Join Mike Gallagher and Mark Davis as they delve into the intricacies of societal shifts with a focus on the abbreviation 'Xmas' and its impact on traditional celebrations. Set against the backdrop of Trump’s influence on cultural sentiments, the episode navigates the delicate balance between historical accuracy and modern interpretations. They then transition to the intense discussion on security and public safety, with New Orleans serving as a focal point amidst growing concerns surrounding high-profile events.
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Mike Gallagher. Every day, Mike visits with Mark Davis, morning host on 660 AM, The Answer in Dallas. Here's today's M&M experience.
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You do this thing where you get into the weeds and people are going to immediately rush to your defense. Oh, it's true. It comes from the 16th century, the Catholic Church. You can't have that accuracy. You can't have that. I get it. It's not accuracy. What's accurate? I don't know that we ever anticipated watching Christ get stripped out of Christmas.
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Are you going to Home Depot and seeing holiday trees? What? Listen, you and I were warriors locked in arms. I know. And we always will be. Stay in the fight. I would ask you this. What is an example? Find me. Here's homework. Find me an example of anybody who you think in their use of that abbreviation is being dismissive toward Christmas. I mean, just find it. It's a total straw man. Find it. You won't find it. You won't find it. It's a tempest in a teapot. Let me speak.
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Let me speak, Chatty Cathy. I don't think you're intentionally being dismissive of Christmas. You're as fine a Christian man as I know. You're you're inadvertently stripping out what Christmas means. Xmas may have some historical significance, but in the culture we're in today that that and look, it's getting better. I mean, this I think I think Trump has brought Merry Christmas back.
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You know, 27 things to talk about. I'm going to make a buddy out of you again. If your point is and it's a good point. even as historically accurate as I always am, if your point is don't ever miss an opportunity, even if it varies you, don't ever miss an opportunity to type C-H-R-I-S-T. Don't ever miss an opportunity.
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That's right. And look, and I'll stipulate, you're probably right historically or whatever, but that's so kind of, I don't know.
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Arcane. Arcane.
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I don't know. Let's just agree that Merry Christmas is back. It's great to celebrate the season. And like you said, any chance you get. Now, let's get down to business. First of all, with Granny Clampett there in New Orleans. And you know that her big thing when she's not... standing there not even acknowledging that she knew they had sidewalk barriers available in New Orleans. This is how incompetent she is. But her big thing, she teaches DEI to fellow officers. That's her big thing. I mean, this is what happened. This is a product of diversity, equity, and inclusion. You know, you mentioned that the FBI assistant guy that they brought in, he's right out of central casting. They took one look at nose ring and they said, get her out of there. I mean, and put in the guy, the big, burly, bald guy that can talk like an FBI agent.
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Period.
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Oh, yeah, yeah.
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We found multiple devices.
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Yeah, I mean, my goodness. And the nose ring. I mean, and the nose ring gets to me only because somebody sent me. I had an FBI agent, an active FBI agent send me their policy. They prohibit it. So what do they do? Wave it for her because they don't want to make the young woman mad? It would be racist. Don't be racist. Don't be racist. So it just frustrates the heck out of me. Every time something like this happens, you know what cities do? They start putting up, like, barricades everywhere. They start putting up. And, you know, you can't prevent evildoers from committing acts of evil.
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I think. Bush 43 used this about terrorism. He said, we have to be successful in stopping it 100% of the time. All they have to do is be successful once.
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And the one time they get through, then we say, oh, it's a massive failure on our part. Except I think this one kind of was. Well, especially because there's reporting that there were already briefings a year or two ago that Bourbon Street was particularly vulnerable. Yes.
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And you know what the thing was on the calendar, the glowing thing on the calendar they were looking at at the Superdome coming up in a couple of months? Super Bowl. Next month, Super Bowl. It's like, but somehow the same number of people in the same stadium yesterday did not warrant a beefing up of security in time for that, which is also attached to what's that little holiday? Oh, yeah. New Year's Eve. New Year's Eve.
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Yeah, yeah. And look, there's also reporting now that Axios is reporting on concerns about the inauguration. There's a part of me that wishes Trump did the inauguration inside somewhere, safe.
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Don't the terrorists win?
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Well, we already changed the date of the Sugar Bowl. I mean, you know, like you said. And by the way, the timing, I know you were frustrated by why they played it yesterday at 4 Eastern, 3 Central. I think it wasn't because of the second game. There was another game last night.
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Well, yeah, which is stupid because you had to have Duke and Ole Miss. How about you make everybody in Jacksonville move their schedules rather than people who are coming to a game with the national impact? Okay, so the inauguration will be on the west front of the Capitol. I'd say that's a deeply, deeply secure area. Every rooftop, unlike Butler, PA, I don't think anybody's going to take Trump out as his hand is on the Bible. And funny, funny. And, you know, you can can Monday. Can you and I talk about Jimmy Carter? Because I'm going to spend some time, which we did not get a chance to do. He passed away while we were both away. A legacy of a man of much personal virtue. Wrong. Virtually every policy and both can be true at the same time. Anyway, though, Carter, I believe, was the first to get out of the limo and walk Pennsylvania Avenue and everybody went. Wow, man of the people, that's awesome. I said that, and I just finished voting against him in my first election ever. I think Trump did it in 2017, right? He did it. Okay, so I'm here to tell you, Pennsylvania Avenue locked down hard. I would love to think there is no way anybody can squeeze off a shot at Trump or Melania walking that mile and a half of Pennsylvania Avenue, but are we confident enough to We are not. So, no, let's not move the inauguration indoors. No, but don't be walking down Pennsylvania. See, I want him. I want it to be the most Trumpian thing in the world to walk it again. Walk it again.
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Well, I don't want to put anything bad out of the universe.
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I know.
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Let me end with a cool story about the intimacy of what we do. So I'm in L.A., and I'm flying back after visiting with Dennis in the hospital, and I'm in the lounge at LAX. And a guy comes up to me. I'm sitting there minding my own business. I talk to the people working in the lounge a little bit. And a guy comes up to me and says, pardon me, I don't mean to bother you, but are you Mike Gallagher? I said, yeah. Hi, how are you? He goes, I knew it was you. And it was the coolest thing. He said, I had no idea what you looked like. I've never seen you before. I recognized your voice. Mm-hmm. And I thought, that's like the third or fourth time. Has that ever happened to you before? All the time.
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You bet.
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That's the strangest thing to me. I don't think I'd recognize anybody by their voice. Just their voice? Sure, unless it's somebody you listen to on the radio every day. Well, and he did. Well, anyhow, so we talked for 15 minutes. Great guy. Nice guy. He's off to Cabo, you know, with his fiance. And I asked him in the course of the conversation, what do you do? He goes, I work in the film business. I thought, well, sure, it's Hollywood, Los Angeles, whatever he works at. So then I get back to that five minutes into the conversation. Mark, he is the co-chairman and co-founder of one of the biggest movie studios in the world. Wow. I almost, and like a schoolboy, I'm like Googling him after the. Oh, yeah. That's wonderful. It was the coolest thing, and I was telling Hewitt about it a couple weeks ago. He says, yeah, you forget that, like, famous people do listen to us. Absolutely. He told the story of Clint Eastwood being a fan of Hugh's, you know? And so it's the – Kelsey Grammer I met once and said, oh, Mike, I listen to you. It's neat to neat. But this guy is, like, a big deal. So anyway, it's kind of neat. It's a sidebar that he's famous in the movie industry. But what I think is really special is that somebody can recognize you by your voice. Absolutely. We just forget how intimate our medium is and how people relate. And, of course, now with Salem News Channel, our faces are plastered everywhere.
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I was going to say, how does somebody not know what you look like? He didn't. He said, I've never.
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He was in L.A. And, you know, it's though it was the funniest story because he said, I've never I've never seen you before. OK, well, great. And but that was just the coolest thing. I just wanted to share a little bit of that with you.
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In this thought-provoking installment, Kim Munson engages with historical milestones and their bearing on modern governance, from the Brooklyn Bridge's construction to the evolution of global climate narratives. Special guest John Reed Austin shares his journey of creating a unifying anthem, 'One Nation Under God,' encapsulating the spirit of patriotism and unity. Don't miss this chapter as Kim navigates the delicate balance between tradition, policy-making, and societal progress.
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And it's not fair just because you're a big business that you get a break on this and the little guy doesn't.
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Is it freedom or is it force? Let's have a conversation.
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Indeed. Let's have a conversation. And welcome to The Kim Munson Show. Thank you so much for joining us. You each are treasured, you're 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. Thank you to the team. That's Producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Teresa, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. It is Friday. Producer Joe.
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And yes, we got a big show planned for you again today, so stay tuned. Check out the website. That is Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com. The text line is 720-605-0647. And thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice. 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 force people to do it. And we are live. Well, unless we are in holiday seasons and prerecorded, we're live 6 to 8 a.m. Monday through Friday. on all KLZ 560 platforms. The first hour is rebroadcast 1 to 2 in the afternoon. The second hour is rebroadcast 10 to 11 at night. Those platforms are KLZ 560 AM, KLZ 100.7 FM, the KLZ website, and the KLZ app. And as I mentioned, we look at these issues, we search for truth and clarity, and we look at them as freedom versus force, force versus freedom. And it's never compassionate, my friends, to take other people's stuff, whether or not it's their rights, their property, freedom, livelihood, opportunities, or life. And forest can be a weapon, policy, unpredictable and excessive taxation, fear, coercion, government-induced inflation. This agenda of the World Economic Forum and the globalist elites, the United Nations, Colorado State Legislature, the Colorado Governor, World Health Organization, land use codes, zoning regulations, forest fees, conservation easements, the list goes on and on. But I think we're starting to maybe see a crack in some of this. And there's this headline that I wanted to share with you. And this is from, let's see, I think it's the Wall Street Journal. It says, big banks are fleeing the climate coalition formed to reduce carbon emissions. And this goes on to say that Morgan Stanley, Citicorp and Bank of America this week withdrew from an ambitious pandemic era climate coalition designed to help drive a shift to reduce carbon emissions and I have that in air quotes by businesses that followed withdrawals over the past month by Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs from the United Nations. There you go. Backed coalition known as the Net Zero Banking Alliance. It says J.P. Morgan Chase is the largest bank in the nation. by assets and the only major U.S. bank left in the coalition is considering withdrawing from it, a person familiar with the matter said. A J.P. Morgan spokeswoman, I wish they would give their names, that would be good journalism, said the bank regularly evaluates memberships to ensure that they further its client and business interests. And back in 2021, the members vowed to align lending, investment, and capital markets activities with net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. So what they were trying to do is use the banking industry to squeeze out capital to prevent the exploration and development, the capital necessary for oil, natural gas and coal. So this is really huge that this is happening. And this is this recent exodus from the coalition reflects a broad pullback by companies ahead of the second Trump administration from environmental, social and corporate governance areas. So ESG and they became a craze on Wall Street years ago, but have since been maligned by says conservative groups. It might be groups that want to make sure that we maintain our individual freedom. So this is really huge. And that's why my hat is off to Walt Johnson. for him and his wife, Remy, stepping forward and financing a climate conversation. He wanted to have just an honest conversation with scientists and experts about this whole climate question. And so we'd really recommend that you check out the website. It's a climate conversation dot com. You can watch the documentary there for free. We've created a very informative set of podcasts with experts and scientists as well. And so I would recommend that you check all that out. But this is a really a huge development. And sometimes when we think things are impossible, they're not. We just have to continue to put one foot in front of the other. So my father used to always say is one foot in front of the other. And that's what we need to do. And that's what we will be doing in 2025 on the show. So our word of the day, I use this because it's used to describe Benjamin Franklin, and he was our inspiration for the quote of the day the other day. And the word is polymath, and it's spelled P-O-L-Y-M-A-T-H. And it's a person of great or varied learning, or it could be number two, a person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge. And those are really the two words. definitions on that. And we wonder who would be polymath of this generation. I think probably one of the first people might be Victor Davis Hanson that comes to mind. But again, polymath, P-O-L-Y-M-A-T-H, you're challenged to use that in a sentence today. Our quote of the day, I went to Eli, I think it's Wiesel, and he was born in 1928, died in 2016. He was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, mostly in French and English, including Night, which is a work based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. And I chose this because our featured guest this hour is John Eastman, who he has been so attacked by lawfare. And he is a constitutional expert, well-respected expert. And there's a documentary that is going to be screened tomorrow in Mar-a-Lago. It will be released on Monday. And we wanted to get him on the show to talk about that. And then we'll do a follow-up next week as well. So I was thinking about justice, I was looking for quotes about justice, and this came up by Eli Wiesel. Or it's Ely, maybe it's Ely Wiesel, there we go. He says, there may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice. And we felt that over the last few years. But he goes on to say, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest or to shed light on it. I'm gonna add that on there. Because that's what we do on a regular basis on the show. I want to get through some other headlines before we do that, though. Several things on this day in history. In 1431, the Joan of Arc or Joan of Arc is handed over to Bishop Pierre Cachon. Ultimately, she was burned at the stake. In 1521, again, big religious thing happening, Martin Luther is excommunicated by Pope Leo X from the Roman Catholic Church for failing to recant parts of his 95 thesis, which started the Protestant Reformation. Big deal. The day after, well, it was on Christmas Day Eve, was when there was the Battle of Trenton in 1775. George Washington prevailed there. He let his troops rest, and then they decided to fight the Battle of Princeton. And they defeat the... Excuse me, that was 1776. So this was 1777 then. Battle of Trenton, 1776. Then they rest. 1777, George Washington's Revolutionary Army defeat the British forces at the Battle of Princeton in New Jersey. I don't really know the history of Texas, so many of you Texans out there do, but I thought this was interesting. 1823, Stephen Austin receives a grant of land in Texas from the government of Mexico. Eleven years later, the government of Mexico imprisons Stephen Austin in Mexico City. And so I need to do some history work on that. I know there's those of you out there that know that. I thought that was quite a change of events. 1870, the construction begins on the New York's Brooklyn Bridge. It was completed in 1883. These days, it would probably take forever to get the permits to do that, and it would take forever to complete that. But they did that in 13 years. 1925, all this is happening in Europe leading up to World War II. But 1925, Benito Mussolini dissolves the Italian parliament and proclaims himself dictator of Italy, taking the title of il duce, the leader. In 1944, World War II, top U.S. flying ace Major Pappy Boynton is shot down in his Corsair by Japanese Captain Kawato flying a zero. And then Pappy Boynton survives as a POW. Then the last probably big battle of World War II, the U.S. aircraft carriers attack Okinawa. And 1977, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs incorporate Apple Computer. It kind of changed our world. And then, again, a climate event, 2024. And this is why they changed the narrative from global warming to climate change. The lowest January temperature of negative 43 degrees point six Celsius or 46. six and a half degrees Fahrenheit, was recorded in Sweden in the Swedish Lapland. It was a very cold spell across Scandinavia. So the climate is always changing, and there is also weather. And again, that's why I would recommend you check out A Climate Conversation. Another sponsor of the show is Hooters Restaurants. And how I got to know them, it's a very important story. When I was on city council 2012 to 2016, it's a story about freedom, free markets, capitalism competing in the free market versus PBIs trying to exert control. And so I would really recommend that you check out my website for that story. But Hooters Restaurants has five locations, Loveland, Aurora, Lone Tree, Westminster, and Colorado Springs. Great lunch specials. Try out their fish and chips. And again, I thank them for their partnership of both sides. The Kim Munson Show and America's Veterans Stories. Headlines I wanted to get to today at noon Eastern time. There will be the first vote to for the to choose the next speaker of the House. And so Mike Johnson is the favorite on that. And so it will be interesting to see what happens. That's highly political and very important. So that will happen today at noon Eastern time. Colorado Public Radio reports that Attorney General Phil Weiser is the first big name to declare for the 2026 Colorado governor's race. So that is right around the corner. He is a Democrat and had some conversations yesterday about those that might be throwing their hat in the ring on that. And the 2026 election is right around the corner. The next headline, I just have a question on this, and this is from The Daily Caller. And it says that the FBI does another 180 and claims that the New Orleans attacker worked alone day after conducting manhunt for accomplices. I am not an expert in solving crimes, but it sure seems to me like they would need to take a little bit more time before they could come out and definitively say that this attacker worked alone. And so I think this is a stay tuned. Let me know what you think. 720-605-0647 is the text. Next headline is we had talked about this quite a bit yesterday in our educational system. Our kids are not learning how to read and write and do arithmetic. But by gosh, they're being pushed on this whole DEI, diversity, equity, inclusion thing. nonsense, if you will, and that is putting kids in different groups, trying to divide them via race and via sex, their gender, pushing this agenda that girls can be boys, boys can be girls, that kids can use different pronouns at school, their parents don't know. You say, how can this happen? Well, there's a lot of money that's gone to that. This is from the Washington Examiner. It says the Biden Justice Department spent over $100 million on DEI-related grants for K through 12. So these grants then go into consultants that will then come in and push this agenda. And as Laurie Gimmelstein said yesterday, I didn't realize this, and I think this was in the Cherry Creek School District, is there are so many teachers, public school teachers, that have gotten into the profession because they love children, they want to teach, but yet they're being pushed to push this agenda. And I said, how is this happening? Well, there are she said there's now in Cherry Creek paid staff in each school that is pushed. It's the I don't have the exact term she used, but like the DEI compliance officer that these teachers have to be taking the training and pushing this agenda. and so they they are being paid to do that how are they being paid well 100 million dollars from the biden justice department uh for dei related grants for k through 12. that will do it uh next thing uh just uh i wanted to mention starbucks this is again from the daily caller is closing one of its flagship locations as crime overtakes the founding city of Seattle. And they're closing that at the corner of First and Pike across the street from the popular Pike Place Market. And the reason is because of crime. And so, again, we see all of these policies, these bad policies, how they're working out. And that's why we have to have to shed light on this and get this turned around. So we have these discussions because of our sponsors. So I thank the Harris family for their goal sponsorship of the show. 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Indeed, it is Friday, and welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMunson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We are an independent voice, and 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 force people to do it. and had a great Christmas season, great Christmas parties. And I met our next guest at a Christmas party, Rachel, who is the producer of one of the other Crawford stations here, had just a delightful event. And I met John Reed Austin there. He's an artist, a And he has written a song, and he said, this is really important. We're going to try to get this out here right after Christmas, before the inauguration, and would love to be a guest on the show. So here he is. John Reed Austin, welcome to the show.
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Thank you very much, Kim, for inviting me. I really appreciate it. Good morning to you.
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Well, good to have you. Tell us a little bit about you, John Reed Austin.
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Well, I'm a father of two, grandfather of two, just celebrated 20-year anniversary last month, and I'm a graduate of Colorado Christian University with a music degree, saxophone solo artist for 18 years doing nursing homes mostly, and also have a nonprofit organization for Guatemala and Mexico and We hope to expand eventually. We've been doing that since COVID started. That's pretty much the nutshell.
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Okay. And you've written this song, and this is really important to you, and you really are trying to get ears on this. So tell us a little bit about the song.
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Okay. Well, so thank you. It was less than 23 years ago, I woke up from a dream actually singing the Pledge of Allegiance. And I was living in Lake Providence, Louisiana, way up in the northeastern part of the boot next to the Mississippi River at the time. And immediately I realized that I don't think this song even exists. So I got out of bed and I sat down at the desk and started writing the Pledge of Allegiance. And then within 30 minutes, I had two verses and a chorus with the core message of the song. And, you know, this came during the time when California passed a law to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance. And we were also during the Second Gulf War. So patriotism was really at its height at that time. And so I felt a sense of urgency and got with a guitar friend of mine. And he and I put together the chords. And then I went back home and And I'd say probably a few days later, I had a second dream. And this time, I actually heard God's voice speak to me. And this only happened a couple times in my life. And he said something quite humorous, musically speaking. He just says, you know, one of the lyrics in your verse is redundant. You need to remove that, and it will clean it up. So I looked, and sure enough, there was a word that was used more than once. And I took it out, and sure enough, it kind of cleaned up the whole song, made it flow better. So then I realized that this was a song from him, and I just felt a sense of urgency even more. So I went to the local recording studio, and we put together a dry recording. And then I met a friend who knew of a man who had contacts to executives in Nashville. which was only about a seven-hour drive from where I was at. So we drove out there to Music Row and met with the execs, and they liked the song. But then came the sobering words, Nashville is not ready for another God and country song. So I was really crushed. I thought, how could this be? God gave me the song, and there's a height of patriotism. Why wouldn't they have room for another song? And so it ended up sitting on the shelf for 22 years, and I nearly forgot about the song altogether until last year. My wife was sitting on the couch listening to the song, original recording on her hard drive, and she goes, why haven't you done anything with the song? And I said, because it's not to industry standards yet. She says, well, get it to standard, because we have an election coming up. And then I had this renewed sense of urgency, and I thought, Okay, we've got elections. We just had three eclipses in America, which is kind of a metaphor of our nation being sliced and diced politically and religiously. So I felt like, you know, maybe we need a song that could help heal this nation. And if Trump could possibly hear this song, you know, this could be the ticket. So I went to the studio last September, and on the 1st of January, it just happened that way. that the song was completed. And so that's it, pretty much.
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And what's the name of the song?
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It's called One Nation Under God.
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Okay, let's hear it, and then we'll have just a little bit of commentary after. So go, Joe, hit it.
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Oh, say, can you see flying up so high that banner yet weighs up in the sky? It's the stars and stripes, red, white, and blue, a symbol for me and for you. Those who bled and died to let our freedom ring, we will never forget. So let this anthem sing. What so proudly we hail, this flag to us we haven't failed, the one nation that stands under God. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. We are one nation that stands under God. And home of the brave Colors for heroes whose lives they gave From sea to shining sea Purple mountains majesty Old glory stands tall For those who sacrificed it all For this grand old flag I will take a stand With my heart placed firmly under hand We must fight the victory For this land of liberty allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands we are a nation that stands under God, woe, woe, one nation under God. Lord, we humble ourselves to seek your face, and God, we trust and give thanks to your amazing grace. We the people proclaim through the power of your name, to the many one nation under Oh, I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. We are one nation that stands under God. One nation under God.
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One nation under God.
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So, John Reed Austin, a beautiful song and very pleased to be one of the first, at least, to broadcast the song, John Reed Austin.
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You are the first.
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Aha. OK, well, thank you for sharing this. And just a quick we have about a minute left. Next steps. What do you want to have happen?
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I would like to see if somebody got a way to get an ear to Trump and have this song to be put back into schools, you know, to help renew the Pledge of Allegiance across the nation.
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Well, John Reed Austin, thank you so much. And thank you for we break lots of things sometimes first time here. So very excited about that. And let's stay in touch again. That is John Reed Austin, One Nation Under God. Thank you for sharing it. It was very fortuitous that we met at Rachel's Christmas party. So thank you.
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You're welcome.
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It is Friday, and welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMunson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice, and 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 force people to do it. And after hearing John Reed Austin's new song, One Nation... It makes me think about the USMC Memorial Foundation, which I so totally support. They are raising the money for the remodel of the Marine Memorial, which is here in Colorado in Golden. And it is so important that we understand our history, understand our pledge, understand this amazing gift of America that has been given to us. It's certainly not perfect. We understand that. There are those that like to focus on the imperfections. But what we want to do is continue to strive towards that ideal and certainly want to honor those that have given their lives, have been willing to give their lives for us, for our liberty. And so a great way to support them is to make a contribution to the USMC Memorial Foundation. I am so pleased to have on the line with me John Eastman. He is one of the... an expert on the Constitution here in America. Also, Trump's attorney. He has been on a journey that is absolutely unbelievable that this would happen in America. It's lawfare. But there's a documentary that's going to be screened tomorrow at Mar-a-Lago and released on Monday. And we wanted to talk with him about that. And John Eastman, welcome to the show.
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It's so nice to be back on your program, and I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and a happy new year.
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Well, I thank you. I did. And you as well. And first thing I just want to mention is you and I saw each other back in February. And you had said that one of the papers in California had reached out to you to do a story on how depressed you are with all of these attacks that you've had to go through. And you said, well, I'm not really depressed. So tell us just a little bit about that.
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Well, yeah, they wanted to do a human interest story on me and my family and how devastated we were. And I said, where are you getting that? Our country is on the precipice of losing precious freedoms that we inherited from our forebears. And for whatever reason, I've been cast into a leading role on the front lines of that battle. I'm well armed for it. I'm well credentialed. I've got the tenacity and spirit to fight it. I can't think of a more important place to be to protecting the freedoms of this country and our constitutional rights than like the right to speech and the right to petition your government for redress of grievances and the right to counsel. You know, to protect those rights for my kids and grandkids, I can't imagine a more important thing to be doing. So not depressed at all. I'm sorry that our country has degenerated into such a situation that lawyers giving legal advice on open questions of constitutional law would be criminally indicted and subject to the longest and most expensive bar disciplinary proceeding in history. I regret that we've degenerated into that, but I don't regret at all the things I'm doing to protect freedoms for my kids and grandkids.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, and so did they do the story or not?
SPEAKER 03 :
No, they didn't. That was not the story they wanted to carry.
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And I find that fascinating. So this documentary, The Eastman Dilemma, Lawfare or Justice, is going to be screened tomorrow in Mar-a-Lago. So how did this happen? Tell us about this new documentary.
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Well, you know, there was a film producer in Colorado who said, we need to tell your story, but I don't have any money. And then a Hollywood group that raises money for conservative films because Hollywood won't do them themselves approached me and said, we'd like to do a film, but we've got money, but we don't have a producer. So I put the two together, and then the next thing I know, they've They've got this film coming out that tells two stories simultaneously. It tells the story of the election illegality that I witnessed and was trying to deal with in 2020 and the legal strategy that I developed and the historical foundation and support for that. But it also then tells the story of the lawfare that has resulted ever since then, not just against me, but against the president of the United States, against many of his top advisers and against many of his supporters. And that lawfare, I think, is even the more important story, because what they're trying to do is scare lawyers into taking on. causes or clients that the elite governing class of this country doesn't like. And we cannot survive as a country with a rule of law that has such a thumb on the scale where only one side is able to get representation and the other side is not because people are afraid of losing their careers, their finances, you know, threats against their families and those sorts of things. And I probably, as well as most, am in a position to fight it, and that's what we've been doing. And this documentary tells that story, and I think in a very compelling way. People should watch it. It premieres at Mar-a-Lago tomorrow, which is going to be great fun. But then it goes available on streaming at MadisonMediaFund.org beginning on Monday, January 6th. And people need to watch it. They can organize small groups and watch it in their homes. They can organize larger groups and rent out local theaters. And then I will come and the producers will come and we'll do an event out of it all over the country. We're going to spend the next three months organizing. traveling around the country playing this and talking about it to groups that are organized. So people should go to MadisonMediaFund.org and they can stream it, but then they can also contact us and say, look, we'd like to rent the local theater out and get 100 people or 200 people or whatever it is and watch this because everybody needs to see this. They need to understand what's been going on the last four years and because shining a light on it is the only way we're going to protect ourselves from it ever happening again.
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Well, it's hard to believe that this has happened in the United States of America, but it has, and that's why this documentary is so important. I was just thinking, I know different people that actually have home theaters as well, and what a great event to just get some friends together for that. So you've got me thinking, John, on how this whole thing should come down. Absolutely. Right after, this is so interesting what had happened. So January 6th, you were there, you were on the stage with Donald Trump. And that, I think, is one of the reasons why they really went after you. But then at the time, you were the professor up at CU of conservative thought and policy, so the visiting professor. And all kinds of stuff happened after that January 6th. And I considered you that you were canceled at CU. Would you say that's accurate or not?
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Oh, yeah. I think I'm the only person that was canceled from two universities within a few days. The night before my classes were to begin in the spring semester, they were canceled. And I was prohibited from coming back on campus. And I'm prohibited from using my title when I spoke publicly out in the community as my job description required that I do. And, yeah, so no question I was canceled. And then also from my main university where I was a tenured professor and former dean at Chapman University in Southern California. The faculty threw a fit. Not the law faculty. I give them credit. They did not sign on to this, but there was a petition to have me removed from my endowed professorship and terminated from my employment. So we reached a settlement, and I retired early. So, yeah, no, this is the anti-Trump, Trump derangement syndrome thing is real. People just could not tolerate being in the presence of anybody that In their mind, how could you possibly support Orange Man bad? You know, it didn't get any more sophisticated than that. And happily, the American people resoundingly rejected and repudiated that position in November. So I like to say I'm looking forward to a future unburdened by what has been in the recent past, to paraphrase our former losing candidate for president there.
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Okay, so coming in on the text line, 720-605-0647, one of our listeners, Holly, said, could Susan Kochivar do a showing of this at 88 Drive-In Theater? And we'll have to talk with her about that to see. I know that they're closed for winter right now, but that would be pretty fun to do something like that. We'll have to see if we can make something like that happen. Now, again, the Web site is Madison Media Fund dot org. And it says the Eastman dilemma, lawfare or justice. And it has where to stream. So we're certainly going to go to work on that. So, John, after this all happened, again, the world was, it was surreal. Of course, we were going through, there was COVID. There was so much going on. But you were back in Boulder. And you've got such an amazing group of the Boulder Topics and Topics girls. that support you as well, and we all do. So I said, how about if you and I do a podcast? I'll come up to Boulder with my rig. And you explained what really had happened on January 6th. And actually, previous to that, you talked about the meeting I think it was on January 4th, where it was you and Trump in the room with Mike Pence and his attorney and his chief of staff, if I remember right. And you were talking about what could be done, electoral college certification via the Constitution. Am I remembering that correctly?
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You're remembering that absolutely right. And there have been a lot of people over the months, both leading up to the election and in the month after the election saying, that it suggested Vice President Pence would simply accept Trump electors instead of Biden electors in the states that Biden had been certified. And I said, no, that would be foolish. But the Trump electors have incredible arguments on why the elections were illegally conducted. And but for that illegality, likely won. And the legislators from those states are advising Pence that their election was not properly certified. And they were asking for more time to assess the impact of that illegality. So my recommendation, my request, my petitioning of Vice President Pence as the president of the Senate was to accept those requests to delay a little bit so that the state legislatures could look at this in a way that they had been blocked from doing because their governors refused to call them into special session. That's what we asked for in that meeting on January 4th in the Oval Office. And, you know, Pence said, oh, that's very interesting. We'll take it under advisement and my team will talk with John a little bit more tomorrow. He has subsequently said he was adamant that he had no such authority. That's just a lie. He did not want to confront President Trump in person. And it was always, oh, that's interesting. And what about this? Anyway, so that was the recommendation. And in constitutional terms, it's called petitioning the government for redress of grievances. There were grievances aplenty. And, you know, the documentary goes through what those grievances were, what the illegalities were, whether eliminating signature verification or ballot harvesting in heavily Democrat parts of town with monies donated from Mark Zuckerberg that far exceeded the campaign finance limitations by just a little bit. You know, quarter, nearly half a billion dollars is a little bit more than the $3,200 campaign finance limitation. And I think... So these were the things that we were looking at, the illegalities. that intruded on the state legislator's authority, sole authority, to direct the manner of choosing presidential electors. And when non-legislative officials in the executive branch, whether secretaries of state or county clerks or even state court judges, alter the rules of the game without legislative approval, that made it unconstitutional. And that's what we were trying to address and also assess whether that unconstitutionality affected the outcome of the election, as we think it clearly did.
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It is Friday. Welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Check out our website. That is kimmunson.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at kim at kimmunson.com as well. As you all know, I really love the Center for American Values located in Pueblo. Pueblo is known as the home of heroes because there are four Medal of Honor recipients that grew up there. And the Medal of Honor is the highest military award that is awarded And it is awarded because when danger and the situation presented itself, these men took action to protect those around them. And we have now this big ideological battle that we're in. And we have to take action. And so first of all, check out the Center for American Values. That website is AmericanValueCenter.org. They are nonpartisan, nonpolitical, focusing on these foundational principles of America of honor, integrity and patriotism. But a man that has taken action, he was kind of thrown into it, is John Eastman. And tomorrow at Mar-a-Lago will be the screening of his documentary, The Eastman Dilemma, Lawfare or Justice. And one of our listeners said, how about if Susan Kochevar has the film at the 88 Drive-In Theater? And Susan said, we could probably do that in April. So we're going to go to work on that, John Eastman.
SPEAKER 03 :
That would be great fun. And give me as much advance notice as you can. I'll try and get up there. That would be great fun.
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Wouldn't that be great? That would be great. And, again, this is from hats off to John Eastman and Perspectives 101 can host us. We've got a lot coming in here on the text line 720605. Thank you, Yvonne, for that. So we will go to work. We're going to get this all organized. So the – how do you say that? It's illegal, the illegality. I can't say that word today, John. But that's one of the things focused on this, right? Okay.
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You mentioned Mark Zuckerberg, and I have really researched this. Colorado seems to be kind of at a tip of the spear on a lot of this stuff, because the Center for Tech and Civic Life is an Obama group, people that supported Obama, and they started this, and this is the nonprofit that received the over... Four hundred and seventy million dollars from Mark Zuckerberg to help with elections in some of the key areas. And interestingly enough, Pam Anderson, who ran for secretary of state on the Republican side here in Colorado in that election, is on that board. So there's a lot of really weird stuff going on, John Eastman.
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Well, you know, we often think of this as a two-party country with Republicans versus Democrats. What we really have is a uniparty that is Democrats and the establishment wing of the Republican Party and the outsider party. They make America first great movement, the populist uprising, the Tea Party movement, those things, that people that are tired of our elected officials running us into bankruptcy. I mean, right now our national debt is $36 trillion. Nobody even knows what that number means. So if you break it down per person, that's $100,000 of debt for every single man, woman, and child and baby in the country. My three-month-old grandson is born into $100,000 share of that debt. And this is insane. And instead of tackling the problem, they just keep doubling down on it. You know, in COVID, they spent massive amounts of money. I won't get into whether I thought that was appropriate or not. But that set the new baseline. They didn't roll it back after the COVID emergency ended. They just took that as a new baseline and are funding, you know, at those levels now. for nonsensical stuff. And we've got to get a handle on this. So the Uniparty has been handed a resounding defeat in November. And then the question is, will the people that work for the elected officials that were brought in to change this actually take orders and do what they're supposed to do, or will they become obstructionists and try and block what the American people directed their government to do? And I think that remains an open question, that deep state, that uniparty, that unelected and permanent bureaucracy is extremely powerful. And we'll see whether the election momentum is enough to tackle it.
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Well, and the other thing I was concerned about, though, is many of the down-ballot races. I think it was such a resounding victory for Donald Trump. But I'm concerned about the down-ballot races. And, John, you and I haven't talked about this, but back in the summer, just looking at things happening in Colorado, I thought we need to do something about this. So I created the Colorado 2024 Election Project and raised money for two different lawsuits together. that we have out there regarding one was with united sovereign americans and their legal team that and both these are out there in in the legal ping pong back and forth that colorado is not meeting the minimum standards as set forth for our elections by congress and so that lawsuit's been filed there was one that was filed in nine different states And because we raised the money here in Colorado, they added us in to the battleground states. And then the other is through the Wisconsin Center for Election Justice, that basically our voter rolls are not clean. And we raised the money for that. So we're working and we're going to work on, I think, a couple of new things here in 2025. But I think Colorado is really a place that we really need to take a look at these elections, John.
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I do, too. And there's another aspect of this that the Uniparty has backed. in order to block out from election principled conservative, constitutional conservatives. And that's the open primary movement that lets independent voters weigh in in Republican primaries primarily to elect the more moderate people that are going to support the status quo and the uniparty. And we've got a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the open primary right now. And it needs funding as well because it's, you know, Colorado's campaign finance rules are very stringent and it's hard to raise money through the party for that. But it's the Colorado Republican Party versus Griswold. And people can donate to that to the Claremont Institute because they've deemed that this freedom of speech and association issue is within their mission. And they're supporting the litigation. So people can go to Claremont.org. litigation.claremont.org. I think it's the site directly and, and support that effort as well, because that's important. If you want, if you want freedom caucus type people elected to your state legislatures or to the Congress and you can't get them through a primary because independent or, you know, crossover Democrats who register temporarily as independent to skew the election results in favor of, of, you know, pro-big government Republicans, then we're never going to win this battle long term.
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Well, and so we are in this battle of ideas. It's exciting, and it's a big battle. And, John Eastman, you are on the forefront. And I take such just hope from your attitude of taking this all on. We've got two minutes left. And, again, what do you want people to know? And that is MediaMatters.org, right?
SPEAKER 03 :
MadisonMediaFund.org is where they can stream it beginning January 6th. If they want to keep up with what we're dealing with on the law fair, they can visit my Legal Defense Fund website, givesendgo.com. They can donate to help. They can send prayers. But as importantly, they can read the updates there. I encourage people in this first week of our new year to dig back down into update number 43 and read the wonderful article my children wrote today. when the bar decision came down last Easter time. It'll bring tears to your eyes, and you'll see how committed my family is to seeing this fight through.
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You have an amazing family. And again, I want to get that right. It's madisonmediafund.org. And John, we're going to have you on next week again with an update after everything has been released. We'll go to work here in Colorado for screenings on this. This is so exciting. And I thank you for breaking this. I know you've done some other media on this as well, but I'm so excited to have you on The Kim Munson Show regarding this.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, it's so nice to be back on your show. I love doing your show every time we do it and look forward to seeing you next time I'm in Colorado. And happy new year to your whole audience. And I hope it's a prosperous and very healthy new year and that we've seen the tide turn and we're getting our country back on track.
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Well, and John, I really think that we are in the third founding of our country. And it's exciting to be in this battle of ideas. And so many people are stepping forward. But you really are at the forefront. And again, this came in on the text line. Hats off to John Eastman. Courage, tenacity, fight the good fight. And thank you. So, John Eastman, thank you. Good luck on the screening tomorrow. And we will talk to you next week. And again, let me get this right. MadisonMediaFund.org. You can watch the trailer there and then it has where you can stream it as well. So we'll talk next week, John Eastman.
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All right. Thank you, Ken. Take care.
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And our quote for the end of the show is Elie Wiesel says this. The opposite of love is not hate. It's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness. It's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy. It's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death. It's indifference. So 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 our number two of the Kim Munson Show.
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If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. Socialism is not about free stuff. And remember, government cannot give to someone what they've not first taken away from someone else. And the key then is the word is force. And so ultimately socialism comes down to force. And that's why it has failed every time it has been tried. On the show, we focus on the issues and we'll talk about the people pushing those issues, but really try to stay out of the personalities. And of course, John Eastman in the first hour mentioned the Uniparty. And they really are, they work to, and they're really trying to keep, they're working to try to divide everyday people that are stepping forward that care about this country. And we need to make sure that we stay disciplined and stay focused on what we need to do to reclaim our state and our country. And so that's why we're focusing on the issues and talk about the people pushing them, but trying to stay out of all the personality stuff that is happening. Let's see here. Our word of the day. is polymath. And I chose this because I talked about Benjamin Franklin. He was one of our quotes of the day earlier this week. And polymath is spelled P-O-L-Y-M-A-T-H. And first definition is a person of great or varied learning. Or number two, a person with extraordinary broad and comprehensive knowledge. And so certainly Benjamin Franklin was a polymath of his era. and trying to think of who might be a polymath of our era. I mentioned in the first hour Victor Davis Hanson, of course, Jordan Peterson, maybe even Joe Rogan. He has so many different guests that he's become an expert, or maybe not an expert, but has broad learning. And so your challenge today is to use the word polymath in a sentence and impress your friends and family. Thank you. Our quote of the day is Eli, I should know that, Eli Wiesel. And he was born in 1928, died in 2016, Romanian-born, American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books. One of the most famous was Night, which is a book that was based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps in He said this, there may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. And again, I took that quote. I was looking for justice quotes because of our guest, John Eastman, in the first hour and hearing from many of you. saying that take great heart from how positive he is to be in this battle. And really excited about his documentary that is going to be screened at Mar-a-Lago tomorrow. And he actually invited me down if I wanted to go to the screening, which I would have loved to have gone. But just we have so much going on. Time, money, energy decided not to do that. But that's going to be screened tomorrow at Mar-a-Lago and then released on Monday. And then we are going to go to work to get some screenings here in Colorado. I think Susan Kochavar is already working on that as well. So that is very, very exciting. So let's see. Several things I wanted to... Just get into this was earlier when we were talking about our kids' educations and this $100 million that the Biden administration has pushed out for DEI, diversity, equity, inclusion. our kids are not learning how to read and write they're mixing their minds up it's this whole boy can be girl girl can be boy that's not possible it's against nature's law but holly said this if kids are not learning cursive writing how are they going to be able to read the declaration of independence and the constitution she has an excellent point And that is why I really think that paper is important. Books, actual books are important because things can be changed on the Internet. And so if you're only getting reading your books and getting your information on the Internet, you can see how they could make changes to the Declaration of Independence. if you don't have a hard copy, but also if kids can't read it, they don't know it. And, uh, and again, cursive, just the hand eye coordination, just the development of the brain and learning how to do that, uh, dumbing our children down and using all this money to do so is unconscionable. We've got to get this turned around. So, uh, several things, um, Says again, John Eastman is so upbeat. You could hear it in his voice. He's been remarkably stalwart through this last several years. Totally agree on that. Oh, I love this. And this is Colonel Rutledge is going to be our next guest. He's 96 years young. And Jenny said Colonel Rutledge is a polymath. And I think she's absolutely right. correct on that. So let's see. There were a few other things that I wanted to hit because we're not going to be able to do call-ins today because we are talking about having different guests regarding this vacancy committee that is meeting in Douglas County tomorrow for a to fill the vacancy of Kevin Van Winkle was elected as Douglas County Commissioner creating a vacancy in his Colorado State Senate seat. So we'll talk with Priscilla Ronn A little bit later today, we talked with Kim Ransom, who is sitting for that vacancy committee, as well as John Carson yesterday as well. And so there was a couple of things I wanted to mention yesterday. from our text line and I thought I had this right here at my fingertips and I don't so with that though let's continue on to just talk about how important Colorado is right now these two lawsuits that we that we have filed and it's because all of you has stepped forward to raise money for that those are in the legal ping-pong back and forth but they are there which is so important And I've got two things that I think we're going to work on here in 2025. So stay tuned on all that. This happens because of our sponsors. And I thank the Harris family for their goal sponsorship of the show. They've been great sponsors of the show. We are starting our seventh year of solo broadcasting. And it is because of all of you that we are making all of this happen. And, Joe, I did, as I'm looking at all this, I did give all of these. I want to make sure. Okay, I want to make sure I'm going to say this one more time. The quote of the day is from Elie Wiesel. He said, there may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. And that protest may just be in a conversation saying, you know what, I see that differently. We have had many of our family members, colleagues, that if they only watch the mainstream media, all they know is this whole Trump hatred. And I can't believe the number of people that I have have heard of. And I had a personal experience. Nice people, well-meaning people, but totally indoctrinated that say, I hate Donald Trump. And I first of all, I can't believe that there's any room in their hearts for hate. But that's been fomented by the mainstream media, although I think all of that is changing. We talked about it earlier in this week that two of the hosts on I think it's MSNBC read and rule are being asked to take pay cuts because their viewership is going down. So. Right after 2020, January 6, COVID, all that going on, we didn't really understand what was happening. But the beauty of all of this is patriots have stood forward to search for truth and have continued to shed light on truth. George Washington said truth will prevail if there are pains taken to bring it forward. I'm paraphrasing. And that is what we're doing. And it's encouraging. So we're in this big battle of ideas. Colorado's at the tip of the spear. We're all engaging in this. And I so appreciate each and every one of you on doing so. Now, I talk a lot about the USMC Memorial Foundation. And the Marines have so many different battles that they have fought throughout our wars and conflicts. And, of course, during World War II, the Pacific, taking those islands was so important. But Vietnam, we are having more and more guests that are writing books. We're learning more and more about Vietnam. And it's important because our Vietnam veterans were not really welcomed home. 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It is Friday. Welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMunson.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice. 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 force people to do it. Before we get to Colonel Rutledge, who is our featured guest in hour number two, two things. One of our listeners was asking about the two lawsuits that we raise the money for that is in the legal system right now. Can they overturn the Any local Colorado elections? I don't know the answer to that yet. We'll see how this all plays out. Very good question. And then from Holly, she said, Elie Wiesel also wrote Man's Search for Meaning, which is an important book for framing life differently when we're going through a very difficult period. And thank you, Holly, for saying that. In our education system, we need to be reading these books and learning about this, teaching our kids how important it is about resiliency. We go through adversity, and we need to be able to go through that and be resilient. And so thank you for that as well. So excited, though, to have our modern day polymath, as Jenny says, Colonel Bill Rutledge, retired United States Air Force. And he is 96 years young and he just has this curiosity about people and life and and places. And we're so honored that he shares so much of his knowledge with us. Colonel Rutledge, welcome.
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Good morning, Kim.
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And after we had had a discussion on the show, I think early December, regarding budgeting and the federal government, well, all governments, budgeting and this, if you don't use it, you lose it, which has led to spending on things that make no sense. And we now are in significant debt as a nation. And you said, you know what, Kim, I was in that whole budgeting arena for many years, would be happy to talk about it. So, Colonel Rutledge, tell us a little bit about this.
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Well, first of all, I hadn't had to do any budgeting until I got called into the Air Force. And at that time, I was 25, I was married, we had a child, and I was given a job, and The job had to do with monies that were appropriated by the federal government and some that were not. We had a board meeting with the general who was a commander, and I was representing my department. And he was talking about the general budget for the air base. And then he turned to me and asked me about the budget for my department. Well, no one had given me a budget, no one had briefed me on it, and I didn't have a budget. And so he said, Lieutenant, at the next meeting you will have a budget, and you will bring it, and we will discuss what's going to be happening in your department and what can be afforded. So this was really an introduction right out of the cold. And what's so amazing is that I'd gone to graduate school because I needed more courses in business, and I took a broad curriculum, but I did not have a course in budget and finance. So I was not prepared, so I was starting right from the bottom. And that was my introduction, and I started learning from others. And one thing became apparent is that If you don't have any money, you don't have to worry about a budget, and that's what it was like in my own life. But when I was given a responsibility for a lot of people, a lot of facilities that had to be operated, then I needed money to do it. And one of the big shocks came within the same month that I was told by the general to start doing a budget. I received a call, and I was told that we had about 30 days more in the fiscal year, which, as you know, doesn't coincide with the calendar year. In those days, it would be 1st of September, and then it was in 1st of October and some other times. In other places, it's 1 July, like it was at Colorado State University for many years. So they told me that, well, because we're nearing the end of the budget year, we have to spend all of this money. And I said, well, why do I need to do that? And he said, well, if we don't spend the money, then the government won't give us as much money next year because they would say you didn't need it. So within the next 30 days, I want you to, you meaning me, I want you to obligate several thousand dollars within your work department." So I immediately had to go and make contact with the people that I supervised and find out what their needs might be so that I could spend the money even though we may or may not need something right now. And this is a technique that is it's everywhere within the governmental structures, especially in the federal government. But I feel it is also true in most levels of government, federal, state, county, city, even in the school districts. And it's crazy because if you did it in the business world, you could go broke fast because you have to have a plan. And it's based upon the needs to support the program that you have decided to do or the business that you're going to operate. And you have to know, first of all, how much money is coming in so that you can make an obligation by preparing your expense budget based upon your essential needs. I refer to this as a line item budget. It's not like the federal budget. The federal budget isn't crazy. They just do what they call continued resolutions in which they just continue what you had for last year and then often say, but well, we'll give you 5% for inflation. Things like this are just bizarre because last year the budget may not have been good. The federal government is built too much on pork barrel. Pork barrel, of course, is where members of Congress, especially members of the House who are going to be reelected or maybe not within two years, whether they're trying to provide some service or some construction or some project that's going to enhance their district. And then they're going to fall back and show and appeal to their voters to say, see what I did for you? It's very important that you elect me again, and I will continue to meet your needs. Well, some of those needs are bizarre. And it's just a continuation of poor management. That's what it really comes down to. And it just, it varies from place to place. And I've worked in situations where I would do my budget for my department, and I could come in within 1% at the end of the fiscal year. On other occasions, I've had budget situations where I was forced to so-called get well because other people had spent way too much money, and then I was consulted and told, you have six months to get well. They were talking about financial aid. One situation when I was stationed in Japan, I came back to the States on leave, and while I was gone, only a month, I went back and I found out that the preceding month that many of the clubs, officers clubs, NCO clubs, other facilities like this, had lost $500,000 collectively that one month. And the reason they did it is because one of the generals had refused to recognize that we were losing the principal source of our income, which were slot machines. And someone had made a mandate in Congress that they were all to be taken out of everywhere in the Pacific, And this was during the war in Vietnam. And that money was essential to support the various clubs and to provide entertainment and help maintain the facilities and pay the salaries of the people there. But it was someone from Congress who'd gone out and visited in Vietnam, and he was a gambler, and he lost a lot of money. So he went back, and when he went to Congress, He said, the reason I lost all that money was all those machines and things and taking money from the soldiers. And this is not right. We must eliminate those gambling devices. So they did. And when they eliminated it, it just hurt everybody at the working level because that was a part of the budget process. It was the biggest single source of income. And when your income goes down, everything else is going to go down. You're going to have to cut people. You're going to cut programs. And one of the first things we had to do, we had to cut contracts for people who were coming from America to the war zone to entertain the troops. Those contracts sometimes were many thousands of dollars, but they had to be cut off just immediately. So there's all sorts of correlation between your income and your expense. But basically the key is the objective should be that you prepare a budget and you have it approved before a fiscal year starts. Your budget should be balanced, which means it's going to show your income and your expenses, and they're going to be hopefully the same.
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indeed it is friday and welcome back to the kim munson show be sure and check out our website that is kim munson monson.com sign up for our weekly email newsletter and you can email me at kim kimmunson.com as well and thank you to all of you who support us we're an independent voice 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 force people to do it And the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance Team is a great sponsor of the show. And you may be able to save money if you bundle all of your insurance coverage together. You won't know unless you make a complimentary appointment with the Roger Mangan Insurance Team. That number is 303-795-8855. Talking with our modern-day polymath, and that is Colonel Bill Rutledge. He is 96 years young, retired United States Air Force officer. Colonel Rutledge, this came in from Mark, one of our listeners, and he said this use it or lose it target for Doge, this Department of Government Efficiency of which Donald Trump has put Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy in charge of. What's your thoughts about Doge?
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Well, I think, first of all, that they are going to do a great service. When they made a comment to the effect that they could save between $1 and $2 billion off of the coming fiscal year. I believe them absolutely, and they have several techniques. And one, which is going to happen in the Washington, D.C. area, is making people go back to work. And people, when they have to go back to their office, they're going to find a drastic change from when we had shutdowns two years ago, almost three, and they were permitted to work at home. Well, we don't know whether they're working at home. We don't know what they're doing. Some will be when they'll just refuse to go back. And therefore, that will be an obvious reduction in force. But there's also the option of doing a reduction in force by changing the mission of their department and that is something that can be done and I think it will be. My experience was that I worked all around the world within the Air Force system but then I also worked at Colorado State University and I found that in a large organization there is some flexibility. It's like this year for example when we had these terrible storms in the southeast, and especially the western part of North Carolina, the Homeland Security people had a big, massive, huge budget. But when it came to providing money for FEMA for the emergencies, they had diverted money that originally had been justified on the basis of FEMA's service to the public, and diverted it to use, and to the tune of millions and millions of dollars for illegal aliens who would come across the border. So that's a classic example of how not to divert your money within a large department. Now, at Colorado State University, I had an experience. It was very positive. We would do a budget, and when I prepared the budget for the athletic department, where I worked for seven, no, nine years, I always insisted upon doing a lion-eye budget, which means I had to know exactly what all the salaries are going to be, exactly where the income was coming from, from various athletic events, from contracts with different universities. And it had to work. It had to balance. Well, on some occasions, it was necessary to have what was called a reduction in force, which means you had to... reduce your expenses on salaries, which meant some positions had to be eliminated. Now, because of civil service, the person doesn't necessarily lose an occupation. I mean, because of seniority, they could be transferred somewhere else. But one of the first things I did when I got there was, first of all, I found out there was no budget, and I reported on the first day of the fiscal year, 1 July. And I said, I'd like to see the budget for this coming year. And they said, well, we don't have the budget. And I said, well, how do you obligate money? And they said, well, we just have an understanding. And I said, well, when do you finally come to the conclusion of what the budget is to be? And they said, well, usually in October. So that was an eye-opener to me. It was a new environment. It was completely different from the federal system now but it was still a large system. I learned very quickly, though, that there were some ways to get around things like that which had not been properly prepared, and that is by working with the vice president for finance for the university. Now, he had the prerogative of moving money from one department to another department based upon the monies that were needed or use that year. Now, for example, there might be some academic department at CSU that say had budgeted $5 million. And it turned out when we got close to the closeout at the end of June, the following year, um, they'd only use four, 4 million of these dollars and, uh, So consequently, there was a million dollars there that could be diverted and used other places around the campus. So there were a number of times when you would have a contract with someone and they didn't come forward with it in a timely manner or there could be emergency things which arise. So you have to have some flexibility in there like a contingency fund should be built into your budget. So nevertheless, I would consult with the university budget manager and he would let me know if there were funds available that could be diverted if needed. Now, conversely, if we had gotten more money, let's say if we had a contract with a university in football and they said, okay, we're going to pay you 50% of the gate. Well, that might be that that was a lot more money coming in than we had anticipated. Therefore, we were in good position so that the manager for the university could divert some money from our department over to another department. So this is some of the flexibility that's built in to some of the structures and budgeting. But In all cases, as far as I'm concerned, there must be line item budgets, which means you must justify every bit of the money you're going to use. You talk about the expenses for salaries above all, the benefits, the travel costs, costs for expansion of their program or their funds. Everything that they feel is necessary must be presented. Then if you're acting as a budget officer, you have to challenge that and be sure that it is essential to the operation of your program. And so it's an ongoing thing. Budgets are plans that hardly ever work out exactly like you plan them. But you have to do the best you can to try to keep it in the black. which means you've got more money than you have expenses. But when you get into the red, the trouble gets bad because that means you're short on money.
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Well, and this came in on the text line. When you mentioned Doge, actually, I think you said $2 billion, but they think they might be able to save $2 trillion, which would be significant.
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I wouldn't doubt it. I wouldn't doubt it at all. Well, there are several ways. One thing I think that they need to, first of all, look at eliminating some of the government departments and agencies. I think they also need to relocate. And by relocating out of the District of Columbia, they will have the opportunity to shape what they need as far as mission and by moving some of the departments closer. The best example that always comes to mind to me is is the Department of the Interior. Department of the Interior absolutely should be somewhere in the Mountain States because almost all of the territory, which we're talking really about government lands, that are supervised by the Department of the Interior are in the Rocky Mountain area and out to the west coast. So the idea of getting out of Washington That action alone will eliminate a lot of positions. Plus, the good part is as it comes, let's say if it came to Denver or Cheyenne or maybe Salt Lake City, it will bring with it an income source for a lot of job opportunities here because some of the people working back in Washington will quit because of family reasons or others because they don't want to move. sometimes they can't move. Or maybe there's a husband and wife and they're both working, so the department that moves out here may be where the husband works. Well, the wife has another good job in the D.C. area and says, we're going to stay here. So that right away, you start by movement alone. You give yourself greater flexibility in your working force. And the workforce is usually one of your largest expenses. But for sure, relocating those would be good. Now, there are those who claim, oh, you can't do that. You have to have them in proximity to the federal government in Washington. That's not true. In my experience in the Air Force, the Department for Personnel, which handles all assignments, it is the master planner for where all the soldiers and sailors and airmen but especially the airmen in this case, go. It was in the Pentagon. It was too crowded. They moved it from the Pentagon to San Antonio, Texas, put it on a military base, Randolph Air Force Base, because they had ample space there. They moved that over 50 years ago. It works great. It's super. And it moved thousands of of families, jobs, and positions out of the D.C. area to San Antonio area. And there are many opportunities to do that all over the country. Plus, too many of the departments have just deviated from what their basic mission is. And in so doing, they've perpetuated this problem and then they just keep growing and expanding. which is not necessary. So the idea of Elon looking at these things and making significant cuts, I think it's marvelous. Okay. Especially from the business standpoint.
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Well, and yeah, because this is not sustainable. When we talk about sustainability, this is the spending is not sustainable. A couple of text messages and then we'll wrap this up. Dave said that he was told to spend all of his remaining funds to use it or lose it next year on furniture and decor. That was when he was based in Sicily. and it says the air base was scheduled to close the following year. So really, buy all this furniture and decor, and they're going to close the air base? That makes no sense. And then this is from another listener who said, excess money could be diverted to an emergency fund instead of being spent for... Fire in Colorado, for example. We should not be dependent on FEMA. So, again, great comments there. One of our listeners said that you are one of our modern-day polymaths, Colonel Rutledge, and I have to agree. How would you like to button this up?
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Well, first of all, I fully support the whole concept of having Musk and his associates involved. being an outside agency. They're not employees of the government. They're people who have been highly successful in their own light. But they can take an independent view on where cuts can be made, where all sorts of adjustments can be done, where positions that are not needed can be reduced and eliminated. I think it's the first good, sound budgetary action that I've heard in a long time.
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Well, that is very exciting. Colonel Rutledge, thank you so much. And we've done some great interviews. And we're going to rebroadcast on America's Veterans Stories this Sunday, the interview that we did last year regarding the Battle of New Orleans. You said, Kim, this is so important. Let's just let's rebroadcast that. So that's going to happen this Sunday. Gosh, now 3 to 4 p.m., I think.
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Okay, remember the coincidence of what's been going on in New Orleans this past week and how it seems to be timely, at least for the name, identity of New Orleans.
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Yes. I so appreciate you sharing your experiences and all of your knowledge with us, Colonel Rutledge, and we will talk again soon. Thank you again. That's Colonel Bill Rutledge, retired United States Air Force. Thank you.
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Thank you, Jane.
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Indeed, it is Friday. Welcome back to the Kim Munson Show. Check out our website. That is Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at Kim Munson dot com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity 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 check out the Center for American Values, which is located in Pueblo, Colorado. They are doing amazing work honoring our Medal of Honor recipients and also putting together great educational programs for our kids, K through 12, with just great civics education and continuing to reclaim these principles of honor, integrity, and patriotism. Check out their website. That is AmericanValueCenter.org. And tomorrow, Saturday, there will be a vacancy committee that will convene in Douglas County to fill the vacancy that was created when Senator Kevin Van Winkle vacated that seat because he is a new county commissioner. And one of the people that will be sitting for that vacancy committee is Priscilla Rahn. And we have her on the line. Priscilla, welcome to the show. Good morning, Kim. Happy New Year. Well, Happy New Year. And tomorrow, this vacancy committee will convene regarding Senate District 30 seats. So tell us a little bit about why you have decided to sit for this vacancy committee that will select the next senator for Senate District 30.
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Well, I love engaging in the community. I love Douglas County. I'm so activated because the more I talk to people, the more I have hope and want to be an agent of change in our state and move us back to red because we have so many folks who are feeling the pressure of taxes, not being able to afford groceries. They don't feel safe in the communities. They're seeing the influx of illegal immigrants coming in and taking over apartment complexes in Aurora. People just aren't happy with the forces that have come upon us during COVID. Folks are not happy with the changes in our Constitution most recently, the abortion codification in our Constitution. There are just so many things that people are not happy about in our states. And I've watched the numbers decline. We all have. We've watched our numbers down at the House and the Senate decline. And we need to be able to start doing things differently. So we are at a pivotal point right now. We have our preferred president, President Trump, who's going to be sworn in shortly. I'm so hopeful that this is an opportunity for all of us to learn from the things that he did, what he said, how he campaigned, and start making those same types of changes in Colorado.
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Well, and I think, Priscilla, Colorado is at the tip of the spear of so many things that are going on. And so it is important that we work to hold the line and that we need to start to reclaim ground in this battle of ideas that is occurring in our country and particularly here in Colorado, Priscilla.
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I agree 100%. You know, it's going to take more than just going down to the Capitol with this sentiment of, well, we're in the minority because, you know, with 12 votes, you can't get anything passed. You need 18 votes to get something passed through the floor. So that requires someone to go down there and get at least six Democrats to vote for your bill. And that takes a lot of persuasion. So we need someone with fresh energy, someone who wants to be down at the Capitol, who'll go down there and filibuster at the well till midnight, one o'clock in the morning, if necessary. But not only that, help fundraise for the caucus and support other Republican candidates to get elected and be out in the community and increase the groundswell. Because we've seen what happens when we have citizens initiatives take place and we get signatures on ballots. We start to get things done. I think that's a critical combination of what we need going forward.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, and what about repealing? In fact, I think I've heard that there may be some bills to repeal some things. I don't know that we need any new laws in Colorado. If you were going to repeal something, what would be one of the first things that you'd start with?
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Well, I think you need to go look through – there's an audit committee and sit down and see what are some of the draconian laws because you're 100 percent right. We don't need 700 new bills. I don't think as a Republican that's an impressive campaign strategy. I'm going to go down and pass more laws. But we can look at some things that are outdated in the rules that are costing money because – The Democrats keep saying, we don't have any money. Well, first of all, it's not their money. It's our money. But there's plenty of money. They've just decided already how they're going to use it. And so if I'm going to present a new bill idea with a fiscal note, that's going to be really, really challenging. So my goal is to go down there and work with the caucus to see what types of bills we can impact and eliminate from the books. I'm excited to do that sort of research. And then also be prepared for any type of educational changes that could be coming our way when President Trump is successful in eliminating the Federal Department of Education. There are three teachers in the Senate who are Democrat. We don't have any teachers in the Republican Senate. And I think we have an opportunity here to have a voice in the education space.
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Well, I think education is so important. We've got a couple of minutes left. And that is your profession, Priscilla Rahn. And we've talked a lot about what's happening in our education system. Kids are not being able to read and write and do arithmetic. And I think a lot of people don't know that. So will that be one of your focuses?
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Well, specifically one of my focuses is to have a better assessment system to know where our students are in Colorado because we're not competitive globally or nationally for that matter. And so if we're going to really, truly prepare kids for college and career, then we need to know where they are. And the current assessment system isn't doing a great job of just giving us that basic information. In addition, I want to make sure parents know what's going on with their kids at school. I want to make it easier for charters to have their applications approved. There's just a lot of bureaucracy right now in that process. And just give power back to parents and make sure that kids have choice.
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Okay. And so this is occurring tomorrow, right? Saturday the 4th. What time and where?
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It's credentialing starts at noon, the meeting starts at 1, and it's at South Ridge Rec Center in Highlands Ranch.
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And the public is welcome to attend?
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Yeah, I think visitors and guests can be there.
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And media needs to get credentialing, though. Okay. Well, Priscilla, Ron, thank you so much for joining us. I wish you all kinds of luck tomorrow. Thank you so much, Kim. Have a great day. Okay, you too. And our quote for the end of the show, I went to Elie Wiesel, and he said this, the opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference. And Holly had said that his book, Man's Search for Meaning, was about his time in the concentration camps during the Holocaust. So we can take great heart from his wisdom. So, 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, and God bless America.
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In a politically charged segment, we scrutinize Joe Biden's recent action of awarding a medal to a controversial figure, raising questions about political motivation and legacy restoration. Furthermore, we delve into the Mexican government's new app designed to aid illegal immigrants amidst Trump's expected policies. As we wrap up, we pay homage to the enduring influence of AM radio, a medium that has brought communities together through shared experiences and historic moments.
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Welcome to the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast. It's Friday, January 3rd, 2025. I'm Eric Hansen. This week, we ring in the new year with a fight in Congress, the passing of a president and a ridiculous reward. But we begin with a terrible terror attack in New Orleans.
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Here we go, back to work, rolling up our sleeves, because we've got a lot ahead of us. 2025 is going to be a big, big year. There's an expression they use on social media a lot that I see. You don't hate the media, the mainstream media, enough. You don't despise the mainstream media enough. And when I see the cover of today's Washington Post, this is the Bible for the left, You know, the New York Times, the Washington Post, they have their bellwethers. They have their go-to publications. And the Washington Post is one of them. Now, you want to know what it says on the cover, but the big headline is about the New Orleans terror attack that killed at least 15, dozens more injured. If you've seen the surveillance video of the vehicle... plowing down Bourbon Street. It's horrifying. Bodies being scattered like, you know, bowling pins. The monster was evidently a veteran. Clearly radicalized. The guy that blew himself up outside Trump Tower in Las Vegas was also an Army vet. This guy was described as a A Master Sergeant Green Beret. So I guess he was radicalized too. Here's the cover of the Washington Post. I kid you not. Truck rams New Orleans crowd. That's the headline. Truck rams New Orleans crowd. The truck did it. It wasn't the terrorist. It was the truck. It's what leftists do with guns. They like to use the phrase gun violence. What the heck is gun violence? Well, the guns do it. It's a gun's fault. So it stands to reason that if a terrorist gets behind the wheel of a car and plows into a crowd of people killing at least 15, the truck did it. It's not the guy driving the car. That is the honest-to-goodness headline statement. Above the fold, Washington Post, truck rams New Orleans crowd. Now, I promise you that's not an accident. I guarantee you that is not a mistake. That's not something that they accident. You know that they're sitting there saying, well, we're going to get some pushback for this. Because, you know, it looks kind of stupid to say the truck rams the crowd. But this is the way the left sees the world. They blame inanimate objects for evil acts. It's not the fault of the person pulling the trigger.
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It's the gun. President Jimmy Carter passed away over the weekend at 100 years old. Guest host Joey Hudson remembers the man from Plains, Georgia.
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Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, passed away at his home in Plains, Georgia yesterday. At the age of 100, Carter was the longest living U.S. president in history. The thing to remember about Jimmy Carter, and I've got to be honest... I don't think of him necessarily as a great president, but I think of him as a great man, as a Christian man, as a man of faith, as a man who loved to serve others. He probably accomplished more when he left the Oval Office than while serving as president, as he was a very active person. with various charities. Of course, he started the Carter Center upon leaving the White House and was able to accomplish a lot. Jimmy Carter was not one of those presidents who just shied away from doing service, from helping others after he left the presidency. He didn't sit back and just write books and build his library. He actually did things to help people, and I really believe that will be his legacy. He'll be remembered as just a good, decent person who maybe got in over his head a little as president. If you lived during those times, you remember a lot of similarities of what we have been going through. High inflation, interest rates were in the double digits. People today, I tell younger people that interest rates reached 16%, 17%, 18%. Imagine paying that on a mortgage today. People just don't believe me unless you were there. People don't believe the fuel shortages where you sat in line for literally hours for gasoline that was at record highs for that time. Jimmy Carter. loved people, though. He loved serving. He taught his Bible study in his Sunday school at his Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains up until his 90s. And again, he loved Habitat for Humanity. Don't know how many homes he helped build, but a lot. And he wasn't there just greeting people. He was there with his tool belt on, his hammer in hand, and actually doing some of the work. So I think that's And, of course, he was a Nobel Peace winner in 2002. He won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work between Egypt and Israel, bringing peace. There's a lot of good things that you can say about Jimmy Carter in addition to the fact that he was just a good, decent person. Joe Biden and many others yesterday were responding to Carter's death. Carter, of course, has not been in good health for some time now. Joe Biden talked about Carter. He said, with his compassion and moral clarity, he worked to eradicate disease, forge peace, advance civil rights, human rights, promote free and fair elections, house the homeless, and always advocate for the least among us. He said he saved, lifted, and changed the lives of people all across the globe. Of course, Biden couldn't resist. Like always, he had to get a dig in on Donald Trump as he's praising Jimmy Carter. Now, I don't know what Donald Trump has to do with Jimmy Carter, but I noticed this in several different Democrats' assessments of Jimmy Carter's life. Yesterday, when praising Jimmy Carter, he also, Joe Biden, lobbed one at Donald Trump in cut number seven when asked about what Carter or what Trump could learn from Carter.
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Thank you.
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Decency. Decency. Decency. Everybody deserves a shot. Everybody. Can you imagine Jimmy Carter walking by someone who needs something and just keep walking? Can you imagine Jimmy Carter referring to someone by the way they look or the way they talk? I can't.
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I can't. As if Donald Trump would do those things. I have some words for you, Joe Biden. What about honesty? Honesty. Honesty. Honesty.
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As President Biden prepares to leave office this month, he's decided to bestow a medal on one American that is, well, hard to fathom.
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Look, I'm going to say two things about, or two things can be true at the same time. Number one, the Republicans ought to be unified right now. We are up against a formidable opponent. Democrats who seem to think it's okay to let millions of people stream across our border and destroy our country. We're up against a Democrat president who's about to finally be replaced, thank the Lord, who's giving an award to Liz Cheney. That's right. Joe Biden, a world-class jerk, wants to stick it to Trump on the way out by giving Liz Cheney one of the highest civilian awards you can get. What, for what? For her January 6th debacle? For getting walloped by her constituents and fired overwhelmingly because people were so disgusted with her? You give her an award for what? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. The witch hunt against Donald Trump. That's why Joe Biden is doing what he's doing. What a disgrace to give that woman an award. The Presidential Citizens Medal. What an absolute creep. And the other one, Betty Thompson. He's going to get an award. You know, Betty Thompson, the co-chair of that select witch hunt committee. That's the guy that wanted to strip Trump of his Secret Service protection in order to get Trump harmed. And you give him an award for that? Is that what you're doing, Grandpa Joe? So this is our political opponent. These are our political adversaries. This is what has to change. And it's why Trump won. It's why Trump won. So two things can be true at the same time. Number one, this is not a time for us to have these inter-intra-party battles. We don't need to have another coup of the House Speaker. I don't agree with everything that Mike Johnson's been doing. But I strongly believe that this is not the time to overturn the House leadership. We have to be unified. And there's been all this battling about Elon and Vivek and how they talked about the American work ethic isn't as strong as people from India and all. That's fine. But here's the second part that I think is true. And I feel very strongly about this. I felt the same way about Matt Gaetz leading the uprising against Kevin McCarthy. You know, I wasn't a big fan of that. But those voices need to be heard, too. The Marjorie Taylor Greene's and the Thomas Massey's and the Andy Biggs, these sharp elbowed red meat conservatives represent a voice in this country that has been ignored for far too long. Portions of our show are brought to you by MyPillow. And for a lot of people, it was a MyPillow Christmas. Now that we're in the first of the year, if things are calming down a little bit and you're ready for whatever lies ahead, go to the MyPillow site. If you haven't been there for a while, you're going to save a ton of money on the pillow that started the whole Mike Lindell empire, the MyPillow empire. And look, Mike's been through the ringer. You know what he's been up against. So support a great American company. Support a patriot like Mike Lindell. Support MyPillow. Get the pillow for as low as $14.98. The pillow that never goes flat, stays nice and cool through the night. You can throw it in the washer and the dryer as often as you want. $14.98 a pillow. Limit of $10, please. The flannel sheets are the best flannel sheets you'll ever sleep in. Up to 50% off. And it's winter and it's cold in lots of parts of the country. So go to MyPillow.com. Look for the Mike Gallagher specials. Click on that box. And then when you place your order for anything... Anything, make sure you enter the promo code MikeG so you'll save big. MyPillow.com, promo code MikeG. MyPillow.com, promo code MikeG or call 800-928-6034 if you just want a phone in your order. And thanks for continuing to support MyPillow. And I can happily report that our show outperforms just about everybody in America because you are engaged, you're informed. You're active, and you want the best night's sleep of your life. And you're going to get it from MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG, guaranteed. Promo code MikeG, MyPillow.com.
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Promo code MikeG. This is the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast. I'm Eric Hansen. As the incoming Trump administration gears up, the Mexican government published a new app to help illegals avoid deportation.
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This is from townhall.com. appears that they're trying to, the Mexican government, trying to counter President-elect Donald Trump's immigration policies before he even takes office. According to Town Hall, Mexico has launched a brand new mobile app designed to assist illegal immigrants in the U.S. The app is dubbed the Alert Button. It aims to provide immediate alerts to family members, consulates, or legal representatives when someone believes they're about to be detained by ICE. Here's how it's going to work. Users will press a tab on the app. It sends an alert to a pre-selected relative and the nearest Mexican consulate. Foreign Minister Juan Ramon Lafuente described it as a panic button, saying the app is meant to ensure Mexicans in the U.S. have rapid access to assistance. The app's just one part of Mexico's efforts to gear up what they're calling an imminent crackdown on illegal immigration and deportation. Now, last week, they announced that they were building like 25 shelters to help these people as they're sent back by Trump. The Mexican foreign ministry has bolstered its consular staff, hiring 329 additional lawyers to help Mexican nationals navigate deportation cases and ensure that, quote, their rights are respected. What rights do they have if they entered our country illegally? De La Fuente also emphasized Mexico's Know Your Rights program, which will assist individuals facing deportation scenarios. He urged Mexicans with children born in the U.S. to register them with consulates, highlighting concerns about the potential for mass deportation to separate families. I don't think there's going to be any families separated. Tom Holman has made it pretty clear. that he's not going to separate children from their families. He's going to send them all back. But this doesn't help. And I hope that Donald Trump will let the Mexican government know up front, we're not playing with this.
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According to the New York Post, President Biden told friends privately that he could have beaten Donald Trump if he hadn't dropped out of the race. Yeah, sure, Joe. Keep thinking that.
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Joe Biden. Is he just delusional, do you think? Because according to the New York Post, Biden privately is telling his friends and confidants that he regrets dropping out of the race. He literally has told several people who have, of course, anonymously said to the New York Post that he could have beaten Donald Trump. Does anyone think Joe Biden could have done better than Kamala Harris? It just wasn't in the cards. Biden and some of his friends in recent days, according to the Post and the Washington Post reported on this, too, cited multiple anonymous sources, said that instead the 82-year-old buckled up to pressure by Democrat Party elites to drop out of the race. He wishes he had stayed in the race. Of course, Vice President Kamala Harris replaced Biden. It happened very quickly. He did horribly in the one and only debate with Donald Trump, and it became very evident that he was struggling. I'd say the president has been careful not to place blame on Harris and her campaign. However, the president all but admitted during a CBS News Sunday morning interview in August that former Speaker Nancy Pelosi led the charge to remove him from the ticket. In September, he told The View that he was confident he would have defeated Trump in November. If we doubted that Joe Biden was having mental issues. This is like an old man reliving his life. This is an old man thinking of a fight he won years ago. He's living back in 2020, if you believe he received the millions of votes that he claimed he did. Joe Biden, this in itself just shows how delusional this man is. They want to point the finger at everyone but themselves. Democrats do not want to accept the responsibility that, hey, we just govern lousy. We tried to push our woke left agenda on the American people, and they pushed back in a big way. Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut told the Washington Post, Biden ran on the promise that he was going to be a transitional president and, in fact, have one term before handing it off to another generation. Blumenthal says, I think his running again broke that concept, the conceptual underpinning of the theory that he would end the Trump appeal. He would defeat Trumpism and enable a new era. He did not enable a new era, for sure.
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And finally, we are longtime believers in the power of AM radio. And CBS News had some nice words for the venerable medium as well.
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I saw a piece over the weekend on CBS by reporter Scott McFarlane. You know, there's a lot of changes coming and good things coming for our company. You may have heard the news. There's been some movement in terms of investors, and we're divesting some of our radio stations. There's going to be a big emphasis on news talk in our company for 2025 and beyond. And AM radio, of course, is the lifeblood of so many of talk shows around the country. We've become sort of ubiquitous, obviously. We're trying to be everywhere. But this report on CBS from reporter Scott McFarlane, and he is... He's terrific. He's just a great reporter. I know he covers a lot of the January 6th stuff, and he's part of the CBS team, naturally, but I just think he's a great reporter, and I've always followed him, and I've talked to him a little bit over the years, but I want you to hear and see the report that he did on AM radio and what AM radio means to communities around the country. And there's a reason for this when it comes to some legislative efforts. But here's the report from Scott McFarlane on CBS that I wanted to share with you.
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The Friday night lights are on in Frederick, Maryland. The students jammed the front rows, but Paul Dumars and Steve Nibbs took seats in the very back.
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We're about ready to start tonight's contest between the Titans and the Railroaders.
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Dumars and Nibbs are broadcasting the game countywide on AM radio station WFMD.
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Roaders will start first and 10 at their own 21-yard line.
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A fall tradition that dates back decades. And the pistol fakes it, looking to throw. You were surprised. How many people still listen to this? Yeah, I truly was. In communities nationwide, AM radio remained the voice of high school sports.
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I've had fathers that are in the service, one was stationed in North Carolina, and he said, I don't miss a game.
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These games still draw an audience and advertisements at a moment in which the competition for audiences has never been so fierce.
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Touchdown, and the Titans now have tied the game. The way our technology is these days and how people connect, this is starting to die away a little bit, and that concerns me, yeah.
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The Federal Communications Commission reports more than 4,000 AM radio stations remain nationwide. But in an indication the industry is under pressure, Congress considered legislation last year to mandate new cars continue to install AM radios as listeners shift to podcasts and streams.
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For several generations of Americans, everyone knew that you had to find your favorite station.
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Ron Simon is a historian at the Paley Center for Media in New York.
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A lot of kids don't even know how to tune a radio.
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They don't know how to identify a radio. Yes. In September, one of the largest AM radio news operations in America, WCBS 880, an Odyssey-owned station, folded its operation.
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And for the final time, this is WCBS New York.
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A shock to one of the most storied forms of mass media in U.S. history.
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This is Bob Trout speaking. Allied troops began landing on the northern coast of France this morning. Radio was launched more than 100 years ago.
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This is Edward Murrow speaking from Vienna. Cemented as a part of the fabric of America by Edward R. Murrow with CBS Radio in the first half of the 20th century.
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From the 1920s on, America participated in history through radio. In fact, the two defining crises, the Depression and World War II, were experienced by Americans through radio. The major artists, certainly of the 20th century, began on radio. The first generations of rock and roll. The last days of disco.
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The collapse of the Berlin Wall.
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We are just currently getting a look at the World Trade Center.
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Some of the first alerts about 9-11.
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We noticed flame and an awful lot of smoke from one of the towers.
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It was that local radio station in town. It brought the world to people.
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And that is so true, the ability to bring the world to people. And kudos to Scott McFarlane and CBS for doing a great job in spotlighting the need for AM radio. Sadly, the AM in Every Vehicle Act was excluded from the continuing resolution bill to fund the federal government. Let's hope they go back to work in 2025 because it needs to pass.
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And that wraps up the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast for Friday, January 3rd, 2025. I'm Eric Hansen. Be sure to subscribe to all of the podcasts and never miss a second of the shows. We'll see you back here next week on the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast.
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Amidst a backdrop of grim realities and media scrutiny, Mike Gallagher brings his characteristic optimism and critique along with tales from his travels. Hear his first-hand recounting of cultural wonders from London, from Ballet to the jaw-dropping ABBA Voyage experience that blends nostalgia with futuristic technology. As Mike paints a vivid picture of cultural shifts both abroad and at home, listeners will come away with a better understanding of the shifts in societal narratives and a glimpse at an uncertain future.
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He's the happy conservative warrior. From the Relief Factor Studios, here's Mike Geller.
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It's always good to get away, but it's even better to get back to work. the nation watched in horror as an illegal immigrant burned a woman alive on a New York City subway. And then, of course, in the last 24 hours, we saw a monster mow down a bunch of innocent people celebrating New Year's in New Orleans. We watched another monster blow up a cyber truck. outside of Trump Tower in Las Vegas, killing himself. Thankfully, nobody else killed. And President Trump took to social media today in a fiery post, ripping the United States as a disaster and a global laughingstock. in the wake of these attacks and the conditions that the country is in. You know, I've been thinking a lot about something today with all that's happening in our country right now. Can you imagine the mental state we would all be in if this was happening on the eve of a Kamala Harris inauguration? Let that sink in for just a moment. I try to be an optimist. I try to be positive. And here's a positive thought for you today. We could be getting ready for her inauguration. What do you think would be happening with terrorism and crime and illegal immigration under a Kamala Harris, Tim Walz administration? Boy, we got real lucky today. We are blessed. We're fortunate. We should be grateful that there's going to be a new sheriff in town. And the new sheriff in a truth social platform posted just moments ago, our country is a disaster, a laughingstock all over the world. The DOJ, the FBI, and the Democrat state and local prosecutors have not done their job. Well, if this is today's FBI, we understand why he said what he said. Let me give you Althea Duncan. She is described as the number two in the New Orleans FBI department. All right? The FBI office in New Orleans is evidently run, number two in charge, by a young woman named Althea Duncan. Here's what she said. Now, you've got to remember this. Everybody knew this was a terror attack. Everybody saw that the guy had an ISIS flag. If you mow down a bunch of people on Bourbon Street with an ISIS flag, you don't exactly have to be Scotland Yard to figure out that it's a terror attack. But not to today's FBI.
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We'll be taking over the investigative lead for this event. This is not a terrorist event. What it is right now is their improvised explosive devices that was found. And we are working on confirming if this is a viable device or not.
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If she was giving a class, if that was a presentation in a high school class, she'd get an F for her lousy grammar. You can't help but notice the nose ring she's got. even though the FBI prohibits nose rings. Now, later in the day, she finally took the nose ring out of her nose. I'm not kidding you. She's number two in the FBI, Althea Duncan. And I am mesmerized by the insistence of our government, at least the woke government, to refuse to concede that a terror attack is a terror attack. For the life of me, I don't get it. My friend Mark Davis says, well, it's part of the woke mind virus. I don't even understand what that means. Mark's argument is that people on the left are worried that if we call a terrorist attack a terrorist attack, people will be accused of being Islamophobic. That, to me, is a very hard case to make. So I want to start right there with that. As we kick things off here in the Relief Factor studios, big thanks to Joey Hudson, Lee Elsie, filling in for me over the holidays. And I am just raring and ready to go, and I hope you are too. I've got the batteries recharged. I had a great, great amount of time spent in reflection and relaxation, a lot of sleep. A little bit too much food, but that's why I've got Ph.D. weight loss to come to my rescue. But as I open up the phone lines at 1-800-655-MIKE, and I want you to join me, start with that question. Why would this FBI official think it would be important to say that it was not a terrorist event? Why? Why do they do this? The whole world, again, ISIS flag? But there's got to be a reason behind it. What do you think it is? Let me turn it over to the smartest audience in the world and also the most generous. I've got to give you an update on our Prison Fellowship Angel Tree campaign. Holy cow. You talk about blessing us with a Merry Christmas. And most importantly, you blessed a whole bunch of children, thousands of kids, with your donations to our Angel Tree campaign. I'll give you the total on that in a moment. But first, I want to open up our phone lines. 1-800-655-MIKE. 13 past the hour. Tell me why you think FBI official Althea Duncan found it necessary to deny that the terror attack was a terror attack. Why do they do this? It's driving me crazy, but I'll bet you've got some good answers. 1-800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. I hope you join us.
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He's the happy conservative warrior. From the Relief Factor Studios, here's Mike Dillon.
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We're in for a wild ride in 2025, and I am thrilled to be back to work after the holiday break. although I share the apprehension and the anxiety and the dread that many Americans have been experiencing over the last few weeks, maybe beginning with the woman being burned alive on a subway in New York City while everybody, including what appeared to be a police officer, walked by. This poor woman standing there on fire, apparently... ignited by an illegal immigrant, a guy who was not supposed to be in this country, which is of course the whole point behind The presence of a guy named Donald J. Trump. Welcome in. Happy New Year. I hope you had a wonderful holiday. I had a roller coaster of a ride beginning with my trip to Los Angeles to visit my friend and colleague Dennis Prager at the hospital. I had a chance to visit with Dennis, and he is just as inspiring as you would expect he would be, despite the real catastrophic nature of his injury from a fall at his home. He is in good spirits, smiling, just amazing. He's an amazing guy. And I guess I shouldn't be surprised. And I left L.A. and I went out in the morning and I flew back that day because I had to get ready to go to London for my Christmas vacation over in the U.K., which was extraordinary. I had a fantastic time. You know, I'm such a geek. I'm such a technical and entertainment geek. that despite the incredible events that I took part in, the ceremony of the keys at London Tower, that's something my Denise and I did years ago, and I got to do that again, where you watch the beef eaters hand over the keys and formally lock the Tower of London, saw the English National Ballet production of the Nutcracker, which was, all of that was nothing compared to seeing Abba Voyage. Yeah. It was the wildest thing I've ever seen. I don't want to get bogged down on it, but let me just tell you something. This industrial lights and magic company put together a production where I was convinced that the four people on the stage were the original members of ABBA from the 1970s. And it was all... A virtual avatar. None of it was live. The band was live, but they aren't live. I don't know how they did it. Because if you put me on a witness stand and I had to swear on a stack of Bibles that those were four people up there, I would have told you those were four people up there. That technology is extraordinary. And so that was my highlight, frankly, of the trip to London, even though that's not the right reasons you should be celebrating Christmas. But I did get to have a chance to recharge the batteries and refuel. I'm at a point right now where I think we need to hold on for dear life for the next 18 days. At least 15 people were killed on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. The victims are now being identified. They almost all are young people, young college kids, fresh-faced young people with their whole lives ahead of them. And some monster gets in his truck with an ISIS flag in the back and was a veteran. as was the guy that blew himself up in front of Trump Tower in Las Vegas. They both allegedly served together at Fort Bragg. There's a connection there. I don't think there's a coincidence here. There's something happening that it almost feels like the bad guys are taking one last crack at the U.S. before Trump gets inaugurated on January 20th because there's a new sheriff in town in 18 days. And he ain't putting up with any of this. He's fired up. What do you hear about his truth social post today? over the New Orleans terror attack and the Tesla Cybertruck explosion outside Trump Tower in Las Vegas. I'm just astounded at the leadership, the law enforcement leadership in New Orleans. I'm watching this press conference last night thinking this has got to be a joke. The New Orleans police chief I don't think that's her exact title. They do weird things in Louisiana. I think it's a different title. Isn't it superintendent, I think? But she's essentially the police chief of New Orleans. Her name is Ann Kirkpatrick. She's got quite the history. She apparently ran people over herself with a car. Accidentally, of course. She was fired from a job in Oakland. She sued. She got a million and a half dollars. So she's got quite the colorful story. Then she hands the press conference over to FBI Special Agent Althea Duncan. A woman, I kid you not, with a nose ring who looks all of about 21 years old. Now, maybe she's older. I'm sure she is. She's the number two in charge of the FBI office in New Orleans. You can't make this up. You can't believe this. When all hell is breaking loose and you've got to turn to law enforcement in a city like New Orleans, this is who they've got. The FBI, first the New Orleans police superintendent, and then the FBI number two in charge, Althea Duncan. This is extraordinary. Buckle up. Gird your loins.
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In order to conduct this, he was hell-bent on creating the carnage and the damage that he did. Because of the nature and the indices that we have on the scene and enough information that the FBI will be taking over this investigation. And with that, I am going to be asking, this is the assistant agent in charge, this is Agent Duncan, Special Agent Duncan, and she has taken over this case on behalf of us and the FBI. As always, we will be in partnership with all of our partners, but Agent Duncan, if you want to have a few words for everyone.
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Thank you, ma'am. Good morning. My name is Alethea Duncan. I'm the assistant special agent in charge for FBI New Orleans. As Chief Kirkpatrick said, we'll be taking over the investigative lead for this event. This is not a terrorist event. What it is right now is they're improvised explosive devices that was found, and we are working on confirming if this is a viable device or not. Wow.
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Okay, so it's not a terrorist event. It's an improvised... explosive device event, says the lady with the nose ring. I'm glad she took the nose ring out later in the day. She must only do the nose ring when she first gives a press conference initially, and then after the public gets a belly full, then she takes the nose ring out. So an FBI official with a nose ring, who you could hear grammatically can barely speak, you know, coherently, tells the media that a terrorist driving a truck with a big black ISIS flag killing at least 15 Americans is not a terrorist attack. Wow. Kash Patel, please get confirmed ASAP. Somebody sent me a text message on the MyPillow text line about the police superintendent. Grandma has no clue. The press conference is horrible, full of mixed messages, but don't worry. The FBI is now in charge. Look, I'm sure that our enemies overseas are terrified of FBI agent Nose Ring and Granny from the Beverly Hillbillies. I'm sure that they're not at all inclined to do any more attacks on American soil, knowing that's the best and the brightest. You know what President Trump had to say about it all? He's livid. He's livid. And believe me, you want some balm, some soothing oil for the soul? I'll share with you President Trump's message today. Just today on Truth Social. Welcome in. It is Thursday, January 2nd, the first episode of the Mike Gallagher Show in the Relief Factor Studios for 2025. It's going to be a big year for us, too. We've got some big things planned for you, including plunging headfirst into the digital era. Oh, yeah. We're doing TikTok. We're doing Facebook. We're all over X. We're doing Truth Social. We, of course, got the Salem News Channel where you can watch the show from the comfort of your home 24-7. And, of course, hundreds of radio stations all over the country that air our show. I'm honored and blessed and privileged to get to do this with you every single day. So welcome aboard. Don't forget the MyPillow text line, 800-655-MIKE. President Trump's response to the carnage in New Orleans and the terror in Las Vegas. And your calls at 800-655-MIKE. Coming up. There's no better time than right now to call my friends at PhD Weight Loss and Nutrition to start your journey to a healthier you. As I hear from you about how PhD Weight Loss and Nutrition has changed your life, I know that each one of us has had our own reasons for starting. I started my journey because I gained enough weight and was ready to make a change. I sat down with Dr. Ashley Lucas, and like they say, the rest was history. I lost 53 pounds, and I've kept it off. We all have different reasons for starting. Call 864-644-1900, 864-644-1900, or just go to MyPhDWeightLoss.com, MyPhDWeightLoss.com.
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He's the happy conservative warrior. From the Relief Factor Studios, here's Mike Gellerman.
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It's so great to be back to work again after a nice, long, relaxing holiday break. I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and Hanukkah and New Year's. And here we go, back to work, rolling up our sleeves because we've got a lot ahead of us. 2025 is going to be a big, big year. There's an expression they use on social media a lot. that I see, you don't hate the media, the mainstream media enough. You don't despise the mainstream media enough. And when I see the cover of today's Washington Post, this is the Bible for the left. You know, the New York Times, the Washington Post, they have their bellwethers. They have their go-to publications. And the Washington Post is one of them. Now, you want to know what it says on the cover, but the big headline is about the New Orleans terror attack that killed at least 15, dozens more injured. If you've seen the surveillance video of the vehicle plowing down Bourbon Street, it's horrifying. Bodies being scattered like bowling pins. The monster was evidently a veteran. clearly radicalized. The guy that blew himself up outside Trump Tower in Las Vegas was also an Army vet. This guy was described as a Master Sergeant Green Beret. So I guess he was radicalized too. Here's the cover of the Washington Post. I kid you not. Truck rams New Orleans crowd. That's the headline. Truck rams New Orleans crowd. The truck did it. It wasn't the terrorist. It was the truck. It's what leftists do with guns. They like to use the phrase gun violence. What the heck is gun violence? Well, the guns do it. It's the gun's fault. So it stands to reason that if a terrorist gets behind the wheel of a car and plows into a crowd of people killing at least 15, the truck did it. It's not the guy driving the car. That is the honest-to-goodness headline, above the fold, Washington Post, truck rams New Orleans crowd. Now, I promise you that's not an accident. I guarantee you that is not a mistake. That's not something that they accident. You know that they're sitting there saying, well, we're going to get some pushback for this. Because, you know, it looks kind of stupid to say the truck rams the crowd. But this is the way the left sees the world. They blame inanimate objects for evil acts. It's not the fault of the person pulling the trigger. It's the gun. Now, they don't seem to do this... If you notice, the one category that is exempt from this madness are knives. They never talk about knife violence. They only talk about gun violence. And now they're talking about truck violence. The Washington Post blames the truck for the deaths of 15 people. Meanwhile, this guy, Army veteran, sources tell... The Washington Times that the 37-year-old Colorado Springs guy rented the truck in his home state and drove to Nevada to carry out the explosion that only killed himself and injured seven bystanders. None of them expected to die from their injuries. He served, according to the Washington Times, at the same Army base as the 42-year-old Texan who killed at least 15 when he drove his truck through the New Orleans crowd early Wednesday. In case you didn't know it, the guy in New Orleans was killed in a shootout with police, and kudos to the police for proactively neutralizing the bad guy. Our number is 800-655-MIKE. We have a lot to keep up. And by the way, it was the Washington Post, just to clarify, somebody just texted, it was the Washington Times, not the Post. No, it was the Washington Post with the headline, Truck Rams New Orleans Crowd. I've got a copy of it right in front of me. It's not the Times. The Washington Times, Texas, is writing about... the revelation that it was a Master Sergeant Army veteran who blew himself up in Las Vegas. So keep up, keep up. I know we got a lot coming at you, and I sometimes stay glued to the text line. which is to my detriment. But I appreciate the MyPillow text line. And as 2025 gets underway, I want to give you a heads up that some of our goals for 2025 are all over connecting you with us and us with you. We'll be all over social media. We've finally taken the plunge into the world of TikTok. We'll have the Mike Gallagher Show TikTok account. We'll be all over Facebook and X, social media. Brace yourself. Gird your loins. And I love the text line because it does give me instant feedback even when somebody like Texas has it wrong and thinks that I was citing the wrong newspaper because I happened to be, this time at least, completely correct. So the MyPillow text line. 800-655-MIKE. Please never text and drive. Standard text messaging rates may apply. But, hey, however you get here, call or text us. It's the same number. Same way, 800-655-MIKE. And incidentally, as Katie wrote from Morton Grove, Illinois, truck, rams, crowd. Truck rams New Orleans crowd. Katie writes, this is why they lost in 2024 and will continue to lose. We've got 18 days to go before Donald Trump gets inaugurated. I hope we make it that long. I hope we can last for the next 18 days before the new sheriff comes to town. Like somebody on social media put it, daddy's coming home from work and daddy isn't happy. 800-655-MIKE. Welcome in to the first edition of the Mike Gallagher Show in 2025. Glad to have you with us.
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Oh, ho, ho, it's Mike Gallagher.
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It was magic, all right, that ABBA Voyage thing. This will be the future. You'll see that. That's going to happen in the United States, I would hope, because it's so cool. Think about all the artists who have passed who could recreate concerts. Elvis. I kept thinking there could be an Elvis Presley concert, and you'd swear Elvis is up on the stage. Or the Beatles. Luciano Pavarotti. I mean, if you held a gun to my head and said, were those four people on that stage, I'd say absolutely. And the whole thing was done like virtually. It was all like they were all, I don't know, AI. We're in big trouble. We're in big, big trouble. Twelve minutes before the hour. Got a lot to digest. The governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, is saying we cannot live in fear. You know, it's an interesting idea that we let terrorists change our lives. They moved the entire Sugar Bowl from yesterday to today. I guess they just wanted to make sure there wasn't any more, there wasn't a threat to people going to the game. And now I guess one day is what they needed. And of course, you never can trust the first 24 hours of reporting. First they said, oh, we believe that the terrorist worked with other assailants and co-conspirators. Now they're saying they believe he acted alone. Well, if he acted alone, what happened to all the supposed IEDs that were found around the rest of New Orleans? Trust nobody. Trust nothing you hear. Roberts in Michigan. Robert, you're on the Mike Gallagher Show. Hello.
SPEAKER 03 :
Hey, how are you doing?
SPEAKER 04 :
Good. How are you? Happy New Year.
SPEAKER 03 :
Happy New Year to you, too.
SPEAKER 04 :
Thanks.
SPEAKER 03 :
As for those first few hours of reporting, there are blurbs in there that are going to be consistently true if you study it. But I'd like to point out that I do not think that the attack in New Orleans and the one in Las Vegas were terrorist-related. I think they were intelligence operations.
SPEAKER 04 :
Which intelligence?
SPEAKER 03 :
Ours? Ours. Why? Ours. Because it was directed at Trump, because it was one of his buildings, and it should tell him, don't push us too hard.
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Well, look, there's going to be a lot of theories and a lot of suspicions, and you can go down a rabbit hole. There's a lot of weird coincidences to have both of them having served at Fort Bragg. One of them, the guy at Trump Tower, apparently a Master Sergeant Green Beret. What happened to him? What caused him to go off the deep end? And incidentally, are we going to know all about him? Because we know everything about all the people on January 6th, right? We know their occupation. We know where they live. What are we going to learn about this guy, if anything? You know, there's an idea, too, and I didn't get to this. There's so much breaking news today, and I've done my best to keep up, and it feels great to get back to work. We didn't have a chance to cover the squabbling between some of the feisty House Republicans and Speaker Mike Johnson. That vote's tomorrow, right, guys? I think that's tomorrow. And look, I'm going to say two things about or two things can be true at the same time. Number one, the Republicans ought to be unified right now. We are up against a formidable opponent. Democrats who seem to think it's OK. To let millions of people stream across our border. and destroy our country. We're up against a Democrat president who's about to finally be replaced, thank the Lord, who's giving an award to Liz Cheney. That's right. Joe Biden, a world-class jerk, wants to stick it to Trump on the way out by giving Liz Cheney one of the highest civilian awards you can get. What, for what? For her January 6th debacle? For getting walloped by her constituents and fired overwhelmingly because people were so disgusted with her? You give her an award for what? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. The witch hunt against Donald Trump. That's why Joe Biden is doing what he's doing. What a disgrace to give that woman an award. The Presidential Citizens Medal award. What an absolute creep. And the other one, Betty Thompson. He's going to get an award. You know, Betty Thompson, the co-chair of that select witch hunt committee. That's the guy that wanted to strip Trump of his Secret Service protection in order to get Trump harmed. And you give him an award for that? Is that what you're doing, Grandpa Joe? So this is our political opponent. These are our political adversaries. This is what has to change. And it's why Trump won. It's why Trump won. So two things can be true at the same time. Number one, this is not a time for us to have these intra-party battles. We don't need to have another coup of the House Speaker. I don't agree with everything that Mike Johnson's been doing. But I strongly believe that this is not the time to overturn the House leadership. We have to be unified. And there's been all this battling about Elon and Vivek and how they talked about, you know, the American work ethic isn't as strong as people from India and all. That's fine. But here's the second part that I think is true. And I always feel very strongly about this. I felt the same way about Matt Gaetz leading the uprising against Kevin McCarthy. You know, I wasn't a big fan of that. But those voices need to be heard, too. The Marjorie Taylor Greene's and the Thomas Massey's and the Andy Biggs, these sharp elbowed red meat conservatives represent a voice in this country that has been ignored for far too long. So while I don't like the idea of a battle over Mike Johnson, while I believe strongly that the timing of this is awful, In fact, I was listening a little bit to Joey when he was filling in for me this past week point out that if we don't get our act together as Republicans, Trump might not get inaugurated. You've got to have a speaker in place, and it could completely disrupt President Trump's actual inauguration, which, incidentally, we'll be at. We'll be broadcasting from D.C. Joey Hudson's going to be there in the crowd with our reporting, and I'll be at the anchor seat, and we're going to go to some balls, and I'll tell you some of the inaugural balls, and I'll be giving you all kinds of updates from Washington, D.C. So, again, I don't like... this squabbling. Let the Democrats eat each other alive. But on the other hand, don't ignore their voices and appreciate the fact that some debate and some disagreement is fine. It's not the end of the world. We're probably not going to be marching in lockstep on everything. It's okay. Let Marjorie Taylor Greene or Massey or whoever's voices, let them be heard. And consider their arguments over why Mike Johnson hasn't been as effective as he could have been, as he should be. And then let's roll up our sleeves and get to work. And let's accomplish what Donald Trump is going to set out to accomplish with the mandate that he received, with his landslide victory over these dumb Democrats and their failed policies. Let's take our country back and make it great again. It is great to be back to work again. Thanks for joining us. Great job to the team, Teresa and Eric and Christian and Tracy and Joey. Thank you for joining us. We'll do it again tomorrow. Have a great day. Be safe. Keep fighting the good fight. I'm Mike Gallagher. God bless America. I want to welcome some brand new partners to the Mike Gallagher show like Equity Protect. And this is a big, big deal. Your home's title is often the most valuable thing you own. Next generation criminal technology is more advanced than ever. I've been an identity theft victim. It is no fun. You got to have Equity Protect in your corner. If you own your home mortgage-free or you got a lot of equity, you got to have Equity Protect so that scammers do not steal your equity or title. For a limited time, Equity Protect is offering you a tremendous deal, 30% off your first year, giving you one year of protection for less than $12 a month. 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Mike Gallagher. Every day, Mike visits with Mark Davis, morning host on 660 AM, The Answer in Dallas. Here's today's Eminem experience.
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We have, boy, do we have stuff to unpack. Welcome back. And we've been talking during the holidays, as I knew we would. But listen, even without New Orleans, there's a ton to talk about in the new year. And I so look forward to a year filled with 735 chats with you. And just, it's my, my life is complete again. And back with my buddy.
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Look, Mark, we got a big year ahead of us. There's no question. There's a lot of stuff that's going to be happening. And we have, like you said, a lot of things to unpack. First of all, though, can we stipulate, was this the longest break you and I have ever taken together? I mean, because I went a few days before Christmas. And I went out to see Dennis Prager in Los Angeles in the hospital, which was actually a very inspiring way to start the holiday because this is a man who has strength, who has courage, who is of good cheer despite what has happened to him. People know he had a terrible fall. And he suffered a very, very serious injury. I think it's out publicly that he is paralyzed and is breathing with the assistance of a ventilator. You know, all of us are a little uncomfortable with getting too detailed because that's that's really Sue's prerogative, his wife and the family. But look, he is a fighter. And he's beloved and he knows the prayers that he's getting from all over the world. And it was a joy for me to just be there and see his face light up when I walked in the hospital room. He's, of course, still in ICU in the Los Angeles area. He always loves a joke that I tell, that Dennis could take a cruise to the black hole of Calcutta and get 900 people to sign up. Every time. And he always loved that. So I walked into the hospital room and I said, all right, he wants to go to the black hole of Calcutta. And we got 900 people signed up and he just his face lit up. He said, wow, wow, wow. He couldn't believe that I slept out there from from Florida. And Sue was amazed because she said, this isn't exactly on the way to London, but it was the opposite direction. I racked up those frequent flyer miles and spent some good time with him and then back home and then packed up and then headed out to London. And like you said, we, you and I stayed connected a little bit during the holidays.
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To answer your question, it has to be because my last show was the 17th and you were going to ride out the rest of that week. Mike texts me on the way home the 17th and said, look, I'm in tomorrow, but then I'm out of here. So I spent.
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And that's because of you.
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And that's because of you.
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I thought, well, if you can do it, why can't I do it? Why am I working this week? I thought, I've got the days. And, of course, I noticed on X, and incidentally, 2025, heads up, it's going to be a year of digital for the Mike Gallagher show. We're going to embrace digital. Good for you. developing our TikTok presence today. I'm going to reinstitute our Facebook page. I'm all over X. I'm all over, you know, truth socials. We're going to be digital out the ears.
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More Mike. I've always advocated for more Mike.
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Good for you. Brace yourself because we'll be doing a lot of digital stuff. But somebody on X last night took a pot shot at both of us saying, well, I'm glad you're going to be both back from your paid lengthy vacations. And I couldn't help myself. I wrote the guy back. What are we supposed to pay the company to go on vacation? You want us to pay Salem? Maybe we can pay them. I mean, you know, you've got some years together. You get a little bit of equity. You get a little vacation time. Exactly right.
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And who knew that we would come back to this?
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And forget, oh, I know, we've got a lot to talk about what we came back to, but before we get back to what we returned to here in the United States, quick note about London and about going overseas. Forget the Tower of London and the Ceremony of the Keys that I saw. Forget that. Forget the Nutcracker from the English National Ballet, which I saw and I loved it.
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Forget Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey.
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Forget high tea at the Cafe Royal like I got to enjoy. Forget any of that. No. Abba Voyage is a life changing experience. And let me tell you why. You tell me to go see Abba Voyage when I go to London.
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Because a friend of mine, a friend of mine is in sort of the music production and licensing biz, was over there for a conference. He went and saw it. Couldn't shut up about it to me. When I hear you're going, I say, well, let me pass that recommendation on. You got to go see that sort of live action. You tell everybody what Abba Voyage is because I still don't totally get it.
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I know it's hard to explain it, but see, I don't have a clue going in what it is. I just know my friend Mark Davis, my buddy, says go see ABBA Voyage. I get tickets. I'm sitting there. It's a concert theater. It's the ABBA Theater. They've built an entire theater just for this production.
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Mm-hmm.
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And it's outside of London, just about a 20-minute Uber ride. Uber, by the way, is fantastic over there. When you do Uber like black in Dallas or New York, Uber black is like a suburban. Over there, it's a Mercedes S-Class stretch, brand new. It's the greatest thing they've got. They got Uber down to a science over there. Anyway, I don't know what I'm going to get. I know the show starts and up from on an elevator come four people that get risen up to the stage. Crowd goes nuts. Everybody's cheering and I'm watching them. And there's four. These are four people on stage. I'm convinced. They're on stage as a band off to the side. They're playing. I'm going crazy because that's the soundtrack of my youth, as it is everybody else's. We love the music. And I'm thinking as they're singing and talking to the audience, they look like ABBA of the 70s.
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It's Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, and Anifred right there from the mid-70s.
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And it looks like them. So I figured, okay, then it's impersonators. It's people that look like them. And there may be lip syncing because it sounds just like ABBA's original music. And I'm watching this and then I'm noticing it seems a little bit off, but not much. And I'm staring at them. If you had to put me on a witness stand and hold a gun to my head and say, were those four live people up there? I would say yes. Yeah. Show goes through. They do the whole performance. Then they take their curtain call. They walk off. And then out comes four of the four ABBA members in their 70s and 80s. They're a little older than us now, but that's how old they'd be. And they're taking a curtain call, and they're waving. I thought, how do they do that? Do they come every night for every performance and just do a quick bow? No. So then I get in the Uber at the ABBA Arena to go home. The whole thing is virtual. Everything I saw was what's called a virtual, not the band, but the four performers are virtual avatars. And Mark, I'm not talking hologram like I've seen in Vegas with Michael Jackson.
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And you know it's a hologram.
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You know right away it's a hologram. It's blurry. Yeah, it's out of focus. It's kind of two-dimensional. Mark. These are four people. If I had to go on the witness stand, I would have said those are four live people. They were not. And then I read about it. The four original band members in their 70s and 80s did the live motion with one of those suits, those goofy suits you wear.
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The motion capture thing with all the dots. Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
Because it was done by, what's it called? Industrial Light and Magic. Industrial Light and Magic. They did this, right? So they created the movements, but it's with their younger selves. Man. Think about this, Mark. Look what you could do. Elvis? The Beatles. Beatles in their prime. Luciano Pavarotti. I mean, you could go on. Tom Petty. All of them. You could do all of them in their prime. Stevie Ray Vaughan. Yeah. And you do not. Now, then I felt stupid because I thought, well, I'm clapping for a movie. I was clapping and cheering. There's no one on stage. And there wasn't anyone. Yeah, they weren't even hearing me. So then I felt stupid. It was the most amazing, extraordinary thing. And I bet we'll see more of that, I hope, in the United States. I bet so. Because they've got it down in the UK. All right. So we come back to the United States. I'm following over in England people getting burned alive on a subway car. People getting pushed onto train tracks. Terrorists mowing down civilians in New Orleans. I think a terror attack in Las Vegas. Chaos is the new normal here, Mark. And we got how many days to go? 18 before? 18, yep. I mean, because we got to hold on for dear life. Let's start here. Did you see the press conference from New Orleans and the police chief and the FBI spokeswoman? Yeah. The two women. Yep. First of all, the police chief. Look, I'm going to this is my 2025 is my year of Medicare. It's my 65th year. I want I want to be 100. I don't want to. I'm not going to disparage old people. But this woman, she must be 80.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, this is Ann Kirkpatrick, the New Orleans police chief.
SPEAKER 04 :
She is an elderly woman who evidently was fired from another police department. Great. And she ran over two people with her car. sued, I think, the Oakland Police Department and got a big settlement. Anyway, she's the police chief, like Granny from the Beverly Hillbillies, with the oversized police hat on. Then she hands off to the FBI agent.
SPEAKER 07 :
Althea Duncan. Yeah. With the nose ring. The assistant special agent in charge.
SPEAKER 04 :
Got the nose ring in her nose, which is a direct violation of FBI standards and guidelines. And talks like a sixth grader. I mean, even the diction. Have you heard the clip? Do we have one?
SPEAKER 07 :
There's subject-verb agreement problems, and it's enormously problematic.
SPEAKER 04 :
Let's listen. Let's listen together. This is quick. What's your name again?
SPEAKER 07 :
Althea Duncan.
SPEAKER 04 :
I give you Althea Duncan.
SPEAKER 02 :
We'll be taking over the investigative lead for this event. This is not a terrorist event. What it is right now is their improvised explosive devices that was found. And we are working on confirming if this is a viable device or not.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, so grammatical disasters aside.
SPEAKER 07 :
Devices that was found.
SPEAKER 04 :
That was found, uh-huh, with the nose ring in the nose. But help me with, and of course, you know right away people go, oh, Mike Gallagher, Mark Davis, they're racist, you know, she's a young black woman. Well, I don't care what her skin color is. I don't care about her race. I want to know why she would immediately say it wasn't a terrorist attack.
SPEAKER 07 :
Because it is systemic. It is baked in. That is what the current culture of law enforcement, the current FBI culture says. Make sure nobody nobody says it's terror, even if we've unfolded an ISIS flag on the street and we know it's the guy.
SPEAKER 04 :
It had an ISIS flag in the back of his truck that was laying there that people were taking pictures of. And she goes to the podium and says, this is not a terrorist attack. But when you say it's baked in, Mark, will you expand upon that? What do you mean by that?
SPEAKER 07 :
Why is that? Because the woke mind virus tells us that before we are honest with the American people, before we tell them, hey, listen, I don't need her to say. Clear terrorism. This investigation is over. Just come out and say, look, we're gathering evidence. We're not concluding that it's anything right now, but we'll let you know when we have a conclusion. And of course, wound up being hours later. But don't come out right out of the box and tell us that it's not because that is because oversensitivity and woke ism and political correctness. She didn't. I don't blame her for this at all. This came from the top. You do not get out there and tell people it's terrorism, even if we know that it's terrorism.
SPEAKER 04 :
And I and I really don't fully get that. I don't know what what's the what are you say it's the woke mind virus. Yes. What's the downside to calling a terror attack a terror attack?
SPEAKER 07 :
Because Islamophobia will spread across the land, which it didn't even do after 9-11. They don't trust us. They don't trust us. And the close cousin to that is when we learn more about this monster. Look for us to learn that the military absolutely had reason to say this guy is a seething jihadist lunatic. And they were restrained from saying anything about it because of the fear of allegations of racism or Islamophobia.
SPEAKER 04 :
And speaking of the military, you've seen the connection that has already been made between the Las Vegas bomber, who incidentally blew up a cyber truck. And it didn't really work because it didn't even the windows weren't even shattered. That's a tough truck, man. It's a tough truck. But that guy blew himself up inside. But they both both served. at Fort Bragg, reportedly. Now, this is all coming out now. Look, we got a big problem on our hands. We got a big, big problem. And I'm on the hunt for a woman that I've seen on social media, speaking of the new digital era of 2025, and make sure you follow me on X, at Gallagher Show. I don't even know what we're going to be on TikTok, maybe at Gallagher Show. I don't know what they call it. Of course, the Chinese now will be spying on me, but that's okay.
SPEAKER 07 :
Let's deal with that. I'll become a Chinese spy. Listen, Trump's on TikTok. It's everywhere. I mean, I don't want to be numb to the fact that everybody knows where I am and who I am and stuff like that. But the world's on TikTok. And so you might as well be too. More Mike, more Mike, more Mike.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, and more all of us, and we'll be connecting, but I've been following a woman named Sarah Adams. Have you heard of her? She's a former CIA operative, and she has been sounding the alarm about this. And a year ago, she called it. She said 2025 is going to be a year because we haven't had a lot of these truck bombings and suicide bombings in the United States. And look at what we just got in the last 24 to 48 hours. So, look, we've got big challenges. We're headed to Washington, D.C. for the inauguration. We'll be covering that.
SPEAKER 07 :
Fly in early because the inauguration is what, a Monday, right? Yeah, Monday the 20th. And I know you'll be in the previous weekend. Keep your Sunday night open because there's a massive downtown Washington Trump victory rally on the evening of the 19th.
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As the House of Representatives prepares for a pivotal vote on the Speaker's position, Congresswoman Stephanie Bice joins to discuss the dynamics and potential obstacles that may arise. Meanwhile, FRC's enduring commitment to promoting faith, family, and freedom shines through with their latest initiatives. The episode also sees Carolyn Glick providing crucial updates from Israel, as the nation navigates complex geopolitical challenges. Listeners are called to unite in prayer as the nation faces uncertain times, highlighting the power of faith in fostering hope and healing.
SPEAKER 02 :
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. Sitting in for Tony is today's host, Jody Heiss.
SPEAKER 05 :
Welcome to this Thursday edition of Washington Watch. I'm Jody Heiss, the Senior Vice President here at the Family Research Council and President of FRC Action. An honor to be filling in today for Tony. But let me take this opportunity real quickly to be the first, at least from my side, to say Happy New Year to you. I hope you had a fantastic Christmas and so far off to a great new year. We've got a lot coming your way today on Washington Watch. Let me give you some of the highlights. To begin with, what started as a New Year's Day celebration on New Orleans' Bourbon Street became a horrible scene yesterday.
SPEAKER 15 :
Today at approximately 3.15 a.m. Central Standard Time, an individual drove a pickup truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing at least 10 individuals and injuring dozens more.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, that was FBI Assistant Special Agent Alethea Duncan speaking yesterday to the press. And since then, there have been four more deaths reported and more details have emerged, including the suspect's ties to ISIS.
SPEAKER 19 :
First and foremost, let me be very clear about this point. This was an act of terrorism. It was premeditated and an evil act. He originally planned to harm his family and friends, but was concerned the news headlines would not focus on the, quote, war between the believers and the disbelievers, end quote. Additionally, he stated he had joined ISIS before this summer
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, that was FBI Deputy Assistant Director Christopher Rea earlier today. I'll be joined here in just a couple of moments by former FBI Special Agent Jonathan Gilliam to discuss what else has emerged from the investigation into yesterday's attack. And later in the program, Tony will also be sharing some of his thoughts on the response to yesterday morning's attack. And he was also in the studio earlier this afternoon, and we'll be bringing that to you. He is now, by the way, just for you to know, headed to an inaugural ceremony in Baton Rouge, and he is involved in leading prayer and so forth in that. So he and I will be going back a little bit today as I'll be bringing a portion of the program, and then he'll be bringing some that he recorded a little bit earlier today. And he also interviewed Carolyn Glick on some reports that Iran is now preparing to spend millions of dollars and send millions of dollars to Hezbollah in order to bolster that terrorist organization. Folks, the saga in Israel just continues to unfold, and you'll be hearing more about that a little later on in the program. And then tomorrow at noon, the House of Representatives is scheduled to vote for who is going to be the speaker in the 119th Congress. Well... We already have at least one Republican House member who is saying he is not going to be voting for current House Speaker Mike Johnson. That means it's only going to take one more person in the GOP to potentially throw a wrench in the plans to quickly deliver the America First agenda to the American people.
SPEAKER 04 :
We can't get anything done unless we have a speaker, including certifying President Trump's election on January 6th. So to waste time over a nonsensical intramural food fight is a joke. And I think my colleagues, if they didn't learn anything from the 118th Congress, it should be that we absolutely do not need a fight over the speakership.
SPEAKER 05 :
That was Congressman Mike Lawler of New York this past Sunday on ABC's This Week. So much at stake as they come into tomorrow's vote. And I'll be joined a little bit later in the program with Congresswoman Stephanie Bice of Oklahoma. to discuss that vote and what the obstacles may be. So as usual, we've got a lot to come your way. If you happen to miss any portion of it, the website, of course, is TonyPerkins.com. And let me just say this, as we enter into this special pivotal, pivotal year for our country, Family Resource Council invites you to join our New Year's resolution to stand. with us for faith, family, and freedom. All of this is inspired by Ephesians 6.13, but we commit to continue shining the light of Christ and defending biblical truth across our nation, and we invite you to join us in that task. You can do so by simply texting the word SHINE, S-H-I-N-E, text the word SHINE, to 67742, and then join us and pledge to pray for our nation, for our leaders, and for the restoration of godly values that we so desperately need to return to. All right, so from there, let's see if we can move into our first topic for today. We had a number of people who were killed, now 14 is the number, and dozens of others when the driver of the pickup truck plowed through a crowd in New Orleans celebration, what was to be a New Year's celebration. It all happened Wednesday morning. The suspect has been identified as Shamsa Din Jabbar. Jabbar is a 42-year-old Army veteran from Texas who reportedly joined ISIS sometime before the summer of last year. What else do we know about this individual and this whole scenario that's being considered now an act of terrorism? Well, joining me now to discuss this to begin with is Jay Johnson. He is our pastor, if you will. That's what we all call him at Family Research Council, and he's right in the hub of things there in Louisiana. Jay, welcome back to Washington Watch. Thank you for joining us.
SPEAKER 11 :
Thanks, Jody. And thanks for remembering the people of New Orleans.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, so let's go down this path from a more spiritual perspective, which is the perspective that you are holding up for all of us. First of all, is there any more details that you have from the ground that you can share with us? And then beyond that, what is the spiritual climate from people that you've been talking to there?
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, as far as information, I'm not aware of any of it. You know, I serve as a volunteer chaplain with the Louisiana State Police, and the state police have been on the ground as well as all other law enforcement agencies. And, you know, I think the thing that's needed right now is a lot of prayer for them, a lot of encouragement. You know, just... bringing in and just encouraging the people. A lot of folks are just in shock. Those that were down in the quarter area, I visited with a lady a little while ago that her 21-year-old had just left that part of Canal Street, and she was just thanking the Lord, and we just had a moment of prayer together, and You know, there's a ministry in Louisiana, Texas area called Oilfield Christian Fellowship. I have some really close friends that are part of that because they're in the oil industry. I've had the opportunity to minister with different ones of them. And, you know, the people, one of the men, faithful man, his grandson was one of those killed, a bright young student who was a... Princeton graduate. New Orleans is a small town that's really highly connected. It's my hometown. It's a place where I was born and raised. We're not that far separated from people. There's been a lot of services because of the strong influence of the Catholic community. community, so there's been a lot of services. A young man that went to Archbishop Hannon High School, you know, they were having a service for him today because, you know, he was one of those killed.
SPEAKER 05 :
Jay, let me stop you if I can. Sure. We've only got a few moments. If I can, thank you for that. Just hang on, but I want to bring in Joel Pollack with Breitbart News. He's Joel, thank you for joining us. We appreciate you coming on here.
SPEAKER 12 :
Thank you, and thank you for your words as well, Pastor.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, let me toss it back over to you. We were just talking with Jay Johnston, but do you have any further information as this investigation is continuing to unfold?
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, The question everybody is asking is whether it is connected to the explosion outside the Trump Tower in Las Vegas, which happened later that same morning. And there is some breaking news there, which is that local law enforcement officials in Las Vegas have said that the driver shot himself in the head before the explosions happened in the Cybertruck. That is what they are saying from their forensic analysis. So it does look like a suicide attempt, and that rules out the possibility that he was a victim of an accident or perhaps lured to the hotel by somebody who detonated what was in the back of the truck. It does look like a deliberate, planned, dramatic suicide. We don't know if it had a political motive, although obviously the symbolism of the Trump Tower and Elon Musk's Cybertruck is hard to look away from, but that's the latest that we know.
SPEAKER 05 :
Wow. That is indeed breaking news. Now, my understanding, Joel, is this individual also was an active duty member of the U.S. Army Elite Special Forces. Is that accurate information?
SPEAKER 12 :
Yes. He is a Green Beret, won two bronze stars, served multiple tours overseas, highly decorated. There was no reason that we know of any way to suspect that he might do something like this.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay, so there's a potential connect between New Orleans and what happened there in Las Vegas. Is anything yet to be uncovered that would suggest that there were other targets?
SPEAKER 12 :
That's a great question. We don't know. And we also, again, don't know if there's a connection. But the fear is, I think, among a lot of people that as we get closer to Inauguration Day, with President Trump already having been the target of an attempted assassination twice, really, and one that nearly ended his life, there's a fear that we could see more of these types of events leading up to the inauguration. So I do think we will see tighter security around public events, tighter security around the president-elect, probably tighter security around Elon Musk and other people close to Trump.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, I mean... I think you hit it right on. So with that, obviously with the two attempted assassination attempts against the former president, some are already saying this is yet another example of federal authorities taking their eye off the ball. Is this yet another wake-up call that we better get our act together when it comes to securing these individuals?
SPEAKER 12 :
It really is. And also, there will be questions about why the FBI said that the New Orleans attack was not a terrorist attack in the hours after it happened. And of course, it turned out to be. And there's been a lot of criticism of President-elect Trump's nominee to leave the FBI, Kash Patel, because he has stated that he wants to pursue dramatic reforms at the FBI. This is going to make his case stronger. Because it's one thing if the question is really about ideology and whether the FBI is simply going after particular political targets and so forth. But if the FBI is not showing the ordinary competence that we expect of the agency— Real quickly, Joel, just a matter of seconds here.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, he's going to have a— Listen, Joel Pollack with Breitbart News. Thank you so much for joining us. Friends, after the break, we're going to be talking about tomorrow's vote for the Speaker of the House. Stay tuned. More Washington Watch ahead.
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SPEAKER 05 :
Welcome back to Washington Watch. Great to have you joining us today. And happy, happy New Year to you. All right, the House of Representatives is scheduled to vote tomorrow at noon for who is going to hold the Speaker's gavel in this upcoming 119th Congress. And while President-elect Trump has endorsed current Speaker Mike Johnson for that position, not all Republicans have expressed support for him. and in fact there's one congressman thomas massey of kentucky has already said that he will not be voting for the speaker so what that means as i count is all 218 remaining republicans are required if the entire house of 434 members vote so what's the likelihood of that happening And what are the obstacles to overcome to get to that magic number of 218? Well, with me now to discuss this and more is Congresswoman Stephanie Bice. She serves on three different House committees, including the Appropriations Committee, as well as the House Administration Committee. She represents the 5th Congressional District of Oklahoma. Congresswoman Bice, welcome to Washington Watch. Great to have you with us.
SPEAKER 06 :
Thank you so much, Shodi. It's great to see you and Happy New Year.
SPEAKER 05 :
Happy New Year to you as well, and great to see you again. All right, so, boy, a lot of plates spinning. A lot's going on right now. What have you been hearing from Capitol Hill regarding the vote tomorrow?
SPEAKER 06 :
You know, I think first and foremost, it's really important to recognize that Mike Johnson was chosen for this role. He was chosen in November by acclamation in our conference meeting then, and the vast majority of the conference continues to support him. As was mentioned, there are certainly a couple of holdouts here, but I think the reality is we have a very small majority. You know, as we've looking at three seats right now, and that does pose a challenge. But Mike Johnson has done really yeoman's work to try to make sure that he is listening to the conference, hearing their concerns, and trying to move forward. We have to remember that the American people gave us a mandate in November, and that is to change the direction of this country. And so to elect a speaker is our first responsibility so that we can get on with it. President-elect Donald Trump's agenda, which is getting this country back on track. And I'm looking forward to getting that done tomorrow.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. And when you take into consideration, I was just pondering this earlier with what's happened in Louisiana and the terrorist attacks there, as well as just Congress in general to carry out the agenda that you just described. There's some potential enormous risk of Congress is not being able to actively engage if something worse were to happen. So give me your take on that. What is it going to take for Speaker Johnson to get reelected?
SPEAKER 06 :
Look, I think that he has made an effort to talk to every member that has concerns. Many of them over the last couple of days have come out in support of the speaker, including Warren Davidson, who I think was maybe considering not supporting him last month. So I think that it's just incremental progress, listening to their concerns, addressing some of the issues, And I think that President-elect Trump is also part of this conversation, having him reach out to the members that may have concerns and getting them to a point that they can be supportive. But I go back to, we have a small majority, and we have to get started with this new administration on day one. We cannot drag this out. It's not good for the country. It's not good for the institution. And it really puts us behind when we're trying to get this America First agenda started.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. And speaking of dragging this, the country through this, I mean, we all watched as this similar thing transpired with previous Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Does this in any way now compare with what happened to Speaker McCarthy, in your opinion?
SPEAKER 06 :
No, it really doesn't, Jody. I think that was a very unique situation. There was one individual in particular that I think wanted to see Kevin McCarthy removed from the speakership and ended up convincing other folks that it was the right decision to remove him. But I really don't think that this compares. It is not a removal of a speaker necessarily. It's an election of a speaker. And although I feel confident that we're going to get this done tomorrow, It wouldn't surprise me if it maybe takes a round or two of votes to get there. But again, I think that we can't delay this. There is a lot of important work that needs to be done, and it's going to be incumbent upon us to make sure we get it done quickly.
SPEAKER 05 :
So your take is that it will happen, though? You're going into this feeling pretty optimistic that Speaker Johnson will be reelected?
SPEAKER 06 :
Like, this is bigger than Mike Johnson. This is about the country. And certainly I know that the speaker has done all he can do and continues to work on those members that may be questioning whether or not he's the right choice. But he was chosen for this. I mean, if you think back to the removal of Kevin McCarthy in September of last year, you know, we went through several rounds of other candidates for Speaker. And Mike Johnson came out ahead. He prevailed. And I think it's because people recognized he has a faith that I don't think anybody in Congress would question. He didn't ask for this job. In many ways, I think he was anointed to be the one to try to bring this conference together, to move us in the right direction, and to get important work done. And certainly there are differences of opinion on how certain processes have played out, and I respect and appreciate that. But in the end, we have to make sure that we're doing what we can to secure the border, to get our economy back on track, and to make sure that the American people recognize we're there to work. not to fight amongst ourselves.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well said. Congresswoman Bice, let me ask you one more question. We've only got about a minute or so. But as we speak right now, the White House is actually hosting a ceremony for recipients of the Presidential Citizens Medals, which is the second highest civilian medal in the U.S. But among those receiving the awards are members of the January 6th committee, including Chairman Bernie Sanders or Thompson, I mean, and Liz Cheney.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, I think it's odd, and it's also unacceptable, frankly. That committee was a sham committee, in my opinion. It was politically motivated. I mean, I don't know that I've ever seen a committee have a hearing during prime time. It was more theater, and really... more than anything, trying to disparage President Trump. And I think the American people saw through that with this election. They recognize that President Biden is not doing what he should be doing to keep this country moving forward. And they rejected that. And so to see this continued partisanship is pretty disappointing, maybe not surprising, but disappointing.
SPEAKER 05 :
Congresswoman Stephanie Bice from Oklahoma, thank you so much. You got a lot going on in Washington. We're deeply appreciative of you joining us on Washington Watch.
SPEAKER 06 :
Thanks, Jody. Have a great day.
SPEAKER 05 :
You too. All right, friends, coming up here in just a moment after the break, Tony Perkins is going to be bringing some more Washington Watch your way. Stay tuned. We'll be back.
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SPEAKER 19 :
First and foremost, let me be very clear about this point. This was an act of terrorism. It was premeditated and an evil act.
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Yes, there is evil in this world, a form of evil that, quite frankly, we're unable to contain. And I know there's a lot of information out there. In fact, there's going to continue to be information coming forward in the coming days that might connect this with the events in Las Vegas. You know, a lot of it's speculation at this point. So let's just look at some of the facts. Shamsuddin Jabbar. This is the guy who perpetrated, the 42-year-old man who perpetrated the terrorist attack in New Orleans. He was born in Texas. He didn't come from another country. He was born in Texas. He was an army veteran. He didn't come across the border. And so while we still need to close the border, that would not have stopped him. He converted to Islam and was radicalized by ISIS. So, so far, no evidence that he traveled outside the country for this radicalization. Now, he did have weapons, but the instrument of mass destruction was a rented truck. So more gun control laws would not have helped in this situation. So maybe we should ask them other questions. What is allowing Americans to be radicalized by this religious ideology? Now, could it be that there is a vacuum that we've created in our society that's being filled by this radical ideology of Islam? Have we driven Christianity with its morality from our nation, paving the way for heinous acts like this? Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry called me in the wake of this tragic event and asked me to initiate a prayer effort. And so we put out a call to pastors and to others to be praying. In fact, I would invite you to join. We're just expanding our Operation Prayer Shield. And if you'd like to join us in this effort, we've got prayer points specifically targeted for this. Text PRAY, P-R-A-Y, to 67742. And it's not just for Louisiana. It's for the nation. And as I think about this, I think of Psalm 127.1. It says, unless the Lord builds the house, those who labor, labor in vain. Those who build it, labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. You know, we need the hand of God's protection on our cities and on our state. And that only comes when we pray and we seek God, we turn to him, we obey his word. Now, someone say, well, you know, that's nice. You know, that's what you religious people talk about. Let me just, for those that might just be listening for the first time, let me give you a little bit of my background. I was a police officer in Louisiana. I was, I'm a Marine veteran. I also worked in anti-terrorism. And so I know a little bit about the terrorist, about the mindset, what they do and how they do it. And I also know that those who are intent on attacking and killing in a free society, it's very difficult to stop them. In fact, if we want total security, we've got a couple of choices here. Either we can turn to God and seek his hand of protection, or we can turn over to the government our freedoms and our rights, because that's what it would take. when you look at situations like what happened in New Orleans. And the governor, Governor Jeff Landrieu, rightfully called for prayer. And so we're joining in a joint effort to pray for Louisiana, for the victims, for the law enforcement. In fact, this evening, the Sugar Bowl will be taking place, and we want to pray over the protection of New Orleans and those that are gathered for that event. But There are days ahead where there are going to be challenges as the next administration comes in. This nation is going to continue to be a target for evil and for acts like this. And so we need to pray. We need to pray that the Lord would have his hand of protection upon this country once again. So I want to invite you to join us. Join the governor and I in this joint effort to pray. Text the word pray to 67742. And we're planning to have a special event Sunday evening. We're still working out the details on that. But if you text PRAY to 67742, I will send you that information when that is all finalized. But here are the prayer points. We need to pray for the families and the victims. Pray for healing and comfort and support for all of those who were directly affected by this attack. And there are many. Pray for law enforcement and first responders. It's very stressful to deal with what they are dealing with. And pray for wisdom and protection and success in preventing further acts of terror. Pray for our state and our national leaders. Pray that God would guide them to make wise decisions to ensure peace and security and not push out the very thing we need, and that is God. And that's what we need to pray for, spiritual renewal. Pray for hearts to turn toward the Lord, seeking his guidance and his presence in our communities and therefore his protection. And pray for unity and healing. Pray for the nation to stand together against evil, finding hope and solidarity through faith in God and compassion for others. You know, we can sit back and we can watch the news and we can become anxious. And fearful, we can pray and we can turn to God. Yes, we need law enforcement. I'm all about law enforcement. But ultimately, it's going to take the hand of God protecting this nation. So join us in this prayer effort. Text PRAY, P-R-A-Y, to 67742. And join us in praying for our nation, praying for Louisiana, praying for the future. All right, after the break, I'm going to be joined by Carolyn Glick from the Jewish News Syndicate to talk about the latest news coming out of the Middle East. This is another issue that's going to be affected by the incoming administration, something we need to be praying into. So stick around. On the other side of the break, Carolyn joins me from Israel with more on what is happening in the Middle East. So don't go away. More Washington Watch straight ahead. Hello, I'm Tony Perkins, President of the Family Research Council here in Washington, D.C. Behind me is one of the most recognizable buildings in all the world, the U.S. Capitol. What does it stand for? Well, most people say government. But do you know the Bible talks about four institutions of government? Do you know what they are? And do we have a republic or a democracy? Well, what do you say? Also, what about this thing, separation of church and state? Does that mean Christians shouldn't be involved in government? Guess what? We address those issues and more in our new God and Government course. I invite you to join us to see what the historical record and the Bible has to say about government. Join us for God and Government.
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Let's not be discouraged. Don't lose heart. Don't lose the faith. Stand now strong because the Lord has given us the great privilege of living in a time when our choices matter, when our lives matter, when our courage matters. So let's stand together and save this great country. God bless the United States of America.
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The American Republic has a freedom like no other. It has roots in the scriptures far more than any other heritage. And if we as followers of Jesus and conservatives don't defend it, who will?
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Neutrality is not an option. There are many Christians who believe that if we just keep our heads down, if we just don't say the wrong thing, that somehow we will come out of this unscathed. You're naive if you think that, because what they want from us is not our silence. What they want from us is our submission.
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Part of the dilemma of Christianity in our generation is that we've relied a little too much on human wisdom and human reasoning, human strength, human resource, and we've relied too little on the power of God and God's ability to open doors that we can't open and do things that we can't even hope to begin to do.
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This may not be an easy task, But we are living in a moment of challenge, but also a great opportunity. And we know always that we are not alone, that His Spirit empowers us and protects us, and that He can do the unimaginable. Dobbs, after all, was never supposed to happen.
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Father, we thank you. You have entrusted us with this moment in history, and I pray that we would be found faithful, and that as a result of our faithfulness to you, that thousands, millions would come into the kingdom as they would experience the forgiveness of sin and the new life that is found only in Jesus Christ. Amen. This is Washington Watch, and I am Tony Perkins. Good to have you with us on this Thursday. Our word for today comes from Isaiah 46. Bell bows down, Nebo stoops. Their idols were on their beast and on their cattle. The carriages were heavily loaded, a burden to the weary beast. They stoop, they bow down. Together they could not deliver the burden, but they themselves have gone into captivity." As the Babylonians were conquered, their idols, far from providing protection, had to be carried away by the people into captivity. Rather than being a refuge, these false gods became an additional burden. In contrast, the Lord upholds and carries his people. Verse 3 says, Listen to me, O house of Jacob and all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been upheld by me from birth, who have been carried from the womb." Even to your old age, I am he. And even to gray hairs, I will carry you. I have made and I will bear. Even I will carry and will deliver you. Instead of us carrying lifeless idols, the living God carries us. Let go of the idols of this world. Anything we lean on instead of God and let the God of creation carry us. To find out more about our journey through the Bible, text BIBLE to 67742. That's BIBLE to 67742. Yesterday, day 453 of the Israeli Hamas war, Israel's defense minister said Israel's defense forces will intensify its activities against the terrorist nest in Gaza until the release of the hostages and the elimination of Hamas. Now, his remarks come as senior Israeli officials say additional actions in Gaza will be possible starting on January the 20th when U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will take office. And on Tuesday night, New Year's Eve, President-elect Trump reiterated his warning to Hamas, saying they better let the hostages come back soon. We'll this month see some major developments in the Middle East on top of what we've already seen. Joining me now to discuss this and more is Carolyn Glick. She's a senior contributing editor at the Jewish News Syndicate and host of Carolyn Glick Show on JNS. Carolyn, thanks so much for joining us and Happy New Year.
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Thanks. Happy New Year to you, too.
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So Israel has been making significant gains despite the Biden administration's efforts. We talked about this when I was over in Israel just a couple of weeks ago, how the tables have turned in the last eight months. And it seems to be even building more as we see President-elect Donald Trump pledging that on the first day of office, he will release all the weapons shipments currently delayed under Biden. So is Israel in a much stronger position? Do they feel emboldened as we look at the incoming administration?
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Well, we do have 18 days left with Biden, and we are under an effective arms embargo for the next 18 days. So that's one aspect of it. There's also a fear that was reported this evening that Biden is intending to have a third country produce New Zealand, apparently, or Slovenia. put forward an anti-Israel resolution at the UN Security Council that will demand that Israel remove its forces from the buffer zone in Syria or Lebanon or both and end its combat operations in Gaza. And that would tie the hands of the Trump administration, much as the Obama administration did with a similar resolution or anti-Israel resolution that it passed in December of 2016 before its first term in office began. So what we're looking at here is fear that they'll use these 18 days to undermine Trump and his ability to move forward with his own Middle East policy and to further damage Israel's standing in the international arena. But other than that, Israel is moving forward because we are at war and we can't just put it aside because we have 18 days left of Biden.
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Well, it appears that Israel is doing just that, making additional moves both to the north and to the south, moving on Hezbollah, moving in areas of Syria as well as Hamas. What are the latest in terms of the reports that we're getting from the IDF?
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Israel today operated in Lebanon during the ceasefire, taking out Hezbollah missile launchers. And what Israel's found is that neither the Lebanese armed forces, which is supposed to deploy in Hezbollah's positions and push Hezbollah forces out of south Lebanon, they're not doing it. And the people who are supposed to be adjudicating the implementation of the ceasefire, namely the United States and France, first and foremost, are not doing it. doing anything. When Israel submits complaints to them, they're supposed to pass them on to the Lebanese government for handling, and the Lebanese government manifestly is doing nothing. So the ceasefire is basically broken down already, and Israel is assessing now that it's not going to be able to remove its forces from Lebanon in a month when the temporary 60-day ceasefire is over. And in Syria, Israel is building fortifications on the peak of the Hermon mountain ridge, that Israel was able to take control over. with the fall of the Assad regime and in other areas that are athwart the border with Israel to protect Israeli border towns in the Golan Heights and other installations in the Golan Heights. So these are the things that Israel is doing now. And in Gaza, they're expanding their operations from the town of Jabalia in northern Gaza into Gaza City to flush out and destroy the Hamas fighters that are still operating in those areas. So, yeah, Israel continues to fight on three fronts right now.
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Now, as they continue this fight and they're fighting proxies for Iran, Iran reports were Iran was shipping millions of dollars to Hezbollah this week. What do we know about that?
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So we know right now that there is a civilian aircraft that has landed at Beirut International Airport. That's an area, by the way, the target, the international airport in Beirut. that the Biden administration prohibited Israel from taking action against, even though it's the chief, aside from Syria under Assad, it's the chief supply line for Hezbollah from Iran. And so Iran, again, is trying to supply Hezbollah, this time with money. And Israel warned... about it. And right now, the latest report that came out was that the Lebanese authorities are saying that they're not going to be able to remove their cargo from the airplane. We'll see how long that lasts, probably until they think that people's backs are turned. But we'll have to see.
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So leading into the holidays, in fact, I mentioned earlier when I was over there a couple of weeks ago and you joined me, there was a lot of buzz over a hostage deal that it was very close. There was an anticipation. Pretty much everyone was tight lipped. Where's that stand? What's happening?
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Well, it looks like people weren't tight lipped enough. And Hamas decided that it was Israel that was most keen to get the deal closed. And the Biden administration was putting a lot of pressure on Israel, both through internal political pressure on the government and also otherwise. And so they just said, never mind, you know, we want a complete cessation of the war. And they reneged on their promise to hand over 32 live hostages. They said that 12 of them would be dead. And then they said that they don't even know where all the hostages are. So that whole negotiation, it's still sort of going on. Prime Minister Netanyahu sent lower working teams to Doha from the Mossad and the Shin Bet and from the IDF. But the talk has sort of dissipated about an imminent deal, and now the sense is that nothing is going to happen until after Trump is in office.
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President Trump has said the hostages better be released. I mean, that's a pretty strong statement. I mean, it's if, this, or. What possibly could President Trump do in terms of bringing about the release of those hostages from the Israeli perspective?
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I don't think anybody anticipates a Delta force to be operating in Gaza. They certainly can't do work that's any better than the IDF can do in that theater of war. But I think it's more a concept of Trump applying serious pressure and taking direct action against Hamas's state sponsors, whether it's Iran or Qatar or or Egypt that are all in their own way sponsoring Hamas and enabling them to continue to hold the hostages. So I think that what we'd be looking here at, the sort of thing that Trump would be very helpful in doing in terms of the hostages and their plight, is to demand that Egypt open up the international border, that they've been blocking Gazans from leaving through the terminal into Egypt. And that would be one way of alleviating some of the suffering of civilians that aren't involved in the fighting. But beyond that, I think that he could put a lot of pressure on them in terms of IMF loans. to put more pressure on Hamas. I think Qatar is the main Arab state sponsor of Hamas, and they can have a lot of pressure be put on them, including by threatening to remove or actually removing Al Udeid air base from Doha. And I think Iran, most importantly, which is the main sponsor of Hamas in Gaza, that the Biden administration, I mean, sorry, the Trump administration can work with Israel in destroying Iran's nuclear installations and in overthrowing the regime.
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Could it also be that the Trump administration, unlike the Biden administration, is not going to coddle Hamas as they're complaining about humanitarian supplies and stuff coming in? That they're going to say, look, that's your problem. You're the one that started this and you could solve it overnight.
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Yeah, I think thanks for reminding me of that because that's really the most direct way that they can do it is because the reason that Hamas has survived so long is because the Biden administration has insisted all along that Israel feed and water them, that Israel provide unlimited basically food and water and medicines to Hamas to control, which they sell and they obviously give it first to themselves and their supporters and they sell at outrageous fees. to everybody in Gaza that they want to. And that's how they've maintained their control over the Gaza population and the areas that they are present in and throughout Gaza. It's all because of the United States. It's entirely Biden administration's doing that Hamas remains a force in Gaza. They would have been destroyed long ago if the Biden administration hadn't blocked Israel from doing what it had initially intended to do, which was place a total siege on Gaza, nothing in, nothing out, which is what Israel's announced policy was on October 7th.
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Not to get too far off track, but just from a standpoint of a historical perspective, and correct me if I'm wrong, but Allied forces did not feed the German public when Germany was on the ropes and they were trying to destroy the Nazi regime.
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No, they didn't. You're absolutely right. And in fact, what President Biden said to Prime Minister Netanyahu outrageously at the outset of the war is you shouldn't take an example from what we did in World War II. We were wrong. And that was a pretty outrageous statement for him to make, both in terms of the way that he described disrespected all of the brave men who fought in World War Two but also and won it, but also because it was bad advice, which is mainly what Biden has provided with Israel with for the past year and three months. So, yes, it's the way of war. It's the best way of war. It's the safest way of war. It causes the least suffering because it causes the early capitulation of the enemy. and releases the people who live around the enemy from harm, because once he capitulates, then their suffering will be over. But that isn't what happened. And today, when you look at the destruction that is Gaza, which is just one big demolition site, you have to realize that this is because entirely or very largely as a consequence of the fact that the Biden administration required Israel to maintain Hamas's regime through the unlimited supply of food and water and medicines and other things to Gaza for the past year and three months.
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You know, I'm a student of history and warfare. In fact, that policy that Biden talks about is what pretty much the United States has adopted since the Korean War. We fought containment wars, not wars to win. Israel, the IDF, remains the one really Western power, if you will, that that fights to win. because they have to win in that neighborhood. And I think we could stand to learn a lot from Israel. Speaking of the prime minister, you mentioned the prime minister had been tracking his health situation. How is he doing?
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Well, thank you very much for asking. So Prime Minister Netanyahu had prostate surgery on Sunday, and he was hospitalized until this evening. It's 10 at night in Israel. And so he was released to go home this evening, finally. And his doctors say that he's doing very well, and his prognosis is very positive. So it means that our prayers have been answered. So far, so good, thank God.
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Well, we are praying for him. I pray for him daily. I admire his leadership, and I pray for his leadership there in Israel. I did notice that he got out of his hospital bed to go to the Knesset to vote on a budget measure that passed by one vote.
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Yeah, it was a boss move. But it was against the expressed orders or positions of his doctors. But he is prime minister and duty comes first. And so he did, in fact, leave the hospital to go to the Knesset and vote and went back to the hospital afterwards. So it was a big deal in Israel that that happened. But yeah.
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I'm sure he didn't go back for the hospital food. Final question for you. We've got about 30 seconds left, Carolyn. How can our viewers and listeners here in the United States be praying for Israel right now?
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I think that we have to pray for victory in Israel and for the protection of our soldiers and, of course, for the rescue of our hostages. and the full recovery of our wounded warriors and solace and consolation for the families of the fallen.
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Carolyn, always great to see you. Thanks so much for taking time to join us tonight.
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Thank you very much. God bless you.
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Carolyn Glick from Israel. And I would encourage you to pray for Israel and pray for all the people of that region, even the Palestinians, the innocent ones. Look, we want this issue to come to a conclusion rapidly. Everyone will benefit from that, the entire world. And it requires leadership. And we need it here in the United States. And we pray for the leadership there in Israel under the prime minister. All right, out of time for today. Thanks so much for joining us. Text PRAYER to 67742 and join us in our prayer effort. Until next time, I leave you with the encouraging words the Apostle Paul found in Ephesians 6. You know what it says, just keep standing.
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In a city scrutinized for its violence and crime, the conversation shifts focus to the role of the Guardian Angels, an all-volunteer group working tirelessly to maintain safety in New York City. Listen in as retired NYPD Lieutenant Commander Joe Cardinale shares insights on crime in the city, the perceived hesitance of New Yorkers in emergency situations, and the complex legal repercussions that can discourage civilian intervention.
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This is one of these stories that I know your mind's eye will be more graphic than probably it was, but check this out. This, an example, kids, and you could use this as a teachable moment for the kids, how dangerous fireworks could be. So from Florida City, and big thank you to WSVN, U-Haul van seen on surveillance with a side splattered with blood following an accident involving fireworks. So the driver was desperately searching for help after, obviously, fireworks popped in his hand, maybe improvised, maybe homegrown fireworks, because, again, he had a U-Haul full of these fireworks. I'm trying to sanitize this as much as possible because some of y'all get kind of queasy thinking about blood. So surveillance video captured the victim's injured hand. hanging, or whatever was left of it, hanging out of the driver's side window. And, of course, you can see the blood. And, of course, I'm sure as the vehicle is moving, there you go, that's the splattered stuff on the side of the vehicle. They believe that the victim was selling illegal fireworks out of a vehicle when one of them exploded in his hand. Yeah, Florida man, genius, lit one of them to show what the kids are a potential customer, how this thing works. We know how it works, Dopey. Miami-Dade police bomb squad also was called to help destroy the rest of the stash that he had in the vehicle. According to Florida police, the victim was not cooperating. And this story reminded me, growing up in Houston, my dad would take me out to Harris County, the county line, get some black cat. Remember the black cat fireworks? I used to patiently open them up, put the powder in one paper, and make a tight ball of it and put it into a Texas-sized red ant mound. Ants flying everywhere. I'm Sergio Sanchez. You're listening to The Dana Show.
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Subway violence, attacks at a nightclub, all just mayhem taking place up in New York and Samson, all these headlines. My friend Joe Cardinale, he's a retired New York PD lieutenant commander. Happy New Year, my friend. I'm so glad that you're able to join me on the program today.
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Happy New Year to you too, my friend.
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One of the big stories was New York subway and his poor woman. She got doused with some accelerant and burned to death. And it was an illegal immigrant who was kicked out, came back in under Joe Biden. And we know what happened there. And I saw this headline that Curtis Sliwa, the guardian angels, man, talk about a name from the past guardian angels. I'm glad to see that. They're still up and running. So can you just, let me start there. Can you describe what the guardian angels do? Are they all volunteer? Are they paid? How does Curtis run this operation?
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Absolutely not paid. All right. It's a volunteer. Curtis started this a long time ago. Curtis is from my neck of the woods in Brooklyn. So I know him and he's, you know, he's dedicated to this. He's dedicated his whole life to this, you know, public service in one form or another. And they, they're a necessity out there. They're not afraid to get involved. They're going to, Do what Daniel Penny did. All right. And they're going to go out there. They're going to get involved and they're going to be a force to be reckoned with out there. So it's going to be something that they have to. People are going to see them. They wear the red berets, the red jackets, and they have been effective for many, many years because they're just a force of three or four that run together, sometimes two. But people see them and people feel safer with them.
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Speaking of Daniel Penny and what came from that, he should never have been prosecuted, but he was. And you know one of the heartbreaking images, some of the heartbreaking... video from New York, was to see other people just walk by, even security people just walk by, and this poor woman, she was still standing, somehow she was still standing there just burning to death.
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Do you think... You know, Sergio, I watched that video, and I've been on there a few times about it, and he turned around, and this was something that the accelerant affected her and consumed her body so fast that it was just amazing. that anybody could even get in there. The cops tried. You couldn't get in there. Once this happened, it was accelerated by the doors being open as well. So it wasn't that anybody could go in there. There was no fire extinguishers at hand. They didn't have a large blanket to try to put over her. And, you know, it was disgusting. I don't know if anybody has ever seen that before. But, you know, to see that live is like people have to understand that this is just a disgusting scene. but the aftermath, though, but it's just as worse. And I'm going to tell you something. It's something that you cannot just run in there and do something with. The cops couldn't even do that. And he stood there fanning the flames, this illegal migrant. And what's the first thing that they're trying to do? Make an insanity defense for him. They don't even know what his frame of mind is. He was alcohol-induced rage, and that's exactly what happened with this.
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The reason I mentioned that Daniel... The Dan Penny effect. Do you think law enforcement or just New Yorkers, just other people, are hesitant to do anything in a situation like this because of what happened to Dan Penny, where the prosecutors are misguided and they'll go after the hero before they go after the criminal?
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You just nailed it. You just summed it right up. The prosecutors will go after the cops before they go after somebody else. The cops are handcuffed, and people like Daniel Penny are handcuffed from the beginning. This ADA brag, you and I have discussed them so many times and it just gets progressively worse because he has a political agenda that does not coincide with his role as a district attorney of Manhattan. He turns around and he prosecutes cops. He did it to Sergeant Provenzano. All right. He did it to him with the Apple at the Apple store incident. Uh, you know, it's always something that he's got to get political gain out of. All right. And that was exactly what happened with Daniel Penny. Daniel Penney did not intend to kill this individual. He tried to subdue him. And by the guy's own prior drug use and his own fighting him, a tragedy occurred where he died. Daniel Penney most certainly did not try to kill him. But yet Alvin Bragg decided to bring charges against him, just like he did with President Trump, because it's political gain for him. And he does not have the same... or what do you call them and figure to go after the true criminals. All right. He, they walk around and only the cops, and people like Trump and Daniel Penny are the ones that get prosecuted.
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My friend Joe Cardinale, retired New York PD lieutenant commander, my guest, Status Report New York, and it's amazing how they stepped it up, security did. They stepped up security for New Year's, and thank God we cleared the holiday, and that came and went now in the rearview mirror. But there are some enclaves, I understand, that are still seeing some violence because you've got a large illegal immigrant population. So what can you tell me? What's taking place up in New York?
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Well, January 20th is going to be what's taking place. And then you finally have, what's his name? What do you call him? Mayor Adams. Oh, yeah, Eric Adams. Finally, he's going to turn around and cooperate with ICE and everything. And I think when Tom Holman gets in there and does the job he has to do, when we round up, especially this Venezuelan gang, Trendel Agua, we need to get rid of them before anybody else. And you know what? They say we're not taking them back. I told you my plan a long time ago to get them back. Put them on a C4 transport with a fighter escort with parachutes on their back and let them know they're coming into the country. They're coming into the country, and either you let us land with them or we're dropping them over your most influential areas, all right? And where they land, they land. You go through what we went through.
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You probably have not seen this. I went fishing in the international, the Spanish media area, Nicaragua is threatening to shut down, kick out the U.S. base, the Air Force base that's in Nicaragua if Donald Trump does a mass deportation, sends back about a quarter million illegals back to Honduras. Just a little side note there I think you would find interesting. Eric Adams can't afford the bill, the multibillion-dollar bill of taking care of all these illegal immigrants. I'm not surprised that he's done a 180, and now all of a sudden he's pro-border security and kicked them out working with ICE. Didn't he lift the sanctuary city designation in New York, or is that just a promise that he would do in the future? He did. He did, right?
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No, he lifted it. He said, we can't afford it. But you know what? You know, he, he doesn't, I said, I said a long time ago, you, you know, you should have thought about this before you designated us a sanctuary city, because what do you think was going to happen? And I know the neighbor because I grew up in a neighborhood where they had one of the biggest encampments. All right. And it was nothing but crime ridden area now because they were doing the quality of life crimes and they're over there passing out on people's front lawns and everything. And that was when, in the wintertime, I warned them. I said, this is wintertime. Wait until summer comes and they're out and about. And sure enough, Quality of life crimes went through the roof. And it was, you know, being a former captain in the NYPD, he should have realized what was going to happen with this. Right. But he didn't. Once again, the political face went on before the common sense face went on. And now he's backpedaling, but it's a little too late because now they're entrenched into our neighborhoods, and we have to pick them out of there. And it's on Long Island. Thank God the law enforcement and everybody that's on board with it, they've been on board, and we fight it any way we can on Long Island because it definitely trickles out there, and they keep putting them out there, flying them into the airports over there as well.
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Joe, you take care of my friend. We'll talk to you soon.
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You got it, my friend. Happy New Year to you and the family and everybody down there.
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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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Giant piece of space junk crashed into an African village south of Nairobi. The Kenyan Space Agency saying that the object, a metallic ring, roughly 8 feet in diameter, weighed about 1,100 pounds. Ooh-wee, man. Preliminary assessments indicate the space debris was a separation ring from a launch vehicle, which typically burns upon re-entry in the atmosphere. I find it surprising that it survived re-entry, but I also find it surprising that... that Kenya has a space agency. That's good for them. I hope they're working on some rockets, the Kenyan space agency. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen in the news warning that Congress, warning Congress that the U.S. could hit the debt limit by mid-January. Yellen saying unless lawmakers act, she will need to take extraordinary measures to prevent the U.S. from defaulting. Oh, I hate the way she talks. Biotech startup hoping to bring a pill to market next year that could give dogs an extra year of healthy life. Keyword, healthy life. So this startup in Northern California called Loyal, they say that they have raised $125 million to develop the drug with the hope that eventually they could provide something for humans as well, a pill that could extend life. But I was doing the math on this. It would benefit if it was the other way around. Don't you think? Like if we had a pill and give it to the doggies and they could extend life. Because what? They say that one human year is like seven years for doggies, right? So do the math on that. Like check it out. So if you give a doggie, you give the pooch a pill, they extend healthy life by a year. Well, reverse into... How much is that for humans? Like two months or just under two months? Like 1.7, 1.8 months? That's it? Yeah, keep working on that. Holiday spending is up. According to MasterCard Spending Pulse, data released... A couple of days ago, retail holiday sales jumped 3.8% from 2023. That blew past the expectations of 3.2%. And President-elect Donald Trump to hold a big victory rally at Capital One Arena January 19th. I'm Sergio Sanchez. You're listening to The Dana Show. I'm Sergio Sanchez. I'm in for my friend Dana Lash. Appreciate you being with us today. You can listen online as well. And Dana should be back with us early next week. Just in time to receive a nasty, nasty cold Arctic blast. Before I mention that, there was another story related. Oh, yeah, because I wanted to pair these two. There was a report showing homelessness in our country surged in the U.S. this year. The Department of Housing and Urban Development released data a couple days back that said the number of people experiencing homelessness went up an impressive 18% in 2024. Now, it's a small sample that they used in that year. Family homelessness saw a major jump. Wow, an impressive almost 40% jump this year compared to the previous year. Meantime, the number of homeless veterans fell 8% this year to 2023. All this is, for me, all this is screaming inflation. Yes, the food costs more, the fuel costs more, the light bill costs more, and the owners of the properties, the owners of the apartments, of the condos, of those places that they're leasing, they have to pay more, hence they have to charge more, hence the rent is more expensive, hence the food and everything. So it's a vicious cycle, and not surprising. Oh, that's real painful to see that the family homelessness number is up almost 40% compared to the previous year. And we can't start this administration fast enough, the Trump administration. I've said for the longest time, I am a firm believer that if you decrease, number one, I don't know if he can do much as far as the money supply, the glut of money that's out there because we got too much money, too much demand, not enough supply. Yes, that naturally increases inflation. But there is one expense that maybe can help lower the light bill. Maybe it will definitely help lower the gasoline expense. Yeah, that's fuel. America has been hogtied by the Biden administration. We have not been allowed to extract the natural resources, the God-given resources. that can help lower the price of the pump and help lower the price of diesel. This is unnecessary, what the Biden administration did to us. And I heard American families, working families, having to pay more for gasoline, having to pay more to, well, hopefully to this point, maybe they've been saving money on heating their homes. I know that's an issue for folks in the Midwest and up Northeast and the price of this petrol, this oil, this fuel that you use for your furnaces. I know you guys are going to be firing that up here pretty soon. But if you increase the supply of all this fuel, definitely with time, with cheaper delivery to market of goods, that should translate into slightly, hopefully substantial, cheaper goods at the store, for all goods at the store, all groceries at the store, down the road. And as I mentioned, there's a big freeze coming, a blast of winter weather. It's going to hit much of the country. The deep south is going to get blasted next week. Lots of southern states, from Louisiana all the way to Florida. Lots of southern states. Even Texas we're going to get. We're not going to see that freeze-opelix apocalypse like we saw a few years back. That would be more like for areas, like I said, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, all the way over to Florida sometime next week.
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This is not a terrorist event. What it is right now is their improvised explosive devices that was found. And we are working on confirming if this is a viable device or not.
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My goodness, yet again, instilling confidence in the American people. Happy New Year, my friend. Thank you so much for tuning in to The Dana Show. From the home of Starbase, Texas, the Rio Grande Valley, Texas, as I call it, the Dana Show Southern Command, faithful affiliate of 710KURV. I'm Sergio Sanchez wishing you and your family a very happy, prosperous, and safe new year. My goodness, 2025. What a crazy way to start. Oh my goodness, 15 families losing loved ones. At least, well, maybe, well, 15 folks that died as a result of this terrorist attack. Yes, it was a terrorist attack. And what's crazy about that opening little bit of audio, that was, let's see, Aletha Duncan, FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge. Aletha Duncan said, no, this is not a terrorist incident. This is not a terrorist attack. She inherited the microphone from the mayor of New Orleans who started the press conference by saying this. You got the audio, Steve?
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Good morning. First of all, we do know that the city of New Orleans was impacted by a terrorist attack.
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That's how the press conference started. It's a terrorist attack. And then she won a little bit for about two, three minutes. And then the FBI saying, no, it's not a terrorist attack. Oh my goodness, right out of the gate, just stumbling like Keystone cops. Mercifully, Joe Biden was awake. And I think it was just a few hours later. It was cut for where President Biden saying, yeah, it's a terrorist attack. And he mentioned a bit more information on the attack and social media. It's cut for.
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This is what we know so far. The FBI has reported to me The killer was an American citizen born in Texas. He served in the United States Army on active duty for many years. He also served in the Army Reserve until a few years ago. The FBI also reported to me that mere hours before the attack, he posted videos on social media indicating that he was inspired by ISIS.
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I don't know. I hear a little pep in his staff. Is it just me, or maybe it's the fact that Joe Biden sounded like a little bit upbeat. He said, it's a U.S. citizen. Oh, good. We don't have to blame anybody from overseas or an illegal immigrant. We dodged that bullet, right? Oh, and he's from Texas. Take that, Greg Abbott. He's one of yours, born in Texas, right? Oh, and he's in the military. He's one of ours, a homegrown, a terrorist. It's cut five. Governor Landry in Louisiana. Here's where the back and forth and all the tug of war and the incompetence by the Biden administration and all the mess up. All we need to hear, and I've yet to hear this little nugget of information. Oh, he was on the FBI's radar. He was on. I'm waiting for that any moment now. He was on the FBI radar. You know what's coming. You know what's coming. Because already people that served in the military, I'm not going to say this idiot's name. This terrorist, this Islamofascist, this radicalized, obviously radicalized, American-born, radicalized Islamofascist. I'm not going to say his name. But this guy, the people that he served with in the military, saying that there was a screw loose, there was something, and they complained about him as well. So I'm waiting to hear from the FBI. Oh, he was on our radar. Let's play Cut 5, Governor Landry in Louisiana. Steve, go ahead.
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Well, like why would we tell you that?
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Again, we want to answer pertinent questions, but anything that would lead
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to impeding or endangering this investigation is not going to be said, okay? And we will, as information unfolds, this is a very fluid process. And remember something, too. We're doing two things. We're hunting some bad people down, and we're securing the city, too. We're getting ready for a sugar bowl tomorrow. So if y'all would, again, if you have questions regarding sugar bowl, the safety of the city, or something to that effect, we're happy to answer.
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My only hope and prayer is that, oh, fine. It's good that they say they're hunting down some more bad guys, some more bad owners. I think reverse psychology might have worked as well. They lie all the time. Look, I'm just putting out there just commentary from me. But they lie all the time. That's not commentary. That's actually reality. But why don't you use that to your advantage? Now, They told us, they already squealed and said, we're looking for bad hombres, we're looking for bad people, we're looking, he didn't act alone, we're looking for other people. I don't know, maybe reverse psychology. Oh, we believe that he acted alone, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Yes, I know I have to backtrack it, but just use it. I mean, you've got a bunch of stooges in the media that are doing the bidding and the work of the national government and the administration, the Joe Biden administration and people in the FBI. You know, to get the special phone call early in the morning to be outside Mar-a-Lago for a raid that needs to be televised and to go in there with, you know, pointing guns everywhere. We know that the FBI can get the job done. But why don't you say, I don't know, I'm just blurting out an opinion. Why don't you say that we don't suspect maybe he's alone. We're not going to comment further on this investigation like the governor said. Ask me about the bowl game. Ask me about the security in the city. That's fine. But I'm thinking, by saying that you're searching for other individuals, that you're on the hunt for other individuals, well, now they know you're coming. Instead of them, hopefully, them just sitting around, staying put, watching TV, watching the Clueless News Network and everybody else talk about this. And then you surprise them. Boom. You surprise them. You had them in your sights the whole time. And just... I'm not in law enforcement. For me, it's just easy to opine about stuff like this. What do I know? I'm not in law enforcement. I'm thinking, use the press, use the media. Be coy about the information you send out there. Now, my hope and prayer is that the intelligence agencies, they actually flex their intelligence to prevent. Now, we know that, and again, compliments and Happy New Year and hugs to all the good folks at the FBI who are still working with great frustration, I'm sure, under the Biden administration, the mismanagement of of investigatory tools and agencies in this government to go after innocents, to go after, you know, Catholic private school families, or go after individuals that, you know, threaten to go after individuals that go to school boards and have a problem with a school board. You've got to watch out for those domestic terrorists. Oh, and watch out for, you know, the most dangerous terrorist in our nation, right? Flashback to Joe Biden. Cut 13, Steve. Remember this, Jim? Cut 13. single out as the most dangerous terrorist threat to our homeland is white supremacy oh yeah yeah maybe the fbi needs to concentrate on that maybe they have haven't been able to find any we know that the fbi good fbi folks when they put their minds so they can get the job done find i know people like the oklahoma city bomber the unibomber I wish that we could apply their talents, the FBI talents, the national problems like human smuggling. I don't know, maybe the Department of Homeland Security, since they have admitted they lost how many kids under the Biden administration? 300 something, 300,000 kids under the Biden administration that went with sponsors. They have no idea where these kids are. I'm hoping they're safe. I know you're hoping that they're safe. but even even if a crumb even of a minute minuscule number of the 300 000 children that this government mismanaged and sent with adults into the interior somewhere and they can't find them even if a small number of those babies are living hell on earth in sex slavery that is not acceptable maybe get the fbi to work something like that we know that they can get the job done they can check surveillance video, they can do online searches, they can do some tracking, door-to-door knocking, surveilling. You know, kind of like they found all the people from January 6th and sent all these grandmas and patriots and people who were waved in to the Capitol building, you know, during the J6 thing. Yeah, the FBI, they did yeoman's work. They were sent there. by this administration, the higher-ups in this administration, said they'd go find all the J6 people, make an example of them. So we have some interesting notes as the investigation and all these press conferences come out. We found out this morning. Now, I should have written it down somewhere, but this app... That was used... There's a couple of interesting notes between what took place in New Orleans. 15 people killed. The weapon of choice, a big old truck, a big old white truck. And it was rented by some online app that's like Airbnb for car owners who can rent out their vehicles. The cyber truck attack in Las Vegas, which I just was taken back when I saw that video yesterday from Las Vegas, because... If you've seen the video, you can see the entrance where the Cybertruck is at the valet area. And it says Trump Tower. My kids were there. Me and my family were there not too many months ago during a summer trip. We didn't go to Vegas with the kids to show off Vegas. Like I was telling my producer, Freddie, here in the studio, we went to see the western portion. of the Grand Canyon, and from there we could hop, skip, go to the Reagan Library in California, just do a lot of driving around and see that region. We stayed at the Trump Hotel. I think it was just at least one night to say that we stayed at the Trump Hotel. And I'm thinking, wow, it was, you know, we were right there, right there at the entrance. Well, that individual, well, I'm not going to say his name either, because the National News has been repeating his name. This guy and the terrorist in New Orleans, they might have known each other. There's reports from ABC, from Fox, everybody's saying that these two, they served in the same unit or they served in the military in the same base. They might have known each other. Oh, and the other interesting tidbit is that this Airbnb-style car rental where you can rent your car out to people, the white truck and the cyber truck, were both rented out by that same online Airbnb-style car rental thing that I've never heard of before. I find that interesting because you think, well, if they were truly separate incidents, not connected to each other in any way, You know, it's very suspicious that these two were in the military. They served in the same place and probably knew each other. And the same, this obscure car rental thing was used to rent both vehicles. You got some owners out there, some vehicles, an owner of a white truck and an owner of a Tesla Cybertruck, calling in insurance saying, uh... Allstate, State Farm, you're not going to believe this, but I need to put in a claim, because my vehicle doesn't exist anymore. But they're more than likely connected. And that's why I say my hope and prayer is that the intelligence agency, the FBI and Amigos and other friends, which, by the way, as I'm talking to you right now, because I saw that advisory from the White House, just now, like at this moment, this hour, hour one of the Dana Show, Just now, Joe Biden has called his national security team together to have a conversation. Just now. About 24 hours after the president said, yeah, it was a terrorist attack. So maybe he needed to take an extra nap and sleep a little and get himself oriented for the conversation today. But that's what's taking place. We're talking about this. So there's other individuals being sought. I hope the FBI can flex with other intelligence agencies and get the job done and prevent any more terrorist attacks, because we know this is a terrorist attack. And yes, the usual suspects, the Islamic terrorism, is at the front of the line. I'm Sergio Sanchez. Happy New Year to you and your family. 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I'm Sergio Sanchez in for my friend Dana Lash. Dana should be with us, Lord willing, sometime next week, early in the week, I believe, right after the holiday. Time now for a quick five.
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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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role again, as well as the endorsement of leaders across the conservative spectrum and the Republican Party, all my colleagues that are standing with us, and we will get this done. Look, the things that we're talking about this morning are an illustration that we live in very serious times. We cannot afford any palace drama here. We have got to get the Congress started, which begins tomorrow, and we have to get immediately to work. We have to certify the election of President Donald J. Trump.
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Yeah, can you imagine that? Can you imagine that? Not having a Republican Speaker of the House, everything in chaos, Matt Gaetz style. And not being able to take care of business and certify Donald Trump as president. You know, the Congress take care of business like they're supposed to. I'm Sergio Sanchez in for my friend Dana Lash. Dana should be back with us, Lord willing, early next week. So you guys stick around. We've got lots of great information to share with you today. Which is a crazy start to the new year. My goodness. A big hug to all the family in Vegas. Our friend... Vegas Larry shoveling all the information as much as possible over to the producers of the Dana Show, just doing Yoma's work over there at his talk radio station, news radio station. Of all places, let's call it what it is, a coordinated terror attack. I'm not afraid to put it out there. Of course, I'm not investigating this. But I think, like you can think, and everybody can see all the evidence that's in front of us, we got an Islamo-fascist attacking innocents and killing 15 people and injuring Lord knows how many dozens more and got hurt. And then a coordinated attack by an individual that this terrorist more than likely knew because they served in the military and probably in the same base or in the same place. They probably knew each other. Oh, and they rented vehicles, separate vehicles, from an obscure car renting app, kind of like Airbnb. All these connections. And, of course, making a statement with a Cybertruck, of all things. in front of the Trump Tower, the Trump Hotel, sorry, not the Trump Tower, the Trump Hotel there in Vegas. which by the way elon musk chimed in and said these numbskulls these idiots uh... they chose it won't he chose the the uh... this attacker this bomber when i could say i i'll call he is a suicide bomber he's dead in the this individual according to police and police reports uh... all the incendiary devices all you know mortar fireworks, I didn't know such a thing existed, mortar fireworks, the incendiary, the accelerants, the tanks of fuel, whatever he had, had a firing mechanism. And he fired. He's dead. So he's a suicide bomber. There in front of the Trump Hotel in Vegas, that beautiful tower, which we stayed in. To me, it's just surreal to see the images there at the front, the golden front door where it says the Trump Hotel, the Trump Tower. Because my kids were right there, like, at that very door, my kids were there just a few months back when we went to Vegas to take in the sights in that region of the country. It's just amazing. But this attack at the Trump Hotel, Elon Musk chimed in and said, hey, these numbskulls, these idiots, they used, see, the truck helped to deviate the force of the blast. That's what I take from it. from from from these reports of the the way the cyber truck is shape the that the tail uh... of it uh... though the way it's constructed in other properties steel panels or everything's held in real tight it's a tough vehicle it's at one point i remember you on must be taken aback to this thing or minimum showing out it's it's pretty sturdy can judge and try to break the glass it didn't break but somehow the explosion the the percussion of the explosion was deviated to a point where I didn't see any broken glass at the Trump Hotel. Did you? It's just like everything popped. Maybe the percussive effect with exposure went up and away from the area. And, of course, get all the fireworks after that. So, numbskull used the wrong truck to try to inflict damage on the area. Speaker Johnson has the endorsement of... of Donald Trump, full endorsement. I just think President Trump's trying to avoid Matt Gaetz-style chaos at the House. I have not forgotten. Yes, I'm very disappointed. Matt Gaetz was an eloquent, articulate defender and speaker on behalf of the conservative cause. When it comes to certain conservative issues, maybe not so much as far as his personal life, and he has all these embarrassing revelations. That's why, man, dude, if he can't keep it in your pocket, ask God Almighty to give you a helpful companion. Give you a wife. Go find you someone that can help you sow your royal oats. We know the embarrassing revelations when it comes to Matt Gage. And Matt, you know, he was... I think Matt's going to make a great talk show host someday. I think Matt may have a great job waiting for him at some think tank to maybe develop some counter punches. So when the left comes at you, maybe he can develop some counterpunches and then sit down and provide those talking points for, you know, like they do on the left, where they own the media, and they send out their little talking points. Well, maybe on the right, since we suck so much, I say we, being GOP, we suck so much on the right when it comes to coordinating an attack or a counterattack or a counterproposal or maybe putting the talking points out to, you know, because truth is on our side. and we know that the last well it may be met gates will be good at something like that i'm sure with your conversation here in just a little bit related to that i mean get to some other headlines uh... sadly in new orleans the security barriers that would have protected the crowds on bourbon's bourbon street were removed before the attack on wednesday the bollards those big old steel like three foot tall steel pegs that prevent you from driving into an area. That's what had been removed. They say that they had been malfunctioning. How does somebody, what, they go down to the ground and you bring them back up by motor? Is that what it was? Or they weren't fixed properly into the ground? Anyway, the mayor of New Orleans. It said that the bollards were being replaced ahead of the city celebrating the Super Bowl in a few weeks. So had those bollards been there? Well, maybe. I don't know. It all depends if they do it from wall to wall and cover the sidewalks as well. And then there's this note. Dallas Mavericks star Luka Dantic. I always want to say bless you every time I hear that name. Luka Dantic. Bless you. Latest professional athlete to have his home burglarized. Dallas Morning News said that Luka Doncic, his house was broken into on Friday night. And thieves got in there, were able to make off with about $30,000 worth of jewelry. No one home during the break-in. Now, it begs the question. Because I bought a security system for my mom when she was living alone just down the street from me, about five minutes away. She wanted to live alone. Fine. I had a security system with cameras inside the house to make sure she was walking around, she was okay. Anybody rang the door or there was a security alert, my phone would be ablaze. Do you think these multi-million dollar players, can't they afford Vivint or SimpliSafe or Bing or something like that? Maybe, I don't know, find yourself a family member, like some nephew or an aunt or somebody that wants to tag along. Do some house-sitting for you. No excuse for their houses to be broken into. Okay, so let me share with you now a conversation I promised you. President Trump. All in for Speaker Johnson, my friend John Pudner. He's a senior advisor to the Faith and Freedom Coalition. Happy New Year, brother. How was your holiday?
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, fantastic. Thank you.
SPEAKER 05 :
I see that Donald Trump gives full endorsement. Mike Johnson, keep the gavel, keep working as Speaker of the House. Complete and total endorsement, he says. I would prefer somebody a little stronger. conservative causes in D.C. But I'm thinking President Trump would just like to avoid the chaos of trying to select a new speaker and all the infighting that, you know, thanks to Matt Gaetz, we saw how that wound up for months in D.C. I think avoiding chaos is probably the best solution at the moment.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes, and the extra reason right now is you have to have a House with a speaker able to convene on Monday to certify that Trump is president. So This one really is much more difficult than the battle, the past battle over Speaker. I mean, the chaos would be, well, technically Trump's not president on Sunday. And then, you know, if none of us want that, we want the agenda moving forward. So I'm hoping that some of these conservatives, some of these conservative members are using this time to make points and get commitments from Johnson. I'm hoping they're doing that, but I do hope that none of them vote no tomorrow at noon because Massey's already said he wants support, and that leaves you just a one-vote margin. Anyone else, if he had one other vote no, we don't have a speaker. That's all it takes.
SPEAKER 05 :
I hope he survives, and I hope that Republicans take, you know, rip a page out of the Democrat playbook, lock arms, and march in one direction, we need those tax breaks. We need to re-up those tax breaks. We need border security efforts. There's a lot of this agenda that needs to take place, like, now. Because I don't know if the GOP leadership has it in them. to put the ground game necessary to try to win enough seats in two years to make sure that the Trump agenda keeps plowing forward. So I think they only have less than 24 months to get the agenda done.
SPEAKER 04 :
I agree. Just historically, generally, after a president wins, two years out, they lose some seats. I hope that doesn't happen, but I'm just saying historically we'll be fighting history a little. If you're up 20 when your president wins, then maybe you're up 10 two years later when he's not on the ballot. So I agree. I think it's got to be full speed ahead. You've got two years here to get through everything you can. And that may be it. We may just be in a stalemate the next two years with a Republican president in the Senate, perhaps, but maybe not a House. So that's what we're looking at.
SPEAKER 05 :
I think folks that sit on the sidelines who start complaining about the Republicans not getting it done and not being strong enough, not conservative enough, not pushing hard enough for the Trump agenda, I think there's several million of them in there somewhere who supported Trump but also voted for the Democrat congressional representative in their disorder, or worse, did not vote For Congress. They just voted for Trump and allowed the Democrat to go back in there. There's about 30, 40 seats that oscillate. They go R&D, R&D, R&D. Because I see some examples here in Texas. Here in South Texas, I see examples of the undervote. The people that did not support the congressional candidate, but supported Trump. We won all... Here in South Texas, we won... Donald Trump... won all of South Texas, the border counties. First time ever we've ever seen that. But then if you get deeper into the weeds of the vote, you see how many people did not vote for Ted Cruz, how many people did not vote for their Republican candidate on the ballot. So the voters have only themselves to blame. So follow Trump on this one. Keep Mike Johnson. Let's go. Let's get the agenda done.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, I think this is one of the classical adage in politics is don't make the perfect the enemy of the good. I mean, right now there are only two choices. We either... elect Johnson and have a House on Monday and certify that Trump's president, or we don't elect Johnson and we don't certify that Trump's president on Monday. This one's very clear-cut, I think. I think that's how you've got to lay it out to people.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay. Who is it you said that was not going to support Speaker Johnson on this one?
SPEAKER 04 :
Thomas Massey is the one who has said he will not support him. And then Matt Gaetz kind of, you know, said to stop picking on him in a tweet. I'm like, you know, we just hate to say this might be a situation where it's good that Matt isn't still in there because if he were to go further and join him in a no vote, that would stop everything. I mean, but so yeah, he's the one man. He's definitely the most independent thinker.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, that's fine. That's fine. But does he have a backup? Has Thomas Massey proposed someone who everybody can rally around and elect a speaker? Or he's just doing the Matt Gaetz thing, saying, no, I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to vote. I'm going to sit there in the corner and just ruin the day for everybody.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, another old adage. No one thinks the day after the revolution, when you overthrow a government or something... That was the old adage from centuries back, but same kind of thing. No, I haven't seen him propose any plan and who this other person would be. And, of course, the problem is, if you play it out, the Democrats can come up with their alternative and say, hey, you... Mr. Whoever, we'll make you speaker if you're with us and you give us chairmanships. I mean, it just gets to a complete mess of these things. So I think we just need to avoid all that.
SPEAKER 1 :
Okay.
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Thank you, John, for your time. We'll talk soon, amigo. Thank you. Senior advisor to Faith and Freedom Coalition, John Putner. I'm Sergio Sanchez in for my friend Dana Lash. Dana will be with us after the holiday early next week, Lord willing. Got some breaking news. Dana was the one who posted this a few minutes back. The driver in that Cybertruck attack in Vegas at the Trump Hotel, the driver of that truck was an active-duty Green Beret. Dun, dun, dun. The story gets more interesting. Hey, stick around. Got more breaking news information. This is The Dana Show from South Texas.
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Mr. Netanyahu, about a ceasefire deal, you said if they don't have one by the time you take office, there will be hell to pay.
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We're going to see what happens. They better let the hostages come back. Did you hear that?
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Yeah, they better let the hostages go soon. President Trump in true form, absolutely. You know, under his administration. And I'm looking forward to maybe in another generation, maybe if I stick around long enough, maybe in the next half generation or so, maybe somebody, some of these new independent faith-based Christian or faith-based or independent movie houses that are becoming more successful, like Angel Studios. Maybe they can write a script on how under the Trump administration, he released the hounds. And they took care of ISIS, took out ISIS, left and right, different operations. No one knew about, no one has heard. We have yet to see, we have yet to read about these stories. Yet, under Donald Trump, that's what I'm expecting. They don't release the hostages. Yeah, he's going to take care of business. He will release the house, work with Israel. And it's 72, 74 virgins for every one of these cockroaches that are still holding on to the hostages in Israel. I'm Sergio Sanchez. This is The Dana Show. Stick around. Got conversations coming up with some close friends. Joe Cardinale, he's a retired NYPD commander. He's a close friend of Curtis Sliwa. He knows Curtis. He's a friend of Curtis Sliwa. That name sound familiar? Yeah, the Guardian Angels. you know there are patrol again in new york city subways about time with judges is about time we needed you but now that that poor woman was incinerated and killed by an illegal immigrant yet another patrolling the subway in new york soon a friend of chris lee were from the guardian angels were now patrol uh... coming up initial also h one b visas a conversation on that are we not graduating enough i t high-tech software computer nerds i think we are well i think we need to reform that program I'm Sergio Sanchez. You're listening to The Dana Show.
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The border was not Biden's finest moment, frankly. You can see what happened here. And Trump is not wrong when he talks about how border crossings were quite low. They were running about 74,000 a month when he left office. And they, in fact, did shoot up. Some of it was some things Biden said and some ways that they put a moratorium, for example, on deportations. But in fact, we did get up here almost to 300,000.
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Yeah, showing a chart. That was MSNBC, someone on MSNBC, admitting that Donald Trump, he's not wrong. showing on a chart some damning information on the immigration spike under Joe Biden, who did a complete 180 from what Donald Trump did and pretty much opened the border and sent out an invitation for everybody to come to the border. Come, it's open season at the border. Come in and stay. Just declare a sign-up. I'm Sergio Sanchez. And you're listening to The Dana Show, broadcasting today from her faithful affiliate 710KURV and the RGV of Texas, home of Starbase. Dana should be back with us early next week, Lord willing. And speaking of opening up the border, open invitation. It's Tom Holman also in the news. Tom Holman, this Biden administration, the unsecured border, the open border, anybody to cross and stay, that's the whole thing, cross and stay, to say the right words, game the system, and now we've got over 10 million illegals that have come in, probably more than that if you count all the people that were not caught by Border Patrol. It's cut 14, Steve, with Tom Holman on the mess that this administration made when it came to border security or lack thereof.
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Well, look, I said yesterday, well, I think we're going to find out after the investigation. I think you're going to have two U.S. citizens. I'm talking about Las Vegas and New Orleans. I think you're going to have two U.S. citizens with prior military experience. I think you're going to find they both have recent foreign travel. They both are inspired biases. And I think they're both on a suicide mission. I think both of these incidents, these men knew they weren't going home. This is just another danger this country faces because this country has been laxed on national security and groups like this have been emboldened. I mean, when you've got protesters walking down the streets of New York City carrying terrorist flags, chanting death to Israel and death to the United States, and nothing's being done about it, and when you have a border that was secure under President Trump and this administration unsecured it on purpose, it's an open invitation for those around the world that hate this country.
SPEAKER 05 :
Our new borders are a real border czar for the Trump administration. Tom Holman just chomping at the bit to get in there. We do know so far the New Orleans terrorist attack. It was, you know, this guy was flying an ISIS flag. He was radicalized. People who served with him at that same military base, which, by the way, this guy in New Orleans, And the guy who blew himself up inside a Cybertruck outside the Trump Hotel in Vegas, they were stationed at the same base. Now, Tom Holman's saying that he's suspecting that with time, maybe information will come out and say that they did some foreign travel. There was one report, and I've yet to pin this down. There was one report early that said, for example, the guy in New Orleans, The terrorist of New Orleans who killed... The number has been revised down to 14, by the way. I saw that the FBI did an update earlier today. Said that the attack on Burma Street was an act of terrorism. The FBI, their words. They said at least 14 killed. Dozen more injured. There was a report yesterday at the early hours of this that that truck, which by the way, this guy who attacked, who killed those people, this terrorist who killed those people in New Orleans, he lived in North Houston. FBI working in the North Houston area doing an investigation on this. I don't believe they've taken anybody into custody at this guy's house. But there was a report that the truck that this guy was in had crossed the Mexican border at Del Rio. Now, initial report said two days ago. I do believe I saw within the past several hours, somebody backed the truck literally on this one, said, no, it was several weeks back that it crossed the Mexican border, which could mean anything. Again, these vehicles, the Cybertruck that was used by more than likely... increasingly by the by the hour I guess you could say that increasing it seems that the cyber truck suicide bomber because in essence that's what happened he he killed himself he committed suicide whether he wanted to or not he killed himself the guy in Las Vegas He rented a vehicle through some obscure app. This guy in Houston, he rented that truck through some obscure app, the same obscure app. So that app rents vehicles that other people own. It's not like Vegas or it's not like like Avis or Hertz or budget, you name it. It's an app. You have you own a truck and you're able to rent it out. And they used that same app. They were stationed at the same base. We come to find out, and I know Dana posted this last hour, the suicide bomber, I'm calling him, the suicide bomber in Vegas. Intentional or not, the suicide bomber. He was an active duty Green Beret. I guess if his intent was to cause extreme damage to the property, God knows, I don't even want to take my mind there as to what could have happened had this been, oh, God forbid, something bigger like Oklahoma City. Oh, my Lord. God forbid. Had it been something like that. Obviously they don't, maybe this guy failed the course on munitions because he had like fireworks and gas canisters and accelerants and other things like that. Reports from yesterday saying that all this had a switch where he just flipped the switch and blew himself up and caused a bunch of damage. But because it was a Cybertruck, like Elon Musk said, because it was a Cybertruck and how sturdy these cycles are built or gets the shape of it. Maybe the geometric weirdness of the Cybertruck kept the force of the explosion and moved in a different direction. The explosion didn't even break the glass at the Trump Hotel. Thank God for that. So let's catch up to speed. So last hour, the FBI had a press conference. An act of terrorism. 14 is the number that they're saying killed. At least 14. And... May God save and heal the other people that are in the hospital. Dozens in the hospital. At Bourbon Street area, a hot spot, the assistant director, FBI, Christopher Rea, is saying that it is confirmed that this suspect, I'm not going to say his name, that he pledged his support for ISIS. Did that on social media. Joe Biden said that yesterday as well. I find it interesting that This of all times, right? They threw Joe out there and tried to get ahead of the game and tried to make sure to stay in front of the cameras. While embarrassingly, if you heard the first hour of the Dana show, embarrassingly, you had the mayor of New Orleans saying, yeah, we've been hit by a terrorist attack. And then just two minutes later, gave the microphone to the FBI person in charge there in New Orleans and said, no, this is not a terrorist attack. And then Joe Biden, a little bit afterwards, saying, yeah, we suffered a terrorist attack. All over the place. I find it interesting how they put him out there ahead of the story as much as possible. I guess make sure that Donald Trump doesn't own the story, right? Because you know that Tom Holman has to be making phone calls. the people in the Department of Homeland Security, who he worked with and he directed at one time. I'm sure that people within the incoming administration, even Sebastian Gorka, remember him? He's going to be, again, he's going to be director of, what is it, like National Security or Intelligence, Foreign Intelligence, something like that. He has an intelligence role. I bet you all these people were making phone calls trying to figure out what was going on. Throw Joe Biden out there before Trump says anything, before... You know, you make sure you say the truth as much as possible. So this guy, Assistant Director Chris Rea, in that news conference in New Orleans just a few moments back, they said, yes, they recovered that ISIS flag. Yeah, thank you, Captain Obvious. It was all over social media. See, this is where I agree with Elon Musk. The heritage media, the corporate media, New York-based, New York-centric media where they want everybody to believe that their poop don't stink. It's New York, the so-called heritage press. I call them the dinosaur media. This is where they're irrelevant. To a certain degree, and because they have lied so much to the American people, going back to all the lies about Donald Trump, all the lies in 2016, all the lies in 2020, all the lies related to COVID, all the lies related to the laptop from hell with Biden Jr., All these lies, people, they don't expect to get reliable information. That's why in all this polling data, you see that social media, That's the number one source of news. And at the lead of social media, in social media platforms, is X, is Twitter. Congratulations, Elon Musk. Now, yes, there's a lot of stuff that needs to be confirmed on social media. There's a lot of stuff you can't believe. Somebody posting that an old coach is coming back to coach the Dallas Cowboys. They'll post crazy stuff on there, just silly stuff, clickbait. But many times, especially during breaking news, and I found this to be true during the Trump attempt, both Trump attempted assassinations, social media pictures and video and accounts and testimony were several miles ahead, a head start to traditional media. In my opinion, the role of traditional media, the networks, and In the end, I think that they serve as maybe a final confirmation to what everybody already knows, to what everybody already sees. That ISIS flag was all over social media yesterday. The FBI reported that improvised explosive devices were inside the pickup truck of the terrorist. This individual... And as I said last hour, I heard a little pep in the step of Joe Biden when he says, U.S.-born citizen, Army veteran. FBI was asking for help in getting more information from folks. And another one I'm trying to pin down is whether more people might have helped this individual. I know they're doing an investigation in Houston. They were doing a raid, but they haven't taken anybody into custody. And as far as the driver who, again, committed suicide, intentionally or not radicalized individual we we get to hear more and information about him who we know rented his vehicle on the same obscure uh... that you know rents vehicles that that uh... people that already own these vehicles and and served on the same uh... military base as a terrorist from new orleans a driver who died and that's las vegas hotel outside the hotel Identified as an Army veteran from Colorado. He's 37 years old. I'm not going to say this loser's name. He rented the electric truck that exploded New Year's Day. And he was in the driver's seat when it blew up. And there's lots of media reporting right now, including Dana. She posted an active duty Green Beret. 18 minutes after the hour. You're listening to The Dana Show. I'm Sergio Sanchez. It's an honor to be filling in again for my friend Dana. Reporting to you from the home of Starbase Texas RGV at the studios of 710K URV, this is The Dana Show.
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A giant piece of space junk crashed into an African village south of Nairobi. The Kenyan Space Agency saying that the object, a metallic ring, roughly eight feet in diameter, weighed about 1,100 pounds. Ooh-wee, man. They say preliminary assessments indicate the space debris was a separation ring from a launch vehicle, which typically burns upon reentry in the atmosphere. I find it surprising that it survived reentry, but I also find it surprising that... that Kenya has a space agency. Well, good for them. I hope they're working on some rockets. The Kenyan Space Agency. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen in the news warning Congress that the U.S. could hit the debt limit by mid-January. Yellen saying unless lawmakers act, she will need to take extraordinary measures to prevent the U.S. from defaulting. Oh, I hate the way she talks. Biotech startup hoping to bring a pill to market next year that could give dogs an extra year of healthy life. Keyword, healthy life. So this startup in Northern California called Loyal, they say that they have raised $125 million to develop the drug with the hope that eventually they could provide something for humans as well, a pill that could extend life. But I was doing the math on this. It would benefit if it was the other way around. Don't you think? Like if we had a pill and give it to the doggies and they could extend life. Because what? They say that one human year is like seven years for doggies, right? So do the math on that. Like check it out. So if you give a doggie, you give the pooch a pill, they extend healthy life by a year. Well, reverse into... How much is that for humans? Like two months or just under two months? Like 1.7, 1.8 months? That's it? Yeah, keep working on that. Holiday spending is up. According to MasterCard Spending Pulse, data released... A couple of days ago, retail holiday sales jumped 3.8% from 2023. That blew past the expectations of 3.2%. And President-elect Donald Trump to hold a big victory rally at Capital One Arena January 19th. I'm Sergio Sanchez. You're listening to The Dana Show.
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So, Madam Attorney General, if it was up to you, if they were asking your opinion and you were making the decision, would you postpone this game today and for how long?
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I would probably at least have postponed it until Friday, but I think that they have secured the city and it's okay, I guess, if they're going forward with it, but I would probably have at least delayed it.
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Yeah, well, it's easier said than done, I suppose. If they have secured the city, the Louisiana State Attorney General commenting on whether they shouldn't kick the big game down the road. If they have secured the city of New Orleans, frankly, I don't see any reason why it doesn't move forward. Sadly, yes, life needs to go on. The city is not destroyed. Lives have been destroyed. It might seem insensitive of me saying something like that, but... I think they need to move forward with the game. With extra security, I might add. A lot of extra security, I might add. I'm Sergio Sanchez. I'm in for my friend Dana Lash. Appreciate you being with us today. You can listen online as well. And Dana should be back with us early next week. Just in time to receive a nasty, nasty cold Arctic blast. Before I mention that, there was another story related. Oh, yeah, because I wanted to pair these two. There was a report showing homelessness in our country surged in the U.S. this year. The Department of Housing and Urban Development released data a couple days back that said the number of people experiencing homelessness went up an impressive 18% in 2024. Now, it's a small sample that they used in that year. Family homelessness saw a major jump. Wow, an impressive almost 40% jump this year compared to the previous year. Meantime, the number of homeless veterans fell 8% this year to 2023. All this is, for me, all this is screaming inflation. Yes, the food costs more, the fuel costs more, the light bill costs more, and the owners of the properties, the owners of the apartments, of the condos, of those places that they're leasing, they have to pay more, hence they have to charge more, hence the rent is more expensive, hence the food and everything, so it's a vicious cycle. Not surprising. Oh, that's real painful to see that the family homelessness number is up almost 40% compared to the previous year. And we can't start this administration fast enough, the Trump administration. I've said for the longest time, I am a firm believer that if you decrease, number one, I don't know if he can do much as far as the money supply, the glut of money that's out there because we got too much money, too much demand, not enough supply. Yes, that naturally increases inflation. But there is one expense that maybe can help lower the light bill. Maybe it will definitely help lower the gasoline expense. Yeah, that's fuel. America has been hogtied by the Biden administration. We have not been allowed to extract the natural resources, the God-given resources, that can help lower the price of the pump and help lower the price of diesel. This is unnecessary, what the Biden administration did to us and hurt American families, working families, having to pay more for gasoline, having to pay more to, well, hopefully to this point, maybe they've been saving money on heating their homes. I know that's an issue for folks in the Midwest and up Northeast and the price of this petrol, this oil, this fuel that you use for your furnaces. Yeah, I know you guys are going to be firing that up here pretty soon. But if you increase the supply of all this fuel, definitely with time, with cheaper delivery to market of goods, that should translate into slightly, hopefully substantial, cheaper goods at the store, for all goods at the store, all groceries at the store down the road. Yeah, and as I mentioned, there's a big freeze coming, a blast of winter weather. and hit much of the country the deep south is going to get blasted next week lots of southern states from louisiana with all the way to florida a lot of southern states even taxes were in get when i can see the freeze up alex apocalypse like we saw few fears back uh... they'll be more like four areas uh... like as a louisiana mississippi alabama all the way over to the ford sometime next week all right as as i promised In the GOP, we've got a nasty fight taking place right now on H-1B visas. we've got a nasty fight between those who want more uh... these tech nerds imported and those who want to reserve some of these high-paying jobs and keep them high paying jobs by making sure that american graduates american nerds take those jobs here's my conversation with a friend of mine a tech expert and attorney sean tuma we sure do have a lot of people in the tech sector ceos and top chiefs and managers and business owners who want more foreign talent The H-1B visa used by HITECH, it's for specialty occupations. Man, it seems to be like the top guest worker program that we have in this country. And there's been an infighting in the GOP. Donald Trump likes it. Elon Musk likes it. Vivek Ramachandran likes it. And you've got other folks within the GOP saying, hey, I thought we were America first. How about our college grads, our people first? Let them get those jobs, high-paying, high-tech jobs. I bring in a cybersecurity pro, data privacy attorney, and a friend of mine, Sean Tooman. My brother, I think this H-1B visa, look, I'm not hiring any high-tech people, but I don't know, man. Something doesn't seem right to me. Is our nation not producing? enough high-tech grads to fill all these positions, high-paying positions, or is this just high-tech companies that are seeking cheap labor when it comes to high-tech?
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You know, I think it's a great question and a great topic to discuss because we all see the statistics and we hear the data that's out there. But from what I see on the ground, the people I know in the industry, the companies I know that are hiring people, There's a lot of really highly skilled, highly qualified, America educated people that I know firsthand that have a really difficult time finding these jobs. And we keep hearing all this talk about the demand in the cybersecurity workforce. I mean, I remember doing an interview about that five or six years ago and how the colleges were ramping up and they're producing all of this skilled talent. yet these people are graduating and they can't find jobs. And so I don't really understand where the disconnect is there of why folks are still saying we need to be importing these jobs because the people I know who have these skills, you know, several of them, they're desperately looking for the jobs. So I think it may have more to do with what we want to pay these people and not so much with the talent.
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Well, it's good to hear that we're graduating enough, so I think it could probably take us to a negotiating table where we could talk with Elon Musk and Vivek and President Trump and say, sir, we need to reform this because our graduates are not getting these jobs. And they're not getting these jobs because we've got too many being imported, cheap labor coming into this country.
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Yeah, I mean, and look, I'm sure there's a lot more nuance to this as well, right? Like a lot of times... We see people that may be skilled from a book smart or an educational level, but they're just not very good or they don't want to work, pay the dues, or they have this entitlement mindset or whatever. And I know all those things are factors. But for me, just from what I've seen boots on the ground, I've seen quite a few people who I think are very job worthy, who have good credentials, good experience, and they're struggling to find jobs. And so there just seems like there's something more to this because our colleges and universities made a shift years ago, you know, at least 10 years ago, where I remember being on several college advisory boards for universities throughout the country. where they were putting these programs into place to start producing this talent. And so I don't know how we can think that someone being educated, maybe in India is getting better education than someone being educated here in the U S for the last 10 years. You know, I don't see, I don't see where the issue is matching up.
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My friend Sean Tuma is a data privacy attorney, cybersecurity pro. We're talking about the H-1B visa and all this high-tech talent that's being imported into this country. And I don't see this happening in other sectors, biotech, genome research, medical. Can you imagine the uproar in the either pharma or medical industry? They put limits. We have limits. unnecessarily, in my opinion, unnecessarily imposed limits on the number of doctors that we graduate, specialists that we graduate in this country. We've got the medical societies and all these other people that are influencing these major decisions, how many medical schools, how many openings we have. We could probably graduate a lot more doctors. How about we import all these doctors, all these specialists? We're already doing, as far as nurses from the Philippines, how about on the medical sector side? Can you imagine the uproar on the med side?
SPEAKER 08 :
I mean, it's interesting you say that because one of the themes I'm hearing in cyber and tech, especially cybersecurity, is the need to professionalize many of these roles in cybersecurity to make sure that the people who are doing more of the executive level jobs, like the chief information security officers, to ensure that they are meeting certain qualifications and standards before they're put in charge of these roles of protecting companies. And so you're hearing the themes for the need to professionalize on the one hand, yet we're also seeing, to your point, this lack of regulation or control on the other hand. And so just something's not adding up with all this.
SPEAKER 05 :
We need to change those rules when it comes to immigration, in my opinion, when it comes to H-1B visas.
SPEAKER 08 :
It seems we have a narrative out there that's been very well established in And we need to just look behind it and figure out, is it accurate or is it not? And that to me is, to your point, we need to have those conversations before we just accept it as true and go on with it.
SPEAKER 05 :
Maybe a requirement. There's so many different job sites out there. We have so many young people, young professionals that are seeking these jobs in America. They're Americans. If you can't find college grads from the U.S., if you can't find young professionals in the U.S., maybe the rules should say, okay, maybe you'll go to Plan B or Plan C, go H-1B, after you prove that you tried to hire some of these people, it just didn't work out. And then you can go for the cheaper labor from overseas. We need to have that conversation. And another thing, Sean, I... Man, you don't leave the motherland, China, unless you're a good chaikon, a communist in good standing with a party. That's the way it is. And we have been burned in this country at university levels, at corporate levels, at medical levels, intellectual data that has been stolen. from universities, from researchers, patents, and been shoveled back to China. That needs another go over by folks in D.C., by the president, by folks in Congress. We need to look at that because China is not our friend. They steal a lot of the intellectual data in this country. The advances in AI and having all that being shoveled back to China, man, that needs to be looked at as well.
SPEAKER 08 :
It is a difficult situation because it's where Our principles of freedom and equal opportunity that we pride ourselves on as being Americans are used to exploit us in many cases. We've certainly seen a pattern over the years of these intellectual property thefts, military secrets, you know, things of that nature happening that way. And we know it is a designed plan by the Chinese to do that because they know that our freedoms is our vulnerability, and they take advantage of it. But on the other hand, if we give up or change our principles of freedom too aggressively, are we now becoming like them? You know, and are we losing what makes us America? It's a challenge. You know, it's a difficult balancing act.
SPEAKER 05 :
Be well, my friend. Success in 2025. Good to talk to you again.
SPEAKER 08 :
Sergio, you too.
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Data privacy attorney, a cybersecurity pro, Sean Toomey. I'm Sergio Sanchez in for my friend Dana Lash. Stick around. We've got four men coming up and just one rather visual story. You know how they say television is one thing. You see a picture. But once the story is told to you, boy, it becomes more vivid. That's the case with a firework accident. Some genius Florida man I'll share with you next on The Dana Show.
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It's his life mission to make bad decisions.
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It's time for Florida Man. This is one of these stories that I know your mind's eye will be more graphic than probably it was, but check this out. This, an example, kids, and you could use this as a teachable moment for the kids, how dangerous fireworks could be. So from Florida City, and big thank you to WSVN, U-Haul van seen on surveillance with a side splattered with blood following an accident involving fireworks. So the driver was desperately searching for help after, obviously, fireworks popped in his hand, maybe improvised, maybe homegrown fireworks, because, again, he had a U-Haul full of these fireworks. I'm trying to sanitize this as much as possible because some of y'all get kind of queasy thinking about blood. So surveillance video captured the victim's injured hand. hanging, or whatever was left of it, hanging out of the driver's side window. And, of course, you can see the blood. And, of course, I'm sure as the vehicle is moving, there you go, that's the splattered stuff on the side of the vehicle. They believe that the victim was selling illegal fireworks out of a vehicle when one of them exploded in his hand. Yeah, Florida man, genius, lit one of them to show what the kids are a potential customer, how this thing worked. We know how it works, Dopey. Miami-Dade police bomb squad also was called to help destroy the rest of the stash that he had in the vehicle. According to Florida police, the victim was not cooperating. And this story reminded me, growing up in Houston, my dad would take me out to Harris County, the county line, get some black cat. Remember the black cat fireworks? I used to patiently open them up, put the powder in one paper, and make a tight ball of it and put it into a Texas-sized red ant mound. Ants flying everywhere. I'm Sergio Sanchez. You're listening to The Dana Show.
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Haley has confirmed in just the last few minutes that he is an active duty U.S. Special Forces soldier assigned to 10th Special Forces Group, according to four U.S. officials, that he holds the rank of Master Sergeant, a senior enlisted rank, these officials said. Three officials said he was on active duty serving in Germany and he was on leave when this happened on New Year's Day.
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Welcome to Hour 3 of The Dana Show. I'm Sergio Sanchez. It's an honor for me to be with you today, broadcasting from KURV, faithful affiliate of The Dana Show. And I appreciate you tuning in right now or maybe later in the day when you've got pre-recorded versions of the show or online as well. So here's what we know about these two terrorist incidents. One, a quite the solid terrorist event. That was one in New Orleans. 14 dead. It was the FBI did a press release. They did a press event just a few minutes back, about an hour ago. They mentioned 14 dead and dozens injured. As you had this terrorist, this Islamo-fascist radicalized terrorist, waving an ISIS flag. He proclaimed his allegiance to ISIS and plowed through... through Bourbon Street, lots of people there celebrating the New Year, just spending time with family. This animal went in there and killed at least 14, injured dozens more. The second terrorist event. I could say terrorist bomber, but it's a terrorist who killed himself, whether it was intentional or not. And this guy, the one you heard this cut from CNN, active-duty Green Beret on leave, stationed in Europe. Very suspicious of everything. So he takes vacation, comes to the U.S., fills a vehicle, fills a rented Cybertruck, full of accelerants and cans full of fuel and accelerants and fireworks. And you saw what he did. You see that on social media. The video is unbelievable. Although... In an effort to make a statement, I'm guessing, right? That's what we're all thinking. He's making a statement. Donald Trump and Elon Musk have become quite friends. You know, they're quite chummy with each other. They seem to be pretty close friends now. They agree on many things, not all things, but they agree on many things. And you can thank X, formerly Twitter, X that allowed conservatives to express their point of view, allowed people like Joe Rogan to put a show up there and have a conversation with Donald Trump. You can thank Barron Trump for telling Dad to go on some of these podcasts. But all this information, no suppression, just all that information out there, you can't. I can make an argument. That definitely helped Donald Trump win the White House. He was real. He's down to earth. You can relate with him, understand him, and know that he's got a plan to fix things and cares about this country. America first is the idea. So in an effort to make a statement, let me blow up, you just see this guy was thinking, this terrorist. This terrorist who blew up himself, I don't know if he's a suicide bomber or he's a terrorist who committed suicide. Because he killed himself, it is what it is. So this guy, I'm thinking, all right, I'm going to rent me a Cybertruck. And I'm going to fill up with all these explosives, pull the trigger, boom, and right there at the tower, right there at the big hotel in Las Vegas for Donald Trump. Make a statement. Take that, Elon Musk. Take that, Donald Trump. Well, Dopey chose the wrong vehicle. I mean, can you imagine the unsolicited marketing, what is taking place in the minds of millions? Like, if it's taking place in my mind, I know you're thinking about this as well. Wow, a Cybertruck, that stuff, that sucker's really sturdy. That sucker holds its frame. Man, you talk about American-made quality. It's cut 16, Las Vegas police are talking about the Cybertruck, how it minimized the damage at the Trump Hotel. Go ahead, Steve.
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But I also would like you to pay attention to on that video, as you see that, it looks like the exterior of that truck is completely intact as it sits there. The fact that this was a Cybertruck, really limited the damage that occurred inside of the valet because it had most of the blast go up through the truck and out. In fact, if you look on that video, you'll see that the front glass doors at the Trump Hotel were not even broken.
SPEAKER 05 :
That's amazing. Man, you can't buy publicity like that. I'm watching over the next several weeks to... I'm going to be listening to sales of the the Elon Musk Cybertruck go up, if the stock goes up as a result of this. Man, that's some awesome publicity. Talk about American-made quality, anti-terrorist Cybertruck. Cut 15, Steve. More from Las Vegas PD.
SPEAKER 20 :
Yes, actually, I have to thank Elon Musk specifically. He gave us quite a bit of additional information in regards to how the vehicle was locked after it exploded due to the force of the nature or the nature of the force from the explosion, as well as being able to capture all of the video from the Tesla charging stations across the country. And he sent that directly to us. So I appreciate his help on that. I'll take one more question. Fascinating.
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Yeah, good for him. Good for him. All right. Now, Tom Holman, I mentioned him earlier. He was in the news commenting on how the Biden administration and the unsecured border led to so many individuals. Lord knows how many individuals come into this country who hate this country. Now, as I mentioned a couple hours back at the beginning of the show, there was a cut with Joe Biden, how he seemed to be thrown out there, just thrust out there. Didn't take any questions, just thrust out there just hours after the incident. After New Orleans and after Las Vegas. And trying to stay ahead of everything. And it's my opinion, it's my opinion, that... the administration where was handling joe biden maybe joe biden i know who's who's handling him uh... his minions try to put them out there because Look, I'm not a close personal friend of Tom Holman, but I've had the privilege of speaking with him through the years, through the Trump years, and now post-Trump years. And, you know, up in D.C. they have these immigration get-togethers, and Tom was always there, and I always loved speaking with him, interviewing him. So I got to know a little bit of how he thinks. And, by the way, Tom, if you're listening, you're welcome to come to the program tomorrow to talk a bit more about this. But the unsecured border that Joe Biden... the created allowed more knows how many people who hate this country destroy this country there their wet dream is to take america down in the the what dreams to see it uh... a mushroom fire cloud over american cities if that is the islamic fascist point of view that that is what they dream about is to kill the great scene to kill america and those individuals by the top enemies not some white supremacy group not the you know racist groups They're powerless compared to what these Islamofascists can do. And Tom Holman was chiding the administration for the open border, allowing so many individuals to come into this country who hate this country. Speaking of those immigration groups that monitor policy up in D.C., there was one write-up I want to share with you real quick. This is Federation for American Immigration Reform. And I congratulate them for the many, many years that they did those press events. And they did the talk shows from Washington, D.C. They brought in, oh my goodness, dozens and dozens. I would say maybe about 100 radio stations across the nation. They would have these get-togethers, these powwows. They would walk the halls of Congress, knock on doors. Lawmakers saying, you've got to fix immigration law. You've got to put a border wall up. And so the Federation of American Immigration Reform, they no longer do those little get-togethers. Now they're trying to attack this issue by going direct to the public as much as they can and inform. This is a little tidbit of information. I was talking about Tom Holman, the immigration czar, and I'm looking forward to him finally getting it done. Anyone who's in the country illegally, as he said, anybody who's in the country illegally, you can be deported. That's the way it works. You should not be here. So some numbers that the gang over at Federation of American Immigration Reform ran, and the gang over at the Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE, they posted this on their Twitter page. In 2023 alone, illegal immigration cost taxpayers over $150 billion. Now, to put everything into perspective, may I remind you, just a few years back, well, actually, we do need to adjust for inflation a little bit because between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, who screwed things up when it came to response to COVID and economic response to COVID and supply chain response to COVID, Joe Biden screwed everything up. Yeah, back then... Donald Trump wanted $25 billion, $25 billion to complete the US-Mexico border wall. And may I remind you, I never forgot this, because I was the one screaming, no, don't do this. President Trump, in his first term, he called the Democrats bluff. He said, give me $25 billion for the wall. And the so-called dreamers, the kids who were brought here when they were little babies, little kids, and their parents crossed illegally, and they grew up in this country, they don't even know how to speak Spanish, Spanish were their native language, whatever it might be. I'll give them citizenship. The dreamers will become citizens. And their parents as well. That's where I went, no! What are you doing? But he called their bluff the master negotiator, Donald Trump. The Democrats didn't blink. It's not about amnesty. It's not about citizenship. It's not about saving the dreamers. It's not about saving their families. It's nothing about that. He only won $25 billion, adjusted for 30% inflation. Let's see, that's $30 billion. I'm going to put you up, about $30 billion, $35 billion. Last year, sorry, the year before, 2023, Illegal immigration cost taxpayers over $150 billion. The border wall would have cost us, adjusted for inflation, over $30 billion. Imagine having saved all that money by having proper security at the border and only allowing... Because at some point, I mean... I'll make the army. You really can't secure the border 100%, but you could probably do 99.999999% so you have a trickle coming in. People would just get away somehow. They find a way to get away. They're in a vehicle hidden, stashed beneath a floorboard, something like that. $150 billion was the price tag for Americans paying for illegal immigration, housing, medical, education, transport, planes, bus, all that stuff. World War I adjusted for inflation, cost a little bit over twice that, $333 billion. So we paid in one year half the cost of what this country paid for World War I. Isn't that crazy? The Apollo space program for the many, many years cost $257 billion. Again, these are numbers adjusted for inflation. Illegal immigration cost us over $150 billion. The Manhattan Project that got us the bomb, $30 billion. The Panama Canal, which I hope Donald Trump can take back. Jimmy Carter, that was one of the biggest goofs by his administration. All that American sweat and blood, all those lives lost, Americans who dug that Panama Canal. Yes, a lot of folks in Panama and Central America worked as well, but that was American engineering. $15 billion. One-tenth. The Panama Canal cost one-tenth of what we paid in one year for illegal immigration in this country. And a big hug to Las Vegas, Larry and all the gang. Hoover Dam, a billion bucks adjusted for inflation. Isn't that crazy? My goodness. I'm Sergio Sanchez reporting to you from the Dana Show Southern Command in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. You're listening to the Dana Show.
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not able to catch the full dana show follow dana's absurd truth podcast and get news and laughs delivered in short easy to digest episodes ideal for your busy lifestyle on apple or wherever you get your podcast reporting to you from the dana show southern command in the rgv of texas i'm sergio sanchez happy new year let's do some headlines and now all of the news you would probably miss it's time for dana's quick five
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So Elon Musk is being accused of censoring some conservatives on X, individuals who disagreed with his recent views on immigration H-1B visas. Musk is all thumbs up. So is Vivek Ramaswamy. So is Donald Trump. They like H-1B. Other conservatives say, no, it needs to be reformed. So over the past couple of days, at least 14 conservative accounts who disagreed with Elon Musk, they claim that X revoked their blue verification badge. So cut them off from features that allow them to monetize what they post. Let's see what else is here. Washington State authorities say the two men who were searching for Sasquatch, the Bigfoot, have been found dead in the forest. They went out to the wilderness in Washington State. They plan to return home by Christmas Eve. They didn't. Family called authorities and they began a three-day search. included canines and drones. The bodies of the men were found in a heavily wooded area, and authorities say that these two succumbed to exposure. Movie goers are going to have to wait even longer to return to Gotham City, DC Studios. One of the co-chiefs there is saying the Batman 2 has been kicked down, that can has been kicked down the road another year. October 1st, 2027 is when Batman 2 comes out. And Pantone Color Systems. That's a standard bearer for names of colors in all industries. They have named the color of the year. They say it was their Pantone 17-1230 Mocha Mousse. That sounds pretty right now. I think if they can get it to actually smell like mocha and chocolate mousse, even better. I'll buy some right now. I'm Sergio Sanchez. This is the Dana Show from South Texas.
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Yeah, it's a numbers game. We have the smallest margin in U.S. history. We'll have a margin of probably two votes tomorrow during that, so can only afford to lose one or two. But I think we'll get it done. I really do, Lawrence.
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Yeah, we know that one lawmaker has said no. The vote might be no, or maybe vote present, as was explained to me by a friend up in D.C. a couple hours back. It might be present, so that would lower the threshold down to 217 that he would need. in order to win the speakership. That's Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House. He's confident. He says the votes are there. It's only going to take one more to create chaos. And who's the first person that comes to mind? Well, Matt Gaetz isn't there anymore, right? And you already know who the second one is. M-T-G. Marjorie Taylor Greene, right? For me, the clock is ticking. I'm just waiting any moment now. She's going to say, no, I'm voting no for speaker. And then send everything into a tailspin. Unless Donald Trump got to her and said, no, please don't do this. We need to plow forward. Please confirm me as president. Get the vote out of the way. Let's get this thing done. Stick around for a conversation I had with my friend Joe Cardinale. who is a friend of Curtis Sliwa from the Guardian Angels. The Guardian Angels, remember that? Throwback to the past. These people volunteered. Some people called them vigilantes. But no, all through the years, I don't recall any big headlines. The Guardian Angels in New York getting into trouble. Curtis Lee is the founder, he's a friend of Joe Cardinale's, and I wanted to do a New York City update, what's going on with the subways, now that the Guardian Angels in New York, they're patrolling, they're out there volunteering, patrolling, making sure the subways are safe. This, of course, after days after that young woman. an illegal immigrant doused her with accelerant and ignited her and killed this young woman on the subway. So that conversation with Joe coming up in a little bit. I want to share with you some delicious roast audio. Her name is Whitney Cummings. Not that familiar with the comic circuit, but I think she's a stand-up. And she did good on the CNN show, the The New Year's Eve show. Whitney Cummings. The Dems couldn't hold a primary because they were too busy holding up a dead Joe Biden. It's cut 23, Steve-O.
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2024 election fried our brains. The Democrats couldn't hold a primary because they were too busy holding a body upright. Are we still rolling? Am I off? Go for it.
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I would have given her the rim shot, but I'm dumb. Yeah, that was good. No, that wasn't all. Democrats are pro-choice party. Oh, yeah. Here's a cut 24, Steve.
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It was amazing that the pro-choice party didn't give their voters one when it came to the presidential candidate. Kamala was forced on us so hard you'd think she was patented by Pfizer or Moderna, whichever one. Oh, God.
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Oh my goodness, forced vaccination. Let me share with you now an update for New York, as I told you. The Guardian Angels, remember them? They are on patrol, volunteers, trying to keep their community safe. They're in the subways after a just nasty, awful incident a few days back involving an illegal immigrant who attacked a young woman and set her on fire. Poor thing died inside that subway. Here's my friend Joe Cardinale, retired NYPD. Subway violence, attacks at a nightclub, all just mayhem taking place up in New York and Samson, all these headlines. My friend Joe Cardinale, he's a retired New York PD lieutenant commander. Happy New Year, my friend. I'm so glad that you're able to join me on the program today.
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Happy New Year to you too, my friend.
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One of the big stories was New York subway and his poor woman. She got doused with some accelerant and burned to death. And it was an illegal immigrant who was kicked out, came back in under Joe Biden. And we know what happened there. And I saw this headline that Curtis Sliwa, the guardian angels, man, talk about a name from the past guardian angels. I'm glad to see that. They're still up and running. So let me start there. Can you describe what the Guardian Angels do? Are they all volunteer? Are they paid? How does Curtis run this operation?
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Absolutely not paid. All right. It's a volunteer. Curtis started this a long time ago. Curtis is from my neck of the woods in Brooklyn. So, uh, I know him and he's, uh, you know, he's dedicated to this. He's dedicated his whole life to this, you know, public service in one form or another. And they, they're a necessity out there. They're not afraid to get involved. They're going to do what Daniel Penny did. All right. And they're going to go out there. They're going to get involved and they're going to be a force to be reckoned with out there. So it's going to be something that they have to, People are going to see them. They wear the red berets, the red jackets, and they have been effective for many, many years because they're just a force of three or four that run together, sometimes two. But people see them and people feel safer with them.
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Speaking of Daniel Penny and what came from that, he should never have been prosecuted, but he was. And you know one of the heartbreaking images, some of the heartbreaking video from New York was to see other people just walk by, even security people just walk by, and this poor woman, she was still standing, somehow she was still standing there just burning to death.
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You know, Sergio, I watched that video and I've been on there a few times about it and he turned around and this was something that the accelerant affected her and consumed her body so fast that it was just amazing. that anybody could even get in there. The cops tried. You couldn't get in there. Once this happened, it was accelerated by the doors being open as well. So it wasn't that anybody could go in there. There was no fire extinguishers at hand. They didn't have a large blanket to try to put over her. And, you know, it was disgusting. I don't know if anybody has ever seen that before. But, you know, to see that live is like people have to understand that this is just a disgusting scene. but the aftermath of it is just as worse you know and and i'm gonna tell you something it's it's something that you cannot just run in there and do something with the cops couldn't even do that and he stood there fanning the flames this illegal migrant and what's the first thing that they're trying to do make it uh... insanity defense and they don't even know what is frame of mind is he was alcohol and you know induced rage and that's exactly what happened with this the reason i mentioned that daniel
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the damn penny effect. Do you think law enforcement or just New Yorkers, just other people, are hesitant to do anything in a situation like this because of what happened to Dan Penny, where the prosecutors are misguided and they'll go after the hero before they go after the criminal?
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You just nailed it. You just summed it right up. The prosecutors will go after the cops before they go after somebody else. The cops are handcuffed, and people like Daniel Penny are handcuffed from the beginning. This ADA brag, you and I have discussed him so many times, and it just gets progressively worse because he has a political agenda that does not coincide with his role as a district attorney of Manhattan. He turns around and he prosecutes cops. He did it to Sergeant Provenzano. All right. He did it to him with the Apple at the Apple store incident. You know, it's always something that he's got to get political gain out of. All right. And that was exactly what happened with Daniel Penney. Daniel Penney did not intend to kill this individual. He tried to subdue him. And by the guy's own prior drug use and his own fighting him, a tragedy occurred where he died. Daniel Penney most certainly did not try to kill him. But yet Alvin Bragg decided to bring charges against him, just like he did with President Trump, because it's political gain for him. And he does not have the same... or what do you call them and figure to go after the true criminals. All right. He, they walk around and only the cops, and people like Trump and Daniel Penny are the ones that get prosecuted.
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My friend Joe Cardinale, retired New York PD lieutenant commander, my guest, Status Report New York, and it's amazing how they stepped it up, security did. They stepped up security for New Year's, and thank God we cleared the holiday, and that came and went now in the rearview mirror. But there are some enclaves, I understand, that are still seeing some violence because you've got a large illegal immigrant population. So what can you tell me? What's taking place up in New York?
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Well, January 20th is going to be what's taking place. And then you finally have, what's his name, what do you call him, Mayor Adams.
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Oh, yeah, Eric Adams.
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Finally, he's going to turn around and cooperate with ICE and everything. And I think when Tom Holman gets in there and does the job he has to do when we round up, especially this Venezuelan gang, Trendel Agua, We need to get rid of them before anybody else. And you know what? They say we're not taking them back. I told you my plan a long time ago to get them back. Put them on a C4 transport with a fighter escort with parachutes on their back and let them know they're coming into the country. They're coming into the country. And either you let us land with them or we're dropping them over your most influential areas. All right. And where they land, they land. You go through what we went through.
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You probably have not seen this guy. I went fishing in the international, the Spanish media. Nicaragua is threatening to shut down, kick out the U.S. base, the Air Force base. That's in Nicaragua. If Donald Trump does a mass deportation, sends back about a quarter million illegals back to Honduras. Just a little side note there I think you would find interesting. Eric Adams can't afford the bill, the multibillion-dollar bill of taking care of all these illegal immigrants. I'm not surprised that he's done a 180, and now all of a sudden he's pro-border security and kicked them out working with ICE. Didn't he lift the sanctuary city designation in New York, or is that just a promise that he would do in the future? He did. He did, right?
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No, he lifted it. He said, no, we can't afford it. But you know what? you know he he doesn't i said i said a long time ago you know you should have thought about this before you designated us a sanctuary city because what do you think was going to happen and i know the neighbor because i grew up in a neighborhood where they had one of the biggest encampments all right and it was nothing but crime ridden uh area now because they were doing the quality of life crimes and they're over there passing out on people's front lawns and everything and that was when in the winter time i warned them i said this is winter time wait until summer comes and they're out and about and sure enough Quality of life crimes went through the roof. And it was, you know, being a former captain in NYPD, he should have realized what was going to happen with this. Right. But he didn't. Once again, the political face went on before the common sense face went on. And now he's backpedaling, but it's a little too late because now they're entrenched into our neighborhoods, and we have to pick them out of there. And it's on Long Island. Thank God the law enforcement and everybody that's on board with it, they've been on board, and we fight it any way we can on Long Island because it definitely trickles out there, and they keep putting them out there, flying them into the airports over there as well.
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Joe, you take care, my friend. We'll talk to you soon.
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You got it, my friend. Happy New Year to you and the family and everybody down there.
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Retired Lieutenant Commander, NYPD, Joe Cardinal. I'm Sergio Sanchez in for my friend Dana Lash. She should be with us, Lord willing, early next week. Some of the other news of the day. President Biden awarding Republican, Rhino, Liz Cheney, Presidential Citizens Medal, did that today. Former Congresswoman, of course, she hates Trump, and put together all that J6 stuff. She and 18 other individuals at the White House today, they received the award given to U.S. citizens who have, quote, performed exemplary deeds of service for their country and their fellow citizens. And Biden, he just, he and his minions, his minions, he doesn't know what's going on. He probably doesn't know what's going on. His minions, they just... They just want to keep sticking to Donald Trump every chance they get. First, Biden, with all the pardons of all these people on death row, these murderers, these criminals on death row, lets them go. And now Liz Cheney receives some top citizens medal. Bernie Thompson, her partner in crime, and I'd say crime because, man, this needs to be investigated by the Republicans who take power here pretty soon. Congressman Bernie Thompson also receiving the award. He served as chairman of the J6 committee. So once we pick this up, after, and let's prioritize here, boys and girls, let's get those tax cuts approved. Let's make sure to do proper border security and funding for border security and for ICE to get people out here. Let's prioritize the things that need to pass, and then you can start your little investigations on to how Liz Cheney and Bernie Thompson and the J6 Committee, they hid evidence. They manipulated evidence. They lied. They suppressed evidence. All these are crimes. They need to be prosecuted. I'm Sergio Sanchez. You're listening to The Dana Show, coming to you from KURV Studios in South Texas.
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Thank you much for joining us today. Happy New Year to you and your family. This is the Dana Show. No, I'm not Dana Lash. She's my friend. This is the Dana Show Southern Command reporting to you from the studios of KURV, South Texas, RGV, home to Starbase. It's the RGV of Texas. Some other notes I want to share with you, interesting notes. A chess champ booted from a competition over clothing. Y'all who are in education, you guys are probably still on a winter break right now. You guys are teachers. Some of y'all pay, what, an extra five bucks on Fridays, dress down Fridays. Maybe you do that at the office too, right? Dress down Fridays. You pay into some charity pot or something like that. You guys are fun, right? Everybody pays five bucks. You get to wear jeans. You get to wear mom jeans to work, right? His name is Magnus Carlsen. He's from Norway. Five-time world chess champ at the World Chess Championship. And a few days back, he declined changing his jeans. Which, you know, you're supposed to dress up in nicer clothes, like business clothes. Violation of International Chess Federation rules. You cannot wear blue jeans. Mr. Magnus Carlsen was told to, you know, put something else on. He said no. First, he was fined $200 for breaching the rules. Before, he ultimately quit. He withdrew from the competition. Again, this guy's a five-time world chess champion. Now, my question was, how much money did this guy give up? He paid $200 for the violation. And then he refused to change his jeans into nicer pants. I mean, walk down the street, wherever they have their... In Norway, like the Norway version of Walmart or Target. Just get yourself some nice pants and come back. So I went digging just a little bit and it popped up. The prize fund allocated by Google, by the way, two and a half million bucks. And each player... Receives around $200,000. Man, that's a lot of jeans you can wear during non-competition days. $200,000 for each game that he won. And this guy was a winner. He won this world chess competition five times. He probably stacked up so much in winnings he probably just didn't want to play anymore. But that's how much money this dude probably gave up several million bucks for not competing. Let's see. Americans are optimistic about President-elect Donald Trump's ability to control immigration. Gallup polls showing more than two and three Americans saying, yeah, he can secure the border. The governor of New Orleans saying that the Super Bowl will be played today and everything will be safe, extra security. And authorities believe that the suspect behind the Tesla Cybertruck explosion outside the Trump Hotel in Vegas took his own life. Meantime, in New Orleans, 14 people killed, dozens more injured as a truck plowed through the crowd on New Year's in New Orleans. The FBI says they are positive, at least for now, that there is no connection. Really? All the coink-a-dinks? Let's see how this shakes out over the next 21 hours. I'm Sergio Sanchez. This is The Dana Show.
Join us in this compelling episode as we dissect two major terror attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas. This discussion highlights the urgent need to appoint key figures in national security who can effectively protect citizens. Against the backdrop of a seemingly complacent national security framework under Biden, we emphasize the critical role of transparency and the necessity for a shift towards actionable intelligence. Engage with us as we navigate through these turbulent times and propose solutions for a safer future.
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While the country mourns the New Year's Day terror attacks, we must confirm Trump's national security team now.
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Keeping you informed and engaged now more than ever. This is Sekulow. We want to hear from you. Share and post your comments or call 1-800-684-3110. And now your host, Logan Sekulow.
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Welcome to Sekulow. Jordan is joining us also remotely. Will Haynes is in studios. Obviously, this is our first show of the new year. So unfortunately, though, we want to wish everyone a happy new year and a blessed new year. Unfortunately, we're coming with the news, obviously, of the terror attack that happened in New Orleans, Louisiana on New Year's, early morning New Year's Day, as well as what looks to be also another terror attack, potential or an attempted terror attack, I'd say, in Las Vegas in front of the Trump Hotel. We're going to discuss those two things, the updates going on and what we know that led into these. Now, look, look into the video right now of what they're just releasing from New Orleans of this truck going through and just it's sadly we've seen this now play out on in many different places around the world. I just got back last night from Europe. in the United Kingdom, I was in France and Germany and these things were happening even while we were over there it was happening and I will tell you that the nation here mourns as well as the world. Now, there are some odd links that tie all of this together, and we're going to discuss that more, but also really the impending Trump administration and what they can do, because this has become not what we strive for in America. I've spent New Year's Eve in New Orleans, Louisiana. I mean, it's been a while. probably close to 15 years ago, if not longer than that. I had a great time. You always had to keep your guard up. My wife had her phone stolen. Those kind of things happen in those kind of cities. But this will is not what you expect when you go to one of our major cities, one of our major cities that also is involved in celebration for these terrorist attacks to occur.
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That's right, and we'll talk with Jordan about this as well, about the legal side, about two what appear to be terror attacks from different motivations. The FBI just put out a statement, so this is breaking news, that at this point there's no definitive link between the attack here in New Orleans and the one in Las Vegas, even though there are some Interesting similarities and connections, maybe not of causation, but at least of background of the two individuals. We'll get into that as well. As well as talking with Jordan about the importance of getting the national security team and ones that aren't necessarily national security in the traditional sense, like the Attorney General, but getting them confirmed as soon as possible. Jordan, the Senate we know are going to be starting taking those steps as soon as next week, but they can't officially, they can't vote on a nomination until it's been transferred by the president, which will happen on January 20th when he is sworn in.
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Right, so what's key here is to get the Attorney General in place, Pam Bondi, Pete Hegseth in place, Department of Defense, to get Kash Patel in and FBI. You've got to get your, again, Director of National Intelligence, our colleague, Tulsi Gabbard. You've got to get them in. And once you get them in, Will, you must get their deputies in as well. They need their three to five top people who can push back on the bureaucracy and the deep state. And it doesn't mean that you don't want to bring in people that have different ideas on how to confront this. But A lot of the work here is first cleaning up and making sure that the people advising you inside the bureaucracy aren't one of the bad actors who have tried these failed policies over years. And unfortunately, in 2025, what do we see first? A return to Islamic terrorism in the United States of America. We have to be on guard. We can be safe, but we've got to give President Trump and our government the tools to keep us safe.
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Absolutely, and we do want to thank you all, obviously, for your donations too at the end of the year. A very special thank you to our ACLJ members, our ACLJ champions. Your support is what keeps us going. It's because of you we can continue to fight the good fight. Last year, you empowered us to engage in hundreds of legal battles, and I was able to see that even overseas when we were at the ACLJ, and I know You got to see a little bit of that while I was over there. See the incredible work they're doing as well in Europe. All of our members are writing history with us. We couldn't have done it without you. Miles of the ACLJ, we want to thank you for your support. We'll be right back. Welcome back to Secular again. Jordan joining us remotely. Will Haines in studio. Rick Grinnell is going to be joining us later in the broadcast. We're discussing the attacks that happened on New Year's Day just yesterday in New Orleans and in Las Vegas and what we can do to help push all of this forward and get us to a next chapter. We know last time President Trump, we saw ISIS pretty much fully eliminated. But we knew with the Biden administration, if you just gave it time, which is what's been a full term now, that you would see these returns happen. And when these returns happen, you have to be able to figure out a way to thwart this from continuing to happen because it's not the country you live in. And look, I will say this. I spent quite a bit of time in London over the last couple of weeks and a lot of time with the Muslim and Arab communities there. And they were just as appalled by what's happening in the name of even their own faith. I think there is a moment here that once again, we can return to some kind of normalcy. When you see this stuff happen and people start calling it out, it's different than what you feel in America. It's different than what you see on these streets. Obviously, we know that a city like New Orleans always has crime, always has had issues with crime since it became what it is. But not like this, Jordan. This is not something that we're used to waking up to. If you told me a couple of people had died on New Year's Eve in New Orleans, I would not have been surprised. But to get that alert as we were boarding an airplane flying back to America was disturbing. And of course, as we landed, all of the news and all the background of who this person was and what their affiliations were became very clear.
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Yeah, you know, there were a lot of people from our home state of Georgia there for the game that will be played today, the Georgia Bulldogs. A lot of Notre Dame fans, which have a fan base that's really international, but certainly national. And I've been with friends who work on these issues here. We were going to all try to watch the game tomorrow night as that unfolded, or yesterday, because they weren't clear about it yet. And then when they announced that that would be over, then Logan... I don't want people to forget that when you were in Europe, there was another similar attack like this on a Christmas market in Germany using a vehicle. This is the easiest way to kill people in an act of terrorism. But I think what's different here is that this individual we know had a bigger plan. Because of his military training, he not only said, I'm going to rent this truck that is silent because it's an electric truck. So he used a... system that many of us probably have used that lets you truly pick out the vehicle you want. A lot of times it's actually less expensive than the airport rental car situation because it's like doing an Airbnb for cars. And he picked one that was electric. So he had a huge truck that made very little noise that had tons of torque if you've ever driven an electric vehicle for short range. But he was also heavily armed. So he knew at one point that the truck would no longer be able to continue moving, and that he would be jumping out of the vehicle and firing upon people. We know he did shoot at least a couple of police officers. We don't know if any of the fatalities yet are linked to gunshot wounds, but 35 people are still in the hospital, 15 dead, and there were also explosive devices. And while those might not have gone off, thank God, this was obviously someone who had a multi-tiered terror attack planned. out how did our law enforcement officials miss this when he posted videos online he had that military training he had that link to fort bragg which has got links to this occurring of people being radicalized and on top of that i would just say this is a city that is supposed to be because it is so wild uh on new year's and almost every night of the year uh the most secure for pedestrians. I mean, they have the largest swath of streets that are totally closed off to vehicles of many cities I've ever been to other than maybe Washington DC around the White House, which was done because of terrorism as well. So the fact is I'm not blaming local law enforcement. I do wonder how our intelligence communities are missing this. And I think they're missing it, Logan, because the narrative that we've heard is you can't use the National Guard on January 6th because there's too many white supremacists and MAGA people in it. But the actual attacks that we've seen, these are all attacks, whether it's shooting at President Trump twice, or this attack, or the attack in Vegas, these are not conservatives. These are not the traditional white male conservative trying to take and kill liberals. It's the exact opposite. So we have to get the FBI and all of our other intel agencies thinking a different way, which is that it's not homegrown extremist white groups that are the number one threat. They exist. They should be monitored. They do carry out acts of anti-Semitism and threaten, so they should be discarded. But I do not want to continue to see a rise of politically connected Islamic terror again in the United States of America, which means we have got to get the president's team confirmed quickly. There's no excuses here. have a republican senate we can secure our country we know this vehicle was brought across the border uh in mexico uh don't know if it there was any reason to stop it there but again because we know that this person was posting things and yet the fbi and other intel agencies had totally missed it they're never going to be perfect guys but i think that the biden team has been for four years
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focused on trying to find bad actors that don't exist in great number because they don't didn't want to track islamic terror and now it's going to be up to president trump and we can't let it become normalized as you said because look in france uh the christmas market after that attack happened uh where we were which were offices draw spark you could not get within blocks in a car. We had someone who helped us get around. They're like, look, you can't do anything. We can't go over there. And they have police monitoring. Now, look, walking around London, walking around Strasbourg, and you see heavily armed security and police was both... shocking and comforting at the same time because there was like, okay, you felt, and I feel like a city like New Orleans probably should do that. Go to Memphis, go to Beale Street now. You gotta go through security checkpoints before you're allowed. Is it a sad state of the world? Absolutely. But maybe it's a necessary state. So what we saw though also was, Will, last night a lot of people A lot of senators started saying, hey, we got to get this done. We got to get the new people confirmed and ready to go pretty much on day one.
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That's right. And as Jordan brought up as well, that the way that the FBI has been operating over the last four years and really beyond that, this was that two sources told Chad Pergram at Fox News that the FBI had no intelligence on the attacker in New Orleans before the attack. But we know several things. We also know that he had served at Fort Bragg, now Fort Liberty. The other individual at the Trump hotel bombing had also served there. They are saying that they don't believe they're connected at this point. But one of the most striking things, Jordan, was the very first incident message from the FBI after this attack was that they didn't believe it was an act of terror but they already had an ISIS flag that was being flown on the back of that truck in their possession and they went out and tried to control a narrative that they knew they would never get away with but that was the first statement the FBI put out That's what's wrong with our FBI is that they are trying to spin a narrative instead of telling the truth, being transparent, and getting to the bottom of it when it's inconvenient to what they've been pushing. Remember, at Fort Bragg, Fort Liberty, we at the ACLJ fought with and got confirmation they were getting rid of a training program where they were training people at Fort Bragg, Fort Liberty, that the domestic terrorists they had to be worried about were pro-life sidewalk counselors or people that were a part of Operation Rescue. That's the problem with the wokeness in the military and the wokeness in the FBI, afraid of the reality of the world, and that's what puts Americans' lives in danger right now.
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Yes, and I mean, I think that when you honestly look at that, Will, that idea that somehow we're not going to start with the idea that the guy's got an ISIS flag, so let's start with the evidence we have. He carried out about the easiest terrorist attack you can. He has an ISIS flag. He has got radical videos that they found very quickly. So why on earth do you come out to the American people and say that's the starting point isn't terrorism? Obviously, if someone is found flying an ISIS flag while plowing into Americans to kill them at a spot intentionally chosen and then jumps out with a rifle to kill more Americans when they've got all those things around them? And you've got the videos. Why on earth does the FBI have to gaslight the American people? Now, I think people don't understand the definition of terrorism sometimes, Logan. We've kind of got used to this idea that it must be like highly coordinated Islamic terror of airplanes or multiple attackers in these kind of huge events. That's not the definition of terrorism. So I want to take people out to Vegas, for instance. was rented in front put in front of the trump hotel there in vegas that exploded with gasoline in it so that it would explode that is terrorism as well it might not be islamic terrorism but it is political terrorism because it is it is utilizing symbols of elon musk and the incoming president to send a message that if you support people like this you're somehow at risk of more threats if these
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individuals and if you support them you don't deserve to live that is also an act of terrorism it doesn't have to be religiously inspired to be terrorism yeah absolutely and there's a lot of you watching right now and listening on the radio i encourage you to give us a call 1-800-684-3110 phone lines are open this is a great time to call 1-800-684-3110 i know you have a lot of thoughts and a lot of feelings and a lot of emotions uh this morning or yesterday morning and I want to get your thoughts on that coming up. Also, what the New York Times had to say about this. We'll be right back. Welcome back to Secula. We are taking your phone calls at 1-800-684-3110. As I was traveling yesterday, a lot of this news was breaking. I was seven hours in front in the UK as we traveled back, and I was getting some limited articles about the terrorist attacks that were happening. A lot of them were just push notifications, and I couldn't get them. So I got a push notification from the New York Times. And it said, breaking news, something to the effect of, I'm going to pull it up right now because I think you should hear the exact words. Because when I read it, I thought as I was traveling, okay, this is a military veteran. That's who we were talking about here who had made this attack. And again, I hear you. I got it right here. It said... Boom. Breaking news. New Orleans attack suspect was 42-year-old Army veteran. That was the notification. That was the subject line. Okay, so in your head, you can obviously figure that out. You can start putting the piece together. Okay, that's interesting. Of course, when you clicked on the article, which a lot of people will not... It said, you know, something to the effect of New Orleans attack suspect has Islamic state flag on his truck, an ISIS flag. So the narrative changes almost immediately to what we're talking about here. And Jordan, that is sort of the problem we're having with not only the FBI, but also the mainstream press, which is, you know, to tamper down. maybe what they think is the mood, is send them a headline that doesn't quite make sense. Will, you said there was another one from them about the attack in Las Vegas.
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That's right. There are many, actually, outlets. There's people on Twitter, which is Elon Musk's platform, are sharing the narrative that is being pushed by many outlets that Tesla's Cybertruck catches fire outside Trump Hotel Las Vegas. One dead after Tesla's Cybertruck explodes outside.
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That's my thought.
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I got the alert that it exploded. Tesla Cybertruck reportedly catches fire outside Trump Hotel in Las Vegas. So once again, the headlines and honestly, this is unethical journalism. This goes against the Society of Professional Journalism's guidelines for ethical reporting. When you have a headline that is so dumbed down. that it lacks nuance or details that are important to form the right narrative because they are trying to push a narrative. That is unethical reporting. These headlines are unethical.
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Who are they protecting? I don't understand, Jordan. Who are they protecting when you say a cyber truck blew up because it had fireworks in the backseat, a big firework. And then Elon has to come out and go, yeah, there may have been or a bomb. And here's what it really was, because we're able to track and see that everything was working fine with this or saying it was a 42 year old military veteran. Again, now we're just. Now we're blaming the military instead of really what it is, which is radicalization to a point of not even connected to what's really happening here, not only in our own country, but around the world. But they're protecting who their own narrative.
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Yeah, they're protecting political correctness, which is that Islamic terrorism has been on the decline. True. But under the Biden administration, we've seen wars break out in the Islamic world. And instead of embracing the Abraham Accords and working together on economies, even with Israel and the UAE and other places like that, instead, the Biden administration has kind of let that go. Hopefully, the Trump administration will be able to put that back together very quickly. But Logan, unfortunately, the job of these security agencies is to, one, try to prevent these attacks. And then, two, if these attacks occur, to let the American people know what the threat level is and what is the threat coming from. And if you don't tell people the truth, you're gaslighting them. You are lying to the American people. They don't want the American people to believe that there could be another surge in Islamic terrorism in the United States. Why is that, Logan? Because this is a president who said, you know what, there's five countries. They called it the Islamic ban. It wasn't. It was a ban on five countries who could not vet their own people and their own passports when they were going to travel and come to the United States. He did not ban all Muslims or all Muslim countries from travel to the United States. But they know a presence coming in that knows kind of what actions you can take quickly. And those are the kind of actions you can take and say, you know what, we're not going to let people into our country that don't have the right documentation. And their countries are failed states because we now know that there are domestic terrorism operating again inside connected to Islamic terrorism. We know the president has been shot at twice by extreme leftist terrorism. We also are going to say likely that's going to be a third. leftist act of terrorism out in Las Vegas because of the connection to Trump and Elon Musk. So, Logan, that just kills their whole narrative that it's white conservative males who are the threat to the American people and our democracy. That's actually the message they ran on the entire political campaign. But you know what we need to know as Americans? If we need to be on the lookout because there has been a tick up in terrorist activity that's politically or religiously motivated, just tell the truth. And you know what? If that narrative turns out to be not as correct, I'd rather people be safer than worry about upsetting people's political correctness and their ideas that somehow this Biden administration had made America more secure. This is the example. The Biden administration has made us less secure because they took their eye off the ball of what actually mattered in governing our country.
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And Jordan, the questions that surround the New Orleans attacker and terrorist are ones that he, what we know already, kind of fits within a profile of someone who gets radicalized. It appears that He had some financial troubles. He had gone through multiple divorces. There's that isolation. That's the kind of individual that these terrorist organizations can find, latch onto, and radicalize. The broader question, and mainly I think because I don't think our law enforcement has done much profiling on this at all over the last four years, are going to be the questions that arise out of this attack in Las Vegas. What we know thus far is this individual, current active duty, was stationed in Germany, either is Special Forces or is adjacent to Special Forces in some way in the Army, so in Green Berets or Rangers. But what happened to radicalize this person to go forward with leftist-inspired violence? We know that there's some Facebook posts from family members that are anti-Trump. But there's a lot more questions about what inspired that and how that person was radicalized in that way. And that's going to be very important. for the incoming team that needs to get confirmed to figure out what that nexus to violence was because that isn't something our law enforcement has been spending much time on over the last four years because of the narratives and the political correctness you talk about. It isn't the left that's committing this violence, so they haven't spent the time to build up these profiles and understand how this could ever happen in their world.
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I just want to key in on one word as we go into this next break, and Will, you said it. It's radicalized. Radicalized doesn't just mean Islamic. Most often we've used it with that terminology because that's the kind of terrorism we've experienced in our lifetime, which has been tied to a radical religious belief. And you also talked about, Will, who they prey on to turn into these suicide attack individuals. They prey on people who have problems. Even most members of ISIS are not this suicidal. They pick on people who they feel like they've got nothing to live for and tell them you can do something great that God will reward you for. And that's who they target. And for this other individual, the Tesla in Vegas, we need to figure out what their radicalization point was too so we can protect ourselves from those kind of individuals as well. We'll be right back on Sekulow. Taking your calls, 1-800-684-3110. What do you think President Trump needs to do now to make you and your family feel safe? We'll be right back on Sekulow.
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Keeping you informed and engaged now more than ever. This is Sekulow. And now your host, Logan Sekulow.
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This is Logan Sekulow. I want to take your calls today. So give me a call right now. If you're watching online, even in the chat, I still would like to hear your voice. 1-800-684-3110. I also wanted to thank everyone who supported the ACLJ all in 2024. And we encourage you to support the work continuing in 2025. As I said, I was at the ACLJ, the European Center for Law and Justice. Jordan was there over the summer. I was there over Christmas. And again, they were working. Over Christmas, I was in the office Christmas Eve as the work continued in our offices in Europe. And a lot of times when you see the ACLJ represented at the UN, that is because of the work of the ECLJ. And Jordan, I know that is something that you are heavily involved in there. But as we look at this, as you said, similar attacks have happened in Europe. We've also seen the ways that they have countered those in some of the bigger cities. And I think there are ways that we can actually look at how they've responded, whether that is in France or whether that is in London, to these sort of major events. You had a London New Year's Eve, which surpassed 100,000 people, which again, not even as big as sort of Nashville, but but it was very controlled. You had to have a ticket. It was $50 or 50 pounds to get into it. They had brought it down. Alcohol was very limited. Now I know those are things we don't want to hear about in America. You don't want to hear the new Orleans is going to, you know, limit the amount of people and limit the amount of drinking, limit those kinds of things. But I'll be honest, the mood was very positive. There wasn't this, uh, you know, there was a lot of security. There wasn't this air of being scared. Um, that I feel like happens in a lot of major cities, especially on these big events where obviously you always have to keep your guard up, but where you don't feel like something like this can happen. And you brought up those electric cars. London is now, the cabs are electric. And one, they're so fast. But two, there is that sense of like, that's where you have to keep your eyes going because you don't hear them coming.
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Yeah, I think, listen, we've got significant issues now that the Trump team knows they've got to handle on day one because the biden team is again one not capable really of governing this is goes against their narratives they're the they're the reason why this come these headlines don't want to tell the truth even though the sub headline does that as you said many people don't click on so you don't want to see as an act of islamic terrorism we saw the hate on our college campuses that was forming against the state of israel ultimately logan that kind of hatred when you start demonizing a group of people that way inside the united states of america and in western europe it makes it even easier to radicalize individuals when they see people who don't share their faith who don't share their background who don't have the same color skin or the same type of name who are cheering them on because they are calling the allies of Israel and Israel itself and Zionists and Jews as an enemy worth attacking, like they did on October 7th. So it makes it even easier for those radical groups to recruit these nuts. So I always want to put that together. These radical recruiters are, yes, they believe in a radical theology. They are not putting themselves in this situation. They look for people who have unique skill sets. So maybe form a military and a lot of personal problems that they can convert and convince that if you carry out one of these attacks, you'll be rewarded by God in heaven and your life will eternally be different. And you'll be treated as one of the top, you know, you'll get all that you can out of the faith. Yeah, it is clearly, and these are, these are not normal people then that do that. So you have to say, yes, they're motivated. They know who to target. So we know all this. We've been through it in America. Let's just get the people in place who can actually start to keep us safe again so that this doesn't become the norm. This can't become the norm again in America.
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Right. It's cult-like manipulation is what's happening to people who are mentally unwell and people that are financially unwell and people that need help. And they are able to prey on them. Like you said, it's not even the people themselves doing it. It's this kind of situation. Phone lines are open. And Rick Winnell is going to be joining us, right, Will?
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That's right. Next segment will be joined by the former director of national intelligence who has some insight into this as well. So don't turn away. Go ahead and like and subscribe if you're watching on one of our platforms online, YouTube, Rumble, Facebook. And keep watching as we have more information, as well as some calls from some U.S. senators about getting those cabinet members confirmed. We'll be right back with more on Sekulow.
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Welcome back to Sekulow. Rick Riddell is going to be joining us in just a moment. Let me know when we have him. We have him. OK, Rick, you are on. I know I'm sure you have a lot to say after this. New Year's Day morning as we obviously see what happened not only in New Orleans but in Las Vegas and as more information starts to come out about that. And we've also seen the mainstream news kind of as always pivot quite a bit. I was telling our audience earlier. I was traveling, I was in London yesterday, and I got the alert that this attack happened in New Orleans. And the first it said was a 42-year-old Army veteran. And of course, then you had to click through to really see the facts and see that he was carrying an ISIS flag and all of these things happened. But if you had just read the headline, it's not exactly painting the picture that's true.
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Yeah, look, let's summarize something that happened. We had an attack in New Orleans on New Year's Eve. from an individual driving a truck with an ISIS flag waving in the back. And the FBI spokeswoman says this wasn't a terrorist attack. If that doesn't tell you the problems that we've faced over the last four years with a woke FBI and a woke intelligence service, then I don't know what else can prove to you. But we have just allowed 15 million people to illegally come into our country and either be here, illegally break the law. Some are part of sleeper cells, but others are starting to radicalize individuals. We have a problem in our military with individuals becoming radicalized while serving in the U.S. military. This is a red alert for America. We've got to clean up DOD. We've got to clean up the intelligence agencies, including the FBI. And we need transparency. We need to know why we missed certain issues. And let me just say this very clearly. There's no possible way that we didn't have pieces of this individual. We absolutely did have pieces. Matter of fact, he was posting pro-ISIS videos in the hours beforehand. So we need to ask the tough questions as to what happened. Why didn't we put the pieces together and why didn't we act sooner? These are legitimate questions and things that we should absolutely get answers from in the 18 days that are left from this current team. I don't want to just hold my breath for 18 days and just wait for the Trump team to come in. Thank God Donald Trump and his team are moving into the White House. And into the cabinet, but the reality is, is that we still have a team in place running the FBI, running the department of defense, running all of the us government agencies, and we need to hold them to account for the next 18 days. We need answers.
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And Rick, I mean, the FBI is telling members of Congress, according to Fox News, that they had no intelligence on this person. I find that hard to believe, as you mentioned, because the evidence was out there. It was able to be found pretty quickly. But it comes to the full circle here. These are the types of issues we have been warning about for four years, about the the improper focus of the FBI, the entire narrative that homegrown terror in this country is going to be coming from the far right, from conservatives, that parents at school board meetings are the most dangerous threat to this country. You have the FBI just weeks ago presenting a diploma to someone from the state of Palestine as they announced. It seems like they have been so focused on social engineering, a woke utopia within the federal bureaucracy. that they haven't done the job that we've been warning could happen, and in this case, unfortunately, has happened. And I think it goes to your point. That's why we need Kash Patel and the Senate to be working on these nominations as quickly and as soon as possible. But we are fortunate in some ways that we haven't had much more of this type of disaster happen in this country when the policies have been run this way.
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Well, I'm very concerned over the next 18 days, including for the inauguration, that we have the current team in place that's not equipped to keep us safe. And I hate to say it that way, but the reality is that we have too much evidence. They've looked the other way with an open border and with a woke agencies. And this is just the beginning. Even when President Trump and Cash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard take over and all of the rest of the team, we still are going to have a problem because we've had four years of really looking the other way and not being vigilant. And so we're going to have to quickly make changes. But I don't doubt that we are going to face even more terrorist attacks because of the 15 million people that were unvetted that arrived into our country. This is a crisis, and people need to just understand that elections have consequences. And when they elected Joe Biden and his woke team for four years, they made us less safe. Look at the wars. Look at the two wars that that are escalating and getting worse. And the media just does a collective yawn of, you know, oh, well, we've got a massive war in Europe that's not stopping with a nuclear power. We've got a massive war in the Middle East where Americans are still held hostage years later. And there's just a collective shoulder shrug Well, this is the way it is. It's not the way it's supposed to be. And now we're in this huge hole and Donald Trump and his team are going to have to help us climb out of this hole.
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Not only is it not the way it should be, it wasn't the way it was. ISIS was destroyed. No one was talking about Islamic terror and actually said in 2020 that I wish President Trump had run more on his success in that way. uh because i said on this broadcast before the biden administration before the term was over that we would be back and we'd be hearing these these stories again we'd have these attacks and sadly my prediction came true and i didn't want it to become true but you knew when these policies came through that it would happen because they're praying as jordan said they're praying on people who this has nothing to do with religion this has nothing to do with ideology but this has to do with is, is people controlling, creating terrorism and, and controlling people who are mentally unwell, people that are having severe issues, whether it's financially, whatever, and radicalizing them in a way to cause destruction. And yes, they've convinced them that it's in the name of God. But Rick, you've been all over the world. You also know that this is not represent your representative of everyone in this faith. Just like when you see a radical Christian, uh, It's sad. I saw so many people in the Muslim community. There were sweet, kind people that are just so upset that this is how their faith is being portrayed in America because it's not the same. And these attacks happen. But really, these attacks happen in a way that could be stopped. And hopefully even with your new position with President Trump. in the Trump administration and your connection with your new position, this will be able to be stopped once again.
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Well, we're certainly going to work hard to fix this problem and to turn the ship around, so to speak. I do believe, you know, we touched on the fact that the Biden team is saying that they didn't have actionable intelligence. There's a difference between saying they didn't have any intel and that they didn't have any actionable intelligence. And what that means is we saw it, but we didn't really know what it meant. And when there's videos being posted by the guy who works for the U.S. military saying that I've been radicalized, hello, that's actionable intelligence. We have a system in Washington where nobody can get fired because of this woke mentality of the civil service rules. And that's one of the things that we have to change. When someone doesn't do their job, they need to be fired. When someone is radicalized, they need to be fired. When someone is totally incompetent or partisan and not following what the president's Orders are, they need to be fired. And that's what I'm hoping that we return to.
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And Rick, we also hope that that is what we return to. But there is a big fight ahead because we need these picks confirmed and we need the deputies confirmed as well. The deep state doesn't go away at noon on January 20th. As a matter of fact, as you would know, sometimes that's when the fight gets even harder. And we've got about a minute left here.
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Yeah, I think there's no question. I tend to believe that the majority of people in the system are going to salute the president and follow orders. But we have too many people who won't do that, who are political, who are going to try to stop the president. And what we have to do is find those people and fire them.
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Thank you so much, Rick, for joining us. I do want to encourage you to give us a call. We're going to take your calls in the next segment at 1-800-684-3110. And I wanted to thank you again for supporting the ACLJ in 2024. But here we are in 2025. We've got some big things happening. We're going to roll out that new pro-life campaign. We'll have new projects, new movies, new specials, obviously new members of the team. And of course, got to continue funding what we're doing here incredibly in the courtrooms and of course, in the media. So I encourage you to support the work of the ACLJ still at ACLJ.org.
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Do it right now, Will. That's right. And when we come back, we'll be taking your phone calls. You can call it 1-800-684-3110 to be heard on air. But also we'll talk about what some of the members of the U.S. Senate are saying about getting these individuals confirmed to President Trump's cabinet. it is very important as a matter of fact if you want to support one of our own tulsi gabbard go to aclj.org sign to sign our petition for her confirmation welcome back to secular i would like to hear from you we have a little bit of time give us a call we got about nine minutes here before the show wraps up so if you want to call in
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Give me an opportunity. 1-800-684-3110. I also would love for you to put in a comment. Let me know where you're watching from if you don't have anything to say. And again, of course, we are covering these terrorist attacks, but we do hope you all had a great Christmas, a great Hanukkah, which has ended last night. We had our celebration in my home last night. And I hope you had a happy new year as much as you could, obviously waking up to this tragic news, but hopefully you stayed safe. And again, I wanted to thank you for supporting the work of the ACLJ. Let's go ahead and take some calls. Let's go to Ronald. Who's calling first in South Carolina on rumble or is watching on rumble. Ronald, you're on the air.
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Thank you for taking my call. Yes. I just wanted to comment that it seems like they're trying so hard to give Biden a, a, a proper legacy, but also, All that's going on so far is right now he has a legacy of victims and victims' families that he's going to have to convince, just like when he commuted the sentence of, of those that were on death row in trying to convince their families that it was a decent thing to do, yet try and tell the victims who've lost loved ones now that your border policy and your other policies was the right thing. Negotiating with terrorists was the right thing to do in trying to convince the victims and their families about that.
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Ronald, it does feel like that. Sort of a blunder after blunder after blunder, which is you had that moment where he pardoned everyone on death row, and there are people who are against the death penalty. And they thought, you know, this was a thing to do, that it was the right thing to do. But of course, then you have a terrorist attack happen very shortly after you does kind of put everything into perspective. The legacy of president Biden will not be one that is great. It'll be one that is flawed. Like you said, with Afghanistan or, or this issue or terrorist attacks, but it'll also be one that will have an interesting turn. You know, we saw the passing of Jimmy Carter over the last couple of days. And his legacy kind of got shifted. His legacy kind of shifted from a failed president to someone who was praised as a good person and a humanitarian. And look, I said the flag in front of Buckingham Palace was... was at half mass for Jimmy Carter. And again, it felt very interesting to be there for that moment. Kind of like, Oh, this, they've canceled the changing of the guard for tours for Jimmy Carter. And again, the legacy changes the legacy of Joe Biden. Maybe this guy was the president. And we saw sort of Whitney Cummings comments on CNN New Year's Eve gets pushed out and then a massive loss.
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He may be able to say, well, if they just kept him in. Well, and that's honestly what some of the reporting has been, is that President Biden believes that he would have won, which I believe is. I believe he would have. been wrong, but I believe it would have been closer. I believe that he is probably incorrect on that, but the polling definitely was not in his favor at the time. But I do believe that he maybe would have had a better shot at that instead of causing the chaos within the party that they did. But that unfortunately is going to be the refrain of this entire four years of the Democrats' policies. It has caused chaos wherever they went, whether it be the failed border policies, whether it be the way that they ran the chaotic COVID relief programs and mandates and things of that nature, and just the inflation rates, the things that got out of control. And that they tried to gaslight the American people and say weren't the case. And even the way that they handled the foreign wars and the way that they hamstrung the Israelis from doing more quickly the job that needed to be done in Gaza. And instead also trying to give Ukraine everything that they could under the sun, including at the end of his term saying, go ahead and start launching long range missiles into Syria. Russian homeland. It's just chaos everywhere. They called Trump the chaos president and said that it was chaos for four years. Most of that chaos was caused by the left trying to drum up things to push against him to completely undercut his presidency.
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The chaos was you didn't like the fact that he was on social media a lot and he went out and spoke and spoke from a place that was uncomfortable for some people. Not... From a place of, I don't know, attacks on some of our major cities where, you know, New Orleans, again, probably one of the top cities for New Year's Eve. I've been there before for New Year's Eve as people go in town for the Sugar Bowl every year and now even more so that this is not this shouldn't be happening. But of course, what chaos to the other side is, is, you know, someone tweeting out something ridiculous or saying something in a comedic way or something, something that's offensive that maybe you find offensive or just a policy. But I would much rather be offended by someone's tweet than worry about my college age kids, which is what most of the victims in New Orleans were. 18 19 20 that's who's going to new orleans for new year's eve and those were the kids kids they really are who tragically lost their lives because of that uh you can go to jerry's call in new jersey jerry uh you've been a hold for a while you're on the air yes uh i'd like to see biden pardon uh donald trump and then get back at pelosi and all those uh who put him in the position he is right now and
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that would give him some some more stability as far as his legacy goes i don't see that happening but i also think his push back to a pelosi or someone think that is that you lost and i think that if he were going to do that he would have done it at the same time as the hunter biden pardon i think he would have tried to make a bipartisan like look this these were both political attacks or they're claimed to be political legal attacks. Let's just get rid of both of them and move forward. He didn't choose to do it at that time, which I think would have been the most effective and given him the most cover for whoever he was afraid of going after his legacy, but he didn't. So I don't necessarily see it happening. Also, the federal cases, Jack Smith has wrapped up.
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They, in theory... Turned apart in himself in some ways by winning the election.
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Right. They, in theory, could... with I think one of the cases because it was dismissed. That's the January 6th one, dismissed without prejudice. So in the future, they could theoretically bring charges again. Not going to happen. I think that is over. But yeah, maybe it would have been nice to see. President Biden say I'm going to pardon Donald Trump I'll pardon my son let's just get on move forward but I think that there is still so much resentment going on within President Biden being pushed out even though all the reporting now is that he was more diminished the entire four years than anyone was previously reporting that it included started back in 2020, they noticed it during the race and actually were like, we got to stop putting Jill Biden out so much because it makes him look bad.
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You could watch that statement he made yesterday about the New Orleans attack and just see it. And it's sad in that sense, because look, no one wants to get old and get like that. And he served for a very, very long time. But unfortunately, no one could beat Father Time. It's just what happens. and uh unfortunately here's where we are i want to thank you all for supporting the work of the aclj uh during our december drive it really was remarkable that you all turned out now there's some ways to go not gonna lie to you during these sort of election years a lot of things happening in the world and obviously inflation and issues it's not like uh we're hitting necessarily the numbers that we have hit in previous years maybe on those more uh fruitful years if you will So I encourage you, if you can, still support the work of the ACLJ. Go ahead and do that at ACLJ.org. And I want to thank you all. If you are brand new to this broadcast and you're watching on YouTube or Rumble or X or wherever it may be, follow, subscribe, do whatever it is, because that's a great free way to get our voice out there as well. We're going to continue our coverage tomorrow. We're going to be back next week as well. And you can always... Catch up with us on all of our social media platforms. So go ahead and follow us on Instagram. Follow us on X. Follow on Facebook to make sure you're staying up to date. And visit ACLJ.org to read all of our incredible articles and blogs from some of the top leaders in the country and around the world. And I'd love to continue updating you on what's going on even in our European offices and more. Thanks again for listening, for watching, and we'll be back tomorrow on Second Life.
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Our quote of the day, I went to Francis of Assisi. And he was born in 1181, died in 1226. He was an Italian mystic poet and Catholic, a mystic poet and Catholic friar who founded the religious order of the Franciscans. And it's inspired to lead a Christian life of poverty. He became a beggar and he was a preacher. And he said this, start by doing what's necessary, then do what's possible. And suddenly you are doing the impossible. And I think those are is a great quote of the day as we start into 2025. Just a few this day in history. In 1900, U.S. Secretary of State John Hay announces the open door policy, to promote trade with China. It was back in 1900. 1903, U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt shuts down the post office in Indianola, Mississippi, for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black. So good for him on that. 1906, this is our personal climates. Willis Carrier receives a U.S. patent for the world's first air conditioner. And that really has changed things. We really wouldn't have Phoenix, Las Vegas, these very... Cities that get so hot in the summer, they would not be the cities that they are. And again, that was in 1906. 1910, again, we're getting into the progressive era, and the first junior high schools in the U.S. opens in Berkeley, California. Connect that dot. Another climate event, 1961, Hawaii's then all-time low temperature was 14 degrees Fahrenheit. And then in 1974, Richard Nixon, he instituted the 55-mile-per-hour speed limit. That didn't work out very well. So those are all of this day in history. Our headlines, I think that as we were having some of the bowl games on yesterday, we were shocked to see this headline in New Orleans. And that, whoops, I just, I had that up for you guys and I just deleted it. This is from ABC News and it says this New Orleans attack down in the French Quarter. Apparently a guy that is ISIS sympathizer went around a police barricade and killed at least 15 people yesterday. Just think about it. They got up that morning. They're excited to be down in New Orleans, excited probably about the Sugar Bowl and And then they are killed because of this. So this is from ABC News. It says law enforcement agencies are expanding their investigation into the New Year's ramming attack on New Orleans Bourbon Street, which killed at least 15 people and injured dozens more in the early hours of Wednesday. Now, again, those that are wanting to control firearms, prevent everyday people from having firearms, we see that this bad guy did have firearms, but also he used a vehicle to kill people. And so should we be outlawing vehicles? And so just connect that dot. But we go on to say the city and federal officials said an Army veteran identified as Shamsa Din Jabbar, 42, was helping on killing as many people as possible. The suspect drove a pickup truck around a parked police car serving as a barricade and plowed into crowds of revelers. It says New Orleans Police Superintendent Ann Kirkpatrick said during a Wednesday news conference that security bollards were not working at the time because they were in the process of being replaced for the upcoming Super Bowl. One would think that they might have that done before the Sugar Bowl, but I'm just commenting. uh she's confirmed that the suspect drove on the sidewalk to get around a police car blocking the intersection i was talking to someone yesterday that said um congratulations to new orleans police officers for what they did this guy mowed down dozens of people it was a three block stretch of this world famous thoroughfare and then he was firing into the crowd So officers then returned fire. They killed him. And I think that they acted very valiantly. And then also what had happened is one is dead after a cyber truck explodes outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas. And this goes a lot. Now, granted, this attacker in New Orleans says he was U.S. born. Be interested to see how his parents got here and just what that status is. But this open border down at the southern border, we don't know who's come across this border. We we don't know their health status yet. As well, I was talking to a friend yesterday who has a colleague that is trying to immigrate to the United States legally from South Africa. And she was flagged as having a health issue. And so apparently they're working that out. But just think about this. All these people coming across the southern border, we don't even know about that. So there's something really wrong with this picture. It's important that we have these discussions, though, and we have them because of great sponsors. And one of those is the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance team. 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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. And you can email me at Kim at Kim Munson dot com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice. 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 force people to do it. Pleased to have on the line with me John Carson. He is a former CU Board of Regents director, and he is sitting for the Vacancy Committee to fill the vacancy that has been created when Senator Kevin Van Winkle was elected as a Douglas County Commissioner, and that is for Colorado Senate District 30. John Carson, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 05 :
Good morning, Kim. Happy New Year. Thanks for having me on.
SPEAKER 15 :
Happy New Year to you as well. And the Colorado State Legislature will be convening next week. So set this up. These vacancy committees are kind of a unique thing. So this happened because Kevin Van Winkle vacated the seat when he was elected Douglas County Commissioner. So what's this process, John?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, so the folks who can vote in these vacancy committees are basically the precinct people, district captains, some of the elected officials who live in that particular Senate district, Senate District 30, which is the northern third of Douglas County, basically Highlands Ranch, Roxborough, Lone Tree, Castle Pines North, that area, Sterling Ranch. And they will be meeting about 160 people. and are eligible and they'll be meeting on saturday it's open to the public saturday afternoon at southridge recreation center and highlands ranch and the candidates for the vacancy will get to make their pitch and and then they'll vote and you got to get a majority so you know if there's Multiple folks running, you can't win on a plurality. You've got to get 50 plus one. So there could be several ballots, and whoever gets to that point will be elected as the Republican to fill the remaining two years. Senator Van Winkle resigned in December, so it's fairly recently he resigned when that vacancy happened. opened for the county commissioners. One of the sitting commissioners resigned in December, and so he took that seat a little bit early. But the resignation didn't get official until mid-December. So we're just trying to fill it right now real quickly before we start the legislative session on January 8th. You've got to have a senator in there.
SPEAKER 15 :
That is very, very important. So the question is why, John Carson, why are you stepping forward to sit for the vacancy committee to complete this process? So why would you want to be a senator? Yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
well i think i've got the background experience as you said i was on the board of regents fighting for conservative faculty and free speech and was also president of the school board in douglas county when we ended the teachers union contract put a whole host of school choice policies in place we need strong dynamic leadership aggressive leadership at this point we're down to 12 seats in a 35 member state senate for the republicans So we've got to have fighters in there. I've got a good track record of fighting for good conservative principles. My main priorities is, you know, the state government, as you know, Kim, has more than doubled. in the last couple of decades governor polis has added 6 000 employees they've got themselves in a situation where there's going to be a budget deficit of almost a billion dollars and we have to balance that budget so that i want to put a government cost efficiency commission in place like they're talking about with president trump and elon musk let's do that on the state level this year figure out where the efficiencies are and we're going to have to cut that budget number two I want to phase out the state income tax. We should make Colorado the 10th state in America without a state income tax. They've got all this property tax revenue and other things coming in. We could do that, I believe, by the year 2030. We've been reducing it steadily, but we should get rid of it entirely. And third, you were earlier talking about this illegal immigration issue. We've got to require localities to comply with federal immigration law, get everybody working together to make sure we keep our state safe, our community safe. This illegal immigration problem is out of control. I'm glad President Trump and his people are going to address it. We've got to address it aggressively on the state level. So those are some of my priorities. I'm a solid pro-life, pro-Second Amendment, constitutional conservative, and I believe I'm a great fit for this district.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, John Carson, you mentioned this big deficit here in Colorado. I thought we had to have a balanced budget in Colorado.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes, we do. Fortunately, it's good for us taxpayers that they do have to balance the budget. And they do have to abide by Tabor, too, which under Tabor says the revenues can't grow faster than inflation and population growth. And so they're going to have to refund those Tabor dollars to us. The Democrats are always trying to play around with that and find sneaky ways to reduce the amount, but they are going to have to refund a significant amount of money and they're going to have to balance that budget. And that's good for all of us because it forces Colorado government to live within its means. And, you know, a lot of this spending came from this COVID ARPA money, they call it, that came into the states and they spent it all. And now it's gone. And so we got a budget. We got a balance. It's going to be a tough year in the legislature. People are going to have to make tough decisions. And I think I've got the background and experience to do that.
SPEAKER 15 :
It is going to be a tough year. I just did get this from a text message from one of our listeners. She said, oh, no, we can't balance the budget on property taxes. And I know that she personally, she has a business, and her property taxes tripled. So probably I love getting rid of the income tax, but I think the other thing is to reduce spending. Yes, John?
SPEAKER 05 :
Oh, yeah, we've got to reduce spending. Like I said, if you look at the state budget, it's out of control in real inflation adjusted terms just in the last 15 years or so. The appropriations per Coloradan have gone from just over 5000 to almost 7000 a person in the state government. So they're spending at a tremendous rate. They're not disciplining, showing the discipline we need in the state government. And they've gotten themselves in this situation with these huge Democratic majorities and a Democratic governor. And now Republicans need to step in and lead the way, as we often do, to restore some fiscal discipline to the situation. And so I'm eager to do that. You know, I worked in D.C. on Capitol Hill for U.S. Senator Wayne Allard, our conservative senator for 10 years, legal counsel. I understand the legislative process, committee work, floor work, and I'm ready to take on the challenge.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay. So that will be, you said this vacancy committee will be this Saturday at the South Ridge Recreation Center. What time on that, John Carson?
SPEAKER 05 :
One o'clock. The meeting starts at one o'clock and probably take up most of the afternoon there before we have a result. And this is all under state law, the way these vacancies are filled, because it's too late to have an election. And this is just to fill the Senate's is a four-year term normally. There's a remaining two years left on this. So we're just filling this two years, and then whoever is selected will have to run again in 2026 for a full term.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay. And one other thing, John Carson, we have just a couple of minutes, and that is our children. I've seen this state legislature has really been – many of these bills have been focused on this whole – transgender agenda. And I am super concerned about that. We have a number of guests that we have talked about this, and I'm just really concerned about our children. And so you have been so involved with being a regent at CU and then also the president of the Douglas County School Board. That's another big issue down there at the statehouse that we need to roll our sleeves up on, I think. What's your thoughts on that?
SPEAKER 05 :
You bet. I agree with you completely on that. This Stuff has gotten out of control. It's ridiculous. You know, we've got rules now that names can be changed, references can be changed without even parents knowing. You know, I'm strongly opposed. I want to protect girls in women's sports, not have males. I mean, it's ridiculous we're having this conversation. I know. That males are... being talked about participating in girls' sports and locker rooms and other things. I mean, it's not safe. It's ridiculous. Rolling back the protections we put in place for girls and women under Title IX, all of this. So I am a huge proponent of sticking to traditional values on these type of things, making sure we have parents involved in these discussions, 100%.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay. So John Carson, who is sitting for the Vacancy Committee this Saturday for Senate District 30, what's your final thoughts you'd like to leave with our listeners?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, my final thought is we need strong leadership in there, someone who can hit the and is going to get in there and discipline the state government, balance the budget, reduce taxes, keep those property taxes coming down, and see what we can do about things like the state income tax, get it cut, and make sure we enforce illegal immigration laws across the state. We've got to protect our citizens.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay, John Carson, thank you so much, and thank you for stepping forward to sit for this vacancy committee, and I wish you all kinds of luck.
SPEAKER 05 :
Thank you, Kim, and Happy New Year again. Thanks for having me on.
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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMunson.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice. 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 force people to do it. And I get to work with a lot of great sponsors. One of those is Hooters Restaurants. And they've been sponsors of the show, both this show and America's Veterans Stories for all of these years. I'm starting my seventh year of solo broadcasting. And they have been with me since before then. and how I got to know them. It's a very important story about freedom and free markets and capitalism and PBIs, those politicians and bureaucrats and interested parties that try to control our lives, try to control our opportunities. That's not their proper role and that's how I got to know the owners of Hooters restaurants. They have five locations, Loveland, Aurora, Lone Tree, Westminster and Colorado Springs and great specials Monday through Friday for lunch and happy hour and of course a great place to get together to watch all of these sporting games and events. Another great sponsor of the show is Susan Kochivar with 88 Drive-In Theater. She's an entrepreneur and owner of the historic 88 Drive-In Theater. And 2025 has just started. Spring's right around the corner. Susan Kochivar, welcome. Good morning. Happy New Year. Happy New Year. And spring will be here before we know it. And the 88 Drive-In Theater will be open again. But right now, you're on the winter hiatus. And so I wanted to, you really have your ear to the ground on so many different issues, and particularly as an entrepreneur. And I wanted to talk with you about Trump, your perspective on 2025. What's your thoughts about all of that, Susan Kochemar?
SPEAKER 16 :
I really think that 2025 is going to be an amazing year. I see a lot of really good indicators on the horizon. So, you know, for Colorado, I think it will head in a better direction. But for the country, I think we're going to get a lot of stuff straightened out and move forward.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, I think Colorado, Susan, is at the tip of the spear of all of the radical activist extreme things that they want to push. And so that's why we're here holding the line and really working to then push back on this. And that's why these vacancy committees are so important. We're going to be talking with several different people that will be sitting for this vacancy committee for Senate District 30. but we have to hold the line and we've got to start to reclaim Colorado because I think that we really are at the tip of the spear for all of this stuff that they want to, they want to float it here and see if they can get it past here and then push it out to the rest of the country. Susan.
SPEAKER 16 :
I think so too. And I think a lot of the things that happen nationally will trickle into Colorado. I think that with the secretary of state, um, releasing all of those passwords. I think everybody now finally has figured out that Colorado elections are compromised. And I see former gubernatorial candidate Heidi Ganahl talking about it. The Libertarian Party is really stepped forward in a big way, filing that lawsuit against the Secretary of State and putting together some other steps that people can take to to reclaim Colorado. So I think that there's a lot of opportunity there, and I think we could see significant pushback in 2025 for Colorado.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, and also, Susan, we got those two lawsuits filed with the Colorado 2024 Election Project, and they're now back and forth in the legal ping pong. And one of those is that Colorado is not meeting the minimum standards as set forth by Congress for our elections, which is a civil rights issue. And so that is filed. And then the other one, and that's through the United Sovereign Americans, their legal team. And then with Peter Berneger with the Wisconsin Center for Election Justice, that particular lawsuit is that our voter rolls are not clean. And so we're looking forward to some other things to do in 2025. But I'm very pleased that so many people stepped forward here, all of you, thank you, here in Colorado to get those lawsuits filed. I had hoped that we'd had more immediate action on that, but I'm learning that the legal system is pretty slow and laborious. Susan Kochavar, and so that was kind of my big lesson that I've learned in all of this.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, part of that's by design, I think, but I think we might need some reform. abuses that we've watched happen. And those are the things I think that will help trickle down into Colorado. Those lawsuits are super important. And I think they will tie into the national conversation because I know that Trump has talked about sorting out the issues in our election systems. And there is talk of him implementing or trying to implement federally paper hand counted ballots. And I know that we have people like Mike Lindell and others who are really pushing for that. And, you know, you have Catherine Engelbrecht and that whole group pushing to sort out the election. So I think a lot more is going to get down there. And I think that will trickle into all the state. which will make a very big difference. I don't actually think Colorado is blue or even purple. It's very hard to tell. I know in the third race that I ran for state house quite a few years ago, my number popped up, you know, at, was it 720? The election results 720 and never changed. And that should not happen. The election had, the polls had just closed at seven. So at that point I knew something was wrong.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, and also, wasn't there in one of your elections as you were running for state house that some ballots or a truck disappeared for a week or something with some ballots and then it magically showed up? What happened there?
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, that's exactly right. That was the same election in Adams County. A truckload of ballots went missing for a week. It was coming from the printer to the post office. And they said that there were three trucks. The third truck did not have proper documentation and just went away, wound up disappearing for a whole week. And with some of the shenanigans we saw happen with the elections around the country, you know, where different paper was used and some other things, what was going on with that truckload of ballots? They found it, um, But, you know, it was never, I don't think, fully investigated. So there are some very big problems. Those things need to be corrected. That cannot happen.
SPEAKER 15 :
No, it cannot happen. And you mentioned the BIOS passwords, the security breach on that, that they were actually on the Secretary of State's website behind a hidden tab, but you could easily access that hidden tab. And those were out there for four months or so. And that is a significant security breach. Of course, what we're seeing, and from both sides of the aisle, we're seeing... and I have this in air quotes, experts say that, oh, there's nothing to worry about, nothing to see here, move along, everything is okay. And I think that we really need to address this more. So that's one of the things that's on my list of things to do here in 2025. And I've been having some conversations about that. And then the other thing is, is I really want to go through the election laws and regulations here in Colorado and really understand them because there are things that have been passed by this legislature or rules that have been passed by the Secretary of State regarding our elections that now they're legal, But they're not right. And in fact, one of those and a lot of people don't even realize this is that prior to 2024, 16 year olds could be pre-registered to vote so that when they turned 18, a ballot would be generated and sent to the address that they registered to vote when they were in high school. And last year, that age was changed from 16 to 15. And if you go on the Secretary of State's website, you can see where they've had pre-registration drives in different high schools. And many of those high schools, I would say, would be in... communities that probably would be considered much more favorable to the radical activist extreme Democrats. But when I tell people that 15-year-olds compete, pre-register to vote, their jaws drop.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yes. Yeah, that needs to be changed also. A lot of those people probably in four years, a lot can happen.
SPEAKER 15 :
Think about 15-year-olds. They don't understand the issues. Now, many of them might be in that indoctrination pipeline that is happening with many of our public education institutions. So you can see that radical activists, they play long ball. Susan, and many times I feel like conservatives, Republicans, libertarians, we're playing tiddlywinks and they are really playing long ball. And we've got to stay engaged in this.
SPEAKER 16 :
We seem to seem to act like, oh, they wouldn't do that. Yeah, they are doing that. And, you know, I mean, well, gosh, those kids can move in that time between they're 15 and 18. You know, some of those people live in apartments. Such, so many problems. And the other thing we need to... work on is getting the post office to stop delivering mail to mailboxes where people do not live no longer live they're not supposed to deliver mail where that person is not on the mailbox anymore i guess they they were never supposed to but they do they just drop them off at that address and that's another thing we have to get shored up that has to stop
SPEAKER 15 :
And I really thought after the last election that I take just a little bit of time off. But the other side never sleeps. And I had gone, this was shortly after the November 2024 election. And I'd seen this headline, I've talked about it on the show before, that Biden said that he was going to try to do something regarding the Colorado River before he left office. And I thought, huh, that is super interesting. And then I was in downtown Littleton, and I was walking in between a business and a restaurant, and there were two young girls that were out with an iPad and very friendly. You know they're up to something when they're super friendly. Hi, how are you doing? They were with the Nature Conservancy, and they said that they were raising money and having people sign a petition regarding... helping the Colorado River. And I thought, is that not interesting? You can see how this is all connected. This was maybe within a week or so after the election. And I thought, oh, we can't stop at all. We've got to get focused on this. And so I know that you are, and I as well, we're working on this.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yes. Well, I don't think there isn't a person that doesn't realize not Biden is trying to trash as many things as they can on their way out the door. And, you know, even putting in things like new, trying to put in new oil and gas regulations and stuff like that. And Trump will just roll them back. That's I think a given, but it's, it's really disgusting what these people are doing, what they have done at, which kind of rolls me into another topic that, You know, we're talking about looking hopeful, and I don't know if you have managed to catch the new show on Paramount Plus called Landman with Billy Bob Thornton.
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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMunson.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice and 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 force people to do it. And do check out the Center for American Values located in Pueblo, Colorado, on the beautiful Riverwalk. I've not been down to Pueblo now for several months, and I need to get down there. But the Center for American Values is doing great work honoring our Medal of Honor recipients. These are men that took action when danger presented itself. They took action to protect those around them. And we can take great heart from that because we are in an ideological battle right now where we need to step forward and protect those around us. And so be inspired. Check out the Center for American Values. That website is AmericanValueCenter.org. AmericanValueCenter.org. On the line with me is entrepreneur and owner of 88 Drive-In Theater, Susan Kochavar. And we had a cliffhanger, and that was this new television show, I guess you said, Landman. So tell us about this, Susan Kochavar.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yes, I think it's a very important piece because I think that it indicates a major shift in Hollywood. I think we might see the dam break in terms of what topics they can portray without killing their career. So Landman is a program put together by Taylor Sheridan. And there are some significant monologues in the program, at least three, that explain to people that, you know, there's no way we can just go with the green energy and the windmills because the transmission lines aren't there to get the power to the homes, even if it were a sustainable energy, even if those green energy sources production forms made enough energy for us to heat and cool our homes and everything else. It also talks about the importance of oil and how it's in just about everything, you know, from medical equipment to your cell phone. So there are three really good monologues so far. One other monologue in the program takes place between two young people And the girl likes the boy, and the boy grew up in Texas because the whole thing takes place in Odessa, Texas, where a lot of oil production is done. And he talks about how, you know, all the propaganda that's out there about what's destroying the environment. And at one point, the kid ends his monologue with, well, you know, these people think that the end of – what's destroying the environment are humans, and they have a plan for that too. So it goes through a lot of this propaganda that has been put out by the left, and it shows the other perspective. And it's quite refreshing and shocking. So I highly recommend people go and watch that. It also depicts the hard work that all these people in oil and gas do. And, of course, we have Chris Wright from Liberty Oil, who will now be taking the helm of our energy in the country. And, you know, we do a lot of oil production in Colorado. And I think that will also change the face of the country in the next four years.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, and I saw another headline, though. New regulations were passed against, really, our oil and natural gas industry. And, of course, they're trying to shut down our coal-fired plants here in Colorado. And so this is going to be a real interesting... rub, if you will, having Chris Wright where he's at in the Trump administration and then what Polis is attempting to do here in Colorado. Susan, what about Polis? Polis has tried to portray himself as a libertarian. But when you look at the onerous, and you know, because you're in business here, rules and regulations and taxes and fees, and Colorado's economy has moved down to like 41st in GDP in the country when we typically had been. And I think the top 10. And it's because of these terrible policies. With Polis wanting to run for president in 2028, do you think that he'll take his foot off the pedal of all of this rules and regulations? Or do you have a perspective on that?
SPEAKER 16 :
I'm not sure he can take his foot off the pedal because we have the whole legislature in Colorado controlled by Democrats. And that is his party. So he has some very big issues there. And they're getting more and more radicals into the state legislature. You know, they get the people to run for state legislature and then they they win and then they resign. And then some more radical person gets elected. appointed to that position. And we have a lot of that going on. So it's going to be tough for him to do that. And currently he has egg on his face. Literally, you cannot buy eggs in Colorado. And as much as they try to say that's not because of that HB 1343 that was passed. It is. You can't just suddenly tell egg producers or any sort of producers, oh, you have to completely change your business model. Nothing works that way. And they just have no comprehension of how business works. So I see that Representative Ryan Gonzalez has introduced a repeal bill of So it's going to put that in. So we need more repeal bills, and I'm so happy to see that.
SPEAKER 15 :
That is really exciting, and I agree. Repeal bills are a good idea. And the other day, eggs had moved up to $8.99 a dozen from the producers that I purchased my eggs from. And I remember when they were $2.99 a dozen. And it's a great protein source. You look at our young families that are trying to put food on the table. And because of these policies, they are getting squeezed because of government-induced inflation. They're getting squeezed. I did see also I think the minimum wage moved up. in Colorado on January 1. And you've explained that really well, how that affects employers and employees. But quickly explain that again for people that may not have heard you in the past on that, Susan.
SPEAKER 16 :
It does. That minimum wage really hurts businesses, and especially small businesses. One of the things people forget is that you have payroll taxes that are a percentage of your payroll. So when your minimum wage goes up and you have to pay all of your employees more, and I mean all of your employees because you can't just – if you have someone that's making a little bit more and you hire somebody new at the new – employment minimum wage then you have to give that other person a little more money because you can't just pay all the people that's experienced and who've shown they can you know do the job and come to work on time you can't pay them all the same so it increases all of your payroll and then you have payroll taxes which are a percentage of your payroll so all of that goes up and you know Gosh, then what happens is employers start to look around to see, um, I'm going to need to, I can't pay all these people this much. So what can I, um, figure out what service can I either completely drop or can I find a way to automate that? Um, You know, like, I don't know, in my case, maybe bring in a butter machine so that I don't have kids buttering popcorn. You know, or maybe I go from a soda fountain to soda bottles because, you know, it doesn't take somebody to serve that soda. These are the kinds of things that happen. So what happens is you lose jobs and eventually you lose businesses, which is great. Denver is really seeing that problem because the legislature in Colorado also passed a law that said municipalities can set minimum wage. And I think I saw Boulder was talking about a $25 an hour minimum wage. And Denver, of course, raised theirs as well. And that's why so many restaurants are closing in Denver. I think that Governor Polis will have a terrible time trying to run for president. He'd be the same thing as Governor Newsom in California. You know, sliding that way is... is really bad and it's getting very expensive to live in Colorado and very dangerous because we have all these Venezuelan gangs and illegals that are coming in. And Colorado has said they're not going to stand behind President Trump and they think they're not going to anyway and help deport these people that should not be here.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, Susan Kochavar, we're out of time. I agree. I'm looking forward with great hope and optimism for our country for 2025. We've got work to do here in Colorado, and I so thank you for rolling up your sleeves and working with me on all this. I greatly appreciate you, and thank you.
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Thanks, Kim. It's going to be an exciting year. It'll all trickle down into good things for Colorado, too, I think. It'll put pressure on the legislature to make changes.
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Okay. And so again, Susan Kochavar, entrepreneur and owner of 88 Drive and Theater. Our quote for the end of the show is from St. Francis of Assisi. He said, Lord, help me to live this day quietly and easily, to lean upon my great strength trustfully and restfully, to wait for the unfolding of thy will patiently and serenely. to meet others peacefully and joyously, to face tomorrow confidently and courageously. So today, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you. God bless America. And stay tuned for our number two.
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indeed let's have a conversation and welcome to our number two of the kim munson show thank you so much for joining us you're each treasured you're 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 wishing you all a very joyful healthy and prosperous 2025 we've got much work to do and yes we were made for this moment Thank you to the team. That's Producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Teresa, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. Happy New Year and Happy Thursday, Producer Joe. Happy New Year, Kim. And we've got much work to do, my friend, and I know that you are fastening your seatbelt and we're ready to do that. So thank you, Joe. It's my pleasure, Kim. It's going to be a fun year and I'm excited to see what happens this year. Me too. And we're in it. We're right on the front lines here. And I take great heart in that. And we all need to be doing something, my friends. We can't just be just doing things online and getting frustrated. Let's look for solutions and let's get active. So whatever it is that keeps you up at night, choose one thing, become an expert on it, get involved in it, whether or not it's education or... Whatever it is, just make sure that you choose one thing. We have a civic duty to at least do one thing to reclaim our state and reclaim our country. So check out the website. That's Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You'll get first look at our upcoming guests as well as our most recent essays. That goes out on Sundays. You can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com. I guess a New Year's resolution for me is to... stay on top of my emails. I need a few more hours in the day, but I think I'm going to get more organized on that. So that's my New Year's resolution. So email me at kim at kimmunson.com. And also text line is 720-605-0647. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice and 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 the show comes to you Monday through Friday, 6 to 8 a.m. The first hour is rebroadcast 1 to 2 in the afternoon, second hour 10 to 11 at night. And that is on all KLZ 560 platforms. So KLZ 560 AM, KLZ 100.7 FM, the website, the KLZ website and the KLZ app. So you can listen anywhere in the world. Our word of the day is edify. And it is E-D-I-F-Y. Your challenge is to use that in a sentence today. And it could be to instruct, especially so as to encourage intellectual, moral or spiritual improvement. So that's the first definition. Number two, to build or to construct. And number three, to instruct and improve, especially in moral and religious knowledge, to teach. I think that when we look at... I was so surprised. I was talking with someone over the holiday period. About everyone, not everyone, I think almost all of the public school bond questions or mill levy overrides were passed by the voters this last November 2024. And I think the reason is, is because people still have the perception that public education is edifying our children. So instructing and improving them in moral and religious knowledge and spiritual improvement, all those things. And. Those of us that are really watching what's happening with this Colorado State Legislature and what they are pushing, and then also many of those in the education arena, what they're pushing as far as DEI, diversity, equity, and inclusion, or SEL, social emotional learning, these are not edifying our children. These are not teaching them how to read and write and do arithmetic and think critically. And so I think that what we really need to be doing is edifying our children in our education system. So your challenge is to use the word edify in a sentence today. Our quote of the day is from St. Francis of Assisi. And he was born in 1181. He died in 1226. And he was an Italian mystic and poet and Catholic friar. And he said this. He said, start by doing what's necessary. Then do what's possible. And suddenly you are doing the impossible. So I think those are great words of advice as we're moving into 2020. 25. I think the big, one big headline, two big headlines, and that is these attacks yesterday. One at Bourbon Street in New Orleans where many were injured, 15 were killed. And then also there was an explosive, a truck filled with explosives that apparently blew up outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas. And these attacks I think they're inconscionable that they're happening, and we need to get to the bottom of this. On the one in New Orleans, authorities say that they think that this person did not act alone. So let's find out what's going on with this, and let's let the American people know. And again, these are really important discussions. And I am blessed with great sponsors. I am starting my seventh year in solo broadcasting and a sponsor that's been with me since before then. And a good friend of mine is Karen Levine. Karen Levine, Happy New Year and welcome to the show.
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Well, Happy New Year to you, Kim. And it's a pleasure to be here. Get our year started off well, I hope.
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Well, absolutely. And I just had Susan Kochevar on, and she's looking to 2025 with great optimism. I am as well. What about people that want to buy or sell their home? What's that going to look like in 2025?
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We're feeling incredibly optimistic about that as well. When you look at the history of interest rates over 30 years, and you look at the journey we've been on, and Loren talks about this on his call with you, but the average over the last 30 years has been around 7.5, 7.75. And so I think that the American people have realized that that's the normal cost of money, and now it's time to... make things right for their families, whether that's a larger home, getting home ownership started so that they can build personal wealth, or that move down home because the family has grown up and started their own families and you want a simpler life. And so I love navigating all of those things. And what's exciting to see is the last week of the year, there were over 500 price reductions, which means sellers, are motivated and they want to get their homes sold. And there were new homes that came on the market even the last week of the year. So I'm optimistic. I have clients reaching out to me who are ready to make some changes in their real estate portfolios, and I am happy to help and excited to do so.
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Well, and Karen, I know some people recently that you helped buy and sell their home, and I hadn't really realized there are a lot of different things that happen in buying and selling homes, and having a professional, you, on their side of the table, I know that they really appreciated that.
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Well, that is so good to hear, and I appreciated getting the opportunity to work with them, and I think... It looks very simple, the process of buying and selling a home, and it isn't because there's many, many steps. And I share a sheet. It's called Potential Turbulence in a Transaction. And we've identified 86 things that potentially can happen. And that's, one, we're dealing with people, and two, we're dealing with stuff. And when you combine all that, it can be complicated. Right.
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Well, and Karen, I have a really smart listener that reached out and said that he'd actually done his real estate transactions on his own. And that certainly is possible. But you really need to know what you're doing. You need to have time, business acumen. all of those things and most people don't have the time to really get to that point and that is why the expertise that you bring to the table is so important because for example young families they're just trying to keep it together maybe they they want to get a bigger house and they are not the experts on that and that is why I've learned over the years is that doing things right working with good people up front right off the bat ultimately saves you money saves you time saves you energy and saves you headache and that is why you with all of these years of experience and also your resources to get a house ready for sale all of those things i hadn't really thought about all that well and it is the the beauty of um being an american is we have choice and so you certainly can choose
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to navigate a real estate transaction on your own. But the National Association of Realtors has done research and we know that typically a buyer will not be afforded the best terms and conditions and run into obstacles that they can't navigate. And the seller generally will net less money without the expertise of a realtor. And I think that you have seen it through the listeners that have chosen to use me, that they have gotten what they paid for and felt that it was a great value. And I love what I do. I love helping people achieve that American dream. And the average homeowner only is in their home only, you say only, 10 to 15 years. Well, a lot has happened over the 35 years I've been in the business. And each transaction can be unique in itself as far as the things that we run into.
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Good and bad. Yes, and then also one other thing. I've seen different areas where they're moving dirt, which looks like there's going to be some new communities, which I'm also very excited about. And so if somebody wants to look at a new build, it's just important that they reach out to you and have you on their side of the table as they're looking at these new builds as well, right?
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Most definitely. What a lot of people don't understand is they see a new community go up. They see either the sales trailer or the model home complex opens and they pop in and check it out. And they're not aware that the person that they interact with is working for the builder, is looking out for the best interest of the builder. and that individual is hired to sell houses for the builder. Which is good. I'm happy with that. Yes, very good. But builders are very receptive to allowing a buyer to have representation and to bring in their own agent to help navigate that transaction. And all the builder asks is that you have me accompany you on your first visit. And a lot of times I'm going to accompany you on several of those visits, and make sure that we have all the information we need to make a good buying decision, and what is it that the builder is offering that we can take advantage of.
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Okay. Well, how can people reach you, Karen Levine, to buy a home, sell a home, look at a new build? What's that number?
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Well, the number is 303-877-7516. And that's Karen Levine. Again, 303-877-7516. We will talk to you next week.
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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Check out our website. That is Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at Kim Munson dot com. And thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice. 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 shouldn't have to force people to do it. And there are things that can keep us up at night, but your insurance coverage should not be one of those. And the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance team wants you to feel safe and well-served and to understand your coverage and know that their office will respond to your call or text 24 hours a day. So for that 24-hour peace of mind, call Roger Mangan at 303-3255. 795-8855. Like a good neighbor, the Roger Mangan team is there. And on the line with me is Laurie Gimmelstein. She is a co-founder of the Colorado Parents Advocacy Network, also known as CPAN, and doing amazing work. And again, when I talk about the Center for American Values, where the Medal of Honor recipients, they saw that there was danger and they took action to protect those around them and save lives. And I take such great heart from them. And the center is located in Pueblo on the Riverwalk. And be sure and check out their website, AmericanValueCenter.org. And I really would recommend that you put it on your bucket list. Get this done in 2025 to visit the Center for American Values. But we're in an ideological time. battle now. And it's a battle of ideas. And our children are really, and their childhoods are under attack. And so when she realized this, she took action and became a co-founder of the Colorado Parents Advocacy Network. Lori Gilmelstein, welcome to the show. Good morning, Kim. Happy New Year. Happy New Year. And I wanted to just go down memory lane a little bit on CPAN and then look at what you are hoping to get accomplished here in 2025, what you see the challenges are. So looking back, what has it been, two or three years since you co-founded CPAN, right? Yes.
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Yeah, we launched in November of 2022. So we recently celebrated our second birthday. And we have really just accomplished an amazing amount in the last two years. And quite honestly, prior to our launch event in November of 2022, many of us were very actively involved in trying to raise awareness and accountability for our public schools. And the work has really been ongoing since about 2020, when many of us really came to the realization that our school systems were not providing the education that we expected. And as much as I hate to use the word assumed, that's really where we were prior to 2020. There was an assumption that our public school systems was providing our children with an excellent education to equip them for a successful future. And it was in 2020 when we started to realize that education was really has gone off the rails. And there was a tremendous amount of focus on what you were talking about in the last hour on diversity, equity, and inclusion, you know, which, you know, when you first hear those words, and when I first heard those words back in 2020, I thought that they were well, there was good intention behind it. But really what we've uncovered over the last four years, not only here in Colorado, but across the nation, is that this is a direct attempt to undermine the future of our country. And quite honestly, it is one of the most detrimental programs that we're seeing in school systems. And what is so exciting as we roll into 2025, I mean, just this huge sense of hope and expectation that there will be accountability for schools that are implementing these really horrific programs.
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Well, and I was talking with some people the last few days regarding school districts, and you really got involved there in the Cherry Creek School District. And Cherry Creek used to have this reputation as one of the best in the state and best in the country. But with this particular school board and administration, they have really changed, I would say. Yes?
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Oh, absolutely. Any parent that has a child enrolled in Cherry Creek School District really needs to become aware of what their actual intent is. And back the class of 2026, so next year's seniors, they have lost the honor of valedictorian. They took the merit of valedictorian away because of this concept of equity. And that valedictorian somehow inflicts harm. So this school district that claims to be the district of excellence and historically has been, it's a destination district. People, when I talk to people that live in the Cherry Creek School District, the number one reason they chose to live in a particular area was for the school district. And what's so sad is that this current Board of Education, which is teacher union controlled. I mean, all of the school board members in Cherry Creek and most of the school districts across the state of Colorado are controlled by the teachers union. And I don't think people realize the corruption in the teachers union that has occurred and the amount of control that they have over what our schools do. do and what they teach our children. So I think it's really important because 2025 is a school board election year in the state of Colorado. We have off-year elections for school boards and municipalities, and we have an opportunity to bring common sense back into public education. And I think that's really important because we need to restore the trust. The truth of the matter, as much as I would love to say to everybody, get your kids out of these government-run schools, The reality is that there's just not enough availability of other choice options. And Colorado is a school choice state. We're so excited and grateful for that. I just got the Colorado proclamation supporting school choice yesterday in my email. We've got a huge celebration coming up January 28th on the west steps of the Capitol celebrating school choice. And we're inviting... every type of school to join us in that celebration. But the truth of the matter is we need to restore the trust in public education for families that have their children enrolled in these schools. And the key thing with that in 2025 is we need to spread the word that the teacher union candidates for school board are not serving the best interest of our children, the future of our country.
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So, Lori Gimmelstein, I think we all know public school teachers who I don't think would push this DEI and SEL and that they really got into the profession to teach children. What's happening to those teachers in these public school districts?
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Well, I'll tell you, Kim, it's just heartbreaking. We have an incident reporting tool on our website at coloradoparents.org. And we receive incident reports every week from parents and from teachers really focusing on the DEI, the LGBTQIA plus agendas that are moving into classrooms. And I will be the first to tell you that the majority of teachers in public education want nothing to do with this. I mean, these are great teachers. We know that they have the best interest of our children. They want to teach. They're wasting precious classroom minutes because It's not because they want to teach this. It's because they're being forced to teach this. It has become a part of their performance reviews. In the Cherry Creek School District, for example, they actually put an equity officer into every school to monitor teachers to ensure that they are doing this work. Oh, yeah. And we uncovered in a Quora request that that in 2018, the current office, it's so funny because they always rebrand their name when things are getting too tough. So originally it was, I think it was called the Office of Inclusive Excellence. And then it transitioned to the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. And currently it's the, oh goodness, there's so many different names, but I think it's like the Office of Community Engagement. And So they in 2018, they actually put together a working document and they highlighted what was currently happening. why it was happening and what they needed to do to change it. And what was currently happening in 2018 is that teachers were not doing the work of the Office of Equity and Community Engagement or of Inclusive Excellence back at that time. And so what they wanted to do, the reason for that was because there was nothing in place to ensure that they were doing it. So they said what their plan was, was they were going to ensure that there was an equity officer in every school to monitor and do the performance reviews of these teachers.
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And these officers are being paid salaries with our tax dollars, and they're probably also going to be getting pensions, right? Yes. Oh, yeah.
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I mean, the administrative budget lines in public school districts far exceed what we see in terms of student and staff increases. And so, you know, there's numbers out there that administrations have You know, just 80 percent growth compared to about 7 percent growth of students. And so they were looking at six figure incomes. And when you look at the Biden-Harris administration and the incentives, the grants that they gave to schools since 2020 to implement these policies and these programs, I mean, the money alone is... That's all you have to do is really follow the dollars. But what is shocking to me and what is so upsetting and I have no forgiveness for is for these district administrators that knowingly took this money, knowingly are implementing these very harmful programs that are divisive and causing severe issues. They're doing this to kids knowingly. And when it comes to our children... Don't mess with our kids. And anyone that is doing that, 2025, this is a pivotal year. I would not want to be a district administrator that has done any of this in 2025. I would not want to be a school board member that has been a part of this in implementing this. We know that they will be held accountable.
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Well, and the accountability will be through the legal system, correct? Absolutely. And then also we'll be shedding light on this. Lori, first of all, the work that you're doing is so important. I want to continue the discussion with Lori Gimmelstein, who is a co-founder of CPAN, the Colorado Parents Advocacy Network. That's easy for me to say. We have all these discussions because of our great sponsors. And a great... protein source for your diet and a real treat for that steakhouse experience at home is Lavaca Meat Company.
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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Check out our website. That is KimMunson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You'll get first look at our upcoming guests as well as our most recent essays. You can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com. That's my New Year's resolution is to stay on top of my emails a little bit better. The text line is 720-605-0647. And do check out the USMC Memorial Foundation website. That is usmcmemorialfoundation.org. This is the year that we should really step forward and make sure that this becomes a reality for this remodel of the Marine Memorial. And you can see what they're going to do and help them by going to usmcmemorialfoundation.org. That's usmcmemorialfoundation.org. Text line is busy, 720-605-0647. And I did just want to mention this from one of our listeners. We talked with Karen Levine, Remax Realtor and sponsor of the show a little earlier. And our listener said, I would never buy a home without a good realtor, even a new home. They are well worth the money. And Lori Gimmelstein, co-founder of CPAN, Colorado Parents Advocacy Network, this listener also said, meanwhile, our kids cannot read and write and do math while we're doing all this DEI and SEL. So you're working on this. You mentioned that we're going to hold these school board directors and administrators accountable. So how are you going to do that, Lori Gimmelstein?
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Well, excitingly, we've been able to facilitate three lawsuits in the last 10 months directly focusing on accountability and transparency. When we started our organization, our goal was to partner with schools to help them to be accountable and transparent, to be the voice of parents, to advocate for parents. And we quickly realized that the school districts were not going to be willing to do that. And they wanted to continue to push divisive narratives into education. So we've been very, very fortunate through our incident reporting tool to help parents, to help teachers, to help students advocate for better outcomes. And thankfully, we've also been very fortunate and blessed to partner with several national law firms and some local attorneys here in the state of Colorado to really help families when they get in a situation where we have followed all of the policies, all of the steps, and the school district is continuing to disregard the parents' right to direct the education of their child and the upbringing of their child. And then for teachers as well. So, for example, we were able to facilitate a lawsuit with the America First Legal with a dean in Cherry Creek who was wrongfully terminated for stating that he was a proud American during training. This national law firm is taking a look at our incident reports that we put together. They're very comprehensive. And working with us, it takes months to bring a lawsuit to fruition. But it's really happening. And with these national supporters, we're going to be holding school districts accountable. We're going to be holding superintendents, boards of education, principals, anyone that is pushing divisive ideology into the school accountable. Another lawsuit that we were able to successfully help facilitate is against the 27 J school district. And that is with the Center for American Liberty on behalf of the does whose child was transitioned at school behind her parents back. And we're hopeful that through these lawsuits, we're raising awareness. We're going to be changing policy. We're going to be finding legislation that's unconstitutional and eliminating it. And then most recently, through our incident reporting tool, we received an incident report from a dad who has a 13-year-old son, and he is a divorced dad, and his ex-wife would like to transition their child. And part of their divorce agreement is an arbitrator to help with decisions that are difficult for them to make. And the arbitrator actually found with a mother that this child should start on hormone blockers and began transition. And the dad was at a loss. He had no – his rights just completely stripped from him on his child's medical care and mental health care. And so we they only had about 30 days to file in the Boulder District Court for an appeal on this decision. With all of the evidence that is available regarding the harm caused by these gender affirming treatments, we just could not believe that an arbitrator would would find that I'm going to, yeah, approve harming a child. And so thankfully, with the help of an attorney, Ann Gill and attorney Scott Gessler, we were able to work with our partners at Do No Harm and put an appeal into Boulder District Court. And we're really hopeful for this dad that there will be a stay on and they'll reverse the decision and protect his son. So You know, we've been very fortunate to partner with all these great attorneys and law firms and national organizations like Do No Harm, as I said. There's other organizations like the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism and Parents Defending Education. And all of these networks, all of these organizations, what's so awesome is that we're all coming together together. And we're all making change happen. And I am so hopeful. I've just seen such a strong cultural shift over the last four years. You know, to go from going into my first Board of Education meeting to speak in front of the Board of Education, you know, during my limited, you know, two minutes. to present my issue and being called a racist and a militia leader and an anti-LGB and a book banner and all of these different things, which was so hurtful. And it's no wonder why people were uncomfortable standing up You know, a couple years ago in speaking out because nobody wants to be called those words. But now so many people have been called those words and labeled incorrectly that the population, the general population is like, this can't possibly be true. Not everybody I know could possibly be these things. And we're not. We're here to protect children. And I'm just encouraged by this cultural shift. I'm encouraged for the new administration coming in. And I think that we're going to see a huge movement to protecting a parent's right to direct the education and upbringing of their children. And these lawsuits are just one great avenue for us to do that.
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Well, you're doing amazing work. Going back here, you mentioned School District 27J. What school district is that?
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That's Brighton. That's Brighton. Brighton School District.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay. And when people think it's not happening in their school, I was talking, this was somebody from a different state, and she goes, well, I'm sure that's not happening at my school. It is happening at many, many schools, not only in the urban area, but also in rural school districts as well.
SPEAKER 17 :
Oh, absolutely. We actually just recently were alerted through our incident reporting tool that D70 down in El Paso County, El Paso might be Pueblo. I apologize. But they there's an organization called Trails, and this is a social emotional learning company. And social emotional learning is really originally, you know, I think the intent was was kind, like anti-bullying, teaching kindness. But it's really transitioned and it's really designed to. to disrupt the morals and values that you've instilled in your child. And what this group, this company is doing, they started in Michigan, at the University of Michigan, and tons of money is funneled into it, like through the Tithes Foundation and just organizations that we know have very left-leaning ideology. And what they did was they came into the school district, they negotiated with the superintendent, and said, we're going to give you a $700,000 gift. to implement this SEL program. And we've uncovered documents where they say we're going to go into rural school districts in the state of Colorado that have very limited means and resources, and we're going to provide them this gift, I would call it a bribe, to implement SEL. this curriculum and teachers and parents were not notified. They were just, teachers were just given an hour training. They said, begin the implementation. And it had lots of really controversial material, including links to organizations like the Trevor project, which is, you know, touted as a LGBTQ support resource center, but it is, Such an alarming place to visit. And it even provided children with what's called a quick exit. So they're giving children tools to quickly exit on their school-based issued computers out of these controversial websites if their parent comes into the room. And, you know, so we were alerted to that. And, you know, thankfully, Moms for Liberty down in El Paso County, that's headed up by Christy Davis and several other groups were able to come together. We were able to put a petition together together. And thankfully, the school did put a pause on it. But unfortunately, Weld, RE3, and Strattsburg and other rural districts have already started implementing this SEL program. So, you know, a call to action for your listeners is just go on to our website at coloradoparents.org and go to the parents tab. And there is an opt-out form that you can use to opt your child out of any of this controversial curriculum. And what we encourage parents to do is to talk to their children and say, you know, these are concepts that we do not want you engaging in at school. If somebody asks you about your gender or your sexuality or for your pronouns or your parents' politics, Those are not things for school. And if your teacher is asking you for that, you have the right to leave that classroom. And so this opt-out form, we encourage you to send it to your principal, to all of your child's teachers, and to put a copy in your child's backpack. So when undoubtedly when this happens and your child is in a situation, they're going to be geared with the knowledge that you do not want them participating in that. And then they have a copy of the opt-out form that you sent to the principal and to the teachers. So, you know, we just have to really get people engaged. I encourage all of your listeners to subscribe and become a member of CPN. Our stay updated form is on every page on our website. Just scroll down to the bottom and sign up and get our emails. We're doing great, great things. You know, in addition to the lawsuits holding all these school districts accountable, you know, we're hosting incredibly powerful events. Like I said earlier, on January 28th, we have Colorado's Celebration of School Choice event. on the west steps of the Colorado Capitol with our partners at Independence Institute and Grandparents for Kids, Constituting America, the Foundation for Economic Education. And we also have coming up in April, on April 6th, tickets will go on sale at the end of January, the second part of our Rocky Mountain series on safeguarding children from gender-affirming treatment. And we have some really phenomenal panelists. We have a a clinical and legal panel talking about the ethical implications of these treatments. And then we have a family impact panel. And last year at our first part of the Rocky Mountain series, we had just about 300 people in attendance. And it's really the cultural shift that we're looking for in accountability in the harm that's happening to children. And then also on May 9th, please put it in your calendar, we'll have our first benefit gala to benefit CPAN and help support our mission.
SPEAKER 15 :
Oh, my gosh. Lori Gemmelstein, co-founder of CPAN, the Colorado Parents Advocacy Network. Amazing what you're doing here in 2025. What's that website one more time?
SPEAKER 17 :
ColoradoParents.org.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay, ColoradoParents.org. Let's stay in touch, keep up the great work, and love what you're doing for our children.
SPEAKER 17 :
Thank you, Kim. I hope you have a blessed year ahead.
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SPEAKER 15 :
Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. And thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice. 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 force people to do it. I wanted to say thank you to Laramie Energy for their gold sponsorship of the show because it is reliable, efficient, and affordable energy from oil and natural gas and coal that powers our lives and fuels our hopes and dreams. And that whole industry is under control. legislative, regulatory, mainstream media attack, and that's why we need to speak truth into these issues, and that's what we work to do every Monday through Friday. Before we get to our next guest, one of our listeners, I'd asked the question what District 27J included, and Laurie Gimmelstein said that's Brighton. Our listener said it also includes portions of Thornton. So thank you for that clarification. There is a vacancy committee that will be convening this Saturday here in Douglas County to determine who will fill Senator Kevin Van Winkle, who has now been elected county commissioner here in Douglas County. He's vacating that seat. And so there will be a decision made for that seat. And on the line with me is Kim Ransom, a former state representative, and she is sitting for that vacancy committee. Kim, welcome to the show. Thank you so much, Kim, and Happy New Year. Well, Happy New Year. And so this is for Colorado Senate District 30, which is primarily much of northern Douglas County. And you've been down at the state legislature. You know what's happening down there. Why are you sitting for this vacancy committee to complete this term?
SPEAKER 03 :
You know, well, first of all, because I was approached by people that live in the district that wanted to make sure that Senate District 30 would be represented by somebody who was absolutely ready to start on day one and understand the flow of the bills, know the people that were down there already. Because I served in the House for eight years until I was term-limited, I know so many of the players down there. As a matter of fact, quite a few of the people that serve in the Senate now were in the House before that. And that's on both sides of the aisle. So I have friends and connections on both sides of the aisle in the Senate. And so I've also watched bills go through the process. Not watched, also put bills through the process. You may remember that I... passed some pretty hefty legislation, some of which people said I wouldn't be able to get through. But because I was able to find common ground with someone on the other side of the aisle, I was able to get bills passed that kind of weren't expected to be passed. And I would like to continue that. Because of the timing of this, the vacancy committee is this Saturday. Session starts Wednesday. They have already done the orientation and training for new members that were elected on November 5th. And so that means that bills will start to be introduced this coming up Wednesday, less than a week from now, which means that they will hit the committee process and then be hitting the floor at mock speed. And so people that have not actually served and not have the chance to go through the mock debates and the orientation where they kind of show you the way fiscal notes work, for example, how to determine the financial impact of legislation that you're looking at. they can literally be steamrolled, you know, as bills just start flying through on a multitude of different topics, some of which you may be expert at and some of which you may not be. And you still have to do a lot of reading very fast. I'm a fast reader. I think we've discussed this before that I read the bills. I was kind of a bill nerd with carrying around my JBC, that is Joint Budget Committee documents. folders and really following the money piece. And I'm good at coming up with amendments on the fly. And sometimes those were actually adopted. Sometimes they weren't, but sometimes they were. And they at least led to a conversation. And so because of that background and experience, I can start next week, right when session starts, there will not be that steep learning curve that anybody else would have to conquer.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, what a novel idea, Kim Ransom, for our representatives to actually read the legislation that they vote on and pass. That seems like that should be a no-brainer. But when I look at, as the president of the Colorado Union of Taxpayers, the volume of pages in some of these bills, these representatives don't know what they're voting on. And I think it's irresponsible for anybody to vote on anything that they haven't read.
SPEAKER 03 :
And thank you so much for what you do in cut, i.e., the Colorado Union of Taxpayers. Your work and help backing up legislators, I think, can be invaluable. And I know I appreciated it when I was serving in the House. I liked reading your analyses, especially on the budget work. I remember that budget is so complicated. Very few people truly, truly understand the way Colorado budgets dollars. And, you know, then when you have the Tabor overlay and restrictions, which, by the way, are wonderful restrictions that we need to maintain because they protect taxpayers to the best extent that we can. That budget is very, very complicated. Well, as you know, Kim, I worked on it for four years. Well, excuse me, I wrote, I was one of the six people that wrote that budget. That being said, I was always in the minority, but there were things I was able to do. There were things I was able to keep out of that budget at times to save taxpayers money.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay, and so I took over as, and we're just about out of time, as CUT president. I think just as you were termed out, one of our listeners wanted to know how you scored with CUT. Okay.
SPEAKER 03 :
Boy, I would have to take a look. Because it varied from year to year. One year I was actually named one of the cut champions. Oh, that's a big deal. I proudly have that plaque. It hung in my office, you know, the rest of the time I served in the House. And I was very happy about that. I believe I was in probably in the 80s. OK. And that that puts that possibly the high 70s. You know, I was not down in the apps. I can tell you that.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah. And we do have even Republican legislators that are challenged on that. Kim Ransom, we are just about out of time, about 40 seconds. How would you like to wrap this up as you're sitting for this vacancy committee this Saturday?
SPEAKER 03 :
Vacancy committees are very different from regular district-wide elections that happen through the county clerk offices. This is a very specific group of people. They are activists. They are people that have been active in the party. And just because of the timing, that is who needs to make this decision. And I am – I've been making phone calls. I've been, you know, trying hard to let people know that I am, you know, the candidate that can do the job right from the beginning. And I'll continue to say that. That being said, I think everybody running loves Douglas County, loves Colorado, and – is motivated to do well, but you need to have the skills to back that up. And so I'm excited for the opportunity and we'll see what the voters in the vacancy committee decide to do this Saturday.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, Kim Ransom, wish you all kinds of good luck. Thank you so much. Okay, our quote for the end of the show is St. Francis of Assisi. He said, Lord, help me to live this day quietly and easily, to lean upon thy strength trustfully and restfully, to wait for the unfolding of thy will patiently and serenely, to meet others peacefully and joyously, and to face tomorrow confidently and courageously. And so, my friends, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate, listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. You are not alone. God bless you, and God bless America.
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