he was thinking. So this is what Alexander Solzhenitsyn said. He said, the simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world. And I'll let you just think about that all day as we are seeing this assault upon speech and upon nature's law in our country. We have many great sponsors of the show and many of you support the show as well. As you know, I'm an independent journalist. I buy my airtime and also work with my contractors. And so thank you for your support. And our great sponsors are so important. 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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Also check out the Center for American Values, which is located in Pueblo. They are doing amazing work, a variety of things. They have on values presentations. They are provided programs and curriculum for K through 12 educators. And they honor our Medal of Honor recipients with their portraits of valor, which it is a very reverent place. to go. And so check all that out. They're non-political, non-partisan, but that website is AmericanValueCenter.org, AmericanValueCenter.org. Before we get into talking with Mike Rolick, Producer Joe had a really good point because I was talking about Alexander Solzhenitsyn who was thrown into the gulag because of something that he wrote privately to someone else regarding overthrowing the totalitarianism Russian government. And producer Joe had a really good point. Joe?
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My point was I was thinking about the left and how they call Trump authoritarian or Hitler, you know. And what jumped in my mind is based off of that story, wouldn't they be in jail right now for saying things like that if he was authoritarian? Yeah. I love the way you connected that dot, Producer Joe.
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Well done. Very well done. So thank you. And let's jump over here to a citizen watchdog and just really a concerned citizen, and that is Mike Rolick. And he really has his ear to the ground on many things that are going on. Mike Rolick, welcome to the show.
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Good morning, Kim. How are you doing?
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Well, I am doing well. And we're going to have you as featured guest next week on one of the shows. I think it is. I think it's next Wednesday. But because we need a little bit more time. And we've talked about the the Glow Park redevelopment is first of all, is there any new things that we need to know about that?
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Well. We are waiting to see if any companies have put in bids. So far, from what I've been hearing, is no companies have been interested in it. As of such, there are some definite physical limitations on that property, including the floodplain and the permanent slope easement, the EVA, the emergency vehicle access restrictions, having to go through a different property to get to it. So I don't know if it's the most attractive property. But I am hearing the same situation is coming up in Littleton and in Golden. So if anyone's out there in Littleton or Golden, you know, feel free to reach out and we can maybe discuss some potential steps there as well to take a look at these things.
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Okay, and just the cliff notes on this, this is the possible redevelopment of properties that could change the fabric of a neighborhood. Would you say that's the bottom line on it?
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I think the bottom line is it's the unused property. or underused state-owned property, and not that it's just home ownership, which we'll get to in a second, but the fact that the state would have the 99-year ground lease and enter a public-private partnership with a larger company, obviously, to build property. a multifamily situation. The one here in Globe Park would be up to eight stories tall and 40 dwelling units per acre. So it's not about just the building of homes, but yes, you're right. It's about the changing of the physical characteristics, traffic, how many kids have to go to school in the sense that, you know, is that going to be a tax implication to get to build up resources, the strain on the local infrastructure in general, water, sewer, sanitation, fire, things like that. But also just that that odd feeling that I get when I realized that the state would be owning the ground lease for 99 years, whereas the land would not be privately held.
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And that's not the proper role of government. And that's one of the things that we have to always look at as a foundational principle. Let's move over to an issue that you brought up. And I actually had thought about this when I was on city council, because some of these affordable housing programs, subsidized housing, And we'll let that be out there. That's subsidized by the government. But what I also saw was the potential that they were going to say, if you lived in these units, that you could not have a firearm. And then you've connected a dot with many of the things that, like BlackRock is buying a lot of property. And that could be a Second Amendment question. So set this up for us, Mike Rollick. Okay.
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Well, you know, I was thinking about this the other day, and what happens sometimes is with the Ralston Valley Coalition and other groups that I work with, we're very multi-partisan because land use touches us all. However, a lot of folks in the more Republican side... would say, well, it's a private land use. Why are you guys involved? And I really have to do some soul searching on things like that. And one of the things I realize is when you're talking about a large corporation, smaller than BlackRock still, but there are large corporations who come out and are pushing the rental-only communities. You'll never have a chance to buy And there's a cultural shift that they're pushing. I don't know if it's real or not, but they're saying, oh, why would you ever want to take care of a yard? Just let us do repairs. We can change your light bulbs, tongue in cheek, obviously, but why would you want to repair a fence? just lock and leave, right? Lock and leave. But something comes along with that. When people decide to, even, even if it's a luxury rental, couldn't just be affordable housing, but even a luxury rental, because certain, certain companies pride themselves on being above the rental market rate, but they are allowed to restrict your firearms within a home. And I said, well, gosh, you know, the state just throwing it out there could, uh, you know, promote zoning that promotes institutional ownership, say, and the institutional owners may do the restricting of a particular right of a population. But the government, quote unquote, would never have to get involved in that that debate. So, you know, going toward the Second Amendment, I say, well, That's an interesting situation where if the institutional owners, which could be a mom-and-pop owner as well, that they're completely allowed in many states to say, you can't have a firearm in my home, and that's due to the freedom of contract. So even though I have a Second Amendment right, as long as it's not something like child labor or one of the other illegal things to contract with, you can literally say, sure, as long as I enter – like if I'm renting a home from UCAM – You and I are both allowed to agree that my firearm cannot enter the home with me. Therefore, I have effectively lost my Second Amendment right in the home that I'm renting. I know in California, it would count as a less than freehold estate. But I am giving some of my rights back to you because you're the one that's controlling that situation. So when we're seeing this discussion about changing all the zoning to higher and higher density, higher and higher density generally leads to multifamily situations. And it's always talked about in the lens of affordability. But what I don't think we can afford to do is lose these little pieces of sovereignty in our own private lives. So that's why I would encourage the more conservative Republican sides to look at zoning. Like we had that nice hour-long discussion with Natalie Menton, zoning can be used – As a force for freedom as well. And single family homes, the term is no longer allowed in Colorado. But the idea of having single family homes, there's a lot of a lot of searches where they say it's exclusionary zoning. It's got a lot of stigma to it. But like I've had this discussion with certain folks. rental companies where, A, you can never escape inflation because you can never pay off a rental. You're always subject to inflation at that point. And B, all of your rights, whether Second Amendment or what have you, they can be truncated in certain ways. by the leaseholder. I'm sorry, the landowner. Certain types of dog breeds, say. That's the way it's going to be. No dogs at all. No firearms. And then on and on down the line, possibly. So even if they're tiny homes, and I had this discussion with a particular company after hearing a Jeff go, but even if it's tiny homes, if someone has a chance to own a piece of dirt, as opposed to being in a multifamily. It's just a piece of dirt, and I don't care if it's a one-bedroom house. It's yours. Obviously, we still have that bundle of rights with the state. We're not talking a lodeal title, but effectively, you can make the decisions within your walls. And that's what I worry about when we're trending towards this kind of rental market and it's pushed towards multifamily. I'm not talking about home or field affordability. I'm not trying to exclude anyone. I'm hoping everybody gets the chance to own and everybody has that opportunity to run their own lives to the maximum extent.
SPEAKER 20 :
Boy, you bring up such an important point. And when the guys came back from World War II, there were neighborhoods that were built, and they were tiny homes. They were kitchen, living room, laundry room, and two bedrooms and a bathroom. And and and they came back and and through all that, though, the great middle class was was really created at that particular time. So home ownership, as we've talked with Karen Levine on a regular basis, is really a way for people to start to create wealth for themselves. And you bring up so many interesting points on this. I was even thinking, Mike. OK, we're talking about the Second Amendment, the right to bear a firearm if you are in a rental unit. But I've been talking a lot about speech and thought. And in fact, there was a woman who in the UK was arrested for silently praying. And so I know this seems impossible, but it's not. You could get to a point where in your rental they would say that you couldn't say certain things possibly. I know that seems like that's a big leap, but the Second Amendment is in the Constitution to protect all of the other amendments. So if someone wants to take away your Second Amendment rights, the right to keep and bear a firearm, to protect yourself, and your family against bad actors, what's to say then that they wouldn't go after the other rights as well, Mike Rollick?
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, that is unfortunately how this road could go. But I'll take it just a little easier step. If the landlord's paying your electricity, they might be able to, and I'll just look this up real quick because I've been thinking about this, they can start banning hydro devices. So, you know, in the era of, you know, trying to help the environment, maybe they say no hot tubs, no hair dryers, you know, line dry your clothes because I'm paying the bill. Again, that unlimited power to contract, you are literally giving those things to a landlord. And I've rented in a place where I had to sign the clause that says I can't have firearms in my home. And it was a big pause moment. um it was a really big pause moment yes so so as we go down that road i imagine there there will be certain protections because we'll have to keep on looking at these things you know so i hope we never get to that that speech issue inside there has to be something in a rental you know that that we hold dear uh you know that we're still a human but they can start looking at high-demand devices. Can they say everybody must have a ring camera at their front door looking out? Maybe not looking in, but looking out. But yes, that camera has a microphone and can start picking things up. My concern is everybody should have a crack at owning a home, and I'm worried about the costs associated with with building tiny homes and starter homes has gone up dramatically when you're looking at the stubbing costs of all the different utilities and things like that. And when we talk about home affordability, I've heard a lot of conversations about tax credits and what have you, but I never hear how do you address the costs of stubbing in the utilities? Why are streets so expensive now? Why do we need sidewalks at every place?
SPEAKER 20 :
When Karen and Lauren were in last week, Lauren had an article that said the cost, and this was an average in the metro area, $68,000 was the cost of rules and regulations. So, hey, Mike, as always, it goes way too quickly. We're going to have more time next Wednesday, which is going to be great. I love the way that you're really thinking about the consequences to these decisions. And so congratulations. You can keep that up. And then just very quickly, tell us about the form that you will have for the Arvada City Council candidates.
SPEAKER 10 :
Perfect. Yeah. Next Monday, we're going to have a, uh, a forum, like you said, for the city council candidates, Grouson Valley coalition is a land use, a multi-partisan land use group. There are folks on all sides of the fence that are very concerned about this increase in density. So it's, it's not coming from one side, trust me. Um, but it's easy to kind of demonize, uh, you know, a conservative way of thinking for this kind of thing, but it's, but it's an all sides. And, uh, We focus on land use. The format's going to be one minute per question per candidate, and no one gets to interrupt, so it's basically like one microphone on a table, and they pass it around. We don't do debates. We do forums. It's going to be at the Depot and Five Parks from 6.30 to 8.30. Doors open at 6, and if you can't, we have a YouTube live stream as well, and that's at ralstonvalleycoalition.org via YouTube. Hopefully, we'll start a Rumble channel next time. And I really encourage everybody in every city to start running these these forums. And then, you know, whatever is near and dear to your heart, you focus on that. You know, I know the Chamber of Commerce run there. They're focused on what they do. Some people might be focused on schools or homeless, but we focus on zoning and we've really honed in on that. So there you go.
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Well, great. Mike Rolick, as always, thanks for that great information. And it is so important to really start to think about these things. And I really appreciate Karen Levine as a sponsor for many, many years. And give her a call if you're buying a home, selling a home, or looking at a new build.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. And 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 and 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. That number is 303-285-3080. They are your path to independent financial confidence. And pleased to have on the line with me, Dr. Jill Vecchio. You know her. She is one of the few people that actually read the complete Obamacare legislation. And she has connected the dots through socialized medicine, what that actually means, and has been talking about this for many, many years. Welcome, Dr. Jill Vecchio.
SPEAKER 12 :
Thanks, as always, for having me, Kim.
SPEAKER 20 :
Well, and I saw a headline this last week, Jill, that it said that our health care costs have hit the highest or the health insurance costs rise at the highest level in 15 years. I thought Obamacare was supposed to make everything affordable.
SPEAKER 12 :
Right. Yeah. Well, and the problem with Obamacare was that they expected and obviously tried to force every single person to get health care that was ridiculously expensive that many people were never going to use, especially the young, healthy people. So a bunch of people said, I don't need this. There's no way I can afford it. Number one, a bunch of people had had insurance before. The rates were so high that. They lost their insurance, so people who had been insured lost their insurance. The people that were added to the insurance rolls were added on Medicaid. Medicaid. The Medicaid ranks in Colorado grew enormously, something like 3 million new people or something. I can't remember what the number was. But something like one in three people in Colorado lost. After Obamacare, the service was open and everybody was being enforced, 30% of the people in Colorado were on Medicaid if they had health insurance.
SPEAKER 20 :
But this wasn't really about helping people with their health care.
SPEAKER 12 :
No, it was about controlling the system and moving to the single-payer health care is what they wanted to do. They had to crash the system. They had to crash the system we had before, which was broken, yes. It wasn't perfect by any stretch. It was messed up. But they messed it up even further with Obamacare. And, yeah, the system is – this isn't sustainable where we are right now. People can't even use their health insurance that they're paying for.
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Well, and in Colorado, and in watching all the legislation, as the president of the Colorado Union of Taxpayers – and this is a perfect time to say thank you – To my team, the team that I get to work with, and that is Steve Dorman, Greg Golianski, Russ Haas, Bill Hamill, Rob Knuth, John Nelson, Wendy Warner, Marty Nielsen, Ramey Johnson, Mary Jansen, Dave Evans, Corey Onozord, Paula Beard, and Ray Beard. These are all volunteers that are watching all of this legislation. And there was a piece of legislation this... This year, Jill, that was basically, I think, going to study and put in place legislation that would study single payer health care here in Colorado. So they are not giving up on this here in Colorado. And one of the things that I learned from you early on when you were giving all of these presentations is that you said that when government gets involved, the supply becomes limited, the quality goes down and the costs go up. And we're seeing that. And yet here in Colorado, they're going to want to try to double down to get to that single-payer health care system. And it's all about control. It's not about taking care of people. It's about control.
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100%.
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And we've been talking about the different options and how you could decentralize health care. And is it okay? There's one kind of business plan that that has a website, and they've been extremely popular, and it's been around now since, I think they started before Obamacare. I think it was before Obamacare. It's called Medibid. Have you ever heard of that? I have not, so tell me about it. Yeah, so it's called M-E-D as in dog, I-B as in boy, I-D as in dog. Medibid, just what it sounds like. They have the website. It's Medibid.com. And it's fascinating. So they specialize in self-pay, cash pay patients and like a self-employed or self-insured businesses. Safeway, I think, used to use them a lot. Um, or, and there are other versions of this, but Medibid has been around for a long time and it is great to see their website. They're working with hospitals. They're, they're getting bigger and bigger all the time. What happens is let's say, let's say I need a hip replacement. I, uh, there's a little auction site and, uh, you say, I need a hip replacement. These are my, you fill out a little form, like these are my ongoing medical issues or whatever. and doctors and facilities from all over the country will see your request for service, like, okay, this woman needs a hip replacement, and they send you a bid, and they say, here, I can do the hip replacement. It's all bundled, like the surgery center or hospital, whatever inpatient stuff you may need, whatever consultations you may need, if you're at cardiology or something like that, includes anesthesiology, all this stuff. And they say, this is how much, like I can name that tune, right? It's like, we'll do this hip replacement for you for, you know, $10,000. And then you get to look at all of the offers and choose. You can do your own research. You can check out their evaluations. Totally transparent. And then you get to pick which doctor you want to work with. Or, and you can call the doctor, speak with the doctor. Imagine that. Speak with the doctor, discuss everything, and make your decision about who you want to use. It may mean you fly to, you know, California or something and have a surgery done, something like that. But they have it for all kinds of different procedures. Like you could probably do colonoscopy. I mean, I don't see a whole list of all the different procedures they offer. But I imagine you could do colonoscopy or something, and your self-pay – And you get to choose your doctor. You get to pay. You get to figure all this stuff out. The doctors love it because they get paid right away. You make payment arrangements with the doctor. Imagine that. So there's no billing and coding, no overhead. You don't have to worry about the insurance company, whether or not they're going to approve it. It's perfect for anything that's turned down by the insurance company, although they turn down everything, right? And then you have to beat them over the head before they'll actually cover something that they should be covering right away. But it's a great, great option.
SPEAKER 20 :
I love this. It is so creative.
SPEAKER 12 :
It's called MediBid. MediBid. Look it up. It is very cool.
SPEAKER 20 :
But what I see is PBIs, politicians, bureaucrats, and those interested parties, they are not going to want to let this be successful, I don't think.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, you know, the thing is... apparently their numbers are increasing. They have something like 6,000 physicians.
SPEAKER 20 :
But don't you see, couldn't you see these people that want to control everything, and we have a lot of them at the state legislature, that they might put the kibosh on something as this is becoming more and more successful?
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, I'm not sure. We'd have to see how they would do that, because the doctors are credentialed in every other way. They're jumping through every other regulatory hoop. They just, uh, don't have to jump through the third party payer hoop. And according to their website, they may be working with Medicare. That would be cool, huh? I think, see, I think we need a new, we need a new kind of a transitional or a permanent, but, um, it'd be great for it to be transitional and then eventually permanent. Um, part maybe part f for freedom in health care so part f of medicare that says uh yeah you can you can self-pay we'll put a certain amount of money like you get a big chunk of money when you turn 65 put into an hsa only used for medical expenses and then like every quarter or something they add to that hsa just like you do from your employer right You put in a certain amount of money to the HSA. You can use that money for cash pay services, catastrophic insurance premiums, direct primary care memberships. And, you know, you can have a specialist like we've you know, we've talked one of the dilemmas is we have a direct primary care. But what if you need like a colonoscopy or cardiologist? I mean, if you had some kind of a self-pay service that the government enforced that people actually could hear about and know about, more and more physicians, you could have cardiologists, rheumatologists, kind of like chronic long-term care for patients. You know, they go to a cardiologist or a rheumatologist over and over and over again for a long period of time. Those guys could set up their own kind of membership practice, right? You can have surgeons and GI guys that do colonoscopy or something that gives a special price, and they advertise some cash price or like a bundled price. Here, come in in the hospital. Everything is going to be all on one price. It's just going to be on one ticket. And this is how much the whole thing is going to cost. You don't get a separate bill from the anesthesiologist in the hospital and recovery room. Right. Everybody that touched you. Right. Right. OK. It's a brilliant model.
SPEAKER 20 :
I love this, and I want to play a little bit of devil's advocate when we come back because I think this makes so much sense. But what will the PBIs say about all this? We're talking with Dr. Joe Vecchio, and I love it that we are talking about solutions. And I appreciate Lorne Levy. He is a mortgage specialist and a great sponsor of the show.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. And sign up, or be sure and check out the USMC Memorial Foundation's website as well. And you can buy a brick that will be on one of their pathways of service to honor your military service or your loved one's military service. And be sure and check all that out. And Paula Sarles and her whole team are doing amazing work over there. I'm talking with... Oh, and that website is usmcmemoralfoundation.org. Dr. Jill Vecchio is on the line, and she is talking about this very creative meta-bid, or there's other companies out there that I think do this as well, which can be self-pay, self-insured businesses. It makes a lot of sense. Devil's advocate. As I drive by these big hospitals, there's the... healthcare industrial complex. I think there's this hospital industrial complex. I could see them using government because big business, big government like each other to try to squash competition. And so how would you address that, Dr. Jill?
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, the interesting thing is that these physicians and providers that take cash and have an arrangement just with the patient... They're a lot more untouchable than people depending on third party payers. So the government can't make all these additional regulations about payment systems and stuff like that when they're just working outside it. So I find that interesting. They're always going to be. people that are going to try to manipulate. I mean, that's the American system. It's always like you make a rule, I find a way around it. You try and smash me, I move over here and do this. So I think that's a dance that has made America great. It's ruined some good things, but it's also made America great. So it would be hard for me to address that in an overall overarching thing, but I think not being involved in the third-party payer movement and government payment systems, that's the key to freedom. And as long as, like we've talked about over the last two months, how much influence Medicare has over the entire system, even if you're not a Medicare patient, the rules that are put in place and the reimbursements in Medicare affect every reimbursement in health care. So there's always control. And if you take Medicare or Medicaid patients, like what happened during COVID, if you're a physician, if you see one Medicare or one Medicaid patient in your practice, then you are obligated to abide by anything the government tells you to do. It's like that was with the COVID vaccines. Everybody has to be vaccinated that works here. You know, and...
SPEAKER 20 :
Are there options for not being on Medicare? My understanding is that basically you're forced into Medicare.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, because you can't get Social Security unless you're signed up for Medicare. So that's another forced thing. They're tied together. I think you're automatically signed up. Yeah, you're automatically signed up for Medicare Part A when you turn 65. I mean, you have to – you get signed up for that, and you can't get your Social Security unless you're signed up for Medicare. And that's Part A. And then the Part B, C, and all that stuff, the supplemental and the gap insurance and the prescription drug coverage, all that kind of just flows right in front of you. So it's really hard to – Not have Medicare. I guess you could turn down Part B, but Part A is always going to be there. And the insurance companies, even if you've got private insurance, they're going to want Medicare to pay first or something. There's always this hierarchy of this is your primary insurance. insurance provider so they we go to them first for reimbursement for something then we go to this one and then we go to some lesser insurer you know some other insurance insurer but that's the insurance game if you're playing but the other thing is so then you're doing double like if i on i'm on medicare and i have a a gap insurance plan rather than supplemental and um but if i did this cash pay thing and had a surgery somewhere that Medicare would pay for, well, I'd just be paying twice because I'm paying into, you know, I already paid into Medicare and I'd be paying, you know, cash in addition to what I've already paid, you know. The idea is that to incorporate, you know, have Medicare, have it be an option and have Medicare fund an HSA for you, I mean, you paid into it for a long time, have it fund your HSA, and then you get to cash pay and make these decisions. And that would be a transitional way for the entire country, because once Medicare does it, then it's going to trickle down. And if Medicare is thinking about it, that's pretty cool.
SPEAKER 20 :
Medicare probably is not sustainable with the baby boomers coming in Medicare age. So the other question we only have... Go ahead. Well, we have two minutes left, Jill. These are solutions. You've been talking about them for quite some time. Are you hearing any political will to try to really address this?
SPEAKER 12 :
I'm encouraged by the website claiming that Medicare is thinking about incorporating this into some government payment systems. That would be cool if that's true, and usually they're not going to put it on their website. unless they've at least had conversations. Like I said, Bobby Kennedy Jr., this is the best chance we've had in a long time to come up with something that will really change health care, and it needs to start in government that's going to be overarching. If it's going to affect a lot of people, it needs to start at the Medicare level and then trickle down from there. But it's really great that some wonderful solutions like these have come from the bottom up, right? So somewhere we can find a way to meet in the middle and get the most people the health care that they need at a decent price. They don't have to be insured. We are forced. We've been forced to believe that you have to have insurance. You don't have to have insurance. You just have to be able to get health care at a reasonable price that you can work out some payment arrangement with your provider. That's what we need. We don't have to have insurance except, well, you'd want to have it for the catastrophic stuff. Right. Otherwise, it's like your car insurance. Right. It's like your car insurance. You buy your own tires. You change the pay for a new windshield every other year in Colorado. You know, that's it.
SPEAKER 20 :
Oh, I love these solutions. Dr. Jill, we will talk with you again next month. I love I love this. And it's going to have to be from the bottom up. And I'm seeing successes of people realizing what's going on. But the first thing is, is to understand what's going on. And that's why we have Dr. Jill on on a regular basis. Dr. Jill, have a great day. Thank you. You too. Take care, everybody. And my friends today, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you. God bless America. Stay tuned for hour number two.
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Indeed. Let's have a conversation and welcome to our number two of the Kim Monson show. Thank you to each of you for listening. You're each treasured and valued. You have purpose today. Strive for excellence. Take care of your heart, your soul, your mind, and your body. My friends, we were made for this moment in history. And thank you to the team that I get to work with. That's producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Teresa, Amanda, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. It is Wednesday, producer Joe. Happy Wednesday, Kim. And we are moving towards autumn. It's hard to believe. In fact, I guess we probably are in autumn now that I think about it. I need to check that. It's September 24th. It's hard to believe as fast as time is going. But let's get into it. As you know, we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to use force to implement it. And on the show, we focus on these issues and we'll mention the people pushing the issues, trying to stay out of all of the eighth grade girl fighting that can occur in politics. And so that's what we do. And it's so important that we have conversations. Our word of the day is palimpsest. P-A-L-I-M-P-S-E-S-T in its original use refers to a writing material such as parchment, which is used one or more times after earlier writing has been erased. and says many of the scholars believe the motive for making palimpsest was often economic. Reusing parchment was cheaper than preparing a new skin. And so I did this more as informative. I think this might be more difficult to use in a sentence today, but I thought it was a really interesting word as I was searching for a word of the day. Our quote of the day is from Alexander Solzhenitsyn. He was born in 1918, died in 2008. He was put in a gulag Russian prison. He was a Russian dissident. He had written something privately to another officer in World War II. He was an officer in the Red Army and he was thrown into the gulag for that. And so we need to protect freedom of speech. And I think that's important to realize he was thrown into the gulag for his exercising his freedom of speech. So two things. I'm going to give you two quotes here. One is, he said, the simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world. And that is why we must speak truth in this battle of ideas, look for the foundational principles, and search for truth. But he also said this, and I was going to have this as the end of the show quote, and it's a little long and we were not able to get into that, but I think this is also important. He said, "...the strength or weakness of a society depends more on the level of its spiritual life than on its level of industrialization." Neither a market economy nor even general abundance constitutes the crowning achievement of human life. If a nation's spiritual energies have been exhausted, it will not be saved from collapse by the most perfect government structure or by any industrial development. A tree with a rotten core is cannot stand. And in light of the murder of, assassination of Charlie Kirk, I think that we are realizing this. There seems to be a resurgence in foundational principles, Christianity, Judeo-Christian beliefs. And so this is, we are at a, the third founding of our country, a turning point for sure. And so I wanted to make sure that we had a discussion about that. I also wanted to say thank you to Laramie Energy for their gold sponsorship of the show. It's reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant power from 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 on these cold days and cool in the summer. There is an attack upon this industry. So connect the dots. There's an attack upon... us being able to go after our hopes and dreams. So just understand that connect that dot. It's so important. And let's see, what else did I want to mention? Lauren Levy, I think, is on the line. Lauren Levy, do we have Lauren? Joe? Okay. Lauren Levy, welcome. I am broadcasting from home today, so I don't have the visuals with the Joe. So welcome. How are you?
SPEAKER 07 :
I'm doing great. Good morning.
SPEAKER 20 :
And so tell us what's happening with mortgage rates, interest rates.
SPEAKER 07 :
You know, we settled back into a little bit of, you know, what I would call normalcy. When you and I talked when I was in studio last Friday that right before the Fed had spoken rates, we had a little bit of an opportunity there. I was reading just this morning about an article that was referencing it as a mini refinance boom. It lasted about a week. And that was anticipation of the Fed lowering rates. And people maybe sometimes don't have a great understanding of what that means. But that drove the 10-year U.S. Treasury down to about 404. It's back to about 414 now. So we have a little bit of a rate increase since the Fed cut their rates, just a reaction to inflation fears or things like that. And so rates are not as low as they were. You know, when there was that brief opportunity, but they're still considerably lower than they have been over the last couple of years. So there's still opportunity for a lot of folks out there.
SPEAKER 20 :
OK, and the only it doesn't cost anything for people to give you a call to kick the tires on a possible refinance, does it?
SPEAKER 07 :
No, absolutely. And like I always promise, we will never try to push anybody into a loan that doesn't make sense for them. We'll do an analysis, see if it does make sense, if it saves enough money for them. And if it does, then it's a great opportunity. I always say, why pay extra money to a bank when you can pay it in your savings or in your investments or pay something else down?
SPEAKER 20 :
Well, and there's inventory out there in the market right now in Colorado. And so talk to me a little bit about the opportunity for people that may want to buy a home, even though interest rates, I guess they've dipped a little bit. So what's that opportunity look like, Lorne Levy?
SPEAKER 07 :
You know, it is a good opportunity right now as we head into the fall. Rates have gone down a little bit and significantly from their high points, you know, when they were at seven or a little bit over there. And so at the same token, we do have more inventory and we don't have a ton of buyers out there necessarily where you're going to run into, you know, multiple offers on a home that you like where you have to bid it up and people are just trying to overbid each other and even going over list price. That could be something that we see. If the market heats up heading into spring and rates stay lower and there's a lot of buyers out there, right now might be the perfect time because it is a fall season where people do buy homes, but it's not quite like the spring. And so there might be an opportunity to get the home you like at a decent rate, and you can always refinance it down the road. But rates are lower now, and then there's better opportunity to get a payment you can handle or that you like on a home you might like.
SPEAKER 20 :
And also there might be opportunities for negotiations on the price as well, yes?
SPEAKER 07 :
Exactly, yeah. Anytime there's more inventory, it's better for buyers. You know, they say if rates ever go back down to 5.5, which they got to about 5.99, so they weren't that far away, that there would be a ton of buyers coming out because they'd be willing to give up their current rates. And that could cause bidding wars on homes, but right now, You're right. There is an opportunity for buyers to maybe get even at a better price at a lower rate and really get into a good situation that can only be made better should rates drop later.
SPEAKER 20 :
Okay. So, Lauren Levy, for people that want to explore this, and I love the fact that you work with a variety of companies because that offers opportunity and choice, and then also you can help people in 49 of the 50 states. So, any of those people that are moving, you just don't help people in New York. So, anybody moving out of New York, you can help them with their mortgage wherever they're going as well and with the... the political climate in New York right now, there are people that are leaving. So you can help them in 49 of the 50 states.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yep. And the best way to just do it is always just have a conversation, like you always say, and just give us a call at 303-880-8881. And that's Lauren Levy for Everything Mortgages, 303-880-8881. Lauren, we'll talk with you next week. Okay.
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SPEAKER 20 :
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SPEAKER 08 :
I think that you're staying in touch with your 20-something roots. That's what I think, because that's what I hear my 20-something daughters talk about all the time is vibe. Oh, yesterday, my 20-year-old said, oh, Dad, I'm getting that vibe. I'm like, okay, Landry.
SPEAKER 20 :
And what was that vibe? Do you know what that was exactly?
SPEAKER 08 :
You know, I'm actually trying to remember at this moment, but this is about the word vibe. Everything's about the vibe.
SPEAKER 20 :
Well, and Denver is losing the Denver vibe with all of the politics out here. But let's jump in here. There's so much I want to talk with you about, and I want to at least make sure that we talk about what I put in the newsletter. And And now I'm forgetting what it was exactly. Let me think about it here.
SPEAKER 08 :
No, you put in the newsletter we're going to talk about North Dakota threatening to sue South Dakota.
SPEAKER 20 :
Right, that's what it was. So let's talk to me about this. This is very important.
SPEAKER 08 :
So Drew Wrigley, who quite frankly I've not been a fan of, and I can explain that if you'd like. It's a longer story. Basically, he approved Bill Gates buying property in the state of North Dakota, despite it being a violation of a state statute.
SPEAKER 20 :
Regardless of that... So now, is he the governor, or who is he?
SPEAKER 08 :
He's the attorney general.
SPEAKER 20 :
Okay, okay.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 20 :
So he made that decision, okay.
SPEAKER 08 :
Kelly Armstrong is the current governor. He was a former congressman. And Drew Wrigley... became the Attorney General after the past Attorney General died, Wayne Stenjum. I only share that because it's a background. He was appointed basically by Doug Burgum, who is now the Director of the Interior, Department of Interior, which is over the Bureau of Land Management. And as a potential presidential candidate, candidate, Doug Burgum, then governor of North Dakota, said, I assure you there will be a CO2 pipeline built in North Dakota. They can't build a CO2 pipeline in North Dakota because South Dakota is in the way. South Dakota had people rule. They literally by vote took over the House and the Senate and And it was a majority. You and I talked about this a lot. The people of South Dakota did not want eminent domain as it involves CO2 pipelines, and they did not want to lose local control. And for those two reasons, there is a statewide ban on eminent domain being used for a CO2 pipeline. Without eminent domain, CO2 pipeline is not going to happen. So last week, Drew Wrigley, the attorney general for the state of North Dakota said, threatened, literally threatened, and said, well, we're pursuing avenues of suing the state of South Dakota for their unconstitutional actions in banning CO2 pipelines. Well, they didn't ban a CO2 pipeline. They did what the people wanted, which was maintain local control and not allow eminent domain to be used because the Supreme Court said of the state of South Dakota said that CO2 is not a common carrier, consequently does not fall under the provision of eminent domain for a common carrier. It's all legal. And yet Drew Wrigley just throws out that they're pursuing avenues of suing South Dakota for violating their commerce clause between states. I've been on record saying that he is just creating a distraction because It just seems as though the whole plan is to keep people's eye off the ball, which at this moment it seems to me like the CO2 pipeline, as dangerous as it is, is just a distraction because they want the taxpayers to pay for the infrastructure of the CO2 pipeline, which then in turn they will turn them around and use them to get natural gas to other parts of the country because we have this plusser of natural gas in the Bakken in North Dakota. which is just flaring. We're flaring massive amounts of natural gas, methane. And that brings me to what I was hoping you'd want to talk about, which just developed since last evening. You saw that there was a pretty massive rupture in southern Wyoming of a natural gas pipeline that people all throughout northern Colorado were seeing, did you not?
SPEAKER 20 :
I did not know that.
SPEAKER 08 :
Looks like it was a pretty major endeavor, and I bring it up because we have been laying the groundwork, we, against my will, laying the groundwork in the state of Nebraska to run pipelines from every ethanol plant in Nebraska, minus four, by the way, to the tall grass energy, which is called the Trailblazer Natural Gas Pipeline, which has been coming from Wyoming, taking natural gas to the east, And their plans are to turn that around and put CO2 in that natural gas pipeline and send that to Cheyenne and bury it under Cheyenne and what is called the Denver Formation. And they're planning to start that CO2 flow yet in calendar year 2025. If that rupture that occurred last night with the natural gas pipeline had been a rupture of a CO2 pipeline... We'll be talking about the people that died.
SPEAKER 20 :
So several questions. Natural gas is an affordable, reliable, efficient, and it's abundant. And I like natural gas. And it seems like we would want to get natural gas to other places. And so that seems like that would make sense to me to do that. And so are you saying that they would, instead of having natural gas in these lines, they want to put CO2 in these lines and bring it back the other way and bury it under Cheyenne?
SPEAKER 08 :
That's correct. That's exactly what has been proposed and is in the process of happening.
SPEAKER 20 :
So that would mean that the places that natural gas had been going, providing that particular power, that energy source, they would not have that anymore. Is that right?
SPEAKER 08 :
That's exactly right. It took half of the capacity of the natural gas that was being piped from Wyoming to places utilizing natural gas throughout the eastern part, anywhere east of there. And when I say half, Kim, there are two currently functioning natural gas pipelines running from Wyoming to eastern Nebraska and beyond. They're both owned by Tallgrass. One is called the Tallgrass Pipeline, and the other one's called the Trailblazer Pipeline. They just named them different because they're two separate pipelines built, I believe, 20 years apart. And they're now planning to eliminate half of that capacity and run CO2 for the purposes of burying it a mile and a half deep under earth, no value whatsoever, and eliminate, like you just said, eliminate natural gas distribution via that pipeline.
SPEAKER 20 :
Okay, so the next question is, why would they do that? So I will pose what I think you're going to say, and then you can tell me whether or not that's correct. The reason that they would do that is because it is economically advantageous to do that with the CO2 pipeline because of tax credits. And so it's a money thing, and it's being encouraged by... Am I correct?
SPEAKER 08 :
You really don't need me at all for this discussion, do you?
SPEAKER 20 :
So that's what that's what it's all about. And so so because of those tax credits and and and. When we talk about government incentives all the time, that's not the proper role of government to be providing these incentives. But then what happens is people react to incentives. And so whoever has these pipelines, they're reacting to that because the government is offering this incentive, and it's more economically advantageous to do that. But connecting the dots, then... The people down the road that had this reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant energy source, which has been under regulatory attack big time, particularly here in Colorado, they're not going to have that. So ultimately, their lives will become less affordable because they will not have affordable power. Correct? Yes.
SPEAKER 08 :
You nailed it, and right now they're talking about 2025 is going to end up with a 35% increase in electric cost. We're already halfway there now.
SPEAKER 20 :
Yeah, it's a direct assault upon everyday people being able to thrive and flourish.
SPEAKER 08 :
And just one more quick thing. The difference between a subsidy that a company gets for an incentive, which I do not agree with, And the difference between that, which is just a direct payment, but it is taxable. It's a direct payment, but taxable by the government as income. A tax credit like you walk through is simply a reduction of the tax liability of that said billionaire that's involved in the in the creation of this. So that costs the taxpayer actually double because it's completely different and a better advantageous position for the billionaire than just getting a subsidy.
SPEAKER 20 :
And the tax credits can be sold, correct?
SPEAKER 08 :
Correct. Absolutely. It could be sold to China. There is no stipulation saying that there's any limit on who can purchase these tax credits.
SPEAKER 20 :
So this is not the proper role of government.
SPEAKER 08 :
And just quickly, the easement that controls the land where the pipeline is running and people who signed an easement can also be sold to anybody without limitation.
SPEAKER 20 :
Oh, this just came in from Patty. She said, this sounds just like gas versus electric cars replace what works with what will never work ubiquitously. I think she nailed it there as well.
SPEAKER 08 :
I think so, too. I don't think either one of you need me.
SPEAKER 20 :
Well, we need you because we're learning a lot about all this and the important discussions. And then people do reach out and say that they appreciate our conversations because you and I don't always agree on everything. But it's important in the spirit of Charlie Kirk that we have these conversations. So we're going to continue that with Trent Luce. Text me 720-605-0647. And we've got a lot coming in on the text line because we've been talking about a lot today. And another thing that I am so pleased to have, the Second Syndicate, as a sponsor of the show, in the conversation with Mike Rolick in hour number one, he brought up something he hadn't even thought about, which would be an assault upon our Second Amendment rights, and that is if you're renting from one of these... big apartment complexes that have received all kinds of incentives to be built, that they might try to restrict your Second Amendment right. And the Second Amendment is in the Bill of Rights to protect all of the other rights. And so be sure and support the Second Syndicate. They are raising funds so that they can be down at the Colorado State House to protect this right to keep and bear a firearm to protect ourselves against bad actors.
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SPEAKER 20 :
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SPEAKER 08 :
ADM in Decatur, Illinois, has been doing that for four years, only they're not doing it right now because as of, I believe it was May of this year, the seismic activity right around where they were putting that was becoming too great. So why bury it where it's going to harm you? Let's truck it 1,000 miles in a pipeline and put it where it's not going to harm you.
SPEAKER 20 :
Okay. Next question.
SPEAKER 08 :
In all fairness, there is one ethanol plant in North Dakota, Red Trail Energy, owned by GEVO out of Denver, by the way, that is currently burying CO2 at their location, and they're getting paid to do that tax credits.
SPEAKER 20 :
So we've got to get rid of these tax credits across the board. This is not the proper role of government. It's another reason why we have so much debt in our country, and we've got to get that turned around. I had asked you about this, and I don't think that we had talked about it. When I was back in Kansas... went to church and the coffee after church, people were talking about a new pipeline that was from an ethanol plant in Kansas to DIA. I guess maybe we did talk a little bit about this. Do you have any new updates on that? Yeah, we did talk about it.
SPEAKER 08 :
No, I have not pursued that, but that is for sustainable aviation fuel that's to be coming. And that technology is not even close to being available. I mean, we are producing sustainable aviation fuel at, I believe, four locations today. The latest one is in Georgia. And that was the one thing about the big, ugly bill that actually made sense, even though I don't completely agree with it. There were companies from other countries, including China and Brazil, that were getting tax credits for supplying feedstock for sustainable aviation fuel. And case in point, there's a sustainable aviation fuel plant in Los Angeles that was getting restaurant grease from China, and China was getting tax credits. And there's a sustainable aviation fuel plant in Georgia was just built a year and a half ago, and the first ethanol that came to that plant was from Brazil, who were getting tax credits. So the big ugly bill actually eliminated the ability for foreign countries to get tax credits. How ingenious is that?
SPEAKER 20 :
Well, gosh, and how was that restaurant grease getting from China to Los Angeles? Probably on a diesel-powered ship.
SPEAKER 15 :
Not in a pipeline.
SPEAKER 20 :
Yeah, a diesel-powered ship.
SPEAKER 08 :
It was a diesel-powered ship.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, man.
SPEAKER 20 :
Well, good for them. And you heard it here that actually Trent Luce said that there was something that he thought was good about the –
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, except I said I didn't totally agree with it because we're still giving tax credits, which I don't agree with. But at least we got rid of the foreign countries getting tax credits.
SPEAKER 20 :
Yes, that is a step in the right direction. So let's change the subject. You sent something over to me regarding in Canada about government destroying someone's livelihood. And I watched the video. I didn't understand. What is going on? What is happening? So set this up for us, Trent.
SPEAKER 08 :
Have we not talked about the ostrich farm in Canada this year at all?
SPEAKER 20 :
I don't think we have.
SPEAKER 08 :
Wow. One of the owners, Katie, I've had on probably 12 different broadcasts this year. In December, this ostrich farm, which is called Universal Ostrich Farm in British Columbia, had two animals. There was a few died, like 20 died out of 400. They had two they tested with a PCR test. No higher standard test, no ELISA test, nothing else was ever done. And they tested positive for H5N1. So immediately, like governments do, they issued a euthanasia for this flock of 400 ostriches. This is not just an ostrich farm that's been producing meat and selling meat, and I don't know that that matters, but I just wanted to set the tone to why this is such a grave blight on the future of humanity. They determined four years ago that these ostriches and their eggs created antibodies that were much more powerful even than chickens and antibiotic creation. Because back in the day when we actually built vaccines like we suppose it's supposed to do, we'd use antibodies and build vaccines from exposing chickens to low levels and creating antibodies, putting them in the eggs. And that's just how it's worked from the beginning of time. They determined that these ostriches had the ability to create a massive amount of antibodies, so they have been storing antibodies in a data bank. Not a data bank, a literal bank, so that they could be used at any point in time. In fact, they've created antibodies for COVID. They've created antibodies for H5N1. And just think about the concept. If there was a positive, which I'm not agreeing to because they never did anything other than a PCR test. If there was a positive... And they have been now 200 and I believe it's 54 days without a symptom at all within these ostriches. The ostriches that lived are the ostriches that have the immunity that we should want to replicate throughout the entire bird population. But the Canadian Food Inspection Agency issued a euthanasia. The family filed for an appeal. They lost their first appeal, which was about March. They then filed for a stay that they had a chance to have another appeal, but the Canadian Food Inspection Agency would not come in and euthanize these 400 ostriches. They actually got their stay, and then they went to Ottawa. I'm going to say that was probably July. They went to Ottawa, the nation's capital of Canada. and they had another hearing they lost that and so the coal order remained intact and canadian food inspection agency showed up this week monday morning and they came and seized the property that all of this can be verified and i think the video that you watch is actually what would be equivalent to a state legislator Jordan Keeley, who's going to be joining me tomorrow morning live on the air, by the way, on Across the Pond with an update on this because he was at the site this week. But yesterday morning, they literally arrested Katie and her mother, Karen, and her father was not arrested because he's a paraplegic, a quadriplegic, and they had to take him to a care home, but they literally took them off site and Meanwhile, there is, last report I had, more than 150 people there trying to create a human fence, trying to block roads, trying to do whatever they can to prevent the Canadian government from killing these ostriches, which they supposedly are doing at this moment. I haven't gotten any reports this morning because I've been busy, but the public support has absolutely been incredible, and this is going to play out really today.
SPEAKER 20 :
So government is seizing their property under the guise of trying to supposedly protect people from the bird flu. And as Susan continues to remind us, is why would you... kill the healthy birds that have the antibodies to fight the bird flu. And I think I heard you say that they had 20 birds that, when did those birds die?
SPEAKER 08 :
January. January. Correct.
SPEAKER 20 :
And here we are. Now, you mentioned that they had antibodies. How is it that those birds died if, in fact, they had these antibodies there? So explain that to me.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, I mean, some birds are going to be susceptible to it. They didn't vaccinate anything, if that's what you're asking me. They were just building this bank of antibodies. And once they had the H5N1 come through, then the birds were exposed to it. And that's when they can ramp up their collection of the antibodies and have them on storage. So they literally have a flock of ostriches that could create the solution to H5N1 around the world. And instead of embracing that, they're going to eliminate the animals that survived H5N1.
SPEAKER 20 :
Goodness. And basically take away these people's livelihoods. Forty years.
SPEAKER 08 :
Some of these ostriches are 37 years old. Why did they arrest?
SPEAKER 20 :
Was it Katie and her mother?
SPEAKER 08 :
Katie and her mother, Karen. Because Katie has been tremendous. One reason I've had her on the air so many times is she's been tremendous at generating public sentiment, and she was broadcasting live. Every time there was a discussion with an agent on site, she's streaming it. You can keep track of what's going on. They simply got her out of her way because she continues to generate public sentiment, bringing awareness to what these people are doing. They're destroying the future of humanity.
SPEAKER 20 :
So that dot that you're connecting is she was arrested because she was using her freedom of speech?
SPEAKER 08 :
Correct, 100%.
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It is a great day to be alive. And a couple of things I wanted to mention, always have it on our radar, the USMC Memorial Foundation. It is important to remember and honor those that have given their lives or been willing to give their lives for our freedom. And so be sure and support them. Go to USMCMemorialFoundation.org. And then also the Center for American Values. I dearly love that. The work that they're doing, and they're nonpartisan, they're nonpolitical, but they are focused on these foundational principles of honor, integrity, and patriotism. Lots coming in on the text line 720-605-0647. We want to hear from you, and we've got Gammy on the line. Gammy, what is on your radar?
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Oh, man, I'm going to try to behave today. Hi, kids. Three things that I want to bring up, and they all connect. Trent, you know, I've heard you do the shows about the ostriches and everything since I do the 5 o'clock in the morning show. But there's more. I sent on your... Because it wouldn't transfer a map of autism rates in the world. Guess where the biggest percentage of autism, like six, seven hundred percent compared to other areas are North America, Canada and the European nations and a small part Canada. down to way in the South American corner. All the highest rates of autism compared to the rest of the world. Now, that's no accident. That is no accident. And why does all this tie in with things like ostriches? Well, we already know. that the global one world order control freaks and our own deep state that's been infiltrated by those horrible people, World Economic Forum, WHO, UN agenda, all of it. But, you know, our elections, in fact, have been stolen. Everyone says, well, what's that got to do with ostriches? What's that got to do with CO2 pipelines? Everything. It's all connected. Tina Peters on the Rumble. The Truth Matters is her channel. The Truth Matters on Rumble. They just released a big video yesterday that shows you the connections all the way from Venezuela, even other foreign nations, and the machines, all the machines, Sequoia.
SPEAKER 20 :
And, Gammy, what is that website again?
SPEAKER 19 :
It's on Rumble, R-U-M-B-L-E dot com. And then you just type in The Truth Matters and you look at the latest Tina Peters story. Video video. The Gary Burst Bernstein, ex CIA agent and Apollo interview. They get interviewed and they show you all of the fraud that has stolen all of our votes for president. A couple of decades, but really bad now.
SPEAKER 20 :
And Gammy, thank you. And again, she said that's on Rumble, and it was The Truth Matters, I think, correct? So Gammy, thank you. Trent, comment on that, and then we've got Jemay on the line.
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Well, it is all tied together, and it's about crippling the food supply so that people are vulnerable. Just this morning, I learned that there is a sheeppox that has been ravaging, according to the Greece government in Greece, and they've now euthanized 260,000 sheep and goats in Greece based upon a disease that they claim must be euthanized, and they're euthanizing all of these animals. 260,000 in the last 12 months, just in one country.
SPEAKER 20 :
Oh boy. And oh boy. Okay. Thank you. And Jemay is on the line. Jemay, what is on your radar?
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Can you hear me? All right. We gotcha. Okay. Okay. Trent, I'll try to be quick, but I mean, some of the things you say kind of get my attention and get my blood boiling a little bit. But the thing about the the natural gas lines being, you know, disabled to use CO2 or whatever it was. I mean, we have 90 pivots around that yard, that big yard in Nebraska. And we have one person designated all day, every day. I think we pay him 15, 20 bucks an hour to take propane and or diesel out to all those irrigation wells. And then you tell me what they're doing with these lines. I thought there was some hope maybe we could get natural gas. Here in eastern Colorado... Our wells are a fourth of what those wells are. You know, 300 or 400-gallon wells out here, pretty decent well. Up there, it's 1,200, 1,500, the heart of the Ogallala Aquifer, and we have no natural gas in any part of that country. And I guess it just chaps me that when I hear some of the stuff you're saying, man.
SPEAKER 20 :
Okay, and that's Jim May. I didn't hear that correctly. Sorry about that, Jim. You're not Jim May. You're Jim May. So your comments on that, Trent Luce?
SPEAKER 08 :
No, Jim's absolutely right. Everybody should be asking a question at the time when we need more natural gas, and natural gas should be responsible for more of our electric generation, more of the power that we're using. Why are we displacing half of the tall grass prairie, the trailblazer pipeline? with co2 to bury it not even to generate a use to bury it and we're displacing 50 percent of the natural gas running through that system everybody needs to ask that question jim so thank you jim may okay go ahead jim go ahead jim i just wondered co2 is something that occurs all over nature all the time what is the value of sticking it in the ground and storing it anyway
SPEAKER 20 :
Well, and to your point, Jim, CO2 is nature's fertilizer. And so why would we bury nature's fertilizer unless we are wanting to affect our food source? Right, Trent?
SPEAKER 08 :
No, 100%. There is no other reason to cripple the food production system.
SPEAKER 20 :
And then what that means is people will go hungry. And so we have taken for granted, for example, Jim May, ranchers, farmers that have been providing these food sources. They've been abundant and they've been affordable when we've gone to our... The grocery store. And what I'm seeing, though, is people are paying attention. People are starting to organize. We've had some successes. And with that trend, you and I both had Wendy Volk on the show. She is a realtor in Cheyenne. who, she just looked at, she looked and she did the research. And that's one of the things, though, is James Madison said that if the laws are made by men that we elect, but if they're so voluminous that we can't understand them, then it's to no avail. And so we're seeing all these different proposals that are hundreds of pages long. But Wendy took the time to understand it, ask intelligent questions, let other people know about it. They had a conversation and then they were able to go to their county commissioners with in reasonable voices, having a conversation. and issuing or you know giving them their their concerns and the county commissioners voted to deny the permit we're having some successes you've said this trent that we need to be involved at the local level i'm seeing more and more people do so trent we've got a couple of minutes left how would you like to finish this up today well i need to get more information about what's happening in platte county of wyoming the neighboring county to the north of um
SPEAKER 08 :
Laramie County. We had that success story last week, which, by the way, it will then go to the state, and the state industrial commission will try to override the local. I've experienced this time and time again. But, Kim, I'm getting this phone call every day, and yesterday the call came from the state of Maryland. A farmer was concerned that they're going to take the neighboring farm and cover it up with solar panels. And I just remind everybody, this is after the August 19th statement by Brooke Rawlins, Secretary of Agriculture, saying effectively, immediately, we will not take any more farmland for wind and solar. And we do it every day.
SPEAKER 20 :
You know, and, boy, that raises a question. Here we don't have enough time because I was thinking about this, is that we're seeing the state governments that are approving this. So I'm going to make a note. We're going to talk about that next week on does the federal government have any jurisdiction over what these state governments are doing.
SPEAKER 08 :
The federal government is enabling the tax credits. It's the IRS and the federal government making it happen.
SPEAKER 20 :
Okay. Okay. So we got to continue to stay on that, Trent Luce. I really do appreciate it. These are such important discussions that we're having. And so we will talk next week. Thank you.
SPEAKER 08 :
Thanks, Kim.
SPEAKER 20 :
And our quote that I wanted to share for the end of the show, I just pulled this one up because I'd shared what I initially thought we'd use. And that is Alexander Solzhenitsyn said this, to destroy a people, you must first sever their roots. But I think that we are reclaiming our roots today. And so this is such a time as this. So today, my friends, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you, 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. And I don't want no one to cry. But tell them if I don't survive.
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Join professional money manager Bill Gundersen as he dissects the latest market trends on this week's Best Stocks Now show. With a keen eye on the mixed performance of the Dow, NASDAQ, and S&P 500, Bill provides insights into how geopolitical tensions, such as Ukraine's actions against Russia, impact international stock markets. Delve into the vital and dynamic roles of financial planning and investment strategies in navigating these turbulent times.
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He's been seen on CNBC, the Fox News Channel, and the Fox Business Channel. His articles can be found on MarketWatch, Seeking Alpha, thestreet.com, and many other places. He's the author of the weekly Best Stocks Now newsletter and the inventor of the Best Stocks Now app. He's president of Gundersen Capital Management. Here is professional money manager Bill Gundersen.
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And welcome to the midweek already Wednesday edition of the Best Stocks Now show with professional money manager Bill Gunderson, president of Gunderson Capital Management, a nationwide fee-based only money management financial planning firm. We've got a mixed market today. We've got the Dow just slightly up 47 points right now. UNH, UnitedHealthcare.com. is the leader in the Dow right now. The Dow's at 46,339. Meanwhile, over at the NASDAQ, it's down 8 points. 22,564 after hitting a new all-time high on Monday. The S&P 500 is down 1.5 to 66.55 after hitting a new all-time high on Monday. The small cap Russell 2000 down 20 basis points right now. Over at the bond market, we're down a few basis points today after, once again, Jerome Powell, another hawkish speech. This time he threw in the expensive stock market, which I agree with him on that. But behind the curve, Jerome, once again, bashing the market yesterday. We've got the bond market, as I said, a little bit on the quiet side right now with the 10-year down two basis points to 4.12%. There is some action in oil right now. It's up 1.5% as Ukraine ups the ante hitting Russian refineries. So welcome to today's Best Stocks Now show. with uh... professional money manager bill gunderson president of gunderson capital management barry maybe we should uh... rename the show best stocks now best financial planners now show uh... you know i've had some people uh... outside that don't know a whole lot about our company say well you guys don't do any financial planning you just do money management i said no wouldn't you say barry that we give equal weight To financial planning and to money management.
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And not as sexy to talk about, right, in terms of a daily show, in terms of the inner workings of what we do from an investment standpoint. But, yeah, I mean, that's certainly included in what we do, part of what we do, and helps guide us in terms of, What makes sense? What strategies make sense that you run that fits with someone's needs at that given time?
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My goal has always been to offer superior financial planning, which I think we do. I think Barry's as good as any financial planner I've ever heard. I've heard him talk in there with those people that we meet with about that end of their equation. And I'll put our financial planning up against anybody's, all right? But I also believe in superior investing, too, superior investments. I would say that the vast majority of Wall Street puts all the emphasis on the financial planning with mediocre investing, all right? What's wrong with trying to have both? Just like stocks, I want great valuation and I want great momentum in the stock. I want leaders, not laggards, okay? And we want to try to accomplish the same thing in our nationwide financial planning program. fee-based only money management business, Gundersen Capital Management. You know, there's some very big news here that is pretty earth-shaking, and it literally could be earth-shaking at some point in the future. But the pivot that Donald Trump made, President Trump made, against Russia was pretty monumental yesterday. I mean, you know, he went to being a big hawk against Russia yesterday, There's a couple of quotes here that I wanted to read. And you might say, well, what's this have to do with the stock market? Well, you know what? World events have a lot to do with the stock market. Why do you think oil is up a couple of percentage points here today? Because Ukraine is now emboldened and they're amping up their attacks on Russian refineries. Oh, and by the way, you know, Russia is a big oil producer, and all of a sudden I'm seeing some new life here in a lot of the oil stocks.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, when you start hurting refineries and then you start hurting the pocket, right, of Putin, we've been talking about... India, you know, buying oil from Russia, China, other countries and getting a good deal on it. But if you want to, you know, instead of, you know, we haven't been successful in terms of sanctions being enough for India. So next level, right, is Ukraine is attacking these countries. and refineries to kind of stop the flow.
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Yeah, and I think Trump tried the peace through diplomatic efforts, and it was met with a giant thud. And I think now he's going to pivot to peace through strength, and he's going to show, but there could be big ramifications from that, all right? There could be big, big, big ramifications from that. We met with somebody while we were there. I really enjoyed talking with her. But she listens to Martin Armstrong, who's been around for quite some time. He's been in and out of prison. He claims to have invented the computer called Socrates that predicts the future. And he's predicting World War III next year. Okay. Hey, that prediction's looking more and more like a possibility here as each day goes by. The market ended its win streak yesterday. Jerome Powell made sure of that with more hawkish speech against, you know, he says there's risk on both ends. There's inflation risk and there's jobs risk. So there's really... No safe way to go, but they leaned towards the jobs risk by cutting the interest rate by 25 basis points here recently. Was Monday the top of the NASDAQ, the S&P 500, and the Dow? Well, only time will tell. I don't think it was. I'm not seeing signs of that yet. But it did hit all-time highs on Monday, and we did have a sell-off yesterday. But, you know, Poland's currency is reeling today. The Zloty, after Trump backs use of force against Russian jets, he says, hey, they fly over Poland, shoot them down. The rhetoric is heating up to nuclear powers. I believe I was a little boy when the Bay of Pigs happened, when the standoff in Cuba happened there. JFK was the president at that time. The Russian fuel crisis grows as Ukraine steps up drone attacks on refineries. The WHO, that's the World Health Organization, they dismissed the link between autism and Tylenol after Trump claims. You know, I don't know that the WHO gave us very good advice on the pandemic back in the COVID days. The WHO seems to be pretty heavily influenced by China, and they pretty much defended China through all of that, saying, oh, it wasn't China. The COVID did not come from China.
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You may want to listen to The Who on health advice. They're still rocking out there.
SPEAKER 03 :
The only Who I listen to, yeah, is Bob O'Reilly, who performed in Mountain View last week, right? Big news, but the pivot, okay? the he flew putin into alaska they sat down they tried to smoke the peace pipe i want vladimir i want the killing to stop uh let's just take what you've gained in land so far and and you take it and let's draw the lines and Let's stop the killing. And it absolutely had no impact whatsoever on. Is it Gog of Magog? Well, only time will tell. That's another one. If you're a believer in the Old Testament and Ezekiel, he saw somebody called Gog from Magog. in the latter days. But anyways, he sure is ruffling feathers around the world, especially with Europe. Europe kind of needs to get tough too, in my opinion. Quit buying oil from him. Are you kidding me? Here, on the one hand, you're amping up your defense spending. And on the other hand, you're buying Russian oil and funding the attacks, which makes no sense whatsoever. So anyways, that's a major pivot that I think could have major ramifications at some point in the future if things continue to heat up. The other big news comes out of China. Well, we were there in the Bay Area. I think one of the stocks I featured at the workshop that night was Alibaba, and I used it as an example of a very good chart. And a stock that has tons of AI exposure and is trading at much lower multiples than our AI stocks. Much, much, much lower. But it does come with the Chinese political risk, obviously. Well, we put our money where our mouth is, and we already owned it in our value portfolio, but we also added it to our premier growth portfolio. The race is on. The AI race is on between China and the U.S. as Alibaba ups the ante. And basically, Europe watches from the sidelines while they're more interested in climate change right now. We'll be right back. And welcome back to the second quarter of today's Best Stocks Now show. Well, I would say there's a couple stocks of the day so far. One's a small biotech that we don't have any exposure to, but we do have. I mean, we own Alibaba in our premier growth portfolio. which is having a very, very good year. We have, let's see, about 18 or 19, 20 stocks in there right now. BABA is one of those stocks. And it's also in the relative value portfolio. It's up 32% since we added it on September the 5th of this year. And I just looked at how expensive the US AI stocks were. We still own many of them, right? Several, several. And I said, you know what? Alibaba is a large cap, a third of a trillion dollar company, market cap, trading at under 20 times earnings. And it just made sense to me from a valuation and an AI exposure point of view.
SPEAKER 04 :
And like you said, you're weighing the valuation against some of the political risk, obviously country risk in terms of the company, but it's a very low valuation compared to similar names of the U.S. counterparts.
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And don't discount China as part of this AI race. I mean, it's almost like the race to the moon between the U.S. and Russia in the early days. The 60s. Now here we are 60 years later, and it's the race for AI superiority. Alibaba is going to incorporate NVIDIA's robotic software in its AI platform. Now, obviously not the... the uh... the high-end ships uh... but uh... they're going to use their software uh... and they announced an integration of the full suite of nvidia physical a i stack and they're gonna up their investment big-time alibaba's hong kong listed shares are up nine percent after the e-commerce giant announced plans to ramp up artificial intelligence spending passed an original 50 billion plus target and they unveiled their largest ever language model quen 3 max the company also said it plans to integrate nvidia suite of ai development tools okay so that's big big news and of course they've had a lot of really good news recently coming from Alibaba, who in the early days, you know, they are also working on chips, semiconductors. There's also a race there to catch up with NVIDIA, and Alibaba is a player there, too. So that's got the Chinese stocks. The Chinese market's up over 30% so far here in 2025, and I would say it's being driven by, Buy AI, and like I say, the Chinese stocks are a lot cheaper. The Tencent holding, the big ones, the big ones, NetEase, Tencent holdings, Alibaba. For me, there's three or four or five stocks maybe that are investable, and those are them right now. Texas, what's going on in Texas? Stargate. A massive $500 billion joint venture between Microsoft-backed OpenAI, who's made a lot of news this week. OpenAI helped boost NVIDIA on Monday because NVIDIA is going to use NVIDIA chips in their data centers. The joint venture also includes Oracle and SoftBank. Now, I remember the day they announced this from the Oval Office. Microsoft CEO, it was Sam Altman from OpenAI, and it was Larry Ellison from Oracle, and, of course, Sun from SoftBank. But where are they going to build this large-scale data center? Abilene, Texas. So that big building you see going up is going to be the first Stargate data center, and it's going to be in Abilene, Texas. No, it's not going to be a slaughterhouse where they make brisket and T-bone steaks in Abilene. It's going to be the first large-scale data center by this new partnership. The complex will feature eight buildings. Oh boy, that's going to take some nuclear energy that will eventually house hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA's artificial intelligence chips, Mary. How much are those chips, the Blackwells, $50,000? $50,000 at least, yes. You know, I want to buy one to just sit on my desk. That's an expensive paperweight, and someday it will be a paperweight because there will be something new and way better and way faster. I wish I still had my K-Pro computer. I think I probably took it to the Goodwill or something at some point, but now it's probably worth a lot of money. I don't know.
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I wonder what the depreciation value is on those chips after, you know, because I would guess it would be pretty high on the accelerated depreciation.
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The entire complex will require about 900 megawatts of power. I think Dallas will go dark when they flip the switch. Like that Christmas vacation when Chevy Chase flips the switch and the whole city goes dark, but his house is lit up. The data center will glow, I guess. Yes. Stargate eventually plans to build two more data centers in Texas, one in New Mexico, one in Ohio, four dead in Ohio, and another in a Midwest location. Ted Cruz says Texas is ground zero. for AI. These data centers are designed to not use water, said Oracle CEO, co-CEO Clay McGurick. All the data centers that we are building in this part of Stargate are designed to not use water. The reason we do this is because it turns out that it's harmful for the environment And this is a better solution. So there you go. Watch for it in Texas. Watch for the lights to dim at your home when the thing is flipped. And, of course, you know, the two Texas-related nuke companies, you've got Talon Energy and you've got the other one, Vistra.
SPEAKER 04 :
With no water, the interesting thing is what's the coolant, right? I mean, there's got to be a coolant in some of those air-conditioned companies that you've named off before.
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Well, we own A.O. Smith. That thing's hitting new all-times highs right now, so that's also a big deal. And there's other cooling solutions that we're invested in also. Now wait, if that's not enough, the other big story continues to be the weight loss drug out of Lilly. They're going to build a $6.5 billion Texas plant. to manufacture the obesity pill. They're going to build this in Houston. I think, Barry, that I am smelling a Houston trip coming up at some point in time here. We are in Houston. We've been there for about a year, two years. I mean, there's a lot going on in Houston. You've got the space exploration. You've got a little bit of nuclear. You've got LNG. And now they're going to make the ZepBound drug down there in Houston at Generation Park in Houston. Generation Park in Houston.
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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 Stocks Now. So two NVIDIA directors report stock sales. One guy sold $62 million worth of stock. And the other guy, let's see, following the sale, the overall stake, he still owns $6 billion. Okay, so it's a small sale, Barry. It's financial planning, right? And another guy sold $7 million worth. He still owns $25 million. You know, that's kind of the strategy we suggest if you have a big heavy position in one stock. And it depends a lot on the stock. I mean, if you have a heavy position in a smaller cap, very volatile stock, the pace of diversifying should be quicker. All right? That's part of financial planning there. And if you have a very stable stock... and you have huge capital gains, you know, another factor that comes into play is your age. In California, if the husband dies, the wife gets stepped up cost basis, right, Barry, in stocks because of it being a, what do you call it, when the husband and the wife are equal partners in that. And also, obviously, when you pass on, you would avoid completely the capital gains if you pass it on to the next generation. They get a step up. in cost basis. So all of that comes into play. The stock you own, how much it is of your portfolio, how old you are, what your plans are for the future. That's all part of that financial planning formula. Boeing taps Palantir for AI integration across defense programs and factories. Well, you know, we know that Boeing is booming right now. You know what else is underneath Boeing doing very well is Rolls-Royce. They make a lot of the jet engines, right? And they're also in the nuclear business. R-Y-C-E-Y I see is now trading... ADRs on the U.S. Stock Exchange. So that makes it a lot more liquid and a lot more easy to get in and out of. Let's take a look at Boeing right now, BA. Boeing has stabilized. It's had a little sell-off recently. And yesterday they announced three Turkey stocks. China and Kazakhstan. Boeing announced all three of those yesterday, right? Boeing is booming, like you say. The boom at Boeing continues. And Palantir, you know, it hit 190, and then it sold off down to 148, and now it's headed towards 190 again. It's back to 181, and it still continues to be, in my book, The best software stock out there at the current time. But having said that, Palantir has a PE ratio of 344 right now. We do own Palantir. It's a very dominant company in what they do. It still has a lot of growth, a lot of runway in front of it. But it's not one that... You know, you can just go to sleep on and check it five years from now. It's, you know, one that has to be managed just a little bit along the way. Should the market start to turn, I mean, those are the stocks, the Palantirs of the world and others, the high PE stocks that would be the first to get hit. Lithium America skyrockets as the Trump administration reportedly seeks an equity stake. Well, Lithium America must have more than just lithium, because I know that the Trump administration would not invest in a lithium miner. They're not real big backers of the EV makers and the cars. So Lithium America must have some exposure. It's got to have some rare earth. Rare earth. And yesterday, as I looked through the charts yesterday, I couldn't believe the rare earth stocks yesterday. UUUU Energy Fuels, which is uranium. The uranium and the rare earth stocks were absolutely blowing up to the upside yesterday. And it was probably on this news. Lithium America, Barry, is now up 101%.
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And they are, I mean, their mine is in Nevada. So maybe they have the same kind of exposure that Mountain Pass. We know that MP already has received an investment, not only from Apple, but from the Trump administration. MP, from the Department of Defense. MP... is hitting 75 right now it sold off recently and uh it's starting to go back up but u.s antimony got a big contract from the department of defense yesterday uh it had a big day so anyways yesterday those were the stars of the day were the smaller uh Rare earth stocks, U.S. rare earth, USAR was another one that was on fire. But today, look at this lithium America. Obviously, there's more there than just lithium. There must be some exposure to the rare earths. Oclo cut to neutral at Seaport on valuation after shares double in two weeks. You know, okay, I've got to bring this up. I was listening this morning to an interview Bloomberg Europe. And they had on the Minister of Climate Change from the UK. And, of course, he was talking about Trump's speech to the UN and how Trump really dissed wind and solar and Europe for a lot of things. And I'm sure they dissed him also. That's kind of a love-hate relationship there. But, you know, the UK guy, he was all in. The UK is all in on solar and wind. They're not going to increase their production of oil in the North Sea. But the one word that he kept throwing into the conversation and made sure that everybody heard him is, He says, we're all for, we want to be all renewable energy at some point in time, including, guess what, nuclear. Okay, that's a big deal, right? I mean, they don't want fossil fuels anymore. But nuclear has made the pivot.
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But nuclear, yeah, nuclear is in the inner circle, right?
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It's in the inner circle now, and it's a heck of a lot more. Think of the space that a nuclear plant takes up and the energy it produces compared to a wind farm in the ocean off of Scotland or the British Isles there. It's much more highly focused and concentrated. Now, Europe does not have the AI exposure. In fact, I heard another analyst say, you know, someone said, how about Europe and AI? I said, well, we're kind of just sitting it out and watching the U.S. and China. duke it out they're not really part of that ai race at all and they're they continue to back down from fossil fuels across the board pretty much in europe but They're leaning heavily towards nuclear and, you know, therein lies a lot of investment possibilities there for nuclear power in Europe. There's still some countries, Germany, last time I heard, they were anti-nuclear. And along those lines, Constellation Energy says that the Crane Nuclear Plant, now they renamed that nuclear plant. It used to be known as Three Mile Island Unit One. They renamed it, Barry.
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They changed the name. Imagine that.
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Here's a sign painter went up there, okay, and whited out, you know, painted over Three Mile Island Unit 1 and replaced it with Crane Clean Energy Center in Pennsylvania. They are ahead of schedule and will have that unit back up and running by 2027. The project is nearly 80% staffed with 500 full-time employees on site and dozens more pending. Inspections of steam generators, main generators, emergency diesel generators, and underground piping have been completed or are near completion. And they've received approval from grid operator PJM, which I believe is Maryland, Pennsylvania, I'm not sure what the J stands for, for interconnection, clearing the path for grid integration and allowing the unit to accelerate its restart to 2027. That's Constellation Energy. And that has all been made possible through a 20-year power purchase agreement with Microsoft. Marking a symbolic turning point, which that was. I mean, that was the turning point. That's the day the lights went on in Georgia, right? Or in Pennsylvania. A turning point for the U.S. nuclear industry. I mean, to bring back Three Mile Island, Unit 1. And what's it linked to? AI. How many data centers did they say were in the Silicon Valley? I want to say 78. and counting. And guess what? They're pro-nuke now, too, in the green state of California. We'll be right back. And welcome back here to the final segment of today's Best Stocks Now show. The stock of the day is a biotech. It's been around for a while. I've never owned it, but they came up. They're succeeding in a pivotal trial for one time Huntington's disease therapy. It's a Dutch biotech. The symbol is CURE. Good symbol. Q-U-R-E. And the stock today is up 196%, Barry. That's just shy of a triple.
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That's always a good success story. I like when you highlight those.
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Yes, and, you know, I mean, if you look at the – That's a bad one. Yeah, if you just look at the biotech sector, it has a major impact on the whole biotech ETF. There's one – you know, I'm not a big fan of ETFs, but a biotech ETF, you know, you're going to get much bigger exposure there. You know, a lot of these are one-hit wonders that come along. Just like the old days, some of the artists that had one big hit, and a lot of people tried to have that one big hit but never did. Well, the biotech industry has a lot of risk. and spreading out that risk. But anyways, Unicure announced on Wednesday that it's one-time gene therapy. This is gene therapy. This is another milestone. The drug AMT-130 reached its main goal in a pivotal Phase II of III trial for patients with Huntington's disease. which is a rare neurodegenerative disorder. So if you know somebody with Huntington's disease, maybe they can get into the clinical trial. uh there seems to be a lot of hope here when i whenever i see news like this i always look and see how the stock is reacting and the stock has tripled uh here on this news so congratulations there to uh the early investors that got it at 25 cents a share and took a risk and There's capitalism at work. What can I say? That profit incentive, which drives a lot of innovation. Marvell Technology announces an additional $5 billion stock repurchase authorization and a $1 billion accelerated share repurchase program. So Marvell is also having a good day. The chip maker, which also is on the fringes, not too far from the center of AI itself. And Marvell is one of the cheaper semiconductor stocks. It's headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware. Marvell has got a PE ratio of 32. We do own Marvell in our relative value portfolio, and it's done pretty well since we've added it. It's up 3.2% on that news. You always like to see a stock buying back their own shares. A lot of times we'll put in a bottom, and good stuff there. Okay, here's another nuclear player. This one is emerging on the scene here, Mirion. Now, Mirion, I don't know if this is the old Morant, which was, I believe, in Houston. And Morant was kind of, it was back in the days of the California. Remember when they were upping the price, these energy brokers, the days of Enron? Morant was a player in that. I had a friend that actually was an energy trader. And, you know, when California had a heat wave, man, they could up the price on that energy that they were shipping in from Texas. And it was crazy. Well, now it's still the same symbol, MIR. I don't know if this is the same company. Now it's Mirion. But Mirion is acquiring Paragon Energy Solutions from Windjammer Capital Investors for $585 million. This broadens Mirion's portfolio of offerings for nuclear power customers, including small modular reactors, the SMRs, And this purchase is also accretive to their diluted EPS within the first full year past acquisition. So we will keep our eye on Mirion, which is currently a $5.3 billion stock out of Atlanta, Georgia. That's where this one is. And it's in the nuclear sector. the smaller nuclear sector. Then there was an AI stock, and I'll probably have to end here with this one, maybe get in one more. United States Antimony. Not alimony, but antimony. They make antimony metal ingots, which is important. And the U.S. Department of Defense, they got a $245 million contract to restock Those antimony methyl ingots. And UAMY set off a huge rally in the rare earths yesterday. I saw UUUU and others, U.S. Rare Earth, USAR. And I've brought up U.S. Antimony before. They are out of Montana. They're headquartered in Dallas, Texas, but I believe that their mines are in Montana. They're in Sanders County. where they mine antimony, oxide, sodium, antimony, and precious metals. The stock is down 4% today, but they did get a huge contract from the Department of Defense yesterday. Okay, as of now, we don't have our next trip scheduled. We're licking our wounds and resting up a little bit. That was quite a week there in the Silicon Valley. And I can't wait to get back there early next year sometime, do another workshop, meet with more folks. And we're following up with a lot of those folks we met with back there. A lot of single stock concentration issues.
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Great stories, right, overall.
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Yes, great stories. Really good. One guy was a major M&A guy that has done a lot of the early M&A activity. He has his own company doing that in high tech. Another guy that helped build the original technology platform inside the NIO, the Chinese EV cars. I mean, just one story after another. I absolutely had. An info hound like me had an absolute blast there listening to this story.
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Just putting a bunch of puzzle pieces together.
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Yes. Yes. And a lot of. Aha moments also. We'll be back, but we've still got to get up to Minnesota at some point here and up to Pittsburgh and out to Denver, Colorado, and over to Houston. So anyways, what a great business. I love every minute of it. If you'd like to get a four-week trial to the newsletter, our portfolios are having a really, really good year here in 2025. You can look at them. We're transparent. Get a free four-week trial to the newsletter at GundersenCapital.com. And to set up an appointment with us from anywhere in the world, really, as long as we can open an account for you here in the U.S., 855-611-BEST. 855-611-BEST. Have a great day, everybody.
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In this enriching episode of 'The Flatline,' host Rick Hughes addresses the universal struggle of loneliness, offering a transformative perspective centered on divine love and companionship. Rick discusses the roots of loneliness, the destructive nature of bitterness, and the path to emotional freedom through understanding God's unwavering presence and promises. Tune in to discover how these timeless truths can revolutionize your spiritual journey and anchor your soul in a world often plagued by self-centric values.
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Welcome to the Flatline with your host, Rick Hughes. For the next 30 minutes, you'll be inspired, motivated, educated, but never manipulated. Now, your host, Rick Hughes.
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Good morning and welcome to the Flatline. I'm your host, Rick Hughes, and for the next few minutes, please stick around. It'll be a short time, just about 30 minutes of motivation, some inspiration, some education, and as always, no manipulation, no con games, no hustling anybody, not trying to raise money, not trying to sell you anything. If you notice, there are no commercials on this radio show. This show is simply about giving you accurate information, information that will help you verify as well as identify the plan of God for your life, and if you want to orient and adjust to the plan, well that's up to you that's your choice but my job is to be an accurate communicator of truth let me make one thing clear to you if this is the first time you've heard our show i'm not a political talk show host this show is not about politics why because politics will not deliver this nation from what's coming if we continue down the road to our own i believe the future of this great nation is to be determined by your response to the word of god not who we elect as our next senator or who we elect as our next president. It's you and who you elect to govern your life and govern your destiny. And that must be God's plan for you individually because as goes your spiritual life, so goes the destiny of our nation. So don't point a finger at the president. Don't point a finger at Congress. Someone once said, if you point a finger at someone, there's three of them pointing right back at you. You're the answer. You're the solution to what's going on if you're serious about this. One of the most depressing emotions in your life may be the feeling that no one really cares about you. As we enter the new year and go through the Christmas holidays, a lot of people get like this. They think no one cares about them. No one cares what happens to them. It's loneliness. Loneliness that'll swallow you up, thinking no one really loves you and no one really cares about you. Even your children may claim they love you, but rarely do they call or rarely do they come around because they're busy living their lives. So there you are, sitting alone at home, eating alone, going to bed alone. And these can be very depressing emotions in your life. The end result is bitterness. It'll set in and you'll get resentful and you'll withdraw into a shell like a turtle. Even sometimes our friends and our children love us because of what we have or what we can do for them. So they may patronize you or pretend to care, but in reality they really don't sometimes, and that's just the way life is. But let me tell you who does love you, who always will love you, so that you'll understand this. You remember the great artist Elvis, the rock and roll singer of the 70s and the 80s? He sang a song called, If You Love Me, Let Me Know. I want to let you know who loves you. I can guarantee you who loves you because that answer is God loves you. And I can even verify that from the scripture. bigger question may be do you love him but we'll get around to that shortly i'm sure so let's start off with this concept so you'll understand it god's very essence god's very nature is love l-o-v-e first john 4 8 god is love now there are a lot of different words for love in the bible in the greek new testament they all translate into the english love It could be a rao, it could be agapao, it could be phileo, but we're talking about agapao, God loves you. God is love. It's his very essence, it's his very nature. And he demonstrated that love in 1 John 4, 9. Here's what it says. Listen carefully. See if you can identify the love of God for you in this verse. Quote 1 John 4, 9. By this the love of God was manifested in us. You hear that? The love of God was manifested in us. How? By this. By what? that he sent his uniquely born son into the world so that we might live through him. 1 John 4, 9 and verse 10. In this is love, not that we love God, but that he loved us and sent his son to be the propitiation for our sin. There's the first demonstration that God loves you. He allowed his son, our savior, the uniquely born Lord Jesus Christ to come into this world, to go to the cross, die for our sins, be resurrected and ascend back into heaven. guaranteeing you that you can have that same trip if you put your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Christ was your propitiation. What's that big word mean? It means he paid for your sin. It's like you, people have used this illustration millions of times, but like you're on death row and someone comes in and says, let him go, I'll die in his place. That's what the Lord Jesus Christ did. He didn't sin. He wasn't responsible for the condemnation. You sin, the Bible says, for by one man, sin came into the world and death by sin and death passed on all for all have sinned and all have come short of the glory of God. By this, the love of God was manifested. God sent his uniquely born son into the world. That's how much he loves you. Now, before you get all bent out of shape, feeling bitter and lonely and thinking no one loves you, just stop for a minute. Bow your head in prayer and say, thank you, God, for loving me. Because if it were not for God's loving grace, we wouldn't have a chance. We would wind up in the lake of fire along with Satan and the fallen angels, but we don't have to go there. We have an opportunity to be face-to-face with the Lord through the propitiation that Christ offered on our behalf. So God's nature is love. That's how I can prove it to you. And secondly, God's love was demonstrated by what he did. It's perfect. It's unconditional. You've heard John 3.16 so many times. You can quote it like me. For God so loved the world. You and I are part of the world. We are the jerks that live in the world. He loved the world so much that he gave his only begotten son that whoever would believe in him should not perish but have everlasting life. whoever would believe in him, not give up Coca-Cola, not give up Pepsi-Cola, not give up Dr. Pepper, whoever would believe in him has nothing to do with what you give up, has nothing to do with what you quit doing. It has everything to do with what he did for you on that cross. Do you believe that Jesus Christ was the anointed son of God? Do you believe that he paid the penalty for your sin? Are you willing to tell God in prayer, Father, I'm a sinner and I know it, and I'm willing to trust the finished work of Christ on my behalf. I accept Jesus as my Savior. That's the most powerful prayer any man, any woman could ever pray in this world. Romans 5.8, God demonstrated his love towards us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. That's divine, impersonal love. You didn't have to earn it. You didn't have to purchase it. You didn't have to prove anything. While you were still a sinner, Christ died for you. That's an amazing love. God loves you that much. You're that valuable to God. You're his creation. God loves you. Remember that. Don't forget that. And here's something else. You cannot manipulate God's love. Don't think you can. doesn't love you more when you're a good little boy or a good little girl and he doesn't love you less if you're bad we're not talking about Santa Claus we're talking about God he's immutable and his love never changes he does not get mad at you when you fail he's not happy with you when you do good his love is based on his character not what you do his love is based on his character not what you do So whatever secrets you may have in a closet that make you think God does not love you, you can throw them away. It has nothing to do with God's love. God loves you based on who he was, not based on who you are. So just imagine someone who loves you even though you act like a jerk. Maybe you've been through a divorce. Maybe you've lost your spouse and you acted like a jerk and your spouse doesn't love you anymore. And maybe rightfully so. But God still loves you. I don't care what you've done. God loves you. You may be incarcerated today. Maybe you did a terrible crime and you think God cannot forgive you. You're wrong. God loves you. Wherever you may be, incarcerated, in a car, at home, God loves you. Don't forget that. Please. Loves you even though you have been a jerk. So remember this, don't forget this part of it now. God's essence does include justice. And what his righteousness rejects, his justice is going to have to judge. He loves you, but he will judge you. In Hebrews 12, six, you can see it. If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with a son. Because what son is there whom the father does not chasten or discipline? But if you don't have any discipline of which all have become partakers, then you're not really a son. Furthermore, we've had human fathers who corrected us and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the father of spirits and live? And live? Proverbs 15, 10, harsh discipline is for him who forsakes the way and he who hates correction will die. God loves you and he will discipline you if you're his child. If you've accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your savior and you've wandered in the sin, gone down the my way highway, you've gotten involved in some sort of sin that's captured your soul and captured your emotion, God will discipline you. Not because he's mad at you, because he's trying to save your life. He's trying to save you from self-destruction because what you're doing will eventually destroy you. And you know that. You just don't know how to get out of it. That's why the Bible says if we will confess our sin, he's faithful and just to forgive us and purify us from all of our wrongdoing. That's where it starts. Once you go to God and admit your sin, you allow the Holy Spirit to take control of your life if you're a believer. And once the Holy Spirit's in control of your life, then you can start to grow in the grace and knowledge of your Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. If you take God's word, open it up, read it, learn it, apply it into your life, eventually get into a great church under a wonderful pastor that can teach you God's word, that's how you break the chains and the binders of sin that has you captured. So God will discipline you. And if you get bitter about that, harsh discipline is for those who forsake the way, Proverbs 15, 10. If you get bitter about that, listen to what it says, he who hates correction will die. There is a son unto death, and that means that God can bring you home anytime he wants to. He can check you out early if you can't handle his discipline. His discipline is an indication that he loves you. If he didn't love you, he wouldn't even pay any attention to you. He would ignore you. He'd neglect you. The fact that he's not neglecting you, the fact that he's disciplining you is indication, proof positive. He loves you. He does not want you to destroy your life or the lives of anyone involved with you. So divine discipline is that proof God loves you. I mean, what father, loving father, wouldn't at least discipline his children? Now here's something I want you to remember. His love for you is demonstrated in his promises. There are a lot of them in the Bible. I just chose a few to remind you of. But this is where his love is demonstrated in his promises. We'll look at Jeremiah 29, 11. Here's what God said. I know the thoughts that I think towards you, says the Lord. Thoughts of peace, not of evil, to give you a future and to give you a hope. That's confidence. So there's a guarantee that God loves you. His thoughts are not to hurt you. His thoughts are not to harm you. His thoughts are to prosper you and bless you and give you a future and a hope and a confidence in this world. And how does he do it? In 1 Corinthians 10, 13, the New Testament writes these words, no temptation has overtaken you except that which is common to man. And God is faithful. There it says, love demonstrated again. God is faithful who will never allow you to be tempted beyond what you're capable of standing, but with the temptation will also make a way of escape so that you will be able to bear it. That's how much God loves you. That's proof demonstrated in his promises. He will not allow you to be tempted more than you can stand. He will always provide a way out. And that's through rebound, through the filling of the Holy Spirit, and through spiritual growth, getting rid of the scar tissue in your soul. You may have that scar tissue now. You may have thoughts that won't go away, things that you've done years ago that just are seated deep in your soul, and you feel guilty about it. Satan loves that. He loves to manipulate you through guilt. God doesn't manipulate people through guilt. God offers forgiveness and cleansing from those sins. So his love is demonstrated in his promises. I'll tell you another way his love is demonstrated. His love is demonstrated in his provisions for you. Listen to what the Lord Jesus Christ told his disciples. If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and receive you to myself so that where I am, you may be also. He didn't leave them and hang them out to dry. He said, I'll come back for you. He told them he was going to be put to death. He warned them about that. He warned them what they would face. But he said, I will come back for you. That's promise of the Lord Jesus Christ. It's a wonderful promise. And it's a provision that he made for us. So in John 10, 28, I give them eternal life and they will never perish forever. neither shall any man snatch them out of my hand. There are some promises right there, provisions for you. Provision number one, eternal life in heaven so that you can be with the Lord Jesus Christ face to face. Provision number two, eternal security. Nobody can take you out of God's hand. Nobody can take you away from God's hand. You say, well, what about me taking my own self away? Hey, the Bible clearly says, even if we believe not, yet he's still about a faithful, for he cannot deny himself. Once you become a member of the royal family of God, God's not going to disinherit you. God's not going to disown you. He will discipline you so that you don't self-destruct, but he does it in love because he loves you. He cares for you. You are his valuable creature. You're his valuable creation. That's why God loves you. His love for you can also be demonstrated by his presence within you. In Psalm 16, verse 11, you will show me the path of life and your presence is full of joy. This is a wonderful promise from God. If he's with you, Jesus said this, my joy I've given to you so that your joy may be full in John 15, 11. Living the Christian life is a wonderful way to live. It's not giggling, it's not laughing, but it's a confident peace and expectation of what you have and what's to come. That's the joy. No stress, no worry, no guilt, no animosity. Loving your enemies as you love yourself. Forgiving those that harm you and serving God with all of your heart. Having an open heart and an open life and an open mind. He can read your thoughts. Did you know that? He can read your thoughts. He knows what you're thinking. So you're not going to pull anything over on God. So why not just be honest with him and say, Father, I've really screwed up. I've really done some dumb, stupid things. And I confess those things to you and I ask you to forgive me. I know you love me. Rick has told me you love me, Father. Go ahead and accept that love. Go ahead and buy into that because he does love you, demonstrated by his presence. I give them eternal life and they will never perish. You will show me the path of life, and in your presence is fullness of joy. Being in the presence of God? Can you imagine what that's like? I mean, maybe you've been in the presence of some celebrities. I've been around a few, not very many. The biggest celebrity I know is the Lord Jesus Christ. He's the King of kings and the Lord of lords. But the Bible says, in your right hand are pleasures forevermore. In Psalm 1611, you will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy, and at your right hand are pleasures forevermore. You cannot even believe what awaits you in heaven. He loves you so much, the Bible says, the eye hath not seen, the ear has never heard, and the heart cannot contemplate the things that God has for you. wildest imagination, figure out what heaven's gonna be like. It's a pleasure beyond your expectation. No more pain, no more sorrow, no more tears. The old things are passed away. And yes, you will see people that you've known. Yes, those that have accepted Christ as Savior. You'll be reunited with those people. They might not look the same because they've been a resurrection body, but they are the same individuals, the same thinking, the same soul with a new body. Got rid of that sin-infected body that went to the grave, and God gave them a new body. That's a wonderful demonstration of love there. He promises that. He will give you a new body. If you're like me, the old body starts to wear out. The old body gets decrepit and creaks and moans. You know what I'm talking about. But you are going to get a new body, a wonderful body, demonstrating God's love for you. Wonderful. Oh, the Bible says in Psalm 139, verse 7, where can I go from your spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? Nowhere. You see, our God is omnipresent. He's omnipresent. He's with us wherever we may be. Any man, woman in the battlefield, he's with them there. Any man, woman on the job, he's with you there. He's with you in your home. He's with you in your car. He's omnipresent. He can be with you in Tennessee. He can be with you in Texas. He can be with you in California. He's not limited to one place. You see, Satan is not like that. A lot of people don't understand that. Satan is not omnipresent. He is a created being. He has a body. He cannot do what God does. God can be in multiple places at one time because he's eminent and transcendent. So where can I go to get away from his presence? Nowhere. His presence is always with us. In James 4.10, the Bible says, Humble ourselves in the presence of the Lord, and he will then exalt us. That humility that we're talking about there in that verse means deference and appreciation as well as obedience from you. Humility, humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord and he will exalt you. Humility means deference and appreciation as well as obedience. You have a volition. God didn't make you a little robot. He gave you the choice. you can choose to serve him you can choose to obey him you can choose to love him but it's your choice and that's why this verse in james 4 10 says humble yourselves in the presence of the lord that doesn't mean when you go to church it's that's crazy to think that you just meet god at church Listen, God was in that building before you got there, and he'll be in that building when you're gone. He's with you. He lives in you. The Bible said, don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit? He lives in you. And therefore, the humility means that you must assume the mind of Christ. Philippians 2.5, you've heard me say it many times, let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus who humbled himself and made himself of no reputation and took upon himself the form of a servant. Humility means deference. It means appreciation. It means obedience. So again, his love for you is demonstrated by his power over life and his power over death. In Psalm 46, one and two, God is our refuge. God is our strength. He's a very ready help in trouble. Therefore, we will not fear, though the earth shakes and the mountains slip into the heart of the sea. No reason to fear. God is your refuge. He loves you. He will protect you. He will strengthen you. Listen to 1 John 3, 1 through 3. Listen carefully. See how great a love the Father has given us. that we could be called the children of God. You don't earn that, you don't buy that, you are given that by God's grace. See how great a love the Father has given us that we should be called the children of God, and in fact we are. And it's for this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know him. Beloved, John wrote, now we are children of God. It has not appeared as yet what we will be, that's the resurrection body, but we know that when he appears, we will be like him because we will see him just as he is in glory. And everyone who has this hope set on him will purify himself just as he is pure. That means you'll stay out of sin. You won't be trapped by your sin nature. Remember, there's three enemies out to tag you, the world, the flesh, and the devil. The lure of the world is real. The Bible tells you, stop thinking in terms of the world, but think in terms of divine viewpoint. Think in terms of God's word, not human viewpoint. And the world will tell you what you should do, but that may not be what the Bible says. So keep that in mind. God is our refuge, and he loves you. If you purify yourself, he wants you to be pure. There's no sin in him, and he wants you to live like that. And is it possible for you not to sin? No, that's impossible, but it's possible for you to recover from sin. The reason it's not possible for you not to sin is because you have a sin nature. And you're always gonna have it until you die and get rid of it and get that resurrection body and then there'll be no sin nature. So his love is demonstrated by his power over life and death and how do you demonstrate your love for God? That's the question. How would you demonstrate your love for God? In 1 John 5, 3, this is the love of God that we keep his mandates and his mandates are not burdensome. Did you hear that? This is the love of God that we keep his mandates and they are not hard. That's how you demonstrate you love God. You are obedience. You have appreciation and deference. So here's a few principles I want to remind you of. Lonely people have habits detrimental to their spiritual life. Listen to 2 Timothy 3, two through seven, for people will be lovers of self, that's a lonely person, lovers of money, boastful, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, implacable, malicious, gossips, without self-control, brutal, reckless, treacherous, conceited, haters of good and lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding on to a form of godliness, that's self-righteousness, Although they've denied its power, avoid these sort of people. Bible clearly tells you stay away from self-centered people taking attention because money is never a cure for loneliness. Sex is not a cure for loneliness. A personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ is the only cure for a broken heart. In Matthew 11, 28, Jesus clearly said, Come to me, all you who are weary and all you who are burdened, and I will give you rest. There is the cure for loneliness. There is the cure for an unhappy life. free from the power of guilt, free from the power of sin, free from the burden of stress and worry, free from feelings of loneliness because we rest in his presence. We have his power, we have his provisions, and we have his promises. That's some phenomenal information. I hope you're listening. God loves you. Don't forget, if you need to get one of our books, feel free to contact us through our website, rickhughesministries.org. We did write a new book called Crash Course in Christianity, and it's free, it's available. If you write for it, be glad to send it to you. We do have all the radio shows transcribed and books for you to read through for the last couple of years. and we have a new book called Christian Problem Solving that deals with all 10 problem-solving devices. If you need any of that, let us know. We'll ship it right out to you. I'm very thankful you listened. I pray you remember God loves you. Until next week, same time, same place, this is your host, Rick Hughes, saying thank you for listening to The Flotline.
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In this episode of The Mike Gallagher Show, we dive into the unexpected announcement from Google, reinstating previously banned YouTube channels, and explore the curious case of Jimmy Kimmel's brief suspension. As the world reels from the tragic assassination of Charlie Kirk, Mike provides a poignant reflection on the spiritual revival ignited at his memorial service. Tune in for an in-depth analysis of current political undertones and the significant impact leaders like Charlie Kirk have on the nation's moral and spiritual compass.
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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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Okay, Jimmy Kimmel, go. 800-655-MIKE. Wow, things are happening left and right. Freedom is breaking out all over. Google just announced they're going to bring back the banned YouTube channels. You know Seb Gorka was banned for life? That's right. My friend and colleague, former colleague, now in the Trump administration, who's fighting the good fight against worldwide terrorism, he had his YouTube channel banned for life. Google just announced moments ago that all the banned YouTube channels due to political comments are being reinstated. My gosh. The tide is turning. People have had it. Companies are coming to their senses. And we're not there yet, but we're in a pretty good place. Revel in that moment. Appreciate it. I don't care a lot about Jimmy Kimmel, I have to admit. I've never seen his show. I'm not trying to sound like one of those people. But I haven't. I wouldn't know that Jimmy... I've seen clips that the team has given me. And certainly there are obnoxious... anti-conservative things the guy has said. I've read the articles about how he never has conservatives on the show. The only conservative he's ever had on, apparently, is Mike Lindell from MyPillow, and he made it a bit. And actually, he was a pretty good sport about it, and Mike shared with me that Jimmy Kimmel is a pretty nice guy. I'd like to find out what Mike feels about everything that's going on in the world right now. Mike Lindell has been saying to me for years that And he said to you for years, we need a spiritual revival in America. Well, that's happening. Look around. It's happening. Look at the memorial service for Charlie Kirk Sunday at State Farm Stadium. That was a revival. Good things are happening. So Jimmy Kimmel served the shortest indefinite suspension in the history of television. He was indefinitely suspended. What was he suspended for? Lying. He lied about the shooter. He lied about Charlie's assassin. Charlie's assassin was not MAGA. That's irrefutable. Okay. Let me be gracious. Let me be generous. Let me extend some grace. Maybe he didn't know. Maybe he was watching Rachel Maddow on a loop, and he thought somehow the hard left guy who killed Charlie Kirk was MAGA. All right, well, he got it wrong. So now he has to apologize. Now, if you believe the reporting, he won't. Well, that's a problem. That's a big problem. Why is it hard for people to apologize? All right, you hated Charlie Kirk, Jimmy Kimmel. Knock yourself out. You're not alone. That's a big club, evidently, as we're finding out. I feel sorry for you. I pity you. You're not able to acknowledge a lion of free speech, a lion of debate, a champion of dissent. You didn't have to agree with Charlie Kirk, but you didn't have to kill him. Because you didn't like his views. And that's what one troubled young man apparently did. So back to Jimmy Kimmel for just a moment. If the guy stands up tonight and says, look, I don't like what Charlie Kirk represented. I don't like MAGA. I don't like Trump. I don't blah, blah, blah. Trump's all that. But I had it wrong. Clearly, this... person isn't MAGA. He certainly is far left. I had it wrong, and I'm sorry. Now, you could say you don't believe it. You don't believe it. You could say it's not heartfelt. I don't care. I don't care what's in Jimmy Kimmel's heart. I mean, to be really blunt, I don't care about Jimmy Kimmel. I'm not trying to sound like a jerk. I think the guy is pretty reprehensible. He's got a lifetime of work that includes him being in blackface and mocking women and objectifying, all that crap. I mean, the man show. I don't care about him. Take your show and do you. You do you. Whatever you think you've got to do on your nightly show, who cares? It doesn't impact me in any way, shape, or form. It probably doesn't impact you either. But what I do care about is the principle of smearing more than half the country and suggesting that our movement, and yes, this is a movement, suggesting that our movement produced a killer of Charlie Kirk. Maybe it's a little personal for me because I knew Charlie and worked with him. Maybe it's personal for me because I wept with everybody else at the memorial. I rejoiced for his eternal salvation and happiness. I was grateful that so many millions of people undoubtedly all over the world are turning to God and Christ as a result of that service Sunday, which they're reporting drew over 100 million eyeballs, pairs of eyeballs. People all over the world were watching. There's important things at stake right now. And for Jimmy Kimmel to incorrectly, falsely smear a movement because he doesn't like us, that's not acceptable. All he has to do is apologize. Let's see if he does. And let's get your take on it all. 800-655-MIKE. 13 past the hour. It's Tuesday, September 23rd. We're in the Relief Factor studios. Back home again after a few days. A lot of emotion. A lot of, just a lot of, look, Phoenix was a lot. Let's just put it that way. It was a lot. It was so sad to see Erica Kirk up there. But it was also pretty astounding. to be witness to a massive spiritual, religious celebration of his life, of his young life. Like I said, the assassin thought there'd be a funeral. That's what he wanted. He got a huge spiritual revival worldwide. Thanks to the presence of Charlie Kirk's young life. Young, brief life. PhD weight loss has changed my life. And I've got a little secret for you. You know Big Pharma and semaglutide and the shots in the belly. You've seen the story recently about the study that shows that a lot of people that are getting this are going blind. You don't want to do this. You want a program to lose weight that's centered around science and nutrition. A proven roadmap that has helped over 8,000 clients lose weight and keep it off. Like me. 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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 just finished reading a column over at Hot Air by Dwayne Patterson, who is Hugh Hewitt's longtime producer, who wrote a column called The Three Most Powerful Words Uttered in Centuries, I Forgive Him. A remarkable column. active grace from the widow of Charlie Kirk. And now, a lot of fallout happening this week. In fact, I ran into somebody at the airport yesterday, a friend of mine, good guy. I didn't really like that service. It was more about Trump than God. Have you ever seen a rally in your life that was so faith-filled? How many people do you think were brought to the Lord as a result of Sunday's memorial service, the celebration of young Charlie Kirk's life? In fact, my buddy Mark Davis got a little annoyed at my friend's reaction, saying any Christian who didn't recognize how much good was done Sunday on behalf of the Christian message needs to take a long, hard look in the mirror. And I kind of agree with that. Look, you could find fault with any aspect of Sunday's service. Maybe President Trump should have allowed Erica to go last. Who knows? I don't even know how that came about. Maybe people didn't like the sparkly fireworks. Incidentally, the Kirk family loved it. Turning Point USA has those little sparkly little fireworks everywhere. as a staple of their events, that was Charlie. Charlie loved that effect. And this was indeed a celebration of life. But it's like the left doesn't know how to process all of this. Former ESPN and MSNBC host Keith Olbermann wrote to Scott Jennings, our Salem Radio Network colleague, You're next, M-effer. But keep mugging to the camera. You're next. Like an actual threat from Keith Olbermann. Scott apparently forwarded the post to the FBI director, Kash Patel. How about Governor Gavin Newsom? He posted the other day, days after Charlie's assassination, Kristi Noem is going to have a bad day today. You're welcome, America. They can't help themselves. And they can't even present a modicum of decency. Here's Kamala Harris. I know I really debated playing these clips from last night's Rachel Maddow show on MSNBC. Kamala's hawking a book. She just wants to make a lot of money on her book about the election, which she falsely claimed last night was like the closest election in the history of America. No, it wasn't. What are you talking about? It wasn't close. Wasn't even, wasn't even, can you, hey Kamala, did you get one swing state? Just one. How'd you do with the popular vote? But here's what fascinates me. It is widely understood now that the killer in Utah had a motivation. He hated Charlie's message, and he even wrote, on one of the bullet casings, one of the shell casings, something about, hey, fascist, catch. Catch a bullet, you fascist. So this poisoned mind, this cowardly, angry, broken 22-year-old who now threw his whole life away, was committed to stopping the tyrannical fascist. Charlie Kirk. I got to believe Kamala Harris knows that by now. We all know it. We all know the motivation. But that didn't stop her. No, no, no, no, no. That didn't stop the former vice president. Not when there's books to be sold.
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Right now we are dealing with, as I called him at my speech on the Ellipse, a tyrant. We used to compare the strength of our democracy to communist dictators. That's what we're dealing with right now in Donald Trump. And these titans of industry are not speaking up. And perhaps it is because his threats and the way he has used the weight of the federal government to take out vengeance on his critics is something that they fear. And I get that. I understand why they do. We've seen the demonstration of it.
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Now, one would think she'd have a little bit of decency. Because if you call somebody a tyrant over and over and over again... What do you think is going to happen? Honestly, if you call a man that is loved and supported by more than half of America a dictator, the supreme leader, Kim Jong-un, a tyrant, you're going to see political violence result. Got to give credit to Stephen A. Smith, the sportscaster and sometime political pundit who had a take on Kamala's book.
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Who cares what she has to say at this particular moment in time? I hope the book is successful. When you had an opportunity as the Democratic nominee for the presidency of the United States of America to address so many different issues, and instead what you did was go into protective mode. You wanted to show your loyalty or what have you, and then you lose the election. And what you want to do is point out All the reasons that you didn't win and point the finger of blame, it seems, in everybody else's direction instead of yourself. I don't think that she's going to have any support from the Democratic Party. I can tell you that much. And then you have to take into consideration the level of support that she had coming in. This is an individual that was, you know, that was used to bypass what some would say the Democratic process is. There was no primary. Yes, Joe Biden was awful during that debate that June 27th. Yes, he ultimately stepped away in July. But if you talk to many people within the Democratic Party, they were talking about how this was all part of the plan because had he departed. significantly earlier when we all saw slippage in him. As far as I was on a record a year earlier, seeing the slippage had he departed, there would have been a Democratic primary. She would have had to compete to be the Democratic nominee. And there were people who did not want her to do that because clearly they didn't believe, you know, whether it was Gavin Newsom, whether it was Barack Obama or somebody else. And it seems like she knew it. And that was the kind of feedback she received. And to talk about all of that now. Post-election loss, nobody wants to hear that.
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Pretty smart analysis from Stephen Smith. Now, I've got a question for you as we kick off this hour. Is it too much to ask for Democrats to back off the rhetoric in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's assassination? Do you think that's a bridge too far? Am I asking too much? What do you think they'd be saying? What do you think they'd be doing if one of the lions of their movement was gunned down? Well, we saw what they did when George Floyd died. We saw exactly how they behaved. We witnessed the violence in the aftermath of George Floyd. To anybody who would say that political violence is on both sides, how can you explain the aftermath of to the death of George Floyd compared to the aftermath to the murder of Charlie Kirk? Honestly, I'm not trying to be provocative here. It's a good faith question. Isn't it fair to say, hey Democrats, can you pump the brakes a little bit on the over-the-top, unhinged rhetoric that Republicans like Donald Trump And Charlie Kirk are fascists? I don't know that they have it in them. I don't know that they're capable of backing off. But ultimately, they should. Tonight, Jimmy Kimmel is returning to ABC. He should apologize for the factual mistake that he engaged in. He was wrong that Charlie's killer was MAGA. He knows it. ABC knows it. Goodness knows the Sinclair TV stations and the Nexstar TV stations know it. Will he do the decent thing and apologize? I know many people will say even if he does, you won't believe him. But that's okay. Let him apologize. And let's turn the page. Do whatever you want to do on the Jimmy Kimmel show. Who cares? In case you haven't heard the news, ABC just demonstrated the shortest indefinite suspension in television history. Already Jimmy Kimmel's back. Tonight. And all eyes will be on what he has to say. All ears will be listening for whether or not he'll be decent or he'll be cruel. Kamala Harris is cruel to continue that vicious rhetoric days after tonight. One of the greatest conservative influencers in the country was gunned down on a college campus trying to engage in debate. Incidentally, what did Kamala Harris say about Charlie Kirk's assassination? Anybody know? Can you look it up, Tracy, and find out? Because she has plenty to say about what a tyrant Donald Trump is in order to hawk her stupid book. 800-655-MIKE. 17 past the hour. Welcome in. It's Tuesday. We're in the Relief Factor studios, and I hope you join us. 800-655-6453. Call or text. I want to see if you think I'm being naive. Am I being silly? Am I being ridiculous in hoping for a little bit of a little slowing down Of the over-the-top, crazy rhetoric from the left. Because it's going to get more people killed. The irony is, somebody just pointed out from Atlanta, fascists are the ones who kill people who don't agree with them. Who's the real fascist? 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 vote. 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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Stephen Miller's speech was, I think, part of the reason my friend didn't really like He thought the service for Charlie was a little weird, as he put it. A very spiritual man, incidentally, he's a friend of mine. I bumped into him at the airport. He said, what did you think? I said, well, it was one of the most profound events I've ever attended. And he said, I thought it was weird. I thought it was a little weird. I said, what do you mean it was weird? What about all the people who opened their hearts to Jesus? Yeah, there was too much Trump, and Trump shouldn't have spoken last, and there shouldn't have been the fireworks. I'm thinking, gosh, there is a spiritual revival happening. And to me, the Charlie Kirk Memorial was the tip of that spear. It's just the tip of the iceberg. I want to talk to Jessica here in just a moment. By the way, I don't know what's going on. Tucker spoke. I didn't catch it. He made a reference to the Jewish leaders. wanting Jesus dead, and that's supposed to be a blood libel, and people are all fired up, he's being an anti-Semite. You know, as I understand it, the Romans technically, look, I'm no biblical scholar here. Believe you me, I'm the wrong guy to give you scriptural wisdom. But as I learned in Sunday school, as I learned from the pastor at the pulpit, It was the Romans, the Roman authority in Judea that crucified Jesus. Even crucifixion was a Roman punishment. Pontius Pilate was the Roman governor. But I thought that the Gospels depicted how Jewish religious leaders pushed for Jesus' death too. They thought that his message was... That's what Tucker was saying. And I don't even know why I'm mentioning this. I'll just get in nothing but trouble. People are so fired up about Tucker Carlson. They're mad that he laughed at the podium. Well, I can tell you there was lots of laughter in that arena that day. There was lots of winsome, melancholy joy at the worship service that Sunday was all about. I mean, I get it. Blaming the Jews the way people, anti-Semites, blame the Jews for everything doesn't cut it. I mean, but it is specific to say that there were Jewish leaders alongside Roman authorities who crucified Jesus Christ. I think the people who react... just epically to something like what Tucker said, are just tired of hearing Jews be blamed for everything under the sun. Look, anti-Semitism is real. It is alive and well in this country and around the world. And it's only gotten worse. It's only gotten worse. And it's horrific. And we've got to confront it. We've got to deal with it. We have to face it. That's why our show partners with organizations like the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. I want to get Yael Eckstein on to talk about this beautiful Israeli flags project that the IFCJ is embarking on. I appreciate them so very much. In fact, I think it's time to dive in and do a partnership with them. I've been to Israel before as their guest, and I want to go back. I am just so yearning to return to Israel. I'm blessed to get to travel a lot. I'm at a stage in my life where I want my travel to be meaningful, and there is nothing more meaningful than visiting the Holy Land. So be listening here. I think we're going to step up and do something with the IFCJ in just a moment. But look, I don't want to discourage you from calling. If you want to dive into this, feel free to do so. With Tucker and the Jews and eating hummus, and they tried to silence Jesus. I mean, I think Tucker's point was they were trying to silence Jesus, and his message abounded after he was crucified. And he saw the same thing, not to call Charlie Kirk Jesus, but his point is they tried to silence Charlie's message, and it will abound. I mean, it's very real. 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. She 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.
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Right, Rob McCoy. Yep. Okay. Charlie's pastor, by the way, Jennifer.
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Okay. I kind of thought that might be the one. 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 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 beautiful. bouncing off the walls because we were we knew time was running out and god was just so gracious to give this man one last opportunity and that service was so moving and i'm sure there are many other stories like mine that's what made sunday so special jennifer you've touched my heart with sharing that with us thank you and i know our audience appreciates you sharing that story i i
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I know there are many Dugs in the country, maybe around the world, who are going to be headed to eternity with our Lord and Savior because of what happened. And that's the beauty of Sunday's moment. That's the beginning of a revival that this country desperately needs. You know, people talk a good game. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, we need a revival, we need a revival. But that spiritual revival is happening. It's happening right under our noses. And what Pastor McCoy did in that arena, in that stadium, was an old-fashioned altar call. Kind of like what they did with Billy Graham. Remember when Billy Graham, the Billy Graham Crusades, would fill up Shea Stadium? That's what Sunday felt like. And Pastor McCoy did the altar call where he said, if you're a believer, stay seated. If you're willing and ready today to accept Jesus as your Savior, stand up. People stood up all throughout that stadium. There were thousands of people who stood. It took my breath away. And Charlie's assassination led to that. That would have never happened. In death, Charlie saved a whole lot of people from damnation. And that's why I was stunned. I told my pal Mark Davis this morning about this mutual friend of ours who said, oh, I thought it was a little weird. I didn't like the sparkly fireworks. And I didn't like that it was too much about Trump and too much about... First of all, Trump is Trump. If you don't know him by now, I got no hope for you. Yes, Trump is large and in charge. The president... But let me tell you the behind-the-scenes story of why that memorial took place in that stadium. Let's talk a little bit about the behind-the-scenes story that was revealed to me. Turning Point USA was going to have the Memorial Sunday at Charlie's Church. And President Trump was invited to attend, and President Trump said, that's not big enough. We've got to give our friend Charlie a proper send-off. We want to celebrate his life in a stadium. So President Trump picked up the phone and called the owner of the Arizona Cardinals. And that's how it came to be that that memorial service took place at State Farm Stadium. If you don't appreciate Donald Trump for that, I got no hope for you. If you can't appreciate that gesture, well, I don't know what else to say. I'm eternally grateful that President Trump is in the White House. I'm eternally grateful that I got to attend the service on Sunday. And yes, I think Sunday was one of the most magnificent displays for Christianity that I've ever seen. Now, my buddy Mark Davis said, if you thought that was strange or weird or you didn't like, look, you can nitpick anything you want. They put that whole thing together in seven days. That's an event that takes six months or more to plan. You know what that was? It was a miracle. And look, you have a right to your opinion. Oh, you didn't like the order of things or maybe the, hey, fine, fine. Sometimes it's better just to think those kind of thoughts rather than rain all over a beautiful, beautiful celebration of our faith. That's what Sunday was. And Mark's reaction was, to my friend who thought it was a little weird, if as a Christian you didn't see Sunday, The enormity of that ceremony, of that service, of that celebration of life, if as a Christian you didn't appreciate how many people were brought to God and to Christ through that service, you ought to take a long, hard look in the mirror. Now again, to be clear, the friend of mine who has this opinion, where it really wasn't his cup of tea, he's a good man. He's a good person. He's a spiritual guy. Very spiritual. Very spiritual. Very religious. And he felt that it just wasn't enough of a focus on Christ. It was too much on Trump. I have to respectfully agree to disagree.
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Remember the movie Love Story and the motto to the Ali McGraw movie was love means never having to say you're sorry? I remember thinking, I don't think that's right. Look, I was married and I think love means saying you're sorry all the time. All Jimmy Kimmel has to do is say, I'm sorry. I described Charlie Kirk's assassin as a MAGA, and I was wrong. Sorry. And Jimmy Kimmel doesn't have to suddenly come around and become a registered Republican. Nobody expects that. And I've been thinking a lot about one man the last week or two. I've been thinking about the spiritual revival we seem to be experiencing in America. We took a call today from somebody. I want to play that call again. Jennifer shared how a friend of hers, a nonbeliever, a man named Doug, who has been fighting health challenges, always joked about accepting Jesus as his Savior, just didn't do it. His wife wanted him to. Jennifer wanted him to. During the Charlie Kirk Memorial, when the pastor said, if you accept Jesus as your Savior today, stand up, and that man stood up from the couch and said, I want to bring Jesus into my life, and I want to accept the Lord. That's the beauty of what happened in Phoenix on Sunday. We're all still mourning young 31-year-old Charlie Kirk's murder, his assassination, But something big is happening. And so there's two big topics to cover today. The Jimmy Kimmel return tonight and the spiritual revival and the guy who's best equipped to talk about both of it. is our friend and our partner, the one and only Mike Lindell, the MyPillow genius, a guy who knows a thing or two about being canceled, and a guy who knows a thing or two about redemption. Mike, it's been too long. It's great to see you again. Welcome back to the show. How are you, my friend?
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I'm doing great, and thanks for having me on again, Mike. What a couple weeks it's been.
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It's been awful in many ways, and yet Charlie's death has led to revival. I want to talk to you about that, because you've been telling me about this, and every time you come on the show, you've said, America needs a revival. And when I got that call from Jennifer, who said her friend accepted Christ, I got chills, and I keep thinking of you because you've been praying for this moment, and maybe it took the brutal assassination of our beloved Charlie that is going to lead to that. But before we do that, let's get Jimmy Kimmel out of the way. The New York Post had a headline, Jimmy Kimmel hosted just one right-leaning guest in the past three years. That, of course, was you. And it was a funny moment. You were in the, what do you call it, you were in the box.
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The claw machine, yeah.
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The claw machine.
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That's right.
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And it was actually funny, and you were a good sport about it, and you told us afterwards that Jimmy Kimmel was a pretty good sport about it. They didn't treat you badly. You have a great sense of humor. Anybody who knows you knows how much you love to laugh, and you didn't mind. And by the way, you got a lot of great promotion for my pillow on the Jimmy Kimmel show. But give me the Mike Lindell analysis of this whole mess with ABC's Jimmy Kimmel, since you know the guy. Thank you.
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Well, you know, I'll take you back first. The first time I was ever on Jimmy Kimmel was in the spring of 2021 when I was the only one getting attacked or the most visual getting attacked speaking out about our election of 2020. And Jimmy kept bad-mouthing me on TV. I was his number one target then. And I said, I did a couple, a lot of big shows back then, a lot of big revival things in churches. I said, you know what? I'm praying for Jimmy Kimmel. And he said, You think Mike's really praying for me, he said on his show. Well, then he invited me on. Of course, right away, I accepted. Now, the first time I was on, buddy, I found out he had read my book. So I really believe he was torn at that time. And I remember going to a commercial and I said, Jimmy, we need to unite the country. I said, you know, they attacked you last summer for doing blackface. And he said to me, he goes, yeah, but Mike, here's the difference. I did something really bad. All you've done is back a man you believe in. Then he's talking about Donald Trump. And so it was, I just felt like he was kind of torn through the whole thing. the whole segment there, the appearance on his show. Now, over the next four years, he attacked me relentlessly. He had a fake mic on and everything, and we had this weird relationship, like you say, Mike, and then he invited me on his show again, but he said, you're not vaccinated. You're going to have to, if you come on, we're going to put you in a carnival game, a claw machine. I said, I'll do it. I'll do it. Now, people ask me, now, why did you do that? Well, One of the things, even through Jimmy's attacks, it was getting the word out, the word out that I wanted to get out. I didn't care what it cost me. I didn't care about being humiliated. But that actually was pretty amazing because I remember him saying, Mike, you're the person. He said, you're inside of a carnival machine. They're a claw machine. We know you're afraid of machines. What do you say? And I said, I said, Jimmy, remember when we were kids? And we told everyone that these games were rigged. And he said, yeah. And I said, but we didn't get sued, did we? And so there was this back and forth. And it was pretty amazing. But after I got done, he invited me upstairs with his mother and father. And his mom said... You know, Mike, your people are, and he said his mom never comes. She came, she wanted to see me. And she said, his mother said, Mike, your people attack me, attack my son every day, meaning Jimmy. And I go, I don't know what people you're talking about. But I said, you do know your son attacks me and others every single night. And she said, oh, Mike, you're such a card. I read your book. And from then on, and then Jimmy, we spent about 15 minutes. Jimmy, we took pictures. And he says, and he said, Mike, he asked me, really? He goes, you think we could ever get to paper balance? And he goes, I really believe you believe what you're saying. Anyway, he showed a moment of humanity there. And it was a different side I hadn't seen of him. I'll tell you, Mike, where we're at right now with him coming back, I said it last week, I didn't cheer that he was off the air. I just said, you know what, maybe this is a time that he can reflect and say, hey, maybe these things I've done are the things he has crossed the line, so to speak. Maybe he can reflect, and maybe he would find Jesus. That was my prayer last week. Now, him coming on, when he comes on, we'll have to see what he says. It's pretty easy to humbly apologize and move on, like you say.
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I don't know what it's going to be, but that's all he has to do. That's all he has to do. I mean, you know, and we don't have to agree with him politically. He doesn't agree with us. He wants to make fun of us. But he had it wrong. He suggested that Charlie's killer was MAGA. He was not. He needs to correct that. But according to published reports, Mike, the reports are saying that he is absolutely not going to apologize.
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Right, right. Yeah, and I've heard that, too. I've heard that he wouldn't apologize. They asked him to, and he said, no, I'm not going to. Now, we'll see how this plays out. I believe that they, at first, I think ABC and Disney using it as an excuse to fire him and not renew his contract this spring. His ratings have continued to go down as people see through this late-night garbage that is getting put out everywhere. But it would be very simple. And for him to apologize? You bet. And he crossed the line. He put out disinformation about something that was so horrific. And it's different putting out, you know, he put out a basically a lie. Now, did he believe that lie or did he, you know, did his producers really as people really not check into what this who this assassin was and what and what he did?
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Well, he certainly knows now. He sure knows by now.
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Everybody else got it right, Mike.
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Yep, you bet.
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Everybody else got it right, or they waited. You're right.
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You're right. You mentioned your book, and I want everybody to order the book, because what are the odds from crack addict to CEO, the Mike Lindell story is something that is worthy of any major movie. You were at the bottom of the – you were rock bottom. And you accepted Jesus Christ as your Savior. And you've been through, boy, what a journey you've been on. Mike Lindell joins us. And I want to, of course, I humbly ask everybody to continue to support your company because they've done everything they can to cancel you and your company. They've done everything to shut you down. And our audience just keeps saying, no, we're going to lift Mike Lindell and my pillow up. We love the products. We love the mission. And let's talk for just a moment about your prayer. your years-long hope and prayer that America would experience a revival. I was in that arena Sunday in Phoenix. I felt, I mean, I don't want to proselytize here, but I will just tell you, I felt the presence of the Holy Spirit. I absolutely felt something that is just unlike anything I've ever experienced before. 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. just and it's not going to stop you get you you know this is so amazing you could feel it but i just almost every speaker i'm going well i wonder if you know don jr is going to talk about this i wonder if uh you know pozo i mean all these different people that spoke and they're all speaking about about jesus christ and and how and which charlie was 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. You know, Sinclair, a big group that owns a big group of ABC affiliates, they operate 30 ABC affiliates. They said yesterday they will preempt Jimmy's show tonight. Well, Nextar has just announced they will follow suit. Nextar is going to preempt ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live, despite Disney ending the suspension. Nextar has 32 stations, so there's at least 62 stations that will not be carrying the Jimmy Kimmel show, which is going to really 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 looked 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 MikeG, $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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In this episode, we dive into an in-depth review of the new Kia K4, a sedan that's been turning heads with its attractive price point and impressive features. Our host, John Rush, had the opportunity to take this car for a test drive and shares his insights on its performance, particularly for buyers at higher elevations. From interior comfort to the car's modern technology, discover what makes the Kia K4 a compelling choice for those in the market for a sedan that doesn't compromise on quality.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Normally, this time of the week, again, I have my son with me, and we do a car review on a weekly basis. And since he's not here, I have one that I will do. In fact, this is a review that I've been wanting to do here for a few weeks. And I had a chance to hop on this car about a month ago, right before I went on vacation. And, of course, everything happening since vacation, I didn't get a chance to get to this as quickly as I would have liked to. And several of you have asked me specifically about this car. And it is the new Kia K4. That's the name of the car, K4. And there are several different models in the lineup. The car that we drove was pretty well equipped and came in retail price of just under $28,000. So right at that number. That's the GT line turbo, by the way. So they've got a GT line turbo, a GT line, an EX, an LX, or sorry, an LXS, and an LX. The LX starting at $21,990. Now, I drove the one with the turbo engine, and I will say that for our elevation, which we always lose some power at our elevation, it worked well. Now, is this a car that's going to set land speed records? No, it is not. You're not buying a high-horsepower car. You're buying a four-door sedan at a nice entry-level price that in some cases is less money than a used car. So keep that in mind. You can buy this car brand new for less money than a used car would cost and getting the full warranty. And by the way, very nice car. I will say this. When I got in this car, and I'm not exaggerating, and I always ask my wife, okay, what do you think this car costs? We kind of play that game. I never look at the window sticker, the Monroney prior to me hopping in a car because I kind of like to play the game of what do you think this car costs. And I do the same thing because I don't look because I kind of want to know based upon how well does it drive, how good does it look, what's the fit and finish like, what's the interior comfort like, and so on. How noisy is it and so on. One thing I'm going to start doing, which I mentioned on Drive Radio on Saturdays, I'm going to start using a decibel meter on a lot of the cars I drive to tell you how quiet they are on the inside or not. That's one of the things some of you have been asking for, so I will definitely do that. This is a car, by the way, that gets high 30s, almost 40 miles to the gallon as far as fuel economy goes. Very well equipped. I go back to what my wife and I both thought the price was, well over $30,000, by the way. We weren't even close. I thought this car would come in the mid-30s, just the way it's equipped. That's how nice it's set up interior-wise, agronomically, and so on. It's an extremely nice car, especially when you look at the price. But when you get inside this car and climb in, you won't think you're driving a $25,000 car. It's that well-equipped. And, folks, I'm not exaggerating when I say that. So for some of you that have been thinking about buying a nice, you know, four-door sedan, maybe you've got a teen driver coming along. Maybe you're just looking to do something different for your daily driver, and you're looking for something that's more on the economical end of things. The Kia K4 fits that very, very well. It's got a very nice dash layout. The way the screen comes across the entire—not the entire, but— Two-thirds of the front of the car, of the dash of the car, very well laid out. The buttons are easy to find, which it does have some buttons, which actually I really like. So, Kia, if you're listening, I appreciate that. But they've incorporated one big screen that handles all of your – what you're seeing to drive, you know, speedometer, all of that, plus all of your nav. And if you want to run CarPlay or whatever else you're doing, all that's kind of off to the right. They've incorporated that into one big screen here. Done a very nice job. And again, inside comfort room or inside comfort quality, let me say it that way, is extremely high. I was very impressed with this car. You guys know me. I don't get impressed with a lot of cars because I drive a lot of different cars throughout the years. But I will tell you, for the money. For the money, this is one of the toughest cars to beat because it's got a nice roomy interior. The trunk is nice and sizable. Again, the engine, no, you're not going to set any land speed records. But for daily driving, does it do everything you need to do? Absolutely, it does. I did not look to see what kind of offers there are on this car. I would go check this out at your local Kia dealer. And by the way, when you do that, let them know that John and Richard Rush both from Drive Radio and Rush to Reason sent you. This is John Rush from Rush to Reason and Drive Radio. Thank you so much for listening. Check out more of our podcasts at RushToReason.com or Drive-Radio.com.
Join us as we unpack the complexities of political discourse and media dynamics. From high-profile motorcade stand-offs to the intricate relations between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, this episode provides a comprehensive look at the forces shaping modern political movements. We also delve into Kamala Harris's political strategies, insights into media censorship, and the broader implications of conservative policies, offering listeners a well-rounded understanding of the current political landscape.
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Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States.
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I'm sorry. He's being stopped in the street because of Trump's motorcade. He's standing at the side of the road. He wants to get through. And they're telling him, nope, you're stuck because POTUS's motorcade's going through. So he calls Trump.
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He's on the phone with Trump. Guess what? I'm waiting because everything is for you.
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So they told him to walk. Yeah, you better hoof it. That's what happens when you sit here and recognize Hamas as his own state. We'll talk more about that. That's what you get, Macron. Hoof it. Just saying. Oh, he had to go and meet the unwashed masses. Oh, poor man. Oh, Kali, I can't stand him. Can you... First off, he was... The fact that he thought he could just call POTUS and be like, I'm stuck in the streets. I cannot get through. Remote arcade. And then, you know, Trump was like, hoof it. So he had to walk. Was he still on the phone with POTUS at that moment? I think so. Yeah? I think so. I hope Trump was giving him an earful. But, you know, interesting. That was Macron who couldn't, because all the UN said he couldn't get through. Yeah, that's what happened. They're not going to let you through, Slick. Right. They're not going to let you through. You're in America. They're not going to let you through. You got POTUS's motorcade going in. That's just the way it is. So interesting, interesting. We're going to talk a little bit more about that coming up because all of these nations that are trying, they're rushing to recognize, they said they want to recognize a quote unquote Palestinian state. I don't recognize that word because it's a made up word by a dead Roman emperor who gave it to that land out of spite after the second Judean uprising. So Yeah, it's not supported by thousands of years of either Christian or Islamic antiquity. So I don't like to pretend that things that aren't real are real. But you can go ahead and say like West Bank and Gaza and the territories. So Hamas, as you know, they're talking about having the Palestinian Authority run the quote unquote Palestinian state. The problem is, is the Palestinian Authority to anyone who's been paying attention for any length of time over the past 20 years is almost now completely run by Hamas. After the 2007 elections, when they took over in 2005, after the unilateral withdrawal of Israel in the Strip, they had elections and guess what? Won by a landslide. But it's not just it's not just this isn't like Hamas's own ministry of information. You have a Johns France Press. You have the Associated Press. You have the BBC. You also have all of these United Nations observers, and they've been tracking sentiment of Hamas in anticipation of the 2021 elections. And what they were all independently discovering simultaneously is that Hamas was so unbelievably popular, they were going to, and the word was runaway, phrase was runaway with the election in 21. So the Palestinian Authority suspended elections, blamed it on the Jews by saying they weren't sure if Arabs in Israel would be able to go and vote. But they actually suspended elections because they knew Hamas was going to take over and be the ruling faction within the authority. So don't sit here and say that the Palestinian Authority can run an independent state because it's literally Hamas. You're rewarding Hamas by upgrading them from the strip to a whole entire state and two territories. So step off all of these ahistorical, illiterate, Clown turds. Done. We have a second hour coming up. We're also going to talk about the president's announcement on autism yesterday. Lorraine, who is a contributor over at Chapter and Verse, has a piece coming out about it, and she's going to react. We've got a lot more. Stick with us. Our partners that bring you the program, our friends over at Caltech, the PR57. It is a rotary barrel pistol chambered in 5.7, 40% lighter than the competition. So if you're looking to conceal carry a 5.7, this is something you should look at. They accomplish the lightness and the diminutive size in a couple of different ways. The rotary barrel, number one, it's a one of its kind, redefined, one of a kind rotary barrel pistol. So that contributes to it, but also the very unique way that they load. It's a top loading design. So it replaces traditional magazines with stripper clips. So you have a slimmer carry profile, 20 plus one capacity, low recoil for ease of use and accuracy, simple, reliable, And affordable. MSRP only $3.99. Learn more about the PR57 Chambered and 5.7 at caltechweapons.com. That's K-E-L-T-E-C weapons.com. Tell them Dana sent you.
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Um... I guess I'd ask you to just elaborate on that a little bit. It's hard to hear with you running as, you know, you're the first woman elected vice president. You're a black woman and a South Asian woman elected to that high office, very nearly elected president, to say that he couldn't be on the ticket effectively because he was gay.
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It's hard to hear. No, no, no. That's not what I said, that he couldn't be on the ticket because he is gay. My point, as I write in the book, is that... I was clear that in 107 days, in one of the most hotly contested elections for President of the United States, against someone like Donald Trump, who knows no floor, to be a black woman running for President of the United States, and as a vice presidential running mate, a gay man, with the stakes being so high, It made me very sad, but I also realized it would be a real risk. Well, because he was gay.
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Yeah, she just said, yeah, I couldn't because he was gay. I really wish Matt, I would have said, now let's talk about Shapiro. Well, they couldn't do him because he was Jewish. That's what her answer would be. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. You know that one song, Black and Yellow. I was just thinking of like black and gay because of that. I'm just like that's. How? But that's. I'm made of thoughts right now. Let me let me corral them all together here. Hang on, because I came up with like a million more as I was watching this again. She is admitting. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like she's even saying her base isn't going to support that. Yeah. Yeah. I am, oh gosh, Kate, I'm trying really hard to stay on the plantation of goodness here. Really trying hard.
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It's just the two-facedness of it.
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But I want to run off and be like, but you're telling me that he can't, you didn't pick him because he's gay. But isn't she kind of admitting that that was kind of like a DEI thing that was being foisted on her? Because a lot of people were pushing him. She's like, yeah, but nobody's going to because that's literally his only qualification. If it's a qualification in their eyes, things like that are basically substitutes for something that is accomplished or acquired through hard work and merit. Right. Oh, you you were a horrible mayor of South Bend and you didn't really do anything. Yeah, but he's gay. Oh, OK. Well, then that changes it. Now, oh gosh, Kane. I feel like we need to have some unlicensed music that we can play real quick when I mute myself and put a hand over my mouth so I can tell Kane exactly what I'm thinking. Because I desperately want to say it on air, but I feel like also, I actually maybe would have to use that get out of jail free card with Brennan Carr. Possibly. Yeah. Do you know where I'm going here? It would make sense If, you know, his only job was and I don't even know what this entails, but I'm just saying because this is how Democrats think it would make sense only if like his job was just gay stuff. I don't even know what that would be, but you can get an idea. You know, if that was just the only requirement, then it'd be like, oh, well, he's gay. That makes sense. But, you know, you're for the vice presidency. Can he do anything? Does he have any foreign policy experience? No. Does he have really any economic experience? Yeah, that's a no. Negative. OK, does he have any experience with domestic policy? Well, he ran 63 buses in South Bend. You know, he's got that. OK, still not really anything. But he is gay. Oh, well, then there it is. Yeah. Why didn't you lead with that? Good night. Oh, well, he can accomplish all the things because he's gay. What? I don't think so. But the fact that she seemed, that actually seemed like one of the easiest things that came out of her mouth. Did you notice that, too? How often does Kamala Harris has this book out? So she's going on her book tour and she's basically saying in her book, I'm going to save you a click or a read. She's like, yeah, I knew Biden was losing it. Everybody else did, too. And here are their names. That's that's like the book. She's like, yeah, couldn't have Buttigieg because he's gay. She's just going down the line. Jill was a bitch. I mean, she's just going down the whole line. That's her book. That's. She's burning every bridge in the book. I just love watching the infighting. I am basking like this, basking in this like a lizard on a sunrock. It's just chef's kiss. It's so good. It's the schadenfreude that we wanted, right? Just delayed a little bit, but we're getting it. It's my birthday month, my birthday week. We're getting it. So that wasn't all. She had a couple other things that she was saying. She, well, apparently, let's see. Oh, here's everyone I don't agree with is a communist. Audio soundbite six. Yay.
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And right now we are dealing with, as I called him at my speech on the ellipse, a tyrant. We used to compare the strength of our democracy to communist dictators. That's what we're dealing with right now in Donald Trump. And these titans of industry are not speaking up.
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OK, I'm going to ask through this. Your administration literally called and screamed at them. If we have that Zuckerberg audio that we played yesterday, can we just like pump that back up? Just let just yell at me when we haven't just just play it. Because she literally her Biden Harris called tech companies. They literally contacted tech companies and were telling them all of these tech titans. You need to drop these. You need to suspend accounts that do this. You need to drop accounts that do this. You need to censor speech that says this. You need to control the algorithm that is facilitating anything that we disagree with. All of this. And it didn't just stop at what they labeled COVID misinformation, which was nonsense, but it had to do with the laptop. It had to do with almost every single aspect of the Biden presidency. That's a big thing. So I don't know what she's talking about when she says that she's calling for tech titans to speak out. You literally called Mark Zuckerberg and screamed at him. Like that actually happened. And Zuckerberg just, you know, didn't know how to, he just, you can tell when he was doing an interview, he was just kind of shocked about it. She talks about him being a communist. That word has a meaning. How is he a communist when he won a free and fair election and you didn't? That doesn't make any sense to me. How is he a communist by actually ending a lot of government oversight and pushing deregulation? That's a really bad communist. He's a horrible communist. That doesn't even make any sense. These words have meanings. I don't think she's gotten the memo that hyperbole isn't serving her or her party's agenda very well. It's just stupid. This is so ridiculous. Audio some before she talks about Biden running for reelection. Listen to this.
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There was so much, as we know, at stake. And as I write, you know, the where my head was at at the time is that it would be completely it would come off as being completely self-serving.
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If you said to President Biden, if I did not think he should run again.
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Yeah. Or even that he should question whether it's a good idea.
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I just didn't think I should say anything. So she was scared, too scared to say anything. Such empowerment. Such empowerment. Telling you what. She says she has no focus to run on her. She has no focus on running in 2028. Well, obviously, because she's. know our friends at all family pharmacy this website can never cease business because i will not know what to do i love all family pharmacy i use it not only can you get the stuff that gatekeepers try to keep from you the hydroxychloroquine ivermectin the whole nine yards nad plus All of that. But you can also get your emergency medications and daily medications. You can get antibiotics. Like, for instance, if I know that I'm getting strep, I've had it enough. I know what it is. I'm not an idiot. I'm not going to go out there and abuse antibiotics to the point of rendering them ineffective. But I'm not going to go and pay like an $80 whatever fee and go and have a doctor tell me what I know I have. And then have to wait. No, no, no. I'm going to go to All Family Pharmacy, put in my symptoms. The doctor's going to look at it, approve, and then send my prescription in and my medications right to my house. That's how it works. You can get it in two to four days, overnight in a pinch if you need it. I also got my anti-nausea meds when I went on the MRC cruise to Norway. Ladies, I went and got the Latisse for your eyelashes, so if they start looking really good, that's why. You can choose your medication, not insurance or risk-averse physicians. Try it today. Take your medical freedom back. Visit allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana. Use code Dana10 today. That's allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana, code Dana10.
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I've got Dan Morgan here on the pod. Say hi, Dan. Hey, how's it going today? It's going good, man.
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Tell us who you are and what you do. I'm Dan Morgan. I'm an attorney and a managing partner at Morgan & Morgan, which is America's largest injury law firm.
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That's pretty awesome. I think I saw a billboard of yours recently that said $20 billion won. $20 billion is an insane number.
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Yeah, 20 billion recovered. It's actually, I think, somewhere north, probably closer to 22, 23 after this year. And each year we get bigger and badder and our army grows. So the number will hopefully keep getting bigger and bigger as time goes on.
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Awesome. So how does someone get in contact with Morgan & Morgan? What would I do if I got into an accident?
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Probably the easiest way is dialing Pound Law. That's Pound 529 from your cell phone. We are always open. Our call center is always waiting to take your call. 24-7-365. Wow.
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Dan Morgan from Morgan & Morgan, America's large injury law firm. Thanks for coming by the 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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First up, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has signed the Transgender Bathroom Bill. This, uh, it was signed into law, requires people, you gotta use this stuff. If you gotta go take a one or two, go in the place that is, you know... It corresponds with your junk. Super easy. If you're biological sex, there it is. No dudes in ladies bathrooms. The end. I don't know if you guys have been watching the Charlie Sheen documentary. I started it last night and it is one of the most hysterical and oh my gosh things that I've ever seen in my life. Apparently, he did so much cocaine at one time that the Mexican cartels were worried about their business relationship with him. And they cut him off. And he gets... There's nothing that's off record. They even have John Cryer in there complaining about him. It is wild. He was actually... Yeah, he was cut off. And that's one of the things that was discovered. I can't believe he's still functioning. Like, he's living. All the... Dude, I tell you what, a woman faces prison time for what she says was a chicken rescue, which is what I'm going to call if I ever steal anything, which I, you know, I'm not a thief, but if I did was, I would say I'm rescuing it. So apparently she's an animal rights activist and she stole four chickens from a poultry slaughterhouse. She faces up to five years in prison. It's a Purdue Petaluma Poultry Slaughterhouse. So she said she was right. You know, I get it, but it's a much because... there's probably other ways you don't get in trouble uh but she's citing right to rescue laws they give ordinary people the right to intervene to get an animal overheating things like that they have those laws there so um that's what she's citing so we'll see how it goes i mean there's probably i don't i don't know if she exhausted all the other you know like did she offer to buy the chickens like i don't i don't know uh anyway this is Let's see. Pope Leo won't authorize an AI pope and says technology is empty cold and will do great damage to what humanity is about. That's great. Now try unfettered illegal immigration. A Lansing parent is frustrated. Her son was expelled because he disarmed a classmate. I was reading about this this morning. So a Lansing parent is trying to get her son back in school. He got expelled because he disassembled a classmate's gun at Dwight Rich School of the Arts. He took it apart and threw away the bullets and didn't tell an adult till later. What's the problem? Why is he he's in seventh grade. He's 11 years old. He hunts. He's a hunter. So that's how he knew to disarm and disassemble it. I don't know why he's not getting an award if he this doesn't make any sense. I don't get it. But they sent out a statement. The school did. And they said that they don't take the decision lightly, et cetera, et cetera. OK, well, wait a minute. Why was he expelled? What happened to the kid that actually brought it to school? Thank you. What happened to that? Like this kid ought to, I mean, he, he sure he should have told an adult, but good night. This is insane.
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So this is a statement by Sinclair and more broadly, this may be an example of the unspooling of broadcast TV. You know, the word broad is in the name, but broadcast TV has been shrinking for years and MAGA supporters have long complained about late night shows being too liberal, too anti-Trump. Tonight, many Trump voters believe Kimmel was lying and trying to hurt conservatives. And that narrative is still very much out there and alive and well. So I think in some ways this controversy is only getting bigger because so many Trump fans are now going to be furious with ABC. And this is a moment where Disney CEO Bob Iger is standing up, taking a position. And I think he's probably aware of what the consequences will be.
SPEAKER 10 :
Iger's going to get spanked over this because this is over a quarter of their of their stations and remember jimmy kimball didn't even pull a four share kane explain to the good folks how bad that is that's horrible you can't sell you can't make money without being able to perform in that demo it's just the way it works i'm sorry yeah that's it's ridiculously low welcome back to the program dana lash with you if i had ratings that low i wouldn't be on air there's no way in hell i'd be on air i would not be able to sell that's how this works
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, you exceed those ratings on a daily basis just from the radio audience. That doesn't even count the stuff we get on DirecTV and Stream and everything else.
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And apparently his digital stuff drags, too. Like, that was like a whole other analysis that I saw somewhere. So, again, welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you, bottom of this first hour of Chats at Rumble. You can watch us through Radio Channel 47, DirecTV. Really low ratings. So if Disney wants to eat money on that, that's fine. But you know what? Sinclair doesn't have to make that choice, and neither does Nexstar. This is the thing. These stations also have free speech. But you know what's funny? I called it yesterday, and I mentioned it again this morning. I said that these stations also have rights. That's how it works. And they're choosing not to air a low-rated, blackface-wearing oaf who cries, My First Amendment, when viewers push stations to reject programming. Now, I said, as a joke... Not really. Watch as the left now ironically demands for government involvement to solve it. Oh, and here we are. Here is one of the first ones. Senator Scott Weiner. He goes, quote, can't wait to break up Sinclair. Actually, he ended it with a preposition. You idiot moron. It's not supposed to be. Can't wait to break Sinclair up. Can't wait to break up Sinclair. You got to keep that. You got to keep that together. He says corporate media consolidation doesn't jive with democracy. And although Sinclair isn't a fan of democracy, most people are. Oh, so now we're back to Haiti. I told you it's Marxist. Now we're back to hating private business. That's what this was all about anyway. They don't like private businesses saying we don't like what was happening. We don't like what we're hearing from our reviewers. We're going to take action against and remove this guy because he's tanking everything. You know, those low ratings also affect those local markets. They affect those local stations. You know, the stations that are in maybe St. Louis, maybe my hometown, maybe the viewers there aren't too keen on a guy. And he didn't just go out and say something that was mean or unfunny. He went out and straight up lied. Brian Stelter can talk with his hands as much as he wants to, but it's not going to make it true. He lied. He went out there and said that the killer was MAGA. He went out there and said that Kirk basically brought it on himself. We played the audio. So don't sit here gaslight me that this guy went out there and just made an unfunny joke. Look, conservatives have been taking the joke for the better part of 20 years because liberals don't have the balls to joke about Islam or even China or anything else. So they go after Christians because they're weak. Not because Christians are weak, but because progressives are weak. That's why they go after them all the time. They go after conservatives because conservatives don't chop their heads off. So or shoot them in the neck. So they have rights to these stations all have rights. Every one of them. They have rights. They have the right not to have their this guy's program tank their ratings. They can't sell in that slot. It's hurting them. This guy's lost $70 million, Jiminy Christmas, if I lost that much. I couldn't get a job in broadcasting. But see, progressives, they're specialer. This is like the one ideology where you can suck at your job and then people will keep you along because they're progressive. So stupid. It's like having a surgeon that constantly kills people on the operating table because he doesn't know what the hell he's doing. But he's progressive, though. So we have to keep him. And then if you threaten to fire him because he's just bad at his job, progressives, my free speech. Same thing. I'm just so tired of this stuff. It's just so, so ridiculous. So next star Sinclair. And then you have the government. Now you have Democrats wanting to use the government. Oh, it's corporate media consolidation. That's not what this is, you absolute idiot. Good grief. And he's getting predictably ratioed. By the way, isn't this guy that goes to all the fetish parades and goes out there and assless chaps with a ball gag in his mouth? Yeah, that's what I thought. Oh, wait. Yeah, I accidentally saw a picture. I can't unsee. Can I just make a side? I'm not going to show this. Don't worry, Juan. I'm not going to pollute your mind either. Juan is so innocent. I'm not going to pollute Juan's innocent mind. We're trying to preserve him. But let me just say this. Two things. I don't take seriously anything from any kind... I don't think any kind of lawmaker that's going out there and backless chaps, I'll say it like that, with ball gags and all this other stuff, walking around. I'm going to question you in a public office because... I mean, good grief. Straight people don't do that because it's messed up. It's just, you know, come have some decency just because you're gay doesn't mean you get to splout decency. OK, so number two, I also don't think that you should be going out dressed like that if you don't have the upper body for it. You know what I'm saying? And if I feel like I could break your arms just by simply snapping them with the power of my wrists, not that I would do that, but I'm just, you know, metaphorically. Then maybe you shouldn't go out there just shirtless like that. OK, we're past it. So this is and he's not the only one, by the way. There are several others that have done the same thing that are all out there saying, oh, well, now maybe we need to go after Sinclair. I told you this wasn't about government control. It was about their control. It's all it's ever been about their control. That's it. They have the absolute right to do whatever they want to do. Absolutely. Absolutely. But and they these companies, they've got rights also.
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In this episode, we dissect the presidential address to the United Nations, filled with both humor and heavy implications for policy on a global scale. From teleprompter mishaps to bold declarations, discover how these moments reflect broader issues in international politics. We also delve into media controversies stoked by late-night television's impact on public opinion and the ensuing corporate responses. What does free speech look like in a landscape where content and politics often collide?
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liberty nation with mark angelides elements of the media are seeking to derail the legitimacy of the united states supreme court what is on the docket what can they do about it and where is it all heading find out on liberty nation radio author columnist managing editor of libertynation.com podcast host and conservative policy advocate we dismiss history at our peril liberty nation with mark angelides
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america belongs to the american people and i encourage all countries to take their own stand in defense of their citizens as well you have to do that because i see it i'm not mentioning names i see it and i can call every single one of them out you're destroying your countries they're being destroyed europe is in serious trouble
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He's not wrong either. I mean, I've got a lot of I got some video and some other stuff to talk with you all about today. He's not incorrect about this because it is in trouble. They have allowed all of these people through. It's not legal immigration. They don't even say they're just like, oh, this is just amnesty and violence. Oh, asylees. That's the word I was looking for. Holy wow. So we're going to dive into some of this because it is... I think it was incredibly important that he dressed them down the way that he did. And also, I don't know if you saw, but the White House account had also tweeted, quote, one message, release the hostages now. That was his other big message, which is huge. Welcome to the program. Dana Lash with you. Top of this first hour and a lot to hit because we're talking about the president's address. to the United Nations, can I just say, just kind of volunteer real quick, he had just was sitting down with the UN leader and he had said that he appreciated the UN and thought, I don't like that part. I don't like that part of it. However, it is I understand what he's doing. It's, you know, some negotiation and they're, they're, I get it. But however, we're not fans of the UN. That said, it was very interesting. They, they had the teleprompter malfunction. What? So like the, the escalator. So as he arrived, let me just set the stage. It was a little weird because the escalator stopped working when he arrived. And then when he got up to the podium, he, there was a, the teleprompter stopped working. Kane, I like how Juan immediately laughs. You guys didn't hear it. Juan immediately chuckles. I mean, I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but that seemed, I'm just saying.
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Sus bro.
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It seems sus bro. If I had to, you know, like red alert or sus bro, it said sus bro.
SPEAKER 12 :
I think we have him responding to that.
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Oh yeah, let's go. Because I'm trying really hard not, I just immediately, you guys, just so you guys, I have a story one day that I'm going to share on air. I am so immediately already suspicious. If you're nice to me, I'm suspicious, right? If it happens too conveniently, I'm suspicious. If it's coincidental, I'm suspicious. If it's suspicious, I'm suspicious. You know, it's just, so I just thought that's all happening like right in a row. Do we have that by the way? I didn't mean to call for that, right? But I just, I was just thinking about that. Go ahead. Yeah. Go and play for this. This is a audio soundbite. What a million. I don't know.
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And I don't mind making this speech without a teleprompter because the teleprompter is not working. I feel very happy to be up here with you nevertheless. And that way you speak more from the heart. I can only say that whoever's operating this teleprompter is in big trouble.
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It was funny. It was actually really funny. He had, didn't he have the look of, well, son of a, on his face? He totally had that look on his face. It was funny. So POTUS is, he dressed him down pretty good. He dressed him down pretty well. I thought, anyway. And he had said at one point, I was looking at one quote. He was joking about this. It was 23. Oh, 24. Can we play 24, please? Ooh. Ooh. This was, well, just listen.
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I ended seven wars, dealt with the leaders of each and every one of these countries, and never even received a phone call from the United Nations offering to help in finalizing the deal. All I got from the United Nations was an escalator that on the way up stopped right in the middle. If the First Lady wasn't in great shape, she would have fallen. But she's in great shape. We're both in good shape. We both stood. And then a teleprompter that didn't work. These are the two things I got from the United Nations, a bad escalator and a bad teleprompter.
SPEAKER 19 :
That's actually funny. He was right. He was dressing them down. He's like, I got a bad escalator and a bad. The only two things I got from them. He was really hardcore. And audio soundbite 27. All right, I'm going to tell you. This is the way forward. This was pure balls in the face of all of these European nations that are kowtowing. And we're going to talk, by the way, about all of that coming up. But where you had Keir Starmer, who was like, yes, I'm going to recognize the Palestinian state. Please don't bomb us, Hamas. And then you had France. Yes, we we recognize the Palestinian state. Please do not bomb us. All of these leaders. And then Trump says this. Twenty seven.
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A ceasefire in Gaza, have to get that done, have to get it done. Unfortunately, Hamas has repeatedly rejected reasonable offers to make peace. We can't forget October 7th, can we? Now, as if to encourage continued conflict, some of this body is seeking to unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state, the rewards would be too great for Hamas terrorists, for their atrocities. This would be a reward for these horrible atrocities, including October 7th, even while they refuse to release the hostages or accept a ceasefire. Instead of giving to Hamas and giving so much, because they've taken so much, they have taken so much, this could have been solved so long ago. But instead of giving in to Hamas's ransom demands, those who want peace should be united with one message. Release the hostages now. Just release the hostages now.
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Good. Every other, all of these other Western leaders, you have Emmanuel Macron in France, you have Keir Starmer in Britain, all of them, every single one of them, they all have been caving, bending a knee to recognizing a state that's apparently going to be, they think can be ran by the entities that Hamas was going to take over anyway. That's the thing, because I don't think what a lot of people who are talking about, I don't think what they realize, yeah, I meant to sound like a rushed Cartman there. You're correct. I think what they don't realize is that, you know, the Palestinian Authority, which would assume control, they're run by Hamas. They've been taken over in elections. I don't think people realize how much power Hamas has in both of those territories. We're going to come back to that. Now it was it started with Sinclair. Now it's Nexstar as well. Yesterday, Sinclair announced that they are going to they're refusing to. to take Jimmy Kimmel's show. ABC said they were bringing him back. Sinclair said, uh-uh, not so fast. Not going to happen. We are going to preempt him. He is not going to air on our stations. And then, following that, you had Nextar. Next star is next. They said that they are not also they are joining Sinclair. They are also not going to showcase Jimmy Kimmel's program. And they said it was over his his remarks. Now, they could say ill-timed and insensitive. The man lied. He wasn't making a joke. He wasn't saying anything insensitive. He lied purposefully to incite. You can't tell me otherwise. Why would you lie about something like that? Unless you were trying to purposefully fan the flames. So there's a little bit more than just ill-timed and insensitive. And this is what viewers of those stations were responding to, by the way. They were all they were they I told you this yesterday. They were people leaning on Sinclair. Now, this is like what over this is like a significant chunk of these affiliates. Sinclair announced last night that beginning. Yeah, tonight they're going to be preempting Jimmy. I can't believe it's only Tuesday where this feels like the longest week ever. Still, Sinclair is going to be preempting Jimmy Kimmel on across their ABC affiliates and replacing it with news programming. And I mean, clearly it's obvious because Sinclair feels as though this wasn't settled and they're not going to be bullied by ABC. ABC is trying to bully them. They're not going to be bullied by ABC. I mean, they're making that incredibly clear. And so Nextar is joining it and they absolutely can do it. I'm going to tell you something. These stations have free speech, too. All of these stations also have free speech. This is Sinclair's call to make and they're making it. This has nothing to do with my first amendment. It has nothing to do with that for all of these pseudo free speech warriors on the left who said nothing, by the way. And here's the other thing we're going to touch on, how it came out now that Google, according to the House Judiciary, which released everything completely and fully admitted censorship under the Biden administration. They're promising to end bans of YouTube accounts of thousands of Americans who have all, like me, who have been censored. I've been professionally harmed by the Biden administration. I have been professionally maligned and harmed and stymied by progressive censorship. My whole staff can tell you about this. All of the stuff we have to do, all of the fights that you guys don't see that we have with these platforms day in and day out because of this progressive censorship. So spare me. You idiot Marxist asshats out there crying about my First Amendment when you all were absolutely silent over Gina Carano, over Roseanne, over this. And you're mad because you're fat, progressive loaf who was the second banana to Adam Carolla isn't funny enough to get more than a four share. Are you kidding me? I don't want to hear it. And I don't want to hear it either from these weak ass Republicans who are sitting there cowering like beaten dogs like, oh, oh, but you know, it was the FCC. The FCC didn't do anything. Show me evidence of coercion and I will totally I will be the first with a with a torch and pitchfork. You show me. But you can't sit here and go, but he said on some podcast, oh, he quoted Matthew McConaughey in Reign of Fire. I need to see coercion. This stuff ticks me off because it's like for all the pushback we go on, we do against Democrats. We always got these damn do nothing Republicans that I have never seen in a battle, by the way. I never seen any of these people in the streets with me or anybody else. And they're always like, oh, but. But it's not the same thing, guys. We're going to talk more about this going into the bottom of the hour as we move. Our partners that will bring you the program. A great organization. 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I've got Dan Morgan here on the pod. Say hi, Dan. Hey, how's it going today?
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It's going good, man. Tell us who you are and what you do. I'm Dan Morgan. I'm an attorney and a managing partner at Morgan & Morgan, which is America's largest injury law firm.
SPEAKER 11 :
That's pretty awesome. I think I saw a billboard of yours recently that said $20 billion won. $20 billion is an insane number.
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Yeah, 20 billion recovered. It's actually, I think, somewhere north, probably closer to 22, 23 after this year. And each year we get bigger and badder and our army grows. So the number will hopefully keep getting bigger and bigger as time goes on. Awesome.
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So how does someone get in contact with Morgan & Morgan? What would I do if I got into an accident?
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Probably the easiest way is dialing Pound Law. That's Pound 529 from your cell phone. We are always open. Our call center is always waiting to take your call. 24-7-365. Wow.
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Dan Morgan from Morgan & Morgan, America's large injury law firm. Thanks for coming by the show.
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
SPEAKER 19 :
By the way, can I just interject really quickly and say I called it. I called this yesterday when I talked about it, and I see it now. Now the left is demanding that the government break up Sinclair. I swear to you, we're coming back to that. All right, first up. First up, Disney. Oh, my God, we already told them all about that. Oh, yeah, Tom Holland got totally hurt. He got injured on set. He was filming. He was doing a stunt, apparently, on Spider-Man. I like him as a Spider-Man, so don't let anything happen to him. And he seems so nice. But he's supposed to return to set after his injury. They just said that it was some kind of stunt, and that's what ended up happening. And they had a shutdown set and all this stuff. So, yeah, that looks... I'm glad that he's coming back, because we cannot have... Who was the other Spider-Man? Oh, yeah. Okay. i wasn't really into him wasn't uh apparently 90 of daily life runs on autopilot that i don't even know what that means what they did this research i don't know why anybody who decided this needed research but they did they found that 90 of daily actions are performed automatically two-thirds of behaviors are triggered by habits so develop good ones everybody that's the lesson here rather than conscious choice Habits often support intentions, blah, blah, blah. Exercise is more often habitually triggered, but needs conscious guidance once started. So a lot of this stuff is just they tracked 105 people. I mean, that seems like a pretty obvious thing, right? Yeah. Jill Biden, apparently her ex spokesman reveals cult of a mean girls ruled White House. The Biden bubble was full of bullies, they said. Apparently that's coming out in Kamala Harris's forthcoming book where she's apparently shown you where some of the bodies are. Stick with us. We've got a lot more in store as we move our partners that help make it happen. Look, I'm always about diversifying your weapons array. I believe I carry I carry all the time and I have no problem in throwing lead towards any kind of threats to me or my family. That said, I also completely understand that you've got college kids that are not old enough to carry, although they're old enough to go and serve overseas and carry full auto. They're not old enough to carry here in defense of their lives when they're under 21, but yet living on their own, going to college. Or maybe you're going to a place where municipal and local restrictions are disarming you. This is why I say diversify your weapons array. Burna can be a part of that. Burna gun shoots chemical-irritant projectiles that can disable threats from up to 50 feet away. Now, there's two different versions. The SD, the CL, which stands for compact launcher, that's the smaller version of the SD. Now, compare this to regular stun guns. You've got maybe one or two shots. But with the Burna CL, it's 15 round shot capacity per cartridge. So this is something that is a defensive tool for you to use when your other options are unconstitutionally restricted. It doesn't care about gun-free zones. There's no background checks, no permits, and it can be sent right to your front door so it's accessible for everyone. Visit Burna.com slash Dana. Get your hands on the new Burna CL. B-Y-R-N-A dot com slash Dana.
SPEAKER 11 :
I've got Dan Morgan here on the pod. Say hi, Dan. Hey, how's it going today? It's going good, man.
SPEAKER 15 :
Tell us who you are and what you do. I'm Dan Morgan. I'm an attorney and a managing partner at Morgan & Morgan, which is America's largest injury law firm.
SPEAKER 11 :
That's pretty awesome. I think I saw a billboard of yours recently that said $20 billion won. $20 billion is an insane number.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, 20 billion recovered. It's actually, I think, somewhere north, probably closer to 22, 23 after this year. And each year we get bigger and badder and our army grows. So the number will hopefully keep getting bigger and bigger as time goes on. Awesome.
SPEAKER 11 :
So how does someone get in contact with Morgan & Morgan? What would I do if I got into an accident?
SPEAKER 15 :
Probably the easiest way is dialing Pound Law. That's Pound 529 from your cell phone. We are always open. Our call center is always waiting to take your call. 24-7-365. Wow.
SPEAKER 11 :
Dan Morgan from Morgan & Morgan, America's largest injury law firm. Thanks for coming by the show.
SPEAKER 15 :
Thanks for having me. Visit ForThePeople.com for an office near you.
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SPEAKER 07 :
So this is a statement by Sinclair and more broadly, this may be an example of the unspooling of broadcast TV. You know, the word broad is in the name, but broadcast TV has been shrinking for years and MAGA supporters have long complained about late night shows being too liberal, too anti-Trump. Tonight, many Trump voters believe Kimmel was lying and trying to hurt conservatives. And that narrative is still very much out there and alive and well. So I think in some ways this controversy is only getting bigger because so many Trump fans are now going to be furious with ABC. And this is a moment where Disney CEO Bob Iger is standing up, taking a position. And I think he's probably aware of what the consequences will be.
SPEAKER 19 :
this because this is over a quarter of their of their stations and remember jimmy kimball didn't even pull a four share kane explain to the good folks how bad that is that's horrible you can't sell you can't make money without being able to perform in that demo it's just the way it works i'm sorry yeah that's it's ridiculously low welcome back to the program dana lash with you if i had ratings that low i wouldn't be on air there's no way in hell i'd be on air i would not be able to sell that's how this works
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, you exceed those ratings on a daily basis just from the radio audience. That doesn't even count the stuff we get on DirecTV and Stream and everything else.
SPEAKER 19 :
And apparently his digital stuff drags, too. Like, that was like a whole other analysis that I saw somewhere. So, again, welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. Bottom of this first hour of Chats at Rumble. You can watch us through Radio Channel 47, DirecTV. The... Really low ratings. So if Disney wants to eat money on that, that's fine. But you know what? Sinclair doesn't have to make that choice, and neither does Nexstar. This is the thing. These stations also have free speech. But you know what's funny? I called it yesterday, and I mentioned it again this morning. I said that these stations also have rights. That's how it works. And they're choosing not to air a low-rated, blackface-wearing oaf who cries, my First Amendment, when viewers push stations to reject programming. Now, I said, as a joke... Not really. Watch as the left now ironically demands for government involvement to solve it. Oh, and here we are. Here is one of the first ones. Senator Scott Weiner. He goes, quote, can't wait to break up Sinclair. Actually, he ended it with a preposition. You idiot moron. It's not supposed to be. Can't wait to break Sinclair up. Can't wait to break up Sinclair. You got to keep that. You got to keep that together. He says corporate media consolidation doesn't jive with democracy. And although Sinclair isn't a fan of democracy, most people are. Oh, so now we're back to Haiti. I told you it's Marxist. Now we're back to hating private business. That's what this was all about anyway. They don't like private businesses saying we don't like what was happening. We don't like what we're hearing from our reviewers. We're going to take action against and remove this guy because he's tanking everything. You know, those low ratings also affect those local markets. They affect those local stations. You know, the stations that are in maybe St. Louis, maybe my hometown, maybe the viewers there aren't too keen on a guy. And he didn't just go out and say something that was mean or unfunny. He went out and straight up lied. Brian Stelter can talk with his hands as much as he wants to, but it's not going to make it true. He lied. He went out there and said that the killer was MAGA. He went out there and said that Kirk basically brought it on himself. We played the audio. So don't sit here gaslight me that this guy went out there and just made an unfunny joke. Look, conservatives have been taking the joke for the better part of 20 years because liberals don't have the balls to joke about Islam or even China or anything else. So they go after Christians because they're weak. Not because Christians are weak, but because progressives are weak. That's why they go after them all the time. They go after conservatives because conservatives don't chop their heads off. So or shoot them in the neck. So they have rights to these stations all have rights. Every one of them. They have rights. They have the right not to have their this guy's program tank their ratings. They can't sell in that slot. It's hurting them. This guy's lost $70 million, Jiminy Christmas, if I lost that much. I couldn't get a job in broadcasting. But see, progressives, they're specialer. This is like the one ideology where you can suck at your job and then people will keep you along because they're progressive. so stupid it's like having a surgeon that constantly kills people on the operating table because he doesn't know what the hell he's doing but he's progressive though so we have to keep him and then if you threaten to fire him because he's just bad at his job progressives my free speech same thing i'm just so tired of this stuff it's just so so ridiculous so next star sinclair and then you have the government now you have democrats wanting to use the government Oh, it's corporate media consolidation. That's not what this is, you absolute idiot. Good grief. And he's getting predictably ratioed. By the way, isn't this guy that goes to all the fetish parades and goes out there and assless chaps with a ball gag in his mouth? Yeah, that's what I thought. Oh, wait. Yeah, I accidentally saw a picture. I can't unsee. Can I just make a side? I'm not going to show this. Don't worry, Juan. I'm not going to pollute your mind either. Juan is so innocent. I'm not going to pollute Juan's innocent mind. We're trying to preserve him. But let me just say this. Two things. I don't take seriously anything from any kind... I don't think any kind of lawmaker that's going out there and backless chaps, I'll say it like that, with ball gags and all this other stuff, walking around. I'm going to question you in a public office because... I mean, good grief. Straight people don't do that because it's messed up. It's just, you know, come have some decency just because you're gay doesn't mean you get to splout decency. OK, so number two, I also don't think that you should be going out dressed like that if you don't have the upper body for it. You know what I'm saying? And if I feel like I could break your arms just by simply snapping them with the power of my wrists, not that I would do that, but I'm just, you know, metaphorically. then maybe you shouldn't go out there just shirtless like that. Okay, we're past it. So this is, and he's not the only one, by the way. There are several others that have done the same thing that are all out there saying, oh, well, now maybe we need to go after Sinclair. I told you this wasn't about government control. It was about their control. That's all it's ever been about, their control. That's it. They have the absolute right to do whatever they want to do. Absolutely. Absolutely. But and they these companies, they've got rights also. Now, a few other things. Oh, and I wanted to mention this to speak with the free speech warriorism from the inconsistent left. Google from the House Judiciary Committee and Jim Jordan was tweeting about this earlier today. They've admitted censorship under the previous administration, and they're promising to end bans of YouTube accounts for thousands of Americans censored for free speech. So they admitted that the Biden administration, they admit it. that the Biden administration pressured Google to censor Americans and remove content that did not violate YouTube's policies. They were even trying to get them to change what their policies were. That's the other thing. The administration censorship pressure, they said, was unacceptable and wrong. They said public debate should never come at the expense of relying authorities. They promised that they're not going to use third party fact checkers any longer. They added that. And they also said Europe's censorship laws target American companies and threatening threatening American speech, etc. So. This is and we've heard this before. I mean, Mark Zuckerberg admitted it. We played that audio yesterday. He admitted it right out of his mouth. He said, yes, absolutely. The Biden he said the Biden administration called and screamed at them, screamed at them. YouTube admitted to having censored people during the pandemic and for political reasons. They admitted that in addition to what Google had admitted also. I mean, this is for all the free speech warriors out there. I mean, they didn't say anything interesting how that was never mentioned. Right. They're so worried about Jimmy Kimmel and his barely a four share show. But what about the thousands of people who were censored because they said something critical of Joe Biden? What about the people who were censored because they questioned whether or not the vaccine? And this was even after the CDC admitted it. This is after Birx admitted it, that it doesn't actually prevent transmission. So Google is committing to offer all creators previously kicked off of YouTube due to political speech violations a return to the platform. That's huge. They've they've hurt us in tons of ways. My gosh, they've come after us. So this is, you know, for political speech or they went after us so hard during COVID pandemic. I think we got in trouble, Cain, the most under that, right? I know that the video that we got in trouble the most with was Dr. Robert Malone.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yep. YouTube suspended us for a while on that one.
SPEAKER 19 :
So that actually directly impacted literally my livelihood. They one of the reasons that we are that we kind of got behind digitally was I don't think people realize, you know, when you do stuff like, for instance, Second Amendment advocacy. One of the one of the things that I realized before I started really getting into it is that I'm going to kneecap myself from being able to get a job anywhere else. If I do this, if I do what's needed and I go in here and go in the lion's den, I'm going to have difficulty getting a job anywhere else after this. And that was true. Those are the things my agent told me. He was like, you're going to get blacklisted. I got blacklisted after working with the NRA. I got so blacklisted. I got so blacklisted during and after Parkland. Oh, my gosh. I was buried everywhere. And it happened. Killed me digitally. Absolutely killed me digitally. I mean, I had my accounts frozen, completely suspended. They were they just kneecap me. They like took away like three quarters of everything that we had built up to that point. And we we were suppressed for years. And it really I mean, you can see it if you compare. I mean, we've got, you know, a couple hundred thousand subscribers, but you but it was a lot different before then. I mean, it you can look at the impact. You can see the impact. It just it really they just about destroyed me. So progressives can go to hell. I am not here to unify and I'm not here to be nice. And I do not have a spirit of peace for you because they've people like me. They almost killed professionally. And that's how they do. They can't debate you. So they try to shut you up. So I hope Jim Jordan drags them. All these free speech warriors. This is one of the reasons immediately I was not out there on that side, because first off, it wasn't a free speech issue. People don't know how the hell the FCC and all of this is set up. Now, if Sinclair is going, this is what Sinclair did. Sinclair was like, my gosh, we are getting hammered by people who watch our stations. They actually appealed to the FCC, which is why Carr started saying what he said. Sinclair had already appealed to the FCC. That is their right to do so, by the way. And it is also under the purview of the FCC to respond. Because that's what they do. They look at these stations. They see what's happening. The stations are saying we need to be able to exercise our freedom with these airwaves that we are on. You regulate help. Now, you can sit here and go, well, Brendan Carr said too much. I don't give a rat's ass what he said. I am so past that. That is stupid deflection. You can't sit here and go, well, it was coercion. And then when you can't provide evidence of coercion, backtrack Mott Bailey style and go, well, it was actually he shouldn't have said what he said. Pick a lane. You can't try to straddle both. So that was their purview to do so. And then now you've got Democrats going, well, we're going to use the government now to go after you. Now you tell me who's a free speech purist here. So that's why I never got on board with that from the get go. And a lot of people out there, including some of these cloud chasers on the right, y'all need to understand how FCC and these stations work before you go out there and run your mouths about it. Because you're misleading your audience while you're sitting here proclaiming Christianity. You have a responsibility when you sit in front of your mic on a podcast or wherever the hell else you're talking to people. You have a responsibility. Get it right. Especially if you're going to proclaim that you want to be like Charlie. Charlie would at least get it right. So that's the reality of them. People can get mad and they can be wrong while they're mad. And that's fine with me. We have a lot more on the way as we roll towards the end of this first hour. And the other things we got coming up, Antifa, a terrorist organization, just in time as well. We're going to talk about some of that. Plus, Trump hammered Europe on immigration. Do you want to see what happened when Italy refused to recognize Palestine? We're going to show you that as well as we move. Maybe you want to have problems getting around and being stiff and miserable and not being able to deal with inflammation or... Or you could check out Relief Factor, which helps so many people. If pain has been holding you back, you need to find out why so many, including my husband, Chris, they make Relief Factor part of their daily routine. You can try the three-week quick start today and see how it works for you. It helps to support your body's natural inflammatory response. And that's what causes the aches and soreness and stiffness and discomfort after exercise and activities. And it targets the inflammation. So that can keep you from doing the things that you need to do. 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SPEAKER 11 :
I've got Dan Morgan here on the pod. Say hi, Dan. Hey, how's it going today?
SPEAKER 15 :
It's going good, man. Tell us who you are and what you do. I'm Dan Morgan. I'm an attorney and a managing partner at Morgan & Morgan, which is America's largest injury law firm.
SPEAKER 11 :
That's pretty awesome. I think I saw a billboard of yours recently that said $20 billion won. $20 billion is an insane number.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, 20 billion recovered. It's actually, I think, somewhere north, probably closer to 22, 23 after this year. And each year we get bigger and badder and our army grows. So the number will hopefully keep getting bigger and bigger as time goes on.
SPEAKER 11 :
Awesome. So how does someone get in contact with Morgan & Morgan? What would I do if I got into an accident?
SPEAKER 15 :
Probably the easiest way is dialing Pound Law. That's Pound 529 from your cell phone. We are always open. Our call center is always waiting to take your call. 24-7-365. Wow.
SPEAKER 11 :
Dan Morgan from Morgan & Morgan, America's large injury law firm. Thanks for coming by the show.
SPEAKER 15 :
Thanks for having me. Visit ForThePeople.com for an office near you.
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SPEAKER 10 :
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SPEAKER 14 :
Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States.
SPEAKER 19 :
This is Emmanuel who's being stopped in the street because of Trump's motorcade. He's standing at the side of the road. He wants to get through. And they're telling him, nope, you're stuck because POTUS' motorcade's going through. So he calls Trump.
SPEAKER 13 :
He's on the phone with Trump. Guess what? I'm waiting because everything is for you.
SPEAKER 19 :
So they told him to walk. Yeah, you better hoof it. That's what happens when you sit here and recognize Hamas as his own state. We'll talk more about that. That's what you get, Macron. Hoof it. Just saying. Oh, he had to go and meet the unwashed masses. Oh, poor man. Oh, Kali, I can't stand him. Can you... First off, he was... The fact that he thought he could just call POTUS and be like, I'm stuck in the streets. I cannot get through. Remote arcade. And then, you know, Trump was like, hoof it. So he had to walk. Was he still on the phone with POTUS at that moment? I think so. Yeah? I think so. I hope Trump was giving him an earful. But, you know, interesting. That was Macron who couldn't, because all the UN said he couldn't get through. Yeah, that's what happened. They're not going to let you through, Slick. Right. They're not going to let you through. You're in America. They're not going to let you through. You got POTUS's motorcade going in. That's just the way it is, you know. So interesting, interesting. We're going to talk a little bit more about that coming up because all of these nations that are trying... They're rushing to recognize... They said they want to recognize a quote-unquote Palestinian state. I don't recognize that word because it's a made-up word by a dead Roman emperor who gave it to that land out of spite after the Second Judean Uprising. So... Yeah, it's not supported by thousands of years of either Christian or Islamic antiquity. So I don't like to pretend that things that aren't real are real. But you can go ahead and say like West Bank and Gaza and the territories. So Hamas, as you know, they're talking about having the Palestinian Authority run the quote unquote Palestinian state. The problem is, is the Palestinian Authority to anyone who's been paying attention for any length of time over the past 20 years is almost now completely run by Hamas. After the 2007 elections, when they took over in 2005, after the unilateral withdrawal of Israel in the Strip, they had elections and guess what? Won by a landslide. But it's not just it's not just this isn't like Hamas's own ministry of information. You have a Johns France Press. You have the Associated Press. You have the BBC. You also have all of these United Nations observers, and they've been tracking sentiment of Hamas in anticipation of the 2021 elections. And what they were all independently discovering simultaneously is that Hamas was so unbelievably popular, they were going to, and the word was runaway, phrase was runaway with the election in 21. So the Palestinian Authority suspended elections, blamed it on the Jews by saying they weren't sure if Arabs in Israel would be able to go and vote. but they actually suspended elections because they knew Hamas was going to take over and be the ruling faction within the authority. So don't sit here and say that the Palestinian Authority can run an independent state because it's literally Hamas. You're rewarding Hamas by upgrading them from the strip to a whole entire state and two territories. So step off all of these ahistorical, illiterate clown turds. Done. We have a second hour coming up. We're also going to talk about the president's announcement on autism yesterday. Lorraine, who is a contributor over at Chapter and Verse has a piece coming out about it, and she's going to react. We've got a lot more. Stick with us. It is the folks over at Super Beats, a fantastic product. If you've not gotten Super Beats, you need to. They also have Super Marine. It's a powerful metabolism support, and it's all designed to keep your energy steady, even after you eat. So metabolism is where it's at. Healthy metabolism, healthy blood sugar support. A lot of people could benefit from that, no matter what decade of life you're in. And berberine, they don't use just any old berberine supplement. They use a unique berberine that's been clinically studied to deliver 10 times higher absorption than standard berberine. One concentrated, easy to swallow capsule is all it takes. And the berberine that they use, as you know, top-notch, but they also include olive fruit extract and other things to help support and minimize GI distress as well. You can find both the super berberine and the number one selling Super Beats Heart Chews at Sam's Club. Stock up and save on healthy blood pressure support with $5 off Super Beats Heart Chews. And from August 27th to September 21st at Sam's Club. And you can start today. Get on the road to better cardiovascular health.
SPEAKER 11 :
I've got Dan Morgan here on the pod. Say hi, Dan. Hey, how's it going today?
SPEAKER 15 :
It's going good, man. Tell us who you are and what you do. I'm Dan Morgan. I'm an attorney and a managing partner at Morgan & Morgan, which is America's largest injury law firm.
SPEAKER 11 :
That's pretty awesome. I think I saw a billboard of yours recently that said $20 billion won. $20 billion is an insane number.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, 20 billion recovered. It's actually, I think, somewhere north, probably closer to 22, 23 after this year. And each year we get bigger and badder and our army grows. So the number will hopefully keep getting bigger and bigger as time goes on.
SPEAKER 11 :
Awesome. So how does someone get in contact with Morgan & Morgan? What would I do if I got into an accident?
SPEAKER 15 :
Probably the easiest way is dialing Pound Law. That's Pound 529 from your cell phone. We are always open. Our call center is always waiting to take your call. 24-7-365. Wow.
SPEAKER 11 :
Dan Morgan from Morgan & Morgan, America's large injury law firm. Thanks for coming by the show.
SPEAKER 15 :
Thanks for having me. Visit ForThePeople.com for an office near you.
SPEAKER 09 :
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SPEAKER 24 :
Um, I guess I'd ask you to just elaborate on that a little bit. It's hard to hear with you running as, you know, you're the first woman elected vice president. You're a black woman and a South Asian woman elected to that high office, very nearly elected president, to say that he couldn't be on the ticket effectively because he was gay. It's hard to hear.
SPEAKER 22 :
No, no, no. That's not what I said, that he couldn't be on the ticket because he is gay. My point, as I write in the book, is that... I was clear that in 107 days, in one of the most hotly contested elections for President of the United States, against someone like Donald Trump, who knows no floor, to be a black woman running for President of the United States, and as a vice presidential running mate, a gay man, with the stakes being so high, It made me very sad, but I also realized it would be a real risk. Well, because he was gay.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah, she just said, yeah, I couldn't because he was gay. I really wish Matt, I would have said, now let's talk about Shapiro. Well, they couldn't do him because he was Jewish. That's what her answer would be. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. You know that one song, Black and Yellow. I was just thinking of like black and gay because of that. I'm just like, that's. How, but that's, I'm made of thoughts right now. Let me, let me corral them all together here. Hang on. Because I came up with like a million more as I was watching this again. She is admitting, correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like she's even saying her base isn't going to support that. I am, oh gosh, Kate, I'm trying really hard to stay on the plantation of goodness here. Really trying hard.
SPEAKER 12 :
It's just the two-facedness of it.
SPEAKER 19 :
But I want to run off and be like, but you're telling me that he can't, you didn't pick him because he's gay. But isn't she kind of admitting that that was kind of like a DEI thing that was being foisted on her? Because a lot of people were pushing him. She's like, yeah, but nobody's going to because that literally is only qualification. If it's a qualification in their eyes, things like that are basically substitutes for something that is accomplished or acquired through hard work and merit. Right. Oh, you you were a horrible mayor of South Bend and you didn't really do anything. Yeah, but he's gay. Oh, OK. Well, then that changes it. Now, oh gosh, Kane. I feel like we need to have some unlicensed music that we can play real quick when I mute myself and put a hand over my mouth so I can tell Kane exactly what I'm thinking. Because I desperately want to say it on air, but I feel like also, I actually maybe would have to use that get out of jail free card with Brennan Carr. Possibly. Yeah. Do you know where I'm going here? It would make sense If, you know, his only job was and I don't even know what this entails, but I'm just saying because this is how Democrats think it would make sense only if like his job was just gay stuff. I don't even know what that would be, but you can get an idea. You know, if that was just the only requirement, then it'd be like, oh, well, he's gay. That makes sense. But, you know, you're for the vice presidency. Can he do anything? Does he have any foreign policy experience? No. Does he have really any economic experience? Yeah, that's a no. Negative. OK, does he have any experience with domestic policy? Well, he ran 63 buses in South Bend. You know, he's got that. OK, still not really anything. But he is gay. Oh, well, then there it is. Yeah. Why didn't you lead with that? Good night. Oh, well, he can accomplish all the things because he's gay. What? I don't think so. But the fact that she seemed, that actually seemed like one of the easiest things that came out of her mouth. Did you notice that, too? How often does Kamala Harris has this book out? So she's going on her book tour and she's basically saying in her book, I'm going to save you a click or a read. She's like, yeah, I knew Biden was losing it. Everybody else did, too. And here are their names. That's that's like the book. She's like, yeah, couldn't have Buttigieg because he's gay. She's just going down the line. Jill was a bitch. I mean, she's just going down the whole line. That's her book. That's. She's burning every bridge in the book. I just love watching the infighting. I am basking in this like a lizard on a sunrock. It's just chef's kiss. It's so good. It's the schadenfreude that we wanted, right? Just delayed a little bit, but we're getting it. It's my birthday month, my birthday week. We're getting it. So that wasn't all. She had a couple other things that she was saying. She, well, apparently, let's see. Oh, here's everyone I don't agree with as a communist. Audio soundbite six. Yay.
SPEAKER 22 :
And right now we are dealing with, as I called him at my speech on the ellipse, a tyrant. We used to compare the strength of our democracy to communist dictators. That's what we're dealing with right now in Donald Trump. And these titans of industry are not speaking up.
SPEAKER 19 :
OK, I'm going to ask through this. Your administration literally called and screamed at them. If we have that Zuckerberg audio that we played yesterday, can we just like pump that back up? Just let just yell at me when we haven't just just play it. Because she literally her Biden Harris called tech companies. They literally contacted tech companies and were telling them all of these tech titans. You need to drop these. You need to suspend accounts that do this. You need to drop accounts that do this. You need to censor speech that says this. You need to control the algorithm that is facilitating anything that we disagree with. All of this. And it didn't just stop at what they labeled COVID misinformation, which was nonsense, but it had to do with the laptop. It had to do with almost every single aspect of the Biden presidency. That's a big thing. So I don't know what she's talking about when she says that. They she's calling for tech titans to speak out. You literally called Mark Zuckerberg and screamed at him like that actually happened. And Zuckerberg just, you know, didn't know how to. He just you can tell when he was doing an interview, he was just kind of shocked about it. She talks about him being a communist. That word has a meaning. How is he a communist when he won a free and fair election and you didn't? That doesn't make any sense to me. How is he a communist by actually ending a lot of government oversight and pushing deregulation? That's a really bad communist. He's a horrible communist. That doesn't even make any sense. These words have meanings. I don't think she's gotten the memo that hyperbole isn't serving her or her party's agenda very well. It's just stupid. This is so ridiculous. Audio some before she talks about Biden running for reelection. Listen to this.
SPEAKER 22 :
There was so much, as we know, at stake. And as I write, you know, the where my head was at at the time is that it would be completely it would come off as being completely self-serving.
SPEAKER 24 :
If you said to President Biden, if I did not think he should run again.
SPEAKER 22 :
Yeah. Or even if you should question whether it's a good idea.
SPEAKER 19 :
I just didn't think I should say anything. So she was scared, too scared to say anything. Such empowerment. Such empowerment. Telling you what. She says she has no focus to run on her. She has no focus on running in 2028. Well, obviously, because she's, you know. So we got here. Listen to this. This is what Zuckerberg said. This is what I'm talking about. And remember, this is right after we play that audio. Kamala Harris saying, where are the tech titans? Listen to this.
SPEAKER 03 :
these people from the biden administration would call up our team and like scream at them and curse and it's like these documents are it's all kind of out there did you record any of those phone calls i don't know i don't think i don't think we were but but i think i want to listen i mean there are emails the emails are published it's all it's all kind of out there and um and they're like And basically, it just got to this point where we were like, no, we're not going to we're not going to take down things that are true. That's ridiculous. They want us to take down this meme of Leonardo DiCaprio looking at a TV talking about how 10 years from now or something, you know, you're going to see an ad that says, OK, if you took a covid vaccine, you're eligible, you know, like for for this kind of payment, like sort of like. class action lawsuit type meme and they're like no you have to take that down we said no we're not we're not going to take down humor and satire we're not going to take down things that are that are true and then at some point um i guess uh i don't flipped a bit i mean biden when he was he gave some statement at some point i don't know if his press conference or to some journalists where he basically was like these guys are killing people and and um and
SPEAKER 19 :
know then like all these different agencies and branches of government basically just like started investigating coming after our company it was it was brutal yeah over a meme over a meme and the meme and i put it in uh slack too it was literally the leonardo dicaprio we said this yesterday it was the scene from once upon a time in hollywood at the end where he's sitting in the recliner and he's watching tv And he's drinking a beer. And he leans up and he points at the TV. And then the meme said, 10 years from now, here's Juan showing it to you. This was the meme that the Biden administration was trying to erase off the internet. This is what the Biden administration did. But my free speech, said all the people who are mad about, you know, Ophie, Jimmy Kimmel. But my first amendment. That's what all those free, where are the free speech warriors at for this? I mean, it was, I mean, they tried to, they, they were shutting people down over a meme. By the way, that would mean that was not wrong at all. Not at, uh, not at all. Just so just asinine, asinine. Now, one of the other things that happened yesterday, POTUS had an, uh, He had a press conference and they were talking about autism and Tylenol. We're going to talk more about this with a contributor to Chapter and Verse, moderator of the chat, Lorraine, because she's doing a deep dive on this. This is just Audio Sunbite 1, though. This is when POTUS was talking about Tylenol. Listen.
SPEAKER 13 :
To Bobby and the group, let's do it now. Nothing bad can happen. It can only good happen. But with Tylenol, don't take it. Don't take it. And if you can't live, if your fever is so bad, you have to take one because there's no alternative to that. Sadly, first question, what can you take instead? It's actually, there's not an alternative to that. And as you know, other of the medicines are absolutely proven bad. I mean, they've been proven bad with the aspirins and the Advils and others, right? And they've been proven bad.
SPEAKER 19 :
So we're going to talk a little bit about this coming up because the... There's been a lot of discussion about like some of these studies that have been cited and they're actually there's some discrepancy with the studies that are being used that a lot of this is being predicated upon. And we'll talk about some of that with her coming up because there are a lot of people angry over this. And they were angry over RFK and what he's promoting with this. And it's, yeah, I mean, Tylenol is kind of, and Kane, you made a good point. Tylenol is like a brand.
SPEAKER 12 :
It's a brand name. It's like saying Kleenex, but you mean tissue. It's the same thing.
SPEAKER 19 :
It's acetaminophen.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah. So I don't know if I even heard the word acetaminophen in that press conference like even once. So it seemed like it was targeting more of a brand name than it was the drug itself. So that clarity was an issue for me last night.
SPEAKER 19 :
So one of the things that Lorraine noted, and like I said, we're going to talk about this, is the studies that apparently have been cited previously talking about Tylenol during pregnancy leads to increases in autism. That was a case, a smaller sample, but it was like millions that were done in a Swedish study, which actually the Swedish study determined that there wasn't a link and that other siblings within that same familial group with the same mother who had taken acetaminophen had no issues at all whatsoever. So we're going to talk about this a little bit because a lot of this stuff is, everybody that I know that has someone in their family with autism or themselves is on the spectrum. I don't know a single person that's happy about it. And I was in text messages with a number of people yesterday about this who were just not happy with it. And we'll talk a little bit about that here coming up. We also, just to let you know, we also got to get into Boy, there's media malpractice. The latest with the Sinclair stuff and next because now they're battling Disney. It's Sinclair and Nexstar versus Disney. We're going to get into that as well. And we're also going to talk about the visa situation and terrorism and our partners, the people who bring you the program. Patriot Mobile, the only Christian conservative cell phone service network. In the nation, Patriot Mobile not only wants to save you money, and they do this by, I mean, your plans cost less, you can get a tailor-made plan depending on whatever it is that you need, whether it's a business of any size, family of any size, singles, dinks, whatever. They got you covered. And Patriot Mobile also doesn't spend your hard earned money against you. That was always like the biggest thing with having a cell phone service, because you would have to pay a cell phone company that you know is donating to lefty stuff. And until Patriot Mobile came along a little over 10 years ago, there was no there was no other option. So why not make the switch? It's a carrier that fights for your values. It's a carrier that is like-minded, and this is the time more than ever we have to be mindful of where our dollars go. Right now, you can get a free month of service using promo code Dana. Make the switch today. PatriotMobile.com slash Dana, 972-PATRIOT, and use promo code Dana. That gets you that free month of service. PatriotMobile.com slash Dana, 972-PATRIOT, promo code Dana.
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I've got Dan Morgan here on the pod. Say hi, Dan. Hey, how's it going today?
SPEAKER 15 :
It's going good, man. Tell us who you are and what you do. I'm Dan Morgan. I'm an attorney and a managing partner at Morgan & Morgan, which is America's largest injury law firm.
SPEAKER 11 :
That's pretty awesome. I think I saw a billboard of yours recently that said $20 billion won. $20 billion is an insane number.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, 20 billion recovered. It's actually, I think, somewhere north, probably closer to 22, 23 after this year. And each year we get bigger and badder and our army grows. So the number will hopefully keep getting bigger and bigger as time goes on. Awesome.
SPEAKER 11 :
So how does someone get in contact with Morgan & Morgan? What would I do if I got into an accident?
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SPEAKER 11 :
Dan Morgan from Morgan & Morgan, America's largest injury law firm. Thanks for coming by the show.
SPEAKER 15 :
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
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So, first up here. Sorry, I have to go slow because it's loading. Using AI increases unethical behavior, according to a study. AI creates a convenient moral distance between people and their actions. So does social media. They're one and the same. Social media does as well. So that's not a news flash. This is a sad headline. Priced out of traditional housing, more Americans are living in RVs. And it traps families apparently in a cycle of debt. It's just kind of crazy. It starts with this very long thing and it gets into it. But they're using one family as an example. I haven't heard about this happening. Have you? No. I haven't heard about people staying in RVs. But, you know, I mean, depending on what the size of the RV, RVs are... Just saying. But I don't know anybody that's I know people who choose to do the tiny house thing or to do something like that. But I've never I don't know. But bottom line is, yeah, we've lived with a lot of years of some bad fiscal management from D.C. And we're all dealing with it still. Let's see. Angola ice detainees launched a hunger strike over what they say are inhumane conditions. I don't care. Starve. Do everybody a favor and remove yourself one way or the other from our soil. Don't care. They know you're so mean. No, I'm not. I'm very practical. Moving on. Apparently, a soda truck was swallowed by a whole giant sinkhole. Wow. See, you think everything's fine and then the road eats you. This was in Mexico City. A truck balanced precariously the front wheel. So this thing, it like sink it like kind of like the Titanic and the whole truck went in the sinkhole. It was a soda truck. It was wild. We're going to talk about the autism presser that they had yesterday. Next, as we move our partners that bring you the program, our friends over at Caltech, the PR57. It is a rotary barrel pistol chambered in 5.7, 40% lighter than the competition. So if you're looking to conceal carry a 5.7, this is something you should look at. They accomplish the lightness and the diminutive size in a couple of different ways. The rotary barrel, number one, it's a one of its kind redefined one of a kind rotary barrel pistol. So that contributes to it, but also the very unique way that they load. It's a top loading design. So it replaces traditional magazines with stripper clips. So you have a slimmer carry profile, 20 plus one capacity, low recoil for ease of use and accuracy, simple, reliable, And affordable, MSRP only $3.99. Learn more about the PR-57 Chambered and 5.7 at caltechweapons.com. That's K-E-L-T-E-C weapons.com. Tell them Dana sent you.
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It's going good, man. Tell us who you are and what you do. I'm Dan Morgan. I'm an attorney and a managing partner at Morgan & Morgan, which is America's largest injury law firm.
SPEAKER 11 :
That's pretty awesome. I think I saw a billboard of yours recently that said $20 billion won. $20 billion is an insane number.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, 20 billion recovered. It's actually, I think, somewhere north, probably closer to 22, 23 after this year. And each year we get bigger and badder and our army grows. So the number will hopefully keep getting bigger and bigger as time goes on. Awesome.
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So how does someone get in contact with Morgan & Morgan? What would I do if I got into an accident?
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SPEAKER 13 :
But I'm not so careful with what I say, but you have certain groups, the Amish as an example, they have essentially no autism.
SPEAKER 19 :
All right, so that was from the press conference that they had yesterday. POTUS, RFK Jr., and they were discussing, and you had Dr. Oz there as well, and they were discussing autism. And they were talking about some statistics and some studies and diagnoses and all of this other stuff. And there were some statements that were made that had a lot of people that I know scratching their heads. Welcome to the bottom of this second hour. If you go over at Substack, Lorena has a big piece up now. I don't think she liked the press conference because... It's called RFK Jr.' 's Autism Scam, and it is a million-word dissertation. It's really good, though, and it gets into every single aspect of every single bit of what they said. She joins us now, Lorraine, who is a contributor over at Chapter & Verse and a blogger in her own right. And she also moderates the chat. She joins us now on video. So, Lorraine, this... There were there were a lot of you had a lot of objections about the information, the information presented in this press conference. And one of those you were you actually back channel were discussing this study that they were talking about where they cited the Amish. Just just tell people like some of your biggest objection takeaways from what you saw.
SPEAKER 23 :
Well, first of all, don't take medical advice from President Trump. Bless the man. He's good at being president. Don't take medical advice from him. So as far as the Amish, he also mentioned Cuba doesn't have Tylenol or autism. Cuba does have Tylenol, but in Cuba they don't sell it over the counter. You have to have a prescription to get it. So there's that. And they do have autism. They just categorize things differently and they also don't they don't diagnosed as early as we do. They tend to, they tend to like put things off and then blame it on other stuff and do rehab with them before they give them a diagnosis. Whereas we give them a diagnosis and then do the rehab.
SPEAKER 19 :
Interesting. So it's very different ways of approaching it. Yes. And you also had noted, too, that they had also mentioned, and let me play this audio soundbite for you. This is audio soundbite three. This is when POTUS was talking about the use of Tylenol. And you have a whole section in this where you address that specifically. Let's go ahead and play this for everyone and make sure Lorraine hears it. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 13 :
First, effective immediately, the FDA will be notifying physicians that the use of Tylenol Well, let's see how we say that. Acetaminophen. Acetaminophen. Is that okay? Which is basically commonly known as Tylenol during pregnancy can be associated with a very increased risk of autism.
SPEAKER 19 :
So Lorraine, you address this too in your piece, because the data that they're citing on this or that they seem to be basing all of this on has its own issues as well. And it's a very small sample. Tell us about this.
SPEAKER 23 :
Yeah, well, okay, the Tylenol studies that they seem to be citing are First of all, Dr. McKay was the one who named the studies they used. He said the Boston Birth Cohort and the Nurses Health Study and the Mount Sinai Study. The Boston Birth Cohort isn't a study. It's a collection of data. Same with the Nurse Health Study. It's not actually a study. It's a collection of data. So using the studies that they used from that, there's all kinds of problems with the studies that they did. So the study from the Boston Birth Cohort, They looked at a whole bunch. They looked at about 996 or something like that kids. And they were like, oh, well, because mom had Tylenol in her cord blood or acetaminophen, which I mean, the president had trouble saying it. So he just kept saying Tylenol over and over again. because she had that in her cord blood, and the kid's autistic, that means the Tylenol caused it. And it's like, no, you could just as easily say that all autistic mothers drank water when they were pregnant, and then they had autistic kids, so the water must be the cause. A correlation doesn't equal causation. And that's the big problem with all of these studies. The one for the nurse health study, the people who ran the study just made a bunch of assumptions. They were like, oh, well, she used Tylenol the year before she had a baby. So she probably used Tylenol the year she had a baby. And it's like, that's you can't make that kind of assumption. Right. And do a scientific study based on that. That's just not cool.
SPEAKER 19 :
That doesn't that's not science.
SPEAKER 23 :
No. And then the Mount Sinai study that they used wasn't really a study. It was a review. of a bunch of other studies that were not actually studies. They were all reviews of like seven studies that were mixed results anyway. Right. So the studies that they're using kind of shady um there was a study done using the swedish population which since they have uh healthcare government health care everybody in sweden is a part of the study so that study included like two million kids and that study did something that these studies that the trump administration is using didn't that study looked at siblings and they when when they were looking just at the births of autistic kids, they were like, Oh, okay, there is just a tiny minuscule little increase in people who took Tylenol who had autism. But then when they looked at their siblings, and they looked at siblings who mom didn't take Tylenol, that that increase went completely away. And the siblings with and without Tylenol had the same rates. And so that means that it's not the Tylenol.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah, that clearly indicates that that's probably not it for those joining us. We are talking to our friend Lorraine, who's also a contributor over at Chapter and Verse. And she moderates the chat as well. And you follow all of this. And I know you've written about this before because you've talked about your own, you know, issue and dealings when because you're on the spectrum and you've talked about your family. And so this is stuff that, you know, for for people wondering, you know, this very well, you live it. You have researched it your whole life. And so immediately when you heard that this press conference was forthcoming, your antenna was up.
SPEAKER 23 :
yeah yeah um like i said i i was diagnosed autistic as an adult by my son's psychiatrist when he was diagnosed um so this is something that i've been dealing with i have a couple of kids who are autistic there's something i've been dealing with um for years and so yeah i always keep an eye and look at the studies and stuff and the tylenol studies just don't show what The biggest problem is that these guys, they went into this with a preconceived notion, they have said for months now, that it has to be something external. That's not true. It doesn't have to be something external. But they went into this with a design to find something that they could say, oh, this is wise. Just stop doing this and then everything will be fine. And so that's concerning when it comes to scientific research. You're not supposed to go in with a preconceived notion.
SPEAKER 19 :
Right. And they also talked about vaccinations as well. This was also part of this press conference. And Trump was talking about hep B vaccine at birth and things like that. And I know that some people, I mean, we spread our vaccines out for our kids when they were young because I thought, oh my gosh, that's a lot for a kid in one day. And that was just our choice as parents. I didn't, obviously none of us trusted the COVID vaccine because it was brand new and there was absolutely no paperwork on it at all. Tell me what you heard. Was there anything that you liked in that from what they were saying there? Because it kind of sounded like usually one of the things that I've always heard is that, well, vaccines cause autism. Well, that's no, that's not. Tell me about this. You wrote about this.
SPEAKER 23 :
I went over this in my article back in May about the whole autism vaccine link. I do. I do suggest maybe not getting, you know, like. three four shots in one time because some of these shots have like four and five vaccines in them and so i i do think that maybe we should stretch those out but some of the things so trump kept bringing this up and i noticed the other guys didn't and that's because they um the fda just uh put out guidance so there's the mmr vaccine the meat smoke
SPEAKER 18 :
Moms, measles, and rubella.
SPEAKER 23 :
I can say it really again. They have combined that with the varicella, which is chickenpox. And what they've found is that in kids under the age of four, the combination shot with the varicella has a slight chance of causing a febrile seizure in those young, young babies and kids under the age of four. So the FDA put out guidance that said for anybody under age four, separate shots. Don't put those together. But the way Trump was talking about it, he was encouraging people to separate the mumps, measles and rubella shot, which is impossible. They don't offer those a single shot in this country or almost any other country because they've been combined for so long that they're not available as single shots.
SPEAKER 19 :
That's something I didn't know either. Good night. Yeah, I didn't know that either. And that's all, I mean, that's all, this is all important information to have when evaluating this. I mean, did it, it seemed like a lot of this stuff was based on old research that is already well known for anybody following the issue, especially as closely as you follow it. And it didn't sound like there was anything new that was being introduced. But yet, I mean, I think we were all expecting some kind of groundbreaking, at least I thought, well, maybe they've got something new or groundbreaking. And I didn't really hear that.
SPEAKER 23 :
Well, Trump's Trump's assertion about the Hep B vaccine was definitely based in like 1980s science. Hep B is extremely contagious and most they estimate about 50 percent of the people that have it have no idea they have it. And so, like I wrote in the piece, the reason why they vaccinate babies fresh out of the womb is because it's so easy to contract, it lives on surfaces for up to seven days. And if you're one of the ones that can fight it off, no problem, like great, no problem, you can fight it off, it's not a big deal. But if you're one of the ones that can't, you wind up with cirrhosis of the liver, liver failure, or even death, especially in the younger ones. If you don't you know, take, if you don't take precautions, but I mean, the thing is, like, people walk around with it, and they have no idea they have it living in them. It's, it's, it's just a thing. And so, you know, like, I wrote, I put the the example of like, you know, you bring home your newborn baby, and you refuse that hep B vaccine. And because the President said, don't do it until they're 12, because it's a sexually transmitted disease. But then mother-in-law comes over and baby drops the pacifier. Mother-in-law sucks the pacifier, throws it back in the baby's mouth like so many of us old school moms used to do. suddenly baby's in the hospital fighting for his life as his liver fits wow wow you know like yeah this is this is why they do that vaccination as early as they do and it's entirely possible for any a mother who doesn't know that she's infected to pass it that's the most common way his mother passes it to the baby as she's giving birth so That's one of those things. It's like, don't listen to him when he says don't do this. Now, one of the new things that they did come out with was they came out with this idea of the I don't even know how to say it correctly.
SPEAKER 19 :
I was just going to ask you about that. And I was also going to admit that I don't think I've never heard it said the same way twice. Lecoverin. And that is because Dr. Oz talked about this. And I'm reading because you write about this in your piece. Tell people what this is and what they're proposing with it.
SPEAKER 23 :
So lecoverin is it's not exactly a vitamin, despite what McKay said. um it's a medication created from a vitamin it's it's folic acid but it's like tweaked right um and the idea behind this is that for a very small subset of autistic kids they have a a folate deficiency in the brain and So like over and can help because when you give them the look over it, it gets that folic acid past the folate receptors that aren't working because of the autoimmune disorder or whatever that causes it. And that can actually help those very small subset of autistic kids get some some speech back. The problem is the studies that have been done on that are so small. um we're talking a sample size of maybe 145 kids across three different studies yeah that's that's really small there really wasn't a lot of it there really hasn't been a lot of information about it to see if it works long term if it's something that they have to be on for life like there's there's no real information on any of that so what dr oz mentioned was that they um Normally, this would take like five years of study and information to pass and but they're going to go ahead and change the label to make this available now. And then they're just going to get all the information from the kids who are in government health care. He said, like, almost half of American kids are on government health care already.
SPEAKER 19 :
So anybody is I don't like that collecting all that data. Yeah.
SPEAKER 23 :
Anybody in Medicaid or on CHIP, the Childhood Insurance Program. I want to get that information.
SPEAKER 19 :
to go to the Substack because we're going to get bumped because we've got to break. But Lorraine has done an amazing job. If you go to Substack right now, you can read it. It's called RFK Junior's Autism Scam. It is a great piece. Lorraine, I'm so glad that you were able to join us today. And this is, I think, required reading, especially on this issue. So everybody go and read it, and we'll be sending it out as well. Lorraine, God bless you. We appreciate you joining us today. We'll be talking with you again soon. And for everybody in the chat, hi to everybody there. We've got more to come. Stick with us. The folks who will bring you the program are friends at All Family Pharmacy. This website can never cease business because I will not know what to do. I love All Family Pharmacy. I use it. Not only can you get the stuff that gatekeepers try to keep from you, the hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, the whole nine yards, NAD+. all of that. But you can also get your emergency medications and daily medications. You can get antibiotics. Like for instance, if I know that I'm getting strep, I've had it enough. I know what it is. I'm not an idiot. I'm not going to go out there and abuse antibiotics to the point of rendering them ineffective. But I'm not going to go and pay like an $80 whatever fee and go and have a doctor tell me what I know I have. And then have to wait. No, no, no. I'm going to go to All Family Pharmacy, put in my symptoms. The doctor's going to look at it, approve, and then send my prescription in and my medications right to my house. That's how it works. You can get it in two to four days, overnight in a pinch if you need it. I also got my anti-nausea meds when I went on the MRC cruise to Norway. Ladies, I went and got the Latisse for your eyelashes. So if they start looking really good, that's why. You can choose your medication. not insurance or risk-averse physicians. Try it today. Take your medical freedom back. Visit allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana. Use code Dana10 today. That's allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana, code Dana10.
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I've got Dan Morgan here on the pod. Say hi, Dan. Hey, how's it going today?
SPEAKER 15 :
It's going good, man. Tell us who you are and what you do. I'm Dan Morgan. I'm an attorney and a managing partner at Morgan & Morgan, which is America's largest injury law firm.
SPEAKER 11 :
That's pretty awesome. I think I saw a billboard of yours recently that said $20 billion won. $20 billion is an insane number.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, 20 billion recovered. It's actually, I think, somewhere north, probably closer to 22, 23 after this year. And each year we get bigger and badder and our army grows. So the number will hopefully keep getting bigger and bigger as time goes on. Awesome.
SPEAKER 11 :
So how does someone get in contact with Morgan & Morgan? What would I do if I got into an accident?
SPEAKER 15 :
Probably the easiest way is dialing Pound Law. That's Pound 529 from your cell phone. We are always open. Our call center is always waiting to take your call. 24-7-365.
SPEAKER 11 :
Wow. Dan Morgan from Morgan & Morgan, America's large injury law firm. Thanks for coming by the show.
SPEAKER 15 :
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It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man.
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All right. So first up here. So this is a headline. Escort battered man with silly string, cops say. Yeah. Investigators say that a Florida woman was arrested for a silly string attack. Seriously. OK, this gets crazier. Crystal Watts. Now, every which way you can spell that first name wrong. Let's start there. They did. K.R.Y.S.T.L. She confronted the victim, sprayed him with silly string till the can was empty. He claimed battery. They arrested her. First off, I think she should be arrested for spelling her name Crystal the way she did. Secondly, that man should be arrested for calling in a silly string use on him battery. I'll have to I'll revisit this tomorrow. We're short here. Third hour on the way. So apparently we have to stop falling for the whole higher thread counting because it doesn't necessarily mean better sheets. That's fake news apparently. It's like believing that you use like 10% of your brain. So the secret isn't thread count. It's thread quality. And this is where Bull & Branch has won a lot of folks over at yours truly. They use the best organic cotton. End of. I mean these are sheets that feel incredible like the moment you take them out of the box. So the first night that you put them on, you can tell right away that they're softer, they're cooler, and they have a great weight. It's like kind of having a five-star hotel room in your own house. And I'll tell you something else. The sheets get better every time that you've washed them. I've washed mine countless times and they just keep getting softer. You can't do that with cheap sheets because they totally fall apart. Bowl and branch, they get more luxurious. So you'll sleep better and you're kind of kind of feel like a spoiled brat, but it's okay. I'm not going to go back to the old sheets. Once you try them, you're not going to either. So if you're ready to upgrade your sleep and you should visit bowlandbranch.com slash Dana show because there you'll get 15% off your first set plus free shipping. So that's bowlandbranch.com slash Dana show for 15% off exclusions apply.
SPEAKER 11 :
I've got Dan Morgan here on the pod. Say hi, Dan. Hey, how's it going today?
SPEAKER 15 :
It's going good, man. Tell us who you are and what you do. I'm Dan Morgan. I'm an attorney and a managing partner at Morgan & Morgan, which is America's largest injury law firm.
SPEAKER 11 :
That's pretty awesome. I think I saw a billboard of yours recently that said $20 billion won. $20 billion is an insane number.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, 20 billion recovered. It's actually, I think, somewhere north, probably closer to 22, 23 after this year. And each year we get bigger and badder and our army grows. So the number will hopefully keep getting bigger and bigger as time goes on.
SPEAKER 11 :
Awesome. So how does someone get in contact with Morgan & Morgan? What would I do if I got into an accident?
SPEAKER 15 :
Probably the easiest way is dialing Pound Law. That's Pound 529 from your cell phone. We are always open. Our call center is always waiting to take your call. 24-7-365. Wow.
SPEAKER 11 :
Dan Morgan from Morgan & Morgan, America's large injury law firm. Thanks for coming by the show.
SPEAKER 15 :
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SPEAKER 13 :
According to the Council of Europe in 2024, almost 50% of inmates in German prisons were foreign nationals or migrants. In Austria, the number was 53% of the people in prisons were from places that weren't from where they are now. In Greece, the number was 54%. And in Switzerland, beautiful Switzerland, 72% of the people in prisons are from outside of Switzerland. When your prisons are filled with so-called asylum seekers who repaid kindness, and that's what they did. They repaid kindness with crime. It's time to end the failed experiment of open borders. You have to end it now.
SPEAKER 19 :
And he's absolutely right. That's POTUS speaking earlier today to the United Nations. Welcome back. Top of this third hour, Dana Lash with you. Channel 347 is where you can watch us do the radio show. If you're not listening terrestrially, if you're streaming. You can also stream it on X and Facebook as well. So what he's talking about is something that we've been seeing actually in some video recently, because you've had a number of these European nations that are all moving hastily to proclaim that they recognize a... quote unquote, Palestinian state. And again, you guys know, I don't really I don't I'll say Gaza and West Bank. But I feel like, you know, just like I don't say that a man is a woman because he wants to identify trans as trans. I don't I don't acknowledge a fictitious state that was actually, again, a nickname given by an old dead Roman emperor to a group of people he hated after the second Judean uprising. That's where it came from. named it after their enemies, even though they hadn't. The enemy said enemies were Philistine seafaring people and hadn't been in the area for 200 years. But I digress. The people that you see in the streets protesting don't know any of that because they're idiots. They're basically, you know, they're a weak, faint, beating, hard walking, mental abortion. I don't know how else to put it. So. This statement that POTUS made, those remarks were incredibly – I mean, that was very powerful to say, and he's right. If you look at a lot of the crime, a lot of the lawlessness that's been happening in major European – not even major European cities, in and around Europe, I mean, they can trace it back to that. Just for instance, I wanted to play this. This is audio, sound – well, you guys know what it is. These are – So they've you had Ireland that said they were going to recognize a quote unquote Palestinian state. Britain did the same. And so did Canada. Italy refuses. And I want you to see what happened because they've been you've had riots in Milan. This video is from Milan. Audio somebody 18. This is cut 18. This is this is Milan. These are rioters who were mad that Italy would not recognize, quote unquote, Palestine as a state. And they were writing because they wanted Italy to basically divest from Israel. And they this was all Gaza and writing, writing for Gaza. This is in Milan. So this is what's been happening. This is why all of these other leaders have been rushing to say, oh, yes, we're going to reward Hamas and recognize, quote unquote, Palestine as a state. This is what happens when Italy refused to do it. Terrorists going to be terrorists. I mean, that's just the way it is. So they decided to do this. And this is the threat. If you don't recognize this terror state, we're going to do this stuff. Terrorism. That's what it is. And these are all, this was at a Gaza, this is a Gaza, pro-Gaza riot, pro-Hamas riot. That's exactly what it is. I mean, it's out of control. There's, I mean, through chairs, lots of destruction. And it's been in other Italian cities. They've had to close schools. The public transport has been affected. That is how bad this has been. Tons and I mean, it's been spreading across Italy. Reuters was there. I think this might have been a Reuters video. Italian media said demonstrators were trying to stop traffic on highways. In Naples, there were fights with police as protesters forced their way into the main railway station. They're right there in Naples. Some of them even briefly got on the tracks and stopped the trains. So they've had tons of stoppages because of this. Lots of violence. Lots of violence. This is what happens when countries don't bend the knee. Now, why in the hell would anyone bend the knee? First off, Palestinian state is a stupid, idiotic idea with, again, fictitious name not supported by thousands of years of Islamic or Christian antiquity. Who would run it? Well, one of the things that was floated is, well, the Palestinian Authority. The Palestinian Authority is sort of like the umbrella of it all. Underneath you have Fatah, you have Hamas. And ever since the unilateral withdrawal of Israel and the Gaza Strip in 2005, Hamas took over control. They won a sweeping margin in elections there in 07. The 2021 elections were similar. Numerous pollsters, including observers from the U.N., noted that Hamas was going to run away with the election. Not only did they have overwhelming support in the Strip, but they also had overwhelming support in the other territory, the West Bank. And so. What ended up happening is the Palestinian authorities said, oh, geez, we're about to be taken over by a literal terror group that we've, you know, we've basically coddled this whole time. Yeah, we're going to suspend elections, but we can't tell people that we're going to suspend the elections because Hamas is going to win everything. So let's, it's a Jew's fault. So that's what they did. They blamed Israel and they said, well, you know, Jewish people aren't going to let Arabs in Israel go out and vote, which was a lie. But that's what they that was the excuse that they gave to avoid owning up to the truth, which is that they were trying to keep Hamas from taking over Palestinian authority because that's who runs it. So you can't say that you're going to take it away. You can't say that you want to eradicate Gaza. And this is where some of these other Arab nations are being incredibly duplicitous. Because they think that you don't know. They think you're stupid and that you don't know the history of the area or the political boundaries or structure of the area. So they're like, no, no, no. We got to have Hamas out of the Strip. Oh, they can't run Gaza Strip. So we're just going to have all of this. We need a state comprised of these two territories and we need to have the Palestinian Authority control it. And then they stop there. But what they don't say is, oh, well, that's not going to work either because the Palestinian Authority is getting taken over by Hamas. So whenever you hear any of these Arab nations, and this is where you have alliances, but you always question. You have transactional alliances. transactional in terms of economy and maybe some NATSEC. But you always question it because this is what they don't tell you. This is where it starts getting cagey. This is where it starts getting sus. They don't say, oh, well, Hamas has completely taken over the Palestinian Authority. You don't have to take my word for it. You can take Spanish media, French media, United Nations elections observers that were down there on the ground in 2021, and they were trying to demand that the Palestinian Authority force these elections through. You can talk to the BBC, which was amplifying the Palestinian authorities claims that it was the Jewish people in Israel that were preventing Arabs from going and voting and get into it, get into where they needed to go. They that Canadian media. American media. But the truth of the matter is that every single independent poll that had nothing to do with Hamas's Ministry of Information, every single independent poll, they all came to the same conclusion. Hamas has overwhelming support in the area. Their support for Hamas dwarfs every other faction under the authority. So you can't say we're going to get Hamas out of the Strip And then we're going to have the Palestinian Authority run everything. By allowing, by recognizing statehood and giving the authority of regulation to the Palestinian Authority, you are literally upgrading Hamas. Since they have so much influence that they have to suspend elections so they don't take over all of the Palestinian Authority, you are literally upgrading and rewarding them for terrorism. They're claiming to take away the Strip. They're not taking away the Strip. They're giving them West Bank, too. They're giving them an entire state. They're rewarding terrorism because they're a bunch of female copulatory organs, a bunch of little sniveling, weak, spineless cowards. And they think this is going to work? When you reward terrorism, guess what you're going to get? More terrorism. See, I thought it was a staple of our foreign policy that we don't negotiate with terrorists and we sure as hell don't reward terrorists and terrorism. But that's what this move does. So I was very pleased, if we can play this again, part of it, when Trump was there before the UN and he was like, yeah, that ain't happening. We are not doing this. We're not going to reward this. We're not going to have this Palestinian state cut 27%.
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A ceasefire in Gaza, have to get that done, have to get it done. Unfortunately, Hamas has repeatedly rejected reasonable offers to make peace. We can't forget October 7th, can we? Now, as if to encourage continued conflict, some of this body is seeking to unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state. The rewards... would be too great for Hamas terrorists, for their atrocities. This would be a reward for these horrible atrocities, including October 7th, even while they refuse to release the hostages or accept a ceasefire. Instead of giving to Hamas and giving so much, because they've taken so much, they have taken so much, this could have been solved so long ago. But instead of giving in to Hamas's ransom demands, those who want peace should be united with one message. Release the hostages now. Just release the hostages now.
SPEAKER 19 :
I mean, why haven't they released the hostages? Why haven't they released the hostages? I mean, all of that could have been avoided had they not violated the ceasefire that was still in effect on October 6th. But they did violate that ceasefire on October 7th when they went in and they fired upon Israel and they massacred thousands. I mean, that absolutely, I mean, people forget how quickly they forget. They could have released the hostages and not had to go through any of this, but they refused. And then they torture the hostages. They killed babies. There's no reconciliation with that. There's no peace with that. So it's a catch-22. They're setting up a trap. And some of our allies in Arab states are going along with it. This is why, again, transactional allyship, but you also question and you'd be very suspicious. It's a catch-22. They're setting a trap and Trump's refusing to walk through it. They're saying, oh, yeah, we can have a recognized state. The Palestinian Authority can run it. which is taken over by Hamas. You see? Trump's not walking into the trap with that. He's like, no, no, no, we're not recognizing redacted. Release the hostages. Also, mass migration is ruining Europe. Unfettered mass migration, where you have lawlessness and disorder and you can't vouch or verify anybody coming in. Yeah, it's ruined Europe. So he had some really hard truths to share with the United Nations. And I'm glad he was the he's the only Western leader to stand up to it. The only Western leader to stand up to this. You could also add Italy. Italy is refusing to go along with it as well. But they've they've lived under this EU destruction plan spearheaded by Angela Merkel and these other jokers in Germany. And they pushed through all of the open border scam with the EU. I mean, goodness, the UK may have not have Brexited fast enough.
SPEAKER 11 :
I've got Dan Morgan here on the pod. Say hi, Dan. Hey, how's it going today?
SPEAKER 15 :
It's going good, man. Tell us who you are and what you do. I'm Dan Morgan. I'm an attorney and a managing partner at Morgan & Morgan, which is America's largest injury law firm.
SPEAKER 11 :
That's pretty awesome. I think I saw a billboard of yours recently that said $20 billion won. $20 billion is an insane number.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, 20 billion recovered. It's actually, I think, somewhere north, probably closer to 22, 23 after this year. And each year we get bigger and badder and our army grows. So the number will hopefully keep getting bigger and bigger as time goes on.
SPEAKER 11 :
Awesome. So how does someone get in contact with Morgan & Morgan? What would I do if I got into an accident?
SPEAKER 15 :
Probably the easiest way is dialing Pound Law. That's Pound 529 from your cell phone. We are always open. Our call center is always waiting to take your call. 24-7-365.
SPEAKER 11 :
Wow. Dan Morgan from Morgan & Morgan, America's large injury law firm. Thanks for coming by the 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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First up, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has signed the Transgender Bathroom Bill. This, it was signed into law, requires people, you've got to use this stuff. If you've got to go take a one or two, go in the place that is, you know... corresponds with your junk. Super easy. If you're biological sex, there it is. No dudes in ladies' bathrooms. The end. I don't know if you guys have been watching the Charlie Sheen documentary. I started it last night and it is one of the most hysterical and oh my gosh things that I've ever seen in my life. Apparently, he did so much cocaine at one time that the Mexican cartels were worried about their business relationship with him. And they cut him off. And he gets... There's nothing that's off record. They even have John Cryer in there complaining about him. It is wild. He was actually... Yeah, he was cut off. And that's one of the things that was discovered. I can't believe he's still functioning. Like, he's living. All the... Dude, I tell you what, a woman faces prison time for what she says was a chicken rescue, which is what I'm going to call if I ever steal anything, which I, you know, I'm not a thief, but if I did was, I would say I'm rescuing it. So apparently she's an animal rights activist and she stole four chickens from a poultry slaughterhouse. She faces up to five years in prison. It's a Purdue Petaluma Poultry Slaughterhouse. So she said she was right. You know, I get it, but it's a much because... there's probably other ways you don't get in trouble uh but she's citing right to rescue laws that give ordinary people the right to intervene to get an animal overheating things like that they have those laws there so um that's what she's citing so we'll see how it goes i mean there's probably i don't i don't know if she exhausted all the other you know like did she offer to buy the chickens like i don't i don't know uh anyway this is Let's see. Pope Leo won't authorize an AI pope and says technology is empty cold and will do great damage to what humanity is about. That's great. Now try unfettered illegal immigration. A Lansing parent is frustrated. Her son was expelled because he disarmed a classmate. I was reading about this this morning. So a Lansing parent is trying to get her son back in school. He got expelled because he disassembled a classmate's gun at Dwight Rich School of the Arts. He took it apart and threw away the bullets and didn't tell an adult till later. what's the problem why is he he's in seventh grade he's 11 years old he hunts he's a hunter so that's how he knew to disarm and disassemble it i don't know why he's not getting an award if he this doesn't make any sense i i don't get it but they sent out a statement the school did and they said that they don't take the decision lightly etc etc okay well wait a minute why was he expelled what happened to the kid that actually brought it to school thank you What happened to that? Like this kid ought to, I mean, he, he sure he should have told an adult, but good night. This is insane. We got more on the way. Stick with us. We have a lot coming up in our third hour, including the Antifa now terror org.
SPEAKER 11 :
I've got Dan Morgan here on the pod. Say hi, Dan. Hey, how's it going today?
SPEAKER 15 :
It's going good, man. Tell us who you are and what you do. I'm Dan Morgan. I'm an attorney and a managing partner at Morgan & Morgan, which is America's largest injury law firm.
SPEAKER 11 :
That's pretty awesome. I think I saw a billboard of yours recently that said $20 billion won. $20 billion is an insane number.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, 20 billion recovered. It's actually, I think, somewhere north, probably closer to 22, 23 after this year. And each year we get bigger and badder and our army grows. So the number will hopefully keep getting bigger and bigger as time goes on. Awesome.
SPEAKER 11 :
So how does someone get in contact with Morgan & Morgan? What would I do if I got into an accident?
SPEAKER 15 :
Probably the easiest way is dialing Pound Law. That's Pound 529 from your cell phone. We are always open. Our call center is always waiting to take your call. 24-7-365. Wow.
SPEAKER 11 :
Dan Morgan from Morgan & Morgan, America's largest injury law firm. Thanks for coming by the show.
SPEAKER 15 :
Thanks for having me. Visit ForThePeople.com for an office near you.
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They must take control strongly and immediately of the unmitigated immigration disaster and the fake energy catastrophe before it's too late. The carbon footprint is a hoax made up by people with evil intentions.
SPEAKER 13 :
and they're heading down a path of total destruction you know the carbon footprint was a big big thing a few years ago i remember hearing about the carbon footprint and then president obama would get into air force one a massive boeing seven forty seven and not a new one an old one with old engines that spew everything into the atmosphere He'd talk about the carbon footprint, we must do something. Then he'd get in and he'd fly from Washington to Hawaii to play a round of golf. And then he'd get back onto that big, beautiful plane and he'd fly back and he'd talk about, again, global warming and the carbon footprint. It's a con job.
SPEAKER 19 :
He's right. That was POTUS speaking at At the U.N. And he's like, yeah, this is all a con. Welcome back to the program. Bottom of this third hour. Dana Lash with you. He's a thousand percent correct. And also a thousand percent correct. They're classifying Antifa as a terrorist entity. And this is incredibly interesting. The I saw this survey. Let me pull this up. I actually just saw this and I was looking at this on break. 9 in 10 Republicans are apparently concerned with left-wing violence. I think they have reason to be. As sad as that is. It's a recent Economist YouGov survey. 9 in 10 Republicans are concerned about left-wing extremism. It was taken after Charlie Kirk was assassinated. And they looked at over 1,500 U.S. adults. 61% they were very or somewhat concerned. 56% of independents. Expressed concern. Even 38% of self-identified Democrats expressed concern. That's pretty telling. Very telling. And this is after, you know, I look at this. Let me pull this up. You had a man who was charged with shooting up an ABC station after the Jimmy Kimmel decision. The FBI flew in, swooped in. He was let go on bail, by the way. You guys know that? They let the guy walk. It's another case, a confirmed case of left wing political violence, and they let the guy walk. And this was after, again, Kimmel had been suspended. Prosecutors said that he was, quote, politically motivated. That is per the Sacramento County District Attorney. They looked at his vehicle. He had a note in it that criticized members of the Trump administration and referenced the Charlie Kirk assassination. 64-year-old Anibal Hernandez Santana. They searched his house. They found other evidence. They found a calendar attached to his refrigerator. On the calendar for the date of September 19th, he had written the message, quote, do the next scary thing. Authorities discovered in his vehicle in the anti-Trump book, they had a handwritten note, quote, for hiding Epstein. Do not support Bondi, Patel, all of them. He goes, they're next. He had a handwritten note signed with his initials, or no, signed with the initial CK. And the DA was saying that they believe that that stands for Charlie Couric. And he was arrested after he shot into the lobby of the station. There were employees inside when he opened fire. They let him walk. He posted bail and he walked. And then the FBI swooped in because he's facing federal charges now. And this was after ABC suspended him. So if the left can say that Brendan Carr, by simply speaking, was able to convince Sinclair and Nexstar, which it's very evident that it was the viewers who were melting the phones at Sinclair and Nexstar that were leading this. If the left can accuse Carr of doing that and being responsible for all of these stations making the decision to suspend Kimmel, then surely they can say that ABC backing Kimmel is a direct result of a leftist walking into one of the ABC affiliates and shooting up their lobby. Don't you agree? So ABC, I mean, it begs the question that ABC is threatened by leftist murderous terrorism and they decided to reinstate against Nexstar and Sinclair Jimmy Kimmel because they're worried about getting shot up by leftists. It's a pretty, I think that's, you know, pretty, I think that goes beyond begging the question. I mean, this is insane and it is an absolute, this is leftist violence. And you have people like Keith Oberman who told Scott Jennings, quote, your next blank blinker. He was threatening people, Keith Oberman, threatening people on X. And then they let this guy go. No, this is this is leftist terrorism. I mean, we're getting to the point where it's not just Antifa. It's not just Antifa. We're getting to the point where many leftists are kind of adopting terroristic tactics. Very terroristic tactics. And I'm looking at this. You also have this. Let me pull this up. The story of Charlie Kirk, the suspected trans lover of the assassin, was kicked out of the home. Lance Twiggs, he was living with a murder suspect. He was living with a murderer. He was detached and radicalized. That's how his own family described him. Substance abuse, gender identity. Yeah. Oh, yeah. All this stuff starts coming to light. All of this, it's getting so insane. Case in point, apparently, so you know the LGBTQ? Okay, so apparently they're kicking out the T's. Yeah, this came from LGB International. LGB International describes itself as lesbian, gay, and bisexual people declaring independence. And they have a video of all of these people from all these different countries, and they are kicking out The trans. Wow. I mean, some of the graphics that they have are like scissors separating the T and Q from the LGB. And it is a pretty big group. They are finished. They are absolutely finished with it. And a lot of the stuff that. I've seen people say that the TQ Plus crowd have done irreparable damage. They've hijacked... They're being accused of hijacking their movement. Man, I think everybody's seeing how dangerous it is. It's becoming more and more that it's... It seems like it's a hallmark of it to be violent. That is something else. So all of this stuff... You know, when looking at it, you know, the FBI, they arrested this guy. They had to go in. They had to bring federal charges because local was just going to let him walk. He has his social this guy's social media accounts filled with anti-Trump stuff. He liked a whole bunch of trains, Tifa stuff. I mean, how much more obvious does it have to be? This is all politically motivated violence. And more and more you have significant numbers of the left that say they're okay with it. Probably because you hear stuff like six, audio soundbite six, all the damn time. Case in point.
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Right now we are dealing with, as I called him at my speech on the ellipse, a tyrant. We used to compare the strength of our democracy to communist dictators. That's what we're dealing with right now in Donald Trump. And these titans of industry are not speaking up. And perhaps it is because his threats and the way he has used the weight of the federal government to take out vengeance on his critics is something that they fear. And I get that.
SPEAKER 19 :
Just flashback. Just flashback. She's talking about where the where those those titans at the industry titans. Just again, one quick recap. This is what Mark Zuckerberg, an industry titan, said that the Biden administration did to him.
SPEAKER 03 :
these people from the biden administration would call up our team and like scream at them and curse and it's like these documents are it's all kind of out there did you record any of those phone calls i don't know i don't think i don't think we were but but i think i want to listen i mean there are emails the emails are published it's all it's all kind of out there and um and they're like And basically, it just got to this point where we were like, no, we're not going to take down things that are true. That's ridiculous. They wanted us to take down this meme of Leonardo DiCaprio looking at a TV talking about how 10 years from now or something, you're going to see an ad that says, okay, if you took a COVID vaccine, you're eligible for this kind of payment. It was sort of like... class action lawsuit type meme.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah, they wanted him to take that down.
SPEAKER 03 :
And they're like, no, you have to take that down.
SPEAKER 19 :
She's talking about tyranny. That's an example of tyranny. By the way, it just came in that the Trump assassination attempt, the suspect, I'll say his name once, Ryan Ruth, was found guilty on all charges. Okay. Yeah, exactly, as he should. Just found guilty to all charges. This was the guy that was, again, this was at the golf course. He was at Mar-a-Lago. And he tried, this was not long after the first almost fatal attempt. So the left needs to get a grip. Not everyone who disagrees with you is... A Nazi. Not everyone who disagrees with you is a tyrant. I mean, it's just they've got to slow their roll on this rhetoric. And they need to slow their role in the violence. They can't even condemn this stuff. This is asinine. And the difference was like with the Hortmans. No one demonized Melissa Hortman. You didn't hear a single conservative go out there and be like, oh, well, Melissa Hortman and her husband or the other individuals that were targeted and lived. No one did that. No one demonized her. No one was demonizing her before either and calling her Nazi or Hitler or anything like that. So this is where the left gets it wrong. Stop with your comparisons. And by the way, the guy who targeted her thought he was a waltz appointee who thought he was hearing waltz in his head telling him to do it.
SPEAKER 11 :
I've got Dan Morgan here on the pod. Say hi, Dan. Hey, how's it going today?
SPEAKER 15 :
It's going good, man. Tell us who you are and what you do. I'm Dan Morgan. I'm an attorney and a managing partner at Morgan & Morgan, which is America's largest injury law firm.
SPEAKER 11 :
That's pretty awesome. I think I saw a billboard of yours recently that said $20 billion won. $20 billion is an insane number.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, 20 billion recovered. It's actually, I think, somewhere north, probably closer to 22, 23 after this year. And each year we get bigger and badder and our army grows. So the number will hopefully keep getting bigger and bigger as time goes on. Awesome.
SPEAKER 11 :
So how does someone get in contact with Morgan & Morgan? What would I do if I got into an accident?
SPEAKER 15 :
Probably the easiest way is dialing Pound Law. That's Pound 529 from your cell phone. We are always open. Our call center is always waiting to take your call. 24-7-365. Wow.
SPEAKER 11 :
Dan Morgan from Morgan & Morgan, America's largest injury law firm. Thanks for coming by the show.
SPEAKER 15 :
Thanks for having me. Visit ForThePeople.com for an office near you.
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I think it was really inspiring how Mr. Levin just keeps on wanting to grow and learn more from the people around him, his peers and his advisor, his father even.
SPEAKER 16 :
Anya, how do you want to grow?
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Well, I'm also trying to grow my communications. I just became the communications chair of my school's TA, student government.
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Hey, Brett, this thing about communication, how important is that? And how important is for Anya to continue to develop these communication skills?
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It's so important. And I think today, as kids, you have your cell phones in your hands all the time and learn how to look people in the eye, publicly speak and talk to people.
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Welcome back to the program. So if you were if you're just joining us, we mentioned this before we went to break the this is all just everything is drama now. So the verdict is in in the second assassin. I'll say his name only this time. Ryan Routh, Ryan Ruth, who he was the golf course assassin. So they convicted him. They found him guilty. And as they did right as that happened, he started stabbing himself in the neck with a pen. Like in the trial, right after the Florida jury found him guilty of attempting to assassinate President Trump, he then tried to stab himself in the neck with a pen. That's how this trial came to an end. And then the daughter like ran away. And as far as they were reading the verdict, he tried literally like stabbing himself. It was only two and a half hours of deliberations. They found him guilty of assaulting Secret Service agents who got him from his hiding place, guilty of three federal gun charges. He pled not guilty. Now he faces life in prison when he is sentenced. He represented himself. And apparently one of the reasons why the trial went so quickly is that he just like didn't question anybody. He like wouldn't. I don't think he knew what he was doing. The apparently with the jury out of earshot, Ralph Ruth had then asked Judge Aileen Cannon. He was in this. He was monologuing. She told him to stay within the bounds of the case. And he was complaining that he wasn't allowed to put more witnesses on the stand. Then he asked Cannon whether the public defenders who initially represented him could wrap up his closing argument if the judge interrupted him again. And. Wow. He is... Yeah. He began talking about Ukraine and all this other stuff. He monologued for like 42 minutes. So he's... Yeah. He tried... Then tried stabbing himself in the neck. That's... Yeah. That's... And then the prosecutor was like, this is not a whodunit. I mean, it's not. So... Wow. He only called three witnesses and he was done before lunch on Monday. Yeah. Wow. So... there's a lot to unpack there. Now, one other quick story. I don't know if you guys saw this before we run out of time. This is kind of insane. So this story has to do. You guys know Ron Wyden. So apparently his kids listen to the story. New York Post kids of Oregon Senator Ron Wyden drove his assistant to suicide with sexually explicit behavior and slurs. Apparently his. Wow. His kids sound like demons. Brandon O'Brien, 35, worked for Ron Wyden's wife, Nancy Wyden. And apparently he had to care for their kids and they bullied him so bad that he killed himself. I'll talk more about that tomorrow. All right, today in Stupidity Cane.
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All right, Juan, this is cut 17. Apparently Antifa, upset that they're not getting paid on time, they started chanting their boss's name. Guess who their boss is?
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Oh, well, I'm sure... George Soros, where's my money? George Soros, where's my money? Well, I mean, yeah, that's not the first time that leftists have done something like this, by the way.
SPEAKER 12 :
Nope, it sure isn't. So if you think these are organic or grassroots pushbacks by the public, you couldn't be more wrong. They're financed.
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You have a bridge, too, to sell you, to sell people, right? We each have a bridge. We can sell you. Financing's easy. All right, folks, that does it for today. Find us over at Substack. Lorraine's new piece on the Autism Press Conference from yesterday is up. Facebook, YouTube, like and subscribe. Back with you tomorrow. God bless.
In this episode, Tony Perkins takes listeners deep into the heart of current geopolitical tensions and pressing domestic issues. From the controversial recognition of a Palestinian state to President Trump’s powerful address at the United Nations, gain insights into the latest international developments. The conversation also navigates the complexity surrounding the recent debate over Tylenol’s suspected link to autism, revealing the unseen influence of the pharmaceutical industry. As discussions unfold, discover how these issues impact U.S. policies and the broader global landscape. Listeners will also hear from experts on the pressing matter of Antifa being designated as a domestic terrorist organization and the implications it holds. Congressman Warren Davidson shares critical insights into how these matters intertwine with America's national security agenda. This episode encapsulates the necessary dialogues Americans must engage in as the political sphere continues to evolve rapidly, inviting you to understand more deeply the stories beyond the headlines.
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From the heart of our nation's capital in Washington, D.C., bringing compelling interviews, insightful analysis, taking you beyond the headlines and soundbites into conversations with our nation's leaders and newsmakers, all from a biblical worldview. Washington Watch with Tony Perkins starts now.
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We can't forget October 7th, can we? Now, as if to encourage continued conflict, some of this body is seeking to unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state. The rewards would be too great for Hamas terrorists, for their atrocities. This would be a reward for these horrible atrocities, including October 7th.
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That was President Donald Trump at the United Nations General Assembly earlier today, warning that recognizing a Palestinian state would be a dangerous reward for Hamas. Welcome to this September 23rd edition of Washington Watch. I'm Tony Perkins, your host. Thanks so much for joining us. Well, coming up, leaders from a dozen countries, including Turkey, used sharp language against Israel at the UN General Assembly meeting in New York. Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated in an interview from New York that he doesn't consider Hamas a terrorist organization, but a resistance movement. Ohio Congressman Warren Davison will join me later. Also, President Trump signed an order designating Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization yesterday and called for an investigation into its funders. Kyle Scheidler, senior counterterrorism analyst at the Center for Security Policy, will join me to explore what this means and what happens next. Well, at the United Nations General Assembly meeting, President Donald Trump called for peace and justice in the Middle East, urging the world to stand against terror and protect innocent lives. He warned that recognizing a Palestinian state now would reward those who commit violence against Israel and threaten regional stability. Joining me now is Washington Stand reporter Casey Harper, who has been following this story throughout the day. Casey, President Trump, I listened to his speech, read the transcript. He did not hold back in this wide-ranging speech at the U.N. today. Let me ask you, what were the primary topics he focused on, and how are people responding?
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Well, you're right about that, Tony. He did not hold back. President Trump issued a strong warning today to the international community. He said recognizing a Palestinian state now would reward Hamas terrorists for their brutal terror attacks. Speaking at the United Nations in New York today, President Trump called for the immediate release of all the hostages, living and deceased, held by Hamas in Gaza.
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Instead of giving to Hamas and giving so much, because they've taken so much. They have taken so much. This could have been solved so long ago. But instead of giving in to Hamas's ransom demands, those who want peace should be united with one message. Release the hostages now. Just release the hostages now.
SPEAKER 08 :
While many world leaders at the UN have vocally expressed support for Palestinian statehood, Israel and its closest ally the United States remain steadfast in opposing moves they argue would embolden Hamas and undermine security in the region. And it's worth mentioning, Tony, another pretty shocking story today. The U.S. Secret Service discovered and dismantled a network of electronic devices within a 35-mile radius of New York City that threatened government officials just hours before President Trump's U.N. speech. According to officials, those devices are capable of disabling cell towers and aiding cyber attacks and were found and seized across multiple sites.
SPEAKER 05 :
Thanks, Casey. I guess the good news is they found it, they discovered it, but it also shows us how great the risk continues to be within our country. Sticking with what's happening at the United Nations, many countries, including Turkey, as I mentioned, have been highly critical of Israel. In fact, Turkish President Erdogan stated in an interview with Fox News that he does not consider Hamas as a terrorist organization.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, that's right, Tony. In that interview with Fox, the Turkish president said he considered Hamas a resistance movement. But he didn't stop there. He used his speech at the UN General Assembly to call for wider recognition of a Palestinian state, a move that aligns with recent pushes from several countries. He also accused Israel of committing what he called a genocide. He said innocent people are dying and called for Israeli leaders to be held accountable under international law. It's worth noting that Turkey itself has a poor human rights record, and the president's government has been repeatedly accused of suppressing political dissent, limiting press freedom, and persecuting religious minorities, including Christians. One high-profile case, which I know you're familiar with, Tony, is the case of Andrew Brunson, who was unjustly detained in Turkey for two years before being released in 2018 following strong pressure from the Trump administration. But Turkey's decision is part of a growing opposition to Israel from more than 140 countries, leaving it increasingly isolated on the world stage.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, thanks, Casey. You know, as Christians, we're called to pray for Israel, especially, I think, now, as its very existence is literally under a threat. And so I want to invite all of our viewers and listeners to pray and stand with Israel during this critical time. As it says in Psalm 122.6, pray for the peace of Jerusalem. May those who love you be secure. In fact, Casey, later this week, we're going to have a special focus on prayer for Israel during one of our editions of Washington Watch. I want to switch gears now. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy made headlines yesterday announcing a possible link between Tylenol and autism. Casey, what's the latest on that? That stirred up quite a bit of opposition.
SPEAKER 08 :
It did indeed. At the White House yesterday, President Trump and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested a possible link between autism, childhood vaccines, and the use of Tylenol during pregnancy.
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First, HHS will act on acetaminophen. The FDA is responding to clinical and laboratory studies that suggest a potential association between acetaminophen used during pregnancy and adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes, including later diagnosis for ADHD and autism.
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Now, the controversy is because those claims go against decades of established scientific research. Secretary Kennedy said the administration will launch an all-agency effort to explore all possible causes of autism, including toxins, vaccines, and drug exposures. And he urged doctors to use the lowest effective dose of Tylenol when necessary. Tony?
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TONY BLINKEN, Well, it's a big issue. A lot of people care a lot about it, as they should. So I'm glad they're looking at it, hope they will come up with answers. Casey, very quickly, any updates on the negotiations to extend government funding beyond September 30th?
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, President Trump, he canceled a meeting with top Democratic leadership over this standoff over extra spending attached to the CR. And now with Congress in recess this week, the deadline, October 1st, seems we're closer and closer to a shutdown.
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Well, we're going to watch that very, very closely. Thanks, Casey. Always appreciate the insights on what's happening. Well, joining me now to go further into the details of yesterday's announcement on autism is virologist and immunologist Dr. Robert Malone. He is founder and president of the Malone Institute, which aims to bring back integrity to government, the biological sciences, and medicine, all very much needed. Dr. Malone, welcome back to Washington Watch. Thanks for joining us. Thank you for having me on, Tony. These are interesting times. Extremely interesting times. You know, autism has surged nearly 400 percent since 2000. It affects one in 31 American children. You know, those who are kind of dismissing what the Trump administration did yesterday say that's just because we're doing better reporting. But it's not just that. Let's talk about what the president said and didn't say yesterday.
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Well, it's hard for me to know where to begin, Tony, with that kind of a lead in. What I found striking was the first words out of the president's mouth at the start of the press conference in which he said that he had been waiting for 20 years for this moment. I believe those were his statements. And, of course, Barron Trump is on the verge of turning 20 years old right now. He also referenced a meeting that he had, I had no idea that this had happened, between him and Secretary Kennedy 20 years ago. The president clearly has as a very key driver his advocacy for children's health and his strong feelings about autism. I want to quote three things that he said in addition. One is, I'm making these statements from me. That's his words. I talk about a lot of common sense. And this is really significant. This will be as important as any single thing I've done. The president feels very strongly about this issue, as does the secretary. And the data support him and the secretary that this is, in fact, an epidemic of disease in children, which has all the characteristics of an environmental exposure. This is not genetics. There may be a genetic component, but genetics don't change this rapidly. Now, the Secretary and the President has emphasized the role of folate receptors and potential therapeutic intervention that may help some children suffering from autism and ADHD. But the whole press narrative that this comes out of left field, there's no scientific support, that flies in the face of the fact that there have been data, and those data are quite strong, that have existed in the peer-reviewed literature now for many, many years. We provided a review of some of those key studies in our posting today on malone.news. And you can read the papers yourself and make your own judgment about that. But I'll defer to the opinion of the head of the Harvard School of Public Health, who unequivocally supports the thesis based on their work and her work, that there is a link between autism, Tylenol, and exposure in pregnancy. So this is not a wackadoodle from left field, Donald Trump just shooting off his mouth situation. And the pushback that, well, Bobby, show us the data. Well, the data have been out there for a long time. They've been suppressed.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, let me ask you about that, because back when I was in office serving on the health committee, we had hearings on this issue and the research that pointed to possible connections were dismissed. I want to ask you this question. What role has big pharma played in either keeping this information from being taken seriously or outright suppressing it?
SPEAKER 04 :
So Tony, to be honest with you, I have not seen clear evidence that pharma and the pharmaceutical industry advocacy groups are behind this. It certainly stands to reason, but I don't see the smoking gun personally at this point I just see the outcome. There's no question that these data have been suppressed, that there's the usual methods of gaslighting and harassment and ridicule and, frankly, bullying that have been characteristic of the behavior of big pharma. But unlike, for instance, the smoking gun letter from Bio saying they wanted to get Bobby by the end of September, I haven't seen that smoking gun having to do with Tylenol.
SPEAKER 05 :
So what has kept this from seriously being considered? Why is it taken until now? You just have about 45 seconds left.
SPEAKER 04 :
I think it's a great question and one that I don't know that we have the answer to. There has clearly been a campaign to suppress any information or discussion about autism and potential linkage. And the case of Tylenol, understand that virtually all vaccines are associated with what's called reactogenicity. which includes fever. So what we have here potentially is what may be a correlation, not causation, of people treating fever with Tylenol. And of course, if that's the case, we have generations of pediatricians that have been advocating for the use of Tylenol because all the other anti-inflammatories are even worse.
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Dr. Malone, we've got to leave it there. We're up against a break, but we're going to continue tracking this. Don't go away, folks.
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Welcome back to Washington Watch. Thanks so much for tuning in on this Tuesday. Fascinating conversation with Dr. Malone. Unfortunately, ran out of time, but we're going to give you back on. We're going to talk more about that in the days ahead. I think it's something that definitely needs to be looked at. You know, so many people are affected by autism and it's growing. It's rapidly. What's behind it? Those questions need to be asked. Speaking of drugs and all of that, you know, today one of the greatest threats we face is the rapid rise of the abortion drug Mifepresto, now responsible for the majority of abortions in our nation, somewhere between 60 and 70 percent, if not higher. Now, FRC is committed to expose the truth about the abortion drug, protect mothers and the babies, and defend the sanctity of life. We now have more abortions today than we did before the overturn of Roe because of the abortion drug. So right now, thanks to generous friends of FRC, your support will have tripled the impact this week only. So to stand with FRC as we stand for life and for children for tomorrow, Simply text the word unborn. That's unborn to 67742. Stand with us as we stand with the unborn and stop the scourge of abortion in this country. The fight is not over. Text the word unborn to 67742. All right. The president of Turkey, as I mentioned earlier, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, seems to be living in an alternative reality. One day after stating that Hamas is a resistance group and not a terrorist organization, he told the UN General Assembly today that there, quote, is no war in Gaza. There are no two sides, end quote. He instead called it an invasion, a genocide. Now, keep in mind that Turkey is a NATO country, a supposed ally of the United States. Joining me now to discuss this, Congressman Warren Davidson, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. He represents the 8th Congressional District of Ohio. Congressman Davidson, welcome back to Washington Watch. Thanks for joining me. It's always an honor, Tony. Thank you. All right, President Erdogan, is this an alternative reality that he's living in, that Hamas is not a terrorist organization and there's no war in Gaza?
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Yeah, he's manufacturing information there. Obviously, there's a war in Gaza. The whole world knows there is, and they want to change it. Unfortunately, a lot of countries are deciding to reward Hamas in their 10-7 massacre of Israelis, noncombatants, young people celebrating at a concert, and other horrific actions with the demands that recognize Palestine as a second state. He's gone even further to say, no, they exist, and Israel's just committing genocide against the peaceful people of Gaza. Absolutely crazy.
SPEAKER 05 :
Now, he is meeting with President Trump later this week. No doubt he's going to be asking for the most advanced fighter aircraft, the F-35s, which they have not been given, even though they're a NATO ally. Why is that important that they not have access to that technology?
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, in general, when we do foreign military sales, we do sell some sort of degraded capabilities to what we use for our own military to get a different electronic set. But you get the base airframe, and you get a lot of technology. So they've bought a lot of weapons systems from the United States, but they want the most cutting-edge things that they can get. They are a part of NATO. They have an incredibly important piece of geography. It would be better to have a great relationship with Turkey than to have a hostile relationship with Turkey. But Erdogan's making it challenging with a lot of his positions.
SPEAKER 05 :
When you look at that relationship in NATO, that prohibits us from looking into their nuclear capabilities and different things. I mean, I could see Turkey, and as you rightly point out, very critical geographical space that they occupy. But I could clearly see them with the agenda that Erdogan is pursuing being on the dark side, being on the other side.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, they're kind of on their own lane. I mean, they don't necessarily want close relationship with Russia either. And so they kind of, in a way, have rejected this bipolar world between the Soviet Union and the United States. They ultimately sided with the United States and became part of NATO, but loosely. And you see that in the post-Cold War era. Turkey's kind of carved their own niche and been somewhat friendly with some of the groups that have caused a lot of disruption in the world. But on the other side, they've been pushing back against the Kurds who have committed acts of terror inside Turkey. So a complicated region, and Erdogan has certainly made it more complicated. But I guess, in a sense, he's looking at it saying, what pushes Turkey's own interests narrowly? And it's hard to see how this actually aligns with anybody. It's kind of his own island in a lot of ways.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, I think he's made it very clear he wants to reestablish the Ottoman Empire. I mean, he's being driven by the Islamic religion, a once secular country now becoming very Islamist in its pursuit. Now, last week, speaking of that, you helped push through in the House Foreign Affairs Committee an amendment to the State Department authorization requiring a State Department report on free speech rights and censorship in NATO ally countries, i.e. Turkey. Why is that needed?
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, you have NATO countries and not just countries like Turkey, where, you know, yeah, they were originally part of the Ottoman Empire. They certainly, Erdogan has harkened back to a caliphate that he controls. And you see, okay, well, you recognize civil liberties might not be great there, but you're seeing civil liberties being trampled in the United Kingdom, in France, in Germany. And when I was in Hungary earlier this year, You had people from Western Europe claiming asylum in Hungary, in Eastern Europe, behind the Iron Curtain, former Iron Curtain. And so what are we defending? I mean, it goes back to J.D. Vance's question at Munich. What are we defending? And certainly not what's going on right now.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, the president today at the U.N. made reference to this, and a large part of that is the migration of the Islamic community into these European countries. That's pulling the strings of leaders like Prime Minister Starmer in the U.K.
SPEAKER 03 :
yeah i mean he called uh... he called out the europeans especially for mass migration he called out the united nations for funding it and facilitating it undermining western countries uh... particularly uh... you know english-speaking countries and uh... but but really all of europe all of western europe they're having the same kinds of problems and they're modifying their culture to embrace islam basically and uh... london in particular so i mean you're getting in trouble for speech there for practicing your religion Meanwhile, how dare a Jewish man go near, you know, a no-go zone where there's five calls to prayer for Islam all day?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, we're going to talk about this later in the program, but the president was very clear on his call at the United Nations pointing that out. Congressman Davidson, always great to see you. Thanks so much for joining us today. Appreciate your insight.
SPEAKER 03 :
Thank you, Tony. God bless you and all your listeners and viewers.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right. Thanks so much. Congressman Warren Davidson of Ohio. All right. Coming up, President Trump has signed an order to designate Antifa, that movement as a domestic terrorist organization. What does that mean and what will come from it? That's what we're going to talk about next. Then still to come, we're going to take a look at the president's speech at the U.N. That's later.
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Welcome back to Washington Watch. Check out the website, TonyPerkins.com. Better yet, get the Stand Firm app where you can have access to Washington Watch no matter where you go. And you can get our news feed, the Washington Stand, news and commentary from a biblical perspective. It's very important that we understand the events of our world through the lenses of Scripture. We help you do that with the Stand Firm app. Well, yesterday, President Trump signed an executive order to designate the Antifa movement as a domestic terrorist organization. The order directs the federal government to investigate, disrupt, and dismantle any and all illegal operations conducted by Antifa or any person claiming to act on behalf of Antifa. It also calls for investigation into and actions against the funding sources behind their operations. Now, given the unique makeup of Antifa, What could this move by the president actually accomplish? Joining me now to talk about this is Kyle Scheidler. He's the director and senior analyst for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism at the Center for Security Policy. He is also editor of Unmasking Antifa, Five Perspectives on a Growing Threat. Kyle, welcome to Washington Watch. Thanks for joining us. It's my pleasure to be here. Thank you. So before we get into the mechanics of this, let's talk a little bit about Antifa. You know, we hear a lot about it, especially back after the George Floyd incident. But it's not like a typical organization or even a movement. Give us the background.
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Well, Antifa is made up of a series of autonomous cells, or what they would describe as affinity groups. These affinity groups come together to conduct direct actions, which can be everything from sabotage and violence to protesting, rioting, and the like. But they are not organized from the typical top-down hierarchical structure that we typically think of, if you think about a mafia kingpin or something like that. They're organized from the bottom up in these smaller structures. But they then connect these structures in a variety of different ways, including city chapters, regional networks, international networks, and the like. So they are actually heavily organized. They're highly organized. They are just organized in a very deliberate, explicitly anarchist approach.
SPEAKER 05 :
So isn't this this asymmetrical organization? I mean, this is kind of like the terrorist cells operate.
SPEAKER 07 :
Quite so. Yeah, absolutely. Or sometimes I'll give the example to law enforcement when I'm briefing them of a description of like an outlaw motorcycle club or a street gang where you have individual groups of people who are well known to each other, who work closely together, and they then have relationships with other groups and they derive benefits from that larger connection and from the name recognition of the brand. And there was actually in 2007 an Antifa manual, a forming Antifa group manual that was printed online. And one of the things they said was if you identify as Antifa, you carry certain obligations to the larger group and the larger movement. And so they have ways of determining connections and relationships through that sense of obligation that is created.
SPEAKER 05 :
So how will the government go about going after their resources and their organizational structure? I mean, given what you've just described, how can they go about taking down this domestic terrorist organization?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, I think it's worth recognizing that there is technically no domestic terrorism organization list or designation that doesn't have at current any statutory authority. But what I think the president is indicating with this executive order is that he really intends a whole of government approach He expects to see every law enforcement agency and national security agency playing its part to address what he sees as a threat to the national security of the United States, and quite rightly, in my view. So certainly my hope is that they will take a whole-of-government approach, that we will see federal law enforcement utilizing all manner of counterterrorism authorities, but that they'll also look at certain white collar crime authorities, racketeering statutes, that they'll look at things like utilizing charity fraud to take on some of these community organizations and bail funds that help support rioters and get them out of jail. That they'll do things like, for example, utilize counterintelligence capabilities and authorities to target the connections between some of these organizations and foreign adversaries who operate abroad. There are a number of examples of ties to far-left terrorist groups, for example.
SPEAKER 05 :
I want to ask you about that, because while there's no domestic terrorist organization authority statute dealing with that, if they're connected internationally with these groups I don't know if we would use the term terrorists, but there's groups that find their way onto our international list. Would that be enough of a connection to use statutory authority to go after them?
SPEAKER 07 :
I think so. There are certainly a number of explicitly named Antifa groups that have conducted attacks overseas in some of our allied countries and even crossed international borders to conduct attacks against things like politicians and the like. So I think you could build the case for designating some of those Antifa groups abroad. and then backtrack to those connections that they have to international Antifa networks and then in turn to domestic Antifa networks. So I think with a little bit of work and investigative effort, you could put together a designation structure that would eventually have U.S.-based Antifa groups designated under a foreign terrorism organization. designation. But I recognize that it would be a challenge. The State Department would have to put some work in to make it happen. But I think it would technically be lawful.
SPEAKER 05 :
We just got about 25 seconds left. Funding. Where do they get their money?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, most Antifa work is not that expensive, to be honest with you. They crowdfund a lot of it. They engage in all manner of community projects. Everything you can think of to do to raise money, they'll do. Book fairs, bake sales, and the like. but most of their larger expenses are bail money and transportation, and those tend to get provided by larger fiscal sponsor 501c3 organizations, some of which do have connections to progressive foundations.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right, Kyle, thanks so much for joining us. Great information. Stick with us, folks. We're going to be back with more after this.
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SPEAKER 13 :
It's great to be here.
SPEAKER 05 :
Thank you very much. So President Trump had run-ins with broken equipment at the United Nations, escalator, teleprompter. Those seem to underscore deeper complaints about the efficiency of the United Nations. Now, President Trump criticized the U.N. as basically being irrelevant, and it's because it's failed in its mission to ensure global security and stability. Here's one clip of what he had to say.
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The UN has such tremendous potential. I've always said it. It has such tremendous, tremendous potential, but it's not even coming close to living up to that potential. For the most part, at least for now, all they seem to do is write a really strongly worded letter and then never follow that letter up. It's empty words, and empty words don't solve war.
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Dr. Nolte, your response.
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Yeah, so when you look at the foundation of the UN, there's kind of three or four purposes. The first is to prevent World War III, right? And so the Security Council infrastructure is designed to prevent another global war. Whether it actually succeeded at that or was lucky in the fact that the Cold War never turned hot, that goal was accomplished for a very long time. Then there's also, if you look at the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, there's this idea of the UN promoting human rights. But the problem with that is that from the beginning, the Soviet Union, which is one of the worst human rights abusers of the 20th century, was on the Security Council and had a veto on pretty much anything. And subsequent to that, the People's Republic of China, which was admitted in the 70s, also has a veto and also has a horrendous record on human rights. So that was never going to be achievable. And then, of course, finally, there's the sort of peacekeeping and international development mission. And there you have a situation where there were a lot of high lofty ideals and no mechanisms for actually achieving that. And so I think the president's basically right. It has largely failed to accomplish that. most of these lofty purposes, the one thing that it could potentially claim credit for, and I think there's other factors as well, is that the Cold War never turned hot.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, just one aspect I think illustrates the president's comments about writing nice letters but not doing anything is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which almost, I think, all but maybe one member state has signed on to, but yet does not abide by, and the U.N. does absolutely nothing.
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UDHR was written largely by Dr. Charles Malick, who was a Christian statesman, actually gave a very famous address at Wheaton College back in the 1980s about Christian statesmanship. And there's a lot of good in it, and a lot of people have signed onto it on paper. But again, there's no mechanism for enforcement. And even when it was signed onto, you had the USSR playing a charter role in the UN, and the USSR, Stalin was in charge. So they're routinely violating UDHR even as they signed it. So it's a lofty ideal, but again, the UN's never had the capacity or really even the desire to enforce that.
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Moving on to another topic, President Trump also criticized Europe for their use of Russian oil as the war between Russia and Ukraine continues, which basically is funding that war. Play that clip.
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China and India are the primary funders of the ongoing war by continuing to purchase Russian oil. But inexcusably, even NATO countries have not cut off much Russian energy and Russian energy products.
SPEAKER 05 :
Cal, he talked a lot about returning to fossil fuels, getting rid of this green scam. And he was pretty critical about where Europe had gone when it came to the green energy deal.
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Yes, he was. And I think he was dead right on that. I mean, Europe has seen skyrocketing energy prices as it's tried to replace extremely energy-dense, power-dense hydrocarbon fuels, that's fossil, coal, oil, natural gas, with wind and solar, which are very low-density energy sources. And of course, when you're trying to go from low-density to to the extremely high densities that we actually need to power our electrical devices, to move our vehicles down the road and so on. The more you have to go from low density to high density, the more it's going to cost. So that's why Europe has been struggling so much. You've seen manufacturing move out of Europe into other countries. And at the same time, we've kept manufacturing here in the United States. Some people think that we've lost a lot. As a matter of fact, our manufacturing totals have remained very high. We haven't lost anything significant. And that's part of why the U.S. is doing so well. And, frankly, he's got really, really good people working with him. Lee Zeldin at EPA, Doug Burgum at Interior, and Chris Wright at Energy Department. These are men who really know their fields. They understand this stuff. And that's unusual for Cabinet members. It's really nice to see people who really understand the matters of energy and climate.
SPEAKER 05 :
Along those lines, in his speech, President Trump dismissed the threat of climate change. He pointed to predictions made over the years that turned out to be wrong, and he said they were made for bad reasons. I want to play that clip of him saying that.
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It's the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world, in my opinion. Climate change, no matter what happens, you're involved in that. No more global warming, no more global cooling. All of these predictions made by the United Nations and many others, often for bad reasons, were wrong.
SPEAKER 05 :
I mean, he's laying it all bare. I mean, everything they've been holding on to to grab power, he's just pulling back the curtain on it.
SPEAKER 01 :
Yeah. And of course, as a president is wont to do, especially this president, he's talking in broad generalities and fairly simplified terms. And yes, there's been a lot of skullduggery behind the global warming, climate change alarmist movement. There's been some decent science as well. But the really important thing is to recognize that While human contribution to climate change is real, it is not catastrophic. The benefits that we get from the energy we take from fossil fuels far outweigh any of the harms that come from the warming. And the added benefits to all plant growth, especially to crop yields from the added carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, also far outweigh the risks from climate change. Even the UN itself in its 2018 special report on global warming of 1.5 degrees said that basically if we did nothing to slow global warming, It would only reduce global gross domestic or gross world product per capita. That's the value of everything that somebody produces in a lifetime. or in a year, it would only reduce that by 2.6 percent, meaning that instead of people making 9.1 percent, 9.1 times more per year than they would in 2018, instead they're going to be making 8.8 times as much per year as they did in 2018. And so what that tells us is that global warming is certainly not a significant threat to humanity. People are going to be roughly nine times better off in 2100.
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I mean, I think you just look at the economy, look at the economy of China that has been putting coal powered plants online every week. Their economy is continuing to grow. Their base is very energy dependent and they have cheap energy. And that's what you need to do manufacturing and to grow an economy. I mean, I think it didn't come up in today's speech by the president, but I think he understands that he's got to get America's energy base moving again if we want to continue to grow our economy and our GDP. Dr. Nolte, I want to bring you back in here on the topic of. Israel and Hamas. Now, again, I have to commend the president. He did not hold back on anything today. He framed the growing momentum for a two-state solution at the United Nations General Assembly as a reward for Hamas. Play that clip.
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We can't forget October 7th, can we? Now, as if to encourage continued conflict, some of this body is seeking to unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state. The rewards would be too great for Hamas terrorists, for their atrocities. This would be a reward for these horrible atrocities, including October 7th.
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I mean, how can you not see that?
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I mean, he is absolutely right. How can you see it any other way? I think the only way you can see it any other way is deliberately not looking at it.
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So we just did a podcast on this through the Israel Institute and our Israel Institute podcast, and I'll summarize it very briefly. Recognizing a Palestinian state here now today in September 2025, you're recognizing something that doesn't exist, that doesn't have any governance capacity. where no Palestinian leadership has any legitimacy from the population they've actually governed, and no Palestinian entity has any ability to provide peace, order, and security over areas they have controlled thus far. So that's called a failed state by any metric. So you'd be recognizing a failed state, and also you'd be empowering Hamas because the dispute in Palestinian politics is, do we pursue a negotiated peace, or do we use violence to try to achieve our ends? And so the Europeans and the Canadians and Australians are essentially rewarding the pursuit of violence by recognizing a Palestinian state in this specific context and also without demanding anything from Hamas in return for that recognition. So it's unconditional recognition. Whatever they can say, the conditions are supposed to happen after the fact. And so it's absurd. And I think it can only come from this. These are mostly leftist governments can only come from this idea that simply by speaking, we can incept a reality into being that does not exist. That's the only way that you can convince yourself that this is a good idea. And unfortunately, that's just not how the world works.
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I was talking earlier in the program about the migration, the shift of population, and the fact that we see a number of – I mean, these European countries are being overrun by Islamic populations. That has to factor into the fact that you have the prime minister of the U.K., Starmer – dropping the conditions previously that he stated in July, that they would have to release all the hostages, disarm, and not be a part of any government going forward. Those conditions were not on there this time around on Sunday when he announced that they would support a Palestinian state.
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I think there's some of that. I think that there's part of the coalition. Most of these left-wing parties are being supported by Islamic groups. But also, I think that's letting them off too easily, frankly, because those left-wing parties are also the open borders parties. And so it's not like the Muslims are going to turn around and vote for the opposition that wants to shut off immigration. So they don't have anywhere else to go. I think that's part of it, but it's also just the sheer insanity of recognizing a failed state to try to punish Israel because you think that somehow by recognizing it, you can create a reality that doesn't exist.
SPEAKER 05 :
A final question I was throwing out for both of you. When you look at the wide-ranging topics that the president addressed, I mean, he hit on pretty much every hot-button issue. And then he kind of wrapped up by saying, follow our lead. You know, get rid of the green energy. Go back to... producing real energy and stop the migration, close your borders and take pride in who you are. I mean, pretty strong message. I wonder how that will resonate with the member countries. I'll start with you, Cal.
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Well, I think certainly the European countries are going to have to be learning lessons out of this. I mean, they're suffering the results of their essentially open borders policies, bringing on high rates of crime and just failure of immigrants to assimilate into their cultures. You can't keep a country going well long that way. I think they have a lot to learn from President Trump on this and from the policies that are now working in the United States. And I think that he was right to say.
SPEAKER 05 :
Dr. Nolte, I'll give you the final word.
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I think countries that have retained a sense of sort of self-confidence and national identity and desire for independence will receive it well. I think that countries that are struggling with those issues will not receive it well. And so it'll kind of end up being a Rorschach test of it will say less about Trump and more about actually where everyone else is, as Trump's comments so often are.
SPEAKER 05 :
So there'll be about a dozen countries that'll be like what he had to say. Gentlemen, thanks so much for joining me today. Great to see you.
SPEAKER 13 :
Thanks for having us.
SPEAKER 05 :
Thank you. And folks, thank you for joining us as well. By the way, Dr. Malone is going to join me again on tomorrow's program. We're going to unpack this whole thing with the autism a little bit more. So be sure and tune in tomorrow. Until next time, I leave you with the words of the Apostle Paul. When you've done everything you can do and you've prayed, prepared and taken your stand, by all means, keep standing.
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